Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery inventions 04/09

20090113232 - Apparatus and method for managing wireless sensor network: An apparatus for managing a plurality of wireless sensor networks selects a configuring policy according to a characteristic of each wireless sensor network and configures a network with the selected configuring policy for management. When an error occurs in the wireless sensor network, the apparatus performs error diagnosis based on... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090113233 - Testing disaster recovery elements: Testing disaster recovery elements can be performed by configuring a disaster recovery site with network addresses to disaster recovery elements at an application layer. End-to-end operation of the disaster recovery site is verified using the network addresses at the application layer. The disaster recovery site is verified while an associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090113234 - Virtualization switch and method for controlling a virtualization switch: A virtualization switch includes first communication line connection terminals which can be connected to a host computer, a physical storage apparatus or a plurality of physical storage apparatuses, and another virtualization switch, a second communication line connection terminal which can be connected to a single line concentrator or a plurality... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090113236 - Disk management method, disk management device and storage system: A disk management method for managing a disk management device for writing and reading data to and from a disk drive in which a recording medium is managed in a first control unit. The disk management method includes an error checking operation for checking an error on the recording medium... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090113235 - Raid with redundant parity: Methods and apparatus of the present invention include storing redundant parity information in storage devices that are configured in a RAID array. Conventional hard disk drives are configured to store data in RAID 3 or RAID 4 data layouts. A storage controller is configured to generate the parity information for... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090113237 - Storage control device, storage control method and storage control program: A storage control device includes a first rebuilding unit rebuilding information stored in one of a plurality of storages that fails by using information stored in the plurality of storages excluding said failed storage and storing rebuilt information in a spare storage replaced with the failed storage, a second rebuilding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090113238 - Power failure management for respiratory system heater unit: A heater unit includes power failure management to detect disruptions in the electrical power supply, such as the AC supply, for the unit. The heater unit emits an audible alarm in response to detection of such a disruption, and may shut down the heater(s) and visuals display(s). The heater unit... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090113239 - Method and apparatus for instruction trace registers: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for utilizing instruction trace registers. In one embodiment, a value in a target processor register in a plurality of processor registers is updated in response to executing an instruction associated with program code. In response to updating the value in... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090113240 - Detecting soft errors via selective re-execution: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining a vulnerability level for an instruction executed in a processor, and re-executing the instruction if the vulnerability level is above a threshold. The vulnerability level may correspond to a soft error likelihood for the instruction while the instruction is... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090113241 - Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system: A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090113244 - Diagnostic functionality for wireless client connectivity problems in wireless networks: A troubleshooting system. In particular implementations, a method includes collecting, from a first wireless network element, PEM state associated with a wireless client having a connection problem, and collecting log data associated with the wireless client from the first wireless network elements and one or more other wireless network elements.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090113242 - Dynamic partitioning of event patterns for determining symptoms: Events experienced by resources are locally processed by secondary autonomic managers into consolidated events. These consolidated events are then transmitted to a primary autonomic manager, which recognizes symptoms of conditions found in a computer system that utilizes the resources. The primary autonomic manager is thus able to leverage information in... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090113243 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for rule-based directed problem resolution for servers with scalable proactive monitoring: Method, apparatus and computer program product are configured to perform computer monitoring activities; to collect information regarding computer system status during the computer monitoring activities; to detect a problem in dependence on the information collected during the computer monitoring activities; and to determine whether to launch a diagnostic probe when... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090113245 - Protocol aware digital channel apparatus: In one embodiment, provided is a protocol specific circuit for simulating a functional operational environment into which a device-under-test is placed for functional testing. The protocol specific circuit includes a protocol aware circuit constructed to receive a non-deterministic signal communicated by a device-under-test and to control a transfer of the... Agent: Balzan Intellectual Property Law, PC

20090113246 - Apparatus for and method of implementing system log message ranking via system behavior analysis: A novel and useful method for enabling system logs to be effectively and efficiently monitored by ranking the system log messages by their estimated value to administrators and generating a log view that displays the most important messages. The ranking process uses a dataset of system logs from many computer... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090113247 - Failure diagnosis device, program and storage medium: A failure diagnosis device, program and storage medium are provided, which are capable of automatically generating FTA and/or FMEA from MFM. An FTA generating section generates an FTA knowledge by reading out, from an HD, an MFM knowledge systematically and organically representing goals, functions, relations between the functions, relations between... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090113248 - Collaborative troubleshooting computer systems using fault tree analysis: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for troubleshooting of computer systems using a fault tree analysis. In one embodiment, data parameters describing a status of a system may be monitored to determine the existence of a fault. In the event of a fault, fault tree analysis metadata may be evaluated... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090113249 - Stress testing method of file system: A stress testing method of a file system includes traversing local or network storage devices with a drive letter; detecting a network mapping path of the network storage devices; calculating an absolute path of all the storage devices through a mounted point and a system volume; collecting the above information... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090113250 - Service testing: Communication symmetry is leveraged to facilitate testing of network services. To identify, isolate, understand, and resolve problems a test client is employed. In accordance with one aspect, a service can be provided for execution on a service consumer while the test client resides on a service provider. Roles are reversed... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090113251 - Real-time analysis of performance data of a video game: A method for analyzing the performance of a video game uses a diagnostic tool that is associated with application code of the video game. The diagnostic tool is activated when the video game is in operation, and real-time performance data is captured and displayed. A warning is generated when a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090113252 - Fault detection in exponentiation and point multiplication operations using a montgomery ladder: A system and method are provided enabling implicit redundancies such as constant differences and points that should be on the same curve, to be checked at the beginning, end and intermittently throughout the computation to thwart fault injection attacks. This can be implemented by checking the constant difference in point... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20090113253 - System and apparatus for delivering media and method for playing streaming media: A media delivery system includes a media manager (MM) a central server that supports peer to peer (P2P) technology (CS-P), a request routing system that supports P2P technology (RRS-P), and an edge server that supports P2P technology (ES-P) and multiple P2P clients. A method for playing streaming media based on... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090113254 - System management apparatus and method for multi-shelf modular computing system: The invention provides a system management apparatus for a multi-shelf modular computing system. The system management apparatus receives and parses an alert information in response to an abnormal parameter/state relative to a component of the multi-shelf modular computing system sent from a shelf management device of the multi-shelf modular computing... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20090113255 - Software fault detection using progress tracker: The invention provides for software fault detection. A software process tracks its own progress. In the event the timer times out, a handler checks the progress. If the progress meets a fault criterion, a fault response is executed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090113256 - Method, computer program product, apparatus and device providing scalable structured high throughput ldpc decoding: The invention relates to low density parity check decoding. A method for decoding an encoded data block is described. Decoding is performed in a pipelined manner using a layered belief propagation technique and scalable resources, which are configurable to accommodate at least two codeword lengths and at least two code... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090113257 - Device and method for testing sas channels: A device and a method for testing SAS channels which are applied to a plurality of pairs of SAS interfaces. The testing device includes a control terminal, a PCI-E microprocessor, a PCI-E-to-SAS adaptor, and a signal feedback module. The control terminal is used for selecting SAS channels and sending a... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090113258 - Method and system for testing devices using loop-back pseudo random datat: There is provided a method of testing a first device using a tester. The method comprises receiving test data having a pattern by the first device from the tester; detecting the pattern of the test data by the first device; generating first data, by the first device, according to the... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090113259 - Memory cell programming: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, and systems for performing a programming operation on an array of non-volatile memory cells. One method includes programming a number of cells to a number of final data states. The method includes performing, prior to completion of, e.g., finishing, the programming operation,... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20090113261 - Conversion device, conversion method, program, and recording medium: Provided are a conversion device and the like for converting a initial test pattern given in advance into a test pattern of a bit constitution of different logic values, without losing the fault coverage of transition delay fault which can be detected by the constitution element of the initial test... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090113260 - Test system: A test system for testing a plurality of devices under test is disclosed. The test system includes a tester and a plurality of processors. The tester is used for providing a plurality of control signals and determining a plurality of test results for the devices under test according to a... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090113263 - Methods for analyzing scan chains, and for determining numbers or locations of hold time faults in scan chains: In a method for determining a number of possible hold time faults in a scan chain of a DUT, an environmental variable of the scan chain is set to a value believed to cause a hold time fault in the scan chain, and then a pattern is shifted through the... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20090113262 - System and method for conditioning and identifying bad blocks in integrated circuits: An electronic system of an Integrated circuit (IC) for conditioning and identification of bad blocks in the IC is disclosed. The electronic system includes at least one cyclic scan chain and at least one multiplexer. A cyclic scan chain includes a plurality of flip-flops, which are connected in a cascaded... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090113264 - Built in self test for input/output characterization: A test system in an integrated circuit includes at least one boundary scan cell. The boundary scan cell includes a first storage element and a second storage element connected in series with the first storage element. The boundary scan cell also includes test logic configured to provide a test completion... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090113265 - Locating hold time violations in scan chains by generating patterns on ate: A method for determining that failures in semiconductor test are due to a defect potentially causing a hold time violation in a scan cell in a scan chain, counting the number of potential defects, and, if possible, localizing, and ameliorating hold time defects in a scan chain.... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20090113266 - Compression and decompression of stimulus and response waveforms in automated test systems: An automated test system for a device under test (DUT) compresses the stimulus waveform before transferring it to a storage device or over a data transfer interface. The compressed stimulus waveform data are decompressed, and if required converted to analog form, then applied as a stimulus to the DUT. In... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090113267 - Error detection method and apparatus: To identify errored bits in a binary data set, an ordered plurality of modulo-2 summations of respective selections of the data-set bits are compared with a target syndrome. The selections of data-set bits are defined by the connection of sum nodes to variable nodes in a logical network of nodes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090113268 - Joint channel code for data non-associated control signalling type: A length Nd≧2 of a vector is determined, the vector indicating a type of data non-associated control signaling (e.g., CQI+ACK, CQI+NACK, or CQI-only). The length Nd may be sent individually to UEs or broadcast in the cell. The network decodes a received message using a sub-code word from its memory... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090113269 - Data descrambling apparatus and data descrambling method: There are provided an FIFO unit (202) in which data are stored, an error correction unit (205) for receiving the data contents from the FIFO unit and performing error detection, an ID holding register (204) for holding a seed that is needed for data descrambling or information that is needed... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090113270 - Data processing method of decoding coded data and data processor for the same: For the coded data that was transmitted via a communication channel, a known code portion thereof that is a code portion corresponding to known data is detected. When the known code portion is not detected from the coded data, the coded data will be decoded. When the known code portion... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090113271 - Method and apparatus for parallel structured latin square interleaving in communication system: A method and apparatus for parallel structured Latin square interleaving in a communication system are provided. The method includes dividing input information bits into sub-blocks according to a parallel processing order, generating a first Latin square matrix or a second Latin square matrix by comparing the parallel processing order with... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090113272 - Error correction coding in flash memory devices: Systems and/or methods that facilitate error correction of data are presented. An error correction code (ECC) control component facilitates enabling or disabling error correction of data being written to or read from memory, such as flash memory, based on ECC indicator data associated with a piece of data. The ECC... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090113273 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data restoration information in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting data restoration information in a communication system are provided, in which a BS transmits first data in a first zone of a frame, transmits second data in a second zone of the frame, transmits first data restoration information for restoring the first data in... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090113274 - Bit reverse interleaving methods for qam modulation in a wireless communication system: In a communication method, a sequence of information bits is encoded into systematic bits and parity bits. The systematic bits and the parity bits are grouped in output blocks, each output block to be assigned to an address of a constellation scheme. The addresses include addresses that are more prone... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090113275 - Bch code with 256 information bytes and up to 8 bytes of parity check elements: A coding system comprises pre-multiply the message u(x) by Xn−k. Obtain the remainder b(x), i.e. the parity check digits. And combine b(x) and Xn−ku(x) to obtain the code polynomial. A decoding method comprises calculating a syndrome; finding an error-location polynomial; and computing a set of error location numbers.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090113276 - Method, apparatus, computer program product and device providing semi-parallel low density parity check decoding using a block structured parity check matrix: The invention relates to low density parity check decoding. A method for decoding an encoded data block is described. Encoded data block comprising data sub-blocks are stored. Decoding is performed in a pipelined manner using an irregular, block-structured parity check matrix, where at least two data sub-block matrices of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090106578 - Repair planning engine for data corruptions: A computer is programmed to automatically generate repairs to fix failure(s) while taking into account dependencies between repairs relative to one another, by grouping failures. In some embodiments, the computer uses a map that associates each failure type with repair types that are alternatives to one another, and uses another... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106579 - Storage switch system, storage switch method, management server, management method, and management program: A switch control system including a storage unit, a switch which logically sets a network topology between the storage unit and a plurality of computers, and a management server which communicates with the switch and the storage unit, wherein the storage unit includes at least one disk; wherein the management... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090106582 - Information processing device and information processing method for data recovery after failure: An information processing device and information processing method including a management table that includes three pages. A pair of first and second pages is alternately used as a valid page and an invalid page to secure the data. The valid page is copied to a third page. Even when the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090106580 - Mobile handset employing efficient backup and recovery of blocks during update: A fault tolerant method of updating software and firmware in non-volatile memory in electronic devices such as, for example, cellular phones, personal digital assistants, pagers and the like, which supports efficient recovery of corrupted memory contents when interruption of updating activities occurs, and that minimizes writes to the non-volatile memory.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090106581 - System and method for data writing: In a system for or method of data writing using a CPU and a plurality of memory banks connected to the CPU to enable the CPU to write the data thereon, a combination of data comprising data and their complement are written on a first memory bank and the same... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090106584 - Storage apparatus and method for controlling the same: Provided is a storage apparatus that can dramatically shorten the time for recovery from a fault in a storage device. In a storage apparatus provided with one or more storage devices and a method for controlling the storage apparatus, when a fault occurs in the storage device, whether or not... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090106583 - Storage controller, and storage device failure detection method: Even when a failure incapable of being detected by a single guarantee code occurs in data, a storage controller of the present invention can detect and restore this failure. The controller, upon receiving a write command from a host, establish a first data guarantee code in the write data, and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090106585 - Storage system: One code (a compressed redundant code) is created based on a plurality of first redundant codes, each created on the basis of a plurality of data units, and this compressed redundant code is written to a nonvolatile storage area. This compressed redundant code is used to restore either a data... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090106586 - Assigning a processor to a logical partition: Assigning a processor to a logical partition in a computer supporting multiple logical partitions that include assigning priorities to partitions, detecting a checkstop of a failing processor of a partition, retrieving the failing processor's state, replacing by a hypervisor the failing processor with a replacement processor from a partition having... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090106587 - Software recovery method for flash media with defective formatting: A method and software program for recovering data from corrupted flash media. In one aspect, the method employs a low-level access scheme that enables data to be recovered when high-level interfaces, such as file systems, are damaged. The type of flash media is determined, and a corresponding access scheme is... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (onspec/tpl)

