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7203778 |
Method and system for notifying clients of a specific change in a data processing system
A method of notifying clients of a change in a USB including a first client requesting notification of a first change in the USB, detecting the first change in the USB, and notifying the first...
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7200845 |
System and method for high availability firmware load
A system and method updating firmware of cells in cellular, high availability, computing systems. One or more cells having missing, obsolete, corrupt, or otherwise errored firmware when compared to...
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7197626 |
Plural microcontrollers for managing CPU allocation and device resources including establishing connections without a centralized operating system
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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7194564 |
Method and apparatus for preventing loops in a full-duplex bus
A method and apparatus is disclosed for preventing loops in a full-duplex bus. One method has the acts of: selecting at least two candidates to join said bus; establishing a dominant candidate from...
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7191265 |
JTAG and boundary scan automatic chain selection
A printed circuit board (PCB) may be used in a first mode where boundary scan techniques are used to externally program and/or test devices on the PCB, or a second mode where an internal source...
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7187661 |
Gathering of device discovery information
A method is disclosed for use on a bus that supports broadcast discovery. According to the method, identification information is received from a device on the bus and discovery information is...
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7188331 |
Firmware development within a framework from different design centers depositing component(s) with related contextual and genealogy information in an accessible repository
Methods and systems for developing firmware are provided. In certain embodiments, a method comprises defining a framework for firmware to be developed by firmware developers at different design...
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7185128 |
System and method for machine specific register addressing in external devices
There is disclosed a bus interface unit for transferring machine specific register (MSR) requests between a plurality of bus devices. The bus interface unit comprises: 1) a plurality of input ports...
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7185126 |
Universal serial bus hub with shared transaction translator memory
Various embodiments of a method and apparatus for implementing multiple transaction translators that share a single memory in a serial hub are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a USB...
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7185129 |
Method for configuring and/or operating an automation device having a master unit connected to one or more slave units
A method and an engineering system that reduce the configuration complexity with regard to a possible expansion of the automation device are provided. The automation device includes slave units and...
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7181604 |
Method and apparatus for configuring the boot options of a multi-domain system
A computing system comprises multiple domains, each having an independent boot process. This boot process involves the selection of one boot option from a list of potentially multiple boot options...
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7181550 |
Highly versatile process control system controller
A versatile controller that can be used as either a stand-alone controller in a relatively small process plant or as one of numerous controllers in a distributed process control system depending on...
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7181554 |
Controller device to be connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network
A memory in a controller device stores a current function information list, which is a list of function information of each target device currently connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network, and...
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7174400 |
Integrated circuit device that stores a value representative of an equalization co-efficient setting
An integrated circuit device is described. The integrated circuit device includes a transmitter circuit having an output driver to output data, and a register to store a value representative of an...
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7171499 |
Processor surrogate for use in multiprocessor systems and multiprocessor system using same
A processor surrogate ( 320/520 ) is adapted for use in a processing node (S 1 ) of a multiprocessor data processing system ( 300/500 ) having a plurality of processing nodes (P 0 , S 1 ) coupled...
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7167975 |
Wireless Universal Serial Bus link for a computer system
A computer system having transceivers coupled to USB ports so as to provide a wireless USB bus between a computer and one or more peripheral devices is disclosed. The transceivers allows the...
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7167941 |
Multi-port device configuration
A method and an apparatus to configure a multi-port device are disclosed. The method includes defining a first set of pointers, one for each port of the multi-port device, and storing the first set...
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7167930 |
Centralized queue in network printing systems
A centralized queue for a network printing system allows clients to make job requests and be placed in a job queue without transmitting the actual print job data to the network. An imaging device...
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7167929 |
Integrated-circuit implementation of a storage-shelf router and a path controller card for combined use in high-availability mass-storage-device shelves that may be incorporated within disk arrays, and a storage-shelf-interface tunneling method and system
An integrated circuit implementing a storage-shelf router, used in combination with path controller cards and optionally with other storage-shelf routers, to interconnect SATA disks within a...
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7165136 |
System and method for managing bus numbering
Bus numbering management for an information handling system, such as a personal computer, is provided by interfacing one or more selectively hidden devices with one or more buses through either a...
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7165128 |
Multifunctional I/O organizer unit for multiprocessor multimedia chips
An apparatus and method for providing enhanced performance for multi-processor multimedia chips. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of a data and communication apparatus coupled...
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7162395 |
Cospas-sarsat beacon tester in a removable expansion card for a handheld computing device
A remote tester for a radio frequency beacon includes a plug-in module insertable into a cooperating slot in a handheld computing device so as to communicate data between the module and the...
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7162563 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit having changeable bus width of external data signal
A data controlling unit activates a predetermined number of data terminals according to a mode signal and changes a bus width of external data signal. According to the mode signal, an address...
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7162554 |
Method and apparatus for configuring a peripheral bus
A method an apparatus for providing capability information to a shared controller. In one embodiment, a peripheral bus host controller may be shared by a plurality of peripheral devices coupled to...
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7159046 |
Method and apparatus for configuring communication between devices in a computer system
A control hub includes a first interface and a second interface to transfer data. The first interface connects to a first bus. The second interface connects to a peripheral bus. The control hub...
