"I hate what they've done to my child...I would never let my own children watch it. "
Vladimir Zworykin, television pioneer ; Talking about an invention in which he played a critical role.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5485570 | Display station controller A system for supporting graphics display sessions on remote terminals contains a processing subsystem dedicated to graphics support. Applications execute on a central processor, and display related graphics commands are executed on the separate graphics c... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5463725 | Data processing system graphical user interface which emulates printed material An interface for making information available to a user provides a display similar to a printed book or magazine. In order to "turn the page" of the displayed book, the user touches the screen with his hand or a pointing device, and moves it across the sc... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5303238 | Network communications intermediate interface A highly efficient and cost effective system, which may be physically located locally to a group of workstations, performs communications rerouting at the network session level. The intermediate system changes data packet headers as necessary to make such... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5293622 | Computer system with input/output cache A computer system has a cache located between input/output devices and a main system memory. All system memory accesses by the input/output devices are made through the cache. Memory accesses through the cache are limited to those addresses which are acce... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5287482 | Input/output cache A cache for use with input/output devices attached to an input/output bus. Requests for access to system memory by an input/output device pass through the cache. Virtual memory addresses used by the input/output devices are translated into real addresses ... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5287457 | Computer system DMA transfer A DMA controller coupled to two separate buses controls the transfer of data between them. To effect a block data transfer, data is simultaneously read on one bus and written on the other. This allows data to be transferred between buses at the maximum tr... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5287444 | Message processing system A standardized message processing procedure is invoked by an application program to generate informative messages. Message repositories are provided in files accessible to the message processor. A separate repository is provided for each national language... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5276440 | Network device information exchange A network has a plurality of devices connected together in pairs. When a physical connection between a pair of devices is initiated, the devices exchange information regarding a unique device identifier, and details of the physical connection. This inform... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274784 | Data transfer using bus address lines A computer system can transfer data between a master subsystem and a slave subsystem on bus address lines as well as bus data lines during a high speed data transfer. Data is clocked during the high speed transfer by a high speed clock signal which is sep... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5230049 | Program source code translator A pre-compiler for a host programming language contains a language dependent portion and a language independent portion. The language dependent portion extracts source file statements written in a supplemental language and converts them into a language in... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5054019 | Transfer direction turnaround in network data communications In a network communications system, data is transferred from a first node to a second node. When requested, the second node can transmit a data direction turnaround message to the first node, followed by transferring data to the first node. Data transfer ... | 10/01/1991 |