"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced."
Scientific American ; Jan. 2 edition, 1909
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141020 | Temperature-controlled 3-dimensional bus placement Block placement within each device-containing layer is optimized under the constraint of a simultaneous optimization of interlayer connectivity between the device-containing layer and immediately adjacent device-containing layers. For each functional block within th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140792 | Indirectly-accessed, hardware-affine channel storage in transaction-oriented DMA-intensive environments Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for managing a computer memory system including a channel controller and a memory area. In one embodiment, the method comprises the channel controller receiving a request including a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8129216 | Method of manufacturing solar cell with doping patterns and contacts A method of manufacturing a solar cell. The method includes the steps of providing a substrate, applying a first dopant to a first surface, applying a second dopant to a second surface, covering the doped first surface with a hard mask, applying a third dopant to th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7991825 | Method, system, and apparatus for supporting personal service A personal service support method for assisting an inquiry about a user operation in a virtual world, a computer program product, and a system for the same. The method includes: storing a dialog between a user and an agent; connecting the dialog in a list structure ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7941478 | Method and apparatus for distributed application execution This invention provides methods and apparatus for executing applications in a distributed manner employing one or more proxy servers and one origin server. The invention allows the applications to be executed primarily at the proxy servers rather than at the origin ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7915100 | Hybrid orientation CMOS with partial insulation process The present invention provides a method of integrated semiconductor devices such that different types of devices are formed upon a specific crystallographic orientation of a hybrid substrate. In accordance with the present invention, junction capacitance of one of t... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7834425 | Hybrid orientation SOI substrates, and method for forming the same The present invention relates to a hybrid orientation semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate structure that contains a base semiconductor substrate with one or more first device regions and one or more second device regions located over the base semiconductor su... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7570868 | Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play. A content viewing system is provided including a content player operative to receive a content stream from a content source, a content viewer operative to receive the content from the content player,... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7543289 | Method for accessing and collaborating between servlets located on different Java virtual machines Presents remote servlets collaboration. A method includes: creating a common registry; creating an extended context in response to an external request, wherein the extended context can invoke the resources within the common registry; performing initializing configur... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7523448 | Optimizing compiler Provides methods, apparatus and systems for an optimizing compiler which optimizes load instructions to read out data from a memory in an object program targeted for optimization. In an example embodiment, an optimizing compiler includes partial redundancy eliminati... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7516081 | Adaptive estimation of gain and revenue Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, and storage medium for facilitating adaptive estimation of gains and revenues. The method includes receiving initial the data for at least one subject to be measured into an adaptive estimator system... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7493017 | Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play Provides convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play A content viewing system includes a content player to receive a content stream from a content source, a content viewer to receive the content from the content player, and a buffer into which ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7454004 | Method and system for verification of remote party identification A method for processing a transaction. The method includes receiving validation requests, automatically initiating one or more callbacks to an authorized transactor, and validating one or responses from the authorized transactor. The automatic initiation is in respo... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7396776 | Semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) structures including gradient nitrided buried oxide (BOX) A semiconductor-on-insulator structure includes a buried dielectric layer interposed between a base semiconductor substrate and a surface semiconductor layer. The buried dielectric layer comprises an oxide material that includes a nitrogen gradient that peaks at the... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7031999 | Method of interconnecting computers and computer network A method and a computer network for interconnecting a first server computer (112) of a service requestor (1) and a second server computer (122) of a service provider (2), each of the first server computer (112) and the second serve... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6874105 | Operation graph based event monitoring system A non-obtrusive activity monitor is proposed for advantageously monitoring and tracing disjunct, concurrent computer system operations in heavily queued computer systems. For each traced and pending computer system operation, the monitor uses a hardware implementati... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6823415 | All-in-one mobile docking station and system used therewith A computer system, includes a mobile computer, a docking station for receiving the mobile computer, a bridge having a first side coupled to the mobile computer and a second side coupled to the docking station, and a flat panel display formed with the docking station... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6823348 | File manager for storing several versions of a file A file manager (and method) provided for locating a file identified by a path referring to a logical unit and an identifier, includes a table associating the file with a priority list of physical units. The file manager can be incorporated into the controller of per... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6810495 | Method and system for software rejuvenation via flexible resource exhaustion prediction A method (and computer system in which at least one software component thereof is restarted based on projection of resource exhaustion), for selecting the most suitable projection method from among a class of projection methods, includes providing M fitting modules ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6732149 | System and method for hindering undesired transmission or receipt of electronic messages A system and method of hindering an undesirable transmission or receipt of electronic messages within a network of users includes the steps of determining that transmission or receipt of at least one specific electronic message is undesirable; automatically extracti... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6721719 | System and method for classification using time sequences System and method for generating classification using time sequences comprises inputting a set of time dependant feature variable graphs along with a set of time dependant category variable graphs; finding frequent shapes in the time dependant feature variable graph... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6720860 | Password protection using spatial and temporal variation in a high-resolution touch sensitive display A wearable mobile computing device/appliance (e.g., a wrist watch) with a high resolution display that is capable of wirelessly accessing information from the network and a variety of other devices. The Wrist Watch device/appliance includes a password authentication... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6711583 | System and method for detecting and repairing document-infecting viruses using dynamic heuristics A method for detecting document-infecting computer viruses in a computer system having a plurality of documents, comprises the steps of maintaining a database of information associated with program objects associated with one or more of the documents, comparing one ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6708195 | Composite locking of objects in a database In a multi-user environment, a method of controlling access to objects is required, such that updates performed by one user are not overwritten by simultaneous updates by another user. There is provided a method of controlling access to objects and containers, each ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6675237 | System and intelligent dock using a symmetric extended bus bridge and method therefor A computer network system includes a plurality of computers each including a central processing unit (CPU), a memory and at least one peripheral device, a connection fabric having selectable first and second sides, the first side being coupled to a first ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6675316 | Method and system for recovery of the state of a failed CPU/cache/memory node in a distributed shared memory system A method of (and system for) recovering the state of a failed node in a distributed shared memory system, includes directing a flush of data from a failed node, and flushing the data from the failed node to a memory node.... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6674716 | Cell compliance decision method and apparatus A method for deciding over the compliance of cells at an input of a switch. The time is counted with a time-counting device with a predetermined maximum counting range for determining the points in time of the arrival of the cells. The reading of the time... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6658573 | Protecting resources in a distributed computer system This invention concerns methods for the protection of resources in an open digital communication system, which resources are residing in or owned by physically and organizationally distributed, independent entities connected through that system, e.g. the ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6643684 | Sender- specified delivery customization A system and method that enables a given sending user to specify a set of delivery policies and have them used for the electronic delivery of a given message, the message potentially having several heterogeneous parts (e.g., text and pictures) each of whi... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6631354 | Deriving and running workload manager enclaves from workflows A method of providing workload-management in a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) includes a first method of automatically determining at least one enclave-graph within a process-model of a Workflow-Management-System (WFM), and a second method of executing... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6629266 | Method and system for transparent symptom-based selective software rejuvenation A method (and system) for increased software dependability, includes learning how to predict an outage of a software system running on a computer, and, based on the learning, predicting an imminent outage, and avoiding the outage.... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6615276 | Method and apparatus for a centralized facility for administering and performing connectivity and information management tasks for a mobile user A software facility for administering and executing connectivity and information management tasks for a portable device, includes a module for selectively adding, deleting, and editing a location object, and a module for selectively initiating a request f... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6594784 | Method and system for transparent time-based selective software rejuvenation A method of enhancing software dependability, includes measuring an elapsed time in a software system running on a computer, determining whether the elapsed time matches a threshold, and when the elapsed time matches the threshold, rejuvenating at least a... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6542907 | Method and apparatus for decentralized, invertible generation of bounded-length globally unique replica identifiers A method (and system) for uniquely identifying one of a plurality of replicas of data, includes creating a second replica from a first replica, and computing a replica identifier of a bounded length for a second replica by applying a uniform transformatio... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6510552 | Apparatus for keeping several versions of a file An apparatus for keeping several versions of a file includes a memory and an overwriting unit coupled to the memory. An initial version of the file is stored in a first area of the memory, and a current version is stored in a second area of the memory, th... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6493800 | Method and system for dynamically partitioning a shared cache A cache memory shared among a plurality of separate, disjoint entities each having a disjoint address space, includes a cache segregator for dynamically segregating a storage space allocated to each entity of the entities such that no interference occurs ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6426786 | Method of homeotropic alignment or tilted homeotropic alignment of liquid crystals by single oblique evaporation of oxides and liquid crystal display device formed thereby A single-domain, two-domain or four-domain homeotropic- or tilted homeotropic-alignment liquid crystal display device of either the transmissive-type or reflective-type having a high contrast ratio, a good display quality, and a high photo-stability (and ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6317114 | Method and apparatus for image stabilization in display device An image stabilizing apparatus and method for a display device having a display screen, include a sensor for sensing a movement of the display device, and a movement compensation circuit, operatively coupled to the sensor, for compensating for the movemen... | 11/13/2001 |