Intel Corporation

Robert L Huff

Daniel A Rich

Kirk D Brannock

Joseph A Schaefer

Kimberly A Davis

William J Chalmers

Michael F Kartoz

Donald Hewett

According to embodiments, the present invention comprises a method and system for managing support of quality of service requirements for various clients of a telecommunications network at a server level. Servers assigned to the various clients may include quality of service descriptors that identify relative priorities of the clients. In the event of a failure or reduced performance of a server, for example, an assignment of respective servers to respective clients may be changed based on the relative priorities of the respective clients.

Method and system for managing quality of service in a network

Embodiments of the invention provide for automatically resolving computer system boot-up problems and for ensuring the reliability of boot-up. According to embodiments, a test of a condition of a computer system may be performed prior to attempting to load an operating system, to ensure the reliability of the system. In other embodiments, a boot-up may be attempted from a plurality of different operating system images, in the event a boot-up from a given operating system image fails.

Method and system for improving computer system boot reliability by executing an application specific test during a boot prior loading an operating system

A method for booting a computer. The method includes initiating a timer for a load and boot process. The load and boot process is monitored. Monitoring includes determined whether or not the load and boot process is completed successfully. Upon substantial completion of the load and boot process, the time is deactivated. The computer may be reset or sent into a system management mode of operation if the timer expires prior to completion of the load and boot process.

Method and/or apparatus for reliably booting a computer system

A BIOS having a set of effectors to initialize harware within the system. The BIOS having a set of macros, each macro of the set of macros having a reference to an effector of the set of effectors, each macro of the set of macros having a set of arguments.

Bios having macro/effector pairs for hardware initialization

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which a portion of system memory is reserved during a system boot operation for storing a set of instructions to be executed to transition a computer system from a first power state to a second power state. The reserved portion is made unavailable for use by an operating system of the computer system. The set of instructions stored in the reserved portion is executed to transition the computer system from the first power state to the second power state in response to a wakeup event.

Method and apparatus for executing instructions loaded into a reserved portion of system memory for transitioning a computer system from a first power state to a second power state

In one embodiment, the invention is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a first d-node having a pointer to a subordinate d-node and an identifier. The apparatus also includes a set of d-nodes, each d-node of the set of d-nodes having an identifier, a pointer to a peer d-node, a pointer to a subordinate d-node and a pointer to an entry. The set of d-nodes is accessible through the pointer of the first d-node. The apparatus also includes a set of entries, each entry of the set of entries having an identifier, a type, a value, and a pointer to an entry. The value of each entry embodies data corresponding to a configuration of a system.

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Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Robert L Huff