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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112567 | Method and system for controlling power provided to an accessory A method for a portable media player to control power provided an accessory is disclosed. The method includes requesting information about the power capabilities of the accessory by the portable media player. The method further includes providing information about t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099536 | Communication between an accessory and a media player with general and accessory lingoes An interface and protocol allow a media player to communicate with external accessories over a transport link. The protocol includes a core protocol functionality and a number of accessory lingoes. Examples of accessory lingoes include a microphone lingo, a simple r... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8082376 | Communication between an accessory and a media player with multiple protocol versions An interface and protocol allow a media player to communicate with external accessories over a transport link. The protocol includes a core protocol functionality and a number of accessory lingoes. Examples of accessory lingoes include a microphone lingo, a simple r... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8069289 | Modbus register data formatting A Modbus data protocol register formatting system and method are disclosed. The system and method provide for the Modbus communications protocol request and recall of data stored in a register in the data base native format, and the conversion of the data into a dif... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065456 | Delegating network processor operations to star topology serial bus interfaces An advanced processor comprises a plurality of multithreaded processor cores configured to support a plurality of software generated read or write instructions for interfacing with a star topology serial bus interface. The multiple-core processor has at least one of... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060676 | Method of hot switching data transfer rate on bus The present invention provides a method of hot switching data transfer rate on the bus to hot switch the data transfer rate of the bus between the control chips without the process of RESET. When the bus between the control chips demands a large amount of data trans... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060677 | Real-time industrial ethernet ethercat communication control A real-time industrial Ethernet EtherCAT system including a communication master and a plurality of slave nodes, wherein one slave node acts as a logic control master and the further slave nodes act as logic control slaves, and wherein a communication flow is as fol... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060678 | Digital device interconnect system A simple clock source synchronous DDR data transfer mechanism may be combined with static bus state signaling to replace a complex bus (e.g. USB) with an easy to implement digital serial interconnect bus. This may eliminate various pull-up/pull-down resistors requir... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055825 | Digital device interconnect method A simple clock source synchronous DDR data transfer mechanism may be combined with static bus state signaling to replace a complex bus (e.g. USB) with an easy to implement digital serial interconnect bus. This may eliminate various pull-up/pull-down resistors requir... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051231 | Data communications among electronic devices within a computer Data communications among electronic devices within a computer, including transmitting, from a transmitting device to a first translation device, data communications encoded according to an unreliable wireline data communications protocol; translating, by the first ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051230 | Synchronous data transmission method The method is for transmitting data between two devices via a clock wire or line and at least one data wire or line. The clock wire is maintained by default on a logic value A, and each device is capable of tying the clock wire to an electric potential representing ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041866 | System and method for interfacing an electronic device with a host system The disclosure describes a system and method for controlling interfacing parameters for a device when connected to a host. In the system and method, the communications interface is configurable to be in operable connection to a host using a microprocessor in the dev... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037224 | Delegating network processor operations to star topology serial bus interfaces An advanced processor comprises a plurality of multithreaded processor cores each having a data cache and instruction cache. A data switch interconnect is coupled to each of the processor cores and configured to pass information among the processor cores. A messagin... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7991932 | Firmware and/or a chipset determination of state of computer system to set chipset mode Firmware and/or a chipset of a computer system in an example makes a determination of a state of the computer system and sets the chipset in one of a plurality of modes based on the determination of the state of the computer system. ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984214 | Data bus interface with interruptible clock In a data bus with asynchronous data transmission via a clock and a data line, the transmitted data are ascertained by sampling with a multiple of the data rate of the data bus. Sampling is done in this case with a clock which is not synchronous with the asynchronou... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970969 | Method for communication on a multidrop bus of a magnetic resonance system In a method of communication on a multidrop bus of a magnetic resonance system, an adaptive protocol script for telegrams on the multidrop bus is used, that implements adaptive protocol matching using telegram start characters, addresses and frame-type binding. For ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7949810 | Techniques for transferring data between a media player and an accessory having a tuner A method, system, and connector interface for controlling an accessory. The method includes obtaining, by a portable media player, tuning information from the accessory; and controlling, by the portable media player, the accessory based on the tuning information. Ac... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941581 | Method for integrating device-objects into an object-based management system, or configuration system, for field devices in automation technology, which stores updated device objects, activates a program for accessing the stored date and starting a dialog for invoking a selected number of updated device-objects A method for integration of device-objects in an object-based management system for field devices in automation technology, wherein the device-objects are used for servicing the field devices. Updated device objects or an updated version of a device-objects library,... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7930455 | System and method for separating and communicating information-type data and signal-type data A communication system is disclosed for communicating data among a plurality of electronic modules. The communication system may include a data type classifier configured to separate the data into information-type data and signal-type data. The communication system ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921248 | Configuration facility for the configuration of a time-triggered bus system A configuration facility is presented and specified, with at least one computer unit and a display device for the configuration of a time-triggered bus system. The bus system has at least two bus nodes and a data bus connecting the bus nodes. At least one node task ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913008 | Auto-detection system and method for communication protocol An auto-detection system for communication protocol includes a driving device, a communication mode selection circuit and a human-machine interface circuit. The human-machine interface circuit transmits a detection signal to the driving device through the communicat... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7913007 | Systems, methods, and computer readable media for preemption in asynchronous systems using anti-tokens Systems, methods, and computer program products for preemption in asynchronous systems using anti-tokens are disclosed. According to one aspect, configurable system for constructing asynchronous application specific integrated data pipeline circuits with preemption ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908415 | Method and system for controlling video selection and playback in a portable media player A method and system in accordance with the present invention provides a system that allows a portable media player to control settings of portable media player when receiving video from an accessory, to control playback of the portable media player and to provide fo... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895379 | Logic controller having hard-coded control logic and programmable override control store entries Control logic of a node controller receives an input vector and produces an output vector. The control logic includes a plurality of tied control store entries including hard-coded logic to identify unique values of the input vector and to produce the output vector ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895378 | Method and system for allowing a media player to transfer digital audio to an accessory A method and system for allowing a media player to transfer digital audio to an accessory is disclosed. The method and system comprises sending a play command to the media player; returning information about the media player; and providing digital audio to the acces... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7877532 | Communication between an accessory and a media player with multiple lingoes and lingo version information An interface and protocol allow a media player to communicate with external accessories over a transport link. The protocol includes a core protocol functionality and a number of accessory lingoes. Examples of accessory lingoes include a microphone lingo, a simple r... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7870319 | Communication interface for an electronic device A mobile telephone handset is provided with a connector (8) and circuitry (18, 19) which permits universal serial bus (USB) and single-ended (SE) modes of data transmission with another device such as a personal computer, another mobile telephone hands... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870318 | Asynchronous serial communication method and asynchronous serial communication device An asynchronous serial communication method and the apparatus including a sender transmitting a one bit of serial data by firstly making a signal transition on the data line, secondly putting the one bit of serial data on the data line after a predetermined time T | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865642 | Pre-association for CWUSB Certified Wireless USB 1.0 defines two different types of association: cable association and numeric association. In order to implementation these two association methods, the CWUSB device needs to have either upstream USB connector (for cable association) or displa... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865643 | Communication system and protocol A communication system and protocol that permits a first device to communicate a plurality of messages in a predetermined order to a user of the first device, where the plurality of messages, their content, and their predetermined order need not be known to the firs... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7849243 | Enabling flexibility of packet length in a communication protocol In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for transmitting a packet from a transmitter to a receiver along an interconnect and terminating transmission of the packet at a packet disconnect boundary, which has a length less than a payload length of t... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7827334 | Protocol method apparatus and system for the interconnection of electronic systems Disclosed are methods, apparatus, and systems for the interconnection of electronic system apparatus having one or more different communication protocols. A preferred embodiment is disclosed in which a single physical interface and a single protocol are used for pro... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7809870 | Method and system for interlocking data integrity for network adapters Certain aspects of a method and system for interlocking data integrity for network adapters are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include executing a plurality of interlocking checks within a network adapter. Each interlocking check may comprise receiving a plura... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797471 | Method and system for transferring album artwork between a media player and an accessory A method, system, and connector interface for transferring album artwork between a media player and an accessory. The method comprises obtaining, by the accessory, artwork information associated with album artwork from the media player; and obtaining, by the accesso... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7779185 | Communication between a media player and an accessory using a protocol with multiple lingoes An interface and protocol allow a media player to communicate with external accessories over a transport link. The protocol includes a core protocol functionality and a number of accessory lingoes. Examples of accessory lingoes include a microphone lingo, a simple r... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7765348 | Configurable two-wire interface module A telecommunications system and constituent two-wire interface module. The two wire interface module includes a logic component configured to communicate over the same pair of wires using different two-wire interface protocols depending on an input signal presented ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761631 | Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric supporting destination data tagging A data processing system includes a plurality of communication links and a plurality of processing units including a local master processing unit. The local master processing unit includes interconnect logic that couples the processing unit to one or more of the plu... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761630 | Application programming interface for fusion message passing technology A data-processing system and method are disclosed, which generally includes a plurality of components connected to a bus within a data-processing apparatus utilizing one or more input/output interfaces (e.g., IOCTL) in communication with the bus. A dynamic interface... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7757026 | Techniques for transferring status information between an accessory and a multi-communication device A connector interface system for a communication device is disclosed. The interface includes a docking connector. The docking connector includes first make/last break contacts that minimize internal damage to the internal electronics. The docking connector also incl... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752363 | Signal generating circuit and related method for activating physical channel between host and peripheral device A signal generating circuit of a peripheral device for sending a frame information structure (FIS) to a host via a serial transmission channel to change a busy bit representing the state of the peripheral device. The signal generating circuit includes a trigger gene... | 07/06/2010 |
