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Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery June invention type 06/10

20100162027 - Health capability determination system and method: A system and method are provided for the determining of the potential effect(s) that a degraded system, subsystem, or component may have on the overall capabilities of a vehicle or other system, and any mitigating actions that may need to be taken. Mission-related capabilities of the system are decomposed into... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100162029 - Systems and methods for process improvement in production environments: A computer-implemented method is provided for identifying a root cause associated with a problem in a production environment. The method includes receiving information indicative of a point-of-origin of the problem. The method further includes providing a cause-and-effect chart having a plurality of user-definable general cause categories, each of the general... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20100162028 - Virtual processor methods and apparatus with unified event notification and consumer-produced memory operations: The invention provides, in one aspect, a virtual processor that includes one or more virtual processing units. These virtual processing units execute on one or more processors, and each virtual processing unit executes one or more processes or threads (collectively, “threads”). While the threads may be constrained to executing throughout... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20100162030 - Method and apparatus for initiating corrective action for an electronic terminal: A method and device are provided for initiating corrective actions for a terminal, such as an ATM. A method of initiating corrective actions for a terminal comprises, monitoring a fault status of a first component, detecting a fault status of the first component with a first trigger plug-in, activating a... Agent: Paul W. Martin

20100162033 - Ethernet apparatus capable of lane fault recovery and methods for transmitting and receiving data: An Ethernet apparatus for performing lane fault recovery is provided. An Ethernet apparatus capable of lane fault recovery includes a data transmitter using a backup lane in the transport link to transmit data intended to be transmitted via the faulty lane when at least one faulty lane is detected from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100162035 - Multipurpose storage system based upon a distributed hashing mechanism with transactional support and failover capability: A multipurpose storage system based upon a distributed hashing mechanism with transactional support and failover capability is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a client system in communication with a network, a secondary storage system in communication with the network, and a supervisor system in communication with the... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20100162036 - Self-monitoring cluster of network security devices: A computing device may be joined to a cluster by discovering the device, determining whether the device is eligible to join the cluster, configuring the device, and assigning the device a cluster role. A device may be assigned to act as a cluster master, backup master, active device, standby device,... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20100162031 - Storage availability using cryptographic splitting: A secure storage appliance is disclosed, along with methods of storing and reading data in a secure storage network. In one aspect, a method includes assigning a volume to a primary secure storage appliance located in a secure data storage network, the secure data storage network including a plurality of... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20100162032 - Storage availability using cryptographic splitting: Methods and systems for maintaining data connectivity in a secure data storage network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes assigning a volume to a primary secure storage appliance located in a secure data storage network the primary secure storage appliance selected from among a plurality of secure storage... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20100162034 - System and method for providing ip pbx service: A telecommunications system has been developed that includes an on premise IP PBX and an offsite hosted IP PBX. The system includes software that allows migration of data between the PBXs as needed by system requirements.... Agent: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

20100162037 - Memory system having spare memory devices attached to a local interface bus: A memory system includes a memory controller, one or more memory channel(s), and a memory subsystem having a memory interface device (e.g. a hub or buffer device) located on a memory subsystem (e.g. a DIMM) coupled to the memory channel to communicate with the memory device(s) array. This buffered DIMM... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20100162038 - Nonvolatile/volatile memory write system and method: Methods and systems provide memory handling for memory systems with mixed volatile and nonvolatile memory types. In various embodiments, the method or system maintains a page table that marks memory pages in nonvolatile memory as write-protected. When a write is attempted to a write-protected page in nonvolatile memory, a fault... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20100162039 - High availability and disaster recovery using virtualization: There is disclosed apparatus and processes which address problems in the area of providing high availability and disaster recovery for computing systems and the data in them. These apparatus and processes can be used to provide high availability and disaster recovery for a computing system to be protected. The protected... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20100162040 - Memory system and computer system: A memory system according to the present invention includes, in addition to an computing device, a plurality of first blocks that are provided to store information including user information, and first physical addresses not overlapping one another are assigned to, respectively, and a plurality of second blocks that are provided... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100162041 - Fetch operation scheduling: Fetch operations are assigned to different threads in a multithreaded environment. There are provided a number of different sorting algorithms, from which one is periodically selected on the basis of whether the present algorithm is giving satisfactory results or not. The period is preferably a sub-context interval. The different sorting... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20100162042 - Multiprocessor system and control method thereof: A multiprocessor system is disclosed. The multiprocessor system includes plural processor cores to which control to be performed is allocated. The multiprocessor system includes a monitoring processor which detects an abnormal operation that has occurred in a specific processor core to which control having a higher priority order than control... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100162043 - Method, apparatus, and system for restarting an emulated mainframe iop: A method, apparatus and system for restarting an emulated mainframe IOP, such as a failed or hung emulated mainframe IOP within an emulated mainframe commodity computer. The method includes a rescue process that polls a home location for Restart Request information. In response to receiving Restart Request information, the rescue... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20100162044 - Method for erasure coding data across a plurality of data stores in a network: An efficient method to apply an erasure encoding and decoding scheme across dispersed data stores that receive constant updates. A data store is a persistent memory for storing a data block. Such data stores include, without limitation, a group of disks, a group of disk arrays, or the like. An... Agent: Winstead PC

20100162045 - Method, apparatus and system for restarting an emulated mainframe iop: A method, apparatus and system for restarting an emulated mainframe IOP, such as a failed or hung emulated mainframe IOP within an emulated mainframe commodity computer. The method includes a rescue process that polls a home location for Restart Request information. In response to receiving Restart Request information, the rescue... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20100162046 - On-chip service processor: An integrated circuit is described that includes a stored program processor for test and debug of user-definable logic plus external interface between the test/debug circuits and the component pins. The external interface may be via an existing test interface or a separate serial or parallel port. Test and debug circuits... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20100162048 - Apparatus and method for automatic self-diagnosis using universal serial bus port in digital equipment: An apparatus and a method for automatically performing self-diagnosis are provided. In the method, when an external storage unit is connected, files stored in the external storage unit are searched for. When a diagnosis file for self diagnosis is stored in the external storage unit, information of at least one... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100162047 - System, method and computer program product for testing a boot image: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for testing a boot image is disclosed. The method comprises creating a test boot image for a first logical partition, creating a second logical partition wherein the second logical partition is a duplicate of the first logical partition, initiating a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus) C/o Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.

20100162049 - Low privilege debugging pipeline: A low privilege debug pipeline publisher advertises a debugging pipeline. Instead of having a client to which a debugger on the server has been attached interrogate the server for debugging information, the client requests information from the server. Control is returned to the server which can refuse to provide the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100162050 - Fault replay system and method: A fault replay system uploads part or all of a log file from a subject system and replays the events detailed within the log file upon physical copies of devices present in the subject system. The replay of the log file events aid the determination of at which event a... Agent: Michael Chan Intellectual Property Section

