Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 04/08

20080098131 - Playback device and computer program: A playback device includes: a USB interface; an information creation section for creating, based on operation in an operation section, information indicating playback sequence for files stored in an external storage device connected to the USB interface; a storage section for storing the created information into the external storage device... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080098133 - Bi-directional wired interface: A wired interface for communicating between a first part and a second part of a device including a line for controlling activation of the second part of the device by a signal from the first part of the device, two lines for transfer of data from the first part of... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20080098134 - Portable storage device and method for exchanging data: A portable storage device (MC) is disclosed, which comprises a memory (MEM) for storing data (DAT), a data interface (INT) for exchanging data (DAT) between the memory (MEM) and a host device (DEV), radio communication interface (RI) designed for receiving a key (K) from a transponder (T), checking means (COMP)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080098132 - Method and set of instructions for the dosed supply of printing instructions to a printer, and system for practicing the method: In the printing and finishing of sheet-like objects, printing instructions are outputted to a printer. In accordance therewith, sheet-like objects are printed by the printer and are subsequently delivered by the printer directly to the finishing apparatus and then finished by the finishing apparatus. Output data concerning the printing instructions... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080098135 - Fencing of resources allocated to non-cooperative client computers: Techniques are provided for processing an Input/Output (I/O) request. At least one data block is allocated for use in completing the I/O request. A current operations record is stored for the I/O request. It is determined whether the I/O request has been completed within a specified period of time. In... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080098136 - Peripheral unit for an automation device: There is described a periphery unit for an automatic device, which can be actuated as an analog input and as an analog output. A number of connections which are to be used as inputs and the number of connections which are to be used as outputs can be adapted in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080098137 - Protocol adapter for passing diagnostic messages between vehicle networks and a host computer: A protocol adapter for transferring diagnostic messages between networks within a vehicle and a host computer. The protocol adapter operates as a voltage translator to support J1708 software. The protocol adapter also recognizes when the protocol adapter is connected to a host computer running the J1939 and/or J1708 protocols and... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20080098138 - Key device with external storage and the using method thereof: The present invention provides a key device with external storage and the using method thereof, which is an invention in computer security technology field. In order to solve the problem of the inconvenient using method that the prior art could not deal with, this invention provides a key device with... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080098139 - High speed data transmission system and method: A high speed transmission system comprises a host controller with a host logic unit and a device controller with a device logic unit. The host controller transmits and receives a digital signal through the first interface according to the first descriptor in a memory. The device controller transmits and receives... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080098140 - Access control device and access control method: An access control device controls access to a first device and a second device. The first device is connected with a first bus conforming to a first standard and conforms to the first standard. The second device is connected with the first bus and conforms to a second standard. The... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080098141 - Bridge and transmitting apparatus, and information system: A bridge is provided with a first portal connected to a first communication line forming one part of a network for transmitting/receiving information via the first communication line, and a second portal connected with a second communication line forming the other part of the network for transmitting/receiving information via the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080098142 - Memory card having memory device and host apparatus accessing memory card: A memory card includes a clock I/O circuit, a data I/O circuit, a delay element, and an adjustment value holding circuit. The clock input/output circuit receives a first clock from a host apparatus. The data I/O circuit receives a second clock from the host apparatus in a write timing adjustment... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080098143 - Apparatus using a time division multiple access bus for providing multiple levels of security in a communications system: Systems including both distributed and centralized architectures for providing multiple levels of security using “virtual” switches. Ports and channels are assigned the same time slots on a TDMA bus only when they have matching security levels.... Agent: Bae Systems

