Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 10/06

20060242329 - Power-efficient encoder architecture for data stream on bus and encoding method thereof: The present invention discloses a power-efficient encoder architecture for address stream on bus and a power-efficient encoding method for address stream on bus. In the design of the encoder architecture, a encoder is installed on the path along which the address stream flows from the central processing unit to a...

20060242331 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a holding unit configured to hold a setting of the information processing apparatus; a resetting unit configured to reset the setting; a detecting unit configured to detect whether the resetting unit has been operated for a predetermined period of time; and a...

20060242330 - Proxy-based device sharing: A method is provided for supporting device sharing between hosts via a bus fabric. A master host owns a device tree and provides IO services to at least one client host. The client host comprises generic device drivers and subscribes to IO services provided by the master host....

20060242332 - Distributed i/o bridging functionality: An infrastructure element can receive a first DMA request including a first address and the data, generate a meta request that comprises a resource key value and a doorbell address, and transmit the meta request via the infrastructure using the doorbell address. A remote DMA adapter can receive the meta...

20060242333 - Scalable routing and addressing: PCI Express transactions can be transmitted via a shared PCI Express infrastructure. At an infrastructure ingress point an additional header comprising at least a source identifier and a target identifier is generated for a transaction packet that comprises a header portion, a data portion and an end-to-end CRC portion. The...

20060242334 - Information processor and information processing method: An information processor includes: generating section generating a descriptor, the descriptor including positional information, which indicates a packet-by-packet recording position of the data in the memory, and delay time relating to packet-by-packet processing; an extracting section acquiring the descriptor generated by the generating section and extracting the positional information and...

20060242336 - Alignment of instructions and replies across multiple devices in a cascaded system, using buffers of programmable depths: Buffers of programmable depths are used in the instruction and reply paths of cascaded devices to account for possible differences in latencies between the devices. The buffers may be enabled or bypassed such that the alignment of instruction and result may be performed at the boundaries between separate groups of...

20060242337 - Alignment of instructions and replies across multiple devices in a cascaded system, using buffers of programmable depths: Buffers of programmable depths are used in the instruction and reply paths of cascaded devices to account for possible differences in latencies between the devices. The buffers may be enabled or bypassed such that the alignment of instruction and result may be performed at the boundaries between separate groups of...

20060242335 - Race free data transfer algorithm using hardware based polling: A method and apparatus for a race free data transfer algorithm using hardware based polling. One disclosed method transfers information between a target device and a buffer which is one of a set of buffers. The buffer is pointed to by a current buffer value stored in a controller. The...

20060242338 - Item queue management: Network devices, systems, and methods are provided involving item routing management. One embodiment includes a computing device item routing management having a number of queues and a logic component. The number of queues can hold a number of items to be routed, via a routing path within the computing device,...

20060242340 - Image sensing device: This invention has as its object to transfer sensed still image data without interrupting transfer of moving image data whose image sensing is in progress. There is provided an image sensing device having an image sensing controller for sensing a moving image and a still image, a digital interface for...

20060242339 - Reconfigurable computing array without chassis: A computing device having a unique form factor and adapted for connecting to an external device is described. The computing device includes external connector(s), computing node(s), a power unit, and a flexible enclosure structure encasing them. The enclosure structure is made of flexible materials so that the computing device forms...

20060242341 - Control system with two hosts: A control system with computer based host includes a first device, a computer based host is electrically connected to the first device. And a second device is electrically connected to the computer based host, wherein the first device has a control right to utilize said second device....

20060242342 - Software programmable dynamically reconfigurable scheme for controlling request grant and masking for ultra high priority accessor during arbitration: A method for arbitration grants access to an ultra high priority device if the ultra high priority device requests access. This access is limited to a selectable number of accesses. Thereafter the ultra high priority device is masked from requesting access for a selectable interval of time during which access...