20100162051 - Integration agent device for node including multi-layered equipment and fault management method thereof: An integration agent device and its fault management method for a node including multi-layered devices are disclosed to effectively control a node including two or more communication devices of different layers and integrally processing relevant fault information. The integration agent device includes: one or more control and management modules controlling... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100162052 - Virtual machine control program, virtual machine control system, and dump capturing method: A virtual machine control system includes a dump target setting module that sets a flag that represents that a memory area is a dump target to each memory area that has been used by a guest OS, a dumping module that dumps to a file the memory area to which... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100162053 - Error detection method and a system including one or more memory devices: A system including one or more memory devices, and an error detection and correction method are disclosed. A memory device of the system includes an input for receiving a packet. A first portion of the packet may include at least one command byte, and a second portion of the packet... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20100162054 - Detection of and recovery from an electrical fast transient/burst (eft/b) on a universal serial bus (usb) device: An Electrical Fast Transient/Burst (EFT/B) detection and recovery system for a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device. The system includes a USB core and a burst controller. The USB core provides serial communications with a host device through a USB data channel. The burst controller is coupled to the USB core.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20100162055 - Memory system, transfer controller, and memory control method: A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile buffer memory connected to the nonvolatile memory, an error counting unit that detects, for each of divided areas formed by dividing a storage area of the volatile buffer memory into a plurality of areas, a parity error in inputting data to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100162056 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes a CPU, a memory, a memory BIST circuit, a first selector that selects and outputs an address and control signal from the memory BIST circuit, when performing a test using the memory BIST circuit, and selects and outputs an address and control signal of the CPU... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100162057 - Method for detecting disturb phenomena between neighboring blocks in non-volatile memory: A method for detecting disturb phenomena between neighboring blocks in non-volatile memory includes, sequentially erasing and writing test data (pattern) to each block of a plurality of blocks under test in the non-volatile memory at a first time point, dividing the plurality of blocks under test into a first block... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100162059 - core circuit test architecture: A scan test architecture facilitates low power testing of semiconductor circuits by selectively dividing the serial scan paths into shorter sections. Multiplexers between the sections control connecting the sections into longer or shorted paths. Select and enable signals control the operation of the scan path sections. The output of each... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100162058 - Sequential element low power scan implementation: Disclosed herein is a sequential element having a master stage and a slave stage and a method of testing an IC having a scan chain and an IC. In one embodiment, the sequential element includes: (1) an input scan multiplexor configured to place the sequential element in a functional mode... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20100162060 - Dft technique to apply a variable scan clock including a scan clock modifier on an ic: A scan clock modifier, a method of providing a variable scan clock, an IC including a scan clock modifier and a library including a cell of a scan clock modifier. In one embodiment, the scan clock modifier includes: (1) logic circuitry configured to provide at least one selected clock signal... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20100162062 - Direct scan access jtag: The present disclosure describes novel methods and apparatuses for directly accessing JTAG Tap domains that exist in a scan path of many serially connected JTAG Tap domains. Direct scan access to a selected Tap domain by a JTAG controller is achieved using auxiliary digital or analog terminals associated with the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100162061 - Tap and linking module for scan access of multiple cores with ieee 1149.1 test access ports: An architecture for testing a plurality of circuits on an integrated circuit is described. The architecture includes a TAP Linking Module located between test pins on the integrated circuit and 1149.1 Test Access Ports (TAP) of the plurality of circuits to be tested. The TAP Linking Module operates in response... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100162063 - Control of clock gating: Clock signal control circuitry is disclosed along with a method for switching a clock between modes and a computer program product. The clock signal control circuitry is for receiving a clock signal from a clock signal generator and for outputting said clock signal to synchronous circuitry that is to be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20100162064 - Method and apparatus for covering a multilayer process space during at-speed testing: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus covering a multilayer process space during at-speed testing. One embodiment of a method for selecting a set of paths with which to test a process space includes determining a number N of paths to be included in the set of... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP IBM Corporation

20100162066 - Acceleration of header and data error checking via simultaneous execution of multi-level protocol algorithms: An error detection system and methodology where the undesirable consequence of encapsulation (additional latency or delay) for virtualization applications such as i-PCI or iSCSI is minimized for the vast majority of data transactions. Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRCs) and checksums are executed simultaneously in parallel, immediately on reception of a data... Agent: Law Office Of Robert C. Klinger

20100162067 - Memory scrubbing in third dimension memory: A method for memory scrubbing is provided. In this method, a first resistance of a reference memory element is read. A second resistance of a memory element also is read. A difference between the first resistance and the second resistance is sensed and a programming error associated with the second... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20100162065 - Protecting integrity of data in multi-layered memory with data redundancy: Systems, integrated circuits, and methods for protecting data stored in third dimensional vertically stacked memory technology are disclosed. An integrated circuit is configured to perform duplication of data disposed in multi-layered memory that can comprise two-terminal cross-point memory arrays fabricated BEOL on top of a FEOL logic layer that includes... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20100162068 - Memory device: A memory device including: a memory cell array; an error-detecting and correcting circuit; and a buffer register disposed for temporally storing write and read data. Write data loaded in the buffer register are encoded in the error-detecting and correcting circuit to be over-written in the buffer register together with check... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100162069 - Dynamic interference avoidance with asynchronous harq: In a wireless communications network, a wireless device may examine the received signal to determine the strength of the received signal, and also determine the level of interference and noise. If a retransmission is needed due to a message being incorrectly received, these factors may then be processed to estimate... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100162070 - Method and apparatus for optimizing a retry limit for multimedia systems that are prone to errors: Devices, systems and methods for optimizing a number of retransmission attempts in a multimedia environment and managing delays in a host MAC layer. In its various aspects, the presently claimed invention includes several methodologies and systems that are configured for determining an optimal retry limit in response to one or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100162074 - Apparatus and method for coding qc-ldpc code: A high-speed quasi-cyclic low density parity check (QC-LDPC) coding apparatus for coding inputted information into a generator matrix having a dual diagonal matrix format includes: a parity bit generation unit configured to generate an arbitrary parity bit; a temporary parity bit generation unit configured to constitute the inputted information with... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100162073 - Bit mapping/demapping method and apparatus for communication system: An improved bit mapping method and apparatus for a communication system is provided. A bit mapping method of the present invention includes arranging coded bits in a codeword in an order of recovery capability; setting a shift region including a number of coded bits; rearranging the coded bits in the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100162071 - Circuits for implementing parity computation in a parallel architecture ldpc decoder: A parity unit circuit for use in a parallel, pipelined, low density parity check (LDPC) decoder that implements an iterative, min-sum, message passing LDPC algorithm. The parity unit provides a memory logic block for storing information relating to a current and next iteration of the LDPC computations and includes a... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman LLP

20100162075 - Low complexity ldcp decoding: A technique for low-density parity-check (LDPC) coding involves utilizing a fixed point implementation in order to reduce or eliminate reliance on floating point operations. The fixed point implementation can be used to calculate check node extrinsic L-value as part of an LDPC decoder in an LDPC system. The technique can... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100162076 - Method for lock-free clustered erasure coding and recovery of data across a plurality of data stores in a network: The present invention provides a distributed clustering method to allow multiple active instances of consistency management processes that apply the same encoding scheme to be cooperative and function collectively. The techniques described herein facilitate an efficient method to apply an erasure encoding and decoding scheme across dispersed data stores that... Agent: Winstead PC

20100162072 - Processing of biometric data by transformation: Biometric data relating to a biological part are processed by obtaining, on the one hand, a first set of transformed biometric data (f(B1)) by applying at least one irreversible transformation to a first set of biometric data (B1), and, on the other hand, a second set of transformed biometric data... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20100162077 - Method and apparatus for map decoding and turbo decoder using the same: A Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) decoder and a MAP decoding method are provided. The MAP decoder includes a first metric operation unit, a first bit-width control unit, a second metric operation unit, a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) operation unit, and a second bit-width control unit. The first metric operation unit... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100162078 - Telecommunication system and related methods: A telecommunication system and related methods. Implementations may include implementations of a method of encoding data for transmission, including forming a frame by encoding a message block using a short-block low density parity check (LDPC) code and an encoder to form a short encoded block, modulating the short encoded block... Agent: Booth Udall, PLC

20100162079 - Method and apparatus for processing data: A method of processing data, the method including decoding extracted data, correcting errors of the decoded data and generating data bits and data bit flags indicating error-corrected data bits from among the data bits, re-decoding the extracted data according to the data bits and the data bit flags, and correcting... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100162082 - Control device, storage apparatus and controlling method: A control device operable under a power supplied from a main power source, the control apparatus includes a memory for storing data with an error detection code, the data being used for execution of processing, a judging section for judging whether an error in the data stored in the memory... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100162081 - Nonvolatile memory device and method of operating the same: A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device comprises performing a read operation to read data stored in a first memory cell block including first unit groups; detecting a second unit group from among the first unit groups, the second unit group having a number of error bits included in... Agent: Ip & T Law Firm PLC

