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7305504 IEEE 1394-adopted host device and control method thereof  
Disclosed are a host device and a control method thereof. The host device includes an IEEE 1394 interface for connecting the slave devices, an input device for inputting display-device-list command...
7302505 Receiver multi-protocol interface and applications thereof  
A receiver multi-protocol interface includes a wide bandwidth amplifier, a data sampling module, and a clocking module. The wide bandwidth amplifier amplifies a first formatted input signal or a...
7302501 Peripheral data storage system with multi-state user display  
A method of displaying states of a peripheral data storage system (PDSS) comprising a data storage device, a data storage system controller, a user-actuated signaling subsystem, a user display...
7287098 Control method and electronic device enabling recognition of functions installed in the electronic device  
An electronic device includes a serial interface which exchanges data with a memory register and a first data buffer. In accordance with a setting which is written in the memory register, data in...
7284083 Dynamically configuring resources for cycle translation in a computer system  
A method and system that enables customized computer machines to be more readily developed by removing the function of resource translation out of the hardware abstraction layer (HAL). A machine...
7277966 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected  
A peripheral device is connectable to a computer having one of a first interface and a second interface. The first interface communicates with the peripheral device over a differential data...
7277967 Method and apparatus for suspending or adjusting billing charge for usage of electrically powered devices if abnormal or halt condition detected  
An apparatus for selecting, monitoring, and controlling electrically powered devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an electrically powered device having a key operating...
7272669 Providing compatibility with both electrically isolated and non-isolated modules in an ethernet system  
A system and method for configuring a slot to be compatible with both modules that are compliant with the isolation requirements for power over Ethernet and modules that are not compliant.
7272667 Portable and dedicated compact disk read-write unit  
A portable CR-RW drive has a CD drive and spindle platform, a chargeable battery power source, at least one docking bay for docking a removable storage medium and a processor supporting firmware...
7269670 Analog ethernet detector having first logic circuit and second logic circuit coupled to output signal detectors to determine ethernet and non-ethernet signals  
An analog Ethernet detector determines if an IEEE 1394b long haul application using Category 5 (CAT 5 UTP) cable, is connected to an Ethernet which share certain pins of the RJ45 connector used to...
7266618 Host system that provides device driver for connected external peripheral if device driver type is available or device driver is downloaded from memory of external peripheral to host system  
There is provided an electronic apparatus which also enables the data input/output apparatus to be executed at a high speed to a small electronic apparatus having a limited installation space by...
7262872 Printing system and method for network containing printers with pull-printing and printers without pull-printing  
A printing system configured by connecting, over a network, a printing request instruction terminal for making a printing request including reference information that indicates a storage location...
7257650 Universal graphic adapter for interfacing with hardware and means for determining previous output ranges of other devices and current device intial ranges  
The subject invention relates to a Universal Graphics Adapter (UGA) that is a hardware-independent design that encapsulates and abstracts low-level graphics hardware in a standard manner through...
7256901 Printer driver customization using incremental custom print processor  
An operating system alternate arrangement for a printer driver/spooler/print processor is disclosed. Referring to one embodiment, although using a PPD-compatible printer driver is often desirable,...
7251726 Multiple functionality associated with a computer ON/OFF pushbutton switch  
The invention in one implementation encompasses a computer having an operating system and a power ON/OFF pushbutton switch. A microcontroller is coupled to receive ON/OFF information generated by...
7247781 Interactive music application apparatus and electronic musical instrument and programs therefor  
Electronic musical instrument interactively connected with a music application apparatus automatically returns a response signal when a predetermined identification request signal is received from...
7243169 Method, system and program for oscillation control of an internal process of a computer program  
A method for reducing oscillations of an output value associated with a program to be operatively coupled to a data processing system. The program having an internal process configured to read an...
7240128 Data processing apparatus and data processing method that generates a final class code  
An integrated processing box performs processing commonly to a plurality of input devices, a plurality of output devices, or a plurality of storage devices. For example, the integrated processing...
7234005 System and method of setting parameters of peripheral device when an operation ratio of a command exceeds predetermined value  
A method of setting a parameter of a peripheral device, for controlling an operation of the peripheral device includes collecting and storing a command issued for the peripheral device by an...
7228186 Field-mounted process device with programmable digital/analog interface  
Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a field-mountable process device that receives digital information from one or more process devices, and provides an associated analog output....
7228365 System for determining communication parameters associated with an unknown digital printer  
A port monitor allows a computer, digital camera, or other device to send a print job to a target printer, where the only known information about the printer is its network address. Communication...
7224402 Apparatus for processing image signal and method thereof  
An image signal processing apparatus and method is capable of variably performing format conversion and image quality improvement according to a kind of an inputted image signal. A detecting...
7219168 Method and system for a generic document processing device client  
A method for network printing. The method includes activating an interface between a document processing device and a workstation, providing at least one user interface to a user at the...
7216184 System and method for identification of devices associated with input/output paths  
The present invention is directed to a system and method which discovers or identifies a type of device associated with an input/output (I/O path). Preferred embodiments define a type of device by...
