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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8032685 | Data modifying bus buffer According to one embodiment of the invention, a data modifying bus buffer generally includes a switch that is configured to selectively couple a first databus to a second databus. The switch is controlled by a buffer controller. The first databus and a second databu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7783820 | Packet-switched split computer having disassociated peripheral controller and plural data buses A network interface is described in which a single computer bus is split over a long distance into two or more intercommunicating buses. On one bus, processing and applications are provided and on the other remote bus, peripheral and local controllers are provided. ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7765356 | System for modifying data in a bus buffer According to one embodiment of the invention, a data modifying bus buffer generally includes a switch that is configured to selectively couple a first databus to a second databus. The switch is controlled by a buffer controller. The first databus and a second databu... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7747809 | Managing PCI express devices during recovery operations A PCI Express system comprising: a PCI Express adapter; and a PCI Express root complex coupled to the PCI Express adapter, the PCI root complex including: a protocol stack coupled to the PCI express adapter and configured to transmit information to and receive infor... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743197 | System and method for virtualizing PCIe devices An intelligent network processor is disclosed that provides a PCI express (PCIe) host bus adapter with firmware selectable hardware capabilities and firmware enabled emulation of capabilities not supported by hardware. Support for Fibre Channel (FC) and Gigabit Ethe... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7634611 | Multi-master, chained two-wire serial bus Aspects of the disclosure embody a multi-master two-wire serial bus that comprises two or more chained two-wire serial busses. The chained two-wire serial busses include a host two-wire serial bus with a first master device and one or more slave devices. One or more... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7631136 | State negotiation method in PCI-E architecture In a state negotiation method of a PCI-E upstream device supporting multiple downstream configurations, a state of a second link asserted by a second state machine of the PCI-E upstream device is detected when a first link asserted by a first state machine of the PC... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7562176 | Apparatus and methods for clustering multiple independent PCI express hierarchies Apparatus, systems and methods for clustering multiple PCI Express hierarchies to enable access of components in different hierarchies. Each PCI Express hierarchy includes a root device as well as a cluster port for coupling each hierarchy to each other hierarchy of... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7529877 | Apparatus and methods for simplified SSP link layer processing Apparatus and associated methods for a simplified Serial SCSI Protocol (“SSP”) link layer within a SAS device. Features and aspects hereof provide a simplified SSP link layer processor to enable cost reduction and simplification of Serial Attached SCSI (“SAS... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7444445 | Selectively adjusting signal compensation parameters and data rate for transmission of data through a smart cable A data storage domain is provided to determine a set of signal conditioning parameters for data being transmitted over smart cables in a data storage domain between an SAS switch and SAS expanders and among SAS expanders. A first expander interrogates any attached s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443844 | Switched fabric mezzanine storage module A switched fabric mezzanine storage module (560) includes a storage module (562) and a switched fabric connector (563) coupled to the storage module. The storage module is coupled to directly communicate with a switched fabric (506), wher... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440450 | Payload module having a switched fabric enabled mezzanine card A multi-service platform system, includes a backplane (104), a switched fabric (106) on the backplane, and at least one of a VMEbus network and a PCI network coincident with the switched fabric on the backplane. A payload module (102) has one of... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7412553 | Enhanced protocol conversion system capable of providing offloaded protocol instruction processing Systems are provided for the offloading of protocol control and conversion information within microprocessor-based systems. A converter controller comprises a first interface and protocol, as well as a second interface and protocol. An intermediate protocol and inte... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406549 | Support for non-standard device containing operating system data According to an embodiment of the invention, a method and apparatus for support of a non-standard device containing operating system data are described. According to one embodiment, a circuit comprises a first device that is not compliant with a PCI (peripheral comp... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404022 | Method and system for transmission and control of data stored in a USB master to and for utilization by a USB slave The present invention concerns a method and a system for data transmission and control based on Universal Serial Bus (USB). The system comprises a USB Master device and a USB Slave device. The USB Master device comprises a USB Master processor and a Data Storage con... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7367940 | Capsular medical apparatus A capsular medical apparatus according to the present invention includes a capsule which can be swallowed or inserted in the body, a recording device which receives living body information transmitted from the capsule and which records the received information, and ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369657 | Cryptography accelerator application program interface Methods and apparatus are provided for making function calls to various cryptography accelerators. An application program interface abstraction layer coupled to a cryptography accelerator receives generic function calls from designer configured software and performs... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366872 | Method for addressing configuration registers by scanning for a structure in configuration space and adding a known offset A configuration memory space is scanned to locate an identification register whose value matches a predetermined value. The identification register identifies the location of a structure within the configuration space. The location of the beginning of the structure ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356628 | Packet switch with multiple addressable components An integrated circuit on which are implemented a number of devices that conform to the Rapidio network architecture. Included in the integrated circuit are two addressed RapidIO devices and switching devices which provide 24 switching ports. The devices have a packe... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356634 | Device including serial interface A bridge accessible by a host processor can expand access over a first bus to a second bus. The first bus and the second bus are each adapted to separately connect to respective ones of a plurality of bus-compatible devices. Allowable ones of the devices include mem... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353311 | Method of accessing information and system therefor A method is disclosed whereby a priority amongst transactions capable of being processed at a common time is determined based upon a transaction identifier associated with each of the transaction. The transaction identifier can either directly indicate a priority am... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350012 | Method and system for providing fault tolerance in a network A configurable switching fabric port is disclosed having, in a particular configuration. A first interface that employs port interface resources and leaves at least one interface resource dormant and a second interface utilizing the dormant resource. One particular ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342930 | Communication equipment, communication system, and communication method A communication equipment comprises a reception/transmission unit configured to notify a target equipment of a plurality of addresses provided for the communication equipment, acquire a plurality of target equipment addresses provided for the target equipment, from ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343440 | Integrated circuit with a scalable high-bandwidth architecture An integrated circuit component is provided comprising logic capable of being configured to interface with a first companion integrated circuit and to receive information that is communicated from the first companion integrated circuit, which information was communi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340553 | Data processing device and method for transferring data The data processing device according to the invention comprises a first processing unit (1) linked to a first bus (5), a second processing unit (2) linked to a second bus (6), a first bus master (3) linked to the first bus (5 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340554 | USB host controller with DMA capability An embedded host controller, for use in a USB system comprising a processor and an associated system memory, comprises a DMA controller, and the host controller is adapted such that, in order to retrieve data from the associated system memory, a starting address and... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334234 | Method and apparatus for transferring data to virtual devices behind a bus expander A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for transferring data from a master to a set of applications executing on a slave. Data is received from a master at a device driver in the slave. The data is parsed for an identifier by a virtual hub in the slave, wher... | 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 |
| 7334030 | Method and apparatus for the addition and removal of nodes from a common interconnect An electronic system interconnect. The interconnect comprises a first node and a second node coupled to the first node. The interconnect is initially configured to include the first and second nodes. A third node is added to the interconnect after the interconnect i... | 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 |
| 7330925 | Transaction flow control mechanism for a bus bridge A transaction flow control mechanism is disclosed for a bus bridge in a high speed computer system with a high speed interface for a graphics processor. A preferred embodiment provides a flow control mechanism for the bus bridge between a GPUL bus for a GPUL PowerPC... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7320077 | Power supply controlling apparatus of a device connected to a serial bus The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device to control power supply for USB devices coupled to a host through a USB and to control power supply for the coupled USB devices based on whether the USB devices are opera... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320043 | Split computer architecture to separate user and processor while retaining original user interface A network interface is described in which a single computer bus is split over a long distance into two or more inter-communicating buses. On one bus, processing and applications are provided and on the other remote bus, peripheral and local controllers are provided.... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310319 | Multiple-domain processing system using hierarchically orthogonal switching fabric A multiple-domain processing system includes a multi-dimensional switching fabric to provide intra-domain and inter-domain communication within the system. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310583 | System and method of measurement and processing of electrical variables A system and method of measurement and processing of physical variables, and in particular electrical variables, comprising: a multimeter to measure multiple electrical variables, similar to any conventional multimeter; a microcomputer capable of the numerical proce... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290073 | Master slave serial bus apparatus The present invention provides a master slave arrangement for providing communication between a master device and a slave device, the arrangement comprising: a first serial bus connecting said master device with an intermediate device and a second serial bus connect... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284081 | Method and system for routing data between USB ports Aspects for high speed USB data routing are presented. The aspects include routing a data stream to and from USB I/O ports serially, and maintaining a frequency of the data stream during the routing. Additionally, a root port router is provided for the root port and... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281074 | Method and apparatus to quiesce USB activities using interrupt descriptor caching and asynchronous notifications In one embodiment, a data processing system includes, but is not limited to, a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a universal serial bus (USB) controller coupled to the processor and the memory. The USB controller includes a local memory to cache at l... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277965 | Apparatus and methods for the automated creation of distributed configuration storage Systems and methods for providing distributed configuration storage are presented. The configuration storage is divided into distributed configuration target modules that are physically located in each design section of a device that uses configuration storage. A di... | 10/02/2007 |
