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Error Detection/correction And Fault Detection/recovery > Data Processing System Error Or Fault Handling > Reliability And Availability > Fault Recovery > By Masking Or Reconfiguration > Of Network Of NetworkOf Network patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/08/07 - 20070260913 - Fail over method through disk take over and computer system having failover function When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the primary server to a ... 11/08/07 - 20070260911 - Communication network management system for automatic repair of failures The invention relates to a management system (NMS) for a communication network (N) comprising a diagnostic module (MD) capable of determining a diagnosis (D) based on information (A) provided by network elements (N1, N2, N3, N4), this diagnosis identifying a failure within the network. The management system also comprises a ... 11/08/07 - 20070260910 - Method and apparatus for propagating physical device link status to virtual devices A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for propagating a physical device's link status to one or more virtual devices associated with the physical device. Link status information about the physical device indicating a failure in the physical device is identified using partition management firmware. The link status information ... 11/08/07 - 20070260909 - Computer hardware fault administration Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for computer hardware fault administration carried out in a parallel computer, where the parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes. The compute nodes are coupled for data communications by at least two independent data communications networks, where each data communications network ... 11/01/07 - 20070255977 - System and method for application monitoring and automatic disaster recovery for high-availability Stable and automated recovery of an application executing on a primary computer system by transitioning to secondary computer system is provided. Intelligent agents installed on a primary client server allow the primary environment to be replicated on a host, secondary environment. This creates continuous availability of applications executing on the ... 10/18/07 - 20070245167 - 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 middleware stack comprising layers including a load balancer, a web server, a web application server, a message control ... 10/04/07 - 20070234102 - Data replica selector There is provided a method and system for replicating data at another location. The system includes a source node that contains data in a data storage area. The source node is coupled to a network of potential replication nodes. The processor determines at least two eligible nodes in the network ... 09/27/07 - 20070226532 - Network node, switch, and network failure recovery method A switch includes a reference log storage table for storing a plurality of reference logs for performing normal connection processing between network nodes, a connection candidate log search program for searching for a connection candidate log from among a plurality of reference logs based on a failure log acquired when ... 09/20/07 - 20070220304 - Restoring a client device Disclosed is a method of restoring a client device following failure of the client device, the client being connectable to a network comprising a server device. The method comprises saving to the server device a configuration state of the client device, the saved configuration state comprising client network interface configuration ... 09/20/07 - 20070220303 - Failure recovery system and server A server 200 includes a scenario table in which object to-be-monitored information that indicates one or more network devices A, B and C being objects for failure recovery, failure information for identifying contents of failures, countermeasure information against failures, and frequence information that indicates the number of times of the ... 09/20/07 - 20070220302 - Session failover management in a high-availability server cluster environment A system for session failover management in a server cluster environment, the system including one or more clusters, each cluster having one or more servers, each server having one or more partition, each partition identified by a partition ID and grouping one or more sessions, and a failover manager configured ... 09/20/07 - 20070220301 - Remote access control management module A method of operating a remote access control unit which comprises first and second units each having an Ethernet port for remotely controlling modules of a server system, comprises the steps of powering up the server system; initializing the first unit into master mode thereby establishing a remote access through ... 09/20/07 - 20070220300 - Method and system for error correction utilized with a system for distribution of media A method and system for correcting errors in a receiving system is disclosed. The method and system comprises analyzing and identifying errors in a media in the receiving system and communicating with a network center to download fixes to correct errors in the media. ... 09/13/07 - 20070214379 - Transmission control for wireless communication networks Techniques for controlling transmissions in wireless communication networks are described. In one aspect, transmission control for a mesh network may be achieved by ranking mesh points or stations in the mesh network. In one design, the rank of a first station in the mesh network may be determined. At least ... 08/16/07 - 20070192652 - Restricting devices utilizing a device-to-server heartbeat A method of automatically locking a client can include a step of a client automatically establishing a heartbeat interval. A determination can be automatically made regarding whether a proper server response is received within the heartbeat interval. When no proper response is received, the client can be automatically placed in ... 08/09/07 - 20070186126 - Fault tolerance in a distributed processing network A distributed processing network is disclosed. The network includes at least one network switch, coupled to one or more end nodes, and adapted to simultaneously receive and route a plurality of data packets between the one or more end nodes. Within the network, the one or more end nodes are ... 08/02/07 - 20070180289 - Systems and methods for restoring data In a network that includes a first database located on a first client and a second database located on a second client, a user or administrator initiates a restore operation. A dynamic mirror relationship existing between the first and second clients is terminated and a backup version of a database ... 08/02/07 - 20070180287 - System and method for managing node resets in a cluster A method of managing node resets in a cluster is provided. Status information from a node cluster including a plurality of nodes may be received. A determination of whether a time delay associated with a first node of the cluster is greater than a node reset time may be made ... 07/26/07 - 20070174661 - System and method for providing singleton services in a cluster A system and method for providing singleton services in a cluster of servers, where one server is designated as a cluster master, other servers are designated as migratable servers and where all servers in the cluster heartbeat their liveness information against a database. The cluster master monitors the heartbeats of ... 07/26/07 - 20070174660 - System and method for enabling site failover in an application server environment A system and method for enabling site failover in an application server or clustered environment. In addition to providing HTTP session state replication across servers within a cluster, the invention provides the ability to replicate HTTP session state across multiple clusters. This improves high-availability and fault tolerance by allowing clusters ... 07/26/07 - 20070174659 - Storage switch system, storage switch method, management server, management method, and management program When a failure is detected in a server currently being used, a management server changes the network topology for the server currently being used and another server which substitutes the server. Then, the management server instructs the network SW with the changed network topology so as to cause the network ... 07/26/07 - 20070174658 - Failure recovery method The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality ... 07/26/07 - 20070174657 - System and method for the management of failure recovery in multiple-node shared-storage environments A storage architecture and method for managing the operation of a network in a RAID environment is provided in which a storage management agent is included in each server node of the network. The storage management agents monitor the status of the drives of the storage array in shared storage. ... 07/26/07 - 20070174656 - Manager/remote content architecture Embodiments of a manager/remote content architecture are described herein. The architecture, for instance, may provide management of content received from a content provider, such as to determine which client devices are authorized to output the content. Techniques are also described which allow one of the remote client devices to act ... 07/19/07 - 20070168696 - System for inventing computer systems and alerting users of faults A first embodiment of the system and method of this invention is disclosed in a distributed computer system. The system is monitored by detecting activity signatures of individually identifiable network components, programs and/or PCs by sensing operations (keystrokes on a keyboard or mouse clicks) and/or codes embedded in data streams ... 07/19/07 - 20070168695 - Method and apparatus for re-utilizing partially failed resources as network resources A method and apparatus for re-utilizing partially failed compute resources in a massively parallel super computer system. In the preferred embodiments the compute node comprises a number of clock domains that can be enabled separately. When an error in a compute node is detected, and the failure is not in ... 07/19/07 - 20070168694 - System and method for identifying and removing pestware using a secondary operating system Systems and methods for detecting and managing pestware are described. In one variation, a secondary operating system operates simultaneously with a primary operating system of a computer, and an anti-pestware application or service utilizes the secondary operating system to scan for indicia of pestware-related activity that may adversely affect a ... 07/19/07 - 20070168693 - System and method for failover of iscsi target portal groups in a cluster environment A system and method for the failover of iSCSI target portal groups (TPGs) is provided. Each network portal within a storage system is associated with a network portal data structure identifying a destination storage system in the event of failover/takeover operation. A management module ensures that all network portals associated ... 07/19/07 - 20070168692 - Remote location failover server application A method and system for performing a failover process on a production server. A source server and disaster recovery server are assigned indicators when operating in failover mode. A version match is performed to validate that the Exchange server applications and the storage area network vendor resources are compatible for ... 07/19/07 - 20070168691 - Recovery and debugging of failed network-accessible service construction In response to determining that computer generation of an abstract workflow plan for a network-accessible service resulted in failure, a method attempts to automatically recover from the failure. Where attempting to automatically recover from this failure is unsuccessful, the method applies remedy rules, to assist in debugging the failure. In ... 07/19/07 - 20070168690 - Highly available computing platform System resources can be monitored for error or failure. In the event of a failure, an availability module can fail the system over from the corrupt resource to a backup resource. ... 07/19/07 - 20070168689 - Device and method for recording information with remapping of logical addresses to physical addresses when defects occur A device for recording records information in blocks having logical addresses at a physical address (52) in a track on a record carrier. The logical addresses are translated into the physical addresses in dependence of defect management information, such as remapping tables, maintained in defect management areas. For avoiding remapping ... 