59 results about "Computer failure" patented technology

A data processing system service includes enabling the system to perform diagnostic processing in response to a system failure and enabling the system to perform corrective action during the automated diagnostic processing to attempt to resolve the system failure. The service further includes configuring the system to generate a trouble ticket containing information characterizing the system failure and any attempted corrective action regardless of whether the corrective action was successful in resolving the system failure. The system may be further enabled to forward the trouble ticket to an external database for analysis and to access the external database to determine whether the detected failure has been encountered previously. The system may be partitioned into two partitions including a diagnostic partition. The system boots to the diagnostic partition following a failure or in response to a request from a user.

A means for guaranteeing the proper behavior as specified by the JMS semantics of clustered message server when the individual computer that comprise the cluster are separated by a network partition. A clustered message server is responsible for the reliable transportation of messages between different distributed computer applications. It employs multiple computers to perform a function that otherwise appears to be performed by a monolithic server running on one computer, but with more capacity and reliability than can be provided by one computer. If a computer in the cluster fails, another computer should automatically assume the role of the failed computer. However, it is not possible for the other machines in the cluster to detect the difference between the failure of one or more computers in the cluster, and the failure of data network connecting those computers. In ordinary clusters, different actions would be required in these two cases, but since they are impossible to distinguish, computer failure is always assumed and network failure is ignored and the consequence non-deterministic. The invention described here provides a means of responding to failures that yields correct behavior as specified by the JMS semantics whether the failure is due to computer failure or network failure.

Methods and arrangements are provided that substantially reduce the requisite amount of data required to conduct postmortem analysis following a computer failure. The methods and arrangements can be advantageously configured to allow for rapid online user support for a variety of users, computing devices, operating systems, applications, and the like. One method includes determining when to generate a dump file, and generating a dump file by gathering thread, callstack and thread context information for the running thread, process identifying information associated with the running thread, and information identifying the reason for generating the dump file. The resulting dump file is then stored to a storage medium and accessed during subsequent analysis. The dump file can be a kernel minidump file that is associated with an operating system program failure, in which case the running thread is the single thread that was running when the failure occurred. The kernel minidump file would include the kernel callstack and the process identifying information that would identify the process that initiated the single thread. The method is further applicable to non-operating system programs, wherein a user minidump file is generated by also gathering callstack information for all running threads, thread context information for all running threads, and a listing of all loaded modules for the faulting non-operating system program.

A computer condition detection system for detecting conditions of computer components to predict a failure. Conditions on computer components may be detected by a health computer coupled to a main computer (e.g., a computer blade). The health computer may be coupled to sensors on various computer components for detecting conditions such as temperature, airflow velocity, voltage, and current. The health computer may be coupled to an independent health network and may be powered by a separate power supply than the main computer power supply to detect problems even if the main computer fails. The main computer may also be coupled to the sensors to detect conditions on the main computer's components. If a condition is detected that meets a predetermined criterion, corrective or preparative actions may be taken. For example, data on the main computer may be backed up in anticipation of a main computer failure.

A data processing system service and method includes enabling the system to perform diagnostic processing in response to identified system problems and enabling the system to generate a trouble ticket containing machine and problem-specific information. The service and method further include forwarding the trouble ticket to an external server which responds with a unique identifier tied logically to the trouble ticket. The service and method of the present invention requires that requested services such as a help desk call or the return of the system for repair or replacement be obtained only upon presentation of the unique identifier. The system may be partitioned into at least two partitions including a diagnostic partition wherein the diagnostic processing is performed. The system boots to the diagnostic partition upon recognition of a system problem, either automatically or by a user.

The data processing system controls, from the database management system on a host computer, the storage device subsystem which stores log data supplied from the database management system; allocates on a disk cache in the storage device subsystem in advance a log-dedicated buffer area of a size equal to that of the log data output between checkpoints; writes log data into the buffer area; and, in the event of a host computer failure, reads out the log data from the disk cache without making access to a disk device. Since the log information required for the recovery of the data processing device is cached on the storage device side, the time it takes to read the necessary log information can be shortened, which in turn reduces the system recovery time.

The invention provides an apparatus, system, and method for cluster-wide peer recovery in the event of a computer failure. A failure of a first computer is detected and a recovery module is registered as the first computer. In one embodiment, the recovery module is a peer computer. The recovery module retrieves a privately held undo log data through the authorized assumption of the failure identity associated with the failed first computer, backs out in-flight transaction updates of the first computer, and frees up data resources locked by the first computer.

The invention provides a standby computer of an unmanned vehicle. The standby computer is an emergency device used when a central control unit fails and has the functions of giving an alarm to a user, completing emergency pulling over and storing related information into the vehicular black box, and a main operation process of the standby computer includes selecting an alarming mode or a coping method according to whether the user is in the vehicle or not; if the user is in the vehicle and takes over the vehicle, terminating planning directly; if the user is not in the vehicle or does not take over the vehicle, planning a pulling over scheme and executing; reporting to the user about the vehicle position after the vehicle is parked and turning on hazard warning lights. The invention further provides materials, functions and an installing position of the vehicular black box as well as unlocking methods, shell types and an installing mode of a door lock.

Methods and systems for system failure diagnosis and correction include extracting syntactic patterns from a plurality of logs with heterogeneous formats. The syntactic patterns are clustered according to categories of system failure. A single semantically unique pattern is extracted for each category of system failure. The semantically unique patterns are matched to recent log information to detect a corresponding system failure. A corrective action us performed responsive to the detected system failure.

The invention discloses a high-available system state monitoring, forcasting and intelligent management method, and belongs to the field of computer state monitoring and early warning, and the self-management application of computer hardware. A hardware device monitors running states of a chip in a computer and external equipment, forcasts the occurrence of accidents and makes response; and the structure of the hardware device comprises a state monitoring module, an intelligent management module, a data recording and protecting module, and a data mirror module. Compared with the prior art, the high-available system state monitoring, forcasting and intelligent management method provides plentiful data for users and mainboard developers, and reduces the loss of the users caused by computer failure.

The invention discloses a method and a device for calling a client through a web page to treat computer failures. The method comprises the following steps: when a user searches questions relative to computer failures through webpage is detected, the starting of an automatic failure treating client is triggered, and parameters related to the failures can be send to the automatic failure treating client; and the automatic failure treating client pushes resolving scheme to the user, or directly and automatically run a tool for solving the problems. With the help of the technical scheme provided by the invention, the computer failures of the user can be quickly and accurately solved, the time and energy of the user are saved greatly.

The utility model discloses a method to realize the alarm control for computer failure with the redundancy technology thereof, which comprises a module connected with the computer in series and a data processing program. The module is composed of two interfaces, a central control unit with solidified executive programs, a recorder, a short message alarm unit and a restart control device. When the programs in the central control unit are running, the data from the data processing program transmitted by the serial buses can be received, so as to monitor the condition of data transmission. If the computer crashes, the data processing program stops running, thus the central control unit cannot receive the data from the serial ports; meanwhile, the recorder can take down the failure message and the alarm unit can send the warning message to the remote personnel to restart the action and power off the computer, thus realizing timely failure diagnosis, alarm and troubleshooting. The utility model can greatly improve the speed and accuracy of computer failure test, so that the security and reliability of the computer can be enhanced.

The invention discloses a computer failure alarm system which comprises a BIOS, an MCU, a sound chip and a play device, wherein, the BIOS detects the inside of a computer; the MCU, which is connected with the BIOS, receives and processes the error information transmitted by the BIOS; moreover, the MCU transmits the error information to the sound chip; the sound chip drives the play device to send sound alarm according to the received computer error information. The invention realizes direct interception of computer error information at the buzzer driving end of the BIOS, and transmits the error information to the sound chip after being identified and translated by the MCU to select a corresponding sound source of the computer error information; moreover, the play device is driven to send sound alarm, thereby providing convenience for an ordinary computer user in computer maintenance.

The present invention discloses an online examination system and an examination data processing method thereof and belongs to the Internet technical field. According to the method, the answer data of an examinee are recorded in real time; the answer data are uploaded to a server at intervals of a preset time value, so that the answer data can be stored in the server; whether a computer fault or a network abnormality occurs is monitored in real time; if a computer fault or network abnormality occurs, a current examination is suspended, and the examinee is informed of the current condition; and when the examinee uses another computer to continue the examination, or a network is restored, the answer data of the examinee which are saved at the last minute are obtained from the server and are loaded. With the online examination system and the examination data processing method thereof adopted, when a computer fault or a network abnormality occurs during the examination, the examinee can be timely informed; and when the examinee uses another computer to continue the examination, or the network is restored, the answer data of the examinee which are saved at the last minute are obtained from the server and are loaded, and the examinee does not need to re-answer questions.

The invention provides an automatically switching-off system of a hard disk for a computer failure. In the system, a GPIO pin is defined in a south bridge or Super IO or FPGA, and the major function of the pin is to control a power supply switch of the hard disk; when the system detects an error or a failure existing in the data read-write of the hard disk, the switching of a power supply is realized by the GPIO so as to achieve the purposes of energy saving and data safety; when the system detects that a certain hard disk in the system generates a failure in a software mode, a host computer can send out a control signal 1 for switching off the power supply of the hard disk and inform a control module of the hard disk of stopping the communication with the failure hard disk; after the control module of the hard disk finishes the backing-up of data before and after the failure, a control signal 2 can be sent out; only when the control module of the power supply receives the two control information of the control signal 1 and the control signal 2, the control module of the power supply sends out the control signal for switching off the power supply of the failure hard disk; and after the power supply of the failure hard disk is switched off, the purpose of electricity saving is realized and the safety of the data is ensured.

