Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery inventions 10/08

20080263385 - Memory device with error correction based on automatic logic inversion: A memory device comprises a memory array and error correction circuitry coupled to the memory array. The error correction circuitry is configured to identify, in a data word retrieved from the memory array, at least one bit position corresponding to a predetermined defect location in the memory array, and to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080263390 - Cluster system and failover method for cluster system: Even when a large number of guest OSs exist, a failover method meeting high availability needed by the guest OSs is provided for the each guest OS. In the event of a physical or logical change of a system, or change of operation states, a smooth failover method can be... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080263386 - Dynamically rerouting node traffic on a massively parallel computer system using hint bits: A method and apparatus for dynamically rerouting node processes on the compute nodes of a massively parallel computer system using hint bits to route around failed nodes or congested networks without restarting applications executing on the system. When a node has a failure or there are indications that it may... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080263387 - Fault recovery on a parallel computer system with a torus network: An apparatus and method for overcoming a torus network failure in a parallel computer system. A mesh routing mechanism in the service node of the computer system configures the nodes from a torus to a mesh network when a failure occurs in the torus network. The mesh routing mechanism takes... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080263388 - Method and apparatus for managing customer topologies: A method and apparatus for managing customer topologies on packet networks are disclosed. For example, the method creates at least two event correlation instances for at least one customer topology, where a first event correlation instance resides in a primary availability management server, and a second event correlation instance resides... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080263389 - System for monitoring enum performance: A system for monitoring tElephone NUmber Mapping (ENUM) performance is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an ENUM system having a subsystem to monitor one or more operations of the ENUM system, and generate a fault notice responsive to detecting one or... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080263391 - Apparatus, system, and method for adapter card failover: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for adapter card failover. A switch module connects a first processor complex to an adapter card through a first port as an owner processor complex. The owner processor complex manages the adapter card except for a second port and receives error messages from... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080263392 - Jtag controlled self-repair after packaging: An integrated circuit containing memory includes IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) controlled self-repair system that permits permanent repair of the memory after the integrated circuit has been packaged. The JTAG controlled self-repair system allows a user to direct circuitry to blow fuses using an externally supplied voltage to electrically couple or isolate... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080263393 - Storage controller and storage control method: Spare disk drives are provided to a chassis for storing storage devices, and, when any one of the storage devices configuring RAID fails, the storage controller copies data of the failed storage device to a spare storage device, and recognizes an additional storage device inserted into the spare disk drive... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263394 - Disk array apparatus: A disk array apparatus where, when a failure occurs at a part of a cache memory, a memory area of an I/O processing controller other than the memory area where the failure has occurred is utilized without taking over the whole I/O processing to an I/O processing controller of other... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher

20080263396 - Data processing device and data control circuit for use therein: When data that has been saved outside a circuit is restored, a data control circuit, before resuming the processing that an electronic circuit had been performing before the data was saved, performs particular processing different from that processing. Moreover, the data control circuit has a data saving control function whereby... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080263395 - Embedded device and image loading method thereof: An embedded device (10) includes an image module (11) and an image invoking module (13). The image module for storing all working images of an operating system of the embedded device includes an image sharing sub-module (110), an application image sub-module (111), and an application image backup sub-module (112). The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080263397 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for testing new network element failure rate: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for testing failure rate of newly installed network elements within a predetermined amount of time prior to customer use of the network elements are provided. An order report including information regarding one or more network elements is accessed, and based on the information provided by... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080263398 - Mobile terminal apparatus and diagnosis method for mobile terminal apparatus: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus with the lower communication cost in sending a log at the occurrence of a malfunction, abnormality or fault in the mobile terminal apparatus to a network. A diagnostic process for the malfunction is performed in accordance with a diagnostic policy acquired from the outside.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080263399 - Diagnostic system and article: Articles and systems comprise a diagnostic symptom tree system for diagnosing a failing system element causing a symptom in a system-under-test. A diagnostic symptom tree comprises symptom roots and dependent lower function nodes and sub-function nodes. Element nodes depend from the function or sub-function nodes, and a plurality of penultimate... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080263400 - Fault insertion system: A method of scheduling a simulated hardware fault on a computer system by specifying at least a termination point where the simulated hardware fault will be automatically removed from the computer system. The computer system may comprise at least one control computer that can be remote from a computer into... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263401 - Computer application performance optimization system: A complex user-facing computer application often has run-time dependencies on other computer applications. The other computer applications may, in turn, have run-time dependencies on still other applications. A supporting application might run on multiple hosts and a particular host might be chosen by a higher-level application in order to meet... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080263402 - method, arrangement, testing device and program for testing multimedia communication equipment and software: The invention relates to a method, testing arrangement, simulator and software program for evaluating quality of a transmission channel or a transmission device or a codec. The evaluation is made by using multimedia stream including voice and video frames. The multimedia frames used in the evaluation are generated by using... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080263406 - 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... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080263403 - Conversion of mathematical statements: A method for computer-assisted conversion of mathematical statements from one data format to another and an apparatus for carrying out the method are particularly useful for computer recognition of visual images of mathematical statements. There are difficulties in converting a mathematical statement perfectly from, say, a hand-written document into a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080263405 - Method and device for the fault-tolerance management of a software component: A fault-tolerance management of a software component is disclosed. A number of instances of the software component are executed in at least somewhat different execution environments. A local error susceptibility register and a global error susceptibility register are assigned to each software component. An error of first instance of the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080263404 - System and method for supporting software: This disclosure provides various embodiments of software for supporting a business application. In one aspect, the software determines that a technical error associated with the business application has occurred, automatically communicates the technical error and dynamic context information to a remote support site, the dynamic context information at least partially... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263407 - Virtual computer system: To improve the maintainability of a virtual machine system, there is provided a mechanism capable of appropriately reporting a failure that occurs in a dedicated PCI device, in a shared PCI device, or in a virtual PCI device. A device for transferring PCI device configuration information between a failure monitoring... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263408 - Apparatus and method to integrate hardware adapter tracing with a host os tracing through signaling: The present invention provides a system and method for controlling tracing functions on a remote device. The system includes means for receiving a diagnostic signal from a host device on the remote device and means for associating the diagnostic signal with a tracing state of the remote device. In addition,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080263409 - Self-test system: An electronic system comprising a system to be monitored (2) and a plurality of fault-monitoring systems (4, 6) each of which is adapted to output a fault signal when an input indicates that the electronic system is in a fault condition associated with the fault-monitoring system. The fault-monitoring systems are... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080263410 - Method and apparatus for testing of enterprise systems: In a method of virtual user compensation by a test run system of an enterprise system, the termination of a virtual user is identified and a new virtual user is created to compensate for the terminated virtual user. The new virtual user is then assigned to the enterprise system. Rules... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20080263411 - Test instrument and system responsive to execution time data: Test instruments constituting an automatic test system are characterized in terms of execution time data. The execution time data is composed of a set of execution times. Each of the execution times is the time required for the test instrument to perform a respective testing operation. The test instruments additionally... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080263412 - Program failure recovery: A program failure is detected during programming of a memory device. When the program failure is detected, a transfer of the contents of a register of the memory device to a first location of a memory of the memory device is stopped. First data that remains in the register after... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A. Attn: Thomas W. Leffert

