Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 10/08

20080263228 - Single-chip microcomputer: A single-chip microcomputer comprising: a first bus having a central processing unit and a cache memory connected therewith; a second bus having a dynamic memory access control circuit and an external bus interface connected therewith; a break controller for connecting the first bus and the second bus selectively; a third... Agent: Alan Loudermilk Loudermilk & Associates

20080263229 - Apparatus for providing a user interface, peripheral devices, computer means, methods of providing a user interface, and programs: There is provided an apparatus for providing a user interface comprising a peripheral device (1) for displaying a user interface, and computer means (2) connected to the peripheral device (1). The apparatus is configured to provide user-interface information to the peripheral device (1), and the peripheral device (1) is configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080263230 - Information processing apparatus, information transmission method, and control program therefor: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a plurality of image forming apparatuses, application information indicating a type of each application program installed on the plurality of image forming apparatuses, an application selection receiving unit configured to receive selection of an application program corresponding to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080263231 - Device and configuration method: A process for configuring a computing device to operate with a peripheral device having a configuration control and that is coupled to the computing device via a network, including: detecting activation of the configuration control at the peripheral device; receiving information associated with a user of the computing device at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263232 - Selective connection device allowing connection of at least one peripheral to a target computer and a selective control system comprising such a device: This device makes it possible to connect at least one computer peripheral selectively to a target computer among a plurality of target computers. The connections between the peripheral and the target computer are connections made physically unidirectional. In the case where information input peripherals and information output peripherals are to... Agent: Briggs And Morgan P.A.

20080263233 - Integrated circuit and memory device: A memory device comprises a first port receiving a first register value and a second register value; a second port, receiving a third value; a first register being set to the first register value; a second register having an enabled status and a disabled status, the register being set to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20080263234 - System and method for recognizing external device by portable terminal: Disclosed are a system, a method and device for recognizing an external device by a portable terminal. The external device determines whether the external device has recognized the portable terminal according to signals with a predetermined form, which have been output from the portable terminal regardless of the on/off state... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080263236 - Data transfer system: A data transfer system is provided, in which divided data generated by data generation terminals are randomly transmitted to data transfer apparatuses by a host terminal, a parameter list controlling the order of transfer of divided data is generated by a parameter list generation part, and a transfer processing part... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263235 - Device-to-device sharing of digital media assets: Apparatus, a method, or an electronic device may be provided. Media and a data structure encoded on the media are each provided, to hold one or more digital media assets (DMAs). One or more share tools may be provided, which are configured to provide at least a target device of... Agent: Prass LLP

20080263237 - Communication system and method, sending apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is a communication system, including: a sending apparatus configured to transmit a Digital Visual Interface signal wherein pixel data formed from color data including red data, green data and blue data are disposed successively for the individually same color data through a Digital Visual Interface cable; and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263238 - Multiple logical input/output subsystem facility: An input/output subsystem is configured as a plurality of input/output subsystem images, each of which appears to a program as an independent input/output subsystem. An input/output subsystem image is identified by an input/output subsystem image identifier, which is used by various programs to designate the particular input/output subsystem image for... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080263239 - Priority selection circuit: A circuit. The circuit includes a first selection module having first data input, second data input, first validation input, second validation input, selected data output, marker output, and presence output. A first validation signal received at the first validation input identifies whether or not a first data signal received at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263240 - Transfer apparatus, transfer system, program, and transfer method: Disclosed herein is a transfer apparatus including, a connection status detection block, a storage status detection block, a no-operation status detection block, and a transfer block.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263241 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes: a link controller which analyzes a packet received from a host-side data transfer control device through a serial bus; and an interface circuit which generates interface signals and outputs the generated interface signals to an interface bus. A packet transferred from the host-side data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080263242 - Usb flash media extender: A system and method for extending communications between a USB host and a flash media device. The system is capable of converting command block wrapper data to SCSI data and sending the converted data over a non-USB communications channel, such as a Category 5 cable. The system is further capable... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080263243 - Specialized universal serial bus controller: A universal serial bus controller pre-generates and stores a subset of USB commands in a memory, the pre-generated commands available for transmission to at least one USB peripheral device over universal serial bus, and transfers at least one command from the subset of pre-generated commands stored in the memory to... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger, LLP/cypress