7213083 Apparatus for accessing a computer-readable medium device  
A computer-readable medium device includes apparatus and a computer-readable medium. To a computing device, according to a predetermined command set behavior of the computer-readable medium device,...
7206830 Information equipment system  
A system where pieces of information equipment are connected via a network, including a memory unit and a compensating device. The memory unit stores position information that represents a physical...
7197650 Charging and monitoring apparatus and method of charging a battery and monitoring the power level through power supply line  
A battery is charged utilizing electric power provided by a power supply line included in a cable that is in accordance with IEEE 1394. A charging apparatus and a personal computer are connected...
7191028 Electrically controlled apparatus  
An electronically controlled apparatus of the present invention includes: an input-output section, which electronically processes and outputs input data; a control section, which electronically...
7177958 Automated input determination  
The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a sequence of input values. Furthermore, the method includes determining if the sequence of input values is a...
7167931 Executing program installed in computer slot of a machine in one of plural environments comprising a main operating system and small operating system  
Executing a program stored on a device inserted into a computer slot includes determining how to execute the program based on configuration data stored on the device, and executing the program in...
7167941 Multi-port device configuration  
A method and an apparatus to configure a multi-port device are disclosed. The method includes defining a first set of pointers, one for each port of the multi-port device, and storing the first set...
7167260 Control of distributed printers using virtual printer driver execute module  
A technique for carrying out distributed printing from a general-purpose application program. An application program generates print data and issues a print command. A virtual printer driver...
7165130 Method and system for an adaptive multimode media queue  
Embodiments of the invention may provide a method for implementing an adaptive multimode media queue. A mode of operation may be determined for a received media stream based on a sampling rate of...
7162549 Multimode controller for intelligent and “dumb” flash cards  
A controller chip for coupling a computer system with a flash storage system is disclosed. The controller chip comprises an interface mechanism for determining whether the Flash storage system...
7162554 Method and apparatus for configuring a peripheral bus  
A method an apparatus for providing capability information to a shared controller. In one embodiment, a peripheral bus host controller may be shared by a plurality of peripheral devices coupled to...
7158257 Information processing apparatus, image processing method, and program  
In an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with plural image processing apparatuses, the image processing apparatus satisfying a desired condition input by a user is selected...
7149820 Enhanced VPD (Vital Product Data) structure  
An enhanced VPD structure includes a type field to indicate whether a particular property is a general property to be associated with an interface card or other computer system component, or a...
7143204 Method and apparatus for suspending or adjusting billing charge for usage of electrically powered devices if abnormal or halt condition detected  
An apparatus for selecting, monitoring, and controlling electrically powered devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an electrically powered device having a key operating...
7143203 Storage device control responsive to operational characteristics of a system  
It has been discovered that system operational characteristics (e.g., power level, clock frequency, processor utilization, operating system time slice utilization, size and age of queued jobs) may...
7143150 Method of configuring a computer to include the available options of a printer  
A method of configuring a computer connected to a printer via a network by transmitting commands, such as SNMP commands, to the printer in order to retrieve the available options of the printer. In...
7143210 User-defined printer selection administration policy  
A system and method are provided for managing printer selection in a network of connected printers. The method comprises: accepting a print job; determining characteristics of the print job;...
7136942 Data processing apparatus and data processing method that generates a final class code  
An integrated processing box performs processing commonly to a plurality of input devices, a plurality of output devices, or a plurality of storage devices. For example, the integrated processing...
7130931 Method, system, and article of manufacture for selecting replication volumes  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for copying storage. A request is received from a host application to copy a plurality of source storage units. A list of potential target...
7127532 Data communication apparatus and transmission reservation managing method  
There are provided a data communication apparatus and a transmission reservation managing method that are capable of collectively managing transmissions of the same or common data by a plurality of...
7127533 Interrupt driven expanded option select interface for portable device  
A peripheral component ( 104 ) is attached to a portable electronic device ( 102 ), and indicates an option class of the peripheral component by use of an option select circuit. The option select...
7124210 Method and apparatus for updating computer code using an integrated circuit interface  
A method and apparatus for providing computer code updates through an integrated circuit card (smart card) interface. The smart card interface within a computer control device determines whether...
7111090 Method and system for identyfing a peripheral device by a high priority device-specific notification handler  
Method and system for latency-independent peripheral device identification. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an interrupt from a peripheral device coupled to a computer system...
7111083 Method and apparatus for use of power switch to control software  
An apparatus and method for selectively loading and enabling software stored within firmware of an electronic device to support an input device coupled to the electronic device if a power switch is...
7107371 Method and apparatus for providing and embedding control information in a bus system  
A system and method for sending device specific data in a bus transaction. A device configurable field is preallocated in a packet sent by the sending device to a receiving device. The sending...
7104459 Information storage apparatus and information processing apparatus using the same  
In a small and thin memory module for sharing data among electronic devices such as information processing apparatuses, a write prohibit state can be visually recognized. A conductive seal is...
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