Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery inventions

20100023799 - Determining correctness of job plans in a stream processing application: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for determining the correctness of similar job plan segments in a stream processing application. In one embodiment, a job manager may be configured to identify similar job plan segments based on data formats, functionality, and surrounding processing elements. The job manager plan may be... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100023798 - Error recovery and diagnosis for pushdown automata: Error recovery and diagnosis is afforded for pushdown automata. Upon detection of an error, a recovery strategy is selected and dispatched to recover from the error to place an automaton in an error free state to enable continued processing. In one instance, recovery strategies can be specified and matched with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100023800 - Nand flash memory controller exporting a nand interface: A NAND controller for interfacing between a host device and a flash memory device (e.g., a NAND flash memory device) fabricated on a flash die is disclosed. In some embodiments, the presently disclosed NAND controller includes electronic circuitry fabricated on a controller die, the controller die being distinct from the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20100023797 - Sequencing technique to account for a clock error in a backup system: A method, apparatus, and system of a sequencing technique to account for a clock error in a storage area network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system of a backup server includes a processing module to examine a data timestamped with a sequence of characters denoting a time according to... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20100023802 - Method to recover from logical path failures: A system and method for recovering from logical path failures is set forth. More specifically, when a host detects a logical path failure, the host enters a path discovery mode of operation. If the host continues to detect a logical path failure while operating in the logical path discovery mode... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20100023801 - Method to recover from ungrouped logical path failures: A system and method for recovering from a single logical path failure. More specifically, although a host has not grouped its logical paths, the host knows which logical paths it has available. When a host detects a logical path failure, the host enters a path discovery mode of operation. If... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20100023803 - Transitional replacement of operations performed by a central hub: A central hub is coupled to a plurality of computational devices. The central hub stores a data structure that grants locks for accessing common data stored at the central hub, wherein the common data is shared by the plurality of computational devices. Each computational device maintains locally those locks that... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20100023804 - Tcam bist with redundancy: A method of providing redundancy in a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM), the method including detecting a defective entry in building block in a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM), configuring a failover logic to redirect a software query toward a spare building block and away from the building block with... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100023805 - Method and system for disaster recovery based on journaling events pruning in a computing environment: A method and system for automated disaster recovery in an information technology computing system including computing resources, is provided. One implementation involves logging system events in a journaling log file, filtering the events of the log file for each resource and storing the filtered log file, reading the filtered log... Agent: Ibm - Eu C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100023806 - Tr-069 savepoints: If the transaction is not committed during a first TR-069 session, the CPE sends an Inform with an event code OpenSavePoint to the ACS during a next TR-069 session and the ACS may reply by including an additional field in the InformResponse to close the transaction. The SavePoint mechanism saves... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100023809 - Memory test circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit, and memory test method: A memory test circuit includes a counter circuit that outputs a set signal that is set to the first set value or the second set value alternately in a cycle of the clock signal, an OR circuit that calculates a logical sum of the set signal and the input signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023807 - Test device and method for the soc test architecture: A test device for the SoC test architecture is disclosed. The device comprises plural test groups connected in parallel and a test control flag register within a controller. Each test group comprises single or plural core circuits. The test control flag register enables a set of test signals to input... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20100023808 - Transactional flow management interrupt debug architecture: According to some embodiments, a first bus may be monitored, the first bus being to exchange data between a first processing system and a second processing system. A second bus may also be monitored, the second bus being to exchange data between the second processing system and a third processing... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100023810 - Methods, media and systems for detecting anomalous program executions: Methods, media, and systems for detecting anomalous program executions are provided. In some embodiments, methods for detecting anomalous program executions are provided, comprising: executing at least a part of a program in an emulator; comparing a function call made in the emulator to a model of function calls for the... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20100023812 - Debug trace messaging with one or more characteristic indicators: In a data processing system, an address associated with a processing operation is received. A modified address is generated which includes a characteristic indicator within the address at a first predetermined bit position when the characteristic indicator is of a first type or at a second predetermined bit position when... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100023811 - Dynamic address-type selection control in a data processing system: A translated address and an untranslated address associated with a same processor operation are received. An address-type indicator is provided whose value is indicative of whether the translated or untranslated address is to be used for creating a debug message. The value of the address-type indicator is selectively modified in... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100023813 - Data filtering method: The invention discloses a data filtering method for filtering a 3G data stream which is received. The data filtering method according to the invention includes the following steps. At first, a step (a) of receiving a 3G data stream continually is performed. Then, a step (b) of determining whether the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100023814 - Handling of clustered media errors in raid environment: A method, apparatus, and system of improved handling of clustered media errors in raid environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes starting a command timer when a firmware accepts a command from a host, tracking an amount of time the command spends on handling of a clustered media... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20100023815 - Managing apparatus, managing method, managing system and computer product: An apparatus accepts an injustice (grievance) report containing injustice report source terminal information for identifying a terminal device transmitting the injustice report and injustice content holding terminal information identifying a terminal device holding the content altered from the original content and content identification information for identifying the content; accesses a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023816 - Method for determining an asymmetrical signal lag of a signal path inside an integrated circuit: A device has at least one integrated signal path having a measurable asymmetrical signal lag and/or jitter, an output signal of the integrated signal path being able to be decoupled in a first measuring operating mode using a controllable integrated multiplexer to measure an asymmetrical signal lag of a measuring... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100023818 - Multiple access test architecture for memory storage devices: A new architecture for use with computer memory storage devices is disclosed that provides means by which a memory storage device may be accessed both as standard archive file device as well as in any unique physical and native command set modes supported by the device. A system architecture for... Agent: Sawyer Law Group PC

