Patents Assigned to Microsoft Technologoy Licensing, LLC
  • Patent number: 9026889
    Abstract: A system and method for mitigating memory errors in a computer system. Faulty memory is identified and tested by a memory manager of an operating system. The memory manager may perform diagnostic tests while the operating system is executing on the computer system. Regions of memory that are being used by software components of the computer system may also be tested. The memory manager maintains a stored information about faulty memory regions. Regions are added to the stored information when they are determined to be faulty by a diagnostic test tool. Memory regions are allocated to software components by the memory manager after checking the stored information about faulty memory regions. This ensures a faulty memory region is never allocated to a software component of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technologoy Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Garrett Leischner, Andrew J. Lagattuta, Matthew Jeremiah Eason, Landy Wang, John R. Douceur, Baskar Sridharan, Edmund B. Nightingale