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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| 20100286952 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A HANG STATE AND DISTINGUISHING A HANG STATE FROM AN IDLE STATE A system, method, and computer program product are described for distinguishing between a computing system that is hung in a hang state and systems that are in an idle or otherwise non-hang state which do not need intervention before regaining the ability to adequately ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100257404 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A SCALABLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE, FAULT-TOLERANT LOCKING MECHANISM IN A MULTI-PROCESS ENVIRONMENT Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for preventing concurrent access and processing of data by multiple threads. The inventive approach may be applied to prevent concurrent access in resequencers.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100257240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING SEQUENCE START AND INCREMENT VALUES FOR A RESEQUENCER Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved resequencer, along with related mechanisms and processes. Some embodiments provide an approach for generating a message sequence having start and increment values.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254389 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A BEST EFFORTS RESEQUENCER Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved resequencer, along with related mechanisms and processes. A best efforts resequencing approach is described for determining a set of message sot process in a computing sys... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254388 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLYING EXPRESSIONS ON MESSAGE PAYLOADS FOR A RESEQUENCER Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved resequencer, along with related mechanisms and processes. Expressions are applied to a message payload to perform message sequencing.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254259 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING BLOCKING OF MESSAGES ON ERRORS IN MESSAGE STREAM Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved resequencer, along with related mechanisms and processes. An improved error handling method and system for messages is also described.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100174691 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODCUT FOR AUTOMATICALLY CATEGORIZING DEFECTS Disclosed are method(s), system(s), and computer program product(s) for automatically categorizing a defect into a category based at least on a keyword related to the defect. In some embodiments, the method or the system identifies an information regarding the defect an... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100174672 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODCUT FOR IMPLEMENTING EXPERT ASSESSMENT OF A PRODUCT Disclosed are method(s), system(s), and computer program product(s) for implementing expert assessment of a product. Some embodiments are directed at improved methods, systems, and computer program product form implementing expert assessment of product fixes/patches or ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100122218 | Method and System for Implementing a Compensation System Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved approach for a compensation system and related interfaces that avoids the problems of the prior approaches. According to some approaches, interfaces are provided that comp... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100121686 | Method and System for Implementing a Scoring Mechanism Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved method and system for generating performance scores for employees. Also disclosed is an approach for ranking employees which avoids the complexity and excessive resources ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100121685 | Method and System for Implementing a Ranking Mechanism Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an automated approach for ranking employees which avoids the complexity and excessive resources often needed to implement employee rankings. Also disclosed is an improved method and s... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100107151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING PERFORMANCE KITS Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing performance kits. Test data for the performance kit is preloaded into an installation image that is distributed with a vendor's product. This avoids the need for the customer himself ... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100036957 | Method and System for Implementing Transfer of a Network Session An improved approach is described for sharing resources such as sessions and connections in database systems. Conduits and templates in shared memory can be employed to facilitate the transfer of network sessions. This provides a very efficient way to share processing e... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100036861 | Method and System for Implementing Parallel Transformations of Records An improved approach is described for implementing transformations of data records in high concurrency environments. Each transformation is performed in parallel at the source when the data record is first generated. According to one approach for data integrity validati... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100011010 | METHOD AND MECHANISM FOR EFFICIENT STORAGE AND QUERY OF XML DOCUMENTS BASED ON PATHS A method, mechanism, and computer program product for storing, accessing, and managing XML data is disclosed. The approach supports efficient evaluation of XPath queries and also improves the performance of data/fragment extraction. The approach can be applied to schema... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090164525 | Online Recovery of User Tables Using Flashback Table A method and apparatus for updating databases are disclosed. In response to a flashback request, a database object is restored to a state as of a specified flashback time. The changes introduced into the database object are reversed in a sequence starting with a change ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090037499 | METHOD AND MECHANISM FOR IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC SPACE MANAGEMENT FOR LARGE OBJECTS Disclosed is a system and method for implementing space management for large objects stored in the computing system. According to some approaches, storage of large objects are managed by dynamically creating contiguous chunks of storage space of varying lengths. The len... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090037495 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STATE MAINTENANCE OF A LARGE OBJECT A method, system and computer program product are described for state maintenance of a large object. In one approach, the method, system and computer program product perform by associating one or more buffers with a transaction involving a large object, the large object... | 02/05/2009 |
