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Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2007
Applicants:

Kishore Kumar Muppirala, Karnataka, IN;

Santosh Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Harish S. Babu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Ashok Rajagopalan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kishore Kumar Muppirala, Karnataka, IN;

Santosh Rao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Harish S. Babu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Ashok Rajagopalan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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