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Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery inventions 08/09

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Listing format for abstract view: USPTO application #, Title, Abstract excerpt,Patent Agent. Listing format for list view: USPTO National Class full category number, title of the patent application. 08/27/2009 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

20090217078 - Apparatus and methods for managing malfunctions on a wireless device: Apparatus and methods for managing predetermined malfunction events in a wireless device operating in a wireless communications network. Malfunction event data and operational data are recorded by the wireless device based on a selected malfunction event tracking configuration. Further, a recovery module associated with the wireless device operates to attempt... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090217077 - Method, system, and computer program product for processor error checking: A method for processor error checking including receiving an instruction data, generating a pre-processing parity data based on the instruction data, maintaining the pre-processing parity data, processing the instruction data, generating a post-processing parity data based on the processed instruction data, checking for an error related to processing the instruction... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090217080 - Distributed fault tolerant architecture for a healthcare communication system: A healthcare communication system includes a first plurality of computer devices, such as patient stations, staff stations, and a master station, that are operable as a nurse call system. The first plurality of computer devices may have core nurse call functionality residing on an embedded computing platform. At least one... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090217083 - Failover method through disk takeover and computer system having failover function: When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the primary server to a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.c.

20090217079 - Method and apparatus for repairing multi-controller system: A method and apparatus for repairing a multi-controller system is provided. The method includes: starting network boot, by a controller whose system boot fails, to download repair files from a controller whose operation is normal; and repairing, by the controller whose system boot fails, its own system, based on the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090217082 - Method of achieving high reliablility of network boot computer system: In a network computer system, recovery may be impossible from a fault when the fault occurs in a network switch in a network or a device such as an external disk device. Provided is a computer system that includes a plurality of servers, a plurality of network, a plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090217081 - System for providing an alternative communication path in a sas cluster: The present invention is a system and method for supporting an alternative peer-to-peer communication over a network in a SAS cluster when a node cannot communicate with another node through a normal I/O bus (Serial SCSI bus). At startup, driver may establish the alternative path for communication but may not... Agent: Lsi Corporation C/o Suiter Swantz Pc Llo

20090217084 - Digital signage redundancy: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes transmitting content to a location for presentation across a plurality of display devices that each present a portion of the content. The method includes receiving an indication that a first portion of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090217085 - Systems and methods for incremental restore: An embodiment relates generally to a method of restoring data in storage systems. The method includes providing for a current snapshot of a primary storage system at a secondary storage system and mounting an empty volume in the primary storage system. The method also includes receiving a request for a... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090217086 - Disk array apparatus, disk array control method and disk array controller: An error table stores information indicating the occurrence of an error. A statistical score addition table stores the number of scores for disk or path according to the error. A control unit adds the first number of scores to the error disk. Also, when the information indicating the occurrence of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090217087 - Computer device, continuing operation method for computer device, and program: A computer device that includes a plurality of processor boards each provided with a processor, a memory, and a chipset, includes a first processor board that makes data in a cache, which have become unfixed as a result of an uncorrectable failure, invalid when the uncorrectable failure occurs on the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090217088 - Power over ethernet powered device with power fallback states: A power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device with power fallback states. A powered device can be powered using a primary local power source and a secondary PoE power source. To enable consistent behavior by the powered device, a controlled power fallback state can be defined that would ensure limited functionality... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090217089 - Method, system, and computer program product for connection state recovery after fault: A method, system, and computer program product for connection state recovery of a connection after fault in a networked channel-to-channel computer system are provided. The method includes identifying essential data in response to detecting a state change in a channel of the computer system, the essential data including connection state... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090217090 - Method, operating system and computing hardware for running a computer program: A method for running a computer program on computing hardware, in particular on a microprocessor. The computer program includes multiple program objects designed as tasks, for example. Transient and permanent errors are detected during the running of the computer program on the computing hardware. To be able to handle these... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090217091 - Data backing up for networked storage devices using de-duplication technique: A technique of backing up data for networked storage devices using de-duplication is disclosed in which a communication device divides a to-be-stored new file into data blocks, defines and updates a statistical value representative of a history of reference to each data block within previous files, and transmits the statistical... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090217092 - Method and device for controlling a computer system having at least two execution units and one comparator unit: A method for controlling a computer system having at least two execution units and one comparator unit, which system is operated in the lock-step mode and in which the results of the at least two execution units are compared, wherein when or after an error is detected by the comparator... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090217093 - Fault diagnosis of serially-addressed memory modules on a pc motherboard: A test adaptor board connects to a personal computer (PC) motherboard that tests a memory module in a test socket. A standard memory module socket is removed from a target DRAM module slot on the component side and the test adaptor board connects to the target DRAM module slot on... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20090217094 - Verification support device, a verification support method, a program, and a recording medium recording medium recorded with the program on it: A verification support device that supports verification of a changed state by using changed state data and relating data. The verification support device includes a state with an abnormal condition generating unit adds the abnormal condition to the changed state thereby generating a changes state with an abnormal condition. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090217095 - Means and method for debugging: A data processing system is provided comprising at least one processing unit (PU) for data processing and a debugger means (DM) for debugging the processing of the at least one processing unit (PU) based on a plurality of breakpoints. The debugger means (DM) comprises a first register (BAR) for storing... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090217096 - Diagnosing communications between computer systems: Diagnosing communications between computer systems includes sending a message from a sending node to a receiving node. The receiving node detects an error in the receiving node receiving the message and captures the data regarding the error on the receiving. A diagnostic log request is sent from the receiving node... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090217098 - Managing use of storage by multiple pageable guests of a computing environment: Management of storage used by pageable guests of a computing environment is facilitated. An enhanced suppression-on-protection facility is provided that enables the determination of which level of protection (host or guest) caused a fault condition, in response to an attempted storage access.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20090217099 - Operations management apparatus, operations management system, data processing method, and operations management program: n

