公开(公告)号：US08243914B2

公开(公告)日：2012-08-14

申请号：US13095625

申请日：2011-04-27

申请人： James A. Taylor ,  Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal

发明人： James A. Taylor ,  Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal

IPC分类号： H04M3/00

CPC分类号： H04M15/00

摘要： A method and system for hierarchical prioritization and execution of call completion services are provided. When a caller applies for a call completion service, the caller is identified and assigned a priority from among different priorities such as high priority or regular priority. Thereafter, attempts to execute call completion services are performed hierarchically by launching call completion services for callers having a higher priority before similar attempts are performed for callers of a lower priority. Hence, call completion services are handled according to the priority assigned to the callers rather than the order in which each caller applied for a call completion service.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于层次化优先化和执行呼叫完成服务的方法和系统。 当呼叫者申请呼叫完成服务时，将从不同的优先级（如高优先级或普通优先级）中识别并分配优先级。 此后，对于具有较高优先权的呼叫者执行类似的尝试之前，通过对具有较高优先权的呼叫者启动呼叫完成服务来分级地执行呼叫完成服务的尝试。 因此，根据分配给呼叫者的优先级而不是每个呼叫者应用于呼叫完成服务的顺序来处理呼叫完成服务。

公开(公告)号：US20110222679A1

公开(公告)日：2011-09-15

申请号：US13111725

申请日：2011-05-19

申请人： Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal ,  James A. Taylor

发明人： Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal ,  James A. Taylor

IPC分类号： H04M3/42

CPC分类号： H04M3/46 ,  H04M3/42153 ,  H04M3/42195 ,  H04M3/424 ,  H04M3/527 ,  H04M2203/2072

摘要： Connecting a caller with a plurality of destinations using a destination list received from a caller or a designated user. Attempts are made to connect the caller with each of the destinations in the stored destination list, with each attempt including a connectability query to determine whether either the caller or the destination is connectable. Thereafter, the other party is called and offered a connection attempt to the first party. If the second party accepts, a call is made to the first party. If the first party is indeed connectable and answers the call, a connection is established between the two parties. Once the destination list is stored, attempts to connect the caller with each destination can be separately initiated or paused. Furthermore, the stored destination list can be edited even after connection attempts have been initiated.

摘要翻译： 使用从呼叫者或指定用户接收的目的地列表将呼叫方连接到多个目的地。 尝试将呼叫者与存储的目的地列表中的每个目的地连接，每次尝试包括可连接性查询以确定呼叫者或目的地是否可连接。 此后，对方被呼叫并提供连接尝试给第一方。 如果第二方接受，则向第一方发出呼叫。 如果第一方确实可连接并应答呼叫，则双方建立连接。 一旦存储目的地列表，可以单独启动或暂停尝试将呼叫者与每个目的地连接。 此外，即使在启动连接尝试之后，也可以编辑存储的目的地列表。

公开(公告)号：US20080205608A1

公开(公告)日：2008-08-28

申请号：US12114615

申请日：2008-05-02

申请人： Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal ,  James A. Taylor

发明人： Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal ,  James A. Taylor

IPC分类号： H04M11/00

CPC分类号： H04M3/527

摘要： Uploading data to a call connection service by providing data records associated with a call destination in a user-selected manner. Navigation instructions are obtained concerning a particular data record in response to the data navigation instructions. An indication is received to upload the call destination associated with the particular record to the call connection service. In response to the indication, a routine is executed to acquire a portion of the data record and upload the portion to the call connection service in a format suitable for handling. Alternatively, data can be provided to the call completion service in an automated manner, including in response to an unconnectability condition detected during the call process, either during call initiation or after the call has been connected, and when calls are received at a secondary user device.

摘要翻译： 通过以用户选择的方式提供与呼叫目的地相关联的数据记录来将数据上传到呼叫连接服务。 根据数据导航指令获得有关特定数据记录的导航指令。 接收到用于将与特定记录相关联的呼叫目的地上传到呼叫连接服务的指示。 响应于该指示，执行例程以获取数据记录的一部分，并以适合于处理的格式将该部分上传到呼叫连接服务。 或者，可以以自动方式将数据提供给呼叫完成服务，包括响应于在呼叫处理期间检测到的不可连接性状况，在呼叫发起期间或在呼叫连接之后，以及当在次要用户处接收到呼叫时 设备。

公开(公告)号：US4408308A

公开(公告)日：1983-10-04

申请号：US273570

申请日：1981-06-16

申请人： Blaine M. Smith ,  James A. Taylor

发明人： Blaine M. Smith ,  James A. Taylor

IPC分类号： H03K17/28 ,  H03K17/94 ,  H01H36/00 ,  G08B13/22 ,  H01H35/24 ,  H04Q1/18

CPC分类号： H03K17/28 ,  H03K17/94 ,  Y10T307/773

摘要： A sound actuated switch including a microphone coupled via an audio amplifier to a reset circuit. When a sound of sufficient intensity is received by the microphone a reset signal is supplied to the counter portion of an oscillator and counter circuit. The counter then begins counting oscillations and produces an "on" control signal until a predetermined count is reached, at which time an "off" control signal is produced. The control signal is supplied to the gate of a switching triac in a switch circuit. The presence of the on control signal causes the switching triac to electrically connect an AC power source to a load, typically a light. A simple, high efficiency DC power supply is also disclosed.

