Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 09/08

20080235404 - Storage apparatus and data transfer method thereof: A storage apparatus automates a mapping operation and can automatically perform online data transfer from a storage unit of a data transfer source between a plurality of storage units. It includes a data transfer means for acquiring the construction information of the second storage in a first storage apparatus before... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080235405 - Usb controller and a testing method of the usb controller: s

20080235406 - System and method for upgrading the functionality of a controlling device in a secure manner: Secure access to a database of upgrade data is provided by storing an encryption key value in a cable used to interconnect a first device and a second device that is associated with the database of upgrade data. The second device allows access to the database of upgrade data via... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080235407 - System for automatically determining i/o connector configuration: A system for automatically determining a configuration of an I/O connector panel is disclosed. The system provides information about the capabilities of the connector card to a memory within the connector card, examining the information in the memory. The system further downloads at least one driver to a system coupled... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080235408 - Computer readable medium recording an information providing program, information providing device, and method for providing information: The present invention provides a computer readable medium recording a program for providing information relating to an optional device installable on an apparatus such as a printer, the program being an information providing program for providing information, to a user in an easily understandable form, related to an installable optional... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080235409 - Multiple phase buffer enlargement for rdma data transfer related applications: Methods of provisioning remote direct memory access (RDMA) buffers are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include determining that a pre-registered RDMA buffer has insufficient size to transfer a particular data. A larger RDMA buffer, which is larger than the pre-registered RDMA buffer, may then be provisioned. Then, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080235410 - Usb-sd memory device having dma channels and method of storing data in usb-sd memory device: Disclosed is a memory device having Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface and Secure Digital (SD) card interface, including: a plurality of flash memory units; a plurality of flash memory controllers each controlling reading and writing data on the flash memory unit; a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller including a plurality... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080235411 - Peripheral interface, receiving apparatus and data communication method using the same: Peripheral interface(s), a receiving apparatus and a data communication method using the same are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a peripheral interface comprises one or more pins for multiplexing at least two types of interfaces, wherein the pins transmit interface signals corresponding to an interface type... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080235412 - Memory controller with bi-directional buffer for achieving high speed capability and related method thereof: A memory controller for accessing a serial Flash memory is disclosed. The memory controller includes a logic circuit; a bi-directional buffer, coupled to the logic circuit, for selectively reversing the direction of data flow according to a control signal generated from the logic circuit, the bi-directional buffer comprising: an input... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080235413 - Apparatus and method to maximize buffer utilization in an i/o controller: An apparatus and method for maximizing buffer utilization in an I/O controller using credit management logic contained within the I/O controller. The credit management logic keeps track of the number of memory credits available in the I/O controller and communicates to a chipset connected to the I/O controller the amount... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235414 - Retractable memory drive: A retractable memory drive in accordance with the present invention comprises a top casing, a middle carrier, an electronic device such as a USB thumb drive, and a bottom casing. A positioning device on the middle carrier has a portion that protrudes outside the casing and operates like a button.... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080235415 - Method and system for modeling a bus for a system design incorporating one or more programmable processors: Systems and methods for modeling a bus for a system design are provided. In an embodiment, the method operates by accepting a virtual bus model, wherein the model simulates behavior for a bus master and slave device, such that the model accurately simulates the timing and behavior of the transfer... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080235417 - Method and apparatus for bus encoding and decoding: A method and an apparatus for bus encoding and a method and an apparatus for bus decoding are provided. The methods and apparatuses for bus encoding/decoding use a discontinuous pattern table (DPT) to store discontinuous pattern pairs. The tables are kept synchronous in both transmitter and receiver ends. After transmitting... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080235418 - Optical data link: The invention provides an optically powered device interface module for operating an external device, and an optically powered data link comprising the same. In one embodiment the device interface module includes an optical interface for receiving optical power and data signals, an electrical USB interface for providing USB compliant electrical... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080235416 - Uart interface communication circuit: A UART interface communication circuit includes a plurality of communication devices, and each includes a UART interface, a selecting apparatus, a CPU, and a multiplexer (MUX). The communication devices connect with each other via the UART interfaces thereof. The selecting apparatus is connected to the CPU for defining one of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080235419 - Integrated circuit and method of securing access to an on-chip memory: The integrated circuit comprises: —an on-chip access right manager (40) to grant or deny access to a memory segment to a peripheral device (10) according to predetermined access rights upon reception of a read instruction from the peripheral device, —an on-chip lock (50) connected to a memory data bus, the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080235420 - Method of detecting master/slave response time-out under continuous packet format communications protocol: A method of detecting master/slave response time-out under continuous packet format communications protocol, which calculates the time required for the slave device to respond to a Modbus request subject to Modbus TCP/UDP protocol. The method is to continuously send Modbus requests to a slave device through a detection device and... Agent: Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd

20080235421 - Technique and apparatus to optimize inter-port memory transaction sequencing on a multi-ported memory controller unit: An apparatus that includes a multi-ported memory controller unit to control access to a memory external to the memory controller and comprising port interfaces coupled to the masters. Each master is capable of generating a transaction request with the memory. The apparatus also includes a transaction sequence logic to communicate... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080235423 - Data processing apparatus and method for arbitrating between messages routed over a communication channel: A data processing apparatus and method are provided for arbitrating between messages routed over a communication channel. The data processing apparatus has a plurality of processing elements, each processing element executing a process requiring messages to be issued to recipient elements, and a communication channel shared amongst those processing elements... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080235422 - Downstream cycle-aware dynamic interconnect isolation: A device, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a data reception unit that receives data from an interconnect, and a data suppression unit that receives a target address from the interconnect, determines if the target address is local to the device, and, if the target... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080235425 - Managing input/output interruptions in non-dedicated interruption hardware environments: 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.