20080098144 - Systems and methods for allowing multiple devices to share the same serial lines: Methods and systems for allowing multiple devices to share the same serial lines (e.g., SDIO, SEN and SCLK) are provided. Such devices can be located, e.g., on an optical pick-up unit. Each device includes a serial interface, a device enable number (DEN) that differs from the DEN of each other... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080098145 - Method and apparatus of arranging priority queue and arbitrating for memory access requests: A method and an apparatus of memory access request priority queue arbitration comprises sorting the requests into plurality of different priority levels firstly. The priority queues of different priority levels are arranged respectively according to the following steps: counting the cycles and latencies of each access request; counting the total... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080098146 - Interrupt hooking method for a computing apparatus: An interrupt hooking method for a computing apparatus, which includes a processing device and an interrupt controller, includes the steps of: enabling the processing device to convert a hardware interrupt request (IRQ) number of a system control interrupt (SCI) into a predefined interrupt vector according to an operating mode of... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080098147 - Bus repeater: A bus repeater lying within a demodulation IC performs a bus repeat operation after a repeat operation has been made effective, and terminates the repeat operation on an autonomous basis when a stop condition for each serial data is detected. During the repeater operation, control on the direction of data... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080098148 - Sharing of host bus adapter context: A system comprises a first host bus adapter (HBA) that uses a first context to facilitate the transmission of packets through a logical connection through the first HBA. The system also comprises a second HBA and memory in which the first context is stored. The memory is accessible by both... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080098149 - Signal history controlled slew-rate transmission method and bus interface transmitter: A signal history controlled slew-rate transmission method and bus interface transmitter provide an improved channel equalization mechanism having low complexity. A variable slew-rate feed-forward pre-emphasis circuit changes the slew rate of the applied pre-emphasis in conformity with the history of the transmitted signal. The pre-emphasis circuit may be implemented by... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20080098150 - Method for forming route map in wireless 1394 bridge network: Provided is a method for forming a route map in a wireless 1394 bridge network. The method for forming a route map in a wireless 1394 bridge network, including the steps of: a) storing route map information; b) collecting changed bus information when a new network is formed according to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080098151 - Sliced crossbar architecture with no inter-slice communication: A memory crossbar adapted to transmit a memory transaction to a network resource. The memory crossbar includes a plurality of input ports. Each of the plurality of input ports includes a TAGS generator and a queue adapted to receive a first portion of a first memory transaction and a first... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080091847 - Universal plug and play based network system and method of controlling the same: A universal plug and play (UPnP)-based network system and a method of controlling the same. A UPnP device can operate according to a description of each control point (CP) when performing a command, by including the description, which is inherent information of each CP, in a command message transmitted from... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080091848 - Multi-input/output serial peripheral interface and method for data transmission: A multi-input/output serial peripheral interface of an integrated circuit includes many pins coupled to the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit receives an instruction under a control of selectively using only a first pin or a combination of the first pin, a second pin, a third pin, and a fourth pin... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080091851 - System and method for dynamic audio buffer management: An audio data processing circuit comprises a memory and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to store audio data in the memory in at least one buffer, each buffer having a size. The processor is configured to detect a type of application providing the audio data and, based... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080091853 - Controlling circuit throughput: Methods and apparatuses in which a throughput of a circuit is determined, the throughput is compared to a predetermined value; and the circuit is controlled so as to adjust the throughput in a manner that depends upon an outcome of the comparison.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client 007052

20080091855 - Apparatus and method for communicating with an i/o adapter using cached address translations: An apparatus and method for communicating with an input/output (I/O) adapter configured to communicate with a locally attached I/O device are provided using cached address translations. With the apparatus and method, in response to receiving a storage transaction request, a queue element is created in a command queue specifying an... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080091856 - Usb provisioning device: The present invention teaches a variety of methods and systems for utilizing a USB provisioning device to provision a new device. One aspect teaches receiving control of a new device coupled to a USB provisioning device and connecting the USB provisioning device through a network connection to a server. Then... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080091857 - Method and system for interlocking data integrity for network adapters: Certain aspects of a method and system for interlocking data integrity for network adapters are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include executing a plurality of interlocking checks within a network adapter. Each interlocking check may comprise receiving a plurality of input check values associated with a plurality of input... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080091849 - Method and apparatus for managing i/o paths on a storage network: A processing apparatus which stores a first information piece about attributes identifying a specific process generating data input/output requests in such a manner that the first information piece is associated with a second information piece identifying at least one of the physical paths as at least one first physical path,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080091850 - Method for processing consistent data sets: A processing of consistent data sets by asynchronous application of a subscriber in an isochronous, cyclical communication system is provided. Accordingly, by connecting a communication memory and a consistency, transmission and reception buffer, copying processes leading delay can be kept to a minimum.