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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6470492 | Low overhead speculative selection of hot traces in a caching dynamic translator A method and apparatus for selecting hot traces for translation and/or optimization is described in the context of a caching dynamic translator. The code cache stores hot traces. Profiling is done at locations that satisfy a start-of-trace condition, e.g.... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6091896 | Debugging optimized code using data change points A software development system with improved facilities for debugging optimized code. Certain parts of the operations specified by source statements are categorized as "data change points". A compiler 102 identifies the correspondence between the machine i... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5682902 | ECG pace pulse detection and processing A flexible ECG monitoring system including pace pulse detection. The monitoring system includes a potable monitor 102 that can be worn by a patient 120 or connected to a docking station 104. The portable monitor 102 includes an A/D converter 210, 208 and ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 4825409 | NMOS data storage cell for clocked shift register applications An improved NMOS storage cell for use in shift registers is disclosed. Among other components, it contains a pair of inverters--one them an enabling inverter. A pre-charge transistor is placed in parallel with the first inverter to decrease the rise time ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4809220 | Electronic processing system using printer and microprocessor to create forms template with pre-printed forms A method and apparatus for operating with pre-printed forms on electronic office processing equipment by using a printer under control of a video terminal keyboard to identify the location and length of blanks on a pre-printed form and then displaying lin... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4760606 | Digital imaging file processing system A digital imaging file processing system for processing and filing digitized documents is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment a distributed data processing system implements the invention and is comprised of a central computer linked to the following c... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4751669 | Videotex frame processing A videotex decoder apparatus which, in various aspects, displays a status line to indicate when connect charges are occurring; overlays menus over displayed videotex frames with portions of the displayed frames remaining visible; provides easily called lo... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4742553 | Resolution conversion of bitmap images using error term averaging A system for converting an input bitmap image of one resolution to an output bitmap image of a different resolution. A mapping is defined between pixels in the input bitmap and pixels in the output bitmap. An error term is used to link successive output p... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4727480 | Emulation of a data processing system Emulation method and apparatus allowing a first system, which is not designed as a functional duplicate of a second system, to emulate the second system. The input/output structure of the second system is emulated in the first system by means of routines ... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4703318 | Character-based monochromatic representation of color images Forming a character-based monochromatic image from a digital representation of a color image by (1) forming a character-based representation of the color image in which a plurality of color characters each describe the background and foreground color with... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4628431 | Power supply on/off switching with inrush limiting A power switching means for connecting a power source to a digital data processing system. The switching means includes a power switch for connecting the power source to the system and two control switches. A first control switch determines whether system... | 12/09/1986 |
