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The present invention pertains to integrated circuit system design methods and apparatus based on the novel architecture concept of Document-Instruction-Set-Computing (DISC). The integrated circuit comprises a plurality of functional units to independently execute the tasks of remote communication,

The present invention pertains to integrated circuit system design methods and apparatus based on the novel architecture concept of Document-Instruction-Set-Computing (DISC). The integrated circuit comprises a plurality of functional units to independently execute the tasks of remote communication, bandwidth adaptation, application control, multimedia management, and universal compound document encoding. The integrated circuit is also comprised of a scalable formatter element connecting to the functional units which interoperate arbitrary external document formats and intelligently adapt to selective internal format depending upon the system throughput and run-time configuration. Additionally, there is a smart memory element connecting to the functional units and scalable formatter, which access, store, and transfer compound document data based on the selective internal format. As a result, the present invention has unprecedented level of capability, safety, and reliability with low cost and high performance, which make it suitable for many potential desktop, handheld, and embedded system implementations. it is designed with in mind that a plurality generations of these DISC integrated circuits can be evolved.

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A document data processor having integrated circuit architecture which allows control and communications for a plurality of client-server based computing systems, said document data processor performing a plurality of kernel control functions representable by high level language procedures including

A document data processor having integrated circuit architecture which allows control and communications for a plurality of client-server based computing systems, said document data processor performing a plurality of kernel control functions representable by high level language procedures including an operating system, a session control, a database access and management, and a communication protocol, said document data processor comprising: personal database means for obtaining, organizing and updating a personal knowledge content in said personal database means, said personal database means segregating, partitioning and assigning said personal knowledge content to one or a plurality of user, application and/or network environments; packet processor connected co said personal database means for producing signals, frames, packets, cells, and/or macroblocks for document communication, and for interpreting and controlling document communication in accordance with one of a plurality of layered functions, said layered functions including operating system, protocol, and database access management, said packet processor further sensitizing external run-time conditions for application requirement, networking environment, user priority request and/or bandwidth constraint; input/output device connected to said packet processor for transceiving data signals from external; encoding/decoding device connected to said packet processor for encoding/decoding local or remote, and for compiling high level language procedural modules in accordance with selective procedural coding algorithms, said encoding/decoding device converting data from an internal format to an external format or converting data from said external format to said internal format; formatting processor connected to said personal database means and said packet processor for performing internal procedural query to said personal database means and external procedural query to an application, user, and/or network in order to establish a selected list of subjects of interest of a segment document script to be retrieved, said formatting processor further partitioning said document script into a selected plurality of segmented document scripts wherein each of said segmented document script representing a single or plurality of subject of interest specified by said user, application, and/or network; smart object memory connected to said packet processor for establishing said high level language procedural modules, wherein each of said modules represent an executable manipulation and control procedure for said single or plurality of segmented script; reference processor connected to said smart object memory for retrieving selected segmented document script and/or corresponding audio, graphical, and/or video script in accordance with said run-time user, application, and network environment; bandwidth controller in communication with said formatting processor for computing a communication bandwidth request signal for said document script, said bandwidth controller producing a run-time attribute list for selective compression ratios, frame rates, internal data formats, display resolution, and for receiving run-time priority change and bandwidth shortage from said application, said user and said network; and system look-up table connected to said reference processor and said smart object memory for coordinating individual subsystem pipeline operations and for maintaining overall data throughput, said system look-up table further including a means for maintaining and updating system look-up tables for encoding run-time execution sequences, and adapting with said application, said user and said network for performing look-ahead tasks, prescheduling and group instruction prefetching in accordance with input data types, and a means for supplementing individual subsystem run-time pipeline deficiencies to maintain scalable system performance.