Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery inventions 06/06

20060143492 - System and method for fault detection and recovery: An apparatus and method for automatically detecting and recovering from a fault in a microprocessor-based system. The apparatus and method utilizes a leaky bucket routine and an event handler procedure. The method may further use Object Oriented techniques that abstracts differences between hardware and software faults to allow for the...

20060143493 - Computer network with diagnosis computer nodes: The invention relates to a computer network for configuration, installation, monitoring, error-diagnosis and/or analysis of several physical technical processes, in particular electrical drive processes, which occur under the control, regulation and/or monitoring of several process computer nodes, connected by means of at least one common communication system to at least...

20060143498 - Fail over method through disk take over and computer system having fail over function: When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the primary server to a...

20060143494 - Fault tolerant systems: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of storing context information in an outgoing message sent from a node using a protocol stack having at least one layer, comprising: selectively indicating to a layer of the protocol stack that context information should be obtained...

20060143499 - Flow scheduling for network application: A method and system for distributing flows between a multiple processors. The flows can be received from an external source such as a network, by a front-end processor that recognizes the flow and the associated request, and identifies at least one internal applications processor to process the request/flow. The front-end...

20060143496 - System and method for problem resolution in communications networks: A system and method is provided for using network asset management data including attributes such as device type, location, and link speed for modeling network performance and identifying performance issues. Functionally complete mathematical characterization of a system may be employed in order to create a system for problem recognition and...

20060143497 - System, method and circuit for mirroring data: Disclosed is a system, method and circuit for mirroring data on a data server. According to some embodiments of the present invention, a primary mirroring module associated with a primary server may be adapted to establish data mirroring connections between the primary server and both a primary slave mirroring module...

20060143495 - Workload balancing in environments with multiple clusters of application servers: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for workload balancing in environments with multiple clusters of servers. A process for sharing resources from a pool of servers among a first cluster of servers and a second cluster of servers includes determining a current workload of the first cluster and determining...

20060143501 - System and method for rapid restoration of server from back up: A method of restoring a storage device includes creating an image of the storage device of a computer system; during execution of a boot loader, starting an initialization application that at least partially restores to the storage device, operating system data from the image; modifying a disk driver of the...

20060143500 - Systems and methods for replicating virtual memory on a host computer and debugging using replicated memory: Systems and methods are described for replicating virtual memory translation from a target computer on a host computer, and debugging a fault that occurred on the target computer on the host computer. The described techniques are utilized on a target computer having a processor that has halted execution. Virtual to...

20060143507 - Data-duplication control apparatus: A data-duplication control apparatus that controls a duplication process for duplicating data stored in a storage device that constitutes redundant-array-of-independent-disks includes an information storing unit that stores information on a type of the redundant-array-of-independent-disks of the storage device; and a duplication-source-device selecting unit that selects a storage device of a...

20060143505 - Method of providing data security between raid controller and disk drives: A method of providing data security between RAID controller and disk drives is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a method of providing data security between a redundant array of inexpensive/independent disk (RAID) controller and disk drives in an information handling system includes assigning a key from a plurality of...

20060143504 - Quick drive replacement detection on a live raid system: An apparatus comprising a disk array and a controller. The disk array may be configured to send and receive data from the controller. The disk array generally comprises a plurality of disk drives each configured to store a drive signature. The controller may be configured to (i) receive a data...

20060143506 - Raid storage controller assist circuit, systems and methods: An integrated circuit and associated methods operable therein to provide hardware assist to RAID storage management controllers. The RAID assist integrated circuit offloads a general purpose processor of the storage controller from the responsibility and processing associated with address mapping. RAID geometry and addressing parameters may be stored in a...

20060143508 - Storage controller and method for storage control: Storage destination controller devices wherein N number of data strips and M number of parity strips comprised in each stripe are determined so that the parity strips are not continuously stored to the same memory device between two consecutive stripes when a plurality of stripes, each comprising the N number...

20060143502 - System and method for managing failures in a redundant memory subsystem: A network and a method for network operation are disclosed that facilitates the identification of a failure in the storage subsystem of the network and the recovery from such a failure. The storage subsystem includes storage enclosures that are coupled to each of the server nodes of the network. When...

20060143503 - System and method of enhancing storage array read performance using a spare storage array: A system and method for enhancing read performance of at least one storage array using a spare storage array of coupled spare drives, wherein the at least one storage array includes coupled drives configured to store data according to a redundant storage methodology. Data is copied from at least one...

20060143510 - Fault management system in multistage copy configuration: In a storage system in which a pair is configured by a remote copy, when a fault occurs in the pair, data to be lost is determined. Provided is a management computer connected to a storage system, in which the storage system includes: a primary logical volume in which data...

20060143509 - Methods and apparatus for disabling error countermeasures in a processing system: Methods and apparatus are provided for disabling error handling countermeasures in various processing contexts, such as by monitoring whether a given processing context requires error handling countermeasures; and disabling any recoverable error correction countermeasures when such countermeasures are not required....

20060143511 - Memory mapped spin lock controller: A method, in a computer system having a centralized spin lock controller arrangement, for managing a spin lock between a first processor and a second processor. The first processor holds the spin lock, the second processor contends for the spin lock, and the spin lock is implemented using a line...

20060143513 - Cache coherency during resynchronization of self-correcting computer: A fault-tolerant computer uses multiple commercial processors operating synchronously, i.e., in lock-step. In an exemplary embodiment, redundancy logic isolates the outputs of the processors from other computer components, so that the other components see only majority vote outputs of the processors. Processor resynchronization, initiated at predetermined time, milestones, and/or in...

20060143512 - Checkpoint/resume/restart safe methods in a data processing system to establish, to restore and to release shared memory regions: A method is provided in which checkpointing operations are carried out in data processing systems running multiple processes which employ shared memory in a manner which preserves data coherence and integrity but which places no timing restrictions or constraints which require coordination of checkpointing operations. Data structures within local process...

