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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110216 | INDUSTRIAL CONTROLLER INTERFACE FOR PLUG-IN I/O MODULES An interface for an industrial controller is provided that enables connection of different types of plug-in I/O modules to the industrial controller. The interface includes several mechanisms, which can be implemented through control logic, circuitry, and/or software, t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110215 | COMPUTER SYSTEM A computer system including a data processing device for producing an image signal, an input device for producing a control signal and a display device is provided. The display device includes a memory unit, a controller, a source driver, a gate driver and a display pan... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072616 | Media Processing Device, Control Method For A Media Processing Device, And Recording Medium Storing A Program Executed By A Control Unit That Controls A Media Processing Device Media processing devices, media processing device control methods, and computer-readable recording mediums storing programs that can be executed by control units that control media processing devices are provided. In one embodiment, a media processing device has a plura... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054373 | Connection Apparatus, and Method Used in Connection Apparatus The present invention provides a connection apparatus for connecting with at least one peripheral device and at least one host machine, the connection apparatus comprising: a first connection section connectable by a first communications standard to a host machine; at l... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047291 | System and method for integrating devices for servicing a device-under-service A system comprising multiple devices that are operable when servicing a device-under service is described. A data acquisition (DAQ) device and a scanner device of the system are operable to acquire data from the device-under-service and to transmit the acquired data to ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042185 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A computer system includes a system part, a connector to which an external device is connected, a communication unit which performs communication with the external device, and a control unit which is connected between the connector and the communication unit to monitor ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120023267 | REPEATER DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD A repeater device connected to source and sink devices includes: an input terminal receiving transmission data supplied from the source device; relay means for relaying the transmission data; an output terminal outputting the transmission data relayed by the relay means... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120011286 | Optical communication module, universal serial bus cable with the same and processing method of data transfer thereof The present invention discloses an optical communication module comprising a second mode supporting a data transfer of USB 3.0 standard and a third mode supporting a data transfer of USB 2.0 standard, and the second mode comprises A mode and B mode with a different powe... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110302330 | SAFELY SHARING USB DEVICES Described herein are systems and methods for preventing a user mode USB driver from performing IOCTL operations other than read-safe IOCTLs on a USB device that has been claimed by a kernel mode driver or is in use by another user mode USB driver. In one method, it is d... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302331 | Dual Mode DP and HDMI Transmitter A system and method for dual mode DP and HDMI transmission are provided. Briefly described, one embodiment of a dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter, among others, can be implemented as follows. The dual mode DP and HDMI transmitter comprises a driver circuit controlled by... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302329 | Embedded Programmable Module for Host Controller Configurability An apparatus comprises a programmable logic device coupled to an interconnect is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a non-volatile memory to store code for programming the programmable logic device. A controller will program the programmable logic devi... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296057 | Event Handling In An Integrated Execution Environment Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for handling input received from a common interface of a program and a runtime environment when both the program and the runtime environment are configured t... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296058 | MEDIA PLAYER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WAKE-UP THEREOF A media player device and a method for wake-up thereof are provided. The method includes: when the media player device is in a standby mode, checking whether an external device is connected to the plurality of contact locations; and if the external device is connected t... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296059 | System and method for seamless management of multi-personality mobile devices A system and method for managing multi-mode mobile devices from a personal computer (PC) in which the two devices are communicating over a point to point connection such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) or TCP/IP and provides a mechanism to remotely control the personali... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110283127 | PORTABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME The present invention relates to a portable information apparatus which can realize electrical power for a longer period of time. Under the condition that the suspending mode is set, when an exclusive key is manipulated, a switch monitoring circuit detects this conditio... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283024 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH CARD INTERFACE When initializing a card-shaped device inserted in a card interface, operation mode acquiring means incorporated in an electronic device acquires operation mode information, stored in a register file incorporated in the card-shaped device, by a predetermined procedure u... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280314 | SLICE ENCODING AND DECODING PROCESSORS, CIRCUITS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES A video decoder includes a memory (140) operable to hold entropy coded video data accessible as a bit stream, a processor (100) operable to issue at least one command for loose-coupled support and to issue at least one instruction for tightly-coupled suppo... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110271013 | INPUT DEVICE In an input device, a controller for controlling an input portion and acquiring data is connected to a bus. The bus can be connected with an external expansion device via an expansion connector. The connection of the bus from the expansion connector to the controller is... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264826 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE A memory card capable of connecting to a host device includes a flash memory, a host interface unit which transfers data between a host device and the memory card, and a transfer mode control unit which changes a data transfer mode based on a command from the host devic... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258348 | Electronic device having physical switch to select functionality exposed to host computing device An electronic device has primary and secondary functionalities. The electronic device includes a physical switch to switch between a first mode and a second mode. The electronic device includes logic to, when the electronic device is connected to a host computing device... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258349 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PERIPHERAL DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM The view language of a specific application can be adaptively switched in response to a language switching request from a user. If the user selects the specific application via a user interface on a peripheral device management screen, it is determined whether view lang... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110231581 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A device management apparatus is connected to a plurality of devices via a network and includes a processing unit. The processing unit includes a trap setting part that defines a trap setting of each device, a storing part that stores device information of each device, ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231685 | HIGH SPEED INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM AND POWER SAVING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A high speed input/output (HSIO) system and a power saving control method for the HSIO system are provided. The HSIO system has a plurality of transmission speed modes. When an external device is connected to the HSIO system and an auto-configuration link is completed, ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110208880 | SINGLE-HOST MULTI-WORKSTATION COMPUTER SYSTEM, ITS CONFIGURATION METHOD AND USB HUB The present invention discloses a configuration method of “single-host multi-workstation” computer system, a USB Hub, a “single-host multi-workstation” computer system and a workstation card, wherein the configuration method includes the following steps: (1 | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202691 | System circuit and method for software reload of peripheral devices Disclosed is a method, circuit and system for facilitating software of firmware reload of a peripheral device. According to embodiments of the present invention, one or more circuit or modules on the peripheral device or on a host device may emulate normal peripheral op... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202690 | DATA WRITING METHOD FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY, AND CONTROLLER AND STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE SAME A data writing method for writing data from a host system into a plurality of memory dies of a rewritable non-volatile memory storage apparatus is provided. The data writing method includes determining whether the data transmission interface of the host system complies ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191501 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN A DISK DEVICE AND AN EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE Provided are systems and methods to communicate data transfer of data between a disk device and an external storage device. A host can generate a control command to communicate with an external storage device, and a disk device to receive the control command from a host... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185087 | Data Transfer Between Devices Maintaining State Data Transferring data between devices utilizing state data. The devices may include a writer device and a reader device, each coupled to a common bus. A host device may create a transfer session between the devices. Each of the host device, the writer device, and the reader... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110161531 | USB DEVICE APPARATUS A USB device apparatus, which is capable of performing communication with a USB host apparatus through a USB connection supporting a high-speed USB mode, includes a communication section configured to be capable of performing communication with the USB host apparatus, a... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161522 | System and Method for Enhanced Energy Control Policy for Unmanaged Switch Applications A system and method for enhanced energy control policy for unmanaged device applications. EEE control customizations are provided to a profile element (e.g., PROM, EEPROM, flash memory, system memory, input pins, etc.) that is included in the unmanaged device. The confi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161530 | USB 3.0 SUPPORT IN MOBILE PLATFORM WITH USB 2.0 INTERFACE Memory associated with a mobile communication device, such as memory removably inserted into a memory card slot, may be accessed, in the alternative, by a mobile communication platform or by a remote USB host. A memory access module connected to the memory card slots is... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110119409 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD TO COUPLE A PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT WITH A CAMERA A device system and method is disclosed. The device includes a first USB port configured to couple with a USB port on a camera, and circuitry configured to send USB signals to the camera and/or to receive USB signals from the camera, and to operate in USB Host mode, and... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110119408 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING A HOST AND MULTIPLE STORAGE DEVICES FORMED BY OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS AND OPTICAL LINK CREATION METHOD A connection scheme for connection from a host or the like to multiple storage devices via an optical link, and in particular to an optical connection scheme or an optical wiring scheme for realizing multiplexing/redundancy by utilizing branches of an optical link and t... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110099299 | Mode Switching Mode switching may be provided. A selection of a non-native mode for a first input device may be received having a native mode. Then the use of the first input device may be enabled in the selected non-native mode. Next, a switch may be detected from the first input dev... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110093623 | Docking Station with Video Control System A docking station with video control system includes a housing, a USB hub, a VGA to USB video conversion unit, a USB interface controller and a button. The USB hub includes an upstream port and a downstream port. The upstream port is adapted to connect with a USB connec... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110087805 | Multi-mode dongle for peripheral devices and associated methods Methods and systems are described for utilizing multi-mode dongles with peripheral devices. The multi-mode dongles are configured to provide standard mode signals for a standard mode of operation and alternate mode signals for an alternate mode of operation, for example... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110078785 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING PORTABLE DESKTOP WITH ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITY A method is disclosed for a peripheral portable desktop device. The peripheral portable desktop device is coupled with a workstation. In a second mode of operation, a portion of the peripheral portable desktop device is operatively coupled with the workstation for opera... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110078339 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING A PLURALITY OF CONTROL UNITS An image processing device includes a memory unit that stores plural sets of user information and a plurality of modes in correspondence with each other so as to specify correspondence between a plurality of users and the plurality of modes, and a plurality of control u... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072168 | DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM WITH DIFFERENT OPERATING MODES An electronic system includes an input/output (I/O) interface and a controller coupled to the I/O interface and a storage medium. The controller can select an operating mode from multiple operating modes based on a type of the storage medium. At least two of the operati... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110066764 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING HIGH SPEED SERIAL SIGNALS A system for selecting high speed serial signals includes a loading module, a layout selecting module, a data processing module, and an output module. The loading module reads a chip package length file; a layout selecting module reads a layout file and selects high spe... | 03/17/2011 |
