Patents Examined by Indranil Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 11429490
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor, a basic input/output system (BIOS) comprising a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to initialize components of the information handling system; and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to, during a pre-Extensible Firmware Interface Initialization (PEI) phase of the BIOS, operate as a network proxy for the BIOS to allow the BIOS to communicate data via an out-of-band network interface of the management controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ibrahim Sayyed, Sumanth Vidyadhara, Adolfo S. Montero
  • Patent number: 11416433
    Abstract: The performance of a wireless dock can be enhanced when a USB mass storage device is connected to the wireless dock. Filter drivers can be loaded on the USB stacks of a computing device and the wireless dock to perform functionality for reducing the number of communications that are sent over a wireless network when a USB mass storage device is connected to the computing device via the wireless dock. This reduction in the number of communications can be accomplished without jeopardizing data integrity or compliance with governing protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer
  • Patent number: 11403158
    Abstract: Discrete logic safety systems for smart process control devices are disclosed. A discrete logic safety system includes a heartbeat monitor to be operatively coupled to a processor of the process control device to monitor a first condition of the processor, a sensor monitor to be operatively coupled to a sensor of the process control device to monitor a second condition of the sensor, and first discrete logic operatively couple to the heartbeat monitor and the sensor monitor to generate a failure indication associated with the process control device based on the first condition or the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: FISHER CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL LLC
    Inventors: Kurtis Jensen, William Sean Raymond, Eric Strong, Greg Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11392472
    Abstract: A test controller functionally tests components of a modular data center (MDC) that is being manufactured. Functional test(s) for quality assurance of an environmental control system (ECS) are determined for an information technology pre-assembled component (ITPAC) module and an environmental system (ES) module that are configured for being coupled together for cooling of heat-generating equipment of the ITPAC module at a deployed location. For each functional test(s), the test controller identifies input signal value(s) associated with one of the modules. The test controller emulates, via a communication test cable connected between the one module and the test controller, the identified input signal value(s). The test controller determines, via the communication test cable, any response by the one module to the input signal value(s). The test controller compares the determined response to an expected response and generates and outputs test data based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffery T. Sayles, Mario E. Salazar Granados
  • Patent number: 11392467
    Abstract: Failover between decentralized identity stores in the context of there being multiple decentralized identity stores that are each under the control of a single decentralized identity to store data belonging to or regarding the decentralized identity. Third parties can use the decentralized identity to at least conditionally access the data of the primary decentralized identity store. However, in response to detecting a failover event, one of the remaining decentralized identity stores is promoted as the new primary decentralized identity store. As part of this promotion, the new primary decentralized identity store replaces the old primary decentralized identity store as being the decentralized identity store that is accessed using the decentralized identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Murdoch, Ankur Patel, Daniel James Buchner
  • Patent number: 11385950
    Abstract: Techniques for predicting failure mode specific reliability characteristics of tangible equipment using parametric probability models are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer system receives a model training configuration entered via a user interface, trains a failure curve model for a selected failure mode of a selected equipment model based on the model training configuration at a time indicated by training schedule data, generating, and generates analytical data for the selected failure mode of the selected equipment model using the trained failure curve model. The failure mode corresponds to a specific way in which the equipment model is capable of failing. In some example embodiments, the training of the failure curve model comprises determining a shape parameter and a scale parameter for the failure curve model based on a fitting of failure event data to a continuous probability distribution, and storing the parameters for use in generating the analytical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Rashmi B. Shetty
  • Patent number: 11379295
    Abstract: Generally described, the present disclosure relates to the use of a virtual machine monitor to instruct one or more virtual processing units belonging to a malfunctioning virtual machine instance to pause processing. While paused, the virtual machine monitor may store the register data of the virtual processing units to virtual memory of the virtual machine instance (e.g., perform a register dump on behalf of the virtual processing units of the malfunctioning virtual machine instance). The virtual machine monitor may then instruct virtual processing units to reinitialize and invoke protected software (e.g., a crash kernel) from virtual memory in an effort to recover from virtual memory the register data dumped there by the VM monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David William Martin Woodhouse
  • Patent number: 11341013
    Abstract: A debugging device includes a plurality of debug units, a UART port, and a processor. The debugging device is communicated with an electronic device through the UART port. The processor can receive debug signals from the terminal through the UART port, generate a plurality of debug controlling commands based on the debug signals, and send the plurality of debug controlling commands to the plurality of debug units, for controlling the plurality of debug units to debug the electronic device according to the plurality of debug controlling commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiao-Long Zhou
  • Patent number: 11334455
    Abstract: Described herein is a computer implemented method for repairing data inconsistency between a first mirror node and a primary cluster. The method comprises retrieving a snapshot of the one or more objects from a primary cluster; determining from the snapshot of the objects, one or more operations for the mirror node to perform to ensure data consistency between the mirror node and the primary cluster; and performing the operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN INC.
