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7257564 Dynamic message filtering  
Dynamically filtering and classifying messages, as good messages, bulk periodicals, or spam. A regular expression recognizer, and pre-trained neural networks. The neural networks distinguish...
7257731 System and method for managing protocol network failures in a cluster system  
Methods and systems are directed to managing a protocol network failure in a network clustering system. A cluster master and each client member in the cluster are configured to determine a primary...
7257741 Methods and systems for communications device troubleshooting  
Methods and systems provide for the troubleshooting of communications devices that interconnect a personal computer or network of personal computers to a network of a service provider. The...
7257730 Method and apparatus for supporting legacy mode fail-over driver with iSCSI network entity including multiple redundant controllers  
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for supporting legacy mode fail-over drivers with an iSCSI network entity including multiple redundant controllers. In an exemplary aspect of the...
7257743 Method and system for reporting failures of a program module in a corporate environment  
A computer-implemented method and system for reporting failures in an application program module to a corporate file server. The failure may be a crash or a set-up failure. Once detected, the...
7254738 Method for processing error of received packet in ethernet MAC layer  
A method for processing a received packet in a MAC (Medium Access Control) layer of an Ethernet which receives a packet from a physical layer and transmits the received packet to a switch. The...
7254739 Error recovery in a client/server application using two independent sockets for communication  
A technique for recovering from a socket error at a computer host. The host opens two sockets for communicating with respective sockets at another host. Failure recovery processes are provided for...
7254740 System and method for state preservation in a stretch cluster  
A system and method for preserving the data content of a network having a cluster is provided in which each of the network interface controllers of the servers of the cluster includes a copy of a...
7251753 Apparatus, system, and method for identifying a faulty communication module  
An apparatus, method, and system associates an identifier with a data packet. The identifier uniquely identifies a communication module, such as a host interface card, within a data storage system....
7251745 Transparent TCP connection failover  
Methods of transparent connection failover allowing a remote computer (i.e., a client), to continue to use a network connection to communicate with one of at least two or more other computers...
7251742 Method and apparatus for determining mis-wired addressable loops  
Mis-wired addressable loops are determined by enabling all loops and identifying all devices communicating on all loops. A list of all identified devices is recorded. One at a time, each loop is...
7251747 Method and system for transferring data using a volatile data transfer mechanism such as a pipe  
Methods and systems for efficient and accurate re-starting of data transfers using volatile data transfer mechanisms, such as pipes, following an error. According to one embodiment, portions of the...
7249280 Cheap paxos  
A distributed computing system can be operated in a fault tolerant manner using a collection of auxiliary computing devices and more main computing devices than the number of faults the system can...
7249276 Signal route selector and method of signal routing  
A signal route selector for routing a signal between a source and a destination over one of a plurality of alternative routes comprises a response monitor for determining whether transmissions...
7246272 Duplicate network address detection  
A plurality of data packets encoded according to a first protocol are received which encapsulate data encoded according to a second protocol. A first source address is extracted from the packets...
7246256 Managing failover of J2EE compliant middleware in a high availability system  
A method, system, and program for managing failover of J2EE compliant middleware in a high availability system are provided. A primary node and a secondary node each run the same J2EE compliant...
7246255 Method for shortening the resynchronization time following failure in a computer system utilizing separate servers for redundancy  
An apparatus for and method of enhancing reliability within a cluster lock processing system having a relatively large number of commodity cluster instruction processors which are managed by a...
7243267 Automatic failure detection and recovery of applications  
A method and apparatus for executing target application programs with employment of a supervisor that is coupled to the executing target application through a conventional status reporting port of...
7243257 Computer system for preventing inter-node fault propagation  
In a computer system in which computers each having a plurality of processors are connected with each other, said each computer comprises a system controller for, at the time of a failure within...
7240240 Managing process state information in an operating system environment  
A technique for managing process state information involves pushing process state information from the kernel space to the user space in the event of an application crash and generating a core file...
7240234 Storage device for monitoring the status of host devices and dynamically controlling priorities of the host devices based on the status  
The present invention observes the status on the server side from the storage device side, and controls the processing priority in accordance with the server status. The storage device 2 is...
7239696 Automatic reset for DSL lines  
A method of automatically resolving a Digital Subscriber Line failure can include detecting a failure of the Digital Subscriber Line and establishing a call over a public switched telephone network...
7237139 Services heuristics for computer adapter placement in logical partitioning operations  
A methodology for configuring the connection of adapters to bus controllers or other possibly failing components (PFCs) in a logically partitioned environment. The present invention comprises an...
7237027 Scalable storage system  
According to one embodiment, a storage system ( 400 ) may include a gateway service ( 402 ), metadata service ( 404 ) and storage service ( 406 ) that each provide different storage system...
7237140 Fault tolerant multi-node computing system for parallel-running a program under different environments  
In a fault tolerant computing system, a number of processing nodes are connected via a communication channel to a management node. The management node has the function of setting the processing...
