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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185777 | Network storage appliance with integrated server and redundant storage controllers A network storage appliance is disclosed. The appliance includes a chassis enclosing a backplane, and a server enclosed in the chassis and coupled to the backplane. The appliance also includes storage controllers enclosed in the chassis, each coupled to the backplan... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8166335 | Specific-equipment management system, specific-equipment management program, and specific-equipment management method in which question information regarding a question estimating a specific-error cause is generated, the error regarding the specific-equipment and including human error regarding the human operation A specific-equipment management system is equipped with a question generator, a display unit and an input unit and manages a water heater. The water heater is equipment that requires human operation in the vicinity when used. The question generator generates questio... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8122280 | Method and system for providing high availability to computer applications A set of system-level high availability services for computer systems, including a service that functions in general terms like an extension of the operating system. By providing High Availability (HA) at the system-level, modifications to the applications or the op... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8046625 | Distributed fault tolerant architecture for a healthcare communication system A healthcare communication system includes a first plurality of computer devices, such as patient stations, staff stations, and a master station, that are operable as a nurse call system. The first plurality of computer devices may have core nurse call functionality... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8020028 | Application management system for mobile devices An application management system identifies a mobile device for use in a vehicle, home, or place of business, each of which includes a processor and is designed to function in a multiprocessor system. The mobile device is connected and configured into the multiproce... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8006118 | System and method for application failure detection The present invention allows construction of a secure, real-time operating system from a portable language such as Java that appears to be a Java virtual machine from a top perspective but provides a secure operating system from a bottom perspective. This allows por... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006119 | Application management system The present invention allows construction of a secure, real-time operating system from a portable language such as Java that appears to be a Java virtual machine from a top perspective but provides a secure operating system from a bottom perspective. This allows por... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006117 | Method for multi-tasking multiple java virtual machines in a secure environment The present invention allows construction of a secure, real-time operating system from a portable language such as Java that appears to be a Java virtual machine from a top perspective but provides a secure operating system from a bottom perspective. This allows por... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006116 | Systems and methods for storing health information with computing-system backups A computer-implemented method for storing information that identifies the state of health of a computing system at the time a backup of the computing system is created may comprise: 1) identifying a backup of the computing system, 2) performing an evaluation of the ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7966513 | Automatic classification of backup clients A method of automatically classifying clients into different backup policy groups according to pre-selected criteria, such as type of client, whether the client is a server, a desktop or a mobile computer, the department or business unit, or even the user. The metho... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7877624 | Faulted circuit indicator monitoring device with wireless memory monitor A wireless communications system for viewing and modifying memory locations within a power system device is provided including a wireless device and a power system device. The wireless device includes an input mechanism adapted to accept input from a user indicating... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7802126 | Data center virtual tape off-site disaster recovery planning and implementation system A system for planning and verifying off-site disaster recovery plans as well as implementing alternate fall back operations in the event of a disaster. The system includes at least one primary mainframe computer having an inboard catalog component, a primary emulate... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797564 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for dynamically modifying operating parameters of the system based on the current usage of a processor core's specialized processing units A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for dynamically modifying operating parameters of processing units included in a processor core that is included in a central processing unit. A next context to be processed ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793136 | Application management system with configurable software applications An application management system identifies a new device. The new device is configured into a multiprocessor system when a type of data used by the new device conforms with a type of data used in the multiprocessor system. An application in the multiprocessor system... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7783605 | Calculating cluster availability An availability metric is obtained for groups of databases or other computer resources by capturing related stop and start events which are set. Event data, including the stop and start events, can be communicated from agents associated with the databases to a centr... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7761730 | Determination of impact of a failure of a component for one or more services A method and system for determining an impact of a failure of a component for one or more services that the component is supporting. A data feed received from a processing node includes data indicative of an identity and system status of a component running on the p... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7734596 | Automatic failover configuration with redundant abservers Techniques used in an automatic failover configuration having a primary database system, a standby database system, and an observer for preventing divergence among the primary and standby database systems while increasing the availability of the primary database sys... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730091 | Systems, methods and computer products for database cluster modeling Generating in a computer system and deploying a data model of a plurality of database cluster configuration availability solutions over a computer network by creating a database cluster configuration modeling specification including objects contained in a unified mo... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720817 | Method and system for browsing objects on a protected volume in a continuous data protection system A method for browsing objects on a protected volume in a continuous data protection system begins by displaying a list of top-level objects to a user who selects a top-level object to browse. A snapshot is selected from the selected top-level object and is decoded. ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7669073 | Systems and methods for split mode operation of fault-tolerant computer systems Methods and systems are provided by which a computer system, and in particular, a lockstep fault-tolerant computer system, may be split into a plurality of independently operational subsystems. Each subsystem may be examined, managed or upgraded by an administrator ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7631213 | Data center virtual tape off-site disaster recovery planning and implementation system A system for planning and verifying off-site disaster recovery plans as well as implementing alternate fall back operations in the event of a disaster. The system includes at least one primary mainframe computer having an inboard catalog component, a primary emulate... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7555671 | Systems and methods for implementing reliability, availability and serviceability in a computer system Embodiments include systems and methods for processing Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) events in a computer system. Embodiments comprise processing critical events in a first portion of a Management Interrupt (MI) period. The MI period is chosen t... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7552354 | Method of protecting a microcomputer system against manipulation of data stored in a memory arrangement A method of protecting a microcomputer system against manipulation of data stored in a memory arrangement of the microcomputer system, in particular a control program stored there. Checking mechanisms are executed at preselectable points in times to check for manipu... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7516351 | Distributed testing apparatus and host testing apparatus There is provided a group of testing apparatuses that realizes high-level testing and high quality medical treatment by conducting tests using apparatuses and facilities that are located in a distributed condition. A distributed testing apparatus is configured to be... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7509518 | Determining the impact of a component failure on one or more services The invention provides a method for determining the impact of a failure of a component on one or more services that the component is supporting. The method receiving a data feed from a processing node, the data feed containing data indicative of the identity and sys... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7444554 | Storage apparatus and fan control method and fan control program of storage apparatus This invention provides a storage apparatus for inhibiting temperature increase in a chassis caused when a cooling fan or a module is detached and replaced due to the failure thereof. The storage apparatus comprises a controller for controlling data transfer, a powe... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441243 | Exception handling in the processing of proposal requests in a grid computing environment A system, method, and service associated with a computing grid or a virtual organization include a request for proposal (RFP) generator, where the RFP describes a data processing task. The RFP is provided to multiple resource providers via the computing grid where e... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434085 | Architecture for high availability using system management mode driven monitoring and communications A computer system and method for providing high availability. The computer system includes an application level, an operating system level supporting the application level, and a firmware level supporting the operating system level. The firmware level includes a mic... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433880 | Method and system for high speed encoding, processing and decoding of data A system, method and computer program for processing data having a plurality of data values contained in a plurality of data fields of varying types and lengths that includes encoding data values of the data fields into integer values, forming one or more first bina... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428656 | Performing retry operations A method of performing a retry procedure may begin with detecting an error in a first zone of a data storage medium. Upon detecting the error, it is determined whether any retry procedure of a sequence of retry procedures has been performed upon detecting a previous... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424604 | Weighted processor selection apparatus and method for use in multiprocessor systems A processor programmed to write to a memory location a first weighted value corresponding to the processor to overwrite a second weighted value stored in the memory location and associated with another processor. The processor is also programmed to compare the first... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421623 | Systems, methods, and media for controlling temperature in a computer system Systems, methods and media for controlling temperature of a system are disclosed. More particularly, hardware, software and/or firmware for controlling the temperature of a computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving component temperatures for a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418525 | Shared simultaneously-connected removable drives and servers each housing an I/O controller which maintains an uninterrupted protocol connection Local drive presence is provided for local and remote drives by maintaining a plurality of uninterrupted protocol connections between a plurality of I/O controllers and a plurality of device interfaces through which peripheral bus commands are transmitted. Preferabl... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409539 | System design and code update strategy to implement a self-healing, self-verifying system The present invention relates to boot code processing of a computer system, and in particular to a method and respective system for managing boot code of a computer system, wherein the system comprises at least a first and a redundant second boot memory portion, and... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409588 | Method and system for data processing with high availability A server to be changed is added to a destination unit in terms of configuration. The server to be changed is started to restore the database in the database storage region to which the server has access and to restore the transaction for the process that was execute... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403957 | Image forming apparatus having control codes and rewrite control method for the same In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control the image forming apparatus is rewritten, rewrite execution codes ada... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401248 | Method for deciding server in occurrence of fault A method for deciding a destination server among a plurality of servers to which applications are migrated upon occurrence of a failure on one of the servers is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining required performance information of each of the appl... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398181 | Method for retrieving reliability data in a system An aspect of the present invention is a method for retrieving reliability data in a system. The method includes coupling a device to the system, collecting the reliability data with the device and retrieving the reliability data from the device. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398529 | Method for managing objects created in a directory service A computerized method for managing objects created in a directory service of a distributed computing environment, including a component for backing up and restoring a single or plurality of directory service objects, a component for delegating security privileges to... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398191 | Method and apparatus for computing a distance metric between computer system workloads One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that computes a distance metric between computer system workloads. During operation, the system receives a dataset containing metrics that have been collected for a number of workloads of interest. Next, the ... | 07/08/2008 |