20080263413 - Back channel communication: Included are embodiments for back channel communication. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving data at customer premises equipment and determining at least one error in the received data. Some embodiments include formatting the determined error for communication to a central office and sending the formatted error to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20080263414 - Semiconductor device and data processing system: The test design cost of a circuit capable of accessing an external memory is reduced. There is included a built-in self-test circuit for use in testing an external memory separately from a memory controller for performing memory control in response to an access request to the external memory capable of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080263415 - Integrated circuit, memory module, method of operating an integrated circuit, method of fabricating an integrated circuit, computer program product, and computing system: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an integrated circuit includes a plurality of memory cells, the integrated circuit being operable in a memory cell testing mode in which testing signals are applied to the memory cells, wherein the strengths and durations of the testing signals at least partly... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080263417 - Efficient memory product for test and soft repair of sram with redundancy: Memory array built in self testing utilizing including a simple data history table. The table is used to track failing locations observed during any level of assembly test of processor or logic semiconductor chips where the chips contain SRAM macros with redundant elements for failure relief.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080263416 - Method and apparatus to adjust voltage for storage location reliability: According to embodiments of the present invention, an integrated circuit such as a processor includes a counter to count an actual number of unreliable storage locations in the processor cache, at least one register to store an acceptable number of unreliable storage locations for the cache, a detector to measure... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263419 - Removable and replaceable tap domain selection circuitry: Today many instances of IEEE 1149.1 Tap domains are included in integrated circuits (ICs). While all TAP domains may be serially connected on a scan path that is accessible external to the IC, it is generally preferred to have selectivity on which Tap domain or Tap domains are accessed. Therefore... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080263418 - System and method for adaptive nonlinear test vector compression: A method for adaptive test data compression includes receiving an input vector. The input vector is decompressed to generate an output vector. A determination is made whether the output vector comprises a reset pattern. In the event the output vector comprises a reset pattern, one of a plurality of codeword... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20080263420 - Test standard interfaces and architectures: In a first embodiment a TAP 318 of IEEE standard 1149.1 is allowed to commandeer control from a WSP 202 of IEEE standard P1500 such that the P1500 architecture, normally controlled by the WSP, is rendered controllable by the TAP. In a second embodiment (1) the TAP and WSP based... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080263422 - Control of the integrity of a memory external to a microprocessor: A method for recording at least one information block in a first volatile memory external to a circuit, a first digital signature being calculated based on information and data internal to the circuit and a second digital signature being calculated based on first signatures of a group of information blocks... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263421 - Electrical diagnostic circuit and method for the testing and/or the diagnostic analysis of an integrated circuit: An electrical diagnostic circuit and testing method is disclosed. In one embodiment the electrical diagnostic circuit for testing an integrated circuit includes a number of external inputs, a plurality of essentially similar, series-connected switching units and a circuit output. The switching units are constructed to be controllable in such a... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080263423 - System and method for nonlinear statistical encoding in test data compression: For at least one test cube set, a new codeword set is generated. Test cube data is grouped into blocks based on the new codeword set. Compression for the grouped test cube data is computed. A determination is made whether compression is improved as compared to a previous codeword set.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20080263424 - Controlled data network error recovery: A method, a system and network nodes use an indication of possible duplicates of units, so that these units can be handled differently than other units. The unit is indicated to be a possible duplicate to the entity to which it is resent because no response was received from the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080263426 - Method and apparatus for performing trellis coded modulation of signals for transmission on a tdma channel of a cable network: A method and apparatus for performing trellis coded modulation of signals for transmission on a TDMA channel of a cable network, such as a DOCSIS cable network, is provided. In an embodiment, an upstream modulator portion of a cable modem receives burst data, selectively encodes the burst data for trellis... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080263425 - Turbo ldpc decoding: An iterative low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding system comprises a first shift register for storing bit estimates, a plurality of parity-check processing node banks configured for processing the bit estimates for generating messages, combiners configured for combining the messages with the bit estimates for generating updated bit estimates, and fixed permuters... Agent: Steven J Shattil

20080263427 - System and method for optical disc encoding/decoding: The invention provides for an optical disc encoding and decoding system in which in an encode mode the system is arranged to encode Long Distance Code (LDC) clusters from user data and including error correction means for applying error correction to LDC blocks, and interleaving means arranged to form the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080263428 - Device with mpe-fec frame memory: In transmission systems using digital video broadcasting standards for handheld terminals data is transmitted in bursts. Due to the restricted computing time, buffering of one or more bursts is necessary. The invention provides a memory optimalization for consecutive burst support. Thereby, a cyclic or non-cyclic memory model for a memory... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263429 - Method and device for correcting code data error: A method and a device for correcting a code data error are disclosed. A main processor included in a digital processing device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention writes in a shared memory third code data error-corrected by a predetermined error correcting method or second code data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080263430 - Data readout device and data readout method: A data readout device generates decoded data based on a decided data bit decided by performing a hard-decision on likelihood data, wherein the likelihood data is generated in accordance with an iterative decoding method corresponding to a turbo-coding process. The iterative decoding process is performed on a sampled value obtained... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080263431 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving signal in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a communication system are provided. The signal transmission apparatus generates a parity check matrix for an LDPC code in accordance with a code rate to be used and generates a codeword vector by encoding an information vector using the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080263385 - Memory device with error correction based on automatic logic inversion: A memory device comprises a memory array and error correction circuitry coupled to the memory array. The error correction circuitry is configured to identify, in a data word retrieved from the memory array, at least one bit position corresponding to a predetermined defect location in the memory array, and to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080263390 - Cluster system and failover method for cluster system: Even when a large number of guest OSs exist, a failover method meeting high availability needed by the guest OSs is provided for the each guest OS. In the event of a physical or logical change of a system, or change of operation states, a smooth failover method can be... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080263386 - Dynamically rerouting node traffic on a massively parallel computer system using hint bits: A method and apparatus for dynamically rerouting node processes on the compute nodes of a massively parallel computer system using hint bits to route around failed nodes or congested networks without restarting applications executing on the system. When a node has a failure or there are indications that it may... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080263387 - Fault recovery on a parallel computer system with a torus network: An apparatus and method for overcoming a torus network failure in a parallel computer system. A mesh routing mechanism in the service node of the computer system configures the nodes from a torus to a mesh network when a failure occurs in the torus network. The mesh routing mechanism takes... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080263388 - Method and apparatus for managing customer topologies: A method and apparatus for managing customer topologies on packet networks are disclosed. For example, the method creates at least two event correlation instances for at least one customer topology, where a first event correlation instance resides in a primary availability management server, and a second event correlation instance resides... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080263389 - System for monitoring enum performance: A system for monitoring tElephone NUmber Mapping (ENUM) performance is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an ENUM system having a subsystem to monitor one or more operations of the ENUM system, and generate a fault notice responsive to detecting one or... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080263391 - Apparatus, system, and method for adapter card failover: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for adapter card failover. A switch module connects a first processor complex to an adapter card through a first port as an owner processor complex. The owner processor complex manages the adapter card except for a second port and receives error messages from... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080263392 - Jtag controlled self-repair after packaging: An integrated circuit containing memory includes IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) controlled self-repair system that permits permanent repair of the memory after the integrated circuit has been packaged. The JTAG controlled self-repair system allows a user to direct circuitry to blow fuses using an externally supplied voltage to electrically couple or isolate... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080263393 - Storage controller and storage control method: Spare disk drives are provided to a chassis for storing storage devices, and, when any one of the storage devices configuring RAID fails, the storage controller copies data of the failed storage device to a spare storage device, and recognizes an additional storage device inserted into the spare disk drive... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263394 - Disk array apparatus: A disk array apparatus where, when a failure occurs at a part of a cache memory, a memory area of an I/O processing controller other than the memory area where the failure has occurred is utilized without taking over the whole I/O processing to an I/O processing controller of other... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher

20080263396 - Data processing device and data control circuit for use therein: When data that has been saved outside a circuit is restored, a data control circuit, before resuming the processing that an electronic circuit had been performing before the data was saved, performs particular processing different from that processing. Moreover, the data control circuit has a data saving control function whereby... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080263395 - Embedded device and image loading method thereof: An embedded device (10) includes an image module (11) and an image invoking module (13). The image module for storing all working images of an operating system of the embedded device includes an image sharing sub-module (110), an application image sub-module (111), and an application image backup sub-module (112). The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080263397 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for testing new network element failure rate: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for testing failure rate of newly installed network elements within a predetermined amount of time prior to customer use of the network elements are provided. An order report including information regarding one or more network elements is accessed, and based on the information provided by... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080263398 - Mobile terminal apparatus and diagnosis method for mobile terminal apparatus: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus with the lower communication cost in sending a log at the occurrence of a malfunction, abnormality or fault in the mobile terminal apparatus to a network. A diagnostic process for the malfunction is performed in accordance with a diagnostic policy acquired from the outside.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080263399 - Diagnostic system and article: Articles and systems comprise a diagnostic symptom tree system for diagnosing a failing system element causing a symptom in a system-under-test. A diagnostic symptom tree comprises symptom roots and dependent lower function nodes and sub-function nodes. Element nodes depend from the function or sub-function nodes, and a plurality of penultimate... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080263400 - Fault insertion system: A method of scheduling a simulated hardware fault on a computer system by specifying at least a termination point where the simulated hardware fault will be automatically removed from the computer system. The computer system may comprise at least one control computer that can be remote from a computer into... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263401 - Computer application performance optimization system: A complex user-facing computer application often has run-time dependencies on other computer applications. The other computer applications may, in turn, have run-time dependencies on still other applications. A supporting application might run on multiple hosts and a particular host might be chosen by a higher-level application in order to meet... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080263402 - method, arrangement, testing device and program for testing multimedia communication equipment and software: The invention relates to a method, testing arrangement, simulator and software program for evaluating quality of a transmission channel or a transmission device or a codec. The evaluation is made by using multimedia stream including voice and video frames. The multimedia frames used in the evaluation are generated by using... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080263406 - 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... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080263403 - Conversion of mathematical statements: A method for computer-assisted conversion of mathematical statements from one data format to another and an apparatus for carrying out the method are particularly useful for computer recognition of visual images of mathematical statements. There are difficulties in converting a mathematical statement perfectly from, say, a hand-written document into a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080263405 - Method and device for the fault-tolerance management of a software component: A fault-tolerance management of a software component is disclosed. A number of instances of the software component are executed in at least somewhat different execution environments. A local error susceptibility register and a global error susceptibility register are assigned to each software component. An error of first instance of the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080263404 - System and method for supporting software: This disclosure provides various embodiments of software for supporting a business application. In one aspect, the software determines that a technical error associated with the business application has occurred, automatically communicates the technical error and dynamic context information to a remote support site, the dynamic context information at least partially... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263407 - Virtual computer system: To improve the maintainability of a virtual machine system, there is provided a mechanism capable of appropriately reporting a failure that occurs in a dedicated PCI device, in a shared PCI device, or in a virtual PCI device. A device for transferring PCI device configuration information between a failure monitoring... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263408 - Apparatus and method to integrate hardware adapter tracing with a host os tracing through signaling: The present invention provides a system and method for controlling tracing functions on a remote device. The system includes means for receiving a diagnostic signal from a host device on the remote device and means for associating the diagnostic signal with a tracing state of the remote device. In addition,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080263409 - Self-test system: An electronic system comprising a system to be monitored (2) and a plurality of fault-monitoring systems (4, 6) each of which is adapted to output a fault signal when an input indicates that the electronic system is in a fault condition associated with the fault-monitoring system. The fault-monitoring systems are... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080263410 - Method and apparatus for testing of enterprise systems: In a method of virtual user compensation by a test run system of an enterprise system, the termination of a virtual user is identified and a new virtual user is created to compensate for the terminated virtual user. The new virtual user is then assigned to the enterprise system. Rules... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20080263411 - Test instrument and system responsive to execution time data: Test instruments constituting an automatic test system are characterized in terms of execution time data. The execution time data is composed of a set of execution times. Each of the execution times is the time required for the test instrument to perform a respective testing operation. The test instruments additionally... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080263412 - Program failure recovery: A program failure is detected during programming of a memory device. When the program failure is detected, a transfer of the contents of a register of the memory device to a first location of a memory of the memory device is stopped. First data that remains in the register after... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A. Attn: Thomas W. Leffert

20080263413 - Back channel communication: Included are embodiments for back channel communication. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving data at customer premises equipment and determining at least one error in the received data. Some embodiments include formatting the determined error for communication to a central office and sending the formatted error to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20080263414 - Semiconductor device and data processing system: The test design cost of a circuit capable of accessing an external memory is reduced. There is included a built-in self-test circuit for use in testing an external memory separately from a memory controller for performing memory control in response to an access request to the external memory capable of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080263415 - Integrated circuit, memory module, method of operating an integrated circuit, method of fabricating an integrated circuit, computer program product, and computing system: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an integrated circuit includes a plurality of memory cells, the integrated circuit being operable in a memory cell testing mode in which testing signals are applied to the memory cells, wherein the strengths and durations of the testing signals at least partly... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080263417 - Efficient memory product for test and soft repair of sram with redundancy: Memory array built in self testing utilizing including a simple data history table. The table is used to track failing locations observed during any level of assembly test of processor or logic semiconductor chips where the chips contain SRAM macros with redundant elements for failure relief.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080263416 - Method and apparatus to adjust voltage for storage location reliability: According to embodiments of the present invention, an integrated circuit such as a processor includes a counter to count an actual number of unreliable storage locations in the processor cache, at least one register to store an acceptable number of unreliable storage locations for the cache, a detector to measure... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263419 - Removable and replaceable tap domain selection circuitry: Today many instances of IEEE 1149.1 Tap domains are included in integrated circuits (ICs). While all TAP domains may be serially connected on a scan path that is accessible external to the IC, it is generally preferred to have selectivity on which Tap domain or Tap domains are accessed. Therefore... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080263418 - System and method for adaptive nonlinear test vector compression: A method for adaptive test data compression includes receiving an input vector. The input vector is decompressed to generate an output vector. A determination is made whether the output vector comprises a reset pattern. In the event the output vector comprises a reset pattern, one of a plurality of codeword... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20080263420 - Test standard interfaces and architectures: In a first embodiment a TAP 318 of IEEE standard 1149.1 is allowed to commandeer control from a WSP 202 of IEEE standard P1500 such that the P1500 architecture, normally controlled by the WSP, is rendered controllable by the TAP. In a second embodiment (1) the TAP and WSP based... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080263422 - Control of the integrity of a memory external to a microprocessor: A method for recording at least one information block in a first volatile memory external to a circuit, a first digital signature being calculated based on information and data internal to the circuit and a second digital signature being calculated based on first signatures of a group of information blocks... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263421 - Electrical diagnostic circuit and method for the testing and/or the diagnostic analysis of an integrated circuit: An electrical diagnostic circuit and testing method is disclosed. In one embodiment the electrical diagnostic circuit for testing an integrated circuit includes a number of external inputs, a plurality of essentially similar, series-connected switching units and a circuit output. The switching units are constructed to be controllable in such a... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080263423 - System and method for nonlinear statistical encoding in test data compression: For at least one test cube set, a new codeword set is generated. Test cube data is grouped into blocks based on the new codeword set. Compression for the grouped test cube data is computed. A determination is made whether compression is improved as compared to a previous codeword set.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20080263424 - Controlled data network error recovery: A method, a system and network nodes use an indication of possible duplicates of units, so that these units can be handled differently than other units. The unit is indicated to be a possible duplicate to the entity to which it is resent because no response was received from the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080263426 - Method and apparatus for performing trellis coded modulation of signals for transmission on a tdma channel of a cable network: A method and apparatus for performing trellis coded modulation of signals for transmission on a TDMA channel of a cable network, such as a DOCSIS cable network, is provided. In an embodiment, an upstream modulator portion of a cable modem receives burst data, selectively encodes the burst data for trellis... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080263425 - Turbo ldpc decoding: An iterative low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding system comprises a first shift register for storing bit estimates, a plurality of parity-check processing node banks configured for processing the bit estimates for generating messages, combiners configured for combining the messages with the bit estimates for generating updated bit estimates, and fixed permuters... Agent: Steven J Shattil

