Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery inventions

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

20090265576 - System for determining real time network up time: The inventive system and method for determining the availability of a computer network comprises a device operable to connect to at least the computer network using internet communications and using GSM, and an alarm service and/or a central server, wherein the device attempts to connect to the computer network using... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090265577 - Method of managing paths for an externally-connected storage system and method of detecting a fault site: Provided is a method of controlling a computer system that includes: a computer; a first storage device connected to the computer via a first path and a second path; and a second storage device externally-connected to the first storage system via a third path and connected to the computer via... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090265578 - Full stripe processing for a redundant array of disk drives: A system and method are provided for automating full stripe operations in a redundant data storage array. In a redundant storage device controller, a parity product is accumulated that is associated with an information stripe. The parity product is stored in controller memory in a single write operation. A stored... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20090265579 - Information processing apparatus and error correction method: According to one embodiment, a memory interface module is configured to read one of instructions stored in a memory in accordance with a memory address designated by a fetch request issued from a processor. An error detection module is configured to detect an error in the read instruction. An instruction... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090265580 - Error detection method for a computer system, and electronic device: An error detection method for a computer system includes the steps of: enabling an error-detecting computer to communicate with a keyboard controller of a computer-under-test through a communication interface; enabling the error-detecting computer to issue an error detection command to the keyboard controller that causes the keyboard controller to issue... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090265581 - Data system having a variable clock pulse rate: A data processing system includes an execution unit operating in a clocked manner, a clock pulse generator for delivering a clock signal for the execution unit, and a monitoring unit for monitoring the regular operation of the execution unit. The clock pulse generator is configured for delivering the clock signal... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090265582 - Data processing system and method of debugging: A data processing system is provided. The data processing system comprises at least one processor (P) for processing data according to a set of instructions. The processors are coupled by a bus means (BM). Furthermore, a debugging means (DM) is provided to detect the occurrence of events and the corresponding... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090265583 - Monitoring device having multiple data communication paths: A machine monitoring apparatus collects, processes and communicates machine data to be used for process control purposes and to be used in analyzing the machine performance. The apparatus includes one or more sensors that may be attached to or adjacent the machine for generating signals indicative of a performance parameter... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090265584 - Storage control unit with control signal path between coupled controllers: The present invention provides a storage control unit having dual control units wherein a controller in one control unit, that has received an I/O request from a host, issues an I/O request to an initiator in another control unit using a control path between the controllers in the control units,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090265585 - Management supporting system, management supporting method, and management supporting program: An object of the present invention is to enable a user to grasp the operation of the autonomous system for executing a countermeasure corresponding to a state of a system to be managed and to enable the user to check if a problem has been solved after the countermeasure taken... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090265587 - Knowledge-based failure recovery support system: A user terminal includes a software list storage unit for storing a software list, a knowledge base storage unit for storing a knowledge base, a knowledge base input unit for inputting a knowledge base from a relay server, and a new failure notification unit for transmitting new failure information to... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090265586 - Method and system for installing software deliverables: A method for installing software involves obtaining a knowledge package including guidelines for obtaining and installing software deliverables, and simulating installation of the software deliverables on a managed host based on the guidelines in the knowledge package. Simulating installation of the software deliverables involves obtaining the software deliverables based on... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090265588 - System and method for running test and redundancy analysis in parallel: A memory redundancy analyzing apparatus having a tester, a queue, and a redundancy analyzer is provided. The tester includes testing portions for different types of fails, and each of the testing portions performs multiple tests on the memory locations and outputs fail information for at least a part of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090265589 - Data channel test apparatus and method thereof: A system includes a plurality of devices that are connected in series and a controller that communicates with the devices. Each of the devices has a plurality of input ports and corresponding output ports. The outputs of one device and the inputs of a next device are interconnected. The controller... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090265590 - Method and system for testing the compliance of pcie expansion systems: The present application describes a method and system for testing the compliance of a PCIE expansion system to verify that data signals transmitted through multiple data lanes in the expansion system comply with the PCIE requirements. The method for testing a PCIE expansion system comprises delivering the data signals from... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090265592 - Memory device and test method thereof: The present invention provides a memory device and a test method thereof that can detect a coupling fault between two memory arrays. The memory device includes a memory array unit and a test module. The memory array unit includes a value memory array and a mask memory array. The test... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090265591 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: A semiconductor integrated circuit device related to an embodiment of the present invention includes an address register which includes an internal selection circuit connected with a control circuit, a signal generation instruction circuit which instructs the control circuit so that a predetermined internal control signal is generated, a latch circuit,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090265593 - Method for testing semiconductor integrated circuit and method for verifying design rules: Not only defects in DC characteristics and a degeneracy fault but defects in AC characteristics such as SI faults (a crosstalk faults and an IR-DROP fault) and a delay fault, which tend to increase as design rules become finer in recent years, are detected as a measure used when the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090265595 - Multiple test access port protocols sharing common signals: A method of causing an interface to implement a mode from a plurality of selectable modes in which the interface operates according to a plurality of states defined by a state machine comprises sequencing through a sequence of the states, and detecting a predetermined sequence of the states. The predetermined... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090265594 - Selectable jtag or trace access with data store and output: An addressable interface selectively enables JTAG TAP domain operations or Trace domain operations within an IC. After being enabled, the TAP receives TMS and TDI input from a single data pin. After being enabled, the Trace domain acquires data from a functioning circuit within the IC in response to a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090265596 - Semiconductor devices, integrated circuit packages and testing methods thereof: An integrated circuit package comprising a semiconductor device and pins is provided. The semiconductor device comprises first and second scan chains, each having an input port and an output port. The semiconductor device further comprises at least two first pads, at least two second pads, and a connecting device. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090265597 - Signal output device, signal detection device, tester, electron device, and program: There is provided a signal output apparatus for outputting a pattern signal. The signal output apparatus includes a pattern generating section that generates waveform data of the pattern signal to be generated, a timing generating section that generates timing signals in accordance with an expected pattern cycle time of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265598 - Using programming-time information to support error correction: Methods, apparatus and computer readable medium for handling error correction in a memory are disclosed. In some embodiments, first data is written to the memory, and a value(s) of an operational parameter(s) that is a consequence of the writing of the first data is determined. Second data is read from... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Sandisk

20090265599 - Apparatus and method for supporting synchronous hybrid automatic repeat request in broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for supporting an HARQ scheme in a wireless communication system are provided. In a method for operating a base station, whether a resource used for a system of a different standard and a resource used for one of an HARQ reply and an HARQ retransmission... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090265600 - Test matrix generating method, encoding method, decoding method, communication apparatus, communication system, encoder and decoder: A regular quasi-cyclic matrix is prepared, a conditional expression for assuring a predetermined minimum loop in a parity check matrix is derived, and a mask matrix for converting a specific cyclic permutation matrix into a zero-matrix based on the conditional expression and a predetermined weight distribution is generated. The specific... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090265602 - Liquid container: When a semiconductor storage device 10 receives write data, an error detection operation decoder 150 in the semiconductor storage device 10 determines whether any error arises in the received write data. Upon detection of an error in the received write data, the error detection operation decoder 150 does not send... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090265601 - Mitigation of transmission errors of quantized channel state information feedback in multi antenna systems: Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090259879 - Determining corrective actions using a geometrically-based determination of sufficient confidence: A method, system, and apparatus for determining a corrective action for a diagnosable system are provided. A failure mode reasoning engine (FMRE) receives an evidence notification. The FMRE determines a plurality of evidentiary-failure-mode-probability rectangles (EFMPRs) based on the evidence notification. A candidate EFMPR in the plurality of EFMPRs is determined.