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Error Detection/correction And Fault Detection/recovery > Data Processing System Error Or Fault Handling > Reliability And Availability > Performance Monitoring For Fault Avoidance Performance Monitoring For Fault AvoidancePerformance Monitoring For Fault Avoidance 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.10/18/07 - 20070245172 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product in a performance monitor for sampling all performance events generated by a processor A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for sampling all performance event signals generated by a processor. A performance monitor is included in the processor. The performance monitor receives performance event signals from the processor. These performance event signals indicate the current full event state of the processor. ... 09/27/07 - 20070226546 - Method for determining field software reliability metrics The invention includes a method for determining a software reliability metric, including obtaining testing defect data, obtaining test case data, determining testing exposure time data using the test case data, and computing the software reliability metric using testing defect data and testing exposure time data. The defect data includes software ... 09/20/07 - 20070220366 - Method and apparatus for preventing soft error accumulation in register arrays A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preventing soft error accumulation. A number of cycles between references to a register are counted. Instructions are injected that reference the register for preventing soft error accumulation in response to a determination that the number of cycles is greater ... 09/13/07 - 20070214395 - Nonvolatile memory apparatus and data processing system The reliability of data is significantly increased without considerably increasing costs by performing minor data corrections within an information storage device and performing major error corrections in an information processing device. When a request to transfer user data for reading is issued from an information processing device, a control circuit ... 09/13/07 - 20070214394 - Enhancing throughput and fault-tolerance in a parallel-processing system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enhances throughput and fault-tolerance in a parallel-processing system. During operation, the system first receives a task. Next, the system partitions N computing nodes into M set-aside nodes and N-M primary computing nodes, wherein M≧1. The system then processes the task ... 09/13/07 - 20070214393 - Controlling a user's interaction with a keyboard of a multi-application electronic device Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for controlling a user's interaction with a keyboard of a multi-application electronic device such as a personal digital assistant. In one embodiment, a keyboard usage statistic for the user is determined and compared with a usage limit. Responsive to the comparison, an input mode ... 08/09/07 - 20070186128 - Mips recovery technique Self-calibration of devices such as computer and graphics processors permits adjustment of processor clock rates, and access to normally unused processor capacity. Processor clock rates specified by device manufacturers are normally selected to insure operation across the entire manufacturer-specified range of operating temperatures and supply voltages. By limiting processor clock ... 07/26/07 - 20070174732 - Monitoring system and method A monitoring system and method. The monitoring system receives specified rules related to at least one component within a computing system. The monitoring system receives first data comprising information related to at least one component within a computing system. The monitoring system comprises a repository. The first data is stored ... 07/19/07 - 20070168759 - Method and system for extending the useful life of another system Disclosed are embodiments of a method and an associated first system for extending product life of a second system in the presence of phenomena that cause the exhibition of both performance degradation and recovery properties within system devices. The first system includes duplicate devices incorporated into the second system (e.g., ... 05/03/07 - 20070101203 - Method and apparatus for selecting a primary resource in a redundant subsystem Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for selecting a primary resource in a redundant subsystem. In one method embodiment, the present invention receives a list of available resources for a redundant subsystem. Additionally, the available resources are tested and results of the testing are generated. Then, the ... 05/03/07 - 20070101202 - Clustering process for software server failure prediction Embodiments of the present invention allow the prevention and/or mitigation of damage caused by server failure by predicting future failures based on historic failures. Statistical data for server parameters may be collected for a period of time immediately preceding a historic server failure. The data may be clustered to identify ... 04/26/07 - 20070094548 - Method and apparatus for monitoring host to tool communications An aspect of the present invention includes a method and device for listening to communications between processes and tools, recording report and report trigger definitions, matching reports from tools with the recorded definitions, and translating messages into a context-insensitive format. Other aspects of the present invention include dynamically enhancing tool ... 