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080091852 - Direct memory access control: Direct memory access control may utilize a direct memory access register adapted to hold a descriptor.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080091854 - Transmitting apparatus and control method therefor and receiving apparatus and control method therefor: There are provided the controlling methods of the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus, which cancel the flow control to execute the normal reproduction by the user who looks at the warning display or in response to the reception of the flow control cancel signal from the receiver side. Otherwise,... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080091858 - Television with integrated asynchronous/synchronous kvmp signal switch for console and peripheral devices: A television with integrated signal switch (100) for sharing a television screen (14), a plurality of console devices compliant with an industry standard (16, 18) and at least one peripheral devices (20) with any computer system in a plurality of computer systems (12), is provided comprising a CPU (30); a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080091859 - Test method for verifying installation validity of a pci device on an electronic device: A test method for verifying installation validity of a peripheral component interconnected (PCI) devices on an electronic device having a test module, comprises the steps of: (a) storing information of onboard devices and slots on motherboards of different electronic devices and information of PCI devices added in the slots of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080091860 - Throttling communication between software processes: A throttling process for throttling communications between software processes, where data streams are sent between a source and one or more destinations. The method first determines if any of the destinations are busy. If one or more of the destinations are busy, the process performs a throttling action before sending... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080091861 - Bus multiplexer apparatus and method: An apparatus including a first peripheral device coupled to a digital bus; a second peripheral device coupled to the digital bus; a controller coupled to the first and second peripheral devices via the digital bus, the digital bus including first and second switches disposed between the controller and the first... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080091863 - Apparatus and method for generating reset signals for function chips in a terminal: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating reset signals in a portable terminal, in which function chips are provided. The apparatus includes a master chip, which resets the function chips using at least one address port selected from among address ports connected to a memory, and using a General... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080091862 - Network system, master device, slave device, and start-up control method for network system: A network system (10) comprises a master device (5) and a plurality of slave devices (1, 2, 3), and those devices are serially connected to one another in such a way that the master device (5) comes to the most upstream side, thereby configuring an optical multidrop network which ensures... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20080091864 - Information processing unit: When one port is used by two or more software; even if execution of the software is inhibited, the port cannot be closed, and the protection against illegal accesses is not satisfactory. Accordingly, the invention provides each of information processing units with a setting device capable of directly setting validity... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080091865 - System control device: A system control device comprises a system LSI section having a plurality of functional blocks, a system control microcomputer section for controlling the control register of each of the functional blocks, an address decoding section for decoding an access address to a predetermined byte in a control register which the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080091866 - Maintaining forward progress in a shared l2 by detecting and breaking up requestor starvation: A system having a plurality of arbitration levels for detecting and breaking up requester starvation, the system including: a plurality of logic circuits, each of the plurality of logic circuits permitted to access a cache via a plurality of requesters for requesting information from the cache; a counter for counting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080091867 - Shared interrupt controller for a multi-threaded processor: A multi-threaded processor is disclosed that includes a sequencer adapted to provide instructions associated with one or more threads of a multi-threaded processor. The sequencer includes an interrupt controller adapted to receive one or more interrupts and to selectively allow a first thread of the one or more threads to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080091868 - Method and system for delayed completion coalescing: Certain aspects of a method and system for delayed completion coalescing may be disclosed. Exemplary aspects of the method may include accumulating a plurality of bytes of incoming TCP segments in a host memory until a number of the plurality of bytes of incoming TCP segments reaches a threshold value.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080091869 - High speed, low current consumption fifo circuit: A FIFO circuit includes a write counter circuit, a memory circuit, a read counter circuit and a selector circuit. The write counter circuit counts a write clock signal during a valid period of input data, and outputs a write counter value. The memory circuit stores the input data in response... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080091870 - Method, system and program for communicatoin among nodes in a system: Provided are a system and program for allowing communication among nodes in a system. A request is received in a source node from a source object executing in the source node to send a message to a destination object executing in a destination node. Each node includes a processor capable... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080086576 - Apparatus and methods for improved sata device interaction without a sas expander: Apparatus, circuits, systems, and associated methods for integrating SAS/STP control in a SATA storage device. Features and aspects hereof permit direct coupling of the SATA storage device to either a SATA host or to an STP initiator without requiring an intervening SAS expander.... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080086577 - Digital television system, memory controller, and method for data access: A digital television system, a memory controller, and a method for data access are provided. The digital television system comprises a memory and the memory controller. The memory controller writes a data packet to or reads a data packet from the memory. The memory controller comprises a register, a data... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080086579 - Reliable asynchronous serial protocol between remote operated devices and input/output controller: An electrical distribution system is provided for selectively connecting an electrical power source to load devices, comprising a panelboard having load circuit positions. A remote operated device is mountable in the panelboard comprising a load control device, a programmed controller for operating the load control device and a communication circuit.... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080086578 - Integrated circuit device having send/receive macro for serial transfer bus: An integrated circuit device having a send/receive macro for serially transferring addresses and data to or from an external device via a serial transfer bus, the integrated circuit device includes: a CPU for performing predetermined processing. The send/receive macro includes a send/receive buffer accessed by the CPU, for storing a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080086580 - System and method for managing baseboard management controller: This invention discloses a system and method for managing baseboard management controller. The system comprising: at least one BMC; at least one primary node board, connecting to said at least one BMC via a bus; wherein, said bus is a differential bus, and said at least one BMC and said... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080086581 - Connector system: Devices, systems and methods for providing a connector system are disclosed. The exemplary device may have system and device flow contacts on the system and device connectors, respectively. A first set contacts and a second set of contacts may be electrically connected to each other to verify that system and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080086582 - Bus width configuration circuit, display device, and method configuring bus width: A display device communicating with a microcontrol unit by data, including: a panel with a plurality of pixels, and a display driver operating to drive the panel, in which the display driver includes: a data bus with a plurality of widths; a register storing an index and parameter input from... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080086583 - South bridge system and method: A system including a south bridge, a first processor connected to the south bridge, and a second processor connected to the south bridge. The system further includes at least one device connected to the south bridge, and a resource manager coupled to the south bridge that allocates use of the... Agent: Andrew M. Calderon Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080086584 - Transparent pci-based multi-host switch: A transparent PCI-based multi-host switch. A switch is configured with multiple north facing ports to couple the switch to multiple hosts. The multi-host switch can be included in a variety of switch configurations, including configurations having one multi-host switch, configurations having multiple multi-host switches, and configurations including one or more... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080082699 - Devices and methods for device-mapping connectivity hub: The present invention discloses devices and methods for a connectivity hub, for connecting a plurality of storage devices to a host system, including: a plurality of ports, each port operative to electrically engage with a storage device; electrical paths joining the plurality of ports to a common point operationally connected... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080082700 - Interrupt processing method: In order to provide an interrupt processing method capable of improving an I/O response, and the number of times of I/O processing, of an interrupt target apparatus, an apparatus control unit 101 determines an interrupt processing method based on a load of the unit itself and stores the determined interrupt... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080082702 - Information-processing system, information-processing device, method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal: An information-processing system, includes: a first information-processing device having: an acquisition section that acquires identification information through a calculation from document data to be printed, the identification information identifying the document data; and a transmitting section that transmits a print request for the document data including the acquired identification information;... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080082703 - Data transfer device: A data transfer device arranged in a node for connection in compliance with a communication standard. The data transfer device includes a request signal generation circuit for generating request signals defined by the communication standard with different levels of priority. A determination circuit determines the request signal having the highest... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080082704 - Data processing apparatus for data transmission and reception and data transfer method for data transfer system including the data processing apparatus: A data transfer system includes a transceiver and a data processing apparatus coupled to the transceiver through a first line, a second line, and a third line. A data transfer method for the data transfer system includes, when data is transferred from the transceiver to the data processing apparatus, transmitting... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080082701 - Configuration tool and methods for seismic data acquisition: An apparatus for in-field configuration of a seismic device such as a seismic sensor may include a memory module having data for configuring the seismic device, a location sensor determining a location parameter for the seismic sensor, an alignment member aligning the location sensor with the seismic sensor, and a... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20080082705 - Kvm switch including a terminal emulator: A method and system for converting the output of a communications port (e.g., a serial port or a USB port) into video signals representing the output of a terminal using a KVM switch. Upon receiving characters from the communications port, the system interprets the characters as terminal emulation commands and... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080082706 - Methods, systems, and computer products for scsi power control, data flow and addressing: Methods, systems and computer products for SCSI power control, data flow and addressing. Exemplary embodiments include a SCSI system having a SCSI bus with a plurality of data lines, including a first repeater configuration, a second repeater configuration, a method for selectively enabling at least one of the first and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080082707 - Non-blocking bus controller for a pipelined, variable latency, hierarchical bus with point-to-point first-in first-out ordering: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for a bus controller that supports a flexible bus protocol that handles pipelined, variable latency bus transactions while maintaining point-to-point (P2P) FIFO ordering of transactions in a non-blocking manner. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a bus controller to receive a plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080082708 - Token hold off for chipset communication: Embodiments of token hold off techniques for a token based communication interconnect are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080082709 - Resource allocation method on pca period of mboa mac: A resource allocation method for performing resource competition between protocols based on a protocol in a home network environment using multiple protocols is provided. In the resource allocation method, a request of using a resource is received from an external device. An AIFS value is allocated according to a data... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080082712 - Computer system and control method thereof: A computer system and a control method of the same. The computer system includes a user input unit and a controller. The controller cancels a shutdown of the computer system if a shutdown cancellation command is inputted through the user input unit while at least one of the application program... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080082710 - System and method for managing system management interrupts in a multiprocessor computer system: A system and method is disclosed in which, during the execution of an interrupt handling sequence in one of the processor of a multiprocessor system, a processors write a reason code to a status register to identify the cause of the interrupt. The BIOS code of the system writes to... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080082711 - System and method for managing system management interrupts in a multiprocessor computer system: A system and method is disclosed for managing system management interrupts in a multiprocessor system. The system described herein includes multiple processors, each of which may be directly coupled to memory. A primary processor will recognize the initiation of a system management interrupt. The primary processor will write a reason... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080082713 - Interrupt control system and storage control system using the same: The interrupt control system includes a first PCI interface 40, a second PCI interface 43, a PCI bridge 44 serving as a bridge between the first PCI interface and the second PCI interface, and a control circuit 54 for controlling an interrupt signal. The PCI bridge recognizes a message signal... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080082714 - Systems, methods and apparatus for flash drive: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which, in some embodiments, a USB flash memory storage device includes a plurality of interfaces to external devices. An apparatus to store data can include a non-volatile computer memory coupled by a male interface to an external device, such as a computer, and... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20080082715 - Data transfers over multiple data buses: A method for completing a data transfer over multiple data buses is disclosed. The method involves initiating a transfer of designated data through at least one bridging device and including a data key to immediately follow the data transfer, the data key and the designated data transferred along an identical... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080082716 - Bus to mcu bridge: An integrated circuit enables interconnection of a serial digital bus with a microcontroller unit. A physical interface provides for the transmission and reception of messages over the serial digital bus. A communication interface includes a serial interface for communicating with the microcontroller unit. The communication's interface further extracts clock data... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080082719 - Multi-functional storage apparatus and control method thereof: A multi-functional storage apparatus and a control method thereof for executing the steps of: receiving a first command outputted from an operation system through a driver and responding to the first command to make the operation system identify an attribute of the multi-functional storage apparatus; transferring an application program stored... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080082717 - Networked isochronous usb communication: Methods and systems are provided for helping maintain isochronous communications with peripheral devices (308), such as USB devices, over a network (302). Some methods for facilitating isochronous IN communication include noting (1906) passage of a predetermined interval without communication (310) from the peripheral device driver (402), and then creating (1908)... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20080082718 - Type structure of an adapter card: t