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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSE ANALYSIS INVOLVING CONFIGURATION CHANGES A technique determines which configuration change(s) caused an application invocation failure of a computer application without the need for a knowledge database. To determine which configuration change is the most likely cause, the cause analysis program (121) c... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047331 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING A PLURALITY OF STORAGE SYSTEMS It is an object of the present invention to conduct data transfer or data copying between a plurality of storage systems, without affecting the host computer of the storage systems. Two or more auxiliary storage systems 100B, 100C are connected to a primar... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110037505 | TRANSCEIVER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF A semiconductor chip area is reduced and the possibility of malfunction in generation of reproduction data and a reproduction clock is reduced. A transceiver comprises a clock data recovery circuit, a deserializer, a serializer, a PLL circuit, and a frequency detector. ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110034137 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND RADIO FREQUENCY MODULE The present invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit device and a radio frequency module realizing reduction in high-order harmonic distortion or IMD. For example, a so-called antenna switch having a plurality of transistors between an antenna terminal and ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033984 | MOLD CLEANING SHEET AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES USING THE SAME A cleaning sheet (29) is formed with a trough-hole (29a) at a portion corresponding to a cavity of a mold along with a slit (29b) or a flow cavity cut (29c) at every corner at an outer periphery of the through-hole (29... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033983 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE The reliability of a semiconductor device which has the semiconductor components which were mounted on the same surface of the same substrate via the bump electrodes with which height differs, and with which package structure differs is improved. | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032939 | NETWORK SYSTEM, PACKET FORWARDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF FORWARDING PACKETS A network system includes: a first network; an authentication server; a second network; a network; and a packet forwarding apparatus, wherein the packet forwarding apparatus includes: a forwarding route table storage storing a first forwarding route table containing pac... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032038 | RF POWER AMPLIFIER APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING POWER-SUPPLY VOLTAGE TO RF POWER AMPLIFIER The RF power amplifier apparatus has an RF power amplifier and a power-supply circuit. The power-supply circuit controls the level of a source voltage supplied to the RF power amplifier in response to the level of a power-control signal. A sensing resistance produces a ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031533 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE The present invention miniaturizes a HEMT element used as a switching element in a radio frequency module. A single gate electrode 17 is formed in an active region defined by an element separation portion 9 on a main surface of a substrate 1 compris... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110030353 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING DEVICE A support member (40) is provided on a cylindrical member (23) of an upstream cylinder (22). A connector portion (34C) of a first temperature detector (34) for detecting the temperature of exhaust gas flowing into an oxidation catalyst... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL PORTS ON STORAGE SYSTEMS A storage system is configured to create and manage virtual ports on physical ports. The storage system can transfer associations between virtual ports and physical ports when a failure occurs in a physical port or a link connected to the physical port so that a host ca... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029817 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM Model data is generated from performance information sorted by day of the week, time period, and process status by a performance information analysis section and a process status analysis section. An abnormality determination section detects abnormality using appropriat... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029802 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM An information processing device having low power consumption without affecting interruption request response speed. The device specifies a waiting time until execution of a given event and makes a system call and includes a first timer circuit for a first cycle; a seco... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029554 | METHOD AND COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED STREAM DATA PROCESSING USING PLURAL OF COMPUTERS In executing query distributed processing in a computer system having a plurality of computers, a query and a sliding window are inherited between different computers. If a tuple having a new principal key value is detected when a query is to be executed, a relevant ind... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026507 | FILTER CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER USING THE SAME Gain setting can be performed at high speed while reducing DC offset due to a filter cutoff frequency changeover without the need for input signal muting. A filter circuit having first and second filters is capable of allowing settings of first and second cutoff frequen... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025269 | BATTERY CHARGER A battery charger includes an accommodating part for accommodating a group of cells and a plurality of cell assemblies respectively having charging terminals for charging the group of cells; a first terminal plate formed in the surface of the accommodating part to come ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110024215 | TRACTION ROBOT A traction unit has carrier sections on which suction cups are mounted that are connected to a vacuum source. The carrier units are driven around the frame by a chain driven by a motor. The frame has sections which move relative to one another in order to permit turning... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110023472 | EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT DEVICE Front and rear side flange portions of a filter accommodating cylinder are provided with positioning pins. A flange portion of an upstream cylinder is provided with a notched groove and a flange portion of a downstream cylinder is provided with a notched groove. In cons... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022887 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF When a failure occurs in an LPAR on a physical computer under an SAN environment, a destination LPAR is set in another physical computer to enable migrating of the LPAR and setting change of a security function on the RAID apparatus side is not necessary. When a failure... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022811 | INFORMATION BACKUP/RESTORATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION BACKUP/RESTORATION PROCESSING SYSTEM To reduce the size of backup data, increase the backup speed, and solve a problem that the amount of unnecessary writing could undesirably increase in a restoration process, which would otherwise require physical disks with a capacity greater than the size of a virtual ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022796 | DISK ARRAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLNG THE SAME An apparatus includes a controller and a plurality of disk drives. The controller has a communication control unit for accepting a data input/output request, a disk controller unit for controlling a disk drive, and a cache memory for temporarily storing data transferred... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022747 | MODULAR COMPUTING SYSTEM A computing system is provided that includes a plurality of interconnected components. The components include a processing subsystem, an input subsystem, an output subsystem, a storage subsystem, and a power subsystem. Subsets of the plurality of components may be rearr... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022584 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A database management system has a query interface for receiving a query and a query executor for executing the received query. The query executor dynamically generates a task, and executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. In execution of each task, each time data is r... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021891 | NON-INVASIVE GLUCOSE MONITOR In a non-invasive glucose monitor is configured to, by using a heat conductive member having a body surface contacting part for contacting a surface of a human body at its one end, measures a first temperature adjacent to the body surface contacting part and a second te... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110020949 | AUTOMATIC ANALYZER In the field of automatic analyzers, as items to be analyzed are increase, various reagents differing in such properties as liquid viscosity and contact angle are being used more frequently, and this trend is expected to continue. Also, reagents now take various forms (... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110020012 | OPTICAL SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS A simple synchronizing detection circuit is provided in each of logical operation circuits, and a method for making a synchronizing detection in parallel is adopted. A selector control section monitors the states of the simple synchronizing detection circuits in paralle... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019949 | BEARING DEVICE A dust seal is provided with a tubular fitting portion, a bush end surface abutting portion, a lip portion and a sealing projection integrally formed. The sealing projection is formed to project in an axially opposite direction to the lip portion from a radial inner sec... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019890 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A processing is executed for identifying an image area which blocks an observation target, and removing the identified area. An image processing apparatus 10 is provided, which allows multiple projection drawings to be generated by projecting a three-dimensional ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018122 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND A MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A semiconductor device is disclosed which includes a tab (5) for use in supporting a semiconductor chip (8), a seal section (12) as formed by sealing the semiconductor chip (8) with a resin material, more than one tab suspension lead (4 | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016517 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM A first server in a system includes confirmation requesting unit 110 that receives an authentication request from a predetermined apparatus 400 coupled through a public line and that sends a user confirmation request to a second server in the case where us... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016345 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSOR Synchronization between command and address signals commonly coupled to a plurality of memory devices to be operated in parallel and a clock signal coupled to the memory devices is achieved, while suppressing an increase in the clock wiring length. A semiconductor devic... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016336 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE The present invention provides a technique that enables, in an environment in which an upper limit of electric energy consumption is prescribed for a specific period, operations of a storage device while keeping the electric energy consumption within the prescribed uppe... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016309 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND GATEWAY DEVICE A GW (PDG) at the termination of remote access is installed in the 3GPP system. After an IPSec tunnel between a terminal and the GW is opened, an IPSec tunnel between a VPN client and the corporate network GW is opened, whereby the data from the terminal is transferred ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016257 | DISK SUBSYSTEM A protocol controller disposed between switches in a fiber channel fabric switch circuit and disk drive units for converting a protocol to enable one-to-one connectivity established between controllers and disk drive units.... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016201 | MULTI NODE SERVER SYSTEM A server system has, in addition to extensibility of scale-out type of a braid server system, extensibility of scale-up type by making SMP coupling among nodes. Each node has a unit for SMP coupling to other nodes. A module management unit responds to system configurati... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014085 | SAMPLE DISPENSING APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC ANALYZER INCLUDING THE SAME The invention provides a small-sized automatic analyzer being compact, enabling a large number of analysis items to be carried out, and having a high processing speed. The automatic analyzer is particularly suitably applied to a medical analyzer used for qualitative/qua... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013696 | MOVING IMAGE PROCESSOR AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR MOVING IMAGE A moving image processor includes a first and a second moving image processing unit which are able to perform parallel operation, and a data transfer unit having a first buffer and a second buffer. The first moving image processing unit processes macroblocks MB00... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013622 | VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND VOICE COMMUNICATION METHOD A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012206 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE When threshold voltages of constituent transistors are reduced in order to operate an SRAM circuit at a low voltage, there is a problem in that a leakage current of the transistors is increased and, as a result, electric power consumption when the SRAM circuit is not op... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012180 | METHOD OF FORMING A CMOS STRUCTURE HAVING GATE INSULATION FILMS OF DIFFERENT THICKNESSES The semiconductor integrated circuit device employs on the same silicon substrate a plurality of kinds of MOS transistors with different magnitudes of tunnel current flowing either between the source and gate or between the drain and gate thereof. These MOS transistors ... | 01/20/2011 |
