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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190955 | Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on an information storage medium using padding information, and the information storage medium An apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on a disc are provided using padding information, and a corresponding information storage medium. The recording method includes recording a recording unit block in which invalid data is padded in part of ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190956 | Quadrature decoder filtering circuitry for motor control The disclosed quadrature decoder filtering circuitry for motor control uses one quadrature signal to correct an error in the other quadrature signal, thus allowing a noisy signal due to large dust particles or scratches to be recovered. In some implementations, a sy... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8181074 | Soft error recoverable storage element and soft error protection technique A soft error recoverable storage element suitable for use in latches, flip-flops, static ram memory cells and microprocessor pipeline stages. The storage element employs a redundant copy of the stored data value and a feedback loop. One embodiment employs an interlo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181075 | Error correction device and recording and reproducing device An error correction device is a device detecting and correcting an error of uncorrected data. The error correction device includes a temporary storage buffer (data buffer) having a storage area divided into a plurality of units and storing the uncorrected data divid... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176375 | DTV transmitter and method of coding data in DTV transmitter A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor which pre-processes enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data, a data formatter which generates enhanced data packets having the pre-processed enh... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161339 | Content playback apparatus, content playback method, and storage medium When a content playback apparatus has detected a content data acquisition error in a process of acquiring title screen content serving as next content that is to be reproduced after top screen content, the content playback apparatus reproduces sub-content contained ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161340 | Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on an information storage medium using padding information, and the information storage medium An apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on a disc are provided using padding information, and a corresponding information storage medium. The recording method includes recording a recording unit block in which invalid data is padded in part of ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156397 | Method and system for feedback of decoded data characteristics to a decoder in stored data access and decoding operations to assist in additional decoding operations Aspects of a method and system for feedback of decoded data characteristics to decoder in stored data access and decoding operations to assist in additional decoding operations are presented. Aspects of the system may include a decoder that enables decoding of a por... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145968 | Method of determining binary signal of memory cell and apparatus thereof A method and apparatus to determine a binary signal of a memory cell capable of decreasing an error rate of binary signal determination that occur due to neighboring cells and noise, the apparatus including: a data collection unit to collect target data stored in a ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8132066 | Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on an information storage medium using padding information, and the information storage medium An apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on a disc are provided using padding information, and a corresponding information storage medium. The recording method includes recording a recording unit block in which invalid data is padded in part of ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132065 | Hybrid sphere decoding method and system A hybrid sphere decoding method is disclosed. Received data is processed to obtain preliminary parameters. Mbf layers are determined to use breadth-first search and Mdf layers to use depth-first search. A search process is implemented based on ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132067 | OFDM receiving apparatus and OFDM receiving method An OFDM receiving apparatus has N sets of reception and demodulation units which input one segment broadcasting signals of ground digital broadcasting received with N sets of antennas and demodulate the signals; a buffer unit which includes N sets of buffers which h... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8103928 | Multiple device apparatus, systems, and methods Data digits and correction digits are received in each of a number of integrated circuit (IC) devices. Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate to check the data digits for error in each IC device according to an algorithm associated with the IC de... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095843 | Method of acquiring a plurality of logic signals, with confirmation of state validity A method of ACM acquisition/confirmation of a plurality of logic signals SI(i) combines a loop for the single confirmation processing for all the sampled signals, with a sequential sampling of these signals. On each sampling, the confirmation loop processes the curr... | 01/10/2012 |
| RE43100 | Apparatus and method for header decompression In a header decompression apparatus 709, a header decompressor 703 refers to reference information stored in a reference information manager 707 to decompress a compressed header of a packet received by a packet receiver 704. An error det... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091003 | 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 consum... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078929 | Optical line terminal and optical network terminal There are provided an optical line terminal and an optical network terminal, which can process with the same forward error correction code even if an EFC frame size of G-PON descending signals is different between two types of 255 and 120. The optical network termin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074136 | Error correction apparatus and method for digital device An improved error correction apparatus and method for a digital device are provided. An error correction apparatus includes at least one client module outputting an error detection signal, if an error is detected; and a controller for analyzing the error and control... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8032808 | System architecture for internet telephone The invention is concerned with an Internet telephone system having a client/server architecture and providing voice communication between client stations over the Internet through gateway servers. The system includes a plurality of software modules within each of t... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8020061 | Method for detecting errors and supporting reconfiguration decisions in mobile radio networks comprising reconfigurable terminals, and corresponding network elements and components A respective agent platform in network elements and producer-specific agents that are installed directly on platform or by way of agent proxies of agent providers. The agents then receive raw information on arising operating errors by way of a defined interface of t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8020060 | Method of arranging data in a multi-level cell memory device A method of storing data includes storing a first portion of data in bit positions of a non-volatile memory having a first probability of error; storing a second portion of the data in bit positions of the non-volatile memory having a second probability of error, wh... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010858 | Transmitter apparatus and multiantenna transmitter apparatus A transmitter apparatus wherein a relatively simple structure is used to suppress burst errors without changing the block sizes of encoded blocks even when the number of modulation multi-values is increased. An encoding part subjects transport data to a block encodi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006157 | Resource-light method and apparatus for outlier detection Outlier detection methods and apparatus have light computational resources requirement, especially on the storage requirement, and yet achieve a state-of-the-art predictive performance. The outlier detection problem is first reduced to that of a classification learn... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7984355 | Memory module with ranks of memory chips A memory module includes a plurality of memory devices and a stacked error correction code memory device. The plurality of memory devices includes one or more memory chips arranged in a plurality of ranks. The stacked error correction code memory device includes a p... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7966539 | Digital content protection systems and methods 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 modul... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7917826 | Error correction apparatus and method for data stored in memory An error correction device includes a main memory, a memory bus coupled to the main memory, and a correction module. The correction module is coupled to the system bus and directly connected to the memory bus. The correction module reads an error data from the main ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7890832 | Method for accuracy improvement allowing chip-by-chip measurement correction A method for allowing measurement corrections on a chip-by-chip basis. Error correction values are generated responsive to the input value to a circuit of the calibrated integrated circuit chip and to a measured value from the circuit of the calibrated integrated ci... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7870456 | Apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on an information storage medium using padding information, and the information storage medium An apparatus and method for recording and/or reproducing data on a disc are provided using padding information, and a corresponding information storage medium. The recording method includes recording a recording unit block in which invalid data is padded in part of ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7856583 | Techniques for enhanced reliability of data transfer with dynamic scaling A recovery chunk is generated based on information found in each chunk in a group of chunks. For example, the group of chunks includes three chunks of which information in the three chunks is used to generate a recovery chunk. The recovery chunk is then used to reco... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7831881 | Apparatus and method for hybrid detection of memory data The data detecting apparatus may provide a voltage comparison unit that compares a reference voltage, associated with a specific data bit from among a plurality of data bits stored in a memory cell, with a threshold voltage in the memory cell, a detection unit that ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831880 | Information recording medium, defect management method, information reading/writing device and information reading device To specify defect management information to be used in a short time in an information recording medium having a defect information area capable of recording plural sets of defect management information and a selection information area capable of recording plural set... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827456 | Error correction scheme for a disc-playing system The present invention provides an error correcting method and apparatus for correcting errors in content. In accordance with a method embodiment, a method is provided for correcting errors in content, comprising, determining the types of the errors; sending a downlo... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827457 | Decoding data from multiple sources Systems and methods for sharing a single decoder among data streams originating with multiple sources. Error correction coding techniques are modified to facilitate decoding of data from multiple sources multiplexed in the time domain at the decoder input. A single ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7810007 | Data packet transmission Using the attribute “priority” to achieve a stronger Forward Error Correction (FEC) for Radio Link Control (RLC) Control Protocol Data Units (PDUs) transmitted via the High Speed Downlinik Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) also entails prioritized handling so that an RLC... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7810008 | Method for recovering data in a tape drive system A method is disclosed. The method includes performing a first read operation at a tape drive, determining if a minimum number of data bytes have been recovered in the first read operation to perform error correcting codes (ECC), performing a second read operation if... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7793188 | Apparatus and method for improving reliability of collected sensor data over a network Apparatus and method suitable for improving reliability of collected sensor data over a network. One or more transient errors are predicted and corrected using correlation of collected data. For example, sensor data can be collected from one or more sensor nodes in ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7779324 | Method and system for detecting wired network error in mobile communication terminal Disclosed is a method and system for detecting wired network errors in a mobile communication terminal, which performs a selective checksum operation for received data in a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) layer to improve the processing speed of the mobile communicatio... | 08/17/2010 |
| RE41497 | Radio transmission method and radio transmission device A transmission process of control data is carried out simply and the reliability of transmission of the control data is improved. Data transmission among a plurality of communication stations is performed with a predetermined packet arrangement and transmission of t... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7757147 | Method for accuracy improvement allowing chip-by-chip measurement correction A method for allowing measurement corrections on a chip-by-chip basis. Error correction values are generated responsive to the input value to a circuit of the calibrated integrated circuit chip and to a measured value from the circuit of the calibrated integrated ci... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7757146 | Transmission of data with forward error correction information A method of transmitting content data to one or more receiving devices (5a, 5b) over a first communication channel (7) and transmitting recovery information associated with the content data over a second communication channel (9... | 07/13/2010 |