20060143514 - Computer system and method of controlling communication port to prevent computer contamination by virus or malicious code: The invention may back up or recover a computing device. The computing device may include a user computing environment and a supporting environment which stabilizes and functionality of the user computing environment. The invention may include one or more external devices or removable media....

20060143515 - Method and apparatus for handling errors in a processing system: A processing system may include an operating system (OS) and one or more specialized error handling modules to be registered with the OS after the processing system is powered on. The OS may also include a master policy module. The specialized error handling module may collect error data from a...

20060143516 - System for on demand task optimization: An apparatus, method and program product determines information indicative of a performance differential between operation of a computer with the standby resource activated and operation of the computer with the standby resource inactivated. The information is communicated to a user. The standby resource may be activated in response to the...

20060143517 - Replicated virtual machine: A mechanism that enables a nondeterministic client-server application to be run as a replicated state machine without requiring the application to be modified. A replicated state machine substrate is utilized to coordinate the execution of multiple virtual machine monitors, each of which runs an identical copy of an operating system...

20060143518 - Logic analyzer data processing method: A logic analyzer data processing method used in a logic analyzer (10) having a control circuit (17) adapted to read in test data from a test sample (13), a memory (18) controlled by the control circuit (17) to store the test data received from the test sample (13), and a...

20060143520 - Network connectable household electric appliance, household appliance inspecting system and household electric appliance inspecting service: Network connectable household electric appliances in general home, such as refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens, air conditioners and lighting fixtures and a workstation of a service center are connected to permit communication therebetween. The workstation transmits a password and a running information request signal to a household electric appliance at...

20060143519 - System and method of dynamically setting a fault threshold for an operational module: A system and method for determining a fault threshold for an operational module according to the model of the operational module are described. The system includes an operational module, a storage unit, and a monitoring unit. The operational module has circuitry for producing a characterization signal with an electrical characteristic...

20060143521 - Method for extracting dynamical output messages from software source codes: The present invention provides a method for extracting a dynamical output message from software source codes (10). The method includes the steps of: declaring a variable in the software source codes; assigning the dynamical output message to the variable as a value of the variable; storing the value of the...

20060143522 - Accelerated hardware emulation environment for processor-based systems: An hardware emulation environment is disclosed wherein software execution is accelerated by switching memory and/or peripheral and clock implementation from the hardware emulator toga faster running processor board coupled to the hardware emulator. A switch is positioned between the hardware emulator and a processor running on the processor board. A...

20060143523 - Apparatus and method for debugging embedded software: Techniques for debugging embedded software are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, debugging embedded software is carried conveniently on an embedded software debugging platform that does not use a traditional emulator. Instead, the platform comprises a computer provided with read/write command functions, a control system of an embedded...

20060143524 - Built-in self-test emulator: Systems, methods, and a computer program are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a compiler for developing verification tests of an integrated circuit. The compiler comprises an interface and a built-in self-test (BIST) emulator. The interface includes an input and an output. The interface receives and forwards operator-level instructions to the BIST...

20060143526 - Apparatus for developing and verifying system-on-chip for internet phone: Provided is an apparatus for developing and verifying a system-on-chip for an Internet phone. The object of the present invention is to provide the system-on-chip developing and verifying apparatus for the Internet phone, which can develop and verify the system-on-chip simultaneously by integrating an Advanced RISC Machine(ARM) core module, a...

20060143525 - Shared memory based monitoring for application servers: A system and method to monitor application servers using shared monitoring memory. An application server includes worker nodes having Java virtual machines to process work requests received by the application server. Status information is generated for each of the worker nodes while processing the work requests. The status information for...

20060143527 - Test executive with stack corruption detection, stack safety buffers, and increased determinism for uninitialized local variable bugs: A system and method for detecting and/or preventing execution problems caused by user-supplied code modules that are called by steps of a test executive sequence. The test executive sequence may include a plurality of test executive steps. At least a subset of the steps may be configured to call user-supplied...

20060143528 - Systems and methods for checkpointing: The invention relates to checkpointing memory. In one aspect, a processor directs a write request to a location within a first memory. The write request includes at least a data payload and an address identifying the location. An inspection module identifies the write request before it reaches the first memory,...

20060143529 - Method and system for generating a console log: A method and system are provided for generating a console log of a device (e.g., a router). During the powering on of the device, certain information may have to be written to the console log. If the information to be written is critical, the console log is generated. In case...

20060143530 - Self-repairing computing device and method of monitoring and repair: The invention may backup, maintain backups, or recover data associated with a computing system. The computing system may include any number of components including hardware and software, and any memory accessible to the computing system. The computing system may focus on a user computing system and potentially the supporting environment...

20060143533 - Apparatus and system for testing of software: There is provided a system and apparatus for testing software products. The apparatus includes a manager that (a) receives a request to run a test of a software product, and communicates with a resource to load the software product into the resource, and to automatically configure the software product for...

20060143535 - Computer platform automatic testing method and system: A computer platform automatic testing method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a computer platform for performing an automatic testing procedure on a computer-dedicated circuit unit installed on the computer platform, and which is characterized by the capability of performing an automatic testing procedure...

20060143532 - Cost management of software application portfolio: A method for managing a cost of ownership of a portfolio of N software applications (N≧2). A regression function is identified for each application. Each regression function expresses an approximate cost of ownership of the applications in terms of parameters and coefficients. J applications A1, A2, . . . ,...

20060143534 - Diagnostic memory dumping: A computer-implemented method is disclosed which includes steps of: (A) receiving a memory dump request from a first operating system executing in a computer; and (B) at a program executing in the computer and not forming a part of the first operating system, copying contents of a memory of the...

