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

20080109564 - Method, system, and apparatus for enhanced management of message signaled interrupts: A message signaled interrupt (MSI) specifying an input/output (I/O) address in I/O address space is received. In response to receipt of the MSI, a translation data structure is accessed and the I/O address is translated into a physical memory address by reference to the translation data structure. The MSI is... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080109563 - System and method of double address detection: A plurality of detectors can be evaluated to determine if more than one has been assigned the same address. Responsive thereto, such detectors could be identified for follow-up maintenance, or service.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080109565 - Pci express enhancements and extensions: A method and apparatus for enhancing /extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080109566 - Usb mass storage device interconnect module having automatic file transfer capability and method of operation thereof: A USB mass storage device interconnect module and a method of operating the same to effect an automatic transfer of at least one file between two USB mass storage devices. In one embodiment, the interconnect module includes: (1) a body, (2) first and second USB receptacles recessed into the body,... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.c.

20080109568 - Method and system for detecting device configuration changes: A system and method for storing a first configuration data file, altering the first configuration data file to create a second configuration data file and creating a reference value corresponding to the second configuration data file. In addition, a system and method for receiving a first reference value from a... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080109571 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data using direct memory access control: A direct memory access controlling method includes checking a length value of remaining data corresponding to data remaining after transmission of the data stored in the source memory to the destination memory, and a currently set burst length value, comparing the length value of the remaining data with the currently... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080109569 - Remote dma systems and methods for supporting synchronization of distributed processes in a multi-processor system using collective operations: The invention relates to a remote DMA system, and methods for supporting synchronization of distributed processes in a multiprocessor system using collective operations. One aspect of the invention is a multi-node computer system having a plurality of interconnected processing nodes. This system uses DMA engines to perform collective operations synchronizing... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080109570 - System and method for remote direct memory access without page locking by the operating system: Systems and methods for remote direct memory access without page locking by the operating system. A multi-node computer system has a plurality of interconnected processing nodes. DMA engines are used in a way to avoid page locking.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080109572 - Processing apparatus with burst read write operations: A digital signal processing system comprises a programmable processor (PROC) and a peripheral device (PD, MEM) coupled to the programmable processor via a burst generation device (BG). The processor is arranged to communicate with the peripheral device using a read operation and a write operation, respectively, on a single data... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080109573 - Rdma systems and methods for sending commands from a source node to a target node for local execution of commands at the target node: The invention relates to a RDMA system for sending commands from a source node to a target node. These commands are locally executed at the target node. One aspect of the invention is a multi-node computer system having a plurality of interconnected processing nodes. The computer system issues a direct... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080109575 - Method of transferring data implying a network analyser card: In conventional systems the CPU is altered after a data frame has been received and the packet stored in a host buffer. This interrupts normal operation of the CPU and applications, which is determined to systems performance. The invention relates to a method of transferring data from a network to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080109577 - Method and apparatus for multiplexing multiple protocol handlers on a shared memory bus: Protocol multiplexer is configured to receive multiple communication links, each link operating with one of a plurality of communication protocols. Protocol handler converts the received data and frames the data according to the communication protocol in use for a particular communication link. Port multiplexer separates the received frames into data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080109578 - Technique for increasing control and status signal density in a fixed register address space: A technique for improving the signal/register density for fixed address space devices is disclosed.... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20080109579 - System and method for frequency offset testing: Described is a system and method for frequency offset testing. The system comprises an electronic device, a first testing device providing a reference clock signal at a first frequency to the electronic device, and a second testing device receiving data from the electronic device at the first frequency and transmitting... Agent: Verigy, Ltd.

