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US-5,581,754 Methodology for managing weakly consistent replicated databases
Write operations for weakly consistent replicated database systems have embedded conflict detection and conflict resolution procedures for identifying and...
US-5,581,753 Method for providing session consistency guarantees
The present invention provides client-selected consistency guarantees to clients of a weakly consistent replicated database on a per "session" basis. The clients...
US-5,581,752 Electronic document retrieval and display system and method of retrieving electronically stored documents
The present invention provides an electronic document filing system. The electronic document filing system comprises a document database for storing document, an...
US-5,581,751 Key extraction apparatus and a key extraction method
A key extraction apparatus comprises a main memory, a data input unit of the key extraction apparatus, a data-write controller which generates a data-write...
US-5,581,750 System and method for improving data recovery performance
A system and method are provided for recovering a computerized database. During transaction processing of a database, at least one log range is tracked...
US-5,581,749 System and method for maintaining codes among distributed databases using a global database
A global code system maintains reference records for multiple transaction processing systems on a central database (called a global code database). A client...
US-5,581,748 Phase register for synchronization of multiple signal processors
In a computer system having two processors both of which are used to process frames, a method for synchronizing a first set of frames corresponding to the first...
US-5,581,747 Communication system for programmable devices employing a circuit shift register
An interface system for communicating between a programmable device, such as a hearing assisting device, and a programmer unit employs a circular shift register...
US-5,581,746 Synchronous LSI memory device
A synchronous LSI memory device, comprises memory cell array sections (BK1, BK2) each having a plurality of memory cells; a timing generating section (CLOCK...
US-5,581,745 Apparatus for suspending the bus cycle of a microprocessor by inserting wait states
An interrupt request processing device and method for control of the bus cycle of a microprocessor which implements predetermined wait periods dependent upon a...
US-5,581,744 Method and apparatus for correcting polarity using a synchronizing sequence
A method and apparatus for improving communication capability between computer devices and peripherals scans a data signal for a valid synchronizing sequence. If...
US-5,581,743 CKD to fixed block mapping for optimum performance and space utilization
Count-key-data records are mapped to a fixed-block architecture storage device using a fuzzing packing method that packs some count-key-data records while...
US-5,581,742 Apparatus and method for emulating a microelectronic device by interconnecting and running test vectors on...
A simulation system for a microelectronic device having two or more functional modules from a megacell library, the simulation system utilizing actual physically...
US-5,581,741 Programmable unit for controlling and interfacing of I/O busses of dissimilar data processing systems
A programmable I/O bus adapter for interfacing and controlling two data processing systems having dissimilar and incompatible architectures. The programmable I/O...
US-5,581,740 System for reading CD ROM data from hard disks
A CD ROM server comprises a CD ROM drive and an array of hard disk drives. Means are provided for copying data from the CD ROM drive to the array of hard disk...
US-5,581,739 Two lane computing systems
A dual lane computing system has at least one processor in each lane, each processor having an associated store which stores input data supplied to the processor...
US-5,581,738 Method and apparatus for back-annotating timing constraints into simulation models of field programmable gate...
A method and apparatus for back-annotating timing constraints onto a logical simulation model of a field programmable gate array circuit includes a process and...
US-5,581,737 Method and apparatus for expansion, contraction, and reapportionment of structured external storage structures
A method and apparatus for optimizing a data structure of an external data storage facility shared by a plurality of data processing systems, the data structure...
US-5,581,736 Method and system for dynamically sharing RAM between virtual memory and disk cache
In a computer system having a processing unit, a primary memory space (RAM) and a secondary memory space (disk), the primary memory space being allocated between...
US-5,581,735 System for supplying unit image data to requesting users from multiple storage devices based on directory...
The invention uses a storage device effectively to supply data to as many user terminals as possible. Sub-control units read unit data in which dynamic image...
US-5,581,734 Multiprocessor system with shared cache and data input/output circuitry for transferring data amount greater...
A high performance shared cache is provided to support multiprocessor systems and allow maximum parallelism in accessing the cache by the processors, servicing...
US-5,581,733 Data transfer control of a video memory having a multi-divisional random access memory and a multi-divisional...
An image memory has a random access memory array capable of being randomly accessed; a serial access memory array partitioned into 2.sup.n (n>1) divisional...
US-5,581,732 Multiprocessor system with reflective memory data transfer device
A real time data processing system in which each of a series of processing nodes is provided with its own data store partitioned into a first section reserved...
US-5,581,731 Method and apparatus for managing video data for faster access by selectively caching video data
A method and apparatus for decreasing computer fetch time utilizes cache memory to store video data when the data is not modified by a write modifier. The video...
US-5,581,730 Condition detector and prioritizer with associativity determination logic
A device for simultaneously detecting more than one condition, where each condition corresponds to a specific memory cell of an array of more than one memory...
US-5,581,729 Parallelized coherent read and writeback transaction processing system for use in a packet switched cache...
A multiprocessor computer system is provided having a multiplicity of sub-systems and a main memory coupled to a system controller. An interconnect module,...
US-5,581,728 Information storage system having advance reading function
A reading unit reads first data blocks among the data blocks stored in an information storage medium according to the information specified by a mother system. A...
US-5,581,727 Hierarchical cache system flushing scheme based on monitoring and decoding processor bus cycles for flush/clear...
An apparatus for monitoring and decoding processor bus cycles and flushing a second level cache upon decoding a special flush acknowledge cycle. The CPU...
US-5,581,726 Control system for controlling cache storage unit by using a non-volatile memory
A control system controls a disk unit and a cache storage unit having a cache memory and a nonvolatile memory based on a writing instruction supplied from a host...
US-5,581,725 Cache memory system having first and second direct-mapped cache memories organized in hierarchical structure
A microprocessor includes a CPU, a main memory and primary and second cache memories of the direct mapped type, that are all implemented on the same LSI chip....
US-5,581,724 Dynamically mapped data storage subsystem having multiple open destage cylinders and method of managing that...
A data storage subsystem dynamically maps a virtual data storage device image presented to associated processors to physical data storage devices used to...
US-5,581,723 Method and apparatus for retaining flash block structure data during erase operations in a flash EEPROM memory...
A method for reliably storing management data in a flash EEPROM memory array, which array is divided into a plurality of individually-erasable blocks of memory...
US-5,581,722 Memory management unit for managing address operations corresponding to domains using environmental control
A memory management unit (MMU) for controlling a CPU's right to access a memory in order to initiate performance of an operation. The MMU includes a translator...
US-5,581,721 Data processing unit which can access more registers than the registers indicated by the register fields in an...
The data processing unit includes a greater number of physical floating point registers than the number of floating point registers accessible by an instruction,...
US-5,581,720 Apparatus and method for updating information in a microcode instruction
In a computer for executing a computer program, apparatus and a method for updating information within a computer program instruction without interrupting...
US-5,581,719 Multiple block line prediction
A pipelined processor includes an instruction box including a register mapper, to map register operand fields of a set of instructions and an instruction...
US-5,581,718 Method and apparatus for selecting instructions for simultaneous execution
A method and apparatus for selecting instructions from a sequence of undifferentiated bytes of instruction data is described. A first plurality of sequential...
US-5,581,717 Decoding circuit and method providing immediate data for a micro-operation issued from a decoder
Decoding circuitry and a method supplying an immediate field that is issued from a decoder. A macroinstruction is supplied to the decoding circuit, which...
US-5,581,716 IDE type CD-ROM drive interfacing circuit
An interface circuit for an IDE-type CD-ROM drive connected to a personal computer using a standard IDE interface according to a hard disk drive interface...
US-5,581,715 IDE/ATA CD drive controller having a digital signal processor interface, dynamic random access memory, data...
A compact disk drive controller to control the access of information from an optical compact disk (CD) digital data storage device by a host computer using an...
US-5,581,714 Bus-to-bus read prefetch logic for improving information transfers in a multi-bus information handling system...
A method and system for improving bus-to-bus data transfers in a multi-bus computer system is provided. The system includes a system bus having a slave device...
US-5,581,713 Multiprocessor computer backplane bus in which bus transactions are classified into different classes for...
A computer having multiple modules connected by a backplane bus includes multiple competition signal lines and multiple class signal lines. Access to the...
US-5,581,712 Method and apparatus for managing live insertion of CPU and I/O boards into a computer system
Circuitry and logic are provided to a bus control module of a system bus of a computer system to inject the bus control module into, and win a system test master...
US-5,581,711 Method and apparatus for determining the number of words of transferred data in a digital data transfer system
An apparatus and method for transferring digital data is herein disclosed using a central processing unit and a direct memory access controller. Based on the...
US-5,581,710 Full duplex communication on a single communication ring
A ring network of workstations interconnected on a single simplex ring is converted to duplex communications on the single ring by placing two transceivers in...
US-5,581,709 Multiple computer system using I/O port adaptor to selectively route transaction packets to host or shared I/O...
In a computer system of the present invention, CPUs of a single or a plurality of host computers access the shared IO devices connected to a shared IO bus of...
US-5,581,708 Data transmission system using electronic apparatus having a plurality of transmission protocols
In a data transmission system, a card reader/writer provided in a terminal device and an IC card are connected through a contact unit, the IC card is started in...
US-5,581,707 System for wireless collection of data from a plurality of remote data collection units such as portable bar...
In order to collect data messages at a base station which is in radio communications with portable data collection terminals, such as bar code readers, that may...
US-5,581,706 Method forming an audio/video interactive data signal
A method and apparatus for generating an interactive component data stream, representing an application program, for an audio video interactive (AVI) composite...
US-5,581,705 Messaging facility with hardware tail pointer and software implemented head pointer message queue for...
A messaging facility is described that enables the passing of packets of data from one processing element to another in a globally addressable, distributed...
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