Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output inventions 12/08

20080320174 - Data communication system and method: A method and system for performing serial data communication between a main device and an external module connected to the main device. The data communication system and method include a main device, and an external module connected to the main device and communicating data with the main device. The external... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080320175 - Methods and apparatus for identifying operating modes for peripheral devices: Apparatus and methods provide for configuring a peripheral device in response to applying defined sets of signals to input/output terminals of the peripheral device, sensing the signals at those input/output terminals after applying the defined sets of signals, and comparing the sensed signals with the defined sets of signals.... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20080320176 - Prd (physical region descriptor) pre-fetch methods for dma (direct memory access) units: PRD (Physical Region Descriptor) pre-fetch methods for DMA (Direct Memory Access) unit are provided. When a DMA out transaction for a memory is performed, it is determined whether a first queue is full or nearly full, wherein the first queue is used to store data corresponding to the DMA out... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080320177 - Method and apparatus for managing resources of a universal plug and play device based on a connection status of a control point: Provided are a method and apparatus for managing resources of a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device based on a connection status of a control point. The method of managing resources of a controlled device includes: monitoring an invocation of an action representing a connection of a control point for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320178 - Dma transfer apparatus: A DMA transfer apparatus 101 is equipped with a DMA control block 102 and a FIFO-incorporated block 103. The DMA control block 102 is connected, as a bus master, to a DMA bus capable of burst transfer and having a function of controlling a burst transfer by generating burst access... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080320179 - Data communication apparatus and method, data communication system, information-processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: In an AV-data transfer system, AV data stored in a RAID embedded in an AV server is supplied to a client personal computer connected to a network such as the Internet or an intranet by way of the network, and AV data output by the client personal computer is transmitted... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080320180 - Usb host, usb slave, wireless communication system, and data transfer method: A data transfer method between a USB host and a USB slave (DWA), wherein the USB host sends data transfer request information and transfer data to the USB slave in one data transfer unit based on schedule information, the data transfer request information specifying data transfer to be requested, and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080320181 - Hardware-based virtualization of bios, disks, network-interfaces, & consoles using a direct interconnect fabric: A multi-computer system has many processors that share peripherals. The peripherals are virtualized by hardware without software drivers. Remote peripherals appear to the operating system to be located on the local processor's own peripheral bus. A processor, DRAM, and north bridge connect to a south bridge interconnect fabric chip that... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080320182 - Module with isolated analogue inputs having low leakage current: The present invention relates to a module with isolated analogue inputs for programmable controller, the said module comprising several input pathways that are each isolated with the aid of at least one optical isolation static relay (1a-4b) controlled selectively with the aid of control means (6), the said module being... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080320184 - Buffer device, buffer arrangement method, and information processing apparatus: A buffer device that transfers data and is shared by a plurality of CPU cores arranged in a symmetrically inverted manner about a predetermined reference line, each CPU core breaking up a data block into a plurality of data lines and outputting the data lines via a plurality of ports,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080320183 - Method, computer program product and apparatus for receiving recording recommendations: Methods, computer program products, and apparatuses for receiving recording recommendations through a data network are provided. The recommendations originate from sources selected by the user. Each source may send a recommendation from his or her set top box or other computing device connected to the data network. The user may... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080320185 - Buffering device and buffering method: A buffering device buffers data to be subjected to any one of a first process that necessitates a sequential guarantee and a second process that does not necessitate the sequential guarantee, and includes a storage unit that stores therein plurality of target data to be processed; a reading unit that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080320186 - Memory device capable of communicating with host at different speeds, and data communication system using the memory device: Provided is a memory device for high speed communication including a low speed data communication port and a low speed data input/output circuit, and a data communication system using the memory device. The memory device includes a high speed port interface for transmitting or receiving data to or from a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080320173 - Digital data distribution system with switching unit, online acquisition unit, and conversion unit for converting from first to second format: A CD on which only music information specified by the CD-DA is recorded, or a CD on which both music information specified by the CD-DA and music information to be recorded on a CD-ROM are recorded is mounted upon an information processing terminal (10). When the CD on which only... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080320187 - Ic card, terminal with ic card and initializing method thereof: An IC card and a terminal mounted with an IC card are disclosed. In one embodiment, the IC card includes i) a memory, ii) a plurality of contacts including a pair of RF contacts and at least one communication contact, a micro processor, selecting any one of a low speed... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080320188 - Method and apparatus for backing up tcp connection: A method for backing up a TCP connection includes a data transmission process and a data receiving process. The data transmission process includes obtaining, by an AMB of a transmitting end, boundary information of data; and backing up the data and the boundary information of the data to a SMB... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080320189 - Simple serial interface - method of communication and information exchange, and electronic devices based on this method.: m

