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| 8190977 | Decoder of error correction codes In a method of decoding data symbols into codewords, reliability information of the data symbols is provided. A first group of symbols from a first set of groups of symbols is selected, wherein the first set of groups of symbols is defined by at least a first parity... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190958 | Error correction for a persistent resource allocation Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station can allocate persistent resources to a client station, and can associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particu... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185782 | Test device and method for hierarchical test architecture A test device for a hierarchical test architecture is disclosed. The architecture includes cores for plural test layers, a top-level data register, and a top-level test controller. Cores for each test layer are hierarchical test circuits. The top-level test controll... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185804 | Apparatus and method for error correction in mobile wireless applications incorporating multi-level and adaptive erasure data A receiver (120) is configured to receive data over a communications link. A decapsulator (122) is coupled to the receiver and configured to create datagrams and erasure attributes associated with the datagrams. A decoder (124) is coupled to the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176358 | Data transfer and recovery process A backup image generator can create a primary image and periodic delta images of all or part of a primary server. The images can be sent to a network attached storage device and a remote storage server. In the event of a failure of the primary server, the failure ca... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176381 | Multidimensional turbo product codes and generalized low-density parity-check codes with component reed-solomon codes for optical transmission A transmitter, a receiver, and corresponding methods are provided. The transmitter includes encoders configured to encode source bit streams from L information sources into bytes of codewords. Each encoder includes different (n, k) multidimensional turbo-product cod... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166377 | Configurable hierarchical comma-free reed-solomon decoding circuit and method thereof The present invention discloses a configurable hierarchical comma-free Reed-Solomon decoding circuit and a method thereof. The design is based on an original hierarchical parallel architecture which not only completes a decoding process faster than conventional deco... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166363 | Decoding device and method A decoding device and method for decoding an LDPC code with high accuracy while suppressing an increase of the scale of a device. A check node calculator (181) performs check node calculations including calculations of a nonlinear function φ(x) and its inver... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166375 | Radio communications device and reception method A radio communications device includes a first error detection part configured to perform error detection on a header included in a packet; a determination part configured to determine whether there is consistency with respect to the length of the packet based on th... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166368 | Writing a special symbol to a memory to indicate the absence of a data signal A method for writing in a memory system that includes receiving an address corresponding to a memory location in a memory, receiving a desired content to be written, encoding the desired content into a symbol, and writing the symbol to the memory location using an i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166373 | Method and apparatus for turbo encoding and decoding A method and apparatus for turbo encoding and method and apparatus for turbo decoding are disclosed, by which encoding and decoding speeds of turbo codes and performance thereof can be enhanced. In performing turbo encoding on inputted information bits by a unit of ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161327 | Process and system for the verification of correct functioning of an on-chip memory A method is for making an integrated circuit with built-in self-test. The method includes forming at least one nonvolatile read only memory (ROM) to store ROM code and forming a logic self-test circuit to verify a correct functioning of the at least one nonvolatile ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156407 | Method and system for memory management in a HARQ communications system A method is provided for memory management in a communications system using a HARQ error control mechanism, in which a transmitter establishes a plurality of HARQ channels with a receiver. The method includes determining whether each received encoded HARQ packet nee... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156411 | Error correction of an encoded message An encoded message is stored in a first memory. The encoded message is retrieved from the first memory as a retrieved encoded message that may contain an error. Syndromes are generated from the retrieved encoded message. The syndromes are used to determine if the re... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151168 | Method, apparatus and system for error detection and selective retransmission The invention relates to a method for use in a packet-switched communication system, the method comprising: sending a first packet from a source node to a destination node, the first packet containing a first set of data bits; sending a second packet from the source... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151141 | Resolution of computer operations problems using fault trend analysis A set of fault records representing faults previously detected in an enterprise computer system is received and analyzed. The analysis comprises a variety of analytical operations and results in a report provided to a user, the report particularly including a set of... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145940 | Method and system for updating a software image A method and system for updating or recovering a computer device's software image using a single portable operating system image stored on a bootable, secure partition on local storage (hard drive); a method and system utilizing delta image patching technology to al... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145952 | Storage system and a control method for a storage system A storage system includes a storage device for storing data, a pair of adapters connected with the storage device, each of the adapters transmitting and receiving the data to and from the storage device respectively. The storage system includes a controller, connect... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145945 | Packet mirroring between primary and secondary virtualized software images for improved system failover performance Packet loss at a standby server during failover results when the primary fails. There is currently always some amount of packet traffic that is inbound to the primary that is lost during the failover interval. With existing solutions, this packet loss during failove... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145969 | Quality manager and method for use in a digital content delivery system The invention provides a quality manager for use in a digital content delivery system. The digital content delivery system comprises a plurality of user devices, a source unit connected through a communication network to the user devices for delivering digital conte... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140888 | High availability network processing system A host receives messages from a network processing device. Messages received from a primary port are processed and also forwarded to a standby host over a secondary port. Messages received by the standby host over the secondary port are processed in the same was as ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136016 | Split sector recovery method Reproduction of encoded data which includes a split-mark. FIR data corresponding to split-mark and FIR data affected by the split-mark due to inter-symbol-interference are identified. FIR data corresponding to the split-mark is removed from the received FIR data. Re... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136006 | Turbo decoding apparatus and method A turbo decoding method and apparatus for performing iterative decoding on a received signal is provided. A decoder receives a signal and an (N−1)th decoding result, performs Nth decoding thereon, and outputs first extrinsic information. A tr... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132043 | Multistage system recovery framework A method and system for multi-staged recovery of a distributed computer system. The method includes receiving a failure event notification from at least one node of the distributed computer system and executing a plurality of recovery stages upon receiving the failu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127210 | Digital broadcasting transmission capable of improving receiving and equalizing performance and signal processing method thereof A digital broadcast transmitting system and a signal processing method thereof that improves the receiving performance of the system. A digital broadcast transmitter includes a randomizer to receive and randomize a transport stream into a specified position of which... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122301 | Performing remote loads and stores over networks A network adaptor which performs CPU loads and stores to remote memory over network fabrics. The network adaptor receives a transfer request from a compute node and converts the request to a remote transfer request, which is transmitted to the network. The network a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122286 | Technique for increasing the number of persistent consistency point images in a file system An on-disk storage arrangement increases the number of persistent consistency point images (PCPIs) that may be maintained for a volume of a storage system. The on-disk storage arrangement comprises a novel volume information (volinfo) block representing a root of th... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108730 | Debugging a multiprocessor system that switches between a locked mode and a split mode A data processing system 2 is provided with multiple processors 4, 6 which can operate in either a split-mode in which each processor executes its own program flow or a locked-mode in which the processors execute the same program flow. Debug circuitry ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108731 | Configuration validation system for computer clusters A method of validating a configuration of a computer clusters includes transmitting a first neighbor identification to a first flexible service processor (FSP) arranged in the first computer cluster and a second neighbor identification to a second FSP arranged in th... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108724 | Field replaceable unit failure determination A system and method for fault management in a computer-based system are disclosed herein. A system includes a plurality of field replaceable units (“FRUs”) and fault management logic. The fault management logic is configured to collect error information from a p... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099631 | Call-stacks representation for easier analysis of thread dump Computer systems and methods for call-stacks representation for easier analysis of thread dumps. Execution data for a number of process threads are accessed by a parser in a thread dump wherein execution data includes a number of call-stacks. Process threads have co... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099622 | Failover method of remotely-mirrored clustered file servers By incorporating a referral mechanism, a failover method and system for remotely mirrored clustered file servers enables a client computer to transparently access a remotely mirrored file system during a failover of a first NAS (network attached storage) storing the... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099650 | L2 ECC implementation One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for implementing ECC protection in an on-chip L2 cache. When data is written to or read from an external memory, logic within the L2 cache is configured to generate ECC check bits and store the ECC check bi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095819 | Communication network failure cause analysis system, failure cause analysis method, and failure cause analysis program A failure cause analysis system for estimating a cause of a failure in a communication network from recorded contents of internal processing of a communication apparatus includes: feature extraction means for extracting a statistical feature of the recorded contents... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090995 | System monitoring Disclosed are methods, systems and products, including a method that includes monitoring one or more service providing components implemented using at least one processor-based device, the one or more service providing components being connected to an interfacing sy... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086898 | Redundant I/O module A redundant I/O module includes: a control I/O module that communicates with a controller and that comprises a first IOM setting information holding section for storing IOM setting information downloaded from a high-level apparatus, and a standby I/O module that com... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082472 | System and method for testing graphics card A system for testing a video memory reliability of a video card includes an input module, a data read/write module, a data processing module, a data comparison module, and an output module. The input module is capable of activating a testing program which includes a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082469 | Virtual computer system, error recovery method in virtual computer system, and virtual computer control program A virtual computer system executes a virtual computer control program on a physical computer and thereby causes guest programs on the logical partitions, respectively. The virtual computer control program includes an error recovery module to periodically recover fro... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074154 | Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding cyclic codes by processing multiple symbols per cycle Provided are an encoder and a syndrome computer for cyclic codes which process M codeword symbols per cycle where M is greater than or equal to one, whereby the encoder and syndrome computer optionally further provide the configurability of a different M value for e... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074122 | Program failure recovery A program failure is detected during programming of a memory device. When the program failure is detected, a transfer of the contents of a register of the memory device to a first location of a memory of the memory device is stopped. First data that remains in the r... | 12/06/2011 |
