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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7487279 | Achieving both locking fairness and locking performance with spin locks A method for implementing a spin lock in a system including a plurality of processing nodes, each node including at least one processor and a cache memory, the method including steps of: acquiring exclusivity to the cache memory; checking the availability of the spi... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487277 | Apparatus, system, and method for overriding resource controller lock ownership An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for autonomously overriding a global resource lock. The apparatus includes a determination module, an override module, and an assertion module. The determination module determines whether a global resource lock is owned... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487278 | Locking multiple resources in a distributed environment A method and system that creates and maintains lock properties for a resource or object in a distributed environment. The method and system creates and/or updates lock objects to relate to multiple locks, i.e., multiple resources. The method and system creates and m... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7472212 | Multi CPU system A multi CPU system is capable of performing exclusive control of a plurality of CPUs accessing to the same resource by a hardware without depending on an OS. The plurality of CPUs are connected with the same system bus. A plurality of circuits one-to-one correspond ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7464208 | Method and apparatus for shared resource management in a multiprocessing system In a multiprocessor, access to shared resources is provided by a semaphore control mechanism, herein disclosed. The semaphore control mechanism provides for a high degree of programmable firmware reuse requiring relatively few modifications from a uniprocessor. The ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464209 | Controlling resource transfers using locks in a logically partitioned computer system A resource and partition manager of the preferred embodiments includes a lock mechanism that operates on a plurality of locks that control access to individual PCI adaptor slots. The resource and partition manager uses the lock mechanism to obtain a lock on an PCI a... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457902 | Lock and release mechanism for out-of-order frame prevention and support of native command queueing in FC-SATA A switch connection lock and release mechanism is disclosed to prevent out-of-order frames from being received by FC and/or SATA devices. The mechanism includes a set of previous AL_PA registers, alpa_reg[N:0], one for each port, and a bit vector, prev_conn[M:0], on... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7444064 | Broadcast receiver, program recording method and program product The broadcast receiver that incorporates an HDD as a recording medium and records programs on the recording medium, when recording a program on the recording medium, determines whether the program content is prohibited from being copied afterward. If it is determine... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430628 | System and method for optimized allocation of shared processing resources A system and method which efficiently manages the status of resources or services in a document processing system or device and uses a priority-based dynamic allocation process for allocating or releasing selected resources for a user or task. A job resource manager... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430627 | Adaptive reader-writer lock A method and computer system for dynamically selecting an optimal synchronization mechanism for a data structure in a multiprocessor environment. The method determines a quantity of read-side and write-side acquisitions, and evaluates the data to determine an optima... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428732 | Method and apparatus for controlling access to shared resources in an environment with multiple logical processors The disclosure relates to a control mechanism for controlling access by multiple logical processors to shared resources on a common microchip. The processors attempt to reserve exclusive use of needed resources by updating a resource descriptor. The resource descrip... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421529 | Method and apparatus to clear semaphore reservation for exclusive access to shared memory Semaphore operation manages exclusive access to a memory that is shared by a plurality of processing elements. Semaphore reservation status for exclusive access by a processing element is monitored by a memory controller. To clear an obsolete reservation status, a c... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415556 | Exclusion control An exclusion controller which allows an information processing unit to acquire a contended resource to the exclusion of the other information processing units includes a plurality of non-prioritized information processing units mutually exclusively acquiring a non-p... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412513 | Systems and methods for using metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing system A system and method of using metrics to control throttling and swapping in a message processing system is provided. A workload status of a message processing system is determined, and the system polls for a new message according to the workload status. The message p... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406698 | Driver framework component for synchronizing interactions between a multi-threaded environment and a driver operating in a less-threaded software environment The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automatic interactions between a highly threaded software environment such as an operating system kernel and a module operating in a less threaded environment. This is achieved by supplying adap... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395392 | Storage system and storage control method A controller and one or more intermediate devices that are connected to a plurality of processors and this controller so that communications are possible are provided. A first access message including a designated value designated by the processor is transmitted to ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392335 | Anticipatory changes to resources managed by locks A method and system are provided for performing anticipatory changes to a resource governed by a locking mechanism. Entities (such as transactions in a database system) that want to modify a resource request permission to modify the resource. However, prior to recei... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383369 | Managing a resource lock A method of operating a resource lock for controlling access to a resource by a plurality of resource requesters, the resource lock operating in a contention efficient (heavyweight) operating mode, and the method being responsive to a request from a resource request... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383368 | Method and system for autonomically adaptive mutexes by considering acquisition cost value A method for managing a mutex in a data processing system is presented. For each mutex, an average acquisition cost is maintained that indicates an average consumption of computational resources that has been incurred by threads attempting to acquire the mutex. If a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376744 | Using local locks for global synchronization in multi-node systems Described herein are techniques for global synchronization that under various scenarios eliminate or defer the acquisition of global locks. In many cases, the need to acquire global locks is eliminated, thereby saving the overhead attendant to processing global lock... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373453 | Method and apparatus of interleaving memory bank in multi-layer bus system A method and apparatus of interleaving memory banks in a multi-layer bus system. The apparatus includes a plurality of slave interface units receiving signals requesting a bus access and generating control signals, and a controller receiving the control signals gene... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373657 | Method and apparatus for controlling data and software access A proximity based computer access system is provided. According to the invention, a local key associated with a workstation wirelessly communicates with a local key which is associated with a user. If the user, and remote key, are outside of a preset radius of the w... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373474 | Storage system, configuration management method, and program Techniques for realizing efficient setting and utilization of configuration including storage volumes in a storage system having an initiator and a target, with a low cost configuration not requiring additional equipment such as a LAN and a server without limitation... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373545 | Fault tolerant computer system A fault-tolerant computer system includes at least two servers, each of which is configured to perform a first set of operations. Each of the two servers communicate with a computer that does not perform the first set of operations. In the event of a failure of a co... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373642 | Defining instruction extensions in a standard programming language A method is provided for modifying a program written in a standard programming language so that when the program is compiled both an executable file is produced and an instruction is programmed into a programmable logic device of a processor system. The method inclu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373476 | System and method for configuration management of storage system A discrepancy between a management range of a user on a management computer, and a management range of the user in a storage, is detected with respect to a volume held in the storage. Storage management information of the management computer stores a correspondence ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370329 | System and method for state saves in a distributed data system A client-server system may include a primary state of session data. One or more application servers may include client states of the session data and may be configured to access the primary state. The session data may include one or more attributes. The distributed ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370093 | Electronic apparatus and system capable of assigning appropriate address In order to prevent unnecessary APIPA process from being executed in a LAN environment which does not adopt APIPA, an ICMP echo request for a predetermined IP address is broadcast. Whether there are more than N apparatuses using APIPA is checked based on the replies... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366849 | Protected configuration space in a protected environment A protected configuration space is implemented as at least one range of memory addresses that are mapped to logic external to system memory. The memory addresses access logic that performs control and status operations pertaining to a protected operating environment... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363495 | System and method for message encryption and signing in a transaction processing system The invention provides a system and a method which utilizes a combination of message-based encryption and message-based digital signing to ensure the security and authenticity of a message or message buffer sent from one party or process to another in a transaction ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363447 | System and method for providing safe data movement using third party copy techniques Systems, methods, apparatus and software can utilize an extent guard to prevent modification (including relocation) of data in the storage resource while a third-party copy operation directed at the storage resource is occurring. A data transport mechanism such as a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363325 | Synchronizable transactional database method and system A database system that can synchronize all or a part of its contents over a limited bandwidth link is described. The lowest layer of the system, the bedrock layer, implements a transactional block store. On top of this is a B+-tree that can efficiently compute a dig... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363275 | Access right contradiction detection apparatus and analysis rule creation apparatus Method signatures included in an input program are detected. An access analyzer sequentially analyzes the method signatures and obtains a run-time access right list based on a rule. This rule specifies method signatures and the access rights which may possibly be in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362762 | Distributed packet processing with ordered locks to maintain requisite packet orderings Sequences of items may be maintained using ordered locks. These items may correspond to anything, but using ordered locks to maintain sequences of packets, especially for maintaining requisite packet orderings when distributing packets to be processed to different p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359881 | System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works using secure components A system for controlling the distribution and use of digital works using digital tickets. In the present invention, a “digital ticket” is used to entitle the ticket holder to exercise some usage right with respect to a digital work. Usage rights are used to defi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359882 | Distributed run-time licensing Methods and systems are disclosed for managing software licenses in a distributed computer network. The number of software licenses allocated to software users can be determined on a node-by-node basis in realtime with little or no additional processing overhead inc... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359623 | File reproducing apparatus and file reproducing method A file reproducing apparatus for reproducing files recorded on a recording medium by using a FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, which includes a cluster table which associates offset positions indicating the distances from the head of the file set at the prede... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359782 | Vehicular impact reactive system and method System and method for reacting to an expected impact involving a vehicle including an anticipatory sensor system for determining that an impact involving the vehicle is about to occur prior to the impact and an impact responsive system coupled to the sensor system a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356532 | Systems and methods for maintaining transactional persistence Messages between trading partners can be processed persistently using a persistence framework, which can include a transaction manager, a locking manager, and a logging mechanism. A transaction manager can initiate a transaction for a request, and can enlist and mod... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356653 | Reader-initiated shared memory synchronization A method of optimizing memory synchronization through software in a multi-threaded computer system using a read-initiated memory synchronization process is described. One or more embodiments of the invention may operate in a computer system capable of executing at l... | 04/08/2008 |
