Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 02/08

20080052417 - Data transfer method and data transfer apparatus: A data transfer method for connecting a master unit on an upstream side and a plurality of slave units on an downstream side in series with serial bus by a daisy chain system and transferring data having an appended error check code or error correction code between a data transmitter... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080052420 - Usb portable document services environment: A method and system for providing a portable document services environment on a computer system is disclosed. An installation application may automatically be loaded from a portable device onto a computer system when the portable device is connected to the computer system The computer system may automatically access a document... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080052422 - Apparatus with programmable touch screen and method thereof: A method for programming a touch screen of an apparatus is provided. The touch screen includes sensors for sensing locations of inputs and generating corresponding signals, and keys each of which consisting of a group of the sensors. The method includes: designing a group of the sensors as a key;... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080052427 - Computer backup system at bios level: A computer motherboard has a central processor socket, memory sockets, and a plurality of connectors for connecting peripheral devices to the motherboard. Two or more storage ports enable connection of storage devices (e.g., HDDs) to the motherboard. A system BIOS that is resident on the motherboard contains computer-executable program code... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080052429 - Off-board computational resources: A host computer system is coupled via an interface to a computational unit that includes an input, a gateway and a sea of computational resources. The interface can be a hard disk storage interface. In some embodiments, the gateway is a gateway master device, such as an FPGA, and a... Agent: Sylke Law Offices, LLC

20080052426 - System and method for peripheral communication with an information handling system: Videoconferencing through an information handling system is supported with a display, camera and microphone that communicate with the information handling system through a single cable, such as a DisplayPort cable. Visual information is communicated from the information handling system to the display through a unidirectional main link and display control... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080052428 - Turbo station for computing systems: In one embodiment, a system comprises a portable computing device comprising a first graphics controller and a first communication interface, and a turbo station comprising a second communication interface to manage communication with the portable computing device, and at least one auxiliary computing component coupled to the communication interface and... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Intellevate

20080052419 - Information processing apparatus and data communication method: An information apparatus switches a display at a predetermined area which includes at least a part of a portion where an electromagnetic-wave emitting unit used for data communications with a data storage device is disposed, according to data communication processing with the data storage device, and emits sound generated according... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080052418 - Motion controllers and simulation systems including motion controllers: A motion controller including a computer comprising a primary processor or a central processing unit and an input/output communication bus. The primary processor is in communicative connection with the bus and is adapted to communicate with other devices in communicative connection with the bus via the bus. The motion controller... Agent: Bartony & Hare, LLP

20080052421 - Method for use where a first and second device are connected: A method for use where a first and second device are connected A method comprises interacting with a first device and a second device. The first and second devices are connected together. A selection is made, based on an interaction order of said first and second devices, as to which... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080052423 - Storage controller and methods for using the same: In a first aspect, a first method is provided for processing a request. The first method includes the steps of (1) receiving a request in first logic of a controller from a device master; (2) issuing a response to the device master to reissue the request at a later time;... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080052425 - Block modeling input/output buffer: In one embodiment, a data element is passed between a first block and a second block of a block diagram during execution of the block diagram. The first block and the second block negotiate use of a particular input/output (I/O) type from a plurality of available I/O types. The particular... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080052424 - Data access system, data access apparatus, data access integrated circuit, and data access method: When an LSI is connected to a plurality of memories that perform data transfers by a handshake access method, the need for the LSI to continuously output an access signal to a memory for a long period of time is eliminated. A hold circuit is provided between the LSI and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080052430 - Integrated circuit device and signal transmission system: Some interface signals are selected from among signals of a plurality of different parallel interfaces, then being multiplexed onto a serial connection. A transmitter of a signal transmission system includes an interface-signal selector IFS, and a transfer programmer TP for issuing a control signal to instruct the selection from among... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080052432 - Data buffer allocation in a non-blocking data services platform using input/output switching fabric: Data buffering allocation in a microprocessor complex for a request of memory allocation is supported through a remote buffer batch allocation protocol. The separation of control and data placement allows simultaneous maximization of microprocessor complex load sharing, and minimization of inter-processor signaling/metadata migration. Separating processing control from data placement allows... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080052431 - Method and apparatus for enabling virtual channels within a peripheral component interconnect (pci) express bus: A method for enabling virtual channels within a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express chipset is disclosed. A first determination is made as to whether or not bifurcation is enabled on a PCI Express chipset. If bifurcation is enabled, a second determination is made as to whether or not all resources... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080052434 - Integrated circuit device and signaling method with topographic dependent equalization coefficient: An integrated circuit device includes a transmitter circuit having an output driver to output data, and a register to store a value representative of an equalization co-efficient setting of the output driver. The value may be determined based on information stored in a supplemental memory device. The value is representative... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20080052433 - Storage system: The present invention unitarily manages the configuration change of a storage system so as to know the latest configuration, and evaluates the reliability in advance when the configuration is changed so that the generation of a failure is suppressed. When the host 1 is connected to the switch 2, the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080052435 - Devices, systems, and/or methods regarding a programmable logic controller: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a PLC housing comprising a plurality of board mounts. Each of the plurality of board mounts can be configured to physically position a board of a plurality of boards relative to at least one other system component. In certain exemplary embodiments, one or more of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080052436 - Telecommunication and computing platforms with serial packet switched integrated memory access technology: A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080052437 - Hot plug power policy for modular chassis: For distributing available power between a plurality of cards hot pluggable into chassis slots, a power policy, which defines rules and conditions for assuredly distributing the available power to selected ones of the plurality of cards, is configured. The selected ones, each of which is assured to receive power when... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080052438 - Apparatus and method for converting parallel and serial pci hot plug signals: A method and apparatus are provided for operating a hot plug system. A first device may determine whether the system is to operate in one of a parallel mode or a serial mode. A second device may control a mode of the chipset based on the determination of the first... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080052440 - Integrated circuit memory device and signaling method with topographic dependent signaling: An integrated circuit device includes an output driver, a first register to store a value representative of a drive strength setting of the output driver, wherein the value is determined based on information stored in a supplemental memory device external to the integrated circuit memory device, and a transmitter circuit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20080052439 - Portable data exchanger with extended usb interface: The present invention discloses a portable data exchanger with extended USB interface. One portable data exchanger of the present invention can exchange data with another portable data exchanger of the same design connected thereto without using a computer. Further, the portable data exchanger with extended USB interface of the present... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080052441 - Dynamically scalable queues for performance driven pci express memory traffic: A method, computer system, and PCI Express device/protocol for enabling high performance IO data transfers for multiple, different IO configurations, which include variable packet sizes and/or variable/different numbers of transactions on the IO link. PCI Express protocol is enhanced to support utilization of counters and dynamically variable queue sizes. In... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080052442 - Rack interface pod with intelligent platform control: Rack Interface Pods can be augmented with non-KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) functionality that can enable greater analysis of the state of the computer to which the RIP is attached. A RIP can be augmented to include a non-KVM input connection (e.g., an Intelligent Platform/Chassis control protocol input) that is... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080052443 - Cross-coupled peripheral component interconnect express switch: A plurality of PCIe switch complexes are interposed between a plurality of I/O devices and a plurality of microprocessor complexes. Each PCIe switching complex comprises a plurality of PCIe switches wherein each switch possesses at least one non-transparent port. The non-transparent port is used to cross-couple each PCIe switch creating... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080046599 - Media content removal system and method: A method of removing stored media content from a media player (MP) is disclosed. The method includes allowing a first set of media content to be downloaded to the MP for playing, and identifying a second set of media content from all media content stored on the MP. In response... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080046600 - Transmission method: A transmission method for a multimedia device having a capture function. The transmission method comprises outputting device information to an external device; receiving acknowledgement information; determining whether the external device supports a specific technology according to the acknowledgement information; detecting a plurality of functions of the external device when the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080046604 - Storage device and control chip for the storage device: A storage device is applied to a computer. The storage device comprises a control chip having a microprocessor, a buffer storage, a bus interface, a storage memory interface and a storage memory. The microprocessor controls the buffer storage to read or to write the data of the storage memory via... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080046605 - Memory device: In a memory device, data can be transmitted from a first CPU to a second CPU via an individual register or a shared SRAM, for example. The data transmitted from the first CPU to the second CPU via the individual register also passes through a FIFO. When first data is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046610 - Priority and bandwidth specification at mount time of nas device volume: A method for specifying input/output (I/O) settings for a virtual machine that includes specifying a bandwidth for the virtual machine, specifying a priority for the virtual machine, sending a mount request for a volume on a network attached storage (NAS) device by the virtual machine, where the bandwidth and priority... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080046611 - Arbiter circuit: An arbiter circuit includes a priority coefficient calculating unit, a priority coefficient comparator an acceptance determining unit, and a priority determining unit. The priority coefficient calculating unit calculates for each request an arbitration priority coefficient based on a priority level set for each request by requesters. The priority coefficient comparator... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080046613 - Method, apparatus and system for pre-boot note display: A computer having an operating system is connected to a first memory. The computer operates to execute an on screen display (OSD) program in a first memory and a basic input output system (BIOS) application in a second memory. The BIOS application operates to display user information from user information... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080046614 - File splitting apparatus, file splitting method and file splitting program: A file splitting apparatus for splitting a data file recorded over a plurality of recording management regions arranged in the recording region of a recording medium includes a management region recording part detecting section for detecting a management region recording part including a file splitting position out of a plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046616 - Systems and methods of symmetric transport control protocol compression: A method for compressing a stream of application layer network traffic communicated over a transport layer connection of a virtual private network connection between a client and a server using an appliance. The appliance intercepts one or more transport layer packets of a stream of application network traffic communicated via... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080046601 - 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

20080046602 - 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

20080046603 - Line diagnostic device, bus system, line diagnostic method, bus system control method, and line diagnostic program: A control device diagnoses the operation of a bus arbiter that mediates bus usage requests output by multiple devices in the control device to satisfy both responsiveness and safety. A diagnostic module, implemented as an external diagnostic module, monitors signals related to the arbiter mediation and, if an abnormality caused... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080046606 - Host device, storage device, and method for accessing a storage device: A host device (1) adds host function information indicating a function of the host device (1) to a command and transmits it to a storage device (2). The storage device (2) receives the command transmitted from the host device (1) and determines whether the function indicated by the host function... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080046608 - Low-power extended usb flash device without polling: An extended Universal-Serial Bus (EUSB) host enters a suspend mode rather than poll an EUSB device that is busy performing a memory or other operation. Power is saved since polling is avoided. The busy EUSB device sends a not-yet NYET signal back to the EUSB host to instruct the host... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080046607 - System and method for hardware based reassembly of a fragmented packet: A system and method for hardware based reassembly of a fragmented packet is shown. The method includes receiving a bandwidth request to transfer a data packet from the data provider. Then, bandwidth is allocated to the data provider, where the allocated bandwidth is less than the requested bandwidth. Next, the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080046609 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing storage network dynamic tuning of i/o flow with queue depth: In accordance with a computer program product, apparatus and a method there is provided a redundant network wherein a host computer operates with a plurality of storage devices by monitoring conditions of the multipath storage network and controlling a storage multipath device driver in conjunction with an associated storage multipath... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080046612 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing asynchronous status messaging in a data storage system: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing asynchronous status messaging in a data storage system Asynchronous events are returned from a target to an initiator in response to a Read Message from the initiator. The return status message may or may not be associated with a previously given... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20080046615 - Computer system providing endian information and method of data transmission thereof: A computer system providing endian information and a method of data transmission thereof are disclosed. The method of data transmission in the computer system of the present invention comprises: reading endian information stored in a base address register of peripheral devices; deciding whether the endian information of the computer system... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080046617 - Multidirectional configurable architecture for multi-processor system: A physical hardware architecture is provided to fulfill flexibility, serviceability and configurability of a multi-processor system. The architecture mainly includes a bottom plane, plural processor boards and a function board. On the front section of the top side of the bottom plane, the processor boards are configured thereon. The function... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080046618 - Data transmission coordinating method and system: A data transmission coordinating method is used between a central processing unit and a bridge chip of a computer system. By entering the computer system into a coordinating state, the data transmission coordinating method is executed. The bridge chip and the CPU are informed of maximum bit numbers of each... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080046619 - Simultaneous transmissions between multiple master buses and multiple slave buses: A bus system, such as an internal bus system located within a digital device, is disclosed herein. The bus system comprises a plurality of master buses, each master bus connected to at least one master. The bus system also comprises a multi-bus interface connected to the plurality of master buses... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080046620 - Handling of the transmit enable signal in a dynamic random access memory controller: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided for controlling a transmission enable (TX_ENA) signal. In Extreme Data Rate (XDR™) Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAMs) or XDRAMS, there is a requirement that a TX_ENA signal remain logic high for a few cycles before data transmission, and, when TX_ENA... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080046621 - Information processing apparatus, interrupt process control method, and computer program: An improved interrupt control mechanism is provided in a system in which a plurality of OS's (OS's) are concurrently operating. In the system, a main OS executing an interrupt control process is set up, sub OS's other than the main OS are not provided with a right to determine an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080046622 - Transmission control device and transmission control method: An address crossbar switch temporarily buffers received requests while monitoring the requests, and counts requests of a predetermined type (for example, long-packet address requests). When a counter value exceeds a predetermined threshold value (for example, when a long-packet counter value exceeds 100), the address crossbar switch suspends broadcasting the address... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080046623 - Managing input/output interruptions in non-dedicated interruption hardware environments, and methods therefor: Input/output interruptions are managed in computing environments that do not use dedicated per-guest interruption hardware to present interruptions. Dispatchable guest programs in the environment receive I/O interruptions directly without hypervisor intervention. This is facilitated by using one or more interruption controls stored in memory and associated with each guest program.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080046624 - Hot-plug link: An apparatus for linking a hot-plug device to a host includes a slave interface circuit for connection to the host; a master interface circuit for connection to the hot-plug device; and direction, data, and clock lines that link the master and slave interface circuits. A control logic circuit detects a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080046625 - Sensor switching system for a computing device and related methods: Described is a device comprising a power supply, a receiving arrangement, a removable cover and a sensor. The receiving arrangement detachably receives a peripheral device. The peripheral device draws power from the power supply when coupled to the receiving arrangement. The removable cover covers the receiving arrangement and prevents the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080046626 - Semiconductor device and bus connecting method: A first internal resource has a first register which is accessible from an external bus via an internal bus and has a same data width as that of the internal bus which is larger than that of the external bus. A second internal resource has a second register which has... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080046627 - High speed bus for isolated data acquisition applications: An isolated data acquisition device including a plurality of data acquisition channels, an isolated system management unit coupled to the data acquisition channels, a host system management unit, a serial bus coupled to the host system management unit and the isolated system management unit, and isolation circuitry coupled to the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080046628 - Multi-bus type management messaging method and apparatus: A management controller configured to generate and transmit transport layer packets to send management messages to a plurality of recipients managed by the management controller, co-disposed on the same computing platform, is disclosed and described herein. The managed recipients may be coupled to the management controller via buses of different... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080046629 - Data processing management apparatus, mode management apparatus and mode management method: A configuration is such as to change a mode setup of other crossbars influenced by an error occurring in one of plural crossbars from a first mode to a second mode for operating each of them independently (i.e., in a singularization mode) in the case of placing plural crossbars (i.e.,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080040513 - Common input/output interface for application programs: A user interface through which multiple application programs can be operated in common. An information processing apparatus provides a common input/output interface to multiple application programs. The apparatus includes a section which converts an application-specific document generated by each of the plurality of application programs and represented in a data... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080040514 - Information-processing apparatus and information-processing method: According to one embodiment, an information-processing apparatus comprises means for reproducing information from an optical disc loaded in a disc unit by using an application program, a persistent storage configured to store an additional content related to the optical disc loaded in the disc unit, a display device configured to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080040515 - Method and system for automated configuring of a hart multi-drop system: c

