Methods and apparatus for fault-detecting and fault-tolerant process control

S Galpin - US Patent 7,043,728, 2006 - Google Patents
A method of process, industrial, environmental or other control includes executing a first
sequence of instructions in a first process (or thread) and executing a second sequence of …

Real time monitoring of computer for determining speed and energy consumption of various processes

E Shochat, D Elkind - US Patent 9,032,254, 2015 - Google Patents
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system and method which enable to
identify one or more causes for excessive energy consumption in a computer executing one …

Apparatus and method of optimizing database clustering with zero transaction loss

J Shi, S Song - US Patent App. 11/776,143, 2008 - Google Patents
An efficient database cluster system that uses multiple stand-alone database servers with
independent datasets to deliver higher processing speed and higher service availability at …

Virtual volume storage

N Watanabe, A Yamamoto - US Patent 6,748,502, 2004 - Google Patents
5,901.228 A* 5/1999 Crawford..................... 705/34 Service provider Site configured to
provide a data Storage 5,909,696 A* 6/1999 Reinhardt et al.... 711/144 Service; and a user …

Incremental checkpointing in a multi-threaded architecture

SS Mukherjee, SK Reinhardt, JS Emer - US Patent 7,243,262, 2007 - Google Patents
See application file for complete search history. A processor executes corresponding
instruction threads as a (56) References Cited sing thread and a trailing thread. For a …

Hardware recovery in a multi-threaded architecture

SK Reinhardt, SS Mukherjee, JS Emer - US Patent 7,373,548, 2008 - Google Patents
Log-based hardware recovery. A checkpointed state of a system includes both architectural
register values and memory. The checkpoint consists of a copy of the architectural register …

Infospheres distributed object system

KM Chandy, J Kiniry, A Rifkin, D Zimmerman… - US Patent …, 2005 - Google Patents
A distributed system framework and a distributed system architecture that includes three
features: it can accommodate a large number of addressable entities, it is possible to …

Periodic checkpointing in a redundantly multi-threaded architecture

SK Reinhardt, SS Mukherjee, JS Emer - US Patent 7,308,607, 2007 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Processors are becoming increasingly Vulnerable to tran sient faults
caused by alpha particle and cosmic ray Strikes. These faults may lead to operational errors …

Method and apparatus for providing process pair protection for complex applications

LA Laranjeira, GW Gordon, JA Jones, I De Leon… - US Patent …, 2002 - Google Patents
The following application claims the benefit of US provisional application Ser. No.
60/081,205 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Fault Tolerant Execution of Application …

Method and apparatus for database fault tolerance with instant transaction replication using off-the-shelf database servers and low bandwidth networks

S Song - US Patent 6,421,688, 2002 - Google Patents
US6421688B1 - Method and apparatus for database fault tolerance with instant transaction
replication using off-the-shelf database servers and low bandwidth networks - Google Patents …