Device driver auto-load
The present invention can be broadly summarized as follows. In a system including at least one computer and at least one device having at least one driver stored in memory on the device, the computer ... Read More
Inventors: Chrysanthakopoulos, Georgios; Fierstein, Scott;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Optical device with rearview capabilities
In the view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of optical devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved optical device with rearview capabili... Read More
Inventors: Wysocki, John;, Assignee: |
Selectively processing plurality of transactions using transaction identifiers that including committing, aborting updating and continuous updating content in a plurality of shared data
An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus and method in which, when a certain application applies updating processing to a plurality of shared data, it is po... Read More
Inventors: Yoshimoto, Masahiko;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Management system for selective data exchanges across federated environments
One feature of the present invention is to share selective system management information between various data service systems that are independently administered. Another feature of the present invent... Read More
Inventors: Bhoj, Preeti N.; Singhal, Sharad; Chutani, Sailesh;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Enterprise interaction hub for managing an enterprise web system
In accordance with the present invention, enterprise interaction hub system and method for managing an enterprise web system are disclosed that provide significant advantages over conventional web-bas... Read More
Inventors: Courts, Howard R.; Dholakia, Neil K.; Dunn, Craig L.; Huddleston, Brian J.; Huddleston, Erik L.; Macartney-Filgate, Bruce C.; McHyde, Timothy J.; Poorte, Jacob P.;, Assignee: i2 Technologies US, Inc. (Dallas, TX) |
Security policy for protection of files on a storage device
A method and apparatus control access to files by accessing programs, where files comprise other files, programs and data. The method comprises the steps of assigning an initial access class to each f... Read More
Inventors: Austel, Vernon Ralph; Karger, Paul Ashley; Toll, David Claude;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Object type specific access control
In the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration ... Read More
Inventors: Garg, Praerit; Swift, Michael M.; Van Dyke, Clifford P.; Ward, Richard B.; Brundrett, Peter T.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Image and text searching techniques
Referring to FIG. 1, a portion of an image 100 may be divided into picture elements (pixels) 110. In this example, the displayed portion of the image 100 includes nine pixels 110. In general, an imag... Read More
Inventors: Pass, Gregory S.; Wood, Frank;, Assignee: America Online, Inc. (Dulles, VA) |
High reliability content-addressable memory using shadow content-addressable memory
The present invention uses shadow CAM to improve the reliability of searching CAM. The shadow CAM is a duplicate of the primary CAM and is read, written, and searched identically to and in parallel wi... Read More
Inventors: Batson, Kevin A.; Braceras, Geordie M.; Busch, Robert E.; Koch, Gary S.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and apparatus for performing variable word width searches in a content addressable memory
In accordance with this invention there is provided a content addressable memory (CAM) for performing search operations using variable width search data, the CAM comprising: a) a plurality of arrays o... Read More
Inventors: Roth, Alan;, Assignee: MOSAID Technologies Incorporated (Kanata, CA) |
Result compare circuit and method for content addressable memory (CAM) device
OF THE EMBODIMENTS Various embodiments of the present invention will now be described in conjunction with a number of figures. The embodiments describe a result compare circuit arrangement that may b... Read More
Inventors: Wanzakhade, Sanjay M.; Stephens, Jr., Michael C.; Rajamanickam, Jagadeesan; James, David V.;, Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (San Jose, CA) |
Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query
Methods and apparatus consistent with the present invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, provide relevant search results in response to an ambiguous search query. Consistent with the inv... Read More
Inventors: Smith, Benjamin Thomas; Brin, Sergey; Ghemawat, Sanjay; Manning, Christopher D.;, Assignee: Google, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Interactive virtual library system for expeditiously providing automatic updates of user-desired information from content providers, at least one of which is commercial, to users
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide a virtual library system that minimizes navigation by a user in obtaining desired information from various databases and from various content p... Read More
Inventors: Gomez, Alirio I.; Chalsen, Christopher E.; Doulos, Maria G.; Prudenti, Paula M.;, Assignee: |
Apparatus and method for providing a cache indexing scheme less susceptible to cache collisions
The present invention relates to logic circuitry and a corresponding method for providing a cache indexing scheme which reduces the probability of the cache experiencing a conflict miss during memory ... Read More
Inventors: Parady, Bodo K.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Avoiding cache collisions between frequently accessed, pinned routines or data structures
Therefore, it is an object of this invention to place pinned routines of instructions of particular sizes to improve the performance of those routines, and the programs of which they are a part. It is... Read More
