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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6401207 | Security device for vehicle A security device for vehicle disclosed is of a type generating a seed that is used suitably in order to generate a key by being encoded and that is decreased in regularity. Namely, the security device for vehicle according to the present invention has a ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401208 | Method for BIOS authentication prior to BIOS execution A cryptographic device is implemented in communication with a host processor to prevent the host processor from performing a standard boot-up procedure until a basic input output system (BIOS) code is authenticated. This is accomplished by a cryptographic... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401209 | Method for automatically initiating a computer security and/or screen saver mode A method for automatically switching a computer to a password protected screen saver mode when a computer user leaves the proximity of the computer. A proximity sensor determines whether or not an individual is located proximate the computer. The proximit... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401210 | Method of managing computer virus infected files Management of files infected by computer viruses is accomplished by creating a first file in a directory, copying a virus infected file to the first file, scrambling contents of the first file, and deleting the virus infected file. A system for managing c... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401211 | System and method of user logon in combination with user authentication for network access A system and method of combined user logon-authentication provides enhanced logon performance by utilizing communications with a network access control server for user authentication to provide user account data required for user logon. When a user logs o... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401212 | Microprocessor circuits, systems, and methods for conditioning information prefetching based on resource burden In a computer system (10) embodiment, there is included a memory (18) and circuitry (16a) for prefetching information from the memory in response to a prefetch request. The system further includes a system resource (14), wherein the system resource is bur... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401213 | Timing circuit for high speed memory A timing circuit to adjust a data strobe signal received from a synchronous memory includes a delay circuit to adjustably delay the data strobe signal and to generate a delayed data strobe signal, a clock capture register to sample the delayed data strobe... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401214 | Preventive recovery action in hard disk drives A method in a data processing system for minimizing read/write errors caused by impaired performance of a hard disk drive during runtime operation of the hard disk drive. The runtime operation includes an active mode during which read/write operations are... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401215 | Resynchronization of mirrored logical data volumes subsequent to a failure in data processor storage systems with access to physical volume from multi-initiators at a plurality of nodes There is provided a system for dynamically resynchronizing, in the even of a system failure, a storage system made up of a plurality of nodes, each which has mirrored logical volumes respectively divided in to a plurality of mirrored logical data partitio... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401216 | System of performing checkpoint/restart of a parallel program A checkpoint of a parallel program is taken in order to provide a consistent state of the program in the event the program is to be restarted. Each process of the parallel program is responsible for taking its own checkpoint, however, the timing of when t... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401217 | Method for error recognition in a processor system The method enables an improved and faster error recognition of software errors in a processor or processor system in which programs subject information received from other programs to an error check, particularly to a plausibility check, and, given acquis... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401218 | Method and system for functional kernel verification testing within a data processing system A method and system for functional kernel verification testing within a data processing system is described. The method and system of the present invention performs imbedded functional verification test suites on selected kernel components within the data... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401219 | Failure analysis system, method for managing estimated logic status and information storage medium for programmed instruction of the method A failure analysis system manages pieces of status information estimated by a diagnostic system together with indexes given to the pieces of status information, and builds up a tree-like index structure, wherein a logical relation analyzer and a failure p... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401220 | Test executive system and method including step types for improved configurability A test executive program which provides greatly improved configurability and modularity, thus simplifying the creation, modification and execution of test sequences. The test executive program includes process models for improved flexibility, modularity a... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401221 | Fault-tolerant architecture for in-circuit programming The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing fault-tolerance for in-circuit programming systems. The invention operates by storing a minimal set of code to initialize the in-circuit programming process in a protected memory so that ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401222 | Defective floppy diskette controller detection apparatus and method A system and method which provides a complete software implementation of a detection process that is capable of detecting defective Floppy Diskette Controllers ("FDCs") without visual hardware inspection or identification. The approach taken includes a mu... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401223 | Programmable system for invalidating pending requests within a data processing system A request invalidation system for invalidating pending requests within a data processing system is disclosed. According to the system of the preferred embodiment, one or more requesting units may make requests to gain access to one or more shared resource... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401224 | Integrated circuit and method for testing it A test method suitable for testing at least one integrated circuit which, on a main area, has contact areas that serve to transfer signals during a first operating mode of the circuit. Only some of the contact areas are contact-connected to test contacts ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401225 | Comparator circuit for semiconductor test system A comparator circuit includes a window high impedance detector which detects any glitches or fails in the high impedance state of the device under test (DUT) within a specified time range. The comparator circuit includes a first analog comparator for rece... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401226 | Electronic system with self-test function and simulation circuit for electronic system An electronic system with a self-test function has a pseudo-random test pattern generator that serially generates data constituting a pseudo-random test pattern, and stores a 1-bit shifted pseudo-random test pattern obtained by shifting the pseudo-random ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401227 | Timing fault diagnosis method and apparatus A timing fault diagnosis method diagnoses a timing fault of an integrated circuit chip having a logic circuit formed therein. The timing fault diagnosis method includes steps of (a) obtaining fail information by applying a test pattern to an external inpu... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401228 | Data decoding apparatus and method and data reproduction apparatus A data decoding apparatus and the method and a data reproduction apparatus which reduces capacity of a memory used for decoding and speedily accesses to data to be read. In a data decoding apparatus (50) and the method which decodes coded data (S2) which ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401229 | System and method for data error recovery on optical media utilizing hierarchical recovery techniques A system and method for data error recovery uses a plurality of error correction routines in an attempt to provide data that can be used by the end user. In some situations the user is prompted for additional information and in some situations the data is... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401230 | Method of generating customized megafunctions Software modules referred to as "plug-ins" associate with megafunctions written in any Hardware Description Language to provide rich parameterization. To the user, the plug-ins present a "wizard" interface allowing selection or setting of any number of im... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401231 | Method and apparatus for performing both negative and positive slack time budgeting and for determining a definite required constraint during integrated circuit design Two time budgeting techniques are provided that are suitable for early and late integrated circuit design phases, respectively. During the early design phase, both the positive and negative slack paths are time budgeted, such that a positive slack path ca... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401232 | Integrated structure layout and layout of interconnections for an instruction execution unit of an integrated circuit chip An integrated structure layout of functional blocks and interconnections for an integrated circuit chip. Data dependency comparator blocks are arranged in rows and columns. This arrangement defines layout regions between adjacent ones of the data dependen... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401233 | Semiconductor integrated circuit wiring condition processing method In a wiring condition processing method for a semiconductor integrated circuit layout information, which determines the layout of devices on the semiconductor circuit, is created based on logic information describing a connection relationship among the de... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401234 | Method and system for re-routing interconnects within an integrated circuit design having blockages and bays A method and system for re-routing interconnects within an integrated circuit design having blockages and bays is disclosed. A net within the integrated circuit design is initially decomposed into multiple two-paths. The net includes interconnects previou... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401235 | Method of and apparatus for producing exposure mask The invention provides a method and an apparatus for producing an exposure mask by which an exposure mask can be produced in a reduced production period and with a high degree of reliability. Data division which does not have an influence on a pattern of ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401236 | Method to eliminate side lobe printing of attenuated phase shift A computer implemented method that uses a full integrated circuit (IC) chip design, to be printed by an attenuated phase shift mask, as an input parameter. Each feature environment within the input full IC chip design is individually simulated to determin... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401237 | Method and apparatus for editing data used in creating a three-dimensional virtual reality environment Preparation of the script used for making a more interactive world using Java or other language is difficult due to the preparation of the content. In particular, the portion connecting the Java language and VRML is difficult. The present invention uses a... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401238 | Intelligent deployment of applications to preserve network bandwidth A method for deploying an application to client computers across a computer network is operative in a server environment in which given conditions, such as network load and actual or relative time-of-day, are being monitored. The method begins by establis... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401239 | System and method for quick downloading of electronic files A system for transferring a delta file from a first computer to a second computer includes a delta builder on the first computer, a download manager, and a restorer on the second computer. The first computer has a first version of a file and a second vers... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401240 | System and method for profiling code on symmetric multiprocessor architectures A profiler that accurately measures performance metrics for all threads executing a process on a SMP computer system. The profiler uses dynamic instrumentation to cause threads to sample performance metrics before and after certain code regions. In additi... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401241 | Class archive software packages SYSTEM V utilities enable software developers to provide delivery of complex packages onto a UNIX operating system. An enhancement to the UNIX System V ABI format called class archive format enables sets of files to be combined into archives, these files ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401242 | Method and apparatus for designating a preferred source to avoid duplicative programming services Interactive Program Guide (IPG) data for television is delivered to integrated receiver-decoders (IRDs) in a decoder population via, for example, a satellite network. The IPG data provides scheduling information for global and local programming services w... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6401243 | Two-way information transmission system, two-way information transmission method, and subscriber terminal A subscriber terminal ms sends the demand including at least information for identifying the demand subscriber terminal and information for identifying the requested information to the information distribution transmission center HE through the going-up l... | 06/04/2002 |