20080263427 - System and method for optical disc encoding/decoding: The invention provides for an optical disc encoding and decoding system in which in an encode mode the system is arranged to encode Long Distance Code (LDC) clusters from user data and including error correction means for applying error correction to LDC blocks, and interleaving means arranged to form the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080263428 - Device with mpe-fec frame memory: In transmission systems using digital video broadcasting standards for handheld terminals data is transmitted in bursts. Due to the restricted computing time, buffering of one or more bursts is necessary. The invention provides a memory optimalization for consecutive burst support. Thereby, a cyclic or non-cyclic memory model for a memory... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263429 - Method and device for correcting code data error: A method and a device for correcting a code data error are disclosed. A main processor included in a digital processing device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention writes in a shared memory third code data error-corrected by a predetermined error correcting method or second code data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080263430 - Data readout device and data readout method: A data readout device generates decoded data based on a decided data bit decided by performing a hard-decision on likelihood data, wherein the likelihood data is generated in accordance with an iterative decoding method corresponding to a turbo-coding process. The iterative decoding process is performed on a sampled value obtained... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080263431 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving signal in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a communication system are provided. The signal transmission apparatus generates a parity check matrix for an LDPC code in accordance with a code rate to be used and generates a codeword vector by encoding an information vector using the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080256383 - Method and system of predicting microprocessor lifetime: A method of predicting the lifetime reliability of an integrated circuit device with respect to one or more failure mechanisms includes breaking down the integrated circuit device into structures; breaking down each structure into elements and devices; evaluating each device to determine whether the device is vulnerable to the failure... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080256384 - Mechanism for recovery from site failure in a stream processing system: A failure recovery framework to be used in cooperative data stream processing is provided that can be used in a large-scale stream data analysis environment. Failure recovery supports a plurality of independent distributed sites, each having its own local administration and goals. The distributed sites cooperate in an inter-site back-up... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080256385 - Optimization of port link recovery: Provided are techniques for determining a link speed. When a link between two computing devices is operational, a link speed for use in communicating across the link is stored and a remembered indicator is set to TRUE. After any event occurs that causes the link to become inoperational, in response... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080256386 - Raid configuration indication in network attached storage: In one embodiment a network attached storage device comprises at least one storage media, a storage controller to manage input/output requests directed to the at least one storage media, and a RAID interrogation module to receive a RAID configuration query, wherein the RAID configuration query includes a volume identifier that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256387 - Automated error recovery of a licensed internal code update on a storage controller: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for the automatic recovery from errors encountered during an automated Licensed Internal Code (LIC) update on a storage controller. The present invention functions with a concurrent or nonconcurrent automated LIC update. The automated recovery from many error conditions is transparent to... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080256388 - Method for fast system recovery via degraded reboot: A system and method for fast system recovery that bypasses diagnostic routines by disconnecting failed hardware from the system before rebooting. Failed hardware and hardware that will be affected by removal of the failed hardware of the system are disconnected from the system. The system is restarted, and because the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080256390 - Project induction in a software factory: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium for inducting a software project into a software factory is presented, wherein an induction process identifies what processes and sub-processes are needed to create the software factory, and wherein the induction process identifies potential risks to the software factory. In a preferred embodiment,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080256389 - Strategies for performing testing in a multi-user environment: A strategy is described in which multiple testing agents perform multiple respective tests in a multi-user environment. One such multi-user environment allows multiple clients to interact with remote applications that are executed on a server. According to one exemplary case, a central test management module coordinates the execution of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080256397 - System and method for network performance monitoring and predictive failure analysis: A method and system for detecting performance degradation of a plurality of monitored components in a networked storage system. Performance data is collected from the plurality of monitored components. Component statistics are generated from the collected performance data. Heuristics are applied to the generated component statistics to determine the likelihood... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080256398 - Using emi signals to facilitate proactive fault monitoring in computer systems: A system that monitors electromagnetic interference (EMI) signals to facilitate proactive fault monitoring in a computer system is presented. During operation, the system receives EMI signals from one or more antennas located in close proximity to the computer system. The system then analyzes the received signals to proactively detect anomalies... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080256401 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method and computer program: The present invention is directed to an information processing system composed of plural information processing units adapted for mutually executing data communication, and for executing data processing in which communication data has been applied. The first entity A transmits error notification data on the basis of error detection to execute... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080256400 - System and method for information handling system error handling: Non-fatal errors at an information handling system link are managed by firmware of the information handling system. For example, a PCI Express link controller initiates an SMI interrupt upon detection of a non-fatal error associated with the PCI Express link. A non-fatal error monitor associated with an SMI handler in... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080256402 - Method and circuit for reducing sata transmission data errors by adjusting the period of sending align primitives: A method and circuit for reducing SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) transmission data errors by adjusting the period of sending two consecutive ALIGN Primitives. The method reads a counting value of an 8b/10b coding error counter at a predetermined period and adjusts the period of sending two consecutive ALIGN Primitives... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080256403 - Soft error rate calculation method and program, integrated circuit design method and apparatus, and integrated circuit: A first mathematical expression indicating a dependence of SER on an information storage node diffusion layer area at the same information storage node voltage Vn is derived with a use of a result of measuring a relationship between SER and the information storage node diffusion layer area of a storage... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080256404 - Fault location estimation system, fault location estimation method, and fault location estimation program for multiple faults in logic circuit: A fault location estimation system comprises single-fault-assumed diagnostic means that assumes a single fault and stores fault candidates, fault types, and detected error-observation nodes at which an error arrives from the fault candidates; error-observation node basis candidate classification means that classifies error propagating fault candidates into groups according to error-observation... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080256405 - Compilable memory structure and test methodology for both asic and foundry test environments: A method of implementing a compilable memory structure configured for supporting multiple test methodologies includes configuring a first plurality of multiplexers for selectively coupling at least one data input path and at least one address path between an external customer connection and a corresponding internal memory connection associated therewith. A... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20080256412 - Transport stream generating apparatus, turbo packet demultiplexing apparatus, and methods thereof: A transport stream generating apparatus, a turbo packet demultiplexing apparatus, and methods thereof, the transport stream generating apparatus including: a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder to RS-encode turbo data, an interleaver to interleave the RS-encoded turbo data, a duplicator to add a parity insertion area to the interleaved turbo data, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080256416 - Apparatus and method for initializing memory: An apparatus includes a memory including a controller for initializing the memory, the controller storing a first data including a first code for correcting a first error of the first data, to the memory when initializing, and a memory controller controlling a data transmission to the memory, the memory controller... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080256415 - Error detection/correction circuit as well as corresponding method: In order to provide an error detection/correction circuit (100; 100′) as well as a method for detecting and/or for correcting at least one error of at least one data word, said data word comprising—information in the form of at least one information bit or at least one pay load data... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080256413 - Redundancy in signal distribution trees: A signal distribution tree structure for distributing signals within a plurality of signal tree branches to a plurality of signal sinks, wherein the signal in subsequent sub trees (11) is driven by a preceding amplifier (2), which is characterized in that the amplifiers are logic gates (3), Which combines the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080256417 - Sdram convolutional interleaver with two paths: An SDRAM convolutional interleaver with two paths. Symbols are assigned to a given one of the two paths, then are sorted to minimize (to one) a number of breaks in a sequential Interleaver write address. After sorting, the symbols are stored staggered in SRAM and burst written to SDRAM. Before... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080256419 - Configurable split storage of error detecting and correcting codes: Memory space of a digital device may be configured for both instructions/data (op-code) and ECC or parity when required, otherwise the entire memory space may be configured for just the program instructions/data. A standard word width memory may be configured for ECC or non-ECC functionality, or parity or non-parity functionality,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. One Shell Plaza