20060242343 - Core logic device of computer system: A core logic device is provided to a computer system having a central processing unit (CPU) and a peripheral device. The core logic device includes a programmable interrupt controller (PIC), an input/output advanced programmable interrupt controller (I/O APIC) and a virtual wire unit. The PIC outputs a control signal to...

20060242345 - Adapter providing an interconnection between an add-in card and a connector slot of a computer system: The invention relates to an adapter for adapting an add-in card to a connector slot of a computer system, comprising a first rigid board having electrical contacts and being adapted to be inserted in the connector slot, a second rigid board with a first connector part of a connector mounted...

20060242344 - Electronic device to which memory module can be added: An electronic device includes a board on which a memory module can be added. An expansion memory and a battery, which supplies power to the expansion memory, are arranged on the memory module....

20060242346 - Method and aparatus for plug-and-play webserver: A system, method and computer program for an apparatus is described. An apparatus is a very convenient, plug-and-play, ultra small, smart device that lets the end-users to host their websites at computer peripheral port. When said device is plugged in one of the computer peripheral ports: Universal Serial Bus (USB),...

20060242347 - System and method for verifying validity of assembled pci devices of a computer: A system for verifying the validity of assembled PCI devices of a computer includes: a device database (2) for storing data of PCI devices being inserted in PCI slots of a computer; a slot database (3) for storing PCI slot data of the computer; a data checking module (1) for...

20060242348 - Circuit and method of detecting and resolving stuck i2c buses: A integrated circuit (IC) implementation of a protection circuit detects and resolves a fault on a bus, such as a stuck-low condition on an I2C bus. The circuit includes logic that detects a fault condition caused by the slave device, e.g. when one or both lines are low for a...

20060242350 - Opto-couplers for communication bus interfaces using low efficiency silicon based leds: This invention describes a means by which a communication data bus can be electrically isolated from noise generating electrical devices such as electromagnetic actuators, which are controlled by data from the bus, using a single integrated circuit package. Specifically, an all silicon optically isolated interface within the package is used...

20060242349 - Rendering highlighting strokes: A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node....

20060242351 - Method and apparatus for loading instructions into high memory: There is provided a system and method for loading instructions into high memory. Specifically, there is provided a method of operating a computer comprising entering a protected mode before the computer boots a software operating system, and loading instructions stored on an expansion card into a high memory space of...

20060242352 - Device sharing: An interconnect apparatus, for example a switch, supports PCI-Express. The apparatus has a first plurality of ports configurable as upstream ports, each connectable to a respective host, and at least one port configurable as a downstream port connectable to a device. The apparatus is operable to support sharing of the...

20060242354 - Flexible routing and addressing: At an ingress point to a shared transaction infrastructure, for example a shared PCI Express infrastructure, an entry in a segment table maps an address in a transaction packet to a target for the transaction packet. The entry in the segment table identifies one of a plurality of channel descriptors...

20060242353 - Virtualized pci switch: A PCI-Express interconnect device is provided. The device comprises: first and second upstream ports; first and second downstream ports; and a management entity. The management entity is operable to logically partition the device such that the first upstream port is operable to communicate with the first downstream port and the...

20060235999 - Doorbell mechanism: Provided are techniques for writing doorbell information. In accordance with certain techniques, one or more protection domains are created. One or more data structures are created, wherein each of the data structures is associated with at least one protection domain. One of the data structures is updated. A doorbell structure...

20060236001 - Direct memory access controller: a transfer control unit issues commands that the transfer data is divided into portions each having a prescribed transfer unit size. The portions of transfer data are sent separately to the device associated with the transfer destination address in such a manner that the final portion of the data to...

20060236000 - Method and system of split-streaming direct memory access: A method and system of split-streaming direct memory access (DMA) data transfer can transfer N words of data from a source device to two different sets of memory locations using only N data read cycles and 2N data write cycles. In a single data word transfer mode, a data read...

20060236002 - Optimizing an interrupt-latency or a polling rate for a hardware platform and network profile combination: Provided are techniques for determining a timer value. An advised number of packets per interrupt for both receive and transmit directions of traffic is determined. Current timer values for both receive and transmit directions of traffic are adjusted based on the determined advised numbers of packets per interrupt. A new...

20060236003 - Systems and methods for controlling rise and fall times of usb signals: Systems and methods for controlling the rise and fall times of USB signals for USB devices and peripherals are provided. The rise and fall times of USB peripherals can be controlled, or changed, in order to match the electrical characteristics of the USB peripheral to a USB host. By sweeping...

20060236004 - Computer system capable of rapidly transmitting data between different storage devices: A computer system includes a first storage device, a second storage device, a programmable device for converting formats of data stored in the first storage device and the second storage device, a first bus for transmitting data between the first storage device and the programmable device, a second data bus...

20060236005 - Information input/output device of mobile apparatus: An information input/output device of a mobile apparatus includes a first input device, a second input device, a recording device, a first output device, a second output device and a control device. The first input device is used for receiving information in a first multimedia type from a user. The...

20060236006 - Data migration method for disk apparatus: Data migration can be executed between new and old disk apparatuses without changing the disk definition of a host computer. A switch having the function of online data migration is provided between the host computer and the old disk apparatus, data are copied to the new disk apparatus while the...

20060236007 - Apparatus to improve bandwidth for circuits having multiple memory controllers: An apparatus for improving bandwidth for circuits having a plurality of memory controllers employing a first memory controller, a second memory controller, a first busy read output signal circuit, a first busy write output signal circuit, a second busy read output signal circuit, and a second busy write output signal...

20060236009 - Data transmitter: A data transmitter includes a bus master circuit. The bus master circuit obtains the right to use a CPU bus and directly performs data transmission to and from a working memory connected to the CPU bus through a CPU interface section and the CPU bus....

20060236008 - System and method for removing retired entries from a command buffer using tag information: Systems and methods for facilitating the location of entries in a buffer where a slave device stores information related to an active transaction so that the entries can be removed if the corresponding transactions are canceled. In one embodiment, multiple master devices and multiple slave devices are coupled to a...

20060236010 - High-speed starvation-free arbiter system, rotating-priority arbiter, and two-stage arbitration method: A two-stage arbiter system comprises a first-stage arbiter to grant a request to one of a plurality of requesters in accordance with a first arbitration scheme and a second-stage arbiter to grant one of the remaining requests in accordance with a second arbitration scheme. The first arbitration scheme may be...

20060236011 - Ring management: The disclosure describes techniques used by one or more producers and consumers of one or more rings....

20060236012 - Memory controller, image processing controller, and electronic instrument: A memory controller for allowing first to Nth (N is an integer of two or more) functional modules to access a memory includes first to Mth (1<M≦N, M is an integer) data transfer control sections each of which issues a data transfer request for the memory corresponding to an access...

20060236013 - Programmable controller device: A programmable controller device has a main body with a CPU unit and I/O units connected by a bus line and a power unit for supplying power to the main body. The CPU unit has a memory with a user access area which is accessible by instruction of user program....

20060236015 - Information processing apparatus and operation control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body to which an external device is connectable, a detection unit configured to detect that a switch arranged on the external device is operated, and a control unit configured to execute a device removing process for setting a system...

20060236014 - Method and system of coupling a personal digital assistant to a portable computer: A method and system of coupling a personal digital assistant to a portable computer. Some of the illustrative embodiments may be a system comprising a portable computer comprising a docking receptacle on an outer portion of the portable computer, and a personal digital assistant (PDA) (comprising a display device). The...

20060236016 - Method, system, and apparatus to support device configuration: A technique is discussed for representing cores and threads of a multi-core processor as a virtual device with a bridge device with the functionality of a PCI bridge device with an ability to direct configuration accesses to a memory image of the virtual device. The bridge device may be incorporated...