摘要翻译： 声音驱动开关，其包括通过音频放大器耦合到复位电路的麦克风。 当麦克风接收到足够强度的声音时，复位信号被提供给振荡器和计数器电路的计数器部分。 然后，计数器开始计数振荡并产生“开”控制信号，直到达到预定计数，此时产生“关”控制信号。 控制信号被提供给开关电路中的开关三端双向可控硅开关的栅极。 导通控制信号的存在使得开关三端双向可控硅开关电路将AC电源电连接到负载，通常为轻。 还公开了一种简单的高效率直流电源。

公开(公告)号：USD889762S1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-07

申请号：US29651700

申请日：2019-01-18

申请人： James A. Taylor

设计人： James A. Taylor

公开(公告)号：US20110212728A1

公开(公告)日：2011-09-01

申请号：US13095625

申请日：2011-04-27

申请人： James A. Taylor ,  Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal

发明人： James A. Taylor ,  Oren Tal ,  Reuven Tal

IPC分类号： H04W40/02 ,  H04M3/00

CPC分类号： H04M15/00

摘要： A method and system for hierarchical prioritization and execution of call completion services are provided. When a caller applies for a call completion service, the caller is identified and assigned a priority from among different priorities such as high priority or regular priority. Thereafter, attempts to execute call completion services are performed hierarchically by launching call completion services for callers having a higher priority before similar attempts are performed for callers of a lower priority. Hence, call completion services are handled according to the priority assigned to the callers rather than the order in which each caller applied for a call completion service.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于层次化优先化和执行呼叫完成服务的方法和系统。 当呼叫者申请呼叫完成服务时，将从不同的优先级（如高优先级或普通优先级）中识别并分配优先级。 此后，对于具有较高优先权的呼叫者执行类似的尝试之前，通过对具有较高优先权的呼叫者启动呼叫完成服务来分级地执行呼叫完成服务的尝试。 因此，根据分配给呼叫者的优先级而不是每个呼叫者应用于呼叫完成服务的顺序来处理呼叫完成服务。

公开(公告)号：US07512862B1

公开(公告)日：2009-03-31

申请号：US11106170

申请日：2005-04-13

申请人： James A. Taylor

发明人： James A. Taylor

IPC分类号： H03M13/00

CPC分类号： H03M7/30 ,  G06F11/1076 ,  G06F2211/1014 ,  G06F2211/1057 ,  G06F2211/1059 ,  G06F2211/1061

摘要： A storage system, such as a file server, receives a request to perform a write operation that affects a data block. In response, the storage system determines if the data block may be compressed to fit inside a redundancy block for protection. If the data block may be sufficiently compressed, the data block is written to the storage device and the compressed version of the data block is written to the protection block. If the data block may not be sufficiently compressed, the data block is written to the storage device and another data protection scheme, e.g. parity, is used to protect the data. A map, checksum and/or other tracking technique is used to associate stripes of data with the protection scheme used to protect data in the stripe.

摘要翻译： 诸如文件服务器的存储系统接收到执行影响数据块的写入操作的请求。 作为响应，存储系统确定数据块是否可被压缩以适合用于保护的冗余块。 如果数据块可以被充分压缩，则将数据块写入存储设备，并将数据块的压缩版本写入保护块。 如果数据块可能没有被足够的压缩，则将数据块写入存储设备，另一个数据保护方案，例如， 奇偶校验，用于保护数据。 使用地图，校验和和/或其他跟踪技术将数据条带与用于保护条带中的数据的保护方案相关联。

公开(公告)号：US20080109616A1

公开(公告)日：2008-05-08

申请号：US11590446

申请日：2006-10-31

申请人： James A. Taylor

发明人： James A. Taylor

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F9/312

CPC分类号： G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/0685 ,  G06F11/1076 ,  G06F2211/1052 ,  G06F2211/1054

摘要： Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for optimizing I/O operations performed by a storage server operating on behalf of multiple clients to access data on a plurality of storage devices (disks). Embodiments of the present invention eliminate the need for selected read operations to write new data to physical data blocks by zeroing the physical data blocks to which new data will be written. Additionally, the need for reading old parity to compute new parity is eliminated. Instead, new parity is computed from the data to be written without the need of old parity or the storage server sends a command to a disk that stores parity. A module implemented at the disk that stores parity executes the command without reading, by the storage server, old parity. Eliminating the need for reading old data and for reading old parity eliminates some rotation latency and improves overall system's performance.

