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Electrical Computers And Digital Data Processing Systems: Input/output > Input/output Data Processing > Input/output Command Process Input/output Command ProcessInput/output Command Process 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.09/28/06 - 20060218306 - Apparatus and method of loading program code through interface An apparatus capable of utilizing interfaces to load program codes. The apparatus includes a storage unit, a first logic unit, and a second unit. The storage unit stores a first program code and a second program code. The first logic unit, which is coupled to an interface, executes the first ... 09/21/06 - 20060212606 - Native virtualization on a partially trusted adapter using pci host bus, device, and function number for identification A mechanism that allows a single physical I/O adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter, to perform I/O transactions using the PCI host bus, device, and function numbers to validate that an I/O transaction originated from the proper host is provided. Additionally, a method for facilitating identification of ... 09/21/06 - 20060212605 - Serial host interface and method for operating the same Data throughput of the serial host interface is improved by combining command and register address data into a single index word to be transmitted through the serial host interface. The least significant bit (LSB) of the index word specifies the command and the remainder of the index word specifies the ... 09/14/06 - 20060206627 - Non main cpu/os based operational environment A computing system is described that includes a main system bus that remains active while said computing system operates within a non main CPU/OS based operational state. The computing system also includes a controller that operates functional tasks while the computing system is within the non main CPU/OS based operational ... 09/14/06 - 20060206626 - Instrument and communications controller for instrument A communications controller for an instrument connectable to a host computer via a bus. The controller is operable to control communications between the instrument and the host computer according to an address-based protocol for a dedicated bus specification. The controller is operable to respond to a received synchronization command having ... 09/07/06 - 20060200588 - Method and apparatus for determining load of input/output command in input/output subsystem A method and apparatus for determining the load of an input/output command in an input/output subsystem are provided. The method for determining the load of an input/output command in a system for inputting/outputting data to/from a disk sector according to an input/output command provided from a disk driver includes: (a) ... 08/31/06 - 20060195624 - Disk array apparatus A disk array apparatus using an SAS can transfer data without lowering a transfer efficiency of data even if rates of a plurality of physical links connected to a controller and storage device are different. A plurality of HDDs are connected to a controller through an expander. Data are transferred ... 08/31/06 - 20060195623 - Native virtualization on a partially trusted adapter using pci host memory mapped input/output memory address 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 associate its resources to a system image and isolate them from other system images, thereby providing I/O virtualization is provided. Specifically, the present invention ... 08/31/06 - 20060195622 - Data input device, information equipment, information equipment control method, and computer program A data input device transmits an input signal according to the position touched by an operating finger and an operation performed by the finger. The data input device includes a finger rest unit on which the finger is placed; a finger position sensor capable of detecting one of three positions, ... 08/24/06 - 20060190630 - Apparatus and method to pass through data in a storage area network An auxiliary controller is interposable intermediate a data source (such as one or more computers or one or more mass storage devices) and a data sink (such as one or more mass storage devices or one or more computers) to provide additional operations on s the data as desired without ... 08/10/06 - 20060179166 - Operation apparatus An operation apparatus able to continuously perform processing involving computations differing according to the input conditions, able to keep down useless processing when for example the processing may be interrupted in the middle if certain conditions are satisfied, and able to achieve an improvement of transfer efficiency of course and ... 08/10/06 - 20060179165 - Multipurpose charging system with transmission function A multipurpose charging system with a transmission function is capable of solving the power consumption problem of a handheld device when the handheld device is connected to a peripheral device. The multipurpose charging system has a handheld device, a transformer device, and a USB line. The handheld device has a ... 07/27/06 - 20060168357 - Information input/output system An input/output (IO) system reduces the processing load involved in judging whether a device is valid or revoked. The system is constituted from an input/output (IO) device and an information usage device. The IO device outputs an identifier (ID) list to the information usage device, the ID list including one ... 07/20/06 - 20060161691 - Methods and systems for synchronous execution of commands across a communication link A method for synchronously executing a plurality of commands generated by a first module and executed at a second module, wherein the first and second modules communicate through a communication link, is provided. The method includes generating the commands at the first module, transmitting the commands through the link to ... 