Application-specific Peripheral Adapting Patents (Class 710/72)
  • Patent number: 7526317
    Abstract: A configurable interface system (100) couples an accessory (102) to a communication device (104). The interface system utilizes a memory device (120) embedded in the accessory (102) that stores physical configuration and event mapping descriptors (114, 122) pertaining to the accessory. The communication device (104) reads the physical configuration and event mapping descriptors and configures its external interface (112) in response thereto, preferably through the use of bi-directional GPIO lines (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Ellis A. Pinder, Robert J. Higgins
  • Patent number: 7526585
    Abstract: An apparatus and method capable of performing multiple tasks in a portable terminal are provided, in which menu functions of the portable terminal can be implemented while continuing to play the music. The multi-tasking apparatus includes a controller for performing controlling to implement at least one menu function while playing a music file and a display unit for displaying an indication that the music file is being played during the implementation of the menu function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Moon-Sang Jeong
  • Patent number: 7526586
    Abstract: An integrated computer system includes a computer system, having at least a display, a chassis, a memory, a power supply and a communication interface, and a personal digital communications (PDC) system, having at least a display, a memory, a battery and a communication interface. The computer chassis is configured to removably retain the PDC system in a docked mode, and when in said docked mode the PDC system is operable to communicate with the computer system through the respective communication interfaces and the computer system is operable to send data from the computer memory to the PDC system. The PDC system is operable to receive said data and store said data in the PDC memory and to display at least a subset of said data on the PDC display when the computer system is powered on or off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gary Douglas Huber, Howard A. Shoobe, La Vaughn F. Watts, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7526579
    Abstract: A configurable input/output interface is described that can be programmed to handle any one of a plurality of interfaces that embedded applications might have, including communication protocols and bus interfaces, data acquisition from multiple sensors and actuators, and controls of various motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Innovasic, Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Wray, Paul Jerome Short, William Broome
  • Patent number: 7526582
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments provide a cable management system, a computer program product, a cable, a method for manufacturing a cable, and a method for guiding a user in identifying a connection location for a cable of interest. A processor, in a data processing system, receives a cable identification from the cable of interest. The processor then matches at least one connection location with the cable of interest based on the cable identification. Responsive to matching the at least one connection location with the cable of interest, the processor activates an indicator that identifies the at least one connection location for connecting the cable of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Francis Best, Robert James Eggers, Jr., Janice Marie Girouard, Craig Anthony Klein
  • Patent number: 7523224
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which makes it easier to carry out setting of a wireless interface necessary for enabling a device or apparatus to be used via the wireless interface, using a wire interface. An information processing apparatus carries out first communication setting so as to enable an apparatus or device to be controlled via a wire interface, communicates with the apparatus or device via the wire interface after the first communication setting to carry out second communication setting for enabling communication with the apparatus or device via a wireless interface. This simplifies the communication setting for enabling communication with the apparatus or device via the wireless interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Fukunaga, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20090094394
    Abstract: A transmission cable includes a first plug including a housing. A slot is formed inside the housing. The first plug further includes an E-SATA terminal set disposed on a side of the slot for transmitting E-SATA signals, and a power terminal set disposed on the other side of the slot for receiving electricity. The transmission cable further includes an E-SATA signal line electrically connected to the E-SATA terminal set for transmitting the E-SATA signals, a second plug connected to the E-SATA signal line for inserting into a signal receptacle of a E-SATA peripheral device, a power line electrically connected to the power terminal set for transmitting the electricity, and a third plug connected to the power line for inserting into a power receptacle of the E-SATA peripheral device so as to transmit the electricity to the E-SATA peripheral device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Chien-Te Wu, Chia-Fu Chan, Yu-Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 7516255
    Abstract: A pair of processing modules and methods that enable low latency communications between a data processing system and devices located at a remote graphic user interface across a standard shared network in accordance with the present invention is disclosed. The present invention provides a method for communicating graphics data in a synchronous manner from the data processing system to the user. This method is used in conjunction with a feedback error recovery method to provide lossless, low-latency communications of graphics data across the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Teradici Corporation