20100023817 - Test system and method: A test system includes a memory device having a data I/O circuit connected to a data write-in path and a data read-out path. During test mode, the data I/O circuit retains a copy of test pattern data received in the I/O circuit via the data write-in path as output test... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20100023819 - Programmable device testing: According to some embodiments, characterization data can be loaded onto a programmable device. The characterization data can be configured to cause the programmable device to perform one or more functions if executed on the programmable device. It can then be determined whether or not loading the characterization data onto the... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20100023820 - Asynchronous communication apparatus using jtag test data registers: An adaptation of a test data register (TDR) structure defined by the IEEE 1149.1 Joint Tag Action Group (JTAG) interface standard to provide a debugging path. Existing multi-core processor solutions are covered, but an expansion for a more generic solution is provided. In general, the present apparatus is for extending... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20100023821 - Asynchronous communication using standard boundary architecture cells: An adaptation of standard boundary cell architecture defined by the IEEE 1149.1 Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) interface standard to provide paths to functional circuitry via the re-use of JTAG standard test data registers (TDR) and interface. Existing multi-core processor solutions are covered, but an expansion for a more generic... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20100023822 - Ip core design supporting user-added scan register option: An integrated circuit carries an intellectual property core. The intellectual property core includes a test access port 39 with test data input leads 15, test data output leads 13, control leads 17 and an external register present, ERP lead 37. A scan register 25 encompasses the intellectual property core and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100023823 - Automatable scan partitioning for low power using external control: Scan architectures are commonly used to test digital circuitry in integrated circuits. The present invention describes a method of adapting conventional scan architectures into a low power scan architecture. The low power scan architecture maintains the test time of conventional scan architectures, while requiring significantly less operational power than conventional... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100023824 - Methods for generating test patterns for sequential circuits: A single-pass method for test pattern generation for sequential circuits employs a local-fault at each time-frame. The result is that a fault arriving at circuit primary output lines unambiguously signals the discovery of a valid test pattern sequence for the fault. The valid test pattern sequence is reconstructed from stored... Agent: Robert Buckley, Patent Attorney

20100023825 - Self-test circuit for high-definition multimedia interface integrated circuits: A high-definition multimedia interface circuit uses a high-definition multimedia interface encoder to produce a plurality of channels of data. An output circuit, connected to the high-definition multimedia interface encoder, produces a plurality of channels of high frequency data from the data produced by the high-definition multimedia interface encoder. A multiplexer... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100023826 - Clock data recovering circuit and control method of the clock data recovering circuit: A clock data recovering circuit solving a problem in which a stable clock signal cannot be extracted is provided. A phase comparator includes a main-signal-discriminator. The main-signal-discriminator discriminates a reception signal by a clock signal to generate recovery data indicating the discrimination result. Phase comparator 2 uses the discrimination result... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100023827 - Soft error correction method, memory control apparatus and memory system: A soft error correction method is for a memory system having memory access controllers accessing memories for storing byte-sliced data in cycle synchronism, and a system controller receiving a memory access from an arbitrary one of MPUs and issuing a memory address to the memory access controllers. When a correctable... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023832 - Data acknowledgement: A method for generating acknowledgement messages in a data transmission system having a receiver for receiving datagrams and being capable of determining which of a series of datagrams have been incorrectly received, the method comprising generating a plurality of a data units, each data unit comprising: a status bit indicative... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100023828 - Ip multicast with ip unicast/multicast error correction: A method of delivering digital information includes joining a multicast group, and receiving a segment from a server directed to the multicast group. Further, the method further includes determining a transmission error has occurred resulting in an incomplete segment, and sending an error notification to the server requesting retransmission of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20100023830 - Link adaptation dependent control signaling: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing an improved scheme for encoding control information for transmitting user data. Further the method and apparatus may allow for reducing the control signaling overhead. These advantages may be achieved by interpreting information on at least one link adaptation parameter for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100023829 - Method and apparatus for selective acknowledgement: The present invention pertains to the field of data communications and is directed to providing ways and means for flexible receipt reporting. A transceiving unit (1) is operated (61) to receive at least one sequence of data blocks (9) where the data blocks each have a respective sequence number (31).... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100023831 - Method and device for allocating resources in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a resource allocation device for minimizing delay of an uplink retransmission resource allocation process in a wireless communication system having a high data rate, and a method thereof. In the method, user data are received and an ACK/NACK state of the received data is determined,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023833 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for processing enhanced uplink scheduling grants: A method for generating a serving grant at a wireless transmit/receive unit is disclosed. An absolute grant channel signal is decoded to obtain an absolute grant from a serving cell. A relative grant channel signal is decoded to obtain a relative grant from a serving radio link set and a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100023834 - Coding schemes for wireless communication transmissions: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting low-density parity-check encoded communications in a wireless communications network and incrementing such codes in response to requests from receiving devices. The LDPC codes can have associated constraints allowing the codes to be error corrected upon receipt. The requests for incremented codes can... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100023835 - Method and apparatus for improving harq operation: The present invention provides a method for improving a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The UE operates in an HS-SCCH Less Operation. The method includes steps of decoding data of an HARQ procedure corresponding to a current Transmission Time... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100023836 - Ofdm signal collision position detection apparatus and ofdm reception apparatus: A pilot reception power measuring section measures reception power of a pilot symbol and a data section reception power prediction section predicts reception power of data symbols based on the reception power of the pilot symbol. A power comparison section calculates a difference between this predicted value and the actual... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100023837 - Transmitting apparatus, transmitting method, and program: A change amount detector calculates the amount of change between frames in a predetermined display range in an image corresponding to image data. When the calculated amount of change is larger than a first threshold, a redundancy determining portion determines the number of data of redundant data such that the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100023838 - Quasi-cyclic ldpc (low density parity check) code construction: Quasi-cyclic LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) code construction is presented that ensures no four cycles therein (e.g., in the bipartite graphs corresponding to the LDPC codes). Each LDPC code has a corresponding LDPC matrix that is composed of square sub-matrices, and based on the size of the sub-matrices of a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100023840 - Ecc circuit, semiconductor memory device, memory system: A syndrome generation section generates a syndrome from input data having d bits of data bits and k bits of parity bits. A syndrome table stores a syndrome pattern indicating that no error has occurred in the input data and syndrome patterns indicating an error position. A comparison section compares... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100023839 - Memory system and memory error cause specifying method: Provided is a memory system that can specify a cause of an error. According to the memory system, during writing, when write data is looped back, and the write data is an error, the error has occurred between first processing units (51 to 53) or second processing units (56 to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20100023841 - Memory system, sense amplifier, use, and method for error detection by means of parity bits of a block code: A memory device for an error-correcting block code is provided, whereby each code word of the block code can have data bits and parity bits. The device also includes a memory for storing the data bits and the parity bits of each code word, and includes an error detection circuit,... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100023843 - Method for processing noise interference: A method for processing noise interference in a serial AT Attachment (SATA) interface. In the method, when a receiver does not receive a SOF primitive (start of frame primitive) but does receive an EOF primitive (end of frame primitive) or WTRM primitive (wait for frame termination primitive), the receiver outputs... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100023842 - Multisegment loss protection: A method for providing error correction of media packets. Service nodes associated with a core network segment use a first error correction process, and service nodes associated with an access network segment use a second error correction process. Service nodes associated with a local network segment may use a third... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20100023844 - Method for interleaving continuous length sequence: An interleaver provision method for providing a continuous length, an interleaving method, and a turbo-encoder thereof are disclosed. The interleaving method selects a basic interleaver having a proper length from among the basic interleaver set, which is predetermined to have the length represented by a multiple of the ARP fluctuation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100023845 - Method for adding error protection bits to match codeword length: Teachings presented herein provide a method (100) and apparatus (10) for processing input information bits (16) for coding using a code (20), such that the length of the information word (14) formed from the input information bits (16) matches a fixed information word length defined by the code 20. In... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100023846 - Methods and apparatuses for performing error detection and error correction for synchronization frame: According to methods and apparatuses for performing error detection and error correction for a synchronization frame in embodiments of the present invention, a transmitter acquires a transmitter check sequence according to contents of a synchronization frame sequence; and a receiver acquires a receiver information sequence related to the check sequence.... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100023847 - Storage subsystem and method for verifying data using the same: A subject of the invention is to propose a storage subsystem assuring high reliability and not impairing processing performance. The invention is a storage subsystem which includes a storage device including a hard disk drive and a controller for controlling an access to the storage device in response to a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100023848 - Method and device for inputting digital values: The invention concerns a device (1) comprising a digital keyboard (2) capable of being actuated by an operator for inputting figures of a particular digital value, display means (3) for displaying at least the input figures, validating means (5) capable of being actuated by an operator for validating a displayed... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100017642 - Distributed transaction processing system having resource managers that collaborate to decide whether to commit or abort a transaction in response to failure of a transaction manager: A distributed transaction processing system includes a plurality of resources, resource managers to manage corresponding ones of the resources, and a transaction manager to coordinate performance of a transaction with the resource managers. In response to failure of the transaction manager, the resource managers are configured to collaborate to decide... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100017643 - Cluster system and failover method for cluster system: Provided is a failover method for a cluster system for realizing smooth failover of the guest OS's, even when there are many guest OS's, while reducing consumption of computer resources of a server. Smooth failover is realized by preventing competition during failover even when the number of guest OS's is... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20100017644 - Byzantine fault tolerant dynamic quorum using a trusted platform module: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The computer executable code is operable to dynamically adjust quorum requirements for a voting set V of a server cluster, including a plurality of servers, to ensure that a response of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100017646 - Cluster system and node switching method: When a first server node fails in a cluster system, a client node device transmits failure detection information to a second server node device. Upon receipt of the failure detection information, the second server node device transmits a survival confirmation request to the first server node device. When receiving no... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100017645 - Communication apparatus and control method: A communication apparatus includes: a transmitting unit, a receiving unit and a control unit. The transmitting unit transmits video data to an external apparatus via a first transmission line. The receiving unit receives a command from the external apparatus via a second transmission line. The control unit that resets the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100017648 - Complete dual system and system control method: A DB server included in an old operation node corrects a recovery log stored in a recovery log storage unit by using a difference log stored in a difference log storage unit. A duplication control device and a DBMS compare a difference log file stored in the difference log storage... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100017647 - Match server for a financial exchange having fault tolerant operation: Fault tolerant operation is disclosed for a primary match server of a financial exchange using an active copy-cat instance, a.k.a. backup match server, that mirrors operations in the primary match server, but only after those operations have successfully completed in the primary match server. Fault tolerant logic monitors inputs and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20100017649 - Data storage system with wear-leveling algorithm: The present invention discloses a data storage system employing a plurality of electrical memory devices, preferably non-volatile memory cards or sub-modules, whereby user data or application software codes or OS software codes are protected by RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) architecture, and wear-leveling algorithms are uniquely arranged to extend... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20100017650 - Non-volatile memory data storage system with reliability management: A non-volatile memory data storage system, comprising: a host interface for communicating with an external host; a main storage including a first plurality of flash memory devices, wherein each memory device includes a second plurality of memory blocks, and a third plurality of first stage controllers coupled to the first... Agent: Tung & Associates Suite 120

