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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7383230 | System and method for the efficient exchange and pricing of services and intangible works An exchange system for intangible goods comprises a first user system, a second user system, a registry system, a clearinghouse system and a hash module coupled for communication with each other. The first and second user systems includes a content module for acting... | 06/03/2008 |
| 5623600 | Virus detection and removal apparatus for computer networks A system for detecting and eliminating viruses on a computer network includes a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) proxy server, for controlling the transfer of files and a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) proxy server for controlling the transfer of mail m... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5604869 | System and method for sending and responding to information requests in a communications network A system for sending and responding to information requests in a wireless communications network includes a display device, a central processing unit, memory means including random access memory and read-only memory, an input device, and a transmitter/rec... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5602960 | Continuous mandarin chinese speech recognition system having an integrated tone classifier A speech recognition system for continuous Mandarin Chinese speech comprises a microphone, an A/D converter, a syllable recognition system, an integrated tone classifier, and a confidence score augmentor. The syllable recognition system generates N-best t... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5551017 | Polycyclic timing and apparatus for pipelined computer operation A polycyclic timing system and an apparatus for pipelined computer operation comprises a master state machine and a slave state machine. The master state marine produces a plurality of control signals in response to a clock signal. The master state machin... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5544305 | System and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations A system and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations comprises an authoring editor. The authoring editor presents an authoring user interface with a comic book metaphor form for the creation of simulations. The aut... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5542029 | System and method for halftoning using an overlapping threshold array The system and method disclosed herein relates to digital halftoning where a threshold array is used to control individual pixels in a halftone cell. The threshold array is replicated to tile the entire device space so that each pixel in device space is m... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5540355 | Water cooler and dispensing system A water cooler and dispensing system comprises a housing, a pump, a cap, a siphon tube, a reservoir, a cooling unit, control circuitry and a faucet. The housing includes a frame and detachable panels for supporting the reservoir above a water bottle. The ... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5517578 | Method and apparatus for grouping and manipulating electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings A note taking system that integrates word-processing functionality and computerized drawing functionality for processing ink strokes comprises novel methods that provide this functionality such as: a method for modeless operation of the note taking system... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5517209 | Windowing system with independent windows of arbitrary resolution for display on multiple devices of arbitrary resolution An independent windowing system that eliminates gridding comprises a method for performing windowing operations directly in device space for a graphics system which specifies all drawings in coordinate space. The re-sizing effects of rendering an object i... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5513305 | System and method for documenting and displaying computer program code A system and method for documenting and displaying computer program code comprises a token annotation unit, a comment analyzer, a token parsing library, and a code outline unit. The token parsing library parses a program comprising related program code fi... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5511193 | Text services manager providing multiple instances of input methods for text language processing and automatic synchronization between met hods A Text Services Manager (TSM) maintains and uses TSM documents to ensure proper communication between applications and their needed input methods. A TSM document comprises information about the input methods and text services used by a particular instance... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5511181 | Polycyclic timing system and apparatus for pipelined computer operation A polycyclic timing system and an apparatus for pipelined computer operation comprises a master state machine and a slave state machine. The master state machine produces a plurality of control signals in response to a clock signal. The master state machi... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5496106 | System and method for generating a contrast overlay as a focus assist for an imaging device A system for generating and displaying a contrast false color overlay as a focus assist includes a signal divider, an automatic gain control unit, an adder, a signal reducer and a signal combiner. The signal divider receives a signal representing an image... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5493636 | System and method for shading graphic images using an accessibility factor to simulate tarnish accumulation for realistic rendering A system for shading graphic images for realistic rendering representative of tarnish accumulation has a display device, a central processing unit, an input device, and a memory means. The memory includes image components, shading routines, accessibility ... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5481743 | Minimal instruction set computer architecture and multiple instruction issue method A minimal instruction set computer architecture (hyperscalar computer architecture) comprises a central memory, an instruction buffer, a control unit, an I/O control unit, a plurality of functional units, a plurality of register files, and a data router. ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5455945 | System and method for dynamically displaying entering, and updating data from a database A system for extracting and dynamically displaying data from a database comprises a central processing unit, an input device, a program memory, a display device, a printer, mass storage, and a network. The program memory comprises management records for r... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5444835 | Apparatus and method for forming a composite image pixel through pixel blending An apparatus for combining a foreground pixel signal and a background pixel signal according to a blending factor signal to generate a composite pixel signal comprises first, second, and third registers; a signal selecting multiplier; and at least one add... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5423637 | Liner joining system and method A cutoff wall liner joining method includes the steps of: (1) excavating a slurry trench; (2) positioning a first layer of liner material within the excavated trench; (3) positioning two pipes adjacent to the liner material in such a manner as to form a s... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5411353 | Soil solidification apparatus with a shear blade of adjustable length and rotation speed for creating a ribbed soil-cement pile A soil mixing apparatus that requires less drilling force comprises a shaft, a plurality of cutting blades, an excavation blade, an auger bit, a shear blade having an extendible finger. The cutting blades, excavation blade and auger bit are attached to ro... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5408622 | Apparatus and method for emulation routine control transfer via host jump instruction creation and insertion An apparatus for emulation routine control transfer creates a jump host instruction (JHI) containing the address of a next emulation routine during the execution of a current emulation routine and outputs the JHI at the end of current emulation routine fo... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5408506 | Distributed time synchronization system and method A distributed time synchronization system and method synchronizes nodes within a frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) local area network (LAN) group to a virtual master clock value. Each node system of the present invention comprises a CPU, an input d... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5392408 | Address selective emulation routine pointer address mapping system An instruction mapping system comprises an instruction mapping circuit, a central processing unit (CPU), a data cache, and a memory. The address outputs of the CPU are coupled to a first address bus, while the address inputs of the data cache and memory a... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5387135 | Special purpose modular receptacle jack A special purpose modular receptacle comprises a generally rectangular housing having an opening which exposes a cavity within the housing. A plurality of electrical contacts are disposed within the cavity of the housing. Terminal ends of the contacts ele... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5382182 | Special purpose modular connector plug A special purpose modular connector comprising a generally rectangular housing having a central body portion and two extending side arm portions. A plurality of electrical contacts are disposed within the body and arm portions. Slots at a front end of eac... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5361389 | Apparatus and method for emulation routine instruction issue An apparatus for emulation routine instruction issue comprises a bus signal router, a state machine, a virtual program counter (VPC) circuit, an emulated program counter (EPC), a summing circuit, an opcode storage register, and a pointer storage register.... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5355411 | Document security system A document security system is described for encoding documents such as credit cards, chargecards and the like with a unique signal representative of the user which cannot be read by the unaided eye and can only be read using a document reading means such ... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5349591 | Laser pulse stretcher and compressor with single parameter wavelength tunability A dispersive laser pulse stretcher and compressor comprises a stretcher portion and a compressor portion. A first mirror, a second mirror, a third mirror, a first grating, a first lens, and a first vertical retroreflector block comprise the stretcher port... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5295767 | Stabilizer for an in situ column drilling apparatus A stabilizer for an in situ column drilling apparatus comprises a first and second mounting arms, a first and second stabilizing members, and a first and second stabilizing tabs. The mounting arms are adapted for rotatable coupling to the shaft of column ... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5246312 | System and method for producing a composite cutoff wall A slurry wall lining system comprises a liner and a liner dispenser having a guide, an anchor, a support line, weights and fasteners. The liner dispenser preferably holds a liner in a rolled up position above the trench on rollers for insertion into the t... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5243238 | Configurable cellular array A configurable cellular array is provided having a 2-dimensional array of cells in which each cell in the array has at least one input and output connection at least one bit wide to its neighbours. Each cell also has a programmable routing circuit to perm... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5206833 | Pipelined dual port RAM A pipelined random access memory for use in color display system. A multiplexer, including a video port and a microprocessor port, provides the RAM input. A memory array, a sensing latch and an I/O latch, in addition to the multiplexer, provide the pipeli... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5189543 | Infra-red wireless keyboard system A communication system comprising a wireless keyboard for emitting infra-red signals, a receiving unit for converting the infra-red signals to an electrical signal, a tuning and amplifying circuit coupled to the receiving unit for tuning and amplifying th... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5185853 | Expandable printer buffer system A printer buffer system for connecting a number of personal computers and a number of printers includes a master printer buffer and one or more slave buffers, forming an expandable printer buffer system. Each buffer includes an input storage device for st... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5185769 | Easily testable high speed digital counter A high speed digital counter that can be easily tested comprises a plurality of subcounters having an input for receiving an incrementing signal and a carry output for outputting a carry signal when the subcounter has reached its counting capacity. The ca... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5155380 | Clock switching circuit and method for preventing glitch during switching A clock switching circuit comprises a multiplexer, a gate, a first detector, a second detector and a state machine. The multiplexer receives two clock signals and outputs one of them through the gate. The first detector is coupled to the output of the mul... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5148380 | Method and apparatus for conserving power in a data processing system In a battery powered data processing system having an oscillator and a microprocessor connected to the oscillator, the microprocessor has a programmable standby mode and circuit responsive to the standby mode for disabling the oscillator. The system uses ... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5146567 | Keyboard interface A computer keyboard interface is disclosed with an improved system for controlling the signals on a clock line and a data line for communication between the keyboard interface and the system interface. Two bi-directional input/output ports are used, one f... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5144160 | Fully differential sample and hold adder circuit A fully differential sample and hold, switched-capacitor adder circuit is disclosed, where a single-ended and fully differential signals can be added together. Thus in one single operation, the adder circuit performs two functions conventionally performed... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5136594 | Method and apparatus for providing bus parity A method for checking parity on, for example, an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus. In a 32-bit information bus, four parity pins may be provided. During a first clock cycle the pins are all driven high and during a second clock cycle the... | 08/04/1992 |
