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8185671 Technique for increasing control and status signal density in a fixed register address space  
A plurality of registers may function as both the control and status registers. Each bit location of the registers is writable to set a value on a control signal and readable to read a current...
8180935 Methods and apparatus for interconnecting SAS devices using either electrical or optical transceivers  
Methods and systems for encoding and/or decoding digital signals representing serial attached SCSI (SAS) out of band (OOB) signals exchanged over an optical communication between two SAS devices. A...
8176209 Data communication system  
A data communication system is provided. The data communication system includes a main processor, and at least one sub-processor or at least one peripheral device connected with the main processor...
8171178 Scaling of small computer system interface input output (SCSI I/O) referrals  
A command is issued to a first data storage system for addressing a set of data and at least one of a first referral response including a referral to at least a second data storage system or at...
8156261 Methods and apparatus for providing data transfer control  
A variety of advantageous mechanisms for improved data transfer control within a data processing system are described. A DMA controller is described which is implemented as a multiprocessing...
8135886 Instruction set for programmable queuing  
A traffic manager includes an execution unit that is responsive to instructions related to queuing of data in memory. The instructions may be provided by a network processor that is programmed to...
8127047 Storage system and its multiple extent exclusive control method  
Proposed is technology for shortening the time required for analyzing and processing commands issued from multiple hosts and speeding up the processing. When a controller receives a command...
8127052 Data transfer control device and computer system  
A data transfer control device includes a control component (DMA controller 5) which acquires a data transfer instruction including, as its parameters, start memory addresses or start input/output...
8122158 Method for improving I/O performance of host systems by applying future time interval policies when using external storage systems  
A method, system, and a computer program product for improving IO (input/output) performance of host systems using external storage systems. An aspect of the present invention predicts policies to...
8117353 Image processing apparatus  
An image processing apparatus is capable of communicating data with a plurality of external apparatuses attached to the image processing apparatus. Each of the external apparatuses includes an...
8112558 Frame buffer management program, program storage medium and management method  
This is a computer-readable portable storage medium which is used by a computer managing a plurality of frame buffers and which stores a program enabling the computer to execute a process, and the...
8108563 Auxiliary writes over address channel  
A processing system and method for communicating in a processing system over a bus is disclosed. The processing system includes a receiving device, a bus having first, second and third channels,...
8108583 Direct memory access controller system with message-based programming  
A data transfer system comprising a first bus interface, a second bus interface, a first-in-first-out memory, a controller and a message unit. The message unit is operable to queue a plurality of...
8103804 Method and system for embedded regenerative licensing  
A method and system for embedded regenerative licensing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises transmitting a first capability request for a first...
8103802 Portable data system  
A data system includes an article such as footwear, model car or toy, an electronic module carried by said article, the electronic module having a microprocessor and a data storage device to which...
8099522 Arrangements for I/O control in a virtualized system  
A method for controlling input and output of a virtualized computing platform is disclosed. The method can include creating a device interface definition, assigning an identifier to a paging device...
8095699 Methods and apparatus for interfacing between a host processor and a coprocessor  
An interface to transfer data between a host processor and an external coprocessor is provided. The interface may operate in several write modes, in which in a first write mode the write operation...
8095695 Control apparatus for process input-output device  
A control apparatus for an input-output device includes a hardware part and a software part, in which a controller in the hardware part carries out a control operation in accordance with a signal...
8086765 Direct I/O device access by a virtual machine with memory managed using memory disaggregation  
Illustrated is a system and method for identifying a memory page that is accessible via a common physical address, the common physical address simultaneously accessed by a hypervisor remapping the...
8078799 Method and system of an adaptive input/output scheduler for storage arrays  
An adaptive input/output (I/O) scheduler for storage arrays is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller for deploying an optimal I/O...
8069292 Apparatus and method for packet based storage virtualization  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for data processing and virtualization. The method and apparatus are configured to receive communications, separate a command communication...
8060661 Interface circuit and method for programming or communicating with an integrated circuit via a power supply pin  
An interface circuit and method for programming or communicating with an integrated circuit (IC) via a power supply pin is provided herein. In general, the power supply pin may be coupled for...
8055806 Autonomic threading model switch based on input/output request type  
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to threading model switching between asynchronous I/O and synchronous I/O models and provide a novel and non-obvious...
8051221 Communication system, information processing device, peripheral device and communication method  
A communication system that performs data communications based on an SCSI command defined in the SCSI standard, the communication system includes; a peripheral device that performs at least one of...