20080263244 - Compression control device and method: The present invention provides a compression control device for controlling the compression of data transceived in a storage system constituted by a plurality of apparatuses which include a storage device. The compression control device decides a compression control method for at least one apparatus constituting the storage system based on... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263245 - Otg device for multi-directionally transmitting gps data and controlling method of same: The present invention provides an OTG device for multi-directionally transmitting GPS data and a controlling method of the same. The OTG device is capable of automatically being switched as a master or slave devices based on a type of an external device connected thereto, thereby preventing a conflict between the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080263246 - System and method for balancing pci-express bandwidth: A system and method for balancing bus bandwidth across a plurality of PCI-Express (PCIe) endpoints are provided. Firmware automatically operates in concert with established data structures to set operational parameters of the PCIe endpoints so as to maximize usage of the available bandwidth of a front-side bus while minimizing isochronous... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080263247 - Gap count analysis for the p1394a bus: A method of optimizing communication over a high-speed serial bus by minimizing the delay between packets transmitted over the bus is disclosed. The method comprises: calculating the round trip delay between PHYs connected on the bus by pinging; a bus manager sending a configuration packet to all PHYs connected on... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20080263248 - Multi-drop extension for a communication protocol: In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having an upstream component including a plurality of virtual bridges to control communication with a corresponding plurality of endpoint components coupled downstream of the upstream component and a shared port. The apparatus may further include a first endpoint component coupled to... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080263249 - Access arbiter and arbitrable condition verification device: A priority control value, which is smaller as the priority of access by each of requesters is higher, decreases with the lapse of time when an access request is issued. When the access is completed, the priority control value increases by a priority decrease value (PERIOD). When there is no... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080263250 - Driver transparent message signaled interrupts: Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described to issue message signaled interrupts. In some disclosed embodiments, a device generates message signaled interrupts in a manner that enables a device driver written with level-sensitive semantics to properly service the device despite the edge-triggered characteristics message signaled interrupts.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263251 - Control device used for a computer motherboard on which a plurality of interface cards is inserted: A control device used for a computer motherboard on which a plurality of interface cards is inserted, is composed of an L-shape notch which is opened at a corner or a long strip of notch which is opened at a side edge, of a circuit motherboard positioned in an interior... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080263252 - Data communication system, portable electronic device, server device, data communication method, and data communication program: A data communication system including a portable electronic device, a server device and a cradle device for mediating transmission and reception of data between the portable electronic device and the server device.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263253 - Apparatus and method for a test and measurement instrument: The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple integrated circuits with each integrated circuit being connected to its own memory controller. At least one of the integrated circuits is a specialized integrated circuit, which may be a graphics processing unit, a digital signal processor, or a field-programmable... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080263254 - Method and system for adjusting bus frequency and link width on a bus: A computer system that includes a host bus connected between a processor and a Northbridge chipset. The Northbridge chipset monitors the host bus and adjusts the host bus frequency and bus link width according to monitored traffic conditions on the host bus.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080263255 - Apparatus, system, and method for adapter card failover: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for adapter card failover. A switch module connects a first processor complex to an adapter card through a first port as an owner processor complex. The owner processor complex manages the adapter card except for a second port and receives error messages from... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080263228 - Single-chip microcomputer: A single-chip microcomputer comprising: a first bus having a central processing unit and a cache memory connected therewith; a second bus having a dynamic memory access control circuit and an external bus interface connected therewith; a break controller for connecting the first bus and the second bus selectively; a third... Agent: Alan Loudermilk Loudermilk & Associates

20080263229 - Apparatus for providing a user interface, peripheral devices, computer means, methods of providing a user interface, and programs: There is provided an apparatus for providing a user interface comprising a peripheral device (1) for displaying a user interface, and computer means (2) connected to the peripheral device (1). The apparatus is configured to provide user-interface information to the peripheral device (1), and the peripheral device (1) is configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080263230 - Information processing apparatus, information transmission method, and control program therefor: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a plurality of image forming apparatuses, application information indicating a type of each application program installed on the plurality of image forming apparatuses, an application selection receiving unit configured to receive selection of an application program corresponding to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080263231 - Device and configuration method: A process for configuring a computing device to operate with a peripheral device having a configuration control and that is coupled to the computing device via a network, including: detecting activation of the configuration control at the peripheral device; receiving information associated with a user of the computing device at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263232 - Selective connection device allowing connection of at least one peripheral to a target computer and a selective control system comprising such a device: This device makes it possible to connect at least one computer peripheral selectively to a target computer among a plurality of target computers. The connections between the peripheral and the target computer are connections made physically unidirectional. In the case where information input peripherals and information output peripherals are to... Agent: Briggs And Morgan P.A.

20080263233 - Integrated circuit and memory device: A memory device comprises a first port receiving a first register value and a second register value; a second port, receiving a third value; a first register being set to the first register value; a second register having an enabled status and a disabled status, the register being set to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20080263234 - System and method for recognizing external device by portable terminal: Disclosed are a system, a method and device for recognizing an external device by a portable terminal. The external device determines whether the external device has recognized the portable terminal according to signals with a predetermined form, which have been output from the portable terminal regardless of the on/off state... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080263236 - Data transfer system: A data transfer system is provided, in which divided data generated by data generation terminals are randomly transmitted to data transfer apparatuses by a host terminal, a parameter list controlling the order of transfer of divided data is generated by a parameter list generation part, and a transfer processing part... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263235 - Device-to-device sharing of digital media assets: Apparatus, a method, or an electronic device may be provided. Media and a data structure encoded on the media are each provided, to hold one or more digital media assets (DMAs). One or more share tools may be provided, which are configured to provide at least a target device of... Agent: Prass LLP

