Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 01/07

20070022220 - Bus system having a transmission control module and a transmission interface: A bus system having a transmission interface and a transmission control module built in a processor is provided. The transmission interface receives instruction signals output from the transmission control module and executes a corresponding data transmission process such that fast data transmission between storage unit of the processor and a... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070022221 - Programmable control device: A programmable control device includes an input unit, a memory unit, an execution unit, a monitor unit and an output unit. The input unit has at least one input terminal for receiving an input signal. The memory unit defines plural feature tables for corresponding functional units, the feature table defining... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070022222 - Memory device and associated method: A memory device and an associated operating method are provided to implement a customized function of the memory device by using a specially designed command packet. In one embodiment, a manufacture reserved command defined by a standard protocol is used and a corresponding customized command argument is configured, so as... Agent: Raymond Sun

20070022223 - Electronic apparatus and method for implementing an intelligent sleep mode: A method for implementing an intelligent sleep mode on an electronic apparatus includes the steps of: tracking an elapsed time where no operational input is received; decreasing output volume when the tracked time is equal to a predetermined time period if the output volume is greater than a predetermined volume;... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070022226 - Direct memory access system for iscsi: The invention relates to a direct memory access system for iSCSI. The direct memory access system comprises: a first bus interface, a second bus interface, a FIFO memory, an iSCSI CRC module and a direct memory access controller. According to the invention, the iSCSI CRC module is mounted in the... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070022224 - Memory data transfer method and system: A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing a DMA process. Accordingly, a DMA process is initiated for moving data from contiguous first locations to contiguous second locations and to a third location or third locations. Within the DMA process the data from each of the contiguous first locations is... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070022225 - Memory dma interface with checksum: A system and method comprising a direct memory access (DMA) circuit configured to directly access a memory, and a checksum adder configured to determine a checksum for data transferred between the DMA circuit and the memory.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070022227 - Path control device, system, cluster, cluster system, method and computer readable medium embodying program: A path control device that controls first and second paths for accessing a peripheral subsystem, includes a command substituting unit that substitutes a first reserve command that allows an access through the first path, with a second reserve command that allows both of accesses through both of the first path... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070022229 - Computer system and computer system control method: In the system which connects an operation apparatus and a standby apparatus through a bus, the operation apparatus includes a controller which controls the operation of the operation apparatus, operation manager, and the switch. The operation manager monitors the operation of the controller and notifies the standby apparatus through the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070022228 - Method to create expandable storage using serial ata hdd: An external SATA hard disk drive is modified to contain a port multiplier having at least one additional external device physical layer which permits multiple external hard disk drives to be connected to a single external SATA port on a set top box, television receiver or personal computer.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070022231 - Method and system for transferring a stream of data: The present invention relates to a method and system for transferring a stream of data from a first higher-speed subsystem of a computer to a plurality of lower speed subsystems, wherein the stream is structured in a sequence of blocks of different bit length, and a block is to be... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070022230 - Spread spectrum receiver, apparatus and method of a circular buffer for multirate data: An apparatus, spread spectrum receiver, and method of controlling a circular buffer, comprising a circular buffer and a controller coupled thereto. The circular buffer receives first data at a first data rate and second data at a second data rate. The controller determines a first range in the circular buffer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070022232 - Cellular telephone with integrated usb port engagement device that provides access to multimedia card as a solid-state device: A cellular telephone includes a multimedia card (MMC) having storage capacity for computer data files. An engagement device for a data transfer interface (e.g., a universal serial bus (USB) interface) is permanently mounted to the housing of the cellular telephone. The engagement device is movable from a nonobstructing home position... Agent: Jerry Turner Sewell

20070022234 - Devices and methods for signal switching and processing: A device for signal switching and processing. A plurality of control signal output terminals are connected to a plurality of computers. A control signal input terminal receives control signals from an input device. A signal processor determines a control signal output terminal to output the control signals, thus, the User... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070022233 - Document processing device with usb drive: A printing device operable to perform a plurality of document processing functions. The printing device includes a housing, a USB port positioned on the housing, a user interface and a controller. The USB port is configured to receive a portable data storage device having memory for storing data. The user... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070022235 - Non-volatile storage device with thin display unit: A non-volatile storage device with a thin display unit is described. The non-volatile storage device has a thin display unit, a non-volatile storage unit, a connection interface, and a package unit. Therein, the non-volatile storage unit further has a controller and a non-volatile storage medium. The thin display unit further... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070022236 - Computer keyboard integrated with internet phone service: A computer keyboard integrated with Internet phone service includes a keyboard controller, a USB hub and an audio controller. The keyboard controller receives an input command from the keyboard. The USB hub relays the signal of the keyboard controller to the computer, and relays the digital signal of the computer... Agent: Hdsl

