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7631126 System and method for interfacing an electronic device with a host system  
The invention relates to a system and method for controlling interfacing parameters for a device when connected to a host is provided. The method comprises: monitoring for an initial connection by...
7627696 Electronic device, method for controlling the same, information processing apparatus, and computer program  
An electronic device can operate as an external device of an information processing apparatus. The electronic device includes a connecting unit for connecting to the information processing...
7622950 GPIO mux/dynamic port configuration  
Dynamically configurable routing logic coupled between physical I/O ports and special purpose I/O associated with functions within a panel ASIC is disclosed that provide different routing...
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...
7613844 Storage device and processing method using mutually exclusive modes of operation for data transfer  
A storage device is provided that includes a first interface unit configured to connect to an external apparatus; a second interface unit configured to connect to a network; and a control unit...
7606947 Removable electronic device and method thereof  
A removable electronic device includes a detector for detecting a mode of operation to distinguish among a multimedia card (MMC) compatible mode, a universal serial bus (USB) compatible mode, and a...
7603499 Method for using a memory device with a built-in memory array and a connector for a removable memory device  
A method for using a memory device with a built-in memory array and a connector for a removable memory device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a determination is made regarding whether a removable...
7603493 Dynamically setting burst length of memory device by applying signal to at least one external pin during a read or write transaction  
One or more external control pins and/or addressing pins on a memory device are used to set one or both of a burst length and burst type of the memory device.
7603487 Hardware configurable hub interface unit  
A data transfer apparatus with hub and ports includes design configurable hub interface units (HIU) between the ports and corresponding external application units. The configurable HIU provides a...
7596651 Multi-character adapter card  
One embodiment of an adapter card in accordance with the invention includes a circuit board connectable to a motherboard of a computer system. A logic chip is connected to the circuit board to...
7594041 Recording medium, content recording/reproducing system, content reproducing apparatus, content recording apparatus, and content recoding apparatus  
A removable recording medium having an area for storing a content and, when attached to a reproducing apparatus, allowing the content recorded in the area to be reproduced is arranged so as to...
7593979 Electronic apparatus, network system, relay apparatus, and status control method  
An AV function section is provided with a standby mode serving to reduce power consumption during standby. An embedded controller provides such control as shifts or recovers the AV function section...
7590771 Chip with IDE host and IDE slave and corresponding self-debugging function  
A chip with IDE host and IDE slave and corresponding self-debugging function is provided. The chip simplifies IDE debugging of a chip, which comprises a front-end and a backend, by offering...
7581037 Effecting a processor operating mode change to execute device code  
Provided are a method, system and program for effecting a processor operating mode change to execute device code. A processor receives a call while the processor is operating in a first mode,...
7577770 System and method for performance monitoring and reconfiguring computer system with hardware monitor  
A judgment is made quickly about whether or not it is a memory or a chipset that is causing a performance bottleneck in an application program. A computer system of this invention includes at least...
7577766 Method for controlling electronic apparatus, program for controlling electronic apparatus, electronic apparatus, and recording apparatus  
A method is provided for controlling an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus including a USB interface that is used for connecting a USB device of a first device class in a first...
7565467 USB hub, USB-compliant apparatus, and communication system  
A USB hub according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a USB upstream port unit for inputting/outputting data in accordance with a USB protocol; a wireless upstream port unit for...
7565439 Communication control for storage system  
During iSCSI communication, according to the contents of commands issued by a host computer, the command response time is increased due to the influence of the TCP Delayed ACK. Thus, a command...
7562159 Systems and methods for selectively activating functions provided by a mobile phone  
Methods for selectively activating one of multiple functions provided by a mobile phone are provided. An embodiment of a method for selectively activating one of multiple functions comprises the...
7558892 Processing device peripheral with integral network interface circuitry  
A peripheral connectable to a processing device includes a housing and network interface circuitry at least partially enclosed within the housing, the network interface circuitry being utilizable...
7555569 Quick configuration status  
Described are techniques for obtaining configuration information and conditionally executing a system call in accordance with a specified configuration state. A host issues a request for...
7554682 Printer filter configuration  
A flexible printing subsystem is enabled with a printer filter pipeline. A configurable and arbitrary number of printer filters forming a printer filter pipeline are applied to files that are to be...
7543086 Method for controlling universal serial bus (USB) device between incompatible operating system platforms  
The present invention relates to a method for assisting an application, executed in a processing platform where a first operation system is installed, in controlling a USB device plugged in a...
7543082 Operation parameter determination apparatus and method  
An operation parameter determination apparatus ( 101 ) has an ID detecting unit ( 107 ) to detecting a plurality of ID codes by using a non-contact ID reader ( 102 ), an ID/operation parameter...