20060236017 - Synchronizing primary and secondary fabric managers in a switch fabric: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to interconnecting components within computing and network devices. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: sending a message from a primary fabric manager to an initiating secondary fabric manager in a switch fabric; obtaining, at the secondary fabric manager and in...

20060236018 - Programmable logic device including programmable interface core and central processing unit: A programmable logic device (PLD) includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a programmable interface coupled to the CPU, wherein the programmable interface includes a core designated by a user. The programmable interface core allows devices, both on and off-chip, to communicate with the CPU. In one embodiment, the programmable...

20060230188 - Programmable controller system: A programmable controller system comprises networks including a plurality of programmable controllers and a development support device. One of the programmable controllers is set as a relay programmable controller. The development support device is used by online-connecting to the relay programmable controller via a communication line and by switching connecting...

20060230189 - Computer system for load balance, and method and program for setting path: Provided is a computer system which includes computers and a storage system coupled to the computers. The storage system includes a first load measuring module that measures a first access load for each channel adaptor. At least one of the computers includes a path management module that manages paths through...

20060230190 - Method and apparatus for executing application in system having nand flash memory: Disclosed is an apparatus for executing an application, which includes a Read Only Memory (ROM) including a data storage area, the ROM storing an application code in a memory area for storing non-executable data, a Random Access Memory (RAM) including a heap memory area required when an application is executed,...

20060230192 - Display of a user interface: Placement of an object on a surface is detected. A user interface corresponding to the object is displayed....

20060230191 - Method for enabling or disabling a peripheral device that is maintained electrically connected to a computer system: A method for enabling or disabling a peripheral device, that uses a basic input output system to control a system chip, modifies the status of a register of a peripheral controller in the south bridge chip of a computer. The method enables or disables the peripheral device through the control...

20060230193 - System and process for acquiring a software code, corresponding host computer and software transmission process and associated products: The present invention concerns a system and a process for acquiring a software code (SW) in a device from a host computer, a host computer and a software transmission process. The system comprises receiving means of at least one code portion of the software code, at least two competing available...

20060230194 - Memory control apparatus and method for digital signal processing: A memory control apparatus and method for operating a plurality of digital signal processors (DSPs) using a single memory slot and buffer are provided. Exemplary embodiments provide at least one DSP for processing different signals, a flash memory that can record and reproduce a digital signal, a plurality of selection...

20060230195 - Priority aware queue: Devices, systems, and methods are provided involving queue management. One embodiment includes a computing device having a priority aware queue. In this embodiment, the device includes a queue having a number of counters associated therewith to monitor a number of items each having a classification level associated therewith. The device...

20060230196 - Monitoring system and method using system management interrupt: A monitoring system and method utilizing System Management Interrupt is proposed. The monitoring system is applicable to electronic facilities for monitoring and recording operational status of the electronic facilities. According to the operational status, the electronic facility generates System Management Interrupt (SMI) related data, and execute a specific program (a...

20060230197 - Data storage system with shared cache address space: An apparatus for a node of a peer-to-peer network having a plurality of nodes comprises one or more I/O adapters; a cache component; one or more inter-node routing components; a memory mapping component for presenting to the I/O adapters a single address space mapped across a plurality of memory elements...

20060230203 - A portable data storage device having a secure mode of operation: A portable data storage device (10) includes a universal serial bus (USB) coupling device (1) and an interface device (2) is coupled to the USB coupling device (1). The portable data storage device (10) also includes a memory control device (3) and a non-volatile solid-state memory device (4). The memory...

20060230201 - Communication in a distributed system: Controllers communicate commands in terms of goals and constraints. A goal is an objective. A constraint is information regarding how the goal is to be achieved. For example, a constraint may specify when, or how much of, a resource may be used to achieve a goal. Additionally, or alternatively, a...

