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6865629 RSM-resident program pair initiation sequence  
A user's intention to perform a computer operation is confirmed in order to safeguard against accidental performance of the operation. The operation is initiated only after a user's intention to...
6865192 Integrated services hub self configuration  
The present invention discloses a method of automatically downloading configuration files and binary code for a customer premises telecommunications hub. Upon initial power up, the hub sends a DHCP...
6862638 RSM-resident program initiation sequence  
A user's intention to perform a computer operation is confirmed in order to safeguard against accidental performance of the operation. The operation is initiated only after a user's intention to...
6862637 Method and system for locating devices over a serial bus  
A method and system for determining the location of plural devices operationally coupled to a computer system using a 1-Wire bus is provided. The method includes, determining if more than one...
6853978 System and method for manufacturing and configuring intelligent electronic devices to order  
A system and method of specifying built and configured to order intelligent electronic devices (“IED's”) is disclosed. A customer interacts with an order processing interface to specify the...
6853645 PCI and MII compatible home phoneline networking alliance (HPNA) interface device  
A networking interface device for coupling a system host having one of a plurality configurations to a network medium. The networking device has a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) interface...
6851029 Disk storage system including a switch  
A disk storage system containing a storage device having a record medium for holding the data, a plurality of storage sub-systems having a controller for controlling the storage device, a first...
6851002 Processing device with parallel mounting regions for component exchange  
On a circuit board 11 there are provided, other than a comparison circuit 12 mounting region, dictionary ROM mounting regions 18 a and 18 b and microprocessor mounting regions 19 a and ...
6851001 Address remapping for a bus  
The invention relates to an address remapper for a two wire serial bus. This remapper connects two sections of the bus, and is generally transparent, except when it receives an address; in this...
6850993 Peripheral device for programmable controller  
A storage unit stores ranges of devices allocated for each sequence program. A device range checking unit sequentially extracts device notations indicating consecutive areas and commands specifying...
6850408 High density computer equipment storage systems  
A computer is provided having a main board with I/O connectors mounted thereon, and a chassis including a front panel providing access to the I/O connectors and to all components requiring...
6842818 Electronic device with card interface  
When initializing a card-shaped device inserted in a card interface, operation mode acquiring means incorporated in an electronic device acquires operation mode information, stored in a register...
6842805 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...
6842794 Method for starting a data processing system via a flash memory device  
A method for activating the data processing system via a flash memory device is disclosed. The method involves connecting the USB Flash Memory device with the data processing system and storing the...
6839782 Computer storage system incorporating on-board EEPROMS containing product data  
A computer storage system includes director boards which control transfer of data to and between a host computer, a system cache memory and a disk array. The directors are provided with features...
6839779 Counting a number of occurrences of a first RTS (ready to send) and a first RTR (ready to receive) signals for limiting a data transfer bandwidth through handshake suppression  
An apparatus for limiting a data transfer bandwidth through handshake suppression is configured to generate a first reset signal, generate a second reset signal a predetermined number of clock...
6839774 Single-chip data processing apparatus incorporating an electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory and method of operating the same  
A microcontroller includes an electrically erasable and programmable nonvolatile memory and a memory controller for controlling the nonvolatile memory. Upon writing a control program for the...
6834321 Communication method of a serially connected electronic apparatus  
Controlling each of a plurality of serially connected electronic apparatuses without increasing the number of signal lines is provided. In an electronic apparatus, from among a plurality of...
6832283 Method for addressing network components  
Method for addressing components of a first network, especially in the case of data bus systems in transport vehicles, in which each component is assigned a first address for the mutual...
6832278 PCI bar target operation region  
Described is a system and method by which a PCI device may be controlled by firmware in an Advanced Configuration and Power Management system. A device connected to the PCI bus is described in...
6826632 System for identifying the interconnection of peripheral devices  
A system and method for identifying the interconnection of peripheral devices in an information handling system and generating a model of the interconnection of the devices is disclosed. The system...
6826628 PCI-PCMCIA smart card reader  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for implementing an integrated video card and smart card reader. A single processor is used to perform both video and smart card reader functions. The processor...
6820149 Method, system, and program for testing a bus interface  
Provided are a method, system, and program for performing initialization operations in a system including a bus, bus interface and at least one bus device communicating on the bus. The bus...
6820148 Multiple removable non-volatile memory cards serially communicating with a host  
Two or more very small encapsulated electronic circuit cards to which data are read and written are removably inserted into two or more sockets of a host system that is wired to the sockets....
6820141 System and method of determining the source of a codec  
A system and method to determine a port that a codec is attached is disclosed. An access will be attempted to a codec, and the internal hardware of the host will watch which input port the response...
6816931 Upstream peripheral device serving as a USB host  
A scanner, which can be a USB host, includes a hub, a scanner component, a virtual printer component and an internal host. The hub is connected to a computer host and the scanner. The scanner...
6816918 Flexible apparatus for setting configurations using an EEPROM  
A method for flexibly configuring default values of a network device through an EEPROM interface is disclosed. A header is received from an EEPROM through the EEPROM interface and it is determined...
