Chung Wang4942 N Sedgewick Rd, Cleveland, OH 44124

4574177, Mar 4, 1986

Nov 13, 1984

6/671027

Chung S. Wang - Plano TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

B23K 900
G02B 514

219121PE

A method for plasma etching of TiO. sub. 2, using a mixture of oxygen and a fluorine-bearing species, preferably CF. sub. 4. This mixture gives good selectivity over aluminum and photoresist, and approximately unity selectivity over silica or silicon nitride. Use of a chlorine-containing species is also taught by the invention, and will provide different selectivities. The present invention is also useful for etching in the RIE mode.

4521446, Jun 4, 1985

Nov 30, 1983

6/557382

Donald J. Coleman - Plano TX
Roger A. Haken - Richardson TX
Chung S. Wang - Plano TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

H01L 21316

427 86

Hydrogen annealing permits deposition of good quality polysilicon atop TiO. sub. 2. Hydrogen annealing of TiO. sub. 2 prevents the tremendous hydrogen affinity of as-deposited TiO. sub. 2 from disrupting process reactions during deposition of polysilicon.

5437027, Jul 25, 1995

Aug 20, 1993

8/110040

Thomas J. Bannon - Dallas TX
Stephen J. Ford - Plano TX
Vappala J. Joseph - Plano TX
Edward R. Perez - Dallas TX
Robert W. Peterson - Plano TX
Diana M. Sparacin - Plano TX
Satish M. Thatte - Richardson TX
Carig W. Thompson - Plano TX
Chung C. Wang - Dallas TX
David L. Wells - Dallas TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

G06F 1730

395600

A system and method for database management for providing support for long-term storage and retrieval of objects created by application programs written at least in part in object-oriented programming languages consists of a plurality of software modules. These modules provide data definition language translation, object management, object translation, and persistent object storage service. Such system implements an object fault capability to reduce the number of interactions between the application, the database management system, and the database.

5280619, Jan 18, 1994

May 17, 1990

7/524775

Chung C. Wang - Dallas TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

G06F 900
G06F 1200

395725

Apparatus for scheduling at least two concurrent transactions accessing a shared data is provided. When a lock request is granted, the apparatus provides for constructing a history file for the shared data to show each data accessing transaction, and also provides for constructing a serialization graph with each node denoting an active transaction, and each directed edge denoting a dependency between two transactions. The serialization graph is searched for a cycle formed by transactions, and if any is found, the transactions are aborted and restarted.

5263155, Nov 16, 1993

Feb 21, 1991

7/658919

Chung C. Wang - Dallas TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

G06F 900

395600

A method is disclosed for concurrency control in a system having both pessimistic and optimistic transactions, comprises the steps of entering locks on objects both for optimistic and pessimistic transactions, and validating an optimistic transaction at commit time by checking that all objects on which said optimistic transaction holds a lock have not become obsolete during the execution of said optimistic transaction. Further, a system is shown enabling optimistic and pessimistic transactions to coexist, comprising a lock table into which locks are entered for both optimistic and pessimistic transactions, a wait queue in which pessimistic transactions are entered to wait for locks held by either optimistic or pessimistic transactions, a conflict table which is referenced to determine if a lock held by a first transaction is a conflict lock with respect to a lock requested by a second transaction, and code connected to the lock table, wait queue, and conflict table. This code which is responsive to transaction requests, updates the lock table and the wait queue so that optimistic transactions do not wait for locks to release, whereas pessimistic transactions do wait for locks to release. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.

5297279, Mar 22, 1994

May 30, 1990

7/531493

Thomas J. Bannon - Dallas TX
Stephen J. Ford - Plano TX
Vappala J. Joseph - Plano TX
Edward R. Perez - Dallas TX
Robert W. Peterson - Plano TX
Diana M. Sparacin - Plano TX
Satish M. Thatte - Richardson TX
Craig W. Thompson - Plano TX
Chung C. Wang - Dallas TX
David L. Wells - Dallas TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

G06F 300
G06F 1540

395600

A system and method for database management for providing support for long-term storage and retrieval of objects created by application programs written at least in part in object-oriented programming languages consists of a plurality of software modules. These modules provide data definition language translation, object management, object translation, and persistent object storage service. Such system implements an object fault capability to reduce the number of interactions between the application, the database management system, and the database.

5893117, Apr 6, 1999

Jun 22, 1993

8/081483

Chung Chian Wang - Dallas TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

G06F 1730

707203

Each element of a database may have multiple versions; the versions are partitioned into branches, and versions of a branch are ordered linearly according to their timestamps. Branches are timestamped and related to one another by a version graph. Each version of an element of a database is represented by a unique identifier, a timestamp, a branch name and a value. A new version of an element associated with a branch is created in response to an operation associated with the branch which would modify the element. An object graph in the database is represented independent of the branches and version; an application coded for elements in one version (and branch) can be reused for the same elements in a different version and (different branch) without any re-coding effort. Methods for long duration transactions, cooperative transactions and schema evolutions are provided.

5535386, Jul 9, 1996

Jun 7, 1995

8/484619

Chung C. Wang - Dallas TX

Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX

G06F 1730

395600

Each element of a database may have multiple versions; the versions are partitioned into branches, and versions of a branch are ordered linearly according to their timestamps. Branches are timestamped and related to one another by a version graph. Each version of an element of a database is represented by a unique identifier, a timestamp, a branch name and a value. A new version of an element associated with a branch is created in response to an operation associated with the branch which would modify the element. An object graph in the database is represented independent of the branches and version; an application coded for elements in one version (and branch) can be reused for the same elements in a different version and (different branch) without any re-coding effort. Methods for long duration transactions, cooperative transactions and schema evolutions are provided.