International Business Machines Corporation

Dell Products Inc.

Alex Chunghen Chow

Maximino Aguilar, Jr

Mark Richard Nutter

Michael Norman Day

James Xenidis

Michael Stan Gowen

Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni

John S Wang

Pushkala Iyer

Bruce A Tate

John Paul Harvey

Stephen B Gest

A method and an information handling system (IHS) provide hierarchical failure recovery for firmware components of the information handling system. According to one aspect, a hierarchical recovery and learning module (HRLM) detects firmware component failure. The HRLM initiates a hierarchical failure recovery by executing recovery sequences from a set of hierarchically ordered recovery sequences. The HRLM determines whether the detected failure was corrected by executing the recovery sequence. If the HRLM further determines that the failure is not corrected by executing the set of hierarchically ordered recovery sequences, the HRLM dynamically generates a new recovery sequence(s) using commands selected from at least one of the previously executed recovery sequences and executes the new recovery sequence(s). If the failure is corrected by a new recovery sequence, the HRLM forwards the particular recovery sequence to a customer support site for use by other systems in addressing similar or identical failures.

Auto-didacted hierarchical failure recovery for remote access controllers

Systems and methods are provided for deploying new software application features as a dynamically-loadable executable package including one or more dynamically-linked shared dependent libraries. The dynamically-loadable executable package may be capable of being loaded into volatile memory and executed in an information handling system environment with or without the dependent shared libraries, and without duplicating the presence or use of redundant shared libraries that may be already present on the existing software stack.

Systems and methods for embedded shared libraries in an executable image

Loading software on a plurality of processors is presented. A processing unit (PU) retrieves a file from system memory and loads it into its internal memory. The PU extracts a processor type from the file's header which identifies whether the file should execute on the PU or a synergistic processing unit (SPU). If an SPU should execute the file, the PU DMA's the file to the SPU for execution. In one embodiment, the file is a combined file which includes both PU and SPU code. In this embodiment, the PU identifies one or more section headers included in the file which indicates embedded SPU code within the combined file. In this embodiment, the PU extracts the SPU code from the combined file and DMA's the extracted code to an SPU for execution.

Loading software on a plurality of processors

A method for managing multiple processors in the execution of one or more processes in a task-based library platform. The one or more processes are partitioned into highly granulized sub-tasks from a library calling process, whereby each sub-task has a protection attribute associated with it. The protection attribute designates processing resources that a processor may use in the execution of the sub-task. The sub-tasks are placed in a central task queue, whereby idling processors in the multiple processor system obtain consecutive sub-tasks in the queue until all the processes have been executed. Each processor executes a sub-task using only those processing resources that have been designated as being available by the protection attribute of the sub-task. The atomic execution results of the one more sub-tasks may then be combined into an execution result for the process. Also provided is a task-based library for processor management.

Operating system kernel-assisted, self-balanced, access-protected library framework in a run-to-completion multi-processor environment

A processing unit (PU) retrieves a file from system memory and loads it into its internal memory. The PU extracts a processor type from the file's header which identifies whether the file should execute on the PU or a synergistic processing unit (SPU). If an SPU should execute the file, the PU DMA's the file to the SPU for execution. In one embodiment, the file is a combined file which includes both PU and SPU code. In this embodiment, the PU identifies one or more section headers included in the file which indicates embedded SPU code within the combined file. In this embodiment, the PU extracts the SPU code from the combined file and DMA's the extracted code to an SPU for execution.

An apparatus for moving graphical objects including a display for displaying multiple graphical objects according to a display priority, apparatus for moving, responsive to a user input, a displayed graphical object, and apparatus for modifying, responsive to a user input, a display priority of the moved graphical object as the graphical object is moved so that the moved graphical object is displayed under a portion of a second displayed graphical object. In addition, a method for moving graphical objects including displaying multiple graphical objects according to a display priority on a display, moving, responsive to a user input, a displayed graphical object, and modifying, responsive to a user input, a display priority of the moved graphical object as the graphical object is moved so that the moved graphical object is displayed under a portion of a second displayed graphical object.

Method and apparatus for interlocking graphical objects

A system and method for changing the methods of an object based on the mode of the application. Two types of dictionaries are used, a first type which defines all of the methods for an object for a particular mode and a second type which defines all of the modes supported by an application. In addition, a variable can be used to store the dictionary of methods for the current mode. This invention uses object oriented programming techniques.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Alex Chunghen Chow