Prior Art Database Additions 15-Feb-2010

Disclosed is an invention that introduces a fast mechanism to search and service waiters for NVS space. A storage controller has limited NVS. When the storage controller is out of NVS space or segments, host writes need to queue for segments. So...

In today’s global economy it is essential for customers to process at their data centers with minimal interruption. Customers need access to their data and resources in real time, and to manage data continually. In a perfect world, processing would...

Disclosed is a mechanism and logic tree that allows a business to evaluate incoming business process change requests. The Change Evaluation Mechanism (CEM) prevents unauthorized change requests and keeps records of all changes for future reference.

Incoming product lots vary in DT trench surface area& wafer quantity resulting in thickness variation of generically deposited node nitride leading to DT capacitance differences Problem more critical for 12S (currently in manufacturing) Expecting to...

In many scenarios when doing a presentation, facing audience, we may need interactions with the audiences to better show what we want to express. Our idea is to provide a new way of integrating interactions into presentation, by marking breakdowns in...

Disclosed is a context based approach to compressing JavaScript libraries for a particular Web application that uses the libraries. This is made by scanning and analyzing the web pages in the application, and removing the JavaScript code unreferenced...

This article introduces a lightweight data collector to collect data from applications with low maintenance costs and easy deployment.

Disclosed is a method for effectively mapping heavily communicating Message Passing Interface (MPI) Processes to a node on a cluster of single/multi-core Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMPs) for reducing communication overhead. Further, the method...

A method and system is disclosed for managing multiple asynchronous results obtained by one or more multiple data sources for faster and efficient functioning of an application.

A method and system is provided to speculatively predict the time at which a process produces output parameters and also to speculatively predict output parameter values of a process in a workflow system. The time at which a process produces an...

Title : A contextual tagging method to improve relevance and efficiency of search using 4W1H approach in search systems. Author: Chirag K Barhate Disclosed is a technique that can, not only understand context of the search query, but also...

A method and system for storing and communicating status information of a phone call receiver to a phone call initiator is disclosed. A phone call receiver chooses a user profile reflecting the phone call receiver’s status in a mobile phone. The...

Disclosed is a method and system for enabling communication between one or more hardware components of a system.

A method and system for reducing the potential barrier between a photodiode and a transfer gate in a Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor for improved image lag and fast charge transfer efficiency is disclosed.

This disclosure describes a method of determining Statistically-Corrected Spatial Interpolation (SCSI) modeling parameters based on on-wafer measurement data.

Disclosed is a method and system for managing Uniform Resource Locator (URLs)/attachments embedded in an email. The method involves identifying URLs/attachments embedded in one or more emails selected by a user. Thereafter, a list containing the...

A method and system for creating pools of self-generating test cases for multiprocessor systems is disclosed. The pools of self-generating test cases help in eliminating long build times in testcase generation in the multiprocessor systems.

A method and system for determining power consumption of a virtual machine is disclosed. This power consumption is then billed to a user of the virtual machine.

A system and method is provided to dynamically map and replace SQL statements in a relational database. SQL statements impacted due to a schema evolution are identified and new SQL statements are then designed according to the evolved schema. ...

A location-aware collaboration system and method which provides selective communication between users sharing a common digital asset is described. For example, once a digital document is send to multiple recipients, it's no longer protected from...

A method and system is disclosed for controlling and debugging multi-threaded processes. The method ensures that all threads of a process are not running userspace.

A method and system for presenting credit/debit card transaction receipts to users via an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is disclosed.

A method and system is disclosed for charging personal computing devices such as a laptop computer. A solar panel is provided with a laptop computer in order to utilize solar power to charge/recharge a battery of the laptop computer.

This disclosure publication provides a better document collaboration technique to track changes and a method to better visualize document changes, and express the importance of the suggested changes.

One needs a method to tag a functional endpoint, and the paths leading up to the end point as a path to be avoided. This helps improve user experience with menu interfaces in complex programs.

E-learning course students/reviewers complete a form that provides demographic information, answer "smile sheet" questions where they respond to statements in terms of strongly agree to strongly disagree (or a similar set of provided responses), and...

Disclosed is a method for being able to display information to the user (via the computer’s main display) when the personal computer is in a low power state. With the current movement towards Green PC’s, a traditional PC will sooner or later go to a...

Disposable rotary valves in various configurations are employed in fluid processing systems used in biopharmaceutical production, diagnostic and clinical applications or generally in applications where disposable components eliminate the need for...

What is presented is a method to provide a search option which allows the user to telescope the broadness or narrowness of the sections or subsections presented along with the search results.

Use of ARP cache data to discover and report malfunctioning systems.

Technology changes and emerges at a record pace and a reader may find it difficult to keep up to date with the latest terminology. When reading a document or viewing a presentation, phrases, terms, or acronyms are used to support the document. To...

A method and system for generating pre-driver output for Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Input/Output (IO) with different delays is disclosed. These delays provide IO with different slew rates.

Disclosed is a method to automatically arrange a chat buddy to the top of the list based on locale information.

Disclosed is a method for selecting a preferred font association for Instant Messaging conversations

This device helps monitor and store information during a workout session at the gym as produced by the machine selected for exercising. The objective of this new idea is to enhance the IBM program on preventive and personalized medicine. This...

Graphs are structures which are hard to represent in two dimensions (e.g. on screen or printout) in a uniform way. Most solutions follow a graphical approach, where they try to flatten and draw graphs or it parts in two dimensions. These approaches...

Disclosed is a method for hiding GUI objects until matching conditions are met

This article describes a method for creating a domain specific contrained model instance based on the generic model and a minimal complete XML instance representation (aka skeleton template). The advantage of using the skeleton template is in its...

In modern society, especially in big cities, the major air pollution is caused by particulate matters (PM). Epidemiological studies suggest that more than 500,000 Americans die each year from cardiopulmonary disease linked to breathing fine particle...

Disclosed is a method for e-mail community in-box management

The invention enables adaptive choice of specific volume reduction techniques and their parameters. The primary application of the current invention is in the field of federated enterprise service buses.