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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161223 | Method and system for a storage device Systems and methods for storage devices are presented. More specifically, in one embodiment a storage device may comprise have an enclosure comprising an interface which may be coupled to an I/O bus of a computing system with which it is being utilized. Commands may... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161222 | Method and system and apparatus for use in data storage Systems, devices and methods for interfacing a single bus with multiple buses invisibly to devices using the single bus are presented. More specifically, in one embodiment an I/O bus may be interfaced with multiple other I/O buses of the same or different formats. C... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161224 | Interface between a twin-wire bus and a single-wire bus A method and a device for converting a first bus including at least a data wire and a clock wire into a single-wire bus, wherein a data bit of the first bus is converted on half a period of the clock signal for transmission over the second bus, a waiting pattern bei... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8127068 | Removable cartridge storage devices and methods Removable cartridge storage devices and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the removable cartridge storage device comprises a plurality of cartridge holders, each of the cartridge holders including an electrical connector configured to removably couple with a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117372 | Virtualization of a host computer's native I/O system architecture via internet and LANs A hardware/software system and method that collectively enables virtualization of the host computer's native I/O system architecture via the Internet and LANs. The invention includes a solution to the problems of the relatively narrow focus of iSCSI, the direct conn... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8086781 | Serial pass-through device A host device and an accessory exchange information (e.g., commands and data) via an intermediate device. The host device and accessory can each connect to the intermediate device. The host device can exchange commands and data with the intermediate device, while th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078788 | Media card command pass through methods Methods for transmitting application specific or extended commands between a host and a memory card are disclosed. Commands for an extended card protocol are embedded in messages, along with a marker, in the data or command portion of a base card transmission protoc... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078787 | Communication between a host device and an accessory via an intermediate device A host device and an accessory exchange information (e.g., commands and data) via an intermediate device. The host device and accessory can each connect to the intermediate device through a direct wired path and can exchange commands and data with the intermediate d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8051237 | Multiple purpose integrated circuit An integrated circuit of the type comprises a plurality of units that may act as initiators and targets. At least some of the units are for a first purpose such as a cable modem function and others are for a second purpose such as television data processing. The uni... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046519 | Coupling a specialty system, such as a metering system, to multiple control systems A metering system configured to couple to multiple specialty systems, such as a control system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are processing units comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a communication port configured to coupl... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041874 | USB and ethernet controller combination device A USB-to-Ethernet controller with a USB hub may be integrated into a single integrated circuit (IC) USB-Ethernet Combination (UEC) device. The UEC may provide the end user with an Ethernet port, multiple downstream USB ports, and an upstream USB port for connecting ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032686 | Protocol translation in a data storage system A data storage system includes an input/output server and a storage unit. The input/output server includes a processor, memory, and a host channel adapter. The storage unit includes a processor, memory, and a storage module. The storage module includes a storage con... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8006024 | Multi-port system and method for routing a data element within an interconnection fabric The present invention relates generally to a generic fabric interconnect system and method for providing a data path between and among nodes and processing elements within an interconnection fabric. More specifically, there is provided a device accessible by a host ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7991940 | Communication processor board A signal processing board including a resource board substrate, an external interface on the board substrate, adapted to receive signals for processing, at least one slot adapted to receive a plug-in module with at least one processor thereon and an interface unit a... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984227 | Connecting device of storage device and computer system including the same connecting device In an environment in which plural external storage devices having different function control interfaces are intermixed, when a function of a storage device is controlled from a computer, a common interface for controlling the function of the storage device is provid... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975092 | Bus interface converter capable of converting AMBA AHB bus protocol into i960-like bus protocol The invention provides a bus interface converter for converting from AMBA AHB bus protocol to i960-like bus protocol. The converter comprises an AHB interface which can accomplish interface processing for AMBA AHB bus protocol; an i960-like interface which can accom... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7937520 | General purpose interface controller of resoure limited system The invention discloses a general purpose interface controller, including a slave interface controller and a master interface controller, used to exchange data among master devices and slave devices in an electronic device. The slave interface controller receives da... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934044 | Method for expediting data access of universal serial bus storage device A method for expediting data access of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage device is disclosed. In a first embodiment, a data transmission procedure without the need of sending command block wrappers (CBW) is executed if a read command for reading data of a large m... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7917682 | Multi-protocol controller that supports PCIe, SAS and enhanced Ethernet SAS over Enhanced Ethernet (SOE) controllers that integrate SAS and Enhanced Ethernet to perform a conversion between SAS and Enhanced Ethernet are disclosed. A central intelligence block can be employed to perform the mapping between SAS and Enhanced Ethernet. The ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917684 | Bus translator Disclosed are methods and devices, among which is a device including a bus translator. In some embodiments, the device also includes a core module and a core bus coupled to the core module. The bus translator may be coupled to the core module via the core bus, and t... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917683 | Method and system for utilizing multiple storage devices Systems, devices and methods for interfacing a single bus with multiple buses invisibly to devices using the single bus are presented. More specifically, in one embodiment an I/O bus may be interfaced with multiple other I/O buses of the same or different formats. C... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913025 | Method and system for a storage device Systems and methods for storage devices are presented. More specifically, in one embodiment a storage device may comprise an enclosure comprising an interface which may be coupled to an I/O bus of a computing system with which it is being utilized. Commands may be r... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7913026 | Data transfer apparatus, information processing apparatus, and data transfer method Provided is a data transfer apparatus having a system bus interface 20 connected to an MC 51, a high-speed I/O bus interface connected to a high-speed I/O bus switch 54, a history selection controller 10 that selects part of transmission/... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904631 | Protocol independent bridge A wireless bridge includes a first universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) for coupling to a serial bus that receives data packets. A protocol independent module has a timer set to a desired time to detect a start and/or an end of a data packet received f... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7870324 | Method and apparatus for serial bus communication A system and method for providing a serial communication bus is disclosed. A serial communication bus connects multiple footprint devices, such as electronic sensors in a process control sample system. The footprint devices can utilize various footprint device speci... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7840742 | Unidirectional USB interface circuit A circuit interfaced between a first USB host and a second USB host for providing unidirectional transmission of data signals from the first USB host to the second USB host is provided. A first converter circuit is operable to receive data signals from the first USB... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7822908 | Discovery of a bridge device in a SAS communication system An embodiment of the present invention includes a communication system configured to conform to SAS standard and causing communication between one or more hosts and a SATA/SAS device. The communication system includes a multi-port bridge device including two or more... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814259 | PCI express switch with backwards compatibility There are disclosed apparatus and methods for switching. Transparent and non-transparent ports are provided. Data units are transferred between the transparent ports, between the transparent and non-transparent ports, and between the non-transparent ports. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805560 | Methods and apparatus for translating messages in a computing system Methods and apparatus for translating messages in a computing system are disclosed. In particular, a disclosed method for converting messages in a computer system includes receiving a command message from a processing unit where the message is defined according to a... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7802048 | Smart translator box for AGM-65 aircraft “Maverick” analog interface to MIL-STD-1760 store digital interface A smart translator “SMARTX” box provides an aircraft outfitted with an analog AGM-65 (“Maverick”) interface with the same “look and feel” and capability to use a store outfitted with a digital MIL-STD-1760 interface as if the aircraft was fully 1760 comp... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783821 | Method and device for mapping signal order at multi-line bus interfaces The present invention provides methods and modules allowing for mapping of interface signals at for instance multi-line buses. A mapping of internal signal order schemes to external signal order schemes is enabled such that upon configuration any interface signals m... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779196 | Interface between busses of different physical layers First and second networks, for example Controller Area Networks (CANs), of different physical layers are interfaced by applying signals of the busses of the two networks to respective transceivers. A dominant state of one of the busses is sensed and data is transfer... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7757032 | Computer system bus bridge A bus bridge between a high speed computer processor bus and a high speed output bus. The preferred embodiment is a bus bridge between a GPUL bus for a GPUL PowerPC microprocessor from International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and an output high speed interf... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752377 | Structure compatible with I2C bus and system management bus and timing buffering apparatus thereof A structure compatible with I2C bus and system management (SM) bus is provided. The structure includes a first device having an I2C bus interface, a second device having a SM bus interface, and a timing buffering apparatus connected between the I2C bus interface and... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739441 | Communicating between a native fully buffered dual in-line memory module protocol and a double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory protocol A translator of an apparatus in an example communicatively interconnects a serial protocol bus that follows a native fully buffered dual in-line memory module protocol (native FB-DIMM protocol) and three or more parallel protocol memory module channels that comprise... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734859 | Virtualization of a host computer's native I/O system architecture via the internet and LANs A hardware/software system and method that collectively enables virtualization of the host computer's native I/O system architecture via the Internet and LANs. The invention includes a solution to the problems of the relatively narrow focus of iSCSI, the direct conn... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7711887 | Employing a native fully buffered dual in-line memory module protocol to write parallel protocol memory module channels A translator of an apparatus in an example employs a native fully buffered dual in-line memory module protocol (native FB-DIMM protocol) to write to a plurality of parallel protocol memory module channels that comprises a plurality of double data rate registered and... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711888 | Systems and methods for improving data transfer between devices Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting a first device on a first bus issuing a read request for an amount of data to a second device on a second bus. The systems and methods further include detecting a bridge requesting a first portion of the data from the ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702842 | Relay device, relay method, and information recording medium A relay device and the like are provided which are capable of easily transmitting/receiving information among information processors connected on buses whose information transmission standards are different from each other. A bridge B1 for connecting b... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698493 | Methods and apparatus for translating write request messages in a computing system Methods and apparatus are disclosed to translate memory write requests to be transmitted from a first processor to a second processor in a computing system, such as between a CPU and a Southbridge, as an example. A method includes generating a memory write request i... | 04/13/2010 |