    Inventor: David V. Hobbs
  • Patent number: 7516345
    Abstract: A peripheral interface device includes a plurality of ports, each of which supports corresponding ones of first interface methods; a plurality of interface converters each connected to respective ports, and converting a first signal of the corresponding ones of the first interface methods from the corresponding ports into a second signal of a second interface method; and a port selection unit supplying power to one of the interface converters and cutting off the power from an other one of the interface converters to selectively operate the interface converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho-joong Choi
  • Patent number: 7512726
    Abstract: A reconfigurable flash media reader system provides a flash media reader that accepts both asynchronous and synchronous flash media cards. The reader identifies the card type of the inserted flash media card and notifies the host computer of the card type. The host computer has a list of interface information for different types of flash media cards and references the card type in the list and sets the proper baud rate on the reader. If the flash media card is a synchronous card, data that is to written into the flash media card is gathered and converted to the proper card IO strobes for the card type which are interleaved with the proper card clock strobes for the card type into a bit stream in a bulk transfer packet. The reader extracts the data bit stream from said bulk transfer packet and clocks the data bit stream into the flash media card using the baud rate as a reference clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: O2Micro International Limited
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Han, Chin-Ran Lo
  • Publication number: 20090077283
    Abstract: A method relating to wireless human interface device (HID) coordination is disclosed. A first human interface device (HID) is wirelessly coupled to two or more computing devices, wherein the first HID is configured to toggle between interactions with each of the two or more computing devices. An inquiry or paging message is broadcast to one or more HIDs, including a second HID wirelessly coupled to the two or more computing devices, wherein the second HID is configured to receive and provide a response to the inquiry or paging message. The second HID is located based on the response to the inquiry or paging message. A wireless link is established between the first HID and the second HID based on the locating, wherein the first HID is configured to coordinate, via the wireless link, interactions with the two or more computing devices by both the first HID and the second HID based on the toggle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Asif Grushkevich
  • Patent number: 7500032
    Abstract: A cable including circuitry for asserting information to a user or external device and a system including such a cable. The cable can include conductors, a memory storing cable data, and circuitry configured to respond to a request received on at least one of the conductors by accessing at least some of the cable data and asserting the accessed data serially to at least one of the conductors (e.g., for transmission to an external device). Other aspects of the invention are methods for accessing cable data stored in a cable and optionally using the data (e.g., to implement equalization). The cable data can be indicative of all or some of cable type, grade, speed, length, and impedance, a date code, a frequency-dependent attenuation table, far-end crosstalk and EMI-related coefficients, common mode radiation, intra pair skew, and other information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc
    Inventors: Ook Kim, Eric Lee, Gyudong Kim, Zeehoon Jang, Baegin Sung, Nam Hoon Kim, Gijung Ahn, Seung Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 7500026
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which makes it easier to carry out setting of a wireless interface necessary for enabling a device or apparatus to be used via the wireless interface, using a wire interface. An information processing apparatus carries out first communication setting so as to enable an apparatus or device to be controlled via a wire interface, communicates with the apparatus or device via the wire interface after the first communication setting to carry out second communication setting for enabling communication with the apparatus or device via a wireless interface. This simplifies the communication setting for enabling communication with the apparatus or device via the wireless interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Fukunaga, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7496704
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an interface to/from which a recording medium is attachable/detachable; a data storage device that stores data; a data extractor that extracts data recorded on the recording medium connected through the interface, with the data maintained in a data configuration of the recording medium; and a controller that controls the data storage device to store the data extracted by the data extractor together with an identifier which specifies the recording medium, with the data maintained in the data configuration extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Dai Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7496697