20100017651 - System and method for efficient detection and restoration of data storage array defects: The system and method are for efficient detection and restoration of data storage array defects. The system may include a data storage subsystem, wherein the data storage subsystem includes a data storage array, read-write logic coupled to the data storage array, a parity generator for producing and storing check data... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100017652 - Apparatus with redundant circuitry and method therefor: An apparatus with circuit redundancy includes a set of parallel arithmetic logic units (ALUs), a redundant parallel ALU, input data shifting logic that is coupled to the set of parallel ALUs and that is operatively coupled to the redundant parallel ALU. The input data shifting logic shifts input data for... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20100017654 - Device-to-device communication bus for distributed power management: A Device-to-Device Communication Bus protocol may facilitate transmission of a two to four byte packet by any device sharing the bus. All devices on the bus may monitor the bus, receiving all packets transmitted by other devices and recognizing when they may initiate transmission. The first byte of the packet... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100017653 - Reference state information generation: A method for generating reference state information, the method includes: comparing between at least one sequence of block identifiers that are accessed during a test period and at least one corresponding reference sequence of block identifiers to provide a comparison result; determining whether to generate reference state information in response... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100017655 - Error recovery during execution of an application on a parallel computer: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for error recovery during execution of an application on a parallel computer that includes a plurality of compute nodes. Such error recovery includes: storing, by the application during execution on the nodes, application restore data in a restore buffer at predetermined points during execution... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20100017656 - System on chip (soc) device verification system using memory interface: A system on a chip (SoC) device verification system comprises: an SoC device model including one or more IPs and a memory controller; an external IP verification model receiving an instruction from the SoC device model and verifying operation of the one or more IPs included in the SoC device... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20100017657 - System and method for performance test in outside channel combination environment: Provided are a system and method for a performance test in an outside channel combination environment. In an outside channel combination environment including first and second outside-affairs servers in an active-active form, first and second outside channel combination servers, and first and second network devices, a system for a performance... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100017658 - Test system and method with a simulator: A test system for testing various functions of electronic devices includes a master device and a simulation control device. The master device is connected to an input device and the electronic devices through the simulation control device. The master device records input signals of the input device and generate simulation... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100017659 - Secure boot circuit and method: A circuit includes a circuit identification storage module and a control module. The circuit identification storage module stores circuit identification information. The control module receives the circuit identification information and in response thereto selectively performs a secure boot procedure or a test boot procedure. The control circuit performs the secure... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20100017660 - System and method for protecting memory stacks using a debug unit: A method is disclosed for detecting a memory stack fault. The method may include reserving a memory stack for executing software instructions. The method may also include enabling a debug unit and as the software instructions are execute, utilizing the debug unit to monitor a memory space adjacent to the... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20100017661 - Method for detecting a fault on a data line: Multiple embodiments relate to a method for detecting a fault on a data line in a bus system in a two-line data network having at least two control units. A data signal is emitted by a transmitter-receiver unit on the two data lines as a differential voltage signal that includes... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20100017662 - Method and apparatus for calibrating and/or deskewing communications channels: A series of pulses may be driven down each drive channel, which creates a series of composite pulses at the output of the buffer. Each composite pulse is a composition of the individual pulses driven down the drive channels. Timing offsets associated with the drive channels may be adjusted until... Agent: N. Kenneth Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20100017663 - Data processing circuit and method: A data processing method is provided. Target page data are read from a memory cell array and addresses of multiple programmed-error bits are stored. A first syndrome polynomial and a second syndrome polynomial are obtained according to the target page data, and the target page data are saved as a... Agent: Daniel R. Mcclure Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20100017664 - Embedded flash memory test circuit: Provided is an embedded flash memory test circuit, including an embedded flash memory call array a read-only memory (ROM) built-in self test (BIST) unit, a ROM BIST control unit and a comparison unit. The embedded flash memory cell array includes multiple flash memory cells, and simultaneously outputs m pieces of... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20100017665 - Defective memory block identification in a memory device: During manufacture and testing of a memory device, a memory test is performed to determine which, if any, memory blocks are defective. A memory map of the defective blocks is stored in one of the defect-free memory blocks so that it can be read later by a controller during normal... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A. Attn: Kenneth W. Bolvin

