| 5684996 |
Method and arrangement for reducing the amount of information necessary for softway installation |
| Nov-4-1997 |
A system and method for achieving unitary installation of software at each time software is installed in user units of a distributed computer system. A specially adapted recipe is created from a general... |
| 5680621 |
System and method for domained incremental changes storage and retrieval |
| Oct-21-1997 |
A computer or computer program product having a computer-readable medium comprising at least one controller to enable a processor to perform incremental changes storage and retrieval. The at least one... |
| 5619698 |
Method and apparatus for patching operating systems |
| Apr-8-1997 |
The present invention discloses a variety of methods and apparatus for providing patches within a computer operating system. A patch structure in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention... |
| 5581720 |
Apparatus and method for updating information in a microcode instruction |
| Dec-3-1996 |
In a computer for executing a computer program, apparatus and a method for updating information within a computer program instruction without interrupting execution of the computer program. The apparatus... |
| 5537596 |
Method and apparatus for overriding resource maps in a computer system |
| Jul-16-1996 |
An improved method and apparatus for defining resources in a computer system is presented whereby resource maps in a computer system can be selectively updated by adding resources and superseding resources... |
| 5528490 |
Electronic catalog system and method |
| Jun-18-1996 |
An electronic catalog system and apparatus is provided for producing information related to a selected product on a remote computer. The system and method performs the steps of storing and maintaining... |
| 5479601 |
Method and apparatus for processing commands generated by user interface controls in an atomic manner |
| Dec-26-1995 |
An object-oriented user interface utilizes object-oriented controls that operate together as a single, atomic group to change data values and are affected as a group by conventional editing "undo" and... |
| 5465361 |
Microcode linker/loader that generates microcode sequences for MRI sequencer by modifying previously generated microcode sequences |
| Nov-7-1995 |
An extremely fast and efficient Linker for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) pulse control sequencer efficiently derives subsequent blocks of microcode to be loaded... |
| 5410703 |
System for changing software during computer operation |
| Apr-25-1995 |
In telecommunications switching system, software is frequently modified, enhanced or replaced altogether by new versions. The implementation or integration of the new or revised software into the operational... |
| 5410705 |
Method for generating an object data structure layout for a class in a compiler for an object-oriented programming language |
| Apr-25-1995 |
A method for a computer compiler for an object-oriented programming language for implementing virtual functions and virtual base classes is provided. In preferred embodiments of the present invention,... |
| 5325532 |
Automatic development of operating system boot image |
| Jun-28-1994 |
A computer system which includes certain minimum capabilities in a system ROM. Device driver software is located in the system ROM or adapter ROM's. On boot the computer system collects these device drivers... |
| 5295263 |
Programmable controller which allows control in formation to be updated during execution |
| Mar-15-1994 |
A programmable controller having a loading feature for changing such control information as control programs. The controller comprises a load execution unit and an allocation unit. The load execution unit... |
| 5278973 |
Dual operating system computer |
| Jan-11-1994 |
A mainframe computing system is adapted to be loaded with one of a plurality of different operating systems and different associated microcode to provide a computing system which is capable of running... |
| 5274808 |
Method and system for replacing program in uninterruptible computer system |
| Dec-28-1993 |
A program replacing method is provided for an uninterruptible online computer system. The computer system includes an auxiliary storage unit for storing a program currently running in the computer system... |
| 5210854 |
System for updating program stored in EEPROM by storing new version into new location and updating second transfer vector to contain starting address of new version |
| May-11-1993 |
Firmware resident in electrically erasable programmable read only memory ("EEPROM") can be updated by a user while maintaining the intelligence of a computer system during the updating process by a control... |
| 5193191 |
Incremental linking in source-code development system |
| Mar-9-1993 |
A computer-aided software development system includes programs to implement edit, compile, link and run sequences, all from memory, at very high speed. The complier and linker operate on an incremental... |
| 5051895 |
Apparatus and method for tracking and identifying printed circuit assemblies |
| Sep-24-1991 |
A method and apparatus for tracking and identifying printed circuit assemblies is presented. Information about each printed circuit assembly (PCA), including the current revision level of the PCA is stored... |
| 4179735 |
Computer with an arrangement for changing its working environment |
| Dec-18-1979 |
An arrangement is disclosed which enables the variation of the working environment of a computer comprising a working memory, a central processor unit and a plurality of peripheral units including an external... |