20080263237 - Communication system and method, sending apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is a communication system, including: a sending apparatus configured to transmit a Digital Visual Interface signal wherein pixel data formed from color data including red data, green data and blue data are disposed successively for the individually same color data through a Digital Visual Interface cable; and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263238 - Multiple logical input/output subsystem facility: An input/output subsystem is configured as a plurality of input/output subsystem images, each of which appears to a program as an independent input/output subsystem. An input/output subsystem image is identified by an input/output subsystem image identifier, which is used by various programs to designate the particular input/output subsystem image for... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080263239 - Priority selection circuit: A circuit. The circuit includes a first selection module having first data input, second data input, first validation input, second validation input, selected data output, marker output, and presence output. A first validation signal received at the first validation input identifies whether or not a first data signal received at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263240 - Transfer apparatus, transfer system, program, and transfer method: Disclosed herein is a transfer apparatus including, a connection status detection block, a storage status detection block, a no-operation status detection block, and a transfer block.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263241 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes: a link controller which analyzes a packet received from a host-side data transfer control device through a serial bus; and an interface circuit which generates interface signals and outputs the generated interface signals to an interface bus. A packet transferred from the host-side data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080263242 - Usb flash media extender: A system and method for extending communications between a USB host and a flash media device. The system is capable of converting command block wrapper data to SCSI data and sending the converted data over a non-USB communications channel, such as a Category 5 cable. The system is further capable... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080263243 - Specialized universal serial bus controller: A universal serial bus controller pre-generates and stores a subset of USB commands in a memory, the pre-generated commands available for transmission to at least one USB peripheral device over universal serial bus, and transfers at least one command from the subset of pre-generated commands stored in the memory to... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger, LLP/cypress

20080263244 - Compression control device and method: The present invention provides a compression control device for controlling the compression of data transceived in a storage system constituted by a plurality of apparatuses which include a storage device. The compression control device decides a compression control method for at least one apparatus constituting the storage system based on... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263245 - Otg device for multi-directionally transmitting gps data and controlling method of same: The present invention provides an OTG device for multi-directionally transmitting GPS data and a controlling method of the same. The OTG device is capable of automatically being switched as a master or slave devices based on a type of an external device connected thereto, thereby preventing a conflict between the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080263246 - System and method for balancing pci-express bandwidth: A system and method for balancing bus bandwidth across a plurality of PCI-Express (PCIe) endpoints are provided. Firmware automatically operates in concert with established data structures to set operational parameters of the PCIe endpoints so as to maximize usage of the available bandwidth of a front-side bus while minimizing isochronous... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080263247 - Gap count analysis for the p1394a bus: A method of optimizing communication over a high-speed serial bus by minimizing the delay between packets transmitted over the bus is disclosed. The method comprises: calculating the round trip delay between PHYs connected on the bus by pinging; a bus manager sending a configuration packet to all PHYs connected on... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20080263248 - Multi-drop extension for a communication protocol: In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having an upstream component including a plurality of virtual bridges to control communication with a corresponding plurality of endpoint components coupled downstream of the upstream component and a shared port. The apparatus may further include a first endpoint component coupled to... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080263249 - Access arbiter and arbitrable condition verification device: A priority control value, which is smaller as the priority of access by each of requesters is higher, decreases with the lapse of time when an access request is issued. When the access is completed, the priority control value increases by a priority decrease value (PERIOD). When there is no... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080263250 - Driver transparent message signaled interrupts: Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described to issue message signaled interrupts. In some disclosed embodiments, a device generates message signaled interrupts in a manner that enables a device driver written with level-sensitive semantics to properly service the device despite the edge-triggered characteristics message signaled interrupts.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263251 - Control device used for a computer motherboard on which a plurality of interface cards is inserted: A control device used for a computer motherboard on which a plurality of interface cards is inserted, is composed of an L-shape notch which is opened at a corner or a long strip of notch which is opened at a side edge, of a circuit motherboard positioned in an interior... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080263252 - Data communication system, portable electronic device, server device, data communication method, and data communication program: A data communication system including a portable electronic device, a server device and a cradle device for mediating transmission and reception of data between the portable electronic device and the server device.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263253 - Apparatus and method for a test and measurement instrument: The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple integrated circuits with each integrated circuit being connected to its own memory controller. At least one of the integrated circuits is a specialized integrated circuit, which may be a graphics processing unit, a digital signal processor, or a field-programmable... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080263254 - Method and system for adjusting bus frequency and link width on a bus: A computer system that includes a host bus connected between a processor and a Northbridge chipset. The Northbridge chipset monitors the host bus and adjusts the host bus frequency and bus link width according to monitored traffic conditions on the host bus.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080263255 - Apparatus, system, and method for adapter card failover: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for adapter card failover. A switch module connects a first processor complex to an adapter card through a first port as an owner processor complex. The owner processor complex manages the adapter card except for a second port and receives error messages from... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080256264 - Data processing system, data processing method and program: In the host, an IP issues CCW, and a CH encodes the CCW and a CCW chain by the encode program to create a code including the description of controlling a conditional branch with the DKC and transmits the code to a PORT in the DKC. In the DKC, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080256265 - Display hard disk drive status on external display: A system with a visual display that provides an indication of a reliability of a hard disk drive of the system. The visual display may display the number of sector reallocations that have been performed by the disk drive. The display is coupled to a system housing so that a... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20080256266 - Computer system using remote i/o and i/o data transfer method: To improve throughput in data transfer in a remote I/O system, this invention provides a computer system including: a host computer; a device which communicates with the host computer; and a network which connects the host computer and the device, in which the device is coupled to the network via... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080256267 - High-speed data readable information processing device: A CAN module receives a message from a CAN bus to store the same in a message box unit of a message box. A reception request signal is output from the message box unit to a DMAC/IF. The DMAC/IF outputs a 7-bit encoded address together with a transfer request signal.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080256268 - System and method for testing and calibrating a control unit using an adaptation unit: A system and method for testing and calibrating a control unit including a microcontroller includes an influencing device and an adaptation unit. The adaptation unit includes a memory that can store at least part of a data of a data communication between the influencing device and the control unit. The... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080256269 - Path assignment method in consideration of i/o characteristics: A computer system includes a plurality of host computers, at least one storage system coupled to the plurality of host computers through a plurality of paths, and a management computer, in which each of the plurality of host computers executes at least one application program which issues an I/O to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080256270 - Quality of service based preemptive routing: Disclosed is a method of controlling communication between a plurality of devices having a plurality of routing paths between the plurality of devices. The method comprises measuring quality of communication between each of the plurality of devices and recording communication values representing the quality of communication with an associated repeating... Agent: Antony C. Edwards

20080256271 - Methods and apparatus for reducing storage usage in devices: Transmission buffer apparatus and methods configured to minimize the storage requirements for transmission/retransmission of data by allocating retransmission data to two or more types of storage. In one embodiment, RAM usage in a RAM-limited embedded device is minimized by storing only a reference or pointer to ROM- or Flash-sourced within... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20080256272 - Packet scheduling for data stream transmission: The invention relates to transmitting data elements of a data stream based on a priority and target buffer fill levels at a receiving device. A transmitter controller transmits data elements of a data element class with a highest priority first, for reaching an associated buffer fill level and then turns... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080256273 - Serial communication method and serial communication system: A host device continuously transmits a same command or a same piece of data to a remote device in serial format. The remote device receives the command or the data, and then determines whether the command or the data has an error. When the command or the data has no... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080256274 - Pipeline of additional storage elements to shift input/output data of combinational scan compression circuit: An electronic device includes a scan-based circuit that includes a combinational decompressor, a combinational compressor, scan chains, and logic which typically includes a number of storage elements. Cycle time normally needed to shift data into or out of a scan cell to/from an external interface of the electronic device is... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20080256275 - Multi-chip module with third dimension interconnect: A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a control processor, a plurality of processing units, a plurality of local memories from which... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080256276 - address translation device: An apparatus, system and method to facilitate I2C communication between a host device and a slave device where the slave device shares a common physical address with another slave device on the I2C bus. The apparatus includes a detection module to detect an incoming address on the I2C bus, a... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20080256277 - Processing apparatus and processing module: A processing apparatus has a master processing module and a plurality of slave processing modules. The master processing module has a master recording unit and a slave recording unit recording part of the data recorded in the master recording unit. The slave processing modules access the master processing module when... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080256278 - Method and system for bus arbitration: A method and system for bus arbitration to be used in a system having a plurality of data handling units (110a, . . . 110d) and a shared bus (140) with a plurality of data-lines. The invention provides a method and an system to carry out the method, having steps... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080256279 - Resource arbiter: An aspect of the present invention provides an arbiter which grants a request (to access a resource) in the same clock cycle as in which the requests from requesters is received. In one embodiment, such a feature may be provided in case of arbitration policies requiring state information from previous... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080256280 - Splitting one hardware interrupt to multiple handlers: A method and apparatus are provided for reducing latency associated with processing events of a hardware interrupt. Send and receive events share the same hardware interrupt. A receive handler and a separate send handler are provided to simultaneously process completion of a send event and a receive event. In addition,... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080256282 - Calibration of read/write memory access via advanced memory buffer: Methods and apparatuses to calibrate read/write memory accesses through data buses of different lengths via advanced memory buffers. One embodiment includes an advanced memory buffer (AMB) having: a plurality of ports to interface respectively with a plurality of data buses; a port to interface with a common clock bus for... Agent: Ivy Y. Mei

20080256281 - System and method for providing an adapter for re-use of legacy dimms in a fully buffered memory environment: A system and method for providing an adapter for re-use of legacy DIMMS in a fully buffered memory environment. The system includes a memory adapter card having two rows of contacts along a leading edge of a length of the card. The rows of contacts are adapted to be inserted... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080256283 - Multimedia expansion module and computer device using the same: A multimedia expansion module suitable to be assembled in a computer device is provided. The multimedia expansion module includes a first group of pins, a second group of pins, a third group of pins, a first pin area and a second pin area. The first group of pins supports the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080256285 - Image processing controller and image processing device: A first interface receives image information and an output destination address from a first external device. A second interface transmits image information to a second external device at a lower communication speed than the first interface. A communication path connects the first interface and the second interface to exchange data,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080256284 - Simulation circuit of pci express endpoint and downstream port for a pci express switch: Single hardware subsystems that present two software views that appear to be two separate hardware subsystems attached in a hierarchy are implemented with PCI-type arrangements. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a hardware arrangement is adapted to emulate two virtually separate hierarchical subsystems in a single hardware... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080250160 - Address identification systems: We describe a method, particularly useful for a ultra wideband (UWB) network, to enable a first device to determine whether a device address used by a second device is intended to identify said first device, in a network with a variable topology in which a device address may change, the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080250161 - Display apparatus, information processing apparatus capable of communicating with display apparatus, and methods of controlling same: A peripheral device acquires the processing load of a display apparatus to which the peripheral device is connected via an interface. In accordance with the processing load acquired, the peripheral device generates a data command for adjusting the load of processing for rendering display data. The display apparatus alters the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080250162 - Self-configuring communication networks for use with process control systems: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for configuring a communication network associated with a plurality of wireless enabled field devices. The disclosed methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture may compare identification information associated with a wireless enabled field device to configuration database information. Configuration information associated with... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080250163 - Electronic device and function performing method thereof: A device and method of performing functions with an external device, the function performing method including: performing a first function when an external device is connected to a connecting unit in a first position, and performing a second function, different from the first function, when the external device is connected... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080250164 - Recording multimedia data on removable storage device: An apparatus for recording multimedia data includes a removable storage device and a controller. The controller records multimedia data onto the removable storage device without modifying a file system of the removable storage device when the removable storage device having free space is attached and detected. Therefore, no data is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080250165 - Usb port access management: In one embodiment an electronic apparatus comprises a processor, an operating system, a basic input/output system, and logic to detect a connection of a device to a USB port, in response to the connection, generate a system management interrupt that causes the basic input/output system to assume control of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080250166 - Medical device status information system: In general, the invention is directed to management of status information from a plurality of external medical devices, such as AEDs. A system may include one or more medical devices associated with one or more docking stations. The medical devices and docking stations may communicate with one another and with... Agent: Mary Y. Redman Medtronic, Inc.