20070022237 - Hybrid data distribution systems: A hybrid data distribution system includes a modulator coupled to an analog device, one or more processors coupled to the modulator, and a database coupled to the one or more processors. The database is configured to store encoded data. The system also includes an Ethernet switch for transmitting the encoded... Agent: Baker & Botts L.L.P.

20070022238 - Pci arbiter: A bus arbiter that ensures high priority transfers complete and allows high-priority data transfers with specific latency requirements, such as 802.11 requirements, to be prioritized above data transfers with lower latency requirements. As an example, the arbiter closely manages all transactions and guarantees sufficient latencies by pre-empting lower-priority data transfers... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070022239 - Apparatus and method for ordering transaction beats in a data transfer: A microprocessor including a cache memory and bus interface logic. The bus interface logic is interfaced with request signals and data signals and includes a request interface and a response interface. The request interface provides a request via the request signals for a data transaction in which the request specifies... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070016698 - Memory channel response scheduling: A memory agent schedules local and pass-through responses according to an identifier for each response. A response file may be large enough to store responses for a maximum number of requests that may be outstanding on a memory channel. A request file may be large enough to store requests for... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070016699 - Memory control apparatus and method: A flower arrangement that appears to be a cake. A piece of foam, shaped in the shape of a cake, having flowers inserted into the foam, and then placed on a cake plate or platter, and then placed in a cake box.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070016700 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device has a data memory including a memory cell array which includes a plurality of wordlines, a plurality of bitlines, and a plurality of memory cells, and a memory output circuit. The data read order in the memory cell array corresponding to the arrangement of the bitlines... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070016702 - Data flow control and bridging architecture enhancing performance of removable data storage systems: A data flow control and bridging architecture that enhances the performance of removable data storage systems. In one implementation, the present invention provides a bypass bus implementation where the data transfer phase associated with select commands occurs directly between the host computing system and the target removable data storage unit.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070016701 - Method and apparatus for providing redundant i/o adapters in machine and process controllers: Methods and apparatus for redundancy in machine or process control systems provide redundant communication adapters located with the groups of I/O modules, so that if the first communication adapter faults or becomes unavailable, a second communication adapter will perform all of the necessary functions of the first adapter. The adapters... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(qb)

20070016703 - Method for generatimg and playing back a media file: The invention relates to a method for playing back a media file in a playback unit, comprising the retrieval of the executable instructions contained in the media file by the playback unit, the execution of the instructions for decoding and/or decompressing a media data flow that is stored in the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070016704 - Removable mother/daughter peripheral card: A peripheral card having a Personal Computer (“PC”) card form factor and removably coupled externally to a host system is further partitioned into a mother card portion and a daughter card portion. The daughter card is removably coupled to the mother card. In the preferred embodiment, a low cost flash... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz LLP

