Means for flexible keyboard auto-ID implementation
It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide an improved computer system. It is another object of the present invention to provide a self-identifying keyboard for a computer system. ... Read More
Inventors: Behrens, Louis Edward; Roman, Raymond Francis;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Single-scan transmission of documents to multiple heterogeneous receivers
OF THE INVENTION As illustrated in FIG. 1, a scanner is shown generally at 10. The scanner 10 includes a suitable display 12. The display 12 can be provided as a touchscreen, such as a model number 9... Read More
Inventors: Johnson, Stephen K.; Greaves, Warren J.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Method and apparatus for controlling a scanning device
The present invention provides a novel technique for defining instructions or settings in document handling systems designed to respond to these needs. The technique makes use of instruction sets whic... Read More
Inventors: Barker, John C.; McGraw, Montomgery C.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, TX) |
Computer method/apparatus for performing a basic input/output system (BIOS) power on test (POST) that uses three data patterns and variable granularity
Briefly, the above objects are accomplished in accordance with the invention by providing a memory test that uses three data patterns. The first data pattern (plus Inverse pattern) is used to test dat... Read More
Inventors: Shipman, Mark S.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Computer with periodic full power-on self test
The present application relates to startup operations in computer systems. Background: Computer Start-Up A computer system normally includes a number of complex hardware components (chips and subsyste... Read More
Inventors: Broyles, Paul J.; Piwonka, Mark A.; Nguyen, Cuong V.;, Assignee: Compaq Computer Corporation (Houston, TX) |
Method and system for updating information on an intelligent display device monitoring a computer system
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for notifying an external status monitor of the progress of a power-on self test (POST) of a computer system. The computer system ... Read More
Inventors: Gentile, Robert; Anderson, Eric D.;, Assignee: Micron Electronics, Inc. (Nampa, ID) |
Method of reading system log
The inventive remote access system provides system administrators with new levels of client/server system availability and management. It gives system administrators and network managers a comprehensi... Read More
Inventors: Nouri, Ahmad; Johnson, Karl S.;, Assignee: Micron Electronics, Inc. (Nampa, ID) |
Systems and methods for locking interactive objects
OF THE INVENTION The illustrated embodiments of the invention feature systems and methods for locking objects created and used on computer systems. FIG. 1 depicts an embodiment of a system of the inv... Read More
Inventors: Barlow, Steven; Leaphart, Jr., Eldridge; Strazds, Guntis V.; Rudbart, Curtis;, Assignee: Thingworld.com, LLC (Newton, MA) |
Method of visually signaling computer hardware faults on keyboard
Accordingly, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a method for displaying reasons of computer hardware faults by light emitting diodes on a keyboard, in which the display conditio... Read More
Inventors: Liu, Chuan Fang;, Assignee: Liu; Chuan Fang (Yunlin Hsiang, TW); Wu; Gilan (Yunlin Hsiang, TW); Wang; Meichuan (Yunlin Hsiang, TW); Liu; Xiujun (Yunlin Hsiang, TW) |
Test tool and methods for facilitating testing of duplexed computer functions
The shortcomings of the prior art are overcome and additional advantages are provided through the provision of a method of facilitating testing of a computer function. The method includes: obtaining a... Read More
Inventors: Jones, Steven B.; Shaw, Thomas C.; Stilwell, David A.; Tuttle, Scott B.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Digital plotting system for displaying curved line information
Briefly, the present invention comprises a digital plotting system for displaying curved line information. This system employs short vector information that provides an incremental trace of a curve th... Read More
Inventors: Herman, Robert W.; Reins, Edward R.;, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC) |
Semiconductor integrated circuit with selective interfacing on different interface levels
It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor integrated circuit which comprises an LSI circuit fabricated on one chip for selective interfacing on different interface levels, so... Read More
Inventors: Nakamura, Kazuyuki;, Assignee: NEC Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Optical concentrator and optical communication network using the same
It is an object of the present invention to provide a simple optical concentrator capable of solving the conventional problems described above and properly transmitting different types of signals such... Read More
Inventors: Yamamoto, Noboru; Nakata, Toru; Hojyo, Kazuhiko;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Multiple interface input/output port for a peripheral device
The present invention is directed to a multiple interface input/output port for a peripheral device that is capable of automatically detecting the type of interface bus to which it is connected in a h... Read More
Inventors: Jolley, David Lee; Baker, William Paul; Johnson, Rick L.; Newman, Jon;, Assignee: Iomega Corporation (Roy, UT) |
Clock correction in a video data decoder using video synchronization signals
Therefore, it is a principal objective of this invention to provide for slewing the decoding clock at a maximum rate to reduce the amount of buffer required to accommodate overflow and underflow, whil... Read More
Inventors: Leske, Lawrence A.;, Assignee: TV/COM Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, CA) |
