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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8127179 | Providing system reset information to service provider Methods for collection of device reset history from a network communication device comprising: (a) determining whether a reset condition is triggered by software or hardware, (b) for a software triggered reset: (i) upon a software exception, retrieving related reset... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8082469 | Virtual computer system, error recovery method in virtual computer system, and virtual computer control program A virtual computer system executes a virtual computer control program on a physical computer and thereby causes guest programs on the logical partitions, respectively. The virtual computer control program includes an error recovery module to periodically recover fro... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8046634 | Integrated circuit card with condition detector An integrated circuit card includes a central processing unit, a memory and an abnormal condition detector. The memory stores data to be processed by the central processing unit. The abnormal condition detector detects whether at least one operating condition of the... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041995 | Method and system for resetting fault tolerant computer system There is disclosed a method capable of resetting a fault tolerant computer in complete synchronization among modules. The method includes a step of generating a reset requesting signal by one of the modules, a step of dividing the reset requesting signal to first an... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037353 | Method for operating a system A method for operating a system, as well as a computer program and a computer program product for executing the method. In the method for operating a system, which includes a plurality of control units, in the event that a special state exists for one of the control... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032788 | System and method for managing the restarting of automatic control equipment The present invention relates to a method for managing the restarting of automatic control equipment, consisting in: backing up, on an outage of the main electrical power supply, in a non-volatile memory (Flash 2) of the aut... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7996718 | Techniques for continuous data protection Techniques for continuous data protection are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for reducing data protection system outages comprising polling a data protection client device, receiving a response from the ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7949898 | Multi-microprocessor system and control method for the same A multi-microprocessor system and a control method for the same are provided. The multi-microprocessor system includes a first microprocessor and a second microprocessor. The second microprocessor is coupled to the first microprocessor. The second microprocessor tra... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7930589 | Interrupt-responsive non-volatile memory system and method An interrupt-responsive non-volatile memory respond to an interrupt by aborting execution by a memory controller of a memory routine in a non-volatile memory, sets, a flag and executes an interrupt service routine; and upon completion of the interrupt service routin... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7877632 | Storage control apparatus and failure recovery method for storage control apparatus A storage control apparatus of the present invention reduces the frequency of disk drive failures. An error management part manages the number of times errors occur in respective disk drives. A disk drive in which the number of errors meets or exceeds a threshold va... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7861115 | Multi-component system To reset only the CPU in a component in an abnormal condition without affecting CPUs of components in a normal condition, a multi-component system, in which a plurality of components each including at least a CPU are connected via a common bus to each other, include... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7774648 | Microprocessor supervision in a special purpose computer system Devices and methods for microprocessor supervision in a special purpose computer system are provided. One illustrative embodiment includes a first watchdog timer internal to the microprocessor and a second watchdog timer external to the microprocessor. In some cases... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774649 | Self-service terminal A self-service terminal comprises a pc core and at least one module, which can be powered down independently of the pc core, the terminal has a control application and an agent arranged to monitor the fault state of the at least one module and cause a fault signal t... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7721151 | Selective error recovery of processing complex using privilege-level error discrimination An apparatus has at least one processing unit to generate a request having a request privilege level. At least one resource exists in the apparatus to receive the request and determine if the request is allowable. The apparatus includes an error handler that determi... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7681078 | Debugging a processor through a reset event A method for operating a processor in data processing system comprises: asserting a debug control signal to cause the processor to enter a debug operating mode; initializing a plurality of shared processor resources with debug configuration information, wherein the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676693 | Method and apparatus for monitoring power failure A status notification register storing a state of a function executing section is arranged for each function executing section. The function executing section includes at least one circuit for performing a predetermined function. By determining one of two values set... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7644309 | Recovering a hardware module from a malfunction The invention relates to a recovery of a hardware module of an electronic device from a malfunction state. The hardware module is connected via a signal line to a recovery component of the device, a state of the signal line being controlled by the hardware module. T... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7549084 | Storage control apparatus and failure recovery method for storage control apparatus A storage control apparatus of the present invention reduces the frequency of disk drive failures. An error management part manages the number of times errors occur in respective disk drives. A disk drive in which the number of errors meets or exceeds a threshold va... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7536594 | Watchdog device that provides and interrupts power to a network device in response to a lockup error condition The invention relates to a stand-alone video recording, playback and Monitoring system. It has network switches, non-volatile storage devices, IP cameras, video servers, and NTSC cameras. The system uses communication channels that are WAN/LAN based and can be hard-... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7496789 | Handling restart attempts for high availability managed resources Techniques are provided for managing a resource in a High Availability (HA) system. The techniques involve incrementing a count when a particular type of remedial action is performed on a resource, so that the count that reflects how often the particular type of rem... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7444504 | Tracing through reset A method of tracing a data processor upon reset of the data processor. A data processor reset signal resets the data processor, part of trace collection hardware and does not reset remaining parts of trace collection hardware. The data processor reset signal may be ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7418627 | Cluster system wherein failover reset signals are sent from nodes according to their priority A high availability cluster computer system can realize exclusive control of a resource shared between computers and effect failover by resetting a currently-active system computer in case a malfunction occurs in the currently-active system computer. In case a malfu... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413129 | USB device with secondary USB on-the-go function A USB device includes first and second communications ports and a processor operable for configuring the first communications port for connecting to a USB host and configuring the second communications port as a USB master connecting to a USB slave device. The proce... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406634 | Method and apparatus for utilizing an exception handler to avoid hanging up a CPU when a peripheral device does not respond A method and apparatus utilizes an exception handler to implement LOAD and STORE instructions for moving data between a peripheral device and CPU registers. TLB entries for peripheral devices are flagged invalid during initialization and an exception handler occurs ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406624 | Method for responding to a control module failure A method is provided for saving system information immediately following a hardware or software failure that causes a processor to reset. After failure is imminent and before the processor allows the reset to occur, the processor is instructed to copy a fixed amount... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398423 | System and method for providing automatic resets A method for determining whether to provide automatic reset instructions to a machine with reset capability with respect to a fault code event, the method comprising, in a database, collecting records comprising the identification of the machine, a fault code associ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391665 | Process and temperature invariant power on reset circuit using a bandgap reference and a long delay chain A power-on-reset circuit determines when it is safe for a programmable device to access configuration data from an associated non-volatile memory following a reset operation. The power-on-reset circuit receives a bandgap reference voltage produced by the programmabl... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392432 | Synchronizing cross checked processors during initialization by miscompare A few inexpensive hardware facilities are incorporated in a tightly synchronized cross checked design. These facilities allow initialization software to quickly bring the two processors to the same state by rapid, repeated resets and execution of the initialization ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383461 | Method and system to recover a failed flash of a blade service processor in a server chassis A method and system for recovering a server blade, in a multiple server blade computer, that is lost during a flash update operation on a service processor in the server blade. Because of the flash update failure, the lost server blade is unaware of its location on ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383469 | Application management system and method An application management system and method is proposed. The application management system includes a first processor and a second processor. The first processor executes an application in a computer system. The second processor includes a monitor module to monitor ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373487 | Controller with fail-safe function A master CPU and a slave CPU for processing data supplied from a detector unit, and a timer cleared by a clear signal supplied every predetermined time period from the master CPU when the operation of the master CPU is normal and adapted for supplying a reset signal... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373542 | Automatic startup of a cluster system after occurrence of a recoverable error The invention relates to a method for the automatic startup of a cluster (10) after an error has occurred in a node (12, 14) of said cluster (10) that led to a reboot of the node (12, 14). The inventive method is characterized in that it ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370227 | Desktop computer blade fault identification system and method A method and system for remotely isolating faults in computer network devices coupled to a computer network. A plurality of first computer units are coupled to the computer network. The plurality of first computer units are located on a user side of the computer net... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366922 | Power control for gaming machine When an alternating-current power is supplied to an ATX power supply, sub power is supplied to a PC board from the ATX power supply. When the sub power is supplied to the PC board, a PWOK signal is output to the ATX power supply by processing performed by a CPU acco... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366888 | Booting to a recovery/maintenance environment A system, computer program product and method for booting to a partition in a non-volatile storage unit without a local operator. In one embodiment, one or more bits in a BOOT register may be set by an operating system indicating if the BIOS should boot to the parti... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356740 | Hazard mitigation in medical device Delivery of energy by a defibrillator or other medical device is inhibited when the processor or software that controls a module of the medical device operates abnormally. A windowed watchdog timer (WWDT) incorporated into one module of the medical device is used to... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353284 | Synchronized transmission of audio and video data from a computer to a client via an interface A method for controlling data transmission between a computer and a video client via an interface, the method comprising: the computer polling the interface a first time to determine the size of the buffer on the interface; receiving a first buffer size value from t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353322 | System and method for providing dynamic configuration ROM using double image buffers A dynamic configuration ROM which may be updated while linked to the serial bus and with little or no risk of publishing inconsistent configuration ROM information to the other nodes on the bus. The dynamic configuration ROM comprises first and second configuration ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350063 | System and method to filter processors by health during early firmware for split recovery architecture A system and method to determine a healthy group of processors and associated firmware for booting a system after a resetting event is disclosed. Redundant copies of processor specific firmware are examined for validity. Processors determine their own health status,... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343519 | Disk drive power cycle screening method and apparatus for data storage system The present invention is a disk drive power cycle screening method and apparatus for a data storage system. In an exemplary aspect of the present invention, a disk drive power cycle screening method for a data storage system includes: (a) selecting one or more drive... | 03/11/2008 |
