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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337248 | Adaptive synchronization method for communication in storage systems A method for transferring data in a storage system is provided. The method includes setting a catch-up threshold for accepting data requests from a port where the queue value corresponds to a number of requests collected from an input queue for every CPU interrupt, ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332818 | Multi-chip electronic package with reduced line skew and circuitized substrate for use therein An electronic package which includes a circuitized substrate having at least two electrical components positioned thereon. The package includes patterns of contact sites, each for having one of the components coupled thereto. The patterns of contact sites in turn ar... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333518 | Transmission method and transmission system as well as communications device A transmission method according to the present invention is capable of transmitting and receiving a data signal and information signal among a plurality of devices by full-duplex operation, wherein, when the information signal consecutively repeats a single pattern,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334070 | Multi-channel memory architecture for daisy chained arrangements of nodes with bridging between memory channels Multiple memory channels of a multi-channel memory architecture are effectively bridged together to enable data traffic associated with various nodes in daisy chain arrangement to be communicated over both memory channels. For example, a daisy chain arrangement of n... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334072 | System, method and apparatus for extending distances between wired or wireless USB devices and a USB host A wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB) device enumerates one or more real or virtual hubs that support transmission of USB data over a wireless network. The number of virtual hubs presented to a USB host can be varied dynamically according to monitored characteristic... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334074 | Method and system for multi-channel transfer of data and control A system and method for transferring information in a multi-channel, point-to-point environment are described. In one embodiment, a number of processing chips are connected to a bridge bus. A bridge is connected to the bridge bus and to a system bus. In addition, a ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330992 | System and method for read synchronization of memory modules A memory module includes several memory devices coupled to a memory hub. The memory hub includes several link interfaces coupled to respective processors, several memory controller coupled to respective memory devices, a cross-bar switch coupling any of the link int... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330953 | Memory system having delayed write timing A memory system has first, second and third interconnects and an integrated circuit memory device coupled to the interconnects. The second interconnect conveys a write command and a read command. The third interconnect conveys write data and read data. The integrate... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330951 | Apparatus and method for pipelined memory operations A memory device has interface circuitry and a memory core which make up the stages of a pipeline, each stage being a step in a universal sequence associated with the memory core. The memory device has a plurality of operation units such as precharge, sense, read and... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328849 | Smart card providing data mapping for multiple applications and related methods An integrated circuit for a smart card in accordance with an exemplary embodiment includes a transceiver and a processor for communicating with a host device via the transceiver and performing a plurality of smart card applications. Moreover, the processor may coope... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330110 | System and method for providing wireless communication device access to dynamic business information Systems and methods for a user to receive dynamic business information on a wireless communication device via a wireless connection are presented. The wireless communication device can be a hand-held personal computer, a paging device, a wireless telephone, or other... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330952 | Integrated circuit memory device having delayed write timing based on read response time An integrated circuit memory device includes a first set of pins and a memory core. The first set of pins receive, using a clock signal, a write command and a read command. Control information is issued internally in response to the write command after a predetermin... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328290 | System and method of automatically switching control of a bus in a processor-based device A system and method of automatically switching control of a bus in a processor-based device is provided. In a server, control of a bus is automatically switched from a controller mounted on the system board to a controller located on an optional expansion card upon ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328289 | Communication between processors A method of communicating between a first and a second processor includes the first processor sending a datum over a common control bus, and the second processor receiving the datum from the common control bus. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328410 | Computer assembly A computer assembly for example for use as a network server comprises housing a host processor located within the housing and, a service processor also located within the housing for providing system management functions within the computer assembly. The housing inc... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325238 | Interface for determining the source of user input A method, interface, and medium are provided for causing a computer to respond to input based on the source of the input. The computer responds to identical input according to a device that generated the input. The method includes determining information about a rec... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324227 | Connection apparatus for connecting a source over a network to a predetermined destination, connecting method, and storage medium for storing computer-readable program having connecting functions A connection apparatus is disclosed which includes a connection source and a connection destination. The connection source includes information about a predetermined connection destination; and a connecting element for making a connection request to the predetermine... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321943 | KVM switch including a terminal emulator A method and system for converting the output of a communications port (e.g., a serial port or a USB port) into video signals representing the output of a terminal using a KVM switch. Upon receiving characters from the communications port, the system interprets the ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321945 | Interrupt control device sending data to a processor at an optimized time An interrupt control device for issuing interrupts to a central processing unit (CPU) includes an object acquiring unit for acquiring data or resource(s) for use by the CPU and an interrupt issuing unit for issuing interrupts to the CPU. The interrupt issuing unit i... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321985 | Method for achieving higher availability of computer PCI adapters Higher availability in a computer system is achieved by utilizing PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) adapters capable of dynamically switching between being controlled by a system processor and a specialized input/output processor (IOP). A method of fault recov... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321592 | Method of and apparatus for implementing and sending an asynchronous control mechanism packet used to control bridge devices within a network of IEEE Std 1394 serial buses An asynchronous control mechanism packet is used to send control messages and information to one or more bridge devices within a network of buses of devices. The asynchronous control mechanism packet is addressed to a device on one of the buses and is intercepted by... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320041 | Controlling flow of data between data processing systems via a memory Apparatus, methods and systems for controlling data flow between data processing systems. In an example embodiment, the apparatus includes descriptor logic for generating a plurality of descriptors including a frame descriptor defining a data packet to be communicat... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320046 | Optical disc drive having a control board and driving unit in separate locations An optical disc drive that includes a driving unit including a spindle motor to rotate an optical disc, an optical pickup to access the optical disc, and a connection board connected to a computer. A control board to control the driving unit, is installed at an inte... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320040 | Data distribution system A transfer apparatus receives, from a controller, a bit string including a plurality of individual data addressed to plural input/output units. The bit string is divided into data fragments. The data fragments are specified as corresponding to a target input/output ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320071 | Secure universal serial bus An apparatus and method for providing a secure universal serial bus (USB) is disclosed. The secure USB comprises a secure channel for transferring data. A secure USB domain device is coupled to a host computer or is embedded within a host computer. The secure USB do... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320047 | System having a controller device, a buffer device and a plurality of memory devices A system comprises a controller device, an integrated circuit buffer device and a first and second memory device. A first plurality of signal lines is coupled to the controller device. A second plurality of signal lines is coupled to the first memory device and the ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317694 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method is disclosed for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus. The method comprises the acts of determining whether the node has a connection to a Legacy link layer; if the node determines that it has a connection to a Legacy link layer, then... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317720 | Signal transmission system A signal transmission system has a master node and plural slave nodes performing data transmission with the master node. The master node has a serial-to-parallel converter for converting a serial data signal from each slave node into a parallel data signal. Each sla... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318113 | System and method communication system for reading or writing data to register between external card connection device and host device This invention is an information processing device such as a computer, as a host device, and a memory card as an external connection device to be connected to the host device. A memory card (1) and a host device (2) are connected with each other in acc... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318130 | System and method for thermal throttling of memory modules Some embodiments of the invention accurately account for power dissipation in memory systems that include individual memory modules by keeping track of the number of read requests, the number of write requests, and the number of activate requests that are applied to... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317734 | Method and apparatus for emulating ethernet functionality over a serial bus Applications can transparently use a bus, such as the IEEE-1394 serial bus, as if it were an Ethernet (IEEE 802.3). In a conventional Ethernet, each node is assigned a unique 6-byte MAC address in order to receive frames addressed to it over the LAN. According to th... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317903 | Wireless communication circuit, wireless communication apparatus, and wireless communication system A wireless communication circuit in accordance with the present invention, is the wireless communication circuit having an amplifier for amplifying a signal, includes an amplification route in which the signal passes through the amplifier; a bypass route for bypassi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318222 | Methods for execution control acquistion of a program and for executing an optimized version of a program In a method for execution control acquisition of a program, during the execution of the program, it is determined when a hardware performance counter has reached a threshold. When the threshold is reached, execution control is switched to a dynamic optimizer. Therea... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318112 | Universal interface simulating multiple interface protocols A universal interface interfaces between a variety of different data processing devices by the generation, storage, proper routing, and timed output of data signals to simulate behavior of a traditional interface device dedicated to that particular communications pr... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315964 | Digital signal measuring apparatus and traffic observing method A digital signal measuring apparatus comprises a bus probe unit for extracting a bus event occurring on a bus based on a digital bus signal on the bus of the system to be measured, a traffic measuring unit for counting the number of occurrences of bus event based on... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315685 | Method and apparatus for continuous feed of disks for recording digital video signals and authenticating the digitally recorded disks A digital signal recording apparatus a method of operating the same, used in conjunction with TV and video cameras, for example for security applications, includes a disk feeder system having a disk recorder and an upper compartment for holding fresh unrecorded disk... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315891 | Employee internet management device The present invention relates to a system for monitoring and maintaining an acceptable use policy for network communications. Such communications are monitored, stored and searched for the presence of preselected regular expressions, either by subject category or by... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315260 | Integrated removable functional faceplate for portable computer system An integrated removable functional faceplate for a portable computer system. The removable functional faceplate employs specially located electrical contacts or pads that mate with similarly located electrical contacts mounted on the portable computer system, e.g., ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315000 | Electronic module with dual connectivity An electronic module includes electronic circuitry and first and second connection mechanisms, both operationally connected to the electronic circuitry, for mounting the module in a larger electronic device by different respective methods. Preferably, the first conn... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312882 | Image processing apparatus, management unit for image forming apparatus, and program executed by image processing apparatus or by management unit for image forming apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a memory storing firmware, a reception unit for receiving an image processing job, an image processing job execution controller for executing the image processing job using the firmware, a firmware reception unit for receiving ... | 12/25/2007 |
