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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185786 | Error recovery within processing stages of an integrated circuit An integrated circuit includes a plurality of processing stages each including processing logic, a non-delayed signal-capture element, a delayed signal-capture element and a comparator. The non-delayed signal-capture element captures an output from the processing lo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8171355 | Data transferring method, and communication system and program applied with the method Disclosed is a communication system that transmits data through a transmission path between a transmission side apparatus and a reception side apparatus, wherein the transmission side apparatus comprises a coding apparatus that creates redundantly-coded data from or... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166355 | System and method for mitigating memory requirements A receiver is provided, which is adapted to receive MPE-FEC frames and to correct erroneous sections within a received MPE-FEC frame by detecting unreliable sections and storing in an erasure list (“ESL”) table compressed data that includes the base address of e... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8122302 | Semiconductor device having adaptive power function In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes at least one circuit element configured to generate output data. At least one control circuit is configured to adaptively control a power of the output data based on feedback from a receiving semiconductor device,... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8032802 | Storage device, memory, terminal, server, server-client system, storage medium, and control device In a storage device, a bad-sector detecting unit detects a bad sector, and a process determining unit determines whether rescue process is performed for the bad sector. Upon determining to perform the rescue process, the process determining unit controls a damping r... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7975190 | System and method for network device configuration A stream of traffic data is generated, where the traffic data has a known characteristic. The stream of traffic data is applied to the network device, where the network device has a specific type. The network device generates an output based on the traffic data. A p... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971109 | Method for improving the integrity of communication means Embodiments of the invention enable the integrity of data processed by a switch to be guaranteed better than 10−9 undetected erroneous frames per flight hour. To do this, rules for disabling ports are included in the switch management program. These rul... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7941711 | Determining bit error rate using single data burst A communication system includes a transceiver capable of receiving a data burst as part of a paging block and a processing logic capable of comparing at least part of the data burst to a plurality of permutations of the data burst to locate a matching permutation. T... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7900098 | Receiver for recovering and retiming electromagnetically coupled data In one embodiment, the present invention includes a system having an electromagnetic coupler probe to electromagnetically sample signals from a device under test or a link under test and a receiver, e.g., configured as an integrated circuit that is to receive the sa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7836361 | Apparatus and method for deciding adaptive target packet error rate in wireless communication system An apparatus and method for deciding a target Packet Error Rate (PER) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes setting a target PER, comparing a variance of the target PER (Δp(k)) with a previous target PER variance (Δp(k−1)), and upd... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818635 | Digital broadcast receiver In a digital broadcast receiver, when a bit error rate (BER) is larger than a threshold in a BER determining part, power is supplied to a first tuner and a second tuner for diversity reception. When the BER is smaller than the threshold, power supply to one of the f... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7805642 | Low power iterative decoder using input data pipelining and voltage scaling A decoder architecture and method for processing codewords are provided. In one implementation, the decoder architecture includes an input buffer configured to receive and store one or more codewords to be processed, and a decoder configured to receive codewords one... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7793172 | Controlled reliability in an integrated circuit Methods and systems for configuring characteristics associated with at least one portion of a memory array comprising addressable units are provided. In one aspect, a method for controlling a power supply voltage for a memory array comprises detecting whether an err... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7761752 | Communication terminal device A facsimile machine receives image data from a facsimile machine of another end. A Random Access Memory (RAM) stores a measured average value and fluctuation of an Eye Quality Monitor (EQM) value of the image data, and a number of error lines of the image data as an... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7565584 | Setting transmission length based on estimated error rate Based on an expected error rate for a wireless transmission, the length of the transmission may be limited so that the probability of an error in one or more particular data segments is no greater than a predetermined threshold value. The expected error rate and/or ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7533307 | Method and circuit arrangement for operating a volatile random access memory as a detector A method for operating a volatile random access memory as a detector, with predetermined information being stored in at least one area of the volatile random access memory. The method includes interrupting a supply voltage for the at least one area of the random acc... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7506223 | Method and system for sensing a shock in optical disk device Disclosed is a method and system enabling to remove a noise effectively by establishing types of shocks that may occur possibly and by sensing a shock using the error corresponding to the shock. The present invention includes the steps of reading a data recorded on ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7500158 | System and method for network device configuration Methods and systems for identifying configuration parameters for a network device are provided. The method includes generating a stream of traffic data, where the traffic data has a known characteristic. Then, applying the stream of traffic data to the network devic... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493531 | Semiconductor memory device and refresh period controlling method Disclosed is a memory device including an error rate measurement circuit and a control circuit. The error rate measurement circuit, carrying a BIST circuit, reads out and writes data for an area for monitor bits every refresh period to detect an error rate (error co... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7484137 | RAID system using regional error statistics for redundancy grouping Geometrically-dependent error rates are used to identify sectors for XORing data in a RAID system for parity purposes in such a way that the probability of failure of any particular group is minimized. ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7437643 | Automated BIST execution scheme for a link Training of a link is performed, wherein the link is an interconnect between two devices of a computer system. A built-in self-test (BIST) of the link is performed. A result from the link training is compared to a result from the BIST. A link status of the link is p... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424651 | Method and apparatus for decision threshold control in an optical signal receiver An apparatus and method for decision threshold control in an optical signal receiver. A forward error correction (FEC) decoder provides a feedback signal representative of corrected errors. The decision threshold is adjusted to balance a number of corrected ones and... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418532 | Data transfer device, data transfer system, and data transfer method A transfer start/end detecting section detects timing at which a DMARQ signal becomes an H level or an L level. A transfer time-measuring section measures a transfer time during which data transfer is actually performed within a period in which a predetermined numbe... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7398436 | Method and system for adaptive interleaving A method a system for automatically controlling an adaptive interleaver involves monitoring performance parameters of a transmission system and controlling the adaptive interleaver in response to the performance parameters. The SNR and the data rate of the transmiss... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398435 | Method and system for adaptive interleaving A method a system for automatically controlling an adaptive interleaver involves monitoring performance parameters of a transmission system and controlling the adaptive interleaver in response to the performance parameters. The SNR and the data rate of the transmiss... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395463 | Electronic apparatus and wireless network system Electronic apparatus such as a cordless phone, the electronic apparatus includes detection means for detecting the error of received data and at least two speech buffers as speech buffers for temporarily storing the received voice data. In case the electronic appara... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7369625 | Apparatus and method for slicing RF signal and compensating for the slice level of RF signal in disk drive An apparatus and method for slicing an RF signal and compensating for the slice level of an RF signal reproduced from a disk, which minimizes a block error rate by optimizing the slice level of the RF signal according to variations in symmetry of the RF signal when ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366119 | Data receiving and transmitting method with coding type determination Disclosed is a data communication system transmitting data using adaptive modulation at an acknowledged data transfer mode simultaneously. The present invention includes a first step of monitoring variation of radio environments by a receiving end receiving packets ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352301 | Method for transmitting a data flow over an optical bus, corresponding system and computer program product A method for transmitting on an optical connection an input data sequence having first and second logic states, includes encoding the input data sequence prior to transmission on the optical connection, where the encoding minimizes the first logic states in the enco... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352700 | Methods and devices for maximizing the throughput of TCP/IP data along wireless links The amount of TCP/IP packets which can be sent from an Internet network to a wireless network is maximized by modifying a receive window value of an acknowledgment (ACK) before the ACK is sent on to a source of data packets within the Internet network. The receive w... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350007 | Time-interval-based system and method to determine if a device error rate equals or exceeds a threshold error rate An apparatus and method to determine if a device error rate equals or exceeds a threshold. In an apparatus embodiment, a system comprises a device, and an interrupt handler executable by a processor. The interrupt handler executes, upon expiration of a time period, ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340668 | Low power cost-effective ECC memory system and method A memory controller couples 32-bit data words to and from a DRAM. The DRAM generates error checking and correcting syndromes to check and correct read data. The DRAM generates the syndromes from respective 128-bit data words each formed by 4 32-bit data words writte... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337356 | Systematic and random error detection and recovery within processing stages of an integrated circuit An integrated circuit includes a plurality of processing stages each including processing logic 1014, a non-delayed signal-capture element 1016, a delayed signal-capture element 1018 and a comparator 1024. The non-delayed signal-capture e... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330477 | Method and apparatus for starvation-free scheduling of communications A system and method for scheduling communications from a communication interface. Each of multiple send queues is associated with a destination and assigned to a logical communication channel. A list of stalled queues identifies those send queues for which a constra... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330902 | Header compression A method for communicating a message over a data path by means of data transfer apparatus capable of transmitting the data over the data path, generating a representation of the data as received from the data path and generating an indication of the communication qu... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328394 | Adaptative forward error control scheme A transmitter uses an adaptive forward error control scheme that includes redundant packets to reduce packet error rate at a receiver. The receiver analyzes the received packet error rate before correction to determine an optimal level of redundancy required to resp... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328024 | Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and mobile station suitably used for the same The object of the present invention is provide a mobile communication system which can reduce power consumption of a mobile station without increasing the number of times the data signals which are to be received by the mobile station are retransmitted. The base sta... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324541 | Switching device utilizing internal priority assignments In general, in one aspect, a switching device is described that includes a segmentation unit to receive packets and divide packets having a length greater than a maximum segment length into multiple segments. A plurality of queues associated with a source and a dest... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324983 | Reproducible selection of members in a hierarchy A method for selecting members in a hierarchy includes determining a sequence of one or more actions associated with a member selection tree. The actions collectively selecting one or more members from a hierarchy of members. The hierarchy of members is associated w... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321618 | PCM upstream data transmission server A method for designing an equalizer and tracking performance for upstream PCM in a digital communications network is described. The invention optimizes upstream data rate rates for data transmissions in a network between a client modem a server modem. During trainin... | 01/22/2008 |