20080256420 - Error checking addressable blocks in storage: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for error checking addressable blocks in storage. Addressable blocks of data are stored in a storage in stripes, wherein each stripe includes a plurality of data blocks for one of the addressable blocks and at least one checksum block including checksum... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080256421 - Variable forward error correction for optical communication links: A method and system for setting a variable forward error correction overhead in an optical transport network frame for an optical link at a node are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a forward error correction overhead, signaling an optical node the selected forward error correction overhead, and... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080256424 - Information bit puncturing for turbo coding with parameter selectable rate matching tailored to lower eb/no without degrading bler (block error rate) performance: Information bit puncturing for turbo coding with parameter selectable rate matching tailored to lower Eb/No without degrading BLER (Block Error Rate) performance. A means is presented herein by which puncturing is performed to each of three bit sequences from a turbo encoder (i.e., the systematic bits or information bits within... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080256425 - Method of encoding and decoding adaptive to variable code rate using ldpc code: A variable code rate adaptive encoding/decoding method using LDDC code is disclosed, in which an input source data is encoded using the LDPC (low density parity check) code defined by a first parity check matrix configured with a plurality of submatrices. The present invention includes the steps of generating a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080256427 - System, method, and service for providing a generic raid engine and optimizer: A generic RAID engine system accepts an access request, accepts a metadata input comprising a layout description and, optionally, a plurality of resource optimization objectives, accepts a dynamic input comprising a dynamic state of an I/O stack comprising the generic RAID engine and a fault configuration of a plurality of... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080256426 - Low density parity check codes for mimo systems: A low density parity check code is generated by defining first a framework combining symbol detection and low density parity check decoding. Probabilistic information describing multiple-input-multiple-output channels is defined, and a low density parity check code is generated based on said framework and said probabilistic information describing multiple-input-multiple-output channels.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080250264 - System for adaptive action plan compilation based on error reporting: A database of action plans carried out by a service provider is provided that stores the action plan as a series of action codes as well as the associated information such as error code, error type and whether the action plan resolved the problem. When an error occurs and is... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20080250266 - Logical partitioning of a physical device: In one embodiment, an indication of a fault condition is received relating to a first service running on a physical device in a computer network. The first service is associated with a first virtual device context defined on the physical device. Then, the first service is disabled without affecting operation... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080250267 - Method and system for coordinated multiple cluster failover: Hyperclusters are a cluster of clusters. Each cluster has associated with it one or more resource groups, and independent node failures within the clusters are handled by platform specific clustering software. The management of coordinated failovers across dependent or independent resources running on heterogeneous platforms is contemplated. A hypercluster manager... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080250265 - Systems and methods for predictive failure management: A system and method for using continuous failure predictions for proactive failure management in distributed cluster systems includes a sampling subsystem configured to continuously monitor and collect operation states of different system components. An analysis subsystem is configured to build classification models to perform on-line failure predictions. A failure prevention... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080250268 - Method, system, and product for providing extended error handling capability in host bridges: A method, system, and computer program product in a logical partitioned data processing system are disclosed for providing a host bridge that implements extended error handling (EEH). If all devices coupled to the host bridge implement EEH, the host bridge is initialized to operate in EEH mode. In EEH mode,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080250270 - Memory management system and method: A memory system and method of operating the same is described, where the memory system is used to store data in a RAIDed manner. The stored data may be retrieved, including the parity data so that the stored data is recovered when the first of either the stored data without... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080250269 - System and method for improving rebuild speed using data in disk block: A fast rebuild mechanism by which a RAID controller is made aware of what blocks are actually in use so that only those blocks are rebuilt after a disk drive failure. The fast rebuild mechanism uses data stored in the disk metadata to indicate whether a virtual disk supports a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080250271 - Error recovery following speculative execution with an instruction processing pipeline: An instruction processing pipeline 6 is provided. This has error detection and error recovery circuitry 20 associated with one or more of the pipeline stages. If an error is detected within a signal value within that pipeline stage, then it can be repaired. Part of the error recovery may be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080250272 - Logging last resource system: A logging last resource (LLR) system can provide a transaction log and transaction data to a LLR resource after a number of two-phase-commit resources have been prepared. The LLR resource manager can operate on the transaction log and transaction data in an atomic fashion so that the local commit can... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080250273 - Problem determination via model-based debugging: A method for automated software debugging includes steps of: receiving an interface configured for accessing a program; receiving a behavioral model of the program; receiving a failing input sequence from the program; executing the failing input sequence on both the behavioral model and the program; validating, after each executing step,... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080250274 - System and programming product for capturing computer application diagnostics: A diagnostic system in an aspect-oriented data processing environment is provided. The environment comprises a data processing system having an operating system for executing an application, wherein the application comprises an object class. The environment also comprises means for loading the object class at runtime and storage means for storing... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080250275 - Program counter (pc) trace: In one embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a first processor configured to output program counter (PC) trace records, wherein PC trace records provide data indicating the PCs of instructions retired by the first processor. The integrated circuit further comprises a second source of trace records, and a trace unit coupled... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080250276 - Memory growth detection: A process for monitoring memory growth of a software application includes measuring a baseline memory usage for processes operating on a computer system. A background memory logging script is then executed to log process memory usage. At some later time, a trending script is executed which outputs a list showing... Agent: Rg & Associates

20080250277 - Information transmission system: In a printer connected to a network, email appended with link information is prepared for enabling an administrator to access information about the printer network terminal. The email is transmitted to the administrator terminal at a predetermined timing. Then, the administrator terminal accesses the information based on the link information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080250278 - Browser on test equipment: A portable telecommunication test set, such as a telephone line butt set, with a web browser incorporated therein. A standard HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) or WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) browser may be incorporated within the portable test set, allowing a network technician to access the Internet as well as... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080250279 - Method of increasing path coverage in transition test generation: A method for automatically generating test patterns for digital logic circuitry using an automatic test pattern generation tool. The method includes generating test patterns and applying faulty behavior to various paths within the digital logic circuitry. As each circuit path is tested, tested circuit nodes along the circuit path are... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080250281 - Methods and apparatus for monitoring internal signals in an integrated circuit: Apparatus and methods are provided for debugging an integrated circuit. Local multiplexer circuits are provided near first and second circuit blocks in the integrated circuit. Each multiplexer circuit includes input nodes, a control node, and an output node. A first input node of the first multiplexer circuit is coupled to... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20080250282 - Serial i/o using jtag tck and tms signals: The present disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus of using the JTAG TAP's TMS and TCK terminals as a general purpose serial Input/Output (I/O) bus. According to the present disclosure, the TAP's TMS terminal is used as a clock signal and the TCK terminal is used as a bidirectional... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080250280 - Sharing routing of a test signal with an alternative power supply to combinatorial logic for low power design: A device shares an existing test signal routing trace with an alternative power supply delivery channel to portions of registers located in combinatorial logic sections.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080250286 - Boundary scan path method and system with functional and non-functional scan cell memories: An integrated circuit or circuit board includes functional circuitry and a scan path. The scan path includes a test data input lead, a test data output lead, a multiplexer, and scan cells. A dedicated scan cell has a functional data output separate from a test data output. Shared scan cells... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080250285 - Circuit arrangement, electronic mechanism, electrical turn out and procedures for the operation of one circuit arrangement: A circuit arrangement may include a scan test input stage having a test input for receiving a test signal, wherein the scan test input stage can be switched in high-impedance state; a data input stage having a data input for receiving a data signal, wherein the data input stage can... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080250284 - Fault dictionary-based scan chain failure diagnosis: A dictionary-based scan chain fault detector includes a dictionary with fault signatures computed for scan cells in the scan chain. Entries in the fault dictionary are compared with failures in the failure log to identify a faulty scan cell. In one embodiment a single fault in a scan chain is... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080250283 - Power saving flip-flop: A scannable flip-flop and method are provided. The flip-flop includes a clock input, a normal data input, a test data input, a normal data output and a scan data output. The flip-flop has a normal operating mode during which the normal data output is enabled and the scan data output... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation Henry Groth

