Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery

20100223490 - Assessing intellectual property incorporated in software products: A method, system, and computer usable program product for assessing third-party IP that may be incorporated in a software product are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An instance of the third-party's intellectual property is identified in a component of the product. The instance is classified as actionable, or not actionable.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20100223491 - Methods and apparatus for event logging in an information network: Methods and apparatus for logging, analysis, and reporting of events such as reboots in a client device (e.g., consumer premises equipment in a cable network) using applications. In one aspect, an improved event logging and monitoring system is provided within the device with which the application(s) can interface to record... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, PC

20100223493 - Method for the consistent provision of configuration data in an industrial automation system comprising a plurality of networked control units, and industrial automation system: For the consistent provision of configuration data in an industrial automation system comprising a plurality of networked control units, components of a service are combined by a local service configuration unit using a standard configuration interface to form a service. Services are configured by configuration data and activated, where the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100223492 - Node failure detection system and method for sip sessions in communication networks: According to some other embodiments, when a transport connection has been established between two adjacent SIP nodes, the node that has initiated the connection starts a polling process for monitoring the liveliness of the adjacent node. The polling process comprises the step of sending a first polling message requesting the... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20100223494 - System and method for providing ip pbx service: A telecommunications system has been developed that includes an on-premise IP PBX and an offsite hosted IP PBX. The system includes logic that automatically and/or manually migrates system configuration data from the on-premise IP PBX to the offsite IP PBX during a failure of the on-premise IP PBX.... Agent: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

20100223495 - Minimize damage caused by corruption of de-duplicated data: An embodiment for minimizing damage caused by corruption of de-duplicated data is disclosed. One embodiment counts the number of references to a data segment indexed by a de-duplication index. When a reference count for the data segment reaches a first threshold a duplicate of the data segment is generated. In... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100223496 - Highly reliable storage system and internal network thereof: The disk controller has a plurality of channel control units, a plurality of cache memories, a plurality of disk control units, and a plurality of internal switch units. Each channel control unit or disk control unit sends to one of the cache memory units a request packet requesting execution of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100223497 - Monitoring processes via autocorrelation: A method and apparatus including a monitoring and correction module that monitors process metrics to identify a steady-state for a process, detects a deviation from the steady-state for the process, and executes a corrective measure automatically to reduce an impact of the process in response to the deviation by a... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100223498 - Operating system-based application recovery: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for operating system-based application recovery. A particular method saves an application state of an application executing at a computer. When a failure of the application is detected, the operating system provides an option to initiate recovery of the application by reverting to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100223499 - Fingerprinting event logs for system management troubleshooting: A technique for automatically detecting and correcting configuration errors in a computing system. In a learning process, recurring event sequences, including e.g., registry access events, are identified from event logs, and corresponding rules are developed. In a detecting phase, the rules are applied to detected event sequences to identify violations... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20100223500 - Method and device for determining a probability of occurrence: IN a method and a device for determining a probability of occurrence that an overall system fulfills a predefined system performance, the overall system is composed of instances of different classes of partial systems, and each class of partial systems has an associated class fault tree. The method has the... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100223501 - Recording method for video/audio data: In order to provide a recording method for data which have been or are being generated at a data source in a time sequenced manner and are transmitted via a digital network to at least one recording device for storage, by means of which method the data can be reliably... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20100223502 - Memory-based trigger generation scheme in an emulation environment: A system and method are disclosed for generating triggers within a hardware emulator. The system allows for dynamic reconfiguration of the trigger generation scheme during emulation. In one aspect, input probe signals are received on an address port to a memory from an integrated circuit within the emulator. The memory... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100223503 - Computer debug method: A computer debug method includes following steps: a Power-On Self Test (POST) is started; several function tests of the POST are executed respectively, wherein at least one set of codes corresponding to each following executing function test is stored in a memory before executing each of the function tests; when... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100223506 - Method and system for analyzing time series data: Systems and methods for performing fault analysis using numerically coded time series data are disclosed. First time series data, including a plurality of first time entries and an associated first data value for each first time entry, may be received for a machine variable for a first printer. Second time... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20100223505 - Software table walk during test verification of a simulated densely threaded network on a chip: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product are presented for managing an Effective-to-Real Address Table (ERAT) and a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) during test verification in a simulated densely threaded Network On a Chip (NOC). The ERAT and TLB are stripped out of the computer simulation before executing a... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100223504 - Systems and methods for interrogating diagnostic target using remotely loaded image: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for interrogating one or more diagnostic targets using a remotely loaded image. A set of managed machines, such as personal computers or servers, can be managed by a network management engine communicating with the machines via a secure channel. The network management engine can... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20100223508 - Information processing apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, an information processing apparatus includes a main body having a top face, a display connected to the main body by a hinge and pivotally moves between a first state where the top face is covered with the display and a second state where... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100223507 - Information processing apparatus, method and computer readable medium: The invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a plurality of abnormality detection sections provided in each of a plurality of detection target portions, that detect an abnormality caused by high temperature at a predetermined first frequency; an indication detecting section that detects an indication that the abnormality will occur;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100223509 - Electronic device, information processing system, method of notification of a fault of an electronic device, and fault notification program: An information processing system includes an electronic device and an information processing unit. The electronic device includes a fault detection unit; a data generating unit for generating, as data, the content of the detected fault; a data dividing unit for dividing the generated data into plural division data in the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100223511 - At-speed bitmapping in a memory built-in self-test by locking an n-th failure: In a sophisticated semiconductor device including a large memory portion, a built-in self-test circuitry comprises a failure capturing logic that allows the capturing of a bitmap at a given instant in time without being limited to specific operating conditions in view of interfacing with external test equipment. Thus, although pipeline... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20100223510 - Nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory system, and defect management method for nonvolatile memory device: A life parameter generator generates life parameters related to the life of a nonvolatile memory device by using parameters related to allowable capacity for memory defect and occurrence capacity for memory defect. The life parameters are stored in a life parameter storing block of a nonvolatile memory. An access device... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100223512 - System, apparatus, and method for memory built in self testing using microcode sequencers: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for performing Built-In Self Tests (BIST) on memories. One such BIST includes loading microcode instructions into a main microcode sequencer and loading subroutine instructions into a subroutine microcode sequencer on the memory. The microcode instructions generate subroutine calls to the subroutine microcode sequencer. The... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20100223513 - Latency detection in a memory built-in self-test by using a ping signal: In a complex semiconductor device including embedded memories, the round trip latency may be determined during a memory self-test by applying a ping signal having the same latency as control and failure signals used during the self-test. The ping signal may be used for controlling an operation counter in order... Agent: Advanced Mirco Devices, Inc. C/o Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20100223514 - Semiconductor memory device: A semiconductor memory device includes a determination circuit that generates a determination signal by determining an error of read data read out from a memory cell array, and an I/O circuit that outputs the read data or the determination signal to outside via a data input/output terminal. The I/O circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100223515 - Testing of an integrated circuit that contains secret information: An integrated circuit (10) comprises a scan chain (14) with parallel inputs and outputs coupled to a functional circuit (12a-c). A scan chain modifying circuit (43, 47, 70a-c) is provided coupled to the scan chain (14). When testing is authorized the scan chain modifying circuit operates in a mode wherein... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100223517 - Adapting scan-bist architectures for low power operation: A Scan-BIST architecture is adapted into a low power Scan-BIST architecture. A generator 102, compactor 106, and controller 110 remain the same as in the known art. The changes between the known art Scan-BIST architecture and the low power Scan-BIST architecture involve modification of the known scan path into scan... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100223516 - Dynamically reconfigurable shared scan-in test architecture: A low overhead dynamically reconfigurable shared scan-in test architecture is provided. This test architecture advantageously allows for changing scan inputs during the scan operation on a per shift basis. The flexibility of reconfiguring the scan input to scan chain mapping every shift cycle can advantageously reduce both test data volume... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20100223519 - Compact jtag adapter: A system and method for sharing a communications link between multiple protocols is described. A system includes a communications interface configured to exchange information with other systems using at least one of a plurality of protocols; a protocol select register that stores a value that selects a protocol from among... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100223518 - Diagnostic mode switching: A system is described having a JTAG diagnostic unit and a serial wire diagnostic unit. A watcher unit is connected to a data connection shared between the diagnostic units. Special patterns detected upon the shared data connection serve to switch between diagnostic modes with respective ones of the diagnostic units... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100223520 - Error detection in an integrated circuit: An electronic device includes an integrated circuit operating on the basis of an operating clock signal, an error detection circuit and a control circuit coupled to the error detection circuit. The control circuit is configured to increase the frequency of the operating clock signal starting from a nominal operating frequency... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100223521 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving broadcast data in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting a broadcast physical layer packet in a mobile communication system supporting multi-slot transmission and hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (H-ARQ) are provided. The method comprises initially transmitting the broadcast physical layer packet according to a fixed transmission format for at least one first slot interval... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20100223522 - State dependent advanced receiver processing in a wireless mobile device: A method for receiver processing in a 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) receiver processing chain in a wireless mobile device is provided. LTE initial sub-frame transmitted from a base station is received on a LTE signalling channel. The sub-frame is received using a basic receiver. An integrity check is performed... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (rim)

