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Error Detection/correction And Fault Detection/recovery > Data Processing System Error Or Fault Handling > Reliability And Availability > Fault Locating (i.e., Diagnosis Or Testing) > Component Dependent Technique > Bus, I/o Channel, Or Network Path Component Fault Bus, I/o Channel, Or Network Path Component FaultBus, I/o Channel, Or Network Path Component Fault 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.11/22/07 - 20070271486 - Method and system to detect software faults The present invention is directed to a system and method for actively auditing a software system to determine the status. The software system includes a plurality of processes executed in an active processor domain. An active message is generated for processing in the active processor domain. Each process receiving the ... 11/08/07 - 20070260934 - Automated hardware parity and parity error generation technique for high availability integrated circuits A technique wherein High Availability (HA) hardware is used to automatically validate control and configuration registers, e.g. automatically generate parity, detect parity errors, and report errors within software-written configuration and control registers of ASIC and IC products. Parity control logic and Masking Registers are utilized to facilitate automatic parity generation ... 10/25/07 - 20070250741 - Selective bit error detection at a bus device In one aspect, a data transmission rate of a message signal representing a bus message at a bus and a propagation delay between an occurrence of the message signal at a transmission output to the bus and an occurrence of the message signal at a receive input from the bus ... 10/11/07 - 20070240019 - Systems and methods for correcting errors in i2c bus communications Systems, methods and media for clearing a hung I2C bus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a monitor monitors the I2C bus data and clock lines and detects if a hung bus occurs. The monitor times packet transactions on the bus to determine if a maximum transaction time has elapsed while ... 10/04/07 - 20070234131 - Server inspecting method and system A server inspecting method and system for inspecting a module to be inspected of a server is disclosed. This provides a time-saving and labor-saving inspecting method for users, and reduces the consumption of human resources and improves the working efficiency of inspecting personnel. Moreover, the system and method can further ... 10/04/07 - 20070234130 - Managing system components System components are managed. Based on a first communication path to a component, first identification information for the component is determined. Based on a second communication path to the component, second identification information for the component is determined. Based on the first identification information and the second identification information, an ... 09/27/07 - 20070226543 - User customizable expert system for communications testing A user customizable expert system for communications testing has an Editor program for creating a test package file by an expert for transferral to a measurement instrument, and a Player program for running the test package file on the measurement instrument according to a guide provided to a technician. The ... 09/13/07 - 20070214392 - Test vector manager, method of managing test vectors and a test tool employing the manager and the method The present invention provides a test vector manager for use with a unit under test (UUT). In one embodiment, the test vector manager includes a gateway device, coupled to the UUT, configured to provide a testing pathway for the UUT to coordinate test requests and responses for a backplane multi-drop ... 08/02/07 - 20070180332 - System and method for multipath i/o support for fibre channel devices A system and method enables a file server, to support multi path input/output operations for Fibre Channel devices. Upon each Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop initialization event generated, the system and method updates a path and device instance to track multiple paths to a given device. While the file server is ... 08/02/07 - 20070180331 - Method and system for isolation of a fault location in a communications device The present invention provides a system and method of identifying a failure location in a datapath in a communication element, the datapath traversing from an ingress point through at least a first component to an egress point. In an embodiment the method comprises: providing a diagnostic cell to adapted to ... 07/26/07 - 20070174729 - Primary server and backup server that share an ip address and a limited number of message identifiers A primary server and a backup server that both run a RADIUS client in a cold start configuration share a single IP address that includes a limited number of message identifiers (MIDs). The primary server and the backup server each have a small number of fixed message identifiers. In addition, ... 07/26/07 - 20070174728 - Systems and methods for routing data in a network device A system detects an error in a network device that receives data via a group of data streams. The system receives a data unit, where the data unit is associated with at least one of the streams and a sequence number for each of the associated streams. The system determines ... 07/26/07 - 20070174727 - Usb apparatus The present invention disclosed a Universal Serial Bus (USB) apparatus. The apparatus includes: a signal detecting unit for detecting a packet signal transmitted from a USB host and generating an acknowledgment signal according to a detection result; an error detecting unit, coupled to the signal detecting unit, for generating a ... 07/26/07 - 20070174726 - System and method for monitoring group of devices on network A system and a method are provided for monitoring fault of a group including a plurality of device connected via a network, and taking action about the fault. The system includes: one or more slave devices testing fault of a belonging device and outputting the test result, and a master ... 07/26/07 - 20070174724 - Apparatus and method for detecting network failure location A L2 loop failure location generated in any one of a plurality of search target apparatuses disposed in network is detected in a short time. A network failure location detecting apparatus executes the steps of broadcasting packets with a plurality of different source MAC addresses; acquiring statistical information that is ... 