20100017666 - Faulty site identification apparatus, faulty site identification method, and integrated circuit: A faulty site identification apparatus for identifying a faulty site in an integrated circuit, the faulty site identification apparatus including a scan chain constituted by coupling a plurality of sequential circuit elements and adapted to output a scan data by shifting out setting data that is set to each of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100017667 - Method and device to detect failure of static pervasive control signals: A method and circuits for monitoring and detecting an error in the static pervasive signals applied to input/output pins of an integrated circuit during functional operation of the integrated circuit. The method and circuits provide a signal signature of each of one or more groups of the static pervasive signals... Agent: Prtsi, Inc

20100017668 - System and method for digital logic testing: Some embodiments provide a method of digital logic design and digital logic testing of logic under test, the logic including latches, the latches including measure latches, which are latches that measure focal faults more than other latches, and care bit latches, which are latches that require specific input values to... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20100017669 - Method for correcting high-frequency characteristic error of electronic component: An electronic-component high-frequency characteristic error correcting method for allowing a calibration work to be performed on a two-terminal impedance component using the same correction-target measuring system as that used in actual measurement. At least three correction data acquisition samples having different high-frequency characteristics are measured by a reference measuring system... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100017670 - Automatic data recovery system: A method, programmed medium and system are provided for recovering media-stored program code and/or user data when data on the same media are lost or corrupted. The system includes retrieving user data and/or program code from an external source when the actual data/code is not readable. When initiating the load... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20100017671 - Hybrid automatic repeat request process mapping rule: A method is provided for associating initial transmissions and retransmissions. The method includes determining a HARQ process ID for the initial transmission based upon a system frame number, a subframe number, a period associated with the initial transmission and/or a number of reserved HARQ process IDs. The method further includes... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100017672 - Method of retransmission control in wireless relay system, wireless relay station, and wireless base station: If a reception result from an MS for the previous transmission data is a reception failure, second allocation information for retransmitting the previous transmission data is generated by an RS based on allocation information on a wireless resource for transmission of new data. The second allocation information and the previous... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100017673 - Data transmission system and data transmission method: A data transmission system includes a server, a network and a plurality of terminals. The server sends data to the terminals via the network and the network connects the server and the plurality of terminals, and the terminal includes a network interface unit that connects to the network and communicates... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100017674 - Retransmission control technique: A retransmission control method, a transmitter and a receiver. The method comprises the steps of receiving, at a MIMO transmitter, a NACK signal indicating an unsuccessful decoding of a coded data packet at a MIMO receiver; receiving a reliability measure associated with one or more transmitted spatial data streams for... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/panasonic

20100017675 - Supporting hybrid automatic retransmission request in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access radio access system: A method of supporting a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) radio access system is disclosed. Preferably, the method comprises receiving a downlink data frame comprising a data map information element and a data burst comprising a plurality of layers, wherein each layer... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100017677 - Decoding device and decoding method: To provide a decoder capable of efficiently dealing with various Z, even when in-block parallel degree is fixed in MP decoding of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes. A reception value aligning device keeps the first S or less reception value data from the block head. If block size Z is not a... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100017676 - Decoding of linear codes with parity check matrix: A decoding method and system for stochastic decoding of linear codes with the parity check matrix comprising elements of a Galois field is provided. Each encoded sample of a set of encoded samples is first scaled by a scaling factor proportional to a noise level of the set of encoded... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20100017678 - Hierarchical trellis coded modulation: A system and method for encoding information is disclosed. In one embodiment, information is encoded using a high protection code for the least significant bit and a low protection code for the next three most significant bits. The remaining bits are uncoded. The high protection code may be a turbo... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100017679 - Recording and reproducing data to/from a recording medium having a user data area and an information area for storing information about the recording medium: If a large minimum data unit for recorded data is used to record a small data amount of management information, the recording time is long, and furthermore when a WO (write once) is used as the recording medium, the number of recording operations is restricted. To solve the above problems,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100017681 - Method and apparatus for enhanced hashing: A search key lookup system including a hash table having a plurality of entries and a function generator is disclosed. The function generator can be coupled to the hash table and configured to receive a key and to provide a first function and a second function. The first function can... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Rmi

20100017680 - Transmitting/receiving system and method of processing broadcast signal in transmitting/receiving system: A receiving system and a method of processing data are disclosed herein. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, an equalizer, a block decoder, and an RS frame decoder. The receiving unit receives and demodulates a broadcast signal. Herein, the broadcast signal includes at least a mobile service data and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100017682 - Error correction code striping: A method is disclosed which decreases the amount of error correction code data required to detect and correct errors in digital data while still maintaining a specified ability to correct errors in large groups of contiguous data. The present invention accomplishes this by placing distance either in space or in... Agent: Powell And Associates

20100017683 - Disk-drive device and method for error recovery thereof: A method for an error recovery process in a disk-drive device. The method includes starting the error recovery process in response to an error which has occurred in a process corresponding to a command from a host to access a disk. The method also includes receiving a new read command... Agent: Hitachi C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20100017684 - Data recovery in solid state memory devices: Embodiments herein provide data recovery techniques and configurations for solid state memory devices. For example, a method includes identifying a hard error associated with a cell of a solid state memory device, providing a location of the cell having the identified hard error to a decoder to recover data originally... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100017685 - Adaptive error correction: A transmitter generates error correction data according to an error correction scheme that logically arranges the communication data in a number of rows and a number of columns. The transmitter transmits the communication data and the error correction data. A receiver receives the communication data and the error correction data.... Agent: Sprint