04/26/07 - 20070094547 - Method for the automatically determining the indirect and direct extent of damages resulting from a failure of technical components in objects integrated in a production cycle A method is provided for the automated determination of the indirect and direct extent of damages in objects resulting from a failure of technical components integrated in a production cycle. The invention involves the detection of the components that are affected by a failure, a determination of the number of ... 03/22/07 - 20070067681 - Maintenance system for image processing device, image processing device, maintenance information display method for image processing device, storage medium, and computer data signal There is provided a maintenance system including a maintenance server that provides maintenance information and an image processing device that has at least one of copy, print, facsimile and scan functions and which, upon detection of a maintenance event upon which a maintenance process to be carried out with respect ... 03/15/07 - 20070061633 - Computer processor capable of responding with comparable efficiency to both software-state-independent and state-dependent events A technique for enabling a computer processor to be capable of responding with comparable efficiency to both: (i) events whose handling is independent on the state of the software machine that responds to the events, and (ii) events whose handling is dependent on the state of the software machine that ... 03/08/07 - 20070055916 - System and method for monitoring the performance of a server A monitoring tool requests traceable information from a server. Such traceable information preferably includes traceable events and associated columns. The monitoring tool preferably generates a display of the traceable information, from which a user may select information to be traced. The monitoring tool requests a trace of the selected information. ... 03/08/07 - 20070055915 - Failure recognition, notification, and prevention for learning and self-healing capabilities in a monitored system The present invention provides failure recognition, notification, and prevention for learning and self-healing capabilities in a monitored system. A system to collect monitoring data is monitored. A failure of the system is detected; A failure point for the detected failure in a data space defined by the monitoring data is ... 03/08/07 - 20070055914 - Method and apparatus for managing software errors in a computer system A method for managing a system includes monitoring a plurality of applications running in the system for errors. A prediction is made as to whether errors detected would result in a failure. Fault recovery is initiated in response to a failure prediction. According to one aspect of the present invention, ... 03/01/07 - 20070050684 - Computer system management program, system and method A method for monitoring according to a hint when allocating a storage volume. When a threshold value violation has occurred, judgement is performed from which use purpose the threshold value derives. The management computer for managing a computer system includes a unit for creating a storage volume according to a ... 03/01/07 - 20070050683 - Virtual flight recorder hosted by system tracing facility An apparatus, program product and method utilize a virtual flight recorder to harvest a subset of events being collected by an active system tracing facility during operation of a computer system. The virtual flight recorder is “virtual” from the sense that it is not specifically instrumented into a component with ... 02/15/07 - 20070038899 - Method for managing faults in a computer system environment Many computing system environments require continuous availability and high operational readiness. The ability to find, diagnose, and correct actual faults and potential faults in these systems is a high priority. By combining a continually updated database of computing system performance with the ability to analyze that information to detect faults ... 02/08/07 - 20070033447 - Heartbeat apparatus via remote mirroring link on multi-site and method of using same The present invention is directed to a heartbeat apparatus via a remote mirroring link for a multi-site and a method for using the heartbeat apparatus. Information is registered in a configuration table, wherein the configuration table stores host ID information and volume ID information. The configuration table is configured, access ... 02/08/07 - 20070033446 - Monitoring apparatus An apparatus for monitoring a digital television decoder connected to a network comprising a monitor engine and a monitor server wherein the monitor engine is operable to receive and/or retrieve raw event data from a digital television decoder connected to a network, generate significant event data in dependence on the ... 02/08/07 - 20070033445 - Method, apparatus, and program product for autonomic patch risk assessment An automatic risk assessment system is provided that determines a risk for the patch based on collected activity metrics, file weights, a list of files affected by the patch, and other factors. An application monitor collects metrics from the application to determine the level of activity of the application or ... 