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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090328238 | Disabling encrypted data An apparatus associated with protecting encrypted computing platform data protection is described. One example apparatus includes a theft detection logic to identify when a computing platform has been stolen. The example apparatus also includes a theft deterrence logic ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090070574 | Remote diagnostic apparatus Example apparatus and methods associated with remote diagnostics are described. One apparatus embodiment includes a logic to determine a state of a device associated with a computing platform to which the apparatus is operably connected. The apparatus embodiment may inc... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090067618 | Random number generator Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with random number generators are described. One system embodiment includes a random number generator logic that may produce an initial random number from a first set of three inputs. The system embodiment may receive t... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090006848 | Secure credential management Apparatus and methods associated with providing secure credential management are described. One apparatus embodiment includes a data store to store authentication data and an authentication supplicant (AS) logic to provide a response to an authentication communication (... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090002162 | Computer theft deterrence technology A system embodiment associated with making a computer a less desirable target for a thief is described. A system embodiment may include a security timer that is to be periodically refreshed. If the security timer is not periodically refreshed, then a computer in which t... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090003319 | Network interface apparatus An intelligent network interface apparatus to provide always-on, always-connected processing for call signals is described. One embodiment of the apparatus includes logic to selectively handle incoming call signals even when a computer to which the apparatus is operably... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080288473 | Queries with hard time constraints Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with hard time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a hard time constraint. The example system may also include logi... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288446 | Queries with soft time constraints Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with soft time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a soft time constraint. The example system may also include logi... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080288548 | Desensitizing data in cloning Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with desensitizing data in cloning are described. One example method embodiment includes identifying a column to be desensitized and preparing a set of executable instructions to desensitize the column. The examp... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080244232 | Pre-fetch apparatus Apparatus and computing systems associated with data pre-fetching are described. One embodiment includes a processor that includes a first unit to store data corresponding to a load instruction and an instruction pointer (IP) value associated with the load instruction. ... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080235210 | Searching related documents Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with logically expanding a document and determining the relevance of the logically expanded document to a query are described. One method embodiment includes searching an index to locate a document identifier for a docu... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080229236 | Non-linear navigation in discussion forums Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with providing non-linear navigation in a discussion forum are described. One method embodiment includes maintaining a location data that identifies a thread or message to which a user has navigated. The method also inc... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080222466 | Meeting point thread characterization An apparatus associated with identifying a critical thread based on information gathered during meeting point processing is provided. One embodiment of the apparatus may include logic to selectively update meeting point counts for threads upon determining that they have... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080222063 | Extensible mechanism for detecting duplicate search items Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with identifying and selectively deleting duplicate search results are described. One example system embodiment includes logic to receive an identity indicator from a search logic. The identity indicator is associated w... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080209172 | Selective hardware lock disabling Controlling a reorder buffer (ROB) to selectively perform functional hardware lock disabling (HLD) is described. One apparatus embodiment includes a unit to enable an ROB to selectively disable a lock upon Identifying a lock acquire operation (LAO) associated with a cri... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080209267 | Diagnostic test sets Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with metadata driven diagnostic test execution are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a diagnostic test set repository where pre-defined and/or user-defined XML files that store the metadat... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080195945 | Enterprise context Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with providing context relevant data and/or controls associated with an enterprise object processing application to a personal object processing application are described. One example system embodiment includes l... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080195849 | Cache sharing based thread control Apparatus and computing systems associated with cache sharing based thread control are described. One embodiment includes a memory to store a thread control instruction and a processor to execute the thread control instruction. The processor is coupled to the memory. Th... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080196040 | Enterprise clipboard with context Systems and methods that interact with an enterprise clipboard are described. One example system embodiment includes logic to acquire an object item and logic to acquire information about the object item. The information may be metadata and/or contextual information. Th... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080184102 | Browser extension for web form capture Methods and other embodiments associated with a web browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a web form capture logic that identifies a web page that includes a form and an editable field on the form. The capture logic may acquire informat... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080184157 | Enterprise web browser extension Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with web browsers are described. One exemplary embodiment includes a browser extension for a web browser that can communicate with a remote web service from an enterprise application to retrieve content. Th... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080184148 | Drag and drop browser extension Methods and other embodiments associated with a browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a drag logic to identity an item to be uploaded from a local source to a remote destination. The browser extension may also include a drop logic to id... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080184141 | Menu creation browser extension Methods and other embodiments associated with a browser extension that provides menu manipulation functionality are described. One example browser extension includes a drag logic to identity an item in a first frame, where the item is to be added to a menu in a second f... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080184159 | Toolbar/sidebar browser extension Methods and other embodiments associated with a web browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a toolbar logic to provide a toolbar. The toolbar may include, for example, a set of graphical user interface elements displayed in connection wit... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080184100 | Browser extension for web form fill Methods and other embodiments associated with a web browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a web form capture logic that identifies a web page that includes a form and an editable field on the form. The capture logic may acquire informat... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080184158 | Web browser window management Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with web browsers are described. One exemplary embodiment includes a graphical user interface having a window arrangement option for display on a display screen and being configured to initiate, when select... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080172462 | Thread-based conversation management Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with thread-based conversation management are described. One system embodiment includes a conversation manager that provides access to communication applications, that provides lifecycle management for an electronic con... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080172603 | XML-based translation Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with providing an XML-based translation service are described. One method embodiment includes accessing a translation-aware XML document that may comply with a translation-enabling XML schema. The document may store a f... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080162442 | Query modes for translation-enabled XML documents Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with providing query modes for translation-enabled XML documents are described. One method embodiment includes receiving an XPath query to an XML document that may store a translation for a data element. The method embo... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080133299 | Planning a response to an unplanned event Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with planning a response to an unplanned event are described. One example computer implemented method includes solving a model with no unplanned events applied, modifying the model by applying an unplanned ... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080126354 | Management of a distributed database Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with managing of a distributed database are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an input logic configured to obtain information associated with a distributed database where the distributed d... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080126335 | Efficient computation of document similarity Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with efficiently computing document similarity are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic to produce a gram from a string and logic to identify candidate documents based on identifying ma... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080109399 | Document summarization Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with automatically summarizing a document are described. One method embodiment includes computing term scores for members of a set of terms in a document to be summarized and computing sentence scores for sentences in a... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080097968 | Knowledge extraction for automatic ontology maintenance Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with extracting knowledge from application data and maintaining an ontology based on the extracted knowledge are described. One example system includes a mapping logic to store mappings between application objects and o... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080065672 | Insertion rate aware b-tree Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with insertion rate responsive b-trees are described. One system embodiment includes a capacity logic to detect a divide condition for a leaf node and an insert logic to determine an insertion level for the leaf node. T... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080047003 | Audit system Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with storage of audit information. One system embodiment includes an audit memory configured to temporarily store audit information associated with a user request, an audit logic configured to store the aud... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080010268 | Document ranking with sub-query series Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with ranking documents by providing a search engine with a series of sub-queries generated from an original query are described. One example system includes input logic for receiving a query. The example system m... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080010316 | Spelling correction with liaoalphagrams and inverted index Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with (non)contiguous n-gram based spell correction are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for creating contiguous and non-contiguous trigrams, logic for creating an inverted index relating ... | 01/10/2008 |
