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7613961 CPU register diagnostic testing  
One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of compiling a program to be executed on a target central processing unit (CPU). The method includes opportunistically scheduling diagnostic testing of...
7580999 Remote system administration and seamless service integration of a data communication network management system  
A method for providing remote management and maintenance of a node or service within a data communications network that is activated by the data communications network management system's receipt...
7577101 Method and apparatus for generating extensible protocol independent binary health checks  
A method and apparatus are provided for performing health check requests on one or more network devices or network resources. The method and apparatus provide a build tool for building a health...
7574631 Circuit arrangement and method for secure data processing  
Circuit arrangement for secure data processing for program data with a protected data record. An internal memory provides a protected data record having instruction words and a first check word...
7574626 Trace information collecting system, method and program  
Occurrence of a failure in a computer system is appropriately detected, and information required for removing the failure is automatically collected. A trace information collecting system of the...
7565581 Error handling policy  
Described are techniques for use with an error handling policy for a data storage system. Error handling criteria may be specified for controlling behavior of the data storage system upon the...
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...
7555569 Quick configuration status  
Described are techniques for obtaining configuration information and conditionally executing a system call in accordance with a specified configuration state. A host issues a request for...
7543195 Method and system for managing time-out events in a storage area network  
A method and system to enter a time out interval in a storage area network includes identifying a time slot in a sequence of time slots to insert a time out event for the event in the storage area...
7540026 No-execute processor feature global disabling prevention system and method  
A method includes stalling execution of a model specific register write function to write to a model specific register of a processor having a no-execute processor feature enabled, determining that...
7533304 Method and system of signal noise reduction  
A method and system of signal noise reduction used for digital chips to prevent errors when signal noise occurs includes checking whether a recent received signal is logically consistent. If the...
7529983 Circuit arrangement and method for supporting and monitoring a microcontroller  
A circuit arrangement for supporting and monitoring a microcontroller, which is constructed externally of the microcontroller, comprises a watchdog circuit for monitoring the microcontroller, which...
7523353 Method for detecting hang or dead lock conditions  
A scheme for monitoring links in a point-to-point architecture computer system is discussed. The scheme monitors labels for transactions to determine if they have been reissued within a user...
7506217 Apparatus and method for software-based control flow checking for soft error detection to improve microprocessor reliability  
A method and apparatus for software-based control flow checking for soft error detection. In one embodiment, the method includes the instrumentation of one basic block of a target program to update...
7496916 Service and recovery using multi-flow redundant request processing  
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for performing multiple request processing. Redundant instances of executing entities service requests in a time-delayed fashion, relative to one...
7496800 Malfunction monitoring method and system  
In a method, an interrupt is generated to the processing unit every predetermined period. The predetermined period is shorter than a predetermined timeout period. A watchdog signal is changed in...
7496797 Advanced switching lost packet and event detection and handling  
Embodiments of the invention may provide a method to send a packet from an endpoint in an advanced switching fabric and starting a timer to run until receiving a response packet or receiving an...
7487407 Identification of root cause for a transaction response time problem in a distributed environment  
Method and apparatus for identifying a cause for a response time problem for a transaction in a distributed computing system that includes a central server and a plurality of subsystems. Data is...
7484069 Watchpointing unaligned data accesses  
A data processing system incorporating watchpoint registers is provided. The memory accesses to be detected may be unaligned memory accesses. The watchpoint may operate in a normal mode and also in...
7454664 JTAGchain bus switching and configuring device  
Commanding a JTAG bus cross point switching device by the same bus which it configures. Adding, omitting, or rearranging devices on a JTAG bus with a cross point switching device that is included...
7428674 Monitoring the state vector of a test access port  
Monitoring of the state vector of a test access port (TAP) permits isolation of the root cause of improper transitions of the state vector due to various factors, including electrical noise. The...
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...
7386411 Automatic hi-pot test apparatus and method  
An exemplary automatic hi-pot test apparatus ( 20 ) includes a high voltage supply ( 21 ), a transmission device configured for transmitting an electronic device ( 26 ) to be tested, a connecting...
7383470 Method, system, and apparatus for identifying unresponsive portions of a computer program  
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for identifying unresponsive portions of a computer program. According to the method, program code that can potentially result in unresponsive behavior...
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...
7373623 Method and apparatus for locating circuit deviations  
A system and method for locating circuit deviations or circuit faults in a circuit in respect of a reference circuit. The circuit and the reference circuit are respectively describable by...