20100223523 - Communication retransmission based on transmission performance relative to expected quality of service: A method of communication retransmission based on performance relative to an expected quality of service is presented. In the method, data packets associated with the expected quality of service are transmitted. The transmission performance associated with the transmission of the data packets is determined in relation to the expected quality... Agent: O'brien Jones PLLC (w/clearwire)

20100223524 - Forward error correction decoding avoidance based on predicted code block reliability: A method and device for performing forward error (FEC) correction avoidance based upon predicted block code reliability in a communications device is provided. An avoidance unit comprising a metric computation unit and a decision unit generates a reliability metric based upon a received code block. The reliability metric is compared... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (rim)

20100223525 - Error detection device and methods thereof: A first error detection for a first data word is performed using a first error correction code associated with the first data word. In response to the first error detection indicating a first uncorrectable error at the first data word based upon the first error correction code, a second error... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20100223526 - Method and apparatus for channel coding and modulation for unequal error protection in transmitting uncompressed video over wideband high frequency wireless system: An Unequal Error Protection (UEP) transmission apparatus comprises a bit separator unit configured to, when video data are received, separate pixels of the video data into Most Significant Bits (MSBs) and Least Significant Bits (LSBs) according to a degree of importance on a pixel-component basis; a header generation unit configured... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100223529 - Communication method and system using two or more coding schemes: A communication method includes causing a transmitter to apply error correcting or detecting code systems to multiple frames or packets and to transmit the multiple frames or packets in succession, causing a receiver to receive the transmitted frames or packets and to decode each of the frames or packets received,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100223527 - Data protection circuit, data protection method, and data processing apparatus: A generation unit in a data protection circuit acquires input data from one position on a path that outputs the input data as output data, and generates a second error detecting code. A check unit acquires the input data from another position on the path that is closer to an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100223528 - Dtv transmitting system and method of processing broadcast data: A DTV transmitting system includes an encoder, a randomizer, a block processor, a group formatter, a deinterleaver, and a packet formatter. The encoder codes enhanced data for error correction, permutes the coded data, and further codes the permuted data for error detection. The randomizer randomizes the coded enhanced data, and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100223530 - Semiconductor memory device and data processing method thereof: Provided are a semiconductor memory device and a data processing method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory stores data a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller rearranges data by various operations such as a modulation code operation and processes... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20100223531 - Semiconductor storage: A semiconductor storage includes a receiver configured to receive a write request from a host device; a storage unit configured to hold redundancy data generation/non-generation information; a writing unit configured to write data in a semiconductor memory array and write redundancy data generation/non-generation information of the written data in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100223532 - Systems, devices and methods using redundant error correction code bit storage: A device, e.g., a semiconductor memory device, includes a plurality of memory cells, each configured to store at least one data bit and a plurality of error correction code (ECC) cells configured to redundantly store ECC bits for the memory cells. According to some embodiments, the plurality of ECC cells... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100223533 - Mobile reception of digital video broadcasting-terrestrial services: A method of protecting data with application layer forward error correction in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes first devices with legacy receivers and second devices with FEC-enabled receivers, operation of the legacy receivers is not affected by the application layer forward error correction, and the method includes:... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100223534 - Code block reordering prior to forward error correction decoding based on predicted code block reliability: Method and a receiver in a communication system for receiving a transport block. The transport block comprises code blocks, each of the code blocks includes an error detection code and an error correction code. Reliability metrics are determined using an input generated during processing of the code blocks after the... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (rim)

20100223536 - Dtv transmitting system and method of processing data in dtv transmitting system: A DTV transmitting system includes two pre-processors. The first pre-processor codes high-priority enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expands the FEC-coded data. The second pre-processor codes low-priority enhanced data for FEC and expands the FEC-coded low-priority enhanced data. The DTV transmitting system further includes a data formatter generating... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100223535 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data: The embodiments of the present invention provide a data coding method. In this data coding method, a synchronization header is added to the data that has undergone line coding and FEC coding, and then the data is framed and sent out. The embodiments of the present invention also provide the... Agent: Huawei/bhgl