8046434 Data communication apparatus and method, data communication system, information-processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program  
In an AV-data transfer system, AV data stored in a RAID embedded in an AV server is supplied to a client personal computer connected to a network such as the Internet or an intranet by way of the...
8041843 Recording/reproducing apparatus  
A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an...
8028103 Method and apparatus for generating secure DAM transfers  
In one embodiment, a direct memory access (DMA) controller comprises a transmit control circuit, an offload engine, and a receive control circuit. The transmit control circuit is configured to read...
8019908 Data replication systems and methods  
Data replication systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises at a system controller of a disk device, receiving data at a system controller of a removable cartridge...
8005998 Method for controlling power consumption of a USB mass storage, associated personal computer, and storage medium storing an associated USB mass storage driver  
A method for controlling power consumption of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Mass Storage is provided. The USB Mass Storage is electrically connected to a USB port. The method includes: monitoring at...
8006246 Apparatus for forcibly terminating thread blocked on input/output operation and method for the same  
Provided are an apparatus and a method for forcibly terminating a thread blocked on an I/O operation by terminating the I/O operation, transmitting a user-defined signal to the thread blocked on...
7996574 Messaging mechanism for inter processor communication  
An apparatus and method are provided for connecting a host Enterprise System Connection Architecture (ESCON) Input/Output (I/O) interface to a cache of a data storage system. The apparatus includes...
7991920 System and method for controlling information output devices  
System and method for controlling the presentation of information, such as dynamically displayed text, includes a computer with a display device and one or more sets of electrode plates and...
7970955 Recording/reproducing apparatus  
A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an...
7962666 Transfer apparatus, transfer system, program, and transfer method  
A transfer apparatus includes a connection status detection block, a storage status detection block, a no-operation status detection block, and a transfer block. The transfer block can...
7945715 System for data transfer between microcomputer devices  
The system according to the present invention for data transfer between microcomputer devices contains a standard protocol controller, a generally known ethernet controller, for example, as a...
7945718 Microcontroller waveform generation  
One embodiment of the present invention is a microcontroller (24) including an embedded memory (42), waveform control circuitry (44) operatively coupled to the memory (42), several terminals (52),...
7945704 Smart card set protocol optimization  
A method of facilitating communications between a computer device and a smart card reader having an associated smart card, the computer device including a smart card resource manager and a smart...
7945251 Locating a service device for a portable communication device  
A portable communication device (10) may send a service device locating request (42) including a position associated with the portable communication device to a service device locating device (12)....
7930706 Managing cache reader and writer threads in a proxy server  
A system and method are provided for managing reader and writer threads in a caching proxy server. In general, a caching proxy server operates as an intermediary between a web server and a number...
7921241 Instruction set for programmable queuing  
A traffic manager includes an execution unit that is responsive to instructions related to queuing of data in memory. The instructions may be provided by a network processor that is programmed to...
7908403 Reserved device access contention reduction  
A computer program product, an apparatus, and a method for reducing reserved device access contention at a control unit in communication with a plurality of operating systems via one or more...
7865854 Simultaneous parameter-driven and deterministic simulation with or without synchronization  
A method for allowing simultaneous parameter-driven and deterministic simulation during verification of a hardware design, comprising: enabling a plurality of random parameter-driven commands from...
7861015 USB apparatus and control method therein  
The present invention relates to an application of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology, and more particularly, to a USB apparatus with data storage and security token and control method...
7861010 Operation monitor system, semiconductor apparatus, and information collection apparatus  
An operation monitor system externally outputs a sufficient amount of condition information that indicates an internal operation condition, without using a dedicated terminal, that is to say,...
7856513 Recording/reproducing apparatus  
A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an...
7856511 Processing of data to suspend operations in an input/output processing system  
A computer program product, an apparatus, and a method for processing communications between a target and an initiator an input/output processing system are provided. The computer program product...
7840718 Processing of data to suspend operations in an input/output processing log-out system  
A computer program product, an apparatus, and a method for processing communications between a control unit and a channel subsystem in an input/output processing system are provided. The computer...
7818464 Apparatus and method for capturing serial input data  
A serial input processing apparatus provides how to capture serial data without loss of a single bit while command interpretation is being performed in a command decoder at high frequency....
7812832 Display capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats  
A display is capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats. The display includes a controller that is coupled to a plurality of image data interfaces. When...
7796863 Apparatus and computer-readable program for generating volume image  
Provided is a generating apparatus that generates a DVD-Video volume image, and a BD-ROM volume image, that each have: a digital stream, path information, and a jump table, where in the respective...
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