| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 714400300 | Repair failed node without replacement (i.e., on-line repair) | 21 |
| 20110041003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR H(e)NB INTEGRITY VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION - An apparatus and method for providing home evolved node-B (H(e)NB) integrity verification and validation using autonomous validation and semi-autonomous validation is disclosed herein. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110060939 | HIGH AVAILABILITY VIA DATA SERVICES - Application-level replication, the synchronization of data updates within a cluster of application servers, may be provided by having application servers themselves synchronize all updates to multiple redundant databases, precluding the need for database-level replication. This may be accomplished by first sending a set of database modifications requested by the transaction to a first database. Then a message may be placed in one or more message queues, the message indicating the objects inserted, updated, or deleted in the transaction. Then a commit command may be sent to the first database. The set of database modifications and a commit command may then be sent to a second database. This allows for transparent synchronization of the databases and quick recovery from a database failure, while imposing little performance or network overhead. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110173489 | CONTROL METHOD FOR PROTECTING FAILURE RECOVERY OF ETHERNET RING AND ETHERNET RING NODES - The present invention discloses a method for controlling failure recovery of Ethernet loop protection and an Ethernet loop node. The method comprises: when a node adjacent to a failed link detects recovery of the link, blocking a port just recovered, setting the port to be in a pre-forwarding state and starting a timer, and releasing the port temporarily blocked if the node adjacent to the failed link has not received a control protocol message sent by a master node during a timing period of the timer, and transferring the port from the pre-forwarding state to a forwarding state. The present invention allows a port of a node adjacent to a recovered link to enter into a forwarding state from the pre-forwarding state as early as possible on the premise that a corresponding control protocol message is unable to be received in time. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110191623 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND NEGOTIATING NETWORK-CONTROLLED FUNCTIONAL DATA BETWEEN A CLIENT AND A SERVER - The invention relates to a method for transmitting control data in a telecommunication network for controlling a service administered by the telecommunication network, especially a server connected to the telecommunication network. According to said method, the telecommunication network provides a data object, especially a contact of an address book, with a function that is special with respect to other data objects. A parameterized message is transmitted by the terminal device for telecommunication via the telecommunication network to a higher order system component of the telecommunication network, said message comprising at least one first parameter for characterizing the data object and a second parameter containing a control information, especially for the activation, deactivation or modification of the service. The higher order system component checks at least one of parameters and the service is controlled depending on the result of the check and in accordance with the control parameter. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120060048 | RECOVERING A SYSTEM THAT HAS EXPERIENCED A FAULT - A method and system of recovering a system that has experienced a fault includes a backup device to enable access of a network through the interface in response to the fault. The system includes a main operational portion that controls operation of the system under normal conditions. However, if a fault occurs, then the backup device can be selected to take over control of the system so that data can be retrieved from a backup storage to recover the system. The backup device includes software and/or hardware components to enable the system to access a network even though the main operational portion may not be functioning properly. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120066542 | Method for Node Addition and Removal of a Circuit - The present invention discloses a method for node addition and removal of a circuit. The steps of the method include: (a) providing a circuit with a plurality of nodes; (b) selecting a target node for computing mandatory assignments (MAs) of stuck-at 0 and stuck-at 1 fault tests on the target node, respectively, by a processing unit; (c) finding an added substitute node by utilizing the MAs of stuck-at 0 and stuck-at 1 fault tests of the target node by the processing unit; and (d) replacing the target node by using the added substitute node closest to primary inputs; and (e) the steps (b)˜(d) are repeated for removing the replaceable nodes and simplifying the circuit. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20130103976 | FAILURE RECORVERY 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 of virtual servers run, a single standby server, a module for detecting an active virtual server, and a module for switching the correspondence of boot disks of virtualization modules for controlling virtual servers to the physical servers. When a physical server fails, the boot disk of the associated virtualization module is connected to a spare server to automatically activate on the spare server those virtual servers which have been active upon occurrence of the failure. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130227336 | EFFICIENT LINK REPAIR MECHANISM TRIGGERED BY DATA TRAFFIC - In one embodiment, an intermediate device transmits a data message away from a root device toward a receiver device in a computer network, the data message transmitted by utilizing, in reverse, a link that had been previously selected by the receiver device toward the root device. In response to detecting that the data message did not reach the receiver device, a discovery message is may be sent to one or more neighbor devices, wherein the discovery message carries an identification (ID) of the receiver device and a discovery scope indicating how many hops the discovery message is allowed to traverse to reach the receiver device, and wherein the receiver device, upon receiving the discovery message, triggers a local link repair of the link from the receiver device toward the root device. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPGRADABLE REMOTELY DEPLOYED INTELLIGENT COMMUNICATION DEVICES - In one embodiment, an intelligent communications device for operating in a network is disclosed. The device includes a storage device having a plurality of partitions storing images for performing boot operations. The device also includes a detection module that is operative to detect a boot failure, and a first restoration module that is operative to restore an active image with a first backup image, in response to a detected boot failure from an active image. The device further includes a second restoration module that is operative to restore a second backup image in response to a detected boot failure after restoration from a first backup image. The device also includes a programmable processor that is programmed to cause execution of boot operations and functions performed by the detection module, first restoration module, and second restoration module. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130332767 | REDUNDANCY AND LOAD BALANCING IN REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS - A system for managing communications to add a first Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) link between a TCP server and a TCP client, where the first RDMA link references first remote memory buffer (RMB) and a second RMB, and further based on a first remote direct memory access network interface card (RNIC) associated with the TCP server and a second RNIC associated with the TCP client. The system determines whether a third RNIC is enabled. The system adds a second RDMA link, responsive to a determination that the third RNIC is enabled. The system detects a failure in a failed RDMA link. The system reconfigures the first RDMA link to carry at least one TCP message of a connection formerly assigned to the failed RDMA link, responsive to detecting the failure. The system communicates at least one message of the at least one connection on the first RDMA link. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140019798 | AUTOMATED COMPUTING APPLIANCE CLONING OR MIGRATION - A system and method for automatically cloning or migrating a computing appliance while maintaining its operational state. A configuration bundle that includes configuration data, software revision level and a list of system updates is used to recover or duplicate a device's operation state. The system and method can also be utilized to migrate a computing appliance between different operating system while maintaining or replicating the previous operational state. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140115378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTORING NETWORK CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS - A system and a method for restoring network configuration parameters suitably adapted for automatically restoring the network configuration parameters to the ones before a power failure are provided. The method includes the following steps. A system chipset pre-stores network configuration parameters corresponding to a network unit. The system chipset executes a U-boot procedure when the power supply restores. Then the system chipset detects a status flag of the network unit. When the status flag is false, the system chipset writes the network configuration parameters into the network unit and sets the status flag to true. Then, the system chipset executes a shut-down procedure. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140215258 | CLUSTER MANAGEMENT IN A SHARED NOTHING CLUSTER - A method, system, and/or computer program product provides cluster management for a shared nothing cluster, wherein the shared nothing cluster comprises one or more data nodes each having an operating system and applications running thereon, and wherein the data nodes in the shared nothing cluster do not share data storage devices. One or more processors collects cluster configuration information associated with the data nodes. A tabulation image is obtained based on the collected cluster configuration information. In response to determining that operating system breakdowns occurred on one or more of the data nodes, the obtained tabulation image is sent to faulted data nodes to enable the recovery of their operating systems. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140304545 | RECOVERING A FAILURE IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A technique of recovering a failure in a data processing system comprises restoring a checkpointed state in a last window, and resending all the input messages received at the second node during the failed window boundary. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20150052381 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FIRMWARE OF BMC - In a method of detecting firmware using a first electronic device, the first electronic device comprises a first baseboard management controller (BMC). The first electronic device receives a first message of requiring the first electronic device from a host computer, to detect whether firmware of a second BMC of a second electronic device runs in a normal state. The electronic device sends a second message of requiring the second BMC to obtain whether firmware of the second BMC runs in the normal state. Once the second BMC dose not response to the second message in a first predetermined time period, the electronic device recovers the firmware of the second BMC using firmware of the first BMC. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150143157 | Method for controlling operations of server cluster - A server cluster has a plurality of application servers. During failover of a failed node of the application servers, right to use of internet protocol (IP) address of the failed node is transferred to a surviving node of the server cluster according to a failed-link index of the failed node, the total number of surviving nodes of the server cluster, and successful link indexes of the surviving nodes. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150301880 | PROVIDING BOOT DATA IN A CLUSTER NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A computer cluster includes a group of connected computers that work together essentially as a single system. Each computer in the cluster is called a node. Each node has a boot device configured to load an image of an operating system into the node's main memory. Sometimes the boot device of a first node experiences a problem that prevents the operating system from loading. This can affect the entire cluster. Some aspects of the disclosure, however, are directed to operations that determine the problem with the first node's boot device based on a communication sent via a first communications network. Further, the operations can communicate to the first node a copy of boot data from a second node's boot device. The copy of the boot data is sent via a second communications network different from the first communications network. The copy of the boot data can solve the first boot device's problem. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160034355 | RECOVERING USABILITY OF CLOUD BASED SERVICE FROM SYSTEM FAILURE - Usability of a cloud based service is recovered from a system failure. A customer transaction associated with the customer experience is executed to simulate the customer experience in the cloud based service. A failure associated with a subsystem the cloud based service is detected from an output of the customer transaction. A recovery action is determined to be associated with the failure. The recovery action is executed on the subsystem and monitored to determine a success status. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160077910 | SUPPORTABILITY FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A system and a method for providing software supportability involve a server receiving a first electronic record from a client application on a mobile computing device. The first electronic record describes activity that occurred at the mobile computing device during a request sent from the client application to the server. The server creates a second electronic record that describes activity that occurred at the server while processing the request. The first electronic record and the second electronic record are stored in association with each other and can be analyzed to determine issues with performance or security. A diagnostic application, based on the stored first electronic record and the second electronic record, identifies at least one faulty component at the server or the mobile computing device to correct the identified at least one faulty component. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160188422 | ONLINE RESTORATION OF A SWITCH SNAPSHOT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes one or more ports, a persistent storage module, a restoration module, and a retrieval module. The persistent storage module stores configuration information associated with the switch in a data structure, which includes one or more columns for attribute values of the configuration information, in a local persistent storage. The restoration module instantiates a restoration database instance in the persistent storage from an image of the persistent storage. The retrieval module retrieves attribute values from a data structure in a current database instance and the restoration database instance in the persistent storage. The restoration module then applies the differences between attribute values of the restoration database instance and the current database instance in the persistent storage to switch modules of the switch, and operates the restoration database instance as the current database instance in the persistent storage. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160378609 | ALTERNATIVE PORT ERROR RECOVERY WITH LIMITED SYSTEM IMPACT - Various embodiments for troubleshooting a network device in a computing storage environment by a processor. A determination is made if a parity error in a specific port is either an instruction cache parity error or a recoverable data cache type parity error. If the parity error is determined not to be the instruction cache parity error, and determined not to be the recoverable data cache type parity error, a full recovery operation is initiated. | 12-29-2016 |
