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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5313629 | Unit of work for preserving data integrity of a data-base by creating in memory a copy of all objects which are to be processed together A Unit of Work object class for an object oriented database management system provides concurrent processing through Unit of Work levels and instances while maintaining the integrity of the data in the database. Each new Unit of Work assigned to a task is... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5307487 | Method of database synchronization with consistency determined by entry and exit counters used on both update and retrieval A system for updating and reading a data base utilizes a pair of counters ere one counter is incremented prior to an update and the other is incremented following an update. The system permits the updating to take place at any time. By keeping track of th... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5293617 | Data base system capable of quickly restoring a data block in a data section when a fault occurs during operation In a data base system including a data base section for memorizing a plurality of data blocks and a buffer memory for memorizing a selected one of the data blocks as a buffered data block. The data base section includes a first memory unit for a first sel... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5287501 | Multilevel transaction recovery in a database system which loss parent transaction undo operation upon commit of child transaction When a subtransaction (46) of a higher-level transaction (50) commits during the operation of a database (10), the database enters into its operation log a record (FIG. 6 ) that acts both as a commit record for the subtransaction (46) and as an update rec... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5280611 | Method for managing database recovery from failure of a shared store in a system including a plurality of transaction-based systems of the write-ahead logging type In a multi-system data sharing complex, a database system can write updated pages to a shared electronic store for a fast write. Other database systems can obtain pages written to the shared store for further modification without the pages first being wri... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5278982 | Log archive filtering method for transaction-consistent forward recovery from catastrophic media failures A method for implementing transaction-consistent resource recovery from catastrophic media failures in a single pass over a recovery log archive while permitting most UNDO log records to be discarded during log archiving. The media recovery procedure is b... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276872 | Concurrency and recovery for index trees with nodal updates using multiple atomic actions by which the trees integrity is preserved during undesired system interruptions The present invention includes an approach to index tree structure changes which provides high concurrency while being usable with many recovery schemes and with many varieties of index trees. The present invention permits multiple concurrent structure ch... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274803 | Method and apparatus for aligning a restored parent environment to its child environments with minimal data loss A method and apparatus for aligning a restored parent environment to its child environments with minimal data loss is disclosed. The method and apparatus achieve the alignment by re-executing the transactions affecting the objects in the child environment... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5274802 | Method for restoring lost databases by comparing existing database and generic database, and generating cellular switch commands to update the generic database An improved method is disclosed for automatically updating databases contained in the random access memory and tape storage of a cellular switch. First, instructions are issued to a cellular switch, causing the switch to provide a first output of one or m... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5263156 | Parallel, distributed optimistic concurrency control certification using hardware filtering A method and system for determining a conflict in a database transaction processing system between a specific transaction and one or more other transactions utilizes a certification system (30). The certification system (30) comprises a memory (32) which ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5241672 | System using the storage level of file updates in nonvolatile memory to trigger saving of RAM to disk and using the file updates to reboot after crash An electronic printing system with plural hard disks for storing system files in which file management information is held in a Volume Allocation Table in internal system RAM memory with file management updates queued in NVM, with the contents of the Volu... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5241668 | Method and system for automated termination and resumption in a time zero backup copy process A method in a data processing system for automatically terminating or resuming backup copy sessions after an abnormal interrupt or reset notification occurrence during a backup copy process. A status indication is entered into activity tables associated w... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5193162 | Cache memory with data compaction for use in the audit trail of a data processing system having record locking capabilities A multiprocessor data processing system is implemented with processors, each of which may request for a temporary time the exclusive lock on an object which is stored on a data base. To achieve this a lock processor synchronizes the locking and unlocking ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5175849 | Capturing data of a database system To create a snapshot copy of selected elements of a database in a data processing system, the selected elements are copied sequentially to a secondary storage device. During the copying operation, when a task requests to delete one of the selected element... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5155850 | Method and system for maintaining a time frame selective document history log in a data processing system A method for maintaining a time frame selective document history log within a data processing system having multiple resource objects which are accessible by a plurality of users within the data processing system. A history log is created and associated w... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5155678 | Data availability in restartable data base system A method for maintaining switchover between a backup and degrading active processor, which switchover is transparent to a terminal accessing the active processor with atomic transactions. The backup processor prepares for an outage by the active processor... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5151988 | Intersystem data base sharing journal merge method A plurality of shared files (10) are accessible by each of a plurality of host processors (30a, 30b, 30c). Each host processor includes a data base access system (36) for accessing a selected record of the shared files. A journal merge key table (38) stor... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5086386 | Method and apparatus for benchmarking the working set of window-based computer systems In the system of the present invention, the performance of distributed window systems which employ shared libraries is provided. A shared library is a library which is referenced and accessed by multiple processes. Synchronization events are preset in a j... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5060185 | File backup system A file backup system for POS data includes a master terminal and a backup terminal along with a master file and a backup file, all of which are coupled to a plurality of satellite terminals. A file controller is provided for each of the files. When one of... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5043866 | Soft checkpointing system using log sequence numbers derived from stored data pages and log records for database recovery Functions MINBUFLSN and LOWTRANLSN, implemented in a computerized routine, are defined and comprise first and second components of a checkpoint. MINBUFLSN is functionally related to a first update to a first of "dirty" data pages in the RAM buffer. LOWTRA... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5043871 | Method and apparatus for database update/recovery There are provided a backup version page table in a storage for providing a correspondence between the pages of a database and the slots in a database storage medium in which the contents of pages to be recovered, if necessary, are stored; a current versi... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4945474 | Method for restoring a database after I/O error employing write-ahead logging protocols Method for reducing data loss during I/O errors and power failure during non-atomic writes to media in a transaction management system using write-ahead logging protocol. A recovery log is written during forward processing. On system restart processing, t... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4941059 | Method for restoring computer files, including improved steps for location of head clusters of files A method is disclosed for restoring apparently lost files on a computer whose directory file entries have been corrupted. In particular, the method includes an improved technique for locating initial or head clusters of files. An array is initialized to i... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4935869 | File transfer control method among a plurality of computer systems In a file transfer control among a plurality of computer systems, a plurality of data sets to be transferred are stored in a transaction file by executing transfer and receiving processings by use of control records. A plurality of data sets are stored in... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4853843 | System for merging virtual partitions of a distributed database An object-oriented, distributed data base system separates into a plurality of virtual partitions following communication failure between sites accessing the data base. Each partition accesses a separate copy of an initial data base and independently upda... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4827399 | Common file system for a plurality of data processors A common file system for a plurality of data processors according to the present invention includes a plurality of data processors, update history files capable of distributing and outputting history files to the data processors, a close and recovery cont... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4752910 | Method and apparatus for continuous after-imaging A transactional data base processing apparatus which executes plural transactions causing a data base to be updated, incorporates an after-image recovery storage apparatus and method which enables continuous operation of the transaction system. The after-... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4751702 | Improving availability of a restartable staged storage data base system that uses logging facilities A method is disclosed for maintaining availability of a restartable data base system where continuity of service is guaranteed by having a loosely-coupled backup processor taking over processing of a degraded active processor. The backup processor continu... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4507751 | Method and apparatus for logging journal data using a log write ahead data set The invention provides a computing apparatus and method for maintaining a journal log. The computing apparatus includes volatile storage for storing a log buffer and a non-volatile storage for storing a journal log. Non-volatile storage means are provided... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4498145 | Method for assuring atomicity of multi-row update operations in a database system A method for assuring atomicity of user requested multi-row update operations to tables such as in a relational database, guarantees that for any update operation that succeeds all stated effects will have occurred and that for any update operation that f... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4408273 | Method and means for cataloging data sets using dual keyed data sets and direct pointers A data set catalog structure eliminates the requirement for base catalog/data volume synchronization in a multi-processing environment while enabling the operating efficiency directly addressing the data volumes. The catalog is distributed between a keyed... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4077059 | Multi-processing system with a hierarchial memory having journaling and copyback This is a hierarchial memory system for a multi-processing system which has two or more processing units accessing the memory system. The memory system has two different types of memory units on each level. One of the types of units is called the data sto... | 02/28/1978 |