20100017686 - Fast channel zapping and high quality streaming protection over a broadcast channel: Signaling the sending of source blocks within multiple physical layer blocks is done for both streaming and object delivery applications, using minimal additional overhead, and in some cases no overhead, to signal interleaved source blocks within a physical layer block, signaling how symbols are related to the source blocks from... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100017687 - Method and apparatus for n+1 packet level mesh protection: Methods and apparatus are provided for N+1 packet level mesh protection. An error correction encoding method is provided that assembles M-T data packets; appends a sequence number and a payload integrity check to each of the M-T data packets; and creates T protection packets having the sequence number and payload... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100017688 - Performing multiple reed-solomon (rs) software error correction coding (ecc) galois field computations simultaneously: Performing multiple Reed-Solomon (RS) software error correction coding (ECC) Galois field computations simultaneously in a RISC processor. A means is presented by which multiple Galois field computations are performed in parallel with one another. Processor, memory, and plurality of adders and/or multipliers are implemented appropriately to allow parallel Galois field... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100017689 - Vsb transmission system: A vestigial sideband (VSB) modulation transmission system and a method for encoding an input signal in the system are disclosed. According to the present invention, the VSB transmission system includes a convolutional encoder for encoding an input signal, a trellis-coded modulation (TCM) encoder for encoding the convolutionally encoded signal, and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100017691 - Audio codec and built-in self test method for the same: An audio codec and a BIST method adapted for the audio codec are provided. The BIST method includes the following steps. A first channel digital-to-analog converter (DAC) of the audio codec converts a test signal into an analog signal. A first channel analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the audio codec converts... Agent: J C Patents

20100017690 - Method and apparatus for low latency proportional path in a digitally controlled system: A digitally controlled circuit and method includes an error input coupled to a proportional path. The proportional path includes a selector which directly receives the error input as a select signal. The selector receives a proportional control weight from a location other than the proportional path wherein the proportional control... Agent: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20100017692 - Method and apparatus for cyclic redundancy check in communication system: A method for performing a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) in a communication system is provided. An input message is divided into a predetermined number of segments. The CRC is performed on each segment to generate a CRC code of each segment. Polynomial addition is performed on CRC codes of respective... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100011238 - Information processing system and data recovery method: When data of HDD of computer is backed up to a a data center and a failure occurs in the HDD, the computer notifies failure information to the data center, and the data center stores the backed up data in a storage medium substituting HDD for subsequent delivery. Further, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100011239 - Storage system and data restoration method thereof: This storage system includes a first storage sub system having a first logical volume where a first data area is dynamically allocated to each prescribed area, and which stores data transmitted from a host computer in the first data area, and a second storage sub system having a second data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100011240 - Device and method for synchronizing the states of a plurality of sequential processing units: A device for providing a plurality of clock signals from a common clock signal. The device includes an input for receiving the common clock signal, a first clock signal path for providing a first output clock signal on the basis of the common clock signal and a second clock signal... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100011241 - Information processing apparatus and domain dynamic reconfiguration processing method: An information processing apparatus includes a domain configured by plural system boards, and a pair of service processors, wherein when one of the pair of service processors fails during the execution of domain dynamic reconfiguration processing for the domain, the other of the pair of service processors takes over and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100011242 - Failover method and system for a computer system having clustering configuration: A failover method for a computer system having a clustering configuration, in which among a plurality of computers having the clustering configuration, any one of computers, when detecting a malfunction of a system including a certain computer, transmits a detection of the system malfunction to computers configuring the other systems,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100011243 - Methods, systems and media for software self-healing: Methods, systems, and media for enabling a software application to recover from a fault condition, and for protecting a software application from a fault condition, are provided. In some embodiments, methods include detecting a fault condition during execution of the software application, restoring execution of the software application to a... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20100011244 - Method of routing data in a network comprising nodes organized into clusters: A method relates to routing data in a network, between source nodes and destination nodes pertaining respectively to distinct source groups and destination groups. The network includes intermediate groups forming at least two potential data transmission paths through which the data can be transmitted. The method includes a determination step,... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100011245 - Fault tolerant routing in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system: Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for replacing an active processing engine with a non-hot-standby processing engine. Multiple processing engines within a network routing system are configured. The processing engines... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20100011246 - Diagnostic/remote monitoring by email: A network device for use in a communication system having a technical support center operated by a technical support staff, the technical support center being in communication with the network device through a packet switching network. The network device includes one or more hardware subsystems, one or more software subsystems... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20100011248 - Light weight and high throughput test case generation methodology for testing cache/tlb intervention and diagnostics: A test case manager selects a first test case and a second test case from a plurality of test cases. The test case manager provides the first test case to a first processor and provides the second test case to a second processor. As such, the first processor executes the... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20100011247 - Method and apparatus for parallel ecc error location: An invention is provided for parallel ECC error location in a memory. The invention includes partitioning a set of field elements into w partitions. Then, for each of the w partitions of field elements, i) providing a set of r different field elements of the partition to r parallel search... Agent: Patent Venture Group

