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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6520848 | Method and apparatus for maintaining the release of exhaust above a height threshold A method and apparatus adjusts an opening in the flow of exhaust to ensure a constant velocity of the exhaust.... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6513048 | Method and apparatus for access to files stored on a mainframe using a personal computer user interface A method and apparatus allows files stored on a mainframe computer system to be manipulated from a client computer system such as a personal computer. The mainframe may be represented by a UNC identifier or drive letter and a hierarchical folder structure... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6484175 | Method and apparatus for providing network management data A method and apparatus provides network management data in a manner that can be more efficient than data provided using conventional SNMP. A requested data description is received containing the names of the data requested, and this requested data is prov... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6470390 | Method and apparatus for a dual connection communication session A method and apparatus establishes a connection for a communication session between two remote devices, then negotiates an additional connection. One of the connections is used to communicate data, not commands, allowing that connection to be more efficie... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6446122 | Method and apparatus for communicating quality of service information among computer communication devices A method and apparatus allows a switch or other network equipment device to provide Quality of Service information to a router or other user equipment devices using a management interface such as frame relay LMI. The switch and router negotiate the versio... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6430608 | Method and apparatus for accepting and rejecting files according to a manifest A method and apparatus checks a set of files against a manifest to determine whether to accept or reject the files. The manifest contains one or more policy sections that describe whether to accept files that are described in the manifest but not received... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6421715 | System and method for generating and transmitting a command in response to a request for additional data and data described in the request A method and apparatus allows a client or other device separate from a server to retrieve from the server more data than is requested by an application program on the client. The additional data is maintained by the client or other device and provided to ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6393438 | Method and apparatus for identifying the existence of differences between two files A method and apparatus identifies the existence of differences between two files on a personal computer, such as two versions of a Windows registry file. Portions of each of the files are hashed into a four byte value per portion to produce a set of hash ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6381631 | Method and apparatus for controlling client computer systems A method and apparatus connects a user to a remote network, and enforces operation of management software before the user is allowed to perform other tasks on the remote network. The method and apparatus also allows connection of the user to a third party... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6369371 | Method and apparatus for heating ultrapure water using microwave energy A method and apparatus heats ultrapure water using microwaves. Chambers such as pipes containing the water are capable of admitting microwaves to the water, allowing the microwaves to heat the water. The pipes may be made of inert material such as PVDF or... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6367075 | Method and apparatus for producing instructions describing the removal of updates to a computer system A computer program product and apparatus builds a set of uninstall instructions from a set of installation instructions so that one or more installations of computer updates can be removed.... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6332161 | Customer web log-in architecture A system and method of (1) creating a temporal queue in which responses to multiple client requests received simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, by a server computer include indications of periods of time such that subsequent rounds of client reques... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6324567 | Method and apparatus for providing multiple commands to a server A method and apparatus allows a client to easily send multiple commands to a server. The client registers one or more tables with the method and apparatus of the present invention, which contain information with which to query the client if the client pro... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6263348 | Method and apparatus for identifying the existence of differences between two files A method and apparatus identifies the existence of differences between two files on a personal computer, such as two versions of a Windows registry file. Some or all of each of the files are hashed into a four byte value per file, and each hash is combine... | 07/17/2001 |
