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20100302101 | ANTENNA ALIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of automatic alignment of two directional beams having a known path attenuation, and an antenna gain pattern, for mutual transmission, comprises: determining a beam width between two angles of minimal detectable connection on either side of a beam maximum; then mapping points onto a scan field in a regular pattern, the pattern based on the beam width, such that a beam with the determined beam width is detected once if the beam is in the scan field at all; scanning the first antenna over the mapped scan points; and for each point allowing the second antenna to scan over all of its own set of mapped scan points, thereby providing a coarse alignment of the two antennas to achieve at least a minimal mutual connection. The coarse alignment may be followed by a fine alignment to maximize the signal. | 12-02-2010 |
20110057741 | INTERFACING BETWEEN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND A WAVEGUIDE - A low-loss interface between a mm-wave integrated circuit and a waveguide comprises a surface having a contact location for said integrated circuit and a waveguide location for fixing a waveguide thereon; a transmission line extending along said surface from said contact location to the waveguide location and extending into the waveguide location as a waveguide feed; and a connection bump on a surface of the mm-wave integrated circuit. The mm-wave integrated circuit RFIC is connected to the surface at the contact location through the connection bump, such as to connect a signal output of the RFIC to the transmission line, thereby providing said low loss interface. | 03-10-2011 |
20110110410 | OFDM COMMUNICATION WITH MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RATE ADAPTATION - A method for performing rate adaptation of millimeter wave transmissions in a substantially line-of-sight OFDM outdoor system over a radio frequency (RF) channel includes the following. First a channel quality estimator indicative of a quality of an outdoor millimeter-wave RF channel is received. A sequence of parameter changes is defined to dynamically adjust transmission quality for the rate adaptation. The rate adaptation includes dynamic adaptation of bandwidth and at least one other parameter. The sequence is stored as a table of vectors, each vector comprising a combination of parameters where one of parameters is bandwidth. The parameter vectors in the table are dynamically worked through in response to the channel quality estimator. | 05-12-2011 |
20110138619 | Methods for Constructing Millimeter-Wave Laminate Structures and Chip Interfaces - A method for constructing millimeter-wave laminate structures using Printed Circuit Board (PCB) processes includes the following steps: Creating a first pressed laminate structure comprising at least two laminas and a cavity, the cavity is shaped as an aperture of a waveguide, and goes perpendicularly through all laminas of the laminate structure. Plating the cavity with electrically conductive plating, using a PCB plating process. Pressing the first pressed laminate structure together with at least two additional laminas comprising a probe printed on one of the at least two additional laminas, into a PCB comprising the first pressed laminate structure and the additional laminas, such that the cavity is sealed only from one end by the additional laminas and the probe, and the probe is positioned above the cavity. | 06-16-2011 |
20110140799 | Low-Loss Millimeter-Wave Interface Comprising a Bare-Die - A system for matching impedances of a bare-die Integrated Circuit and bonding wires. A bare-die Integrated Circuit is configured to output or input, at an impedance of Z3, a millimeter-wave signal from three electrically conductive contacts. Three electrically conductive pads, printed on one of the laminas of a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) are connected to the three electrically conductive contacts via three bonding wires respectively, the bonding wires have a characteristic impedance of Z1, wherein Z1>Z3. One of the electrically conductive pads extends to form a transmission line signal trace of length L, the transmission line signal trace having a first width resulting in characteristic impedance of Z2, wherein Z2>Z3. The transmission line signal trace widens to a second width, higher than the first width, after the length of L, decreasing the characteristic impedance of the transmission line signal trace to substantially Z3 after the length L and onwards. | 06-16-2011 |
20110140810 | Waveguide-backshort comprising a printed conducting layer - A system for directing electromagnetic millimeter-waves towards a waveguide using an electrically conductive formation within a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The system includes a waveguide having an aperture and at least two laminas belonging to a PCB. A first electrically conductive surface printed on one of the laminas is located over the aperture such that the first electrically conductive surface covers at least most of the aperture. A plurality of Vertical Interconnect Access (VIA) holes, optionally filled or plated with an electrically conductive material, are electrically connecting the first electrically conductive surface to the waveguide, forming an electrically conductive cage over the aperture. Optionally, a probe printed on one of the laminas of the PCB is located inside the cage and over the aperture. | 06-16-2011 |
20110140811 | Millimeter-Wave Chip Packaging and Interface - A system enabling interface between a millimeter-wave bare-die and a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). A cavity of depth X is formed in at least one lamina of a PCB. Three electrically conductive pads are printed on one of the laminas of the PCB, the pads optionally reach the edge of the cavity. A bare-die Integrated Circuit having a thickness of optionally X, or a heightened bare-die Integrated Circuit having a thickness of optionally X, output a millimeter-wave signal from three electrically conductive contacts arranged in a ground-signal-ground configuration on an upper side edge of the bare-die Integrated Circuit. The bare-die Integrated Circuit is placed inside the cavity, optionally such that the electrically conductive pads and the upper side edge containing the electrically conductive contacts are arranged side-by-side at substantially the same height. Three bonding wires or strips electrically connect each electrically conductive contact to one of the electrically conductive pads. | 06-16-2011 |
20110140979 | Waveguide comprising laminate structure - A system for injecting and guiding millimeter-waves through a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) including at least two laminas belonging to a PCB, an electrically conductive plating applied on the insulating walls of a cavity formed perpendicularly through the laminas, and optionally a probe located above the cavity printed on a lamina belonging to the PCB. Optionally, the cavity guides millimeter-waves injected by the probe at one side of the cavity to the other side of the cavity. | 06-16-2011 |
20120076217 | Using OFDM to correct distortions in Ultra-Wide-Band radios operating over flat millimeter-wave channels - A Point-to-Point communication system includes (i) a millimeter-wave channel having a substantially flat channel transfer function between a first frequency of millimeter-waves and a second frequency of millimeter-waves, the two frequencies are separated by at least 500 MHz, (ii) a transmission system configured to transmit an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal having a bandwidth of at least 100 MHz over the millimeter-wave channel as a millimeter-wave signal located between the first frequency and the second frequency, and (iii) a reception system comprising a radio receiver having a substantially non-flat reception transfer function over the bandwidth of the OFDM signal, configured to receive the millimeter-wave signal via the millimeter-wave channel and down-convert the millimeter-wave signal into a reconstruction of the OFDM signal having a bandwidth of at least 100 MHz, and an OFDM de-modulator configured to compensate for the substantially non-flat reception transfer function, by de-modulating the reconstruction of the OFDM signal. | 03-29-2012 |
20120257495 | Fail-safe communication systems and methods - Various embodiments of a fail-safe communication system in which certain communication components fail, the system detects the failure, and the system maintains communication by routing data sets to different communication components. In various embodiments, the communication components fail on the network side. In various embodiments, the communication components fail on the remote side. In various embodiments, there are methods for fail-safe communication in which a system detects communication component failure, and routes data sets to other communication components. | 10-11-2012 |
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20130310917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A FOLDED PERCUTANEOUS VALVE - The invention provides a multi-component (modular) percutaneous valve device that includes a valve module having valve leaflets and a valve frame. The valve frame includes one or more, for example two, ring members and a plurality of masts. Also provided is a valve frame having specially designed pivot points at the connection between masts and first and second ring members to assist folding the valve module and minimizing delivery diameter. The valve frame may also include wire guides to facilitate combining the valve module with a support module. The masts or a ring of the valve frame may also include locking members, such as shafts for closing the valve module and securing the valve module to the support module. The support module includes corresponding locking members, such as spears that align with the shafts on the valve module for assembly and locking the valve module to the support module. | 11-21-2013 |
20140277096 | TEMPORARY VALVE AND VALVE-FILTER - A temporary percutaneous valve-filter device having valve portions non-porous to blood and filter portions non-porous to emboli but at least in part porous to blood. In one embodiment, the device has a substantially flat valve unit and a substantially flat filter unit. In another embodiment, the device has at least one open umbrella deployed configuration. In one aspect, the device has a unitary construction with one umbrella canopy with one or more filter areas with flaps allowing unidirectional blood flow. In another aspect, the device has a valve unit and filter unit, the umbrella canopies oriented in opposite directions, and the valve unit “closes” and opens to allow blood to flow to one direction. Also provided is a temporary valve system, including a core having an inverted delivery configuration and everted deployed configuration, that may be used with or without a filter unit, and a method of deployment. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100042752 | REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF STORAGE CONTROLLERS - A method for data storage includes accepting a management command by a first storage controller, which exchanges data for storage with at least a second storage controller over a dedicated communication connection using a dedicated storage protocol. The management command is addressed to a destination storage controller and contains an instruction to modify or report a data storage configuration in the destination storage controller. Upon determining that the destination storage controller is different from the first storage controller, the management command is forwarded over the dedicated communication connection from the first storage controller to the second storage controller using the dedicated storage protocol. | 02-18-2010 |
20100042783 | DATA VAULTING IN EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN - A method for data storage includes accepting write commands belonging to a storage operation invoked by a host computer, and caching the write commands in a volatile memory that is powered by external electrical power. A current execution status of the storage operation is also cached in the volatile memory. | 02-18-2010 |
20100042791 | DATA STORAGE WITH SNAPSHOT-TO-SNAPSHOT RECOVERY - A method for data storage includes creating first and second copies of a logical volume, such that the first and second copies are represented by respective first and second sets of pointers to physical storage locations in which data used by the copies is stored. Responsively to a corruption of at least part of the data that is used by the first copy, the first copy is restored from the second copy by replacing the first set with the pointers in the second set. | 02-18-2010 |
20100042802 | MANAGEMENT OF RECYCLING BIN FOR THINLY-PROVISIONED LOGICAL VOLUMES - A method for data storage includes representing logical volumes by respective sets of pointers to physical partitions in which data used by the logical volumes is stored. One or more of the logical volumes are defined as provisionally deleted. A subset of the provisionally-deleted logical volumes is selected such that each logical volume in the subset has one or more private physical partitions whose data is used exclusively by that logical volume. One or more of the private physical partitions of the logical volumes in the subset are released for reallocation to another logical volume. | 02-18-2010 |
20110196841 | DATA STORAGE WITH SNAPSHOT-TO-SNAPSHOT RECOVERY - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer software products for data storage. A first copy of a logical volume is created. A second copy of the logical volume is created based on the first copy of the logical volume, such that the first and second copies are represented by respective first and second sets of pointers to physical storage locations in which data used by the copies is stored. Responsively to a corruption of at least part of the data that is used by the first copy. The first copy is restored from the second copy by replacing the first set with the pointers in the second set. | 08-11-2011 |
20110276758 | LOAD BALANCING OF DATA READS IN STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS - Exemplary method, system, and computer program product embodiments for, within a data storage system performing data mirroring, performing load balancing pursuant to completing a read request. At least one of a preferred storage controller and preferred storage device to accommodate the read request is determined by performing one of selecting a request queue having a closest offset to an offset of the read request, selecting a request queue having a most requests within a predetermined distance of the offset of the read request, selecting a request queue having a closest median offset to the offset of the read request, selecting a request queue having a closest average offset to the offset of the read request, and selecting a request queue having a predetermined additional number of entries than another request queue. The selected request queue is associated with the preferred storage controller and the preferred storage device. | 11-10-2011 |
20120017047 | DATA VAULTING IN EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN - A data storage apparatus includes a processor, a write cache in operable communication with the processor, an auxiliary storage device in operable communication with the write cache, and a temporary power source in electrical communication with each of the processor, write cache, and auxiliary storage device for supplying power in the event of a loss of primary, external power. The auxiliary storage device is dimensioned to have sufficient size for holding dirty pages cached in the write cache, and the temporary power source is configured with sufficient energy for, subsequent to the loss of the external power, powering the processor, the write cache, and the auxiliary storage device for an entire duration of a backup process. | 01-19-2012 |
20130124486 | DATA STORAGE WITH SNAPSHOT-TO-SNAPSHOT RECOVERY - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer software products for data storage. A corrupted node under a first meta-volume node in a hierarchical tree structure is deleted. The hierarchical tree structure further includes a source node under the first meta-volume node. The corrupted node and the source node each include a respective set of local pointers. The corrupted node and the source node represent respective copies of a logical volume. The source node is reconfigured to become a second meta-volume node having the same set of local pointers as the source node. A first new node is created under the second meta-volume node in the hierarchical tree structure to represent the corrupted node. A second new node is created under the second meta-volume node to represent the source node. The first and second new nodes are configured to have no local pointers. | 05-16-2013 |
20150019828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIRRORING DATA - Disclosed is a data processing and/or storage system. The data processing and/or storage system includes at least two interfaces, wherein each of the at least two interfaces includes a non-dedicated communication port for communicating data to and form external data systems or clients based on a rule base. | 01-15-2015 |
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20090037924 | PERFORMANCE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM - A method for operating a storage system, including storing data redundantly in the system and measuring respective queue lengths of input/output requests to operational elements of the system. The queue lengths are compared to an average queue length to determine respective performances of the operational elements of the storage system. In response to the average queue lengths and a permitted deviation from the average an under-performing operational element among the operational elements is identified. An indication of the under-performing operational element is provided to host interfaces in the storage system. One of the host interfaces receives requests for specified items of the data directed to the under-performing element, and in response to the indication, some of the requests are diverted from the under-performing operational element to one or more other operational elements of the storage system that are configured to provide the specified items of the data. | 02-05-2009 |
20110238871 | PERFORMANCE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM - A method for operating a storage system, including storing data redundantly in the system and measuring respective queue lengths of input/output requests to operational elements of the system. The queue lengths are compared to an average queue length to determine respective performances of the operational elements of the storage system. In response to the average queue lengths and a permitted deviation from the average an under-performing operational element among the operational elements is identified. An indication of the under-performing operational element is provided to host interfaces in the storage system. One of the host interfaces receives requests for specified items of the data directed to the under-performing element, and in response to the indication, some of the requests are diverted from the under-performing operational element to one or more other operational elements of the storage system that are configured to provide the specified items of the data. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238874 | PERFORMANCE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM - A method for operating a storage system, including storing data redundantly in the system and measuring respective queue lengths of input/output requests to operational elements of the system. The queue lengths are compared to an average queue length to determine respective performances of the operational elements of the storage system. In response to the average queue lengths and a permitted deviation from the average an under-performing operational element among the operational elements is identified. An indication of the under-performing operational element is provided to host interfaces in the storage system. One of the host interfaces receives requests for specified items of the data directed to the under-performing element, and in response to the indication, some of the requests are diverted from the under-performing operational element to one or more other operational elements of the storage system that are configured to provide the specified items of the data. | 09-29-2011 |