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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8028104 | Method and system for polling multifunction devices based on performance criteria A method and system suitable for grouping a plurality of multifunction devices (MFDs), the system including a storage station for storing information gathered from the plurality of MFDs by selectively polling the plurality of MFDs; wherein the information is selecti... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024499 | Systems and methods for automated sensor polling A device may include polling logic configured to store a table of received addresses, sequentially receive sensor data from each address in the table via a serial data bus, store the sensor data in a memory, receive an address from a processor via a high speed data ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8006005 | Centralized polling service A centralized polling system is set forth for providing constant time select call functionality to a plurality of polling tasks in an operating system kernel. In one aspect, the CPS registers for and thereby captures events of interest on a continual basis. Polling ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7805550 | Management of polling loops in a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus and method are provided for managing polling loops. The data processing apparatus comprises a main processing unit and a subsidiary processing unit operable to perform a task on behalf of the main processing unit. The subsidiary processin... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7779178 | Method and apparatus for application/OS triggered low-latency network communications A data buffer that is a target for data received over a communication channel is examined, and a device associated with the communication channel is polled, to find, process, and return data transmitted over the channel. Other methods and apparatus to reduce network... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7415548 | Communication network having a plurality of bridging nodes which transmits a polling message with backward learning technique to determine communication pathway An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the intermediate base stations into an optimal spanning-tree network to ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7379418 | Method for ensuring system serialization (quiesce) in a multi-processor environment A method of ensuring system serialization in a multiprocessor multi-nodal environment is used to force all processors in a multiprocessor environment to temporarily suspend operations while one processor changes the system state. Architected designs where latencies ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370123 | Information processing apparatus A descriptor queue composed of descriptors containing input address information that represents an address for storing data to be processed and output address information that represents an address for storing processed data is constructed and stored in a memory. A ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359782 | Vehicular impact reactive system and method System and method for reacting to an expected impact involving a vehicle including an anticipatory sensor system for determining that an impact involving the vehicle is about to occur prior to the impact and an impact responsive system coupled to the sensor system a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340615 | Method and apparatus for managing power in network interface modules A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in a doze sta... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340539 | Device connected to a bus for storing information utilized to allocate priority to data stored in storage device and method for operating the device A device that is connected to a bus can transmit data to one or more other devices and/or can receive data from other devices, through the bus, includes storage (i.e., memories or memory areas) in which data to be transmitted or received is temporarily stored, and a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330481 | Highly channelized port polling in a telecommunications switch A method of telecommunication network switch port polling enables very highly channelized ports to be polled. A polling engine reads information from at least one of a plurality of poll registers, and each of the plurality of poll registers is associated with a uniq... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7313096 | Multiplexing a communication port Methods, systems, and computer program products for multiplexing a target communication port to provide an additional independent communication channel sharing at least some portion of hardware associated with the target port. Typically, a device, such as a disk dri... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7286494 | Polling communication system and polling control method A polling communication system includes a main station and a plurality of sub stations connected to the main station. The main station includes an address control part and a polling control part. The address control part divides a predetermined polling cycle into a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283555 | Method and apparatus for determining a polling interval in a network management system A method and apparatus for determining a time interval for periodically polling a device on a network 1 is described. The method determines the most restrictive link on the path to the network device, the level of restrictiveness of a link being dependent on ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275097 | System and method for analyzing input/output activity on local attached storage A system, method and computer program product for analyzing file I/O activity on local attached storage devices within a computer network is provided. In an embodiment, a software agent executes on one or more servers within the network, and monitors the I/O activit... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265857 | Medium where status information printing program is recorded, printer, print controller, status information printing method, and status information printing system If the printer generates the printing data itself completely, the processor in the printer generates the printing data after performing the predetermined processing based on the status information data by use of the font ROM, etc. The user enables the printing initi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262686 | Methods and apparatuses to identify devices A reader identifies tags without requiring or determining whether a response to an interrogation was a single response from a single tag or multiple responses from multiple tags. A method is performed by a tag in an identification system, and the method includes rec... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7260661 | Processing replies to request packets in an advanced switching context An apparatus communicates with an advanced switching (AS) fabric. The apparatus includes a transmit engine that generates a request packet for transmission to the AS fabric. The transmit engine associates a first transaction identifier with the request packet. A rec... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254655 | Software and process for low-latency audio recording A process and software for aggressive capture of digital recording on computers, for the purpose of reducing audio latency, which includes periodic frequent polling of a recording buffer containing audio recording data and a known value, reading out data values that... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248146 | Method for waking a device in response to wireless network activity A method and a system for data transmission between a first electronic device and a second electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is in a sleep mode. Transmission of data between the first electronic device and the second electronic device occurs wh... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7225320 | Control architecture for a high-throughput multi-processor channel decoding system A multi-processor unit includes a first domain for processing data according to first configuration information and having multiple first domain processors each connected to communication apparatus and each performing a different function of the first processing. Th... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7203205 | Polling device and communication apparatus A polling device of the present invention performs communication control such that frame synchronous transfer modes and frame asynchronous transfer modes are used so as to perform a communication operation, and includes: a polling counter section for reading all com... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7188202 | Techniques for accessing devices through a set of serial buses In a highly available environmental monitoring system, several slave devices are associated with either a fast polling list or a slow polling list. The fast polling list is polled by a master device more frequently than the slow polling list. A slave device is assoc... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181607 | Storage control apparatus In response to requests for I/O processing sent from a computer, I/O which should be processed at a priority is enabled to be processed without being affected by other processing, by classifying I/O into those to be processed at a priority and those not to be proces... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180906 | Method and apparatus for autopolling physical layer devices in a network A method and apparatus for autopolling physical layer (PHY) devices in a network is controlled by information contained in a plurality of poll registers. A user independently defines the PHY addresses and register numbers for a plurality of external PHY registers an... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174274 | Gathering I/O measurement data during an I/O operation process I/O measurement data associated with the performance of an I/O operation process is gathered during the I/O process. The I/O measurement data is saved in an IRB memory location specified by a test subchannel instruction. An I/O interrupt signals the completion of th... | 02/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7145482 | Method, system, and apparatus for remote data calibration of a RFID tag population A method, system, and apparatus for remotely calibrating data symbols received by a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag population are described. Tags are interrogated by a reader, which may be located in a network of readers. The reader transmits data symbols... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142524 | System and method for using an ad-hoc routing algorithm based on activity detection in an ad-hoc network A system and method for detecting communication requirements in a network and placing nodes in various stages of activity where conditions allow. The system and method provides an algorithm to detect changes in node activity levels and alter operations, such as upda... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142880 | Method of increasing the data throughput in a communication system Data throughput is increased in a communication system that is designed for a bidirectional information exchange between a single master terminal unit and a number of slave terminal units. For that purpose, unoccupied transmission resources of the communication chan... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7124410 | Distributed allocation of system hardware resources for multiprocessor systems A method is provided for allocating system resources across multiple nodes of a system communicating through a hardware device. The method provides for allocation of transaction units or identifiers in an allocating component for use in a multiple target component w... | 10/17/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7111128 | Hierarchical virtual model of a cache hierarchy in a multiprocessor system The cache coherency protocol described herein can be used to maintain a virtual model of a system, where the virtual model does not change as the system configuration changes. In general, the virtual model is based on the assumption that each node in the system can ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102523 | Radio frequency identification tag antenna configurations A radio frequency identification (RFID) architecture is described. RFID tags are interrogated by a reader, which may be located in a network of readers. The reader transmits symbols to the tags. Tags respond to the interrogations with symbols that each represent one... | 09/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7093141 | Power aware adaptive polling A method for adapting the periodicity of polling for pending service requests, by polling system devices for pending service requests, recording whether or not there was a pending service request and, based on accumulated data, determining whether or not the system ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089449 | Recovering a system that has experienced a fault A method and system of recovering a system that has experienced a fault includes a backup device to enable access of a network through the interface in response to the fault. The system includes a main operational portion that controls operation of the system under ... | 08/08/2006 |
