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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166222 | USB transceiver circuitry including 5 volt tolerance protection An integrated circuit includes USB communication circuitry for communicating via a USB interface. The USB transceiver circuitry transmits data to and from the integrated circuit over the USB interface. The USB transceiver circuitry further provides protection to int... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8135892 | Method and apparatus for transferring data between USB client devices by toggling a USB Vline A method and apparatus for transferring data from a first electronic device to a second electronic device, both first and second electronic devices having Universal Serial Bus (USB) client interfaces, the method comprising the steps: connecting the two electronic de... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8117365 | Method and apparatus for communication between universal serial bus (USB) host and USB device A method of interfacing between a universal serial bus (USB) host and a USB device. The USB host and the USB device include modules to process packets according to network protocols, instead of USB bus interfaces. Therefore, the USB device can be connected to the US... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103813 | Method and system for hardware based implementation of USB 1.1 over a high speed link Certain aspects of a method and system for a hardware-based implementation of USB 1.1 over a high-speed link may comprise translating at a client side of a client server communication system, USB protocol messages comprising a first USB standard to corresponding enc... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099537 | Method, device, and system for transmitting data fragments over multiple transmission lines and techniques for stopping data transmission It is an object of the invention to inhibit a drop in the data transmission efficiency due to the transmission of an interrupt signal. The invention provides a signal transmission method that is characterized in that a reception side and a transmission side partitio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8078780 | Communications method, in particular for hospital and nursing beds The invention relates to a communications method of communicating states from an activation unit to a receiver via a communications bus, wherein the state may be activation/deactivation of an activation unit, and wherein the state is communicated to the receiver via... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8037225 | Communication system with host and device role switching features In a communication system, one of a plurality of communication apparatuses that acts as a host controls data transmission and the other communication apparatuses that act as devices perform data transmission under control of the host over a predetermined communicati... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028111 | Radio communication apparatus, communication control method, and computer-readable program A radio communication apparatus configured to perform radio communication according to a first radio communication protocol includes an identification information memory unit configured to store first identification information identifying a host apparatus and secon... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7966437 | Wireless USB enabled dataloads A wireless enabled data transferring system for transferring data from a storage device to a slave receiving system. The wireless enabled data transferring system includes a master wireless USB element connectable to a USB port of a storage device. A slave wireless ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966436 | Data transmitter having high and low speed transmission units A data transmitter includes: a packetization unit receiving primary data from a data processor and packetizing the primary data; a high-speed transmission unit transmitting a data packet obtained from the packetization to a display device in a high-speed mode; and a... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958294 | Integrated circuit having data transceivers and method of positioning circuits on an integrated circuit An integrated circuit having a plurality of data transceivers positioned on opposite ends of the integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit comprises a first plurality of data transceivers positioned in a column on a first end of the integrated circuit ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7913009 | Monitored notification facility for reducing inter-process/inter-partition interrupts Example operations related to deferring interrupts are herein disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method includes, but is not limited to, writing a message to a memory location shared between a sender and a receiver; and requesting that an interrupt be transmitt... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904623 | Ethernet controller An Ethernet controller semiconductor chip has a system control unit, a media access control layer coupled with the system control unit, a physical layer coupled with the media access control layer, wherein the physical layer comprises a receiving port and a transmit... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890683 | Communication system that exchanges host and device roles of first and second communication apparatuses In a communication system, one of a plurality of communication apparatuses that acts as a host controls data transmission and the other communication apparatuses that act as devices perform data transmission under control of the host over a predetermined communicati... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886096 | Throughput measurement of a total number of data bits communicated during a communication period A method, system, and apparatus to hardware initiated throughput (HITM) measurement inside an OCP system using OCP side band signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system of an integrated circuit includes a signal line located in the integrated circuit to commu... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882288 | Method and apparatus for transfering data between USB client devices by toggling a USB Vline A method and apparatus for transferring data from a first electronic device to a second electronic device, both first and second electronic devices having Universal Serial Bus (USB) client interfaces, the method comprising the steps: connecting the two electronic de... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7856520 | Control bus for connection of electronic devices A method and apparatus for a control bus for connection of electronic devices. An embodiment of a method includes coupling a transmitting device to a receiving device, including connecting a control bus between the transmitting device and the receiving device, with ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7856519 | Solid-state storage device with wireless host interface A solid-state memory storage device and method for using the device includes storing data wirelessly transmitted from a host and wirelessly transmitting the data to the host. The storage device has an RF module which demodulates an ultra-wideband write signal receiv... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7844767 | Method for identifying bad lanes and exchanging width capabilities of two CSI agents connected across a link A technique is described by which two link agents with ports coupled together using a point-to-point interconnect in a system exchange their link width support capabilities and negotiate a link width that is mutually agreeable. The interconnect between each pair of ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840734 | Simple bus buffer A bus buffer can include a data buffer and a clock signal buffer. The data buffer for can include two symmetrical buffer circuits with an output signal that can follow the input voltage to provide bi-directional buffer action for a data path of the bus buffer. The c... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7827335 | Remote communication system of a network A remote communication system of a network includes a main controller and a plurality of control units, wherein each control unit is serially connected to the main controller and the control unit at next stage through a transmission terminal and a transmitter. Each ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818484 | Multimedia data communication method and system The present invention provides a multimedia processing system for communicating data among a baseband module, an image sensor module, and at least one display module in a wireless mobile phone. The multimedia processing system further comprises a serial baseband int... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7793021 | Method for synchronizing a transmission of information and a device having synchronizing capabilities A method for synchronizing a transmission of information over a bus, and a device having synchronization capabilities. The device includes: a bus that includes multiple bus lines, a bus transmitter connected between an information source and the bus, a bus receiver ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7783803 | Pairing service technologies Pairing service technologies is described. In embodiment(s), peripheral devices can be discovered, such as by a computer device, and a peripheral device can be configured with multiple services that each correspond to one or more data communication protocols. The mu... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774527 | Apparatus and method for controlling numerous slave devices in an integrated manner A device for controlling in an integrated manner multiple slave devices includes a key input unit that receives a key input by a user, a state determination unit that checks state information of the slave devices, and a control unit that interprets the input key bas... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774528 | Device identification coding of inter-integrated circuit slave devices Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate identification of inter-integrated circuit slave devices using device... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7747801 | Reducing information reception delays A technique for reducing information reception delays is provided. The technique reduces delays that may be caused by protocols that guarantee order and delivery, such as TCP/IP. The technique creates multiple connections between a sender and recipient computing dev... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7716403 | Information technology integration with automation systems The subject disclosure pertains to transparent communications in an industrial automation environment amongst automation system components and IT systems. Systems and methods are provided that send and receive data to, from and amongst automation devices and transac... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716404 | Pseudo-full duplex communication using a half duplex communication protocol In a communication system having a master-slave arrangement communicating with each other using the RS485 protocol, an FPGA with a buffer memory is provided in the master and slave, respectively, to handle the actual communication. The CPUs of the master and slave t... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711878 | Method and apparatus for acknowledgement-based handshake mechanism for interactively training links A method and apparatus for advancing initialization messages when initializing an interface is presented. In one embodiment, one of a sequence of training sequence messages are sent in serial mode across the data lanes of a generally-parallel interface between two a... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7668993 | System and method for determining the connection state of devices connected to a bus Detecting an input source of a signal of a device connected to a bus and determining whether the signal is converted, extracted, multiplexed, or processed. Efficiently controlling the connection of each unit connected on the bus. Issuing a command for detecting the ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664898 | Method and system for efficient framing on addressed buses A framing mechanism may be provided that enables passing of messages over an addressed bus. This creates a form of information hiding, which passes information by converting an addressed bus interface to a message-based bus interface. Address-based information in a ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664899 | Communication system, communication apparatus, control method therefor, and computer program In a communication system, one of a plurality of communication apparatuses that acts as a host controls data transmission and the other communication apparatuses that act as devices perform data transmission under control of the host over a predetermined communicati... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660924 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device which executes data transfer between a plurality of devices connected over network, and data transfer method A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device, first and second buffer circuits, a data bus, and a control circuit. The semiconductor integrated circuit device executes data transmission/reception b... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657680 | Multiple bus interface control using a single controller Mechanisms for configuring an integrated circuit to select one of multiple external device interfaces at a time to use during communication with external devices. The integrated circuit includes a control mechanism, a selection mechanism, and a plurality of external... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653770 | Time multiplexed bidirectional bus A system for providing bidirectional communication for a data bus includes a datalink interface component configured to interface into a datalink. The datalink interface component is configured to operate in at least one of a first data communication state, a second... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650449 | Communication system for devices with UART interfaces A UART interface communication circuit includes a plurality of communication devices, and each includes a UART interface, a selecting apparatus, a CPU, and a multiplexer (MUX). The communication devices connect with each other via the UART interfaces thereof. The se... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7644211 | Method and system for controlling transmission of USB messages over a data network between a USB device and a plurality of host computers A solution is provided for controlling universal serial bus (USB) messages between a plurality of host computers and a USB device. First and second USB servers may communicate with first and second host computers, respectively. A USB client may then communicate with... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7636806 | Electronic system and method for sending or receiving a signal A method operating an electronic system including sending or receiving a signal is disclosed. One embodiment includes changing a parameter of a signal from a first value to a second value after a first time duration if a logic zero is to be transmitted, and changing... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7620759 | Secure memory device for smart cards with a modem interface A secure memory device for a smart card with a modem interface comprising a rewritable memory such as an EEPROM, a processing unit or a microprocessor, an on-chip oscillator, an ISO 7816 interface, a one-wire modem interface, and characterized in that both communica... | 11/17/2009 |
