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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:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 20, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John M. Clifton, Hertforshire, GB;

Matthew John Fairhurst, Winchester, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/302 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/3409 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes evaluating event history information for each of one or more events associated with a hardware entity against a symptom rule, the symptom rule defining a validity state of a diagnosis. The method also includes identifying contextual information by receiving and inspecting the event history information in response to the symptom rule being satisfied and the diagnosis being validated. An indication of the validity state of the diagnosis is sent to at least one subscriber that has requested a subscription specifically for the diagnosis.


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