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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8082373 | Specialized universal serial bus controller A universal serial bus controller pre-generates and stores a subset of USB commands in a memory, the pre-generated commands available for transmission to at least one USB peripheral device over universal serial bus, and transfers at least one command from the subset... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8055812 | Data transmission/reception system An amplifier (unit) linked via a daisy type serial bus sends a transmission start signal SC and then sends the local data DATAn. If data from an amplifier at the downstream side is not received before transmission of the local data DATAn is completed, the delimit of... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7987300 | Method of writing control data into on-board vehicle control unit and the control unit A first-type data transfer frame for uncompressed transfer of a control program and control data including reference data, and a second-type data transfer frame for compressed transfer have the same fixed size, and each transfer frame includes compression identifica... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7975081 | Image display system and control method therefor Provided are an image display system and a control method for the image display system capable of displaying an image, which is represented by raster image data to be transferred through burst transmission and which is formed with a plurality of scanning lines, thro... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7930446 | Methods and apparatuses for wireless network communication wherein a universal serial bus request block (URB) is generated that will vary parameters that controls wireless transmission commands between devices In some embodiments a method is disclosed that includes creating a network connection status between a host device and a peripheral network device, determining characteristics of the peripheral device such as receive capacity or a quality of service classification f... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7861013 | Display system with frame reuse using divided multi-connector element differential bus connector A method includes reducing power of a first graphics processor by disabling or not using its rendering engine and leaving a display engine of the same first graphics processor capable of outputting display frames from a corresponding first frame buffer to a display.... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7831747 | Method and apparatus to generate a data descriptor Embodiments are generally direct to a method and apparatus to generate a data descriptor. In one embodiment, a data descriptor is generated for a block of data to be forwarded from a node to another node on a communication link. The data descriptor includes an indic... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7797463 | Hardware assisted receive channel frame handling via data offset comparison in SAS SSP wide port applications A device includes a task context controller, at least one transport engine connected to the task context controller, and at least one comparator connected to the transport engine. The comparator to compare a data offset from a receive frame with a current data offse... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797464 | Configuring data transmission over one or more line cards globally or individually A system and method for optimizing the transmission of signals over a group of wires. In a preferred form of the present invention, a multi-wire bus connects a common card to a plurality of line cards. A framing protocol controls transmissions between the common car... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788424 | Method of transmitting data from a transmitting device A method is provided for transmitting data from a transmitting device (121) to a receiving device (125). The transmitting device transmits a first data frame (200) to a receiving device a first time (3100). Then it consecutivel... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7743178 | Method and apparatus for SATA tunneling over fibre channel A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed. To send data to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, wher... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739424 | Packet processing switch and methods of operation thereof A packet processing integrated circuit chip includes a plurality of input ports configured to receive packets from respective external sources and a plurality of output ports configured to transmit packets to respective external recipients. The chip further includes... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7721019 | Method and apparatus for partitioning industrial control data An industrial controller includes a processing unit and a memory. The industrial controller is operable to communicate using an optimized connection packet including I/O data from a plurality of I/O modules arranged as an unstructured data block. The processing unit... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7702827 | System and method for a credit based flow device that utilizes PCI express packets having modified headers wherein ID fields includes non-ID data Device, system, and method of utilizing PCI Express packets having modified headers. For example, an apparatus includes a credit-based flow control interconnect device to generate a credit-based flow control interconnect Transaction Layer Packet in which one or more... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7653765 | Information communication controller interface apparatus and method An apparatus and method for communicating information within a network having one or more communication buses (5, 6, 7, 8), consisting of one or more elements (20, 30, 40) to maximise throughput and minimise CPU involvement by executing the following. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650441 | Electronic apparatus with device capable of simultaneously reading and writing and method thereof An electronic apparatus including a device capable of simultaneously reading and writing, and a method thereof. The present electronic apparatus includes a first device to generate and output a Command containing a Read_Start_Address, a Write_Start_Address, and Writ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7644200 | Method of repeating data transmission between network devices by timing a first predetermined period after previous first data transmission A method is provided for transmitting data from a transmitting device (121) to a receiving device (125). The transmitting device transmits a first data frame (200) to a receiving device a first time (3100). Then it consecutivel... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644199 | Storage device system and signal transmission method for storage device system The storage device system comprises: a plurality of signal transmission paths connected respectively to a plurality of installed storage devices; a plurality of system side communications sections for transmitting and receiving signals respectively to and from the p... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7587526 | Endianness independent data structures Embedding endianness information within data and sending and receiving data with the embedded endianness information. Data may be contained in a data structure. To embed endianness information in a data structure, unused bits in a data structure are identified. A nu... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7565463 | Scalable routing and addressing PCI Express transactions can be transmitted via a shared PCI Express infrastructure. At an infrastructure ingress point an additional header comprising at least a source identifier and a target identifier is generated for a transaction packet that comprises a header... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7555574 | Asymmetric data path media access controller A method and apparatus for maintaining data throughput in a data element includes receiving a clock and a first plurality of instances of data having a first width on an input, sampling consecutive ones of instances of the data having the first width at consecutive ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7546395 | Navagation processing between a tracker hardware device and a computer host based on a satellite positioning solution system Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a host based positioning system. The host based positioning system includes a tracker hardware interface that connects to a dedicated hardware space vehicle tracker to a host computer. The tracker har... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7444443 | Method of repeating data transmission between network devices by timing a first predetermined period after previous first data transmission A method is provided for transmitting data from a transmitting device (121) to a receiving device (125). The transmitting device transmits a first data frame (200) to a receiving device a first time (3100). Then it consecutivel... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437491 | Clock and data recovery wherein an FB-DIMM is connected to signal path and null and sync frames control the FB-DIMM Improved clock and data recovery involves transmitting one or more null frames prior to transmitting a sync frame. A receiving component detects for the sync frame to lock to a data signal sent on a signal path by a transmitting component. The one or more null frame... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433975 | Integrated circuit capable of marker stripping A method, system, computer program product, and expansion card capable of: defining an initial source address within a source memory device. An initial data read operation is performed to retrieve a first X-byte data portion from the source memory device. The initia... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426588 | Storage apparatus In a data input/output with other apparatus, a data transfer controller (DTC) of a storage controller multiprocesses a data transfer with the other apparatus by utilizing a saving/recovering operation and suppresses a load therefrom, thereby improving performance th... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421522 | Techniques for transmitting and receiving SPI4.2 status signals using a hard intellectual property block Techniques for transmitting and receiving FIFO status signals on a hard intellectual property (HIP) block of a programmable logic integrated circuit are provided. The FIFO status signals are demultiplexed after being received in the HIP block and then stored in a pe... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403874 | Method and system for prioritizing formatting actions of a number of data formatters In one embodiment, a method of prioritizing formatting actions of a number of data formatters 1) instantiates a number of threads for execution by a processing system, the number of threads sharing thread processing resources, and the number of threads including at ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7404019 | Method and apparatus for endianness control in a data processing system A method for providing endianness control in a data processing system includes initiating an access which accesses a peripheral, providing a first endianness control that corresponds to the peripheral, and completing the access using the endianness control to affect... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398334 | Circuit for and method of realigning data A circuit enabling the realignment of data is described. The circuit generally comprises an input multiplexer receiving a first plurality of input data bytes and a second plurality of input data bytes; a switching controller coupled to the input multiplexer and cont... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395485 | Check codes mapped across multiple frames Memory apparatus and methods transmit or receive a first portion of a check code in a first frame and a second portion of the check code in a second frame. The check code may be for all or a portion of the first frame, the second frame, or any other frame. Other emb... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383365 | Method and system for PCI express audiovisual output Audio and visual information processing components are co-located on a PCI Express graphics card by communicating audio and visual information received through the PCI Express interface of the graphics card to a PCI Express switch which switches audio information to... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370129 | Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment Strategies are described for performing retry analysis in an environment which involves the transmission of media information from a source module to a target module. In the context of the source module, the retry analysis determines whether the source module should... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370094 | Method and device for adjusting the maximum size of the information sequences transmitted in a telecommunication network In order to adjust the maximum size of the information sequences transmitted by a plurality of terminals in a network, according to a predetermined network protocol, between two subnetworks supporting different maximum sizes of information sequence: there is stored ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366817 | Frame order processing apparatus, systems, and methods Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may bridge between a link layer and a transport layer in a multi-lane serial-attached small computer system interface (SCSI)-serial SCSI protocol (SAS-SSP) device. A lane number first-in first-out buffer (FIFO)... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363404 | Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies System and method for managing routing of data in a distributed computing system, such as a distributed computing system that uses PCI Express protocol to communicate over an I/O fabric. A physical tree that is indicative of a physical configuration of the distribut... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359994 | Split-transaction bus decoder A split-transaction bus decoder receives a plurality of packets, the plurality of packets including a request packet and a response packet, wherein the request packet includes an address and a request tag; and the response packet includes a command, a response tag, ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353301 | Methodology and apparatus for implementing write combining Write-combining in a computer system that uses a push model is set forth herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises creating one or more packets having a descriptor and the data associated with detected write transactions stored in the buffer assigned to a writ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353299 | Method and apparatus for managing autonomous third party data transfers An apparatus, system, and method for managing and formatting data in an autonomous data transfer operation are provided. An initialization module is configured to prepare metadata corresponding to a data source. A loader loads autonomous operation instructions corre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353300 | Apparatus to improve the firmware efficiency for a multiframe serial interface A serial network controller contains control logic to analyze and determine a duration of a proper frame time slot. A number of data fields in a transmission is ascertained from an identifier field supplied in a header field. The number of data fields plus a margin ... | 04/01/2008 |
