| 6711590 |
Linking metadata with a time-sequential digital signal |
| Mar-23-2004 |
A method and apparatus for generating a metadata object having links to temporal and spatial extents in a time-sequential digital signal is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. Firstly,... |
| 6708229 |
Configuring computer components |
| Mar-16-2004 |
Techniques for configuring network interface cards include storing device information related to multiple network interface card, and configuring the network interface cards based on the stored device... |
| 6701357 |
Server appliance |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A server appliance for use in a network of client users is disclosed. The server appliance includes a hub for coupling to one or more client computer workstations. Each client computer workstation is configured... |
| 6694378 |
Extension of device driver objects |
| Feb-17-2004 |
Extending driver objects, such as device driver objects. In one embodiment, a system including a driver object, an auto-aggregator object, and a driver extension object. The driver object has a set of... |
| 6694354 |
Host computer access to peripheral device drivers |
| Feb-17-2004 |
A peripheral device is cooperable with a host computer to direct the host computer to device information stored at an external location accessible to the host computer via an external data path. The device... |
| 6684401 |
Method and system for independent incoming and outgoing message dispatching in a home audio/video network |
| Jan-27-2004 |
In a home audio video network of connected network devices, a method of routing a received message to a software controller. An incoming message is received from a network bus by an intelligent device... |
| 6681392 |
Method and apparatus for remote peripheral software installation |
| Jan-20-2004 |
Method and apparatus for remote peripheral software installation. A software system running in a local computer system used by a system administrator can install drivers, network utilities, and other peripheral... |
| 6681284 |
System and method for providing a serial bus interface using distributed driver execution |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A system and method for communicating with a device over an external transmission medium. The system may include a host computer system, including a user application, a serial bus interface driver, and... |
| 6674767 |
Flexible system and method for communicating between a broad range of networks and devices |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A flexible gateway accommodates data transfer from a data origination device over a wide variety of networks to a wide variety of destination devices, even if those networks use different protocols, and... |
| 6671749 |
Peripheral driver installation method and system |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method for locating and installing peripheral drivers has steps of creating a driver profile, creating a resources profile, and of looking to potential driver sources on a prioritized list for drivers... |
| 6671745 |
Application program interfaces and structures in a resource limited operating system |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A set of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for a resource-limited environment are disclosed. The APIs provide a mechanism for a computer application to interface with various components and modules... |
| 6671744 |
Access control method for drive units, and a drive unit using the method |
| Dec-30-2003 |
An access control method for drive units that can recognize drive units in specific groups, and drive units to which the method applies are disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating a device... |
| 6671743 |
Method and system for exposing proprietary APIs in a privileged device driver to an application |
| Dec-30-2003 |
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for interfacing of application programs with operating system device drivers is provided. The method includes a variety of steps such as assigning... |
| 6658489 |
Method for replacing a device driver during system operation |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A method and system for replacing a device driver during system operation provides for hot-swapping device drivers without shutting down a device driver stack. Particularly useful with file system and... |
| 6658477 |
Improving the control of streaming data through multiple processing modules |
| Dec-2-2003 |
Frame-based streaming data is controlled through a reconfigurable graph of processing modules. A control mechanism employs a set of components that are used and combined among themselves to implement control... |
| 6658459 |
System for sharing peripheral devices over a network and method for implementing the same |
| Dec-2-2003 |
Disclosed is a system for establishing a communication link between a client computer and a peripheral device that is remotely networked to the client computer. The system includes a translation adapter... |
| 6643721 |
Input device-adaptive human-computer interface |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A computer user interface and method for its operation are disclosed. The interface uses a new architecture that allows it to adapt readily to the type of input device being used to operate the computer.... |
| 6643712 |
Validating the creation of and routing of messages to file objects |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A method is provided to overcome excess code development associated with developing device drivers that are hierarchically related and provides standardization to driver developers by listing in the private... |
| 6639613 |
Alternate display content controller |
| Oct-28-2003 |
An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system monitor. Where the display... |
| 6631423 |
System and method for assessing performance optimizations in a graphics system |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A system for identification and assessment of performance optimizations implemented in the graphics environment, the identification and assessment of the performance optimizations based upon an optimized... |
| 6622302 |
Methods and apparatus for dynamic version transition of management applications and attached subsystems |
| Sep-16-2003 |
Methods and associated structure for on the fly (dynamic) transition between versions among a management application process and an associated I/O subsystem. A management application program operable on... |
| 6618767 |
Mechanism by which devices on unforeseen platform variants may be supported without re-release of core platform kernel software |
| Sep-9-2003 |
The present invention provides a means to support new and modified platforms without the need to modify the system software kernel. The invention uses an approach referred to as Platform Service Agents... |
| 6614803 |
Mechanism for conducting in-band communications between terminal adapter and digital terminal device during internet session |
| Sep-2-2003 |
A communication control mechanism installable in the communications controller of an ISDN terminal adapter is operative to conduct in-band communications with its digital terminal device during an internet... |
| 6604112 |
Method and system for managing an AIX UNIX server using an SNMP interface |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A method and system for allowing a server to be configured using a standard protocol is disclosed. The server includes a proprietary database having a plurality of classes. Each of the plurality of classes... |
| 6601186 |
Independent restoration of control plane and data plane functions |
| Jul-29-2003 |
The present invention provides a computer system having a modular control process, and a modular device driver process that works in conjunction with the control process. The device driver process is capable... |
| 6601112 |
Method and computer program product for reducing the buffer requirements of processing components |
| Jul-29-2003 |
A method and computer program product for overcoming the inefficiencies associated with inter-buffer data transfers between separate processing components such as kernel mode drivers that are chained together.... |
| 6598169 |
System and method for accessing information made available by a kernel mode driver |
| Jul-22-2003 |
An invention is disclosed that provides a mechanism for exposing to user mode applications the features and information enabled by the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ("ACPI") specification.... |
| 6594709 |
Methods and apparatus for transferring data using a device driver |
| Jul-15-2003 |
The invention is directed to techniques for transferring data using a device driver that is arranged to prevent improper operation of a non-primary routine (e.g., an administrative operation) from causing... |
| 6574588 |
Solid-state memory device that emulates a known storage device |
| Jun-3-2003 |
The present invention is directed to a peripheral device that integrally provides a program relating to the peripheral device, and may be connected to a computer system. The peripheral device includes... |
| 6564248 |
E-mail system with video e-mail player |
| May-13-2003 |
Video messages are created in a manner that allows transparent delivery over any electronic mail (e-mail) system. The audio and video components of the message are recorded, encoded, and synchronously... |
| 6564249 |
Method and system for creating and sending handwritten or handdrawn messages |
| May-13-2003 |
A real-time electronic messaging system, and related method, employs a remote client device with a handwriting client component that sets up a graphical data capture area in the device visual interface... |
| 6546431 |
Data processing system and method for sharing user interface devices of a provider assistive technology application with disparate user assistive technology applications |
| Apr-8-2003 |
A data processing system and method providing for the sharing of inputs and outputs between a first assistive technology application and a second assistive technology application. An input/output manager... |
| 6535929 |
Universal communication mechanism for applications running in a multitasking environment |
| Mar-18-2003 |
Communication between application programs is facilitated by a virtual device driver to which the application programs make function calls. The device driver registers each application in response to a... |
| 6519654 |
Method of designing an interface for a real-time messaging system |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A method of designing an interface for a messaging system for networks. The method includes the steps of providing a system interface to communicate with an operating system and driver level communication... |
| 6519644 |
System and method for dial-up networking over infrared data link |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system and method for initiating a dial-up connection between a remote computing device and a network over an infrared link between the remote computer and an infrared modem is disclosed. A unique protocol... |
| 6516397 |
Virtual memory system utilizing data compression implemented through a device |
| Feb-4-2003 |
A method of operating a data processing system having a main memory divided into memory pages that are swapped into and out of main memory when the main memory becomes short. The data processing system... |
| 6510164 |
User-level dedicated interface for IP applications in a data packet switching and load balancing system |
| Jan-21-2003 |
A multiprocessor computer system comprises a plurality of network interfaces each adapted to be coupled to respective external networks for receiving and sending data packets to and from remote devices... |
| 6499065 |
System and method for batching data between link and transport layers in a protocol stack |
| Dec-24-2002 |
A system and method for transferring a plurality of data packets between a link layer and a transport layer is presented. The system and method provide a standardized development interface for development... |
| 6499050 |
Means used to allow driver software to select most appropriate execution context dynamically |
| Dec-24-2002 |
A mechanism for minimizing interrupt context execution in a computer system by providing means for a driver to select the context for its execution. The operating system determines the system processing... |
| 6496873 |
Real time device driver interface apparatus and method therefor |
| Dec-17-2002 |
A method and apparatus for interfacing a device driver in real time applications are provided. On input, the device driver is probed to determine a data sample block size supported by the device driver.... |
| 6496847 |
System and method for virtualizing computer systems |
| Dec-17-2002 |
A virtual machine monitor (VMM) is included in a computer system that has a protected host operating system (HOS). A virtual machine running at least one application via a virtual operating system is connected... |
| 6490632 |
High performance load balancing and fail over support of internet protocol exchange traffic over multiple network interface cards |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A method for selecting a network interface card (NIC) to be used to send and receive data packets in an Internetwork Protocol Exchange (IPX) environment using a server computer system having a plurality... |
| 6473824 |
Dynamic association of input/output device with application programs |
| Oct-29-2002 |
An object-oriented framework is introduced for coupling device drivers to an application program. Two class trees are introduced: the first class tree comprises the device drivers. The device drivers actually... |
| 6473783 |
Method and apparatus for sharing peripheral devices over a network |
| Oct-29-2002 |
Disclosed is a system for transparently sharing peripheral devices over a network. The system includes a first computer having at least one peripheral device, and a second computer that is networked to... |
| 6470397 |
Systems and methods for network and I/O device drivers |
| Oct-22-2002 |
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for transferring storage data and network data using the same interface circuit. Storage data is transferred from an upper layer storage driver... |
| 6449660 |
Object-oriented I/O device interface framework mechanism |
| Sep-10-2002 |
At the most general level, the I/O framework mechanism of the present invention is made up of three interdependent controllers. These controllers are referred to herein as the hardware resource administrator,... |
| 6442595 |
Automated electronic document transmission |
| Aug-27-2002 |
The invention according to a preferred embodiment provides a method for capturing electronic files from an electronic device and transmitting the electronic files to an address specified by a user. The... |
| 6434447 |
Control property is mapped modally compatible GUI element |
| Aug-13-2002 |
An information processing system has an electronic device and a controller for control of a functionality of the device. An abstract representation of the functionality is provided to the controller. The... |
| 6421069 |
Method and apparatus for including self-describing information within devices |
| Jul-16-2002 |
Self-describing information is included within a device and contains information relating to a graphical representation of the device, the controls available on the device and the interface required to... |
| 6418485 |
System and method for managing device driver logical state information in an information handling system |
| Jul-9-2002 |
The present invention is directed to a system and method of managing logical device state information within an information handling system. Logical device state information is stored only once, by the... |