07/20/06 - 20060161690 - Remote device configuration automation A remote control device tries each of a number of command sets and detects a user's response to each attempt to identify the correct command set. Each attempt includes sending a signal to a controlled device that, if properly received and understood by the controlled device, would cause the controlled ... 07/20/06 - 20060161689 - Apparatus and systems for monitoring communication Apparatus and systems may include a connector to connect lines sending or receiving data between two communicating devices to lines communicating the data to a monitoring computer system. The monitoring computer system may display the data sent between the two devices. ... 07/13/06 - 20060155888 - Request conversion In one embodiment, a method may include, if an amount of data requested to be transferred by a data transfer request according to a first protocol exceeds a maximum data transfer amount permitted to be requested by a single data transfer request according to a second protocol, generating one data ... 07/13/06 - 20060155887 - Enhanced multi-access data port A method and system provide for transmitting data between a host and a device external to the host. The data is transmitted across an external bus having a width that is less than a native bus width of the host. The method includes receiving a first read/write access, accessing a ... 07/13/06 - 20060155886 - Methods and arrangements to manage on-chip memory to reduce memory latency Methods, systems, and media for reducing memory latency seen by processors by providing a measure of control over on-chip memory (OCM) management to software applications, implicitly and/or explicitly, via an operating system are contemplated. Many embodiments allow part of the OCM to be managed by software applications via an application ... 07/13/06 - 20060155885 - Processor and a method in the processor, the processor comprising a programmable pipeline and at least one interface engine A processor is presented, comprising a programmable pipeline and at least one interface engine (130), adapted to be connected to at least one external device (140) located externally of the processor. The processor is characterized in that the interface engine (130) is adapted to receive a request (170) from the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149858 - Establishing wireless universal serial bus (wusb) connection via a trusted medium An extensible architecture for untrusted medium (e.g., wireless) device configuration via trusted medium. The architecture includes systems and methods for establishing a wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) connection between a connecting device and a host device using a trusted medium, such as a wired connection. In one implementation, the connecting ... 06/29/06 - 20060143316 - Intelligent storage engine for disk drive operations with reduced local bus traffic For attached disk drive operations such a file copy and move, as well as more elaborate processes such as searching, virus-scanning and volume merge, a novel intelligent storage engine concept is disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage engine (40), utilizing local processor intelligence, and accessed through a suitable driver (60) ... 06/29/06 - 20060143315 - System and method for quality of service management in a partitioned storage device or subsystem A direct access storage system includes at least one disk and a controller. The at least one disk physically may be partitioned into at least one first access performance partition and at least one other access performance partition. The controller may be configured to process I/O accesses to the first ... 06/29/06 - 20060143314 - Remote usb videophone communication According to some embodiments, remote USB videophone communication is provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods may include receiving first audio and video information from a first user device and emulating the first user device as a universal serial bus device on a universal serial bus host. The systems and ... 06/08/06 - 20060123144 - Method and system for providing a peripheral service to a host computing device Disclosed is a method for one computing device (the “provider”) to provide peripheral services to another device (the “host”). A user directly runs the host. The host accesses the provider as if the provider were a set of peripheral devices attached to the host. In this way, the host and ... 06/08/06 - 20060123143 - Method for driving a standard interface to perform nonstandard functions A method for driving a standard interface to perform nonstandard functions is proposed. It includes setting a no-available parameter of a standard command frame as an execution parameter; and sending the standard command frame with the execution parameter to the standard interface. Therein, when the standard interface finds the execution ... 06/08/06 - 20060123142 - Method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer data transfer within a computing environment A method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer data transfer through an interconnecting fabric. The method and apparatus enable a first device to read and/or write data to/from a local memory of a second device by communicating read and write requests across the interconnectivity fabric. Such data transfer can be performed ... 06/08/06 - 20060123141 - Graphics systems and methods Embodiments of graphics systems and methods are disclosed. In one method embodiment, among others, a graphics method comprises receiving a first command having a first screen region, receiving a second command having a second screen region, and replacing the first command and the second command with a single command having ... 06/01/06 - 20060117114 - Staggering memory requests A method according to one embodiment may include transmitting a plurality of packets through control pipeline circuitry of an integrated circuit of a switch. The control pipeline circuitry may be capable of making a plurality of memory requests to memory of the switch in response to the plurality of packets. ... 