20080320190 - Communication between a host device and an accessory via an intermediate device: A host device and an accessory exchange information (e.g., commands and data) via an intermediate device. The host device and accessory can each connect to the intermediate device through a direct wired path and can exchange commands and data with the intermediate device. The host device and the accessory can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080320191 - System and method for providing a configurable command sequence for a memory interface device: A system and method for providing a configurable command sequence for a memory interface device (MID). The system includes a MID intended for use in a cascade interconnect system and in communication with one or more memory devices. The MID includes a first connection to a high speed bus operating... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080320192 - Front side bus performance using an early defer-reply mechanism: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for improving the performance of a front side bus using an early defer-reply mechanism. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit receives a memory read request and accesses memory to obtain read data responsive to receiving the memory read... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080320193 - Information processing apparatus: A bus of a SoC (system on chip) includes a system arbiter for controlling not only a command arbiter but also a read information arbiter, a write data control circuit, a write complete notice arbiter and the like. A sequential table containing a series of system operations including activation processing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080320194 - Monitored notification facility for reducing inter-process / inter-partition interrupts: Example operations related to deferring interrupts are herein disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method includes, but is not limited to, writing a message to a memory location shared between a sender and a receiver; and requesting that an interrupt be transmitted to the receiver after a specified latency has... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080320195 - Adapter for memory card: An adapter for a memory card comprises a housing, an adapter interface and a plurality of terminals. The housing comprises a slot for accepting a first memory card that is to be adapted. The adapter interface is connected to one side of the housing. The adapter interface corresponds to a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080320196 - Computer system with processor expansion device: In a computer system, a processor expansion device is disposed in an expansion slot conforming to a bus agreement to expand processors. The processor expansion device includes one or more processors and corresponding memories. When the processor expansion device is disposed at the computer system, a BIOS of the computer... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080320197 - Portable computing, communication and entertainment device with central processor carried in a detachable portable unit: The present invention relates in general to portable processor based devices that provide computing, communication or entertainment functionality. More particularly, the present invention pertains to portable processor based devices operable while being held in its user's hand and providing communications, organizer and/or entertainment functions, such as cellular telephones, palm-sized organizers,... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20080320200 - Led light dongle communication system: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) dongle may include an optical transceiver having a USB inter face for engagement to an electronic device such as a laptop computer or other USB-configured device. The USB dongle may include a converter or buffering, isolation, modulation or amplification circuitry. The USB dongle sends and... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20080320199 - Memory and control apparatus for display device, and memory therefor: A memory and control apparatus and a memory for a display device are provided. The memory and control apparatus includes a memory, a sense-latch circuit, and a timing and memory controlling apparatus. The memory is used for storing data. The memory has a display data bus and a general data... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080320198 - Usb device communication apparatus, systems, and methods: Methods, systems and apparatus may operate to send and receive universal serial bus (USB) control endpoint standard device requests with embedded functional sub-requests. From the USB device perspective, such operations may comprise receiving a control endpoint standard device request from a host at the USB device, decoding the functional sub-request... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080320201 - Central processing apparatus, control method therefor and information processing system: A plurality of system controllers 300 each comprising a memory medium 400 and an I/O device 500 under the control of the system controller 300 are connected to a CPU node 100 by way of a plurality of system buses 200. The CPU node 100 executes a memory interleave for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080320202 - Physical device (phy) support of the usb2.0 link power management addendum using a ulpi phy interface standard: A protocol may enable support of the USB 2.0 LPM (Link Power Management) Addendum by a ULPI PHY (Universal Serial Bus Transceiver Macrocell Low-Pin Interface Physical Layer Device), facilitating transmitting the reserved PID (Physical Interface Device) token, used in the LPM Extended Transaction, through a ULPI bus. Bits [3:0] of... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080313356 - Remote control of devices through instant messenger: Computerized methods and systems for controlling a peripheral device based, at least in part, upon remote user instructions are provided. Upon receiving a communication from the peripheral device (e.g., using a USB port), a computing device recognizes the peripheral device. Next, a command manifest is automatically generated that includes one... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080313357 - Multiple channel data bus control for video processing: A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for selectably enabling a plurality of data transfer modes along one or more channels are described. In one embodiment, data transfer between a first device and a second device is controlled based on selecting a combination of access and operation modes. In... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080313358 - Method and apparatus for communicating with an embedded controller within a computing device: A system that communicates with an embedded controller within a computing device. During operation, the system queries the embedded controller to obtain information describing an interface for interacting with a functionality provided by the embedded controller. The system then receives a response from the computing device which includes a reference... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080313361 - Monitoring device and monitoring method for monitoring data held in memory: A monitoring device according to the present invention is a monitoring device connectable between a target device including a first memory holding a first data sequentially renewed and a host device acquiring a second data coinciding with the first data held in the first memory, and includes a first bus,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080313360 - Peripheral device control system: An accurate, highly reliable peripheral device control system is realized by issuing notifications related to a print job having the correct content from a printer driver with accurate timing and in the correct order, and conveying correct information to an application with accurate timing and in the correct order in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080313359 - Relative typing waiting time before disambiguation aids: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an assistance mechanism tracks a plurality of time intervals between a plurality of input events. Each input event of said plurality of input events is generated by a user physically manipulating an input device at a client. Based on the plurality... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080313362 - I/o device switching method: An I/O device management table that manages the types of I/O devices connected to an I/O switch is provided, and one or plural unallocated I/O devices are defined and registered as standby I/O devices. When a failure occurs in any of I/O devices, the I/O device management table is used... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080313363 - Method and device for exchanging data using a virtual fifo data structure: A method and a device for exchanging data. The method includes: requesting the processor, by the data transfer controller, to initiate a transfer of multiple data chunks from the second memory unit to the Virtual FIFO data structure, in response to a status of the virtual FIFO data structure; sending... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080313364 - Apparatus, system, and method for remote direct memory access to a solid-state storage device: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for sharing a device between multiple hosts. The apparatus, system, and method include an RDMA setup module and an RDMA execution module. The RDMA setup module prepares a solid-state storage controller for an RDMA operation to transfer data of a file or of... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080313365 - Controlling write transactions between initiators and recipients via interconnect logic:

20080313366 - Information processing apparatus, system control device, and input/output requesting method: A path selecting unit searches, upon receiving an enquiry of a path to an input/output device from a central processing unit, a storing unit that stores therein device identification information and path identification information by using device identification information included in the enquiry as a key, retrieves path identification information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080313367 - Reproducing device of information storage medium reproducing method thereof: According to one embodiment, a reproducing device of an information storage medium sufficiently reproduces resource data of advanced contents as much as possible. The device uses a ring buffer to temporarily store packets of resource data of a video stream. Packets read out from the buffer are basically transferred to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080313368 - Apparatus and program storage device for managing dataflow through a processing system: A method, apparatus and program storage device for managing dataflow through a processing system is disclosed. A buffer monitor maintains and monitors a buffer full threshold to control the write throughput to a data bus.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080313369 - Multi-node configuration of processor cards connected via processor fabrics: Provided is a system comprising a first node comprising a plurality of processor cards each including a processor fabric, wherein the processor cards in the first node connect via their processor fabrics; a second node comprising a plurality of processor cards each including a processor fabric, wherein the processor cards... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080313370 - Guarding method for input data by usb keyboard and guarding system: The present invention relates generally to a security system and a security method using the same, and, more particularly, to a security system and method for a keyboard which communicates through a USB port. The security method includes the USB filter activation step; the input data reception step of initially... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080313371 - Method and system for compression of data for block mode access storage: For use in a storage network comprising a plurality of network elements and operable with a block mode access storage protocol, a method of operating a compression system operatively coupled to at least one computer and to one or more storage devices configured as at least one storage logical unit... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080313372 - Method of receiving a message processable by a component on one of plurality of processing threads: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program product for receiving a message, the message being processable by a component on one of a plurality of processing threads. A message is received from a first component on a current thread. The communication style that was used by the first... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080313373 - Electronic apparatus and data sending/receiving method thereof: An electronic apparatus to allow data to be sent and received between a master unit and a slave unit through a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus is provided. Each of the master unit and the slave unit comprises a data interface having a plurality of pins through which request data... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080313374 - Service interface to a memory system: A cascaded interconnect system for providing a service interface to a memory system. The cascaded interconnect system includes a master service interface module, a service interface bus, and one or more slave service interface modules. The master service interface module and the slave interface modules are cascade interconnected via the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080313375 - Bus station and system and method of maintaining synchronizing of a bus station: A bus station circuit (14) operates in an electronic system with a bus (10). The bus station determines an initial synchronization time point by detecting a synchronization signal pattern on the bus and switching to a synchronization enabled state upon detection of the synchronization signal pattern. Starting points of successive... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080313376 - Heuristic status polling: Methods, compute nodes, and computer program products are provided for heuristic status polling of a component in a computing system. Embodiments include receiving, by a polling module from a requesting application, a status request requesting status of a component; determining, by the polling module, whether an activity history for the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080313377 - Display control circuit and display device: A display control circuit capable of performing arbitration with the use of a simple configuration. The display control circuit exchanges, with a plurality of masters, attribute information defining conditions for displaying video on a display, and includes a memory for storing the attribute information, a plurality of channels associated with... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080313378 - Method and system to determine device criticality for hot-plugging in computer configurations: The invention relates to a method for determining device criticality in a computer system comprising the steps of building a component hierarchy graph using computer configuration information; labeling the nodes of component hierarchy graph with redundancy attribute; traversing the component hierarchy graph; and determining whether the device loses an access... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080313379 - Multiple bus charge sharing: A charge-sharing circuit includes a first input bus pair, a second input bus pair, and an output bus pair. A capacitor is coupled between a first internal node and a second internal node. A first circuit selectively couples the first internal node to the first input bus pair, the second... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080313380 - Resource management in multi-processor system: Resource management techniques in multi-processor systems are described. Embodiments include a multi-processor system having a primary processor for communication with pipelined secondary processors. The secondary processors include registers containing status information for tasks executed by the respective secondary processors. The primary processor is provided with direct access to contents of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080313381 - Reconfigurable i/o card pins: In accordance with the present technique, a system and method for configuring pins of an input/output (I/O) card in a host system are provided. The method includes reading configuration information from a card field replaceable unit memory and reading system configuration information from a system field replaceable unit memory. Additionally,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080313382 - Method and device for mapping signal order at multi-line bus interfaces: The present invention provides methods and modules allowing for mapping of interface signals at for instance multi-line buses. A mapping of internal signal order schemes to external signal order schemes is enabled such that upon configuration any interface signals may carried on any lines of a multi-line bus. The configurability... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080307115 - Command transfer controlling apparatus and command transfer controlling method: Commands transmitted and received among a plurality of processing units are efficiently controlled. A command receiver 210 receives from an external command transmitting entity a command that has assigned a memory address. An address range of memory is divided into a plurality of areas, and an assignment information storage unit... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080307116 - Routing mechanism in pci multi-host topologies using destination id field: Method and system for address routing in a distributed computing system, such as a distributed computing system that uses PCI Express protocol to communicate over an I/O fabric. A destination identifier is provided to identify a physical or virtual host or end point. When a physical or virtual host or... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080307117 - Integration of sample storage and sample management for life science: Compositions and methods are disclosed for automated storing, tracking, retrieving and analyzing biological samples, including dry storage at ambient temperatures of nucleic acids, proteins (including enzymes), and cells using a dry storage matrix that permits recovery of biologically active materials. RFID-tagged biological sample storage devices featuring dissolvable or dissociable matrices... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080307118 - Management method for use of extended display identification data: The present invention provides a management method for use of extended display identification data (EDID), which is applied to manage a plurality of EDID burning device groups. At least one EDID burning device of each EDID burning device group is electronically connected to an EDID management server via a connection,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080307119 - Kvm switch for switching among computers by employing mouse movement signal and method thereof: A KVM switch and switching method thereof are disclosed. A KVM switch for switching among a plurality of computers includes a movement detector, control unit, and a switch unit. The movement detector detects a movement of a mouse to generate a movement signal. The control unit receives the movement signal... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080307120 - Information system and information storage method of information system: Provided is an information system for preserving data of a storage device in a computer that repeats the connection to and disconnection from a communication network. The computer acquires data to be written into the storage device and manages the update status of the storage device, transfers the data written... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080307121 - Direct memory access transfer completion notification: Methods, compute nodes, and computer program products are provided for direct memory access (‘DMA’) transfer completion notification. Embodiments include determining, by an origin DMA engine on an origin compute node, whether a data descriptor for an application message to be sent to a target compute node is currently in an... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080307122 - Autonomous mapping of protected data streams to fibre channel frames: A hardware-based offload engine is disclosed for mapping protected data into frames. For a write operation, the HBA determines host addresses and the size of data to be read from those addresses. The HBA also determines the frame size and protection scheme for data to be written. A frame transmit... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080307123 - Two-way connectivity usb control device and operation method thereof: A two-way connectivity USB control device and its operation method are disclosed. The present invention solves a problem of the prior art that requires users to manually switch a USB controller between an active mode and a passive mode and set a predetermined time interval as in prior art. The... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080307124 - Input/output control apparatus, input/output control system, and input/output control method: An input/output control apparatus includes: a request acceptance unit configured to accept a switch request for requesting to change an operating system occupying any one of the input device and the output device; a control information generator unit configured to generate control information including any one of input destination information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080307125 - High-speed sequential sampling of i/o data for industrial control: An I/O module samples an industrial process to acquire data indicative of performance of the industrial process. The I/O module has an internal memory in which the data from multiple samples is stored until readout by, or produced to, an industrial controller. The I/O module assigns a time-stamp identifier to... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20080307126 - System and method for serial-peripheral-interface data transmission: The invention provides a method for Serial-Peripheral-Interface (SPI) data transmission. First, data stored in a first buffer of an SPI controller is transmitted to a second buffer of an SPI slave. A clock signal according to which the SPI slave operates is halted after data stored in the first buffer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080307127 - Method for managing under-runs and a device having under-run management capabilities: A method for managing under-runs and a device having under-run management capabilities. The method includes retrieving packets from multiple buffers, monitoring a state of a multiple buffers, determining whether an under-run associated with a transmission attempt of a certain information frame from a certain buffer occurs; if an under-run occurs,... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080307128 - Universal multimedia: A memory device removably insertable into or otherwise removably connected to a plurality of host devices includes a first memory storing multimedia data. A first circuit portion of the memory device determines the host device capabilities when the memory device is connected to a host device and a second circuit... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080307129 - Character interactive input/output: A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received into an auto enter, non-display entity on the workstation display are automatically transferred as entered from the workstation to a server application which processes... Agent: Shelley M Beckstrand

20080307130 - Methods and apparatuses for processing i/o requests of data storage devices: Methods and apparatuses for processing input and/or output requests for data storage devices are disclosed. Method embodiments generally comprise receiving a number of requests, wherein at least one of the requests is an isochronous request having an initial deadline value, calculating a new deadline value for the isochronous request, and... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080307131 - Method for assigning addresses to nodes of a bus system, and installation: A method for assigning addresses to nodes of a bus system, and installation, bus nodes being furnished with an identical delivery address, where (i) an assigning entity, particularly a central computer, start-up computer or bus node sends information to the delivery address via the bus system, (ii) the information includes... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080307132 - Expanded memory for communications controller: One embodiment of the present invention includes a communication system. The system comprises a communications controller configured to control transmission and reception of communications data in a network. The system also comprises a memory configured to store configuration data associated with fee communications controller and application parameters associated with each... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080307133 - Method for synchronizing a transmission of information and a device having synchronizing capabilities: A method for synchronizing a transmission of information over a bus, and a device having synchronization capabilities. The device includes: a bus that includes multiple bus lines, a bus transmitter connected between an information source and the bus, a bus receiver connected between the bus and an information target; wherein... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080307136 - Arbitration of memory transfers in a dsp system: Disclosed are various embodiments for arbitration of memory transfers in a digital signal processing system. In one embodiment, a digital signal processing system includes a plurality of DSP's having an external memory. The DSP's are further configurable to act as a master processor and a slave processor relative to another... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080307137 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric for synchronized communication in a data processing system: A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units, including at least a local master and a local hub, which are coupled for communication via a communication link. The local master includes a master capable of initiating an operation, a snooper capable of receiving an operation, and interconnect logic... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080307135 - High performance programmable logic system interface and chip: A chip with a high performance programmable logic system interface, including a first internal device, a second internal device and a bus master, is provided. The first internal device, which is integrated into the chip, communicates with an external device by a first set of internal buses and a first... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080307134 - I2c bus interface and protocol for thermal and power management support: A method, apparatus and computer instructions are provided for controlling communications between controller devices over an I2C bus hardware interface and a separate communication line, such as a GPIO line. With thermal/power management firmware installed on a system controller device, communications between the system controller device and a real time... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20080307138 - Method and system for locking resources in a distributed environment: A method and system that creates and maintains lock properties for a resource or object in a distributed environment. The lock properties provide other client computer systems limited availability to the locked resource. Limited availability relates to being able to only read, write or delete the resource, or any combination... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080307139 - Resource access manager for controlling access to a limited-access resource: Methods and devices utilizing operating system semaphores are described for managing access to limited-access resources by clients.... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20080307140 - Sideband signal for usb with interrupt capability: The invention provides for a sideband signal for the USB that has real-time interrupt capabilities. A system and method for hardware detection of an interrupt signal provides for the ability to superimpose a high frequency interrupt signal on a USB power line for transmission to a controller. Alternatively, an overcurrent... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Igt Attn: Igt

20080307142 - Communication card with three operational states: A communication card with three operational states, including a controller, a battery, a flash storage unit, a wireless modem, and a connector for connecting the communication card to a shell host and to an electronic device host, wherein the communication card (i) operates in a standalone mode when the connector... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080307141 - Sliding card carrier: A system and method is provided for individually changing the peripheral cards of an electronic device, when the cards are operationally held inside a chassis on a rack cabinet. Included is a platform for holding the peripheral cards, and a slide carrier mounted on the chassis for moving the platform... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20080307143 - Modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different to output interfaces: A kind of modularized channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces, hereafter called MIB (modular industrial bus) system, which consists of an interface card carrying control chip, a BUS transmission interface, an expansion board, and a hot-plug capacity IO output module; the said interface card carrying control chip... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080307144 - Personal media device docking station having an accessory device detector: Systems and methods include a circuit for detecting the insertion of a component into a docking station, e.g., an audio plug. When the component is inserted into the docking station, an electronic switch can be opened. When the switch is opened, a detector (e.g., monostable multivibrator) for detecting a change... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080307145 - Interconnect and a method for designing an interconnect: A method for designing an interconnect, the method includes determining an amount of input ports, an amount of output ports; characterized by selecting multiple modular components such as to form an interconnect, whereas each modular component is selected from a group of modular components that are verified by parametric verification... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080307147 - Computer system bus bridge: A bus bridge between a high speed computer processor bus and a high speed output bus. The preferred embodiment is a bus bridge between a GPUL bus for a GPUL PowerPC microprocessor from International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and an output high speed interface (MPI). Another preferred embodiment is a... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080307146 - Structure for dynamically scalable queues for performance driven pci express memory traffic: A method, computer system, and PCI Express device/protocol for a design structure that enables high performance IO data transfers for multiple, different IO configurations, which include variable packet sizes and/or variable/different numbers of transactions on the IO link. PCI Express protocol is enhanced to support utilization of counters and dynamically... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080307148 - System and method for improved bus communication: A system for bus communication includes a first port coupled to a bus, comprising a first engine configured to respond to bus signals on the bus, according to a predetermined protocol. A second port couples to the bus, comprising a second engine configured to respond to bus signals according to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (pec) C/o Patrick E. Caldwell, Esq.