07/26/07 - 20070174723 - Sub-second, zero-packet loss adapter failover A computer implemented method, data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for managing an adapter failure. A first adapter is monitored for adapter failure. A second adapter is activated in response to detecting the adapter failure of the first adapter. In response to detecting the first adapter ... 07/19/07 - 20070168755 - Compliance of master-slave modes for low-level debug of serial links Methods and apparatuses for testing transmission and/or receiving circuit functionality. ... 03/15/07 - 20070061631 - Fault diagnosis in relaying data among a plurality of networks A network relay apparatus is provided, wherein data accompanied by additional information is relayed among plural networks through input ports and output ports. In the apparatus, a deciding unit decides, from the output ports, an objective output port to which the data inputted via any one of the input ports ... 03/15/07 - 20070061630 - System and method for recovering from a hang condition in a data processing system A data processing system, method, and computer-usable medium for recovering from a hang condition in a data processing system. The data processing system includes a collection of coupled processing units. The processing units include a collection of processing unit components such as, two or more processing cores, and a cache ... 03/08/07 - 20070055912 - Circuit arrangement for protected data transmission, particularly in ring-shaped bus systems A circuit arrangement allows data, which are necessary for building up fault-tolerant structures, to be transmitted on standard ring-shaped bus systems. Its implementation requires a monitoring unit and input and output units which transmit or receive data for control. The circuit arrangement handles the task of detecting any faults which ... 03/01/07 - 20070050681 - Global user services management for system cluster A system cluster, a method and a recording medium are provided in which an administering host system of a cluster maintains global information for globally managing the availability of services to users on a basis of the system cluster. Individual host systems also maintain local information, the local information being ... 02/01/07 - 20070028147 - Method and apparatus for outage measurement An Outage Measurement System (OMS) monitors and measures outage data at a network processing device. The outage data can be stored in the device and transferred to a Network Management System (NMS) or other correlation tool for deriving outage information. The OMS automates the outage measurement process and is more ... 01/25/07 - 20070022326 - Visual inspection of automatically-mounted component in circuit board assembly processes A component is mounted onto a circuit board and is visually inspected after the circuit board is subjected to heat to determine whether the component has undergone a notable change in appearance. The component is preselected to have indicative characteristics after being subjected to heat. While the component is subjected ... 01/18/07 - 20070016831 - Identification of root cause for a transaction response time problem in a distributed environment Method and apparatus for identifying a cause for a response time problem for a transaction in a distributed computing system that includes a central server and a plurality of subsystems. Data is stored at each subsystem relating to sub-transactions of transactions performed by the subsystems. When a problem is discovered ... 01/04/07 - 20070006049 - Preservation of error data on a diskless platform Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for preserving error data on a computing platform that lacks non-volatile storage (e.g., a “diskless” platform) are provided. In response to detecting a platform error (e.g., automatically by hardware, software, or manually by a user when a wait or loop condition is suspected), platform ... 11/09/06 - 20060253744 - Fibre selective control switch system The present invention is directed to a Fibre Selective Control Switch system for simulating human intervention during a test process for fibre network environments. The Fibre Selective Control Switch system may comprise a MCU, and at least one FSCS module mounted on a SFP device. The MCU is download programmable ... 11/02/06 - 20060248407 - Method and system for providing customer controlled notifications in a managed network services system An approach for supporting automated fault isolation and recovery is provided. A notification configuration option is transmitted to a browser interface utilized by a user associated with a customer network that is monitored by a service provider, wherein the user selects the notification configuration option to input notification information. The ... 09/14/06 - 20060206767 - Diagnosis of redundant signal output channels connected in parallel The invention relates to a device and a method for testing for wire breakage with a redundant signal output. To ensure the most fail-safe output in particular of a digital signal, whilst at the same time supplying a diagnosis function, it is proposed that two digital output modules should be ... 08/24/06 - 20060190774 - Network router having an internal automated backup A network router having an internal automated backup is provided. Specifically, the present invention provides a network router having at least one primary port facility, a switched fabric, and a backup card array. When a router card connected to a primary port facility fails, a failure message is automatically sent ... 08/17/06 - 20060184831 - Passing debug information A data communications architecture employing serializers and deserializers that reduces data communications latency. In an illustrative implementation, the data communications architecture communicates data across communications links. The architecture maintains various mechanisms to promote data communications speed and to avoid communication link down time. These mechanisms perform the functions including but ... 