Inventors: Mandal, Manas; Martino, Michael John; Worthington, Bruce Lee;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Ram-based associative content-addressable memory device, method of operation thereof and ATM communication switching system employing the same
Accordingly, what is needed in the art is a pattern validation and translation system that marries the exceptional pattern-matching speed of CAM devices to the advantageous attributes of RAM devices, ... Read More
Inventors: Kartalopoulos, Stamatios V.;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Network routing table using content addressable memory
FIG. 1 shows a content addressable memory (CAM) entry comprising a plurality of CAM cells 220, a register 80 containing mask information, and a decoder 82. In typical IP use, CAM cells 220 store an I... Read More
Inventors: Hariguchi, Yoichi;, Assignee: |
Network routing table using content addressable memory
FIG. 1 shows a content addressable memory (CAM) entry comprising a plurality of CAM cells 220, a register 80 containing mask information, and a decoder 82. In typical IP use, CAM cells 220 store an I... Read More
Inventors: Hariguchi, Yoichi;, Assignee: |
Information distribution system and method
Common methods of distributing e-mail messages include e-mailing a message to an individual address or several individual addresses, or e-mailing a message to a group mailing list comprising a list of... Read More
Inventors: Franz, Gregory J.;, Assignee: |
Method and apparatus for recognizing data traveling on a data transmission network using a dichotomizing search process
Accordingly, an object of this invention is to provide a novel process and device for recognizing identifiers which minimize, in comparison with the known technique of the direct search, the memory sp... Read More
Inventors: Aguilhon, Bernard; Karcher, Jean-Francois; Potiron, Jean-Hughes;, Assignee: Telemecanique S.A. (Rueil Malmaison, FR) |
Method and apparatus for accelerating OSI layer 3 routers
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for accelerating a router in a communications network. In one embodiment, a router accelerator includes a forwarding table for associatively storin... Read More
Inventors: Bernstein, Gregory M.; Chapman, Alan; Edholm, Philip; Gullicksen, Jeffrey T.; Gullicksen, Kenneth;, Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited (Montreal, CA) |
Communication node apparatus with routing tables in cache memories
It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication node apparatus capable of deleting unnecessary routing information from a cache memory on each line interface board with suitable ti... Read More
Inventors: Nakamura, Ryo; Nakayama, Masao; Asao, Kouichi; Okabe, Daisuke;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Alternately accessed parallel lookup tables for locating information in a packet switched network
The above-discussed needs and other needs are met by the present invention, wherein, as embodied and broadly described herein, a first aspect of the present invention is directed to a multiport switch... Read More
Inventors: Kaniz, Marufa; Viswanath, Somnath;, Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Method and system for optimization of telephone contact campaigns
The present invention addresses the problems of wrong party contacts and limited resources by scheduling individual call attempts to maximize the likelihood of right party contacts, maximize the produ... Read More
Inventors: Grossman, Harry; Simmons, LeRoy F.;, Assignee: ASPI Software Development Company , LLC (Bethesda, MD) |
Agent scheduling system and method having improved post-processing step
Although the following detailed description contains many specifics for the purposes of illustration, anyone of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that many variations and alterations to the f... Read More
Inventors: Andre, David; Nourbakhsh, Illah;, Assignee: Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Dependency-based work flow integration and reduction
The invention comprises a method, process and system for synthesizing an optimized process flow, an activity abstraction hierarchy and an instruction set that represents the minimal work to produce at... Read More
Inventors: Young, Kevin W.; Magee, Terence;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Specifying transaction manager type at various application levels
In one embodiment, a system may have a memory coupled to one or more processors and configured to store program instructions executable to implement several application components. Each application co... Read More
Inventors: Bhogi, Sankara R.; Kumar, Ajay; Dutt, Bala; K, Venugopal Rao; Kannan, Srinivasan;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Methods and system for efficient association traversals
It is therefore desirable to provide a method and system that enable the relationship between objects in a CIM implemented system to be realized without having to traverse each instance of an associat... Read More
Inventors: Johnson, Thomas V.; Pan, Zane Zheng Yan; Ting, Charles C.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Decision path reduction of M-ary tree-search detector
In accordance with the present invention, the processing complexity and memory requirements of a conventional search tree for M-ary signalling are reduced by limiting the number of paths through a tre... Read More
Inventors: Schneider, Kevin W.;, Assignee: Adtran, Inc. (Huntsville, AL) |
System and method for sharing data between hierarchical databases
Please note that within this document, the term hierarchy and tree are used interchangeably but both refer to the same concept. Additionally, please note that every element in a tree can have zero to... Read More
Inventors: Ripley, John R.;, Assignee: Infoglide Corporation (Austin, TX) |
File Sharing 