Register-stack apparatus
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided apparatus, for use in a computing system, comprising a first memory means for retrievably storing a plurality of binary bit signals, a secon... Read More
Inventors: Hardy, Robert M.;, Assignee: General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY) |
Dynamic memory address system for I/O devices
I claim: 1. A digital data system provided for recieving and/or issuing data, comprising: a processor; a bus which includes a data bus, address bus, and control lines connected to the processor; a bas... Read More
Inventors: Mackey, Timothy I.;, Assignee: |
Software reconfigurable instrument with programmable counter modules reconfigurable as a counter/timer, function generator and digitizer
The present invention is directed to an instrument that can be programmed and reconfigured in real time from a host processor as any of a family of common stimulus and measurement instruments. The pre... Read More
Inventors: Lebel, Joseph A.; Albrecht, Charles D.; Mark, Kar Kui; Ugenti, Michael;, Assignee: Grumman Aerospace Corporation (Bethpage, NY) |
Method and apparatus for booting a computer system without loading a device driver into memory
A method and apparatus for booting a computer system from either a standard or a third party boot device without requiring the rebuilding of the system boot prom of the computer system is disclosed. T... Read More
Inventors: Provino, Joseph E.; Pittore, William F.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Loop transmission system having plural stations connected in a variable order
An object of the present invention is to provide a loop transmission system having a variable station order, which can multiplex and store the traffic necessary for the high speed transfer of a large ... Read More
Inventors: Hamada, Takuji; Takahashi, Masahiro; Hirasawa, Kotaro; Ide, Jushi; Fushimi, Hitoshi; Yasumoto, Seiichi;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Automatically configuring data transfer bus system with direct access of information
An object of the present invention is to provide a data transfer bus in a profile and/or dimension measuring system designed so that the incorporation of a Z-axis counter and an angle counter in the s... Read More
Inventors: Yukawa, Hiroshi;, Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for common resource status management in a computer system including a plurality of computers coupled to a common resource
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a method of common resource management for a complex computer system, which eliminates the transfer of common resource status information amon... Read More
Inventors: Shinmura, Yoshiaki;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Apparatus and method for single operand register array for vector and scalar data processing operations
The aforementioned and other features are attained, according to the present invention, by providing, in a data processing system, a processing unit capable of performing scalar and vector operations.... Read More
Inventors: Jouppi, Norman P.;, Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) |
Hardware implementation of complex data transfer instructions
We claim: 1. A method for executing a software instruction which requires transfer of a first block of data using computer hardware that executes software instructions that conform to a predetermined ... Read More
Inventors: Jen, Amy K.; Gage, Patricia A.; Ngai, Agnes Y.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Disk drive with pipelined embedded ECC/EDC controller which provides parallel operand fetching and instruction execution
The present invention provides solutions to the above noted problems. This solution provides an intelligent disk drive having error detection and correction capability employing an embedded error corr... Read More
Inventors: Bonke, Carl; Bui, Trinh; Chang, Stanley; Wu, Joanne; Tran, Phong;, Assignee: Western Digital Corporation (Irvine, CA) |
Aperiodic mapping system using power-of-two stride access to interleaved devices
Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. An aperiodic mapping system for the mapping of logical addresses to physical addresses in a mult... Read More
Inventors: McAuliffe, Keven P.; Melton, Evelyn A.; Norton, Vern A.; Pfister, Gregoty F.; Wakefield, Scott P.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Apparatus useful in exhaust dyeing
What is claimed is: 1. In an apparatus adapted for use in an exhaust dyeing process wherein a dye liquor is caused to flow relatively past a substrate to be dyed, said apparatus comprising (1) regulat... Read More
Inventors: Carbonell, Jose; Hasler, Rolf; Walliser, Roland;, Assignee: Sandoz Ltd. (Basel, CH) |
Low ripple D.C. power supply
Although electron guns can be readily adapted to generate an electron beam when supplied with power over a range of voltage, there exists no commercial power supply of practical size able to supply el... Read More
Inventors: Schumacher, Berthold W.;, Assignee: Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) |
Sinusoidal waveform generator
OF THE INVENTION The operating principle of the present invention will be given below with the aid of FIGS. 1 and 2. In FIG. 1, S represents a typical sinusoidal waveform signal of which the duration... Read More
Inventors: Mitarai, Akira;, Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JA) |
Analog to digital conversion weighting apparatus
In accordance with the present invention, an apparatus is provided that includes a sequential analog to digital converter and a sequential digital multiplier, each of which respectively converts and p... Read More
Inventors: Buchanan, James E.; Field, Jr., Marshall L.;, Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Pittsburgh, PA) |
I/O Systems 
