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Electrical Computers And Digital Data Processing Systems: Input/output > Intrasystem Connection (e.g., Bus And Bus Transaction Processing) > Bus Expansion Or Extension > Card Insertion > Hot Insertion Hot InsertionHot Insertion 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 - 20060230212 - Integrated circuit with shared hotsocket architecture Integrated circuits such as programmable logic devices are provided with hotsocket detection circuitry. The hotsocket detection circuitry monitors signals on data pins and power supply voltages. If the data pins become active before the power supply voltages have reached appropriate levels, a hotsocket condition is identified. When a hotsocket condition ... 10/12/06 - 20060230211 - Method and system for receiver detection in pci-express devices A method and system for detecting when a receiver in a host system is present or absent to receive information from a PCI-Express device is provided. The method includes monitoring a signal received from a serial/de-serializer for transitions; re-starting a first timer when a transition is detected; and detecting a ... 09/28/06 - 20060218330 - Semiconductor device and method of connecting the same According to the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor device comprising: a power line to be externally supplied with a power supply voltage; a ground line for grounding; a first signal line for transmitting a first signal; a second signal line for transmitting a second signal; a first switching ... 09/14/06 - 20060206649 - Method of providing an interface to a plurality of peripheral devices using bus adapter chips A method of electrically coupling a central processing unit (CPU) of a network server to a plurality of network interface modules. The method comprises providing each of the plurality of network interface modules with a respective bus adapter chip to route an I/O bus having a first format from the ... 09/14/06 - 20060206648 - Systems and methods for managing multiple hot plug operations A method for managing multiple hot plug operations in an information handling system is provided. An instruction for initiating a new hot plug operation is received, the new hot plug operation including one or more hot plug system management interrupts (SMIs). Another hot plug operation currently ongoing at the time ... 07/20/06 - 20060161712 - Pci arbiter with hot plug controller support A Hot Plug system includes a PCI bus, an expansion card, a slot for receiving the expansion card, and a Hot Plug controller directly connected to the expansion card and the slot, but only indirectly connected to the PCI bus. An enhanced arbiter monitors and controls the PCI bus on ... 07/06/06 - 20060149881 - Method and system for virtual enclosure management A process and system for virtually managing enclosures. A process determines whether a system includes an enclosure processor, a virtual enclosure processor, or both an enclosure processor and a virtual enclosure processor. The process receives a command by a virtual enclosure processor if it is determined that the system includes ... 06/29/06 - 20060143353 - Apparatus for performing plug and play, digital a/v system using the same and method thereof An apparatus for performing a plug and play function, a digital image processing system using the same, and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: a device searching module for searching a connected device; a connection state analyzing module for determining whether the searched device is previously connected by ... 06/22/06 - 20060136645 - System and method of retiring events upon device replacement An information handling system is disclosed that retires events upon device replacement. The system has several devices of one or more types and each device includes nonvolatile memory. A unique identifier, for devices of that type, is stored in the nonvolatile memory of each device. A first memory segment stores ... 06/22/06 - 20060136644 - Sas hot swap backplane expander module An expander module for connection to a hot-swap backplane is disclosed. ... 06/22/06 - 20060136643 - Methods and systems for a reference clock In at least some embodiments, a method comprises receiving an external card detection signal that indicates that a hot-pluggable card is coupled to a computer system and activating at least one reference clock signal of a scalable reference clock platform based on the external card detection signal. The method further ... 05/04/06 - 20060095628 - External-network data content exposure to network-connected devices Described herein are one or more implementations for exposing data content (e.g., digital media) of a portable digital media device over a network to one or more network-connected electronics devices, where such exposing is done via a network-connected personal computer to which the portable digital media device is directed coupled ... 04/06/06 - 20060075174 - Method and aparatus for plug-and-play webserver A system, method and computer program for an apparatus is described. An apparatus is a very convenient, plug-and-play, ultra small, smart device that lets the end-users to host their websites at computer peripheral port. When said device is plugged in one of the computer peripheral ports: Universal Serial Bus (USB), ... 03/30/06 - 20060069836 - Communication system and method for upgrade of user terminal software and user terminal upgraded by the same Disclosed is a communication system for a software upgrade, including a user terminal (UT) for transmitting an IP address assignment request message containing software information of the UT an upgrade-providing server including upgrade data regarding every software of the UT; and a server for determining whether or not software upgrade ... 03/30/06 - 20060069835 - System and method for the management of hardware triggered hotplug operations of input/output cards A method is provided of managing hardware triggered hotplug operations of one or more input/output (I/O) cards of a computer system. The method comprises receiving hardware triggers, each of which relates to a hotplug operation to be carried out on an I/O card associated with a card slot, placing the ... 03/02/06 - 20060047879 - Use of card presence to determine maximum bus speed A mechanism for determining the maximum speed at which a PCI bus should be set. The mechanism uses a card presence pin provided for in the PCI specification to detect the number of devices residing on the PCI bus. The mechanism then sets the PCI bus speed to the highest ... 02/16/06 - 20060036794 - 3u hot-swappable power module and method A hot-swappable power module (414) includes a power supply (540) and a switched fabric connector (527) coupled to communicatively interface with a switched fabric (406), where the switched fabric operates concurrently with a VMEbus network (408) on a backplane (404) of a computer chassis (412), where the hot-swappable power module ... 02/02/06 - 20060026325 - Method for automatically assigning a communication port address and the blade server system thereof A method for automatically assigning a communication port address and the blade server system thereof are provided. The blade server system comprises a middle plane and a plurality of hot-swappable devices. The middle plane has a plurality of slots. Each of the hot-swappable devices has a connector coupled to one ... 01/19/06 - 20060015670 - Apparatus for detecting connection of a peripheral unit to a host system An apparatus and method for detecting a connection of a peripheral unit to a host system via a data transmission interface, wherein the host system includes at least one switching device which sets a connection between at least one data line of the data transmission interface and a prescribed potential ... 01/12/06 - 20060010275 - Removable disk storage array emulating tape library having backup and archive capability A hard disk drive based data archive system emulating a tape archive system includes a hot pluggable multi-drive magazine having a housing for holding a plurality of hard disk drives, each drive connected to receive power and data from the magazine in a controlled fashion, and at least one magazine ... 01/05/06 - 20060004939 - Mechanism to control infrared devices via a universal plug and play device network According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a first Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device having an infrared (IR) service to transmit IR commands and a first IR device to receive the IR commands from the first UPnP device and perform actions associated with the received ... 09/01/05 - 20050193159 - Embedded power control circuitry for a portable disk drive carrier having a hot-plug application A portable carrier for a disk drive including power control circuitry to enable a hot-plug connection between an external connector on the carrier and an opposing carrier mating connector on the back panel of an enclosure of a data storage system of the kind that is typically part of a ... 07/14/05 - 20050154815 - Seamless user interactions for portable storage devices A portable storage device 10 includes a body 12, an actuator 16, and an indicator 18. When coupled to a host device 22, a user depressing the actuator 16 causes an interrupt message to be sent to the host device, which initiates shutdown of the portable device by removing it ... 07/14/05 - 20050154814 - Bus configuration based on card location A system comprises a bridge, a logic device, and a plurality of slots. The slots couple to the bridge via a bus segment and to the logic device. Each slot may be capable of receiving an add-in card. The logic device determines whether a card is installed in any of ... 07/07/05 - 20050149658 - Method for signaling pci/pci-x standard hot-plug controller (shpc) command status According to embodiments of the present invention, indicators on a PCI/PCI-X controlled by a Standard Hot-Plug Controller (SHPC) have non-fifty percent duty cycle blinking patterns that communicate to an operator a particular command being processed, whether the command was processed successfully, whether a “hard” or “soft” error occurred if the ... 07/07/05 - 20050149657 - Pci standard hot-plug controller (shpc) with user programmable command execution timing According to embodiments of the present invention, a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) standard hot-plug controller (SHPC) includes a command register to store PCI slot operation commands for one or more target PCI slots and a programmable register that may be programmed with one timing parameter value (e.g., Tpccc, Tpece, Tcebe, ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |