Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving performance of an AGP device is provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a second-level cache is provided for a TLB, and part of the data or part of the address that is not otherwise used for determining a TLB entry is divided by a prime number to determine which TLB entry to allocate. One embodiment of the invention provides the ability to load multiple cache lines during a single memory access without incurring additional transfer, storage, or management complexities. The full number of bits of each memory access may be used to load cache lines. One embodiment of the invention loads multiple cache lines for translations of consecutive ranges of addresses. Since the translations included in the multiple cache lines cover consecutive ranges of addresses, the relationship between the multiple cache lines loaded for a single memory access is understood, and additional complexity for cache management is avoided.

Abstract: An official postal product, and a method and apparatus for making the official postal product. The official postal product includes a first image area having an official postal indicia a second image area having a personal image. A protective coating is placed over the second image area such that official cancellation mark placed over the second area will not permanently adhere to the personal image.

Abstract: A method of forming an output transistor (11) protects the output transistor (11) from overvoltage conditions on an output (13). The body of the output transistor (11) is coupled to the gate of the transistor (11) prior to the high voltage being applied to the output (13).

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved radiation source module having a power supply adapted to be at least partially immersed in a fluid being treated. In one embodiment, the power supply is partly immersed in the fluid being treated. In another embodiment, the power supply is fully submersible in the fluid being treated. A fluid treatment system comprising the radiation source module is also described.

Abstract: A method is described for balancing the phase-locked loop of an electronic analyzing device which analyzes the output signal of a sensor device, a yaw rate sensor in particular using the Coriolis effect having an oscillating mass which undergoes a deflection under the effect of an external yaw rate on the sensor device and the output signal representing a yaw rate signal, the electronic analyzing device having in addition to the phase-locked loop, a control loop, a quadrature control loop in particular, and the control loop is provided with a controller having an input and an output as well as with a modulator or mixer having an input which has a first electrical connection with the output of the controller.

Abstract: An airbag for a motor vehicle, with at least one inflatable region which is capable of being inflated by means of a gas generator and in the inflated state forms a lateral curtain for protecting a vehicle occupant. When inflated the airbag is clamped between two points on the vehicle body which are separated from each other in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The airbag has a separation region, which may be an opening, that is bridged by a tautening element which is capable of being inflated together with the inflatable region. When the airbag inflates the opening deforms reducing the length of the opening in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A purified tyrphostin of a general formula: wherein, for Compound I, R6 is either at position 6 or at position 7, or, for Compound II, R6 is either at position 6 or at position 8.

Abstract: An execution unit (2) interface protocol allowing flow-through of data, where a function is specified once and the execution unit performs the function for multiple sets of input data. Function execution is pipelined through the execution unit, where an input unit (6) stores information, while a function logic unit (4) processes data and an output unit (8) holds results to be output. The execution unit (2) allows for data rate distortion, in applications such as data compression, where the amount of data received is different from the amount of data generated as output.

Abstract: The fundamental approach of the present invention is to dispose bushes, in which pistons of a pumping apparatus for a vehicle brake system are movably disposed, in such a movable manner that they themselves may in dependence upon movements of the pistons act as pistons in order to supply brake fluid to the vehicle brake system. In particular, the bushes, whose pistons are pumping brake fluid into an associated brake circuit, do not act as pistons. On the other hand, brake fluid is fed back into a brake circuit by bushes, whose pistons are pumping substantially no brake fluid into the brake circuit but are taking in e.g. brake fluid removed from the vehicle brake system in order subsequently to pump it back into the brake circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for accelerating graphics. The system includes a memory device for accelerating graphics operations within an electronic device. A memory controller is used for controlling pixel data transmitted to and from the memory device. A cache memory is electrically coupled to the memory and is dynamically configurable to a selected usable size to exchange an amount of pixel data having the selected usable size with the memory controller. The memory device may be an SDRAM. The cache memory may also comprise a plurality of usable memory areas or tiles.

Abstract: A portable flood control revetment comprising an elongated collapsible and inflatable tube of flexible material impervious to air and water, the tube having a bottom wall and other walls defining an internal compartment, and a multiplicity of cables in the compartment, each extending from one of the walls to another of the walls to hold the tube in a selected shape when the tube is filled with air or water. The bottom wall defines at least one pocket for receiving a corresponding at least one hold-down member, and other of the walls are provided with closeable orifices for permitting flow of air and water into and out of the compartment to respectively inflate, fill, and collapse the tube.

Abstract: The present invention uses multiple broadcast television channels to distribute high volume of data to a client device from a server. Multiple analog channels are broadcast, at least one of which contains video/audio programs and control data inserted into the analog signal's VBI; and at least one separate channel contains a digital data stream which is modulated onto an analog channel and associated with channels containing those video/audio programs. STBs designed to implement this invention are equipped with at least two tuners in order to tune to two of those channels simultaneously. One tuner is used to tune to the video/audio channel, and extract the control data in the VBI. The second tuner is used to tune to the channels containing the data itself.

Abstract: Ribavirin derivatives represented by formula I wherein at least one of R2, R3 or R5 is a straight or branched chain polyalkylene oxide polymer conjugate, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them as well as their use to treat patients having susceptible viral infections, alone and in combination with a therapeutically effective amount of interferon-alpha are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to parasitic helminth PLA2 proteins; to parasitic helminth PLA2 nucleic acid molecules, including those that encode such proteins; to antibodies raised against such proteins; and to compounds that inhibit parasitic helminth phospholipase A2 activity. The present invention also includes methods to obtain such proteins, nucleic acid molecules, antibodies, and inhibitors. Also included in the present invention are therapeutic compositions comprising such proteins, nucleic acid molecules, antibodies, and/or inhibitors as well as the use of such therapeutic compositions to protect animals from diseases caused by parasitic helminths.

Abstract: A digital printer or copier machine (1) and a device (23) for protection against excessive heating of an object (5, 49), for example, a paper to be printed, that is guided past a radiation device (7) within a digital printer or copier machine (1). The protection device (23) has two protection elements (41, 43) permeable to radiation and arranged at a distance from each other, which are arranged in the radiation path (21) between a radiation device (7) and the object to be heated (5, 49).

Abstract: A Reflective Field Emission Display (FED) system using reflective field emission pixel elements is disclosed. In the FED system disclosed, each pixel elements is composed of at least one edge emitter that is operable to emit electrons and at least one reflector that is operable to first attract and then reflect the emitted electrons onto a transparent layer that is operable to attract the reflected electrons. The transparent anode layer is oppositely positioned with respect to the cathode or emitter edge. In a one aspect of the invention, a phosphor layer interposed between the transparent layer and the pixel element produces a light photon as reflected electrons are attracted to the transparent layer. In another aspect of the invention, a plurality of phosphor layers are applied to the transparent layer to produce a color display when reflected electrons are attracted to the transparent layer.

Abstract: In a system for distributing and licensing rights-managed digital content, the way in which content is distributed and licensed can be affected by the trust relationships that are established between the various servers that participate in the system. In a typical system, a license server licenses content to particular identities, and an identity server defines those identities by issuing certificates for those identities. The license server issues licenses to identities that have been issued by trusted identity servers. Also, the license server can issue a license on behalf of any entity whose private key it holds. Thus, in one embodiment, the universe of people to whom the license server can issue licenses can be expanded by adding new identity servers to the list of trusted identity servers. In another embodiment, exceptions to the general trust of an identity server can be carved out by creating an exclusion list, which excludes particular identity certificate (e.g.