20080109581 - Protocol independent bridge: A wireless bridge includes a first universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) for coupling to a serial bus that receives data packets. A protocol independent module has a timer set to a desired time to detect a start and/or an end of a data packet received from the serial bus. A wireless... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080109582 - Transmission method for serial periphery interface serial flash: A transmission method for a serial periphery interface (SPI) serial flash includes the steps of providing a first system clock signal and transmitting a plurality of data strings with each two bits of the data strings transmitted in a period of the first system clock signal. A second system clock... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080109567 - Multifunction semiconductor storage device and a method for booting-up computer host: A semiconductor storage device connected to the host system through the general purpose interface, including a semiconductor storage media module (1) and a controller module (2), in which the controller module (2) consists of a general purpose interface control module (21), a microprocessor and control module (22). Various device class... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080109574 - Method and system for synchronizing audio processing modules: Embodiments of the present invention provide an audio system having wholly independent audio processing modules. The audio system includes a plurality of audio processing modules, a clock manager, a sample rate converter and a buffer. The audio processing modules are communicatively coupled to the clock manager and the buffer. The... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20080109576 - Data transfer apparatus, storage device control apparatus and control method using storage device control apparatus: A data transfer apparatus includes a memory having first and second queues for storing data transfer information that includes information specifying a first memory area and information specifying a second memory area, a first processor which registers the data transfer information in the first or second queue, and a second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080109580 - Obtaining extended queue measurement data for a range of logical control unit queues: I/O measurement data for channels attached to logical control unit queues is obtained related to a plurality of logical control unit queues. A store secondary queue measurement data instruction specifies a range of queues for which extended secondary measurement blocks derived from the I/O measurement data are stored at a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080109583 - High performance serial bus data recorder: A Firewire data recorder device in which contains a small electronic circuit that stores digital data onto a Firewire hard disk drive. The recorder is designed to be broadly applicable to many data storage applications, and takes in 16-bit parallel data and writes it to the hard drive at up... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080109584 - Method and apparatus for verifying fault tolerant configuration: The verification of fault-tolerant connections between redundant controller pairs and nodes is provided. In particular, a node identifier seen at one port of the controllers is compared to the node identifier seen at another port of the controllers. In response to determining that proper connections have not been made, an... Agent: Sheridan Ross Pc

