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Patent Inventor Names
Scott T. Millward1
Meera K. Raghunandan1
Ranjani Narayan1
Sabyasachi Sengupta1
Kiran Kumar Kasturi1
Date of Patent
October 14, 2008
1Patent Application Number
110776651
Date Filed
March 11, 2005
1Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for dumping memory. More particularly a computer-implemented method of saving at least some data within volatile storage to non-volatile storage when a computer system panics is described. The method includes the steps of: the computer system defining a specified portion of volatile storage (1) containing data to be saved as a dump device (2), rebooting (8) the computer system without affecting the data within the dump device, and the computer system copying (12) the data in the dump device to non-volatile storage (13). A reboot of the computer system after copying the data to non-volatile storage is not necessary for the computer system to begin (14) normal operation.
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