20100162080 - Storage apparatus having nonvolatile storage module: According to one embodiment, a storage apparatus includes a first nonvolatile storage module, a second nonvolatile storage module, and an error checking and correction module. The first nonvolatile storage module undergoes a destructive read when data is read from it. The second nonvolatile storage module stores the address data representing... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100162083 - Flash memory controller, error correction code controller therein, and the methods and systems thereof: An ECC controller comprises an ECC encoder, an ECC divider, an ECC constructor and an ECC decoder. The ECC encoder is configured to generate ECC data with different lengths in response to information data to be stored into a flash memory. The ECC divider is configured to divide each ECC... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100162084 - Data error recovery in non-volatile memory: When an error correction code (ECC) unit finds uncorrectable errors in a solid state non-volatile memory device, a process may be used in an attempt to locate and correct the errors. This process may first identify ‘low confidence’ memory cells that are likely to contain errors, and then determine what... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100162085 - Solid-state storage device including a high resolution analog-to-digital converter: A storage device includes a solid-state storage medium having a plurality of cells adapted to store data and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to at least one cell of the plurality of cells. The ADC includes a first operating mode having a first number of quantization levels to determine a... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100162086 - Soft decision device and soft decision method: A soft decision device and method for obtaining a soft decision value as a value expressing a probability as near the actual probability as possible by simple processing. The soft decision device and method are used to output a soft decision value for each bit of each symbol used for... Agent: Eric Robinson

20100162087 - Method of detecting and correcting a prescribed set of error events based on error detecting code: A method of constructing an effective generator polynomial for error correction by which a unique set of syndromes for each error event is produced is provided. The method includes preparing a set of dominant error events from the intersymbol interference characteristics of media; and generating a codeword from the data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100162088 - Xor circuit, raid device capable of recovering a plurality of failures and method thereof: An XOR circuit, a RAID device which can recover several failures and method thereof are provided. A Galois field data recovery circuit having two or more sets of Galois Field engine circuits which are used in the XOR circuit, is one which can generate high efficient parity engine and high... Agent: Paul And Paul

20100162090 - Method of detecting data transmission errors in a can controller, and a can controller for carrying out the method: A method of detecting data transmission errors in a CAN controller includes generating at least one check bit that is verifiable for ensuring the consistency of the transmitted data. A CAN controller that ensures continuous error monitoring during data transmission includes an interface unit for exchanging data with a CAN... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100162089 - Packet processing apparatus and method capable of generating modified packets by modifying payloads of specific packets identified from received packets: A packet processing apparatus includes a packet identifying unit and a packet modifying unit. The packet identifying unit is utilized for receiving a plurality of packets and checking identification information derived from the received packets to identify first packets from the received packets. The packet modifying unit is coupled to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100153769 - Method and apparatus for enhanced design of multi-tier systems: A system and method for performing enhanced modeling of multi-tiered architectures is presented. The system and method enable selection of a preferred design for a multi-tiered architecture of components based on a set of established criteria, and may employ certain vectors and functions in component attributes, and such attributes may... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100153768 - Method and system for providing immunity to computers: A method and system for providing immunity to a computer system wherein the system includes an immunity module, a recovery module, a maintenance module, an assessment module, and a decision module, wherein the immunity module, the recovery module, the maintenance module and the assessment module are each linked to the... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20100153767 - Small computer system interface input output (scsi io) referral: The present invention is a method for communication between an initiator system and a block storage cluster. The method includes receiving a command at a first storage system of a block storage cluster. The command is transmitted by the initiator system to the first storage system via a network and... Agent: Lsi Corporation C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20100153771 - Peer-to-peer exchange of data resources in a control system: System(s) and method(s) are provided for peer-to-peer exchange of data in a control system. Decentralized storage and multi-access paths provide complete sets of data without dependence on a specific or pre-defined data source or access paths. Data is characterized as data resources with disparate granularity. The control system includes a... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20100153770 - Real-time image monitoring and recording system and method: A real-time image monitoring and recording system includes a plurality of IP cameras and a plurality of surveillance servers. The IP cameras and the surveillance servers can process anycast packets. The surveillance servers control the IP cameras and store data generated by the IP cameras. Peer-to-peer connection exists between the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100153772 - Count data recording device, and method and program for recording count data: The count data recording device includes: a storage unit that includes N memory areas storing the count data pieces; a data writing unit that writes a count data piece to the storage unit; a data reading unit that reads the count data piece from the storage unit; and a data... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100153773 - Method and system for repairing damaged disk file systems: The present principles include methods and apparatus for repairing corrupted files systems of storage devices. In accordance with aspects of the present principles, a listing of sectors to which data is most recently written is retrieved upon interruption of writing operations on a storage medium. The listing is employed to... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100153774 - Data storage system, method and data storage and backkup system: A data storage system, method and a data storage and backup system are provided. The data storage method comprises defining a local storage of the data processing system as a journal vault; storing data in the journal vault by journaling; sending the data from the journal vault to a transmitter;... Agent: J C Patents

20100153775 - Replacement data storage circuit storing address of defective memory cell: A replacement data storage circuit stores an address of a defective memory cell. The replacement data storage circuit includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of replacement data memory cells. The replacement data memory cells are connected to the word lines and the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20100153777 - Program updating system having correction storage units and method thereof: A program updating system having correction storage units and methods thereof are described. The control unit checks the first setting section of the first storage unit to determine whether the first setting data associated with the second storage unit is stored in the first setting section. When the first setting... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20100153776 - Using safepoints to provide precise exception semantics for a virtual machine: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that provides precise exception semantics for a virtual machine. During operation, the system receives a program comprised of instructions that are specified in a machine instruction set architecture of the virtual machine, and translates these instructions into native instructions for the... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100153778 - Transient transaction execution with on-demand persistency: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products for handing transactions. The method may include, for example, processing, at a state correlation engine, a plurality of transactions; saving the effects of at least one of the transactions to a persistence, when the at least one... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20100153779 - Configurable recovery of aborted session data: A method and system for recovering data from an aborted session via a rule application. A first session having a first document ID is initiated. After an interruption of the first session, a second session having a second document ID is initiated. The first and second document IDs are determined... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100153783 - Method and apparatus for system analysis: A system analyzing method for analyzing a transaction system includes firstly extracting a transaction, which is processed by a plurality of servers cooperating with each other in the transaction system, from a message log in which parameters of messages have been subjected to name merge, by using a transaction model... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100153781 - Server-to-server integrity checking: A method performed by a primary server includes receiving integrity criteria and sending a health check request to a secondary server based on the received integrity criteria. The method also includes receiving integrity information from the secondary server and checking the integrity information against the integrity criteria. The method further... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100153782 - System and method for effort estimation: Methods and systems are provided to estimate the time to implement a regression test. A productivity table may be defined and stored in a host computer system, where the productivity table indicates the time expected to perform a plurality of automation script types at a plurality of complexity levels. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/oracle

