Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 08/07

20070204079 - Bidirectional convertible kvm switch assembly structure and its kvm switch: The present invention discloses a bidirectional convertible KVM switch assembly structure and its KVM switch, wherein the assembly structure uses a base to contain a KVM switch connected to a rear end of a four-in-one KVM switch and fixes the KVM switch, and the base and the KVM switch are... Agent: John G. Chupa Law Offices Of John Chupa & Associates, P.C.

20070204071 - Apparatus, system, and method for automated device configuration and testing: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automated device configuration and testing. The present invention teaches receiving and implementing a configuration request form a host, receiving and executing a power cycle request, and receiving and implementing a test request. In certain embodiments, the present invention teaches responding to a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070204069 - Port number emulation for wireless usb connections: Port number emulation for wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections is provided. Virtual USB port numbers are emulated and associated with external devices that are wirelessly connected to a host device. The associations are maintained in a data structure. When a wireless external device connects with the host device after... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070204070 - Usb device, usb system and recording medium storing usb control program: The present invention seeks to eliminate the necessity of reinstalling a driver and various types of settings whenever a USB device which is the same type of USB device previously used is plugged into a host computer, or is plugged to another port. Thus, when a USB device 1 is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070204072 - Method and mechanism for cataloguing information on devices in a computing system: In a computing network containing multiple computing devices, a network card in a computing device provides the ability for the computing device to transmit specific types of information while the computing device is in an inactive state. The network card contains processing capabilities that enable it to detect and receive... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070204074 - Apparatus and method for performing dma data transfer: The DMA data transfer apparatus includes a memory, a communication controller, a DMA controller having a plurality of DMA engines each of which transfers data by DMA to the communication controller from the memory, and a DMA control unit. The DMA control unit determines a division size of transfer data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070204073 - Method for improving flexibility of direct memory access channels: The invention provides a method improving flexibility of at least one direct memory access (DMA) channel. The at least one DMA channel is used by a plurality of DMA engines of a first device to direct data transmission between the plurality of DMA engines of the first device and a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070204075 - System and method for reducing command scheduling constraints of memory circuits: A memory circuit system and method are provided. An interface circuit is capable of communication with a plurality of memory circuits and a system. In use, the interface circuit is operable to interface the memory circuits and the system for reducing command scheduling constraints of the memory circuits.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070204077 - Memory card controller, memory card drive device, and computer program: A memory card controller for controlling data transfer between a host device that requests data transfer by issuing a command specifying a data amount and a memory card that executes a transfer operation from receipt of a transfer start instruction until receipt of a transfer end instruction. The memory card... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070204076 - Method and apparatus for burst transfer: A method includes receiving a burst access request for transfer of data between a memory and a first bus. The burst access request specifies an amount of data that is at least a multiple of an amount of data transferred in one beat. A single memory request is issued, instructing... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070204078 - Digital rights management engine systems and methods: In one embodiment, a digital rights management engine is provided that evaluates license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. In some embodiments, the licenses contain control programs that are executable by the digital rights management engine.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070204080 - Device, system and method for data exchange: A device, a method and a system for portable data storage and transfer through a simplified device interface. The operations of the device are restricted, in order to increase the ease of use of the device, and in order to provide certain core functions. These core functions include reading data,... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070204082 - Bus communication system: A bus communication system is equipped with an operation scheme based on a trouble detection method that prevents a halt of the entire bus communication system by partially operating the system with the enforcement of operation prohibition for a troubled part. The troubled part in a daisy chain network of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070204081 - Bus system and method for operating a bus system: A method for operating a bus system, in particular in a microprocessor or microcontroller, and a semiconductor device for performing the method is disclosed. In one embodiment, for optimizing the order of accesses to the bus system, a method for operating a bus system includes at least one transmission channel,... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070204083 - Bus arbitration method and computer-readable medium: A bus arbitration method for arbitrating a bus in a computer capable of executing a plurality of tasks by a plurality of devices connected to the bus is provided and includes: acquiring a task information at a timing, the information containing a priority of each of the tasks and a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070204084 - Apparatus and method of processing information: An information processing apparatus is provided. Plural processors respectively execute separate operating systems to process data that has been received from a network. The apparatus includes receiving device that receives the data in predetermined units from the network and analyzing device that analyzes identification data added to the data received... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070204085 - Method of processing nonsecure interrupts by a processor operating in the secure mode, associated processor: A method of processing interrupts in a processor adapted for operating either in a first mode, or in a second mode, and having at least one counter comprises the following, when an interrupt associated with an interrupt subroutine executable in the second mode is dispatched to the processor in the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070204086 - Product based configuration and control of manufacturing equipment: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for product based configuration and control of manufacturing equipment. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing. The method includes identifying components to be mounted on a printed circuit board of a product and generating information that specifies the components. The method includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070204087 - Two-level interrupt service routine: A processor provides two-level interrupt servicing. In one embodiment, the processor comprises a storage device and an interrupt handler. The storage device is configured to store an interrupt identifier corresponding to an interrupt request. The interrupt handler is configured to recognize the interrupt request, initiate a common interrupt service routine... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070204088 - Modularized circuit board bus connection control method and system: A modularized circuit board bus connection control method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a computer platform, such as a blade server, for providing a bus connection control function when connected to a modularized circuit board, such as a server module; which is characterized by the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070204089 - Multi-protocol removable storage device: A removable storage device that automatically selects a communication protocol to exchange information with a host computer includes a physical layer interface, a protocol failure detection module, a connect and disconnect emulator, an insert and removal detector, and internal control logic. The internal control logic coordinates detecting an attachment of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070204090 - Method and apparatus for routing of control lines: Control lines for routing in which senders and receivers are linked to each other by real-time lines and real-time signals observable on these lines are sent out in series in a frame, on one and the same series link. Starting and ending signals of a particular shape are send with... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070204091 - Single bus command for transferring data in a processing system: A processing system and method for transferring data in a processing system. The processing system includes a bus mastering device, a plurality of slave devices, and a bus interconnect configured to switch the bus mastering device between the slave devices. Each of the slave devices has a plurality of addresses.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070204092 - Method and apparatus for describing acpi machine language in computer having multibridge pci structure, and program thereof: There is provided a method for describing an ACPI machine language table used in a computer system having a multibridge PCI structure, which enables an OS to support hot plugs for PCI devices subordinate to a PCI multibridge. Upon receiving a call requesting a resource information method for a PCI... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070204093 - Update device for usb to rs232 adapter: An exemplary device for USB to RS232 adapter includes a computer with a code update software stored therein, a connector, and a voltage converter coupled to the connector. The computer is configured to connect to one end of the USB to RS232 adapter. The connector is configured to connect to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070204094 - A method and apparatus for transmitting data in an integrated circuit: A method and apparatus for transmitting data between cores residing in an integrated circuit. Data is transmitted by using hubs located between the cores and an arbiter. The arbiter maintains a table that contains all the valid combinations of routing paths between the cores.... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20070204095 - Configurable switching device: A configurable switching device includes a switch card coupled to interface with a backplane of a computer chassis, a plurality of PCI-Express switching elements coupled to the switch card, and a configuration means coupled to the switch card, where the configuration means is operable to configure and reconfigure the plurality... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070198749 - Real time data expansion for distributed i/o: The present exemplary embodiment relates to industrial machine control and corresponding communication protocols. In one embodiment, the machine control communication protocol is Distributed I/O that has Extended Data Transfer (EDT) capability. It finds particular application with expanding the underutilized bandwidth of the EDT to gather/send secondary input and output data... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./fay

