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Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/12

20120047391 - Systems and methods for automated support for repairing input model errors: Systems and associated methods for automated repair support for input model faults are described. Embodiments automate generation of fault repair support by producing one or more repair action suggestions for a given input model containing faults. Responsive to an indication of one or more faults within the model, embodiments utilize... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120047392 - Disaster recovery replication throttling in deduplication systems: Various embodiments for disaster recovery (DR) replication throttling in a computing environment by a processor device are provided. Communication is arrested between a source data entity and a replicated data entity at a location declared in a DR mode. The DR mode is negotiated to a central replication management component... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120047393 - Dynamically reassigning a connected node to a block of compute nodes for re-launching a failed job: Methods, systems, and products for dynamically reassigning a connected node to a block of compute nodes for re-launching a failed job that include: identifying that a job failed to execute on the block of compute nodes because connectivity failed between a compute node assigned as at least one of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120047395 - Control method for information processing system, information processing system, and program: An information processing system including a plurality of server apparatuses coupled to one another, wherein failover is executed. A management server is coupled to the server apparatuses, and is configured to, when detecting occurrence of a failure in an active server apparatus, execute failover from the active server apparatus to... Agent:

20120047394 - High-availability computer cluster with failover support based on a resource map: Embodiments of the invention relate to handling failures in a cluster of computer resources. The resources are represented as nodes in a dependency graph in which some nodes are articulation points and the removal of any articulation point due to a resource failure results in a disconnected graph. The embodiments... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120047396 - Identifying a defect in a data-storage medium: An embodiment of a data-read path includes a defect detector and a data-recovery circuit. The defect detector is operable to identify a defective region of a data-storage medium, and the data-recovery circuit is operable to recover data from the data-storage medium in response to the defect detector. For example, such... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20120047397 - Controlling apparatus, method for controlling apparatus and information processing apparatus: A controlling apparatus for controlling an information processing apparatus, the controlling apparatus includes a first controller including a first data transfer unit that communicates data between the information processing apparatus, and a first processing unit that generates a command to instruct the first data transfer unit to communicate data between... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120047398 - Detecting soft errors via selective re-execution: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining a vulnerability level for an instruction executed in a processor, and re-executing the instruction if the vulnerability level is above a threshold. The vulnerability level may correspond to a soft error likelihood for the instruction while the instruction is... Agent:

20120047399 - Computer turn on/off testing apparatus: A computer turning on/off testing apparatus for turning on a computer automatically includes a control module, a switch module, and a power supply module. The control module outputs control signals and receives a turn on signal from the computer to determine whether the computer turns on successfully. The switch module... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd

20120047400 - Computer startup test apparatus: A computer startup test apparatus for turning on a computer automatically, includes a control module, a switch module, and a startup module. The control module is configured to output control signals, data signals and clock signals. The switch module is configured to receive the control signals, and turn on the... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

20120047401 - Test device and test method for testing computing device: A test method for restarting a computing device communicating with a remote computer. The computing device is shut down and awakened by the remote computer. A second hardware information of the computing device after restarting the operating system of the computing device is compared with initial hardware information of the... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd

20120047402 - Method and apparatus for monitoring interrupts during a power down event at a processor: In a particular embodiment, a method of monitoring interrupts during a power down event at a processor includes activating an interrupt monitor to detect interrupts. The method also includes isolating an interrupt controller of the processor from the interrupt monitor, where the interrupt controller shares a power domain with the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120047403 - Data processing system: Disclosed is a data processing system capable of detecting a sign of abnormality in such a manner as to increase the degree of safety and availability of the system. The data processing system uses a prediction circuit that detects a sign of abnormality in accordance with a cumulative history of... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120047404 - Electronic device and method for detecting power failure type: A method for detecting a power failure type of an electronic device sets a shutdown flag as a first value when the electronic device is turned on, modifies the shutdown flag to a second value if a shutdown status of the electronic device is detected, and modifies the shutdown flag... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd

20120047405 - Method for using a computer network: The invention provides for a method for using a computer network (10) comprising a number of switches (18, 20) each having ports for receiving and sending streams, wherein the streams are sent from a router (14) via the ports of switches (18, 20), that have shown interest, to at least... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20120047406 - Redundancy control system and method of transmitting computational data thereof: A method of transmitting computational data comprising: a step of generating first computational data and generating first generated data using a first generation algorithm for error detection on return; a step of generating second computational data and generating second generated data using a second generation algorithm for error detection; a... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120047407 - Using a variable timer for sending an error indication: Upon receiving a particular data unit by a receiving layer of a wireless device, it is detected that a previous data unit earlier in sequence to the particular data unit has not yet been received by the receiving layer. A timer is started in response to the detecting, where the... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20120047410 - Storage device, circuit board, liquid reservoir and system: A storage device according to some aspects of the invention includes a communication unit configured to perform processing for communication with a host apparatus; a storage unit configured to have a first memory area and a second memory area that store therein received data from the host apparatus, and memory... Agent: Seiko Epson Corporation

20120047409 - Systems and methods for generating dynamic super blocks: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating dynamic super blocks from one or more grown bad blocks of a non-volatile memory (“NVM”). In some embodiments, a dynamic super block can be formed by striping together a subset of memory locations of grown bad blocks from one or more dies of... Agent: Apple Inc.

