Backplane

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2011-07-26

2011-07-26

Bonzo, Bryce P (Department: 2113)

Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery

Data processing system error or fault handling

Reliability and availability

Reexamination Certificate

active

07987388

ABSTRACT:
There is described a backplane with connections for connecting functional units. The backplane has hardware resources to handle software tasks, wherein the hardware resources are redundantly implemented or comprise essentially identical hardware modules, and wherein the hardware resources are organized in such that the software tasks are dynamically assigned to the hardware resources.

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