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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6148375 | Hierarchical bus simple COMA architecture for shared memory multiprocessors having a bus directly interconnecting caches between nodes A method of maintaining cache coherency in a shared memory multiprocessor system having a plurality of nodes, where each node itself is a shared memory multiprocessor. With this invention, an additional shared owner state is maintained so that if a cache ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5977889 | Optimization of data representations for transmission of storage using differences from reference data A method of compressing data, including representations of objects, for future transmission or storage. More specifically, this invention compresses a representation of differences between a base sequence of data and the actual data to be transmitted or s... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5974406 | Automated matching, scheduling, and notification system A method and apparatus for providing customized notification in response to a search query. Moreover, with this invention, a query is received from a user via a user interface. The user also selected a time and means of notification, such as for example, ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5973685 | Scheme for the distribution of multimedia follow-up information A system architecture enables the distribution, to users connected to a digital broadcast medium, of supplementary information, which is presented and accessed in the context of the viewing of a video program. This ancillary, or "follow-up" information (F... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5933414 | Method to control jitter in high-speed packet-switched networks The present invention addresses the issue of controlling delay variations (jitter) in packet-switched networks by enhancing the capabilities of existing scheduling policies. The idea is to use a few bits in the header of packets to send jitter control inf... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5915094 | Disk access method for delivering multimedia and video information on demand over wide area networks A method and apparatus for delivering multimedia video data from a server (host processor) to a plurality of clients connected to a communications network. More specifically, with this invention, preprocessed video and multimedia data packets are striped ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5815574 | Provision of secure access to external resources from a distributed computing environment In a distributed computing environment, in which a client needing to access a server is issued, by a security server, with a ticket including an encoded certificate identifying, when decoded, the identity and privilege attributes of the client in a format... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5793072 | Non-photosensitive, vertically redundant 2-channel -Si:H thin film transistor A thin film transistor having two vertically stacked channels and dual gate non-photosensitive structure, where the source drain to bottom gate structure is self-aligned. This structure occupies the same area on a substrate as a conventional single gate t... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5793895 | Intelligent error resilient video encoder A method and apparatus for compressing video data to improve its tolerance to error, especially with a low bit rate network. With this invention video data is divided into a number of frames and each frame is divided into a number of macroblocks. A depend... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5771462 | Bus arbitration infrastructure for deployment of wireless networks A method and apparatus for expanding the physical coverage area of a wireless communications network. More specifically, a number of transceivers are connected in a series configuration to a single base station, and each transceiver transmits signals to s... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5685775 | Networking video games over telephone network A method and apparatus for playing the same video game by a number of players at remote locations over a telephone network. More specifically, a video representation of the game played by a number of video game players stored at each of the player locatio... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5613198 | Multiaccess scheme for mobile integrated local area networks A method of dynamically allocating bandwidth of channels to cells in a communications cellular network according to user demand. Groups of cells are formed so as to minimize interference within each group, and a particular channel is assigned to each of t... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5524136 | Tracking mobile users in wireless networks A method and apparatus for efficiently tracking the location of a mobile station in a cellular network, especially in cellular networks having nonuniform traffic distribution. A mobile station reports to a base station only upon entering selected reportin... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5493652 | Management system for a buffer memory having buffers of uniform size in which the buffers are divided into a portion of contiguous unused buffers and a portion of contiguous buffers in which at least some are used A memory management system for maximizing the number of contiguous free buffers to reduce the required number of free buffer pointers. Accordingly, with this invention a buffer memory is divided into two disjoint areas with one area having only contiguous... | 02/20/1996 |
