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Recovering a blade in scalable software blade architecture

US7779157B2 · kind B2 · utility

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65References

27Claims

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Assignee

YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC. · US

Inventors

Markus Meyer · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Torsten Schulz · Pinneberg, DE
Marco Boerries · Los Altos Hills, US
Venkatachary Srinivasan · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 28, 2005
Grant date	Aug 17, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 20, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F11/2028
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for servicing user accounts are disclosed. The system includes one or more blades for servicing the user accounts, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, and each blade serves a group of user accounts, a blade manager for managing states of the one or more blades, logic for detecting a failed blade among the one or more blades, and logic for recovering the failed blade using the states of the one or more blades managed by the blade manager.

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