20090217097 - Portal facilitating telecommunication installation and repair services: A web server includes software to support a remotely accessible web portal for installation and repair services in conjunction with a telecommunication service provided to a customer by a provider. The software includes instructions to provide a first I&R user interface, including a plurality of selectable I&R objects in response... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090217100 - Test script transformation analyzer with economic cost engine: An economic engine generates accurate cost estimates for adapting a test script for use against an evolving application. Applications often have complex graphical user interfaces for which the permutations and combinations of GUI elements give rise to an enormous field of potential commands and command sequences to be tested. Furthermore,... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090217101 - Process and device for monitoring a machine: A process for monitoring a machine, within the framework of a FMEA process for at least one component of the machine for at least one predetermined fault which can be diagnosed by means of a diagnosis diagram and a diagnosis system with sensors for detecting physical parameters of the machine,... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.c. Intellectual Property Department

20090217102 - Fault diagnosis of serially-addressed memory chips on a test adaptor board to a middle memory-module slot on a pc motherboard: A standard memory module socket is removed from a target DRAM module slot on the component side and the test adaptor board connects to the target DRAM module slot on the reverse (solder) side of a personal computer motherboard, or an extender card may be used. The target DRAM module... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20090217103 - Logical to physical connectivity verification in a predefined networking environment: A method, information system, and computer readable storage medium verify predefined connectivity for I/O devices. Current predefined logical connection data and actual physical connection data is gathered. The predefined logical connection data and the actual physical connection data are formatted into a plurality of sortable tables. At least a portion... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090217105 - Debug device for embedded systems and method thereof: A debug device of embedded systems is provided. The embedded system includes an embedded processor for reading a bootloader from a flash memory through a data flash interface. The debug device includes a memory transmission interface, a dada storage module, a data control module and a display module. The memory... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090217104 - Method and apparatus for diagnostic recording using transactional memory: A method (500) or a diagnostic recording device (400) having transactional memory and a processor coupled to the transactional memory can store (502) contents of a transaction log (40) of the transactional memory, detect (504) an exception event, and replay (506) last instructions that led up to the exception event... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090217106 - System and methods for recording, displaying, and reconstructing computer-based system and user events: A computer-implemented method for tracking computer system events and user actions is provided. The method includes detecting one or more system events of a computing system and one or more user actions performed on the computing system. The method also includes recording at least one system event and at least... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090217107 - Method and device for data processing: A method and device for data processing having at least three identical or similar execution units, wherein at least one comparator exists and at least two execution units are grouped such that the output signals of the at least two execution units are connected with the at least one comparator... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090217108 - Method, system and computer program product for processing error information in a system: A system for processing errors in a processor comprising, a first register having a unique identifier operative to store a first error data, a processor operative to retrieve the first error data from the first register, associate the first error data with the unique identifier, and generate a first uniform... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090217109 - Enhanced presence routing and roster fidelity by proactive crashed endpoint detection: Endpoint crashes in a real time communication system are detected by a home server providing presence and other services to the endpoint upon receipt of an error message from an access server between the endpoint and the home server. The home server uses a cookie inserted into a dialog between... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090217110 - Method, system and computer program product involving error thresholds: A system for processing errors in a processor comprising, an error counter, a pass counter, and a processing portion operative to determine whether a first error is active, increment an error counter responsive to determining that the first error is active, increment the pass counter responsive to determining that all... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090217111 - Evaluation method and evaluation system for semiconductor storage device: An evaluation method is proposed to evaluate reliability of a nonvolatile memory in a semiconductor storage device with respect to data writing and data reading. While power is being supplied to the semiconductor storage device, a test program and the control program are written in a storage unit of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090217112 - Ac abist diagnostic method, apparatus and program product: A method for implementing at speed bit fail mapping of an embedded memory system having ABIST (Array Built In Self Testing), comprises using a high speed multiplied clock which is a multiple of an external clock of an external tester to sequence ABIST bit fail testing of the embedded memory... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090217114 - Selectable dual mode test access port method and apparatus: A process of selecting alternative test circuitry within an integrated circuit enables a test access port. Scan test instruction data is loaded into an instruction register of a test access port TAP, the instruction data including information for selecting the alternative test circuitry. An Update-IR instruction update operation is performed... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090217113 - Utilizing serializer-deserializer transmit and receive pads for parallel scan test data: A Serializer/De-serializer (SerDes) of an integrated circuit (IC) includes selectable inputs and outputs not only for functional data and boundary scan (e.g., JTAG) test data, but also for parallel-scan test data. The serializing portion of the SerDes includes multiplexing logic responsive to control signals to select or identify one of... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090217115 - Method for optimizing scan chains in an integrated circuit that has multiple levels of hierarchy: A method for optimizing scan chains in an integrated circuit that has multiple levels of hierarchy addresses unlimited chains and stumps and separately all other chains and stumps. Unlimited chains and stumps are optimized by dividing an area encompassed by the chains and by a start point and an end... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090217116 - Diagnosable general purpose test registers scan chain design: A structural design-for-test for diagnosing broken scan chain defects of long non-scannable register chains (GPTR) The GPTR and the system for testing and diagnosing the broken LSSD scan-only chains rapidly localize defects to the failing Shift Register Latch (SRL) pair. The GPTR modifies the latches used in the GPTR scan... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090217117 - Low power scan shifting with random-like test patterns: An apparatus and method to design an integrated circuit (IC) to reduce the toggling during shifting in and shifting out of test patterns in a IC having scan chains, while maintaining random-like filling of the “don't cares” of a test set. An average pattern of test patterns of a test... Agent: Lsi Corporation C/o Suiter Swantz Pc Llo

