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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5388243 | Multi-sort mass storage device announcing its active paths without deactivating its ports in a network architecture A network-type data processing system is provided. The system can support multiple simultaneous exchanges of data, and includes multi-port storage devices in which all ports can be active at all times. On initialization of the system, each storage device ... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5361063 | Method and apparatus for scheduling access to a CSMA communication medium A scheduling mechanism is provided for controlling when the arbitration circuit of a node sharing a CSMA communication medium is to start CSMA arbitration for access to the communication medium once the node has a message ready for transmission, the sched... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5359320 | Method and apparatus for scheduling access to a CSMA communication medium of a node having arbitration circuit A scheduling mechanism is provided for controlling when the arbitration circuit of a node sharing a CSMA communication medium is to start CSMA arbitration for access to the communication medium once the node has a message ready for transmission, the sched... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5349686 | Method and circuit for programmably selecting a variable sequence of elements using write-back A programmable element sequence selection circuit which selects a repeatable sequence of elements from a plurality of elements is provided. The sequence selection circuit includes a sequence storage circuit into which a sequence of element identifiers is ... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5325497 | Method and apparatus for assigning signatures to identify members of a set of mass of storage devices A method and apparatus for identifying each of the members of a set of physical mass storage devices acting as one logical mass storage device are provided. Each physical mass storage device is assigned a membership signature identifying it as a valid mem... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5315708 | Method and apparatus for transferring data through a staging memory A method and apparatus for transferring data from one device interface to another device interface via elements of a staging memory and a direct memory access (DMA) channel.... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5233692 | Enhanced interface permitting multiple-byte parallel transfers of control information and data on a small computer system interface (SCSI) communication bus and a mass storage system incorporating the enhanced interface An improved interface system based in part on the SCSI standard is provided. A single cable data bus simultaneously transfers several bytes of information between two devices. The interface system transfers multiple-byte commands, messages, status informa... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5233618 | Data correcting applicable to redundant arrays of independent disks Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting and correcting various data errors that may arise in a mass data storage apparatus comprising a set of physical mass storage devices operating as one or more larger logical mass storage devices. A method an... | 08/03/1993 |
