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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7774636 | Method and system for kernel panic recovery A method of kernel panic recovery, comprising detecting a kernel panic of a first kernel, retrieving at least some of a state of at least one thread running on the first kernel, and restoring the state of the at least one process on a second kernel. ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770052 | Collaborative web-based airplane level failure effects analysis tool Analyzing system malfunction data and associated direct and indirect effects in a collaborative tool to determine relationships between the effects and the system malfunction information. System malfunction cases and other data are received and stored. A user may vi... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761731 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus detects an error which occurred in a system and stores a system status that the error occurred in association with error information indicating the error. The information processing apparatus outputs guidance information according... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752484 | On-demand wrappers of application data with session failover recovery A wrapper can receive a request for application data. The wrapper wraps a first reference to a cross-session object and a second reference to a wrapper mapper object. Thereafter, the cross-session object can be accessed using the first reference and the wrapper mapp... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752485 | Method and system for virtual removal of physical field replaceable units A method of virtually removing field replaceable units (FRUs) from a computer system during concurrent maintenance operations. Firmware within a flexible service processor (FSP) assigns unique resource identification (RID) numbers to each FRU in the computer system.... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747893 | Method and system for managing resources during system initialization and startup A method for managing a system's computer resources, includes: detecting an error condition in a computer resource; labeling the computer resource as not usable based on the error condition detected; reconfiguring the remaining computer resources to compensate for t... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7707451 | Methods and devices for recovering from initialization failures The time it takes to recover from a system initialization failure may be reduced by determining whether to enable a recovery process immediately, or defer such a process. Sometimes it is desirable to defer a recovery process until certain interdependencies between s... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7661012 | Spare device management Provided are techniques for spare device management. Candidate devices are sorted into spare coverage groups by type. One or more candidate devices having closest fitting characteristics of a desired type are identified from the spare coverage groups. The identified... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7661013 | System and method for error recovery An automated laboratory device that comprises a mechanism that performs operations on laboratory samples, a scheduler that causes the mechanism to process laboratory samples in accordance with programmed processes, logic that detects an error occurring in a process ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657776 | Containing machine check events in a virtual partition Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for containing machine check events in a virtual partition. One embodiment is a method of software execution. The method divides a hard partition into first and second virtual partitions and attempts to correct an ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657777 | Common semantic model of management of a supply chain A method and apparatus of a supply module having a business object module to least one schema to describe the supply chain data, a XML-based language module to process the at least one schema and a SQL code generator module to sequence of SQL instructions to perform... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7640450 | Method and apparatus for handling nested faults Apparatus and a method for handling nested faults including the steps of determining whether a fault is a first level fault, responding to a determination of a first level fault by saving a first amount of state sufficient to handle a first level fault, and respondi... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7620840 | Transactional flow management interrupt debug architecture According to some embodiments, a first bus may be monitored, via a first debug gate, the first bus being to exchange data between a first processing system and a second processing system. A second bus may also be monitored, via a second debug gate, the second bus be... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7571343 | Handling sequence numbers and/or an anti-replay window after failover between servers To prevent loss of packets due to failover between server systems in which a failover mechanism is provided in a first server system to enable a second server system to failover to the first server system, the first server system includes a first sequence number spa... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565565 | Automated error recovery of a licensed internal code update on a storage controller A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for the automatic recovery from errors encountered during an automated Licensed Internal Code (LIC) update on a storage controller. The present invention functions with a concurrent or nonconcurrent automated ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7562247 | Providing independent clock failover for scalable blade servers Methods and systems are disclosed for providing independent clock failover for scalable blade servers that include assigning a server blade to one of a plurality of clock failover groups, providing a plurality of independent clock signals to the clock generator of t... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7555672 | Distributed system and method for error recovery An automated laboratory device that comprises a mechanism that performs operations on laboratory samples, a scheduler that causes the mechanism to process laboratory samples in accordance with programmed processes, logic that detects an error occurring in a process ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7526667 | Error reporting and correcting method for peripheral An error reporting and correcting method applied to a peripheral. The peripheral can be connected to the user terminal via the network. In the error reporting and correcting method, an error record file is generated immediately after an error operation occurs to the... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523340 | Support self-heal tool A self-heal tool performs self-healing tasks such as diagnostic and repair tasks at the computer host to resolve a user problem. The self-heal tool includes an instruction file and a self-heal engine which executes instructions in the instruction file. The self-heal... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7493512 | System and method for providing data services via a network A method and system are provided for performing an activity. Accordingly, an activity to be performed is determined, a stored hierarchy is examined indicating a first alternate component for performing the activity first and a second alternate component for performi... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490259 | Error recovery method for data storage device, data storage device, and magnetic disk storage device Embodiments of the invention increase the probability of error recovery in error recovery processing. When a reset command is received during an error recovery procedure (ERP), a timer is started in response to the reset command. From the time at which the reset com... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7469358 | External storage and data recovery method for external storage as well as program The data is automatically recovered to a desired arbitrary point in an external storage without imposing a burden on the host computer. An application on a host computer instructs data recovery control processing of a disk control apparatus to set a recovery opportu... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7464288 | External storage and data recovery method for external storage as well as program The data is automatically recovered to a desired arbitrary point in an external storage without imposing a burden on the host computer. An application on a host computer instructs data recovery control processing of a disk control apparatus to set a recovery opportu... | 12/09/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7443785 | Selective error correction for ad hoc networks having multiple communication modes Error control is provided in an ad hoc network having an asynchronous communication mode and a synchronous communication mode. A packet including a header and a payload is received. The header includes a header error check (HEC) computed based on the header. An erro... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444545 | Computer system, managing computer and recovery management method The invention provides a method for computing the appropriate capacity of a journal volume based on the operating patterns of backup and recovery performed by the user, and composing a recovery system that enables recovery to be performed in a short time using journ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437423 | System and method for monitoring cluster partner boot status over a cluster interconnect A method for detecting an un-bootable first computer is described. A failed first computer initiates a boot procedure, and the boot procedure is controlled by boot firmware of the first computer. A virtual interface is established by the boot firmware, the virtual i... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437593 | Apparatus, system, and method for managing errors in prefetched data An apparatus, system, and method are provided for managing errors in prefetched data. The apparatus, system, and method identify prefetched data that contains an uncorrectable error. In addition, the apparatus, system, and method initiate an error recovery process o... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433898 | Methods and apparatus for shared storage journaling Multiple computers have access to a shared storage system. The computers negotiate with each other for access rights (e.g., READ or WRITE) to regions of the storage system. After negotiating for permission to modify a location (e.g., a range of addresses) of the sha... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434086 | Functional device, function maintaining method and function maintaining program This invention relates to a functional device such as an FPGA carrying out a necessary function by programming, and provides a functional device, a function maintaining method and a function maintaining program which can maintain a function continuously. A plurality... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430683 | Method and apparatus for enabling run-time recovery of a failed platform A method for managing a run-time recovery includes loading a recovery kernel into a processor cache. The recovery kernel is executed in the processor cache. Other embodiments are described and claimed. ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430570 | Shadow directory structure in a distributed segmented file system Techniques are provided for producing a shadow directory structure for files or directories owned by servers whose parent directories are owned by different servers in a single distributed file system. For each file or directory whose parent directory resides on a r... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428602 | Method for executing initialization code to configure connected devices and executing segments of configuration code from a failed segment Provided are a method, system, and program for executing initialization code to configure connected devices. A plurality of segments are provided to configure at least one connected device, wherein each segment includes configuration code to configure the at least o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425934 | Display panel drive apparatus for driving a display panel A display-panel-drive apparatus having a drive unit that drives the display panel and a control unit that outputs control signals for controlling said drive unit to said drive unit, the display-panel-drive apparatus is provided with: a drive board of the drive unit;... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426719 | Method and system for rewriting unwind data in the presence of exceptions Described is a system and method of regenerating stack unwind data in the presence of exceptions. The system is directed to generating metadata for use during stack unwinding. The system includes procedures, a first plurality of metadata, and an unwind rewriter. Eac... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421478 | Method and apparatus for exchanging heartbeat messages and configuration information between nodes operating in a master-slave configuration A node (101, FIG. 1), within a networked computer system (100), is capable of supporting communications with other nodes relating to operating multiple application instances in a master-slave configuration. Each node periodically generates and s... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418618 | Error reporting and correcting method for peripheral An error reporting and correcting method applied to a peripheral. The peripheral can be connected to the user terminal via the network. In the error reporting and correcting method, an error record file is generated immediately after an error operation occurs to the... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418619 | Backup and restore operations of interdependent system components Systems and methods for backing up or restoring interdependent applications. During a backup or recovery process, the writers and writer components included in the backup groupings of a client are displayed. Some of the writers and writer components can be individua... | 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 |
| 7408441 | System and method for analyzing user-generated event information and message information from network devices A system for analyzing information relating to network devices comprises a computer readable storage medium and computer software stored on the computer readable storage medium. The computer software reviews message information generated by a plurality of network de... | 08/05/2008 |
