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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115130 | Electronic device A switch-type electronic device adapted to be mounted on a circuit board is disclosed. A housing is made of an insulative material. The housing includes a first face adapted to oppose the circuit board and a second face intersecting with the first face and formed wi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7736696 | Methods, systems, and compositions for fire retarding substrates A closed-loop system and process is used for applying fire retardant chemicals to substrates including fibers, yarns, fabrics or mixtures thereof. Substrates are preferably positioned in a vessel such as a dye machine which circulates the fire retardant chemicals. A... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7574379 | Method and system of using artifacts to identify elements of a component business model A method and system are described for using business artifacts to identify elements of a component business model. Artifacts operated upon by the business are first identified, and then used to analyze the business into business operations. This is done by identifyi... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570179 | System and method of locating vehicles with keylock signals A wireless key is signal, having a key-specific identifier, is received, the key-specific identifier detected, and the signal transmission location is calculated. The signal transmission location is stored based on the detected key-specific identifier. Another insta... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561158 | Method and apparatus for presenting feature importance in predictive modeling Feature importance information available in a predictive model with correlation information among the variables is presented to facilitate more flexible choices of actions by business managers. The displayed feature importance information combines feature importance... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558764 | Methods for multi-class cost-sensitive learning Methods for multi-class cost-sensitive learning are based on iterative example weighting schemes and solve multi-class cost-sensitive learning problems using a binary classification algorithm. One of the methods works by iteratively applying weighted sampling from a... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552078 | Enterprise portfolio analysis using finite state Markov decision process Generating a transition plan for a computer resource portfolio, representing each resource as a state machine, by generating a transition plan, the transition plan having a set of acts for transitioning states of the resources, to move the computer resource portfoli... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7552047 | Instance-based sentence boundary determination by optimization A method for instance-based sentence boundary determination optimizes a set of criteria based on examples in a corpus, and provides a general domain-independent framework for the task by balancing a comprehensive set of sentence complexity and quality constraints. T... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546247 | Dynamic resource allocation using projected future benefits A method for server allocation in a Web server “farm” is based on limited information regarding future loads to achieve close to the greatest possible revenue based on the assumption that revenue is proportional to the utilization of servers and differentiated b... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7539723 | System for configuring a cellular telephone to operate according to policy guidelines of a group of users The present invention provides a system process to establish or configure a mode of operation for computing devices through the use of affinity groups, policy guidelines, and priority graphs. An affinity group is a group of peer devices identified by a network to wh... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539585 | System and method for rule-based data mining and problem detection for semiconductor fabrication A fabrication history of a group of wafers is provided, having a record for each wafer of the manufacturing events that did or did not occur in its fabrication, and having the measured value of a given target. A binary decision rule is formed based on the fabricatio... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7529850 | Method and system for rapid dissemination of public announcements The present invention provides a method and system for disseminating urgent public announcements over an IP-based network. One or a plurality of Internet- or Intranet-connected servers receive and store data identifying particular geographic locations to current ann... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7521950 | Wafer level I/O test and repair enabled by I/O layer A 3D chip having at least one I/O layer connected to other 3D chip layers by a vertical bus such that the I/O layer(s) may accommodate protection and off-chip device drive circuits, customization circuits, translation circuits, conversions circuits and/or built-in s... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519553 | Method and system for debt collection optimization The present invention employs data processing systems to handle debt collection by formulation the collections process as a Markov Decision Process with constrained resources, thus making it possible automatically to generate an optimal collections policy with respe... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519350 | Dustproof structure and dust entry preventing method and electronic device having same dustproof structure A structure is provided which is capable of reliably suppressing deformation caused by deterioration of a gasket member to maintain a dustproof function and of avoiding interference with other components mounted within electronic devices including a liquid crystal d... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7517680 | Production of clavulanic acid by genetic engineering of Genetically engineered Streptomyces clavuligerus strains with improved capabilities to produce clavulanic acid are provided. The strains are genetically engineered by disrupting newly identified glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) genes. This res... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516155 | method to validate consistency of component business model maps A method is described for using descriptive logic (DL) representations to validate consistency in component business model (CBM) maps. Semantic constraints are generated from a semantic model of a component business model meta-model and inconsistency conditions of C... | 04/07/2009 |
| D589877 | Accumulator | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512553 | System for automated part-number mapping Automated mapping of part numbers associated with parts in a bill of materials (BOM) to internal part numbers assigned by a BOM receiver. Historical data on bills of materials, known part number mappings, and parametric data describing the parts associated with bill... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509633 | System and method for grid-based distribution of Java project compilation A system for automatically segmenting the compilation of a large Java project under a controller node to a grid of slave nodes so as to reduce build time. A build tree scanner at the controller node sizes the number of files in the project and the length of each sou... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509308 | Method, apparatus and system for business performance monitoring and analysis using metric network A metric network provides a descriptive model that explicitly expresses the relationships among all metrics of a business enterprise. Performance of each single business entity in the operational level is measured by a set of primitive metrics, each of which measure... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7503032 | Method and framework for model specification, consistency checking and coordination of business processes A computer implemented system analysis and design method for use in a complex business environment characterized by a set of tightly linked business processes captures in a framework a world view of a business decision and/or a business application software system. ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7496530 | Large inventory-service optimization in configure-to-order systems A manufacturing process is migrated from an existing operation to a configure-to-order (CTO) system. As the CTO operation will eliminate the “machine-type model” (MTM) inventory of the existing operation, the emphasis is shifted to the components, or “building... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496459 | Intelligent, self-propelled automatic grid crawler high impedance fault detector and high impedance fault detecting system A self-propelled, automated, autonomic grid crawler which, when attached to a wire, moves along the wire to sense conditions of the wire. The grid crawler includes a central processing unit (CPU), working memory, such as random access memory (RAM), persistent money,... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7487158 | Method for the establishment and maintenance of collaborative communication associations based on multiple contextual criteria A method for dynamically setting up collaborative associations between a group of users, computing resources, and/or communication devices, where the constituents of the collaborative association are chosen based on a variety of contextual criteria. The dynamic coll... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7477740 | Access-controlled encrypted recording system for site, interaction and process monitoring A high level of security for access to recorded information is provided by a method which includes provisioning of a trusted/protected communication linkage such as a tamper-resistant or tamper evident enclosure, a physical close coupling between information source ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7473594 | Raised STI structure and superdamascene technique for NMOSFET performance enhancement with embedded silicon carbon An embedded silicon carbon (Si:C) having a substitutional carbon content in excess of one percent in order to effectively increase electron mobility by application of tension to a channel region of an NFET is achieved by overfilling a gap or trench formed by transis... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7456777 | Remote control means A remote control for electronic devices in motor vehicles, having a holding part with attachment elements for mounting the holding part on a steering wheel in a releasable manner, having operator control keys on a housing of the remote control means, and having a un... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456702 | Low pass metal powder filter A low pass filter having a coaxial structure of an inner conductor, an outer conductor and a metal powder composite interposed between the inner and outer conductor. Embodiments include a 50Ω characteristic impedance. The metal powder can be bronze, copper or other... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7452761 | Hybrid SOI-bulk semiconductor transistors Channel depth in a field effect transistor is limited by an intra-layer structure including a discontinuous film or layer formed within a layer or substrate of semiconductor material. Channel depth can thus be controlled much in the manner of SOI or UT-SOI technolog... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444295 | Single level bill of material available to promise A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool wherein tool users work within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries establ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438822 | Apparatus and method for shielding a wafer from charged particles during plasma etching A plasma etching system having a wafer chuck with a magnet that applies a magnetic field over a wafer to shield the wafer from charged particles. The magnetic field is parallel with the wafer, and is strongest near the wafer surface. The magnetic field may be straig... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437611 | System and method for problem determination using dependency graphs and run-time behavior models A problem determination system and method reduces the time and effort required by system administrators to trouble shot transaction processing difficulties in a large distributed I/T environment by monitoring system component performance and computing operational pe... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433856 | Optimization with unknown objective function Nonlinear optimization is applied to resource allocation, as for example, buffer pool optimization in computer database software where only the marginal utility is known. The method for allocating resources comprises the steps of starting from an initial allocation,... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423504 | Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay is provided which is capable of reducing a contact bounce at time of closing a contact. The electromagnetic relay is so configured that an opposed angle θ is 0° | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420689 | Method for determining the refractive index during interferometric length measurement and interferometric arrangement therefor The aim of the invention is to determine the refractive index and/or compensation of the influence of the refractive index during interferometric length measurement with the aid of an interferometer (13, 13′) impinged upon by at least two measuring beams (v... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418307 | System and process for supply management for the assembly of expensive products A Managing component supply for complex products is achieved by monitoring the delivery performance of component suppliers and optimizing the times at which orders are placed. Supply delivery performance targets are set for each supplier, and component order times a... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411492 | Pet tracking systems, other tracking systems, and portable virtual fence A tracking system includes a global positioning system (GPS) module and a modem for mobile communications both attached to a pet (or other trackee), and a virtual fence (which includes a base station sending a signal to a certain range and a receiver attached to the... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408373 | Device for probe card power bus voltage drop reduction Noise reduction for application of structural test patterns to a Device Under Test (DUT) is accomplished with a capacitor “booster” bypass network on the probe card in which the capacitors are charged to a much higher voltage Vboost than the DUT power... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404422 | Viscoelastic thermal compression of wood A high density wood product that is made from low-density wood is provided. The wood product is made using a continuous viscoelastic thermal compression (VTC) process and exhibits high density, strength and dimensional stability, compared to the lower density starti... | 07/29/2008 |
