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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120047293 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF STORAGE ARRAY WITH FRAME FORWARDING CAPABILITY Embodiments of the invention provide a method of storage array with frame forwarding capability to reduce the complexity of an IT platform system having a large number of hardware devices. In one embodiment, a storage system comprises one or more storage devices; a stor... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042101 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ROUTING OF RECEIVED COMMANDS IN A SPLIT-PATH ARCHITECTURE STORAGE CONTROLLER Apparatus and methods for real-time routing of received frames in a split-path architecture storage controller. In one exemplary embodiment, a split-path storage controller comprises a soft-path I/O processor for processing of any received frames and comprises a fast-pa... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120030383 | DIGITAL MEDIA PROVIDING DEVICE WITH EXPANDABLE TRANSCODING CAPABILITY AND METHOD THEREOF A digital media providing device comprises a first interface for coupling to a first storage device storing a first media data of a first encoding format, a second interface for coupling to a second storage device storing a program code, and a third interface for coupli... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110320648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME TRANSPORT OF MULTI-MEDIA INFORMATION IN A NETWORK In one embodiment of a networking module, a first block receives a serial digital media signal, and provides a parallel digital media signal based on the serial digital media signal. A second block, operative with the first block, stores the parallel digital media signa... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110302334 | Flow Control in Real-Time Transmission of Non-Uniform Data Rate Encoded Video Over a Universal Serial Bus A method is provided that includes coding pictures by a video encoder in a digital camera to form a compressed video bit stream for real-time transmission to a host digital system coupled to the digital camera by a universal serial bus (USB), wherein an output data rate... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110219151 | Generation of a Formatted Unique Device Identifier From an AT Attachment Serial Number A Network Address Authority (“NAA”) identifier associated with a storage device is generated from an Advanced Technology Attachment (“ATA”) serial number, or other identifier, associated with the storage device. The ATA serial number is received from the storage... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110153879 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING USB DEVICE ATTACHED TO HOME GATEWAY, HOME GATEWAY AND TERMINAL A method for accessing a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device attached to the home gateway is provided to solve the problem that after the USB device is attached to the home gateway, the USB device becomes an exclusive device of the home gateway, and application software o... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110131348 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND CPU UNIT In the disclosed control system, loops of 1st path and 2nd path are formed connecting an active CPU unit and each of RIO units, the direction of data frame transfer through the loop of 1st path being opposite to that of the data frame transfer through the loop 2nd path.... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110113165 | TERMINAL APPARATUS USIGN A PERIPHERAL APPARATUS OF ANOTHER TERMINAL VIA THE CONTROL OF ONE TERMINAL, AND INTERFACE METHOD THEREOF The present invention relates to a terminal apparatus in which a first terminal apparatus controls and uses a peripheral apparatus of a second terminal apparatus at the state where the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus are interconnected with ea... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110055437 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WHICH CAN SERVE AS INPUT DEVICE FOR COMPUTER The present invention discloses a mobile communication device which can serve as an input device for a computer, the mobile communication device including a control circuit; a command input device coupled to the control circuit to input information; and a transcoder cou... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100318690 | CARD HOST LSI AND SET DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME In a set device having a card host LSI, high-speed data transmission to a removable card or the like is realized without hindering a reduction in size and weight. The card host LSI and the removable card are connected to a card bus complying with predetermined card bus ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312918 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA A method for transmitting data between two devices, in which data frames of the data are temporally adjusted in such a way that a constant number of flanks is used for the data frames. In addition, a related system, computer program, and computer program product are als... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306422 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS The present invention provides, as one aspect, a communication apparatus which is connected with a communication bus and performs communication using Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA). The apparatus includes an edge detection section which... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100287312 | Apparatus and Method for Intelligent Analysis of Device Compatibility and Adaptive Processing of Multimedia Data An apparatus and a method for intelligent analysis of device compatibility and adaptive processing of multimedia data are disclosed. By performing a unique intelligent analysis of device compatibility, the present invention provides a full application-level compatibilit... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100281331 | Systems and Methods for a Rateless Round Robin Protocol for Adaptive Error Control Systems and methods implementing a protocol that provides reliable transport over a point-to-point link characterized by deep and sustained fades. Such a communications link may be a free space optical channel or may be a radio frequency point-to-point channel. Data fra... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100275037 | Low-Power USB SuperSpeed Device with 8-bit Payload and 9-bit Frame NRZI Encoding for Replacing 8/10-bit Encoding A Low-power flash-memory device uses a modified Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) 3.0 Protocol to reduce power consumption. The bit clock is slowed to reduce power and the need for pre-emphasis when USB cable lengths are short in applications. Data efficiency is improved by el... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100238186 | Display Controllers Including Memory Controllers A display controller is provided. The display controller includes an external memory and a timing controller which compresses current frame data to generate front first in-first out (FIFO) input data, temporarily stores the front FIFO input data and writes the front FIF... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235547 | APPARATUS INCLUDING A PERIPHERAL INTERFACE PORT HUB AND SECURE THUMB DEVICE ENCLOSURE An apparatus (100) having a peripheral interface port hub and secure thumb device enclosure is disclosed. The apparatus can include a frame (110) and an external peripheral interface upstream port (120) coupled to the frame. The external peripheral ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100191875 | Communication network and converter module A converter module comprising a first connection for connection to a first data line for communication with a superordinate plane, a second connection for connection to a second data line for communication with a subordinate plane having a conversion means for convertin... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100185791 | Transport Frame Structure for Retransmission in DSL Included are embodiments for retransmission in a digital subscriber line environment. At least one embodiment of a method includes framing data into transport frames, each transport frame carrying payload data that is viewed differently according to the computing layer ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100124260 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSCEIVER CONTROL OF PERIPHERAL COMPONENTS Peripheral components of a wireless radio system can be controlled by a wireless transceiver. The transceiver stores parallel or serial bit patterns in memory, each bit pattern corresponding to a particular control configuration for one or more peripheral components. A ... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100125684 | Data Output System for Mobile Device and Data Output Method Thereof A data output system for a mobile device and an associated method for outputting data of a mobile device are provided. The data output system for a mobile device can deliver data output from the mobile device to an embedded system, and display the data on a display scre... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100088434 | FCP COMMAND-DATA MATCHING FOR WRITE OPERATIONS A method for performing a data exchange between an initiator and a receiver in a fibre channel protocol (FCP) is provided. A control flag is set in a write command to indicate the presence of an identifier. The identifier is copied into a command descriptor block (CDB) ... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100049884 | Method of transmitting data from a transmitting device A method is provided for transmitting data from a transmitting device (121) to a receiving device (125). The transmitting device transmits a first data frame (200) to a receiving device a first time (3100). Then it consecutively tr... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100036975 | REPEAT CCW COUNT ARGUMENT FOR DEVICE COMMAND WORD PROCESSING A method of packaging a plurality of repeating commands for device command word (DCW) processing in a computer environment having an I/O link handling complex instruction chains for a processing operation is provided. Locate record information is packaged into DCW prefi... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090327534 | Process for the Transfer of Data Into Several Control Devices A process is provided for transferring a first sequence control and/or first data into a first control device and a second sequence control and/or second data into a second control device in a motor vehicle, which are each connected by way of a first data bus with a tra... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090248912 | METHOD OF WRITING CONTROL DATA INTO ON-BOARD VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT AND THE CONTROL UNIT A first-type data transfer frame for uncompressed transfer of a control program and control data including reference data, and a second-type data transfer frame for compressed transfer have the same fixed size, and each transfer frame includes compression identification... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090234983 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING A COMPUTER DISPLAY SCREEN A method masquerades computer display screen graphics data as a media stream supported by a media adapter with capabilities to receive a media stream, decompress it, and display it on an attached display device. The display screen graphics data is uncompressed pixel-lev... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090182905 | Complex input/output port connecter A complex input/output port connecter is applied in an electronic device and electrically connected with at least an input/output module. The electrical connecter includes a frame and a plurality of signal lines. The frame accommodates at least one input/output module. ... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090164674 | RELAY DEVICE AND RELAY METHOD, CONVERTING APPARATUS AND CONVERTING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR RELAYING PROCESS, PROGRAM FOR CONVERTING PROCESS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM A relay device and the like are provided which are capable of easily transmitting/receiving information among information processors connected on buses whose information transmission standards are different from each other. A bridge B1 | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090157914 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH FRAME REUSE USING DIVIDED MULTI-CONNECTOR ELEMENT DIFFERENTIAL BUS CONNECTOR A method includes reducing power of a first graphics processor by disabling or not using its rendering engine and leaving a display engine of the same first graphics processor capable of outputting display frames from a corresponding first frame buffer to a display. A d... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090106462 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR CAPTURING KEYPAD DATA SERIALIZING/DESERIALIZING AND REGENERATING THE KEYPAD INTERFACE A serializer/deserializer interfacing a keypad or keyboard to a processing system is illustrated. In one application, the processor is arranged to generate keypad scan and input keypad sense lines directly. However, to minimize wires on intervening cables, a serializer ... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090106463 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA An information processing apparatus including: an input unit that allows a user to input operation; an input controller that receives the operation input through the input unit; a data conversion unit that converts console data, which is output from another apparatus us... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090083589 | Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing communications Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, which can comprise a programmable logic controller (PLC). The system can comprise a serial communications port connected to the PLC. In certain exemplary embodiments, the system can comprise a controller adapted to ena... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090060228 | Systems and Methods for Shadowing an HDA Codec Systems and methods for “shadowing” a target codec to provide additional features that are not available in the target codec. In one embodiment, an audio amplification system includes a High Definition Audio (HDA) bus, and an HDA controller, a conventional HDA codec... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090013101 | DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSMITTING PROGRAM There is disclosed a data transmitting apparatus for transmitting data including a plurality of data elements, each of which is a bit sequence of a plurality of bits, and is of one of a plurality of kinds. At least one bit in the bit sequence of a first one of the kinds... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090013100 | Single wire serial communication system Disclosed is a single wire communication system for communicating between integrated circuits. The single wire communication system comprises an upper control device generating control commands, a to-be-controlled chip operating with the control commands, and a single w... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080301148 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATING TO SERVER/CLIENT SQL ENVIRONMENTS Systems and methodologies that enhance a Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol by enabling clients to send tabular formed data as a single parameter to servers. A Table Valued Parameter (TVP) transporting component enables the client servers to transmit entire database tab... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080279560 | Communication Device, Communication System, Communication Method, Communication Program, and Communication Circuit A transmitter (1) which transmits a predetermined amount of transfer data using an infrared ray includes: a controller (13) for transmitting an SNRM command to the other station without transmitting a station-search command (XID) for searching the other st... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080215770 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESSLY SHARING A GRAPHICS CARD AMONGST VIRTUAL MACHINES The present invention provides a virtual machine system and a method of accessing a graphics card by the same, wherein, the virtual machine system includes a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), a Service Operating System (SOS) and at least one Guest Operating System (GOS), a... | 09/04/2008 |