20100011249 - Device for testing a function of a display port, and system and method for testing the same: A device is disclosed for testing the function of a display port. The device includes a display port transmitting part, a field programmable gate array, and a memory. The display port transmitting part transmits connecting signals to a display port timing controller mounted on a display panel. The field programmable... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100011250 - Microcontroller information extraction system and method: A system for debugging a device under test may include a processor register with a program count and a debug program register that receives the program count upon execution of an instruction by a processor. In one implementation, a microcontroller under test by a debugger is accessed using a serial... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100011252 - Format transformation of test data: A device for processing test data, the device having a data input interface adapted for receiving primary test data indicative of a test carried out for testing a device under test, the primary test data being provided in a primary format, a processing unit adapted for generating secondary test data... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20100011251 - Medical equipment monitoring method and system: A system and method to facilitate device monitoring and servicing is provided. In one embodiment, a system may include a medical device having at least one component, and monitoring circuitry configured to measure operational data of the component. The system can also include a data processing system configured to analyze... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20100011253 - Circuit arrangement for monitoring errors during signal transmission: A circuit arrangement, having a circuit and a computer unit is provided, in which the circuit and the computer unit are connected to one another via multiple lines for transmitting a number of signals which are embodied as information signals. The circuit has a multiplexer for combining signals, the multiplexer... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100011255 - Methods and systems for continously estimating persistent and intermittent failure probabilities for production resources: Production control systems and methods are presented for estimation of production resource failure probabilities in which a set of four count values are maintained and updated for each resource including a first count value m11 indicating a number of plans where the resource m was used and failed, a second... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20100011254 - Risk indices for enhanced throughput in computing systems: Embodiments of a system that adjusts a checkpointing frequency in a distributed computing system that executes multiple jobs are described. During operation, the system receives signals associated with the operation of the computing nodes. Then, the system determines risk metrics for the computing nodes using a pattern-recognition technique to identify... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100011256 - Apparatus and method for executing workflow: If an error occurs during workflow processing, the present invention interrupts job processing appropriately while dispersing a load to the devices. When executing a plurality of processing steps with a plurality of devices in accordance with workflow setting information that defines the sequence of processing, a workflow execution method of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100011257 - Information processing apparatus and fault processing method: An information processing apparatus includes: a hardware management unit that is connected with hardware resources assigned to a plurality of partitions and manages the hardware resources, and if occurrence of a fault in any of the plurality of partitions is detected, makes a notification of the occurrence of the fault... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100011258 - Coordinating the execution of system and database scripts in a database server: An administrator can specify a script sequence including one or more system scripts and database scripts. A graphical user interface is provided to allow the administrator to specify an execution order of individual scripts in the script sequence and a timeout interval for when the script sequence will complete. Once... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100011259 - Electronic apparatus and unit utilized in electronic system: A printer apparatus generates a fixed-length packet by appending a termination identifier for representing a termination point of sub-data. The printer apparatus transmits the packet to a unit. Upon receiving the packet, the unit detects burst error based upon the termination identifier.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100011260 - Memory system: The memory system includes a NAND type flash memory 1 in which data can be electrically written/erased, a nonvolatile memory 2 which counts the number of erase operations of the NAND type flash memory 1 and retains the number of erase operations and a maximum number of erase operations, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100011261 - Verifying data integrity of a non-volatile memory system during data caching process: To ensure integrity of non-volatile flash, the controller programs the non-volatile memories with background test patterns and verifies the non-volatile memories during power on self test (POST) operation. In conjunction with verifying the non-volatile memories, the controller may routinely run diagnostics and report status to the storage controller. As part... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20100011262 - Reduced signaling interface method and apparatus: This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100011263 - Selectively accessing test access ports in a multiple test access port environment: A TAP linking module (21, 51) permits plural TAPs (TAPs 1-4) to be controlled and accessed from a test bus (13) via a single TAP interface (20).... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100011264 - Multi-clock system-on-chip with universal clock control modules for transition fault test at speed multi-core: A multi-clock system-on-chip (D) comprises i) a core (CE) comprising asynchronous clock domains provided for exchanging test data therebetween, ii) a clock generator unit (CGU) arranged for delivering primary clock signals (clk1-clko) for at least some of the clock domains, and iii) clock control modules (CCl-CCo), arranged respectively for defining... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100011265 - Integrated circuit chip and circuit network: An integrated circuit chip includes a plurality of two-way transceivers capable of simultaneously transmitting and receiving signals, a switch circuit coupled to the plurality of two-way transceivers and to a given node to provide switchable couplings between the plurality of two-way transceivers and the given node, an interconnection information storage... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100011266 - Program verify method for otp memories: A method for executing a program verify operation in a non-volatile memory. A data register having master and slave latching circuits is used for concurrently storing two different words of data. In a program operation, the master latch stores program data which is used for programming selected memory cells. In... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20100011267 - Multi-strobe circuit: A multi-strobe circuit that latches a signal to be tested, an evaluation target, at each edge timing of a multi-strobe signal having a plurality of edges. An oscillator oscillates at a predetermined frequency in synchronization with a reference strobe signal. A latch circuit latches the signal to be tested at... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20100011268 - System and method for signal reconstruction from incomplete data: A method for reconstructing a signal from incomplete data in a signal processing device includes acquiring incomplete signal data. An initial reconstruction of the incomplete signal data is generated. A reconstruction is generated starting from the initial reconstruction by repeating the steps of: calculating a sparsity transform of the reconstruction,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100011270 - Communication system, communication device, and communication method: A first loss determination section 13 of a first communication device 10 determines that a data unit is lost if an acknowledgment response for the transmitted data unit from a second communication device 30 is not received within a predetermined time and retransmits the data unit when the determination is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100011271 - Device and method of data combining: A device and method of combining a first version of an information block and a second version of the information block is disclosed. The method comprises calculating, prior to combining the first and second versions of the information block, a scaling factor to be applied in combining the first and... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20100011269 - Systems and methods for uplink inter-cell interference cancellation using hybrid automatic repeat request (harq) retransmissions: Systems, methods, apparatus, devices and computer program products enhance uplink inter-cell interference cancellation with HARQ retransmissions. The decoding of a data packet depends on whether the interfering packet was decoded. Since the interfering packet is itself transmitted using a HARQ process, the transmission by the victim UT can be accomplished... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100011272 - Variable rate coding for enabling high performance communication: A protocol for optimizing the use of coded transmissions such as over wireless links. In this technique, interframes are split into segments selected to be an optimum size according to transmission characteristics of the radio channel. The inverse process is applied at the receiver. Using this scheme, segments containing erroneous... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100011273 - Method for safely transmitting short ack/nack bitmaps in arq process inside edge complaint systems: A fast ARQ mechanism operated inside 3GPP GERAN mobile radio systems uses short bitmaps, spanning only few octets, in the header of a RLC/MAC block conveying relevant ACK/NACK signalling that is transmitted either in the uplink or downlink direction, indifferently. This short bitmap which may request synchronization between transmitting and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100011274 - Hypothetical fec decoder and signalling for decoding control: A communication system wherein a transmitter transmits a media stream to a receiver encoded using FEC, comprising at least one hypothetical FEC decoder at the transmitter for decoding the media stream encoded at the transmitter. The transmitter determines what optimization signals to provide the receiver given the outputs of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100011275 - Methods, apparatuses, systems, and architectures for quickly and reliably encoding and/or decoding system data: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and architectures for providing fast, independent, and reliable retrieval of system data (e.g., metadata) from a storage system, which enables minimal degradation in the reliability of user data. Methods generally include encoding the system data at least twice, at least once independently and at least once jointly... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20100011276 - Storage device for refreshing data pages of flash memory based on error correction code and method for the same: A storage device for refreshing pages of a flash memory comprises a flash memory, an ECC detector and a controller. The flash memory has a plurality of pages, and each page comprises a data area for storing data and a spare area for storing error correction code (ECC) corresponding to... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20100011277 - Adjustable error-correction for a reed solomon encoder/decoder: Methods and structure described herein provide for reducing the overall delay of an RS encoder/decoder without changing the essential functionality of the RS encoder/decoder. In one embodiment, a cascade module reduces the combinatorial logical delay by reducing the total number of logical devices. In doing so, the cascade module couples... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman LLP

