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IBM patent applications published on 31 July 2008
Thursday July 31st 2008, 10:05 am
Filed under: IBM, Patent Applications

129 US patent applications published on 31 July 2008 and assigned to IBM

1 20080184337 ARTICLE AND SYSTEM FOR DECENTRALIZED CREATION, DISTRIBUTION, VERIFICATION AND TRANSFER OF VALUABLE DOCUMENTS
2 20080184271 Automated Diagnostic Service
3 20080184249 SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING LOCKS
4 20080184246 Scheduling Threads In Multiprocessor Computer
5 20080184229 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING VIRTUAL MACHINE TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGING PARALLEL COMMUNICATING APPLICATIONS
6 20080184213 COMPILER DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM
7 20080184147 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO LOOK AHEAD WITHIN A COMPLEX TAXONOMY OF OBJECTS
8 20080184110 MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM
9 20080184109 GENERATING A RELATIONAL VIEW FOR A BASE MODEL SCHEMA
10 20080184105 Method and Apparatus for Processing a Parseable Document
11 20080184103 Generation of Application Specific XML Parsers Using Jar Files with Package Paths that Match the SML XPaths
12 20080184101 MARKING AND ANNOTATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS
13 20080184098 XML-Based Textual Specification for Rich-Media Content Creation-systems and Program Products
14 20080184060 FACILITATING RECOVERY IN A COORDINATED TIMING NETWORK
15 20080184024 Initialization of a Data Processing System
16 20080184020 Apparatus and method to update firmware disposed in multiple devices sharing a common address in a computing system
17 20080184019 METHOD FOR EMBEDDING SHORT RARE CODE SEQUENCES IN HOT CODE WITHOUT BRANCH-AROUNDS
18 20080184014 METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY EMULATING COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE CONDITION CODE SETTINGS
19 20080183977 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A DYNAMIC MEMORY BANK PAGE POLICY
20 20080183969 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC SIZING OF CACHE SEQUENTIAL LIST
21 20080183963 System, Method, And Service For Providing A Generic RAID Engine And Optimizer
22 20080183960 Maintenance of Valid Volume Table of Contents
23 20080183957 276-PIN BUFFERED MEMORY MODULE WITH ENHANCED FAULT TOLERANCE
24 20080183941 HARDWARE ASSISTED BUS STATE TRANSITION USING CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORIES.
25 20080183925 Memory Command and Address Conversion Between an XDR Interface and a Double Data Rate Interface
26 20080183903 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC MEMORY PRE-FETCH
27 20080183899 SERVER TIME PROTOCOL MESSAGES AND METHODS
28 20080183898 CHANNEL SUBSYSTEM SERVER TIME PROTOCOL COMMANDS AND SYSTEM THEREFOR
29 20080183897 EMPLOYING CONFIGURATION INFORMATION TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF A SERVER IN A COORDINATED TIMING NETWORK
30 20080183896 DEFINITION OF A PRIMARY ACTIVE SERVER IN A COORDINATED TIMING NETWORK
31 20080183895 FACILITATING SYNCHRONIZATION OF SERVERS IN A COORDINATED TIMING NETWORK
32 20080183893 METHOD FOR DESIGNATING INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES
33 20080183879 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING XML ENABLED IMS TRANSACTIONS
34 20080183877 ESTABLISHING A LOGICAL PATH BETWEEN SERVERS IN A COORDINATED TIMING NETWORK
35 20080183873 CHANGE APPROVALS FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS
36 20080183872 Method and System for Authorization and Access Control Delegation in an On Demand Grid Environment
37 20080183864 Methods and Apparatus for Categorizing Computer System States for Use in Identifying Individual Computer Systems to Receive State-Dependent Maintenance
38 20080183855 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE PROBLEM LOCALIZATION
39 20080183849 SERVER TIME PROTOCOL CONTROL MESSAGES AND METHODS
40 20080183832 Instant Messaging Windowing for Topic Threads
41 20080183824 METHODS FOR DETACHING AN ATTACHMENT FILE FROM A CONTAINING EMAIL MESSAGE AND GENERATING METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE ATTACHMENT FILE AND THE CONTAINING EMAIL MESSAGE
