Top 100 US Patents in Data Processing
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US6826737 (B2), filed
Wed Dec 06 00:00:00 CST 2000
, published
Tue Nov 30 00:00:00 CST 2004
- CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC
One embodiment of the invention is a recursive partitioning method that places circuit elements in a IC layout. This method initially defines a number of partitioning lines that divide an IC region into several sub-regions (also called slots). For a net in the...
US5727157 (A), filed
Thu Dec 19 00:00:00 CST 1996
, published
Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 CST 1998
- CABLETRON SYSTEMS INC
An apparatus and method for determining the topology of a computer network including data-relay devices and node devices, based on a comparison of source adddresses heard by the various data relay-devices. A source address table is compiled for each port of...
US5644539 (A), filed
Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 CST 1992
, published
Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 1997
- HITACHI LTD
A semiconductor disk wherein a flash memory into which data is rewritten in block unit is employed as a storage medium, said semiconductor disk comprises a data memory in which file data are stored, a substitutive memory which substitutes for blocks of errors...
US5029183 (A), filed
Thu Jun 29 00:00:00 CDT 1989
, published
Tue Jul 02 00:00:00 CDT 1991
- SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES INC
US5227994 (A), filed
Tue Dec 17 00:00:00 CST 1991
, published
Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 CDT 1993
- SONY CORP
An inner product calculating circuit is provided to calculate an inner product of a constant vector and an input vector, where both of the vectors consist of m respective elements (m being an integer, m2), the elements of the constant vector can be expressed...
US6085336 (A), filed
Wed Jan 29 00:00:00 CST 1992
, published
Tue Jul 04 00:00:00 CDT 2000
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
A data processing device formed in a single semiconductor chip. The data processing device includes an electronic processor, and on-chip peripheral circuitry ordinarily operative together. Further included, are means for selectively entering externally...
US6711613 (B1), filed
Mon Aug 16 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 CST 2004
- SERVER TECH INC
An SNMP network comprises a power manager with an SNNP agent in TCP/IP communication over a network with an SNMP network manager. The power manager is connected to control several intelligent power modules each able to independently control the power-on/off...
US7215984 (B2), filed
Tue May 04 00:00:00 CDT 2004
, published
Tue May 08 00:00:00 CDT 2007
- MASIMO CORP
The present invention involves method and apparatus for analyzing measured signals that are modeled as containing primary and secondary portions. Coefficients relate the two signals according to a model defined in accordance with the present invention. In one...
US7050603 (B2), filed
Thu Dec 13 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue May 23 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial and temporal portion of a video signal that depicts a recognizab...
US6311286 (B1), filed
Fri Jun 10 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue Oct 30 00:00:00 CST 2001
- NIPPON ELECTRIC CO
The invention is directed to a memory controller for use with memory having varying timing characteristics. In particular, the timing characteristics of the various memory devices are determined and used to generate timing signals commensurate with each...
US7144369 (B2), filed
Thu Sep 06 00:00:00 CDT 2001
, published
Tue Dec 05 00:00:00 CST 2006
- CARDIAC INTELLIGENCE CORP
A system and method for providing collection and analysis of patient information for use in automated patient care. One or more physiological measures relating to individual patient information recorded on a substantially continuous basis are collected. Each...
US6414368 (B1), filed
Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 CST 1998
, published
Tue Jul 02 00:00:00 CDT 2002
- SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS
A microcomputer comprises an integrated circuit device with processor and memory and communication links arranged to provide non-shared connections to similar links of other microcomputers. The communication links include message synchronisation and permit...
US5758257 (A), filed
Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue May 26 00:00:00 CDT 1998
A system and method for scheduling the receipt of desired movies and other forms of data from a network which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers, as in a cable television system. Customer profiles are developed for the...
US7264730 (B2), filed
Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 CDT 2003
, published
Tue Sep 04 00:00:00 CDT 2007
- BAXTER INT
A number of improvements relating to methods and apparatuses for kidney dialysis are disclosed. These include methods such as supplying a dialysis machine including a touch screen interface to a machine user and supplying to the machine user accessory devices...