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090259880 - Process flow execution apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium storing control program therefor: A process flow execution apparatus capable of notifying a user of a task or a setting that is not supported in an application of a version lower than a version set in a process flow that describes process contents of a plurality of tasks. A process flow application handling the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090259881 - Failsafe recovery facility in a coordinated timing network: A failsafe recovery capability for a Coordinated Timing Network. The recovery capability facilitates recovery when communication is lost between two servers of the coordinated timing network. The capability includes checking another system's status in order to determine what action is to be taken. The status includes the stratum level of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090259882 - Apparatus and method for identifying disk drives with unreported data corruption: A RAID controller uses a method to identify a storage device of a redundant array of storage devices that is returning corrupt data to the RAID controller. The method includes reading data from a location of each storage device in the redundant array a first time, and detecting that at... Agent: Dot Hill Systems Corporation

20090259884 - Cost-reduced redundant service processor configuration: A redundant service processor configuration is provided. A first processor in a first node operates elements in the first node. A first control line connects the first processor to a first multiplexer in the first node. A second processor in a second node operates elements in the second node. A... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090259883 - Robust synchronization of diagnostic information among powertrain control modules: An automotive system has a primary control module, such as an engine control module (ECM) configured for connection to a malfunction indicator lamp (MIL), and a secondary control module, such as a transmission control module (TCM), each in communication with each other over a bus. Each control module includes a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090259885 - Systems and methods for redundancy management in fault tolerant computing: Systems and methods for redundancy management in fault tolerant computing are provided. The systems and methods generally relate to enabling the use of non-custom, off-the-shelf components and tools to provide redundant fault tolerant computing. The various embodiments described herein, generally speaking, use a decrementer register in a general purpose processor... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090259886 - Apparatus and methods for restoring system operation states: A process for restoring an operational state of a portable handheld device is provided. The device may include multiple computing units and persistent storage. The operational state may be generated by a sequence of events. The operational state may receive signals corresponding to a plurality of event types. The process... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20090259887 - Self-service terminal equipment and guidance screen processing method: A self-service terminal equipment includes at least one input/output device, a display device, a storage unit, and a control unit, wherein the storage unit includes a guidance information storage unit that stores recovery information in association with guidance information, the control unit includes a user program executing unit, and an... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090259888 - Apparatus for displaying bios post code and method thereof: An apparatus for displaying a basic input output system (BIOS) power-on self-test (POST) code and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a BIOS, a conversion module, and an output module. The BIOS is used for generating a POST code. The POST code is transmitted via a low pin... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090259889 - Test device and method for hierarchical test architecture: A test device for a hierarchical test architecture is disclosed. The architecture includes cores for plural test layers, a top-level data register, and a top-level test controller. Cores for each test layer are hierarchical test circuits. The top-level test controller retrieves plural control signals, controls the top-level data register based... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20090259890 - Method & apparatus for hardware fault management: A hardware health evaluation module is associated with a hardware module or device and employs a linked list of error records to continually evaluate the state of the hardware module to determine whether or not it is currently operating with or without errors. In the event that the health evaluation... Agent: Robert Schuler

20090259891 - Defect detection apparatus for optical disc and method thereof: Disclosed is a defect detection apparatus of an optical disk drive. The optical disc drive records a set of first data onto at least one data unit of an optical disc. The defect detection apparatus comprises an error detector and a defect verification unit. The error detector receives the set... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090259892 - Method and apparatus for producing a metastable flip flop: The method includes predetermining an output enable time period by measuring the maximum settling time when a signal is read during a transition from 0 to 1 or vice versa, and multiplying the maximum settling time by a safety factor 2.5, to set an output enable time period; reading and... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20090259893 - 10gbase-t training algorithm: A method of identifying and correcting each of the changes that may occur with wire pairs between the transmitter and receiver in Ethernet 10GBase-T cabling is provided. The method includes four wire pairs A, B, C and D, a polarity swapping and scrambler state machine that determine if the chosen... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090259894 - Error correction for disk storage media: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for improving the reliability of data stored on disk media. Logical redundancy is introduced into the data, and the data within a logical storage unit is divided into sectors that are spatially separated by interleaving them with sectors of other logical storage... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090259895 - Semiconductor memory device parallel bit test circuits: Parallel bit test circuits for use in a semiconductor memory devices are provided which include a first bus that has N bus lines that are configured to transfer a first group of N bits of test result data and a second bus that has N bus lines that are configured... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090259896 - Bad block identifying method for flash memory, storage system, and controller thereof: A bad block identifying method for a flash memory, a storage system, and a controller thereof are provided. The bad block identifying method includes determining whether a programming error occurs in a block of the flash memory after the block is programmed and marking the block as a bad block... Agent: J C Patents

20090259897 - Logic circuit protected against transient disturbances: The invention concerns a circuit protected against transitory perturbations, comprising a combinatorial logic circuit (10), having at least an output (A); a circuit (20) generating an error control code for said output, and a storage element (24) provided at said output, controlled by the circuit generating a control code to... Agent: Basinski & Associates Erwin J. Basinski

20090259899 - Method and apparatus for automatic scan completion in the event of a system checkstop: A method for automatic scan completion in the event of a system checkstop in a processor. The processor includes: a processor register; a millicode interface connected between the processor register and a checkstop scan controller; a checkstop logic circuit connected between the checkstop scan controller and a checkstop scan engine;... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090259900 - Test pattern compression for an integrated circuit test environment: A method for compressing test patterns to be applied to scan chains in a circuit under test. The method includes generating symbolic expressions that are associated with scan cells within the scan chains. The symbolic expressions are created by assigning variables to bits on external input channels supplied to the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090259898 - Test vector generating method and test vector generating program of semiconductor logic circuit device: The X-type of each bit permutation is determined (step 301). When there are X-types except for X-type 1, i.e., X-type with no don't-care bits, total capture state transition numbers TECTA1 and TECTA2 for capture clock pulses C1 and C2 are calculated (step 303). As a result, when TECTA1>TECTA2, an X-type... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090259901 - 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

20090259902 - Semiconductor device: Provided is a semiconductor device that can be reduced in size while variation in shape among circuit patterns is reduced. The semiconductor device includes multiple circuit patterns and first dummy patterns. The multiple circuit patterns are disposed at regular intervals, and are used as part of the circuit. The multiple... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090259903 - Wafer scale testing using a 2 signal jtag interface: Testing of die on wafer is achieved by; (1) providing a tester with the capability of externally communicating JTAG test signals using simultaneously bidirectional transceiver circuitry, (2) providing die on wafer with the capability of externally communicating JTAG test signals using simultaneously bidirectional transceiver circuity, and (3) providing a connectivity... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090259904 - Testing mobile wireless devices during device production: A system and method of testing a wireless communication device during device production comprises designating as a data log buffer when the device is being produced, at least part of random access memory (RAM) of the device that is allocated for virtual machine and/or application usage when the device is... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090259905 - System and method for quantum computer calibration and performance estimation: A system and method for characterizing noise in a quantum system includes determining pulse sequences for unitary twirling operations. Twirling processes are applied to a quantum system to calibrate errors and to determine channel parameters. Noise characteristics are determined from calibration data collected to calibrate the errors and to determine... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090259906 - Data substitution scheme for oversampled data: Low latency and computationally efficient techniques may be employed to account for errors in data such as low bit-width, oversampled data. In some aspects these techniques may be employed to mitigate audio artifacts associated with sigma-delta modulated audio data. In some aspects an error may be detected in a set... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090259908 - Arq and harq protocol data units and method of formation: The present invention provides for a method of forming at least one ARQ PDU from an ARQ service data unit (SDU), the ARQ PDU comprising a header portion and a data portion, and the method including selective addition of a Length Indicator field to the said header portion responsive to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090259907 - Inter-packet selective symbol mapping in a joint incremental redundancy and symbol mapping diversity system: An integrated incremental redundancy symbol mapping diversity system for a communication device. The integrated incremental redundancy symbol mapping diversity system includes a transmitter. The transmitter packetizes a retransmission packet according to a modulation scheme in response to a retransmission request from the receiver. The transmitter includes an output packet processor... Agent: HolmanIPLaw

20090259911 - Method and apparatus for improving transmission time interval bundling: A method for improving transmission time interval bundling transmission in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a first bundle at a first time point, and transmitting a second bundle at a second time point behind the first time point, wherein the second time point is located in a bundle round... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090259910 - Method and apparatus for performing random access procedures: A mobile terminal and a method of performing a random access procedure by the terminal is achieved by transmitting a random access preamble to a base station, receiving a random access response from the base station, and performing an uplink transmission using an uplink grant from the base station. The... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090259909 - Physical harq indicator channel (phich) resource assignment signaling in a wireless communication environment: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate signaling Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Indicator Channel (PHICH) resource assignments in a wireless communication environment. At least a portion of a current PHICH resource assignment for a current Transmission Time Interval (TTI) and at least a portion of a subsequent PHICH... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090259914 - Digital content protection systems and methods: What is disclosed is a method of operating an integrated circuit which includes an input module, an output module, and a processing module coupled to the input module and the output module. The method includes, in the input module, receiving a first data segment; in the processing module, reading a... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090259912 - Ldpc codes and stochastic decoding for optical transmission: A method for error correction and a decoder using low density parity check (LDPC) codes includes initializing extrinsic probability information between variable nodes and check nodes in a bipartite graph including generating a Bernoulli sequence according to a probability of a bit having a value one. Parity checking is performed... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090259913 - Method for encoding control information in a wireless communication system using low density parity check code, and method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving the control information: A method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code is provided. The number of LDPC blocks, through which L1 post-signaling information is to be transmitted, is determined according to the total number of bits of the L1 post-signaling... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090259916 - Data accessing method, controller and storage system using the same: Data accessing method for a flash memory, and a controller and a storage system using the same are provided. The data accessing method includes reading data from a physical address of a flash memory according to a physical address to be read corresponding to a logical address to be read... Agent: J C Patents

20090259917 - Method of correcting message errors using cycle redundancy checks: A method of correcting errors in a message transmitted over a digital communication channel, where the message was encoded using a CRC for purposes of error detection. A parity-check matrix representation of the CRC is computed for any fixed-length message, and that parity-check matrix is combined with the parity-check matrix... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090259915 - Structured low-density parity-check (ldpc) code: The invention introduces an apparatus, method and system that allow coding matrices to be expanded to accommodate various information packet sizes and support for various code rates; additionally the invention defines a number of coding matrices particularly suited to the methodology. The invention enables high throughput implementations, allows achieving low... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090259918 - Position detection error correcting method: A position detection error correcting method that corrects position detection errors using a limited storage capacity, by calculating position detection error correction values by four simple arithmetic operations at startup to reduce a startup time delay and consumption of a storage capacity even when a portion containing steep error variations... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259919 - Flash management using separate medtadata storage: Disclosed are techniques for flash memory management, including storing metadata and/or error correcting information separately from payload data. In various embodiments, metadata and/or error correcting information are stored in a random access memory within a solid state drive.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090259920 - Apparatus and method for error correction in mobile wireless applications incorporating multi-level and adaptive erasure data: A receiver (120) is configured to receive data over a communications link. A decapsulator (122) is coupled to the receiver and configured to create datagrams and erasure attributes associated with the datagrams. A decoder (124) is coupled to the decapsulator and configured to store the datagrams in a frame table... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090259921 - Method and apparatus for decoding shortened bch codes or reed-solomon codes: The present invention proposes a method and apparatus for decoding BCH codes and Reed-Solomon codes, in which a modified Berlekamp-Massey algorithm is used to perform the decoding process and the efficiency of the decoder can be improved by re-defining the error locating polynomial as a reverse error locating polynomial, while... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090259922 - Channel decoding-based error detection: Low latency and computationally efficient techniques may be employed to account for errors in data such as low bit-width, oversampled data. In some aspects these techniques may be employed to mitigate audio artifacts associated with sigma-delta modulated audio data. In some aspects an error may be detected in a set... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090259923 - Method for fail-safe transmission, safety switching device and control unit: A method for fail-safe transmission of information between a transmitter and a receiver is disclosed. At least two telegrams relating to the information are transmitted as a first telegram via a first channel and a second telegram via a second channel from the transmitter to the receiver. To identify an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090259925 - Broadcast equipment communication protocol: A method for transmitting data between components of a digital broadcasting system includes: receiving payload data, adding a content layer header to the payload data to form a content layer data frame, adding a transmission and authentication layer header and a cyclic redundancy check field to the content layer data... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20090259924 - Data protection method for variable length records by utilizing high performance block storage metadata: An enhanced mechanism for providing data protection for variable length records utilizes high performance block storage metadata. In an embodiment, an emulated record that emulates a variable length record, such as a Count-Key-Data (CKD) record or an Extended-Count-Key-Data (ECKD) record, is generated by a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) of a... Agent: Grant A. Johnson, Attorney IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20090254773 - Method, operating system and computing hardware for running a computer program: A method for running a computer program on computing hardware, in particular on a microprocessor, is described, the computer program including multiple program objects and errors being detected in the method while running the computer program on the computing hardware, the program objects being subdivided into at least two classes... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090254774 - Methods and systems for run-time scheduling database operations that are executed in hardware: Embodiments of the present invention provide a run-time scheduler that schedules tasks for database queries on one or more execution resources in a dataflow fashion. In some embodiments, the run-time scheduler may comprise a task manager, a memory manager, and hardware resource manager. When a query is received by a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090254775 - Method for enabling faster recovery of client applications in the event of server failure: A system and method are provided for improving recovery times in fallover conditions in a multinode data processing system by sending notification of the failure of a server node, which is acting as server for a client application running on a client node, to the client application. In the present... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090254776 - Flash memory system startup operation: Multiple copies of firmware code for controlling operation of a non-volatile flash memory system are stored at different suitable locations of the flash memory of a memory system. A map of addresses of these locations is also stored in the flash memory. Upon initialization of the memory system, boot code... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20090254777 - Detector of abnormal destruction of memory sectors: The invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising at least one microprocessor [12] linked to at least one non-volatile memory [14] that can be accessed by sectors. The integrated circuit comprises a detector [20] for discovering when a threshold number of bad sectors has been exceeded in said non-volatile memory... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090254778 - User interface for a remote control application: A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090254779 - Control apparatus: A control apparatus performs transmission and reception of data among a plurality of units mounted on a backplane. The control apparatus includes a communication unit that is mounted on the backplane and connected to the units via one-to-one communication lines and relays data among the units by using the communication... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090254781 - Digital reliability monitor having autonomic repair and notification capability: A circuit for preventing failure in an integrated circuit. The circuit including: an original circuit; one or more redundant circuits; and a repair processor, including a clock cycle counter configured to count pulses of a pulsed signal, the repair processor configured to (a) replace the original circuit with a first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090254780 - Processing apparatus, control method and storage medium: A processing apparatus that can accept logs from external processing apparatuses efficiently without degrading the performance of its own. The processing apparatus is connected with a plurality of external processing apparatuses for sending a first log including information on frequency of usage and a second log including information on an... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090254782 - Method and device for detecting an erroneous jump during program execution: The present disclosure relates to a method for executing, by a processor, a program read in a program memory, comprising steps of: detecting a program memory read address jump; providing prior to a jump address instruction for jumping a program memory read address, an instruction for storing the presence of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090254783 - Information signal encoding: A very coarse quantization exceeding the measure determined by the masking threshold without or only very little quality losses is enabled by quantizing not immediately the prefiltered signal, but a prediction error obtained by forward-adaptive prediction of the prefiltered signal. Due to the forward adaptivity, the quantizing error has no... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090254784 - Semiconductor memory device and system using semiconductor memory device: A semiconductor memory device comprises a RAM (Random Access Memory), an ODT (On-Die Termination) circuits and a JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) circuit. The RAM is connected to a data input-output port. The ODT circuit is provided between the data input-output port and a termination port. The JTAG circuit controls... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090254785 - Test mode for parallel load of address dependent data to enable loading of desired data backgrounds: One or more embodiments of the invention enable a memory device to load its memory array with desired background data, such as to reduce total test time and costs associated with testing. A background data loading circuit according to one embodiment of the invention includes a buffer, a data loading... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20090254786 - Accurately identifying failing scan bits in compression environments: X-masking registers are added in front of a compactor in test data compression environment to remove unknown values. The X-masking registers block out some chains due to unknown values and select other chains to feed the compactor. This X-masking capability is used to select one scan cell to observe at... Agent: Mentor Graphics Corp. Patent Group

20090254787 - Shift-frequency scaling: There is provided a method that includes, (a) determining a first clock frequency for shifting a first section of a scan pattern set through a path in a digital circuit such that a first power dissipated by the digital circuit while shifting the first section does not exceed a power... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20090254788 - Techniques for logic built-in self-test diagnostics of integrated circuit devices: A method, system and computer program product for performing real-time LBIST diagnostics of IC devices. During LBIST, stump data and identifiers of test cycles are saved in the IC device-under-test (DUT). If compressed stump data does not match a pre-defined coded value (i.e., “signature” of the test cycle), the saved... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090254789 - Coding a signal: An apparatus, a base station and user equipment are provided. The apparatus is configured to code a first given number of symbols from the beginning of a transmission period and/or a second given number of symbols from the end of the transmission period with a stronger error correcting code than... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20090254790 - Methods and apparatus to improve communication in a relay channel: A system and method for relaying data communications in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) network. The system and method operable to receive a data communication packet from a base station during a first transmission time interval and simultaneously receive an acknowledgement signal from a subscriber station; and transmit a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090254791 - Data storage system: The present invention is directed to an archival data storage system. The archival data storage system includes write once and read many (WORM) capability, data redundancy, error correction, and access control. The combination of these capabilities enable the archival storage system to be secure, error proof, and reliable. Additionally, to... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090254792 - Hybrid decoding using multiple turbo decoders in parallel: A method and receiver for Turbo decoding a received Turbo encoded bitstream with a first channel decoder which uses a first Turbo decoding algorithm to produce a first decoded bitstream and a first error measure, and a second channel decoder which uses a second Turbo decoding algorithm to produce a... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090254793 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus realizes an FEC function. In the communication apparatus, a T_FEC-pattern comparing unit calculates a code distance between a pattern of an input FEC frame falling in a certain detection window and the pre-defined T_FEC pattern for each of the detection windows one after another. Moreover, a code-distance... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090254794 - Method for efficient packet framing in a communication network: Techniques to reduce the transmission overheads in a communication system are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method described herein relates to the elimination of redundant padding to realize an integer number of FEC code-words during the FEC-encoding process of transmission as well as the reduction/elimination of redundant padding to realize... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090254795 - Pruned bit-reversal interleaver: A pruned bit-reversal interleaver supports different packet sizes and variable code rates and provides good spreading and puncturing properties. To interleave data, a packet of input data of a first size is received. The packet is extended to a second size that is a power of two, e.g., by appending... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090254796 - Techniques for correcting errors and erasures using a single-shot generalized minimum distance key equation solver: A system corrects errors in a codeword. The system includes a channel that sorts reliability numbers of symbols in the codeword to create an ordered list of candidate erasure locations. The system also includes a generalized minimum distance decoder that iteratively processes the ordered list of candidate erasure locations and... Agent: Steven J. Cahill/ Hitachi Gst

20090254797 - Iterative signal receiving method and related iterative receiver: Considering both performance and cost of an iterative receiver, the present invention provides an iterative signal receiving method for a wireless communications system. The iterative signal receiving method includes utilizing a channel estimating (CE) process to perform channel estimation for a received signal according to first log-likelihood ratio (LLR) data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090254798 - Method and device for processing a data stream: n