Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 03/07

20070073906 - Method for controlling a device for distribution of signals: A method is proposed for controlling a device for distribution of audio, video, data and control signals. The device has a number of inputs and outputs, which can be connected by the switching of takes, and which cover signal paths. Tally signalling signals inputs or outputs as being transmission-relevant. The... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070073905 - Parametric model based ablative surgical systems and methods: Example systems and methods for performing individually customized corneal ablative surgery is presented. The example systems and methods rely on a parametric model that correlates corneal measurements with predicted post-operative results and algorithm updates that facilitate achieving desired post-operative results.... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070073908 - Control and interconnection system: A control and interconnection system for integrating a plurality of peripherals into a computer system comprises a system core for processing data, an input module adapted to couple signals from associated peripherals to the system core and an output module adapted to direct signals from the system core to corresponding... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20070073911 - Data processing system, data processing apparatus and handling method: To provide a system capable of avoiding an apparatus anomaly such as a system hang, even when an anomaly condition of connection in the cable connecting the apparatuses occurs. A first apparatus 10 in the transmission side includes: a data processing device 12; a buffer register 22 in which the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070073907 - Device, method and computer program product readable medium for determining the identity of a component: Method, device and computer program product for determining a characteristic of an identifiable component. The method includes: receiving identification information representative of an identity of components that belong to a group of components, determining at least one characteristic of an identifiable component in response to the received identification information, and... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070073913 - Distributed configuration storage: Systems and methods for providing distributed configuration storage are presented. The configuration storage is divided into distributed configuration target modules that are physically located in each design section of a device that uses configuration storage. A distributed configuration master module, physically located near the host interface, controls access into and... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070073910 - Portable composite device: A portable composite device comprises a main body having an opening, electrically connected to a host, a digital TV receiving module disposed in the main body, and a memory card access module disposed in the main body. A memory card inserted into the opening accesses the memory card access module.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070073912 - Remote terminal apparatus for programmable controller: A programmable-controller remote terminal apparatus of the invention shortens a system down time generated in replacing an I/O unit, in the I/O unit having a three-divided configuration of a remote terminal apparatus in which miniaturization and low-profile are developed. A programmable-controller remote terminal apparatus, which is connected to a programmable... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070073909 - Sas discovery in raid data storage systems: Serial Attached SCSI (“SAS”) discovery is performed. Probing is performed from first and second ports of a SAS expander device. It is determined that the first port leads to a SAS initiator and that the second port does not lead to any SAS initiator. The first port is set to... Agent: Emc Corporation Office Of The General Counsel

20070073914 - Wireless communication apparatus and control method of the apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus having first wireless settings includes a search unit which searches for a device which has second wireless settings corresponding to the first wireless settings, and a control unit which controls the wireless communication apparatus. If the device is found by the search unit and the device... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070073915 - Functional dma: In one embodiment, a direct memory access (DMA) controller comprises a transmit control circuit, an offload engine, and a receive control circuit. The transmit control circuit is configured to read first DMA data from an address space in a host. Coupled to receive the first DMA data from the transmit... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070073916 - Method for computing platform data protection: Deterring output of data from a computing platform may be accomplished by launching a driver to filter write requests to selected output ports of the computing platform, receiving a write request, and denying the write request when the write request is for a selected output port identified as being in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073917 - Method for controlling the rate of automated flow and navigation through information presented on a digitally controlled electronic device: An apparatus and method for controlling the delivery and presentation of information using an information delivery device is disclosed. Additionally disclosed is an apparatus and method for changing a mode of operation and a speed of delivery of information when in an automated sequential information delivery mode by use of... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070073918 - Storage device and processing method: A storage device is provided that includes a first interface unit configured to connect to an external apparatus; a second interface unit configured to connect to a network; and a control unit which controls the storage device. The control unit determines whether a predetermined command is received from the external... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070073919 - Data processing system and method that permit pipelining of i/o write operations and multiple operation scopes: A data processing system includes at least a first processing node having an input/output (I/O) controller and a second processing including a memory controller for a memory. The memory controller receives, in order, pipelined first and second DMA write operations from the I/O controller, where the first and second DMA... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070073921 - Dma completion processing mechanism: According to one embodiment, a storage device is disclosed. The storage device includes a port having one or more lanes and a direct memory access (DMA) Descriptor Manager (DM). The DM generates and tracks completion of descriptors. The DM includes a first completion lookup table to track one or more... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073923 - Dma descriptor management mechanism: A storage device is disclosed. The storage device includes a storage controller. The storage controller includes a direct memory access (DMA) Descriptor Manager (DM) to generate DMA descriptors by monitoring user data and a data integrity field (DIF) transferred between a host memory and a local memory based upon a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073924 - Dma transfer system using virtual channels: A DMA transfer system includes a DMA controller having at least one channel coupled to a system bus, the DMA controller configured to perform a DMA transfer via the system bus according to a DMA transfer setting of the at least one channel, and a DMAC control unit coupled to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070073920 - Method of accessing internal memory of a processor and device thereof: A method of accessing internal memory of a processor and the device thereof. The method employs a bank swapping mechanism for the processing unit of a processor and a direct memory access controller to simultaneously access different memory units in internal memory. The processing unit can continuously access and process... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070073925 - Systems and methods for synchronizing multiple processing engines of a microprocessor: Systems and methods for synchronizing multiple processing engines of a microprocessor. In a microprocessor engine employing processor extension logic, DMA engines are used to permit the processor extension logic to move data into and out of local memory independent of the main instruction pipeline. Synchronization between the extended instruction pipeline... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070073922 - Unified dma: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first interface circuit, a direct memory access (DMA) controller coupled to the first interface circuit, and a host coupled to the DMA controller. The first interface circuit is configured to communicate on an interface according to a protocol. The host comprises at least... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070073926 - Memory system and device with serialized data transfer: A memory system with serialized data transfer. The memory system includes within a memory controller and a plurality of memory devices. The memory controller receives a plurality of write data values from a host and outputs the write data values as respective serial streams of bits. Each of the memory... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20070073927 - Method and apparatus for high throughput mass storage device interface in a microprocessor for handheld systems: Certain embodiments of a method and apparatus for high throughput mass storage device interface in a microprocessor for handheld systems may comprise interleaving accesses to a plurality of mass storage devices communicatively coupled to a portable media processing device. Interleaved transfer may occur of data corresponding to the interleaved accesses... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070073928 - High-speed input/output signaling mechanism using a polling cpu and cache coherency signaling: Applicant's high-speed input/output signaling mechanism makes exclusive use of one or more processors (CPU) for polling. Device-bound perpetual polling is initiated neither by the device nor by the processing application: it takes place independently from them, on a CPU exclusively reserved for that task. Another aspect of the present invention... Agent: Mathew J. Temmerman

