Abstract: An energy saving (ES) management method for a base station includes: An integration reference point manager (IRPManager) initiates an ES enable/disable procedure or an ES activation/resumption procedure to an integration reference point agent (IRPAgent), where the ES enable/disable procedure is used to allow or prohibit an ES operation on the base station or a cell, and the ES activation/resumption procedure is used to cause the base station or the cell to go into or go out of an ES state. The technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present invention enable operators to perform unified management on an ES procedure for a base station at a base station level or a cell level.

Abstract: Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for accessing a data set from a solid state storage device, using a data decoding circuit to apply a data decoding algorithm to the data set to yield a decoded output, where the decoded output includes at least one error, identifying at least one critical location in the data set, and estimating a voltage associated with the data in the data set corresponding to the critical location.

Abstract: Systems and methods relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to adjusting gain parameters in relation to data processing.

Abstract: A method for calculating an average phase offset in a two dimensional magnetic recording system includes calculating a phase offset as a difference between a phase of a first signal derived from a first read head and a second phase of a second signal derived from a second read head, correcting for phase wrapping differences between the phase offset and a previous phase offset, determining whether the phase offset is consistent with the previous phase offset, and calculating an average phase offset which includes the phase offset only if it is consistent with the previous phase offset.

Abstract: A method for calculating an average phase offset in a two dimensional magnetic recording system includes calculating a phase offset as a difference between a phase of a first signal derived from a first read head and a second phase of a second signal derived from a second read head, correcting for phase wrapping differences between the phase offset and a previous phase offset, determining whether the phase offset is consistent with the previous phase offset, and calculating an average phase offset which includes the phase offset only if it is consistent with the previous phase offset.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for cell outage detection. The method includes: receiving, by a controlling base station of a first cell, a request message, where the request message is used to request an outage measurement on a second cell, the first cell is a neighboring cell of the second cell; selecting, by the controlling base station of the first cell, a user equipment in the first cell to measure the second cell; receiving, by the controlling base station of the first cell, measurement information obtained by the user equipment by measuring the second cell, and generating, according to the measurement information, information used to determine whether an outage occurs in the second cell; and sending, by the controlling base station of the first cell, a reply message including the information used to determine whether an outage occurs in the second cell.

Abstract: The present inventions are related to systems and methods for accessing data from a flash memory, and more particularly to systems and methods for inter-cell interference handling in a flash memory. The systems and methods may include a soft information correction circuit that is operable to receive soft information corresponding to information accessed from a block of memory cells, and modify the soft information based upon a variance of the soft information and a median of the soft information to create corrected soft information, the corrected soft information being used to mitigate inter-cell interference in the block of memory cells.

Abstract: Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for fragmenting a data set and recovering the fragmented data set. As one example, a data processing system is discussed that includes: a fragmenting circuit operable to separate a data set into at least a first fragment and a second fragment; and a transfer packet formation circuit operable to: append identification information to the front of the first fragment, and at least a first M+N bits of the second fragment to the end of the first fragment to yield a first transfer fragment, and aggregate the first transfer fragment with other transfer fragments to yield an aggregate output.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for energy saving management in a network management system are disclosed. The method for energy saving management includes: configuring, by an integrated reference point manager IRPManager, an energy saving policy, where the energy saving policy includes an identifier of a coverage backup entity for energy saving and further includes policy information of energy saving activation and/or policy information of energy saving deactivation; and sending, by the IRPManager, the energy saving policy to an integrated reference point agent IRPAgent, where the energy saving policy is used to perform energy saving management on a base station.

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, circuits for data processing, and more particularly to data processing including operational marginalization capability. In one case a data processing system is disclosed that includes a loop detector circuit and a sample based noise injection circuit. The loop detector circuit applies a loop detection algorithm to a data input to yield a loop detected output, and the sample based noise injection circuit generates a noise component based at least in part on the loop detected output.

Abstract: A data processing system includes an equalizer circuit operable to equalize digital data according to tap coefficients to yield equalized data, a tap coefficient adaptation circuit operable to adapt the tap coefficients based at least in part on a scaled error signal, a data detector operable to apply a data detection algorithm to the digital data to generate hard decisions and soft decisions, an error calculation circuit operable to calculate an error signal based on the equalized data and on the hard decisions, and a scaling circuit operable to scale the error signal based on the soft decisions to yield the scaled error signal.

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, circuits for data processing, and more particularly to data processing including adjacent track interference detection and/or characterization.

Abstract: Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for accessing a data set from a solid state storage device, using a data decoding circuit to apply a data decoding algorithm to the data set to yield a decoded output, where the decoded output includes at least one error, identifying at least one critical location in the data set, and estimating a voltage associated with the data in the data set corresponding to the critical location.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a network management system for acquiring an energy efficiency parameter of a network with overlaid coverage, and a radio access network device and a communication system. The network management system can acquire, via the radio access network device, the performance measurement parameter of the target cell in the energy efficiency measurement area and the energy consumption value of the radio access network device to which the target cell in the energy efficiency measurement area belongs, then the network management system further acquires the energy efficiency parameter of the energy efficiency measurement area in the network with overlaid coverage, so as to help an operator with accurately learning about the actual gain brought by the cell energy saving use case.

Abstract: Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for utilizing multiple data streams for data recovery from a storage device.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting media flaws includes a branch metric selection circuit operable to select a first branch metric and a second branch metric, a subtraction circuit operable to subtract the second branch metric from the first branch metric to yield a difference, and a comparator operable to compare the difference with a threshold value and to indicate a presence of a potential flaw in a storage medium when the difference is less than the threshold value.

Abstract: The present inventions are related to systems and methods for accessing data from a flash memory, and more particularly to systems and methods for inter-cell interference handling in a flash memory. The systems and methods include receiving soft information corresponding to a series of voltage levels accessed from a block of flash memory cells, calculating corrected soft information based upon the received soft information and a variance of the soft information, and applying a data decoding algorithm to the corrected soft information to yield a data output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for magnetoresistive asymmetry estimation may include, but are not limited to, operations for: receiving a magnetic read head transducer output; computing a mean value of the magnetic read head transducer output; computing a median value of the magnetic read head transducer output; and applying a correction coefficient to a magnetic read head detector input according to at least the mean value of the magnetic read head transducer output and the median value of the magnetic read head transducer output.

Abstract: Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for utilizing multiple data streams for data recovery from a storage device. As an example, a data processing system is discussed that includes a first read head and a second read head each operable to sense information on a storage medium. A synthesizer circuit is operable to determine a quality metric based upon a signal to noise ratio of a first preamble pattern compared with a signal to noise ratio of a second preamble pattern. A balancing circuit is operable to generate a composite output as a combination of a first data set derived from the first read head a second data set derived from the second read head based at least in part on the quality metric.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for energy saving management in a network management system are disclosed. The method for energy saving management includes: configuring, by an integrated reference point manager IRPManager, an energy saving policy, where the energy saving policy includes an identifier of a coverage backup entity for energy saving and further includes policy information of energy saving activation and/or policy information of energy saving deactivation; and sending, by the IRPManager, the energy saving policy to an integrated reference point agent IRPAgent, where the energy saving policy is used to perform energy saving management on a base station.