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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131233 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING DEVICE ADDRESSES TO SENSORS IN A PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, A PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND A CONNECTOR ELEMENT FOR A PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM A method for assigning addresses to a plurality of physiological sensor units is disclosed. A physiological measurement system and a connector element for a physiological measurement system are also disclosed. To enable identification of identical sensor units in a meas... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120047287 | USING INFORMATION ON INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) SIZES OF ACCESSES TO AN EXTENT TO DETERMINE A TYPE OF STORAGE DEVICE FOR THE EXTENT Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for using information on Input/Output (I/O) sizes of accesses to an extent to determine a type of storage device for the extent from a plurality of storage devices comprising at least one of a first storage typ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120002675 | PROVIDING A BUFFERLESS TRANSPORT METHOD FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MESH TOPOLOGY In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining whether a packet received in an input/output (I/O) circuit of a node is destined for the node and if so, providing the packet to an egress queue of the I/O circuit and determining whether one or ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110307525 | VIRTUAL STORAGE DEVICE A method for managing a virtual storage device including scanning ports of a device for storage devices coupled to the device and identifying file systems of the storage devices, creating a database to include entries for the storage devices and files included in the st... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110289239 | DEVICE ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT IN A BUS CASCADE SYSTEM According to one aspect there is disclosed an apparatus. The apparatus may include a first device. The first device may include a first serial input port configured to receive serial data from at least one of a host MCU and a second device; a first serial output port co... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110196991 | NETWORK CONNECTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE PROVIDING POWER OUTLET AND DATA CONNECTIONS Described herein is a network connectable device which may draw power from a network connection and distribute data and power to peripheral devices connected to the device. This obviates the need for the device and the connected peripheral devices to have their own addi... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110125932 | PORT SETTING METHOD OF APPLICATION SYSTEM A port setting method of an application system comprises: requesting a naming server for object information corresponding to name information of the other components upon data transmission to the other components; determining whether there exists consistent information ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110093621 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE THAT COMMUNICATES WITH PERIPHERAL DEVICE, METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM There is disclosed an information processing device that displays a link related to one peripheral device on a device screen. The information processing device includes obtaining means for obtaining device information of a peripheral device, link forming means for formi... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110066763 | METHOD FOR GENERATING INTERFACE CONFIGURATION FILES FOR COMPUTERS OF AN AVIONIC PLATFORM The invention relates to a method for configuring interfaces of computers belonging to an avionic platform. The platform implements a plurality of avionic functions which may exchange functional messages, each functional message comprising one or more parameters. Each a... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110058694 | Audio Signal Switching Apparatus An audio signal switching apparatus at least comprises an audio jack, a speaker jack, a detection circuit and a control circuit. The audio jack and the speaker jack are separately configured in a computer system. The detection circuit detects whether the computer system... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20100293301 | Dynamically Composing Data Stream Processing Applications Techniques for dynamically modifying inter-connections between components in an application are provided. The techniques include receiving a data producer profile for each output port within a software application to be executed on one or more processors, receiving a da... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100228889 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to run an operating system; a plurality of storage devices connected to the processor; a detection module configured to detect a boot process for installing the operating system; a determination module... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100191871 | Controller, Program and Methods for Communicating With Devices Coupled to the Controller A controller coupled to a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) includes a processor and a non-volatile memory element. The processor has an input/output port that is configurable in one of an open-drain driver configuration, a high-impedance driver configuration ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100169779 | MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD The invention provides a media editing system comprising a first input/output port for receiving media projects comprising media to be edited and project instructions from a plurality of sources of media projects. The system further comprises a selector for selecting on... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100153586 | PERIPHERAL CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PERIPHERAL DEVICE The invention provides a peripheral control device for allowing the user to select preferentially a setting of a peripheral device through a wired port. A setup utility searches a port of a printer installed onto a computer to search a pertinent printer. If the pertinen... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100106863 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS An information processing apparatus includes a first USB communication port connecting with a first device, a communication unit configured to send a command requesting information of the first device to the first device and to receive a response to the command from the... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100095025 | VIRTUAL CHANNEL REMAPPING Virtual channel enabled networking devices may map frames to specific virtual channels based upon frame characteristics (e.g. destination address, class of service). Devices and methods that provide a remapping of virtual channels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a net... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100036972 | Reconfigurable computing device and method for inspecting configuration data A reconfigurable computing device includes a reconfigurable logical device of which a circuit logic can be changed based on configuration data, a storage part to store beforehand input-output attributes of input-output parts of the reconfigurable logical device, and a v... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090222593 | Server device, method and program There is provided with a server device which outputs a result of computation processing to an output device, including: a communication unit configured to receive a connection request from an input device; an output device manager configured to store an identifier of th... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090172207 | COMMUNICATING THROUGH A PHYSICAL PORT OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic device has a physical port, and a control circuit coupled to the physical port. The control circuit is arranged to electrically sense the physical port, and operate the physical port as one of an Ethernet port and an RS-232 port based on electrically sensi... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090077270 | I/O module expansion unit and distributed automation system An I/O module expansion unit having slots to install I/O modules thereon is provided for a distributed automation system. With the I/O module expansion unit, storing the configuration checksums generated with an algorithm from the software and hardware information of I/... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080270638 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HIGH SPEED NETWORK TRAFFIC VIA SIMULTANEOUSLY MULTIPLEXED DATA STREAMS Systems and methods for monitoring high-speed network traffic via simultaneously multiplexed data streams. Exemplary embodiments include a switch module system, including a first switch module coupled to a first server chassis, a first data port disposed on the first sw... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080263233 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND MEMORY DEVICE A memory device comprises a first port receiving a first register value and a second register value; a second port, receiving a third value; a first register being set to the first register value; a second register having an enabled status and a disabled status, the reg... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080250163 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FUNCTION PERFORMING METHOD THEREOF A device and method of performing functions with an external device, the function performing method including: performing a first function when an external device is connected to a connecting unit in a first position, and performing a second function, different from the... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080155131 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING EXTERNAL DEVICE THROUGH REGISTRATION OF CONTROL OWNERSHIP AND METHOD THEREOF An image display device that controls an external device and a method therefore are provided. The image display device includes an interface unit which is connected to an external device, a determining unit which determines whether another external device that has a con... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080104284 | Device switching methods and computer systems A device switching method is provided. The method includes the following steps. An operation instruction is received by a computer system. In response to the instruction, a switching signal is sent from the computer system to an integrated peripheral device connected vi... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080071936 | Wireless Communications Unit, Wireless Communications Method, Wireless Communications System, and Computer Program There is provided a wireless communications unit that performs wireless communications with a USB host in a Wireless USB system. The wireless communications unit includes an address setting portion and a beacon creation portion. The address setting portion sets an assig... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080071937 | Handling procedure instruction device and method of instructing handling procedure, and program and recording medium thereof The present invention relates to a handling procedure instruction device that displays information on a handling procedure of electronic equipment only when a user is not familiar with the handling procedure of the electronic equipment. The device determines whether or ... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080065790 | Method for pairing hosts and I/O peripherals in centralized computer system The invention discloses a centralized computer system, i.e., so-called blade PC system. The centralized computer system according to the invention includes a plurality of centralized and bladed hosts and a plurality of I/O peripherals. In particularly, the centralized c... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20070226379 | Player with orientation-based controls A player with orientation-based controls has a casing, a control unit, memory, an orientation-sensing module and a playing module. The casing has a front surface. The orientation-sensing module is mounted in the casing and has an orientation-sensing unit and a processin... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20050262273 | Information processing apparatus having data input devices and method of processing input data information An information processing apparatus includes tracking process display units representing whether tracking processing functions are available or unavailable, tracking process determining units that determines whether to execute the tracking processes with reference to th... | 11/24/2005 |
