Data processing method and apparatus
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring first to FIG. 1, a computer system 10 comprises a system random access memory (RAM) 20, a system read only memory (ROM) 30, a central processing unit 40, a mass... Read More
Inventors: Nicholas, Malcolm;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System and method for defining and managing reusable groups software constructs within an object management system
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS System Environment FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the major functional components of the Object Management System 100 within which the current invention operates. The syste... Read More
Inventors: Goiffon, David A.; Johnson, David R.;, Assignee: Unisys Corporation (Blue Bell, PA) |
Identifying essential statistics for query optimization for databases
An essential statistics identification utility tool attempts to reduce or minimize the overhead associated with statistics by identifying from an initial set of statistics a set of essential statistic... Read More
Inventors: Chaudhuri, Surajit; Narasayya, Vivek;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Multi-dimensional database record compression utilizing optimized cluster models
The present invention enables the effective summarization of large amounts of data and provides rapid answers to decision support queries on data cubes. A principle feature of the invention is the rec... Read More
Inventors: Fayyad, Usama; Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
System for selectively communicating instructions from memory locations simultaneously or from the same memory locations sequentially to plurality of processing
Overall System--FIG. 1 In FIG. 1, a high performance, low-cost system 2 is shown for computation-intensive numeric tasks. The FIG. 1 system processes computation tasks in the numeric processor(NP) co... Read More
Inventors: Rau, Bantwal R.; Towle, Ross A.; Yen, David W.; Yen, Wei-Chen;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Nested parallel language preprocessor for converting parallel language programs into sequential code
The invention comprises a parallel language preprocessor for a nested parallel language. The preprocessor converts programs written in a nested parallel programming language to sequential programming ... Read More
Inventors: Hardwick, Jonathan C.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Efficient bundle sorting
Many data sets to be sorted consist of a limited number of distinct keys. Sorting such data sets can be thought of as bundling together identical keys and having the bundles placed in order; we theref... Read More
Inventors: Matias, Yossi; Segal, Eran;, Assignee: |
Apparatus for compressing audio data
It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for compressing audio data which can suppress the undue increase of the processing time when the bit rate to be used for the quantizati... Read More
Inventors: Fukuchi, Hiroyuki;, Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Fuzzy database retrieval
A method for querying metadata associated with media on a computer network includes separating the metadata into keywords. The keywords are compared with valid keywords. A score is calculated in accor... Read More
Inventors: Prince, John;, Assignee: America Online, Inc. (Dulles, VA) |
Rating and controlling access to emails
In view of the foregoing background, one object of the present invention is to enable parents or guardians to exercise some control over the web page content displayed to their children. Another objec... Read More
Inventors: Russell-Falla, Adrian Peter; Hanson, Andrew Bard;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Systems and methods for uniformly identifying e-mail attachments
The document creator applications, e-mail software, communication software, and mobile information device-resident browsers come from various suppliers. Existing methods for accessing the attachments ... Read More
Inventors: Johnson, Jr., Swen R.;, Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) |
Summarized application profiling and quick network profiling
The present invention pertains to profiling of application programs and computer networks. An automatic distributed partitioning system (ADPS) profiles an application program to produce a network-inde... Read More
Inventors: Hunt, Galen C.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method for document comparison and selection
One characteristic of the LSI technique is that it does not take into account term order. Each document is considered as a collection of unordered terms. It is known, however, that phrases, e.g., sma... Read More
Inventors: Bradford, Roger Burrowes; Wnek, Janusz;, Assignee: Content Analyst Company, LLC (Reston, VA) |
Method and system for using virtual labels in a software configuration management system
The present invention provides a solution to the needs described above through a system and method of using Virtual Labels in conjunction with an existing software configuration management system. The... Read More
Inventors: Kakumani, Badari N.; Brady, Erik E.; Klashinsky, Karl B.;, Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Bidding for 800 telecommunications traffic
The herein disclosed invention stimulates competition between service providers to carry 800 Customers' traffic and facilitates the customer's ability to make economic choices between telecommunicatio... Read More
Inventors: Johnson, Jack J.; Coyle, William F.;, Assignee: Summit Telecom Systems, Inc. (Summit, NJ) |
