Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 12/07

20070299990 - A method and system for memory address translation and pinning: A method and system for memory address translation and pinning are provided. The method includes attaching a memory address space identifier to a direct memory access (DMA) request, the DMA request is sent by a consumer and using a virtual address in a given address space. The method further includes... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070299992 - Signal processing device: A signal processing device includes a start time obtaining part that obtains a start time when a predetermined process is started in response to an interrupt request associated with a valid edge of a pulse input signal, an edge occurrence time obtaining part that obtains a time of occurrence of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070299994 - Disk controller, host interface module and methods for use therewith: A host interface module is operable to couple the disk drive to a host device. The host interface module includes a plurality of personality modules, each of the plurality of personality modules, when coupled to the host device, is operable to accept read and write commands and transfer data to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070299996 - Data transfer device: There is disclosed a data transfer device to allow a host to access a universal serial bus (USB) storage device as if it were a hard disk drive. The data transfer device may include a first interface unit to allow for communication with a host and a second interface unit... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070299997 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: According to one embodiment, the information processing apparatus comprises a compression control unit which performs compression processing on a data payload added to a packet output from a transaction layer of a first device and supplies the compressed data payload to a data link layer of the first device, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070299989 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus is disclosed that is connected to a device and generates data processable by the device based on device information about the device. The information processing apparatus includes a processing content setting unit that specifies, based on the device information, processing content to be executed by the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070299991 - Dma module and operating system therefor: A DMA module is described which, in order to read or write a memory location within a DMA process, accesses by a reading operation a memory location of an addressable memory (5) identified by a first address (46) in order to read there at least one second address (52); which... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070299993 - Method and device for treating and processing data: Procedures and methods for managing and transmitting data within multidimensional systems of transmitters and receivers are described. Splitting a data stream into a plurality of independent branches and subsequent merging of the individual branches to form a data stream is to be performable in a simple manner, the individual data... Agent: Michelle M. Carniaux Kenyon & Kenyon

20070299995 - Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage: A storage router (56) and storage network (50) provide virtual local storage on remote SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) to Fibre Channel devices. A plurality of Fibre Channel devices, such as workstations (58), are connected to a Fibre Channel transport medium (52), and a plurality of SCSI storage devices... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070299998 - Method and system for facilitating faster data transmission between a central processing unit and a connected memory device: In a computer bus architecture, a system for improving performance in data transmitting between bussed devices includes a processor connected to the bus architecture; at least one memory device bussed to the processor; a circuit on the processor for reducing the number of bus lines required for transmitting data; and... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070299999 - Link protocol control for serial protocols: A state machine encoded in state machine instructions is stored in non-volatile memory, and loaded into volatile memory in a hardware engine for use by the hardware engine upon power up or reset. Storing the state machine for a phy reset sequence in non-volatile memory coupled to the hardware engine... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070300000 - Method for interfacing components of a computing system with a pair of unidirectional, point-to-point buses: A method of interfacing two components of a computing system is provided wherein the method includes providing a pair of unidirectional, point-to-point buses to transmit data between a master bus controller of the computing system and a slave bus controller of a processor unit of the computing system. The method... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070300001 - Circuit arrangement and method for operating a circuit arrangement: Circuit arrangement having a chip card controller with connections which can be used to access the chip card controller in accordance with the ISO standard and which are connected or can be connected to an ISO interface. The connections include at least one first connection, which can be connected to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070300003 - Method and apparatus for increasing the performance of a portable information handling system: A portable information handling system (IHS) performance increasing apparatus includes a portable slice chassis that is operable to be coupled to an IHS external to a portable IHS chassis. At least one graphics processing unit is located in the portable slice chassis. The apparatus may be coupled to a portable... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070300002 - System and method for media damage prevention on a portable player: The system includes a removable entertainment device including an information retrieval device. The information retrieval device is configured to receive removable storage media. The removable entertainment device includes a controller in electrical communication with the information retrieval device to retract the media into the information retrieval device when the controller... Agent: Visteon

