Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 11/08

20080294799 - High throughput pipelined data path: Methods and apparatus to provide a high throughput pipelined data path are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include three stages to process inbound data packets, e.g., to align one or more bits of data. Other embodiments are also described.... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080294800 - Communicating graphics data via an out of band channel: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for providing a command from a keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) system of a first system to a graphics card of the first system via an existing system interface, sampling data from a frame buffer of the graphics card and providing... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080294801 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device includes a PATA I/F connected to a PATA bus, an SATA I/F connected to an SATA bus, and a sequence controller that controls a transfer sequence. The PATA I/F includes a task file register (TFR). The sequence controller suspends transmission of a register FIS corresponding... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080294802 - Stream processing device and storage device: The invention provides a stream data control module which can easily achieve a function expansion of a digital device and can simply, safely and inexpensively realize the recording and reproducing of stream data for a storage device. A stream data control module includes a stream I/F unit exclusively inputting and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080294803 - Method and system for full-duplex mesochronous communications and corresponding computer program product: Data transport is provided in a communication network such as a Network-on-Chip arrangement via full-duplex mesochronous links between routers. Request signals and response signals are exchanged between these routers acting alternatively as an initiator and a target operating in respective clock domains at opposite ends of respective full-duplex mesochronous links.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080294804 - Information transceiver, method and storage medium: An information transceiver including a storage unit storing usage information transferred from a provider device, an information transferring unit transferring the usage information to a user device when a usage start request is received in a state of being connected to the user device, an information monitoring unit performing processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080294805 - Method of acquiring status information of i/o units: A method of acquiring status information of I/O units connected to a numerical controller capable of transmitting status information indicative of particulars of an abnormality occurred in any of the I/O units with less influence on an amount of transmittable information of input/output data. When an abnormality has occurred in... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080294807 - Method and apparatus for invalidating cache lines during direct memory access (dma) write operations: A method and apparatus for invalidating cache lines during direct memory access (DMA) write operations are disclosed. Initially, a multi-cache line DMA request is issued by a peripheral device. The multi-cache line DMA request is snooped by a cache memory. A determination is then made as to whether or not... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080294806 - Programmable system-on-chip hub: A Programmable System on a Chip Hub (PHUB) is configured to enable master processing elements within the PHUB to simultaneously access peripherals on different busses. The master processing elements include a Central Processing Unit (CPU) interface configured to decode addresses received from a CPU and configure the PHUB to connect... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger, LLP/cypress

20080294808 - Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer system: In a virtualized computer system in which a guest operating system runs on a virtual machine of a virtualized computer system, a computer-implemented method of providing the guest operating system with direct access to a hardware device coupled to the virtualized computer system via a communication interface, the method including:... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080294809 - Central processing apparatus: A server apparatus controls an FC card α so as to access a disk array apparatus A. The FC card α obtains response information sent from the disk array apparatus A in accordance with the present access. If the response information is a predefined specific access error in this event,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080294810 - Response control method and device: When a device in a WUSB system is ready for transmission data upon reception of a data transmission request (WdtCTA) from a host device, the device outputs the transmission data at a time specified by the WdtCTA. Meanwhile, when the transmission data is not ready, the device estimates a preparation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080294811 - System and method for mirroring power over ethernet registers in a physical layer device over a single isolation boundary: A system and method for mirroring power over Ethernet (PoE) registers in physical layer devices (PHYs) over a single isolation boundary. PHYs in a PoE system can be arranged in a master/slave configuration. In this configuration, a master PHY can be designed to communicate with the power source equipment controllers... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080294812 - Data transmission method and data transmission system: A terminal of a plurality of terminals that is located at the farthest position from a host has a return signal generator section, the return signal generator section transmits a return signal at a timing when data transmitted from the host to the terminals arrives at the terminal located at... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080294814 - Flash memory system with management of housekeeping operations: A flash re-programmable, non-volatile memory system is operated to disable foreground execution of housekeeping operations, such as wear leveling and data scrub, in the when operation of the host would be excessively slowed as a result. One or more characteristics of patterns of activity of the host are monitored by... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20080294813 - Managing housekeeping operations in flash memory: A flash re-programmable, non-volatile memory system is operated to disable foreground execution of housekeeping operations, such as wear leveling and data scrub, in the when operation of the host would be excessively slowed as a result. One or more characteristics of patterns of activity of the host are monitored by... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20080294815 - System and method for transmitting bidirectional signals over a cable antenna: A method and system for data wireless systems on computers, for using the same cable to bi-directionally transmit antenna signals as well as other signals to and from the inside of a shielded computer housing. An example of a control signal is a connect signal for establishing initial contact between... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294816 - Image processing apparatus for reading compressed data from and writing to memory via data bus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a data bus provided to access a memory, a compressing unit which compresses an image data and outputs a compressed image data, a write unit which writes the compressed image data into the memory via the data bus, a read unit which reads a compressed... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080294817 - Data transmitting apparatus: Interface circuits are tested flexibly. Interface circuits 11a to 11d are coupled over a bus to a CPU 13 to receive data from or output data to each of external terminals of an external terminal set associated with each of the interface circuits. An interface test circuit 20 is coupled... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080294818 - Semiconductor chip: In a chip, a transfer unit is provided between a physical layer processing unit and a link unit so that multiple lanes of data processed by the physical layer processing unit are transferred to the link unit. The transfer unit includes: multiple transfer unit input terminals inputting the multiple lanes... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080294820 - Latency dependent data bus transmission: In a system 1 where data is transmitted from a source device (2, 4, 6, 8) to a destination device (2, 4, 6, 8) via one or more buses 10, transmission mode selecting circuitry (15, 20) is provided to select one of a first transmission mode and a second transmission... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080294819 - Simplify server replacement: There is provided techniques for automating attachment of a server to a storage area network (SAN). In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided which includes storing identifiers in a memory associated with an enclosure adapted to house one or more servers. The identifiers are correlated to a particular... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080294822 - Dynamically changing pci clocks: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium are presented for dynamically selecting a clock signal used by a peripheral device that is coupled to a motherboard. When the motherboard is powered off, a clock selector sends the peripheral device an internal clock signal from the peripheral device's own internal clock controller.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080294821 - Series-connected control system: A control system includes a host device and a string of slave devices coupled in series. The host device includes a first transmission unit operable to transmit an encoded control signal provided by a first processing module, and to receive an encoded feedback signal for subsequent decoding by the first... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080294823 - Creating a checkpoint for a software partition in an asynchronous input/output environment: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for creating a checkpoint for a software partition. A checkpoint request is received for creating the checkpoint for the software partition. Each process in a set of processes in the software partition is frozen to form a set of frozen processes.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294824 - Device information management systems and methods: Device information management systems and methods for use in a computer system are provided. The system comprises an application device, a south bridge chip, a memory and an arbitrator. The application device and the south bridge chip couple to the arbitrator, and couple to the memory via the arbitrator. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080294825 - Handling interrupts when virtual machines have direct access to a hardware device: In virtualized computer system in which a guest operating system runs on a virtual machine of a virtualized computer system and has direct access to a hardware device coupled to the virtualized computer system via a communication interface, a computer-implemented method of handling interrupts from the hardware device to the... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080294826 - Apparatus and method to control access to stored information: A method is disclosed to control access to stored information. The method supplies a control unit in communication with a computing device and in communication with stored information. If the computing device requests access to that stored information, the method determines if access to the stored information is available. When... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080294827 - Slot interface access device and slot interface access method: A slot interface access device including a slot management module; a slot control module; and a physical slot to management slot contrast table, the slot management module, the slot control module, and the physical slot to management slot contrast table being provided between an input and output control module and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080294828 - Slot interface access device, slot interface access method, and program therefor: A slot interface access device including a slot management module; a slot control module; and a physical slot to management slot contrast table, the slot management module, the slot control module, and the physical slot to management slot contrast table being provided between an input and output control module and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080294829 - Method and system of supporting multi-plugging in x8 and x16 pci express slots: A card having a first device and a second device is plugged into a root port having a predefined root port width. The first device is trained and the device lane width is determined. If the root port width is greater than the device lane width then the root port... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080294830 - Docking an information handling system: A first docking interface includes a substrate. A first power receiver is formed in the substrate. The first power receiver is operable to be automatically docked to a power provider, such as a burn rack, and to receive power from the power provider. A first power transmitter formed in the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080294831 - Method for link bandwidth management: A method for link bandwidth management between two devices in communication through a bus in a computer system. Whether a change condition of the bus having a link is activated is monitored. Change a bandwidth of the bus from a first bandwidth with a first width and a first speed... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080294832 - I/o forwarding technique for multi-interrupt capable devices: The method, apparatus and system of an I/O forwarding technique for multi-interrupt capable I/O devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of transferring an I/O request in a cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (ccNUMA) computer system including multiple cells (e.g., each cell may include multiple processors) that are connected via... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080294833 - Method and apparatus for automatic detection and healing of signal pair crossover on a high performance serial bus: An automatic crossover and healing process is disclosed for the P1394b standard. In particular, a crossover process is disclosed which comprises coupling the transmitting logic of a PHY to TPA, and coupling the receive logic of a PHY to TPB.... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20080288660 - Serial port initialization in storage system controllers: A boot menu is provided for manual setting of serial port parameters. A serial console mode menu allows an operator to set serial port parameter values. After the user selects the serial port parameters, when the controller continues with the boot process, the serial port is initialized with the newly... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080288661 - Method and system to map virtual i/o devices and resources to a standard i/o bus: A method and system to map virtual I/O devices and resources to a standard I/O bus is provided. The system, in one example embodiment, comprises a virtual device detector, a resource allocator, and an activation module. The virtual device detector may be configured to detect an indication of a virtual... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080288662 - Identification address configuration circuit and method without use of dedicated address pins: An identification address of a sensor interface device is configured in response to the order of connection of first (DXP1) and second (DXN1) package pins to electrodes of a sensor (Q0). A sensor signal processing circuit (23) has first and second inputs coupled through the first and second pins to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080288663 - Method and system for handling errors: In accordance with a specific aspect of the present disclosure, a compressed video stream, such as an MPEG-2 video stream, is received by a transport demultiplexor, synchronized, parsed into separate packet types, and written to buffer locations external the demultiplexor. In addition, primary elementary stream data can be handled by... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080288664 - Switching apparatus and method for link initialization in a shared i/o environment: An apparatus and method are provided that enable I/O devices to be shared among multiple operating system domains. The apparatus has a first plurality of I/O ports, a second I/O port, and link training logic. The first plurality of I/O ports is coupled to a plurality of operating system domains... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080288665 - Service access method and apparatus: The invention may be embodied as a method of selecting a service and inputting information to that service. In one such method, an input device having keys is provided. When such a key is pressed and released quickly, the user indicates a desire to enter a symbol on the key... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080288666 - Embedded system development platform: A modular development platform is described which enables creation of reliable, compact, physically robust and power efficient embedded device prototypes. The platform consists of a base module which holds the processor and one or more peripheral modules each having a peripheral device and an interface element. The modules can be... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080288667 - Numerical controller with function to add display screens: A numerical controller having a function to add display screens. The numerical controller comprises a display unit, a memory device stored with a display software which causes the display unit to display a standard display screen, and a detachable external memory device stored with additional display screen data to be... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080288668 - Communication method: The disclosure relates to a method and system for communication between modular devices for measurement, closed-loop and open-loop control. It is proposed that the communication-carrying bus physics and the USB protocol be used for data transmission between modules.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080288669 - Memory card adapter and method for storing data on memory card: An adapter for storing data includes a male connector, a first slot, a second slot, a switch circuit, and a controller. The male connector is used for connecting to an electronic device. The first slot is used for connecting a first memory card. The second slot is used for connecting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080288670 - Use of virtual targets for preparing and servicing requests for server-free data transfer operations: A system and method are disclosed for utilizing virtual targets and abstract copy orders in preparing and servicing requests for server-free data transfer operations in a data storage network. The abstract copy orders represent data transfers between virtual targets and real devices. They allow source target copy orders to be... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20080288671 - Virtualization by multipath management software for a plurality of storage volumes: A path management method for a computer system which includes first and second storage controllers and a host computer, the first controller providing a first volume to the host computer, the second controller providing a second volume to the host computer, the host computer including one or more task application... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080288672 - Information processing system, information terminal and server apparatus: An information processing system includes an information terminal, and a server apparatus connected with the information terminal in a data communicable manner. The server apparatus includes a screen data generation unit configured to generate screen data of a screen to be displayed on an operation screen of the information terminal... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080288673 - System-on-chip apparatus with time shareable memory and method for operating such an apparatus: The invention relates to a system-on-chip apparatus (1), comprising at least two electronic components (2, 3) serving for special purpose functions and a system bus (7) and at least one random access memory (9) that is integrated into the first electronic component (2), located in common on one substrate (8),... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080288675 - Host device, information processor, electronic apparatus, program, and method for controlling reading: A host device for controlling a storage device controller to access a storage device includes: a command issue controller controlling an issue of a command for allowing the storage device controller to access the storage device; a response detector for detecting a reception of a response from the storage device... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080288674 - Storage system and storage device: A storage system includes: a plurality of data input and output parts through; a data storing part that stores the data inputted and outputted through the plurality of data input and output parts; a range information storing part that stores range information; first control part controlling the data storing part... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080288676 - Dual port usb interface: A dual port interface is disclosed comprising a host port and a peripheral port. The host port and the peripheral port are defined using predetermined signals. In a preferred embodiment the dual port interface is used in a network comprising one or more dual port USB (DPUSB) connections. By use... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080288677 - Kvm switch system with a simplified external controller: A KVM switch system with external control functionality is described. A KVM switch is able to be controlled from an external device. The external device can either include a single button dedicated to controlling the desktop KVM switch or indicate a state of the KVM switch. The external device can... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080288678 - Storage system: Data transfer is performed to and from a host computer using a first block as the minimum unit. Data transfer is performed to and from a storage area using a second block as the minimum unit. A second block set of the storage area stores data obtained from performing data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080288679 - Resetting a hypertransport link in a blade server: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for resetting a HyperTransport link in a blade server, including reassigning, by a blade management module, a gate signal from enabling a transceiver to signaling a HyperTransport link reset; sending, by the blade management module to a reset sync module on an... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080288680 - Communication arrangement: The disclosure relates to an arrangement and method for communication between modular devices for measurement, closed-loop and open-loop control which are connected to one another via a backplane. It is proposed that two modules of the device in each case be connected to one another via a serial point-to-point connection.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080288682 - Database contention and deadlock detection and reduction within application servers: A method in a data processing system for detecting and reducing database contention and deadlock caused from within an application server. A determination is made as to whether a set of parameters in a statistical model indicates contention. If the set of parameters in the statistical model indicates contention, an... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080288681 - Devices with multiple functions, and methods for switching functions thereof: Devices with multiple functions and methods for switching functions thereof are provided. The device comprises a plurality of hardware components, a plurality of functional modules, an input device, and a processing module. Each functional module corresponds to one of the functional connecting configurations for the hardware components. The processing module... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080288683 - Method and system for managing a plurality of i/o interfaces with an array of multicore processor resources in a semiconductor chip: The present invention relates to a method and system for managing I/O interfaces with an array of multicore processor resources in a semiconductor chip. The I/O interfaces are connected to the processor resources through an I/O shim. An I/O interface sends a dataframe to the I/O shim. The I/O interface... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20080288684 - Design structure for an address translation device: An design structure 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 design structure includes an apparatus, which includes a detection module to detect an incoming address on the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080288685 - Shared simultaneously-connected drives: Local drive presence is provided for local and remote drives by maintaining a plurality of uninterrupted protocol connections between a plurality of I/O controllers and a plurality of device interfaces through which peripheral bus commands are transmitted. Preferably, the I/O controllers are each housed in a separate server blade and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080288688 - Bus system and method of arbitrating the same: A bus system, which may prevent data from being incorrectly transferred when an early termination occurs during a burst mode, may include a bus, for example, an advanced high-performance bus (AHB), at least one bus master device, a bus arbiter and at least one transfer mode selection circuit. The at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080288687 - Information processing device and processor: A semiconductor device including: a first slave device; a first master device outputting a first request control signal and a first access address signal; a second master device outputting a second request control signal and a second access address signal; a system bus connected to the first slave device, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080288686 - Main device redundancy configuration and main device replacing method: A networking system architecture includes a plurality of main devices, one of the main devices acts as a master main device, and the other main devices act as slave main devices. If the master main device malfunctions, one of the slave main devices substitutes for the master main device to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080288690 - Image processing controller and image forming apparatus: An image processing controller performs transmission and processing of image data by connecting an engine and a CPU connected via a chipset. A first controller controls communication with the chipset via a first PCI-Express I/F. A second controller controls communication with the engine when it is connected via a second... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080288689 - Opportunistic granting arbitration scheme for fixed priority grant counter based arbiter: In one embodiment, an arbiter may provide for opportunistic granting of one or more grants to a requestor that has no available fixed grants remaining in a given arbitration round. In one embodiment, a method may detect that a target resource to be accessed by a requestor with a valid... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080288691 - Method and apparatus of lock transactions processing in single or multi-core processor: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of lock transactions processing in a single or multi-core processor. An embodiment of the present invention is a processor with one or more processing cores, an address arbitrator, where one or more processing cores are configured to submit a lock transaction... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080288692 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device and microcomputer: It is intended to improve the efficiency of request retransmission. A high-speed serial interface block is provided which enables split-transaction communication performed through the issuing of a response from a completer to a request issued by a requester. The high-speed serial interface block mentioned above is provided with a reception... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080288693 - Parallel processing device and exclusive control method: To provide a processor capable of achieving high processing efficiency by performing the exclusive control between task processing and interrupt handling properly even in a multiprocessor. An interrupt processor that includes a plurality of unit processors, in which at least of the plurality of unit processors is capable of performing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080288694 - Method for dynamically arranging interrupt pins: A method for dynamically arranging interrupt pins is provided, which is suitable for arranging a plurality of interrupt pins of a control chip. In this method, a number of interrupts sent from each of a plurality of device paths in a unit time is detected. The device paths are sorted... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080288695 - Dynamic creation of low-level interfaces: In a virtual computing machine, a system and method that dynamically patches the interrupt mechanism (in interrupt vector space) of a host computing architecture with guest mode software. Significant increases in performance are achieved without depending on the host code. A patching mechanism evaluates the operating system version, processor, and... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080288696 - Device with a processor and a peripheral unit and method for generating an acknowledgment signal: A device is provided that includes a processor, a peripheral unit, and a first logic, and to a method for generating an acknowledgment signal. The processor is clocked by a processor clock signal, which runs asynchronously to the peripheral clock signal, by which the peripheral unit is clocked. The peripheral... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080288697 - Memory module having a cover pivotally coupled thereto: A storage device has a memory module and a cover pivotally coupled to a housing of the memory module. In one such storage device, the memory module and cover can pivot with respect to each other to configure the storage device in a first configuration or in each of one... Agent: Attn: Tod A. Myrum Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20080288698 - Card reader controlling apparatus based on secure digital protocol: The proposed invention discloses a card reader controlling apparatus based on Secure Digital (SD) protocol, which comprises a high-speed bus interface, at least one SD host, at least one SD connection interface and SDIO connection interface (SD/SDIO interface), at least one bridge, and at least one other specific memory card... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080288699 - Method for controlling the execution of an applet for an ic card: A method for controlling the execution of an applet for an IC Card including a java card platform, includes a phase for downloading the applet inside the IC Card, a phase for executing the applet through the java card platform and a phase for storing an identification platform number inside... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080288700 - Removable computer with mass storage: The present invention provides a detachable add-on card unit to a host system that combines mass storage capability and a processor on the same card. The card can receive data from the host, process the data, and store it in processed form, as well as the reverse process of retrieving... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080288701 - Method for protecting a connection interface in a computer-docking assembly: A method for protecting a connection interface in a computer-docking assembly comprising rotating at least partially a computer-support assembly about an arm assembly while moving the computer-support assembly toward a connection interface of the base station and while the arm assembly is at least partially rotating about the base station.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080288702 - Method and system for docking a laptop with ethernet a/v bridging to guarantee services: Methods and systems for docking a laptop with Ethernet A/V bridging to guarantee services are disclosed and may include interfacing a portable computing device with a docking station using an Ethernet interface, and utilizing audio/video (AV) bridging for communicating data between the portable computing device and one or more devices... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080288703 - Method and apparatus of providing power to an external attachment device via a computing device: A method and apparatus of providing power to an external Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) device via a computing device are described here. One embodiment includes, transmitting data to a plurality of devices via at least one port of a first type of a computing device, and providing power to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (onspec/tpl)

20080288704 - Method and system for universal serial bus (usb) over a/v bridging and a/v bridging extensions: Aspects of a system for universal serial bus (USB) over ANV bridging and ANV bridging extensions may include a LAN subsystem that enables reception of signals from a peripheral device coupled to a computing device via a USB interface. The LAN subsystem may enable the generation of payload data based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080288706 - Modular automation device: The disclosure relates to a device, arrangement and method for communication between modular devices for measurement, closed-loop control and open-loop control, which are connected to one another via a backplane. It is proposed that two modules of the device in each case be connected to one another via a serial... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080288705 - Wireless peripheral interconnect bus: A wireless peripheral interconnect bus that enables the transferring of data at a high rate over wireless medium. The bus further enables the wireless connection of peripheral components to a computing device, thereby providing a distributed computing device. The bus implements a layered protocol to provide a reliable link over... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080288707 - Method for controlling the active data interface when multiple interfaces are available: Systems and methods are provided for controlling which of multiple data interfaces in an electronic device is used for communication with another electronic device so as to minimize disruption of the user experience. In one embodiment, a switch may be provided that is configured to maintain the data stream through... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080288708 - Multiple virtual usb devices with virtual hub implemented using one usb device controller: A USB device using one USB device controller to simulate multiple virtual USB devices with a virtual USB hub is described. The USB device controller is assigned a USB address and communicates with the USB host under the control of an MCU and its firmware. The USB device also includes... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080288709 - Wide area network connection platform: Embodiments of the invention relate to a wide area network platform for use in conjunction with multiple distinct bus applications. The wide area network platform may include a hardware module for connection with system hardware, the hardware module including a universal serial bus interface and a wide area network interface.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080281988 - Apparatus and method for initating a debug halt for a selected architectural state: In a test and debug system wherein a target processing unit in a target processor receives test and debug commands from an external unit, an interface unit included in the target processor monitors the state of the target processing unit. The interface unit receives and stores a test and debug... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080281989 - Medical instrument having a separate transmitter for controlling medical treatment software: The patent discloses a medical instrument having a control device for controlling medical treatment software, wherein the control device includes a transmitter for transmitting software control signals and at least one control for activating the transmitter. The transmitter may be provided as a separate transmitter unit, and the instrument may... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080281990 - Expansion device adapted for use with a portable electronic device: An expansion device includes an adapter unit connected electrically to an Express card connector and a television signal receiving unit such that television audio-video data obtained by processing an external television signal by the television signal receiving unit is transmitted to a portable electronic device via the adapter unit and... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080281991 - Communication system: A field device is connected to a communication apparatus installed in a communication system. The communication apparatus performs radio communication with a control apparatus which controls a plant where the field device is installed, in accordance with a standardized communication protocol, and relays the communication between the field device and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080281992 - Method for detecting order of attached devices and computer readable storage media storing program thereof: A method for detecting the order of attached devices and a storage device for storing a program executing the same are provided. The method includes following steps. An inquiry is issued to obtain the device information of a plurality of attached devices, and one of the device information is selected.... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080281993 - Method and apparatus for controlling access to logical units: A method and apparatus are provided for controlling access to logical units, a logical unit being an addressable entity that accept commands. A plurality of logical units are accessible by one or more ports, a port being an addressable entity that sends commands. A communication means which may be a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080281994 - Communication system and method for operating a communication system: Communication system including a host and a device. The host has an oscillator and the device has a USB-function core. The oscillator in the host is coupled to the USB-function core in the device.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080281995 - Address management method and video apparatus using the same: An address management method and a video apparatus using the same are provided. The address management method includes determining whether an external device is connected or not; when determining the connection to the external device, generating an invalidation message for invalidating an address; and transmitting the generated invalidation message to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080281996 - Latency insensitive fifo signaling protocol: Data from a source domain operating at a first data rate is transferred to a FIFO in another domain operating at a different data rate. The FIFO buffers data before transfer to a sink for further processing or storage. A source side counter tracks space available in the FIFO. In... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080281998 - Direct memory access transfer completion notification: DMA transfer completion notification includes: inserting, by an origin DMA engine on an origin node in an injection first-in-first-out (‘FIFO’) buffer, a data descriptor for an application message to be transferred to a target node on behalf of an application on the origin node; inserting, by the origin DMA engine,... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080281997 - Low latency, high bandwidth data communications between compute nodes in a parallel computer: Methods, parallel computers, and computer program products are disclosed for low latency, high bandwidth data communications between compute nodes in a parallel computer. Embodiments include receiving, by an origin direct memory access (‘DMA’) engine of an origin compute node, data for transfer to a target compute node; sending, by the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080281999 - Electronic system with direct memory access and method thereof: In an electronic system, a DMA circuit is supplied with a device selection signal that indicates a processor is accessing or going to access a memory. If the DMA circuit finds that the processor is not accessing or not going to access the memory, the DMA circuit starts its DMA... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080282000 - Interface controller for controlling operation of externally coupled electronic apparatus: The present invention relates to a technique to absorb a speed difference between a data transmission/reception unit, included in a host device which has a interface controller, and a data transmission/reception unit with a external device. The host device and the external apparatus are both electronic apparatus, and the interface... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080282001 - Peak power reduction using fixed bit inversion: A semiconductor device includes a first circuit block, a second circuit block, and a data bus. The data bus is coupled between the first and second circuit blocks. A first data inverter on the data bus inverts a selected segment of data that is transferred onto the data bus. A... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080282002 - Apparatus and method of displaying image: An apparatus of displaying an image connects an external devise by using universal serial bus (USB) connection. The apparatus contains a display unit and a control unit that reads device information out of the connected external device and performs display control on the display unit based on the read device... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080282003 - Local port browser interface: The present invention relates to KVM switches that contain both remote and local ports and provide a user of the local port with a similar WEB based interface experience as that experienced by the remote user.... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080282004 - Holographic enterprise network: A system, method, program product and service for implementing a holographic enterprise network. A system for providing an interface between an operations center and a three dimensional (3D) virtual simulator system capable of rendering holographic images of the operations center is disclosed. Included is a holographic enterprise interface having a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080282005 - Method and processing unit for inter-chip communication: The invention relates to an inter-chip communication protocol, based on a standard interface protocol, which is adapted to incorporate control, configuration and/or recovery information for computer chips, and the data encoded within communication packets of a communication layer above the physical layer of the interface protocol.... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20080282006 - Latency hiding for a memory management unit page table lookup: In certain systems, local request's require corresponding associated information to be present in order to be serviced. A local memory stores some of the associated information. There is latency associated with retrieval of associated information that is not immediately available. Logic operates for each local request to access the local... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080282007 - Method and system for controlling transmission and execution of commands in an integrated circuit device: A method and system for controlling transmission and execution of commands in an integrated circuit (IC) device provide transmission of commands and acknowledgements in an order of their priorities. Priority levels of the commands and acknowledgements are defined based on pre-assigned levels of precedence of the respective master and slave... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080282008 - System and apparatus for early fixed latency subtractive decoding: Systems and methods for early fixed latency subtractive decoding are disclosed. The subtractive decoding device speculatively acknowledges a bus transaction within a fixed time period that is the same as the time period for positive decoding. Pipelining of a new bus transaction may therefore be accomplished each new time period.... Agent: Marvell/finnegan Henderson LLP C/o Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garnett Et. Al.

20080282009 - Driving device for expansion card and driving method thereof and motherboard: A driving device for an expansion card, a driving method thereof and a motherboard are provided. The driving method includes the step of detecting the information of an expansion card. When the information indicates that the expansion card is a nonstandard interface expansion card, a switch is turned on, and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080282010 - Apparatus for digital/analog audio storage and playback: An audio data storage and playback apparatus is provided, including at least a USB hub or USB SIE, at least a storage media interface, and an audio codec. An upstream port of the USB hub or the USB SIE is connected to an electronic device with a USB interface. The... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080282011 - Remote control system and method thereof: A remote control system and a method thereof are provided. The remote control system includes a first host, an adapter, and a peripheral device. The first host converts a first serial signal into a first network packet, and then outputs the first network packet through a network. The adapter is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080282013 - Method and device for transmission service using backplane service buses: A method for transmission service using backplane service buses comprises the following steps: the service received from backplane interface is distributed into different services; the first backplane service bus and the second backplane service bus in the uplink interface of the backplane transmit the different services simultaneously; the first backplane... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080282012 - Multi-processor device: The present invention intends to provide a high-performance multi-processor device in which independent buses and external bus interfaces are provided for each group of processors of different architectures, if a single chip includes a plurality of multi-processor groups. A multi-processor device of the present invention comprises a plurality of processors... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080282014 - Card reading apparatus for multi-directional data transmission: A card reading apparatus for multi-directional data transmission is provided, including a USB interface, a memory card interface, an ATA/ATAPI interface, and a USB OTG controller. The USB OTG controller is connected to the USB interface, the memory card interface, and the ATA/ATAPI interface so that the USB media device... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080282015 - Design structure for hardware assisted bus state transition circuit using content addressable memories: A design structure including universal peripheral processor architecture on an integrated circuit (IC) includes a first data bus and a second data bus communicating with first and second ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) devices configured as state machines. First and second processors are coupled to the first bus interface logic... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080282016 - Method for expediting data access of universal serial bus stoarage device: A method for expediting data access of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage device is disclosed. In a first embodiment, a data transmission procedure without the need of sending command block wrappers (CBW) is executed if a read command for reading data of a large memory space is received, and... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080282018 - Apparatus for detecting state of storage device: An apparatus for detecting the state of a storage device prevents occurrence of a leakage current. A low-level detection unit is provided for each of blocks of a battery pack. Control units are connected to the blocks of the battery pack by way of first switches and are started upon... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080282017 - Serial peripheral interface switch: An SPI switch allows selection of a BIOS memory transparent to a Southbridge chipset component. The SPI switch provides address translation to a selected BIOS memory area under the control of a security module processor. The SPI switch also provides command filtering to prevent commands that represent a security risk... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080276008 - Secure and accurate method for processing prescriptions: The present invention is a new method of processing a prescription that has advantages of security and accuracy while preserving convenience of older methods. The new method includes (1) receiving image information defining an image of a hard copy prescription, (2) displaying the image upon a user interface, (3) receiving... Agent: Mauricio A. Leon

20080276009 - Enabling efficient communication between a host and multiple usb devices: The present invention relates generally to devices and methods for communicating between a host computer and a peripheral device, such as a monitor or printer, and, more particularly, to enable efficient communication between a host and a plurality of such USB peripheral devices without substantial bandwidth degradation. In one embodiment,... Agent: Patentmetrix

20080276011 - Structure for option rom characterization: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is disclosed for option ROM characterization by establishing an isolating execution environment for an expansion adapter of a computer, the adapter having an option ROM containing initialization code for the adapter, executing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080276010 - System and method for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications: A computer system, and related components including network interface devices, as well as methods for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications, are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the computer system includes a network interface device, and a bus driver in communication with the network interface... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc. / Whd Attention: Susan M. Donahue

20080276012 - Driver loading via a pnp device: The present invention enables a USB device to provide its own vendor-specific device driver and invoke and install vendor-specific installation software stored on the USB device itself. In one embodiment of the invention, the present invention enables communication between a USB device and a host by receiving a USB device... Agent: Patentmetrix

20080276013 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: Enabling and disabling of a plurality of internal buses (77A, 77B) are determined according to mode information recorded in a mode switching circuit (20) in an LSI, and the LSI is provided with external terminals only for data bus connection corresponding to a requested function, thereby a plurality of external... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080276014 - Peripheral object communication method, apparatus, and system: In accordance with respective embodiments of the present invention, flexibility can be improved due to an arbitrary communication system being made available, and convenience can be improved due to visible identification information being made unnecessary. Concretely, an ID-metadata database server is prepared in which metadata in which displaying information and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080276015 - Device of identifying host protocol and smart card including the same: The present invention provides an integrated circuit chip which includes a processor; a contact pad unit connected to a host through a plurality of contact pads; a host interface detector including at least one pull-up resistor and one pull-down resistor, for selectively connecting the pull-up resistor and the pull-down resistor... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080276016 - Storage controller and storage controller control method: A storage controller of the present invention makes use of changes in power rates according to time periods, and controls the data storage destination between storage devices having different power consumption, such as a hard disk drive and a flash memory device. The storage controller comprises a hard disk drive... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080276017 - System and article of manufacture for the detection of misdirected data: Provided are a system and article of manufacture, wherein in certain embodiments an I/O command from a host is received at a first storage unit. An identifier is generated that identifies a destination to which the I/O command is to be transmitted from the first storage unit. The I/O command... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080276018 - System on a chip for networking: A system on a chip for network devices. In one implementation, the system on a chip may include (integrated onto a single integrated circuit), a processor and one or more I/O devices for networking applications. For example, the I/O devices may include one or more network interface circuits for coupling... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080276019 - Data transport architecture: The present invention is a novel device, system, and method for data transport and bus architecture. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the bus architecture may comprise of a continuous serial bus that may be incorporated into a process control sample system to provide an intrinsically safe... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080276020 - Adaptive-allocation of i/o bandwidth using a configurable interconnect topology: Apparatus and methods allocate I/O bandwidth of an electrical component, such as an IC, by configuring an I/O interface into various types of interfaces. In an embodiment of the present invention, an I/O interface is configured into either a bi-directional contact, unidirectional contact (including either a dedicated transmit or dedicated... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20080276021 - Data transfer control apparatus: A data transfer control apparatus has a plurality of bus slaves connected to a bus master via a bus interface unit for RAM connected to the bus master via a master bus, and a transfer bus which connects the first bus slave and plural second bus slaves in the plurality... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080276022 - Method to resolve deadlock in a bus architecture comprising two single-envelope buses coupled via a bus bridge and running asynchronously: d

20080276023 - Slave bus subscriber for a serial data bus: The invention relates to a slave bus subscriber for a serial data bus with a master bus subscriber, wherein the slave subscriber recognizes the bit rate of a data packet received over the data bus, whose header has a sync break field, a sync field and an ID field, with... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080276024 - Method for stabilizing asynchronous interfaces: A method and computer system apparatus for asynchronous data transfer between a source and sink without the use of an asynchronous control signal. includes metastability circuits, data change detection logic, a stability window delay counter, and a mux/register pair to allow for the holding of previous stable data during the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080276025 - Lock inference for atomic sections: Locks which protect data structures used within atomic sections of concurrent programs are inferred from atomic sections and acquired in a manner to avoid deadlock. Locks may be inferred by expression correspondence using a backward inter-procedural analysis of an atomic section. Locks may be sorted according to a total order... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080276026 - Selective deactivation of processor cores in multiple processor core systems: A method includes applying a voltage to a first processor core of a plurality of processor cores to deactivate the first processor core, the voltage less than a retention voltage of the first processor core. The application of the voltage can be in response to a software setting. The software... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080276027 - Interrupt control apparatus, bus bridge, bus switch, image processing apparatus, and interrupt control method: An interrupt control apparatus that controls an interrupt process request caused by a predetermined interrupt factor is disclosed. The interrupt control apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an interrupt process request signal including an interrupt factor identifier associated with at least equal to or more than two interrupt... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080276028 - Method of detecting and recovering a lost system management interrupt (smi) in a multiprocessor (mp) environment: Method, computer program product and system for handling multiple system management interrupt (SMI) events in a multiprocessor system. In response to receiving an SMI event, processors enter system management mode (SMM) and execute SMI handler code. An SMI handler that determines fewer than all of the processor are in the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080276029 - Method and system for fast flow control: Flow of commands from logic under test, such as an FPGA, to a receiving component, such as a component in a PCIe hierarchy, is managed. A rate at which flow control signals are received by the logic under test from the receiving component is determined, the flow control signals indicating... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080276030 - Sram bus architecture and interconnect to an fpga: An SRAM bus architecture includes pass-through interconnect conductors. Each of the pass-through interconnect conductors is connected to routing channels of the general interconnect architecture of the FPGA through an element which includes a pass transistor connected in parallel with a tri-state buffer. The pass transistors and tri-state buffers are controlled... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080276031 - Method and apparatus for a federation control plane in an orthogonal system: A method of and architecture for controlling board elements in an orthogonal system architecture is provided. The method and architecture preferably utilize an internal bus architecture between control boards, such that a first control board can access board elements in its stack via I/O on a second control board and... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080276032 - Arrangements which write same data as data stored in a first cache memory module, to a second cache memory module: A storage device control apparatus including first and second systematic memory module groups, each of which is composed of a plurality of memory modules, a memory controller for controlling memory access to the memory modules belonging to each of the first systematic and second systematic memory module groups. When the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080276034 - Design structure for transmitting data in an integrated circuit: A design structure, which may be generated by a fabless design company, for transmitting data between cores residing in an integrated circuit. Data is transmitted by using hubs located between the cores and an arbiter. The arbiter maintains a table that contains all the valid combinations of routing paths between... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20080276033 - Multipath redundant storage system architecture and method: Disclosed is a storage system and method that provides multi-path bus and component interconnection and isolation in a data storage system. A plurality of data storage devices in a removable assembly are connected to a fabric that is configurable to connect some or all of the data storage devices (or... Agent: Mccarthy Law Group