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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5247679 | Method for sequentially registering executable program formats with unresolved pointers by assigning linkage state and invocation state thereof A method and apparatus for linking and registering executable program formats (EPFs) so as to resolve all unresolved pointers. The invention sequentially attempts to link and initialize each EPF by resolving the unresolved pointers of each EPF. During eac... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5134364 | Elastomeric test probe A test probe for testing electronic circuits is provided with a flexible conductive pad disposed at the end of the test probe. The flexible conductive pad is resilient so that when it makes physical and electrical contact with an electronic circuit, it co... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5119486 | Memory board selection method and apparatus The invention comprises a combined hardware and software method and apparatus for determining the size of memory located on a memory card inserted in the slot of a memory backplane of a computer system. The method and apparatus also provides a means for s... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117069 | Circuit board fabrication A high density multi-level printed wiring board having inter-level electrical connections made by via interconnect holes which are drilled or punched through only those layers of the wiring board that separate the two layers containing the conductors whic... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5089443 | Method of making a semiconductor heat sink A method for making a heat sink device as constructed for use with a semiconductor circuit chip 15. On a thermally conductive substrate a layer of a metal alloy is deposited. The metal alloy is thermally conductive and electrically insulative. Cavities ar... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5088081 | Method and apparatus for improved disk access In a RAID level 5 disk drive subsystem, one or more additional disk drives, called "reserve" disks are intercoupled to the array of disk drives and a control system is included for storing recovered digital data on the additional disk drive if a sector on... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5058000 | System for accessing remote heterogeneous database including formatting retrieved data into applications program format An improved method for access to data from a remote computer and an improved method for accessing remote heterogeneous data bases. The method includes a personal computer having an application program for processing data by keyboard input that operates on... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5040381 | Apparatus for cooling circuits An apparatus for cooling circuit modules by use of a thermo-electric device which comprises a series of semiconductor regions and etched copper conductors designed to conduct heat in a specified direction by means of the Peltier Effect. The thermo-electri... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5019971 | High availability cache organization A high availability set associative cache memory for use as a buffer between a main memory and a central processing unit includes multiple sets of cache cells contained in two or more cache memory elements. Each of the cache cells includes a data field, a... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5019880 | Heat sink apparatus A heat sink apparatus for convective cooling of circuit packages or components by direct impinging fluid operation employing a housing having an inlet port and a plurality of radially fluid flow passages communicating with the inlet port with each passage... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5012342 | Video prioritizer and mixer A video mixing system that is adapted to receive respective video and graphic control signals for controlling the display content on a video monitor. A video decoder processes the video and graphic control signals, thus making it possible to mix two or mo... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4967314 | Circuit board construction A high density multi-level printed wiring board having inter-level electrical connections made by via interconnect holes which are drilled or punched through only those layers of the wiring board that separate the two layers containing the conductors whic... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4959771 | Write buffer for a digital processing system The invention comprises a write buffer system which provides residence time information that increases the merge potential and enhances the write collapse feature of a "smart" buffer. The write buffer has multiple buffer locations for storing data receive... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4956771 | Method for inter-processor data transfer A method for transfer of data between multiple tasks in a host computer and multiple tasks in an intelligent controller. One or more memory buffers for holding the data to be transferred are allocated to each task. Each connection between corresponding ta... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4949249 | Clock skew avoidance technique for pipeline processors A technique for providing skew compensation particularly in association with a pipelined processor. The skew occurs between first and second clock signals. The skew compensation technique of the invention provides for the proper transfer of information be... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4942520 | Method and apparatus for indexing, accessing and updating a memory A method and apparatus for accessing a selected entry in a first memory by means of an index formed by combining an index and a stored backpointer of a second memory's entry corresponding to the selected entry in the first memory.... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4924378 | License mangagement system and license storage key A license storage key is provided for securely storing information regarding which licenses have been purchased for a network of computers, how many of each license have been purhcased, and any time limits associated with each license. An application prog... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4920539 | Memory error correction system A system for correcting soft memory failures such as alpha particle failures in a dynamic random access memory and in a computer system wherein writeback caches are employed in a system bus environment. The address field and source identification code ass... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4918693 | Apparatus for physically locating faulty electrical components In a computer system in which addressable components are physically organized on separately-replaceable printed circuit boards each containing an array of separately addressable components, diagnostic apparatus operates in the event of a component failure... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4897805 | Method and apparatus for performing polygon fills in graphical applications A method of filling a polygon as represented on a scan-line raster display includes storing data representative of the polygon edges, computing the points of intersection of a scan-line with each polygon edge, assigning a count having a parity value to ea... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4894772 | Method and apparatus for qualifying branch cache entries A look ahead fetch system for a pipelined digital computer is provided for predicting in advance of decoding the outcome of a branch instruction. The system includes a branch cache having a plurality of associative sets for storing branch target addresses... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4888691 | Method for disk I/O transfer A disk control system offloads to the disk controller much of the overhead associated with disk operations and makes the CPU available for other work. A command block that fully specifies a user request for a disk operation is forwarded to the disk memory... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4888687 | Memory control system A system for controlling the addressing of a memory on a predetermined multi-megabyte decode boundary. An address shifter is coupled between CPU address lines and backplane area bussed address lines. The address shifter is controlled in accordance with th... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4876501 | Method and apparatus for high accuracy measurment of VLSI components Methods and apparatus for accurately measuring propagation delay through very high speed VLSI devices with a test instrument having errors comparable to the delays being measured. The VLSI device has a plurality of parallel operational signal paths, each ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4875186 | Peripheral emulation apparatus Control apparatus allows application software written for use with peripheral devices manufactured by one company to run with other peripheral devices. The apparatus intercepts device-specific control commands generated by the software and translates the ... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4860165 | Semiconductor chip carrier package A semiconductor chip carrier package formed of a multi-layer circuit board having mounted therein a semiconductor chip support pad. The multi-layer circuit board is comprised of separate dielectric boards defining multiple conductive run layers including ... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4860199 | Hashing indexer for branch cache A Hashing Indexer For a Branch Cache for use in a pipelined digital processor that employs macro-instructions utilizing interpretation by micro-instructions. Each of the macro-instructions has an associated address and each of the micro instructions has a... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4860197 | Branch cache system with instruction boundary determination independent of parcel boundary A branch cache system for use with a pipelined processor having overlapping parcel prefetch and execution stages. The system includes a plurality of memory sets for storing a plurality of indexed sets of predicted branch addresses, and control circuitry w... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4855899 | Multiple I/O bus virtual broadcast of programmed I/O instructions A method of performing an input/output process containing a programmed input/output (PIO) instruction in a multiprocessor system including at least two processors each having an associated I/O bus with I/O devices connected thereto. The method has the ste... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4847902 | Digital computer system for executing encrypted programs A digital computer system adapted for executing a set of instructions including at least one encrypted instruction. The system includes a main memory for storing the instructions, a cache memory for storing selected instructions with a relatively fast acc... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4825337 | Circuit board thermal contact device A variable thickness intermediate cooling member adapted to be disposed between a circuit board having electronic module or packages mounted thereon and a cold plate providing thermal coupling between the cold plate and the circuit board. The intermediate... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4821171 | System of selective purging of address translation in computer memories When data is subject to relocation in the physical memory of a processing system employing a virtual memory architecture, execution of programs can be greatly improved through the use of a validation code generator, which assigns a code to each virtual-to... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4819234 | Operating system debugger The invention is a debugger which is part of the operating system of a multi-programmable digital data processor with virtual memory. The debugger can identify and correct faults in an embedded operating system of a multi-programmable digital data process... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4818979 | LUT output for graphics display A scanning display signal generating system for a plurality of planes includes a first look up table addressed by a first set of the planes, and a second look up table addressed by a second set of planes. A logic unit receives the outputs of the tables an... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4818893 | High speed switching circuit A high speed switching circuit is disclosed in which two cascode circuits are coupled and operated in push-pull operation. The cascode circuits are clamped to avoid slowing down of the transistors due to saturation.... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4812981 | Memory management system improving the efficiency of fork operations Methods and apparatus for implementing fork operations on UNIX or UNIX-emulating operating systems, particularly in multi-user environments reduce the copy time, the number of page faults and, consequently the input-output ("I/O") operations between the c... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4803478 | Horizontal scroll method and apparatus A horizontal scrolling apparatus that provides scrolling on a character-by-character basis including a screen memory and associated visual attribute memory having associated therewith a scroll control memory for storing at least one bit for controlling ho... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4800479 | High frequency power converter having compact output transformer, rectifier and choke A high frequency power converter circuit having a transformer comprised of a magnetic element having a through hole in combination with a pair of diodes having opposed terminals and at least one of which extends through the magnetic circuit element throug... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4777594 | Data processing apparatus and method employing instruction flow prediction A data processing system for processing a sequence of program instructions has a pipeline structure which includes an instruction pipeline and an execution pipeline. Each of the instruction and execution pipelines has a plurality of serially operating sta... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4771281 | Bit selection and routing apparatus and method A bit selection and routing apparatus and method selects m data signals from among its n available data inputs and groups those m signals on its output lines. The apparatus employs a two-dimensional array of signal selection elements which are multiplexin... | 09/13/1988 |
