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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7936356 | Information processing method for information registration, and information processing method for information retrieval An information processor for information registration, capturing means captures a graphics processing command, and database registering means registers, as information about completed work in the database, information about a series of graphics processing commands c... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7676456 | System and method for controlling database access A system to controls access to a database, including: an acquiring section which acquires an access program including a plurality of database access instructions; a detecting section which detects a plurality of different tables in the database that are accessed by ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7646864 | Foot-actuated call answer-end apparatus A telephone headset system having a network interface device, a head set including a headphone and a microphone, and a foot operated, hands free call answering and call ending element. The network interface device, headset, and call answering and call ending element... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7558786 | Method for storing text annotations with associated type information in a structured data store A database system, a computer executable method, a computer executable program for the database system, and a method for updating an indexing tables in a database system are provided. The database system comprises a database storing item tables of items appended by ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7546310 | Expression detecting system, an expression detecting method and a program A system and method for detecting preference expressions indicating evaluators' likes and dislikes of a product from evaluations of the product and stores text describing evaluation of the product in association with an attribute of the text. The method extracts an ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7529803 | Searching electronic mail and messages A method for recovering information from electronic communications, including conveying an indication of a topic of interest, from a searcher on the topic, to a computing system storing a first set of the communications of a first communicator, and searching within ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7506287 | Method, system, and program product for pre-compile processing of hardware design language (HDL) source files A method includes pre-compilation operations on HDL source code files, creating a “make it” file, on demand processing of the HDL source code in an HDL source browser, and resolving overloaded function and operator calls in an HDL source code browser debugger. C... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7428541 | Computer system, method, and program product for generating a data structure for information retrieval, and an associated graphical user interface A computer system for generating data structures for information retrieval of documents stored in a database. The computer system includes: a neighborhood patch generation system for defining patch of nodes having predetermined similarities in a hierarchy structure.... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421081 | Method and apparatus for generating hierarchical keys of digital assets A method for generating hierarchical keys of digital assets, the digital assets are arranged as at least one tree structure for management, a root node of the tree structure represents the complete set of the digital assets, other group nodes represents sub-sets in ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414908 | Magnetic memory device A Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM), in which very little current flows through MTJ elements and very little voltage is applied across them, the MRAM being provided with sense-amplifiers capable of amplifying the potential difference between their corresponding p... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409488 | Data processing system A data processing system comprises a local probe storage array having a plurality of sensors for reading data from a storage surface. A plurality of data processing elements are mounted on the storage array. Each data processing element is connected to different sen... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7382844 | Methods to self-synchronize clocks on multiple chips in a system A method of self-synchronizing clocks in a multiple chip system, by assigning one chip as the master chip and the other chips as slave chips. A training signal is sent from master chip to the slave chips to determine the latency from the master chip to a slave chip,... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383496 | Information processing apparatus, program, and recording medium An information processing apparatus for classifying documents. The apparatus begins with an input document, and detects related documents. Next, the apparatus converts the document components into element identifying information that indicates the type or role of th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383417 | Prefetching apparatus, prefetching method and prefetching program product The efficient performance of prefetching of data prior to the reading of the data by a program. A prefetching apparatus, for prefetching data from a file to a buffer before the data is read by a program, includes: a history recorder, for recording a history for a pl... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379937 | Frequent pattern mining apparatus, frequent pattern mining method, and program and recording medium therefor Efficiently mining frequent subgraphs contained commonly in a plurality of objects by considering abstraction. A frequent pattern mining apparatus which mines a set of frequent subgraphs contained in a plurality of objects including: a conceptual hierarchy database ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376310 | Optical waveguide element with controlled birefringence An optical waveguide element having a cladding layer formed on a substrate and at least one waveguide core formed in the cladding layer for transmitting an optical signal. Two heater sections are provided for shifting a phase of optical signals. The two heater secti... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373044 | Optical link module, optical interconnection method, information processor including the optical link module, signal transfer method, prism and method of manufacturing the prism An optical link module of the present invention for connecting light beams by deflection and including light-emitting devices arranged in a planar manner; an optical fiber bundle that is an optical waveguide for receiving the light beams from the light-emitting devi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7337195 | Method and device for establishing synchronized recovery log points According to the present invention a method and a system is provided for establishing synchronized recovery log points in an infrastructure comprising at least a first database management system and a second database management system, whereby recovery log files are... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7318124 | Cache hit ratio estimating apparatus, cache hit ratio estimating method, program, and recording medium Determining a cache hit ratio of a caching device analytically and precisely. There is provided a cache hit ratio estimating apparatus for estimating the cache hit ratio of a caching device, caching access target data accessed by a requesting device, including: an a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7302646 | Information rearrangement method, information processing apparatus and information processing system, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor An information processing system, for processing information obtained from multiple sites that are connected via the Internet 10, includes: a webcrawler 13, for crawling sites, across the Internet 10, which are registered in a registered site DB... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280055 | Method and apparatus for encoding binary data as a zero terminated string Passing input strings through an application programming interface between functions that take null byte terminated strings as arguments, where at least some of said input strings contain null bytes internally. This is accomplished by storing the positions of the nu... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275079 | Common application metamodel including C/C++ metamodel A method of and a system for processing an enterprise application request on an end user application and an application server. This is accomplished by initiating the application request on the end user application in a first language (such as a markup language) wit... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275194 | Clock duty cycle based access timer combined with standard stage clocked output register An output of an element under test is captured and stored, through a multiplexer, in a capture register. At a clock edge (either rising or falling edge) the element under test catches the “edge” and “strobes” the output. The multiplexer is strobed, and the d... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272595 | Information search support system, application server, information search method, and program product A system includes a vocabulary information processing mechanism for loading an ontology corresponding to a selected service and analyzing the loaded ontology to extract a conceptual structure, an inference processing mechanism for executing an inference operation ba... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7227829 | Mechanical data processing Described is a method for erasing data recorded in a data storage device in which a data bit is written onto a surface by applying a first combination of energy and force to the surface via a tip to form a pit in the surface representative of the data bit by local d... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219089 | Data retrieval method, system and program product A data retrieval system having a database storing data as a vector that has been digitized based on a keyword. The system has capability of generating a residual vector from the data to compute a covariance matrix and an eigenvector of the covariance matrix. The sys... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216129 | Information processing using a hierarchy structure of randomized samples A method is provided for retrieving information from massive databases (i.e., databases with millions of documents) in real time, that allows users to control the trade-off between accuracy in retrieved results and response times. The method may be applied to databa... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210084 | Integrated system logic and ABIST data compression for an SRAM directory ABIST apparatus with integrated directory compare logic functionality, and ABIST error detection functionality. The apparatus includes two subsystems NOR'ed together. The first subsystem is for bit-wise logically ANDing corresponding array valid bits and tag valid i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7180847 | Apparatus and method for storing and reading high data capacities In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a tape having an information layer on which information is storable in the form of perturbations, an array of probes that in function faces the tape such that the probes scan the sur... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181449 | Method, system, and program product for executing a scalar function on a varying number of records within a RDBMS using SQL Application of a scalar function across a varying number of records within an RDBMS using the RDBMS's SQL capabilities. This is accomplished by determining a last row in a group of rows, sorting the rows and passing the sorted rows to a scalar function, where the sc... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7124287 | Dynamically adaptive associativity of a branch target buffer (BTB) Disclosed is a method and apparatus providing the capability to create a dynamic associative branch target buffer (BTB). A dynamically based associative BTB allows for either an increase number of entries and/or a reduction in area over current based static based BT... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7099257 | Data overwriting in probe-based data storage devices Methods are provided for overwriting data in a probe-based data storage device (1) wherein data is represented by the presence and absence of pits formed in a storage surface (4) by a probe of the device. Input data is first coded such that successive ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089518 | Method and program product for modelling behavior of asynchronous clocks in a system having multiple clocks Method and program product for analyzing an asynchronously clocked system. The system being analyzed has independently clocked subsystems with clock boundaries therebetween. The model identifies a boundary between the two independently clocked subsystems, and identi... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084760 | System, method, and program product for managing an intrusion detection system An intrusion event detection system, method, and program product with an enumeration of specific known benign intrusion events, and performing a vulnerability test on specific elements of the computer system for the particular known benign intrusion event. These vul... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082595 | Schematic driven placement method and program product for custom VLSI circuit design A physical device layout tool and method. The method and tool receive a user provided schematic with circuit data and placement parameters, including defaults. Further inputs include a definition of cell physical position in the horizontal direction, a definition of... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7076710 | Non-binary address generation for ABIST Method and system for testing a memory array having a non-uniform binary address space. The test system includes a test engine for generating addresses for the memory array and for generating and applying data patterns to the memory array. The test engine has an add... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073105 | ABIST address generation An array built-in, on-chip self test system for testing a memory array and a method of testing the memory array. The memory array has data input ports, data output ports, and address ports, and a data control subsystem, an address control subsystem, and a comparator... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7056840 | Direct photo-patterning of nanoporous organosilicates, and method of use A low dielectric constant, patterned, nanoporous material and a method of forming the material. The material is formed by depositing a layer onto a substrate, said layer comprising a reactive organosilicate material, a porogen, an initiator, and a solvent; exposing ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054257 | AFM-based data storage and microscopy Read/write components for AFM-based data storage devices are provided. In particular embodiments, a read/write component comprises lever means and a support structure, the lever means being connected to the support structure for substantially pivotal movement. The l... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7038996 | Method and apparatus for reading an array of thermal resistance sensors Described is a method for reading an array of sensors having a set of row conductors each connected to the sensors in a corresponding row of the array and a set of column conductors each connected to the sensors in a corresponding column of the array such that each ... | 05/02/2006 |
