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7620961 Open-architecture file system  
An open-architecture transactional file system is described. In one described implementation, a file system comprises a plurality of interchangeable and/or customizable logic layers configured to...
7620840 Transactional flow management interrupt debug architecture  
According to some embodiments, a first bus may be monitored, via a first debug gate, the first bus being to exchange data between a first processing system and a second processing system. A second...
7616558 Reduction of the transport capacity of a virtual concatenation group  
The transport capacity of a Virtual Concatenation Group (VCG) can be reduced under control of a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS). The VCG comprises link members, in which payload data are...
7600055 Apparatus, system, and method for firmware update of redundant controllers  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for updating firmware to a plurality of memory devices residing on disparate controllers wherein each controller includes an identical communication...
7594150 Fault-tolerant architecture of flip-flops for transient pulses and signal delays  
A method and apparatus for a structure of a flip-flop that is tolerant to the noise pulses occurring due to the presence of crosstalk faults by sampling the input data multiple times before and...
7590727 System and method for software failover on a bladed system  
A system for managing software failover on a bladed server is provided. The system includes a plurality of bladed servers, including a first bladed server and a second failover bladed server. The...
7587718 Method and apparatus for enforcing a resource-usage policy in a compute farm  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enforces a resource-usage policy in a compute farm. During operation, the system can receive etiquette rules which include...
7587632 High availability, high performance software component architecture  
A high availability, high performance software component architecture includes a primary configuration and at least one secondary configuration to take over from the primary configuration in the...
7587523 Distributed systems for determining card status  
The master/slave arbitration process includes a voting process that allows cards within the system to use voting to determine the health of each of the individual cards. The voting process thereby...
7577959 Providing on-demand capabilities using virtual machines and clustering processes  
Techniques are provided for on-demand resource allocation in a cluster having at least one initial virtual machine. It is determined that resource requirements have changed. At least one new...
7577871 Computer system and method having isolatable storage for enhanced immunity to viral and malicious code infection  
An apparatus and method of supporting the backup and recovery of a computing device. The computing device typically includes both a user computing environment and a supporting environment which...
7574591 Capturing and restoring application state after unexpected application shutdown  
Methods, systems and computer products provide for capturing and restoring application settings states and associated user data during unexpected application shutdowns and subsequent restarts. Data...
7571456 Downloading apparatus and method therof for digital broadcast receiver  
A downloading apparatus and method for a digital broadcast receiver which updates a control program of an associated microcontroller with a control program received in a broadcast signal. The...
7571355 Product support connected error reporting  
Methods are described for solving the problems associated with error messages by providing methods for unique identification of error messages to allow for resolving one or several messages to...
7571343 Handling sequence numbers and/or an anti-replay window after failover between servers  
To prevent loss of packets due to failover between server systems in which a failover mechanism is provided in a first server system to enable a second server system to failover to the first server...
7570655 Distributed router application serialization  
A router, which may be a wireless gateway, for routing messages between communications networks, including a persistent storage, and a transport interface for sending outgoing messages to...
7568054 Duplicate synchronization system and method of operating duplicate synchronization system  
The duplicate synchronization system has: a first system; and a second system operating in synchronization with the first system. The first and the second systems are connected to each other. The...
7567584 Multiplex scheme conversion apparatus  
A multiplex scheme conversion apparatus ( 103 ) includes (i) a packet loss judgment unit ( 202 ) that judges the packet loss of a TS packet, performs error processing in the case where a packet...
7565574 System and method of volume health checking and recovery  
A system of volume health checking and recovery. The system comprises a health engine capable to check the health of a first volume that is a snapshot mirrored volume of a second volume; and a...
7565567 Highly available computing platform  
System resources can be monitored for error or failure. In the event of a failure, an availability module can fail the system over from the corrupt resource to a backup resource.
7562265 Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing self-quiesced logic to handle an error recovery instruction  
A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing self-quiesced logic for handling an error recovery instruction such as a reset or self-test instruction. For example, during a reset or...
7562247 Providing independent clock failover for scalable blade servers  
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing independent clock failover for scalable blade servers that include assigning a server blade to one of a plurality of clock failover groups, providing...
7562145 Application instance level workload distribution affinities  
Connections from a client to respective ones of a plurality of application instances that receive data from a shared communication protocol stack are assigned by defining an affinity between the...
7559060 Time-bounded program execution  
System and method for performing time-bounded execution of a program. A timed program execution process is initiated, and a timeout process is initiated. A timeout condition is configured in the...
7558992 Reducing the soft error vulnerability of stored data  
Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for reducing the soft error vulnerability of stored data are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes storage logic, determination logic, and...
