ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,276, issued on July 29, was assigned to SHANDONG YINGXIN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Method, system and apparatus for fault positioning in starting process of server" was invented by Hongrui Han (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus for fault location in a boot process of a server, the method including: dividing a whole boot process of a server into a plurality of stages in advance, and setting a respective fault monitoring policy for each of the stages (S1); when the boot process proceeds to a target stage, monitoring a current boot process of the server according to th...