Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 03/08

20080077712 - Peripheral device, peripheral-device recognizing method, and computer product: An attribute-information storing unit stores therein attribute information about a real peripheral device that can be connected to a computer system. A connection responding unit returns a response indicating that the real peripheral device is actually connected to the computer system to a connection-check request from the computer system, based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080077713 - Method of composing virtual device and virtual device composing system using the same: A method of configuring a virtual device and a system of configuring a virtual device is provided. A plurality of virtual device drivers corresponding to a plurality of specific functions of a first device is identified along with a second device. A plurality of virtual device drivers corresponding to the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080077714 - System for sharing human-computer interface of a legacy device with expansion units: A system for sharing a human-computer interface between a legacy device and an expansion unit for supplementing operation of the legacy device includes a logic device configured to selectively route input and output signals between the human-computer interface and the legacy device or the expansion unit. The expansion unit monitors... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080077715 - Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library, including removable media: A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080077716 - Dma transfer control device and semiconductor integrated circuit device: A read data counter counts an unread data amount which is a data amount not yet transferred by adding, whenever a read command is issued, a read data amount which should be acquired by the read command and counting down whenever data is read. A read command issue control unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080077717 - Processing apparatus, method of processing priority reservation therefor, and storage medium for storing program: A processing apparatus which is capable of preventing an priority reservation for a particular period from being set for all of a plurality of apparatuses and improving convenience for a general user who does not use an priority reservation service, in a system for which the priority reservation is available.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080077718 - Stacked card address assignment: Stacking of electronics modules, boards or cards, hereinafter referred to as cards is described. Each card in a stack is connected logically to a host via a single physical bus slot, and can detect its relative position in the stack on initial power on and make use of that information... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080077719 - Multiple removable non-volatile memory cards serially communicating with a host: Two or more very small encapsulated electronic circuit cards to which data are read and written are removably inserted into two or more sockets of a host system that is wired to the sockets. According to one aspect of the disclosure, command and response signals are normally communicated between the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20080077720 - Isochronous memory access with variable channel priorities and timers: A memory controller to arbitrate memory request queues based upon priorities corresponding to the request queues, comprising logic to serve the request queue whose priority is equal to the maximum of the priorities. An embodiment may further comprise a timer corresponding to a request queue, where the priority of the... Agent: Seth Kalson C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080077721 - Methods and apparatus for dynamic grouping of requestors of resources in a multi-processor system: Methods and apparatus provide for: assigning each of a plurality of requesters to a respective one of a plurality of requester groups; receiving tokens from a plurality of resources, where each token is an exchange medium for permitting one of the requesters having the token to access an associated one... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080077722 - Extending secure digital input ouput capability on a controller bus: Embodiments of techniques for simultaneously connecting a plurality of expansion cards to a single bus of a host controller are described.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20080077723 - Computer system including device conducting independent system management operation and control method thereof: A computer system and a control method thereof are provided. The computer system includes an interrupt generator which responds to a system management event to generate an interrupt; a processor which stores a state of an operating system (OS) which is being executed, and enters a system managing mode if... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080077724 - Interrupt coalescing control scheme: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides determining a flow context associated with a receive packet; and if the flow context complies with a dynamic interrupt moderation policy having one or more rules, generating an interrupt to process the receive packet substantially independently of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080077725 - Information processing device, interface controller initializing method and program: An interface controller initializing method for an information processing device equipped with multiple interfaces of the same type comprises the steps of: detecting control of an interface executed by a first control unit; detecting an end of the control of the interface by the first control unit executed according to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080077726 - Computer remote control module, interface, system and method: A freestanding remote functionality module 100 for a computer is provided, the module comprising a hardware control switch 110 for receiving user input 120 regarding a desired hardware state of the computer, and a communicating device 150 coupled to the switch 110 to a receive hardware control signal 114 from... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.C.

