Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Digital data processing system initialization or configuration
Reexamination Certificate
2002-06-11
2008-03-25
Suryawanshi, Suresh K (Department: 2115)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Digital data processing system initialization or configuration
C713S002000, C714S023000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07350063
ABSTRACT:
A system and method to determine a healthy group of processors and associated firmware for booting a system after a resetting event is disclosed. Redundant copies of processor specific firmware are examined for validity. Processors determine their own health status, and one processor determines a group of processors with the best available health status. Inter-processor interrupt messages provide the communication mechanism to allow an algorithm to determine a group of processors to continue booting the system.
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Blakely , Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP
Suryawanshi Suresh K
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