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6496884 Microcomputer system with color coded components  
A microcomputer system facilitates the connection of peripheral devices to a computer unit with a plurality of external ports for connecting to external peripheral devices. In one embodiment of the...
6496885 Method for processing network messages  
A network includes a plurality of electronic control units (ECU) connected with each other and receiving messages via a bus, each message having an identifier portion and a data portion. An ECU...
6496886 Directional coupling bus system using printed board  
In a printed board mounting method using a directional coupling bus for a high-speed data transfer, multi-bit data are transferred between nodes at a low cost. For this purpose, to transfer...
6493774 Data processing system and microcomputer  
An input/output device used as a transfer request source outputs a data transfer set command for specifying each transfer channel, each transfer address, the number of transfers, etc. onto a bus...
6487617 Source-destination re-timed cooperative communication bus  
A source module, a destination module, or both modules, that are used in a data transfer, signal over an internal communication bus to a bus master when the addressed storage location in the data...
6484218 Method for improving direct memory access performance  
A serial bus controller having improved bus performance when a physical read request or a physical write request is present. A link and physical layer logic unit is provided, coupled to a serial...
6484267 Clock gated bus keeper  
The present invention comprises a clocked bus keeper circuit that does not drive the bus during the first half of a clock cycle and then holds the value driven onto the bus during the first half of...
6480907 Apparatus and method for testing the wait signal line of a communication interface socket  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for testing the WAIT signal line of a communication interface socket to detect whether the WAIT signal line of the socket, such as a PCMCIA...
6480922 Computer software control and communication system and method  
The present invention is a computer system and method for facilitating communication between a primary software program on a computer and at least one secondary software program loaded on a...
6480897 Optimistic transmission flow control including receiver data discards upon inadequate buffering condition  
A program product for a message processing system in which messages are transmitted from source nodes to destination nodes. A transmission flow control technique is disclosed in which the source...
6477177 Multiple device access to serial data stream  
One aspect of the present invention provides a packer-unpacker (PUP) for a digital serial interface which allows a plurality of processors to access time slot registers of a serial data stream...
6477593 Stacked I/O bridge circuit assemblies having flexibly configurable connections  
An I/O bridge system comprises a motherboard including first and second busses, e.g., first and second PCI busses. A I/O bridge circuit is connected between the first and second busses and...
6477609 Bridge state-machine progression for data transfers requested by a host bus and responded to by an external bus  
An expansion module for a Handspring Visor (which conforms to the Springboard bus specification) includes a multi-master AMBA Advanced System Bus (ASB). Optionally, an Arm7 processor is attached to...
6466434 Disk assembly incorporating therein usb connector and computer case having therein same  
A disk assembly includes an assembly housing having a front end for inserting/retrieving therethrough a disk storing thereon computer-accessible data. The front panel is mounted at the front end...
6463495 Command and control infrastructure for a computer system using the computer's power rail  
A method and system of intrachassis computer component command and control. The existing power rail is used as network connectivity. Further, the CEBus standard (or a CEBus standard modified for...
6463338 Industrial controller and network card with buffer negotiation  
An interface for a network communication card for industrial controllers uses a dual-port memory that may be re-partitioned by values communicated through the dual-port memory itself. A default...
6463497 Communication method for integrated circuit chips on a multi-chip module  
A signal is transmitted from a sending chip to a first receiving chip in a communications ring via a first i/o set of the sending chip. A signal from the sending chip to a second receiving chip in...
6457928 Inter-row transfer unit for moving tape cartridges between rows of library systems  
An easily installed inter-row transfer unit is disclosed employing a movable cartridge bin assembly suspended via linkage from a pair of bearing blocks, wherein the resulting bin assembly carriage...
6457077 System for executing a current information transfer request even when current information transfer request exceeds current available capacity of a transit buffer  
A method and implementing system is provided in which system bridge circuits are enabled to execute, or over-commit to, transaction requests from system devices for information transfers which...
6457071 System and method for determining connection accuracy at an interface  
The present invention relates to a mechanism for detecting the correct or incorrect attachment of cabling between a host computer and a peripheral device and more generally between any two...
6453374 Data bus  
A bus system including a bus user apparatus and a method for communicating via the bus system are disclosed. The bus user apparatus includes means for means for selectively coupling a transmitter...
6449670 Microcomputer with bit packets for interrupts, control and memory access  
A computer system includes on-chip a CPU with an addressable module and a memory interface, the module having packet generating circuitry for event request or control packets, the CPU being...
6446173 Memory controller in a multi-port bridge for a local area network  
A memory controller in a multi-port bridge for a local area network. The multi-port bridge includes a switch engine, a memory and a plurality of ports, all of which are interconnected by a high...
6446147 Wired-or connection in differential transmission environment  
A method and circuit for performing a wired-or function in a differential transmission environment are disclosed. The wired-or function is realized by enabling the differential driver portion of...
6446146 Line terminating device  
To reduce a scale of the circuit, a number of the external terminals, processing steps in developing a firmware, and a scale of the firmware, a line terminator provided in a device for terminating...