02/01/07 - 20070028148 - Device and method for malfunction monitoring and control A monitoring device and method are provided to monitor a separate device for malfunctions and to control and restore the malfunctioning monitored device to a normal functioning state. A malfunction state includes the monitored device being powered off or in a standby power state. The monitoring device includes control logic ... 01/25/07 - 20070022327 - Computer-readable recording medium recording system performance monitoring program, and system performance monitoring method and apparatus A computer-readable recording medium recording a system performance monitoring program for monitoring performance at desired timing and under desired conditions. A monitoring unit collects and stores status information indicating the operating statuses of servers in a status information memory. When other status information is necessary for evaluating performance, the monitoring ... 01/04/07 - 20070006051 - Fault diagnosis for power switch using existing current sense outputs Existing current sense outputs in a power switch can be utilized to output fault diagnosis information. Current sense circuitry that normally drives the current sense output can be disabled, thereby permitting the fault diagnosis information to be output. An existing fault indicator output can be controlled for bidirectional operation, thereby ... 12/28/06 - 20060294439 - Model-driven monitoring architecture According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises providing a machine-readable monitoring model that maintains configuration of a monitoring environment. An element of the monitoring environment reads the machine-readable monitoring model and adapts its operation to the configuration defined thereby. ... 12/21/06 - 20060288259 - Context-specific electronic performance support Providing context-specific electronic performance support for a device through just-in-time knowledge transfer. Performance support content comprising information regarding device procedures, device alerts, and display screens for displaying information related to the device can be stored in multiple content files. Each content file can be associated with a device alert, a ... 12/07/06 - 20060277446 - Centralized monitoring system and method for controlling the same A centralized monitoring system for managing maintenance information of an image forming apparatus has a database for registering a device identifier to identify a device including an image forming apparatus or a local monitoring apparatus that goes between said image forming apparatus and a server system as master information. The ... 11/16/06 - 20060259833 - Method of translating system events into signals for activity monitoring Disclosed herein is a system and method for receiving encoded events from a system that is being debugged or profiled. The encoded events are input to a decoder in order to decode the encoded events, wherein the decoder is configured to selectively adjust the bandwidth of decoded events. The decoded ... 11/16/06 - 20060259832 - Maintenance-information providing system (as amended) A The maintenance-information providing system is configured to provide information to maintain an air conditioner more appropriately. The system has an actual trouble code data storage section which stores data based on a trouble code, an actual predictive trouble code data storage section which stores data based on a predictive ... 11/09/06 - 20060253745 - Application manager for monitoring and recovery of software based application processes A constant monitoring and recovery system that enables the measurement of task usage/metrics and performance of software-based business applications. These metrics can then be evaluated by logic, in combination with each other and/or a timer, in a distributed environment. This is accomplished with the introduction of an extremely low overhead ... 11/02/06 - 20060248410 - Performance monitor with precise start-stop control A system and method for performance monitoring in processors is provided. The system and method evaluates the performance of the processor by counting selected events during one or more defined periods. The performance monitor provides improved performance characterization by providing highly-configurable start-stop control over the event counting. ... 11/02/06 - 20060248409 - Method and device for monitoring a distributed system A method and device for monitoring a distributed system made up of a plurality of users that are connected by one bus system are provided, in which distributed system at least a number of the users are provided as monitoring users. The process data of at least one monitored user ... 11/02/06 - 20060248408 - Method for determing the processing sequence of function blocks of an automated system and corresponding automated system The invention relates to a method and an automated system for determining the processing sequence of function blocks of a technological function. According to said method, a first function block, whose outputs are respectively disconnected or form exclusively one or more output signals of the technological function, is determined. Starting ... 10/26/06 - 20060242471 - Monitoring error-handler vector in architected memory A computer system provides a vector monitor for monitoring a first instance of an error-handling vector in architected memory. The monitoring can involve repeatedly comparing the first instance with a second instance of the vector so as to detect a mismatch, should it occur. If a mismatch is detected, the ... 