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

20070174495 - Embedded system: An embedded system, comprising a programmable device, a micro controller and an I/O interface is disclosed. The programmable device consists of a pin set for signal delivery. The micro controller device controls the programmable device via the pin set. The I/O interface receives a program code provided externally. The micro... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070174501 - System and method for managing a data transfer channel between communication devices: A method for managing a data transfer channel between communication devices includes: monitoring the data transfer channel for a data transfer; intercepting data packets of the data transfer channel if the data transfer is detected; reassembling intercepted data packets into reassembled data; detecting whether reassembled data include sensitive/confidential data corresponding... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070174521 - Information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus control method, informantion processing program, and network system: m

20070174520 - Method and an apparatus for managing data of a portable device using a virtual device, and a user interface method using the same: A method and apparatus for managing data to be stored in a memory of a portable device, and a user interface method using the same. The method includes generating a virtual device for the portable device in a storage unit of a data management apparatus; storing information on at least... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070174518 - System and method for automatically updating the memory map of a programmable controller to customized hardware: System and method for automatically updating a memory map coupled to or included in a programmable controller (PrC). A PrC may automatically detect at least one programmable hardware element (PHE) coupled to the PrC. The PHE may provide a customizable interface, i.e., input and output (I/O) interface, between one or... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070174522 - Universal interface apparatus and method: A universal interface apparatus includes a standard detection unit, a physical interface unit, and a data link selection unit. The standard detection unit automatically determines a specific physical layer standard for an external device. The physical interface unit has an I/0 (input/output) terminal that uses a respective set of the... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070174519 - Usb device and method of controlling storage medium included in the same: An image forming apparatus connected to a host using a USB and a method of controlling a storage medium included in the same are provided. A control signal with respect to the storage unit from a USB host is received, and the storage unit is controlled in response to the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070174525 - Low power multimedia playing method for portable computer: A low power multimedia playing system is provided. The system includes a portable computer and a portable media player. The portable computer includes an activation switch, an interface, a storage unit, a microcontroller, and a bus controller. The activation switch is for a function of playing audio files. The storage... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070174494 - I/o dependency graphs: A method for executing a selected input/output (I/O) command from a plurality of I/O commands based on a dependency graph of I/O commands includes building the dependency graph of I/O commands, wherein the dependency graph is built by requiring all children of the selected I/O command to be ready before... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070174493 - Method and apparatus for tracking command order dependencies: Methods and apparatus for tracking dependencies of commands to be executed by a command processor are provided. By determining the dependency of incoming commands against all commands awaiting execution, dependency information can be stored in a dependency scoreboard. Such a dependency scoreboard may be used to determine if a command... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070174496 - Executing initialization code to configure connected devices: Provided are a method, system, and program for executing initialization code to configure connected devices. A plurality of segments are provided to configure at least one connected device, wherein each segment includes configuration code to configure the at least on connected device. The segments are executed according to a segment... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070174497 - Information processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program: An information processing apparatus prevents or reduces an increase in storage capacity when setting information of a device present on a network is customized and held. Difference information with respect to common information of the setting information on the network is recorded as difference information of the setting information. The... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070174498 - Data storage apparatus and method for executing user commands therein: An apparatus for executing user commands in digital equipment operating in a USB mass storage (UMS) mode is configured in such a manner that a USB connecting unit transmits and receives commands and data to and from a PC serving as a host through a universal serial bus (USB) port.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070174500 - High-speed data transfer and multitasking method for portable terminal having mass storage secondary memory: A portable terminal having a mass storage secondary memory and a method for the portable terminal, wherein high-speed data transfer between the mass storage secondary memory and an external apparatus is supported in a multitasking manner are provided. Between the portable terminal having the mass storage secondary memory and the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070174499 - System and method for configuring an electronic device: Described is a system and method for configuring an electronic device. The method comprises detecting a coupling of a peripheral device to a host device. A first protocol utilized by the peripheral device is identified. An instruction is transmitted to the peripheral device. The instruction directs the peripheral device to... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070174502 - Method and apparatus of identifying type of non-volatile memory: A method for detecting a type of a non-volatile memory. The method includes issuing one of a sequence of reading identification commands to detect the type of the non-volatile memory; obtaining a response data from the non-volatile memory; judging whether the response data matches any type of a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070174503 - Apparatus and method for reading adaptive values out of motor vehicle control devices: A device and a method for reading out adaptation values of self-adapting functions from a motor vehicle control unit to an external readout unit are provided. The device consists of a motor vehicle control unit, an external readout unit, and a communication interface between the external readout unit and the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070174506 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus in which DMA transfer is performed. When a processor in a data processing unit outputs a first request to read data managed by a data management unit, a receiver-side DMA controller outputs a second request for DMA transfer, from the data processing unit to the data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174505 - Dma access systems and methods: Methods and systems for performing direct memory access (DMA) transfers are described. An invalidate queue (or other storage device) contains an entry associated with a DMA transfer in progress. If the invalidate queue detects an invalidation of a memory page associated with that entry, then it is marked invalid. If... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070174504 - Method and apparatus for advanced technology attachment packet interface native command queuing: A method involves receiving a first packet having a reference number, the first packet received from a Serial ATA interface that is coupled to a host; sending a first acknowledgement to the host over the Serial ATA interface; receiving a second packet having an ATAPI command from the host over... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070174507 - Methods and systems to restrict usage of a dma channel: In at least some embodiments, a system comprises a processor and a direct memory access (DMA) subsystem coupled to the processor. The system further comprises a component coupled to the DMA subsystem via an interconnect employing security rules, wherein, if the component requests a DMA channel, the DMA subsystem restricts... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070174508 - Non-fenced list dma command mechanism: A DMA controller (DMAC) for handling a list DMA command in a computer system is provided. The computer system has at least one processor and a system memory, the list DMA command relates to an effective address (EA) of the system memory, and the at least one processor has a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (cs) C/o Carr LLP

