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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156266 | Consumer electronics control (CEC) line enhancement method for HDMI network that selects a transfer rate from a plurality of transfer rates A method for determining transfer rate comprising selecting a first transfer rate of a plurality of transfer rates, transmitting a message at the first transfer rate over a Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) line of a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) netw... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8086770 | Communication apparatus with data discard functions and control method therefor In a communication apparatus, a write controller writes received data in a temporary memory which serves as short-time storage. A read controller reads data out of the temporary memory. A discard controller controls discard operation of the data read out of the temp... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7861017 | Consumer electronics control (CEC) line enhancement method for HDMI network that selects a transfer rate from a plurality of transfer rates A method for determining transfer rate comprising selecting a first transfer rate of a plurality of transfer rates, transmitting a message at the first transfer rate over a Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) line of a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) netw... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853739 | Method and system for transmitting USB communication A universal serial bus (USB) communication system, the system includes: (a) a wired communication component, which is adapted to receive a received USB transfer; (b) a processor which is adapted to process the received USB transfer to provide a transmittable wireles... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7809865 | Apparatus and method to set a communication speed for a SAS/SATA distance extender A method to set a communication speed in a Serial-Attached Small Computer System Interface (“SAS”)/Serial-ATA (“SATA”) distance extender apparatus comprising a plurality of supported communication speeds and a local communication speed, a fibre channel inter... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7793015 | Method and apparatus for data rate control Methods and apparatus for rate control are provided. An isochronous circuit controls data transmission between a first device and a second device. The first device outputs a set of data packets to the isochronous circuit at a first data rate, and the second device p... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7783798 | System and method for managing use of available bandwidth for a link used for movement of data being copied in a data storage environment This invention is a system and method for managing the use of available bandwidth for a link used for movement of data being copied in a data storage environment. ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7757021 | Slave bus subscriber for a serial data bus The invention relates to a slave bus subscriber for a serial data bus with a master bus subscriber, wherein the slave subscriber recognizes the bit rate of a data packet received over the data bus, whose header has a sync break field, a sync field and an ID field, w... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7757020 | Point-to-point link negotiation method and apparatus Point-to-point links between devices are brought up at a slowest available speed, and a faster link speed is negotiated after reaching an operational state. ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7747796 | Control data transfer rates for a serial ATA device by throttling values to control insertion of align primitives in data stream over serial ATA connection Systems and methods for performing data transfer rate throttling o improve the effective data transfer rate for SATA storage devices. The data transfer rate is diluted by inserting ALIGN primitives when data is sent. The receiving device simply discards the ALIGN pr... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7730240 | Method for controlling the access times to a system bus and communication module A method for defining a cycle time for a transmission cycle on a system bus of a monitoring and/or control system having at least one communication module and at least one input/output module, which is connected to the communication module via the system bus for tra... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7707336 | Universal serial bus (USB) system with single port and host controller thereof A universal serial bus (USB) with single port and a host controller thereof are provided. The USB comprises a USB port, a speed detection circuitry, a start of frame (SOF) generator, and a host controller. The USB port is electrically coupled to an external circuitr... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698482 | Multiple data rates in integrated circuit device serial interface A serial interface for a programmable logic device supports a wide range of data rates by providing a first number of channels supporting a first range of data rates and a second number of channels supporting a second range of data rates. The first range of data rat... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7657675 | Dynamic distribution of I/O resources in a partitioned computer system A method of dynamically allocating the amount of input/output (I/O) rate capacity to partitions in a computer system includes determining a total amount of I/O rate capacity and an economic value of each partition within the partitioned computer system. The economic... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7644207 | High speed bus for isolated data acquisition applications An isolated data acquisition device including a plurality of data acquisition channels, an isolated system management unit coupled to the data acquisition channels, a host system management unit, a serial bus coupled to the host system management unit and the isolat... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7600060 | Memory system and method for setting data transmission speed between host and memory card A memory system includes a host and an electronic circuit card that can be inserted into the host and electrically connected to the host. If the electronic circuit card is inserted into the host, the host transfers transmission speed information to the electronic ci... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596644 | Transmit rate pacing system and method System and method of a pace engine for governing the different transmission rates tailored for different connections by rate pacing a plurality of queues are described. Roughly described, the pace engine includes a binning controller for receiving queues from a tran... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7543089 | Adaptive input/output bus sharing method to improve performance of SCSI/SAS clusters According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method for adaptive cluster input/output control includes starting a nonessential input/output operation using a first controller in a first node of a cluster, informing at least a second cont... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7506085 | System and method for sending data across a bus cable having in-band and side-band signal conductors A method and apparatus for sending data. One exemplary embodiment may be a method comprising sending a data rate synchronization pulse from drive controller in a computer system to a storage device controller, calculating a bit transfer period by the storage device ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7484018 | Universal serial bus hub with shared high speed handler implementing respective downstream transfer rates A device may include an upstream port and several downstream ports configured to transfer data at a different data transfer rate than the upstream port. The device may also include several downstream data handlers, each coupled to a respective one of the downstream ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7464202 | Clock system for controlling autonomous transfer of data A system that controls the application of a clock signal used to autonomously transfer data from a remote device to a host device. The clock signal can be allowed to continually cycle for legacy applications, or can be controlled to only cycle when data transmission... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461187 | Bus system and data transfer method A bus system which transfers data from a first device to a second device includes a holding unit which holds data input from the first device, and a selecting unit which selects whether to output the data from the first device to the second device by holding the dat... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7454540 | Data transferring system and electronic apparatus A data transferring system based on the PCI Express standard in which power saving is realized is disclosed. In the data transferring system, a data transferring device transfers image data based on the PCI Express standard by synchronizing with a line synchronizing... | 11/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7428624 | Host computer system and storage system having a bandwidth management function for storage volumes Provided is a computer system including a plurality of data storage apparatus and manages a bandwidth of a data storage apparatus according to an attribute of a storage volume. A storage system includes an interface for processing access to the storage volume from a... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418532 | Data transfer device, data transfer system, and data transfer method A transfer start/end detecting section detects timing at which a DMARQ signal becomes an H level or an L level. A transfer time-measuring section measures a transfer time during which data transfer is actually performed within a period in which a predetermined numbe... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409474 | Method and system for rate adaptation A media access controller, which includes an output buffer and a clock controller, is provided. The output buffer includes a first and second clock input. The first clock is configured to control data input into the buffer and the second clock is configured to contr... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406548 | Systems and methods for responding to a data transfer Systems and methods for responding to a data transfer are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a method that includes the following steps: determining a sustainable data transfer rate for data transfers to/from an external memory medium, acquiring a data stream, tran... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404017 | Method for managing data flow through a processing system A method, apparatus and program storage device for managing dataflow through a processing system is disclosed. A buffer monitor maintains and monitors a buffer full threshold to control the write throughput to a data bus. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395366 | System, method, and apparatus for connecting USB peripherals at extended distances from a host computer An apparatus, method, and system for coupling a host computer to a peripheral device over an extended distance. In one example, a first hub is provided for coupling with the host computer, the first hub configured as a compound device including a hub function and an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389374 | High latency interface between hardware components A computer program is stored on a computer-readable medium and executed by a processor and performs a method of transmitting and receiving signals between a hard disk controller and a read channel. The computer program comprises transmitting a data gate signal; tran... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7383372 | Bus system, station for use in a bus system, and bus interface The invention relates to a bus system comprising a first station and a second station coupled by a bus for transferring signals. The bus is arranged to operate according to a protocol in which said first station repeatedly sends requests for data to the second stati... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376767 | Distributed buffering system having programmable interconnecting logic and applications thereof A distributed buffering system includes at least one input buffer, at least one serializing module, a at least one deserializing module, at least one output buffer, and a programmable logic device. The input buffer is operably coupled to store at least one data bloc... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366957 | Method and apparatus for controlling SAS/fibre target behavior from a host The present invention is a method and system for providing a complete validation of an initiator and target within bus architecture. A target's behavior may be controlled by an initiator. Control of the target may be through execution of initiator commands including... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363399 | Method, apparatus and computer program product providing storage network dynamic tuning of I/O flow with Queue Depth In accordance with a computer program product, apparatus and a method there is provided a redundant network wherein a host computer operates with a plurality of storage devices by monitoring conditions of the multipath storage network and controlling a storage multi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363401 | Method and apparatus for controlling bus transactions depending on bus clock frequency A method and apparatus is presented that can provide first and second windows for driving data onto a bus in dependence on bus clock frequency. In one example, the speed of the bus clock is determined by a component such as a processor. If the bus clock frequency is... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363395 | Intermediate device capable of communicating using different communication protocols A method according to one embodiment may include determining, at least in part, by an intermediate device at least one communication protocol via which at least one storage device connected to the intermediate device is capable of communicating. In this embodiment, ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356624 | Interface between different clock rate components A circuit for interfacing between a first component 11 operating at a first clock rate and a second component 12 operating at a second clock rate, wherein the second clock rate is higher than the first clock rate. The circuit comprises a first buffer | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352809 | System and method for optimal transmission of a multitude of video pictures to one or more destinations A system and method for optimal transmission of a multitude of video pictures consisting of end video encoders wherein more than one encoder is utilized. The system and method improve the image quality of a broadband image comprised of a plurality of images by gener... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353284 | Synchronized transmission of audio and video data from a computer to a client via an interface A method for controlling data transmission between a computer and a video client via an interface, the method comprising: the computer polling the interface a first time to determine the size of the buffer on the interface; receiving a first buffer size value from t... | 04/01/2008 |
