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Descriptor mechanism for assuring indivisible execution of AV/C operations
The present invention provides a method and system that leverages the widespread emergence of networking and interface technology (e.g., IEEE 1394 serial communication bus and the wide spread adoption... Read More
Inventors: James, David V.;, Assignee: Sony Corporation of Japan (Tokyo, JP); Sony Electronics, Inc. (Park Ridge, NJ) |
Access control for groups of related data items
Accordingly, the present invention provides a method of controlling access to an unstructured group of related data items stored in the memory of a multiprocessing computer system in which multiple pr... Read More
Inventors: Hickson, Andrew; Wilkinson, James Gordon;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Data storage method and device and storage medium therefor
The present invention has been made in view of the above, and therefore an objective of the present invention is to provide a binary data storage method and device, and a storage medium, which, upon d... Read More
Inventors: Kusama, Kiyoshi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Automatic network device selection and document delivery system
According to the present invention, this general end is achieved by a system of networked computers, peripherals and document delivery software which provides the user with a familiar simple user inte... Read More
Inventors: Hicks, Dennis W.; Newman, Richard; Johnson, Gary; O'Toole, Lisa; Hay, David; Gyllenskog, Chris; Johnson, Steven C.; Stephenson, Matt; Hartmann, Frank; Asbury, Ray; Luttmann, Eric;, Assignee: OCE-USA, Inc. (Chicago, IL) |
Network server platform for a hybrid fiber twisted pair local loop network service architecture
In order to provide an improved network, it is desirable for the interexchange companies to have access to at least one of the twisted-pair lines or alternate wireless facility connecting each of the ... Read More
Inventors: Gerszberg, Irwin; Huang, Kenny Xiaojian; Kwabi, Christopher K.; Roy, Sumit; Valdez, Gabriel;, Assignee: AT&T CORP (New York, NY) |
Method and apparatus for implementing partial and complete optional key escrow
OF ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENT Referring to FIG. 1, a distributed data processing and network system 100 includes a plurality of computer nodes, such as user nodes 102a-n and various server nodes 104a-n ... Read More
Inventors: Perlman, Radia J.;, Assignee: Novell, Inc. (Orem, UT) |
Rolling back storage subsystem reconfigurations
Various embodiments provide apparatus and methods for rolling back a configuration of a storage subsystem to an earlier configuration. Rolling back configurations can help system managers who wish to ... Read More
Inventors: Zakai, Avinoam; Bar-Nefy, Shai; DesRoches, David Wayne; Lam, Tao Kai; Michel, Ruben;, Assignee: EMC Coropration (Hopkinton, MA) |
Method and apparatus for compacting a metadatas stream in a data processing system
The present invention provides a method and apparatus in a data processing system for generating a metadata stream. An attribute call is received to set an attribute. In response, a first database is ... Read More
Inventors: Cohen, Marc L.; Cooper, Michael R.; Nogay, Patrick Edward; Vanderwiele, Mark Wayne;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Interface for ensuring system boot image integrity and authenticity
A method and apparatus for ensuring system boot image integrity and authenticity is described. A first segment of a boot image is received from a remote device. The integrity of the segment is verifie... Read More
Inventors: Carbajal, John M.; Dittert, Eric R.; Drews, Paul C.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Byzantine fault tolerance
What is claimed is: 1. A method for fault tolerant operation of a distributed server system that includes N asynchronous servers that may experience faults, comprising: receiving a series of requests ... Read More
Inventors: Castro, Miguel; Liskov, Barbara;, Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) |
Method and apparatus for maintaining configuration information in a computing environment
Generally, according to one aspect of the invention, the configuration information for a given service is maintained and distributed by the configured service itself. Thus, the configured service cont... Read More
Inventors: Pike, Robert;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Deputization in a distributed computing system
The present invention provides Distributed Deputization Points for use in a distributed computing system. Deputization is a particular type of rights delegation which expressly identifies the entities... Read More
Inventors: Carter, Stephen R.; Nevarez, Carlos A.;, Assignee: Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT) |
Coordinating installation of distributed software components
Therefore it is an object of the invention to plan and install a network application across a plurality of computer systems in the computer network. It is another object of the invention to determine ... Read More
Inventors: Lewis, Paul David; Morrison, Robert Earl; Pennell, Neil Raymond; Ragan, Jr., Richard Walton; Segapeli, James H.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Apparatus for presenting the content of an interactive on-line network
The present invention provides an enhanced on-line network access system which optimizes an on-line system's user interface. The on-line network access system of the present invention acts as an exten... Read More
Inventors: Nolan, Sean P.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
System and method for automatically managing computing resources in a distributed computing environment
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a system and method for managing resources in an information handling system. The present invention provides a "one stop" local area network (LAN) bas... Read More
Inventors: Godwin, Debbie A.; Hansen, Kathryn I.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Network asset survey tool for gathering data about node equipment
An efficient asset discovery system is provided by one embodiment of the present invention. For networks having 3,000 nodes, equipment and configuration information may be collected in a few hours, ev... Read More
Inventors: Barroux, Juan Carlos;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Method and system for uniformly accessing multiple directory services
The present invention provides a definition for OLE interfaces and a model for provider software for accessing a plurality of directory services in a uniform manner. Each directory service provider ma... Read More
Inventors: Chan, Chuck Y.; Ganugapati, Krishna; Johnson, Margaret K.; Judd, Steven G.; Kwan, Stuart L. S.; Watson, Colin;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Directory enabled policy management tool for intelligent traffic management
The present invention relates to a technique, including a method and system, for providing more quality to telecommunication services. More particularly, the present invention relates to quality of se... Read More
Inventors: Vaid, Aseem; Putta, Sanjeev; Rakoshitz, Gregory;, Assignee: Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT) |
Decision management system providing qualitative account/customer assessment via point in time simulation
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a decision management system which provides strategy simulation for assessing qualitative and quantitative client information at specific... Read More
Inventors: Honarvar, Laurence;, Assignee: Americam Management Systems, Inc. (Fairfax, VA) |
System and method for application text localization
OF EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating an example system 100 for application text localization according to one embodiment of this disclosure. In the illustrated emb... Read More
Inventors: Kung, Ching-Yi; DeFrang, Bruce; Kooy, Darrell;, Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc. (Islandia, NY) |
Apparatus and method to provide virtual solid state disk in cache memory in a storage controller
The present invention solves the above and other problems, thereby advancing the useful arts, by creating one or more virtual solid state disks within a primary RAID controller cache memory. In a firs... Read More
Inventors: DeKoning, Rodney A.; Fredin, Gerald J.; Humlicek, Donald R.;, Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation (Milpitas, CA) |
Methods and apparatus for extended packet communications between multiprocessor clusters
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of communications between multiprocessor clusters. Mechanisms for improving the a... Read More
Inventors: Kota, Rajesh; Newawarker, Shashank; Prasadh, Guru; Zeitler, Carl; Glasco, David B.;, Assignee: Newisys, Inc. (Austin, TX) |
Storage system with data-dependent security
Broadly, the present invention concerns a storage system with storage security that is provided according to the storage region being accessed, rather than the user. The storage system of the inventio... Read More
Inventors: Kern, Robert Frederic; Sovik, Mark Anthony;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, NY) |
Access control method, storage apparatus and storage medium
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a novel and useful access control method, storage apparatus and storage medium, in which the problems described above are eliminated. A... Read More
Inventors: Yamakawa, Teruji; Imamura, Kiyomi;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) |
Pushing attribute information to storage devices for network topology access
A computer program product and method for providing access to host attributes in a storage area network is disclosed. A storage area network is composed of a plurality of hosts coupled to at least one... Read More
Inventors: Dobberpuhl, Walter T.; Bauer, Andreas L.; Ericson, George M.; Hopkins, Charles H.; Nicoletti, Jennifer Lyn Milliken; O'Brien, III, Walter A.; Sykes, Timothy D.; Todd, Stephen James;, Assignee: EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, MA) |
Platform-independent, usage-independent, and access-independent distributed quote configuraton system
A platform-independent, usage-independent, location-independent quote configuration system is described. The present invention, operating in a computer network, is a quote configurator comprising, 1) ... Read More
Inventors: Maritzen, L.M.; Dimaandal, Rolando D.; Giannella, Julia; Arregui, Raul; Moss, Marc;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
System for addressing envelopes
The above objects are achieved and the disadvantages of the prior art are overcome in accordance with the subject invention by means of an envelope printing system which includes a printer having the ... Read More
Inventors: Silverberg, Morton;, Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc. (Stamford, CT) |
System for printing social expression cards in response to electronically transmitted orders
This invention provides a system for ordering and printing social expression cards that includes a database preparation system, a number of card printing facilities, and a plurality of card display/or... Read More
Inventors: Cannon, Thomas G.; DeHart, Daniel L.;, Assignee: Onkor, Ltd. (Loveland, CO) |
System for developing and displaying a representation of a total estimated time to print a job
What is claimed is: 1. In a printing system for producing prints from a job comprising plural electronic pages with image data, an apparatus for developing and displaying a representation of a total e... Read More
Inventors: Salgado, David L.;, Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) |
Print system and printer
However, with the printer described above, the only data that can be reprinted is one-page of data for the last page that has been printed. It is not possible to print any other pages or to print othe... Read More
Inventors: Mori, Hiromi;, Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Nagoya, JP) |
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