10/05/06 - 20060224929 - Content generating apparatus and method A state management apparatus is disclosed which makes a determination whether or not to provide services based on a plurality of state information. For example, it is determined whether all the family members are going out or not based on state information of each family member. If all the family ... 09/28/06 - 20060218450 - Computer system performance analysis A method and apparatus is disclosed where a web server (10) has its performance measured by performance data being sent, via the Internet or by similar means, to an analyzer (12) with a relational database management system (14) and a data storage database (16). The analyzer (12) analyses the performance ... 09/21/06 - 20060212762 - Error management topologies A method according to one embodiment may include partitioning a plurality of processor cores into a main partition comprising at least one processor core capable of executing an operating system and an embedded partition comprising at least one different processor core. The embedded partition of this embodiment may be capable ... 09/07/06 - 20060200705 - Method, system and program product for monitoring a heartbeat of a computer application Under the present invention, parameters and configuration information (e.g., a file) for the monitoring process are read. Among other things, the configuration information specifies names of message queues for applications to be monitored. Thereafter, heartbeat messages are published to the message queues specified in the configuration information. If the heartbeat ... 08/10/06 - 20060179360 - Reasonable clock adjustment for storage system A system for managing clock adjustment in a storage system is provided. The system includes a clock configured to provide a current time, wherein the current time is used to enforce a content retention period, a memory configured to store clock management information, wherein the clock management information includes a ... 08/10/06 - 20060179359 - Apparatus, system, computer program product and method of seamlessly integrating thermal event information data with performance monitor data An apparatus, system and method of integrating performance monitor data with thermal event information are provided. A thermal event, in this case, is when the temperature of a chip within which is embedded a processor exceeds a user-configurable value while the processor is processing instructions and/or using storage devices that ... 08/10/06 - 20060179358 - System and method for recovering from errors in a data processing system A system and method of recovering from errors in a data processing system. The data processing system includes one or more processor cores coupled to one or more memory controllers. The one or more memory controllers include at least a first memory interface coupled to a first memory and at ... 08/03/06 - 20060174165 - System and method for tracing and logging for software module A method and system for tracing and logging for a software module is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting at least one error and analyzing at least one error message corresponding to each detected error. The method further includes the step of monitoring the resources of a computer ... 08/03/06 - 20060174164 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing condition monitoring activities Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for implementing condition monitoring activities. Systems include a processor in communication with a machine being monitored. The processor receives signals output by the machine via a signal conversion element associated with the machine. Systems also include a display device in communication with ... 07/27/06 - 20060168484 - System and method for process degradation problematic tool identification A method and system are provided for detecting suspect production tools, including testing produced products using a test sequence, said testing producing yield data, said yield data related to a production batch and a production process, said production process identified with a process tool. For each production process, a first ... 07/13/06 - 20060156072 - System and method for monitoring a computer apparatus A method and system for monitoring a computer application, including selecting the computer application, inputting condition information, monitoring the computer application and generating an alert when a condition of the selected computer application satisfies the condition information. The monitoring step may be accomplished by inserting dynamic watchers into 1 byte ... 07/06/06 - 20060150033 - Method for monitoring the execution of a program in a micro-computer The invention relates to a method for monitoring the execution of a program in a microcomputer of an electronic device, especially a sensor circuit for motor vehicles. According to the inventive method, the program processes input data and produces output data, copies a program in addition to the program which ... 07/06/06 - 20060150032 - State management device, state management system, and job processing system There are provided a state monitoring device and a state management system which monitor a use state of a PC by a user by utilizing detecting results of the human detection sensor effectively. The state monitoring device (10) for detecting whether a user is present at an operative position of ... 