20070073929 - Communication system, communication device, communication method, and program: The present invention relates to a communication system, a communication apparatus, and a communication method as well as to a program for acquiring the advantages of a plurality of communication protocols. An NFC communication is executed between an NFC communication unit 51 of a communication apparatus 1 and an NFC... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070073930 - Multipurpose video integrated switch: A multipurpose video integrated switch is a design related to a distributor and a sharer for computer video signals. The integrated switch includes a power switch, a plurality of input ports, and a plurality of output ports, and its interior is installed with a control unit connected to the power... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070073931 - Audio player and method for playing audio data: An audio player includes: a buffer unit that temporary stores sampling values contained in a second-half frame of each of a plurality of frames received in time series, the frames containing audio data; a detecting unit that detects a defect in the frames; an inverted-frame generating unit that generates a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070073933 - Asynchronous interface with vectored interface controls: An asynchronous interface that uses vectored interface commands to reduce the latency of registered communication interface signals. In preferred embodiments, vectored commands are communicated between clock domains with handshake command signals comprising command valid and command acknowledge signals. Each command is assigned a sequential number up to a maximum number... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070073932 - Method and apparatus for a configurable data path interface: A method and apparatus for providing a configurable data path interface is provided. In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, one or more line processing cards may be configured to support interfaces having various attributes, such as data rate, numbers of data bits, redundancy or lack... Agent: Ross D. Snyder & Associates, Inc.

20070073934 - Method, system and computer program for displaying information: This invention relates to a computer program for displaying information in the form of a display window during a downtime when a computer user is waiting for a computer to complete processing tasks, and referred to herein as a wait event, the program including the steps of detecting await event... Agent: Bio Intellectual Property Services (bio Ips) LLC

20070073937 - Content-aware digital media storage device and methods of using the same: A content-aware digital media storage device includes a host device interface for exchanging digital information with a host device, a memory array for storing digital information received from the host device via the host interface, a peripheral module configured to communicate the digital information stored in the memory array to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070073939 - Disk array apparatus and data relay method of the disk array apparatus: A disk array apparatus of the invention improves the quality of Fibre Channel signals corresponding to mounting positions of disk drives. The disk array apparatus comprises first to fourth groups of a plurality of disk drives each of which stores data; a first data relay device for connecting a first... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070073936 - Dynamic physical interface between computer module and computer accessory and methods: Embodiments of a dynamic connecting element interface between a computer module and a computer accessory for a modular computer system are described herein. According to one exemplary embodiment, a computer system includes a computer accessory, a modular computing module having a core processor and a memory and a connector configured... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070073940 - Interface mediator for a computing device: A interface mediator for a computing device is disclosed for providing mediation between a port of the computing device and a device normally connected to that port. The interface mediator for a computing device includes a processing unit for executing a control program; a first mediator port connected to said... Agent: Michael Ries

