Patent classifications
G06F11/1415
Data backup and charging device for communication devices
A device interfaces with a mobile communication device, for example, a smartphone or tablet, that has data stored in a memory. A device body has a data storage element integrated inside the device body. A first interface receives alternating current (AC) voltage from a mains power supply. A second interface detachably and electronically couples the mobile communication device to the data storage element. The second interface also provides direct current (DC) voltage to the mobile communication device. A data management application on the mobile communication device issues a command for the device to receive a copy of a subset of the data stored in the memory of the mobile communication device. The received copied subset of data is stored in a protected format having at least one layer of protection in the data storage element. A unique identifier associates the stored subset of data with the mobile communication device.
Phased network formation for power restoration
In one embodiment, a device receives a router advertisement message after a power outage event in a network. The device joins the network, in response to receiving the router advertisement message. The device sends a power restoration notification message via the network. The device selectively delays a disconnected node from joining the network.
Method and apparatus for configuring I/O cells of a signal processing IC device into a safe state
A peripheral integrated circuit (IC) device for providing support to a data processing IC device. The peripheral IC device comprises a fault detection component arranged to detect an occurrence of fault conditions within the data processing IC device. The peripheral IC device further comprises a safe state control component. Upon detection of a fault condition occurring within the data processing IC device by the fault detection component, the safe state control component is arranged to cause at least one I/O cell of the data processing IC device to be configured into at least one scan-chain, and cause at least one predefined control signal to be scanned into the at least one scan-chain to configure the at least one I/O cell into a state corresponding to the predefined control signal.
Driver switch for device error recovery for assigned devices
An error recovery system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, a primary device, a backup device, a hypervisor executing on the processor, and a virtual machine. The virtual machine includes a guest operating system (OS) executing on the hypervisor, a pass-through device, and a guest driver. The hypervisor executes to detect an error associated with the primary device and to send a request to save a device state to the guest driver. The hypervisor also grants the guest OS access to the backup device. The guest driver receives the request from the hypervisor, and responsive to receiving the request, saves a state signature in the memory. The state signature includes a device signature and the device state of the primary device. Additionally, the guest driver determines a status of the device signature as one of matching and mismatching the backup device.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING BACKUPS USING PSEUDO-ASSET BACKUPS
A method that is performed for backing up data. The method includes obtaining an asset backup request; and in response to the asset backup request: obtaining an asset and an asset entry associated with the asset backup request; dividing the asset into pseudo-assets using the asset entry; storing the pseudo-assets across backup storages to generate pseudo-asset backups; initiating the merging of the pseudo-asset backups to generate an asset backup; and updating asset backup metadata based on the asset backup.
DYNAMICALLY SELECTING OPTIMAL INSTANCE TYPE FOR DISASTER RECOVERY IN THE CLOUD
The selection of an optimal restore instance type based on a customer's speed/cost tradeoff resolution is disclosed. Aspects of the anticipated completion time to complete the recovery and completion cost to perform the recovery may be extrapolated based on a baseline or test recovery and/or actual recovery times and costs. An automated restore activity may be performed on a baseline test VM of a predefined size using different restore instance types. An optimal restore instance type is used to form worker VMs that perform the recovery operations.
Self-recovering application
Systems and methods for recovering a process in an application are disclosed. According to some aspects, a guest process is run within an application executing at a computing device. The guest process stores and processes untrusted content. An embedder process is run within the application and in parallel with the guest process. The embedder process stores and processes trusted content and a guest process state. The guest process state is periodically updated based on asynchronous communication between the guest process and the embedder process. The embedder process receives an indication of an execution failure of the guest process. The guest process is recovered after the execution failure based on the guest process state stored by the embedder process.
Service retry collision prevention using prime numbers
Technology for determining an amount of time to wait to retry requests to a representational state transfer (REST) server system for a REST resource, where the time to wait is always chosen to be a prime number of time units (for example, slots, milliseconds). While currently conventional systems will sometimes use a prime number of time units to wait for a retry request, various embodiments of the present invention will always, and invariably, use a prime number of time units. The REST resource may be, for example, a REST application programming interface (API) that is requested by and delivered to a client system using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).
Coordinating fault recovery in a distributed system
In various embodiments, methods and systems for coordinating, between a host and a tenant, fault recovery of tenant infrastructure in a distributed system is provided. A fault occurrence is determined for a tenant infrastructure in the distributed system. The fault occurrence may be a software failure or hardware failure of the tenant infrastructure supporting a service application of the tenant. A fault recovery plan is communicated to the tenant to notify the tenant of the fault occurrence and actions taken to restore the tenant infrastructure. It is determined whether a fault recovery plan response is received from the tenant; the fault recovery plan response is an acknowledgement from the tenant of the fault recovery plan. Upon receiving the fault recovery plan response or at the expiration of a predefined time limit, the fault recovery plan is executed to restore the tenant infrastructure.
ARCHIVING DATA OBJECTS USING SECONDARY COPIES
Exemplary systems and methods for archiving data objects using secondary copies are disclosed. The system creates one or more secondary copies of primary data that contains multiple data objects. The system may maintain a first data structure that tracks the data objects for which the system has created secondary copies and the locations of the secondary copies. To archive data objects in the primary data, the system identifies data objects to be archived, verifies that previously-created secondary copies of the identified data objects exist, and replaces the identified data objects with stubs. The system may maintain a second data structure that both tracks the stubs and refers to the first data structure, thereby creating an association between the stubs and the locations of the secondary copies.