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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185907 | Method and system for assigning logical partitions to multiple shared processor pools A method and system for assigning logical partitions to multiple named processor pools. Sets of physical processors are assigned to predefined processor sets. Named processor pools with unique pool names are defined. The processor sets are assigned to the named proc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185518 | Method, system and program product for rewriting structured query language (SQL) statements Under the present invention, a SQL statement having search criteria is received. Upon receipt, a table that lists all possible combinations of the search criteria is created. From the table, a set of patterns among the possible combinations is identified. Based on t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183145 | Structure and methods of forming contact structures Methods and a structure. A method of forming contact structure includes depositing a silicide layer onto a substrate; depositing an electrically insulating layer over a first surface of the silicide layer; forming a via through the insulating layer extending to the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181593 | Apparatus for applying a layer to a hydrophobic surface An apparatus for applying a layer to a hydrophobic surface. The apparatus including: a chuck having a top surface and rotatable about a axis perpendicular to the top surface and passing through a center point of the top surface; and hollow first and second dispense ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181152 | Portlet template based on a state design pattern A method for designing object-oriented software for implementing portlets, and an associated computer system and computer program product. The portlets are available to a user of the software who clicks on a link of a first page to identify an action object of an Ac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180999 | Vertically tiered horizontally expandable micro grid system with bridge docking bay contoured by radial arms extending from central hub for coupling processor or power hubs A micro grid apparatus and associated method of formation. At least one tier in a printed circuit board is formed. Each tier includes complex shapes interconnected by bridge modules. Each complex shape includes a central area and at least three radial arms external ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180860 | Wireless device configuration management A method for providing wireless device management. The method comprises receiving a first request for wireless devices comprising specified software. The specified software is loaded on each of the wireless devices in response to the first request. The wireless devi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178925 | Semiconductor diode structure operation method A semiconductor structure operation method. The method includes providing a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes first, second, third, and fourth doped semiconductor regions. The second doped semiconductor region is in direct physical contac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176540 | Resource based non-interactive entity application proxy method and system A security method and system. The method includes retrieving configuration data associated with a non interactive entity (NIE) software application. The configuration data comprises refresh counts, refresh periods, and session IDs. A master refresh period is calcula... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176447 | Formation of masks/reticles having dummy features A method of forming a mask. The method includes providing design information of a design layer. The design layer includes M original design features and N original dummy features. The method further includes (i) creating a cluster of P representative dummy features,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176446 | Method for compensating for variations in structures of an integrated circuit A method of for compensating for variations in structures of an integrated circuit. The method includes (a) selecting a mask design shape and selecting a region of the mask design shape; (b) applying a model-based optical proximity correction to all of the mask desi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176076 | Method and system for controlling accesses to a database The frequency of occurrences of an exclusion process is reduced so as to enhance the efficiency of handling accesses to a database. A system is provided for controlling accesses to a database. The system includes a database identifying section that identifies a data... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175094 | Method and system for personalizing a multimedia program broadcasted through IP network A method and a system. A Medium Access Control (MAC) frame includes an embedded Internet Protocol (IP) frame and a MAC address. The IP frame includes content of a second multimedia program and a second multicast address of the second multimedia program, the MAC addr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173532 | Semiconductor transistors having reduced distances between gate electrode regions A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same. The method includes providing a semiconductor structure which includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes (i) a top substrate surface which defines a reference direction perpen... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171487 | Method for processing work items of a workflow system A method for processing work items of a workflow system is done in the following manner. Information identifying work items from a server responsible for handling work items is retrieved based at least on a set of configuration rules. The information is stored in a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171069 | Streaming digital data filter A method of filtering streaming digital data in real time. The method including: (a) initializing and storing a set of m data elements and an associated set of m pointer data from 1 to m in sequence, m an integer greater than 2; (b) receiving in real time a first or... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170973 | Satisfying rules through a configuration of list processing methods A method and system for satisfying rules through a configuration of list processing methods. A document received from a calling application includes items being processed. A procedure for satisfying rules is identified by matching, via a database, a combination of v... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169882 | High density data storage medium, method and device A composition of matter for the recording medium of nanometer scale thermo-mechanical information storage devices and a nanometer scale thermo-mechanical information storage device. The composition includes: one or more polyaryletherketone copolymers, each of the on... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165967 | Request modification method and system A modification method and system. The method includes presenting by a computing system to a requester, templates associated with a candidate request. The computing system receives from the requester, first data associated with the candidate request. The computing sy... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165704 | Method of release and product flow management for a manufacturing facility A method and computer program product for scheduling product lots through operations of a manufacturing line. The method including: selecting a set of sequential operations required to manufacture the lots; partitioning the product lots into designated lots and non-... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164192 | Thermo-compression bonded electrical interconnect structure An electrical structure and method for forming. The electrical structure includes a first substrate comprising a first electrically conductive pad, a second substrate comprising a second electrically conductive pad, and an interconnect structure electrically and mec... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161445 | Logic transformation and gate placement to avoid routing congestion A novel logic design method for avoiding wiring congestion. According to the novel logic design method, an original gate having multiple inputs coming from different directions and having multiple outputs coming to different directions can be transformed to a logic ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159350 | Method and system for localizing objects using passive RFID tags which identifies the RFID with an LED Method and system for localizing an object in a stack of objects. A passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is attached to each object. Each RFID tag includes a unique identifier of the object to which the RFID tag is attached. A RFID reader has multiple a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158449 | Particle emission analysis for semiconductor fabrication steps A structure and a method for operating the same. The method includes providing a detecting structure which includes N detectors. N is a positive integer. A fabrication step is simultaneously performed on the detecting structure and M product structures in a fabricat... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157970 | Sputtering target fixture A method and apparatus for sputter deposition. The method including: providing a sputter target having a back surface and an exposed front surface; providing a source of magnetic field lines, the magnetic field lines extending through the sputter target from the bac... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156140 | Service oriented architecture enterprise service bus with advanced virtualization A method and apparatus for discovering services in a service registry. When an enterprise service bus receives a service request, the enterprise service bus determines whether the service name in the request exists in a service registry. If not, the enterprise servi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146046 | Structures for semiconductor structures with error detection and correction A design structure including design data describing a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip is on top of and bonded to the second semiconductor chip. The... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145676 | Shared inventory item donation in a virtual universe Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing donations of shared inventory items in a virtual universe are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving a request to make available for donation a shared inventory item list that can be bor... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144709 | Method, system and computer processing an IP packet, routing a structured data carrier, preventing broadcast storms, load-balancing and converting a full broadcast IP packet Method for processing content of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet and method for processing a full broadcast IP packet. Processing content of an IP packet includes: extracting IP source and destination addresses and payload from the IP packet; and generating an IP f... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143671 | Lateral trench FETs (field effect transistors) A semiconductor structure and associated method of formation. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a first doped transistor region of a first transistor and a first doped Source/Drain portion of a second transistor on the semiconductor sub... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141086 | Using data in elements of a singly linked list without a lock in a multithreaded environment A method and system for validating a scan of a chain in a multithreaded environment. A modification counter and an anchor address are atomically copied from the chain's header into a first variable (browse counter) and second variable, respectively. The second varia... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140993 | Notification of state transition of an out-of-focus application with state and notification priority filtering A method, a computer program product, a computer system and a method for supporting an application. The method includes: starting one or more applications, each application of the one or more applications having multiple possible states; displaying a taskbar on a co... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140970 | System and method for semi-transparent display of hands over a keyboard in real-time A method for displaying a virtual keyboard with a semi-transparent overlay of an end user's hands. The method begins by receiving a video signal comprising an image of a keyboard and at least one hand belonging to the end user. Next the method creates a virtual keyb... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140857 | Method for selective encryption within documents The present invention allows the user (author or creator) of a document to specify that certain portions of a document be selected for encryption while other portions of the document remain displayed as created. The user could employ a standard word processing edito... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140609 | Congruency and similarity of information technology (IT) structures and associated applications A method and system for consolidating N elements of an enterprise IT structure that consists of L elements (N≦L). All combinations of M elements of the N elements are generated (M | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140590 | Dynamic generation of user interfaces and automated mapping of input data for service-oriented architecture-based system management applications A method and system for dynamically generating a semantically correct user interface (UI) panel for a service request and automatically mapping input data for service-oriented architecture-based system management applications. A document is received that includes se... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140360 | System for processing insurance coverage requests A system for processing insurance coverage requests. An insurance data processing system (IDPS) implements a method that processes the requests. The IDPS receives at least one request from a customer relating to insurance coverage for the customer. Each request inde... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140319 | Method and system for predicting system performance and capacity using software module performance statistics A method and system for predicting performance and capacity of an information technology (IT) system before the IT system is built, where the predicting uses a database of performance statistics measured for reusable software modules. A performance simulation modeli... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138602 | Solder interconnect pads with current spreading layers Structure and methods of making the structures. The structures include a structure, comprising: an organic dielectric passivation layer extending over a substrate; an electrically conductive current spreading pad on a top surface of the organic dielectric passivatio... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138546 | Electrostatic discharge protection device and method of fabricating same A silicon control rectifier and an electrostatic discharge protection device of an integrated circuit including the silicon control rectifier. The silicon control rectifier includes a silicon body formed in a silicon layer in direct physical contact with a buried ox... | 03/20/2012 |