20100223537 - Method and system for decoding video, voice, and speech data using redundancy: A method and system for decoding video, voice, and/or speech data using redundancy and physical constraints are presented. Video, voice, and/or speech bit sequences may be decoded in a multilayer process based on a decoding algorithm and at least one physical constraint. For voice applications, the decoding algorithm may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100223538 - Semiconductor memory apparatus and method of decoding coded data: A memory card including a word line control portion configured to perform control of applying intermediate voltages made up of a first intermediate voltage lower than a center voltage of four threshold voltage distributions and a second intermediate voltage higher than the center voltage to the memory cell, a logarithmic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100223539 - High efficiency, high performance system for writing data from applications to a safe file system: Systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of data storage processes for high performance, high core number computing systems. In one embodiment, the systems of the present invention perform sequential I/O whenever possible. To achieve a high degree of sequentiality, the block allocation scheme is determined by the next available... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100223540 - System and method for identifying upper layer protocol message boundaries: Systems and methods that identify the Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) message boundaries are provided. In one example, a method that identifies ULP message boundaries is provided. The method may include one or more of the following steps: attaching a framing header of a frame to a data payload to form... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100218030 - Interactive problem resolution presented within the context of major observable application behaviors: A system, method, and article of manufacture are disclosed for monitoring and resolving problems detected in the application stack. The application stack may include multiple, interpedently application components which collectively provide a unified service. An interactive problem resolution program may monitor and assist users in troubleshooting an application stack installed... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100218031 - Root cause analysis by correlating symptoms with asynchronous changes: An indication of a problem in at least one component of a computing system is obtained. A relevant change set associated with a directed dependency graph is analyzed. The computing system is configured to proactively overcome a root cause of the problem. The relevant change set includes a list of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100218032 - Redundant system, control apparatus, and control method: A redundant system includes a redundant apparatus and a control unit that controls power supplied to the redundant apparatus. The redundant apparatus includes a state management unit that manages an operational state of the redundant apparatus, and a response unit that returns the operational state to the control unit. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100218034 - Method and system for providing high availability sctp applications: A method and system for providing high availability services to SCTP applications is disclosed. In one embodiment, a high availability (HA) server system includes an active server and a standby server with a primary redundancy module and a secondary redundancy module, respectively, which are operable for performing a method including... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100218036 - Pushing documents to wireless data devices: A system pushes documents to one or more wireless data devices. The system receives a push request from a user to push a specified document to one or more identified wireless data devices. The system then constructs a wireless gateway server request for each identified wireless data device, and the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20100218033 - Router synchronization: Example systems and methods associated with router synchronization are described. One example method includes reducing a likelihood that a first network device will be favored over a peer device as a router. This likelihood may be increased after the first network device has received a threshold amount of routing information... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100218035 - Self-testing and -repairing fault-tolerance infrastructure for computer systems: ASICs or like fabrication-preprogrammed hardware provide controlled power and recovery signals to a computing system that is made up of commercial, off-the-shelf components—and that has its own conventional hardware and software fault-protection systems, but these are vulnerable to failure due to external and internal events, bugs, human malice and operator... Agent: Peter I. Lippman

20100218037 - Matrix-based error correction and erasure code methods and apparatus and applications thereof: A distributed data storage system breaks data into n slices and k checksums using at least one matrix-based erasure code based on matrices with invertible submatrices, stores the slices and checksums on a plurality of storage elements, retrieves the slices from the storage elements, and, when slices have been lost... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20100218039 - Methods and systems for implementing shared disk array management functions: Multiple Array Management Functions (AMFs) are connected to multiple redundancy groups over a storage area network (SAN), such as a fiber-channel based SAN. The multiple AMFs share management responsibility of the redundancy groups, each of which typically includes multiple resources spread over multiple disks. The AMFs provide concurrent access to... Agent: Bainwood Huang And Associates LLC

20100218038 - Storage control device, storage control method, and storage control program: A storage control device for managing data in a storage while maintaining redundancy of the data includes a formatting management table, a formatting processing section, a recovery management table and a recovery processing section. The formatting management table manages a formatted region and an unformatted region in a management target... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100218040 - Method and apparatus for an improved file repository: A method and apparatus for of storing data comprising monitoring a plurality of storage units within a mass storage area and detecting when a storage unit within the mass storage area is overloaded. The method further comprising randomly distributing the data on the overloaded storage unit to the other storage... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20100218041 - End user control configuration system with dynamic user interface: An end user control configuration (EUC) system with dynamic user interface provides a user friendly tool for consumers to self-provision and manage network services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. The EUC system dynamically generates graphical user interface (GUI) renderings that assist users in the completion of tasks... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100218042 - Universal serial bus hub with wireless communication to remote peripheral devices: A wireless USB hub for connecting a plurality of remote peripheral devices to a computer for communication therewith without the need to physically connect the peripheral devices to the hub via a cable connection. The wireless USB hub includes a receiver for receiving wireless data transmissions from one or more... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100218043 - System and method for testing a serial attached small computer system interface: In a system and method for testing a serial attached small computer systems (SAS) interface of a SAS controller, the SAS controller connects to a loopback dongle via the SAS interface. The SAS interface sends a first data packet to the loopback dongle, and receives a second data packet from... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100218044 - Remote testing system and method: A method and system of supporting and testing equipment distant from the support system are provided. The method includes the steps of forming a communications link between the equipment and the support system, using the support system to measure performance of the equipment and to provide a set of performance... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100218045 - Distributed runtime diagnostics in hierarchical parallel environments: A technique is disclosed for distributed runtime diagnostics in hierarchical parallel environments. In one embodiment, a user is allowed to configure, during runtime, a processing element on which to perform diagnostics, an algorithm for the processing element to execute, a data set for the algorithm to execute against, a diagnostic... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20100218046 - Method for testing a control apparatus and test device: The problem of the present invention is to prevent—at least partially—the disadvantages known from the state of the art, and, particularly, to provide a method for testing a control apparatus, which allows as simple and flexible an acquisition of the target functionality of a control apparatus is possible, and which... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20100218047 - Method and device for error management: A method for error management in a system having a plurality of components, error conditions of the components being able to be indicated by status values, includes a first status value being determined as a function of an error condition of a first component, and of a second status value... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100218048 - Migratory hardware diagnostic testing: A method and system of migratory hardware diagnostic testing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes performing a diagnostic test of a hardware component of a first partition of a server using a first test module embedded in the first partition in response to a receipt of a test... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100218049 - Method of creating signatures for classifying program failures: A novel and useful method of creating signatures for use in classifying failures of software programs in general and circuit design simulation tests in particular. Upon failure of a processor simulation test, the method of the present invention creates a signature comprising the sequence of source code commands executed shortly... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20100218050 - Parking structure memory-module tester that moves test motherboards along a highway for remote loading/unloading: A parking-structure test system has motherboards that test memory modules. The motherboards are not stationary but are placed inside movable trays that move along conveyors. An unloader removes tested memory modules from test sockets on the motherboards, and a loader inserts untested memory modules into the motherboards using a robotic... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20100218051 - Program counter (pc) trace: In one embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a first processor configured to output program counter (PC) trace records, wherein PC trace records provide data indicating the PCs of instructions retired by the first processor. The integrated circuit further comprises a second source of trace records, and a trace unit coupled... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100218052 - Apparatus and method to generate and collect diagnostic data: A method to generate and save diagnostic data in the event of an application error, wherein the method supplies a first computing device comprising a microprocessor and a first computer readable medium and an application encoded in said computer readable medium, wherein said application comprises an error handling module. The... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20100218053 - Web page error reporting: An error in a web page displayed on a device is detected. The error is assigned to a bucket to indicate a type of the error, and a record describing the current state of the device is generated. Both an indication of the bucket and the record describing the current... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100218055 - Implementing enhanced array access time tracking with logic built in self test of dynamic memory and random logic: A method and circuit for implementing substantially perfect array access time tracking with Logic Built In Self Test (LBIST) diagnostics of dynamic memory array and random logic, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. The dynamic memory array is initialized to a state for the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20100218054 - Secure scan design: A circuit configuration for testing integrated circuitry featuring a number of system scan flip flops wired in series and connected to the integrated circuitry for inputting test signals and receiving test data back. At the front and back ends of the system scan flip flops there is an input multiplexer... Agent: The Brevetto Law Group, PLLC