20070174509 - System for asynchronous dma command completion notification: The present invention provides for a system comprising a DMA queue configured to receive a DMA command comprising a tag, wherein the tag belongs to one of a plurality of tag groups. A counter couples to the DMA queue and is configured to increment a tag group count of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (cs) C/o Carr LLP

20070174510 - Electronic equipment, method of receiving data, method of transmitting data, method of setting channel and method of grouping electronic equipment into channels: It becomes possible for a user to set a transmission or reception channel arbitrarily and easily. Each of equipment connected to an IEEE 1394 bus may include a register provided within a RAM 113 to thereby set a transmission or reception default channel. If channels used in the transmission and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070174511 - Transmit rate pacing system and method: System and method of a pace engine for governing the different transmission rates tailored for different connections by rate pacing a plurality of queues are described. Roughly described, the pace engine includes a binning controller for receiving queues from a transmit DMA queue manager and determines the earliest allowed time... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070174513 - Buffering data during a data transfer: A buffer is disclosed for storing data being transferred using a plurality of control channels, a data item of said data being transferred between a data source and a data destination using one of said plurality of control channels, said buffer comprising: a data input port operable to receive said... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070174514 - Instantaneous data-driven clock-gating device and hard-wired streaming processing system including the same: Digital logic processing devices capable of reduced power consumption may be provided. A digital logic processing device may include one or more processing elements, an input FIFO for storing data, a processing unit, and a clock controller circuit. The processing unit may process data from the input FIFO and the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070174512 - Method for driving i/o device of storage element: The conventional I/O devices of a storage element, such as memory card, have a built-in microprocessor control unit (MCU) for executing the I/O commands. The demand of MCU increases the cost. Besides, the capacity of the storage element supported by the device is depend on the firmware inside the MCU.... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070174516 - Adaptor: An adaptor is provided. The adaptor comprises a microcontroller for converting command and data transmission between a host end and a memory card. Therefore, only one memory card circuit is required on a circuit board of the host end. Accordingly, it is possible to minimize space occupation on the circuit... Agent: Phison Electronics Corporation

20070174515 - Interfacing i/o devices with a mobile server: A mobile server is wirelessly communicable with at least one remote input/output (I/O) device to form a wireless personal-area network (PAN). The mobile server has at least one application program interface (API) allowing an application of arbitrary implementation on the mobile server to recognize and control at least one service... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070174517 - Managing management controller communications: A data storage system includes a first and second boards disposed in a chassis. The first board has disposed thereon a first Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SAS) expander, a first management controller (MC) in communication with the first SAS expander, and management resources accessible to the first MC.... Agent: Richard M. Sharkansky

20070174523 - Apparatus and method for generating bitstream of s/pdif data in hdmi: An apparatus and method for regenerating S/PDIF data is disclosed. The apparatus includes a buffer for buffering sample words of the data units; a decision unit for receiving control words of the data units and outputting a selected control word according to a current control word of a current data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070174524 - Integrated circuit device and signal transmission system: Some interface signals are selected from among signals of a plurality of different parallel interfaces, then being multiplexed onto a serial connection. A transmitter of a signal transmission system includes an interface-signal selector IFS, and a transfer programmer TP for issuing a control signal to instruct the selection from among... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20070174526 - Virtual media systems, methods and devices: In a KVM system, a system provides for USB devices to be accessed by target computers. A KVM switch connects a client with a target server via a network, the client computer having at least one device attached thereto. A second mechanism connects to a USB port of the target... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070174528 - Management of a network supplying power over data lines: According to some embodiments of the invention, a patch panel having power and connectivity management capabilities is provided. The patch panel may include on a single printed circuit board a power distribution module to control and manage distribution of power over data communication cables and a scanning module to enable... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070174527 - Apparatus for sensing an output current in a communications device: Power over Ethernet (PoE) communication systems provide power and data communications over the same communications link, where a power source device (PSE) provides DC power (for example, 48 volts DC) to a powered device (PD). The DC power is transmitted simultaneously over the same communications medium with the high speed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070174529 - Queue manager having a multi-level arbitrator: In some embodiments an apparatus is described that includes a plurality of registers associated with a plurality of queues storing data awaiting processing. The registers track amount and location of data for the associated queues and generate a request for dequeuing the data when the associated queue has a certain... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Intellevate