20060143531 - Method and system for debugging individual threads in a productive environment: A system and method to debug a thread without affecting other threads in a virtual machine. A virtual machine (VM) may execute a thread subject to debugging and another thread. An interface to the VM permits only debugging command that are specific to the thread subject to debugging to affect...

20060143538 - Static timing analysis apparatus and method for distributed real-time embedded software: A static timing analysis apparatus and method for distributed real-time embedded software is provided. The static timing analysis apparatus includes: a task analyzer analyzing tasks per processor from a source code of real-time embedded software if the source code exists or a design model of a corresponding piece of the...

20060143537 - Test executive which provides heap validity checking and memory leak detection for user code modules: A system and method for automatically detecting heap corruption errors and memory leak errors caused by user-supplied code modules that are called by steps of a test executive sequence. The test executive sequence may first be created by including a plurality of test executive steps in the test executive sequence...

20060143536 - Test executive with external process isolation for user code modules: A system and method for isolating execution of user-supplied code modules that are called by steps of a test executive sequence. The test executive sequence may first be created by including a plurality of test executive steps in the test executive sequence and configuring at least a subset of the...

20060143539 - Device and method for debugging embedded system: A device and method for debugging an embedded system are provided. A host system (100) includes: a user interface (110) for managing an interface with a user; a debugging engine (120) for performing a debugging process; and a JTAG command generator (130) for receiving an information necessary for the debugging...

20060143540 - Fault injection selection: A system and method for injecting faults are described. Faults may be injected into a process to determine if a given module handles the fault properly....

20060143542 - Method and computer-readable medium for verifying and saving an electronic document: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for saving the contents of a memory structure stored in a volatile memory. According to the method, corrupted portions of the memory structure are identified and an attempt is made to repair these portions. If the corrupted portions cannot be repaired, the saving...

20060143541 - Method of and apparatus for detecting an error in writing to persistent memory: A technique is provided for detecting errors in persistent memory, such as flash memory, where values of data items are stored at memory locations added consecutively to one end of the already-allocated memory segment. When a new location is added, a pointer to the address of the new location is...

20060143543 - Abstracting the protocol processing of storage enclosure services from the control of enclosure hardware: A SES API is disclosed as an interface between SES protocol code and non-SCSI storage enclosure hardware to abstract the SES protocol code from the control of the hardware. To control the hardware, SES commands are sent to the SES protocol code. The SES protocol code is responsive to the...

20060143544 - Remote status forwarding in a distributed cross-connection system: A method and system for providing component status of a local or receiving component to a distributed component in a communication network is provided. The design determines defect status for the local or receiving component and cross connects the defect status for the local component to at least one distributed...

20060143545 - System and method for providing automatic resets: A method for determining whether to provide automatic reset instructions to a machine with reset capability with respect to a fault code event, the method comprising, in a database, collecting records comprising the identification of the machine, a fault code associated therewith and the duration of a fault associated with...

20060143546 - Method and apparatus for performing external device's diagnostic functions in host computer: Provided are a method and apparatus for performing diagnostic functions of an external device such as a printer, connected to a host computer. The apparatus and method receive information about diagnostic functions supported by the external device from the external device; receive one or more of the diagnostic functions which...

20060143547 - Method and device for identifying the cause of failures in industrial processes: The invention relates to a method and a device for determining the causes of failures in industrial processes, in particular continuous processes with continuous webs, e.g. paper, textiles, plastic or metal films. Equipment and machines for industrial processes, in particular processes with continuous webs are frequently very complex combinations of...

20060143548 - Error detection and reporting: System and method for detecting and reporting an error in communications with customer premise equipment. A preferred embodiment comprises monitoring the communications link between an access device and customer premise equipment located on customer premises. If a communications link fails, or some other condition occurs, an error signal is transmitted...

20060143549 - Method and apparatus for measuring bit error rate (ber) of tuner: A bit error rate (BER) measuring apparatus is provided for measuring BER of an out-of-band tuner. The BER measuring apparatus generates a test signal for measuring the BER of the out-of-band tuner using a transport stream including a pseudo-random bit string (PRBS). In one embodiment, the BER measuring apparatus comprises...

20060143550 - Methods and systems for semiconductor defect detection: A method for semiconductor defect detection, applied to a wafer test in a semiconductor process. A defect test is implemented for generating redundant information. an abnormal test implemented for generating a first FBM. The redundant information is converted to a second FBM. The first and second FBMs are compared, thereby...

20060143551 - Localizing error detection and recovery: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of detecting and correcting an error by detecting the error in a circuit coupled to a first stage of a semiconductor device, and correcting the error in the circuit using valid data present in the circuit. The circuit may be a...

20060143552 - Circuit test pattern edition apparatus, circuit test pattern editing method, and signal-bearing medium embodying a program of circuit test pattern edition: An apparatus that edits a test pattern used in a circuit function test includes a generator that generates a regular pattern that includes a plurality of unit patterns, by inserting a redundant pattern into a test pattern, and a pattern number reduction editor that defines the regular pattern as one...

20060143553 - Error correction processing unit and error correction processing method: The present invention comprises generating sections which generate intermediate information for error correction processing in units of surfaces from an error correction block stored in a first storage section, the error correction block having A/B surfaces, second storage sections which store intermediate information, a processing section which generates correction information...

20060143554 - Scalable traceback technique for channel decoder: Apparatus, system, and method for scalable traceback techniques for channel decoding are described....

20060136772 - Markov model of availability for clustered systems: Availability of a clustered system is determined by identifying all possible states of a cluster, mapping the connections between the states are mapped and determining the probability of the cluster being in each of the states is determined. Availability of the cluster is the sum of the probabilities of being...

