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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...
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