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Electrical Computers And Digital Data Processing Systems: Input/output > Input/output Data Processing Input/output Data ProcessingInput/output Data Processing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.10/19/06 - 20060235999 - Doorbell mechanism Provided are techniques for writing doorbell information. In accordance with certain techniques, one or more protection domains are created. One or more data structures are created, wherein each of the data structures is associated with at least one protection domain. One of the data structures is updated. A doorbell structure ... 10/12/06 - 20060230188 - Programmable controller system A programmable controller system comprises networks including a plurality of programmable controllers and a development support device. One of the programmable controllers is set as a relay programmable controller. The development support device is used by online-connecting to the relay programmable controller via a communication line and by switching connecting ... 10/05/06 - 20060224776 - Auto-configured lin bus nodes An auto-configured LIN bus system comprises a plurality of modules linked to a LIN bus along which electronic data or instructions can be sent to and from each said module. At least one of said modules is a non-configured reconfigurable module having means for being configured with an ID and ... 09/07/06 - 20060200586 - Connection adapter for communication device A connection adapter includes first interfaces, second interfaces for connection to communication devices connected to a radio packet communication network, and a conversion circuit performing mutual conversion between an input/output signal from or to high-level equipment and an input/output signal from or to the communication device. The conversion circuit receives ... 08/31/06 - 20060195621 - Signaling to a peripheral via irregular read operations A peripheral communicates with a host according to a protocol such as USB. In case a user of the host is restricted by an operating system of the host from sending certain information to the peripheral, a pattern of protocol commands that includes one or more read commands is defined ... 08/31/06 - 20060195620 - System and method for virtual resource initialization on a physical adapter that supports virtual resources A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for directly sharing a network stack offload I/O adapter that directly supports resource virtualization and does not require a LPAR manager or other intermediary to be invoked on every I/O transaction is provided. The present invention also provides a method, ... 08/31/06 - 20060195619 - System and method for destroying virtual resources in a logically partitioned data processing system A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for directly destroying one or more virtual resources that reside within a physical adapter and that are associated with a virtual host. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a mechanism for sharing conventional Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) I/O adapters, ... 08/31/06 - 20060195618 - Data processing system, method, and computer program product for creation and initialization of a virtual adapter on a physical adapter that supports virtual adapter level virtualization A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for directly sharing an I/O adapter that directly supports adapter virtualization and does not require an LPAR manager or other intermediary to be invoked on every I/O transaction is provided. The present invention also provides a method, computer program product, ... 08/31/06 - 20060195617 - Method and system for native virtualization on a partially trusted adapter using adapter bus, device and function number for identification A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that allows a single physical I/O adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter, to use a PCI adapter identifier to associate its resources to a system image and isolate them from other system images thereby providing I/O virtualization ... 08/24/06 - 20060190629 - Method of automatically selecting channel to receive stream transmitted in ieee 1394 network A method and system of automatically selecting a channel to receive a stream transmitted in an IEEE 1394 network is provided. The method and system include the steps of: a predetermined IEEE 1394 device belonging to the IEEE 1394 network, selecting a predetermined channel number by changing the channel number ... 08/17/06 - 20060184701 - Position changing apparatus The present invention provides a position changing apparatus for moving a vehicle body or a vehicle part that includes a jig base, a guide unit forming a slanted guide surface, a driving block, an actuator, and an attaching unit. In addition, all components of the position changing apparatus are simplified, ... 08/17/06 - 20060184700 - System and method for sharing a device across operating systems A system for sharing a device across a plurality of operating systems is provided. The system includes a sharable bit in the namespace for identifying whether the device is sharable. The system further includes one or more operating systems that are adapted to recognize the sharable bit. ... 08/17/06 - 20060184699 - Expansion apparatus for a vehicle display device An expansion apparatus for a vehicle display device aims to upgrade and expand the function of a car ceiling display device without changing the original video and audio playing system. The expansion apparatus includes a body which houses a built-in multimedia processing equipment. The body has one side fastened to ... 