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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190927 | Image processing apparatus, serial bus control method, and storage medium A disclosed image processing apparatus has a normal power mode and a power saving mode and includes a serial bus; a serial bus PHY configured to control a physical layer of the serial bus, the serial bus PHY being turned off in the power saving mode; a voltage detec... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190872 | Sending service data to an RFID tag while an attached computer system is powered off An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, receive service data at a computer system from an RFID tag, where the service data was sent to the RFID tag from an RF transmitter while the computer system was powered off. The RFID tag includes tag m... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185770 | Method for processing time values in a computer or programmable machine Modern computers (10, 20) come with different timers having different attributes like time resolution, supported time range and time reference. Some are local timers, representing relative time values like the TSC counter (11, 21) counting CPU cycles f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181043 | Methods and apparatus for improved remotely switchable power supply Methods and apparatus systems for remotely controllable power supplies for various network devices in various situations. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176344 | Information processing apparatus and control method thereof An information processing apparatus used to reduce power supply to nonvolatile memory when in power saving mode. To accomplish this, the information processing apparatus stores data in the nonvolatile memory that can be used in power saving mode to a volatile memory... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176343 | Method for providing information for power management of devices on a network The present invention relates to a method for providing information for power management of devices connected to a network. The present method creates a PM (Power Management) server list which includes, for at least one PM server, a pair of friendly names including ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171276 | Minimal startup mode for performing multiple-reboot configuration A computer implemented process performs a plurality of computer bootups in minimal mode. Login authentication is disabled during the computer bootups. All startup programs and services not required to install new software are disabled during the computer bootups. Ne... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171312 | Recording apparatus and method for controlling the recording apparatus A recording apparatus can shift to power saving modes even when the recording apparatus is connected to the host PC, thus reducing power consumption. The recording apparatus can switch to a first power saving mode to supply power that enables detection of an inquiry... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171336 | Method for protecting a secured real time clock module and a device having protection capabilities A method for protecting a secured real time clock module, the method includes: locking multiple input ports of the secured real time clock module if the multiple input ports of the secured real time clock module are idle during at least a first duration; unlocking t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171271 | Server device and method of sharing basic input/output system A server device and a method of sharing a basic input/output system (BIOS) include a plurality of mainboards, a circuit board, and a memory unit, and a switching unit disposed on the circuit board. A single memory unit stores a plurality of BIOS entity program segme... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166331 | Computer system and operating method thereof A computer system includes a power supply, a timing control circuit including a delay module, and a south bridge chip. The power supply outputs necessary voltages to the computer system and a first power good signal. The necessary voltages include a system voltage. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166316 | Single interface access to multiple bandwidth and power memory zones In an embodiment, a system comprises a first memory module interface unit (MMIU) configured to couple to a first one or more memory modules, and a second MMIU configured to couple to a second one or more memory modules. The first MMIU is configured to operate the fi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166285 | Method and system for booting and automatically updating software, and recovering from update error, and computer readable recording medium storing method Provided are a booting method of updating software components installed in a system and recovering from an error that occurs in an update, a method and system for automatically updating the software and recovering from the error, and a computer readable recording me... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161303 | Storage apparatus with power usage control function and power usage control method in storage apparatus A storage apparatus includes plural trays each incorporating plural HDDs and a controller that controls access to the HDDs in response to an access request from a host apparatus. The controller also includes a table, in which standard power and a start-up power supp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161277 | Method of safe and recoverable firmware update and device using the same A safe and recoverable firmware update method which for a remote embedded electronic device and the device thereof. The method includes reading an update status in a flash memory, and determining the update status. If the update status is “DEFAULT”, a default fi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161309 | Apparatus, system, and method for controlling power sequence in a blade center environment An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for controlling power sequence in a blade center environment. A blade center environment has many devices requiring power. A relationship component module creates a topology of interdependent relationships of the device... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156348 | Power controller in information processor A power controller (100) is for controlling power consumed in an information processor (1000) and includes a power context storing means (ZA105), a power context reference means (ZB101), and a power status changing means (ZA101). T... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156354 | Power-saving system and method for computer An exemplary power-saving system for a computer includes a sensor connected between a standby power pin and ground, an amplifier, two resistors connected in series between the standby power pin and ground, a comparator, an electronic switch, and an MPU. The amplifie... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151126 | Controlling power consumption in a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus, bus logic and method are provided for controlling power consumption within a data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus has a plurality of logic elements, at least one of the logic elements being an initiator logic element ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151100 | Operating system for a computing device with handheld and extended computing units A handheld computing unit includes a processing module, a main memory interface coupled to main memory, a baseband processing module, an RF section, I/O interfaces, a bus structure, and a connection structure. The main memory includes an operating system section and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145924 | Storage apparatus and start-up control method for the same At the time of initial start-up, two or more storage units are started as a start-up control unit so that the total power consumption will not exceed specified electric power. Upon initial start-up of additional chassis, a CPU 214 for a basic chassis | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145923 | Circuit for and method of minimizing power consumption in an integrated circuit device A method of minimizing power consumption in an integrated device is disclosed. The method comprises providing a plurality of circuit blocks having circuits for performing logic functions, wherein each circuit block consumes power in a static state; coupling one of a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145927 | Operation management method of information processing system In a computer room including information processing devices and air conditioners, power saving of the computer room by means of optimization of workload allocation to the information processing devices is achieved in a short time. There, a coefficient of air conditi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140835 | Updating a basic input/output system (‘BIOS’) boot block security module in compute nodes of a multinode computer Updating a BIOS boot block security module in a plurality of compute nodes of a multinode computer including, for each compute node in the multinode computer, upon powering on the compute node: determining whether a new image of security module is available; if a ne... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131986 | System and method for boot loading of programs within a host operating environment having one or more linked guest operating systems A system and method for loading programs during a system boot using stored configuration data in a predetermined file system from a prior session and providing the stored configuration data to a guest operating system capable of communication with a host operating s... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132030 | Device and a method for managing power consumption of a plurality of data processing units A device and a method for managing power consumption of a plurality of data processing units. A scheduler (280) schedules a first process step for a first data processing unit (200) consuming a high power within a first deadline and a second process st... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122264 | Power-state change as a function of direction of right-to-use status change The present invention provides a computer-implemented limited right-to-use business method. In response to a command to change the right-to-use status of at least a first component, the right-to-use status of said processor is changed in a direction either from rese... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117427 | Motherboard, storage device and controller thereof, and booting method A motherboard, a storage device and a controller thereof and a booting method are provided. In the present invention, when powered on, an unfetch signal is transmitted to a central processor unit (CPU) by a controller such that an operation of the CPU is suspended. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112654 | Method and an apparatus for providing timing signals to a number of circuits, and integrated circuit and a node A method of providing or transporting a timing signal between a number of circuits, electrical or optical, where each circuit is fed by a node. The nodes forward timing signals between each other, and at least one node is adapted to not transmit a timing signal befo... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112641 | Facilitating communication and power transfer between electrically-isolated powered device subsystems A system employing power over Ethernet (PoE) technology may include at least one powered device and power sourcing equipment (PSE). The powered device may include a first powered device (PD) subsystem and a second powered device (PD) subsystem that is electrically i... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112618 | Less-secure processors, integrated circuits, wireless communications apparatus, methods and processes of making An integrated circuit (122) includes an on-chip boot ROM (132) holding boot code, a non-volatile security identification element (140) having non-volatile information determining a less secure type or more secure type, and a processor (130 | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108708 | Power optimization when using external clock sources Logic circuits of a digital device may be biased to operate over specific external clock frequency ranges by programming a desired clock oscillator frequency range into a configuration memory of the digital device. In addition, clock source selection may also be pro... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108664 | Fast and compact circuit for bus inversion A bussed system with a fast and compact majority voter in the circuitry responsible for the bus inversion decision. The majority voter is implemented in analog circuitry having two branches. One branch sums the advantage of transmitting the bits without inversion, t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099619 | Voltage regulator with drive override Techniques to enable voltage regulators to adjust for coming load changes are presented herein. In some embodiments, a functional block such as a microprocessor core having an associated clock signal is powered by at least one switching-type voltage regulator. When ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095783 | Media boot loader A method for boot media loader that includes detecting bootable media independent of any media partitioning. When bootable media is detected, data is read from a predetermined location of the bootable media. Next, the file system type is determined from the read dat... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7840714 | Mapping SDVO functions from PCI express interface An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to map pins on an interface connector to signals for a digital display. A first group of signal traces maps transmitter differential pairs pins in a first group of lanes on the interface connector compatible with... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7506075 | Fair elevator scheduling algorithm for direct access storage device An apparatus, program product and method of processing access requests for a direct access storage device utilize a “fair elevator” algorithm to schedule access requests from a plurality of requesters desiring access to a direct access storage device (DASD). In ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7500027 | Emulation of a disconnect of a device USB 2.0 supports communication in low-speed (LS), full speed (FS) and high speed (HS). In the full speed mode, the wire segment between a hub and a device is terminated via a pull-up resistor 480 on the D+ data line on the downstream end of the segment. In th... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7409471 | Data transfer control device for data transfer over a bus, electronic equipment and method for data transfer over a bus When a first mode (with-SOF mode) has been set, data transfer is performed while SOF packets are transferred at frame periods, and when a second mode (non-SOF mode) has been set and also non-periodic (bulk) transfer is being performed, the periodic transfer of SOF p... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7386639 | Switch for coupling one bus to another bus A communication module includes a switch circuit operable to connect an internal bus to an external bus for, e.g., diagnostics, verification, and fault analysis. The internal bus allows data communication between electronic components internal to the communication m... | 06/10/2008 |
