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7565457 Serial advanced technology attachment device presence detection and hot-plug in low power mode  
A method, circuit, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises sending a step pulse across a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) transmission line, determining the...
7523268 Reducing number of rejected snoop requests by extending time to respond to snoop request  
A cache, system and method for reducing the number of rejected snoop requests. An incoming snoop request is entered in the first available latch in a pipeline of latches in a stall/reorder unit if...
7518613 System and method for information handling system external graphics box local diagnostic message  
An activity poller on an external graphics box is activated during inactivity in communication from a host information handling system to the external graphics box, such as over an external PCI...
7487269 Apparatus, system, and method of connection grouping for multipath lock facility connection paths  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for grouping connection paths for lock attention data. A grouping request module is included to receive a request to establish a group of connection...
7484046 Reducing number of rejected snoop requests by extending time to respond to snoop request  
A cache, system and method for reducing the number of rejected snoop requests. A “stall/reorder unit” in a cache receives a snoop request from an interconnect. Information, such as the address,...
7411972 Link layer device with non-linear polling of multiple physical layer device ports  
In a communication system comprising a link layer device connectable to one or more physical layer devices, at least a given one of a plurality of ports of the one or more physical layer devices is...
7389327 Control and monitoring system for power system  
The object of the present invention is to make information necessary for judging whether control output is possible closer to the latest information than in the conventional method or made the...
7315907 Information delivery and display system and information delivery method  
An information delivery and display system includes one or more information display devices that play display information, and a monitoring/control server that sends information to the information...
7263564 Inquiring apparatus and method thereof  
An inquiring apparatus and method thereof is provided for assisting the CPU to inquire the state of the peripheral device. When the CPU needs to perform an inquiring process to wait for a...
7149834 Wireless device attachment and detachment system, apparatus and method  
A polling method, apparatus, and system to detect the attachment and detachment of Universal Serial Bus devices in a wireless system. A hub provides a wired connection to the host and wireless...
7124184 Home networking system having alive and connection termination messages and method for operating same  
A home network system for controlling one or more home appliances connected to a network and a method for operating the same. If an alive message or a connection termination message is normally...
7111100 Systems and methods for assigning an address to a network device added to an existing network  
The present invention provides systems, methods, and bus controllers ( 12 ) for establishing communication with various network systems located on a network system ( 10 ). Importantly, the systems,...
7028109 Data transfer control device including buffer controller with plurality of pipe regions allocated to plurality of endpoints  
A plurality of pipe regions PIPE 0 to PIPEe in which data transferred to and from endpoints is stored are allocated in a packet buffer (FIFO). Transfer condition information on data transfer...
7003701 System for facilitated analysis of PCI bus malfunction  
In a computer system, which makes an error detectable in case plural PCI target devices respond in one PCI cycle and the PCI protocol has become illicit, a processor 1 is connected over a PCI bus...
6996613 System for storing and transmitting home network system data  
The invention specifies a system having a plurality of devices which are connected to one another via an IEEE 1394 interface and one of which contains a control unit which, when operated...
6983343 Partitioning of storage channels using programmable switches  
A data storage system having a first storage channel, a first controller coupled to the first storage channel, a first storage device coupled to the first storage channel, a second storage channel,...
6944687 Reducing power consumption of an electronic system having a communication device  
A computer system comprises a host computer coupled to a wireless module via a digital interface. The wireless module permits the computer system to communicate with a wireless network. The host...
6912609 Four-phase handshake arbitration  
A four-phase arbitration system employs a master and a slave arbiter. The master arbiter operates to provide ownership of a bus to a first device if a second device, coupled to the slave arbiter is...
6854036 Method of transferring data in a processing system  
A method of transferring data in a processing system comprising a shared memory for storing data blocks, a plurality of processors, at least one of the processors having a cache memory for the data...
6769078 Method for isolating an I2C bus fault using self bus switching device  
A method system, and computer program product for determining the source of a fault within a bus, such as, for example, an inter integrated circuit (I2C) bus is provided. In one embodiment, a bus...
6742052 Wireless system bus  
A mobile or desktop computer having a system bus that is exposed externally using a wireless transceiver so that input and output devices within proximity of the computer can be configured for...
6725310 Scalable docking architecture to support various bandwidth  
Customer requirements for portable computers are grouped into logical functional groupings, which are further grouped into logical bandwidth levels. On the notebook side, all required signals for a...
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...
6718412 Apparatus and method for universal serial bus communications  
An apparatus and method for communicating between a controller and a message processing device over a universal serial bus (USB). The apparatus may comprise an interface having a bulk data-out...
6697900 Bus monitor and method of gathering bus phase information in real-time  
Control signals of an I/O or peripheral bus are sensed during cycles of the bus and information describing bus phases of the signals is derived by sensing the control signals and is stored in a...
6633937 GPIB system and method which performs autopolling using heuristics  
A system and method for GPIB autopolling of GPIB devices. A computer is coupled to one or more GPIB instruments through a GPIB to analyze, measure or control a process or unit under test. The...