06/29/06 - 20060143547 - Method and device for identifying the cause of failures in industrial processes The invention relates to a method and a device for determining the causes of failures in industrial processes, in particular continuous processes with continuous webs, e.g. paper, textiles, plastic or metal films. Equipment and machines for industrial processes, in particular processes with continuous webs are frequently very complex combinations of ... 05/25/06 - 20060112317 - Method and system for managing information technology systems Embodiments in accordance with the present invention include methods and systems for managing information technology systems. A method includes monitoring, with a computer system, service operations of a service provider; detecting, with the computer system, a failure; diagnosing, with the computer system, the failure to determine a cause of the ... 05/25/06 - 20060112316 - Method of monitoring status of processor A method of monitoring interrupts transmitted between a processor and a computer used for verifying the processor. The computer and the processor communicate with each other through an interconnect circuit. The method includes detecting a first interrupt transmitted either from the computer to the processor or from the processor to ... 05/25/06 - 20060112315 - Method and device for controlling operational processes, especially in a vehicle The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling operational sequences, in particular in a vehicle. In this context, a functional unit (3) for forwarding and receiving data via at least one connecting unit (4) is in contact with at least one bus system (2). Functional unit ... 05/11/06 - 20060101311 - Connectivity between a scan tool and a remote device and method A hand-held diagnostic tool is designed to operate and easily upgrade software applications developed for automotive diagnostics. The diagnostic tool, which communicates with a plurality of motor vehicle control units, provides application upgrades and/or modifications and/or new algorithms that are developed/adapted via remote updating. The tool comprises full diagnostic capability ... 04/20/06 - 20060085696 - Monitoring unit for monitoring and automatic clearance of faults in medical applications Monitoring unit for monitoring and automatic clearance of faults in medical applications The invention in particular relates to a method, a device and a system for monitoring a plurality of applications, in particular of medical technology applications, in a network, with a monitoring unit and the central task of this ... 04/20/06 - 20060085695 - Use of incarnation number for resource state cycling In a server cluster, a system and method is provided for mitigating redundant resource failure notifications and other problems resulting from late handling of messages. Traditional resource management can result in the generation of redundant resource failure notifications that trigger unnecessary recovery actions, or cause other cluster problems such as ... 03/09/06 - 20060053347 - Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or ... 03/02/06 - 20060048017 - Techniques for health monitoring and control of application servers Techniques for improving application server performance and availability are provided. In one aspect, a method of monitoring the health of one or more application servers comprises the following steps. One or more health classes are specified, each of the one or more health classes defining one or more health policies ... 03/02/06 - 20060048016 - Method for a supply chain production process A method for controlling a supply chain management in product updates includes, first, a product change project that is determined by defining a type and version of equipment or systems to be changed and defining deadlines for work kits. These deadlines are completion dates for the production of a product ... 02/23/06 - 20060041794 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing system operational status information Methods for providing operational status information associated with a distributed application environment can include monitoring performance of actions occurring on separate components in a distributed application environment in response to a requested operation to determine operational status information of the distributed application environment based on reports provided by the separate ... 02/23/06 - 20060041793 - System, method and software for enhanced raid rebuild A system, method and software for enhancing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) rebuild process are provided. In association with the RAID, one or more bit maps is maintained corresponding to one or more data blocks of the RAID. During input/output (I/O) operations directed to the RAID, the I/O ... 02/09/06 - 20060031721 - Method and apparatus for system monitoring with reduced function cores A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for monitoring a device in a data processing system. A register associated the device is accessed from a reduced function processor core through a connection between the register for the device and the reduced function processor core. The device is monitored using the value ... 01/19/06 - 20060015779 - Involving a secondary storage system in a data transfer decision Provides methods, systems and apparatus for data storage including running an asynchronous replication process to copy successive sets of stored data from a primary storage system to a secondary storage system, and receiving at the primary storage system from the secondary storage system an indication of space available for receipt ... 