20090217118 - Base station: A base station includes a control unit configured to avoid contention between a radio resource allocated to a transmission packet or a retransmission packet by a channel-condition-based scheduling unit and a radio resource allocated to a transmission packet or a retransmission packet by a persistent scheduling unit.... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090217119 - Method, system and relay station for realizing hybrid automatic retransmission: A method for implementing hybrid automatic retransmission is provided in a communication system. In the method, a terminal transmits a data block to a receiving side through a relay station; the relay station returns a receiving status of the relay station to the receiving side; and the transmitting side determines... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090217120 - Radio communications apparatus and radio communications method: A disclosed radio communications apparatus performs at least an automatic repeat request control and performs radio communications using a frame that occupies predetermined plural frequency bands. This apparatus includes a reception portion that receives feedback information about each of a plurality of frequency bands from a communications party, a determination... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090217122 - Coding apparatus and coding method: The present invention relates to a coding apparatus and a coding method by which the circuit scale can be reduced without changing the operation speed in coding of a linear code. An adder 13 integrates the product of an information word D13 of six bits supplied from a cyclic shift... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090217121 - Decoding apparatus and decoding method: The present invention relates to a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, which are capable of decoding LDPC codes with a high degree of precision while preventing the circuit scale of the decoding apparatus from increasing. A computation section 1102 carries out a first computation process corresponding to three check-node... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090217126 - Generation of tanner graphs for systematic group codes for efficient communication: A computer implemented method of communicating includes receiving systematic group codes representative of one or more messages. A Tanner graph is used to decode such systematic group codes. A method of forming a communication decoder includes obtaining a dual code for a systematic group code, obtaining a Tanner graph from... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090217128 - Low complexity decoding of low density parity check codes: An improved decoder and decoding method for low density parity check (LDPC) codes is provided. Decoding proceeds by repetitive message passing from a set of variable nodes to a set of check nodes, and from the check nodes back to the variable nodes. The variable node output messages include a... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090217125 - Low density parity check (ldpc) decoder: Methods and apparatuses to perform iterative decoding of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes based on selecting a lambda number of minimum values. In one aspect, an LDPC decoder, includes: means for sorting a plurality of incoming messages of a check node according to magnitudes of the incoming messages; means... Agent: Ivy Y. Mei

20090217130 - Method and apparatus for channel encoding and decoding in a communication system using low-density parity-check codes: A method for encoding a channel in a communication system using a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code is provided. The method includes determining a number of parity bits for puncturing; dividing the parity bits at predetermined intervals, and determining a number of puncturing parity bits, which are subjected to puncturing within... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090217129 - Method and apparatus for channel encoding and decoding in a communication system using low-density-parity-check codes: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a channel in a communication system using a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code. The encoding method includes determining a modulation scheme for transmitting a symbol; determining a shortening pattern in consideration of the determined modulation scheme; grouping columns corresponding to an information word... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090217124 - Method and device for multi phase error-correction: Data bits to be encoded are split into a plurality of subgroups. Each subgroup is encoded separately to generate a corresponding codeword. Selected subsets are removed from the corresponding codewords, leaving behind shortened codewords, and are many-to-one transformed to condensed bits. The final codeword is a combination of the shortened... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20090217123 - Method and system for encoding a data sequence: A communication method and a communication system including a first entity (3) including an information source (9) and a coder device (11) connected by a channel (7) transmitting data to a second entity (5) including a decoder device (13), the coder device (11) coding a data sequence sent by the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090217132 - Parity check matrix generation method, data transmission system, encoding device, decoding device, and a parity check matrix generation program: A method is disclosed that allows the easy generation of low-density parity-check codes that can realize superior error-correcting characteristics. A processor (50) of a transmission line encoder constructs parity check matrix H from partial matrix H1 of m rows and k columns on the left side and partial matrix H2... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090217131 - Probabilistic error correction in multi-bit-per-cell flash memory: Data that are stored in cells of a multi-bit-per cell memory, according to a systematic or non-systematic ECC, are read and corrected (systematic ECC) or recovered (non-systematic ECC) in accordance with estimated probabilities that one or more of the read bits are erroneous. In one method of the present invention,... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20090217127 - Turbo decoding apparatus and method: A turbo decoding method and apparatus for performing iterative decoding on a received signal is provided. A decoder receives a signal and an (N−1)th decoding result, performs Nth decoding thereon, and outputs first extrinsic information. A transformer reduces a bit width of the first extrinsic information output from the decoder... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090217133 - Inter-sequence permutation turbo code system and operation methods thereof: A high performance real-time turbo code system is proposed. The proposed system exploits cooperative coding architecture and a proper decoding scheduling to achieve low error rate within a constrained latency. Permutation schemes and hardware embodiments utilizing the cooperative coding are also shown. Various memory saving techniques are provided to reduce... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090217134 - Integrated apparatus for multi-standard optical storage media: An integrated apparatus for multi-standard optical media includes a compact disc/digital versatile disc (CD/DVD) processor, a high-definition DVD (HDDVD) processor and a Blu-ray disc (BD) processor; a memory unit connected to the CD/DVD processor, the HDDVD processor and the BD processor to provide a storage resource; and a shared error... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090217135 - Method, system, and computer program product for address generation checking: A method for address generation checking including receiving a starting memory address for a data, an ending memory address for the data, a length value of the data, and an address wrap indicator value that indicates if the data wraps from an end of a memory block to a start... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090217136 - Storage apparatus, controller and data accessing method thereof: A storage apparatus is provided. The controller of the storage apparatus includes an error correction module and a data disordering module. The error correction module is configured to perform an error correction procedure for a data packet to be written into a flash memory module of the storage apparatus for... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090217138 - Iterative decoding of packet data: A receiver employs iterative decoding of packet data, where the packet data represents a data frame encoded with at least two logical dimensions. A logical dimension refers to a layer, or sub-layer, of a layered network architecture. Consequently, a first logical dimension of encoding might refer to error detection in... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Amd

20090217137 - Method for detecting and correcting data errors in an rf data link: Methods for detecting and correcting data errors in an RF data link include identifying valid data frames and corrupted data frames by measuring a data corruption level for each transmitted data frame, comparing the measured data corruption level for each corrupted data frame to a data corruption threshold, reconstructing the... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20090217139 - Generation of golay-based systematic block code supporting various sizes: A method for generating block codes from Golay code and a method and apparatus for encoding data are provided. The method can effectively generate codes having various lengths, various dimensions, and superior hamming weight distribution, and encodes data such as control information having various lengths into codes having strong resistance... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090217140 - Memory system and method for providing error correction: An error correction decoder includes a syndrome computation circuit, an error correction and computation circuit and an error correction circuit. The syndrome computation circuit calculates a syndrome of read data. The error correction and computation circuit calculates a location of a single-bit error using a division operation between elements of... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20090217141 - Sets of rate-compatible universal turbo codes nearly optimized over various rates and interleaver sizes: The method comprises: encoding a signal at a first and second encoder using a best rate 1/2 constituent code universal with higher code rates, the first encoder and the second encoder each producing a respective plurality of parity bits for each information bit; puncturing the respective plurality of parity bits... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090217142 - Rate control adaptable communications: Rate control adaptable communications. A common trellis is employed at both ends of a communication system (in an encoder and decoder) to code and decode data at different rates. The encoding employs a single encoder whose output bits may be selectively punctured to support multiple modulations (constellations and mappings) according... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090217143 - On-demand service reconciliation, audit, and alert apparatus and method: An audit tool (AT) operates in cooperation with an audit tool manager (ATM), a policy file (PF) and a query file (QF) in order to provide a real time display of usage within an on-demand service system. The ATM identifies the data to be gathered. Using the ATM, the user... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090217144 - Method and system for calculating and verifying the integrity of data in a data transmission system: A method is described of calculating and verifying the integrity of data in a data communication system. The system comprises a base station and one or more remote stations, such as in an RFID system. The method includes transmitting a select instruction from the base station to the one or... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