42 20080183812 Method and System for Fault-Tolerant Remote Boot in the Presence of Boot Server Overload/Failure with Self-Throttling Boot Servers
43 20080183786 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTION-TRANSITION ESTIMATION OF KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR
44 20080183779 Method and System for Optimal Parallel Computing Performance
45 20080183778 PURGING OF STORED TIMESERIES DATA
46 20080183768 SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR MONITORING LOCAL MAIL REPLICAS AND LOCAL DIRECTORY REPLICAS FOR E-MAIL
47 20080183761 Method and Computer Program Product for Dynamic Weighting of an Ontological Data Model
48 20080183733 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR THE CREATION AND USE OF A UNIFIED DYNAMIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
49 20080183732 Process for Distributed Production and Peer-To-Peer Consolidation of Subjective Ratings Across Ad-Hoc Networks
50 20080183704 PROBLEM DETERMINATION SERVICE
51 20080183703 UNIFORM SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY SHARING DISTRIBUTED ACCESS-CONTROLLED DOCUMENTS
52 20080183692 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISCOVERING RELEVANT INFORMATION IN A DYNAMIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
53 20080183691 METHOD FOR A NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE BASED DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL AND RANKING UTILIZING EXTRACTED DOCUMENT METADATA AND CONTENT
54 20080183683 MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM
55 20080183682 Methods and Apparatus for Incremental Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching
56 20080183668 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING ERROR MESSAGES
57 20080183667 AUTOMATED AND DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF QUERY VIEWS FOR DATABASE WORKLOADS
58 20080183666 MATERIALIZED QUERY TABLE JOURNALING IN A COMPUTER DATABASE SYSTEM
59 20080183655 MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM
60 20080183609 Detecting Structuring of Financial Transactions
61 20080183602 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR FACILITATING EXCESS INENTORY UTILIZATION IN A MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT
62 20080183588 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING CONSUMER PREFERENCES AND PURCHASE ITEMS AT POINT OF SALE
63 20080183553 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORKFORCE DEMAND FORECASTING
64 20080183546 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ASSIGNMENT OF SALES OPPORTUNITIES TO HUMAN AGENTS
65 20080183544 METHOD FOR PROVISIONING RESOURCES
66 20080183537 APPROACH TO COMPREHENSIVE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS FOR COMPLEX WORKFLOWS
67 20080183514 System and Methods for Using Solution Building Blocks
68 20080183477 Update Technique for Speech Recognition Applications with Uninterrupted (24X7) Operation
69 20080183473 Technique of Generating High Quality Synthetic Speech
70 20080183452 VISUAL ANALYSIS OF A PROTEIN FOLDING PROCESS
71 20080183439 System and Method for Automatic Selection of Transmission Line Macromodels
72 20080183435 PAIRWISE FRAGMENT INTERACTION COMPUTATION
73 20080183423 SCORING METHOD FOR CORRELATION ANOMALIES
74 20080183389 Pervasive Network for Environmental Sensing
75 20080183321 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PRODUCT RANDOMIZATION AND ANALYSIS IN A MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT
76 20080182522 Methods and Apparatus for Analyzing Transmission Lines with Decoupling of Connectors and Other Circuit Elements
77 20080182490 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PAD CONDITIONING IN AN ECMP PROCESS
78 20080182443 Socket and Method for Compensating for Differing Coefficients of Thermal Expansion
79 20080182402 SUB-LITHOGRAPHIC INTERCONNECT PATTERNING USING SELF-ASSEMBLING POLYMERS
80 20080182389 LOW THRESHOLD VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH DUAL THRESHOLD VOLTAGE CONTROL MEANS
81 20080182372 METHOD OF FORMING DISPOSABLE SPACERS FOR IMPROVED STRESSED NITRIDE FILM EFFECTIVENESS
82 20080182361 TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING DECOUPLING CAPACITANCE
83 20080182359 TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING DECOUPLING CAPACITANCE
84 20080182342 Magnetic Tunnel Barriers and Associated Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with High Tunneling Magnetoresistance
85 20080182335 DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SiCOH-BASED DIELECTRIC MATERIALS DURING DEVICE FABRICATION
86 20080182124 MODIFICATION OF SOLDER ALLOY COMPOSITIONS TO SUPPRESS INTERFACIAL VOID FORMATION IN SOLDER JOINTS
87 20080182015 Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Using Amorphous Materials as Reference and Free Layers
88 20080181518 Method and Apparatus for Fast and Flexible Digital Image Compression Using Programmable Sprite Buffer
89 20080181516 DYNAMIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
90 20080181509 Method and Apparatus for a Fast Graphic Rendering Realization Methodology Using Programmable Sprite Control
91 20080181504 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR DETECTING GARBLED CHARACTERS
92 20080181462 Apparatus for Monitor, Storage and Back Editing, Retrieving of Digitally Stored Surveillance Images
93 20080181410 CONTENT GUARD SYSTEM FOR COPY PROTECTION OF RECORDABLE MEDIA
94 20080181396 DATA OBFUSCATION OF TEXT DATA USING ENTITY DETECTION AND REPLACEMENT
95 20080181390 METHOD OF ANALYZING CONVERSATIONAL TRANSCRIPTS
96 20080181384 Multi-Way Call Connection Management System
97 20080181236 VIRTUAL USB COMMUNICATIONS PORT
98 20080181232 COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL INSTANCES OF A PHYSICAL PORT ATTACHED TO A NETWORK
99 20080181197 Delivering Unified User Experience By Automatically Teaming Up Information Appliances With General Purpose PC Through Internet
100 20080181082 Apparatus and method for holographic information storage and retrieval
101 20080181029 Techniques For Improving Write Stability Of Memory With Decoupled Read And Write Bit Lines
102 20080180914 INTEGRATED HEAT SPREADER AND EXCHANGER
103 20080180900 Electronic Component for an Electronic Carrier Substrate
104 20080180841 TAPE ROLLER GUIDE WITH INTEGRAL RECORDING HEAD
105 20080180828 Back EMF Reduction in a Storage Drive Using Pulse Width Modulation in a Closed Loop Motor Control System
106 20080180646 IMPRINT REFERENCE TEMPLATE FOR MULTILAYER OR MULTIPATTERN REGISTRATION AND METHOD THEREFOR
107 20080180637 Method And Apparatus For Indoor Navigation
108 20080180340 Waveguide Coupling Devices
109 20080180324 PHASE SHIFTING AND COMBINING ARCHITECTURE FOR PHASED ARRAYS
110 20080180287 TECHNIQUES FOR 9B10B AND 7B8B CODING AND DECODING
111 20080180139 CMOS DIFFERENTIAL RAIL-TO-RAIL LATCH CIRCUITS
112 20080180134 Electronic Circuit for Measurement of Transistor Variability and the Like
113 20080179755 STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR CREATING RELIABLE DEEP VIA CONNECTIONS IN A SILICON CARRIER
114 20080179749 UNDOPED POLYSILICON METAL SILICIDE WIRING
115 20080179714 INTEGRATED MULTIPLE GATE DIELECTRIC COMPOSITION AND THICKNESS SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
116 20080179712 STRUCTURE AND METHOD TO FORM SEMICONDUCTOR-ON-PORES (SOP) FOR HIGH DEVICE PERFORMANCE AND LOW MANUFACTURING COST
117 20080179709 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FUSE
118 20080179680 PSEUDOMORPHIC SI/SIGE/SI BODY DEVICE WITH EMBEDDED SIGE SOURCE/DRAIN
119 20080179678 TWO-SIDED SEMICONDUCTOR-ON-INSULATOR STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
120 20080179667 SUB-LITHOGRAPHIC GATE LENGTH TRANSISTOR USING SELF-ASSEMBLING POLYMERS
121 20080179660 CONTACT FORMING METHOD AND RELATED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
122 20080179638 GAP FILL FOR UNDERLAPPED DUAL STRESS LINERS
123 20080179636 N-FETS WITH TENSILELY STRAINED SEMICONDUCTOR CHANNELS, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME USING BURIED PSEUDOMORPHIC LAYERS
124 20080179583 FABRICATION OF PHASE CHANGE MEMORY ELEMENT WITH PHASE-CHANGE ELECTRODES USING CONFORMAL DEPOSITION
125 20080179582 PHASE CHANGE MEMORY ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME
126 20080179280 METHOD FOR FORMING AN INDIUM CAP LAYER
127 20080179192 MULTI-ANODE SYSTEM FOR UNIFORM PLATING OF ALLOYS
128 20080179035 FLEXIBLE NOZZLE FOR INJECTION MOLDED SOLDER
129 20080178999 MULTI-LAYERED INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE USING LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER DIELECTRIC