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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2007
Kishore Kumar Muppirala, Karnataka, IN;
Santosh Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Harish S. Babu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ashok Rajagopalan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kishore Kumar Muppirala, Karnataka, IN;
Santosh Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Harish S. Babu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ashok Rajagopalan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for determining the criticality of a device in a multi-path computer configuration comprising the steps of: traversing a directed acyclic graph representing a platform hierarchy; and determining paths within the directed acyclic graph affected by the removal of the device. A computer system comprising a directed acyclic graph data structure representing a platform hierarchy; and a control arrangement for traversing the directed acyclic graph to determining paths therein affected by removal of a device.