20080307149 - Clustering system and flexible interconnection architecture thereof: An interconnection architecture is provided for flexibly connecting a primary host module or an added host module to a network switch in a clustering system. The interconnection architecture mainly includes plural first slots, a primary function module, an added function module and plural multifunctional buses. The first slots electrically connect... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080307151 - Operational amplifier with resistance switch crossbar feedback: A control circuit includes an operational amplifier having an inverting input, a non-inverting input, and an output, an array of impedance elements including capacitors are connected to the output of the operational amplifier, and a resistance switch crossbar array configured to store data in the form of high or low... Agent: Blaise Mouttet

20080307150 - Optimized switching method: There is disclosed a bus optimization technique. Pursuant to the bus optimization technique, the output buffer and output logic are removed from port units of a switch and are included with a control matrix in the switch. Data units received in a first port unit of a plurality of port... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080301324 - Processor device and instruction processing method: A cache receives a request from an instruction execution unit, searches for necessary data, outputs the data to the instruction execution unit if there is a cache hit, and instructs a request storage unit to request a move-in of the data if a cache miss occurs. The request storage unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080301325 - Storage network system, managing apparatus managing method and program: A storage network system includes computers, storage systems, connection devices that control connection relations between the computers and the storage system, and a managing device that manages the computers, the storage system and the connection devices. The managing device includes a control section that specifies connection ports of the computers,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080301326 - Detecting loss of communication with peripherals: Computer systems having operating systems that provide plug and play functionality for peripheral devices such as printers, web cameras, keyboards, mice and the like are known. These allow peripheral devices to be connected to the computer system in an ad hoc manner. However, if communication between a peripheral and such... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080301327 - Direct memory access transfer completion notification: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for DMA transfer completion notification that include: inserting, by an origin DMA engine on an origin compute node in an injection FIFO buffer, a data descriptor for an application message to be transferred to a target compute node on behalf of an application on... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080301328 - Method and system for improved communication between central processing units and input/output processors: A method and system for communicating information regarding input/output (IO) processing in a shared access to memory environment is disclosed. A central processing unit (CPU) and an input/output processor (IOP) are configured to write to and read from predetermined memory locations to manage the detection, performance, and completion of IOs.... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080301329 - Data transfer apparatus and data transfer method: A data transfer apparatus includes a processor, a main memory, and a DMAC connected to the main memory via a plurality of buses. The DMAC transfers data to the main memory by bypassing the processor, writes flag data “1” indicating completion of the data transfer processing in a completion status... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080301330 - Usb host system and method for transferring transfer data: A USB host system includes: a USB host module having a USB host function for performing USB transfer to/from a USB device; a different-function module having a predetermined function using transfer data that is to be an object of the USB transfer; at least one shared memory shared between the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080301331 - Control method and computer system utilizing the same: A computer system comprising a memory module, a connection port, and a central processing unit (CPU) is disclosed. The memory module stores a main base input/output system (BIOS) comprising an auxiliary function. The connection port is capable of connecting an auxiliary module comprising at least one specific program. The CPU... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080301332 - Method for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller: Provided is a method for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller. Information is gathered on ports on at least one host, ports on at least one storage controller managing access to storage volumes, and at least one fabric over which... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080301333 - System and article of manufacture for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller. Information is gathered on ports on at least one host, ports on at least one storage controller managing access to storage volumes, and at least... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080301334 - Disk control apparatus, disk control method, remote disk control apparatus, and remote disk control method: A disk control apparatus formats each track of a storage disk device in a short time. The disk control apparatus (1) has a cache memory (14) which stores a part of data, a management table (20) which indicates whether a track of the storage disk device (2) has been initialized... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080301335 - Digital display system with media processor and wireless audio: The present invention relates to a media processing system that comprises a bus for communicating digital signals thereon with a media processor connected to the bus, for processing signals supplied thereon. The system further has a display device connected to the bus for displaying digitized images thereon, received from the... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080301336 - Dynamic memory allocation between inbound and outbound buffers in a protocol handler: An apparatus and method for dynamically allocating memory between inbound and outbound paths of a networking protocol handler so as to optimize the ratio of a given amount of memory between the inbound and outbound buffers is presented. Dedicated but sharable buffer memory is provided for both the inbound and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080301337 - Memory systems for automated computing machinery: Memory systems are disclosed that include a memory controller; an outbound link, the memory controller connected to the outbound link, the outbound link comprising a number of conductive pathways that conduct memory signals from the memory controller to memory buffer devices in a first memory layer; and at least two... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080301339 - Control device for a usb interface and control method thereof: A control device for a USB interface including at least one first terminal for inputting the data to be transmitted and at least one second terminal for the transmission of the packet data on a bus; the packet data include one end-of-packet signal. The USB interface includes one circuit for... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080301338 - Data transfer control device and electronic instrument: A data transfer control device including: a link controller which analyzes a received packet transferred from a host-side data transfer control device through a serial bus; an interface circuit which generates an interface signal and outputs the generated interface signal to an interface bus; and an internal register in which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080301340 - Method for data transmission: A method for data transmission in a system is disclosed. The system includes a computer (1) and a peripheral device (9), which are connected to each other via a network (8). The computer has hardware resources (2), including a network interface (2.3) and a controller (4), which is designed to... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080301341 - Management of internal operations by a storage device: A method enables a storage device to autonomously (i.e., without intervention of a host device) determines whether an integral sequence of commands, which is related to one or more storage commands issued by the host device, is in a certain state (i.e., it is “active” or “inactive”) or is transitioning... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080301342 - Device directed memory barriers: Efficient techniques for controlling synchronization of bus transactions to improve performance and reduce power requirements in a shared memory system are described. Interconnect arrangements in complex processing systems are also described that provide efficient data transfers between bus masters and shared memory devices to improve performance and reduce power use.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080301343 - Device for controlling communication between a module and a transmission bus: The invention relates to a device for controlling communication between a module (10) and a transmission bus (22), comprising a communication control unit (23) disposed between the transmission bus (22) and a connection element (21) intended to connect the module (10) to the transmission bus (22), the said unit (23)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080301344 - System for expandably connecting electronic devices: An exemplary system for expandably connecting electronic devices includes a master device, a first slave device, and a second slave device. The first and second slave device each has a control chip and an address setting module. The control chip includes a bus interface connected to the master device via... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080301346 - Mother board module and personal computer host using the same: A mother board module suitable for being disposed in a housing of a personal computer (PC) host is provided. The housing has expansion port openings at a rear wall of the housing. The mother board module includes a mother board, a sound card and a signal transmission cable. The mother... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080301345 - Multi-character adapter card: One embodiment of an adapter card in accordance with the invention includes a circuit board connectable to a motherboard of a computer system. A logic chip is connected to the circuit board to provide functionality to the adapter card. One or more programmable devices are connected to the circuit board... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080301348 - Device for controlling point-to-point communication between a module and transmission bus: The invention relates to a device for controlling point-to-point communication between a module (10) and a transmission bus (22), the device comprising a printed circuit (20) which carries the transmission bus (22) and which comprises a connection element (21) intended to connect the module (10) to the transmission bus (22).... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080301347 - Usb2.0 bi directional amplifier: A system for allowing a designer to implement Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 in topologies not anticipated by a USB 2.0 specification and with reduced channel losses, the system comprising: a bus channel having a plurality of electrical elements; and a boost circuit connected at a predetermined location on the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20080301349 - Semiconductor memory arrangement: A semiconductor memory arrangement includes a circuit board having at least a first layer and a second layer, a plurality of memory units, and a first control device and a second control device adapted to receive command and address signals. A first bus system is disposed in the first layer... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080301351 - Communication method of host apparatus capable of connecting with device by using wireless universal serial bus and wireless connection system including host apparatus and device: A communication method of a host apparatus capable of connecting with a device by using a Wireless Universal Serial Bus (WUSB) includes operations of receiving a connection request signal from the device to be connected to the host apparatus, according to a determination of whether a request to perform an... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080301350 - Method for reassigning root complex resources in a multi-root pci-express system: A system for reassigning root complex resources in a multi-root PCI express system identifies resources from a lower performing root complex port and reassigns those resources to the higher performing root complex. The system does not change the number of PCI Express lanes, the resources each root complex uses may... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20080301352 - Bus architecture: A system and method for implementing a bus. In one embodiment, the system includes a bus switch operative to couple to a bus, and a plurality of trace segments coupled to the bus switch, where the trace segments have different lengths. The bus switch is operative to connect one of... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP