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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7197432 | Statistical method and system for taking performance measurements A method of determining a performance characteristic of a system is accomplished through the use of descriptive statistics and key ratios. A predetermined amount of measurements are taken to test a system performance characteristic. The measurements are compiled and... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197521 | Method and system performing concurrently mark-sweep garbage collection invoking garbage collection thread to track and mark live objects in heap block using bit vector An arrangement is provided for using bit vector toggling to achieve concurrent mark-sweep garbage collection in a managed runtime system. A heap may be divided into a number of heap blocks. Each heap block may contain a mark bit vector pointer, a sweep bit vector po... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197652 | Method and system for energy management in a simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) processing system including per-thread device usage monitoring A method and system for energy management in a simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) processing system including per-thread device usage monitoring provides control of energy usage that accommodates thread parallelism. Per-device usage information is measured and stored... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197559 | Transaction breakdown feature to facilitate analysis of end user performance of a server system A system for monitoring the post-deployment performance of a web-based or other transactional server is disclosed. The monitoring system includes an agent component that monitors the performance of the transactional server as seen from one or more geographic locatio... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197431 | Method and system for determining the use and non-use of software programs A method and system for auditing software systems by monitoring the use and non-use of software programs in a computer. An operating system of the computer controls execution of software products through the invocation of respective load modules thereof. A monitor i... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197586 | Method and system for recording events of an interrupt using pre-interrupt handler and post-interrupt handler A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for providing pre and post handlers to log trace records before entering or after exiting the interrupt handler. A trace record includes a ‘from’ address where the interrupt occurs or where the branch instruction is... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194385 | Performance level setting of a data processing system A target processor performance level is calculated from a utilisation history of a processor in performance of a plurality of processing tasks. The method comprises calculating a task work value indicating processor utilisation in performing a given processing task ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194535 | Methods and systems for testing stateful network communications devices Methods and systems for testing stateful network communications devices are disclosed. According to one test method, stateful and simulated stateless sessions are established with a device under test. Packets are sent to the device under test over the stateful and s... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191099 | System for testing network devices A testing system (20) includes a database server (201) for storing relevant data employed by the testing system, a gateway (202), a shop flow control server (203) for controlling the operations of the testing system via the gateway, a com... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191088 | Method and system for memory temperature detection and thermal load management A method and system for memory temperature measurement. The method includes the step of monitoring a plurality of accesses to a memory component. A number of accesses occurring to the memory component over a time period is determined. A temperature of the memory com... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191098 | Automatic detection of excessive interrupt-disabled operating system code Method and system for detecting and reporting an excessive period of interrupt disablement in operating system programming in a data processing system. A method for detecting and reporting an excessive period of disablement in operating system programming in a data ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188202 | Techniques for accessing devices through a set of serial buses In a highly available environmental monitoring system, several slave devices are associated with either a fast polling list or a slow polling list. The fast polling list is polled by a master device more frequently than the slow polling list. A slave device is assoc... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188277 | Integrated circuit An integrated circuit (“IC”) comprising a plurality of logic modules. The IC further comprises a plurality of bus segments each associated with one of the logic modules; a debug bus interconnecting the bus segments in a ring; and a debug port connected to the de... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188051 | Apparatus and methods for maintenance task analysis A system for evaluating time requirements for performing maintenance on a maintenance object. One or more processors and memory are operable to provide a form on which a user describes a maintenance task. The described task is made available for maintenance time ana... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188170 | System for managing resources Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for tracking utilization of resources of computers. This system includes several client computers, where each computer has one or more resources that the system tracks. The system also includes a client application ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188275 | Method of verifying a monitoring and responsive infrastructure of a system A method of verifying a monitoring and responsive infrastructure of a system is provided and described. The method includes setting a sensor to a simulation mode. Further, a test value is provided to simulate a real value outputted by the sensor. While in the simula... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188146 | Navigation apparatus capable of generating and displaying information and method therefor In a navigation system in which the page data loaded from a server are displayed in a terminal, the server receiving the request for data loading from the terminal transmits the requested data if the data generation has ended, but, if not, estimates the end time and... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184777 | Server and multiple sensor system for monitoring activity in a shared radio frequency band An intelligent spectrum management (ISM) system and method are provided that includes sophisticated features to detect, classify, and locate sources of RF activity. The system comprises one or more sensors positioned at various locations in a region where activity i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184933 | Performance estimation tool for data storage systems A tool for estimating performance of a data storage system includes a database containing performance data for a plurality of possible data storage system configurations; and a computer or processor for receiving user input defining a data storage system configurati... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184918 | Automated system and method for conducting usability testing An automated system and method for conducting a usability test. The system conducts the usability test and records events that occur on the computer screen in sync with both the video and audio of the user and creates a complete chronicle of events that occur behind... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184945 | Service distribution device A service distribution device and method for balancing load distribution among servers without placing the servers in a high load or overloaded state. Models of the servers and services are generated from the record of monitored packets. Simulations are performed to... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185338 | Processor with speculative multithreading and hardware to support multithreading software A computer system includes a processor capable of executing a plurality of N threads of instructions, N being an integer greater than one, with a set of global registers visible to each of the plurality of threads and a plurality of busy bit memory elements used to ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185084 | Server-side measurement of client-perceived quality of service Server-side determination of quality of service received by a client. Content is transmitted from the server to the client according to a protocol. During transmission, the protocol requires the client to periodically send the server statistics concerning the transm... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184934 | Multifaceted system capabilities analysis Methods and systems for obtaining the performance characteristics of a computing product are described. Obtaining a computing product's attributes, capabilities, and features includes assessing the computing product to determine the product's attributes, capabilitie... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184935 | Determining and annotating a signature of a computer resource Metrics for a computer resource are collected. A signature representing a state of the computer resource from the metrics are determined by determining raw values for each of the metrics and generating a vector from at least some of the raw values for the metrics, w... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185189 | Method of storing BIOS modules and transferring them to memory for execution Methods for processing basic input output system (BIOS) modules of a computer to initialize the computer. The computer includes a system memory, a central processing unit (CPU), a computer bus, a critical nonvolatile storage device, and a secondary nonvolatile stora... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185198 | Apparatus and method for authentication and method for registering a person Wrongful authentication process is prevented. A passive entry authenticating section compares an identification signal sent from a portable unit with an identification signal previously stored in a storage section. A biometrics authenticating section compares the bi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185214 | System and method for load dependent frequency and performance modulation in bladed systems In a blade-based computer system, the number of loaded blades in the system is determined. Next, an optimal performance configuration for each of the individual blades is determined. The optimal performance configuration is based at least in part on the number of th... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185219 | System and method for clock phase recovery A clock may be generated having a predetermined unit interval. Received data may then be compared to the virtual clock to determine whether more than one data change occurs during a particular unit interval. If more than one data change occurs during a particular un... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181501 | Remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment A remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment to obtain operational data and the status of remote machines is disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with the remote machines from which ope... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181376 | Apparatus and method for coverage directed test A Bayesian network correlating coverage data and input data to a test verification system for coverage directed test generation (CDG) of a device under test. In one embodiment, the Bayesian network is part of a CDG engine which also includes a data analyzer which an... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181599 | Method and apparatus for autonomic detection of cache “chase tail” conditions and storage of instructions/data in “chase tail” data structure A method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a data processing system for processing instructions are provided. Instructions are received at a processor in the system. If a selected indicator is associated with the instruction, counting of each event associated... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181769 | Network security system having a device profiler communicatively coupled to a traffic monitor A system and method for providing distributed security of a network. Several device profilers are placed at different locations of a network to assess vulnerabilities from different perspectives. The device profiler identifies the hosts on the network, and character... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181367 | Off-line diagnosis system Process control systems may include one or more diagnostic systems and/or processes. In particular implementations, a diagnostic system and process for a field instrument may include the ability to divide a signal input range into a plurality of zones with respect t... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178146 | Pizza scheduler Described are techniques used in task scheduling to form a run list used by a task scheduler. A non-priority based technique is disclosed in which each task to be executed is allotted a “pie” count representing the number of times out of the total run list each ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7178065 | System and method for measuring performance with distributed agents Various systems and methods for testing one or more servers using a distributed test system may involve a master agent synchronously transitioning multiple test agents through several state changes. In some embodiments, a method may involve configuring multiple test... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177271 | Method and system for managing admission to a network A method and system for managing admission to a network considers the packet delay of the network in making an admission decision. The packet delay of the network is periodically probed. To avoid disturbing or impairing the traffic of the network, a sequence of prob... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174275 | Scalability test and analysis Apparatuses and methods to test whether a multi-user system will provide satisfactory performance are described. Response times are logged for each individual user, and the measurements are aggregated together in a single file at the end of the test. For each action... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174274 | Gathering I/O measurement data during an I/O operation process I/O measurement data associated with the performance of an I/O operation process is gathered during the I/O process. The I/O measurement data is saved in an IRB memory location specified by a test subchannel instruction. An I/O interrupt signals the completion of th... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171467 | Out-of-band remote management station A computer network management system with an embedded processor, an analog communication means and a digital interface for network management provides a system for remotely and securely managing a network. Backup power in the form of an uninterrupted power supply, o... | 01/30/2007 |
