Invention Application
- Patent Title: DYNAMIC TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY ANALYSIS FOR FIELD REPLACEABLE UNIT ISOLATION IN A RUNNING SYSTEM
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Application No.: US15651346Application Date: 2017-07-17
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Publication No.: US20190020565A1Publication Date: 2019-01-17
- Inventor: Luiz C. Alves , Patrick J. Meaney , Christopher N. Oelsner , Gary A. Peterson , Christopher Steffen
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F13/40 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
A technique relates to dynamic time-domain reflectometry (TDR). A machine spares a bad lane in a bus. The bad lane is taken offline. TDR is dynamically executed on the bad lane while the bus is still in operation. A defect is isolated using results of the TDR.
Public/Granted literature
- US10666540B2 Dynamic time-domain reflectometry analysis for field replaceable unit isolation in a running system Public/Granted day:2020-05-26
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