Changing the meaning of a pre-decode bit in a cache memory depending on branch prediction mode
OF THE PRESENT INVENTION FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a portion of a computing system 100 in which the present invention operates. The computing system 100 includes a main memory 110, a central pr... Read More
Inventors: Hunt, Douglas B.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Battery saving synchronization method in a communcation apparatus
An object of the invention is to provide a communication apparatus and a communication method which do not require setting a communication apparatus serving as a base station at the time of communicat... Read More
Inventors: Kondo, Takashi;, Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP) |
Apparatus and method for sharing an external memory between multiple network switches
There is a need for a non-blocking network switch arrangement that includes connecting two or more switches together without significantly increasing the size of each switch and extensively modifying ... Read More
Inventors: Erimli, Bahadir;, Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Method of testing and predicting failures of electronic mechanical systems
The invention is directed to a method that provides reliability and diagnostic analysis for a complex system by incorporating a knowledge database derived from digraph modeling events. The propagation... Read More
Inventors: Iverson, David L.; Patterson-Hine, Frances A.;, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the (Washington, DC) |
Tamper resistant methods and apparatus
OF THE INVENTION In the following description, various aspects of the present invention will be described. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be p... Read More
Inventors: Aucsmith, David; Graunke, Gary;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Method for monitoring telephone call progress
It is a primary object of the present invention to provide a system and method for detecting and discriminating audio signals and particularly signals indicative of the progress of a telephone call ma... Read More
Inventors: Novas, Robert G.; Spitzer, Andy;, Assignee: The Telephone Connection (Rockville, MD) |
Telephone updating via network provided information
An object of the present invention is to provide a communication terminal apparatus in which, when the telephone number of a party to communication has changed or missed, it is possible to update the ... Read More
Inventors: Hamada, Noboru;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Programming model for a coprocessor on a computer system
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A method and apparatus for controlling a coprocessor, namely a digital signal processor in a computer system, is described. In the following description, numerous specific... Read More
Inventors: Anderson, Eric C.; Svendsen, Hugh B.; Sohn, A. Phillip;, Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) |
Method of dynamically adjusting NCP program memory allocation of SNA network
A method in accordance with the invention is implemented via a novel computer program referred to for convenience as NEWPROG. NEWPROG resides (executes) in one or more communication controllers on a S... Read More
Inventors: Ernst, Theodore R.;, Assignee: BMC Software, Inc. (Sugar Land, TX) |
Method for debugging in a parallel computer system and system for the same
The present invention solves the above-described problems, and therefore has an object to provide a method and system for sequentially executing programs which are written for respective processor ele... Read More
Inventors: Iwasawa, Kyoko; Tanaka, Yoshikazu;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Arithmetic operation processing apparatus of the parallel processing type and compiler which is used in this apparatus
It is an object of the present invention to provide an arithmetic operation processing apparatus of the parallel arithmetic operating type in which the additional overhead associated with the foregoin... Read More
Inventors: Kametani, Masatsugu;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
System for inserting constructs into compiled code, defining scoping of common blocks and dynamically binding common blocks to tasks
We claim: 1. A computer implemented method performed within a multi-processing, multi-programming computer environment for reducing conflict among tasks concurrently accessing COMMON BLOCKs in code se... Read More
Inventors: Karp, Alan H.; Scarborough, Randolph G.; Shannon, Alfred W.; Shaw, Jin-Fan; Toomey, Leslie J.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Determining a communication schedule between processors
To achieve the aforementioned objectives, a first aspect of the invention provides a method of determining a communication schedule in the case where data communication is performed between a pluralit... Read More
Inventors: Komatsu, Hideaki; Ogasawara, Takeshi;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Persistent/impervious event forwarding discriminator
It is an object of this invention to provide an EFD that is persistent in the face of catastrophic failures in the system and impervious to security breaches by rogue OSI managers. In accordance with ... Read More
Inventors: Allen, Wade C.; Panian, James L.; Reder, Paul J.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and apparatus for controlling network and workstation access prior to workstation boot
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for preboot file and information transfer between workstations and other workstations or workstations and servers on local area networks. Fo... Read More
Inventors: Chang, Steve Ming-Jang;, Assignee: Trend Micro Devices Incorporated (Taipei, TW) |
Multilevel security port methods, apparatuses, and computer program products
According to the present invention, multilevel trusted systems associate multiple port endpoints with a single identifier code indication or name. Use of a single identification to associate multiple ... Read More
Inventors: Winiger, Gary W.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Differential current-switch circuit, D/A conversion circuit and method of transient response reduction
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a differential current-switch circuit, a D/A conversion circuit employing this differential current-switch circuit and a method of transie... Read More
Inventors: Yasutake, Nobuyuki;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) |
Java security mechanism
In accordance with the invention, objects of classes loaded from the hard drive of a local client computer, after being found via the CLASSPATH are not automatically given superpowers to access restr... Read More
Inventors: Roskind, James A.;, Assignee: Netscape Communications Corporation (Mountain View, CA) |
Switching system comprising distributed elements allowing attachment to line adapters, and having multicasting capabilities
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT With respect to FIGS. 2 and 3, there is illustrated the switching module that is used for embodying the switching apparatus in accordance with the present invention. This ... Read More
Inventors: Blanc, Alain; Nicolas, Laurent; Gohl, Sylvie;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, NY) |
High speed current switch
OF THE INVENTION Referring to FIG. 4, a schematic diagram of a high-speed current switch 36 is shown. The high-speed current switch 36 can be designed using metal oxide semiconductor field effect tra... Read More
Inventors: Humphreys, Scott Robert;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
Embedding certifications in executable files for network transmission
The Internet is a well known, global network of cooperatively interconnected computer networks. The world wide web portion of the Internet is a collection of server computers (referred to as "sites") ... Read More
Inventors: Atkinson, Robert G.; Kelly, Jr., James W.; Tuttle, Bryan W.; Price, Robert M.; Reichel, Robert P.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method and system for secure running of untrusted content
Briefly, the present invention provides restricted execution contexts for untrusted content (such as executable code, dynamic HTML, Java or Active-X controls) that restricts the resources that the con... Read More
Inventors: Chan, Shannon; Jensenworth, Gregory; Goertzel, Mario C.; Shah, Bharat; Swift, Michael M.; Ward, Richard B.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Cross module representation of heterogeneous programs
The above-mentioned shortcomings, disadvantages and problems are addressed by the present invention, which will be understood by reading and studying the following specification. An output translator ... Read More
Inventors: Srivastava, Amitabh; Vo, Hoi H.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method and device for providing hidden storage in non-volatile memory
Techniques for implementing hidden storage in a non-volatile memory storage are disclosed. As will be discussed in greater detail below, in one embodiment of the invention, a memory device is disclos... Read More
Inventors: Vogt, James R.; Hasbun, Robert N.; Brizek, John P.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Protected control of devices by user applications in multiprogramming environments
OF THE INVENTION The disclosure of provisional patent application No. 60/079,356 filed Mar. 25, 1998 is hereby incorporated by reference. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a computer system as is known... Read More
Inventors: Langerman, Alan B.; Ford, David A.;, Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Detecting unwanted properties in received email messages
Viewed from one aspect the present invention provides a method of detecting an e-mail message having one or more unwanted properties using one or more tests, said one or more tests being updateable in... Read More
Inventors: Tarbotton, Lee Codel Lawson; Wolff, Daniel Joseph; Kelly, Nicholas Paul;, Assignee: Networks Associates Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Single sign-on framework with trust-level mapping to authentication requirements
1. An information security system comprising: plural information resources distributed amongst and executable on one or more servers coupled via a communication network to a client entity, the plural ... Read More
Inventors: Wood, David L.; Norton, Derk; Weschler, Paul; Ferris, Chris; Wilson, Yvonne;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Method and system for determining and maintaining trust in digital image files with certifiable time
It is, therefore, a general object of the present invention to provide novel systems, apparatus, and methods of preventing fraud in digital data files. More specifically, it is a particular object of ... Read More
Inventors: Teppler, Steven W.;, Assignee: Time Certain, LLC (Kensington, MD) |
Inter-application validation tool for use in enterprise architecture modeling
OF THE INVENTION Referring first to FIG. 1, an integrated enterprise 10 will now be described in greater detail. As may now be seen, plural applications have been integrated into the integrated enter... Read More
Inventors: Srinivasan, Lavanya; Vinodkrishnan, Nalledath Palat; Gifford, Thomas C.;, Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P. (Overland Park, KS) |
Method and apparatus for analyzing the appearance features of a surface
The principal object of this invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for analyzing the appearance features of a surface, such as orange peel, microwrinkle, cracks and crazes, distinctness of... Read More
Inventors: Tannenbaum, Paul M.; Milone, Michael P.; Fowler, Dennis B.;, Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, DE) |
Fault Detection 
