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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7673167 | RAID array data member copy offload in high density packaging A computer-implemented method replaces a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array member storage device configured in high density packaging. The high density packaging includes a plurality of field-replaceable units (FRUs). Each FRU has an associated plura... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7657778 | Computer system and boot control method When a primary computer is taken over to a secondary computer in a redundancy configuration computer system where booting is performed via a storage area network (SAN), a management server delivers an information collection/setting program to the secondary computer ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650528 | Fuse farm redundancy method and system A system and method for making efficient use of fuse ROM redundancy to increase yield and security. Some embodiments provide a memory repair system including a non-volatile memory component and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory component. The non-volat... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647522 | Operating system with corrective action service and isolation The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a part... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7600146 | System and method for application monitoring and automatic disaster recovery for high-availability Stable and automated recovery of an application executing on a primary computer system by transitioning to secondary computer system is provided. Intelligent agents installed on a primary client server allow the primary environment to be replicated on a host, second... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7594134 | Dual access pathways to serially-connected mass data storage units A group of data storage units are serially connected in a sequential data communication path to communicate read and write operations to first and second interfaces of each data storage unit in the group. A data management computer device (“filer”) manages read ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7577864 | Control method of computer, program, and virtual computer system Provided is a technology for increasing reliability of communication carried out by OSes and application programs operating on logical partitions set on a computer. The computer has multiple logical partitions constructed therein by a control program, the physical i... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7549076 | Fail over method through disk take over and computer system having fail over function When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the prima... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7526668 | Failover method of remotely-mirrored clustered file servers By incorporating a referral mechanism, a failover method and system for remotely mirrored clustered file servers enables a client computer to transparently access a remotely mirrored file system during a failover of a first NAS (network attached storage) storing the... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7516352 | Isolating a drive from disk array for diagnostic operations A storage system includes a RAID adapter, disk array switches, sub-processors, and hard disk drives (HDDs). The system permits the isolation of a suspected faulty HDD to allow diagnostics to be performed without impacting operation of the rest of the system. Upon de... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516353 | Fall over method through disk take over and computer system having failover function When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the prima... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7506194 | Routing system and method for transparently rocovering routing states after a failover or during a software upgrade Methods and apparatus for efficiently enabling routing states to be recovered after a failover or during a software upgrade in a system which supports graceful restart and stateful switchover are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7487380 | Execution recovery escalation policy Deterministic code execution may be recovered for programs or portions thereof by implementing a programmable policy on a system host to escalate the scope of a code discard based on various parameters. ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7478261 | Reconfigurable circuit with redundant reconfigurable cluster(s) A reconfigurable circuit having redundant reconfigurable clusters is described herein. ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7441140 | Signal processing system A signal processing system comprises multiple signal processors, each having functional blocks. A control circuit selects one of the signal processors as a target processor, and configures an inspection circuit having equivalent functions to the target processor in ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428655 | Smart card for high-availability clustering One embodiment disclosed relates to a high-availability (HA) cluster system. The cluster includes a plurality of computing nodes and clustering software configured to manage the cluster. In addition, the cluster includes a smart card, including a microprocessor-base... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426652 | System and method for application monitoring and automatic disaster recovery for high-availability Stable and automated recovery of an application executing on a primary computer system by transitioning to a secondary computer system is provided. Intelligent agents installed on a primary client server allow the primary environment to be replicated on a host, seco... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424525 | Managing headless computer systems Methods, systems, and computer program products for remotely monitoring diverse computer systems in a similar manner over an out-of-band communication channel. Remote monitoring ordinarily is performed over an in-band communication channel. However, hardware and/or ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7409576 | High-availability cluster with proactive maintenance One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of preventative maintenance of a high-availability cluster. A least-recently-tested active node is determined. The least-recently-tested active node is swapped out from the HA cluster, and a stand-by node is swapped into ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7404038 | Storage system having a plurality of interfaces A hybrid-type storage system having both SAN and NAS interfaces can be implemented by simple hardware capable of carrying out a SAN function independently of a NAS function and a NAS load. To be more specific, a controller of the storage system comprises a NAS contr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7376859 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for data replication Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture for switching. An indication is received of a failure of a primary storage subsystem at a switch, wherein the switch couples a host to the primary storage subsystem and a secondary storage subsystem. Subsequen... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376821 | Data processing system and method Embodiments provide a data processing system comprising first initialisation software to initialise the data processing system, means to access storage comprising a first region and a second region comprising first software; the system further comprising second init... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376870 | Self-monitoring and updating of firmware over a network Embodiments include monitoring a computing system to determine whether firmware of the computing system is corrupted, hung up, or requires automatic update. The computing system may then request firmware update data over a network. Moreover, the computing system may... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372804 | Multiplex communication system and method Disclosed are the multiplex communication system and the method therefore. A fault detection part of a duplex switching device detects it as generation of fault when recognizable signals are not detected from a connected line within a prescribed time. When the fault... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373544 | Concept of zero network element mirroring and disaster restoration process There is provided a system and method of disaster restoration of service of damaged or destroyed telecommunication network elements. A controller component is configured to select a damaged or destroyed network element after a disaster event. An engine component is ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373567 | System and method of providing error detection and correction capability in an integrated circuit using redundant logic cells of an embedded FPGA A system and method of providing error detection and correction capability in an IC using redundant logic cells and an embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA). The system and method provide error correction (EC) to enable a defective logic function implemented... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370239 | Input/output device with configuration, fault isolation and redundant fault assist functionality A process control system includes a plurality of input/output (I/O) devices and a controller in communication using a bus. Each I/O device has an interface for communicatively linking the I/O device with the bus, and includes a device processor which, upon detection... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370225 | System and method for communicating a software-generated pulse waveform between two servers in a network A method of monitoring a status condition of a first server with a second server in a server network, and also providing synchronization and messaging between the two servers, the method including: transmitting a software-generated pulse waveform from the first serv... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370223 | System and method for managing clusters containing multiple nodes In clusters of multiprocessor systems it is important that these processor nodes are aware of each others availability and performance capabilities. In highly available systems using these multiprocessor systems there needs to be a method to dynamically bring nodes ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367063 | Methods and apparatus for providing security to a computerized device A controller of the computerized device monitors a configuration state of the computerized device by maintaining a record of the hardware or software configuration of the computerized device and recording, between user sessions, any detectable attachments or detachm... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366825 | NAND flash memory management A memory controller is utilized to overcome NAND flash memory's propensity for comprising bad blocks of memory. The memory controller utilizes minimal hardware and is essentially transparent to a device requesting access to the NAND memory. A NAND flash memory devic... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363426 | System and method for RAID recovery arbitration in shared disk applications A RAID controller is provided for each host sharing a RAID. Each RAID controller can determine whether another host is sharing the RAID and assume a master or slave status with respect to rebuild operations for the shared disk. The master controller may then manage ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360022 | Synchronizing an instruction cache and a data cache on demand In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for performing a direct memory access (DMA) operation in a virtualized environment to obtain a page from a memory and store the page in a data cache, and synchronizing the page in the data cache and an instr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360222 | Extensions to coupling channels to support multiple coupling facility sharing, interrupts, and message passing A method for use in a computer system for extending coupling channels through the addition of specific hardware interrupts and controls to allow 1) sharing of receiver resources among multiple Coupling Facility (CF) logical partitions (LPARs), 2) direct CEC to CEC m... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355438 | Electronic circuit An electronic circuit for terminating a plurality of conductors at a node of a network, including means to detect current flowing through one of the conductors and means to switch between a continuing circuit, whereby continuity of the network is maintained, on dete... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350172 | Reporting of aspects and partitioning of automatically generated code according to a partitioning scheme A method and system are described for generating a performance prediction report to assist finalizing a partitioning scheme of a block diagram model. Providing a user-defined partitioning scheme and information describing a target hardware platform used in that part... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349479 | Communications system of two-wire line enhancing fail-safe performance Five electronic control units (ECU) control vehicle devices using CAN protocol. Each of ECUs is provided with a resistor and a switch for activating the resistor. A first and fifth ECUs are arranged on the leftmost and rightmost ends. Resistors of the first and fift... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350099 | Method and system for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data between data networks A method and system are provided for utilizing a logical failover circuit for rerouting data from a failed network circuit in a first data network to a second data network. The network circuit in the first data network includes a logical circuit for communicating da... | 03/25/2008 |