20080250167 - Input/output device for memory card and control method therefor: The input/output device for a memory card is configured to include: a driver circuit 24 for outputting to a memory card 3 a data signal having been input from a host controller 1; a driver circuit 25 for outputting to the host controller 1 a data signal having been input... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080250168 - Method and apparatus for implementing heterogeneous interconnects: Some embodiments of the invention include an address interconnect and a data interconnect to transfer data among a number of devices. The data interconnect is configured to transfer data among the devices via multiple transfer paths. A transfer of data on one transfer path is independent from a transfer of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080250169 - Real-time notification of device events: Real-time notification is provided of an event which has occurred in a computer-related device. Upon the occurrence of an event, a record of the event is stored in a buffer, such as a Really Simple Syndication buffer, associated with the device. The buffer is updated based on indications and other... Agent: Law Firm Of Dan Shifrin

20080250170 - Clock mode detection in an adaptive two-wire bus: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080250171 - Hybrid power relay using communications link: A control circuit for controlling an arc suppression circuit includes a serial communication link communicating a serial signal therethrough. The control circuit includes a microprocessor having a serial input communicating with the serial communication link. The microprocessor generates a control output signal in response to the serial signal. The control... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080250173 - Communication adapter and data transfer method of communication adapter: A communication adapter comprises a host controller to interact with a connected device that is USB connected to the communication adapter, a wireless communication unit which communicates with an external wireless communication apparatus, and which has an endpoint configuration that corresponds one-to-one to an endpoint configuration of the connected device,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080250172 - Information processing system, information processing terminal and host device: An information processing system includes a host device transmitting an order according to a USB standard and an information processing terminal responding to the order. The information processing terminal includes a storing unit, a first operation unit, a receiver, an operation-mode switch, a first processor, and a first outputting unit.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080250174 - Flashtoaster for reading several types of flash-memory cards, with or without a pc: A flash-memory-card reader reads and writes multiple types of flash-memory cards, including CompactFlash, and the smaller SmartMedia, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital, and Memory Stick. A converter chip converts the different card signals for transfer to a host personal computer (PC). Serial-to-parallel data conversion is performed for the smaller card formats with... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (onspec/tpl)

20080250175 - Cable assembly having an adaptive two-wire bus: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080250176 - Enhancing performance of sata disk drives in sas domains: Methods and apparatus to enhance performance of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk drives in Serial-Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) domains are described. In one embodiment, a data packets and/or commands communicated in accordance with SAS protocol may be converted into SATA protocol. Other embodiments are also described.... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080250177 - Memory device including connector for independently interfacing host and memory devices: A memory device including a connector for independently interfacing a host and memory devices using a multimedia card (MMC) protocol is provided. The memory device includes an internal bus and a connector. The internal bus is configured to receive a command or data from the host via a plurality of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080250178 - Load distribution in storage area networks: A load balancing method and system for identifying an input/output (I/O) network path from a set off I/O network paths is provided by the invention. The set off I/O network paths connect a host system via a network to a storage subsystem. The host system comprises at least one host... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080250179 - Discrete computer processor system and peripherals system: A discrete, self-contained computer processing system includes a housing, a motherboard carried by the housing, a central processing unit operatively connected to the motherboard, a volatile memory operatively connected to the motherboard, and one or more connectors operatively connected to the motherboard to selectively operatively connect a peripheral device to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080250180 - Usb peripheral device with dynamic modification class and operation method of the same: A USB peripheral device with dynamic modification class is connected to a basic system of processor through a USB transmission interface. The USB peripheral device contains a card connection unit and a USB microprocessor. By judging whether the card connection unit is inserted with a card device, the USB microprocessor... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080250181 - Server: The present invention relates to the field of communications, in particular, to a server for solving the problem related to the incompatibility between normal blades and multi-processing blades in a conventional server. The server according to an embodiment of the invention includes a backboard, on which backboard wiring and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080250182 - Sip (system in package) design systems and methods: SiP design systems and methods. The system comprises a system partitioning module, a subsystem integration module, a physical design module, and an analysis module. The system partitioning module partitions a target system into subsystem partitions according to partition criteria. The subsystem integration module generates an architecture design and/or a cost... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley LLP

