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  • Probabilistic transition rule for two-level decoding of reed-solomon codes
    Patent number: 8171368
    Abstract: Decoding data is disclosed, including computing a syndrome polynomial for Reed-Solomon encoded data, applying the Berlekamp-Massey method to solve key equations associated with the syndrome polynomial, comparing a linear feedback shift register (LSFR) length L? associated with an error locator polynomial ?(x) with an error correction capability t, and based on the comparison, determining whether to perform soft decision decoding or a Chien search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Link—A—Media Devices Corporation
    Inventor: Yingquan Wu
  • Optimized fetching for customization object attributes
    Patent number: 8171054
    Abstract: An attribute of a hierarchical class-based object is received. The attribute in a database is stored both in a first location in a first table at a first level of a hierarchy of database tables which table hierarchy is based at least in part on a class hierarchy associated with the hierarchical class-based object and in a second location in a second table at a second level of the table hierarchy which second level is higher than the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Shang Sam Wei, Roger W. Kilday, Victor Spivak, Meir Amiel, Venkat Chandrasekaran, Yik-Ping Li, Xiaofeng Ma
  • Cluster storage using subsegmenting
    Patent number: 8166012
    Abstract: Cluster storage is disclosed. A data stream or a data block is received. The data stream or the data block is broken into segments. For each segment, a cluster node is selected, and a portion of the segment smaller than the segment is identified that is a duplicate of a portion of a segment already managed by the cluster node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Sazzala Venkata Reddy, Umesh Maheshwari, Edward K. Lee, R. Hugo Patterson
  • Processing of a generalized directed object graph for storage in a relational database
    Patent number: 8166008
    Abstract: Creating transaction instructions is disclosed. A description of a set of objects is received. For each of at least a subset of objects in the set of objects, a description of one or more associated relationships is received. The description of the set of objects and the descriptions of the one or more associated relationships for each object in the at least a subset of the set of objects are processed to create an ordered list of transaction instructions for storing the set of objects and the one or more associated relationships for each object in the at least a subset of the set of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Rankov, Meir Amiel, Oleg Bivol
  • Semantic reconstruction
    Patent number: 8166037
    Abstract: Determining a semantic relationship is disclosed. Source content is received. Cluster analysis is performed at least in part by using at least a portion of the source content. At least a portion of a result of the cluster analysis is used to determine the semantic relationship between two or more content elements comprising the source content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Mansfield, Michael Robert Levy, Yuri Khramov, Darryl Will Fuller
  • Visual cue discernment on scattered data
    Patent number: 8166412
    Abstract: Displaying a visual cue is disclosed. A value of an attribute for a member of a set of data is obtained. The visual cue for the member is determined based at least in part on the value of the attribute. The visual cue for the member is displayed, where the visual cue provides an indication of an ordering associated with the set of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Jain, Rithesh R. Prasad, Abhinav Chakravarty, Yhenishetty Jagadish
  • Preventing the inclusion of a reference to a host cell in a formula
    Patent number: 8161373
    Abstract: Preventing the inclusion of a reference to a host cell in a formula to avoid a circular reference in the formula is disclosed. In some embodiments, an indication of a selection or an attempted selection of a host cell into which a formula is being entered is received wherein the selection or attempted selection is made by a user via a user gesture associated with adding to a formula a reference to a selected cell or range of cells with respect to which the user gesture is made, and a reference to the host cell is not inserted into the formula in response to the indication. In some embodiments, a host cell is not allowed to be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Peter William Rapp
  • Implementing application specific management policies on a content addressed storage device
    Patent number: 8161013
    Abstract: Implementing application specific management policies on a content addressed storage device is disclosed. In one embodiment, each data object stored on the content addressed storage device is associated with one of a plurality of data sets. A corresponding data set specific management policy is associated with at least each of a subset of said plurality of data sets. The applicable data set specific management policy is applied to the data objects of each data set with which a corresponding data set specific management policy has been associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Urmston, William McConnell
  • Interleaving parity bits into user bits to guarantee run-length constraint
    Patent number: 8161347
    Abstract: A method of satisfying a specified run length constraint is disclosed. A systematically error correction encoded sequence of received symbols is received, wherein the received symbols include data symbols and parity symbols. The parity symbols are interleaved with the data symbols to produce interleaved symbols that satisfy the specified run length constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Link—A—Media Devices Corporation
    Inventor: Yu Kou
  • Integrated interleaved codes
    Patent number: 8161360
    Abstract: Integrated interleaved encoding is performed by obtaining a first piece of input data and a second piece of input data. The first piece of input data is systematically encoded using a first generator polynomial to obtain a first codeword. A second codeword is generated based at least in part on the second piece of input data and the first codeword. This includes by systematically encoding information based at least in part on the second piece of input data and the first codeword using a second generator polynomial. The first codeword and the second codeword are output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Link—A—Media Devices Corporation
    Inventor: Yingquan Wu
  • Efficient redundant memory unit array
    Patent number: 8156405
    Abstract: A method of storing data is disclosed. A set of data blocks, including a plurality of proper subsets of data blocks, is stored. A plurality of first-level parity blocks is generated, wherein each first-level parity block is generated from a corresponding proper subset of data blocks within the plurality of proper subsets of data blocks without reference to other data blocks not in the corresponding proper subset. A second-level parity block is generated, wherein the second level parity block is generated from a plurality of data blocks included in at least two of the plurality of proper subsets of data blocks, and wherein recovery of a lost block in a given proper subset of data blocks is possible without reference to any data blocks not in the given proper subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R. Lumb, R. Hugo Patterson
  • Dynamic display of a harmony rule list
    Patent number: 8154561
    Abstract: Display of a harmony rule list is disclosed, including obtaining at least one base color and two or more color harmony rules; for each color harmony rule, computing a derived set of colors based on the at least one base color and the color harmony rule, resulting in two or more derived sets of colors; and simultaneously displaying the derived sets of colors for the two or more color harmony rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Voliter, Britt Miura
  • Peer-to-peer security authentication protocol
    Patent number: 8156332
    Abstract: A salt transmitted by a second node is received at a first node. The received salt is used to decrypt encrypted data. Optionally, authorization to access a service provided by the second node is received by the first node. In some cases the service includes access to one or more files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Neil Simon
  • Incorporated web page content
    Patent number: 8156141
    Abstract: Keeping incorporated web page content up to date is disclosed. A web page is associated with a stored object that has been incorporated into the web page, for example an object stored in a repository. The web page is updated automatically based at least in part on an indication that the stored object has been changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Igor Shmulevich, Ling Chen
  • EEG control of devices using sensory evoked potentials
    Patent number: 8155736
    Abstract: An EEG control of devices using Sensory Evoked Potentials (SEPs) (e.g., visually-evoked potentials), is disclosed. In some embodiments, a system receives a plurality of EEG signal samples; generates a stimulus locked average signal using the plurality of EEG signal samples; and determines whether the plurality of EEG signal samples are evoked in response to a pattern of stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: NeuroSky, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Sullivan, Arnaud Delorme, An Luo
  • Feedback LNA with image filtering
    Patent number: 8150352
    Abstract: What is described herein is a technique that includes a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal having a frequency of |fbp+fi|. The technique further includes a mixer configured to input (1) an input signal that includes a desired signal at the frequency fi and (2) the clock signal and generate a mixed signal using the input signal and the clock signal. A filter, having a bandpass region that includes the frequency fbp, is configured to input the mixed signal and generate a filtered signal based at least in part on the bandpass region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Project FT, Inc.
    Inventors: Arshan Aga, Farbod Aram
  • Identifiers for non-searchable attributes
    Patent number: 8150887
    Abstract: Storing data is disclosed. An attribute to be combined with one or more other attributes is received for storage in a database as a set of attributes. A unique attribute identifier is associated with the attribute. The identifier is usable to distinguish between two attributes in the event that the two attributes have the same name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Shang Sam Wei, Roger W. Kilday, Victor Spivak, Meir Amiel, Venkat Chandrasekaran, Yik-Ping Li, Xiaofeng Ma
  • Baseline wander compensation for perpendicular recording
    Patent number: 8149954
    Abstract: A tail estimate signal which includes noise associated with baseline wander is generated. The tail estimate signal is generated by processing an input signal using a detector to obtain one or more decisions. Using the one or more decisions, the tail estimate signal is generated. The tail estimate signal is removed from the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Link—A—Media Devices Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Marrow, Shih-Ming Shih
  • Efficient data storage using two level delta resemblance
    Patent number: 8145863
    Abstract: Storage using resemblance of data segments is disclosed. It is determined that a new segment resembles a second prior stored segment wherein the second prior stored segment is represented as a first stored delta and a first prior stored segment. A second delta between the new segment and the prior stored segment is determined. A representation of the new segment based at least in part on the second delta is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventor: Ming Benjamin Zhu
  • User interface for path distortion and stroke width editing
    Patent number: 8146021
    Abstract: A technique for modifying a stretch of path is disclosed. The technique includes receiving an indication of a drag gesture associated with a designated point on a path, identifying the first path corner or endpoint on either side of the designated point as limit points, defining a smooth stretch of the path as a portion of the path between the limit points, and modifying the smooth stretch of the path based on the drag gesture without modifying portions outside of the smooth stretch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul J. Asente