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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8423698 | Conversion of resets sent to a shared device Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for converting resets in a shared I/O system. One embodiment includes a method that propagates a first type of reset from a host computer to a multi-function device that shares I/O operations with other hosts. The ... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8332566 | Methods and apparatuses for serial bus sideband communications Methods and apparatuses that utilize a serial bus, such as a universal serial bus (USB), for communications between a communications network, a computing device, and an auxiliary device are disclosed. Some embodiments comprise methods handling sideband communication... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8332565 | USB dongle correlating a device class to the protocol of a wireless device A USB device includes: a communication section that is capable of wirelessly communicating with a communication device that supports a predetermined communication standard; a USB communication section that is capable of communicating with a USB host device; and a co... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8327055 | Translating a requester identifier to a chip identifier In an embodiment a translation of RID (requester identifier) ranges to identifiers of north chips is stored into a south chip. A command that comprises a command RID is received at the south chip from a device. In response, a RID range is determined that encompasses... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8291145 | Method and apparatus for setting a primary port on a PCI bridge An apparatus and a method for setting a primary port on a PCI multi-port bridge. More specifically, there is provided a method that comprises detecting a configuration signal at the PCI multi-port bridge and automatically setting the primary port on the PCI multi-po... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8261002 | PHY-less ULPI and UTMI bridges Embodiments of the present invention provide a unique capability of implementing a pair of pseudo-PHY interfaces using a bridge. From the host and device perspectives, the host and device communicate through a PHY interface. The bridge, however, avoids actually usin... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8250280 | Bus transaction maintenance protocol A system-on-a-chip (SOC) bridge is described that applies an adapted delay, or latency, to data transfers across the bridge to avoid data corruption without reducing data transfer performance. The adapted delay assures that a source SOC service device transferring d... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8234435 | Relay device A relay device includes: an input buffer for receiving data units, each of which includes a header, to which multiple pieces of destination information have been added, and data associated with the header; multiple virtual channels for storing data units, each of th... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8117371 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112571 | Signal connection device and method A device may include a first data path coupled between a first port and a data transfer section that enables data paths between the first data path and at least a second port and a third port. A second data path may be coupled between the first port and the second p... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8046516 | Cache coherent switch device In one embodiment, the present invention includes a switch device to be coupled between a first semiconductor component and a processor node by interconnects of a communication protocol that provides for cache coherent transactions and non-cache coherent transaction... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041872 | Enabling multiple devices using a single bus bridge Embodiments of the invention include a bus bridge that is capable of communicating with more than one MSC device coupled to it. In some embodiments, the bridge includes a processor that translates different routing numbers received from the bus into different addres... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032684 | Programmable bridge header structures A computer system includes compute nodes coupled through a switch to shared or non-shared I/O devices. The switch includes a pool of bridge headers and virtual bridges coupling a root port of a compute node to each of one or more shared or non-shared I/O devices. Th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019924 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7991939 | Dummy accesses to ensure CPU exits lower-power state Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide transactions to wake an external device from a low-power state before a data transfer. This prevents an interruption that would be caused if the external device exited the low-power state during the data transfer. One ex... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987312 | Method and apparatus for dynamically determining bit configuration A method for dynamically determining bit configuration for a host bridge. The method first obtains information of peripheral components coupled to the host bridge. Next, the method dynamically determines a bit configuration of a processor system bus connecting to th... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984225 | ASCII gateway to in-vehicle networks ASCII gateway to in-vehicle system provides bi-directional translation between multiplexed motor vehicle networks and industrial control and monitoring devices. Integrated hardware and software components provide data communications between motor vehicle electronic ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7945721 | Flexible control and/or status register configuration A register access request for control and/or status operations from a link is detected using a hardware mechanism and is forwarded to a software-controlled entity for access to a virtual register for control and/or status operations. The software-controlled entity c... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7921253 | Cache coherent switch device In one embodiment, the present invention includes a switch device to be coupled between a first semiconductor component and a processor node by interconnects of a communication protocol that provides for cache coherent transactions and non-cache coherent transaction... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917680 | Performance based packet ordering in a PCI express bus A communications arrangement is implemented for packet data communications control. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a communications arrangement (100), such as a PCI Express type arrangement, carries out separate arbitration funct... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904629 | Virtualized bus device A virtualization of the internal interconnection bus, which results in a virtualized switch or virtualized multi-ported bridge. In the case of a PCI Express switch, one embodiment includes virtualization of the undefined interconnection bus. In the case of a Multi-p... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899969 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7865654 | Programmable bridge header structures A computer system includes compute nodes coupled through a switch to shared or non-shared I/O devices. The switch includes a pool of bridge headers and virtual bridges coupling a root port of a compute node to each of one or more shared or non-shared I/O devices. Th... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853748 | Method and apparatus to obtain code data for USB device A method and apparatus are provided that include creating an image of a page descriptor at a universal serial bus (USB) device, transferring the image of the page descriptor to a main memory, modifying a schedule list in a main memory based on the transferred image,... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7822907 | Methods and apparatuses for serial bus sideband communications Methods and apparatuses that utilize a serial bus, such as a universal serial bus (USB), for communications between a communications network, a computing device, and an auxiliary device are disclosed. Some embodiments comprise methods handling sideband communication... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7797475 | Flexibly configurable multi central processing unit (CPU) supported hypertransport switching Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hypertransport-based switching for multi-CPU systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for flexibly configurable multi-CPU supported hypertransport switching. In one e... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788440 | Method and device for coupling at least two independent bus systems There is described a method for coupling at least two independent bus systems and to a suitable device for carrying out said method, a cycle time TA, TB being assigned to each bus system and each data item from a sequence of data being transmit... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7765354 | Compressed report descriptors for USB devices A method and apparatus for creating USB peripheral device report descriptors: A short, compressed, report descriptor is stored in a peripheral device. This short report descriptor is transmitted to a USB wireless bridge and combined with templates stored in the brid... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7752376 | Flexible configuration space A configuration space operation packet is received from a link. The configuration space operation packet is detected using a hardware mechanism. The configuration space operation packet is forwarded to a software-controlled entity for processing. A received packet c... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7734857 | Cache coherent switch device In one embodiment, the present invention includes a switch device to be coupled between a first semiconductor component and a processor node by interconnects of a communication protocol that provides for cache coherent transactions and non-cache coherent transaction... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7707347 | Data path master/slave data processing device apparatus An apparatus is described for data processing in a computer system. The apparatus comprises a data processing device having a data processing master, a functionally coupled data processor core, and a functionally coupled data processor slave. Both the data processin... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698492 | Guaranteed services method and apparatus in bridged LAN Provided are a guaranteed services method and apparatus in bridged LAN. streams are transmitted through bridges to a plurality of listener stations in a distributed network, and each bridge performs filtering, stream group registration and authentication for the str... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689756 | Apparatus and system for an address translation device An apparatus, system and method to facilitate I2C communication between a host device and a slave device where the slave device shares a common physical address with another slave device on the I2C bus. The apparatus includes a detection module to detect an incoming... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689755 | Apparatus and method for sharing devices between multiple execution domains of a hardware platform A method and apparatus for sharing peripheral devices between multiple execution domains of a hardware platform are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the configuration end-point devices, bridges and interconnects of a hardware platform including at l... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7660934 | ASCII gateway to in-vehicle networks ASCII gateway to in-vehicle system provides bi-directional translation between multiplexed motor vehicle networks and industrial control and monitoring devices. Integrated hardware and software components provide data communications between motor vehicle electronic ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660935 | Network bridge A network bridge with a configuration and control unit. The unit is connected to some or all of the functional components of the network bridge via interfaces. The unit may poll and evaluate data within the functional components, including operating data and/or para... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660936 | Enabling multiple ATA devices using a single bus bridge Embodiments of the invention include a bus bridge that is capable of communicating with more than one MSC device coupled to it. In some embodiments, the bridge includes a LUN processor that translates different LUN numbers received from the bus into different addres... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7644220 | Programmable controller In a programmable controller including a special unit, a special-purpose integrated circuit element can be readily utilized for multiple purposes to extend the range of applications to reduce a manufacture cost. A special unit (130) connected to a microproces... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7610430 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7600068 | Programmable control interface device A programmable control interface is for circuits using complex commands. The programmable interface includes a memory for storing sampled commands and a sequencing circuit. The sequencing circuit is programmable. Thus, a processor downloads into the programmable int... | 10/06/2009 |
