Abstract: A fully automatic eyeglass cleaning apparatus includes a vessel partially filled with a cleaning fluid, wherein a mechanism is included to accept and hold a pair of eyeglasses to be cleaned. The mechanism lowers the eyeglasses into the volume of fluid, and provides for a duration of vibratory cleaning activities (within the volume of fluid). Subsequently the eyeglasses are raised above the volume of fluid and are then dried by the application of directed streams of heated air that impinge upon the eyeglasses. After sufficient periods of time are provided for fluidic cleaning and drying, the eyeglasses are raised and may be removed from the mechanism by a user.

Abstract: A method in accordance with the invention involves the normalization of a C language-type data structure received by a process in a distributed computing environment (DCE) to ensure that padding bits are consistently used. The method steps may advantageously be performed by a client process prior to and subsequent to a remote procedure call (RPC) to ensure that the padding bits are not undesirably changed as a result of the RPC. The method steps can also be performed by a server process to ensure that the structures it receives in RPCs are consistent in their use of padding bits. Normalization of the data structure permits a memcmp( ) or similar comparison function to be used to compare data structures without the risk that dissimilar padding bits will result in a false negative from the comparison.