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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130680 | System and method for capacity planning for systems with multithreaded multicore multiprocessor resources A method for expressing a hierarchy of scalabilities in complex systems, including a discrete event simulation and an analytic model, for analysis and prediction of the performance of multi-chip, multi-core, multi-threaded computer processors is provided. Further provid... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084058 | Automatic Detection of Performance Bottlenecks in a Graphics System Analyzing an application executing on a target device. An application may be executed on a target device. Low cost measurement may be gathered regarding the application executing on the target device. In response to a trigger, high cost measurement data may be gathered ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120046912 | PROCESSOR CORE HAVING A SATURATING EVENT COUNTER FOR MAKING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS A performance monitor including a saturating counter provides a relative measure of event frequency without requiring a minimum polling rate or periodic reset to avoid or account for counter overflow. The saturating counter is incremented upon detection of an event and ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120035783 | MONITOR AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER MODEL A monitor and control system includes a server model, a number of switches, a temperature sensor mounted in the server model, a monitor and control device, and a microcontroller. The switches are connected to the resistors to control current through the resistors. The t... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110313727 | DATA CENTER PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THRESHOLD ANALYSIS Analyzing one or more physical infrastructure elements of a data center by generating a plurality of outputs from a stochastic process for a set of inputs to the stochastic process. The inputs comprise one or more inputs of certainty and one or more inputs of uncertaint... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313729 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERFORMANCE TESTING INFORMATION TO USERS A computer system includes server computers, application program storage modules, a communication network, client computers, a database storage module, and a test data presentation module. The database storage module stores event data. The event data logs events that oc... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110264410 | IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE MULTIPROCESS SYSTEM PERFORMANCE Expert system may utilize multiple metrics to estimate whether a performance improvement activity has a potential to improve performance in respect to a predetermined performance metric. The multiple metrics may be propagated based on whether or not they may be affected... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110246585 | Event Enrichment Using Data Correlation Systems and methods for enriching events using data correlation are described herein. At least some embodiments include a method for enriching events reflecting the state of a plurality of computer systems, the method including storing a plurality of event messages and ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246138 | HARDWARE STATUS DETECTING CIRCUIT FOR GENERATING ONE HARDWARE STATUS DETECTING SIGNAL HAVING INFORMATION OF MULTIPLE HARDWARE STATUS DETECTORS, RELATED HARDWARE STATUS IDENTIFYING CIRCUIT, RELATED HARDWARE STATUS DETECTING SYSTEM, AND RELATED METHODS A hardware status detecting circuit for detecting a hardware status of a target apparatus includes a plurality of hardware status detectors operating in response to the hardware status of the target apparatus, and a signal processing unit coupled to the hardware status ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238377 | Auto Adjustment of Baseline on Configuration Change A baseline adjusting technique allows automatically adjust the baselines of metrics affected by a configuration change a monitored system. If a configuration change is detected, a performance management system retrieves linkages between the changed configuration paramet... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238376 | Automatic Determination of Dynamic Threshold for Accurate Detection of Abnormalities An improved performance management technique allows automatic determination dynamic thresholds of a metric based on a baseline of the matching pattern. A pattern matching process is conducted against a set of baseline patterns to find the matching pattern. If a matching... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238378 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTUM VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION Systems and methods are disclosed for quantum verification and validation of cyber-physical systems that include a quantum allegory generator that maps a specification for the system undergoing verification and validation testing to a thermodynamical allegory. A hybrid ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231154 | TESTING METHOD AND COMPUTER DEVICE AND COMPUTER TESTING SYSTEM USING THEREOF A testing method for carrying out an accuracy testing operation on a system time signal of a computer device under test includes the following steps. First, first and second clock cycle parameters of an operation clock signal (CPU clock) are respectively recorded in res... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110191094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO EVALUATE AND SIZE RELATIVE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE A method and computer storage medium useable for estimating expected processor utilization for a workload on a computing system are disclosed. One method includes calculating an estimated throughput for a first computing system using a predetermined model based on physi... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110173432 | RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF A SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP BY PREDICTIVE WEAR-OUT BASED ACTIVATION OF FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS A processor-implemented method for determining aging of a processing unit in a processor the method comprising: calculating an effective aging profile for the processing unit wherein the effective aging profile quantifies the effects of aging on the processing unit; com... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110172968 | DISTRIBUTED PERFORMANCE COUNTERS A plurality of first performance counter modules is coupled to a plurality of processing cores. The plurality of first performance counter modules is operable to collect performance data associated with the plurality of processing cores respectively. A plurality of seco... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110172969 | OPCODE COUNTING FOR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for measuring a performance of a program running on a processing unit of a processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises informing a logic unit of each instruction in the program that is executed ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110131011 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR THROUGHPUT-TESTING OF ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS The Data Throughput Tester (“DTT”) provides efficient and reliable methods to characterize the performance capabilities of electronic data systems. Embodiments of the DTT may allow test organizations to find the throughput limitations of a data system under test to ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110112798 | CONTROLLING PERFORMANCE/POWER BY FREQUENCY CONTROL OF THE RESPONDING NODE A processing node tracks probe activity level associated with its internal caching or memory system. If the probe activity level increases above a threshold probe activity level, the performance state of the processing node is increased above its current performance sta... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110098978 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING GRAPHICS CARD A system is used to test a 3D image processing capability of a video card. The system includes a 3D model engine module, a 3D model module, a test parameter module, and a check module. The 3D model module is capable of building a 3D model engine. The test parameter modu... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110098973 | Automatic Baselining Of Metrics For Application Performance Management An application monitoring system monitors one or more applications to generate and report application performance data for transactions. Actual performance data for one or more metrics is compared with a baseline metric value(s) to detect anomalous transactions or compo... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110098977 | HIGH SPEED CHIP SCREENING METHOD USING DELAY LOCKED LOOP A voltage controlled delay line (VCDL) for measuring the maximum speed of a chip includes a first input configured to receive a reference clock signal, a first output configured to output an output clock signal, and a second input configured to receive a phase error sig... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110077995 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND PROPAGATING COMPUTER BENCHMARK DATA An improved system and method for collecting and propagating computer benchmark data is described. A user downloads from a server and runs client software on a particular computer system, configuration, or component. The client software performs benchmarking functions o... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110071793 | METHOD TO COMPUTE WAIT TIME A requesting critical wait time of a given resource may be determined The requesting critical wait time is the time spent by the one or more resources waiting for the given resource, wherein at least one of the resources waiting for the given resource can proceed if acc... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110054846 | Monitoring the Performance of a Computer A computer implemented method of monitoring the performance of a computer comprises monitoring the computer to determine the values of a plurality of activity metrics of the monitored computer. A weighted combination of functions of the determined values is calculated a... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110022359 | System and Method for Measuring Greenness of an Information Technology Environment A computer-implemented method for measuring the “greenness” of an IT environment is provided. The method comprises extracting asset data from a plurality of IT assets located on a network and extracting one or more greenness attributes from each of the plurality of ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110004443 | IT SYSTEM BEHAVIOR MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF When a process sleep event, a process wake-up event, a process save event, and a process resume event occur in an IT system having a multiprocessor configuration, a tracer respectively generates sleep event data, wake-up event data, save event data, and resume event dat... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332189 | EMBEDDED MICROCONTROLLERS CLASSIFYING SIGNATURES OF COMPONENTS FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE IN COMPUTER SERVERS Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that analyzes data from a computer system. During operation, the system obtains the sensor data from a component in the computer system using a set of sensors. Next, the system transmits the sensor data to a mic... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100324866 | TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CHIP A testing system for a video chip to be tested stores a video file in advance. The testing system uses a sample video chip to play all frames of the video file and outputs first video data. A video chip to be tested is installed into the testing system to play a plurali... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100313203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONTROL HEAT DISSIPITATION THROUGH SERVICE LEVEL ANALYSIS The system and method generally relate to reducing heat dissipated within a data center, and more particularly, to a system and method for reducing heat dissipated within a data center through service level agreement analysis, and resultant reprioritization of jobs to m... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100299514 | HOST BUILD AND REBUILD SYSTEM AND METHOD Methods of building a host computer system. The methods may comprise the steps of discovering hardware components present at the host and determining whether the hardware components are certified. The methods may also comprise the step of determining whether a build of ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100286952 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A HANG STATE AND DISTINGUISHING A HANG STATE FROM AN IDLE STATE A system, method, and computer program product are described for distinguishing between a computing system that is hung in a hang state and systems that are in an idle or otherwise non-hang state which do not need intervention before regaining the ability to adequately ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100287019 | SERVER FARM MANAGEMENT Techniques and systems are disclosed that can measure capacity of a server farm, and project capacity needs based on traffic and resources. Server farm system information is collected for managing the server farm by identifying a list of servers in the server farm. Perf... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100274531 | Automatic Identification of Execution Phases in Load Tests A method for automatic identification of execution phases in load test data includes receiving load test data. A period of time of the load test data is divided into a plurality of intervals. For each pair of proximate intervals of the plurality of intervals, a first in... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100274530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A USAGE RATE OF A CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT IN A MOBILE DEVICE A central processing unit (CPU) analyzing method sets a time interval and a time period for analyzing a usage rate of the CPU, reads a current time of a hardware timer in a mobile device when a thread is suspended, calculates a CPU time used by the suspended thread. The... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100241607 | Security and remote support apparatus, system and method Systems and methods for the security and remote monitoring of computers are described. A computer monitoring system is provided which includes a computer hard drive, a thin client communicatively connecting a plurality of software associated with the computer hard drive... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100241903 | AUTOMATED HEALTH MODEL GENERATION AND REFINEMENT The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically generating and refining health models. Embodiments of the invention use machine learning tools to analyze historical telemetry data from a server deployment. The tools out... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100217562 | Operating parameter control of an apparatus for processing data An apparatus for processing data 2 is provided with a time-to-digital converter 18 which serves to measure signal processing delay through one or more signal paths through a processing stage. This measured delay generates a delay value representing a plura... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217859 | SIMPLIFIED SUPPORT OF AN ISOLATED COMPUTER NETWORK A method, a device and computer program products product for allowing performance related data to be obtained from an isolated computer network that includes a diagnostics collection function. Selections from a support user of nodes and plug-in modules associated with a... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100204959 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A PROCESS AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY NETWORK In a method for monitoring a network of process automation technology, wherein the network includes a number of field devices, which are connected via a fieldbus with a superordinated unit, there is created for a network application, which analyzes the network, a networ... | 08/12/2010 |
