US Patent No: 7,444,441
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Device including means for transferring information indicating whether or not the device supports DMA
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Oct 28, 2008
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Oct 1, 2003
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10/530,955
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Abstract
A device for attachment to a host for serial data communication including means for transferring to the host a predetermined data structure indicating whether or not the device supports direct memory access.
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| 6,298,396 System for loading a current buffer desciptor register with a value different from current value to cause a previously read buffer descriptor to be read again | 37 | 1998 | |
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| 5,655,145 Peripheral interface circuit which snoops commands to determine when to perform DMA protocol translation | 8 | 1994 | |
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| 6,598,097 Method and system for performing DMA transfers using operating system allocated I/O buffers | 7 | 2000 | |
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| 6,216,183 Apparatus and method for securing information entered upon an input device coupled to a universal serial bus | 28 | 1998 | |
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| 7,000,035 Electronic device with USB interface | 3 | 2000 | |
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| 5,845,151 System using descriptor and having hardware state machine coupled to DMA for implementing peripheral device bus mastering via USB controller or IrDA controller | 18 | 1996 | |
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| 2004/0036,911 Image forming system and image forming apparatus | 1 | 2003 | |
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| 2004/0103,234 Combination non-volatile memory and input-output card with direct memory access | 30 | 2002 | |
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| 6,898,678 Shared memory with programmable size | 10 | 2000 | |
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