    Abstract: A computer management apparatus is provided for interconnecting a single user console including user interface devices, such as a console keyboard, a console video display unit, a console mouse, and speakers for connecting to a plurality of host computers, thereby allowing the user to access one or more of the host computers from the user console. In one embodiment, the user may easily switch between the host computers by use of an RF wireless remote control device that activates a switching circuit contained within the body of the computer management apparatus. The cables utilized with the apparatus and the device indicator on the remote control device are color coded for easy hook-up and identification of the host computer selected with the remote control device to activate the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry Sween, Yoko Iida
  • Publication number: 20090037624
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a switch device to be coupled between a first semiconductor component and a processor node by interconnects of a communication protocol that provides for cache coherent transactions and non-cache coherent transactions. The switch device includes logic to handle cache coherent transactions from the first semiconductor component to the processor node, while the first semiconductor component does not include such logic. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventor: Ramakrishna Saripalli
  • Patent number: 7487270
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for interfacing a personal digital assistant (PDA) with a communications appliance is provided. The method comprising a communication station receiving semi-structured data from a personal digital assistant (PDA) in a format native to the PDA, and parsing the semi-structured data to identify a type of the semi-structured data. If the semi-structured data is destination data, sending a job to a destination indicated by the semi-structured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daja Phillips, Gregory J. Wolff, Jonathan J. Hull
  • Patent number: 7487014
    Abstract: A protocol converter that translates the ARINC-429 protocol output of an Inertial Navigation System to the National Marine Electronics Association 0183 protocol. The protocol converter includes an ARINC-429 interface board with cable and software operating in a computer with at least one serial communications port. The software includes a protocol conversion program which is capable of outputting the NMEA-0183 protocol to as many as four serial communications ports simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Christian Lauritz Houlberg
  • Patent number: 7484020
    Abstract: The present invention provides an SDIO controller, an SDIO wireless communication card, an SDIO wireless communications module, and a method for transmitting write data from an SDIO host device to an SDIO application. Specifically, the SDIO controller is a single-chip semiconductor device connecting an SDIO-compliant SDIO host device with a plurality of applications via an SD bus, wherein the controller includes: (a) an SD interface operably connectable with the SDIO host device to decode commands received from the SDIO host device, and to return a response to the SDIO host device; (b) one or more application interfaces; and (c) a temporary memory operably connected between the SD interface and the one or more application interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Zentek Technology Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Takinosawa, Hiroyuki Yasoshima
  • Patent number: 7484018
    Abstract: A device may include an upstream port and several downstream ports configured to transfer data at a different data transfer rate than the upstream port. The device may also include several downstream data handlers, each coupled to a respective one of the downstream ports, and an upstream data handler coupled to the upstream port. The data handlers are configured to implement a USB protocol. The upstream data handler is configured to provide data received via the upstream port to each of the downstream data handlers. Accordingly, the upstream data handler is shared between the various downstream data handlers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Standard Microsystems Corporation
    Inventor: Piotr Szabelski
  • Patent number: 7484013
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automatic ID allocation technique for use in AV/C device applications. The method allows ID assignment without manual user intervention. The method includes assigning an ID to an entity when called to do so upon detection of a new entity. Furthermore, old IDs are reallocated for later use upon disconnection of the associated entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Erik P. Staats
  • Patent number: 7480742
    Abstract: A method for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a physical adapter is provided. A mechanism is provided for directly destroying the resources associated with one or more virtual adapters that reside within a physical adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Louis Arndt, Giora Biran, Harvey Gene Kiel, Vadim Makhervaks, Renato John Recio, Leah Shalev, Jaya Srikrishnan
  • Patent number: 7480744
    Abstract: A programmable system for storage of one-time programmable information comprises an interface translator and a one-time programmable device. The interface translator receives and translates a command code to program code comprising a sequence of write instructions and a designated data block. The one-time programmable device is coupled to the interface translator, programmed by the write instructions to store the designated data block. The one-time programmable device can only be programmed once, such that the designated data block being stored is fully protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Mediatek, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Yang Chao, You-Wen Chang, Chien-Hsun Tung
  • Patent number: 7480752
    Abstract: A remote controller is disclosed to include a housing, a control unit mounted in the housing, a communication unit mounted in the housing and electrically coupled to the control unit and controllable by the control unit to communicate with an external host and to download a control content from the external host, and a display unit, which is installed in housing and electrically coupled to the control unit, having a display zone for displaying the control content downloaded by the communication unit and a control zone for inputting instructions for enabling inputted instructions to be sent to a controlled device by the communication unit to drive the controlled device to execute the instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Compal Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Shao-Tsu Kung
  • Publication number: 20090013109
    Abstract: Keyboard, mouse and video (KVM) capture session architecture that includes command center forensics. That is, redirector hardware (HW) and a command center forensics (CCF) appliance. The redirector HW includes a computer interface module (CIM) with a computer readable encoded media. The CIM is configured to record at least one KVM session. The computer readable encoded media is configured to instruct sending an identical copy of the recorded at least one KVM session to the CCF appliance. The CCF appliance being configured to store and playback the identical copy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventor: Marc E. Schweig
  • Patent number: 7475174
    Abstract: A multi-ring memory controller sends request packets to multiple rings of serial flash-memory chips. Each of the multiple rings has serial flash-memory chips with serial links in a uni-directional ring. Each serial flash-memory chip has a bypassing transceiver with a device ID checker that bypasses serial packets to a clock re-synchronizer and bypass logic for retransmission to the next device in the ring, or extracts the serial packet to the local device when an ID match occurs. Serial packets pass through all devices in the ring during one round-trip transaction from the controller. The average latency of one round is constant for all devices on the ring, reducing data-dependent performance, since the same packet latency occurs regardless of the data location on the ring. The serial links can be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express bus. Packets have modified-PCI-Express headers that define the packet type and data-payload length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Super Talent Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: David Q. Chow, Charles C. Lee, Frank I-Kang Yu
  • Publication number: 20090006680
    Abstract: A system for connecting a console device to computers comprising a graphic user interface menu apparatus for controlling the computers. The system comprises a user-side circuit, a central crosspoint switch, a plurality of computer-side circuits, a menu generating unit and a first switching device. The user-side circuit coupled to the console device receives electronic signals produced by the keyboard and cursor control device and creates a data packet. The central crosspoint switch is coupled to the user-side circuits, receives the data packets and routes the data packets. The computer-side circuits coupled to the central crosspoint switch and the computers receive the data packets from the central crosspoint switch for supplying the data packets to the computers. The menu generating unit generates a menu to be displayed. The first switching device alternately outputs a video signal of the menu data and a video signal from the computers to the video monitor according to a vertical synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: ATEN INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-chou Tseng, Cheng-chang Ke
  • Publication number: 20090006681
    Abstract: A peripheral device is disclosed having two associated memory modules, and which is configured to fit within the ExpressCard slot. One memory module communicates with a host over the PCIe bus interface of the ExpressCard slot, while the other memory module communicates with the host over the USB interface of the ExpressCard slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Jonathan Hubert, Jason P. Hanlon
  • Patent number: 7472217
    Abstract: A signal switch for sharing a video monitor, a plurality of console devices compliant with an industry standard and one or more than one peripheral device in any of a plurality of computer systems, is provided comprising a CPU with a first memory for storing a management program for managing the signal switch; a hub switch module connected to the CPU and configured to communicate with any of the plurality of computer systems, and the one or more than one peripheral device; a device control module for emulating according to the industry standard the plurality of console devices, connected to the CPU and the hub switch module; a host control module connected to the CPU and configured to communicate with the plurality of console devices; and a video control module connected to the CPU and configured to communicate with a video monitor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: ATEN International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tony Lou, Kevin Chen, Sampson Yang
  • Patent number: 7472211
    Abstract: A system for communication between components in a computer storage system includes a drive enclosure device having a plurality of disk drives. A switch module is electrically coupled to the drive enclosure device. The module has a plurality of physical layer links (PHYs). The module generates out-of-band (OOB) signals to transmit to the drive enclosure device, detects a physical location of an active drive enclosure device by interrogating the PHYs, and sends a serial management protocol (SMP) instruction to the drive enclosure device to perform a task, the SMP instruction based on the physical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kawai, Gregg S. Lucas
