MR. DAVID E COHEN, MD
Osteopathic Medicine at Forest Ave, Paramus, NJ

5313620, May 17, 1994

Jul 1, 1991

7/724194

David M. Cohen - Morristown NJ
Bhaskarpillai Gopinath - Watchung NJ
John R. Vollaro - Clinton NJ

Bell Communications Research, Inc. - Livingston NJ

G06F 104

395550

Circuitry, and associated methodology in a parallel processing system for sharing the address space among a plurality of autonomous processors (110, 210, 310) communicating over a common bus (60) provides an efficient, non-destructive data transfer and storage environment. This is effected by augmenting each processor with a global clock (31), state alignment circuit (41, 42, 43) to synchronize the processors with the global clock buffers (140, 240, 340) for storing data received off the bus, and circuitry (130, 230, 330) for selectively enabling the buffer to accept those segments of data having addresses allocated to the given processor. To ensure that processing states are aligned, each state alignment circuit inhibits incrementing of the global clock until each corresponding processor transceives necessary data over the bus. To avoid overwriting of data during bus conflicts, the buffers are arranged to store data on a first-in, first-out basis and to control the processing states and data transfer in correspondence to respective bus and processor states.

5542043, Jul 30, 1996

Oct 11, 1994

8/321185

David M. Cohen - Morristown NJ
Siddhartha R. Dalal - Bridgewater NJ
Michael L. Fredman - Edison NJ
Gardner C. Patton - Bridgewater NJ

Bell Communications Research, Inc. - Morristown NJ

G06F 1134

39518308

Our method and system for enumerating a minimal number of test cases for systems with interacting elements operates relationships between the elements and the number of characteristics evaluated for each element. In our inventive method as executed in a computer system, the user enters values for each of the elements and then defines relationships between the elements. Our method then enumerates a table of test cases for each relationship between elements using deterministic procedures, when applicable, and random procedures when the deterministic procedures are not applicable. After a table of test cases is generated for each of the relation, our inventive method combines relationships into a single table of test cases.