Michael B Mayhew

US Patent:

20090259890, Oct 15, 2009

Filed:

Apr 14, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/082715

Inventors:

Mats Lund - Novato CA, US
Luu Nguyen - Santa Rosa CA, US
Heidi Pickreign - Harvard MA, US
Martin Belanger - Petaluma CA, US
Michael R. Mayhew - Naperville IL, US
Scott Pradels - Santa Rosa CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 11/22

US Classification:

714 35, 714E11148

Abstract:

A hardware health evaluation module is associated with a hardware module or device and employs a linked list of error records to continually evaluate the state of the hardware module to determine whether or not it is currently operating with or without errors. In the event that the health evaluation module determines that the hardware module is not operating in an error free manner, it detects and stores, for a specified period of time, an indication of the error and associates this detected error or errors with one or more of the error records. The error records are designed to provide assistance in diagnosing the cause of a hardware error.