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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7054943 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RESOURCES ASSIGNED TO PLURALITY OF CUSTOMERS, FOR MEETING SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS (SLAS) WITH MINIMAL RESOURCES, AND ALLOWING COMMON POOLS OF RESOURCES TO BE USED ACROSS PLURAL CUSTOMERS ON A DEMAND BASIS A method (and system) for managing and controlling allocation and de-allocation of resources based on a guaranteed amount of resource and additional resources based on a best effort for a plurality of customers, includes dynamically allocating server resources for a... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7002646 | Tunable thin film optical devices and fabrication methods for tunable thin film optical devices Thin film structures include electro-optic materials and transparent conducting materials which are combined to fabricate vertical optical devices. The electro-optic materials are responsive to an electric field to change an optical characteristic. For example, a mo... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6989575 | Formation of arrays of microelectronic elements Arrays of microelectronic elements such as magnetorestive memory elements and FET's, including dual-gate FET's, are fabricated by methods involving a host wafer and a first wafer on which part of the microelectronic elements are separately formed. Conductive element... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6940300 | Integrated circuits for testing an active matrix display array A device for use in a display system including an array of pixel cells formed on a substrate. Each pixel cell being coupled to at least one gate line of a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate and at least one data line of a plurality of data lines being f... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6912726 | Method and apparatus for integrating hyperlinks in video Hypervideo data is encoded with two distinct portions, a first portion which contains the video data and a second portion, typically much smaller than the first, which contains hyperlink information associated with the video data. Preferably, the first and second po... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907437 | Memory management using object pointer structure There is described a method of accurately scanning the C stack. One technique for solving these problems is to indirectly reference objects using handles however the some JVMs have removed handles to gain a performance improvement. The embodiment describes a solutio... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901561 | Apparatus and method for using a target based computer vision system for user interaction A method and apparatus are provided for training a computer system to recognize specific actions of a user. This may include displaying an image of a user within a window on a screen. The window includes a target area. This may also include associating a first compu... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6894338 | Rare earth metal oxide memory element based on charge storage and method for manufacturing same A data storage element (and method of forming the same) includes a substrate comprising a semiconductor material, a metal oxide layer including an electrically insulating rare earth metal oxide disposed upon a surface of the substrate, a conductive material disposed... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6857120 | Method for characterizing program execution by periodic call stack inspection A method for characterizing runtime behavior of a computer program executing in an execution environment comprising: generating a call stack runtime data structure for tracking methods currently active in an executing program thread, an active method on the call sta... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6842783 | System and method for enforcing communications bandwidth based service level agreements to plurality of customers hosted on a clustered web server A method and system for controlling and guaranteeing a service level agreement (SLA) based on a communications outbound link bandwidth usage to a plurality of customers having electronic business activity hosted by at least one server as a server farm, includes moni... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6832367 | Method and system for recording and replaying the execution of distributed java programs A method for recording and replaying execution of distributed programs on a computer system in a distributed environment, includes identifying an execution order of critical events of a program, generating groups of critical events of the program, wherein for each g... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6820258 | System and method for dynamically optimizing executing activations A system and method for dynamically optimizing a code sequence of a program while executing in a computer system comprises: identifying one or more program yield points in an original code sequence at which a run-time representation of the original code sequence may... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6817013 | Program optimization method, and compiler using the same An optimization method and apparatus for converting source code for a program written in a programming language into machine language. The program includes a basic block as a unit to estimate an execution time for the program to be processed, generating a nested tre... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6816175 | Orthogonal browsing in object hierarchies The present invention relates to means and a method executable by a computer system for navigation within a tree structure with leaf nodes representing arbitrary types of objects, i.e. of related data treated as a unit. According to the current teaching a tra... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6785275 | Method and system for creating small group multicast over an existing unicast packet network A routing table for use with a router in a world-wide network, includes an existing routing table with a multicast-destination (MD) column. ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6757679 | System for building electronic queue(s) utilizing self organizing units in parallel to permit concurrent queue add and remove operations An electronic queue management system for implementation on a chip. The queue management system comprises a plurality of primitive queue elements each including a register for a next-pointer and a register for a queue number. The next-pointer values may be selected ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757294 | System and method for amicable small group multicast in a packet-switched network A method (and system) of creating a multicast packet by a source node in a world-wide network, includes providing each multicast packet with a predetermined indicator indicating that the packet includes a multicast packet, one of a plurality of multicast destination... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6756651 | CMOS-compatible metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector A novel photodetector CMOS-compatible photodetector is disclosed in which photo-generation of carriers (electrons) is carried out in the metal of the electrodes, rather than as electron-hole pairs in the semiconductor on which the metal electrodes are deposited. The... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754761 | Communications system including symmetric bus bridge and method used therewith A method of (and system for) of transporting a sideband signal through a physical layer of an extended bridge, includes on a first node of the extended bridge, providing an interface to a sideband component coupled to a side of the extended bridge, encoding a first ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6720602 | Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell with folded bitline vertical transistor and method of producing the same A semiconductor device and a method for forming the semiconductor device, include forming a mandrel, forming spacer wordline conductors on sidewalls of the mandrel, separating, by using a trim mask, adjacent spacer wordline conductors, and providing a contact area t... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6710346 | Active infrared presence sensor A presence detector includes an optical emitter for emitting optical radiation, an optical detector for detecting a presence of an object based on receiving the optical radiation, and a microcontroller for controlling the optical emitter and processing the optical d... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6704872 | Processor with a function to prevent illegal execution of a program, an instruction executed by a processor and a method of preventing illegal execution of a program The present invention provides an improved technology of preventing illegal use and execution of a software program provided to a computer system. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a Processor of a type in which a memory managing uni... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6681313 | Method and system for fast access to a translation lookaside buffer In a system for conducting virtual address translation in a virtual memory system and implementing a table such as a Translation Lookaside Buffer, a system and method enabling quicker access to tables entries in which the entries are addressed after addin... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6675207 | Possibility of execution evaluating apparatus and method therefor A compiler 2 sequentially simplifies, according to predetermined rules, a network of a processing flow defined by a PERT diagram and including a plurality of jobs executable in parallel, and determines which of any other jobs provide processing results ca... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6658421 | System and method for detecting release-to-release binary compatibility in compiled object code Digital signatures of various aspects or characterizing indicia of object code classes are used to determine whether a compiled class has built-in assumptions about external classes that are incorrect due to modification and recompilation of the external ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6636866 | System and method for object representation in an object-oriented programming language A method and system for optimizing the representation of objects in an object-oriented programming language to reduce the memory requirement during the execution of the program, includes identifying the lifetimes of the various members of objects belongin... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6632741 | Self-trimming method on looped patterns A method of self-trimming pattern, includes forming a pattern containing a plurality of regular or irregular features within a first material deposited on a substrate, depositing a conformal layer of second material, and etching the second material to for... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6614079 | All-in-one disposable/permanent spacer elevated source/drain, self-aligned silicide CMOS A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device having silicide contacts that are self-aligned to deep junction edges formed within a surface of a semiconductor substrate as well as a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. Specifically, t... | 09/02/2003 |
| 5867651 | System for providing custom functionality to client systems by redirecting of messages through a user configurable filter network having a plurality of partially interconnected filters The functionality of Web clients (e.g. browser) is enhanced using a WebFilter Manager (WFM) that allows i) easy integration of individual WebFilters operating on ingoing or outgoing messages between the browser and web servers, ii) arbitrary and dynamic o... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5715391 | Modular and infinitely extendable three dimensional torus packaging scheme for parallel processing A parallel processing computer having a three dimensional (3D) torus topology. The computer includes multiple nodes formed in rows, multiple leap frog connections, and multiple end connections. The rows extend into the X, Y, and Z dimensions. The 3D torus... | 02/03/1998 |
