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7613952 |
Method for facilitating BIOS testing
A method for facilitating basic input and output system (BIOS) testing is provided. In the method, a BIOS program code to be tested is loaded into a memory unit by a BIOS debugging card to execute...
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7610521 |
Communication control system and method for supervising a failure
A communication control system has a plurality of control units that are connected via a communication bus to provide bidirectional communication. A control unit detects a failure when it occurs....
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7610482 |
Method and system for managing boot trace information in host bus adapters
Method and system for managing boot trace information is provided. The system includes a utility module executed by a computing system processor that enables boot trace collection in a host bus...
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7590890 |
Hot-swap power controller generating sequenced power-good signals
A power controller system is described herein, where a power-good signal (PWRGD) is asserted followed by a slightly delayed power-good signal (DLY_PWRGD) upon the system powering up. This PWRGD...
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7577755 |
Methods and apparatus for distributing system management signals
Methods and apparatus are provided for improving the distribution of system management signals within a computer system complex. Mechanisms are provided for transmission both within a box and...
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7571353 |
Self-repairing computing device and method of monitoring and repair
The invention may backup, maintain backups, or recover data associated with a computing system. The computing system may include any number of components including hardware and software, and any...
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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...
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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...
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7549084 |
Storage control apparatus and failure recovery method for storage control apparatus
A storage control apparatus of the present invention reduces the frequency of disk drive failures. An error management part manages the number of times errors occur in respective disk drives. A...
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7543174 |
Providing high availability for an application by rapidly provisioning a node and failing over to the node
In one embodiment, a method includes detecting that an application in a first node is to failover; provisioning a second node to execute the application responsive to the detecting; and failing the...
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7536687 |
System and method for automatic installation of embedded software packages
The system and method facilitates transition from one software packaging model to a new model. New software packages include a capability package and an enabler package. The capability package...
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7536594 |
Watchdog device that provides and interrupts power to a network device in response to a lockup error condition
The invention relates to a stand-alone video recording, playback and Monitoring system. It has network switches, non-volatile storage devices, IP cameras, video servers, and NTSC cameras. The...
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7523269 |
Preparing memory to allow access to data when primary operating system is unavailable
Systems and methods of sharing files and data in memory between the two operating systems running on a computing device. A main operating system (OS) may execute on the computing device an provide...
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7512821 |
Power supply system and method for supplying power to CPU providing power saving mode
A power supply system supplies a power to a CPU with a power saving mode to a mobile information device or terminal. The power supply system includes a power supplying circuit for supplying the CPU...
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7506209 |
Computer shutoff condition monitoring method, information processing apparatus, program and computer readable information recording medium
A shutoff condition monitoring method for a computer, includes the steps of: a) determining that an abnormal shutoff has occurred when the computer shuts off without passing through predetermined...
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7506194 |
Routing system and method for transparently rocovering routing states after a failover or during a software upgrade
Methods and apparatus for efficiently enabling routing states to be recovered after a failover or during a software upgrade in a system which supports graceful restart and stateful switchover are...
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7502962 |
System and method for recovering from a software processing error
Systems and methods for recovering from software processing errors are provided. The systems and methods provide for the validation of data following the occurrence of a software processing error.
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7496789 |
Handling restart attempts for high availability managed resources
Techniques are provided for managing a resource in a High Availability (HA) system. The techniques involve incrementing a count when a particular type of remedial action is performed on a resource,...
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7492479 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
In an initializing process at a time of switch-on, a scanner CPU sends an initialization command request to a system CPU. Upon receiving the initialization command request from the scanner CPU, the...
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7484127 |
Method and system for preserving crash dump in a diskless system
The invention discloses a method for preserving crash dump data in case of operating system crash in a diskless device. The method and the system according to the invention uses two stage booting...
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7467322 |
Failover method in a cluster computer system
In a computer system having a cluster configuration, a reset command issued from each of computers to any of the other computers is transmitted to a reset control unit. A control module of the...
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7444504 |
Tracing through reset
A method of tracing a data processor upon reset of the data processor. A data processor reset signal resets the data processor, part of trace collection hardware and does not reset remaining parts...
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7418627 |
Cluster system wherein failover reset signals are sent from nodes according to their priority
A high availability cluster computer system can realize exclusive control of a resource shared between computers and effect failover by resetting a currently-active system computer in case a...
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7413129 |
USB device with secondary USB on-the-go function
A USB device includes first and second communications ports and a processor operable for configuring the first communications port for connecting to a USB host and configuring the second...
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7406634 |
Method and apparatus for utilizing an exception handler to avoid hanging up a CPU when a peripheral device does not respond
A method and apparatus utilizes an exception handler to implement LOAD and STORE instructions for moving data between a peripheral device and CPU registers. TLB entries for peripheral devices are...
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7406624 |
Method for responding to a control module failure
A method is provided for saving system information immediately following a hardware or software failure that causes a processor to reset. After failure is imminent and before the processor allows...