20080235424 - Method and apparatus for performing interrupt coalescing: In one embodiment, the invention includes a controller that interrupts a CPU based on a counter that uses a decrement step which may increase as high priority data packets are received by the controller.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080235426 - Handling shared interrupts in bios under a virtualization technology environment: A custom interrupt service routine may be developed to handle interrupt requests that would not be appropriately handled by either of two operating system guests in a virtualization technology (VT) environment. In some embodiments, the custom interrupt service routine does not in any way interfere with the operation of the... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080235427 - Electronic device with card interface: When initializing a card-shaped device inserted in a card interface, operation mode acquiring means incorporated in an electronic device acquires operation mode information, stored in a register file incorporated in the card-shaped device, by a predetermined procedure using a predetermined pin. Operation mode setting means incorporated in the electronic device... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080235428 - Method and system for dynamic switching between multiplexed interfaces: A bridge is disclosed. The bridge comprises a first interface having at least one multiplexed clock signal line. The multiplexed clock signal line outputs first and second control signals for respectively controlling the access to first and second devices coupled to the bridge. The bridge selectively outputs the first clock... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080235429 - Operating pci express resources in a logically partitioned computing system: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for operating Peripheral Component Interconnect (‘PCI’) Express resources in a logically partitioned computing system that include: allocating, by a hypervisor installed on the computing system, a PCI Express adapter installed in the computing system to a logical partition of the computing system, including establishing... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080235430 - Creation and management of routing table for pci bus address based routing with integrated did: A method is provided for creating and managing tables for routing packets through an environment that includes multiple hosts and shared PCI switches and adapters. A Destination Identification (DID) field in the PBA is appended to a transaction packet dispatched through the PCI switches, wherein a particular DID is associated... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235431 - Method using a master node to control i/o fabric configuration in a multi-host environment: A method is directed to use of a master root node, in a distributed computer system provided with multiple root nodes, to control the configuration of routings through an I/O switched-fabric. One of the root nodes is designated as the master root node or PCI Configuration Manager (PCM), and is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080228949 - Mobile terminal, printing system and printing method: A first reception section is operable to receive an input to designate thumbnails of printing images from an image storage server. A first transmitter is operable to transmit an image transmission request for requesting the thumbnails to the image storage server when the input to designate the thumbnails is received... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080228950 - Memory power down mode exit method and system: A memory includes a circuit having a set terminal for receiving an input signal indicating a request to exit a power-down mode. The circuit is configured to provide an output signal to enable exiting the power-down mode in response to the input signal before the input signal is latched.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080228951 - Reconfigurable circuits: The present disclosure involves reconfigurable circuits that include an asynchronous data path with asynchronous control and at least one logic element coupled with the asynchronous data path that allows the circuit to be configured to more than one logical implementation through data and control token. In one particular example, the... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20080228952 - Multi-function peripheral, data processing system and using method thereof: A data processing system including an electronic device and a multi-function peripheral is provided. The electronic device has a device code and stores a user-setting file. The multi-function peripheral connects with the electronic device via a transmission interface. The multi-function peripheral includes a memory unit and a processing unit. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080228954 - Computer, io expansion device and method for recognizing connection of io expansion device: A computer main unit and a PCI_Box (#0) are connected to each other in a loop connection manner by two paths. A first path is formed of an SMBus and a PCI_Box connection cable and a second path is formed of another PCI_Box connection cable. A monitoring and control unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228955 - Method and mechanism for cataloguing information on devices in a computing system: In a computing network containing multiple computing devices, a network card in a computing device provides the ability for the computing device to transmit specific types of information while the computing device is in an inactive state. The network card contains processing capabilities that enable it to detect and receive... Agent: Darcell Walker

20080228953 - Signal playback system with a dynamic wiring aid and method thereof: A signal playback system includes a plurality of connection interfaces installed for connecting at least one external device, an input interface for selecting one of the plurality of connection interfaces to be connected to the external device, a display device for displaying connecting information of the plurality of connection interfaces,... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080228956 - System and method for remote communication with a multifunctional device: Systems and methods for transmitting information from a multifunctional device to a centralized management server are disclosed. A method for transmitting information between a multifunctional device and a centralized management server includes collecting information from a multifunctional device using a wireless device; rendering the information secure using a secure functionality;... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080228957 - Method for configuring field devices: The invention relates to a method for configuring field devices in a process automation system wherein the field devices are connected to other automation components by means of a field bus. In order to minimize the load placed on the field bus, a copy of the current configuration of each... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080228958 - Direct memory access engine for data transfers: A system and method of transferring data of unknown length in a computer system includes providing an embedded device having a processing apparatus and a DMA engine, the processing apparatus processing the data and the DMA engine transferring the data from the embedded device to a component in the computer... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080228959 - Method and apparatus for operating storage controller system in elevated temperature environment: A storage controller that operates under elevated temperature conditions includes a memory, a memory controller, and a CPU that detects a temperature of the memory controller has exceeded a threshold while operating at a first frequency and responsively places the memory into self-refresh mode, reduces the memory controller frequency to... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080228960 - Information processing apparatus and command multiplicity control method: Provided are an information processing apparatus and a command multiplicity control method that enable easy and proper control of command multiplicity assigned to each host. The information processing apparatus, which executes processing in accordance with a command sent from each of plural hosts, dynamically determines each host's command multiplicity with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228961 - System including virtual dma and driving method thereof: A system having a virtual direct memory access (DMA) and a driving method thereof, in which the system includes a central processing unit (CPU), a plurality of intellectual property units (IPs), and a virtual DMA controlling data to be transferred from a first IP unit to a second IP unit... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080228962 - Virtual pipe for wire adapter communications: A wire adapter in a Wireless Universal Serial Bus configuration includes endpoints bound to communication constructs for communicating with discrete identified endpoints of downstream devices. A Virtual Pipe system is provided for the wire adapter to manage the communications pathways between a host and a downstream device connected to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080228963 - Method and apparatus for transferring settings and other configuration information from one consumer electronics device to another: A method and apparatus is provided for inputting user-selected settings to a second consumer electronic device. The method begins by establishing a first communication path between a first consumer electronic device and the second consumer electronic device. The first communication path is configured to transfer content to be rendered by... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080228964 - Hybrid flex-and-board memory interconnect system: A hybrid memory interconnect system involving flexible cable and board interconnects is provided for improved memory bandwidth and power efficiency performance. To this purpose, signals between a microprocessor chip and one or more memory chips are routed via separate conductive paths, e.g. flexible cable for high-speed signals and conventional board... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080228965 - System, apparatus and computer program product for perfoming functional validation testing: A system, apparatus, computer program product and method of performing functional validation testing in a system are provided. Generally, functional validation testing includes data acquisition and data validation testing. During the functional validation testing two devices may be exchanging data. The exchange of data by the two devices may be... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20080228966 - System, apparatus, computer program product for performing operational validation with limited cpu use of a communications network: A system, apparatus, computer program product and method of performing operational validation on a system are provided. The system may include a CPU with a cache, a communications network, and a plurality of devices exchanging data during a test. When the test is ready to be performed, the CPU may... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20080228967 - Software driver interconnect framework: A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium including control logic stored therein to transfer data from a data source to a data sink is described herein. The computer program product comprises control logic means for negotiating with a device driver of the data sink to transfer data from... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080228968 - Image forming apparatus, image processing device, control device, and connection device: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image processing device including plural image processing units; a control device configured to control the plural image processing units; and a connection unit configured to connect the image processing device to the control device. Each of the plural image processing units is connected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080228969 - Apparatus and method for enabling digital and analog data communication over a data bus: An electronic apparatus such as an audio apparatus enables both digital and analog data to be communicated over a data bus such as a universal serial bus (USB) with a single low-cost connector such as a USB connector. According to an exemplary embodiment, the electronic apparatus includes a connector operative... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080228971 - Device modeling in a multi-core environment: A method and apparatus for modeling devices in a multi-core environment is herein described. A hardware offload engine or add-in device is modeled by offload engine code or device model code stored in memory. An event agent in a hypervisor traps accesses to the offload engine or add-in device and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080228970 - Embedded system design through simplified add-on card configuration: Methods for configuring an embedded system are described. One method includes connecting a plurality of add-on cards to a circuit board having a programmable processor. The programmable processor is configured to communicate with the plurality of add-on cards. At least one add-on card connects to a circuit board utilizing two... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080228973 - Memory card having plurality of interface ports, memory card system, and data communication method for the memory card: A memory card is disclosed including first and second host interfaces facilitating the communication of data between the memory card and a host using, respectively, first and second protocols, wherein the first protocol defines low-speed operations and the second protocol defines high-speed operations for the memory card. The second host... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080228972 - Systems and methods for multiple mode voice and data communications using intelligenty bridged tdm and packet buses: Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur in multiple modes/protocols are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided for multiple native mode/protocol voice and data transmissions and receptions with a computing system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a TDM bus and a packet bus, and... Agent: Alan Loudermilk Loudermilk & Associates