08/10/06 - 20060179164 - Digital data interface device message format The present invention provides a digital data interface device message format that describes command and response messages to be exchanged between a digital device having a system controller and a digital data interface device. The digital data interface device includes a message interpreter, content module and a control module. The ... 08/10/06 - 20060179163 - Disk array device In the disk array device, the critical I/O from the host can be responded regardless of the state of the storage unit to be accessed and without occurring an answer delay and system down so that both of the I/O performance and the system reliability can be improved. In the ... 08/10/06 - 20060179162 - Responsive input units The invention relates to a method and device for selecting an application to be displayed onto an output unit or screen, a computer program product and element for carrying out said method, as well as a method and device for determining the output device on which to display said application. ... 07/27/06 - 20060168356 - Method and system for transmitting data for a shared application A method and system for compressing bitmap data in a system for sharing an application running on a host computer with a remote computer, wherein the shared application's screen output is simultaneously displayed on both computers. Simultaneous display of screen output is achieved by efficiently transmitting display data between the ... 07/13/06 - 20060155880 - Apparatus and method for providing remote access redirect capability in a channel adapter of a system area network A method and apparatus for providing remote access redirect in a host channel adapter of a system area network are provided. The apparatus and method provide a mechanism by which a host channel adapter, in response to receiving a marker message, places selected channel(s) of the host channel adapter in ... 07/13/06 - 20060155879 - [method for receiving data by a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter] The present invention discloses a method for receiving data by a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter and the universal asynchronous receiver transmitter includes a receive shift register and a counter, and the receive shift register is connected to a receive register, and the receive register is connected to a preinstalled microprocessor ... 06/29/06 - 20060143311 - Direct memory access (dma) address translation between peer-to-peer input/output (i/o) devices A method and apparatus is described herein for supporting direct memory accesses between peer I/O devices. It is determined whether a guest physical address (GPA) referenced by an access generated from an I/O device, is within a range of GPAs associated with local I/O devices based at least in part ... 06/22/06 - 20060136607 - Multiplex apparatus and method for multiplexing legacy device A multiplex apparatus includes a plurality of systems configured to be connected to each other by links. Each of the plurality of systems includes a CPU, a pseudo legacy device and a legacy device. The pseudo legacy device is configured to be electrically connected to the CPU. The legacy device ... 06/22/06 - 20060136606 - Logic device comprising reconfigurable core logic for use in conjunction with microprocessor-based computer systems A logic device comprising reconfigurable core logic for use in conjunction with microprocessor-based computer systems which may be implemented as fully reconfigurable circuitry or a combination of reconfigurable logic and fixed logic sections. The core logic may contain parameterized functions that are selectable dynamically or during a manufacturing process and ... 06/22/06 - 20060136605 - Multi-core multi-thread processor crossbar architecture A processor chip is provided. The processor chip includes a plurality of processing cores where each of the processing cores being multi-threaded. The plurality of processing cores are located in a center region of the processor chip. A plurality of cache bank memories are included. A crossbar enabling communication between ... 04/20/06 - 20060085563 - Terminal apparatus A low cost, a low power consumption and a small size are three very important factors for a mobile communication terminal. A great problem is posed by the conventional technique using a DSP and a CPU independent of each other which requires two external memory systems. Also, two peripheral units ... 03/02/06 - 20060047858 - Rom scan memory expander A method and system for booting up multiple PCI peripheral devices, such that the number of bootable PCI peripheral devices is not limited by the amount of computer system memory that is dedicated to storing executable boot code for the peripheral devices. The executable boot code is stored on a ... 02/16/06 - 20060036775 - Apparatus and methods for video graphics array (vga) virtualization in system exploiting multiple operating systems An operating system is prohibited from accessing a video graphics array (VGA) controller. An attempt by the operating system to program the VGA controller to operate in a transparent plane configuration is interrupted, the transparent plane configuration including a specification that a block of image data is to be transferred ... 01/12/06 - 20060010259 - Display apparatus, method, and computer system A display apparatus and method of displaying an image, and a video signal processor and method of converting an input video signal into a displayable format compatible with the display, including an reproducing apparatus reading out data stored on a medium, a playback part converting the data read by the ... 01/12/06 - 20060010258 - Dynamic object validation A system that facilitates validating an object in a software design tool comprises a component that receives input relating to development of an object. A validating component, prior to compile, automatically determines whether the object is associated with an error upon receipt of the input. An alarm component can generate ... 01/12/06 - 20060010257 - Method and apparatus for acquiring device information Disclosed herein is a method and corresponding apparatus for conveying office peripheral information. An acquisition module included in a device establishes a connection to an aggregation module. Device information is communicated to the aggregation module using the established connection. ... 01/12/06 - 20060010256 - Data processing system and method of operation A server-based data processing system (10) is provided for enabling interaction between users of a massive multi-player role playing game (MMRPG) or similar application in which a virtual environment (20) is represented geographically as a plurality of cells (22) arranged in a matrix for example. Game state data relating to ... 01/12/06 - 20060010255 - Address generation unit for a processor A processor includes a memory port for accessing a physical memory under control of an address. A processing unit executing instructions stored in the memory and/or operates on data stored in the memory. An address generation unit (“AGU”) generates address for controlling access to the memory; the AGU being associated ... 12/29/05 - 20050289246 - Interpreting i/o operation requests from pageable guests without host intervention Input/output (I/O) operation requests from pageable storage mode guests are interpreted without host intervention. In a pageable mode virtual environment, requests issued by pageable storage mode guests are processed by one or more processors of the environment absent intervention from one or more hosts of the environment. Processing of the ... 12/22/05 - 20050283540 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but ... 12/15/05 - 20050278460 - Communication in multiprocessor using proxy sockets Systems and methods for implementing communication in a multiprocessor are disclosed. In one exemplary implementation a first processor receives a request to provide a communication resource for an application executing on the first processor to communicate with a remote application. In response to the communication request, the first processor opens ... 12/01/05 - 20050267996 - Method frame storage using multiple memory circuits A memory architecture in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention improves the speed of method invocation. Specifically, method frames of method calls are stored in two different memory circuits. The first memory circuit stores the execution environment of each method call, and the second memory circuit stores parameters, ... 11/24/05 - 20050262270 - Multithreaded clustered microarchitecture with dynamic back-end assignment A multithreaded clustered microarchitecture with dynamic back-end assignment is presented. A processing system may include a plurality of instruction caches and front-end units each to process an individual thread from a corresponding one of the instruction caches, a plurality of back-end units, and an interconnect network to couple the front-end ... 11/24/05 - 20050262269 - System and method for information handling system pci express advanced switching Plural processing subsystems of an information handling system, such as plural blades of a blade server, communicate through a base protocol, such as PCI Express, to a peripheral communication device with each processing subsystem interfaced through a port of the peripheral communication device. An encapsulation module of the peripheral communication ... 11/10/05 - 20050251586 - Multiple selectable function integrated circuit module An integrated circuit module has a common function known good integrated circuit die with selectable functions. The selectable functions are selected during packaging of the known good integrated circuit die. The known good integrated circuit die is mounted to a second level substrate. The second level substrate has wiring connections ... 11/10/05 - 20050251585 - Multi-interval data acquisition apparatus The objective is to provide a data acquisition apparatus enabling simultaneous data acquisition using multiple measurement intervals in a data acquisition apparatus comprised of multiple input modules. It is characterized, as a data acquisition apparatus comprising multiple input modules having different measurement intervals, in that a control means is provided ... 11/03/05 - 20050246453 - Providing direct access to hardware from a virtual environment Extensions or other software applications can have direct access to hardware from within a virtual machine environment. The physical addresses of hardware can be mapped into the process space of the virtual machine environment. Similarly, I/O ports can be allowed to pass through into the virtual environment. The virtual machine ... 10/27/05 - 20050240681 - Communication device, storage system and a communication method Each of the storage devices 1, 2 is provided with transmission queues 306a, 306b with respect to each of transmission paths A and B. The storage device 1 stores identical request data in each of the transmission queues 306a and 306b, and transmits each data to the counterpart storage device ... 10/13/05 - 20050228906 - Delay storage device and delay treating method A delay storage device accepts a processing request sent from a user terminal, registers identifier and acceptance data and time of the processing request in an information management table, sends an answer message including the identifier, and relays the accepted processing request to a processor while adjusting transfer rate of ... 