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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090144533 | Firmware exclusive access of a peripheral storage device A method includes searching a peripheral storage device for a key during a firmware boot process of a computer system. Operating system access to the peripheral storage device is disabled if the key exists. Another method includes disabling operating system access to a ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090144530 | Operating environment configuration system and method An operating environment configuration system comprises a first operating system of a computer device having at least one configuration setting associated therewith, and a second operating system of the computer device configured to automatically retrieve the at least o... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090144520 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A DATA ITEM A method of selecting a data item from a memory within a first device, the method comprising the steps of evaluating within the first device a function of an input argument so as to form an output value, using the output value to select a data item from the memory and t... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090144482 | Configuration identification exposure in virtual machines In one embodiment, a computer system comprises a host machine comprising a plurality of compute resources, at least one secure memory location coupled to the host machine, wherein the secure memory location stores host machine configuration data, and a virtual machine h... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090144214 | Data Processing System And Method Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of selecting events for prediction, the method comprising determining candidate events for prediction; determining, for each candidate event, a network of cause events associated with the candidate event; determining, for ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090142560 | THIN FILM DEVICE WITH MINIMIZED SPATIAL VARIATION OF LOCAL MEAN HEIGHT This invention provides a thin film device with minimized spatial variation of local mean height. More specifically, the thin film device has a substrate and at least one first structure having a first spatially varying weighted local mean height determined by a layer w... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090142082 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING A DISTANCE The invention relates to a method of estimating a distance to a surface, whereby an emitter emits light towards a surface, at least some light being reflected by the surface, the surface comprising a detectable feature, the reflected light being received by a first rece... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141892 | SECURITY PRINTING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING SECURITY PRINTING A security printing method includes generating a security file having a plurality of metadata fields and an information field concatenated together in an initial sequence. A security file identification is generated from the plurality of metadata fields and the informat... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141800 | Transmitting Video Streams Systems, methods, and devices for transmitting video streams are described herein. One method of transmitting video streams includes coordinating transmission of intra-frames in a first video stream with transmission of intra-frames in a second video stream. The method ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ATTACH BEZEL TO DISPLAY PANEL There is provided a system and method for securing a display to a display bezel. One or more display fasteners snap with mating snap features on the display bezel. One or more mating snap features of the display in turn snap with the display fasteners, thereby securing ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141107 | PRINTING-FLUID CONTAINER A printing-fluid container includes a reservoir. An electrical interface is coincident with a first axis and includes a first leading surface or contact pad. A fluidic interface is coincident with a second axis and perpendicular to the first axis. The fluidic interface ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140961 | Reflective Display A reflective display device (2) comprises a plurality of controllable light absorption layers (8) arranged in a stack. Each of the layers (8) is capable of absorbing incident light in a specified wavelength band. A selective reflector (10) is... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140791 | Switching Element Control An apparatus in an example comprises a switching element and diode-resistor coupling. The diode-resistor coupling controls timing characteristics of turn ON and turn OFF of the switching element.... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140275 | NANOPARTICLE COUPLED TO WAVEGUIDE A nanoparticle is able to emit single photons. A waveguide is coupled to the nanoparticle and able to receive the single photons. A backreflector is optically coupled to the waveguide and configured to reflect the single photons toward the waveguide.... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090138733 | System and Method for Throttling Memory Power Consumption A power throttling method and system for a memory controller in a computer system comprising a power supply module including a plurality of bulk power supplies (“BPSs”) are described. In one embodiment, each of the at BPSs provides to a power output monitor a status... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090133109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING A NETWORK According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of authorising a computing device to access a network, comprising receiving authentication data including a user identifier from the computing device, determining whether approval to verify... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132699 | Data Center Synthesis A data center is designed by determining a compute description that describes computer resources to be used in the system from design requirements and models of the computer resources. A facility description that describes facilities to be used in the data center is det... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132518 | Automated re-ordering of columns for alignment trap reduction An automated method to align column values to proper byte boundaries for rapid scanning in a parallel processing database system. A table definition is received having a logical order of fields. The fields are re-ordered to create a physical order of fields. The physica... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132488 | Allocation of resources for concurrent query execution via adaptive segmentation An enterprise data warehouse or business intelligence system having a plurality of processors and memory resources. The system includes at least a database server, a workload management system, a query compiler, and a query executor. The database server configured to re... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090132097 | VIRTUAL COOLING INFRASTRUCTURE A virtual cooling infrastructure includes a demand manager having logical descriptions of a plurality of heat loads and the demand manager is configured to determine cooling load demands of the heat loads. The infrastructure also includes a capacity manager having logic... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090129385 | VIRTUAL NETWORK INTERFACE A virtual network has network interfaces coupled by a multipoint tunnel (100) through a forwarding network (40), each interface having a forwarding address in an address space of the forwarding network, each network interface having a reconfigurable addres... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128865 | Simplified Operation Of Scan Based Devices A document scanner comprises a scan bed, and a processor means which is adapted to: analyse a scanned image to detect one or more defined markings on the scanned document in addition to and adjacent the document content desired to be scanned by the user; and in response... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128616 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REDUCING BANDING ARTIFACT VISIBILITY IN A SCANNING APPARATUS A method of, and apparatus for, reducing the visibility of banding artifacts on a printed medium comprising producing synthetic artifacts on the printed medium, overlapping scan lines at swath boundaries and controlling exposure along a scan line to reduce the visibilit... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128599 | METHOD AND PRINTER FOR MULTI-PASS PAGE-WIDE ARRAY PRINTING A method of printing an image on a substrate using a page-wide-array printer and a page wide array printer is provided. The method comprises printing a first portion of the image as relative movement occurs between the substrate and the print heads, and printing a secon... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128596 | Increasing Inkjet Printer Page Yield A method for increasing a page yield of an inkjet printer that includes receiving a plurality of print jobs for printing at the inkjet printer, adding the plurality of print jobs to a job queue, calculating a first cumulative amount of ink for use by the inkjet printer ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090128593 | PRINTERS AND PRINTHEAD CLEANING PRIMARILY IN PAGE-WIDE ARRAY PRINTERS A method of printing on a substrate and a printer are provided. The method uses a printer comprising a print head and a mask having a hole therethrough, the mask being disposed between the print head and the substrate, and comprises aligning the hole with the print head... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090127225 | MEASUREMENT OF ETCHING Methods and apparatus for determining the extent of etching in material by locating a detector element adjacent to a portion of the material that is to be etched. The width of the element varies. The resistance of the element is measured upon etching the portion.... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090125876 | Output From Chnaged Object On Application Human rules and heuristics may be applied in a logic determination to promote relevance of an output for testing due to a changed object on an application. The output comprises an indication of one or more objects from a plurality of available objects that are to be tes... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090125788 | Hardware based memory scrubbing This application relates to hardware based memory scrubbing. One disclosed embodiment may comprise a system that includes an engine, implemented in hardware, configured to initiate a request for data residing in associated memory. An error system is configured to detect... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090125752 | Systems And Methods For Managing A Redundant Management Module Systems and methods for managing a redundant management module are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes first and second management modules that are configured to manage a computing device; and a programmable logic device that is con... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090123180 | System and Method for Transferring Features to a Substrate A method comprising generating a clear layer on a first surface using a transparent liquid toner, generating a color layer using a pigmented liquid toner over the clear layer on the first surface, and transferring the clear layer and the color layer from the first surfa... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090122482 | Portable Computer Docking System A portable computer docking station comprises a cradle coupled to a docking base where the cradle is adapted to receive a portable computer. The docking station also comprises a wireless receiver adapted to communicate a wireless input signal received by the docking sta... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090122399 | OPTICAL DEVICE Embodiments of an optical device including at least two transparent layers are disclosed.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090122132 | Video Display Calibration System and Method A video display system includes a video display environment having a video display, a display sensor, oriented to view the display, and a display control system. The control system is controllable from outside the video display environment, and is interconnected with th... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090122126 | Web flow path An apparatus and method relating to a web flow path between print heads and a dryer are disclosed.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090122107 | Print Head Service Shuttle A printer includes a first print head support carrying a plurality of print heads. The first print head support is movable towards and away from the media support and includes one or more guides movably supporting a first print head service shuttle along the media suppo... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090122106 | Movable Fluid Receiver A printer and method include a first receiver configured to receive fluid ejected by one or more print heads on a first side of a media and a second receiver configured to receive fluid ejected by the one or more print heads on a second side of the media, wherein the se... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090120694 | Associating Auxilliary Data With Digital Ink A method of associating auxiliary data with a digital ink stream comprises capturing a sequence of samples representing a digital ink stream and modifying the sample information, or inserting a plurality of new samples into the sample sequence, the modified or new sampl... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090119658 | Systems And Methods For Downloading Boot Code Associated With Base Stations Systems and methods for maintaining base stations are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes at least one base station that is electrically coupled to a server. The base station includes memory and a first boot code that is stored in t... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090119441 | Heterogeneous Parallel Bus Switch A parallel bus switch has an input stage configured to convert a bus signal from a first bus having a first configuration to a second configuration, an internal standard bus configured to receive the bus signal in the second configuration and transport the bus signal to... | 05/07/2009 |
