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US-6,799,278 System and method for processing power management signals in a peer bus architecture
A system and method for handling number power management signals, such as PME# signals, is disclosed. The power management signal lines are coupled to general...
US-6,799,277 System and method for monitoring software
Systems and methods for monitoring, testing, distribution, and use of computer software with associated methods and systems for repeatedly contacting a software...
US-6,799,276 Method and apparatus for restraining connection request stream associated with high volume burst client in a...
According to the present invention, method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for restraining a connection request stream from a burst client are...
US-6,799,275 Method and apparatus for securing a secure processor
A method and apparatus for securing a secure processor is described. A plurality of spurious points are added to a biometric template. A received biometric data...
US-6,799,274 Device comprising encryption circuitry enabled by comparing an operating spectral signature to an initial...
A device is disclosed comprising encryption circuitry for encrypting plaintext data into ciphertext data. A memory stores an initial spectral signature...
US-6,799,273 Data processing system and method for mutual identification between apparatuses
A storage unit in a first mutual identification unit stores master key data and a second storage unit in a second mutual identification unit stores ...
US-6,799,272 Remote device authentication system
Method and system for authenticating a remote device are disclosed by an arrangement in which the remote device and an authentication center each contain an...
US-6,799,271 Method and system for authenticating user and providing service
A service providing method which uses a user terminal, a service providing apparatus, and an authentication apparatus is disclosed. In the method, authentication...
US-6,799,270 System and method for secure distribution of digital information to a chain of computer system nodes in a network
Described are a system and method for securely distributing session keys over a network to each node in a chain of computer system nodes. The chain of nodes...
US-6,799,269 Virtual shadow registers and virtual register windows
A direct memory access and direct register access (DMA/DRA) controller and method are used on microprocessors, microcontrollers and digital signal processors...
US-6,799,268 Branch ordering buffer
A branch ordering buffer. One disclosed apparatus includes a processor state management circuit to maintain a primary state and a shadow state, each of the...
US-6,799,267 Packet processor
A packet processor having a general-purpose arithmetic operator and another dedicated circuit, which extracts a particular field from the general-purpose...
US-6,799,266 Methods and apparatus for reducing the size of code with an exposed pipeline by encoding NOP operations as...
A method for reducing total code size in a processor having an exposed pipeline may include the steps of determining a latency between a load instruction, and a...
US-6,799,265 Dependency checking for reconfigurable logic
A data dependency checking table is used with a reconfigurable chip. A control processing chip on the reconfigurable chip can load variable size blocks of data...
US-6,799,264 Memory accelerator for ARM processor pre-fetching multiple instructions from cyclically sequential memory...
A memory accelerator module buffers program instructions and/or data for high speed access using a deterministic access protocol. The program memory is logically...
US-6,799,263 Prefetch instruction for an unpredicted path including a flush field for indicating whether earlier prefetches...
A method for prefetching instructions into cache memory using a prefetch instruction. The prefetch instruction contains a target field, a count field, a cache...
US-6,799,262 Apparatus and method for creating instruction groups for explicity parallel architectures
An apparatus and method for creating instruction groups for explicitly parallel architectures is provided. The apparatus and method gather information about the...
US-6,799,261 Memory interface with fractional addressing
A memory interface device (100) providing a fractional address interface between a data processor (104) and a memory system (102) and a method for retrieving...
US-6,799,260 Dynamic storage management
Apparatus and methods for managing storage. A storage system may receive a request from a host, for example, to allocate n blocks of storage. The storage system...
US-6,799,259 Security system for data processing applications
A system for dynamically controlling activation status of multiple data storage structures in a single computer so that a single computer can be dynamically...
US-6,799,258 Methods and apparatus for point-in-time volumes
Methods and apparatus for point-in-time volumes are provided. A relationship is enabled between a source volume and point-in-time volume. Copying a data chunk to...
US-6,799,257 Method and apparatus to control memory accesses
A method and apparatus for accessing memory comprising monitoring memory accesses from a hardware prefetcher and determining whether the memory accesses from the...
US-6,799,256 System and method for multi-bit flash reads using dual dynamic references
A system and methodology is provided for proper reading of multi-bit memory cells in a memory device. A first reference cell and a second reference cell is...
US-6,799,255 Storage mapping and partitioning among multiple host processors
A storage controller for controling access to data storage has a memory and at least one data port for a data network including host processors. The memory is...
US-6,799,254 Memory manager for a common memory
The memory management technology controls, as described herein, access to and monitors availability of common memory resources. In particular, this ...
US-6,799,253 Stochastic scratchpad storage management technique
Methods and apparatus for dynamically allocating space within virtual memory at run-time while substantially minimizing an associated path length are disclosed....
US-6,799,252 High-performance modular memory system with crossbar connections
A modular, expandable, multi-port main memory system that includes multiple point-to-point switch interconnections and a highly-parallel data path structure that...
US-6,799,251 Performance-based caching
A method and system are provided for caching data in a manner that substantially maintains a desired level of system performance. A cache server receives data...
US-6,799,250 Cache control device
A cache control device of the invention comprises a first register for holding address data, a second register for holding address data held by the first...
US-6,799,249 Split control for IP read and write cache misses
An apparatus for and method of queuing memory access requests resulting from level two cache memory misses. The requests are preferably queued separately by...
US-6,799,248 Cache management system for a network data node having a cache memory manager for selectively using different...
A network accelerator storage caching system manages a number of cache management systems and may be inserted at any point in a network to provide a...
US-6,799,247 Remote memory processor architecture
A remote memory processor architecture which provides an embedded processor with access to a large off-chip memory space via a HOST processor bus. An on-chip...
US-6,799,246 Memory interface for reading/writing data from/to a memory
A memory interface for connecting a bus to memory comprises an input, a buffer, an address input, a generator, and a writer. The input receives a plurality of...
US-6,799,245 Raid apparatus storing a plurality of some logical volumes on different disk units
A RAID apparatus includes having a plurality of same logical volumes allocated on a real volume. The real volume is so designed that a plurality of same logical...
US-6,799,244 Storage control unit with a volatile cache and a non-volatile backup cache for processing read and write requests
A subsystem and a subsystem processing method are disclosed in which a storage control unit 2000 interposed between a plurality of disk units 3000 and a host...
US-6,799,243 Method and apparatus for detecting a match in an intra-row configurable cam system
A method and apparatus for detecting a match in an intra-row configurable CAM system. For one embodiment, the CAM system includes a CAM array and match flag...
US-6,799,242 Optical disc player with sleep mode
An optical disc player enters a sleep (low power consumption) mode when inactive for a predetermined time. The optical disc player includes a buffer RAM for...
US-6,799,241 Method for dynamically adjusting a memory page closing policy
A method for dynamically adjusting a memory page-closing policy for computer systems employing various types of DRAM memory partitioned into one or more memory...
US-6,799,240 SRAM bus architecture and interconnect to an FPGA
An SRAM bus architecture includes pass-through interconnect conductors. Each of the pass-through interconnect conductors is connected to routing channels of the...
US-6,799,239 Centrally distributed serial bus
A bus for a computer system receives serial data from each subsystem and simultaneously broadcasts the data to all subsystems. The computer system includes bus...
US-6,799,238 Bus speed controller using switches
Switches are used to serially isolate connectors for peripheral devices on a bus. Bus speed is selected based on the number of peripheral devices coupled to the...
US-6,799,237 Identifying and synchronizing incompatibilities between a portable computer and a docking station
The present invention comprises a system and method for insuring that a notebook computer and a docking station are compatible. This determination is made by...
US-6,799,236 Methods and apparatus for executing code while avoiding interference
Mechanisms and techniques operate in a computerized device to execute critical code without interference from interruptions. Critical code is registered for...
US-6,799,235 Daisy chain latency reduction
Transmitting data on a serial data transmission path to reduce latency including reading only enough of a device address of a serial data word to determine if...
US-6,799,234 Apparatus and method for randomly assigning slots in a PCI backplane
A system and method for automatically assigning resources to a slave device inserted into a PCI backplane utilizes pairs of PCI GNT/REQ lines as bus lines of a...
US-6,799,233 Generalized I2C slave transmitter/receiver state machine
A robust state machine is provided for controlling a slave interface to an I.sup.2 C-bus. The state machine is configured to enforce the slave-device-protocol of...
US-6,799,232 Automatic byte swap and alignment for descriptor-based direct memory access data transfers
A physical interface card for connection to a data bus associated with a data network node is provided. The physical interface card is adapted to perform without...
US-6,799,231 Virtual I/O device coupled to memory controller
The invention relates to a virtual I/O device coupled to a memory controller in a microprocessor of computer, the virtual I/O device and a memory unit being in...
US-6,799,230 Peripheral device exchanging data with one of higher-order devices by switching interfaces
A control unit of a peripheral device enables data to be exchanged between a unit of the peripheral device and one of a plurality of higher-order devices by...
US-6,799,229 Data-burst-count-base receive FIFO control design and early packet discard for DMA optimization
A system which includes a DMA (Direct Memory Access) interface and a MAC (Media Access Control) interface. A data FIFO and data burst information FIFO are...
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