Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Enthone Incorporated

Yasuhiro Kimura

Kenichiro Yoshii

Hideaki Sato

Toshibumi Seki

Tatsunori Kanai

Hideki Yoshida

Haruhiko Toyama

Takayuki Miyazawa

Hiroshi Yao

Yuichi Koba

Atsushi Shono

Shinichi Kanno

Toshihiko Shimokawa

Toshikatsu Hida

Shigehiro Asano

Hajime Yamazaki

Kazuhiro Fukutomi

Toshio Shirakihara

Hideaki Yaegashi

Bernhard Wessling

Shinji Matsuda

Jörg Posdorfer

Stephan Nissen

Monika Schwarzenberg

According to one embodiment, a controller controls writing into and reading from a storage apparatus that includes a first data-storage unit and a second data-storage unit. The second data-storage unit stores user data and parity data of the user data. The first data-storage unit stores the parity data. The controller includes a parity updating unit and a parity writing unit. When parity data is updated, the parity updating unit writes the updated parity data into the first data-storage unit. When a certain requirement is satisfied, the parity writing unit reads the parity data written in the first data-storage unit, and writes the parity data thus read into the second data-storage unit.

Controller, storage apparatus, and computer program product

A plurality of free-block management lists for respectively managing a logical block with a same bank number, a same chip number, and a same plane number as a free block, and a free block selecting unit that selects a required number of free-block management lists from the free-block management lists to obtain a free block from the selected free-block management lists are provided.

Memory system and method of controlling memory system

In a data transfer scheme using a caching technique and/or a compression technique which is capable of reducing the network load of a network connecting between data transfer devices, correspondences between data and their names are registered at the data transfer devices and the corresponding names are transferred, instead of transferring the data, for those data for which the correspondences are registered, so that it is possible to reduce the amount of transfer data among the data transfer devices.

Data transfer scheme using caching technique for reducing network load

In a data transfer scheme using a caching technique and/or a compression technique which is capable of reducing the network load of a network connecting between data transfer devices, correspondences between data and their names are registered at the data transfer devices and the corresponding names are transferred, instead of transferring the data, for those data for which the correspondences are registered, so that it is possible to reduce the amount of transfer data among the data transfer devices. Server side data transfer devices and client side data transfer devices can be provided in multiple-to-one, one-to-multiple, or multiple-to-multiple manners.

In a data transfer device, presence/absence of a prescribed header in the received request message is analyzed, and information indicating the presence/absence of the prescribed header, or information indicating either presence or absence of the prescribed header when the prescribed header is either present or absent as a result of analysis is stored. Then, when a reply message corresponding to the request message is received, the presence/absence of the prescribed header is checked by referring to the stored information, and the reply message is transferred according to a result of checking.

In a data transfer scheme using a caching technique and/or a compression technique which is capable of reducing the network load of a network connecting between data transfer devices, correspondences between data and their names are registered at the data transfer devices and the corresponding names are transferred, instead of transferring the data, for those data for which the correspondences are registered, so that it is possible to reduce the amount of transfer data among the data transfer devices. Even when the name corresponding to the data is not registered so that it is impossible to transfer the corresponding name instead of transferring the data, it is possible to reduce the amount of transfer data among the data transfer devices by transferring the compressed data in which this data is expressed in a compressed form by utilizing the name corresponding to the registered reference data.

Data transfer scheme using caching and differential compression techniques for reducing network load

In a client server system, the network load is reduced by using the fingerprint compression and the differential compression, by providing the proxy server at the server side and using the general purpose browser at the client side, without requiring a separate proxy server at the client side. The client downloads and installs a fingerprint cache processing engine as a plug-in.

Data transfer scheme for reducing network load using general purpose browser on client side

At a data transfer device for transferring a request message from a first communication device to a second communication device, and transferring a response message containing a response data from the second communication device to the first communication device, an identifier to be allocated to the response data contained in the response message is generated according to a content of the response data, and a re-direct response message for re-directing the first communication unit to a URL containing the identifier is transmitted to the first communication device, instead of transmitting the response message, when the response message is received from the second communication device, and the response message containing the response data stored in the memory in correspondence to the identifier contained in the URL is transmitted when the request message for the URL containing the identifier is received from the first communication device.

Data transfer scheme using re-direct response message for reducing network load

A scheme for image selection in an image transmission system for transmitting images from an image source to an image display device, capable of eliminating a need for the viewer to select the desired image by actually watching individual images and easily selecting the desired image in which a specific desired target of the viewer is shown. Feature information for identifying targets shown in each image is obtained, while a desired feature information for identifying a desired target specified by the viewer is entered. Then, the desired image which contains the desired target specified by the viewer is selected according to the obtained feature information and the entered desired feature information. The feature information may be obtained by recognizing targets shown in each image provided by the image source, or may be generated in advance in correspondence to images provided by the image source.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Kimura