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US 2008/0189369 A1Published application
Computing System Infrastructure To Administer Distress Messages
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsNirupama Chandrasekaran, Gopal Parupudi, Prabhu Padhi, Ben Yim, Atif Gul
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Abstract
A system and method that allows for distress or SoS messages from various managed resources to be sent to a reliable location such as a server. The server can gather the distress messages and provide a summary or health status based on the gathered distress messages.
Claims20
A resource comprising:
- a memory;
- one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory;
- and
- an interface couple to the memory, configured to provide an interface between the resource and a dedicated communication channel, wherein the communication channel provides for a distress message from the resource to a central location that is continuously available to the resource.
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A server comprising:
- a memory;
- one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory;
- and
- a collector included in the memory, and configured to receive one or more distress messages, wherein the one or more distress messages are received through a communication pipe from one or more resources.
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A method comprising:
- identifying one or more distress messages at one or more resources;
- communicating the identified distress messages to a dedicated location;
- and
- filtering the communicated distress messages based a predetermined format.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.