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IBM patents granted on 28 February 2006
Tuesday February 28th 2006, 1:46 pm
Filed under: IBM, Patents

55 US patents granted on 28 February 2006 and assigned to IBM

1 7,007,278 Accessing legacy applications from the Internet
2 7,007,277 Priority resource allocation in programming environments
3 7,007,276 Method, system and program products for managing groups of partitions of a computing environment
4 7,007,269 Method of providing open access to application profiling data
5 7,007,251 Database mining system and method for coverage analysis of functional verification of integrated circuit designs
6 7,007,228 Encoding geographic coordinates in a fuzzy geographic address
7 7,007,227 Contract handling method and system
8 7,007,214 Diagnosable scan chain
9 7,007,210 Method and system for handling multiple bit errors to enhance system reliability
10 7,007,207 Scheduling of transactions in system-level test program generation
11 7,007,200 Error analysis fed from a knowledge base
12 7,007,183 Power conservation by turning off power supply to unallocated resources in partitioned data processing systems
13 7,007,169 Method and apparatus for protecting a web server against vandals attacks without restricting legitimate access
14 7,007,162 Forensic media key block for identifying compromised keys
15 7,007,150 Memory balancing and optimization services
16 7,007,146 System and method for relocating pages pinned in a buffer pool of a database system
17 7,007,128 Multiprocessor data processing system having a data routing mechanism regulated through control communication
18 7,007,125 Pass through circuit for reduced memory latency in a multiprocessor system
19 7,007,063 Server side program interface to service logic execution environment
20 7,007,054 Faster discrete cosine transforms using scaled terms
21 7,007,034 File structure for storing content objects in a data repository
22 7,007,023 Method for flagging differences in resource attributes across multiple database and transaction systems
23 7,007,016 Support for concurrent active SQL statements having shared SQL context information
24 7,007,013 Fast computation of spatial queries in location-based services
25 7,007,009 Representation for data used in query optimization
26 7,007,006 Method for recommending indexes and materialized views for a database workload
27 7,006,990 Electronic product catalog systems
28 7,006,985 CONFIGURATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED UPON PURCHASERS COMPONENT NEEDS AS DETERMINED FROM PURCHASER DATA ENTRIES CORRELATED WITH A SET OF SELLER BUSINESS RULES TO OPTIMIZE QUANTITIES OF EACH COMPONENT SOLD
29 7,006,963 Intelligent workstation simulation-simulation at protocol stack level 2
30 7,006,931 System and method for efficient analysis of transmission lines
31 7,006,817 System and method for mitigating the mobile phone nuisance factor
32 7,006,793 Safe use of electronic devices in an automobile
33 7,006,670 Image processing method, image processing system and program
34 7,006,655 Methods, apparatus and systems for an electronic watermark having resistance to scaling
35 7,006,629 Method and system for processing a data set
36 7,006,567 System and method for encoding three-dimensional signals using a matching pursuit algorithm
37 7,006,498 System for transmitting local area network (LAN) data frames through an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) crossbar switch
38 7,006,353 Apparatus and method for attaching a heat sink to an integrated circuit module
39 7,006,336 Magnetic head having a heater circuit for thermally-assisted writing
40 7,006,325 Automated handling and interface mechanism for library of disk drive carriers
41 7,006,254 Method and system for data hiding and authentication via halftoning and coordinate projection
42 7,006,056 Three-dimensional display apparatus
43 7,005,988 Using radio frequency identification to detect and/or prevent theft and shoplifting
44 7,005,926 RF energy dispersal in systems consisting of aggregated computing elements as subsystems
45 7,005,879 Device for probe card power bus noise reduction
46 7,005,874 Utilizing clock shield as defect monitor
47 7,005,744 Conductor line stack having a top portion of a second layer that is smaller than the bottom portion
48 7,005,686 Mixed voltage tolerant electrostatic discharge protection silicon controlled rectifier with enhanced turn-on time
49 7,005,665 Phase change memory cell on silicon-on insulator substrate
50 7,005,371 Method of forming suspended transmission line structures in back end of line processing
51 7,005,334 Zero threshold voltage pFET and method of making same
52 7,005,319 Global planarization of wafer scale package with precision die thickness control
53 7,005,242 Magnetic head and method of making the same using an etch-stop layer for removing portions of the capping layer
54 7,005,221 Method and apparatus to easily measure reticle blind positioning with an exposure apparatus
55 7,005,164 Liquid crystal material, electro-optical device, liquid crystal display cell, and liquid crystal display