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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095829 | Soldier-on mode to control processor error handling behavior A global processor operating mode is used select whether a processor stops processing when an error is detected or ignores the error and continues processing while overriding values as needed to recover from the error. When a soldier-on mode is enabled the system at... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090990 | Abnormal pattern detection program for function call in source program Disclosed is an abnormal pattern detection program for a function call in a source program that makes a computer, which is connected to a main memory and an output device, execute the following processes. (1) A reading process for reading the source pro... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8065554 | Communication device and a method of self-healing thereof Provided a communication device and a method of self-healing thereof. The communication device is characterized by one or more operational functions and comprising one or more resources operatively coupled to at least one sensor, said sensor directly or indirectly c... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055951 | System, method and computer program product for evaluating a virtual machine A method for evaluating a virtual machine, the method includes: monitoring, using an out of band monitor, information exchanged between the virtual machine and a hypervisor; and evaluating a state of the virtual machine by applying a statistical classification proce... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8037341 | Determining recovery time for interdependent resources in heterogeneous computing environment A system and associated method for determining a recovery time for a resource in a heterogeneous computing environment comprising interdependent resources. A graph for the resource representing all sequence dependencies and all group relations are created. The recov... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028188 | System and method for testing an application installed on a wireless communication device The invention describes a test bed, a method and a computer program product for testing an application installed on a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device communicates with a server over a network through the test bed. Further, the test b... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8020031 | System and method for customizing a SCSI error response received from a SCSI target in a storage network environment A system and method for customizing a SCSI error response received from a SCSI target in a storage network environment is disclosed. In a method for customizing a SCSI error response received from a SCSI target in a storage network environment, a SCSI command is rec... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8020029 | Method and apparatus for rendering game assets in distributed systems The invention includes a method and apparatus for attempting to synchronize delivery of information at a plurality of receiving systems. The method includes generating, at a sending system, a plurality of current messages adapted for rendering an asset within an app... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8020030 | Counter-invasive software system and method A method and apparatus for detecting, curing and remedying invasive software installation inadvertently, negligently, or intentionally marketed by a vendor. A party may procure a product that sends back invasive data to a source. A testing regimen may identify and d... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015441 | Verification of computer backup data A backup method for a computer system network avoids generating hashes from data that may be inaccurate due to network errors affords verification of source data written to backup media includes reading at a network client a portion of the source data from a source ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015430 | Using asset dependencies to identify the recovery set and optionally automate and/or optimize the recovery In one embodiment, a computer accessible medium stores a plurality of instructions including instructions which, when executed: track dependencies among a plurality of assets; and responsive to an identification of an asset for potential recovery (the “selected as... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006120 | Increasing software fault tolerance by employing surprise-removal paths The subject invention relates to systems and methods for automatic recovery from errors in a computing environment. A system is provided to facilitate failure recovery in the computing system. The system includes at least one driver component that enumerates at leas... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006121 | Systems and methods for diagnosing and fixing electronic devices Systems and methods for reducing the cost and time required for diagnosing and fixing electronic devices are provided. A host electronic device may be configured to generate a log of events that it experiences. A help component may access the generated log and analy... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996706 | System to recover a failed flash of a blade service processor in a server chassis A 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 a managemen... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992031 | Automated disaster recovery planning A system and associated method for automated disaster recovery (DR) planning. A DR planning process receives disaster recovery requirements and a target environment configuration from a user to design DR plans for the target environment configuration that meets disa... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992035 | Disk selection method, raid control device, raid system, and its disk device A response of a disk device during rebuild can be sped up. A disk array control device determines whether or not there is a normal read request during rebuild. If there is a read request during rebuild, data is read by sequentially switching a plurality of disk devi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984020 | System and method for business object sync-point and rollback framework A method and system for allowing a rollback within a multi-object system infrastructure are provided. In embodiments, a rollback to a state of a software business object is effected. A sync point manager maintains, for example, a list of sync points and their respec... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7937609 | Disaster recovery in a data processing system The present invention relates to a method of disaster recovery in data processing systems and to a recovery system. The invention allows for easy, fast and reliable recovery of a data processing system in a disaster situation. Unmodified backup data is stored to a t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934116 | Disaster recover/continuity of business adaptive solution framework A framework and method for use in determining appropriate information technology system disaster recovery and operational continuity solutions for an enterprise. In one embodiment the method includes identifying (504) business processes associated with achiev... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7890790 | Transactional flow management interrupt debug architecture According to some embodiments, a first bus may be monitored, the first bus being to exchange data between a first processing system and a second processing system. A second bus may also be monitored, the second bus being to exchange data between the second processin... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886181 | Failure recovery method in cluster system There is provided a method executed in a cluster system comprising a first computer and at least one second computer that stores the data transmitted from the first computer. The method comprising the steps of: judging whether the failure-occurred processing is rest... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7886180 | Recovery in a distributed stateful publish-subscribe system Method, apparatus and computer program product for fault recovery in a distributed stateful publish-subscribe system. The system includes the capability of recovering from failures that may occur when a stateful publish-subscribe service is implemented on an overlay... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882386 | System and method for recovering a logical volume during failover or reboot of a file server in a data storage environment This invention is a system and a method for recovering and repairing a logical volume in a data storage environment using a new architecture. The method of recovering a logical volume enables mounting of a file system by instantiating only a single slice under the s... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873859 | Restarting failed IMS auto-restart batch applications A transfer of control to a batch application is intercepted, wherein a batch front-end routine receives control in place of the batch application and performs initialization processing. This initialization processing comprises issuing a DLI restart call and issuing ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873860 | 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... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865761 | Accessing multiple non-volatile semiconductor memory modules in an uneven manner A data storage apparatus (e.g., a flash memory appliance) includes a set of memory modules, an interface and a main controller coupled to the each memory module and to the interface. Each memory module has non-volatile semiconductor memory (e.g., flash memory). The ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865762 | Methods and apparatus for handling errors involving virtual machines A virtual machine monitor (VMM) in a data processing system handles errors involving virtual machines (VMs) in the processing system. For instance, an error manager in the VMM may detect an uncorrectable error in involving a component associated with a first VM in t... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861106 | Hierarchical configurations in error-correcting computer systems When errors arise in a computing system that has plural modules, this invention corrects those errors. In the first instance, the invention excludes the computing system itself, but receives error messages from the plural modules of that system—along plural receiv... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7840832 | Fault tolerant control system A fault tolerant data processing system for controlling a real time process. The system is tolerant to systematic faults in its software. The system includes a data processor unit with a program memory and a data memory and input and output units where program softw... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836328 | Method and apparatus for recovering from system bus transaction errors A method and apparatus for recovering from errors occurring during system bus transactions. An input/output device such as a network interface unit (NIU) issues read and write operations across a meta interface coupling the device to host bus (glue) logic. The host ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831856 | Detection of timing errors in programmable logic devices In one example, a method of detecting timing errors in a configuration of a programmable logic device (PLD) includes performing a timing analysis on the PLD configuration. The PLD configuration is adapted to configure the PLD to perform a data transfer between a fir... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7779290 | Computer implemented systems and methods for pre-emptive service and improved use of service resources Systems and methods are provided for collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data associated with the installation and deployment of systems. Energy systems, (500) specifically renewable energy generation systems, are used as examples. The aggregated data serv... | 08/17/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
