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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5455944 | Method for managing logging and locking of page free space information in a transaction processing system Database files containing records include pages called free space inventory pages (FSIPs) describing field space information relating to data pages. In a transaction processing system, the invention provides correct sequences for logging of updates to FSI... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5453982 | Packet control procedure between a host processor and a peripheral unit A method for controlling packet communications between a source and destination causes a source to perform the steps of: transmitting a message to the destination which requests an allocation of a specified number of credits from the destination, a credit... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5454103 | Method and apparatus for file storage allocation for secondary storage using large and small file blocks A method and apparatus for file storage allocation for secondary storage systems for allocating storage space for both small and large files in the same file system that dynamically utilizes at least two different sizes of logical storage allocation units... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5452430 | System and method for storing persistent and non-persistent queued data and for recovering the persistent data responsive to a system restart A data processing system for the storage of persistent and non-persistent data in a queue, and a method for the storage of data which is required to survive a system failure (persistent data) and data which is not required to survive a system failure (non... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5452431 | Microcircuit for a chip card comprising a protected programmable memory A microcircuit for a multi-application chip card, comprising notably a read-only memory (12), a programmable memory (13), and an addressing control circuit (14) for the programmable memory. The programmable memory (13) is subdivided into at least a repert... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5450313 | Generating local addresses and communication sets for data-parallel programs An optimizing compilation process generates executable code which defines the computation and communication actions that are to be taken by each individual processor of a computer having a distributed memory, parallel processor architecture to run a progr... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5446860 | Apparatus for determining a computer memory configuration of memory modules using presence detect bits shifted serially into a configuration register An apparatus is provided for determining a configuration of memory modules. Each of the memory modules produces presence detect bits. In a first feature, the apparatus includes an external register for receiving the presence detect bits from the memory mo... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5440716 | Method for developing physical disk drive specific commands from logical disk access commands for use in a disk array For use with a computer system having an intelligent mass storage disk array subsystem, including a microprocessor controller, a method for the distribution of data within the disk array based upon logical commands issued by the computer system. The disk ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5440737 | File-allocation control system for allocating files according to user-program priority and storage volume performance A volume group 4 consists of a plurality of volume subgroups 41 to 4n. For example, volume subgroup 41 includes volumes 41-1 to 41-a on electronic disk units, and volume subgroup 4n includes volumes 4n-1 to 4n-d on magnetic disk units. Prioritized volume ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5438671 | Method and system for transferring compressed bytes of information between separate hard disk drive units A two-computer system and method wherein data is transferred between the computers as complete disk images rather than as files. The transfer is made between the parallel ports of the two computers, for greater speed; amd RLL data compression is used to i... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5438513 | Automotive electronics test system A system and method for testing an automotive electronic microcontroller includes a multi-chip module comprised of a microcontroller chip and at least one memory chip. This multi-chip module is packaged in the same connection configuration a production si... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5437020 | Method and circuitry for detecting lost sectors of data in a solid state memory disk A method of detecting the loss of a sector of data stored in a solid state memory disk is described. Detection is enabled by the creation of a header for each sector number during formatting. Each header includes a logical sector number equal to a sector ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5437018 | Emulation of semiconductor and magnetic auxiliary storage devices with semiconductor memory A compact, low power consumption, light weight, highly reliable and high speed information processing system is provided by employing a semiconductor auxiliary storage device in lieu of conventional magnetic storage or memory elements, such as floppy or h... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5434988 | Data processor implementing a two's complement addressing technique The data processor accesses memory with an address value which is expressed by signed binary notation expressed by twos compliment, is so constructed that the negative address value having maximum absolute value and the positive address value having the s... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5434991 | Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information in black on a rewritable recording medium An information recording and reproducing device uses a recording medium which is provided with units composed of blocks and a unit information recording area which includes unit allocation information, sector number information indicating the number of se... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5432908 | High speed buffer management of share memory using linked lists and plural buffer managers for processing multiple requests concurrently The present invention relates to the management of a large and fast memory. The memory is logically subdivided into several smaller parts called buffers. A buffer-control memory (11) having as many sections for buffer-control records as buffers exist is e... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5432917 | Tabulation of multi-bit vector history A multi-bit SP-Vector is created to record the history of each page of a process. Each time an ager scans the accessed/not accessed bit flag of the page tables entires, the SP-Vector is updated to reflect whether or not the corresponding page was accessed... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5430747 | Bus configuration validation for a multiple source disk array bus An interrupt signal indicating the existence of a bus configuration error within a disk array system is generated by monitoring the enable signals controlling bus drivers included in the array system. The array configuration error detector includes bus co... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5430734 | Fault-tolerant waferscale integrated circuit device and method A fault tolerant IC device is made from a wafer of field programmable gate arrays (FGPA's). Each FGPA is first tested and a wafer map of defective FGPA locations is recorded. A hardware description defines desired circuit operation either via a schematic ... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5428757 | Method for reducing translation look aside buffer purges in a multitasking system A process for reducing translation look-aside buffer (TLB) purge overhead does so by purging the TLB only when required to avoid invalid entries. The translation look-aside buffer (TLB) contains virtual to real mappings for a particular address space. Ope... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5426760 | Method and system for storing index information using a base number of bits A method for storing a predetermined data set includes the step of selecting a base number of data bits to be used to store the data set. Each data word of the data set is defined as either a base value or an extended value. Base values are those that req... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5423013 | System for addressing a very large memory with real or virtual addresses using address mode registers Allows instructions and data to be located in any one or more of plural sections of a large-size real memory of a data processing system. Any memory section is located by concatenating a conventional small real/absolute address with an address extender us... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5418965 | Subroutine-type computer program for enhancing the speed of data processing in data management programs systems Processing of data in a higher language database management system is speed enhanced by the use of an external utility or subprogram which determines the amount of free memory available in working memory and selects a plurality of consecutive records from... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5418949 | Page map, metamap, and relation group file management supervised by operation means for allocating, storing, and searching friendly and exclusive data items A file storage management system for managing pages in a file, in which pages, data items belonging to a plurality of relations are stored. The file storage management system includes a data file for storing data items belonging to relations page by page,... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5392292 | Configurable spare memory chips A memory reconfiguration system dynamically configures spare chips into memory during system operation by shifting data around defective chips. The shifting of data around an entire memory chip allows the system to correct bit, addressing, and control err... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392244 | Memory systems with data storage redundancy management A disk array has a plurality of disks, a disk array controller for coordinating data transfer to and from the disks, and a RAID management system for mapping two different RAID areas onto the disks. The RAID management system stores data in one of the RAI... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5386525 | System for providing application programs with direct addressability into a shared dataspace A method of sharing dataspaces among a plurality of applications on IBM mainframe computers. A DataServ Routing Table (DSRT) is anchored in an extended command storage area (ECSA) by a pointer stored in a SubSystem Communications vector Table (SSCVT) whic... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5375084 | Selectable interface between memory controller and memory simms A computer system is provided which includes a CPU having a memory controller interconnecting the CPU to a bus. The bus has card receptacles having pin receiving sockets electrically connected to the bus to receive the pins of memory cards. The memory con... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5359723 | Cache memory hierarchy having a large write through first level that allocates for CPU read misses only and a small write back second level that allocates for CPU write misses only A cache memory hierarchy having a first level write through cache memory and a second level write back cache memory is provided to a computer system having a CPU, a main memory, and a number of DMA devices. The first level write through cache memory respo... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5359725 | Method of creating CD-ROM image of files of different format with proper directories to be read by respective operating systems A method and apparatus for making a single CD-ROM disc useable on computers having unrelated operating systems or for multi-media platforms, specifically, wherein the two different operating systems are Hierarchical File System (HFS) used by Macintosh com... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5355483 | Asynchronous garbage collection The present invention consists of a new type of garbage collector, one that runs in a different process being scanned. With this method, the process being collected communicates its memory state ("a memory snapshot") to a garbage collecting process (GC), ... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5353422 | Method and system for storing and managing a plurality of information media used by recording/reproducing units An information medium storage and management system includes storage compartments for storing a plurality of information media; a plurality of recording/reproducing apparatus each capable of accessing each of a plurality of information media, each capable... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5349661 | Installation of an expanded memory manager An EMM device driver command installation line is provided which may be easily and quickly interpreted by a user, an installation or a setup program. The physical memory is correlated to the installation line by a map of the 16 K-byte DOS memory segments ... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5347651 | System for allocating worm optical medium file storage in groups of fixed size addressable areas while tracking unrecorded areas and end of volume A removable optical disk of the write once type is managed to minimize size of the control area for user data recorded on the disk. Instead of recording each recorded file indicating token (serial number) as each file is recorded, a maximum value file tok... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5345590 | Method and apparatus for cross-partition control in a partitioned process environment A logically partitioned data processing system has a policy defining responsive actions to be undertaken by a process in one partition because of a monitored failure of an operating system in another partition. When such a failure occurs, the monitoring p... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5345584 | System for managing data storage based on vector-summed size-frequency vectors for data sets, devices, and residual storage on devices A method for managing allocation of data sets among A plurality of storage devices of a computing apparatus such that the data set are allocated to a storage device whose uncommitted storage volume and access capability most nearly meet the requirement of... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5335325 | High-speed packet switching apparatus and method An improved digital packet switching apparatus enabling enhanced packet transmission and high bandwidth packet transfer. The digital packet switching methods and apparatus permit selectively switching digital signal packet between a set of nodes. The inve... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5333311 | Optimizing a magnetic disk by allocating files by the frequency a file is accessed/updated or by designating a file to a fixed location on a disk A method for automatically optimizing computer disks is disclosed which utilizes recorded file usage to determine this optimum location of files on the disk. Each file on the disk is assigned a priority, depending upon its characteristics and frequency of... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5321839 | Electronic equipment including non-volatile memory means for storing control information An electronic equipment includes a memory for storing information necessary for the execution of control programs and identification information which identify the control programs. A first check determines whether the identification information of the co... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5321834 | Method and system for reclaiming unreferenced computer memory space A computer program is disclosed for reclaiming unreferenced computer memory space, also known as garbage collection. The program operates in a virtual memory environment wherein user memory space is divided into pages. For each active page, a table stores... | 06/14/1994 |
