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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6911987 | Method and system for transmitting data for a shared application A method and system for compressing bitmap data in a system for sharing an application running on a host computer with a remote computer, wherein the shared application's screen output is simultaneously displayed on both computers. Simultaneous display of screen out... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6850994 | Method for determining status of a computer device and detecting device behavior in response to a status request A method and system allows a device driver to obtain the status of a device that may exhibit one of two distinct behaviors in responding to status requests that designate a plurality of event types associated with a device. Devices exhibiting the first behavior resp... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6757844 | Architecture and logic to control a device without a JTAG port through a device with a JTAG port An apparatus comprising a first circuit comprising a JTAG port and a second port. A JTAG non-compliant circuit may be controlled by the JTAG port when connected to the second port. ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754723 | System comprising host device that determines compatibility of firmware for connected peripheral device and downloads optimum firmware if peripheral device is not compatible In a system comprising a host device and at least one peripheral device connected to the host device, suitable firmware to allow combined operation of both devices is selected and downloaded from among a plurality of firmware stored in memory using the identificatio... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754742 | Queue management system having one read and one write per cycle by using free queues The invention relates to a buffer memory, method and a buffer controller for queue management usable in an ATM switch. An object of the invention is to achieve a high frequency throughput of data cells in the buffer memory. This object is achieved by using a buffer ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6751689 | Interface circuit and method for transmitting data between a serial interface and a processor An interface circuit transmits data via a serial interface to and from a processor. A first-in-first-out memory is disposed between the serial interface and the processor. A suitable method transmits data which are received and read into the memory serially bit by b... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6751691 | Arrangement for data transfer between a computer and peripheral device or other data processing device An arrangement for data transfer between a desk top personal computer (1) and a peripheral or other data processing device (7) comprises a transfer pad (5) which comprises two conductive plates (8, 9) which is connected to the personal co... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6751683 | Method, system and program products for projecting the impact of configuration changes on controllers An impact of configuration changes on controllers is projected. This projection quantifies the impact for each controller affected by the change, such that it is known by a quantifiable value how much the change impacts the controller. In order to project the impact... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6748464 | Semiconductor device comprising CPU and peripheral circuit wherein control unit performs wait cycle control that makes peripheral circuit wait a predetermined time before responding to CPU A semiconductor device includes a CPU and many peripheral circuits that are accessed by the CPU. Each peripheral circuit includes a wait control register which changeably holds wait cycle number information indicative of the number of wait cycles for an access by th... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6745264 | Method and apparatus for configuring an interface controller wherein ping pong FIFO segments stores isochronous data and a single circular FIFO stores non-isochronous data Hardware Description Language (HDL) code is created for an interface controller so that logic requiring device-specific configuration refers to a parameter file. This set of parameters lets components in a bridge circuit provide support for the same configuration. I... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6742133 | Clock controlling method and clock control circuit A novel clock control circuit and method in which phase synchronization with respect to an external clock can be realized without recourse to the external clocks. A clock controlling circuit includes a delay circuit sequence comprised of N stages of units each made ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738834 | System for reconfiguring a peripheral device using configuration residing on the peripheral device by electronically simulating a physical disconnection and reconnection to a host device A dynamically and independently reconfigurable multi-mode device, and a method thereof. The device can include a controller for selecting a mode of operation. The device is configured according to the mode of operation. The configuration information corresponding to... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6732265 | Computer operating system using compressed ROM image in RAM A low-level portion of the operating system of a computer system is separated from an intermediate-level portion of the operating system. The low-level portion, including hardware-specific code, is stored in a relatively small read-only memory (ROM), while at least ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6732205 | Serial/parallel conversion circuit, data transfer control device, and electronic equipment The present invention provides a serial/parallel conversion circuit that has both a serial/parallel conversion function and a buffer function for absorbing clock frequency differences, together with a data transfer control device and electronic equipment. The serial... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6728796 | Arrangement and method for signal processing and storing A method is described for storing and processing/filtering signals, as well as a memory arrangement, a signal processing arrangement and, in particular, a digital filter arrangement having a plurality of filter modules for digital processing/filtering of input value... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6728789 | System and method employing a static logical identifier in conjuction with a look up table to provide access to a target The present invention is directed to a system and method employing a static logical identifier. In an aspect of the present invention, an input/output interface suitable for communicatively coupling a host with a target device may include at least one port communica... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6721813 | Computer system implementing a system and method for tracking the progress of posted write transactions A computer system is presented which implements a system and method for tracking the progress of posted write transactions. In one embodiment, the computer system includes a processing subsystem and an input/output (I/O) subsystem. The processing subsystem includes ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6718408 | Interchangeable and configurable input/output module for a computing deviceco An input/output module for a computer having one, or multiple, input/output connectors that interface external devices with components in a computer. The input/output module is removable from the computer and interchangeable with a different input/output module havi... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6711636 | Transfer attribute encoding within an address on a bus In a computer system having a plurality of modules connected by a bus, wherein the plurality of modules includes a first module and wherein the system has a word width of two or more bytes, a system and method of byte swapping bytes within a word stored in a locatio... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6711631 | Low power CD-ROM player with CD-ROM subsystem for portable computer capable of playing audio CDs without supply energy to CPU A computer subsystem of a computer includes a CPU, RAM, display, storage device, input device(s), and a digital-audio generating IC. A CD-ROM subsystem of the computer includes a CD-ROM drive and CD-ROM control buttons for controlling CD-ROM drivers operation while ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6708270 | Programmable unit having on chip debugging support module (OCDS) and reset manager that determines if OCDS should reset if programmable unit is reset A programmable unit having an OCDS module and a method for using an external debugger to debug the programmable unit equipped with the OCDS module are described. The programmable unit is distinguished in that it has a reset management device by use of which it is po... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6704808 | Expansion unit setup control method that allocates predetermined I/O resources not currently used in processing and later deallocates said I/O resources upon completion of setup An expansion unit control method for use with an expansion control unit containing at least one device, includes allocating a predetermined input/output (I/O) resource, ensured not to be used in processing, to the at least one device as an I/O resource us... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6701395 | Analog-to-digital converter that preseeds memory with channel identifier data and makes conversions at fixed rate with direct memory access An integrated circuit including a DMA controller, an ADC having a plurality of conversion channels and address and data ports for connection to external memory means, the DMA controller being arranged to read a channel id from the memory means using the a... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6697889 | First-in first-out data transfer control device having a plurality of banks An FIFO data transfer control device includes an instruction analyzing portion for analyzing an instruction for data transfer to an FIFO storage device including a plurality of banks, and calculating an amount of data to be transferred; a data count porti... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6697894 | System, apparatus and method for providing maintenance instructions to a user at a remote location An apparatus and method is disclosed for providing a user with task-specific information that includes a portable instruction system that may be worn by a user, and includes, a computer sufficiently lightweight and designed to be worn by a user to which a... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6694384 | Method and system to remotely configure business office devices to user defined parameters A method and system for configuring and/or re-configuring an office device to satisfy each user's particular needs. Such a system allows a user to determine at user defined intervals, i.e., each use, monthly, or project based, what the user's needs are or... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6694391 | Combination computer mouse and telephony handset A computer peripheral apparatus includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The second portion is pivotable between a first position nested with the first portion and a second position extended from the f... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6691184 | System and method employing a dynamic logical identifier The present invention is directed to a system and method employing a dynamic logical identifier. In an aspect of the present invention, a method for accessing data utilizing an input/output interface may include providing an identifier for accessing a tar... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6684265 | System for assigning new alerts in response to a plurality of escaltion schemes or assigning an ignore scheme to the new alert The system and method of this invention automatically manages a group of computers by automatically gathering data, storing the data, analyzing the stored data to identify specified conditions, and initiating automated actions to respond to the detected c... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6681268 | Dual pointing screen cursor device comprising touch pad and stick wherein each has identifying bytes that is transmitted through single channel port A personal computer system enables simultaneous use of a relative-coordinate-mode input device and an absolute-coordinate-mode input device, thereby allowing correct input of absolute coordinate data, such as for characters. A pad-type first input device ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6668291 | Non-blocking concurrent queues with direct node access by threads Multiple non-blocking FIFO queues are concurrently maintained using atomic compare-and-swap (CAS) operations. In accordance with the invention, each queue provides direct access to the nodes stored therein to an application or thread, so that each thread ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6668288 | Telecommunications data conferencing platform having secure firewall wherein access is restricted to messages originating from server but conference data pass freely A telecommunications data conferencing platform has a secure zone and a partly secure zone connected by a secure firewall. The secure zone contains a master data server, a billing system a reservation system and an audio bridge connected to the firewall. ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6658464 | User station software that controls transport, storage, and presentation of content from a remote source A method for operating a user station configured for communications with a multiplicity of independently-operated data sources via a non-proprietary network includes steps of receiving a first data object from one of the data sources, and automatically pr... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654819 | External direct memory access processor interface to centralized transaction processor An external direct memory access unit includes an event recognizer recognizing plural event types, a priority encoder selecting for service one recognized external event, a parameter memory storing service request parameters corresponding to each event ty... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6651111 | System and method for managing a serial port The present invention provides for a virtual serial port (VSP) situated between a serial port in a mobile electronic device, applications that require a serial port connection handle, and other applications that require command-mode access to the serial p... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6651112 | Data transmission between connected modules wherein each module separately and directly communication with each other modules A modular electronic device has a cabinet frame, a plurality of push-in modules with module frames retained in the cabinet frame side-by-side, and printed circuit boards mounted in the module frames, and electronic components carried by said printed circu... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6647434 | Multifunction device with register space for individually enabling or disabling a function of plurality of functions in response to function configuration A system for individually disabling a function of a multifunction device located on a computer bus of a computer system. In one example, the multifunction device is located on a computer bus conforming to a PCI local bus standard and the multifunction dev... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6647435 | Method and apparatus system with first and second controller connected via uart chip for controlling peripheral device of computer system in second power mode A method and apparatus for driving a peripheral device of a personal multimedia system. The peripheral device driving apparatus includes a first controller installed in the personal multimedia system, for converting the key input by a function key selecte... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6643715 | Method and apparatus for implementing multiple V-chip settings for a display device wherein the settings are stored on removable memory A method and apparatus for implementing multiple V-chip settings for a display device. The method comprises several steps, including a first step of receiving a first V-chip setting as input by a user via a graphical user interface. The first V-chip setti... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6640261 | Method and apparatus for scheduler coupled to memory array wherein scheduler addresses array with at least a portion of an identification number Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes an integrated circuit that has the capability to schedule transferring processes that have an individual identification number. At least a portion of each individual identi... | 10/28/2003 |
