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Multiplex Communications > Diagnostic Testing (other Than Synchronization) > Fault Detection

Fault Detection

Fault Detection patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

12/13/07 - 20070286088 - Inspection device for physical layer module, method thereof, and communication system using the same
An inspection device of a physical layer module connected between a terminal transmitting an Internet Protocol (IP)-packet and a physical layer module, the inspection device including an interface transmitting/receiving the IP-packet; a destination MAC address analyzing unit analyzing a destination MAC address to which the IP-packet transmitted from the interface ...

11/01/07 - 20070253336 - Method and system for providing passive status messaging
Disclosed embodiments are generally directed to systems and methods for providing passive status messaging for a network communications device at a remote node of a network. A disclosed method includes detecting a status condition at the remote node, selecting a message from a plurality of messages stored in the network ...

10/18/07 - 20070242612 - Electronic payment terminal diagnostics
The ‘IP Diagnostics’ software is a new and innovative method of aiding the deployment and troubleshooting of IP enabled POS terminals. Its purpose is to identify where a failure in the IP connection is occurring. The IP Diagnostics application does this by testing major failure points within the IP chain ...

10/18/07 - 20070242611 - Computer hardware fault diagnosis
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for computer hardware fault diagnosis carried out in a parallel computer, where the parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes. The compute nodes are coupled for data communications by at least two independent data communications networks, where each data communications network ...

10/11/07 - 20070237085 - System and methodology for fast link failover based on remote upstream failures
A method and apparatus that promote expedited fast link failover decisions by and end station with redundant multilayer switching paths to a network are disclosed. In response to detecting a change in connectivity with an upstream link to a network, an upstream switch may send a notification to an intermediate ...

08/30/07 - 20070201374 - Method and node equipment for guaranteeing service reliability in an end-to-end quality of service framework
A method for guaranteeing service reliability in an end-to-end Quality of Service framework, including: checking whether connection information held in all node equipment gone through by a session connection is consistent; if it is, finishing the consistency check; otherwise, releasing the inconsistent connection information from the node equipment. In this ...

08/23/07 - 20070195705 - System and method for detecting continuity of network lines
The present disclosure provides a system and method for detecting faults related to lines linked to provide network services. The method includes storing a synthetic value for the performance of a line, receiving a measured value of a performance parameter of the line measured at a customer end and comparing ...

07/19/07 - 20070165533 - System and method for processing link failure of broadband access devices
The present invention relates to a system and a method for handling link failure of broadband access devices in the field of communication technology. Said system for handling link failure of broadband access devices installs a status monitoring module and a failure handling module, which are used to monitor the ...

06/28/07 - 20070147260 - Method for loading a list of alarms by means of an alarm application
In on aspect, method for loading a list of alarms by means of an alarm application is provided. The alarm application displays currently open alarms, together with associated alarm attributes, transmitted by network elements of a telecommunications network. When the currently open alarms of the network elements are requested by ...

06/28/07 - 20070147259 - Synchronous optical network (sonet) demarcation device
A synchronous optical network (SONET) demarcation device can be placed on a customer premises to enable remote testing and trouble shooting of customer premises equipment. The device includes a SONET signal analyzer that extracts SONET data, such as section, line and path overhead. The SONET demarcation device also includes a ...

06/21/07 - 20070140133 - Methods and systems for providing outage notification for private networks
Systems and methods provide outage notification. The disclosed systems and methods may include collecting network performance measurement data and processing the collected network performance measurement data in to a plurality of child events. Furthermore, the systems and methods may include correlating the plurality of child events according to at least ...

06/07/07 - 20070127385 - Network fault detection apparatus
A network fault detection apparatus, which detects L2 loops due to L3 bridge connections, is provided. A network fault detection apparatus acquires physical addresses corresponding to the network addresses of at least two nodes among the plurality of nodes constituting a network, and by detecting the existence of a plurality ...

06/07/07 - 20070127384 - System to dynamically detect and correct errors in a session
A system for detecting and correcting an error in session between a client and a host over a network. When the system receives an indication of an error in a session, the system determines an error correction modification to the configuration of the session to correct the error. The system ...