20060136771 - Storage system and snapshot data preparation method in storage system: The present invention is devised so that snapshot data preparation processing does not end abnormally as a result of the pool region becoming full with saved data from the primary logical volume during snapshot data preparation. When the CHA receives a snapshot data preparation request, the CHA checks whether or...

20060136773 - Mobile communication device having music player navigation function and method of operation thereof: The invention relates to a mobile communication device including a music player and a method of its operation. In order to improve the usability and to speed the controlling of the implemented music player, a advantageous keyboard layout including a multiple switch is provided. The multiple switch is dedicated to...

20060136774 - Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance: A remote maintenance system is comprised of: a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility; and a monitoring center computer for using maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring center computer includes: a database for storing CAD data for the...

20060136775 - Rram communication system: The present invention provides a RRAM communication system including at least one RRAM controller and a master controller. The master controller is communicatively coupled to each of at least one RRAM controller. The master controller is suitable for loading test input parameters into at least one RRAM controller, starting execution...

20060136776 - Apparatus and method for monitoring data storage device for usage and warranty: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for monitoring a storage device for usage and warranty. In one embodiment, a data storage apparatus comprises a nonvolatile storage; and a data storage controller configured to store a log of status parameters of the data storage apparatus in...

20060136778 - Process for generating and reconstructing variable number of parity for byte streams independent of host block size: A method, system and program for generating parity in a data storage system are provided. The invention comprises organizing an incoming data block into a specified number of data stripes and cascading the data stripes into a parity creation mechanism. The parity creation mechanism creates a specified number of parity...

20060136777 - Unit, method and program for detecting imprecise data: When data are transferred to a cache from disk drives, through a back end I/F unit, a redundant code verifier of a data path controller compares write-history information (a Destaging Counter (DC) value) embedded in a redundant code of the data with a DC value embedded in a redundant code...

20060136779 - Object-based storage device with low process load and control method thereof: An object-based storage device with a low process load and a control method thereof are provided. The object-based storage device includes: a storage unit; a temporary storage unit; a transmission unit; a first control unit; and a second control unit. Particularly, the temporary storage unit and the transmission unit are...

20060136780 - Detecting low-level data corruption: Checksum values are used to detect low-level data corruption. I/O operations, such as, for example, read operations and write operations, cause data blocks to pass through a number of low-level drivers when the data blocks are transferred between an operating system and mass storage location. A checksum filter driver intercepts...

20060136781 - Generalized paxos: A distributed computing system can achieve a generalized consensus, enabling commands that commute to be selected in any order. A leader can learn of previously selected sequences of commands, and can propose a compatible sequence of commands. Devices can select a sequence of commands that is compatible with previously selected...

20060136782 - Method and device for treating a set of components for the wheel of a vehicle: A method is presented for maintaining a set of at least two components from a group including a wheel rim, a tire and a safety support element, the method including the following steps: providing a set of components, wherein at least one of the components is provided with an information...

20060136783 - Automatically reducing test program size: Test program sequences of a quasi-minimum length which still produce a predetermined event are automatically generated by a genetic algorithm which requires that mutated programs continue to produce the predetermined event whilst favouring programs of a shorter length. Candidate test program sequences are mutated by removing respective randomly selected programs...

20060136784 - Controlling software failure data reporting and responses: User input defines transmission filter rules to be met when sending an error report to a support provider. User input also defines collection filter rules to be met when including failure data within an error report. Error reports corresponding to crash failures at clients are filtered with the transmission filter...

20060136785 - System and method for testing hardware devices: A system for testing hardware devices applies a multi-level architecture including a Graphical User Interface (GUI) level (10), a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) level (20), and a device driving level (30). The GUI level selects test items and test units for a test project based on test requirements, stores the...

20060136786 - Component mounting apparatus, service providing device and servicing method: A method for monitoring a mounting tact of a component mounting apparatus including a component supplier for supplying a component and a component holder for holding the component from the component supplying device and mounting the component onto a circuit board. The method includes collecting and monitoring a mounting tact...

20060136787 - Component mounting apparatus, service providing device and servicing method: A service receiving method for receiving a component library including component size necessary for mount production, by inputting, via a service receiver, to a service provider, mounted component data having the results of fabrication of non-defective products, through the communication system that includes the Internet and deriving, by the service...

20060136788 - Test system and method: A test system including a generating unit, a knowledge base, a collecting unit and a determining unit is provided. The generating unit is for generating a test case according to a test plan. The knowledge base is for providing a test item and a corresponding checking method according the test...

20060136789 - Computer system, method of detecting a stall in a computer system, and signal-bearing medium embodying a program causing a computer system to perform a method of detecting a stall in a computer system: A computer system includes a processor that executes a device driver, and a bus controller that controls an input/output bus that connects a plurality of input/output devices. The bus controller includes a stall detector that detects a stall state of the input/output bus and an error reply generator that transmits...

20060136790 - Apparatus and method for selective response to incremental redundancy transmissions: Method and apparatus for transmission of information in multiple access communication system is claim. Information using incremental redundancy is transmitted. A determination is made as to whether reverse link performance drops below a predetermined threshold. Determination of reverse link performance may be done in variety of ways, including use of...

20060136793 - Memory power models related to access information and methods thereof: A power consumption model for a memory device is provided. According to each characteristic vector, a corresponding power lookup table is built. Each characteristic vector comprises an operating mode and a variation of the data and/or address status of the memory device....

20060136792 - Random access memory having test circuit: A memory circuit comprises a memory and a first test circuit coupled to the memory. The first test circuit is configured to compare data read from memory cells with expected data for the memory cells to provide a first set of pass/fail signals for the memory cells, compress the first...

20060136791 - Test method, control circuit and system for reduced time combined write window and retention testing: A method, test mode circuit and system for a combined write window and retention test for a memory device that is faster than techniques heretofore known. The combined write window and retention test procedure involves controlling time intervals during which wordlines are activated and deactivated and bitlines are grounded or...