20090106588 - Method and apparatus for parallel and serial data transfer: A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing maintenance operations in a system using address, data, and controls which are transported through the system, allowing for parallel and serial operations to co-exist without the parallel operations being slowed down by the serial ones. It also provides for use of common... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090106589 - Gathering context information used for activation of contextual dumping: An infrastructure is provided for gathering diagnostic data that is relevant to an error or other conditions detected in a monitored system. A diagnosability framework is provided that automates the gathering of relevant diagnostic data upon occurrence of the condition in the monitored system. In one embodiment, context data is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106590 - Service and diagnostic logic scan apparatus and method: A diagnostic and service logic program for a programmable logic controller (PLC) is provided in parallel with the main machine logic program. The diagnostic and service logic program has the same functionality as the main machine logic program, but can be modified and operated independently of the main machine logic... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090106591 - System and method for on-board diagnostics of memory modules: A memory hub includes an on-board diagnostic engine through which diagnostic testing and evaluation of the memory system can be performed. The memory hub includes a link interface for receiving memory requests for access to memory devices of the memory system and a memory device interface coupled to the memory... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090106592 - Technique for resolving \"no-trouble-found\" (ntf) events in electronic systems: A system that diagnoses a failure in a computer system is described. During operation, the system tests the computer system using a sequence of tests, where a given test includes a given load associated with a pre-determined failure mechanism for a given failure condition. During the given test, the system... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090106595 - Gathering information for use in diagnostic data dumping upon failure occurrence: Techniques for gathering information during runtime of a monitored system such that the information is available for facilitating diagnostics for the monitored system. In one embodiment, upon detection of a condition (such as an error condition) in the monitored system, a portion of the gathered information provides contextual information that... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106594 - Method and device for log events processing: The present invention relates to a method and device for log event processing. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a log event; determining whether or not the log event meets one or more predetermined conditions; and executing one or more processes determined according to the predetermined conditions when the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090106593 - System and method for bouncing failure analysis: A method for analyzing fault modes that may cause a fault is presented in which a multi-point analysis may be performed to identify multi fault modes that are interrelated in causing the fault. The method provides for easy and systematic switching from a top-down to bottom-up approaches of analysis to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090106596 - User-triggered diagnostic data gathering: An infrastructure is provided for gathering diagnostic data that is relevant to an error or other conditions detected in a monitored system. A diagnosability framework is provided that automates the gathering of relevant diagnostic data upon occurrence of the condition in the monitored system. In one embodiment, context data is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106598 - Automated interaction diagram generation using source code breakpoints: An automated interaction diagram generation using source code breakpoints is presented. A user sets diagram breakpoints at locations in source code using an integrated development environment (IDE) that includes a diagram generation manager. The user sets the breakpoints at locations where the user wishes to capture the interaction between objects... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090106597 - Automatically populating symptom databases for software applications: A solution is proposed for populating a symptom collection—such as a symptom database—for a software application. The symptom collection includes an indication of a set of symptoms; each symptom consists of an undesired behavior of the software application, which symptom is due to each one of a set of corresponding... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090106599 - System and method to locate and correct software errors within a protocol stack for wireless devices: The present invention provides a method to test a protocol stack operable to be loaded to a wireless terminal. This involves the creation of simulation scripts from prior test case logs associated with a prior test case executed on a physical wireless terminal. When the prior test case is failed... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090106601 - Diagnostic data repository: Techniques for systematically gathering, organizing, and storing diagnostic data related to multiple monitored systems (e.g., multiple instances of a product or multiple products). A centralized repository is provided that is organized in a hierarchical manner to facilitate proper organization of the diagnostic data related to multiple monitored systems. In one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106600 - Optimal stress exerciser for computer servers: A system that select tests to exercise a given computer system is described. During operation, the system tests the given computer system using a set of tests, where a given test includes a given load and a given cycling time selected from a range of cycling times. Moreover, for the... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090106603 - Data corruption diagnostic engine: A computer is programmed to execute a diagnostic procedure either on a pre-set schedule or asynchronously in response to an event, such as an error message, or a user command. When executed, the diagnostic procedure automatically checks for integrity of one or more portions of data in the computer, to... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106602 - Method for detecting problematic disk drives and disk channels in a raid memory system based on command processing latency: In order to detect problematic drives in random arrays of independent disks, the system measures the latency of executing command sets which are broadcast to all disks in the data storage system and the results are compared to identify which disks take substantially longer to complete the requests. Disks that... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090106604 - Procedure and device for emulating a programmable unit: The invention concerns a procedure and a device for emulating a programmable unit using an external emulation device. The method comprises transferring a signal to the external emulation device, which allows deriving the original CPU clock signal of the target programmable unit, and, in a defined relationship with the CPU... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090106605 - Health monitor: Techniques for proactively and reactively running diagnostic functions. These diagnostic functions help to improve diagnostics of conditions detected in a monitored system and to limit/quarantine the damages caused by the detected conditions. In one embodiment, a health monitor infrastructure is provided that is configured to perform one or more health... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106606 - Method and apparatus for detecting and isolating controller area network permanent dominant states: Detection of a permanent dominant state on a Controller Area Network node, occurring nearly simultaneously with development of the state, is used to the node from the network. Detection is independent of the application environment.... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20090106607 - Method and apparatus for sram macro sparing in computer chips: SRAM macro sparing allows for full chip function despite the loss of one or more SRAM macros. The controls and data flow for any single macro within a protected group are made available to the spare or spares for that group. This allows a defective or failed SRAM macro to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090106608 - Apparatus and method for selectively implementing launch off scan capability in at speed testing: An apparatus for selectively implementing launch-off-scan capability in at-speed testing of integrated circuit devices includes a control device configured to selectively disable a master clock signal of a latch structure under test such that a pulse sequence of a system clock signal results in a slave-master-slave clock pulse sequence in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090106611 - Microelectronic device and pin arrangement method thereof: The present invention provides a microelectronic device with a circuit core and a boundary scan test interface sharing a number of pre-selected pins. In the mode of a boundary scan test, the boundary scan test interface manipulates the input and output of the test signal through the shared pins. Pins... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090106610 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit having a low maximum allowable operating frequency such as an analog circuit can be prevented from being destroyed during a scan test. When a scan test mode signal is “1”, output signals of a first AND circuit and a second AND circuit are fixed to a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090106609 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and debug mode determination method: A semiconductor integrated circuit has a terminal to input a debug signal which specifies a debug mode, a reset circuit to generate a reset signal when a power is turned ON, and a debug mode control circuit to output a control signal which causes a shift to the debug mode... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090106612 - Enhancing speed of simulation of an ic design while testing scan circuitry: A computer is programmed to prepare a computer program for simulating operation of an integrated circuit (IC) chip, in order to test scan circuitry therein. The computer is programmed to trace a path through combinational logic in a design of the IC chip, starting from an output port of a... Agent: Evergreen Valley Law Group PC/synopsys Inc.

20090106613 - Testing a circuit with compressed scan chain subsets: A test system tests a circuit. Compressed scan data subsets are stored, one at a time, in a memory of the test system. The multiple compressed scan data subsets correspond with multiple scan chains in a function block of the tested circuit. Transmission of the compressed scan data subset from... Agent: Lsi Corporation David Smith

20090106614 - System and method for signature-based systematic condition detection and analysis: Disclosed are embodiments of a system, method and service for detecting and analyzing systematic conditions occurring in manufactured devices. Each embodiment comprises generating a unique signature for each of multiple tested devices. The signatures are generated based on an initial set of signature definitions and the values for those signature... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090106615 - Test method of integrated circuit with random-number generation circuit and integrated circuit with random-number generation circuit: Random numbers output from a random-number generation circuit, for which an optimized control parameter is set, at a predetermined timing after power-on reset are obtained after each power-on reset, by repeating the power-on reset with respect to a system LSI for a preset number of times, and a test of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090106616 - Integrated circuit using speculative execution: An integrated circuit 2 is provided with a plurality of pipeline stages 10. These pipeline stages 10 have speculative processing control circuitry 12 which permits speculative processing in downstream pipeline stages and triggers a first error recovery operation (partial pipeline flushing) if such speculative processing is determined to be based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090106617 - Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus: An apparatus for reliably transferring media over a network from a sending node to a receiving node. The sending node includes a media ascertaining element configured to ascertain if media to be transmitted from the sending node to the receiving node is either time-sensitive or not time-sensitive. The sending node... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP / Rebelvox

20090106618 - Turbo encoder and harq processing method applied for the turbo encoder: A turbo encoder is provided to be capable of improving its performance in the case that the redundancy is low. A first constituent encoder (1) of an output device of the turbo encoder inputs a data coding sequence (Xk) directly and outputs a redundant data sequence (Zk). A second constituent... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090106619 - Mimo hybrid-arq using basis hopping: A Hybrid Automatic Retransmission Request (H-ARQ) technique is provided for Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems. The technique changes the basis (V) upon retransmission, which helps reduce the error probability upon retransmission. This basis hopping technique provides for improved performance gain without significant increase in design complexity. In one embodiment, communication device... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090106621 - Data decoding apparatus, data decoding method, data transmitting/receiving system, data receiving apparatus, data receiving method and program: Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus for decoding an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) code received in a first format or a second format wherein a process to decode received values each obtained as a result of receiving the LDPC code in the first or second format includes at least... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090106620 - Decoding apparatus, decoding method and program: Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus for decoding an LDPC code, the decoding apparatus including: a message computation section configured to carry out a process of decoding received values, where notation F denotes a non-unity measure of the integer P, and outputting F messages; a shift section configured to carry... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090106622 - Receiving apparatus and method and program: A receiving apparatus including, an LDPC decoder configured to decode both of the data signal and the transmission control signal, a data signal input buffer arranged before the LDPC decoder and configured to hold the received data signal and a transmission control signal input buffer arranged before the LDPC decoder... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090106623 - Method for turbo transmission of digital broadcasting transport stream, a digital broadcasting transmission and reception system, and a signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system, and a signal processing method thereof for turbo-processing digital broadcasting transport stream and transmitting the processed stream, includes a parity area generating unit preparing a first area for parity insertion with respect to a dual transport stream (TS) which includes a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090106624 - Error correction method: According to an error correction method of the present invention, in the case of decoding a code word (104) which is doubly encoded by adding first and second inspection data (102,103) having minimum distances d1 and d2 from other data, respectively, a position Ex of an erasure symbol X for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090106625 - basic matrix, coder/encoder and generation method of the low density parity check codes: The invention relates to a base matrix, a encoder/decoder of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes and a generation method thereof. The encoder/decoder is determined uniquely by the parity check matrix of the LDPC codes. With different code sizes, said parity check matrix can be obtained by expanding different base... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090106627 - Digital information reproduction method: An optical disc using super-resolution effects that achieves higher-density recording exceeding the optical resolution suffers from the signal-quality degradation caused by the normal resolution component included in the reproduction signal. To address this problem, a data reproduction method is provided. In the method, characteristic error patterns are identified and parity... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090106626 - Low-density parity-check code based error correction for memory device: An accumulative repeat encoder can facilitate encoding data written to memory, such that parity data can be generated in accordance with a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. The original data and associated parity data can be stored in memory. During a read operation, a decoder component can utilize the parity data... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090106628 - Safe command execution and error recovery for storage devices: Techniques for execution of commands securely within a storage device are disclosed. Integrity of a command interpreter is verified before allowing it to execute commands within the storage device. The integrity of the commands can also be checked to safeguard against various threats including, for example, malicious attacks, unintentional errors... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090106629 - Rds compatible receiver and rds data receiving method: An RDS compatible receiver has a demodulator which demodulates RDS data, a register which converts the demodulated RDS data to block data and outputs the block data, an offset generating unit which predicts and outputs an offset word of the block data based on values of a pattern match flag... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090106630 - Iterative decoding in a mesh network, corresponding method and system: a graph-based decoder comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of said graph-based decoder receiving the soft output value from a corresponding decoder and the graph-based decoder determining a decoding value of said data word on the basis of said soft output values.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090106631 - Parallel cyclic code generation device and parallel cyclic code error detection device: To eliminate the need for buffering in order to calculate data length information on data as an object of computation, a first exclusive-OR unit 53 executes computation of exclusive-OR of a cyclic code R(x) of the integral multiple bit bits block A(x) and a data string of M bits, containing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090106632 - Digital broadcast transmitter/receiver having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system, and a signal processing method thereof, includes a randomizer for randomizing a transport stream into a specified position of which stuff bytes are inserted, a stuff-byte exchanger for replacing the stuff bytes included in data output from the randomizer with specified known data, an RS... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090106634 - Error detecting and correcting circuit using chien search, semiconductor memory controller including error detecting and correcting circuit, semiconductor memory system including error detecting and correcting circuit, and error detecting and correcting m: An error detecting and correcting circuit is provided with a syndrome calculating circuit calculating a syndrome of an inputted data sequence including an error correcting code, a polynomial deriving circuit deriving an error location polynomial, a Chien searching circuit obtaining a location of error data of the data sequence, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090106633 - Method and apparatus for correcting and detecting multiple spotty-byte errors within a byte occurred in a limited number of bytes: The apparatus for correcting and detecting multiple spotty-byte errors within a byte occurred in a limited number of bytes, comprises an encoding means for generating a transmitted word based on input information data; and a decoding means for inputting the transmitted word where errors occurred in an information transmission channel... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090106635 - Apparatus and method for decoding in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for reducing power consumption of a receiver by performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) according to a detected decoding error are provided. The apparatus includes a decoding reliability metric generator for setting a decoding result as a decoding reliability metric, which is a reference value... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090106636 - Method and architecture to prevent corrupt data propagation from a pci express retry buffer: A PCI Express compliant method and apparatus for preventing corrupt data being transmitted from a retry buffer of a transmitting component to a receiving component over a PCI Express compliant link. The method including storing parity or electronic error correction bits for each data entry in the retry buffer along... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090106638 - Calculation processing device for performing high-speed calculation: In a calculation processing device for calculating inputted data to output the result of the calculation, a number-of-calculation generator generates the numbers of parallel and serial calculations based on the data length of the received data. When a calculation enable generator applies a parallel enabling signal or a serial enabling... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090106637 - Concatenated decoder and concatenated decoding method: A concatenated decoder and concatenated decoding method are provided. The concatenated decoder, including: an inner decoder to receive an input bit stream, inner-decode the received input bit stream, and generate a first bit stream; and an outer decoder to generate error information about the received first bit stream, according to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090100287 - Monitoring apparatus and a monitoring method thereof: A monitoring apparatus and a monitoring method thereof are disclosed. The monitoring apparatus is used to monitor a computer. The monitoring apparatus comprises a control unit, and a first non-volatile memory unit. If the computer has an abnormal operation before loading an operating system, the control unit is used to... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090100288 - Fast software fault detection and notification to a backup unit: A method and system for quickly informing a backup unit that a primary unit has failed. Normally an exception handler is activated when a software failure occurs and network controller chips or the ASIC interface to a signal bus can operate even though there is a software failure. A software... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20090100289 - Method and system for handling failover in a distributed environment that uses session affinity: In response to detecting a failed server, subscription message processing of a failover server is stopped. A subscription queue of the failed server is opened. A marker message is published to all subscribers of a particular messaging topic. The marker message includes an identification of the failover server managing the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090100290 - Memory controller, nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory system, and data writing method: A nonvolatile memory device comprises a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory includes the same memory cells striding over a plurality of pages. A page information instruction part has the page structure information of the nonvolatile memory. According to this information, a related page identification part identifies... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090100291 - Memory device and method for repairing a semiconductor memory: A block repair device is used in a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) having a primary array with a defective cell and a redundant array with a redundant row. The block repair device stores a block repair configuration that determines the dimensions (e.g., the number of rows and columns spanned)... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20090100292 - Method and device for monitoring the functionality of an automation system of a plant: There is described a method for monitoring the functionality of an automation system of a plant comprising at least one main processor, parts of the plant being monitored and controlled using a user software, which is constructed of a number of program modules and which is run on the main... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090100293 - Method and system for predicting turbomachinery failure events employing genetic algorithm: A method for predicting or detecting an event in turbomachinery includes the steps of obtaining operational data from at least one machine and at least one peer machine. The operational data comprises a plurality of performance metrics. A genetic algorithm (GA) analyzes the operational data, and generates a plurality of... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090100294 - System and method for path saturation for computer storage performance analysis: A system and method for path saturation in a storage area network so that the throughput of the storage area network may be determined. The system and method includes a software utility suite that uses either a system administration scripting language, e.g., Perl or Korn shell, or by compiled or... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090100295 - Reliable memory module testing and manufacturing method: A method of testing memory modules comprising jumping through all addressable memory blocks a first and second time is disclosed. Each jumped-to address is determined by first XORing the last two bits of the previous address, and then XORing the first result with a bit representation of the previous jump... Agent: Maryam Imam

20090100297 - System and method for verifying the receive path of an input/output component: A system and method for verifying the receive path of an input/output device such as a network interface circuit. The device's operation with various different input sources (e.g., networks) and output sources (e.g., hosts, host buses) is modeled in a verification layer that employs multiple queues to simulate receipt of... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090100296 - System and method for verifying the transmit path of an input/output component: A system and method for verifying the transmit path of an input/output device such as a network interface circuit. The device's operation with various different input sources (e.g., hosts, input buses) and output sources (e.g., output buses, networks) is modeled in a verification layer that employs multiple queues to simulate... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090100298 - System and method for tracing cable interconnections between multiple systems: Techniques to ascertain physical cabling connections of electronic systems are provided for situations where there are numerous systems interconnected by a very large number of electrical or optical cables. A cable identifying code is inserted into a message sent from a local endpoint system to remote endpoint system over the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090100299 - Methods and apparatus for patternizing device responses: A device response template generator software program includes an interactive graphical-user-interface (GUI) for sending commands to devices under test and to capture and display the command responses. The GUI enables patternization of the command response to that the information contained in the response can be read, in the form of... Agent: Michael Toback

20090100300 - Method and apparatus for interleaving data in a mobile communication system: An interleaving method to which time-first-mapping is applied for a plurality of channel-coded and rate-matched code blocks considering a modulation scheme in a mobile communication system is provided. The interleaving method includes determining sizes of a horizontal area and a vertical area of an interleaver memory, selecting a defined number... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090100301 - Reception device, reception method, information processing device, information processing method, and program: A reception device configured to receive a signal of a transmitted bit string transmitted from a transmission device which transmits a bit string includes: a receiving unit arranged to receive a signal from the transmission device and output a received bit string corresponding to the transmitted bit string; a storing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090100302 - Apparatus and method for disk read checking: An apparatus and method for controlling a disk drive is provided. A disk lubricant sweep component for periodically initiates a disk lubricant spreading action. A disk data read check component checks data at one or more LBAs during the disk lubricant sweep. The apparatus may cache data from LBAs that... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090100303 - Adjustable test pattern results latency: A digital test instrument and a test method provide adjustable results latency. A digital test instrument includes a pattern controller configured to generate a sequence of test patterns, responsive, at least in part, to a pass/fail result, a pattern memory configured to supply the generated sequence of test patterns to... Agent: Teradyne, Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090100304 - Hardware and software co-test method for fpga: A hardware and software co-test method for FPGA comprises the following steps of: setting up a HW/SW co-test system comprising a PC, a software part, HW/SW communication modules, a hardware accelerator for testing a DUT FPGA which is mapped with a configuration file of DUT; predefining a table of test... Agent: Zhen Zheng Lu

