Method and system for modeling interaction of objects
The present invention provides a method for modeling interactions between models. A first adaptively sampled distance field having a first spatial hierarchy for a first model is generated, and a secon... Read More
Inventors: Frisken, Sarah F.; Perry, Ronald N.;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) |
Image sequence compression featuring independently coded regions
The invention summarized above and defined by the enumerated claims may be better understood by referring to the following detailed description, which should be read in conjunction with the accompany... Read More
Inventors: Wee, Susie J.; Apostolopoulos, John G.; Schuyler, Marc P.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Co., LP (Houston, TX) |
Interactive access, manipulation, sharing and exchange of multimedia data
OF THE INVENTION The various aspects of the present invention are described below in terms of several exemplary embodiments and scenarios. In a first exemplary embodiment, a single end-user in commun... Read More
Inventors: Christopoulos, Charilaos; rk, Niklas; Rivas, Francisco; Gö, ran A P;, Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm, SE) |
Display device and image display system
The present invention is devised in view of such situation, and its object is to provide a display device and an image display system which can extremely easily adjust an image quality suitably for a ... Read More
Inventors: Sakuta, Junji; Hirata, Naoaki; Mizukabu, Kenyu;, Assignee: Eizo Nanao Corporation (Ishikawa, JP) |
Dynamic memory allocation suitable for stride-based prefetching
The problems outlined above are in large part solved by a dynamic memory allocation routine in accordance with the present invention. The dynamic memory allocation routine maintains an allocation size... Read More
Inventors: Meier, Stephan G.;, Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
PARALLEL COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF IN-MEMORY COMPRESSED CACHE IMPROVING STORAGE DENSITY AND ACCESS SPEED FOR INDUSTRY STANDARD MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS AND IN-LINE MEMORY MODULES
One embodiment of the present invention discloses a system and process to initialize, operate, and shutdown, through a combination of hardware and software procedures, an integrated circuit embedded o... Read More
Inventors: Dye, Thomas A.; Alvarez, II, Manuel J.; Geiger, Peter;, Assignee: Interactive Silicon, Inc. (Austin, TX) |
System and method for dynamically allocating associative resources
There is provided, according to one aspect of the invention, a system and method to reallocate buffer resources by using reference frequencies vs. miss rate for managing the distribution of storage re... Read More
Inventors: Tremaine, Robert B;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Memory-usage tracking tool
OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a method and suite of tools that allow tracking of memory usage of uninstrumented binaries by tracking memory allocations, de-allocations, and in-memor... Read More
Inventors: Cohen, Shy; Spivey, John T.; Schwartz, Eyal;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method and apparatus for multiple channel direct memory access control
The system and method of the present invention provides a channel cache to virtually support a large number of channels for the transfer of data to/from a network. The present invention will be descr... Read More
Inventors: Gentry, Denton E.; Oskouy, Rasoul M.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Lock free data structure maintenance
The present invention concerns an efficient lockless data structure particularly suited for use in a multithreaded operating system that may include multiple processors executing stored program instru... Read More
Inventors: Hu, Carl;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method and apparatus for organizing, storing and evaluating access control lists
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for optimizing access control lists. It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for me... Read More
Inventors: Gai, Silvano; McCloghrie, Keith; Kanekar, Bhushan M.;, Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Method and system for a programmable image transformation
The present invention provides a method and system for a programmable image transformation. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transforming an image comprises rotating an image b... Read More
Inventors: Wu, Terry; Chiang, Chung-I;, Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Speech translation device and computer readable medium
In a scene of overseas travel, conversations with other people are often short and relatively routinary such as requests, questions and so on. However, since travel is an unusual situation, specific c... Read More
Inventors: Koizumi, Atsuko; Kaji, Hiroyuki; Obuchi, Yasunari; Kitahara, Yoshinori;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and device for cataloging and searching for information
The aim of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems by introducing a cataloging method and device which are based on emotional identities that the user wishes to be present in th... Read More
Inventors: Castelli, Clino Trini;, Assignee: |
Method and system for generating a compact document type definition for data interchange among software tools
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system that enables ease of interchanging metadata between modeling tools and metadata repositories in distributed heterog... Read More
Inventors: Mutschler, III, Eugene Otto;, Assignee: Unisys Corp. (Blue Bell, PA) |
Accessing a ERP application over the internet using strongly typed declarative language files
To overcome the limitations in the prior art described above, and to overcome other limitations that will become apparent upon reading and understanding the present specification, the present inventio... Read More
