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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8129763 | Metal-oxide-semiconductor device including a multiple-layer energy filter A MOS device includes first and second source/drains spaced apart relative to one another. A channel is formed in the device between the first and second source/drains. A gate is formed in the device between the first and second source/drains and proximate the chann... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115659 | Method and apparatus for efficient gathering of information in a multicore system Methods and apparatus for gathering information from processors by using compressive sampling are presented. The invention can monitor multicore processor performance and schedule processor tasks to optimize processor performance. Using compressive sampling minimize... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8060772 | Storage redundant array of independent drives A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing redundant array of independent drives. In response to a failure of a hard disk in a first RAID array, the process calculates an amount of free capacity available across a set ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041571 | Application of speech and speaker recognition tools to fault detection in electrical circuits A method and apparatus detect and localize electric faults in electrical power grids and circuit. High impedance faults are detected by analyzing data from remote sensor units deployed over the network using the algorithms of speech and speaker analysis software. Th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8026715 | Magneto-resistance based nano-scale position sensor A position sensor and method include a magnetic component, a first magneto-resistive sensor disposed in proximity to the magnet/coil; and a second magneto-resistive sensor disposed in proximity to the magnetic component and the first magneto-resistive sensor. The fi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024278 | System for dynamic performance modeling of computer application services using a serial parallel queueing network (SPQN) modeler A generic queueing network model of a Web services environment is introduced. The behavior of a service is abstracted in three phases: serial, parallel and dormant, thus yielding a Serial Parallel Queueing Network (SPQN) model with a small number of parameters. A me... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022447 | Metal-oxide-semiconductor device including an energy filter A MOS device includes first and second source/drains spaced apart relative to one another. A channel is formed in the device between the first and second source/drains. A gate is formed in the device between the first and second source/drains and proximate the chann... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020586 | One-step flow control for crossing channels In one embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for one-step flow control at a micro-channel crossing comprises a first micro-channel and a second micro-channel, a plurality of magnetic valves, and a guiding magnet. The guiding magnet produces a proximal ma... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020120 | Layout quality gauge for integrated circuit design A method for layout design includes steps or acts of: receiving a layout for design of an integrated circuit chip; designing mask shapes for the layout; transmitting the mask shapes to a litho simulator for generating wafer shapes; receiving the wafer shapes; calcul... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019635 | Adaptive product configuration model The adaptive product conditioning is a computer-implemented method for identifying product configurations that can be provided to customers in reaction to supply imbalances. The methodology uses data mining techniques to collect and analyze business level meta data ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018818 | Systems and methods for storing and reading data in a data storage system Systems and methods for storing and reading data in a data storage system are provided. The data storage system includes a storage medium for storing data. The storage medium stores data as a plurality of topographical features. Further, the data storage system incl... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010887 | Implementing versioning support for data using a two-table approach that maximizes database efficiency A method, system, and storage medium for providing versioning of data by associating a version number having a value with a data item, establishing a table for storing a most recent version of the data item, establishing a second table for storing all versions of th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006157 | Resource-light method and apparatus for outlier detection Outlier detection methods and apparatus have light computational resources requirement, especially on the storage requirement, and yet achieve a state-of-the-art predictive performance. The outlier detection problem is first reduced to that of a classification learn... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005141 | Method for efficient encoding and decoding quantized sequence in Wyner-Ziv coding of video A computer-based method for encoding and decoding quantized sequences in Wyner-Ziv coding of video, bi-partite graph is used in an iterative process. The method takes as input to an encoder a sequence of quantized data from a finite alphabet, the sequence comprising... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001018 | System and method for automated part-number mapping Automated mapping of part numbers associated with parts in a bill of materials (BOM) submitted by a BOM originator to internal part numbers assigned to those parts by a BOM receiver is performed by one or more computers connected to one or more networks through one ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992591 | Magnetically actuated microfluidic mixers In one embodiment as described in this section, an apparatus for mixing of microfluidic streams on a chip is presented, which comprises a micro-channel and a plurality of magnetic valves on the chip. A guiding magnet produces a proximal magnetic field gradient to ex... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987180 | Classification-based method and apparatus for string selectivity estimation Histogram construction and selectivity estimation for string and substring match queries in databases of data having strings associated with attributes. The histogram construction counts string-attribute pairs in the documents, and outputs string-attribute-count tri... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979298 | Method and apparatus for operational risk assessment and mitigation Risk in business management is analyzed based on a probabilistic network approach which quantifies the impact of operational risk on financial metrics such as Value-at-Risk (VAR) and/or Potential Losses (PL). This approach provides further capability to determine th... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961996 | Coupling device for use in optical waveguides An optical waveguide device comprises a plurality of mirrors, wherein at least one mirror comprises a first and second reflective end that reflect and transmit light. The plurality of mirrors comprises at least one first material having at least one first refractive... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961605 | System and method for enabling management of a plurality of messages in a communication network A method and system for enabling management of a plurality of messages in a communication network is provided. The method includes measuring an in-load and an out-service corresponding to a plurality of switching-nodes in the communication network. The method furthe... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7950015 | System and method for combining services to satisfy request requirement A method, computer program product, and data processing system for providing an improved directory service for storing information about hardware and software components is disclosed. The directory service stores not only the information that other hardware and soft... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941461 | System and method for developing and enabling model-driven XML transformation framework for e-business A system and method for developing and enabling model-driven extensible Markup Language (XML) transformation to XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format incorporate a strong built-in validation capability. A platform independent framework applies multiple passes of tra... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7928907 | Method for mapping machine rooms and locating machines within machine rooms A system and method automatically maps computer center rooms and locates data center components within computer centers. Radio triangulation is used to determine the locations and, optionally, orientation, of machines within a computer center. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917380 | System and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires The present invention provides a system and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires. According to the present invention, stochastic-integer-programming-based constrained optimization techniques are employed to develop a strategic bu... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908161 | Method and apparatus for business process transformation wizard A computer implemented method and a computer system implementing the method of a business process transformation wizard leads a business analyst through a series of steps to invoke business transformation patterns, in order to analyze the results of those processes.... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895502 | Error control coding methods for memories with subline accesses A two-level error control protocol detects errors on the subline level and corrects errors using the codeword for the entire line. This enables a system to read small pieces of coded data and check for errors before accepting them, and in case errors are detected, t... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895152 | Method, apparatus and system for business performance monitoring and analysis using metric network A metric network provides a descriptive model that explicitly expresses the relationships among all metrics of a business enterprise. Performance of each single business entity in the operational level is measured by a set of primitive metrics, each of which measure... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890583 | Establishment and maintenance of collaborative communication associations based on multiple contextual criteria A method, system, and computer program for dynamically setting up collaborative associations between a group of users, computing resources, and/or communication devices, where the constituents of the collaborative association are chosen based on a variety of context... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7882230 | Method and system for dynamically allocating servers to compute-resources using capacity thresholds Servers are allocated for use in one of a plurality of compute-resources or for stand-by storage in a free-pool. Server load metrics are selected (e.g., ping-reply time or CP utilization) for measuring load in the servers. Metrics are measured for the servers alloca... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865540 | Apparatus and method of semantic-based publish-subscribe system A semantic publish/subscribe system enables semantic event routing and allows publishers (resp. subscribers) to use self-defined event schemas to publish (resp. subscribe) events. The constraints on value-based publish/subscribe systems that publishers and subscribe... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861248 | Method and apparatus of adaptive integration activity management for business application integration An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing b... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7835891 | Method and apparatus for generating alternative representation of optimization models A computer implemented method for determining an alternative representation of an optimization model reduces model input through compact representation of model parameters. Model generation is performed at varying levels of complexity (approximation) depending on pr... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834339 | Programmable-resistance memory cell The present invention relates to a memory cell comprising: a resistive structure; at least two electrodes coupled to the resistive structure, and at least one hydrogen reservoir structure, wherein the application of an electrical signal to one of the at least two el... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831868 | Process for software support resource allocation based on analysis of categorized field problems A method and system estimates future software support requirements based on statistical models of previous observations of support requests, either for the same product or for a different product having features previously identified as correlated with features of a... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823152 | System and method for collaborative hosting of applications, virtual machines, and data objects To provide collaborative hosting of applications, the present invention first generates a virtual operating system image consisting of operating system code, application code, runtime code and supporting data repositories. The virtual operating system image may then... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822832 | Method for controlling operations of computing devices The present invention provides a process to establish or configure a mode of operation for computing devices through the use of affinity groups, policy guidelines, and priority graphs. An affinity group is a group of peer devices identified by a network to which a t... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809552 | Instance-based sentence boundary determination by optimization A method for instance-based sentence boundary determination optimizes a set of criteria based on examples in a corpus, and provides a general domain-independent framework for the task by balancing a comprehensive set of sentence complexity and quality constraints. T... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809456 | System and process for supply management for the assembly of expensive products A Managing component supply for complex products is achieved by monitoring the delivery performance of component suppliers and optimizing the times at which orders are placed. Supply delivery performance targets are set for each supplier, and component order times a... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802102 | Method for efficient and secure data migration between data processing systems The present invention provides a method for transferring encrypted information from one storage area to other storage area wherein cryptographic data protection scheme having protection attributes are applied on the data. A crypto container having cryptographic prop... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792296 | Access-controlled encrypted recording method for site, interaction and process monitoring A high level of security for access to recorded information is provided by a method which includes provisioning of a trusted/protected communication linkage such as a tamper-resistant or tamper evident enclosure, a physical close coupling between information source ... | 09/07/2010 |
