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Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090327797 - Method and provider edge device for advertising and processing pseudo-wire information: The present invention discloses a method for advertising and processing pseudo-wire (PW) information, which comprises: the sending provider edge (PE) device using two or more methods to group PWs, identifying the group identifier assigned to each PW with each grouping method, and sending all group identifiers of each PW to... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090327796 - Service oriented architecture based decision support system: A service oriented architecture (SOA) based decision support system for a vehicle is provided. A database is provided for storing a workplan of the vehicle. A webservice provider is in communication with the database for integrating applications using a variety of open standards of an internet protocol backbone. A core... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090327798 - Cluster shared volumes: Described is a technology by which a storage volume is shared by cluster nodes of a server cluster. In one implementation, each node includes a redirector that provides shared access to the volume from that node. The redirector routes file system metadata requests from applications and the like through a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327799 - Computer readable medium, server management method and device: A management server is equipped with a manager comprising software including a server management program. A managed server has a built-in system disk capable of being booted, on which an agent is installed that is software for communicating with the manager of the management server to monitor the state of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090327800 - Apparatus, system and method for providing error protection for data-masking bits: An apparatus, system, and method for providing error protection for data-masking bits in a memory device of a memory system are provided. The memory device includes a memory core to store data, and a data interface to receive the data and data-masking bits associated with a write command. The memory... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090327801 - Disk array system, disk controller, and method for performing rebuild process: In a disk array system, when a failure occurs in a disk unit under control, a disk controller performs a rebuild process for rebuilding data stored on the faulty disk unit on a spare disk unit (HS). When a rebuild control section accepts an I/O request from a host before... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090327802 - Storage control device, data recovery device, and storage system: When data in one semiconductor memory device is corrupted during a padding process by a padding unit and the data cannot be recovered even by using an error correcting code for correcting a data error, a storage control device issues a data recovery request to a data recovery device. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090327803 - Storage control device and storage control method: A RAID is configured using plural nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices to enable recovery of data stored in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices, and data is read from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device included in the RAID in response to a data reading request inputted from outside. When an error occurs... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090327804 - Wear leveling in flash storage devices: A method of wear leveling in a flash storage device comprising a plurality of data blocks is provided. The method comprises the steps of detecting a data error in a read of dynamic data from a first data segment of a first data block of the plurality of data blocks,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090327806 - Method of handling transaction in a service oriented architecture environment: A method of handling transactions in a plurality of organization embracing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is disclosed. The method includes invoking the transaction when at least one application registers for the transaction, by recognizing one or more services associated to the registered transaction context. The method also includes identifying one... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090327805 - Minimizing data loss in asynchronous replication solution using distributed redundancy: Architecture that reduces data loss resulting from failover in an asynchronous log shipping deployment, but leveraging mid-tier and frontend servers to fill in lost data. In an asynchronous log shipping operation, a replication component asynchronously replicates messaging data to a backend server in accordance with one or more replication operations,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327807 - Transparent checkpointing and process migration in a distributed system: A distributed system for creating a checkpoint for a plurality of processes running on the distributed system. The distributed system includes a plurality of compute nodes with an operating system executing on each compute node. A checkpoint library resides at the user level on each of the compute nodes, and... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090327808 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an error detection unit, a determination unit, an output unit, and a power source control unit. The error detection unit detects an occurrence of an error in printing operation. The determination unit determines whether or not to perform power-off operation based on a detection result... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090327809 - Domain-specific guidance service for software development: During software development, both before and after release, information may be collected and stored that may provide insight to developers as a generalized service. For example, data from past debugging sessions, source code in various repositories, bug repositories, discussion groups, and various documents may provide relevant information for software developers... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327811 - Expert system and method: A system and method is provided for representation of a real world problem situation. The system includes a computer software process which can acquire or accept a set of input data. The input data generally includes seed facts and user entered facts. The set of input data represents real world... Agent: Jellett Law, Ps Matthew Jellett, Esq.

20090327810 - System for examining effects and proposing consequential actions: Traditionally, in fault diagnosis systems, the user is instructed to investigate symptoms exhaustively until a single fault is identified. A more advanced known system recognises that it may be cost effective to address a fault that has been determined as being likely but not certain to exist; in preference to... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090327812 - Method, device and computer accessible medium for secure access protocol conformance testing on authentication server: Exemplary embodiments of a method, device and computer-accessible medium for secure access protocol conformance testing on an authentication service entity can be provided. According to one exemplary embodiment, it is possible to determine whether a certificate issued by the authentication service entity to be tested complies with a corresponding specification... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090327813 - Method to recover from a boot device failure during reboot or system ipl: A method of automatic recovery from a boot device failure and an initial program load (IPL) failure of an operating system (OS) comprises: receiving and complying with a user selected option of an action upon an event of a boot device failure and an IPL failure. The user selected option... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090327814 - Diagnosis apparatus, diagnosis method, and storage medium: A diagnosis apparatus is disclosed that is able to promote productivity of a diagnosis of the target program which may be for an image forming apparatus such as a printer, a copier, or a fax. The diagnosis apparatus uses a diagnosis program which acquires log information of a target program... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090327815 - Process reflection: Process reflection techniques are described in which a reflected process is created to facilitate analysis of a process. Events are detected to initiate reflection of a target process. Process reflection of a target process may be initiated by an external process or by the target process itself. A reflected process... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327816 - Operation check information providing device and electronic device using the same: A device (100) usable for an electronic apparatus (1) operating based on a manipulation of the user includes an input section (101) for receiving a manipulation of the user, a storage section (104) having a database including a plurality of manipulation error patterns stored therein, a determination section (107) for... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090327817 - Coordinating updates to replicated data: Techniques for coordinating updates to replicated data are disclosed. For example, in a system comprised of a plurality of nodes, a method for maintaining consistent copies of data across said nodes comprises the following steps. A copy of an object o1 is maintained by a plurality of nodes. In response... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090327819 - Fault tolerant distributed mobile architecture: A method, system and machine-readable storage medium for providing fault tolerance in a distributed mobile architecture (dMA) system. The method includes receiving a message or failing to receive the message within a predetermined time relating to a first dMA gateway (dMAG) at a second dMAG. It is determined whether the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090327818 - Multi-core engine for detecting bit errors: The following description includes a method and a system of detecting bit errors in a multi-core processor. When a subatomic particle, or other matter, impacts the processing cores of the processor, bit flips may occur. To detect these bit flips and thereby prevent erroneous results, operations performed by one core... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090327820 - Demapper using floating-point representation of soft bits: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and systems for converting fixed-point soft bit values, provided by a demapper, into floating-point soft bits values. In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, from a demapper, soft bits formatted as a fixed-point value. Moreover, the soft... Agent: Kirupairaj Asirvatham

20090327821 - Accumulated error time monitoring diagnostic control system: A diagnostic system includes N dedicated diagnostic modules that each correspond with a respective one of multiple control systems. The N dedicated diagnostic modules each generate status signals indicating results of respective diagnostic tests. A diagnostic error time monitor determines an accumulated error time value between error events for each... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090327822 - Test apparatus and test method: Provided is a test apparatus having a bad block memory for storing a plurality of pieces of fail information in association with blocks of a memory under test, each piece of fail information indicating whether there is a defect in the associated block. The test apparatus writes a test data... Agent: Masao Yoshimura