20070073938 - Semiconductor for performing direct memory access without fifo and method for processing data thereof: A semiconductor for performing DMA without using a FIFO unit includes a memory for storing data, a CPU for processing data, a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) and a control circuit block. The control circuit block controls storage of receive data, which is output from the UART, in the memory based... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070073935 - Wireless usb host apparatus supporting uwb: A wireless USB host apparatus supporting UWB is disclosed. The wireless USB host apparatus allocates a MAS of USB super frame to each of a plurality of wireless USB devices to transmit the real-time audio/video data as well as command data, control data and non real-time data through a single... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070073941 - Data storage using compression: A write request is received from a host, to write data from memory to storage. The request indicates whether or not to compress the data. The data is either compressed or not compressed, as indicated by the request, prior to sending the data to the storage. Other embodiments are also... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073942 - High-speed interface circuit for semiconductor memory chips and memory system including the same: In a semiconductor memory system, the memory chips are linked to a memory module in a shared loop forward architecture and connected in a point-to-point connection to a memory controller. Each memory chip includes a high-speed interface circuit including: a read and write data/command-and-address signal re-driver/transmitter path for re-driving serial... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070073943 - Serial-to-parallel conversion/parallel-to-serial conversion/ fifo unified circuit: Disclosed is a serial-to-parallel converter/parallel-to-serial converter/FIFO unified circuit which includes a register, a selector and a counter. The register receives serial input data and converts the serial data into parallel data based on frequency-divided multi-phase clock signals from a counter. The selector receives the parallel data from the register to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070073945 - Networked conditional access module: A networked Conditional Access Module provided on an IEEE 1394 network, by defining a Conditional Access Module as a Conditional Access Subunit of the IEEE 1394 network, providing AV/C Conditional Access Commands to allow communication between the Conditional Access Subunit and other Subunits on the network, the Conditional Access Subunit... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070073944 - Systems and methods for implementing a vehicle control and interconnection system: A method of developing peripherals for integration with a vehicle control system comprises providing a vehicle control and interconnection system that includes a system core for processing data, an input module and an output module. The system core includes a reconfigurable space having reconfigurable hardware, memory and a supervising processor... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20070073946 - Communication bus and electric panel comprising said bus: Communication bus having at least one pair of communication lines designed to be connected in series respectively to conductors of a main communication bus designed to be connected to communicating devices of at least one electric panel. Said communication bus comprises at least two branched outputs each having at least... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070073948 - Bus control system: A bus control system includes bus masters connected to a common bus and a bus slave for transferring data with one bus master by arbitration. The bus control system further includes a live-lock controller connected to the bus slave and controlling the data transfer. The live-lock controller counts a retry... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070073947 - Mechanism to handle uncorrectable write data errors: According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes an initiator device to transmit input/output (I/O) write data and a target device, coupled to the initiator device, to receive the write data from the initiator device as a first segment of data and a second segment of data.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073949 - Fair hierarchical arbiter: A fair hierarchical arbiter comprises a number of arbitration mechanisms, each arbitration mechanism forwarding winning requests from requestors in round robin order by requestor. In addition to the winning requests, each arbitration mechanism forwards valid request bits, the valid request bits providing information about which requestor originated a current winning... Agent: Robert R. William IBM Corporation

20070073950 - Personal memory device structure: A personal memory device structure includes primarily a personal memory device, a middle cap, and a penholder, wherein a USB plug is extended outward at a periphery of the personal memory device, and a holding space and a hole are located at a periphery of the middle cap. The holding... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070073952 - Docking station: A docking station including a housing, a linkage, a forcing member and a first connector for electrically connecting to a first connector of an electronic device, is provided. The housing includes a platform having a first opening and the electronic device is suitable for being placed on the platform. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070073951 - Portable electronic devices: Portable electronic devices are provided. An electronic device comprises a main body, an input module and a display unit disposed on the main body. The input module is pivotally connected to the main body. When the input module is collapsed to the main body, the display unit displays a first... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070073953 - Performing an n-bit write access to an mxn-bit-only peripheral: A system-on-chip (100) includes a 16-bit DSP (102), a 16-bit data bus (202) coupled to the DSP, at least one 32-bit-only peripheral (110), a 32-bit data bus (212) coupled to the peripheral, and a bridge (108), including a write merge system (200), coupled between the 16-bit and 32-bit buses. A... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20070073955 - Multi-function pci device: A multi-function peripheral component interconnect (PCI) device is disclosed. The device includes a first configuration data structure associated with a first PCI function, a second configuration data structure associated with a second PCI function and a PCI bridge, coupled the first and second configuration data structures. The PCI bridge processes... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073954 - Ordering rule and fairness implementation: In one embodiment, a controller comprises one or more transaction queues, one or more age counter circuits, and a control circuit. The transaction queues are configured to store a plurality of transaction requests, each having a transaction type. The age counter circuits are configured to generate one or more age... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070073956 - Power conservation: A method of operating a shared bus comprises sending a wake-up signal on the shared bus. The wake-up signal comprises a sequence of signals, each signal of the sequence being one of a signal indicating the bus is free and a signal indicating the bus is busy. A microcontroller to... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070073957 - Bridge, error notification method therefor and system: In a bridge which connects between an expansion bus of a primary system and that of a secondary system, a local error such as an expansion bus error and CPU hang-up which occurs in the secondary system is recognized. The primary system is notified of the local error as a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070073958 - Interface adapter for a portable media player device: A “smart cable” that connects one or more peripheral devices to a digital media player having multiple, different types of input and/or output connections.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070073959 - Dynamic reconfiguration of pci express links: A method and circuitry for dynamically reconfiguring the links of a PCI Express bus. A computer system has been initially configured with PCI Express bus links to various endpoints, using the scaling features of the PCI Express standard. During operation of the computer system, the status of the endpoints is... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070073960 - Pci-express communications system: To be able to transmit a response packet to the original request node after a bus ID/a device ID is replaced in the PCI-Express switch for a PCI-Express communication system, a unique node ID for indicating each node is set to the nodes. Additionally, it is confirmed whether or not... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070067498 - System and method for information handling system video input and output: Visual information is selectively input or output from an information handling system video connector to support presentation of external visual information input to the connector at a display of the information handling system or presentation of internal visual information output from the connector at an external display. A multiplexer selectively... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070067499 - Systems and methods for satellite payload application development: System and methods for satellite payload application development are provided. A method for developing embedded processing systems comprises selecting a hardware layer configuration; and developing an interfacing software stack providing services from one or more of an infrastructure services layer, a bus abstraction layer, a device abstraction layer, and a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070067500 - Method and apparatus for centralization configuration of data processing systems: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for configuring a remote data processing system. A configuration is identified for the remote data processing system to form an identified configuration. The hardware for the remote data processing system is configured. An installation application is sent to the remote... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070067501 - Mode switching for varying request sizes: A plurality of modes is provided for communicating between a host system and a peripheral storage system controller. A first communication mode may be selected from the plurality of communication modes based on a bit length required to communicate a physical address. During runtime, a switch from the first communication... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070067503 - Communication apparatus, method of controlling the communication apparatus, and communication system: A method and system for establishing communication between communication apparatuses, including a first communication apparatus receiving, from another communication apparatus, first information used for communication by a first communication unit via a second communication unit, detecting a transfer of second information, and depending on the detection result, determining whether to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070067502 - Method for preventing long latency event: A method for preventing the long latency event in the working procedure of the processor is disclosed, wherein the method comprises one step of checking whether a status happens or not. When the status happens, the processor would release the resource for specific time duration to process other works in... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070067505 - Method and an apparatus to prevent over subscription and thrashing of translation lookaside buffer (tlb) entries in i/o virtualization hardware: A method and an apparatus to prevent over subscription and thrashing of translation lookaside buffer (TLB) entries in I/O virtualization hardware have been presented. In one embodiment, the method includes performing address translation in a direct memory access (DMA) remap engine within an input/output (I/O) hub in response to I/O... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070067506 - Multimedia program download control system and method of apparatus equipped with multimedia processor: Disclosed is a multimedia program download system and method of an apparatus equipped with a multimedia processor, which is capable of downloading a mass of multimedia program through a host interface without using a boot ROM. The present invention provides a multimedia program download control system and method including a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070067504 - Parallel processing of frame based data transfers: A frame based data transfer device includes a receive frame parser, a receive frame processor, and a DMA engine. The receive frame parser receives a frame, stores framing information from the frame in a receive header queue, and stores an information unit from the frame in an information unit buffer.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070067507 - Recording device control apparatus: A recording device control apparatus that successively receives transfer requests and controls transfer of data relating to the transfer requests to and from a recording device, each transfer request including (i) area information that shows an area that is a transfer destination or a transfer source in the recording device... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070067508 - Streaming data interface device and method for automatic generation thereof: A streaming data interface device (700) of a streaming processing system (200) is automatically generated by selecting a set of circuit parameters (610) consistent with a set of circuit constraints and generating (612, 614) a representation of a candidate memory interface device based upon a set of stream descriptors. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070067509 - Detection of data in burst cutting areas of optical disk: An apparatus generates outgoing data (OD) to be provided on an optical disk (1) in a burst cutting area (2). The burst cutting area (2) further comprises markings (3) which cause a marking frequency spectrum (MFS) when reading out the burst cutting area (2). The apparatus comprises a channel coder... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070067510 - I/o configuration, and logging of resources associated with i/o open requests: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for configuring I/O monitors I/O open requests. Upon failure of an I/O open request directed to a first resource, configured I/O interfaces are analyzed to attempt to identify a second resource capable of handling the I/O open request; and if the second resource is... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070067511 - Method and apparatus for sharing memory in a multiprocessor system: A multiprocessor system (100) for sharing memory has a memory (102), and two or more processors (104). The processors are programmed to establish (202) memory buffer pools between the processors, and for each memory buffer pool, establish (204) an array of buffer pointers that point to corresponding memory buffers. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070067513 - Method for a control device to command another control device: In a method for a control device to command another control device, the first control device writes commands to a predetermined area in a storage unit, and the second control device reads the commands from the predetermined area and executes therewith. Therefore, the complexity of the control devices is simplified... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070067512 - Method, system and software arrangement for processing a device support file for a field device: A method, system computer-readable medium and software arrangement are provided for processing a device support file for a field device, such as a Foundation™ Fieldbus device. A device support file can be installed on a processing arrangement. The device support file may be received, for example, from a remote computer... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070067514 - Deterministic operation of an input/output interface: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving data from a second device in a first device, forwarding the data from an input/output (I/O) clock domain to a system clock domain of the first device, and providing the data to a functional unit of the first device... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070067515 - Signal transmission apparatus for external electronic devices: A signal transmission apparatus for external electronic devices is located on and coupled with a power supply. One end of the signal transmission apparatus that is coupled with the power supply is connected to a control signal input and output unit through a signal transmission line. The opposite end has... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070067516 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing data path optimization: The present invention is a method, apparatus and program storage device for providing data path optimization for redundant data paths. The present invention provides data path optimization that increases the data access throughput and availability to a device by using multiple paths when a modification event occurs.... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070067518 - Bitwise arbitration on a serial bus using arbitrarily selected nodes for bit synchronization: A plurality of nodes are coupled via a serial data bus so that simultaneous transmission on the bus of a dominant state by at least one of the nodes and a recessive state by the other nodes results in the dominant state being detectable on the bus. A transition from... Agent: Honeywell International, Inc. Patent Services Group

