Abstract: A storage system includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit and a controller to receive a write request for updated data to a first storage unit from the host and write the updated data into the first storage area, when the controller determines that there is not a free area in a storage area to be processed in the second storage unit, the controller changes the storage area to be processed to another storage area to be processed and instructs change of a storage area to be processed to another storage system to be connected to the host, and the controller reads the updated data from the first storage unit and transmits the updated data and writing destination information relating to the updated data to another storage system for backup.

Abstract: A first equation is created, using the physical property data of a user-specified target to be analyzed, to calculate a first magnetic field due to a current vector in the target to be analyzed in such a manner that a finite element method and a boundary integral method are applicable to the first equation. A second equation is created, using the physical property data of the user-specified target to be analyzed, to calculate a second magnetic field due to a magnetization vector in the target to be analyzed in such a manner that the finite element method and the boundary integral method are applicable to the second equation. A first magnetic field and a second magnetic field are calculated using the first equation and the second equation, respectively. The sum of the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field is set to the magnetic field of the target.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute an automatic virtualization process includes creating a copy of information stored in a storage unit in a migration source, storing the created copy in a migration destination apparatus; and encrypting the storage unit in the migration source after storing the copy in the migration destination apparatus.

Abstract: In a communication system that further includes a receiving apparatus and a transmitting apparatus that after a given period that starts after transmission of a wireless signal to the receiving apparatus, receives delivery confirmation information concerning the wireless signal, a relay apparatus includes a receiver that receives and decodes the wireless signal transmitted by the transmitting apparatus; a determiner that determines whether the decoded wireless signal is subject to relay; a notifier that, if the determiner determines that the wireless signal is subject to relay, notifies the transmitting apparatus of relay information indicating that the wireless signal is to be regenerated and relayed; and a transmitter that transmits to the receiving apparatus, the wireless signal that has been determined to be subject to relay.

Abstract: A method of controlling handover in wireless cellular networks of user equipment in a first cell unit which is to be disabled to a second cell unit which is to provide extended coverage for the, or part of the, first cell unit, where the cell unit of the first and second cell units is a cell or a cell sector, including selecting a part of the signal bandwidth or time-frequency resource units, previously designated for use in normal operation by the second cell unit, which does not overlap with that to be used by the first cell unit during the handover; and designating the selected part for use by the user equipment to be handed over from the first cell unit.

Abstract: A communication processing apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a processor. The first storage unit stores, for each of a plurality of port identifiers, a port identifier and a network identifier in association with each other. The second storage unit stores address information and a set of port identifiers in association with each other. The processor extracts a first network identifier associated with a first port identifier for identifying a reception port from the first storage unit, extracts second port identifiers associated with the extracted first network identifier from the first storage unit, and stores source address information of the received data and a first set of port identifiers in association with each other in the second storage unit. The first set of port identifiers includes the first port identifier and the extracted second port identifiers.

Abstract: A radio base station improved in the efficiency of processing random accesses from mobile stations. The radio base station designates a random access signal when transmitting downlink data to a mobile station. The mobile station transmits the designated random access signal to the radio base station. The radio base station transmits, to the mobile station, timing adjustment information prepared based on the result of reception of the random access signal and allocation information about an uplink radio resource allocated to the mobile station. If there is control data to be transmitted to the radio base station, the mobile station transmits the control data by using the allocated uplink radio resource, and if there is no control data to be transmitted, the mobile station transmits a synchronization completion report prepared in reply to the timing adjustment information.

Abstract: A logic verifying apparatus includes a second processor corresponding to a first processor to be verified; and one or more second controllers corresponding to first controllers to be verified, the number of which is less than that of the first controllers, control a second access to a memory, the access being made by the second processor, the second processor and the second controllers serving as elements in the verification model. The second processor includes a storing unit that stores information that assigns one or more of the second controllers that is to be used as the verification model; and a converting unit that converts a first address into a second address, the first address indicating an entity that the second processor is to access through the one second controller assigned by the information stored in the storing unit such that the second processor access to the memory.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a lower cladding layer, an active layer, and an AlGaAs upper cladding layer mounted on a GaAs substrate. The semiconductor light emitting device has a ridge structure including the AlGaAs upper cladding layer. The semiconductor light emitting device further includes an InGaAs etching stop layer provided in contact with the lower side of the AlGaAs upper cladding layer. The InGaAs etching stop layer has a band gap greater than that of the active layer.

Abstract: A standing wave ratio measuring circuit includes an amplifier circuit amplifying a transmission signal; a first circulator outputting the transmission signal amplified in a direction of an antenna, and outputting a reception signal received by the antenna to a reception system; a traveling wave bypassing unit allowing the transmission signal (the traveling wave), before being input to the amplifier circuit, to travel to the reception system while bypassing the amplifier circuit when a request to measure a standing wave ratio is detected; a second circulator outputting the traveling wave bypassing the amplifier circuit in a direction of the first circulator; a control unit controlling the amplifier circuit; a reflected wave acquiring unit acquiring a reflected wave at a location after the second circulator in the reception system; and a measuring circuit measuring the standing wave ratio using the traveling wave and the reflected wave.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal display element that includes a liquid crystal layer, and an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposed to each other via the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of liquid crystal display elements being stacked; wherein a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of the liquid crystal display elements is different from a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of another liquid crystal display elements.

Abstract: A storage device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: calculating an upper limit value of the number of input/output processings determined based on priority set to an information processing device, a port that is an interface between the information processing device and the storage device and a memory device of the storage device; scheduling an execution order of input/output processings based on the number of input/output processings received from the information processing device and the calculated upper limit value; and executing the input/output processings in the scheduled execution order.

Abstract: There is provided a peak suppressor including a first peak position detector to detect a first time when amplitude of a transmission signal changes in a convex manner and exceeds a specific level as a first peak position, a second peak position detector to detect a second time that is different by a predetermined time from the first peak position when the amplitude of the transmission signal exceeds the specific level as a second peak position, a suppression signal generator to generate a suppression signal for suppressing the amplitude of the transmission signal to a value that is equal to or lower than the specific level, based on amplitude and phase of the transmission signal corresponding to the first and second peak positions detected by the first and second peak position detectors, and an adder to add the suppression signal generated by the suppression signal generator to the transmission signal.

Abstract: A directivity control apparatus is capable of acquiring tilt information indicating a tilt angle of the directivity control apparatus; acquiring sound source direction information; storing mapping data indicating a relationship between the tilt angle and the direction; determining whether the sound information indicates a target sound; updating the mapping data based on the sound source direction information and the tilt information, if the sound information indicates the target sound; estimating a direction of sound responsive to the tilt information, based on the mapping data if the sound information doesn't indicate a target sound; and adjusting a directivity of a microphone based on the sound source direction information if the sound information indicates the target sound, or adjusting the directivity of the microphone based on the estimated direction if the sound information doesn't indicate the target sound.

Abstract: The display control device detects a pressing down of a one-shot media button arranged in a remote controller, receives a report on the detection of the pressing down of the one-shot media button and specifies a window associated with any one of moving picture reproducing applications, and changes the front-back order of the window so that the specified window is displayed on the frontmost surface on a display.

Abstract: A radio communication system includes a first server and a second server. The first server includes a first processor to receive, together with an identifier for identifying a base station, communication information transmitted from a plurality of mobile stations via the base station, extract, for the base station, a keyword frequently used in communications between the first server and the plurality of mobile stations on the basis of the received communication information and the received identifier, and transmit the extracted keyword together with the identifier. The second server includes a second processor to receive, together with the identifier, the keyword transmitted from the first server, and distribute distribution information corresponding to the received keyword to the plurality of mobile stations via the base station.

Abstract: An optical module includes an optical waveguide that transmits and outputs signal light; a circuit board that transmits the signal light output from the optical waveguide, and includes a low refractive-index portion that neighbors and surrounds a transmissive portion and has a lower refractive index than the transmissive portion, which transmits the signal light; and a light-receiving element that includes, on a side toward the circuit board, a light-receiving portion that receives the signal light that has transmitted through the circuit board, where the signal light is reflected toward the light-receiving element at a boundary surface between the transmissive portion and the low refractive-index portion.

Abstract: A data transfer device includes a data transmitting circuit includes an error detection code generating unit generating an error detection code for detecting an error in the data, and a transmission unit transmitting the data and the error detection code together with retransmit enable information representing that corresponding data transmitted before the former data or transmitted next can be retransmitted, the data receiving circuit includes a reception unit receiving the transmitted data, the transmitted error detection code and the transmitted retransmit enable information, an error detection unit detecting the error in the received data based on the error detection code, an error data retaining unit retaining the data in which an error is detected when the reception unit receives the retransmit enable information, and an error data comparing unit that comparing the error detected data retained in the error data retaining unit with corresponding data that is retransmitted.

Abstract: A dispersion compensation design system includes a changing unit setting a changed value for the amount of dispersion compensation for a span connecting nodes constituting an optical network; a path classification unit determining whether respective paths in the optical network are capable of transmission with the changed value and classifying one or more of the paths as second category paths based on the determination results; an updating unit updating the amount of dispersion compensation with the changed value if the number of the second category paths in the latest classification result is less than the number of the second category paths in the retained previous classification result; and a repeating unit that, if not all of the paths in the optical network are capable of transmission, prevents use of combinations of amounts of dispersion compensation applied to the spans in the second category paths in the latest classification result.

Abstract: A three-dimensional simulation apparatus includes a memory configured to store form information of a sheet flexible object model formed of first polygons and another object model, an interference determination unit configured to determine whether the sheet flexible object model formed of the first polygons in three-dimensional simulation space interferes with the other object model on the basis of the form information stored in the storage unit, a polygon creation unit configured to form second polygons by dividing the sheet flexible object model in a longitudinal direction when it is determined that the sheet flexible object model interferes with the other object model, and a shape computation unit configured to determine a shape of the sheet flexible object model using the formed second polygons in consideration of a shape of the other object model.