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IBM patent applications published on 30 October 2008
Thursday October 30th 2008, 10:46 am
Filed under: IBM, Patent Applications

171 US patent applications published on 30 October 2008 and assigned to IBM

1 20080271149 ANTIVIRAL NETWORK SYSTEM
2 20080271133 Authenticating a Requestor Without Providing a Key
3 20080271125 Authenticating a Requestor Without Providing a Key
4 20080271114 SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AND UTILIZING A NETWORK TRUSTED CONTEXT
5 20080271061 Managing Multiple Data Processing Systems Using Existing Heterogeneous Systems Management Software
6 20080271056 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR DEVICE SELECTION
7 20080271055 PROTOCOL FOR COMMUNICATION OF DATA STRUCTURES
8 20080271049 METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN THIN-CLIENTS AND MESSAGE FORMAT SERVICE (MFS)-BASED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IMS) APPLICATIONS
9 20080271040 Method for managing message flow in a multithreaded, message flow environment
10 20080271029 Thread Scheduling with Weak Preemption Policy
11 20080271026 Systems and Media for Controlling Temperature in a Computer System
12 20080271016 HYPERVISOR WITH CLONING-AWARENESS NOTIFICATIONS
13 20080271012 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING CUSTOMIZED DOCUMENTATION FOR A SOFTWARE PRODUCT
14 20080271011 Method and Apparatus for a Client Call Service
15 20080271003 Balancing Computational Load Across a Plurality of Processors
16 20080270995 Method for Automatic Detection of Build Regressions
17 20080270988 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEBUGGING A PROGRAM IN A MULTI-THREAD ENVIRONMENT
18 20080270982 METHOD FOR AUTOMATING VARIABLES IN END-USER PROGRAMMING SYSTEM
19 20080270976 MANAGEMENT OF GRAPHICAL INFORMATION NOTES
20 20080270968 APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPLEMENTING VERTICALLY COUPLED NOISE CONTROL THROUGH A MESH PLANE IN AN ELECTRONIC PACKAGE DESIGN
21 20080270960 METHOD FOR INCORPORATING MILLER CAPACITANCE EFFECTS IN DIGITAL CIRCUITS FOR AN ACCURATE TIMING ANALYSIS
22 20080270943 COLOR AND SYMBOL CODED VISUAL CUES FOR RELATING SCREEN ITEMS TO EACH OTHER
23 20080270935 SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CATEGORY SEPARATION IN A LIST OF DOCUMENTS
24 20080270929 Federating Legacy/Remote Content into a Central Network Console
25 20080270926 POINTER DRAG PATH OPERATIONS
26 20080270916 METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY INITIATING AN INSTANT MESSAGING CHAT SESSION BASED ON A CALENDAR ENTRY
27 20080270878 CACHE ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVING RAID I/O OPERATIONS
28 20080270864 DIFFERENCE SIGNAL PATH TEST AND CHARACTERIZATION CIRCUIT
29 20080270860 Integrated Circuit for Writing and Reading Registers Distributed Across a Semiconductor Chip
30 20080270853 Method of Routing I/O Adapter Error Messages in a Multi-Host Environment
31 20080270852 MULTI-DIRECTIONAL FAULT DETECTION SYSTEM
32 20080270843 CONVOLUTION-ENCODED DATA STORAGE ON A REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DEVICES
33 20080270838 DISTRIBUTED, FAULT-TOLERANT AND HIGHLY AVAILABLE COMPUTING SYSTEM
34 20080270827 RECOVERING DIAGNOSTIC DATA AFTER OUT-OF-BAND DATA CAPTURE FAILURE
35 20080270823 FAST NODE FAILURE DETECTION VIA DISK BASED LAST GASP MECHANISM
36 20080270822 DATA REPLICA SELECTOR
37 20080270821 RECOVERING FROM ERRORS IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM
38 20080270788 EXTENSION OF X.509 CERTIFICATES TO SIMULTANEOUSLY SUPPORT MULTIPLE CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS
39 20080270775 MANAGEMENT OF EXCEPTIONS AND HARDWARE INTERRUPTIONS BY AN EXCEPTION SIMULATOR
40 20080270766 Method To Reduce The Number Of Load Instructions Searched By Stores and Snoops In An Out-Of-Order Processor
41 20080270762 Method, System and Computer Program Product for Register Management in a Simulation Enviroment
42 20080270756 SHIFT SIGNIFICAND OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA
43 20080270754 USING FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA) TECHNOLOGY WITH A MICROPROCESSOR FOR RECONFIGURABLE, INSTRUCTION LEVEL HARDWARE ACCELERATION
44 20080270748 HARDWARE SIMULATION ACCELERATOR DESIGN AND METHOD THAT EXPLOITS A PARALLEL STRUCTURE OF USER MODELS TO SUPPORT A LARGER USER MODEL SIZE
