Patents Represented by Attorney Andrea Pair Hughes & Luce, L.L.P. Bryant

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  • Method and apparatus for indicating end of useful life for tape cartridges
    Patent number: 6019302
    Abstract: Apparatus and a method are provided for easily, visually indicating to a user that a tape cartridge has reached the end of its useful life by causing a flag, wound beneath a tape inside the cartridge, to appear within a clear window in the cartridge housing. When a tape drive in which the cartridge is mounted detects a defect in a data tape, the tape is rewound and extra torque is applied thereto to expose the flag. When a cleaning tape reaches its end, the flag is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventor: Brian Francis Murphy
  • Network transparent access framework for multimedia serving
    Patent number: 5996025
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program are provided for a control server in a client/server environment wherein an API framework facilitates scalable, network transparent, integrated multimedia content loading and data streaming. Concurrent real time content loading and data streaming are possible and techniques are included for admitting new streams only when they can be serviced without negatively affecting current system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Norman Day, Peggy PakFan Dixon, Thanh-ha Pham, Lance Warren Russell, Danling Shi, Richard Lee Verburg, Donald Edwin Wood, Leo Yue Tak Yeung