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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7055861 | Bookmark Described is a bookmark having a bookmark body, on which a bookmark clip is disposed. The bookmark clip can clam the cover or inner pages of a book to prevent the bookmark body from falling off from the book. The bookmark body is bendable and includes a protection s... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6745292 | Apparatus and method for selectively allocating cache lines in a partitioned cache shared by multiprocessors A computer system includes a cache memory which is shared by multiple processors. The cache memory is divided into a plurality of regions. Each of the processor is exclusively associated with one or more of the regions. All the processors have access to all regions ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6714931 | Method and apparatus for forming user sessions and presenting internet data according to the user sessions Conventionally, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers. Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept as a set of separate and non-correlated data records that are chr... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6658466 | Method and apparatus for integrating remote human interactive assistance function into software systems A method and an apparatus provide an application program user with remote interactive assistance from an application program expert. During running the application program, an information collection routine collects the information needed by the applicati... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6600271 | Method and apparatus of an improved electronics ballast circuit A ballast circuit adaptive to changes in the input voltage capable of providing a "floating" high output voltage for the operation of fluorescent lamps. The present invention employs an output voltage "floating" design in adjusting the high output voltage... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6580344 | Ground fault interruption receptacle A new and improved type of ground fault interruption receptacle is mainly consists of an upper housing, a middle supporter and a lower holder. Two sets of female power-output socket 5, 6, a simulation test button (i.e. test button for fault detecting) and... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6487195 | Collaborative network navigation synchronization mechanism A web site server provides collaborative web page navigation feature for a group of user terminals. The location information of the web pages are relayed to all following terminals of the group, while a leading terminal of the group is navigating through ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6421068 | Method for collecting and displaying information for activex controls simplifying CTI enabled application development Described is a method of creating objects for collecting textual information from a CTI server and display the textual information in an application for controlling a telephony system and for allowing users to enter information associated with a call and ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6275230 | Method for managing states within activex controls simplifying CTI enabled application development Described is a method of creating intelligent command objects for controlling a telephony system by selecting reusable image symbol to an application container, without requiring an application developer to write any programming code. After being embedded... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6181689 | Bi-directional information exchange mechanism for collaborative network navigation among a group of user terminals A collaborative navigation server is able to share network navigation information among a group of user terminals. The server can designate one of the user terminals as a leading terminal, so that the location information of information pages are relayed ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6169997 | Method and apparatus for forming subject (context) map and presenting Internet data according to the subject map Currently, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers. Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept as a set of separate and non-correlated data records that a... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6157684 | One bit matched filter with low complexity and high speed Described is an one bit matched filter for generating a sequences of correlations between a signal bit stream and a sample stream of n sample bits. The n sample bits are arranged in a rang of n bit positions n, n-1, . . . , 2, 1. Among the n sample bits, ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5933775 | Mechanism for providing wireless audio and control channels for personal computer interactive phone (PCIP) system An interface circuit provides a wireless channel and a line channel to a telephone set. The wireless channel is coupled to a controller (e.g. a PC) and to another telephone set, and the line channel is coupled to a telephone network. A switch circuit conn... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5917842 | Error-free frame handling for jammed data frames In jamming the data field of a data frame being transmitted at a sending end, a CRC error is caused at a receiving end. To instead avoid such CRC error, a section of bits is inserted into the data frame, so that CRC based on the section of bits is forced ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5915119 | Proxy terminal for network controlling of power managed user terminals in suspend mode A network system comprises a plurality of network segments. Each of the network segments connects a plurality of user terminals that can be set in a suspend mode. When a network segment is connected to the network system via a router, it is possible that ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5911777 | Method and apparatus for reporting unauthorized attempt to release a portable computer from a docking station A computer system is provided to prevent a portable computer from being removed from a docking station by a unauthorized person. When set in a password protection mode, the docking station demands a password to be entered in response to a undocking reques... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5903478 | Method for displaying an IT (Information Technology) architecture visual model in a symbol-based decision rational table Disclosed is a computer implemented method of displaying an architecture visual model in a symbol based table, the architecture visual model including a plurality of visual objects. Each of the visual objects is at a level relative to other visual objects... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5896388 | Method and apparatus using GPS to reshape isochronous data at the receiving ends of an ATM network Method and apparatus are used to reshape isochronous Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and Variable Bit Rate (VBR) data at a receiving point (such as a multimedia workstation) using precise universal real time clocks that are provided by Global Position System (GPS... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5894512 | Method and apparatus for routing voice and video calls to a group of agents A call center, including a PBX/ACD and a CTI server, is provided to route both voice and video calls to a single group of agents. A modem call from an end-point terminal is used to initiate and prepare a video call. Upon receiving an inbound voice or a mo... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5848412 | User controlled browser identification disclosing mechanism A user-controlled information disclosure process for web user identification. In this process, a user information database, a BrowserID Client applet, and a BrowserID Website database are configured at a user terminal. The user information database contai... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5825751 | Method and apparatus for tracing frames transmitted through a network path A data section or a set of data sections (frames or cells) are transmitted through a plurality of network nodes. The network path taken by the data section or the set of data sections (frames or cells) is recorded into the data section or the set of data ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5761428 | Method and aparatus for providing agent capability independent from a network node An improved network node includes a network node autonomy portion and a sentinel autonomy portion. The network node autonomy portion can perform the tasks as a conventional network node. Both the autonomy portions contain their respective processors and M... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5752230 | Method and apparatus for identifying names with a speech recognition program To generate a correct name via a speech recognizer, a name database is used to store proper names. A user first spells a name to the speech recognizer that recognizes the spelled name. If two or more homophonic names exist in the name database correspondi... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5752251 | Method and apparatus for recovering aborted file (or data) transmission A system for transmitting files includes a transmitting terminal and receiving terminal. After a file transmission has aborted, the receiving terminal generates a size and checksum for the portion of the file received by the receiving terminal. The transm... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5745733 | Computer system including a portable portion and a stationary portion providing both uni-processing and multiprocessing capabilities A computer system includes a stationary portion having at least one stationary processor module and portable portion having at least one portable processor module. The stationary processor module can operate the stationary portion independently when the p... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5661719 | Method for activating a backup network management station in a network management system A network management system includes at least two network management stations. One of the stations is set as a main network management station, and the other is set as a backup network management station. The data packets are delivered to the two network ... | 08/26/1997 |
