Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Benjamin R Garbers

David R Engebretsen

Jaimeson Saley

David Lee Hermsmeier

Stephen A Knight

Andrew Thomas Thorstensen

Dale Arthur Peterson

Brian David McManus

A distributed network switch includes multiple switch modules connected by one or more physical cables. One switch module may determine which connector port of a remote switch module is connected by physical cable based on information received from the remote switch module, including link identifiers, and further based on a physical topology predetermined about the type of remote switch module.

Constructing and verifying switch fabric cabling schemes

The present invention monitors usage of an operating system at an application program interface ('API') level and monitors changes in API functionality associated with an upcoming release to manage the version change process. A computer system is configured to track a collection of API functions associated with a first version operating system currently installed and to record the subset of API functions that have been called by applications during operation of the first version operating system. The computer system is further configured to manage the subset of API functions and generate a comparison between the subset and a list of API functions that have changed between a second version and the first version operating system. Finally, the computer system is configured to report the result of the comparison back to the user.

Computer implemented API management mechanism for generating upgrade risk level handling

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Onalaska, WI, United States of America

Benjamin R Garbers