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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6314392 | Method and apparatus for clustering-based signal segmentation In a computerized method a continuous signal is segmented in order to determine statistically stationary units of the signal. The continuous signal is sampled at periodic intervals to produce a timed sequence of digital samples. Fixed numbers of adjacent ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6289312 | Speech interface for computer application programs In a computer system, a method enables an application program to interact aurally with a user. The application program including calls to perform input and output. The calls include parameters. The method identifies functions of an input/output driver. Th... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6286109 | Method and apparatus for reducing heat generation in a portable computer A method and apparatus for controlling heat generation within a battery-powered portable computer. One aspect is directed to a computer including a battery, a battery charging circuit operatively connected to the battery to charge the battery at a chargin... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6243708 | Technique for accessing an item of interest within a stored representation of data A method for locating a particularly relevant position within a multimedia steam includes identifying a multimedia stream based upon a query. The locations relevant to the query within the multimedia stream are also identified. The relevance of each of th... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6243761 | Method for dynamically adjusting multimedia content of a web page by a server in accordance to network path characteristics between client and server A computer implemented method adjusts a Web page including multimedia content according to the effective bandwidth and/or latency monitored on a network path connecting a server computer storing the Web page, and a client computer requesting the Web page.... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6212535 | Browser-based electronic messaging In a computerized method for messaging, a Web page includes an embedded tag specifying a message extension program. The Web page is requested from a Web server by a Web browser of a first client computer connected to the Web server computer by a communica... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6204859 | Method and apparatus for compositing colors of images with memory constraints for storing pixel data A method and an apparatus determine a color for pixels in a graphics system in which images are defined by pixels. Multiple fragments of an image may be visible in any given pixel. Each visible fragment has a fragment value that includes the color of that... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6199153 | Method and apparatus for minimizing pincount needed by external memory control chip for multiprocessors with limited memory size requirements A computing apparatus has a mode selector configured to select one of a long-bus mode corresponding to a first memory size and a short-bus mode corresponding to a second memory size which is less than the first memory size. An address bus of the computing... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6195718 | Dual PCI bridge docking A multiple docking system allows multiple dock units to be connected to the bus of a primary unit notebook computer. This is accomplished using multiple bridges between the primary bus of the primary unit and secondary buses in each of the dock units. Imp... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6189026 | Technique for dynamically generating an address book in a distributed electronic mail system In a computer implemented method an address book is dynamically generated in a distributed mail service system. The distributed mail service system includes a plurality of client computers connected to a mail service system via a network. Mail messages ar... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185551 | Web-based electronic mail service apparatus and method using full text and label indexing In a computerized distributed mail system, a plurality of client computers are connected to each other via a network. Each client computer is configured to execute client mail application programs. A mail service system is also connected to the network. T... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6173293 | Scalable distributed file system A file system is distributed over a plurality of computers connected to each other by a network. The plurality of computers execute user programs, and the user programs access files stored on a plurality of physical disks connected to the plurality of com... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6167490 | Using global memory information to manage memory in a computer network A system and method for managing memory in a network. In a computer network in which multiple computers (nodes) are interconnected by a network, the primary memory on one node may be used to store memory data (pages)from other nodes. The transfer of a dat... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6151610 | Document display system using a scripting language having container variables setting document attributes A document management apparatus has a scripting language which controls documents by setting the attributes of documents. Attributes are pieces of data within a document. A script engine reads a script from a cache memory and launches the processes to acc... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6151208 | Wearable computing device mounted on superior dorsal aspect of a hand A handheld computing device is provided, which includes: a motion sensor fixed to the device sensing an orientation of the device and a mounting structure for mounting the device on a superior dorsal aspect of the hand. The device can include an enclosure... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6147885 | Method and apparatus for controlling providing of conditioned AC power A method and apparatus for controlling the providing of conditioned AC power, with the conditioned AC power being capable of being provided on a continuous basis. Unconditioned AC voltage is received by transverters. The transverters convert the unconditi... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6138748 | Interleaved-fin thermal connector In order to provide a thermal coupling between a heat source and a heat sink, an interleaved-fin connector is provided. The connector comprises first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a first surface. A plurality of first channels are et... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6134531 | Method and apparatus for correlating real-time audience feedback with segments of broadcast programs A computerized method enables an audience to synchronously interact with a broadcast program in realtime. A broadcast clock of a broadcast system is synchronized to a standard time. A server clock of a server computer is synchronized to the standard time ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134665 | Computer with remote wake up and transmission of a status packet when the computer fails a self test An apparatus for use in a computer has a network interface subsystem having power applied thereto when power is removed from other components of the computer. A receiver in the network interface subsystem receives a packet directed to the computer from th... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6124865 | Duplicate cache tag store for computer graphics system A duplicate cache tag store, accessible to a graphics processor and to devices connected to the I/O bus without creating traffic on the system bus. Any entry into, or displacement from, the CPU cache tag store is also entered into, or displaced from, the ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6125034 | Computer having internally mounted peripheral devices with moveable adapter A computer having a case has a connection point for a communications line, where the connection point is accessible from outside the case. A socket receives a standard communications hardware card, the hardware card having a first receptacle to electrical... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6119124 | Method for clustering closely resembling data objects A computer-implemented method determines the resemblance of data objects such as Web pages. Each data object is partitioned into a sequence of tokens. The tokens are grouped into overlapping sets of the tokens to form shingles. Each shingle is represented... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115775 | Method and apparatus for performing interrupt frequency mitigation in a network node A time-based and event-based interrupt frequency mitigation scheme is provided. A holdoff event counter is programmed to count a holdoff event count corresponding to a number of interrupts. A holdoff timer is programmed to time a holdoff interval represen... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6115550 | Loader conditionally replacing a code sequence with a functionally-alike code sequence in an executable program intended for execution in different run-time environments A compiler-loader system enables the creation of different loaded executable images in target computers complying with different versions of an instruction-set architecture, the different images being created from a single executable program on secondary ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6112318 | Performance counters controlled by programmable logic An apparatus and method for counting event signals generated by a computer system is described. The event signals are indicative of the performance of the computer system. Programmable logic enhances the functionality of performance counters by enabling t... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6112317 | Processor performance counter for sampling the execution frequency of individual instructions A processor includes an execution pipeline and a retire unit coupled to an end of the execution pipeline. The processor executes instructions of a program. An apparatus for collecting performance data while the instructions are executing includes a regist... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6112267 | Hierarchical ring buffers for buffering data between processor and I/O device permitting data writes by processor and data reads by I/O device simultaneously directed at different buffers at different levels The invention includes an apparatus and method for buffering data transmitted by a processor and received by an I/O device via a memory and buses. The memory arranged at a plurality of levels includes a lower level of the memory operating faster than a hi... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108734 | Method and apparatus for a relaxed bus protocol using heuristics and higher level supervision In a relaxed bus protocol for transferring bursts of data from a slow device to another device, a predictor generates an advance signal. The advance signal is used to load next data into an output register of the slow device, the next data can then be tra... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6105019 | Constrained searching of an index A computer implemented method performs constrained searching of an index of a database. The information of the database is stored as a plurality of records. A unique location is assigned to each indexable portion of information of the database. Index entr... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6105028 | Method and apparatus for accessing copies of documents using a web browser request interceptor A method and apparatus for enabling access of a document on a remote network device by a local computer includes an interceptor for intercepting a request (from a web browser on the local computer system) for accessing the document. The interceptor respon... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101288 | Method for recovering radial distortion parameters from a single camera image In a computerized method, a set of radial distortion parameters are recovered from a single image by selecting arbitrarily oriented straight lines in a single image using an input device. Then, objective functions in Cartesian form are minimized using a l... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6101543 | Pseudo network adapter for frame capture, encapsulation and encryption A new pseudo network adapter is disclosed providing an interface for capturing packets from a local communications protocol stack for transmission on the virtual private network. The system further includes a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) ser... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098179 | Method and apparatus for performing error detection A method and apparatus for performing error detection in a network is disclosed. An error counter is stored in a common memory location accessible by all nodes. The error counter includes separate partitions associated with each node in the network. Each ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6097882 | Method and apparatus of improving network performance and network availability in a client-server network by transparently replicating a network service A client-server network including a number of client computer systems, each of the client computer systems having a network interface, a number of server computer systems, each of the server computer systems having a network interface, and a replicator sy... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6097593 | Semi-mobile desktop personal computer A semi-mobile desktop personal computer incorporating the features of a desktop personal computer with the mobility of a mobile personal computer. The computer includes a system enclosure attached to a storage enclosure, the storage enclosure extends outs... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092180 | Method for measuring latencies by randomly selected sampling of the instructions while the instruction are executed In a method for scheduling instructions executed in a computer system including a processor and a memory subsystem, pipeline latencies and resource utilization are measured by sampling hardware while the instructions are executing. The instructions are th... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088771 | Mechanism for reducing latency of memory barrier operations on a multiprocessor system A technique reduces the latency of a memory barrier (MB) operation used to impose an inter-reference order between sets of memory reference operations issued by a processor to a multiprocessor system having a shared memory. The technique comprises issuing... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6085296 | Sharing memory pages and page tables among computer processes A method of managing computer memory pages. The sharing of a program-accessible page between two processes is managed by a predefined mechanism of a memory manager. The sharing of a page table page between the processes is managed by the same predefined m... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6084455 | High-speed CMOS latch A high-speed CMOS latch includes at each storage node a pull-up P-transistor with its gate tied to a dynamic node, and a pull-down N-transistor with its gate controlled by the inverse of the states of the remaining dynamic nodes. The P-transistor drives t... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6081268 | Method for ignoring redundant constraints in a graphic editor Using an input device of a computer system, a graphic drawing is defined to include at least one graphic component. The graphic component is subject to a plurality of constraints. At least one of the constraints is redundant with respect to the other cons... | 06/27/2000 |