20100153780 - Techniques for generating a reusable test script for a multiple user performance test: Techniques for generating a reusable script for a multiple user performance test of a network application. A description of a multiple user performance test is generated based upon a group of data describing a functional test and a group of data describing commands of a performance test tool. In one... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100153785 - Methods, media, and systems for detecting an anomalous sequence of function calls: Methods, media, and systems for detecting an anomalous sequence of function calls are provided. The methods can include compressing a sequence of function calls made by the execution of a program using a compression model; and determining the presence of an anomalous sequence of function calls in the sequence of... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20100153786 - Processor, multiprocessor, and debugging method: A processor, a multiprocessor, and a debugging method for solving the conventional problems, one of which is very difficult to switch among debug programs and start the selected program within a certain time. The above convention problem can be solved by a processor that includes a debug unit block, a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100153784 - Semiconductor integrated circuits and method of detecting faults of processors: A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a processor having an output signal of instruction log information and being operable in a program in memory is disclosed. The semiconductor integrated circuit comprises trace determination circuit for comparing an instruction code that corresponds to the instruction log information from a processor with an... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100153787 - Methods and apparatus to detect an error condition in a communication network: Methods and apparatus to detect an error condition in a communication network are disclosed herein. An example method of detecting an error condition in a communication network includes collecting first metric data from a first endpoint device, the first metric data being related to a first connection between the first... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100153788 - Semiconductor device: The present invention aims at providing an integrated circuit device which can perform on-chip tracing by using a system installed with the same chip as that of a mass produced product, and comprises: at least one or more kinds of first chips equipped with a circuit for performing data processing;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100153789 - Information processing apparatus and diagnosis result notifying method: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a display unit; an information generating module configured to generate, based on a first error code that represents an internal state of the information processing apparatus, a second error code that is more acknowledgeable... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100153790 - Performance trouble isolation support apparatus: Operation information about a component of an information system is acquired by a CMDB (configuration management database). An investigation information DB stores assumption narrowing information including a plurality of inquiry items to be issued to a user to narrow a cause of a fault of an information system to a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100153791 - Managing by one process state of another process to facilitate handling of error conditions: One process of a processing environment maintains state on behalf of another process of the processing environment, and uses that state to determine if a problem exists with the another process. The one process is a non-volatile process, while the another process is a volatile process.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20100153792 - Circuit and method for correcting skew in a plurality of communication channels for communicating with a memory device, memory controller, system and method using the same, and memory test system and method using the same: In a circuit and method for correcting skew among a plurality of communication channels used in communicating with a memory circuit, and in a memory controller and memory controlling method, and in a memory system and method, the circuit for correcting skew includes a transmitting circuit for transmitting a reference... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20100153793 - Apparatus, methods, and system of nand defect management: Various embodiments comprise apparatus, methods, and systems including method comprising searching for a group address among a plurality of group addresses in a mapping table, and if a match is found, performing a memory operation on a first plurality of memory blocks indicated by the mapping table, and if a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/micron

20100153794 - System and method for on-board timing margin testing of memory modules: A memory module includes several memory devices coupled to a memory hub. The memory hub includes several link interfaces coupled to respective processors, several memory controller coupled to respective memory devices, a cross-bar switch coupling any of the link interfaces to any of the memory controllers, a write buffer and... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100153795 - Method for generating test patterns for small delay defects: A method for generating a test pattern set for detecting small delay defects of an IC is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) generating a traditional delay fault pattern, (2) fault grading the traditional delay fault pattern for small delay defect coverage, (3) reporting faults detected by the... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20100153796 - Scan chain circuit and method: A scan chain circuit is disclosed. The scan chain circuit includes a chain of serially coupled clocked circuits. In a first mode of operation, each of the clocked circuits toggles in response to a rising edge of a clock signal. In a second mode of operation, a first set of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100153797 - Apparatus and method of authenticating joint test action group (jtag): In an apparatus including a joint test action group (JTAG) authentication device, and a JTAG authentication method using the apparatus, the apparatus includes a joint test action group (JTAG) authentication device, the apparatus comprising a JTAG access circuit that determines whether to access a JTAG-compliant device according to a predetermined... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20100153798 - Serial i/o using jtag tck and tms signals: The present disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus of using the JTAG TAP's TMS and TCK terminals as a general purpose serial Input/Output (I/O) bus. According to the present disclosure, the TAP's TMS terminal is used as a clock signal and the TCK terminal is used as a bidirectional... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100153799 - Method and apparatus for loopback self testing: A system and method for loopback self testing. A system includes a host device and an endpoint device. The host device transmits unencoded test symbols. The endpoint device loops back the unencoded test symbols to the host device. The host device drives at least some bits of each unencoded test... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100153800 - Logic tester and method for simultaneously measuring delay periods of multiple tested devices: The invention provides a logic tester. In one embodiment, the logic tester is coupled to a plurality of tested devices, and includes a function generator and a pattern comparator. The function generator generates an initial code sequence as an input signal of the tested devices to fix output signals of... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100153801 - Method for at speed testing of devices: A semiconductor device that includes a module under test that is integrated with the semiconductor device, that receives an input signal from a test module, and that provides an output signal to at least one output terminal based on the input signal. An error detecting module is integrated with the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20100153805 - Error detection in physical interfaces for point-to-point communications between integrated circuits: An apparatus, system and method for detecting errors in a physical interface during the transmission and/or receipt of data communications between integrated circuits (“ICs”) are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for generating error-detection codes in a physical interface for the transmission of data communications between integrated circuits (“ICs”) includes... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100153804 - Hybrid automatic repeat request round trip time and acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement repetition in discontinuous reception: A method is provided for detecting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) message. The method comprising setting a round trip time (RTT) based on a time delay associated with acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) repetitions, and receiving a retransmitted HARQ message when the RTT expires. Also provided is a user equipment... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100153803 - Retransmission control method and receiving side apparatus: A retransmission control method has a physical control channel transmission step wherein a transmission side apparatus (10) transmits a new data specifier updated upon new packet transmission and a retransmission sequence number indicating whether transmission is the first transmission or retransmission, through a physical control channel related to a physical... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100153802 - System and method for anycast transport optimization: A system includes first, second, and third content servers, and an edge server. The first, second, and third content servers each are configured to cache content. The edge server is in communication with the first, second, and third content servers. The edge server is configured to receive a content request,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20100153807 - Establishment of reliable multicast/broadcast in a wireless network: Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to the establishment of reliable multicast/broadcast sessions in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may be configured to receive, from a wireless recipient station, a request to establish a reliable multicast/broadcast session with the recipient station. The apparatus may be... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100153808 - Method of transmission of large data amounts in sensor network based on mac: A large data transmission method in a sensor network based on a media access control (MAC) is provided. The method includes dividing data to be transferred into a plurality of data segments; generating a plurality of media access control (MAC) segmented data frames by including in each data segment an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100153806 - System and method for hybrid automatic repeat request (harq) functionality in a relay node: A relay node. The relay node includes a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity providing a first HARQ functionality. The relay node further includes a second HARQ entity providing a second HARQ functionality.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100153809 - Methods and systems using window start update for wireless communication harq connection: Embodiments of the present disclosure allow a HARQ transmitter to provide a receiver an indication of the protocol data units (PDUs) that should not be expected because they are part of a data burst that has been retransmitted a maximum allowable number of times. The indication message may contain a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100153813 - Communication method and apparatus using ldpc code: An encoding method using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) matrix having a codeword length of N and an information word length K is provided to improve coding efficiency, and includes generating a first parity bit vector (p1) using the low density parity check matrix, generating a second parity bit... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100153810 - Decoding device and receiving device: A decoding apparatus for low density parity check codes includes a variable-to-check message generator and a check-to-variable message generator. The variable-to-check message generator includes a variable-to-check processing unit block, provided with an adder, and which is arranged between registers corresponding to locations of ‘1’s in a check matrix. The check-to-variable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100153814 - Method based on error corrector codes, applicable to a variable rate multimedia datastream: A method and apparatus are provided for creating a matrix for correcting errors of transmission of multimedia data packets at a non-constant rate between a sender terminal and at least one receiver terminal. The multimedia data packets constitute elements of the correction matrix. The correction matrix has dimensions that are... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100153811 - Method for decoding using dynamic scheduling scheme for low density parity check codes and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a decoding method and device for low density parity check codes using dynamic scheduling. The low density parity check codes are sequentially decoded, and the messages are scheduled in the descending order of the difference between values before and after updating the message transmitted from the variable node... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100153812 - Methods and apparatus for encoding ldpc codes: Methods and apparatus for encoding codewords which are particularly well suited for use with low density parity check (LDPC) codes and long codewords are described. The described methods allow encoding graph structures which are largely comprised of multiple identical copies of a much smaller graph. Copies of the smaller graph... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100153815 - Systems and methods for decreasing latency in a digital transmission system: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for encoding OFDM packets in a digital communication system. In one exemplary method embodiment, LDPC codewords in an IEEE 802.11 wireless transmission are shortened, decreasing the iterations necessary to insure accurate communications. The codewords are shortened by adding known bits... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100153817 - Data correction apparatus, data correction method and tangible machine-readable medium thereof: A data correction apparatus, a data correction method and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The data correction method comprises the following steps: receiving a plurality of packets; determining that all of the packets are erroneous packets according to cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information thereof; retrieving any number of... Agent: Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A.

