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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6185695 | Method and apparatus for transparent server failover for highly available objects One embodiment of the present invention provides a method and an apparatus that facilitates transparent failovers from a primary copy of an object on a first server to a secondary copy of the object on a second server when the first server fails, or other... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6107990 | Laptop with buttons configured for use with multiple pointing devices One embodiment of the present invention provides a portable computing device comprising a housing including a keyboard. The embodiment also includes a first pointing device coupled to the housing, as well as a second pointing device coupled to the housing... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6078744 | Method and apparatus for improving compiler performance during subsequent compilations of a source program Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for improving the performance of subsequent compilations of a source program. The initial compilation of the source program journals computationally expensive intermediate compilation data. S... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6067279 | Apparatus for skipping and/or playing tracks on a cd or a dvd One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for skipping a track on a disc in a disc player. Unlike current systems, this system does not rely on identifying tracks to be skipped based upon which slot a disc is located in. Instead, one embod... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6011473 | Method for generating an alarm in a portable computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating an alarm in a portable computer system. In this embodiment, when an owner of a portable computer system determines that the portable computer system is either stolen or missing, the ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6011760 | Method for skipping and/or playing tracks on a CD or a DVD One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for skipping a track on a disc in a disc player. Unlike current methods, this method does not rely on identifying tracks to be skipped based upon which slot a disc is located in. Instead, one embod... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5982358 | Method for providing buttons for use with multiple pointing devices on a laptop computer One embodiment of the present invention provides a portable computing device comprising a housing including a keyboard. The embodiment also includes a first pointing device coupled to the housing, as well as a second pointing device coupled to the housing... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5953530 | Method and apparatus for run-time memory access checking and memory leak detection of a multi-threaded program The present invention is a system and method for a "debugger Run-Time-Checking for valid memory accesses for multi-threaded application programs" (hereinafter "RTC/MT") wherein a run-time process which includes multiple threads running either serially or ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5951307 | Method for grounding a printed circuit board using a separate metallic contacting element pressed against a metallic chassis One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for securing a printed circuit board to a chassis and electrically coupling the printed circuit board to a reference voltage, such as ground. This is accomplished without using screws, and without ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5941999 | Method and system for achieving high availability in networked computer systems The present invention provides a method and system for achieving high availability in networked computer systems. The computer system includes a client node, two server nodes, and a secondary storage device. One server node includes a primary replica, and... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5938761 | Method and apparatus for branch target prediction One embodiment of the present invention provides a method and an apparatus for predicting the target of a branch instruction. This method and apparatus operate by using a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to store page numbers for predicted branch target... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5936526 | Apparatus for generating an alarm in a portable computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating an alarm in a portable computer system. In this embodiment, when an owner of a portable computer system determines that the portable computer system is either stolen or missing, the ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5920876 | Performing exact garbage collection using bitmaps that identify pointer values within objects One embodiment of the present invention presents a method and apparatus for efficiently performing garbage collection on objects defined within an object-oriented programming system. Garbage collection typically involves following pointers to determine wh... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5915255 | Method and apparatus for referencing nodes using links Apparatus, methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed that use a link to access nodes in a generational garbage collected heap. The creation area of the heap is associated with a validation variable that is dependent on the number of sc... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5903900 | Method and apparatus for optimizing exact garbage collection of array nodes in a carded heap Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed that optimize a programmed loop that stores pointer variables in an array in a card-marked heap. These methods also optimize garbage collection operations on these pointer variables. ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5900001 | Method and apparatus for optimizing exact garbage collection using a bifurcated data structure Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed describing a data structure and associated processes that optimize garbage collection techniques. The disclosed data structure can be used as an instantiated object in an object-orien... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5889726 | Apparatus for providing additional latency for synchronously accessed memory One embodiment of the present invention provides a memory system that allows more than one cycle of memory latency for accesses to a synchronously accessed memory. In this embodiment, the memory system includes a memory with a clocked interface and a corr... | 03/30/1999 |