6622178 Method and apparatus for activating a computer system in response to a stimulus from a universal serial bus peripheral  
A method and apparatus for activating a computer system in response to a stimulus from a universal serial bus (USB) peripheral provides a mechanism for powering up a computer system or restoring it...
6586968 Programmable bit ordering for serial port  
An order in which bits for serial data are transmitted or received by a first device, integrated circuit (IC) or logic, is programmable to be either from most significant bit (MSB) to least...
6546508 Method and apparatus for fault detection of a processing tool in an advanced process control (APC) framework  
A method and apparatus for providing fault detection in an Advanced Process Control (APC) framework. A first interface receives operational state data of a processing tool related to the...
6523058 State machine driven transport protocol interface  
A system architecture for a high speed serial bus compatible with the 1394 standard is disclosed. A transaction interface coordinates data packets received from or sent to a 1394 bus. A...
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...
6505258 Comprehensive interface between bios and device drivers to signal events  
A system is disclosed for allowing surprise insertion and removal of a peripheral device from the bays of a portable computer system. The peripheral device may be inserted or removed when the...
6496890 Bus hang prevention and recovery for data communication systems employing a shared bus interface with multiple bus masters  
A shared bus hang prevention and recovery scheme for a data communication system is provided, where a shared bus is connected to a plurality of bus masters and corresponding slaves and located...
6477140 Multiplex communications system  
A multiplex communications system includes a plurality of master-slave sub-systems which include master nodes ( 10, 20 ) connected to a multiplex communications line (BL) and slave nodes ( 30, 40,...
6446142 Method of and apparatus for dynamically binding subobjects into objects to represent functions and characteristics of a device within an IEEE 1394 serial bus network  
A controlling application generates objects and handles to represent units within a network. To generate an object representing a device, subobjects for each subunit within the device are assembled...
6430710 Data processing system with RAS data acquisition function  
In an information processing system having a bus bridge connected between a plurality of buses for data transfer therebetween, the bus bridge is provided with a RAS data acquisition bus operating...
6405276 Selectively flushing buffered transactions in a bus bridge  
A bus bridge with a pool of buffers sets including first and second buffer sets. The bridge includes steering logic for directing transactions issued by a first peripheral device to the first...
6405271 Data flow control mechanism for a bus supporting two-and three-agent transactions  
A data flow control mechanism for a bus supporting two- and three-agent transactions includes a control logic to place an indication of a request onto a computer system bus. The agent placing the...
6366262 Method and apparatus for supporting multiple NPT display sessions on a single address  
A method and apparatus are provided for supporting multiple display sessions through a single address on a non-programmable-terminal (NPT) attached to a host computer by a work station controller...
6363437 Plug and play I2C slave  
In accordance with embodiments of the invention, an electronic device including one or more controllers and one or more slave units is provided with a bus such as an I 2 C serial bus that connects...
6349347 Method and system for shortening boot-up time based on absence or presence of devices in a computer system  
A method of configuring peer devices without the unnecessary delay in boot up time using a compatibility bridge. Upon initiating a configuration cycle, a BIOS initialization scans all peer devices...
6339807 Multiprocessor system and the bus arbitrating method of the same  
An arbitrator provided to a processor element requests the utilization of a bus sends a bus request signal and a bus request value according to a priority level of the processor element to the bus,...
6324642 Method and apparatus for increasing the data rate over a parallel port  
A method is presented that may reduce the number of I/O transactions needed to transfer data between a host device and peripheral device over a parallel port. According to one embodiment, only two...
6301642 Shared memory bus arbitration system to improve access speed when accessing the same address set  
A bus arbitration system is described which includes an arbitrator for controlling accesses to a memory bus by a plurality of memory users in response to requests made by those memory users. Each...
6295568 Method and system for supporting multiple local buses operating at different frequencies  
A method and system for supporting multiple Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) local buses through a single PCI host bridge having multiple PCI interfaces within a data-processing system are...
6272572 Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving passenger service system and telephone signals over a network  
A system and method of distributing telephone and passenger service signals from a zone interface unit to a plurality of seat electronic units in an in-flight entertainment system is described. The...
6268733 Field service system for analog current analysis of digitally controlled power devices  
A fault detection system for performing analog current analysis and diagnosis of power devices on digitally controlled buses. The fault detection system includes a field-installable bus interface...
6253273 Lock mechanism  
A method of providing a lock to a requester, the method including the steps of storing a lock indicator at a storage location on a storage medium; receiving a lock command from a requester on a...
6243785 Hardware assisted polling for software drivers  
A method and system for programmably controlling hardware generation of interrupts by a peripheral component. In one embodiment, the present invention uses a peripheral component driver to...
6243778 Transaction interface for a data communication system  
A system architecture for a high speed serial bus compatible with the 1394 standard is disclosed. A transaction interface coordinates data packets received from or sent to a 1394 bus. A...
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