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7624318 |
Method and apparatus for automatically identifying multiple combinations of operational and non-operational components on integrated circuit chips with a single part number
A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer usable program code for automatically identifying multiple combinations of operational and non-operational components with a...
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7624260 |
System executing a fast boot wake-up
A processing system is set forth that includes a processor, read only memory storing an operating system image file accessible by the processor, and random access memory that is also accessible by...
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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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7613916 |
Method for burning chips
A method for burning a BIOS chip ( 108 ) and a network card chip ( 107 ) that are attached on a motherboard ( 106 ), includes the steps of: storing a plurality of MAC addresses in a burning device...
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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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7596684 |
System and method for checking validities of installing hard disks in a computer
A system for checking validities of installing hard disks in a computer is provided. The system includes: a calling module ( 10 ) for calling BIOS interrupt named INT 13 ; a setting module ( 11 )...
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7590837 |
Electronic device security and tracking system and method
A system and method for securing and tracking an electronic device. The system includes hardware, software and firmware components that cooperate to allow tracking, disabling, and other interaction...
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7584384 |
Method and apparatus for enabling and disabling a test mode of operation of an electronic memory device without additional interconnects or commands
A method and apparatus allows an electronic device to operate, first, in a test mode and, second, in a functional mode, the functional mode being the normal operating mode of the device. In the...
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7574624 |
Integrated test method on multi-operating system platform
An integrated test method on a multi-operation system (OS) platform for performing an integrated test of a file system and disk performance in a computer with an extended firmware interface (EFI)...
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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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7570076 |
Segmented programmable capacitor array for improved density and reduced leakage
A capacitor circuit and method to reduce layout area, leakage current, and to improve yield is disclosed. The circuit includes an output terminal ( 100 ), a plurality of circuit elements ( 322,...
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7561944 |
High integrity and availability multi-channel systems
Systems and methods for asynchronous multi-channel data communications are provided. In one embodiment, a system in accordance with the invention includes a plurality of redundant pairs of computer...
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7555683 |
Inventory determination for facilitating commercial transactions during diagnostic tests
The invention provides for facilitating e-commerce transactions between a client and a server over a network. In particular, a client, such as a client computing device, can perform a diagnostic...
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7555678 |
System for booting from a non-XIP memory utilizing a boot engine that does not have ECC capabilities during booting
A booting system is disclosed for booting from a non-XIP memory utilizing a boot engine that does not have ECC capabilities during booting. The booting system includes: a non-XIP memory for storing...
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7555677 |
System and method for diagnostic test innovation
A method and system for performing diagnostic testing to speed the computer boot process. A boot process is initiated and an error counter value is read in any of memory, input/output, central...
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7552424 |
Apparatus and method for identifying a system under test
A system and method for testing an application on a target system are described. The target system is assigned a logical name which is used by within a test script to reference the target system....
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7549086 |
Memory card and its initial setting method
In the initial setting of a memory card 1 , the flash check data FD stored in a flash memory 2 is read out, this data FD is compared with the operation check data FD 1 1 stored previously in...
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7549085 |
Method and apparatus to insert special instruction
A method and apparatus to insert special instruction. At least one of the illustrative embodiments is a method comprising converting a first representation of a computer program to a second...
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7546472 |
Information handling system that supplies power to a memory expansion board
An information handling system (“IHS”) including a processor, a memory controller coupled to the processor, and a memory device interface coupled to the memory controller is provided. The IHS...
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7543183 |
Method and system for automated technical support for computers
A method and system for automated support in a computer system. The computer system has a service button, and pressing of the service button causes a bit to be set in a register in the chip set....
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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...
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7526693 |
Initial decision-point circuit operation mode
A circuit that includes a controller and at least one control I/O pin. When the controller is placed into an initial state, the controller initializes the circuit into an initial operation mode....
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7523350 |
Timer-based apparatus and method for fault-tolerant booting of a storage controller
A fault tolerant storage controller having a processor, redundant copies of a stored program, and a timer that automatically runs when the processor is reset is disclosed. Selection logic selects a...
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7509357 |
Transparent file restore
Provided is a method, system, and program for automatically handling an error when retrieving a file for an application. An error is detected while the application retrieves a file from the storage...
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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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7506208 |
Apparatus and method for crisis recovery
Embodiments of an apparatus and method for recovering a system from system crisis can start a crisis recovering routine by pressing a prescribed button (e.g., existing power button) for a...
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7505870 |
System and method for information handling system thermal diagnostics
Thermal subsystems of manufactured information handling systems are tested for compliance with desired parameters by running a thermal diagnostics module in firmware during one or more...
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7496793 |
Error reporting method and system
An error reporting method is used for reporting errors in testing a computer system. The error reporting method includes the following steps: testing the computer system to find errors; generating...
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7493484 |
Method and apparatus for executing the boot code of embedded systems
A memory system and corresponding method for executing boot code stored therein are provided, the memory system including a mode decoder, a first memory in signal communication with the mode...
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7493422 |
Loss of universal serial bus communication
Triggers are developed for indicating the presence of non-recoverable and/or recoverable loss of communication situations between a device and device driver software using universal serial bus...
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7484126 |
Power system providing power to at least one component including circuit for minimizing effects of power interruptions and method of using same
A power system ( 10 ) includes a power source ( 12 ) having a power output ( 14 ) and a signal output ( 16 ) and is shiftable between an off state and an on state supplying a given power from the...
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7484125 |
Method and apparatus for providing updated processor polling information
Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus to collect and dynamically update processor polling information. In one method embodiment, the present invention collects processor...
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7478349 |
Automatically synchronizing timed circuits on I/O Devices
System and method for automatically synchronizing multiple I/O devices with homogeneous and/or heterogeneous timing and I/O channel types. A graphical program specifying configuration and operation...
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7478268 |
Deallocation of memory in a logically-partitioned computer
A method, apparatus, system, and computer-readable storage medium that, in an embodiment, set uncorrectable error indicators in logical memory blocks in response to detecting an uncorrectable error...
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7475295 |
Intelligent watchdog circuit
A simple, but intelligent watchdog circuit uses an up/down counter for its delay element. A watchdog event will occur if the counter is allowed to over flow or under flow its boundaries (in either...
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7467328 |
Kernel configuration recovery
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for kernel configurations. One embodiment includes a kernel configuration tool, a system file accessible by the kernel configuration tool, and means for...
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7444558 |
Programmable measurement mode for a serial point to point link
A serial point to point link that communicatively couples an integrated circuit (IC) device to another IC device is initialized by transferring a training sequence of symbols over the link....
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7434102 |
High density compute center resilient booting
A system and method to implement a resilient compute center. A plurality of processing systems is initialized. Each of the processing systems capable of operation communicates status information...
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7430659 |
System and method to initialize a multiple function device with a multi-part boot algorithm
A method for “booting up” a multiple function device that involves first detecting the activation of the multiple function device. A 1 st boot algorithm, retrieved from read-only memory, is...
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7428663 |
Electronic device diagnostic methods and systems
Diagnostic methods and systems for electronic devices are disclosed. Separate dedicated diagnostic software code and operating code are respectively executed in a diagnostic mode and an operating...
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7421620 |
Configuration proxy service for the extended firmware interface environment
A method of abstracting information through object interfaces is described. The object interfaces are used to present platform device information in a pre-boot service environment. Firmware tables...
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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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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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7405723 |
Apparatus for testing display device and method for testing the same
An apparatus for testing a display device includes a display device to display test patterns, a graphic process unit to supply analog mode signals and digital mode signals to the display device,...
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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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7398425 |
Information processing apparatus including NAND flash memory, and information processing method for the same
An information processing apparatus includes a non-volatile memory including a first block where data error does not occur and a second block where data error is possible to occur. The first block...
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7395459 |
Method for monitoring audible tones in a multiple planar chassis
Aspects for monitoring audible tones indicative of operational status of each planar in a multiple planar chassis are described. Included in the aspects is the monitoring of a speaker channel of...
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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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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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