20100218057 - Control method for semiconductor integrated circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a self-test circuit, wherein, when a operation mode of the self-test circuit has been switched from a low-speed operation mode to a high-speed operation mode, processing is performed in the high-speed operation mode during a given time period, and the processing result is invalidated based... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100218056 - Method and system for performing a double pass nth fail bitmap of a device memory: A method for performing a double pass nth fail bitmap of a memory array of a device under test includes a memory built-in test (MBIST) unit reading previously written data from each location of the memory array during a first pass, and detecting a failure associated with a mismatch between... Agent: Mhkkg / Globalfoundries

20100218058 - Fault injection: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with programmable application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) fault injection are described. One example ASIC includes a serializer de-serializer (SERDES). The example ASIC may also include logics to process data in the ASIC. At least one of the logics either receives data from the SERDES... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20100218059 - On-chip seed generation using boolean functions for lfsr re-seeding based logic bist techniques for low cost field testability: This invention generates the random seed patterns using simple, low-area overhead digital circuitry on-chip. This circuit is implemented as a finite state machine whose states are the seeds as contrasted to storing the seeds in the prior art. These seeds are used to control pseudo-random pattern generation for built-in self-tests.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100218060 - System and method for supporting design of semiconductor integrated circuit, and semiconductor integrated circuit: A design supporting system of a semiconductor integrated circuit, includes: a scan chain designing section configured to generate a scan chain of scan cells; a specific cell determining section configured to determine as specific scan cells, ones of the scan cells of the scan chain based on the number of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100218061 - Circuit and method for increasing scan cell observability of response compactors: The circuit and method for increasing the scan cell observability of response compactors is based on manipulation of x distribution in responses prior to taking them through a compactor. An x-align block is capable of delaying scan chains by judiciously computed values, and thus aligning x's within the same slices.... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20100218062 - Method and apparatus for unifying self-test with scan-test during prototype debug and production test: A method and apparatus for testing or diagnosing faults in a scan-based integrated circuit using a unified self-test and scan-test technique. The method and apparatus comprises using a unified test controller to ease prototype debug and production test. The unified test controller further comprises using a capture clock generator and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100218063 - Don't-care-bit identification method and don't-care-bit identification program: The provided are a don't-care-bit identification method and program for identifying don't-care-bits from the first and the second input vectors in an input-vector pair while keeping the sensitization status of paths, in a combinational circuit, sensitized by applying the first and the second input vectors in serial to input lines... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100218064 - Semiconductor memory device incorporating controller: A semiconductor memory device includes a first nonvolatile memory, a second nonvolatile memory, a controller and an input/output bus. The first nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of memory cells having a first memory cell configuration. The second nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of memory cells having a second memory cell... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100218065 - Method and apparatus of harq process selection: A method for implementation of HARQ between a transmitting node and a receiving node in a communication network is provided. HARQ processes may be selected from a list for instantiation according to a policy that may deviate from strict first-in, first-out processing of packets. The greater flexibility that this affords... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc. Docket Administrator

20100218067 - Digital transmitting and/or receiving apparatus and method thereof: A digital transmitting and/or receiving apparatus is provided, in which a digital transmitting apparatus may include a first coder which codes a first layer data to add a first parity, a multiplexer which adds a second layer data to the first layer data to which the first parity is added,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100218066 - Encoding device and decoding device: Disclosed are an encoding device and a decoding device which can effectively reduce the decoding failure frequency in LDPC encoding/decoding. A loss correction encoding device (120) includes a padding unit (121) which adds a padding packet to an information packet sequence; an interleave unit (122) which rearranges the padding packet... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100218068 - Multi-bit error correction method and apparatus based on a bch code and memory system: Exemplary embodiments for providing multi-bit error correction based on a BCH code are provided. In one such embodiment, the following operations are repeatedly performed, including shifting each bit of the BCH code rightward by 1 bit while filling the bit vacated due to the rightward shifting in the BCH code... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20100218069 - Dtv receiving system and method of processing dtv signal: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes a tuner, a demodulator, a known data detector, an equalizer, a transmission detector, and a block decoder. The tuner receives a DTV signal having a data frame in which main and mobile service data are multiplexed. The demodulator demodulates the DTV signal, and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100218070 - Lengthening life of a limited life memory: A phase-change memory (PCM) includes a matrix of storage cells, including at least a first group with at least one cell. Each cell includes a phase change material having at least a first resistance value and a second resistance value, such that the first group can have an identical message... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100218072 - Memory device: An exemplary memory device has at least one memory chip that stores data and error correcting information. An error detecting circuit in the memory chip performs a calculation on the data and error correcting information to obtain error detection information indicating the locations of bit errors in the data. The... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20100218071 - Writing a special symbol to a memory to indicate the absence of a data signal: A method for writing in a memory system that includes receiving an address corresponding to a memory location in a memory, receiving a desired content to be written, encoding the desired content into a symbol, and writing the symbol to the memory location using an iterative write process of at... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20100218073 - Resistive memory devices and methods of controlling operations of the same: To control operations of a resistive memory device, an input-output operation of an error check and correction (ECC) code is separated from an input-output operation of data. A condition of the input-output operation of the ECC code is determined stricter than a condition of the input-output operation of the data.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100218074 - System, method and apparatus for reducing blockage losses on information distribution networks: System, apparatus and method are provided for transmitting and receiving packets over first and second channels. An FEC encoder generates forward error correction (FEC) packets corresponding to an original stream of packets. A packet transmitter transmits the original stream of packets over the first channel and transmits the FEC packets... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100218075 - Apparatus and method for transmitting signal using bit grouping in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting a signal using a bit grouping method in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Interleaved subblocks are maintained, and output bit sequences are modulated in due order after bit grouping and bit selection. The bit grouping method is advantageous in that bit reliability is... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100211816 - Computer server system including a database pool module providing database connectivity recovery features and related methods: A computer server system may include a plurality of database modules for storing user data for a plurality of users, and at least one processing module comprising a plurality of processing threads for processing jobs for users based upon respective user data. The computer server system may further include a... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100211814 - Monitoring apparatus, information processing system, monitoring method and computer readable medium: A monitoring apparatus includes: a reception section that receives information including first use mode information from an first information processing apparatus; a storage section that stores the first use mode information received by the reception section; and a transmission section, when the reception section receives fault information together with the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20100211815 - System and method for modifying execution of scripts for a job scheduler using deontic logic: A system and method for modifying execution scripts associated with a job scheduler may include monitoring for the execution of a task to determine when the task has failed. Details of the failed task may be identified and used to attempt recovery from the task failure. After initiating any recovery... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100211818 - Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece among a plurality of audiovisual devices connected to a central server through a network: An audiovisual distribution system includes a central server and a plurality of audiovisual units. Each unit includes structure for interactively communicating with the user for selecting a piece or a menu, a payment device, a computer network card, and a permanent semiconductor memory containing a multitask operating system comprising at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100211817 - Common chronics resolution management: Systems and methods for managing problems that are determined to be chronic problems with network devices or circuits are disclosed. The systems and methods receive data indicating a problem with a network device or circuit and determine based on the data a first action to be performed on the network... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Slwip Attn: Patent Docketing

20100211819 - Method and a device for controlling a memory access in a computer system having at least two execution units: A method and device for controlling memory access in a computer system having at least two execution units, a buffer, in particular a cache being provided for each execution unit, and furthermore a switchover device and a comparison device being provided, the system switching between a performance mode and a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100211820 - Method of managing non-volatile memory device and memory system including the same: Disclosed is a method of managing a non-volatile memory device having a plurality of memory blocks which includes assigning the plurality of memory blocks of the non-volatile memory device into a user data area and a writable area; determining whether any of the plurality of memory blocks of the nonvolatile... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100211821 - Apparatus and method to manage redundant non-volatile storage backup in a multi-cluster data storage system: An apparatus and method to manage redundant non-volatile storage (“NVS”) data backups in a data storage system comprising (n) clusters, wherein each cluster comprises a processor and a cache, and wherein each cache comprises a first NVS portion and a second NVS portion, wherein the method configures, for each value... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20100211822 - Disaster recovery based on journaling events prioritization in information technology environments: Disaster recovery is performed based on journaling events prioritization in information in an information technology environment. One implementation involves prioritizing log file events for scheduling of jobs on a computing system, by logging events concerning each job execution plan, in a log file, and for disaster recovery, prioritizing logged events... Agent: Ibm - Eu C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100211823 - Browser based web conferencing employing layering to display screen updates: A browser based web conferencing method is disclosed, wherein a request to receive a screen update image of a first layer is transmitted over a network, and the screen update image of the first layer is displayed. A request to receive a screen update image of a second layer is... Agent: Howard H. Sheerin Attorney At Law

20100211824 - Systems and methods for memory retention across resets: Systems and methods (“utility”) for providing a computer system with a mechanism to record live data on a continuous basis which may be analyzed subsequent to a fault condition is provided. The utility uses the existing DRAM memory of a computer system as a retentive DRAM (RDRAM) device that may... Agent: Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP (oracle Formerly D/b/a Sun Microsystems)

20100211825 - Data generator apparatus for testing data dependent applications, verifying schemas and sizing systems: A data generator for database schema verification, system sizing and functional test of data dependent applications. Allows for generation of data from random values or from working databases which may be profiled to generate patterns for occurrences of values and sizes of values. The data may be filled with a... Agent: Sap_dlg