20070016705 - Method and apparatus for protocol and code converter: Apparatus and method for converting protocol and code for use with a Human Interface Device (HID)-compliant keyboard device comprises a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, non-USB interface and a converter. The USB interface receives standard USB data from an USB host or hub and provides responses required by an USB... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070016706 - Reduced bus turnaround time in a multiprocessor architecture: Systems and methods of reducing bus turnaround time in a multiprocessor architecture are disclosed. An exemplary method may include mastering the system bus within one idle bus clock cycle of a bus handoff. The method may also include bypassing data from recovery latches and instead receiving data from pipeline latches... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070016707 - Configuration connector for information handling system circuit boards: The present invention provides a configuration jumper that allows the main system board of an information handling system to be configured for a plurality of population options, including on-board PCI-E integrated circuits and PCI-E integrated circuits on expansion circuit boards that are connected to the main system board by an... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070016708 - Communication system with switchable connection: A communication system is provided, including a first master device to operate as a master of a communication according to a first protocol, a second master device to operate as a master of a communication according to a second protocol, a common slave device to operate as a slave of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070016709 - Bus control system and a method thereof: A bus control system includes a plurality of bus masters commonly connected to a bus, a bus arbiter for arbitrating use of the bus between the plurality of bus masters according to any one of a plurality of predetermined arbitration algorithms, and an arbitration algorithm control unit for switching the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070016710 - Interrupt controller and method for handling interrupts: An interrupt controller and method are provided for handling interrupt requests generated by a plurality of interrupt sources. Th interrupt controller comprises pend logic for receiving interrupt requests generated by the plurality of interrupt sources, and for each interrupt request determining whether to accept that interrupt request for handling by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070016711 - Interfacing structure for multiple graphic: An interfacing structure for a computer motherboard is provided herein, which is specifically designed to simply the installation of multiple graphic adaptors compliant with Scalable Link Interface (SLI) standards. The interfacing structure contains at least three PCI Express x16 slots, two of which are for the installation of the SLI-compliant... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070016713 - Method and system for multi-channel transfer of data and control: A system and method for transferring information in a multi-channel, point-to-point environment are described. In one embodiment, a number of processing chips are connected to a bridge bus. A bridge is connected to the bridge bus and to a system bus. In addition, a memory is connected to the bridge.... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070016712 - Multi-port bridge device: A bridge device electrically connected to a first AGP bus, a second AGP bus, and a PCI bus is provided. The bridge device has a first bridge, a second bridge, and a controller. The first bridge is electrically connected between the first AGP bus and the second AGP bus. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070016714 - Multi-use usb host to ethernet adapter: A multi-use adapter configured to provide network connectivity for a serial bus client is provided. The adapter includes: a serial interface for coupling with the serial bus client; a network interface for interfacing the adapter with a network; and host control logic configured to interface a plurality of types of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070016715 - Modular broadband bi-directional programmable switch with hot-swappable modules: A programmable switch for broadband signals having a modular design in which input cards, bridging cards and output cards are interconnected through a common backplane to form a switching matrix having a Clos architecture. All connections between cards are made through the backplane to decrease the complexity of the switch... Agent: Dennis M. Carleton, Esquire Buchanan Ingersoll PC

20070011360 - Hardware oriented target-side native command queuing tag management: Methods and apparatus for target-side SATA NCQ tag management are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus may include a status memory and a status manager circuit in communication with the status memory. The status memory may store status information for each of a plurality of commands that have been queued... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070011361 - Storage management system: Conventionally, it has been impossible to choose storage subsystems for selective implementation of I/O delay to prevent buffer from overflowing during remote copy. According to this invention, in a management computer that manages serially connected plural storage subsystems in a computer system, the computer system having a host computer to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070011362 - Information processing device, line concentrator, network infromation processing system having the line concentrator, information processing program and storage medium: There is provided a mediation section (34) for switching between an active status in which data transmitted to a specific address is registered and processed and a non-active status other than the active status. When the mediation section (34) judges that unprocessed data stored in a data storage section (31)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070011364 - Direct memory access controller supporting non-contiguous addressing and data reformatting: A direct memory access controller is provided that is operable to perform a data transfer to transfer target data from a source to a destination. The direct memory access controller comprises an address generator having a set of iterators comprising a sample iterator, at least one frame iterator and at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070011363 - Dual frequency first-in-first-out structure: Techniques and circuitry for transferring data from memory arrays of a memory device to output pins via a FIFO structure are provided. Input and output stages of the FIFO structure may be operated independently, allowing data to be loaded into the FIFO structure at a first frequency and unloaded from... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Infineon Technologies

20070011365 - Electric field device: The invention relates to an electric field device (1) comprising a computer-controlled least one input/output module (3a-3f) data inputs and/or data outputs. The central control module (2) and the at least one input/output module (3a-3f) are connected to one another via a data bus (4). In order to design a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070011366 - Bus system and data transfer method: A bus system which transfers data from a first device to a second device includes a holding unit which holds data input from the first device, and a selecting unit which selects whether to output the data from the first device to the second device by holding the data by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070011367 - System and method for automatically responding to a received communication: A device and a method of responding to a received interrupt event received by a communication device is provided. The method comprises accessing data associated with a calendar application and/or a location application to determine a current state of availability of a user of the device using data; determining whether... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070011368 - Digital phase relationship lock loop: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first clocked storage device operable in a first clock domain corresponding to a first clock signal. The first clocked storage device has an input coupled to receive one or more bits transmitted on the input from a second clock domain corresponding to a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070011369 - Low overhead serial interface: An interface for an integrated circuit chip is provided. The interface includes a first port configured to receive a command signal indicating whether command information or data is being transferred to the integrated circuit chip. The interface further includes a second port configured to receive the command information and the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070011370 - Multiple data rates in programmable logic device serial interface: A serial interface for a programmable logic device supports a wide range of data rates by providing a first number of channels supporting a first range of data rates and a second number of channels supporting a second range of data rates. The first range of data rates is preferably... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup

20070011372 - Signal adapter: A signal adapter for signally connecting a USB storage card and a USB port of an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The signal adapter comprises a casing, a slot for inserting the USB storage card therein, a bridge disposed in the casing and electrically coupled to the USB storage card for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070011371 - Storage control system: The network channel adapter (CHN) 8 that processes file access requests is divided into a CHN-NAS portion 3 that performs processing to convert a file access request to a block access request and a CHN-IO portion 5 that outputs the block access request. Part 3 where the CHN-NAS portion 3... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070011373 - System and method for identifying inoperable connection points in a storage enclosure: A system and method is disclosed for encoding a set of configuration data for a given expander and at some later point comparing the configuration data to a discovered configuration derived from an attempt to discover the operability of each phy or connection point of the storage system. The configuration... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070011374 - Method and system for universal serial bus (usb) re-direct (usb-r) over a network: Certain aspects of a method and system for universal serial bus (USB) re-direct (USB-R) over a network may comprise receiving at a local client device via a network, remote client device detection data corresponding to a remote client device that is plugged into a remote system. The local client device... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070011375 - Method and system for hardware based implementation of usb 1.1 over a high speed link: Certain aspects of a method and system for a hardware-based implementation of USB 1.1 over a high-speed link may comprise translating at a client side of a client server communication system, USB protocol messages comprising a first USB standard to corresponding encapsulated USB protocol messages, wherein the USB protocol messages... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070011378 - Apparatus and method for quad-pumped address bus: A microprocessor interface system including a system bus with a bus clock and a quad-pumped address signal group, and including multiple devices coupled to the system bus. Each device is configured to perform a quad-pumped transaction on the system bus in which multiple request packets are sequentially transferred via the... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070011377 - Microprocessor apparatus and method for enabling variable width data transfers: A microprocessor including processor logic and sparse write logic which asserts address signals and request signals to provide an address and a request for a cache line memory write transaction, which provides one of multiple sparse memory write transactions on the request signals and which provides corresponding enable bits on... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070011376 - Target readiness protocol for contiguous write: A method of performing contiguous write transactions on a processor bus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes detecting, by a bus agent, a request for a write cycle, asserting, by the bus agent, a target ready signal for one clock cycle in response to the write cycle... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070011379 - I/o energy reduction using previous bus state and i/o inversion bit for bus inversion: A bus inversion method and system for capturing a previous state of a bus and its corresponding inversion bit prior to transmitting new information over the bus. The new information, state of the bus and associated inversion bit are used to determine whether the new information should be inverted before... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070011380 - Bus system, bus manager device, node device, and program for bus manager device: In a bus system, in accordance with reservations of transfers of isochronous blocks of data and with requests by the node devices for transfers of ones of the isochronous blocks of data and regular blocks of data, a bus manager generates a schedule of the operating rate of a bus... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070011381 - Control method and control circuit for bus system: A control method of the present invention comprises: a step for predetermining a priority level for accessing a slave via a bus with respect to a plurality of bus masters, as a basic priority; a step for determining a reference access frequency with respect to the plurality of bus masters,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070011382 - Hierarchical memory access via pipelining with deferred arbitration: A circuit arrangement and method utilize a hierarchical pipelined memory-access structure incorporating deferred arbitration logic. A multi-stage pipelined network defines at least one pipeline between a plurality of initiators and a shared resource. The multi-stage pipelined network includes first and second stages, where the first stage is disposed intermediate the... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070011384 - Computer expansion slot and design method thereof: A slot is configured as one of a first slot or a second slot. The slot includes a primary slot. The primary slot includes a series of pads. At least one pad has two branches. When the pad which has two branches is connected to one branch the slot performs... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070011383 - System and method for configuring expansion bus links to generate a double-bandwidth link slot: A system and method for configuring expansion bus links to generate a double-bandwidth link slot are disclosed. An information handling system includes a central processing unit (CPU) and memory operable to store program instructions executable by the CPU. A chip set operably couples the CPU and the memory to a... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070011385 - Multifunction semiconductor storage device and a method for booting-up computer host: A semiconductor storage device connected to the host system through the general purpose interface, including a semiconductor storage media module (1) and a controller module (2), in which the controller module (2) consists of a general purpose interface control module (21), a microprocessor and control module (22). Various device class... Agent: Qun Liu

20070011386 - Usb host controller with memory for transfer descriptors: An electronic device, operating as a USB host, has an embedded processor and a system memory, connected by a memory bus. A host controller integrated circuit does not need to master the system memory, but instead acts purely as a slave. The embedded processor is then adapted to write the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070011388 - Dual port memory with asymmetric inputs and outputs, device, system: An asymmetric memory interface including an asymmetric read data interface having a read bus width configured to transfer data from a memory device to a memory controller. The asymmetric memory interface further includes an asymmetric write data interface having a write bus width configured to transfer data from the memory... Agent: Trask Britt

20070011387 - Flexible width data protocol: A microprocessor interface system including a system bus with a bus clock and a data signal group in which multiple devices are coupled to the system bus. Each device is configured to perform a half-width data transaction on the system bus in which a doubleword is transferred for each of... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070011389 - Arbitration method and device: In an arbitration device, the entire transfer efficiency is improved without increasing the operating frequency and the number of pins. An overflow monitor mechanism generates an alarm once detecting a danger of occurrence of an overflow in an internal buffer group. An arbiter dynamically changes the priority order of arbitration... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070011390 - Method and related apparatus for controlling a peripheral device to transfer data to a bus: A method and related apparatus used for controlling a peripheral device to transfer data to a bus. The peripheral device has a bus interface circuit and a controller. The method includes storing data outputted from the controller into a first storage block of the bus interface circuit, utilizing the bus... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070011391 - Transmitting data of a telematics terminal: Data of a telematics terminal is transmitted through an apparatus including a multimedia player, an audio interface, an embedded system, and a switch operatively connected between the audio interface and the embedded system. The multimedia player is configured to generate audio data, and the audio interface is configured to output... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070005813 - Peripheral device and method for interpreting redefined frame information structure: A peripheral device for receiving a data frame containing control information from a serial transmission channel is disclosed. The peripheral device includes an information interpreter and a control unit. The information interpreter is coupled to the serial transmission channel, and used for receiving the data frame and interpreting the data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070005814 - Device and method for classifying two-state variables of a cyclically-operating system comprising subunits: The invention relates to a device and method for classifying two-state variables of a cyclically-operating system comprising subunits. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a recording step consisting in recording dated state changes noted for each of the variables during a determined time T; a calculation step consisting in... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070005816 - Lan controller with bootable host bus adapter: A network controller with a bootable Host Bus Adapter is described. In one embodiment, the invention includes a host bus interface, a register to the host bus indicating a mass storage device, and a network interface.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005815 - System and method for processing block mode i/o operations using a linear block address translation protection table: The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product that enables application instances to pass block mode storage requests directly to a physical I/O adapter without run-time involvement from the local operating system or hypervisor. Specifically, a mechanism for providing and using a linear block address (LBA) translation... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070005817 - Computer system having a wireless input device and coordinate processing method: A computer system having a wireless input device and a coordinate processing method, where a computer system having a wireless input device inputs coordinate information into a computer or a terminal, the computer system having a wireless input device includes: a signal reflecting device, associated with the wireless input device,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070005818 - Method and apparatus for managing load on a plurality of processors in network storage system: An apparatus for managing a load on a plurality of processors that performs a processing of data received by a plurality of channel adaptors includes a channel-adaptor communicating unit that detects operational statuses of the channel adaptors, and that selects a processor that performs the processing of the data, based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070005819 - Apparatus and method to guarantee unique connection tags across resets in a connection protocol: A method and apparatus to guarantee unique connection tags across resets in a connection protocol. In one embodiment, the methods include the update of a reset counter following a system reset. In one embodiment, once updated, a controller, such as, for example, an input/output (I/O) controller, may receive a response... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005820 - System, detecting method and program: The present invention relates to a method, a computer program product and a system for managing virtual instances of a physical port attached to a network. The method is based on the Fibre Channel N_Port virtualisation for a physical Fibre Channel N_Port. Multiple virtual Fibre Channel adapters share a single... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20070005823 - Analog data generating and processing device for use with a personal computer: An interface device (10) provides fast data communication between a host device with input/output interfaces and a data transmit/receive device, wherein the interface device (10) comprises a processor means (13), a memory means (14), a first connecting device (12) for interfacing the host device with the interface device, and a... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd.