20100011278 - Soft error correction in sleeping processors: An error-correction code is generated on a line-by-line basis of the physical logic register and latch contents that store encoded words within a processor just before the processor is put into sleep mode, and later-generated syndrome bits are checked for any soft errors when the processor wakes back up, e.g.,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20100011279 - Error correcting viterbi decoder: Methods and corresponding systems in a Viterbi decoder include selecting an input symbol in an input block, wherein the input block has a plurality of input symbols, wherein each input symbol has a Boolean value, a quality value, and an associated stage, and wherein the selected symbol is selected based... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20100005335 - Microprocessor interface with dynamic segment sparing and repair: A processing device, system, method, and design structure for providing a microprocessor interface with dynamic segment sparing and repair. The processing device includes drive-side switching logic including driver multiplexers to select driver data for transmitting on link segments of a bus, and receive-side switching logic including receiver multiplexers to select... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20100005337 - Data transfer and recovery process: A backup image generator can create a primary image and periodic delta images of all or part of a primary server. The images can be sent to a network attached storage device and a remote storage server. In the event of a failure of the primary server, the failure can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100005336 - Method and device for exchanging data on the basis of the opc communications protocol between redundant process automation components: The invention relates to a method and a device for exchanging data on the basis of the OPC communications protocol, wherein at least one OPC-ready server is connected parallel to a master OPC server. an OPC client is connected to the master OPC server over a first communications link and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100005338 - Programmable logic configuration for instruction extensions: A processing system with reconfigurable instruction extensions includes a processor, programmable logic, a register file, and a load/store module. The processor executes a computer program comprising a set of computational instructions and at least one instruction extension. The programmable logic receives configuration information to configure the programmable logic for the... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100005339 - System for automated computer support: Systems and methods for providing automated computer support are described herein. One described method comprises receiving a plurality of snapshots from a plurality of computers, storing the plurality of snapshots in a data store, and creating an adaptive reference model based at least in part on the plurality of snapshots.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100005340 - Test execution of user sql in database server code: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with test execution of user SQL in server code are described. One example method includes producing a reproduced execution environment that reproduces a portion of an execution environment in which a user SQL runs. The example method may also include running the user SQL... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20100005341 - Automatic detection and notification of test regression with automatic on-demand capture of profiles for regression analysis: The current performance data are compared with baseline performance data obtained by executing the test cases on an earlier built of the test application. If it is determined that a current performance datum is worse than the corresponding baseline performance datum by exceeding a prescribed threshold, then the regression test... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100005342 - Redundant error detection in a clinical diagnostic analyzer: Disclosed is a clinical diagnostic analyzer employing a redundant error detection capability to further examine the internal message traffic for possible errors or questionable results by comparing the actual parameters against a fingerprint generated for each assay using an assay database and a configuration file. This testing does not rely... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20100005343 - Peripheral device, integrated circuit for peripheral device and method for analyzing failure of peripheral device: The peripheral device of the present invention is connected to a computer 200 through an interface cable 3, and is provided with a second memory device 13 for storing an evaluation program for 22 for evaluating the peripheral device 100 and its integrated circuit 400, a detection section 10 for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100005344 - Event-based communication in a clinical diagnostic analyzer: A networked clinical diagnostic analyzer is disclosed with support for monitoring by a remote back office. The disclosed analyzer includes a module to detect in real-time events of interest while allowing the back office to modify the definitions of the events. The module may be networked using virtual private networking... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20100005345 - Bit shadowing in a memory system: A communication interface device, system, method, and design structure for bit shadowing in a memory system are provided. The communication interface device includes shadow selection logic to select a driver bit position as a shadowed driver value, and line drivers to transmit data for the selected driver bit position and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20100005348 - Image file transfer apparatus: Even if a write operation onto a storage media on an external storage device is interrupted, consistency of management information on the storage media is improved. An image file transfer device includes a transferor which transfers an image file stored on a storage media to an external device, a retriever... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100005347 - Mobile terminal and method of controlling operation of the mobile terminal: A method of controlling a mobile terminal is provided. The method may include displaying an icon on the mobile terminal indicating that at least one access-failed website is currently accessible by the mobile terminal. The at least one access-failed website may be a website that the mobile terminal previously failed... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20100005346 - System and method for integrating data quality metrics into enterprise data management processes: A method and system for assessing data quality stored in an enterprise database is provided. In response to a request by a user, a pre-determined event, or other event, a profile is chosen from a list of profiles stored in a profile database based on the request, wherein the profile... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100005349 - Enhanced microprocessor interconnect with bit shadowing: A processing device, processing system, method, and design structure for an enhanced microprocessor interconnect with bit shadowing are provided. The processing device includes shadow selection logic to select a driver bit position as a shadowed driver value, and line drivers to transmit data for the selected driver bit position and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20100005350 - Test mode control circuit and method for using the same in semiconductor memory device: A test mode control circuit of a semiconductor memory device includes an input unit configured to input test mode data for at least one of a plurality of test modes, and a test mode controlling unit configured to enable/disable a test mode according to the number of inputs of the... Agent: Ip & T Law Firm PLC

20100005353 - Correction circuit for improving performance in a channel decoder: A receiver for a mobile communication system includes a channel equalizer for receiving a burst and generating a soft decision output associated with the burst, a soft decision correction circuit follows the channel equalizer and a decoder receives and decodes a block of bursts. The soft decision correction circuit calculates... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20100005351 - Method of retransmitting data in a mobile communication system: A communication method according to an automatic repeat request scheme in a mobile communication system includes transmitting a retransmission packet per certain time period (periodically) in response to NACK of a first user equipment related to a first packet transmitted within a frame group consisting of a plurality of successive... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100005352 - Program transmission system, program transmission method, and storage medium storing control program: A program transmission system in which a program is transmitted from a transmission apparatus to an image forming apparatus is provided. The program transmission system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire operational state information about an operational state in the image forming apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100005358 - Apparatus and method for supporting hybrid arq in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A method of performing HARQ by a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system includes receiving a control message including resource allocation information, decoding the control message, if the decoding... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100005359 - Communication apparatuses, transmission method, receiving method of a wireless network system for hybrid automatic repeat request and tangible machine-readable medium thereof: A communication apparatuses, a transmission method, a receiving method of a wireless network system for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The wireless network system comprises a base station (BS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The transmission method comprises the following... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100005354 - Detection and recovery of harq nak-to-ack feedback error in wireless communications systems: In wireless communication networks that use ARQ/HARQ feedback protocols, when a first device receives an apparent HARQ ACK from a second device, the first device may make a new transmission using a HARQ Channel ID whose previous usage was under conditions indicating a likelihood of error in the ACK. When... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100005355 - Interference avoidance with synchronous harq and persistent scheduling: A method of avoiding periodic interference by permuting periodic transmissions by a base station (BS) may include transmitting a frame of data to a subscriber station (SS). The BS may check for an acknowledgement of the frame of data from the SS and may schedule a next frame of data... Agent: Alan Pedersen-giles Intel Corporation

20100005356 - Method and apparatus for combining hybrid automatic repeat request data in wireless communication system: A receiving method and apparatus for combining Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) data in a wireless communication system are provided. More particularly, a method and apparatus for increasing HARQ combining capability while effectively using a limited-sized memory are provided. The receiving method for combining the HARQ data includes predicting a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100005357 - Symbol vector mapping for chase-combining harq: A method of transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver includes transmitting a first data unit to the receiver via a plurality of antennas, the first data unit including a payload that has a plurality of symbols; determining whether the receiver has successfully received the first data unit; and,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20100005360 - Importance-based fed-aware error-repair scheduling: Particular embodiments generally relate to providing retransmission that is forward error correction (FEC) aware. In one embodiment, information is received that defines a plurality of missing packets for a media stream for a receiver. The plurality of missing packets may define FEC packets and source packets that are missing at... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20100005361 - Retransmission control method and communications device: A retransmission control method comprising: generating N parity check matrices; generating a generator matrix containing a check symbol generator matrix contained in the first parity check matrix; transmitting the codeword generated by using the generator matrix to another communications device; generating, when the communications device receives a NAK in response... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100005362 - Sound data decoding apparatus: A sound data decoding apparatus based on a waveform coding method includes a loss detector, sound data decoder, sound data analyzer, parameter modifying section and sound synthesizing section. The loss detector detects whether a loss exists in a sound data. The sound data decoder decodes the sound data to generate... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100005363 - Code design and implementation improvements for low density parity check codes for wireless routers using 802.11n protocol: Method and apparatus for implementing LDPC codes in an IEEE 802.11 standard system configured to operate in a Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) schema. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises defining a base LDPC code, having a length equal to an integer number of data carriers in an ODFM... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20100005364 - Encoding method, encoding apparatus, decoding method, and decoding apparatus using block code: An input unit receives an information sequence. A first encoding unit performs at least a portion of a block encoding process on the information sequence to generate a first code sequence. A second encoding unit performs the block encoding process on a first check symbol sequence in the generated first... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100005366 - Cascade interconnect memory system with enhanced reliability: A hub device, memory system, and method for providing a cascade interconnect memory system with enhanced reliability. The hub device includes an interface to a high-speed bus for communicating with a memory controller. The memory controller and the hub device are included in a cascade interconnect memory system and the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20100005365 - Error correcting code protected quasi-static bit communication on a high-speed bus: A communication interface device, system, method, and design structure for error correcting code (ECC) protected quasi-static bit communication (SBC) on a high-speed bus are provided. The communication interface device includes high-speed sampling logic to capture high-speed data from the high-speed bus using a high-speed sampling clock and SBC sampling logic... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20100005367 - Probabilistic error correction in multi-bit-per-cell flash memory: Data that are stored in cells of a multi-bit-per cell memory, according to a systematic or non-systematic ECC, are read and corrected (systematic ECC) or recovered (non-systematic ECC) in accordance with estimated probabilities that one or more of the read bits are erroneous. In one method of the present invention,... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20100005368 - Encoder of cyclic codes for partially written codewords in flash memory: Provided is a systematic encoder of cyclic codes for partially written codewords in flash memories wherein all bits of an erased but unwritten area have a default value such as one. In the case where the host writes data to one or a plurality of discontinuous fragments in an area... Agent: Joseph Schweiray Lee

20100005369 - Method and apparatus for adapting data to a transport unit of a predefined size prior to transmission: An apparatus and a method for adapting data in a communications system to be transmitted from a sender to a receiver, to a transport unit of a predefined size involve representing said data as a combination of bits over a finite field, wherein said data comprises of an information part... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100005370 - Probabilistic error correction in multi-bit-per-cell flash memory: Data that are stored in cells of a multi-bit-per cell memory, according to a systematic or non-systematic ECC, are read and corrected (systematic ECC) or recovered (non-systematic ECC) in accordance with estimated probabilities that one or more of the read bits are erroneous. In one method of the present invention,... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20100005371 - System and method of puncturing pulses in a receiver or transmitter: An apparatus for data communication that receives a plurality of pulses from a remote communications device, determines a pulse puncturing rate based on the pulses, and punctures or discards subsequent pulses based on the pulse puncturing rate. During intervals when punctured pulses are expected, the apparatus operates in a lower... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100005372 - Method and apparatus for improving trellis decoding: A digital signal processor for decoding Trellis based channel encoding stages based on radix-4 stages comprising means for rearranging the input and output data in Radix-4 Viterbi decoding to make inter-stage Trellis data movement suitable for use in the digital signal processor.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100005373 - Majority voting logic circuit for dual bus width: A circuit is presented for determining whether or not to invert a bus, for example a data bus that is operable having multiple widths. The circuit includes comparison circuitry that can receive both the current and next values for the bus and individually compare the current and next values of... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20100005374 - Ensuring data consistency: Mechanisms for ensuring data consistency in a data store are provided. The mechanisms access a parity scrub factor f and perform a check on a data group of the data store. The check on the data group includes performing a parity check on a portion of the data group, the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20100005375 - Cyclical redundancy code for use in a high-speed serial link: A system and method for providing a cyclical redundancy code (CRC) for use in a high-speed serial link. The system includes a cascade interconnect memory system including a memory controller, a memory hub device and a downstream link. The downstream link is in communication with the memory controller and the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20100005376 - Method and apparatus for repairing high capacity/high bandwidth memory devices: Memory systems, systems and methods are disclosed that may include a plurality of stacked memory device dice and a logic die connected to each other by through silicon vias. One such logic die includes an error code generator that generates error checking codes corresponding to write data. The error checking... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department