International Business Machines Corporation

Subhash Rasiklal Vohra

Nadeem Malik

Timothy Alan Dietz

Ira Richard Forman

Charles Gorham Ward

Carol Angela Logan

Avijit Saha

Alan Vicha Pita

Claude Herbert Feistel

In one aspect, a method for comparing suppliers includes sending survey questions for receipt by supplier computer systems. Programming instructions are also sent for receipt and execution by the supplier computer systems. The programming instructions are for causing the supplier computer systems to return supplier survey answers to a server. The answers are included in responding documents and are defined in a certain format as data elements included in the responding documents. The data elements are then parsed from the responding documents responsive to predetermined programming instructions and evaluated the data elements responsive to a predetermined set of rules.

Apparatus and computer program product for technology comparisons

In one aspect, a method for comparing suppliers includes sending survey questions for receipt by supplier computer systems. Programming instructions are also sent for receipt and execution by the supplier computer systems, The programming instructions are for causing the supplier computer systems to return supplier survey answers to a server. The answers are included in responding documents and are defined in a certain format as data elements included in the responding documents. The data elements are then parsed from the responding documents responsive to predetermined programming instructions and evaluated the data elements responsive to a predetermined set of rules.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for technology comparisons

A method and implementing system are provided in which specific byte requests made by a functional unit within a computer system effect the return of a word containing the requested byte to a register device within a CPU. The returned word is stored 'as is' and without alignment, together with mask and alignment data indicative of the location of the requested byte within the stored word. Alignment relative to the requested byte is thereafter accomplished using the mask and alignment data just before use of the requested byte by the functional unit. The alignment function is thereby accomplished outside of the processor critical path which obviates the typical memory-processor mismatch delay inherent in prior art data alignment networks and substantially shortens the critical path in the memory access stage of the processor's pipeline.

System for data alignment by using mask and alignment data just before

The system and method of this invention controls the presentation of a text document from a processing system to a printer for printing rotated and non-rotated text within the same document. The portion of text that is to be printed sideways is designated by inserting a marker at the beginning and end of the portion of the text selected for rotation. The data stream between the markers representing the selected portion of text is stored in a buffer in the processing system in one sequence, and accessed from the buffer in a different sequence. The printer prints the data stream before the marker with an internal font having normal characters. When the first marker in the data stream is sensed, the printer is sent a control to change fonts. The printer prints the data stream in a different sequence after the first marker with an internal font having either left or right rotated characters. When the second marker is sensed, the printer changes fonts and prints the data stream after the second marker with the font having normal characters.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Subhash Rasiklal Vohra