20070005821 - Enabling and disabling device images on a platform without disrupting bios or os: Device images, for example IDE mass storage device images, may be enabled and disabled without disrupting a host system. In one embodiment, the invention includes a memory device register to indicate the presence of a memory device to a computer system, a switch coupled to the memory device register to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005822 - Interface apparatus and interface method: A signal acquisition unit acquires a status signal from a home appliance. An expression unit expresses the status signal to a user. A reaction acquisition unit acquires a reaction signal from the user in response to the status signal expressed. A registration unit registers relativity in the status signal and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070005824 - Enhancements to universal serial bus (usb) suspend and resume operations: Some embodiments of the invention include apparatus, systems, and methods to perform universal serial bus (USB) suspend and resume operations based on active communication between USB devices to improve power management. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070005825 - System and method for communicating with memory devices: The disclosure is directed to a device including a memory interface. The memory interface includes a data interface, a first state machine and a second state machine. The first state machine includes a first chip select interface and a first ready/busy interface. The first state machine is configured to select... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070005826 - Termination control in memory systems: A memory controller includes controllable on-die terminations that may be turned on and off separately.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20070005827 - Method and apparatus for application/os triggered low-latency network communications: A data buffer that is a target for data received over a communication channel is examined, and a device associated with the communication channel is polled, to find, process, and return data transmitted over the channel. Other methods and apparatus to reduce network latency are described and claimed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005828 - Interrupts support for the kcs manageability interface: Support for interrupts within a KCS Manageability Interface is described. In one embodiment, the invention includes writing to a KCS (Keyboard Controller-Style) data or command register, and generating an interrupt to a host of the KCS data or command register.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005829 - Memory card having memory element and card controller thereof: A card controller is built in a memory card capable of being loaded in a host device which can detect interrupt. The interface unit receives and decodes a command from the host device, sends a response or data to the host device, and receives data therefrom. The read/write control unit... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070005832 - Frame order processing apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may bridge between a link layer and a transport layer in a multi-lane serial-attached small computer system interface (SCSI)-serial SCSI protocol (SAS-SSP) device. A lane number first-in first-out buffer (FIFO) array may operate to order frame processing such that frames associated... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070005834 - Memory chips with buffer circuitry: In some embodiments, a memory chip includes receivers to receive signals from outside the chip and transmitters to transmit signals to outside the chip. The chip also includes a memory core and buffer circuitry to hold the signals received by the receivers and, under at least some circumstances, to provide... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005831 - Semiconductor memory system: The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory system including a memory controller transmitting high speed write data, command and address signal streams based on a predefined transmission protocol and a high speed write clock signal and for receiving serial high speed read data signals as signal frames based on... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, P.l.l.c.

20070005830 - Systems and methods for weighted overlap and add processing: Systems and methods for providing a weighted overlap and add (WOLA) architecture and/or for providing polyphase WOLA FFT processing that may be employed, for example, for separation or channelization of closely-spaced frequencies of an input signal. A WOLA architecture that may be implemented as first-in-first-out (FIFO) cores in an FPGA... Agent: O'keefe, Egan & Peterman, L.L.P. Building C, Suite 200

