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7219183 Switching apparatus and method for providing shared I/O within a load-store fabric  
An apparatus and method for sharing I/O devices. The apparatus has a first plurality of I/O ports, a second I/O port, and core logic. The first plurality is coupled to a plurality of operating...
7181299 Transmitting method and apparatus  
The present invention makes it possible to readily judge details of data transmitted through a bus line, such as channel structure, at a receiver's end. When data is transmitted in a predetermined...
7167923 System and method for selectively bridging and routing data packets between multiple networks  
A system and method to permit efficient communication between multiple devices having different network protocols and to permit a private network device to conduct a direct PPPoE session without...
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...
7165126 Direct memory access device  
A direct memory access device is provided which includes: a designation unit for designating transfer modes, when receiving an instruction to transfer data, to perform byte transfers or word...
7145486 Circuits and methods for exchanging data through a serial port and systems using the same  
A method of exchanging data through a serial port includes transmitting data as an output stream of frames defined by edges of a frame clock signal, a first data bit of a current frame transmitted...
7127529 Smart card system having asynchronous communication with the smart card operating either as master or slave  
A smart card comprises a microcontroller, a memory unit, a storage unit, and a communications unit. The smart card may be connected to a terminal, which is in turn may be connected to a host...
7072974 Extensible application interface using machine-readable graphical codes  
A system is disclosed for providing data from a graphical code reading device to a software module. The system includes a graphical code reading device that scans a graphical code and provides...
7054959 Isochronous data transfer control method including packet configuration of thus-read isochronous header and data  
A processing section reserves a number of transfers for an isochronous packet which includes isochronous data in an transfer number reservation register TNREG. A DMAC 1 reads that isochronous...
7043574 Computer system and frame transmitting method  
A computer system has a central processing unit, an input/output unit and two network units. The central processing unit is connected to the input/output unit via two network units. The central...
7043578 Method, system, and program for processing a packet including I/O commands and data  
Provided are a method, system, and program for processing a packet including an Input/Output (I/O) command. A first level protocol processes a first level packet including a frame and a first level...
7032042 Request conversion  
In one embodiment, a method may include, if an amount of data requested to be transferred by a data transfer request according to a first protocol exceeds a maximum data transfer amount permitted...
7003407 Circuit for detecting and formatting data frames  
The invention concerns non-contact smart cards and, more particularly in such cards, a circuit for detecting data frames and providing them with a parallel format for their processing. The...
7003594 Streaming protocol for storage devices  
Various embodiments of systems and methods for implementing a streaming I/O protocol are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may involve: receiving a packet initiating a streaming write...
6993599 Efficient command delivery and data transfer  
In an example embodiment, a method of delivering a command from an initiator device also transfers data identified by the command to a target device. The data is transferred between the initiator...
6988150 System and method for eventless detection of newly delivered variable length messages from a system area network  
A shared I/O subsystem that includes a plurality of I/O interfaces for coupling a plurality of computer systems where each of I/O interfaces communicatively couples one of the computer systems to...
6978323 Interface control device and computer system for controlling data transfer  
An interface control device controls the packet-type transfer of data between one or more computers and one or more input/output devices. According to one embodiment of the present invention, when...
6970956 Scaleable gap insertion in a data link  
A pipelined escape character insertion component sequentially includes a character specific gap inserter and an expansion component. The gap inserter inserts gaps into blocks of data in a received...
6965954 Data playing system, transmitting and receiving apparatus, and bus conversion unit  
A head unit outputs a control bus command in response to an input operation by a user. A conversion unit converts the control bus command into a USB data frame and outputs the USB data frame to a...
6965952 Bus framer  
A bus framer includes an engine which extracts information from a frame of data being transmitted over a time-division multiplexed bus and a processor which retrieves the information from the...
6948013 Apparatus and method for configuring data cells  
An apparatus is provided for configuring data cells received in a telecommunications process in a continuous stream of data cells of fixed length and each comprising a header and a user data part....
6948031 Methods and apparatus for transferring a data element within a data storage system  
The invention is directed to techniques for transferring data within a data storage system that includes, among other things, an interconnection mechanism having a point-to-point channel between an...
6934790 Data transmitting and receiving system with speedy retransmission of missing data and data receiving device  
A system for transmitting and receiving data between a data transmitting device such as a computer and a data receiving device such as a peripheral device is capable of shortening the time required...
6922747 Communication system and methodology for addressing and sending data of dissimilar type and size across channels formed within a locally synchronized bus  
A communication system, network interface and communication port is provided that includes a media local bus. The local bus is connected between a controller and one or more multimedia devices...
6912667 System and method for communicating fault type and fault location messages  
A system and method are provided for transporting FTFL messages in a G.709 network-connected simplex device. The method comprises: receiving messages from a first source in a digital wrapper frame...
6898647 Parallel byte processing engines shared among multiple data channels  
A method and apparatus for processing bytes received from a data stream includes multiple parallel byte processing engines that simultaneously process a first set of bytes received from a data...
