402 results about "Copy control" patented technology

Two data centers located in the vicinity are connected using a synchronous transfer copy function, and one of the data centers is coupled with a third data center disposed at a remote location by an asynchronous remote copying function. The order whereat a storage sub-system located in the vicinity has received data from a host is consistently guaranteed, and the third data center holds the data. Further, each storage sub-system includes a function whereby, during normal operation, data can be exchanged and the data update state can be obtained by the storage sub-systems located in the two data centers that do not directly engage in data transmission.

Consistent updates are made automatically over a wide-area IP network, concurrently with read-only access to the remote copies. A replication control protocol (RCP) is layered over TCP/IP providing the capability for a remote site to replicate and rebroadcast blocks of the remote copy data to specified groups of destinations, as configured in a routing table. A volume multicast layer over RCP provides for multicasting to specified volume extents of the blocks. The blocks are copied at the logical level, so that it does not matter what physical structure is used for storing the remote copies. Save volumes buffer the remote copy data transmitted between the primary or secondary file system volume and the IP network, in order to ensure independence between the replication process, the IP transport method, and the primary file system being replicated.

An identification code signal is hidden in a carrier signal (such as an electronic data signal or a physical medium) in a manner that permits the identification signal later to be discerned. The carrier signal can thereby be identified, or some machine responsive action can thereby be taken. The technique can be applied in video imagery embodiments to control associated video equipment, e.g. to serve as a copy control signal.

To provide a packet transmitter apparatus which can transmit contents protected by a content protection technique such as DTCP or the like, using packets such as IP packets which have become widespread.

The packet transmitter apparatus includes a transmitting condition setting management unit (404) which extracts at least one of charge information, playback control information and copy control information of AV data from the inputted non-AV data or AV data and generates, based on the extracted information, encryption mode information indicating an encryption mode which becomes a condition at the time of transmitting the AV data; an encrypted data generation unit (406) which generates encrypted data by encrypting, based on the transmitting condition, the inputted AV data and adding encryption information headers based on the encryption mode information to the encrypted AV data; and a packet generation unit (403) which generates packets by adding packet headers to the generated encrypted data. The transmitting condition is to be determined as a combination of input terminal information, data format information and attribute information.

An identification code signal is hidden in a carrier signal (such as an electronic data signal or a physical medium) in a manner that permits the identification signal later to be discerned. The carrier signal can thereby be identified, or some machine responsive action can thereby be taken. The technique can be applied in video imagery embodiments to control associated video equipment, e.g. to serve as a copy control signal.

When the recording mode of an information recording/playback device is a cognizant mode which analyzes embedded copy control information, the information recording/playback device performs content encryption using a content-encryption key generated by using a cognizant key as a content-encryption-key generating key in the cognizant mode. When the recording mode of the information recording/playback device is a non-cognizant mode which does not analyze the embedded copy control information, the information recording/playback device performs content encryption using a content-encryption key generated by using a cognizant key as a content-encryption-key generating key in the non-cognizant mode. By using these techniques, the above two recording modes are clearly distinguished and separately executed. This prevents an encryption mode indicator as copy control information and embedded copy control information from being mismatched.

A method of storing data to one of a first or second storage device associated with a data storage system where each storage device provides for the redundant access to and storage of data within the same logical data volumes. The method of storing data consists of defining a storage construct which will direct the performance of a specific storage function. The storage construct is then associated with a logical data volume. The method further consists of mounting the logical data volume residing on one of the two storage devices and executing a storage function in accordance with the storage construct. The storage construct may be defined by a command issued by a host associated with the data storage system. Alternatively, the storage construct may be defined by a user of the data storage system through a user interface. The storage function which is directed by the defined storage construct may consist of selecting which one of the first and second storage devices will execute input/output (I/O) commands received from the data storage system for a particular logical data volume mount. Alternatively, the storage function may consist of determining whether data stored to a logical data volume physically associated with one of the storage devices will be copied to the other storage device. Other storage functions can be directed by a storage construct.

When an operator (4) applies an external force to a robot (1) via a handle (5) attached to an end portion of an arm of the robot (1), the external force is estimated or detected by a force sensor (30) or an acceleration sensor (40). A copying control means (8) of a robot control unit (2) determines the position of the tool top point (31). When the robot (1) is located in a copying control enabling region (15, 18) or a copying control enabling line segment (16) defined in a block (10) of enabling region settings, the copying control is carried out. The directions of the movement and change of orientation to be followed are determined with reference to the content of the copying control settings in the region where the robot is located at present in the block (9) of the copying control settings, and the copying control is carried out for only the movement and change of orientation in the determined directions, to thereby move the robot (1).

Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for block based storage subsystem to have backup ability to a file based storage service such as HTTP or cloud storage service. In one embodiment, a storage system is coupled via a network to a storage service which has one or more file servers. The storage system comprises a processor; a memory; a volume-based snapshot control module configured to create a snapshot volume of data at a certain time, the snapshot volume being a block-based volume which is divided into a plurality of portions; and a copy control module configured to read each portion of the snapshot volume and send said each portion as file data to the storage service via the network, and to generate mapping information between an address of said each portion in the storage system and a file identifier of the file data of said each portion in the storage service.

To solve the problem inhibiting the copyright protection caused by reason that there are no means for restricting the number of backups to other media, which makes it impossible for a copyright owner to specify the allowable number of backups for the content of “Copy One Generation”, disclosed herein is a digital information recording and reproducing method. The method is so configured that: a first piece of digital information and copy control information of the first piece of digital information is received, wherein the copy control information is for controlling the recording of the first piece of digital information on a recording medium; and when the received copy control information is Copy One Generation indicating that only one generation copy of digital information is allowed, a plurality of the first pieces of digital information are recorded on a first recording medium as the first piece of digital information and a second piece of digital information, wherein the first piece of digital information is different in format or in bit rate from the second piece of digital information.

A watermarking system allowing an appended-type watermark to be easily inserted into a scaled-up/down image without deteriorating the detection accuracy of the appended-type watermark is disclosed. A first scaling factor of an input watermarked image is detected by detecting a copy control watermark from the input watermarked image. It is determined whether a watermark including a second scaling factor is detected from the input watermarked image. When the watermark including the second scaling factor fails to be detected, a second watermark including the first scaling factor is created and embedded into the input watermarked image and further an appended-type watermark is inserted into the input watermarked image. When the watermark including the second scaling factor is detected, the first and second scaling factors are used to calculate a third scaling factor, which is used to detect the appended-type watermark.

An optical recording medium is provided for distributing content through a portable medium which can be transported by hand from one media player to another media player. The optical recording medium includes a read-only zone and a writable area. Copy control information is stored in the read-only zone. The copy control information specifies (a) an authorized content source and (b) content which is authorized to be downloaded from the authorized content source and recorded in the writable area of the optical recording medium.

A storage system of this invention maintains consistency of the stored contents between volumes even when a plurality of remote copying operations are executed asynchronously. A plurality of primary storage control devices and a plurality of secondary storage control devices are connected by a plurality of paths, and remote copying is performed asynchronously between respective first volumes and second volumes. Write data transferred from the primary storage control device to the secondary storage control device is held in a write data storage portion. Update order information, including write times and sequential numbers, is managed by update order information management portions. An update control portion collects update order information from each update order information management portion, determines the time at which update of each second volume is possible, and notifies each-update portion. By this means, the stored contents of each second volume can be updated up to the time at which update is possible.

A method, system, and program for automatic simultaneous entry of values in multiple web page fields are provided. Responsive to detecting a single action selection by a user to fill multiple fields of a web page, wherein each of the fields is associated with one from among multiple field descriptors within a source code for the web page, a field copy controller scans multiple lines of text copied into a local memory to identify text tags that match the field descriptors. Then, the field copy controller automatically fills in the fields within the web browser with the values from the lines of text, wherein each of the values is associated with one from among multiple text tags matching the field descriptors associated with the fields, such that multiple fields of a web page are automatically filled in responsive to only a single action by a user.

The invention relates to a load balancing method and device, and relates to the technical field of Internet applications. The method comprises the following steps that: creating a server, and creatinga corresponding replication controller according to the configuration information of the server to create load balancing containers; starting the load balancing containers, and driving a load balancing living example according to the configuration information, and setting an end point corresponding to the server as the rear-end application of the load balancing living example; and obtaining the state information and the traffic information of the rear-end application, and expanding or reducing the amount of the load balancing containers in real time according to the state information and thetraffic information. By use of the method, the resource isolation characteristics of the container can be utilized to deploy the load balancing living example in the container so as to avoid resourcecompetition among different load balancing living examples on the same server.

A copy control apparatus is provided in one-to-one correspondence with a car navigation system. Connection of the copy control apparatus with an information processing apparatus such as a PC enables to transmit content only from the information processing apparatus to which the copy control apparatus is connected to the car navigation system. With this configuration, the copy control apparatus stores a device key used to encrypt the content, and encrypts the device key with another encryption key to transmit the encrypted device key to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus encrypts a copy of the content by use of the received device key, and then sends the encrypted copy to a content receiving apparatus. The content receiving apparatus decrypts the received copy of the content by use of a stored device key, and then stores the decrypted copy of the content in a storage unit.