10/13/05 - 20050228905 - Method and apparatus and program storage device adapted for automatic qualitative and quantitative risk assesssment based on technical wellbore design and earth properties A Software System, known as an Automatic Well Planning Risk Assessment Software System, is adapted to determine and display risk information in response to a plurality of input data by: receiving the plurality of input data, the input data including a plurality of input data calculation results; comparing each calculation ... 10/13/05 - 20050228904 - Computer processor array A computer array (10) has a plurality of computers (12) for accomplishing a larger task that is divided into smaller tasks, each of the smaller tasks being assigned to one or more of the computers (12). Each of the computers (12) may be configured for specific functions and individual input/output ... 10/06/05 - 20050223120 - Control system simulation, testing, and operator training A requirements database and test generator generates tests for functional and field testing and generates requirements documentation, user manuals, operational procedures, instrument data sheets, instrument indices, instrument loop diagrams, validation reports, and test reports, including exception and passing reports. A portable process control simulator system which provides control system users ... 10/06/05 - 20050223119 - Operating a remote usb host controller An apparatus and method for remote USB host controlling are described herein. ... 09/22/05 - 20050210158 - Method, apparatus and system for seamlessly sharing a graphics device amongst virtual machines A method, apparatus and system are described for seamlessly and concurrently sharing a graphics device amongst multiple virtual machines (“VMs”) on a host computer. Specifically, according to one embodiment of the invention, a graphics device may be shared by multiple VMs such that only the output of one VM (i.e., ... 09/15/05 - 20050204069 - Gathering i/o measurement data during an i/o operation process I/O measurement data associated with the performance of an I/O operation process is gathered during the I/O process. The I/O measurement data is saved in an IRB memory location specified by a test subchannel instruction. An I/O interrupt signals the completion of the I/O operation process. ... 09/08/05 - 20050198405 - Software compatible parallel interface with bidirectional handshaking for serial peripherals High-speed reliable parallel data transmission between a computer and a parallel peripheral is provided by a peripheral controller by way of a virtual parallel UART (VPU). The VPU provides a novel parallel interface for higher speed parallel interface operation. The VPU is included in the peripheral controller along with a ... 09/08/05 - 20050198404 - Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus An ASIC (semiconductor device) of an image processing section is provided with an input/output circuit for performing input and output to and from an image processing circuit and a confidential circuit. The input/output circuit performs output to outside of the ASIC at a timing shifted from a timing of output ... 08/18/05 - 20050182858 - Portable memory device with multiple i/o interfaces A portable memory device with multiple I/O interfaces, comprising: a storage device, a control unit capable of controlling the storage device to access the data, and at least two different I/O interface units. The two or more I/O interface units are capable of transferring data stored in the storage device ... 08/18/05 - 20050182857 - Modular, attachable objects with tags as intuitive physical interface facilitating user interaction with a computer A method, system, and device for adding modular tags, that can be associated with particular configurations, that can be attached to and/or read by a computer peripheral device and/or computer is described. A modular tag reader in a computer peripheral device and/or computer recognizes a modular tag and its associated ... 08/11/05 - 20050177649 - Computer security apparatus and method using security input device driver Disclosed is a computer security apparatus and a method using a security input device driver. Data inputted through a data input unit is directly encrypted at the security input device driver without passing through an OS input device driver supporting in an OS. Thereby, the data inputted through the data ... 08/11/05 - 20050177648 - Data processing system In a data processing system which runs a plurality of operating systems, a channel device can be shared by the plurality of operating systems. In addition, a channel device which supports port multiplexing can also be shared by a plurality of operating systems. The channel device includes a plurality of ... 08/04/05 - 20050172042 - Audio visual system having a serial bus for identifying devices connected to the external terminals of an amplifier in the system In the information processing system, the user can easily grasp the names of terminals that the main information processing device possesses. By transmitting the name data showing each name of multiple terminals 13, 14, 15 that the main information processing device 4 has to the control device 2 via the ... 08/04/05 - 20050172041 - Fibre channel controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains within a load-store architecture A Fibre Channel controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) is disclosed. The controller includes a programming interface, located within a system load-store memory map of each OSD by which the OSDs request the controller to perform I/O operations with remote FC devices. The programming interface includes ... 08/04/05 - 20050172040 - Computer system, control apparatus, storage system and computer device A computer system which enables more efficient use of a storage system shared by plural host computers and optimizes the performance of the whole system including the host computers and storages. A computer device has a first control block which logically partitions computing resources of the computer device and makes ... 08/04/05 - 20050172039 - Kvm switch A KVM switch having a control circuit mounted inside a housing and formed of a microprocessor, an OSD control circuit, a filtering switching circuit, a mouse control circuit, a keyboard control circuit, and a VGA control circuit, and adapted to receive a plurality of computers and computer peripheral apparatus including ... 08/04/05 - 20050172038 - System and method for processing computer i/o port post codes A preferred embodiment of the invention enables I/O port POST codes to be accessed via a universal serial bus (“USB”) port of the computer system: BIOS writes an I/O port POST code to a USB port. A device coupled to the USB port reads the I/O port POST code and ... 08/04/05 - 20050172037 - Mapping sdvo functions from pci express interface An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to map pins on an interface connector to signals for a digital display. A first group of signal traces maps transmitter differential pairs pins in a first group of lanes on the interface connector compatible with a first interface standard to ... 08/04/05 - 20050172036 - Method for transmitting data in a multi-chip system A multi-chip system has at least a host chip and at least a slave chip. The slave chip informs the host chip of data needed to be transmitted. When informed by the slave chip the host chip informs the slave chip to start to transmit the data, and when informed ... 08/04/05 - 20050172035 - Presenting an information item on a media system A method and a media system of/for presenting an information item from a first set of information items. The media system can be a Web-TV, a browser or a Web device. In the method and the media system each information item of the first set of information items is accessible ... 07/28/05 - 20050165976 - Dynamic address windowing on a pci bus A multi-tasking operating system and method updates PCI address values in an extension register to ensure that various threads utilize the correct values when accessing peripheral PCI devices. When application program threads require access to a PCI device, the operating system writes the high order bits of the PCI device ... 07/28/05 - 20050165975 - Logical unit number increasing device, and logical unit number increasing method According to an embodiment, virtual logical units are each provided with correlative data between a virtual logical unit number and a real logical unit number. In response to an access request specifying a virtual logical unit number from a host, a correlated real logical unit number is obtained by referring ... 07/28/05 - 20050165974 - Computer apparatus and computer system A memory controller has a link monitoring circuit for detecting a communication cutoff between the memory controller and an I/O controller, and an error reply generating circuit for generating an error reply for a transaction being processed when the communication cutoff is detected. When the I/O controller is disconnected due ... 07/28/05 - 20050165973 - Communications terminal apparatus, reception apparatus, and method therefor A communications terminal apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a method can enhance the effect of reducing the amount of information to be transmitted when text data is generated and transmitted. The communications terminal apparatus 100 stores key identifier definition information in a key identifier definition-storage area 1071. The communications terminal ... 07/28/05 - 20050165972 - File input/output control device and method for the same A file input/output control device 200, upon receiving a file from a client 100, constructs a plurality of fragments from a file with reference to a predetermined number of divisions and redundancy. A file input/output control device 200 allows a plurality of fragments to be stored on a single storage ... 07/28/05 - 20050165971 - Method and system for generic data transfer interface According to one embodiment of the present invention, a data storage device comprises a generic host interface and a media controller. The host interface has a channel select bit encoder to assert one or more channel select bits to be decoded by the media controller to indicate one or more ... 07/28/05 - 20050165970 - Adaptive-allocation of i/o bandwidth using a configurable interconnect topology Apparatus and methods allocate I/O bandwidth of an electrical component, such as an IC, by configuring an I/O interface into various types of interfaces. In an embodiment of the present invention, an I/O interface is configured into either a bi-directional contact, unidirectional contact (including either a dedicated transmit or dedicated ... 07/28/05 - 20050165969 - Managing sets of input/output communications subadapters of an input/output subsystem Input/output (I/O) communications subadapters, such as subchannels, of an I/O subsystem are dedicated to components, such as I/O devices, of the I/O subsystem. The subadapters provide information about the associated components, in response to the execution of I/O instructions. To enhance I/O connectivity, a plurality of sets of I/O subadapters ... 07/28/05 - 20050165968 - Apparatus and method for improved fibre channel oversubscription over transport Oversubscription of Fibre Channel links over a transport network is provided. A transport interface according to the present invention may maintain a small ingress buffer in addition to the normal egress buffer. The ingress buffer is primarily used for oversubscription and the egress buffer is primarily used for flow control. ... 07/28/05 - 20050165967 - Control of an av content source component by an av content sink component A method is described for a home entertainment system (500) to control the playout of audio-visual (AV) content (506) from a source component (502) (such as a VCR or DVD player), depending on a signal (508) which indicates whether the AV content is being consumed by a destination component (504) ... 07/21/05 - 20050160191 - Universal graphics adapter The subject invention relates to a Universal Graphics Adapter (UGA) that is a hardware-independent design that encapsulates and abstracts low-level graphics hardware in a standard manner through firmware. UGA is a firmware standard, intended to wrap existing or planned hardware, including VGA. UGA does not require the use of real-mode ... 07/21/05 - 20050160190 - System and method to specify device specific user interface information in the firmware of a usb device Systems and methods to specify device specific user interface information in firmware of a USB device are described. In one aspect, a USB device receives a host-specific device request from an application executing on a computing device coupled to the USB device. The USB device identifies a host-defined string descriptor ... 07/21/05 - 20050160189 - Reliable use of desktop class disk drives in enterprise storage applications Aspects of increasing the quality and reliability of desktop class storage disks in enterprise storage applications are described. The aspects include monitoring a number of idle states and busy states in a disk drive, and limiting performance of read/write commands by the disk drive based on whether a sufficient number ... 07/21/05 - 20050160188 - Method and apparatus to manage memory access requests A method and apparatus for managing memory access requests have been disclosed. One embodiment of the method includes dynamically modifying attributes of each of a number of requests to access one or more memory devices and arbitrating among the requests to select a request to send to the memory devices ... 07/21/05 - 20050160187 - Electronic shelf unit with management function performed by a common shelf card with the assistance of an auxiliary interface board An electronic shelf includes a plurality of system circuit boards including a first system circuit board containing a first central processing unit (CPU) providing decision-making intelligence for end-user services supported by the first system circuit board. An auxiliary circuit board is connected to the first circuit board and provides input ... 07/21/05 - 20050160186 - Optical display link According to some embodiments, multi-level symbol encoding may be used to provide display data through an optical link. ... 07/21/05 - 20050160185 - Electrical home appliance having access control means In order to ensure the security by access control, or the like, using a limited input/output interface of a household electric appliance without complicated setting manipulations, a refrigerator includes a filter section which permits only establishing a communication with a relay server having a specific IP address. The relay server ... 07/14/05 - 20050154799 - Switching device for rs-232 serial port and usb serial port A switching device for RS-232 serial port and USB serial port is adapted to simultaneously provide a RS-232 serial port and a USB serial port for a micro-processor with a single USART. The switching device can automatically switch to select either of the RS-232 serial port or the USB serial ... 07/14/05 - 20050154798 - Adaptive user interface input device The present invention relates to an adaptable user interface. The adaptable user interface provides a more error free input function as well as greater ease of use when being used during certain events such as while moving. A user interface in accordance with the principles of the present invention comprises ... 07/14/05 - 20050154797 - Method, apparatus, and program for detecting sequential and distributed path errors in mpio An error detection mechanism is provided for detecting sequential and distributed errors in a device I/O stream. The sensitivity of the errors is user definable. The result of the error detection is fed back into the path management software, which may use the error information to decide whether a device ... 07/14/05 - 20050154796 - Method of enabling a wireless information device to access data services A method of providing data to a wireless information device, in which data supplied from a remote service provider is represented by an icon which is (a) automatically displayed within an application running on the device, and which (b) changes if the data alters, in order to alert the user ... 07/07/05 - 20050149635 - Task scheduling method in case of simultaneous transfer of compressed data and non-compressed data The invention provides a task scheduling method which can prevent overflowing of a buffer on a host system or a data encoding/decoding apparatus even when the transfer rate falls in case the compressed data and the non-compressed data are simultaneously transferred between the host system and the data encoding/decoding apparatus. ... 06/30/05 - 20050144330 - Multi-threaded synchronization adapter The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automatic interactions between a highly threaded software environment such as an operating system kernel and a module operating in a less threaded environment. This is achieved by supplying adapter objects that employ various automated locking components to synchronize interactions ... 06/30/05 - 20050144329 - Switch control system and method for a plurality of input devices A switch control system has a switch device for selecting a real input device or an emulation input device, an instruction detecting device electrically connected to a computer system and the switch device for detecting signals transmitted to the switch device, and a control device electrically connected to the switch ... 06/23/05 - 20050138224 - Computer accessory device-usb sharer A computer accessory device—USB share is comprised of a multiplexer, which is connected to a computer host; a human interface device (HID) chip, which is connected to one output end of the multiplexer; a device output end, which is connected to another output end of the multiplexer; and a busyness ... 06/23/05 - 20050138223 - Autonomic hardware-level storage device data integrity checking A system and method for autonomically monitoring data integrity during logical and physical storage and retrieval of data by a storage device. In one embodiment, the method of the present invention includes scheduling data integrity checking in accordance with an operative input/output (I/O) state of the storage device. The scheduling ... 06/23/05 - 20050138222 - Integrated visual and language-based system and method for reusable data transformations There is provided a method and system for developing a transformation program to transform a data structure from a first format to a second format, the program including a plurality of coupled data transformation modules describing the transformation, the method comprising the steps of: generating a first transformation module of ... 06/23/05 - 20050138221 - Handling redundant paths among devices Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for initiating a discovery operation to discover end devices and intermediary devices. In response to discovering one device during the discovery operation, a determination is made as whether there are redundant paths to the discovered device. One intermediary device is selected ... 06/23/05 - 20050138220 - Driver transparent message signaled interrupts Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described to issue message signaled interrupts. In some disclosed embodiments, a device generates message signaled interrupts in a manner that enables a device driver written with level-sensitive semantics to properly service the device despite the edge-triggered characteristics message signaled interrupts. ... 06/23/05 - 20050138219 - Managing application interactions using distributed modality components A method for managing multimodal interactions can include the step of registering a multitude of modality components with a modality component server, wherein each modality component handles an interface modality for an application. The modality component can be connected to a device. A user interaction can be conveyed from the ... 06/23/05 - 20050138218 - Portable storage device and its method to display remaining storage capacity A portable storage device and its method to display remaining storage capacity, its method includes the portable storage device receives data from the computer, stores data in the data storage module of the portable storage device, and retrieves the remaining data storage capacity of the portable storage device from the ... 06/23/05 - 20050138217 - Bus interface for optical transceiver devices A communications system includes a transceiver and a host board. The transceiver includes an interrupt request terminal and a communication port. The host board includes an interrupt request line and a communication bus, wherein the interrupt request line is coupled to the interrupt request terminal to receive an interrupt request, ... 06/23/05 - 20050138216 - System and method for remote collection of data A system and method for managing electronic forms data, and financial advise applications is provided. Financial advisors may be equipped with portable computing devices, such as a laptop or tablet PC to provide customers in-field support through the use of financial advise applications, customer data and electronic forms. Further, the ... 06/16/05 - 20050132090 - Automatic driver installation method and system A method and system for automatically installing drivers in a computer for driving an apparatus that is connected to the computer and having at least one emulation. The method includes the steps of executing a driver installation module included in the computer, the driver installation module requesting the apparatus to ... 06/09/05 - 20050125567 - Method for monitoring an automation system A method and a system for monitoring and determining preceding states of at least one terminal of an automation system are provided. The automation system includes one or more terminals (1, 2), each of which can assume two or more states and each of which outputs a monitoring message that ... 06/09/05 - 20050125566 - Storage capacity indicator for removable mass storage device A mass storage device, such as a removable hard disk, stores data and has an overall storage capacity. The mass storage device includes a panel on which a capacity indicator is positioned, and the capacity indicator displays either a used storage capacity or a free storage capacity of the mass ... 06/02/05 - 20050120142 - Rotor selection interface and method In a user interface to select a desired rotor from a set of rotors corresponding to compatible rotors for use in a centrifuge device, a home menu is utilized to access a previously selected rotor and an add menu is utilized to add the desired rotor in response to the ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |