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Simon Newcomb, astronomer ; Said in 1902, less than two years before the first flight at Kitty Hawk
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5752255 | Dynamic non-coherent cache memory resizing mechanism A dynamic cache resizing mechanism permitting a non-coherent cache memory to be altered in size during the operation thereof. A cache utilization monitoring system determines whether the cache size is optimised for a particular application and environment... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5528513 | Scheduling and admission control policy for a continuous media server A scheduler with admissions control in a continuous media file server is presented. The scheduler supports multiple classes of tasks with diverse performance requirements. The scheduler is based on a combination of rate-monotonic and weighted round-robin ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5471404 | Occlusion detection system for locator devices A system to enable individual locator devices or badges developed for location of people or objects to (1) determine whether their identification transmissions are received by sensor stations and to (2) take appropriate actions when the transmissions are ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5453983 | Port controller Two devices HR and FR are coupled to a bus with a common memory via a port controller. Device HR requires a high (or maximum) average rate of access, device FR requires a fast response (minimum latency) in establishing access. Request signals HRQ, FRQ fro... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5404536 | Scheduling mechanism for network adapter to minimize latency and guarantee background processing time Method and apparatus for scheduling operations of a network adapter in such a way as to minimize latency in processing received data packets, while still guaranteeing time for processing necessary background tasks. The method includes executing a polling ... | 04/04/1995 |