20070174530 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for dynamic arbitration control: A dynamic arbitration controller includes components for reading current state information as well as records of known arbitration states which may cause a deadlock condition, comparing the current state to the records of known arbitration states and resolving deadlock conditions during arbitration. The dynamic arbitration controller may include circuits for... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070174531 - Control docking unit: A control docking unit configured to accept a portable processing unit and provide alternate control operation of the portable processing unit. The control docking unit can be configured to position a display on the portable processing unit to facilitate use of one or more controls provided on the control docking... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070174533 - Usb data transfer method: A method of Universal Serial Bus (USB) data transfer is provided. In one embodiment, a USB device supports a bulk-only transmission mode to transfer data with a USB host, and the USB device comprises a bulk endpoint buffer storing data transferred between the USB device and the USB host through... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070174532 - Usb hub with sound output function: A USB hub comprises a USB mainframe unit for connecting to a computer through a connecting wire so as to support second USB expansion units to connect other peripherals; at least one fist USB expansion unit having a bus; the fist USB expansion unit supporting sound outputs; the logic switch... Agent: Frank Chen

20070174534 - Transferring system information via universal serial bus (usb): In various embodiments, a system may include a processor, a host controller coupled to the processor, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device coupled to the host controller and a non-USB device coupled to the USB device. In some embodiments, the host controller may be configured to communicate with the non-USB... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070174535 - Asynchronous/synchronous kvmp switch for console and peripheral devices: A signal switch for sharing a video monitor, a plurality of console devices compliant with an industry standard and one or more than one peripheral device in any of a plurality of computer systems, is provided comprising a CPU with a first memory for storing a management program for managing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070168568 - Computer system and communication method thereof with peripheral device: A computer system includes a plurality of privileged commands, a global descriptor table, a section object, a callgate-creating module and a user program. The privileged commands is capable of communicating with a peripheral device connected to the computer system. The global descriptor table includes a spare descriptor that can be... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070168583 - Endpoint control apparatus and method thereof: An endpoint control apparatus for a device communicating between a host and plural endpoints by way of a universal serial bus includes pluralities of buffers corresponding to the plural endpoints, a first storage unit having data storage status information of the buffers, a controller allocating an empty one of the... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070168584 - Semiconductor storage device and storage system: A semiconductor storage device includes an external input/output port. A system bus of a server, which is extended to outside of the server, is connected to the external input/output port directly as a serial interface.... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070168590 - Serial port that supports multiple protocols: System and method for performing distributed input/output (I/O). A distributed I/O device (the device) coupled to a controller may read data from a serial port, may determine if the data are framed by time, and if so, may handle the data according to a time-based protocol. If the data are... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070168564 - Enhanced first level storage cache using nonvolatile memory: A memory module is interposed between a host and a disk drive. The memory module includes a solid-state nonvolatile memory used for caching data sent by the host for storage in the disk drive. Caching takes place under the control of a memory controller in the memory module and may... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz, LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20070168565 - Storage control system and method: There is a cache memory, which has a cache area allocated to each communication port of an external storage subsystem. When data conforming to an I/O command received from a host is in an external LDEV, and when there is no cache hit in this cache area, an I/O command... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070168566 - Memory card with an indicator light: A memory card with an indicator light has a casing, a processor, an input/output (I/O) interface, memory and an indicator light module. The indicator light module is mounted in the casing and connected to the I/O interface and has an inductor, an LED and a resistor. The inductor is connected... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070168569 - Adaptive resilvering i/o scheduling: In general, the invention relates to a method for storing data. The method includes receiving an Input/Output (I/O) request to store data in a storage pool, determining whether the I/O request is a resilvering I/O request, if the I/O request is a resilvering I/O request: associating the I/O request with... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070168567 - System and method for file based i/o directly between an application instance and an i/o adapter: 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.

