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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Randall K Shingai, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tandem Computers Incorporated, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395425 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A method and process for providing a memory dump of less than the entire contents of memory is provided. The memory locations to be dumped are selected on the basis of recency of use, so that there is a high probability that portions of memory needed for analysis or evaluation of the computer system will be included in the selective dump. Preferably, the select ion is made on the basis of information or hardware which is already provided in the computer system. In one preferred embodiment, memory to be dumped is selected on the basis of memory locations encoded for by a translation lookaside buffer.