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7155546 |
Multiple physical interfaces in a slot of a storage enclosure to support different storage interconnect architectures
Provided is a system for interfacing with storage units, including a backplane, at least one slot in the storage enclosure for receiving one storage unit, and two physical interfaces on the...
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7155547 |
Integrally embedded backplane data device and method
A multi-service platform system ( 100 ) includes a monolithic backplane ( 104 ), a slot ( 108 ) coupled to the monolithic backplane, wherein the slot is coupled to receive a payload module ( 102 ),...
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7151884 |
Method and system for re-establishing communication link in a network by using viral communication
A method and a system for re-establishing the connection of a network device with a network, using viral communication, are provided. According to the various embodiments, a disconnected network...
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7152125 |
Dynamic master/slave configuration for multiple expansion modules
A computing system having expansion modules. One of the expansion modules is identified as a master module. The other modules act as slaves to the master module. The central processing unit routes...
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7143215 |
Communicating with devices over a bus and negotiating the transfer rate over the same
A system having a first device and a second device coupled to a single wire bus is described. The second device is operable to receive power from the single wire bus that is due to the first device...
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7143216 |
System for configuring expandable buses in a multi-device storage container and related method
A system and method for configuring expandable buses wherein a host supports a plurality of expandable buses are provided. A plurality of devices are arranged to form a plurality of groups. Each...
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7139644 |
Process and system for transmitting information on an aircraft
A process and system for transmitting information on an aircraft may employ an avionics-type device having a first determining section that determines a first check code representative of...
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7136948 |
Status notification apparatus status notification method and status notification program
To provide a status display apparatus or the like which can permit the user of a plurality of nodes connected by a serial bus according to the serial bus standard to recognize whether the...
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7136907 |
Method and system for informing an operating system in a system area network when a new device is connected
A method and system are provided for dynamically informing an operating system (OS) of a distributed computer system, when a (new) device is added on the network. An OS registers with the subnet...
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7136957 |
Device bandwidth management using a bus configuration multiplexer
One embodiment of the invention includes a system for changing a bus configuration of a computing device. The system includes a first bus of the computing device, a second bus, and a third bus....
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7133945 |
Scalable I/O signaling topology using source-calibrated reference voltages
An embodiment of the invention is a scalable I/O interface signaling technology for improved communication between semiconductor devices. In one embodiment, a system contains a first semiconductor...
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7133954 |
Data bus system for micro controller
Provided is a data bus system for a micro controller which has an input/output (I/O) unit, a central processing unit (CPU), an internal memory unit, and a peripheral circuitry. The data bus system...
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7133872 |
Method and system for unifying component metadata
A method and system for unifying component metadata includes components, such as computers, laptops or flat panel display devices and software entities, connected together by one or more networks....
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7130724 |
Aircraft cabin equipment control system
An aircraft cabin equipment control system has control hardware that includes a data processing apparatus and a plurality of interfaces for connection to items of cabin equipment of an aircraft, as...
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7124220 |
Sequencer device with automated active port detection and sequencing
The technique is disclosed for detecting active ports of an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a plurality of ports, including a first port. A determination is automatically...
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7124210 |
Method and apparatus for updating computer code using an integrated circuit interface
A method and apparatus for providing computer code updates through an integrated circuit card (smart card) interface. The smart card interface within a computer control device determines whether...
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7124227 |
Programmable interface link layer device
An interface link layer device is connected in-between a first sub network and a long delay link to which at least one second sub network is connected. The interface link layer device comprises at...
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7117589 |
Method of installing a plug and play device driver
A method of installing a driver for a plug and play device is provided, wherein the plug and play device includes a main function device and a storage device meeting a standard specification. The...
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7120789 |
System and method for portable on-demand central processing unit
A method and a system for providing a processor to a computer system through a removable CPU module. The processor on the removable CPU module may be shared by multiple computer systems by...
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7120711 |
System and method for communicating over intra-hierarchy and inter-hierarchy links
A system having an I/O interconnect topology utilizes internal packetized communications. The system includes a host system element, a plurality of switching elements, and a root complex to bridge...
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7117288 |
USB dynamic service switch for dual processor architecture
USB bus enumeration and configuration switching in a dual-processor architected device can result in loss of the inter-processor communication link. In order to solve this problem, an apparatus,...
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7114020 |
Software mechanism for unique identification of SCSI device
The invention, in its various aspects and embodiments, includes a method for uniquely identifying a device on a SCSI bus. The method first queries the device with a first SCSI command to obtain...
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7114021 |
System and method providing configuration services for communications devices
A communications system and method is provided for enabling remote user configuration of a communications device. The system includes at least one communications device configurable for a plurality...
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7114012 |
Computer system and method for migrating from one storage system to another
The present invention provides a method for migrating from a source storage system to a target storage system. The method comprises the steps of: defining a volume defined on a drive to be migrated...
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7111082 |
Low noise blockdown converter
The present invention is a low noise blockdown converter (LNB) capable of ensuring sharing of specific information between or among a plurality of microcomputers. In the event that receiver 15 is...
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