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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5745100 | Input device pointer remap region on a computer display An input device pointer remapping region on a computer display is disclosed. When the input device pointer enters a region on a computer display, such as a rectangular scroll bar region, the pointer advances by jumping to a point within the region, such a... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5671334 | Neural network model for reaching a goal state An object, such as a robot, is located at an initial state in a finite state space area and moves under the control of the unsupervised neural network model of the invention. The network instructs the object to move in one of several directions from the i... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5532715 | Visually aging scroll bar A visually aging scroll bar is associated with a window or viewport on a computer display as part of a computer system, and contains a slider to indicate relative positioning in the window of a document, such as a data file, image file, audio file, text f... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5412189 | Touch screen apparatus with tactile information A touch screen apparatus with tactile feedback is disclosed. Tactile information, such as Braille or other symbolic representations, is integrally connected to an area on the touch screen surface. This tactile information can be molded into the touch scre... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5408528 | Method and apparatus for flexible and optimal telephone call acceptance and routing A telephone call is made by a calling party. The telephone call is routed through a telephone network to a piece of terminal equipment. The terminal equipment analyzes call information associated with the telephone call. The call information is divided in... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5392433 | Method and apparatus for intraprocess locking of a shared resource in a computer system A method and apparatus for the intraprocess locking of a shared resource in a computer system is disclosed. A computer system operates under the control of an operating system. The operating system supports the asynchronous execution of a plurality of tas... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5371846 | Non-linear scroll bar A non-linear scroll bar is associated with a window or viewport on a computer display as part of a computer system, and contains a slider to indicate relative positioning in the window of a document, such as a data file, image file, audio file, text file,... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5349674 | Automated enrollment of a computer system into a service network of computer systems A service network has several computer systems connected together. A computer system can either be a "Service Requestor" (SR), a "Service Provider" (SP), or a hybrid of the two, a "Service Provider/Requestor" (SP/R). The service network is built by an enr... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5327157 | Display with enhanced scrolling capabilities A computer display has a display processor connected to a presentation space buffer and a screen buffer. The presentation space buffer is larger than the screen buffer, and is divided into a plurality of partitions. Each partition has a partition window w... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5315504 | Electronic document approval system In a system including electronic mail facilities made available to attached users, means are provided to enable user using any terminal connected to the system network to select a form among prestored document forms, fill said form in and then have said f... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5301348 | Dynamic progress marking icon A dynamic progress marker icon is disclosed that dynamically changes to mark the progress of a task. In this manner, the user is kept informed of the status of a task being performed without resorting to language sensitive messages such as "Now processing... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5247614 | Method and apparatus for distributed processing of display panel information A method and apparatus for distributing the processing of certain remote terminal keystroke signals, and formatting of display panels according to user interface rules, to a workstation control interface in a system having a host processor connected to a ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5179662 | Optimized I/O buffers having the ability to increase or decrease in size to meet system requirements Optimization I/O buffers are used to write data into or read data from auxiliary storage using a double buffering scheme. When a user wants to send data to auxiliary storage, the first buffer is filled with data and the contents are asynchronously written... | 01/12/1993 |
