公开(公告)号：US08712026B1

公开(公告)日：2014-04-29

申请号：US12258947

申请日：2008-10-27

申请人： Baoquan Zhang ,  Sharon M. Johnson ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Jason Shaw ,  Roderick Polk ,  Anthony J. Wageman

发明人： Baoquan Zhang ,  Sharon M. Johnson ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Jason Shaw ,  Roderick Polk ,  Anthony J. Wageman

IPC分类号： H04M3/42

CPC分类号： H04M3/42017

摘要： Methods and systems for facilitating distribution of ringback files to caller devices are provided. A ringback file server may receive a request to associate a ringback file with a callee device and a caller device. Responsively, the ringback file server transmits a copy of the ringback file to the caller device, thus enabling the caller device to play out the ringback file when the caller device subsequently initiates a call to the callee device. Preferably, the ringback file is a high quality audio or video file. Thus, locally storing the ringback file at the caller device facilitates playout of high quality ringback media and also avoids requiring that the ringback file server stream ringback media in-band to the caller device.

摘要翻译： 提供了方便和系统，以便于将回铃文件分发给呼叫者设备。 回铃文件服务器可以接收将回铃文件与被叫设备和呼叫者设备相关联的请求。 响应地，回铃文件服务器将回铃文件的副本发送到呼叫者设备，从而当呼叫者设备随后发起对被叫设备的呼叫时，使呼叫者设备播放回铃文件。 优选地，回铃文件是高质量音频或视频文件。 因此，将回铃文件本地存储在呼叫者设备中便于播放高质量的回铃媒体，并且还避免要求回铃文件服务器流在呼叫者设备带内回铃媒体。

公开(公告)号：US11952169B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US18311969

申请日：2023-05-04

申请人： Stephen A. Smith

发明人： Stephen A. Smith

IPC分类号： B65D21/08 ,  A47J47/12 ,  B65D8/00 ,  B65D81/20 ,  B65D85/36

CPC分类号： B65D21/086 ,  A47J47/12 ,  B65D11/02 ,  B65D81/20 ,  B65D85/36 ,  B65D2205/00

摘要： Various aspects of the disclosure generally relate to a collapsible storage container with multiple sleeves. In some implementations a two-sleeve variant is described. In some implementations a three-sleeve variant is described. Both variants may be used to contain appropriately sized and shaped objects, for example bread, maps, posters, blueprints, plans, etc.

公开(公告)号：US20230008715A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-12

申请号：US17369038

申请日：2021-07-07

申请人： Stephen A. Smith

发明人： Stephen A. Smith

IPC分类号： B65D21/08 ,  B65D85/36 ,  A47J47/12 ,  B65D8/00 ,  B65D81/20

摘要： Various aspects of the disclosure generally relate to a collapsible storage container with multiple sleeves. In some implementations a two-sleeve variant is described. In some implementations a three-sleeve variant is described. Both variants may be used to contain appropriately sized and shaped objects, for example bread, maps, posters, blueprints, plans, etc.

公开(公告)号：USD487669S1

公开(公告)日：2004-03-23

申请号：US29182704

申请日：2003-05-30

申请人： Stephen A. Smith ,  Warren Giles Wiedmeyer ,  John Stewart Gitschlag ,  James Tam Joines, Jr. ,  Kimberly Vaile Healy ,  Bryce G. Rutter ,  John Howard Loudenslager ,  Brian C. Bone ,  Jan R. Stillerman

设计人： Stephen A. Smith ,  Warren Giles Wiedmeyer ,  John Stewart Gitschlag ,  James Tam Joines, Jr. ,  Kimberly Vaile Healy ,  Bryce G. Rutter ,  John Howard Loudenslager ,  Brian C. Bone ,  Jan R. Stillerman

公开(公告)号：US5812858A

公开(公告)日：1998-09-22

申请号：US719596

申请日：1996-09-25

申请人： Narasimha R. Nookala ,  Ashutosh S. Dikshit ,  Daniel G. Bezzant ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Jihad Y. Abudayyeh ,  Arunachalam Vaidyanathan

发明人： Narasimha R. Nookala ,  Ashutosh S. Dikshit ,  Daniel G. Bezzant ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Jihad Y. Abudayyeh ,  Arunachalam Vaidyanathan

IPC分类号： G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/318 ,  G06F13/10 ,  G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F13/105 ,  G06F9/30098 ,  G06F9/30123 ,  G06F9/30189 ,  G06F9/455

摘要： An apparatus for providing register compatibility between integrated circuits having different register and interrupt configurations is designed to operate with software that was written for previous hardware. Versions of software written for previous hardware attempt non-native register accesses for which the integrated circuit is designed to emulate the non-native register set. Versions of software specifically written for the present hardware attempt native register accesses for which no emulation is necessary. In the preferred embodiment only one physical register set is included on the integrated circuit and a compatibility engine is used when a non-native register access is attempted. The compatibility engine is coupled between a bus interface unit and the physical register set and allows a user or system designer to address a register set of another integrated circuit having a different configuration than the physical register set. The compatibility engine converts the address and maps the data bits of the emulated register into registers within the physical register set. Alternatively, two sets of registers can be physically included on the integrated circuit. An interrupt compatibility circuit is also designed to operate in at least a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode the interrupt information is written to an appropriate register and then mapped into the appropriate bits of the physical register set. In the second mode the interrupt information is written directly to the appropriate register. In both the first and second modes, steering bits from the appropriate register are used to map system, management and wakeup interrupts to the appropriate interrupt pad where the interrupt request signal is then shaped.

摘要翻译： 用于在具有不同寄存器和中断配置的集成电路之间提供寄存器兼容性的设备被设计为使用为先前硬件编写的软件进行操作。 为先前硬件编写的软件版本尝试非本地寄存器访问，集成电路设计用于模拟非本地寄存器集。 针对当前硬件专门编写的软件版本会尝试不需要仿真的本地寄存器访问。 在优选实施例中，集成电路中仅包括一个物理寄存器组，并且当尝试非本地寄存器访问时使用兼容性引擎。 兼容性引擎耦合在总线接口单元和物理寄存器组之间，并且允许用户或系统设计者寻址具有与物理寄存器组不同的配置的另一个集成电路的寄存器组。 兼容性引擎转换地址，并将仿真寄存器的数据位映射到物理寄存器集中的寄存器。 或者，集成电路可以物理地包括两组寄存器。 中断兼容性电路还被设计为在至少第一模式或第二模式中操作。 在第一种模式下，中断信息被写入适当的寄存器，然后映射到物理寄存器组的相应位。 在第二种模式下，中断信息直接写入适当的寄存器。 在第一和第二模式中，来自适当寄存器的转向位用于将系统，管理和唤醒中断映射到中断请求信号然后成形的适当中断焊盘。

公开(公告)号：US5796981A

公开(公告)日：1998-08-18

申请号：US308167

申请日：1994-09-16

申请人： Jihad Y. Abudayyeh ,  Ashutosh S. Dikshit ,  Daniel G. Bezzant ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Narasimha R. Nookala ,  Arunachalam Vaidyanathan

发明人： Jihad Y. Abudayyeh ,  Ashutosh S. Dikshit ,  Daniel G. Bezzant ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Narasimha R. Nookala ,  Arunachalam Vaidyanathan

IPC分类号： G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/318 ,  G06F9/00 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/30174 ,  G06F9/30138

摘要： An apparatus for providing register compatibility between integrated circuits having different register and interrupt configurations is designed to operate with software. Software may attempt non-native register accesses; the integrated circuit of the present invention will emulate a non-native register set. In the preferred embodiment only one physical register set is included on the integrated circuit and a compatibility engine is used when a non-native register access is attempted. The compatibility engine is coupled between a bus interface unit and the physical register set and allows a user or system designer to address a register set of another integrated circuit having a different configuration than the physical register set. The compatibility engine converts the address and maps the data bits of the emulated register into registers within the physical register set. Alternatively, two sets of registers can be physically included on the integrated circuit. An interrupt compatibility circuit is also designed to operate in at least a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, the interrupt information is written to an appropriate register and then mapped into appropriate bits of the physical register set. In the second mode, interrupt information is written directly to the appropriate register.

摘要翻译： 用于在具有不同寄存器和中断配置的集成电路之间提供寄存器兼容性的装置被设计为与软件一起操作。 软件可以尝试非本地寄存器访问; 本发明的集成电路将模拟非本地寄存器组。 在优选实施例中，集成电路中仅包括一个物理寄存器组，并且当尝试非本地寄存器访问时使用兼容性引擎。 兼容性引擎耦合在总线接口单元和物理寄存器组之间，并且允许用户或系统设计者寻址具有与物理寄存器组不同的配置的另一个集成电路的寄存器组。 兼容性引擎转换地址，并将仿真寄存器的数据位映射到物理寄存器集中的寄存器。 或者，集成电路可以物理地包括两组寄存器。 中断兼容性电路还被设计为在至少第一模式或第二模式中操作。 在第一种模式下，将中断信息写入适当的寄存器，然后映射到物理寄存器组的相应位。 在第二种模式下，中断信息直接写入适当的寄存器。

公开(公告)号：US5727184A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-10

申请号：US266975

申请日：1994-06-27

申请人： Bryan M. Richter ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Daniel G. Bezzant ,  Kasturiraman Gopalaswamy ,  Suhas Anand Shetty ,  Arunachalam Vaidyanathan

发明人： Bryan M. Richter ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Daniel G. Bezzant ,  Kasturiraman Gopalaswamy ,  Suhas Anand Shetty ,  Arunachalam Vaidyanathan

IPC分类号： G06F13/38 ,  G06F13/10 ,  G06F5/01

CPC分类号： G06F13/385

摘要： A peripheral interface system and apparatus including a pair of integrated circuits, referred to as a system adapter and a socket controller, use a communication protocol, referred to as a windowed-interchip-communication protocol, to interface peripherals, such as PCMCIA cards or infrared devices, and other subsystems having different formats with a CPU system bus. The system adapter communicates to a hard disk drive subsystem using the ATA communication standards to interface an ATA hard disk drive with the CPU system bus. Communication between the system adapter and the socket controller, which communicates with PCMCIA peripheral cards and IR peripherals, is accomplished using the windowed-interchip-communication protocol which may share hardware resources with other communication protocols. Communication between the system adapter and the hard disk drive and between the system adapter and the socket controller may be provided on the same chain of a standard 40 signal ribbon cable. Alternatively communication between an expansion board and a socket controller may be performed across a cable separate from the hard disk drives having a different signal line format. The system adapter may be included within a single interface expansion board which can be connected to the motherboard and CPU system bus or it can be directly connected or soldered to the motherboard and communicate with the socket controller and ATA hard disk drives using one or more busses.