20070067517 - Integrated physics engine and related graphics processing system: Motherboards and graphics processing systems incorporating an integrated physics engine are disclosed. A proposed motherboard includes an integrated physics engine (IPE) including a north bridge circuit and a physics computing circuit; and a south bridge circuit coupled to the north bridge circuit.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070067520 - Hardware-assisted device configuration detection: A method and apparatus for detecting the configuration of a device in a processing system are described. In one embodiment, a page size parameter associated with a memory device is identified. Further, one or more configuration parameters associated with the memory device are also identified, the page size parameter and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070067521 - Id configuration method for advanced programmable interrupt controller: An advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC) identification (ID) configuration method is applied to a multiprocessor computer system. The method assigns a postponed ID to each CPU's APIC IDs respectively during the initialization. Plural reserved IDs are assigned to the I/O APICs. A multiprocessor configuration table in a basic input output... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070067519 - Linking addressable shadow port and protocol for serial bus networks: Linking addressable shadow port (LASP) and protocol allows addressing the LASP and configuring the connection of multiple Secondary Test Access Ports (TAPs) of the LASP using a single protocol or protocol bypass inputs. Multiple LASPs are cascaded and the connection of their secondary TAPs are configured using the LASP protocol... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070067522 - Video integrated circuit and video processing apparatus thereof: A video integrated circuit and a video processing apparatus thereof, connected to a memory and a video display apparatus, for processing and displaying a plurality of video signals are provided. The video integrated circuit and the video processing apparatus comprise a processor, a video capture unit, a motion picture experts... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070067523 - Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus: A method and apparatus relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus is disclosed. A method for determining a path to a senior border node is disclosed, as is a... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski

20070067524 - System for transmitting and receiving data: A system for transmitting and receiving image and audio data that is information on any of image and audio has a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus. The transmission apparatus transmits the image and audio data using a multi-channel communication system and includes a first protocol conversion device. The reception... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070067525 - Usb device for decreasing the current at load: A USB device for decreasing the current at load is provided. The USB device comprises a Client USB device, having a client functional module electronically connected to a client USB controller, connected to a Digital-USB bus and a client USB Physical Layer individually, wherein the client USB Physical Layer is... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070067527 - Data transfer bus system connecting a plurality of bus masters: A data transfer bus system is provided which is able to carry out effective processing of interrupt. To an AHB (Advanced High performance Bus) of an AMBA (Advanced Micro-controller Bus Architecture) system, connected are an AHB bus interface connected to an ARM CPU, an AHB bus arbiter, an AHB-APB bridge,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070067526 - System and method for parallel data transmission: A system for parallel data transmission including a master device and a slave device is provided. The master device includes a first and a second I/O ports for outputting a read signal and a write signal, respectively. The slave device includes a third and a fourth I/O ports electrically coupled... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070067528 - Weighted bus arbitration based on transfer direction and consumed bandwidth: A bus arbitration algorithm precisely controls the relative bus channel bandwidth allocated to each master device by considering the direction of, and/or the bus channel bandwidth consumed by, a bus transaction. At least one weighting register is associated with each master device; in one embodiment, one weighting register per bus... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070067530 - Managing a resource lock: A method of operating a resource lock for controlling access to a resource by a plurality of resource requesters, the resource lock operating in a contention efficient (heavyweight) operating mode, and the method being responsive to a request from a resource requester to acquire the resource lock, the method comprising... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070067529 - Method for denying probes during proactive synchronization within a computer system: A method for denying probes during proactive synchronization includes a first processor operating in an advanced synchronization mode, which includes the first processor specifying and acquiring exclusive access to a given memory resource. During operation in the advanced synchronization mode, specifying comprises executing a code sequence including: one or more... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20070067532 - Delayed memory access request arbitration: A method for delayed memory access request arbitration includes dispatching a first memory access request to a memory controller and dispatching a second memory access request to the memory controller in response to an anticipated completion of a memory access operation represented by the first memory access request. Another method... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070067531 - Multi-master interconnect arbitration with time division priority circulation and programmable bandwidth/latency allocation: A method and apparatus are provided to arbitrate multiple master requests to a shared resource, featuring a step of combining two different ways to arbitrate the multiple master requests to the shared resource in an operation independent manner. The two different ways may include a priority arbitration technique and a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070067534 - Message signaled interrupt extended (msi-x) auto clear and failsafe lock: A method and apparatus is disclosed for improving the MSI and MSI-X specifications by implementing an efficient delivery and clearing mechanism for interrupt conditions to increase performance between the driver and hardware/firmware interface while ensuring that no interrupts are lost in the process. In particular, an auto clear function is... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070067533 - System and method for interrupt distribution in a concurrent multithread processor: A system and method for interrupt distribution in a multithread processor are disclosed. A connection between an interrupt and a set of thread processors can be programmed. When the interrupt is executed, the set of thread processors are affected. While executing the thread processor tasks, the connection may be reprogrammed... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070067536 - Electronic system having modular expansion function facilities: An electronic system supporting modular expansion of its functions is of a type including a portable host electronic device associated with an expansion module adapted for quick-connect engagement and disengagement in/from the portable device. The expansion module includes a series of peripheral devices adapted to serve different classes of functions;... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, PC