20090327823 - Removeable and replaceable tap domain selection circuitry: Today many instances of IEEE 1149.1 Tap domains are included in integrated circuits (ICs). While all TAP domains may be serially connected on a scan path that is accessible external to the IC, it is generally preferred to have selectivity on which Tap domain or Tap domains are accessed. Therefore... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090327824 - Techniques for performing a logic built-in self-test in an integrated circuit device: A method, system and computer program product for performing device characterization Logic Built-In Self-Test (LBIST) in an IC device. Test parameters of the LBIST are saved in a memory of the IC device, and nominal operational parameters of the IC device are used to define a signature of the LBIST.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090327827 - Rule-based networking device: A networking system, device, and method are provided. The networking device typically includes a user-defined ruleset including HTTP request rules and HTTP response rules. The networking device may further include a request processor configured to receive an incoming HTTP request from the client, apply HTTP request rules to the incoming... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090327825 - System for managing program applications storable in a mobile terminal: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090327826 - System for transmitting and receiving packets: A system has a transmitter for transmitting a sequence of packets, the transmitter has a first counter for storing a first sequence number, a first generating unit for generating an error check code for checking an error in each of the packets on the basis of the header and the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090327828 - Method and apparatus for providing a data retransmission scheme: An approach is provided for efficient retransmissions by allocating a transmission resource for transmitting data and allocating a retransmission resource for retransmitting the data according to a transmission scheme that specifies relationship between the transmitted data and the retransmitted data for providing communication over a radio network.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090327829 - Method for controlling data retransmission in wireless network at the final retransmission: To resolve the signaling error problem possibly happening at the final retransmission in the wireless network using ARQ, a method, in the communication equipment as a receiver in the wireless network using ARQ, for controlling data retransmission at the final retransmission, a corresponding method for auxiliary controlling data retransmission, and... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090327830 - Method for retransmitting data unit using delivery status information: Disclosed is a radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and a terminal, and more particularly, to a method for retransmitting protocol data unit upon receiving a HARQ delivery failure notification with respect to a particular RLC data PDU by a RLC, only if the RLC did not... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090327831 - Automatic retransmission controller and retransmission block recombination apparatus: This invention proposes an automatic retransmission controller and a retransmission block recombination apparatus, of which the automatic retransmission controller comprises a responsive reception unit that receives the information fed back from the receiver; a retransmission judging unit that determines coded data blocks to be retransmitted according to the information received... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090327832 - Decoder and recording/reproducing device: A decoder and recording/reproducing device for preventing an increase in power consumption, has a multi-step iterative decoder. The decoder includes an iterative decoder in which a decoder constituted by a channel decoder and an outer code decoder is installed in multiple steps; an iterative decoding control circuit which estimates an... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090327833 - Memory device: A memory device includes: a data port for receiving data; a storing unit for storing data; a control signal input port for receiving a command signal; an error correcting unit for performing error correction operation over the data for the data port and the command signal for the control signal... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090327834 - Device having turbo decoding capabilities and a method for turbo decoding: A device and a method for turbo decoding, the method includes performing multiple iterations of a turbo decoding process until a turbo decoding process is completed; wherein the performing comprises repeating the stages of: (i) initializing at least one state metric of multiple windows of a channel data block for... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090327836 - Decoding method for convolution code and decoding device: A decoding method performs turbo decoding on data that includes a first value before transmission and that includes a second value after received, the second value changed from the first value due to the influence of a transmission path. The decoding method includes performing the turbo decoding on the data... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090327835 - Techniques for reducing joint detection complexity in a channel-coded multiple-input multiple-output communication system: A technique for joint detection of channel-coded signals in a multiple-input multiple-output system includes detecting, when a decoded signal associated with a first symbol stream passes a cyclic redundancy check, channel-coded signals in the first symbol stream and a second symbol stream using minimum mean squared error with ordered successive... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090327837 - Nand error management: Techniques to manage various errors in memory such as, e.g., NAND memory in electronic devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, erase, read, and program error handling errors are managed.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090327838 - Memory system and operating method for it: A memory system includes a writable data memory and means for recognizing an error in a data word read out from the data memory, correcting the error, and storing the corrected data word at a new address in a free area of the data memory.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090327839 - Flash memory device using ecc algorithm and method of operating the same: A flash memory device using an error correction code (ECC) algorithm and a method of operating the same. The device includes a memory cell array including a error correction code (ECC) block including data memory cells configured to store data and a parity cell configured to store a first parity... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090327840 - Redundant data distribution in a flash storage device: A flash storage device comprises a plurality of channels of flash storage, a system memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to cache, in the system memory, data to be written, to partition the data into a plurality of data portions, to generate error correction information based on the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090327841 - 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

20090327843 - Pruned bit-reversal interleaver: A pruned bit-reversal interleaver supports different packet sizes and variable code rates and provides good spreading and puncturing properties. To interleave data, a packet of input data of a first size is received. The packet is extended to a second size that is a power of two, e.g., by appending... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090327842 - Recovery from burst packet loss in internet protocol based wireless networks using staggercasting and cross-packet forward error correction: A method and system for transmitting data are described including packetizing the data, performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the packetized data in order to generate a parity packet, appending FEC information as padding to the end of payload data of the packetized data and transmitting the packetized data... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20090327844 - Transmission apparatus, receiving apparatus, and method: An error pattern analysis unit specifies positions of discarded packets in continuously transmitted groups of packets. A QoS control unit estimates the cause of a communication error based on the specified positions of discarded packets, and performs QoS control based on the estimated cause of the communication error.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090327845 - System and method for mitigating burst noise in a communications system: A system, method and computer program product is provided for mitigating the effects of burst noise on packets transmitted in a communications system. A transmitting device applies an outer code, which may include, for example, a block code, an exclusive OR (XOR) code, or a repetition code, to one or... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090327846 - Convolution encoder, encoding device, and convolution encoding method: The convolution encoder comprises an input data acquiring section (F11) for acquiring input data; an encoding object data generating section (F10) for generating encoding object data on the basis of the input data; a storage section (M10) for storing data corresponding to the encoding object data; a mod2 adder (S10)... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090327847 - Ldpc (low density parity check) codes with corresponding parity check matrices selectively constructed with csi (cyclic shifted identity) and null sub-matrices: LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes with corresponding parity check matrices selectively constructed with CSI (Cyclic Shifted Identity) and null sub-matrices. An LDPC matrix corresponding to an LDPC code is employed within a communication device to encode and/or decode coded signals for use in any of a number of communication... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090319822 - Apparatus and method to minimize performance degradation during communication path failure in a data processing system: A method to minimize performance degradation during communication path failure in a data processing system, comprising a host computer, a storage controller, and a plurality of physical communication paths in communication with the host computer and the storage controller, where the method establishes a. threshold communication path error rate, and... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20090319823 - Run-time fault resolution from development-time fault and fault resolution path identification: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to fault handling and provide a method, system and computer program product for run-time fault resolution from development time fault and fault resolution path identification. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for run-time fault resolution from... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP

20090319824 - Data recovery in heterogeneous networks using peer's cooperative networking: A method and apparatus for recovering data, comprising establishing a secondary recovery network with a device, detecting data loss and recovering via the secondary recovery network the lost data from the device, the device having correctly received the data, are described. The lost data was sent in a primary wireless... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20090319825 - Monitoring memory: Devices, systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with monitoring memory are described. In one embodiment, a method determines a first data quality associated with a set of data stored in flash memory. Based, at least in part, on the first data quality, the flash memory is controlled to correct the... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Marvell

20090319826 - Apparatus and method for testing a communication circuit: An apparatus for testing a communication circuit includes a detection module and a capture module. The detection module provides an enable signal in response to receiving at least one predetermined plurality of data from a communication device under test. The capture module captures at least one other predetermined plurality of... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20090319827 - Fault prediction method, fault prediction system, and image forming apparatus: A fault prediction method predicts a plurality of faults in a target device, and includes the steps of collecting internal information of the target device output from the target device, generating one or more criteria for defining a deviation from a normal state based on the collected internal information of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090319828 - System, method, and device including built-in self tests for communication bus device: A method, device, and system including built-in self tests for a communication bus device is disclosed. In one form, a method of testing a device operable to be coupled to a communication port an information handling system includes accessing a configuration descriptor of a first device operable to be coupled... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090319829 - Pattern extraction method and apparatus: A test pattern extraction method includes obtaining an identifier of a processing executed for a test pattern by a verification target, and storing the identifier of the processing into a test result data storage device in association with the test pattern; calculating a distance between the test patterns whose identifiers... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090319830 - System and method for automatically testing a model: A system for automatically testing a model of system under test includes (a) means for the automatic generation of a test harness; (b) means for automatic generation of test specifications based on the analysis of the results obtained from the simulation of the test harness; (c) means for the automatic... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090319831 - Automation network, remote access server for an automation network and a method for transmitting operating data between an automation system and a remote computer: There is described an automation network, a remote access server for an automation network and a method for transmission of operating data between an automation system with one or more automation devices and a remote computer with the operating data of the automation device being transmitted via the Internet or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090319832 - Method and apparatus of effective functional test data generation for web service testing: A method, system and apparatus for generating test data for web services testing load a selected file describing one or more web services operations into memory, select an operation specified in said loaded file, and identify one or more fields used in said operation. The one or more fields are... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090319833 - Software quality assessment based on semantic similarities: A method for software processing includes accepting quality information, which includes names of elements of software code and respective quality indications regarding tested acceptability of the elements. The names are processed to extract a list of substrings that occur in the names. Respective metrics are assigned to the substrings responsively... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090319834 - Computer-readable storage medium storing storage management program, storage management method,and storage management apparatus: A storage management apparatus that performs a read/write check on each of a plurality of data-storing areas of a storage device, and is formed by a storage node that performs reading/writing of the data in the storage device. A computer determines whether or not the data exits, by referring to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090319835 - Processor system optimization supporting apparatus and supporting method: In order to enable the optimization of a processor system without relying upon knowhow or manual labor, an apparatus includes: information obtainment unit for reading, from memory, trace information of the processor system and performance information corresponding to the trace information; information analysis unit for analyzing the trace information and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090319836 - System and method for recovery from uncorrectable bus errors in a teamed nic configuration: A method for recovery from uncorrectable errors in an information handling system including an operating system (OS) and one or more network interface cards (NICS) is provided. The method may include detecting an uncorrectable error; determining whether the uncorrectable error is isolated to a particular NIC; determining whether the particular... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090319837 - Verification of a data processing system using overlapping address ranges: Verifying operation of a data processing system. A first sequence of addressing ranges is generated for multiple requesters. Each addressing range includes a start and an end address and a respective identifying number. A second sequence of verification ranges is generated corresponding the addressing ranges of the first sequence. Each... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090319838 - Determining contribution of burst noise to data errors: A method for determining a contribution of burst noise to a bit error rate in a digital system for reception of an interleaved forward error correction-enabled digital symbol stream is described. The method is based on identifying errored symbols at a decoding stage, determining their positions in the interleaved stream,... Agent: Pequignot + Myers LLC