20100211826 - Log collection, structuring and processing: The present invention generally relates to log message processing such that events can be detected and alarms can be generated. For example, log messages are generated by a variety of network platforms (e.g., Windows servers, Linux servers, UNIX servers, databases, workstations, etc.). Often, relatively large numbers of logs are generated... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20100211827 - Address translation trace message generation for debug: A data processing system and method generates debug messages by permitting an external debug tool to have real-time trace functionality. A data processor executes a plurality of data processing instructions and uses a memory for information storage. Debug circuitry generates debug messages including address translation trace messages. A memory management... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100211828 - Program correlation message generation for debug: A data processing system and method includes a data processor and memory that are coupled to debug circuitry that generates debug messages including address translation trace messages. A memory management unit (MMU) includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) for implementing address translation to translate addresses between virtual and physical forms.... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100211829 - Failure detection and recovery of host computers in a cluster: In one or more embodiments of the invention, communication among host agents providing high availability in a computer cluster is implemented by reading and writing to files on a shared data store. Each host agent holds a lock on a file on the shared data store corresponding to a liveness... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20100211830 - Multi-input multi-output read-channel architecture for recording systems: In a particular embodiment, a storage device includes a data storage medium and a read/write circuit coupled the data storage medium via a communication channel. The read/write circuit includes a formatter circuit to receive a read back signal related to data stored on the data storage medium and to produce... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100211831 - Fault notification method and communication apparatus: A method of fault notification in a communication apparatus, including terminating transmission of a signal over a transmission link; determining whether or not a specified fault notification signal is detected in a reception link and storing a determination result from the determining; and upon detection of a fault in the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100211832 - System for process automation with a plurality of intelligent sensor and a method for calibrating the sensors: A system for process automation with a plurality of intelligent sensors, wherein each sensor serves for determining or monitoring a physical or chemical, process variable of a medium and each sensor has a primary side, plug connector element and a secondary side, plug connector element with a sensor element. Energy... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100211833 - Systems and methods for averaging error rates in non-volatile devices and storage systems: A system for storing a plurality of logical pages in a set of at least one flash device, each flash device including a set of at least one erase block, the system comprising apparatus for distributing at least one of the plurality of logical pages over substantially all of the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100211834 - Data integrity in memory controllers and methods: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for data integrity in memory controllers. One memory controller embodiment includes a host interface and first error detection circuitry coupled to the host interface. The memory controller can include a memory interface and second error detection circuitry coupled to the memory interface.... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20100211835 - Method for testing a memory device: A method for testing a random-access memory (RAM) includes six tests. The first test is performed by performing a write and read test to storage locations of the RAM. The second test is performed by testing walking 1's across each data bus of the RAM. The third test is performed... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100211836 - Failure analysis method, failure analysis system, and memory macro system: Configuration information including number of normal cell areas and number of spare cell areas arranged in a memory macro and a size of each cell area is extracted from circuit design information, and electrical test results of the normal cell areas and the spare cell areas arranged in the memory... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100211837 - Semiconductor test system with self-inspection of memory repair analysis: A semiconductor test system with self-inspection of memory repair analysis is disclosed, comprising a memory repair analysis device, an analysis fail memory and a self-inspection controller. The self-inspection controller controls storing a set of simulated fail bit addresses and a set of simulated repair line addresses, provided from outside, into... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100211838 - Boundary scan path method and system with functional and non-functional scan cell memories: An integrated circuit or circuit board includes functional circuitry and a scan path. The scan path includes a test data input lead, a test data output lead, a multiplexer, and scan cells. A dedicated scan cell has a functional data output separate from a test data output. Shared scan cells... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100211839 - Circuit and method providing dynamic scan chain partitioning: The circuit and method providing dynamic scan chain partitioning delivers peak power reduction by dynamically partitioning scan chains into multiple groups, wherein transitions are equally distributed among these multiple groups. For each test pattern, a particular partitioning that leads to the even partitioning of the transitions is computed by analyzing... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20100211840 - Method for retransmitting in the multi-carriers system: A method for reducing retransmission overhead in a system based on the asynchronous channel-adaptive retransmission scheme is disclosed. If the possibility of performing data retransmission is high, the system provides a method for transmitting synchronous duration (SD) information. According to the method for transmitting the SD information, the system does... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100211842 - Method of transmitting data using constellation rearrangement: A data retransmission method using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) includes transmitting a data block, receiving a retransmission request signal for the data block, generating a retransmission block by performing swapping or inversion between bits constituting the data block according to the retransmission request signal, and transmitting the retransmission block.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100211841 - Method, apparatus and system for coding and decoding of ldpc codes: The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus and a system for low-density parity-check (LDPC) coding and decoding. The coding method includes the following steps: constructing each layer of a check matrix of a layered LDPC code used as an error correcting code; when data is initially sent by a... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20100211843 - Systems and methods for transmitting data over lossy networks: An encoder/decoder system usable to decrease the probability of a failed transmission over a lossy wireless network. In one embodiment, data packets unsuccessfully sent over the wireless network may be retransmitted a particular number of times, depending on how important the data in the lost packet is. In another embodiment,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100211845 - Method for performing hybrid automatic repeat request operation in a wireless mobile communication system: A method for performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) operation in a wireless mobile communication system that uses Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) or Time Division Duplex (TDD) frames each having a plurality of subframes for communication are provided, in which an HARQ timing including a transmission time of a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100211844 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method: Lowering of the frequency use efficiency and throughput is prevented while the blanking advantage is provided at the retransmission time in MCW using a plurality of streams per codeword. In a wireless communication apparatus for using a plurality of streams per codeword and performing data transmission according to a plurality... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100211846 - Check matrix generating device, check matrix generating method, encoder, transmitter, decoder, and receiver: When arranging J cyclic permutation matrices I(pj,l) with p rows and q columns (0≦j≦J−1, 0≦l≦L−1) in a row direction and also arranging L cyclic permutation matrices I(pj,l) in a column direction so as to generate a regular quasi-cyclic matrix having uniform row and column weights, a quasi-cyclic matrix generating unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100211847 - Structured low-density parity-check (ldpc) code: A method for constructing a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code using a structured base parity check matrix with permutation matrix, pseudo-permutation matrix, or zero matrix as constituent sub-matrices; and expanding the structured base parity check matrix into an expanded parity check matrix. A method for constructing a LDPC code using a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100211848 - Coding of data stream: Coding a data stream is provided, wherein the data stream comprises at least one packet having a given packet length and respective partitions of the at least one packet are coded with different error protection rates, the respective lengths of the respective partitions being determined by respective predetermined percentages of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100211849 - Multi-dimensional ldpc coded modulation for high-speed optical transmission systems: Arbitrarily high data transmission rates may be achieved by the use of N-dimensional, LDPC-coded modulation. N orthonormal basis functions are employed using coherent reception, resulting in a proportional increase in transmission rate with only a modest increase in bit-error ratio.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100211850 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method of the digital broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100211851 - Data storage system with non-volatile memory for error correction: The present disclosure provides a data storage system with non-volatile memory for error correction. In one example, a data storage system is provided and includes a first data storage device comprising a first non-volatile data storage medium and a second data storage device that comprises a second non-volatile data storage... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100211853 - High reliability and low power redundancy for memory: An integrated circuit containing a memory array, a redundancy circuit and a redundancy error correction circuit coupled to said redundancy circuit. A method for constructing a redundancy word which corresponds to each memory segment and a method for error checking the redundancy word during a memory access request.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100211852 - Method of reading data in non-volatile memory device: In a method of reading data from a non-volatile memory device, read data is generated based on a word line voltage. The read data includes data read from a plurality of sectors included in the non-volatile memory device. Bad sector data is transferred data based on read data and bad... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20100211855 - Dtv transmitter and method of coding data in dtv transmitter: A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor which pre-processes enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data, a data formatter which generates enhanced data packets having the pre-processed enhanced data and known data, and a multiplexer which multiplexes the enhanced data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100211854 - Methods and systems for providing different data loss protection: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for partitioning a data word into a protected region and an unprotected region in the link layer, forward error correction of a DVB-H module to provide unequal error protection of frames during forward error correction of the frames. IP-datagrams are encapsulated for coding... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100211856 - Systems and methods for error correction and decoding on multi-level physical media: Apparatus and methods for operating a flash device characterized by use of Lee distance based codes in a flash device so as to increase the number of errors that can be corrected for a given number of redundancy cells, compared with Hamming distance based codes.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100211857 - Error correction decoding device and reproduction device: A decoding device which performs error correction decoding of encoded data formed from a combination of an outer code for first error correction and an inner code for second error correction is disclosed. The decoding device has: a demodulator for creating a data series of likelihood information values; a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100211858 - Scalable vliw processor for high-speed viterbi and trellis coded modulation decoding: An application specific processor to implement a Viterbi decode algorithm for channel decoding functions of received symbols. The Viterbi decode algorithm is at least one of a Bit Serial decode algorithm, and block based decode algorithm. The application specific processor includes a Load-Store, Logical and De-puncturing (LLD) slot that performs... Agent: Rahman LLC

