A method is disclosed for operating a fault tolerant memory system which is provided with a fault alignment exclusion mechanism of the type disclosed in copending application Ser. No. 388,834. The method allows the assignment of a new permute vector to the fault alignment mechanism even though the memory is operating and storing user data. The method rearranges the data in the affected column by transferring data in one chip to another chip in the column through a buffer under the control of the...

An online numeric discriminator is disclosed which performs the decision making process between strings of characters coming from a dual output optical character recognition system for use in text processing or mail processing applications. The dual output OCR uses separate recognition processes for alphabetic and numeric characters and attempts to recognize each character independently as both an alphabetic and a numeric character. The alphabetic interpretation of the scanned word is outputted ...

This invention is an apparatus for measuring fluid density of mixed phase fluid flow. The apparatus employs capacitive sensing of the mixed phased flow combined with means for uniformizing the electric field between the capacitor plates to account for flow line geometry. From measurement of fluid density, the solids feedrate can be ascertained.

An online numeric discriminator is disclosed which performs the decision making process between strings of characters coming from a dual output optical character recognition system for use in text processing or mail processing applications. The dual output OCR uses separate recognition processes for alphabetic and numeric characters and attempts to recognize each character independently as both an alphabetic and a numeric character. The alphabetic interpretation of the scanned word is outputted ...

Method and apparatus for providing a centralized access, in real-time, to messages received in, or sent from two or more mail accounts of a user. Data related to incoming and/or outgoing messages from one or more accounts of the user is continuously aggregating and/or stored in real-time. The user accesses each aggregated message received in, or sent from one or more accounts, from each of the accounts. The status of the user's aggregated updated and/or outgoing messages may be continuously upda...

A highly reliable online system is disclosed which is provided with a backup computer center (sub-online system) in addition with an original computer center (main online system) in order to improve the reliability of the online system. With respect to the database, the main online system is provided with an original database (main database) while the sub-online system is provided with a backup database (sub-database) which is a duplicate of the main database. The main online system and the sub-...

An online handwritten character recognition system which performs the narrowing of candidates for handwritten character recognition quickly and very accurately by simple processing of a small amount of operations. A predetermined characteristic amount is extracted for each stroke, a characteristic amount word is created having a binary value of 1 only in one or more bit positions corresponding to selected values of the characteristic amount, an AND operation is performed bit-by-bit between the r...

A highly reliable online system is disclosed which is provided with a backup computer center (sub-online system) in addition with an original computer center (main online system) in order to improve the reliability of the online system. With respect to the database, the main online system is provided with an original database (main database) while the sub-online system is provided with a backup database (sub-database) which is a duplicate of the main database. The main online system and the sub-...

A data retrieval system in which data to be retrieved is stored in the memory of a host computer and accessed from user terminals which transmit requests for data to the host. Data is stored in the host computer in the form of a series of search terms arranged in a predetermined logical order, and each stored search term is stored with associated data to which users require access. Data retrieval requests are entered by users in the form of search terms corresponding in logical structure to the ...

A wardrobe closet that assists users in selecting and purchasing clothing is provided. A radio frequency receiver scans tags embedded in clothing to identify the clothing. When a user removes an article of clothing from the wardrobe closet, the wardrobe closet suggests other articles of clothing that match the removed article of clothing. The wardrobe closet may also be connected to websites via the Internet. The wardrobe closet may determine the user's clothing needs and find clothing offered f...