20120047408 - Systems and methods for memory management: Systems and methods for intelligently reducing the number of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) stored in memory of a wireless communication device are described herein. In one aspect, the systems and methods described herein relate to selecting LLRs for storage based on a quality metric. In another aspect, the systems and methods... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120047411 - Determining data valid windows in a system and method for testing an integrated circuit device: Embodiments of a system and method for testing an integrated circuit device are described herein. Testing is complemented by a determination of characteristics of a data valid window that identifies components of a response data signal from a device under test where the data signal can always be expected to... Agent: King Tiger Technology (canada) Inc.

20120047412 - Apparatus and system for implementing variable speed scan testing: In an embodiment of the invention, variable test clock circuitry is provided within an integrated circuit desired to be tested. The variable test clock frequency implements a test clock control register that receives serial test data from a device tester and is configured to serially pass the received test data... Agent: Eigenix

20120047413 - Methods for implementing variable speed scan testing: In an embodiment of the invention, variable test clock circuitry is provided within an integrated circuit desired to be tested. The variable test clock frequency implements a test clock control register that receives serial test data from a device tester and is configured to serially pass the received test data... Agent: Eigenix

20120047414 - Address generation apparatus and method for quadratic permutation polynomial interleaver: An address generation apparatus for quadratic permutation polynomial (QPP) interleaver receives several configurable parameters and uses a plurality of QPP units to compute and outputs a plurality of interleaving addresses according to a QPP function Π(i)=(f1i+f2i2) mod k, where f1 and f2 are QPP coefficients, k is information block length... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20120047415 - Reverse concatenated encoding and decoding: Methods and systems for transmitting and receiving data include reverse concatenated encoding and decoding. Reverse concatenated decoding includes inner decoding the encoded stream with an inner decoder that uses a low-complexity linear-block code to produce an inner-decoder output stream, outer decoding the inner-decoder output stream with an outer decoder that... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120047416 - Broadcasting receiver and broadcast signal processing method: A digital broadcasting system which is robust against an error when mobile service data is transmitted and a method of processing data are disclosed. The mobile service data is subjected to an additional coding process and the coded mobile service data is transmitted. Accordingly, it is possible to cope with... Agent:

20120047417 - Operation unit and program: In an embodiment, regarding an addition of a kb-bit number A and a b-bit random number r, element data of a pre-calculated table C′ is set based on a sum AH+rH of a value AH of upper b/2 bits of a number A2, which is lower b bits of the... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120047418 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus comprising: a reception unit adapted to receive a packet containing first data to be stored in a storage unit, a first address indicating an address of second data held in the storage unit, and a second address indicating an address at which the first data is... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20120047419 - Transmission system: A transmission system carrying out sending and receiving of OTU frames has a first transmission device carrying out the sending of an OTU frame, and a second transmission device carrying out the receiving of the OTU frame. The first transmission device calculates BIP-8 for an objective calculation range preset in... Agent:

20120042194 - Data integrity methods for quantum computational plasmonic information representation and processing systems: Data integrity methods are disclosed for quantum computational plasmonic information representation and processing systems. Also disclosed are methods of saving energy in such applications. Also disclosed are methods of monitoring such applications.... Agent:

20120042195 - Managing operating system deployment failure: A method for managing operating system deployment failure includes, with an operating system deployment server, running an operating system deployment process that comprises running a progressive hardware discovery process of a target machine to which an operating system is deployed, the discovery process to capture inventory information related to the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120042196 - Management of a distributed computing system through replication of write ahead logs: Several methods and a system of a replicated service for write ahead logs are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes persisting a state of a distributed system through a write ahead log (WAL) interface. The method also includes maintaining a set of replicas of a WAL through a consensus... Agent:

20120042197 - Method for resource information backup operation based on peer to peer network and peer to peer network thereof.: The present invention provides a method for resource information backup operation based on peer to peer network, comprising: an initiating node sending an out-of-domain backup node determining request to a connecting node in backup domain, and said out-of-domain backup node determining request including the resource global identifier of said resource... Agent:

20120042199 - Failover based on sending communications between different domains: A first communication device detects a failure on a communication channel of a primary network. Based on the failure, the first communication device sends communications directed to a second communication device to a secondary network. A secondary network domain controller sends the communications to the primary network via a different... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20120042198 - Lpar creation and repair for automated error recovery: Various embodiments for automated error recovery in a computing storage environment by a processor device are provided. In one embodiment, pursuant to performing one of creating a new and rebuilding an existing logical partition (LPAR) operable in the computing storage environment by a hardware management console (HMC) in communication with... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120042200 - Control device and data storage device: The SSD performs to encode input data from the host device into BCH code having data length Sdr and code length Scr sequentially (step S100 and step S110) and controls RRAM to stores the encoded data (step S120) when the write requesting signal is input from the host device. When... Agent: The University Of Tokyo

