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6799189 |
System and method for creating a series of online snapshots for recovery purposes
A method and system for creating a series of online snapshots for recovery purposes. A series of concurrent, overlapping snapshots (e.g., file snapshots or database file snapshots) may be created...
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6799219 |
Method and apparatus for avoiding starvation in computer network
A method and apparatus for avoiding starvation at an initiator node in a computer network to which are connected at least one target node which provides service and a plurality of initiator nodes...
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6799217 |
Shared memory multiprocessor expansion port for multi-node systems
A method for communicating between nodes of a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Each node includes a plurality of processors and an interconnect chipset. The method issues a request for data from a...
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6785746 |
Dual-channel SCSI chips and methods for configuring separate interoperability of each channel of the SCSI chip
A method for utilizing a multi-channel SCSI chip capable of controlling different types of devices is disclosed. A first channel control is set and a second channel control is set in the SCSI chip....
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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...
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6785753 |
Method and apparatus for response modes in pipelined environment
A pipelined network is disclosed which provides for at least one mode to control the state of a response flag and when the target device is unable to respond to an initiator device request.
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6779061 |
Method and apparatus implementing a FIFO with discrete blocks
An apparatus comprising one or more storage elements. The one or more storage elements may be configured to switch an input/output between a first domain and a second domain in response to one or...
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6772253 |
Method and apparatus for shared system communication and system hardware management communication via USB using a non-USB communication device
System and method in a USB environment for providing secondary management channel access to a managed system via a communications device connected to the managed system. The communications device...
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6769037 |
Method and system for flow control during the data out phase of the packetized SCSI protocol
A method for flow control by a SCSI system using a Packetized SCSI Protocol includes transferring a data packet information unit in a Packetized SCSI Protocol Data Out phase between a SCSI...
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6766396 |
PC16550D UART line status register data ready bit filter and latch
A circuit for use with a PC16550D UART in 16450 polling mode that will filter DR bit oscillations. The circuit latches the value of the Line Status Register during the valid data portion of a LSR...
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6766479 |
Apparatus and methods for identifying bus protocol violations
Disclosed is a novel structure and process for detecting protocol errors on a communications bus. According to one aspect of the invention, a protocol error detector comprises a physical error...
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6766384 |
Method for avoiding data collision in half-duplex mode using direct memory access logic
A method for avoiding data collision in a half-duplex mode using a DMA logic for multi-point linked processors is disclosed. According to the disclosed method, a transmitting processor holds a...
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6766390 |
Inter-system connection adapter and terminal
The present invention is to provide a system connection adapter and a terminal device, which allow a function which is newly developed and added by a maker on a system A to be handled on an open...
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6760797 |
Method for allocating channel in device having digital interface
A method for allocating a channel in a digital device having a digital interface such as the IEEE1394. The method for allocating a channel to a specific output plug of a digital device having a...
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6760804 |
Apparatus and method for providing an interface between legacy applications and a wireless communication network
An apparatus and method for interfacing legacy applications with a wireless communication network. Specifically, the present invention discloses an integrated hardware device that creates and...
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6757749 |
Data-output-control apparatus and data-output-service providing method
A data-output-control apparatus is provided which can easily acquire detailed information on a network and which, for outputting the detailed information, does not require a portable terminal to...
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6757763 |
Universal serial bus interfacing using FIFO buffers
An improved Universal Serial Bus interface employing FIFO buffers (300, 800) for interfacing to an application bus and a microprocessor bus, in particular, an XBUS. The interface includes a...
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6757783 |
Portable storage medium based on universal serial bus standard and UFI standard
There is provided a portable storage medium, based on USB standard, connected to a USB port of a host computer applying UFI protocol. The portable storage medium comprises a USB connector through...
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6757764 |
Method and apparatus for transferring information using a constant frequency
An information transfer apparatus including an information source connected to an information to constant frequency converter, a transmitter connected to the information to constant frequency...
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6757762 |
Multi-mode processor bus bridge
A processor bus bridge includes a buffer space disposed between a first bus and a second bus. The first bus is operated in a first mode by a first processor and the second bus is operated in a...
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6748475 |
Programmable serial port architecture and system
An interface device presents a generic serial input/output (I/O) port, whose function is programmable according to a stored sequence of instructions executed by a programmable state machine. The...
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6748442 |
Method and apparatus for using a control signal on a packet based communication link
A computer system has a communication link that includes a control signal and data lines. A first control packet having a-plurality of bytes is transferred over the data lines from a first to a...
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6745260 |
Method and system for data streaming during the data in phase of the packetized SCSI protocol
A method for data streaming by a SCSI system using a Packetized SCSI Protocol includes transferring a data packet information unit in a Packetized SCSI Protocol Data In phase between a SCSI target...
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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...
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6742160 |
Checkerboard parity techniques for a multi-pumped bus
Checkerboard parity techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, a bus agent has a multi-pumped interface to generate in N elements in N phases. Each element includes N sub-elements, each...
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6742075 |
Arrangement for instigating work in a channel adapter based on received address information and stored context information
A host channel adapter is configured for servicing a work notification, supplied by a host process to an assigned destination address accessable by the host channel adapter, based on matching the...
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6738856 |
External display peripheral for coupling to a universal serial bus port or hub on a computer
A cable, adapter, or converter device is disclosed that enables a peripheral device (e.g., external display) normally connected only through a non-USB port to communicate with a host computer via a...
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6738836 |
Scalable efficient I/O port protocol
A system that supports a high performance, scalable, and efficient I/O port protocol to connect to I/O devices is disclosed. A distributed multiprocessing computer system contains a number of...
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6735653 |
Bus bandwidth consumption profiler
A bus bandwidth consumption profiler for measuring and reporting bus cycle utilization in a system having multiple bus masters, including master counters paired with the masters to count cycles of...
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6732191 |
Web interface to an input/output device
A control system allows a user to access an input/output device over a communication network using a web browser. The system includes an Internet web site between the network and the input/output...
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6732206 |
Expanded addressing for traffic queues and prioritization
A system of expanding addressing in an addressing constrained environment. A bus that defines a limited number of addresses couples together a master and a plurality of slaves. When each slave has...
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6732207 |
Fast serial interface used for controller to robot communications
A fast serial interface including a three-wire network connection between a bus controller and one or more bus devices is disclosed. The bus controller processes and issues data packets across the...
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6725307 |
Method and system for controlling data transfers with physical separation of data functionality from address and control functionality in a distributed multi-bus multiprocessor system
A distributed system structure for a large-way, symmetric multiprocessor system using a bus-based cache-coherence protocol is provided. The distributed system structure contains an address switch,...
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6725311 |
Method and apparatus for providing a connection-oriented network over a serial bus
A method and apparatus provides a method and apparatus for treating a serial bus, such as an IEEE 1394 bus, as a connection-oriented network. In one embodiment, an application programming interface...
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6725304 |
Apparatus for connecting circuit modules
An apparatus for connecting circuit modules is disclosed. The apparatus for connecting circuit modules that receives an input and an output signal at one circuit module and uses a...
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6721831 |
Method for controlling bus in digital interface
A method for controlling a bus in a digital interface is disclosed. In the present method, after a self identifying process when a bus reset occurs, a determination is made whether a node which...
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6721832 |
Data processing system and bus control method for stream data transfer
A data processing system includes a bus, a plurality of devices connected to the bus, and a unit for executing data transfer between at least two of the plurality of devices via the bus, using one...
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6715010 |
Bus emulation apparatus
A bus emulation apparatus includes serial transfer paths, serial interface circuits having a parallel to serial conversion circuit for converting parallel data from a peripheral circuit to serial...
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6715014 |
Module array
A module array includes a lead-in transmission line from a driving source. The lead-in transmission line ends with a series impedance between the lead-in transmission line and a star node. The star...
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6715094 |
Mult-mode I/O interface for synchronizing selected control patterns into control clock domain to obtain interface control signals to be transmitted to I/O buffers
A multi-mode I/O interface includes a transmit state machine receiving a core clock signal, a control clock signal and a transmit signal. The state machine generates a state signal indicating a...
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6704812 |
Transparent and dynamic management of redundant physical paths to peripheral devices
A redundancy manager preferably in an I/O adapter has been disclosed to manage commands to peripheral devices in a computer system. These peripheral devices have multiple ports and may have a...
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6697898 |
Information processing system for composite appliance
A generated job is divided in units of pages, and devices for executing processes for the respective pages are assigned. Processes by the first and second CPUs are assigned in accordance with...
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6697897 |
Data communication interface between host and slave processors
A data communication interface for transferring at least one data bit to a host processor. The interface includes a one-wire data line, and a slave processor connected to the data line and...
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6691183 |
Second transfer logic causing a first transfer logic to check a data ready bit prior to each of multibit transfer of a continous transfer operation
A digital device interface for transferring information between a processor and a control device includes a first serial peripheral interface (SPI), e.g., with “data in,” “data out” and “clock”...
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6684279 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for controlling data transfer
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are described for controlling data transfer. A next data packet to be transferred is retrieved. A determination is made regarding whether a data...
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RE38388 |
Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions
A method and apparatus of performing bus transactions on the bus of the computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for permitting out-of-order replies in a pipelined bus...
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6678769 |
Control apparatus and method for managing a logical connection between source and destination nodes
Provided are a communication system and a communication protocol for logically connecting a source node and one or more destination nodes, and for controlling data communication between the...
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6675243 |
Methods and apparatus for implementing a device side advanced serial protocol
A peripheral device having a protocol communication chip is provided. The protocol communication chip is configured to manage communication between the peripheral device and a host computer over a...
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6665757 |
Communication interface having a master activating/deactivating a first signal with a clock signal after a predetermined time after a slave activating/deactivating the first signal
A communication interface of the present invention includes a clock signal line, a first signal line, a second signal line and one or more data signal lines as communication signal lines between a...
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6659860 |
Game device, game machine operation device and game system which employ a half-duplex serial communication system and game device two-way communication method
In a game system such as a television game system, a television game machine main unit includes a protocol controller and each game operation device connected to the television game machine unit...
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