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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185227 | Method and system for determining manufacturing throughput target A first linear combination of a local moving aggregated quantity derived from a WIP distribution and a global aggregated quantity derived from the WIP distribution is calculated for each range for a given product type in a manufacturing line. The first linear combin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178153 | Heat transfer control structures using thermal phonon spectral overlap A heat transfer control structure and a method for fabrication thereof includes at least one heat transfer control layer interposed between and contacting a heat source material and a heat sink material. The at least one heat transfer control layer is selected predi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176624 | Optical alignment module utilizing transparent reticle to facilitate tool calibration during high temperature process An apparatus and method for aligning one or more components while attaching the component to a substrate. The component is positioned over the substrate. An alignment tool is attachable to the component. The alignment tool includes a tool alignment element, an optic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175830 | Frequency estimation of rare events by adaptive thresholding A method and system for estimating a magnitude of extremely rare events upon receiving a complete data sample and a specific exceedance probability are described. A distribution is chosen for a complete data sample. An optimal subsample fitted to the distribution is... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174106 | Through board stacking of multiple LGA-connected components A package design is provided where a chip module is connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) via a land grid array (LGA) on the top surface of the PCB, and where a power supply is connected to the PCB via a second LGA on the bottom surface of the PCB. The stack of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171630 | Method of producing a land grid array interposer A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure includes mounting at least one interposer on a first surface of an electrically insulating carrier plane. The interposer selectively having a hemi-toroidal, conical, dome-shaped conic section, genera... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171458 | Method for source-related risk detection and alert generation A method and system for detecting a source-related risk and generating an alert concerning the source-related risk are disclosed. Criteria of the source-related risk are defined. Thresholds associated with the source-related risk are defined. Every operation on an o... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166255 | Reservation required transactions A method for performing a transaction including a transaction head and a transaction tail, includes executing the transaction head, including executing at least one memory reserve instruction to reserve a transactional memory location that are accessed in the transa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163658 | Multiple patterning using improved patternable low-k dielectric materials A method of double patterning a semiconductor structure with a single material which after patterning becomes a permanent part of the semiconductor structure. More specifically, a method to form a patterned semiconductor structure with small features is provided whi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163584 | Method of minimizing beam bending of MEMS device by reducing the interfacial bonding strength between sacrificial layer and MEMS structure The beam bending of a MEMS device is minimized by reducing interfacial strength between a sacrificial layer and a MEMS structure. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161248 | Simplifying and speeding the management of intra-node cache coherence A method and apparatus for managing coherence between two processors of a two processor node of a multi-processor computer system. Generally the present invention relates to a software algorithm that simplifies and significantly speeds the management of cache cohere... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161028 | System and method for adaptive categorization for use with dynamic taxonomies A system, method and computer program product provides a solution to a class of categorization problems using a semi-supervised clustering approach, the method employing performing a Soft Seeded k-means algorithm, which makes effective use of the side information pr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160130 | System and method for the dynamic resolution change for video encoding The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for the predictive encoding of digital video sequences. The objectives of the invention are accomplished by dynamically determining the resolution of a current frame being encoded and out... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159248 | Interposer structures and methods of manufacturing the same Flexible and rigid interposers for use in the semiconductor industry and methods for manufacturing the same are described. Auto-catalytic processes are used to minimize the costs associated with the production of flexible interposers, while increasing the yield and ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158481 | CMOS structure and method for fabrication thereof using multiple crystallographic orientations and gate materials Methods for fabricating a CMOS structure use a first gate stack located over a first orientation region of a semiconductor substrate. A second gate material layer is located over the first gate stack and a laterally adjacent second orientation region of the semicond... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8146043 | Huygens' box methodology for signal integrity analysis A method for performing a signal integrity analysis on an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a plurality of scatterers by dividing the scatterers into subgroups using a nested Huygens' equivalence principle algorithm and solving a set of equations realized thereb... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145619 | Method and system for identifying companies with specific business objectives A method for identifying companies with specific business objectives that includes using existing sources of company firmographic data to identify a broad set of companies and associated websites, crawling the websites associated with the identified companies and in... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140925 | Method and apparatus to debug an integrated circuit chip via synchronous clock stop and scan An apparatus and method for evaluating a state of an electronic or integrated circuit (IC), each IC including one or more processor elements for controlling operations of IC sub-units, and each the IC supporting multiple frequency clock domains. The method comprises... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140764 | System for reconfiguring cache memory having an access bit associated with a sector of a lower-level cache memory and a granularity bit associated with a sector of a higher-level cache memory A method for reconfiguring a cache memory is provided. The method in one aspect may include analyzing one or more characteristics of an execution entity accessing a cache memory and reconfiguring the cache based on the one or more characteristics analyzed. Examples ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140368 | Method and system for routing a task to an employee based on physical and emotional state A method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device for determining an assignment of a task to a consultant is disclosed. The method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device determine the assignment based not... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138448 | Negative coefficient thermal expansion engineered particles for composite fabrication Methods for the fabrication of negative coefficient thermal expansion engineered elements, and particularly, wherein such elements provide for fillers possessing a low or even potentially zero coefficient thermal expansion and which are employable as fillers for pol... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138020 | Wafer level integrated interconnect decal and manufacturing method thereof A wafer level integrated interconnect decal manufacturing method and wafer level integrated interconnect decal arrangement. In accordance with the technology concerning the soldering of integrated circuits and substrates, and particularly providing for solder decal ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136242 | Method of producing a land grid array interposer utilizing metal-on-elastomer A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135917 | Method and apparatus for filtering snoop requests using stream registers A method and apparatus for supporting cache coherency in a multiprocessor computing environment having multiple processing units, each processing unit having a local cache memory associated therewith. A snoop filter device is associated with each processing unit and... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135663 | Automated many-sorted theorem prover The present invention is a method for automatic proving using many-sorted first-order logic. Embodiments of the invention apply a modified method of resolution of first-ordered logic. The method of resolution further comprises: processing at least one first sentence... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130202 | Infrared touch screen gated by touch force A touch-sensitive display device includes a display. A transparent plate is provided in front of the display. A tactile sensor senses a touch event. One or more infrared sensors are positioned in front of the transparent plate. The one or more infrared sensors ident... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129843 | Methods to mitigate plasma damage in organosilicate dielectrics using a protective sidewall spacer Plasma damage in ultra low k dielectric materials during formation of a dual damascene metal interconnect structure is reduced by providing a protective spacer on sidewalls of a line trench. A densified trench bottom region may be additionally formed directly beneat... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126758 | Method and apparatus for information boosting in related but disconnected databases Method and apparatus for information boosting in related but disconnected databases, in one aspect, may comprise identifying disconnected data sources comprising data that are related or dependent on one another, determining one or more relationships and dependencie... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122216 | Systems and methods for masking latency of memory reorganization work in a compressed memory system Computer memory management systems and methods are provided in which data block buffering and priority scheduling protocols are utilized in compressed memory systems to mask the latency associated with memory reorganization work following access to compressed main m... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122197 | Managing coherence via put/get windows A method and apparatus for managing coherence between two processors of a two processor node of a multi-processor computer system. Generally the present invention relates to a software algorithm that simplifies and significantly speeds the management of cache cohere... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122168 | Method for implementing concurrent producer-consumer buffers A method and a system for implementing concurrent producer-consumer buffers are provided. The method and system in one aspect uses separate locks, one for putter and another for taker threads operating on a concurrent producer-consumer buffer. The locks operate inde... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121890 | Method and system for automated service climate measurement based on social signals A computer-implemented method for measuring a system includes providing an automated service climate measurement system (ASCMS) comprising an evaluation function, receiving customer input by the ASCMS, measuring a service climate variable of the customer input, dete... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119322 | Method for producing self-aligned mask, articles produced by same and composition for same A method for forming a self-aligned pattern on an existing pattern on a substrate comprising applying a coating of a solution containing a masking material in a carrier, the masking material being either photo or thermally sensitive; performing a blanket exposure of... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119206 | Negative coefficient of thermal expansion particles A method of forming a negative coefficient of thermal expansion particle includes flattening a hollow sphere made of a first material, annealing the flattened hollow sphere at a reference temperature above a predetermined maximum use temperature to set a stress mini... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117138 | Method and apparatus for location evaluation and site selection Method, apparatus and system for location evaluation and site selection, capable of effectively configuring the site network and evaluating the facility location by scientifically modeling and incorporating human knowledge are provided. In one aspect, geographic and... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116338 | Method for reducing errors while transferring tokens to and from people A system, method and computer program produce for handling and minimizing miscommunication and transformation of tokens that are processed by humans, either verbally or in writing, during some part of a usage scenario. This is accomplished by filtering out confusing... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108738 | Data eye monitor method and apparatus An apparatus and method for providing a data eye monitor. The data eye monitor apparatus utilizes an inverter/latch string circuit and a set of latches to save the data eye for providing an infinite persistent data eye. In operation, incoming read data signals are a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107482 | Multipath discovery in switched ethernet networks A network switch device receives a communication packet having a source MAC address s and a destination MAC address d at a switch port p. Then, the network switch device determines whether a valid routing table entry (s, p) exists, there by indicating that the sourc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107189 | Device and structure for reducing tape motion and static friction A tape mounting apparatus for a magnetic tape data storage device which includes a movable structure movably attached to a base. The movable structure moves partially within the base and is powered by a motor unit. The moveable structure has at least a load position... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103910 | Local rollback for fault-tolerance in parallel computing systems A control logic device performs a local rollback in a parallel super computing system. The super computing system includes at least one cache memory device. The control logic device determines a local rollback interval. The control logic device runs at least one ins... | 01/24/2012 |