摘要翻译： 本发明的实施例提供一种方法，系统和计算机程序产品，用于优化由代表多个客户机操作的存储服务器执行的访问多个存储设备（盘）上的数据的I / O操作。 本发明的实施例消除了对所选择的读取操作的需要，通过对要写入新数据的物理数据块进行归零来将新数据写入物理数据块。 此外，消除了阅读旧奇偶校验以计算新奇偶校验的需要。 相反，从要写入的数据计算新的奇偶校验，而不需要旧的奇偶校验，或者存储服务器向存储奇偶校验的磁盘发送命令。 在存储奇偶校验的磁盘上实现的模块执行命令，而不通过存储服务器读取旧的奇偶校验。 消除读取旧数据和阅读旧校验的需要消除了一些旋转延迟并提高了整个系统的性能。

公开(公告)号：US06571354B1

公开(公告)日：2003-05-27

申请号：US09461779

申请日：1999-12-15

申请人： Ronald L. Parks ,  Alastair Taylor ,  James A. Taylor

发明人： Ronald L. Parks ,  Alastair Taylor ,  James A. Taylor

IPC分类号： G06F1100

CPC分类号： G06F11/008

摘要： A method and apparatus used in a storage network facilitates the protection of data in, and replacement of, storage devices about to fail before the failure happens. In a network that includes a plurality of sets of storage devices which store respective data sets, a storage device about to fail in one set can be replaced by another storage device from another set of storage devices which is being used to store data having a lower priority. The method comprises assigning priorities to sets of storage devices in the network which store respective data sets. In addition, the method includes detecting a condition of a first particular storage device in a particular set of storage devices that has a first priority. Conditions which are detected according to various embodiments indicate that the first particular storage device is suffering events indicating that it is likely to fail, or otherwise suffering from reduced performance. The conditions are detected for example, by the receipt of a signal from the storage device itself, or by the monitoring of statistics concerning the performance of the storage device. The method further provides for selecting a second particular storage device in a second particular set of storage devices having a second priority, which can be used in place of the first particular storage device. In response to detecting the condition, the data set stored in the first particular storage device is migrated to the second particular storage device, and the second particular storage devices identified as a member of the first particular set. The first particular storage device can be gracefully removed from the network, while only affecting the performance of the data access in the lower priority second particular set of storage devices.

摘要翻译： 在存储网络中使用的方法和装置有助于保护在故障发生之前有故障的存储设备中的数据和替换。 在包括存储相应数据集的多组存储设备的网络中，一组中将要失败的存储设备可以由来自另一组存储设备的另一存储设备替换，该存储设备正用于存储具有较低 优先。 该方法包括为存储相应数据集的网络中的存储设备集合分配优先级。 此外，该方法包括检测具有第一优先级的特定存储设备集合中的第一特定存储设备的状况。 根据各种实施例检测到的条件指示第一特定存储设备正在遭受表明其可能失败的事件，或者其他遭受性能降低的事件。 例如通过从存储装置本身接收到信号，或通过监视关于存储装置的性能的统计信息来检测条件。 该方法进一步提供了在具有第二优先级的第二特定存储设备组中选择第二特定存储设备，其可以用于代替第一特定存储设备。 响应于检测到条件，将存储在第一特定存储设备中的数据集迁移到第二特定存储设备，并且将第二特定存储设备识别为第一特定集合的成员。 第一特定存储设备可以从网络中正常地移除，而仅影响较低优先级的第二特定存储设备集中的数据访问的性能。

公开(公告)号：US07653840B1

公开(公告)日：2010-01-26

申请号：US11796564

申请日：2007-04-27

申请人： James A. Taylor ,  Sharon A. Gavarre ,  Faris Hindi ,  Tim K. Emami

发明人： James A. Taylor ,  Sharon A. Gavarre ,  Faris Hindi ,  Tim K. Emami

IPC分类号： G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/0727 ,  G06F11/076 ,  G11C29/765 ,  G11C2029/0409

摘要： A storage management module for evaluating and repairing errors during monitoring or testing of storage devices of a storage system is described herein. When a storage device exhibits errors that reaches (in number) an error threshold, the storage management module determines whether any errors are due to damaged sectors localized in a single physical area of a predetermined size (referred to as a “patch”) of a platter of the storage device using the physical addresses of the errors. Two or more errors may be grouped as a single error if they are located within a predetermined threshold distance from each other on a platter and counted as a single error against the error threshold. A patch containing two or more damaged sectors is referred to as a “damaged” patch. In some embodiments, all sectors of a damaged patch (including undamaged sectors) are reassigned to spare sectors.

摘要翻译： 本文描述了用于在监视或测试存储系统的存储设备期间评估和修复错误的存储管理模块。 当存储装置出现达到（数量）误差阈值的错误时，存储管理模块确定是否存在由于局部在预定尺寸的单个物理区域（称为“补丁”）的损坏的扇区引起的任何错误 存储设备的拼盘使用物理地址的错误。 如果两个或多个错误位于拼盘上彼此之间的预定阈值距离内并且相对于误差阈值计数为单个误差，则可将其分组为单个错误。 包含两个或多个受损扇区的补丁称为“损坏”补丁。 在一些实施例中，损坏补丁（包括未损坏的扇区）的所有扇区被重新分配给备用扇区。