07/12/07 - 20070162783 - System and method for virtual router failover in a network routing system In a network routing system,a control blade provides for redundancy and failover of virtual routers (VRs) instantiated by objects running on processing engines of the several virtual routing engines (VREs). When the control blade detects a failure of one processing engines, it may identify the virtual private networks (VPNs) and/or ... 07/12/07 - 20070162782 - Method for error processing in electronic controllers A method for error processing in electronic controllers particularly, in motor vehicles, is provided whereby errors determined on each vehicle start are permanently written in an error memory. On repeated recognition of similar errors, an error counter, provided for the error, is increased. In the case where it is determined ... 06/07/07 - 20070130487 - Processing of an interruption to a communication connection between a domestic appliance and a controller in a local network A method and a device determine an interruption state of a communication connection between a domestic appliance and a controller. The communication connection is between the domestic appliance, optionally connected in a local area network to further domestic appliances, to a bus line configuration, including a bus line controller, by ... 05/03/07 - 20070101181 - System design and manufacture A method of system design and manufacture includes entering system details in a first user interface program 100, including in particular availability data. A transfer file 110 defining a spreadsheet including cells representing the system is created and transferred to a spreadsheet 120. The spreadsheet calculates both the availability and ... 05/03/07 - 20070101180 - Method and a system or handling a change in status for a resource managed by a utility data center Embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods and systems for handling a change in status for a resource managed by a utility data center. In one embodiment, an event that describes the change of status for the resource managed by the utility data center is received. The categorization of ... 05/03/07 - 20070101179 - Method for fault handling in a co-operative workflow environment Embodiments herein provide a fault-handling scheme based on forward recovery for cooperative workflow environments. The fault handling scheme relies on the correct placement of transaction scopes and their associated fault and compensation handlers for maintaining correct application semantics, a fault propagation scheme for forwarding faults to a workflow component that ... 05/03/07 - 20070101178 - Automatic remote monitoring and diagnostics system and communication method for communicating between a programmable logic controller and a central unit A Monitoring and Diagnostics System is provided, which includes a monitoring unit and a monitored unit remotely located from the monitoring unit. The System also includes communication means between the monitoring unit and the monitored unit. The monitored unit includes data acquisition means for providing fault data of the monitored ... 04/26/07 - 20070094531 - Expandable storage apparatus for blade server system An expandable storage apparatus for a blade server system is provided. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the storage apparatus inserted within a blade server system comprises a storage system for storing desired information which can be accessed by the blade server system; a control module to control access ... 04/26/07 - 20070094530 - Data transfer method and remote copy system This invention provides data transfer control with no throughput reduction or possibility thereof in data transfer between a sender port and a receiver port, separated by a great distance, for example, in the case where the sender port and the receiver port, between which data is transferred according to Fibre ... 04/26/07 - 20070094529 - Method and apparatus for increasing throughput in a storage server Multiple domains are created for processes of a storage server. The processes are capable of execution on a plurality of processors in the storage server. The domains include a first domain, which includes multiple threads that can execute processes in the first domain in parallel, to service data access requests. ... 04/19/07 - 20070088972 - Automatic monitoring method for managed server health A Node Manager monitors the status of multiple servers. The Node Manager detects server failures, periodically monitors server health status, and performs server maintenance. When the Node Manager detects a server failure, it determines whether or not the server should be restarted. While periodically monitoring servers, the Node Manager may ... 04/19/07 - 20070088971 - Methods and apparatus for service acquisition Methods and apparatus for service acquisition. In an aspect, a method is provided for service acquisition. The method includes generating one or more channel switch video (CSV) signals associated with one or more multimedia signals, encoding the CSV signals and the multimedia signals to produce error coded blocks, and encapsulating ... 04/05/07 - 20070079169 - Method for the automatic sequencing of the specifications of a computer, especially for aircraft A method for the automatic sequencing of the specifications of a computer comprises an analysis of the specifications constituted by nodes with a simplification and distribution of these nodes into at least two types of nodes, and an assigning of these nodes in repetitive sub-cycles of processing tasks in order ... 03/29/07 - 20070074063 - Operating environment configuration system and method An operating environment configuration system comprises a first operating system of a computer device having at least one configuration setting associated therewith, and a second operating system of the computer device configured to automatically retrieve the at least one configuration setting and configure at least one component associated with the ... 03/22/07 - 20070067663 - Scalable fault tolerant system A fault tolerant system for a highly scalable distributed processing system in which fault tolerant groups (hereafter referred to as “FT groups”) are formed based on the functionalities of applications. A given FT group includes instances of the same applications and also different applications that perform the same function. The ... 03/15/07 - 20070061610 - Abnormality detection system, abnormality management apparatus, abnormality management method, probe and program An abnormality management apparatus, connected via a network to a plurality of probes disposed at arbitrary positions in the network, comprises an abnormality level reception unit that receives information indicating an abnormality level calculated at each of the plurality of probes, an abnormality analysis unit that judges the scale of ... 03/01/07 - 20070050663 - Error correction apparatus for performing consecutive reading of multiple code words An error correction apparatus for performing an error correction process on digital data that is stored in a buffer memory and includes multiple code words. The device includes a memory access circuit for controlling reading and writing of the code words to the buffer memory. Operational circuits perform a syndrome ... 03/01/07 - 20070050662 - Network object cache engine The invention provides a method and system for caching information objects transmitted using a computer network. A cache engine determines directly when and where to store those objects in a memory (such as RAM) and mass storage (such as one or more disk drives), so as to optimally write those ... 02/22/07 - 20070043967 - Automatic reconnect and reacquisition in a computer investigation system An examining machine automatically reconnecting to a target machine and resuming acquisition of data stored in a device coupled to the target machine. The examining machine establishes connection with the target machine and initiates data acquisition of the device coupled to the target machine. Periodically during the data acquisition, the ... 02/15/07 - 20070038885 - Method for operating an arrangement of a plurality of computers in the event of a computer failure A method is established for operating an arrangement of a plurality of computers that are configured to execute software units. Continuous monitoring of the plurality of computers and intervening with any failed computers is performed via a monitoring computer. The software units are assigned a weighting in accordance with their ... 02/15/07 - 20070038884 - System and method of remote storage of data using client software Data, located on a client computer, is stored on a storage device in a computer located in a remote location. Backup software for the client computer loads into memory of the client computer. The backup scheduler and launcher software loads into memory, monitors an actual time at the client computer, ... 02/15/07 - 20070038883 - Mounting system for medical sensors A mounting system for medical sensors is provided including an interface (2) for the electric contacting of a sensor (1). System components (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) for processing the sensor signals are provided as well as an electromagnetic transmission unit (9) with an antenna (12). The system components ... 02/01/07 - 20070028134 - Communication device and method of transmitting data A communication device for transmitting data to a communication partner device includes a transmitter for transmitting transmit data to the communication partner device, a determiner for determining a check value from the transmit data in accordance with a determination specification, a receiver for receiving a verification value from the communication ... 02/01/07 - 20070028133 - Download method for file by bit torrent protocol The present invention relates to the improvement of the Bit Torrent protocol, which is one of the P2P protocols. A seeder flag is added to the active peer table. First a super seeder having the original is activated, and the super seeder is stopped when the total value of the ... 01/25/07 - 20070022315 - Detecting and reporting changes on networked computers A method and system detects changes to the computers on a computer network, and reports these changes in a simple and useful format. Two compatible components are used, including a Local Agent that runs locally on each computer, and a Digester that is run centrally by a system administrator. Changes ... 01/25/07 - 20070022314 - Architecture and method for configuring a simplified cluster over a network with fencing and quorum A host-clustered networked storage environment includes a “quorum program.” The quorum program is invoked when a change in cluster membership occurs, or when the cluster members are not receiving reliable information about the continued viability of the cluster, or for a variety of other reasons. When the quorum program is ... 01/25/07 - 20070022313 - Notifications in a telecommunications network In a telecommunications network in which a threshold crossing alert (TCA) notification is generated when a threshold set for a variable related to an object of a network element (NE) of the network is crossed, there is provided a method of identifying the object, comprising: creating an entry for the ... 01/18/07 - 20070016822 - Policy-based, cluster-application-defined quorum with generic support interface for cluster managers in a shared storage environment A system, method and computer program product for use in a server cluster having plural server nodes implementing a server tier in a client-server computing architecture in order to determine which of two or more partitioned server subgroups has a quorum. A determination is made of relative priorities of the ... 01/11/07 - 20070011485 - Application-based specialization for computing nodes within a distributed processing system A distributed processing system is described that employs “application-based” specialization. In particular, the distributed processing system is constructed as a collection of computing nodes in which each computing node performs a particular processing role within the operation of the overall distributed processing system. Each of the computing nodes includes an ... 01/11/07 - 20070011484 - Testing a data-processing system with telecommunications endpoints A method and apparatus are disclosed that provide a technique for testing a data-processing system that enables communications between two or more telecommunications endpoints. An example of such a data-processing system is a Session-Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy server. In particular, a test-execution system, in accordance with the illustrative embodiment of ... 01/04/07 - 20070006016 - System and method for publishing to a web service portlet registry A portlet registry enables organization and implementation of portlets for a producer system. A producer system makes one or more portlets accessible for utilization by remote consumers. A portlet registry is generated that enables searching and accessing portlets across a wide variety of producer systems. Each producer generates a registry ... 