Database Excelleration Systems Receives Notice of Allowance of Patent Claims from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1996--Database Excelleration Systems Inc. (DES), a leading provider of relational database intelligent storage subsystems and professional services for very high transaction and query-intensive client/server-based database applications, announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO USPTO abbr. United States Patent and Trademark Office ) for patent claims directed to the company's solid state disk subsystem. The patent is expected to issue in the August/September 1996 timeframe. The law firm representing DES in this matter is San-Jose -based Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel. This patent will augment DES' existing portfolio of patents directed to solid state devices. DES products combine solid state memory and advanced DES Direct Addressing(tm) firmware to greatly accelerate database application performance. The company also provides professional diagnostic and evaluation services to assist users in optimizing UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT-based applications that are experiencing resource contention on RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database client/server systems. The DES Database Excellerator(tm) and Log Excellerator(tm) products are compatible with all major UNIX and NT RDBMSs including Sybase, Oracle and Informix, and well as most proprietary database systems. They run on all major UNIX and NT hardware platforms, including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Digital, Stratus and Data General. DES provides products and services to a wide range of financial services companies, manufacturers and telecommunications service providers, including TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. , Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones Telerate, Exxon, Chevron, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. and U S WEST. CONTACT: For Database Excelleration Systems Inc.: Scott Humphrey, 503/644-9709, SRHOregon(at)aol.com |
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