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8176357 |
System for handling storage system requests
A file storage system that uses a server to communicate between a client and a storage system. The server receives a file storage request pertaining to a file, generates and stores a file record...
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8171352 |
HVAC system, a method for determining a source of a reset and a HVAC controller configured for the same
An HVAC controller, a method for determining the source of a reset of a HVAC unit and a HVAC system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the HVAC controller includes: (1) a power on reset (POR)...
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8165743 |
Controller for inverter
A high-reliability controller for inverter is provided with a simple configuration. The controller for inverter includes a CPU 14 controlling energy of a vehicle, a CPU 15 controlling a power...
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8156386 |
Information processing apparatus, and method and computer program for controlling same, for detecting certain failures
An information processing apparatus having a first subsystem and a second subsystem, is provided. The first subsystem includes a first updating unit configured to update a first counter at a...
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8140918 |
Clock supply method and information processing apparatus
A clock supply method for supplying a clock to a plurality of processing units includes supplying a clock from a first clock supply unit to processing units forming a first group as a primary clock...
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8135981 |
Method, apparatus and system to automate detection of anomalies for storage and replication within a high availability disaster recovery environment
A method, apparatus and system for improving failover within a high-availability computer system are provided. The method includes obtaining one or more parameters associated with at least one...
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8122258 |
System and method for secure operating system boot
There is provided a method for operating a basic input/output system (BIOS) of a pay-as-you go computer system. In one example embodiment, the method includes periodically resetting a watchdog...
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8122282 |
Starting virtual instances within a cloud computing environment
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that leverages the Operational Support System(s) (OSS) and Business Support system(s) (BSS) of a (e.g., public) computing Cloud with a service...
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8117506 |
Apparatus, and associated method, for reporting delayed communication of data messages
An apparatus, and an associated method, reports when incidence of email or other data-message communication of a wireless network system. An analyzer analyzes logged information and determines the...
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8108733 |
Monitoring distributed software health and membership in a compute cluster
Techniques for monitoring distributed software health and membership of nodes and software components operating in a compute cluster are disclosed. In one embodiment, each node in the compute...
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8103916 |
Scheduling of checks in computing systems
In an example embodiment, a method is provided for scheduling a check to detect anomalies in a computing system. An average time between the anomalies that are detectable by the check is identified...
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8099637 |
Software fault detection using progress tracker
The invention provides for software fault detection. A software process tracks its own progress. In the event the timer times out, a handler checks the progress. If the progress meets a fault...
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8086903 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for coordinating error reporting and reset utilizing an I/O adapter that supports virtualization
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a shared processor data processing system for coordinating error reporting for and resetting of a physical I/O adapter that...
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8086912 |
Monitoring and root cause analysis of temporary process wait situations
A computing system is provided and includes first computing resources representing a fraction of total computing resources, second computing resources representing at least a partial remainder of...
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8078920 |
Information processing device and error processing method
An information processing device having two processing units capable of operating in synchronization with each other, includes: a common unit capable of outputting an identical signal to the two...
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8074123 |
Multi-CPU failure detection/recovery system and method for the same
A multi-CPU system including plural CPUs, comprising a failure state detection unit for detecting a failure in an operating program, and a recovery unit for determining, when the failure state...
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8073964 |
Electronic device and base station for maintaining a network connection
An electronic device and wireless base station for maintaining a persistent connection are provided. In an embodiment, a system includes an electronic device that connects to a web-server via a...
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8042010 |
Two-phase clock-stalling technique for error detection and error correction
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that augments a circuit design with a mechanism for detecting and correcting timing errors. This system first partitions the circuit into a...
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8042009 |
Electronic control device
An electronic control device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an arithmetic device such as a microcomputer having a watchdog timer circuit, and a runaway monitoring...
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8037375 |
Fast data eye retraining for a memory
A method, device, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment method includes determining a left edge and right edge of a valid data eye for a memory. The method continues by periodically checking...
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8037367 |
Method and system for providing high availability to computer applications
A system and method for distributed fault detection. In an exemplary method, unplanned application exits and crashes may be detected at a node local level. Further, application hangs may be...
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8037353 |
Method for operating a system
A method for operating a system, as well as a computer program and a computer program product for executing the method. In the method for operating a system, which includes a plurality of control...
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8020049 |
Detection of and recovery from an electrical fast transient/burst (EFT/B) on a universal serial bus (USB) device
An Electrical Fast Transient/Burst (EFT/B) detection and recovery system for a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device. The system includes a USB core and a burst controller. The USB core provides serial...
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8006234 |
Method and system for identifying runaway software agents
A method and system for identifying runaway software agents operating in a computer system is disclosed. An operating window is defined for an agent. The operating window specifies the maximum...
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7999954 |
Methods and devices for host error detection by a printer
A printer comprising a reception unit for receiving a command or data sent from a host computer, a timer for counting elapsed time after the command or data is received, and an error detection unit...