7558986 Software process monitor  
A monitor program executes a set of client processes upon reboot of a computer, starts, stops and monitors client processes running on the computer, and/or detects and recovers automatically from...
7558982 Presence enhanced disaster/overload recovery  
In some embodiments, a managed content recovery system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a data storage device comprising, (i) presence state submitted from at least one user,...
7558946 Breaking a lock situation in a processor without detection of the lock situation using a multi-level approach  
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method including initiating a cleaning operation to clear a first processor core of a system of pending operations, and preventing injection of...
7558192 Method to increase system availability of critical hardware components  
One embodiment of the invention includes a system for overriding an operation of an electronic device. The system includes an override hardware logic that is communicatively coupled with a...
7555672 Distributed 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...
7555499 Diagnosing database performance problems using a plurality of wait classes  
A method and apparatus for diagnosing database performance problems using a plurality of wait classes is provided. A set of statistical data that describes current activity within a database system...
7546482 Method and apparatus for monitoring the storage of data in a computer system  
One aspect is directed to a method for storing, in a persistent manner, a state of the storage process such that the state of the storage operation may be recovered if the storage operation is...
7546319 File system consistency checking in a distributed segmented file system  
A method of performing a file system consistency check in a distributed, segmented file system, includes: analyzing primary objects of a first segment of the file system to determine if a first...
7543182 Automated failover system for logical partitions  
An apparatus, program product and method improve software updates processes within a logically partitioned environment by creating a new, proxy partition having substantially the same operating...
7543046 Method for managing cluster node-specific quorum roles  
A method for managing node-specific quorum roles in a cluster of nodes. The method comprises assigning a configuration change of node role attributes to a node in the cluster, with each attribute...
7543029 Mailing list management system and electronic mail transmitting/receiving apparatus  
On the occasion of receiving an electronic mail to a predetermined receiving address defined as a mailing list, there is stored mailing list information recorded beforehand with a transfer...
7539703 Setup method for disaster recovery system  
Provided is a technique of setting up a disaster recovery system. In a log-based disaster recovery system including a first site for processing data and a second site for storing a backup of the...
7536603 Maintaining functionality during component failures  
Maintaining functionality during component failures is presented. During application registration, a recovery engine generates a recovery plan for the application. The recovery plan includes...
7536598 Computer system capable of supporting a plurality of independent computing environments  
A method for a computer repairing itself to an operational status at any time during operation, the method comprising the computer-executed steps of: booting from a first hard disk drive boot...
7533310 Semiconductor memory test device and method thereof  
A semiconductor memory test device and method thereof are provided. The example semiconductor memory test device may include a fail memory configured to store at least one test result of a memory...
7533254 Volatile memory persistence during warm reboot in an optical transceiver  
An operational optical transceiver configured to preserve a portion of volatile memory during a warm reboot process. The optical transceiver includes a persistent memory, a processor, and a system...
7529776 Multiple copy track stage recovery in a data storage system  
A bad track in a disk device in a data storage system is recovered by determining which cluster in the system the bad track belongs to. If the track belongs to the cluster that discovered that the...
7526667 Error reporting and correcting method for peripheral  
An error reporting and correcting method applied to a peripheral. The peripheral can be connected to the user terminal via the network. In the error reporting and correcting method, an error record...
7526568 Integrated live video production system  
Described is a system used in defining and producing a live television broadcast. The system includes one or more control panels, a workstation, a router, and devices. The control panels may be...
7523340 Support self-heal tool  
A self-heal tool performs self-healing tasks such as diagnostic and repair tasks at the computer host to resolve a user problem. The self-heal tool includes an instruction file and a self-heal...
7523233 System and method of tunneling SAS-extender discovery through a fibre-channel fabric  
An embodiment of invention is a method of tunneling Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) extender discovery through a Fibre Channel (FC) fabric. The SAS interfaces on the SAS extender are initialized first....
7519741 Apparatus, system, and method for automating adapter replacement  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automating adapter replacement. An input module receives an identification of a first adapter. A storage configuration module removes the first...
7518986 Push-based hierarchical state propagation within a multi-chassis network device  
A multi-chassis network device sends state information to internal consumers within the multi-chassis device via a hierarchical distribution. As one example, a primary master routing engine within...
7516267 Recovering from a non-volatile memory failure  
Write operations store data in different physical memory locations. Each of the physical memory locations are associated with a logical address that is shared in common among the physical...
7512948 Method, system, and program for managing operation requests using different resources  
Provided is a method, system and program for managing operation requests using different resources. In one embodiment, a first queue is provided for operations which utilize a first resource of a...