| 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... |