08/20/2009 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

20090210742 - Methods, systems and media for data recovery using global parity for multiple independent raid levels: Implementations described herein generally provide methods, systems and media for recovering data from disk failures. One method generally includes calculating a global parity for a group of disks comprising multiple independent RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) arrays; determining if a two disk failure has occurred within a single RAID... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20090210743 - Method and device for realizing ip multimedia subsystem disaster tolerance: A method for realizing an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) disaster tolerance includes the steps as follows. An S-CSCF receives a user registration, and backs up necessary data which is required when a user service processing is restored on a storage entity in a network. An I-CSCF of user's... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090210744 - Enhanced raid level 3: A method and system of method and system of enhanced RAID level 3 is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes allocating three times a physical storage capacity of a data drive to a dedicated parity drive of a ‘n’ physical drives of a redundant array of independent disks, recovering... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20090210746 - Generating test coverage bin based on simulation result: A solution for generating functional coverage bins for testing a device is disclosed. A method includes: receiving information of a failing test generated from a random simulation performed on the device; tracing a first sequence of signal events that happened in the failing test; correlating the signal events to coverage... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090210745 - Runtime error correlation learning and guided automatic recovery: A method and apparatus for automatic error analysis and recovery for applications on one or more computer systems, which maintain a dependency structure of the applications, maintain correlation information between errors and error symptoms, and analyze and recover a problem when the problem occurs. The method, program product or system... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090210747 - Fault isolation system and method: A mechanism for isolating failures in a digital system is provided. In one embodiment, a fault table is defined for each unit in the system. Related faults are ordered within the table to reflect the time-order in which the faults would be activated during operation of the associated unit. When... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090210748 - Methods and systems to test airline information systems: Methods and systems to simulated a plurality of airline information systems (AISs) to test an AIS under test (AISUT), including to send and receive messages between the simulated AISs, and to send messages to and receive messages from the AISUT, in accordance with communication parameters associated with the corresponding AISs... Agent: Garrett Ip, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090210749 - Annotating gui test automation playback and debugging: A method and system for annotating an object on the graphical user interface (GUI) (“a GUI object”) during automated testing of an application. In one embodiment, the GUI of an application is tested with a test automation tool. During runtime of the automated test, the test automation tool automatically overlays... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090210750 - Systems and methods for identifying memory leaks in a computer system: Systems and methods are provided for identifying memory leaks in a computer system. Testing software is inserted into one or more memory routines of a computer system to cause at least two successive tests of the memory routines during which the memory routines perform memory operations to allocate and de-allocate... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090210751 - Method, system and program product for non-disruptive i/o adapter diagnostic testing: A primary I/O adapter and a redundant I/O adapter of a data processing system are assigned to support access to a system resource. While the primary I/O adapter is in service and the redundant I/O adapter is not in service in providing access to the system resource, a fail over... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090210752 - Method, system and computer program product for sampling computer system performance data: A system, method and computer program product for sampling computer system performance data are provided. The system includes a sample buffer to store instrumentation data while capturing trace data in a trace array, where the instrumentation data enables measurement of computer system performance. The system further includes a sample interrupt... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090210753 - Library apparatus, conveyance controller, and control method thereof: A library apparatus includes, a drive for accessing the mobile medium, a discharge unit for discharging the mobile medium, and a conveyance controller for controlling a conveyance unit. The conveyance controller includes, a memory for storing process content when the discharge unit discharges the mobile medium, a receiver for receiving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090210754 - Medical support control system: A medical support control system comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device; and a manipulation display device shared by the first controller and the second controller, and alternately displaying a first graphical user interface (first GUI) created by... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090210755 - Systems and methods for computer equipment management: Various embodiments are directed to systems and method of monitoring computer equipment. For example, a plurality of computer equipment parameters may be monitored. Also, an anomaly in at least one of the plurality of computer equipment parameters may be detected and an alert interface may be generated. The alert interface... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090210756 - Frame restoration method, frame restoration circuit, and storage medium: A restoration frame identifier monitoring unit checks restoration frame identifiers within split frames and carries out processing to divide inputted split frames for input to a first split frame processing circuit or a second split frame processing circuit according to the value of the frame identifier and determines whether or... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090210757 - Anti-jamming piecewise coding method for parallel inference channels: A method for encoding includes encoding K blocks of information for transmission on N subchannels responsive to a number of redundant blocks M according to one of i) employing a single parity check code when the number of redundant blocks M is about 1; ii) employing a code exhibited by... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090210758 - Method for reducing data error when flash memory storage device using copy back command: A method for a flash memory storage device to use a copy back command includes the following steps. The method includes the step of copying a data in a first block of a flash memory to a buffer outside the flash memory, checking if the data in the buffer is... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090210760 - Analog testing of ring oscillators using built-in self test apparatus: System-accessible frequency measuring circuits and procedures permit on-chip testing of the oscillators and provide test results observable off chip via LSSD scan paths. This allows a rapid ensemble of ring oscillators in a standard ASIC test flow without the need for on chip analog test equipment (the test apparatus has... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090210759 - Scalable scan-based test architecture with reduced test time and test power: A scalable scan-based architecture with reduced test time, test power and test pin-count in scan based testing of ICs. In an embodiment, a test vector is scanned serially into a functional memory element at a first frequency, which then de-multiplexes the bits in the test vector to multiple sub-chains at... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090210761 - Ac scan diagnostic method and apparatus utilizing functional architecture verification patterns: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing AC scan diagnostic of delay and AC scan chain defects in an integrated circuit chip under test using Functional Architecture Verification Patterns (AVPs) for enabling rapidly localizing identified defects to a failing Shift Register Latch (SRL). An Architecture Verification... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20090210762 - Method for blocking unknown values in output response of scan test patterns for testing circuits: A method includes compressing control patterns describing values required at the control signals of blocking logic gates, by linear feedback shift register LFSR reseeding; bypassing blocking logic gates for some groups of scan chains that do not capture unknown values in output response of scan test patterns for testing circuits;... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090210763 - Automated system and processing for expedient diagnosis of broken shift registers latch chains using jtag: This invention involves the use of the JTAG functional test patterns and exercisors to solve the problem of diagnosing broken scan chains in either a serial or a lateral broadside insertion manner across all latch system ports and to analyze the response data efficiently for the purpose of readily identifying... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090210764 - Test quality evaluating and improving system for semiconductor integrated circuit and test quality evaluation and improvement method for semiconductor integrated circuit: A test quality evaluating and improving system has a fault-layout information link section which creates a weighted fault dictionary by correlating a layout element related to an undetected fault, out of faults corresponding to a specified fault model and occurring in a circuit to be tested, with the undetected fault... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210765 - Method and device for transmitting data, in particular video: In embodiments, the server estimates the time lapse on the basis of the type of payload of a first packet to retransmit and of at least one second packet following said first packet to retransmit and spontaneously retransmits the second packet with the first packet on the basis of that... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090210766 - Wireless communication system, terminal and base station: A non-terminated packet is transmitted, by utilizing a spatial layer responded with an ACK, which is assumed as a released layer. Alternatively, a non-terminated packet is transmitted by using a released layer and an original spatial layer in combination. Alternatively, a new packet is transmitted in a released layer by... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090210767 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding channel in a communication system using low-density parity-check codes: An apparatus and method for generating a parity-check matrix of a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code are provided. Parameters for designing the LDPC code are determined, and a first parity-check matrix of a quasi-cyclic LDPC code is formed according to the determined parameters. A second parity-check matrix is created through the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090210768 - Exception condition handling at a channel subsystem in an i/o processing system: A computer program product, apparatus, and method for handling exception condition feedback at a channel subsystem of an I/O processing system using data from a control unit are provided. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090210770 - Method, system and computer program product for end to end error checking in ethernet: A method for network protocol error correction comprising, generating a data packet including a cycle redundancy check (CRC) field, an end to end error field that remains unchanged as the data packet is sent over a network, for use in performing error detection in one or more field of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090210769 - Multiple crc insertion in an output data stream: A computer program product, apparatus, and method for inserting multiple CRCs in an output data stream from a channel subsystem to a control unit are provided. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090210771 - Systems and methods for performing concatenated error correction: A system and method is provided for performing concatenated error correction. In one implementation, an apparatus for encoding data includes an outer encoder to generate a code word corresponding to received input data and a parity circuit to compute parities of logical cells of data, the logical cells of data... Agent: Marvell/finnegan Henderson LLP C/o Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garnett Et. Al.