20060136794 - Computer peripheral connecting interface system configuration debugging method and system: A computer peripheral connecting interface system configuration debugging method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a computer platform that is equipped with a particular type of peripheral connecting interface, such as a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) interface, for automatically finding errors in the PCI...

20060136796 - Lsi device having scan separators provided in number reduced from signal lines of combinatorial circuits: A scan separator in a large scale integration device is made intensive to suppress the circuit scale of the entire device from increasing. A scan separator is provided for every two signal lines interconnecting two combinatorial circuit blocks. Each scan separator includes one selector, a flip flop for constituting a...

20060136795 - Method of testing scan chain integrity and tester setup for scan block testing: A method of scan chain integrity testing for an integrated circuit design includes steps of: (a) receiving as input an integrated circuit design; (b) generating a partial shift test bench for the integrated circuit design wherein the partial shift test bench includes scan chains stitched together into shift registers and...

20060136799 - Ldpc decoding apparatus and method with low computational complexity algorithm: Provided are an LDPC decoding apparatus and method using a sequential decoding algorithm having a partial group, capable of reducing the number of an iterative decoding by more than half without degrading the performance and increasing an amount of computation. The LDPC decoding method includes the steps of: receiving a...

20060136798 - Method and apparatus for decision threshold control in an optical signal receiver: An apparatus and method for decision threshold control in an optical signal receiver. A forward error correction (FEC) decoder provides a feedback signal representative of corrected errors. The decision threshold is adjusted to balance a number of corrected ones and zeros....

20060136797 - System and method for forward error correction decoding using soft information: A system and method for soft decision forward error correction (FEC) decoding may be used to determine a possible error in a differential detection signal, for example, in a DPSK system. The system and method uses the constructive and destructive signals from a demodulator to provide an error locating signal....

20060136800 - Memory system and semiconductor memory device: A memory system that can enhance yield without increasing the chip size and without degrading the access time. A single-bit error determination circuit references parity bits required to configure a code capable of correcting a single-bit error, and determines a single-bit error to be corrected; and a double-bit error detection...

20060136801 - Methods and apparatus for dynamically reconfigurable parallel data error checking: In a first aspect, a first method is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) transmitting data on a bus, wherein data is presented on the bus using varying widths; (2) configuring a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to be performed on the data based on the manner in...

20060136802 - Hybrid trace back apparatus and high-speed viterbi decoding system using the same: A hybrid trace back apparatus and a high-speed Viterbi decoding system having the same are disclosed. The hybrid trace back apparatus includes: a register exchanging unit for receiving survivor values of each states from a path metric calculator, and obtaining a block survival value through a register exchange operation as...

20060129870 - Reliability testing of software modules: A system and method for testing the reliability of a target module is presented. A reliability testing module executes a testing script by directing the target module to perform various functions, and by further consuming system resources by executing test applications. The behaviors of the target module are recorded and...

20060129871 - Apparatus, system, and method for analyzing trace data: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for analyzing trace data that facilitates the analysis by minimizing extraneous results presented to a user. The apparatus includes a user interface to define a query expression based on a condition and one or more parameters and to display a report of trace...

20060129872 - Apparatus for highly available transaction recovery for transaction processing systems: A highly available transaction recovery service migration system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention implements a server's Transaction Recovery Service (TRS) as a migratable service. In one embodiment of the present invention, the TRS is a server instance or software module implemented in JAVA. The TRS migrates...

20060129874 - Master controller architecture: A master controller for an RRAM subsystem. An interface communicates with at least one RRAM controller. A main control unit selects and implements test and repair operations on the RRAM subsystem through the RRAM controller. A timer determines a maximum number of test and repair operations that can be implemented...

20060129873 - System and method for tolerating multiple storage device failures in a storage system using horizontal and vertical parity layouts: A fault-tolerant system for storage arrays that stored parity values both on separate disks from the data elements (horizontally aligned) and on the same disks as the data elements (vertically aligned), a so-called horizontal-vertical code or HoVer code. The fault-tolerant system has embodiments that are supported on a variety of...

20060129876 - Data integrity inspection support method for disk devices, and data integrity inspection method for disk devices: Embodiments of the invention provide a disk device data integrity verification support method that allows data integrity verification of a disk array apparatus without consuming an interface band of disk devices. In one embodiment, arithmetic operations for data integrity verification are divided into those of a first phase that can...

20060129875 - Storage system condition indicator and method: A storage system condition indicator and method provides a visual display representing the operating condition of a set of storage devices. Various operating conditions may be defined based on available storage capacity and capacity to store data redundantly. One or more indicators may be used to represent the operating condition...

20060129877 - Volume and failure management method on a network having a storage device: A SAN manager acquires configuration information from devices constituting a SAN and produces a corresponding relationship between a host computer and a virtual volume (virtual volume mapping) and a corresponding relationship between the host computer and a real volume (real volume mapping). Based on those pieces of mapping information, the...

20060129878 - Computer restoration method: A method is provided for restoring and configuring a replacement computer of different type or brand or an original computer with a change in hardware. As disclosed by the invention, all the drivers available in the operating system are turned on by an agent software application if the replacement computer...

20060129879 - System and method for monitoring the status and progress of a technical process or of a technical project: The invention relates to a system and method for automatically and systematically analysing and monitoring operations of a technical process (10) for the status and progress monitoring of the technical process (10), based on data (D) which characterizes the current state of the process (10), in which check routines (C)...

20060129881 - Compiling method, apparatus, and program: Provides flexible control of power consumption of central processors. An apparatus has central processors, including: section for measuring temperature of each central processor; section for calculating halt percentage for each of the central processors from measured temperature of central processor, halt percentage being percentage of time in which processing by...

