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7552246 Communication network having a plurality of bridging nodes which transmit a beacon to terminal nodes in power saving state that it has messages awaiting delivery  
An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the...
7526598 Efficient flash memory device driver  
A driver for a data storage device includes an access command and a verification command. The access command initiates an access (write, erase or read) of the data storage device while allowing a...
7506082 Data transferring system using USB and method thereof  
Data is transferred from a terminal to a computer over a USB cable. This is accomplished when the terminal transmits a control signal to the computer through a control line of a USB cable based on...
7483897 System and method for harvesting of data from peripheral devices  
A system and method harvest data from at least one device, by canvassing the devices and tracking which canvassed devices yielded harvested data and then repeating such canvassing and tracking...
7379418 Method for ensuring system serialization (quiesce) in a multi-processor environment  
A method of ensuring system serialization in a multiprocessor multi-nodal environment is used to force all processors in a multiprocessor environment to temporarily suspend operations while one...
7359782 Vehicular impact reactive system and method  
System and method for reacting to an expected impact involving a vehicle including an anticipatory sensor system for determining that an impact involving the vehicle is about to occur prior to the...
7340539 Device connected to a bus for storing information utilized to allocate priority to data stored in storage device and method for operating the device  
A device that is connected to a bus can transmit data to one or more other devices and/or can receive data from other devices, through the bus, includes storage (i.e., memories or memory areas) in...
7330481 Highly channelized port polling in a telecommunications switch  
A method of telecommunication network switch port polling enables very highly channelized ports to be polled. A polling engine reads information from at least one of a plurality of poll registers,...
7315907 Information delivery and display system and information delivery method  
An information delivery and display system includes one or more information display devices that play display information, and a monitoring/control server that sends information to the information...
7286494 Polling communication system and polling control method  
A polling communication system includes a main station and a plurality of sub stations connected to the main station. The main station includes an address control part and a polling control part....
7275097 System and method for analyzing input/output activity on local attached storage  
A system, method and computer program product for analyzing file I/O activity on local attached storage devices within a computer network is provided. In an embodiment, a software agent executes on...
7263564 Inquiring apparatus and method thereof  
An inquiring apparatus and method thereof is provided for assisting the CPU to inquire the state of the peripheral device. When the CPU needs to perform an inquiring process to wait for a...
7254655 Software and process for low-latency audio recording  
A process and software for aggressive capture of digital recording on computers, for the purpose of reducing audio latency, which includes periodic frequent polling of a recording buffer containing...
7248146 Method for waking a device in response to wireless network activity  
A method and a system for data transmission between a first electronic device and a second electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is in a sleep mode. Transmission of data between...
7203205 Polling device and communication apparatus  
A polling device of the present invention performs communication control such that frame synchronous transfer modes and frame asynchronous transfer modes are used so as to perform a communication...
7180906 Method and apparatus for autopolling physical layer devices in a network  
A method and apparatus for autopolling physical layer (PHY) devices in a network is controlled by information contained in a plurality of poll registers. A user independently defines the PHY...
7174274 Gathering I/O measurement data during an I/O operation process  
I/O measurement data associated with the performance of an I/O operation process is gathered during the I/O process. The I/O measurement data is saved in an IRB memory location specified by a test...
7149834 Wireless device attachment and detachment system, apparatus and method  
A polling method, apparatus, and system to detect the attachment and detachment of Universal Serial Bus devices in a wireless system. A hub provides a wired connection to the host and wireless...
7124184 Home networking system having alive and connection termination messages and method for operating same  
A home network system for controlling one or more home appliances connected to a network and a method for operating the same. If an alive message or a connection termination message is normally...
7093141 Power aware adaptive polling  
A method for adapting the periodicity of polling for pending service requests, by polling system devices for pending service requests, recording whether or not there was a pending service request...
7080162 Reduced hardware network adapter and communication method  
The present invention provides a network interface adapter for connecting a client computer to a computer network that includes a reduced hardware media access controller (MAC) coupled through a...
7076578 Race free data transfer algorithm using hardware based polling  
A method and apparatus for a race free data transfer algorithm using hardware based polling. One disclosed method transfers information between a target device and a buffer which is one of a set of...
7065391 Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication control method  
A slave can take any of a start state in which the slave can communicate with a master, a communication control state in which at least the slave can receive a start request signal transmitted by...
6996613 System for storing and transmitting home network system data  
The invention specifies a system having a plurality of devices which are connected to one another via an IEEE 1394 interface and one of which contains a control unit which, when operated...
6993606 Communication method and communication apparatus for data communication between devices connected by a network  
A sink apparatus receives stream data outputted from a source apparatus connected to a predetermined network. When the source apparatus or an other apparatus connected to the network transmits a...
6988140 Mechanism for servicing connections by disassociating processing resources from idle connections and monitoring the idle connections for activity  
A mechanism for servicing connections by disassociating processing resources from idle connections and monitoring the idle connections for activity is described. In one embodiment, a connection...