20090210772 - Data memory system: A data memory system includes a nonvolatile memory cell array which includes a plurality of memory cells, a page adjacently formed by the plurality of memory cells being collectively erased in the nonvolatile memory cell, at least binary pieces of digital data of “1” and “0” being stored as charges... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090210773 - Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for highly reliable file delivery using compound and braided fec encoding and decoding: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products provide highly reliable file delivery using a combination of packet-level FEC on source data packets which are arranged in matrices, where encoding is performed on both rows and columns or on rows, columns and diagonals.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090210774 - Error detecting/correcting scheme for memories: A method for detecting and correcting errors in a memory having a read/write paradigm is presented. In these implementations, various approaches to detect errors on a per word or per group of words basis and correct errors on a per group of words or per page basis, respectively, in relation... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20090210775 - Method and system for instruction address parity comparison: A method and system for instruction address parity comparison are provided. The method includes calculating an instruction address parity value for an instruction, and distributing the instruction address parity value to one or more functional units in processing circuitry. The method also includes receiving the distributed instruction address parity value... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090210776 - Memory device and memory data reading method: Example embodiments may provide a memory device and memory data reading method. The memory device according to example embodiments may include a multi-bit cell array, an error detector which may read a first data page from a memory page in the multi-bit cell array and may detect an error-bit of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090210777 - Method and device for comparing data in a computer system having at least two execution units: A method for comparing data in a computer system having at least two execution units, the comparison of the data taking place in a comparison unit and each execution unit processing input data and generating output data, wherein one execution unit specifies to the comparison unit that the next piece... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

