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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7685283 | Method for modeling on-demand free pool of resources The invention comprises a computer-implemented process for managing computing resources provided to customers in an on-demand data center. The process comprises: providing a shared computing environment; providing to each customer one or more logical partitions of c... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680048 | Method and apparatus for routing data in an inter-nodal communications lattice of a massively parallel computer system by dynamically adjusting local routing strategies A massively parallel computer system contains an inter-nodal communications network of node-to-node links. Each node implements a respective routing strategy for routing data through the network, the routing strategies not necessarily being the same in every node. T... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7655495 | Damascene copper wiring optical image sensor A CMOS image sensor array and method of fabrication wherein the sensor includes Copper (Cu) metallization levels allowing for incorporation of a thinner interlevel dielectric stack with improved thickness uniformity to result in a pixel array exhibiting increased li... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7563546 | Process for creating phase edge structures in a phase shift mask Disclosed is a method for forming an optical mask that has reduced processing steps. The invention performs a first patterning of an opaque chrome layer to expose a first region of a transparent quartz substrate and ten etches the first region of the transparent qua... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7545050 | Design structure for final via designs for chip stress reduction A design structure to provide a package for a semiconductor chip that minimizes the stresses and strains that arise from differential thermal expansion in chip to substrate or chip to card interconnections. An improved set of design structure vias above the final co... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545034 | Thermal energy removal structure and method An electrical structure including a first substrate comprising a plurality of electrical components, a first thermally conductive film layer formed over and in contact with a first electrical component of the plurality of electrical components, a first thermally con... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7534675 | Techniques for fabricating nanowire field-effect transistors Techniques for the fabrication of field-effect transistors (FETs) having nanowire channels are provided. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a FET is provided comprising the following steps. A substrate is provided having a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) layer. At le... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533102 | Method and apparatus for converting legacy programming language data structures to schema definitions A method and apparatus for creating a schema definition from a language-specific metamodel of a data structure written in a legacy computer language involves walking through the nodes of the metamodel, and creating corresponding schema element objects in a schema tr... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7522923 | Method, systems and computer program products for data logging Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for transferring log data to a server over a wireless network from a plurality of remote devices. The server is configured to receive data from the plurality of remote devices. A transfer period is schedule... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7509552 | Multi-thread parallel segment scan simulation of chip element performance A microprocessor simulation method, which is built upon the underlying hardware design of the microprocessor, stop normal functions of a simulation testcase, start the scan clocks, and record a first “snap shot” of the scan ring data at an initial time. The hard... | 03/24/2009 |
