Abstract: A method and system automatically harmonizes access to a given software application program via different access devices. Through use of the method and system, a financial institution can provide access to a given application (such as, for example, automatic bill payment services) to customers using different access devices such web browsers, screen phones and personal computers. A single application program is all that needs to be written and maintained by the financial institution. Also, the method and system enables financial institutions to “leverage” existing programs because now the institution can automatically “project” its existing stock of program services unto new access devices—devices which may not have even existed at the time the program was created.

Abstract: An efficient method for width independent antialiasing of point primitives and line primitives in a frame buffer of a graphics computer system. The graphics computer system calculates an integral of an impulse response of a low pass filter. A plurality of values representative of the integral of the impulse response are stored in a look-up table. The plurality of values are indexed with respect to distance. A primitive is rasterized into the frame buffer, wherein the primitive is either a point primitive or a line primitive. The distance of a resulting fragment from the center of the primitive is then calculated. The look-up table is then entered using the distance as an argument, and a corresponding one of the plurality of values is retrieved. This value is used as a blending weight for the fragment. The color of the fragment is then blended into the frame buffer using the one of the plurality of values as the blending weight. In so doing, the primitive is properly antialiased regardless of its width.

Abstract: A method and system automatically harmonizes access to a given software application program via different access devices. Through use of the method and system, a financial institution can provide access to a given application (such as, for example, automatic bill payment services) to customers using different access devices such web browsers, screen phones and personal computers. A single application program is all that needs to be written and maintained by the financial institution. Also, the method and system enables financial institutions to "leverage" existing programs because now the institution can automatically "project" its existing stock of program services unto new access devices--devices which may not have even existed at the time the program was created. By receiving information from the user via the user's access device, including information identifying the type of device being used and the application program the user wishes to access, the present invention solves these problems.

Abstract: A facsimile unit including apparatus for simultaneously detecting color changes in image data being encoded and counting the number of pels between the color changes. The unit also includes a decoder having a binary tree embodied in ROMs for fast decoding of received signals.