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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941775 | Arbitrary waveform propagation through a logic gate using timing analysis results An approach for performing arbitrary waveform propagation through a logic gate using timing analysis results is described. In one embodiment, there is an arbitrary waveform propagation tool for determining an effect of noise on a digital integrated circuit having at... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939417 | Bipolar transistor and back-gated transistor structure and method A structure is disclosed including a substrate including an insulator layer on a bulk layer, and a bipolar transistor in a first region of the substrate, the bipolar transistor including at least a portion of an emitter region in the insulator layer. Another disclos... | 05/10/2011 |
| D637603 | Service ticket interface for display screen of a communications terminal | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937696 | Method, system and program product for adapting software applications for client devices Under the present invention, when a request is received from a client device for a particular software application, the client device will first be interrogated to determine the device platform. Thereafter, the client device will be probed (e.g., from a remote bundl... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937675 | Structure including transistor having gate and body in direct self-aligned contact A design structure including a transistor having a directly contacting gate and body is disclosed. In one embodiment, the transistor includes a gate; a body; and a dielectric layer extending over the body to insulate the gate from the body along an entire surface of... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937560 | Processor pipeline architecture logic state retention systems and methods A solution for retaining a logic state of a processor pipeline architecture are disclosed. A comparator is positioned between two stages of the processor pipeline architecture. A storage capacitor is coupled between a storage node of the comparator and a ground to s... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937420 | Method and system for intelligent storage management A storage management system is provided. The storage management system may includes a data collector configured to receive storage management information for storage. The storage manager includes an agent configured to collect storage management information for a st... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936250 | Identifier device and method of identifying An identifier device, which may be part of a tracking or similar transponder device, which can be removably coupled to an article to be identified or tracked. Data representing the identity of the article is encoded in the form of a pattern, and can be read by the i... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936017 | Reduced floating body effect without impact on performance-enhancing stress A method, gated device and design structure are presented for providing reduced floating body effect (FBE) while not impacting performance enhancing stress. One method includes forming damage in a portion of a substrate adjacent to a gate; removing a portion of the ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933414 | Secure data distribution Data encrypted with a scrambling key Ks are transmitted from a service provider via a master device to a plurality of client devices having unique identifiers, administered by the master device. A set of partial keys comprising a respective partial key for each resp... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932342 | Method to improve wettability by reducing liquid polymer macromolecule mobility through forming polymer blend system A method to reduce liquid polymer macromolecule mobility through forming a polymer blend system is provided. More particularly, a small amount of polymer crosslinker is added to a liquid polymer matrix to prevent intermolecular movement. The crosslinker functions as... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931668 | Medical tool with retractible heads A tool, such as a medical instrument that can provide a variety of different functions. Specifically, the present invention includes a variety of heads that each can allow the medical instrument to perform a different function. Each of the heads are operatively coup... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930669 | Stage mitigation of interconnect variability The present invention provides a method, system and program product for mitigating effects of interconnect variability during a design stage of a chip. Under the technique of the present invention, a global and detailed routing of interconnects of the chip are deter... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930401 | Accessing shared resources with improved request peak management A solution is provided for accessing a shared resource in a data processing system (such as a server of a DAM application) by a plurality of exploiter entities (such as clients). A corresponding method starts with the step of monitoring an activity of each enabled e... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930316 | Method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in shared documents A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in shared documents. The method comprises: providing a field in a shared document, wherein the field is not owned by a user and can be edited by any user; and assigning sole owners... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930094 | System and method for exchanging positioning information between vehicles in order to estimate road traffic The present invention discloses a method, system and computer program embarked in a vehicle, for estimating traffic conditions based on positioning information exchanged with other vehicles using wireless communication. A method in accordance with an embodiment of t... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928625 | Stator bar with end arm involute-on-cone bend substantially aligned with stator core slot Dynamoelectric device and stator bar therefor, where the stator bar includes a linear portion for positioning in a slot of a stator core, the slot extending in a radial direction relative to an axis of the stator, and an end arm portion having an involute-on-cone be... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928571 | Device having dual etch stop liner and reformed silicide layer and related methods The present invention provides a semiconductor device having dual silicon nitride liners and a reformed silicide layer and related methods for the manufacture of such a device. The reformed silicide layer has a thickness and resistance substantially similar to a sil... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928570 | Interconnect structure An interconnect structure is disclosed. In one embodiment, the interconnect structure includes: a substrate including a first liner layer and a first metal layer thereover; a dielectric barrier layer over the first metal layer and the substrate; an inter-level diele... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928451 | Shaped contact layer for light emitting heterostructure An improved light emitting heterostructure and/or device is provided, which includes a contact layer having a contact shape comprising one of: a clover shape with at least a third order axis of symmetry or an H-shape. The use of these shapes can provide one or more ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926032 | Two meta-level modeling approach for mapping typed data The present invention is directed to an improved mapping system and code generation system. Embodiments of the present invention separate the mapping of data elements into two metalevels. The first metalevel maps between types of elements (e.g., string, int, float, ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924105 | Method for the detection of a predamping state and inductive sensor with predamping detection The present invention relates to a method for the detection of a predamping state of an inductive sensor. The sensor has at least one oscillator with a resonant circuit and an oscillation amplifier. According to the method the oscillatory response of the oscillator ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924103 | Inductive proximity switch and method for its operation The present invention relates to an inductive proximity switch with an oscillator having a resonant circuit and an amplifier and with an evaluating and control device for evaluating an impedance of the resonant circuit and for outputting a switching signal. Accordin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923840 | Electrically conductive path forming below barrier oxide layer and integrated circuit Methods of forming an electrically conductive path under a barrier oxide layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and an integrated circuit including the path are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes forming an electrically conductive path ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922893 | System and method for preparing near-surface heavy oil for extraction using microbial degradation A system and method for enhancing the recovery of heavy oil in an oil extraction environment by feeding nutrients to a preferred microbial species (bacteria and/or fungi). A method is described that includes the steps of: sampling and identifying microbial species t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920248 | Method and apparatus for optoelectronic contactless range finding using the transit time principle The invention relates to a method for optoelectronic contactless distance or range measurement or finding according to the transit time principle, in which a distance of an object from a sensor unit is determined from a time difference between a starting signal and ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920003 | Delay circuit with delay equal to percentage of input pulse width A delay circuit with a delay equal to the percentage of the input pulse width is described. In one embodiment, the ratio of the discharge current to the charge-up current of a timing capacitor is used to determine the percentage of the input pulse width used for the... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919840 | Integrated non-isolated VRM and microprocessor assembly The present invention provides one single chip solution for a non-isolated DC-DC regulator. The advantage is high reliability, lower cost and smaller space on the motherboard. This integrated solution opens the door for a distributed architecture with few millimeter... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917941 | System and method for providing physical web security using IP addresses A system and method for providing security for an Internet server. The system comprises: a logical security system for processing login and password data received from a client device during a server session in order to authenticate a user; and a physical security s... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917852 | System and method for visually analyzing geographic data A system and method for analyzing, searching and viewing demographic data within different geographic regions. A system is provided that includes: a mapping system for displaying a map having a plurality of geographic regions, wherein each geographic region is selec... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915732 | Production of integrated circuit chip packages prohibiting formation of micro solder balls Methods for making, and structures so made for producing integrated circuit (IC) chip packages without forming micro solder balls. In one embodiment, a method may include placing a solid grid made from an organic material between the IC chip and the substrate. The g... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915158 | Method for forming an on-chip high frequency electro-static discharge device A method for forming an on-chip high frequency electro-static discharge device is described. In one embodiment, a wafer with a multi-metal level wiring is provided. The wafer includes a first dielectric layer with more than one electrode formed therein, a second die... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915115 | Method for forming dual high-k metal gate using photoresist mask and structures thereof Methods for forming a front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) dual high-k gate using a photoresist mask and structures thereof are disclosed. One embodiment of the disclosed method includes depositing a high-k dielectric film on a substrate of a FEOL CMOS structure followed by... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913815 | Automated seal oil by-pass system for hydrogen cooled generators Disclosed is a solution to automate a seal oil float trap by-pass for a hydrogen cooled generator. An automated by-pass system is coupled to an existing manual by-pass system for a float trap for a hydrogen cooled generator. The automated by-pass system includes at ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913193 | Determining relative amount of usage of data retaining device based on potential of charge storing device An integrated circuit and a design structure are disclosed. An integrated circuit may comprise: a data retaining device; a charge storing device coupled to the data retaining device such that a use of the data retaining device triggers a charging of the charge stori... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912979 | In-order delivery of plurality of RDMA messages An RNIC implementation that performs direct data placement to memory where all segments of a particular connection are aligned, or moves data through reassembly buffers where all segments of a particular connection are non-aligned. The type of connection that cuts-t... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909168 | Slide and lock display system A disposable shippable display apparatus for use in displaying products, samples, premiums, messages or the like comprises an inner sleeve containing products, samples, or the like, slidably located within an outer sleeve and configurable between a closed or an open... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908385 | Electronic mail communicating method, apparatus and system using facsimile communication procedure A safe electronic mail system for electronic mail communication, realizing connection between mail servers using a dial-up line not through the Internet. The transmitting party is provided with a transmission mail server, a transmission client for generation electro... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908355 | Method for improving network server load balancing A method for improving network server load balancing in a system that has a plurality of network servers connected by an Internet access LAN to the Internet, a back-end access LAN connected to several database servers, and a network load balancer for selecting one o... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908022 | System and method for reducing toxic waste in manufacturing processes A system and method of optimizing a manufacturing process so as to reduce toxic waste in the process. In an embodiment, the method includes: describing the manufacturing process using a plurality of nodes, each node representing a component or a process; connecting ... | 03/15/2011 |