05/25/06 - 20060112193 - System and method for controlling mass storage class digital imaging devices A method is provided for controlling a Mass Storage Class Digital Imaging Device using a SCSI pass through protocol. The protocol is based on industry standard SCSI protocol with modifications and extensions to allow transparent communication over a medium and is referred to as SCSI Pass Through (SPT). This protocol ... 05/18/06 - 20060106951 - Command controlling different operations in different chips In some embodiments, the invention includes a chip having a register to include an operation type signal. The chip also includes control circuitry to receive a first command and in response to the first command to cause the chip to perform a first operation if the operation type signal has ... 05/18/06 - 20060106950 - Method and system for efficient command performance of multiple units sharing the same data interface port An electronic system includes two or more peripheral devices or units each of which is electronically coupled to the host through a single port of a predetermined bus. By splitting commands from the host to at least one of the two or more peripheral units into subcommands or by repeating ... 05/18/06 - 20060106949 - Legacy-compatible extended command input-output control block A 32-word command IOCB format is disclosed. A conventional 8-word format is supported, although in both cases 32-word command IOCBs are used. When the conventional 8-word format is used, the host sets the LE bit=1 and writes a conventional 8-word command IOCB into words 0-7 of the 32-word command IOCB. ... 05/11/06 - 20060101161 - Host interface for direct connection of an optical driver to an ide/ata date bus A compact disk drive controller to control the access of information from an optical compact disk (CD) digital data storage device by a host computer using an integrated drive electronics (IDE) data bus or an industry standard architecture (ISA) data bus is disclosed. A digital signal processor (DSP) interface to ... 05/04/06 - 20060095596 - Solution for consumer electronics control The preferred embodiment of the present invention presents a method and a device for a host control unit to communicate over a protocol compliant bus via the introduction of an auxiliary command control unit that handles communications to and from the protocol compliant bus. The auxiliary command control unit converts ... 05/04/06 - 20060095595 - Shared simultaneously-connected drives Local drive presence is provided for local and remote drives by maintaining a plurality of uninterrupted protocol connections between a plurality of I/O controllers and a plurality of device interfaces through which peripheral bus commands are transmitted. Preferably, the I/O controllers are each housed in a separate server blade and ... 05/04/06 - 20060095594 - System and method of automatically executing ata/atapi commands A method for automatically executing at least a command set to communicate between a host and at least a peripheral device having registers of different sizes, the host comprising a storage device, a host processor, a host controller, and a command interpreter having no additional processor aid, the method comprising: ... 04/13/06 - 20060080470 - System and method of reducing the rate of interrupts generated by a device in microprocessor based systems Herein described are at least a system and a method of reducing or decreasing the rate of interrupts transmitted by a device to a microprocessor. In a representative embodiment, the device comprises a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter. In a representative embodiment, the rate of interrupts is reduced by receiving and using ... 04/06/06 - 20060075149 - Communications command control system with a software based at command receiver/transmitter A communications command control system with a software-based AT command receiver/transmitter is disclosed. A data communications equipment (DCE) microprocessor is used for data computation. A communications application software is used for generating a communications command signal based on a set of communications commands. A software-based AT command receiver/transmitter is implemented ... 04/06/06 - 20060075148 - Method of and system for testing remote storage A remote backup storage system that may be tested with current backup data while the remote system continues to received data from a primary source data storage system includes a remotely located front-end volume that is connected to receive data from a source volume. A remotely located secondary volume normally ... 03/30/06 - 20060069812 - Method to mitigate performance turnaround in a bidirectional interconnect A memory controller is disclosed. The memory controller includes a mechanism to perform a first command to transition an interface coupled between the memory controller and to facilitate a memory write and to perform a second command to immediately write data to the memory device a predetermined period after performing ... 03/23/06 - 20060064510 - Method and system for packet encryption A data processor and a method for processing data is disclosed. The processor has an input port for receiving packets of data to be processed. A master controller acts to analyse the packets and to provide a header including a list of processes to perform on the packet of data ... 02/23/06 - 20060041690 - Software communication between mpeg layer and servo layer The present invention discloses a multi-layer software architecture which includes a MPEG application, a plurality of message queues, and a servo software. An optical disc reader is controlled and directed by the servo software in order to read the information on the optical disc. Both the MPEG application and the ... 