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Electrical Computers And Digital Data Processing Systems: Input/output > Input/output Data Processing > Peripheral Monitoring Peripheral MonitoringPeripheral Monitoring 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.10/12/06 - 20060230192 - Display of a user interface Placement of an object on a surface is detected. A user interface corresponding to the object is displayed. ... 10/12/06 - 20060230191 - Method for enabling or disabling a peripheral device that is maintained electrically connected to a computer system A method for enabling or disabling a peripheral device, that uses a basic input output system to control a system chip, modifies the status of a register of a peripheral controller in the south bridge chip of a computer. The method enables or disables the peripheral device through the control ... 10/05/06 - 20060224781 - Method and apparatus for controlling a user interface of a consumer electronic device Methods and systems for controlling a user interface of a consumer electronic device. An exemplary embodiment of a method for controlling a user interface of a consumer electronic device, including a plurality of I/O interfaces for communication with a plurality of data sources, is disclosed. The method comprises: utilizing the ... 09/07/06 - 20060200593 - Storage controller and controlling method therefor A storage controller that performs user-friendly information display, simplifies updating of support information, has external storage controllers to provide sufficient input/output performance, and expands the range of external storage controllers to be supported; and a controlling method for that storage controller. The storage controller includes a code extract/convert unit for ... 08/31/06 - 20060195627 - Detecting whether video source device is coupled to video display device A video display device detects whether an output port of a video source device is communicatively coupled to an input port of the video display device, based on detecting a resistance at the output port of the video source device. In response to detecting that the output port of the ... 08/24/06 - 20060190635 - Information processing apparatus and state control method of the same apparatus According to a state control method used for an information processing apparatus of the present invention, an OS transits each device state of predetermined devices configuring the system of a computer to a state D3. Devices capable of transiting to D3hot are transited to a state D3hot, on the other ... 08/24/06 - 20060190634 - Computer chip set having on board wireless on board wireless interfaces to support parallel communication A method and apparatus are provided for an embedded wireless interface that is embedded in, for example, one of an input and output controller device for controlling input and output communications with off-board devices, within a memory controller device and a processor motherboard. The embedded wireless interface may be utilized ... 08/24/06 - 20060190633 - Display device featuring a reduced amount of time for detecting video input signals A display device includes a plurality of video input interfaces. The display device also includes a display controller coupled to the plurality of video input interfaces. The display controller determines a sequence in which the plurality of video input interfaces are scanned for a video signal. The display controller makes ... 08/24/06 - 20060190632 - Method for detecting dvi off-line mode and associated dvi receiver A method for detecting the DVI off-line mode and associated DVI receiver are provided. The DVI receiver comprises a plurality of receiving channels, a clock channel, and an off-line mode detector. Each receiving channel receives a video signal and the clock channel receives a clock signal. Each receiving channel comprises ... 08/10/06 - 20060179171 - Server consolidation analysis A first data set (1008) indicative of characteristics of a first computing device such as a server is compared and analyzed against a second data set (1012) indicative of characteristics of a second computing device. Computer-readable instructions operate on the data sets and are capable of determining at least one ... 07/27/06 - 20060168364 - Method for maintaining register integrity and receive packet protection during ulpi phy to link bus transactions A system and method for protecting register write operations, especially register write operations performed in a USB PHY. A USB transmitter/receiver, operable to receive a register write command from a USB LINK device, may monitor the write sequence initiated by the register write command to determine if/when the register write ... 07/27/06 - 20060168363 - Generic device integration within an auto-id system Systems, methods and computer program products for generic device integration within an auto-id system. The system includes an auto-id node operable to collect data emitted by one or more automatic data acquisition devices, process the data, and make the data available to one or more enterprise applications, user interfaces, or ... 07/06/06 - 20060149860 - Virtual ide interface and protocol for use in ide redirection communication A method and system of communicating data to or from a remote computer. The remote computer is accessed by a CPU as though it were a local IDE controller attached to a local IDE device. A peripheral device distinct from the CPU provides a set of virtual IDE device registers ... 06/22/06 - 20060136610 - Data transfer method using infrared data association A data transfer method using infrared data association is provided. The method includes the steps of connecting with an external infrared data association device, to which a data packet is transferred; transferring a data transfer start command message informing of data transfer start, to the external infrared data association device; ... 06/15/06 - 20060129705 - Data transfer processing method Processing which, in conventional data transfer processing, entails the use of the common bus when performing (1) processing to confirm the interrupt state, performed via the common bus employing an interrupt register and interrupt mask register, and (2) confirmation processing performed when new frames are transferred during processing, can be ... 06/15/06 - 20060129704 - Method and system for monitoring embedded disk controller components A history module for monitoring plural components in an embedded disk controller with a first main processor operationally coupled to a first bus and a second processor operationally coupled to a second bus is provided. The history module includes an event control module that receives break point conditions that stops ... 06/08/06 - 20060123150 - Electronic apparatus and status information presenting apparatus A status information acquisition portion acquires status information as to electronic apparatus and users by detecting the operating status and/or controlled status of electronic apparatus and/or directly detecting the user status by various sensors etc. A user status information generator generates information as to what condition the user is in ... 06/08/06 - 20060123149 - Method for checking the quality of the data transmission between a read/write device (slg) and at least one mobile data store (mds) and read/write device (slg) and mobile data store for application in the method A method and associated apparatus for checking the data transmission between at least one read/write device (SLG) and at least one mobile data memory (MDS), in particular in an identification system having at least one mobile data memory (MDS) which is fitted to objects, for recording object-related status and/or process ... 05/25/06 - 20060112197 - Dual-interface-plug memory card A dual-interface-plug memory card includes an SD, CF or MS memory card. A strobe control unit is applied to control a USB control chip and a memory card control chip. When a USB plug is inserted to a USB hub, the strobe control unit is activated, information can be accessed ... 05/18/06 - 20060106954 - Memory reuse for multiple endpoints in usb device In a system in which individual memory banks may be under individual power control, a subsequent need for a memory bank that is currently in a low power state may be anticipated, so that the memory bank may be powered up in advance of when it is needed, to reduce ... 05/11/06 - 20060101163 - Method for a host computer to detect motion message of a wireless mouse A method for a host computer to detect the motion message of a wireless mouse has the following steps of: gathering statistics regarding information of the host computer; receiving ID authentication information from the wireless mouse; informing a firmware in the wireless mouse to activate a user-specific mode; supervising action ... 04/20/06 - 20060085568 - Audio/video devices for visualizing operational states therein or thereamong into content flow and method of controlling operations thereof An audio/video (A/V) device and a method of controlling the operation thereof, which visualize operation states in or among AN devices into a flow of content. The A/V device includes an on screen display (OSD) processing unit to OSD process information, and a control unit to control the OSD processing ... 04/20/06 - 20060085567 - Image forming apparatus, job execution apparatus, and job execution method An image forming apparatus includes a job execution portion, a connecting portion for detachably connecting an external storage, a detection portion for detecting connection to the connecting portion of the external storage, a stored information reading portion for reading stored information of the external storage based on connection detection of ... 04/13/06 - 20060080476 - Multiple-apparatus connection system and the method thereof The present invention is a multiple-apparatus connection system; the multiple-apparatus connection system comprises a USB port, a controller, and a voltage determining device. The USB port connects to a peripheral device. The voltage determining device connects to the USB port to generate a detection voltage signal. The controller receives the ... 04/06/06 - 20060075154 - Extended input/output measurement block An Input/output (I/O) measurement block facility is provided that creates subchannel measurement blocks (comprising device busy values) related to performance of an I/O operation of a subchannel, wherein a device busy time value is a sum of time intervals when the subchannel is device busy during an attempt to initiate ... 04/06/06 - 20060075153 - Error-flagging apparatus, systems, and methods Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to monitor a flag bit to indicate an occurrence of at least one of a plurality of operational excursions associated with a peripheral card coupled to a bus controller. ... 04/06/06 - 20060075152 - Usb attach detection for usb 1.1 and usb otg devices An apparatus for detection of a USB host or a USB OTG device being attached to Vbus connector terminal of a USB device includes an attach detection pull down resistor isolated from the Vbus connector terminal. This attach detection feature guarantees USB attach detection and complies with current limits of ... 04/06/06 - 20060075151 - Mp3 walkman with a replaceable hard disk An audio player with an exchangeable hard drive as storage device, which is used to play audio files, comprises a main body, a power supply, an exchangeable hard drive, and a main PCB. The main PCB is installed inside the main body and comprises a set of golden fingers, which ... 