20070067535 - Motherboard capable of selectively supporting dual graphic engine: A motherboard includes a north bridge circuit, a central processing unit (CPU) socket coupled to the north bridge circuit through a hypertransport bus; a first slot coupled to the north bridge circuit; and an upgrade slot, coupled to the second slot and the hypertransport bus, for installing a removable tunnel... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070067538 - Electronic device with card interface: When initializing a card-shaped device inserted in a card interface, operation mode acquiring means incorporated in an electronic device acquires operation mode information, stored in a register file incorporated in the card-shaped device, by a predetermined procedure using a predetermined pin. Operation mode setting means incorporated in the electronic device... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070067537 - Multiple interfaces in a storage enclosure: Provided is a system for interfacing with storage units, including a backplane, at least one slot in the storage enclosure for receiving one storage unit, and two physical interfaces on the backplane for at least one slot. The storage unit is capable of being positioned in the slot to mate... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20070067539 - Enhanced ccid circuits and systems utilizing usb and pci functions: The present invention provides an enhanced controller. The enhanced controller comprises a USB (Universal Serial Bus) based CCID (Chip Card Interface Device) controller which is integrated with a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) or PCI Express based exchangeable media card controller. The two controllers are coupled by a shared terminal to... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao, LLP

20070067540 - Method and apparatus for sending data: A method and apparatus for sending data. One exemplary embodiment may be a method comprising sending a data rate synchronization pulse from drive controller in a computer system to a storage device controller, calculating a bit transfer period by the storage device controller based on the time duration of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070067541 - Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting bus widths: A method for automatically adjusting bus widths for a first slot and a second slot of a riser card according to the number of interface cards inserted to the slots. Half of the bus width for the first slot is predetermined for transferring signals. First, a detecting unit detects whether... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070067542 - Microcontroller architecture including a predefined logic area and customizable logic areas: A microcontroller architecture in accordance with this invention provides modules or circuitry that may be programmed with a protocol for communication or other application. The architecture in accordance with this invention provides at least one module on a high bandwidth or system bus and a second module on a second... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070067543 - Bridge and data processing method therefor: There is provided a bridge which connects between a primary bus and secondary bus. The bridge reads out a descriptor from a primary memory of the primary bus, reads out a status from a secondary memory of the secondary bus, writes, into the primary memory of the primary bus, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070067544 - System for providing access of multiple data buffers to a data retaining and processing device: An area efficient system for providing serial access of multiple data buffers to a data retaining and processing device. The system includes a first circuit to synchronize a clock signal and a data signal and a data retaining and processing device to receive data from said data bus to thereby... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070067545 - Data communication method and apparatus utilizing credit-based data transfer protocol and credit loss detection mechanism: A communications bus for a digital device includes a credit-based flow control mechanism, in which a sending component maintains a local record of its credits. Credits are returned to the sender by pulsing a single-bit credit return line. A separate mechanism provides a count of available credits from the receiver,... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070067546 - On-hold message system with flash memory drive: On-hold audio messages to be played to callers to a business telephone system who are waiting to be connected to a desired party are transmitted over the Internet to a plurality of computers at separated locations. The on-hold messages are downloaded into USB drives at each of the second computers... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle & Citkowski, P.c

20070067547 - Usb device: A universal serial bus (USB) device which can receive power from a USB host or can supply power to a USB device adapter includes a power supply, an internal circuit communicating data with a USB host via a USB device adapter and a USB cable, a first switch which is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070067551 - Information processor: An information processor that is connected to at least one other information processor via a network, includes a detecting unit that detects an optional device to be used for information processing, as a target optional device, installed on the other information processor, an issuing unit that issues an access request... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070067549 - Method for request transaction ordering in ocp bus to axi bus bridge design: A request transaction ordering method and system includes designing of the Open Core Protocol (OCP) bus to an Advanced extensible Interface (AXI) bus bridge. The general flow of the bridge is to accept a plurality of read and write requests from the OCP bus and convert them to a plurality... Agent: Pete Scott Senior Corporate Counsel