7540017 Information processing apparatus for performing processing dependent on presence/absence of user, and method therefor  
In response to an instruction by a user, or by performing reception, detection and assumption processing, the presence state of the user is determined, and corresponding presence mode conversion...
7539795 Methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts both for rapidly accessing web content and application program windows and for establishing context-based user environments  
The invention disclosed herein concerns methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts for use in navigating web content and application program windows. In particular, the methods and...
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...
7533194 Multi-mode port in a network device for serial and network communication  
In one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing a multi-mode port in a network device, includes: setting a first mode on the port, wherein the network device can perform serial...
7533193 Apparatus and method for reducing electromigration  
An apparatus and method therefor wherein instead of applying a high bias voltage 100 per cent of the time to leads susceptible to dendrite formation, the bias voltage is switched from a low bias...
7526693 Initial decision-point circuit operation mode  
A circuit that includes a controller and at least one control I/O pin. When the controller is placed into an initial state, the controller initializes the circuit into an initial operation mode....
7526580 Peripheral device  
A multifunction device includes a plurality of slots capable of accepting the insertion of media. Initially, the multifunction device is set to a single drive mode (automatic switching mode) and...
7525533 Audio communication device and audio communication method  
An audio communication apparatus including a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device, an input unit configured to input an operating signal for operating the external...
7519756 Method and apparatus for controlling connections of PC cards and a passive-card-adapting card used for connecting one of the PC cards to the apparatus  
A PC card control apparatus includes a PC card connector, a card detector and an interconnection switching circuit. The PC card connector is configured to provide connections for connecting one of...
7519743 Multimedia storage and communication device and its determining method  
The present invention is related to an interface design for multimedia data transmitting, which can provide a working interface in a data storing device or a communication device, using the working...
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...
7516274 Power conservation via DRAM access reduction  
Power conservation via DRAM access reduction is provided by a buffer/mini-cache selectively operable in a normal mode and a buffer mode. In the buffer mode, entered when CPUs begin operating in...
7512720 System and method for accessing universal serial bus networks  
The disclosure is directed to a computational device including functional circuitry, a transceiver interface that is accessible to the functional circuitry, and a universal serial bus transceiver...
7502875 Parallel pattern detection engine  
A parallel pattern detection engine (PPDE) comprise multiple processing units (PUs) customized to do various modes of pattern recognition. The PUs are loaded with different patterns and the input...
7500028 DMA controller providing for ring buffer and rectangular block transfers  
Reducing the circuit scale by performing rectangular block transfer and ring buffer transfer in a same circuit The inventive DMA controller includes a register for setting the start address of a...
7492291 Methods and apparatus for interfacing a plurality of encoded serial data streams to a serializer/deserializer circuit  
Methods and apparatus are provided for interfacing a plurality of encoded serial data streams, such as Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface streams, to a serializer/deserializer circuit. A...
7490187 Hypertransport/SPI-4 interface supporting configurable deskewing  
A memory system having a memory controller and a daisy chain of memory chips. The memory controller is coupled to memory chips in the daisy chain of memory chips by an address/command bus chain....
7490174 Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus  
A method and apparatus relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus...
7490173 Method and multimode user interface for processing user inputs  
The invention concerns a method and a multimode user interface for processing multimode user inputs, which are entered into a computer unit in various input modes within one specified application...
7487270 Method and apparatus for using a personal digital assistant to interface with a communication station  
A method and apparatus for interfacing a personal digital assistant (PDA) with a communications appliance is provided. The method comprising a communication station receiving semi-structured data...
7480758 Method and apparatus for automatically switching between USB host and device  
An apparatus and method for automatically switching between USB host and device is provided. In a device with a USB interface, the present invention automatically switches between a USB host and...
7480743 Optimized peripheral device configuration data sequential handling method and system for computer platform  
An optimized peripheral device configuration data sequential handling method and system is proposed, which is designed for use with a computer platform for providing the computer platform an...
7479964 Display technique for displaying a layout of a print network system  
A display terminal comprises a position storage, a status storage, a connection relationship storage, and a display device. The position storage stores a position of each of the terminals and the...
7475165 Semiconductor data storage apparatus  
Production cost for a semiconductor data storage apparatus is significantly reduced by using the same controller to support an external analog module and an internal analog module. In a data...
7457888 Data delivery based on a select data delivery performance parameter in a data processing system  
Delivering data from a data input to a data output within a system includes selecting a system performance parameter to be optimized, receiving at the data input a sequence of discrete data words,...
7454530 System and method to facilitate native use of small form factor devices  
A system and method to facilitate communication between an associated bus, such as employs a standard bus protocol, and a connector to which a removable SFF device can be attached. A desired...