Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery inventions

20090287952 - Backplane interface adapter with error control and redundant fabric: A backplane interface adapter with error control and redundant fabric for a high-performance network switch. The error control may be provided by an administrative module that includes a level monitor, a stripe synchronization error detector, a flow controller, and a control character presence tracker. The redundant fabric transceiver of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090287950 - Error management framework: A system and method for computer error management initially detects an error and creates an error report. The error report is then sent to a server where it is hosted on the World Wide Web. The server additionally notifies designated users of the error and can allow the users to... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/masco Corporation

20090287951 - Network device and method of operating the same: A network device includes multiple ports for accepting network connections, at least one memory for storing a fail-safe device configuration, a normal operational device configuration and one or more triggering events, and one or more processors connected to the memory for controlling the operation of the network device. The processor... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090287953 - Storage system: A storage system encrypts plain text from an external device and stores the cryptogram into a disk unit, decrypts stored data in the disk unit and transmits decrypted text to the external device. The plain and decrypted text must be in agreement when seen from the external device. If a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090287955 - Redundant failover system, redundancy managing apparatus and application processing apparatus: In a communication system using an IP tunnel for communication between application processing apparatuses (hereinafter, processing apparatuses), an application can be moved to an arbitrary processing apparatus, update of tunnel tables included in the respective processing apparatuses is quickly performed, and a buffer for waiting for packets during the table... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090287954 - Slot interface access unit, method thereof, and program thereof, as well as redundancy configuration of main unit, and replacing method of the same: A single main unit manages information on hardware resources and the like of all main units connected to a network in an integrated fashion. A slot management module, a slot control module, and a physical slot/managed slot comparison table are provided between an input/output control module and a slot interface... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090287956 - Apparatus, system, and method for detecting and replacing failed data storage: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for detecting and replacing failed data storage. A read module reads data from an array of memory devices. The array includes two or more memory devices and one or more extra memory devices storing parity information from the memory devices. An ECC module... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090287957 - Method for controlling a memory module and memory control unit: A memory control unit for controlling a memory module comprising a plurality of memory cells, said memory control unit comprising means for detecting failure of at least one memory cell, means for deactivating said at least one defective memory cell, means for assigning the address of said at least one... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20090287958 - Method and apparatus for test generation from hybrid diagrams with combined data flow and statechart notation: A test generator and methods for generating tests from a hybrid diagram are provided. A hybrid diagram is a diagram that primarily uses one higher-level semantic notation with portions utilizing one or more secondary higher-level semantic notations. Example higher-level semantic notations are statechart notation and data-flow notation. A test generator... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090287959 - System and method for testing computer: A test system includes at least one computer and a control circuit for testing the computer. The computer includes an input interface and an output interface. The control circuit is configured for sending test signals to the input interface and receiving feedback signals from the output interface for facilitating locating... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090287960 - Methods, systems and computer program products for cpu signaturing to aide in performance analysis: Methods, systems and computer program products for CPU signaturing to aide in performance analysis. Exemplary embodiments include a performance analysis method including identifying a workload having one or more testcases, assigning a CPU signature to each of the one or more testcases, calling a CPU signature application programming interface that... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090287961 - Systems and methods for providing interactive customer support: A system for providing device diagnostics includes a surface interface operatively linked and in communication with a processor. The surface interface includes a multi-touch interface to detect multiple simultaneous inputs and an object recognition interface to communicate with a device upon the device being placed on the surface interface. The... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Pk Attn: Patent Docketing

20090287963 - Method, apparatus, and system for automatic test generation from statecharts: An apparatus and methods for generating a plurality of output test vectors from a statechart are provided. The statechart may specify requirements of a system function to be executed by a system-performing device. The statechart comprises a plurality of states, a plurality of transitions, and a plurality of variables. A... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090287962 - Solution for automatically incorporating diagnostic data within screen capture images: The present invention can include an automated solution for incorporating diagnostic data within an image of a screen capture image. When a screen capture event is detected, a screen capture image can be generated. The software applications contained within the screen capture image can be identified. Diagnostic data pertaining to... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.-ibm Accspp

20090287964 - Internet accessible test system: An Internet accessible test system including: providing a remote client having an Internet connection; and exercising a tester function across the Internet connection by the remote client.... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090287965 - Verification supporting system: A verification target register to be verified is specified from a configuration of a verification target circuit, and patterns requiring verification are extracted as a coverage standard with regard to the specified verification target register. When the patterns are extracted, a DIRW matrix is prepared to indicate possibly occurring state... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090287966 - Method and apparatus for inexpensively monitoring and controlling remotely distributed appliances: A method and associated apparatus are described that enables unattended, remotely distributed appliances, such as vending machines, utility meters, thermostats and kitchen appliances (ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, etc.) to be connected inexpensively to each other and to a centrally located server. The apparatus 1) uses relatively simple “personality” modules to... Agent: Seyamak Keyghobad

20090287967 - Resilient data storage in the presence of replication faults and rolling disasters: An indication of a fault related to storage of the data in the secondary storage device is received. Responsively to the indication, operation is switched to a second operational mode in which the data items are sent for storage at least in the primary storage device and are cached and... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090287968 - Network communication through a specified intermediate destination: This disclosure provides a method of routing communications over a network through an intermediate destination, and it also provides a “universal proxy” that may be used for this purpose. A host wishing to deliver information to a client sends packets as part of a first exchange or “session” to the... Agent: Marc P. Schuyler

20090287970 - Communication terminal device and reception environment reporting method: A communication terminal device and a reception environment reporting method produce a more excellent throughput, by making a report of a reception environment with higher accuracy. An SIR measuring section measures an SIR from a reception signal that has been received from a base transceiver station. A CQI converter converts... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090287969 - Electronic apparatus and bit error rate tolerance method for programming non-volatile memory devices: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for using a bit error rate tolerance (BERT) technique for high-speed programming of non-volatile electronic memory devices. The device programmer is comprised of an embedded computer system and specialized electronic circuitry to interface to the device to be programmed. According to one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090287971 - Method and apparatus for testing a random access memory device: A method and apparatus for testing a random access memory device is provided. One embodiment involves providing an interface between Logic Built in Self Test (LBIST) and Array Built in Self Test (ABIST) paths for memory testing, including providing a cross-coupled NAND device with an LBIST test path; configuring the... Agent: Ibm-acc-washington C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090287972 - Test method for nonvolatile memory device: A test method for nonvolatile memory devices where, in one aspect of the method, a specific operation mode is selected according to a signal input through a single I/O pin in a period in which a write enable signal is inactivated. The write enable signal or a read enable signal... Agent: Ip & T Law Firm PLC

20090287973 - Accelerating scan test by re-using response data as stimulus data abstract: Scan testing of plural target electrical circuits, such as circuits 1 through N, becomes accelerated by using the scan test response data output from one circuit, such as circuit 1, as the scan test stimulus data for another circuit, such as circuit 2. After reset, a scan path captures the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090287974 - Method of generating test condition for detecting delay faults in semiconductor integrated circuit and apparatus for generating the same: Various exemplary embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for generating test conditions that efficiently detect delay faults while preventing overkill. According to an exemplary embodiment, i) test timing correcting block sets test timing faster than the actual operation timing of a logical circuit to be tested, ii) logical simulation block performs... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090287975 - Memory device and method of managing memory data error: Memory devices and/or methods of managing memory data errors are provided. A memory device detects and corrects an error bit of data read from a plurality of memory cells, and identifies a memory cell storing the detected error bit. The memory device assigns a verification voltage to each of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090287977 - Edge incremental redundancy memory structure and memory management: A wireless device for implementing Incremental Redundancy (IR) operations includes an IR memory dedicated to storing data related to the IR operations. The IR memory includes a Type I IR memory adapted to store IR status information of a Radio Link Control (RLC) data block and a Type II IR... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090287976 - Method and apparatus for efficiently utilizing harq processes for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions: A method and apparatus are disclosed for efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process utilization for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions, wherein a reserved HARQ process identification (ID) can be reused. A subset of a plurality of HARQ process IDs is reserved to use for a semi-persistent allocation, and data... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090287980 - Computational architecture for soft decoding: A device for soft decoding contains a set of operational elements, each being capable of performing one of several different functions. The operational elements may be dynamically configured with input and output connections to registers, memory locations, and other operational elements to perform various steps in a soft decoding scheme.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090287981 - Construction of parity-check matrices for non-binarys ldpc codes: A parity check matrix construction method for constructing a non-binary parity check matrix defining a non-binary LDPC code. In particular, a parity check matrix construction method for setting codewords able to stably give a superior decoding performance is provided. For this reason, the non-binary non-zero elements are selected so that... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090287978 - Operating parameter control for integrated circuit signal paths: An integrated circuit (2) includes a signal source (4, 6) and a signal destination (10, 12) linked by a signal path (8). Error correction codes (e.g. Hamming codes) are applied to the signals to be transmitted. Errors detected in the signal transmission are used to control an operating parameter of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090287979 - System and method for relay coding: Systems and methods for providing relay in communications systems are disclosed. The relay may receive signals from user equipments (UEs) transmitting coded signals. The relay may receive turbo coded signals from the UEs. The relay station may encode a network channel for transmission to the base station using a recursive... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090287982 - Correcting errors in longitudinal position (lpos) words: The invention includes a method for longitudinal position (LPOS) detection in a magnetic tape storage system for storing data upon linear tape open (LTO) magnetic storage tape, which data includes odd and even 36-bit LPOS words with error correcting ability. The method includes steps of encoding positional information onto the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090287983 - Decoding method and error correction method of a cyclic code decoder: A decoding method of a cyclic code decoder includes the machine-implemented steps of: establishing a lookup table; receiving a codeword; computing a syndrome and a Hamming weight; if the Hamming weight is not equal to zero and not greater than an error correcting capability value, performing a first error correcting... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090287984 - Blind transport format detection based on decoder metric: The present invention relates to a receiver device and method of detecting a block length of a data block in a data network, wherein a respective theoretical maximum value for a metric of a decoding operation is calculated for each of a plurality of candidate block lengths, and the calculated... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090287985 - Apparatus and method for frame transmission: An apparatus for frame transmission includes a dummy data inserting unit that inserts dummy data, at timing of an interval in which a received frame input intermittently is not detected, in a sequence of processing processes of scrambling processing of user data cut out from the received frame, reading-out of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090287986 - Managing storage of individually accessible data units: A method includes determining a length of a file and storing the length of the file in a first memory location. An endpoint of a last complete record within the file is determined and the endpoint is stored in a second memory location. The length of the file stored in... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090276654 - Systems and methods for implementing fault tolerant data processing services: Systems and methods are provided to implement fault tolerant data processing services based on active replication and, in particular, systems and methods for implementing actively replicated, fault tolerant database systems in which database servers and data storage servers are run as isolated processes co-located within the same replicated fault tolerant... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090276655 - Method for detecting errors during initialization of an electronic appliance and apparatus therefor: The invention concerns a method for detecting problems arising during the launching phase of a resident software of an electronic appliance to be detected. Said detection is carried out by means of data written in the non-volatile memory during said phase. Said data are then erased in case of success.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090276656 - Storage device and recovery method: A storage device including a plurality of storage units for storing data dispersively among the storage units, includes: a processor for controlling boot-up of the storage units; and a memory for storing operation history indicative of the sequence of any failure causing any of the storage units to become inoperative,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276658 - Java virtual machine having integrated transaction management system: A computing system is configured to deploy a JAVA application for execution in a distributed manner. The computing system includes a plurality of computing nodes including a domain manager node, the plurality of computing nodes forming a computing domain configured as an administrative grouping of the nodes administered by the... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090276657 - Managing cluster split-brain in datacenter service site failover: A central controlling service for datacenter activation/deactivation control in a cluster deployment to assist in preventing a split-brain scenario. The central controlling service provides a central point of control in the datacenter for application servers to periodically query as to whether to go offline, online, or normal. Redundancy of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276659 - Method and apparatus for handling failure in address line: An address line failure handling apparatus includes a failed address line specifying unit that examines the address line connected to each bit and specifies a failed address line, an address line substituting unit in which an upper address line connected to an upper bit of the memory is connected with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276660 - Server computer component: Processing means for assisting computer programs running in a distributed computer system, the processing means including: detection means (530) for detecting that a running program (510) has encountered a problem caused by not having direct access to another piece of code; requisition means (530) for obtaining the other piece of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090276661 - Storage system creating a recovery request point enabling execution of a recovery: A switch connected to a network system including a computer and a storage apparatus: controlling read/write request from the computer to the storage apparatus and controlling to store journal data in the storage apparatus; wherein the storage apparatus includes a first storage area for storing data to be used by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090276662 - Stored memory recovery system: Various embodiments of systems and methods for preserving saved memory states to which a computer system can be restored are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods intercept write operations to protected memory locations and redirect them to alternate memory locations. Embodiments of the systems and methods include creation... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090276663 - Method and arrangement for optimizing test case execution: The present invention is a method for optimizing execution of plurality of test cases in a system under test. The method is characterized in that a first set of test cases comprising at least one test case to represent at least one second set of test cases is selected. Then... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver

20090276664 - Method and apparatus for monitoring bit-error rate: A test set for evaluating network performance is described, and which may include an output device, a processor, a power supply, a memory unit, and a control terminal. The test set may be configured to receive a user-entered selection of one of a plurality of different bit-error rate profiles and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090276665 - Apparatus, system, and method of efficiently utilizing hardware resources for a software test: Apparatus, system and method of efficiently utilizing hardware resources for a software test in system having at least one redundant component, at least a part of which is used for the software test.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090276666 - System, method, and adapter for creating fault-tolerant communication busses from standard components: A system, method, and adapter for creating fault-tolerant communication busses from standard components, are described. Fault-tolerant interface logic is provided for transmitting and receiving system health and system management signals to and from a module that is designed to be connected to a single RS-485 bus. The fault-tolerant interface logic... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090276667 - Session broker extensibility application program interface: Described are techniques for providing an application program interface that leverages the terminal services session broker infrastructure to support third party plug-in applications. In a typical scenario, when a user requests for a connection to access third party plug-in applications, the application program interface may override the session broker logic... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090276668 - Scan driver: A scan driver includes a voltage setting circuit, a counter circuit, a logic circuit, a dynamic decoder, N level shift circuits and N output stage circuits, wherein N is a natural number. The voltage setting circuit sets N voltage signals to a first level. The counter circuit provides count data... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090276669 - Method for processing and redirecting misdirected advanced shipping notices (asns): A method is disclosed for correcting misdirected Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs). In one embodiment, the method receives, from a product supplier, a first set of data associated with an ASN, where the first set of data includes an ASN receiving facility identifier. The method also determines a Purchase Order (PO)... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090276670 - Reception apparatus, reception method, and program: A reception apparatus that receives a signal, including, a correction section, an error detection section, a filtering section, and a setting section is provided.... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090276671 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: A method of error control, including forming a plurality of first data symbols from a plurality of data bits, transmitting a first signal including the plurality of first data symbols, receiving a request for retransmission, forming a plurality of second data symbols from the plurality of data bits, and transmitting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090276676 - Apparatus and method for controlling a hybrid automatic repeat request operation in a wireless mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for controlling a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) operation in a transmitter of a wireless mobile communication system using each frame constituted by a plurality of subframes are provided. In the method for controlling an HARQ operation, indication information indicating a subframe position where transmission of... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090276673 - Methods and systems for optimizing harq communication: A method and apparatus for optimizing communication in a communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a plurality of data packets including a first data packet, storing at least one of the plurality of data packets in a first buffer when the first data packet includes an error, determining... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090276672 - Repetitive transmissions in multi-carrier based wireless access techniques: Repetitive transmissions in multi-carrier based wireless access techniques may be achieved by providing multiple cyclic delay values for a plurality of carriers, performing a cyclic delay procedure using the multiple cyclic delay values according to the number of repetitive transmission of data symbols to be transmitted to a receiver, and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090276675 - Signaling of redundancy version and new data indication: Example methods and apparatus for communicating encoded data blocks in wireless communication systems are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method for receiving an encoded data block includes receiving a data transmission including a subset of a plurality of bits of the encoded data block. The example method also includes... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090276674 - System and apparatus for providing an adaptive control mechanism for wireless communications: A system for providing an adaptive control mechanism may include a mobile station within a multicast broadcast service group and a base station in communication with the mobile station. The base station may be configured to control provision of data to the mobile station, receive feedback with respect to receipt... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090276677 - Radio communications device and reception method: A radio communications device includes a first error detection part configured to perform error detection on a header included in a packet; a determination part configured to determine whether there is consistency with respect to the length of the packet based on the header in response to the first error... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090276678 - Data transmission system, program and method: A data transmission system includes a packet missing state data storage unit that stores packet missing state data including distribution of the numbers of consecutive missed packets in a decoder and distribution of intervals of the packet missing in the decoder; an interleave unit determination processing unit that determines, based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276679 - Hybrid arq transmission method with channel state information: A method for decoding of multiple wireless signals by a chase combining hybrid-automatic-repeat-request CC-HARQ receiver includes demodulating wireless signals received from respective mobile sources using an effective channel matrix and decision statistics; updating log-likelihood-ratios LLRs and decoding the received codewords using the corresponding updated LLRs; determining set of correctly decoded... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090276683 - Data transmission equipment and generating method for transmission code: A transmitter communicates with a receiver and an error corrector corrects bit errors generated during data transmission. The transmitter has a scrambler unit that scrambles data so that a running disparity of 0 and 1 in the input data is substantially zero. A bit-string converting unit 15 that adds bit... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090276680 - Error correction circuit and method thereof: An error correction method is applicable for accessing a data in a storage medium. The method includes the steps of: encoding a portion of the data and the whole data to produce a partial data parity for that portion of the data and a whole data parity for the whole... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090276682 - Turbo ldpc decoding: An iterative low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding system comprises a first shift register for storing bit estimates, a plurality of parity-check processing node banks configured for processing the bit estimates for generating messages, combiners configured for combining the messages with the bit estimates for generating updated bit estimates, and fixed permuters... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090276681 - Upgraded codeword lock state machine: An apparatus comprising a Forward Error Correction (FEC) processor coupled to an optical receiver, wherein the FEC processor is configured to compare a plurality of received blocks to a plurality of FEC codeword blocks comprising a plurality of parity blocks, and upon detecting a misaligned block in the received blocks,... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. C/o Conley Rose, P.C.

20090276684 - Multi-antenna configuration signaling in wireless communication system: A wireless communication infrastructure entity (200) having a communication configuration is configured to generate parity bits based on an information word and to encode the parity bits based on the communication configuration of the wireless communication infrastructure entity, wherein the encoded parity bits are combined with the information word. A... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090276685 - Data decoding apparatus, magnetic disk apparatus, and data decoding method: A data decoding apparatus has: a check matrix including a submatrix which indicates a parity restriction and used for LDPC decoding; a first decoding module configured to decode data by using the submatrix so that the parity restriction is satisfied; and a second decoding module configured to LDPC-decode the decoded... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090276686 - Method to support forward error correction for real-time audio and video data over internet protocol networks: A method and apparatus are described for protecting real time media including receiving media packets, generating media bit strings from the media packets, applying a forward error correcting code across the generated media bit strings to generate at least one forward error correcting bit string and generating at least one... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090276687 - Method of encoding and decoding multi-bit level data: A method of encoding multi-bit level data includes: determining a range of an error pattern generated according to a transmission symbol, encoding an M-bit level of a P-bit level corresponding to the transmission symbol based on the range of the error pattern, and excluding encoding of a P-M bit level... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090276688 - Data converter, information recorder, and error detector: A data converter includes: an input module to which a first data series is input, the first data series having a first data sequence and a first error detection code corresponding to a remainder of division of the first data sequence by a predetermined polynomial; a conversion module converting the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090276689 - Using short burst error detector in a queue-based system: A system, method, and device for detecting short burst errors in a queue-based system is disclosed. A first detector performs a data detection on a first input data set at a first time and on a second input data set at a second time. A second detector performs a data... Agent: Lsi Corporation C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090271654 - Control method for information processing system, information processing system, and program: An object of the present invention is to ensure, in an information processing system including a plurality of server apparatuses coupled to one another, reliability and availability thereof when failover is executed. In an information processing system, which includes a plurality of server apparatuses coupled to one another, and a... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090271655 - Failover method, program, failover apparatus and failover system: The invention is to provide a failover method for improving overall reliability of a system including a large number of servers. Priorities set based on operating statuses of respective servers and shared devices capable of communicating with the respective servers in a failover system are stored in a storage portion... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090271657 - Drive health monitoring with provisions for drive probation state and drive copy rebuild: e

20090271658 - No data loss it disaster recovery over extended distances: Systems and methods operating over extended distances provide for recovery of data and operational continuity of computer applications accessing data within an information technology system if an event occurs effecting access to the data. In one embodiment, an extended distance data recovery system (100) includes first, second and third data... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090271656 - Stream distribution system and failure detection method: Provided are a stream distribution system and a failure detection method capable of easily identifying the cause of quality loss in stream distribution. This stream distribution system includes a first server for communicating with a client terminal via a router and sending stream data, and a second server configured as... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090271659 - Raid rebuild using file system and block list: This embodiment (a system) addresses and reduces the RAID build time by only rebuilding the used blocks and omitting the unused blocks. This starts after a disk drive from a RAID system is failed and replaced and storage controller starts the process of rebuilding the data on the new disk... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090271660 - Motherboard, a method for recovering the bios thereof and a method for booting a computer: A motherboard, a method for recovering a BIOS thereof, and a method for booting a computer are provided. In the method for booting the computer, a first boot block of a first BIOS unit is executed first, and then a second boot block of a second BIOS unit is executed.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090271661 - Status transition test support device, status transition test support method, and recording medium: A status transition table generation portion generates a status transition table containing combination information cells provided in the form of a matrix for describing information corresponding to combinations of internal status and event. In a status transition table design support portion, a test path generation portion generates a test path... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090271662 - Steady state computer testing: A steady state value of each parameter in a set of one or more parameters of a computer system under test is defined, and acts related to the parameter are performed while the system under test is processing one or more test workloads. The acts can include comparing a working... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271663 - Providing detailed program state information for error analysis: A method of processing application execution errors in a data processing system includes recording function state changes of an application program during execution of the application program as a bitmap. The recorded bitmap is retrieved as a result of an application execution error. The application execution error may be identified... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090271665 - Fault tracing in the data bus system of a vehicle: A data bus system of a motor vehicle includes at least one first and one second control device which communicates with each another via at least one data bus. In order to be able to localize errors more easily, the system has at least one identification device which provides an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090271664 - Method for monitoring dependent metric streams for anomalies: A method for monitoring dependent metric streams for anomalies including identifying a plurality of sets of dependent metric streams from a plurality of metric streams of a computer system by measuring an association of the plurality of metric streams using a statistical dependency measure analysis, wherein each set includes a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090271666 - Message processing device and method thereof: There are provided a message processing device and a method improved to store a plenty of messages used for processing. When a message is transmitted to another node for providing a service, a message processing unit (26) monitors the message transferred and stores it in a storage region whose allocation... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090271667 - Apparatus and method for monitoring computer system: A system monitoring apparatus specifies an intentionally shutdown system component or monitoring target, and a different monitoring target that is dependent thereon (a dependent target), and does not display an alert even when an error state is detected for a monitoring target inside the intentionally shutdown system component or the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090271668 - Bus failure management method and system: A method, apparatus and program product improve computer reliability by, in part, identifying a plurality of error occurrences from Error Correction Codes. It may then be determined if the plurality of error occurrences are associated with a single bit of a bus. The determined, single bit may correspond to a... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20090271669 - High-speed testing of integrated devices: A method for allowing high-speed testability of a memory device having a core with memory cells for storing data, comprising: enabling a data signal having a first logical state or a second logical state from the core to reach an output port of the memory device within an evaluate cycle... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090271670 - Systems and methods for media defect detection utilizing correlated dfir and llr data: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for media defect detection. For example, a method for detecting a media defect is disclosed. The method includes deriving a data input from a medium and performing a MAP detection on the data input. The MAP detection provides an NRZ... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)

20090271671 - Apparatus and method for improved test controllability and observability of random resistant logic: A method for implementing improved observability of random resistant logic included in an integrated circuit (IC) design includes configuring a multiplexer device to pass, to a preexisting storage latch within the design, one of: a signal from one or more observation points within the random resistant logic and an output... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20090271673 - 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

20090271672 - Probeless testing of pad buffers on wafer: The peripheral circuitry (350, 360, ESD, BH) of an integrated circuit die on a wafer is tested without physically contacting the bond pads of the die.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090271674 - Scan test method and apparatus: The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for providing expected data, mask data, and control signals to scan test architectures within a device using the falling edge of a test/scan clock. The signals are provided on device leads that are also used to provide signals to scan test architectures... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090271675 - Radiation induced fault analysis: A method of locating a defect of a failed semiconductor device which includes applying a test pattern to the failed semiconductor device and providing failed semiconductor device test responses as a pass signature, applying radiation to each of multiple locations of circuitry of a correlation semiconductor device with sufficient energy... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090271676 - Detecting architectural vulnerability of processor resources: In one embodiment, a quantum detector is provided to detect a vulnerability measure for a processor based on a processor metrics each associated with operation of a processor structure during a quantum, along with a controller to control an error mitigation unit based on the vulnerability measure. Other embodiments are... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090271677 - Data transformation method and related device for a testing system: A data transformation method for a testing system includes receiving a test signal comprising a test data and a timing information corresponding to the test data, and transforming the test data according to the timing information, so as to generate a test pattern.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090271678 - Interface voltage adjustment based on error detection: A method of adjusting an interface voltage includes transferring data between a memory device and a controller, and detecting whether an error occurred in the transfer of data. An interface voltage of at least one of the memory device and the controller is adjusted based on the detection.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090271680 - Communication system, communication device, and data frame retransmission control method: A mobile station device (12) includes a retransmission request transmission timing identifying unit (40) which identifies, based on a timing of reception of a data frame transmitted from a base station device, a timing of transmission of a retransmission request of the data frame to the base station device. The... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090271679 - Retransmission control method and receiving-end apparatus: A retransmission control method according to the present invention includes; transmitting, at a transmitter side apparatus 10, a new data indicator configured of multiple bits and updated when a new packet is transmitted, through a physical control channel associated with the physical data channel; and transmitting, at the receiver side... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090271681 - Method, device and software application for transmitting data packets in a communication system: The invention also relates to software applications for transmitting a plurality of data packets and for receiving them. Furthermore, the invention relates to a transmitting device and a receiving device implementing respectively the software application for transmitting the plurality of data packets and the software application for receiving those data... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090271682 - Receiving/transmitting system and data processing method in the receiving/transmitting system: A receiving system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, a controller, a demodulator, an equalizer, a turbo decoder, and an error correction unit. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including data packets, wherein an M/H service data packet includes known data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090271683 - System and method of processing video data: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of correcting video data errors. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a stream of data packets at a re-generator of an Internet Protocol (IP) video transport stream. The stream of data packets includes a plurality of IP media... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090271684 - Iterative decoding between turbo and rs decoders for improving bit error rate and packet error rate: A technique for iterative decoding between turbo and Reed Solomon (RS) decoders for improving bit error rate (BER) and packet error rate (PER) in a receiver in a wireless communication system comprises receiving data samples comprising turbo encoded packets and RS code words at the receiver; decoding turbo encoded packets... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090271685 - Method for processing packets, an apparatus for transmitting packets, and an apparatus for receiving packets: The present invention discloses a packet processing method, comprising: A. the transmitter acquiring the redundancy information based on the payload of at least one transmitted packet and transmitting the redundancy information to the receiver; B. the receiver restoring the payload of the abnormal packet according to the redundancy information relating... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090271688 - Communication signal decoding with iterative cooperation between inner and outer codes: Received communication signals may be decoded according to a combined, iterative inner code-outer code decoding technique. The inner code decoding is based on information produced by the outer code decoding.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090271686 - Communication signal decoding with iterative cooperation between turbo and reed-solomon decoding: Received communication signals may be decoded according to a combined turbo-RS (Reed-Solomon) decoding technique. The turbo decoding is based on information produced by the RS decoding.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090271687 - Transmitting/receiving system and method of processing data in the transmitting/receiving system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method of the same are disclosed. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, a demodulator, a block decoder, and an RS frame decoder. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data divided into a plurality of output masses, signaling... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090271689 - Information processing device and information processing method: An information processing device, comprising: a first encoder configured to encode data having an error detecting code in a first encoding format to generate first data; a second encoder configured to encode the first data in a second encoding format corresponding to decoding of the first encoding format to generate... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP