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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120072765 | JOB MIGRATION IN RESPONSE TO LOSS OR DEGRADATION OF A SEMI-REDUNDANT COMPONENT A computer program product and method of managing the workload in a computer system having one or more semi-redundant hardware components are provided. The method comprises detecting loss or degradation of the level of performance of one or more of the semi-redundant ha... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054538 | CORRELATING HARDWARE DEVICES BETWEEN LOCAL OPERATING SYSTEM AND GLOBAL MANAGEMENT ENTITY A method and apparatus for correlating the identities of hardware devices, such as processors or memory controllers, between a local operating system and a global management entity is described. In an embodiment a fault message including a local identifier of a faulting... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047393 | DYNAMICALLY REASSIGNING A CONNECTED NODE TO A BLOCK OF COMPUTE NODES FOR RE-LAUNCHING A FAILED JOB Methods, systems, and products for dynamically reassigning a connected node to a block of compute nodes for re-launching a failed job that include: identifying that a job failed to execute on the block of compute nodes because connectivity failed between a compute node ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047392 | DISASTER RECOVERY REPLICATION THROTTLING IN DEDUPLICATION SYSTEMS Various embodiments for disaster recovery (DR) replication throttling in a computing environment by a processor device are provided. Communication is arrested between a source data entity and a replicated data entity at a location declared in a DR mode. The DR mode is n... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042195 | MANAGING OPERATING SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT FAILURE A method for managing operating system deployment failure includes, with an operating system deployment server, running an operating system deployment process that comprises running a progressive hardware discovery process of a target machine to which an operating syste... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110307734 | BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED HARDWARE CELL ARCHITECTURE Disclosed is a system comprising: a reconfigurable hardware platform; a plurality of hardware units defined as cells adapted to be programmed to provide self-organization and self-maintenance of the system by means of implementing a program expressed in a programming la... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296230 | MAINTAINING A COMMUNICATION PATH FROM A HOST TO A STORAGE SUBSYSTEM IN A NETWORK Provided are a method, system, computer storage device, and storage area network for maintaining a communication path from a host to a storage subsystem in a network. A storage subsystem controls data transfer and access to a storage devices in a network, wherein the st... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110276821 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MIGRATING DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES An approach is provided for migrating data. Data is received from a plurality of source systems. The received data is processed for conversion to a target system. A failure condition associated with the processing is detected. An action is selectively initiated from a p... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING SYSTEM FAILURE A system and a method for handling a system failure are disclosed. The method is adapted for an information handling system having a basic input and output system and a micro-controller. The method includes the following steps: sending, via the micro-controller, a signa... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110257798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING A THERAPEUTIC AGENT ACCORDING TO DEFAULT INFUSION SCHEDULE A fluid delivery system comprises a pump configured to deliver a therapeutic agent to a patient, a memory storing a therapy program defining the delivery of the therapeutic agent to the patient by the pump and a default infusion schedule based on the therapy program, an... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246813 | REPURPOSABLE RECOVERY ENVIRONMENT A reconfiguration manager is operable to reconfigure a repurposable recovery environment between a recovery environment for a production environment and a second environment different from the recovery environment. A storage system in the repurposable recovery environme... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239038 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM When a fault occurs in a guest machine 2b of a virtual machine system 100b, a stop control part 5a of a guest machine 2a of a virtual machine system 100a requests a stop control part 4b ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239037 | System And Method For Providing Indexing With High Availability In A Network Based Suite of Services A suite of network-based services, such as the services corresponding to Microsoft® SharePoint™, are provided to users with high availability. The suite of network-based services may include browser-based collaboration functions, process management functions, index a... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231698 | BLOCK BASED VSS TECHNOLOGY IN WORKLOAD MIGRATION AND DISASTER RECOVERY IN COMPUTING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT Methods and apparatus involve migrating workloads and disaster recovery. A snapshot is taken of a source volume using a volume shadow service. Depending whether a user seeks a migration or disaster recovery action, blocks of data read from the snapshot are transferred t... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231697 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY OF AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM In one aspect, a method for improving reliability and availability of an information handling system is disclosed. Operational data associated with an operating margin may be captured. A threshold specified by a pre-defined profile may be identified. The pre-defined pro... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231696 | Method and System for Cluster Resource Management in a Virtualized Computing Environment Methods and systems for cluster resource management in virtualized computing environments are described. VM spares are used to reserve (or help discover or otherwise obtain) a set of computing resources for a VM. While VM spares may be used for a variety of scenarios, p... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110167293 | NON-DISRUPTIVE I/O ADAPTER DIAGNOSTIC TESTING A primary I/O adapter and a redundant I/O adapter of a data processing system are assigned to support access to a system resource. While the primary I/O adapter is in service and the redundant I/O adapter is not in service in providing access to the system resource, a f... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110154097 | FIELD REPLACEABLE UNIT FAILURE DETERMINATION A system and method for fault management in a computer-based system are disclosed herein. A system includes a plurality of field replaceable units (“FRUs”) and fault management logic. The fault management logic is configured to collect error information from a plura... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110154098 | DCAS HEADEND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ERROR OF SECURE MICRO CLIENT SOFTWARE A Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS) headend system and method for processing an error of Secure Micro (SM) Client Software are provided to prevent further transmission of SM Client Software where an error occurred, and to prevent unnecessary traffic due to r... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145627 | IMPROVING DATA AVAILABILITY DURING FAILURE DETECTION AND RECOVERY PROCESSING IN A SHARED RESOURCE SYSTEM A system and method for managing shared resources is disclosed. The system includes a primary coherency processing unit which processes lock requests from a plurality of data processing hosts, the primary coherency processing unit also storing a first current lock state... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138219 | HANDLING ERRORS IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM A method of managing errors in a data processing system may involve at least one computer system. Each computer system may include a processor that executes an operating system, firmware, and system memory storing instructions for the operating system. A firmware error ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110107136 | Fault Surveillance and Automatic Fail-Over Processing in Broker-Based Messaging Systems and Methods An exemplary method includes attempting, by a message broker subsystem, to deliver one or more messages intended for a recipient software application to the recipient software application during a predetermined fault interval, determining, by the message broker subsyste... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110078489 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING STATUS OF BOOTSTRAP PEER A method for maintaining the status of a bootstrap peer includes: selecting a bootstrap peer; obtaining the status information of the bootstrap peer; updating a local bootstrap peer list according to the status information of the bootstrap peer. An apparatus and system ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078488 | HARDWARE RESOURCE ARBITER FOR LOGICAL PARTITIONS A computer implemented method, data processing system, and apparatus for hardware resource arbitration in a data processing environment having a plurality of logical partitions. A hypervisor receives a request for a hardware resource from a first logical partition, wher... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110060938 | COMPUTER INTERLOCKING SYSTEM AND CODE BIT LEVEL REDUNDANCY METHOD THEREFOR A code bit level redundancy method for a computer interlocking system is provided. The method includes: (1) controlling the output in parallel, and (2) sharing the collected information.... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110041001 | AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR POWER AND DATA REDUNDANCY IN A WIRED DATA TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETORK Redundancy of data and/or Inline Power in a wired data telecommunications network from a pair of power sourcing equipment (PSE) devices via an automatic selection device is provided by providing redundant signaling to/from each of the pair of PSE devices, and coupling a... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035619 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD An information processing apparatus includes an execution determination unit and a control unit. The execution determination unit determines whether a series of processes including multiple processes is executable at an execution time of the series of processes. The con... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110035618 | AUTOMATED TRANSITION TO A RECOVERY KERNEL VIA FIRMWARE-ASSISTED-DUMP FLOWS PROVIDING AUTOMATED OPERATING SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS AND REPAIR A method (and structure) of operating an operating system (OS) on a computer. When a failure of the OS is detected, the computer automatically performs a diagnosis of the OS failure. The computer also attempts to automatically repair/recover the failed OS, based on the ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110013023 | Network video server architecture and computer program for high quality, high camera density, and high reliability in a digital video surveillance system An information system architecture and a computer program for achieving full video quality, high camera density, and high-reliability in a digital video surveillance system. The architecture couples encoders/decoders for H.264 hardware-based video compression and video ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110004784 | DATA ACCESSING METHOD AND DATA ACCESSING SYSTEM UTILIZING THE METHOD A data accessing method applied to a data accessing system, comprising: (a) performing a logic operation to a plurality of data units to generate at least one logic operation data unit; (b) performing an anti logic operation to the logic operation data unit and an other... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100325471 | HIGH AVAILABILITY SUPPORT FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES A computer implemented method, a tangible computer storage medium, and a data processing system provide high availability support for virtual machines in a logical partitioned platform. A monitoring system detect a failure in the virtual machine. Partition management fi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325472 | Autonomous System State Tolerance Adjustment for Autonomous Management Systems In general, the techniques of this invention are directed to determining whether a component failure in a distributed computing system is genuine. In particular, embodiments of this invention analyze monitoring data from other application nodes in a distributed computin... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318834 | Method and device for avionic reconfiguration The invention in particular has as an object a method and a device for reconfiguration of an avionic system comprising at least two computers and a software application, in an aircraft, each of the said computers being adapted for running the software application, the a... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100306571 | MULTIPLE MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) ADDRESSES A method for providing multiple media access control (MAC) addresses in a device of a master/slave system may include providing a first MAC address in a MAC address storage of the device. The method may also include providing a second MAC address in a multicast table en... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299557 | Providing tuning limits for operational parameters in data processing apparatus The application discloses a means of setting tuning limits for operational parameters in a processing stage within a data processing apparatus for processing a signal. The processing stage comprises: an input for receiving the signal, processing circuitry for processing... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100274600 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING FIELD CONVERTIBLE CUSTOMER REPLACEABLE COMPONENTS A method and system for managing field convertible operator replaceable components associated with a rendering device. A file that defines a set of operator replaceable components can be created and remotely installed on the device. The replaceable components associated... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100268983 | Computer System and Method of Control thereof A computer system is described having a plurality of hardware resources, a plurality of virtual partitions having allocated thereto some of those of hardware resources or parts thereof, said virtual partitions having an operating system loaded thereon, a partition monit... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100218032 | REDUNDANT SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD A redundant system includes a redundant apparatus and a control unit that controls power supplied to the redundant apparatus. The redundant apparatus includes a state management unit that manages an operational state of the redundant apparatus, and a response unit that ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100205479 | INFORMATION SYSTEM, DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND DATA PROTECTION METHOD Availability of an information system including a storage system that performs remote copy between two or more storage apparatuses and a host computer using such storage system is improved. A third storage apparatus including a third volume is coupled to a first storage... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205478 | RESOURCE INTEGRITY DURING PARTIAL BACKOUT OF APPLICATION UPDATES At least one physically inconsistent system resource is identified in response to a failure of an application, where the physically inconsistent system resource was left in a physically inconsistent state as a result of the failure of the application. Available backout ... | 08/12/2010 |
