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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131382 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM A information processing system comprises a memory module having a plurality of unit memory regions, a memory controller, connected to the memory module via memory interface, configured to control access to the memory module, an error detector, which is in the memory co... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131375 | Executing a Kernel Device Driver as a User Space Process A method, including receiving, by a user space driver framework (UDF) library executing from a user space of a memory over a monolithic operating system kernel, a kernel application programming interface (API) call from a device driver executing from the user space. The... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106320 | ROUTED SPLIT MULTI-LINK TRUNKING RESILIENCY FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SPLIT-PLANE ENVIRONMENTS A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing Routed Split Multi-Link Trunking Resiliency for Wireless Local Area Network split-plane environments is presented. A first network switch learns first data associated with a second network switch and the fi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110370 | HIGHLY AVAILABLE FILE SYSTEM IN A DIRECTLY ATTACHED STORAGE A method and system to provide a highly available file system in a directly attached storage (DAS). The storage is directly attached to a computer system that has an inactive operating system. A hardware module in the computer system receives a network command to access... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110369 | Data Recovery in a Cross Domain Environment A method for recovering data when corrupted data from a source is detected includes identifying data corrupted as a result of using the corrupted data by tracing propagation of the corrupted data to provide identified corrupted data, and repairing the identified corrupt... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084596 | MONITORING CIRCUIT A monitoring circuit monitors for the occurrence of a failure event on a data bus. The monitoring circuit includes a failure detection circuit for detecting the occurrence of the failure event within a device coupled to the data bus. An isolation circuit isolates the de... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084595 | OPTIMIZED RECOVERY A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for restoring data. In some embodiments, this includes determining an object to be recovered, determining a representation of the object, and requesting the representation of the object from a data resource system. In some... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK INFORMATION COLLECTION A network device may include logic configured to receive a problem report from a second network device, store and analyze data included in the problem report, filter data in the problem report to determine when the problem report is to be transmitted to a third network ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING REQUESTS FOR COMPUTING CAPACITY Embodiments of systems and methods are described for dynamically managing requests for computing capacity from a provider of computing resources. Illustratively, the computing resources may include program execution capabilities, data storage or management capabilities,... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072763 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FILE LOCKING IN A NETWORK FILE SYSTEM FEDERATED NAMESPACE A method, system and apparatus of a file locking within a network file system federated namespace is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a target file in a storage medium over a network through an intermediate proxy server using a processor. The st... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BOOTING AND AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING SOFTWARE, AND RECOVERING FROM UPDATE ERROR, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING METHOD Provided are a booting method of updating software components installed in a system and recovering from an error that occurs in an update, a method and system for automatically updating the software and recovering from the error, and a computer readable recording medium... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054532 | DYNAMIC FAULT CONFIGURATION USING A REGISTERED LIST OF CONTROLLERS A method and system dynamically configures faults during software testing. During runtime of a service platform, a computer system hosting the service platform receives a request from a test program to register a list of controllers. Each of the registered controllers c... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047391 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SUPPORT FOR REPAIRING INPUT MODEL ERRORS Systems and associated methods for automated repair support for input model faults are described. Embodiments automate generation of fault repair support by producing one or more repair action suggestions for a given input model containing faults. Responsive to an indic... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042194 | Data Integrity Methods for Quantum Computational Plasmonic Information Representation and Processing Systems Data integrity methods are disclosed for quantum computational plasmonic information representation and processing systems. Also disclosed are methods of saving energy in such applications. Also disclosed are methods of monitoring such applications.... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036566 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION AND CONTINUATION OF FEDERATION RELATIONSHIPS Embodiments are directed to establishing the integrity of a portion of data on at least one level of a plurality of network stack levels and automatically continuing an established federation relationship between at least two federation computer systems. In an embodimen... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030501 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF SUCCESS OF USING A COMPUTERIZED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM Methods and systems are provided for improving the repair efficacy of a repair action using inferred feedback. The method comprises downloading a repair procedure, which has a probability of success for correcting the fault code. Repair action data is input into to the ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023359 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING INVALID DATA A method, system and computer program for processing invalid data. Data is received at a shared component for processing. A shared component is a component that is capable of being shared by multiple entities. The shared component has a plurality of threads. An attempt ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017110 | FAULT-TOLERANCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK A method including receiving network topology and resource management information; generating a mapping between the network topology of a network and resource reservation paths associated with flows using the network based on the network topology and resource management... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005519 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE MASTER DATA PROCESSES A system and method for providing collaborative master data process management. A master data store comprises data for at least one data domain. A master data management module is configured to provide access to the data to one or more applications. A master data manage... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320858 | MONITORING SOFTWARE THREAD EXECUTION The invention is directed to monitoring execution of software threads, particularly by detecting a lockup or stall in execution of a software thread and initiating a remedial action in response. Advantageously, some embodiments of the invention automatically detect a lo... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320856 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE READING OF SYSTEM INFORMATION IN A MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE A method to read selectively system information messages in a mobile wireless communication device. The mobile wireless device receives a first transmission of a multiple segment message through a radio frequency receiver. The mobile wireless device detects decoding err... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320857 | BOTTOM-UP MULTILAYER NETWORK RECOVERY METHOD BASED ON ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS A bottom-up (or upward) multilayer network recovery method and apparatus based on a root-cause analysis are disclosed to quickly and accurately perform a recovery operation. The bottom-up multilayer network recovery method based on a root-cause analysis includes: simult... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320855 | ERROR DETECTION AND RECOVERY IN A SHARED PIPELINE A pipelined processing device includes: a processor configured to receive a request to perform an operation; a plurality of processing controllers configured to receive at least one instruction associated with the operation, each of the plurality of processing controlle... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320869 | HOMOGENEOUS RECOVERY IN A REDUNDANT MEMORY SYSTEM Providing homogeneous recovery in a redundant memory system that includes a memory controller, a plurality of memory channels in communication with the memory controller, an error detection code mechanism configured for detecting a failing memory channel, and an error r... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110307359 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ADDRESS AND TAX INVENTORY DATA An exemplary method includes a computing system accessing inventory data maintained in a repository of inventory data, the inventory data maintained for use in determining tax revenue to be collected from at least one customer, and auditing the inventory data, the audit... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307879 | PROGRAM UPDATE DEVICE, PROGRAM UPDATE METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE A program update device includes: a first storage unit to retain a program of a first version; a second storage unit to retain a program of a second version equal to or later than the first version; an acquiring unit to acquire a difference between the program of the se... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302444 | Information processing apparatus and driver execution control method An information processing apparatus includes a process monitor configured to monitor the status of processes executed in accordance with respective monitored driver programs which are to be monitored among driver programs associated with respective devices, an error pro... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296228 | TOLERATING SOFT ERRORS BY SELECTIVE DUPLICATION A method, system, and computer usable program product for tolerating soft errors by selective duplication are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An application executing in a data processing system, selects an instruction that has to be protected from soft errors... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296229 | DECIMAL FLOATING-POINTING QUANTUM EXCEPTION DETECTION A system and method for detecting decimal floating point data processing exceptions. A processor accepts at least one decimal floating point operand and performs a decimal floating point operation on the at least one decimal floating point operand to produce a decimal f... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110271137 | UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR CONFIGURATION VALIDATION A modular framework may be provided for configuration checks that enable a developer to classify and describe each check and then subsequently search for checks and integrate them with other checks. Each check may include a dependency on other checks to create a hierarc... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271136 | PREDICTIVELY MANAGING FAILOVER IN HIGH AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS A method, system, and computer usable program product for predictively managing failover in a high availability system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A disruptive activity occurring on the HA data processing system is detected. The disruptive activity has... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110258480 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ASYNCHRONOUS DEPENDENT I/O FOR A VIRTUAL FIBRE CHANNEL TARGET Methods and apparatus for managing exchange IDs for multiple asynchronous dependent I/O operations generated for virtual Fibre Channel (FC) target volumes. Features and aspects hereof allocate a range of exchange identifier (X_ID) values used in issuing a plurality of p... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252268 | Hierarchical configurations in error-correcting computer systems When errors arise in a computing system that has plural modules, this invention corrects those errors. In the first instance, the invention excludes the computing system itself, but receives error messages from the plural modules of that system—along plural receiving ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252269 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPLOADING ANALYSIS DATA FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT The invention enhances automatic incident control, problem control, and problem prevention using information provided by the analysis or analysis data. The burden on the part of both users and providers to resolve problems is reduced by using a method of automatic analy... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246812 | WINDOW SUPPRESSION A method of suppressing unwanted windows created by an operating system is described. The method comprises: monitoring calls from the operating system relating to creation of a window and ascertaining if a monitored call relates to creation of a window of a type corresp... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110225446 | IDENTIFYING A DEFECTIVE ADAPTER A method, system, and computer usable program product for identifying a defective adapter are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A configuration process of the adapter is initiated, the adapter being coupled with a slot in a data processing system. An indication ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219258 | Content Interruptions Techniques that address content interruptions are described. In an implementation, an interruption is detected at the client device in receipt of a stream of content from a distribution system that is to be recorded locally in memory at the client device. A stream of co... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110214006 | AUTOMATED LEARNING OF FAILURE RECOVERY POLICIES Described is automated learning of failure recovery policies based upon existing information regarding previous policies and actions. A learning mechanism automatically constructs a new policy for controlling a recovery process, based upon collected observable interacti... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208992 | Universal Resource Locator Watchdog A watchdog system for identifying failures in uniform resource locators (URLs) respective of advertized content. The system comprises a database containing at least campaign information, the at least campaign information containing at least a URL to be monitored by the ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110209000 | Systems and Methods for Allocating Network Resources From One Address Realm to Clients in a Different Address Realm Disclosed is a method performed by a gateway server. The method may include the following steps: receiving from a client belonging to a first address realm a request for a network resource from a second address realm; allocating a network resource from the second addres... | 08/25/2011 |