05/31/07 - 20070121517 - Methods and systems for checking expected network traffic
A method for checking expected network traffic is disclosed. The method for checking expected network traffic includes accessing pre-registered expected results of a network traffic checking exercise that include expected packet content verification information for individual packets of the network traffic. In addition, the method includes accessing network traffic where ...

05/24/07 - 20070115837 - Scalable selective alarm suppression for data communication network
Scalable selective alarm suppression is achieved through a new class of management packet, such as a new class of Ethernet management frame, adapted to convey a reachability relationship between a lower level maintenance point and a single higher level maintenance point, and more particularly adapted to convey to a first ...

05/24/07 - 20070115836 - Communication systems
A communication system comprising an SDH network and an Ethernet network, wherein the SDH network has a network management system to monitor the functionality of SDH network elements in the SDH network. The SDH network is arranged to transport Ethernet information in SDH format across the SDH network, and is ...

05/10/07 - 20070104108 - Procedure for correcting errors in radio communication, responsive to error frequency
Errors of e.g database synchrony between radio-connected stations can be especially troublesome if continued and repeated, in that the task of detecting and correcting errors in transmissions between a mobile station and a server can quickly deplete resources in the mobile station. This problem is addressed by keeping an error-event-count ...

05/03/07 - 20070097871 - Method of routing i/o adapter error messages in a multi-host environment
A method and apparatus is provided for routing error messages in a distributed computer system comprising multiple root nodes, and further comprising one or more PCI switches and one or more I/O adapters, wherein each root node includes one or more system images. In one useful embodiment, a method is ...

04/26/07 - 20070091812 - Communication system and method utilizing a satellite network
The invention describes a system and method of providing a telecommunication, typically using Signaling System 7 (SS7) protocol, in which data is transferred over a standard communication link (i.e., hardwire, optical fiber) between a first and a second telecommunication device in a telecommunication network, and a communication link is established ...

04/19/07 - 20070086350 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing failure detection with minimal bandwidth usage
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for failure detection with minimal bandwidth usage. A method for failure detection in a multi-node system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of associating all connections between a first node and a second ...

04/12/07 - 20070081466 - Atm cell service apparatus accommodating an atm cell in an optical asynchronous communications network through a north america asynchronous communications network
After a DS3 signal is terminated by the DS3 interface circuit, an ATM cell is extracted by an ATM cell extraction circuit from a signal input through a DS3 network after performing an ATM mapping process. The ATM cell is mapped in a SONET frame by an ATM cell/N.A. new ...

03/15/07 - 20070058552 - Communication apparatus, communication state detection method and communication state detection program
A communication apparatus including a network controller configured to control communication connection to a different apparatus; and a main controller configured to control state detection of the network controller and data communication with the different apparatus connected to the communication apparatus through the network controller, wherein the main controller controlling ...

03/01/07 - 20070047452 - Mac layer reconfiguration in a mobile communication system
The invention relates to method and apparatus for reconfiguring a MAC entity of a MAC layer of the apparatus receiving protocol data units from a mobile terminal via on uplink upon reconfiguration of the uplink channel. Further, the invention relates to methods and mobile terminals for triggering the transmission of ...

03/01/07 - 20070047451 - Harq process restriction and transmission of non-scheduled control data via uplink channels
The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant. Further, the invention relates to a method ...

02/22/07 - 20070041327 - Multicast heartbeat signaling
A mechanism that provides for communication of heartbeat signals from servers (call agents) to clients (gateways) in a packet telephony network environment. Clients listen for receipt of multicast heartbeats from any of the servers that may be part of a multicast group. A client assigned to a particular server for ...

02/15/07 - 20070036083 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing outage information for a network
Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, user devices and computer program products for providing network status information. Methods include receiving alarm data for an event from a plurality of sources. The alarm data includes a plurality of alarm records each including a site identifier. The alarm data is processed to ...

02/15/07 - 20070036082 - Method and system for testing network device logic
Method and system for testing a network device is provided. The system includes, a test program running on a host system that communicates with the network device through a bus functional module; and a test module that includes a packet counter that counts test packets that are received from a ...

02/15/07 - 20070036081 - Method and device for detecting defects of electromagnetic protection for electric harnesses
A method and device for detecting defects of an electromagnetic protection for an electric harness (H). The device (D) includes elements (M1) for generating stimulating electric signals, elements (M2) for bringing the signals up to a predetermined power level, elements (M3) for applying the signals to the harness (H) and ...