03/23/06 - 20060064515 - Information processing system and information processing method The invention relates to exchanging micro programs in a storage device, automatically, without halting operation. In one embodiment, the path adapters of a host computer are connected to the input/output ports of respective clusters of a storage device, by respective connection paths. Path switching software is provided in the host ... 03/16/06 - 20060059277 - Detecting and measuring exposure to media content items User exposure to media items is detected and measured. A mobile client device carried by a user digitally samples the audio environment of the user on a regular basis. These samples are transformed into a stream of data signatures and compared with reference media items to detect user exposure to ... 03/16/06 - 20060059276 - Integrated circuit An integrated circuit having a system base chip (1) that has basic functions for a transmitting and/or receiving system for a vehicle data bus, namely at least a system voltage supply (3), a system reset (3) and a monitoring function (2), an interface circuit (4, 5) that, in a self-contained ... 03/02/06 - 20060047862 - Automatic hardware data link initialization Methods and apparatuses that may be utilized to automatically train and activate communications links between two or more devices are provided. In some embodiments, one or more state machines may be used to monitor and control the behavior of receive and transmit logic during the automatic training and activation, thus, ... 02/23/06 - 20060041692 - Data processing appratus with address redirection in response to periodic address patterns A processing system comprises a detection unit which detects repetitions of periods of access address patterns output from at least one of a plurality of processing units. The interface switches selectable connections between the data input and/or outputs of the processing units and the data input and/or outputs of selectable ... 02/09/06 - 20060031599 - Shared led control within a storage enclosure via modulation of a single led control signal An indicator light, such as an LED, for a computer disk drive module is controlled via an external controller. The disk drive module monitors a disk drive and determines a desired state of the LED, such as on, off or flashing, to indicate a status of the disk drive. The ... 02/09/06 - 20060031598 - Method and apparatus for discovering hardware in a data processing system A method, apparatus and computer instructions for discovering hardware nodes having a hierarchical organization. A subset of the hardware nodes in the data processing system is initialized prior to loading an operating system supporting parallel threads. In response to loading the operating system, thread for each hardware node discovered below ... 01/05/06 - 20060004929 - Method and apparatus for recovering from inefficient behavior of devices on i/o buses A method, system and computer instructions for mitigating and recovering from the inefficient behavior of one or more peripheral devices attached to a shared I/O bus are disclosed. In one implementation, a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) for a drive monitors the time duration that a shared bus is busy, and ... 12/22/05 - 20050283543 - Redundant system management controllers A module to perform system management for a computer. The module includes a memory to store management event information and a controller to operate in an active central management controller mode and in a standby central management controller mode. In both modes the controller sends system event information to another ... 12/01/05 - 20050268002 - System and method for terminating a bus An exemplary system includes a bus (such as CAN bus) having at least two end points. A first and/or a second set of an undetermined number of devices may be connected to the bus. A controller is also connected to the bus, and is configured to establish a termination of ... 12/01/05 - 20050268001 - Management of polling loops in a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus and method are provided for managing polling loops. The data processing apparatus comprises a main processing unit and a subsidiary processing unit operable to perform a task on behalf of the main processing unit. The subsidiary processing unit is operable to set a completion field when ... 12/01/05 - 20050268000 - Accessory identifier in an electronic device An apparatus (100) and a method (200) for an accessory identifier for identifying a connected accessory type from three or more accessory types (102, 104, 106) are provided. Each of the three or more accessory types (102, 104, 106) has a unique identifier resistor (108, 110, 112), which is accessible ... 11/24/05 - 20050262274 - Print system, information processing device and control method for the same, printer and control method for the same, storage medium, and program To enable simple and detailed confirmation of an operation instruction from an operation panel provided to a printer, each time an instruction is given using a preview button in the operation panel of the printer, an interruption event transferred from the printer to a host computer is detected, and in ... 10/20/05 - 20050235071 - Method for collecting monitor information A method for collecting information regarding monitors connected to Window-based computer systems. A monitor class definition is established, and a monitor information provider is created. The monitor information provider is loaded on a Windows-based computer, which includes at least one monitor. The monitor information provider gathers serial number and model ... 09/29/05 - 20050216607 - Power managed busses and arbitration A variable speed bus has its frequency adjusted based upon bandwidth requirements of active units coupled to a variable speed bus. As units coupled to the bus are stopped, bandwidth requirements are lowered and the bus frequency is reduced in response to the lowered bandwidth requirements. An arbiter selects an ... 