20070005833 - Transmit buffers in connection-oriented interface: A connection-oriented protocol controller has a prefetch engine to obtain payload data that is destined to a remote node, before a connection is established with the remote node. A number of buffers are provided. Each buffer is associated with a different remote node with which a connection is to be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005840 - Cradle for connecting to portable electronic apparatus: A cradle for connecting to a portable electronic apparatus is described. The cradle includes an AC adapter connector, a USB connector, a mini USB plug, and a USB signal detecting circuit. The USB connector is used to connect to a USB interface of a computer. The mini USB plug is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070005841 - Data differential signal transmission and keyboard/video/mouse/audio switch: A differential signal transmission system and keyboard, video, mouse, audio signal switch includes a data encoder for encoding the data of an input/output device; a data differential driver for transmitting data to a remote site in a positive phase and negative phase respectively; a data differential receiver, settled at the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070005846 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes an ATA device-side I/F which transfers data between the data transfer control device and an ATA host through a bus ATABUS1, an ATA host-side I/F which transfers data between the data transfer control device and an ATA device through a bus ATABUS2, a first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070005847 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes an ATA device-side I/F, an ATA host-side I/F, a transfer controller, and a processing section which performs emulation processing. The processing section performs the emulation processing including, when the device-side I/F has received a command from an ATA host, issuing a command corresponding to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070005843 - Ic assembly having routing structure mounted on a pcb: An IC assembly having a routing structure mounted on a PCB of an electronic apparatus includes a central IC mounted on a central portion of the PCB; and a plurality of peripheral ICs disposed adjacent to the central IC on the PCB, wherein each of the peripheral ICs is electrically... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070005836 - Memory having swizzled signal lines: Swizzle information for signal lines on a memory component may be stored on the memory component. The swizzle information may be transmitted to a memory controller which may include logic to receive the swizzle information which is then used to deswizzle data received from the memory component. Data may be... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070005845 - Peripheral device control system, its control method, and information processing apparatus, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium: This invention has as its object to control a peripheral device by selecting optimal processing even when the version of the OS of an information processing apparatus is updated and when the version of firmware of the peripheral device is updated. To this end, according to this invention, the version... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070005837 - Personal portable storage device: A personal portable storage device (PPSD). The PPSD has a storage medium. The PPSD also includes a wireless component, coupled to the storage medium. Additionally, the PPSD includes transfer management electronics, coupled to the storage medium, which allow a host device to access the PPSD through the wireless component without... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070005839 - Port expander device and method: A device including a first circuit operable to perform a first function, and a second circuit operable to perform a second function. The second circuit includes a male port connector, a port replicator chip, and a female port connector. In one embodiment, the first circuit includes one or more semiconductor... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070005848 - Satellite radio-computer interface: One exemplary process records audio data by establishing communications between a recording device and a transceiver and commanding the transceiver to tune to a specified or current channel, as determined from the last time communications between the recording device and the transceiver was established. A user interface screen is displayed... Agent: Elliott D. Frutkin

20070005838 - Serial ata port addressing: In one aspect, a shared transport layer frame information structure (FIS) generation logic may generate FISes for each of a plurality of SATA ports. In a further aspect, a port addressing logic, in communication with the shared transport layer FIS generation logic, may select one of the SATA ports for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005842 - Systems and methods for stall monitoring: Stall monitoring systems and methods are disclosed. Exemplary stall monitoring systems may include a core, a memory coupled to the core, and a stall circuit coupled to the core. The stall circuit is capable of separately representing at least two distinct stall conditions that occur simultaneously and conveying this information... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070005835 - Using haptic effects to enhance information content in communications: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for providing customized “haptic messaging” to users of handheld communication devices in a variety of applications. In one embodiment, businesses and organizations may each be associated with a distinct haptic logo and include their haptic logos in various messages sent to... Agent: Immersion - Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p