  • Patent number: 7469306
    Abstract: A method and structure manage a database. A first device that includes data is coupled to a second device that includes metadata relating to the data. The second device is removed from the first device and the metadata is modified. The second device is again coupled to the first device and the modified metadata on the second device modifies the data on the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Sheau-Bao Ng
  • Patent number: 7467244
    Abstract: A device and method for electronic data conversion is provided. Data according to IEEE 1394 format and protocol is received and converted to USB format and protocol and supplied to a system configured to receive data according to USB format and protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralf Kamphausen, Martin Zemke, Soenke E. W. Brandt
  • Publication number: 20080301340
    Abstract: A method for data transmission in a system is disclosed. The system includes a computer (1) and a peripheral device (9), which are connected to each other via a network (8). The computer has hardware resources (2), including a network interface (2.3) and a controller (4), which is designed to provide a virtual machine system in that it maps the hardware resources (2), including the network interface (2.3) onto logical interfaces (5, 5.3) in virtual machines (4). A peripheral device adapter (10) provided in the computer (1) is mapped by the controller (3) onto a logical peripheral device interface (11) in one of the virtual machines (4) and data is exchanged between the peripheral device (9) and the virtual machine (4) via the network (8), the peripheral device adapter (10), and the logical peripheral device interface (11) while bypassing the logical interfaces (5.3) mapping the network interface (2.3) into the virtual machines (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventor: Andreas Stotz
  • Patent number: 7457897
    Abstract: A PCI Express-compatible flash device can include one or more flash memory modules, a controller, and an ExpressCard interface. The controller can advantageously provide PCI Express functionality as well as flash memory operations, e.g. writing, reading, or erasing, using the ExpressCard interface. A PIO interface includes sending first and second memory request packets to the flash device. The first memory request packet includes a command word setting that prepares the flash device for the desired operation. The second memory request packet triggers the operation and includes a data payload, if needed. A DMA interface includes sending the second memory request from the flash device to the host, thereby triggering the host to release the system bus for the DMA operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Suoer Talent Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles C. Lee, Sun-Teck See, Horng-Yee Chou, I-Pieng Peter Kao
  • Patent number: 7457311
    Abstract: The present inventions relate to portable communication interface devices for communication and testing between a computer and electronic devices The portable communication interface device of one embodiment includes at least one specialized port, a standard port and a controller. Each specialized port is adapted to selectively communicate with an associated electronic device wherein each associated electronic device communicates by a unique device format. The standard port is adapted to selectively communicate with a computer wherein the computer is communicating by a computer format. The controller is coupled between the one or more specialized ports and the standard port. The controller is adapted to provide an interface between each unique device format and the computer format. The controller includes a data processor that is adapted to perform logic conversions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Erik M. Hall
  • Patent number: 7454531
    Abstract: An USB removable memory with replaceable storage medium for optional upgrade and extension of the storage capacity, including an USB connector, a controller and a flash memory; said USB connector and said controller are integrated as a memory body; the flash memory as the physically-independent storage component is attached to the body, and is electrically connected to the controller. A dismountable back cover is provided in the rear of the housing of the body; a chamber for flash memory part is provided in the body; a flash memory is placed in the chamber; the electrical connection between said flash memory part and said controller is elastic tip-touch connection or plug-in connection. The flash memory is a independent part according to the present invention, which can be mounted/unmounted conveniently onto/from the body, so the memory can be optionally upgraded and extended in its storage capacity, it is convenient for user, the cost is reduced, and the resource is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Taiguen Technology (Shen—Zhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsuan-Ming Shih
  • Patent number: 7454545
    Abstract: In an information distribution device for supporting an individual-adaptive system, when a car navigation system is employed as an individual-adaptive system, the system includes an individual identification section which can be connected to a portable cellular phone, enables entry of a portable cellular phone number from the portable cellular phone, and determines a setting status of a device in accordance with the input phone number; and an operation control section which controls the setting status of the device in accordance with the setting status determined by the individual identification section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Kohno, Mitsuo Shimotani, Akio Uekawa, Yosuke Asai, Minoru Ozaki
  • Patent number: 7454534
    Abstract: An input circuit shared by multi signal sources each of which outputting a type of signals includes a processing unit (10). The processing unit includes a plurality of input pins (11) and an interrupt pin (12), each of the input pins connecting with one or more of the signal sources and receiving signals from the signal sources. The input circuit further includes a tristate buffer (30) The tristate buffer includes an enable pin (33) enabling the tristate buffer upon receiving an enable signal, a plurality of input pins (31) connecting with one or more of the signal sources and receiving signals from the signal sources, and a plurality of output pins (32) connecting with the interrupt pin of the processing unit and producing an interrupt signal to the interrupt pin according to the signals received at the input pins. A related wake-up signal input circuit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Pan, Han-Che Wang, Chen-Hsuan Ho, Shin-Hong Chung
  • Patent number: 7454542
    Abstract: System, device, method, and computer program and computer program products for providing communicating between devices having similar or dissimilar characteristics and facilitating seamless interoperability between them. Computer program software and methods of and systems and devices for sharing of content, applications, resources and control across similar and dissimilar permanently or intermittently connected electronic devices. Devices, systems, appliances, and the like communicating and/or interoperating within the framework provided. Interoperability device, such as a DartDevice, provides a highly interoperable device by virtue of its running a compliant player such as a DartPlayer containing an engine such as a DartEngine and at least one communications protocol for connecting to other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: DARTdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Illowsky, Bruce Bernstein, Richard Mirabella, Wolfgang Pieb, Raymond Sidney, Richard Tiberi, Michael Wenocur
  • Patent number: 7454544
    Abstract: An electronic Input/Output Interface and device abstraction system used in gaming machines includes: a game central processing unit (game “CPU”); an intelligent input/output controller board (“IOCB”); an Industry Standard Architecture PC bus (“ISA” bus); and a framed message transport protocol. The IOCB facilitates communications between the game CPU and virtual device services, which are peripheral devices associated with the gaming system. The game CPU communicates to gaming peripherals by sending virtual device messages across the ISA bus to the IOCB. The IOCB routes virtual device messages to appropriate virtual device services. Virtual device services are responsible for handling specific hardware, and include virtual device drivers on the game CPU that communicate with virtual devices on the IOCB. Use of the IOCB and the high speed interface enables the game CPU to use more of its available functions for controlling gaming functions rather than one operation of its associated peripheral devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Anthony Wayne Bond, Ronald Edward Mach
  • Publication number: 20080282002
    Abstract: An apparatus of displaying an image connects an external devise by using universal serial bus (USB) connection. The apparatus contains a display unit and a control unit that reads device information out of the connected external device and performs display control on the display unit based on the read device information. Under control of the control unit, the display unit displays a message that is used for changing a class of the external device to a class previously specified in the apparatus of displaying the image when the class of the external device is changeable and it is determined based on the device information that the set class of the external device is different from the class previously specified in the apparatus of displaying the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventor: Takahira TAKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20080282003
    Abstract: The present invention relates to KVM switches that contain both remote and local ports and provide a user of the local port with a similar WEB based interface experience as that experienced by the remote user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Jayson T. Holovacs, Swen Anderson, Scott Coleman, Christian Paetz
  • Patent number: 7451256
    Abstract: A hearing aid programming system with a host computer for providing at least one hearing aid program and having at least one personal computer memory card international association (PCMCIA) defined port in combination with a PCMCIA card inserted in the port and arranged for interacting with the host computer for controlling programming of a hearing aid. The host computer provides power and ground to the PCMCIA card and provides for downloading the hearing aid programming software to the PCMCIA card upon initialization. A microprocessor on the PCMCIA card executes the programming software. A portable programming arrangement utilizes a portable multiprogram unit to store one or more hearing aid programs which may be downloaded from the host computer. The portable multiprogram unit includes a wireless interconnection for transmitting selected ones of the programs to hearing aids to be programmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Micro Ear Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence T. Hagen, David A. Preves
  • Patent number: 7451253