20080250183 - Stream under-run/over-run recovery: Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described to recover from stream under-run and/or over-run conditions. In some embodiments, an audio controller may discard any partial sample block of the stream.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080250184 - Adaptive two-wire bus: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080250185 - Triple voting cell processors for single event upset protection: In a system for operating three address concentrating processors, a common clock signal is transmitted to each of the three address concentrating processors. A common data unit is transmitted simultaneously to each of the three address concentrating processors. A received data unit is received simultaneously from each of the three... Agent: Robert R. Williams IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20080250186 - Bus connecting device for connecting host with external device: A detecting unit detects a connection of an external device to a connection port and stores the connection in a bridge state storage unit. This setting is autonomously completed by a device before an initial configuration is started by a host. A data transfer unit receives initial configuration data of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080250187 - Data processing system and data processor: One data processor is provided with an interface for realizing connection with the other data processor. This interface is provided with a function for connecting the other data processor as a bus master to an internal bus of the one data processor, and the relevant other data processor is capable... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080244096 - Diskless client using a hypervisor: An arrangement for facilitating remote booting in diskless client systems as just described. To this end, there is broadly contemplated herein the employment of a hypervisor that can freely accommodate a variety of booting arrangements for a given OS. This then ensures that few if any modifications, especially costly ones,... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080244097 - Method and apparatus to speed transmission of cec commands: A method and structure for establishing faster transmission of Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) commands between first and second HDMI-compatible devices. The first and second devices may transmit CEC commands via a shared alternate interface, a signaling path distinct from a standard HDMI CEC interface between the first and second devices.... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080244098 - Storage system: A controller transmits a second protocol command to a target from among one or more switch devices. The second protocol command is a command which conforms to a second protocol type in which a connection established for transmitting a command to the target is broken during processing of the command... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080244099 - Data transfer control system: Process steps from the step of judging whether or not data transfer at a target has been completed to the step of transferring status information to a host are automated. When an error is generated, the generation of the error is notified to an external control unit and the external... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080244101 - Apparatus, system, and method for performing storage device maintenance: An apparatus and system are disclosed for performing a storage device maintenance operation. A management module receives a command through an interconnection module configured as a non-blocking switch. The management module performs a maintenance operation on a storage device through the interconnection module in response to the command. In addition,... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080244100 - Methods and structures for testing sas transceiver training options in sas-2 training windows: Method and structures provide for testing a SAS link in association with participating in training windows to determine success/failure in using a negotiated speed using one or more configured sets of transceiver training options. For each device linked to a master SAS device, each possible set of transceiver training options... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080244102 - Identifier assigning device, identifier assigninig system and computer readable medium: An identifier assigning device includes an accepting section, a releasing section and an assigning section. The accepting section accepts a request from a first equipment for assigning an identifier of a first type to the first equipment. The first equipment is configured to communicate using an identifier of the first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080244103 - System and method for virtual router enabled electronic documents: A system and method provide for producing and/or implementing a virtual device enabled electronic document. The electronic document includes documentary information and one or more virtual device initiators corresponding to the same or different target devices, or further, to device systems. At least a portion of the documentary information and... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080244104 - Building automation system field devices and adapters: A field device for use in a communicating with a building automation system field controller via a field cable is disclosed. The field device includes an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes communications circuitry and sensing circuitry. The integrated circuit is configured to convert a first signal from the sensing... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080244105 - Enhancing performance of input-output (i/o) components: A computing platform may comprise a flash memory that may operate as a cache to the transactions targeting the hard disk. The flash memory may increase the speed of fulfilling the transactions (or reduce the latency) and may consume lesser power compared to the hard disk fulfilling the transactions. The... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244106 - Portable storage medium: A portable storage medium is provided with a connection unit which is connectable to an external device and enables data communication between the portable storage medium and the external device connected to the connection unit, a data storage unit which stores data received from the external device via the connection... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080244107 - Multifunction peripheral and device control system: A multifunction device has a plurality of functions, including at least a data storage function and a function different from the data storage function, and capable of being connected to a computer via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, the multifunction device including: a device data outputting unit that outputs... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080244108 - Per-port universal serial bus disable: A device and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a register to store a universal serial bus (USB) port disable bit for an individual USB port. The device also includes a USB individual port disable unit that is capable of reading the USB port disable bit and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244109 - Apparatus, method, and system for controlling communication between host device and usb device: An apparatus, a method, and a system for controlling communications between a host device and a USB device. The apparatus includes a controller to perform an operation for communication between a first device and a second device, and a first processor to selectively stop the operation of the controller according... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080244112 - Handling dma requests in a virtual memory environment: An apparatus includes a virtual memory manager that moves data from a first block to second block in memory. When the virtual memory manager is ready to transfer data from the first block to the second block, a third, temporary block of memory is defined. The translation table in a... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080244111 - Information processing terminal, data transfer method, and program: There is provided an information processing terminal that is provided with an IC chip that is capable of non-contact communication with a reader/writer. The information processing terminal includes a first storage portion, a second storage portion, and a data transfer portion. The first storage portion is provided within the IC... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080244110 - Processing wireless and broadband signals using resource sharing: Methods and structures are described for processing signals formatted according to a plurality of different wireless and broadband standards. In some embodiments, network resources are shared to enable energy efficient, pseudo-simultaneous processing. In some embodiments, a timestamp is prepended to input data to remove jitter associated with time division multiplexed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080244113 - Method for using a memory device with a built-in memory array and a connector for a removable memory device: A method for using a memory device with a built-in memory array and a connector for a removable memory device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a determination is made regarding whether a removable memory device comprises a memory controller. If the removable memory device does not comprise a memory controller,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080244114 - Runtime integrity chain verification: A runtime integrity check may be implemented for a chain or execution path. When the chain or execution path calls other functions, the correctness of an entity called from the execution path is verified. As a result, attacks by malicious software that attempt to circumvent interrupt handlers can be combated.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244115 - Processing wireless and broadband signals using resource sharing: Methods and structures are described for processing signals formatted according to a plurality of different wireless and broadband standards. In some embodiments, network resources are shared to enable energy efficient, pseudo-simultaneous processing. In some embodiments, a timestamp is prepended to input data to remove jitter associated with time division multiplexed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080244116 - System and method to manage movement of assets: An embodiment of a system to manage movement of at least one asset is provided. The system includes at least one tracking element operable to generate a signal representative of a location of the asset, and a controller in communication with the tracking element. The controller includes computer readable program... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080244117 - Method and system for data metering: A method and system for tracking the type and amount of data processed by a computer system. In one embodiment, a logging system tracks data processed by a conversion system so that differential billing of customers can be performed based on the type of data and the quality of service... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080244118 - Method and apparatus for sharing buffers: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product are provided for managing a plurality of buffers in a data processing system. A requester component requests a free buffer of a certain size. A buffer agent determines whether a set of free buffers, whose combined size is equal to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080244119 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits/receives data to and from an external device; a detection unit that detects communication connection with the external device by the communication unit; an operation input unit that accepts an operation input; a command allocation unit that, when the detection unit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080244120 - Multi-protocol serial interface apparatus and system-on-chip apparatus including the same: A multi-protocol serial interface (MPSI) apparatus can include a controller circuit that is configured to receive information about a type of MPSI utilized for data transfer and that is configured to control a format of the data transfer and input/output timing associated with the data transfer. A data generation and... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080244121 - Method and apparatus for memory compression: Memory apparatus and methods relating to memory compression are disclosed. In an embodiment, a memory agent may comprise a compression engine to compress or decompress data in the agent without sending the data on the host memory channel. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244122 - Providing keyboard, video, mouse switching via software: A keyboard, video, mouse switch may be implemented by software. An agent in a sequestered partition may handle routing of input and output requests for handling by a remote, common, keyboard, video, or mouse used for a plurality of servers.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244123 - Storage medium: A storage medium connectable with an external device includes a data communication unit performing data communication with the external device, a data storing unit storing therein data received from and/or to be sent to the external device via the data communication unit, a first device information output unit sending first... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080244124 - Bus system for use with information processing apparatus: A processor bus linked with at least a processor, a memory bus linked with a main memory, and a system bus linked with at least an input/output device are connected to a three-way connection control system. The control system includes a bus-memory connection controller connected to address buses and control... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080244126 - Method and apparatus for chaining multiple independent hardware acceleration operations: Multiple hardware accelerators can be used to efficiently perform processes that would otherwise be performed by general purpose hardware running software. The software overhead and bus bandwidth associated with running multiple hardware acceleration processes can be reduced by chaining multiple independent hardware acceleration operations within a circuit card assembly. Multiple... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080244125 - Method and apparatus for non-disruptively unassigning an active address in a fabric: A non-disruptive unassignment of an address from a fabric responsive to a request from a channel adapter. A logout command requests the fabric to unassign an address. The status of the address is thereby changed from active to unassigned and an acknowledgment sent back to the channel adapter.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080244127 - Computer interface controller for portable plug-and-play peripherals: a virtual optical disc drive controller to announce a virtual optical disc drive to the computer so to enable the driver program memory to function as a virtual optical disc drive in relation to the computer, whereby the driver programs provided in the driver program memory may be provided to... Agent: Venable LLP

20080244128 - Dynamic run-time configuration information provision and retrieval: A system employing a storage device and a host for configuration information exchange between the host and the storage device. In operation, the host manages host configuration information in a data management layer of a communication model, and communicates the host configuration information to the storage device by one or... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20080244129 - Master device of two-wire bus providing release function for clock line and method thereof: Disclosed is a master device which is capable of communicating with a salve device via a two-wire bus having a clock line and a data line. The master device includes a data port, a clock port and an output port. The output port is also coupled to the clock line.... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080244130 - Flow lookahead in an ordered semaphore management subsystem: In an ordered semaphore management system a pending state allows threads not competing for a locked semaphore to bypass one or more threads waiting for the same locked semaphore. The number of pending levels determines the number of consecutive threads vying for the same locked semaphore which can be bypassed.... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080244131 - Architecture for configurable bus arbitration in multibus systems with customizable master and slave circuits: An integrated multibus system includes a first and second master devices coupled to first and second master busses. A slave device is coupled to the first and second master busses through a first multiplexer, a first address decoder coupled to the first master bus having an output associated with the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20080244132 - Data transmission methods: Data transmission systems and methods. The data transmission system comprises a bus, a slave, a master, and a master interface. The master transmits a request comprising transfer information comprising a start address and a length. The master interface receives the request from the master. The master interface determines a burst... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080244133 - Data processing apparatus and method for arbitrating access to a shared resource: A data processing apparatus and method are providing for arbitrating access to a shared resource. The data processing apparatus has a plurality of logic elements sharing access to the shared resource, and arbitration circuitry which is responsive to requests by one or more of the logic elements for access to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080244134 - Multiprocessor system and method for processing memory access: When receiving a write message, an input/output controller issues a write request message to a home processor node that holds the corresponding data in a memory. A memory controller of the processor node having received the write request message performs a consistency processing based on the status of the corresponding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080244135 - Memory controller and method for controlling access to a memory, as well as system comprising a memory controller: In the method for controlling access of a plurality of requestors to a shared memory, the following steps are repeated for successive time-windows: receiving access requests from various requestors (S1), determining a type of access requested by the requests, comparing the requested access type with an access type authorized for... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080244136 - Integrated circuit and method for transaction abortion: An integrated circuit having a plurality of processing modules (M, S) and an interconnect means (N) for coupling said plurality of processing modules (M, S) and for enabling a device-level communication based on transactions between said plurality of processing modules (M, S) is provided. At least one first processing module... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080244137 - Processor comprising a first and a second mode of operation and method of operating the same: A processor comprises a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. A state of the processor in the first mode of operation comprises a first plurality of variables. The first plurality of variables comprises a return address. A state of the processor in the second mode of... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080244138 - Microcomputer: A microcomputer includes a plurality of processing circuits for executing a plurality of interrupt processes each corresponding to one of a first plurality of causes) a cause register circuit for representing whether each of the first plurality of causes has been solved or unsolved, a processing circuit selection register for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080244139 - Disk array subsystem and control method thereof: This disk array subsystem includes a data input/output unit for inputting and outputting data in and from the network, a connecting unit for connecting the data input/output unit and a plurality of storage apparatuses, and a control unit for controlling the input and output of data in and from the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080244140 - Extender strip and test assembly for testing memory card operation: A semiconductor device is disclosed including die bond pads which are heightened to allow wire bonding of offset stacked die even in tight offset configurations. After a first die is affixed to a substrate, one or more layers of an electrical conductor may be provided on some or all of... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080244141 - High bandwidth cable extensions: An adapter has a first interface shaped and configured for removable mechanical and electrical attachment to a PCIe-based computer system and a second interface shaped and configured for removable mechanical and electrical attachment to a PCIe-based peripheral device. The adapter includes a network between and electrically connecting the interfaces in... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244142 - Slot device: A slot device has a slot, a determining circuit, and a warning device. The slot is used to install an expansion card. The determining circuit is coupled to the slot and is used to determine whether the expansion card is completely installed to the slot. The warning device is coupled... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080244143 - Method of testing memory card operation: A semiconductor device is disclosed including die bond pads which are heightened to allow wire bonding of offset stacked die even in tight offset configurations. After a first die is affixed to a substrate, one or more layers of an electrical conductor may be provided on some or all of... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080244144 - Hand-held remote control for electronic entertainment appliance: A hand-held remote control includes an emitter for emitting a control signal recognizable by an entertainment appliance. The housing of the remote control includes a longitudinally-extending recess for receiving a portable media player. A first interface device within the recess communicates with a second interface device of the portable media... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080244145 - Data storage docking system: A docking system for interfacing with a host computing device and for receiving a plurality of data storage components including a non-tape data storage media and an electrical contact. The docking system includes a primary station and an auxiliary station. The primary station includes an electrical connection device configured to... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20080244146 - Aggregation of error messaging in multifunction pci express devices: A method of aggregating events in a PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) multifunction device minimizes reported error messages, where several functions share a common PCIe interface logic. A predetermined number of function entities with logical gates, connected in daisy chain configuration, process incoming information, and a decision is made whether... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080244147 - Device recognition circuit and the method of recognition: A device recognition circuit for initiating a computer system includes an adapter module and a control module. The adapter module is capable of connecting a peripheral interface card the adapter module having I/O ports, the I/O ports carry present signals generated by the adapter module. The control module having general... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080244149 - Multiple module computer system and method: A computer system for multi-processing purposes. The computer system has a console comprising a first coupling site and a second coupling site. Each coupling site comprises a connector. The console is an enclosure that is capable of housing each coupling site. The system also has a plurality of computer modules,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080244148 - Voip enabled femtocell with a usb transceiver station: Telephone calls between a mobile station (MS) and the mobile network or PSTN are routed through the Internet via VoIP using a femtocell, as opposed to the traditional macrocellular network. The femtocell can comprise a USB Transceiver Station that is connected to a personal computer through a universal serial bus... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080244150 - Processor chip arcitecture having integrated high-speed packet switched serial interface: A computing and communication chip architecture is provided wherein the interfaces of processor access to the memory chips are implemented as a high-speed packet switched serial interface as part of each chip. In one embodiment, the interface is accomplished through a gigabit Ethernet interface provided by protocol processor integrated as... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.