20070198751 - Method and apparatus for managing dependencies between split transaction queues: A method and apparatus are provided for managing dependencies between split command and data transactions. A command transaction is written into a command array. A data transaction is written into a data array. A marker is defined for both command transactions and data transactions, and a marked command counter is... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070198755 - Information processing apparatus, peripheral apparatus control method, and computer readable medium: The present invention provides a peripheral apparatus control method, and an information processing apparatus and control method that can correctly manage and display a status of each individual peripheral apparatus, even when a plurality of peripheral apparatuses is allocated to a single queue.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070198757 - Data processing system with hardware polling processor: A data processing system includes a processor, a peripheral device conducting an operation requested by the processor, a clock/power control unit supplying a clock signal to the processor, and a hardware polling processor detecting current state data output from the peripheral device and regulating the clock/power control unit to interrupt... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070198750 - Input/output workload fingerprinting for input/output schedulers: A computer implemented method in a data processing system for fingerprinting input/output workloads for input/output schedulers. Requests are identified in a workload for an input/output scheduler. Each request is classified to form a set of classifications. Whether an action is needed is determined based on the set of classifications. If... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070198752 - Modular machine and corresponding method for dynamically configuring the topology of said machine: In one aspect, a method for dynamic configuration of a modular machine, whose modules are interconnected and connected to a control unit via a communications network is provided in order to facilitate the modification of a machine configuration in automated systems. According to the method, during the operation of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070198753 - Method and protocol for transmitting extended commands to usb devices: A method is disclosed for transferring data via a USB interface. A workstation is provided having an interface therein supporting a first set of known commands. A USB device is provided for interfacing with the interface and supporting a second set of known commands, the second set including some commands... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070198754 - Data transfer buffer control for performance: Methods and apparatus for transferring data from a processing device to an I/O device via a data transfer buffer are provided. By signaling to an I/O device that data is available before an entire block size to be read out is written, the I/O device may begin read operations while... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070198756 - Tag allocation method: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for allocating multiple tags to multiple requesters in back to back clock cycles. A tag pool may be divided into a predetermined number of sections. Each requester may be associated with at least one of the sections in the tag pool.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070198758 - Bus apparatus, bus system and information transferring method: A bus apparatus for transferring information between a bus master and a bus slave includes a plurality of pipeline registers capable of transmitting information from the bus master to the bus slave by a pipeline processing; and a plurality of management devices that manage each pipeline register. Also, the management... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070198759 - Advanced interrupt processor in embedded systems: An Interrupt Processor is provided in an embedded system to handle interrupts generated in the system. The function of the interrupt processor is to handle interrupts and execute interrupt routines. It performs code execution for interrupts which require immediate response. The other interrupts received by the interrupt processor are arranged... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20070198760 - Digital multimedia device: A digital multimedia device capable of functioning as both a portable multimedia player (PMP) and a notebook computer is provided. The digital multimedia device includes: a computer unit including a body, a first processor included in the body to operate a first operating system (OS), a first display unit for... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070198761 - Connection management mechanism: A host device is disclosed. The host device includes a receive frame and primitive sequence processor, a transmitter and a connection manager to open and terminate a connection with a target device.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070198762 - A bus interface converter capable of converting amba ahb bus protocol into i960-like bus protocol: The invention provides a bus interface converter for converting from AMBA AHB bus protocol to i960-like bus protocol. The converter comprises an AHB interface which can accomplish interface processing for AMBA AHB bus protocol; an i960-like interface which can accomplish interface processing for i960-like bus protocol; and a main controller... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070198763 - Switch and network bridge apparatus: A PCI Express switch which connects a plurality of peripheral devices to an arbitrary one of a plurality of CPUs through an Ethernet is constituted by a plurality of upstream and downstream PCI Express-network bridges, an Ethernet switch, and a system manager. Each of the upstream and downstream PCI Express-network... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070192513 - Computer system and control method thereof: A computer system has an internal mounting unit in which a device supporting a predetermined interface is mounted. The computer system includes an external mounting unit supporting the interface; a device controller comprising a plurality of communication channels, which can communicate with the device, for communicating with the device mounted... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070192519 - Electronic device capable of extending usb port and concealing power line supplying thereto and electronic apparatus having the same: An external electronic device, coupled to a main electronic apparatus by USB, comprises a first USB connector connecting with a first USB port on the main electronic apparatus, and at least one extended USB port directly and electrically connected with the first USB connector for connecting other USB devices with... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070192520 - System control unit, system control method, and computer readable medium storing system control program: A system control unit includes a first IO (Input/Output) node having a primary BIO (Basic Input/Output) preferentially used, and a second IO node having a secondary BIO used as a preparatory of the primary BIO. A first address space allocated to the first IO node, and a second address space... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070192514 - [method for a host end fixedly naming a common serial port device]: The present invention discloses a method for a host end fixedly naming a common serial port device that connects a common serial port device to a host end and calls a driver program installed in the host end to carry out a naming process and store a name, and the... Agent: Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd

20070192515 - Transferring data between a memory and peripheral units employing direct memory access control: A method transfers data between a memory and peripheral units. The method includes assigning priorities to the data to be transferred, and transferring the data by direct memory access (DMA) control between the memory and the peripheral units in conformity with the priorities assigned in each case.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070192516 - Virtual fifo automatic data transfer mechanism: A virtual FIFO automatic data transfer mechanism. A processor unit may allocate memory space within system memory for a data transfer operation. The processing unit may also program both a source device and a target device to perform the data transfer operation. After the programming, the source and target devices... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070192518 - Apparatus for performing i/o sharing & virtualization: An apparatus is envisioned that manages I/O access for host subsystems that share I/O peripherals. Host subsystem ports receive I/O requests from and communicate with the plurality of platforms. A translation circuit, coupled to the host subsystem ports, identifies an I/O request from the host subsystem port as being associated... Agent: J. Davis Gilmer, Esq.

20070192517 - Apparatus for updating audiovisual equipment and method thereof: An Audiovisual equipment comprises a data input interface, an analog-to-digital (AD) converter, a retrieving circuit and a processing unit burnt with program codes is provided. The data input interface receives analog data from a data source carrying updating data therein. The A/D converter converts the analog data into digital data... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070192522 - Methods for identifying bridge devices and systems thereof: Methods for identifying bridge devices and systems thereof. A bridge device receives an undefined command. In response to the undefined command, output information comprising at least one no-available parameter is generated. The bridge device sets the no-available parameter as a predetermined value. The bridge device is identified by determining whether... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070192521 - Method and apparatus for communicating data over a bus according to redefinable configurations: A data processing apparatus comprising: (1) a plurality of data processing boards; (2) a bus connecting the boards with each other; and wherein each board comprises a communication utility for communicating data over the bus to another board through a plurality of channels, and wherein at least one of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070192523 - Integrated circuit, universal serial bus on-the-go power source and methods for use therewith: A universal serial bus on-the-go (USB-OTG) power source includes a direct-current to direct-current (DC-to-DC) converter for generating a source voltage when coupled to a battery. A pulse generator generates an oscillating signal when a USB-OTG enable signal is asserted. A power supply module generates a supply voltage from the oscillating... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070192524 - Anticipatory changes to resources managed by locks: A method and system are provided for performing anticipatory changes to a resource governed by a locking mechanism. Entities (such as transactions in a database system) that want to modify a resource request permission to modify the resource. However, prior to receiving permission, they make anticipatory changes to a private... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070192525 - Translation device between a client-server network and a master-slave general purpose instrument bus (gpib) requiring no driver software, and methods therefor: A translation device between client-server computer networks and the General Purpose Instrumentation Bus (GPIB). Methods for Write, Read, and Command transactions to conduct data transfer between client-server computer networks and GPIB. Separate data channels and a single control channel are utilized. No specialized driver software is required.... Agent: Daniel H. Chang

20070192526 - Apparatus and methods for controlling a data tapping session in a storage area network: Disclosed is a a session modification mechanism for altering a data tapping process in a storage area network (SAN). In general, a data tapping mechanism is set up so that an appliance receives SAN data that is tapped from a particular SAN session. That is, the data tapping mechanism provides... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070186012 - Apparatus for reissuing commands requiring access to a bus and methods of using the same: In a first aspect, a first method of reissuing a command involving bus access is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) storing information associated with commands that are to be reissued, wherein the commands are each associated with respective input/output (I/O) devices seeking bus access; (2) storing... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law Dept. 917