01/04/07 - 20070006015 - Fault-tolerance and fault-containment models for zoning clustered application silos into continuous availability and high availability zones in clustered systems during recovery and maintenance A cluster recovery and maintenance system, method and computer program product for use in a server cluster having plural nodes implementing a server tier in a client-server computing architecture. A first group of N active nodes each run a software stack comprising a cluster management tier and a cluster application ... 12/28/06 - 20060294413 - Fault tolerant rolling software upgrade in a cluster A method and system are provided for conducting a cluster software version upgrade in a fault tolerant and highly available manner. There are two phases to the upgrade. The first phase is an upgrade of the software binaries of each individual member of the cluster, while remaining cluster members remain ... 12/28/06 - 20060294412 - System and method for prioritizing disk access for shared-disk applications A system and method for prioritizing disk access for a shared-disk storage system are disclosed. The system includes a cluster of computing systems coupled via a network, wherein the cluster of computing systems includes at least two nodes. A storage system is coupled to the network. The at least two ... 12/14/06 - 20060282698 - Method and device for operating a secondary operating system auxiliary to a primary operating system For operating two operating systems of a computer without performance loss, the invention proposes a method in which a secondary operating system driver (SOS driver) of the primary operating system is loaded for loading and controlling the secondary operating system and which subsequently loads the secondary operating system. The invention ... 12/07/06 - 20060277429 - Handling restart attempts for high availability managed resources Techniques are provided for managing a resource in a High Availability (HA) system. The techniques involve incrementing a count when a particular type of remedial action is performed on a resource, so that the count that reflects how often the particular type of remedial action has been performed for the ... 11/30/06 - 20060271814 - Method for highly available transaction recovery for transaction processing systems A highly available transaction recovery service migration system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention implements a server's Transaction Recovery Service (TRS) as a migratable service. In one embodiment of the present invention, the TRS is a server instance or software module implemented in JAVA. The TRS migrates ... 11/30/06 - 20060271813 - Systems and methods for message handling among redunant application servers Systems and methods for messaging handling among redundant application servers are described. A method of providing application synchronization among a plurality of servers in an VoIP network environment includes pausing execution of an application on a standby server when the standby server encounters a checkpoint in the application and receiving ... 11/30/06 - 20060271812 - Systems and methods for providing redundant application servers Systems and methods for providing redundant application servers are described. A method of providing application server redundancy in a VoIP environment includes, receiving, at a standby server, application layer and signaling layer state information related to an active server and configuring the standby server to have substantially the same application ... 11/30/06 - 20060271811 - Systems and methods for a fault tolerant voice-over-internet protocol (voip) architecture Systems and method for providing application layer fault tolerance in a VoIP architecture is shown and described. The method includes associating a virtual network address with one of a first communication device and second communication device, receiving a message from a network element, detecting a fault on an active one ... 11/30/06 - 20060271810 - Backup control system and method A backup control system and method includes at least two system control modules and a power supply unit. The system control modules automatically detect the operating conditions of one another according to a determined logic of a backup control method. In the event that one system control module malfunctions, the ... 11/16/06 - 20060259810 - Disk controller system A disk controller system is provided which has a plurality of disk controller clusters connected with one another. The disk controller cluster provides an in-cluster resource availability monitor for monitoring resource availability in the cluster itself. Further, an in-system resource availability monitor is provided for monitoring resource availability of said ... 11/16/06 - 20060259809 - Automated client device management Automated client device management techniques are described. In an implementation, a method is described which includes collecting heuristic data from a plurality of client device over a network. The heuristic data describes a plurality of health considerations that include reliability, performance and security of the plurality of client devices. The ... 11/09/06 - 20060253728 - Server switchover in data transmissions in real time A method of backing up data streams coming from a single source via different transmission channels including at least a first server and a second server and a filter for transmission in real time of a single data stream from said first server to a customer station, includes detecting an ... 11/09/06 - 20060253727 - Fault tolerant computer system A fault-tolerant computer system includes at least two servers, each of which is configured to perform a first set of operations. Each of the two servers communicate with a computer that does not perform the first set of operations. In the event of a failure of a component of the ... 11/09/06 - 20060253726 - Fault-tolerant architecture for a distributed control system A fault-tolerant architecture, comprising fault tolerant units, a wire-based communication bus, and respective radio transceivers is offered. The fault-tolerant units communicate using the radio transceivers when communication via the wire-based communication bus is compromised by a fault. The intent is to enhance reliability and fault-tolerance of a distributed system architecture, ... 11/09/06 - 20060253725 - Method and apparatus for expressing high availability cluster demand based on probability of breach A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for expressing high availability (H/A) cluster demand based on probability of breach. When a failover occurs in the H/A cluster, event messages are sent to a provisioning manager server. The mechanism of embodiments of the present invention filters the event messages and ... 11/02/06 - 20060248377 - Packet processing switch and methods of operation thereof A packet switching integrated circuit chip is configured to receive packets, e.g., RapidIO™-compliant packets, from a plurality of external sources, and selectively passes data in the received packets to a plurality of external recipients. The chip is configured to pass first received packets without modification and to terminate second received ... 11/02/06 - 20060248376 - Packet processing switch and methods of operation thereof A packet processing integrated circuit chip includes a plurality of input ports configured to receive packets from respective external sources and a plurality of output ports configured to transmit packets to respective external recipients. The chip further includes a packet processor configurable to extract data from payloads of the received ... 11/02/06 - 20060248375 - Packet processing switch and methods of operation thereof A packet processing integrated circuit chip includes a plurality of input ports configured to receive packets from respective external sources and a plurality of output ports configured to transmit packets to respective external recipients. The chip further includes a packet processor configured to process the received packets to generate new ... 11/02/06 - 20060248374 - Packet processing switch and methods of operation thereof A packet processing integrated circuit chip includes a plurality of input ports configured to receive packets from respective external sources and a plurality of output ports configured to transmit packets to respective external recipients. The chip further includes a packet processor configurable to process the received packets to generate new ... 11/02/06 - 20060248373 - Transport high availability Failover systems and methods for providing redundant backup of data transmitted over a network to provide transport high availability of electronic data. The present invention relates to creating redundant backup copies of electronic data as well as transmission of the backup copies over a network in the event of a ... 11/02/06 - 20060248372 - Intelligent resource provisioning based on on-demand weight calculation A method, apparatus, and computer program product in a data processing system for intelligent resource provisioning based on on-demand weight calculation. Resource weights are defined for an application cluster. If the application cluster requests a set of additional resources, an on-demand weight for each resource in a resource pool is ... 11/02/06 - 20060248371 - Method and apparatus for a common cluster model for configuring, managing, and operating different clustering technologies in a data center A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a common cluster model for configuring, managing, and operating different clustering technologies in a data center. The common cluster model supports peer cluster domains and management server cluster domains. Each cluster domain may have one or more cluster nodes. For each ... 11/02/06 - 20060248370 - Methods and apparatus using commutative error detection values for fault isolation in multiple node computers The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for performing fault isolation in multiple node computing systems using commutative error detection values—for example, checksums—to identify and to isolate faulty nodes. In the present invention nodes forming the multiple node computing system are networked together and during program execution communicate with one ... 11/02/06 - 20060248369 - Routing control method, router, and terminal When the routing function of router becomes disabled, a routing stop message is multicast to all terminals and another router in a LAN. If another router can provide the routing function, a routing start message is multicast to all terminals and the other router in the LAN. This method allows ... 10/26/06 - 20060242454 - Scalable method of continuous monitoring the remotely accessible resources against the node failures for very large clusters The notion of controlling, using and monitoring remote resources in a distributed data processing system through the use of proxy resource managers and agents is extended to provide failover capability so that resource coverage is preserved and maintained even in the event of either temporary or longer duration node failure. ... 10/26/06 - 20060242453 - System and method for managing hung cluster nodes A method of enforcing active-active cluster input/output fencing through out-of-band management network for hung cluster nodes is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of resetting a cluster node in a shared storage system includes identifying the cluster node from a plurality of cluster nodes ... 10/12/06 - 20060230305 - Retry request overload protection Retry request overload protection is described. A server system determines a client status based on retry requests received from the client. The client status may be used to determine whether to accept and/or process new retry requests received from the client and/or whether to transmit previously requested retry packets to ... 10/05/06 - 20060224913 - Token with relatively moving components and separator assembly thereof A token having a body member with an opening therein and is configured to translate across a support surface. The token includes a sensing object movable within the opening as the body member moves across the support surface. The sensing object can be freely mounted for rotation, or pivotally mounted ... 09/28/06 - 20060218431 - Image forming apparatus and communication data handling method therein The present invention aims at avoiding a hung-up in the case where a command is sent from a controller within a printer but there is no response to the command from the unit side within the printer, due to a faulty communication or the like, and also in the case ... 