01/19/06 - 20060015778 - Emission-monitoring system and method for transferring data A system and a method for transferring data in an emission-monitoring system from a first computer to a second computer are provided. The method includes generating a first message containing a first software variable having a first site-specific value that is transmitted from the first computer to the second computer. ... 01/12/06 - 20060010353 - Systems, methods, and media for controlling temperature in a computer system Systems, methods and media for controlling temperature of a system are disclosed. More particularly, hardware, software and/or firmware for controlling the temperature of a computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving component temperatures for a group of components and selecting a component to perform an activity based at least ... 01/12/06 - 20060010352 - System and method to detect errors and predict potential failures A system is disclosed that includes a component, a fault table configured to receive fault information associated with the component, and a diagnosis processor configured to read the fault information from the fault table and initiate corrective action as a function of the fault information. A method for handling faults ... 01/05/06 - 20060005086 - Systems and methods for providing for degradation of a computer application A method for providing for the graceful degradation of the performance and functionality of a distributed computer application. A plurality of sensors monitor the performance and availability of various external resources and/or services required by the application, as well as the performance of various components of the application, and report ... 01/05/06 - 20060005085 - Platform for computer process monitoring Monitoring components that provide monitors for computer processes are disclosed, including a monitoring component that provides multiple monitors that may be selectively activated for a particular process where each monitor is responsive to a different type of event that signifies a defect. The monitoring component provides monitors including a debugger ... 01/05/06 - 20060005084 - Support for nested faults in a virtual machine environment In one embodiment, information pertaining to a first fault occurring during operation of a virtual machine (VM) is stored in a first field. A second fault is detected while delivering the first fault to the VM, and a determination is made as to whether the second fault is associated with ... 01/05/06 - 20060005083 - Performance count tracing The present invention provides for the hardware on-chip capturing and storage of performance count data about software programs running on the chip. Counters generate performance data about the programs, and the values of the counters are stored in a trace array. In an embodiment, instruction addresses and other data can ... 12/29/05 - 20050289401 - Method and system for comparing individual computers to cluster representations of their peers The present invention is a system or method for assisting in the maintenance and servicing of computers. The system, for example, comprises a cluster database containing information relating to one or more computer clusters, the information relating to each cluster comprising one or more cluster descriptions and one or more ... 12/22/05 - 20050283684 - Method of monitoring a data link The present invention relates to a method of monitoring the reliability of a data link for a data transmission between a server (2) and a client (8). A control unit (14) is triggered by means of a trigger signal in such a manner that in response to the arrival of ... 12/15/05 - 20050278586 - Software independent watchdogging scheme for monitoring operating system An improved method and system for determining the state of an operating system includes an operating system, a USB host controller that is driven by the operating system to send a polling signal to a USB device, and a management module that monitors the polling signal. If the polling signal ... 12/01/05 - 20050268178 - Method for monitoring a system A method for monitoring a system, having a control unit defined as a master and a number of control units defined as slaves, with the aid of a monitoring module, in which in reply to an inquiry from the master and the slaves a response is given in each instance ... 12/01/05 - 20050268177 - Compression of data traces for an integrated circuit with multiple memories Techniques for performing data tracing in an integrated circuit with multiple embedded memories are described. A trace module within the integrated circuit forms packets of trace data for memory accesses of the multiple memories. The trace module includes multiple data capture units (one for each memory) and a trace stream ... 11/10/05 - 20050251704 - Method and base chip for monitoring the operation of a microcontroller unit To enable a method and a base chip (200) for monitoring the operation of at least one microcontroller unit (300) that is intended for at least one application and is associated with a system (100) to bc further developed in such a way that the operation of the microcontroller unit ... 11/03/05 - 20050246591 - Disc drive failure prediction In a method for predicting failure of a disc drive during operation of the disc drive, a write fault count is maintained that corresponds to write faults encountered during write operations to a disc of the disc drive. Additionally, a frequency domain representation of a position error signal of a ... 11/03/05 - 20050246590 - Efficient real-time analysis method of error logs for autonomous systems An error logging and analysis system is used to detect a type of error condition, assign a numeric value corresponding to the severity of the error condition, record the time of the error condition, and determine the frequency between subsequent error conditions of the same type. A weighted error rate ... 10/27/05 - 20050240835 - Agent based router monitoring, diagnostic and maintenance A distributed, multistage agent for monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance of network devices comprises an input/output interface for receiving input monitoring and diagnostic data relevant to operation of a first neighboring agent and transmitting output monitoring and diagnostic data relevant to operation of the host network device to a second neighboring ... 10/27/05 - 20050240834 - Systems and methods for controlling extended functions A system includes a first processor that performs a first self test process in response to a first actuation of a provided test control by a user of the system and a second processor that performs the second self test process in response to a second actuation of the test ... 10/27/05 - 20050240833 - Method for a voiding aliased tokens during abnormal communications A data initiator device designates an initial data tag set for tagging data transfers to thereby attach data tags from the designated set to commands directed to data transfers between the data initiator device and a data target device subsequent to the designation of the initial data tag set. The ... 10/06/05 - 20050223299 - Composite resource models A mechanism and model are provided for representing and managing composite resource models. When a resource monitor is deployed for a resource, the resource monitor scans for information that indicates that the resource under monitoring is part of a cluster, grid, or other composite configuration. The resource monitor then determines ... 09/22/05 - 20050210337 - Method and system of monitoring, sensor validation and predictive fault analysis The present invention provides an improved method and system for real-time monitoring, validation, optimization and predictive fault analysis in a process control system. The invention monitors process operations by continuously analyzing sensor measurements and providing predictive alarms using models of normal process operation and statistical parameters corresponding to normal process ... 09/15/05 - 20050204205 - Methodology, system, and computer readable medium for detecting operating system exploitations A system, computerized method and computer-readable medium are provided for the detection of an operating system exploitation, such as a rootkit install. The operating system is monitored to ascertain an occurrence of anomalous activity resulting from operating system behavior which deviates from any one of a set of pre-determined operating ... 09/01/05 - 20050193281 - Anomaly detection A system such as a Web-based system in which a plurality of computers interact with each other is monitored to detect online an anomaly. Transactions of a service provided by each of a plurality of computers to another computer are collected, a matrix of correlations between nodes in the system ... 09/01/05 - 20050193280 - Design instrumentation circuitry Techniques and systems for analysis, diagnosis and debugging fabricated hardware designs at a Hardware Description Language (HDL) level are described. In particular, the techniques and systems relate to design instrumentation circuitry that facilitates the analysis, diagnosis and debugging of the hardware designs. Although the hardware designs (which were designed in ... 09/01/05 - 20050193279 - Device for monitoring medical equipment A medical instrument, in particular a generator for high-frequency surgery, comprises setting elements for presetting functions, and also functional elements for performing functions according to the settings. A controller interrogates the setting elements and controls the functional elements accordingly. Furthermore, a safety controller is provided for performing plausibility checks with ... 09/01/05 - 20050193278 - Decoupling the number of logical threads from the number of simultaneous physical threads in a processor Systems and methods of managing threads provide for supporting a plurality of logical threads with a plurality of simultaneous physical threads in which the number of logical threads may be greater than or less than the number of physical threads. In one approach, each of the plurality of logical threads ... 08/25/05 - 20050188284 - Method of monitoring the quality of a communications channel A method is presented that monitors the quality of a communications channel. The method includes receiving a data signal and establishing a zero reference phase of the received data signal. The method further includes generating a phase-shifted data signal by phase shifting the received data signal relative to the zero ... 08/25/05 - 20050188283 - Node management in high-availability cluster One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of status generation for a node of a high-availability cluster. A heartbeat signal is sent from the node through a network to the cluster. In addition, a current status of the node is determined, and the status is sent out through a specialized ... 