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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180930 | Information processing device, and device initialization method in the information processing device The information processing device of the present invention includes: an initialization unit that is realized by the execution of firmware for carrying out a first initialization process for enabling access from the firmware to devices that are connected to the infor... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166210 | Electronic device and control method therefor According to this invention, when initialization of a storage medium such as a flash memory is erase of the data area, the processing can be stopped. When the processing is stopped, at least initialization of the management area has been completed, and processing us... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8140716 | Method and system for implementing automatic installation of key device The invention discloses a method and system for implementing automatic installation of a key device, and relates to the field of smart card. The method includes steps of: establishing, by the key device, a connection with a computer; declaring to the computer that t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131887 | Automatically customizing one or more interactive portable display devices with a calculator unit by exchanging parameter data An electronic processing apparatus comprises one or more remote interactive display devices and a calculator unit, wherein the display device comprises at least a screen, a connector selectively connectable to the calculator unit, a user interface device and a micro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131888 | Activation of mobile computing device on a cellular network An automated network registration and activation system and method of the present invention automatically configures a communication network device for communicating on a network and automatically handles the communication network registration and activation. In one... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8112554 | Method and devices for transmitting data on a data line between a control device and at least one decentralized data processing device A method of transmitting data on a data line between a central control device and a decentralized data processing device. During a normal operation of the system, the central control device periodically sends synchronization pulses to the at least one data processin... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8086761 | SPI control device and method for accessing SPI slave devices using the same A method for accessing serial peripheral interface (SPI) slave devices using an SPI control device determines an SPI slave device to be operated, sets an operation type of the determined SPI slave device, and further sets a clock rate, a clock phase, and a clock pol... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073984 | Communication protocol for use with portable electronic devices Improved techniques for communicating between a portable electronic device and an accessory (or auxiliary) device are disclosed. The accessory device can augment or supplement the functionality or capabilities of the portable electronic device. For example, in one e... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069276 | Image display device and method of changing first information with second EDID information wherein each EDID information is stored on different storage units An image display device and method of changing extended display identification data (EDID) information includes a first storage unit which stores extended display identification data (EDID) information to be provided to the source providing device, a second storage ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065444 | Method and system for automatic peripheral device identification Method and system for latency-independent peripheral device identification. The computer system receives an interrupt from a peripheral device via a communications port. In response, an interrupt notification message is posted to alert a notification handler, and co... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8010715 | System and method for virtual router enabled electronic documents A system and method provide for producing and/or implementing a virtual device enabled electronic document. The electronic document includes documentary information and one or more virtual device initiators corresponding to the same or different target devices, or f... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7991924 | Method and system for initializing devices A system for a first device to initialize a second device is disclosed. The initialization bus is coupled between the first device and the second device. During an initialization period, the first device triggers at least one transmission command through the initial... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7975076 | Data processing system for keeping isolation between logical partitions When a subject of access of a transaction from an IO device is not any resource allocated to a logical partition to which the device having issued the transaction belongs, a report as an error is sent to a CPU, while the transaction is finished on the IO bus. To pre... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975075 | Data communication system and method A method and system for performing serial data communication between a main device and an external module connected to the main device. The data communication system and method include a main device, and an external module connected to the main device and communicat... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7945707 | Electrical device configuration system and method A system (100) capable of configuring an electrical device (101) coupled to a computer (102), the system includes: (a) a computer communications component (111) of the electrical device configured to communicate with the computer; and (b)... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937505 | Method and system for flexible and negotiable exchange of link layer functional parameters A proposal is discussed that facilitates exchanging parameters for a link layer that allows a variable number of parameters without changing a communication protocol. Likewise, the proposal allows for both components connected via the link to negotiate values for th... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7917663 | Method for confirming connection state of a home appliance in home network system A method for confirming connection state of a home appliance in home network system is disclosed, which includes a step in which the home appliance periodically confirms the connection state to the home network system, a step in which the appliance generates a packe... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912993 | Methods and media for managing interruption of the out of box experience A method for managing interruption of an out of box experience for an information handling system (IHS) whereby the method includes writing a flag to storage device, wherein the storage device is coupled to a processor within the IHS and executing an interruption ha... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912992 | Disk-drive automatic recognition/setting apparatus and disk-drive automatic recognition/setting method According to an aspect of an embodiment, a disk-drive automatic recognition/setting apparatus for a disk system including a controller, a disk drive, and an expander attached to the controller, the disk drive, or another expander, provides an information obtaining r... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7882274 | Computer system with multiple terminals A computer system having a host computer and multiple terminals. The host computer (including any peripheral hubs or the like) has groups of at least three I/O ports (preferably USB ports) where the I/O ports of a single group are supposed to be used to connect I/O ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877521 | Processing apparatus and method of modifying system configuration A virtual PCI Express device 1600 indicates the presence of a pseudo I/O device in a PCI Express initial configuration cycle to reserve a resource space for a device anticipated to be installed in the future, and when an I/O device 1400 is inserted int... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873754 | Structure for option ROM characterization A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is disclosed for option ROM characterization by establishing an isolating execution environment for an expansion adapter of a computer, the adapter... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7861009 | Requesting a user account for services An automated network registration and activation system and method of the present invention automatically configures a communication network device for communicating on a network and automatically handles the communication network registration and activation. In one... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7818468 | Method and system for processing control information In one aspect, an integrated circuit device including a first-level module configurable to receive and transmit control information, said first level module including a first sub-level module, a second sub-level module operably coupleable to the first sub-level modu... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818467 | Method of indentifying devices in mobile and desktop environments A method of providing connectivity between a mobile device and a desktop computing device: providing the mobile device with software that can be installed in the desktop computing device to provide configuration data to application software operating on the desktop ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818466 | HDMI controller circuit for transmitting digital data to compatible audio device using address decoder where values are written to registers of sub-circuits The present invention provides a high definition media interface (HDMI) controller having a modular design internal bus structure, and applications thereof. The controller includes a circuit interface, an address decoder coupled to the circuit interface, a plurality... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7802022 | Generic USB drivers Techniques are disclosed to provide generic USB drivers. More particularly, a generic USB device driver architecture is described which enables development through a user-mode USB library that accesses a generic kernel-mode driver. In a described implementation, a m... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793009 | Printer and peripheral apparatus of a computer for printing and storing images A printer comprises a card reader and a data writing unit. The card reader reads out an image stored in a memory card. The data writing unit writes the image, which is read out by the card reader, in a flexible disk to store this image. The printer is adapted to be ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7761613 | Electrical device configuration system and method A system (100) capable of configuring an electrical device (101) coupled to a computer (102), the system includes: (a) a computer communications component (111) of the electrical device configured to communicate with the computer; and (b)... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7757012 | Configurable mapping of devices to bus functions Techniques are disclosed for enabling a single computer system to execute both operating systems that permit multiple devices to be mapped to a single PCI function and operating systems that do not permit such mapping. Prior to loading and executing an operating sys... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7757011 | Method and system for automatic peripheral device identification Method and system for latency-independent peripheral device identification. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an interrupt from a peripheral device coupled to a computer system communications port. In response, an interrupt notification message is posted... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7734837 | Continuous media priority aware storage scheduler The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate I/O access to a computer storage medium in a predictable and efficient manner. A scheduling system is provided that mitigates the problem of providing differing levels of performance guarantees ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734836 | Method and apparatus for dynamically qualifying mass storage devices A field-upgradeable database that is separable from system software contains information about mass storage devices that may be present in a storage array. When an uninitialized device is detected in the array, the field-upgradeable database is consulted to discover... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734838 | Configuration tool and methods for seismic data acquisition An apparatus for in-field configuration of a seismic device such as a seismic sensor may include a memory module having data for configuring the seismic device, a location sensor determining a location parameter for the seismic sensor, and a communication device tra... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725615 | Universal network driver interface installer Communicating via a network using a universal network driver interface is disclosed. It is determined whether a universal network device interface (UNDI) driver is installed. A UNDI driver is scanned for if it is determined that no UNDI driver is installed. In the e... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7716384 | Removable device and control circuit for allowing a medium insertion The present invention provides a highly convenient removable device and a startup method. A hub division unit 31 in a single composite device 2 allocates data exchange with the computer 1 side a plurality of devices, thereby easily realizing a p... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7694029 | Detecting miscabling in a storage area network A mechanism is provided for unique identification of each endpoint in a storage area network interconnect that is bridged by a specialized cable. Each endpoint is capable of querying peer endpoints for a unique identification. Once a unique identifier is obtained fo... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689729 | Method for implementing resets in two computers A method and computer program for implementing a reset both in a master computer and a slave computer which are both connected to a shared data bus. To allow a different reset configuration of both computers even when the slave computer, in particular, has no possib... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685327 | Identification of multi-device systems Methods and apparatus are disclosed for identifying a system. In various embodiments, values of identification codes are read from each of a plurality of electronic devices of the system. The values of the identification codes are used to generate a system identifie... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679895 | Lubricated data connector A device comprising a cavity adapted to house a removable, electronic storage device. The device also comprises a data connector adapted to blind-mate with the storage device. The data connector is lubricated. ... | 03/16/2010 |