20090319839 - Repairing memory arrays: A memory array comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each row comprising at least one addressable word, said memory array comprising at least one redundant row and at least one redundant column; error detection circuitry for analysing said memory array, by addressing words within said memory... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090319840 - Semiconductor memory device and test method thereof: A semiconductor memory device includes a nonvolatile memory functioning as a main memory unit, a volatile memory functioning as a buffer unit of the nonvolatile memory, a controller, an ECC buffer, a parity syndrome circuit, an ECC control circuit, a multiplexer, and an ECC error position decoder.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090319841 - Structure and apparatus for a robust embedded interface: A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circuit. The design structure includes an input register coupled to a data processing unit input and a test operation mode and functional operation mode. In the test mode operation, the register operates in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090319842 - Generating device, generating method, program and recording medium: Provided are a generation device and the like for generating a test vector which can reduce capture power efficiently. The generation device 100 generates a test vector for a logic circuit by assigning logic values to each of a plurality of unspecified bits (X-bits) included in a test cube. The... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090319844 - Apparatus selectively adopting different determining criteria in erasure marking procedure when performing decoding process, and method thereof: A method and a related apparatus that decode an input signal to generate an output signal. The method includes determining burst noise locations corresponding to the input signal and generating a first indication signal accordingly, decoding the input signal to generate an inner-code decoded signal, selectively adopting one of a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090319843 - Method and apparatus for error correction: Methods, apparatus and computer readable medium for handling error correction in a memory are disclosed. In some embodiments, after an attempt is made to write original data to a ‘target’ memory, data is read back from the target memory in a ‘first read operation’, thereby generating first read data. After... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Sandisk

20090319846 - Adaptive error correction method for data transmission and devices thereof: An adaptive error correction method for data transmission and the devices thereof are disclosed. By comparing the announced recovery data and data requested for error correction, no redundant join messages will be sent if the recovery data have been announced before. This will greatly reduce the number messages and save... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20090319845 - Seamless handover of multicast sessions in internet protocol based wireless networks using staggercasting: A method and apparatus are described for recovering from loss of an original data packet, including detecting data packet loss, joining a delayed multicast group, receiving a delayed data packet and using the delayed data packet to recover the original data packet that was lost. The delayed data packet is... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20090319849 - Data reception method, repair method and corresponding terminal: m

20090319850 - Local drop control for a transmit buffer in a repeat transmission protocol device: A wireless communication device includes a transmit buffer and control logic coupled to the transmit buffer. The control logic selectively implements an “ACK2 scheme” that drops a data block in the transmit buffer based on reception of two consecutive HARQ ACKs associated with the data block.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090319848 - Provisioning device make and model information for firmware over-the-air (fota): A device receives identifier, make, and model information associated with a device from a device activation system, and provides the device identifier, make, and model information to a database. The device also determines whether the device qualifies for a software update package based on the device make and model information,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090319847 - Using different physical interface to request retransmission of packet lost on unidirectional interface: Packets detected to be lost from a unidirectional interface such as an ATSC tuner are requested from the source or a peer using a different physical interface. The packets may be retransmitted for reception over either interface.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090319852 - Communication apparatus and method thereof: This is disclosed a communication apparatus. A receiving unit receives plural data frames which are transmitted from other communication apparatus. An error detection unit checks whether each data frame is received correctly or incorrectly. A determination unit estimates a first overhead and a second overhead and determines whether or not... Agent: Gregory Turocy Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090319851 - Communication over plural channels with acknowledgment variability: Reliable communication may be implemented using various underlying transport mechanisms, where the underlying transport mechanisms may be reliable or non-reliable. When data is sent from a source to a destination, the source may sent acknowledgment requests (RACKs) to the destination, and may await acknowledgments (ACKs) from the destination. The RACKs... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090319853 - Method and apparatus for inexpensively monitoring and controlling remotely distributed appliances: A method and associated apparatus are described that enables unattended, remotely distributed appliances, such as vending machines, utility meters, thermostats and kitchen appliances (ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, etc.) to be connected inexpensively to each other and to a centrally located server. The apparatus 1) uses relatively simple “personality” modules to... Agent: Remenick PLLC

20090319854 - Tristate requests for flexible packet retransmission: Extending acknowledgement messages from two states to at least three states is described, whereby such messages constitute a packet quality indication (PQI) reflecting quality or usability of the received signal. In an HARQ system, a transmitting station can flexibly select a better alternative for the next information to transmit on... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090319855 - Systems and methods for adaptive hybrid automatic retransmission requests: A turbo coded hybrid ARQ with both IR and repetition existing in one or more transmission blocks is designed. The mixed combining is performed at the receiver—Chase combining is performed for the repetitions first, followed by code combining for all code bits based on Chase combining outputs. The packet error... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090319862 - High speed turbo codes decoder for 3g using pipelined siso log-map decoders architecture: A MIMO system with Diversity processing is provided having Turbo Codes Decoders for computing orthogonal 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: Icomm Technologies Inc

20090319859 - Method and apparatus for error correction according to erase counts of a solid-state memory: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and devices where an erase count is maintained for at least one block of solid state memory. Errors are corrected in data read from the solid state memory in accordance with the associated erase count of the memory block. In some embodiments,... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Sandisk

20090319857 - Method and apparatus for parallel processing multimode ldpc decoder: A method and apparatus for decoding transmissions in a wireless communications network is provided. A receiver includes a receive path. The receive path includes a decoder configured to perform low density parity check decoding. The decoder includes a number of Context Reconfigurable Instruction Set Processors (CRISPs). The CRISPs are configured... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090319856 - Method and apparatus for software-defined radio ldpc decoder: A method and apparatus for decoding transmissions in a wireless communications network is provided. A receiver includes a receive path. The receive path includes a low density parity check (LDPC) decoder. The receiver is configured to receive encoded transmissions and perform low density parity check decoding operations using a CRISP... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090319860 - Overcoming ldpc trapping sets by decoder reset: To decode, in a plurality of iterations, a representation, imported from a channel, of a codeword that encodes K information bits as N>K codeword bits, estimates of the codeword bits are updated by exchanging messages between N bit nodes and N−K check nodes of a graph. If the decoding has... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20090319858 - Reduced complexity ldpc decoder: To decode a manifestation of a codeword in which K information bits are encoded as N>K codeword bits, messages are exchanged between N bit nodes and N−K check nodes. During computation, messages are expressed with a full message length greater than two bits. In each iteration, representations of at least... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20090319861 - Using damping factors to overcome ldpc trapping sets: To decode a representation, imported from a channel, of a codeword that encodes K information bits as N>K codeword bits, estimates of the codeword bits are updated by exchanging messages between N bit nodes and N−K check nodes of a graph in a plurality of iterations. In each of one... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090319863 - Error-correcting system of semiconductor memory, error-correcting method, and memory system with error-correcting system: An error-correcting system includes a data buffer, a generating unit, a syndrome holding unit, a parity holding unit, and a decoding unit. The data buffer is capable of holding N bits of data. The generating unit generates a syndrome and parity on the basis of the data output from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090319865 - Cache memory, computer system and memory access method: A cache memory has a data holding unit having multiple cache lines each of which includes an address area, a data area and a dirty bit, and a controller which is given read data and a correction execution signal indicating whether or not error correction has been performed for the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090319864 - Method and apparatus for dynamically configurable multi level error correction: An invention is provided for dynamically configurable error correction. The invention includes receiving a check code configuration signal, which indicates a particular level of error detection. A check code generator is configured to generate check codes based on the particular level of error detection indicated by the check code configuration... Agent: Patent Venture Group

20090319866 - Erasure flagging system and method for errors-and-erasures decoding in storage devices: A system and method for erasure flagging for errors-and-erasures decoding in storage devices includes determining a deviation measure between a read/write head position relative to a track of symbols in storage media. A reliability value is determined for the symbols based on the deviation measure. Flagging the symbols with a... Agent: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090319869 - Failure tolerant data storage: A method for storing data across a plurality of N storage devices S1 . . . SN, wherein at least certain of the storage devices have a storage capacity CMIN=CJ≦CK . . . ≦CMAX, and CMIN<CMAX involves establishing a first capacity band equal in capacity to CMIN in each of... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090319867 - Memory system and memory access method: A memory system has a redundancy coding circuit that performs redundancy coding process for write data, an inverter circuit which inverts values of individual bits of the data that has resulted from the redundancy coding process, a selector which selects the data that has resulted from the redundancy coding process... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090319868 - Reading a flash memory by joint decoding and cell voltage distribution tracking: To read a plurality of memory cells, each cell is assigned to a respective cell population. A respective value of an operational parameter of each cell is measured. Each cell is assigned an a-priori metric based at least in part on one or more CVD parameter values of the cell's... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20090319870 - Semiconductor memory device and error correcting method: A decoding unit is arranged between a reading unit that reads data with an error correction code added from memory cells on a specific one of the first data lines and an output unit that selectively outputs certain data of the read out data. The decoding unit corrects any errors... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090319872 - Fast, low-power reading of data in a flash memory: A memory includes cells at intersections of word lines and bit lines, word and bit line selection mechanisms and a programming mechanism. The cells on each bit line are connected in series. Cells of a word line are programmed simultaneously. For low-power reading, only some of the bit lines that... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Sandisk

