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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8122158 | Method for improving I/O performance of host systems by applying future time interval policies when using external storage systems A method, system, and a computer program product for improving IO (input/output) performance of host systems using external storage systems. An aspect of the present invention predicts policies to be applied in the host system based on historical information. Severa... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108563 | Auxiliary writes over address channel A processing system and method for communicating in a processing system over a bus is disclosed. The processing system includes a receiving device, a bus having first, second and third channels, and a sending device configured to address the receiving device on the ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103804 | Method and system for embedded regenerative licensing A method and system for embedded regenerative licensing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises transmitting a first capability request for a first hardware device to a hardware adapter. A second capability request for a ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095695 | Control apparatus for process input-output device A control apparatus for an input-output device includes a hardware part and a software part, in which a controller in the hardware part carries out a control operation in accordance with a signal from the input-output device, outputs a result of the control operatio... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8041843 | Recording/reproducing apparatus A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an external storage device, the external storage being configured to store a se... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7996574 | Messaging mechanism for inter processor communication An apparatus and method are provided for connecting a host Enterprise System Connection Architecture (ESCON) Input/Output (I/O) interface to a cache of a data storage system. The apparatus includes (a) a set of at least 4 pipelines, each pipeline being coupled on a ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7856513 | Recording/reproducing apparatus A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an external storage device, the external storage being configured to store a se... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7725611 | Method and apparatus for verifying data in a storage system A method for verifying data in a storage system is disclosed. A host computer transmits area management data to a storage controller. The area management data specifies a range of a storage area in a storage device to be used by an application program having a mecha... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7694027 | System and method for peripheral communication with an information handling system Videoconferencing through an information handling system is supported with a display, camera and microphone that communicate with the information handling system through a single cable, such as a DisplayPort cable. Visual information is communicated from the informa... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7603486 | Network management system providing logic signals over communication lines for detecting peripheral devices A method and apparatus for detecting the presence and the type of network devices connected to a management device via transmission lines. The apparatus may include a pull-up resistor, a pull-down resistor, a filter, and a presence detector, the resistors superimpos... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7596635 | Method and apparatus for providing redundant I/O adapters in machine and process controllers Methods and apparatus for redundancy in machine or process control systems provide redundant communication adapters located with the groups of I/O modules, so that if the first communication adapter faults or becomes unavailable, a second communication adapter will ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7500024 | Signaling to a peripheral via irregular read operations A peripheral communicates with a host according to a protocol such as USB. In case a user of the host is restricted by an operating system of the host from sending certain information to the peripheral, a pattern of protocol commands that includes one or more read c... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7469304 | Data transfer control device, electronic equipment, and method for a data transfer through a bus, the data transfer control device including a register and a packet buffer that are commonly used during a host operation and a peripheral operation A data transfer control device includes an OTG (state) controller which controls a plurality of states including a host operation state and a peripheral operation state, a host controller which is connected with a transceiver during the host operation, a peripheral ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7441054 | Method of accessing internal memory of a processor and device thereof A method of accessing internal memory of a processor and the device thereof. The method employs a bank swapping mechanism for the processing unit of a processor and a direct memory access controller to simultaneously access different memory units in internal memory.... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428600 | Data transfer control device, electronic equipment, and data transfer control method When transfer condition information is set and the start of automatic control transfer is instructed, a transfer controller (host controller) automatically issues a setup stage transaction and automatically transfers a setup stage packet, then, if there is data to b... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426607 | Memory system and method of operating memory system A random access memory system has a memory controller, a first memory device, a second memory device, and a memory bus. The memory controller is configured to control access to a plurality of memory devices. The memory bus is configured to alternatively couple the m... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421515 | Method and system for communications network A system and method of operation are provided for using a network interface to process incoming messages sent by a client device to a network server. The network interface includes a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) buffer for assembling the incoming messages from a serial... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7404021 | Integrated input/output controller An integrated I/O controller in an integrated circuit is provided for centralized data management. The integrated circuit includes a host interface, a disk interface, and a mapping controller implemented in hardware to speed data processing and provide fault toleran... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7376757 | Driverless interfacing of a removable device with a digital product In order to avoid the need for upgrade software when enhancing the function of a digital product, e.g. PDA, and SD lookalike card or other removable device provided with an active function such as digital radio is able to create the appearance of a file structure re... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376759 | Apparatus for performing device communication and method for operating the same An apparatus and an associated method of operation is provided for performing device communication in accordance with a standard protocol, while enabling deviation from the device communication without termination or corruption of the device communication. The appar... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376956 | System for performing multiple functions in parallel time A architecture for a multifunction peripheral to service a plurality of clients simultaneously. A shared memory receives data from the plurality of clients. A channel multiplexer selects data to be routed to a peripheral, a SCSI emulator is used to logically select ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366799 | Document processing system including multi-device compatible interface and related methods A document processing system may include a document processing device (e.g., a copier), a host (e.g., a computer server), and a multi-device compatible interface for enabling operation of the host and the document processing device from among a plurality of differen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366352 | Method and apparatus for performing fast closest match in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for determining a closest match of N input patterns relative to R reference patterns using K processing units. Each of a set of input patterns are loaded into the K processing units. One of the Reference patterns is sequentially loaded into ea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359325 | Method and apparatus for inserting empty memory cells into a data flow of network connections of a computer network A method and an apparatus are provided for inserting empty memory cells into a data flow of network connections of a computer network. In one example, the method includes receiving an insertion request for an empty memory cell to be inserted into the data flow. A ba... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7330480 | Adaptive network resource control An admissions control technique improves processing capacity utilization in a token-based admission control scheme by matching token allocation to actual processing requirements. In an exemplary application, the processing capacity of a processing entity is discrete... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325079 | Information terminal, information processing system, and methods of controlling the same An information terminal disclosed herein includes a data storage in which data is stored; an internal controller which accesses the data storage by a request from inside the information terminal; and an external controller which accesses the data storage by a reques... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325078 | Secure data scrubbing In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a processor, an input/output request that designates at least one data block on a storage medium against which the input/output operation is to be executed; and altering a response to the input/output request when ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320039 | Method for processing consistent data sets The invention relates to a method for processing consistent data sets by asynchronous application of a subscriber in an isochronous, cyclical communication system. According to the invention, by connecting a communication memory and a consistency, transmission and r... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320041 | Controlling flow of data between data processing systems via a memory Apparatus, methods and systems for controlling data flow between data processing systems. In an example embodiment, the apparatus includes descriptor logic for generating a plurality of descriptors including a frame descriptor defining a data packet to be communicat... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310332 | Network switch memory interface configuration A network switch for network communications includes a first data port interface, wherein the first data port interface supports a plurality of data ports for transmitting and receiving data at a first data rate. The network switch also includes a second data port i... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308448 | Method and apparatus for implementing a lock-free skip list that supports concurrent accesses One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that supports concurrent accesses to a skip list that is lock-free, which means that the skip list can be simultaneously accessed by multiple processes without requiring the processes to perform locking opera... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302500 | Apparatus and method for packet based storage virtualization The present invention provides a method and apparatus for data processing and virtualization. The method and apparatus are configured to receive communications, separate a command communication from a data communication, parallel process the command communication an... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293196 | Method, apparatus, and system for preserving cache data of redundant storage controllers A method, apparatus, and system for preserving the cache data of redundant storage controllers, by copying the recorded data blocks and the associated cache tags in the primary cache memory of a storage controller to a secondary cache memory of an alternate, redunda... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287099 | System for support of remote console by emulation of local console with multipath data flow structure Numerous shortcomings exist in prior generation adapter cards for supporting remote consoles for multipartition computer systems. Emulation using memory in the adapter card supports some remote functions so that they appear to be resident on the host computer system... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275084 | Method, system, and program for managing access to a device Provided are a method, system, and program for managing access to a device. An I/O request directed toward the device is received and a determination is made of a device object for the device associated with at least one path object. A determination is made of a que... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272670 | Integrated multimedia system An integrated multimedia system has a multimedia processor disposed in an integrated circuit. A processor is disposed within the multimedia processor which controls the operation of the multimedia processor. A data transfer switch is disposed within the multimedia p... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263476 | High speed information processing and mass storage system and method, particularly for information and application servers A high speed, microcomputer based, Fibre Channel compatible and fault tolerant information processing and mass storage system especially suited for information servers and application servers. A unique and extremely versatile system architecture, including a dual lo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254813 | Method and apparatus for resource allocation in a raid system The present invention implements an I/O task architecture in which an I/O task requested by the storage manager, for example a stripe write, is decomposed into a number of lower-level asynchronous I/O tasks that can be scheduled independently. Resources needed by th... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254770 | Sensor apparatus and monitoring method of control system using detected data from sensor apparatus A counter within a rotary encoder outputs 8-bit count data CT for counting up at a period equal to or faster than the transmission period of positional data. When the rotary encoder receives a communication frame for positional data request command STX at a receivin... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251715 | Double data rate scheme for data output Systems, devices, and methods for a double data rate memory device includes a storage element, a first pipeline, and a second pipeline. The pipelines are connected to the storage unit to pass or output data on rising and falling edges of an external clock signal. Th... | 07/31/2007 |
