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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:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
Applicants:
Trung M. Tran, Round Rock, TX (US);
Sze Tom, Austin, TX (US);
Alan C. Folta, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are novel methods and apparatus for manipulating and generating a real-time counter in network computing environments. In an embodiment, a method of tracking a defect is disclosed. The method includes providing a defect abstract, the defect abstract including information to identify the defect; identifying a component having the defect; assigning a user to resolve the defect; and assigning a defect number to identify the defect, the defect number obtained by incrementing a counter value stored in a file, the file being accessible by a single user at a time.