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7617341 Method and system for switching a DVI display host  
Plural information handling systems interface through a KVM switch with a DVI display with the KVM switch supporting selection of the information handling system providing display information to...
7610447 Upgradable memory system with reconfigurable interconnect  
Described herein is a point-to-point memory communications architecture, having a point-to-point signal line set associated with each of a plurality of connectors or module positions. When the...
7610429 Method and system for determining device criticality in a computer configuration  
A method for determining the criticality of a device in a multi-path computer configuration comprising the steps of: traversing a directed acyclic graph representing a platform hierarchy; and...
7606964 Virtual USB flash memory storage device with PCI express interface, controller and method thereof  
A virtual universal serial bus (USB) flash memory storage device with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) Express interface including a microcontroller connected separately to a flash memory...
7590786 Server system and signal processing unit, server, and chassis thereof  
A server system includes at least one server, a signal processing unit that enables to operate said at least one server with a set of console, and a chassis having slots and a circuit board, said...
7587717 Dynamic master/slave configuration for multiple expansion modules  
A computing system having expansion modules. One of the expansion modules is identified as a master module. The other modules act as slaves to the master module. The central processing unit routes...
7577789 Upgradable memory system with reconfigurable interconnect  
Described are systems that employ configurable on-die termination elements that allow users to select from two or more termination topologies. One topology is programmable to support rail-to-rail...
7576559 USB device and data processing system having the same  
A universal serial bus (USB) device is comprised of a receiver for receiving signals from a USB host through data lines, and a pull-up resistor circuit connecting pull-up resistors to data lines in...
7571274 Method and system for virtual enclosure management  
A process and system for virtually managing enclosures. A process determines whether a system includes an enclosure processor, a virtual enclosure processor, or both an enclosure processor and a...
7565473 Semiconductor integrated circuit and electronic equipment  
In a semiconductor integrated circuit, a detection confirmation circuit sets the logical level of a second signal according to the logical level of a first signal observed after a lapse of a...
7565456 Method for reconfiguring an automation device  
A method for configuring or reconfiguring an automation device and an automation device suitable for a configuration or a reconfiguration are provided. The automation device has a programmable...
7562161 Universal graphic adapter for interfacing with UGA hardware via UGA virtual machine and means for abstracting details of the UGA hardware  
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...
7555665 Method and apparatus of disabling converters in a power module  
A power module includes a plurality of converters having outputs for coupling to a supply voltage. The power module further includes a connector having a pin to provide a signal indicative of...
7552263 Portable computer and method of controlling the same  
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for controlling a personal computer are provided that can stably engage and disengage a bay device to a single IDE channel coupled to a main memory. An...
7552262 Integration of an operative standalone router into a multi-chassis router  
A standalone router is integrated into a multi-chassis router. Integrating the standalone router into a multi-chassis router requires replacing switch cards in the standalone router with...
7549006 Structure of object stacks for driver  
A structure of object stacks for driver with hot plug function is provided, wherein the hot plug function is with serial ATA device, which can be supported by standard IDE driver. The structure...
7533208 Hot plug control apparatus and method  
An apparatus for controlling a hot plug bus slot on a bus has an input for receiving a set of float signals (i.e., the set may have one or more float signals), and a driver having an output...
7523241 Hot-plug signal detecting apparatus, source device and repeater device  
There is provided a hot-plug signal detecting apparatus capable of surely detecting change of a hot plug signal without increasing load on a transmission processing unit. A hot plug signal from a...
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...
7518614 Method and apparatus for capturing and transmitting screen images  
A remote management controller may include a video redirection device and a processor. The video redirection device may be configured to: obtain multiple separate slices of video data output from a...
7512778 Method for sharing host processor for non-operating system uses by generating a false remove signal  
A method for using an operating system device for non-operating system uses. A false event signal is generated to indicate that a device should be shut down. After this is accomplished, the device...
7512726 Reconfigurable flash media reader system  
A reconfigurable flash media reader system provides a flash media reader that accepts both asynchronous and synchronous flash media cards. The reader identifies the card type of the inserted flash...
7506093 Apparatus and method for converting parallel and serial PCI hot plug signals  
A method and apparatus are provided for operating a hot plug system. A first device may determine whether the system is to operate in one of a parallel mode or a serial mode. A second device may...
7500040 Method for synchronizing processors following a memory hot plug event  
A method for synchronizing processors during a system management interrupt caused from a memory hot plug event in multiple processor systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for...
7493638 Processing terminal, receiving terminal and received data processing system  
An IC card (processing terminal) divides a process into process blocks, and holds a time period required for processing each process block. A receiver (receiving terminal) notifies the IC card of a...
