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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7313053 | Method and apparatus for controlling scanning of mosaic sensor array A scanning architecture that makes it possible to update only those ultrasonic transducer subelements of a mosaic transducer array that change from view to view. The configuration of the switch matrix is fully programmable. The switch matrix includes access switches... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310333 | Switching control mechanism for supporting reconfiguaration without invoking a rearrangement algorithm A method of modeling or constructing a switch element uses an ingress stage with input sorters and input routers; an egress stage with output routers and output sorters; and a center stage interconnecting the ingress and egress stages. Routers are partitioned such t... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301941 | Multistage digital cross connect with synchronized configuration switching A digital cross connect comprises plural switching stages. Each stage has plural switches which receive plural frames of time multiplexed input data and which switch the data in time and space. Configurations of the switches change in frame synchronization at the st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7266038 | Method for activating and deactivating electronic circuit units and circuit arrangement for carrying out the method The invention provides an electronic circuit arrangement having an electronic circuit module (100) constructed from one or more electronic circuit units (101a-101n), a select signal generating unit (105) for generating a sel... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7236490 | Backplane interface adapter A backplane interface adapter for a high-performance network switch. The backplane interface adapter receives narrow input cells carrying packets of data and outputs wide striped cells to a switching fabric. One traffic processing path through the backplane interfac... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7210059 | System and method for on-board diagnostics of memory modules A memory hub includes an on-board diagnostic engine through which diagnostic testing and evaluation of the memory system can be performed. The memory hub includes a link interface for receiving memory requests for access to memory devices of the memory system and a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7184432 | Switch fabric architecture and techniques for implementing rapid hitless switchover A switch is provided that receives user information through a plurality of framer circuits, which group the user information into frames. The frames are fed to a switch fabric including an array of switch elements, each having a switch matrix for routing each frame ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7161936 | Method and system for distributing data communications utilizing a crossbar switch A solid-state crossbar switch for transmitting data traffic includes a first number of input ports. Each input port is operable to receive DSL data from a data switch. The crossbar switch also includes a second number of output ports. Each output port is capable of ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7130179 | Switching device provided with polarity-inverting means The invention relates to a switching device comprising programmable compensation means which are associated with the input/output connections for inverting the polarity of the input/output connections when said connections present a polarity inversion which is inher... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6968443 | Microprocessor The invention relates to a microprocessor having a plurality of components which are selected from registers (14,16), arithmetic logic units (30,32), memory (36,38), input/output circuits and other similar components where the plurality of compo... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6922738 | ATA/SATA combined controller A combined ATA and SATA controller is provided that comprises a control unit for controlling data transfer to and/or from an ATA compliant parallel storage device and a control unit for controlling data transfer to and/or from an SATA compliant serial storage device... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6728618 | Method for activating a system for controlling and/or regulating operational sequences in a motor vehicle having several equal-access control units A system for controlling and/or regulating operational sequences in a motor vehicle having several equal-access control units for controlling and/or regulating certain functions in the motor vehicle. Control units each have a volatile memory, and a nonvolatile memor... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6714537 | Switch fabric architecture and techniques for implementing rapid hitless switchover A switch is provided that receives user information through a plurality of framer circuits, which group the user information into frames. The frames are fed to a switch fabric including an array of switch elements, each having a switch matrix for routing each frame ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6545586 | Method and apparatus for establishing and using hierarchy among remotely controllable theatre devices A theatre system operating in compliance with the DMX512 protocol is also able to support remote channel assignment of the various theatre devices included therein as well as other auxiliary operating modes by establishing a device hierarchy based on uniq... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6507581 | Dynamic port mode selection for crosspoint switch A crosspoint switch includes a large number of ports and a separate pass transistor linking each possible pair of ports. When a pass transistor is turned on or off, it makes or breaks a signal path between the pair of ports it links. Each port can process... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6469632 | Component selector assembly A component selector assembly 10 which pseudo-randomly energizes components 40-54 use of received data 60.... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6351258 | Switcher system and I/O switching method The present invention switches an input/output route for each signal, even if types of signals are increased, without installing additional switchers. The present invention provides a matrix-shaped switcher, including a group of a plurality of cross-point... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6307852 | Rotator switch data path structures Several rotator switch architectures are provided that enhance performance of a basic rotator switch. The rotator switches having double buffered tandem nodes, multiplexing two or more sources onto each tandem node, partitioning the rotator into two or mo... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6101410 | Unified switching system with floating substrate for electrophysiological stimulation and signal recording and analysis A cardiac mapping and pacing system includes a cardiac catheter having multiple electrodes and further includes an electrophysiological biological recorder. An interface system coupled between the multiple electrodes and the biological recorder permits th... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6064647 | Method and system for sending frames around a head of line blocked frame in a connection fabric environment A method and system for transmitting data frames from a source path to a primary destination path having more than one source path requesting access thereto in a crossbar interconnect network includes a primary source buffer associated with each of the so... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5917426 | Network system capable of managing connection data In a switch network system which has a plurality of network input terminals and a plurality of network output terminals and a plurality of switch matrices between the network input terminals and the network output terminals, network connection data signal... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5917427 | Digital switch array A digital switch array, includes a serial input bus providing a plurality of input streams, each defining a plurality of time division multiplexed input channels, a serial output bus providing a plurality of output streams, each defining a plurality of ti... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5818349 | Switch composed of identical switch modules A crosspoint switch having M input terminals and N output terminals has (M/m) times (N/n) crosspoint switch modules each having m input conductors and n output conductors. (M/m) of the crosspoint switch modules have their input conductors connected to the... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5801641 | Controller for a non-blocking broadcast network A controller for a nonblocking broadcast switching network comprising an input stage, an output stage, and a middle stage. The input stage has N1 or n1 r1 input ports and r1 switches, where n1 ࣙ2 an... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5790048 | Crosspoint switch with bank-switched memory A crosspoint switch routes signals between its terminals in routing patterns defined by routing data from a host controller. The crosspoint switch includes an array of pass transistors. Each pass transistor, when turned on, provides a signal path intercon... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5754120 | Network congestion measurement method and apparatus A communication system including a CLOS switching network, and a method for characterizing network capacity, usage, congestion, and blocking and/or near blocking states. The CLOS switching network includes input, center and output stages each comprised of... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5724511 | Remote maintenance control system A terminal for a maintenance is connected via a local area network (LAN) to a wideband switching equipment. An address such as an IP address is allocated to each of a plurality of wideband switching equipments, and a virtual channel connection for transfe... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5710550 | Apparatus for programmable signal switching A field programmable interconnect device (FPID) selectively routes signals between signal ports in response to commands from a host controller. Each command includes an address and data. The FPID includes an array of switch cells, each interconnecting a s... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5686905 | Input/output switching apparatus having virtual control An input/output switching apparatus which can construct the system more flexibly as compared with the conventional system. The input/output switching apparatus is configured so that a user can manage the connection state of a physically-existing switching... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5530434 | Matrix switcher apparatus for selectively outputting information signals in response to control signals in the form of various communication protocols A matrix switcher apparatus for selectively outputting information signals includes a first matrix switcher unit for selectively outputting an information signal according to control signals in the form of a first communication protocol, and a second matr... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5475383 | Cross-point type switch using common memories A cross-point type switch includes a plurality of basic elements arranged in rows and columns so as to form a matrix arrangement of the basic elements. Each of the basic elements includes a plurality of input ports, output ports, expanded input ports and ... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5451936 | Non-blocking broadcast network The present invention pertains to a nonblocking broadcast switching network. The network comprises an input stage. The input stage has N1 or n1 r1 input ports and r1 switches, where n1 ࣙ2 and r... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5430442 | Cross point switch with distributed control A communications network including several ports where each port is connected to at least one data processing system element. The ports are interconnected by an information bus. Additionally, the ports are connected to a matrix switch that has the capabil... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5307465 | System for updating network topology based on configuration obtained from subset configuration composition matrix and switching node connection matrix for the subset configuration In a reconfigurable communications system, circuit status bits are stored in a first matrix of rows associated respectively with predefined network configurations and columns associated, respectively, with predefined circuit configurations. Destination st... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5282271 | I/O buffering system to a programmable switching apparatus A field programmable interconnect device (FPID) flexibly interconnects a set of electronic components such as integrated circuits and other devices to one another. The FPID is an integrated circuit chip including a set of ports and a cross-point switch th... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5182554 | Third party evavesdropping for bus control A communication system for providing a communication path between two of a plurality of devices. A first port is provided that is connected to at least one device. A second port is provided connected to a second device. A switch is provided connecting the... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5155483 | Channel switching system A system applicable to a digital radio communication system for switching a regular channel and a standby channel includes a demodulator associated with the standby channel. The demodulator has a phase locked loop for clock recovery the band width of whic... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5144548 | Routing switcher A computer routing band switcher is controlled by icons on a display screen which are programmable to represent any one of a number of devices, which can have multiple inputs and outputs, connected to a cross-point switching matrix. Routing is implemented... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5144297 | Digital cross connection apparatus A cross connection apparatus which performs cross connection using divided VT signals, as cross connection units, obtained by division of the VT sizes foming virtual tributary (VT) signals of input side transmission line signals into whole integers by a p... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5109384 | Guaranteed reliable broadcast network This system guarantees reliable data transmission for one-to-one, one-to-many and/or many-to-many communications among data processing stations over a communications network. A general solution is presented, and a new concept (the arbitrator node) is disc... | 04/28/1992 |