09/28/06 - 20060218430 - System and method for allocating transactions to a plurality of computing systems The invention provides a method for determining the allocation of a transaction cluster to a plurality of computing systems. For the plurality of computing systems there is obtained a baseline indicator of the time taken to execute a baseline transaction cluster. The allocation of transactions in the cluster is modified ... 09/21/06 - 20060212742 - Prompt backup/recovery system and methods regarding the same A backup/recovery system and methodology that provides seamless networking. According to the invention, backup/recovery system is suitable for a network. The backup/recovery system includes a server part and at least one client part for storing at least one incremental recovery point. The at least one client part sends at least ... 09/21/06 - 20060212741 - Implementing a test regime for a network based telephony systems A process of implementing a test plan for an IP-based telephony network. The process consists initially of installing a system test module as an integral component of the network-based system, whereby test procedures originate within the network-based system, employing system resources rather than outside components to accomplish testing. Further steps ... 09/21/06 - 20060212740 - virtual private cluster The present invention provides a system, method and computer-readable media for generating virtual private clusters out of a group of compute resources. Typically, the group of compute resources involves a group of clusters independently administered. The method provides for aggregating the group of compute resources, partitioning the aggregated group of ... 09/14/06 - 20060206749 - Network device and method of operation A network device to maintain resource management within a network may comprise an emulator or watchdog that may send an emulation request to a resource manager for emulating a request of a client. Operability of the resource manager may be identified based on a reply of the resource manager to ... 09/14/06 - 20060206748 - Backup system for digital surveillance system The present invention relates to a backup system for digital surveillance system comprising video cameras, main server(s), networking facilities, a data-switching system, management server(s), backup server(s) and a central control station of an existing surveillance system, wherein a plurality of the video cameras connect to the main server(s); the microprocessor(s) ... 09/14/06 - 20060206747 - Computer system and data backup method in computer system A data intermediate server 300 comprises the functions of reading data stored in storage servers ST1 through ST3 and sending the data to a media server 600 according to backup commands received from a backup control device 400 over a local area network LAN4. The data intermediate server 300 and ... 09/07/06 - 20060200695 - System and method for re-routing failed video calls A system and method for re-routing a failed video call schedules one or more reserve video devices for use in the event of failure of the video devices selected to support a video call. Upon detection of a failure of a video device, the video network platform re-establishes the video ... 08/31/06 - 20060195715 - System and method for migrating virtual machines on cluster systems In one embodiment, a method comprises executing a plurality of virtual machines on a plurality of nodes of a cluster computing system, wherein at least one application is executed within each of the plurality of virtual machines, generating data that is related to performance of applications in the virtual machines, ... 08/24/06 - 20060190760 - System and method for failover A node 1 and a node 2 are in a mutual failover relationship and share information used in failover through a shared LU. Of filesystems FS1A, FS1B that are mounted at the node 1, the actions of level 1 are allocated to FS1A and the actions of level 2 are ... 08/24/06 - 20060190759 - Processing apparatus A processing apparatus includes a plurality of operation units each of which performs a given operation for an input operand in accordance with an operating instruction and outputs an exception flag when a result of the operation is false, a first network which connects the storage unit which stores the ... 08/17/06 - 20060184819 - Cluster computer middleware, cluster computer simulator, cluster computer application, and application development supporting method A “session” is used to describe states of cluster computer middleware. The “session” is a sequence of coherent processes and satisfies the following two conditions. (a) A notification is issued to an application each time the session starts or terminates. (b) Two sessions maintain any of anteroposterior relation, inclusion relation, ... 08/17/06 - 20060184818 - Product information providing apparatus and method A product information providing apparatus for providing, via a network, product information for supporting operations of a product, comprises an electronic product information storage that stores electronic product information which contains a group of hicrarchized files having a file format browsable through a Web browser; a table holder that holds ... 08/10/06 - 20060179342 - Service aggregation in cluster monitoring system with content-based event routing A node manager (300) resides on a node (104) in a cluster computing system (100) and transfers information and events being communicated across the node (104) to a broker (102) coupled to the node manager (300). The broker (102) transmits information to client devices (106) who subscribe to particular events. ... 08/10/06 - 20060179341 - Method of clearing an hvac control fault code memory A method of clearing an HVAC control fault code memory is disclosed. The method includes assigning a predetermined reset code to an HVAC control system, the predetermined reset code comprising a plurality of control signals receivable by the HVAC control system, detecting control signals at the HVAC control system, determining ... 08/10/06 - 20060179340 - System and method for detecting a faulty object in a system A method (and system) for detecting at least one faulty object in a system including a plurality of objects in communication with each other in an n-dimensional architecture, includes probing a first plane of objects in the n-dimensional architecture and probing at least one other plane of objects in the ... 08/03/06 - 20060174154 - Method and system for communicating predicted network behavior between interconnected networks A method of communicating predicted network behavior includes generating network topology structure data describing at least part of a topology of a first network. Demand structure data is generated, the demand structure data describing at least some traffic demands relating to a source in the first network and a destination ... 07/27/06 - 20060168467 - Load testing methods and systems with transaction variability and consistency Disclosed are load testing methods and systems with transaction variability and consistency. ... 07/20/06 - 20060161802 - Backup/recovery system and methods regarding the same A network backup/recovery system is provided which can furnish backup service and/or recovery service via a network, which can minimize time consumption and cost. The network backup/recovery system comprises a management unit for managing at least one client and a processing unit for providing the backup/restore service and transmitting the ... 07/20/06 - 20060161801 - Secured web based access of failed flows in an integration server A method for accessing failed events in an integrated server environment is disclosed. The method comprises providing a thin client in an application server within the environment, wherein the thin client provides role-based access to a failed event, and wherein the role-based access is based upon a user's ability to ... 07/20/06 - 20060161800 - System and method for error reporting A system and method are provided for reporting errors in an object-oriented software architecture environment. The method comprises: an application calling an initial method; in response to the initial method call, at least one object encountering an error in response to a subsequent method call; accumulating error information; and, creating ... 07/13/06 - 20060156055 - Storage network that includes an arbiter for managing access to storage resources A cluster network is disclosed that includes a set of nodes coupled to a storage enclosure. The storage enclosure includes an arbiter for managing contention for ownership of the storage drives of the storage enclosure. The arbiter receives ownership commands and arbitrates the ownership of the storage drives on the ... 07/13/06 - 20060156054 - Milarrs systems and methods An add-on module provides extrinsic management functionality to legacy and other devices. Contemplated modules include: (a) a state agent that provides at least one of the MILARRS function, and (b) a product agent that communicates with the device using at least one serial interface. Implementations are contemplated for both legacy ... 07/13/06 - 20060156053 - A ground-based software tool for controlling redundancy management switching operations Systems, methods, and computer program products for easily altering redundancy management data values associated with redundancy management logic that is executed by redundant data processing systems. The redundancy management data values are altered on a computer device remote from the system that includes the redundant data processing systems. ... 07/06/06 - 20060149994 - Data replication for redundant network components In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method for replicating data for redundant network components is disclosed. Data associated with a call is received and stored in a shared memory database. The data is sent to a mate network component of the network component if the network component ... 07/06/06 - 20060149993 - Method for event triggered monitoring of managed server health A Node Manager monitors the status of multiple servers. The Node Manager detects server failures, periodically monitors server health status, and performs server maintenance. When the Node Manager detects a server failure, it determines whether or not the server should be restarted. While periodically monitoring servers, the Node Manager may ... 07/06/06 - 20060149992 - Abnormality diagnosis system In an abnormality diagnosis system of the invention where multiple devices and a server S are interconnected via a network, a communication failure may occur between the server S and one device (diagnosis object printer P1) among the multiple devices. On the occurrence of the communication failure, the server S ... 06/29/06 - 20060143499 - Flow scheduling for network application A method and system for distributing flows between a multiple processors. The flows can be received from an external source such as a network, by a front-end processor that recognizes the flow and the associated request, and identifies at least one internal applications processor to process the request/flow. The front-end ... 06/29/06 - 20060143498 - Fail over method through disk take over and computer system having fail over function When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the primary server to a ... 06/29/06 - 20060143497 - System, method and circuit for mirroring data Disclosed is a system, method and circuit for mirroring data on a data server. According to some embodiments of the present invention, a primary mirroring module associated with a primary server may be adapted to establish data mirroring connections between the primary server and both a primary slave mirroring module ... 06/29/06 - 20060143496 - System and method for problem resolution in communications networks A system and method is provided for using network asset management data including attributes such as device type, location, and link speed for modeling network performance and identifying performance issues. Functionally complete mathematical characterization of a system may be employed in order to create a system for problem recognition and ... 06/29/06 - 20060143495 - Workload balancing in environments with multiple clusters of application servers Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for workload balancing in environments with multiple clusters of servers. A process for sharing resources from a pool of servers among a first cluster of servers and a second cluster of servers includes determining a current workload of the first cluster and determining ... 06/29/06 - 20060143494 - Fault tolerant systems According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of storing context information in an outgoing message sent from a node using a protocol stack having at least one layer, comprising: selectively indicating to a layer of the protocol stack that context information should be obtained ... 