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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2006
Applicants:
Matthew Kerner, Seattle, WA (US);
Swetha Narayanaswamy, Bangalore, IN;
Barbara Kess, Sammamish, WA (US);
Yi Meng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Weijuan Shi, Issaquah, WA (US);
Michael Ryan Berg, Seattle, WA (US);
Randall K. Winjum, Vashon, WA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew Kerner, Seattle, WA (US);
Swetha Narayanaswamy, Bangalore, IN;
Barbara Kess, Sammamish, WA (US);
Yi Meng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Weijuan Shi, Issaquah, WA (US);
Michael Ryan Berg, Seattle, WA (US);
Randall K. Winjum, Vashon, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus to detect and mitigate disk failure is disclosed. The method may collect data from a disk from time to time and by analyzing the data, may provide an alert that there is a bad disk.