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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100318693 | Delegating A Poll Operation To Another Device In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for handling a registration message received from a host processor, where the registration message delegates a poll operation with respect to a device from the host processor to another component. Information fr... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100191877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POLLING MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES BASED ON PERFORMANCE CRITERIA A method and system suitable for grouping a plurality of multifunction devices (MFDs), the system including a storage station for storing information gathered from the plurality of MFDs by selectively polling the plurality of MFDs; wherein the information is selectively... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20090100203 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UPDATED PROCESSOR POLLING INFORMATION Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus to collect and dynamically update processor polling information. In one method embodiment, the present invention collects processor polling information at boot time to be provided to an operating system. The... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090083455 | Centralized polling service A centralized polling system is set forth for providing constant time select call functionality to a plurality of polling tasks in an operating system kernel. In one aspect, the CPS registers for and thereby captures events of interest on a continual basis. Polling task... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090077277 | Methods and apparatus for decreasing power consumption and bus activity Methods and apparatus for enhancing efficiency (e.g., reducing power consumption and bus activity) in a data bus. In an exemplary embodiment, a client-driven host device state machine switches among various states, each comprising a different polling frequency. A client... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080215771 | POOL I/O DEVICE OPERATION CONFIRMATION METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM In a computer system to which a plurality of I/O devices are connected and a pool I/O device is included therein, a periodical operation confirmation is performed on a pool I/O device to be used when a fault occurs. A pool I/O device operation confirmation section obtai... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20070198757 | Data processing system with hardware polling processor A data processing system includes a processor, a peripheral device conducting an operation requested by the processor, a clock/power control unit supplying a clock signal to the processor, and a hardware polling processor detecting current state data output from the per... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070073928 | High-speed input/output signaling mechanism using a polling CPU and cache coherency signaling Applicant's high-speed input/output signaling mechanism makes exclusive use of one or more processors (CPU) for polling. Device-bound perpetual polling is initiated neither by the device nor by the processing application: it takes place independently from them, on a CPU... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070005827 | Method and apparatus for application/OS triggered low-latency network communications A data buffer that is a target for data received over a communication channel is examined, and a device associated with the communication channel is polled, to find, process, and return data transmitted over the channel. Other methods and apparatus to reduce network lat... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060235970 | System and method for exposing synchronous web services as notification style web services A system and method for asynchronous processing of network communications between a client device and a respective synchronous web service. The system and method comprises: an input for receiving a subscription request; a subscription module configured for processing th... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060149863 | System for extending length of a connection to a USB device A system for extending in length a connection from a universal serial bus (USB) peripheral device to a computer beyond the length enabled by the device hardware. The system includes: a USB host emulator, for polling the USB peripheral device according to a USB standard ... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060106957 | Method and system for performance enhancement in a polled data storage environment A method of verifying the passage of a data write across a bus is provided including sending the data write from an originator across the bus to a target, counting the number of data entries received at the target with a counter, and transmitting a return echo write fro... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060095606 | Method, system and storage medium for lockless InfiniBandTM Poll for I/O completion A method, system, and storage medium for the InfiniBand™ Poll verb to support a multi-threaded environment without the use of kernel services to provide serialization for mainline Poll logic. Poll is the verb, which allows a consumer to determine which of its work req... | 05/04/2006 |
