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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171282 | Encryption data integrity check with dual parallel encryption engines An encryption method encrypts a clear text twice using a first encryption engine to produce a first cipher text and a second encryption engine to produce a second cipher text. The method compares the first cipher text with the second cipher text, or compares a check... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7965541 | Non-volatile single-event upset tolerant latch circuit A non-volatile single-event upset (SEU) tolerant latch is disclosed. The non-volatile SEU tolerant latch includes a first and second inverters connected to each other in a cross-coupled manner. The gates of transistors within the first inverter are connected to the ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7464354 | Method and apparatus for performing temporal checking An apparatus for performing temporal checking is disclosed. A signal logger for performing temporal checking includes a group of edge detection modules and a group of counting modules. During testing, the signal logger is coupled to a device under testing (DUT). Eac... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7444574 | Stimulus extraction and sequence generation for an electric device under test A method and system that utilizes a graphical interface that enables a user to select and capture building blocks of a Device Under Test (DUT) test scenario from a previously run test case or from multiple stimulation results. Each of these extracted building block ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7380053 | Method and system for emulating content-addressable memory primitives A method and system for emulating content-addressable memory (CAM) primitives (e.g., a read operation) is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for emulating a read operation on a plurality of CAM elements utilizing a read input including matc... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7321617 | Data communication system with self-test feature A data communication system includes circuitry to assure components respond to variations in the time length of the valid data window or “eye” of the high speed data communication signal. A self-test portion of the system periodically injects the effects of phas... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7089132 | Method and system for providing quality control on wafers running on a manufacturing line A method for providing quality control on wafers running on a manufacturing line is disclosed. The resistances on a group of manufacturing test structures within a wafer running on a wafer manufacturing line are initially measured. Then, an actual distribution value... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7086033 | Software debugger having a monitor for monitoring conditional statements within a software program A software debugger having a monitor for monitoring conditional statements within a software program is disclosed. A program construct is initially identified within a software program. After identifying a point of interest within the program construct, a group of d... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6999964 | Support for domain level business object keys in EJB A method, system and program product for providing domain level business object keys in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) applications. An instance of an EntityBean object is provided with both a primary key and a domain key class. The primary key class is associated with ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996590 | Method and system for the garbage collection of shared data A method of garbage collection of shared data in a system heap within a data processing system, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining if the contents of the system heap has reached a predetermined threshold, the system heap storing shared objects which... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6925605 | Collating table for email A collating table containing user-defined sort criteria in ranked order is employed in sorting electronic mail messages for display to the user. Entries within the collating table prioritize unread and/or previously viewed messages based upon the address of the send... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6910143 | Electronic power unit with a battery and a compensator for calculating the actual charge capacity of the battery A main battery used as an electric power unit for a computer is provided with a memory that stores capacity information denoting the total capacity of a battery and compensation information representing the total capacity of the battery as a function of a battery ch... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6895525 | Method and system for detecting phase-locked loop (PLL) clock synthesis faults An electronic system includes a reference clock that generates a reference clock signal, at least one, phase-locked loop clock generator that synthesizes a derivative clock signal from the reference clock signal, and at least one digital circuit timed by the derivat... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891841 | Time division multiple access over broadband modulation method and apparatus A communication system is disclosed for providing dedicated bandwidth to at least one subscriber location for transmitting to a common point of distribution via an HFC network. In an embodiment of the invention, the communication system includes a channel interface ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6892325 | Method for displaying variable values within a software debugger A method for displaying variable values within a software debugger is disclosed. A group of variables is extracted from a program monitored by a software debugger. A user is allowed to designate a stopping point, such as a breakpoint, within the program and a subset... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888643 | Method and system for printing documents to a reusable medium A paperless printing system for storing and displaying documents produced by print facilities of a data processing system comprises a docking station in communication with a printer port of the data processing system. The docking station receives, from the data proc... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6829707 | Method and system for downloading encrypted font scripts to a print server A method and system for downloading encrypted double-byte font scripts to a print server. A communication element is interposed between a data processing system and a print server, where the print server does not support a bi-directional communication protocol utili... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6823459 | Method for prohibiting unauthorized access in a non-contacting data carrier system To provide a method whereby unauthorized data access by an RFID data processing system is prohibited without any degradation of performance being incurred. An RFID data processing system 30 comprises a CPU 35, a EEPROM 34, communication devices ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6823436 | System for conserving metadata about data snapshots A data processing system and method manage usage metadata nodes about data snapshots of data write operations among storage volumes of the system while conserving metadata nodes. Metadata sublogging is achieved by dividing metadata segments into subsegments and trac... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6820236 | Click ahead browser function A method of accessing remote electronic documents, such as those stored on a network, by recording link information regarding one or more document links embedded in an electronic document, selecting the electronic document for retrieval by the computer system, and d... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6820182 | Support for exhaustion recovery in a data processing system with memory mirroring A memory exhaustion condition is handled in a data processing system having first and second regions of physical memory. The memory exhaustion condition is detected while the second region is mirroring at least part of the first region. In response to the memory exh... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6819440 | System, method, and program for automatically switching operational modes of a printer between direct and print-on-demand (POD) modes A method, system, and program for automatically switching operational modes of a printer between direct and on-demand modes. A rasterizer receives a data stream containing various data sets to be presented. The rasterizer detects occurrences of an include command th... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6820211 | System and method for servicing requests to a storage array According to the method of the present invention, if a data read request to an unavailable particular storage medium is received from a system processor, a request servicing circuit of an adapter reconstructs the request data from data and parity data stored on othe... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816939 | Apparatus for supporting I2C bus masters on a secondary side of an I2C multiplexor An apparatus for supporting I2C bus masters on a secondary side of an I2C mulitplexor is disclosed. An electronic system includes a primary serial bus, multiple secondary serial buses, an expander, multiple direction latches, a multiplexor, mul... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6813768 | Method and system for automatic task focus swapping during browser wait time A method and system in a computer within a computer network for automatically swapping application tasks running within the computer when access from the computer to a remote network site is delayed. Initially, a link from a local network site to a remote network si... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6806866 | System and method for establishing wireless connection A system for establishing wireless connection between a peripheral device and an intelligent device in a multi-computer environment having a plurality of intelligent devices is disclosed. The system is in part included within the peripheral device which is preferabl... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804676 | System and method in a data processing system for generating compressed affinity records from data records A system and method for generating compressed affinity records obtains first and second data records, generates zero or more length values representing portions of the second data record that agree with corresponding portions of the first data record, generates zero... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6802454 | Interleaved sequencing method for multiple two-dimensional scanning codes A component has three, two-dimensional arrays that each contain three characters of its nine character, alphanumeric serial number. The first three characters of the serial number must be constant for all parts of this type. As a result, the serial number can be div... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6788297 | Pressure sensitive writing tablet, control method and control program therefor Since the surface of the touch panel is often slippery, pressure points of the writing stylus on a touch panel may easily skip along the input contiguous line. The present invention calculates the velocity of writing stylus movement at each segment of the input cont... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785807 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BOOTCODE SUPPORT IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM THAT USES A COMMUNICATIONS PORT THAT UTILIZES A FIRST COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL, AN EXTERNAL DEVICE THAT UTILIZES A SECOND COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL, AND A DEVICE DRIVER THAT IS LOADED IN RESPONSE TO BOOTING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE EXTERNAL DEVICE THROUGH THE COMMUNICATIONS PORT A data processing system with bootcode support for communicating with a noncompliant external device has a motherboard, non-volatile memory connected to the motherboard, a volatile memory, processing resources, a communications port that utilizes a first communicati... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6781920 | Method for resolving meeting conflicts within an electronic calendar application A method for resolving meeting conflicts for an electronic calendar application is disclosed. After receiving a request for setting a first meeting schedule for a first meeting, an electronic calendar application sets a first meeting schedule and a first meeting pri... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6781571 | Method and system for selectively controlling graphical pointer movement based upon web page content A method and system for selectively controlling mouse movement speed during movement within a particular web page or display window based upon a user's prior experience within that web page or various physical parameters associated with the size and content of the w... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778989 | System and method for constructing and viewing an electronic document The electronic document composer stored in the memory and executable by the processor is utilized for drafting a first electronic document. A sender composes the first electronic document including at least a normal element, a conditional element, and a link element... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6778196 | Mounting a display panel in a computer In a method for fixing an LCD panel on a notebook PC, spring latch holders are provided on the top of the LCD panel for fixing the LCD panel and the PC body together when the LCD panel is stored on the PC body. In a second aspect, side fins are provided on both side... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6779021 | Method and system for predicting and managing undesirable electronic mail In accordance with the present invention, multiple e-mails are received at a network server intended for multiple clients served by the network server. The received e-mails are analyzed to determine patterns of similarity. A selection of similar e-mails are predicte... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6774913 | System, method, and program for selectively merging partial objects A system, method and program for merging objects for raster presentation are described. In response to receipt of an input data set including a plurality of objects intended for raster presentation, the system divides the data set into a plurality of scan regions an... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6769015 | Adopting browser environmental attributes of e-mail sender A method of electronically conveying information using a first electronic document having a selectable link embedded therein (e.g., a hypertext link), wherein at least one presentation attribute is associated with the link, by presenting a second (linked) electronic... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6754826 | Data processing system and method including a network access connector for limiting access to the network A data processing system and method are disclosed for providing an access connector which limits access to a network to only authorized client computer systems. The network is controlled by a server computer system. The access connector is provided for physically co... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754240 | Format for an optical data link An isochronous output data stream format which is time multiplexed and has a fixed time period where input isochronous data streams are multiplexed into the output isochronous data stream and the output data stream is the same data rate as the fastest input isochron... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6748544 | Discrete, background determination of the adequacy of security features of a computer system A system for checking the level of system security on a PC platform is disclosed. The system comprises of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) unit. The RFID unit scans a PC platform and extracts relevant security information from its Basic Input/Output System (B... | 06/08/2004 |