The invention discloses a computer failure reminding method and device and a computer. The computer failure reminding method comprises the steps of: under the condition of stopping supplying power to the computer by an external power supply of the computer, supplying power to a signal latch logic and a failure reminding unit by a power supply switching logic control battery; and latching a failure signal by the signal latch logic, and carrying out failure reminding by the failure reminding unit according to the latched failure signal, wherein the failure signal is used for expressing the current failure condition of the computer. The set battery supplies power when the computer is disconnected with the external power supply, thus the currently-stored failure signal is latched and is subjected to failure reminding under the power supply of the battery, the failure reminding is normally carried out when a server is maintained, thus the difficulty of eliminating the failure is reduced, the efficiency of eliminating the failure is increased, and the time of halt maintenance of the computer is shortened.

The invention discloses a computer breakdown detecting method and device. The method comprises the steps of sending a system management interrupt signal to a processor of the computer, wherein the processor enters a system management mode after receiving the system management interrupt signal, and the system management model is independent of an operating system of the computer; carrying out a preset detection command under the system management model through the processor so as to generate a corresponding detection signal, and judging the reasons why there is breakdown in the computer according to the detection signal. For the computer which has a dead-halt break down, judgment whether the break down belongs to the dead-halt caused by software or belongs to the dead-halt caused by hardware can be accurately made through the method and device, and thus the method and device makes it convenient for a user to quickly and accurately find and solve the dead halt breakdown of the computer.

The present invention provides a method and a system for backing up data (copying data) from a primary computer system onto a removable backup medium and/or a copy computer system combined with verifying the data copied onto the medium and/or computer, whereby a more fail-safe backup system is provided and a stand-in computer in case of primary computer failure is readily available. In particular the verification includes functional tests, wherein the functionality of files and databases on the copy computer system is tested. The method offers the user a possibility of assuring that a functional backup has been obtained and furthermore, in case of breakdown of the primary computer the copy computer may function as stand-in.

The updating of only some memory locations in a multiple computer environment in which at least one applications program (50) executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers M1, M2 . . . Mn each of which has a local memory, is disclosed. Memory locations (A, B, D, E, X) in said local memory are categorized into two groups. The first group of memory locations (X1, X2, . . . Xn, A1, A2, . . . An) are each present in other computers. The second group of memory locations (B, E) are each present only in the computer having the local memory including the memory location. Changes to the contents of memory locations in the first group only are transmitted to all other computers. A computer failure detection mechanism is disclosed to prevent updating of any first group memory locations of any failed computer.

The invention discloses a computer disk bracket. The computer disk bracket includes an outer shell, an inner shell and a disk bracket body, wherein the outer shell is internally provided with the inner shell, damping springs are evenly arranged between the outer side wall of the inner shell and the inner side wall of the outer shell, and the inner shell is internally provided with the disk bracketbody; the end, away from the inner shell, of the disk bracket body is fixedly connected with a top plate, spherical joint convex blocks are fixed at both ends of the inner side of the top plate, andboth sides of the end, close to the top plate, of the outer shell are provided with positioning holes matched with the spherical joint convex blocks; the center of the top of the outer shell is provided with a heat absorption sheet, the portion, outside the heat absorption sheet, of the outer shell is provided with a heat dissipation box, and the top end of interior of the heat dissipation box isprovided with a heat dissipation fan. The computer disk bracket is externally provided with the heat dissipation fan, so that the whole disk bracket body is in a closed environment; therefore, it is effectively avoided that in the process of heat dissipation, dust enters into the disk bracket body, so that computer failure is avoided, and the service life of a computer is prolonged.

The invention discloses a computer software management system and method. At the beginning of software downloading, software source safety and software safety analysis is performed, and software downloading safety is maximally guaranteed; during installation of software, analyzing is also performed according to partition condition of a user computer hard-disk drive, the software is installed in acorresponding partition, and it is convenient for a user to finding and managing the software; during software use, frequency of use of the software is analyzed, related software are recommended for the software having high frequency of use, the software having low frequency of use are downloaded, and therefore, the user can install more interested software at the premise of ensuring hard-disk drive capacity. The computer software management system and method can assist a user during a full course, and allow a nonprofessional user to freely and safely use a computer; computer failure occurs fewer times, so that user experience is greatly improved.

The invention discloses a method for diagnosing a computer through a network. The method comprises the following steps: S1, establishing a BIOS (Basic Input Output System) program of the computer capable of being connected with the network; S2, creating a virtual hard disk in a pre-established shell, and configuring the shell to receive a command for calling a diagnostic program used for diagnosing a computer fault; and S3, storing the diagnostic program in the virtual hard disk, starting the shell and calling the diagnostic program for performing fault diagnosis on the computer. According to the method, the computer fault can be diagnosed without the need for a user to search for and manually execute the diagnostic program and without the need for depending on an operation system, so that the time is shortened, the computer diagnosis process is simplified, and the user experience is good.