6813663 Method and apparatus for supporting and presenting multiple serial bus nodes using distinct configuration ROM images  
A method and apparatus for presenting a plurality of link devices as separate nodes within a single serial bus module by generating individual or a distinct configuration ROM image for each link...
6810453 Information transmitting apparatus and method, information receiving apparatus and method, and information transmitting/receiving apparatus and method  
An information transmitting apparatus is included in a system for transmitting information through a bus (B), for transmitting the information onto the bus. The information transmitting apparatus...
6810452 Method and system for quarantine during bus topology configuration  
A method and system for quarantine during bus topology configuration are described. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes quarantining a set of devices coupled to a bus....
6810433 Peripheral device for programmable controller  
A storage unit stores ranges of devices allocated for each sequence program. A device range checking unit sequentially extracts device notations indicating consecutive areas and commands specifying...
6809830 Method and system for enabling a printing program to communicate with a printer  
A method and system for enabling a printing program to communicate with a printer relies on a plug and play manager to detect the presence of a printer and send a notification message to the...
6809547 Multi-function interface and applications thereof  
A multi-function interface includes a digital interface module, a configurable driver module, and a configurable output impedance module. The digital interface module is operably coupled to pass a...
6807557 Method, system and program products for providing clusters of a computing environment  
Various components are provided to manage a clustered environment. These components include a System Registry that provides a global data storage; a Configuration manager that stores data locally...
6804734 Device and method for switching receiving/recording device in a broadcasting connection/point-to-point connection bus enviroment  
An information processing device, method thereof and a recording medium for easily switching input signals. A broadcast connection and a point-to-point connection are established between the...
6801541 Method and apparatus for data transmission over an AC-97 protocol link  
An Audio Encoder/Decoder (AC)-97 protocol link is used for concurrent data communication between AC-97 protocol devices and non-AC-97 protocol devices. The Tag data in an AC-97 data frame is used...
6799237 Identifying and synchronizing incompatibilities between a portable computer and a docking station  
The present invention comprises a system and method for insuring that a notebook computer and a docking station are compatible. This determination is made by each of the notebook and docking...
6799234 Apparatus and method for randomly assigning slots in a PCI backplane  
A system and method for automatically assigning resources to a slave device inserted into a PCI backplane utilizes pairs of PCI GNT/REQ lines as bus lines of a time division multiplexed multiplexer...
6795883 Method and system for dividing configuration space  
A method of distribution and storage for a configuration space that may be applied to an advanced computer system without modifying the BIOS or system software used in a conventional computer...
6795872 Maintaining at least partial functionality of a device as defined by a hardware configuration at a USB bus enumeration while the device memory is programmed  
Method and apparatus for programming non-volatile, programmable, electrically-erasable memory using a USB interface are presented. According to one aspect, a method for in-system programming of...
6792490 System and method for hiding peripheral devices from a host processor in a computer system  
A computer system with an Intelligent Input/Output architecture having a dynamic device blocking mechanism for hiding at least a portion of peripheral devices. The computer system comprises at...
6792489 Multistage configuration and power setting  
Multistage configuration and power setting for a processor includes an on-die configuration signal fuse block programmed during manufacturing, configuration signal Control and I/O circuitry, a...
6792478 System and method to configure input/output (IO) devices to use selected pairs of port addresses  
The present invention relates to a system and method to configure input/output (SIO) devices to use selected pairs of port addresses. The method includes writing a first unique value to a selected...
6791953 Interface apparatus  
An interface apparatus includes a pulse generating unit which detects the change of reading target data and generates a start pulse, an adjusting unit which generates an adjusting signal that...
6789136 Efficient method to obtain device addresses from devices on a bus  
A requesting device sends a request, intended to read one or more device addresses on a line of a bus. One or more sets of commands are then sent by the requesting device, where each set of...
6785808 System and method for altering an operating system start-up sequence prior to operating system loading  
A method for altering the start-up sequence of an operating system prior to loading the operating system is disclosed. The method allows changes to be made to the start-up sequence of processes and...
6785754 Integrate serial port plug and play into simple signaling communication type UPS  
In the present invention, a DSR of the serial port is coupled to a DTR of the serial port for responding to a detecting signal from a host computer. A RTS signal of the serial port is at a high...
6782438 IO speed and length programmable with bus population  
A system and circuitry is described for a programmable PCI/PCI-x bus that accepts PCI and PCI-x controller cards and associated IO devices. The operating speed of the bus is reduced in accordance...
6779064 System, method, and computer program product for on-line replacement of a host bus adapter  
A system and method for enabling multi-path functionality between a host bus adapter (HBA) in a host computer of a storage system and at least one storage device is disclosed. The host computer...
6779047 Serial communication port arbitration between a hotsync manager and a wireless connection manager  
Within one embodiment of the present invention, arbitration software operating on a computer is able to determine whether communication software utilizes the same serial communication (COM) port of...
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