20090319871 - Memory system with semiconductor memory and its data transfer method: A data transfer method includes reading data from a NAND flash memory in pages into a first buffer, transferring a parity in the data read into the first buffer to a second buffer, after transferring the parity to the second buffer, transferring a main data in the data read into... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090319873 - Signal processing device and signal processing method that decode encoded information: According to an embodiment of the present invention provides the signal processing system. In the signal processing device that estimates information data from a reception signal by performing iterative processing between a demodulator that demodulates data of n(>m) bits obtained by modulating data of m bits into m bits and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090319875 - Path metric difference computation unit for computing path differences through a multiple-step trellis: A path metric difference computation unit is disclosed for computing path differences through a multiple-step trellis. The disclosed path metric difference computation unit computes differences between paths through a multiple-step trellis, wherein a first of the plurality of paths is a winning path for each single-step-trellis period of a multiple-step-trellis... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090319874 - Reliability unit for determining a reliability value for at least one bit decision: A reliability unit is disclosed for determining a reliability value for at least one bit decision. The disclosed reliability unit comprises one or more functional elements, wherein each of the functional elements comprises at least four functional units and at least two registers, wherein each functional unit comprises a comparator... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090319876 - Maximum likelihood decoder and decoding method therefor: According to one embodiment, a maximum likelihood decoder includes a branch metric calculator, a processor configured to perform addition, comparison, and selection of an output from the branch metric calculator and a path metric memory, and outputs a selection signal for identifying a selection result, a path memory configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090319878 - Check code generating apparatus, method of generating check code, and communication apparatus: A check code generating apparatus generates a first check code that is a check code concerning exclusive OR of first data and second data obtained by rewriting a part of the first data and calculates exclusive OR of the first check code and a second check code that is a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090319877 - Systems, methods, and apparatuses to transfer data and data mask bits in a common frame with a shared error bit code: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses to transfer data and data mask bits in a common frame with a shared error bit code. A memory system uses data frames to transfer data between a host and a memory device. In some cases, the system... Agent: Philip A. Pedigo Intel Corporation

20090313496 - Computer implemented systems and methods for pre-emptive service and improved use of service resources: Systems and methods are provided for collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data associated with the installation and deployment of systems. Energy systems, (500) specifically renewable energy generation systems, are used as examples. The aggregated data serve as the basis for a variety of services that improve the system performance, improve the... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20090313497 - Failover enabled telemetry systems: The present invention discloses several techniques for providing failover in telemetry systems. The invention allows the continuous and uninterrupted connection between gathering units and a central data collection server, thereby ensuring the proper operation of telemetry systems.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090313498 - Control method and storage device: A control method includes the steps of storing data in a cache; generating parity data corresponding to the data stored in the cache and storing the parity data in a buffer; writing the data stored in the cache and the parity data stored in the buffer into a plurality of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090313499 - System and method for reconstructing lost data in a storage system: A system (and method) for determining reconstruction formulas for partial strip reconstruction in a storage system in which a plurality of lost strips have been detected, includes using a combination of a direct reconstruction method and a sequential reconstruction method.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090313500 - Containment and recovery of software exceptions in interacting, replicated-state-machine-based fault-tolerant components: A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for error recovery in a replicated state machine. A batch of inputs is input to the machine, and the machine uses a multitude of components for processing those inputs. Also, during this processing, one of said components generates an exception. The... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090313501 - Method and arrangement for processing transactions in a flash type memory device: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for processing transactions in a flash type memory device, wherein the transaction is a data update and/or changing operation consisting of one or more suboperations, all of which must be successfully executed in order to regard the discussed transaction as having been... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090313502 - Data transferring method and content transferring method: A method of transferring data and a method of transferring contents are provided. In the method of transferring data in a data interoperable environment, a secure authenticated channel is established with a receiving entity corresponding to receiver information included in a received control message, when the control message is received... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090313503 - Systems and methods of event driven recovery management: Systems and methods of event driven recovery management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of providing event driven recovery management includes continually copying one or more data blocks that are generated from a computing device, associating at least one event marker with the copies of the one or more... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20090313504 - Bios test system and test method thereof: A basic input output system (BIOS) test system includes a protocol conversion module and a computer. The protocol conversion module is connected to a tested device. The computer is connected to the protocol conversion module. The computer controls the protocol conversion module to simulate a keyboard to send keyboard commands... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090313505 - System and method for detecting combinations of perfomance indicators associated with a root cause: Methods and system are provided for detecting combinations of performance indicators that are associated with a root cause. The method comprises storing a plurality of error codes, each representative of at least one performance indicator, storing descriptive data associated with each of the plurality of error codes, storing a plurality... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090313506 - Test result aggregation and analysis using text expressions: A test and analysis system may use Xpath or other text based analysis descriptors to analyze test results that may be presented in XML. The text based analysis descriptors may be installed and used on an analysis system without exposing the analysis system to security vulnerabilities, and such descriptors may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090313507 - Generation of trace data in a multi-processor system: A data processing apparatus is provided having a plurality of processing circuits each having access to a memory. Tracing circuitry is provided for generating a stream of trace data for generating a stream of trace data corresponding to at least one of the plurality of processing circuits. Selection circuitry is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090313508 - Monitoring data categorization and module-based health correlations: Architecture for aggregating health alerts from a number of related components into a single aggregated health state that can be analyzed to isolate the component responsible for the fault condition. In a hierarchy of related components within various component groups in a computer system, a number of health indicators can... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090313509 - Control method for information storage apparatus, information storage apparatus, program and computer readable information recording medium: A control method for an information storage apparatus has the steps of: providing redundancy of information stored in the information storage apparatus; a redundancy failure recording part recording a record of a redundancy failure in a state recording part, when the failure has occurred in keeping of the redundant state... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090313510 - Port selector, device testing system and method using the same: A port selector, a device testing system and a method using the same. The port selector includes: a plurality of terminal ports to which a device is respectively coupled; an integration port which is connected to the plurality of terminal ports through a signal transmitting line; a plurality of terminal... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090313511 - Semiconductor device testing: A semiconductor device test circuit includes a data producing unit to produce first test data to be fed into a semiconductor device, and expected value data; a first data retaining unit to retain the first test data, and feed the first test data into the semiconductor device; a second data... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090313512 - Apparatus and method for memory card testing: The invention provides a memory card testing apparatus for performing automated operations on memory cards. The memory card testing apparatus comprises a host device, a database, a processing unit and an interface. The host device is provided for accessing a memory card. The database maintains a plurality of test script... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090313513 - Apparatus and method for testing semiconductor memory device: A semiconductor memory device for performing a reliability test includes a write driving block for generating a predetermined test voltage in a test mode and delivering a data inputted from an external circuit into the local I/O line pair during a data access operation in a normal mode, a local... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090313514 - Dynamically reconfigurable shared scan-in test architecture: A low overhead dynamically reconfigurable shared scan-in test architecture is provided. This test architecture advantageously allows for changing scan inputs during the scan operation on a per shift basis. The flexibility of reconfiguring the scan input to scan chain mapping every shift cycle can advantageously reduce both test data volume... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090313516 - Enhanced hybrid automatic repeat request for long term evolution: A method and an apparatus are provided for receiving a transport block that is segmented into a plurality of code blocks (CBs), each CB having an attached cyclic redundancy check (CRC), decoding each of the plurality of CBs with attached CRC, determining whether each CRC fails, and in response to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090313515 - Minimizing slot wastage using overlapping harq regions in ofdma wimax system: A method and system for minimizing slot wastage by overlapping HARQ regions in a communication system. A control region allocation (CRA) utility defines a group of HARQ regions for transmission of control data. A HARQ region definition includes a starting symbol and a starting sub-channel number for the HARQ region,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090313517 - Retransmission scheme for communication systems: One embodiment relates to a method of transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver. In the method, a payload data stream is provided which comprises a plurality of payload data units. A container stream is formed which comprises a plurality of containers having respective container identifiers, where a container... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090313518 - Method and apparatus for hybrid automatic repeat request: The present invention provides two primary Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) mechanisms for a multi-hop network, i.e. an active Mobile Multi-hop Relaying (MMR) HARQ and a passive Mobile Multi-hop Relaying (MMR) HARQ. According to the solution of the present invention, there are provided a method and a device for HARQ... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090313520 - Method of encoding/decoding using low density check code matrix: A method of encoding data using a parity check matrix, a method of decoding encoded data, and a data retransmission method using the same are disclosed. A data retransmission method in a communication system includes transmitting a codeword encoded by a first parity check matrix corresponding to a first coding... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090313519 - Reducing harq retransmissions using peak power management techniques: Systems, methods and apparatuses for reducing HARQ retransmissions using peak power management techniques are presented. In one example, a receiver may perform multi-level error correction for reducing HARQ retransmissions. The receiver may include a Peak to Average Power Ratio Management Module (PAPR MM) decoder configured to perform a first level... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090313521 - Data bus inversion usable in a memory system: Implementations of Data Bus Inversion (DBI) techniques within a memory system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a set of random access memory (RAM) integrated circuits (ICs) is separated from a logic system by a bus. The logic system can contain many of the logic functions traditionally performed on conventional RAM... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090313523 - Encoders and methods for encoding digital data with low-density parity check matrix: A method for encoding digital data with a low-density parity check (LDPC) matrix includes: indirectly storing a non-regular portion of the LDPC matrix by storing a plurality of indices corresponding to a plurality of non-zero sub-matrices of the non-regular portion, and by storing a plurality of distance/location parameters respectively corresponding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090313524 - Low density parity code encoding device and decoding device and encoding and decoding methods thereof: A low density parity code (LDPC) encoding and decoding devices and encoding and decoding methods thereof are provided. An LDPC encoding device includes an information obtaining unit which obtains status information of at least two frequency bands, a matrix generation unit which generates a parity check matrix based on the... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20090313522 - Method and apparatus for low latency turbo code encoding: A method and apparatus for performing low latency Turbo Code encoding of a frame of data is described. The disclosure includes a method for performing Turbo Code encoding on frame of data using by encoding via subsections using multiple constituent encoders in parallel. The information gains during a first encoding... Agent: Brian S. Edmonston

20090313525 - Method of decoding by message passing with scheduling depending on neighbourhood reliability: m

20090313526 - Apparatus and method for merging data blocks with error correction code protection: An apparatus and method for selectively deriving Error Correction Codes (ECCs) or other data integrity information for integration into merged data blocks. First data is merged into second data that is error-protected using an ECC generated by a coding algorithm. Bytes or other data units are identified in the first... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090313528 - Method and system for cooperative communications with minimal coordination: A method and system are provided in a wireless communications system comprising a plurality of nodes (users) working cooperatively. The system provides cooperative diversity by allowing nodes to actively share their antennas and other resources to obtain spatial diversity. The nodes receive the same message (information data) from a common... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090313527 - Methods and systems for capturing error information in a sata communication system: Methods and systems for capturing error information regarding a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA). An initiator device is enhanced in accordance with features and aspects hereof to detect an error condition in operation of the system and to transmit error information to the SATA target device during a soft reset... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman LLP

20090313529 - Method and apparatus for error management: To derive a Hamming code to manage data errors a set of at least four parity bit positions is selected for parity bits which will protect a set of data bits (where each data bit has a data bit position in the data bit set). A syndrome is determined for... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090313530 - Error correcting viterbi decoder: Methods and corresponding systems in a Viterbi decoder include computing a maximum likelihood (ML) path in a Viterbi trellis in response to executing a first Viterbi algorithm. Thereafter, one or more merge points are selected on the ML path in a second Viterbi algorithm, wherein the merge points each have... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20090313531 - Methods and apparatus for processing a received signal using a multiple-step trellis and selection signals for multiple trellis paths: Methods and apparatus are provided for performing SOVA detection at higher data rates than achievable with conventional designs. A received signal is processed by (i) determining at least three selection signals that define a plurality of paths through a multiple-step trellis into a given state, wherein a first of the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090313532 - Method and system for data replication: A method for writing data to a storage pool includes receiving a write operation to write a logical block of data to the storage pool, determining a number (n−1) of physical blocks required to store the logical block of data, generating a parity block using the logical block of data,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090313533 - Efficient in-band reliability with separate cyclic redundancy code frames: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for efficient in-band reliability with separate cyclic redundancy code (CRC) frames. In some embodiments, a memory system uses data frames to transfer data between a host and a memory device. The system also uses a separate frame (e.g.,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090307522 - Communications path status detection system: A network failover apparatus and method for use in a client-server system. The method includes establishing at least a first and further path between a client and a server. The first path connects the server to the client through a first network and a first interface of the client and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090307524 - Duplication combination management program, duplication combination management apparatus, and duplication combination management method: A simultaneous failure occurrence degree calculation section calculates a simultaneous failure occurrence degree a value of which becomes smaller with an increase in a difference between numeric values indicative of manufacture date information on a computer which performs a process on the basis of a duplication combination management program. A... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090307523 - System performance through invalidation of speculative memory scrub commands: A memory controller and a method for improved computer system performance invalidates (i.e., cancels or does not allow for execution of) speculative or unnecessary scrub write commands as part of the periodic execution of the overall scrub command upon the occurrence of certain events, such as if the error checking... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090307525 - Disk drive and method for controlling the disk drive: A disk drive. The disk drive includes a non-volatile memory that is incapable of being overwritten more than a limited number of times, a disk and a controller. The controller includes a memory management table used to manage a correlation between a logical block address (LBA) and a physical address... Agent: Hitachi C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20090307526 - Multi-cpu failure detection/recovery system and method for the same: A multi-CPU system including plural CPUs, comprising a failure state detection unit for detecting a failure in an operating program, and a recovery unit for determining, when the failure state detection unit has detected a failure, whether or not recovery of data involved in the failure is possible on the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090307527 - Data retrieval and handling systems, virtual warehousing, price comparison, price aggregation and stock availability engine: Systems in accordance with this invention obtain data over a plurality of networks from a plurality of sources which enable accurate analysis of data so obtained and subsequent manipulation and storage of the data. In particular, but not exclusively, systems in accordance with this invention relate to virtual warehousing of... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20090307528 - Simulating operations through out-of-process execution: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for simulating operations through out-of-process execution. When a diagnostic operation is to be performed for a target execution context, a separate execution context is created based on the same executable code used to create the target execution context. An... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090307529 - System for automatically attaching rfid tag label and method thereof: A system for automatically attaching a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag label and a method thereof are provided. The system includes: an RFID printer for writing original tag information of an object to an RFID tag attached to one surface of the RFID tag label, printing a bar code on... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090307530 - Distributed testing system and techniques: A fully distributed system for testing a distributed computing system utilizes test services exposed in conjunction by independent test components deployed on one or more computing nodes of the distributed computing system. The test services ensure dynamic and adaptive coordination amongst the test components. The test services include but are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090307532 - Stealthy debugger: A method of stealthily debugging software comprises dynamically injecting a jump into an executing target program; performing a debugging operation on the target program; and dynamically removing the injected jump from the target program. Dynamically injecting a jump comprises copying memory contents from a selected breakpoint location to a second... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20090307531 - System and method for testing an application installed on a wireless communication device: The invention describes a test bed, a method and a computer program product for testing an application installed on a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device communicates with a server over a network through the test bed. Further, the test bed is connected to the server and receives various... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090307533 - Activity identifier based tracing and troubleshooting: To trace an activity through multiple components or applications that may be involved in the performance of the activity, an activity identifier can be generated and utilized by the various components or applications. Each can generate its own activity identifier to minimize changes to existing interfaces. When logging of events... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090307534 - Storage device and performance measurement method for the same: A storage system including a maintenance terminal, at least one disk drive, and a plurality of volumes that are provided by the at least one disk drive, and each store therein data written by the plurality of host devices. In this storage system, the maintenance terminal sets information for use... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090307535 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus includes a node, and a system controlling apparatus connected to the node. The node includes a first detecting unit that detects first error information, a second detecting unit that detects second error information, a retaining unit that retains the first and the second error information, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090307536 - Method for protecting software programs: In order to protect a software program, at least one corruption function is included in the program. Also included in the program is at least one instruction that causes the program to be directed to the corruption function. An available breakpoint is then set such that, when the starting location... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090307537 - Flash storage device with data correction function: A flash controller performs a data correction function while executing a copy back procedure for a flash memory, and the flash memory includes at least one memory unit and a page buffer. The flash controller contains: a transmission buffer, an error correction unit, a correction information register, and a microprocessor.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090307538 - Managing paging i/o errors during hypervisor page fault processing: In response to a hypervisor page fault for memory that is not resident in a shared memory pool, an I/O paging request is sent to an external storage paging space. In response to a paging service partition encountering an I/O paging error, a paging failure indication is sent to the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090307539 - Monitoring apparatus and method of monitoring by a carrier: A monitoring apparatus of a carrier is disclosed that includes a managing part that assigns a related carrier path ID to network configuration information and manages the related carrier path ID, the related carrier path ID uniquely defining a path span between the carrier and a related carrier; a receiving... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090307541 - Block interleaving scheme with configurable size to achieve time and frequency diversity: An embodiment is a method and apparatus to interleave data. A demultiplexer demultiplexes an input packet having N bits into L sub-packets on L branches. M flipping blocks flip M of the L sub-packets. M is smaller than L. L sub-interleavers interleave the (L-M) sub-packets and the M flipped sub-packets.... Agent: Maxim/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090307540 - System and method for applying multi-tone ofdm based communications within a prescribed frequency range: According to one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit comprises an encoding module, a modulation module and a spectral shaped module. The encoding module includes an interleaver that adapted to operate in a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode. The interleaver performs repetitive encoding... Agent: Maxim/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090307542 - Memory media characterization for development of signal processors: Methods and apparatus utilizing media characterization of memory devices facilitate the development of signal processors for analyzing memory device outputs. Models are developed from capturing output of memory devices of the type utilizing analog signals to communicate data values of two or more bits of information. The models are used... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20090307543 - Transport subsystem for an mbist chain architecture: An apparatus comprising a controller, a plurality of transport circuits and a plurality of memory-controlling circuits. The controller may be configured to (i) present one or more commands and (ii) receive one or more responses. Each of the plurality of transport circuits may be configured to (i) receive one of... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090307544 - Memory test device and memory test method: A memory test device, including a universal register to conduct an operation by a predetermined universal command language; an extension register having a larger capacity than the universal register and to conduct an operation by a predetermined extension command language; and a controller to write a predetermined test pattern in... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090307546 - Providing trusted access to a jtag scan interface in a microprocessor: A method for securing a scan chain architecture by performing an authentication operation through a trusted software layer to authorize use of a protected scan chain.... Agent: Transmeta C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090307545 - Testable multiprocessor system and a method for testing a processor system: A testable processor system (10,20) comprises a plurality of modules (11, 12, . . . In). Each module (11) comprises a processor unit (110) and a debug controller (111). The debug controllers are coupled to a common test access point controller (TAP-controller 20), and have a test data input (Tin),... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090307547 - Integrated circuit board with jtag functions: In an integrated circuit board, a plurality of integrated circuits to be checked are connected together in a star shape. Operation clock data for JTAG of each integrated circuit and check data for checking each integrated circuit are stored. When an integrated circuit to be checked is specified, operation clock... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090307548 - Method and apparatus for performing logic built-in self-testing of an integrated circuit: A method for performing a logical built-in self-test of an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method includes performing a flush and scan test to determine whether the scan chains function correctly. If one of the scan chains does not function correctly, the logical built-in self-test is terminated. If each of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090307549 - Processor test system utilizing functional redundancy: A system and method for testing a processor. The system includes a gold processor and a test processor, wherein the test processor is the device under test (DUT). The test processor and the gold processor are identical. A first memory is coupled to the gold processor by a first memory... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090307550 - Method and apparatus for allocating inputs in microcontrollers, and corresponding microcontroller: A method and an apparatus for allocating configuration inputs of a microcontroller, the apparatus being embodied in such a way that at each configuration input, one signal state of at least two possible signal states is to be set, wherein there is connected to each configuration input one respective energy... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090307551 - Mixed signal circuit for an electronic protected control or regulation system: m

