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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7130704 | Industrial controller automation interface An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interfa... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130942 | Interface bus protocol for managing transactions in a system of distributed microprocessor interfaces toward marco-cell based designs implemented as ASIC or FPGA bread boarding A distributed interface between a microprocessor or a standard bus and user macro-cells belonging to an ASIC, FPGA, or similar silicon devices includes a main module connected to the microprocessor bus on one side and to a COMMON-BUS inside the interface on which a ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127522 | Message multicast method and computer To provide a message sending function which reflects “taste” in a destination agent designated by a user and a policy of the market in which agents operate. When multicasting a message to agents, a message monitor executes the steps of: receiving preferential de... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127548 | Control register access virtualization performance improvement in the virtual-machine architecture In one embodiment, a command pertaining to one or more portions of a register is received from guest software. Further, a determination is made as to whether the guest software has access to all of the requested portions of the register based on indicators within a ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127460 | Accessing and updating a configuration database from distributed physical locations within a process control system A configuration database includes multiple databases distributed at a plurality of physical locations within a process control system. Each of the databases may store a subset of the configuration data and this subset of configuration data may be accessed by users a... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123614 | Method and device for communicating between a first and a second network The invention relates to a method of data-packet transmission from a first network to a second network, one of the networks being a communications bus transporting data packets of isochronous and asynchronous types, characterised in that, with the other network bein... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124240 | Method and circuit for increasing the memory access speed of an enhanced synchronous SDRAM An SDRAM and method for operating it provide for increased data access speed. The SDRAM includes a central memory region with memory blocks arranged in sets on respective opposite sides. A plurality of primary sense amplifier sets are provided, each set being associ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124292 | Automatically configuring storage array including a plurality of media storage devices for storing and providing data within a network of devices An automatically configuring storage array includes a plurality of media storage devices coupled together within a network of devices. Preferably, the network of devices is an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network of devices. The media storage devices are utilized to re... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124327 | Control over faults occurring during the operation of guest software in the virtual-machine architecture In one embodiment, fault information relating to a fault associated with the operation of guest software is received. Further, a determination is made as to whether the fault information satisfies one or more filtering criterion. If the determination is positive, co... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124210 | Method and apparatus for updating computer code using an integrated circuit interface A method and apparatus for providing computer code updates through an integrated circuit card (smart card) interface. The smart card interface within a computer control device determines whether the card that is inserted into the smart card interface is either a mem... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124220 | Sequencer device with automated active port detection and sequencing The technique is disclosed for detecting active ports of an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a plurality of ports, including a first port. A determination is automatically performed as to whether an external component is connected to the first port... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123928 | Method and apparatus for creating and using a base station almanac for position determination A method and apparatus for creating and using a base station almanac for position determination is described. The base station almanac includes a number of records, where each record can describe a sector or a transmitter (e.g., a base station or a repeater) in a wi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124222 | Control system and method for a communications interface A method for controlling data communications between an external interface and at least first and second universal asynchronous receiver-transmitters (UARTs) respectively associated with first and second microcontrollers is provided. ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124228 | Bus communication architecture, in particular for multicomputing systems A computer system comprises first and second computer boards, each having a processor, onboard memory, an onboard bus, e.g. a processor bus, and a bus-to-bus bridge for interconnecting the onboard bus with an external bus; the boards have remote slave drivers, and c... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120713 | Systems and methods for interfacing legacy equipment to high-speed data buses Various methods and systems provide interfaces between legacy data buses such as MIL-STD 1553 buses and wideband data buses such as IEEE 1394 data buses. One technique for interfacing a legacy device to a wideband data bus includes the broad steps of receiving legac... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120739 | Storage system To provide a storage system with a cost/performance meeting the system scale, from a small-scale to a large-scale configuration. In the storage system, protocol transformation units (10) and data caching control units (21) are connected to each other t... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120712 | Communications system and method with multilevel connection identification A communication system. One embodiment includes at least two functional blocks, wherein an first functional block communicates with a second functional block by establishing a connection, wherein a connection is a logical state in which data may pass between the fir... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120743 | Arbitration system and method for memory responses in a hub-based memory system A memory hub includes a local queue that stores local memory responses, a bypass path that passes downstream memory responses, and a buffered queue coupled to the bypass path that stores downstream memory responses from the bypass path. A multiplexer is coupled to t... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120755 | Transfer of cache lines on-chip between processing cores in a multi-core system Cache coherency is maintained between the dedicated caches of a chip multiprocessor by writing back data from one dedicated cache to another without routing the data off-chip. Various specific embodiments are described, using write buffers, fill buffers, and multipl... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119398 | Power-up and power-down circuit for system-on-a-chip integrated circuit A power-up and power-down circuit for an integrated circuit includes a voltage regulator set for a first voltage. A first I/O pad is coupled internally to an input to the voltage regulator and to first internal circuits. The second voltage is externally coupled to t... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120722 | Using information provided through tag space In some embodiments, the inventions include a device and bus transaction control circuitry to receive bus transactions with tag space including a first part that at times is used to represent a transaction number and a second part that at times contains information ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117376 | Platform and method of creating a secure boot that enforces proper user authentication and enforces hardware configurations In general, a method of securely transmitting data features an operation of authenticating a user of a platform during a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) boot process. In response to authenticating the user, a first keying material is released from a token communica... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116181 | Voltage- and temperature-compensated RC oscillator circuit An integrated temperature-compensated RC oscillator circuit includes an inverter having an input and an output. An RC network is coupled between the inverter and a pair of comparators. A first comparator has an inverting input coupled to a first reference voltage, a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116262 | System and method to receive data A system and method of receiving data is disclosed. The system includes an analog to digital converter, registers to store a plurality of digital samples provided by the analog to digital converter, and a state machine coupled to the registers. The state machine det... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117122 | Field maintenance tool An improved field maintenance tool is provided. The tool is operable with process communication loops in accordance with a plurality of process industry standard protocols. Aspects of the invention include hardware features such as an infrared port; removable memory... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117307 | Memory controlling apparatus performing the writing of data using address line A memory controlling apparatus which receives from an upper module of a system a command to read data from a memory module or write data in the memory module and controls accessing the memory module in response to the command. The memory controlling apparatus includ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117283 | Multi-master extended I2C protocol An extended protocol provides a serial bus with the capability of effective communications for a multimaster bus. A bus device may enter a master mode and transmit information identifying a designated recipient device on the bus. Either the master mode device or the... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113995 | Method and apparatus for reporting unauthorized attempts to access nodes in a network computing system A method in a node for managing authorized attempts to access the node. A packet is received from a source, wherein the packet includes a first key. A determination is made as to whether the first key matches a second key for the node. The packet is dropped without ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111085 | Flash memory card with enhanced operating mode detection and user-friendly interfacing system An interfacing system facilitating user-friendly connectivity in a selected operating mode between a host computer system and a flash memory card. The interfacing system includes an interface device and a flash memory card. The interfacing system features significan... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111097 | One wire serial communication protocol method and circuit An one wire serial communication protocol method and circuit is provided. The circuit comprises an I/O port, a control machine, a control buffer and a shift register. Date can be transmitted bi-directionally by using one wire, and several different data transmission... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110831 | Communication control method, communication system, print control apparatus, printing apparatus, host apparatus, peripheral apparatus, and storage medium A communication system for issuing commands from an initiator to a target, thereby allowing the target to write or read out data into/from a memory area which the initiator has and exchanging the data. The initiator transmits read and write commands for the memory a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111081 | Storage device having plural disk units and plural disk control units connected by control signal transmission cables that carry different control signals A storage device that is communicably connected to a host computer includes a plurality of disk units for storing data from the host computer. Each of the disk units includes a plurality of hard disks and is connected to one of a plurality of ports. A plurality of d... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107385 | Storage virtualization by layering virtual disk objects on a file system A storage virtualization selection technique “automates” a virtualization selection process to create virtual disk (vdisk) storage objects over a volume of a file system implemented by a storage operating system of a multi-protocol storage appliance. The file sy... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107405 | Writing cached data to system management memory In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes storing system management mode data in a cache of a system during a system management mode; and preventing the system from leaving the system management mode until the system management mode data is evict... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107372 | Communication system and device A communication system (500) comprising a plurality of devices (101–106) interconnected via a bus, the bus being capable of handling isochronous and asynchronous transmissions. A status manager (105) maintains an isochronous status channel for... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107373 | 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... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107358 | Bridge for an industrial control system using data manipulation techniques A bridge usable in a highly reliable industrial control system provides an interface between a producer module transmitting redundant messages in accordance with a communication protocol and a consumer module receiving the messages in accordance with a different com... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102391 | Clock-generator architecture for a programmable-logic-based system on a chip A programmable system-on-a-chip integrated circuit device comprises at least one of a crystal oscillator circuit, an RC oscillator circuit, and an external oscillator input. A clock conditioning circuit is selectively coupleable to one of the programmable logic bloc... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103278 | Virtual concatenation of optical channels in WDM networks A virtual concatenation method for optical channels in WDM networks. In transmission, the method includes providing for a plurality of frames, each frame including a byte reserved for a concatenation flag; writing the same predefined value in the concatenation byte ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102384 | Non-volatile memory architecture for programmable-logic-based system on a chip A programmable system-on-a-chip integrated circuit device includes a programmable logic block. A digital input/output circuit block is coupled to the programmable logic block. A SRAM block is coupled to the programmable logic block. At least one non-volatile memory ... | 09/05/2006 |