01/25/07 - 20070019557 - System and method for locating faults in a hybrid fiber coax (hfc) cable network
A fault location system (FLS) for a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network. The FLS comprises an interactive map, a datastore, an object generator, and a display server. The datastore receives identifying information and status information of customer premises equipment (CPE) units connected to the HFC cable network. The object ...

01/04/07 - 20070002755 - Communications network tap with heartbeat monitor
A communications network tap, comprises a first terminal and a second terminal adapted to couple the tap in-line in the network and communicate data packets with network devices. A heartbeat generator is configured to generate a heartbeat signal, and a heartbeat insert circuit coupled to the first terminal and the ...

01/04/07 - 20070002754 - Communications network tap with link fault detector
A communications network tap with a link fault detector, comprises a first terminal and a second terminal adapted to couple the tap in-line in the network and communicate data packets with network devices. A tap circuit is coupled to the first terminal and second terminal and configured to provide data ...

12/28/06 - 20060291400 - Efficient load balancing and heartbeat mechanism for telecommunication endpoints
The present invention is directed to load balancing call signaling channels at the times that they are established, the use of variable frequency keep alive mechanisms depending on the state of the call signaling channel, and the establishment of a call signaling channel when resources are available or otherwise based ...

12/07/06 - 20060274662 - Means and method of integrated information technology maintenance system
The present invention relates to the field of information technology system maintenance and particularly to integrated, full solution, computer maintenance architecture and a device that is independent from the computers being monitored and maintained. A computer supervising device that comprises a processor; internal memory in communication with the processor; a ...

11/30/06 - 20060268726 - Buffering of data from a data stream having error correction elements
Data for a second Multi-Protocol Encapsulation-Forward Error Correcting (MPE-FEC) data frame is received while application data from a first MPE-FEC frame is undergoing error correction. The incoming data is buffered in a supplemental buffer having a size smaller than that needed for an entire MPE-FEC frame. As the supplemental buffer ...

11/30/06 - 20060268725 - Operating network managers in verification mode to facilitate error handling of communications networks
Network managers are operated in verification mode to facilitate error handling of communications networks. In verification mode, error reporting remains enabled, even for those components of a communications network reporting errors. A step-by-step procedure is provided for handling each type of error that is detected. Subsequent to handling any reported ...

11/30/06 - 20060268724 - Using open vera assertions to verify designs
A method for verifying a protocol employed by a protocol handler. In an embodiment, the method includes verifying a Receive Link Layer defined within a protocol handler with Open Vera Assertions. The Receive Link Layer may include a plurality of interfaces and is configured for separating data into a series ...

11/23/06 - 20060262727 - Method and apparatus for documenting network paths
Methods and apparatus for documenting network path connectivity are described that allow a network management system/revision management system (NMS/RMS) to determine what equipment and ports support a network path by interrupting and restoring Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) service on the network path. Upon detecting a loss of PoE service, communication active jacks ...

11/09/06 - 20060250972 - Method and test device for detecting an error rate
A method and device for detecting an error rate of a receiver of data transmitted to a device that is to be checked is provided. A test device generates a data block having a first length and a test signal generated based on the data block is sent. The device ...

10/05/06 - 20060221841 - Method of monitoring link performance and diagnosing active link state in ethernet passive optical network
Provided is a method of monitoring link performance and diagnosing an active link state without interrupting traffic in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) while the link is in the active state. The method of monitoring link performance and diagnosing an active link state without interrupting data flow to logic ...

10/05/06 - 20060221840 - Communication device and logical link abnormality detection method
The present invention provides a communication device capable of providing a highly reliable service by detecting communication abnormality at a high speed. The communication device comprises a link configuring unit configuring a plurality of logical links between a opposite communication device, a segmenting unit segmenting transmission data as being associated ...

10/05/06 - 20060221839 - Distributed redundancy capacity licensing in a telecommunication network element
A method for sharing a total licensed pool between network elements is disclosed. In the method, each of the network elements has a fixed available capacity. In a first step, an offered load capacity limit based on the total licensed pool and the available capacity is determined. Next, each of ...

10/05/06 - 20060221838 - Sip maintenance unit
A method and system are provided for managing voice and multimedia sessions over a network. The method includes initializing a SIP maintenance unit, performing tests on SIP proxies, adjusting a value of a counter based on the results of the tests, and managing the voice and multimedia sessions based on ...

09/28/06 - 20060215570 - Method of achieving the network link status penetrate
The present invention discloses a method for implementing link state passing-through in network, for informing the peer of link fault, said method comprising the following steps: the service device detecting whether there is a link fault in the network; in case of link fault, the service device transferring link fault ...

09/21/06 - 20060209699 - Device and method for network monitoring
A network monitoring device that monitors a network state, includes a receiving unit that receives a packet passing through the network; a processing unit that performs analysis of the network state with respect to the packet received; and a determining unit that determines whether a failure has occurred in the ...

09/14/06 - 20060203735 - Bridge apparatus and control packet processing apparatus in a spanning tree protocol network
A bridge apparatus, which enables communications to continue even if a fault or a disability of operation occurs, causing the spanning tree protocol to become inoperable and, furthermore, provides a network capable of keeping track of status changes thereof, are provided by a bridge apparatus constituting a network connected with ...

09/14/06 - 20060203734 - Method and system of evaluating survivability of atm switches over sonet networks
In a particular embodiment, a method of evaluating a network is disclosed. The method identifies potential failure points between a layer two asynchronous transfer mode network and a layer one Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) network. The method includes identifying a first set of circuit identifiers of inter-nodal links of a ...

09/07/06 - 20060198314 - Processing device, failure recovery method therefor, and failure restoration method
A processing device includes a processor which executes first and second pieces of control software in a memory to perform processing, and a device 1 having a plurality of SLOTs 1 to 8 to electrically connect the processor to a plurality of device. The device 1 switches a SLOT which ...

08/24/06 - 20060187844 - High speed uplink packet access scheme
Improvements to the High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) scheme have been made. Among the three main aspects, providing Optimized Rate Request Reporting, providing Signaling for Lower Delay Delivery, and providing a MAC-e PDU Format for Control Information, the Signaling for Lower Delay Delivery may be considered as the main ...

08/17/06 - 20060182036 - Fault detection device
A fault detection device capable of detecting network faults by itself with high accuracy in multi-vendor environments, without the need to interoperate with an associated device according to an identical protocol. A monitoring control packet transmitter generates a fault monitoring control packet and transmits the generated packet to the associated ...

08/10/06 - 20060176826 - All-to-all sequenced fault detection system
An apparatus, program product and method enable nodal fault detection by sequencing communications between all system nodes. A master node may coordinate communications between two slave nodes before sequencing to and initiating communications between a new pair of slave nodes. The communications may be analyzed to determine the nodal fault. ...

07/27/06 - 20060165000 - Multiplicity adjustment system and method
A multiplicity adjustment agent collects request information database from a sub-system including an element of a system to be monitored. An individual sub-system's multiplicity adjustment server sorts and merges request information collected from each sub-system for each element/request path. An integrated multiplicity analysis server calculates a necessary multiplicity on the ...

07/20/06 - 20060159024 - Method and apparatus for responding to node anormalities within an ad-hoc network
A method and apparatus for responding to node failures within an ad-hoc network is provided herein. In particular, an ad-hoc network (300) is provided that analyzes a type of network failure, and operates as either a random network or a scale-free network in response to the node failure. The ad-hoc ...

07/13/06 - 20060153086 - Operation interruption control system for a communication network router
A system is dedicated to controlling interruption of the operation of a router of an Internet protocol communication network. The system comprises observation means which, in the event of reception of an instruction to observe IP datagrams in transit received by the router, deliver an alert signal in case of ...

07/13/06 - 20060153085 - Method and system for recovery from access point infrastructure link failures
Described is a method for detecting a link fault between a first access point and an infrastructure, the first access point providing a wireless connection for a station to the infrastructure and suspending communication between the station and the first access point. A wireless connection is then established between the ...

05/18/06 - 20060104209 - Failure isolation in a communication system
A computer system including a communication fabric initiates a forced diagnostic to isolate and identify genuine error conditions which are discerned from sympathetic error conditions. Error counters are only incremented for each genuine error condition, precluding the need to set error counter threshold artificially high. Recovery events are logged in ...