08/13/2009 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

20090204845 - Communication device and a method of self-healing thereof: Provided a communication device and a method of self-healing thereof. The communication device is characterized by one or more operational functions and comprising one or more resources operatively coupled to at least one sensor, said sensor directly or indirectly coupled to a recovery block, wherein the device is configured to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090204844 - Error-tolerant processor system: A processor system includes at least one execution unit for executing program instructions of an application, a program memory for storing the program instructions of the application and at least one error handling routine, a main memory for storing a set of variables of the application and a monitoring unit... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090204846 - Automated full stripe operations in a redundant array of disk drives: A system and method are provided for automating full stripe operations in a redundant data storage array. In a redundant storage device controller, a parity product is accumulated that is associated with an information stripe. The parity product is stored in controller memory in a single write operation. A stored... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20090204847 - Repairable block redundancy scheme: A scheme for block substitution within a flash memory device is disclosed which uses a programmable look-up table to store new addresses for block selection when certain input block addresses are received. The new addresses are loaded into a programmable fuse latch each time an address transition is detected in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090204848 - Automatic grammar based fault detection and isolation: The present disclosure relates to automated testing of hardware and software systems. In some embodiments, a testing framework that generates a set of test cases for a system under test using a grammar is disclosed. The grammar may include terminal and nonterminal symbols with tags that describe a test sequence.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204849 - Test system and method which can use tool during debugging: A test process executed by a test system includes a test class thread for executing a test class in which a procedure for testing a device is described, and a tool thread for executing a tool which includes a function that can be used for the test of the device.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090204850 - Apparatus and a method for reporting the error of each level of the tunnel data packet in a communication network: The invention provides methods and devices for reporting and parsing the errors of a packet based on IPSec protocol family in a communication network. Concretely, the reserved field in ICMP security failure message is used to denote the error type at the second level of the error in the packet.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090204851 - Method and system for software testing: A system and a method for testing software, comprising a self-contained software code container. The self-contained software code container includes a software code describing a function, probe surveillance for monitoring the test environment, local error handler for internally handing occurring errors, analyzing block and result block for analyzing the performance... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090204852 - Solid state storage subsystem that maintains and provides access to data reflective of a failure risk: A storage subsystem is disclosed that maintains (a) statistics regarding errors detected via an ECC (error correction code) module of the storage subsystem; and/or (b) historical data regarding operating conditions experienced by the storage subsystem, such as temperature, altitude, humidity, shock, and/or input voltage level. The storage subsystem, and/or a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204853 - Interface for enabling a host computer to retrieve device monitor data from a solid state storage subsystem: A non-volatile storage subsystem maintains, and makes available to a host system, monitor data reflective of a likelihood of a data error occurring. The monitor data may, for example, include usage statistics and/or sensor data. The storage subsystem transfers the monitor data to the host system over a signal interface... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204854 - Method for monitoring data processing system availability: A method, system, and product for monitoring the availability of a data processing system are proposed. The system runs a management application involving the periodic transmission of blocks of data from multiple local computers to a central computer. Whenever a block of data must be transmitted by a generic local... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090204855 - File error identification, reporting, and replacement of media files: The present invention discloses a solution for automatically replacing a media files upon a device able to identify problems with locally stored media files. Initially, an automated process or user of a media playing device can initially identify a media file, which the media playing device is unable to play.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090204857 - Network apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium: In a network apparatus for receiving a processing request transmitted from an external apparatus connected thereto via a network, it is detected that processing corresponding to the transmitted processing request has not been performed. If it is detected that the processing corresponding to the transmitted processing request has not been... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090204856 - Self-service terminal: A self-service terminal comprises a watchdog timer coupled to a clock; and a reset driver for resetting the watchdog timer. The reset driver is operable to monitor a count reached by the watchdog timer, and to instigate a diagnostic action, such as writing information to a system event log, in... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090204858 - Server management program, system, and method, and mail server management program: A server management system includes a management server and a mail server. The management server includes a source determination unit and an alert mail creator. The source determination unit determines as a source a symbol identifying a failure cause of a system according to the failure cause. The alert mail... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090204859 - Systems, methods and computer program products including features for coding and/or recovering data: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of generating H output data streams from W data input streams produced from input data. Moreover, the method may include generating the H discrete output data streams via application of the W data... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090204860 - Data signal handling circuitry and methods with error analysis capabilities: To help identify a noise (interference) source in an electronic device that may be causing data errors in the device, relatively low level data receiver circuitry in the device is provided with one or more error signal output leads. An error signal on such a lead includes an error indication... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090204861 - System and method for increasing the extent of built-in self-testing of memory and circuitry: An integrated circuit (IC), a method of testing an IC and a method of reading test results from an IC containing built-in self-test (BIST) circuitry. In one embodiment, the IC includes: (1) an external test bus interface, (2) read-write memory coupled to the external test bus interface, (3) other circuitry... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090204865 - Data repair enhancements for multicast/broadcast data distribution: A method, system, device, and computer code product is disclosed in which a sender transmits data to a plurality of receivers via a point-to-multipoint session. The receiver sends data repair requests to the sender requesting data expected but not received and the sender retransmits the expected but not received data... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090204863 - Method and apparatus for supporting harq: A method of supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) includes receiving an initial uplink grant on a downlink channel, transmitting uplink data on an uplink channel using the initial uplink grant, receiving a request for retransmission of the uplink data, determining at least one transmission parameter of a channel quality... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090204862 - Method of an uplink harq operation at an expiry of time alignment timer: Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method of an uplink HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) operation at an expiry of time alignment timer in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090204864 - Transmission controlling method, sender apparatus and receiver apparatus for wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system, a sender apparatus sends a data block, for each of a plurality of stream data, with data block identification information, which does not conflict between stream data, annexed, and a reception apparatus performs a re-sending synthesis process for a data block received already and a... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090204867 - Control of data transmission based on harq in a wireless communication system: Techniques for controlling data transmission in a wireless communication system based on hybrid automatic retransmission (HARQ) are described. In one design, a user equipment (UE) may determine the number of HARQ processes (Z) supported by the UE, e.g., based on the amount of resources available at the UE. The UE... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090204866 - Data transmission control method and transmitter apparatus: A data-transmission control method is implemented when transmitting data after dividing the data into a plurality of blocks and performing error correction when performing data transmission. The method includes obtaining additional information indicating a result of error correction process of received data and a result of data transmission (ACK/NACK) from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090204869 - Method and apparatus for channel encoding and decoding in a communication system using low-density parity-check codes: An apparatus and method for encoding a channel in a communication system using a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code. The method includes determining a number of parity bits to be subjected to puncturing; dividing the parity bits at predetermined intervals, and determining a number of puncturing bits, which are subjected to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090204868 - Method and apparatus for signal transmission/reception in a communication system using an harq scheme: An apparatus and method for transmitting a signal in a communication system using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) scheme are provided. The method includes generating a codeword vector by encoding an information vector by using a first parity check matrix of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, generating a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090204870 - Method and device for securing the memory of a computer against errors due to radiation: The method is for hardening a computer based on off-the-shelf components so that it resists bombardment by particles of cosmic origin encountered at high altitude and near the poles. It relates more particularly to a computer comprising a processor/bridge pair, the bridge ensuring auxiliary functions for controlling the data exchanges... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090204871 - Non-volatile memory with error detection: Data move operations in a memory device are described that enable identification of data errors. Error detection circuitry in the memory device can be operated using parity data or ECC data stored in the memory. Results of the error detection can be accessed by a memory controller for data repair... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/micron

20090204872 - Command queuing smart storage transfer manager for striping data to raw-nand flash modules: A flash module has raw-NAND flash memory chips accessed over a physical-block address (PBA) bus by a NVM controller. The NVM controller is on the flash module or on a system board for a solid-state disk (SSD). The NVM controller converts logical block addresses (LBA) to physical block addresses (PBA).... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20090204873 - Voice processing apparatus and voice processing method: A voice processing apparatus includes: an error detector which detects an error in a frame containing voice data; a correction value calculator which determines a level of the error detected by the error detector and calculates a correction value according to the level; and a voice data corrector which corrects... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090204874 - 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

20090204875 - Method, system and computer program product for diagnosing communications: A method for diagnosing communications includes sending a message from a sending node to a receiving node. The sending node detects an error in the receiving node receiving the message. A force log request is sent from the sending node to the receiving node, the force log request including a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090204876 - Method for encoding a data message k' for transmission from sending station to receiving station as well as method for decoding, sending station, receiving station and software: Irregular LDPC codes have a construction which allows one to obtain a number of codes with different length from a single prototype code with a parity check matrix given by H=[Hz Hi], where Hz specifies the well-known zigzag pattern in the corresponding Tanner graph. The parity check matrices for longer... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090204877 - Block modulus coding (bmc) systems and methods for block coding with non-binary modulus: Block modulus coding (BMC) systems implement block coding on non-binary modulus m symbols, where m is greater than 2. BMC systems can be used for, among other things, forward error correction (FEC) of source data in communication systems or parity backup for error correction of source data in storage systems... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090204878 - Digital file marked by a series of marks the concatenation of which forms a message and method for extracting a mark from such a digital file: The marked digital file (10) comprises a plurality of portions, some of which (12) are marked with a mark (14) of a string of marks so as to form a string of marked portions (12). Concatenating the marks (14) of the string forms a message. Each mark (14) contains an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

08/13/2009 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

08/06/2009 > patent applications in patent subcategories.

20090199039 - File data restoring system and method of computer operating system and software thereof: A file data restoring system and method of a computer operating system and software thereof are applied in the installation of an operating system into a client computer. Divide the file data corresponding to the operating system into data blocks according to an appointed data size. Generate a check code... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090199040 - Method and device for implementing link pass through in point-to-multipoint network: Methods and devices for implementing Link Pass Through in a point-to-multipoint network in respect of the network reliability field are provided. Embodiments of the present invention are applicable to a network having an access gate, an access device, an aggregation device and a router. When a failure occurs in an... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090199041 - Storage configuration recovery method and storage management system: When failure occurs in a virtualization apparatus in storage network circumstances in which the virtualization apparatus is operated, a storage management server judges volume position information, cache configuration information and pair configuration information which are configuration information of the virtualization apparatus and external storage collectively to decide candidates of recovery... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090199042 - Disk array system and control method thereof: A disk array system, upon detecting a failure in any data disk from among a plurality of data disks providing one or more RAID groups, conducting a correction copy to any spare disk, using one or more other data disks belonging to the same RAID group as the data disk... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090199043 - Error correction in an integrated circuit with an array of memory cells: An integrated circuit includes an array of memory cells, and an error correction code circuit configured to correct errors in data read from the array based at least in part on a map that identifies locations of erratic memory cells in the array.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090199044 - Device self-maintenance: Software running on a processor is operable to control the cycled powering down and powering up of components of a self-service terminal (SST) in order to attempt to rectify a fault within the SST without the need to power down the SST core processor. The software can also control the... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090199045 - Software fault management apparatus, test management apparatus, fault management method, test management method, and recording medium: A fault management system is provided with a fault data entry accepting portion for accepting entry of fault data including indicator data for assessing three fault assessment items in four assessment grades, a fault data holding portion for storing the fault data, a fault data prioritizing portion for prioritizing the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090199046 - Mechanism to perform debugging of global shared memory (gsm) operations: A host fabric interface (HFI) enables debugging of global shared memory (GSM) operations received at a local node from a network fabric. The local node has a memory management unit (MMU), which provides an effective address to real address (EA-to-RA) translation table that is utilized by the HFI to evaluate... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090199047 - Executing software performance test jobs in a clustered system: Using a testing framework, developers may create a test module to centralize resources and results for a software test plan amongst a plurality of systems. With assistance from the testing framework, the test module may facilitate the creation of test cases, the execution of a test job for each test... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090199048 - System and method for detection and prevention of flash corruption: A non-volatile memory device comprises an application code sector of sufficient size to store a first copy of an application code and a second copy of the application code; and a boot sector having a boot loader code embodied therein. The boot loader code is configured to cause a processor... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090199049 - Program processing device and program processing method: A program processing device has a non-volatile storage, a volatile storage and a controller. The controller has a detector that detects a bit flip in the program, the variable data, and the constant data in the volatile storage, a constant recovery unit that, when the detector detects an error in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090199052 - Management system, computer system, and method of providing information: A management system includes a plurality of analyzers; and a computer system connected to the analyzers via a network, wherein each of the analyzers comprises: a data transmitter for transmitting data produced by the analyzer to the computer system via the network, and wherein the computer system includes a memory... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090199051 - Method and apparatus for operating system event notification mechanism using file system interface: A method and structure for notifying operating system events, includes standard filesystem interfaces provided for event consumers to use for one or more of registering for event notifications of a set of events, receiving an event notification when each event occurs, and getting details of events that have occurred.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090199054 - Method and system to process issue data pertaining to a system: A computer-implemented method to processes issue data in a system. A plurality of issue reports are received from respective reporting entities, each issue report being in respect of a system issue which requires a response activity. The issue reports are parsed to obtain priority criterion data relating to at least... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090199050 - Self-service terminal: A self-service terminal comprises a pc core and at least one module, which can be powered down independently of the pc core, the terminal has a control application and an agent arranged to monitor the fault state of the at least one module and cause a fault signal to be... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090199053 - Self-service terminal: A self-service terminal comprises a pc core; at least one module coupled to the pc core; a control application executing on the pc core for controlling the operation of the terminal; and a management application executing on the pc core. The management application is arranged to (i) monitor state of... Agent: Michael Chan Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20090199055 - Interleaver design with unequal error protection for control information: For transmission of a block of control information within a wireless network, the control information is interleaved to form an ordered set of control bits, wherein more important information bits of the control information are placed into a first portion of the ordered set of control bits, with less important... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090199056 - Memory diagnosis method: A method of an apparatus for diagnosing a memory including a storing module for storing diagnosis information relating to memory errors in a memory to be diagnosed, the apparatus capable of detecting memory errors, the method includes: testing the memory and detecting a memory error for each of a plurality... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090199057 - March dss: memory diagnostic test: Diagnostic march tests are powerful tests that are capable of detecting, identifying and locating faults in memories. While March SS was published for detecting simple static faults, no test has been published for identifying all faults and locating their involved memory cells. In this report, we target all published simple... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20090199058 - Programmable memory with reliability testing of the stored data: The invention relates, inter alia, to a method for testing a programmable memory cell having a particular memory state, the method involving the following steps of: applying a first read signal to the memory cell, with the result that the memory cell provides a first memory signal which represents its... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090199059 - Semiconductor memory test device and method thereof: A semiconductor memory test device and method thereof are provided. The example semiconductor memory test device may include a fail memory configured to store at least one test result of a memory under test, a mode selecting unit configured to output a selection signal for selecting a memory address protocol... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090199060 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product: A receiving unit wirelessly receives a packet communication signal. When receiving a packet included in the packet communication signal is failed, a requesting unit issues a retransmission request for retransmitting the packet. A storing unit stores therein packets included in packet communication signals received before and after issuing the retransmission... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090199061 - Method and device for processing data in retransmission processes: A retransmission process control method is provided that increases the efficiency of memory usage in retransmission processes. A method for processing data in multiple retransmission processes, used in a receiving-side communication device, includes; determining whether or not a received signal can be stored in a reception buffer for retransmission processes;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090199062 - Virtual limited buffer modification for rate matching: Virtual limited buffer modification for rate matching. A reduced-size memory module is employed within a communication device to assist in storage of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) employed in accordance with turbo decoding. This architecture is also applicable to other types of error correction code (ECC) besides turbo code as well. The... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090199063 - Method of transmitting ack/nack signal in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting an acknowledgment (ACK)/non-acknowledgement (NACK) signal in a wireless communication system includes assigning at least one ACK channel among a plurality of ACK channels which share an ACK channel region for transmitting the ACK/NACK signal, and transmitting the ACK/NACK signal through the at least one ACK channel,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090199064 - Corrupted packet toleration and correction system: A corrupted packet toleration and correction system includes a receiver adapted to employ a cross layer protocol that distinguishes between corrupted packets and error-free packets, and tolerates corrupted packets by making side information about corrupted packets available to an application layer. A decoder of the application layer provides hybrid decoding... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090199065 - Gldpc encoding with reed-muller component codes for optical communications: A method of encoding for optical transmission of information includes encoding information with a generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) code for providing coding gains, and constructing the GLDPC code with a Reed-Muller RM code as a component code, the component code being decodable using a maximum posterior probability (MAP) decoding. In... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090199067 - Method and apparatus of encoding and decoding data using low density parity check code in a wireless communication system: A method of encoding data using low density parity check (LDPC) code defined by a m×n parity check matrix is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes encoding input source data using the parity check matrix, wherein the parity check matrix comprises a plurality of z×z sub-matrices of which row weights... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090199068 - Method and apparatus of encoding and decoding data using low density parity check code in a wireless communication system: A method of encoding data using low density parity check (LDPC) code defined by a m×n parity check matrix is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes encoding input source data using the parity check matrix, wherein the parity check matrix comprises a plurality of z×z sub-matrices of which row weights... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090199066 - Method for determining transport block size and signal transmission method using the same: A method for determining a transport block size and a signal transmission method using the same are disclosed. When the signal transmission method constructs a transport block size combination by predetermining the transport block size, it prevents the insertion of any dummy bits in consideration of the limitation of an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090199069 - Method and apparatus for facilitating concatenated codes for beacon channels: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for encoding/decoding a wireless control signal. For encoding, control bits are received and encoded with a first error control code so as to create a first set of encoded bits. The encoded bits are then encoded with a second error control code... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090199070 - Data transmission system and method of correcting an error in parallel data paths of a data transmission system: A data transmission system includes parallel data paths for transmitting data, and an encoder for encoding the data such that an error correction code is generated for data at a same bit position across the parallel data paths.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090199071 - Systems and methods for low cost ldpc decoding: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and circuits that provide for LDPC decoding and/or error correcting. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide LDPC decoder circuits that include a soft-input memory, a memory unit, and an arithmetic unit. The arithmetic unit includes a hardware circuit that... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)

20090199073 - Encoding device, decoding device, encoding/decoding device, and recording/reproducing device: An error correction device error corrects without increasing in circuit scale. An encoder, includes: a first ECC encoder which interleaves a data string into n (n≧2) blocks of data strings at every m (m≧2) bits, and adds the error correction code parity; a parity encoder which creates a parity bit... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090199072 - Method, system, and computer program product for transmission of bit sensitive information: A method for communication between a geologic downhole measurement device and a receiver is provided. The method includes: receiving a bit sensitive data stream representing at least one property of at least one of a geologic formation and a borehole; grouping the data stream into at least one data block;... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090199074 - Parameter estimation based on error correction code parity check equations: A method for operating a memory, which includes analog memory cells, includes encoding data with an Error Correction Code (ECC) that is representable by a plurality of equations. The encoded data is stored in a group of the analog memory cells by writing respective input storage values to the memory... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090199075 - Array form reed-solomon implementation as an instruction set extension: The values of N and M may be selected to match the word width of the candidate MIPS microprocessor which is 32 bits or four bytes. When N and M are both have the value of four, sixteen Galios Field polynomial multiplications may be computed concurrently or sequentially in a... Agent: Victor Demjanenko, Ph. D. Vocal Technologies, Ltd.

20090199076 - Acknowledgement message modification in communication networks: A station for a communications network. In one embodiment, the station includes a decoder, a check processor, and a transmitter. The decoder is adapted to decode a received encoded data unit. The check processor is adapted to determine whether the encoded data unit has been correctly received. The transmitter is... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

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