20080040517 - Direct memory access controller: A direct memory access controller is provided, in which an internal storage section storing control setting information; and a control section loading the control setting information from an external storage section to the internal storage section when a transfer request signal does not belong to a first group, and not... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080040518 - System and method for data transfer using ata interface: An ATA compatible data transfer system includes a system processor having system memory, the system processor configured to issue a Programmable I/O (PIO) type command to effect data transfer between a peripheral device and the system memory through a host controller and an ATA controller. The host controller accesses data... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080040516 - Method of and system for controlling attributes of a plurality of storage devices: A method of, and a system for, controlling attributes of a group of storage devices presents to a user a set attribute choices for one or more groups of storage devices. The user interacts with the presentation of the set of attribute choices to choose attributes for the group. In... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080040519 - Network interface device with 10 gb/s full-duplex transfer rate: A 10 Gb/s network interface device offloads TCP/IP datapath functions. Frames without IP datagrams are processed as with a non-offload NIC. Receive frames are filtered, then transferred to preallocated receive buffers within host memory. Outbound frames are retrieved from host memory, then transmitted. Frames with IP datagrams without TCP segments... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20080040520 - Methods for eliminating intermediate bussing and bridging requirements between a solid state memory device with pci controller and a main system bus: A method is provided for enabling electronic representation of a removable or fixed data storage device having a non-volatile memory as an operating system-standard disk directly accessible to a main bus of a computing appliance having a peripheral component interface connector and a motherboard. The method includes the acts (a)... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080040521 - Protocol conversion circuit: A protocol conversion circuit performing a protocol conversion between a preceding stage circuit and a succeeding stage circuit includes a data storing unit storing input data from the preceding stage circuit, an output enable signal generating unit generating an output enable signal outputting data stored in the data storing unit... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080040522 - Rack interface pod with intelligent platform control: Rack Interface Pods can be augmented with non-KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) functionality that can enable greater analysis of the state of the computer to which the RIP is attached. A RIP can be augmented to include a non-KVM input connection (e.g., an Intelligent Platform/Chassis control protocol input) that is... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080040523 - Interconnect logic for a data processing apparatus: An interconnect logic and method are provided for controlling transaction reordering by slave logic units coupled to the interconnect logic. The interconnect logic couples master logic units and slave logic units to enable transactions to be performed, each transaction having a transaction identifier associated therewith. ID aliasing logic is associated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080040524 - System management mode using transactional memory: Embodiments of a system and method for servicing a hidden execution mode event in a multiprocessor computer system is described. A plurality of event handlers and shared memory resources are loaded or stored in a transactional memory space that is accessible to a hidden execution mode supported by each of... Agent: Courtney Stanford & Gregory LLP C/o Intellevate

20080040525 - Initializing expansion adapters installed in a computer system having similar expansion adapters: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for initializing expansion adapters installed in a computer system having similar expansion adapters that include detecting an expansion adapter installed in a computer system having a plurality of expansion adapters, the detected expansion adapter having an option ROM containing initialization code, identifying similar expansion... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080040526 - Processing apparatus and method of modifying system configuration: A virtual PCI Express device 1600 indicates the presence of a pseudo I/O device in a PCI Express initial configuration cycle to reserve a resource space for a device anticipated to be installed in the future, and when an I/O device 1400 is inserted into an unoccupied slot 1605, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080040527 - Management module: A management module that provides remote access and control of a computing device includes a keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) switch, a KVM over Internet Protocol (KVMoIP) module, and an Ethernet switch. It may also include a serial module and/or a microprocessor. The management module may be embedded in a... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080040528 - Data transmission coordinating method: In a data transmission coordinating method, the computer system enters a coordinating state, and a first signal is issued from the central processing unit to the data transmission standard storage unit of the bridge chip. In response to the first signal, a second signal is issued from the data transmission... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080040529 - Memory chip having an apportionable data bus: A memory chip having a data bus having a plurality of bits. The number of bits is apportioned between a read portion and a write portion. The write portion is dedicated to receiving data that is to be written into an array on the memory chip; the read portion is... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080040530 - Data processing apparatus for controlling access to a memory: A data processing apparatus contains a first bus connected to a first memory, a first central processing unit (CPU) being accessible to the first memory via the first bus, a first Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller being accessible to the first memory via the first bus, and a monitor circuit... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080040531 - Data storage device: A data storage device comprising: at least two flash devices for storing data; a circuit board, wherein each of the flash devices are integrated on the circuit board; a controller integrated on the circuit board for reading and writing to each flash devices, wherein the controller interfaces each flash devices;... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080040532 - Variable-function or multi-function apparatus and methods: A computer system is provided which includes a computer configured to detect for the occurrence of an event. The computer is also configured to determine whether content related to the event should be generated by a device coupled to the computer and to provide a signal to the device if... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080034124 - Apparatus and method for using expansion key in portable terminal: An input apparatus for using an expansion key in a portable terminal includes an expansion key matrix unit which forms a key matrix through which a plurality of expansion keys are input; an input/output (I/O) expansion chip which, in response to a key input through the expansion key matrix unit,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080034126 - Providing content to a portable playback device: One or more storage modules in accordance with implementations of the present invention can be configured for a direct physical connection to a portable, digital playback device. The one or more storage modules comprise computer-executable instructions and one or more media files for delivering content directly to the portable playback... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080034128 - Graphical user interface operations: A method of operating an application program having a graphical user interface (GUI) includes the steps of (i) predicting the next user input to the GUI; (ii) pending receipt of the next user input, executing a preparation portion of GUI code that provides the GUTI function required by the predicted... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20080034132 - Memory interface for controlling burst memory access, and method for controlling the same: An access control method and a memory interface which enable access without a redundant bus cycle even to a burst memory having an addressing function different from the system side. A state machine is provided so that addressing mode information of a memory is read from a system internal register,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080034135 - Portable device with embedded identification modules: A portable device capable of distinguishing peripherals is provided in the present invention. The portable device performing at least one extended function includes: one of peripherals connecting to the portable device; an interface connectable to the peripheral; and a memory storing an index table that lists at least one identification... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080034125 - Apparatus and method for packet based storage virtualization: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for data processing and virtualization. The method and apparatus are configured to receive communications, separate a command communication from a data communication, parallel process the command communication and the data communication, generate at least one virtual command based on the command communication,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080034127 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, alternate response apparatus, response method, control program, and network system: A mechanism for enabling a computer which includes an installer for providing Plug and Play (PnP) to obtain information for a network device is provided. Using an existing development resource, such as a PnP installer, a simple installation method is provided. By causing a proxy server to as a communication... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080034129 - Method and system for transferring status information between a media player and an accessory: A method, system, and connector interface for transferring status information between a media player and an accessory. The method includes determining, by the accessory, when a button event occurs; and transmitting, by the accessory, at least one button status command to the media player, where the one or more button... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080034130 - Buffered memory having a control bus and dedicated data lines: A memory system architecture/interconnect topology includes a configurable width buffered module having a configurable width buffer device. The configurable width buffer device is coupled to at least one memory device on the configurable width memory module. The configurable width buffer device includes an interface and a configurable serialization circuit capable... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20080034131 - Information processing apparatus, an integrated circuit, a data transfer controlling method, a data transfer controlling program, a program storage medium, a program transmission medium and a data storage medium: A media utilization administering device 22 reads a medium ID saved in a memory card 13, obtains pieces of last update time information indicating the respective times during a data transfer at specified time intervals, and stores state information including the medium ID and the last update time information in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080034133 - Cache management system with application-independent polling: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a cache management system comprising a cache and a cache manager that can poll cached assets at different frequencies based on their relative activity status and independent of other applications. In one embodiment, the cache manager may maintain one or more lists, each corresponding to a... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080034134 - Configurable i2c interface: A synchronous serial data two-wire communications bus that can transfer data at rates up to 100 kbit/s (standard mode), 400 kbits/s (fast mode), or 3.4 Mbit/s (high-speed mode). The load of I2C bus can vary from 10 pf to 400 pf. Data transfer on the I2C bus takes place through... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080034136 - Method and apparatus for protocol and code converter: Apparatus and method for converting protocol and code for use with a Human Interface Device (HID)-compliant keyboard device comprises a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, non-USB interface and a converter. The USB interface receives standard USB data from an USB host or hub and provides responses required by an USB... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080034137 - Apparatus and methods for de-emphasis training on a point-to-point connection: Methods and apparatus for achieving adaptive de-emphasis on a data network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a high-speed serialized bus network, and the invention is adapted to correct for inter-symbol interference (ISI) associated with data transmissions between two nodes communicating over the network. In one variant, a first device... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associtaes

20080034138 - Method and system for extending the functionality of an embedded usb transceiver interface to handle threshold shift of a usb 2.0 bus during high-speed chirp: Methods and systems for extending the functionality of an embedded Universal Serial Bus (USB) transceiver interface to handle threshold shift of a USB 2.0 bus during high-speed chirp are presented. A method for a transceiver of a host coupled by a USB 2.0 bus to a device includes receiving a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080034139 - Memory access controller and method thereof: A memory access controller that improves SDRAM access performance with the enhanced AHB bus protocol includes at least one memory access master for issuing a memory access instruction including an HLEN signal that represents the burst length of the transmitting data; and a memory access controller for controlling the access... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080034140 - Bus arbitrating device and bus arbitrating method: A bus arbitrating device (100) arbitrates the data transfer request for a plurality of bus-master (11)-(13) connected to a bus (10), and comprises a bus assignment deciding unit (20) and a measurement control unit (30). The measurement control unit (30) includes a time counter (31), a comparator (32), and a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080034141 - Bus system: A bus system is provided, which includes a shared resource, a shared bus, a plurality of requesters, and a bus arbiter for arbitrating access requests made by the plurality of requesters to access the shared resource through the shared bus. At least one of the plurality of requesters outputs, according... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080034142 - Data transfer in memory card system: A memory card system includes a host that issues a read command and a memory card that upon receiving the read command sends read data to the host in synchronism with a read clock signal generated within the memory card. In addition, the memory card sends the read clock signal... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080034144 - Dual-interface computer interface card: A dual-interface computer interface card includes a circuit board. The circuit board includes an ExpressCard connector, a USB connector, a control circuit, a converter, two USB signal traces, two DC traces. The two USB traces are electrically connected with the ExpressCard connector and the USB connector respectively. The two DC... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080034143 - Electronic device with hot swap capability: An electronic device includes a casing and a board assembly. The casing defines an accommodating space, and a slot that is in spatial communication with the accommodating space. The board assembly includes a circuit board and a hot-swap port. The circuit board is mounted in the accommodating space in the... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20080034145 - Method and apparatus for storing data and method for reading data: An apparatus and method for storing data, and a method for reading data. The apparatus for storing data of the present invention comprises at least one bridge for storing binary data. Each bridge has four legs and represents a bit with a nonequilibrium state between two juncture points. The apparatus... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080034146 - Systems and methods for transactions between processor and memory: Circuits for improving efficiency and performance of processor-memory transactions are disclosed. One such system includes a processor having a first bus interface unit and a second bus interface unit. The processor can initiate more than one concurrent pending transaction with a memory. Also disclosed are methods for incorporating or utilizing... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080034147 - Method and system for transferring packets between devices connected to a pci-express bus: A method, system and computer program for transferring packets between devices connected to a PCI-Express bus of a computer. A selected pair of devices, such as for example a root complex device and an endpoint device or a pair of endpoint devices, connected to the PCI-Express bus, are configured to... Agent: Pete Scott, Senior Corporate Counsel Lsi Logic Corporation