20060230198 - Data processing circuit, data processing method and image forming apparatus: The present invention, when a fraction for a bus width of a storage area is changed, stores a RAM address storing data immediately before or a RAM address for inputting the changed information in an exclusive register, thereby saves the storage area of data. When calculating stored data together, there...

20060230200 - Method and system for using constraints to simplify a memory controller: A method and system for using constraints to simplify a memory controller are presented. A memory controller design tool retrieves parameter ranges supported by a memory controller, and identifies troublesome parameter value combinations. The memory controller design tool suggests to 1) add logic to the memory controller to resolve the...

20060230202 - Portable integrated circuit memory device for use with universal serial bus: A portable memory device for use with a USB-supporting computer includes a USB connector, an integrated circuit memory for writing and reading data, and a USB interface, connected between the USB connector and the memory, for interfacing with the computer, and a housing for accommodating the memory and the USB...

20060230204 - Reconfigurable flash media reader system: A reconfigurable flash media reader system provides a flash media reader that accepts both asynchronous and synchronous flash media cards. The reader identifies the card type of the inserted flash media card and notifies the host computer of the card type. The host computer has a list of interface information...

20060230199 - Usb hub structure: A USB hub structure comprises a main body, a plurality of downlink ports disposed directly on the main body, a uplink port connected to the main body with a cable and a downlink port extended outside of the main body and connected to the main body with another cable. Whereby,...

20060230205 - Back-off timing mechanism: Systems and methods for implementing back-off timing for retries of commands sent from a master device to a slave device over a split-transaction bus. One embodiment includes a buffer having entries for storing each pending command and associated information, including a number of retries of the command and a static...

20060230206 - Current mode bus interface system, method of performing a mode transition and mode control signal generator for the same: A current mode bus interface system includes a host interface device configured to transmit a reference current and a clock current, and to transmit a data current during a first transfer mode, and to receive a reverse direction data current and compare the reverse direction data current with the reference...

20060230207 - Asynchronous symmetric multiprocessing: An apparatus for serializing concurrent requests to multiple processors includes a signal merging tree structure and a traversal mechanism. The tree structure has a root node and leaf nodes for connecting a data consumer to the root. The tree structure serializes concurrent requests in the presence of race conditions, and...

20060230208 - System and method for presenting interrupts: An information processing system is provided which includes an interrupt table including a plurality of entries relating to interrupts requested by entries in a plurality of event queues. The entries of the interrupt table reference identifiers, and the identifiers are assigned to events from a pool of identifiers in accordance...

20060230209 - Event queue structure and method: An information processing system is provided which includes a plurality of system resources, and an event queue having a maximum number of entries. An event recording mechanism of the information processing system is operable to make entries regarding events in the event queue, wherein the entries are limited to a...

20060230210 - Method and apparatus for memory interface: A bridge mechanism enables efficient communication between first and second devices, e.g., processors, via an interface, such as PCI express....

20060230212 - 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...

20060230211 - Method and system for receiver detection in pci-express devices: A method and system for detecting when a receiver in a host system is present or absent to receive information from a PCI-Express device is provided. The method includes monitoring a signal received from a serial/de-serializer for transitions; re-starting a first timer when a transition is detected; and detecting a...

20060230213 - Digital signal system with accelerators and method for operating the same: A DSP system includes a DSP processor, at least one accelerator and an accelerator interface connected between the DSP processor and the at least one accelerator. The accelerator interface includes an accelerator instruction bus to convey instructions from the DSP processor to the accelerators. The DSP processor assigns an accelerator...

20060230214 - Method and system for embedded disk controllers: An embedded disk controller comprises a main processor in communication with a first bus. A second processor is in communication with a second bus. An external bus controller (EBC) is in communication with the first bus and in communication with external devices via an external bus interface. A history module...

20060230216 - Data processing system and method: The exemplary embodiments of this invention provide in one non-limiting aspect thereof a control device operable to execute a filter layer, and includes a first interface for coupling to a first storage device and a second interface for coupling to a second storage device. The filter layer receives communications and,...