6442628 Method and system for automatically determining maximum data throughput over a bus  
A method and system are provided for determining maximum data throughput between a host adapter and one or more target devices coupled to the host adapter through a bus. A first set of device...
6442514 Method and system for simulating a communications bus  
A method and system for simulation of a communications bus. A simulation arrangement is configured with a behavioral agent and an application agent coupled to the bus. Bus commands are selectively...
6442178 System and method for data alignment in a communication system  
A parallel-to-serial-to-parallel circuit are disclosed, the circuit interfacing with a data bus, preferably with a processor for byte alignment and other operations. The...
6442629 Bus protocol and token manager for execution of global operations utilizing a single token with multiple operations with explicit release  
Serialization of global operations within a multiprocessor system is achieved utilizing a single token, requiring a bus master to acquire the token for completion of one or more global operations...
6442630 Electronic device that controls the vailidity of information based on a selected function unit  
An electronic equipment for communications with other nodes via a serial bus interface. The electronic equipment has a plurality of functions, and stores a plurality piece of information...
6438632 Electronic bulletin board system  
A message desired to be posted on an electronic bulletin board sent from a user's computer is checked with a posting-prohibited word list and a heed-required word list. In the posting-prohibited...
6438624 Configurable I/O expander addressing for I/O drawers in a multi-drawer rack server system  
A method of configuring a data communications system, by changing a default communications address of a logic component to a first assigned address, and connecting the logic component to a...
6434647 Reflected-wave bus termination  
A PCI reflected-wave communications bus has a plurality of individual signal lines. Each signal line is terminated with a resistive-capacitive filter to partially dampen voltage wave reflections.
6434646 Signal distribution system and method based on bus arrangement  
A signal distribution system includes a plurality of functional blocks, at least one bus signal distribution block, at least one bus, and a bus control circuit. The functional blocks are divided...
6434656 Method for routing I/O data in a multiprocessor system having a non-uniform memory access architecture  
In a multiprocessor system, a method for dynamically establishing an I/O path between a processor node and an I/O device for routing data there between. The method starts with providing a...
6430632 Data management small computer system interface (SCSI) extender for extending SCSI communications between SCSI interfaces located relatively far apart  
An improved system and method for extending interface communications for a SCSI. The system and method provides SCSI extenders that are able to extend SCSI communications over relatively long...
6430634 Bus controller and bus control system  
There is disclosed a bus control device which reduces the data traffic amount of a parallel bus to enhance the performance of the bus control device. A local CPU ( 111 ) controls a serial bus...
6430633 Method and apparatus for automatic activation of bus termination on a fast ethernet repeater stack  
An automatically activated bus termination circuit in a repeater that is suitable for inclusion in a repeater stack including an end unit determination circuit is described. The end unit...
6430511 Molecular computer  
A molecular computer is formed by establishing arrays of spaced-apart input and output pins on opposing sides of a containment, injecting moleware in solution into the containment and then allowing...
6425026 Distribution, processing, and reconstruction of variable-sized images using multiple processor arrays  
Selectively distributing a plurality of data items to a plurality of hardware destinations that share a common bus involves, for each one of the data items, determining which of the hardware...
6425025 System and method for connecting electronic circuitry in a computer system  
A bus includes at least a pair of terminators interposed between a pair of connectors. A first one of the terminators is located within a predetermined distance from a first one of the connectors....
6425018 Portable music player  
A portable music player computational device having a digital signal processor, for processing information, and a microcontroller connected to the digital signal processor by an electronic bus, one...
6418491 Apparatus and method for controlling timing of transfer requests within a data processing apparatus  
The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for controlling timing of transfer requests. The data processing apparatus comprises a bus for interconnecting a number of...
6415342 Universal serial bus controlled connect and disconnect  
A device for connection to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) signals connection and disconnection from the bus without physically removing or reinserting the USB cable. The devices system controller...
6408345 Superscalar memory transfer controller in multilevel memory organization  
This invention is a data processing system including a central processing unit executing program instructions to manipulate data, at least one level one cache, a level two unified cache, a directly...
6404771 Clock lead/lag extraction in an isochronous data bus  
An isochronous bus may includes a data signal, a data valid signal, a frame synch signal and a clock signal. The bandwidth of the data signal is partitioned into a plurality of frames. The frame...
6405235 Data receiving device capable of executing simultaneous reception operation  
In a system operable in response to a data stream sent to a first receiving device in one-to-one communication via a system bus, the data stream is also simultaneously delivered to a second...
6393503 Efficient transfer of data and events between processes and between processes and drivers in a parallel, fault tolerant message based operating system  
A parallel, fault-tolerant computer system in which data is transferred between processes in a single CPU by two methods. In a first method, the data is copied each time it is transferred. In a...
6389499 Integrated computer module  
The invention is an integrated computer module (ICM) for connection to a host connector means in a host assembly that has a DC voltage supply and that is connected to or contains a display. The ICM...
6385676 Coherent ordering queue for computer system  
The coherent ordering queue in a processing agent chip in a multi-node processor system is designed so as to permit maximum flexibility with the various write operations of different processors,...