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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171197 | Main electronic device for communicating within a network and method for operating a main electronic device for communicating within the network The present invention relates to a main electronic device (1) for communicating within a network (7) comprising an interface (6) for enabling communication within the network (7) and a controller (4) for sending polling messages vi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7411972 | Link layer device with non-linear polling of multiple physical layer device ports In a communication system comprising a link layer device connectable to one or more physical layer devices, at least a given one of a plurality of ports of the one or more physical layer devices is designated as a port for which status information is to be requested... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7389327 | Control and monitoring system for power system The object of the present invention is to make information necessary for judging whether control output is possible closer to the latest information than in the conventional method or made the latest, and shorten the time from control start to control execution. In ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386682 | Reducing number of rejected snoop requests by extending time to respond to snoop request A cache, system and method for reducing the number of rejected snoop requests. An incoming snoop request is entered in the first available latch in a pipeline of latches in a stall/reorder unit if the stall/reorder unit is not full. The entered snoop request is disp... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386681 | Reducing number of rejected snoop requests by extending time to respond to snoop request A cache, system and method for reducing the number of rejected snoop requests. A “stall/reorder unit” in a cache receives a snoop request from an interconnect. The snoop request is entered in the first available latch of the stall/reorder unit unless the stall/r... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7356630 | Processor control device for stopping processor operation A processor control device includes a processor executing an instruction, a module coupled to the processor through a bus and processing independently from the processor, the module is provided in a plural number and a polling processing unit coupled to each module,... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355992 | Relay for extended range point-to-point wireless packetized data communication system A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of a relay-based, extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a data-reception site from a data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to the data-... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356652 | System and method for selectively storing bus information associated with memory coherency operations A manner for judiciously snooping or otherwise monitoring bus operations associated with maintaining cache or other memory coherency in a computing system. A bus snoop information storage mode is established that identifies information pertaining to the bus snoop op... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340568 | Reducing number of rejected snoop requests by extending time to respond to snoop request A cache, system and method for reducing the number of rejected snoop requests. A “stall/reorder unit” in a cache receives a snoop request from an interconnect. Information, such as the address, of the snoop request is stored in a queue of the stall/reorder unit.... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334233 | Method and apparatus for multiple slaves to receive data from multiple masters in a data processing system A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing requests for data by processes in a data processing system. Requests for data from the processes in slave mode are tracked. Data received by a device driver is stored, wherein the data may originate from mu... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315907 | Information delivery and display system and information delivery method An information delivery and display system includes one or more information display devices that play display information, and a monitoring/control server that sends information to the information display device when the information display device carries out pollin... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310458 | Stacked module systems and methods The present invention provides methods for constructing stacked circuit modules and precursor assemblies with flexible circuitry. Using the methods of the present invention, a single set of flexible circuitry whether articulated as one or two flex circuits may be em... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305496 | Control apparatus and method thereof A control apparatus for controlling a digital video apparatus using Universal Serial Bus, comprises a storage unit which stores a control program and a control unit which executes the control program. The control program controls (a) step of judging whether a respon... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290161 | Reducing CPU and bus power when running in power-save modes A processing system includes a bus and a processor whose core is constrained to have one or more core clock signal frequencies no lower than a predetermined multiple of the lowest of one or more bus clock signal frequencies. In a power-save mode, the processor is ab... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7263564 | Inquiring apparatus and method thereof An inquiring apparatus and method thereof is provided for assisting the CPU to inquire the state of the peripheral device. When the CPU needs to perform an inquiring process to wait for a peripheral device to come to an expected state, an inquiring apparatus is acti... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7194673 | Detecting intermittent losses of synchronization in a fibre channel loop Described are a storage system and method for detecting an intermittent loss of synchronization in communication signals received by an enclosure connected to a Fibre Channel loop. A control board produces a first signal representing a status of communication signal... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191270 | Integrated PC Card host controller for the detection and operation of a plurality of expansion cards An integrated controller for the detection and operation of both PC Cards, smart cards and passive smart card adapter cards. In one aspect, the invention detects the presence of standard expansion cards or passive smart card adapters by utilizing the reserved detect... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178139 | Executable file system for an embedded computer Binary files in an executable file system can be directly executed by the central processing unit at the location in which the binary files are stored. A pre-runtime tool can traverse a replica directory hierarchy in a host/loading computer to fill an internal data ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168029 | Method for testing a universal serial bus host controller A chip test method is suitable for testing a universal serial bus host controller. First, the host controller and the client device are individually set in a test mode. Next, the client device performs a client-side test preparation action. In addition, the host con... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161992 | Transition encoded dynamic bus circuit A transition encoded dynamic bus includes an encoder circuit at the input to the bus and a decoder circuit at the output to the bus. The encoder circuit generates a signal indicative of a transition at the input to the bus rather than the actual value at the input. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149834 | Wireless device attachment and detachment system, apparatus and method A polling method, apparatus, and system to detect the attachment and detachment of Universal Serial Bus devices in a wireless system. A hub provides a wired connection to the host and wireless attachment points for its devices, The host periodically queries the hub ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148786 | Network communication and message protocol for a medical perfusion system A network communication and messaging protocol for use in a medical perfusion system, provides the rules which govern how, among other things, information and data is conveyed between the various devices which are connect to the network. The rules define the differe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127649 | Smartcard test system and related methods A system of the present invention tests the design of a universal serial bus (USB) smartcard device and includes a bus analyzer for running test cases to generate USB bus traffic. A processor is operatively connected to the bus analyzer for receiving and transformin... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124184 | Home networking system having alive and connection termination messages and method for operating same A home network system for controlling one or more home appliances connected to a network and a method for operating the same. If an alive message or a connection termination message is normally generated from the home appliance, or if the alive message or the connec... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117289 | Claiming cycles on a processor bus in a system having a PCI to PCI bridge north of a memory controller In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising determining information about an input/output device located north of the memory controller; and controlling a response of the memory controller to read/write requests on a processor bus to a bus agent on... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111100 | Systems and methods for assigning an address to a network device added to an existing network The present invention provides systems, methods, and bus controllers (12) for establishing communication with various network systems located on a network system (10). Importantly, the systems, methods, and bus controllers (12) of the present in... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102699 | Radio frequency distribution network system A consumer electronic device includes circuitry configured to produce a signal corresponding to a selected one of first, second and third radio frequency channel. The circuitry includes a modulator configured to modulate the video signal such that it falls within a ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7080189 | USB device communication A method of communicating between a host and a USB-connected device is provided, in which a first and second phase of a communications protocol are asynchronously transmitted between the host and the device. A third phase of the communications protocol can also be a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076716 | Early acknowledgement of primary packets A method and apparatus for reclaiming bus bandwidth on a full duplex bus. A source node sends a primary packet toward a destination node along a full duplex bus. If the destination node identifies an inability to accept the primary packet, it sends a NAK in the oppo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7054977 | Method of handling data in a network device A network device for handling data and a method for handling data in a network device are disclosed. The network device includes at least one media port and at least one high speed docking station, communicating with the at least one media port. At least one master ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7044390 | Smart card emulator and related methods using buffering interface An emulator for a smart card device and associated method have at least two virtual components as functional blocks for a smart card device and operative in different clock domains. A functional buffering block is operative for communicating with the functional bloc... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047002 | Poll scheduling for emergency calls An apparatus and methods for expeditious handling of emergency message frames (e.g., 911 voice-over-Internet-Protocol [VoIP] frames, etc.) sent by a station in a wireless local-area network are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment increases the probability with wh... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047336 | Method for blocking request to bus A method for blocking a request to a front side bus interconnected between a central processing unit (CPU) and a control chip includes the following steps. First, a bus ownership of the control chip is assigned via a bus priority signal line. Any request from the CP... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7028125 | Hot-pluggable peripheral input device coupling system A hot-pluggable peripheral input device coupling system is proposed, which is designed for use to couple one or more peripheral input devices, such as a keyboard and a mouse, to a network server, such as a blade server, for the purpose of allowing the user to input ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028109 | Data transfer control device including buffer controller with plurality of pipe regions allocated to plurality of endpoints A plurality of pipe regions PIPE0 to PIPEe in which data transferred to and from endpoints is stored are allocated in a packet buffer (FIFO). Transfer condition information on data transfer between the pipe regions and the endpoints is set in transfer conditi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7006520 | System and method of operation for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices A system for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices in a cell based ATM network is disclosed. A plurality of low speed physical layer devices a high speed physical layer device are connected to a bus. A bus interface device ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007126 | Accessing a primary bus messaging unit from a secondary bus through a PCI bridge An I/O subsystem having a processor, a bridge unit, and an I/O messaging unit that couple a primary, secondary and tertiary bus in a computer system. The bridge unit is configurable to claim requests that access a messaging unit (MU) address range from the secondary... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004395 | Multi-level hierarchical radio-frequency communication system Portable measuring devices which communicate by low power transceivers through a communication controller with a printer device collect weight and size data on articles to be shipped. The collected weight and size data are combined with origin and destination data, ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003701 | System for facilitated analysis of PCI bus malfunction In a computer system, which makes an error detectable in case plural PCI target devices respond in one PCI cycle and the PCI protocol has become illicit, a processor 1 is connected over a PCI bus 10 to plural PCI devices a 100 to d 130, e... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6996613 | System for storing and transmitting home network system data The invention specifies a system having a plurality of devices which are connected to one another via an IEEE 1394 interface and one of which contains a control unit which, when operated appropriately by a user, polls system data for devices in this system via the i... | 02/07/2006 |