    Abstract: A portable terminal having a mass storage secondary memory and a method for the portable terminal, wherein high-speed data transfer between the mass storage secondary memory and an external apparatus is supported in a multitasking manner are provided. Between the portable terminal having the mass storage secondary memory and the external apparatus, the method of setting a data transfer path comprises setting a first data path so as to permit the mass storage secondary memory to operate according to internal control of the portable terminal, determining whether the portable terminal is connected with the external apparatus through a USB switcher, and if the portable terminal is connected with the external apparatus, determining whether a set command is input to set the mass storage secondary memory as a portable disk of the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Inventors: Sung Kee Kim, Ki Hyeong Lee
  • Patent number: 7447813
    Abstract: Control device identification information or an identifier identifying the type of the corresponding control device is stored in a first and in a second control device. Version information identifying the sequence control of the corresponding control device, such as a version number, is stored in the first and in the second control device. The first control device transmits its first control device identification information and/or its first version information to the second control device. The second control device accesses a compatibility reference table. The compatibility reference table indicates which combinations of control device identification information and version information, and thus which control devices and their corresponding sequence controls will communicate with the second control device in a compatible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Matthias Behr
  • Patent number: 7447815
    Abstract: An architecture for automatically optimizing audio and video modes available from interconnected multimedia devices. When one multimedia device is connected with another multimedia device, the devices communicate with each other to determine the modes available from both devices. The devices then compare the different combinations of available audio and video modes and determine which mode combination yields the optimal operating efficiency for outputting a media service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: David John Weaver, William Henry Mengel, Lawrence Carl Pesce
  • Patent number: 7447805
    Abstract: A buffer chip having a first data interface for receiving a data item which is to be written and for sending a data item which has been read, having a conversion unit for parallelizing the received data item and for serializing the data item which is to be sent, having a second data interface for writing the parallelized data item to a memory arrangement via a memory data bus and for receiving the data item read from the memory arrangement via the memory data bus; having a write buffer storage for buffer-storing the data item which is to be written, having a control unit in order, after reception of a data item which is to be written via the first data interface in line with a write command, to interrupt the data from being written from the write buffer storage via the second data interface upon a subsequent read command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Georg Braun, Hermann Ruckerbauer
  • Patent number: 7447859
    Abstract: When an active data copy process relative to a logical storage device is performed without involving a computer, an access permission/rejection of the computer to the logical storage device is checked by referring to a correspondence between WWN of the computer and a logical storage device identifier LUN to thereby determine whether an access to a copy source logical storage device and a copy destination logical storage device is permitted or not. It is therefore possible to prevent an outflow of illegal data from a storage subsystem to be caused by an active copy instruction command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Eguchi, Hiroshi Arakawa, Takahiro Fujita, Keishi Tamura, Yoshinori Okami
  • Patent number: 7444446
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical DVI cable and optical signal transmission equipment which can prevent the leakage of laser light to the outside. The optical DVI cable includes (1) a transmission side unit having a laser light emitting element unit, and configured and arranged to convert input electrical signals into optical signals and to transmits the optical signals, (2) a reception side interface unit configured and arranged to receive the optical signals transmitted from the transmission side interface unit, and (3) a connecting cable having metal wires to supply power to the laser light emitting element unit, and optical fibers to transmit optical signals. The transmission side unit may include a power supply terminal. In this case, the metal wires supply power to the laser light emitting element unit from the transmission side unit via the reception side unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Yamaguchi, Hideya Konda
  • Patent number: 7444445
    Abstract: A data storage domain is provided to determine a set of signal conditioning parameters for data being transmitted over smart cables in a data storage domain between an SAS switch and SAS expanders and among SAS expanders. A first expander interrogates any attached smart cables for cable persistent data and captures in a table the cable persistent data. One or more interfaces of the first expander are operated at a first data rate. The switch collects the captured cable persistent data and, in response, determines a set of signal conditioning parameters for data being transmitted on each attached smart cable. The set of signal conditioning parameters includes a first maximum data rate for each attached smart cable. The signal conditioning parameters are then set for each attached smart cable in accordance with the set of determined signal conditioning parameters, whereby the data storage domain is tuned for optimum signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Kubo, Gregg S. Lucas