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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4845665 | Simulation of computer program external interfaces A method for developing computer program external interfaces by simulating the interfaces to allow intended users to evaluate the design of the program, even before program code for the simulated program is created. The interfaces are executed as a simulated p... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4718008 | Method to control paging subsystem processing in a virtual memory data processing system during execution of critical code sections A method to logically serialize a plurality of independent system events in a virtual memory data processing system. Each event causes interrupt servicing routines to be executed and requires data structures that record the status of virtual pages to be u... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4710885 | Generating figures in a document formatter directly from a declarative tag A method for generating a graphical figure in a textual markup language used for document composition. A special tag in the mark-up language calls a procedure. The procedure consists of drawing a series of contiguous rectangular boxes, of very small exten... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4686522 | Method of editing graphic objects in an interactive draw graphic system using implicit editing actions A method is described for editing graphic objects in an interactive draw graphic system which selectively displays a menu of available editing actions in response to operation of one mouse button by the operator and allows the operator to cursor select th... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4683468 | Method for manipulation of graphic sub-objects in an interactive draw graphic system A method for editing sub-objects in an interactive draw graphic application which allows the operator to apply the edit action to the sub-object without affecting the rest of the object. Vertices of the object that are defined by the adjacent common end p... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4649479 | Device driver and adapter binding technique An operating system in a digital computer environment is run as a virtual machine on a virtual resource manager. In order to provide a more dynamic environment for the operating system, linkages are made between the operating system device drivers and the... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4644478 | Monitoring and alarm system for custom applications A monitoring and alarm system of general purpose design can be customized for use with many different applications to provide sophisticated alarming and control functions based on logical relationships among several sensed variables. A central processing ... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4626836 | Method of scheduling meetings A method of scheduling a meeting among terminal users who are provided with calendaring applications for storing and retrieving timed and dated events. Included is presentation to a meeting scheduler of a prompting screen with blanks for keying in desired... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4604690 | Dynamic configuration for added devices A method of on-line reconfiguring a data processing system for an added input/output (I/O) device. A configuration program is called and menus are presented. Based on menu selections, the program causes a device definition to be built. The built definitio... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4595980 | Interactive data processing system having concurrent multi-lingual inputs A distributed, interactive data processing system provided with the ability to allow concurrent multi-lingual use by a plurality of users having different national language preferences is further provided with the ability to be independent of the national... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4591840 | Calendar event description abbreviation A method of building a monthly calendar screen having abbreviated event descriptions directly translated from event descriptions on day screens. Day screens are built from keyed in dates, times, and descriptions of events related to the dates and times. M... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4588987 | Display system for monitoring and alarm system A display system is provided for a monitoring and alarm system. The monitoring and alarm system includes a central processing unit (10) and a plurality of sensors (14) polled by the central processing unit. A display which is part of the central processin... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4556959 | Printer selection of options An electronic office equipment network has a plurality of work stations (11) and a plurality of printers (--, 14, 15, 16) connected to a network bus (12). The printers have various options installed as for example hardware attachments for feed paper (22).... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555772 | Current cursor symbol demarkation A personal computer having an interactive all points addressable display terminal (44) and a cursor positioning device (52) and provided with apparatus for facilitating the generation of a graphics display using cursor characters selected from a table of ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4531186 | User friendly data base access Data base administrator (10) creates program communication blocks (11), and programmer (12) writes programs (13) using the program communication blocks (PCBs) to store data in bulk storage device (14). A user (15) not having data processing skills or expe... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4513391 | Text processing apparatus with two-stage formatting of text Text editing and subsequent reformatting of a document is performed in two separate stages run as two parallel processes with different priorities. The editing of text is performed as a high priority process directly on a selected portion of the document ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4503515 | Footnote assembly management A method of, and system for, managing assembly and formatting of footnotes and body text. Following preparation and separate storage of both body and footnote text, assembly of the footnote text with the body text can be accomplished in one pass for a rev... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4500964 | Dialog user error diagnosis, severity, and help technique An improvement is disclosed to the conventional field related help facility in an interactive data entry data processing system. The improvement comprises a technique for a detailed analysis of all dialog errors, recommended solutions and predicts the app... | 02/19/1985 |