    Inventors: Richard Friend, Bryan Turner, Manish Goyal
  • Patent number: 11334444
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer program product for managing storage systems. A method comprises, in response to receiving a command to recover a storage system, reading first configuration information from a first disk of the storage system to be recovered, the first configuration information indicating a first disk array group to which the first disk belongs. The method further comprises recovering the first disk array group based at least on the first configuration information. The method further comprises, in response to the first disk array group being recovered, reading second configuration information from the first disk array group, the second configuration information indicating a storage resource pool to which the first disk array group belongs. Additionally, the method further comprises recovering the storage resource pool based at least on the second configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Bernie Hu, Vicent Wu, Olivia Juan Huang, Amber Jing Li, Ying Yu
  • Patent number: 11334452
    Abstract: A tool for performing remote part reseat actions. Responsive to receiving a request for a scheduled operation, the tool generates an operation table in a push file. Responsive to a determination that there is at least one redundant component for the scheduled operation, the tool identifies the at least one redundant component. The tool determines one or more tolerable errors for the at least one redundant component. The tool appends the at least one redundant component and the one or more tolerable errors to the operation table in the push file. The tool schedules the push file to prescribe one or more recovery operations for the scheduled operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kelly Vaughn, Michael Kane, Dane Warren, Thomas Mathias
  • Patent number: 11327862
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are vector index registers for storing or loading indexes of true and/or false results of conditional operations using multiple lane processing in vector processors. Each of the vector index registers store multiple addresses for accessing multiple positions in operand vectors in various types of operations that can leverage multi-lane processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Jeffrey Wallach
  • Patent number: 11327858
    Abstract: Systems and processes are disclosed to preserve data integrity during a storage controller failure. In some examples, a storage controller of an active-active controller configuration can back-up data and corresponding cache elements to allow a surviving controller to construct a correct state of a failed controller's write cache. To accomplish this, the systems and processes can implement a relative time stamp for the cache elements that allow the backed-up data to be merged on a block-by-block basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Adithya Uligere Narasimhamurthy, Ritvik Viswanatha, Michael Barrell
  • Patent number: 11321178
    Abstract: Occurrence of a RAID double failure in a slice of a RAID protection group (failed slice) renders data stored in the back-end tracks of the failed slice vulnerable to loss. When a RAID double failure is detected, a new slice is added to the RAID protection group. Front-end tracks that map to the good back-end tracks of the failed slice are moved from the back-end tracks of the failed slice to the back-end tracks of the newly added slice. Any front-end tracks that mapped to the bad back-end tracks of the failed slice are made to be write pending and written to corresponding back-end tracks of the newly added slice. Front-end tracks that map to the bad back-end tracks may be made to be write-pending in connection with a host write operation, by reading the front-end tracks from a local backup, or from a remote backup location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L. P.
    Inventors: Rong Yu, Peng Wu, Shao Hu, Lixin Pang
  • Patent number: 11321179
    Abstract: A circuit at an interface between a device and an interconnect fabric is configured to track outstanding transactions associated with the device and ensure the completion of the outstanding transactions before rebooting or powering down the device. In some embodiments, the circuit is also configurable to provide appropriate responses when the device is powered down or is being rebooted such that other devices in the system can still operate even without knowing that the device is inactive and would not hang because no response is received from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Xu, Thomas A. Volpe, Ron Diamant, Mark Anthony Banse
  • Patent number: 11307948
    Abstract: A fault injection method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, which are related to the technical fields of computers and cloud computing, in particular to the field of testing. The fault injection method includes: acquiring a fault injection task, which includes at least one target service identification and a fault scenario corresponding to the target service identification; determining a target service according to each target service identification, and acquiring a state of the target service; and injecting the fault scenario corresponding to the target service identification into the target service in a case that the state of the target service is a normal state. The application is beneficial to reduction of labor cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu Guan
  • Patent number: 11307915
    Abstract: Systems, devices, computer-implemented methods, and/or computer program products that facilitate fault localization for distributed applications. In one example, a system can comprise a process that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a graph compiler and a partitioning component. The graph compiler can generate a hypernode graph for a distributed application using causality data inferred from log data generated by services emitting errors. The distributed application can comprise the services. The partitioning component can cluster the services into a plurality of groups using the hypernode graph and an objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Larisa Shwartz, Jinho Hwang, Pooja Aggarwal, Seema Nagar
  • Patent number: 11301327
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for managing data. The method includes detecting a failure of a persistent storage device in a data node of a plurality of data nodes, and in response to the detecting, initiating a rebuilding of data in a spare location using proactive copy metadata and slice metadata, wherein the data is a copy of data that was stored in the persistent storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Dharmesh M. Patel, Rizwan Ali, Ravikanth Chaganti
  • Patent number: 11294759
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes obtaining data associated with execution of a model deployed in a computing environment. At least a portion of the obtained data is analyzed to detect one or more failure conditions associated with the model. One or more restoration operations are executed to generate one or more restoration results to address one or more detected failure conditions. At least a portion of the one or more restoration results is sent to the computing environment in which the model is deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Evelyn Duesterwald, Punleuk Oum, Gaodan Fang, Debashish Saha, Anupama Murthi, Waldemar Hummer
  • Patent number: 11263100
    Abstract: This application provides a testing method and a testing device to determine a problem source of a server failure. When a server experiences a failure, one or more than one Electro Magnetic Susceptibility (EMS) tests are performed and the time domain waveforms during an EMS test are compared to determine whether the server failure is related to EMS interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZHENGZHOU YUNHAI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Dang