Patents

Searching:





Search by keyword, patent number, inventor, assignee, city or state:




Patent # Description
US-6,993,640 Apparatus for supporting a logically partitioned computer system
A processor supports logical partitioning of hardware resources including real address spaces of a computer system. An ultra-privileged supervisor process,...
US-6,993,639 Processing instruction addressed by received remote instruction and generating remote instruction to respective...
Embodiments of the invention relate to a processing cell for use in computing systems. Generally, a processing cell generates remote instructions to be received...
US-6,993,638 Memory access device and method using address translation history table
If a base register value, an index register value and a displacement value are given in the case of operand access, these values are inputted to an arithmetic...
US-6,993,637 Unified memory system for multiple processors and method for controlling the same
A memory system for multiple processors includes a unified memory including a plurality of memory banks, and a memory controller coupled to the unified memory....
US-6,993,636 Subsystem and method of organizing multiplexed data
Disk units operable under control of different disk control units hold the same data. Under circumstances in which data is duplexed, when data is duplexed again...
US-6,993,635 Synchronizing a distributed mirror
Apparatus and methods for synchronizing a distributed mirror. A computer system incorporating the invention may divide a mirror source into N chunks, assigning N...
US-6,993,634 Active tracking and retrieval of shared memory resource information
An arrangement is provided for actively tracking and retrieve shared memory resource information. Share memory object information is recorded. Upon a request...
US-6,993,633 Computer system utilizing speculative read requests to cache memory
A cache data control system and method for a computer system in which in a memory read processing, a coherent controller issues an advanced speculative read...
US-6,993,632 Cache coherent protocol in which exclusive and modified data is transferred to requesting agent from snooping agent
A system may include two or more agents, at least some of which may cache data. In response to a read transaction, a caching agent may snoop its cached data and...
US-6,993,631 L2 cache maintaining local ownership of remote coherency blocks
A first node includes a first cache and a plurality of coherent agents. In response to a transaction to a coherency block by a first coherent agent of the...
US-6,993,630 Data pre-fetch system and method for a cache memory
A system and method for pre-fetching data signals is disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, an Instruction Processor (IP) generates requests to...
US-6,993,629 Prestaging data into cache in preparation for data transfer operations
Disclosed is a method, system, and program for prestaging data into cache from a storage system in preparation for data transfer operations. A first processing...
US-6,993,628 Cache allocation mechanism for saving elected unworthy member via substitute victimization and imputed...
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for protecting against a displacement of one type of cache line using a least recently used cache management...
US-6,993,627 Data storage system and a method of storing data including a multi-level cache
A data storage system (100) and a method of storing data are described including a cache (118) with a variable number of levels (210, 220, 230, 240). Each level...
US-6,993,626 Apparatus and method for processing information, and program and medium used therefor
Disclosed is an information processing apparatus which ends application programs when a recording medium is pulled out. In step S1, it is determined whether or...
US-6,993,625 Load balancing storage system
A disk storage subsystem allocating an equivalent number of hard disk drives to each loop, alternately connecting the connecting bays of hard disk drives to...
US-6,993,624 Method and apparatus for selecting enqueued data access operations for execution in a disk drive data storage...
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a seek profile table used by a disk controller contains multiple profiles for seek operations, and is...
US-6,993,623 Parity bit system for a CAM
A CAM includes a parity bit system for error detection. In one embodiment, in each CAM cell, the data portion has its own data parity bit while the status...
US-6,993,622 Bit level programming interface in a content addressable memory
An apparatus and method for generating a comparand in a content addressable memory array. The apparatus includes a content addressable memory (CAM) array and...
US-6,993,621 Data storage system having separate data transfer section and message network with plural directors on a common...
A system interface includes a plurality of first director boards. Each one of the first director boards has a plurality of first directors and a crossbar switch...
US-6,993,620 User resource sharing through the USB interface
A method of sharing user resources in a computer system through a universal serial bus (USB) interface. The method may involve, not necessarily in this order,...
US-6,993,619 Single request data transfer regardless of size and alignment
A method, computer system and set of signals are disclosed allowing for communication of a data transfer, via a bus, between a master and a slave using a single...
US-6,993,618 Dual-mode flash storage exchanger that transfers flash-card data to a removable USB flash key-drive with or...
A flash-card exchanger has two modes of operation. When a host personal computer (PC) is connected to a Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) connector, the flash-card...
US-6,993,617 System-on-a-chip having an on-chip processor and an on-chip dynamic random access memory (DRAM)
A system-on-a-chip device is provided, the system-on-a-chip device comprising an on-chip processor and an on-chip dynamic random access memory (DRAM) capable of...
US-6,993,616 Read-write interface system and method that accesses a leading bit in advance of a read operation
A read-write interface system and method for a peripheral device includes storing data to be processed by a peripheral device; receiving a set of input data...
US-6,993,615 Portable computing device-integrated appliance
In accordance with one aspect, a portable computing device determines a type of an appliance in which the portable computing device is docked. The portable...
US-6,993,614 Management methods and apparatus that are independent of operating systems
The present invention relates to a management agent that can be ran on any operating system. More specifically, the management agent of the present invention is...
US-6,993,613 Methods and apparatus for reducing receive interrupts via paced ingress indication
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for efficiently handling incoming network traffic by preventing protocol stack overruns and minimizing packet...
US-6,993,612 Arbitration method for a source strobed bus
A hub based computer system having a central hub that communicates with a plurality of satellite devices over respective link buses. Each link bus is...
US-6,993,611 Enhanced general input/output architecture and related methods for establishing virtual channels therein
A point-to-point interconnection and communication architecture, protocol and related methods. System resources are dynamically shared based on contents of...
US-6,993,610 Data storage system having two disk drive controllers each having transmit and receive path connected in common...
A data storage apparatus arranged to provide redundancy in a storage enclosure containing multiple Serial ATA disk drives is disclosed. The apparatus comprises...
US-6,993,609 Method for controlling peripheral device, program for executing same method, storage device storing same...
A printer is a peripheral device capable of being controlled by a host computer. The printer has a silent function for silent operation. If a silent function is...
US-6,993,608 Apparatus and methods for keyboard data normalization
Apparatus and methods for keyboard data normalization are disclosed. The example apparatus and methods convert physical location dependent keyboard data into...
US-6,993,607 Keyboard with reduced keying ambiguity
When an array of proximity sensors is used as a keyboard, it can provide an ambiguous output if a user's finger overlaps several keys or if liquid is spilled on...
US-6,993,606 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...
US-6,993,605 Adaptive run-time data transfer optimization
A method and apparatus optimizes the speed and efficiency of data transfer between two devices having different data input/output rates. In one embodiment, the...
US-6,993,604 Dynamic buffer size allocation for multiplexed streaming
A method and disc drive are disclosed that employ dynamic buffer size allocation for handling multiple data streams, such as time-sensitive audio/video data. The...
US-6,993,603 Managed file system filter model and architecture
A model in which filter drivers are managed to receive callbacks for I/O requests in which the filter drivers have registered an interest. Per-volume instances...
US-6,993,602 Configuring queues based on a given parameter
At least one queue parameter for a first process running on a system is determined. A queue management process separate from the first process configures one or...
US-6,993,601 Interface card including selectable data transmission route modes including first transmission route mode via...
An interface card includes data transmission routes which allow for data transmission in a plurality of data transmission modes and a mode selection switch for...
US-6,993,600 Write control sequencer for optical read/write and DVD combination integrated circuit
A controller for a writable optical media is presented. The controller includes a write control sequencer that monitors the transmission of data from a host...
US-6,993,599 Efficient command delivery and data transfer
In an example embodiment, a method of delivering a command from an initiator device also transfers data identified by the command to a target device. The data is...
US-6,993,598 Method and apparatus for efficient sharing of DMA resource
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing direct memory access transfers. Monitoring is performed for an event to pass ownership of a direct...
US-6,993,597 Terminal apparatus
A low cost, a low power consumption and a small size are three very important factors for a mobile communication terminal. A great problem is posed by the...
US-6,993,596 System and method for user enrollment in an e-community
An Internet user transfers directly to a domain within an e-community without returning to a home domain or re-authenticating. The user's home domain server...
US-6,993,595 Address translation change identification
The present invention allows a client on a private network to determine changes in a public address, which is provided by an address translation device and used...
US-6,993,594 Method, product, and apparatus for requesting a resource from an identifier having a character image
One or more character image elements can be detected from an identifier that includes a character image of an emoticon, the image elements including a base image...
US-6,993,593 Interdomain routing system
In an interdomain network path control, by making path information with a network resource in a destination domain accessible in addition to path information...
US-6,993,592 Location measurement process for radio-frequency badges
A process for determining the location of entities carrying transmitters (TXs) that transmit TX ID messages to at least one receiver (RX) connected to a...
US-6,993,591 Method and apparatus for prefetching internet resources based on estimated round trip time
A method and apparatus are disclosed for prefetching Internet resources based on the estimated round trip time of the resources. Whenever a user clicks on an...
← Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 | Next →