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7415634 |
Method for fast system recovery via degraded reboot
A system and method for fast system recovery that bypasses diagnostic routines by disconnecting failed hardware from the system before rebooting. Failed hardware and hardware that will be affected...
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7412565 |
Memory optimization for a computer system having a hibernation mode
A computer system that increases performance and reduces power consumption is described. Specifically, the system writes the contents of the system to a non-volatile memory cache before powering...
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7412545 |
Apparatus and method for updating I/O capability of a logically-partitioned computer system
A hosting partition update mechanism allows updating the I/O capability of a logically-partitioned computer system in a way that minimally affects the performance and availability of I/O in the...
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7412553 |
Enhanced protocol conversion system capable of providing offloaded protocol instruction processing
Systems are provided for the offloading of protocol control and conversion information within microprocessor-based systems. A converter controller comprises a first interface and protocol, as well...
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7412595 |
Customization of electronic devices via pre-boot space
Methods and apparatuses for maintaining customization information for an electronic device in an operating system independent component that may be accessed prior to completion of a boot up process...
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7412594 |
Method and apparatus for managing data access and storage of data located on multiple storage devices
An apparatus and method for accessing a data item from a storage system having a plurality of data storage devices are disclosed. I/O operation requests are submitted to multiple data storage...
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7412597 |
Computer system and booting method thereof
A computer system and a booting method thereof are disclosed. The computer system contains a storage device for storing a booting system and a multi-tasking kernel; and a microprocessor coupled to...
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7412055 |
Method and system for fair exchange of user information
A method and system for a fair exchange of user information over a network is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting over the network the user information encoded in association...
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7412596 |
Method for preventing system wake up from a sleep state if a boot log returned during the system wake up cannot be authenticated
A method and system for enabling security attestation for a computing device during a return from an S4 sleep state. When the computing device enters into the S4 state following a successful boot...
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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...
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7409709 |
Systems and methods for automatically reconfiguring a network device
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically configuring, managing, and maintaining a network device or VPN using a public network such as the Internet. Initial configuration of a network...
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7409435 |
Integrated services hub binary file trial run process
The present invention discloses a method of automatically downloading and testing binary code for a customer premises telecommunications hub. When a new binary file is received by the hub, it is...
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7409537 |
Fast booting an operating system from an off state
Described is a fast boot mechanism that generally operates by persisting static data and/or code for a system component, and then providing the system component with access to the static data...
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7409561 |
Piracy protection for combined hardware/software products
An apparatus, computer program product, and method for preventing piracy in combined hardware/software products, and specifically in RAID storage systems is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of...
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7409546 |
Cryptographically signed filesystem
A cryptographically signed filesystem provides a central database resident on a server that contains database objects. The server creates startup software to be installed in a client system's read...
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7409536 |
Computer systems with several operating systems coexisting thereon and swapping between these operating systems
Computer systems in which at least two operating systems coexist independently from each other, and that swap between the operating systems. Provides methods to have at least two operating systems...
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7409538 |
Update in-use flash memory without external interfaces
A method, apparatus and program storage device for updating a non-volatile memory in an embedded system is provided. The invention includes detaching the non-volatile memory from all expectable...
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7406591 |
Booting from a remote BIOS image
A method, system and article of manufacture to boot a computer system from a remote Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) image. A request for a local Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) image of a...
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7406673 |
Method and system for identifying essential configuration bits
A method and system are disclosed. The method and system provide the ability to identify a configuration bit as an essential configuration bit. The identifying that is performed uses a...
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7406592 |
Method, system, and apparatus for efficient evaluation of boolean expressions
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for efficiently evaluation Boolean expressions. According to the method, the Boolean expression is expressed using pre-fix notation. Each...
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7404073 |
Transitioning from startup code to application code during initialization of a processor based device
Method and apparatus for initializing a processor based device having a processor that controls an electrical load, such as a motor. The electrical load is initially operationally controlled using...
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7404075 |
Method, system and computer program product for generic and flexible collection of a hardware data image
A method of processing data is proposed. In response to determining that a reconfiguration of a data processing system has occurred, one or more system items are surveyed to identify a change to...
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7404072 |
System and method for loading a valid image from one of a plurality of images into a memory of a network device
A system for loading images includes a read-only memory (ROM) ( 160 ) for storing the images; an initialization module ( 110 ) for initializing a running environment of the system, and for starting...
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7403957 |
Image forming apparatus having control codes and rewrite control method for the same
In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control...
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7401214 |
Method for executing computer function options with intelligent memory for computer-based multimedia system
A method for executing computer function option with intelligent memory is provided, including loading the multimedia application program corresponding to the pressed function option button into...
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7401212 |
Self-contained computer servicing device
Servicing a computer using a self-contained computer servicing device. The device includes a memory storing an operating system. The device includes a first interface for connecting the device to...
