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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173965 | Thermally excited near-field source A high resolution material observation system includes an object having at least one spatial dimension sufficient to support production of near-field infrared emissions, a holder adapted to receive a sample to be observed, the holder further adapted to position the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161059 | Method and apparatus for collecting entity aliases A system and method for collecting entity aliases include a web object collection component that obtains, from a web search engine, at least one Web object associated with a user' input entity. The system and method also include a social tag collection component tha... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8105165 | Controlling interaction between protected media A method, gaming system, and computer program storage product are disclosed. At least one unique identifier is received from a remote processing system. The at least one remote unique identifier is associated with a remote software package that is on the remote proc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8024744 | Method and system for off-loading user queries to a task manager A system and computer program product that off-loads the processing associated with responding to user status requests for software task execution queues or for queued software tasks that are managed by a software task manager. A software task manager is periodicall... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7987146 | System and method for matching multi-node software system provisioning requirements and capabilities using rough set theory A system and method for provisioning software on a plurality of computational nodes in a distributed computing environment. A plurality of support processing requirements associated with a software product is accepted. The plurality of requirements is expanded into ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7970994 | High performance disk array rebuild A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for managing disk failures in a disk array. At least one disk in a first disk array is determined to have failed. The first disk array only accesses data by reading an entire stripe that i... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7945564 | Synthesizing information-bearing content from multiple channels A computing system and method receive a query; separate a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tag each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern match each EOC; calculate the respect... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937384 | Software and method for performing database operations Elements of one or more database manipulation language (DML) commands strings are stored in tables, read from those tables and DML commands are generated. Storing these command elements in tables facilitates access to and modification of database commands used in da... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7849138 | Peer-to-peer multi-party voice-over-IP services A system and computer program product for establishing multi-party VoIP conference audio calls in a distributed, peer-to-peer network where any number of nodes are able to arbitrarily and asynchronously start or stop producing audio output to be mixed into a single ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7836036 | System and method for estimating distances between multiple index-driven scan operations A method and processor to determine distances between multiple index driven scan operations. A first anchor index entry is identified during a first index scan and stored. A first number of index entries between the first anchor index entry and a first index scan lo... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830901 | Reliable network packet dispatcher with interleaving multi-port circular retry queue Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing network data packet transmission. A retry buffer is maintained that includes a single first in, first out retransmission retry buffer. A first data packet is inserted into the retry buffer in response to transmitting ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827210 | Memory efficient XML shredded with partial commit A method and system that allows efficient shredding of large instances of hierarchical data structures into relational data structures. Large instances of hierarchical data structures, which are able to be larger than the random access storage of a computer used to ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7814460 | Hierarchical modular software packages and associated development tool A hierarchical modular software development tool provides a graphical user interface to allow development of hierarchical module software components. The software development tool allows graphical creation of a software component processing hierarchy and then genera... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813341 | Overhead reduction for multi-link networking environments A method, computing node, and computer program storage product maintain network routing information. A first node receives a route status request from a second node. A status is stored at the first node indicating that a route from the second node to the first node ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7769715 | Synchronization of access permissions in a database network A system, method, and computer program product is disclosed for synchronizing access permissions across at least two disparate database systems. A source database system is coupled to a destination database system, using an asynchronous parallel processing system wi... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7711812 | Definition system and method for web services that monitor other web services A web service development tool and method that allows a functional web service developer to associate a developed functional web service with a Web service Description Language (WSDL) document that contains a reference to a separate monitoring web service. The separ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711731 | Synthesizing information-bearing content from multiple channels A computing system and method receive a query; separate a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tag each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern match each EOC; calculate the respect... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7693070 | Congestion reducing reliable transport packet retry engine A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for transmitting at least one packet across a network destined for reception by at least one network endpoint. A plurality of packets is processed sequentially from a queue to be sent to at least one network endpoint.... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689202 | System and method for providing personal and emergency service hailing in wireless network A method and system for providing personal and emergency service hailing. A profile database stores profiles with individualized distance thresholds for each of a number of wireless devices. A wireless message proximity request is received from a requesting wireless... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685553 | System and method for global circuit routing incorporating estimation of critical area estimate metrics An electronic circuit layout refinement method and system. A grid of equally sized tiles is defined on a circuit layout area. Each tile of the grid has a respective critical area estimate metric associated with critical area estimates for a circuit to be placed on t... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7652599 | Range normalization for entropy reduction arithmetic encoding/decoding What is disclosed is a novel system and method for performing renormalization in a data entropy reduction process of an image in a compression path. An accumulator is used for one of arithmetic encoding and decoding according to an arithmetic coding process and a nu... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7639401 | Camera-based method for calibrating color displays Provided herein are teachings directed to overcoming the problem of erroneous color reproduction on a color output device such as a color display. The teachings herein provide a method for correcting color image data input to a display device by displaying a target ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7639260 | Camera-based system for calibrating color displays Provided herein are teachings directed to overcoming the problem of erroneous color reproduction on a color output device such as a color display. The teachings herein provide a system and apparatus for correcting color image data input to a display device by displa... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7565324 | Shared authorization data authentication method for transaction delegation in service-based computing environments A system and method for allowing client computers to access data or processing on remote computers without requiring the remote computer's recognition of the client computer. An authorizing computer provides client computers with a data specification and remote comp... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7552232 | Speculative method and system for rapid data communications A system and method that utilizes a dedicated transmission queue to enable expedited transmission of data messages to adaptive “nearest neighbor” nodes within a cluster. Packet descriptors are pre-fetched by the communications adapter hardware during the transmi... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7529537 | System and method for providing personal and emergency service hailing in wireless network A method and system for determining each location and identifier of a plurality of wireless communication devices, computing a distance between a location of a requesting device and the location of each of the plurality of wireless communication devices. The system ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7512598 | Synthesizing information-bearing content from multiple channels A method receives a query; separates a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tags each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern matches each EOC; calculates the respective distance fu... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7502801 | Providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system A system, method and computer readable medium for providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system. A first snapshot of a first set of source files in a file system is generated. The first snapshot includes an inode corresponding to each source file in the first se... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7492727 | Space and time efficient XML graph labeling There is provided a method for determining reachability between any two nodes within a graph. The inventive method utilizes a dual-labeling scheme. Initially, a spanning tree is defined for a group of nodes within a graph. Each node in the spanning tree is assigned ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7483890 | Method, computer program product, and system of optimized data translation from relational data storage to hierarchical structure A tagging tree that defines a hierarchical output data structure and relational database query operations that retrieve the data to be included in each hierarchical section is accepted and processed. A query optimizer analyzes the tagging tree to determine database ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7379450 | System and method for peer-to-peer multi-party voice-over-IP services A system, method, and computer program product for establishing multi-party VoIP conference audio calls in a distributed, peer-to-peer network where any number of nodes are able to arbitrarily and asynchronously start or stop producing audio output to be mixed into ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7274426 | Method of sealing two substrates with a non-epoxy or epoxy-acrylate sealant using laser radiation A method of joining two panels during the manufacturing of a LCD display employing the ODF (One Drop Fill) assembly technique. Using this method, the liquid crystal is deposited on one of the substrate's interior to the glue seal. The glue seal is pre-deposited near... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7222354 | Dynamic composition at the set-top box A method for displaying on a viewer information processing system with an interface to a display (a device for rendering audio and video), a set of multimedia segments to form a multimedia presentation. The method comprising the steps of receiving the play-list, whe... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219102 | Method, computer program product, and system converting relational data into hierarchical data structure based upon tagging trees Tagging trees are generated and used to facilitate transforming data from relational databases into hierarchical formats, such as in XML documents. Tagging trees contain both XML hierarchical structure information as well a query information that is needed to access... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7185024 | Method, computer program product, and system of optimized data translation from relational data storage to hierarchical structure A tagging tree that defines a hierarchical output data structure and relational database query operations that retrieve the data to be included in each hierarchical section is accepted and processed. A query optimizer analyzes the tagging tree to determine database ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7130814 | Method and apparatus to automate consumer replenishment shopping by periodicity According to the present invention, a method to automate the replenishment of one or more items on a shopping list. The method comprising the steps of storing data representing an inventory of items for sale at the e-commerce site; storing one or more shopping lists... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117200 | Synthesizing information-bearing content from multiple channels A computing system and method receive a query; separate a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tag each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern match each EOC; calculate the distanc... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113998 | System and method for grouping recipients of streaming data A data stream is transmitted to groups of individuals making separate requests for the data stream. The groups may be arranged by placing a maximum number of requesters in a group or by grouping the requesters making requests within a discrete period of time. The in... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7088343 | Edge touchpad input device A touchpad input device is provided that is disposed about at least a portion of at least one outside edge of an electronic device housing. The present invention also provides electronic devices comprising the present touchpad input device. Furthermore, the present ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076781 | Resource reservation for large-scale job scheduling A method is provided for scheduling software task execution. According to the method, at least one high priority software task that has a specified start time and at least one lower priority software task are accepted. There is determined a time remaining until the ... | 07/11/2006 |