US6801461 (B2), filed
Mon Dec 17 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue Oct 05 00:00:00 CDT 2004
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
An integrated circuit has a built-in self-test (BIST) arrangement (60). The built-in self-test arrangement includes a read only memory (ROM), (140) that stores test algorithm instructions. A ROM logic circuit (410) receives an instruction read from the read...
US5724272 (A), filed
Wed May 04 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 CST 1998
- NAT INSTR CORP
A method and apparatus for controlling instrumentation systems and for providing a user with the capability to develop instrument drivers and application software for controlling instrumentation systems. The present invention provides a system including a...
US6167439 (A), filed
Fri Nov 12 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Dec 26 00:00:00 CST 2000
- KODAK LTD
A data processing system is coupled to a facsimile device which receives and transmits facsimile images between the data processing system and a telephone line. The data processing system includes the capability to receive a facsimile image, interpret certain...
US6173305 (B1), filed
Tue Nov 30 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Jan 09 00:00:00 CST 2001
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
A data processing apparatus iteratively forms quotient, includes data registers (200) for storing various initial and intermediate quantities, a multiplexer (215) for selecting data from one of two data registers, a barrel rotator (235) and an arithmetic logic...
US5379384 (A), filed
Thu Sep 23 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 CST 1995
- INTEL CORP
A method and apparatus for reducing cost and complexity of devices in a bus bridge circuit by dividing address and data paths between separate devices to reduce pin count, and by looping back "bridged" configuration data to access configuration registers. The...
US5893095 (A), filed
Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 CST 1997
, published
Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- VIRAGE INC
A system and method for content-based search and retrieval of visual objects. A base visual information retrieval (VIR) engine utilizes a set of universal primitives to operate on the visual objects. An extensible VIR engine allows custom, modular primitives...
US6244512 (B1), filed
Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 CDT 1998
, published
Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- INTERMEC IP CORP
A hand-held data collection device with a user interface surface that is wider than its handgrip area. Also, a hand-held data collection device with an upwardly facing surface containing a user interface and a side surface containing a plurality of actuators....
US5703356 (A), filed
Wed Apr 19 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 CST 1997
- LOGITECH INC
A cursor control device for personal computers and workstations includes various embodiments, some of which include a patterned ball and some of which rely on other patterned surfaces, which recognizes changes in the position of the pattern relative to a...
US4364110 (A), filed
Wed Jun 05 00:00:00 CDT 1974
, published
Tue Dec 14 00:00:00 CST 1982
- HYATT GILBERT P
An improved machine control system having a display for operator interaction is provided. Feedback machine control is provided with an integrated circuit computer. Display of edges having rotation, translation, scaling, and smoothing is also provided.
US5331641 (A), filed
Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 CST 1992
, published
Tue Jul 19 00:00:00 CDT 1994
- TRANSWITCH CORP
Apparatus and methods for retiming an STS-3 type signal are provided. The SPE of an incoming STS-3 type signal is demultiplexed into three STS-1 payloads and fed to three FIFOs, and a byte which is synchronous with the TOH is tracked through the three FIFOs to...
US6587829 (B1), filed
Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 CDT 1998
, published
Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2003
- SCHERING CORP
A method and apparatus for improving patient compliance with prescriptions utilizes computer terminals to convert prescription information into electronic form as records for each patient. Each such patient record includes information about the patient from...
US7464175 (B1), filed
Tue May 09 00:00:00 CDT 2000
, published
Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 CST 2008
- REALNETWORKS INC
An audio-on-demand communication system provides real-time playback of audio data transferred via telephone lines or other communication links. One or more audio servers include memory banks which store compressed audio data. At the request of a user at a...
US5485195 (A), filed
Mon Jun 21 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Jan 16 00:00:00 CST 1996
- XEROX CORP
Fast scan jitter in a ROS scanning system is substantially reduced by use of a multi-phase clock derived from a crystal oscillator. The rising edge of a start-of-scan signal is compared to the clock signal and the phase of that clock signal which is next in...
US5905248 (A), filed
Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 CDT 1997
, published
Tue May 18 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- METROLOGIC INSTR INC
A novel transaction-enabling method and system are disclosed, wherein a transaction-enabling Java-Applet is embedded within an HTML-encoded document stored in an HTTP server at predetermined URL. When a code symbol (e.g., magstripe or bar code) encoded with...
US5968109 (A), filed
Fri Oct 25 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Oct 19 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- NAVIGATION TECH CORP
An improved method and system for storage of geographic data on physical storage media. The geographic data are stored in a manner that facilitates and enhances use and access of the data by various navigation application functions in navigation systems that...
US5918013 (A), filed
Mon Jun 03 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Jun 29 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- WEBTV NETWORKS INC
A method of providing a document to a client coupled to a server is provided. The server provides a number of Internet services to the client, including functioning as a caching proxy on behalf of the client for purposes of accessing the World Wide Web. The...
US6973656 (B1), filed
Wed Aug 16 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Dec 06 00:00:00 CST 2005
- IBM
An apparatus for implementing "links" between objects or content items in applications or documents in a distributed system such that changes to the source objects or items are reflected in changes to the target objects or content items. The apparatus includes...
US6097073 (A), filed
Mon Aug 21 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2000
- LSI LOGIC CORP
Several inventions are disclosed. A cell architecture using hexagonal shaped cells is disclosed. The architecture is not limited to hexagonal shaped cells. Cells may be defined by clusters of two or more hexagons, by triangles, by parallelograms, and by other...
US6600359 (B1), filed
Wed Nov 03 00:00:00 CST 1999
, published
Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 CDT 2003
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC
An integrated device includes a redundant bond pad for accessing internal circuitry in the event that the main bond pad for that circuitry is difficult to access with testing equipment. Signals from the redundant bond pad are biased to ground during normal...
US4706076 (A), filed
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 CDT 1984
, published
Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 CST 1987
- OLIVETTI CO SPA
Text is displayed on a VDU (23) using a character generator (26) and a generator (27) for attributes such as underline, enhanced brightness and so on. The codes for the generators are stored in a page store (29). Two auxiliary memories (35 and 36) are used to...
US7308110 (B2), filed
Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue Dec 11 00:00:00 CST 2007
- DIGIMARC CORP
An image is marked by making slight changes to pixel values. These changes are essentially imperceptible on human scrutiny, but detectable by computer analysis. Such markings have applications in identifying ownership of images (including video), and also in...
US5361370 (A), filed
Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 CDT 1991
, published
Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 CST 1994
- INTEL CORP
A single-instruction multiple-data video signal processor employs a dual-ported local memory architecture in each local memory including a dedicated port for transfers between the local memory and a global memory. A block transfer controller, in combination...
US7401286 (B1), filed
Wed Jan 27 00:00:00 CST 1999
, published
Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- DISCOVERY COMMUNICAT INC
An electronic book selection and delivery system distributes text to subscribers. The system includes the ability to use electronic links as well as a system for creating electronic links between specific electronic books and other electronic files. The links...
US5594910 (A), filed
Fri Nov 26 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Jan 14 00:00:00 CST 1997
- IBM
A distributed processing, interactive computer network and method of operation is described. The network is designed to provide very large numbers of simultaneous users access to large numbers of applications which feature interactive text/graphic sessions....
US7434095 (B2), filed
Tue Sep 06 00:00:00 CDT 2005
, published
Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- HITACHI LTD
A data storage system connectable to a host unit which issues data read/write requests to the data storage system, and which includes a plurality of disc units, and a controller connected to the disc units. A fault can occur in any of the disc units. The disc...
US6016538 (A), filed
Tue Nov 30 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Jan 18 00:00:00 CST 2000
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
This invention is a technique for summing plural sections of a single data word. The technique uses a repeated process forming larger and larger partial sums. Initially the single data word is rotated one section. The original single data word and the rotated...
US6185629 (B1), filed
Tue Mar 08 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue Feb 06 00:00:00 CST 2001
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
This invention is a data processing apparatus which may interface with plural types of memories. A static decoder coupled to an external port decodes signals which from an external source that indicate the type of memory. Interface circuitry receives coded...
US6299581 (B1), filed
Fri May 10 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- UNIV NEW YORK
In the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, a method and apparatus are disclosed for optimizing the controlled positive pressure to minimize the flow of air from a flow generator while still ensuring that flow limitation in the patient's airway does not...
