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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1998
Lin-Juan L. Danielson, Tomball, TX (US);
Patrick E. Dobyns, Garland, TX (US);
Thomas J. Hernandez, Houston, TX (US);
Ronald A. Neyland, Spring, TX (US);
Richard A. Stupek, Houston, TX (US);
James E. Barron, Spring, TX (US);
Cheryl X. Chen, Tomball, TX (US);
Andrew J. Miller, Houston, TX (US);
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An in-band/out-of-band alert delivery system for a computer system manager includes an alert log which maintains a record of alerts to be delivered and the status of those alerts, an alert manager for making a first attempt to deliver each alert, and a retry manager for making subsequent attempts to deliver alerts as becomes necessary and appropriate. The alert delivery system may also include a bus master interface manager for making in-band alert deliveries and a communications manager for making out-of-band alert deliveries. Telephone numbers are provided to the communications manager by an alert destination list. Out-of-band alert deliveries may be made via a modem, a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter, or the like.