20080250287 - Ieee 1149.1 and p1500 test interfaces combined circuits and processes: In a first embodiment a TAP of IEEE standard 1149.1 is allowed to commandeer control from a WSP of IEEE standard P1500 such that the P1500 architecture, normally controlled by the WSP, is rendered controllable by the TAP. In a second embodiment (1) the TAP and WSP based architectures are... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080250288 - Scan testing methods: A method of testing an integrated circuit, comprises providing a test vector to a shift register arrangement by providing test vector bits in series into the shift register arrangement (20) timed with a first, scan, clock signal (42). The test vector bits are passed between adjacent portions of the shift... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080250290 - Method and apparatus for testing a ring of non-scan latches with logic built-in self-test: A method and apparatus for loading a ring of non-scan latches for a logic built-in self-test. A logic built-in self-test value is loaded into a scannable latch from the logic built-in self-test. An override control signal is asserted in response to loading the logic built-in self-test value into the scannable... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080250289 - Method for performing a logic built-in-self-test in an electronic circuit: The present invention relates to a method for performing a logic built-in self-test (LBIST) on an electronic circuit with a plurality of logic circuits (18, 20, 22, 24) and storage elements (14, 16) connected serially to a number of LBIST stumps (10, 12) between a pseudo-random-pattern generator (26) and a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080250291 - Test apparatus and electronic device: e

20080250292 - Memory module with ranks of memory chips: A memory module includes a plurality of memory devices and a stacked error correction code memory device. The plurality of memory devices includes one or more memory chips arranged in a plurality of ranks. The stacked error correction code memory device includes a plurality of error correction code memory chips.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080250293 - Apparatus and method for handling data error in data transmission system including relay station: m

20080250294 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a composite frame format: A system and method for efficiently communicating uncompressed video and for efficiently communicating corresponding acknowledgements in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes aggregating multiple subpackets of different types of data into a composite packet. The different types of data may... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080250295 - Encoding method, encoding apparatus, and program: An encoding method encodes by using a quasi-cyclic code having a code length of n=m n0 and an information word length of k=m k0. The method includes the steps of: creating a systematic code with as many as (n0−k0) parity bits inserted therein in units of an information word k0;... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080250296 - Apparatus, method and system for permanent storage of data: A plurality of first storage elements store data. A plurality of second storage elements store an error correcting code based on a data sub-string of the data. A syndrome is generated based on the first and second storage elements. An erroneously programmed content of the first storage elements is corrected... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20080250297 - Method and system for calculating crc: The invention relates to a method and system for calculating CRC. Firstly, a Partial CRC is calculated directly according to a segment of a message. Then, a First Code comprising the Partial CRC appended with a plurality of zero-bytes is generated. Finally, the Adjusted CRC is calculated according to the... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080250298 - Protocol extensions to support varying fec types: There have been proposals to extend the MPE protocol to support different FEC schemes on the MPE layer. Examples of these proposals include: TM-SSP0178 describing a multiburst sliding encoding scheme based on Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, TM-SSP0199r1 describing a block-based encoding scheme based on multi-stage chain reaction (MSCR) codes, and TM-SSP0222... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080250299 - Method of transmitting digital data packets and device implementing the method and receiver: The invention relates to a method of transmitting digital data packets protected by error correction packets and more precisely the manner of inserting these correction packets into the data packet stream so as to increase the correction effectiveness of the error correction method while limiting the latency introduced into the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080250300 - Method for decoding data in non-volatile storage using reliability metrics based on multiple reads: Data stored in non-volatile storage is decoded using iterative probabilistic decoding and multiple read operations to achieve greater reliability. An error correcting code such as a low density parity check code may be used. In one approach, initial reliability metrics, such as logarithmic likelihood ratios, are used in decoding read... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080250301 - Apparatus and method for improving reliability of collected sensor data over a network: Apparatus and method suitable for improving reliability of collected sensor data over a network. One or more transient errors are predicted and corrected using correlation of corrected data. For example, sensor data can be collected from one or more sensor nodes in a network. A device other than a sensor... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080250302 - Convolutional encoder and the encoing method thereof: A convolutional encoder and the encoding method thereof, wherein the encoding method includes steps of: generating convolutional code according to the predefined criteria and with reference to the encoder's predefined convolutional encoding rate and constraint length; processing the data to be transmitted by using the convolutional code so that the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080250303 - Viterbi decoder and method thereof: The present invention relates to a decoder for tail-biting convolution codes and a method thereof. The decoder receives an encoding bit sequence in a convolutional encoding method from a channel, generates an expanded encoding bit sequence, Viterbi decodes the expanded encoding bit sequence, and generates decoded data. In addition, the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080250306 - Coding circuit for recording data on dvd disk: A coding circuit for generating an error correction code from digital data to be recorded in a record medium, includes a temporal storage memory which stores the digital data, a buffer manager which successively reads the digital data m bytes at a time from said temporal storage memory in a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080250304 - Construction and use of shortened eg-idpc codes: Code shortening techniques are used to achieve a variety of code lengths and code rates for Euclidean geometry low density parity check (EG-LDPC) codes.... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20080250305 - Method for generating non-binary structured low density parity check code: A method for generating a non-binary Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. The method includes generating non-binary identity matrixes so as to satisfy at least one condition, wherein the non-binary LDPC code is defined by a parity check matrix, and the parity check matrix includes a plurality of sub-matrixes, which... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080250307 - Intelligent error checking method and mechanism: An intelligent streaming media error check detection method and apparatus. The claimed invention discloses an apparatus and method where all streaming media are initially assumed to have compatible error checksums. A parameter W is initialized to zero. The parameter W is not constant and conceptually represents a state of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080244306 - Storage system and management method for the same: In a storage system performing remote copy, when a failure occurs in a storage apparatus, optimum redundancy configuration is reestablished promptly. In the storage system performing remote copy, when a storage apparatus detects a failure in its disk drive, a storage apparatus capable of providing a logical unit that can... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080244307 - Method to avoid continuous application failovers in a cluster: A method and mechanism for failing over applications in a clustered computing system is provided. In an embodiment, the methodology is implemented by a high-availability failover mechanism. Upon detecting a failure of an application that is currently designated to be executing on a particular node of the system, the mechanism... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080244308 - Defect inspection apparatus, defect inspection program, recording medium storing defect inspection program, figure drawing apparatus and figure drawing system: Input CAD data and run-length data obtained by performing a RIP process on the input CAD data are acquired. A predetermined conversion process is performed on at least one of the input CAD data and the run-length data to make the data formats of both data comparable and then both... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080244309 - Disk array device, operating method thereof and program-storing medium: Even if failure probabilities are different for hard disks due to the individual specificity such as a hard disk manufacturer, model number or the like, a disk with high failure probability is reliably determined and removed from the operating RAID to be kept in a standby state as a hot... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080244310 - Power supplying method and apparatus and a system using the same: An apparatus includes at least one load, a control circuit, and a power supplying apparatus including a control-use power supply part, at least one load-use power supply part, and a power supply control part. The control-use power supply part supplies first electric power to the control circuit, and stops supplying... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080244311 - System and method for thresholding system power loss notifications in a data processing system based on vital product data: A system and method for thresholding system power loss notifications in a data processing system are provided. Power loss detection modules are provided in a data processing system having one or more data processing devices, such as blades in an IBM BladeCenter® chassis. The power loss detection modules detect the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080244312 - Formula server for diagnostic systems: An apparatus and method are provided and include a formula server having formulas and conversion modules that are separate from a diagnostic application of a diagnostic tool. The diagnostic tool receives the diagnostic data and transmits it to a remote computer, where the data is converted using a formula. The... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080244313 - Overriding daughterboard slots marked with power fault: Having detected an anomalous fault in a peripheral I/O slot, a processor entity may need to perform some remedial action, wherein the peripheral slot may have a fault line. First a voltage may be detected on the slot. Processor entity may set a fault if a voltage is found. A... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080244314 - Failure information delivery system, failure management server, mobile object communication apparatus, failure information delivery method, and program: Upon detecting existence of characteristic information of a failure, of which search is requested, a mobile terminal device 102 notifies a failure management server 104 of the detected location information and time information together with the characteristic information of the failure, and the failure management server 104 notifies a terminal... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080244315 - Testing method for complex systems: A method of testing a complex system of components is provided. The method includes providing a test log for each component, each test log comprising a list of tests and a respective test routine for each test. The method also includes activating the test logs and commencing a test procedure... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080244316 - Failure trend detection and correction in a data storage array: A plurality of data storage devices are arranged to form a multi-device array space, and a controller controls access to the array space. The controller is configured to index sets of operational performance data from the plurality of data storage devices into a unified data log. The controller further detects... Agent: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, PC (seagate Technology LLC)

