Shared memory with benign failure modes
CA 2128595 C · Owner: American Telephone And Telegraph Company · Inventors: Merritt, Michael John; Afek, Yehuda; Taubenfeld, Gadi
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Memories which have new benign failure modes. The new failure modes are the omission-crash mode and the eventual-crash mode. Memories having either of thesemodes fail more benignly than memories having the omission failure mode but, unlike memories having the crash failure mode memories with the novel failure, modes may be used to construct gracefully-degrading fault tolerant objects. Implementations of memories with the new failure modes are disclosed along withimplementations of fault-tolerant objects made from memories with the new failure modes.
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- Filed July 21, 1994 and granted August 4, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 21, 2014.
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