02/16/06 - 20060036777 - Storage system, and method for controlling the same Disclosed is a method A method for controlling a storage system including a host computer; a first storage controller connected communicably to the host computer, for receiving a data frame transmitted from the host computer and executing data input to and data output from a first storage device in response ... 02/16/06 - 20060036776 - I/o descriptor cache for bus mastering i/o controllers One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that includes an I/O descriptor cache that is accessed by a bus mastering I/O controller. The I/O descriptor cache stores descriptors that describe data to be transferred during corresponding I/O operations. The system also includes an I/O controller configured to control ... 02/09/06 - 20060031594 - Failover and data migration using data replication A virtual volume module in a host system provides virtual volume view to user-level and system-level applications executing on the host system. The virtual volume module maps I/O from the applications which are directed to a virtual volume to a first physical volume in a first storage system. When necessary, ... 01/19/06 - 20060015655 - Method and system for supporting read operations with crc for iscsi and iscsi chimney Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing SCSI read operations with a CRC via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI read command from an initiator. Data may be fetched from a buffer based on the ... 01/19/06 - 20060015654 - Dynamic wwn module for storage controllers A method and system for transferring data between a host and a Serial Attached Small Computer Interface (“SAS”) device using a storage controller is provided. The storage controller includes, a World Wide Name (“WWN”) module that includes a table having plural entries, wherein each row includes a WWN address, an ... 01/19/06 - 20060015653 - Expedited and low power command sequence servicing Method and apparatus for servicing commands such as the type issued by a host device to load an operating system from an associated data storage device. A controller is adapted to, upon receipt of a selected command sequence comprising a first command followed by a second command, determine an elapsed ... 01/19/06 - 20060015652 - Establishing command order in an out of order dma command queue A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided for controlling memory access. Direct Memory Access (DMA) units have become commonplace in a number of bus architectures. However, managing limited system resources has become a challenge with multiple DMA units. In order to mange the multitude of commands generated ... 12/22/05 - 20050283541 - Command accumulation tool A command accumulation tool, a testing tool for a queue, and a method, are provided, which, for example, may cause commands to accumulate in queue(s). In one embodiment, a testing tool comprises an I/O interface for connecting with a target having the queue(s); and an I/O interface for connecting with ... 12/08/05 - 20050273524 - Method and apparatus for color management The management of color presented at end point devices such as a display or printer is based on the implementation of a Color Management Resource (CMR). A CMR is an architected resource stored accessibly to a print server or other processor that is used to carry all of the color ... 12/08/05 - 20050273523 - Method and apparatus for color management The Management of color presented at end point devices such as a display or printer is based on the implementation of a Color Management Resource (CR). A CMR is an architected resource stored accessibly to a print server or other processor that is used to carry all of the color ... 11/17/05 - 20050256977 - Integrated circuit having processor and switch capabilities An apparatus according to one embodiment may include an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a processor and a switch. The switch may include at least one port capable of being coupled to at least one external communication link. The processor may be capable of issuing a request to ... 11/10/05 - 20050251589 - Method of authenticating universal serail bus on-the-go device A method for authenticating a universal serial bus on-the-go device is provided. A first device and a second device connected via a universal serial bus supporting an on-the-go protocol are provided. The first device is a host and the second device is a peripheral device. The host uses an authentication ... 11/10/05 - 20050251588 - Method and apparatus for supporting access of a serial ata storage device by multiple hosts with separate host adapters An adapter unit operative to support access of an SATA storage device by a plurality of hosts associated with separate host adapters. The adapter unit includes a multiplexer coupled to an arbiter. The multiplexer receives a plurality of sets of communication signals, one signal set for each host adapter. The ... 11/03/05 - 20050246454 - Methods and apparatus for improving data integrity for small computer system interface (scsi) devices A SCSI ID of a SCSI initiator device that has won an arbitration is identified on a SCSI bus and stored in a register at a SCSI device. Subsequently, a SCSI ID of a selected SCSI target device which was selected by the SCSI initiator device is identified on the ... 10/27/05 - 20050240683 - Method, computer program product and computer device for processing data A method for processing data comprises the steps of: providing data to be processed; locking said data with a predetermined lock associated to the process processing said data to prevent access of other processes to data; dividing data to be processed into sub-groups; starting/calling at least two sub-processes; transmitting a ... 