Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 09/07

20070226376 - Program reservation/playback judgment system, method, program and program recording medium: A program reservation/playback judgment system for making an automatic judgment of reservation or playback of a program based on the program information in texts written in a natural language. A natural language program information processing section analyzes texts read-out thereby for extracting the program information in the texts. The extracted... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070226380 - Unit detection apparatus, unit detection method and unit detection program: The present invention provides a unit detection apparatus which can be easily miniaturized and simplified, and can prevent occurrence of operation mistake etc. by automatically detecting units without human works of a worker, and do not bring about a secondary failure. The unit detection apparatus, includes unit information detection sections... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070226381 - Computer system capable of detecting identification of peripheral device connected thereto and method of detecting identification of peripheral device using the same: A computer system capable of detecting an identification (ID) of a peripheral device connected thereto includes a connection circuit having a peripheral interface connectable to the peripheral device and a data transmission interface for data transmission between the peripheral device and a CPU of the computer system, a detect circuit... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070226382 - Method for improving direct memory access performance: A method for direct memory access (DMA) data transfer is adapted for a computer system having a microprocessor, a chipset, a memory with a physical region description (PRD) table and a DMA engine. In the method, a first group of PRD entries including at least two PRD entries of the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070226383 - Touch sensing apparatus: A touch sensing apparatus is provided. A preferred embodiment of a touch sensing apparatus includes a sensor (13), an MCU (15), and an integration circuit (14). The sensor is for receiving electricity signals from an object that touches the sensor. The MCU (Microcontrol Unit) has a signal output port A... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070226377 - Detecting parameters of a system uart and matching those parameters in a serial-over-lan (sol) uart: An information handling system has the capability of matching UART baud rates and other serial data parameters between a system UART and baseboard management controller (BMC) UART used for serial-over-LAN (SOL) access to the information handling system via an Ethernet connection, either locally or remotely by a user, administrator, maintenance... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070226378 - Portable receiver and memory for remotely controlled presentations: A computer peripheral connects to a host computer such as a PC to assist in a presentation. The peripheral includes a memory and receiver combined within a portable, lightweight housing. Presentation data is stored in the memory, while the receiver receives wireless signals from a handheld transmitter for paging through... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070226379 - Player with orientation-based controls: A player with orientation-based controls has a casing, a control unit, memory, an orientation-sensing module and a playing module. The casing has a front surface. The orientation-sensing module is mounted in the casing and has an orientation-sensing unit and a processing unit. The processing unit is connected to the control... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070226384 - Intelligent synchronization of media player with host computer: Improved techniques for synchronization of media contents stored on a media player with media contents stored on a host computer are disclosed. According to one aspect, synchronization can be automatically initiated and performed upon connection of a data link between the media player and the host computer. According to another... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070226386 - Method and apparatus for using a single multi-function adapter with different operating systems: A flexible arrangement allows a single arrangement of Ethernet channel adapter (ECA) hardware functions to appear as needed to conform to various operating system deployment models. A PCI interface presents a logical model of virtual devices appropriate to the relevant operating system. Mapping parameters and values are associated with the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070226385 - Substitute sata host for communicating with a sata device: A method of communicating with a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) device by using a substitute SATA host comprises establishing a physical layer connection between the SATA device and the substitute SATA host; the substitute SATA host transmitting commands and data to the SATA device when a busy flag of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070226387 - Word reordering upon bus size resizing to reduce hamming distance: In a system having a first device 10 and a second device 8 between which data values are transferred via an N-bit bus, a resizing unit 18 and an M-bit bus, reordering of the data is performed such that portions of the original N-bit data words having a high degree... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070226388 - System for detecting usb device: The invention discloses a system for detecting a USB device installed on a computer system. The computer system includes a host and a power supply. The detecting system includes a USB connector and a delay circuit. The USB device is connected to the USB connector. The USB connector has at... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070226389 - Generation of computer resource utilization data per computer application: Reporting Unix or similar computer resource utilization per computer application includes processing a collector script during first predetermined time intervals. The collector script collects resource utilization data for processes currently running on a computer. The processes correspond to one or more computer applications. A processor script is processed during second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070226390 - Method for detecting illegal modifications made to manufacturer software: Disclosed is a method making it possible to detect and/or to avoid illicit modifications of manufacturer software within a GSM type system. The GSM type system includes a hard kernel and a soft kernel, a local data interface. If the signal received on the local data interface of the terminal... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070226391 - Data transfer control apparatus: A data transfer control apparatus has a plurality of bus slaves connected to a bus master via a bus interface unit for RAM connected to the bus master via a master bus, and a transfer bus which connects the first bus slave and plural second bus slaves in the plurality... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070226392 - Method and system for using an external bus controller in embedded disk controllers: An embedded disk controller comprises a first processor in communication with a first bus and a second processor in communication with a second bus. An external bus controller (“EBC”) is located on the embedded disk controller, is coupled to an external bus and to at least one of the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070226393 - Association of nodes connected to a bus system: A bus system comprises a data bus (10), a central unit (20) and a number of input (30A-B) and output (40A-D) nodes. The system is arranged such that nodes (30A-B, 40A-D) changing their states, automatically report this to the central unit (20). The central unit (20) is put into a... Agent: Holland & Bonzagni, P.C.