20090307556 - Hybrid automatic repeat request associations for downlink semi-persistent scheduling: A method is provided for associating initial transmissions and retransmissions in semi-persistent scheduling. The method includes providing a first initial transmission associated with a first assigned Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process ID. The method further includes providing a second initial transmission associated with a second assigned HARQ process ID.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20090307554 - Method and apparatus for performing a bundled transmission: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may send a bundled transmission of a packet repeatedly over at least two consecutive transmission time intervals (TTIs). The WTRU may not process a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for the packet after sending the bundled transmission. The bundled transmission may be configured per... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090307553 - Radio communication apparatus and method used in mobile communication system: A radio communication apparatus including a retransmission control function, includes: determination means configured to determine whether a result of error detection performed in a communication partner side for a first packet after transmitting the first packet to the communication partner is positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement; request means configured to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090307552 - Radio communication method and radio communication device: One object of the present invention is to provide a simple layer 2 protocol that makes it possible to adaptively retransmit data by the RLC layer according to the variation of radio channel conditions without increasing the number of PDU headers. A disclosed radio communication method includes the steps of... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090307555 - Signaling reserved hybrid automatic repeat request information for downlink semi-persistent scheduling: A method is provided for reuse of one of a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) Process ID. The method includes receiving signaling used to associate at least one of the plurality of HARQ Process IDs with semi-persistent scheduling. The method further includes determining an activation of a semi-persistent... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20090307560 - Coding apparatus, coding processing target sequence forming method and viterbi decoding apparatus: The coding apparatus, coding processing target sequence forming method and Viterbi decoding apparatus of the present invention can realize low delay processing with a minimum number of repetitive processing and suppress the degradation of the accuracy of decoding at the ends of a decoded sequence due to truncation error. In... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20090307558 - Method and apparatus for correcting errors in a multiple subcarriers communication system using multiple antennas: A method for correcting errors in a multiple antenna system based on a plurality of sub-carriers and a transmitting/receiving apparatus supporting the same are disclosed. The method includes determining a phase shift based precoding matrix phase shifted at a predetermined phase angle, initially transmitting each sub-carrier symbol to a receiver... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090307557 - Packet re-transmission controller for block acknowledgement in a communications system: A re-transmit processor for a wireless communication system includes a pointer memory which contains pointers associated with particular packet data in a host memory. The re-transmit processor directs data associated with said pointers to be applied to a media access controller, which optionally contains an encryption function, the output of... Agent: Jay Chesavage

20090307559 - Transmitter, receiver, transmission method, and reception method: A predetermined logical operation is performed to unsent data which is sent toward the receiver 50 and to retransmission data which is resent toward the receiver, and the transmission data obtained by the logical operation is sent to the receiver.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090307561 - Decoding device, decoding method, and recording and reproducing device: A decoding device includes a decoding unit that decodes an information data string including an error-correction parity for each interleaved data string obtained by interleaving the information data string for each symbol to generate a decoded data string; an error-correcting decoding unit that interleaves the decoded data string to perform... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090307562 - Method of matching codeword size and transmitter therefor in mobile communications system: The present invention relates to a method and a transmitter for matching a size of codeword encoded by low density parity check (LDPC) code to a size of a transmission channel and in a mobile communication system. A method of adjusting a codeword size in a communication system supporting an... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090307563 - Replacing bad hard drive sectors using mram: A method of a method of replacing bad sectors in a Hard Disk Drive comprises detecting bad sectors on the Hard Disk Drive; remapping the bad sectors to an auxiliary data storage device comprising an Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory connected to the Hard Disk Drive; and storing data on the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090307564 - Point-to-point repair request mechanism for point-to-multipoint transmission systems: This invention relates to a method, system, transmitter, network element, receiver and software application for a system capable of point-to-multipoint transmission, where one or more data packets are transmitted from a transmitter to one or more receivers, where at least at one specific receiver of said receivers, a reception of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090307565 - Method and apparatus for fast encoding of data symbols according to half-weight codes: Efficient methods for encoding and decoding Half-Weight codes are disclosed and similar high density codes are disclosed. The efficient methods require at most 3·(k−1)+h/2+1 XORs of symbols to calculate h Half-Weight symbols from k source symbols, where h is of the order of log(k).... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090307566 - Iterative decoding method and apparatus: An iterative decoding method is disclosed and includes sequentially executing a number of iterative decoding cycles in relation to a parity check equation until the parity check equation is resolved, or a maximum number N of iterative decoding cycles is reached, during execution of the number of iterative decoding cycles,... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090307567 - Wireless communication system, receiver and signal processing method for received signal: The error correction capability for wireless communication carried out involving propagation path fluctuation in time and frequency selectivity can be improved. A soft decision likelihood value inputted to an error correction decoder is multiplied by a weight determined according to the distance between the data symbol and pilot symbol corresponding... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090307568 - Data transfering apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a data transmitting apparatus that transmits data of an N-bit width; a data receiving apparatus that receives the data of the N-bit width from the data transmitting apparatus; and a data bus of the N-bit width connecting the data transmitting apparatus and the data receiving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090307569 - Parity error checking and compare using shared logic circuitry in a ternary content addressable memory: Methods and apparatus for performing, using smaller, more efficient shared logic circuitry, the parity checking function and the compare function in a mutually exclusive manner in different cycles of a ternary content addressable memory are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090300403 - Fine grained failure detection in distributed computing: A client sends a request message to a process hosted by a remote server via a middleware service, wherein the request message specifies a procedure for the process to execute. The client waits a predetermined time period to receive a response message from the process. If no response message is... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090300405 - Backup coordinator for distributed transactions: A primary coordinator generates a prepare message for a two-phase commit distributed transaction, the prepare message including an address of a backup coordinator. The primary coordinator maintains a transaction log of the distributed transaction, wherein the transaction log is accessible to both the primary coordinator and the backup coordinator. The... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090300406 - Information processing system and information processing device: An information processing system includes a plurality of server devices including a main server device and at a standby server device, and a client device coupled to said server devices via a network. The client device includes a monitor unit to asynchronously monitor an operation state of each of the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090300404 - Managing execution stability of an application carried out using a plurality of pluggable processing components: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for managing execution stability of an application carried out using a plurality of pluggable processing components. Managing execution stability of an application includes: receiving, by an application manager, component stability metrics for a particular pluggable processing component; determining, by the application manager, that the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090300407 - Systems and methods for load balancing via a plurality of virtual servers upon failover using metrics from a backup virtual server: The present invention provides methods and systems for performing load balancing via a plurality of virtual servers upon a failover using metrics from a backup virtual server. The methods and systems described herein provide systems and methods for an appliance detecting that a first virtual server of a plurality of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090300408 - Memory preserved cache failsafe reboot mechanism: A method, system and computer program product for preserving data in a storage subsystem having dual cache and dual nonvolatile storage (NVS) through a failover from a failed cluster to a surviving cluster, the surviving cluster undergoing a rebooting process, is provided. A memory preserved indicator associated with a cache... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090300409 - Method for data disaster recovery assessment and planning: A method for assessing the risk and cost for data loss and disaster recovery (DR) plans includes providing an application having a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising first and second windows arranged adjacent to each other. The first window comprises a catalog of components used to generate data disaster recovery... Agent: Akc Patents

20090300410 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, control method, and information processing apparatus: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a circuit block connected to an arithmetic processing unit via a bus, a power supply noise data generator which is configured to generate a power supply noise data signal by converting power supply noise generated in power supply voltage of power supply operates the circuit... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090300411 - Implementing redundant memory access using multiple controllers for memory system: A method and apparatus implement redundant memory access using multiple controllers for a memory system, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. A first memory controller uses a first memory and a second memory controller uses the second memory as its respective primary address space,... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20090300412 - Virtual disk drive system and method: A disk drive system and method capable of dynamically allocating data is provided. The disk drive system may include a RAID subsystem having a pool of storage, for example a page pool of storage that maintains a free list of RAIDs, or a matrix of disk storage blocks that maintain... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090300413 - Disabling portions of memory with defects: An apparatus and methods are disclosed herein for identifying and avoiding attempts to access a defective portion of memory. Errors associated with portions of memory, such as a cache memory, are tracked over time enabling detection of both hard and erratic errors. Based on the number of errors tracked over... Agent: Ami Patel Shah/cgb C/o Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090300414 - Method and computer system for making a computer have high availability: A method and a computer system for making a computer achieve high availability. The method includes running a host virtual machine on a host virtual machine container; running a servant virtual machine on the servant virtual machine container; and synchronizing the host virtual machine and the servant virtual machine by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090300415 - Computer system and method for performing integrity detection on the same: The present invention proposes a computer system and a method capable of performing integrity detection, comprising: a running mode unit which comprises an integrity detection boot variable to determine whether or not to initiate an integrity detection boot mode by judging said running mode unit; an EFI integrity detection unit... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090300416 - Remedying method for troubles in virtual server system and system thereof: According to the invention, a managing server, using a snapshot-appended information table which stores management information for identifying snapshots of a virtual server, a setting change table which stores setting change information on the virtual server, and a policy table which stores policies to be met by the virtual server,... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090300418 - Method for error tree analysis: A technical system is broken down into a plurality of subsystems, each of which is allocated a time-dependent distribution function which describes the probability of failure of the respective subsystem. The distribution functions are linked to one another to form a time-dependent system distribution function which describes the probability of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300417 - System and method for advanced condition monitoring of an asset system: A method for advanced condition monitoring of an asset system includes using a plurality of auto-associative neural networks to determine estimates of actual values sensed by at least one sensor in at least one of the plurality of operating regimes; determining a residual between the estimated sensed values and the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090300419 - Realtime test result promulgation from network component test device: The technology disclosed relates to real-time collection and flexible reporting of test data. In particular, it is useful when collecting packet counts during tests of network devices that simulate thousands or even millions of data sessions conducted through a device under test (“DUT”).... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090300420 - Method for testing at least one arithmetic unit installed in a control unit: A method for testing at least two arithmetic units installed in a control unit includes: loading of first test data for testing a first arithmetic unit; saving the loaded first test data in a second memory unit of a second arithmetic unit; switching the first arithmetic unit to a test... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090300421 - Method and apparatus for changing bios parameter via an exchange file: An apparatus for changing BIOS parameters via an exchange file, including a control unit, a microprocessor, a first memory, a second memory, a third memory and a keyboard. The method includes the steps of saving N parameter banks of BIOS in the third memory, forming the exchange file and performing... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090300422 - Analysis method and system using virtual sensors: A method for analyzing operations of a plurality of machines communicating with a server computer. The method may include establishing a plurality of virtual sensors corresponding to a plurality of engine systems of the respective plurality of machines. Each virtual sensor may be indicative of interrelationships between a plurality of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090300423 - Systems and methods for software test management in cloud-based network: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for testing and evaluating software in the network cloud. A developer or other operator may wish to debug, modify, or update a set of test software based on testing of that software. The developer can instantiate a set of virtual servers or other test... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090300424 - Fault detecting method and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus including a storage area separated into a user space and a kernel space executes, generating a core file of a process existing in the user space, retaining the process with the core file which starts being generated in the user space, and notifying a monitor unit... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090300425 - Resilience to memory errors with firmware assistance: Embodiments of the invention provide an interrupt handler configured to distinguish between critical and non-critical unrecoverable memory errors, yielding different actions for each. Doing so may allow a system to recover from certain memory errors without having to terminate a running process. In addition, when an operating system critical task... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090300426 - Testing a virtualised storage system in response to disk exercising commands: Provided are a method, apparatus, and computer program product for testing a virtualised storage system. Data defining one or more configuration features of the virtualised storage system is received. Also received is a set of one or more predetermined rules defining interpretation of the disk exercising commands, the interpretation being... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090300427 - Method of logging stack trace information: A computer system comprises a memory configured to store software instructions; a set of registers; and a processing unit configured to temporarily store passed parameters in the set of registers during execution of the software instructions, the processing unit further configured to skip save and restore operations when executing a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090300428 - Method of collecting information in system network: To quickly establish an inferring result when a problem is detected in an operation management system equipped with a rule-based inference processing function, there is provided a method of collecting information for managing a computer system equipped with a plurality of devices. The computer system holds rule for associating a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090300430 - History-based prioritizing of suspected components: A method for servicing a computerized system includes detecting a failure of a given type in the computerized system, and generating a list of corrective actions in response to the failure, using an automated maintenance program. A record of one or more previous failures of the given type in the... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept.

20090300432 - Information processing apparatus and information notification method therefor, and control program: To enable the host server side to be aware of the recovery of an error when the error is recovered by the user's power off/on operation, the most recent state regarding occurrences of errors at printer 16 (steps S61 and S62) is stored in the backup RAM 12a each time... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090300431 - Method and system for controlling movement of user setting information registered in server: A method and system to utilize an Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) in which a MOVE command is newly defined, and a user setting information movement request is processed in one operation, are disclosed. A method of controlling movement of particular user setting information registered in a... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20090300429 - Systems and methods for diagnosing faults in electronic systems: Apparatus, systems, and methods for identifying a fault in an electronic system are provided. One apparatus includes memory storing a model of the electronic system, a processor, and a fault module. The processor is configured to pass system inputs through the model to generate corresponding simulated outputs, and the fault... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090300433 - Information processing apparatus, medium recording error notification program, and error notification method: There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a CPU board 1 having a processing unit, a control device (CPU 11, CPU board controller 12, and the like) that is mounted on the CPU board 1 and includes hardware replacement management area 16 that stores replacement information indicating that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300434 - Clearing interrupts raised while performing operating system critical tasks: Embodiments of the invention provide an interrupt handler configured to distinguish between critical and non-critical unrecoverable memory errors, yielding different actions for each. Doing so may allow a system to recover from certain memory errors without having to terminate a running process. In addition, when an operating system critical task... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090300435 - Method and device for monitoring a process execution: A method for monitoring a process execution of a plurality of sequentially executed processes starts one of a plurality of timers in cyclic permutation when one of the processes is started, and outputs a first error signal when a period of time recorded by one of the timers exceeds a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090300438 - Connection monitoring method, connection monitoring apparatus, and connection monitoring system: A connection monitoring apparatus determines whether the connection monitoring apparatus is communicatively connected to the customer apparatus at a regular connection time. When the connection monitoring apparatus is not communicatively connected to the customer apparatus at the regular connection time and the present time falls within the support contract time... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300437 - Data repository and analysis system for remotely managed test and monitoring devices: A data repository and analysis system manages test and monitoring end devices through hub/routing functionality implemented on custom or generic platform devices and wired and/or wireless communication with a backbone infrastructure. Hub/routing devices manage test and monitoring end devices locally collecting data, configuring the end devices, etc. Data collected by... Agent: Adorno & Yoss, LLC