09/22/05 - 20050210161 - Computer device with mass storage peripheral (s) which is/are monitored during operation A computer device (1) includes at least one mass storage peripheral (2) having a read and/or write device (3) which is adapted for receiving a removable storage medium (4). The computer device (1) also includes at least one module (6) for monitoring the quality of operation of at least one ... 09/08/05 - 20050198407 - Usb connector with card detector A USB connector with a card detector suitable for a low power capacity system is provided. The USB connector comprises at least a power pad, a D− signal pad, a D+signal pad, a ground pad and a device insertion detecting pad. The device insertion detecting pad and the ground pad ... 08/11/05 - 20050177653 - Apparatus and method for installing a av system easily and flexibly The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for adjusting an input and output of an audio/video system, and the method detects the number of connected terminals and the switcher output signal at a connected terminal to determine the correct configuration of signal used for the connected terminal, and ... 08/11/05 - 20050177652 - Hard disk drive system, method of using such a system and apparatus A system for hard disk drives that prevents the host from receiving an unrecoverable error whilst reading an erroneous track or sector resulting from a sudden power failure, i.e. from an unexpected power removal. The system has to behave in real-time, therefore a known lengthy error recovery procedure is not ... 08/04/05 - 20050172046 - Switching i/o states for volume without completely tearing down stack A method, of controlling access to a volume at least a portion of which is on a storage-device such that communication between an input/output (I/O) initiator and the storage-device takes place via a stack of device objects (DOs) representing the volume, may include: providing the stack, the DOs in the ... 07/28/05 - 20050165979 - Peripheral device control method, control program, and apparatus therefor This invention allows an application to set/modify an extension function without opening the user interface of a device driver in an environment in which the function extension of the device driver is implemented in a plugin form. To cause the application to execute printing processing using a printer driver as ... 07/28/05 - 20050165978 - Apparatus and method of managing device jobs using hosts A method and apparatus to manage device jobs using hosts. The method includes checking job instruction items issued to devices by the hosts, detecting job priority information regarding hosts instructed for a particular device among the devices to perform a job from the job instruction items, and transmitting job data ... 07/28/05 - 20050165977 - Printing device A print job having a plurality of blocks of data is generated. At least one of the plurality of blocks has a header portion. A type of data of the at least one of the plurality of blocks of data is indicated in the header portion. ... 07/21/05 - 20050160198 - Image and sound input-output control A home gateway 30, input devices, output devices and a client are connected via a network LAN. Installed into the home gateway 30 is a server-side program 100 for performing control of input devices and output devices, edit of image, and provision of an interface window to the client 10. ... 07/21/05 - 20050160197 - Image and sound input-output control A home gateway 30, input devices, output devices and a client are connected via a network LAN. Installed into the home gateway 30 is a server-side program 100 for performing control of input devices and output devices, edit of image, and provision of an interface window to the client 10. ... 07/07/05 - 20050149644 - Method to validate system configuration A data storage and retrieval system which includes encoded information regarding known valid system configurations, nominal performance specifications for various I/O devices, and nominal performance specifications for various interconnecting communication buses. A method to validate the apparent configuration of Applicants' system. A method to evaluate the performance of each I/O ... 07/07/05 - 20050149643 - Method, system, and program for querying adaptors in a system to determine information on the adaptor connections Provided are a method, system, and program for querying a plurality of adaptors in a system. A request is received to determine connection information for the adaptors in the system. A master task spawns a plurality of tasks to query the adaptors. Each spawned task updates adaptor information with information ... 07/07/05 - 20050149642 - Method for confirming connection state of a home appliance in home network system A method for confirming connection state of a home appliance in home network system is disclosed, which includes a step in which the home appliance periodically confirms the connection state to the home network system, a step in which the appliance generates a packet for requiring address allocation, a step ... 06/30/05 - 20050144335 - Testing a host's support for peripheral devices In order to test a host's support for peripherals that use a given type of peripheral interface, an interface device communicates with peripheral interface ports of the host. The interface device also communicates with an emulation computer over a local area network. The emulation computer is programmed to emulate one ... 06/30/05 - 20050144334 - Wireless universal serial bus link for a computer system A computer system having transceivers coupled to USB ports so as to provide a wireless USB bus between a computer and one or more peripheral devices is disclosed. The transceivers allows the computer to be remotely located from the peripheral devices (e.g., USB devices) by distances substantially greater than five ... 