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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5210867 | Method and apparatus for memory retry Memory retry logic to improve the resilience of system memory operations with respect to system errors or faults which prevent a memory read operation from being completed on a first attempt by allowing the memory to retry the operation once. The memory r... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210868 | Database system and matching method between databases In a database system for map information, matching and retrieving operations are carried out between an attribute database associated with a business and a map database. A matching key word is separated into a common noun part and a proper noun part, a sy... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210869 | Method and system for automated transmission of failure of delivery message in a data processing system A method and system are disclosed for automatically transmitting a message to the originator of an electronic document from an intended recipient upon a failure of the system to successfully deliver that document. In one embodiment of the present inventio... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210870 | Database sort and merge apparatus with multiple memory arrays having alternating access A processor functioning as a coprocessor attached to a central processing complex provides efficient execution of the functions required for database processing: sorting, merging, joining, searching and manipulating fields in a host memory system. The spe... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210871 | Interprocessor communication for a fault-tolerant, mixed redundancy distributed information processing system A method for resolving access contentions by a plurality of processing sites having the same or different redundancies to a shared communications system wherein the start of the access contention process is first synchronized for all contending sites. A d... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210872 | Critical task scheduling for real-time systems A task scheduling method for a real time computer system having automatic memory management or some other resource that is consumed in terms of a bit rate. The method ensures that non critical tasks do not prevent the timely execution of critical tasks. E... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210873 | Real-time computer system with multitasking supervisor for building access control or the like A method is disclosed for providing a single-tasking disk operating system with multitasking capability in a real-time computer system for building access control or the like. A number of reentrant, terminate-and-stay-resident application programs are loa... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210874 | Cross-domain call system in a capability based digital data processing system A cross-domain call system for use in a digital data processing system includes a cross-domain call stack through which cross-domain transfer information is passed from a calling program in one domain for use in connection with a called program in another... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210875 | Initial BIOS load for a personal computer system An apparatus and method for loading BIOS stored on a direct access storage device into a personal computer system. The personal computer system comprises a system processor, a system planar, a random access main memory, a read only memory, and at least on... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210876 | Method for calling interpreter language procedure from compiler language procedure For calling interpreter language procedure from a compiler language procedure, a compiler language procedure is generated in accordance with a function name of the interpreter function, a name of the foreign language procedure for calling the interpreter ... | 05/11/1993 |