6889265 Apparatus and method to allow and synchronize schedule changes in a USB enhanced host controller  
An apparatus and method for making changes to an active schedule being processed by a host controller is disclosed. The apparatus and method includes examining a transaction descriptor, determining...
6883042 Method and structure for automatic SCSI command delivery using the packetized SCSI protocol  
A SCSI initiator system includes a Packetized SCSI Protocol hardware packet engine that automatically transmits Packetized SCSI protocol command blocks to a SCSI target with substantially zero...
6859847 Parallel electronic architecture comprising a plurality of processing units connected to a communication bus, and addressable by their functional capabilities  
The parallel electronic architecture comprises a plurality of processor units connected to a communication bus and each adapted to execute one or more predefined tasks automatically. Each processor...
6857032 Image data input device  
An image data input device comprises a scanner, which has a SCSI driver and a connector, and a personal computer, which has a SCSI cable. The scanner is connected to the personal computer through...
6826634 Extended message block for network device drivers  
The present invention manages memory buffers in network device drivers in a flexible operating system (e.g., the Solaris operating system) that increase performance of the operating system at high...
6823405 Method and apparatus for initiating partial transactions in a peripheral interface circuit for an I/O node of a computer system  
An apparatus for initiating partial transactions in a peripheral interface circuit for an I/O node of a computer system. An apparatus for performing partial transfers on a peripheral bus in...
6810446 System and method for navigating and deleting descriptors  
A system comprising at least two devices coupled to a bus wherein at least one device contains a descriptor hierarchy. A data structure has a descriptor specifier which specifies an entry by a list...
6807587 Methods and apparatuses for guaranteed coherency of buffered direct-memory-access data  
A method for ensuring data coherency in buffered direct memory access (DMA) data transfers. The DMA controller realizes the last piece of data is being transferred to the write buffer. The DMA...
6801959 Relaxed-timing universal serial bus with a start of frame packet generator  
An apparatus and method for controlling packet generation in a bus that couples a host to a plurality of devices. The apparatus includes a host controller for use with the bus and the host. The...
6801960 Switch-based acceleration of computer data storage employing aggregations of disk arrays  
There is disclosed apparatus and methodology for enhancing computer system data transfer when writing to network attached storage systems employing FC-2 fibrechannel protocol by dynamically...
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...
6760795 Data queue system  
A data queue system comprises plural memory blocks defined in memory, and a queue which comprises a number of memory blocks each including a link to the following block in the data queue. A queue...
6757758 Data transfer method, data transfer apparatus and recording apparatus  
The invention is to simplify the process from pack bits compression to data transfer, thereby improving throughput. For this purpose there are provided a tag generation unit for reading the data...
6745266 Method and apparatus for disk cache translation between systems  
A disk cache translation system for mapping data record lengths between systems having different data record lengths. Command queue ( 315 ) maps into initiation queue ( 305 ) to allow I/O manager (...
6735662 Method and apparatus for improving bus efficiency given an array of frames to transmit  
A single completion status write back is generated by a controller to inform a driver of completion of a transmission of all frames of an array of frames, as opposed to generating individual write...
6735644 Data processor and data processing method  
A data processor 1 converts serial data in an STM- 16 to parallel data that is based on eight bytes (64 bits). A transparent information detector 10 detects the position of the data...
6728861 Queuing fibre channel receive frames  
A frame receive queue may perform disassembly and validation operations on frames received by a node in a Fiber Channel network. The frame receive queue may store information used for later...
6715015 Apparatus and method for generating command and/or response frame for control of digital equipment  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating a command frame and/or a response frame transmitted and received to/from a digital equipment. The apparatus includes: a host...
6715058 Apparatus and method for a sorting mode in a direct memory access controller of a digital signal processor  
In order to sort signal group elements organized in blocks in a time-division multiplex protocol into frames of related elements, an address unit addresses the first element in each of the element...
6711181 System and method for packet parsing and data reconstruction in an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network  
A system for packet parsing and data reconstruction in an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network includes a network interface unit, a processing unit, and a memory wherein an operating system resides....
6704793 Data transmission protocol in image communication device  
A data transmission protocol for reducing the MODEM connection time in an image communication is provided by the structure of a flag for informing of a start of a file, header information for...
6694478 Low delay channel codes for correcting bursts of lost packets  
A method and apparatus for coding and decoding a sequence of data packets with use of a novel class of forward error correcting codes having coding rates greater than 1/2 which nonetheless provide...
6694381 Platform-independent communications protocol supporting communications between a processor and subsystem controller  
A method and apparatus implement a communications protocol whereby a host application program can communicate with a computer subsystem without the use of special driver software. In this way, the...
6687768 Data stream generation apparatus and method of same, variable length coded data stream generation apparatus and method of same, and camera system  
A data stream generation apparatus for generating a string of fixed length data from variable length data with a smaller circuit and simpler configuration and control. It comprises a control data...
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