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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166341 | Systems and methods for testing results of configuration management activity Embodiments relate to systems and methods for testing results of configuration management activity. In embodiments, a configuration management server can control and maintain the configuration state of one or more targets, hosts, servers, clients, or other machines ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8051329 | Method and system for initializing a computing system Method and system for executing instructions out of a non-volatile memory that may have defective blocks is provided. During an initialization process, a processor reads operating system instructions from the non-volatile memory that may have defective blocks. While... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7975176 | Application failure recovery A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture to dynamically address and resolve an improper shut-down of an application. Internal state data of the application is stored in persistent memory. New internal state data is dynamically created and authenticated follow... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962785 | Method and apparatus to maintain data integrity in disk cache memory during and after periods of cache inaccessibility A volatile or nonvolatile cache memory can cache mass storage device read data and write data. The cache memory may become inaccessible, and I/O operations may go directly to the mass storage device, bypassing the cache memory. A log of write operations may be maint... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7937621 | Transient fault detection by integrating an SRMT code and a non SRMT code in a single application Disclosed is a method for running a first code generated by a Software-based Redundant Multi-Threading (SRMT) compiler along with a second code generated by a normal compiler at runtime, the first code including a first function and a second function, the second cod... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937620 | Transient fault detection by integrating an SRMT code and a non SRMT code in a single application Disclosed is a method for running a first code generated by a Software-based Redundant Multi-Threading (SRMT) compiler along with a second code generated by a normal compiler at runtime, the first code including a first function and a second function, the second cod... | 05/03/2011 |
| RE42314 | Functional interrupt mitigation for fault tolerant computer A new method for the detection and correction of environmentally induced functional interrupts (or “hangs”) induced in computers or microprocessors caused by external sources of single event upsets (SEU) which propagate into the internal control functions, or ci... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930588 | Deferred volume metadata invalidation A method, system, and computer program product for managing modified metadata in a storage controller cache pursuant to a recovery action by a processor in communication with a memory device is provided. A count of modified metadata tracks for a storage rank is comp... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921331 | Write filter cache method and apparatus for protecting the microprocessor core from soft errors A write filter cache system for protecting a microprocessor core from soft errors and method thereof are provided. In one aspect, data coming from a processor core to be written in primary cache memory, for instance, L1 cache memory system, is buffered in a write fi... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7900088 | System for performing incremental file system check A method and apparatus for performing incremental file system checks is described which uses file system information to identify changes that have occurred to a file system between checkpoints. The set of changes can be represented by bitmaps and data structures whi... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7770065 | File data restoring system and method of computer operating system and software thereof A file data restoring system and method of a computer operating system and software thereof are applied in the installation of an operating system into a client computer. Divide the file data corresponding to the operating system into data blocks according to an app... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761743 | Fault tolerant routing in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for replacing an active processing engine with a non-hot-standby processing engine. Mu... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761742 | Monitoring system with trusted corrective actions A system and computer program product for monitoring a data processing system is proposed. The system and computer program product involve the measuring of state parameters of the system. Indicators of the performance of the system are then inferred from the state p... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752497 | Method and system to detect errors in computer systems by using state tracking Disclosed are a method and system for detecting errors in a computer system including a processing unit to perform tasks to change items. The method comprises the steps of assigning a task control block to the processing unit, and using the task control block to kee... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7681077 | Graphics system with reduced shadowed state memory requirements A graphics processing unit has a reduced memory space shadow memory as a source of state information for performing validation of commands. The reduced memory space shadow memory is smaller in size than a full version of state variables associated with an abstract s... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7607042 | Adjusting a processor operating parameter based on a performance criterion Embodiments include a controller apparatus, a computerized apparatus, a device, an apparatus, and a method. A controller-apparatus includes a monitoring circuit for detecting a computational error corresponding to an execution of an instruction of a sequence of inst... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600153 | Adaptive recovery from system failure for application instances that govern message transactions Mechanisms for adaptively entering and exiting recovery mode. When a message is received from a particular message transaction, the appropriate processing instance is loaded from persistent memory to system memory. The processing instance then determines from its ow... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7587633 | Fault tolerant routing in a network routing system based on a passive replication approach Passive replication methods and systems to facilitate fault tolerance in a network routing system are provided. In one embodiment, a fault associated with a processing engine (PE) of a network routing system is detected by monitoring the health of the network routin... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7502962 | System and method for recovering from a software processing error Systems and methods for recovering from software processing errors are provided. The systems and methods provide for the validation of data following the occurrence of a software processing error. ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502961 | Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined w... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7496788 | Watchdog monitoring for unit status reporting Systems and methods for monitoring the accuracy of unit status reporting within an application specific integrated circuit device may be used reduce power consumption. Accurate status reporting of an idle state is needed to safely disable a clock signal for a unit i... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7472309 | Methods and apparatus to write a file to a nonvolatile memory A method and apparatus to write a file to a nonvolatile memory is provided. The method may include writing a file to a nonvolatile memory using at least two headers and at least two file fragments and using only information stored in one header of the at least two h... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7464294 | Monitoring method with trusted corrective actions A method for monitoring a data processing system is proposed. The method involves the measuring of state parameters of the system. Indicators of the performance of the system are then inferred from the state parameters by applying fuzzy-logic rules. The proposed sol... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457985 | Method to detect errors in computer systems by using state tracking Disclosed is a method for detecting errors in a computer system including a processing unit to perform tasks to change items. The method comprises the steps of assigning a task control block to the processing unit, and using the task control block to keep track of i... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7428674 | Monitoring the state vector of a test access port Monitoring of the state vector of a test access port (TAP) permits isolation of the root cause of improper transitions of the state vector due to various factors, including electrical noise. The test access port includes TCK, TMS, TDI, and TDO. A circuit for monitor... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426653 | Fault tolerant distributed lock management Distributed transaction and lock management techniques are disclosed that manage and regulate access to distributed data. A lock manager module is provided for regulating access to resources by applications in a system having a number of nodes each communicatively c... | 09/16/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7400672 | Method and system for detecting transmitter errors A system for detecting transmission errors in a data transmission system includes a receiver for receiving a data packet transmitted thereto by a corresponding transmitter and transmitting the data packet to a destination device and an error detection device for rec... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7401256 | System and method for highly available data processing in cluster system Even if business processing is transaction, a standby-type cluster system copes with double faults in a short time while holding down the standby computer cost to the minimum. An execution server monitoring thread in a standby server periodically monitors an operati... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398445 | Method and system for debug and test using replicated logic A method and system for debug and test using replicated logic is described. A representation of a circuit is compiled. The circuit includes a replicated portion and delay logic to delay inputs into the replicated portion. The circuit may also include trigger logic a... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7383467 | Information processing apparatus having command-retry verification function, and command retry method A parity generating circuit reverses generated parity data to detect a parity error of a CSE entry during a determination of completion to execute a command retry. A parity check circuit that detects a parity error requests for the execution of the command retry. Wh... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376865 | Mapping apparatus for backup and restoration of multi-generation recovered snapshots Restoration of data is facilitated in the storage system by combining data snapshots made by the storage system itself with data recovered by application programs or operating system programs. This results in snapshots which can incorporate crash recovery features i... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376867 | Method of seeking consensus among computer processes An embodiment of a method of seeking consensus among computer processes begins with a first step of saving a new timestamp in a timestamp array for a particular process. The method continues with a second step of determining whether a most recent entry in a decision... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373530 | Systems and methods for providing power-loss protection to sleeping computers systems Transitioning to a suspend to RAM sleeping state while also protecting against power losses while sleeping is provided. System state context data is saved to non-volatile storage and components in the computer system prepare to transition to a suspend to disc sleepi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370203 | Method for indivisibly modifying a plurality of sites in a microcircuit card non volatile memory, in particular a contactless card A method of connecting a card to a terminal including the following steps: a) on receiving corresponding respective commands from the terminal, it modifies the contents of the card memory by provisionally recording in the card memory each of said interdependent item... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370262 | Apparatus and method generating error flag for error correction An error flag generation apparatus and method for error correction, wherein the apparatus includes: a frame-sync error memory which stores frame-sync error information for each data block; a BIS (Burst Indicator Subcode) error flag memory which stores a BIS error fl... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363525 | Bidirectional inline power port A method and apparatus for bidirectional provision of inline power over data telecommunications cabling permits power to be received at a local powered device (PD) from remote power sourcing equipment (PSE) via at least one conductor at a first time and power to be ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360018 | Storage control device and storage device error control method The storage control device and storage device error control method of the present invention prevent incorrect data from being read out to the host in advance, and thus improve the reliability. For example, the controller 5 that controls the disk array subsyst... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346805 | Protection of mirrored data A method for storing data includes writing the data to a temporary storage location and buffering a mirror request to copy the data from the temporary storage location to a mirror. Once all the data is present, the validity of the data is determined. If the data is ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337374 | Program, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage apparatus The present invention controls storage apparatuses, and saves setting information of the storage apparatuses, transmits the saved setting information to the storage apparatuses, receives from the storage apparatuses results of processing for the setting information,... | 02/26/2008 |
