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7254664 Express card interface adapter  
An Express Card interface adapter for desktop computers, laptop computers or portable electronic devices such as personal digital assistant (PDA) that allows an Express Card interface device to use...
7240141 Programmable inter-virtual channel and intra-virtual channel instructions issuing rules for an I/O bus of a system-on-a-chip processor  
A method and apparatus for programming instruction issuing rules for instructions residing among various virtual channels, as well as the same virtual channel of an I/O bus interface for a...
7234017 Computer system architecture for a processor connected to a high speed bus transceiver  
A high speed computer processor system has a high speed interface for a graphics processor. A preferred embodiment combines a PowerPC microprocessor called the Giga-Processor Ultralite (GPUL) 110...
7234016 Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing program  
To provide an information processing apparatus and the like, in which even when a plurality of other information processing apparatuses are connected on a single serial bus system, a required one...
7231309 Method and apparatus for testing a bridge circuit  
A method and an apparatus for testing a bridge circuit. The method includes inputting a first test clock to a first conversion unit for triggering the first conversion unit to transfer a test data...
7231485 Universal serial bus (USB) interface for mass storage device  
A mass storage device motherboard or secondary board includes a bridging circuit. The bridging circuit converts signals from the mass storage device into USB signals. The bridging circuit can be...
7228374 Data transmission system for connecting a controller with drives  
A data transmission system is described that connects a controller with drives in machine tools and production machines. The controller can be connected via an internal data bus with at least one...
7225289 Virtual IDE storage with PCI express interface  
The present invention discloses a virtual integrated drive electronics (IDE) storage device with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) Express interface. The storage device includes a...
7222211 Virtual USB flash memory storage device with PCI express interface  
A virtual universal serial bus (USB) flash memory storage device with a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) Express including a microcontroller connected separately to a flash memory and PCI...
7219181 Dual use modular PCI/PCI express interface  
Techniques where PCIe is implemented using connectors that are compatable with Cardbus/MPCI connectors. One technique implements PCIe on unused pins on Cardbus/MPCI connectors. An advantage of this...
7219180 Combined uninterruptable power supply and bus control module to improve power management and legacy support  
A system and apparatus providing power management and legacy support. An uninterruptable power supply is combined with a bus control module. The bus control module provides legacy support through a...
7209999 Expansion device for storage units  
An expansion device for storage units is applicable to a data processing system such as a blade server, to allow the number of storage units connected with the expansion device to be adjusted or...
7206874 Status display-enabled connector for a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter  
A Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) connector capable of displaying status includes a capturing unit, a driving unit and a display unit. The UART connector captures asynchronous...
7206875 Expander device capable of persistent reservations and persistent affiliations  
A method according to one embodiment may include creating at least one of a persistent reservation and a persistent affiliation between one or more target SATA storage devices and one or more...
7203788 USB-to-VGA converter  
A USB-to-VGA converter includes a USB controller connectable to a USB port of a computer for receiving USB based display signals from the computer, a VGA controller connectable to a display device...
7194607 Method and apparatus for command translation and enforcement of ordering of commands  
An adaptive arrangement including a command translation/ordering unit arranged to recognize and convert a first predetermined command unrecognizable/unsupported by an external recipient into a...
7191268 Combined host interface controller for conducting communication between a host system and multiple devices in multiple protocols  
Described herein are methods and systems for conducting computer system communications with a number of different devices that communicate with the computer system in a number of different...
7185135 USB to PCI bridge  
A USB to PCI bridge preferably includes a USB interface, a PCI interface, and an on-board processor configured to manage data flow between the interfaces. Firmware is preferably provided and...
7185136 Methods and systems for remotely accessing universal serial bus devices  
Methods and systems for remotely accessing a universal serial bus device are provided. A requesting device issues a request for a universal serial bus device. The request is intercepted and...
7185137 Bus bridge with stored controlling relay information  
A bus bridge is connected to a primary bus and a secondary bus, and relays data between a master and a target which are each connected to a different one of the primary and secondary buses. The bus...
7185134 Apparatus for managing Ethernet physical layer registers using external bus interface and method thereof  
An apparatus for managing Ethernet physical layer registers and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus comprises a central processing unit (CPU) with an external bus interface function, and...
7181562 Wired endian method and apparatus for performing the same  
A method and associated apparatus is provided for operating an electronic device in accordance with a wired endian format. More specifically, the wired endian format requires multi-byte values be...
7174407 Extendable computer system  
The present invention provides an extendable computer system including a motherboard for maintaining the functionality of the computer system. The motherboard includes a system chipset and a first...
7174410 Method, apparatus and computer program product for write data transfer  
A first device is operable to communicate on an bus according to a first protocol. A bridge is also operable to communicate on the bus according to the first protocol. A second device is coupled to...
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).
