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IBM patent applications published on 24 July 2008
Thursday July 24th 2008, 8:03 am
Filed under: IBM, Patent Applications

146 US patent applications published on 24 July 2008 and assigned to IBM

1 20080178281 Method for Enabling Secure Usage of Computers Using a Mechanism Lockdown
2 20080178201 SHARING A NETWORK I/O ADAPTER BETWEEN LOGICAL PARTITIONS
3 20080178194 Integrating Non-Compliant Providers of Dynamic Services into a Resource Management infrastructure
4 20080178193 Workflow Decision Management Including Identifying User Reaction To Workflows
5 20080178192 AFFINITY DISPATCHING LOAD BALANCER WITH PRECISE CPU CONSUMPTION DATA
6 20080178191 UPDATING I/O CAPABILITY OF A LOGICALLY-PARTITIONED COMPUTER SYSTEM
7 20080178186 Apparatus and Methods for Performing Computer System Maintenance and Notification Activities in an Opportunistic Manner
8 20080178183 Scheduling Threads In A Multi-Processor Computer
9 20080178176 Architecture For Supporting Attestation Of A Virtual Machine In A Single Step
10 20080178164 METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS TO ASSOCIATE AND TRANSFORM PROCESSES
11 20080178160 Protecting code from breakpoints
12 20080178154 DEVELOPING SOFTWARE COMPONENTS AND CAPABILITY TESTING PROCEDURES FOR TESTING CODED SOFTWARE COMPONENT
13 20080178153 Maintaining Multiple Valid Concurrent Serialized Object Versions
14 20080178151 Method and Apparatus to Implement Adaptive Scripting Tool
15 20080178148 BUSINESS PERFORMANCE BOOKMARKS
16 20080178147 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROFILING AND REUSING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ASSETS
17 20080178146 METHOD FOR GENERATING AN EXECUTABLE WORKFLOW CODE FROM AN UNSTRUCTURED CYCLIC PROCESS MODEL
18 20080178129 Comparator Circuit and Method for Operating a Comparator Circuit
19 20080178106 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR USER COMMERCIALIZATION OF MENU ITEMS
20 20080178079 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO FACILITATE TUNING SQL STATEMENTS
21 20080178078 Differential Dynamic Content Delivery To Alternate Display Device Locations
22 20080178050 DATA BACKUP SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A REPLICATION OF PERMANENT DATA AND TEMPORARY DATA IN THE EVENT OF AN OPERATIONAL ERROR
23 20080178049 Power Failure Warning in Logically Partitioned Enclosures
24 20080178048 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CAPTURE AND PRESERVATION OF INTERMEDIATE ERROR STATE DATA
25 20080178046 FAULT-TOLERANT DYNAMIC EDITING OF GUI DISPLAY AND SOURCE CODE
26 20080178039 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO ASSIGN ADDRESSES TO A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICES
27 20080178038 LOW COST RAID WITH SEAMLESS DISK FAILURE RECOVERY
28 20080178035 Failback To A Primary Communications Adapter
29 20080178023 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEPENDENT PROCESSOR VOLTAGE SUPPLY
30 20080178017 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO SELECTIVELY PROVIDE POWER TO ONE OR MORE COMPONENTS DISPOSED IN AN INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
31 20080177993 System, method and program product for control of sequencing of data processing by different programs
32 20080177989 DEFINING MEMORY INDIFFERENT TRACE HANDLES
33 20080177981 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECREASING THE LATENCY BETWEEN INSTRUCTION CACHE AND A PIPELINE PROCESSOR
34 20080177977 AUTONOMICALLY ADJUSTING ONE OR MORE COMPUTER PROGRAM CONFIGURATION SETTINGS WHEN RESOURCES IN A LOGICAL PARTITION CHANGE
35 20080177976 AUTONOMICALLY ADJUSTING ONE OR MORE COMPUTER PROGRAM CONFIGURATION SETTINGS WHEN RESOURCES IN A LOGICAL PARTITION CHANGE
36 20080177961 Partial Backup and Restore with Backup Versioning
37 20080177960 Export of Logical Volumes By Pools
38 20080177958 SELECTION OF DATA MOVER FOR DATA TRANSFER
39 20080177955 Achieving Both Locking Fairness and Locking Performance with Spin Locks
40 20080177951 Design Stucture for Multi-Level Memory Architecture With Data Prioritization
41 20080177942 276-PIN BUFFERED MEMORY MODULE WITH ENHANCED FAULT TOLERANCE
42 20080177929 SYSTEM, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR A MEMORY SUBSYSTEM COMMAND INTERFACE
43 20080177902 Hierarchical Enclosure Management Services
44 20080177898 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO A WIRELESS NETWORK
45 20080177892 METHOD FOR SERVICE ORIENTED DATA EXTRACTION TRANSFORMATION AND LOAD
46 20080177891 Specific Method of Setting Transport-Specific Properties From Transport-Agnostic Clients
47 20080177883 WEB SERVER FOR MANAGING SESSION AND METHOD THEREOF
48 20080177880 Methods and Apparatus for Efficiently Placing Stream Transforms Among Broker Machines Comprising an Overlay Network in a Publish-Subscribe Messaging System
49 20080177870 SELECTING INFORMATION FOR AD HOC EXCHANGE
50 20080177866 Differential Dynamic Delivery Of Content To Users Not In Attendance At A Presentation
51 20080177857 AUTONOMIC OPTIMIZATION OF PRESENCE SERVER PERFORMANCE
52 20080177850 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A SHARED ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCOUNT
53 20080177837 Dynamic Media Content For Collaborators With Client Locations In Dynamic Client Contexts
54 20080177835 Methods and Apparatus for Managing and Distinguishing Instant Messaging Sessions and Threads
55 20080177834 CONTENT MONITORING IN A HIGH VOLUME ON-LINE COMMUNITY APPLICATION
56 20080177833 PEER-TO-PEER MULTI-PARTY VOICE-OVER-IP SERVICES
57 20080177829 Data Communications Through A Split Connection Proxy
58 20080177823 SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR DUAL AGENT PROCESSES AND DUAL ACTIVE SERVER PROCESSES
59 20080177816 Method And Decimal Arithmetic Logic Unit Structure To Generate A Magnitude Result of a Mathematic
60 20080177813 METHOD FOR FAST RELEVANCE DISCOVERY IN TIME SERIES
61 20080177812 HASH ALGORITHM USING RANDOMIZATION FUNCTION
62 20080177810 QoS-Enabled Lifecycle Management for File Systems
63 20080177807 BACKING-UP AND RESTORING FILES INCLUDING FILES REFERENCED WITH MULTIPLE FILE NAMES
64 20080177802 SECURELY DELETING DATA IN A TRANSACTIONALLY CONSISTENT MANNER
65 20080177795 COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING A TECHNICAL FRAMEWORK
66 20080177786 METHOD FOR THE SEMI-AUTOMATIC EDITING OF TIMED AND ANNOTATED DATA
67 20080177773 CUSTOMIZED MEDIA SELECTION USING DEGREES OF SEPARATION TECHNIQUES
68 20080177771 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LOCATION COLLABORATION
69 20080177770 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING DISTRIBUTED AND HYBRID QUERIES IN IMPERFECT ENVIRONMENTS
70 20080177755 CREATION AND PERSISTENCE OF ACTION METADATA
71 20080177754 Adaptive vicinity prefetching For filesystem Metadata
72 20080177742 EFFICIENT SUPPORT OF CONSISTENT CYCLIC SEARCH WITH READ-COPY-UPDATE
73 20080177740 DETECTING RELATIONSHIPS IN UNSTRUCTURED TEXT
74 20080177736 DOCUMENT CLUSTERING BASED ON COHESIVE TERMS
75 20080177735 MOVEMENT-BASED DYNAMIC FILTERING OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
76 20080177722 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROGRESSIVE QUERY PROCESSING
77 20080177714 MOVEMENT-BASED DYNAMIC FILTERING OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
78 20080177712 METHOD FOR RETRIEVING CONSTANT VALUES USING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
79 20080177698 Performance Degradation Root Cause Prediction in a Distributed Computing System
80 20080177697 MONITORING USAGE OF COMPONENTS IN A DATABASE INDEX
81 20080177696 METHOD FOR MAINTAINING A SAMPLE SYNOPSIS UNDER ARBITRARY INSERTIONS AND DELETIONS
82 20080177686 Apparatus And Method For Predicting A Metric Associated With A Computer System
83 20080177648 CONFIDENCE BASED WEB SERVICE APPLICATION ASSEMBLY
84 20080177642 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR RISK MANAGEMENT
85 20080177632 Weight Based Upselling
86 20080177620 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A CATALOG WITH OPTIMIZED PRODUCT PLACEMENT
87 20080177615 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MINIMIZING RISK IN CONTACT CENTER MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS
88 20080177613 SYSTEM TO IMPROVE PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE AND WARRANTY COST/PRICE ESTIMATION
89 20080177606 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING CALLS TO CALL CENTER VENDORS
90 20080177586 Apparatus and Method for Identifying Process Elements
91 20080177584 Systems, Methods, and Media for Managing a Travel Itinerary
92 20080177565 DESIGN MANAGING MEANS, DESIGN TOOL AND METHOD FOR WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
93 20080177549 RESPONDING TO RECIPIENT RATED WIRELESSLY BROADCAST ELECTRONIC WORKS
94 20080177543 Stochastic Syllable Accent Recognition
95 20080177540 Method and Apparatus for Recognizing and Reacting to User Personality in Accordance with Speech Recognition System
96 20080177538 GENERATION OF DOMAIN MODELS FROM NOISY TRANSCRIPTIONS
97 20080177530 Synchronizing Visual And Speech Events In A Multimodal Application
98 20080177526 COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING PROCESSES FOR PROJECT PROGRESS
99 20080177506 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING PROCESSOR CORES
100 20080176578 Using RFID and Sensored Zones to Geographically Control Cellular Phone Audio Profiles
101 20080176573 CONVERSION OF VOICE-OVER-IP MEDIA CONTROL MESSAGING INTO MOBILE CONTROL CHANNEL SIGNALING USING A VOICE-OVER IP GATEWAY
102 20080176532 METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR MINIMIZING ROAMING COST IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK
103 20080176507 TRACKING LOCALLY BROADCAST ELECTRONIC WORKS
104 20080176419 LAND GRID ARRAY (LGA) INTERPOSER UTILIZING METAL-ON-ELASTOMER HEMI-TORUS AND OTHER MULTIPLE POINTS OF CONTACT GEOMETRIES
105 20080176418 LAND GRID ARRAY (LGA) INTERPOSER UTILIZING METAL-ON-ELASTOMER HEMI TORUS AND OTHER MULTIPLE POINTS OF CONTACT GEOMETRIES
106 20080176417 LAND GRID ARRAY (LGA) INTERPOSER UTILIZING METAL-ON-ELASTOMER HEMI-TORUS AND OTHER MULTIPLE POINTS OF CONTACT GEOMETRIES
107 20080176416 LAND GRID ARRAY (LGA) INTERPOSER UTILIZING METAL-ON-ELASTOMER HEMI-TORUS AND OTHER MULTIPLE POINTS OF CONTACT GEOMETRIES
108 20080176411 TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING DECOUPLING CAPACITANCE
109 20080176147 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING THE STRUCTURE AND EDGE ROUGHNESS PRODUCED DURING LASER ABLATION OF A MATERIAL
110 20080175939 TECHNIQUES FOR FORMING INTERCONNECTS
111 20080175527 WAVEGUIDE POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS AND METHOD OF FABRICATING A WAVEGUIDE WIRE-GRID POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER
112 20080175381 E-FUSES FOR STORING SECURITY VERSION DATA
113 20080175373 Apparatus and method for providing automatic language preference
114 20080175371 Routing Telecommunications To A User In Dependence Upon Device-Based Routing Preferences
115 20080175368 Rerouting ongoing telecommunications to a user
116 20080175363 Method and System for Transferring an Administrator and Associated Charges During a Multi-Way Call
117 20080175344 Low Jitter Communication System
118 20080175327 SYSTEM FOR REDUCING CROSS-TALK INDUCED SOURCE SYNCHRONOUS BUS CLOCK JITTER
119 20080175324 SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS TO FACILITATE EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION AND PLAYBACK OF DIGITAL INFORMATION
120 20080175268 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INTEROPERABILITY OF DIFFERENT VERSION PROTOCOLS WITHOUT ACCESS TO PROTOCOL SPECIFIC CODE
121 20080175243 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CRAWL POLICY MANAGEMENT UTILIZING IP ADDRESS AND IP ADDRESS RANGE
122 20080175222 URL PATTERNS FOR MULTI TENANT SYSTEMS
123 20080175206 Methods and Apparatus for Continuous Connectivity Between Mobile Device and Network Using Dynamic Connection Spreading
124 20080175086 Multi-Port Dynamic Memory Structures
125 20080175085 Differential and Hierarchical Sensing for Memory Circuits
126 20080174961 HYBRID COOLING SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-COMPONENT ELECTRONICS SYSTEM
127 20080174682 INTELLIGENT MIRROR
128 20080174451 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING DRIVER SAFETY AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
129 20080174334 METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF PREMATURE DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN IN A SEMICONDUCTOR
130 20080174017 HYBRID INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT AND RELIABILITY ENHANCEMENT
131 20080173994 METHOD OF MAKING RELEASE COATINGS FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS
132 20080173993 CHIP CARRIER SUBSTRATE CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR FABRICATION THEREOF
133 20080173985 DIELECTRIC CAP HAVING MATERIAL WITH OPTICAL BAND GAP TO SUBSTANTIALLY BLOCK UV RADIATION DURING CURING TREATMENT, AND RELATED METHODS
134 20080173984 MECHANICALLY ROBUST METAL/LOW-k INTERCONNECTS
135 20080173977 POST STI TRENCH CAPACITOR
136 20080173976 AIR GAP UNDER ON-CHIP PASSIVE DEVICE
137 20080173975 PROGRAMMABLE RESISTOR, SWITCH OR VERTICAL MEMORY CELL
138 20080173972 METHOD OF WAFER THINNING
139 20080173950 Structure and Method of Fabricating Electrical Structure Having Improved Charge Mobility
140 20080173946 CMOS STRUCTURE INCLUDING DUAL METAL CONTAINING COMPOSITE GATES
141 20080173942 STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A STRAINED FinFET WITH STRESSED SILICIDE
142 20080173934 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEM EMPLOYING STRESS-ENGINEERED SPACERS
143 20080173906 ENHANCED MOBILITY CMOS TRANSISTORS WITH A V-SHAPED CHANNEL WITH SELF-ALIGNMENT TO SHALLOW TRENCH ISOLATION
144 20080173901 CMOS DEVICES HAVING CHANNEL REGIONS WITH A V-SHAPED TRENCH AND HYBRID CHANNEL ORIENTATIONS, AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME
145 20080173869 METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR REDUCING PRIOR LEVEL EDGE INTERFERENCE WITH CRITICAL DIMENSION MEASUREMENT
146 20080172853 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PRESS-FIT COMPONENTS