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| US-5,689,675 |
Ranking-based address assignment in a modular system A control system comprises modules, and control means to control assignment of addresses to the modules. Each particular module has a particular number. The... |
| US-5,689,674 |
Method and apparatus for binding instructions to dispatch ports of a
reservation station A method and apparatus for binding instructions to dispatch ports in a reservation station includes a counter mechanism and a port identifier. The counter... |
| US-5,689,673 |
Apparatus and method for controlling instruction flow by using a matrix
of transmission gates in super-scaler... An instruction flow control circuit controls the selection and execution of instruction signals in a microprocessor having multiple execution units that can... |
| US-5,689,672 |
Pre-decoded instruction cache and method therefor particularly suitable
for variable byte-length instructions An instruction cache for a superscalar processor having a variable byte-length instruction format, such as the X86 format, is organized as a 16K byte 4-way... |
| US-5,689,671 |
System for reducing quantity of data transmitted to a user unit by
transmitting only an identifier which points... The present invention relates to a method and to a computer system arrangement for producing a dialogue between a central computer unit and at least one user... |
| US-5,689,670 |
Data transferring system with multiple port bus connecting the low speed
data storage unit and the high speed... A data processing system using a prefetch mechanism with high speed cache memory to increase the processing speed. Data is prefetched from a low speed main... |
| US-5,689,669 |
Graphical user interface for navigating between levels displaying
hallway and room metaphors A graphical navigation user interface for enabling user control of a computer system incorporating navigation levels, each of which is based on a physical... |
| US-5,689,668 |
Dynamic hierarchical selection menu A control window for navigating and implementing menu selections in a multiple level hierarchical menu is provided having a first zone displaying a list of the... |
| US-5,689,667 |
Methods and system of controlling menus with radial and linear portions A system that combines a radial marking menu portion with a linear menu portion in a single menu display. Item selection in the linear portion is performed by... |
| US-5,689,666 |
Method for handling obscured items on computer displays Program code is executed in a data processing system in order to display a plurality of items so that each of the items is displayed as a different layer with... |
| US-5,689,665 |
Apparatus and method for displaying windows A layout table describing positions and types of a plurality of windows is used to manage a graphical user interface. At the time of initialization or when the... |
| US-5,689,664 |
Interface sharing between objects A system for sharing an interface between objects is described herein that saves significant mounts of system resources, such as memory, in an object oriented... |
| US-5,689,663 |
Remote controller user interface and methods relating thereto A remote controller user interface for accessing information within a computer system. The remote controller contains a window display area for displaying... |
| US-5,689,662 |
Shell extensions for an operating system An operating system provides extensions through which application developers may extend the capabilities of a shell of the operating system. For example,... |
| US-5,689,661 |
Reconfigurable torus network having switches between all adjacent
processor elements for statically or... An n-dimensional torus network-based parallel computer, n being an integer greater than 1, is folded n times with the results of folding embedded in an... |
| US-5,689,660 |
Enhanced peripheral component interconnect bus protocol A PC bus architecture that is compatible with an industry standard bus architecture and allows devices to transfer data at higher data rates that the bus clock... |
| US-5,689,659 |
Method and apparatus for bursting operand transfers during dynamic bus
sizing A data processing system (10) having a bus controller (5) that uses a communication bus (22) which adapts to various system resources (7) and is capable of burst... |
| US-5,689,658 |
Data processing system A data processing system has a processor, a RAM, an arithmetic unit, an address bus, a data bus, a state unit, and a bus controller. The state unit checks a... |
| US-5,689,657 |
Apparatus and methods for bus arbitration in a multimaster system A bus arbitration method for a multimaster system comprising a plurality of masters sharing a global data bus and a plurality of bus arbiters sharing a global... |
| US-5,689,656 |
Dynamic hierarchical arbitration of computer resource access requests A method of prioritizing computer resource access requests to a shared computer resource, such as a video frame buffer, includes the steps of providing a number,... |
| US-5,689,655 |
Apparatus for connecting and disconnecting drives under active state An apparatus for connecting and disconnecting a plurality of drives connected in parallel with respect to a data transmission line in a magnetic disk system,... |
| US-5,689,654 |
Digital assistant system including a host computer with a docking bay
for the digital assistant wherein a heat... A personal digital assistant module with a local CPU, memory, and I/O interface has a host interface comprising a bus connected to the local CPU and a connector... |
| US-5,689,653 |
Vector memory operations The op-code bandwidth limitation of computer systems is alleviated by providing one or more vector buffers. Data is transferred between memory and processor... |
| US-5,689,652 |
Crossing network utilizing optimal mutual satisfaction density profile A crossing network that matches buy and sell orders based upon a satisfaction and quantity profile is disclosed. The crossing network includes a number of trader... |
| US-5,689,651 |
System for processing and displaying financial information A system for processing and displaying financial market data corresponding to user selected primary and secondary symbols having a programmable computer with a... |
| US-5,689,650 |
Community reinvestment act network The CRA apparatus compiles investor needs for CRA qualified assets, creates portfolios of assets that would be recognized by regulatory agencies as meeting the... |
| US-5,689,649 |
System for operation of a combination mortgage, equity load and savings
plan A "Nest-Egg" mortgage which combines the benefits of a conventional home mortgage, a home equity loan, and an individual retirement account ("IRA"), including a... |
| US-5,689,648 |
Method and apparatus for publication of information A system and devices for publication of newspapers and the like. The system uses an electronic memory/display unit (24) which preserves the convenience of... |
| US-5,689,647 |
Parallel computing system with processing element number setting mode
and shortest route determination with... A parallel computer system includes a plurality of processing elements each including a network control unit and a data processing unit. The network control unit... |
| US-5,689,646 |
Configuring of networked system to permit replacement of failed modes
and selection of alternate paths A method of routing messages within an n-dimensional network topology. Two directions are associated with each dimension in the n-dimensional network, for a... |
| US-5,689,645 |
Persistence specification system and method for producing persistent and
transient submaps in a management... Discovery/layout software configures a general purpose computer system to act as a management station using an industry standard SNMP protocol. The ... |
| US-5,689,644 |
Network switch with arbitration sytem A local area network switch includes a set of input ports each receiving and storing incoming packets from a corresponding network station, a set of output ports... |
| US-5,689,643 |
Communication device for transmitting asynchronous formatted data
synchronously A device for an isochronous data communication system between a first data terminal having a first clock and a remote communication unit having a second clock. A... |
| US-5,689,642 |
Recipient prioritized communication channel profiles A method for a sender to automatically distribute information to a receiver on a network using devices (such as printers and facsimile machines) and ... |
| US-5,689,641 |
Multimedia collaboration system arrangement for routing compressed AV
signal through a participant site without... A multimedia collaboration system that integrates separate real-time and asynchronous networks--the former for real-time audio and video, and the latter for... |
| US-5,689,640 |
Method and system for downloading data to network nodes A network system comprises a terminal storing a update data file, a gateway device having a temporary memory, and a network comprising a plurality of nodes. Each... |
| US-5,689,639 |
Method and apparatus for updating and transmitting line-oriented data
sets A method for the transmission of line-oriented data sets. This method employs two data set structures which keep the images of the data sets at different time... |
| US-5,689,638 |
Method for providing access to independent network resources by
establishing connection using an application... A method and system for providing access to independent network resources. At system logon, logon data is stored in memory of a client computer. When a server is... |
| US-5,689,637 |
Console simulator, multi-console management system and console
management distribution system A computer implemented system for simulating functions of a mainframe computer monitor console. A first central processing unit is in communication with a memory... |
| US-5,689,636 |
Tracer system for error analysis in running real-time systems Tracer systems should not influence running real-time systems such that the real-time demands thereof can no longer be met. In order to resolve this problem, the... |
| US-5,689,635 |
Microprocessor memory test circuit and method A circuit and method for testing on-chip memory for a microprocessor or a microcomputer is disclosed. The memory test circuit includes an input register, an... |
| US-5,689,634 |
Three purpose shadow register attached to the output of storage devices A multi-purpose shadow register apparatus in a computer system having a central processing unit, a memory, a memory output select circuit, and a memory output... |
| US-5,689,633 |
Computer program product and program storage device for including stored
procedure user defined function or... A computer program product and program storage device for incorporating an external predefined procedure into an existing unit of work. The existing unit of work... |
| US-5,689,632 |
Computing unit having a plurality of redundant computers A computing unit having at least two redundant computers for independently performing identical computing tasks and for each supplying computing data to a... |
| US-5,689,631 |
Parallel processing computer and method of solving a problem using
simultaneously executed different and... A parallel search method for a parallel processing computer which employs different and competing search procedures to search a collection of data. A search... |
| US-5,689,630 |
Information reproducing apparatus An information recording/reproducing apparatus for performing information recording or reproduction with a recorded medium having a plurality of recording... |
| US-5,689,629 |
Iterative optimizing quantization method for reconstructing
three-dimensional images from a limited number of views A three-dimensional image reconstruction method comprises treating the object of interest as a group of elements with a size that is determined by the resolution... |
| US-5,689,628 |
Coupling a display object to a viewpoint in a navigable workspace A method and system are disclosed for maintaining a view of a selected display object while navigating in an n-dimensional, navigable workspace. Objects... |
| US-5,689,627 |
Polygon drawing and filling apparatus which initially sorts three
dimensional polygons by planar characteristics A polygon drawing apparatus for admitting a figure drawing command including command type data and vertex data defining a polygon to be drawn and for outputting... |
| US-5,689,626 |
System and method for linking a file to a document and selecting the file A file is selected for use with a document and a file identifier for the selected file is stored in a print record. The file identifier is preferably comprised... |
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