...that the first rickshaw was invented in 1869 by an American Baptist minister, the Rev. E. Jonathan Scobie, to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Yokohama?
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5305440 | File extension by clients in a distributed data processing system The system and method of this invention controls how client data processing systems in a distributed networking environment can efficiently extend files and write into regions of the files previously unoccupied by data. The server data processing system m... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5253342 | Intermachine communication services A communication protocol for direct communications between operating system kernels of a plurality of processors in a clustered-type, shared virtual memory, multi-processor data processing system is disclosed. Each processor unit includes a intermachine c... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5222217 | System and method for implementing operating system message queues with recoverable shared virtual storage A system for maintaining the reliability of shared data structures, such as message queues, in a multi-processor data processing system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of virtual memory-type processor units in which the processors share virt... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5167023 | Translating a dynamic transfer control instruction address in a simulated CPU processor The system and method of this invention simulates the flow of control of an application program targeted for a specific instruction set of a specific processor by utilizing a simulator running on a second processing system having a second processor with a... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5142622 | System for interconnecting applications across different networks of data processing systems by mapping protocols across different network domains The system and method of this invention automatically routes a connection between data processing systems in different network domains. As an example, an application running on a data processing system utilizing a network domain such as TCP (Transmission ... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5113519 | Maintenance of file attributes in a distributed data processing system The system and method of this invention maintains the latest file attributes such as file size, modify time, and access time, at the server data processing system in a distributed data processing system. The server data processing system combines informat... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5109510 | System concurrently running application programs and selectively routing device input to resource controller created virtual terminals and real physical devices A method of, and apparatus for, running several applications concurrently on a processing system. Virtual terminals are created for running the applications. However, the virtual terminals perform as though the processing system were a single terminal sys... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4987550 | Selective processing of a data stream based on font format The system and method of this invention processes a data stream based on the structure of a font file which can be varied by a user or application of the processing system. The font file not only contains the pel patterns for a range of graphical symbols,... | 01/22/1991 |