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| 7086053 | Method and apparatus for enabling threads to reach a consistent state without explicit thread suspension Methods and apparatus for enabling inconsistent or unsafe threads to efficiently reach a consistent or safe state when a requesting thread requests a consistent state are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for requesting a consiste... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085831 | Intelligent system control agent for managing jobs on a network by managing a plurality of queues on a client Disclosed is a robust intelligent system control agent configured to receive user job requests, submit the user job requests to selected qualified clients for servicing, and monitor the progress of the requests. The system is also configured with the capability of r... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082554 | System and method for providing error analysis and correlation in a network element The present invention provides method and system for identifying a faulty component in a group of components, the group comprising in a connected configuration at least a first component connected to a second component, and further connected to at least a third comp... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080555 | Distributed mode system for real time acoustic emission monitoring A distributed real time health monitoring system is described for monitoring of acoustic emission signals from different regions of a structure such as aircraft or spacecraft structures. The health monitoring system has its analysis and prognosis intelligence distri... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080287 | First failure data capture An example of a solution provided here comprises: selecting an incident that requires further processing, capturing data associated with said incident, outputting captured data, and outputting a description for said captured data, whereby problem-solving is promoted... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079911 | Method and system for automatically isolating suspect items in a manufacturing or assembly environment A computer-implemented method and system includes capabilities for receiving suspect item definitions (e.g. item serial numbers, lot numbers, operation identifiers, date ranges, etc.) into a computer database, detecting item identifiers in a manufacturing or assembl... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080381 | Message bridging system and method for singular server to singular or multiple event reception engines The present invention provides a system and method for facilitating communications between different systems requiring different event message techniques. In one embodiment, a method for bridging messages between a first and at least a second application having diff... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076642 | Integrated circuit having a generic communication interface An integrated circuit having a generic communication interface, the integrated circuit comprising a primary processing unit and at least a first and a second communication interface for the primary processing unit for communicating in accordance with at least a firs... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076747 | Analytical simulator and analytical simulation method and program An analytical simulator and analytical simulation method and program for determining a defective portion in a device in a short time without requiring a high level of experience and skill. The simulator has a design section for designing the device based on predeter... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076564 | Method and apparatus for determining and resolving missing topology features of a network for improved topology accuracy The present invention describes a method and apparatus for resolving anomalies within a network topology map that typically occur when a derived topology map fails, for a variety of reasons, to include devices resident on the network. The method of the present inven... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073093 | Helpdesk system and method A remote central helpdesk for a plurality of POS appliances includes a diagnostics engine which, on input of a reported problem, executes a series of manual and automated queries in a sequence determined by a decision tree and by the answers to the queries. The diag... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069469 | Versioning and replaying performance tuning projects Versioning may be utilized in a knowledge base decision tree in order to provide several useful features. To accomplish this, when a decision tree is traversed, the decision tree representing a knowledge base and having non-leaf nodes with one or more branches repre... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069473 | Computer recovery method and system for recovering automatically from fault, and fault monitoring apparatus and program used in computer system A fault monitoring apparatus is connected to computer systems and monitors a fault in the computer systems. The fault monitoring apparatus is provided with a storage section for storing and holding fault recovery information including rules for defining recovery ope... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069185 | Computerized machine controller diagnostic system A computerized machine control (CMC) diagnostic system communicates with a computerized machine controller that utilizes a control program to control the operation of a machine through the use of a plurality of digital channels. In general terms, the system includes... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069480 | Method and apparatus for identifying problems in computer networks A network appliance for monitoring, diagnosing and documenting problems among a plurality of devices and processes (objects) coupled to a computer network utilizes periodic polling and collection of object-generated trap data to monitor the status of objects on the ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065690 | Fault detecting method and layout method for semiconductor integrated circuit The present invention provides a fault detecting method and a layout method for a semiconductor integrated circuit. The fault detecting method performs detection for faults in a semiconductor integrated circuit using a fault list corresponding to information on site... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065748 | Test specification formation supporting apparatus, method, and program, and recording medium A test specification formation supporting apparatus is constructed by a test factor classification table forming unit and a test specification forming unit. The test factor classification table forming unit analyzes design information of a class of software designed... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062670 | Queued mode transmission of event reports Queued mode event reporting is provided. When an event occurs within a computer, an event report is generated describing the event. If the event report cannot be immediately transmitted, it is stored in a queue for future transmission. The queue for storing the repo... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058860 | System and method of automatic parameter collection and problem solution generation for computer storage devices The present invention includes a system for and a method of a support system which includes an information manager to gather performance information and error condition-related information from a computer product which is sent by the information manager electronical... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058508 | Automated building service broker An automated building service broker can include a Global Positioning System (GPS) data processor for processing GPS data associated with communicatively linked service providers wherein the GPS data corresponds to a geographic position. The automated service broker... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058861 | Network model audit and reconciliation using state analysis A method for auditing and reconciliation of a network with a network model that includes identifying an audit state for each network resource included in the network model, storing the audit state for each resource, coupling the stored audit state information with i... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055062 | Method, system and program product for establishing a self-diagnosing and self-repairing automated system Method, system and program product are provided for a self-diagnose and self-repair facility for an automated machine or system. The facility monitors at least one operational parameter of the automated system, and automatically detects an abnormal status of the at ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055014 | User interface system for a multi-protocol storage appliance A user interface system that simplifies management of a storage system, such as a multi-protocol storage appliance, by a user or system administrator. The user interface system comprise a command line interface (CLI) and/or a graphical user interface (GUI) that obvi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051243 | Rules-based configuration problem detection A system and method for identifying problems with a system configuration may evaluate system configuration information against one or more configuration recommendations or rules. The evaluated system configuration may include various types of software and hardware c... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051044 | Method and system for remotely managing communication of data used for predicting malfunctions in a plurality of machines A method and system for managing communication of electronic data between a diagnostic service center and a plurality of mobile assets (10) generally remote relative to each other is provided. The electronic data comprises at least respective mobile asset dat... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050922 | Method for optimizing test order, and machine-readable media storing sequences of instructions to perform same In a test order optimization method, a pass probability and resource requirement are identified for each of a plurality of tests. A pass-weighted resource requirement factor is then generated for each of the tests in accord with the test's pass probability and resou... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047523 | System for determining a total error description of at least one part of a computer program A section of a computer program is used to ascertain a control flow description and a data flow description, and program elements are selected from the section of the computer program. For each selected program element, a stored fault description associated with a r... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047298 | Alarm server systems, apparatus, and processes A system and method to manage a network by monitoring an interface of the network. The system comprises a poller, a server, and a database. The poller checks the interface through a poller query message to the interface. Upon suspected failure, the poller sends an a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043403 | Fault detection and classification based on calculating distances between data points A method and apparatus is provided for fault detection and classification based on calculating distances between data points. The method comprises receiving a data sample representative of measurements of one or more variables associated with a process operation, de... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043659 | System and method for flexible processing of management policies for managing network elements A system and method are disclosed which enable flexibility in configuring management behavior of a management system. More specifically, according to a preferred embodiment, management behavior is controlled by management policies that specify management actions to ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043605 | Disk array apparatus Performance and reliability as a disk array system can be always kept optimal even when a group construction of disk drives is changed. The disk array system is connectable to a host and includes a plurality of drives, input/output control portions for controlling d... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043229 | System and method for determining tariffs for real-time calls involving ported directory numbers A system and method for determining a tariff for a real-time wireless service such as a prepaid service (PPS) for a wireless telephone call. A Local Number Portability Point (LNPP) provides an interface between service scripts in a Service Control Point (SCP) or app... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039833 | Stack trace generated code compared with database to find error resolution information In one embodiment, a method for automatically identifying a program error in a computer program includes receiving a program error message indicating that a new program error has occurred during execution of the program and generating a program stack trace for the n... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039834 | High speed processor interconnect tracing compaction using selectable triggers In particular, a system and method for receiving high speed processor bus traces for study of computer system capacity and operation uses a small FIFO memory and skips unused bus cycles to avoid the requirement for memory speed to match the processor bus speed. A ti... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036129 | Diagnostic system integrated with device drivers of an operating system A hardware access layer interface for performing diagnostics in a computer system having an operating system and at least one hardware device. The interface is a registering and synchronizing agent in the given operating system. The interface has a device driver for... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7036049 | System and method for collecting statistics for a communication network A system and method of tracking an error condition detectable in a communication network is provided. The method includes generating first derived communication attributes from collected statistics from the communication network in a first time interval and retainin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035065 | Electrical ground isolation and secondary failure reduction detection and isolation A system for isolating electrical ground faults and secondary failures in an electrical system, the system comprising an AC ground isolation state machine for detecting and isolating an AC ground, a DC ground isolation state machine for detecting and isolating a DC ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035769 | Design failure mode effect analysis (DFMEA) A Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis (DFMEA) method analyzes faults and failures in the design phase of electronic devices. A data-entry mask is used for recording some information concerning the performed analysis and a portion of the recording form is displayed t... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028228 | Method and apparatus for identifying problems in computer networks A network appliance for monitoring, diagnosing and documenting problems among a plurality of devices and processes (objects) coupled to a computer network utilizes periodic polling and collection of object-generated trap data to monitor the status of objects on the ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028218 | Redundant multi-processor and logical processor configuration for a file server A redundant file server includes at least two dual processor boards. Each physical processor has two logical processors. The first logical processor of the first physical processor of each board executes storage system code under the Microsoft NT™ operating system... | 04/11/2006 |
