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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7597792 | Magnetic recording disk having DTR patterned CSS zone A method and apparatus is described for gradually transitioning a slider from operation over a patterned data zone to landing on a patterned CSS zone. The ratio of raised area width to recessed area width of a pattern in a transition zone and/or CSS zone may be vari... | 10/06/2009 |
| 6967798 | Magnetic recording disk having DTR patterned CSS zone A method and apparatus is described for gradually transitioning a slider from operation over a patterned data zone to landing on a patterned CSS zone. The ratio of raised area width to recessed area width of a pattern in a transition zone and/or CSS zone may be vari... | 11/22/2005 |
| 5640587 | Object-oriented rule-based text transliteration system A computer system transliterates a text string from a first language to a second language using transliterator objects, each having a set of transliteration rules arranged in a preferred order. Each of the transliteration rules, in turn, has a test string... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5594642 | Input methods framework A method and system for assisting input of information. The method and system dynamically translates information being input, and allows user interaction with the translation process. The system is flexibly designed to allow easy use by application develo... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5485373 | Language-sensitive text searching system with modified Boyer-Moore process A method and system for providing a language-sensitive text search that performs text comparison of any Unicode strings. For any language an ordering is defined based on features of the language. Then, an interactive compare function is performed to deter... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5432948 | Object-oriented rule-based text input transliteration system A computer implemented system and method utilizing rules instantiated in objects of an object-oriented operating system to transliterate text as it is input into a computer is disclosed. A number of transliterator objects are created in the storage of the... | 07/11/1995 |