Abstract:
A data-storage device with a security function for user data stored in a data-storage medium. The data-storage device includes: the data-storage medium for storing data; an authentication processing section for performing an authentication process with a key obtained from a host; an error correction circuit for performing error correction in reading data at an address designated by a read command from a host which has been recognized as an authorized user for analysis access by the authentication processing section; and an analysis processing section for generating data indicating the positions of the error correction and transferring the data to the host.
Abstract:
A receiver which receives a stream of data packets including video data packets over a physical data link and drops data packets when an error on a physical communication layer is detected, wherein the receiver comprises a processor, configured so that it is able to check whether the received data packet is a video packet and whether it is corrupted by an error on the physical communication layer. If this is the case, the video packet is marked as corrupted and forwarded to the network layer. There is further provided a method for processing a stream of data packets including video data packets, the method including checking for each data packet whether it is a video data packet; checking for each video data packet whether it is corrupted by an error on the physical communication layer; marking a video packet as corrupted if it is corrupted due to an error on the physical communication layer; and forwarding the marked corrupted video packet to the network layer.
Abstract:
Determination of the location of an error condition or a failure includes receiving at a network interface a first framed digital signal from customer premises equipment, and determining whether the first framed digital signal indicates a failure. Overhead bits are modified in the first framed digital signal to generate a second framed digital signal, such that the modification is equivalent to insertion of errors into the first framed digital signal at a bit error ratio (BER) of not greater than a predetermined ratio, if the first framed digital signal indicates a failure. The second framed digital signal is then sent from the network interface in place of the first framed digital signal to indicate that the failure reported by the first framed digital signal is located in the customer premises equipment. Otherwise, if no failure is indicated, the first framed digital signal is transmitted without any modifications.
Abstract:
The invention concerns methods and devices for transferring data in a network and in particular the transfer of multimedia data. According to the invention described, a point of interconnection receives a configuration map from a client. When the point of interconnection receives a data packet from a server, it analyzes the received packet in order to detect the errors. If the received packet comprises errors and belongs to a stream identified in the configuration map, the point of interconnection selects error correction mechanisms specified in the configuration map. If these mechanisms are capable of correcting all the errors in the packet the latter is transmitted to the client in its original stream. If errors remain, the point of interconnection creates a new packet comprising the data of the received packet, possibly partially corrected, and information relating to the errors detected, to the correction mechanisms used and to the original identity of the data. The packets created by the point of interconnection are transmitted to the client by a particular stream not participating in the constitution of the original multimedia sequence.
Abstract:
An improved routing scheme is provided for data packets in a network. Upon receiving incoming data packets at an intermediate routing node of the network, the incoming data packets are processed in accordance with a cross-layer protocol. In addition, network coding is applied to the incoming data packets to form a combined data packet which is in turn broadcast over the network.
Abstract:
A multimedia distribution system is disclosed. The distribution system includes a transmitter unit that distributes content from a content provider to one or more wireless subscriber units. The transmitter unit includes a decoder configured to determine whether a plurality of incoming packets include one or more erasures, a transmitter configured to transmit the packets to a receiving unit, and an error detection code generator configured to generate an error detection code for each of the packets transmitted to the receiver unit, the error detection code being modified for each of the erased packets so that the receiver unit will be able to identify the erased packets.
Abstract:
A decoding method and an apparatus operate by performing error correction on code words of an error correcting code block in one direction selected from a row direction and a column direction, indicating in error flags the remaining code words except at least some code words from code words having uncorrectable errors, and performing error correction on code words in the other direction based on the error flags. Accordingly, errors that have been conventionally considered as being uncorrectable may now be corrected.
Abstract:
A method for transmitting/receiving wireless data and an apparatus therefor according to the quality of an application service and features of a coder/decoder (CODEC) of an application layer are provided. The method for transmitting/receiving wireless data includes the steps of: establishing a catalog of information related to the application data service; adding header information of each layer by referring to the catalog established in the above step, and error detecting codes to the application data; deciphering a header if data errors are detected by the error detecting codes added to the data during the reception, and transmitting the data to the upper ranking layer according to the quality of service, if the deciphered value of the header belongs to the catalog established in the above step.
Abstract:
A file control system of the present invention is a file control system performing DMA transfer and comprising a plurality of file control devices, each of which is provided between a host computer and an external storage device, a first file control device among the plurality of file control devices, checks the consistency between the data read from a memory and the first error detection code given in advance to the data, changes the error detection code added to the read data from the first error detection code to a second error detection code, when the inconsistency is detected by the check, changes at least a part of the data comprising the second error detection code and the data associated with the second error detection code, and executes DMA-transfer of the data which is changed or is not changed to a second file control device of the transfer destination.
Abstract:
A system and method of sanitizing a data frame from a node in a network loop includes receiving the data frame from the node, and, when the data frame includes invalid data, replacing a first word of the invalid data with a frame termination primitive and subsequent words of the invalid data with buffer data.