20070300004 - Method and system of connecting between a single wireless device and plurality of hosts using a wireless usb: A method and system to wirelessly connect between a single device and plurality of hosts using a universal serial bus (USB). A plurality of virtual devices are set and stored in the single device, and connection between the plurality of virtual devices and the plurality of hosts is maintained, thereby... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070300005 - Systems and methods for on-chip signaling: Systems and methods for on-chip signaling are disclosed. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit having on-chip signaling between a first component and a second component includes, a differential interconnect capable of coupling the first component to the second component, a driver capable of being coupled to the first component that... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20070300006 - Multi-interface conversion device: A multi-interface conversion device includes a USB-to-IDE interface bridging unit, an IDE-to-SATA interface bridging unit, an IDE switching unit, and a switching logic unit. The USB-to-IDE interface bridging unit provides USB to IDE bridging and conversion. The IDE-to-SATA interface bridging unit provides IDE to SATA interface conversion or IDE to... Agent: Madson & Austin

20070294436 - Apparatus and method for scanning slave addresses of smbus slave devices: An apparatus and a method are provided to scan the slave addresses of plural slave devices connected to a system management bus (SMBus). By means of signal simulation corresponsive to an address section of SMBus Packet Protocols, a scan process unit of the apparatus generates plural scan packets and sends... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070294437 - Method for automatically adjusting driving signals of a peripheral device and systems of operating the same: A method for automatically adjusting driving signals of a peripheral device includes accessing identification data of the peripheral device periodically, and determining whether an accessed identification data differs from a connecting device identification code stored in a signal source. If the accessed identification data differs from the connecting device identification... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070294439 - Systems and methods for determining size of a device buffer: A method for determining a buffer size of devices in an embedded system is disclosed. A buffer fill time (BFT) and a request response time (RRT) are determined. Next, a media data rate (MDR) and a number of bus masters (NBM) are calculated. Finally, a lowest buffer size of a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070294438 - Portable information processor: A portable information processor (10) includes a storage unit (11) that stores information; a connecting unit (12) that connects to one of the device (1 (or 2)); an information acquiring unit (13) that acquires information from the connected device (1 (or 2)); an operation information generating unit (14) supplied with... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070294440 - Sd (secure digital) card and host controller: Provided is an SD card that can transfer data at a faster speed than a conventional SD card by a data transfer method that is different from a conventional one. Among the four terminals used in the data transfer by the conventional method, respective two terminals are made into pairs.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070294441 - Usb keystroke monitoring apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for monitoring USB keystroke data sent between a host (1) and keyboard (4) which allows the differentiation and monitoring between USB data sent at full speed (12 Mbps) and low speed (1.5 Mbps) on a USB data line (2). The differentiation is achieved by detecting when... Agent: Keyghost Limited

20070294442 - Storage media having electronic circuit and computer system including storage media: A storage media for automating a control and a computer system including the storage media, which abolishes the restriction between the hardware models and the software processes, and in which a desired software process can be simply utilized in any hardware models, and a computer system including the storage media... Agent: Attention Of Brian H. Batzli Merchant & Gould P.c

20070294444 - Method for discovering and partitioning pci devices: Embodiments provide an efficient system of device configuration and detection for a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) system. Each connected device provides a descriptor and is accessed at a predetermined address. The device is then configured by the operating system based on the device descriptor and assigned a device address for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070294443 - Address assignment through device id broadcast: An address assignment mechanism. A computer system may include one or more types of slave devices. Each slave device includes an internal device ID. Slave devices of the same type include the same internal device ID. The master device may broadcast a message through the use of a protocol to... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070294445 - Method of controlling connection between nodes in digital interface: A method of controlling connection between nodes in a digital interface whereby a first node that is a master node determines a second node to be the master and controls a point-to-point connection or a broadcast connection to another node. The first node having the display device determines the second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070294446 - Information processing apparatus, method of same, and program for same: An information processing apparatus configured to control communications of a plurality of devices via a common communication channel on the basis of predetermined priority levels of the devices includes a changing unit configured to change the priority level of a predetermined device, which is one of the plurality of devices,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070294447 - Information processing apparatus and access control method capable of high-speed data access: Requestors acquire tokens before issuing access requests to a memory controller. The access requests issued are accumulated in a command queue of the memory controller. When the amount of access requests accumulated in the command queue is smaller than or equal to a first threshold, or in level 0, tokens... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070294448 - Information processing apparatus and access control method capable of high-speed data access: Requestors issue access requests to a memory controller. The access requests issued are accumulated in a command queue of the memory controller. When the amount of access requests accumulated in the command queue is smaller than or equal to a threshold, a free pass (FP) is granted to specified requesters.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070294449 - Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus: A method and apparatus relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus is disclosed. A method for determining a path to a senior border node is disclosed, as is a... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20070294450 - System and method for user-configurable resource arbitration in a process control system: A system includes at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one memory is operable to store a resource object associated with a resource. The at least one memory is also operable to store a plurality of requester objects associated with at least a portion of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070294451 - Extensible resource resolution framework: An extensible resource resolution framework. Executing code that references a resource invokes an interface of an extensible resource resolution framework. Parameters may be provided on the invocation to specify information pertaining to the current execution context. One or more resource resolvers are selected, transparently to the invoking code, as appropriate... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070294452 - External multimedia expansion device: An external multimedia expansion device suitable for being electrically connected to a portable computer is provided. An express card is inserted into the portable computer, and the external multimedia expansion device is suitable for being electrically connected to the portable computer through the express card. The external multimedia expansion device... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070294453 - Portable electronic device and multimedia system: A portable electronic device suitable for being electrically connected to a multimedia expansion device and using the multimedia expansion device to control a multimedia output device is provided. The portable device includes a monitor and a host. The host is electrically connected to the monitor, and suitable for electrically connecting... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070294454 - Motherboard for cost-effective high performance graphics system with two or more graphics processing units: A motherboard includes two bus connectors. Each connector has contact positions for a set of serial data lanes. A private bus is formed in the motherboard to couple a subset of the serial data lanes of the two connectors. In one implementation, each connector is a Peripheral Component Interface Express... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070294455 - Data interface: In order provide a host apparatus 20, such as a digital television receiver, with the capability of transmitting commands to an external storage medium device 21 connected to the host apparatus 20 over an external databus 22, the host apparatus 20 is provided with: a command bus 28 and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070294458 - Bus interface controller for cost-effective high performance graphics system with two or more graphics processing units: A bus interface controller manages a set of serial data lanes. The bus interface controller supports operating a subset of the serial data lanes as a private bus.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070294456 - Data communication interface and communication devices incorporating same: A communication interface facilitates connection of a plurality of wireless USB compatible hosts with at least a WUSB device in a wireless USB environment at the same time. The communication interface includes a host detector that detects the presence of an active host or a plurality of active hosts, a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070294457 - Usb wireless network drive: A universal serial bus (USB) device is provided that includes a USB interface that mimics the operation of a typical USB drive. The USB device provides identification information through its USB interface indicating that it is a storage device. In reality, the USB device does not include a USB drive... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070294459 - Apparatus for bridging a host to a san: The present invention discloses a bridging apparatus for bridging a host to a SAN (Storage Area Network). The bridging apparatus is capable of virtualizing a disk volume allocated in the SAN as a DAS (Direct Attached Storage). The bridging apparatus of the present invention comprises: a first HBA (Host Bus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070294460 - Computer systems and multi-later usb i/o systems thereof: A multi-layer universal serial bus (USB) input/output (I/O) system comprising a chipset, at least one USB port, and an I/O port. The chipset controls data transmission. The I/O control chip is coupled between the system chipset and the USB port. The chipset controls data transmission of the USB port through... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070288667 - Removable media device and data control method: An image displaying system includes: a removable media device and an image processor. The removable media device includes: a filename receiving unit; a reduced data determining unit; a reduced data generating unit; and a data transmitting unit. The filename receiving unit receives a filename of an image file stored on... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070288668 - Active element machine computation: An active element machine is a new kind of computing machine. When implemented in hardware, the active element machine can execute multiple instructions simultaneously, because every one of its computing elements is active. This greatly enhances the computing speed. By executing a meta program whose instructions change the connections in... Agent: David Lewis

20070288669 - Capacitive multidrop bus compensation: The signal integrity of a high speed heavily loaded multidrop memory bus is often degraded due the numerous impedance mismatches. The impedance mismatches causes the bus to exhibit a nonlinear frequency response, which diminishes signal integrity and limits the bandwidth of the bus. A compensating element, such as a capacitor... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070288670 - Apparatus and method for inputting data in mobile terminal: A method and apparatus for inputting data in a mobile terminal is provided. In the method, the mobile terminal includes scanning data using an external input device and storing the scanned data; requesting the stored data to the external input device when an event for inputting data is detected in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070288671 - Low power and low pin count bi-directional dual data rate device interconnect interface: A simple clock source synchronous DDR data transfer mechanism may be combined with static bus state signaling to replace a complex bus (e.g. USB) with an easy to implement digital serial interconnect bus. This may eliminate various pull-up/pull-down resistors required in USB, and enable the interconnect bus to operate with... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070288672 - Systems and methods for reducing data storage in devices using multi-phase data transactions: Systems and methods for enforcing in-order execution of commands sent from a master device to a slave device, where it is not necessary to provide a data buffer to store data associated with commands that are delayed to enforce in-order execution. In one embodiment, when a slave receives an execution... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20070288673 - Programmable controller and communication unit therefor: A programmable controller includes a CPU unit, a communication unit and peripheral units connected together through an internal bus. The communication unit has a bus master function, including a cache memory for recording IO data stored in the memory of an input-output unit. When a message is received, it is... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070288674 - Remote i/o system: A remote I/O system includes a plurality of slave stations, and a mater station. The master station includes a communication failure detector configured to assume that a communication failure occurred when the master station has not received a reply from a failed slave station among the slave stations. The master... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070288675 - Bus system, bus slave and bus control method: A bus system includes one or more bus masters, one or more bus slaves, and a response unit. When an access request to a resource of a bus slave is sent from a bus master, the response unit outputs a wait response that is either a blocking wait response to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070288676 - Methods and apparatus for servicing commands: In a first aspect, a first method is provided for servicing commands. The first method includes the steps of (1) receiving a first command for servicing in a memory controller including a plurality of memory ports, wherein the first command is of a first priority; (2) receiving a second command... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20070288677 - Field-operable, stand-alone apparatus for media recovery and regeneration: A method for recovering data from corrupted flash media and regenerated damaged flash media have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing data on a flash media, searching the data for file indicia corresponding at least one predetermined file type, reading the data based on information in the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (onspec/tpl)

20070288678 - Compact portable media reproduction system: A portable media reproduction system preferably includes a housing with an attached docking component for receiving a portable media player, the docking component being recessed into the housing when in a closed position such that the first side forms a uniformly substantially flat surface. A latch is provided for holding... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070288679 - 276-pin buffered memory module with enhanced fault tolerance and a performance-optimized pin assignment: A dual inline memory module (DIMM) includes a card having a length of about 151.2 to about 151.5 millimeters, a plurality of individual local memory devices attached to the card, and a buffer device attached to the card, the buffer device configured for converting a packetized memory interface. The card... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070288680 - Device and connection control method: In a device connected wirelessly with a host, a host identification information holding unit holds identification information of the host. A connection control unit of the device searches for an identification signal including the host identification information transmitted from the host, where the search is for connecting with the host... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070288681 - Virtual usb card reader with pci express interface: The present invention discloses a virtual universal serial bus (USB) card reader with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) Express interface. The card reader includes a microcontroller connected to a PCI Express connecting interface and a memory card connecting interface separately. The microcontroller includes a memory card interface, a PCI Express... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070283051 - Computer with status display module: A computer including a chassis, a motherboard, an electronic component, an I/O port and a status display module is provided. The motherboard is disposed in the chassis. The electronic component is electrically connected with the motherboard. The I/O port is electrically connected with the motherboard and has at least one... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070283052 - Dynamic peripheral function remapping to external input-output connections of an integrated circuit device: Peripheral functions of an integrated circuit device may be pooled and dynamically mapped to available external input-output connections of the integrated circuit device by using a set of configuration registers. To provide system robustness, the configuration registers may implement various levels of write protection, error correction and monitoring circuitry. One... Agent: Attention Of: Paul N. Katz Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070283053 - Memory card with communication serial interface: A memory card is integrated with a communication serial interface integrated and a standard card interface of the memory card inside the memory card. The memory card provides two interfaces that share the same electrical contacts without changing the number of the electrical contacts of the conventional specification of the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070283054 - Switch/network adapter port incorporating shared memory resources selectively accessible by a direct execution logic element and one or more dense logic devices in a fully buffered dual in-line memory module format (fb-dimm): An enhanced switch/network adapter port incorporating shared memory resources (“SNAPM™”) selectively accessible by a direct execution logic element and one or more dense logic devices in a fully buffered dual in-line memory module (“FB-DIMM”) format for clustered computing systems employing direct execution logic such as multi-adaptive processor elements (“MAP®”, all... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070283055 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium: In a system, in order to allow transfer of information relating to image data and the like to a desired directory in a directory structure in a host information processing apparatus, without performing an operation at the host information processing apparatus, in a first apparatus, a directory-information management unit acquires... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070283056 - Control device for controlling a buffer memory: A control device is provided for controlling a buffer memory that can store n data words and is capable of being used for data transfer between a first system and a second system. The control device includes a write pointer and a read pointer. The control device also includes a... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070283057 - Electronic module for programming chip cards comprising contacts: The invention relates to an electronic module for reading data on and/or writing data to at least one card-type carrier, in particular an electronic module of this type comprising a control unit for controlling at least one interface that can be connected to the card-type data carrier for receiving and/or... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070283058 - Concurrent asynchronous usb data stream destuffer with variable width bit-wise memory controller: A concurrent asynchronous USB 2.0 data stream destuffer and separator with variable-width bit-wise memory controller is described. A parallel stream bit destuffer module identifies in parallel one or more stuffed bits in a decoded data field of a received data stream using a six-bit sliding window. The stuffed bits are... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070283059 - Method for configuring a peripheral component interconnect express (pcie): The present invention relates to a method for configuring a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE). A plurality of PCIE parameters are stored in a storage unit. When a computer system starts up, a North Bridge chip is driven to read the PCIE parameters in the storage unit for configuring the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070283060 - Reconfigurable device and control method thereof: A reconfigurable device having a plurality of component elements each configured in accordance with configuration information, the device being adapted to determine whether an error in configuration information for the component elements affects an output of the reconfigurable device.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070283061 - Method for delaying accesses to date and/or instructions of a two-computer system, and corresponding delay unit: A delay unit and a method for delaying accesses to data and/or instructions of a two-computer system having a first and a second computer, the first and the second computer operating with a time offset, and the delay unit being embodied in such a way that that time offset is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070283062 - Bus control system: A bus control system that reduces power consumption with a relatively simple structure. Load input signals are respectively provided to input capture registers. A free running counter provides each input capture register with a counter signal through a timer bus. A latch circuit is arranged in the timer bus. Capture... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070283063 - Data transfer method and data transfer device: A data transfer method which is capable of transferring a predetermined amount of data in one transaction at only one time, and preventing the number of ports of a master chip and the number of signal lines connected between the master chip and slave chips from being increased. A single... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070283064 - Arbiter and arbitrating method: The invention discloses an arbiter for arbitrating the mastership of a bus. The bus is coupled to a plurality of masters. The arbiter includes a request detection unit, a latency count unit, a grant generation unit, and an arbitration control unit. The request detection unit is used for detecting a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070283065 - Resource use management device, resource use management system, and control method for a resource use management device: In a bus arbitration device that utilizes a resource use management device, upon detecting that a processor is permitted to access a memory, a detection unit decreases a counter by 1 and starts a timer, in a delay circuit, that is not in operation to count time. When the timer... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070283066 - Arbiter diagnostic apparatus and method: An arbitration diagnostic circuit and method provide diagnostic information in arbitration-based systems and/or provide detection of and response to excessive arbitration delays. For example, in one embodiment, an arbitration diagnostic circuit maintains a chronological memory trace of arbitration events, including resource request events and corresponding resource grant events for two... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070283067 - Methods and system for providing low latency and scalable interrupt collection: A method for processing an interrupt signal within a microprocessor based system is described. The method includes storing a received interrupt signal within an interrupt cause register of an interrupt controller, outputting an interrupt command from the interrupt controller to an interrupt collector, asserting an interrupt signal to the microprocessor... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070283068 - Circuit and method for providing access to a test and/or monitoring system: A circuit (10) and method for providing test and/or monitoring access to at least two telecommunication lines (18). This circuit (10) comprises at least one bus (12) and at least two primary branches (14) extending there from, at least one of the primary branches (14) being provided with at least... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070283069 - 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 (onspec/tpl)

20070283070 - Multiple host support for remote expansion apparatus: A data processing assembly includes one or more hosts connected to one or more I/O Expansion Drawers. Assignment state information is stored on the Expansion Drawer to convey the assignment state of Expansion Drawer(s) resources to the hosts. The host retrieves the assignment state and, from it, determines, for each... Agent: Lally & Lally, L.L.P.

20070283071 - Hot-plug signal detecting apparatus, source device and repeater device: There is provided a hot-plug signal detecting apparatus capable of surely detecting change of a hot plug signal without increasing load on a transmission processing unit. A hot plug signal from a sink device is inputted to an AD input terminal of a controller, the hot plug signal is subjected... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070283072 - Method and apparatus for generating configuration data: A computer system (1) is described for programming and testing microcontrollers (8). The computer System (1) includes an interactive design environment (20) comprising a configuration module (22), an assembler (24), a compiler (26) and a debugger (28). The compiler (26), assembler (24) and debugger (28) all enable high level program... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070283073 - Port adapter for high-bandwidth bus: A port adapter for connecting zero or more network interfaces to a host system having a SPI-4 bus is disclosed. The port adapter comprises zero or more network interfaces; a SPI-4 bus coupled to a host system to provide a communication channel between the host and the network interfaces; a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070283074 - Data aggregation-distribution apparatus, data transmission system and method thereof: A data aggregation-distribution apparatus includes a plurality of port route units and a data processing unit. Every port route unit has a sending buffer and a receiving buffer. The data processing unit has a data aggregation unit and a data distribution unit. The data aggregation unit and the data distribution... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070283076 - Electronic device having usb interface capable of supporting multiple usb interface standards and methods of operating same: An electronic device includes a universal serial bus (USB) interface therein. This USB interface is configured to support at least first and second different USB interface standards. These different interface standards are selected by the electronic device in response to comparing a voltage level of a signal provided to said... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070283075 - System and method for connecting a wusb device to multiple wusb hosts: A system for simultaneously associating a wireless USB device with multiple wireless USB hosts includes a wireless USB device, a plurality of wireless USB hosts, and means for simultaneously interconnecting the wireless USB device with more than one of the wireless USB hosts. A method for connecting a wireless USB... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company