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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181069 | Method and system for problem determination using probe collections and problem classification for the technical support services A system and method for problem determination using probe collections and problem classification for the technical support services monitor and collect data associated with a computer system, raise an alarm based on the monitored and collected data, probe the comput... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176366 | Trace synchronization A data processing apparatus having one or more trace data sources. At least one of said trace data sources includes a trace data generator responsive to activity in monitored circuitry to generate trace data representing said activity. A synchronization marker gener... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166349 | Communicating with USB devices after a computer system crash One embodiment is a method of transferring data from a computer system to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device after a computer system crash where interrupts are masked, the method comprising: (a) detecting the computer system crash; (b) transferring at least a porti... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8145954 | System and method for generating a chronic circuit report for use in proactive maintenance of a communication network A method for generating a chronic circuit report for use in maintaining a communication network is provided. The method comprises the steps of searching a database for information regarding circuit exceptions reported in a communication system, compiling a listing o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145953 | Programmable unit A program-controlled unit including a monitoring device, which compares a value, depending on the flow of the program executed by the program-controlled unit, with a preset value, in response to a particular event or in relation to a particular point in time. Errors... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140912 | Semiconductor integrated circuits and method of detecting faults of processors A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a processor having an output signal of instruction log information and being operable in a program in memory is disclosed. The semiconductor integrated circuit comprises trace determination circuit for comparing an instr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140911 | Dynamic software tracing A method, computer program product and system for dynamically changing a trace level, and optionally the trace size, depending on a recognized critical path. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of dynamic software tracing includes identifying one or more cr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135995 | Diagnostic data repository Techniques for systematically gathering, organizing, and storing diagnostic data related to multiple monitored systems (e.g., multiple instances of a product or multiple products). A centralized repository is provided that is organized in a hierarchical manner to fa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8112675 | Filesystem directory debug log A system for handling debug log messages in a computerized device under test that has a filesystem and a communications link. A virtual debug folder provides one or more virtual folders wherein the debug log messages are stored as synthesized filenames. The virtual ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099635 | Techniques for generating a trace stream for a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus and method are provided for generating a trace stream. The data processing apparatus comprises logic for producing data elements, and trace logic for producing a stream of trace elements representative of at least some of the data element... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095830 | Diagnosis of system health with event logs A method for diagnosing system health with system event logs is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of event logs and health indicator states from a system; transducing the plurality of event logs into numeric-based metrics of the system; and derivin... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090994 | System, method, and computer readable media for identifying a log file record in a log file A system, a method, and a computer readable media for identifying a log file record in a log file are provided. The log file has a plurality of log file records therein. The plurality of log file records has a repeating pattern of log file records. The method includ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8074118 | Method for influencing a control unit and manipulation unit A method for influencing a control unit by means of a manipulation unit whereby the control unit has at least one microcontroller, at least one memory having a plurality of memory cells and at least one debug interface, and the debug interface has a monitoring funct... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065567 | Systems and methods for recording behavioral information of an unverified component A computer-implemented method for recording behavioral information of an unverified component is described. Interactions between a first process and an unverified component loaded in the first process are monitored. A fault is detected from the monitored interaction... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060790 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and debugging system This invention is to provide a technology for taking out trace information externally without lacking under the condition of limited output bandwidth. A semiconductor integrated circuit provided includes: a processing unit which can perform arithmetic processing acc... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055950 | Method and apparatus for improved timing for trace synchronization A data processing apparatus having one or more trace data sources is provided in which the trace data sources operate to generate respective streams of trace data. At least one of said trace data sources comprises a trace data generator responsive to activity in mon... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8042007 | Trace module for integrated circuit devices A method of capturing trace data can include storing trace data from a circuit as entries within memory slots of a trace buffer. Responsive to detecting a first trigger event, a trigger bit and a time marker bit within a first trigger event entry are set, wherein th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037363 | Generation of trace elements within a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus and method for generating trace elements is provided. The data processing apparatus comprises a device for performing a sequence of operations including memory operations on data values having associated data addresses. For at least some ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032779 | Adaptively collecting network event forensic data In an embodiment, a data processing system comprises a repository configured to store a plurality of event message definitions for error messages, syslog messages, or other notification messages that may be emitted by one or more managed network elements; event anno... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032797 | Storage of mass data for monitoring A plurality of data models are generated in a server from a stream of metrics describing a state of at least one system. Each of the data models represents a time grouping of a subset of the metrics. One or more dimensions are associated with each of the metrics. Th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028200 | Tracing operations in multiple computer systems A method and apparatus for tracing operations in multiple computer systems. An embodiment of a method includes running a computer application, where the computer application operates on multiple computer systems, including a first system and a second system. The fir... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028201 | Leveled logging data automation for virtual tape server applications A method, system, and program product for a VTS subsystem's logging server to optimize applications' logging data entries where applications use the logging service. More specifically, in certain embodiments, the system comprises logic executed within a VTS subsyste... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8010848 | System and method of selection and communication of a disk for storage of a coredump This invention provides a system and method for selecting and communicating a single disk (a “coredump disk”) for use in a coredump procedure by a failed file server (or filer). A selection method on the failed filer determines the “best candidate” coredump ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006140 | Diagnostic solution for web service process flows The embodiments presented herein provide systems, methods, and data structures for troubleshooting particular SOAP-based web service process flow. The SOAP request can be modified to include a diagnostic request in the SOAP request. Upon receiving the SOAP request, ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001428 | Packing trace protocols within trace streams A data processing apparatus is provided with packing circuitry 130 arranged to receive said source data elements from said trace data receiver and applies a packing protocol to said source data elements to pack data of source data elements of a source trace s... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001427 | Method and system of indexing into trace data based on entries in a log buffer A method and system of indexing into trace data based on entries in a log buffer. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising executing a traced program on a target device. The traced program writes entries to a log buffer within the target ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992049 | Monitoring of memory and external events A system comprises a circuit configured to execute instructions and output event data corresponding to the execution of the instructions. The system also comprises a monitoring device coupled to the circuit. The monitoring device receives information about said even... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992050 | Method and apparatus for checking installed and executed systems A method and apparatus for comparing two computing platforms installed with instances of an application, a portal or another computerized unit, wherein one computerized unit malfunctions when executed by the corresponding computing platform. The method and ap... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992051 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product in a processor for dynamically during runtime allocating memory for in-memory hardware tracing An apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a processor for dynamically, during runtime, allocating memory for in-memory hardware tracing. The processor is included within a data processing system. The processor includes multiple processing units tha... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7992052 | Program correlation message generation for debug A data processing system and method includes a data processor and memory that are coupled to debug circuitry that generates debug messages including address translation trace messages. A memory management unit (MMU) includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) for ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987393 | Determining operating context of an executed instruction Determining operating context of an executed instruction. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are a computer-readable medium storing a debug-trace program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to display trace data on a display device (t... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984337 | Address translation trace message generation for debug A data processing system and method generates debug messages by permitting an external debug tool to have real-time trace functionality. A data processor executes a plurality of data processing instructions and uses a memory for information storage. Debug circuitry ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984338 | Program counter (PC) trace In one embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a first processor configured to output program counter (PC) trace records, wherein PC trace records provide data indicating the PCs of instructions retired by the first processor. The integrated circuit further comp... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984336 | Method and system for storing data from a plurality of processors A method of storing data from a plurality of processors comprising the steps of (a) transferring data along a first bus (b) connectable between a first processor and a synchronizing means and operable with a first protocol; (c) synchronizing the synchronizing means ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979750 | Synchronizing triggering of multiple hardware trace facilities using an existing system bus A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for synchronizing the triggering of multiple hardware trace facilities using an existing bus. The multiple hardware trace facilities include a first hardware trace facility a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975183 | Dynamic debugging of platform transactions via context aware transactional debug marking A system includes a platform domain implementing address-indexed operations and an application domain implementing application context-oriented operations. The platform domain includes a platform interconnect to process address-indexed platform transactions and a tr... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975182 | Method, system and computer program product for generating trace data There is provided a method, system and computer program product for generating trace data related to a data processing system event. The method includes: receiving an instruction relating to the system event from a location in the system; determining a minimum numbe... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962803 | Apparatus, system, and method for multi-address space tracing An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for multi-address space tracing. A trigger module establishes a trigger event with a trace level. The trigger event occurs in at least a first address space of a plurality of address spaces. The trace level defines trac... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954011 | Enabling tracing operations in clusters of servers A method and apparatus for enabling tracing operations in clusters of servers. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a first message at a first managed bean on a first server node of a cluster of servers, and enabling a performance trace of a computer applica... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7954012 | Hierarchical debug information collection Embodiments of the invention are generally related to retrieving debug data from a plurality of nodes of a parallel computer system. To retrieve debug data, a message may be broadcast from a service node of the system to each of the plurality of nodes via a first ne... | 05/31/2011 |
