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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5819080 | Microprocessor using an instruction field to specify condition flags for use with branch instructions and a computer system employing the microprocessor A microprocessor is provided including a branch prediction unit configured to select one of multiple sets of condition flags for use by a branch instruction according to the segment register override prefix byte which may be included with the instruction.... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819081 | Method of executing a branch instruction of jumping to a subroutine in a pipeline control system A method of executing a branch instruction of jumping to a subroutine in a pipeline control system. The pipeline control system, which utilizes a data bus for instruction read operation and also for data read/write operation, performs at least one stage b... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819082 | Data storage optimization using an access order resource list Method and apparatus for optimizing file structures stored on a memory device operatively associated with a computer. Particularly suited to optimizing individual resources within a given file to minimize seek and access time of the storage device, the pr... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819083 | Minimal sufficient buffer space for data redistribution in a parallel database system A method, system and program for distributing data to a first node in a parallel database system from a plurality of existing nodes. First, a minimal sufficient number of communication buffers necessary to guarantee that a table scan operation in each of ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819084 | Co-presence data retrieval system A data retrieval system includes a data server which retrieves a data object from a data repository and a system for associating a virtual place with a retrieved data object. The virtual place provides co-presence to users which access the retrieved data ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819086 | Computer system for creating semantic object models from existing relational database schemas A computer system for creating a semantic object model from an existing relational database schema. The computer system analyzes the catalog information of the relational database schema and creates a semantic object for each table defined in the catalog.... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819087 | Flash ROM sharing between processor and microcontroller during booting and handling warm-booting events A computer system having a processor, a microcontroller, a flash ROM is provided with an address remapper for handling warm-boot events, and an arbiter for selectively assigning the ownership of the flash ROM to either the microprocessor or the microcontr... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819088 | Method and apparatus for scheduling instructions for execution on a multi-issue architecture computer Improved parallelism in the generated schedules of basic blocks of a program being compiled is advantageously achieved by providing an improved scheduler to the code generator of a compiler targeting a multi-issue architecture computer. The improved sched... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819089 | Portable and dynamic distributed transaction management method A distributed applications architecture performs an information distribution service between multiple transaction processing systems by working with a transaction processor via communication channels to other hosts within the network and a dialog manager ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819090 | Application control module for common user access interface An application management system for achieving a common user access (CUA) interface throughout multiple applications of a computer system is described. The system includes an operating environment having an application control module (ACM) that is run-tim... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819091 | User level control of degree of client-side processing A data processing system stores and maintains a plurality of security levels for dynamically linked libraries. Upon loading of an application, and upon determination of which dynamically linked libraries are required by the application, the data processin... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819092 | Online service development tool with fee setting capabilities A visual editing system for creating commercial online computer services. The visual editing system creates online services that consist of a number of subservices. Each subservice is a program that provides a particular type of functionality to the onlin... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819093 | System and method for a distributed debugger for debugging distributed application programs A system and method for providing a distributed debugger system for a distributed target computer application are disclosed wherein the programmer/developer of the application can be at one host machine and wherein the application being developed makes us... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819094 | Apparatus for log data collection and analysis An apparatus for log data collection and analysis, which provides a history diagram to visualize program behavior and enhanced tools for analysis by utilizing part-to-part association between the history diagram and a source program. A log data collector ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819095 | Method and apparatus for allowing an interrupt controller on an adapter to control a computer system A method and apparatus of making a computer system using the peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus architecture compatible with an Apple computer system are provided. In a preferred embodiment mechanism is used for dedicating interrupt request lines... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819096 | PCI to ISA interrupt protocol converter and selection mechanism An interrupt handling mechanism for converting PCI agent interrupts into interrupts compliant with a secondary bus standard interrupt protocol. PCI agent interrupts are processed by programmable logic for converting PCI compliant interrupts into, for exam... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819097 | Industrial controller compiler with expandable instruction set A compiler for an industrial controller uses a user modifiable instruction table to contain code fragments necessary to compile particular instructions. During compilation, the instructions are replaced with the code fragments. Thus new instructions recog... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819099 | Voltage converting I/O driver circuit A digital data signal voltage converter for converting a first digital data signal that is asserted at a first pair of voltage levels that are considered the inverse of one another, the two voltage levels being a first low voltage level and a first high v... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819100 | Operating system independent method and system for preserving hard disk drive life span in power managed computers A method and system of operating a power-managed computer system monitors the life cycle of a hard disk drive attached to the computer system and extends the life span of the hard disk drive by reducing the rate at which hard disk drive spin-up cycles are... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819101 | Method for packing a plurality of packed data elements in response to a pack instruction A method for manipulating packed data in a computer system. The method includes the steps of decoding a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) pack instruction. The instruction identifies a first and second packed data respectively including a first plur... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819102 | Formula processor having cache means for storing and retrieving results of previously computed formulas base on identification and dependency informations A formula processor which computes results for a group of formulas in which at least one formula uses the result of another formula. The formula processor receives the formulas from a host and returns computed results for the formulas to the host for stor... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819103 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus and method An information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a first processing unit, a link information generating unit, a link information storage unit, and a second processing unit. The first processing unit processes information constituted by a plurality ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819104 | Disk array memory system having bus repeater at disk backplane A disk array memory system includes a disk subsystem, a disk director module and a cable connected between the disk subsystem and the disk director module. The disk subsystem includes a disk drive backplane having disk drive connectors interconnected by a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819105 | System in which processor interface snoops first and second level caches in parallel with a memory access by a bus mastering device A memory controller provides a series of queues between the processor and the PCI bus and the memory system. Memory coherency is maintained in two different ways. Before any read operations are accepted from the PCI bus, both of the posting queues must be... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819106 | Method of transposing data buffer by selectively merging pairs of rows, interleaving two operands of equal length yielding output twice the length of each operand A method of transposing data. Either eight bit or sixteen bit data is placed in a buffer. Each buffer is defined to contain one or more sub-buffers. Rows of the sub-buffer are selectively interleaved with the results of the selective interleaving being ag... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819107 | Method for managing the assignment of device drivers in a computer system A system for managing the assignment of device drivers to devices of a computer system. The computer system can maintain device-related information for a primary device and for devices that are "compatible" with the primary device. This device information... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819108 | Programming of software into programmable memory within a peripheral device A method for writing software into a programmable memory within a peripheral apparatus initiated by a host computer is provided. The host computer issues a software write command and the peripheral apparatus includes a microcontroller connected to the hos... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819109 | System for storing pending parity update log entries, calculating new parity, updating the parity block, and removing each entry from the log when update is complete The present invention is a method of writing data to a storage system using a redundant array of independent/inexpensive disks ("RAID") organization that eliminates the write hole problem of regenerating undetected corrupt data. The invention also overcom... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819110 | System for determining whether connection or connectionless modes of communication should be used to transmit information between devices in accordance with priorities of events A method and system for monitoring, controlling and diagnosing operation of a machine such as a business office machine including a facsimile machine, a copier, and a printer. When the speed of communication between the remote device and machine is not ur... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819111 | System for managing transfer of data by delaying flow controlling of data through the interface controller until the run length encoded data transfer is complete A method implemented in a computer peripheral having an IEEE 1284 interface controller for managing the transfer of data to the interface controller includes detecting a condition requiring the computer peripheral to control the flow of transfer of data t... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819112 | Apparatus for controlling an I/O port by queuing requests and in response to a predefined condition, enabling the I/O port to receive the interrupt requests An improved operating system for a personal computer including a method for controlling a parallel I/O port for peer-to-peer communication is disclosed. The improved operating system includes a port driver which supports communication with multiple periph... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819113 | Method of identifying end of pocket by writing the address of last data into the first location of the memory A method of precisely identifying the end of packet location in a memory device. A first and second memory location in the memory device are reserved and a sequence of data is written into the memory device in sequential memory locations. When the last of... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819114 | Interrupption recovery and resynchronization of events in a computer A computer system employs systems and methods that are transparent to the operating system and application programs, for interruption recovery and resynchronization of events including a playback FIFO buffer having an underrun counter that counts the numb... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819115 | Driver bundle including a compressed, self-extracting, executable driver for the host processor and an adapter driver for the processor of a network adapter card A driver bundle including a compressed, executable and self-extracting host driver prepended to an adapter card driver to form a single executable driver bundle. The driver bundle has a size less than the maximum allowable size for a command file, which i... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819116 | System for transmitting and receiving combination of compressed audio information and embedded strobe bit between computer and external device through parallel printer port of computer A unique combination of software and hardware provides any computer with a system for high speed digital data communications using the computer's standard parallel printer port. The disclosed embodiment of the invention allows any computer with a standard... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819117 | Method and system for facilitating byte ordering interfacing of a computer system A method and data processing system for transferring data between the system and a memory system using more than one byte ordering convention by incorporating byte order information into instruction codes. The byte order information is coupled to a contro... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819118 | Drip-proof mechanism in apparatus A drip-proof mechanism in an apparatus which is operated by moving an operation member relative to a member that is adjacent to the operation member. The operation member includes a main unit which is substantially cylindrical shaped and rotatable with re... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819119 | Camera with a visual line position detection device and method A camera with a visual line position detection device is capable of shortening the time required for auto focus detection and capable of more accurate selection of the focus detection point. The camera includes a focus detection device to output the resul... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819120 | Variable focus lens device in camera An initial position of a variable focus lens is set substantially halfway between a wide and a telephotographing end. Thus, just after the initial position is set by turning on a power switch, both the wide photographing and the telephotographing can be p... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819121 | Magnification change-over device for camera A magnification change-over device is arranged to be highly suitable for a camera of the kind having a photo-taking lens and a viewfinder arranged independently of each other. The device includes the photo-taking lens having an image magnification which i... | 10/06/1998 |