20070168572 - Communication system, peripheral device, and computer usable medium therefor: A communication system, comprising at least one peripheral device having a plurality of interfaces and a host computer which is capable of communicating with the at least one peripheral device through any one of the plurality of the interfaces is provided. The at least one peripheral device comprises a storing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070168570 - Method and system of controlling computer system external effects: A method and system of controlling computer system external effects. At least some of the illustrative embodiments may be a computer system comprising a processor (wherein a computer system user interacting with software executed on the processor triggers a software event), and an external effects controller coupled to the processor... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070168571 - System and method for automatic enforcement of firmware revisions in scsi/sas/fc systems: A system and method for automatic enforcement of firmware revision in an information handling system are disclosed. The method includes scanning an interconnection for hardware devices attached to the interconnection in an information handling system and determining an interconnection compatibility of each hardware device attached to the interconnection based on... Agent: Randall C. Furlong Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168573 - Updating method of usb device: A method of updating a plurality of USB devices is provided. Firmwares of the USB devices are updated by discriminating the USB devices using their unique device interface IDs. Accordingly, a plurality of USB devices of the same product family can be discriminated using device interface IDs and thus the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070168576 - Computer system and method for supporting network-enabled devices: A computer-implemented method and system are provided for supporting hardware devices that are connected to the computer via a network. The existence of any hardware device connected on the network is detected in the method. Information descriptive of the connected device is then obtained, either from the device or from... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070168577 - Method of updating channel information by a mobile station that is in power saving mode: A method of updating channel information by a mobile station (MS) that is in power saving mode is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes the MS which receives status information of a first channel descriptor and transmission frame information which includes when the first channel descriptor is to be transmitted.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070168575 - 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 first interface, a non-volatile storage unit, a second interface, an electric material and a package unit. Therein, the non-volatile storage unit further has a controller and a non-volatile storage... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070168574 - System and method for securing access to general purpose input/output ports in a computer system: A system and method is disclosed for managing the access to GPIO ports that are coupled to input pins of devices in the computer system. Access commands directed to a GPIO port are monitored. When an access command is detected, an interrupt is issued and an interrupt handler determines if... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168578 - System and method for data collection interface creation and data collection administration: A method for collecting data for statistical modeling purposes can include the step of selecting at least one user interface type from a plurality of previously defined user interface types. Parameters of the selected interface type can be defined for a particular data collection instance. Target participant data can be... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070168579 - Dma transfer and hardware acceleration of ppp frame processing: PPP frame encapsulation of IP frames—including FCS calculation, character escaping, and HDLC flag insertion—is performed by hardware acceleration circuits within a DMA module as part of a DMA transfer autonomously of a processor. Software may preprocess the IP packets prior to the hardware-accelerated processing. The hardware acceleration in the DMA... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070168580 - Apparatus to improve the firmware efficiency for a multiframe serial interface: A serial network controller contains control logic to analyze and determine a duration of a proper frame time slot. A number of data fields in a transmission is ascertained from an identifier field supplied in a header field. The number of data fields plus a margin for data framing overhead... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20070168581 - Selecting a path comprising ports on primary and secondary clusters to use to transmit data at a primary volume to a secondary volume: Provided are a method, system and program for selecting a path comprising ports on primary and secondary clusters to use to transmit data at a primary volume to a secondary volume. A request is received to copy data from a primary storage location to a secondary storage location. A determination... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070168582 - Method for protecting an i/o port of a computer: The present invention provides a method for protecting an input/output port of a computer. The method includes the steps of: searching for the entry representing the input/output port in the system's registry editor (REGEDIT) of the computer according to a corresponding global unique identifier of the input/output port; obtaining a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070168585 - Method and system for remote access to keyboard control in legacy usb mode: A remote access module associated with a BIOS of an information handling system having a UHCI-based USB controller allows selection of legacy USB control with a local keyboard or access by a remote keyboard through a remote access bus master adapter. Input from an inactive local or remote keyboard results... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070168586 - Multimedia and multi-content capture device and integration model: Multimedia and multi-content capture device and integration model. A capture device takes raw sensor data and processes it using a set of algorithms stored on the capture device. A processing device communicates with the capture device to reprocess the raw sensor data using the set of algorithms stored on the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070168588 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation allowing dynamic expansion of input key associations: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon frequency of use, but some variants are provided by various logic structures resident... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070168587 - Input switching method by using an auxiliary keyboard and such arrangement: An input switching arrangement by using an auxiliary keyboard is disclosed. Such arrangement comprises a main keyboard with a first set of keys and a first switching key, and at least an auxiliary keyboard each with a second set of keys and a second switching key. The main keyboard and... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070168589 - Circuits and methods for high speed and low power data serialization: Circuits and methods convert parallel data into a serial data stream. A serializer according to the present invention generally includes a high speed section and a low speed section. The high speed section generally comprises a tree-based serializer configured to serialize an N-bit parallel data stream, where N is a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070168591 - System and method for validating codec software: A system for validating codec software includes sending to a validation server duplicates of the real-time endpoint encoder and decoder input/output datas. A comparator of the validation server compares the encoder output data to a pre-tested reference code and the decoder output data to a pre-tested reference code. The process... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20070168592 - Multi-processor system and program for causing computer to execute controlling method of interruption of multi-processor system: A multi-processor system with a plurality of unit processors includes: a semaphore setting section for setting semaphores representing preferential right to the competing of resources to be able to be identified to correspond to each of a plurality of the resources; a semaphore request determining section for determining, whether when... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070168593 - Method and apparatus for docking a mobile information handling system: A mobile information handling system docking apparatus includes a base including a display device. An information handling system docking connector is located on the base. A mobile information handling system may be secured to the base and connected to the information handling system docking connector in order to utilize the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070168594 - Signal transmission method, bridge unit, and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus having a fat tree structure, in which signal transmission across node columns managed by respective processor units is performed through end point bridges included in bridge chips. In this transmission method, the bridge chips perform routing by using node IDs that are given to the respective... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070168595 - System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus: A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupled to the memory hub through a... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070168596 - Method and system for powering a device using a data communications signal line: A system and method for transferring power using a data communications signal line. The data communications signal line is in a high impedance powerless state when idle. A main device is electrically coupled to the data communications signal line. The main device generates and transmits a signal on the data... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070168597 - Compound information platform and managing method for the same: Module combination candidates which compose an information platform, to reduce human error when a platform is composed, and to permit automatic configuration changes. There is therefore provided a compound information platform comprising information platforms combining one or more universal processing modules and dedicated processing modules, wherein a management module has... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070162622 - Dual flash disk storage device: A dual flash disk storage device integrates a first flash disk storage device and a second flash disk storage device into a single module by an advanced technology attachment (ATA) interface, and has two independent physical first and second flash disk storage devices, and uses a jumper to set the... Agent: Hdsl

20070162628 - Communication apparatus and method for controlling communication: According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus communicates with both a controller device and a control object device. The communication apparatus includes a first provide section that provides file configuration information conforming to a file system format acceptable to the controller device; a receive section that receives an access request... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070162626 - System and method for enhancing external storage: One embodiment as described herein provides a system and method for enhancing external storage. One embodiment includes a controller of a peripheral device of a computer system. The controller provides access a storage medium of the peripheral device. In one embodiment, the storage medium of the peripheral device includes a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv2)

20070162635 - Command determination control apparatus and apparatus control method: According to one embodiment, when a command has been detected, while data transfer is in progress, it is determined that the command has been unintentionally issued, and a mode move is limited. A control apparatus has a command decoder circuit, a data control circuit, a state control circuit which analyzes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070162633 - Computer peripheral device containing contents and method of outputting contents using the same: A computer peripheral device containing contents and a method of outputting contents using the device are provided. The computer peripheral device containing contents includes: a memory in which contents and a program for driving the contents are previously stored, the memory outputting the contents and the content driving program in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070162642 - A dma controller with multiple intra-channel software request support: A direct memory access (DMA) controller supporting multiple outstanding software requests in the same channel (intra-channel) is disclosed. The DMA controller comprises a plurality of channel configuration registers, a channel request arbiter, a tail search unit, a channel prediction unit, a command/request entry generator and a request queue. The channel... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070162645 - Communication system for data transfer between on-chip circuits: Provided is a communication system for improving utilization of on-chip communication architecture and eliminating waiting of a master to use a bus. The communication system includes: a direct memory access controller handling high-capacity data communication among a memory and peripheral devices; a communication switch connected with the direct memory access... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070162643 - Fixed offset scatter/gather dma controller and method thereof: The invention disclosed herein is directed to a scatter/gather direct memory access (DMA) controller that is able to perform DMA data transfers from/to noncontiguous areas in a memory to/from contiguous areas in a memory. The DMA controller has a control register comprised of three fields, a line segment offset, a... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070162665 - Combination apparatus capable of data communication between host devices and method thereof: A combination apparatus capable of data communication between host devices and a data communication method thereof are provided. The combination apparatus includes a first host device that controls a first function block to perform a first function, a second host device that controls a second function block to perform a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070162621 - Communications channel interposer, method and program product for verifying integrity of untrusted subsystem responses to a request: In a communications channel coupled to multiple duplicated subsystems, a method, interposer and program product are provided for verifying integrity of subsystem responses. Within the communications channel, a first checksum is calculated with receipt of a first response from a first subsystem responsive to a common request, and a second... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070162623 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, signal processing system, program and medium: Changes to the functions of an apparatus and the addition of appliances can be easily performed without needing to change the internal wiring or make connections with signal cables. A first signal processing means 151, 152, . . . that process an input signal, a judging means for judging whether... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070162625 - Method and apparatus for delivering device drivers: A method and apparatus for delivering a device driver to an operating system without user intervention. One or more operating systems (e.g., different operating system programs, different versions of one operating system) execute on a computer platform. During booting of an operating system a device is identified for which a... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Park Vaughan & Fleming, LLP

20070162627 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing operating system resources supporting usb device driver development in linux system: Provided are an apparatus and method for diagnosing operating system resources supporting universal serial bus (USB) device driver development for a Linux system. The apparatus and method device enable driver developers to simply perform, without professional knowledge of hardware and operating systems, operating system resource diagnosis such as detection and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070162624 - System and method for configurable digital communication: The present invention pertains to a configurable PCI-Express switch. The configurable PCI-Express switch includes a differential I/O interface capable of being configured in a first configuration or a second configuration. In the first configuration, the differential I/O interface implements a PCI-Express interface with a coupled device. In the second configuration,... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070162629 - Method of assigning objects to processing units: Methods and systems for assigning objects to processing units of a cluster of processing units are provided. In one implementation, the objects to be assigned may be sorted by size, which provides a sequence of objects. Starting with the first processing unit, objects may then be assigned in sequential order.... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070162630 - Single-chip multiple-microcontroller package structure: A single chip multiple-microcontroller package structure comprises at least two microcontrollers capable of operating independently, a plurality of pins, a data bus, a pin multiple-control register, and a plurality of pin control logics. The pin multiple-control register, the data bus, and the pin control logics are electrically connected to the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070162632 - Apparatus and method for detecting and enabling video devices: In some embodiments, a system board may include embedded graphics capability on the system board. An expansion slot on the system board may be adapted to receive an add-in card. A first circuit on the system board may detect the presence of a graphics card in the expansion slot automatically... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070162634 - Communication apparatus and communication control method: A communication apparatus of an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a wired interface and a wireless interface for connecting devices, and includes a same device detecting unit configured to detect whether or not the same device is connected to the wired interface and the wireless interface, and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 000449, 001701