20090300436 - Synchronizing device error information among nodes: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for synchronizing device error information among nodes. A first node performs an action with respect to a first node error counter for a device in communication with the first node and a second node. The first node transmits a message to... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090300441 - Address controlling in the mbist chain architecture: A memory collar includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a first control signal, a second control signal and a third control signal in response to one or more test commands. The second circuit may be configured to... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090300440 - Data controlling in the mbist chain architecture: A memory collar including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate one or more data sequences in response to one or more test commands. The one or more data sequences may be presented to a memory during a test mode. The second... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090300442 - Field mounting-type test apparatus and method for testing memory component or module in actual pc environment: Provided are a field mounting-type test apparatus and method, which can enhance competitiveness of a product by simulating various test conditions including a mounting environment so as to improve quality reliability of a memory device and by minimizing overall loss due to change in a mounting environment so as to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090300439 - Method and apparatus for testing write-only registers: There is disclosed a test circuit for testing an integrated circuit containing at least one write-only register and providing at least one output signal through at least one output pin. The test circuit may include a test mode decoder circuit to enable a test mode and a data selector circuit... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090300443 - Test apparatus, test method, and integrated circuit: A test apparatus includes an up counter, a down counter, a selector that selects either an up counter output from the up counter or a down counter output from the down counter, an inversion circuit that inverts either the counter output selected by the selector or the counter output nonselected... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300444 - Method and apparatus for testing high capacity/high bandwidth memory devices: A plurality of stacked memory device die and a logic circuit are connected to each other through a plurality of conductors. The stacked memory device die are arranged in a plurality of vaults. The logic circuit die serves as a memory interface device to a memory access device, such as... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090300445 - Method and system for alternating between programs for execution by cells of an integrated circuit: A method and device for data processing in an integrated circuit having cells, the cells adapted for executing programs. A first program is run. In response to a waiting condition during which no program execution is able to take place, saving data from the cells to a memory. A second... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090300446 - Selective per-cycle masking of scan chains for system level test: Built-in self-test techniques for integrated circuits that address the issue of unknown states. Some implementations use a specialized scan chain selector coupled to a time compactor. The presence of the specialized scan chain selector increases the efficiency in masking X states. Also disclosed are: (1) an architecture of a selector... Agent: Mentor Graphics Corp. Patent Group

20090300447 - Scan testing using scan frames with embedded commands: Testing of integrated circuits is achieved by a test architecture utilizing a scan frame input shift register, a scan frame output shift register, a test controller, and a test interface comprising a scan input, a scan clock, a test enable, and a scan output. Scan frames input to the scan... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090300448 - Scan flip-flop device: A scan flip-flop device has a scan flip-flop, a Nch insulated gate field effect transistor and a Pch insulated gate field effect transistor. The Nch insulated gate field effect transistor is located on an output side the scan flip-flop. The Nch insulated gate field effect transistor turns off and dose... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090300455 - Data transmitting device, control method therefor, and program: A data transmitting device determines a coding rate used to perform error correction coding processing for data transmitted to a data receiving device based on information relating to the function of concealing an error occurring in data transmitted from the data transmitting device, the function being provided in the data... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090300452 - Error identifying method, data processing device, and semiconductor device: A data processing device which performs a data transmission between semiconductor devices using a plurality of signal lines. In the data processing device, when there occurs an error in a data transmission from a transmitting device to a receiving device using a plurality of signal lines, data in which the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300451 - Frame transferring apparatus and frame transferring system: A frame transferring apparatus includes a check-frame storage unit that has temporarily stored therein a reception check frame; a check-frame transmitting unit that transmits a transmission check frame to another frame transferring apparatus; a check-frame discarding unit that, when a storage space for storing the reception check frame is left... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300449 - Method and system for message retransmission and intersystem message delivery: The present invention discloses a method and a system for resending messages with a minimized number of retries and maximized timeliness of delivering the message to the receiving party. The method sets a retry period for a message that needs to be resent, determines a retry time according to the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090300450 - Packet retransmission and memory sharing: Through the identification of different packet-types, packets can be handled based on an assigned packet handling identifier. This identifier can, for example, enable forwarding of latency-sensitive packets without delay and allow error-sensitive packets to be stored for possible retransmission. In another embodiment, and optionally in conjunction with retransmission protocols including... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090300454 - Transmission apparatus, access point and symbol transmission method: In a transmission apparatus in a MIMO-OFDM communication system employing a cyclic diversity, a cyclic delay controller sets plural delay magnitudes different for respective antennas, in cyclic delayers for each predetermined timing. The cyclic delayers receive symbols subjected to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, for the respective ones of plural allotted... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090300453 - Transmitting apparatus and wireless communication method: A transmitting apparatus and a wireless communication method are provided. The transmitting apparatus is capable of transmitting, together with transmission data, retransmission data in response to an HARQ from a receiving apparatus, according to an MCS determined based on a request from the receiving apparatus and includes a storage portion... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090300456 - Harq process utilization in multiple carrier wireless communications: Methods and apparatus utilize hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions and retransmissions that are usable on multiple carriers, i.e. joint HARQ processes. For example, a downlink (DL) shared channel transmission of a joint HARQ process is received on one of the carriers. A first part of an identity of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090300457 - Method and apparatus for improving harq uplink transmission: The present invention provides a method for improving Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) uplink transmission in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The method includes the HARQ entity of the UE instructing an HARQ process to perform transmission or retransmission of a transport block according to an... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090300458 - Reverse link automatic repeat request: An Access Network (AN) can send an acknowledge message (ACK) to an Access Terminal (AT) to indicate that the AN has successfully decoded the data received in the first set of slots of the first data packet. The AN can send a negative acknowledge message (NAK) to the AT to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090300459 - Data transmission apparatus and data reception apparatus: A transmission apparatus receives information used to identify data unsuccessfully received by a reception apparatus. Then, the transmission apparatus determines whether the data corresponding to the received identification information should be retransmitted based on whether the reception apparatus has a function of displaying the display area of the data corresponding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090300461 - Device, method and computer program product for communication: A transmitter may include an encoder configured to encode a data bit vector to provide an codeword that includes a first codeword portion and a second codeword portion; wherein the first codeword portion is decodable by a first parity check process to yield the data bit vector; wherein the codeword... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090300460 - Optical transmitter and receiver and optical transmission and reception system: An optical transmitter and receiver has stored in advance therein FEC techniques and applicable conditions for applying the FEC techniques to a counterpart optical transmitter and receiver. The optical transmitter and receiver measures a state of receiving data transmitted from the counterpart optical transmitter and receiver, determines an applicable condition... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090300462 - Coding apparatus, coding method and coding program:

20090300463 - System and method for determining parity bit soft information at a turbo decoder output: A decoding circuit, is provided, comprising: a turbo decoder configured to receive a input systematic bit soft information values and input parity bit information values, and to generate output systematic bit soft information values and hard decoded bits according to a turbo decoding operation; and a parity bit soft information... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090300464 - Radio communication system: A base station creates a dummy pattern added with an error correction code, during occurring of a control channel not allocated for transmission of control information, transmits the dummy pattern instead of control information at a power level lower than a normal power level. A mobile station decodes control information... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20090300465 - Statistical tracking for flash memory: A system includes a read module, a statistical data generating module, and a storing module. The read module reads charge levels of nonvolatile memory cells and generates read signals. The statistical data generating module generates statistical data based on the read signals. The storing module stores the statistical data. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20090300466 - Error correction method and error correction circuit: In an error correction method, an error correction of data can be completed readily in a short period of time. In this method, actual data are written together with additional data to a magnetic disk having sectors. The actual data have a first length. The additional data are produced from... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090300467 - Using a phase change memory as a high volume memory: A phase change memory may be utilized in place of more conventional, higher volume memories such as static random access memory, flash memory, or dynamic random access memory. To account for the fact that the phase change memory is not yet a high volume technology, an error correcting code may... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090300468 - Forward error correction: A receiver is arranged to start receiving a data frame 80 including application data followed by parity data. An erasure information table is generated, and includes one element for each element of a data frame 80. If there are no errors in the application data, the receiver is powered-down to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090300469 - System and method for inter-packet channel coding and decoding: A system and method for inter-packet channel encoding/decoding for recovering lost packets, while minimizing network latency and delay. The novel inter-packet channel encoding/decoding scheme described herein operates on a running-basis. This running-basis scheme advantageously allows for a large number of packet losses to be corrected at a receiving node.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090300470 - Memory architecture for high throughput rs decoding for mediaflo receivers: A system and method for increasing the throughput of a RS decoder in MediaFLO™ receivers. A MAC de-interleaver RAM architecture allowing operation of parallel RS decoders comprises of four equal portioned memory banks, a codeword buffer for data correction, and a higher bit width RAM. The method of increasing throughput... Agent: Rahman LLC