20060230215 - Elastic buffer module for pci express devices: A method and system for a PCI Express device is provided. The elastic buffer includes, a buffer control module that determines a difference between a write and read pointer value and compares the difference to a threshold value for inserting or deleting a standard symbol, wherein the threshold value is...

20060230217 - Peripheral bus switch having virtual peripheral bus and configurable host bridge: A peripheral bus switch includes a virtual peripheral bus, a plurality of bridges, and a configurable host bridge. A first bridge operably couples on a first side to the virtual peripheral bus and supports connection on a second side to a peripheral bus fabric. A second bridge operably couples on...

20060230218 - Method and apparatus for sata tunneling over fibre channel: A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed. To send data to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where...

20060230220 - Fibre channel switch system, information processing system, and login procedure: Provided is a fibre channel switch system to which a server and a storage system are connected. The fibre channel switch system includes: a host controller for controlling a fibre channel protocol, to which the server is connected; a management table for indicating a hardware address of the host controller;...

20060230219 - Virtualization of an i/o adapter port using enablement and activation functions: A method is provided for configuring a communication port of a communications interface of an information handling system into a plurality of virtual ports. A first command is issued to obtain information indicating a number of images of virtual ports supportable by the communications interface. A second command is then...

20060224776 - Auto-configured lin bus nodes: An auto-configured LIN bus system comprises a plurality of modules linked to a LIN bus along which electronic data or instructions can be sent to and from each said module. At least one of said modules is a non-configured reconfigurable module having means for being configured with an ID and...

20060224780 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and storage medium: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, which is configured to customize a device driver that is adapted to control a printer, by setting a property. The information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit adapted to specify a plurality of device drivers, and a setting unit adapted to set,...

20060224778 - Linked wizards: The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates invoking execution of computer-implemented instructions. An instruction manager component can execute an instruction as a function of an entity input, wherein a configuration is automatically determined and an advanced configuration is manually determined by the entity input. Additionally, an...

20060224779 - Slim type remote control: The slim type remote control of the present invention can have the size of a standard-sized PCMCIA Express card, and so the slim type remote control can be inserted into a PCMCIA Express slot of the notebook computer. Therefore, the present invention utilizes the key set to wirelessly control the...

20060224777 - System and method for creating test data for data driven software systems: A method, system and article of manufacture for testing data driven software systems and, more particularly, for creating test data configured for testing data driven software systems. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of creating test data configured for testing a data driven software system. The method comprises retrieving a...

20060224781 - Method and apparatus for controlling a user interface of a consumer electronic device: Methods and systems for controlling a user interface of a consumer electronic device. An exemplary embodiment of a method for controlling a user interface of a consumer electronic device, including a plurality of I/O interfaces for communication with a plurality of data sources, is disclosed. The method comprises: utilizing the...

20060224782 - Information processing apparatus managing a peripheral device connected to a computer: According to the present invention, is allowed to store, in a hard disk drive, only a driver and an application which are necessary for a peripheral device connected a personal computer, the area in use of the hard disk drive is reduced. An information processing apparatus comprising first storing unit...

20060224783 - Page data reception method, page data providing method, device thereof, and program: Even in the case where a first request signal for requesting the source of the top page and a second request signal for requesting the source of A Corporation CD sales page were transmitted from a client terminal 2, if the source of an information page has been stored in...

20060224784 - Storage system providing stream-oriented performance assurance: The transfer rates of streams are assured if the plural streams are mixed. A disk array system required to process multiple streams from a host computer carries out recognition of the transfer rates, recognition of drive performance and a fault processing time, determines the size of a sequential buffer holding...

20060224785 - Device and method for input and output of data: An input/output device stores host status information about the status of a host, and controls the input/output of data. By referring to the input/output information and the host status information, the device performs optimization control of selecting notification either by an interrupt process or a non-interrupt process. When a notification...