7237138 Systems and methods for diagnosing faults in computer networks  
A network management system ( 10 ) includes a fault diagnosis system ( 12 ) connectable to a communications network ( 20 ). The fault diagnosis system includes a fault object factory, a path...
7233991 Self-healing tree network  
A communications network is provided with a self-healing topological architecture. Each node in the network detects continuously transmitted beacon packets that are propagated through the network...
7234073 System and methods for failover management of manageable entity agents  
In a managed information network, unavailable agents have a detrimental effect on user access to manageable entities. Intelligent, optimal assignment of manageable entities to available agents...
7234082 Apparatus of remote server console redirection  
An apparatus of remote server console redirection is described. The apparatus provides multi-managers to control remote server computers simultaneously. The apparatus includes at least one...
7234079 Method and system for enabling recovery of data stored in a computer network; a method and a system for recovering data stored in a computer network  
A method for enabling recovery of data stored in a computer network, the computer network comprises a plurality of computer nodes, the method comprising the steps of generating a set of redundancy...
7230916 Distributed preconfiguration of spare capacity in closed paths for network restoration  
A method for restoring traffic in a network. The network includes plural distinct nodes interconnected by plural distinct spans, each span having working links and spare links. Each node has a...
7231540 Method of identifying connection error and electronic apparatus using same  
An electronic apparatus is formed with a first module having a plurality of connectors and a plurality of second modules each connected to the first module through a different one of the...
7231555 Method and apparatus to coordinate groups of heterogeneous measurements  
A Network Troubleshooting Center NTC that performs orchestrated tests composed of heterogeneous measurements. The system within the NTC includes architecture to manage tests in accordance with...
7231541 Method for predictably feeding and consuming RAM memory to recognize over-consumption of resources  
The present invention is a method for providing the consumption of a set amount of memory within a set amount of time in a server network in order to properly display the capabilities of running...
7228452 Transparent consistent semi-active and passive replication of multithreaded application programs  
A system and method for replicating a multithreaded application program using a semi-active or passive replication strategy, wherein the application program executes under the control of an...
7228455 Transaction branch management to ensure maximum branch completion in the face of failure  
A method, system, and computer program product provides automatic and consistent resolution of in doubt branches of a transaction, and which will provide reduced cost of operating the system and...
7222256 System and method for controlling redundant communication links in networked safety systems  
A system, apparatus, and method for maintaining communication integrity in a safety system. A link integrity signal indicative of any short circuits or open circuits in a first communication link...
7222255 System and method for network performance testing  
A system and method for network performance testing are developed. One system includes a control network device configured to send network test performance settings configure at least one data...
7222268 System resource availability manager  
A hierarchical, distributed Availability Management (AM) process for recovering from component failures in a data processing system. The hierarchy of AM elements track a failure modality hierarchy...
7219254 Method and apparatus for high availability distributed processing across independent networked computer fault groups  
A plurality of local network groups of computers ( 102 ) are coupled together by a network ( 104 ). Independent processing systems that execute a single operating system are coupled together by a...
7219255 Failsafe switching of intelligent controller method and device  
The present invention relates to control of and data collection from sensors associated with tools. In particular, it relates to using a controller to mediate communications among a tool, sensors...
7216188 Techniques for accessing devices through a set of serial buses automatically setting unique enclosure addresses and detecting non-unique enclosure addresses upon initialization  
In a system including multiple enclosures, unique enclosure addresses can be set automatically via software. The enclosure addresses may be stored in non-volatile memory within the enclosures. In a...
7213265 Real time active network compartmentalization  
Security policy manager devices are leveraged by manager objects to use highly secure user transparent communications to provide detection of questionable activities at every node, automatic...
7209968 System and method for recovering management of network element(s) responsive to failure of a distributed gateway  
A system and method are disclosed which enable efficient recovery of management of one or more network elements responsive to failure of a gateway responsible for managing such one or more network...
7203732 Flexible remote data mirroring  
Methods, systems, and configured storage media are provided for flexible data mirroring. In particular, the invention provides local-remote role reversal, implementation of hot standby server...
7203863 Distributed transaction state management through application server clustering  
A method, system, and computer program product stores transaction state information in application server process cluster information, eliminating transaction state logging and reducing the...
7203861 Method and system for remotely backing up a computer memory utilizing a global communications network  
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for remotely backing-up computer memories utilizing a global communications network. An embodiment of the present invention...
7200622 Inter-server dynamic transfer method for virtual file servers  
An object of the present invention is to dynamically transfer a virtual file server within a cluster that is configured by a plurality of file servers in which virtual file servers are set up. A...
7197561 Method and apparatus for maintaining the status of objects in computer networks using virtual state machines  
A network appliance for monitoring, diagnosing and documenting problems among a plurality of devices and processes (objects) coupled to a computer network utilizes periodic polling and collection...
7197661 System and method for dynamic mirroring of a network connection  
Methods and systems are directed to dynamically mirroring a connection between network devices. Mirroring is managed by forwarding a packet between a first network device and a second network...