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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8024620 | Dynamic address-type selection control in a data processing system A translated address and an untranslated address associated with a same processor operation are received. An address-type indicator is provided whose value is indicative of whether the translated or untranslated address is to be used for creating a debug message. Th... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7987394 | Method and apparatus for expressing high availability cluster demand based on probability of breach A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for expressing high availability (H/A) cluster demand based on probability of breach. When a failover occurs in the H/A cluster, event messages are sent to a provisioning manager server. The mechanism of em... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979749 | Method and infrastructure for detecting and/or servicing a failing/failed operating system instance A method and infrastructure for a diagnosis and/or repair mechanism in a computer system, that includes an auxiliary service system running on the computer system. ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975186 | Operations management apparatus, operations management system, data processing method, and operations management program An operations management apparatus which acquires performance information for each of a plurality of performance items from a plurality of controlled units and manages operation of the controlled units includes a correlation model generation unit which derives a cor... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975185 | Method and management system for configuring an information system According to the method for configuring an information system (1), components (2) are provided for the information system (1) and component-specific error susceptibility data (3) on the individual components (2). For a given system... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971102 | Preemptive thermal management for a computing system based on cache performance Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for preemptive thermal management for a computing system based on cache performance, the computing system having a processor, cached computer memory operatively coupled to the processor, and a processor cache operativel... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966525 | Diagnostic procedure and device for a field bus system The invention relates to a computer-implemented diagnostic procedure for a field bus system in which bus users exchange data via a field bus in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol, the data being exchanged in the form of data packets, comprising t... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966526 | Software event recording and analysis system and method of use thereof A software service running in the background of an operating system and used by a user to record metadata and screen shots of the user interface screens in an operating system whenever errors occur in the operating system or in any application running on the operati... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962804 | Method and system for analyzing time series data Systems and methods for performing fault analysis using numerically coded time series data are disclosed. First time series data, including a plurality of first time entries and an associated first data value for each first time entry, may be received for a machine ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954014 | Health check framework for enterprise systems A health check framework for enterprise systems is described herein. In one embodiment, a health check framework includes one or more first layer methods as public interfaces to allow an application client to initiate one or more stages of a health checking session,... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949903 | Memory management techniques selectively using mitigations to reduce errors Techniques for performing memory management to mitigate memory errors. In accordance with the principles described herein, a memory management module may be implemented that acts in different modes of operation for each of one or more software modules issuing reques... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941706 | Autonomic resolution of system configuration A method and apparatus are provided to support autonomic computing for system configuration. Common base events (CBEs) are generated and, based upon system configuration, are employed to monitor system resources and to resolve system configuration conflicts prior to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941707 | Gathering information for use in diagnostic data dumping upon failure occurrence Techniques for gathering information during runtime of a monitored system such that the information is available for facilitating diagnostics for the monitored system. In one embodiment, upon detection of a condition (such as an error condition) in the monitored sys... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7925932 | Method and appartus for detecting an application process failure A method and apparatus for detecting an application process failure is described. In one embodiment, a process membership manager is opened with a first process. This action by the first process causes an instance indicia associated with the process membership manag... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7904759 | System and method for service availability management A service framework uses importance ranking information in making call decisions and/or wait-time decisions in connection with service requests. Each of the service requests has an importance ranking which reflects the importance of the information provided by the s... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7895475 | System and method for providing an instrumentation service using dye injection and filtering in a SIP application server environment An instrumentation service is described that uses dye injection and filtering in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server environment. The instrumentation service can provide a flexible mechanism for selectively adding diagnostic code to the SIP applic... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7886199 | Recovery from a hang condition in a data processing system A data processing system, method, and computer-usable medium for recovering from a hang condition in a data processing system. The data processing system includes a collection of coupled processing units. The processing units include a collection of processing unit ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7877645 | Use of operational configuration parameters to predict system failures The use of operational configuration parameters to predict digital system failures is described herein. At least some illustrative embodiments include a method that includes initializing a digital system (the initializing comprising determining an operational config... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877646 | Method and system for monitoring a computing device In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for monitoring a computing device, that includes receiving, by a data collector, a plurality of system messages from a system controller, wherein the data collector is wired to a serial port component of t... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877644 | Computer application performance optimization system A complex user-facing computer application often has run-time dependencies on other computer applications. The other computer applications may, in turn, have run-time dependencies on still other applications. A supporting application might run on multiple hosts and ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873877 | System and method for performance monitoring and repair of computers A system and method for monitoring computer performance and repairing and/or optimizing system configurations. During these idle times, the present process executes a sequence of background system analyses that can trigger associated optimization, maintenance, or re... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870440 | Method and apparatus for detecting multiple anomalies in a cluster of components A system that detects multiple anomalies in a cluster of components is presented. During operation, the system monitors derivatives obtained from one or more inferential variables which are received from sensors in the cluster of components. The system then determin... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870439 | Fault tolerant multi-node computing system using periodically fetched configuration status data to detect an abnormal node A fault tolerant computing system comprises a plurality of processing nodes interconnected by a communication medium for parallel-running identical application programs. A fault detector is connected to the processing nodes via the communication medium for periodica... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861125 | Data processing apparatus, control method thereof, and image processing apparatus A image data processing apparatus comprises: a user interface; an input device; a processor that converts original data; a first monitoring unit that monitors operation of the user interface or the input device; a second monitoring unit that monitors processing of t... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7861126 | Implementation-efficient multiple-counter value hardware performance counter An implementation-efficient, multiple-counter value hardware performance counter is disclosed. A hardware counter of one embodiment includes a memory array and a hardware incrementer. The array stores counter values that are indexable by an index constructed based a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853833 | Method and apparatus for enhancing reliability of automated data processing A number of items of data from a data source (12) can be processed and supplied to a data destination (16, 17). The data may include image data, text data, numeric data or other types of data, or combination of these types of data. The processing of th... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849368 | Method for monitoring server sub-system health A server self health monitor (SHM) system monitors the health of the server it resides on. The health of a server is determined by the health of all of a server's sub-systems and deployed applications. The SHM may make health check inquiries to server sub-systems pe... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849366 | Method and apparatus for predicting yield parameters based on fault classification A method includes receiving fault classification data associated with a fault condition and estimating at least one yield parameter based on the fault classification data. A system includes a fault classification unit and a yield estimation unit. The fault classific... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849367 | Method for performing a corrective action upon a sub-system A server self health monitor (SHM) system monitors the health of the server it resides on. The health of a server is determined by the health of all of a server's sub-systems and deployed applications. The SHM may make health check inquiries to server sub-systems pe... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844862 | Detecting software race conditions Detecting a race condition is disclosed. An indication of a store operation to a memory address is received. An identifier of the memory address is stored. The identifier is used to detect an occurrence of a memory operation that is not associated with a previous or... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840854 | Apparatus and associated methods for diagnosing configuration faults A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for diagnosing configuration faults. In one embodiment, the method comprises: detecting a violation to one or more dynamically constructed invariants for configuration; and diagnosing a misconfiguration based on use of a ta... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840855 | System and method for capturing significant events at web portlets System and method for logging significant events occurring at a web site portal includes a base class portlet service including a significant event catcher method having a register method and a record method, a portlet action table, and an action description table. ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840852 | Method and system for environmentally adaptive fault tolerant computing A method and system for adapting fault tolerant computing. The method includes the steps of measuring an environmental condition representative of an environment. An on-board processing system's sensitivity to the measured environmental condition is measured. It is ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840853 | CPU suppression system and CPU suppression method using service processor It is possible to suppress a CPU showing signs of unstable operation before the OS starts. A micro program acquires error CPU information (which cannot be recognized directly by the micro program) from the service processor immediately before the termination of the ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836354 | Method and system for providing automatic disabling of network debugging An approach is provided for automatic disabling of network debugging. A debugging command is received for initiating debugging of a router that includes a processor configured to execute a debugging procedure. Utilization of the processor is monitored. A determinati... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836356 | Method for monitoring dependent metric streams for anomalies A method for monitoring dependent metric streams for anomalies including identifying a plurality of sets of dependent metric streams from a plurality of metric streams of a computer system by measuring an association of the plurality of metric streams using a statis... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836353 | Method to enhance micro-C4 reliability by reducing the impact of hot spot pulsing A system for reducing an impact of hot spot pulsing of a semiconductor device including: first generating means for generating a plurality of local op-codes; a sequencer for augmenting customer op-codes with the plurality of local op-codes; selecting means for selec... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836355 | Automatic maintenance of a computing system in a steady state using correlation An autonomic computing system is automatically maintained in a steady state. The system has a number of parameters, each of which has one or more threshold. The system may further have a number of influencers, adjustment of which affects values of the parameters. On... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831868 | Process for software support resource allocation based on analysis of categorized field problems A method and system estimates future software support requirements based on statistical models of previous observations of support requests, either for the same product or for a different product having features previously identified as correlated with features of a... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827448 | IT analysis integration tool and architecture A system for determining status information based on one or more reporting applications providing a status summary. The system includes an underlying application operable to provide status, and a reporting application operable to receive the status information and g... | 11/02/2010 |