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...
7167929 Integrated-circuit implementation of a storage-shelf router and a path controller card for combined use in high-availability mass-storage-device shelves that may be incorporated within disk arrays, and a storage-shelf-interface tunneling method and system  
An integrated circuit implementing a storage-shelf router, used in combination with path controller cards and optionally with other storage-shelf routers, to interconnect SATA disks within a...
7162258 Light fixture wireless access points  
An access point for a wireless local area data communications network is designed to derive power from a lighting fixture. In one arrangement, the access point includes a housing configured to be...
7161388 Remote receiver detection  
In some embodiments, a chip includes first and second nodes, a variable voltage source, a transmitter, change detection circuitry, and control circuitry. The transmitter includes a driver coupled...
7162565 Universal serial bus interface to mass storage device  
An improved bridge circuit for connecting a disk drive with an ATA interface to a computer via a USB bus. After the bridge receives the first data from the ATA interface, the bridge makes the...
7159064 Method and device for increasing data transfer in multi-media card  
An electronic device having a MultiMediaCard host connected to a MultiMediaCard card via a bus system having a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein the host is operable...
7155556 Devices and methods for converting remote device formats to host device formats for access to host associated resources  
A host integrated circuit device can include a host interface circuit that is configured to access a resource associated with the host integrated circuit device in a first device interface format...
7152134 Interfacing a legacy data bus with a wideband data bus utilizing an embedded bus controller  
Various methods and systems provide interfaces between legacy data buses such as MIL-STD 1553 buses and wideband data buses such as IEEE 1394 data buses. One technique for interfacing a legacy bus...
7152135 PC CardBus structure  
The present invention relates to a PC CardBus structure arranged on a PC CardBus, which has a computer connection port on one side of the body for connecting a notebook computer, a tablet PC, or...
7152133 Expanded functionality protocol adapter for in-vehicle networks  
The invention is an improved protocol adapter for in-vehicle networks for diagnostics, analysis and monitoring. The invention has a pass through feature (voltage translator)/smart mode that allows...
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...
7149848 Computer system cache controller and methods of operation of a cache controller  
In at least some embodiments, a computer system comprises a central processing unit (“CPU”), a bridge device coupled to a main memory, and a cache controller coupled between the bridge device...
7149840 Universal serial bus interface to mass storage device using speculative write commands  
An improved USB to ATA bridge circuit that issues a speculative write command upon the completion of an actual write command: The speculative write command assumes that the next write command will...
7146446 Multiple module computer system and method  
A computer system for multi-processing purposes. The computer system has a console comprising a first coupling site and a second coupling site. Each coupling site comprises a connector. The console...
7146452 Multi-port system and method for routing a data element within an interconnection fabric  
The present invention relates generally to a generic fabric interconnect system and method for providing a data path between and among nodes and processing elements within an interconnection...
7139859 Inter-queue ordering mechanism  
A device for implementing transaction ordering enforcement between different queues of a computer system interconnect using an inter-queue ordering mechanism. The device includes first and second...
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...
7133958 Multiple personality I/O bus  
To efficiently personalize multiple bus interfaces, an input/output (I/O) integrated circuit (IC) is provided. This I/O IC can include two local bus control blocks, wherein each local bus control...
7130925 Information processing apparatus and method for receiving/transmitting data between an IEEE802-based format and an IEEE1394-based format  
An UPnP control point is connected to an IEEE802 network, and 1394 equipment is connected to an IEEE1394 network. The IEEE802 network and the IEEE1394 network are connected to each other through an...
7130954 Data migration method, protocol converter and switching apparatus using it  
An online data migration method is provided for transferring data from a computer and an existing storage system using the conventional interface such as SCSI to a new storage system using SAN. The...
7127538 Single-pin serial communication link with start-bit flow control  
A receiving device supplies a remote start bit onto a single-wire communication bus. Open-drain interfaces couple the single-wire communication bus to the receiving device and to a universal...
7120725 Method of communicating a VMEbus signal over IP packet network  
A method of communicating a VMEbus transfer ( 235 ) from an initiator VMEbus domain ( 202 ) over an IP packet network ( 210 ) to a responder VMEbus domain ( 204 ) can include the initiator VMEbus...
7107381 Flexible data transfer to and from external device of system-on-chip  
In a bus interface unit, a first communications interface is provided for the coupling of a first plurality of peripheral devices of different device types to facilitate communication with a...
7107383 Method and system for multi-channel transfer of data and control information  
A system and method for transferring information in a multi-channel, point-to-point environment are described. In one embodiment, a number of processing chips are connected to a bridge bus. A...
7103697 Flow-through register  
A selectively transparent interface circuit identified herein as a flow-through register (FTR) is disclosed. The FTR enables one or more devices on a primary bus to communicate with a device on a...