High reliability system, apparatus and method for generating connective relation, and computer readable storage medium
US6378085B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 15, 1999 |
| Grant date | Apr 23, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 15, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/008
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Failure rate cost assigning means 81 assigns a cost to each functional unit in functional unit set 1 in accordance with a failure rate thereof. Random cost assigning means 82 assigns a random cost to each functional unit. Duplication cost assigning means 83 assigns to each functional unit a cost in accordance with the number of connective relations that use the functional unit. Connective relations are stored in connective relation storage 5. As a result, the sum of the costs is stored in cost storage section 92. Constraint storage section 93 stores the constraints on connective relations of the functional units. Connective relation generating means 84 interprets the sum of the costs stored in cost storage section 92 as the cost of each functional unit. Connective relation generating means 84 generates a set of connective relations of functional units which minimizes a sum of the costs of the functional units from the connective relations of the functional units which satisfy the constraints stored in constraint storage section 93. Connective relation generating means 84 stores the set of the connective relations in connective relation storage 5.
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