| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,523,078 |
Distributed locking system and method for a clustered system having a
distributed system for storing cluster... A distributed locking system and method for a clustered system having a distributed system for storing cluster configuration information is provided. One aspect... |
| US-6,523,077 |
Data processing apparatus and data processing method accessing a plurality
of memories in parallel A data processing apparatus according to the invention is provided with a plurality of processors, a plurality of memories, a plurality of memory bus selectors... |
| US-6,523,076 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple bus arbiters on separate
chips to give simultaneous grants for... A distributed system structure for a large-way, symmetric multiprocessor system using a bus-based cache-coherence protocol is provided. The distributed system... |
| US-6,523,075 |
Method and system for controlling internal busses to prevent busses
contention during internal scan testing by... A system for preventing bus contention in a multifunction integrated circuit during testing. The system is implemented in an integrated circuit adapted to accept... |
| US-6,523,074 |
Apparatus and method to manage the invocation of feature service An apparatus and method facilitating creation and modification of services with a data processing system by grouping of objects configured on a bus arrangement.... |
| US-6,523,073 |
Handheld computer system and method to detect and identify a peripheral
device The present invention is a system and method that facilitates extendible identification of various peripheral devices coupled to a hand held computer. In one... |
| US-6,523,072 |
System and method of transmitting keystroke information to a client
terminal Disclosed herein are a system and method for using a remote terminal to control processes executing on a client terminal by transmitting data to the client... |
| US-6,523,071 |
Process and apparatus for configuring the direct memory access transfer
mode of a motherboard or host computer A process and apparatus for configuring a motherboard or host computer (3) to operate direct memory transfer mode, such as Ultra-DMA or Ultra-ATA, in accordance... |
| US-6,523,070 |
Communication device with circuitry to promote cascade series connection
including identification of device... A communications apparatus comprising a plurality of communication devices each having a plurality of ports and a data bus interconnecting the plurality of... |
| US-6,523,069 |
Transmission of multicast media between networks A multicast media system includes a network access facility that directly interconnects a second multicast-enabled network to a first multicast-enabled network.... |
| US-6,523,068 |
Method for encapsulating and transmitting a message includes private and
forwarding network addresses with... Methods for processing a media flow at an end of a tunneling association in a data network. One method includes receiving a data packet on a public network, such... |
| US-6,523,067 |
System and method for using internet based caller ID for controlling access
to an object stored in a computer A system and method for controlling access to an object. The system stores an object and a processor identifier. The system includes a verification agent that... |
| US-6,523,066 |
Dynamic distributed memory locking in a computer network A method and system for dynamic distributed memory locking in a computer network. According to the method, a local lock process executing on a node receives from... |
| US-6,523,065 |
Method and system for maintenance of global network information in a
distributed network-based resource... A method and system for allocating distributed resources connected to a computer network to application programs running on computers attached to the... |
| US-6,523,064 |
Network gateway for collecting geographic data information In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a gateway device comprises a central processing unit, an external network interface, an internal... |
| US-6,523,063 |
Method system and program product for accessing a file using values from a
redirect message string for each... A method and system is described that can be used to reliably, efficiently, and securely transmit information in a communications network. The information can be... |
| US-6,523,062 |
Facilitating memory constrained client devices by employing deck reduction
techniques A method, system, and computer program product for facilitating network delivery of Wireless Markup Language (WML) decks (or decks in similar notations) to... |
| US-6,523,061 |
System, method, and article of manufacture for agent-based navigation in a
speech-based data navigation system A system, method, and article of manufacture are provided for navigating an electronic data source by means of spoken language where a portion of the data link... |
| US-6,523,060 |
Method and apparatus for the management of queue pointers by multiple
processors in a digital communications... A method for managing a buffer queue that stores a data queue, wherein the data queue comprises a set of n data elements, n being at least zero. A head pointer... |
| US-6,523,059 |
System and method for facilitating safepoint synchronization in a
multithreaded computer system Methods and apparatus for facilitating a global safepoint operation in a multithreaded computer system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present... |
| US-6,523,058 |
State machine driven transport protocol interface A system architecture for a high speed serial bus compatible with the 1394 standard is disclosed. A transaction interface coordinates data packets received from... |
| US-6,523,057 |
High-speed digital accumulator with wide dynamic range A high-speed, wide dynamic range, digital accumulator includes a first adder stage in which an input addend is added to a value of a least significant part of an... |
| US-6,523,056 |
Process for secure comparison of two storage registers, and security module
implementing this process The invention relates to a process for securely comparing two main storage registers, comprising defining an auxiliary storage register (A), calculating a first... |
| US-6,523,055 |
Circuit and method for multiplying and accumulating the sum of two products
in a single cycle A multiplication accumulation circuit (abbreviated as "MAC") has five input buses that carry signals for operands A, B, C, D and E, a control bus that carries... |
| US-6,523,054 |
Galois field arithmetic processor A practical Galois field arithmetic processor capable of high-speed operation with a simple configuration is disclosed. The processor comprises an instruction... |
| US-6,523,053 |
Method and apparatus for dividing long polynomial expression in finite
field A method and apparatus for dividing a long polynomial expression in a finite field. Elements in a dividend polynomial are grouped into a plurality of groups and... |
| US-6,523,052 |
Method and architecture to facilitate achieving a fast EPR4 equalization
start-up in a magnetic recording read... A method and circuit (10) for achieving a fast EPR4 equalization start-up for an FIR filter (14) in a magnetic recording read channel is presented in which a... |
| US-6,523,051 |
Digital signal transformation device and method A digital signal transformation method, in which the original samples (x.sub.2i ; y.sup.1.sub.2i) of the digital signal are transformed into output samples... |
| US-6,523,050 |
Integer to floating point conversion using one's complement with subsequent
correction to eliminate two's... For use in a processor having a floating point execution core, logic circuitry for, and a method of, converting negative numbers from integer notation to... |
| US-6,523,049 |
Circuit and method for determining greater than or equal to three out of
sixty-six A device and method are provided for indicating a status of sixty-six input signals. The device may include a plurality of pre-sum circuits that receive the... |
| US-6,523,048 |
Computer system and method for abstracting and accessing a
chronologically-arranged collection of information A computer system and method concurrently present multiple development threads represented by a collection of chronologically-arranged information. An... |
| US-6,523,047 |
System and method for volume expansion in the presence of multiple plug-in
features An enhancement to existing logical volume managers which provides the functionality to expand logical volumes employing multiple levels of aggregation. It... |
| US-6,523,046 |
Infrastructure and method for supporting generic multimedia metadata A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing access by applications/utilities/tools to multimedia file metadata originally provided in any of a set of... |
| US-6,523,045 |
Graphical user interface shop floor control system A method for managing information about a manufacturing operation uses factory screens, shop floor screens and/or the like of a shop floor control graphical user... |
| US-6,523,044 |
Collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge within an organization A method of collecting, storing, and retrieving knowledge includes the steps of collecting knowledge information from information-source terminals via a network,... |
| US-6,523,043 |
System and method for updating, monitoring and analyzing measurements A system and method of tracking the performance characteristics of an organization including storing a plurality of measurements in a database and organizing the... |
| US-6,523,042 |
System and method for translating to and from hierarchical information
systems A method for translating to and from an hierarchical information system, comprises identifying a non-hierarchical information system containing information... |
| US-6,523,041 |
Data linking system and method using tokens A method for linking data using permanent tokens is disclosed. The tokens may be used to link data pertaining to a consumer, a business, an address, an... |
| US-6,523,040 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic and flexible table summarization A method for performing table summarization. In a data network requests arrive at random from viewing devices (i.e., PC, PDA, laptop, etc.) to view objects which... |
| US-6,523,039 |
Fortune-telling oriented network information supply system and method A fortune-telling oriented network information supply system comprising a database subsystem and a fortune analysis subsystem, and coupling to an information... |
| US-6,523,038 |
Retrieval method and apparatus for a monitoring system A method for retrieving information related to a desired item from a database storing information which are collected from a system to be monitored is disclosed.... |
| US-6,523,037 |
Method and system for communicating selected search results between first
and second entities over a network A search result set is communicated to a first user as hypertext descriptions of data items constituting the result search set. A check box is displayed adjacent... |
| US-6,523,036 |
Internet database system An incrementally-scalable database system and method. The system architecture enables database servers to be scaled by adding resources, such as additional... |
| US-6,523,035 |
System and method for integrating a plurality of disparate database
utilities into a single graphical user... An improved management console integrates a plurality of disparate database utilities with a unified graphical user interface. A management console is ... |
| US-6,523,034 |
Method for increasing traffic on an electronic site of a system of
networked computers The present invention provides a method for increasing traffic on an electronic site, e.g., Web site. In particular, the method increases a quantity of users to... |
| US-6,523,033 |
Apparatus and method for file locking for computer programs that use
different size locks An apparatus and method provide a locking scheme that accommodates different size file locks. A first file lock command, referred to as an M bit file lock... |
| US-6,523,032 |
Servicing database requests using read-only database servers coupled to a
master database server One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that speeds up an application by allowing database tables associated with the application to be... |
| US-6,523,031 |
Method for obtaining structured information exists in special data format
from a natural language text by... A method for obtaining structured information from a natural language text by aggregation. The aggregation includes steps of reading in a natural language text,... |
| US-6,523,030 |
Sort system for merging database entries The present invention is a method for operating a computer system to minimize the number of disk storage access operations used in creating an inverted database.... |
| US-6,523,029 |
System and method for embedded information retrieval in a distributed
free-text application environment An embedded information retrieval system is provided including a free-text parser, a knowledge-based query generator, a distributed query dispatcher, and a... |