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Alan R Whitney

Arnold S Miller

Milan Shah

Yuval Neeman

Sudheer Koneru

Peter J Cook

Mark Joseph Zbikowski

Bryan M Willman

Srikanth Shoroff

Kyle G Peltonen

Robert W Harrison

Rajen J Shah

Bartosz Milewski

J Gordon Letwin

A method and system for effectively representing a result set in a limited amount of memory is provided. The result set is made up of a number of ordered rows. At least some of the rows contain row data, while each of the rows contains a bookmark that may be used to retrieve row data for the row. When it is determined that the size of the result set should be reduced, a subset of the rows of the result set is identified. The identified subset of rows is contiguous within the order of the results set and includes rows that contain row data. For each row of the identified subset, the row data is removed from the result set while retaining in the result set the bookmarks of the rows in the identified subset. As the result of the removal of row data, the size of the result set is reduced. In a further embodiment of the invention, when a request is received to return the row data for a row among the identified subset of rows, the retained bookmarks for the identified subset of rows are used to retrieve row data for the rows back into the result set. The requested row data is then returned from the result set in response to the request.

Method and system for effectively representing query results in a

A distributed file system uses objects to model the behavior of components of the distributed file system. Each object has an associated logical path name and physical address. An aggregation of all the logical path names comprises a distributed name space which can be logically partitioned into domains. Each domain includes a domain folder object which maps logical path names of objects in the domain containing the domain folder object, into addresses in the distributed system where the objects are stored. The addresses of the objects are used to access the objects in order to retrieve information from the distributed system.

Distributed file system providing a unified name space with efficient

A surround-sound system for use with conventional TV sets, using a wireless remote bipolar rear speaker (or two conventional speakers fed out of phase) for the surround (difference) channels. The use of the rear speaker(s) and the mono (left plus right) front speaker on the TV set creates 'phantom' left and right front speakers, and allows full surround sound without modification to the TV set or additional amplifiers or speakers.

Remote speaker for surround-sound applications

A method in a computer system for loading an operating system into memory through use of a file system that is stored on secondary storage. The operating system is stored on secondary storage as files with file names. Before the operating system is loaded into memory, a bootstrap program loads the file system from secondary storage into memory. The file system is stored at locations in secondary storage that are known to the bootstrap program. The file system also has a mapping of file names of operating system files to locations in secondary storage that contain the operating system files. After loading the file system, the bootstrap program requests the loaded file system to load the operating system files by specifying the file names of the operating system files to be loaded. In response to the request, the file system uses the mapping to retrieve the locations in secondary storage of the operating system files specified by the file names. The loaded file system then loads the operating system files into memory from the retrieved locations of secondary storage. Control can then be transferred to the operating system files.

System and method for loading an operating system through use of a fire

A plurality of parallel storage mounting panels slideably disposed with respect to each other. Said mounting panels being perpendicular with respect to a floor surface, yet not being connected to said floor surface. Further, said storage mounting panels are capable of storing items such as bottles, tools, cassette tapes and other miscellaneous items. When not in use, said storage mounting racks being in a side-by-side relationship, thereby occupying a minimum amount of space where the storage racks are utilized. The storage mounting panels are provided with bearing means which are connected to support means, the support means being of a design capable of accepting a plurality of slideably mounted storage panels. The bottom terminating ends of the storage mounting panels are free swinging with respect to the floor, swinging in a direction generally perpendicular to the support means.

Vertically-slideably mounted storage rack system

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Alan R Whitney