20090100305 - Reprogrammable built-in-self-test integrated circuit and test method for the same: The present invention discloses a reprogrammable built-in-self-test integrated circuit and a test method for the same, wherein test programs are directly stored in the application program memory of the logic chip of a SoC IC, and an external test apparatus is used to load the test programs into the application... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090100306 - Electronic unit: An MC 10 includes a universal asynchronous receiver transceiver UART as a communication circuit. A tester (6) includes a serial communication interface (61). By serial communication between these two, the operation of an electronic unit 1 is tested. A common output circuit (31) is provided as an output circuit of... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090100307 - Systems and methods for providing nonvolatile memory management in wireless phones: The present invention is related to memory management, and in particular, to methods and systems for accessing and managing nonvolatile, such as in a wireless phone. A wireless phone memory controller is disclosed that, comprises a first interface circuit configured to be coupled to wireless phone nonvolatile memory, a second... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090100308 - Digital voice communication method and digital voice communication appartus: The present invention provides a digital voice communication apparatus and method capable of suppressing noise even when error data has occurred in digital voice communications. A data receiving unit divides received data into ADPCM frame data and outputs the same together with frame error information about an error of each... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090100310 - Apparatus and method for hybrid automatic repeat request (harq) in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a wireless communication system are provided. A receiver includes a Media Access Control (MAC) layer part for error-checking each MAC Packet Data Units (PDUs) extracted from a physical layer burst, and generating HARQ combination control information according to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090100309 - Methods and devices for encoding data in communication systems: Methods and apparatuses for encoding data in a wireless communication system including receiving an information sequence, and encoding the received information sequence to generate three subblocks of sequences. A first subblock of the three subblocks is the information sequence, a second subblock of the three subblocks is an encoded sequence,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090100312 - Apparatus and method for decoding low-density parity check code: There is provided with a decoding apparatus for decoding a low-density parity check code defined by a parity check matrix, includes: a first operation unit configured to carry out a row operation for each row of the parity check matrix; a calculation unit configured to calculate a reliability coefficient with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090100311 - Method of constructing low density parity check code, method of decoding the same and transmission system for the same: The present invention relates to a method of constructing a low density Parity Check code, a method of decoding the same and a transmission system using the same. The method comprises steps of: constructing a low density Parity Check matrix of the low density Parity Check code by using a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090100313 - Methods and apparatuses of mathematical processing: Disclosed is a pipelined iterative process and system. Data is received at an input port and is processed in a symbolwise fashion. Processing of each symbol is performed other than relying on completing the processing of an immediately preceding symbol such that operation of the system or process is independent... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20090100314 - Modification of error statistics behind equalizer to improve inter-working with different fec codes: This invention relates to a receiver circuit which comprises an equalizer (27) and an error decorrelator (25). The error decorrelator being configured for changing (501; 601, 602) the position of symbols. The invention further relates to a corresponding method. This invention finally relates to an interleaving or deinterleaving method which... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090100315 - Methods and apparatus for providing error correction to unwritten pages and for identifying unwritten pages in flash memory: Provided are methods for error correction coding (ECC) for flash memory pages which have been erased but have not been programmed. In one method, each ECC code word is bitwise inverted before being programmed into a page, and bitwise inverted again after being read back from the page before entering... Agent: Joseph Schweiray Lee

20090100316 - Method and apparatus for generation and usage of extended golay codes: A wireless device comprises a code-assignment module configured for assigning Golay codes to be used for spreading, a spreading module configured for spreading data with the Golay codes to produce a signal, wherein the Golay codes are randomly used to spread the data, and a transmitter configured for transmitting the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090100317 - Method and apparatus for single carrier and ofdm sub-block transmission: A wireless device comprises a code-assignment module configured for assigning Golay codes to be used for spreading, a spreading module configured for spreading data with the Golay codes to produce a signal, wherein the Golay codes are randomly used to spread the data, and a transmitter configured for transmitting the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090100319 - Decoder using a memory for storing state metrics implementing a decoder trellis: A method for developing a circuit is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) generating a solution space having a dimension for each of a plurality of parameters for the circuit, (B) evaluating a plurality of instances of the circuit in the solution space through a software simulation,... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090100318 - Four-stage pipeline based vdsl2 viterbi decoder: A novel method to divide the whole decoding process of the Viterbi decoder into four pipeline stages and the Viterbi decoder therefore. With an appropriate choice on the system clock, the invention trade-off the decoding speed with the hardware cost so that the designed Viterbi decoder is able to satisfy... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090100320 - End-to-end cyclic redundancy check protection for high integrity fiber transfers: A method, transceiver, and computer program storage product transfer data over fiber between a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The second transceiver is determined to support a high integrity cyclic redundancy check associated with substantially an entire data set in a Fibre Channel Protocol exchange between the first transceiver... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090094477 - System and program product for detecting an operational risk of a node: Under the present invention, the performances of a plurality of similarly configured nodes are monitored and compared. If one of the nodes exhibits a performance that varies from the performances of the other nodes by more than a current tolerance, an operational risk is detected. If detected, an alert can... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090094478 - Recovery of application faults in a mirrored application environment: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for recovery of application faults in a mirrored application environment. Application events are recorded at a primary system executing an instruction for an application. The recorded events are transferred to a buffer. The recorded events are transferred from the buffer to... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090094479 - Method of implementing xor based raid algorithms: An interpretive script language that provides an abstraction layer between redundant array of independent disks (RAID) algorithms and RAID hardware architecture. The interpretive script language provides greater flexibility and performance over conventional RAID processors. The interpretive script language may be used with any RAID hardware architecture, is not dependent on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090094480 - Alternatively activating a replaceable hardware unit: A data processing system having a plurality of hardware units providing a predetermined set of functional capabilities. The data processing system is configurable to allow selectively electronically enabling at least a subset of the functional capabilities. The system comprises a portion for receiving a replaceable hardware unit. The system also... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090094481 - Enhancing reliability of a many-core processor: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for identifying available cores of a many-core processor, allocating a first subset of the cores to an enabled state and a second subset of the cores to a spare state, and storing information regarding the allocation in a storage. The allocation... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090094482 - Data restoration in case of page-programming failure: The present invention discloses systems and methods for restoring data in flash memory after an operational failure. The method includes: setting bits of a data buffer in accordance with the data; programming a plurality of memory cells in accordance with the data buffer; and upon failure of the programming step,... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20090094483 - Method of maintaining task sequence within a task domain across error recovery: Tracks of data or other data units are copied from a primary storage system to a secondary storage system. For multiple-track or multiple-data unit transfers, a group of tracks or data units which are sequentially related are transferred. A respective task is defined at the primary storage system for monitoring... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy, & Presser, P.C.

20090094484 - System and method for autonomously processing faults in home network environments: There are provided a fault processing system and method for quickly and accurately diagnosing a fault and autonomously processing the fault, based on interdependencies between various devices, networks, systems, and services in home network environments, the method including: establishing fault detection rules for detecting faults belonging to respective fault types... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090094485 - Method for enhancing functionality of an automated testing tool: A method for enhancing functionality of an automated testing tool. Embodiments of the present invention provide for dynamically adjusting a date in an automated testing tool. System time in a system time format is adjusted according to a date offset. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of formatting... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090094486 - Method for test case generation: A system and method for providing randomly-generated test cases for a set of interfaces of a piece of software are disclosed. A test case generator is initialized with parameter arrays Sp with cardinality mp and a prime number qp. For each independent parameter p of each of the set of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090094487 - Multiple winner arbitration: A method to combine trace data for multiple systems within an embedded system is provided. This method involves coupling a set of trace sources within the embedded system to a trace system. A subset of trace source(s) may then be selected from the set of trace sources. The subset of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090094488 - System and method for monitoring application availability: A system and method for monitoring the availability of an application in a distributed data processing environment are provided. The performance aspects of application availability are defined in terms of easily observed and computed characteristics of the application as it behaves in a deployed environment with the deployed configuration. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090094489 - System, method and apparatus for tracing source of transmission error: A method and apparatus for identifying a device associated with a transmission error. The method generally comprising including a device identification information upon detection of a transmission error and further modifying an error check parameter according to a predefined rule.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090094491 - Apparatus and method for dynamically detecting improper configuration data provided in a network: A system (such as a process control system or communication system) includes one or more sources of configuration data (such as one or more BootP or DHCP servers). A testing mechanism transmits one or more requests for configuration data over a network. One or more sources of configuration data may... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090094490 - Location based notification system: A location based notification system for a shop having multiple components that are susceptible to a fault event includes an electronic data storage device and a fault event sensor apparatus associated with each susceptible component. The electronic data storage device has identification data for the associated component stored therein. Operators... Agent: Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20090094492 - Channel impairment emulator systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved communication system test techniques. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a wireless device test system is disclosed having a channel emulator for multipath and/or MIMO applications to allow the testing of wireless devices (e.g., WLAN devices)... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090094493 - Semiconductor memory device: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array from which all bits of a data signal having a first number of the bits composed of a main data signal and an error detection/correction code data signal are simultaneously read, a sense amplifier for amplifying the read data signal, a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090094494 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and method of testing same: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a semiconductor memory circuit, an address input unit to generate an input address and to input the input address into the semiconductor memory circuit, the address input unit repeating generating and inputting from a start address to a end address, and an output data processor... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090094495 - Modulation signature trigger: A trigger generator and trigger method are provided for determining whether or not a signal under test matches a modulation signature. The modulation signature may be provided as a magnitude signature, a phase signature or both. When the magnitude values, phase values, or both of a signal under test are... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20090094496 - System and method for improved lbist power and run time: A test system includes a Logic Built-In Self-Test (LBIST) domain comprising a plurality of LBIST satellite modules. An LBIST controller couples to the LBIST domain and provides a plurality of control signal sets to the LBIST domain, wherein each of the plurality of LBIST satellite modules receives an individual one... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20090094497 - Data inversion register technique for integrated circuit memory testing: A data inversion register technique for integrated circuit memory testing in which data input signals are selectively inverted in a predetermined pattern to maximize the probability of identifying failures during testing. In accordance with the technique of the present invention, on predetermined input/outputs (I/Os,) data inputs may be inverted to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090094498 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving automatic retransmission request feedback information element in a communication system: An Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) data block reception apparatus and method in a communication system is provided. In the ARQ method, an ARQ feedback Information Element (IE) is transmitted to an ARQ data block transmission apparatus. The ARQ feedback IE includes a first field for indicating a Connection IDentifier (CID)... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090094500 - Dynamic generator of unique world wide numbers: A method and system generates World Wide Numbers for devices and LUNs which are not provided with such number. The method extracts from the devices of information data which when treated in combination is device unique. A CRC is then generated using the combination of information data. The bit length... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090094501 - Methods and apparatus to select tornado error correction parameter: Methods and apparatus to select Tornado forward error correction parameters for delivery systems are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes a transmitter station comprising a processor to select a Tornado error correction parameter based on an error correction configuration for a file and to indicate to a receiver the selected... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090094499 - Reproduction apparatus and reproduction method: Disclosed is a reproduction apparatus that reproduces signals of a plurality of channels including: a soft-decision portion that performs a soft decision on each bit of a block encoded with an LDPC code for each channel, as a bit string corresponding to a length of the LDPC code; a holding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090094502 - Digital broadcasting transmission system, and a signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission system, and a signal processing method thereof, includes a parity area generating unit preparing a first area for parity insertion with respect to a dual transport stream (TS) which includes a normal stream and a turbo stream as multiplexed, a first interleaver interleaving the dual TS... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090094503 - Fast h-arq acknowledgement generation method using a stopping rule for turbo decoding: A stopping rule for Turbo decoding that is applied for both good and bad code blocks is disclosed. If the iteration either converges or diverges, decoding is terminated. In an alternative embodiment, the result of the stopping rule testing may be used for H-ARQ acknowledgement generation: if the iteration converges,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090094504 - Semiconductor memory device: A semiconductor memory device includes: a parity generating circuit for generating parity data corresponding to input data; a normal data latching section for latching the input data or data read out from the normal memory cell array; an input selection circuit for selectively outputting the input data or the parity... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090094505 - High speed turbo codes decoder for 3g using pipelined siso log-map decoders architecture: A baseband processor is provided having Turbo Codes Decoders with Diversity processing for computing baseband signals from multiple separate antennas. The invention decodes multipath signals that have arrived at the terminal via different routes after being reflected from buildings, trees or hills. The Turbo Codes Decoder with Diversity processing increases... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20090094506 - Millimeter-wave communications for peripheral devices: A wireless device couples an electronic device employing a wired-link protocol to, for example, a wireless personal area network (WPAN). The wireless device comprises a wired interface configured for coupling to the electronic device, a wired transceiver coupled to the wired interface, the at least one wired transceiver configured for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090094507 - Code error detector and error detecting code generator: A code error detector includes an input data generator and a code calculator. The input data generator divides received data into a plurality of data blocks, each including the same number of code bits as a predetermined number of parallel processes. The code calculator receives, as a parallel input, the... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090089613 - Redundancy system having syncronization function and syncronization method for redundancy system: A redundancy system that can perform synchronization even if a failure occurs to an application. According to the redundancy system of the present invention, a synchronization data memory area, a management bit map table having a flag created for each segment of the synchronization data memory area, and a management... Agent: Venable LLP

