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US 2008/0307273 A1Published application
System And Method For Predictive Failure Detection
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsTuyet-Huong T. Nguyen, Mukund Khatri
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Abstract
A method of predicting failure of an information handling device, such as a server, by monitoring an error rate, i.e., n errors per error period. Errors are reported only if the error rate is exceeded. An error count is kept, and errors are leaked from the count if the time difference between errors is more than the error period.
Claims20
A method of predicting failure of an information handling system, comprising:
- determining an error rate of n error(s) per error period of time;
- determining that an error has occurred;
- incrementing an error count;
- determining the time difference between the error and the next previous error;
- if the time difference is less than the error period, generating data representing a predicted failure;
- if the time different is greater than the error period, determining an amount to decrement the error count;
- and
- repeating the above steps for each new error.
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A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for predicting failure of an information handling system, comprising:
- instructions for performing the following operations:
- determining an error rate of n error(s) per error period of time;
- determining that an error has occurred;
- incrementing an error count;
- determining the time difference between the error and the next previous error;
- if the time difference is less than the error period, generating data representing a predicted failure;
- if the time different is greater than the error period, determining an amount to decrement the error count;
- and
- repeating the above steps for each new error.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.