Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 03/06

20060069812 - Method to mitigate performance turnaround in a bidirectional interconnect: A memory controller is disclosed. The memory controller includes a mechanism to perform a first command to transition an interface coupled between the memory controller and to facilitate a memory write and to perform a second command to immediately write data to the memory device a predetermined period after performing...

20060069814 - Mass storage device with near field communications: A memory device may comprise a nonvolatile computer readable medium, a near field communication wireless transmitter, a nonvolatile near field communication tag memory, a data input device and a controller. The nonvolatile computer readable medium is adapted to store data in a data block format. The near field communication wireless...

20060069813 - Self-configuring peripheral interface system, peripheral device therefor and interface method: A self-configuring peripheral interface system and method are provided wherein at least one peripheral device may be coupled to a master device across a physical interface. The at least one peripheral device includes relocatable device driver code embodied as read only memory code and an associated peripheral functional component. The...

20060069815 - Method and system for initiating a task and receiving task data via twain interface from network-attached peripheral: Methods and systems are described for acquiring data from a peripheral and transferring the data to a host via a network. A disclosed method includes creating and storing a job profile at a host and retrieving and executing the subject job at a selected peripheral. The parameters for executing the...

20060069816 - Recording media drive and control method for power-save modes thereof: Embodiments of the invention improve power management in a data storage device which executes serial data communication with a host. In one embodiment, a HDD executes a reset process from a sleep mode (clock inactive) as being triggered by a control signal that is not based on a clock from...

20060069817 - Data transferring device: A data transferring device comprises means for storing data to be transferred and means for, upon reception of data via one communication device such as a first communication device, connecting the communication device with the storing means, and for, after the completion of data reception, switching connections of the storing...

20060069818 - Synchronizing direct memory access and evacuation operations in a computer system: A computer-implemented method for performing an evacuation request pertaining to a set of memory pages. The method includes inhibiting new DMA operations on a range of memory, the range of memory overlaps with at least a first portion of the set of memory pages associated with the evacuation request. The...

20060069820 - Non-volatile memory storage device including an interface select switch and associated method: We describe and claim an improved non-volatile memory storage device including an interface select switch and associated method. The device comprises a non-volatile memory, and an interface unit including a plurality of storage interfaces, the interface unit to select a storage interface from the plurality of storage interfaces responsive to...

20060069819 - Universal serial bus device: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) device may comprise a controller including a USB interface and a USB connector in communication with the USB interface. The USB device may also comprise a decision component for receiving a credential, and in response to a valid credential, for providing access to an operation...

20060069821 - Capture of data in a computer network: The invention relates to packet tracing in computer networks. Data packets 26, 27, 28 are captured when entering or exiting the network 4 or at any point within the network protocol stack 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Buffers 22, 23, 24, 25 in computer kernel space memory 21 store the...

20060069822 - Optical communication module: An optical communication module includes a physical-layer unit having a first control unit for receiving a write destination address and NVR data from a host via a serial bus, and for carrying out serial/parallel conversion of the received write destination address and NVR data, and storing them in registers of...

20060069823 - Parallel-to-serial converter circuit, electric device, and semiconductor device: To provide a parallel-to-serial converter circuit and electric device capable of saving power consumed even though no parallel data to be transferred is supplied. A parallel-to-serial converter circuit according to the present invention includes a data converter circuit receiving RGB parallel data and dot clocks, and converting the RGB parallel...

20060069826 - Flash-interfaced fingerprint sensor: A Flash-interfaced Fingerprint Sensor is disclosed. The sensor device interfaces directly with a flash memory interface chip. The flash memory interface chip incorporates the system for interfacing with flash memory devices, a fingerprint sensor/detector system, and an encryption subsystem for encrypting data being passed to and from the flash memory...

20060069825 - Method and system of transferring firmware from a host device to a printing device: A method of transferring firmware from a host device to a printing device includes sending data blocks forming the firmware to the printing device in succession. Each data block is sent only upon confirmation of receipt of the previously sent data block. Upon receipt of a priority task destined for...

20060069824 - Method of detecting printer interface and printer incompatibility and printing device employing the method: A method of detecting printer interface and printer incompatibility comprises automatically sending a request for printer hardware and firmware information to the printer upon initialization of the printer interface in the printer. The printer hardware and firmware information received in response to the request is examined to determine if the...

20060069827 - Mobile device that uses removable medium for playback of content: A device having a media reader and an application configured to control playback of content from a medium when inserted in the media reader. The device interfaces with a remote network that transmits control commands including advertising. Playback of the advertising is required to enable playback of content from the...

20060069828 - Sharing a physical device among multiple clients: A physical device has core function circuitry that is to perform a core I/O function of a computer system. Multiple client interface circuits are provided, each of which presents itself as a complete device to a software client in the system, to access the core function circuitry. Multiplexing circuitry couples...

20060069829 - Analog video signal transmission over twisted-pair wires: A video transmitting system may be configured to transmit, over extended length twisted-pair cables, video signals encoded in the Y/C video space. The system may comprise a source of RGB computer video signals. A video transmitter may be operable to convert the RGB video signals into a balanced luminance signal...

20060069830 - Data processing system with bus access retraction: A bus master may selectively retract a currently pending access based on one or more characteristics of the currently pending access. In this manner, bus master may better control its access requests. The one or more characteristics may include, for example, type of access (e.g. read/write, instruction/data, burst/non-burst, etc.), sequence...

20060069831 - I2c bus controlling method: A module has an IC for communication control (a PHY unit) and an EEPROM (or MCU) connected to the PHY unit via an I2C bus. When a software reset is triggered while the PHY unit reads non-volatile register (NVR) data from the EEPROM (or MCU) via the I2C bus, the...

20060069832 - Information processing apparatus and method and program: An information processing apparatus including a plurality of slave processors connected to a system bus and a main processor controlling the plurality of slave processors includes holding means for holding profile information of processing modules executable by the slave processors, selection means for selecting processing modules to be executed by...

20060069833 - Batch processing of interrupts: A computer-implemented method for handling pending interrupt vectors of a pending interrupt list is disclosed. The method includes batch-reading the set of pending interrupt vectors into a working list of working interrupt vectors. The method also includes performing interrupt handling of the working interrupt vectors using an interrupt handling arrangement...

20060069834 - Method for supplying agp card on pci bus slot: The present invention provides a method for supplying an AGP card on a PCI bus slot and the method includes: transmitting a detecting signal to a motherboard; scanning status of a plurality of PCI bus slots on the motherboard; and out-connecting an AGP card for displaying....

20060069836 - Communication system and method for upgrade of user terminal software and user terminal upgraded by the same: Disclosed is a communication system for a software upgrade, including a user terminal (UT) for transmitting an IP address assignment request message containing software information of the UT an upgrade-providing server including upgrade data regarding every software of the UT; and a server for determining whether or not software upgrade...

20060069835 - System and method for the management of hardware triggered hotplug operations of input/output cards: A method is provided of managing hardware triggered hotplug operations of one or more input/output (I/O) cards of a computer system. The method comprises receiving hardware triggers, each of which relates to a hotplug operation to be carried out on an I/O card associated with a card slot, placing the...

20060069837 - Docking alignment sensor: A docking station for an electronic device senses the position of the electronic device and provides an electronically-generated feedback signal to a user indicating whether the device and the docking station are in proper alignment for docking. The sensing may optionally be accomplished by electrical contacts or may optionally be...

20060069839 - Data processing system with bus access retraction: A bus master may selectively retract a currently pending access based on one or more characteristics of the currently pending access. In this manner, bus master may better control its access requests. The one or more characteristics may include, for example, type of access (e.g. read/write, instruction/data, burst/non-burst, etc.), sequence...

20060069838 - Method and apparatus for connecting an additional processor to a bus with symmetric arbitration: A method and apparatus for adding an additional agent to a set of symmetric agents in a bus-based system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the number of symmetric agents in the system is fixed. An additional agent may monitor the symmetric arbitration of the symmetric agents, and at a given...

20060069841 - Method and system for data transmission and control based on usb: The present invention concerns a method and a system for data transmission and control based on Universal Serial Bus (USB). The system comprises a USB Master device and a USB Slave device. The USB Master device comprises a USB Master processor and a Data Storage connected to the USB Master...

20060069840 - Universal serial bus device: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive comprising a controller including a USB interface and a nonvolatile computer readable medium interface. The USB flash drive may also comprise a nonvolatile computer readable medium in communication with the nonvolatile computer readable medium interface and storing data and a USB connector in...

20060069842 - Communication mechanism: The invention provides an interconnection architecture for semiconductor devices. Cross bar switches are traditionally placed in the center of the IC. However, this location may also be the preferred location for the centralized logic in the IC. This invention, known as a cross bar ring or CBR, provides cross bar...

20060059274 - Consumer electronic entertainment center housing including a connections spine with a plurality of outlets, connector paths and converters for organizing and distributing interconnections between consumer electronic components supported in the housing: An electronic entertainment center housing that organizes the mass of wiring, adapters and convertors into a user friendly arrangement that permits the insertion and removal of the electronic components supported therein, as well as the tracking of errors in the entertainment center. The housing is adapted to removably support a...

20060059275 - Method and apparatus for selecting devices on a data bus: A method and apparatus enables a user to assign a given key on an input device to any specific device on a data bus network connected to the apparatus, and thereby enables the user to quickly select the specific device for control using the given key. According to an exemplary...

20060059277 - Detecting and measuring exposure to media content items: User exposure to media items is detected and measured. A mobile client device carried by a user digitally samples the audio environment of the user on a regular basis. These samples are transformed into a stream of data signatures and compared with reference media items to detect user exposure to...

20060059276 - Integrated circuit: An integrated circuit having a system base chip (1) that has basic functions for a transmitting and/or receiving system for a vehicle data bus, namely at least a system voltage supply (3), a system reset (3) and a monitoring function (2), an interface circuit (4, 5) that, in a self-contained...

20060059278 - Information communication controller interface apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for communicating information within a network having one or more communication buses (5, 6, 7, 8), consisting of one or more elements (20, 30, 40) to maximise throughput and minimise CPU involvement by executing the following. Compare incoming message identifiers (14) against a set of predetermined...

20060059279 - Storage device and method for controlling storage device packet size: The present invention variably controls the packet size that is used within a storage device in accordance with the communication environment outside the storage device. The storage device comprises a CHA that controls data transfers with a host and a DKA that controls data transfers with a disk drive. The...

20060059280 - Digital programming interface between a baseband processor and an integrated radio-frequency module: A circuit receives a clock signal, a data word which is emitted from a control device and has information about a read or write access to the circuit, and an enable signal which is at a predetermined value during the transmission of the data word. A determination unit uses the...

20060059281 - Image forming apparatus and data-leakage prevention program: A writing unit writes received image data into a buffer. A copying unit copies the image data from the buffer to a storing unit. A control unit controls the copying unit so as to stop copying of the image data from the buffer to the storing unit, and erases the...

20060059282 - Snapshot interface operations: In a multinode data processing system in which the nodes communicate with one another via communication adapters over a network or switch, the adapters are provided with a dual register mechanism for tracking microcode task status. Upon the issuance of a disruptive command that requires attention from one of the...

20060059283 - Method for operating a field device for automation technology: In a method for operating an automation technology field device connected via a bus system with a superordinated unit and having an identifier identifying the type of the field device, at least one alternative identifier AKF1, which identifies a similar type of field device, is stored, in addition to an...

20060059284 - Data processing device: A data processing device which, even if congestion occurs on a bus circuit of a specific processing circuit in an LSI in which multiple circuit modules are connected by buses, can fully actualize the performance potential of the system on chip. Buses and slave circuits on which accesses concentrate are...

20060059285 - System and method for deadlock free bus protection of resources during search execution: A method and system of deadlock free bus protection of memory and I/O resources during secure execution. A bus cycle initiates entry of a bus agent into a secure execution mode. The chipset records an identifier of the secure mode processor. Thereafter, the chipset intercedes if another bus agent attempts...

20060059286 - Multi-core debugger: In a multi-core processor, a high-speed interrupt-signal interconnect allows more than one of the processors to be interrupted at substantially the same time. For example, a global signal interconnect is coupled to each of the multiple processors, each processor being configured to selectively provide an interrupt signal, or pulse thereon....

20060059287 - Methods and apparatus for enabling bus connectivity over a data network: A method and system for interconnecting peripherals, processor nodes, and hardware devices to a data network to produce a network bus providing OS functionality for managing hardware devices connected to the network bus involves defining a network bus driver at each of the processor nodes that couples hardware device drivers...

20060059288 - Reduced speed i/o from rear transition module: A VXS multi-service platform system (200) includes a VXS computer chassis (103), a monolithic backplane (102) in the VXS computer chassis, a VMEbus network (108) on the monolithic backplane, and a switched fabric (110) operating coincident with the VMEbus network on the monolithic backplane. A front module (105) is coupled...

20060059289 - Bus connection system: A bus station in the form of a hardware dongle, operates in conjunction with a USB Device running suitable software. When the bus station determines that a bus host is connected to a first bus communication port thereof, it acts as a transceiver to allow conventional bus communications between said...

20060059290 - Telecommunication apparatus: A transition module using an input/output (I/O) bus interface can be connected to a backplane having a bus connector. The transition module is provided with an external connector for receiving an input signal, an interface circuit coupled to the external connector and a processing unit for carrying out initial filtering...

20060059291 - Telecommunication apparatus: An electronic device includes multiple communication interfaces and a processor coupled to the interfaces. The processor is operable to identify an interface that can transfer data with a performance of a parameter that is closer to a desired performance level than the performance of the same parameter by another interface,...

20060059292 - Method and an apparatus to efficiently handle read completions that satisfy a read request: A method and an apparatus to efficiently handle read completions that satisfy a read request are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a first port to receive data that partially satisfies a read request, a second port, wherein the data is forwarded via the second port if the second port is idle,...

20060059294 - Expandable bus topology for peripheral devices of straddle vehicles: A straddle vehicle includes an expandable bus topology to operate one or more peripheral devices from a single location on the straddle vehicle, the peripheral devices being physically distributed about the straddle vehicle. The topology includes a bus trunk and a main hub controller. The main hub controller attaches directly...

20060059293 - Universal serial bus switching hub: In various embodiments, a USB switching hub may switch between a first configuration and a second configuration to switch access between two or more upstream ports on the hub to at least a subset of downstream ports on the hub. In some embodiments, the hub may include a downstream routing...

20060053234 - Device service provider interface: The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates interacting with a device component to provide uniform communication, discovery, and management. A device service provider interface (DSPI) component can provide a uniform manner to communicate and/or manage a radio frequency identification (RFID) device. The DSPI component can include...

20060053235 - Memory writing device for an electronic device: To provide a memory-writing device which can simply and reliably write desired data to a nonvolatile memory of an electronic device, connection is made with an ECU to perform write processing to write write data from the memory-writing device to a flash ROM by copying a write-control program from the...

20060053236 - Method and system for optimizing dma channel selection: A host bus adapter coupled to a network and a host computing system is provided. The host bus adapter includes a direct memory access (“DMA”)mode detection module that receives a DMA channel identifier information from an arbitration module that receives requests from plural DMA channels, wherein the DMA mode detection...

20060053237 - Low latency data packet reception and processing: Devices in a process control system communicate by data messages over a communication medium segment. Each device includes a communication controller that includes a data queue and a queue of received message objects. The data queue stores a plurality of messages received on the communication medium. The received message objects...

20060053238 - Data exchangeable usb device and method therewith: The embodiment of the present invention provides an USB device that can be directly connected to another USB device to allow data exchange to take place without involving a use of a computer. Further, the embodiment of the invention also exploits a MP3 codec to allow voice data to be...

20060053239 - Network walkman: The present invention relates to a walkman, particularly to a network walkman which can perform collinear transmission of USB connecting line and audio earphone line. It is mainly characterized in that a switch integrated circuit is added to the conventional circuit to perform the automatic switch-over between the USB interface...

20060053240 - Packet processing in switched fabric networks: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for receiving a request for access to a memory space of an Advanced Switching device, the memory space including a first memory segment and a second memory segment, determining access permissions for the requested memory space, and processing the access request...

20060053241 - Removable electronic device and method thereof: A removable electronic device includes a detector for detecting a mode of operation to distinguish among a multimedia card (MMC) compatible mode, a universal serial bus (USB) compatible mode, and a Mu mode, a wrapper for converting data for transfer between the USB compatible mode and the Mu mode, a...

20060053242 - Integrated circuit with shared hotsocket architecture: Integrated circuits such as programmable logic devices are provided with hotsocket detection circuitry. The hotsocket detection circuitry monitors signals on data pins and power supply voltages. If the data pins become active before the power supply voltages have reached appropriate levels, a hotsocket condition is identified. When a hotsocket condition...

20060053243 - Side-by-side inverted memory address and command buses: Generating a pair of buses, each coupled to a common terminating device, each having a set of address signal lines that are coupled to a separate memory device, and driving one set of address signal lines with an address driven with true logic states while driving the other set of...

20060053244 - Generic universal serial bus device operable at low and full speed and adapted for use in a smart card device: A USB device, integrated circuit, smart card and method are disclosed. A USB transceiver is connected to a data interface and operable at a respective low speed and full speed configuration. A processor as a USB device controller is operatively connected to the low speed USB transceiver and full speed...

20060047858 - Rom scan memory expander: A method and system for booting up multiple PCI peripheral devices, such that the number of bootable PCI peripheral devices is not limited by the amount of computer system memory that is dedicated to storing executable boot code for the peripheral devices. The executable boot code is stored on a...

20060047859 - Privileged used control of device installation and/or availability: A system and method for entity management is provided. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a system administrator is given control over device(s) that can be installed on a computer system(s), and/or how the installation can be performed. Thus, a system administrator can specify device installation policy...

20060047860 - Flash memory device with a plurality of protocols and a method for controlling the flash memory device: A flash memory device with a plurality of protocols comprises a body, a memory device, a terminal group, and a control unit. The control unit is connected to the memory device and the terminal group for driving and controlling data access in the memory device. The control unit is at...

20060047861 - Method for soft configuring communication protocols: A method for soft configuring communication protocols is applied to a memory device which is capable of communication by using multiple protocols. The memory device comprises a control unit for detecting the type of protocol supported by an external device connected therewith. The method performs a detecting sequence based on...

20060047862 - Automatic hardware data link initialization: Methods and apparatuses that may be utilized to automatically train and activate communications links between two or more devices are provided. In some embodiments, one or more state machines may be used to monitor and control the behavior of receive and transmit logic during the automatic training and activation, thus,...

20060047863 - Storage apparatus and data transfer method thereof: A storage apparatus automates a mapping work etc. and can automatically perform online data transfer from a storage unit of a data transfer source between a plurality of storage units. It includes a data transfer means for acquiring the construction information of the second storage in a first storage apparatus...

20060047866 - Computer system having direct memory access controller: A computer system which includes a DMAC that can control a transfer rate when data is transferred within a memory. The computer system is provided with a variable pulse generation unit, connected to a system bus, for generating a pulse signal having a period and a pulse width that are...

20060047865 - Skip mask table automated context generation: Skip logic is provided in a storage controller that informs a direct memory access (DMA) context list manager of consecutive ones and zeroes in a skip mask table. The DMA context list manager then manages data counters and location pointers based on the number of consecutive ones and the number...

20060047864 - System and method for dma controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionality: A system and method for a DMA controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionality is presented. A processor includes an intelligent DMA controller, which loads a line description that corresponds to a shape or line. The intelligent DMA controller moves through a memory map and retrieves data based upon the line description...

20060047867 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing queue pairs for i/o adapters: A low-latency queue pair (QP) is provided for I/O Adapters that eliminates the overhead associated with work queue elements (WQEs) and defines the mechanisms necessary to allow the placement of the message directly on the queue pair....

20060047868 - Method and system for efficiently using buffer space: A method and system for transferring iSCSI protocol data units (“PDUs”) to a host system is provided. The system includes a host bus adapter with a TCP/IP offload engine. The HBA includes, a direct memory access engine operationally coupled to a pool of small buffers and a pool of large...

20060047869 - Multi-function pc card: A multi-function PC card includes: a first PC card interface that is capable to be coupled to a host device; a functional block that provides a first function to the host device; a second PC card interface that is capable to be coupled to an additional PC card; and an...

20060047870 - Modular control system and method for water heaters: A water heater has a modular control system. The water heater comprises a tank, a heating element, a first controller, and a second controller. The heating element is coupled to the tank. The first controller is mounted on the tank and has a first communication port. The second controller has...

20060047871 - Data communications apparatus: An apparatus achieves data communications between a data storage controller and data storage devices within a data storage system via an optical network. The apparatus includes a wavelength division multiplexing logic for simultaneously establishing, on the optical network, a number of arbitrated communications loops between the controller and the data...

20060047872 - Storage system has the function of preventing drive write error: A storage technology for improving reliability in writing host data to a storage device is provided. A first check code based on write data is stored in cache memory 370, and storage section 50 is instructed to write, in specified predetermined storage area, write data with the first check code...

20060047873 - Scalable, two-stage round robin arbiter with re-circulation and bounded latency: A scalable, two-stage round-robin arbiter with re-circulation and bounded latency for use in multi-threaded, multi-processing devices. An apparatus implementing the two-stage arbiter includes a plurality of masters configured in a plurality of clusters, a plurality of targets, and an chassis interconnect that may be controlled to selectively connects a given...

20060047874 - Resource management apparatus: To manage accesses from a plurality of masters to a shared resource, a plurality of command registers of each holding an access command received from any of the masters and a plurality of address registers of each holding a register number identifying a command register holding a valid access command,...

20060047877 - Message based interrupt table: An interrupt processing technique is provided where an interrupt message is sent to an interrupt controller of a processor in response to an interrupt request from an individual device. The interrupt message comprises a memory address and interrupt status information. The memory address is specifically allocated to the device that...

20060047875 - System and method for message delivery across a plurality of processors: A system and method is provided to deliver messages to processors operating in a multi-processing environment. In a multi-processor environment, interrupts are managed by storing events in a queue that correspond to a particular support processor. A main processor decodes an interrupt and determines which support processor generated the interrupt....

20060047876 - System and method for processing system management interrupts in a multiple processor system: A system and method for processing system management interrupts in multiple processor systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for processing a system management interrupt (SMI) in an information handling system including, for each processor, identifying whether the processor is an interrupt handling processor assigned to perform processing tasks...

20060047878 - Gpe register block: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with general purpose event register blocks are described. One example system embodiment can include a general purpose event (GPE) register logic that can be configurable to provide multiple system control interrupt (SCI) output signals and be configurable to map selected event signals to...

20060047879 - Use of card presence to determine maximum bus speed: A mechanism for determining the maximum speed at which a PCI bus should be set. The mechanism uses a card presence pin provided for in the PCI specification to detect the number of devices residing on the PCI bus. The mechanism then sets the PCI bus speed to the highest...

20060047880 - Memory device with hub capability: A memory device is described that integrates the functionality of a single port hub into a conventional memory device. The memory device includes a host connector that allows a host computer access to a memory within the memory device. The memory device also includes a device socket that allows the...

20060047881 - Method and system for extending the functionality of an embedded usb transceiver interface to handle threshold shift of a usb 2.0 bus during high-speed chirp: Methods and systems for extending the functionality of an embedded Universal Serial Bus (USB) transceiver interface to handle threshold shift of a USB 2.0 bus during high-speed chirp are presented. A method for a transceiver of a host coupled by a USB 2.0 bus to a device includes receiving a...

20060047882 - Bus bridge: A bus bridge is connected to a primary bus and a secondary bus, and relays data between a master and a target which are each connected to a different one of the primary and secondary buses. The bus bridge includes a primary bus interface, a secondary bus interface, a data...