Systems and methods for remote access to a display-based bulletin board in a shared user environment
The present invention uses a broadband-enabled internet connection to provide an always-on interface to a virtual family, group, or office bulletin board system. Family members (or, e.g., associates o... Read More
Inventors: Koch, Robert A.; Holt, Scott C.;, Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corp. (Wilmington, DE) |
Personal authentication system and method thereof
This invention is directed to an accurate personal authentication system based on multiple-information provided by a system, in which a bar code reading device, a fingerprint sensor and a face recogni... Read More
Inventors: Nakazawa, Tsutomu; Hamakawa, Kouichi; Takei, Youji; Kiyama, Masanobu;, Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Method and system for registering and retrieving data formats for objects using a persistent registry
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for registering data formats for a server application. It is another object of the present invention to provide a method and sys... Read More
Inventors: Williams, Antony S.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method and apparatus for value-based queuing of telephone calls
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a phone queuing system and method which enables the position of a call in a queue to be moved within the queue in accord with a determined cri... Read More
Inventors: Walker, Jay S.; Jorasch, James A.; Sparico, Thomas M.;, Assignee: Walker Asset Management Limited Partnership (Stamford, CT) |
Providing transaction undo without logging
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: Watts, Julie Ann; Watts, Steven John;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Database network connectivity product
The present invention overcomes the problems and disadvantages of the prior art by providing a "data base connector" element that can act as either a publisher or a subscriber in the network. The pres... Read More
Inventors: Bracho, Rafael; Sporkert, Tilman;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Summary table management in a computer system
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. ... Read More
Inventors: Osborn, Andrew P.; Lavender, Robert L.; Cave, Stephen D.;, Assignee: Oracle Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA) |
Decision analysis system and method
OF THE INVENTION A digital computer system using the method and apparatus described herein, operates on data derived from a printed quote. The computer extracts words and word groups considered relev... Read More
Inventors: Hoffman, Roger P.;, Assignee: |
Page open/close scheme based on high order address bit and likelihood of page access
When writing a computer program which accesses a page of memory a programmer may know whether the next memory access is likely to be in the same page of memory. In the system and method of the present... Read More
Inventors: Farrell, Robert;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
System for managing direct memory access transfer in a multi-channel system using circular descriptor queue, descriptor FIFO, and receive status queue
There is a need for a method and apparatus that provides an efficient management of data transfers in a multi-channel DMA system. This and other needs are met by the present invention which provides a... Read More
Inventors: O'Toole, Anthony J.P.; Chari, Sriraman;, Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc. (Fremont, CA) |
Dynamic allocation for efficient management of variable sized data within a nonvolatile memory
In view of limitations of known systems and methods, a plurality of storage structures are provided for efficient management of large and small data in a nonvolatile memory. A method of storing data i... Read More
Inventors: See, Deborah L.; Hasbun, Robert N.; Dunlap, Jeffrey A.; del Pozo, III, Phillip J.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Network-based conference system
According to the present invention, there is provided a management and control unit for a network-based conferencing system, the unit comprising: i) an interface for outputting control signals to a pl... Read More
Inventors: Smythe, Philip C; Mercer, Andrew D; Gardner, Michael;, Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company (London, GB) |
Method and apparatus for partitioned based purging of data
The present methods and systems purge selected change data from a named change data database table without using the SQL DELETE statement. In one embodiment, the ALTER TABLE SPLIT PARTITION statement ... Read More
Inventors: Norcott, William D.;, Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA) |
Method and a device for managing a computer network
The invention claimed is: 1. A computer network system including a plurality of computers, each including communication means for communicating, comprising: a first computer, said first computer compr... Read More
Inventors: Takaragi, Kazuo; Domyo, Seiichi; Yoshiura, Hiroshi;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
System for maintaining the integrity of application data
FIG. 1 illustrates in block diagram form the overall architecture of the present system 101 for maintaining the integrity of application data and a database 100 environment in which it operates, whil... Read More
Inventors: Lai, Michael C.;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
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