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7620861 Method and apparatus for testing integrated circuits by employing test vector patterns that satisfy passband requirements imposed by communication channels  
Embodiments of an apparatus and method for high-speed testing of a device under test are described herein, where the device under test is coupled to a tester via a limited passband communication...
7620854 Method and system for handling input/output (I/O) errors  
A method and system for handling errors on an Input/Output (I/O) link of a system is provided. The link is being shared by a plurality of devices of the system; each device may be shared by one or...
7620851 Fault injection methods and apparatus  
A method of testing a target in a network by fault injection, includes: defining a transaction baseline; modifying at least one of an order and a structure of the transaction baseline to obtain a...
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...
7613955 Collecting debug data from a wireless device  
A data processing apparatus having a memory for storing program code and a processor for processing the program code, the data processing apparatus comprising: a radio module to communicatively...
7613949 Fault isolation system and method  
A mechanism for isolating failures in a digital system is provided. In one embodiment, a fault table is defined for each unit in the system. Related faults are ordered within the table to reflect...
7613105 Methods and systems for removing data inconsistencies for a network simulation  
A network troubleshooting framework is described. In an implementation, a method includes forming a plurality of reports by a plurality of nodes in a network, wherein each of the reports is formed...
7610526 On-chip circuitry for bus validation  
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with validating a bus are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an integrated circuit operably connectable to a bus,...
7607049 Apparatus and method for detecting network failure location  
A L2 loop failure location generated in any one of a plurality of search target apparatuses disposed in network is detected in a short time. A network failure location detecting apparatus executes...
7603588 Two-stage detection of trace identifier mismatches  
Methods and apparatus for processing a trace mismatch by using hardware to detect a change in a trace string and software to perform string analysis are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of...
7603507 Storage system and method of storage system path control  
The present invention uses memory resources effectively and connects each storage device by a plurality of paths in a switchable manner, thus improving reliability and ease of use, by virtualizing...
7600157 Recovering from a failed I/O controller in an information handling system  
An information handling system includes first and second input/output (I/O) controllers, a detector for detecting an I/O controller failure, and an I/O recovery unit. The first I/O controller...
7600156 System, method, and device including built-in self tests for communication bus device  
A method, device, and system including built-in self tests for a communication bus device is disclosed. In one form, a method of testing a device operable to be coupled to a communication port an...
7596724 Quiescence for retry messages on bidirectional communications interface  
A mechanism to obtain a quiescence state for a component coupled to a bidirectional communications interface is obtained. A transition to quiescence may be may by activating a first defeature in...
7596723 Apparatus, system, and method for selective cross communications between autonomous storage modules  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for selective cross communications between autonomous storage modules. A RAID controller communicates through a first cascading communications loop...
7596715 Computer server with built-in modular networking component  
A network-configured computing device providing services to one or more other computing devices. A circuit board contained within a housing of the computing device includes a plurality of...
7596687 System and method for information handling system interoperable firmware storage  
Interoperable firmware for an information handling system supports embedded controller and chipset operations from a common SPI flash ROM. The embedded controller is disposed between the chipset...
7594144 Handling fatal computer hardware errors  
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for handling fatal computer hardware errors on a computer that include halting data processing operations of the computer upon occurrence of a fatal hardware...
7590701 Apparatus and method for generating alert messages in a message exchange network  
A method of operating a message exchange network is described. In one embodiment, the method includes coordinating a message generated by a message sender with a message recipient. The method also...
7587202 Method for conducting digital interface and baseband circuitry tests using digital loopback  
In a mobile device having a primary baseband circuit and a secondary baseband circuit and an interface between the primary baseband circuit and a secondary baseband circuit, a method for testing...
7584380 Method and system for debugging flow control based designs  
Certain embodiments for debugging mechanism for flow control based designs may comprise a debugging interface module between a transmitter and a receiver, all integrated on a chip. At least one...
7583604 Probe for measuring quality-of-service parameters in a telecommunication network  
A measuring probe, able to access data flows composed of packets transmitted along a path formed by a plurality of equipment in a telecommunication network, having a measurement module to perform...
7583587 Fault detection and diagnosis  
A network troubleshooting framework is described. In an implementation, a method includes detecting discrepancy in operation of a network by supplying data that describes the network to a network...
7581143 Peripheral component interconnect bus test system and method therefor  
A peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus test system and method therefor, that is applied in a PCI test card. The PCI test card includes a static random-access-memory (SRAM). In the method,...