20070162631 - Method for selectable software-hardware internet scsi: Embodiments of the present invention address the deficiencies of the art in respect to application performance and provide a novel and non-obvious data processing method, system and computer program product for selecting between separate hardware implemented and software implemented iSCSI paths to process an input/output request in a data communication... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070162636 - System and method for implementing a storage protocol with initiator controlled data transfer: The present invention is a system for implementing a storage protocol with initiator controlled data transfer including a host device, a target device and an intermediate device, the intermediate device for communicatively coupling the host device and the target device. The intermediate device is configured to control a data transfer... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070162644 - Data packing in a 32-bit dma architecture: A method of reducing data transfer overheads in a 32-bit bus interface unit direct memory access architecture. The method comprises the steps of identifying the optimal number of data elements, that can be accessed as a single full-word transfer, setting data packing criteria and analysing the data pattern and determining... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070162651 - Data transfer control: The application discloses a direct memory access controller operable to control data transfer between a plurality of data source and data destination pairs comprising: at least one port operable to receive data from at least one data source and to output data to at least one data destination; and a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070162649 - Direct memory access controller: A direct memory access controller (DMAC) is disclosed. In one case, the DMAC is configured to manage a DMA transmission of mass data with non-continuous addresses with a nonvolatile memory. The DMAC has to transmit them in batches according to their respective continuous addresses but, different from the prior art... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20070162646 - Direct memory access devices and method based timer system: The direct memory access device and method of the present invention uses an event calendar, an expired event queue of a fixed size, a calendar scanner, and an event mover. The event calendar stores an event in a linked list. The expired event queue stores an event that has already... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070162650 - Distributed direct memory access provision within a data processing system: An adaptor circuit 20 for peripheral devices 14, 18 is provided with a direct memory access manager 38. This local direct memory access manager 38 is able to autonomously manage data transfers on behalf of its associated peripheral device 14, 18. A computer program tools used to generate signal interconnects... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070162648 - Dma controller with self-detection for global clock-gating control: A standby self-detection mechanism in a DMA controller which reduces the power consumption by dynamically controlling the on/off states of at least one clock tree driven by global clock-gating circuitry is disclosed. The DMA controller comprises a standby self-detection unit, a scheduler, at least one set of channel configuration registers... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070162638 - Generic dma memory space mapping: In a data processing system having multiple input/output adapters, a DMA memory block is assigned to each adapter. The DMA memory block has a data area and a generic common control area. All adapters have the same translation control entry for the control area. The control area includes a mapped... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070162641 - Method and apparatus for utilizing platform support for direct memory access remapping by remote dma (\"rdma\")-capable devices: A direct memory access (“DMA”) request specifies a target address within an input/output virtual address (“IOVA”) space. The DMA target is validated and data are transferred between the target identified by the IOVA and a second location. Chipsets and systems using embodiments of the invention are also described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070162640 - Method and system for efficient context swapping: Systems and methods for efficiently switching context between processing elements are disclosed. These systems and methods may transfer the context of a processing element to a storage location. Using the DMA controller of a target processing element, the contents of this storage location may be transferred to another storage location... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070162637 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for enabling multiple asynchronous direct memory access task executions: A method, apparatus and program storage device for enabling multiple asynchronous direct memory access task executions. DMA I/O operations and performance are improved by reducing the overhead in DMA chaining events by creating a software DMA queue when a hardware DMA queue overflows and dynamically linking new DMA requests to... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070162647 - System and method for performing scatter/gather direct memory access transfers: The present application describes systems and methods for performing direct memory access (DMA) from a source memory to a destination memory. One such method comprises retrieving address values to specify starting locations in the source memory and the destination memory; retrieving a size value to specify a number of units... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070162639 - Tcp-offload-engine based zero-copy sockets: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for sending data to a remote host using a socket. During operation the system receives a request from an application to write data to the socket, wherein the data is stored in a source memory buffer in user memory. Next, the... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070162652 - 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: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070162653 - Data transfer device and method of transmitting data: A data transfer device having a data input and a data output has a data transmitter for transmitting data at the data input to the data output. The data transfer device includes a counter for decrementing/incrementing a counter value for each data passing the data output. The data transfer device... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070162654 - Memory controller and memory control method: A memory controller has a control unit receiving a transfer data from a transmission circuit and executing a burst transfer of the transfer data to a reception circuit. The transmission circuit transmits a first data of a first bit length for a first burst times by a burst transmission. The... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070162655 - Locking device of usb port: A locking device of USB port includes a plugging head and a carrying portion; the plugging head has a connecting channel and a plugging channel at the two ends thereof. The connecting channel provides the alignment-positioning connection to the USB port, and the two sides of the plugging channel have... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070162656 - Method for efficient communication between a host library controller and a medium changer library: A host library controller employs a plurality of ports for establishing a plurality of communication paths from the host library controller to a medium changer library. The host library controller further employs a processor and a memory storing instructions for the processor to issue a command from a medium changer... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070162657 - Method of outputting data onto a copy paper: A method for outputting data onto a copy paper has acts of (a) providing a copy paper having a carrier and an emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer with at least one photoactive compound is mounted between the carrier, (b) mirroring an image to a mirror image, inverting color level... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070162658 - Data transfer apparatus, storage device control apparatus and control method using storage device control apparatus: A data transfer apparatus includes a memory having first and second queues for storing data transfer information that includes information specifying a first memory area and information specifying a second memory area, a first processor which registers the data transfer information in the first or second queue, and a second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070162659 - Deadlock avoidance in a bus fabric: Circuits, apparatus, and methods for avoiding deadlock conditions in a bus fabric. One exemplary embodiment provides an address decoder for determining whether a received posted request is a peer-to-peer request. If it is, the posted request is sent as a non-posted request. A limit on the number of pending non-posted... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070162667 - Apparatus and method for providing user interface: A method and apparatus for providing a user interface is provided. The apparatus includes a transmitting/receiving unit-that receives a instruction signal transmitted by a control device, and a control unit in communication with the transmitting/receiving unit that determines whether devices connected to an audio-video (AV) network can be operated according... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070162664 - Customizable user interface for external devices: A system and method for controlling an external device from a first device include a display and a user interface associated with the first device. The first device has a first controller and a first data port. An external device has an external controller and a second data port coupled... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070162666 - Data input terminal device: A data input terminal device is configured to be connected via a communication cable with a host computer from one of two connectors each associated with a distinct communications interface. The data terminal input device is configured to select the appropriate communications interface without additional intervention by a user. An... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070162661 - Memory extension apparatus and the method of data transfer applied therein: A memory extension apparatus and the method of data transfer applied therein. The memory extension apparatus comprises a first interface, a protocol converter, a processor, a file system, a memory unit, and a trigger unit. The protocol converter receives a first command from the first electronic device via the first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070162660 - Method, apparatus and computer system for independently updating a storage device of a computer system: Some embodiments of a method, apparatus and computer system are described for independently updating a storage device of a computer system. The apparatus includes a bus conversion module or dedicated connector coupled to a multiplexer, wherein the multiplexer is coupled to a primary storage. In embodiments, the information in the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070162662 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamically switching network protocols for use in a printing device: A single Ethernet network adapter having both 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps networking connections for dual network protocol modes is disclosed in one embodiment. The network adapter converts both 100 Mbps (100BASE-FX) and 10 Mbps (10BASE-FL) network protocols to a single common BASE-TX protocol. The network adapter can receive either... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070162663 - Single-chip multiple-microcontroller package structure: A multiple-microcontroller integrated circuit chip comprises at least two microcontrollers capable of operating independently, a plurality of pins, a data bus, a pin multiple-control register, and a plurality of pin control logics. The pin multiple-control register, the data bus, and the pin control logics are electrically connected to the pins.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070162668 - Variable-width memory module with fixed-width memory die: Described are memory modules that support dynamic point-to-point extensibility using fixed-width memory die. The memory modules include data-width translators that allow the modules to vary the effective width of their external memory interfaces without varying the width of the internal memory interfaces extending between the translators and associated fixed-width dies.... Agent: Silicon Edge Law Group, LLP

20070162669 - Remote sensor with modular bus adapter: A remote sensing system having a modular bus architecture. The bus architecture of the present invention comprises a modular reconfigurable processing unit which functions as an interface between the sensors and the communications components. The system has three main components: (1) input pods that provide physical and logical interfaces to... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070162670 - Memory interface to bridge memory buses: A memory interface to bridge a parallel memory bus and a serial memory bus. One embodiment includes a printed circuit board, comprising: at least one memory interface buffer chip to connect an advanced memory buffer (AMB) interface and one or more non-fully buffered memory modules.... Agent: Ivy Y. Mei

20070162671 - Apparatus to recognize memory devices: An apparatus to recognize memory devices, the apparatus including a plurality of slaves having the same fixed address, a master controller to supply power to the slaves and to output a signal to select a predetermined slave, and a power control unit to control power supplied to the slaves in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070162672 - Method and apparatus for fixed latency subtractive decoding: Systems and methods for early fixed latency subtractive decoding are disclosed. The subtractive decoding device speculatively, or conditionally, acknowledges a bus transaction within a fixed time period that is the same as the time period for positive decoding. Pipelining of a new bus transaction may therefore be accomplished each new... Agent: Marvell-fhfgd C/o Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garnett Et. Al.

20070162673 - System and method for optimized allocation of shared processing resources: A system and method which efficiently manages the status of resources or services in a document processing system or device and uses a priority-based dynamic allocation process for allocating or releasing selected resources for a user or task. A job resource manager receives resource requests containing a resource name, quantity... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070162674 - Access control system, and access control device and resource providing device used for the same: Has an object of discarding an access permission to be discarded quickly and preventing illegal use of a device providing resources. A communication unit 101 communicates with a resource use device 30 and a resource providing device 20. An access permission unit 106 instructs the resource providing device 20 to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070162675 - Interrupt control device: To provide an interrupt control device for avoiding an unwanted transition to a low power mode without a decrease in software quality. The interrupt control device receives an interrupt, and also receives a switching instruction to switch a target device from a normal power mode to the low power mode,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070162676 - Adapter element, conversion apparatus and conversion method: An adapter element, a conversion apparatus and a conversion method are applied in an electrical connection between a memory element and an electronic apparatus for transmitting data. The switch apparatus includes a first interface, a second interface and a processor. A first adapter element is inserted into the first interface.... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai & Associates, P.C.