20070067548 - System and method for dynamic adjustment of an information handling system graphics bus: PCI Express bus utilization is monitored for one or more predetermined thresholds to adjust the width of the bus in accordance with the utilization to provide power savings with minimal impact on performance. For instance, a performance monitor of a graphics controller tracks bus utilization with registers to adjust bus... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070067550 - Target device to be connected to ieee 1394 serial bus: A target device is provided which is connected to a controller device via IEEE 1394 serial bus, and to an HDD via USB. The target device comprises: an IEEE 1394 interface for sending and receiving a control command, its response signal and stream data to and from the controller device;... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070067553 - Design of a signal switch: The present invention provides an improved design of the signal switch, wherein the signal switch comprises at least one combinational logic such as a chip, a plurality of hosts and at least one set of input control device such as a keyboard and a mouse. The chip can further comprise... Agent: Chi-tung Chang

20070067552 - Monolithic digital audio bus switch with output control: A monolithic audio bus switch with simple logic control. The switch is a monolithic solution that may be controlled and operate from multiple common input voltage levels.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070067554 - Serially interfaced random access memory: A serially interfaced massively parallel Random Access Memory (RAM) includes a matrix of control logic sections on one integrated circuit die, augmented by a switching matrix with an external interface to multiple high speed serial signaling means. A matrix, of the same dimension, of dense memory element arrays is implemented... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20070061491 - Communication method and apparatus: A communication method allows a host to access and send commands to an apparatus across a network or communication system by encoding data as a sequence of status signals and sending the data from the host on a communication channel between the host and an auxiliary device. The apparatus detects... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070061492 - Zero-copy network i/o for virtual hosts: Techniques for virtualized computer system environments running one or more virtual machines that obviate the extra host operating system (O/S) copying steps required for sending and receiving packets of data over a network connection, thus eliminating major performance problems in virtualized environment. Such techniques include methods for emulating network I/O... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack LLP

20070061493 - System and method for out of user space i/o directly between a host system and a physical adapter using file based linear block address translation: A system, method, and computer program product that enables user space middleware or applications to pass file name based storage requests directly to a physical I/O Adapter without run-time involvement from the local Operating System (OS) are provided. A mechanism is provided for using a file protection table (FPT) data... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070061494 - Semiconductor memory system, semiconductor memory chip, and method of masking write data in a semiconductor memory chip: In a semiconductor memory chips, a semiconductor memory system, and a method of masking write data, data, command, and address signal streams are serially transmitted in the form of signal frames in accordance with a predefined protocol. The semiconductor memory system and predefined protocol are adapted to transfer write data... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070061495 - Initiating software responses based on a hardware action: The arrival of a new media volume or newly attached device is detected. The media or device is scanned in order to determine the type, and a complete list of installed software programs registered to handle the media type or device is presented to the user. This list may be... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070061496 - Electronic apparatus provided with electronic devices for serial communication and serial communication method: The invention provides an electronic apparatus provided with electronic devices for carrying out data transmission/reception through serial communication, designed to maintain highly efficient data transmission and prevent communication errors. An RDY line 15 which is kept to a high level in a basic condition is provided and when this line... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070055791 - Integrated power converter and i/o expansion: An integrated power converter and input/output (I/O) port configured to provide power for a portable electronic device, and also interface data communications to the portable electronic device.... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20070055792 - Memory device having terminals for transferring multiple types of data: Some embodiments include a memory device having a number of terminals for transferring input data and output data to and from a memory array. The memory device includes an auxiliary circuit for receiving input auxiliary information associated with the input data and for generating output auxiliary information associated with the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.a.

20070055793 - System of managing peripheral interfaces in ipmi architecture and method thereof: A system of managing a plurality of peripheral interfaces in an IPMI architecture to communicate with a plurality of peripheral controllers is provided. The system comprises a memory address table, a firmware module for reading the memory address table to acquire an initial address corresponding to the respective peripheral interface... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20070055795 - Data communication system and method with multi-channel power-down and wake-up: A data communication system includes a host configured to transmit a power-down identifier through a data channel and configured to drive a strobe channel. A client is coupled to the host through the data channel and the strobe channel, wherein the client is configured to drive the data channel to... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070055794 - System and method for modifying firmware of an optical storage medium device without requiring a compiling process: Firmware of an optical storage medium device includes an executable program code and at least one reference data set. A method for modifying the firmware without requiring a compiling process includes inputting an attribute data set for setting a user interface; modifying the firmware by modifying the reference data set... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070055796 - Memory device having terminals for transferring multiple types of data: Some embodiments include a memory device having a number of terminals for transferring input data and output data to and from a memory array. The memory device includes an auxiliary circuit for receiving input auxiliary information associated with the input data and for generating output auxiliary information associated with the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.a.