45 20080270742 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE STRUCTURE REORGANIZATION
46 20080270741 STRUCTURE FOR PROGRAM DIRECTED MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS
47 20080270735 Association of Host Translations that are Associated to an Access Control Level on a PCI Bridge that Supports Virtualization
48 20080270731 Memory Request/Grant Daemons in Virtual Nodes for Moving Subdivided Local Memory Space from VN to VN in Nodes of a Massively Parallel Computer System
49 20080270726 Apparatus and Method for Providing Remote Access Redirect Capability in a Channel Adapter of a System Area Network
50 20080270722 Method and Apparatus for Decreasing Shared Memory Data Corruption
51 20080270716 METHODS FOR ENHANCED FLIGHT DATA RECORDING
52 20080270702 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN EFFICIENT MULTI-PATH TRACE CACHE DESIGN
53 20080270683 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DRAM CONCURRENT REFRESH ENGINE WITH PROCESSOR INTERFACE
54 20080270644 SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING THE AVAILABILITY OF PATHS TO A DEVICE
55 20080270638 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HIGH SPEED NETWORK TRAFFIC VIA SIMULTANEOUSLY MULTIPLEXED DATA STREAMS
56 20080270633 SHARED SIMULTANEOUSLY-CONNECTED DRIVES
57 20080270627 DOCKING PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPING PORTABLE PACKET PROCESSING APPLICATIONS IN A NETWORK PROCESSOR
58 20080270609 COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM TO MULTIPLEX MULTIPLE APPLICATION SERVER REQUESTS OVER A SINGLE DATABASE CONNECTION
59 20080270592 Managing Introspectable Objects in an Enterprise
60 20080270590 DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION AND SELF-TUNING OF INTER-NODAL COMMUNICATION RESOURCES IN A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
61 20080270583 METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REMOTELY DEPLOYING AND AUTOMATICALLY CUSTOMIZING WORKSTATION IMAGES
62 20080270573 Method and Data Processing System for Providing XML Data
63 20080270557 E-MAIL SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS SENDER TO ATTACH RECIPEINT SPECIFIC METADATA
64 20080270535 SYSTEM FOR INPUT AND OUTPUT OF DATA WITH NON-STANDARD I/O DEVICES FOR WEB APPLICATIONS
65 20080270518 Context-Specific Instant Messaging
66 20080270509 EXTRACT BIASED EXPONENT OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA
67 20080270508 DETECTION OF POTENTIAL NEED TO USE A LARGER DATA FORMAT IN PERFORMING FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS
68 20080270507 DECOMPOSITION OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA, AND METHODS THEREFOR
69 20080270506 CONVERT SIGNIFICAND OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA FROM PACKED DECIMAL FORMAT
70 20080270500 COMPOSITION OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA, AND METHODS THEREFOR
71 20080270499 DECOMPOSITION OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA
72 20080270498 CONVERT SIGNIFICAND OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA TO PACKED DECIMAL FORMAT
73 20080270497 CONVERT SIGNIFICAND OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA TO/FROM PACKED DECIMAL FORMAT
74 20080270496 COMPOSITION/DECOMPOSITION OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA
75 20080270495 INSERT/EXTRACT BIASED EXPONENT OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA
76 20080270492 METHOD OF CHANGING THE PAGE SIZE OF A DB2 TABLE SPACE WHILE KEEPING THE OBJECT AVAILABLE
77 20080270466 Applying a Templated Business Graph to a Business Object
78 20080270455 METHOD FOR MANAGING EXTERNAL ROUTINES IN A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
79 20080270454 NUMA System Resource Descriptors Including Performance Characteristics
80 20080270444 SYSTEM, METHOD AND TOOL FOR WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION AND AUTHORING OF RELATIONSHIPS
81 20080270433 TRUSTED ACCESS BY AN EXTENDIBLE FRAMEWORK SYSTEM, ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT
82 20080270407 SYSTEM FOR ENSURING REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY IN HIGHLY CONCURRENT DATABASE ENVIRONMENTS
83 20080270406 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING COMMENTS TO KNOWLEDGE DOCUMENTS AND EXPEDITING FORMAL AUTHORING OF CONTENT
