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7222198 System for transferring data between devices by making brief connection with external contacts that extend outwardly from device exterior  
Disclosed are systems and methods for transferring data. In one embodiment, a system and method pertain to configuring a first device to send data, touching an external contact of the first device...
7222349 External device support for device abstraction layer  
Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing external device support for a device driver abstraction layer are disclosed. Some embodiments of a method may involve: accessing attribute...
7222313 Creating description files used to configure components in a distributed system  
The present invention provides for creating description files used to configure components in a distributed system. A computer or program developer accesses an application type. The computer or...
7219171 Flow control for digital signal processing to support data stream operations  
A method and apparatus are described for flow control for digital signal processing to support data stream operations. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method comprises setting a...
7219167 Accessing configuration registers by automatically changing an index  
An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for accessing configuration registers. An indication that an attempt has been made to access a first register is received. This first register...
7216184 System and method for identification of devices associated with input/output paths  
The present invention is directed to a system and method which discovers or identifies a type of device associated with an input/output (I/O path). Preferred embodiments define a type of device by...
7213142 System and method to initialize registers with an EEPROM stored boot sequence  
A system and method to initialize registers with an EEPROM stored boot sequence is described. The method includes reading configuration records from an EEPROM coupled to an ASIC upon system reset....
7213086 System having a storage controller that modifies operation of a storage system based on the status of a data transfer  
A system comprises a storage controller for managing transfers of data between a host and storage memory; a data mover coupled to the storage controller handling data transferred between a host and...
7213083 Apparatus for accessing a computer-readable medium device  
A computer-readable medium device includes apparatus and a computer-readable medium. To a computing device, according to a predetermined command set behavior of the computer-readable medium device,...
7206865 Apparatus and method for combining writes to I/O  
An apparatus and method for outbound I/O write-combining are described. In one embodiment the method includes the detection of a write transaction request directed to an I/O device. Once detected,...
7203772 Bluetooth device with user-reconfigurable device name  
A Bluetooth device includes a processing unit and a memory unit. The memory unit has a default device name stored therein, and stores program instructions for configuring the processing unit to...
7203773 Multi-protocol A/V control port with selective modulation  
A method and apparatus for using a control port in accordance with a variety of different protocols. A main processor communicates a configuration instruction to an interface controller. The...
7203751 Mobile communication device and method  
A mobile communication device which selects one of a plurality of radio transmitting/receiving devices different at least in data communication speed from one another in accordance with the type of...
7200691 System and method for efficient DMA transfer and buffering of captured data events from a nondeterministic data bus  
A system and method for efficient transfer and buffering of captured data events. The system includes data capture logic configured to capture data events from a nondeterministic data bus; a system...
7200641 Method and system for encoding SCSI requests for transmission using TCP/IP  
A system and method provides for establishing a direct TCP/IP connection between a workstation and a storage system independent of a server to which the storage system is connected. A SCSI request...
7200685 Communication apparatus for communicating data between separate toplogies, and related method, storage medium, and program  
In a connection form of PC-printer-digital camera, for example, to enable a printing function from a PC to a printer, a direct printing function from a digital camera to a printer, and a function...
7196812 Information processing apparatus and control code generation method  
Upon generating control codes to be output to a printing apparatus, an application designates the total number of control codes that can be generated, and when the designated number of control...
7197650 Charging and monitoring apparatus and method of charging a battery and monitoring the power level through power supply line  
A battery is charged utilizing electric power provided by a power supply line included in a cable that is in accordance with IEEE 1394. A charging apparatus and a personal computer are connected...
7197340 Radio module  
The present invention relates to a radio module which has at least two operational modes; a passive operational model wherein an external microprocessor device is connected to the radio module as...
7194559 Slave I/O driver calibration using error-nulling master reference  
Methods and devices for calibrating a driver on a slave device, using a master device driver as a load, are disclosed. A master reference driver is integrated on the same circuit as the master...
7191262 High-throughput UART interfaces  
A modified universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) device is provided with an auxiliary high speed parallel channel using supplementary FIFO buffers for the exchange of data. The...
7191257 System and method for real-time processing of nondeterministic captured data events  
A system and method for real-time processing of nondeterministic captured data events. The system includes data capture logic configured to capture data events from a nondeterministic data bus; a...
7185164 Method for rearranging logical volume  
A method for rearranging a logical volume including arranging a logical volume rearranging program on a particular server and using the logical volume rearranging program to acquire server/storage...