7493438 Apparatus and method for enumeration of processors during hot-plug of a compute node  
An apparatus and method for enumeration of processors during hot-plug of a compute node are described. The method includes the enumeration, in response to a hot-plug reset, of one or more...
7490199 System and method for safe removal of a removable device from a digital appliance  
A method and system is introduced for allowing removal of a removable device connected to a digital appliance in a safe manner that preserves removable device integrity. There is no requirement for...
7490197 Using external memory devices to improve system performance  
The invention is directed towards a system and method that utilizes external memory devices to cache sectors from a rotating storage device (e.g., a hard drive) to improve system performance. When...
7475171 Data transfer control device including a switch circuit that switches write destination of received packets  
A data transfer control device including: a link controller which analyzes a packet received through a serial bus; a packet detection circuit which detects completion or start of packet reception...
7469308 Hierarchical bus structure and memory access protocol for multiprocessor systems  
A hierarchical bus structure is disclosed in which clusters of processors are arranged and interconnected within a hierarchy to facilitate processor communications via shared memories. The bus...
7467252 Configurable I/O bus architecture  
An I/O bus architecture is configurable so that I/O bandwidth may be re-allocated from one I/O slot or device to another. A first intermediate bus couples a system bus interface device to a first...
7464016 Hot plug and hot pull system simulation  
In one embodiment, a distributed simulation system may include a first node configured to participate in a simulation and a second node configured to transmit a hot pull command designating the...
7457904 Methods and systems for a reference clock  
In at least some embodiments, a method comprises receiving an external card detection signal that indicates that a hot-pluggable card is coupled to a computer system and activating at least one...
7454549 Systems and methods for performing a hot input function  
A computer software system is disclosed for facilitating a user's replacement or insertion of devices in a computer server network system. The system allows a user to swap or add peripheral devices...
7453816 Method and apparatus for automatic recovery from a failed node concurrent maintenance operation  
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided by the present invention to automatically recover from a failed node concurrent maintenance operation. A control logic is provided to...
7453692 Computer device with a modular transmission interface, the modular transmission interface, and an adaptor board  
A modular transmission interface is provided on a motherboard. The motherboard has a South Bridge and a power transmission port. The transmission interface includes a slot connector and an adaptor...
7449800 Power control system  
A power control system for use in an electronic device provided with a transforming module becoming self-contained upon connection with a power supply includes a switch module, a delay module, and...
7447943 Handling memory errors in response to adding new memory to a system  
A system includes a mechanism to detect addition of a memory module. In response to the addition of the memory module, a memory test is run to test the new memory module for a defect. If an...
7447824 Dynamic lane management system and method  
A dynamic lane management system comprises at least one downstream device of a computer system configured to dynamically initiate a lane width re-negotiation operation with at least one upstream...
7447822 Hot-plug control system and method  
A hot-plug control system and method is applied to a computer device, wherein the computer device is provided with a PCI-E (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) bus, at least one PCI-E slot...
7441066 Managing a computer system having a plurality of partitions using a service processor  
The inventive multiple partition computer system allows the reconfiguration of the installed hardware, possibly while the various partitions continue normal operations. This aspect includes adding...
7437496 Hot swap adapter  
There is disclosed a hot swap adapter having a circuit board, a power connector, a data connector and a circuit board connector. The circuit board may include one more logic devices. The power...
7437494 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 for establishing communication with various network systems located on a network system. Importantly, the systems, methods, and...
7414335 Inrush current controller  
An inrush current controller for a device has a connector for hot-plugging the device into a source of energization. An impedance has a current input coupled to a first contact of the connector and...
7406549 Support for non-standard device containing operating system data  
According to an embodiment of the invention, a method and apparatus for support of a non-standard device containing operating system data are described. According to one embodiment, a circuit...
7401171 Methods and structure for SAS expander initiating communication to a SAS initiator to identify changes in the SAS domain  
Methods and structures within a SAS expander for initiating communication with one or more SAS initiators in a SAS domain to inform the initiators of sensed changes in the domain without the need...
7401066 Correlation of end-of-line data mining with process tool data mining  
One embodiment of the present invention is a process tool optimization system that includes: (a) a data mining engine that analyzes end-of-line yield data to identify one or more process tools...
7386648 PC card controller with reduced number of terminals  
A PC Card subsystem is used for coupling a PC card to a computer system and comprises a PC Card controller and a PC Card power switch. The PC Card controller is coupled to and operates the PC card....
7386640 Method, apparatus and system to generate an interrupt by monitoring an external interface  
In some embodiments, a method, apparatus and system to generate an interrupt by monitoring an external interface are presented. In this regard, an interrupt agent is introduced to communicate over...
7370150 System and method for managing a cache memory  
A processing system optimized for data string manipulations includes data string execution circuitry associated with a bus interface unit or memory controller. Cache coherency is maintained, and...