Bizarre Patents
An enclosure for small animals which is wearable on the front or back of an animate being.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of PatentStorm
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest patents by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Got questions? Ask a Patent Expert!
Registered users: Manage your profile, comments and alerts.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7676700 | System for testing hard disks A system for testing hard disks includes a hard disk testing device and a computer. The computer has a mainboard and a key-press controller. The hard disk testing device connects with the mainboard and includes: a hard disk interface configured for connecting one or... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7657794 | Data storage device and error recovery method Embodiments of the invention provide an error recovery scheme that allows a data read/write error in a data storage device to be processed within a short time, and a data storage device that attempts error recovery using the error recovery scheme. In one embodiment,... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657795 | Method and apparatus for writing to a target memory page of a memory A method and apparatus for writing to a target memory page of a memory has an initial memory page having allocated thereto a marking memory containing information whether a content of the initial memory page is written correctly to the target memory page. The appara... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653838 | Hard disk drive data scrub methodology Method, system and computer program product for reporting and recovering from uncorrectable data errors in a data processing system using the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) or the Serial ATA (SATA) protocol. The invention utilizes the data scrubbing functional... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7627786 | Tracking error events relating to data storage drives and/or media of automated data storage library subsystems With detection of a selected error event involving a data storage drive and data storage media, a subsystem attempts to move the media to another drive, and conduct a similar operation. The subsystem separately tracks successive error events of individual drives and... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7620852 | Systems and methods of reporting multiple threads involved in a potential data race Criteria are defined for determining when additional stack dumps would be saved and presented (e.g., to the developer). This provides more information for the developer to use for debugging, and yet does not overburden the developer with irrelevant information. Susp... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620853 | Methods for detecting resistive bridging faults at configuration random-access memory output nodes Integrated circuits such as programmable logic device integrated circuits have configuration random-access memory elements. The configuration random-access memory elements are tested to determine whether any of the elements have resistive bridging faults at their ou... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617419 | Apparatus and method for managing random-directional scratches on hard disk An apparatus and method for managing random-directional scratches on a hard disk. The apparatus includes a scratch determination unit and an alleged defect setting unit. The scratch determination unit determines that predetermined sectors are affected by a single co... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7607048 | Method and apparatus for protecting TLB's VPN from soft errors A method and apparatus for protecting a TLB's VPN from soft errors is described. On a TLB lookup, the incoming virtual address is used to CAM the TLB VPN. In parallel with this CAM operation, parity is computed on the incoming virtual address for the possible page s... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7596721 | Methods and structure for patching embedded firmware Methods and structures for providing patches or updates to embedded ROM firmware simply and inexpensively while avoiding imposition of execution or memory fetch overhead. A patch memory includes locations storing addresses and optional alternate data values. Read/fe... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596722 | Asynchronous automatic software module updates in a multi-cell disk drive test system A multi-cell disk drive test system that provides for asynchronous software module updates that includes a test platform, one or more test manager computers (TMCs), and a test coordinator computer (TCC). The test platform includes a plurality of cells in which each ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7571356 | Storage control device, and error information management method for storage control device The storage control device of the present invention detects faults on the disk drives at an early stage, thus enhancing convenience of use. The disk drives are switchingly connected to a subordinate communication control unit via a switching circuit. An error inform... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7571357 | Memory wrap test mode using functional read/write buffers A memory controller for a processing unit provides a memory wrap test mode path which selectively writes data from the write buffer of the controller to the read buffer of the controller, thereby allowing the write and read buffers to substitute for a system memory ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7568130 | Automated hardware parity and parity error generation technique for high availability integrated circuits A technique wherein High Availability (HA) hardware is used to automatically validate control and configuration registers, e.g. automatically generate parity, detect parity errors, and report errors within software-written configuration and control registers of ASIC... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7568129 | Hard disk recording apparatus A hard disk recording apparatus including: a receiving unit for receiving programs; a reservation data receiving unit for accepting input of reservation recording data including reservation recording starting time; a reservation data storing unit for storing the res... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7562256 | Semiconductor memory device for build-in fault diagnosis A fault diagnosis method for a semiconductor device in which a memory and a register are monolithically integrated is provided. The fault diagnosis method is composed of: first testing the memory with respect to a series of addresses to identify a first error addres... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7562257 | Data storage system, data storage control apparatus and fault location diagnosis method A controller discriminates the abnormality between a plurality of disk devices and a transmission path in a storage system having controllers for controlling a plurality of disk storage devices. When one controller in pairs of controllers for controlling the plurali... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558988 | Storage system and control method thereof Provided is a storage system, including: one or more disk drives storing data; a disk controller for controlling data access to the disk drive; a power supply controller for autonomously turning off a power source of the disk drive according to the data access statu... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7549089 | Lost write detection in a storage redundancy layer of a storage server A storage system includes a set of mass storage media and a plurality of functional layers that provide a data storage path between a file system and the set of mass storage media. The storage system can detect that a write issued by the file system was lost by one ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7546491 | Semiconductor memory device with standby current failure judging function and method for judging standby current failure A semiconductor memory device which a pad for receiving a power voltage, a first power line connected to the pad, and a plurality of second power lines respectively connected to memory cells of a repair unit. A selection circuit outputs selection signals for selecti... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7539905 | Method of and apparatus for detecting an error in writing to persistent memory A technique is provided for detecting errors in persistent memory, such as flash memory, where values of data items are stored at memory locations added consecutively to one end of the already-allocated memory segment. When a new location is added, a pointer to the ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539906 | System for integrated data integrity verification and method thereof In accordance with one technique, a first plurality of values associated with data transfers between a processor and a memory is received at the processor and at least a subset of the first plurality of values are accumulated in one or more accumulators. The one or ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7526683 | Dynamic self-tuning soft-error-rate-discrimination for enhanced availability of enterprise computing systems A method for use in a computer system provides a dynamic, “self tuning” soft-error-rate-discrimination (SERD) method and apparatus. Specially designed SRAMs or other circuits are “tuned” in a manner that gives them extreme susceptibility to cosmic neutron ev... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523353 | Method for detecting hang or dead lock conditions A scheme for monitoring links in a point-to-point architecture computer system is discussed. The scheme monitors labels for transactions to determine if they have been reissued within a user selected time window. A corresponding position in a register is updated to ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519869 | Control of storage system using disk drive device having self-check function Operation information related to at least one of an operating state of a disk drive device and an operating history of the disk drive device is obtained, and timing of the instruction to execute the testing process is determined based on a first operation informatio... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7506213 | Method and apparatus for handling data corruption or inconsistency in a storage system A method for handling a fault in a storage system comprises maintaining data in a mass storage subsystem and providing access to the data on behalf of a client. The method further comprises detecting a fault in a volume of data stored in the mass storage subsystem, ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502970 | Memory device and memory card A memory device comprises a data storage section, a section which compares in write processing, for data being target of the write processing, a state before the data is stored in the data storage section with a state of the data which is stored in the data storage ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7496796 | Apparatus, system, and method for predicting storage device failure An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for predicting storage device failure. A technology descriptor module associates a technology descriptor with a storage device. A failure threshold module sets a predictive failure threshold for the storage device in re... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490270 | Method, system, and software for rebuilding a storage drive When a storage drive used as part of a redundant storage system is rebuilt, a drive controller obtains information for the rebuild process from an operating system (OS) specific agent. The information may include a bitmap, which indicates portions of a logical unit ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487401 | Method and apparatus for detecting the onset of hard disk failures A system that detects the onset of hard disk drive failure. During operation, the system measures vibrations from the hard disk drive to produce one or more vibration signals. Next, the system generates a vibration signature for the hard disk drive from the measured... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484129 | Physiologic event monitoring device having robust internal control Categories are established for use in physiological monitoring devices and these categories are prioritized such that data indicative of a critical event self-triggers a communication to an external receiver for the purpose of re-transmitting the critical data for u... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480829 | Method, system and computer program product for recovery of formatting in repair of bad sectors in flash memory A method for correcting a formatting error in a flash memory is disclosed. An error in a first formatting of a first flash memory is discovered, and a second formatting is extracted from a second flash memory storing second data. The erroneous first formatting is re... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480830 | System, method and storage medium for testing a memory module A buffered memory module including a downstream buffer, a downstream receiver, an upstream driver, an upstream receiver. The downstream buffer and the downstream receiver are both adapted for connection to a downstream memory bus in a packetized cascaded interconnec... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478285 | Generation and use of system level defect tables for main memory Methods and apparatus for maintaining and utilizing system memory defect tables that store information identifying defective memory locations in memory modules. For some embodiments, the defect tables may be utilized to identify and re-map defective memory locations... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7472312 | Invalidation of storage control unit cache metadata Method, apparatus and program product are provided for rebuilding faulty metadata in a storage controller coupled to a host device. Faulty metadata may include metadata which no longer matches the associated customer data tracks stored on a DASD or other storage dev... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469360 | Method and apparatus for testing a memory device Disclosed is a method for testing a memory device with a long-term clock signal by automatically performing precharge only after activation. In this method, a signal for precharging the banks of the memory device is automatically generated only at the falling edge o... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7467334 | Method for repairing a semiconductor memory A block repair device is used in a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) having a primary array with a defective cell and a redundant array with a redundant row. The block repair device stores a block repair configuration that determines the dimensions (e.g., the numb... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7461299 | Monitoring writes to cache as part of system error handling Provided are a method, system and program for buffering writes to an Input/Output (I/O) device in a cache. Writes to an Input/Output (I/O) device are buffered in a cache. Information on the buffered writes are communicated to a monitor component enabling identificat... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461298 | Method and apparatus for diagnosing mass storage device anomalies A type of flaw present in a mass storage device can be inferred by examining the results of I/O operations performed on only a portion of the device, without testing or examining the entire device. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457990 | Information processing apparatus and information processing recovery method An information processing apparatus having a plurality of systems including software for starting and activating the systems, in which, when one system is active, other systems do not operate, includes a first storage unit that stores the plurality of systems, a sec... | 11/25/2008 |