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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6058363 | Method and system for speaker-independent recognition of user-defined phrases Method and system of determining an out-of-vocabulary score for speaker-independent recognition of user-defined phrases comprises enrolling a user-defined phrase with a set of speaker-independent (SI) recognition models using an enrollment grammar. An enr... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5218677 | Computer system high speed link method and means This embodiment provides apparatus and method for implementing a High Speed Link (HSL) such as the newly proposed ANSI High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) standard on processors complexes like the IBM 3090 having a paging store with an independent... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5191335 | Method and apparatus for floating-point data conversion with anomaly handling facility The anomaly handling facility provides a system for controlling conversion, detecting anomalies, providing analysis of anomaly content in an array of floating-point elements, and preserving reconstruction data to recover value accuracy typically lost when... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5168347 | Integrated circuit chip package having signal input/output connections located at edges of the substrate An integrated circuit chip package having a substrate containing integrated circuit chips thereon; signal input/out connections for the chips located at edges of a substrate; and conductive power planes are separated from the signal input/output connectio... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5150279 | High performance computer system with platters and unidirectional storage modules therebetween A high performance computer system package integrates the switches and memory in the core of the package with the processors distributed about the periphery of this core. The request and response switches and the input or output lines are on platters and ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5138713 | Multiprocessing computer system with exit logic and method for maintaining resource integrity In order to maintain resource integrity in a multiprocessing computer system wherein a local variable which is accessible by a single process and a global variable which is accessible by a plurality of processes and is dependent on the local variable are ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5124591 | Low power push pull driver A low power push pull off chip driver for differential cascode current circuitry is described that includes the collectors of a differential pair directly coupled to bases of a push pull driver and level shifters coupled to the input of the differential p... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5109496 | Most recently used address translation system with least recently used (LRU) replacement A least recently used associative map is described for translating virtual memory addresses to real memory addresses. The map includes a stack of storage devices each with a comparator. The storage devices are arranged in a push down stack with an input s... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5077826 | Cache performance in an information handling system employing page searching A reduction in the number of cycles required to obtain data from main storage when a "miss" occurs in a cache for a desired line of data but a match to another line from the same page of data in main storage as the desired line is present in the cache. In... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5058053 | High performance computer system with unidirectional information flow A high performance computer system with a plurality of processors and memory modules is arranged with the processor modules stacked one upon the other with first switch modules in a first stack and with the memory modules stacked one on the other with sec... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5032985 | Multiprocessor system with memory fetch buffer invoked during cross-interrogation An improved multiprocessor system of the type including a plurality of processors and an array of memories interconnected by an interrogation logic where the processors have a store-in cache is presented. In such processors the most recent copy of the dat... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5018077 | Data processing machines A data processing machine which is controlled to produce graphical output from stored sets of data. The data sets may be stored in the non-uniform manner. The machine is controlled to determine column boundaries in each row of a data set and then to deter... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5014164 | Cable organizer A connector system for a computer assembly is provided where the assembly includes a plurality of self-standing system frames with high density circuitry on support boards slidably mounted to the frames with the connectors facing a common face of the fram... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4991134 | Concurrent sorting apparatus and method using FIFO stacks The concurrent sorting apparatus and method pertains to a pipelined and concurrent sorting engine that can operate with single or double-ported host memory and, specifically, sort data with serial input and output. The apparatus is composed of stages that... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4975916 | Character snychronization A system for bit character synchronization of an 8/10 bit code being deserialized is provided by a deserializer with a skip bit function input used to move a character boundary one bit at a time, and 8/10 code error detector, a zero disparity character de... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4972298 | High density circuit assembly A high density circuit computer assembly is provided by placing TCMs on a support board together with a printed circuit (PC) interconnect board, power supplies for TCMs to form a book package which, in turn, is slidably mounted on edge of the support boar... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4943753 | Magnetic shunt for deflection yokes Apparatus for reducing net distributed magnetic radiation in front of and all about the outside of a cathode ray tube display device. In such cathode ray apparatus a deflection coil is provided having axially aligned and circumferentially aligned wire seg... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4937708 | Computer assembly A multi-board computer assembly is provided that permits shorter length cables in critical paths between boards by mounting the boards in frames that extend diagonally form the center with the critical path boards closest to the center and the other board... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4934778 | Zero insertion force optical connector A connector mechanism optically interconnecting a first plurality of optical fibers on a first structure with a second plurality of optical fibers on a second structure. A common actuator mounted on the second structure so as to have one degree of freedom... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4912521 | Electro-optical transducer assembly An electro-optical transducer assembly for translating between an optical high speed serial data transmission path and parallel electrical data transmission paths is provided by a light emitting or light detecting device with serial terminals, a logic chi... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4879433 | Parallel cable bus with internal path length compensation A flat cable bus with fan-out patterns which provide equal length wires to eliminate clock skew is disclosed.... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4823095 | Remote connection of termination network An improved dual media transceiver for terminating an electrical transmission line wherein the transmission line may be a coaxial cable or a shielded twisted pair line. A length of shielded twisted pair line is provided for interconnection. A connector fo... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4789926 | Digital data processing arbitration system In a digital data processing system having a resource which is shared between a plurality of users, an arbitration system comprises a plurality of resource requestors (14 to 16) each associated with a respective user, and a resource grantor (10) to which ... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4779712 | Equipoise assembly A non-linear torque produced by an offset mass rotating on a shaft is balanced over 360° of revolution by a lever arm mounted to the shaft extending in a direction opposite that of the offset mass and a spring means for generating a constant force in the... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4764893 | Noise-immune interrupt level sharing An interrupt interface circuit for connection to a shared interrupt request line. An internally generated interrupt impresses an interrupt request line and also locks out any further interrupt requests until the interrupt request is analyzed to be of a mi... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4757309 | Graphics display terminal and method of storing alphanumeric data therein The specification describes a method of storing alphanumeric characters in a graphics display terminal comprising a raster-scan display device and a refresh buffer including a plurality of bit planes each having a respective bit storage location correspon... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4746693 | Polyalkylsilsesquioxane coating composition A composition suitable for forming polyalkylsilsesquioxane coatings is prepared by emulsion hydrolysis of one or more silanes in the presence of a nonvolatile, nonionic catalyst, a nonionic fluorochemical surfactant and sufficient water to only partially ... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4737733 | Overdrive control of FET power amplifier An overdrive control for a GaAs FET power amplifier is provided by a PIN diode attenuator positioned at the input of the FET amplifier where the amount of attenuation is controlled by a control signal derived from the gate current of the following FET amp... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4737970 | Clock recovery using cavity resonator A high data rate optical network data communication system includes a receiver including a photodiode detector, a data slicer and a data decision circuit. A clock recovery arrangement includes an impulse generator coupled to the data slicer to generate im... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736290 | Microprocessors A microprocessor that has two operating modes for generating memory location addresses includes a processor 20 connected to a read-only memory 21, a random access memory 22, and an I/O unit 23 through control 25, data 26 and address 27 buses. A remapper u... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4728062 | Pivot actuated nutation damping for a dual-spin spacecraft A nutation damping control for a dual-spin satellite is provided by tilting the axis of the rotor relative to the normal spin axis of the satellite and back a half nutation period later. The tilting is in the direction of the angular momentum vector compo... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4725025 | Deployment system A plurality of indexing brackets having indexing apertures are secured to a retractable boom in spaced relation. A like plurality of indexing bulkheads are hinged to a foldable panel array (or collapsible spiral antenna) at spaced hinge axes. The bulkhead... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4722091 | Hybrid laser power supply The present invention provides three embodiments of circuitry, responsive to the application of an energizing pulse to the high pressure tube of a hybrid laser, for de-energizing the normally continuously energized low-pressure tube of the hybrid laser fo... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4717788 | Method for producing thermoelectric elements Thermoelectric elements of both P-type and N-type lead tellurides having unique characteristics including, particularly in the case of the P-type, a figure-of-merit 90% above that of the best commercial P-type element, are produced by a new process, invol... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4717789 | Thermoelectric elements Thermoelectric elements of both P-type and N-type lead tellurides having unique characteristics including, particularly in the case of the P-type, a figure-of-merit 90% above that of the best commercial P-type element, are produced by a new process involv... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4691176 | Adaptive carrier tracking circuit An adaptive carrier tracking circuit for receiving pulse code modulated communications which have passed through a scintillation environment is disclosed. The rate and magnitude of phase or frequency fluctuations of the input signal are detected and the b... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4691205 | Beam forming network for circularly polarized shaped beam antenna system A reduced size and weight beam forming network for a circularly polarized N element array antenna system is achieved by interconnecting quadrature couplers without intermediate phase shifters and adding twisted waveguide phase shifters at the coupler outp... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4687445 | Subsurface antenna system A subsurface antenna system including at least one pair of radiating elements and feed system is buried within a subsurface medium. The radiating elements comprising the system are spaced apart at least one quarter free space wavelength at an operating fr... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4688250 | Apparatus and method for effecting a key change via a cryptographically protected link Messages sent from an earth station to a satellite by a command link are authenticated within the satellite before being executed. Authentication is accomplished by comparing a codeword appended to the message to a codeword generated within the satellite.... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4686150 | Electromagnetic radiation reflector structure and method for making same An antenna reflector comprising a face skin of graphite fiber reinforced epoxy (GFRE) material is coated with a layer of chromium. The chromium is then coated with aluminum and a protective coating of silicon dioxide is then deposited over the aluminum. T... | 08/11/1987 |
