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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7143009 | Unified data acquisition system and method A unified data acquisition system (UDAS) includes a portable computer configured to monitor data from a system installation. The system installation may be a gas turbine, steam turbine, combined cycle, or power generation system installation. The UDAS is also config... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143411 | Capping processor utilization An apparatus, system, and method allow for capping processor utilization in a computer system. The processors are typically central processing units (CPUs) under control of a system scheduler. The system scheduler controls which of the CPUs will run specific process... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143202 | Dual serial port data acquisition interface assembly for a data storage device A dual serial port data acquisition interface assembly including a printed circuit board for supporting additional components of the dual serial port assembly, a personal computer peripheral component interconnect connector secured to the printed circuit board for p... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143222 | Adaptive message delivery system A device monitors a system's available resources and produces either a deferred notification or an instant notification based on a comparison with an established threshold. The threshold may be adjusted if current or anticipated system resource utilization changes. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139978 | Recording user interaction with an application Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing a user interaction with an application, such as a browser-based application. A user interaction with the browser-based application is detected at a software framework. The browser-based appli... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139679 | Method and apparatus for cryptographic protection from denial of service attacks A method and apparatus for protecting, from denial of service attacks, a device that provides particular services that consume substantial computational resources. A data packet is received that includes data for the particular services and a cryptographic tag. It i... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139728 | Systems and methods for online selection of service providers and management of service accounts An interchange party computer system (IPCS) having means for presenting user interfaces to consumer computer systems and capturing data input through the user interfaces, the IPCS being associated with at least one database holding data representing a plurality of c... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139616 | Real-time alert mechanism for monitoring and controlling field assets via wireless and internet technologies An apparatus and system are disclosed for real-time monitoring and control of field assets. A monitoring device may be coupled to a field asset to determine the occurrence of one or more error conditions. Error conditions may be detected either as they occur or by t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136768 | Method and system for reliability analysis of disk drive failures A method and system for performing reliability analysis of disk drive failure mechanisms is provided. The information for performing the analysis is obtained in accordance with the invention from a database generated from identification information stored about indi... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136781 | Compressor remote monitoring system In a system for monitoring each of compressors distant from each other through at least one of internet communication, optical communication line, electric communication line and wireless communication, a server computer obtains actual condition data of the each of ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7137106 | Method and apparatus for analyzing data The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for receiving data analysis instructions from a user and for displaying results of the data analysis to the user. In one embodiment, the invention provides a series of interface windows displayed on a computer d... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136778 | Method for non-invasive performance monitoring and tuning A non-invasive method, system, and computer product for monitoring I/O performance without using the RIO bus. When executing a performance benchmark run in a remote I/O drawer, the system logs into a bulk power controller, wherein the bulk power controller provides ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133805 | Load test monitoring system A system for load test monitoring a computer system is provided. The system includes a transaction generator to provide transactions to servers to load test the servers. The system includes one or more agents provided on the servers, the agents operable to obtain se... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133795 | Techniques for testing an electronic system using in-line signal distortion A technique for testing an electronic system (e.g., a computer system) involves intercepting an initial signal of the electronic system, modifying the initial signal with a distortion to form a distorted signal, and introducing the distorted signal into the electron... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133806 | Method and apparatus for measurement of processor-utilization A method of managing a processing system that has at least one processor, uses the steps of: measuring MCPS (million cycles per second) utilization in the at least one processor; estimating a cycle count requirement for an algorithm on least one processor based on m... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7134053 | Method and apparatus for dynamic performance evaluation of data storage systems Improved approaches for evaluating performance of data storage systems used with computers are disclosed. The performance evaluation of the data storage systems utilizes dynamic performance evaluation by use of data throughput as a diagnostic. The data storage syste... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131016 | Method and apparatus for adjusting clock throttle rate based on usage of CPU A method, apparatus or stored program for adjusting the clock throttle rate of a central processing unit (CPU) included in a computer, in which the usage of the CPU is measured, so that the clock throttle rate of the CPU can be automatically adjusted on the measured... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130844 | System and method for examining, calculating the age of an document collection as a measure of time since creation, visualizing, identifying selectively reference those document collections representing current activity System and method for evaluating an information aggregate. A metrics database stores document indicia including document attributes, associated persons and age of creation. A query engine responsive to a user request and the metrics database aggregates documents hav... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130770 | Monitoring method and system with corrective actions having dynamic intensities A method (300) for monitoring a data processing system is proposed. The method involves the determination (306–360) of an indicator of the severity of any critical condition being detected in the system (for example, though the use of fuzzy-logic rul... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130760 | Reporting invalid parameter values for a parameter-based system System and method for reporting invalid parameter values for a system. An invalid value of a parameter is detected, and information related to the detection determined, including one or more valid values for the parameter, and optionally, an identifier (ID) of the p... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130621 | Method for creating a peer-to-peer home network using common group label An architecture for a multimedia peer-to-peer home network allows the automated definition of peer groups, or zones, by using group labels, where each peer is capable of automatically identifying whether other peers are members of the same group, or of another group... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127708 | Concurrent in-system programming of programmable devices A method for programming of a plurality of programmable devices arranged in a JTAG boundary scan chain takes advantage of knowledge of a target system. The method speeds device programming and reduces system memory requirements. Raw data is extracted from high-level... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126391 | Power on reset circuits In one embodiment, a power on reset circuit includes a main circuit and a translation circuit. The main circuit may be configured to receive an external signal and to generate an input signal that is indicative of a state of the external signal. The translation circ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124104 | Methods and systems for implementing a profitability model A method for operating a computer to enhance profitability of a portfolio using a profitability model includes prompting a user to enter at least one workload driver for the portfolio, prompting a user to enter a trigger level for each entered workload driver and al... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124063 | Module with sensor means for monitoring industrial processes The invention describes a system for monitoring industrial processes, comprising sensor means for detecting one or more process quantities in at least one process station, acquisition means for acquiring measuring signals emitted by said sensor means, processing mea... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124062 | Services search method A method that includes, in a network, in each of a plurality of compute nodes, maintaining a local store of services, the local store of services including at least a service name, a service functionality and statistics defining a historical performance of the servi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124061 | System LSI A system LSI is provided which has a function of enabling data of an external device to be correctly read, when high-speed testing is carried out at a clock signal which is higher-speed than that at a time of usual operation. The system LSI has an external terminal ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124057 | Method and apparatus for diagnosing a cyclic system A method and apparatus for determining the service life of a cyclic system the method including the steps of determining at least one characteristic of the system to determine a characteristic value and determining a cycle time of the system. The at least characteri... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124056 | Information transmission device for construction machine An information transmitting device to supply operation data of a machine as needed and without unnecessary data. The information transmitting device includes information control device 4, remote base station 9, transmission means, e.g. communication sa... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121830 | Method for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on skills and personal attributes A method for collecting data relating to human performance skills and/or attributes comprising the steps of creating a questionnaire relating to the human performance skills of a target individual and establishing a rating scale for responses to the questionnaire. T... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120904 | Data-flow method for optimizing exception-handling instructions in programs A method for analyzing and optimizing programs that operate on a data structure where the state of the data structure must be valid at certain program points. The program is represented as a control-flow graph. The method decomposes the state of the data structure i... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120784 | Thread-specific branch prediction by logically splitting branch history tables and predicted target address cache in a simultaneous multithreading processing environment Branch prediction logic is enhanced to provide a monitoring function for certain conditions which indicate that the use of separate BHTs and predicted target address cache would provide better results for branch prediction. The branch prediction logic responds to th... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120689 | Receiving network metrics data from disparate devices and displaying in a host format Transmitting network metrics data from disparate client platforms to a service provider for the calculation of performance measurements so that the level of service may be verified. The metrics data is received by the service provider in formats associated with the ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120678 | Method and apparatus for configurable data collection on a computer network The invention facilitates improved configuration of computer network data collection. In one respect, the invention is a method for determining a network data collection configuration for an entity utilizing a computer network. The method determines which nodes in t... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120589 | System and method for managing customer experience information A system and method for managing experience information are disclosed. The system and method allow an organization to manage a plurality of issues and the organization's responsiveness to those issues. Moreover, the system and method allow an experience database to ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117531 | Computer monitoring system The invention provides a computer monitoring system for performing monitoring to improve a use efficiency of a monitor-subject computer and also for detecting illegal mail transmission/reception, illegal browsing, etc., which cannot be detected by a prior art, thus ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117184 | System and method for maintaining target response times in business methods An embodiment of the present invention provides a method to establish and maintain response time goals for selected business logic contained in components, which results in chosen high priority methods that respond consistently under load, enable smoother server sid... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117126 | Data processing system and method with dynamic idle for tunable interface calibration A data processing system includes a mechanism to periodically idle the normal system operation to allow recalibration of its interface circuitry by transmission of data with transitions and logic levels indicative of actual operation. Provision is made to protect ac... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113891 | Multi-port scattering parameter calibration system and method A system and method for calibrating a multi-port S-parameter measurement device reduces the number of full calibrations necessary to characterize the multi-port S-parameter measurement device by utilizing a reciprocal network concept. The multi-port S-parameter meas... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113883 | Test configuration and data management system and associated method for enterprise test operations Enterprise test configuration and data management systems and associated methods are disclosed for test, measurement and automation environments that allow management, configuration and analysis of test systems and associated data across enterprise-wide test operati... | 09/26/2006 |
