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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185880 | Optimizing heap memory usage This disclosure provides a computing system and method to profile a program for finding potential optimization in heap usage by reducing lag and drag in lifetimes of heap memory blocks. The process consists of three steps. First, an instrumentation engine analyzes a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185578 | Client server system and method for executing an application utilizing distributed objects A client connected to a communication network performs an access request to an object. An application server performs an application by an actual object according to the client request. An object pool connected to the client and the application server pools a proxy ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181996 | Rotating union A rotating union (10) comprises a housing (12), a bushing (14), a fluid conduit (16), an annular seal (18) and a cap (20) secured to the housing and having a fluid inlet. The bushing is received within a cylindrical recess (... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179257 | Warning of hazardous conditions in monitored spaces using RFID technology To warn of hazardous conditions in a monitored space, the presence of an object bearing an RFID tag is detected using an RFID tag reader. Objects may be, for example, human beings, vehicles, or stationary materiel. A determination is made as to whether the object po... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176166 | Autonomic management of uniform resource identifiers in uniform resource identifier bookmark lists Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to URI management for bookmarks and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for autonomic management of URIs in a URI bookmark list. In one embodiment... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176081 | Forms integration of an external data model not implemented through a document object model (DOM) accessible application programming interface (API) Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to deploying XForms in an enterprise environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for forms integration of an external data model not implemented through a DOM a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175615 | Location identification of a mobile terminal by employing radio frequency identification The location of a mobile terminal may be determined in response to signals received from a plurality of RFIDs. Information from a plurality of RFIDs for determining a location of a mobile terminal is received by the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal may maintain ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175581 | Selective message notification system A method, system and apparatus for the selective notification of incoming electronic messages. In this regard, a selective message notification method can include selectively generating a notification for a received message based upon pre-determined criteria irrespe... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172152 | Method for inkjet printing of E13B magnetic ink character recognition characters and substrate having such characters printed thereon Electromagnetically recognizable E13B characters can be printed onto conventional paper by an inkjet printer using liquid magnetic ink. The printer receives data representing an E13B character, and prints the E13B character onto a substrate according to a modified E... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171040 | Method and system for navigation of a data structure A method and system are provided for navigation of a data structure. The method includes receiving an input path expression (104) for a query of a data structure (101) to locate one or more elements (110) in the data structure (101) at ru... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170872 | Incorporating user emotion in a chat transcript Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to chat transcript generation for instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for emotional state transcription for chat sessions. In an embodiment of the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168424 | Differentiation and identification of analogous chemical and biological substances with biosensors A biosensor for detecting particular substances biosensor comprises a piezoelectric material, an input transducer supported by the piezoelectric material to receive an input signal and propagate a corresponding acoustic wave within the piezoelectric material and an ... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658826 | Portable pet urine reservoir | 05/01/2012 |
| D658537 | Vertical aeroponic growing tower | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166018 | Browsing a list of data items An apparatus browses a list of data items. The apparatus includes a plurality of browse mechanisms each operable to scan concurrently through a list of data items and a plurality of independent groups each comprising two or more of the plurality of browse mechanisms... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165991 | Management of recorded data for online simulations Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to online simulations. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing recorded data for an online simulation can be provided. The method can include determining that a first e... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164443 | Group aware tracking of personal property within a bounded zone Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to personal articles tracking and provide a method, system and computer program product for group aware tracking within a bounded zone. In an embodiment of the invention, a group aware t... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658281 | End cap for dryer air system | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160924 | Pay-per-click fraud protection Embodiments of the invention provide a fraud prevention method for a pay-per-click data processing system. The method can include receiving a click through for a link in a host site which references a marketed site. The method also can include identifying a link add... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160232 | Dynamic message context driven application assembly for customer service agent productivity applications Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message response systems for customer service environments and provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic message context driven application assembly in a custo... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8146814 | Remote crane bar code system In general terms, the present invention provides a method of automatically scanning an inventory field to allow the selection of a desired item for retrieval. A camera is positioned in the crane trolley located above the field. The camera continuously performs a sca... | 04/03/2012 |
| D656687 | Door for an animal housing unit | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141126 | Selective IPsec security association recovery Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to IPsec SA recovery and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for selective IPsec SA recovery from security enforcement point outages. In one embod... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141070 | Bridging class loader name spaces Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, data processing system and computer program product for bridging class loader name spaces. In one embodiment, a data processing system can be provided for bridging class loader name spaces. The data processing s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140997 | Manipulating display of multiple display objects A method for manipulating display of multiple ordered and at least partially overlapping display objects on a display device includes: recording the current position in a stacking order of each of the multiple display objects in an object identifier table in associa... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140977 | Hosted data visualization service A hosted data visualization data processing system can be provided. The system can include a host computing platform configured for communicative coupling to remote clients over a computer communications network. In this regard, each of the remote clients can includ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140967 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus 10 according to the present invention includes: a registration section 64 for registering plural classes defining respective styles; a search section 52 for searching for, from the registered classes, candidat... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140957 | Technique for controlling screen display The present invention aims at automatically selecting an object which should be displayed in a simplified form in a manner such that user friendliness is not reduced and the drawing time is shortened. To this end, the invention provides a system for controlling a sc... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140840 | Multi-operating system document editing mode for battery powered personal computing devices Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for a low power document editing mode for mobile computing devices. In an embodiment of the invention, a battery powered computing device can be configured for power optimized... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140677 | Autonomic web services hosting service An autonomic grid. The autonomic grid can include a multiplicity of hosting services communicatively coupled to one another. Each hosting service can include an administrative service configured to determine whether to deploy requested Web services locally or remote... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140674 | Autonomic service routing using observed resource requirement for self-optimization A service request routing system and method includes a model table configured to store resource models. A monitor is coupled to the model table and programmed both to model resource consumption in a service providing infrastructure, and also to store the modeled res... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140636 | Instant messenger subset management Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messenger subset management. In an embodiment of the invention, an instant messenger subset man... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140588 | Decentralized many-to-many relationship management in an object persistence management system A many-to-many relationship management system. In an object persistence management system, a many-to-many relationship manager can include one or more related objects; a junction table storing relationships between the related objects; and, one or more corresponding... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140583 | Tag syndicates Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag syndicates in a social bookmarking system. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag syndicate meth... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140180 | Dynamic item-space allocation and retrieval Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to staging manufactured items and provide a method, system and computer program product for staging items in a manufacturing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140000 | Categorizing and sharing learning objects The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for administering learning objects within a learning management system. In the invention, a learner can select various learning materials in the system, known as “learning objects”, and... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138085 | Laser annealing for 3-D chip integration A laser annealing method for annealing a stacked semiconductor structure having at least two stacked layers is disclosed. A laser beam is focused on a lower layer of the stacked layers. The laser beam is then scanned to anneal features in the lower layer. The laser ... | 03/20/2012 |
| D656066 | Cover for a plant-growing media | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136121 | Graphical message format builder A graphical message format builder facilitates a user in building message formats by using format elements from a format editor palette which are inserted into a message format definition in a graphical editing pane. Each format element is served as a building block... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136103 | Combining static and dynamic compilation to remove delinquent loads A method for combined static and dynamic compilation of program code to remove delinquent loads can include statically compiling source code into executable code with instrumented sections each being suspected of including a delinquent load, and also into a separate... | 03/13/2012 |
