US PATENT SUBCLASS 710 / 15
.~ Peripheral monitoring

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710 /   HD   ELECTRICAL COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS: INPUT/OUTPUT

1  DF  INPUT/OUTPUT DATA PROCESSING {16}
15.~ Peripheral monitoring {4}
16  DF  .~.~> Characteristic discrimination
17  DF  .~.~> Availability monitoring
18  DF  .~.~> Activity monitoring
19  DF  .~.~> Status updating

DEFINITION

Classification: 710/15

Peripheral monitoring:

(under subclass 1) Subject matter further comprising means or steps for enabling a digital data processing system or computer to detect or observe an operating characteristic or condition of the peripheral.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

379, Telephonic Communications,

34+, and 112+ for service monitoring and usage monitoring in telephonic communications.

713, Electrical Computers and Digital Data Processing Systems: Support,

1, 2, 100 for digital data processing system initialization and configuration at boot-time.

714, Error Detection/Correction and Fault Detection/Recovery,

1+, for furthering the reliability or availability of peripherals, especially subclass 5 for memory or I/O subsystem affected faults, subclass 43 for bus or I/O channel device fault, subclass 47 for performance monitoring, subclasses 712+ for transmission facility testing, and subclasses 718+ for memory testing.