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IBM patents granted on 27 February 2007
Tuesday February 27th 2007, 9:07 am
Filed under: IBM, Patents

51 US patents granted on 27 February 2007 and assigned to IBM

1 7,185,345 Data propagation in an activity service
2 7,185,341 System and method for sharing PCI bus devices
3 7,185,337 Efficient locking for thread-safe self-modifying code
4 7,185,335 Programmatic application installation diagnosis and cleaning
5 7,185,314 Adaptive mechanism for optimally accessing data based upon data access characteristics
6 7,185,275 Method and computer system for enabling a user to construct a web-site navigation
7 7,185,258 Signal processing method, signal processing system, program for signal processing, and computer-readable storage medium on which this program is recorded
8 7,185,246 Monitoring of solid state memory devices in active memory system utilizing redundant devices
9 7,185,229 Method and system for performing remote maintenance operations on a battery powered computer
10 7,185,226 Fault tolerance in a supercomputer through dynamic repartitioning
11 7,185,223 Logical partitioning in redundant systems
12 7,185,222 Apparatus, system, and method for maintaining data in a storage array
13 7,185,215 Machine code builder derived power consumption reduction
14 7,185,204 Method and system for privacy in public networks
15 7,185,191 Updatable firmware having boot and/or communication redundancy
16 7,185,175 Configurable bi-directional bus for communicating between autonomous units
17 7,185,157 Method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a copy of a first and a second set of volumes in a third set of volumes
18 7,185,118 Reliable use of desktop class disk drives in enterprise storage applications
19 7,185,099 Apparatus and method for communicating between computer systems using a sliding send window for ordered messages in a clustered computing environment
20 7,185,093 Computer system, method, and business method for enabling customer access to computer system performance data in exchange for allowing access to the performance data by another computer system
21 7,185,092 Web site, information communication terminal, robot search engine response system, robot search engine registration method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor
22 7,185,076 Method, system and program products for managing a clustered computing environment
23 7,185,071 Self-healing version and configuration model for an application server
24 7,185,057 Individually specifying message output attributes in a messaging system
25 7,185,026 Method for synchronizing read/unread data during LOTUS NOTES database migration
26 7,185,024 Method, computer program product, and system of optimized data translation from relational data storage to hierarchical structure
27 7,185,013 Method for constructing and caching a chain of file identifiers and enabling inheritance of resource properties in file systems
28 7,185,004 System and method for reverse routing materialized query tables in a database
29 7,184,924 Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing thermal integrity screening
30 7,184,796 Personal communication device having a built in projection display
31 7,184,539 Automated call center transcription services
32 7,184,534 Using a telephony application server for call control with a voice server
33 7,184,532 Dynamic ringback services
34 7,184,177 Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for modifying printing based upon direct on-the-fly media characteristic parameters
35 7,184,157 Method, apparatus and program product providing for multiple print job tickets per print job source file
36 7,183,910 Tiered on-demand location-based service and infrastructure
37 7,183,780 Electrical open/short contact alignment structure for active region vs. gate region
38 7,183,758 Automatic exchange of degraders in accelerated testing of computer chips
39 7,183,656 Bilayer aluminum last metal for interconnects and wirebond pads
40 7,183,642 Electronic package with thermally-enhanced lid
41 7,183,628 Structure and method of hyper-abrupt junction varactors
42 7,183,613 Method and structure for enhancing both NMOSFET and PMOSFET performance with a stressed film
43 7,183,576 Epitaxial and polycrystalline growth of Si.sub.1-x-yGe.sub.xC.sub.y and Si.sub.1-yC.sub.y alloy layers on Si by UHV-CVD
44 7,183,573 Disposable spacer for symmetric and asymmetric Schottky contact to SOI mosfet
45 7,183,568 Piezoelectric array with strain dependant conducting elements and method therefor
46 7,183,182 Method and apparatus for fabricating CMOS field effect transistors
47 7,183,175 Shallow trench isolation structure for strained Si on SiGe
48 7,183,142 FinFETs with long gate length at high density
49 7,183,130 Magnetic random access memory and method of fabricating thereof
50 7,183,036 Low activation energy positive resist
51 7,181,965 Self-heated liquid level sensor