20090089614 - Data restoring method and an apparatus using journal data and an identification information: A host and a storage system each keep a shared identifier indicating a state of a system. The storage system acquires, at update of data, a data pair including data for a change through processing of the host and data before the update. The storage system relates the data pair... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090089615 - Field repairable logic: A state matcher for a logic circuit may detect at least one of a buggy state of the logic circuit, a precursor to a buggy state of the logic circuit and a verified state of the logic circuit based on a plurality of signal values indicative of a state of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090089616 - Offline hardware diagnostic environment: A computer configured to operate in diagnostic mode during which the operating system is suspended. During the diagnostic mode, tests can be performed on the computer system, including hardware, and the tests do not disrupt the operating system and are not disrupted by the operating system. When diagnostic mode is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090089619 - Automatic detection of functional defects and performance bottlenecks in network devices: A network device, such as a router or switch, has a CPU and a memory operable to receive, store and output computer code. The code includes device configuration files, traffic pattern files, and standard-behavior-output template files adapted for detecting network device functional defects and bottlenecks. The device is operable in... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090089620 - Internet connectivity evaluation: Internet connectivity evaluation provides for easy, efficient and effective testing of the Internet connectivity behavior between an operating system hosted on a computing device and an IGD (Internet Gateway Device) interacting with the computing device. With a user's computing device communicating with one or more servers, or server-type devices, interacting... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090089621 - Application crash resist method and apparatus: Embodiments of an application crash resist method and apparatus including an abnormal application termination service and an exception handler are disclosed herein. The service is configured to broadcast messages to cause the exception handler to be loaded by applications, and the exception handler is configured to stall abnormal termination of... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090089622 - Providing customizable, process-specific just-in-time debugging in an operating system: A method and a system for providing customizable, process-specific Just-In-Time debugging in operating system is provide in this invention. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining process-specific JIT debugging information, in response to the occurrence of an trap event in operating system; invoking the debugger corresponding to the process according... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090089626 - Techniques for generating a trace stream for a data processing apparatus: Trace circuitry, and a method of operating such trace circuitry, are provided for generating a trace stream indicative of activities of monitored circuitry of a data processing apparatus. The monitored circuitry produces data elements indicative of those activities, and the trace circuitry comprises trace element generation circuitry which is responsive... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090089627 - Distributed control system: There is provided a distributed system having a plurality of nodes connected by a network. Each of the nodes includes: a common-parameter-value determining unit for determining a common-parameter-value from values of a parameter (each value being possessed by a corresponding one of the nodes); a common-operation execution unit for executing... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090089628 - File system error detection and recovery framework: Methods, systems and machine readable media for file system error detection and protection are described. In one aspect, an embodiment of a method includes collecting first data identifying at least one error in performing at least one of reading or writing data to a storage device and determining, through an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090089629 - Capturing diagnostics in web browser applications: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for capturing diagnostics for Web browser applications. Embodiments of the present invention can capture errors in client-side code for a Web application and automatically report them a Web Service. Diagnostics code can be automatically injected into client code to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090089632 - Memory sense scan circuit and test interface: Embodiments of a scannable IO circuit featuring reduced latch count for pipelined memory architectures and test methodology are described. For a pipelined memory system performing at speed tests, the timing sequence for processing a test command comprises a precharge-read-precharge-write sequence for each clock cycle starting with the rising clock edge.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090089633 - Semiconductor testing apparatus and method: The present invention provides a semiconductor testing apparatus and method capable of reliably determining whether a semiconductor memory is good or bad. A “1” reading test of each cell corresponding to one bit at a first step is first performed on a memory cell array. “0” writing of each cell... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090089634 - Scan testing system, method and apparatus: Test circuits located on semiconductor die enable a tester to test a plurality of die/ICs in parallel by inputting both stimulus and response patterns to the plurality of die/ICs. The response patterns from the tester are input to the test circuits along with the output response of the die/IC to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090089635 - Electronic device testing system and method: The invention provides a testing system and method suitable for determining whether a pin-out of an electrical component is properly connected to a PCB. The testing system includes a testing signal source, a signal detector, a signal processor, an analysis unit and an integrated circuit having boundary-scan test function to... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20090089643 - Turbo decoder and iteration stopping method thereof: A turbo decoder includes first and second interleavers, a de-interleaver, first and second component decoders and a stop judging circuit. The first and second component decoders respectively decode a systematic code and an interleaved systematic code into first and second extrinsic information. The de-interleaver, the first and second data interleavers... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090089645 - Data storage systems: Method and apparatus for decoding data in a data storage system. In operation, a detector generates an output bit stream in dependence on a data block received from a storage subsystem of the data storage system. A post processor connected to the detector generates a first error corrected bit stream... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090089644 - Multiple cyclic redundancy check (crc) engines for checking/appending crcs during data transfers: Multiple cyclic redundancy check (CRC) engines for checking/appending CRCs during data transfers. Two distinctly implemented CRC engines are employed to enable the processing of different sized byte formats at two ends of a communication channel. These two distinctly implemented CRC engines can be employed to enable the processing of different... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090089646 - Semiconductor storage device: Data latches, multiplexers, an ECC circuit section, and an input/output circuit section are arranged in columns and adjacent to each other, in an extending direction of data lines that are formed in a direction orthogonal to word lines. A layout of a data path system is formed in bit slices.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP