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US 2006/0224808 A1Published application
System and method to determine if a device error rate equals or exceeds a threshold
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKevin Depew, Travis Bishop
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Abstract
An apparatus and method to determine if a device error rate equals or exceeds a threshold. In an apparatus embodiment, a system comprises a device, and an interrupt handler executable by a processor. The interrupt handler executes, upon expiration of a time period, to determine if a threshold error rate associated with the device has been equaled or exceeded.
Claims25
A system, comprising:
- a device;
- and
- an interrupt handler executable by a processor, said interrupt handler executes, upon expiration of a time period, to determine if a threshold error rate associated with said device has been equaled or exceeded.
A system, comprising:
- means for determining whether a device within the system has experienced an error upon expiration of a periodic time interval;
- means for incrementing an error counter associated with a device that is determined to have experienced an error;
- and
- means for determining whether a count value of said error counter equals or exceeds a threshold.
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A method, comprising:
- upon expiration of a periodic time interval, determining whether a device within a system has experienced an error;
- incrementing an error counter associated with a device that is determined to have experienced an error;
- and
- determining whether a count value of said error counter equals or exceeds a threshold.
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A storage medium containing a system management interrupt handler that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:
- upon expiration of a periodic time interval, determine whether a device within a system has experienced an error;
- increment an error counter associated with a device that is determined to have experienced an error;
- and
- determine whether a count value of said error counter equals or exceeds a threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.