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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184436 | Liquid-cooled electronics rack with immersion-cooled electronic subsystems Liquid-cooled electronics racks are provided which include: immersion-cooled electronic subsystems; a vapor-condensing heat exchanger to condense dielectric fluid vapor egressing from the immersion-cooled electronic subsystems; a dielectric fluid vapor return coupli... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179677 | Immersion-cooling apparatus and method for an electronic subsystem of an electronics rack Cooling apparatus and method are provided for immersion-cooling of an electronic subsystem of an electronics rack. The cooling apparatus includes a housing at least partially surrounding and forming a sealed compartment about the electronic subsystem and a dielectri... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171088 | Facilitating correction of incorrect identities in propagated electronic communications An electronic communication is sent from a first tier sender to a first tier of one or more recipients. A first tier recipient propagates the communication to a second tier of one or more recipients. The first tier sender determines that the communication includes a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169065 | Stackable circuit structures and methods of fabrication thereof Stackable circuit structures and methods of fabrication are provided employing first level metallization directly on a chips-first layer(s), which includes: a chip(s), each with a pad mask over its upper surface and openings exposing its contact pads; electrically c... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166239 | Translation lookaside buffer and related method and program product utilized for virtual addresses A program product, a translation lookaside buffer and a related method for operating the TLB is provided. The method comprises the steps of: a) when adding an entry for a virtual address to said TLB testing whether the attribute data of said virtual address is alrea... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164897 | Airflow recirculation and cooling apparatus and method for an electronics rack An apparatus is provided for facilitating cooling of an electronics rack of a data center. The apparatus includes: an airflow director mounted to the electronics rack to redirect airflow exhausting from the electronics rack through an airflow return pathway back tow... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160891 | Method and system for distributing disaster information A system and method to distribute disaster information to a customer. An information distribution apparatus for distributing disaster information to a customer terminal includes a disaster information storage for storing disaster-occurred district information for id... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154319 | Three-dimensional architecture for integration of CMOS circuits and nano-material in hybrid digital circuits A hybrid CMOL stack enables more efficient design of CMOS logical circuits. The hybrid CMOL structure includes a first substrate having a CMOS device layer on the substrate, a first interconnect layer with interface pins over the CMOS device layer of the first subst... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148706 | Pinned-contact oscillating liquid lens and imaging system An oscillating liquid lens and imaging system and method employing the lens are provided. The liquid lens includes a substrate with a channel opening extending therethrough between a first and second surface. A liquid drop is disposed within the channel and is sized... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144467 | Dehumidifying and re-humidifying apparatus and method for an electronics rack Dehumidifying and re-humidifying cooling apparatus and method are provided for an electronics rack. The apparatus includes a dehumidifying air-to-liquid heat exchanger disposed at an air inlet side of the rack and a re-humidifying structure disposed at an air outlet... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141621 | Apparatus and method for providing in situ cooling of computer data centers during service calls An apparatus and method for cooling electronic components housed in a computer rack while performing maintenance operations is provided. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a heat exchange assembly disposed within an outlet door cover of the computer rack, ha... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140680 | Machine-processable semantic description for resource management A method and associated apparatus is provided for generating a machine-processable semantic description of a first manageable resource of an application domain. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the first manageable resource is characterized by a se... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138563 | Circuit structures and methods with BEOL layers configured to block electromagnetic edge interference Back-end-of-line (BEOL) circuit structures and methods are provided for blocking externally-originating or internally-originating electromagnetic edge interference. One such BEOL circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate supporting one or more integrated ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136115 | Backfill scheduling of applications based on data of the applications Backfill scheduling techniques are used to schedule execution of applications, either on a local computing unit or a remote unit. In determining whether a particular application is to be scheduled to execute on a local unit or a remote unit, the data associated with... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130908 | X-ray diffraction apparatus and technique for measuring grain orientation using x-ray focusing optic An x-ray diffraction apparatus for measuring crystal orientation of a multiple grain sample. An x-ray excitation path is provided having a focusing optic for collecting x-rays from an x-ray source and redirecting the collected x-rays into an x-ray beam converging on... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126267 | Methods and apparatuses for analyzing digital images to automatically select regions of interest thereof Computer-implemented image processing methods and apparatuses are presented for automatically selecting regions of interest within an image represented by pixel intensity values. A first pixel box is employed in progressively scanning and evaluating the image. If pi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120445 | Planar EMI filter comprising coreless spiral planar windings An EMI filter for use between a power source and an electronic product is formed of at least one planar element including a pair of opposed coreless spiral planar windings, and a planar capacitor. This enables the integration of common mode and differential mode fil... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117615 | Facilitating intra-node data transfer in collective communications, and methods therefor Intra-node data transfer in collective communications is facilitated. A memory object of one task of a collective communication is concurrently attached to the address spaces of a plurality of other tasks of the communication. Those tasks that attach the memory obje... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113959 | Method and system for rendering the scenes of a role playing game in a metaverse In order to facilitate rendering of scenery elements in a role playing game, or in any other virtual universe (also known as a metaverse), there is provided a scenery container together with a play manager which cooperatively interact to achieve the loading, saving ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113012 | Inter-rack airflow arresting apparatus and method for facilitating cooling of an electronics rack of a data center An airflow arrester is provided and configured to reside between electronics racks disposed in a row within a data center. The airflow arrester includes a panel, which when operatively disposed, has a first vertical end, a second vertical end, and a central vertical... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111379 | Automated determination of height and tilt of a substrate surface within a lithography system Method and apparatus are provided for automated determination and adjustment of height and tilt of a substrate surface within a lithography system. The method includes: directing a beam of light onto the substrate surface, which reflects off the substrate surface as... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104975 | Optical waveguide plug part The invention relates to an optical waveguide plug part of an optical waveguide plug connector for an optical waveguide, which has a fiber and a sheath, with a contact carrier for receiving the optical waveguide and at least one clamping part for securing the optica... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099274 | Facilitating input/output processing of one or more guest processing systems An article of manufacture, method and system are provided for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing of at least one guest processing system. The article of manufacture includes at least one computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code logic to f... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098379 | Planar lightwave fourier-transform spectrometer A transform spectrometer implemented on a planar waveguide circuit (PLC), having an input optical signal waveguide carrying an input optical signal to be analyzed; a plurality of couplers, each connected to the input optical signal waveguide, and each including a co... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096827 | Distributor system and method for its production The invention relates to a distributor system including a support device and a plurality of contact supports which are arranged in the support device, the support device having at least one holding device in which at least one of the contact supports is held by a ho... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095604 | Automatically modifying distributed communications Modifications are made to communications that have been distributed to one or more recipients. These modifications include at least one of adding a new recipient to the communication, deleting one or more recipients from the communication or moving one or more recip... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094706 | Frequency-based, active monitoring of reliability of a digital system Method, system and article of manufacture are provided for continually monitoring reliability, or aging, of a digital system and for issuing a warning signal if digital system operation degrades to or past a specified threshold. The technique includes periodically d... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094453 | Compliant conduction rail assembly and method facilitating cooling of an electronics structure Compliant conduction rail assembly and method are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronics structure. The rail assembly includes a first thermally conductive rail mounted to a surface of the electronics structure, a second thermally conductive rail therma... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091092 | Locally providing globally consistent information to communications layers Globally consistent information is locally provided to communications layers. Globally consistent information is stored in a Network Availability Matrix, which is locally accessible by a communications layer. If an event is detected, the communications layer is auto... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087026 | Fair share scheduling based on an individual user's resource usage and the tracking of that usage Fair share scheduling to divide the total amount of available resource into a finite number of shares and allocate a portion of the shares to an individual user or group of users as a way to specify the resource proportion entitled by the user or group of users. The... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081461 | Cooling apparatus with thermally conductive porous material and jet impingement nozzle(s) extending therein A cooling apparatus and method of fabrication are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic device. The cooling apparatus includes a thermally conductive porous material and a liquid coolant supply. The thermally conductive porous material (such as metal fo... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077462 | Stress relieved hose routing to liquid-cooled electronics rack door A cooling apparatus and method are provided which include an air-to-liquid heat exchanger and system coolant inlet and outlet plenums mounted to an electronics rack door along an edge of the door remote from the edge hingedly mounted to the rack. The plenums are in ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059405 | Condenser block structures with cavities facilitating vapor condensation cooling of coolant Condenser structures and cooling apparatuses are provided which facilitate vapor condensation heat transfer of a coolant employed in cooling an electronic device. The condenser structure includes a thermally conductive condenser block with multiple exposed cavities ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056090 | Reducing layering overhead in collective communication operations A communication method for collective operations is provided which eliminates the need for a three layered structure. Instead, the method of the present invention employs a control structure which is specifically designed to keep track of the progress of the collect... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8056087 | Effective use of a hardware barrier synchronization register for protocol synchronization A barrier synchronization register, accessible to the nodes in a distributed data processing system, has portions thereof allotted to threads which are present in multiple groups. The barrier synchronization register portion allotted to a given thread has stored the... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8056085 | Method of facilitating workload management in a computing environment Workloads, as defined by customers, are tracked on an individual basis. This tracking enables a customer to identify the amount of resources consumed by a particular workload. The customer defines the workload to be tracked, and that workload is tracked using a Unit... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8056078 | Cooperatively multitasking in an interrupt free computing environment Multitasking in a hardware interrupt free environment. Event indicators are employed to multitask between processes of the environment. Processes to be multitasked register with one another, and then during processing, one of the processes toggles an event indicator... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055716 | Dynamic creation of mail aliases usable in electronic communications Mail aliases are dynamically created in response to replies of an electronic mail (e-mail) communication. An e-mail communication is sent to a plurality of recipients, and one or more recipients of the e-mail communication respond to the e-mail. In response to recei... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054638 | Latching apparatus for facilitating docking of an electronic component A latching apparatus is coupled to a first electronic component for facilitating docking to a second electronic component. The apparatus includes a pivotable actuation handle, and slide and pivotable linkages. The slide linkage couples to the pivotable actuation han... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051897 | Redundant assembly for a liquid and air cooled module A redundant assembly for an air and liquid cooled module is provided. The redundant cooling assembly comprises an air and liquid cooled module having a cold plate in thermal communication with a side attached auxiliary drawer. The auxiliary drawer houses a heat exch... | 11/08/2011 |
