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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8140193 | Assessing, forecasting and simulating energy consumption of buildings using energy efficiency coefficients Energy consumption data of a building and temperature data outside the building collected over a period of time are correlated and segmented into a plurality of segments including at least a heating consumption segment, a cooling segment, and temperature-insensitive... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8054669 | Non-volatile programmable optical element employing F-centers A non-volatile programmable electro-optical element alters absorption characteristics of an optical medium that comprises a doped transition metal oxide material including F-centers. The F-centers are electrostatically moved into or out of the regions containing a w... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8024700 | Method and system for understanding social organization in a design and development process A method and system constructs a socio-technical network representing design and development processes. In one aspect, a network of inter-personal interactions comprising at least a plurality of nodes representing actors in design and development process is establis... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024315 | Method of dynamically providing a compound object's source information during its development A method and system for dynamically providing a composite source information report whenever source information of a composite object is updated. The system includes a subscription handler for receiving a subscription request and generating a subscription query, a m... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005781 | Connection of value networks with information technology infrastructure and data via applications and support personnel A method and a system for relating of a value network analysis of a mission to a knowledge base of dependencies of data objects, applications and information technology resources required for achieving of such mission, such method used for optimization of provisioni... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7997491 | Thin film transistor liquid crystal display barcodes A color-based content encoding system is provided that includes providing a color-containing image from an electronic device display including a fixed pixel grid, wherein the color-containing image includes a plurality of color pixels on the fixed pixel grid, each o... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996823 | Mechanism to provide debugging and optimization in policy and knowledge controlled distributed computing systems, through the use of tagged policies and knowledge representation elements A mechanism to provide debugging and optimization in policy and knowledge controlled distributed computing system through the use of tagged policies is provided. An aspect of the mechanism tags one or more policies, for instance, at their creation time, execution ti... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996353 | Policy-based management system with automatic policy selection and creation capabilities by using singular value decomposition technique A statistical approach implementing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to a policy-based management system for autonomic and on-demand computing applications. The statistical approach empowers a class of applications that require policies to handle ambiguous conditi... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993535 | Robust self-aligned process for sub-65nm current-perpendicular junction pillars A method for fabricating a device includes forming a first insulation layer to cover a removable mask and a device structure that has been defined by the mask. The device structure is below the mask. The mask is lifted off to expose a top portion of the device struc... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7962700 | Systems and methods for reducing latency for accessing compressed memory using stratified compressed memory architectures and organization Compressed memory systems are provided to reduce latency associated with accessing compressed memory using stratified compressed memory architectures and memory organization protocols in which a region of compressed main memory is allocated as a direct access memory... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7945842 | Method and apparatus for rateless source coding with/without decoder side information A method of and system for rateless source coding are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a set of low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, each of which accepts a range of data input lengths and a range of target compression rates; identifying a da... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945670 | Distributed access control system An entrance and exit management system for controlling the entrance and exit at a plurality of management points according to the present invention includes a server connected to a network and managing right information generated from a request for a certain service... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937618 | Distributed, fault-tolerant and highly available computing system A method and system for achieving highly available, fault-tolerant execution of components in a distributed computing system, without requiring the writer of these components to explicitly write code (such as entity beans or database transactions) to make component ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7916791 | Method and system for non-linear motion estimation A method and system for extrapolating and interpolating a visual signal including determining a first motion vector between a first pixel position in a first image to a second pixel position in a second image, determining a second motion vector between the second pi... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911975 | System and method for network flow traffic rate encoding A system and method for monitoring packetized traffic flow in a network and enabling approximation of the rate information of a network flow. The method for monitoring network traffic flow includes receiving, at a network packet flow collector device, packetized tra... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910910 | Phase-change memory cell and method of fabricating the phase-change memory cell A memory cell (and method of fabricating the memory cell) includes a stencil layer having a first opening, a phase-change material layer formed on a first electrode layer, and an electrically conductive layer formed on the first electrode layer, the electrically con... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7894550 | Method, apparatus, and system for source coding with iterative side information generation and decoding process A method and apparatus for decompressing data in a data-compression system with decoder-only side information is provided. In one aspect, the method comprises generating side information using a source reconstruction and decoding using the generated side information... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894245 | Spin-current switchable magnetic memory element and method of fabricating the memory element A spin-current switchable magnetic memory element (and method of fabricating the memory element) includes a plurality of magnetic layers having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy component, at least one of the plurality of magnetic layers including an alloy of a ra... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890309 | System and method for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution A system for analyzing a business process integration and management (BPIM) solution includes an assembler which assembles a plurality of solution artifacts to form a platform independent solution template, a simulator which simulates an execution of a BPIM solution... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885969 | System and method for executing compute-intensive database user-defined programs on an attached high-performance parallel computer The invention pertains to a system and method for dispatching and executing the compute-intensive parts of the workflow for database queries on an attached high-performance, parallel computing platform. The performance overhead for moving the required data and resul... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885846 | Method and system for planning of services workforce staffing using hiring, contracting and cross-training A method and system for workforce planning in one aspect provide an optimization model that produce, based on the availability profile and the demand profile of skill types, a workforce plan recommending a combination of actions. The combination of actions may inclu... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7870047 | System, method for deploying computing infrastructure, and method for identifying customers at risk of revenue change A system (and method, and method for deploying computing infrastructure) for identifying a customer at risk of revenue change (e.g., revenue loss or revenue gain) including computing a risk score based on a plurality of risk factors associated with the customer.... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7844793 | System and method for managing memory compression transparent to an operating system In a computer system having an operating system and a compressed main memory defining a physical memory and a real memory characterized as an amount of main memory as seen by a processor, and including a compressed memory hardware controller device for controlling p... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836119 | Distributed execution model for cross-organizational declarative web applications A system and method for distributed computation includes providing a first service of a first computation node in a network of nodes, the first service having a first resource, the first resource including one of references to data and other resources. In a second s... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7761715 | Semiotic system and method with privacy protection A method (as well as system and signal-bearing medium) of processing biometric data, includes receiving biometric data including a data set P, selecting a secure hash function h, and for each data set P to be collected, computing h(P), destroying the data set P, and... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7744461 | Customer preference elicitation based on a web-enabled betting game A method of eliciting customer preferences includes establishing a computer-enabled facility accessible to the target audience of participants, determining features to collect bets on, determining which participants may register, determining a betting period, determ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742960 | Method and device for calculating a price for using a specific link in a network The invention relates to a method for calculating in a network that comprises links, a price for using a specific link in the network. The method comprises the following steps: a) a comparison step for determining a price difference between the price fo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738207 | Optical storage system using an antenna for recording information data to a phase-change type medium An assembly and method for recording and/or reading high-density data includes a phase change media, an antenna placed adjacent the phase change media, and a source of electromagnetic radiation. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7702411 | Integration of job shop scheduling with discreet event simulation for manufacturing facilities A method and system for integrating job shop scheduling with discrete event simulation for manufacturing facilities are provided. In one aspect a simulator simulates discrete events of a facility using a job schedule generated by a scheduler. The simulator simulates... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693718 | Update technique for speech recognition applications with uninterrupted (24X7) operation A method of updating an application in a processing system, the aforesaid method comprising the steps of: (a) starting operation of a first version of an application in the aforesaid processing system; (b) starting operation of a second version of the aforesaid appl... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684021 | Method and apparatus for real-time measurement of trace metal concentration in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry A system (and method) for real-time measurement of trace metal concentration in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry, includes an electromagnetic radiation flow cell carrying a CMP slurry, a slurry pickup head coupled to the flow cell, and an analyzer for me... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676464 | Page-ranking via user expertise and content relevance A page-ranking method includes mining a portion of content of a user workstation which is connectable to a network to detect references to pages of the network. The pages may be ranked based on the detected references. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7674686 | Transplanted magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices on thermally-sensitive substrates using laser transfer and method of making the same A method of forming a magnetic memory device (and a resulting structure) on a low-temperature substrate, includes forming the memory device on a transparent substrate coated with a decomposable material layer subject to rapid heating resulting in a predetermined hig... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7665848 | Optimal dynamic techniques for custom-fit eye optics A computer method for providing optimal dynamic techniques for custom-fit eye optics. The method includes steps of mounting pressure and motion sensors in a eye-enclosing device, transmitting data produced by said sensors during actual operation of said eye-enclosin... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7602000 | Spin-current switched magnetic memory element suitable for circuit integration and method of fabricating the memory element A magnetic memory element switchable by current injection includes a plurality of magnetic layers, at least one of the plurality of magnetic layers having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy component and including a current-switchable magnetic moment, and at least ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7580596 | Non-volatile programmable optical element with absorption coefficient modulation A non-volatile programmable electro-optical element alters absorption characteristics of an optical medium that comprises a transition metal oxide material by electrostatically moving oxygen vacancies into or out of the regions containing a wavefunction of an optica... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7562293 | Method and apparatus for processing a parseable document A data processing method comprises receiving an electronically parseable document, scanning the document according to at least one predefined rule to determine if the document is suspicious, and, if the document is determined not to be suspicious, parsing the docume... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7532475 | Semiconductor chip assembly with flexible metal cantilevers A stress release thermal interface is provided for preventing the building up of stress between chip and heat sink surfaces in a multi-chip module (MCM) while maintaining reliable thermal and mechanical contact. The interface achieves enhanced thermal conduction by ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7528939 | Method and apparatus for real-time measurement of trace metal concentration in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry A system (and method) for real-time measurement of trace metal concentration in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry, includes an electromagnetic radiation flow cell carrying a CMP slurry, a slurry pickup head coupled to the flow cell, and an analyzer for me... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7522687 | Clock and data recovery system and method for clock and data recovery based on a forward error correction The forward error correction based clock and data recovery system according to the invention comprises a data latch (16) for intermediately storing received data, which is triggered by a sampling clock (sclk). The system further comprises an error determinati... | 04/21/2009 |