7184922 Measurement device that appears to a computer system as a file storage device  
A measurement device operable to communicate with a computer system via files. The computer system may receive one or more files created by the measurement device, where the files include...
7185190 Pushing capabilities into firmware by an operating system  
A method and system to push capabilities into firmware by an operating system. A pre-boot driver is accessed at a computer system during operating system runtime of the computer system. The...
7185126 Universal serial bus hub with shared transaction translator memory  
Various embodiments of a method and apparatus for implementing multiple transaction translators that share a single memory in a serial hub are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a USB...
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...
7181550 Highly versatile process control system controller  
A versatile controller that can be used as either a stand-alone controller in a relatively small process plant or as one of numerous controllers in a distributed process control system depending on...
7181552 Storage device and processing method  
Provided is a storage device that includes a first interface unit configured to connect to an external apparatus, a second interface unit configured to connect to a network, and a control unit...
7181554 Controller device to be connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network  
A memory in a controller device stores a current function information list, which is a list of function information of each target device currently connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network, and...
7181606 Electronic device that uses a communications network for remote reprogramming of the device  
A portable electronic device is disclosed that is reprogrammable through a pager network. The device includes a communications port. The device also includes a data transceiver for transmitting...
7177035 Image forming apparatus which accepts printing instruction prior to initialization of the storage section  
An image forming apparatus is disclosed which includes a power-on section which supplies power, a storage section which stores image data, a printing section which prints image data stored in the...
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...
7171548 Method for managing resources in a reconfigurable computer having programmable logic resources where automatically swapping configuration data between a secondary storage device and the programmable logic resources  
A reconfigurable computer system based on programmable logic is provided. A system design language may be used to write applications. The applications may be automatically partitioned into software...
7167928 Electronic device with USB interface  
A mobile device 1 has a USB transmitter-receiver 3 having one or more interfaces formed by one or more endpoints for exchanging information via the USB, one or more logical devices 61 to 65 ...
7167931 Executing program installed in computer slot of a machine in one of plural environments comprising a main operating system and small operating system  
Executing a program stored on a device inserted into a computer slot includes determining how to execute the program based on configuration data stored on the device, and executing the program in...
7168003 Method and apparatus for automating printer and printer driver diagnostics and repair  
A program checks for installed printers, asks the users to select printers to be tested, and then proceeds to test for communications with the printer, print spooling and driver integrity as well...
7167941 Multi-port device configuration  
A method and an apparatus to configure a multi-port device are disclosed. The method includes defining a first set of pointers, one for each port of the multi-port device, and storing the first set...
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...
7167258 Image input/output system, image input/output control device, and control method therefor using device information indicating active execution of data communication or passive execution of data communication  
The present invention easily implements a virtual copying machine by connecting a scanner and printer on a network. When a passive scanner and passive printer are connected through a proxy device,...
7167919 Two-pass device access management  
Access control to a networked peripheral device by a walk-up user, wherein the networked peripheral device is accessible by both the walk-up user and a remote user, based on centralized access...
7165128 Multifunctional I/O organizer unit for multiprocessor multimedia chips  
An apparatus and method for providing enhanced performance for multi-processor multimedia chips. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of a data and communication apparatus coupled...
7162549 Multimode controller for intelligent and “dumb” flash cards  
A controller chip for coupling a computer system with a flash storage system is disclosed. The controller chip comprises an interface mechanism for determining whether the Flash storage system...
7162581 Deferred tuple space programming of expansion modules  
The present invention permits deferring the final provisioning of the Card Information Structure (CIS) in the attribute memory space of expansion cards (or modules) for portable hosts. This enables...
7162547 Card connection adaptor  
A card connection adaptor is provided which is used for connecting, to a connector of a card slot compliant with a first standard, a card compliant with a second standard. The adaptor includes: a...
7162554 Method and apparatus for configuring a peripheral bus  
A method an apparatus for providing capability information to a shared controller. In one embodiment, a peripheral bus host controller may be shared by a plurality of peripheral devices coupled to...
7159054 System and method for digital protection and control device for a power distribution network  
A digital protection and control (P & C) device for a power distribution network, which comprises a computerized control unit comprising a microprocessor. The P & C device, according to the present...
7159044 Input/output device disable control for PC-based consumer electronics device  
An electronic system that includes control logic that causes input and output ports to be disabled during the interruption windows of the initialization process, and subsequently to be selectively...
7155379 Simulation of a PCI device's memory-mapped I/O registers  
A component, system and method for simulation of a PCI device's memory-mapped I/O register(s) are provided. The PCI simulation component has an initialization component, a configuration space...