7581048 Method and apparatus for providing continuous communication between computers  
A system and method for providing continuous availability of information that is normally transported via a network is provided. The system and method uses a process that is used with each computer...
7580998 Method for describing problems in a telecommunications network  
A method for describing problems in a telecommunications network is provided, wherein the alarms for a network service displayed on an operator's console are presented in the order of the path...
7577877 Mechanisms to prevent undesirable bus behavior  
A system includes proxy logic which detects situations which, unless action is taken, would result in undesirable bus behavior. In one embodiment, the target device of a bus cycle includes proxy...
7577866 Techniques for fault tolerant data storage  
Described are techniques for performing data recovery processing for two failed devices included in a set of devices. It is determined whether the two failed devices are each one of the data...
7574630 Method and system for reliable access of expander state information in highly available storage devices  
An apparatus and method for detecting an interface failure of a first interface of a first expander of a storage system, and retrieving state information from a second expander to the first...
7574629 Method and device for switching between agents  
In some embodiments, a system for communication between agents in a point-to-point interconnection system includes at least one initiator agent capable of dispatching at least one message destined...
7571345 Bisectional fault detection system  
An apparatus and program product logically divide a group of nodes and causes node pairs comprising a node from each section to communicate. Results from the communications may be analyzed to...
7568121 Recovery from failure in data storage systems  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a command is received at a first computational device coupled to a first adapter that is capable of allowing access to a data...
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...
7565568 Method and system for virtualization switch failover  
A method and system for virtualization switch failover is disclosed. According one embodiment of the present invention, a failure of a first virtualization device within storage a area network...
7564845 Method for permanent redundant transmission of data messages in communication systems  
The method carrying out permanent redundant transmission of data messages in disjunctive paths, such that circulating data messages can be reliably identified and destroyed. The method includes...
7562253 Segmented protection system and method  
A segmented protection system and method. The invention comprises a plurality of Processing Modules arranged in series along a Protection Bus. A number of Protection Groups may be formed along the...
7555680 Distributed control apparatus  
A distributed control system includes a plurality of PLCs which are connected together via active and backup transmission lines which are opposite in transmission direction. Each of the PLCs...
7555675 Methods, systems and computer program products for providing an internet protocol based device health check  
Methods, systems and computer program products provide an IP based device health check. The methods include initiating a health check to be performed at a customer location. The results of the...
7555544 Implementation of affinities in high availability computer system clusters  
A system includes a cluster having a plurality of nodes wherein at least one of the nodes is a candidate node, a plurality of resource groups, a clustering mechanism executing on the cluster...
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...
7552362 Bridge, error notification method therefor and system  
In a bridge which connects between an expansion bus of a primary system and that of a secondary system, a local error such as an expansion bus error and CPU hang-up which occurs in the secondary...
7552355 System for providing an alternative communication path in a SAS cluster  
The present invention is directed to a system and method for supporting an alternative peer-to-peer communication over a network in a SAS cluster when a node cannot communicate with another node...
7549096 Methods and systems for tracking and playing back errors in a communications network  
In accordance with the invention, a Logging Administration Maintenance and Billing Entity (LAMB) is interfaced to a network transport bus for logging network traffic, for error tracking, error...
7549091 Hypertransport exception detection and processing  
In accordance with the present invention a system for detecting transaction errors in a system comprising a plurality of data processing devices using a common system interconnect bus, comprises a...
7549090 Autonomic recovery from hardware errors in an input/output fabric  
An apparatus, program product and method propagate errors detected in an IO fabric element from an IO fabric that is used to couple a plurality of endpoint IO resources to processing elements in a...
7543191 Method and apparatus for isolating bus failure  
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for isolating a bus failure, which includes: acquiring, from a Compact PCI bus, an address of a target board being accessed; counting...
7543190 System and method for detecting false positive information handling system device connection errors  
False positive error warnings associated with hot insertion or removal of a device with an SAS link are filtered by comparing the timing of error warnings with the timing of hot insertion or...
7543044 Automatic configuration system  
An automatic configuration system for automatically configuring a connecting interface of a node device in a network is provided. The connecting interface of the node device includes a first pair...
7539800 System, method and storage medium for providing segment level sparing  
A memory subsystem that includes segment level sparing. The memory subsystem includes a cascaded interconnect system with segment level sparing. The cascaded interconnect system includes two or...
7536606 Error detection in web services systems  
Methods and systems are provided for automatically generating an accurate model of communications processes between disparate computing systems that may be analyzed in an efficient manner for error...