08/10/06 - 20060179356 - Method to use fabric initialization to test functionality of all inter-chip paths between processors in system A method, apparatus, and program for systematically testing the functionality of all connections in a multi-tiered bus system that connects a large number of processors. Each bus controller is instructed to send a test version of a snoop request to all of the other processors and to wait for the ... 07/27/06 - 20060168483 - On-chip circuitry for bus validation Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with validating a bus are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an integrated circuit operably connectable to a bus, the bus being connectable to an external device configured to drive one or more electrical signals onto the bus. The integrated circuit may comprise ... 07/20/06 - 20060161817 - Physical layer loop back method and apparatus The network device includes a transceiver, a pattern generation unit and a pattern recognition unit. The transceiver connects to a communications medium. The pattern generation unit connects to the transceiver. The pattern generation unit is configured to generate a first code word in response to a self-test signal. The pattern ... 06/29/06 - 20060143543 - Abstracting the protocol processing of storage enclosure services from the control of enclosure hardware A SES API is disclosed as an interface between SES protocol code and non-SCSI storage enclosure hardware to abstract the SES protocol code from the control of the hardware. To control the hardware, SES commands are sent to the SES protocol code. The SES protocol code is responsive to the ... 06/22/06 - 20060136789 - Computer system, method of detecting a stall in a computer system, and signal-bearing medium embodying a program causing a computer system to perform a method of detecting a stall in a computer system A computer system includes a processor that executes a device driver, and a bus controller that controls an input/output bus that connects a plurality of input/output devices. The bus controller includes a stall detector that detects a stall state of the input/output bus and an error reply generator that transmits ... 06/01/06 - 20060117226 - Data communication system and data communication method A data communication system is able to reliably identify a cause of a transfer error even when transfer errors occur in a plurality of bus masters. The data communication system includes a bus to which a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of bus slaves are connected and which ... 04/20/06 - 20060085692 - Bus fault detection and isolation A bus fault detection and isolation system and method is disclosed that can operate non-intrusively to detect and isolate faults in a bus, such as a dual redundant MIL STD 1553 bus. The system and method of the present invention can be configured to operate within a bus controller using ... 04/13/06 - 20060080579 - Bus communication emulation Provided are a method, system, and program for initializing a processor of a computer system, to enumerate a remote bus and remote devices coupled to the remote bus, as operating components of the computer system. In another embodiment, a controller stores a message containing a directive in a memory shared ... 03/16/06 - 20060059390 - Method for self-diagnosing remote i/o enclosures with enhanced fru callouts A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for self-diagnosing remote I/O enclosures with enhanced FRU callouts. When a failure is detected on a RIO drawer, a data processing system uses the bulk power controller to provide an alternate path, rather than using the existing RIO links, to access registers on the ... 02/09/06 - 20060031720 - Host apparatus for sensing failure of external device connected through communication table and a method thereof A host apparatus capable of sensing failure in an external device connected thereto through communication cable, comprises an external signal detector for sensing failure in the external device by detecting signals of the external device through the communication cable; a display for outputting a predetermined message; and a controller for ... 01/12/06 - 20060010351 - Controller capable of self-monitoring, redundant storage system having the same, and method thereof A controller capable of self-monitoring, a redundant storage system having the same, and its method are proposed. Each controller is arranged with a self-monitoring operating circuit and a watchdog unit. The self-monitoring operating circuit can periodically issue a confirmation signal to the watchdog unit. The watchdog unit comprises a counter ... 12/22/05 - 20050283683 - System and method for promoting effective operation in user computers Operating parameters and potentially related malfunctions are gathered from end users of computer systems and used to develop a best practices profile. The profile can be used to automatically alter the operating parameters of a user computer. ... 12/15/05 - 20050278583 - Restoration of network element through employment of bootable image A failure of a network element is detected automatically. A bootable image of the network element is electronically retrieved upon detection of the failure of the network element. The bootable image is employed to restore the network element. ... 12/08/05 - 20050273671 - Performance monitoring system A system for validating data collected in a first clock domain. A performance counter is disposed in a second clock domain to perform performance computations relative to the data. Validation circuitry is in communication with the data in order to provide to the performance counter a validation signal indicative of ... 12/08/05 - 20050273670 - Multi-port memory device There is provided a column repair technology of a semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes: a normal bus connection part for transmitting/receiving data between global data buses and local data buses of each bank; a redundant bus connection part for transmitting/receiving data between global data buses and local ... 12/01/05 - 20050268176 - Information processing apparatus and device An information processing apparatus according to the present invention communicates with a device and includes an operation-acquisition-request receiving unit configured to receive from the device an operation acquisition request for acquiring an operation applied to the device from the information processing apparatus, an operation-transmitting unit configured to transmit an operation ... 