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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7801653 | System and method for boosting torque output of a drive train A method and system for boosting a torque output of a drive train comprises a torque sensor for detecting an engine torque of an engine having a baseline torque versus engine speed curve. A data processor determines if the detected engine torque is within a first to... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7742862 | Method and system for estimating an agricultural management parameter A system and method for estimating agricultural parameters for growing crops is well suited for promoting efficient utilization of agricultural inputs (e.g., water consumption). Sensors collect data via one or more vehicles equipped with location-determining receive... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7692548 | Method and system for detecting operator alertness A method and system for detecting operator alertness of an operator of a vehicle or machine comprises an image collection system. The image collection system collects reference motion data associated with an operator representation when the operator is in an alert s... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7350110 | Method and system using hardware assistance for continuance of trap mode during or after interruption sequences A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for processing instructions. A processor is able to receive multiple types of interruptions while executing instructions, such as aborts, faults, interrupts, and traps. A set of processor fields ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346748 | Storage pools with write atomicity A method, apparatus, and computer program product for storage pools with write atomicity. An abstraction manager enforces write atomicity and disallows options which are inconsistent with write atomicity. The abstraction manager constructs through a physical device ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7298831 | Automated distribution of an instant messaging request for an unavailable intended recipient to a backup recipient A method, system, and program for automated distribution of an instant messaging request for an unavailable intended recipient to a backup recipient are provided. A chat support system detects a particular messaging request from a requester for initiating a communic... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7254587 | Method and apparatus for determining relative relevance between portions of large electronic documents A technique for determining the relative relevance of electronic documents based on metadata/content associated with the document as a whole and/or metadata/content associated with one or more subdivisions of the electronic document. Metadata is associated with the ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7228243 | Implementing a high resolution monotonic system clock An application implementing a high resolution monotonic system clock is provided. A kernel increments a value called a generation number. The generation number is used to determine what state the high and low resolution time values are in. The kernel next stores a l... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7191297 | Method for volume manager to have configurable device type and subtype for application use A method, system, and apparatus for controlling the behavior of an application through a device or device subtype in a logical volume manager. The present invention allows for creating device types or subtypes to be used when creating a logical volume. The device ty... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7051288 | Method, system, and product for a java-based desktop to provide window manager services on UNIX A window manager proxy method, system, and product are described allowing a Java based desktop to provide window manager services on UNIX. A computer system executes a UNIX-based operating system and a desktop implemented in Java. The computer system does not includ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7012806 | Portable electronic device with adaptive sizing A portable device having improved configurability and adaptability. The portable device has a case or chassis that can be placed in either an open or closed position, to thereby allow for insertion and removal of other devices within the portable device. When increa... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6976038 | Method and apparatus for real time creation and modification of a change log for multi-server synchronization A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for synchronizing a database utilized by a client device with a set of servers in which one server has the database. A change log is used with a client database for synchronizing the database. Dirty bits set in the clie... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965877 | Brokering and facilitating consumer projects in an e-commerce system A method, system and program for brokering and facilitating consumer projects in an electronic system are provided. A buyer submits a project request to a broker system. The broker system distributes the project request to multiple prospective manufacturers from amo... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961769 | Method, apparatus, and program for measuring server performance using multiple clients Server performance is bench marked using multiple master processes. A local master process is created for each client computer system applying load on the server. Then a global master process is created on a physical computer system on which neither client nor serve... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6954905 | Displaying transparency characteristic aids A method, system and program for displaying transparency characteristic aids are provided. A user interface is displayed comprising at least one displayable object within a display area controlled by a computer system. Responsive to an initiating event, placing a tr... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952203 | Touchscreen user interface: Bluetooth™ stylus for performing right mouse clicks A method, program and system for enabling alternate input commands by means of a stylus associated with a personal digital assistant (PDA) are provided. The method comprises applying pressure to a pressure sensor on the stylus, which invokes an application on the PD... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6934907 | Method for providing a description of a user's current position in a web page A method, program, and apparatus for providing a description of current position in an electronic document are provided. The invention first comprises parsing the electronic document into a parse tree. When the system receives a command from the user requesting curr... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931520 | Power management delay system using mouse pointer indicator to indicate power-up delay during powering up a powered down disk device A method, computer program product, and data processing system for notifying the user of a power management delay is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the notification is by means of a change in a mouse cursor in a graphical user interface. ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928440 | Delayed storage of cookies with approval capability A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing cookies in a data processing system. A cookie is received during a browser program session. The cookie is only stored in a temporary data store within the data processing system for a duration of the browse... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925594 | Saving selected hyperlinks for retrieval of the hyperlinked documents upon selection of a finished reading button in a web browser The system, method and program of this invention enhances a Web browser by enabling a user to select hyperlinks of interest while reading a first document. The selected hyperlinks are not displayed by the Web browser until indicated to do so by a user. In the meanti... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6915275 | Managing customization of projects prior to manufacture in an electronic commerce system A method, system and program for managing customization of projects prior to manufacture in an electronic commerce system is provided. An order system distributes a project offer to potential customers. A selection of potential customers return orders in response to... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6907021 | Vibration-driven wireless network A system and method for delivering messages among multiple localized devices. A communication interface includes a base media interface within each of the networked devices for processing incoming and outgoing vibration wave messages in accordance with a network pro... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6897877 | Method and apparatus for managing dynamically sizeable color tables A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing color maps in a data processing system. Responsive to a request to add a color map to a color table, a determination is made as to whether the color map is already installed in the color table. If the color... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6889359 | Method for providing a visual representation of dynamic HTML table attributes A table format object is used to format a dynamic HTML table at a web server. To facilitate the development of a dynamic server page for use in serving the dynamic table, first and second representations are created and made available for display to a page developer... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6868393 | Client-centric internet shopping system, method and program A system, method and program of the invention enables a client in a network of computers to participate with a plurality of merchants across several Web servers in electronic transactions for the purchase of products from the merchants. The client is enabled to make... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6863641 | System for monitoring cumulative fitness activity In accordance with the method, system and program of the present invention, at least one type of exercise indicator signal associated with exercise performed by a particular user is received from a particular exercise machine in a common transmittable data format at... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6845451 | System, method and program for implementing logon assignments and preferences for users in a heterogeneous network A system, method, and program product for implementing logon assignments for users in a heterogeneous network are disclosed. Sets of logon assignments for a user for various platforms are defined and stored in a configuration server. The appropriate set of user logo... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6802007 | Privacy and security for smartcards in a method, system and program In a first embodiment, a central database accessible by registered members, including merchants, will contain all of an individual's information while a smart card will store a unique id, known as an avatar, that may be utilized to access the information on the serv... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6786402 | Method and system of usage charging by presentation of a personalized electronic storage device at an access point to a facility A system and method of usage charging at any one of multiple access points to a facility involves the presentation by a user of a personalized electronic storage device, such as a smartcard, at an access point. A history of previous usage is stored on the storage de... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6766373 | Dynamic, seamless switching of a network session from one connection route to another A system for providing continuous connection between a client and a network during a session. The system comprises of a connection utility, which monitors a network session for an occurrence of a pre-defined event and/or condition. The system is particularly advanta... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6681246 | Method, system, and program for automatically processing pushed information without subscriber involvement A method, system, and program are described in a client computer system for automatically processing information received by the client computer system from a server computer system over a network. A user utilizing a client computer system is permitted to... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6431443 | Overloaded card information display A card structure provides an existing card having an associated card service and further having at least one associated service of at least one other card that is used by a card user. A display is coupled to the card structure for displaying desired infor... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6311151 | System, program, and method for performing contextual software translations A system, method, and program for providing language translators with contextual information for the text to be translated. The translator is presented with a graphical user interface in the base language, and can then interactively translate each text la... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6275790 | Introspective editor system, program, and method for software translation A system, method, and program for providing language translators with contextual information for the text to be translated. The translator is presented with a graphical user interface in the base language, and can then interactively translate each text la... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6269480 | Cross platform installer-with the ability to create platform independent variables of specific operating system variables from a scripting language A system, method, and program enables a platform independent way for specifying a property, or function, of a program. Values of properties that are specific to a given operating system are treated as a variable in a program which enables it to run on mul... | 07/31/2001 |
