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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6990113 | Adaptive-weighted packet scheduler for supporting premium service in a communications network A method schedules packets in a router of a packet-switched network. The network has a set of service classes including a premium service, an assured service, and a best-effort service. The router includes one queue for each service class. Each queue stores packets ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6894703 | Multi-user collaborative circular graphical user interfaces A multi-user collaborative circular graphical user interface for displaying items includes a transformation engine responsive to external command, such as mouse clicks, for generating polar coordinates for the items, an asynchronous rendering engine for generating i... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6791530 | Circular graphical user interfaces A system and method provides visualization and layout schemes for a circular graphical user interface using global and local polar coordinate systems to display images. The system gives a user of the interface the full capability to relocate, re-orient, scale and la... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6640245 | Real-time channel-based reflective memory based upon timeliness requirements A computer network guarantees timeliness to distributed real-time applications by allowing an application to specify its timeliness requirements and by ensuring that a data source can meet the specified requirements. A reflective memory area is establishe... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6556200 | Temporal and spatial coherent ray tracing for rendering scenes with sampled and geometry data A method traces rays through graphical data. The method partitions the graphical data into a plurality of blocks according to a scheduling grid. For each block, a ray queue is generated. Each entry in the ray queue representing a ray to be traced through ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6545660 | Multi-user interactive picture presentation system and method A system enables multiple users to interact with a picture presentation. The system includes a display surface having a horizontal orientation, preferably circular. A processor is configured to composite an image. The composite image includes a picture di... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6490611 | User level scheduling of inter-communicating real-time tasks In a multi-tasking system a writer task generates real-time and non real-time messages having multiple priority levels in an ascending order arranged in a plurality of priority bands. The real-time messages have predetermined timing deadlines. A plurality... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6466227 | Programmable architecture for visualizing sampled and geometry data A programmable visualization apparatus processes graphical data. The apparatus includes a central processing unit for executing a visualization application and a scheduler. A third level of memory is connected to the central processing unit. The third lev... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6211876 | Method and system for displaying icons representing information items stored in a database Methods and apparatus are provided for accessing an experience journal which includes unstructured text items relating to a topic, such as a medical condition. The method is implemented in a computer system including a processor, a storage device, a video... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5987496 | Real-time channel-based reflective memory A computer network guarantees timeliness to distributed real-time applicans by allowing an application to specify its timeliness requirements and by ensuring that a data source can meet the specified requirements. A reflective memory area is established ... | 11/16/1999 |