20120042201 - Failure recovery memory devices and methods: Memory devices and methods are described that include serially chained memory devices. In one or more of the configurations shown, a serial chain of memory devices includes a number of memory devices, and an error recovery device at an end of the chain. In one configuration shown, the serial chain... Agent:

20120042203 - Storage system and control method: A storage system includes plural storage devices, a controller configured to transmit an access request for controlling an access to at least one of the storage devices, a switching part configured to receive the access request from the controller to select the one of the storage devices based on the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120042202 - Global write-log device for managing write logs of nodes of a cluster storage system: A cluster system comprises a plurality of nodes that provides data-access service to a shared storage, each node having at least one failover partner node for taking over services of a node if the node fails. Each node may produce write logs for the shared storage and periodically send write... Agent:

20120042204 - Memory systems and memory modules: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a memory module that includes at least one memory chip, and an intelligent chip coupled to the at least one memory chip and a memory controller, where the intelligent chip is configured to implement at least a part of a RAS feature.... Agent: Google, Inc.

20120042205 - System and method for completeness of tcp data in tcp ha: System and method for completeness of transmission control protocol (TCP) high availability (HA) are disclosed. The system includes an active processor, having an application and a TCP, and a standby processor, having another application and another TCP; wherein communications among the active application, the active TCP, the standby application and... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20120042206 - Saving operational state of open applications when unexpected shutdown events occur: A method, system, and computer program product for saving the state of at least one open application on a data processing system when an event forces open applications to close. The method preferably includes a step of monitoring data processing system activities to detect an event indicative of a forthcoming... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120042207 - Methods and structures for testing sas-2 speed options in speed negotiation windows: Method and structures provide for testing a SAS link during speed negotiation windows to determine success/failure in using a negotiated speed at one or more configured sets of speed options. For each device linked to a master SAS device, each possible set of speed options is configured; the device participates... Agent:

20120042208 - Test optimization: A method for optimizing tests of a software application. The method includes determining a test run time for each test of a plurality of tests of a software application; and dividing the tests into a plurality of test groups. The method further includes assigning a worker system of a plurality... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20120042209 - System and method for analyzing data: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for defining one or more failure conditions. Two of more executions are selected from a plurality of available executions based upon a simulation modeling file, thus defining two or more selected executions. A first of the two or more selected executions... Agent:

20120042210 - On-demand services environment testing framework: In one embodiment, a method of providing a test framework in an on-demand services environment can include: accessing a plurality of tests via plug-ins to a core platform of the test framework; receiving, by a user interface, a selection of tests for execution from the plurality of tests, where the... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20120042211 - Controlling a solid state disk (ssd) device: A mechanism is provided for controlling a solid state disk. A failure detector detects a failure in the solid state disk. Responsive to failure detector detecting a failure, a status degrader sets a degraded status indicator for the solid state disk. Responsive to the degraded status indicator, a degraded status... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120042212 - Mixed mode processor tracing: A program is executed on a processor to produce execution events. The execution events are traced using a first trace mode during a first portion of the program execution, wherein a portion of trace information for the execution events is omitted from a trace report while tracing in the first... Agent:

20120042213 - Wireless diagnostic system: Results of field testing of portions of a distributed system such as a Broadband Communications System are communicated from a testing device to a device including a display which downloads test protocols to the testing device. The testing device can thereafter operate in a stand-alone manner and transfer the results... Agent:

20120042214 - Method for detecting the impending analytical failure of networked diagnostic clinical analyzers: A method of detecting impending analytical failure in a networked diagnostic clinical analyzer is based upon detecting whether the operation of a particular analyzer is statistically distinguishable based on one or more thresholds. A failure occurs when one or more components or modules of the analyzer fails. A method to... Agent:

20120042216 - Mechanism for facilitating communication authentication between cloud applications and on-premise applications: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for providing communication authentication between cloud applications and on-premise applications. A method of embodiments includes receiving, from a cloud application at a cloud computing device, a first message at an application server of a server computing system, and parsing, at... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20120042215 - Request processing system provided with multi-core processor: One processor core of a plurality of processor cores that are included in a multi-core processor that processes a request from an external device detects a prescribed event, specifies a sub resource that is assigned to the one processor core based on the resource management information that indicates a sub... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20120042217 - State feedback control apparatus, state feedback controller, and state feedback control method: A corrected state space model obtained by correcting a state space model to represent a controllable system by adding an error matrix Δ to a state space model representing an uncontrollable system is designed. A control object is controlled based on a control input of the system represented by this... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20120042218 - Debugging site errors by an admin as a guest user in a multi-tenant database environment: An approach for debugging site errors in a multi-tenant database system is disclosed. An example method can include receiving a request from a site administrator to access an enhanced error message and determining if the site administrator is approved for viewing the enhanced error message by evaluating exceptions associated with... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20120042219 - States encoding in multi-bit flash cells for optimizing error rate: Memory cells are programmed and read, at least M=3 data bits per cell, according to a valid nonserial physical bit ordering with reference to a logical bit ordering. The logical bit ordering is chosen to give a more even distribution of error probabilities of the bits, relative to the probability... Agent:

