ELECTRONIC COMPONENT HAVING REDUNDANT PRODUCT DATA STORED EXTERNALLY

• US 20170060672A1
• Filed: 10/27/2015
• Published: 03/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: ALLEN, CORVILLE O., HELGESON, LEE N., LI, JENNY S., SANDERS, PHILIP J.
• Application Number:
  US14/923,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20170060672A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0778 Dumping, i.e. gathering error/state information after a fault for later diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/08 Error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation, e.g. by using checking codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1448 Management of the data involved in backup or backup restore
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1662 the resynchronized component or unit being a persistent storage device re-synchronization of failed mirror storage G06F11/2082; rebuild or reconstruction of parity RAID storage G06F11/1008
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1666 where the redundant component is memory or memory area
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2069 Management of state, configuration or failover
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/805 Real-time

Abstract

Embodiments include methods for redundantly storing product data for an electronic component on an external device. Aspects include determining that product data stored in a primary storage device is corrupted and determining whether the product data is available on the external device that is in communication with the electronic component. Based on a determination that the product data stored in the primary storage device is corrupted and that the product data is available on the external device, aspects include obtaining product data from the external device to continue operation of the electronic component.

Claims

1. A method for redundantly storing product data for an electronic component on an external device, the method comprising:

determining that product data stored in a primary storage device is corrupted;

determining whether the product data is available on the external device that is in communication with the electronic component;

based on a determination that the product data stored in the primary storage device is corrupted and that the product data is available on the external device, obtaining product data from the external device to continue operation of the electronic component.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the product data stored on the external device is corrupted.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising initiating a service call to replace the electronic component and halting operation of the electronic component based on a determination that the product data stored on the external device is corrupted.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising initiating a service call to replace the electronic component and halting operation of the electronic component based on a determination that the product data stored in the primary storage device is corrupted and that the product data is not available on the external device.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising obtaining replacement product data by the external device based on a determination that the product data stored on the external device is corrupted.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the product data obtained from the external device in a secondary storage device disposed on the electronic component.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the continued operation of the electronic component with the product data obtained from the external device is limited to a maximum time period.