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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131254 | SWITCH APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING DISPLAY, KEYBOARD, AND MOUSE A switch apparatus includes first to third video graphics array (VGA) interfaces, first to sixth universal serial bus (USB) interfaces, a single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switch, and first to eighteenth electronic switches. The first VGA interface is connected to the sec... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120023281 | Single-chip microcomputer A single-chip microcomputer comprising: a first bus having a central processing unit and a cache memory connected therewith; a second bus having a dynamic memory access control circuit and an external bus interface connected therewith; a break controller for connecting ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017023 | COMPUTING MODULE WITH SERIAL DATA CONNECTIVITY A computing module includes an interface to asynchronously, serially exchange parallel system bus data with one or more other modules of a computer system that includes the computing module. The computing module can asynchronously, serially transfer first parallel bus d... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110296074 | MEMORY MAPPED INPUT/OUTPUT BUS ADDRESS RANGE TRANSLATION FOR VIRTUAL BRIDGES In an embodiment, a south chip comprises a first virtual bridge connected to a shared egress port and a second virtual bridge also connected to the shared egress port. The first virtual bridge receives a first secondary bus identifier, a first subordinate bus identifier... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110258641 | Remote Adapter Configuration Systems and methods to remotely configure adapters are described. A particular method may include generating a management frame at a controlling bridge. The management frame may include instructions to configure an operating parameter of the adapter. The management fram... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110161546 | COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH BRIDGE A computer system includes a central processing unit (CPU), a north bridge, a south bridge, a bridge and a slot. The north bridge is electrically connected to the CPU. The bridge is electrically connected to the north bridge and the south bridge, and the connector is co... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110107002 | SAS Expander-Based SAS/SATA Bridging Described herein is an improved mechanism for bridging between SAS and SATA drives based upon existing SAS expanders in a SAS domain. In particular, a bridge capable of translating between SAS and SATA protocols is embedded in or coupled to an expander. When a SAS initi... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20100257380 | DATA ACCESSING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING SYSTEM USING THE SAME A data access apparatus and a processing system using the same are disclosed herein, which can be a power-off status to permit its storage media being accessible by another processing system. When a bus signal switching and conversion unit receives a first-level control... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100241909 | FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEM In a lockstep fault-tolerant system (10), each subsystem (1, 2) includes bridges (71 to 75) positioned between a CPU (21) and memory (11), between a CPU (22) and memory (12), between the CPU (21) and a north... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100138583 | REMOTE ACCESS GATEWAY FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT An apparatus for providing an interface for semiconductor processing equipment is disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus for providing an interface for semiconductor processing equipment having an interface card includes a display logic subsystem to provide an int... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20090292854 | USE OF BOND OPTION TO ALTERNATE BETWEEN PCI CONFIGURATION SPACE An adaptor for adapting one of a first device complying with a first bus, and a second device complying with a second bus to a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface. The adaptor comprises a first bridge for interconnecting the first bus with the PCI... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090265501 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AN ACCESS PATH Provided is a computer system including I/O devices coupled to PCI switches coupled via interfaces of a plurality of servers, and a management block for managing configurations of the PCI switches. The management block is configured to: set, to the PCI switch, a first a... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090198863 | TRANSPARENT PCI-BASED MULTI-HOST SWITCH A transparent PCI-based multi-host switch. A switch is configured with multiple north facing ports to couple the switch to multiple hosts. The multi-host switch can be included in a variety of switch configurations, including configurations having one multi-host switch,... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090182925 | MEMORY ACCESS ASSIST A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating access from a control system to the memory of a processor across two buses, one of which acts as a bottleneck to communication between the control system and the processor. A bridge between the two buses acts as an in... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090006706 | Structure for Hub for Supporting High Capacity Memory Subsystem A design structure is provided for a hub for use in a high-capacity memory subsystem in which memory modules arranged in one or more clusters, each attached to a respective hub which in turn is attached to a memory controller. Within a cluster, data is interleaved so th... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080320294 | USER SELECTABLE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS APPLICATION FOR INACCESSIBLE NONVOLATILE STORAGE AT BOOTSTRAP Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to applying user configurable options during bootstrap and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for user selectable configuration options application f... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080270669 | TRANSLATION OF DATA TO/FROM STORAGE DEVICES BASED ON A REDUNDANCY CONFIGURATION AND HOST INTERFACE TYPE A system comprises a bridge translator adapted to be coupled to a plurality of storage devices and to a host. The bridge translator translates data from the host to a format compatible with the redundantly configured storage devices. A controller coupled to the bridge t... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080256375 | SYSTEM OF INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENATLLY HARDENED ARCHITECTURE FOR SPACE APPLICATION An environmentally hardened architecture comprises a hybrid processor, a high speed bus having environmentally-sensitive interfaces, an environmentally hardened bus having environmentally-hardened interfaces, and an environmentally-hardened processor communicatively cou... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080189453 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a central processing unit (CPU) configured to output first control signals in response to a first clock signal, a first bus connected to the CPU, a bridge circuit... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080184021 | FLEXIBLY CONFIGURABLE MULTI CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) SUPPORTED HYPERTRANSPORT SWITCHING Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hypertransport-based switching for multi-CPU systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for flexibly configurable multi-CPU supported hypertransport switching. In one embod... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080155145 | Discovery of a Bridge Device in a SAS Communication System An embodiment of the present invention includes a communication system configured to conform to SAS standard and causing communication between one or more hosts and a SATA/SAS device. The communication system includes a multi-port bridge device including two or more SAS... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080109581 | Protocol independent bridge A wireless bridge includes a first universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) for coupling to a serial bus that receives data packets. A protocol independent module has a timer set to a desired time to detect a start and/or an end of a data packet received from ... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080098150 | METHOD FOR FORMING ROUTE MAP IN WIRELESS 1394 BRIDGE NETWORK Provided is a method for forming a route map in a wireless 1394 bridge network. The method for forming a route map in a wireless 1394 bridge network, including the steps of: a) storing route map information; b) collecting changed bus information when a new network is fo... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080071961 | SHARED SYSTEM OF I/O EQUIPMENT, SHARED SYSTEM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD USED THERETO An I/O equipment sharing system includes CPUs, a plurality of route complexes coupled to the CPUs, upstream PCI Express-bridges coupled to the route complexes, downstream PCI Express-bridges coupled to the upstream PCI Express-bridges through a network, and I/O equipmen... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080059684 | APPARATUS FOR COORDINATING INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN DEVICES OF VARYING CAPABILITIES IN A NETWORK Embodiments of a routing device for coordinating the interoperability of devices with varying capabilities that send and/or receive commands in a storage network are disclosed. A host device in the storage network may inquire the capabilities of a storage device in a st... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20070208898 | PROGRAMMABLE BRIDGE HEADER STRUCTURES A computer system includes compute nodes coupled through a switch to shared or non-shared I/O devices. The switch includes a pool of bridge headers and virtual bridges coupling a root port of a compute node to each of one or more shared or non-shared I/O devices. The sw... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070204092 | Method and apparatus for describing ACPI machine language in computer having multibridge PCI structure, and program thereof There is provided a method for describing an ACPI machine language table used in a computer system having a multibridge PCI structure, which enables an OS to support hot plugs for PCI devices subordinate to a PCI multibridge. Upon receiving a call requesting a resource ... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070055806 | Adapting legacy instruments to an instrument system based on synchronized time A legacy interface module that enables legacy instruments to function in instrument systems based on synchronized time. A legacy instrument module according to the present teachings adapts a legacy interface of a legacy instrument to an instrument system based on synchr... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070055899 | Method for power management of central processor unit A method for a power management of a central processor unit is disclosed. The method is applied to when the central processor unit is in a low power state without snooping and a bus master signal is sent from a peripheral device. First, a South Bridge sends a control si... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20060282603 | Expansion of cross-domain addressing for PCI-express packets passing through non-transparent bridge A PCI-Express compatible switch is provided with two or more, internal virtual buses. In one embodiment, at least one of the plural virtual buses is designated as a special bus that is limited to having no more than 16 devices on it even though the protocol allows for a... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060248256 | Motherboard Allowing Selection of Different Central Processing Units A motherboard includes a first CPU module including a first CPU slot and a first memory slot, a first north bridge circuit coupled to the first CPU module, a second CPU module including a second CPU slot and a second memory slot, a second north bridge circuit coupled to... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060248253 | Motherboard and bridge module therefor A motherboard includes at least one first memory socket, at least one second memory socket and a bridge module. The first memory socket is connected to a first memory, and the second memory socket is connected to a second memory. In addition, the bridge module has a fir... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060242352 | Device sharing An interconnect apparatus, for example a switch, supports PCI-Express. The apparatus has a first plurality of ports configurable as upstream ports, each connectable to a respective host, and at least one port configurable as a downstream port connectable to a device. Th... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060230217 | Peripheral bus switch having virtual peripheral bus and configurable host bridge A peripheral bus switch includes a virtual peripheral bus, a plurality of bridges, and a configurable host bridge. A first bridge operably couples on a first side to the virtual peripheral bus and supports connection on a second side to a peripheral bus fabric. A second... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060190663 | Chipset capable of supporting video cards of different specifications The present invention provides a chipset comprising a north bridge with a PCI Express interface for coupling to a PCI Express video card and a south bridge with an AGP interface for coupling to an AGP video card, so as to enable the motherboard corresponding to the chip... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060106967 | Multi-port system and method for routing a data element within an interconnection fabric The present invention relates generally to a generic fabric interconnect system and method for providing a data path between and among nodes and processing elements within an interconnection fabric. More specifically, there is provided a device accessible by a host proc... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060085587 | CPU system, bus bridge, control method therefor, and computer system In a system having an arrangement that a CPU (101) connected to a bus (107) via bus bridge (103) and a CPU 102 connected to a bus (107) via bus bridge (104), when the bus bridge (103) receives a semaphore acquisition requ... | 04/20/2006 |
| 20050086407 | Interruption control system and method An interruption control system includes a first input/output interruption controller, a second input/output interruption controller, and an interruption control device bus. The first input/output interruption controller is coupled to a first peripheral device and a sout... | 04/21/2005 |
