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7617331 System and method of double address detection  
A plurality of detectors can be evaluated to determine if more than one has been assigned the same address. Responsive thereto, such detectors could be identified for follow-up maintenance, or...
7558990 Semiconductor circuit device and method of detecting runaway  
In an embodiment of the invention, if a microprocessor detects runaway of a CPU executing a program, it starts a recovery program. The runaway in the program execution is detected by monitoring...
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...
7539788 Data processing system for keeping isolation between logical partitions  
When a subject of access of a transaction from an IO device is not any resource allocated to a logical partition to which the device having issued the transaction belongs, a report as an error is...
7532526 Method and system for testing address lines  
Method and systems are described for testing an address line inter-coupling a processor and a memory. The contents of a first address in the memory are initially compared with the contents of a...
7526671 Network communication system  
The network communication system is capable of communicating with many internal units at high speed, improving reliability of the system and decreasing a production cost and a development cost. The...
7526526 System and method for transferring data  
Methods for synchronously transmitting control data from a first device to a second device in a streaming data network and for transferring non-addressed data through a streaming data network are...
7475166 Method and system for fully trusted adapter validation of addresses referenced in a virtual host transfer request  
A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that allows a single physical I/O adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter, to validate that a direct memory access...
7441149 Method and apparatus of recording data in the optical recording medium  
The present invention relates to a recording medium and apparatus and method for managing a defective area of the recording medium. According to an embodiment, the method includes (a) determining...
7421624 Data recovery apparatus and method used for flash memory  
A data recovery apparatus and method used for a flash memory, which can recover data damaged or lost when power supplied to the flash memory is cut off while data operations are being consecutively...
7418636 Addressing error and address detection systems and methods  
Addressing error detection systems and methods are disclosed. A target address is written to a memory in an electronic system and subsequently output on an address path through which the memory is...
7366873 Indirectly addressed vector load-operate-store method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus to correctly compute a vector-gather, vector-operate (e.g., vector add), and vector-scatter sequence, particularly when elements of the vector may be redundantly presented,...
7340588 Extending the number of instruction bits in processors with fixed length instructions, in a manner compatible with existing code  
This invention pertains to apparatus, method and a computer program stored on a computer readable medium. The computer program includes instructions for use with an instruction unit having a code...
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...
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.
7181655 Method and circuit arrangement for memory error processing  
The present invention relates to a method and circuit arrangement for performing an error correction in a memory arrangement in which a redundancy system is used. The addresses of faulty cells are...
7120836 System and method for increasing cache hit detection performance  
A system and method for increasing computing throughput through execution of parallel data error detection/correction and cache hit detection operations. In one path, hit detection occurs...
7117398 Program counter range comparator with equality, greater than, less than and non-equal detection modes  
An program counter address comparator includes two comparators comparing an input program counter address with respective reference addresses. The comparators produce a match indication on...
7065680 Method and a system for evaluating the reliability of a program in an electronic device, and an electronic device  
A method and associated system and electronic device for evaluating the reliability of a program ( 401 ) stored in a storage memory of an electronic device ( 1 ) having a processing memory ( 3 b )...
7043502 Methodology for JEDEC file repair through compression field techniques  
A method of generating a file suitable for programming a programmable logic device. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) generating a programming item from a plurality of parameters that...
7043495 Techniques for JEDEC file information integrity and preservation of device programming specifications  
A method of generating a file suitable for programming a programmable logic device. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) generating a programming item from a plurality of parameters that...
6999386 Drive, method for reading data, information recording medium reproduction apparatus, and method for reproducing data having reading errors  
A method for reading data from an information recording medium having a plurality of address regions, includes the steps of: performing a reading operation for all of designated address regions...
6968479 Verifying data in a data storage device  
The present invention relates to a storage device controller for controlling the operations of the data storage system. The controller includes error-correcting code (ECC) coding and decoding of...
6944792 Method for verifying user memory validity in operating system  
A method for verifying user memory validity which copes with faults generated in the Kernel area by returning an error value, even if the fault is generated by a user buffer address checking...
6941493 Memory subsystem including an error detection mechanism for address and control signals  
A memory subsystem includes a memory controller coupled to a memory module including a plurality of memory chips via a memory bus. The memory controller may generate a plurality of memory requests...
6931571 Method and apparatus for handling transient memory errors  
Method and apparatus for managing memory of a data processing system. In one embodiment, memory objects are allocated in response to memory allocation requests. Each object has an associated...
6931476 Electronic apparatus with ROM data correction function  
An electronic apparatus has in a CPU core an instruction correcting circuit that includes memory cells, a comparator and a selector. The memory cells store, when initializing the electronic...
6901540 TLB parity error recovery  
A microprocessor, data processing system, and method are disclosed for handling parity errors in an address translation facility such as a TLB. The microprocessor includes a load/store unit...
6859897 Range based detection of memory access  
Memory accesses in a data processing device ( 14 ) can be monitored by selecting, from among a plurality of available memory relationships ( 37, 82 ), a memory relationship relative to an address...
6854075 Simultaneous and redundantly threaded processor store instruction comparator  
A simultaneous and redundantly threaded, pipelined processor executes the same set of instructions simultaneously as two separate threads to provide fault tolerance. One thread is processed ahead...
6845475 Method and apparatus for error detection  
Automatic detection or correction of addresses, such as Uniform Resource Locators, that are user-entered may be provided. A code that is associated with an address may be entered when an address is...
6845353 Interpage prologue to protect virtual address mappings  
In a computer which translates instructions from a target instruction set to a host instruction set, a method for determining validity of a translation of a target instruction linked to an earlier...
6829735 Computer system having a ROM correction unit  
Each of a plurality of ROM correction units in a computer system includes a register for storing a subject address of an original instruction group having a bug, a comparator for comparing a...
6823473 Simultaneous and redundantly threaded processor uncached load address comparator and data value replication circuit  
A simultaneous and redundantly threaded, pipelined processor executes the same set of instructions simultaneously as two separate threads to provide fault tolerance. One thread is processed ahead...
6763517 Automated analysis of kernel and user core files including searching, ranking, and recommending patch files  
A computerized method for automatically analyzing a core file created by a computer system after an unexpected interrupt. The packages installed on the computer system are determined and patch...
6754856 Memory access debug facility  
A computer system includes instruction fetch circuitry for dispatching fetched instructions to a pipelined execution unit, data memory access circuitry and emulator circuitry for use in debug...
6751757 Disk drive data protection using clusters containing error detection sectors  
The present invention is related to methods and apparatus that can enhance the reliability of a hard drive by providing a built-in error check in the drive. Conventional hard drives can erroneously...
6745346 Method for efficiently identifying errant processes in a computer system by the operating system (OS) for error containment and error recovery  
The present invention relates to a method and system for efficiently identifying errant processes in a computer system using an operating system (OS) error recovery method that identifies if the...
6738882 Concurrent multi-processor memory testing beyond 32-bit addresses  
Memory about 4 Gbytes is tested using a DOS diagnostics program that remaps memory to a 32-bit addresses. In some embodiments, memory above 3 Gbytes is tested in 1 Gbyte blocks until the end of...
6725189 Adapter for coupling a legacy operating system to a driver of an I/O channel which has an incompatible native operating system interface  
An adapter program couples a legacy operating system to a driver program of an I/O channel which has an incompatible interface to a native operating system. The adapter program includes a...
6715036 Method, system, and data structures for transferring blocks of data from a storage device to a requesting application  
Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structures for transferring data to a requesting application. A request is received for one or more blocks of data at contiguous addresses in a...
6587973 Method and apparatus for implementing fault tolerant logic in a storage system  
A mechanism for implementing fault tolerant logic in an information storage system is disclosed. The mechanism comprises an inhibit logic which is invoked when the first RUNOUT block of a link...
6457067 System and method for detecting faults in storage device addressing logic  
An improved fault detection system and method for detecting the occurrence of faults within the addressing logic of a storage device is provided. Data stored to a selected address within a storage...
6347383 Method and system for address trace compression through loop detection and reduction  
A method and system for compressing memory address traces based on detecting and reducing the loops that exist in a trace is disclosed. The method and system consists of two steps. In the first...
6311298 Mechanism to simplify built-in self test of a control store unit  
A control store unit having a control store address generator able to provide both the normal control store address generation functions, and the BIST/logout address generation functions. In...
6275938 Security enhancement for untrusted executable code  
Untrusted executable code programs (applets or controls) are written in native, directly executable code. The executable code is loaded into a pre-allocated memory range (sandbox) from which...
6269458 Computer system and method for diagnosing and isolating faults  
A computer system for diagnosing and isolating faults in the computer system. A first value is written from the processor using the bus a first address within the address space of a diagnostic...
6226763 Method and apparatus for performing cache accesses  
A method and apparatus for performing cache accesses. A comparator is coupled to a cache and a lookup parity bit line to perform error detection.
6223299 Enhanced error handling for I/O load/store operations to a PCI device via bad parity or zero byte enables  
Device selects lines from each I/O device are brought into a PCI host bridge individually so that the device number of a failing device may be logged in an error register when an error is seen on...
6212648 Memory module having random access memories with defective addresses  
The present invention provides a memory module having connective terminals and a plurality of random access memories connected through a first set of interconnections to the connective terminals....
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