84 20080270393 TECHNIQUES FOR PERSONALIZED AND ADAPTIVE SEARCH SERVICES
85 20080270392 Optimizing Execution of Database Queries Containing User-Defined Functions
86 20080270391 SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTI-VARIABLE DYNAMIC SEARCH RESULTS VISUALIZATIONS
87 20080270372 System And Method For Verifying The Integrity And Completeness Of Records
88 20080270368 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY SUPPORTING GENERIC SQL DATA MANIPULATION STATEMENTS
89 20080270367 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING DEEP WEB SERVICES
90 20080270352 MODIFYING ENTRY NAMES IN DIRECTORY SERVER
91 20080270314 INTEGRATED APPROACH IN AN END-TO-END PROCESS FOR MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
92 20080270281 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY CREATING ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS
93 20080270265 VIDEO RENTAL E-COMMERCE SOLUTION
94 20080270258 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DURING E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS
95 20080270257 E-COMMERCE ACTIVITY LOG
96 20080270247 CUSTOMER CHECKOUT ACCELERATOR
97 20080270225 Apparatus and Methods for Determining Availability and Performance of Entities Providing Services in a Distributed System Using Filtered Service Consumer Feedback
98 20080270210 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING A REQUIREMENTS PROCESS AND PROJECT RISK-REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY
99 20080270201 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING SERVICES IN A SERVICE-ORIENTED BUSINESS
100 20080270200 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PANDEMIC PLANNING
101 20080270197 PROJECT STATUS CALCULATION ALGORITHM
102 20080270153 SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) LIFECYCLE MODEL MIGRATION
103 20080270136 Methods and Apparatus for Use in Speech Recognition Systems for Identifying Unknown Words and for Adding Previously Unknown Words to Vocabularies and Grammars of Speech Recognition Systems
104 20080270135 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING A STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODEL AND AN ACTION CLASSIFIER IN PARALLEL WITH GRAMMAR FOR BETTER HANDLING OF OUT-OF-GRAMMAR UTTERANCES
105 20080270122 System for handling novel words in a spellchecking module
106 20080270108 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRESENTING A DOCUMENT TO A USER
107 20080270102 CORRELATING OUT INTERACTIONS AND PROFILING THE SAME
108 20080270088 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAUSAL MODELING AND OUTLIER DETECTION
109 20080270086 PREDICATE-BASED COMPOSITIONAL MINIMIZATION IN A VERIFICATION ENVIRONMENT
110 20080270081 NON-DESTRUCTIVE, BELOW-SURFACE DEFECT RENDERING USING IMAGE INTENSITY ANALYSIS
111 20080270065 AUTOMATED SIMULATION TESTBENCH GENERATION FOR SERIALIZER/DESERIALIZER DATAPATH SYSTEMS
112 20080270061 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENSOR REPLICATION FOR ENSEMBLE AVERAGING IN MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS)
113 20080270059 MASK INSPECTION DNIR REPLACEMENT BASED ON LOCATION OF TRI-TONE LEVEL DATABASE IMAGES – 2P SHAPES
114 20080270057 INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY AT WAFER TEST USING PROBE RETEST DATA ANALYSIS
115 20080270049 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING RELIABILITY OF A DIGITAL SYSTEM
116 20080268802 RADIO RECEIVER THAT CHANGES FUNCTION ACCORDING TO THE OUTPUT OF AN INTERNAL VOICE-ONLY DETECTOR
117 20080268764 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A LOW IMPEDANCE ANTI-RECIRCULATION AIR MOVING INLET DEVICE
118 20080268610 METHODS AND SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES FOR LATCH-UP SUPPRESSION USING A CONDUCTIVE REGION
119 20080268604 METHODS OF BASE FORMATION IN A BiCMOS PROCESS
120 20080268600 MOSFET STRUCTURE WITH MULTIPLE SELF-ALIGNED SILICIDE CONTACTS
121 20080268588 RECESSED GATE CHANNEL WITH LOW Vt CORNER
122 20080268574 HERMETIC SEAL AND RELIABLE BONDING STRUCTURES FOR 3D APPLICATIONS
123 20080267711 Retainer Assembly for Absorbent Materials
124 20080267614 DISABLEMENT OF CAMERA FUNCTIONALITY FOR A PORTABLE DEVICE
125 20080267374 TELEPHONY SERVICE INVOCATION USING SERVICE DESCRIPTORS
