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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010

Filed:

Jan. 26, 2006
Applicants:

William T. Boyd, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Douglas M. Freimuth, New York, NY (US);

William G. Holland, Cary, NC (US);

Steven W. Hunter, Raleigh, NC (US);

Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);

Steven M. Thurber, Austin, TX (US);

Madeline Vega, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

William T. Boyd, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Douglas M. Freimuth, New York, NY (US);

William G. Holland, Cary, NC (US);

Steven W. Hunter, Raleigh, NC (US);

Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);

Steven M. Thurber, Austin, TX (US);

Madeline Vega, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for routing error messages in a multiple host computer system environment to only those host computer systems that are affected by the error. The environment includes multiple host computer systems that share multiple devices utilizing a switched fabric. An error is detected in one of the devices. Routing tables that are stored in fabric devices in the fabric are used to identify ones of the host computer systems that are affected by the error. An error message that identifies the error is routed to only the identified ones of the host computer systems.


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