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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2003
Applicants:
Peter M. Piet, Orinda, CA (US);
Rudolph J. Gomez, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Peter M. Piet, Orinda, CA (US);
Rudolph J. Gomez, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G21C 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system of supporting a computer network resource pool. In one embodiment of the invention, a resource pool sparing-plan and a resource pool support-plan are selected; for the selected resource sparing-plan and resource support-plan, the probability that all resources in the resource pool are operating properly is determined. The method is repeated to generate results from which an acceptable support-plan and a sparing-plan is chosen for implementation.