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7996702 |
System and method for testing overclocking capability of CPU
A test system for overclocking capability of a central processing unit (CPU) includes a basic input and output system (BIOS), a frequency generator, and a watchdog timer. The BIOS includes an input...
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7996732 |
Program-execution monitoring method, system, and program
A program product is embedded in a media accessible by a computer operative to request a plurality of program tasks for wakeup so as to execute the plurality of program tasks in a predetermined...
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7996574 |
Messaging mechanism for inter processor communication
An apparatus and method are provided for connecting a host Enterprise System Connection Architecture (ESCON) Input/Output (I/O) interface to a cache of a data storage system. The apparatus includes...
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7979862 |
System and method for replacing an inoperable master workload management process
In one embodiment, a method comprises executing respective workload management processes within a plurality of computing compartments to allocate at least processor resources to applications...
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7975173 |
Fault tolerance and failover using active copy-cat
Fault tolerant operation is disclosed for a primary instance, such as a process, thread, application, processor, etc., using an active copy-cat instance, a.k.a. backup instance, that mirrors...
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7975188 |
Restoration device for BIOS stall failures and method and computer program product for the same
A restoration device for restoring a system when the BIOS falls in a stall failure includes a first watchdog timer and a second watchdog timer, a setter for setting timer values respectively in the...
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7971104 |
Apparatus and methods for stabilization of processors, operating systems and other hardware and/or software configurations
Apparatus and methods for converting a processor, having a plurality of states and being operative to execute software operations stored in a memory device, into a self-stabilizing processor,...
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7971105 |
Device and method for detecting and correcting timing errors
A device that includes an error detection circuit that is configured to detect a timing error resulting from a fast voltage drop by comparing a signal from a critical path to a signal from a...
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7966528 |
Watchdog mechanism with fault escalation
A method for handling watchdog events of an electronic device includes detecting a watchdog fault in a normal mode, which is a watchdog event in which a watchdog trigger is not correctly serviced;...
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7966527 |
Watchdog mechanism with fault recovery
A method for handling watchdog events of an electronic device includes detecting a watchdog fault in a normal mode, which is a watchdog event in which a watchdog trigger is not correctly serviced;...
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7949886 |
Power supply system for motherboard
An exemplary power supply system and method for a motherboard includes a power circuit providing power for a south bridge, and a controller having first and second transistors. An input terminal of...
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7949891 |
Timer circuit storing a plurality of time measurements with different sets of measurement time that can be realized by starting the time measurements asynchronously
A timer circuit for a mobile communication terminal includes a counter operating under a reference clock, a storage unit that stores a timer timeout time corresponding to a time measurement request...
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7945345 |
Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a first program on a controller and a second program on an interface board between the controller and controlled devices. Both of the programs...
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RE42314 |
Functional interrupt mitigation for fault tolerant computer
A new method for the detection and correction of environmentally induced functional interrupts (or “hangs”) induced in computers or microprocessors caused by external sources of single event ups...
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7917812 |
Resetting of multiple processors in an electronic device
Automatic resetting of a group of multiple processors in an electronic device wherein the processors are arranged in either a cascade chain or master-slave configuration. Upon the receipt of an...
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7895478 |
Method and device for monitoring a process execution
A method for monitoring a process execution of a plurality of sequentially executed processes starts one of a plurality of timers in cyclic permutation when one of the processes is started, and...
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7877633 |
Highly reliable storage system and internal network thereof
The disk controller has a plurality of channel control units, a plurality of cache memories, a plurality of disk control units, and a plurality of internal switch units. Each channel control unit...
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7877648 |
Fault tolerant data processing
A method of identifying a valid version of a data value and voting on separate instances of the data value is described. A processor receives an instance of the data value generated by one...
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7877627 |
Multiple redundant computer system combining fault diagnostics and majority voting with dissimilar redundancy technology
A multiple redundant computer system includes three primary processor modules (PPM) and three redundant processor modules (RPM) operating synchronously. Primary and redundant processor modules are...
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7873963 |
Method and system for detecting languishing messages
Provided is a method and system for detecting languishing messages of a storage operating system. Requests to access or manipulate data are received as messages by the storage operating system. The...
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7873880 |
Data relay device, storage device, and response delay monitoring method
A data relay device relays a read request from a source device to a destination device and relays data corresponding to the read request from the destination device to the source device. The data...
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7870425 |
De-centralized nodal failover handling
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for de-centralized nodal failover handling in a high availability computing architecture. The system can...
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7861115 |
Multi-component system
To reset only the CPU in a component in an abnormal condition without affecting CPUs of components in a normal condition, a multi-component system, in which a plurality of components each including...
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7853835 |
Cluster system wherein failover reset signals are sent from nodes according to their priority
A failover method for a cluster computer system in which a plurality of computers sharing a resource are connected by a heartbeat path for providing each computer with lines for monitoring...
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7844856 |
Methods and apparatus for bottleneck processing in a continuous data protection system having journaling
Method and apparatus to provide bottleneck processing in a continuous data protection system having journaling. In an exemplary embodiment, system parameter information is collected and analyzed to...
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