Inventors: Lo, Frederick; Orchard, David B.; Viswanathan, Arvind; Vodarek, Jiri George;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Scheduler for a software system having means for allocating tasks
What is claimed is: 1. A module for use in a software system for distributed control, monitoring or management of a process or apparatus, the module comprising: (i) a communication means for communica... Read More
Inventors: Lee, Lyndon C; Nwana, Hyacinth S; Ndumu, Divine T;, Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company (London, GB) |
Method and apparatus to enable job streaming for a set of commonly shared resources
In accordance with the presently disclosed invention there is provided a method and apparatus for prioritizing the use of multifunctional printing system's basic processing resources to enable job str... Read More
Inventors: Salgado, David L.; Turmon, Rodney L; Lamendola, Nicholas M.;, Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) |
Automated software code generation from a metadata-based repository
We claim: 1. A method of providing executable software program code for use in an enterprise data management (EDM) application of the type which presents data from one or more data sources to an EDM a... Read More
Inventors: Savage, William H.; Cowan, William F.; Geiger, Jr., Robert J.; Leman, Gregory D.;, Assignee: Ascential Software, Inc. (Westboro, MA) |
Sequence delivery of messages
OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention provides computer users with remote access to the internet and to private intranets using virtual private network services over a high speed, packet swi... Read More
Inventors: Rai, Girish; Parsons, Philip M.; Chuah, Mooi;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
System for failure mode and effects analysis
The inventions of Applicants' include identification of problems with manual methods of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and solutions to these problems which facilitate fast accurate analysis... Read More
Inventors: Barnard, Raymond F.; Dohanich, Stephen L.; Heinlein, Philip D.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Apparatus and method for event correlation and problem reporting
The present invention overcomes the aforementioned problems by providing a method and apparatus for efficiently determining problem events from observable symptoms. The inventors of the present invent... Read More
Inventors: Yemini, Yechiam; Yemini, Shaula; Kliger, Shmuel;, Assignee: System Management Arts, Inc. (White Plains, NY) |
Method and system for estimating time of occurrence of machine-disabling failures
Generally speaking, the present invention fulfills the foregoing needs by providing a method for analyzing fault log data and repair data to estimate time before a machine-disabling failure occurs. Th... Read More
Inventors: Jammu, Vinay Bhaskar; Bliley, Richard Gerald; Schneider, William Roy;, Assignee: General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY) |
Techniques for retaining hierarchical information in mapping between XML documents and relational data
OF THE INVENTION Techniques are described for manipulating XML data in a SQL compliant DBMS. In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in ... Read More
Inventors: Murthy, Ravi; Krishnaprasad, Muralidhar; Manikutty, Anand; Liu, Zhen; Warner, James;, Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA) |
Barcode identification system format editor
What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. In a barcode identification system having a plurality of barcode printers of various types for printing on a web of record members, e... Read More
Inventors: Best, David J.; Globig, James E.; Markham, James G.;, Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc. (Dayton, OH) |
Barcode identification system
What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A method of limiting the operation of a barcode identification system including at least one barcode printer for printing on a web of... Read More
Inventors: Craig, Gina M.; Lamprecht, Jr., Dale E.; Stellwag, Debra A.; Wagner, Thomas R.;, Assignee: |
Printing system with pre-defined user modifiable forms and local and remote printing
In a principle aspect, the present invention takes the form of a printing system which provides for the creation of a variety of types of documents and the printing of the documents at a local printer... Read More
Inventors: Farros, Royal P.; Schuyler, James A.; Babcock, Gaylon W.; Finn, Michael J.; Sax, Michael N.; Johnson, Alan D.;, Assignee: Taylor Corporation (North Mankato, MN) |
Just-in-time (JIT) event information for retail industry
As shown in FIG. 1, the subject invention is related to a dissemination system 10 for distributing time critical event information especially applicable to a retail or franchise industry, whereby a c... Read More
Inventors: Frumusa, Lawrence P.; Wang, Michael; Grassi, Susan Marie; Turner, Holly; Sun, Qi; Davidson, Ann Mary; Jones-Richter, Cheryl R.; Kumar, Krishna; Bonisteel, Scott L.; Bodhe, Ankoor;, Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) |
Client-server computer system and method for updating the client, server, and objects
Accordingly, one objective of this invention is to solve the problems of synchronous methods described above and provide a high performance, high throughput client server system. Another objective of ... Read More
Inventors: He, Qianshan;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and system for managing replicated data with enhanced consistency and concurrency
The present invention provides global concurrency-control techniques that minimize coordination among physical sites accessing replicated data items in a distributed database system. The invention rep... Read More
Inventors: Breitbart, Yuri; Korth, Henry F.;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
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