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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8086894 | Managing redundant network components A method for managing redundant network components is disclosed. A network component operable to perform in an active mode is monitored. The network component is coupled to a mate network component through a communication network comprising a portion of an Internet ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8055933 | Dynamic updating of failover policies for increased application availability Mechanisms are provided for performing a failover operation of an application from a faulty node of a high availability cluster to a selected target node. The mechanisms receive a notification of an imminent failure of the faulty node. The mechanisms further receive... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032557 | Model driven compliance management system and method A compliance lifecycle management system is provided that addresses policy management issues at each stage of policy maturity throughout a policy lifetime. The compliance lifecycle management system provides functionality for policy control at initialization by enab... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8006122 | Methods, systems, and computer products for detection of and policy directed resolution of signaling sympathy sickness in a multisystem cluster A system and method for detection of and a policy directed resolution of signaling sympathy sickness. Embodiments include a system having a communication among the members, each member having a cross-system coupling facility (XCF), and a method of managing sympathy ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001414 | Data transfer and recovery system A backup image generator can create a primary image and periodic delta images of all or part of a primary server. The images can be sent to a network attached storage device and a remote storage server. In the event of a failure of the primary server, the failure ca... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001075 | Log file amnesia detection Log file amnesia detection is accomplished by associating a unique identifier with each record in a log file, where each record receives a unique log sequence number. Multiple time intervals are associated with the log file with different events triggering the begin... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001079 | System and method for system state replication The invention generally describes a system and method for data backup and recovery, in particular for backing up an entire server (i.e., system state and data) in substantially real-time. The invention provides high availability by failing a source server over to a ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7984322 | System and method for managing group policy backup A method, system and program product for group policy backup management in a network having a plurality of domains including components and modules for steps of retrieving a list of group policy objects for a domain, generating a configuration initialization file in... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979734 | Method and system for preventing service disruption of internet protocol (IP) based services due to domain name resolution failures A method for preventing service disruption for a device in a network is provided. The method includes populating a filter list with an IP address declared to be valid for a server in the network and populating a rainy day list with an IP address discovered to be val... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979733 | Health check monitoring process A health check monitoring process embedded in a client system provides automation of monitoring processes of system and application components and creates and pushes incidents and/or administration tasks to a user or user interface if a critical situation or event, ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975166 | System, method and computer readable medium for providing redundancy in a media delivery system In a digital video system, high availability distribution is provided using spare modules such as an integrated receiver decoder, multimedia transcoder and streaming module in support of the primary modules. The primary modules multicast status messages which are mo... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971089 | Switching connection of a boot disk to a substitute server and moving the failed server to a server domain pool When a server RM detects a failure in an operating server, a system resource manager selects a substitute server from a pool of a server domain to which a failed server belongs, based on information in a system resource DB, disconnects the failed server from a busin... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7971090 | Method of testing server side objects There is disclosed a method and system of testing server side objects in a client-server environment. A proxy is created of a first object on a server side on a client side. The proxy invokes a method of the first object on the server side to conduct a test by a tes... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966515 | Method of achieving high reliability of network boot computer system In a network computer system, recovery may be impossible from a fault when the fault occurs in a network switch in a network or a device such as an external disk device. Provided is a computer system that includes a plurality of servers, a plurality of network, a pl... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966514 | Scalable fault tolerant system A fault tolerant system for a highly scalable distributed processing system in which fault tolerant groups (hereafter referred to as “FT groups”) are formed based on the functionalities of applications. A given FT group includes instances of the same application... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958385 | System and method for verification and enforcement of virtual interface failover within a cluster A cluster-wide published configuration system and method is provided for assigning host nodes to virtual interfaces (VIFs) in a cluster of data storage systems. A coordinating VIF manager publishes a set of failover rules in a VIF configuration table using a replica... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958387 | Realtime test result promulgation from network component test device The technology disclosed relates to real-time collection and flexible reporting of test data. In particular, it is useful when collecting packet counts during tests of network devices that simulate thousands or even millions of data sessions conducted through a devi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958386 | Method and apparatus for providing a reliable fault management for a network A method and apparatus for providing reliable fault management for a network are disclosed. For example, a method receives one or more alarms from one or more network elements (NEs) by an element management system, and determines whether the one or more alarms need ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954002 | Systems and methods for bulk release of resources associated with node failure Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for methods and systems for improving efficiency in communications systems by, for example, bulk release of resources upon a partial node failure. Bulk release messages including, for example, at l... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949893 | Virtual user interface failover A virtual user interface allows a collection or cluster of data storage devices (nodes of the cluster) to be managed remotely by providing access to cluster management software running on one or more nodes of the cluster. Moreover, the virtual user interface fails-o... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949894 | Self-healing capabilities in a directory server A novel manner of handling an error or exception caused by the unavailability of a slot or crypto hardware or communication network between server and hardware. As per this scheme, in the event of the unavailability of a particular slot in the hardware, the server m... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945808 | Fanout connectivity structure for use in facilitating processing within a parallel computing environment A hierarchical fanout connectivity infrastructure is built and used to start a parallel application within a parallel computing environment. The connectivity infrastructure is passed to a checkpoint library, which employs the infrastructure and a defined sequence of... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945807 | Communication system for a plurality of I/O cards by using the GPIO and a method thereof A communication system for a plurality of I/O cards by using the GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) and a method thereof are disclosed for overcoming the problems of the prior art; wherein the prior art uses the I2C and UART communication channels causing a greater... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941690 | Reliable fault resolution in a cluster A method and system for localizing and resolving a fault in a cluster environment. The cluster is configured with at least one multi-homed node, and at least one gateway for each network interface. Heartbeat messages are sent between peer nodes and the gateway in pr... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941691 | Control of connecting apparatuses in information processing system In an information processing system, a first system control apparatus of a first information processing apparatus causes a first connecting apparatus to disconnect from the first shared storage apparatus, causes a second connecting apparatus to disconnect from the s... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937610 | Fast node failure detection via disk based last gasp mechanism A method for communicating node liveness in a multinode data processing system employs an operating system function that provides a degree of self-awareness in “sensing” an imminent but still pending failure as the basis for providing special flag signals over a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937612 | System and method for on-the-fly migration of server from backup A system, method and computer program product for migrating a server include creating an image of a storage device of a first server; during execution of a boot loader on a second server, starting an initialization application that at least partially restores, to a ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937611 | Method, system and machine accessible medium of a reconnect mechanism in a distributed system (cluster-wide reconnect mechanism) A method, system and machine accessible medium for validating a plurality of connections to a backend in a distributed system. A connection request requiring access to a backend is processed at a first node of a distributed system. The access to the backend enabled ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934117 | Routing token transfer and recovery protocol in rendezvous federation Systems and methods that provide for assignment and recovery of tokens as part of a plurality of nodes and distributed application framework/network. The assignment component assigns numbers and tasks to candidates and facilitates multiple leader election. Moreover,... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934119 | Failure recovery method The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physic... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934118 | Failure notification in rendezvous federation Systems and methods that supply a global knowledge on what nodes are available in the system, via employing routing tokens that are analyzed by a centralized management component to infer status for the nodes. When nodes fail, the routing tokens associated therewith... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930584 | Cell boundary fault detection system An apparatus and program product determine a nodal fault along the boundary, or face, of a computing cell. Nodes on adjacent cell boundaries communicate with each other, and the communications are analyzed to determine if a node or connection is faulty. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930583 | System and method for domain failure analysis of a storage area network Systems, methods, apparatus and software can implement a SAN monitoring scheme for determining changes in SAN topology, such as device failure and state changes. These changes are recorded in a SAN topology data structure. Information in the SAN topology data struct... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925916 | Failsafe recovery facility in a coordinated timing network A failsafe recovery capability for a Coordinated Timing Network. The recovery capability facilitates recovery when communication is lost between two servers of the coordinated timing network. The capability includes checking another system's status in order to deter... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925915 | Concept of zero-dense wave division multiplex disaster recovery process There is provided a system and method of disaster preparedness and restoration of service of damaged or destroyed telecommunication network elements. A computer-implemented method of disaster backup for network elements includes establishing connectivity to a plural... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921325 | Node management device and method A device that is communicably connected to each of three or more nodes constituting a cluster system holds resource information, which is information relating to a resource used by an application, in relation to each of the three or more nodes. The device receives r... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921324 | Providing file system availability during local path failure of a non-server node File system availability during local path failure of a non-server node is provided by generating a server database of one or more server nodes having access to a storage device of the file system. The storage device is accessed by a non-server node over a local pat... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921323 | Reconfigurable communications infrastructure for ASIC networks Reconfigurable communications infrastructures may be implemented to interconnect ASIC devices (e.g., FPGAs) and other computing and input/output devices using high bandwidth interconnection mediums. The computing and input/output devices may be positioned in locatio... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921326 | Spatial monitoring-correlation mechanism and method for locating an origin of a problem with an IPTV network A spatial monitoring-correlation mechanism and a method are described herein for determining an origin of a problem within an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network by using topology information about the IPTV network and at least one error notification (e.g., ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917801 | Systems and methods for managing network communications First and second management systems are placed in active and standby modes, respectively. The first and second management systems are configured to be in communication with the second and the first management systems, respectively and with a plurality of network dev... | 03/29/2011 |
