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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8429311 | Process for the transfer of data into several control devices A process is provided for transferring a first sequence control and/or first data into a first control device and a second sequence control and/or second data into a second control device in a motor vehicle. The transfer is carried out by way of a first data bus whi... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8392626 | Programmable channel circuit for coupling signals between field devices and control systems A programmable channel circuit can include a control circuit having at least one bidirectional I/O terminal, at least one programming terminal, and one or more processing elements, and an interface circuit having first and second field terminals. The interface circu... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8370535 | Routing commands within a multifunctional device A device comprising a router, a controller and an application processor, the controller configured to interoperate at any given time either with the controller or the application processor. When the device is coupled to a host device and the router is set for intero... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8352640 | Methods of operating electronic devices having USB interfaces capable of supporting multiple USB interface standards An electronic device includes a universal serial bus (USB) interface therein. This USB interface is configured to support at least first and second different USB interface standards. These different interface standards are selected by the electronic device in respon... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8346988 | Techniques for dynamically sharing a fabric to facilitate off-chip communication for multiple on-chip units A technique for sharing a fabric to facilitate off-chip communication for on-chip units includes dynamically assigning a first unit that implements a first communication protocol to a first portion of the fabric when private fabrics are indicated for the on-chip uni... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8327038 | Secured system for transferring data between two equipments A system, apparatus and a method to connect at least two items of equipment, a first item of equipment having a first confidentiality level and a second item of equipment having a second confidentiality level, the two items of equipment in communication with equipme... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8291128 | Systems configured to identify an operating mode Systems having a host computer system, a memory device coupled to the host computer system, and identification circuitry. The identification circuitry is configured to identify an operating mode of the host computer system from comparing applied signals to sensed si... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8271696 | Card type peripheral apparatus and host apparatus for accessing respective parts of stored protocol ID information one part after another A card type peripheral apparatus connected to a host apparatus for communication therewith according to a specific protocol. The card type peripheral apparatus includes a plurality of configuration registers configured to be accessible by the host apparatus and to b... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8239585 | Systems and methods for improved hardware device connectivity Systems and methods are described herein to provide for improved hardware device connectivity. Other embodiments include apparatus and system for receiving messages from an operating system and sending messages to one or more hardware devices. Further embodiments in... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8239586 | Method and apparatus for interfacing with multiple objects using an object independent interface protocol A method and apparatus is presented for using multiple device specific interface protocols for communicating with a platform, where each of the devices comprises a set of parameters. For each parameter of each set of parameters a function call is established to set ... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8219720 | Method and architecture to support interaction between host computer and remote display devices wherein service-specific protocols for the remote devices are defined A method and architecture for enabling interaction between a remote device and a host computer. A service provided by the remote device is discovered, and a description pertaining to the service is retrieved by the host computer. A network communication link is the ... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8176213 | Processing responding device, processing requesting device and their methods A user PC 20 prepares a retrieve request by storing a SNMP command and a predetermined processing execution condition into a retrieve request of a SLP and transmits and outputs the prepared retrieve request to a printer 40 and others by multicast. Rece... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161200 | Multi-protocol bus device In one general aspect, methods and devices for use with multiple communications protocols automatically determine which communications protocol to use when connected to a system bus. Signals transmitted on the system bus are monitored to determine what communication... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151009 | Serial connection external interface from printed circuit board translation to parallel memory protocol A translator of an apparatus in an example through a serial connection external interface of a printed circuit board (PCB) communicates between a serial memory protocol within the PCB and a parallel memory protocol outside the PCB. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135874 | Automatic mapping and updating computer switching device The present invention relates to an automatic mapping and updating computer switch device. The computer switching device provides the compatibility between a plurality of devices and a plurality of computers, and comprises a USB host chip connected to the plurality ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8117352 | Apparatus and method for selecting wireless connectivity in a wireless communication terminal An apparatus and a method for providing an interworking service with a peripheral device in a Mobile Station (MS) supporting one or more wireless connectivity protocols are provided. Information on an execution environment of an application program for the interwork... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8082369 | System and method for configuring an electronic device A system and method configures an electronic device. The method comprises detecting a coupling of a peripheral device to a host device. The peripheral device appears as a compound device including an interface device and a communications device. The method comprises... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073986 | Memory devices configured to identify an operating mode Memory devices having a memory module, an interface, identification circuitry and a controller coupled to the memory module and the identification circuitry. The identification circuitry is configured to identify a selected operating mode from a plurality of signals... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073985 | Backward compatible extended USB plug and receptacle with dual personality An extended Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) connector plug and socket each have a pin substrate with one surface that supports the four metal contact pins for the standard USB interface. An extension of the pin substrate carries another 8 extension metal contact pins tha... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073987 | PCI express card type peripheral apparatus and host apparatus for accessing parts of protocol ID information stored in storage unit one part after another A card type peripheral apparatus connected to a host apparatus for communication therewith according to a specific protocol. The card type peripheral apparatus includes a plurality of configuration registers configured to be accessible by the host apparatus and to b... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8060664 | Integrated circuit having a plurality of interfaces and integrated circuit card having the same An integrated circuit supporting a first interface and a second interface and an integrated circuit card having the same includes the first interface capable of communicating with a first host, the second interface communicating with a second host, and a control blo... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051216 | Method and integrated circuit for providing enclosure management services utilizing multiple interfaces and protocols A method and integrated circuit for providing enclosure management services compatible with a multitude of physical interfaces and protocols for exchanging enclosure management data between an HBA and an enclosure management backplane is provided. According to one m... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046502 | Device of identifying host protocol and smart card including the same The present invention provides an integrated circuit chip which includes a processor; a contact pad unit connected to a host through a plurality of contact pads; a host interface detector including at least one pull-up resistor and one pull-down resistor, for select... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7970957 | Apparatus, method and computer readable medium for disambiguating commands with respect to logical protocols An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for disambiguating commands with respect to logical protocols is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, commands are disambiguated in accordance with an extent of device usage since a most recent device reset event. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7953902 | Negotiable exchange of link layer functional parameters in electronic systems having components interconnected by a point-to-point network A proposal is discussed that facilitates exchanging parameters for a link layer that allows a variable number of parameters without changing a communication protocol. Likewise, the proposal allows for both components connected via the link to negotiate values for th... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7908407 | Method, computer-readable storage media, and integrated circuit for providing enclosure management services utilizing multiple interfaces and protocols Technologies for providing enclosure management services compatible with a multitude of physical interfaces, and protocols for exchanging enclosure management data (EMD) between an HBA and an enclosure management backplane are provided. Interfaces utilized for excha... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908406 | Interface architecture for facilitating communication regardless of protocol An architecture and method in an integrated circuit for configuring a controller to facilitate communication with a plurality of external device interfaces. The integrated circuit includes a processor, a first memory, a second memory, including a plurality of dedica... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904608 | System and method for updating software in electronic devices Particular embodiments include a system and method to enable a user-controlled proxy system or coordinating computer to automatically or semi-automatically communicate with multiple devices, determine the currently operating software contents and versions for each d... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899947 | Method for setting up data link between medical appliances and computer system A method and system of setting up a data link between medical appliances (M1-M6) and a computer system (1) in which for each of the medical appliances (M1-M6) at least one communication protocol (P1-P6) is stored toge... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890666 | Embedded protocol selection technique, related interface and computer program product A protocol-based communication between a host device (e.g., MP3 player, digital camera, palmtop, etc.) and an interface (e.g., flash mass storage card) is established automatically by providing protocol-supporting facilities in the interface, each facility supportin... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7865628 | PCI express card type peripheral apparatus and host apparatus for accessing parts of protocol ID information stored in storage unit one part after another A card type peripheral apparatus connected to a host apparatus for communication therewith according to a specific protocol. The card type peripheral apparatus includes a plurality of configuration registers configured to be accessible by the host apparatus and to b... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865629 | Configurable connector for system-level communication A host device comprises a controller and a connector. The host connector comprises fixed-function and multi-function pins. A first group of host connector pins comprises one or more of the fixed-function pins and a second group of pins comprises the remainder of the... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7822883 | Memory card with two standard sets of contacts and a hinged contact covering mechanism Enclosed re-programmable non-volatile memory cards include at least two sets of electrical contacts to which the internal memory is connected. The two sets of contacts have different patterns, preferably in accordance with two different contact standards such as a m... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7805544 | Device of identifying host protocol and smart card including the same The present invention provides an integrated circuit chip which includes a processor; a contact pad unit connected to a host through a plurality of contact pads; a host interface detector including at least one pull-up resistor and one pull-down resistor, for select... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7769914 | Electronic device having USB interface capable of supporting multiple USB interface standards and methods of operating same An electronic device includes a universal serial bus (USB) interface therein. This USB interface is configured to support at least first and second different USB interface standards. These different interface standards are selected by the electronic device in respon... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769915 | Systems and method of controlling control and/or monitoring devices Systems and methods of controlling control and/or monitoring devices are provided. A controller can include a software defined radio in order to communicate with control and/or monitoring devices that employ different communication protocols. The controller can be i... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7743174 | Dual utilization of a physical port of an electronic device An electronic device has a physical port, and a control circuit coupled to the physical port. The control circuit is arranged to electrically sense the physical port, and operate the physical port as one of an Ethernet port and an RS-232 port based on electrically s... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743175 | Methods of initializing routing structures in integrated circuits Methods of initializing an integrated circuit (IC) in which the routing structures have data lines and handshake circuitry are provided. A node of each of the data lines is driven to a predetermined value, and the handshake circuit is disabled by disabling an acknow... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734839 | Method and integrated circuit for providing enclosure management services utilizing multiple interfaces and protocols A method and integrated circuit for providing enclosure management services compatible with a multitude of physical interfaces and protocols for exchanging enclosure management data between an HBA and an enclosure management backplane is provided. According to one m... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730227 | Memory mapped I/O bus selection A mechanism and method for redefining an application specific integrated circuit's I/O bus structure in real-time. The mechanism includes an address map block, a state machine block, and a bus arbitration block. At initialization, the address map is configured to di... | 06/01/2010 |