US4304001 (A), filed
Thu Jan 24 00:00:00 CST 1980
, published
Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 CST 1981
- FORNEY INTERNATIONAL
A control system for controlling an industrial process includes a plurality of remotely located process control units (remotes) each coupled to an associated input/output device(s) and adapted to communicate with one another through a dual channel communicatio...
US5671229 (A), filed
Wed May 25 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 CDT 1997
- SANDISK CORP
A system of Flash EEprom memory chips with controlling circuits serves as non-volatile memory such as that provided by magnetic disk drives. Improvements include selective multiple sector erase, in which any combinations of Flash sectors may be erased...
US5526034 (A), filed
Mon May 03 00:00:00 CDT 1993
, published
Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- ICTV INC
An interactive home information system having a node in television communication and data communication with a group of home interface controllers. At each home interface controller, there is a signal input for receiving television signals from the node over a...
US7321695 (B2), filed
Thu Dec 12 00:00:00 CST 2002
, published
Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 CST 2008
- RICOH KK
A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the...
US5469003 (A), filed
Fri Nov 05 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Nov 21 00:00:00 CST 1995
- XILINX INC
An field programmable gate array (FPGA) of cells arranged in rows and columns is interconnected by a hierarchical routing structure. Switches separate the cells into blocks and into blocks of blocks with routing lines interconnecting the switches to form the...
US4363091 (A), filed
Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 CST 1978
, published
Tue Dec 07 00:00:00 CST 1982
- INTEL CORP
The addressable memory space within the retrievable capacity of the microprocessor is necessarily limited by the bit length of the address word. This in turn, is limited by the bit length of the word which the microprocessor may compute or manipulate. By...
US5434678 (A), filed
Mon Jan 11 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Jul 18 00:00:00 CDT 1995
This invention relates to a video system comprising integrated random access video technologies and video software architectures for the automated selective retrieval of non-sequentially stored parallel, transitional, and overlapping video segments from a...
US5663901 (A), filed
Tue Sep 12 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 CDT 1997
- SANDISK CORP
A very small computer memory card is densely packed with a large number of flash EEPROM integrated circuit chips. A computer memory system provides for the ability to removably connect one or more of such cards with a common controller circuit that interfaces...
US6212278 (B1), filed
Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Apr 03 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA
A reprogrammable subscriber terminal of a subscription television service which can have the control program code of its control processor modified by downloading new program code from the headend. The control processor stores a boot program in an internal...
US7351340 (B2), filed
Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 CDT 2003
, published
Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- BAXTER INT
A number of improvements relating to methods and apparatuses for kidney dialysis are disclosed. These include a method providing an apparatus for dialyzing to a consumer, with the apparatus including a controller for controlling a dialysate parameter, a...
US5412720 (A), filed
Fri May 01 00:00:00 CDT 1992
, published
Tue May 02 00:00:00 CDT 1995
- ICTV INC
An interactive cable television system having a plurality of feeder servers, a plurality of home interface controllers and a feeder port. Home interface controllers are each equipped with a radio frequency input and a data communications link with a receiver...
US6206830 (B1), filed
Wed Nov 17 00:00:00 CST 1999
, published
Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 CST 2001
- MASIMO CORP
A signal processor which acquires a first signal, including a first desired signal portion and a first undesired signal portion, and a second signal, including a second desired signal portion and a second undesired signal portion, wherein the first and second...
US5613012 (A), filed
Wed May 17 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 CST 1997
- SMARTTOUCH LLC
A tokenless identification system and method for authorization of transactions and transmissions. The tokenless system and method are principally based on a correlative comparison of a unique biometrics sample, such as a finger print or voice recording,...
US7456850 (B2), filed
Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 CST 2008
- APPLE INC
A method and apparatus for intelligent scrolling. In a computer system that has a user interface which allows for the movement of items from a first open window to a second open window or to a second region, such as a desktop, the present invention allows a...
US4430649 (A), filed
Fri May 08 00:00:00 CDT 1981
, published
Tue Feb 07 00:00:00 CST 1984
- RADIO SHACK
The computer system of this invention has, as the heart of the system, a simple processing unit for providing most data processing by the computer system under control of a read-only memory which contains only instructions and other data for the CPU. The...
US6009284 (A), filed
Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Dec 28 00:00:00 CST 1999
- WEINBERGER GROUP L L C
A system and method for controlling image processing devices from a remote location, including means for selectively monitoring the operational status of a device on a real time basis and means for generating control commands from the remote location to...
US5623681 (A), filed
Fri Nov 19 00:00:00 CST 1993
, published
Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 CDT 1997
- WAVERLEY HOLDINGS INC
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for extracting, synchronizing, displaying, and manipulating text and image documents in electronic form for display. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, text and image files for documents,...
US5381539 (A), filed
Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 CDT 1992
, published
Tue Jan 10 00:00:00 CST 1995
- EMC CORP
A cache management system and method monitors and controls the contents of cache memory coupled to at least one host and at least one data storage device. A cache indexer maintains a current index of data elements which are stored in cache memory. A sequential...
US6232983 (B1), filed
Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 CDT 1998
, published
Tue May 15 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- AUTODESK INC
An intelligent shape is displayed in conjunction with a CAD application program, wherein the intelligent shape selectively displays positioning and alignment aids on the monitor of the computer to assist a user in operating one or more functions of the host...
US6539497 (B2), filed
Wed Aug 22 00:00:00 CDT 2001
, published
Tue Mar 25 00:00:00 CST 2003
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
A data processing device formed in a single semiconductor chip. The data processing device includes an electronic processor, and on-chip peripheral circuitry ordinarily operative together. Further included, are means for selectively entering externally...
US4228496 (A), filed
Tue Sep 07 00:00:00 CDT 1976
, published
Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 CDT 1980
- TANDEM COMPUTERS INC
A multiprocessor system the kind in which two or more separate processor modules are interconnected for parallel processing includes two redundant interprocessor buses dedicated exclusively to interprocessor communication. Any processor module may send...
US5732212 (A), filed
Thu Jan 13 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 CST 1998
- FOX NETWORK SYSTEMS INC
A system and method for accessing, controlling and monitoring a data processing device in which a video raster signal from the data processing device is analyzed to determine the information displayed on a video display monitor attached to the data processing...
US6407434 (B1), filed
Mon Aug 21 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Jun 18 00:00:00 CDT 2002
- LSI LOGIC CORP
Several inventions are disclosed. A cell architecture using hexagonal shaped cells is disclosed. The architecture is not limited to hexagonal shaped cells. Cells may be defined by clusters of two or more hexagons, by triangles, by parallelograms, and by other...
US7051086 (B2), filed
Fri Mar 09 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue May 23 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
The present invention relates to linking on-line data to printed documents, such as business cards, envelopes, stickers, stationary, letterhead, résumés, etc. In one embodiment, a card-user registers with an on-line database and receives a gallery item...
US6700990 (B1), filed
Wed Sep 29 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Mar 02 00:00:00 CST 2004
- DIGIMARC CORP
To decode a digital watermark from an image notwithstanding geometrical corruption of the image (e.g., scale, rotation, etc.), a Fourier-Mellin transform is advantageously used. In a particular method, an image is transformed to the spatial frequency domain....
US5549115 (A), filed
Wed Sep 28 00:00:00 CDT 1994
, published
Tue Aug 27 00:00:00 CDT 1996
- HEARTSTREAM INC
A method for gathering event data using a data gathering instrument having an instrument clock and an instrument data storage medium, the method comprising the steps of: gathering event data using the data gathering instrument; storing the event data in an...
US7450113 (B2), filed
Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 CST 2005
, published
Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 CST 2008
- SYNAPTICS INC
A method of indicating a gesture proximate a touch-sensor pad is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises detecting a first presence of a conductive object proximate to the touch-sensor pad, and initiating a gesture signal if the first presence lasts...
US4991082 (A), filed
Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 CST 1986
, published
Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 CST 1991
- HITACHI LTD
An area boundary between a system common area and a job private area is set at any page boundary independently from a segment boundary, and for the segment (boundary segment) containing the area boundary, a page table is prepared for each virtual address...
US6389467 (B1), filed
Tue May 02 00:00:00 CDT 2000
, published
Tue May 14 00:00:00 CDT 2002
- FRISKIT INC
A network enabled device receives search criteria and accesses a memory that includes a plurality of network addresses. The memory associates each address with one or more classes of information. Each address in the memory locates a media network resource. A...
US6219628 (B1), filed
Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 CDT 1997
, published
Tue Apr 17 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- NAT INSTR CORP
A system and method for configuring an instrument to perform measurement functions, wherein the instrument includes a programmable hardware element. A graphical program is first created, wherein the graphical program implements a measurement function. The...
US6763454 (B2), filed
Thu Sep 21 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 CDT 2004
- MICROSOFT CORP
A system for allocating resources for use by devices of a computer. Device information for the devices of the computer is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device characteristics associated with the operation of those devices with...
US6282383 (B1), filed
Tue Oct 19 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Aug 28 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- WEINBERGER GROUP L L C
A method of monitoring the operational status of and initiating image processing device control commands on one or more image processing devices from a remote location, said image processing devices each having a control computer for controlling operation of...
US7054493 (B2), filed
Wed Jan 08 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue May 30 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- RICOH KK
A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the...
US7437475 (B2), filed
Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 CDT 2003
, published
Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- LV PARTNERS L P
A Method and apparatus for utilizing a coded audio/video signal to conduct commerce over the Internet. Broadcast information is broadcast from a remote location on a secondary network containing video over the secondary network to a location thereon proximate...
US5768194 (A), filed
Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 CDT 1998
- HITACHI LTD
A single chip semiconductor integrated circuit device having a central processing unit (CPU) and a flash memory which stores data to be processed by the CPU and which provides data to the CPU through the data bus in response to accessing instructions from the...
US7347836 (B2), filed
Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 CST 2002
, published
Tue Mar 25 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- SMITHS MEDICAL INC
A menu driven reprogrammable drug pump is provided with a memory, such as flash memory, a display, a keyboard, and a communications port to allow a generic pump to be programmed with a desired pump application (therapy) program and patient specific settings....
US5832529 (A), filed
Fri Oct 11 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 CST 1998
- SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC
In accordance with the present invention a process is provided for allocating and deallocating resources in a distributed processing system having a requester platform and a server platform. The process involves receiving a request from the requestor platform...
US5401176 (A), filed
Thu Mar 17 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue Mar 28 00:00:00 CST 1995
- BERG TECH INC
A connector device comprises a housing having an internal storage space for inserting one or more storage devices therein. A shallow guide member is coupled along one of the inner side walls of the housing to define upper and lower storage spaces within the...
US5291605 (A), filed
Fri Feb 07 00:00:00 CST 1992
, published
Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 CST 1994
- NIPPON ELECTRIC CO
A technique for handling an interrupt request issued from an I/O (Input/Output) device controller in a data processing system which is operative in a virtual machine mode in which two flags are provided, the first one of which is set to an "on" state in the...
US6523079 (B2), filed
Thu Feb 15 00:00:00 CST 2001
, published
Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 CST 2003
- ELONEX TECHNOLOGIES INC
A personal digital assistant module with a local CPU, memory, and I/O interface has a host interface comprising a bus connected to the local CPU and a connector at a surface of the personal digital assistant for interfacing to a bus connector of a host...
US7460507 (B2), filed
Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 CST 2004
, published
Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 CST 2008
- BROADCOM CORP
A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable...
US6349392 (B1), filed
Wed Jul 14 00:00:00 CDT 1999
, published
Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 CST 2002
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
A data processing device formed in a single semiconductor chip. The data processing device includes an electronic processor, and on-chip peripheral circuitry ordinarily operative together. Further included, are means for selectively entering externally...
US7043052 (B2), filed
Tue Jun 04 00:00:00 CDT 2002
, published
Tue May 09 00:00:00 CDT 2006
- DIGIMARC CORP
Security of photographic identification documents is enhanced by embedding within the photographic image encoded information that may be correlated to other information pertaining to the individual represented by the image, such other information being, for...
US6446195 (B1), filed
Mon Jan 31 00:00:00 CST 2000
, published
Tue Sep 03 00:00:00 CDT 2002
- INTEL CORP
An instruction set architecture (ISA) for application specific signal processor (ASSP) is tailored to digital signal processing applications. The instruction set architecture implemented with the ASSP, is adapted to DSP algorithmic structures. The instruction...
US7417753 (B2), filed
Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 CDT 2001
, published
Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- IMAGING PORTALS INC
A method of monitoring the operational status of and initiating image processing device control commands on one or more image processing devices from a remote location, said image processing devices each having a control computer for controlling operation of...
US5347632 (A), filed
Fri Jul 28 00:00:00 CDT 1989
, published
Tue Sep 13 00:00:00 CDT 1994
- PRODIGY SERVICES COMPANY
An interactive computer system network enables a user to display desired information, such as news, financial and cultural information, and perform desired transactional services, such as banking and shopping, through any of a plurality of types of personal...
US6047165 (A), filed
Tue Nov 14 00:00:00 CST 1995
, published
Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 CDT 2000
- HARRIS CORP
A flight information communication system has a plurality of RF direct sequence spread spectrum ground data links that link respective aircraft-resident subsystems, in each of which a copy of its flight performance data is stored, with airport-located...
US6219032 (B1), filed
Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 CST 1995
, published
Tue Apr 17 00:00:00 CDT 2001
- IMMERSION CORP
A method and apparatus for providing force feedback to a user operating a human/computer interface device in conjunction with a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed by a host computer system. A physical object, such as a joystick or a mouse, controls a...
US7333957 (B2), filed
Mon Jan 06 00:00:00 CST 2003
, published
Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 CST 2008
- DIGIMARC CORP
Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context...
US4824268 (A), filed
Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 CDT 1987
, published
Tue Apr 25 00:00:00 CDT 1989
- DIERNISSE H V
An ergonomic keyboard that is suitable for all devices interfacing with a keyboard; and that is able to transmit on unlimited amount of information including the more than 50 alphabets of the world, numbers, other symbols, programing, and operational...
US4149261 (A), filed
Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 CST 1977
, published
Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 CST 1979
- CANON KK
A computer capable of rounding a number, such as by raising, truncating or chopping the digits of the number which are lower than a specified digit position above a decimal point.
US5920096 (A), filed
Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 CST 1994
, published
Tue Jul 06 00:00:00 CDT 1999
- DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR
A system architecture which provides efficient data communication, over a one-wire bus, with a portable data module which does not necessarily include any accurate time delay circuit whatsoever. The time delay circuit in the module can be extremely crude. An...
US7433855 (B2), filed
Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 CDT 2003
, published
Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 CDT 2008
- MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP
A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a...
US5576727 (A), filed
Mon Jun 05 00:00:00 CDT 1995
, published
Tue Nov 19 00:00:00 CST 1996
- IMMERSION HUMAN INTERFACE CORP
A method and apparatus for use with a computer for providing commands to a computer through tracked manual gestures and for providing feedback to the user through forces applied to the interface. A user manipulatable object is coupled to a mechanical linkage...
US6717864 (B2), filed
Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 CDT 2002
, published
Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 CDT 2004
- MONLITHIC SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY IN
A memory system includes a plurality of memory modules, each including at least one memory array. Each memory array has an associated line of sense amplifier latches, wherein each line of sense amplifier latches is activated independently. Each line of sense...
US5887145 (A), filed
Thu Jan 09 00:00:00 CST 1997
, published
Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 CST 1999
- SANDISK CORP
A peripheral card having a Personal Computer ("PC") card form factor and removably coupled externally to a host system is further partitioned into a mother card portion and a daughter card portion. The daughter card is removably coupled to the mother card. In...
US6574654 (B1), filed
Mon Jun 24 00:00:00 CDT 1996
, published
Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 CDT 2003
- ORACLE CORP
A method and system for managing locks that give permission to access resources in a computer system are disclosed. The lock management system is distributed and provides deadlock protection. The lock management system is distributed in that information about...
US6948659 (B2), filed
Fri Mar 22 00:00:00 CST 2002
, published
Tue Sep 27 00:00:00 CDT 2005
- METROLOGIC INSTR INC
A hand-supportable linear-type planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based device comprising a linear image formation and detection (IFD) module having a linear array of image detection elements and also image formation optics having a field of view...