20070055797 - Computer system, management computer, method of managing access path: A computer system includes at least one host computer; at least storage apparatus providing a logical storage area for the host computer; and a management computer connected to the host computer and the storage apparatus via a network. When the management computer receives a notification of a path failure from... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20070055798 - Apparatus and method to adjust one or more input/output parameters for a computing system: A method is disclosed to adjust one or more input/output parameters for a computing system comprising at least one computing device, one or more data storage devices, and one or more variable I/O parameters. The method establishes a change value and a stabilization period for each of the one or... Agent: Dale F. Regelman

20070055799 - Communication adapter for ambulant medical or therapeutic devices: The invention generally relates to a communication adapter for use with an ambulant medical device The device carries out a data transmission to the communication adapter that carries out a data transmission to a computer by means of a data connection The communication adapter processes the data to be readout... Agent: Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc.

20070055800 - Connection of peripherals to operating systems: An arrangement for installing function drivers that provide communication between computer applications and various peripheral devices employs a master driver that is loaded for each peripheral device. The master drivers receive notification of the connection of the respective peripheral devices and, in time, load the proper function drivers. Each function... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070055801 - Peripheral device: A peripheral device has a communication section for communicating with an operational equipment which has a detecting unit for automatically detecting a peripheral device to communicate with and an installing unit for installing a driver to control a peripheral device detected by the detecting unit, a first setting section for... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070055802 - Dual-cpu multimedia system and method for fast activation of multimedia system with dual-cpu: A dual-CPU computer-based multimedia system is provided, including a computer connected to a multimedia playing control module. The multimedia playing control module has a second CPU connected to the computer through a bus, a multimedia activation and playing system memory connected to the second CPU and storing a second operating... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070055803 - Method and apparatus for enforcing independence of processors on a single ic: A single-chip integrated circuit comprising a first processor for executing a plurality of applications, a second processor for executing a plurality of applications, at least one of a) at least one embedded peripheral and b) at least one memory, and a bus monitor for allowing access to the at least... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070055804 - Method and apparatus for managing multiple components: A method for managing multiple components, the method includes: selectively preventing components from generating interrupt requests; selectively preventing writing component interrupt requests to an interrupt request list; selectively generating interrupt requests, by an interrupt request manager, in response to a content of the interrupt request list and in response to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070055805 - Control system, electronic device and image forming apparatus: A control system comprising an electronic device equipped with a port, a hub being connectable to multiple external devices and to be connected to the port of the electronic device, and one or more external devices to be connected to the hub, the operation of the external devices connected via... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070055806 - Adapting legacy instruments to an instrument system based on synchronized time: A legacy interface module that enables legacy instruments to function in instrument systems based on synchronized time. A legacy instrument module according to the present teachings adapts a legacy interface of a legacy instrument to an instrument system based on synchronized time without modifications to the legacy instrument.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070055807 - Methods and apparatus for translating messages in a computing system: Methods and apparatus for translating messages in a computing system are disclosed. In particular, a disclosed method for converting messages in a computer system includes receiving a command message from a processing unit where the message is defined according to a transport protocol that utilizes command messages using an address... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.c.

20070055808 - Methods and apparatus for translating write request messages in a computing system: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to translate memory write requests to be transmitted from a first processor to a second processor in a computing system, such as between a CPU and a Southbridge, as an example. A method includes generating a memory write request in a second protocol responsive to... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.c.

20070050524 - Configurable notification generation: Techniques that may be utilized in various computing environments are described. In one embodiment, an output event is generated based on a portion of a coalescing flag.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20070050525 - [virtual com port for remote i/o controller]: A virtual COM port for remote I/O controller comprises a virtual COM port in a host end. The virtual COM port is connected to a remote I/O controller via a network, wherein the virtual COM port is adopted for receiving and converting commands or data of a COM port interface... Agent: Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd

20070050526 - Storage control device and separation-type storage device: According to the present invention, a portion of the storage control device is configured as a detachable separation-type storage bay and a large volume of data can be moved altogether by transporting the storage bay. The separation-type storage bay is detachably provided in the device main body of the storage... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070050527 - Synchronization method for a multi-processor system and the apparatus thereof: A synchronous method for a multi-processor system and the apparatus thereof are provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, a request for acquiring a spinlock from a processor is received and then the status of the spinlock is returned to the processor. If the spinlock is in an unlock... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070050528 - Self-tuning time interpolator: A scaling factor used in time interpolation calculations is tuned so as to compensate for clock sources that generate timer interrupts both slower and faster than expected. The scaling factor is decreased when the timer interrupts are late and the scaling factor is increased when the timer interrupts are early.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070050529 - Flexible wiring system for electronic apparatus: A flexible wiring system for an electronic system includes a basic control circuit for controlling specific control circuits to obtain data from a sensor, a communication bus connected with the basic control circuit and the specific control circuits, and an intermediate distributing unit. The intermediate distributing unit includes plural first... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC