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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095703 | Data transfer method There is provided a data transfer method in an IEEE1394 system including a band request node and a transfer band management node. The method includes generating, at the band request node, a transfer request that can detect a data amount of transfer data and transmit... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8073992 | Data transfer device and data transfer method There are provided a transfer request module 2 for interpreting a data transfer request received from outside; a transfer instruction module 1 including a receiving section 10 for receiving the data transfer request after interpretation by the t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7987437 | Structure for piggybacking multiple data tenures on a single data bus grant to achieve higher bus utilization A design structure for piggybacking multiple data tenures on a single data bus grant to achieve higher bus utilization is disclosed. In one embodiment of the design structure, a method in a computer-aided design system includes a source device sending a request for ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984206 | System for debugging throughput deficiency in an architecture using on-chip throughput computations A method, system, and apparatus for debugging throughput deficiency in an architecture using on-chip throughput computations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a subsystem module of the integrated circuit (e.g., may be a field-programmable gate arra... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970962 | Method and apparatus utilizing a tail bus to solve back-to-back data burst problems A network device includes a port and a bus transmission calculation module. The port is connected to the network device to receive a data burst. The bus transmission calculation module connects to the port for calculating a first number of bytes to be transmitted fr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7937508 | Method and apparatus for transferring data from a memory subsystem to a network adapter by extending data lengths to improve the memory subsystem and PCI bus efficiency A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for transferring data from a memory to a network adapter in a data processing system. The frame size for a transfer of the data from the memory to the network adapter is identified. If the frame size is divisible by a c... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7882280 | Packet processing switch and methods of operation thereof A packet switching integrated circuit chip is configured to receive packets, e.g., RapidIO™-compliant packets, from a plurality of external sources, and selectively passes data in the received packets to a plurality of external recipients. The chip is configured t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7711872 | Storage apparatus, process controller, and storage system A storage apparatus comprises: a memory for storing a processing ratio/upper limit table, which stores an upper limit number per prescribed time for input/output processing in accordance with the processing of a processing type for each of a plurality of processing ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7668980 | Usage of persistent information unit pacing protocol in fibre channel communications Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a primary storage control unit receives an information unit from a remote host over a fiber channel connection, wherein persistent information unit pacing is implemented over the fiber channel connec... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7644201 | Method and system for performance enhancement via transaction verification using a counter value in a polled data storage environment A method of verifying the passage of a data write across a bus is provided including sending the data write from an originator across the bus to a target, counting the number of data entries received at the target with a counter, and transmitting a return echo write... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7444443 | Method of repeating data transmission between network devices by timing a first predetermined period after previous first data transmission A method is provided for transmitting data from a transmitting device (121) to a receiving device (125). The transmitting device transmits a first data frame (200) to a receiving device a first time (3100). Then it consecutivel... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433977 | DMAC to handle transfers of unknown lengths A DMA controller maintains a count of data transferred in each DMA operation, and saves the transferred data count at the end of the DMA operation. The DMA controller may then begin a subsequent DMA transfer operation, without waiting for a processor to read the tra... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434005 | Preload controller, preload control method for controlling preload of data by processor to temporary memory, and program A preload controller for controlling a bus access device that reads out data from a main memory via a bus and transfers the readout data to a temporary memory, including a first acquiring device to acquire access hint information which represents a data access inter... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418525 | Shared simultaneously-connected removable drives and servers each housing an I/O controller which maintains an uninterrupted protocol connection Local drive presence is provided for local and remote drives by maintaining a plurality of uninterrupted protocol connections between a plurality of I/O controllers and a plurality of device interfaces through which peripheral bus commands are transmitted. Preferabl... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412508 | Device for indicating downloading of data items A device (1) for indicating downloading of a data item (3) by a user computer (5) from a first computer (7) using a data communication network (9) is disclosed. The device (1) comprises a processor (13) being configur... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409485 | Optimized data transfer for a data bus A communications system is provided in which a host may receive data from a slave device over a polling bus. The slave device first reports to the host an initial amount of data to be transferred. The host can then initiate a data transfer from the slave device in o... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406546 | Long-distance synchronous bus One embodiment of a long-distance synchronous bus includes a sending unit and a receiving unit. The sending unit and receiving unit are configured to use credit-based handshaking signals to regulate data flow between themselves. The receiving unit includes a skid bu... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398337 | Association of host translations that are associated to an access control level on a PCI bridge that supports virtualization A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that allows a system image within a multiple system image virtual server to directly expose a portion, or all, of its associated system memory to a shared PCI adapter without having to go thr... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7386637 | System, method, and computer program product for a fully trusted adapter validation of incoming memory mapped I/O operations on a physical adapter that supports virtual adapters or virtual resources A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that allows a single physical I/O adapter to validate that a memory mapped I/O address referenced by an incoming I/O operation is associated with a virtual host that initiated the incoming me... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376763 | Method for transferring data from a memory subsystem to a network adapter by extending data lengths to improve the memory subsystem and PCI bus efficiency A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for transferring data from a memory to a network adapter in a data processing system. The frame size for a transfer of the data from the memory to the network adapter is identified. If the frame size is divisible by a c... | 05/20/2008 |