20120042220 - Low-cost design for register file testability: A self-test module for use in an electronic device includes a test controller and a memory. The memory is configured to receive test vectors from the test controller. A comparator is configured to receive the test data from the memory via an output data path. A strobing buffer is located... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120042221 - Method and apparatus for implementing a harq in a multi-carrier system: Provided are a method and apparatus for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). A terminal receives a plurality of transmission blocks through a plurality of downlink component carrier waves, and determines a plurality of ACK/NACK resources for the plurality of transmission blocks. If the plurality of ACK/NACK resources overlaps,... Agent:

20120042222 - Transmitting apparatus and retransmitting method: In a retransmitting method, at least one ARQ block included in a first PDU is fragmented into a plurality of ARQ sub-blocks, and at least one second PDU is generated from the plurality of ARQ sub-blocks. The second PDU includes a payload including an extended header and at least some... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120042223 - Forward error correction scheme for high rate data exchange in a wireless system: A transmitter/receiver system for high data transfer in a wireless communication system includes a physical layer processor that comprises an FEC coder, a demultiplexer and a plurality of modem processors. The FEC coder applies error correction codes to the high data rate signal. Thereafter, the demultiplexer distributes portions of the... Agent: Ipr Licensing, Inc.

20120042225 - Data storage with an outer block code and a stream-based inner code: Apparatus and methods store stream-based error recovery data for a memory array, such as a NAND flash array. Conventionally, data is block coded per industry specification and stored in the memory array. Within the limits of the block code, this technique provides for correction of errors. By applying a stream-based... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20120042224 - System and method for correcting errors in non-volatile memory using product codes: A product code encoder for non-volatile (NV) memory includes a first encoder that encodes data in codewords in a first dimension that is stored in the NV memory. The product code encoder also includes a second encoder that encodes data in codewords in a second dimension that is stored in... Agent:

20120042226 - Iterative decoding of blocks with cyclic redundancy checks: The iterative decoding of blocks may be continued or terminated based on CRC checks. In an example embodiment, one iteration of an iterative decoding process is performed on a block whose information bits are covered by a CRC. The iterative decoding process is stopped if the CRC checks for a... Agent:

20120042227 - Fec streaming with aggregation of concurrent streams for fec computation: Transmitters and receivers deal with streams of data, wherein the receiver is expected to begin using received data before receiving all of the data. Concurrent streams are sent and FEC coding is used with the streams and done as an aggregate. The transmitter performs FEC operations over the plurality of... Agent: Digital Fountain, Inc.

20120042228 - Bitwise reliability indicators from survivor bits in viterbi decoders: Various embodiments relate to the production of erasure flags to indicate errors resulting from decoding of convolutional codes. A Viterbi decoder may use a register exchange method to produce a plurality of survivor codes. At a defined index, a majority vote may take place comparing values of bits in each... Agent: Nxp B.v.

20120042229 - Multi-standard viterbi processor: Various embodiments relate to a multi-standard Viterbi decoder. Based on programmable values for constraint length, generator polynomials, and code rate, the multi-standard Viterbi decoder may adhere to a specific convolutional code standard. At a given time, the multi-standard Viterbi decoder may receive a variety of convolutional codes through a channel... Agent: Nxp B.v.

20120036393 - 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: Hitachi, Ltd.

20120036392 - Fault detection and correction for single and multiple media players connected to electronic displays, and related devices, methods and systems: Systems, devices, software, hardware and networks adapted and arranged for monitoring and correcting faults in networked media player systems that include electronic displays are provided. After detection or notification of a fault in at least one networked media player in a network of at least two, or N, media players... Agent: Ek3 Technologies, Inc.

20120036391 - Method, system, and apparatus for network device to access packet switched network: A method for a network device to access a packet switched network is applied to a system in which the network device accesses the packet switched network by connecting to PEs in an active-standby mode. The method includes: an active PE and a standby PE each sends a fault detection... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120036394 - Data recovery method, data node, and distributed file system: A data recovery method includes: by a first data node, obtaining a notification that a second data node fails; and storing specified data to a third data node, recording information of the specified data stored in the third data node in backup information stored in the first data node, and... Agent: Chengdu Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120036390 - Redundancy configuration of main unit: A single main unit manages information on hardware resources and the like of all main units connected to a network in an integrated fashion. A slot management module, a slot control module, and a physical slot/managed slot comparison table are provided between an input/output control module and a slot interface... Agent: Nec Infrontia Corporation

20120036395 - Detecting data-write errors: An embodiment of a data read path includes recovery and decoder circuits. The recovery circuit is operable to recover coded data from a storage medium, and the decoder circuit is operable to detect, in the recovered data, a write error that occurred during a writing of the coded data to... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc

20120036396 - Built-in-self-test using embedded memory and processor in an application specific integrated circuit: A test method for an ASIC uses an embedded processor in the ASIC to execute test routines from an embedded memory or an external memory. During ASIC production, the test routines can comprehensively test of the blocks of the ASIC without a complicated test pattern from test equipment. The test... Agent:

20120036397 - Utilizing log event ontology to deliver user role specific solutions for problem determination: A log event can be received from a log source within an application server environment. The log event can be an error message which is associated with a log level. In one embodiment, the application server environment can be a JAVA 2 ENTERPRISE EDITION runtime environment. The log event can... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120036398 - Multiple core data processor with usage monitoring: A data processor with a plurality of processor cores. Accumulated usage information of each of the plurality of processor cores is stored in a storage device within the data processor, wherein the accumulated usage information is indicative of accumulated usage of each processor core of the plurality of processor cores.... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20120036399 - System and method for automated software application development: A computer-implemented method for identifying a new software application to be developed. A computer database is searched for matching keywords that correspond to any of a group of selected keywords, indicative of the new application. The database contains descriptive keywords which are indicative of a set of existing applications. If... Agent: Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc.