05/18/06 - 20060104208 - Priority-based network fault analysis
A method and system for reducing fault analysis times in a network having a plurality of pollable objects. Poll responses are received from pollable objects, priorities are assigned to each received poll response in accordance with one or more of a received poll response value, a pollable object status and ...

05/11/06 - 20060098579 - Apparatus and method for detecting and visualizing anomalies in network traffic
Provided is an apparatus for detecting and visualizing anomalies in network traffic which includes a traffic information storing portion storing information on network traffic, a traffic state display portion presenting a status of the network traffic generated for a predetermined threshold time based on the information on network traffic on ...

05/11/06 - 20060098578 - System and method for converting autonomous pm data into periodic pm data
A system for converting autonomous performance monitoring (PM) data into periodic PM data in a network includes a server, a data collector electrically coupled to the server, a plurality of network elements (NEs) electrically coupled to the data collector, and a user database electrically coupled to the server. When connectivity ...

05/04/06 - 20060092848 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the information processing apparatus
An information processing system comprises an information processing apparatus, a switch, and a storage device, wherein the first communication ports and the third communication ports are connected to the second communication ports. When a response from a storage device to a data input/output request is not received within a predetermined ...

04/27/06 - 20060087978 - System and method for troubleshooting broadband connections
A method for troubleshooting broadband connections, e.g., a digital subscriber line (DSL) connections, includes detecting a problem with the broadband connection at an end device. Then, a determination is made as to whether the problem can be resolved at the end device. After determining that the end device cannot resolve ...

04/27/06 - 20060087977 - Method of collecting bgp routing protocol messages
BGP Route Recorder (BRR) captures and dumps Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) messages received from BGP peers. Passive links are established between the BRR and BGP peers. All incoming and outgoing BGP messages are recorded and timestamped. Rather than tear down BGP peering sessions when errors are encountered, error conditions are ...

04/27/06 - 20060087976 - Method and system for network analysis
A method and system for analyzing a group of network elements in a network. One or more of the group of network elements, functionally coupled to provide a service, and a plurality of sub elements of the group of network elements are polled. A list having one or more items ...

04/20/06 - 20060083173 - System and method for reprogramming nodes in an automotive switch fabric network
A system and method for reprogramming nodes in an automotive switch fabric network using a diagnostic interface. The switch fabric network includes a plurality of nodes joined by communication links for the transmission of data there between. The plurality of nodes includes at least one target node. The target node ...

04/13/06 - 20060077901 - Testing for a misconnection between first and second networks
An apparatus to test whether a first network is misconnected to a second network includes an interface to the first network, and a controller coupled to the interface to send a first message to the first network, the first message to request configuration information of the apparatus. The controller receives ...

04/06/06 - 20060072469 - Communication terminal, communication system, and communication method
A communication terminal that sends a call request to a call control apparatus that transfers the call request received from a calling terminal to a called terminal, comprises: a fault detecting unit that detects a fault when there is no response to the call request sent to the call control ...

03/30/06 - 20060067240 - Apparatus and method for detecting network traffic abnormality
An apparatus for detecting a network traffic abnormality includes: a pre-processing unit pre-processing traffics collected from at least one traffic collecting point in a network; a profiler modeling a normal traffic according to a characteristic of the traffic; an analysis model unit generating the thresholds based on the traffic; and ...

03/30/06 - 20060067239 - System and method for fault identification
A novel method and system for fault identification is provided. A test head that is operable to generate a test signal along a pathway is employed. The test head is based on time domain reflectometry, and is thus operable to provide an estimated physical distance of where a fault occurs ...

03/30/06 - 20060067238 - Data unit management in communications
In Radio Link Control (RLC) apparatus, a mechanism is provided for detecting missing or corrupted data units at the receiving end of a transmission link, requesting retransmission and then monitoring the response to the retransmission request. Distinctively, a receiving communications entity 300 is equipped to act on a nil response. ...

03/23/06 - 20060062154 - Method and systems for copying data components between nodes of a wireless sensor network
Under the present invention, a wireless sensor network comprising a plurality of peer to peer nodes is provided. Each node in the network includes, among other things, a sensor for detecting environmental factors. When a potential failure is detected within a node, the node will query its neighboring nodes to ...

02/16/06 - 20060034181 - Network system and supervisory server control method
A network system which facilitates the task of replacing switches pertaining to a detected link failure. A server network is formed from a plurality of switches and links. The link state of each port on the switches is being monitored by a link-down detector, and a switch port that has ...

01/05/06 - 20060002307 - Apparatus and method for testing a network connection device
A test apparatus for testing a to-be-tested network connection device is disclosed. The to-be-tested network connection device has a number of to-be-tested ports. The test apparatus includes a packet generator and a switch fixture. The packet generator is for generating a test packet having a VLAN ID (VID). The switch ...

12/22/05 - 20050281203 - Methods and apparatuses for detecting clock failure and establishing an alternate clock lane
Methods and apparatuses for determining clock failure for a multi-agent system employing a link-based interconnection scheme using a forwarded clock. For one embodiment of the invention, the cessation of the forwarded clock initiates a clock failure determination process. For one embodiment of the invention, upon a determination of clock failure, ...

12/15/05 - 20050276228 - Self-isolating and self-healing networked devices
Techniques for self-isolation of a network device that has been identified as potentially harmful. The network device may be isolated from the network except for an out-of-band communication channel that can be used for management purposes to restore or repair the device prior to the network connection being re-established. ...

11/10/05 - 20050249124 - Remote access link fault indication mechanism
A network environment including a provider network coupled to a first customer network site via a first access link and to a second customer network site via a second access link. The provider network is operable with the IEEE 802.1ag standard for propagating a remote link fault condition via an ...

11/10/05 - 20050249123 - System and method for detecting link failures
A system and method monitors links in a computer network and rapidly detects failures of such links. Network entities disposed at opposite ends of a link are provided with failure detection engines that signal their presence to each other. Thereafter, each failure detection engine ensures that its entity transmits a ...

10/27/05 - 20050237943 - Transmission device
A transmission device capable of detecting a fault in communication from any of a root port, alternate port and backup port to a designated port. When the transmission device has designated ports, send request issuing unit thereof issues a send request from the designated ports to an associated transmission device ...

10/13/05 - 20050226164 - Power line induction of sheath test current to discover defective coaxial cable
A method to discover defective coaxial shielding in cable lines in a building by inducing a test current into the nearby alternating current (AC) power lines (also known as “mains” in the United Kingdom) and measuring a resulting induced test signal inside the coaxial cable lines. A test signal current ...

10/06/05 - 20050220031 - Remote module for a communications network
Determination of the location of an error condition or a failure includes receiving at a network interface a first framed digital signal from customer premises equipment, and determining whether the first framed digital signal indicates a failure. Overhead bits are modified in the first framed digital signal to generate a ...

09/15/05 - 20050201297 - Diagnosis of embedded, wireless mesh networks with real-time, flexible, location-specific signaling
A system for optimizing the security of data communication on wireless mesh networks invention uses existing mesh network nodes to control new nodes that attempt to join the network. In a preferred embodiment, this is achieved by (1) testing that a new node is “clean” before allowing it to join ...

08/25/05 - 20050185593 - Transmission medium testing apparatus and method
The invention provides a method for testing a transmission medium used in a full-duplex communication system comprising an endpoint that comprises a transmitting end (TX) and a receiving end (RX); the method comprises the steps of: first, transmitting a transmitted signal which comprises a test signal sequence with a high ...

08/04/05 - 20050169186 - What-if analysis for network diagnostics
A network troubleshooting framework is described. In an implementation, a method includes generating a first estimation of network performance by a simulator based on network settings obtained from a network, estimating the new performance under an alternative setting by providing the alternative setting to the network simulation and observing the ...

06/30/05 - 20050141432 - Protocol replay system
An expert protocol analyzer, which records a protocol exchange between two or more hardware devices on a network or software modules in a multiprogramming environment. To validate a potential fix, the protocol is replayed in a simulated network environment, where a replay unit replaces the endpoint that is not available ...

06/23/05 - 20050135262 - Low-complexity, capacity-achieving code for communication systems
Methods and apparatuses to encode and decode information. One apparatus may use an encoder with a relatively low complexity, capacity-achieving code. The code may allow information to be reliably transmitted and received across a noisy medium or channel. ...



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