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US20080263001 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING DATA PARTITIONING IN A PARALLEL DATABASE  
A system for automating data partitioning in a parallel database includes plural nodes connected in parallel. Each node includes a database server and two databases connected thereto. Each database...
US20080262983 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AND INTERACTING WITH HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION AND TIME VARYING RULE PRIORITY  
A graphical interaction and authoring system is provided that combines textual and graphical information to display hierarchical information via an interactive visual mechanism for the composition...
US20080262981 Method, System and Computer Program for Operational-Risk Modeling  
The invention relates to a method for modelling the operational risk of an entity, the method comprising the steps of: Compiling a list with one or more failure events; Compiling a list with...
US20080262951 Facilitating International Customs Planning  
Facilitating customs planning and clearance including creating in an international customs server, in response to a signal communicated through a client device coupled for data communications...
US20080262903 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE THE PRICES AND ORDER QUANTITIES THAT MAXIMIZE A RETAILER'S TOTAL PROFIT  
The present invention provides a system and method for determining the prices and order quantities that maximize a retailer's expected profit by using a multi-dimensional distribution of the...
US20080262847 USER POSITIONABLE AUDIO ANCHORS FOR DIRECTIONAL AUDIO PLAYBACK FROM VOICE-ENABLED INTERFACES  
The present invention discloses a concept and a use of audio anchors within voice-enabled interfaces. Audio anchors can be user configurable points from which audio playback occurs. In the...
US20080262841 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CONTENTS, CONTAINING SOUND DATA, MOVING IMAGE DATA AND STATIC IMAGE DATA, HARMLESS  
A method of rendering multimedia contents harmless is described. The method includes: reading out a predetermined word and the contents from a recording apparatus; replacing the predetermined word...
US20080262837 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING A SPEECH OUTPUT RATE TO MATCH A SPEECH INPUT RATE  
A method ( 10 ) and system of adjusting a speech output rate to match a speech input rate can include the steps of receiving ( 12 ) speech input, computing ( 14 ) a speech input rate, and...
US20080262830 Bidirectional Network Language Support  
A method and apparatus for displaying bi-directional text using a browser program on a computer ( 20 ) coupled to drive a display ( 22 ) and having an operating system such that the computer...
US20080262821 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING SIMULATED ADDRESSES  
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for dynamically generating and managing addresses in a simulation environment. Address parameters and requests for addresses for...
US20080262797 Method and System for Monitoring Performance of Distributed Applications  
Method and a corresponding system for performance monitoring of distributed applications. A sensor intercepts every request of service for a server that is generated on a client. If the request...
US20080262777 SYSTEM FOR TESTING PROCESSOR CORES  
Systems, methods and program codes are provided for testing multi-core processor chip structures. Individual processor core power supply voltages are provided through controlling individual power...
US20080262724 Navigating A UAV Having An On-Board Digital Camera To Capture Desired Geographic Area  
Methods, systems, and products for navigating a UAV having an on-board digital camera are provided. Embodiments include identifying a geographic area not captured by the digital camera while the...
US20080262638 Apparatus and Method to Integrate Hardware Adapter Diagnostics with a Host OS Diagnostics Through Signaling  
The present invention provides a system and method for controlling diagnostic functions on a remote device. The system includes a host, and a network adapter in communication with the host. The...
US20080261625 REMOTE LOCATION BASED SERVICES  
The invention relates to a method, system and service for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method has the steps of receiving a request message to obtain information...
US20080261621 DYNAMIC SERVICE BINDING PROVIDING TRANSPARENT SWITCHING OF INFORMATION SERVICES HAVING DEFINED COVERAGE REGIONS  
It is determined whether a location of a mobile device is within a coverage region of a first information service. Communications for the first information service are redirected to a second...
US20080261451 PRE-DISTORTION BASED IMPEDENCE DISCONTINUITY REMEDIATION FOR VIA STUBS AND CONNECTORS IN PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN  
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to via structure utilization in a PCB design and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program...
US20080261393 REDUCING WIRE EROSION DURING DAMASCENE PROCESSING  
A damascene process incorporating a GCIB step is provided. The GCIB step can replace one or more CMP steps in the traditional damascene process. The GCIB step allows for selectable removal of...
US20080261371 VERTICAL BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR WITH A MAJORITY CARRIER ACCUMULATION LAYER AS A SUBCOLLECTOR FOR SOI BiCMOS WITH REDUCED BURIED OXIDE THICKNESS FOR LOW-SUBSTRATE BIAS OPERATION  
The present invention provides a “subcollector-less” silicon-on-insulator (SOI) bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that has no impurity-doped subcollector. Instead, the inventive vertical SOI...
US20080261369 STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MOSFET WITH REDUCED EXTENSION RESISTANCE  
The present invention provides a method in which a low-resistance connection between the MOS channel and silicided source/drain regions is provided that has an independence from the extension ion...
US20080261363 DUAL GATED FINFET GAIN CELL  
A memory gain cell for a memory circuit, a memory circuit formed from multiple memory gain cells, and methods of fabricating such memory gain cells and memory circuits. The memory gain cell...
US20080261354 STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING A HYBRID SUBSTRATE FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE HYBRID-ORIENTATION SILICON-ON-INSULATOR CMOS DEVICES  
The present invention provides a method of integrating semiconductor devices such that different types of devices are formed upon a specific crystal orientation of a hybrid substrate that enhances...
US20080261350 SOLDER INTERCONNECTION ARRAY WITH OPTIMAL MECHANICAL INTEGRITY  
A method for assembling, and the resultant electronic module, includes attaching a chip to a substrate using a first solder interconnection array, and attaching a board to the substrate using a...
US20080261055 PREPARATION OF HIGH QUALITY STRAINED-SEMICONDUCTOR DIRECTLY-ON-INSULATOR SUBSTRATES  
A method for achieving a substantially defect free SGOI substrate which includes a SiGe layer that has a high Ge content of greater than about 25 atomic % using a low temperature wafer bonding...
US20080260504 OHT ACCESSIBLE HIGH DENSITY STOCKER AND METHOD  
A storage system for items such as substrate carriers includes at least one stocker including a plurality of storage areas each adapted to store at least one storage device. At least one movable...
US20080260358 CONVERGENT PLAYBACK OF BUFFERED CONTENT TO REAL-TIME CONTENT PLAY  
Convergent playback of buffered content to real-time content play. A content viewing system is provided including a content player operative to receive a content stream from a content source, a...
US20080260162 Controlling Delivery Of Broadcast Encryption Content For A Network Cluster From A Content Server Outside The Cluster  
Controlling delivery of broadcast encryption content for a network cluster from a content server outside the cluster that include receiving in the content server from the network device a key...
US20080260118 PRODUCT, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED VOICEMAIL MANAGEMENT  
The invention discloses enhanced voicemail system management through user-defined “access rules” that can be modified by a telephone account owner to provide permission and/or set a time...
US20080259953 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PROCESS EQUIPMENT AND AN AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM  
A system and storage medium for providing continuous communication between passive and active equipment are provided. The system includes a conversion unit coupled to at least one the passive and...
US20080259947 Method and System for High-Concurrency and Reduced Latency Queue Processing in Networks  
A method and a system for controlling a plurality of queues of an input port in a switching or routing system. The method supports the regular request-grant protocol along with speculative...
US20080259910 Dynamic Media Content For Collaborators With VOIP Support For Client Communications  
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the...
US20080259822 DYNAMIC PACKET TRAINING  
A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be...
US20080259821 DYNAMIC PACKET TRAINING  
A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be...
US20080259803 Method and Apparatus for Adaptive Bandwidth Control with a Bandwidth Guarantee  
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to monitor transmission of data to target. A determination is made as to whether the transmission of the data exceeds a...
US20080259790 RELIABLE AND RESILIENT END-TO-END CONNECTIVITY FOR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS  
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to connectivity management in a heterogeneous network and provide a method, system and computer program product for...
US20080259765 ARRANGING AND DESTAGING DATA TO HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE  
Data for storage by holographic data storage is arranged in an intermediate data storage as data segments which are replicas of holographic storage segments. Files of data are aggregated into the...
US20080259763 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO DETERMINE AN OPTIMAL POWER LEVEL TO ENCODE INFORMATION HOLOGRAPHICALLY  
A method is disclosed to determine an optimal power level to encode information holographically. The method sets (N) evaluation power levels, displays an evaluation image on a spatial light...
US20080259675 Data Writing to Scalable Magnetic Memory Devices  
A method is provided for writing data to an MRAM device having a plurality of magnetic memory cells configured in an array between a plurality of word lines and bit lines. At least one of the...
US20080259674 Scalable Magnetic Memory Devices  
A magnetic memory cell is provided. The magnetic memory cell includes at least one fixed magnetic layer, and a plurality of free magnetic layers, separated from the at least one fixed magnetic...
US20080259671 3-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ARCHITECTURE, STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATION THEREOF  
An integrated circuit design, structure and method for fabrication thereof includes at least one logic device layer and at least two additional separate memory array layers. Each of the logic...
US20080259572 Mounting a Heat Sink in Thermal Contact with an Electronic Component  
A heat transfer apparatus comprises a load frame having load springs and an open region that exposes an electronic component. The load frame is mounted to a printed circuit board on which the...
US20080259567 CONDUCTIVE HEAT TRANSPORT COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MULTI-COMPONENT ELECTRONICS SYSTEM  
A conductive heat transport cooling system and method are provided for cooling primary and secondary heat generating components of an electronics system. The cooling system includes a liquid-based...
US20080259514 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETECTING EXCESS CURRENT FLOW IN A PLUGGABLE COMPONENT  
Detecting excess current flow in a pluggable component is performed by completing a first current supply path between a power source and a pluggable component, and subsequently completing a second...
US20080259485 System and Method for Cleaning a Tape Drive  
A system, a method, and article of manufacture are employed to clean the input/output transducers on tape drives, verified by the tape drives reading alphanumeric information from data tracks and...
US20080259484 READ CHANNEL APPARATUS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS SAMPLING AND SYNCHRONOUS EQUALIZATION  
A read channel and method using that read channel are disclosed. The read channel comprises an analog to digital converter which asynchronously samples at a fixed rate an analog signal formed by...
US20080259483 ASPERITY DATA STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD AND MEDIUM  
An asperity data storage system wherein asperities are used to represent stored data. The asperity data storage system includes an asperity transducer that thermally interacts with a data storage...
US20080259444 CONTACT MICROSCOPE USING POINT SOURCE ILLUMINATION  
The embodiments of the invention include a microscope having a transparent specimen holder and a digital imaging device positioned within the transparent specimen holder. The digital imaging device...
US20080259418 DELETE RECYCLING OF HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE  
Data hologram recycling systems, methods and computer program products are configured to arrange data for storage in the intermediate data storage as data segments which are replicas of holographic...
US20080259334 MULTI LAYER ALIGNMENT AND OVERLAY TARGET AND MEASUREMENT METHOD  
A target system for determining positioning error between lithographically produced integrated circuit fields on at least one lithographic level. The target system includes a first target pattern...
US20080259333 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED ELLIPSOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF ULTRATHIN FILMS  
A method for implementing ellipsometry for an ultrathin film includes directing a polarized light beam incident upon a sample surface, receiving an initial reflected beam from the sample surface...