Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Data processing system error or fault handling – Reliability and availability
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-24
2005-05-24
Baderman, Scott (Department: 2114)
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Data processing system error or fault handling
Reliability and availability
C370S225000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06898728
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a computing system on a system domain-by-system domain basis are disclosed. In one aspect of the present invention, the apparatus is a computing system comprises a plurality of system domains, a centerplane interconnecting the system domains, and a system controller. The system controller is capable of detecting a condition triggering a reconfiguration and reconfiguring a signal path affected by the condition from a first mode to a second mode. In a second aspect of the present invention, the method for reconfiguring a signal path in a computing system including a plurality of system domains comprises: detecting a condition triggering a reconfiguration of the computing system; reconfiguring a signal path affected by the condition from a first mode to a second mode responsive to detecting the condition; leaving the unaffected system domains configured in the first mode; and operating the affected system domains in the second mode and the unaffected system domains in the first mode.
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Drogichen Daniel P.
Phelps Andrew E.
Baderman Scott
Kivlin B. Noäl
Lohn Joshua
Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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