20080109585 - System and method for reducing store latency in symmetrical multiprocessor systems: A system and method for reducing store latency in symmetrical multiprocessor systems are provided. Bus agents are provided which monitor reflected ownership requests (Dclaims) to determine if the reflected Dclaim is its own Dclaim. If so, the bus agent determines that it is the winner of the ownership request and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080109586 - System and method for arbitration for virtual channels to prevent livelock in a richly-connected multi-processor computer system: Systems and methods for arbitrating for virtual channels to prevent livelock in richly-connected multiprocessor computer system. Livelock is prevented in a multiprocessor computer system, in which each of a large plurality processing node has input links and egress links. A virtual channel is assigned to convey the communication. Communication data... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080109587 - Switch control of usb transceiver between a plurality of processors: A device (100) that includes a communications port (130), a first processor (135), at least a second processor (140), and a multiplexer (105). The multiplexer can selectively communicatively link the communications port to the first processor or the second processor. The multiplexer can include at least one switch (110, 115)... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080104281 - Method and apparatus for generating external input table: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating an external input table in a device reproducing an AV signal. The method of generating an external input table includes receiving a reproduction request for reproducing an AV signal from another device and determining whether an external input is assigned to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104280 - On demand storage array: A computer storage library is configured to include a plurality of storage media, with individual storage media housed in respective individual storage slots. Each of the storage media slots may communicate with a storage controller, which in turn may communicate with a host through a network connection. A delivery device... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080104282 - Serial transmission controller, serial transmission decoder and serial transmission method thereof: A serial transmission controller, a serial transmission decoder and a serial transmission method thereof are disclosed. First, a current address and an access address are compared to select one of a plurality of transmission address modes as an access address mode and then to produce corresponding address information. The transmission... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080104283 - Method and system for achieving fair command processing in storage systems that implement command-associated priority queuing: In certain, currently available data-storage systems, incoming commands from remote host computers are subject to several levels of command-queue-depth-fairness-related throttles to ensure that all host computers accessing the data-storage systems receive a reasonable fraction of data-storage-system command-processing bandwidth to avoid starvation of one or more host computers. Recently, certain host-computer-to-data-storage-system... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104284 - Device switching methods and computer systems: A device switching method is provided. The method includes the following steps. An operation instruction is received by a computer system. In response to the instruction, a switching signal is sent from the computer system to an integrated peripheral device connected via a port to the computer, thus the active... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080104286 - Data transfer apparatus and data transfer method: According to one embodiment, a data transfer apparatus includes a first device, a transfer unit which controls data transfer between a second device to be connected to the first device and to be controlled thereby, and a control unit which discards data to be transmitted from the second device when... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104288 - Electronic device, computer system comprising the same and control method thereof: A computer system includes a central processing unit (CPU) including at least one compensation port, a register setting part to set a control value corresponding to a predetermined specification of the compensation port, and a controlling part to save the set control value and to output a control signal corresponding... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080104289 - Audio interface for controlling a motion signal: The present description relates to the interfacing of a computer with a motion platform using a USB audio-class computer peripheral. The computer peripheral receives a digital audio-format signal according to the USB specification and provides a motion signal to up to four motion platforms. As the computer peripheral is a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080104279 - Power supply: In a power supply with a data transmission module, the power supply includes a power transforming module and a data transmission module. The power transforming module is provided for converting mains electricity into an electric power applicable to electronic components and has a power input terminal connected to the mains... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080104285 - Method and system for monitoring device port: A device port monitoring system is disclosed by embodiments of the present invention, and the system includes an indicator status tracking module coupled with each distributed device respectively. And the indicator status tracking module is used for generating a tracking instruction according to inputted information for tracking a specific port,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104287 - Information terminal, information processing system, and methods of controlling the same: An information terminal disclosed herein includes a data storage in which data is stored; an internal controller which accesses the data storage by a request from inside the information terminal; and an external controller which accesses the data storage by a request from outside the information terminal. If a request... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104290 - System, method and storage medium for providing a high speed test interface to a memory subsystem: A buffer device for testing a memory subsystem. The buffer device includes a parallel bus port adapted for connection to a slow speed bus and a serial bus port adapted for connection to a high speed bus. The high speed bus operates at a faster speed than the slow speed... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080104291 - Flash drive memory apparatus and method: A memory apparatus includes a non-volatile computer memory, a USB mass storage controller connected to the non-volatile computer memory, the USB mass storage controller including a daisy chain component, a male USB interface connected to the USB mass storage controller, and at least one other interface for a memory device,... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20080104292 - Electronic network: An electronic network is disclosed. One embodiment includes a plurality of network devices, a bus for transferring data between the network devices and a bus master for controlling the transfer of data between the network devices. Each network device is identified using one unique identification code. At least one number... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080104293 - Memory controller connection to ram using buffer interface: Provided are memory control apparatus and methods for controlling data transfer between a memory controller and at least two logical memory busses connected to memory, comprising a memory controller; a buffer; a bidirectional data bus connecting the controller and the buffer; a control interface connecting the controller and the buffer,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104294 - Method for operation of a bus system: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a bus system, in which a plurality of subscribers communicate with one another over the same bus line and all subscribers are assigned a subscriber address from a limited address set. To avoid address conflicts, it is suggested that by each subscriber... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080104295 - Method and apparatus for transferring data to virtual devices behind a bus expander: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for transferring data from a master to a set of applications executing on a slave. Data is received from a master at a device driver in the slave. The data is parsed for an identifier by a virtual hub in the slave, wherein the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104296 - Interrupt handling using simultaneous multi-threading: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing interrupts. The method includes placing at least one physical processor of an information processing system in a simultaneous multi-threading mode. At least a first logical processor and a second logical processor associated with the at least one... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080104299 - Business card sized storage device: A business card sized storage device comprises: a housing having an upper and lower covers, from whose edges extend downward to form a sidewall, respectively, and in turn establish an internal space; a circuit board with circuit layout with one of its surface disposed with a control module and a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080104298 - Expandable express card capable of isolating noise and method for combining functionalities of the express card with a non-host device: An express card includes a plurality of detection pins, a plurality of power pins, a plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface pins, a plurality of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) interface pins, a plurality of expandable pins, and a power detection circuit. The power detection circuit includes a plurality... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080104297 - Expansion card apparatus: An expansion card apparatus for expanding a motherboard which complies with a first signal transmission standard with an expansion card which complies with a second signal transmission standard, includes a first slot which complies with the first standard, a second slot which complies with the second standard, an expansion slot,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang J

20080104300 - Docking station having auxiliary power management for use with portable medical equipment: When portable diagnostic medical equipment is placed into a dock, or docking station, the batteries of the docking station are used in a hierarchical manner to insure that the batteries in the portable equipment become charged and that any power needed to run the portable device is provided from a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080104301 - Method and system for coupling a laptop or other portable or hand-held device to a docking system using an ethernet interface: Methods and systems for coupling a laptop or other portable or hand-held device to a docking system using an Ethernet Interface are disclosed and may comprise interfacing a portable computing device to a docking station using an Ethernet interface. Power may be applied from the docking station to the portable... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080104302 - System and method for effectively performing a signal conversion procedure: A system and method for effectively utilizing a converter device to perform a signal conversion procedure includes an input detector module that references an input table to validate input values from converter input signals that are generated by an external signal source such as a local access device for a... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080104303 - Low latency event communication system and method: A low latency event communication system comprises a computer system having an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) namespace table with a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) branch and a non-PCI device described in the PCI branch to enable the non-PCI device to be assigned a PCI resource.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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