20070220178 - Data reading method and data reading apparatus: A data reading method includes the steps of: a reading request issuing step of issuing a reading request for reading predetermined stored data; and a reading request re-issuing step of re-issuing a reading request when read data responsive to the reading request has not arrived within a predetermined time period,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070220179 - Data reading method and data reading apparatus: A data reading method includes the steps of: a reading request issuing step of issuing a reading request for reading predetermined stored data; and a reading request re-issuing step of re-issuing a reading request when read data responsive to the reading request has not arrived within a predetermined time period,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070220181 - Apparatus for automatically installing/uninstalling peripheral devices, and system and method for automatically detecting peripheral devices using the same: Provided is an apparatus for automatically installing/uninstalling peripheral devices, and a system and method for automatically detecting peripheral devices using the same. The system includes a plurality of peripheral devices for periodically transmitting each of peripheral device information for auto-detection within a predetermined network region; a peripheral installation information providing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070220177 - Declarations for transformations within service sequences: A declarative model for specifying appropriate transformations that may occur at the input and output of each service of a sequence of services that accomplish a more complex task. Each of the services may have access to the appropriate transformation declarations, and may interpret the declarations to thereby be appropriate... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070220176 - Method and apparatus for injecting errors into sas domains through sas expanders: A data-processing apparatus, method and program product generally include identifying one or more SAS expanders and one or more link thereof associated with an SAS domain of a data-processing apparatus. Link and reset data can be automatically injected onto the link(s) and the SAS expander(s) associated with the SAS domain,... Agent: Pete Scott, Senior Corporate Counsel Lsi Logic Corporation

20070220180 - Optimized peripheral device configuration data sequential handling method and system for computer platform: An optimized peripheral device configuration data sequential handling method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a computer platform for providing the computer platform an optimized configuration data sequential handling function, which is characterized by the capability of performing a runtime data amount computing procedure for each... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070220182 - Controller and resource management system and method with improved security for independently controlling and managing a computer system: A controller and resource management system and method with improved security for independently controlling and managing a computer system is provided. Control, management and security protection is provided while functioning: conceptually, logically, functionally, operatively, physically and electrically independent of computer system resources, including processors. All computer system resources, including processors... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070220183 - Receive queue descriptor pool: A method for network communication includes providing a pool of descriptors to be shared among a plurality of transport service instances used in communicating over a network, each of the descriptors in the pool including a scatter list indicating a buffer that is available in a local memory. When a... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070220184 - Latency-locked loop (lll) circuit, buffer including the circuit, and method of adjusting a data rate: A latency locked loop (LLL) circuit for a first in first out (FIFO) buffer, includes a latency error estimator for estimating a latency error for the buffer by measuring a latency of the buffer and comparing the measured latency to a reference latency, a loop filter for converting the latency... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070220185 - Methods and apparatuses for selectively rebuffering and decoding a portion of a data block read from an optical storage medium: An apparatus for selectively rebuffering at least a portion of a data block read from an optical storage medium. The apparatus comprises a storage device for buffering the data block, and a rebuffering control module for rebuffering a specific portion into the storage device according to a previous decoding result,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070220186 - Frequency converter controller, peripheral device, method and program: The invention relates to a controller of a frequency converter. In order to avoid compatibility problems the controller of the frequency converter comprises a memory, in which control programs of peripheral devices connectable to the controller are stored; and a compatibility table; a check element, which by utilizing the memory... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070220187 - Virus-resistant computer with data interface for filtering data: A virus-proof diskless computer with data interface for filtering data is provided as a robust virus-proof user computer system. The computer system is provided without a hard drive such that the computer must boot from a disk every time the computer starts. In this way, the operating system and computer... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070220188 - Expandable slave device system with buffered subsystems: A system includes a first bus, a master device coupled to the first bus, and one or more subsystems coupled to the first bus. A respective subsystem includes a second bus, one or more slave devices coupled to the second bus, a write buffer to receive incoming signals from the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20070220189 - Systems and methods for preserving the order of data: A device includes an input processing unit and an output processing unit. The input processing unit dispatches first data to one of a group of processing engines, records an identity of the one processing engine in a location in a first memory, reserves one or more corresponding locations in a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070220191 - Apparatus and method for preventing configurable system-on-a-chip integrated circuits from becoming i/o limited: An integrated circuit containing multiple modules coupled to a pad via a multiplexer. The modules are selectively coupled to the pad by the multiplexer to provide integrated circuit function flexibility with a limited number of pads. A multiplexer select signal determines which module or clock circuit is coupled by the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070220190 - Multi-master, chained two-wire serial bus: Aspects of the disclosure embody a multi-master two-wire serial bus that comprises two or more chained two-wire serial busses. The chained two-wire serial busses include a host two-wire serial bus with a first master device and one or more slave devices. One or more chained two-wire serial busses are coupled... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070220192 - Electronic device with card interface: When initializing a card-shaped device inserted in a card interface, operation mode acquiring means incorporated in an electronic device acquires operation mode information, stored in a register file incorporated in the card-shaped device, by a predetermined procedure using a predetermined pin. Operation mode setting means incorporated in the electronic device... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070220193 - Data communication circuit and arbitration method: A statistical-information generating unit monitors packet data output from a transaction layer that constitutes architecture of a PCI Express. The result of the monitored is feedback-controlled to a weight-information updating unit in real time, and is reflected in an arbitration table. A priority is set to the packet data corresponding... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070214287 - Information playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, since key information is written after a drive unit and host unit are assembled into a player, it is not necessary to manage, in the assembled player, the correspondence in secret key information between the drive unit and host unit. Further, in the player, even if,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070214290 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a data reading and writing unit for reading and writing data with respect to a specific recording medium; a data incompatibility avoiding unit for performing a data incompatibility avoiding process during reading and writing the data associated with cut-off of power; an incompatibility avoiding process... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070214288 - Pointbus architecture and automatic sequential addressing: A system for automatically configuring I/O devices is provided in accordance with the present invention. The system includes a plurality of I/O devices operatively coupled to each other and a sub-system for determining physical locations of the I/O devices with respect to one another. The sub-system assigns node addresses to... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070214289 - Dynamic power control for reduced voltage level of graphics controller component of memory controller based on its degree of ideleness: A method includes detecting a trigger condition, and in response to detecting the trigger condition, reducing a voltage applied to a graphics controller component of a memory controller. The reduction in voltage may cause the voltage to be reduced below a voltage level required to maintain context information in the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070214291 - Elasticity buffer for streaming data: A method of processing a data stream through a buffer is performed in accordance with a write clock and a read clock. The buffer has a plurality of sequentially numbered storage cells. The method includes the steps of selecting an initial preload value, with the selecting step including determining a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070214294 - Method and system for backing up storage system data: The present invention provides a method, a system and code for backing up information on a storage system, for example, a disk system, connected to a storage area network. The host or server system off loads the task of backing up its data to the storage system that stores the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070214293 - Random number generator in a battery pack: Apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for battery management. In one implementation, a method of communication provided. The method includes enabling determining when a battery pack is coupled to a device, the battery pack including a battery management system. The method also includes generating a random number at... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070214292 - System and method for archiving of continuous capture buffers: Systems and methods for archiving a stream of sensor data, are disclosed. One method comprises: receiving a stream of sensor data from at least one corresponding sensor device; storing the sensor data to a corresponding capture buffer; receiving, from a trigger device, a request to archive a portion of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070214295 - Printer and peripheral apparatus of a computer: A printer comprises a card reader and a data writing unit. The card reader reads out an image stored in a memory card. The data writing unit writes the image, which is read out by the card reader, in a flexible disk to store this image. The printer is adapted... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20070214296 - Electronic device, method for controlling the same, and program for the same: The invention provides an electronic device having a structure operable by the power of a battery pack. The electronic device includes: an authenticating section that authenticates a battery pack connected so as to supply power to determine whether the battery pack is a genuine product; a user interface; and a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070214297 - Worktop and furniture incorporating a worktop: A worktop comprises a first surface and second surface spaced apart by a face to define the thickness of the worktop. The worktop is provided with a compartment towards the rear which can receive a standard computer base unit. A source of mains power is provided to this compartment by... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070214298 - Efficient execution of memory barrier bus commands: The disclosure is directed to a weakly-ordered processing system and method of executing memory barriers in weakly-ordered processing system. The processing system includes memory and a master device configured to issue memory access requests, including memory barriers, to the memory. The processing system also includes a slave device configured to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070214300 - Agricultural communication system: A mobile agricultural vehicle including a frame, a motor carried by the frame, a standalone data processing assembly, a sensor and a plug-in card. The standalone data processing assembly has a data interface but is without communications capability. The standalone data processing assembly is mounted to the frame. The sensor... Agent: Deere & Company

20070214299 - Computing system and i/o board thereof: A computing system and an I/O board thereof are disclosed. The computing system comprises at least a processor card including at least a processor unit, an expansion board including at least an expansion socket, and the I/O board including a south bridge chip, an I/O controller, and a plurality of... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070214301 - Pci-e automatic allocation system: A PCI-E automatic allocation system which essentially consists of a detection module and a switch module, wherein the detection module detects the states of the logic signals on the ground pins of a first PCI-E slot with large lane width and a second PCI-E slot with small lane width in... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070214302 - Data processing device with mechanism for controlling bus priority of multiple processors: A data processing device with an efficient mechanism for controlling bus priority of multiple processors. The device has a data memory that is accessible to the processors via each processor's individual control bus and a common control bus. A bus selector is disposed between the individual control buses and the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070214303 - Apparatus and methods for simplified ssp link layer processing: Apparatus and associated methods for a simplified Serial SCSI Protocol (“SSP”) link layer within a SAS device. Features and aspects hereof provide a simplified SSP link layer processor to enable cost reduction and simplification of Serial Attached SCSI (“SAS”) devices requiring only limited SSP exchange functionality. In one embodiment, a... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20070214304 - Signal protocol assembly: A signal protocol assembly is adapted to bridge electronic communications across a plurality of communications platforms allowing a plurality of electronic devices to transfer data therebetween. The signal protocol assembly is electrically connected between the electronic communications device and a communications hub to help facilitate in the translation of communications... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070214305 - Storage device with a native rj-45 connector: A computer storage device has a RJ-45 female connector. In this RJ-45 physical storage device, the RJ-45 connector is integrated into the storage device control unit. This eliminates the need for a hardware bridge between the serial or parallel ATA/ATAPI/SCSI/SAS/Fiber Optic or any other storage device and a computer or... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070214306 - Virtual usb flash memory storage device with pci express interface, controller and method thereof: A virtual universal serial bus (USB) flash memory storage device with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) Express interface including a microcontroller connected separately to a flash memory and a PCI Express connecting interface, and the microcontroller has a flash memory interface, a PCI Express interface and a virtual USB module... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070208886 - Data processing apparatus: A DMA-mode data processing apparatus is provided which enables high-speed data processing and efficient use of a memory bus. For DMA circuits that perform at least one of data write into a memory and data read from a memory, a switch SW is disposed which is operated in accordance with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070208887 - Method, apparatus, and medium for controlling direct memory access: Provided are a method, apparatus, and medium for controlling direct memory access (DMA). The apparatus includes a memory which is divided into a plurality of storage areas, a memory controller which is connected to the memory and comprises a plurality of ports, a plurality of DMA controllers which independently control... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070208885 - Methods and apparatus for providing independent logical address space and access management: A memory access control apparatus executes memory access after the apparatus has determined whether access to memory is granted or not. A command receiver receives, from an external memory access requesting entity, a command with which to access data in memory, together with an address to be accessed and IOID... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070208889 - Interface circuit, system device using the interface circuit, and data interface method: An interface circuit performing data transfer between a host device and a peripheral device, which includes at least two interface blocks; and a card identification circuit configured to access the peripheral device to determine a transfer mode of the peripheral device, wherein the interface circuit determines a mode of data... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070208892 - Modular computing system: A computing system is provided that includes a plurality of interconnected components. The components include a processing subsystem, an input subsystem, an output subsystem, a storage subsystem, and a power subsystem. Subsets of the plurality of components may be rearranged and interconnected in various configurations to form different computing systems.... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070208881 - Data control apparatus, data control method thereof and image forming apparatus: A data control apparatus (a main control device) is disclosed The apparatus comprises: an extension devices interface to which a plurality of extension devices are connectable; a connector to which predetermined IC cards are detachably applied; a rewritable program memory for a main body to store a control program of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070208882 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for accessing process local storage of another process: An operating system kernel includes an attach mechanism and a detach mechanism. In addition, processes are tagged with an access attribute identifying the process as either a client process or a server process. Based on the access attribute, the operating system kernel lays out the process local address space differently... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070208883 - Option rom characterization: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for option ROM characterization by establishing an isolating execution environment for an expansion adapter of a computer, the adapter having an option ROM containing initialization code for the adapter, executing the initialization code for the expansion adapter in the isolating execution environment,... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20070208884 - Dynamic link assignment in a communication system: An architecture for the dynamic assignment of links in a multi-user communication system. A plurality of information channels are provided in a forward communication link of the communication system for carrying channel information of the plurality of information channels from a transmitter to a plurality of corresponding receiving devices. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20070208888 - Method for allowing burners to burn partly different contents while copying source disc: A method for allowing burners to burn partly different contents while coping a source disc is to allow a destination disc to have a section of specific area for recording data with partly different contents when the recorded data of the source disc are copied thereon, data with different contents... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070208890 - Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, information processing method and computer program: An information processing apparatus may include plural media capable of recording data, and a control unit executing operation control of the plural media and at least one medium in the plural media may be a mechanical operation executing medium performing mechanical operations, and the control unit may decide whether the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070208891 - Kvm switching system: The present invention provides a KVM switching system including a KVM controller, a signal converter, a processor and a linking apparatus. The booting status signal of a computer is sent to the signal converter, which then converts the status signal. The converted status signal is sent to the processor, which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070208893 - File-based compression on a fat volume: Individual files within a FAT volume may be compressed while other files remain uncompressed. A FAT Compression Filter (FCF) intercepts calls to the file system, performs the compression and decompression tasks relating to the files on the FAT volume. The use of individual file compression with the FAT file system... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070208894 - Modification of a layered protocol communication apparatus: A method of modifying a layered protocol communication apparatus includes transferring a control plane from a first processor handling a first layer to a second processor handling a second layer.... Agent: Davis & Associates

20070208895 - Bus controller for handling split transactions: A host controller is suitable for transferring data in transactions, each transaction being described by a transfer descriptor, and the transactions include split transactions. The transfer descriptor for a split transaction includes a bit which may be set to indicate whether the split transaction is a start split or a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070208896 - Interrupt scheme for bus controller: A host controller transfers data over a bus communication system, under the control of a processor, in individual transactions. A processor interrupt request is generated on completion of a transaction. The host controller comprises logic such that, when a processor interrupt request is generated on completion of a transaction from... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070208897 - Methods for identifying bridge devices and systems thereof: Methods for identifying bridge devices and systems thereof. A bridge device receives a standard command. In response to the standard command, output information comprising at least one no-available parameter is generated. The bridge device sets the no-available parameter in the output information as a predetermined value if a command code... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070208898 - Programmable bridge header structures: A computer system includes compute nodes coupled through a switch to shared or non-shared I/O devices. The switch includes a pool of bridge headers and virtual bridges coupling a root port of a compute node to each of one or more shared or non-shared I/O devices. The switch is configured... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070208899 - System and method of implementing multiple internal virtual channels based on a single external virtual channel: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for coupling a collection of devices to a bridge, wherein the collection of devices includes high-performance devices and low-performance devices, coupling a data bus to the bridge, utilizing a collection of transfer credits to allow transfer of commands to the collection of devices, transferring... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070208900 - Virtual ide storage device with pci express interface: The present invention discloses a virtual integrated drive electronics (IDE) storage device with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) Express interface. The storage device includes a microcontroller connected to a PCI Express connecting interface and a flash memory separately. The microcontroller includes a flash memory interface, a PCI Express interface and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070208901 - Layered crossbar for interconnection of multiple processors and shared memories: A method and apparatus includes a plurality of processor groups each having a plurality of processor switch chips each having a plurality of processors and a processor crossbar, each processor connected to the processor crossbar; a plurality of switch groups each having a plurality of switch crossbar chips each having... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP