Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 11/07

20070276964 - Input/output device and control method thereof: The present invention provides an input/output device capable of bringing a per-unit input/output circuit into a simple configuration without impairing reliability even when logic levels opposite in polarity are outputted between input/output devices made conductive to the outside. The input/output device is equipped with one reference port Pk selected from... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070276966 - Managing a device in a distributed file system, using plug & play: Systems and methods for managing a device in a distributed file system are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises instantiating a physical device object, in response to a file system driver detecting a device remotely connected to a computing system via a distributed network. An operating system running on... Agent: CenturyIPGroup

20070276963 - I/o cards and card arrangements for i/o device: An improved I/O device, such as an audio/video router, includes at least a motherboard, such as a matrix board, including a plurality of locating slots and a plurality of connectors located on the motherboard such that when the motherboard is mounted in the I/O device, the plurality of connectors are... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070276965 - Automated programming system employing smart interfaces: An automated programming system that includes providing a smart interface system for recognizing an intelligent module installed within the automated programming system. Configuring the intelligent module with a composite connection for transmitting information between the intelligent module and the smart interface system, and linking the intelligent module to the smart... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070276967 - Universal graphics adapter: The subject invention relates to a Universal Graphics Adapter (UGA) that is a hardware-independent design that encapsulates and abstracts low-level graphics hardware in a standard manner through firmware. UGA is a firmware standard, intended to wrap existing or planned hardware, including VGA. UGA does not require the use of real-mode... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070276968 - Microcontroller system and operating method therefor: A microcontroller system includes a microcontroller, a device which is controllable by the microcontroller, and a monitoring device. Under the control of a normal operation program, the microcontroller outputs a normal operation indicating signal. If the normal operation indicating signal is absent, the monitoring device transfers the device into a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070276969 - Method and device for controlling an access to peripherals: m

20070276970 - Data consistency validation: Attribute consistency works on the comparison of a reference value against the online value of the attributes, which are retrieved from the corresponding system. In order to know which attributes need to be considered for consistency, a list of relevant attributes of each entity type in each application is stored... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070276971 - Universal serial bus circuit which detects connection status to a usb host: The invention relates to universal serial bus circuits utilized in USB devices and USB hubs. Specifically, the invention relates to circuitry used to detect whether the hub or device is connected to a USB host, i.e. to detect connection status of the device or hub. The present invention provides a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070276972 - Micro channel array: A microchannel array according to the present invention includes a first substrate 1, and a second substrate 11 bonded to the first substrate 1. Two sets, that is, a set of a first through-hole 9, a first recess 7, and a first groove 8 and a set of a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070276973 - Managing queues: Monitoring the state of a queue includes (a) determining when values of a head pointer of the queue and a tail pointer of the queue are consistent with the queue being either empty or full, (b) storing a state responsive to changes in at least one of the head pointer... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070276974 - Data transfer control device: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a data transfer control device that carries out data transfer in a data transfer system, in which plural bus masters are connected to a system bus and the data transfer between the bus masters is arbitrated by bus arbitration of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070276975 - Systems and methods for performing a hot input function: A computer software system is disclosed for facilitating a user's replacement or insertion of devices in a computer server network system. The system allows a user to swap or add peripheral devices while the system is running, or in a “hot” condition, with little or no user knowledge of how... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070276979 - Sturcture of object stacks for driver: A structure of object stacks for driver with hot plug function is provided, wherein the hot plug function is with serial ATA device, which can be supported by standard IDE driver. The structure comprises a bus device stack, at least one port device stack and at least one serial ATA... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070276976 - Systems and methods for providing distributed technology independent memory controllers: Systems and methods for providing distributed technology independent memory controllers. Systems include a computer memory system for storing and retrieving data. The system includes a memory bus, a main memory controller, one or more memory devices characterized by memory device protocols and signaling requirements, and one or more memory hub... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070276977 - Systems and methods for providing memory modules with multiple hub devices: Systems and methods for providing memory modules with multiple hub devices. Exemplary systems include a cascade-interconnect memory system with a memory bus, a memory controller and a memory module. The memory controller is in communication with the memory bus for generating, receiving and responding to memory access requests. The memory... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070276978 - Universal serial bus (usb) memory system and control method thereof: A universal serial bus (USB) memory system and a control method thereof are disclosed. The USB memory system includes a microprocessor, a storage unit in communication with the microprocessor, an interface unit in communication with the microprocessor, an audio device in communication with the microprocessor, and a sound output device... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070276981 - Dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of pci express connectors: Method, apparatus, and computer program products for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors are disclosed that include identifying whether a PCI Express device is installed into each PCI Express connector, and assigning a portion of the lanes to each PCI Express connector having a PCI Express... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20070276980 - Multisectional bus in radio base station and method of using such a radio base station: A communication system has a monitor, memory and one or more resources. The memory is connected to the monitor by a bus and stores tasks and data. Each of the resources is connected to the monitor by the bus and performs a function or executes a program. The bus is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070276982 - Third switch for vxs/vmebus compliant computing system: Embodiments of the present invention take advantage of the extra slot and connectors in the P0/J0 position that are reserved for future use in the VXS standard to create a VXS-compliant backplane that has increased performance. The backplane is considered VXS-compliant in that it is compatible with VXS-compliant payload boards... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070271399 - Tapered capsense structure: A touchpad has interleaved conductive traces across a touchpad surface. Each conductive trace has a first end and a second end. The width of the first end is larger than the width of the second end. The interleaved conductive traces have a first group of conductive traces alternated with a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070271400 - Method and system for automatic peripheral device identification: Method and system for latency-independent peripheral device identification. The computer system receives an interrupt from a peripheral device via a communications port. In response, an interrupt notification message is posted to alert a notification handler, and compliant peripheral class is determined. The voltage on a device may sense pin of... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20070271401 - Techniques to moderate interrupt transfer: Techniques are described herein that can be used to moderate the rate at which interrupts are emitted. A network component includes the capability to issue interrupts in response to receipt of network protocol units designated as regular and high priority or in response to other causes. High priority interrupts may... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20070271402 - Partially populated, hierarchical crossbar: In various embodiments, an apparatus comprises a plurality of agents and an interconnect. In one embodiment, the plurality of agents includes first through fourth agents. The interconnect comprises a plurality of segments that are switchable (e.g. using a plurality of selection circuits) to form communication paths between the agents, and... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070271403 - Method and apparatus for hot swap of line replaceable modules for ac and dc electric power systems: A method and an apparatus are used in hot swap of AC or DC line replaceable modules (40A). The apparatus according to one embodiment comprises a pin assembly (183), the pin assembly (183) being connectable to a module (40A) and connectable to a backplane (104), the pin assembly (183) resistively... Agent: Oral Caglar Honeywell International

20070271404 - Realtime multithreaded hot-plug control: A method for controlling hot-plug behavior includes identifying a hot-plug event caused by a hot-plug device; generating hot-plug threads that execute a hot-plug operation; executing a finite state machine state sequence to regulate hot-plug threads involved in the hot-plug operation; and completing the hot-plug operation at the end of the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070271405 - Method for improving bus utilization using predictive arbitration: A PCI bridge device includes an arbiter that uses state information comprised of knowledge of the bus protocol and a history of recent transactions to predict the type of transaction a requestor will issue. The prediction is then used as a basis to mask or allow bus requests from the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070271406 - Image processing device: An image processing device includes a high-speed bus and a peripheral bus linked via a bus bridge, and connected to the buses are a CPU for carrying out computations and control of image processing, a data transceiving FIFO memory for carrying out transceiving of image compression data with a host... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070271407 - Data accessing method and system for processing unit: A data accessing method executed by a processing unit, the method comprising the steps of: (a) decoding an instruction; (b) checking whether the instruction has to be repeated M times to read data with successive addresses in a main memory, wherein the number M is stored in a count register... Agent: Wpat, PC

20070266181 - Information processing apparatus and storage medium having information processing program stored thereon: An information processing apparatus calculates or obtains inclination data which changes in accordance with the inclination of an input device, from the operation data obtained from the input device. The operation data includes at least one of data on a taken image taken by the imaging means, data representing predetermined... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070266183 - Sampling a device bus: A method for preparing tapped data for analysis. The data on a bus is sampled and latched at a certain rate to produce raw data. The raw data is then decoded by a pod that is configured for the protocol of the bus in a system under test. The decoded... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070266182 - Tap board: A protocol analyzer for analyzing traffic on a bus. A tap card is used to tap into a bidirectional bus. The tap provides a pass through connection from the card to the host and taps off of the bus. While tapping off the bus, stubs lengths are minimized and input... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070266188 - Usb keyboard and human input device using the same: A USB keyboard includes a plurality of keys and a USB controller. The USB controller includes at least a firmware, wherein the USB controller is for executing the firmware. The firmware includes at least two endpoint descriptors, wherein each of the endpoint descriptors operate according to a USB-HID communication standard,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070266180 - Vehicle tracking system: A vehicle tracking system central host comprises a memory cache processor for managing a plurality of memory caches and a storage device linked with the memory cache processor, for receiving messages from the memory caches and writing them to a database. There are n receiver ports each for receiving message... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070266184 - Modular computer system and i/o module: A modular computer system formed by connecting a processing module having a processor mounted thereon and a plurality of I/O modules in a stacked form via connectors, where differing ones of the plurality of I/O modules being differing types of I/O modules from one another, which operate with mutually differing... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070266185 - Method and system for interfacing a digital device with an interactive display surface: A method and system for interfacing a digital device with an interactive display surface (IDS) is presented. The IDS detects the digital device when it is brought into proximity, and attempts to identify the device. The IDS communicates with the device, and displays interactive representations of information stored on the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070266186 - Method and system for receiver detection in pci-express devices: A method and system for detecting when a receiver in a host system is present or absent to receive information from a PCI-Express device is provided. The method includes monitoring a signal received from a serial/de-serializer for transitions; re-starting a first timer when a transition is detected; and detecting a... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070266187 - Data interleaving apparatus: In a data interleaving apparatus, a SRAM sorting circuit 800 judges which the first half (SRAMs 700 and 710) or the latter half (SRAMs 720 and 730) of memory region SRAMs 700 through 730 address information for deinterleaving data transmitted by a DMA apparatus 100 corresponds to, and perform allocation.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070266189 - Electronic device, control method for the same, digital signal generating method, and storage medium: An electronic device includes: a plurality of input terminals; and a control unit in which an operation for determining contents of a digital signal inputted through one input terminal of the plurality of input terminals is repeated while the input terminal is switched to another, and when it is confirmed... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070266190 - Exception handling in a concurrent computing process: A system initiates multiple instances of a concurrent computing process, establishes a communication channel among the multiple instances, initiates execution of a computational job on the multiple instances, detects an interrupt request on one of the multiple instances, and terminates execution of the computational job while maintaining communication among the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070266191 - Method and system for context sensitive presenting of traffic announcements: A method and device for context sensitive presenting of traffic announcements within a car audio system with navigation and/or telecommunication functionality. The method comprises receiving a traffic announcement, detecting if said output device is currently used for performing output, and in case the output device is used storing said traffic... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20070266192 - Enabling ports on a module received in a slot in a chassis: Information is obtained from a module received in a slot in a chassis. The information includes a number of ports in one or more module connectors which route at least one communication channel associated with a communication interfaces on the module. A determination is made as to the number of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070266193 - Method for operating expansion card: A method for operating an expansion card of a computer is proposed, said computer having at least one slot for accommodating the expansion card, wherein there is stored in a memory area of the expansion card a first and a second configuration data record, one of which is assigned to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070266194 - Apparatus, methods, and computer-code for handling an impending decoupling between a transient peripheral device and a host device: Apparatus, methods and computer-code are disclosed where an impending decoupling between a peripheral device and a host is detected. In some embodiments, in response to the detected impending disconnection, a user alert signal is generated. In some embodiments, an ‘onboard detector’ that is associated with housing of the peripheral device... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070266195 - Internet scsi communication via undi services: A method and system for emulating a hardware Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) without risking an interruption of communication between a computer and a remote secondary storage device is presented. During normal operations, a (hardware emulating) software HBA drives a Network Interface Card (NIC) to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070266196 - Information processing apparatus having multiple processing units sharing multiple resources: A technique for improving usage efficiency of a shared resource and improving processing capacity in an information processing apparatus, without increasing the transmission rate or the bit width of a bus is disclosed. Multiple bus interfaces are connected to at least one shared resource. The multiple bus interfaces are connected... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070266197 - Device for, method of, and program for dynamically switching modes for writing transaction data into disk: A data writing device capable of dynamically switching between a write-through mode and a write-behind mode for writing transaction data into a disk including: a memory with a queue management table for managing a write disk queue and a write memory queue to store the transaction data; means for registering... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070260753 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: The conventional techniques cannot set optimal energy saving modes separately for a plurality of loads and can hardly attain further suppression of power consumption. To accomplish this, in an image forming apparatus including a main circuit board which has a master CPU and controls the operation of the entire image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070260755 - Method and apparatus for transmitting packets and method and apparatus for combining packets in digital cable broadcasting: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting packets in digital cable broadcasting which transmits a massive amount of data to a cable card at once by combining the packets in the maximum size which does not exceed the data processing capacity of the cable card before the transmission, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070260758 - Read channel on a flex cable: A system and method for providing an interface an interface between a read channel and a disk controller where the read channel is mounted on a flexible cable connecting the disk controller to a read head. The flexible cable includes a plurality of differential pair signal lines operable to communicate... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070260766 - Method and apparatus for transmitting event information between devices connected with network, and storage medium storing method: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting event resources in various formats between devices connected with a network, and a storage medium storing the method. The method for transmitting event information includes determining whether a first device connected with the network receives event information from at least one second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070260767 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A disclosed information processing apparatus is equipped with a built-in display unit and a built-in input unit. A display signal supplied from an external information processing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus is combined with a display signal supplied from a core processing unit in a part of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070260770 - Process and device for the transmission of data between a processor and a mass memory unit: A process for the transmission of data between a processor and a mass memory unit, initialization and/or control commands are transmitted via a PCMCIA interface to the mass memory unit, while user data, however, are transmitted via a memory interface. Accordingly, a device for the transmission of data between a... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070260776 - Method and system for matching vendor offerings to service provider requirements: A method and system for assessing vendors for meeting requirements of a service provider for deploying a selected service via execution of program code by a computer system. A request is received from a service provider to identify vendors who can meet the service provider's requirements for deploying the selected... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070260775 - Storage device, storage control firmware activation program exchange method, and program product for activating and exchanging storage control program: A storage control device 2A includes a host interface control unit 3, a storage control firmware A, and electrically rewritable non-volatile memory 7 and, using non-volatile memory 7, stores necessary information during exchange of an activation program of the storage control firmware A, and using the information exchanges the activation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070260785 - Computer system having analog and digital video signal output functionality, and computer device and video signal transmitting device thereof: A video signal transmitting device having analog and digital video signal output functionality is adapted to transmit a video signal, and has a cable unit, a digital visual interface integrated input port disposed at one end of the cable unit and adapted to receive the video signal, and a digital... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20070260784 - Microprocessor system: A multiprocessor system, in which a memory card can be easily accessed from a data processor other than a data processor to which the memory card is connected without impeding processing, has been disclosed. The multiprocessor system comprises data processors wherein a first data processor comprises a memory card interface,... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070260754 - Hardware assisted exception for software miss handling of an i/o address translation cache miss: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide an improved technique to handle I/O address translation cache misses caused by I/O commands within a CPU. For some embodiments, CPU hardware may buffer I/O commands that cause an I/O address translation cache miss in a command queue until the I/O address translation... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070260757 - Command interface for flash device: A system, apparatus, method and article to provide a command interface for flash device are described. The apparatus may include a command interface coupled to a serial input/output path to receive operational code instructions. A parallel interconnect path is coupled to said command interface. The command interface is to determine... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070260756 - Method for processing command via sata interface: Methods for performing ATAPI NCQ and ATAPI normal command are provided. The method involves receiving a predefined packet comprising essential information regarding a host command, the predefined packet received from a Serial ATA interface that is coupled to a host, wherein the essential information further indicates whether the command is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070260759 - Apparatus, system, and method for complete data migration from a wireless communication device: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for retrieving data from a portable wireless communication device. An initiation module is included to initiate wireless communication between a portable wireless communication device and the apparatus. The portable wireless communication device is in an off state and the wireless communication is facilitated... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070260762 - External apparatus function extension application system and firmware download driver system: An external apparatus function extension application system in a host computer is provided. The host computer sets a property value of an external apparatus into firmware that controls the external apparatus connected to the host computer and that is downloaded from the host computer to the external apparatus, and the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070260763 - Installation method, program, peripheral device and system: When connection of the host and the peripheral device is detected, it is searched whether or not the driver is installed in the host. When the search result shows that the driver is not installed in the host, the driver stored in the storage of the peripheral device is read... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070260761 - Inter-module data communication control method and system for acpi and bios: An inter-module data communication control method and system for ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is proposed, which is designed for use with a computer platform for providing an inter-module data communication control mechanism, which is characterized by the use of SMI (System Management Interrupt)... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070260760 - Method of loading device driver used with open firmware to optimize boot time and required memory: A method is provided for loading device drivers in a computer system having a set of devices, when Open Firmware is implemented to boot the system. A set of stub device drivers are initially created, one for each device attached to the computer system. A stub driver comprises a reduced... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070260764 - Semi-automatic token generated addressing: Systems and methods for assigning addresses to one or more components, such as luminaires, in a network. In one example the luminaires include one or more lamp sub-modules. An example method sends an address command from a master control unit to all luminaires over a communication broadcast databus, and switches... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070260765 - Apparatus and system for displaying an image in conjunction with a removable memory cartridge: An apparatus and system are disclosed for displaying an image in conjunction with a removable memory cartridge. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a housing that encloses a memory device for storing content data and a protrusion extending from the housing, the protrusion configured to display an image. The apparatus... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070260769 - Computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing dma write page faults using a pool of substitute pages: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for managing DMA write page faults using a pool of substitute pages. The computer system's platform resolves a DMA write page fault for a page that is dedicated to an I/O adapter. The I/O adapter attempts to write DMA data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070260768 - Stalling of dma operations in order to do memory migration using a migration in progress bit in the translation control entry mechanism: A mechanism for temporarily stalling selected Direct Memory Access (DMA) operations in a physical I/O adapter in order to permit migration of data between physical pages that are subject to access by the physical I/O adapter. When a request for a DMA to a physical page in system memory is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070260771 - Method of reducing clock differential in a data processing system: A method of preventing buffer underrun and buffer overrun errors in a data processing system is disclosed. The method includes providing a reference frequency for the data processing system, storing data samples to be processed in a first in, first out (FIFO) register, detecting a level of the FIFO register... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070260772 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a communication system are provided, in which an information symbol is repeated, the repeated information symbols are interleaved, the interleaved repeated information symbols are organized into groups of a predetermined size, an nth parity check matrix is calculated by modulo summation of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070260773 - Control system for a system rendered secure through diversification: This control system for a system rendered secure by diversification comprises: a set of processors processing railway commands, arranged in parallel and each capable of receiving different sets of instructions, a component for selecting commands selected from the output data issuing from the processors. The modular applications automatic systems are... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070260774 - Wrapper for use with global standards compliance checkers: Methods and apparatus for checking the compliance of a file with global and custom standards are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for checking a file that is associated with a first set of standards and a second set of standards into a repository includes... Agent: Aka Chan LLP / Oracle

20070260779 - Increased speed of processing of audio samples received over a serial communications link by use of channel map and steering table: A method and apparatus for processing data samples utilizes a channel map populated by device descriptor, or by an application program interface. Packet processing code loops through all of the samples contained in a packet while incrementing through a channel map and steering table without having to look up a... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20070260780 - Media subsystem, method and computer program product for adaptive media buffering: A media subsystem of a processing element includes a plurality of elements and a latency manager. The plurality of elements are capable of processing media data including a plurality of instances wherein a first element inserts a length of media data into buffer(s) from which a second element thereafter reads... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070260778 - Memory controller with bi-directional buffer for achieving high speed capability and related method thereof: A memory controller for accessing a serial Flash memory is disclosed. The memory controller includes a logic circuit; a bi-directional buffer, coupled to the logic circuit, for selectively reversing the direction of data flow according to a control signal generated from the logic circuit, the bi-directional buffer comprising: an input... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070260781 - Memory including an output pointer circuit: A memory including an input register, an input pointer circuit, and an output pointer circuit. The input register is configured to receive and latch-in valid and invalid data via an input pointer and to output the valid data via an output pointer. The input pointer circuit is configured to provide... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070260782 - Packets transfer device having data absorbing buffers with elastic buffer capacities: In PCI-Express and alike communications systems, data bandwidth per channel can vary as a result of negotiated port bifurcation during network bring-up. Disclosed are systems and methods for adjusting FIFO depths in response to negotiated bandwidth per channel so that data absorbing FIFO's of respective channels are not arbitrarily too... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070260777 - Queues for information processing and methods thereof: Systems and methods implement queues that perform write operations in a re-circulating sequential manner. The nature of the queue systems of the present invention allow writes to the queue to occur independently of read operations therefrom. A current event counter is updated by the queue logic to keep track of... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20070260783 - Detection and power of host usb devices by a usb client device: A USB host/client system includes a USB host device, a USB client device connected via a USB cable to the USB host device, and a power supply unit remote from the USB host device for powering the USB host device through the USB cable connecting the USB client device to... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070260786 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program for implementing the method: An information processing apparatus which makes it easier to carry out setting of a wireless interface necessary for enabling a device or apparatus to be used via the wireless interface, using a wire interface. An information processing apparatus carries out first communication setting so as to enable an apparatus or... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070260787 - Employment method of virtual tape volume: Conventionally, it has been impossible to use a virtual tape volume having the same volume serial number and different media. A computer implemented virtual tape system enables making definition of a virtual tape volume of another medium with the same volume serial number and definition of a virtual tape magazine... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070260789 - Interface transmission structure between modules and method thereof: An interface transmission structure between modules and its method comprise a central processor installed in an electronic device, a first pin and a second pin installed in the central processor and coupled respectively to a third pin and a fourth pin of at least one module. The central processor is... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070260788 - Multiplexing a ground signal on a high speed cable interface to provide access to cable vital product data: Because cable length affects signal quality, amplifying signals differently to account for cable length (“tuning”) becomes especially important when high speed signals are used. Cable length information may be stored in a non-volatile memory which may be integrated into a cable assembly or may be a discrete component between the... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070260791 - Data processing device: A data processing device which, even if congestion occurs on a bus circuit of a specific processing circuit in an LSI in which multiple circuit modules are connected by buses, can fully actualize the performance potential of the system on chip. Buses and slave circuits on which accesses concentrate are... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070260790 - Embedded controller and method for updating the firmware thereof: An embedded controller (EC) is a microprocessor having a firmware storage for use in a notebook computer (NB) to control keyboard, touch pad or other user interfaces. When the NB is just powered on or before the south-bridge chip (ICH) is activated, the EC is switched from a slave to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070260792 - Method and system for n dimension arbitration algorithm - scalable to any number of end points: A method, a system and a computer programmable product have been provided for arbitrating bus cycles among a plurality of device nodes. Requests for bus grant are received from the device nodes. Each request includes values of one or more arbitration parameters. The requests grouped at a first stage, with... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070260793 - Method and system for data transfer: The method and system for data transfer between the master device and the slave device through the bus are presented. It includes arbitrating the requests of bus usage from the master device; the master device obtained the authorization by arbitrating transfers the data of the stream bursts, and transmits the... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070260794 - Method of transitioning between active mode and power-down mode in processor based system: A method of transitioning between an active mode and a power-down mode in a processor-based system includes saving a state of the active mode, detecting the occurrence of one or more interrupt events during a transition between the active mode and the power-down mode, and responding to the detected interrupt... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070260795 - Design system of binding structure for polymer molecule: A simulation system that increases a polymer molecule binding prediction speed on a parallel and distributed computer system is provided. The simulation system determines a decomposition width that decomposes a search region of polymer molecule by means of translational operation and rotational operation and the number of searches in the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070260796 - Event handler for context-switchable and non-context-switchable processing tasks: Embodiments of a system and method for handling interrupts are described herein. In an embodiment interrupts from various client components in a system (also referred to as clients) are processed by an interrupt handler component uniformly. The various clients signal interrupts in different manners. For example, some clients signal interrupts... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070260797 - Memory card with an expansion function: A memory card with an expansion function is composed of a body on which is provided with a fundamental transmission interface, and an expansion interface being linked with an internal circuit. An assembly part is additionally located at a position next to circuit junctions of this expansion interface, for serving... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070260798 - Accessory for portable electronic device: A transmitting accessory includes a base dock for receiving a portable electronic device and a transmitter that is removably coupled to the dock. When the device and transmitter are mounted on the dock, the transmitter receives signals from the device through the dock and transmits the signals to a remote... Agent: Hornkohl Law Firm

20070260801 - Method of operating wireless usb apparatus and wireless usb apparatus using the same: A method of operating a wireless universal serial bus (USB) apparatus and the wireless USB apparatus using the same. The method including: receiving operation state information from a neighboring wireless USB apparatus in a beacon period (BP); the wireless USB apparatus, which is operating as a host in a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070260800 - Tapping a memory card: A protocol analyzer for analyzing traffic on a bus. A system includes a tap, a pod and an analyzer. The tap includes differential inputs for the bus. One of the differential inputs is a line from the bus and the other is a reference input that has been divided. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070260802 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument generating interface signal of signal type according to interface information set in internal register: A data transfer control device including: a link controller which analyzes a received packet transferred from a host-side data transfer control device through a serial bus; an interface circuit which generates interface signals and outputs the generated interface signals to an interface bus; and an internal register in which is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070260799 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus which is capable of detecting faults that cannot be detected with a fixed signal pattern and which also permits fault detection to be performed even during the operation thereof. Signal processor circuits perform identical signal processing, and a signal router causes the signal being input to an... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070260803 - Data processing system and method: A data processing system includes a central processing unit having a cache memory, a main memory for storing data which will be processed by the central processing unit, and an agent circuit having a data buffer, coupled to the central processing unit; wherein the agent circuit actively reads the data... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070260804 - Serialized secondary bus architecture: A system including a serialized secondary bus architecture. The system may include an LPC bus, an I/O controller, a serialized secondary bus, and at least one slave device. The LPC bus may be connected to the I/O controller, and the at least one slave device may be connected to the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070260805 - Computer with a reconfigurable architecture for integrating a global cellular automaton: A computer containing a RAM-based primary part (Ht) with a stucturable RAM unit (2). On the input side, a first crossbar switch (1) is located upstream of the unit and a second crossbar switch (3) is located downstream. Address signals (18, 13) can be supplied from the first crossbar switch... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070255861 - System and method for providing dynamic network firewall with default deny: A computing system having host computer and an I/O processor (IOP) provides firewall services to the host computer. When the host computer and the IOP are initialized, all of the communication ports are reset to a closed state. Application programs are loaded into memory of the host computer for execution... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20070255860 - Systems and methods for managing mass storage devices in electronic devices: Methods for managing mass storage devices are provided. An embodiment of a method for managing mass storage devices performed by an electronic device comprises the following steps. It is detected that the electronic device has connected to a computer system. One mass storage driver is selected from multiple mass storage... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070255863 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus connectable to a server via a network and performing information processing. The information processing apparatus includes a managing unit configured to manage count information pertaining to the information processing, a notifying unit configured to notify the server of the count information managed by the managing unit,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070255864 - Information transfer apparatus and information transfer method: According to one embodiment, an information transfer apparatus for performing direct memory access (DMA) between a memory unit and an input/output device comprises a first port to form a first transfer path which performs DMA transfer of information between the memory and the input/output device via a general-purpose bus, a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070255866 - Method and system for a user space tcp offload engine (toe): Certain aspects of a method and system for user space TCP offload are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include offloading transmission control protocol (TCP) processing of received data to an on-chip processor. The received data may be posted directly to hardware, bypassing kernel processing of the received data, utilizing... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070255857 - Fabric interposer for blade compute module systems: An interposer module may be used between a unified architecture blade compute module and a mid-plane of a present technology blade compute module system. The interposer module may contain input-output controllers for desired input-output fabrics. The mid-plane couples these input-output controllers to associated input-output fabric switches. The same unified architecture... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070255858 - Systems and methods for automatic assignment of identification codes to devices: A system and method for automatically and uniquely assigning identification codes to a plurality of slave processors. A master processor having communication port is linked to a first slave processor, which, itself, has first and second communication ports. The first communication port is used in support of the aforementioned link... Agent: Attention: Steven C. Bruess Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070255859 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and program thereof: An outputting/operating section A 105 is associated with an output device 3 and an outputting/operating section B 106 is associated with an output device 5. An analyzing section 102 analyzes HTML contents 101. Context data 104 that indicates an analysis result is stored in a context data storage buffer 103.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070255862 - Terminal system and user communication apparatus thereof: This invention discloses a terminal system and a user communication apparatus thereof for an Internet communication. The present terminal system is a low cost structure for the terminal system. The terminal system comprises a communication server for processing main operations, and comprises a plurality of user communication apparatuses. The communication... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai & Associates, P.C.

20070255865 - System for controlling i/o devices in a multi-partition computer system: An I/O control system for controlling I/O devices in a multi-partition computer system. The I/O control system includes an IOP partition containing an I/O processor cell with at least one CPU executing a control program, and a plurality of standard partitions, each including a cell comprising at least one CPU... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070255869 - Device evaluation using automatic connection path reconfiguration: Testing of computing devices and/or peripherals coupled via a wired bus may be facilitated through automatically re-configuring connections between computing devices and peripherals. A switching device may selectively couple and de-couple computing devices and peripherals for testing purposes. A control device may send control commands to the switching device to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070255867 - Early hss rx data sampling: In a method for reading data from a serial data source in a parallel format, data from the serial data source is deserialized by placing a plurality of predefined units of data onto a parallel bus and asserting a deserialization clock when each of the plurality of predefined units is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070255868 - Method and system for managing a network device using a slave usb interface: A network device includes a USB slave port for connection to a computer to allow configuration and management of the network device utilizing the plug and play capability of interfaces defined by the USB standard.... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20070255870 - Disk array apparatus: A disk array apparatus using an SAS can transfer data without lowering a transfer efficiency of data even if rates of a plurality of physical links connected to a controller and storage device are different. A plurality of HDDs are connected to a controller through an expander. Data are transferred... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070255871 - Method and apparatus for loop breaking in a data bus: A method and apparatus is disclosed for preventing loops in a full-duplex bus. One method has the acts of: selecting at least two candidates to join said bus; establishing a dominant candidate from one of said at least two candidates; testing for loops in said bus; and joining said dominant... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20070255872 - Bus system and semiconductor integrated circuit: A technology for allowing easy handling of a change in the address range of the subject of access or any of bus masters is provided. There is provided an address monitor unit including a table which is shared among a plurality of bus masters and stores therein access right information... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070255874 - System and method for target device access arbitration using queuing devices: A system and method for slave-side arbitration includes a plurality of master devices, a target device, and an arbitrator for arbitrating access to the target device by the master devices. Queuing devices, such as FIFO buffers, are respectively associated with master devices and communicate information regarding retained target device access... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20070255873 - Arbitrator and its arbitration method: The present invention provides an arbiter and its arbitration method. The master devices in the bus system can be divided into primary master devices and secondary master devices. Said arbiter has first and second stage arbitration modules, wherein the second stage arbitration module can be used for arbitrating bus usage... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070255875 - Method and device for switching over in a computer system having at least two execution units: A method and device for switching over in a computer system having at least two execution units, switching being carried out between at least two operating modes, a first operating mode corresponding to a comparison mode and a second operating mode corresponding to a performance mode, characterized in that the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070255876 - Interrupt control circuit and method: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an interrupt control circuit that controls a plurality of interrupt requests for interrupt handling executed by a processor, includes: an interrupt control module unit as a detecting unit determining whether or not there is an interrupt request masked with interrupt handling executed... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070255877 - Usb interrupt endpoint sharing: A single USB interrupt endpoint is usable by two different active logical devices in a USB device. If a first logical device is to interrupt a USB host, then the first logical device writes a notification into the endpoint. The notification carries a number that identifies a first device object.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070255878 - Motherboard assembly: A computer motherboard includes an expansion slot that complies with a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIEx1 and PCIEx4) specification and an Advance Digital Display 2 lane-reversed (ADD2-R) specification, and that includes a set of conductive pins complying with the Peripheral Component Interconnects (PCI) specification. A riser card may be inserted... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070255879 - System for programmed control of signal input and output to and from cable conductors: An input/output module for implementing directions from a controller for sending and receiving signals to and from devices. The input/output module includes a microprocessor for communication with, and receiving programming from the controller. The input/output module further includes device communication connectors, each having number of pins, each pin for interconnection... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070255881 - Hot attach and detach application cartridge internally and externally connectable to computer host: An improved hot attach & detach application cartridge that can be externally or internally connected to a computer host easily, comprises a portable computer bracket that is specifically designed to enclose and electrically connect the application cartridge to a mother board of a computer host, wherein the portable computer bracket... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070255880 - Hot swap adapter: There is disclosed a hot swap adapter having a circuit board, a power connector, a data connector and a circuit board connector. The circuit board may include one more logic devices. The power connector, the data connector and the circuit board connector may attach to the circuit board. The data... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070255882 - I/o and memory bus system for dfps and units with two- or multi-dimensional programmable cell architectures: A general bus system is provided which combines a number of internal lines and leads them as a bundle to the terminals. The bus system control is predefined and does not require any influence by the programmer. Any number of memories, peripherals or other units can be connected to the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070255883 - Method and apparatus for enhancing universal serial bus applications: A system for enhancing universal serial bus (USB) applications comprises an upstream processor, a downstream processor and a main controller. The upstream processor accepts standard USB signals from a USB host and independently provides responses required by USB specification within the required time frame. The downstream processor connectable to USB-compliant... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070255884 - Interfacing a legacy data bus with a wideband wireless data resource utilizing an embedded bus controller: Various methods and systems provide interfaces between legacy data buses such as MIL-STD 1553 buses and wideband wireless data links such as links compatible with IEEE 802.11 or IEEE 802.16e. One technique for interfacing a legacy bus to a wideband wireless data communication link involves providing a hybrid bus controller/remote... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (boeing)

20070255885 - System and method for universal serial bus hub port reversal: System and method for switching logic in a Universal Serial Bus hub. The USB hub may include upstream logic and downstream logic for sending and receiving information from a host controller and a USB device respectively. The USB hub may include a plurality of ports operable to couple to a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070255886 - Programmable logic device including programmable interface core and central processing unit: A programmable logic device (PLD) includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a programmable interface coupled to the CPU, wherein the programmable interface includes a core designated by a user. The programmable interface core allows devices, both on and off-chip, to communicate with the CPU. In one embodiment, the programmable... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department