08/11/05 - 20050177780 - Powered interface card and method of providing backup power supply An interface card with a power supply includes a power module and a power charging module. The power module provides power to the host when the power supply of the host connected to the interface card is malfunctioning. When the capacity of the power module is insufficient, it is recharged ... 08/04/05 - 20050172176 - Method of verifying a monitoring and responsive infrastructure of a system A method of verifying a monitoring and responsive infrastructure of a system is provided and described. The method includes setting a sensor to a simulation mode. Further, a test value is provided to simulate a real value outputted by the sensor. While in the simulation mode, the test value instead ... 07/28/05 - 20050166099 - Method of labeling alarms to facilitate correlating alarms in a telecommunications network A method for generating compressed correlation key values for use in correlating alarms generated by network elements in a telecommunications network is disclosed. An alarm message generated by a network element is received. A context value in the alarm message is identified. A table that associates context values to correlation ... 07/21/05 - 20050160327 - Input stage threshold adjustment for high speed data communications Systems and methods for correcting distortions in transmitted signals are provided. More particularly, systems and methods for correcting the asymmetry that may occur between a receiver's signal-eye and a distorted signal are provided. One technique centers the signal-eye, with respect to the received signal, by adjusting the voltage threshold of ... 07/21/05 - 20050160326 - Methods and apparatuses for reducing infant mortality in semiconductor devices utilizing static random access memory (sram) In accordance with various embodiments of the present invention, a cache-equipped semi-conductor device is provided with enhanced error detection logic to detect a first location-independent error within an area of the cache memory and prevent further use of the area if the error is determined to be the second consecutive ... 07/21/05 - 20050160325 - Monitoring system A monitoring system which is suitable for, for example, preventing crime for a residence, includes a plurality of terminals (31, 32, . . . ) for monitoring whether predetermined monitoring points are in a stationary state or a nonstationary state, and a central processing device (10) for controlling a setting/canceling ... 06/30/05 - 20050144538 - System and method for replicating data in a distributed system It is common in distributed systems to replicate data. In many cases, this data evolves in a consistent fashion, and this evolution can be modeled. A probabilistic model of the evolution allows us to estimate the divergence of the replicas and can be used by the application to alter its ... 06/30/05 - 20050144537 - Method to use a receiver operator characteristics curve for model comparison in machine condition monitoring A method to use a receiver operator characteristics curve for model comparison in machine condition monitoring. The method and systems of using this method may be used to evaluate different monitoring models. These models may be used to monitor a variety of different systems such as power plant systems or ... 06/30/05 - 20050144536 - Avoiding name collision for the acpi control methods Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for avoiding name collision for the advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) control methods. Accordingly, a method embodiment of the present invention comprises, obtaining a ACPI control method reserved name, obtaining a unique first argument, and associating the first argument with the ... 06/30/05 - 20050144535 - Process and apparatus of notifying a reference model of the occurrence of an event in a monitored interface Data concerning an occurrence of an interface event affecting a device under test is interpreted by a reference model having a listener registered on a list with the monitor and having like inheritance to the listener interface. The monitor monitors for the occurrence of the interface event and supplies data ... 06/23/05 - 20050138484 - Apparatus and method for time ordering events in a system having multiple time domains A system and method time orders events that occur in various portions of the system (10) where different time domains (12, 22, 32) exist. Timestamping circuitry (e.g. 40) is provided in each of a plurality of functional circuits or modules (14, 24, 34). The timestamping circuitry provides a message that ... 06/16/05 - 20050132257 - Data management systems, articles of manufacture, and data storage methods Data management systems, articles of manufacture, and data storage methods are described. According to one aspect, a data management system provides a data storage system configured to store data of a plurality of client protected computer systems, wherein the data storage system comprises a plurality of storage devices individually having ... 06/09/05 - 20050125711 - Method and system for defect evaluation using quiescent power plane current (iddq) voltage linearity A method and system for defect evaluation using IDDQ voltage linearity provides improved IDDQ testing for determining whether manufacturing defects in a VLSI device are likely to cause functional faults. IDDQ data is collected at multiple power plane voltages (VDDs) for a test vector at which a fault is activated. ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |