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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5825680 | Method and apparatus for performing fast division A method and apparatus for performing division in accordance with certain bandwidth requirements particular to an implementation is described. A pseudo pipelined approach for performing division using the SRT non-restoring division algorithm is described ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5774719 | Method for comparing data structures that cross address space boundaries A method in accordance with the invention involves the normalization of a C language-type data structure received by a process in a distributed computing environment (DCE) to ensure that padding bits are consistently used. The method steps may advantageou... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5764503 | Method and apparatus for providing conditioned AC voltage using current and voltage sensing A method and apparatus for controlling the providing of conditioned AC power, with the conditioned AC power being capable of being provided on a continuous basis. Unconditioned AC voltage is received by transverters. The transverters convert the unconditi... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5758106 | Arbitration unit which requests control of the system bus prior to determining whether such control is required A commander module including means for determining whether control of a system bus is required, means for requesting control of the system bus, prior to determining whether such control is required, and means, responsive to the determining means, for indi... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5754860 | Method and apparatus for software testing using a differential testing technique to test compilers Techniques used in testing software are described. A test generator produces a source program used to test two or more compilers using a differential testing technique. The test generator includes a grammar with added semantic constraints to minimize the ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5745879 | Method and system for managing execution of licensed programs A distributed computer system employs a license management system to account for software product usage. A management policy having a variety of alternative styles and contexts is provided. Each licensed program upon start-up makes a call to a license ser... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5736461 | Self-aligned cobalt silicide on MOS integrated circuits A method of forming cobalt silicide on source/drain regions and polysilicon gate areas of an MOS integrated circuit uses an improved technique to prevent unwanted oxidation of cobalt or growth of silicide on other areas of device. A thin titanium nitride ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5717883 | Method and apparatus for parallel execution of computer programs using information providing for reconstruction of a logical sequential program A computer system with multiple execution units operates by treating a logical program as a tree structure with segments which include several computer instructions. Segments of the tree structure are connected by nodes which represent decisional instruct... | 02/10/1998 |