20080244318 - Method and system for proactive drive replacement for high availability storage systems: Methods for preventing the failure of disk drives in storage systems are disclosed. A system and a computer program product for preventing the failure are also disclosed. Factors relating to the aging or early onset of errors in a disk drive are monitored. These factors are then compared to thresholds.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080244317 - Program and apparatus for generating system test specifications: A computer program automatically producing a system test specification adapted for real-life use of a computer system, such that the system's most important processing functions can be tested. An update record storage unit stores update records each including: a process identifier of a data updating process, the name of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080244325 - Automated software support system with backwards program execution and debugging: The invention describes an automated software support system comprising automated bug filing and test case creation component to checkpoint a client process initial state and record the client process initial state changes while the client process undergoes sequence of states which need to be analyzed, such as software bug, deliver... Agent: Mike Tyulenev

20080244319 - Method and apparatus for detecting performance, availability and content deviations in enterprise software applications: A system (200) comprises a plurality of data collectors (210), a correlator (220), a context analyser (230), a baseline analyser (250), a database (260), and a graphical user interface (GUI) (270). The data collectors (210) are deployed on the services or applications that they monitor, or on the network between... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080244324 - Method and system for providing enhanced exception messages for exceptions thrown by virtual machines: A system and method are provided to provide enhanced exception messages for exceptions thrown by virtual machines. In one embodiment, an exception is detected when it is thrown at a virtual machine when a programming error is detected. A first message is associated to the exception, the first message including... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244320 - Program test system: An improved automated software testing system provides the ability to generate and reuse test cases over multiple platforms. Keywords and natural language are used in test case creation, simplifying the process for non-technical business users. Business users can write test cases without scripts. Test cases can be generated even before... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080244321 - Program test system: An improved automated software testing system provides the ability to generate and reuse test cases over multiple platforms. Keywords and natural language are used in test case creation, simplifying the process for non-technical business users. Business users can write test cases without scripts. Test cases can be generated even before... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080244322 - Program test system: An improved automated software testing system provides the ability to generate and reuse test cases over multiple platforms. Keywords and natural language are used in test case creation, simplifying the process for non-technical business users. Business users can write test cases without scripts. Test cases can be generated even before... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080244323 - Program test system: An improved automated software testing system provides the ability to generate and reuse test cases over multiple platforms. Keywords and natural language are used in test case creation, simplifying the process for non-technical business users. Business users can write test cases without scripts. Test cases can be generated even before... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080244326 - Prognosis of faults in electronic circuits: A process for a prognosis of faults in electronic circuits identifies parameters of a circuit under test. An upper and a lower limit is determined for one or more components of the circuit under test. A population of faulty and non-faulty circuits are generated for the circuit under test, and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080244329 - Apparatus diagnosing method, apparatus diagnosis module, and apparatus mounted with apparatus diagnosis module: An apparatus diagnosing method is a method in which, in an apparatus including a control apparatus and a control board for controlling the control apparatus, on the controlling board, an error occurrence at the control apparatus and the control board is detected, an error signal is outputted, sensor data outputted... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080244328 - Generalized trace and log facility for first error data collection: A generalized trace and log facility is employed to collect data, including data associated with the first occurrence of an error. The facility provides standardized application programming interfaces to be used to collect data, print the data, and forward the data to a support team, if desired.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080244327 - Trace device for monitoring electronic device: A trace device for monitoring and storing trace data of a device under test (DUT) is provided. The trace device is coupled in situ with the DUT when the DUT is in its operating environment (e.g., when the DUT is located within a rack, housing, or enclosure including the DUT).... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080244330 - Apparatus, system and computer program product for seamlessly integrating thermal event information data with performance monitor data: An apparatus, system and method of integrating performance monitor data with thermal event information are provided. A thermal event, in this case, is when the temperature of a chip within which is embedded a processor exceeds a user-configurable value while the processor is processing instructions and/or using storage devices that... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20080244333 - Enhanced failure data collection system apparatus and method: An apparatus for collecting failure data includes a failure data collector that initializes one or more test devices by establishing a secondary interface therewith in response to receiving a test device initialization command from a device tester, communicates one or more failure data collection requests to each test device corresponding... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080244332 - Machine instruction level race condition detection: An apparatus, method and computer-readable medium provide for detecting and filtering potential race conditions. In one example, potential race conditions may be detected by determining overlap of memory accesses (e.g., read, write). Potential race conditions may be filtered as potentially benign or harmful race conditions using, for example, heuristics, comparison... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080244331 - System and method for in-band problem log data collection between a host system and a storage system: A system and method for in-band problem log data collection are provided. Facilities are provided for a host system, host application, or server system to instigate a state save operation in a storage system utilizing direct commands in response to an error or failure. The host system may include an... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080244334 - System for synchronizing replicas of a database: A system for synchronizing replicas of a database. The system detects a failure of update data from a first replica to be applied to a second replica and determines a cause of the failure. The system also resolves the cause of the failure. According to the system disclosed herein, the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080244335 - Protecting memory operations involving zero byte allocations: Applications are protected from being exposed to exploits and instabilities due to memory operations involving zero byte allocations. Memory operations involving a zero byte allocation are handled by a zero byte memory manager. When an application requests a zero byte allocation, a pointer to a protected part of memory is... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080244337 - Method and system for automated handling of errors in execution of system management flows consisting of system management tasks: A method and system for automated error handling in system management flows by enhancing workflow engines by an error handling component and by adding a supportive error handling layer to invoked system management tasks which serves m the counterpart to the workflow engine's error handling component. The additional functionality of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080244336 - Set-cyclic comparison method for low-density parity-check decoder: The present invention discloses a set-cyclic comparison method for an LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) decoder, which applies to a CNU (Check Node Unit) or a VNU (Variable Node Unit). In the systematized method of the present invention, all the input elements are initialized to obtain a matrix. Based on the symmetry... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080244338 - Soft bit data transmission for error correction control in non-volatile memory: Data stored in non-volatile storage is decoded using iterative probabilistic decoding. An error correcting code such as a low density parity check code may be used. In one approach, initial reliability metrics, such as logarithmic likelihood ratios, are used in decoding sensed states of a set of non-volatile storage element.... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080244339 - Read level control apparatuses and methods: Various read level control apparatuses and methods are provided. In various embodiments, the read level control apparatuses may include an error control code (ECC) decoding unit for ECC decoding data read from a storage unit, and a monitoring unit for monitoring a bit error rate (BER) based on the ECC... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080244340 - Test apparatus and selection apparatus: There is provided a test apparatus for testing a memory under test that includes therein a plurality of blocks and one or more repairing columns. The test apparatus includes a testing section, a flag memory that stores thereon a flag indicating whether each column is defective, a counter memory that... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080244341 - Methods and apparatus for communicating with a target circuit: A system and method are disclosed which may include establishing a stored test vector, including a plurality of data bits, within a vector data engine; transmitting the stored test vector to a memory array; performing at least one arithmetic or logical operation upon the stored test vector by a vector... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080244342 - Scan string segmentation for digital test compression: One may use a new technique to determine the placement of exclusive-ors in each scan string of a chip to achieve improved test vector compression, and one may combine this technique with methods to minimize the overhead of the exclusive-or logic, to eliminate clock enable logic for multiple scan strings,... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080244343 - Structural testing using boundary scan techniques: A boundary scan technique to generate toggling waveform such as a square wave signal to perform structural testing is disclosed. An instr_extesttoggle command is provided that enables IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan cell to selectively generate the toggling signal on the pre-specified output pads of the integrated circuit. The frequency of... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244346 - Circuit for compression and storage of circuit diagnosis data: A compactor includes test data inputs that are connectable to circuit outputs of an electrical circuit, test comparison inputs, and test data outputs. The compactor further includes a number of H matrix XOR gates arranged as a switching mechanism between the test data inputs and the test data outputs such... Agent: Edell , Shapiro & Finnan , LLC

20080244345 - Failure diagnostic apparatus, failure diagnostic system, and failure diagnostic method: There is provided a failure diagnostic apparatus that diagnoses a semiconductor integrated circuit device for failure based on a compressed signal obtained by compressing a plurality of signals outputted from a plurality of scan chains in which a plurality of scan flip-flops, to which signals from the semiconductor integrated circuit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080244344 - Testing a pipeline in an ic: An architecture for testing a pipeline (14) in an integrated circuit comprises an input port and an output port, and is operable to process a data word having a plurality of data bits. The architecture comprises a multiplexer (18) provided at each input of the input port of the pipeline... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080244347 - Automated circuit model generator: A method, system and program reduce ATPG processing times by eliminating non-value added cells in a circuit model that that is provided to an ATPG system. The elimination of non-value added cells results in a logically equivalent circuit model that is reduced in size from an original circuit model. As... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080244348 - Determining die performance by incorporating neighboring die performance metrics: A method includes receiving a first set of parameters associated with a plurality of die. A first die performance metric associated with a selected die is determined based on the first set of parameters. At least one neighborhood die performance metric associated with a set comprised of a plurality of... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080244349 - Memory device including memory controller: A memory device includes a semiconductor memory including a plurality of memory cells, and a controller including a buffer which temporarily stores data, a data pattern check circuit which checks a predetermined data pattern of data that are stored in the buffer and are to be stored in a plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080244350 - Apparatus and method for automatic repeat request in multiple input multiple output system: A method for an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) at a receiver in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system wherein when a received packet is erroneous and the erroneous packet is received from the weakest antenna in a Space Multiplexing (SM) mode, a first smallest number of retransmissions is computed... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080244352 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data and apparatus and method for receiving data: Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting data and an apparatus and method for receiving data, in which the transmission of uncompressed data over a wireless network can be performed by retransmitting an erroneous bit or a group of erroneous bits, if any, of each sub-packet including a number... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080244351 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes an image read unit which reads image data from a transmission document; a tag read unit which wirelessly reads tag data stored in a wireless tag corresponding to the transmission document; an image data generation unit, if the tag data includes... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080244353 - Method for creating an error correction coding scheme: The present invention relates to a method for reducing data loss comprising a first computing step for computing an intermediate result for each redundancy information entity of a redundancy set by processing respectively associated data information entities of a given data set on at least two main diagonals of a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080244354 - Apparatus and method for redundant multi-threading with recovery: A method and apparatus for reducing the effect of soft errors in a computer system is provided. Soft errors are detected by combining software redundant threading and instruction duplication. Upon detection of a soft error, errors are recovered through the use of software check pointing/rollback technology. Reliable regions are identified... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244358 - Circuits and methods for error coding data blocks: A description is given of a circuit for creating an error coding data block for a first data block, including a first error coding path adapted to create the error coding data block in accordance with a first error coding; and a second error coding path adapted to create the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080244355 - Comparing data sets through identification of matching blocks: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a source data set and a target data set. Differences between the target data set and the source data set are identified by dividing the target data set into a set of target data blocks. At least one duplicate block that is identical to a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080244357 - Processing wireless and broadband signals using resource sharing: Methods and structures are described for processing signals formatted according to a plurality of different wireless and broadband standards. In some embodiments, network resources are shared to enable energy efficient, pseudo-simultaneous processing. In some embodiments, a timestamp is prepended to input data to remove jitter associated with time division multiplexed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080244356 - Super block error correction code (ecc) adaptable to communication systems including hard disk drives (hdds) and other memory storage devices: Super block error correction code (ECC) adaptable to communication systems including hard disk drives (HDDs) and other memory storage devices. A means is presented by which a number of blocks of information can be organized, with a degree of ECC provided thereto, and transmitted via a signal into a communication... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080244362 - Bose-chaudhuri-hocquenghem error correction method and circuit for checking error using error correction encoder: A Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) error correction circuit and method including storing normal data and first parity data in a memory cell array, the normal data and first parity data forming BCH encoded data; generating second parity data from the stored normal data; comparing the first parity data with the second parity... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080244360 - Non-volatile memory with soft bit data transmission for error correction control: Data stored in non-volatile storage is decoded using iterative probabilistic decoding. An error correcting code such as a low density parity check code may be used. In one approach, initial reliability metrics, such as logarithmic likelihood ratios, are used in decoding sensed states of a set of non-volatile storage element.... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080244361 - Pipelined cyclic redundancy check (crc): Methods and apparatus to provide a pipelined cyclic redundancy check (CRC) are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of stages determines a plurality of CRC values corresponding to portions of a data packet. The plurality of CRC values may be accumulated to determine a CRC value for the data packet.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244359 - Techniques for correcting errors using iterative decoding: Techniques are provided for iteratively decoding data recorded on a data storage device. An iterative decoder decodes the data using multiple decoding iterations to correct errors. In multiple iterations of the iterative decoder, a post processing block generates soft information, and a decoder applies a minimum sum decoding algorithm to... Agent: Steven J. Cahill/ Hitachi Gst

20080244364 - Method and apparatus for code group identification and frame synchronization by use of reed-solomon decoder and reliability measurement for umts w-cdma: A method and apparatus having a modified Reed-Solomon decoder is used for finding a specific code group used by a base station and the frame timing synchronization with the base station. The modified Reed-Solomon decoder uses a standard Reed-Solomon decoder and some reliability measurements computed from the received code word... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080244363 - Reed solomon decoder and ibma method and parallel-to-serial conversion method thereof: A parallel-to-serial conversion method for IBMA in a Reed Solomon decoder is used for obtaining discrepancies in IBMA iterations, thereby acquiring an error location polynomial and an error value polynomial. Syndrome sequences for the calculation of discrepancies in IBMA iterations have a fixed length. The number of syndromes is t+1,... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080244365 - Decoding apparatus and method for a perfect difference-set cyclic code and a difference-set cyclic code: A decoding apparatus includes a decoder register for receiving data having a codeword including null data bits, and decoding the received data while shifting Bit Under Decoding (BUD) by one bit. A connection unit outputs a check result by applying a predetermined check equation to the data output from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080244366 - Adaptable channel compensation for reliable communication over fading communication links: A method for reducing fading channel signal data loss for serial data rates rates up to approximately 10 gigabits per second includes sequentially distributing serial data to multiple encoders. Individual data bytes are sent from the encoders to a convolutional interleaver. Each byte is distributed to an individual memory element... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080244368 - Guided simulated annealing in non-volatile memory error correction control: Data stored in non-volatile storage is decoded using iterative probabilistic decoding. An error correcting code such as a low density parity check code may be used. In one approach, initial reliability metrics, such as logarithmic likelihood ratios, are used in decoding sensed states of a set of non-volatile storage elements.... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080244367 - Non-volatile memory with guided simulated annealing error correction control: Data stored in non-volatile storage is decoded using iterative probabilistic decoding. An error correcting code such as a low density parity check code may be used. In one approach, initial reliability metrics, such as logarithmic likelihood ratios, are used in decoding sensed states of a set of non-volatile storage elements.... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080244369 - Register read mechanism: Integrated circuits have expanded a set of custom registers and a read mechanism for control registers. One embodiment includes a circuit having a first set of registers; a second set of registers to be written via one or more write operations addressed to one or more registers of the first... Agent: Ivy Y. Mei

20080244370 - Multi-bit memory error detection and correction system and method: A system and method for operating a collection of memory cells includes storing binary data values and parity data values by associating binary values with a common adjustable characteristic parameter of a memory cell collection. Probability distribution functions for values of the characteristic parameter of the memory cell collection are... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080244371 - Method and device for data integrity checking: The present invention relates to high speed datapaths, sometimes including mixed digital and analog voltage signals. In particular, it relates to error checking strategies for large data volumes, in digital and/or analog domains and to analog signal patterns that accelerate charge loading of micromirrors in an SLM. Particular aspects of... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP