US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 28 for "Deterministic hardware indictment in response to fatal PCIe ntb error" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,409, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Deterministic hardware indictment in response to fatal PCIe ntb error" was invented by Ro Monserrat (Medfield, Mass.), Jonathan Krasner (Coventry, R.I.) and Jerome Cartmell (Millis, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deterministic hardware indictment process is used to indict one Compute Node (CN) of a pair of CNs in response to occurrence of a fatal error on a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) interconnecting the two CN. Status information is exchanged between the CNs on a communication medium that is separat...