Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information, as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method includes steps for enabling a user to interactively create a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form, for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information, as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method includes steps for enabling a user to interactively create a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form, for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information; as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method including steps for enabling a user to interactively creating a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form; for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: A method for cataloging, filtering and ranking information; as for example, World Wide Web pages of the Internet. The method is preferably implemented in computer software and features steps for enabling a user to interactively create an information database including preferred information elements such as preferred-authority World Wide Web pages. The method including steps for enabling a user to interactively creating a frame-based, hierarchical organizational structure for the information elements, and steps for identifying and automatically filtering and ranking by relevance, information elements, such as World Wide Web pages for populating the structure, to form; for example, a searchable, World Wide Web page database.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for generating I/Q waveforms for transmission over a CDMA radio channel. The method includes steps of (a) summing, for each of a plurality N of channels, the state of I bits to form an Isum value having a sign bit, the state of Q bits to form a Qsum value having a sign bit, and a total number of active channels to form a channel sum value; (b) applying the Isum value and sign bit, the Qsum value and sign bit, and the channel sum value to an input of a multiplexer; and (c) time multiplexing the inputs to generate first and second sets of output bits. The first set of output bits includes a subset of the Isum value bits, a subset of the Qsum value bits, the I sign bit, and the channel sum value bits. The second set of output bits includes the subset of the Isum value bits, the subset of the Qsum value bits, the Q sign bit, and the channel sum value bits.

Abstract: Users or subscribers of a multi-user communications system, such as a spread spectrum communications system, provide signals to the central station or base unit of that system, and receive signals therefrom. Avoidance of interference among those users' signals is needed to ensure proper operation of the system. To do so, the data of each user is individually scrambled to randomize the data that different users are transmitting, in order to improve tracking performance at a receiver. The data of each user is scrambled independently, in a manner unique to that user in the system, in order to improve tracking performance and detection performance of a receiver. This scrambling makes the multi-user interference zero mean, and makes it possible to integrate out or average out the multi-user interference. The pattern or sequence used for this scrambling, and the pattern or sequence used for spreading here, are preferably identical except in frequency.

Abstract: Instructions are written in multi-word blocks into an instruction buffer from a slave store, and then scanned sequentially. The instruction buffer is unequally divided, a first part of a block being written into the smaller portion of the buffer during scanning of the larger portion, and the remainder of the block being written into the larger portion during scanning of the smaller portion. Thus, more time is available for an initial write from a block, which is when delays are more likely to occur due to the block having to be fetched from main store.

Abstract: A water-resistant explosive fuse-cord having water-soluble or water-swellable macromolecular material adjacent to textile material surrounding the explosive core.