Method and apparatus for communication between network devices operating at different frequencies
Accordingly, a need has arisen for a method and apparatus for communication between network devices operating at different frequencies. The present invention provides a method apparatus for communicat... Read More
Inventors: Hann, William P.; Singleton, Gregory L.; House, Richard L.;, Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Multiple protocol interface and method for use in a communications system
OF THE INVENTION Turning to FIG. 1, shown is a physical interface unit 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The physical interface unit 10 includes a first serial interface 13, a f... Read More
Inventors: Arato, Lazslo; Santulli, William J.;, Assignee: Globespanvirata, Inc. (Red Bank, NJ) |
System and method for remotely accessing data
In accordance with the present invention, a system and method for implementing object workspace agents in a decision support environment are disclosed that provide advantages over conventional supply ... Read More
Inventors: Parasnis, Abhay V.; Notani, Ranjit N.; Whipple, Mark B.;, Assignee: i2 Technologies US, Inc. (Dallas, TX) |
Mechanism for optimizing transaction retries within a system utilizing a PCI bus architecture
What is claimed is: 1. A system which dynamically optimizes transaction retries issued by a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus master device to a target device coupled to a PCI bus, said syst... Read More
Inventors: Brown, David R.;, Assignee: 3Com Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
System and method for displaying modem information on a graphical user interface display
In view of the above, a system in a computer is provided for displaying information from a device on a display screen using graphical user interface objects. The system includes a multitasking operati... Read More
Inventors: Feagans, Raymond J.;, Assignee: 3Com Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Probabilistic data clustering
What is claimed is: 1. A data mining system adapted to generate a cluster model from a data set comprising a plurality of objects, each object including a plurality of attributes, said attributes incl... Read More
Inventors: Siegwart, David Kevin;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Microcomputer equipped with DMA controller allowed to continue to perform data transfer operations even after completion of a current data transfer operation
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a microcomputer equipped with a DMA controller in which a time period of a data transfer inhibiting state can be shortened remarkably. Anoth... Read More
Inventors: Miura, Katsumi; Mitsuhira, Yuko;, Assignee: NEC Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for simultaneously monitoring computer user screen and telephone activity from a remote location
The present invention overcomes deficiencies in the prior art by providing an improved method and apparatus for providing on-the-job work training of an agent or employee, including the provision for ... Read More
Inventors: Beckett, II, Stephen Marshall; House, Donald Andrew; McDougal, Rebecca L.; Lamberti, Jr., Santino J.;, Assignee: Witness Systems, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) |
Method of selective independent powering of portion of computer system through remote interface from remote interface power supply
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: Sheikh, Tahir Q.; Johnson, Karl S.;, Assignee: Micron Electronics, Inc. (Nampa, ID) |
Browsing session recording playback and editing system for generating user defined paths and allowing users to mark the priority of items in the paths
The invention provides a session navigation and recording system. The invention uses an easily configured session recording system that automatically records all of the web pages that the user visits ... Read More
Inventors: Bauersfeld, Kristin; Putterman, Scott;, Assignee: Netscape Communications Corporation (Mountain View, CA) |
ATM layer device
According to the invention there is provided an ATM layer device for interfacing between physical layer devices and an ATM switch, comprising an input cell interface couplable to a plurality of physic... Read More
Inventors: Huscroft, Charles Kevin; Bradshaw, John R.; Buckland, Kenneth M.; Dorbolo, Riccardo G.; Wong, David W.;, Assignee: PMC-Sierra Ltd. (CA) |
Hot insertable UTOPIA interface with automatic protection switching for backplane applications
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a UTOPIA interface enhancement which permits inter-board UTOPIA interfaces to function properly. It is another object of the invention to provide ... Read More
Inventors: Nichols, Stephen J.; Luu, Cuong T.;, Assignee: Ahead Communications Systems, Inc. (Middlebury, CT) |
Multiple bit deskew buffer
The multiple bit deskew buffer of the instant invention is designed to be utilized downstream from the digital data recovery apparatus with a data and error detector interface between the two. A posit... Read More
Inventors: Besenfelder, Edward Roald;, Assignee: Honeywell Information Systems Inc. (Phoenix, AZ) |
Optical fiber system
It is a general object of the invention to provide a more efficient communications system for transmitting information between communicating units. It is a more specific object to provide a communicat... Read More
Inventors: Loeb, Mitchell L.; Stilwell, Jr., George R.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method and apparatus for transmission of communication signals over two parallel channels
The present invention resides in apparatus, and a corresponding method, for demultiplexing and multiplexing digital data for transmission over two parallel narrowband channels. Briefly, and in general... Read More
Inventors: Hutchison, Jerry; Ginzburg, Simon A.; Mallard, Jr., William C.;, Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) |
Transmission convergence sublayer multiplex generating/terminating apparatus
It is an object of the present invention to reduce the hardware amount by causing a plurality of paths to share a circuit for generating or terminating a TC layer. In order to achieve the above object... Read More
Inventors: Akata, Masao; Miura, Takao; Ogawa, Takeshi; Doi, Yukihiro; Higashi, Isao; Imagawa, Hitoshi;, Assignee: NEC Corporation (Tokyo, JP); Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
High-performance parallel interface to synchronous optical network gateway
To achieve the foregoing and other objects, and in accordance with the purposes of the present invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the apparatus of this invention may comprise a syste... Read More
Inventors: St. John, Wallace B.; DuBois, David H.;, Assignee: The Regents of the University of California (Los Alamos, NM) |
Adaptive bandwidth system and method for broadcast data
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The invention is particularly applicable to dynamic bandwidth allocation based on subscriber behavior in a digital broadcast television cable system and it is in this contex... Read More
Inventors: Sheeran, Daniel;, Assignee: Broadband Royalty Corporation (Wilmington, DE) |
System for reducing access times for retrieving audio samples and method therefor
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, it is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for reducing the amount of time it takes for devices such as a DSP t... Read More
Inventors: Lahti, Gregg D.; Hicok, Gary D.; Harrow, Scott E.;, Assignee: VLSI Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Failure prediction for disk arrays
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth such as specific word or byte lengths, etc. to provide a thorough understanding of the... Read More
Inventors: Brady, James Thomas; Menon, Jaishankar Moothedath;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System and method for the implicit support of IP subnetworks
The present invention provides a system and method for implicitly supporting a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) subnetworks in a digital subscriber line (DSL) environment. The operating specificati... Read More
Inventors: Kaycee, Mahendra; Martinez, Ken; Martinez, Michelle; Alfano, Sue; Sansone, Rocco;, Assignee: Paradyne Corporation (Largo, FL) |
Conference support system which associates a shared object with data relating to said shared object
In the above prior art, no system makes the association of data with the drawing object and a human or user only understands the association while seeing the drawing object and the data. Accordingly, ... Read More
Inventors: Tanigawa, Yoshinobu; Nakayama, Yoshiyuki; Ishizaki, Takeshi; Kameda, Masami;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Telewriting terminal system performing adding/deleting operation of an image based on control information
It is a general object of the present invention to provide an improved and useful telewriting system in which the above-mentioned problems are eliminated. A more specific object of the present inventi... Read More
Inventors: Oka, Kouji;, Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Re-prioritizing background data transfers in multipoint conferencing
A method and apparatus for re-prioritizing a background transfer of teleconference object data is disclosed. A background transfer is moved to a highest priority of a transfer queue if part of the bac... Read More
Inventors: Hales, II, Loyde W.; Thessin, Tyler R.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Communications system for receiving and transmitting data cells
According to the present invention, an improved ATM communications system is provided the design of which has been directed by the desire to address the prior art problems discussed above. Firstly, th... Read More
Inventors: Chow, Henry; Gassewitz, Michael; Ghadbane, Jim; Mitchell, Charles; Bisson, Germain; Bews, Steve;, Assignee: Newbridge Networks Corporation (CA) |
Sonet physical layer device having ATM and PPP interfaces
The single-chip Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) physical layer device of the present invention includes first, second and third interface ports. An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) interface circu... Read More
Inventors: Vogel, Danny C.;, Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation (Milpitas, CA) |
Methods and apparatus for a memory that supports a variable number of bytes per logical cell and a variable number of cells
A variable cell size circuit supports user programmable cell sizes in a memory device. The variable cell size circuit includes a counter and a comparator, and it controls successive accesses to a cell... Read More
Inventors: Chan, Raymond K.; Au, Mario F.;, Assignee: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Method for a high speed communication system
The present invention in various aspects concerns apparatus and methods for use in communication technology. More specifically, the invention is involved with improvements useful in ATM communications... Read More
Inventors: Holden, Brian D.; Alleyne, Brian D.; Braun, Darren S.; Haq, Nadeem; Hu, Chee;, Assignee: PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Burnaby, CA) |
Shifting an input signal from a high-speed domain to a lower-speed domain
Before beginning a detailed description of the subject invention, mention of the following is in order. When appropriate, like reference numerals and characters may be used to designate identical, co... Read More
Inventors: Talarek, Wieslaw;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Method and apparatus for maintaining directory services for a video transmission network
In the case of a video network as above it has been found convenient to use a master slave concept in the arrangement of the network, with a central node controller (CNC) and its associated databases ... Read More
Inventors: Fielding, William S.; Plater, Christopher R.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
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