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7174408 Interface for serial data communication  
An interface connectable as a default host to a peripheral or as a default peripheral to a host, for serial data communication between host and peripheral during a session, and comprising:...
7173964 Method for detecting data transmission rate of USB controller by using USB device  
A method is provided for detecting the data transmission rate of a USB controller by using a USB device having at least one program storage device. An IRQ signal of a timer is activated through a...
7174395 Communication interface method and device utilizing direct memory access data transfer  
In asynchronous communication, an efficient data transfer can be performed between an external bus and an internal bus. A packet obtained from the external bus by the asynchronous communication is...
7174411 Dynamic allocation of PCI express lanes using a differential mux to an additional lane to a host  
Many Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) lanes are available between a host and peripherals inserted into slots. Each PCIE lane is a bi-directional serial bus, with a transmit...
7174550 Sharing communications adapters across a plurality of input/output subsystem images  
A communications adapter is shared by a plurality of input/output (I/O) subsystem images of an I/O subsystem of a central processing complex. To enable the sharing, the communications adapter is...
7174400 Integrated circuit device that stores a value representative of an equalization co-efficient setting  
An integrated circuit device is described. The integrated circuit device includes a transmitter circuit having an output driver to output data, and a register to store a value representative of an...
7171504 Transmission unit  
A transmission unit that improves communication quality by making effective use of a line to a blocked port in compliance with a spanning tree protocol. Bridges have bridge ports and communicate at...
7171510 On-chip observability buffer to observer bus traffic  
The invention provides, in an embodiment, an apparatus, method and means for unintrusively observing, echoing and reading signals transmitted by one of a bus and wireless communication, without...
7171506 Plural interfaces in home network with first component having a first host bus width and second component having second bus width  
Universal network interfaces for a home network connect disparate components to the network, such as relatively complex components (TVs, computers) and relatively simple components (audio boom boxes).
7171540 Object-addressed memory hierarchy that facilitates accessing objects stored outside of main memory  
One embodiment of the present invention provides an object-addressed memory hierarchy that is able to access objects stored outside of main memory. During operation, the system receives a request...
7171505 Universal network interface connection  
An interface connection is described for joining a host device, such as a Network Processor, to peripherals such as modems, printers, local area networks, Ethernets and Token-Ring interfaces. The...
7167940 Data processing method, data processing apparatus, communications device, communications method, communications protocol and program  
To prevent a command from being unsmoothly issued when a communications channel (LUN) from a conventional initiator to a target enters communications disabled state for any reason there is...
7167939 Asynchronous system bus adapter for a computer system having a hierarchical bus structure  
A computer system having a hierarchical bus structure that allows decoupling of a local bus from a global bus thereof. Decoupling of the local bus is achieved through use of an asynchronous system...
7167938 Data transfer memory  
A data transfer memory for reducing the number of components in an electronic module. A master controller circuit provides a transfer start command to a master clock signal generator circuit when...
7165136 System and method for managing bus numbering  
Bus numbering management for an information handling system, such as a personal computer, is provided by interfacing one or more selectively hidden devices with one or more buses through either a...
7162615 Data transfer bus communication using single request to perform command and return data to destination indicated in context to allow thread context switch  
Systems and methods that allow for performing a single transaction that both instructs a device to perform an operation and return the resulting data to a processor without the processor having to...
7162553 Correlating high-speed serial interface data and FIFO status signals in programmable logic devices  
Status signals that are generated by one or more FIFO buffers in a high-speed serial interface (“HSSI”) may be combined with transmitted data samples in order to correlate the status signals to...
7159059 Ultra-modular processor in lattice topology  
A Modular Operating Topology Element (MOTE), within a software-latticed network, implements ultra-concurrent operation of a plurality of such MOTEs, as single miniaturized packages, e.g., Compact...
7159061 Link layer device with configurable address pin allocation  
Techniques are disclosed for flexible allocation of address pins of an interface bus to particular sub-buses of the interface bus. The interface bus is between at least one physical layer device...
7159062 Electronic shelf unit with management function performed by a common shelf card with the assistance of an auxiliary interface board  
An electronic shelf includes a plurality of system circuit boards including a first system circuit board containing a first central processing unit (CPU) providing decision-making intelligence for...
7159052 Configurable architecture for virtual socket client to an on-chip bus interface block  
An interface block provides an interface between an internal bus of an integrated circuit and a socket of a logic block. The interface block includes a synchronization module that performs any...
7159065 Method for issuing vendor specific requests for accessing ASIC configuration and descriptor memory while still using a mass storage class driver  
A bridge-chip may interface a Universal Serial Bus to a mass storage device. Communications of the universal serial bus may be examined to determine a command block wrapper (CBW) of a bulk...
7155546 Multiple physical interfaces in a slot of a storage enclosure to support different storage interconnect architectures  
Provided is a system for interfacing with storage units, including a backplane, at least one slot in the storage enclosure for receiving one storage unit, and two physical interfaces on the...
7155553 PCI express to PCI translation bridge  
A PCI Express to PCI bridge enables upstream and downstream isochronous data transfer by modifying the PCI bus arbiter so that the PCI device on the PCI bus is treated as a virtual port for the...
7155554 Methods and apparatuses for generating a single request for block transactions over a communication fabric  
Embodiments of apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for communicating information between functional blocks of a system across a communications fabric. A first functional block...
