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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120030512 | PROVISIONING OF DATA TO A VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT COMPUTING SYSTEM Various embodiments include a software provisioning system and method for a vehicle infotainment computer. Software provisioning of the vehicle infotainment computer may occur during vehicle assembly. A software provisioning request may be received for custom installing... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110314328 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN ERROR INDUCED BY A HIGH-PASS FILTER AND ASSOCIATED ERROR CORRECTION METHOD Device for determining an error induced by a high-pass filter in a signal, including a unit (3) for calculating the error according to the formula:
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| 20110202796 | MICROPROCESSOR WITH SYSTEM-ROBUST SELF-RESET CAPABILITY A microprocessor includes a bus interface unit that interfaces the microprocessor to a bus that includes a signal that, when asserted, instructs all bus agents to refrain from initiating bus transactions. Microcode causes the bus interface unit to assert the signal in r... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202795 | DATA CORRUPTION PREVENTION DURING APPLICATION RESTART AND RECOVERY Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for draining or aborting IO requests of a failed system prior to restarting or recovering an application in virtual environments. The method includes detecting, within an electronic system, an appl... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110179307 | FAILOVER METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING CLUSTERING CONFIGURATION A failover control method for a virtual computer system including a plurality of virtual computers including: monitoring a second virtual computer via a first line by a first virtual computer among the plurality of virtual computers; detecting a malfunction of the secon... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110099415 | CEC COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, AUDIO AND VISUAL DEVICE USING THEREOF, AND CEC COMMUNICATIONS METHOD The present invention provides a CEC communications device which eliminates a troublesome process to solve the CEC-related communication malfunction when the CEC communications device detects a CEC-related communication malfunction caused by a software malfunction and i... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110087921 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND REPRODUCING METHOD A reproducing apparatus 100 that reproduces content recorded in a recording medium 101 avoids reentering the same fault state and becoming unrecoverable at the time of occurrence of an unrecoverable CPU error, such as misalignment. Fault information is sto... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110041009 | MANAGING EXTRINSIC PROCESSES Methods, program products, and systems for monitoring extrinsic processes are described. A monitoring process can monitor one or more target processes. The target processes can be extrinsic, e.g., not spawned by the monitoring process. The monitoring process reads a pro... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100332902 | Power efficient watchdog service An electronic device comprises a first processor, a computer readable memory medium and logic instructions stored in the computer readable medium which, when executed by the first processor, configure the first processor to implement a watchdog module which monitors an ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100318774 | PROCESSOR INSTRUCTION GRADUATION TIMEOUT A multiprocessor computer system comprises a plurality of processors distributed across a plurality of node coupled by a processor interconnect network. One or more of the processors is operable to manage hung processor instructions by setting a graduation timeout count... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100268988 | SECURE FLASH MEMORY USING ERROR CORRECTING CODE CIRCUITRY A processor and memory system includes memory, a table of exceptions, and a processor. The memory includes a plurality of memory blocks. The table of exceptions identifies at least one of the plurality of memory blocks that includes an expected error. The processor diag... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100217854 | Method and Apparatus for Intelligent Management of a Network Element A network element (NE) includes an intelligent interface (II) with its own operating environment rendering it active during the NE boot process, and with separate intelligence allowing it to take actions on the NE prior to, during, and after the boot process. The combin... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100218016 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An image processing apparatus includes a volatile storing unit, a nonvolatile storing unit, a processing control unit, a transfer unit and a power controlling unit. The processing control unit controls image processing and writes a result of the control as history infor... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211824 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEMORY RETENTION ACROSS RESETS Systems and methods (“utility”) for providing a computer system with a mechanism to record live data on a continuous basis which may be analyzed subsequent to a fault condition is provided. The utility uses the existing DRAM memory of a computer system as a retentiv... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100100766 | TEST APPARATUS A test apparatus for testing a portable communication unit. The test apparatus comprises a test unit adapted to supply test input data to the portable communication unit and retrieve test output data at least from the portable communication unit in accordance with a tes... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100083043 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM THAT RECORDS AN OPERATION STATE MONITORING PROGRAM, AND OPERATION STATE MONITORING METHOD The device and method includes outputting a subsistence signal repeatedly that indicates that an information processing device is normally operating when the information processing unit is normally operating, executing a memory dump processing, if necessary, when a faul... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100037098 | TERMINATE OPERATIONS FOR COMPLEX I/O LINK Method, system and computer program product embodiments for, in an input/output (I/O) link handling complex instruction chains, a messaging scheme incorporating a method of error recovery between an initiator processor and a receiver processor, are provided. An operatio... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090199044 | Device self-maintenance Software running on a processor is operable to control the cycled powering down and powering up of components of a self-service terminal (SST) in order to attempt to rectify a fault within the SST without the need to power down the SST core processor. The software can a... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090132061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING FROM TRANSIENT FAULTS IN AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE A system and method is disclosed for system fault recovery by an implantable medical device which employs a global fault response. The system enables the device to consistently recover from transient faults while maintaining a history of the reason for the device fault.... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090089615 | FIELD REPAIRABLE LOGIC A state matcher for a logic circuit may detect at least one of a buggy state of the logic circuit, a precursor to a buggy state of the logic circuit and a verified state of the logic circuit based on a plurality of signal values indicative of a state of the logic circui... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090019309 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A MINIMALLY DEGRADED CONFIGURATION WHEN FAILURES OCCUR ALONG CONNECTIONS A minimally degraded configuration is determined when failing connections occur. Associative deconfigurations are determined from deconfiguring hardware items in a server system, associative groups are derived, and failed connections are determined. Failed connections a... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080307259 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECOVERING FROM FAILURES IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE A method and systems for recovering from a failure in a virtual machine are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for recovering from failures in a virtual machine is provided. The method may include, in a first physical host ha... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080301498 | Control device and control method A control device and a control method for increasing stability of micro controller system are described. The control device comprises a system error detection unit a memory unit, a data error detection unit, an error signal processing unit and a system resetting unit. W... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080215917 | Synchronizing Cross Checked Processors During Initialization by Miscompare A few inexpensive hardware facilities are incorporated in a tightly synchronized cross checked design. These facilities allow initialization software to quickly bring the two processors to the same state by rapid, repeated resets and execution of the initialization soft... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080195893 | A REPAIRABLE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF REPAIRING THE SAME A repairable semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array having a first block to store first system data and a second block to store second system data identical to the first system data. A controller transmits the first system data to a memory unit in res... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080010522 | Failure diagnosis system, image forming apparatus, computer readable medium and data signal A failure diagnosis system includes a first database, a second database, an observation-information acquiring unit, a determination-probability calculating unit and an occurrence-probability calculating unit. A first cause-and-effect network stored in the first database... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070240018 | Functional level reset on a per device/function basis A device within a system, or an individual function of the device, may be reset to a known state while all other devices in the system or other functions of the device that are not being reset remain operational. ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070234118 | Managing communications paths Communications paths are managed. An error is detected on a first storage processor. It is determined that the error resulted from a peer-to-peer communication from a second storage processor. The error on the first storage processor is handled by taking action short of... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070180318 | Failure diagnostic apparatus and method of storing failure information A failure diagnostic apparatus determines the environment in which the condition of a vehicle is examined and selects an appropriate storage location for information regarding the condition of the vehicle. In particular, the failure diagnostic apparatus includes a vehic... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070168725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REBOOTING A COMPUTER AUTOMATICALLY WHEN A SYSTEM CRITICAL ERROR OCCURS A system for rebooting a computer automatically when a system critical error occurs is disclosed. The system includes: a timer (201) for counting down from a preset initial time when started, and for sending a reset signal to restart the computer (10) if t... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070168724 | High-speed restart method, information processing device, and program Process information saving unit 131 and process restoration unit 132 are provided. A process table 201 and other information required for restoring a process present in an OS 130 are copied in a save area 124 on a main memory area 120 ... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070067676 | Overheat protection system of CPU and method thereof An overheated protection circuitry for a central processing unit (CPU) is provided, which is used when the working temperature of the CPU is higher than a first preset temperature or a second preset temperature. The CPU and a thermal module send out an abnormal signal r... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070043974 | Techniques for performing memory diagnostics Techniques are provided for performing memory diagnostics. A portion of physical memory is locked using functionality included in an operating system. At least one memory diagnostic test is executed on the portion producing a result. It is determined, in accordance with... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20070028141 | Interrupt-responsive non-volatile memory system and method An interrupt-responsive non-volatile memory respond to an interrupt by aborting execution by a memory controller of a memory routine in a non-volatile memory, sets, a flag and executes an interrupt service routine; and upon completion of the interrupt service routine, i... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20060288252 | Apparatuses, methods, and data structures for hard reset Broadcast receivers, methods, and data structures for performing a hard rest are disclosed. For instance, a communication device includes a status register that stores data that defines a hard reset indication field for indicating whether a hard reset is to be performed... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060184825 | Reliability centered maintenance system and method A reliability centered maintenance system having an input device and logic that receives and stores data indicative of a function, a functional failure, a failure mode, and a failure effect, via the input device, displays the received data to a display device in respons... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060150015 | Error monitoring of partitions in a computer system using partition status indicators A method and computer program product for error monitoring partitions in a computer system. Provided to each partition is a partition status indicator (PSI) denoting a RUNNING or FAIL status of the partition, and an error log area (ELA) for storing partition error entri... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060048004 | Log collecting apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer-readable storage medium A log collecting apparatus has a graphical user interface to urge an operate to select a target equipment that is a target of a log collection and logs that are to be collected, and a combination managing part. The combination managing part identifies related logs that ... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060031715 | Manual start learning process and manual start process for use with an automated system A method and apparatus for use with a system including a processor that controls a resource configuration to perform a sequence including a plurality of cells, the method for programming the processor to help a system operator restart the sequence after the sequence is ... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050262394 | Failure diagnosis method, failure diagnosis apparatus, conveyance device, image forming apparatus, program, and storage medium A failure diagnosis method diagnoses a failure occurring in a diagnosis target apparatus including a drive mechanism having a drive member that receives power supply to operate and a power transmission member that transmits drive force of the drive member to another mem... | 11/24/2005 |