20080071931 - Electronic data flash card with various flash memory cells: An electronic data flash card is accessible by a host computer, and includes a processing unit connected to a flash memory device that stores a data file, and an input-output interface circuit activated so as to establish a communication with the host computer. In an embodiment, the electronic data flash... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080071932 - Multiple media format support for printers: A system for operating a multiple media printing device includes a memory module that stores print control data that corresponds to a plurality of data storage formats, a media reader module that selects one of the plurality of data storage formats based on one of a plurality of files stored... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080071936 - Wireless communications unit, wireless communications method, wireless communications system, and computer program: There is provided a wireless communications unit that performs wireless communications with a USB host in a Wireless USB system. The wireless communications unit includes an address setting portion and a beacon creation portion. The address setting portion sets an assigned address assigned by the USB host as the wireless... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080071939 - System and method for performance monitoring and reconfiguring computer system with hardware monitor: A judgment is made quickly about whether or not it is a memory or a chipset that is causing a performance bottleneck in an application program. A computer system of this invention includes at least one CPU, a controller that connects the CPU to a memory and to an I/O... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080071941 - Image forming apparatus, device managing apparatus, device managing system, status acquiring method, device managing method, and computer program: An image forming apparatus is connected to a device managing apparatus via a network. The image forming apparatus acquires its own current status and estimates an estimated status. The estimated status is a status following the current status. The image forming apparatus transmits the current status, the estimated status, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080071943 - Method, medium and system setting transfer unit in a data processing system: A method, medium and system for setting a transfer unit in a data processing system. The method comprises setting a transfer unit in a data processing system which repeatedly performs a process of transmitting data stored in a first memory to a second memory in a predetermined transfer unit, processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080071944 - Method for deterministic timed transfer of data with memory using a serial interface: A method for improving the speed and efficiency of transmitting data between two components in which the transmitted data is sent, at least partly, through a serial bus is shown. According to the method, the fields in the data frames being transmitted between the components are of a fixed length... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080071947 - Method of balancing i/o device interrupt service loading in a computer system: A method of balancing input/output (I/O) device interrupt service loading in a computer system comprises: assigning priorities to a plurality of I/O device interrupts of a processing unit of the computer system; servicing the plurality of interrupts according to the assigned priorities thereof; collecting data on the interrupt servicing of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080071948 - Programmable interface for single and multiple host use: A serial interface including a controller, a first unit interface, and a second unit interface. The first unit interface communicatively couples the controller with a host, wherein the first unit interface communicates with the host through a first set of lanes. The second unit interface communicatively couples the controller with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080071949 - On-vehicle electronic control device: An on-vehicle electronic control device 100A serially transmits A/D conversion data of plural channels from a second control circuit unit 300A including a multichannel A/D converter 204A to a microprocessor 110A disposed in a first control circuit unit 200A. The A/D conversion data are organized into a communication packet and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080071933 - Processor: A processing apparatus that is connected with another processing apparatus via a network, receives a request for a processing from the other processing apparatus, executes the requested processing while not performing an originally intended process of the processing apparatus, and indicates that the processing apparatus is executing the requested processing,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080071934 - Smart interconnect for modular multi-component embedded devices: A smart interconnect for modular multi-component embedded devices is described. In an embodiment of a smart interconnect for modular multi-component embedded devices, a desired functionality of a stack of hardware boards is accessed. For example, a user may select a new functionality for the stack of hardware boards. The desired... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080071935 - Self-installing computer peripherals: A self-installing peripheral device is provided. The device includes an onboard memory that stores a device driver that enables the device to communicate with a computer operating system. When the device is connected to a computer, the device automatically downloads the device driver to the computer and installs the device... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20080071937 - Handling procedure instruction device and method of instructing handling procedure, and program and recording medium thereof: The present invention relates to a handling procedure instruction device that displays information on a handling procedure of electronic equipment only when a user is not familiar with the handling procedure of the electronic equipment. The device determines whether or not the equipment is connected with the instruction device, and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080071938 - Multifunction machine and a control method of the multifunction machine: A multifunction machine having an interface unit for controlling a USB, and a control method of the multifunction machine are disclosed. The multifunction machine includes a management unit for managing history information that includes information about use of a USB memory attached to and detached from the interface unit, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080071940 - Device of identifying host protocol and smart card including the same: The present invention provides an integrated circuit chip which includes a processor; a contact pad unit connected to a host through a plurality of contact pads; a host interface detector including at least one pull-up resistor and one pull-down resistor, for selectively connecting the pull-up resistor and the pull-down resistor... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080071942 - Method for executing a software updating process and computer for implementing the method: A method to update firmware in a plurality of peripheral devices and a computer using the method to reduce data transmission collisions and to reduce the time required to complete the update process. The process involves sending firmware update data from a computer that is connected to a communication network... Agent: Anderson Kill & Olick P.C.

20080071945 - Audio data transmission system and audio data transmission method: An audio data transmission system applied in a blade PC for connecting a main system unit of a PC blade with an external audio device is provided. The audio data transmission system comprises a peripheral agent device, a peripheral gateway and a connection management unit. The peripheral agent device is... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080071946 - Requesting assistance using a registration mode: A method of requesting assistance relating to a product item including an associated interface surface having coded data indicative of the identity of the product item. The method includes: in a sensing device: sensing at least some of the coded data; generating indicating data indicative of the product item identity... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080071950 - Thin client implementation based on redirection of virtual i/o devices: The invention relates to a system for transferring media content on a network including a hardware device. The hardware device is configured to be connected to a network. The hardware device also includes at least one I/O interface and at least one user interface I/O. The system also includes a... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080071951 - Integrated circuit device and signaling method with phase control based on information in external memory device: An integrated circuit device includes a transmitting means for transmitting transmit data to an external signal line and a storing means for storing a first value representative of a transmit phase adjustment that is used to adjust when the transmit data is transmitted by the transmitting means. The first value... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20080071952 - Method and computer system apparatus for stabilizing asynchronous interfaces: A method and computer system apparatus for asynchronous data transfer between a source and sink without the use of an asynchronous control signal. includes metastability circuits, data change detection logic, a stability window delay counter, and a mux/register pair to allow for the holding of previous stable data during the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080071953 - Memory access security management: A data processing apparatus and method for generating access requests is provided. A bus master is provided which can operate either in a secure domain or a non-secure domain of the data processing apparatus, according to a signal received from external to the bus master. The signal is generated to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080071954 - Method and bus prefetching mechanism for implementing enhanced buffer control: A method, and bus prefetching mechanism are provided for implementing enhanced buffer control. A computer system includes a plurality of masters and at least one slave exchanging data over a system bus and the slave prefetches read data under control of a master. The master generates a continue bus signal... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080071955 - Livelock resolution method and apparatus: A mechanism is provided for resolving livelock conditions in a multiple processor data processing system. When a bus unit detects a timeout condition, or potential timeout condition, the bus unit activates a livelock resolution request signal. A livelock resolution unit receives livelock resolution requests from the bus units and signals... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080071956 - Memory apparatus with a bus architecture: A system comprises a board, memory units that are arranged on the board, a control unit configured to control memory access to the memory units, at least one control/address bus configured to transmit control/address signals from the control unit to a first group of the memory units, and at least... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080071957 - Method of detecting and recovering a lost system management interrupt (smi) in a multiprocessor (mp) environment: Method, computer program product and system for handling multiple system management interrupt (SMI) events in a multiprocessor system. In response to receiving an SMI event, processors enter system management mode (SMM) and execute SMI handler code. An SMI handler that determines fewer than all of the processor are in the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080071958 - Audio processor, input/output processing apparatus, and information processing apparatus: There is provided an information processing apparatus in which a CPU and an audio processing unit are coupled by a bus. The audio processing unit includes a ring buffer that temporarily retains audio data, and performs an input/output process of the audio data. An interrupt signal generator generates a buffer... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080071959 - System and method for using network interface card reset pin as indication of lock loss of a phase locked loop and brownout condition: A method for providing an indication from a network interface controller to a microcontroller is disclosed wherein upon occurrence of a particular condition within the network interface controller, an indication is provided from a reset pin of the network interface controller to the microcontroller unit. Upon receipt of the indication... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080071960 - System and method for managing metrics table per virtual port in a logically partitioned data processing system: A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that allows a single physical I/O adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter, to track performance and reliability statistics per virtual upstream and downstream port, thereby allowing a system and network management to be performed at finer granularity... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080071961 - Shared system of i/o equipment, shared system of information processing apparatus, and method used thereto: An I/O equipment sharing system includes CPUs, a plurality of route complexes coupled to the CPUs, upstream PCI Express-bridges coupled to the route complexes, downstream PCI Express-bridges coupled to the upstream PCI Express-bridges through a network, and I/O equipment coupled to the downstream PCI Express-bridges. In the above configuration, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080071962 - Device connection system and device connection method: A device connection method for connecting a host having a peripheral bus to a peripheral device by the peripheral bus is provided. Firstly, as the peripheral device is connected to a peripheral gateway, a first information signal is outputted through a communication link. Next, a virtual device is mapped to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080071963 - Express card with extended usb interface: An ExpressCard having USB connection has a card case having two opposite first and second end portions and two opposite lateral portions. A card connector is formed at the first end portion of the card case and having a USB interface. Flash chips are implemented in the card case. A... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080065786 - Increased performance using mixed memory types: A memory unit includes a system memory controller coupled to a plurality of memory clock oscillators and a plurality of respective voltage controllers, wherein each memory clock oscillator and respective voltage controller are coupled to a memory receptacle and thus provide a plurality of memory receptacles, each receptacle in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080065787 - Method for operating host in hot key way in centralized computer system: The invention is to provide a centralized computer system, i.e., so-called blade PC system. The centralized computer system according to the invention includes a plurality of centralized and bladed hosts. In particularly, the centralized computer system according to the invention enables a set of I/O peripherals to operate a host... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080065790 - Method for pairing hosts and i/o peripherals in centralized computer system: The invention discloses a centralized computer system, i.e., so-called blade PC system. The centralized computer system according to the invention includes a plurality of centralized and bladed hosts and a plurality of I/O peripherals. In particularly, the centralized computer system according to the invention is capable of pairing the hosts... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20080065792 - Custom branding of host application based on distributed storage of graphics elements in the attached accessory: A system and method for custom branding a host application executed on a host device. The host device couples with an accessory device, where a host application is provided for managing/controlling the accessory device. During run time, i.e., when the accessory device is coupled with the host device, the host... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080065793 - Semiconductor storage device and information processing device including semiconductor storage device: A single information processing device capable of configuring an information system that maintains matching between information retained by a self device and information retained by a partner device in a way that links up a plurality of information processing devices with each other, has a storage unit including a memory... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080065795 - Method for enabling two sets of i/o peripherals to operate the same host in centralized computer system: The invention is to provide a centralized computer system, i.e., the so-called blade PC system. The centralized computer system according to the invention includes a plurality of centralized and bladed hosts. In particularly, the centralized computer system according to the invention enables two sets of I/O peripherals to operate the... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080065788 - System and method for producing high volume flash memory cards: A system for producing high volume flash memory cards includes a processing unit, a PC interface for connecting to an external PC, a PC drive circuit connected to the PC interface and the processing unit, a card interface for connecting to an external flash memory card, and a card drive... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080065789 - Multi-purpose io system: A multi-purpose IO system is provided, comprising a plurality of IO devices, provided with a plurality of data pins and a plurality of address pins respectively; a controller chip, comprising a plurality of controllers corresponding to the IO devices, a multiplexer with a signal mapping device, an arbitrator and a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080065791 - Control apparatus and method thereof: After an ACK is received from a digital video camera (DVC), a DV control program judges whether a transport time-out acquired from a wTransportTimeout field has elapsed or not. If a status change notification is received before the lapse of the transport time-out or if the status change notification cannot... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080065794 - Chained dma for low-power extended usb flash device without polling: An extended Universal-Serial Bus (EUSB) host has reduced loading by using radio frequency (RF) transceivers or direct wiring traces rather than a pair of legacy USB cables. The reduced loading opens the eye pattern. The EUSB device transfers internal data using chained Direct-Memory Access (DMA). Registers in a DMA controller... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080065796 - High-level bridge from pcie to extended usb: An extended Universal-Serial Bus (EUSB) bridge to a host computer can have Peripheral Components Interconnect Express (PCIE) protocol layers on one side of the bridge, and EUSB layers on the other side of the bridge, with a high-level bridging converter module connecting the upper layers. The PCIE physical, data-link, and... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080065797 - Method for continuous analysis of the transmission quality in fieldbus networks: A method is disclosed for continuous analysis of the transmission quality in fieldbus networks in automation systems with a plurality of fieldbus participants, which communicate with one another over the fieldbus network. Directly measurable logical and physical bus parameters are recorded from the line signal transmitted over the fieldbus network,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080065798 - Method for supporting riser card by basic input/output system: The present invention discloses a method for supporting a riser card by a basic input/output system (BIOS), which is implemented to the BIOS installed on a motherboard and having a plurality of configuration information corresponding to a plurality of resource information respectively and comprises the steps of performing a power-on... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080065799 - Method and apparatus to allow dynamic variation of ordering enforcement between transactions in a strongly ordered computer interconnect: A method of enforcing the ordering of read and write transactions for an adapter unit connected to a strongly-ordered bus. The adapter unit has a set of read buffers and write buffers. Initiator write transactions and target read completion transactions are performed on the bus in the original order in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080065800 - Method for achieving higher availability of computer pci adapters: Higher availability in a computer system (10) is achieved by utilizing PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) adapters (13a-13c) capable of dynamically switching between being controlled by a system processor (1) and a specialized input/output processor (IOP) (4). A method of fault recovery in such a computer system involves switching those PCI... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080065801 - Resource management device: Bandwidth information including a plurality of slots each having highest priority order information for arbitrating access conflict, and priority master information for specifying, as a priority master, one or more of a plurality of masters whose latency in accessing a memory serving as a shared resource is desired to be... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080065802 - Resource management device: An access request arbitration section, a data amount management section and a resource control section are provided between a plurality of masters and a shared resource. The data amount management section manages access data amounts passing between the plurality of masters and the resource. The access request arbitration section executes... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080065803 - Multiprocessor system, processor and interrupt control method: A first processor in a multiprocessor system for processing interrupts by a plurality of processors accepts an interrupt and executes first interrupt processing in accordance with the accepted interrupt. In the first interrupt processing, second interrupt processing corresponding to the accepted interrupt is assigned to a second processor.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080065804 - Event handling for architectural events at high privilege levels: Methods and apparatus to perform event handling operations are described. In one embodiment, after an event (such as an architectural event occurs), the corresponding occurrence response (e.g., a yield event) may cause generation of an interrupt. Other embodiments are also described.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080065805 - Pci-express multimode expansion card and communication device having the same: The present invention discloses a PCI-Express multimode expansion card comprising a PCI-Express interface port for insertion into a PCI-Express slot of a motherboard, a PCI-Express expansion port, a USB expansion port, and a jumper circuit connecting the PCI-Express interface port and the two expansion ports. The PCI-Express expansion port provides... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080065806 - Function-extended serial apparatus and electronic device having the same: An electronic device includes a main body having a first component which performs a first function, a function extending unit selectively combinable to the main body having a second electronic component which performs a second function, and a serial apparatus disposed in the main body to interface between the main... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080065807 - Motherboard and electrical device with digital enhanced cordless telecommunication: A motherboard includes a digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) circuit, a bus, and a data processing circuit. The DECT circuit receives a wireless signal to output data. The bus is electrically connected to the DECT circuit to transfer the data. The data processing circuit is electrically connected to the bus... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065808 - 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

20080059658 - Controlling the feeding of data from a feed buffer: *A method includes feeding data from a feed buffer to an interface, receiving at least one signal dependent on a temperature external to the interface, determining from the at least one received signal that a temperature of the device has risen above a first threshold, and in response to a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080059662 - Program initiation control apparatus: A CPU reads a system initialization program from a first recording area and stores the read system initialization program to an internal memory, and then reads the system initialization program from the internal memory and executes the system initialization and initialization of a second recording area. A DMA control unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059665 - Systems and methods of inter-frame compression: A system and method for rendering images, and performing operations such as windowing and leveling, when the parameters of a client appliance are known and rendering images when the parameters of a client appliance are unknown. The invention also considers the rendering from the client appliance perspective and the server... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080059659 - Wireless ic memory, accessing apparatus for use of wireless ic memory, accessing control method for use of wireless ic memory, and wireless ic memory system: A wireless IC memory, for improving the security thereof, for achieving protection of business information and privacy, comprises an RFID tag 100, wherein it is possible to setup “readout disenabling (ReadLock)” condition to the UII code bank for storing ID data of the RFID tag 100, with a predetermined protocol... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059660 - Portable data storage device: A portable data storage device (10) includes a universal serial bus (USB) coupling device (1) and an interface device (2) is coupled to the USB coupling device (1). The portable data storage device (10) also includes a memory control device (3) and a non-volatile solid-state memory device (4). The memory... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20080059661 - Usb communication system, usb device, and method of error detection for usb communication system: In a USB communication system constructed by connecting a host apparatus 2 and a card reader 1 with a USB cable 3, the card reader 1 may include: means for executing a bus reset as a preprocessing for setting a logical connection line with the host apparatus 2, means for... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080059663 - Methods and appartus for providing data transfer control: A variety of advantageous mechanisms for improved data transfer control within a data processing system are described. A DMA controller is described which is implemented as a multiprocessing transfer engine supporting multiple transfer controllers which may work independently or in cooperation to carry out data transfers, with each transfer controller... Agent: Peter H. Priest

20080059664 - Method and system for providing and controlling sub-burst data transfers: The present apparatus and method control the flow of communication between a host and a data storage device. A plurality of data transport streams are maintained as active while a first burst of data for a first transport stream is initiated. The first burst is interrupted prior to the complete... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20080059666 - Microcontroller and debugging method: A microcontroller has a RAM monitor function that facilitates debugging by enabling a debugging device to specify a location and access the specified location during program execution. Access takes place when the microcontroller's central processing unit or a peripheral module in the microcontroller satisfies a predetermined condition. The access can... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080059670 - Control method and system of constructing raid configuration across multiple host bus adapters: A control method of constructing a RAID configuration across multiple host bus adapters in a data-processing system includes the following steps. Firstly, a master host bus adapter and at least a first slave host bus adapter are defined among the plurality of host bus adapters. After the data-processing system is... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080059671 - Data transfer method in a daisy chain arrangement: The present invention relates to a method for the serial transmission of data items comprising at least one start identifier and subsequent user data in a daisy chain arrangement having at least one first device, a second device connected after the first device and a third device connected after the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080059669 - Method and apparatus for enhancing data rate of advanced micro-controller bus architecture: A method for enhancing data rate of an advanced micro-controller bus architecture (AMBA) having an AHB system and an APB system includes simultaneously receiving control signals outputted from a plurality of master devices of the AHB system, and controlling a plurality of peripheral slave devices of the APB system according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080059668 - Multiple communication channels on mmc or sd cmd line: The claimed subject matter can provide an architecture that interfaces a single slave device such as a UICC smartcard with multiple host controllers. For example, a secondary host can be interfaced between a primary host (e.g. a controller in a cellular phone, a PDA, an MP3 player . . .... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080059667 - Two-cycle return path clocking: Return path clocking mechanism for a system including a master device connected to a plurality of slave devices via a bus. The master device may first generate a global clock. The master device may transmit data to one or more of the slave devices at a rate of one bit... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080059672 - Methods and apparatus for scheduling prioritized commands on a bus: In a first aspect, a first method of scheduling a command to be issued on a bus is provided. The first method includes the steps of (1) associating an address and priority with each of a plurality of commands to be issued on the bus, wherein the priority associated with... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law Dept. 917

20080059673 - System and method for measuring latch contention: A system and method is provided for measuring lock usage in a non-intrusive manner. Measurements are performed only when a lock is contended. When a lock is requested and the lock is available (i.e., is not contended), the only data gathered is a counter that is incremented to keep track... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080059674 - Apparatus and method for chained arbitration of a plurality of inputs: An apparatus for chained arbitration of a plurality of inputs for access to a shared resource is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of levels of arbiters including a first arbitration level having at least one first level arbiter, and a second arbitration level having at least one second level... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20080059675 - Method and apparatus for arbitrating access: When four access request origins A, B, C, and D are present, a priority table (No. 1) having a priority order of A, B, C, and D, a priority table (No. 2) having a priority order of B, D, A, and C, a priority table (No. 3) having a priority... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080059676 - Efficient deferred interrupt handling in a parallel computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for protecting critical sections of code being executed in a lightweight kernel environment suited for use on a compute node of a parallel computing system. These techniques avoid the overhead associated with a full kernel mode implementation of a network layer, while also... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080059677 - Fast interrupt disabling and processing in a parallel computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for protecting critical sections of code being executed in a lightweight kernel environment suited for use on a compute node of a parallel computing system. These techniques avoid the overhead associated with a full kernel mode implementation of a network layer, while also... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080059679 - Application processor circuit incorporating both sd host and slave functions and electronic device including same: An application processor circuit has SD-compatible interface protocols and can perform both host and slave functions. The circuit includes SD bus interface logic for realizing SD interface signals defined in SD-compatible interface protocols; system bus interface logic for performing the interface function on the system bus side; a data buffer... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080059678 - Half-sized pci central processing unit card and computer device having the capability of pcie expansion: This invention is to provide a half-sized PCI CPU card and a computer device having the capability of PCIe expansion, wherein the half-sized PCI CPU card comprises a PCI golden finger and a PCIe golden finger aligned at an edge of the half-sized PCI CPU card so that the half-sized... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080059680 - Single chip universal serial bus (usb) package with metal housing: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) memory card includes a tube metal housing that is rectangularly-shaped and a Chip-On-Board (COB)-Universal Serial Bus (USB) device and a carrier substrate having a U-block disposed on one side of thereof and vertically extending upwardly from a bottom surface of the U-block, the COB-USB device... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20080059681 - Port replicating apparatus: A docking assembly including a port replicating apparatus is disclosed. The docking assembly includes a port replicating apparatus including (i) a housing having a major dimension defined by a first terminal end and a second terminal end, (ii) at least one interface for connecting to a portable electronic device, and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080059682 - Method to embed protocol for system management bus implementation: A method of adapting the System Management Bus protocol to increase the number of peripheral components accessible to a control processor, the method including embedding a component address having a length of up to seven bits in a System Management Bus Block Write and completing a system transaction with the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080059683 - Method and apparatus for conditional broadcast of barrier operations: A weakly-ordered processing system implements an execution synchronization bus transaction, or “memory barrier” bus transaction, to enforce strongly-ordered data transfer bus transactions. A slave device that ensures global observability may “opt out” of the memory barrier protocol. In various embodiments, the opt-out decision may be made dynamically by each slave... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080059684 - Apparatus for coordinating interoperability between devices of varying capabilities in a network: Embodiments of a routing device for coordinating the interoperability of devices with varying capabilities that send and/or receive commands in a storage network are disclosed. A host device in the storage network may inquire the capabilities of a storage device in a storage network. A routing device may receive a... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080059685 - Motherboard: A motherboard includes a chipset, a first connector pad suitable for receiving a first type of PCI connector, a second connector pad suitable for receiving a second type of PCI connector, a plurality of first transmission lines, a plurality of second transmission lines, and a plurality of areas for mounting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080059686 - Multiple context single logic virtual host channel adapter supporting multiple transport protocols: Various embodiments provide methods and systems operable to receive a work queue pair from one of a plurality of host nodes, to scan the work queue pair for known data formats corresponding to one of a plurality of transport protocols, to optionally convert the work queue pair to produce a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080059687 - System and method of connecting a processing unit with a memory unit: A method and system comprising at least two processing units that are connected with at least two memory units, wherein first data buses are connected with the memory units, wherein second data buses are connected with processing units, wherein cross bar switches are disposed between first and second data buses,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20080059688 - Crossbar control circuit: A control circuit includes a crossbar array having input columns and output rows configured to store first stored data in the form of high or low resistance states. The input columns are connected to a common electrical input and the output rows are connected to a common summing circuit. The... Agent: Blaise Mouttet #110-364