The mouse pad is made from glass and part of its surface is roughened by blasting to improve contact with the mouse ball. The mouse pad (10) is made from glass and includes a first region (11) with a surface which has been blasted to give a roughness that ensures the mouse ball rotates properly as the mouse (12) is moved over this surface. The surface of the second region next to the first region...

Ce procédé permet d'isoler un emplacement mémoire contenant une valeur obsolète d'une variable, dans une mémoire partagée d'un ordinateur, cet emplacem ent étant référencé par un pointeur pour un accès dans le cadre d'une première transaction, un verrou appelé hold étant posé sur cet emplacement et étant attri bué à une seule tâche, ce hold interdisant l'accès de cet emplacement à toutes les aut r...

The present invention pertains to a system and method for performing remote obje ct invocation. A object-oriented computing system includes a number of independent computing nodes that are interconnected via a communications link. The nodes represent client and/or server computers that do not share memory. Each node includes a number of domains having separate address spaces. Each domain includes ...

The present invention pertains to a system and method for tracking object refere nces in an object-oriented computing system including a number of independent computi ng nodes interconnected by a communications link. The reference counting mechanism tracks references to an object at three levels. At a first level, the server han dler associated with an object is used to track local references to t...

A VDSL-modem which is divided into an analog part which is placed in an optical node and a digital part which is placed in a local station. The analog part of the VDSL-modem includes an A/D-converter and D/A-converter, a filter, an amplifier, a hybrid/balun, an adaptive noise attenuator, an optical interface, and possibly an echo canceller. The digital part of the modem includes an FFT/IFFT-proces...

A VDSL-modem which is divided into an analog part which is placed in an optical node and a digital part which is placed in a local station. The analog part of the VDSL-modem includes an A/D-converter and D/A-converter, a filter, an amplifier, a hybrid/balun, an adaptive noise attenuator, an optical interface, and possibly an echo canceller. The digital part of the modem includes an FFT/IFFT-proces...

A message dispatch system is provided for a multi-computer server having a number of server computers connected via respective server network links. The message dispatch system, which is connectable to an external telecommunications network, includes a message dispatcher configured to receive external client req uests for the multi-computer server from the external telecommunications network and t...

A calendar based ATM cell scheduling device is used to maintain accurate shaping of cell streams in order to satisfy traffic management guarantees. In certain applications cell insertion may occur downstream of the scheduling device, potentially violating traffic descriptors. The correction means provided by the present invention allows for such downstream cell insertion without violating guarante...

The invention relates to a method of producing a pallet that comprises an upper, load-supporting part (11), a lower part (13) spaced from said upper part (12) with the aid of spacers (15). The invention is characterised by gluing to a first, elongated sheet-like core (13) of predetermined thickness a surface covering of liquid-proof sheet material (12) so as to form a load-supporting upper part (1...

The invention relates to a method of producing a pallet that comprises an upper, load-supporting part (11), a lower part (13) spaced from said upper part (12) with the aid of spacers (15). The invention is characterised by gluing to a first, elongated sheet-like core (13) of predetermined thickness a surface covering of liquid-proof sheet material (12) so as to form a load-supporting upper part (1...

The invention relates to mixtures containing pigments which comprise oriented three-dimensionally crosslinked substances having a liquid-crystalline structure with a chiral phase, and to the use of such mixtures. Pigment and matrix are matched to one another in such a way that on application of the mixture at different temperatures to a substrate, the lowest application temperature and highest app...

A method for producing a duty gear container comprising applying a lining material around a core having a shape of an object to be held in the duty gear container, placing the wrapped core within a cavity of a mold sized to form a void between the wrapped core and an outer mold surface of the mold, and injecting a liquid polymeric molding material into the void to form an outer shell of the duty g...

The mouse pad is made from glass and part of its surface is roughened by blasting to improve contact with the mouse ball. The mouse pad (10) is made from glass and includes a first region (11) with a surface which has been blasted to give a roughness that ensures the mouse ball rotates properly as the mouse (12) is moved over this surface. The surface of the second region next to the first region...

The optical fibre network includes at least one cable (15). The cable holds a number of ribbon fibres (9,11,13) and is connected to a line station (7) at a head end to transmit and receive information on individual optical fibres (19) comprised in the ribbon fibres. The optical fibre network also has several branching points provided between the head end of the cable and a far end of the cable. At...

The optical fibre network includes at least one cable (15). The cable holds a number of ribbon fibres (9,11,13) and is connected to a line station (7) at a head end to transmit and receive information on individual optical fibres (19) comprised in the ribbon fibres. The optical fibre network also has several branching points provided between the head end of the cable and a far end of the cable. At...

In a longest coincidence data detecting apparatus, a control section distributes an external data to the N M-bit associative memory units to satisfy a relation of X ij = Y Nj+i where each of N and M is an integer more than 1, 0 ~ i < N, 0 ~ j < M, i and j are integers, X ij is a j-th bit of the i-th one of the N associative memory units, and Y k is a k-th bit of the external data. Each of the N as...

A computer memory controller comprises a DRAM timing control section that provides, during memory back-up operation mode, self-refresh timing to DRAM array having self-refresh function. It also comprises a refresh/back-up control section that provides information as to memory back-up state to the DRAM timing control section. A DRAM identification mode register is provided. When DRAM array without ...