20100211859 - Systems and methods for data alignment: A data alignment system suitable for use in manipulating the positioning of a designated portion of a data stream transmitted by a high speed communications system, so as to facilitate further processing of the data carried by the data stream. The data alignment system includes a detector and an alignment... Agent: Pequignot + Myers LLC

20100205474 - Redundant, distributed computer system having server functionalities: A distributed computer system is disclosed which contains at least two physical computers and at least two services installed in the system. The computers function as servers for at least one of the services. To make the system redundant, at least one of the physical computers, in addition to containing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100205477 - Memory handling techniques to facilitate debugging: A method for debugging includes interacting with a memory management component to force an interrupt upon access to one or more memory locations during software execution, and in response to the forced interrupt, saving information regarding the execution of the software, and interacting with the memory management component to disable... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20100205475 - Meta-data driven, service-oriented architecture (soa)-enabled, application independent interface gateway: An interface gateway may receive a request including a first interface identifier. The interface gateway is associated with a group of interfaces, where each interface is associated with metadata that defines the interface. The metadata may include an interface identifier, information identifying services to be executed for the interface and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100205476 - System and method of efficiently generating and sending bulk emails: A method of efficiently generating and sending emails including creating an email template, setting up a campaign query, and distributing the email template and a set of information associated with the campaign query to a plurality of server groups. The method also includes running the campaign query on each of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20100205479 - Information system, data transfer method and data protection method: Availability of an information system including a storage system that performs remote copy between two or more storage apparatuses and a host computer using such storage system is improved. A third storage apparatus including a third volume is coupled to a first storage apparatus, a fourth storage apparatus including a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100205478 - Resource integrity during partial backout of application updates: At least one physically inconsistent system resource is identified in response to a failure of an application, where the physically inconsistent system resource was left in a physically inconsistent state as a result of the failure of the application. Available backout operations for any system resources updated by the failed... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20100205481 - Method and apparatus for detecting and handling peer faults in peer-to-peer network: A method and apparatus for detecting and handling peer faults in a Peer-to-Peer network are disclosed. A peer in the P2P network receives a diagnosis request message; then detects whether a peer is faulty according to a preset fault detection method; and sends a diagnosis response message to a source... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Ipr & Standards Department

20100205480 - Restarting networks: A method of restarting a network (1) consisting of network modules (2), the method comprising the steps of: * recording error data associated with errors occurring in the network, the error data including sets of network variables applying when the errors occurred, * upon detection of a start-up error, deriving... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20100205482 - Mirroring controller, storage device, and mirroring control method: A mirroring controller includes a copy controller that selects one memory from among the plurality of memories as a copy source memory and copies data from the copy source memory to at least one copy target memory; and an I/O mirroring controller that copies, when a read request to the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center Fujitsu Management Services Of America, Inc.

20100205483 - Operation management apparatus and method thereof: An operation management apparatus monitors the performance information of a system executing services and extracts correlation variants of the performance information, thus allowing the management to detect and localize performance-degrading faults of the system. It is determined whether or not the range of correlation collapse ascribed to the performance information... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100205485 - Medical-information communication-connection management device and a method of managing a medical-information communication connection: The present invention comprises a request sending part 101 that sends connection requests during network communication and DICOM communication to a medical information device 010, a response-data receiving part 102 that receives response data for each connection request, a first response analyzing part 103 that receives the response data and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100205484 - System and method for demonstrating the correctness of an execution trace in concurrent processing environments: Since multi-core processors have become the standard architecture for general purpose machines, programmers are required to write software optimized for parallelism. Verification of correctness is an important issue for parallel code because of its complexity. There are still tools missing that provide verification for complex code, such as testing the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100205486 - System and method of error reporting: A system of error reporting and the method thereof are provided. A user end sends an error message to a server. The server uses the error message to check historical data and find out how to process the error message. This solves the problem of inconvenient notification channel when an... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100205487 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and information processing system: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an application processing unit that executes open processing by calling a socket processing unit, causes connect processing to start by specifying an IP address and a port number of the other apparatus stored in a storage unit as a connection destination of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100205488 - Fast phase-frequency detector arrangement: The present invention relates to a detector arrangement and a charge pump circuit for a recovery circuit recovering timing information for random data. The detector arrangement comprises first latch means for sampling a quadrature component of a reference signal based on an input signal, to generate a first binary signal,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100205489 - Jtag controlled self-repair after packaging: An integrated circuit containing memory includes IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) controlled self-repair system that permits permanent repair of the memory after the integrated circuit has been packaged. The JTAG controlled self-repair system allows a user to direct circuitry to blow fuses using an externally supplied voltage to electrically couple or isolate... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100205490 - Input/output compression and pin reduction in an integrated circuit: An I/O compression apparatus, for testing a memory array and/or a logic circuit, is comprised of a selectable compression circuit that outputs compressed test data from the memory array/logic circuit. An I/O scan register is coupled to each I/O pad for converting serial data to parallel and parallel data to... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A. Attn: Kenneth W. Bolvin

20100205491 - Logic value determination method and logic value determination program: The provided are logic value determination method and program for identifying unspecified bits and determining their logic values shortly. The method enables to control the total number of logic value differences between corresponding input and output lines of combinational circuit. The method includes the first step for determining, when output... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100205492 - Circuit for boosting encoding capabilities of test stimulus decompressors: The circuit for boosting encoding capabilities of test stimulus decompressors is utilized in conjunction with a stimulus decompressor. The circuit, called align-encode is inserted between the decompressor and internal. The scan chains feed into a response compactor. The align-encode circuit is used to judiciously manipulate care bit distribution. Re-configurability of... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20100205493 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, method of testing semiconductor integrated circuit, and method of designing semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes first and second scan storage elements forming a scan chain, and first and second logic circuits connected to inputs of the first and second scan storage elements respectively, wherein the first logic circuit includes a first logic path and a second logic path to an... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100205495 - Dual mode test access port method and apparatus: Two common varieties of test interfaces exist for ICs and/or cores, the IEEE 1149.1 Test Access Port (TAP) interface and internal scan test ports. The TAP serves as a serial communication port for accessing a variety of circuitry including; IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan circuitry, built in self test circuitry, internal... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100205494 - Selectable dual mode test access port method and apparatus: A process of selecting alternative test circuitry within an integrated circuit enables a test access port. Scan test instruction data is loaded into an instruction register of a test access port TAP, the instruction data including information for selecting the alternative test circuitry. An Update-IR instruction update operation is performed... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100205496 - Messaging system: Input messages are received at respective ports (10, 11, 12) of a message controller 4 from a plurality of external devices (100, 110, 120) which use different protocols. When an incoming message arrives at an input port a message object is created, the message object including a label identifying the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100205497 - Method and device for decoding by using window-based least significant bits in robust header compression: The present invention relates to communication technologies, and provides a decompression method for communication network, in which such fields as an SN are compressed by using an ROHC scheme, so that the compression efficiency is increased. The ROHC uses a WLSB algorithm to compress some fields which change regularly, and... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC- China Pat

20100205498 - Method for detecting errors and recovering video data: A method of processing video data includes providing a bit-stream; and decoding the bit-stream. The step of decoding the bit-stream includes extracting a data portion from the bit-stream; extracting a first backup copy of the data portion from the bit-stream; and determining correct values of syntaxes in the data portion... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100205499 - Method and apparatus for ack/nack reporting: A method, node, and system are provided that overcome problems with using inaccurate estimates of a current round trip time RTT for verifying the ACK/NACK information received in an ACK/NACK report, e.g., a piggy-backed ACK/NACK (PAN). This is accomplished by de-coupling the RTT from the ACK/NACK analysis performed in the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100205500 - Method of transmitting and receiving arq feedback information: A method of transmitting and receiving Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of transmitting ARQ feedback information in a wireless communication system includes, at a transmitter, transmitting a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) including an extended header including an ARQ feedback Polling... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100205501 - Packet retransmission: Through the identification of different packet-types, packets can be handled based on an assigned packet handling identifier. This identifier can, for example, enable forwarding of latency-sensitive packets without delay and allow error-sensitive packets to be stored for possible retransmission. In another embodiment, and optionally in conjunction with retransmission protocols including... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20100205503 - Enabling idle states for a component associated with an interconnect: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving an information packet in a first port from an interconnect while an agent associated with the first port is in an idle low power state, transmitting a first signal from the first port along the interconnect to request re-transmission... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100205502 - Enabling memory transactions across a lossy network: Methods and systems for enabling remote programmed I/O to be carried out across a “lossy” network are provided. According to one embodiment, a node maps a portion of a remote memory of a remote node into its physical address space. MTMs conforming to a processor bus protocol are received by... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20100205504 - Automatic refresh for improving data retention and endurance characteristics of an embedded non-volatile memory in a standard cmos logic process: A method for selectively refreshing data in a nonvolatile memory array based on failure type detected by an error correction code. If the page is determined to be error-free, no refresh operation takes place. Otherwise, if single-error words on a page contain erased and programmed bit errors, then a refresh... Agent: Mosys Incorporated Patent Counsel

20100205505 - Systems and methods for message encoding and decoding: Presented herein are systems and methods for checking the integrity of data transmissions between or within one or more digital processing systems by identifying a data characteristic that is likely to change if there is an error in transmission. According to one embodiment, data messages are modified to achieve a... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20100205506 - Data modulating device and method thereof: A data modulating device includes: an LDPC encoding unit configured to execute LDPC encoding; and a balance encoding unit configured to input a data string subjected to encoding by the LDPC encoding unit as data to be encoded, and convert k bits of this data to be encoded into balance... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20100205507 - Digital broadcast system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcast data, and data procesing method for use in the same: The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, the program table information including information about a service or a program... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100205508 - Redundant data in storage medium: A data storage medium may have data stored on one physical portion of the medium and error correction and recovery data stored on a second physical portion of the medium. In one embodiment, a write once, read many medium may be written with data and the remaining capacity of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100205509 - Systems and methods for efficient uncorrectable error detection in flash memory: A system and method for efficient uncorrectable error detection in flash memory is described. A microcontroller including a non-volatile flash memory utilizes an Error Correction Code (ECC) having a certain error detection and correction bit strength. The user data is first processed by a hash function and hash data is... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20100205510 - Qlm decoding: A method for implementation of error correction decoding of quadrature layered modulation QLM communications. A bound on communications capacity derived using ideal QLM is approximated with QLM communications links which support data rates independent of the Shannon bound. Trellis symbol and bit demodulation algorithms recover QLM data symbols and bit... Agent: Urbain A. Von Der Embse

20100205511 - Encoding method, encoder, and decoder: A low-density parity check convolution code (LDPC-CC) is made, and a signal sequence is sent after subjected to an error-correcting encodement using the low-density parity check convolution code. In this case, a low-density parity check code of a time-variant period (3g) is created by linear operations of first to 3g-th... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20100205512 - Digital television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in digital television transmitter/receiver: A digital television (DTV) transmitter/receiver and a method of processing data in the DTV transmitter/receiver are disclosed. In the DTV transmitter, a pre-processor pre-processes the enhanced, data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data. A data formatter generates enhanced data packets... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100205513 - Systems and methods for locating error bits in encoded data: Systems and methods for identifying error bits in encoded data are disclosed. As a part of identifying error bits, encoded data that is provided from a data source and that includes data and parity check portions is accessed. Based on the encoded data, syndromes are calculated, and based on the... Agent: Spansion LLC C/o Murabito , Hao & Barnes LLP

20100205514 - Method and device for identifying video data losses: s

20100205515 - Signal processing apparatus for setting error indication information according error detection result of outer-code decoder output and related method thereof: A signal processing apparatus is provided. The signal processing apparatus includes an inner-code decoder, an outer-code decoder, and an error detection unit. The inner-code decoder decodes an input data stream to generate a first output data stream, wherein the input data stream is coded using a concatenated coding scheme including... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100205516 - Audio error detection and processing: A method of processing a DAB audio stream, the method comprising: receiving a compressed and modulated DAB audio stream comprising a plurality of audio frames encoded with scale factors and a DAB-CRC error detection code for indicating errors in the scale factors; demodulating the DAB stream; and processing the demodulated... Agent: Eitan Mehulal Law Group

20100205519 - Cyclic redundancy check circuit and semiconductor device having the cyclic redundancy check circuit: An object of the present invention is to provide a CRC circuit with more simple structure and low power consumption. The CRC circuit includes a first shift register to a p-th shift register, a first EXOR to a (p−1)th EXOR, and a switching circuit. A data signal, a select signal,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100205518 - Running cyclic redundancy check over coding segments: In order to allow early stopping of codeblock decoding iterations, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is attached to each codeblock segment that pertains to the same transport block carrying information bits. The CRC for segment k is calculated for all bits within segments 1 to k. This allows also identifying... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100205517 - Solid state disk device and program fail processing method thereof: A solid state disk device includes at least one nonvolatile memory and a controller reporting an error code to a host for requesting a previously received data and a command corresponding to the data when a program fail occurs in the nonvolatile memory. The error code is one of a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC