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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2005
Larry Lancaster, Alameda, CA (US);
Raymond M. Cooke, El Granada, CA (US);
Larry Lancaster, Alameda, CA (US);
Raymond M. Cooke, El Granada, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An automated system to identify, categorize, detect, and report on unreliable components based on defining, generating, transmitting, collecting, aggregating, and operating on product operational data for observations received from devices in the field, such as over a network. In response to an observation for a product, the automated system automatically updates reliability statistics for components or families associated with the observation according to a set of computations or arithmetic operations without recalculating the reliability statistic.