10/20/05 - 20050235068 - Computer system sharing an i/o device between logical partitions Provided is a computer including a physical computer that includes CPU's (1a and 1b), a memory (5), a PCI bus (7) for interconnecting I/O devices (#0 to #3), and a south bridge (6) for controlling the PCI bus (7), a hypervisor that divides the physical computer into a plurality of ... 10/20/05 - 20050235067 - Write combining protocol between processors and chipsets Systems and methods of processing write transactions provide for combining write transactions on an input/output (I/O) hub according to a protocol between the I/O hub and a processor. Data associated with the write transactions can be flushed to an I/O device without the need for proprietary software and specialized registers ... 10/06/05 - 20050223124 - Deadlock avoidance in a bus fabric Circuits, apparatus, and methods for avoiding deadlock conditions in a bus fabric. One exemplary embodiment provides an address decoder for determining whether a received posted request is a peer-to-peer request. If it is, the posted request is sent as a non-posted request. A limit on the number of pending non-posted ... 10/06/05 - 20050223123 - Out-of-order servicing of read requests with minimal additional storage Various embodiments of the invention relate to an apparatus and method for efficiently implementing out-of-order servicing of read requests originating from an input/output (I/O) interface with minimal additional storage. For example, a number of read entries may be generated from data read requests stored in a first-in-first-out in a first ... 10/06/05 - 20050223122 - Integrated circuit capable of remote data storage A method according to one embodiment may include receiving an input/output (I/O) request to write data stored on at least one target device comprised in at least one local storage array. The method of this embodiment may also include generating one or more I/O transactions capable of writing data on ... 09/29/05 - 20050216606 - System and method for using a mark-up language page to command an appliance A hand-held device having a display and a browser application which supports functionality particularly suited for the hand-held device. For example, the browser application supports a full screen tag which allows information to be displayed as a full screen within the display. The browser application may also support a tag ... 09/29/05 - 20050216605 - Direct memory access control apparatus and method In a DMA control apparatus for controlling data transfer from a memory to a transfer destination apparatus in accordance with a command assigned from a processing apparatus, a data transfer command assigned from the processing apparatus is stored in a command storage device and when the data transfer command includes ... 09/22/05 - 20050210159 - Methods and structure for improved transfer rate performance in a sas wide port environment Methods and associated structure for utilizing multiple ports or PHYs comprising a SAS wide port to improve transmission bandwidth utilization for a single large I/O request. In one aspect hereof, a large I/O request is broken into a plurality of smaller I/O requests to be distributed over multiple PHYs or ... 09/01/05 - 20050193152 - Data output apparatus and control method therefor A data output apparatus includes a reproducing unit for reproducing data from a recording medium, and output means which outputs the data reproduced from the recording medium. If the data output apparatus received a first command, the data output apparatus sets the output means to a state locked to one ... 08/11/05 - 20050177650 - Means of control bit protection in a logical partition environment A method, system, and apparatus for secure programmable addressing is provided by relocating functions within a multifunctional chip to be distributed across multiple logical partitions and maintaining security over the distribution mechanism. In one embodiment, this invention is used by a data processing system including a system processor connected to ... 08/04/05 - 20050172043 - Storage system having a plurality of interfaces A hybrid-type storage system having both SAN and NAS interfaces can be implemented by simple hardware capable of carrying out a SAN function independently of a NAS function and a NAS load. To be more specific, a controller of the storage system comprises a NAS controller for accepting an I/O ... 07/14/05 - 20050154800 - Command serialization A method for conveying a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) command from a host to a logical volume, the method consisting of incorporating an indication of an address of the logical volume in the SCSI command so as to generate a modified SCSI command. The method further includes conveying the ... 07/07/05 - 20050149637 - Methods of restoring operation of serial ata storage devices The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing multiple access paths to a single ported storage device used in data storage subsystems. In an embodiment, the system provides circuitry associated with single ported storage devices, including a coupling circuit with a microcontroller for signals which include the data ... 06/30/05 - 20050144331 - On-chip serialized peripheral bus system and operating method thereof Provided is an on-chip serialized peripheral bus system and method of operating the same, wherein when a plurality of low-speed peripherals are connected to a system that employs a high-speed parallel bus, the existing parallel bus system for connecting the low-speed peripheral becomes serialized, thereby reducing a bus width of ... 06/02/05 - 20050120143 - Sequential device control with time-out function This invention is used in a real time system that includes a host processor, interface hardware and an external device controlled by the interface hardware. To maintain system real-time performance, handshake protocol between the external device and the interface hardware is automatic during command execution. This invention moves control of ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |