A computer-implemented method for safeguarding a system against false positives. The method includes: receiving a time series of a criticality, the system including a functionality that is triggered when the criticality meets a first predetermined criterion; computing a time series of a reference, the reference being a comparison criticality for a triggering of the functionality; computing a time series of an error measure at least based on the time series of the criticality and the time series of the reference, a triggering of the functionality being classified as a false positive when a portion of the time series of the error measure meets a second predetermined criterion; and identifying at least one near-false positive, a non-triggering of the functionality being classified as a near-false positive when a portion of the time series of the error measure meets a third predetermined criterion, but not the second predetermined criterion.

A method for ensuring data quality integrity on a magnetic tape includes the steps of writing object data to the magnetic tape; dividing the object data into a plurality of data chunks; generating a hash tree from the plurality of data chunks, the hash tree being formed in a plurality of levels, the hash tree including (i) a plurality of chunk hashes wherein a separate chunk hash is generated for each of the plurality of data chunks, and (ii) at least one second level hash that is generated from concatenation of at least two of the plurality of chunk hashes; and checking integrity of a first data chunk of the plurality of data chunks by evaluating at least one of the plurality of chunk hashes and the at least one second level hash.

A method performed by a controller of a solid state drive (SSD) comprising receiving from a host a write request to store write data in a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device of the SSD. The method also comprises identifying a first codeword and a second codeword stored in the nonvolatile storage device, the first codeword and the second codeword configured to store write data corresponding to the write request. Responsive to the write request, the method comprises writing a first portion of the write data to the first codeword and writing a second portion of the write data to the second codeword, and sending a message to the host once the write data has been written to the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device. The first and second codewords are adjacently stored, and the write data has a length that is greater than the length of the first and second codewords.

A data processing circuit and a fault-mitigating method are provided. In the method, multiple sub-sequences are divided from sequence data. A first sub-sequence of the sub-sequences is accessed from a memory for a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation to obtain a first computed result. The MAC operation is performed on a second sub-sequence of the sub-sequences in the memory to obtain a second computed result. The first and the second computed results are combined, where the combined result of the first and the second computed results is related to the result of the MAC operation on the sequence data directly. Accordingly, the error rate could be reduced, so as to mitigate fault.

A computer-implemented method for identifying errors in transaction messages associated with payment transactions. The method includes a step of receiving a transaction message associated with a financial transaction, whereby the financial transaction originates from a merchant and is processed by an acquirer. The transaction message comprises a plurality of data element fields, with at least one of the data element fields being a merchant identification field used to identify the merchant originating the financial transaction. An additional step includes performing an error-identification routine on the transaction message, with the error-identification routine including analyzing a merchant identification (ID) data element populated in the merchant identification field to determine if the merchant ID data element is not uniquely associated with the merchant. An additional step includes generating an error message indicating that the merchant ID data element is not uniquely associated with the merchant, and transmitting the error message to the acquirer.

A method and a device for automatically detecting potential failures in mobile applications implemented on an operating system for mobile devices, a mobile application being executable on the operating system installed on a hosting device by executing code instructions stored in an associated executable file. Provided an executable file associated to a mobile application, the device implements a module for decompiling the executable file to obtain at least one descriptive file of the mobile application containing descriptive code formatted with a markup language, a module for providing a plurality of predetermined string patterns related to potential failures, and a module for searching for the presence of at least one of the string patterns in the at least one descriptive file, and in case of presence, outputting an indication of presence of a potential failure associated to the detected string pattern.

A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory controller configures a first memory block which is a TLC memory blocks as a data buffer, and accordingly configures a plurality of second memory blocks which are SLC memory blocks. The memory controller uses the first memory block to receive data and accordingly store same data in the second memory blocks as backup data. When an amount of available memory space of the first memory block is smaller than or equal to a predetermined amount, the memory controller determines whether any error has occurred in the data stored in the first memory block. When there is any error occurred in the data stored in the first memory block, the memory controller configures a third memory block and move the backup data stored in the second memory block to the third memory block.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods, systems, and computer programs for verifying that data incorporated into a computer program is current. The methods, systems, and computer programs compare a source identifier status code associated with the data to a current source identifier status code at the location where the data was obtained. The methods, systems, and computer programs include at least one validation function which determines the validity of the data according to selected parameters. If the source identifier status code and current source identifier status code match and the at least one validation function determines the data is valid, an executable computer program incorporating the data and one or more functions is produced as output.

A first component receives from a second component a set of diagnostic parameters to include in a diagnostic heartbeat packet, and information identifying a data communication protocol to be used for transmitting the diagnostic heartbeat packet. The diagnostic heartbeat packet is a packet comprising a header, a set of heartbeat parameters, and the set of diagnostic parameters. The first component sets a first diagnostic parameter in the set of diagnostic parameters to a first value, the first value being selected to detect a first soft network error condition. A soft network error condition is a network error condition that adversely affects transmission of packets having certain properties in the data communication network. The first component configures the diagnostic heartbeat packet for transmission using the specified data communication protocol and including the set of diagnostic parameters, and sends the diagnostic heartbeat packet to the second component.

A method of detecting an error of a multi-time programmable (MTP) operation in which each gamma-offset and each header-bit at predetermined reference gray-levels are written in a MTP memory device while the MTP operation is performed on a pixel circuit, the each header-bit indicating whether or not the each gamma-offset is written in the MTP memory device, and it is detected whether or not the MTP operation is performed on the pixel circuit based on a logical operation between the header-bits at the predetermined reference gray-levels read from the MTP memory device when the MTP operation is finished on the pixel circuit.