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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6397336 | Integrated network security access control system A network resource security services control system comprises an integrated arrangement of security services, that are operative to control the ability of an information storage and retrieval network user to have access to and communicate with one or more... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6363503 | Error handling and representation in a computer-aided design environment A method and apparatus for processing and representing error messages within a computer-aided design environment is described. The present invention allows error/warning information to be stored in a central storage location by the function in which the e... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6324658 | Apparatus for self-diagnosis of substantially sporadic faults in serial transmission systems An apparatus for self-diagnosis of substantially sporadic faults in a serial network which connects a number of subscribers together to a central diagnosis apparatus is characterised in that arranged decentrally at each subscriber (Tln1, . . . Tlnn; FIG. ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6317845 | System for computer recovery using removable high capacity media A computer recovery system provided on a removable high capacity disk. In the event that a user encounters an abnormal operating condition, the user inserts the removable high capacity disk into the computer and restarts the computer. The computer boots e... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314533 | System and method for forward custom marshaling event filters Systems and methods for reporting the occurrence of events in a computer system to event subscriber software are disclosed. Events arc detected within a computer system or computer system environment by event detection components. An Event provider receiv... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6308277 | Virtual certificate authority A method and system for creating and administering certificates digitally signed by a trusted entity (certificate authority) to ensure that certificated transactions are authenticated as that of a particular entity. Requests for a certificate, along with ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6308287 | Transaction processing system, method and computer program product A transaction processing method, system and computer program product for processing applications comprising multiple component transactions. A transaction failure of a component transaction causes a reliable admission of failure by means of a failure indi... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6308288 | Testing method of the integrity of the software pre-installed in a computer hard disk The present invention herein relates to a kind of testing method of the integrity of the software pre-installed in a computer hard disk by providing a file information access function to directly read data on the physical magnetic tracks of a hard disk th... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6304922 | Control system using plural objects, a programming method therefor, and a peripheral devices control system A control system built around plural common objects is provided with greater flexibility and easy customizability, and a programming method for the control system is provided. An interface object (15) capable of two-way communications is created and used ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6301669 | System and method for very fast IP packet filtering Small, optimized sequences of binary 6-tuples representing filter rules achieve very fast IP packet filtering. Filtering IP packets received from a caller at the physical interface to an operating system kernel is accomplished by processing FILTER rule st... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6298453 | Method of determining signal delay of a resource in a reconfigurable system having multiple resources An arrangement for configuring a reconfigurable system having a plurality of resources includes a compiler that configures the resources to implement a functional system in accordance with a user design. A defect database is also provided that (1) stores ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6295610 | Recovering resources in parallel A method and apparatus for removing changes made by a particular transaction is provided. According to one aspect, two or more sets of changes that were made by a particular transaction that can be removed in parallel are identified. A corresponding recov... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6295612 | Method and system for independent monitoring of multiple control systems A method and system are provided for invoking and monitoring of tests executed by multiple, diverse control systems/algorithms on a main controller which allows a single monitor system to be used to monitor the test results without requiring the monitor s... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6292849 | Control system using plural objects, a programming method therefor, and a peripheral devices control system A control system built around plural common objects is provided with greater flexibility and easy customizability, and a programming method for the control system is provided. An interface object (15) capable of two-way communications is created and used ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6289456 | Hood intrusion and loss of AC power detection with automatic time stamp A battery-powered computer chassis intrusion detection circuit which stores the time and date that the chassis hood, components, or AC power was removed. When intrusion occurs, an alarm bit isolates the detection circuit oscillator from the circuit, effec... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6286114 | Enhanced embedded logic analyzer Embedding a logic analyzer in a programmable logic device allows signals to be captured both before and after a trigger condition (breakpoint). A logic analyzer embedded within a PLD captures and stores logic signals. It unloads these signals for viewing ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6286112 | Method and mechanism for providing a non-stop, fault-tolerant telecommunications system A method and mechanism provide for online testing, replacement, upgrading and modification of portions of a radio communications system 100. A task controller 200 tests and replaces online elements in a task unit. The task unit is generally comprised of a... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6279123 | System for viewing and monitoring embedded processor operation A system for viewing and monitoring the operation of an embedded processor in which a single computer program, e.g., a Microsoft C/C++3 program, is used to test the scan chain, check the link to the target device, set up the target devices on the scan cha... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6279112 | Controlled transfer of information in computer networks The present invention relates to techniques for controlling transfers of information in computer networks. One technique involves transmitting from a server computer to a client computer a document containing a channel object corresponding to a communicat... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6279113 | Dynamic signature inspection-based network intrusion detection A signature based dynamic network intrusion detection system (IDS) includes attack signature profiles which are descriptive of characteristics of known network security violations. The attack signature profiles are organized into sets of attack signature ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6275957 | Using query language for provider and subscriber registrations Systems and methods for reporting the occurrence of events in a computer system to event subscriber software. A computer system includes a central repository wherein event subscribers register the types or classes of events for which they require notifica... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6272638 | Information processing device and electric device An information processing device 10 comprises a ROM 12 which stores a reference code indicative of a predetermined area, a site code forming unit 14 which forms a site code of a measuring point, based on position measuring data "a" given by a global posit... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6269452 | System and method for fault recovery for a two line bi-directional ring network The present invention provides a protection protocol for fault recovery, such as a ring wrap, for a network, such as a two line bi-directional ring network. An embodiment of the present invention works in conjunction with a ring topology network in which ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6269458 | Computer system and method for diagnosing and isolating faults A computer system for diagnosing and isolating faults in the computer system. A first value is written from the processor using the bus a first address within the address space of a diagnostic state machine. The value is latched in a first register and wr... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6266789 | Deep trace memory system for a protocol analyzer A deep trace buffer management system for a protocol analyzer includes a hardware search engine that locates specified data patterns within the trace buffer as directed by a host processor. The protocol analyzer is preferably connected to a laptop compute... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6266786 | Method and circuit for safeguarding CMOS RAM data in a computer system at low battery power A method and circuit is provided for safeguarding the data stored in a CMOS RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Random Access Memory) unit in a computer system, such as an IBM-compatible personal computer (PC), when the battery unit used to power... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6263441 | Real-time alert mechanism for signaling change of system configuration A method of monitoring a networked computer system by detecting a change to a configuration of the computer system, using detection logic of the computer, and generating an alert associated with any change in the configuration in real time. The alert is t... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6253337 | Information security analysis system The analysis system is a collection, configuration and integration of software programs that reside on multiple interconnected computer platforms. The software, less computer operating systems, is a combination of sensor, analysis, data conversion, and vi... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6253334 | Three bus server architecture with a legacy PCI bus and mirrored I/O PCI buses A fault-tolerant computer system includes a processor and a memory, connected to a system bus. The system includes at least two mirrored circuits, at least two mirrored IO devices, a detection means and a re-route means. The two mirrored circuits each inc... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6243816 | Single sign-on (SSO) mechanism personal key manager A method of managing passwords of users desiring access to multiple target resources in a computer enterprise environment. For each given user, each of a set of id/password pairs is associated to each of a set of one or more respective targets. Each id/pa... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6243838 | Method for automatically reporting a system failure in a server A method of reporting a system failure in a server system, which includes the following acts: detecting a system failure condition; transmitting failure information related to the failure condition to a system recorder; storing the failure information int... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6243831 | Computer system with power loss protection mechanism A computer system protects against loss of a computer's volatile data using system ROM and operating system resources. Upon entry into a reduced power state, or sleep mode, the operating system directs device drivers to save the state of hardware register... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6243834 | Apparatus and method for capturing information off a plurality of bi-directional communications buses An apparatus for capturing data transmitted over of a plurality of bi-directional communication buses is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of trace engines, each trace engine having a trace analyzer and a central processing unit connected toge... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6237110 | Apparatus and method accessing flash memory A method is suggested for accessing a memory device comprising a plurality of flash memory blocks among which are accessible blocks while some others are spare blocks for usage when there's an overwriting in an accessible block, thereby the substantial di... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6233701 | Method and apparatus for test program execution control, and a computer-readable recording medium with a program for making a computer execute the method recorded therein A test program execution control apparatus, in which an operation of testing is started according to controls by a test program execution control section, a period of editing data for test results to a test editing section is specified by an editing perio... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6226748 | Architecture for virtual private networks Protocols and architecture for secure virtual private networks. Intraenterprise data communications are supported in a secure manner over the Internet or other public network space with the implementation of secure virtual private networks. Members of a v... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6223305 | Method and apparatus for resetting, enabling and freezing a communication device in a diagnostic process A resetting, enabling and freezing system is provided for controlling a communication device in a diagnostic process. A hardware reset of the device may be performed by a host via a reset pin of a PCI interface. A software reset of the device may be provi... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6223303 | Disk drive having two tiered defect list comprising marginal and reserved data sectors The present invention provides a method of operating a disk drive having data sites on a disk for recording data thereon. The disk drive is connectable to a host computer and maintains a defect table comprising defective sites reportable to the host compu... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6219811 | Test circuit and method for interconnect testing of chips The invention relates to a test circuit, and a test method that provides testing for interconnect capability for chips (100, 110). Each of the chips (100, 110) comprises combinational logic (172, 173, 160, 161, 176, 177) as well as a plurality of scan cha... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6212648 | Memory module having random access memories with defective addresses The present invention provides a memory module having connective terminals and a plurality of random access memories connected through a first set of interconnections to the connective terminals. At least one of the random access memories has at least one... | 04/03/2001 |
