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Patent Inventor Names
Barry Douglas Whyte0
Robert Bruce Nicholson0
Date of Patent
May 6, 2008
0Patent Application Number
106669700
Date Filed
September 17, 2003
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A large population of mass-produced devices (80) such as a particular model of computer hard disk drive, are distributed around the world. Each device (80) includes an arrangement for collecting failure analysis data of the device (50). Each device (80) is arranged to transmit this data to the device manufacturers server (10) via the internet (20). The server (10) analyses the data in order to determine trends in failure performance of the population of devices in order to improve future designs and to provide updated software for distribution to the devices (80) via the internet (20).
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