126 20080267370 TELECOMMUNICATIONS VOICE SERVER LEVERAGING APPLICATION WEB-SERVER CAPABILITIES
127 20080267367 TELECOMMUNICATIONS VOICE SERVER LEVERAGING APPLICATION WEB-SERVER CAPABILITIES
128 20080267364 DIRECTORY DIALER NAME RECOGNITION
129 20080267192 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HIGH SPEED NETWORK TRAFFIC VIA SEQUENTIALLY MULTIPLEXED DATA STREAMS
130 20080267183 Infiniband Multicast Operation in an LPAR Environment
131 20080267070 System and program storage device for controlling data packet flows by manipulating data packets according to an actual manipulation rate
132 20080267060 METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING HIGH SPEED FAULT TRACING WITHIN A BLADE CENTER SYSTEM
133 20080266984 Programmable Heavy-Ion Sensing Device for Accelerated DRAM Soft Error Detection
134 20080266925 Array Split Across Three-Dimensional Interconnected Chips
135 20080266813 Blade Server Assembly
136 20080266809 ENHANCED THERMAL CONDUCTING FORMULATIONS
137 20080266798 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIQUID COOLING OF AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM
138 20080266736 Method and Apparatus for Implementing APS Voltage Level Activation With Secondary Chip in Stacked-Chip Technology
139 20080266623 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO STORE INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE MEDIA
140 20080266320 Edit Tool for Line Vector Data
141 20080266297 INTELLIGENT POSITIONING OF ITEMS IN A TREE MAP VISUALIZATION
142 20080266246 TRAVERSING GRAPHICAL LAYERS USING A SCROLLING MECHANISM IN A PHYSICAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT
143 20080266135 System for Sending Events Between Vehicles
144 20080266090 CABLED AND CABLELESS INTERFACE METHOD FOR CONNECTING UNITS WITHIN A RACK
145 20080266058 UTILIZING AN RFID TAG IN MANUFACTURING FOR ENHANCED LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
146 20080266057 UTILIZING AN RFID TAG IN MANUFACTURING FOR ENHANCED LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
147 20080265982 METHOD OF IMPROVING FUSE STATE DETECTION AND YIELD IN SEMICONDUCTOR APPLICATIONS
148 20080265931 On-chip electromigration monitoring
149 20080265867 PROCESS FOR MEASURING BOND-LINE THICKNESS
150 20080265723 Mount for air filter and bezel assembly
151 20080265445 Marks for the Alignment of Wafer-Level Underfilled Silicon Chips and Method to Produce Same
152 20080265435 STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR STRESS REDUCTION IN FLIP CHIP MICROELECTRONIC PACKAGES USING UNDERFILL MATERIALS WITH SPATIALLY VARYING PROPERTIES
153 20080265428 VIA AND SOLDER BALL SHAPES TO MAXIMIZE CHIP OR SILICON CARRIER STRENGTH RELATIVE TO THERMAL OR BENDING LOAD ZERO POINT
154 20080265409 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HARD MASK PROCESSING SYSTEM
155 20080265404 Structure and Methods of Processing for Solder Thermal Interface Materials for Chip Cooling
156 20080265402 REWORK PROCESS AND METHOD FOR LEAD-FREE CAPPED MULTI-CORE MODULES WITH ORGANIC SUBSTRATES
157 20080265396 QUAD FLAT NO-LEAD CHIP CARRIER WITH STANDOFF
158 20080265381 SiCOH DIELECTRIC
159 20080265377 AIR GAP WITH SELECTIVE PINCHOFF USING AN ANTI-NUCLEATION LAYER
160 20080265343 FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR WITH INVERTED T SHAPED GATE ELECTRODE AND METHODS FOR FABRICATION THEREOF
161 20080265333 STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED TRIPLE WELL LATCHUP ROBUSTNESS
162 20080265316 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH FIELD SHIELD AND METHOD OF FORMING THE STRUCTURE
163 20080265281 EMBEDDED SILICON GERMANIUM USING A DOUBLE BURIED OXIDE SILICON-ON-INSULATOR WAFER
164 20080265115 Tamper Evident Feature for Package Fastening Clips
165 20080265043 Cash drawer tender separator
166 20080265022 CUSTOMER CHECKOUT ACCELERATOR
167 20080264898 SELECTIVE ETCH OF TiW FOR CAPTURE PAD FORMATION
168 20080264606 PISTON RESET APPARATUS FOR A MULTICHIP MODULE AND METHOD FOR RESETTING PISTONS IN THE SAME
169 20080264604 COOLING APPARTAUS, COOLED ELECTRONIC MODULE AND METHODS OF FABRICATION EMPLOYING A MANIFOLD STRUCTURE WITH INTERLEAVED COOLANT INLET AND OUTLET PASSAGEWAYS
170 20080264603 Mounting a Heat Sink in Thermal Contact with an Electronic Component
171 20080264568 GREENSHEET VIA REPAIR/FILL TOOL