7334167 Circuit for detection of internal microprocessor watchdog device execution and method for resetting microprocessor system  
In a circuit for detection of internal microprocessor watchdog device execution comprising a microprocessor ( 6 ) with the internal watchdog device and with an input/output line ( 11 ) transmitting...
7325171 Measurement and data acquisition system including a real-time monitoring circuit for implementing control loop applications  
A measurement and data acquisition system including a real-time monitoring circuit for implementing control loop applications. The system control loop may include the real-time monitoring circuit,...
7321214 Motor control system  
A controller is operable in one of a plurality of operational modes, which include an estimated temperature computation performing mode for performing computing of an estimated temperature of the...
7321213 Motor controller  
A motor controller is provided with: an estimated temperature calculating means that calculates an estimated temperature of a motor; and a control unit that can perform a driving control of the...
7299437 Method and apparatus for detecting timing exception path and computer product  
A selector selects an FF pair (FFs, FFe) in circuit information, a calculator calculates value-capturing condition data at FFe, a divider divides a path set that matches the value-capturing...
7299383 Security method making deterministic real time execution of multitask applications of control and command type with error confinement  
The method is implemented with a management system of the time-triggered architecture type in association with a processor of a central processor unit that possesses a privileged execution mode to...
7296186 System-on-chip development apparatus for wire and wireless internet phone  
The present invention is directed to a system-on-chip development apparatus for wire/wireless Internet telephone. The system-on-chip development apparatus for wire/wireless Internet telephone...
7293198 Techniques for maintaining operation of data storage system during a failure  
A data storage system has a first storage processor, a second storage processor, and a communications subsystem. The communications subsystem has (i) an interfacing portion interconnected between...
7287199 Device capable of detecting BIOS status for clock setting and method thereof  
A method capable of detecting a status of a basic input/output system (BIOS) for setting a clock is applied to a clock generating device of a computer motherboard and sets the clock according to a...
7281040 Diagnostic/remote monitoring by email  
A network device for use in a communication system having a technical support center operated by a technical support staff, the technical support center being in communication with the network...
7272646 Network monitor internals description  
A method and apparatus for a network monitor internals mechanism that serves to translate packet data into multiple concurrent streams of network event data is provided. The data translation is...
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...
7246267 Logic analyzer having a disassembler employing symbol table information for identifying op-codes  
A logic analyzer according to the subject invention includes a disassembler for disassembling object code. The disassembler automates the process of locating op-code addresses by utilizing...
7219268 System and method for determining transaction time-out  
Disclosed are systems and methods for determining time-outs with respect to a plurality of transactions comprising utilizing a first time-out clock for simultaneously determining time-out states...
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...
7216265 Software independent watchdogging scheme for monitoring operating system  
An improved method and system for determining the state of an operating system includes an operating system, a USB host controller that is driven by the operating system to send a polling signal to...
7200781 Detecting and diagnosing a malfunctioning host coupled to a communications bus  
Techniques and apparatus are disclosed for detecting and responding to the malfunction of a host coupled to a communications bus through a bus transceiver.
7194665 ASF state determination using chipset-resident watchdog timer  
An integrated circuit, a client computer system, and a method for operating the integrated circuit in the client computer system. The integrated circuit includes a first bus interface logic for...
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,...
7162666 Multi-processor system having a watchdog for interrupting the multiple processors and deferring preemption until release of spinlocks  
Each processor in a multi-processor system is periodically interrupted for preempting the current thread for servicing of a watchdog thread during normal operation. Upon failing to service the...
7152191 Fault containment and error recovery in a scalable multiprocessor  
A multi-processor computer system permits various types of partitions to be implemented to contain and isolate hardware failures. The various types of partitions include hard, semi-hard, firm, and...
7117062 Determining transmission of error effects for improving parametric performance  
A method and an apparatus for characterizing an uncertainty factor relating to processing workpieces. A first processing step is performed upon a workpiece. A first uncertainty factor associated...
7107488 Electronic control unit including monitoring control circuit  
A microprocessor 20 a controls an electrical load group 12 responsive to content of a non-volatile program memory 25 a and operation state of an input sensor group 11. A monitoring control...
7103738 Semiconductor integrated circuit having improving program recovery capabilities  
A backup memory, a DMA (direct memory access) controller, and a WDT (watch dog timer) are provided in addition to a CPU (central processing unit), a RAM (random access memory), and a peripheral...
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