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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120017117 | Solving Hybrid Constraints to Validate Specification Requirements of a Software Module In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing one or more first numeric constraints and one or more first string constraints associated with a software module including one or more numeric variables and string variables; inferring one or more second numeric constraints... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005532 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING RANKED CAUSAL PATHS FOR FAULTS IN A COMPLEX MULTI-HOST SYSTEM WITH PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE IN A TIME SERIES A method and apparatus are provided for determining that problems have occurred within a complex multi-host system and for identifying for each problem, sequences of causes and effects called a fault cause path, starting with a root cause. A probabilistic model represen... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005534 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEALING WITH ACCUMULATIVE BEHAVIOR OF SOME SYSTEM OBSERVATIONS IN A TIME SERIES FOR BAYESIAN INFERENCE WITH A STATIC BAYESIAN NETWORK MODEL A method and apparatus are provided for determining the probability that one or more problems have occurred within a complex multi-host system. A probabilistic model representing the cause/effect relationships among potential system problems identifies the probability t... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005535 | FAILURE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT FOR VEHICLE, FAILURE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD A failure diagnostic system (100) for a multicore CPU having installed therein a plurality of CPU cores (11) that is configured to be switched from a SMP mode to an AMP mode includes: load prediction means for predicting a processing load of the multicore ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005533 | Methods And Apparatus For Cross-Host Diagnosis Of Complex Multi-Host Systems In A Time Series With Probablistic Inference A method and apparatus are provided for performing cross-host root cause diagnosis within a complex multi-host environment. In a multi-host environment, sometimes system failures on one host may cause problems at another host within the same environment. A probabilistic... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110314331 | AUTOMATED TEST AND REPAIR METHOD AND APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO COMPLEX, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS An intelligent system for automatically monitoring, diagnosing, and repairing complex hardware and software systems is presented. A number of functional modules enable the system to collect relevant data from both hardware and software components, analyze the incoming d... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314332 | Failure cause estimation device and failure cause estimation method A failure cause estimation device includes: a database that manages the causes of failure cases, questions, and replies thereto for each of the failure cases; a condition presentation unit that presents combinations of the questions and replies managed in the database o... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314330 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD A management apparatus and a management method that enable parsing processing to be executed efficiently by means of a working memory of a fixed size are proposed. One or more predefined rules are divided into one or more rule segments that comprise a condition and a co... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110296243 | Recommendation of Relevant Information to Support Problem Diagnosis The disclosure generally relates to knowledge retrieval using a knowledgebase storing general and/or expert knowledge. In particular, the disclosure relates to using complex retrieval techniques to implement an enhanced troubleshooting system that provides relevant info... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296242 | ENERGY-EFFICIENT FAILURE DETECTION AND MASKING A method, system, and computer usable program product for energy-efficient soft error failure detection and masking are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A soft error is injected to occur during execution of a set of instructions. If an output of the execution o... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110276828 | APPARATUS ANOMALY MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM There is provided a technique related to an apparatus anomaly monitoring method and capable of achieving a model which can detect an anomaly with high accuracy, monitoring with using the model, and others. In an apparatus anomaly monitoring system, a model creation modu... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110239045 | EVALUATING APPARATUS AND EVALUATING PROGRAM PRODUCT According to one embodiment, an evaluating apparatus includes an operation data storage unit, a labeling unit, a learning unit, and an evaluating unit. The labeling unit applies a failure label, indicating that a product is broken down, to operation data of the product ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231703 | BAYESIAN APPROACH TO IDENTIFYING SUB-MODULE FAILURE A diagnostic device identifies failed sub-modules within a larger system based on error codes received from the system. The device stores a likelihood matrix that correlates each sub-module with each possible error code and maintains a likelihood value corresponding to ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231704 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO PERFORM ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS FOR NETWORK EVENTS Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to perform root cause analysis for network events are disclosed. An example method includes retrieving a symptom event instance from a normalized set of data sources based on a symptom event definition; generating a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110209001 | TIME MODULATED GENERATIVE PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR AUTOMATED CAUSAL DISCOVERY Dependencies between different channels or different services in a client or server may be determined from the observation of the times of the incoming and outgoing of the packets constituting those channels or services. A probabilistic model may be used to formally cha... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202227 | HEALTH PROGNOSIS FOR COMPLEX SYSTEM USING FAULT MODELING A system and method for providing component and sub-system state of health prognosis in a complex system using fault models and component aging models. The method includes determining a current state of health value for a sub-system using fault signature test results an... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110185230 | LEARNING PROGRAM BEHAVIOR FOR ANOMALY DETECTION A computer-enabled method of learning the behavior of a program. A processor can execute a target program during a learning interval while varying a plurality of stimuli provided to the target program so as to produce a multiplicity of different sequences of events whic... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173496 | INTELLIGENT CONDITION MONITORING AND FAULT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE A system for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis includes a data collection function that acquires time histories of selected variables for one or more of the components, a pre-processing function that calculates specified characteristics of the time histories, an ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110154109 | CONTINUOUS, AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF BUGS IN RELEASED SOFTWARE According to aspects illustrated herein, there is provided a method, system, and computing device for identifying bugs in a software application. The method provides for hosting the software application on a cloud server and providing the software application to a group... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145640 | System for Automated Computer Support Systems and methods for providing automated computer support are described herein. One described method comprises receiving a plurality of snapshots from a plurality of computers, storing the plurality of snapshots in a data store, and creating an adaptive reference mod... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110125302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMAL SAFETY VERIFICATION OF MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS A method and system is provided for verifying and certifying the safety logic of a manufacturing automation system including safety logic, where the logic may include one or more safety modules, routines, programs and tasks or a combination thereof; testing specificatio... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110118932 | FAULT DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS USING DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODE MARKOV CHAINS A system and method for fault diagnosis includes receiving information defining a relationship between failure modes and diagnostic trouble codes and extracting diagnostic trouble code data, including set times, frequency data and diagnostic trouble code sequence inform... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110087922 | TEST METHOD AND TOOL FOR MASTER-SLAVE SYSTEMS ON MULTICORE PROCESSORS A test method for a master-slave concurrent system running on a multicore processor includes the steps of establishing a PFA, otherwise called probabilistic finite automata, or probabilistic finite state machine, for a given regular expression; generating test patterns ... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110087923 | ONLINE FORMAL VERIFICATION OF EXECUTABLE MODELS A system and method for automatic formal verification of an executable model includes an assertion monitor configured to verify a system against an assertion in a specification. The assertion monitor includes a parser configured to generate a propositional formula repre... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110087924 | Diagnosing Abnormalities Without Application-Specific Knowledge Methods, articles, and systems for determining a probable cause of a component's abnormal behavior are described. To determine the probable cause, a computing device computes, for one or more pairs of components having dependency relationships, a likelihood that behavio... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110060946 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROBLEM DETERMINATION USING PROBE COLLECTIONS AND PROBLEM CLASSIFICATION FOR THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES A system and method for problem determination using probe collections and problem classification for the technical support services monitor and collect data associated with a computer system, raise an alarm based on the monitored and collected data, probe the computer s... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110055631 | PLUGGABLE ERROR DETECTION BOARD AND MOTHERBOARD ERROR DETECTION SYSTEM CONTAINING THE SAME A motherboard error detection system includes a pluggable error detection board and a motherboard having a boot management chip. When the motherboard enters a device-driven status from a standby status, the boot management chip is used to manage power-on timings of diff... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055620 | Identifying and Predicting Errors and Root Causes in a Data Processing Operation Methods and systems for automated quality management and/or monitoring of a data processing operation, including identifying root causes for errors, identifying which errors are likely to have root causes, predicting errors, and predicting increases in errors.... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110022891 | Method for the Generation of a Set of Conflicts for Model-Based System Diagnostics, and Corresponding Diagnostic Method A method for the generation of a set of conflicts for model-based system diagnostics is described, with which system a plurality of sensors is associated for the observation of variables indicative of operation conditions. The method starts... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100325070 | Isolating Changes in Dynamic Systems A software optimization system isolates an effect of a change in a control variable from effects of ongoing, unknown changes in other variables. The system discards effects due to noise so that effects of interest to a programmer are more easily visible. The software op... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325489 | FAULT ANALYSIS APPARATUS, FAULT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM The present invention determines the type of each piece of system information including a plurality of index values indicative of abnormality levels of a monitoring target device, as follows. The system information and identification information for the system informati... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325488 | FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH IN TEMPORAL FAULT REASONING AND APPLICATION IN AIR HANDLING UNITS A system that transforms information into fuzzy observable states. These states may be matched against a mapping table which indicates which observable state admits or excludes particular faults. This information may be processed over time when in each time instant the ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325487 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DIAGNOSING FAULTS IN RENDERING DEVICES A method and system for automatically determining an optimal re-training interval for a fault diagnoser based on online monitoring of the performance of a classifier. The classifier generates a soft measure of membership in association with a class based on a training d... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCIDENT MANAGEMENT ENHANCED WITH PROBLEM CLASSIFICATION FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES A system and method of problem determination and resolution utilizes enhanced problem classification, and effectively categorizes any problem a user experiences by leveraging all available data to recognize the specific problem. Historical problem data is labeled with t... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318847 | TECHNIQUES FOR BUILDING AN AGGREGATE MODEL FOR PERFORMING DIAGNOSTICS Techniques for building a model for performing diagnostics. In one embodiment, a set of models is determined based upon a topological relationship created upon receiving an alert or a request for which diagnostics are to be performed. An aggregate model is then generate... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318853 | TECHNIQUES FOR GATHERING EVIDENCE FOR PERFORMING DIAGNOSTICS Techniques for performing diagnostics for a monitored system. In one embodiment, an aggregate model built using a set of models is used to determine a set of probes or tests to be executed for obtaining information related to the monitored system. The obtained evidence ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313070 | BROKEN-SPHERES METHODOLOGY FOR IMPROVED FAILURE PROBABILITY ANALYSIS IN MULTI-FAIL REGIONS A failure probability for a system having multi-fail regions is computed by generating failure directions in a space whose dimensions are the system parameters under consideration. The failure directions are preferably uniform, forming radial slices. The failure directi... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306587 | COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT TIERED INFERENCE FOR MULTIPLE FAULT DIAGNOSIS A computer based method and system for tiered inference multiple fault diagnosis is provided. The method includes using a computer processor to dissect a hypothesis space representing a production system having a plurality of production modules into tiers. Production mo... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100306588 | Intelligent Integrated Diagnostics A diagnostic tools and methods are disclosed. The diagnostic tool is configured or operable to nominate a commonly connected component in a target system as being faulty if more than a pre-determined number of active components connected to the commonly connected compon... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100241901 | Method and apparatus for checking a control program in an industrial system Industrial systems (2) have complex process control systems with many degrees of freedom for parameterization. To find faults during the parameterization, the invention proposes a method for checking a control program (12) in order to control an industrial... | 09/23/2010 |
