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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001066 | Systems and methods for improving recognition results via user-augmentation of a database A system improves recognition results. The system receives multimedia data and recognizes the multimedia data based on training data to generate documents. The system receives user augmentation relating to one of the documents or new documents from a user. The syste... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7801838 | Multimedia recognition system comprising a plurality of indexers configured to receive and analyze multimedia data based on training data and user augmentation relating to one or more of a plurality of generated documents A system improves recognition results. The system receives multimedia data and recognizes the multimedia data based on training data to generate documents. The system receives user augmentation relating to one of the documents or new documents from a user. The syste... | 09/21/2010 |
| D619033 | Spherical peace pendant | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739292 | System and method for modeling and managing enterprise architecture data and content models and their relationships A distributed system includes client- and server-side components that, together, allow XML schemas or the like to be managed in a collaborative way across an enterprise environment. The server-side component, or server, is used to assemble a collection of one or mor... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7689404 | Method of multilingual speech recognition by reduction to single-language recognizer engine components In some speech recognition applications, not only the language of the utterance is not known in advance, but also a single utterance may contain words in more than one language. At the same time, it is impractical to build speech recognizers for all expected combina... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7568237 | Access control list with convolution-weakened authorization A system and method for granting and transmitting access rights to data, the method includes steps of: receiving a request for information relating to a specified individual, wherein the request identifies a person requesting the information; determining the degree ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7551618 | Stack bypass application programming interface Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a stack bypass application programming interface (API). A stack bypass API for receipt of a packet includes a registration function that registers an application selectable filter function and a receive... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7430584 | Data forwarding storage Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for data forwarding storage. A network includes a group of interconnected computer system nodes each adapted to receive data and continuously forward the data from computer memory to computer memory without... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7265588 | Dynamic clock change circuit A clock change circuit includes enabling a clock change frequency to be accepted while a system is active and clock frequencies are at a low period. The circuit includes generating an enabling signal representing a window of time in which a frequency change is accom... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7206928 | System boot method A method includes powering up a system with a system control circuitry (SCC) that contains a central processing unit (CPU). The method includes holding the CPU in a reset condition. The method also includes retrieving, over a serial data bus using a serial communica... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197740 | Pattern-based software design Systems and techniques to facilitate construction of software applications may use patterns that represent generic processes, objects, user interfaces, and content. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes identifying requirements for a desired appl... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6008817 | Comparative visual assessment system and method A comparative visual assessment system including an input device, an output device, a computer system, the connected to the input device and the output device, the computer system having a user interface connected to a comparative visual assessment engine... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5984063 | Method and apparatus of minimizing wrinkles during the transportation and storage of garments A garment separator having a generally rectangularly shaped section of taffeta, the taffeta having an upper strip of nylon tape and a lower strip of nylon tape, and the upper strip of nylon tape fitted to mate with a nylon tape affixed to a receptor zone ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5963556 | Device for partitioning ports of a bridge into groups of different virtual local area networks A network device for interconnecting computer networks, the device including a bridge having a plurality of ports through which network communications pass to and from the bridge, the bridge also including a first interface enabling a user to partition th... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5740467 | Apparatus and method for controlling interrupts to a host during data transfer between the host and an adapter An apparatus and method for transferring data in a data processing system to and from a host system. A communication adapter or input/output controller device is provided in which queues are utilized to transfer information between the adapter or controll... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5684946 | Apparatus and method for improving the efficiency and quality of functional verification A design verification system is provided which includes the ability to automatically correlate the response of a device under test to the input stimuli. The test system uses a pseudo-random exerciser to produce a set of test stimuli for application to a d... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5680644 | Low delay means of communicating between systems on different clocks The present invention makes use of synchronizers in transmitting the data from the transmitting system to the receiving system, but in a way so that the synchronizer can be provided with as long a settling time as the designer chooses, in order to provide... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5664177 | Data processing system having a data structure with a single, simple primitive A data structure in a computer memory is constructed from a single primitive data element or attribute. Attributes of the data structure are arranged in accordance with certain rules which impose a hierarchical organization upon the attributes as well as ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5650997 | Method and apparatus for use in a network of the ethernet type, to improve fairness by controlling collision backoff times in the event of channel capture A technique for modifying the IEEE 802.3 standard for selecting backoff times in a Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) network, in the event that a collision is sensed by a node that has captured the network communication chan... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5648959 | Inter-module interconnect for simultaneous use with distributed LAN repeaters and stations A network hub for interconnection of modular devices, such as Ethernet repeaters, bridges, and routers is provided. Such a network hub efficiently interconnects the modular devices to each other. The inter-module connection is not through standard Etherne... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644571 | Apparatus for message filtering in a network using domain class In an apparatus in a computer network, message filtering proceeds by generating respective class specifiers from a received message, using the message source field, message destination field, and type of message field. The class specifiers are used for ge... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5638629 | Pocket size fish strike indicating fixture A signal fixture for facilitating indication of a striking fish to a fisherman using a baited line and fishing pole. A channel body is provided which can easily snap on and off of the fishing pole. A signal indicator is housed within the channel and held ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5633867 | Local memory buffers management for an ATM adapter implementing credit based flow control An Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network device having a receiver portion capable of receiving ATM cells on one of a number of virtual circuits (VCs) from an upstream ATM switch, a local memory used to store the ATM cells, a management system to manage... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5631908 | Method and apparatus for generating and implementing smooth schedules for forwarding data flows across cell-based switches A method and apparatus is provided for generating and implementing a "smooth" schedule for forwarding of cells across a switch in a communication network, such as an AIM network. The schedule is obtained by recursively dividing bandwidth requests into nea... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5619657 | Method for providing a security facility for a network of management servers utilizing a database of trust relations to verify mutual trust relations between management servers This invention consists of a method for providing security for distributing management operations among components of a computer network using a network of mutually trusting, mutually authenticating management services to dispatch operations to selected h... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5615382 | Data transfer system for buffering and selectively manipulating the size of data blocks being transferred between a processor and a system bus of a computer system A data transfer device for coupling a processor to a system bus. The data transfer device includes data packers and unpackers for converting between data blocks of a first size and data blocks of a second size, e.g. between bytes or words and longwords. T... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5606653 | Method of displaying descriptive data representing a candidate as a plurality of lines on an output device A method for displaying discriptive data in which data is presented by vectors with the length of the vector representing one dimension of the data and the angle of the vector representing another dimension of the data. Data having multiple categories is ... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5602853 | Method and apparatus for segmentation and reassembly of ATM packets using only dynamic ram as local memory for the reassembly process An Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network adapter having a receiver portion, the receiver portion capable of receiving a first plurality of ATM cells and assembling the first plurality of ATM cells into a first plurality of packets, and a transmitter po... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5600814 | Data processing unit for transferring data between devices supporting different word length A data processing system comprising a main memory 10 with a 32-bit longword data bus 11 and an address bus 12, and a link unit 20 using 16-bit shortwords. The link unit has two shortword memories 26 and 28 for descriptor and message shortwords. Descriptor... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5596575 | Automatic network speed adapter A network adapter for interfacing between a communication network and a host computer operating as a network device, and a method of operation of these components. The adapter is initially conditioned to transmit at a lower of two possible speeds, such as... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5586260 | Method and apparatus for authenticating a client to a server in computer systems which support different security mechanisms A method and corresponding apparatus for authenticating a client for a server when the client and server have different security mechanisms. An intermediary system known as an authentication gateway provides for authentication of the client using the clie... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5574860 | Method of neighbor discovery over a multiaccess nonbroadcast medium A technique for generating, distributing and maintaining a list of operational nodes in a network using a nonbroadcast communication medium, wherein the nodes first collectively agree on the identity of a designated node. Once the designated node is agree... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5568554 | Method for improving the processing and storage performance of digital signature schemes A method of transferring data to insure data authenticity is provided comprising the steps of providing a first computer system, the first computer system having a mass storage device, a central processing unit having a encoding/decoding device, and a com... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5568470 | Method for controlled-latency transfer of transmitt ATM traffic and synchronous feedback over a physical interface In an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) endnode a method is provided by which ATM cells can experience a small delay from the ATM layer to the PHY layer to transmission on the ATM network. Such an arrangement includes providing the endnode with an ATM laye... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5568651 | Method for detection of configuration types and addressing modes of a dynamic RAM A method providing automating detection of configuration between an adapter device and a DRAM device. Such a method a determines, in the adapter memory, the DRAM configuration, making it easier to change DRAM configuration in an existing board without the... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5559802 | Communication systems The invention concerns the upper layers of the OSI 7-layer system interconnection model, and specifically the upper 3 layers (session, presentation, and application). The three layer state tables of the standard system are merged (amalgamated) into a sing... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5553214 | System for delineating and annotating areal regions A system for delineating partially- or fully-bounded areal regions of a map utilizes deformable templates, which it dynamically expands and contorts to conform to the boundaries of the regions. The system segments the map into a number of cells, with each... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5546543 | Method for assigning priority to receive and transmit requests in response to occupancy of receive and transmit buffers when transmission and reception are in progress An arbiter of an I/O controller implements an arbitration process for controlling bi-directional data flow between a local area network and a main memory connected to a system bus having variable latency. A receive state machine of the controller manages ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5546377 | Efficient distributed method for computing max-min fair rates of a limited resource in ATM networks The distributed computation of max-min fair rates in general require lookups for all connections. This present method includes a distributed process for computing max-min fair rates in response to a rate allocation request by any connection. The method co... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5534855 | Method and system for certificate based alias detection A distributed computer system employs certificate based alias detection to ensure a policy of separation of duties. Biometric information is collected during computer user account creation that is converted to canonical form and digitized. This digitized ... | 07/09/1996 |