12/01/05 - 20050268175 - Self-diagnosing method and apparatus using universal serial bus A method and apparatus for performing a self diagnosis of a device that includes a universal serial bus (USB) host and a USB client. The method includes detecting whether the universal serial bus client of the device is connected to a universal serial bus host, detecting whether the device acting ... 11/17/05 - 20050257098 - Error detection in web services systems Methods and systems are provided for automatically generating an accurate model of communications processes between disparate computing systems that may be analyzed in an efficient manner for error detection in web services systems. Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) descriptions are automatically generated for the BPEL-based executable processes ... 10/27/05 - 20050240829 - Lockstep error signaling Techniques are disclosed, for use in a computer system including a plurality of processing units coupled over a system fabric, to identify a lockstep error associated with a first packet to be transmitted over the system fabric; set a viral indicator in the first packet to indicate the lockstep error; ... 10/27/05 - 20050240828 - Methods and apparatus to enable code-based bus performance analysis Methods and apparatus to enable code-based bus performance analysis are disclosed. In one example, a method identifies a bus transaction request with a virtual machine monitor and stores a record associated with the bus transaction request in a virtual machine. ... 10/27/05 - 20050240827 - Methods, systems, and products for verifying integrity of web-server served content Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. One method communicates with a server specified by a Uniform Resource Locator. Content specified by the Uniform Resource Locator is retrieved. If the content contains an additional link to another Uniform Resource Locator, then the content ... 09/15/05 - 20050204204 - Method and system for switching between subnetwork operation and full network operation In order further to develop a method for changing over a serially networked system (100), in particular a serial databus system, from subnetwork operation (T), in which at least one node (22, 28) and/or at least one user (32, 38) of the system (100) is in a state of reduced ... 09/01/05 - 20050193275 - Method for digital bus testing An interface for a bus test instrument is readily adaptable for testing a wide range of bus types. The interface includes a pair of transmit lines and a pair of receive lines. A transmitting circuit is adaptable for transmitting either single-ended or differential signals over the transmit lines, and at ... 08/25/05 - 20050188282 - Fast and compact circuit for bus inversion A bussed system with a fast and compact majority voter in the circuitry responsible for the bus inversion decision. The majority voter is implemented in analog circuitry having two branches. One branch sums the advantage of transmitting the bits without inversion, the other sums the advantage of transmitting the bits ... 08/11/05 - 20050177779 - Cluster node status detection and communication One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of communicating status from a node of a cluster of computer systems. A first status signal is received from a computational node, and a default status signal is generated. The first status signal and the default status signal are used to generate a ... 08/04/05 - 20050172175 - Analysis of pipelined networks This invention relates to a diagnostic tool for networks that process messages in stages such as pipelined networks. In a pipelined network comprising tiers of servers, each tier of servers communicates only with adjacent tiers in a communications flow that processes messages in a sequence of tiers. The tool requires ... 08/04/05 - 20050172174 - Method and system for automatically identifying a logical circuit failure in a data network A method and computer system are provided for automatically identifying a failure in a logical circuit in a data network without manual intervention. The logical circuit includes one or more logical connections for communicating data in the data network. A network management module periodically requests trap data indicating the status ... 07/21/05 - 20050160324 - Automatic generation of baysian diagnostics from fault trees Fault trees are automatically converted to Bayesian networks for assisting in system reliability, failure analysis and diagnostics by using information from the fault tree structure to create the Bayesian network structure, creating parameters of the Bayesian network using information from the fault tree, obtaining information about observation nodes for the ... 07/14/05 - 20050154942 - Disk array system and method for controlling disk array system A disk array system having first and second housings and a controller for controlling the first and second housings. Fiber channel hard disk drives are received in the first housing, and serial ATA hard disk drives are received in the second housing. When reading data stored in a serial ATA ... 06/30/05 - 20050144533 - Method, system, and product for utilizing a power subsystem to diagnose and recover from errors A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for diagnosing and recovering from I/O subsystem errors. A data processing system includes a computer which includes a power subsystem and at least one I/O subsystem. A determination is made that an error occurred in the I/O subsystem. Registers in integrated ... 06/02/05 - 20050120279 - Storage subsystem, storage system, and communication control method In a storage subsystem which is connected to an IP network, by excluding an improper packet, security is heightened, and a performance of communication to a logical unit of a storage subsystem is maintained and secured. In the storage subsystem according to one embodiment, a function which carries out filtering ... 06/02/05 - 20050120278 - Systems and methods for verifying lockstep operation In one embodiment, a system and a method for verifying lockstep operation pertain to monitoring interface signals, detecting output of a modeled lockstep block, comparing the detected output with an expected output for the lockstep block relative to a current modeled machine state, and flagging a lockstep block error if ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |