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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:
Oct. 11, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jon K Lexau, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allan J Zmyslowski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Quang H Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert A Shaw, San Jose, CA (US);
Carolee V Newcomb, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395575 ; 371-81 ;
Abstract
A timer unit that permits individual timer registers to be taken offline from the timer complex. A single register is taken offline instead of checkstopping the entire computer system due to a damaged timer, for example, thereby reducing system outages and thus providing increased availability of the system.