20060129880 - Method and system for injecting faults into a software application: A method for testing a software application (225), for example, written in the Java language is proposed. For this purpose, a factory object (230c) can be configured to operate in a production mode or in a test mode. In the test mode, the factory object instantiates a proxy object (255)...

20060129882 - Supercomputing: A method of configuring a supercomputer having a plurality of computing elements, each having means providing an irreducible core computing capability to store and retrieve data, is disclosed, which method comprises the steps of: defining an operating time interval; establishing an desired probability of successful operation over the operating time...

20060129883 - Electronic apparatus and control method thereof: An electronic apparatus wherein an abnormal control routine of the control unit can be prevented, or an abnormal control routine that has been started by the control unit can be rapidly halted is provided. An electronic apparatus having a control unit, peripheral circuits whose operations are controlled by the control...

20060129886 - Apparatus and storage system for controlling acquisition of snapshot: A DBMS performs a checkpoint process for maintaining consistency of data. A snapshot acquisition control program detects the checkpoint process externally to the DBMS and creates a snapshot in an external storage according to the timing of the checkpoint. Correspondence between checkpoints and snapshots is maintained in a CP-SH correspondence...

20060129884 - Method for performing a fine-grained undo operation in an interactive editor: A method and system for restoring, to a previous state, a single object whose state was modified in a group editing action wherein a plurality of objects, including the single object, were modified as a group. Prior to execution of the group editing action, restorative information, necessary to restore each...

20060129885 - Propagating debug information in a web services environment: A system is disclosed for obtaining debug information in a network that supports Web services. The system includes a first service host to send a first message, where the first message contains data corresponding to a request for debug information. The system also includes a second service host to receive...

20060129887 - Automatic safety test system: An automatic safety test system, which comprises a control interface of a control unit for controlling the switching of a switch in a server unit and automatically switching to a specified testing point of an electronic product, and connects a bus interface of the control unit to a plurality of...

20060129888 - Circuit module turbulence enhacement systems and methods: Turbulence inducers are provided on circuit modules. Rising above a substrate or heat spreader surface, turbulence generators may be added to existing modules or integrated into substrates or heat spreaders employed by circuit modules constructed according to traditional or new technologies....

20060129889 - Circuit configuration for providing of a diagnostic signal for a power switching device: A circuit configuration providing a diagnostic signal for a power switching device which switches a load has a test circuit, a filter device, a validation device, and a coding device. The test circuit tests the power switching device and generates error symptoms for characterizing error types of different priorities. The...

20060129890 - Ignition coil for use in engine and engine having plastic cylinder head cover: A long and narrow shape independent ignition type ignition apparatus has a long and narrow shape center core for an internal combustion engine. At least one of magnet member and a rubber material member is arranged at an end portion of the center core. A circumference of the center core...

20060129893 - Apparatus, system, and method for criteria driven summarization of trace entry data: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for criteria driven summarization of trace entry data. The apparatus includes an interface module that receives summary criteria including a set of field identifiers, the field identifiers specifying particular segments of trace entry data to be summarized. A scanning module scans a set...

20060129892 - Scenario based stress testing: The subject invention relates to systems and methods for automatically testing and stressing computer components on a plurality of computer systems. In one aspect, a system is provided to facilitate software testing of a computing environment. The system includes one or more profiles that describe software actions related to operations...

20060129891 - Software test framework: A reusable software test framework includes abstract and concrete classes as well as a user interface, for assisting in creating test scenarios from test items. A test item is a reusable test unit. The test item can be combined with other test items to create a test scenario that can...

20060129895 - System and method for remotely controlling a debugging unit: A system and method for remotely controlling a debugging unit, which can easily and accurately control the debugging unit in real time from a remote location regardless without data loss are disclosed. The system for remotely controlling a debugging unit comprises: a first protocol converter for converting a first or...

20060129894 - Verifying system and verifying method: A verifying system according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a host computer; and a user system, the host computer sending a command based on a script to the user system to verify a command execution result with the host computer, the user system including: an instruction input unit...

20060129896 - Account data reconciliation: A method and apparatus for correcting account data. First data and second data corresponding to an account are received. The first data is compared to the second data to identify any discrepancy between the first and second data. A possible cause of the discrepancy is automatically identified and the discrepancy...

20060129897 - Hardware error control method in an instruction control apparatus having an instruction processing suspension unit: In the instruction control apparatus having an instruction processing suspension unit and an error detection unit, in order to improve the reliability of the apparatus, the apparatus is configured in such a way that when an error occurs to certain hardware resources in the instruction processing apparatus, error detection is...

20060129898 - Method for accessing a data sector and processing a bad sector in a hard disk drive of a mobile communication terminal: A method is provided for accessing a media file divided and stored in a plurality of data sectors, and processing a bad sector in a mobile communication terminal having a hard disk drive. The method includes generating an access request event for the media file; designating an address of a...

20060129899 - Monitoring of solid state memory devices in active memory system utilizing redundant devices: Redundant capacity in a memory system is utilized to facilitate active monitoring of solid state memory devices in the memory system. All or part of the data stored in an active solid state memory device, and used in an active data processing system, may be copied to at least one...

20060129900 - Scan chain partition for reducing power in shift mode: A scan chain partition includes a serial input coupled to a scan input signal pin of a module under test; a plurality of scan sub-chains coupled to the serial input; a scan sub-chain output multiplexer coupled to the plurality of scan sub-chains for sequentially selecting a scan shift output of...

20060129901 - Method of writing data and channel adapter: A method of writing data includes receiving a record of a variable-length data format, creating a field-checking code for each field of the record received, creating a block-checking code in units of the fixed-length data for the data received, and writing data by reading the record, assembling fixed length data...

20060129902 - Receiver and signal processing method thereof: The present invention relates to a receiver for iteratively decoding by using a logarithm likelihood ratio (LLR) approximation scheme, and relates to a signal process method thereof. According to the present invention, a new approximation method is provided in order to calculate an essential equation, which includes calculations of exponent...