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7398423 |
System and method for providing automatic resets
A method for determining whether to provide automatic reset instructions to a machine with reset capability with respect to a fault code event, the method comprising, in a database, collecting...
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7392432 |
Synchronizing cross checked processors during initialization by miscompare
A few inexpensive hardware facilities are incorporated in a tightly synchronized cross checked design. These facilities allow initialization software to quickly bring the two processors to the same...
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7391665 |
Process and temperature invariant power on reset circuit using a bandgap reference and a long delay chain
A power-on-reset circuit determines when it is safe for a programmable device to access configuration data from an associated non-volatile memory following a reset operation. The power-on-reset...
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7383469 |
Application management system and method
An application management system and method is proposed. The application management system includes a first processor and a second processor. The first processor executes an application in a...
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7383461 |
Method and system to recover a failed flash of a blade service processor in a server chassis
A method and system for recovering a server blade, in a multiple server blade computer, that is lost during a flash update operation on a service processor in the server blade. Because of the flash...
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7373542 |
Automatic startup of a cluster system after occurrence of a recoverable error
The invention relates to a method for the automatic startup of a cluster ( 10 ) after an error has occurred in a node ( 12, 14 ) of said cluster ( 10 ) that led to a reboot of the node ( 12, 14 )....
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7370227 |
Desktop computer blade fault identification system and method
A method and system for remotely isolating faults in computer network devices coupled to a computer network. A plurality of first computer units are coupled to the computer network. The plurality...
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7350063 |
System and method to filter processors by health during early firmware for split recovery architecture
A system and method to determine a healthy group of processors and associated firmware for booting a system after a resetting event is disclosed. Redundant copies of processor specific firmware are...
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7343519 |
Disk drive power cycle screening method and apparatus for data storage system
The present invention is a disk drive power cycle screening method and apparatus for a data storage system. In an exemplary aspect of the present invention, a disk drive power cycle screening...
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7325167 |
System and method for using network interface card reset pin as indication of lock loss of a phase locked loop and brownout condition
A method for providing an indication from a network interface controller to a microcontroller is disclosed wherein upon occurrence of a particular condition within the network interface controller,...
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7308609 |
Method, data processing system, and computer program product for collecting first failure data capture information
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for generating a data dump in a data processing system is provided. A system boot of the data processing system is initialized. A...
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7296193 |
Technique for processing an error using write-to-operator-with-reply in a ported application
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture, implementing the method, processes an error when a write fails in an application that has been ported from a first platform to a second platform. The...
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7296073 |
Mechanism to survive server failures when using the CIFS protocol
The invention provides a method and system for re-establishing sessions between a server and its clients following a failure of the server, planned reboot of the server, or takeover by another...
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7284236 |
Mechanism to change firmware in a high availability single processor system
A “high availability” system comprises multiple switches under the control of a control processor (“CP”). The firmware executing on the processor can be changed when desired. Consistent...
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7275132 |
Computing machine with hard stop-tolerant disk file management system
The computing machine ( 1 ) comprises a RAM ( 3 ) and a mass memory ( 5 ) in which an operating system is stored. The mass memory ( 5 ) comprises a partition ( 8 ) that is read-only accessible to...
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7266680 |
Method and apparatus for loading configuration data
A system is provided for configuring a configurable device. The system includes an internal bus in communication with registers and to a configuration circuit. The configuration circuit may include...
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7251551 |
On-vehicle electronic control device
An on-vehicle electronic control device includes an auxiliary microprocessor and subjects a microprocessor allocated to a main part of control to an external diagnosis, thereby improving...
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7225239 |
Secure system unit mobility
A system unit has at least a first network identity and a second network identity for communicating with a network, and an indication of which of the network identities was effective on the most...
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7222214 |
Device-level address translation within a programmable non-volatile memory device
A programmable non-volatile memory device includes block switching logic that enables device-level translation rules to be changed. The device-level translation rules map the external addresses...
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7219264 |
Methods and systems for preserving dynamic random access memory contents responsive to hung processor condition
Methods and systems for preserving dynamic random access memory content in response to a hung processor condition are disclosed. In order to preserve dynamic random access memory content, a first...
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7206953 |
Asynchronous fault-tolerant enclosure services interface
The present invention provides method, interface and computer-readable medium for enabling enclosure services in a computer system including a multi-device enclosure generally remote from a host...
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7197666 |
Method for checking the reset function in an embedded processor
A method for checking the reset function of an embedded processor is described. First, a check is made to see if a reset “flag” is not set ( 202 ) before branching to execute the test routine...
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7191437 |
System and method for reliable disk firmware update within a networked storage fabric
A system and method for the reliable firmware update of a disk connected to a fibre channel loop fabric allows the specified filers and other predetermined system devices connected to the fabric to...
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7174483 |
Method for operating a processor-controlled system
A method for monitoring a system controlled by a processor utilizes an integrated monitoring unit independent of the processor but integrated together with the processor in an integrated circuit,...
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