20070162677 - Hot-plug extension device and a display having the hot-plug extension device: An LCD display capable of connection to a hot-plug extension device has a microprocessor that includes a detecting port, a signal-out pin and a power pin. The detecting port is connected to at least two detecting switches. A power switch is connected to the signal-out pin and the power pin.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070162678 - Computer system and memory bridge for processor socket thereof: A multi-processor computer system includes a memory bridge configured in a processor socket on a motherboard. The memory bridge module electrically connects a processor bus and a memory bus that connect to the processor socket. Thus, an adjacent processor is capable of accessing an unused memory by way of the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070162679 - Bus device: A bus device is used with a computer system. In the bus device, a bus-interfaced host performs data transmission in a first mode in response to a first command resulting from certain software execution of the computer system. A bridge device is coupled to and communicable with the bus-interfaced host... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070156929 - Keyboardless portable electronic apparatus: A keyboardless portable electronic apparatus is provided. Under a text input state, a display area of the apparatus includes a content display area, a function menu area, and a symbol selection area. The content display area is for displaying selection results of the navigational device. The function menu area is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070156930 - Method for controlling data transmission and related device: The invention relates to a method for controlling a data transmission between a peripheral device and a host. The method includes: estimating a transmission time of a predetermined amount of data transmitted between the peripheral device and the host; and determining a control scheme to be a polling scheme or... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070156931 - Dynamic memory allocation between inbound and outbound buffers in a protocol handler: An apparatus and method for dynamically allocating memory between inbound and outbound paths of a networking protocol handler so as to optimize the ratio of a given amount of memory between the inbound and outbound buffers is presented. Dedicated but sharable buffer memory is provided for both the inbound and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070156932 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes a common transceiver macrocell including a circuit necessary for host operation and a circuit necessary for device operation. The common transceiver macrocell includes an analog front-end circuit and a high-speed logic circuit. The high-speed logic circuit includes a parallel/serial conversion circuit, a first parallel interface... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070156933 - Efficient connection between modules of removable electronic circuit cards: A removable electronic circuit card has multiple modules connected to the card's bus in parallel so that each module can exchange commands and data independently with the host. According to a first aspect of the present invention, this achieved by a controller-to-controller interface whereby the modules can facilitate their interactions... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz, LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20070156934 - High-speed pci interface system and a reset method thereof: A high-speed PCI interface system with reset function and a reset method thereof are provided. The interface system comprises a host controller chipset, at least one high-speed PCI device and at least one reset signal generator. While a hot rest package cannot be executed by the high-speed PCI device, the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070156935 - Address translation device: An apparatus, system and method to facilitate I2C communication between a host device and a slave device where the slave device shares a common physical address with another slave device on the I2C bus. The apparatus includes a detection module to detect an incoming address on the I2C bus, a... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070156937 - Data transfer in multiprocessor system: A multiprocessor system includes a plurality of masters, at least one first type of slave operating with a first clock frequency, and at least one second type of slave operating with a second clock frequency higher than the first clock frequency. An arbitrator coordinates access between the masters and the... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070156936 - System and method for dynamically adding additional masters onto multi-mastered llc buses with tunable performance: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for coupling a collection of master devices on an Inter-Integrated Circuit (IIC) bus, where the collection of master devices includes at least one resident master device, generating a periodic, fixed interval tenure on the IIC bus, synchronizing at least one additional master device with... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070156938 - Interconnect structure between hypertransport bus interface boards: An interconnect structure between HyperTransport bus interface boards, for interconnecting corresponding HyperTransport bus interfaces disposed on different Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) via a connector. The connector cuts across a HyperTransport bus, and terminals of two HyperTransport bus interfaces on different PCBs connected via the connector are connected with each other... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070156939 - Deadlock detection by lock classification: Systems and methods for detecting a potential deadlock in a computing execution environment are provided. A plurality of locks taken during one or more test runs are monitored. A runtime identity and a code location for each of the plurality of locks are identified during each test run. One or... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufma IBM Corporation

20070156940 - Method and system to partition hardware resources between operating systems: Disclosed is a method and system to partition hardware resources between operating systems. A determination is made whether a first PCI resource attached to a line of a bus is to be sequestered to a service operating system (OS). If so, the first PCI resource is sequestered to the service... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070156941 - Method for synchronizing processors following a memory hot plug event: A method for synchronizing processors during a system management interrupt caused from a memory hot plug event in multiple processor systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for synchronizing processors during an assertion of a system management interrupt (SMI) in an information handling system including, for each processor, identifying... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070156942 - Method and apparatus for independently managing a chipset-integrated bus controller: A method and apparatus is described herein are for managing interconnect controllers. When a downstream device is removed from a system, the controller coupled to the devce is placed in a low-power state to save power and ejected from an operating system. Detection circuitry in the controller is also disabled.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070156943 - Memory module having a clock line and termination: A memory system includes a controller chip and a memory module coupled to the controller chip. A signal line carries a signal that traverses the signal line until reaching a termination at an end of the signal line. A clock line carries a clock signal that traverses the clock line... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.