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| 20110047521 | DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR COMPARING NETLISTS System, method, and program product analyze netlists for related electrical circuit designs by comparing predefined physical characteristics between the netlists. A baseline reference score is generated for one of the netlists and a normalized score is generated for the... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040703 | System, Method and Program Product to Estimate Cost of Integrating and Utilizing Heterogeneous Data Sources System, method and program product for estimating a cost of reconciling heterogeneous data sources. A transition cost for integrating together a first program to identify semantic conflicts, a second program to classify semantic conflicts and a third program to reconcil... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110030048 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING FIREWALLS Computer system, method and program for managing a firewall. First program instructions identify a first rule of the firewall. The first rule specifies a permitted message flow through the firewall to or from an IP address of a computer. The computer resides on a networ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING A BLADE SERVER IN A BLADE SERVER SYSTEM A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for activating a blade server in a blade server system. The method comprises receiving a request for activating the blade server and obtaining a hardware feature of the blade server. The method further compr... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110016410 | Aging and Elimination of Avatars and Associated Objects from Computer Simulated Displayed Virtual Universes Aging of avatars and objects toward eventual removal or removal from the displayed virtual universe through enabling the setting of defined parameters for the aging of said avatars and objects toward eventual removal of said avatars and objects from said virtual univers... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013843 | System and Method for Compiling Images from a Database and Comparing the Compiled Images with Known Images A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object fro... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013445 | Bias Temperature Instability-Influenced Storage Cell In a method of using a memory cell employing a field effect transistor (FET), the FET is heated to a first temperature sufficient to support bias temperature instability in the FET. The bit line is driven to a high voltage state. The word line is driven to a predetermin... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100332890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT A system and method are provided for virtual machine management. The system comprises a virtual machine manager, a blade server management module, at least one blade server, and a virtual machine manager. The virtual machine manager comprises an abnormal event receiving... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332875 | Fan Speed Control from Thermal Diode Measurement Measurement circuit components are included in an integrated circuit fabricated on a semiconductor substrate. A method is provided for controlling the speed of a cooling fan provided to cool an integrated circuit in which includes the steps of receiving a voltage from a... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328872 | ADJUSTABLE MOUNT ASSEMBLY An adjustable mount assembly and a related rack mount system are provided. The adjustable mount assembly is adapted for mounting a user interaction device outward from a cabinet structure comprising a first surface and a second surface adjacent to the first surface. The... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325365 | SECTORED CACHE REPLACEMENT ALGORITHM FOR REDUCING MEMORY WRITEBACKS An improved sectored cache replacement algorithm is implemented via a method and computer program product. The method and computer program product select a cache sector among a plurality of cache sectors for replacement in a computer system. The method may comprise sele... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100306560 | Power Management in a Virtual Machine Farm at the Local Virtual Machine Platform Level by a Platform Hypervisor Extended with Farm Management Server Functions Power management for a virtual machine farm in which each hypervisor respectively serving each virtual machine platform in the farm is provided with an extended hypervisor function coacts with functions provided by the connection broker and the manual configuration inte... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299673 | SHARED FILE SYSTEM CACHE IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE OR LPAR ENVIRONMENT Computer system, method and program for defining first and second virtual machines and a memory shared by the first and second virtual machines. A filesystem cache resides in the shared memory. A lock structure resides in the shared memory to record which virtual machin... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A SAME PROGRAM ON A LOCAL SYSTEM AND A REMOTE SYSTEM A system and method implemented in a Customer Information Control System (CICS) Application configured to process information residing on remote systems and display such information on a local system, using a same program residing on both the remote system(s) and the lo... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299153 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING COMPLIANCE WITH A SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT System, method and program product for monitoring a computer program or database maintained by a service provider for a customer. A multiplicity of failures of the computer program or data base during a reporting interval are identified. The times of the multiplicity of... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293344 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A POSITION WHERE DATA IS STORED An apparatus and method are provided for selecting a specific position from a plurality of positions in a memory to which data elements are cyclically written. A specific data element is stored in the plurality of positions. The apparatus comprises a determination unit ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100287010 | System, method and program for managing disaster recovery System, method and program product for prioritizing a multiplicity of management services which support physical disaster recovery operations. Criticality of each of the management services is determined. An urgency of recovery of each of the management services is dete... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100262815 | Detection Mechanism for System Image Class A method, apparatus and program product for automatically detecting the configuration of a hardware platform, generating the communications necessary to request the correct OS for the platform, authenticating the request at a remote server, detecting the image class bas... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100257186 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN OPTION TO AUTO-GENERATE A THREAD ON A WEB FORUM IN RESPONSE TO A CHANGE IN TOPIC Methods and systems for providing an option to auto-generate a thread on a web forum in response to a change in topic are described. When a post is received on a thread in the web forum, wherein the thread includes one or more thread keywords and wherein each of the one... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100256831 | WIRELESS POWER INFRASTRUCTURE A wireless power infrastructure for delivering wireless power from a wireless network to mobile devices. The infrastructure includes a plurality of power transmission hubs, each hub having: a first capacitor for transmitting a signature frequency for a defined range; an... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100251534 | TOOL-LESS RACK RAIL SYSTEM INCORPORATING CLAMPING MECHANISM A rack rail system engageable with a post of a rack. The rack rail system includes a rail assembly and a flange provided on at least an end of the rail assembly. The flange includes a pin insertable into an aperture of the post when the flange is adjacent to the post. T... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100245037 | ON CHIP VERIFICATION AND CONSEQUENT ENABLEMENT OF CARD OS OPERATION IN SMART CARDS On Chip Smart Card verification of a cardholder using biometrics such as a fingerprint and consequent enablement of a card operating system, having an additional software layer boot prior to the commercial card operating system booting. This software layer, or boot load... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100243716 | Enhanced Connector Cradle Having a Cooling Shell for Preferential Cooling of Wafers A method, system and apparatus for preferential cooling of an electrical circuit board via a cradle having a cooling shell. An enhanced connector cradle enables the secure and precise placement of a connector on a circuit board by using a cooling component which selecti... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100241638 | SORTING CONTACTS A method, computer program product, and computing system for sorting contacts is provided. The method may include sorting a group of contacts within an address field of a message based upon, at least in part, a selected hierarchy. The method may also include displaying ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100241483 | METHOD FOR IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF USER EVENTS SCHEDULED DURING A USER ABSENCE PERIOD A solution for improved management of user events scheduled during a user absence period a determination module configured to determine a user absence period having a start date and an end date. A detection module configured to detect a new user event scheduled during t... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100231281 | SELF-TEST DESIGN METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUE FOR ROOT-GATED CLOCKING STRUCTURE In a method of generating clock signals for a level-sensitive scan design latch, at least one test input signal is transmitted to a plurality of splitter leaves. Once the test input signal is stabilized at each of the splitter leaves, generating a shaped oscillator cloc... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100223505 | SOFTWARE TABLE WALK DURING TEST VERIFICATION OF A SIMULATED DENSELY THREADED NETWORK ON A CHIP A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product are presented for managing an Effective-to-Real Address Table (ERAT) and a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) during test verification in a simulated densely threaded Network On a Chip (NOC). The ERAT an... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100218175 | EXCEPTION DECLARATION REFACTORING TO REDUCE MEMORY FOOTPRINT A system, method and program product for optimizing compiled Java code to reduce file size. A system is provided that includes: a first optimization that removes unnecessary exception declarations in the compiled Java code; a second optimization that converts checked ex... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100218014 | Power Management To Maximize Reduced Power State For Virtual Machine Platforms Power management in a virtual machine environment that includes at least one virtual machine platform providing a plurality of virtual machines, and a plurality of separate (user) computers, each connected to a respective one of the virtual machines in a typical virtual... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215048 | DYNAMIC BRIDGE FOR OBJECT TRANSFER A request for a first dynamic bridge end is received at a first device. A capability for a second dynamic bridge end is transmitted to a second device. At least one of the first dynamic bridge end and the second dynamic bridge end have a movable end point location. The ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100213873 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIGHT AND COLOR SURROUND The present disclosure is directed towards a multimedia system comprising a multimedia reader. The multimedia reader may be configured to read multimedia content and to extract light surround content. The light surround content may represent a light surround control sig... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211932 | IDENTIFYING A SOFTWARE DEVELOPER BASED ON DEBUGGING INFORMATION A solution for identifying a software developer based on debugging information includes an identification module configured to identify a developer of a line of source code, a determination module configured to determine a developer contact tag for the developer, an enc... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100209006 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VISUAL CREDENTIAL VERIFICATION A solution for visual credential verification. The solution includes an apparatus, system, and method embodiment. The apparatus for visual credential verification includes an input module, a comparison module, and a response module. The input module receives from a secu... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100205626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND DOWNLOADING BROADCAST PROGRAMMING CONTENT The present invention is directed to a system, method and program product for identifying and downloading broadcast programming. Systems are disclosed that include a media device structured to receive and sample broadcast programming, and an identification service inclu... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205256 | ASSET STATE CHANGE EVENT PROCESSING Asset state change events are processed using an asset-state identifier corresponding to a combination of the current state for the asset and the asset. The asset-state identifier uniquely identifies the combination from all other possible combinations of assets and sta... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205164 | Maintaining Data Integrity Data integrity is maintained in an environment in which multiple instances of a software component each can include multiple processes capable of accessing a shared resource. Each instance of the software component can be either an “active” instance (which is allowe... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100199067 | Split Vector Loads and Stores with Stride Separated Words A method, system and computer program product are presented for causing a parallel load/store of stride-separated words from a data vector using different memory chips in a computer.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198971 | DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING CLUSTERS OF MIDDLEWARE APPLIANCES A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed for dynamically provisioning clusters of middleware appliances. In one embodiment, the method includes referencing a resource measurement from a plurality of middleware appliances. The middleware appliances pr... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198648 | DYNAMIC MEETING GROUP ORGANIZER A Dynamic Meeting Group Organizer automatically creates sub-groups from a group of responders to a meeting invitation sent by email by determining a number of subgroups and a subgroup size parameter; determining a question and a criteria associated with the question to ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195408 | Non-Body Contacted Sense Amplifier with Negligible History Effect In a method of mitigating hysteresis effect in a sense amplifier circuit, a data value is sensed from a data source with the sense amplifier during a first period. The data value is stored in a latch. The data valued stored in the latch is inverted, thereby generating a... | 08/05/2010 |