20070186013 - Method and apparatus for supporting and presenting multiple serial bus nodes using distinct configuration rom images: A method and apparatus for presenting a plurality of link devices as separate nodes within a single serial bus module by generating individual or a distinct configuration ROM image for each link device in the module. Each configuration ROM includes an entry for a distinct identifier representing the corresponding link... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20070186014 - Managing peripheral device address space resources using a tunable bin-packing/knapsack algorithm: Methods and systems for allocating address space resources to resource requesting peripheral devices in an efficient manner. Resource requests are gathered for enumerated peripheral devices host by a computer platform. A map containing resource alignment requirements is built, and a virtual resource allocation map is computed based on aggregated resource... Agent: R. Alan Burnett Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070186015 - Custom edid content generation system and method: A composite EDID content generator includes an EDID memory module, containing EDID information, and a processor, interconnected to the EDID memory module and interconnected between an AV source device and a plurality of AV sink devices. Each AV sink device has a unique EDID, and the processor is configured to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070186016 - Device for transferring data arrays between buses and system for mac layer processing comprising said device: A device for transferring data arrays between at least two buses, the device comprising storage means for storing at least one data array, a first input/output interface for transferring data arrays in a first direction from a first of the buses (RBUS) to the storage means and in a second... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070186017 - Handheld electronic device having reduced keyboard and multiple password access, and associated methods: A reduced keyboard handheld electronic device and associated method that utilizes a plurality of passwords for controlling access thereto. The handheld electronic device has a non-predictive keystroke interpretation system, such as a multi-tap system. At least one of the passwords is valid and accepted when input using a keyboard of... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070186018 - Integrated circuit and method of communication service mapping: An integrated circuit, comprising a plurality of processing modules (M, S) is provided, wherein at least one first of said processing modules (M) requests at least one communication service to at least one second processing module (S) based on specific communication properties and at least one communication service identification. Furthermore,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070186019 - System and apparatus for early fixed latency subtractive decoding: Systems and methods for early fixed latency subtractive decoding are disclosed. The subtractive decoding device speculatively 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 time period.... Agent: Marvell-fhfgd C/o Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garnett Et. Al.

20070186020 - Method for changing ownership of a bus between master/slave devices: A system may comprise multiple master/slave devices coupled to a common bus, where one of the devices may operate as the current master device and the other devices may operate as current slave devices. Current slave devices may embed bus ownership request information within response packets transmitted in response to... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070186022 - Interrupt control system and method for reducing interrupt latency: An interrupt control system is disclosed. The interrupt control system can include control logic that provides at least one interrupt request signal to a processor in response to at least one event signal. The control logic provides at least one computer executable instruction to a processor in response to detecting... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070186021 - Method for a slave device to convey an interrupt and interrupt source information to a master device: A computer system, more generally a master-slave system, may be configured with interrupt handling capability without additional dedicated interrupt lines. An interrupt condition may be bound with its relevant cause information and transmitted by a slave device during a typical response to any operation that a master device may have... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070186023 - Interruption control system: An interruption control system includes a PIC, an APIC and a power management unit disposed in a south bridge chip of a computer system. In response to the triggering of an interrupt status indicating signal received through an interrupt status indicating pin of a north bridge module or by the... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070186024 - Method, computer program product and computer system for controlling execution of an interruption routine: A method, a computer program product and a computer system for controlling the execution of an interruption routine for interrupting an active application. The computer system may include a first detector unit operable to detect if any application of multiple other applications is requesting interruption of the active application. Furthermore,... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070186025 - Method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for migrating virtual adapters from source physical adapters to destination physical adapters: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code are disclosed for migrating a virtual adapter from a source physical adapter to a destination physical adapter in a data processing system where multiple host computer systems share multiple adapters and communicate with those adapters through a PCI switched-fabric bus. The... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070186026 - System having bus architecture for improving cpu performance and method thereof: A system and method for improving the performance of a central processing unit (CPU), in which the system includes a first master such as a CPU, a first local bus connected to a memory device, a bridge, and a main bus connected to a second master and a peripheral device.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070186027 - Method and apparatus for implementing control of a multiple ring hybrid crossbar partially non-blocking data switch: A method and control apparatus are provided for implementing control of a multiple-ring hybrid crossbar partially non-blocking data switch, the data switch including a plurality of bus units, each bus unit coupled to a respective data ramp and a plurality of data rings connected between each of the data ramps,... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070180161 - Dma transfer apparatus: To lighten the load on a processor in DMA transfer, a DMA transfer apparatus 13 for executing DMA transfer between local memory 16 that each processor has and global memory 15 shared by the processors, wherein a DMA transfer termination notification is issued to the destination determined by referencing a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070180163 - Multi-processor system and program for causing computer to execute controlling method of multi-processor system: A multi-processor system with a plurality of unit processors in which the unit processors can operate in parallel includes: a suspension prohibition section for, in response to a request from at least one of the unit processors, prohibiting suspension that suspends, only in the requesting unit processor, processing executed in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070180165 - Method and apparatus for one time programming: A programmable system for storage of one-time programmable information comprises an interface translator and a one-time programmable device. The interface translator receives and translates a command code to program code comprising a sequence of write instructions and a designated data block. The one-time programmable device is coupled to the interface... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070180153 - Reducing connection time for mass storage class devices: Techniques for reducing mount time for a peripheral device connected to an external host device are presented. In some implementations, when a connection is detected, file system data is pre-fetched before a request for such data is sent by the external host device. This allows faster access to the file... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070180155 - Method and apparatus for implementing transfer ordering using hardware linked list: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing transfer ordering in a processor input/output (I/O) interface. A pointer field is added to a command buffer. Commands are chained together in a linked list defining the transfer ordering. A currently executing command, or a command whose data is currently being transferred... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070180157 - Method for cache hit under miss collision handling: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for maintaining command order while processing commands in a command queue. Commands may be queued in an input command queue at the CPU. During address translation for a command, subsequent commands may be processed to increase efficiency. Processed commands may be... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070180158 - Method for command list ordering after multiple cache misses: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for maintaining command order while processing commands in a command queue while handling multiple translation cache misses. Commands may be queued in an input command queue at the CPU. During address translation for a command, subsequent commands may be processed to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070180156 - Method for completing io commands after an io translation miss: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for maintaining command order while processing commands in a command queue while handling translation cache misses. Commands may be queued in an input command queue at the CPU. During address translation for a command, subsequent commands may be processed to increase... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070180154 - Reducing dismount time for mass storage class devices: Techniques for reducing dismount time for a peripheral device connected to an external host device are presented. Instead of waiting for a dismount procedure to complete, a reply message indicating that dismount operations have been completed is sent to the external host device. This triggers a message from the external... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070180159 - Image forming apparatus and job control method: A job processing method in an image forming apparatus having a normal mode and a service mode, which enables reception of a normal job even in the service mode (for example, during maintenance work), and enables efficient processing of the received job. In the job processing method, a user interface... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070180160 - Keyboard, video and mouse session capture: Keyboard, mouse and video (KVM) capture session architecture that includes command center forensics. That is, redirector hardware (HW) and a command center forensics (CCF) appliance. The redirector HW includes a computer interface module (CIM) with a computer readable encoded media. The CIM is configured to record at least one KVM... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20070180162 - Method for controlling memory in mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for controlling a memory in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving certain frame control information by a Data Receiver Block (DRB) from a MAP decoder, forming a burst descriptor by the DRB by using the frame control information, and transferring the burst descriptor to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070180164 - Quick-change accessory mount for a portable media encoder: A quick-change accessory mount for a portable media encoder includes a substantially rigid frame having an upper surface and a lower surface. The frame is adapted for releaseable connection to a portable media encoder housing. A circuitry holder supports circuitry thereupon, the circuitry holder being affixed to the frame and... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070180166 - Portable media encoder with remote session management interface: A portable media encoder is disclosed. A portable media encoder includes a a video input port configured to receive a video input from a video source, an audio input port configured to receive an audio input from an audio source, and a digital output port for providing a digital output... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070180170 - Audio system, and usb/uart common communication system for the same: An audio system sets a signal line path between the medium of an audio device and an external device and uploads a digital audio file from the external device to the audio device according to a user's manipulation of the audio. In addition, a communication system selectively uses USB and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070180169 - Communication control for storage system: During iSCSI communication, according to the contents of commands issued by a host computer, the command response time is increased due to the influence of the TCP Delayed ACK. Thus, a command issued by the host computer is analyzed, the number of TCP/IP packets required for transmitting the data requested... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070180167 - Dynamic partition mapping in a hot-pluggable data storage apparatus: An apparatus includes a partitionable data storage medium and control electronics. The control electronics includes a hot-pluggable connection with a bus. The control electronics receives a RESET command from a host while the bus is energized, and dynamically re-maps the data storage medium to provide M active partitions, where M... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070180171 - Memory arbitration system and method having an arbitration packet protocol: A memory hub and method for transmitting a read response on a data path of a memory hub interposed between a transmitting memory hub and a receiving memory hub. An arbitration packet including data indicative of a data path configuration for an associated read response is received at the memory... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070180168 - Storage system, data processing method and storage apparatus: Proposed are a storage system, data processing method and storage apparatus capable of performing stable data I/O processing. Each of the storage apparatuses configured in the storage group stores group configuration information containing priority information given to each storage apparatus, and the storage apparatus with the highest priority becomes a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070180172 - Covert channel for conveying supplemental messages in a protocol-defined link for a system of storage devices: Disclosed are communication apparatus, a SATA communication device, a system, an enhanced port multiplier and a method for, among other things, establishing a covert communication channel in a protocol-compliant link. In one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a link interface and a supplemental message interface. The link interface is configured... Agent: Brian K. Schmidt

20070180173 - Method and system for efficient framing on addressed buses: A framing mechanism may be provided that enables passing of messages over an addressed bus. This creates a form of information hiding, which passes information by converting an addressed bus interface to a message-based bus interface. Address-based information in a transaction may be replaced with additional information that specifies framing... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070180175 - Bi-directional data control state machine: A method for controlling bi-directional data transfers in an electronic circuit is provided. The method involves when a first of at least two data signals is activated as an originating data signal prior to a second of the at least two data signals: allowing only a device associated with the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070180174 - Method and apparatus for sending data between usb clients: A method and apparatus for transferring data from a first electronic device to a second electronic device, both first and second electronic devices having Universal Serial Bus (USB) client interfaces, the method comprising the steps: connecting the two electronic devices with a USB cable; toggling the voltage on a VBUS... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070180176 - Cache coherent split bus: A system includes a first bus segment and a second bus segment. The first bus segment is operatively coupled to one or more first bus agents, where the first bus agents are configured for writing messages to the first bus segment and reading messages from the first bus segment and... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070180177 - Flashtoaster for reading several types of flash-memory cards with or without a pc: A flash-memory-card reader reads and writes multiple types of flash-memory cards, including CompactFlash, and the smaller SmartMedia, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital, and Memory Stick. A converter chip converts the different card signals for transfer to a host personal computer (PC). Serial-to-parallel data conversion is performed for the smaller card formats with... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070180178 - Information processor, information processing method, and medium: A processing method of an information processor for connecting an external device with a main body of the information processor. The processing method also performs processing of an application program with respect to the external device. The processing method includes connecting the external device to the main body. The processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070180179 - System bus control apparatus, integrated circuit and data processing system: p

20070180180 - Storage system, and storage control method: A protocol chip and a bridge are connected to a first bus, while the bridge and a micro processor (MP) are connected to a second bus. The MP generates parameter information and writes it into a local memory (LM), and issues a write command which includes access destination information to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher

20070180181 - Usb interface provided with host/device function and its control method: A USB interface provided with USB host/device function and its control method is disclosed. The USB interface includes a control unit, a USB host, a USB device, a memory, a port router and a plurality of connection ports. The control unit is used to define the connection ports to be... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070180182 - System and method for a distributed crossbar network using a plurality of crossbars: A system and method for single hop, processor-to-processor communication in a multiprocessing system over a plurality of crossbars are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment is a multiprocessing system comprising a plurality of processors having a plurality of high-bandwidth point-to-point links; a plurality of processor clusters, each processor cluster having a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company