20070005844 - Wireless mouse system: The present invention relates to a wireless mouse system. Particularly, the present invention relates to a wireless mouse system which can integrate a flash memory device and a receiving device of a wireless mouse into one device. A wireless mouse system comprises a wireless mouse; and an interfacing device with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070005849 - Input device with audio capablities: An input device is provided for capturing handwriting strokes while in a handwriting mode and for providing audio-related functionality. The input device may be formed in the shape of a pen, and may or may not include an ink cartridge to facilitate movement of the input device in a familiar... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070005851 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes an ATA device-side I/F which transfers data between the data transfer control device and an ATA host through a bus ATABUS1, an ATA host-side I/F which transfers data between the data transfer control device and an ATA host through a bus ATABUS2, device-side pads... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070005850 - Port multiplier mapping apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to relate a port multiplier (PM) tag associated with a frame information structure frame to a remote node context index and to a validity flag using a hardware PM look-up table in a host bus adapter.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070005852 - Graphical verification tool for packet-based interconnect bus: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture that allow packet-based communication transactions between devices over an interconnect bus to be captured in a standardized format are provided. The standardized format may enable the display of the bus transactions via a graphical user interface (GUI), which may greatly facilitate viewing and analyzing... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070005853 - Information processing apparatus, and information processing method: There is provided an information processing apparatus that allows a user to understand what kinds of causes are accumulated stepwise in what kind of order to cause abnormality and due to what kinds of reasons respective causes occur from direct causes of the respective causes. The information processing apparatus includes:... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070005854 - Signal initiator and method for on-demand communication: A method is provided for on-demand communications in a communication network with support for a plurality of communication units participating in a common communication, which includes multiple signal initiators, each supplying a signal, which are virtually simultaneously conveyed as part of the common communication. At least one example of an... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070005855 - Signal generating circuit and related method for activating physical channel between host and peripheral device: A signal generating circuit of a peripheral device for sending a frame information structure (FIS) to a host via a serial transmission channel to change a busy bit representing the state of the peripheral device. The signal generating circuit includes a trigger generator and a signal generator. The trigger generator... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070005856 - Hdd controller and system equipped with the same: An HDD controller executes high-speed burst data transfer, at which the HDD controller has a master mode for the HDD controller to work as a bus master of a PCI bus, and a slave mode for the HDD controller to work as a slave unit to the PCI bus. When... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070005857 - Bus system and method of arbitrating the same: A bus system, which may prevent data from being incorrectly transferred when an early termination occurs during a burst mode, may include a bus, for example, an advanced high-performance bus (AHB), at least one bus master device, a bus arbiter and at least one transfer mode selection circuit. The at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070005858 - Extended message signal interrupt: Methods and arrangements to extend message signal interrupt (MSI) transactions with additional data to reduce the latency associated with servicing interrupts included in the transactions are contemplated. Some embodiments may comprise a chipset that transmits the MSI to a processor to service the interrupt. The chipset may identify that a... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Portfolioip

20070005860 - Interrupt control system and method: An interrupt control system is applied in an electronic device having an interrupt service system, for controlling the interrupt service system to execute corresponding interrupt handlers. The interrupt control system includes a setting unit having a setting interface for setting a variety of specified interrupt control instructions; a storage unit... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070005859 - Method and apparatus to quiesce usb activities using interrupt descriptor caching and asynchronous notifications: In one embodiment, a data processing system includes, but is not limited to, a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a universal serial bus (USB) controller coupled to the processor and the memory. The USB controller includes a local memory to cache at least one activity descriptor of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005861 - Fault tolerant computer system: A computing hardware and software device called a Meta Mentor Central Processing Unit. The Meta Mentor purpose is to control memory, input/output interfaces, defining the operating system, the scheduling processes and the parsing of individual threads to an array of slave Processing Units that are uniquely connected, thus creating a... Agent: Thomas J. Tighe & Associates

20070005862 - Communications protocol expander: An expander device is configurable to identify itself as an end device and not an edge expander device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005863 - Hot-pluggable video display card and computer system thereof: A hot-pluggable video display card and a computer system thereof are provided. The video display card includes a hot-pluggable host-side interface, a video processing unit, and a display-device-side interface. The hot-pluggable host-side interface provides the interface with “hot plug-n-play” function between the video display card and a host unit. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070005864 - Data transfer apparatus and data transfer method: A data transfer apparatus for transferring data between a system bus and a local bus at a high speed is provided. A bus bridge 101 is connected between a system bus 132 and a local bus 137. Data transferred between a CPU 133, an I/O device 136 and a main... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070005865 - Enforcing global ordering using an inter-queue ordering mechanism: An arrangement is provided for efficiently enforcing global ordering in a computing system using an inter-queue ordering mechanism (IQOM). The IQOM may be located in a bridge (e.g., a caching bridge) coupling two interconnects: an internal interconnect to connect different processing units (e.g., processing cores inside a processor or a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005866 - System and method for managing the sharing of pci devices across multiple host operating systems: A system and method is disclosed for initializing PCI devices in a computer system or information handling system. Upon initialization of the system, each operating system instance of the system attempts to access a PCI bridge device. The first operating system to access the bridge device is granted ownership of... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070005867 - Virtual peripheral device interface and protocol for use in peripheral device redirection communication: A virtual peripheral device interface and protocol are described that may be used in redirecting peripheral device communication to a remote networked device. In on embodiment, the invention includes a bus adapter to connect to a bus of a managed system, a set of peripheral device bus host controller registers... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070005868 - Method, apparatus and system for posted write buffer for memory with unidirectional full duplex interface: In some embodiments, a method, apparatus and system for posted write buffer for memory with unidirectional full duplex interface are presented. In this regard, a buffer agent is introduced to send data to a posted write buffer and to send an independent indication to the memory to write the data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman