| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,539,832 |
Option ROM code acquisition Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with acquiring processor executable instructions from an option ROM are described. One exemplary... |
| US-7,539,831 |
Method and system for performing memory clear and pre-fetch for managed
runtimes A method for performing memory allocation includes clearing a section in memory in response to an allocation of memory to an object of a thread. The size of the... |
| US-7,539,830 |
Portable storage device capable of automatically running biometrics
application programs and methods of... A portable storage device capable of automatically running biometrics application programs includes a control module, a storage unit and a biometrics sensor. The... |
| US-7,539,829 |
Methods and apparatuses for controlling access to at least one storage
device in a tape library Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in controlling access to at least one data storage device. One method includes obtaining data describing at least... |
| US-7,539,828 |
Method and system for automatically preserving persistent storage Computer-based methods and systems for automatically protecting a storage device from unwanted alterations are provided. Example embodiments provide a Disk... |
| US-7,539,827 |
Synchronization of change-tracked data store with data store having
limited or no change tracking A data store in which changes are not tracked is synchronized with a data store in which changes are tracked utilizing a shadow store. The shadow store contains... |
| US-7,539,826 |
System, device, and method for improved mirror mode operation of a
semiconductor memory device By using the combination of a pre-existing command signal that is common to two memory devices and a non-shared command signal that is applied individually to... |
| US-7,539,825 |
Multi-port memory device providing protection signal A memory system includes a first external device, a second external device, and a multi-port memory device connected to the first and second external devices.... |
| US-7,539,824 |
Pooling and provisioning storage resources in a storage network A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention provides Quality of Service (QoS) for Storage Access. Such QoS is partially enabled in one embodiment... |
| US-7,539,823 |
Multiprocessing apparatus having reduced cache miss occurrences A multiprocessing apparatus includes a cache control unit which monitors a local cache access signal, outputted from a processor, for notifying an occurrence of... |
| US-7,539,822 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating faster execution of code on a
memory-constrained computing device One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates faster execution of code on a memory-constrained computing device that has fast... |
| US-7,539,821 |
First in first out eviction implementation Methods for a treatment of cached objects are described. In one embodiment, management of a region of a cache is configured with an eviction policy plug-in. The... |
| US-7,539,820 |
Disk device and control method for cache Embodiments of the invention allow cache control optimized for the processing characteristics of application programs, and thus improve data transfer efficiency.... |
| US-7,539,819 |
Cache operations with hierarchy control An improved approach to cache management is disclosed which may be implemented to provide fine-grained control over individual caches or subsets of a multi-level... |
| US-7,539,818 |
Network object cache engine The invention provides a method and system for caching information objects transmitted using a computer network. A cache engine determines directly when and... |
| US-7,539,817 |
Storage system and capacity allocation method therefor A storage system connected to a terminal, the computer system includes: a plurality of drive devices that respectively drive a plurality of physical disks each... |
| US-7,539,816 |
Disk control device, disk control method A disk control device stores write requests from a cache memory or reads commands from a host in a queue for a disk drive in chronological order. When the number... |
| US-7,539,815 |
Method, system and circuit for managing task queues in a disk device
controller In accordance with further embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a disk controller for managing the delegation of tasks from a disk controller... |
| US-7,539,814 |
Selecting a target destination using seek cost indicators based on
longitudinal position A processor is configured to perform a method (110) including a step of deriving lateral offset indicators (1062) from a longitudinal position measurement (130).... |
| US-7,539,813 |
Methods and apparatus for segregating a content addressable computer
system One embodiment is directed to a method of segregating one or more content addressable storage systems into a plurality of virtual pools. The virtual pools can be... |
| US-7,539,812 |
System and method to increase DRAM parallelism A method and apparatus for a multi-ranked memory protocol. In some embodiments an apparatus may include a memory controller (MC), and a plurality of ranked... |
| US-7,539,811 |
Scaleable memory systems using third dimension memory A non-volatile scalable memory circuit is described, including a bus formed on a substrate that includes active circuitry, metallization layers, and a plurality... |
| US-7,539,810 |
System, method and storage medium for a multi-mode memory buffer device A multi-mode memory buffer device for use in various memory subsystem structures. The buffer device includes a packetized multi-transfer interface which is... |
| US-7,539,809 |
System and method for dynamic adjustment of an information handling
systems graphics bus PCI Express bus utilization is monitored for one or more predetermined thresholds to adjust the width of the bus in accordance with the utilization to provide... |
| US-7,539,808 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and
program An information processing apparatus includes a port that connects a peripheral apparatus to the information processing apparatus through a USB, a first switch... |