20060224786 - Signal transfer apparatus and signal transfer method: According to one embodiment, descriptors with respective identifiers are created for a video stream and time information including its transfer start time, and the descriptors, time information, and video stream are recorded in a storage unit. In the case where a descriptor that indicates time information is read when the...

20060224788 - Data processing system, data processing method, computer-readable storage medium, and disk drive: In a data processing system that processes serial data transferred from a processor formed as one chip and transmits the resultant data to another chip, a data output processing unit that processes serial data transferred from a single processor or a plurality of processors comprises a bank designation serial data...

20060224789 - Flash memories and processing systems including the same: A memory may include first and second buffer memories and a memory core. The memory core may include memory blocks each having a plurality of pages and a page buffer for reading data from a selected memory block. A control logic may control the first and second buffer memories and...

20060224787 - Program, method and apparatus for form output: Queues are provided, which are a high-speed small-capacity queue disposed in a high-speed small-capacity medium inputting and outputting online form messages at high speed and a low-speed large-capacity queue disposed in a low-speed large-capacity medium inputting and outputting batch form messages at a speed slower than the high-speed small-capacity medium....

20060224799 - Address management device: Conventionally, when a switch virtualizing a storage (storage virtualization switch) is installed in a computer system including an SAN, a host computer, and a storage device, since a port ID of a virtual storage and a port ID of a storage device assigned to the virtual storage are different, the...

20060224797 - Command and control architecture: A command and control architecture that facilitates detection of a situation and, processing, notifying and communicating alerts, and calling for services. However a situation is ascertained, whether a sensor senses it, a human observes it, and/or the physical location of police cars, emergency vehicles, fire vehicles are ascertained, attributes of...

20060224795 - Data processing system, data processing method and program: In the host, an IP issues CCW, and a CH encodes the CCW and a CCW chain by the encode program to create a code including the description of controlling a conditional branch with the DKC and transmits the code to a PORT in the DKC. In the DKC, the...

20060224791 - Dual usb port device: Described is a system which includes a first device connected to a second device via a USB cable. The cable has a first USB connector and a second USB connector. The first device includes a first USB port, a second USB port and a voltage detector coupled to the second...

20060224800 - External connection device, host device and data communication system: An external connection device is to connectable to a host device. The host device includes transmission means for transmitting, to the external connection device, a parameter and an operation control command indicating a command for performing operation control of the external connection device. The external connection device includes a parameter...

20060224793 - Mechanism and method for managing data storage: Described are techniques and mechanisms for media data storage management. Briefly stated, a media control component monitors the usage patterns of media files on a local device. Any media files whose usage pattern falls below a given threshold is identified as a trim candidate. The media control component trims those...

20060224792 - Method and apparatus for concurrent and independent data transfer on host controllers: An access detector detects an access type of an access to one of a plurality of serial ports interfacing to serial storage devices. The access is intended to one of a plurality of parallel channels interfacing to parallel storage devices via task file registers of the parallel channels. A mapping...

20060224790 - Method, system, and computer program product for virtual adapter destruction on a physical adapter that supports virtual adapters: A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a physical adapter is provided. A mechanism is provided for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a...

20060224796 - Network chip design for grid communication: A system includes a plurality of integrated circuits for propagating data between at least one central processing unit and another component of the system. The plurality of integrated circuits are configured for proximity I/O communication. The plurality of integrated circuits is configured such that data propagation through the plurality of...

20060224798 - Personal music preference determination based on listening behavior: Music preferences for users are determined by direct sampling and analysis of the user's listening behavior. A user's preferences are derived by identifying songs listened to by the user and analyzing the user's switching-behavior among songs actually being played on the air....

20060224794 - Using usb memory device to recover operating system: A portable universal serial bus (USB) memory device that is connectable to an instrument having an operating system. The USB memory device includes software stored thereon which, when the USB memory device is connected to the instrument, automatically boots the instrument and causes the operating system of the booted instrument...

