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6279049 |
Device bay system for controlling devices coupled to a computer
A device bay system having a device control key input unit is disclosed in which in order to control a device inserted in a device bay rather than relying on a mouse, a control-objective device bay...
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6275877 |
Memory access controller
A direct memory access controller is provided which utilizes a single dedicated controller to control all or substantially all memory accesses in a computer system, both memory-to-memory accesses...
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6266723 |
Method and system for optimizing of peripheral component interconnect PCI bus transfers
A method for optimizing bus transactions in a data processing system is provided. A bus transaction optimizer receives an original bus transaction request which includes an original start address...
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6266716 |
Method and system for controlling data acquisition over an information bus
A group of protocols is described that establish an information bus. The protocols allow various applications and components to plug into the information bus. As a member of the bus, each...
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6260083 |
System for Java data block transfers of unknown length for applets and applications by determining length of data in local buffer and passing length of data combined with data out of program
In an information processing system, a method to perform I/O (Input/Output) operations for an interpretative based program that is executing on an Interpretative Machine (IM). The method comprises...
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6256684 |
System for transferring data in high speed between host computer and peripheral device utilizing peripheral interface with accelerated mode
A method and system for increasing the rate of data transfer between a PC-based computer and an IDE/ATA-compliant hard drive is disclosed. Synchronous data transfer is employed in a manner that...
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6249827 |
Method for transferring data associated with a read/write command between a processor and a reader circuit using a plurality of clock lines
A memory circuit with glitch-less transfer of timing information. In one embodiment, the invention is a memory circuit including a controller, multiple loads, a command link communicatively...
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6249756 |
Hybrid flow control
An improved hybrid flow control protocol for providing FIFO capacity to prevent overflow due to bytes arriving after the FIFO indicates it is not ready to receive any more bytes utilizes a...
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6240469 |
System for transferring motion picture data between peripheral device interfaces by second peripheral interface issuing data transaction based on information set by processor to designate first peripheral interface
A master transaction control unit capable of starting an I/O read transaction is arranged in a DVD decoder, and a DVD control driver controls both the DVD decoder and a DVD interface. With this...
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6233628 |
System and method for transferring data using separate pipes for command and data
A computer system includes a host computer and a peripheral memory device such as a CD ROM which are interconnected by a bus including a plurality of pipes defined by packets, time division...
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6233631 |
Upload/Download of Auditron information to PC or phone line
A method of providing machine usage data to a computer for a given user by setting the machine for transmission of the machine usage data to the computer and transmitting the machine usage data to...
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6230215 |
On-demand transfer engine
An on-demand transfer (ODT) engine is located in each peripheral in a host/peripheral system communicating using a burst mode bus, e.g., a PCI bus. Each peripheral transfers blocks by setting,...
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6230218 |
Apparatus for transferring execution of certain channel functions to a control unit and having means for combining certain commands and data packets in one sequence
The present invention provides for an apparatus for transferring information in a network computing system environment. The apparatus comprises of a main storage and an information transfer...
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6226701 |
Method and system for accurate temporal determination of real-time events within a universal serial bus system
A method and system that enables real-time peripheral devices to be connected to a computer system utilizing Universal Serial Bus architecture. The present invention empowers the computer system to...
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6223232 |
System and method to predict configuration of a bus target
A target configuration prediction system that provides an initiator coupled to a bus system with a prediction of the configuration type of a target. The present invention stores information...
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6223235 |
SCSI bus based high speed data server
A data server includes an SCSI disk that stores data and an SCSI bus that is connected to the SCSI disk and that is arranged to transfer the data from the SCSI disk. An SCSI bus adapter is...
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6219761 |
Load/store assist engine
An input/output bus architecture that includes: an input/output bus; an input/output device connected to the input/output bus; a main processor, connected to the input/output bus, for executing a...
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6216182 |
Method and apparatus for serving data with adaptable interrupts
A system for storing data. The system includes a host for processing the data. The system includes a buffer mechanism for storing data and producing interrupt signals to the host for informing the...
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6209070 |
System for multiple data transfer operations
Disclosed is a system for transferring data involving a data movement, such as the duplication of address information, that includes two data movement components. A first data transfer from at...
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6192430 |
Innovative dual-channel serial interface circuit scheme
A mixed-signal processor (MSP) chip with a flexible serial interface which simultaneously accommodates two serial ports on a reduced number of pins. The pin definitions of these serial ports are...
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6189078 |
System and method for increasing data transfer throughput for cache purge transactions using multiple data response indicators to maintain processor consistency
A system and method for reducing data transfer delays in a transaction processing system is provided. The system includes a plurality of devices each having an associated local memory, and a...
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6185631 |
Program for transferring execution of certain channel functions to a control unit and having means for combining certain commands and data packets in one sequence
The present invention provides for a computer program product for use with a computer system having a main storage device in processing communication with an information transfer interface...
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6185636 |
Media server system and method for preventing FIFO buffer underflow during multiple channel startup by pre-loading a decoder buffer prior to issuing a play command
A media server system and method for reducing the probability of data starvation or underflow in a media server system. The media server system preferably comprises a video server computer system...
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6185637 |
System for implementing an adaptive burst length for burst mode transactions of a memory by monitoring response times for different memory regions
A system is disclosed for improving the efficiency of data transactions by permitting the length of burst transactions to be modified based upon system performance. A bus interface unit monitors...
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6182166 |
Method/apparatus for interfacing two remotely disposed devices coupled via transmission medium with first and second commands transmitted without first checking receiving device for readiness
A method and apparatus for communicating a plurality of commands from a first device to a second device over a data communication link coupling the first and second devices, the plurality of...
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6167467 |
Information reception and recording circuit
When a transmission request reception process controller accepts a request to transmit information, the information is read from a memory in order of addresses generated by an address generator. A...
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6167469 |
Digital camera having display device for displaying graphical representation of user input and method for transporting the selected digital images thereof
A method and apparatus for transporting digital images is provided. In one embodiment, a personal electronic handheld digital camera executes an application program that enables a user of the...
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6151640 |
Control I/O module having the ability to interchange bus protocols for bus networks independent of the control I/O module
A field bus network of input and output devices is coupled to a control system through an I/O interface module, regardless of their data structures. The I/O interface module is coupled to the...
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6148349 |
Dynamic and consistent naming of fabric attached storage by a file system on a compute node storing information mapping API system I/O calls for data objects with a globally unique identification
The present invention describes a parallel processing system. The system comprises a plurality of compute nodes for executing applications via a storage application interface having system...
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6145017 |
Data alignment system for a hardware accelerated command interpreter engine
A hardware accelerated data alignment system in a hardware accelerated I/O data processing engine that gathers and maintains pointers to a set of widely distributed source and/or destination data...
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6145027 |
DMA controller with split channel transfer capability and FIFO buffering allowing transmit channel to get ahead of corresponding receive channel by preselected number of elements
A microprocessor 1 is described which includes a direct memory access (DMA) circuitry 143. DMA 143 is interconnected with a program memory 23 and a data memory 22 and is operational to transfer...
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6138185 |
High performance crossbar switch
A switch having a plurality of input/output (I/O) ports and a crossbar device programmably coupling a first of the I/O ports with a second of the I/O ports. A plurality of port request controllers...
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6134609 |
Method for using computer system memory as a modem data buffer by transferring modem I/O data directly to system controller and transferring corresponding system controller data directly to main memory
A method and associated circuitry are described for interfacing a software-based modem in a computer system. Memory/modem interface circuitry is integrated within a system controller coupling a...
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6131141 |
Method of and portable apparatus for determining and utilizing timing parameters for direct duplication of hard disk drives
A method of and an apparatus for duplicating direct access storage devices (DASDs) such as hard disk drives (HDDs). The apparatus includes a portable HDD duplicator which can be connected to an...
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6131131 |
Computer system including an enhanced communication interface for an ACPI-compliant controller
A conventional keyboard-style ACPI interface is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a bi-directional hardware buffer and a special software protocol that allows multiple byte command and data...
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6128669 |
System having a bridge with distributed burst engine to decouple input/output task from a processor
An apparatus for decoupling input/output (I/O) from host processing through main memory. A command packet architecture and distributed burst engine for communicating data to an I/O device without...
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6125410 |
D.M.A. controller that determines whether the mode of operation as either interrupt or D.M.A. via single control line
The invention discloses a communication system for exchanging data between a bus and at least one coupled data processing arrangement via a serial interface which is coupled to a microprocessor by...
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6111592 |
DMA data transfer apparatus, motion picture decoding apparatus using the same, and DMA data transfer method
When successive DMA transfer is to be performed between a plurality of areas of a memory and a DVD decoder, pairs of start memory addresses and transfer counter values corresponding to the...
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6112260 |
Method and apparatus for redirecting input/output device data in a computer system through use of debug registers
A computer system implements a standard modem without the use of a microcontroller. Instead, a digital signal processor is provided on an expansion card, but with direct links to the computer...
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6112261 |
Data transferring system reading and temporarily storing a record until a length of the record is different from a defined record length parameter value
Data transfer methods and systems are described. The methods and systems permit the transferring of data which is organized into a plurality of records from a readable data storage medium to a host...
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6108721 |
Method and apparatus for ensuring data consistency between an i/o channel and a processor
In a method and apparatus that ensures data consistency between an I/O channel and a processor, system software issues an instruction which causes the issuance of a transaction when notification of...
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6108723 |
System for implementing hardware automated control of burst mode data transfer over a communication link between devices operating in a block mode
Burst-mode data transfers between a SCSI host bus adapter and at least one SCSI bus device interface adapter are implemented by hardware. For a first embodiment of the invention, the device...
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6105075 |
Scatter gather memory system for a hardware accelerated command interpreter engine
A hardware accelerated memory system in a hardware accelerated I/O data processing engine that gathers and maintains pointers to a set of widely distributed source and/or destination data...
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6098123 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic allocation of bandwidth to/from network adapter memory amongst active input/output ports
A dynamic allocation system and method is provided for allocating memory bandwidth associated with a store and forward memory communicating between a node processsor and a network. Dynamic...
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6073205 |
System and method of write posting in a universal serial bus system
An apparatus and method for write posting in a universal serial bus (USB) system includes a host computer connected to USB devices via a USB. The host computer generates requests to write data to...
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6070204 |
Method and apparatus for using universal serial bus keyboard to control DOS operations
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for generating signals using a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller and USB keyboard. Data generated by the keyboard is marked as being used...
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6055580 |
System for transferring length round down to cache line multiple capable to determine type of read request which selects and reads portion of prefetched data in memory
A method and system for efficiently transferring data between a host computer and a peripheral component which is removably coupled to the host computer. In one embodiment of the present invention,...
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6055586 |
Image manipulating system including means for displaying an image and information relating to transfer of an image
An image manipulating system according to the present invention can perform interval recording for repeatedly recording supplied image information at predetermined time intervals. Herein, a limit...
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6047338 |
System for transferring a data directly from/to an address space of a calling program upon the calling program invoking a high performance interface for computer networks
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture comprising a high performance interface for sending data to a remote device and receiving data from a remote device...
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6044415 |
System for transferring I/O data between an I/O device and an application program's memory in accordance with a request directly over a virtual connection
A virtual connection created between an application program and a selected I/O device is used as a communications medium for controlling I/O processing of the I/O device by the application program....
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