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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2001
Applicants:

Tim Majni, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Gary J. Piccirillo, Cypress, TX (US);

John M. Maclaren, Cypress, TX (US);

Robert A. Lester, Tomball, TX (US);

John E. Larson, Houston, TX (US);

Jerome J. Johnson, Spring, TX (US);

Benjamin H. Clark, Spring, TX (US);

Patrick L. Ferguson, Cypress, TX (US);

Siamak Tavallaei, Spring, TX (US);

Jeffrey S. Autor, Houston, TX (US);

Christian H. Post, Spring, TX (US);

Dan Fink, Cypress, TX (US);

Jeffery Galloway, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Bret D. Roscoe, Tomball, TX (US);

Inventors:

Tim Majni, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Gary J. Piccirillo, Cypress, TX (US);

John M. MacLaren, Cypress, TX (US);

Robert A. Lester, Tomball, TX (US);

John E. Larson, Houston, TX (US);

Jerome J. Johnson, Spring, TX (US);

Benjamin H. Clark, Spring, TX (US);

Patrick L. Ferguson, Cypress, TX (US);

Siamak Tavallaei, Spring, TX (US);

Jeffrey S. Autor, Houston, TX (US);

Christian H. Post, Spring, TX (US);

Dan Fink, Cypress, TX (US);

Jeffery Galloway, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Bret D. Roscoe, Tomball, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computer system includes a plurality of memory modules that contain semiconductor memory, such as DIMMs. The system includes a host/data controller that utilizes an XOR engine to store data and parity information in a striped fashion on the plurality of memory modules to create a redundant array of industry standard DIMMs (RAID). The host/data controller also interleaves data on a plurality of channels associated with each of the plurality of memory modules. The system implements error interrupt control, ECC error reporting, cartridge error power down procedures in response to command errors, storage of error information in unused segments of each DIMM, hot-pug procedure indicator and remote tagging capabilities of memory cartridges and DIMMs.


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