7152129 Apparatus having an inter-module data transfer confirming function, storage controlling apparatus, and interface module for the apparatus  
In a storage controlling apparatus controlling an access from a host to a disk apparatus, for example, when a data transfer confirmation flag set in a data transfer descriptor is “ON”, a data...
7152128 General input/output architecture, protocol and related methods to manage data integrity  
An enhanced general input/output communication architecture, protocol and related methods are presented. In one embodiment, a method is described comprising receiving a datagram at general...
7152136 Implementation of PCI express  
Methods and apparatus are provided for providing PCI Express support. A device includes a hard-coded transceiver configured to support protocols such as Fibre Channel and the 10 Gigabit Attachment...
7152125 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...
7149823 System and method for direct memory access from host without processor intervention wherein automatic access to memory during host start up does not occur  
A method and system for allowing a host device (e.g., server) to perform programmed direct accesses to peripheral memory (e.g., flash) located on a peripheral device (e.g., HBA), without the...
7149838 Method and apparatus for configuring multiple segment wired-AND bus systems  
A special bus master, called a configuration host, “walks” a bus system to discover the bus topology and bus bridges that form that topology. Once the bridges have been located, the...
7146448 Apparatus and method for adopting an orphan I/O port in a redundant storage controller  
A storage controller configured to adopt orphaned I/O ports is disclosed. The controller includes multiple field-replaceable units (FRUs) that plug into a backplane having local buses. At least two...
7146441 SRAM bus architecture and interconnect to an FPGA  
An SRAM bus architecture includes pass-through interconnect conductors. Each of the pass-through interconnect conductors is connected to routing channels of the general interconnect architecture of...
7146480 Configurable memory system  
A configurable memory system is disclosed, which includes a processor-to-memory network, a memory-to-processor network, and a plurality of memory modules. Both networks in turns include a plurality...
7142443 Reduced data line pre-fetch scheme  
A memory device for reducing the number of data read lines needed in a memory device. Specifically, multiple helper flip-flops are used to prefetch data in a memory device. The helper flip-flops...
7143226 Method and apparatus for multiplexing commands in a symmetric multiprocessing system interchip link  
The present invention, a multiprocessor chip pervasive command interface, collects different types of pervasive commands into individual queues for each command type. As permitted by various...
7143225 Apparatus and method for viewing data processor bus transactions on address pins during memory idle cycles  
A processing system comprising: i) a processor core; ii) a memory; iii) a plurality of peripheral devices; and iv) a communication bus coupled to the processor core, the memory and the peripheral...
7143227 Broadcast bridge apparatus for transferring data to redundant memory subsystems in a storage controller  
A bus bridge apparatus for performing broadcasted writes to redundant memory subsystems in a network storage controller is disclosed. The bus bridge includes a PCI-X target that receives a write...
7139861 Input/output unit access switching system and method  
An I/O unit access switching system and its method are implemented on a plurality of servers respectively having a baseboard management controller (BMC) and an intelligent platform management...
7136952 Method for programming firmware hubs using service processors  
A method and system that enables a service processor to program a system resource. The service processor uses a JTAG Bus to request a system processor to enter into probe mode. Once in probe mode,...
7136947 System and method for automatically synthesizing interfaces between incompatible protocols  
A system and method for enabling Intellectual Property (IP) Blocks to be reused at a system level. The present invention represents the IP blocks as blocks that exchange messages without needing to...
7136950 Multifunction passive adaptor for flash media cards  
The present invention enables the use of a single passive adaptor ( 1500, 1800 ) for multiple types of flash media cards. The present invention provides this by implementing form factors with a...
7132927 Universal serial bus extension cable  
A controller capable of being located in a peripheral device or host, is capable of engaging in data communications with a host or peripheral device over a power line. A power line interface...
7133955 System and method for selecting fabric master  
A system and method for selecting a fabric master using an announce phase and a own phase. During an announce phase a candidate master interrogates its Node Path Identifier to ensure that it has...
7133944 Media access controller with power-save mode  
There is provided a media access controller with a power-save mode. Particularly, the media access controller of the present invention minimizes power loss by disabling clocks applied to all...
7134056 High-speed chip-to-chip communication interface with signal trace routing and phase offset detection  
A high-speed parallel interface for communicating data between integrated circuits is disclosed. In one embodiment, the transmitter controller accepts 40-bit wide data every 167 Mhz clock cycle,...
7133956 Electronic device with serial ATA interface and signal amplitude adjusting method  
The CPU of an electronic device generates a parameter for determining the amplitude of a serial data signal when it is output from an output device to a serial ATA bus. The parameter indicates a...
7133954 Data bus system for micro controller  
Provided is a data bus system for a micro controller which has an input/output (I/O) unit, a central processing unit (CPU), an internal memory unit, and a peripheral circuitry. The data bus system...
7133942 Sequence-preserving multiprocessing system with multimode TDM buffer  
A parallel processing system includes a plurality of stages operatively coupled in parallel and operating simultaneously. Each stage including a process unit generating a predetermined function and...
7133953 Data transmission device used to forward data received at a first device for a second device to the second device  
A data transmission device is used to forward data that have been received from a first device, and are intended for a second device, to the second device. The data transmission device described...