20060224801 - Data access device for working with a computer of power off status: This invention discloses a data access device for using in computer of power off status, which comprises a power multiplexer, a DC to DC converter, a serial bus signal to storage interface signal controller, a data storage interface signal multiplexer, and a controller. Therefore, if controller detects an external device...

20060224802 - Control system: A control system an upper apparatus connected to a control bys, an OPC server connected to a communication bus, an OPC communication station connected to the control bus and the communication bus, and an engineering station connected to the control bus and the communication bus. The upper apparatus accesses the...

20060224804 - Direct memory access for advanced high speed bus: A memory system for use with a master-slave type bus such as an AHB bus has a memory, a bus interface to allow memory access from the bus, and a direct memory access interface to allow memory access from a DMA controller without occupying the bus. The system can reduce...

20060224803 - Mechanism for a shared serial peripheral interface: According to one embodiment, a computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a flash memory device, a serial peripheral interface (SPI) coupled to the flash memory device, a network controller coupled to the SPI; and a chipset coupled to the SPI. The chipset includes an arbiter to arbitrate between...

20060224805 - Maintain fairness of resource allocation in a multi-node environment: Locks are placed in a convert queue in a way that compensates for queue bias. Rather than always placing a remote lock in a queue at the tail, a remote lock can be placed further up in the queue, and possibly be interleaved with local locks. As a result, remote...

20060224806 - Multi cpu system: A multi CPU system is capable of performing exclusive control of a plurality of CPUs accessing to the same resource by a hardware without depending on an OS. The plurality of CPUs are connected with the same system bus. A plurality of circuits one-to-one correspond to each of the plurality...

20060224807 - Recording apparatus and recording control method for executing recording according to setting of print parameters: In an information-processing apparatus including a plurality of modules and a first arbiter which arbitrates bus-access requests of the plurality of modules, at least one of the plurality of modules includes a plurality of submodules and a second arbiter which arbitrates bus-access requests of the plurality of submodules and transmits...

20060224808 - System and method to determine if a device error rate equals or exceeds a threshold: An apparatus and method to determine if a device error rate equals or exceeds a threshold. In an apparatus embodiment, a system comprises a device, and an interrupt handler executable by a processor. The interrupt handler executes, upon expiration of a time period, to determine if a threshold error rate...

20060224809 - Data processing device and method for transferring data: The data processing device according to the invention comprises a first processing unit (1) linked to a first bus (5), a second processing unit (2) linked to a second bus (6), a first bus master (3) linked to the first bus (5), a second bus master (4) linked to the...

20060224810 - Motherboard with a switching function: A motherboard with a switching function has a substrate, a chipset, a control signal generator, an on-board device, an extension slot, and a switching circuit module. The switching circuit module disposed on the substrate has a first terminal connected to the chipset for receiving a input signal from the chipset,...

20060224811 - Universal safety i/o module: A safety control block interfaces to one or more devices utilizing one or more communication protocols wherein a network interface receives and/or transmits data directly from a network. A backplane interface receives and/or transmits data from a backplane. A backplane extension receives and/or transmits data from a backplane. A processing...

20060224812 - Buffer management within sls (simple load store) apertures for inter-endpoint communication in advanced switching fabric: A single copy memory sharing scheme between multiple endpoints in an interconnect architecture may use a buffer management method in an advanced switching fabric having multiple endpoints that divides a simple load and store memory aperture into a buffer descriptor and at least one data buffer, provides offset addressing in...

20060224813 - Advanced switching optimal unicast and multicast communication paths based on sls transport protocol: An embodiment of the present invention may comprise a method to calculate current bandwidth usage by existing connections in a switching fabric between endpoints in a device, calculate available bandwidth for a new connection, and select a path from the multiple paths based on the bandwidth calculations. Some embodiments may...