| US-7,539,807 |
Method, apparatus and system for operating an expansion card according to
a signaling voltage A method for operating an expansion card of a computer is proposed, said computer having at least one slot for accommodating the expansion card, wherein there is... |
| US-7,539,806 |
Arbitrator and its arbitration method The present invention provides an arbiter and its arbitration method. The master devices in the bus system can be divided into primary master devices and... |
| US-7,539,805 |
Bus arbitration method and computer-readable medium A bus arbitration method for arbitrating a bus in a computer capable of executing a plurality of tasks by a plurality of devices connected to the bus is provided... |
| US-7,539,804 |
Communication apparatus An airbag ECU includes a communication bus connection circuit for connecting communication buses to communication circuits. A central control circuit connects... |
| US-7,539,803 |
Bi-directional interface for low data rate application A bi-directional single-conductor interface is provided, comprising (1) a switching means for applying a voltage level to the interface that is outside a normal... |
| US-7,539,802 |
Integrated circuit device and signaling method with phase control based on
information in external memory device An integrated circuit device includes a transmitting means for transmitting transmit data to an external signal line and a storing means for storing a first... |
| US-7,539,801 |
Computing device with flexibly configurable expansion slots, and method of
operation A computing device that allows for a flexible allocation of bandwidth among peripheral devices using a peripheral bus is disclosed. The computing device includes... |
| US-7,539,800 |
System, method and storage medium for providing segment level sparing A memory subsystem that includes segment level sparing. The memory subsystem includes a cascaded interconnect system with segment level sparing. The cascaded... |
| US-7,539,799 |
Method and apparatus for identifying enclosures and devices A method, device, and system are provided for the automatically assigning identification numbers or enclosure IDs to enclosures in a data storage system. Each... |
| US-7,539,798 |
Mitigating performance degradation caused by a sata drive attached to a
sas domain The present invention provides a device and method for mitigating performance degradation caused by SATA drives attached to a SAS domain. In one of the... |
| US-7,539,797 |
Route aware Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) Switch A switch is coupled between a plurality of host units and a device for routing frame information therebetween. The switch includes a first serial advanced... |
| US-7,539,796 |
Configuration management of an electronic device wherein a new
configuration of the electronic device is... A configuration of an electronic device (400) is managed by obtaining (1005) stakeholder attributes of a component resident in the electronic device from... |
| US-7,539,795 |
Methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts both for rapidly
accessing web content and application... The invention disclosed herein concerns methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts for use in navigating web content and application program... |
| US-7,539,794 |
PRBS generator selection in modem communication The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting one of plurality of PRBS generators for use with a modem. The modem includes a measuring... |
| US-7,539,793 |
Synchronized multichannel universal serial bus The invention provides a method and apparatus for providing a synchronized multichannel universal serial bus, the method in one aspect comprising supplementing... |
| US-7,539,792 |
Data distribution method and system having a stream buffer device with a
sub-buffer table for recording the... A stream data buffer device suitable for a client program comprises a buffer having N numbered sub-buffers, a buffer agent having a sub-buffer table recording a... |
| US-7,539,791 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing data buffering A method for storing data in a first buffer and a second buffer is disclosed. The method includes: sequentially storing an incoming data into the first buffer... |
| US-7,539,790 |
Reducing latency in SCSI protocol To communicate over a SCSI protocol, a first device allocates buffers for a dummy SCSI read command and sends the dummy SCSI read command to a second device.... |
| US-7,539,789 |
Circuits providing greater depth and/or asymmetric access ports for
first-in first-out memory circuits (FIFOs) Memory circuits that concatenate multiple FIFOs in parallel to increase the overall depth of the memory circuits. Asymmetric input and output ports can be... |
| US-7,539,788 |
Data processing system for keeping isolation between logical partitions When a subject of access of a transaction from an IO device is not any resource allocated to a logical partition to which the device having issued the... |
| US-7,539,787 |
Destructive DMA lists A buffer, a method, and a computer program product for DMA transfers are provided that are designed to save memory space within a local memory of a processor.... |
| US-7,539,786 |
Method for simulating cartridge changes in import/export station slots in
an automated data storage library A method for simulating the insertion of a data storage medium into or removal of a data storage medium from an input/output station, alternatively referred to... |
| US-7,539,785 |
Network device manager Resource information and status information concerning devices connected to a network is acquired and the information is stored in memory. Icons that are capable... |
| US-7,539,784 |
Hard disk type detecting circuit and hard disk connecting port having the
hard disk type detecting circuit The present invention provides a hard disk type detecting circuit for detecting a type of a hard disk plugged into a hard disk connecting port. The circuit... |
| US-7,539,783 |
Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to
and from a media storage library,... A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be... |