公开(公告)号：US5724529A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-03

申请号：US561777

申请日：1995-11-22

申请人： Stephen A. Smith ,  Jafar Naji

发明人： Stephen A. Smith ,  Jafar Naji

IPC分类号： G06F13/14 ,  G06F13/36 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F13/4027

摘要： A method and arrangement for controlling input/output (I/O) operations in a computer system provides multiple PC card controllers but allows legacy software to be used. A PCI bus is coupled to a central processing unit, and an ISA bus is coupled to the PCI bus by a bridge. At least one PC card controller is coupled to the PCI bus and at least one other PC card controller is coupled to the ISA bus. Each PC card controller has at least one socket in which a device is connectable, each socket being separately addressable by the processor at an (I/O) address through the respect PC card controller. Each controller also has a socket pointer register, each socket pointer register being loadable with socket pointer information that uniquely identifies each socket of the controller among all of the sockets of the plurality of controllers in the computer system. Each controller also has an index register and a plurality of data registers, the index stored in the index register pointing to one of the data registers. The index registers of the PC card controllers are updated when the processor writes to an I/O address, without acknowledging the write on the PCI bus. This allows the writes to propagate through the system to lower levels, instead of being stopped by a subtractive decode device. To perform this, each PC card controller compares the socket pointer information with the updated index in the index register. When at least a portion of the socket pointer information matches at least a portion of the updated index, the PC card controller updates with write data the data register pointed to by the index register.

摘要翻译： 用于控制计算机系统中的输入/输出（I / O）操作的方法和装置提供多个PC卡控制器，但允许使用旧的软件。 PCI总线耦合到中央处理单元，并且ISA总线通过桥耦合到PCI总线。 至少一个PC卡控制器耦合到PCI总线，并且至少一个其它PC卡控制器耦合到ISA总线。 每个PC卡控制器具有至少一个插座，其中设备可连接，每个插座可由处理器在通过PC卡控制器的I / O地址单独寻址。 每个控制器还具有套接字指针寄存器，每个套接字指针寄存器可以使用套接字指针信息进行加载，该指针信息在计算机系统中的多个控制器的所有插座中唯一地标识控制器的每个套接字。 每个控制器还具有索引寄存器和多个数据寄存器，存储在索引寄存器中的索引指向数据寄存器之一。 当处理器写入I / O地址时，PC卡控制器的索引寄存器被更新，而不会确认PCI总线上的写入。 这允许写入通过系统传播到较低的电平，而不是被减法解码设备停止。 为了执行此操作，每个PC卡控制器将套接字指针信息与索引寄存器中更新的索引进行比较。 当插座指针信息的至少一部分与更新的索引的至少一部分匹配时，PC卡控制器用写入数据更新由索引寄存器指向的数据寄存器。

公开(公告)号：USD379587S

公开(公告)日：1997-06-03

申请号：US46468

申请日：1995-11-15

申请人： Timothy S. Goins ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Matthew O. Banach ,  Daniel R. Proper

设计人： Timothy S. Goins ,  Stephen A. Smith ,  Matthew O. Banach ,  Daniel R. Proper

公开(公告)号：US5518133A

公开(公告)日：1996-05-21

申请号：US385711

申请日：1995-02-08

申请人： Thomas J. Hayes ,  Stephen A. Smith

发明人： Thomas J. Hayes ,  Stephen A. Smith

IPC分类号： B65D17/34 ,  B65D43/02

CPC分类号： B65D43/0212 ,  B65D2543/00092 ,  B65D2543/00296 ,  B65D2543/00351 ,  B65D2543/00527 ,  B65D2543/00537 ,  B65D2543/00657 ,  B65D2543/00685 ,  B65D2543/00731 ,  B65D2543/00796 ,  B65D2543/00842

摘要： A cover for a packaging arrangement, comprising a side flange having an undercut disposed therein for releasably engaging a base of said packaging arrangement; and a non-planar shaped tab having a first edge connected to said side flange along the length of said first edge and having a second edge connected to said side flange only at the terminating points of said second edge, said undercut extending in a continuous, unbroken manner in the vicinity of said tab.

摘要翻译： 一种用于包装装置的盖子，包括一个侧面凸缘，该侧面凸缘具有设置在其中的底切部，用于可释放地接合所述包装装置的底座; 以及非平面形突片，其具有沿着所述第一边缘的长度连接到所述侧凸缘的第一边缘，并且具有仅在所述第二边缘的终止点处连接到所述侧凸缘的第二边缘，所述底切部以连续的， 不间断地在所述突片附近。