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6636929 |
USB virtual devices
A management sub-system connects via a USB bus to a server or computer being managed. The management sub-system also couples to a management console, which has a number of conventional peripherals,...
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6633943 |
Method and system for the simplification of leaf-limited bridges
A method of address management in a net having a plurality of buses linked by a plurality of bus bridges where the net has only one branch bus with multiple bus bridges. A local identification...
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6633578 |
Transmission interface unit in transmission system
A transmission interface unit in a transmission system wherein time series data is divided into data groups and a data packet comprising reproduction specification time data specifying the time at...
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6633933 |
Controller for ATAPI mode operation and ATAPI driven universal serial bus mode operation and methods for making the same
A controller for use in an optical storage device is provided. The controller includes a block decoder/encoder for processing data to and from a media of the optical storage device. An ATAPI...
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6633932 |
Method and apparatus for using a universal serial bus to provide power to a portable electronic device
A method and apparatus for using a universal serial bus “USB” in a computer as a power source for a portable electronic device. In one embodiment of the invention, a computer ( 26 ) having an...
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6629158 |
System, apparatus, and method for configuring an array controller
One embodiment of the present invention provides a procedure to configure the operation of the a device controller. In particular, the procedure operates in a system that includes a controller that...
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6629172 |
Multi-chip addressing for the I2C bus
The present invention is a system for assigning unique addresses to multiple devices attached to an I 2 C bus. When multiple devices share the same I 2 C address, the master device is unable to...
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6625680 |
System and method for processing circuit card connector and redundancy events
A system for processing circuit card events includes a circuit board having a first connector and a second connector. The circuit board generates connector information indicating whether a first...
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6625708 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically defining line buffer configurations
A method and apparatus of defining a line buffer configuration in a memory is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus receives input data information and mode information, proceeds...
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6618773 |
Receiving a particular identification file among an analog identification file and a digital identification file in response to a request to a dual-interface monitor
The present invention employs two unique identification files associated with the same dual-interface display monitor. Each identification file identifies one of the display monitor's two...
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6618361 |
Method of resetting bus for network connected by IEEE 1394 bus
A bus reset method in a network connected by the IEEE 1394 bus is provided. The bus reset method in a network in which a plurality of apparatuses are connected by the IEEE 1394 bus includes the...
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6611891 |
Computer resource configuration mechanism across a multi-pipe communication link
Computer system configuration resources include first and second control circuits in respective first and second integrated circuits. A communication link, which transfers data over a plurality of...
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6609167 |
Host and device serial communication protocols and communication packet formats
A method for communicating data and control from a host computer to a device is provided. The method includes generating a packet at the host computer and transmitting the packet to the device. The...
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6606675 |
Clock synchronization in systems with multi-channel high-speed bus subsystems
A high-speed bus subsystem includes a plurality of bus channels, wherein each bus channel has an independent channel clock signal generated by an associated channel clock generator. A master device...
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6606665 |
Multiple connection architecture for communication with a computer numerical control resident in a workstation and other networked computer numerical controls
A workstation utilized in machine control. The workstation comprises a computer having an open control interface and a computer numerical control resident on the workstation. Communications between...
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6601165 |
Apparatus and method for implementing fault resilient booting in a multi-processor system by using a flush command to control resetting of the processors and isolating failed processors
An apparatus and method for fault resilient booting of a multi-processor system. The apparatus attempts a cold reset of the system, during which each processor performs a built-in self test. The...
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6601119 |
Method and apparatus for varying target behavior in a SCSI environment
A communications layer is provided between a host-based SCSI initiator and a SCSI target device to fully automate the validation process. The communications layer allows the host to direct...
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6591358 |
Computer system with operating system functions distributed among plural microcontrollers for managing device resources and CPU
A hardware/firmware layer comprising a Device Manager, an Information Manager, a Memory Manager, and a Process Manager contained in one or more semiconductor chips is disclosed. The...
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6591318 |
Computer system having reduced number of bus bridge terminals
A system transfers BIOS instructions from a BIOS ROM to a processor for either execution or storage in a system memory. The BIOS ROM has an address bus coupled to an address bus of the processor...
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6591320 |
Method and system for selective disablement of expansion bus slots in a multibus data processing system
A method and system for eliminating peripheral device conflicts in a multibus data-processing system which includes a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) plus having multiple slots for...
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6587903 |
Soft programming for recovery of overerasure
A method of erasing a memory cell includes the step of erasing a memory cell. The current in the memory cell is measured. If the measured memory cell current approximately exceeds a predetermined...
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6581117 |
Device and a method for the automatic control and administration of medical apparatus and installations
The automatic control and administration of program-controlled endoscopic apparatuses allocated to an operation within an operating theater belonging to a clinic region and connected amongst one...
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6578091 |
Circuit arrangement and method for checking data
A circuit arrangement and a method for storing configuration data both use a first storage of a processor to store the configuration data. This configuration data for a device unit startup is not...
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6578098 |
Predictive mechanism for ASB slave responses
The present invention is drawn to a computer implemented method and system for synchronously driving slave responses onto an ASB (advanced system bus) bus. On the one hand, in response to a read...
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6578096 |
Method and system for efficient I/O operation completion in a fibre channel node
A method and system for more efficient completion of host-initiated FC I/O operations. Rather than returning FCP response frames from an FC port to host memory within an FC node, the FC port...
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6574680 |
Device and method to enable interrupt handling and control for mass storage devices interfacing to different controllers
A device and method to enable a plug and play operating system to load the appropriate device for either a SCSI I/O device or a RAID adapter and direct interrupts from storage devices to the...
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6572384 |
Method and apparatus for interconnecting circuit cards
A method and system for interconnecting circuit cards is provided. Pins on a bus of a circuit card are grouped corresponding to each device on the card. Pins on the bus of the motherboard are...
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6574679 |
Method and apparatus for identifying hardware
A microprocessor (digital device) with microcode is incorporated in a mechanical device, having analog electrical signaling wires, to send a digital signal containing identifying data of the device...
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6564280 |
Communication controller configurability for optimal resource usage
A system and method for dynamically configuring communication components in a computer system. The method may operate in a computer system including a plurality of buffers, a plurality of bus...
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6564318 |
Method and apparatus for execution of an application during computer pre-boot operation and post-boot under normal OS control
A special BIOS includes a program application manager (PAM) and a file system structure (FSS) that points to addresses on a mass storage device (MSD) for an application and at least one...
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6560662 |
Time-out processing method and apparatus for SCSI system as well as recording medium on which program is recorded
The invention provides a time-out processing method and apparatus for a SCSI system by which an appropriate time-out time for each initiator can be set in a target without the necessity for...
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6556543 |
Method for determining maximum hop count in bus having tree structure
A method of determining the maximum hop count in a bus having a tree structure is provided. The method of determining the maximum hop count in a bus having a tree structure includes the steps of...
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6557049 |
Programmable computerize enclosure module for accommodating SCSI devices and associated method of configuring operation features thereof
An enclosure module for accommodating a plurality of peripheral devices having: a computerized control unit in electrical communication with a user interface, a first and second bus with a bus...
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6549966 |
Data routing device and system
A serial data routing device for use in routing serial data between a computer and a peripheral device. The data routing device includes a computer data converter which communicates data under the...
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6549963 |
Method of configuring devices on a communications channel
A system includes a bus and devices capable of supporting multiple data transfer rates coupled to the bus. Each device includes a storage element storing a value indicating the supported transfer...
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6542945 |
Instant configuration of a digital device
An apparatus and method for instantly configuring a controller are provided. In one embodiment, a controller is configured by selecting an simultaneous configuration input vector, and placing at...
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6542474 |
System and method for incrementally updating remote element lists in an electronic network
A system and method for incrementally updating remote element lists in an electronic network comprises a communication media manager that notifies an event manager whenever the electronic network...
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6535947 |
Methods, systems and computer program products for logically segmenting devices on a universal serial bus
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for segmenting a plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices connected to a common root hub into clusters. The devices may be...
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6535974 |
Device and method for noninvasive, user replacement of an inoperable boot program
A device ( 10 ) for user replacement of an inoperable, first boot loader program includes a boot memory ( 20 ) including the first boot loader program beginning at a first address, a PCMCIA card (...
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6532401 |
Methods for automatically verifying the performance of a virtual robot
In an automated interface program designed to interact and communicate with users, said program executing actions when a category among a predefined set of categories is activated, a method is...
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6532526 |
Method and apparatus for configuring a memory device and a memory channel using configuration space registers
A method and apparatus for configuring memory devices. A disclosed bus controller includes a storage location and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to perform an initialization...
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6532511 |
Asochronous centralized multi-channel DMA controller
An electronic bridging device for transferring electronic data between a first device attached to a system bus and a peripheral device attached to a peripheral bus using a bridging circuit. The DMA...
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6529977 |
Circuit and method for reliably performing bus reset regardless of cable length
In a bus reset process of an IEEE-1394 transceiver circuit, a signal is transmitted to a serial bus and a signal from the bus is received and applied to a higher layer. When a transmit bus reset...
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6529989 |
Intelligent expansion ROM sharing bus subsystem
The present invention provides a RAID controller coupled to a host computer system through a primary PCI bus. The RAID controller includes a PCI application bridge, a RAID processor and chipset,...
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6529978 |
Computer input/output (I/O) interface with dynamic I/O adaptor processor bindings
An apparatus, program product and method to dynamically control the bindings between Input/Output Adaptors (IOA's) and Input/Output Processors (IOP's) in a hierarchical I/O interface of a computer,...
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6516367 |
Method and system for detecting bus device configuration changes
A method, system and computer program product are provided for detecting the presence of devices, particularly hot plug devices, connected to a bus both during start-up of a computer system and...
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6516373 |
Common motherboard interface for processor modules of multiple architectures
A common motherboard interface accommodates processor modules of different processor architectures. The system comprises an interface for communicating with a processor module inserted at the...
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6516377 |
Self-configuring modular electronic system
In an electronic system, an arithmetic device is provided between successive bus terminals or between successive modules, respectively, with an identification signal applied to a bus input that is...
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6513079 |
Automatic nexus restore
When a specific pair of devices are selected or reselected for communications across a SCSI bus, a hardware state machine in each device restores the communication parameters that have been...
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6513078 |
Data transfer control apparatus, data transfer control system and data transfer control method
Data transfer mode between a plurality of circuit mod modules connected to a data bus is dynamically switched between a time division, space-division multiplexing and so forth for improving data...
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