06/30/05 - 20050144333 - Method and system for managing access to presence attribute information A presence attribute information server and manager application, and corresponding method is provided for managing access to presence attribute information. In addition to the presence attribute information entries, access authorization entries associated with at least some of the presence attribute information entries are provided which define conditions in which access ... 06/30/05 - 20050144332 - Autonomic input/output scheduler selector The automatic selection of an input/output scheduler in a computing system with a plurality of input/output schedulers is disclosed. Each of the plurality of input/output schedulers is mapped against a corresponding desired set of heuristics. Heuristics relating to job requests submitted by processes in the computer system are monitored and ... 06/23/05 - 20050138231 - Information processing device, information processing system, transmission rate setting method, transmission rate setting computer program, and storage medium containing computer program An information processing device is provided where in communications between the information processing device and another information processing device, the transmission rate of a communications interface of the information processing device is automatically set in accordance with a transmission rate at which the communications interface of the other information processing ... 06/23/05 - 20050138230 - Method, apparatus and program product for low latency i/o adapter queuing in a computer system In a computer system, an I/O adapter comprises at least one I/O request mailbox for receiving I/O requests and data from a CPU. The mailbox is connected to at least one I/O request queue storage for storing a plurality of I/O requests and related data or main memory addresses received ... 06/23/05 - 20050138229 - Method and apparatus for remote operation of a usb peripheral Embodiments of the invention replace a USB cable between a USB host and a USB peripheral for remote operation of the USB peripheral while simultaneously maintaining software and operational compatibility. Alternative embodiments of the invention may use RF, IR, fiber-optic, or telephone links, or any other acceptable link. Some embodiments ... 06/23/05 - 20050138228 - Pull-configured distribution of imagery The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for flexible image sharing. In a system for flexibly distributing imagery in an image sharing session, an image cache can be disposed between an image sharing host and a plurality of image sharing viewers. Additionally, a multipoint communications server can be ... 06/23/05 - 20050138227 - Interrupt driven expanded option select interface for portable device A peripheral component (104) is attached to a portable electronic device (102), and indicates an option class of the peripheral component by use of an option select circuit. The option select circuit causes an interrupt to be generated in the portable electronic device, which then determines the option class by ... 06/16/05 - 20050132099 - Network system, and device, method and program for controlling host interface To save the command processing period when a Read Command is issued from a host, in which a Delayed ACK works, to a disk array apparatus, and to speed up host set-up processing, disk recognition processing, batch processing and the like. A host adapter counts the number of PDUs transmitted ... 06/16/05 - 20050132098 - Relay apparatus for relaying communication from cpu to peripheral device In order to reduce overhead of a CPU, a relay apparatus for relaying communication from a CPU to a peripheral device includes communication information holding sections for holding information required for communication with the peripheral devices inside the relay apparatus; and command holding sections, which are provided adjacent to the ... 06/16/05 - 20050132097 - Circuit for transmitting electronic signals on a status of connectivity of an electronic device A circuit (11) utilizing a serial advanced technology attachment (ATA) interface for transmitting connectivity signals from the serial ATA interface to a controller (10) in order for the controller to determine a status of connectivity of a hard drive disk (HDD) (21) to the serial ATA interface. The circuit includes ... 06/16/05 - 20050132096 - Processor state aware interrupts from peripherals A method, apparatus and computer product wherein interrupt thresholds are automatically adjusted based on the current state of the processor. The processor provides an output signal, possibly on one or more lines, that is indicative of the state the processor is in such as active, idle sleep. The peripherals monitor ... 06/16/05 - 20050132095 - Method and apparatus for controlling peripheral devices in a computer system The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for controlling peripheral devices in a computer system. The system for controlling peripheral devices may comprise a microcontroller that provides a plurality of device interfaces, each of the device interfaces being adapted to support a peripheral device, and a communication interface that is ... 06/09/05 - 20050125570 - Portable communication devices A portable communication device which, in one exemplary embodiment, includes a first position to cover a display assembly and a keyboard assembly, a second position to form a mobile voice phone and a third position to form a personal digital assistant. In this exemplary embodiment, a display on the display ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |