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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185540 | Visual structuring of multivariable data Providing visual structuring of multivariable data sets in records includes: defining a key field for sorting the records; sorting the records by the key field to find patterns; grouping equivalent field values of the key field in an equivalent field value group; fo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179120 | Single level of metal test structure for differential timing and variability measurements of integrated circuits A test structure for an integrated circuit device includes one or more experiments selectively configured to receive one or more high-speed input signals as inputs thereto and to output at least one high-speed output signal therefrom, the one or more experiments eac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178400 | Replacement spacer for tunnel FETs A semiconductor fabrication method includes depositing a dummy gate layer onto a substrate, patterning the dummy gate layer, depositing a hardmask layer over the dummy gate layer, patterning the hardmask layer, etching a recess into the substrate, adjacent the dummy... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178382 | Suspended germanium photodetector for silicon waveguide A vertical stack of a first silicon germanium alloy layer, a second epitaxial silicon layer, a second silicon germanium layer, and a germanium layer are formed epitaxially on a top surface of a first epitaxial silicon layer. The second epitaxial silicon layer, the s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174288 | Voltage conversion and integrated circuits with stacked voltage domains An integrated circuit (IC) system includes a plurality of ICs configured in a stacked voltage domain arrangement such that a low side supply rail of at least one of ICs is common with a high side supply rail of at least another of the ICs; a reversible voltage conve... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173993 | Gate-all-around nanowire tunnel field effect transistors A method for forming a nanowire tunnel field effect transistor (FET) device includes forming a nanowire suspended by first and second pad regions over a semiconductor substrate, the nanowire including a core portion and a dielectric layer, forming a gate structure a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173541 | Chip carrier substrate including capacitor and method for fabrication thereof A chip carrier substrate includes a capacitor aperture and a laterally separated via aperture, each located within a substrate. The capacitor aperture is formed with a narrower linewidth and shallower depth than the via aperture incident to a microloading effect wit... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171052 | Information search system, method and program A system, method and computer program product for searching at high speed for documents matching a dependency pattern from document data containing a large volume of text documents. The system includes a storage device for storing, index storage means for storing in... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169031 | Continuous metal semiconductor alloy via for interconnects A contact structure is disclosed in which a continuous metal semiconductor alloy is located within a via contained within a dielectric material. The continuous semiconductor metal alloy is in direct contact with an upper metal line of a first metal level located ato... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168542 | Methods of forming tubular objects A tubular object is fabricated by a method comprising the steps of providing a first layer, forming a second layer on the first layer, and then patterning the second layer to form a raised feature with one or more sidewalls. Subsequently, the first layer is processe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168449 | Template-registered diblock copolymer mask for MRAM device formation A method for fabricating a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) includes forming a mask over a magnetic layer; forming a template on the mask; applying a diblock copolymer to the template; curing the diblock copolymer to form a first plurality of uniform sha... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168045 | Apparatus for an enhanced magnetic plating method An apparatus for plating a magnetic film on a substrate includes: a track including a plurality of stopping points along the track; a permanent magnet placed on the track such that the permanent magnet can be moved along the track towards and away from the stopping ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165973 | Method of identifying robust clustering A method of finding robust clusters comprises the use of principal component analysis and consensus ensemble clustering. In another aspect, the method may comprise normalizing a data set; identifying attributes of the data set that contribute to most of variation in... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165874 | System, method, and program product for processing speech ratio difference data variations in a conversation between two persons A system, method, and program product for processing voice data in a conversation between two persons to determine characteristic conversation patterns. The system includes: a variation calculator for calculating a variation of a speech ratio of a first speaker and ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165317 | Method and system for position detection of a sound source A position detection method, system, and computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing the method for detecting the position of a sound source using at least two microphones. The method includes the steps of... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160910 | Visualization for aggregation of change tracking information A method within a system wherein a first user of the system provides information on social patterns to a second user includes: receiving a request for social pattern information from the second user, the request comprising a query; assigning authorization level to t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159855 | Switchable element A switchable element. The element includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a conducting channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a gate with multiferroic material being switchable, by application of an electrical signal to the gate, b... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159854 | Piezo-effect transistor device and applications A piezo-effect transistor (PET) device includes a piezoelectric (PE) material disposed between first and second electrodes; and a piezoresistive (PR) material disposed between the second electrode and a third electrode, wherein the first electrode comprises a gate t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158003 | Precision peak matching in liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy A method that identifies common peaks among unidentified peaks in the data from different LC-MS or LC-MS/MS runs is provided. The method employs an algorithm, herein referred to as “Precision Peak Matching (PPM).” The different runs can be from different laborat... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155969 | Subtitle generation and retrieval combining document processing with voice processing An apparatus for retrieving a character string includes: storage for storing text data obtained by recognizing a voice in a presentation, second text data extracted from document data used in the presentation, and associated information of the first text data and th... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153494 | Nanowire MOSFET with doped epitaxial contacts for source and drain A FET structure with a nanowire forming the FET channel, and doped source and drain regions formed by radial epitaxy from the nanowire body is disclosed. A top gated and a bottom gated nanowire FET structures are discussed. The source and drain fabrication can use e... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151143 | Method and apparatus of partitioned memory dump in a software system A method and apparatus of partitioned memory dump in a software system is provided, the apparatus comprising: a monitor for, during the execution of the software system, monitoring the memory allocations and deallocations of objects in the software system and accord... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150910 | Service providing device, program, method, and system A service providing device, program, method and system. The service providing device receives, from the different service providing device, an additional information piece including at least one of: (i) advertising information to be provided to a user of the differe... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150852 | Converter, server system, conversion method and program A converter for converting an application program that is executed for every job request into a batch processing program for collectively processing a plurality of job requests. The converter includes: a code identifier for identifying a portion of the application p... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144414 | Data interleaving in tape drives Methods and apparatus for interleaving data in a multitrack tape drive and for writing data on a multitrack tape in the tape drive. One method includes: partitioning the data into m(2n+k) data blocks, where each data block has a logical array of rows and ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143726 | Semiconductor device and method of making semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, and a micro-chip which is electrically connected to the chip, and includes a thickness which is less than a thickness of the chip. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143609 | Three-terminal cascade switch for controlling static power consumption in integrated circuits A switching circuit includes a plurality of three-terminal PCM switching devices connected between a voltage supply terminal and a sub-block of logic. Each of the switching devices includes a PCM disposed in contact between a first terminal and a second terminal, a ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143113 | Omega shaped nanowire tunnel field effect transistors fabrication A method for forming a nanowire tunnel field effect transistor device includes forming a nanowire connected to a first pad region and a second pad region, the nanowire including a core portion and a dielectric layer, forming a gate structure on the dielectric layer ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140895 | Method and system for recovering SIP transaction A method and system for recovering a SIP transaction. The method including monitoring an event related to transaction change; recording information related to the event; and regenerating a transaction by use of the recorded information upon failover. A system is als... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140673 | Method and apparatus for controlling load admission rate of an application server A method and system for controlling load admission rate of an application server is provided. In the method, actual heap utilization and load admission rate of the application server in current control cycle are detected; based on the detected actual heap utilizatio... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140600 | Memory power control method and memory power control program A method and a computer readable article of manufacture for controlling memory power consumption on a computer. The method includes a memory having a power saving mode and performs a garbage collection for collecting no-longer-needed objects in groups the no-longer-... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140547 | Systems, methods and computer products for a monitoring context generator Systems, methods and computer products for generating calculation context classes from a relationship between structured data and a calculation procedure, the context classes having parent-child relationships. Exemplary embodiments include a method including searchi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140546 | Computer system for performing aggregation of tree-structured data, and method and computer program product therefor A computer system, methods, and programs for creating an index for aggregating data in at least one tree structure including at least one node each including one label indicating node type and values. The system includes a node ID assignment processing unit for assi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140447 | Method for regression from interval target values by alternating linear gaussian and expectation-maximization Methods, computing devices, and computer program products for regression from interval target values are provided. Training data having an interval output are read. An initial model is estimated. Representative values for the interval output are assigned using the i... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139904 | Method and apparatus for implementing optical deflection switching using coupled resonators A method of implementing optical deflection switching includes directing a tuning operation at a specific region of coupled optical resonators coupled to an input port, a first output port and a second output port, the coupled optical resonator including a plurality... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139853 | Color naming, color categorization and describing color composition of images The invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for assigning color names to individual image pixels, and generating verbal description of color composition in images, suitable for a wide variety of information processing applications. For an isolated image pi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139769 | Processing multi-key content Multi-key content processing systems and methods, for processing content with at least one distribution target position. Each of the distribution target positions corresponds to an authorization key. An example method includes the steps of: encrypting said content w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139767 | Fine-grained forward-secure signature scheme The presented methods form the basis of a forward-secure signature scheme that is provably secure. Moreover, the presented methods form also the basis of a fine-grained forward-secure signature scheme that is secure and efficient. The scheme allows to react immediat... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139567 | Transceiving apparatus and data processing system for communication base stations A base station apparatus adaptive for antenna arrays including at least one radio frequency (RF) header module, at least one data processing apparatus, and transceiving apparatus for transceiving data between the at least one radio frequency (RF) header module and t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139483 | Network traffic control in peer-to-peer environments A method and an electronic unit are disclosed for controlling traffic on a network, especially for controlling peer-to-peer related traffic. A filter unit is intercepting messages related to peer-to-peer application from a network line, irrespective of the messages'... | 03/20/2012 |