| RE40261 | Apparatus and method of partially transferring data through bus and bus master control device A method of transferring data through a bus includes the steps of: occupying the bus by a first device serving as a bus master; transferring a first predetermined number of data items of all data items to be transferred while the first device is occupying the bus; d... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349999 | Method, system, and program for managing data read operations on network controller with offloading functions Provided are a method, system, and program for managing data read operations of a read command such as a read command packaged in an Internet Small Computer System Interface packet. In one embodiment, a network adapter has a microengine which obtains read target dat... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7318125 | Runtime selective control of hardware prefetch mechanism A control mechanism that allows individual applications to turn hardware prefetch on or off is provided. By preliminary trial run one can determine precisely whether an application will benefit or suffer from hardware prefetch. The selective control of prefetching b... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310717 | Data transfer control unit with selectable transfer unit size A data processor including a central processing unit and a data transfer control unit is disclosed. The data transfer control unit has an address register for storing a transfer address. The data transfer control unit transfers data according to a transfer unit size... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305501 | Portable computer system having LCD monitor for selectively receiving video signals from external video signal input from external computer A portable computer system includes a portable computer equipped with a graphic chip, and an LCD monitor receiving a video signal from the graphic chip and displaying the video signal. The portable computer system further includes an external video signal input part... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296099 | Method, system, and program for querying adaptors in a system to determine information on the adaptor connections Provided are a method, system, and program for querying a plurality of adaptors in a system. A request is received to determine connection information for the adaptors in the system. A master task spawns a plurality of tasks to query the adaptors. Each spawned task ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290069 | Data acquisition system which monitors progress of data storage A pattern may be written to an allocated section of host memory to track how much data has been received in the host memory from a direct memory access controller coupled to a First In, First Out memory. A driver may send the most recently written sample of data fro... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286477 | Module interface carrier data rate adaptation techniques Techniques for adapting data rates from a first to a second system in a telecommunication system are provided. The techniques on used on data communications in the ingress or egress direction. The first system transfers data at a first data rate that is faster than ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287102 | System and method for concatenating data A storage controller includes a first memory that stores a plurality of data blocks that include first and second noncontiguous data segments. A queue module stores data lengths and data start addresses of the first and second data segments. A read assembly module c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287100 | Portable computer system having wireless transmission for operating plurality of peripheral devices having external port signals that produce encoded priority signals A portable computer system includes a portable computer and an integrated device both having wireless data transmission interface. The integrated device is connected to various peripheral devices with different interfaces and controlled by corresponding external por... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281125 | Securing sensitive configuration data remotely A method, computer program product and computer system for securing alterable data. A computer that is remotely managed may be equipped with a protected storage that is accessible only by BIOS code. The protected storage may have the capacity to store a symmetrical ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281065 | Long latency interface protocol A system includes a read/write channel and a hard disk controller. The hard disk controller includes a latency-independent interface that communicates with the read/write channel. A serial control data circuit transmits a serial control data signal including serial ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280539 | Data driven type information processing apparatus In order to perform functional packet copying to read a large amount of data of an unspecified length from a memory at high speed and to prevent the packet copying operation from affecting other packet flow, a self-synchronous transfer control circuit having a funct... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272678 | DSP bus monitoring apparatus and method A bus monitor is provided as a tool for developing, debugging and testing a system having an embedded processor. The bus monitor resides within the same chip or module as the processor, which allows connection to internal processor buses not accessible from external... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266664 | Memory device for controlling nonvolatile and volatile memories A memory device includes a nonvolatile memory capable of storing data, a volatile memory capable of being random-accessed, and a controller for transferring data between the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory and enabling a pseudo access as if the volatile m... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257732 | Integrating content-laden media with storage system Integrating content into a storage system with substantially immediate access to that content. Providing high reliability and relatively easy operation with a storage system using redundant information for error correction. Having the storage system perform a “vir... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243154 | Dynamically adaptable communications processor architecture and associated methods A dynamically adaptable communications processor includes a memory element, which includes executable content, and a control element, coupled with the memory element, that selectively implements the executable content to modify the dynamically adaptable communicatio... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7222221 | Maintaining coherency of derived data in a computer system A computer system has secondary data that is derived from primary data, such as entries in a TLB being derived from entries in a page table. When an actor changes the primary data, a producer indicates the change in a set data structure, such as a data array, in mem... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213084 | System and method for allocating memory allocation bandwidth by assigning fixed priority of access to DMA machines and programmable priority to processing unit In a first aspect, a first method is provided for allocating memory bandwidth. The first method includes the steps of (1) assigning a fixed priority of access to the memory bandwidth to one or more direct memory access (DMA) machines; and (2) assigning a programmabl... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213094 | Method and apparatus for managing buffers in PCI bridges Method and apparatus for supporting multi-function PCI devices in PCI bridges. Respective pre-fetch buffers are allocated in response to respective initial data transfer requests issued by a multi-function PCI device. A programmable buffer fill watermark is set up f... | 05/01/2007 |
