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(21) Application No. 0918/DEL/2000 A (22) Date of filing of Application: 09/10/2000
(54) Title of the invention: “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE
DEPENDABILITY OF AN APPLICATION IN A COMPUTING
SYSTEM.”
(51) International Classification 7 : G06F-7/64
(30) Priority Data:
(31) Document No.: 09/442,003
(32) Date: 17/11/1999
(33) Name of convention country: USA
(66) Filed U/s 5(2): NIL
(61) Patent of addition to application No.: NA
(62) Filed on: NA
(63) Divisional to Application No.: NIL
(64) Filed on: NA
Total No Of Page: 36
(57) Abstract:
(71) Name of the applicant:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE
CORPORATION.
Address of the Applicant:
Armonk, New York 10504 Usa.
(72) Name of the Inventor:
HARPER RICHARD EDWIN
HUNTER STEVEN WADE
A method enhancing software dependability, includes measuring elapsed time in a software system
running on a computer, determining whether the elapsed time matches a threshold, and when the
elapsed time matches the threshold, rejuvenating at least a portion of the software system to reduce the
likelihood of an outage and without modifying and application running in the software system.
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