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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174406 | Detecting and sharing road traffic condition information A method, system, and computer usable program product for detecting and sharing road traffic condition information are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A system receives a set of image inputs from a set of cameras that are stationary relative to a road and ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8108860 | Method for managing message flow in a multithreaded, message flow environment In one form, a method for managing message flow includes processing messages concurrently by processing nodes in a computer software application. The processing nodes include at least one set of lock acquisition, system resource access and lock release nodes interco... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7978937 | Using photographic images as a search attribute Method and computer program product including executable instructions on a computer readable medium for using a photographic image in a component search. A plurality of attributes for searching a component information source is gathered, including a photographic ima... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7940285 | Method and system for re-arranging a display A method and system are described for re-arranging a display in a viewable area. The method comprises dividing the viewable area into units; determining the contents of units of the viewable area; prioritizing the availability of the units by content; and allocating... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7908256 | Speculative computation lock coarsening through the use of localized lock reservation A computer-implementable method, system and computer-usable medium. One or more objects among a plurality of objects can be processed utilizing a data-processing apparatus/system. One or more lock reservations can be applied among a group of lock reservations over a... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7855877 | Apparatus for display movement of a laptop computer Disclosed is a laptop computer including a body and a display articulably connected to the body. The laptop computer includes at least one drive unit capable of moving the display relative to the body. ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7836106 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for change management in a data processing environment Provided are methods, apparatus and computer program products for change management within a data processing system and in particular for simulating the effect of removal of a file from the system. An anti-file is created within a file system layer that is overlaid ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7752114 | Auction method, auction system, and program product therefor A seat ticket auction method and system using the Internet is provided. A user submits a tender for the auction of each seat while referring to a seating table, and also performs a search of an exhibition before submitting a tender during the auction. Further, when ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 6931603 | Method and system for appending information to graphical files stored in specific graphical file formats The present invention provides a method and system to append information to an image file containing a stored graphical image. The appended information relates to the contents of the graphical image. In the process of the present invention, there is an initial graph... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6865427 | Method for management of workflows between devices in a pervasive embedded or external environment The present invention provides a method and system to monitor the statuses of devices that can operate and transmit current device status information to a storage location. The present invention also provides a method to manage and initiate sets of instructions that... | 03/08/2005 |
