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| 20090150122 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING A FAN INTERFACE OF A MOTHERBOARD - A system for testing a fan interface on a motherboard is provided. A fan simulator receives a PWM signal from a fan interface of the motherboard, converts the PWM signal to a TACH signal and outputs the TACH signal to a computer via the fan connector. A difference between the actual rotation speed from the TACH signal and a preset desired rotation speed of the fan simulator is determined and analyzed by comparing the difference with a preset allowable error margin. A related method is also provided. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100309010 | TELEVISION VIEWING SAFETY SYSTEM AND METHOD - In a television viewing safety system and method, a detection zone of a sensor is set. The sensor is turned on to detect whether a person moves into the detection zone. If the person is detected moving into the detection zone, the television is controlled to display under a safe display mode. If the person is not detected moving into the detection zone, the television is controlled to display under a normal display mode. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110055601 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING A POWER BUTTON OF THE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method protects a power button of a computing device. The computing device includes a front panel and a motherboard. The front panel includes a protection switch and a power button. The motherboard includes a power protection unit that displays a power-on simulation icon and a power-off simulation icon on a display screen when the power button is pressed. The power protection unit controls a general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pin of the motherboard to output a first voltage level when the power-off simulation icon is selected, and shuts off the protection switch to enable the power button according to the first voltage level. The power protection unit controls the GPIO pin to output a second voltage level when the power-on simulation icon is selected, and turns on the protection switch to enable the power button according to the second voltage level. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110271268 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING UNIFIED EXTENSIBLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE SETTING INFORMATION - A system and method can update unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) setting information of a computer. The method creates a system management interrupt (SMI) function based on a UEFI platform of the computer, and stores the SMI function in a SMRAM of the computer. The method further generates an access address of the SMI function when a configuration command is input from an input device, and generate a SMI handler according to the access address. Additionally, the method calls a runtime service function of the UEFI platform by executing the SMI function through the SMI handler, and executes the runtime service function to configure UEFI setting information stored in a flash memory chip and to update BIOS data stored in a CMOS chip related to the UEFI setting information. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120098844 | COMPUTER AND REFRESH RATE ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A refresh rate adjustment method automatically adjusts a refresh rate of a monitor connected to a computer to a default refresh rate, in response that a detected keystroke signal is a predefined keystroke signal. The method further detects a refresh rate range that is supported by the monitor, detects a new refresh rate input signal from the input device, and determines if the new refresh rate falls within the refresh rate range that is supported by the monitor. If the new refresh rate falls within the refresh rate range that is supported by the monitor, the method automatically adjusts the refresh rate of the monitor with the new refresh rate. Otherwise, the method prompts a user to input the new refresh rate again by displaying a dialog box on the monitor. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120124288 | REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DRIVE LETTER OF THE REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE - A method for physically identifying an association between a removable storage device and its assigned drive letter, the removable storage device connecting to a computing device. A data structure which comprises the drive letter assigned by an operating system of the computing device is received and analyzed to retrieve the drive letter assigned to the removable storage device. The drive letter of the removable storage device is displayed on a screen of the removable storage device or on a display device connected to the removable storage device. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120155661 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN AUDIO MODULE - An electronic device and method for testing an audio module of a network device including establishing a first connection between an audio output interface of the electronic device and a microphone interface of the network device. First audio data of a test file is transmitted from the audio output interface to the microphone interface through the first connection. An audio card of the network device records the first audio data output by the microphone interface to generate second audio data, and transmit the second audio data to the electronic device through a network. The second audio data is compared with the first audio data in response to receiving the second audio data by the electronic device. The audio module is determined to be normal if the second audio data matches the first audio data. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120159047 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MERGING STORAGE SPACE OF USB FLASH DRIVES - A method for merging storage space of multiple universal serial bus (USB) flash drives is applied in a computing device. The method detects USB flash drives plugged into USB ports of the computing device and checks respective storage capacities, stored files, and available storage space of the USB flash drives. A virtual USB flash drive including all the stored files of the USB flash drives is created. Files of the virtual USB flash drive are related to the USB flash drives. A file may be copied from a data processing device connected to the computing device to the virtual USB flash drive and split for storage between more than one USB flash drive, or a second file may be copied from one or more USB flash drives to the data processing device through the virtual USB flash drive. | 06-21-2012 |