6981081 Method for SMI arbitration timeliness in a cooperative SMI/driver use mechanism  
A Bus Driver implements an arbitration mechanism to allow both the system management interrupt (SMI) and the Bus Driver to cooperatively use a Bus host controller hardware. This mechanism employs a...
6976100 Autonomic I/O adapter response performance optimization using polling  
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for communicating with an I/O processor (IOP) are provided. Polling of message queue pointers is utilized to detect the occurrence of certain message...
6973052 Hybrid power save delivery method in a wireless local area network for real time communication  
A mobile station establishes a schedule by which data is exchanged with an access point. The schedule allows the mobile station to use a low power mode at times outside of the scheduled service...
6970986 Software based system and method for I/O chip hiding of processor based controllers from operating system  
An invention is provided for hiding an input/output device from an operating system. A window of time is provided wherein a specific input/output processor (IOP) has exclusive access to a bus. An...
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...
6963934 Hibernation of computer systems  
An improved hibernation method and system, including the use of a modified DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode of transferring data to and from the disk. The use of DMA increases data transfer speed,...
6959309 Interface between programming languages and method therefor  
An interface implements a file system for supporting Java record and resource management between an operating system using a first programming language other than Java and a suite of Java...
6944687 Reducing power consumption of an electronic system having a communication device  
A computer system comprises a host computer coupled to a wireless module via a digital interface. The wireless module permits the computer system to communicate with a wireless network. The host...
6944681 Probing algorithm for foundation fieldbus protocol  
A hand-held communication control device which, when coupled to a process control system communication bus, controls communication occurring on the bus using a communication schedule that dictates...
6922743 Disk subsystem with disk access controller including access request table with cross-call function  
Transmission/reception of each request is carried out through one and the same port. When requests are concentrated on one port, the port has to process all the requests. The processing load on the...
6906426 Transceiver having shadow memory facilitating on-transceiver collection and communication of local parameters  
The present invention relates to a register for a single chip multi-sublayer PHY. More specifically, the present invention relates to a transceiver module including a single chip multi-layer PHY...
6898751 Method and system for optimizing polling in systems using negative acknowledgement protocols  
A process and system is provided for setting up a polling interval for a device that sends a not acknowledged (NAK) signal. The process determines the number of times the device sends a NAK signal...
6898652 Wireless device attachment and detachment system, apparatus and method  
A polling method, apparatus, and system to detect the attachment and detachment of Universal Serial Bus devices in a wireless system. A hub provides a wired connection to the host and wireless...
6883037 Fast data decoder that operates with reduced output buffer bounds checking  
Described is an improved decoder that reduces the number of bounds checks needed for typical compressed data by first guaranteeing that there is sufficient room to decode small symbol substrings...
6880021 Intelligent interrupt with hypervisor collaboration  
An apparatus, method and program product for controlling the transfer of data in a data processing system having a processor handling an I/O request in an I/O operation, main storage controlled by...
6865631 Reduction of interrupts in remote procedure calls  
A method and system for executing one or more remote procedure calls. In one embodiment, a method comprises the step of a processing unit issuing a plurality of commands to a corresponding DMA...
6842797 USB adapter for burst mode communications  
Disclosed is device and method for improved burst communication on a USB bus. In one embodiment, a USB Ethernet adapter device uses the USB Interrupt Channel to send a message to an Ethernet class...
6804725 IC with state machine controlled linking module  
A TAP linking module provides for control and access of plural TAPs on an IC through one set of JTAG signal pins. The IC includes plural circuit modules, each with its own TAP, and boundary scan...
6792483 I/O generation responsive to a workload heuristics algorithm  
An apparatus, method and program product for use with a data processing system having a processor handling an I/O request in an I/O operation, main storage controlled by said processor for storing...
6754738 Low overhead I/O interrupt  
An apparatus, method and program product for sending data to or receiving data from one or more I/O devices in an I/O operation with a main storage controlled by a processor in a data processing...
6748465 Local bus polling support buffer  
A method and apparatus for allowing memory, cache and/or a processor to remain powered down while repetitive transactions are carried out on an I/O bus and actions are taken in response to feedback...
6718412 Apparatus and method for universal serial bus communications  
An apparatus and method for communicating between a controller and a message processing device over a universal serial bus (USB). The apparatus may comprise an interface having a bulk data-out...
6697900 Bus monitor and method of gathering bus phase information in real-time  
Control signals of an I/O or peripheral bus are sensed during cycles of the bus and information describing bus phases of the signals is derived by sensing the control signals and is stored in a...
6675238 Each of a plurality of descriptors having a completion indicator and being stored in a cache memory of an input/output processor  
An apparatus and method for efficient input/output processing without the use of interrupts is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of descriptors where each descriptor includes a...
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