20100153816 - Methods and apparatus to identify the accessibility of femto-base stations in communication systems: A system and method for identifying the accessibility of femto base stations in a communication system. The system and method includes a plurality of macro base stations, open-access femto base stations and femto base stations with different subscriber groups. At least one of the base stations includes a transmitter configured... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100153819 - Decoding method and system for low-density parity check code: A decoding method for LDPC code includes steps of obtaining a set of parity-check matrices of a set of block codes; obtaining an identical parity-check matrix from the set of parity-check matrices; dividing the identical parity-check matrix into an odd identical parity-check matrix and an even identical parity-check matrix, wherein... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100153820 - Memory with guard value dependent error correction: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and apparatuses related to calculating an error correction code for a program page dependent on guard values that correspond to words of the program page. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100153818 - Multilevel encoding with error correction: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and apparatuses related to multilevel encoding with error correction. In some embodiments, a plurality of bits may be encoded into a plurality of multilevel memory cells by level-shifting a subset of the plurality of multilevel memory cells for a bit of the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100153821 - Solid-state memory with error correction coding: In a particular embodiment, a storage device is disclosed that includes a solid-state storage media. The storage device further includes a read/write circuit including an error correction coding (ECC) encoder/decoder adapted to write data and associated ECC information to the solid-state storage media without performing a read-verify operation.... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100153822 - Constructing forward error correction codes: Construction and use of forward error correction codes is provided. A systematic MDS FEC code is obtained having a property wherein any set of contiguous or non-contiguous r packets can be lost during a data transmission of k data packets and r encoded packets and the original k packets can... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100153823 - Coding method and coding device: The present invention relates to coding method and coding device that allow Rate-Compatible LDPC (low-density parity-check) codes to have favorable BER performance both with a low code rate and with a high code rate. In coding of LDPC codes that have plural code rates and whose all parity check matrices... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20100153824 - Soft-error detection for electronic-circuit registers: In one embodiment, a circuit has multiple flip-flops with gated clock inputs controlled by an enable signal, where the clock signal is gated in order to reduce power consumption by the circuit. The circuit has an error detection and correction (EDC) module that is active when the enable signal is... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20100153825 - Digital broadcasting system and method: A digital broadcasting system and method, where the digital broadcasting system includes: a transmission stream generator multiplexing a normal stream and a turbo stream to generate a dual transmission stream; a transmitter inserting an supplementary reference signal (SRS) into the dual transmission stream, processing the turbo stream to reconstitute the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100153826 - Apparatus and method for tail biting convolutional encoding: Provided are an apparatus and a method for tail biting convolutional encoding. The apparatus includes a plurality of shift registers and at least one operator. The plurality of shift registers sequentially performs a shift operation on input bit-stream. The operator outputs an encoded bit-stream by performing convolutional encoding on an... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100153827 - Multicast with udp using packet identifier in mpeg payload: Content information is multicast via a data network to a plurality of receivers, using data packets in a transport stream. The content information is encapsulated according to a container format standard that allows an optional field in a packet header. Each data packet forms a payload of a datagram in... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100153828 - Method and apparatus for error detection in a communication system: A method processes a data packet in a first sequence of disjoint original segments of the same length. The method includes modifying a first of the original segments of the first sequence by modifying one or more symbols therein. A start of the data packet is located in the first... Agent: Docket Administrator - Room 3d-201e Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20100153829 - Residue generation: In one embodiment, circuitry is provided to generate a residue based at least in part upon operations and a data stream generated based at least in part upon a packet. The operations may include at least one iteration of at least one reduction operation including (a) multiplying a first value... Agent: The Law Offices Of Christopher K. Gagne C/o Cpa Global

20100153830 - Carry bucket-aware multiplication: An apparatus comprising an integrated circuit configured to accept a plurality of operands; multiply the operands producing an result in a first binary format; and distribute the result in the first binary format over a plurality of data units in a second binary format, each unit having W bits with... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20100146324 - Method and apparatus for fault detection/isolation in metro ethernet service: Apparatus and method of detecting a fault in a network service includes an Ethernet access network domain in which a heartbeat message is broadcast at a periodic interval by each of a plurality of edge devices associated with an instance of the network service. Each of the edge devices also... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20100146323 - Method, system and apparatus for detecting multiple active devices in stack: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for detecting multiple Active devices in a stack. In the method, a new Active device generates a Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) packet when a stacking link is in failure, the LACP packet contains a bridge MAC address and a member number... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100146325 - Systems and methods for correcting software errors: Systems and methods consistent with the invention may include receiving an indication that a software error was detected during operation of the application program, generating an error message based on the software error, the error message including an error signature, comparing the error signature with information stored in a patch... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20100146328 - Grid storage system and method of operating thereof: There is provided a storage system comprising a plurality of disk units adapted to store data at respective ranges of logical block addresses (LBAs), said addresses constituting an entire address space, and a storage control grid operatively connected to the plurality of disk units and comprising a plurality of data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100146327 - Server failover control method and apparatus and computer system group: Computer systems forming the computer system group each have a plurality of servers, a plurality of I/O devices, a plurality of servers, and one or more I/O switches coupled to the plurality of I/O devices, and it is possible to change the combination of the servers and I/O devices in... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100146326 - Systems and methods for managing network communications: First and second management systems are placed in active and standby modes, respectively. The first and second management systems are configured to be in communication with the second and the first management systems, respectively and with a plurality of network devices. A first number of the plurality of network devices... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100146329 - Cell deterioration warning apparatus and method: Memory devices and methods adapted to process and generate analog data signals representative of data values of two or more bits of information facilitate increases in data transfer rates relative to devices processing and generating only binary data signals indicative of individual bits. Programming of such memory devices includes programming... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A. Attn: Daniel J. Polglaze

20100146332 - Data correction circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit: A data correction circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to correct data stored in a non-rewritable nonvolatile memory. The correction circuit includes an address register configured to store an address indicating a correction point of the nonvolatile memory, a data register configured to store correction... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100146330 - Memory device and method thereof: An error correction module is disclosed whereby two bit cells are used to store a bit of information in a redundant manner so that a redundant error correction module can correct a sporadic data error at one of the two bits.... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20100146331 - System and method for logging operations: In a system for storing and retrieving a plurality of records, the plurality of records associated with a ledger, a client issues read and write requests associated with one of the plurality of records, a plurality of record servers responds to the requests received from the client, and a management... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20100146333 - Auxiliary power supply and user device including the same: A user device is provided. The device includes a main power supply, and an auxiliary power supply. The main power supply provides a main power. The auxiliary power supply cuts off the main power according to a power level of the main power supply and provides an auxiliary power upon... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100146334 - Fault tolerant update propagation to views: In a database system, derived data (often called view data or view tables) depends on other data, often called base data (or base tables). When base data on which derived data depends is updated, including changes, additions, and/or deletions, those updates need to be propagated to derived data. Some types... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100146335 - Error detection in a multi-processor data processing system: A system and method are provided. The system comprises a first and second processor, and a cross-signaling interface. The first processor executes instructions. The second processor executes the instructions in lockstep with the first processor. The cross-signaling interface is coupled between the first and second processors and is for signaling... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100146336 - Multi-modal green computing fusion using problem analytics: A system, method and program product for processing a computational problem for a computing center having a plurality of computing resources. The system includes: a problem analytics system for generating a characterized problem description from an inputted computational problem using at least one of a keyword nonparametric inverse indexing or... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100146337 - Method and device for detecting non-regression of an input/output system in a simulation environment: The object of the invention is in particular a method and a device for detecting non-regression of an input/output system from a remote station comprising a test tool adapted for executing a test command of the said input/output system. The said input/output system and remote station are each connected to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100146338 - Automated semiconductor design flaw detection system: The process by which a logical simulation model is implemented in a physical device may introduce errors in the resulting implementation. A simulation system enables comparison of a realized physical implementation against the simulation models that produce them, thereby detecting differences between an initial, logical design and the resulting physical... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100146339 - Cover lover: The present invention relates to a method, device, and system for managing verification of configurable hardware and software. The solution according to the present invention solves this by applying a matrix-like method of handling test and verification parameter combinations and interacting with a user using a browser like interface for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100146340 - Analyzing coverage of code changes: A method, system, and computer usable program product for analyzing test coverage of code changes are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first source code is received. A second source code is received. The second code includes a changed code in comparison with the first source code. The changed code... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20100146341 - Driver detecting system and method: A detecting system for detecting functions of a driver includes a storage unit, a control unit, and an human machine interface (HMI). The control unit samples a plurality of functions of the driver to generate a plurality of sampled values at each preset sampling time. The control unit determines if... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100146342 - Method and system for platform independent fault management: A method for fault management. The method includes generating, in firmware of a computer system, a physical resource inventory (PRI) of a plurality of hardware components of the computer system, wherein the PRI defines a hierarchy of the hardware components. The method further includes traversing, by an enumerator executing in... Agent: Osha Liang LLP/oracle

20100146346 - Diagnostic and managing distributed processor system: A network of microcontrollers for monitoring and diagnosing the environmental conditions of a computer is disclosed. The network of microcontrollers provides a management system by which computer users can accurately gauge the health of their computer. The network of microcontrollers provides users the ability to detect system fan speeds, internal... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, PC

20100146343 - Electronic bulletin board managing apparatus and message notifying method: An electronic bulletin board management apparatus and message notification method for permitting a user receiving a notification to quickly know on which bulletin board a message was posted. A communication system includes a message registry for storing data written from a plurality of communication terminals, in memory areas partitioned for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100146345 - Information processing apparatus, recording medium including program for information processing apparatus, and method of controlling information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with another information processing apparatus, a memory device that holds data for communication by the communication unit, a processing unit that acquires a memory capacity of the memory device desirable for communication by the communication unit, a resource shortage information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100146344 - Multi-partition computer system, failure handling method and program therefor: The present invention determines an incorrect packet from a faulty partition quickly and reliably and prevents the packet from flowing into normal partitions through simple control actions. The multi-partition computer system is a multi-partitioned computer system in which a plurality of nodes are logically divided into a plurality of partition,... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100146347 - System and method for fault mapping of exceptions across programming models: A system and method for mapping exceptions from a first programming model to a second programming model. The system comprises a first device operating a first programming model and a second device operating a second programming model. The first device sends an instruction to, or invokes the second device to... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100146348 - Efficient method and apparatus for keeping track of in flight data in a dual node storage controller: A storage unit adapted for use in a processing system includes a controller including at least two compute nodes, each of the compute nodes including a read/write cache and a persistent cache; and machine executable instructions stored within machine readable media, the instructions including instructions for tracking in-flight data in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20100146349 - Semiconductor integrated circuit including logic circuit having scan path and test circuit for conducting scan path test: A semiconductor integrated circuit is configured which has a logic circuit having scan path flip-flops and a test circuit which executes a scan path test. The test circuit includes a clock control circuit and a scan enable control signal generation circuit. The scan enable control signal generation circuit receives a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100146350 - Test generation methods for reducing power dissipation and supply currents: Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems used for generating test patterns as may be used as part of a test pattern generation process (for example, for use with an automatic test pattern generator (ATPG) software tool). In one exemplary embodiment, hold probabilities are determined for state... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100146351 - Error correcting scheme for wireless communication: A system for implementing self aggregating communication operations. Wireless communication transports may utilize basic radio transmission units for communication (e.g., such as a symbol, groups of symbols, etc.). Radio transmission units may comprise, for example, one or more message packets. The one or more message packets may be added to... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20100146352 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus which can communicate a data packet, a recovery packet used to recover a data packet that failed to be communicated, and a retransmit packet for the data packet that failed to be communicated, the communication apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine, when a first packet... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100146353 - Method and system for indicating data burst allocation in a wireless communication system: A method is provided for transmitting a Media Access Protocol (MAP) message in a wireless communication system. A base station transmits the MAP message including operation mode information indicating a data burst allocation scheme, to a mobile station. The mobile station identifies a data burst according to the operation mode... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100146354 - Method and apparatus for h-arq in a wireless communication system: The present invention discloses an H-ARQ scheme: In the case of wireless channel is in good condition, user equipment will send NACK signals and other control information only when it has received an incorrect data packet, otherwise the user equipment will not send ACK signals; in the case of wireless... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100146355 - Retransmission method, communication system, and transmission device: Disclosed are a retransmission method and a communication system which can realize a preferable trade-off between the feedback information amount and the error ratio characteristic. In the communication system, an encoding unit (703) packetizes an channel coding codeword inputted from a signal source (701) and generates a plurality of packets... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100146356 - Wireless sensor node: A wireless sensor node is provided which is divided into functional modules on a function basis and operates the functional modules to cooperatively perform its individual functions. The wireless sensor node includes a wireless transceiver to wirelessly communicate with a control node; a primary configuration unit to set a node... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100146358 - Method and arrangement relating to communications network: The invention relates to a method in a radio base station and user equipment, and comprises varying the transmitted timings of the HARQ feedback signalling such that only users with orthogonal pre-coding vectors (W) are scheduled simultaneously, to reduce multi-user interference and to ensure that said signalling is received by... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100146359 - Methods and systems for arq feedback message improvement: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure propose techniques for improving automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback messages to reduce unnecessary transmissions by notifying the transmitter of the last acknowledged block in the ARQ feedback message.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100146357 - Reliable multicast with linearly independednt data packet coding: Regular data packets are scheduled for transmission from a sender to multiple receivers in a multicast ARQ system. In a joint scheduling and encoding procedure, a composite data packet is formed as a weighted linear combination of regular data packets. The corresponding coding weights are adapted based on feedback information... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100146362 - Contention-free parallel processing multimode ldpc decoder: A receiver capable of decoding encoded transmissions. The receiver includes a number of receive antennas for receiving data; a plurality of memory units for storing the received data; and a number of decoders configured to perform a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) decoding operation. Each of the decoders further is... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100146365 - Encoding and modulating method, and decoding method for wireless communication apparatus: Provided is a bit interleaved coded modulation-iterative decoding (BICM-ID) technique suffering a small loss in a transfer rate. A BICM-ID technique allowing a decoder to treat a small processing quantity is also provided. Encoding is carried out according to a code based on an iterative code. Encoded bits are reordered... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100146364 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding bus signal: Provided is a bus signal encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The bus signal encoding method includes receiving a bus signal, XOR-operating all but the first byte sequence of the bus signal in a bitwise manner, inverting the even-numbered byte sequences of the XOR-operated bus signal in a bitwise manner, and serializing... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100146363 - Method and system of single carrier block transmission with parallel encoding and decoding: A Single Carrier Block Transmission (SCBT) system employs an inherently parallel approach to error correction processing. At the transmission system (200), an incoming data stream is split (210) into P parallel data streams, each having a data rate equal to a fraction of the incoming data stream's data rate. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100146361 - Multiple input hardware reuse using ldpc codes.: A network controller receives data substantially simultaneously from multiple client nodes. The network controller assigns to each client node one or more sub-carriers of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing access frequency spectrum. The client nodes transmit substantially simultaneously M LDPC codewords that are encoded in a parity check matrix so that... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20100146367 - System for testing the upstream channel of a cable network: A system for testing a portion of a cable network provides a pattern generator, addresser, forward error corrector, and comparator. The system is particularly adapted to testing the upstream channel in a cable network. The pattern generator generates a test signal. The addresser addresses the signal to a known server... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20100146360 - Unified decoder for convolutional, turbo, and ldpc codes: A unified decoder (10) is capable of decoding data encoded with convolutional codes, Turbo codes and LDPC codes. The decoder comprises a first set (20, . . . ,44) and a second set (26, . . . ,30) of trellis processors for calculating path metrics during decoding of convolutional codes... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20100146366 - Wireless terminal baseband processor high speed turbo decoding module: A baseband processing module for use within a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a downlink/uplink interface, TX processing components, a processor, memory, RX processing components, and a turbo decoding module. The RX processing components receive a baseband RX signal from the RF front end, produce a set of IR samples... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100146368 - Performing multi-bit error correction on a cache line: A processor may comprise a cache, which may be divided into a first and second section while the processor operates in a low-power mode. A cache line of the first section may be fragmented into segments. A first encoder may generate first data bits and check bits while encoding a... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100146369 - Soft error protection in individual memory devices: Techniques are disclosed for minimizing the effects of soft errors associated with memory devices that are individually accessible. By way of example, a method of organizing a column in a memory array of a memory device protected by an error correction code comprises the step of maximizing a distance of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100146370 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method: A receiving system and data processing method therein are disclosed, by which mobile service data is received and processed. The present invention includes a demodulator receiving a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data, the demodulator converting the received broadcast signal to a baseband signal, the mobile... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100146372 - Decoding of serial concatenated codes using erasure patterns: A method of processing a received concatenated code codeword is disclosed, the concatenated code codeword comprising a plurality of inner code codewords and one or more outer code codewords, each inner code codeword comprising symbols, from each outer code codeword comprising one or more information symbols and one or more... Agent: Williams Mullen

20100146371 - Modified turbo-decoding message-passing algorithm for low-density parity check codes: Apparatus and methods arc provided to decode signals from a communication channel to reconstruct transmitted information. Embodiments may include applying a plurality of decoders to a code, in which reliability values are provided to a decoder such that the decoder receives the reliability values determined by and provided from only... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100146373 - Configurable hierarchical comma-free reed-solomon decoding circuit and method thereof: The present invention discloses a configurable hierarchical comma-free Reed-Solomon decoding circuit and a method thereof. The design is based on an original hierarchical parallel architecture which not only completes a decoding process faster than conventional decoder, but also utilizes less hardware to perform various algorithms with less power consumed. The... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20100146374 - Wireless communications method: A Wireless communications protocol/method comprises: a. Sensors data size and structure are constant, and consist of several fields; b. The sensors message include one or more of the following: 1) a 8 to 16 bits long preamble of a start sequence, for example a binary 1010 . . . binary... Agent: Josef Samuelson

20100138685 - Real-time signal handling in guest and host operating systems: The present invention relates to signal handling in a host operating system process executing code portions of a single- or multi-threaded application and of the embedded guest operating system. When a signal is sent from the host operating system to the operating system process, the signal handler of the guest... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20100138689 - Computer system, management method and storage network system: A computer system wherein, when a state of the primary host computer is in an active state, a data sent from the primary host computer to the first storage system is copied through a first copy route which includes a route from the first storage system to the second storage... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100138686 - Failure recovery method, failure recovery program and management server: In a computer system, including server apparatuses such as an active server and a standby server connected to a storage apparatus, when the active server fails, a management server changes over connection to the storage apparatus from the active server to standby server to thereby hand over operation to the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100138688 - Managing service levels on a shared network: Devices and methods for modeling and analysis of services provided over a common network include a processor configured to track services connected to the common network through nodes and links; run service models associated with the services under selected conditions, the selected conditions including failure and repair of one of... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20100138687 - Recording medium storing failure isolation processing program, failure node isolation method, and storage system: Slices obtained by dividing the real data storage area of the storage device by segments are assigned to each of a plurality of segments obtained by dividing a virtual logical volume as a primary slice storing data of the segment as a destination of access made by an access node... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100138690 - System and method for managing an on-board entertainment system: A system and method for managing an on board entertainment system is disclosed. The system and method can wirelessly receive music files from a computer and store those music files on an on board unit associated with a motor vehicle. The system and method can also include provisions to associate... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20100138691 - Redundant array of independent disks level 5 (raid 5) with a mirroring functionality: A redundant array of independent disks level 5 (RAID 5) with a mirroring functionality is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for adding a mirroring functionality to a RAID 5 includes forming an array using at least three drives for storing data, creating multiple data blocks and a parity for... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20100138692 - Electronic device and method for restoring function settings: An electronic device and method for restoring personalized function settings include setting a restoring function, relating the restoring function to one or more function settings of the electronic device, and creating a backup file including retrieved personalized function settings of a designated function setting. The electronic device and method further... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100138693 - Multi-core processing system for vehicle control or an internal combustion engine controller: A vehicle control multi-core system for controlling a device mounted on a vehicle by using a plurality of cores, includes a computation process unit that is executed on the plurality of cores and required for the control of the device, and a core failure determination unit that compares a result... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100138694 - Root-cause analysis system and associated methods: A method for determining a root cause of a problem in a multiple-element system includes correlating an incoming alarm signal with an element x in a multiple-element system and accessing an implication list comprising a list of all elements upstream of element x. At least one element on the implication... Agent: Jacqueline E. Hartt, Ph. D. Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed, P.A.

20100138695 - Signal integrity measurement systems and methods using a predominantly digital time-base generator: Signal-integrity measurement systems and methods utilizing unique time-base generation techniques for controlling the sampling of one or more signals under test. A time-base generator made in accordance with the present disclosure includes a phase filter and modulation circuitry that generates a rapidly varying phase signal as a function of the... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20100138698 - Reasoning architecture: An inference engine is described with improved speed in evaluating queries posed to a data structure based on an ontology with a declarative set of rules. The inference engine comprises: rule rewriters, a rule compiler, and an operator net. The operator net comprises a graph with operators as nodes and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20100138697 - Regression testing of a printing system: A standard input for a regression test is processed in a printing system in a first (standard) configuration to generate a standard output. The standard output may include a standard PDL output and a standard bitmap. The standard input is processed in the printing system in a second configuration to... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20100138696 - Systems and methods for monitoring hardware resources in a software provisioning environment: A provisioning server can provide and utilize a diagnostic tool to test and interrogate hardware on target machines and to collect data from the hardware. The diagnostic tool can operate on the target machine independently of software already installed on the target machine. The diagnostic tool can interrogate hardware of... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20100138700 - Method of remotely monitoring an internet web site: A method of performing a service which remotely monitors a Web site includes the steps of monitoring the site for an error and notifying a site representative in the event an error is detected on the site. Advance permission is not obtained prior to sending the notification and a fee... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100138699 - Scheduling of checks in computing systems: In an example embodiment, a method is provided for scheduling a check to detect anomalies in a computing system. An average time between the anomalies that are detectable by the check is identified and additionally, a runtime of the check is identified. A frequency of the check is then calculated... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20100138701 - Method and system for retrieving diagnostic information: A system, method, and apparatus for retrieving trouble codes from an equipment under diagnosis and retrieving only relevant diagnostic information relative to the returned codes from one or more remote diagnostic libraries. An electronic diagnostic library contains diagnostic vehicle information tagged with trouble code identification ID's at a first location,... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100138702 - Information processing apparatus and sign of failure determination method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a disk drive, a monitoring processing module, and a log accumulation module. The monitoring processing module configured to monitor a command which is issued to the disk drive by a disk driver program in response to a disk access request from... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100138703 - Identifying and monitoring asynchronous transactions: Monitoring asynchronous transactions in a computing environment is disclosed. A first unique identifier is determined when a first method executes. The identifier is associated with an asynchronous transaction. A second unique identifier is determined when a second method executes. If it is determined that the first unique identifier and the... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20100138704 - User interface messaging system and method permitting deferral of message resolution: A user interface messaging system and method that allows a user to defer resolution of the substance of a message, such as a user-initiated error, and adds the message to a queue. The messaging system may remind the user to resolve the substance of the messages in the queue. After... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20100138705 - Standalone data storage device electromagnetic interference test setup and procedure: A system for operating a data storage device having a plurality of sectors and at least one port, each port having a transmitter and a receiver, is disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes coupling at least one of the transmitters to at least one of the receivers, providing power... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100138706 - Tap sampling at double rate: An integrated circuit comprising: at least one test input for receiving test data; test control circuitry between the at least one test input and circuitry to be tested; wherein the test data is clocked in on a rising clock edge and a falling clock edge.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100138707 - Processor and method for controlling storage-device test unit: A processor includes an arithmetic device, a storage device that holds arithmetic data, a data generator that generates test data, an address generator that generates an address at which the test data is to be written, a test data number counter that counts a number of test data, an error... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100138708 - Decompressors for low power decompression of test patterns: Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems used to generate test patterns for testing integrated circuits. Embodiments of the disclosed technology can be used to provide a low power test scheme and can be integrated with a variety of compression hardware architectures (e.g., an embedded deterministic test... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100138709 - Method and apparatus for delay fault coverage enhancement: A hybrid clocking scheme for simultaneously detecting a b-cycle path-delay fault in a b-cycle (false) path and a c-cycle path-delay fault in a c-cycle (false) path using at least n+1 at-speed clock pulses during a capture operation in a clock domain in a scan design or a scan-based BIST design,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100138710 - Logic verification apparatus: A simulation part performs a simulation based on a description of the logic function described in a hardware description language. A second symbol replacing part replaces an indeterminate value generated in the simulation by the simulation part with a symbol. The simulation part generates a symbol expression and propagates it... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100138712 - Apparatus and method for verifying training data using machine learning: An apparatus for verifying training data using machine learning includes: a training data separation unit for separating provided initial training data into N training data and N verification data, where N is a natural number; a machine learning unit for performing machine learning on the separated training data to generate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100138711 - Equipment protection method and apparatus: Equipment protection of a switch matrix (SM) in a network node, which contains a number of matrix modules (M1.1-M4.4, E1.5-E4.6) is achieved by slicing an input signal into k parallel signal slices (x(0)-x(3)) with k>2; coding the k signal slices into a number of n coded signal slices (x(0)-x(5)) with... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20100138713 - Interaction method between arq and harq for systems with long roundtrip delay: Disclosed is an interaction method between an automatic repeat request (ARQ) and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a system having a long roundtrip delay. A transmission window for the ARQ is operated using inner feedback information from the HARQ, and a waiting window is operated using ARQ status... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100138714 - Retransmission above the gamma interface: Embodiments disclosed herein are configured for retransmission above the gamma (γ) interface. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving data from an Ethernet layer, the data being identified as eligible for retransmission or not eligible for retransmission; in response to a determination that the data is eligible for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100138715 - Radio transmission device, radio reception device, and radio communication system: A radio communication system includes a transmitter. The transmitter includes a packet generating unit that generates a plurality of transmission packets from single transmission data and arranges the transmission packets in a space direction such that the transmission packets can be simultaneously transmitted; and a transmitting unit that separately carries... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100138716 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmitting, receiving, and re-transmission: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that are capable of executing the error correction decoding process while controlling the increase in the amount of data that is stored in the receiving apparatus. There is provided a transmitting apparatus for transmitting the data to a receiving apparatus to... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100138720 - Channel-encoding/decoding apparatus and method using low-density parity-check codes: An encoding/decoding apparatus and method using a low-density parity-check code (LDPC code) is disclosed. Basic column group information, serving as a set of information regarding positions of rows with weight 1, is extracted from a reference column in each column group of a predetermined parity-check matrix. Column group information transforms... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100138717 - Fork codes for erasure coding of data blocks: Described is a technology in which data blocks are coded into erasure coded blocks in a two-stage, two-level processing operation. In a first processing stage, such as via MDS coding, original blocks are coded into a first level of output data blocks including one or more parity blocks. In a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100138718 - Method and device for padding optimization of segmented turbo codes: A method for forming a bit sequence having a number of M bits from a bit sequence having a number of N bits, wherein M/2<N<M, involves extending said bit sequence by M-N bit positions, segmenting said extended bit sequence into at least two blocks with different numbers of bit positions... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100138719 - Method of encoding data using a low density parity check code: A method for encoding data using a parity check matrix is disclosed. The method for encoding data using a parity check matrix comprises generating a fourth base matrix by applying a row permutation pattern and a column permutation pattern to rows and columns of a third base matrix, respectively, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100138721 - Overlapping sub-matrix based ldpc (low density parity check) decoder: Overlapping sub-matrix based LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) decoder. Novel decoding approach is presented, by which, updated bit edge messages corresponding to a sub-matrix of an LDPC matrix are immediately employed for updating of the check edge messages corresponding to that sub-matrix without requiring storing the bit edge messages; also... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100138722 - Cycle slip location and correction: Methods and techniques are disclosed for correcting the effect of cycle slips in a coherent communications system. A signal comprising SYNC bursts having a predetermined periodicity and a plurality of known symbols at predetermined locations between successive SYNC bursts is received. The received signal is partitioned into data blocks. Each... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP

20100138723 - Method and apparatus for correcting data errors and method and appratus for playing back a disc: The present invention provides an error correction method and apparatus, and also an optical disc playback method and apparatus. The error correction method in the present invention is used to perform error correction on data read from an optical disc, comprising: obtaining the error detection information of a block corresponding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100138724 - Adaptive error protection for wireless communications: A method of error protection for wireless communication of packets of sampled digitized audio data according to a selected communication protocol, comprising: identifying the least significant bits of each sample of audio data encoded in the packets based on the communication protocol used; selectively replacing one or more of the... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP 5200 Bank Of America Plaza

20100138725 - Error detection device, error correction/error detection decoding device and method thereof: Error detection that detects an error in an input data sequence, the input data sequence created by regarding a data sequence having a specified bit length as a polynomial, dividing that polynomial by a generator polynomial for generating error detection code and adding the error detection code to the data... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100138727 - Digital broadcasting receiver and method for controlling the same: A reception system and a method for processing data in the reception system are disclosed. The reception system includes a baseband processor receiving a broadcasting signal including mobile service data and main service data, the mobile service data including first service data and second service data having a format different... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100138726 - Mpe-fec rs decoder and decoding method thereof: A decoding method of an MPE-FEC (MultiProtocol Encapsulation-Forward Error Correction) RS (Reed-Solomon) decoder, includes: substituting a value corresponding to an erasure error position with 0 in a reception signal; calculating a syndrome by using the reception signal; calculating an erasure position polynomial by using erasure information; calculating a modified syndrome... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100138728 - Apparatus for supporting dynamic change of event rule under sca and method thereof: An apparatus according to the present invention is an apparatus for supporting dynamic change of event rules in an SDR terminal under an SCA. The apparatus for supporting dynamic change of event rules includes: an event rule DB storing the rules that replicate event signals from an event generator and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100138729 - Pseudorandom binary sequence checker with control circuitry for end-of-test check: Control circuitry is coupled between an error event output and a data input of a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) checker. The control circuitry is configured to switch between a first operating state in which a received PRBS signal is applied to the data input of the PRBS checker and a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100138730 - Fault detection using embedded watermarks: Detection of faults in a transmitted signal stream occurs by recovering, from the information stream, a water mark embedded in the stream prior to transmission. The embedded watermark has data characteristic of stream quality. Thereafter, the at least one watermark property is analyzed to detect faults in the received information... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC