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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5530960 | Disk drive controller accepting first commands for accessing composite drives and second commands for individual diagnostic drive control wherein commands are transparent to each other A disk drive array with a controller which provides: dynamic remapping for grown defects in the disk drives, multi-thread request processing with a variable number of forkings, defect tracking with both logical and physical lists, guarded writes of less t... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5483641 | System for scheduling readahead operations if new request is within a proximity of N last read requests wherein N is dependent on independent activities An improved read ahead strategy that improves the performance of a disk array subsystem. The disk controller keeps track of the last n reads to the array. If a new read request is received that is adjacent to any of the last n reads, the controller perfor... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483260 | Method and apparatus for simplified video monitor control A method and apparatus which provides bi-directional communication between a video monitor and a computer system unit. This enables the video monitor to inform the system unit of its capabilities without direct user involvement and also enables the system... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5479653 | Disk array apparatus and method which supports compound raid configurations and spareless hot sparing A disk array architecture which supports compound RAID configurations and which can automatically switch between various RAID configurations in case of drive failures to prevent data loss and retain data redundancy. In the preferred embodiment, the disk a... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5477237 | Positioning device reporting X, Y and yaw motion A pointing device or mouse which monitors motion in both the X and Y directions as well as in the yaw or rotational direction. The pointing device hence monitors three degrees of freedom and thus provides a more accurate indication of the position of the ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5465346 | Method and apparatus for synchronous bus interface optimization A method and apparatus which enables devices connected to a bus to detect and take advantage of the early arrival of bus signal inputs. A signal arrival encoder circuit included in a device encodes the arrival time of a signal input whose early arrival is... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5456004 | Anisotropic interconnect methodology for cost effective manufacture of high density printed circuit boards An interconnect sheet for connecting multiple layers of a circuit board for the manufacture of high interconnect density PWBs. The interconnect sheet preferably comprises an area array grid of 0.003 inch solder columns having a 0.006 inch pitch. The inter... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5432735 | Ternary storage dynamic RAM A memory apparatus using conventional DRAMs which uses a ternary representation of stored data. Each DRAM memory cell can thus store three states. The ternary storage memory apparatus includes a binary to ternary converter which receives a first number of... | 07/11/1995 |