20060129903 - Prediction device and method applied in a viterbi decoder: A prediction device and method for use in a Viterbi decoder is provided. The prediction device is applicable to a communication system with low bit error rate for reducing the count of accessing path memories, thereby lowering the power consumption of the system. The prediction device needs not activate the...

20060129904 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data: A structured parity-check matrix H is proposed, wherein H is an expansion of a base matrix Hb. Base matrix Hb comprises a section Hb1 and a section Hb2. Section Hb2 comprises column hb having weight wh>=3 and H′b2 having a dual-diagonal structure with matrix elements at row i, column j...

20060117206 - Method and apparatus for enhancing work efficiency by sharing application between host and hard disk drive: A method and apparatus for enhancing work efficiency by sharing an application between a host and a hard disk drive are provided. The method includes: forming an application interface allowing the host and the hard disk drive to share an application included in the host or hard disk drive with...

20060117211 - Fail-over storage system: A storage system 1 including multiple slots for loading a block I/O interface controller, a file I/O interface controller, and any other kinds of interface controllers that are combined freely. The storage system 1 includes a management table that manages fail-over-enabled devices by grouping those devices in accordance with the...

20060117212 - Failover processing in a storage system: Failover processing in storage server system utilizes policies for managing fault tolerance (FT) and high availability (HA) configurations. The approach encapsulates the knowledge of failover recovery between components within a storage server and between storage server systems. This knowledge includes information about what components are participating in a Failover Set,...

20060117210 - Method for automatically overcoming a failure in an eml server and computer product adapted to perform such a method: Disclosed is a method for automatically overcoming a failure or an error in an EML server, the method comprising the steps of: identifying one or more Units in said EML server; identifying, for each of said Units, one or more sub-components; providing an error collector; providing an error supervisor; defining...

20060117207 - Multi-image hardware access system: A computer system includes a communication adapter that connects a plurality of virtualized servers to one or more support system devices. The communication adapter includes a master lock register, a processing device, a queue, and a multitude of adapter access registers. Upon initialization, a virtual server asserts ownership over the...

20060117208 - On-demand instantiation in a high-performance computing (hpc) system: In one embodiment, a method for on-demand instantiation in a high-performance computing (HPC) system includes receiving a connection request from a client specifying a first port number and a first host name advertised externally with respect to an HPC server including a cluster of nodes, identifying a service at the...

20060117209 - Repair system: A repair system is disclosed comprising: a server having a repair manager; a client device having a repair agent; and a network, wherein the server and the client device are connected to the network. The repair agent, in response to a repair signal, is operable to restrict communication of the...

20060117213 - Efficient maintenance of memory list: Data management systems, such as used in disk control units, employ memory entry lists to help keep track of user data. Improved performance of entry list maintenance is provided by the present invention. Much of the protocol employed to conduct such maintenance is preferably performed by hardware-based logic, thereby freeing...

20060117214 - Non-volatile memory system: A non-volatile memory system comprises a non-volatile memory and a memory controller controlling the non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory has a pseudo pass function of returning a pass as a status even if a bit error reaching allowable number of bits occurs after at least one of a write or...

20060117215 - Storage virtualization apparatus and computer system using the same: The storage virtualization apparatus has enough fault tolerance of communication paths connected to a physical storage unit. The storage virtualization apparatus of the present invention comprises: a first interface for connecting to a host computer; second interfaces for respectively communicating with physical storage units via communication paths, each second interface...

20060117217 - Data storage system: A data storage system including an array of storage devices and a storage controller is provided. The array of storage devices is configured to store information in the form of a plurality of stripes. The storage controller is configured to write a plurality of code words forming each stripe to...

20060117216 - Program, storage control method, and storage system: In case an error statistics of one of the disk drives exceeds a predetermined threshold, the disk is determined as a suspect disk drive. A recovery mode is set successively. During the time when a setting of the recovery mode is in progress and no access is made from a...

20060117218 - Multi-processing system and multi-processing method: To provide a multi-processing system capable of continuing an operation with efficiency even if a failure occurs in a processor during a system operation. A multi-processing system according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a memory storing a program and information necessary for executing the program; a processor manager...

20060117219 - Control device: Arbitrary data is read out from a main storage device, based on a permanent fault detection address that is used to detect a permanent fault on an address line. A bit error in the permanent fault detection address is detected and corrected, based on an error correcting code included in...

20060117220 - System and method for controlling data backup by user authorization: The invention is intended to provide a backup control technique for protecting the safety of data stored in a storage system while minimizing the processing load in the storage system. A storage system 10 receives a command from a host computer 50 to write data control limitation data stipulating backup...

20060117221 - Method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for adjusting the frequency at which data is backed up: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for adjusting the frequency at which data is backed up. This involves receiving a target recovery time. A current estimated recovery time is then determined and the current and target times are compared. If it is determined that the...

20060117223 - Dynamic tuning of a software rejuvenation method using a customer affecting performance metric: A computer-implemented method for triggering a software rejuvenation system and/or method includes receiving a request for resources, determining an estimated response time to the request for resources, determining that the estimated response time is greater than a first threshold, determining that a number of estimated response times greater than the...

20060117225 - Electronic device with debugging function and method thereof: An electronic device including a memory, an executable file and an interface is provided. When the executable file is executed, a map file is generated and stored in the memory. The map file includes at least one parameter and at least one memory address; the at least one parameter and...

20060117222 - Test agent architecture: A method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a test script for use by a test agent is presented. A first test script is generated in a first language. A determination is then made whether to generate an intermediate test script from the first test script. When the determination...

20060117224 - Trace and debug method and system for a processor: A trace and debug method and system for a processor. The method includes the steps: (A) monitoring a program counter (PC); (B) determining if a processor core executes non-successive instruction in accordance with an address data of the program counter; (C) producing a trace break event in order to set...

20060117226 - Data communication system and data communication method: A data communication system is able to reliably identify a cause of a transfer error even when transfer errors occur in a plurality of bus masters. The data communication system includes a bus to which a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of bus slaves are connected and which...

20060117227 - Method, system, and program for handling a fabric device failure: Provided are a method, system, and program for handling a fabric failure. A module intercepts a signal indicating a failure of a path in a fabric providing a connection to a shared device. The module generates an interrupt to a device driver in an operating system providing an interface to...

20060117228 - Method and device for determining and outputting the similarity between two data strings: The present invention discloses a method and device for determining and outputting a similarity measure between two data strings each data string comprising data entities, comprising: receiving a first data string, receiving a second data string, which is characterized by determining consecutively following data entities in the first data string,...

20060117229 - Tracing multiple data access instructions: A microprocessor integrated circuit 104 is provided with a trace controller 120 that is responsive to trace initiating conditions to trigger commencement of tracing operation and generation of a trace data stream. In the case of a multi-word data transfer instruction LSM, the trace controller 120 is able to trigger...

20060117230 - System and method for testing integrated circuits at operational speed using high-frequency clock converter: A system tests an integrated circuit at operational speed. The system includes a high frequency clock converter that receives test clock signals at a speed lower than operational speed of the integrated circuit to be tested. The high frequency clock converter generates test clock signals for operational speed testing of...

20060117231 - Adaptive communication interface: Embodiments of the invention include a communication interface and protocol for allowing communication between devices, circuits, integrated circuits and similar electronic components having different communication capacities or clock domains. The interface supports communication between any components having any difference in capacity and over any distance. The interface utilizes request and...

20060117233 - System, method and storage medium for testing a memory module: A buffered memory module including a downstream buffer, a downstream receiver, an upstream driver, an upstream receiver. The downstream buffer and the downstream receiver are both adapted for connection to a downstream memory bus in a packetized cascaded interconnect memory subsystem. The upstream driver and the upstream receiver are both...

20060117232 - Testing device and method for an integrated circuit: An apparatus and method are provided for testing integrated circuits. An integrated circuit arrangement is provided having first and second dice. Each die has circuitry for diagnostic testing in response to a diagnostic test signal. The circuitry further defines an input for receiving the diagnostic test signal and an output...

20060117234 - Programmable logic device, information processing device and programmable logic device control method: The present invention provides a programmable logic device including a main circuit unit capable of variably building desired user logic, based on configuration data inputted from a storage device, and a configuration data monitor unit for monitoring configuration data stored in the storage device....

20060117235 - System and method for conducting bist operations: Method and system for initiating a built in self test (“BIST”) operation for memory modules is provided. The method includes, determining if a test access port (“TAP”) controller instruction or an internal register control bit are to be used for initiating the BIST operation; sending the internal register control bit...

20060117236 - High frequency circuit capable of error detection and correction of code patterns running at full speed: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided for generating an error detection state and correction of code patterns. Generally, conducting full speed testing of the dI/dt circuit in a low bandwidth lab environment is difficult. A circuit, however, can be employed that periodically detects the functionality of...

20060117237 - Systems and methods of test case generation with feedback: Systems and methods for implementing test case generation with feedback are disclosed. An exemplary system for test case generation with feedback comprises a plurality of knobs identifying test values for a device under test. A plurality of buckets is each associated with at least one of the test values, each...

20060117238 - Method and system for information workflows: A method and apparatus for information repository workflows to transfer information between a first domain (e.g., healthcare sites) and a second domain (e.g., medical research facilities). Large quantities of medical information may be directly transferred to an information repository or indirectly transferred to the repository through the use of pointers....

20060117240 - Hierarchical design and layout optimizations for high throughput parallel ldpc decoders: High throughput parallel LDPC decoders are designed and implemented using hierarchical design and layout optimization. In a first level of hierarchy, the node processors are grouped on the LDPC decoder chip, physically co-locating the processing elements in a small area. In a second level of hierarchy, clusters, e.g., subsets, of...

20060117239 - Method and related apparatus for performing error checking-correcting: A method and related apparatus for performing error checking-correcting (ECC). The method divides a memory space provided by a memory into an ECC range and a non-ECC range. When data is read or written, the method determines the address of data is within the ECC range or the non-ECC range...

20060117241 - Method and apparatus for managing disc defects: A defect management method and apparatus including (a) recording data in predetermined units of data; (b) verifying the recorded data to detect an area of the disc in which a defect exists; (c) designating an area from the defective area to the following area containing data as the defective area...

20060117242 - Methods and devices for defect and reallocation management on write-once media: The invention relates to a method and a device for random write and overwrite to a write once recordable medium, a method and a device for defect management on a write once recordable medium, a method and a device for undo changes made to a write once recordable medium, and...

20060117244 - Multi-mode hybrid arq scheme: A method and apparatus for performing H-ARQ transmission is described herein. Bits received on a first transmission are stored and combined with the bits received on later transmissions thereby increasing the likelihood of a correct decoding on later transmissions. Additionally, a plurality of coding schemes (e.g., Convolutional Codes, Block Turbo...

20060117243 - Storage device having superset format, method and system for use therewith: A storage device comprising a storage medium having a plurality of sectors and a superset format. Each sector includes a header, a data section and a trailer, the data section sized to contain a number of bytes per sector equal to or greater than a maximum of subset formats to...

20060117245 - Blind transport format detection for transmission link: Receiver-side apparatus for a transmission link, the link using different transport formats for blocks of data, and using convolutional coding with additional error detection code information, for transmitting the blocks to the receiver side, the apparatus having a decoder for performing a trellis decode and tracebacks of one of the...