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7398381 |
Utilizing paging to support dynamic code updates
A code object and flash memory may be updated by storing a new code object in the flash memory. Then, a pointer from a page table may be redirected to point to the new code object. The old code...
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7398382 |
Method and apparatus to enhance platform boot efficiency
Methods and apparatus for improving network boot efficiency are disclosed. Under embodiments of the method, boot images that are initially sent from a boot server to various clients are cached at...
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7398331 |
Peripheral apparatus, firmware updating method thereof for determining whether an error has occurred during the installation of a rewrite operation
A peripheral apparatus reserves and stores, on a nonvolatile storage medium, a first storage area which stores a control program for implementing a function of the peripheral apparatus, and a...
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7397498 |
Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device
A camera device comprises a movable optical system, a driving unit which drives the optical system, and a control unit which controls the driving unit to move the optical system to a predetermined...
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7398383 |
Method and system for using internal FIFO RAM to improve system boot times
Embodiments of methods and systems for improving boot-up time in computer systems utilize RAM in devices separate from the main memory, normally dedicated to another function, to provide a stack...
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7398379 |
Programmable logic device integrated circuits with wireless programming
Methods and apparatus are provided for conveying configuration data to a programmable logic device integrated circuit. When the configuration data is loaded into configuration memory on the...
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7398384 |
Methods and apparatus for acquiring expansion read only memory size information prior to operating system execution
Methods and apparatus for acquiring expansion read only memory size information prior to operating system execution are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus access an instance of a data...
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7395434 |
Method for secure storage and verification of the administrator, power-on password and configuration information
A computer includes a processor, an input device and a read only memory (“ROM”). One or more passwords are flashed in the ROM in encoded form. The encoding process may include any well-known...
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7395455 |
System, method and program product for recovering from a failure
System, method and computer program product for recovering from a failure of a computing device. Start up of a first component of the device is monitored and a determination is made whether the...
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7395422 |
Method and system of changing a startup list of programs to determine whether computer system performance increases
A method and system of changing a startup list of programs to determine whether performance of a computer system increases. Some illustrative embodiments are a processor-based method comprising...
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7395421 |
Method and apparatus for booting a user-selectable operating system
A computer system includes a memory subsystem to store both a full operating system and a mini operating system. The mini operating system boots much more quickly than the full operating system,...
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7392518 |
Robust remote flash ROM upgrade system and method
The present invention is a solution that provides reliable and robust boot upgrade system and method. A power up boot process is performed in which a boot update application monitors for an...
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7392373 |
Granularity on a per port basis of request-response communications over a networked computer system
Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for improved granularity of a response-request communication on a networked computer system. One example embodiment includes receiving the request-response...
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7392361 |
Generic reallocation function for heap reconstitution in a multi-processor shared memory environment
Managing memory includes receiving a request for a memory allocation, determining whether the memory allocation is to be maintained when subsequently initializing memory and saving information...
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7391438 |
Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device
A camera device comprises an optical system driven to a predetermined position upon initialization when a photographing mode has been set, a memory including an area for storing lens information...
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7389410 |
Automatically deriving order of initialization for computing services across multiple computing systems
Automated derivation of an initialization ordering for computing services distributed across multiple computing systems. The initialization ordering is derived by monitoring initialization times...
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7386714 |
Transmitting data from a single storage unit between multiple processors during booting
An electronic control unit includes a main microcomputer and a sub-microcomputer. Both the microcomputers include buffers for initialization and buffers for normal processing. At the time of...
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7386653 |
Flash memory arrangement
A device, a method and a system for direct execution of code from a flash memory arrangement, in which a separate memory component is not required, even if a flash memory component is used which...
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7386698 |
Apparatus and method for automatically defining, deploying and managing hardware and software resources in a logically-partitioned computer system
A partition wizard allows automatically defining from a set of system requirements a solution profile that defines a combination of hardware and software in multiple logical partitions to satisfy...
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7386715 |
System and method for replicating data in a distributed system
It is common in distributed systems to replicate data. In many cases, this data evolves in a consistent fashion, and this evolution can be modeled. A probabilistic model of the evolution allows us...
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7385631 |
Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device
A camera device comprises a movable optical system, a driving unit which drives the optical system, and a control unit which makes the driving unit start driving of the optical system to a...
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7386711 |
Method and apparatus for redirecting the boot operations of one or more systems
The boot operations of one or more systems may be redirected. For example, a master boot processor may configure a slave boot processor to boot over a communication bus existing between the...
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7386654 |
Non-volatile configuration data storage for a configurable memory
Various embodiments of the invention may provide one or more non-volatile storage entities, such as a register or a storage array, to store configuration information for a memory device. The...
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7386712 |
Firmware developer user interface with break command polling
A method for providing a firmware developer user interface in a multi-nodal computer system comprises polling for a break command during boot of a multi-nodal computer system and invoking a...
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