20080228974 - Design structure for a livelock resolution circuit: A design structure for a livelock resolution circuit is provided. 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 an attention to a control... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080228975 - Device address locking to facilitate optimum usage of the industry standard iic bus: A mechanism is provided for locking an end device for the period of time that the device is needed, thus disabling access by any other application or process. Having the device locked, rather than the bus, allows other applications to use the bus to access other devices at the same... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080228976 - Method of determing request transmission priority subject to request source and transtting request subject to such request transmission priority in application of fieldbus communication framework: A method of determining request transmission priority subject to request source and transmitting request subject to such request transmission priority in application of Fieldbus communication framework in which the communication device determines whether the received requests have the priority subject to the respective source and also determines whether there is... Agent: Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd

20080228977 - Method and apparatus for dynamic hardware arbitration: A method and apparatus for dynamically arbitrating, in hardware, requests for a resource shared among multiple clients. Multiple data streams or service requests require access to a shared resource, such as memory, communication bandwidth, etc. A hardware arbiter monitors the streams' traffic levels and determines when one or more of... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080228978 - Method of determing request transmission priority subject to request content and transtting request subject to such request transmission priority in application of fieldbus communication framework: A method of determining request transmission priority subject to request content and transmitting request subject to such request transmission priority in application of Fieldbus communication framework in which the communication device determines whether the received requests have the priority subject to the respective content, and also determines whether there is... Agent: Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd

20080228979 - Trigger core: A method to detect an event between a data source and a data sink using a trigger core is described herein. The method comprises monitoring control lines and an associated data stream for a programmable pattern, wherein the pattern is one or more of a condition, state or event. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080228980 - Microcontroller and method for the operation thereof: A microcontroller (MC) has integrated functional modules (FM) encompassing a first functional module (FM1) which is configured so as to activate or deactivate interrupts (INT). High-frequency triggering events for interrupts are common especially in the preferred field of application of such microcontrollers, i.e. the equipment and operation of digital tachographs,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080228981 - Design structure for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of pci express connectors: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors is disclosed that include identifying whether a PCI Express device is installed into each PCI Express connector, and assigning a portion of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080228983 - Electronic device to which an option device can be mounted and a recording medium: The present invention relates to an electronic device enabling an option configuration including an option device to be displayed on an information processing apparatus even if the information processing apparatus does not know the option device. The electronic device includes a storage unit storing respective device information items of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080228982 - Modular expandable mobile navigation device: An expandable system for mobile navigation facilitates a modular implementation of structural units to add desired functionality to a base navigation device. The system is embodied as a handheld mobile navigation device in one arrangement, including a base unit housing containing circuitry for determining a geographic location of the navigation... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080228984 - Single-chip multi-media card/secure digital (mmc/sd) controller reading power-on boot code from integrated flash memory for user storage: A Multi-Media Card/Secure Digital (MMC/SD) single-chip flash device contains a MMC/SD flash microcontroller and flash mass storage blocks containing flash memory arrays that are block-addressable rather than randomly-addressable. MMC/SD transactions from a host MMC/SD bus are read by a bus transceiver on the MMC/SD flash microcontroller. Various routines that execute... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080228985 - Embedded processor with direct connection of security devices for enhanced security: An integrated circuit, a computer system and a method of operating an computer system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for an authentication, at a microcontroller and requesting security data from a security device. The method also includes receiving the security data from the security device, at the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080228986 - Architecture for controlling peripheral devices: A peripheral component interface device capable of being removably coupled to an input-output interface in a computer, and at least one peripheral device is described. The peripheral component interface device includes a first communication bus configured to be removably coupled to the input-output interface associated with the computer, a second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080228987 - Storage system and method of storage system path control: The present invention uses memory resources effectively and connects each storage device by a plurality of paths in a switchable manner, thus improving reliability and ease of use, by virtualizing external memory resources as internal memory resources. External storage 2 is connected to the main storage 1, and the actual... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080222310 - Apparatus and method for determining orientation of blade server inserted into a blade chassis: An apparatus and method is provided for determining the orientation of a blade server with respect to a blade chassis, whenever the blade is inserted into a chassis with either vertical or horizontal slots. In an embodiment, wherein the blade server has opposing first and second edges, first and second... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080222311 - Management of shared storage i/o resources: Automated management of shared I/O resources involves use of a policy engine for implementing I/O scheduling group I/O policies. The I/O policies are used for determining whether corresponding I/O requests should be issued to a shared storage system immediately or should be delayed via corresponding policy-based queues. In the context... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080222312 - Apparatus and method for optimizing use of a modem jack: An apparatus and method are disclosed for optimizing use of a modem jack. For a computer system that includes a modem, an apparatus may include a first branch including a first end that is arranged to connect to an Ethernet jack of the modem, a second branch including a second... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080222313 - Embedded interface: The present invention provides a universal host-to-host intelligent controller that facilitates the transfer of electronic data from one electronic data processing (EDP) device to another. The invention includes a printed circuit board (PCB) contained in a housing and may also include a removable memory module. The PCB contains drivers and... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080222314 - Contents data storage device and contents data update system: A content data storage apparatus that enables content data on a plurality of client apparatuses to be individually updated according to the preferences or the like of users. Content data on a memory card is stored in association with client content management information for managing the content data and client... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.c.

20080222315 - Proxy association for devices: A first connection is established between a first device and a host, wherein the first device is host-capable. A second connection is established between a second device and the host. Proxy association is performed between the first device and the second device by the host to associate the first and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222316 - Communication system, communication method, and communication device: A disclosed communication system, communication method, and communication device enable an intended command to be easily acquired from a movement of an operator and executed. The communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device communicating with each other. The first communication device includes a physical quantity... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080222317 - Data flow control within and between dma channels: In one embodiment, a direct memory access (DMA) controller comprises a transmit circuit and a data flow control circuit coupled to the transmit circuit. The transmit circuit is configured to perform DMA transfers, each DMA transfer described by a DMA descriptor stored in a data structure in memory. There is... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080222318 - Information selecting apparatus and storage medium storing information selecting program: An information selecting apparatus includes a computer, and makes a user select an arbitrary item from a plurality of items by a direction input of the user. Each of the items is assigned to a direction based on an input frequency, for example. In a case that a direction input... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20080222319 - Apparatus, method, and program for outputting information: A technique of protection of personal data is provided, in which there is no need to repeatedly instruct search conditions, and also provided is a technique of protection of personal data in which operation cost can be reduced. Respective personal data include multiple items and an item value of each... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080222320 - Communication node apparatus, network system having the communication node apparatus, and data transmitting system: Disclosed is a data transmission system in which a set of asymmetrical serial buses are formed by a set of multiplexed unidirectional buses and a reverse-direction sole serial bus. A synchronization signal is superimposed on the signal transmitted over each of the multiplexed unidirectional buses. The multiplexed unidirectional buses are... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080222321 - Method and system for tracking device driver requests: A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer usable program product for tracking device driver requests in a data processing system is provided. A controller receives a request from a device driver. The controller associates a timestamp and at least one pointer to the request, wherein the timestamp indicates... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222322 - Structure for an apparatus configured to implement commands in input/output (io) hub: A design structure comprising a schematic structure of an apparatus configured to implement commands in an input/output (IO) hub comprising a programmable command generator having an input coupled to an external interface and an output providing commands. The programmable command generator selectively couples commands in a path between a front... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept 917

20080222323 - Multimedia adapting apparatus: The present invention discloses a multimedia adapting apparatus. The multimedia adapting apparatus includes a communicating module, a buffer, a primary controller, a command register, a status register, a secondary controller, a media hardware engine, and a memory unit. The buffer stores the audiovisual content from the multimedia player. The primary... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080222324 - System method structure in network processor that indicates last data buffer of frame packet by last flag bit that is either in first or second position: A method and structure for determining when a frame of information comprised of one or more buffers of data being transmitted in a network processor has completed transmission is provided. The network processor includes several control blocks, one for each data buffer, each containing control information linking one buffer to... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080222325 - Programmable controller with building blocks: A PLC of building block type includes a switch module incorporating a switch part having N-to-N switch function between serial communication lines with a plurality of lines and a plurality of device modules individually incorporating device systems with various advanced-function device module characteristics. A CPU system having CPU functions of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080222326 - Kvm switch system capable of wirelessly transmitting keyboard-mouse data and receiving video/audio driving command: A control management system for controlling electrical devices is disclosed. The control management system comprises a plurality of electrical devices, and a keyboard-video-mouse switch. Each electrical device corresponds to a transforming unit for generating a protocol command signal, and a first protocol signal transceiver for wirelessly transmitting the protocol command... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080222327 - Vertical adapters and vertical device for mounting to a horizontal service interface: A vertical device for mounting to a host having a horizontal surface with an upwardly oriented host service interface providing a mechanical service and at least one electrical service as well as an adapter for mounting a vertical device to a host of this type. The device or adapter has... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080222329 - I/o and memory bus system for dfps and units with two- or multi-dimensional programmable cell architectures: A general bus system is provided which combines a number of internal lines and leads them as a bundle to the terminals. The bus system control is predefined and does not require any influence by the programmer. Any number of memories, peripherals or other units can be connected to the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080222328 - Semiconductor memory module and memory system, and method of communicating therein: Example embodiments relate to a semiconductor memory module and memory system, and a method of communicating therein. According to an example embodiment, a semiconductor memory system may include a memory controller, M interconnected memory elements, and/or N data buses, where N is a natural number and M is a divisor... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080222330 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and image processing apparatus having the same: An ASIC includes a receiving unit, a transmission interface, a reception interface, a buffer, and a control unit. When the receiving unit receives a second write request while the transmission interface is in process of transmitting to a transmission line a first write request and write data, the control unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080222331 - Computer-implemented system and method for lock handling: Computer-implemented systems and methods for handling access to one or more resources. Executable entities that are running substantially concurrently provide access requests to an operating system (OS). One or more traps of the OS are avoided to improve resource accessing performance through use of information stored in a shared locking... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080222332 - Combined engine for video and graphics processing: The system includes an arbiter, a combined engine, a frame buffer, and a display processing unit. The arbiter provides three input channels: a first channel for graphics, a second channel for video and a third channel for processor. The arbiter performs prioritization and arbitration between the video and graphics and... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080222333 - Methods and apparatus for scalable array processor interrupt detection and response: Hardware and software techniques for interrupt detection and response in a scalable pipelined array processor environment are described. Utilizing these techniques, a sequential program execution model with interrupts can be maintained in a highly parallel scalable pipelined array processing containing multiple processing elements and distributed memories and register files. When... Agent: Peter H. Priest

20080222334 - Electronic apparatus and data corruption prevention method: An electronic apparatus includes a main body, a panel unit removable from the main body, and an attachment unit configured to indirectly attach a removable memory device to the main body through the panel unit. The main body includes a control unit configured to logically disconnect a data line between... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080222335 - Mode setting method and system including pci bus in hot plug of pci device: The invention is to provide a mode setting method and a system including a PCI bus in the hot plug of a PCI device which is capable of supporting a platform unique function for a PCI device that is hot-added. Therefore, in a system including a PCI bus according to... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080222336 - Data processing system: To allow to use arithmetic circuits of sharable resources by priority with a simple procedure. In a data processing system including central processing units and a plurality of arithmetic circuits, wherein the central processing units are able to supply a command to one arithmetic circuit based on one fetched instruction... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080222337 - Pipeline accelerator having multiple pipeline units and related computing machine and method: A pipeline accelerator includes a bus and a plurality of pipeline units, each unit coupled to the bus and including at least one respective hardwired-pipeline circuit. By including a plurality of pipeline units in the pipeline accelerator, one can increase the accelerator's data-processing performance as compared to a single-pipeline-unit accelerator.... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080222338 - Apparatus and method for sharing devices between multiple execution domains of a hardware platform: A method and apparatus for sharing peripheral devices between multiple execution domains of a hardware platform are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the configuration end-point devices, bridges and interconnects of a hardware platform including at least two execution domains. When a configuration requests is issued from an execution... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080222339 - Processor architecture with switch matrices for transferring data along buses: There is described a processor architecture, comprising: a plurality of first bus pairs, each first bus pair including a respective first bus running in a first direction (for example, left to right) and a respective second bus running in a second direction opposite to the first direction (for example right... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080222340 - Bus interface controller for cost-effective high performance graphics system with two or more graphics processing units: A bus interface controller manages a set of serial data lanes. The bus interface controller supports operating a subset of the serial data lanes as a private bus.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080222341 - Method and apparatus for automatically switching between usb host and device: An apparatus and method for automatically switching between USB host and device is provided. In a device with a USB interface, the present invention automatically switches between a USB host and USB device by detecting the handshake protocol of the D+ and D− pins of the USB interface. The apparatus... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080222342 - Crossbar comparator: A device includes a first crossbar array having first input columns and first output rows, wherein a plurality of the rows of the first crossbar array are configured to store first stored data in the form of high or low resistance states, and a second crossbar array having second input... Agent: Blaise Mouttet

20080215763 - Graphical user interface, process, program, storage medium and computer system for arranging music: The present invention relates to a graphical user interface for arranging music, comprising a first display section showing different tracks and a second display section showing a first channel strip and a second channel strip. Preferably, the second channel strip shows the output routing or the destination of a Send... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080215764 - Managing electronic documents utilizing a digital seal: A method for storing electronic documents can include associating a digital seal with at least one electronic document. An image within a user interface can be displayed, wherein the image is a user selectable representation for the digital seal. At least one metadata attribute can be stored as a characteristic... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080215766 - Access, monitoring and communication device and method: An access, monitoring and communication device and method for at least one protected local area of buildings, rooms or properties is described. The device includes at least one master unit having the following components: a monitor, a camera, a loudspeaker, a microphone, at least one function key, a controller, a... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080215765 - Detecting connection to a usb host or hub without using an extra status input: A low power Universal Serial Bus (USB) capable device uses a weak pull-up resistance that is coupled to at least one data line of the USB for detection of when the USB capable device is connected to a USB host or hub. When the USB capable device is not connected... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. One Shell Plaza

20080215767 - Storage usage exclusive method: In an environment where there is a possibility that the user connects from a plurality of blade PCs to the storage, the present invention prevents the data destruction by realizing the exclusive control of the storage device. The storage connection from a blade PC which was possible to connect until... Agent: Stanley O. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080215768 - Variable coherency support when mapping a computer program to a data processing apparatus: A computer implemented tool is provided for assisting in the mapping of a computer program to a data processing apparatus 2 wherein multiple physical instances of a logical variable in the computer program are required. A computer program 60 is provided as the input to the tool which analyses the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080215769 - Operational circuit: An operational circuit for performing an operation of an arbitrary number of input data pieces by using a DMA transfer according to a descriptor control and output results. The arbitrary number of input data pieces are divided into a plurality of pieces to perform an operation processing without performing the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080215770 - Method, apparatus and system for seamlessly sharing a graphics card amongst virtual machines: The present invention provides a virtual machine system and a method of accessing a graphics card by the same, wherein, the virtual machine system includes a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), a Service Operating System (SOS) and at least one Guest Operating System (GOS), and further includes a resource converting module... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080215771 - Pool i/o device operation confirmation method and computer system: In a computer system to which a plurality of I/O devices are connected and a pool I/O device is included therein, a periodical operation confirmation is performed on a pool I/O device to be used when a fault occurs. A pool I/O device operation confirmation section obtains pool I/O device... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080215772 - System method structure in network processor that indicates last data buffer of frame packet by last flag bit that is either in first or second position: A method and structure for determining when a frame of information comprised of one or more buffers of data being transmitted in a network processor has completed transmission is provided. The network processor includes several control blocks, one for each data buffer, each containing control information linking one buffer to... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080215773 - Enhanced wireless usb protocol: The present invention provides a method for increasing data throughput for a wireless USB system that includes wire adapters that wirelessly transmit data between a host system and a USB enabled device.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080215774 - Wireless universal serial bus dual role device: Disclosed herein is a wireless universal serial bus (USB) dual role device (DRD) system in which a common part shared between a wireless USB host and a wireless USB device is extracted from a central processing unit (CPU) to implement a wireless USB DRD, and driven to be divisionally processed... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215775 - Universal serial bus hub with wireless communication to remote peripheral devices: A wireless USB hub for connecting a plurality of remote peripheral devices to a computer for communication therewith without the need to physically connect the peripheral devices to the hub via a cable connection. The wireless USB hub includes a receiver for receiving wireless data transmissions from one or more... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20080215776 - Method and apparatus for converting different format content into one or more common formats: A method and apparatus for converting different format content into one or more first common formats. This conversion method allows content that is received in multiple, different formats to be converted into one standard format for manufacturing and, optionally, into an Internet format rather quickly. This method allows the content... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080215777 - Multiple channel wireless communication system: A wireless headphone device may include a receiver for receiving a wireless digital signal containing a plurality of digital audio streams combined with control codes according to a predetermined format, a manually operated selector switch for selecting one or more of the plurality of digital audio streams to be produced... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20080215778 - Apparatus and method for identifying device type of serially interconnected devices: A memory controller is unaware of device types of a plurality of memory devices in a serial interconnection configuration. Possible device types include, e.g., random access memories (DRAM, SRAM, MRAM) and NAND-, NOR- and AND-type Flash memories. Each device has device type information on its device type. Each device is... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080215780 - Simultaneous control of multiple i/o banks in an 12c slave device: Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate programmable loading of a logic value into parallel slave device registers. The communications system includes a slave device having two or... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080215779 - Slave device with latched request for service: Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems (100), using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate latched service requests. Methods for one or more slave devices to request service from a master device (130) involve detecting... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080215781 - System including bus matrix: A system has a first chip using a first bus matrix, and a second chip including second and third bus matrixes connected to the first bus matrix. The second bus matrix is connected to a plurality of bus masters of the second chip and the third bus matrix is connected... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080215782 - Administration device for warranting local concentrated access in low-band width, administration method, and animation processing apparatus including the administration device: An arbitration device arbitrates among master devices such that each master device is allowed to access a shared memory at a predetermined bandwidth, and the arbitration device permits an access request in a first period that a designer has set as desired if the access request has been made by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080215783 - Structure for data bus bandwidth scheduling in an fbdimm memory system operating in variable latency mode: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for scheduling the servicing of data requests, using the variable latency mode, in an FBDIMM memory sub-system is provided. A scheduling algorithm pre-computes return time data for data connected to DRAM buffer chips... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080215784 - Realtime-safe read copy update with per-processor read/write locks: A technique for realtime-safe detection of a grace period for deferring the destruction of a shared data element until pre-existing references to the data element have been removed. A per-processor read/write lock is established for each of one or more processors. When reading a shared data element at a processor,... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20080215785 - Arbitration circuit: The present invention provides an arbitration circuit capable of stable operation regardless of timings for read and write requests. A latch signal of a predetermined pulse width is generated in accordance with a read request signal or a write request signal and supplied to latches. Flip-flops or FFs respectively fetch... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080215786 - Electronic device and a method for arbitrating shared resources: An electronic device is provided comprising a plurality of first shared resources (SR1-SR4) and a plurality of arbiter units (AAU1-AAU4) each for performing an arbitration for at least one of the plurality of shared resources (SR1-SR4). The communication between the arbiter units (AAU1-AAU4) is performed on an asynchronous basis, and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215787 - Method and system for processing status blocks based on interrupt mapping: Certain aspects of a method and system for processing status blocks based on interrupt mapping may be disclosed. Exemplary aspects of the method may include determining whether a particular status block has been processed by at least one CPU based on comparing a value of a first register with a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080215788 - Connector with opposite-facing ports: A connector for connecting a host device to one or more peripheral devices includes two ports, for example two USB ports, facing in two different, preferably opposite, directions. The scope of the invention also includes a system board that includes the connector, and a host device, such as a computer,... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080215789 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes a PATA I/F connected to a PATA bus, a SATA I/F connected to a SATA bus, and a sequence controller that controls a transfer sequence. The PATA I/F includes a task file register that is a pseudo register provided to implement a PATA/SATA bus... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080215790 - Memory systems for automated computing machinery: Design structures embodied in machine readable medium are provided. Embodiments of the design structure include a memory system comprising: a memory controller; a memory bus terminator; a high speed memory bus that interconnects the memory controller, the memory bus terminator, and at least one memory module; and the at least... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080215791 - Audio signal processing device: In a digital mixer, a standard mode or a switched mode of an input patch is selectable. When shifting from the standard mode to the switched mode is selected, input port information in input patch data stored in a current memory is converted according to a port correspondence relation indicated... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080215792 - Multiple processor system and method including multiple memory hub modules: A processor-based electronic system includes several memory modules arranged in first and second ranks. The memory modules in the first rank are directly accessed by any of several processors, and the memory modules in the second rank are accessed by the processors through the memory modules in the first rank.... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP