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7624213 Passing identification information  
A data communications architecture employing serializers and deserializers that reduces data communications latency. In an illustrative implementation, the data communications architecture...
7620763 Memory chip having an apportionable data bus  
A memory chip having a data bus having a plurality of bits. The number of bits is apportioned between a read portion and a write portion. The write portion is dedicated to receiving data that is to...
7614566 Smart cards and smart card systems supporting multiple interfaces  
A smart card includes a first interface configured to perform a first type interfacing operation with a host using a plurality of contact pads defined by a contact type smart card protocol, a...
7613813 Method and apparatus for reducing host overhead in a socket server implementation  
A network application executing on a host system provides a list of application buffers in host memory stored in a queue to a network services processor coupled to the host system. The application...
7610422 Isolation and transmission of digital signals in intended direction  
An interface between two or more integrated circuit devices employs isolation techniques to provide electrical isolation of a digital signal for transmission of the digital signal between a master...
7610420 Data aggregation-distribution apparatus, date transmission system and method thereof  
A data aggregation-distribution apparatus includes a plurality of port route units and a data processing unit. Every port route unit has a sending buffer and a receiving buffer. The data processing...
7610400 Rule-based networking device  
A networking system, device, and method are provided. The networking device typically includes a user-defined ruleset including HTTP request rules and HTTP response rules. The networking device may...
7606955 Single wire bus for connecting devices and methods of operating the same  
A master/slave system architecture that includes a single wire bus, a master device and bus interface coupled to the bus. The system further includes plurality of slave devices having respective...
7594074 Storage system  
To provide a storage system with a cost/performance meeting the system scale, from a small-scale to a large-scale configuration. In the storage system, protocol transformation units and data...
7594052 Integrated circuit and method of communication service mapping  
An integrated circuit, comprising a plurality of processing modules (M, S) is provided, wherein at least one first of said processing modules (M) requests at least one communication service to at...
7590790 Bus device  
A bus device is used with a computer system. In the bus device, a bus-interfaced host performs data transmission in a first mode in response to a first command resulting from certain software...
7590783 Method and system for transferring status information between a media player and an accessory  
A method, system, and connector interface for transferring status information between a media player and an accessory. The method includes determining, by the accessory, when a button event occurs;...
7587540 Techniques for transferring status information between an accessory and a multi-communication device  
A connector interface system for a communication device is disclosed. The interface includes a docking connector. The docking connector includes first make/last break contacts that minimize...
7584295 DSL communication apparatus, and download method of DSL communication program  
A host manages a ROM that stores a handshake program for executing a handshake sequence and an initialization program for executing an initialization sequence. During the handshake sequence, the...
7577768 Control apparatus and method thereof  
A digital video apparatus connectable to Universal Serial Bus (USB) receives, from a control apparatus, a first request for requesting to change a status of the digital video apparatus to a...
7577707 Method, system, and program for executing data transfer requests  
Provided are a method, system, and program for transferring data between an initiator node and target node. A request is received conforming to a first data transfer protocol at the initiator node...
7574550 Guaranteed isochronous services method and apparatus in bridged LAN  
Provided are a guaranteed isochronous services method and apparatus in bridged LAN. Isochronous streams are transmitted through bridges to a plurality of listener stations in a distributed network,...
7574548 Dynamic data transfer control method and apparatus for shared SMP computer systems  
As a performance critical (high or full speed) request for a computer system data bus travels down a central pipeline, the system detects whether the interface data bus is currently empty or there...
7571269 Covert channel for conveying supplemental messages in a protocol-defined link for a system of storage devices  
Disclosed are communication apparatus, a SATA communication device, a system, an enhanced port multiplier and a method for, among other things, establishing a covert communication channel in a...
7568064 Packet-oriented communication in reconfigurable circuit(s)  
A reconfigurable circuit having communication resources configured to facilitate selective packet-oriented communications among reconfigurable resources is described herein.
7568060 Method and system for interfacing components of a computing system with a pair of unidirectional, point-to-point buses  
A method of interfacing two components of a computing system is provided wherein the method includes providing a pair of unidirectional, point-to-point buses to transmit data between a master bus...
7568059 Low-power reconfigurable architecture for simultaneous implementation of distinct communication standards  
A chip architecture for use in processing signals encoded in accordance with any one of a plurality of communication protocols each defined by a series of algorithms is disclosed. The chip...
7565469 Multimedia card interface method, computer program product and apparatus  
A method to communicate data from a first unit to a second unit over a bus includes initiating an n-block data transfer, where n>1 for a first n−1 data blocks transferred from the first unit...
7562172 I2C Slave/master interface enhancement using state machines  
Consistent with one example embodiment, communications systems, using a serial data transfer bus having a serial data line and a clock line used to implement a communications protocol, incorporate...
7558900 Serial flash semiconductor memory  
A serial flash memory is provided with multiple configurable pins, at least one of which is selectively configurable for use in either single-bit serial data transfers or multiple-bit serial data...
7558894 Method and system for controlling power provided to an accessory  
A method for a portable media player to control power provided an accessory is disclosed. The method includes requesting information about the power capabilities of the accessory by the portable...
7552242 Integrated circuit having processor and switch capabilities  
An apparatus according to one embodiment may include an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a processor and a switch. The switch may comprise one or more ports capable of being...
7543093 Method and system for stream burst data transfer  
The method and system for data transfer between the master device and the slave device through the bus are presented. It includes arbitrating the requests of bus usage from the master device; the...
7543092 Signal processing system for reducing power consumption  
A system for data communication purposes in electronic devices comprises a data bus comprising first, second, third and forth signal paths. A first control means generates a first state of a...
7539803 Bi-directional interface for low data rate application  
A bi-directional single-conductor interface is provided, comprising (1) a switching means for applying a voltage level to the interface that is outside a normal voltage operating range for the...
7536492 Apparatus, system, and method for automatically resetting an inter-integrated circuit bus  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for resetting an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus slave. A data line resistor in series is provided with a data line of an I2C bus in communication...
7536491 System, method and apparatus for multiple-protocol-accessible OSD storage subsystem  
An apparatus, system, and method enable access to a storage system by distinguishing SCSI Object-Based Storage Device Commands (OSD) commands from block-based SCSI commands on the same port and...
7535913 Gigabit ethernet adapter supporting the iSCSI and IPSEC protocols  
The invention is embodied in a gigabit Ethernet adapter. A system according to the invention provides a compact hardware solution to handling high network communication speeds. In addition, the...
7529871 Communication between an accessory and a media player with multiple protocol versions  
A connector interface system is disclosed. The connector interface system includes an interface and a protocol in communication with which allows a media player to communicate with external devices...
7526588 Communication between an accessory and a media player using a protocol with multiple lingoes  
A connector interface system is disclosed. The connector interface system includes an interface and a protocol in communication with which allows a media player to communicate with external devices...
7525957 Input/output router for storage networks  
A blade server is disclosed, comprised of multiple server blades that plug into a midplane from the front, and an I/O router including multiple IOCs (one for each server blade) and an embedded...
7523252 Data control apparatus functioning as a USB mass storage device  
A data control apparatus has a user interface section, an operation control section which operates based on an instruction from the user interface section, a USB device interface section which is...
7523238 Device and method to reduce simultaneous switching noise  
By reducing a cumulative number of drivers changing values during a transition, the cumulative current change may be reduced, along with the simultaneous switching noise effects. Also, a reduced...
7523237 Method and protocol for diagnostics or arbitrarily complex networks of devices  
The present invention includes a network having a plurality of communication buses, at least two of the plurality of buses utilizing different communication bus protocols; a plurality of computer...
7523140 File system that manages files according to content  
A method of managing a plurality of files according to their respective instances of a property of the files, a data processing device that uses the method, and a computer readable storage medium...
7522073 Self-adapted bus inversion  
Embodiments of the invention generally provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for selecting a data bus inversion (DBI) mode of operation. A comparison circuit of a device may receive...
7516345 Interface device for peripherals and priority control method thereof  
A peripheral interface device includes a plurality of ports, each of which supports corresponding ones of first interface methods; a plurality of interface converters each connected to respective...
7512695 Method and system to control the communication of data between a plurality of interconnect devices  
A method and system of communicating data between a source interconnect device and a destination interconnect device are defined. The method includes adding an identification component to the data...
7512134 System and method for transmitting data packets in an infiniband network  
The disclosed invention relates to a method and system to transmit data packets through a switched network system that is composed of a plurality of routing entities. The method determines whether...
7509450 Microcontrol architecture for a system on a chip (SoC)  
A data processing system includes a main processor that runs an operating system; a microcontrol processor coupled to the main processor that controls a first plurality of hardware processes as...
7509436 System and method for increased virtual driver throughput  
A computerized system and method for provide increased data throughput for a virtual driver. The system includes a SCSI (Small Computer System Interconnect) port manager; a miniport driver...
7506146 Fast and compact circuit for bus inversion  
A bussed system with a fast and compact majority voter in the circuitry responsible for the bus inversion decision. The majority voter is implemented in analog circuitry having two branches. One...
7500047 System and method for processing commands  
Embodiments of the present invention provide for conversion between command protocols. A routing device, or other device in the command path, can receive a command from an initiator, determine if...
7500033 Universal serial bus transmitter  
A Universal Serial Bus transmitter comprising a USBTXP input and a USBTXM input for receiving respective data signals, and a USBP driver and a USBM driver for applying the respective data signals...
7493433 System, method and storage medium for providing an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) slave with read/write access to random access memory  
A method for data access via an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) protocol. The method includes receiving an I2C read command at an I2C slave device, where the I2C read command is from an I2C master...