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| 8160863 | System and method for connecting a logic circuit simulation to a network A system and method for connecting a running logic circuit simulation to a network running at a higher speed that includes a computer for receiving data packets from the network and storing the received data packets in a first buffer. The computer next transmits the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8112266 | Apparatus for simulating an aspect of a memory circuit A memory subsystem is provided including an interface circuit adapted for coupling with a plurality of memory circuits and a system. The interface circuit is operable to interface the memory circuits and the system for emulating at least one memory circuit with at l... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108201 | Method for emulating a native device on a host computer system A native device includes a memory storing a personal computing environment; an interface configured for coupling with a host information processing system; a native function system for performing a native function; and a native function emulator for emulating the na... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8073674 | SCSI device emulation in user space facilitating storage virtualization A method for storage virtualization in user space. The method includes providing a first emulation module running in the OS kernel and providing a second emulation module in the user space of the computer, which may emulate a media changer or other SCSI or other sto... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8032353 | Method and apparatus for providing peripheral connection management in a remote computing environment A method and apparatus for utilizing a bridged peripheral system within a bridged computer system having a host computer and a remote computer. The host computer executes peripheral driver software that initiates at least one communication. The host computer also ex... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024171 | Managed resource simulator for storage area networks Methods and systems for a managed resource simulator for storage area networks are disclosed. To simulate a managed resource, a first template of generic communication information is executed. The execution of the first template establishes communications between an... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019589 | Memory apparatus operable to perform a power-saving operation A memory subsystem is provided including an interface circuit adapted for communication with a system and a majority of address or control signals of a first number of memory circuits. The interface circuit includes emulation logic for emulating at least one memory ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7979264 | System and method for interfacing a media processing apparatus with a computer A system comprising a media processing apparatus and a computer where the media processing apparatus emulates a mass storage device and interfaces with the computer is disclosed. In one embodiment the media processing apparatus appears to the computer as a Universal... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974829 | System for simulating mobile phone and method thereof A system for simulating mobile phone and method thereof is provided. The system has separately designed man-machine-interface (MMI) kernel module, simulator module and plug-in module. If a designer wants to replace the MMI kernel module in a developing project, the ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974830 | Tape management method and tape management system A tape management method capable of easily using a file on a virtual tape from a plurality of programs in a system virtually emulating a magnetic tape apparatus by a disk apparatus. When a use request is generated from other program to a volume of a virtual tape use... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7953588 | Method and system for efficient emulation of multiprocessor address translation on a multiprocessor host A method (and system) for emulating a target system's memory addressing using a virtual-to-real memory mapping mechanism of a host multiprocessor system's operating system, includes inputting a target virtual memory address into a simulated page table to obtain a ho... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949512 | Systems and methods for performing virtual storage operations The present invention includes a system for simulating the performing of data storage operations. The system may include a storage manager component, at least one media management component directed by the storage manager component to manage storage operations to at... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7899662 | Data backup system including a data protection component A data backup system is provided for backing up data files from a data source and for securing those data files against accidental modification or deletion. The system comprises storage and a data protection component that includes an application programming interfa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885805 | Apparatus, system, and method for simulating multiple hosts An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for simulating multiple hosts. An object module creates a plurality of host object instances. Each host object instance simulates a host to a storage device connection. In addition, each host object instance includes a ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7865351 | Device and method for automatically launching applications residing on USB flash drives A USB peripheral device may automatically launch an application residing in its memory after it is connected to a host or after restarting the host if the USB flash drive has already been connected. Alternatively, the USB peripheral \device can automatically launch ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7827023 | Method and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of an emulation engine A method and apparatus for a memory efficient hardware emulator. The emulator comprises a plurality of processor dusters having data within the duster is stored in at least one data array, where the at least one data array comprises a plurality of sub-arrays. The su... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827024 | Low latency, high bandwidth data communications between compute nodes in a parallel computer Methods, parallel computers, and computer program products are disclosed for low latency, high bandwidth data communications between compute nodes in a parallel computer. Embodiments include receiving, by an origin direct memory access (‘DMA’) engine of an origi... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818161 | Apparatus and method for UART emulation An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to run an operating system; a reconfiguration module configured to rewrite a capability pointer of a PCI device configuration to set a controller compatible of controlling a non-UART device to be i... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818160 | Data backup devices and methods for backing up data A data backup system comprises an emulation component and a storage device having logical storage areas. The emulation component is configured to represent a first logical storage area of the storage device, such as a solid state memory or a disk drive partition, as... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813913 | Emulation component for data backup applications An emulation component for a data backup system is provided. The emulation component represents a storage device, such as a flash memory device or a partition of a disk drive, as if it were an auto-launch device, that will trigger applications to execute automatical... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7752029 | Method to change USB device descriptors from host to emulate a new device A method for changing operation of a device, comprising: sending target device descriptors to the device's device emulator, which processes and stores the descriptors as the current descriptors in memory, and the device emulator responding to a query from a host sim... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7716035 | Simulation of a PCI device's memory-mapped I/O registers PCI simulation component has an initialization component, a configuration space simulator and a memory-mapped I/O space simulator. The initialization component can claim an amount of memory by modifying the amount of memory that an operating system has available to ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711539 | System and method for emulating SCSI reservations using network file access protocols A system and method for emulating SCSI reservations using network file access protocols is provided. The system and method enable applications or operating systems on a networked computer designed to utilize SCSI reservations on only locally attached storage to also... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707022 | Multiple device scan chain emulation/debugging A method and system is provided for emulating individual JTAG devices in a multiple device boundary scan chain. The method includes coupling an emulator to the scan chain, and obtaining the topology of the scan chain. One device within the scan chain is then selecte... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698122 | Creation and use of virtual device drivers on a serial bus A node on a serial bus, preferably a device such as a personal computer (PC), can emulate other devices using virtual device drivers. A PC connected to a 1394 bus exposes its CROM on the bus which presents an image to other nodes on the 1394 bus and describes the fu... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7653527 | Runtime selection of code variants in a multiprogram computer hardware emulation system As fast and powerful commodity processors have been developed, it has become practical to emulate the proprietary hardware systems of powerful older computers on platforms built using commodity processors. The systems being emulated are often large mainframe compute... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7643983 | Data storage system emulation A technique for emulation of a data storage system. The invention allows the level of services to be provided by a data storage system to be specified in terms of the level of services provided by another storage system. In one aspect, a performance characterization... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7627464 | Bootable solid state floppy disk drive A solid-state floppy disk drive is disclosed. In one embodiment, a solid-state floppy disk drive may include a non-volatile memory and a connector for coupling the solid-state floppy disk drive to a computer system. The non-volatile memory may store instructions and... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7603266 | Generic emulator of devices in a device communications protocol The generic device emulator provides an operational emulation of the behavior of any desired device within a device connectivity or other communications protocol as specified in a description of the respective device. This facilitates development and implementation ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7593840 | 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 se... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590522 | Virtual mass storage device for server management information A method to communicate provide server management information that emulates a floppy disk drive (FDD) with a management processor. This management processor operably couples to a multi-function integrated circuit having a FDD controller. Monitoring hardware and sens... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7580826 | Systems and methods for development of emulated devices in a virtual machine environment The present invention discloses dynamically adding virtual devices to a virtual computing environment. The system described in the invention includes a virtualized computing system with a manifest, which further includes device lists and an external device directory... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577560 | Microcomputer logic development device A microcomputer logic development device realizing high speed sampling RAM monitoring by connecting an existing RAM measurement device, provided with a first block providing functions corresponding to a microcomputer core, a second block having functions correspondi... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7558723 | Systems and methods for bimodal device virtualization of actual and idealized hardware-based devices Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to bimodal virtual device approaches (that is, “bimodal devices”). In certain embodiments, the bimodal device is a virtual device that is primarily based on a real piece of hardware to provide a broad deg... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555424 | Method and apparatus for rewinding emulated memory circuits Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for emulating a memory circuit in a logic emulation system. The system includes at least one log memory associated with the emulated memory. Each log memory location is marked invalid at a predetermined tim... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7496492 | Software-aided storage device emulation in a physical storage device Mechanisms that allow a physical storage device that has storage capability (such as a hard disk, tape drive, tape changer, or read-write compact disk) to emulate one or more storage devices. A configuration interface receives configuration function calls that speci... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496493 | External memory device to provide disk device and optical functionality A memory device is attachable to a host computer system. The memory device includes an interface to couple the memory device to the host computer system. The memory device includes a controller for controlling operations in the memory device. The controller enables ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7440884 | Memory rewind and reconstruction for hardware emulator A method and apparatus for debugging circuit designs having random access memory therein. The circuit design is emulated on a hardware logic emulator. The RAM emulated by the emulator can be rewound to a previous state, and then replayed. The RAM emulated by the emu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437282 | Method and apparatus to provide alternative stimulus to signals internal to a model actively running on a logic simulation hardware emulator The present invention enhances the Direct Access Stimulus (DAS) interface presently employed within a logic simulation hardware emulator to provide alternative stimulus to signals internal to a model actively running on a logic simulation hardware emulator. The pres... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437387 | Method and system for providing a file system overlay A method and system wherein a plurality of different file system views may be provided for the same data. Data copied in a sequential format to a disk based repository using a data protection application is decoded so that the data may be presented and accessed usin... | 10/14/2008 |