20120036400 - Data procssing system with peripheral configuration information error detection: In a data processing system including a first master operably coupled to a peripheral bus interface and a plurality of peripherals operably coupled to the peripheral bus interface, wherein the first master communicates with each of the plurality of peripherals via the peripheral bus interface, a method includes initiating a... Agent:

20120036401 - Selection of a domain of a configuration access: A data processing system includes an input/output (I/O) host bridge to which at least one I/O adapter is coupled by an I/O link. In a register of the I/O host bridge, a configuration partitionable endpoint (PE) field is set to identify a PE to be used for an I/O configuration... Agent:

20120036403 - Information processing apparatus, communication system, communication control method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus which make it possible to confirm an error recovery event. A device proxy server as an information processing apparatus is connected to a printer and a client PC via a network. The device proxy server receives an event message indicative of an event having occurred in... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20120036402 - User-customizable error forwarding method and system: A user-customizable error forwarding method and system are described for accomplishing user-customizable error forwarding. The method includes providing an error forwarding option on an error message. Upon selection of the error forwarding option by the user, an e-mail is automatically generated with the message portion of the e-mail automatically populated... Agent:

20120036404 - Control apparatus and control method: A control apparatus controlling testing of a memory under test that includes one or more row repair memory blocks and column repair memory blocks. The control apparatus comprises a counting section that sequentially receives test results respectively indicating pass/fail of a plurality of test blocks of the memory under test,... Agent: Advantest Corporation

20120036405 - Failure analyzing device and failure analyzing method: According to one embodiment, a failure analyzing device includes a classifying unit that classifies a failure type in a fail bit map corresponding to each layer, a storage unit that stores a rule to combine failed cells of different layers, and a determining unit that groups a classification result matched... Agent:

20120036406 - Method and apparatus for device access port selection: The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatuses for allowing a controller to select and access different types of access ports in a device. The selecting and accessing of the access ports is achieved using only the dedicated TDI, TMS, TCK, and TDO signal terminals of the device. The selecting... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120036407 - Method and apparatus for test connectivity, communication, and control: Functional circuits and cores of circuits are tested on integrated circuits using scan paths. Using parallel scan distributor and collector circuits for these scan paths improves test access of circuits and cores embedded within ICs and reduces the IC's power consumption during scan testing. A controller for the distributor and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120036408 - Test chain testability in a system for testing tri-state functionality: An embodiment of the invention provides system for detecting faults on a test chain. A circuit provides a test signal to an input of a test chain. The test chain includes a plurality of buffers connected in series. A register receives a logical value representing the output of the test... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120036409 - Efficient encoding and decoding methods for representing schedules and processing forward error correction codes: A sequence of symbol operations (a “schedule representation”) within a data storage device, wherein the operations are those used to process encoding or decoding operations of a forward error correction code (an “FEC code”) upon an arbitrary block of data of a given size (where size can be measured in... Agent: Digital Fountain, Inc.

20120036410 - Techniques to control power consumption in an iterative decoder by control of node configurations: A method for controlling power consumption of an iterative decoder based on one or more criteria is described. The method may include progressively enabling and disabling nodes of the iterative decoder to perform iterative decoding on a demodulated signal to provide a decoded signal with minimal variation of a supply... Agent:

20120036411 - Method, system, and apparatus for distributed decoding during prolonged refresh: Methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for preserving, verifying, and correcting data in DRAM device during a power-saving mode. In the power-saving mode, memory cells in the DRAM device may be refreshed using a self-refresh operation. This self-refresh operation may allow bit errors to occur in the DRAM device. However,... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20120036413 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data are disclosed. Herein, a method of processing data in a transmitting system includes creating a data group including a plurality of mobile service data packets, re-adjusting a relative position of at least one main service data packet of a main service... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120036412 - Low delay and area efficient soft error correction in arbitration logic: There is provided an arbitration logic device for controlling an access to a shared resource. The arbitration logic device comprises at least one storage element, a winner selection logic device, and an error detection logic device. The storage element stores a plurality of requestors' information. The winner selection logic device... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120036414 - Rendering data write errors detectable: An embodiment of a data write path includes encoder and write circuits. The encoder circuit is operable to code data so as to render detectable a write error that occurs during a writing of the coded data to a storage medium, and the write circuit is operable to write the... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc

20120036415 - Systems and methods for performing forward error correction: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for performing forward error correction. A decoder for performing forward error correction for a frame in a data stream includes a state machine configured to determine if a code block within the frame received by the decoder is... Agent:

20120036416 - List viterbi decoding of tail biting convolutional codes: A low complexity List Viterbi algorithm (LVA) for decoding tail biting convolutional codes (TBCCs) has lower complexity than a solution of running the LVA algorithm for all states. In one aspect, a low complexity LVA-TBCC process includes finding a list of states from a single Viterbi algorithm and finding a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120036417 - Method for detecting an error in an a/d converter by parity predictions: For detecting an error of an A/D converter, which is designed to generate at least one digital output signal, which includes a quantity of output data bits, based on at least one analog input signal, and during a conversion, to generate a thermometer code which includes a quantity T of... Agent:

20120036418 - Display control apparatus: A display control apparatus includes a display output control unit and a CPU. The display output control unit includes a comparison control unit which performs a cyclic redundancy check over an arbitrary region of image data. The comparison control unit includes a region control unit which selects a region of... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120036419 - Semiconductor memory device and method for driving the same: A semiconductor memory device includes: a first bank and a second bank; one or more first data input/output pads disposed at one side of the first bank and used in access to data of the first bank; one or more second data input/output pads disposed at one side of the... Agent:

20120030501 - Automatic determination of success of using a computerized decision support system: Methods and systems are provided for improving the repair efficacy of a repair action using inferred feedback. The method comprises downloading a repair procedure, which has a probability of success for correcting the fault code. Repair action data is input into to the computing device and is tracked and correlated... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20120030502 - Tenant rescue for software change processes in multi-tenant architectures: A multi-tenant system can be switched to a downtime state to implement a transition from a current state to a target state of a core software platform. During a second phase of the transition an error associated with tenant-specific content of a first customer tenant of the plurality of customer... Agent:

20120030504 - High reliability computer system and its configuration method: m

20120030503 - System and method for providing high availability for distributed application: A system and method is provided for ensuring high availability for a distributed application. A management object manages multiple scenarios defined for protection units associated with a distributed application. The management object may coordinate various operations performed at the protection units based on management object configuration information.... Agent: Computer Associates Think, Inc.

20120030505 - Method and apparatus for calendaring reminders: An electronic calendar includes such features as recurring reminders, dividing unpredictable work loads into equal pieces, template free parsing, a reminders scheduling algorithm to reduce spikes, dynamic delivery and recovery algorithms, methods for splitting the work load between controllers and workers and for monitoring progress, all within the context of... Agent:

20120030506 - Read disturb scorecard: Systems and methods are disclosed for handling read disturbs based on one or more characteristics of read operations performed on a non-volatile memory (“NVM”). In some embodiments, a control circuitry of a system can generate a variable damage value determined based on one or more characteristics of a read operation.... Agent: Apple Inc.

20120030507 - Data storage device: A data storage device includes an interface that is configured to interface with a host, a command bus, multiple memory devices that are operably coupled to the command bus and a controller that is operably coupled to the interface and to the command bus. The controller is configured to receive... Agent: Google Inc.

20120030508 - Database system configured for automatic failover with user-limited data loss: Techniques used in an automatic failover configuration having a primary database system, a standby database system, and an observer. In the automatic failover configuration, the primary database system remains available even in the absence of both the standby and the observer as long as the standby and the observer become... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20120030509 - Mechanism for maintaining cache soft repairs across power state transitions: A processor core includes one or more cache memories and a repair unit. The repair unit may repair locations in the cache memories identified as having errors during an initialization sequence. The repair unit may further cause information corresponding to the repair locations to be stored within one or more... Agent:

20120030510 - Method to recover data sector damaged by abrupt power loss in hard disk drives: A hard disk drive that is coupled to a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory includes data that was designated to be stored in the hard disk drive in a previous time period. When a power loss event is detected the hard disk drive stores the track address of the last... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120030511 - Efficient failure recovery in a distributed data storage system: A method is provided for efficiently recovering information in a distributed storage system where a list of values that should be stored on a storage device is maintained. A first convergence round is scheduled to be performed on the list of values to bring each value to an At Maximum... Agent:

20120030512 - Provisioning of data to a vehicle infotainment computing system: Various embodiments include a software provisioning system and method for a vehicle infotainment computer. Software provisioning of the vehicle infotainment computer may occur during vehicle assembly. A software provisioning request may be received for custom installing software to the vehicle infotainment computer. The custom install may be based on a... Agent: Ford Motor Company

20120030513 - Mechanism to provide assured recovery for distributed application: A system and method is provided for providing assured recovery for a distributed application. Replica servers associated with the distributed application may be coordinated to perform integrity testing together for the whole distributed application. The replica servers connect to each other in a manner similar to the connection between master... Agent: Computer Associates Think, Inc.

20120030517 - Exposing application performance counters for .net applications through code instrumentation: Disclosed is a method for adding performance counters to a .NET application after compilation of the .NET application to Common Intermediate Language code without a requirement for code changes to the original .NET application code or application recompilation from the development side. With regard to a further aspect of a... Agent: Avicode, Inc.

20120030516 - Method and system for information processing and test care generation: A method and system for information processing and test case generation. The system includes: a pattern storage module for storing at least one resource identifier patterns, where the resource identifier patterns are extracted from a server code of a web application by analyzing the server code; a client code analyzer... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120030514 - Module testing adjustment and configuration: In one embodiment, a method for testing adjustment and configuration is disclosed. The method can include accessing source code of a test framework that is configured for testing a module, creating a configuration folder having a property override for a test suite for the module testing, determining a source root... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20120030515 - Use of attribute sets for test entity identification during software testing: An attribute collector may collect an attribute set for each test entity of a plurality of test entities associated with a software test executed in a software environment. An attribute analysis signal handler may receive an attribute analysis signal associated with a change in the software environment, and a view... Agent: Sap Ag

20120030518 - Last branch record indicators for transactional memory: In one embodiment, a processor includes an execution unit and at least one last branch record (LBR) register to store address information of a branch taken during program execution. This register may further store a transaction indicator to indicate whether the branch was taken during a transactional memory (TM) transaction.... Agent:

20120030519 - Integrated dissimilar high integrity processing: A self-checking network is provided, comprising a first command processor configured to execute a performance function and a second command processor configured to execute the performance function, coupled to the first command processor. The self-checking network also comprises a first monitor processor configured to execute a monitor function that is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20120030521 - Selective branch-triggered trace generation apparatus and method: A method for selectively generating trace data is disclosed. Such a method includes executing a first module on a processor. The processor is operably coupled to a memory storing the first module and one or more branch modules. The method further includes detecting the execution of an instruction of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120030520 - Storage and output of trace data: A trace output unit for collecting, buffering and outputting trace data generated by trace circuitry monitoring processing activities of a data processing apparatus is described. The trace output unit comprises an input for receiving a stream of trace data; a plurality of data stores arranged in parallel with each other... Agent: Arm Limited

20120030522 - Fault cause extraction apparatus, fault cause extraction method, and program recording medium: A fault cause extraction apparatus 10 includes a storage unit 12 and a correlation-destruction-propagation detecting unit 25. Here, the storage unit 12 stores a correlation model including one or more correlation functions, each of which is generated based on a time series of performance information including a plurality of types... Agent:

20120030523 - Alarm threshold for bgp flapping detection: Methods and systems are described that improve the alarming logic for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flapping events. Embodiments provide an alarm threshold on BGP flapping conditions and alert on BGP related events. A reduction in silent failures and network outage minutes is achieved.... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120030524 - High reliability method of data processing, and controller unit: In a method of data processing within a controller ensuring that voting operations are reliably performed error free and in a corresponding controller unit, the input data are characteristic for the particular application where voting occurs. Voting whether or not the incoming data is correct involves a voting comparison method,... Agent:

20120030525 - Notification systems and methods where a notified pcd causes implementation of a task(s) based upon failure to receive a notification: Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative system, among others, can be summarized as follows. A host computer system, or base station, is designed to monitor travel data corresponding to a mobile thing and to initiate a notification communication to a personal communications device (PCD) indicating... Agent:

20120030526 - Communication device: A communication device includes a receiving unit, a first determining unit, and a sending unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive, from a terminal device, a plurality of input values corresponding to a plurality of setting items. The first determining unit, when the plurality of setting items includes a... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20120030529 - Refresh of non-volatile memory cells based on fatigue conditions: In one or more of the disclosed embodiments, memory cells in a memory device are refreshed upon an indication of a fatigue condition. In one such embodiment, controller monitors behavior parameters of the cells and determines if any of the parameters are outside of a normal range set for each... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20120030527 - Semiconductor memory device: Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device capable of arbitrarily setting an upper limit of the number of error corrections during a test operation. The semiconductor memory device has a counter, a register, and a comparison circuit. The counter counts the number of error corrections. The register, when an upper limit... Agent: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

20120030528 - Semiconductor storage device: As a semiconductor storage device that can efficiently perform a refresh operation, provided is a semiconductor storage device comprising a non-volatile semiconductor memory storing data in blocks, the block being a unit of data erasing, and a controlling unit monitoring an error count of data stored in a monitored block... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120030530 - Deterministic data verification in storage controller: Exemplary method, system, and computer program embodiments for performing deterministic data verification by a storage controller are provided. Each of a plurality of concurrent write tasks is configured to be placed in a plurality of overlapping data storage ranges by performing at least one of: implementing a data generation function... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120030531 - Safe memory storage by internal operation verification: The disclosed invention provides a structure and method for detecting address line (e.g., wordline, bitline) memory failures. In one embodiment, the method and structure comprise generating an address signature, by re-encoding an internally generated address signal from activated elements (e.g., wordlines) inside a memory array. The regenerated address signature may... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag

20120030532 - Structures and control processes for efficient generation of different test clocking sequences, controls and other test signals in scan designs with multiple partitions, and devices, systems and processes of making: A scannable integrated circuit (100) including a functional integrated circuit (P1, P2) having scan chains, multiple scan decompressors (120.1, 120.2), each operable to supply scan bits to some of the scan chains (101.k, 102.k), a shared scan-programmable control circuit (110, 300), a tree circuit (400) coupled with the functional integrated... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120030533 - Implementing switching factor reduction in lbist: A method and circuit are provided for implementing switching factor reduction in Logic Built in Self Test (LBIST) diagnostics, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides. Switching factor reduction logic is coupled to a Pseudo-Random Pattern Generator (PRPG) providing channel input patterns to a plurality of LBIST... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120030534 - Physical uplink shared channel encoder for user equipment modem and encoding method of the same: Provided are a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) encoder and an encoding method of the same. The PUSCH encoder includes a plurality of encoding units and a channel interleaving unit interleaving the data transferred from the plurality of encoding units. Herein, the respective encoding units perform encoding operations on different... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120030535 - Distributed block coding (dbc): Various embodiments implement distributed block coding (DBC). DBC can be used for, among other things, distributed forward error correction (DFEC) of source data in communication systems or parity backup for error correction of source data in storage systems where the source data may be corrupted by burst errors. A distributed... Agent: Sunrise Ip, LLC

20120030538 - Forward error correction decoding: A system may be used to predict when a decoding process will fail to correct an error burst within a transmission. A decoder may receive an input bit stream and process it to produce an output bit stream, which may be convolutionally encoded. K-bits of the convolutionally encoded output bit... Agent:

20120030536 - Initializing decoding metrics: A method includes, during a first iteration of a first decoder for decoding convolutionally encoded data elements, determining a first value of a first path metric. The method also includes, during a second iteration of the first decoder, determining a second value of the first path metric by using the... Agent:

20120030537 - Symbol encoding for tolerance to single byte errors: The present invention provides a method that protects symbol types by characterizing symbols as one of two types—DATA or NON_DATA, generating a symbol characterization bit, placing the symbol characterization bit at both ends of the symbol, and transmitting the symbol with the symbol characterization bits at both ends. Thus, a... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. A California Corporation

20120030539 - Error-floor mitigation of codes using write verification: Executed when a channel input (e.g., LDPC) codeword is written to a storage medium, a write-verification method (i) compares the channel input codeword to the written codeword, (ii) identifies any erroneous too bits, and (iii) stores the erroneous-bit indices to a record in a table. At some later time, the... Agent: Agere Systems Inc.

20120030540 - Ram memory device selectively protectable with ecc: An SRAM memory device including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; each row of memory cells is adapted to store a RAM word; the RAM word includes a corresponding data word, a corresponding ECC word to be used for error... Agent: Stmicroelectronics S.r.i.

20120030541 - Transmission device, reception device, transmission method, and reception method: In a transmission device, a determining unit determines, for use in transmission, an LDPC encoding method corresponding to occurrence conditions of external noise from a plurality of LDPC encoding methods each having the same code length and the same code rate and being defined by a different parity check matrix,... Agent:

20120030542 - Data storage device: A data storage device includes an interface that is configured to interface with a host, a command bus, multiple memory devices that are operably coupled to the command bus and a controller that is operably coupled to the interface and to the command bus. The controller is configured to receive... Agent: Google Inc.

20120030543 - Protection of application in memory: A method, a memory controller and a processor architecture for protecting an application in a memory are disclosed. The application is cached as memory lines according to a size of a cache line. For example, the method comprises: in response to a load access request from a processor, reading from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120030544 - Accessing memory for data decoding: A method comprises receiving a sequence of unique memory addresses associated with concatenated, convolutionally encoded data elements. The method also comprises identifying each of the unique memory addresses as being included in one group of a plurality of address groups. Each address group substantially includes an equivalent number of unique... Agent:

20120030545 - Error recovery storage along a nand-flash string: Apparatus and methods store error recovery data in different dimensions of a memory array. For example, in one dimension, block error correction codes (ECC) are used, and in another dimension, supplemental error correction codes, such as convolutional codes, are used. By using separate dimensions, the likelihood that a defect affects... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20120030546 - Watermarking electronic text documents: A text watermarking method embeds an auxiliary message in an original electronic text document to form a watermarked text document. The method applies a spreading function to message symbols to spread the symbols over a carrier, which forms a modulated carrier. It maps elements of the modulated carrier to corresponding... Agent:

20120030547 - System and method for saving battery power in a vital-signs monitor: A vital-signs device in a patient monitoring system is disclosed. The patch includes a housing configured to be attached to the skin of a patient. The housing contain monitoring circuitry configured to acquire and store measurements of vital signs of the patient, a wireless transmitter configured to transmit signals to... Agent: Carefusion 303, Inc.

20120030548 - Method and device for implementing cyclic redundancy check codes: The present invention relates to an error control technology in the communication system and discloses a method and an apparatus for implementing Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) codes to improve the operation performance of the system significantly and satisfy operation requirements when processing high-rate CRC data. The method includes: performing at... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120030549 - Data transmission detecting device, data transmission detecting method and electronic device thereof: A data transmission detecting device including a detecting module and a detection value calculating module is provided. The detecting module has a plurality of receiving terminals and receives a first data and a second data during a first period. The detecting module calculates a total detection value according to the... Agent: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.