06/29/06 - 20060143493 - Computer network with diagnosis computer nodes The invention relates to a computer network for configuration, installation, monitoring, error-diagnosis and/or analysis of several physical technical processes, in particular electrical drive processes, which occur under the control, regulation and/or monitoring of several process computer nodes, connected by means of at least one common communication system to at least ... 06/22/06 - 20060136774 - Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance A remote maintenance system is comprised of: a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility; and a monitoring center computer for using maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring center computer includes: a database for storing CAD data for the ... 06/15/06 - 20060129872 - Apparatus for highly available transaction recovery for transaction processing systems A highly available transaction recovery service migration system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention implements a server's Transaction Recovery Service (TRS) as a migratable service. In one embodiment of the present invention, the TRS is a server instance or software module implemented in JAVA. The TRS migrates ... 06/08/06 - 20060123267 - Monitoring the state of a communications network An interface element is adapted to interface with a communications network and includes a monitor to monitor the state of the network, and a method of using the interface element. The monitor may monitor the state of the network by monitoring the state of a link or component of the ... 06/01/06 - 20060117212 - Failover processing in a storage system Failover processing in storage server system utilizes policies for managing fault tolerance (FT) and high availability (HA) configurations. The approach encapsulates the knowledge of failover recovery between components within a storage server and between storage server systems. This knowledge includes information about what components are participating in a Failover Set, ... 06/01/06 - 20060117211 - Fail-over storage system A storage system 1 including multiple slots for loading a block I/O interface controller, a file I/O interface controller, and any other kinds of interface controllers that are combined freely. The storage system 1 includes a management table that manages fail-over-enabled devices by grouping those devices in accordance with the ... 06/01/06 - 20060117210 - Method for automatically overcoming a failure in an eml server and computer product adapted to perform such a method Disclosed is a method for automatically overcoming a failure or an error in an EML server, the method comprising the steps of: identifying one or more Units in said EML server; identifying, for each of said Units, one or more sub-components; providing an error collector; providing an error supervisor; defining ... 06/01/06 - 20060117209 - Repair system A repair system is disclosed comprising: a server having a repair manager; a client device having a repair agent; and a network, wherein the server and the client device are connected to the network. The repair agent, in response to a repair signal, is operable to restrict communication of the ... 06/01/06 - 20060117208 - On-demand instantiation in a high-performance computing (hpc) system In one embodiment, a method for on-demand instantiation in a high-performance computing (HPC) system includes receiving a connection request from a client specifying a first port number and a first host name advertised externally with respect to an HPC server including a cluster of nodes, identifying a service at the ... 06/01/06 - 20060117207 - Multi-image hardware access system A computer system includes a communication adapter that connects a plurality of virtualized servers to one or more support system devices. The communication adapter includes a master lock register, a processing device, a queue, and a multitude of adapter access registers. Upon initialization, a virtual server asserts ownership over the ... 05/18/06 - 20060107088 - Apparatus for managing a device, program for managing a device, storage medium on which a program for managing a device is stored, and method of managing a device A remote site managing system manages, in a unified fashion, computers and peripheral devices installed at a customer site. The remote site managing system automatically receives information indicating a failure which has occurred or indicating a high possibility that a failure will occur in some of PC/servers or peripheral devices ... 05/18/06 - 20060107087 - System for optimizing server use in a data center A system and method for analyzing the usage of servers and their associated applications and providing suggestions on how to best make use of the resources of the servers. Numerous forms of analysis are utilized to provide suggestions to a user for efficient use of the servers. Should a suggestion ... 05/18/06 - 20060107086 - Method and system for network fault analysis A method and system for locating a fault in a network. According to the system, an address analyzer and interface analyzer of a network manager of the network detect that there is a failure associated with a node of the network, a node analyzer of the network manager determines if ... 04/27/06 - 20060090096 - Concept of zero network element mirroring and disaster restoration process There is provided a system and method of disaster restoration of service of damaged or destroyed telecommunication network elements. A controller component is configured to select a damaged or destroyed network element after a disaster event. An engine component is configured to establish connectivity to an alternative network element and ... 04/27/06 - 20060090095 - Consistent cluster operational data in a server cluster using a quorum of replicas A method and system for increasing server cluster availability by requiring at a minimum only one node and a quorum replica set of replica members to form and operate a cluster. Replica members maintain cluster operational data. A cluster operates when one node possesses a majority of replica members, which ... 04/27/06 - 20060090094 - Real-time fail-over recovery for a media area network A media area network includes a storage system having at least one storage device for storing digitized information. A host bus adapter provides a link between the storage system and a host system that provides overall control of the media area network. Within the host bus adapter, a lower-level port ... 04/27/06 - 20060090093 - Trouble shooting and updating electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes an Ethernet interface for connecting the apparatus to a network; means for assigning an IP address to the apparatus for use by the apparatus to initiate communication with a TCP/IP server in the network having means for diagnosing and/or aligning the electronic appliance; and means for ... 04/20/06 - 20060085669 - System and method for supporting automatic protection switching between multiple node pairs using common agent architecture An apparatus and method for a computer system is used for implementing an extended distributed recovery block fault tolerance scheme. The computer system includes a supervisory node, an active node and a standby node. Each of the nodes has a primary routine, an alternate routine and an acceptance test for ... 04/20/06 - 20060085668 - Method and apparatus for configuring, monitoring and/or managing resource groups In one embodiment, methods and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a virtual machine in a resource group. In another embodiment, a method and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a resource group in accordance with a relocation policy that authorizes relocation of a resource from one cluster to another. In a ... 04/20/06 - 20060085667 - Access log analyzer and access log analyzing method An access log analyzer extracts significant information from an enormous amount of data of access logs of a Web server so as to appropriately display the result of analysis. The access log analyzer includes an FTP module for acquiring a log from a server to be analyzed, a pre-formatting module ... 04/13/06 - 20060080569 - Fail-over cluster with load-balancing capability A solution for distributing the workload across the servers (105) in a fail-over cluster (for example, based on the MSCS) is proposed. A fail-over cluster is aimed at providing high availability; for this purpose, a resource service (205) automatically moves each resource (220) that exhibits some sort of failure to ... 04/13/06 - 20060080568 - Failover scopes for nodes of a computer cluster A failover scope comprises a node collection in a computer cluster. A resource group (e.g., application program) is associated with one or more failover scopes. If a node fails, its hosted resource groups only failover to nodes identified in each resource group's associated failover scope(s), beginning with a first associated ... 04/13/06 - 20060080567 - Grid computing power mode systems and methods A grid power mode is defined such that, when the PC is in a grid power mode, pressing the power switch of the PC retains power to the system, but restores operation of the PC to the ‘on/off/standby’ mode the user expects. Other aspects include: an indicator telling the user ... 04/06/06 - 20060075279 - Techniques for upstream failure detection and failure recovery The content provider provides content to the first data center, which then provides the content to the client. The client determines that a failure between content provider and the first data center may have occurred. When the client determines that a failure may have occurred, the client may connect to ... 04/06/06 - 20060075278 - Method of forming virtual computer cluster within shared computing environment An embodiment of a method of forming a virtual computer cluster within a shared computing environment begins with a step of placing gatekeeper software on each of a plurality of particular host computers of the shared computing environment. The method continues with a step of assigning computing platforms located on ... 04/06/06 - 20060075277 - Maintaining correct transaction results when transaction management configurations change The present invention extends to methods, systems, data structures, and computer program products for maintaining correct transaction results when transaction management configurations change. An intermediate transaction manager is transparently interposed between one or more resource managers and a plurality of transaction managers. The intermediate transaction manager multiplexes and intercepts calls ... 04/06/06 - 20060075276 - Self-monitoring and updating of firmware over a network Embodiments include monitoring a computing system to determine whether firmware of the computing system is corrupted, hung up, or requires automatic update. The computing system may then request firmware update data over a network. Moreover, the computing system may include a controller with capability to determine whether the firmware is ... 04/06/06 - 20060075275 - Approach for characterizing the dynamic availability behavior of network elements An approach is provided for characterizing the dynamic availability behavior of network elements using metrics that indicate patterns of availability of a network element over time. The metrics provide an indication of stability and instability of a network element and include one stability metric and three instability metrics. The stability ... 03/30/06 - 20060069942 - Data processing system and method Embodiments of the present invention relate to a data processing system and method and, in particular, to a distributed computing system and method that uses a globally distributed data structure comprising an indication of local state information associated with at least some of the processes constituting a distributed algorithm in ... 03/30/06 - 20060069941 - Embedded system with reduced susceptibility to single event upset effects An embedded system with reduced susceptibility to single event upset effects. The system includes an instruction memory that can store at least one instruction set. The instruction memory utilizes a parity checking error-detection scheme. The system also includes a non-volatile memory that can store a copy of the at least ... 03/09/06 - 20060053337 - High-availability cluster with proactive maintenance One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of preventative maintenance of a high-availability cluster. A least-recently-tested active node is determined. The least-recently-tested active node is swapped out from the HA cluster, and a stand-by node is swapped into the HA cluster. Other embodiments are also disclosed. ... 03/09/06 - 20060053336 - High-availability cluster node removal and communication One embodiment disclosed relates to a high-availability cluster apparatus having a plurality of computing nodes and a hardware interface configured to connect to each of said nodes. The internode connections are coupled to the hardware interface to communicate node status signals between said nodes. A node is removable from being ... 03/09/06 - 20060053335 - Diagnostic tool with ethernet capability Ethernet capability of a device under test is tested. A diagnostic tool is connected to the device under test. Menus displayed by the diagnostic tool are used to select an Ethernet test. The diagnostic tool discovers network settings of the device under test. Then the diagnostic tool configures an Ethernet ... 03/02/06 - 20060047997 - Systems and methods for event driven recovery management The present invention provides an exemplary system and method for event driven recovery management. One or more data blocks that are generated from a computing device are continually copied. At least one event marker is associated with the copies of the one or more data blocks. Access to the copies ... 02/23/06 - 20060041779 - Method and apparatus for using a serial cable as a cluster quorum device A method for obtaining a quorum vote by a first node using a quorum cable, wherein the quorum cable comprises a first end connected to the first node and a second end connected to a second node, including determining whether the quorum cable is reserved by the second node using ... 02/23/06 - 20060041778 - Method and apparatus for using a usb cable as a cluster quorum device A method for obtaining a quorum vote by a first node using a Universal Serial Bus (USB) quorum cable, wherein the USB quorum cable comprises a first end connected to a first node and a second end connected to a second node, including determining whether the USB quorum cable is ... 02/16/06 - 20060036896 - Method and system for consistent cluster operational data in a server cluster using a quorum of replicas A method and system for increasing server cluster availability by requiring at a minimum only one node and a quorum replica set of replica members to form and operate a cluster. Replica members, independent from the nodes, maintain cluster operational data. A cluster operates when one node possesses a majority ... 02/16/06 - 20060036895 - Combined computer backup, disaster recovery and migration in a shared environment Computer tools and methods novelly combine periodic backup and restore features with migration features to transfer the components of a failed system to a new system, which new system may be dissimilar to the old system. As well as backing up and transferring critical data files during the disaster recovery ... 02/16/06 - 20060036894 - Cluster resource license A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive a license to a number of resources in a cluster. The licensed resources may be activated and deactivated at any computer system in the cluster, so long as the number of active resources in the cluster is less ... 02/16/06 - 20060036893 - Method and system for debugging ethernet A system is disclosed and claimed for debugging Ethernet adapters and Ethernet adapter device drivers by automatically monitoring Ethernet adapter functionality and automatically turning on debug traces upon detecting incorrect Ethernet adapter functionality. An embodiment maintains a counter representing the number of incorrect Ethernet adapter functionality events minus the number ... 02/16/06 - 20060036892 - Apparatus and method for establishing tunnel routes to protect paths established in a data network A computer readable storage medium containing a program element for execution by a computing device in a network having a plurality of linked nodes, wherein paths for conveying data traffic are defined in the network, each path traversing an ordered set of nodes from among the plurality of nodes. The ... 02/09/06 - 20060031707 - Notification method and apparatus in a data processing system A method of, apparatus for, or storage device medium having instructions for publishing a first notification within a data processing system where the data processing system comprises a first source generating the first notification, a first destination device, and a second destination device. The source may be a storage unit, ... 02/02/06 - 20060026453 - Method and system for managing electronic systems The system and method of the present invention apply information filters (83A) hierarchically to information (14) such as, for example, alerts/events generated by an operational electronic system (10). Further, the system and method can display the results of the application of the information filters (83A) to information (14). ... 01/26/06 - 20060020847 - Method for performing services in a telecommunication network, and telecommunication network and network nodes for this The invention relates to a method for performing a service or application in a network environment with network elements, which network environment contains a telecommunication network that has at least two network nodes for performing services or applications, all these nodes being equipped with a common layer for service support, ... 01/19/06 - 20060015765 - Method for synchronizing a distributed system The invention relates to a method for synchronizing components of a distributed system. The system status is represented by at least one object which is provided in all components. A change of the status of the object in one of the components is signalled to all other components by means ... 01/19/06 - 20060015764 - Transparent service provider A service appliance is installed between production servers running service applications and service users. The production servers and their service applications provide services to the service users. The service appliance replicates the service data of service applications and monitors the service application. If the service appliance detects that the service ... 01/19/06 - 20060015763 - Real-time web sharing system The customer presses the Connect button (2240) on the customer terminal (1230). By this, a connection request to an operator terminal is notified to an operator terminal (1210) via the push sharing server (2100). On receiving this notification, the operator terminal (1210) changes the Respond button (2310) to the Incoming ... 01/12/06 - 20060010338 - Cascading failover of a data management application for shared disk file systems in loosely coupled node clusters Disclosed is a mechanism for handling failover of a data management application for a shared disk file system in a distributed computing environment having a cluster of loosely coupled nodes which provide services. According to the mechanism, certain nodes of the cluster are defined as failover candidate nodes. Configuration information ... 01/12/06 - 20060010337 - Management system and management method A management system comprises an event monitoring unit configured to detect an event, a dependency extracting unit configured to extract a dependency regarding the event, a storage unit in which the event and the dependency are stored, an updating unit configured to update the event and the dependency stored in ... 01/12/06 - 20060010336 - Connection apparatus and method for network testers and analysers Connection apparatus for a network tester or analyser comprises at least two network connection devices for connecting the apparatus to a network and at least two solid state switches. Each connection device is constructed and arranged to output serial electrical signals corresponding to signals received from a network to which ... 01/05/06 - 20060005067 - Systems, devices, and methods for generating and processing application test data Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a data generator system and method that comprises generating an executable procedure from a template comprising a structure. The system and method comprises processing the executable procedure to generate a plurality of data items. The system and method comprises automatically outputting the plurality of data items ... 01/05/06 - 20060005066 - Mechanism for improving accessibility of jmx monitoring information in web content System, method and computer program product for monitoring the status of components in a data processing system that improves the accessibility of JMX monitoring information in web content. The system includes a mechanism for acquiring a text representation of component status for display as ALT and TITLE content associated with ... 01/05/06 - 20060005065 - Network analyzer, network analyzing method, automatic corrector, correcting method, program, and recording medium The error of a measurement system can be corrected even if the frequency of an input signal of a device under test is different from that of the output signal. A signal output acquiring section acquires the power of the input signal by means of a power meter not shown ... 12/29/05 - 20050289384 - Apparatus and method for controlling the delivery of an event message in a cluster system An apparatus and a method for controlling the delivery of an event message of an event in a cluster system is provided. The apparatus delivers a received event message to the receivers registered for the event message in a specific order. The specific order is determined by a sequence number ... 12/22/05 - 20050283645 - Arrangement for recovery of data by network nodes based on retrieval of encoded data distributed among the network nodes Distributed data, having been stored in a distributed storage system as a collection of distributed data elements, is recovered based on connection of multiple user nodes, each user node having stored selected distributed data elements as a corresponding portion of the distributed data during replication of the distributed data elements ... 12/22/05 - 20050283644 - Efficient changing of replica sets in distributed fault-tolerant computing system A distributed computing system can be operated in a fault tolerant manner using a set of computing devices. A set of computing devices can tolerate a number of failures by implementing identical replicas of a state machine and selecting proposals. The set of computing devices participating in the distributed computing ... 12/22/05 - 20050283643 - Method and system for self-healing in routers A method and system for self-healing of routers within a distributed computer network. In response to a detected communication error at a local router over a primary communication path to a distant router, an alternate path is established. Thereafter, a diagnostic process is initiated in the distant router via the ... 12/22/05 - 20050283642 - Decoupling alert generation from recipient determination Techniques for alert handling are described that enable a separation of the generation of an alert from the determination of the recipient or party responsible for the alert. One aspect of the techniques is having an alert mechanism read a responsibility data store that associates a type of alert with ... 12/22/05 - 20050283641 - Apparatus, system, and method for verified fencing of a rogue node within a cluster An apparatus, system, and method are provided for verified fencing of a rogue node within a cluster. The apparatus may include an identification module, a shutdown module, and a confirmation module. The identification module detects a cluster partition and identifies a rogue node with a cluster. The shutdown module sends ... 12/22/05 - 20050283640 - Polled automatic virus fix A client computer is connected via a network to an anti-virus server and polls the server for indication that an anti-virus needs to be immediately downloaded from the anti-virus server. The client computer disengages from the network, and re-establishes a link with only the trusted anti-virus server. The anti-virus fix ... 12/22/05 - 20050283639 - Path analysis tool and method in a data transmission network including several internet autonomous systems Method for performing the analysis of the characteristics of a data path from a first data processing device to a second data processing device through a network comprising at least an autonomous system consisting in defining a scenario file the scenario to be used, such a scenario including the actions ... 12/15/05 - 20050278564 - 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 disconnected, a list of devices that are disabled is determined and recorded for the disconnected loop, and the ... 12/15/05 - 20050278563 - Notifying remote administrator of platform integrity determination Method and Apparatuses for determining integrity of a platform and notifying a remote system. In one embodiment a verification agent accesses a portion of a memory on the platform at initialization of the platform to determine if the data has been compromised or corrupted. The verification agent causes the information ... 12/15/05 - 20050278562 - System and method for capturing significant events at web portlets System and method for logging significant events occurring at a web site portal includes a base class portlet service including a significant event catcher method having a register method and a record method, a portlet action table, and an action description table. The register method is called during portlet initialization ... 12/08/05 - 20050273645 - Recovery from fallures in a computing environment Methods for recovery from server-failures wherein servers control a communication initiator's access to a set of resources. A probable server failure leads to a communication initiator performing a discovery operation to identify available servers capable of accessing a required resource. A server checks whether any of the servers has failed. ... 12/01/05 - 20050268156 - Failover system and method for cluster environment A failover method and system is provided for a computer system having at least three nodes operating as a cluster. One method includes the steps of detecting failure of one node, determining the weight of at least two surviving nodes, and assigning a failover node based on the determined weights ... 12/01/05 - 20050268155 - Failover system and method for cluster environment A failover method and system is provided for a computer system having at least three nodes operating as a cluster. One method includes the steps of detecting failure of one node, determining the weight of at least two surviving nodes, and assigning a failover node based on the determined weights ... 12/01/05 - 20050268154 - Method for detecting and resolving a partition condition in a cluster A method for detecting and resolving a partition condition in a cluster of computers in a networked environment is described. In one example, the method includes creating a scratch pad area and dividing the scratch pad into slots. Each slot is associated with a node within the cluster. A generation ... 12/01/05 - 20050268153 - Method of solving a split-brain condition In a cluster system comprising at least two nodes connected via a communication network and having a name and a host weight assigned to it, a method is implemented comprising the steps of inspecting the communication link, determining which node has to be shut down after a failure, creating an ... 12/01/05 - 20050268152 - Method of managing a storage area network A host group which uses a specific port as a data transfer path is retrieved to be detected from data transfer paths of respective hosts, and then such a report of an I/O conflict is generated in which only performance data of the retrieved host group is extracted. As a ... 12/01/05 - 20050268151 - System and method for maximizing connectivity during network failures in a cluster system An apparatus, method, and system are directed to maximizing network connectivity after a network failure in a network clustering system. A cluster master in a cluster is configured to manage membership to the cluster based, in part, on a connectivity of the members to adjacent networks. A network device sends ... 12/01/05 - 20050268150 - Routing method and network element The present invention relates to a method and network system for direct routing of the user plane of a call between two network terminals attached to a first and a second access network, respectively. After establishing the call, the transmission path for user data is changed such that it only ... 11/24/05 - 20050262383 - Network-based system for configuring a system using software programs generated based on a user specification A system and method for online configuration of a measurement system. The user may access a server over a network and specify a desired task, e.g., a measurement task, and receive programs and/or configuration information which are usable to configure the user's measurement system hardware (and/or software) to perform the ... 11/24/05 - 20050262382 - Scalable, software-based quorum architecture A cluster of computers typically establishes a quorum, i.e., a software method for establishing agreement, to coordinate access to shared resources, such as a shared data store, in applications that must recover from the failure of one or more computers or their associated components. Prior art which associates a single ... 11/24/05 - 20050262381 - System and method for highly available data processing in cluster system Even if business processing is transaction, a standby-type cluster system copes with double faults in a short time while holding down the standby computer cost to the minimum. An execution server monitoring thread in a standby server periodically monitors an operation state of an execution server. Upon detecting time-out as ... 11/24/05 - 20050262380 - Server's function board maintenance A method, a management node and a server for maintaining the server, which comprises a plurality of function boards, comprising steps and capabilities for receiving at the server a shutdown request comprising an identifier of at least one function board from the plurality of function boards, prior to executing the ... 11/24/05 - 20050262379 - Forestalling long time-outs in processes The present invention relates to methods, devices, systems and computer program products which avoid long time-outs in processes run on two or more computers. A first computer (10) comprises an application unit (16) performing computational tasks, and a status determining unit (20) connected to the application unit. The status determining ... 11/17/05 - 20050257079 - System for the creation of a supercomputer using the cpu of the computers connected to internet A system permitting the creation of a supercomputer using the connection of the computers to the Internet network and, through it, to a central server, where a program is installed in order to connect possible sellers with possible buyers of CPU of computers, so that sellers can make their offer ... 11/10/05 - 20050251702 - Device and method for autonomous prediction network analysis The invention concerns a method for testing and predicting the behaviour of a computer network. Said method consists in; a) storing a representation of the network, including routers, and a use configuration of the network including traffic classes each associated with sources; b) on the basis of the initial conditions ... 11/03/05 - 20050246570 - Dynamic modification of fragmentation size cluster communication parameter in clustered computer system An apparatus, program product and method support the dynamic modification of cluster communication parameters such as a fragmentation size parameter through controllably deferring the processing of a requested fragmentation size change in a source node until after receipt an acknowledgment message for at least one unacknowledged message sent by the ... 11/03/05 - 20050246569 - System and method for detecting and managing hpc node failure A method for managing HPC node failure includes determining that one of a plurality of HPC nodes has failed, with each HPC node comprising an integrated fabric. The failed node is then removed from a virtual list of HPC nodes, with the virtual list comprising one logical entry for each ... 10/27/05 - 20050240800 - Computer system, control apparatus, storage system and computer device A computer system which enables more efficient use of a storage system shared by plural host computers and optimizes the performance of the whole system including the host computers and storages. A computer device has a first control block which logically partitions computing resources of the computer device and makes ... 10/27/05 - 20050240799 - Method of network qualification and testing A method of network qualification and validation is presented. The network qualification and validation method is performed to meet various government and regulatory standards. In one embodiment, networks associated with regulated environments are defined. The networks are defined based on the applications running on the network. A series of methodologies ... 10/27/05 - 20050240798 - System and method of preventing a web browser plug-in module from generating a failure The present invention improves the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source ... 10/27/05 - 20050240797 - Restoration mechanism for network topologies A method of restoring a failure in a network topology. A first node is provided that has a first access link connected to a first port group of a first customer and a first network link connected to a first active router. A second node has a first access link ... 10/13/05 - 20050229028 - System and method for communicating a software-generated pulse waveform between two servers in a network A method of monitoring a status condition of a first server with a second server in a server network, and also providing synchronization and messaging between the two servers, the method including: transmitting a software-generated pulse waveform from the first server to a device coupled to the first server, wherein ... 10/13/05 - 20050229027 - System and method for communicating a software-generated pulse waveform between two servers in a network A method of monitoring a status condition of a first server with a second server in a server network, and also providing synchronization and messaging between the two servers, the method including: transmitting a software-generated pulse waveform from the first server to a device coupled to the first server, wherein ... 10/13/05 - 20050229026 - System and method for communicating a software-generated pulse waveform between two servers in a network A method of monitoring a status condition of a first server with a second server in a server network, and also providing synchronization and messaging between the two servers, the method including: transmitting a software-generated pulse waveform from the first server to a device coupled to the first server, wherein ... 10/13/05 - 20050229025 - System and method for communicating a software-generated pulse waveform between two servers in a network A method of monitoring a status condition of a first server with a second server in a server network, and also providing synchronization and messaging between the two servers, the method including: transmitting a software-generated pulse waveform from the first server to a device coupled to the first server, wherein ... 10/13/05 - 20050229024 - System and method for communicating a software-generated pulse waveform between two servers in a network A method of monitoring a status condition of a first server with a second server in a server network, and also providing synchronization and messaging between the two servers, the method including: transmitting a software-generated pulse waveform from the first server to a device coupled to the first server, wherein ... 10/13/05 - 20050229023 - Dual redundant data storage format and method Disclosed is a data storage architecture that provides data regeneration following the failure of two storage domains and that provides conversion for RAID-6 to RAID-5 or RAID-0 without moving or copying any data. A storage grid comprising at least eight domains and sixteen rows contains user data in a first ... 10/13/05 - 20050229022 - Data mirror cluster system, method and computer program for synchronizing data in data mirror cluster system Server apparatuses that configure a data mirror cluster system include databases, shared memories, and memory controllers, respectively. The server apparatuses are connected by interconnects and can directly access communication partner's shared memories via the memory controllers, respectively. One of the server apparatuses operates as an operation server apparatus and the ... 10/06/05 - 20050223264 - System and method providing high level network object performance information A method and apparatus displays time-based alert information for network objects in a summary view. In another embodiment, a method and apparatus displays time-based alert information in a topographical map display. In a further embodiment, a method and apparatus displays time-based alert information in a graphical display for one or ... 09/29/05 - 20050216786 - Data accumulation system The present invention provides a data accumulation system wherein data storage process is simplified by using a portable communication device such as a notebook type PC as a data storage device. The data accumulation system of the invention comprises a pen scanner 21 as a data output device, a notebook ... 09/29/05 - 20050216785 - Method and apparatus for estimating network troubles A method of estimating a trouble in a network is disclosed, including the following steps: displaying a model network in which the network is modeled by each combination of a network apparatus and a connection; inputting information of trouble portion in the model network and trouble symptom; registering at least ... 09/29/05 - 20050216784 - Method and system for providing information for remote device support A method and system gather information to facilitate the remote support of devices installed on a computer. For example, an exemplary method comprises first installing an information harvester and a formatter onto the computer. These are then used to identify and test the devices and to collect information about the ... 09/29/05 - 20050216783 - Method and system for efficient link recovery for fibre channel over sonet/sdh transport path A method and system for flow control of GFP-encapsulated Fibre Channel frames over SONET/SDH transport networks is described. Transport interfaces, in the form of port cards, monitor any switch-over or error in the SONET/SDH transport network responsive to GFP out of synchronization signals; and transmit Fibre Channel Ordered Sets indicative ... 09/22/05 - 20050210313 - Method and system of cataloging and detecting network faults A system (10) for cataloging and detecting network faults, includes a communication interface (12) for receiving a fault message from a network. A parser (14) is connected to the communication interface (12). The parser (14) parses the fault message for an event type. An associative database (16) is connected to ... 09/15/05 - 20050204184 - Distributed system and redundancy control method A distributed system using a quorum redundancy method in which a redundancy process is executed by at least Q processing elements of N processing elements communicable with each other, each of N processing elements includes a resynchronization determining unit for determining that an execution state of the processing element itself ... 09/15/05 - 20050204183 - System and method for failover A node 1 and a node 2 are in a mutual failover relationship and share information used in failover through a shared LU. Of filesystems FS1A, FS1B that are mounted at the node 1, the actions of level 1 are allocated to FS1A and the actions of level 2 are ... 09/15/05 - 20050204182 - Method and system for a service consumer to control applications that behave incorrectly when requesting services A dispute resolution system for requesting a service provider to provide services so that the service provider can demonstrate to a service intermediary that a service consumer requested services. A service consumer that wants to start requesting services of the service provider registers with the service intermediary an end code ... 09/15/05 - 20050204181 - System and method for information handling system multimedia mode boot optimization An information handling system selectively boots to a normal operation mode having devices and applications configured to operate normally or a multimedia operation mode having devices and applications that support presentation of multimedia information enabled and other devices and applications disabled. In one embodiment, the multimedia mode improves portable information ... 09/08/05 - 20050198552 - Failover method in a clustered computer system In a high available clustered computer system, a standby computer starts up takeover preparation procedures at a time when occurrence of a failure is watched in an active computer and failover procedures will be started up from the takeover preparation completion status when the failure is detected in the active ... 09/01/05 - 20050193229 - Apparatus and method for building distributed fault-tolerant/high-availability computer applications Software architecture for developing distributed fault-tolerant systems independent of the underlying hardware architecture and operating system. Systems built using architecture components are scalable and allow a set of computer applications to operate in fault-tolerant/high-availability mode, distributed processing mode, or many possible combinations of distributed and fault-tolerant modes in the same ... 09/01/05 - 20050193228 - Redundant path control apparatus and redundant path control method A host computer is connected to logical disks via controllers, and accesses the logical disks. When maintenance work is performed on a first controller, information indicating that the first controller is undergoing maintenance work is stored in the other controllers. When an access is made to a logical disk designating ... 09/01/05 - 20050193227 - Method for deciding server in occurrence of fault A method for deciding a destination server among a plurality of servers to which applications are migrated upon occurrence of a failure on one of the servers is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining required performance information of each of the applications when each of the plurality of ... 09/01/05 - 20050193226 - Method and apparatus for increasing fault tolerance for cross-layer communication in networks A method, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for providing a measure of fault tolerance and security in the operation of cross layer communication agents (CCA) in a hybrid network. Specifically, this method, apparatus and computer program provide the detection and control necessary to prevent network disruptions due to ... 08/25/05 - 20050188243 - Routing communications to a storage area network Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for routing communications to a storage area network (SAN). In one embodiment, the machine-readable media includes first program code to determine a route path through a gateway to a SAN for each of a plurality of addresses of an interface of a server. ... 08/25/05 - 20050188242 - Time constrained failure recovery in communication networks A network includes multiple nodes interconnected to form a mesh topology. These nodes support working paths for the transmission of data and protection paths to provide for recovery in the event of failures on working paths. To select protection paths, elements of the network consider timing constraints associated with failure ... 08/25/05 - 20050188241 - 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 according to the first protocol, it is determined whether or not the first source address is a substantial duplicate ... 08/25/05 - 20050188240 - Determination of related failure events in a multi-node system Systems and methods for determining related node failures in a multi-node system use log data obtained from the nodes. This log data is processed in various ways to indicate clusters of nodes that experience related failures. ... 08/11/05 - 20050177763 - System and method for improving network reliability A network management system for detecting and remedying malfunctions in network devices and methods for manufacturing and using same. The network management system can receive status signals from a network system having one or more network devices. The status signals provide information, such as an operational status and/or current performance ... 08/11/05 - 20050177762 - Method and system for efficiently failing over interfaces in a network A method and apparatus is directed towards managing fail-over in a network. At least one back-up device is configured to process traffic if a fail-over condition occurs. The back-up device includes a physical interface. A logical interface X associated with the physical interface is monitored to determine if the fail-over ... 08/11/05 - 20050177761 - Method for diagnosing an equipment to be controlled, diagnostic system, related intermediate server and communication module The communications module (1) associated with the equipment (2) to be inspected reads operating data concerning the equipment (2) to be inspected and forwards the data to a remote server (3, 5a, 5b, . . . , 5n), and the remote server (3, 5a, 5b, . . . , 5n) ... 08/04/05 - 20050172162 - Operation management method and operation management server A method is provided to point out which software program is causing a problem. Event records are collected from target objects being monitored. An event group is then produced by grouping the collected event records. The event group is compared with a plurality of pattern definition groups in terms of ... 08/04/05 - 20050172161 - 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 middleware stack comprising layers including a load balancer, a web server, a web application server, a message control ... 08/04/05 - 20050172160 - Method and system for automatically rerouting logical circuit data in a virtual private network A method and system are provided for automatically rerouting logical circuit data in a virtual private network (“VPN”). A dedicated logical circuit in the VPN is monitored for status information pertinent to the dedicated logical circuit. The dedicated logical circuit includes a primary communication path for communicating data. Based on ... 07/28/05 - 20050166081 - Computer operation analysis Provides an analysis system for analyzing dependencies among server programs in a computer system, comprising: a transaction detection unit for detecting transactions that is processing of a service which each of the plurality of server programs performs by being called from any other server program; a child transaction candidate detection ... 06/30/05 - 20050144507 - Method and apparatus for remotely debugging an application program over the internet A method and apparatus for remotely debugging an application program over the Internet is described. A software vendor provides an interface program along with an application program to a customer. The interface program detects a debug request initiated by a customer operator on a customer computer, and establishes a connection ... 06/30/05 - 20050144506 - Building-up of multi-processor of computer nodes In an aspect of the present invention, a computer system includes a plurality of computer nodes and an inter-node connecting unit configured to connect the plurality of computer nodes. Each of the plurality of computer nodes includes a local memory configured to store fault data of the computer node and ... 06/30/05 - 20050144505 - Network monitoring program, network monitoring method, and network monitoring apparatus A network monitoring program automatically sorts fault producing locations on a network. A memory unit stores a fault location determining table containing events indicative of failures of communications via the network, the events being associated with classified elements which can be causes of faults on the network. A communication situation ... 06/30/05 - 20050144504 - Hitless protection switching A network element with equipment protection has first and second redundant signal paths for first and second redundant signals; a selector for selecting either of the two redundant signals as active; and first and second transition monitors coupled to the first and second signal paths, respectively, for monitoring the first ... 06/30/05 - 20050144503 - Event sensing and meta-routing process automation A process automation system is described which includes a sense and response framework for receiving events in the process and initiating tasks in response to the received events. Execution of the scheduled tasks may in turn generate additional events that are received and responded to until all nodes in the ... 06/30/05 - 20050144502 - Household internet connection monitoring and troubleshooting through voice based telephony devices A method for monitoring an Internet connection can include the step of detecting a connectivity problem with a household Internet connection. A problem contact point can be determined. A communication connection that is different from the household Internet connection can be established with the contact point. For example, a voice ... 06/23/05 - 20050138463 - System and method for identifying extreme behavior in elements of a network A system for identifying extreme behavior in elements of a network comprises a profiler and a collator. The profiler and the collator perform a method of identifying extreme behavior in the network elements. The profiler maintains one or more group profiles of network elements. Each group profile is associated with ... 06/23/05 - 20050138462 - 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 protocol network, a secondary protocol network, and the like, for exchanging a cluster protocol message. Each client member ... 06/23/05 - 20050138461 - System and method for failover The present invention provides a novel system and method for failover. In an embodiment, a primary server and a backup server are available to a plurality of clients. Messages containing requests are processed by the primary server, while a mirror image of transaction records generated by the processing of those ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |