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US20080290510 APPARATUS FOR CRACK PREVENTION IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGES  
A microelectronic package having integrated circuits is provided. The microelectronic package includes multiple dielectric laminate layers, copper circuitry between the dielectric laminate layers...
US20080290501 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE  
There is provided a semiconductor package including: a substrate having a plurality of electrode pads on a surface thereof; a semiconductor chip mounted on the substrate, the semiconductor chip...
US20080290413 SOI MOSFET WITH A METAL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOY GATE-TO-BODY BRIDGE  
A body contact region is formed in a portion of the active region. A gate dielectric and a gate conductor layer are formed on the active region and patterned to define a gate electrode. A portion...
US20080290409 HALO-FIRST ULTRA-THIN SOI FET FOR SUPERIOR SHORT CHANNEL CONTROL  
Superior control of short-channel effects for an ultra-thin semiconductor-on-insulator field effect transistor (UTSOI-FET) is obtained by performing a halo implantation immediately after a gate...
US20080290379 DUAL TRENCH ISOLATION FOR CMOS WITH HYBRID ORIENTATIONS  
The present invention provides a semiconductor structure in which different types of devices are located upon a specific crystal orientation of a hybrid substrate that enhances the performance of...
US20080290182 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING WAIT-TIME FOR CHECKOUT  
A system for using one or more criteria in order to calculate a wait-time in a business establishment, the system comprising: one or more checkout lanes located at the business establishment; a...
US20080290142 METHOD AND PROCESS FOR REDUCING UNDERCOOLING IN A LEAD-FREE TIN-RICH SOLDER ALLOY  
Briefly, a novel material process is disclosed wherein one or more nucleation modifiers are added, in trace amounts, to a lead-free tin-rich solder alloy to produce a solder composition with reduce...
US20080289764 END POINT DETECTION ELECTRODE SYSTEM AND ETCH STATION  
An end point detection electrode system and an etch station including the electrode system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the electrode system includes: an insulative mount; a first Mu-metal...
US20080289651 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WAFER EDGE CLEANING  
A wafer edge cleaning system that includes a wafer dry etching chamber and one or more irradiation sources preferably positioned inside the wafer dry etching chamber. The irradiation source such as...
US20080289035 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING PASSWORD THEFT THROUGH UNAUTHORIZED KEYLOGGING  
A method for preventing password theft through unauthorized keylogging includes detecting, from a host application, a request for a password input by a user of an input keyboard device; activating...
US20080289017 APPARATUS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR IDENTIFYING OR MANAGING VULNERABILITIES WITHIN A DATA PROCESSING NETWORK  
A system, method, and service associated with a computing grid or a virtual organization include a request for proposal (RFP) generator, where the RFP describes a data processing task. The RFP is...
US20080289004 Method and Module for Protecting Against Attacks in a High-Speed Network  
A method, module and computer program for protecting a target against attacks in a high-speed network. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of generating a question, after...
US20080288999 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATION SETTING OF MODEL THAT REQUIRES CONFIDENTIALITY  
The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus and the like, which allow a service developer, who develops a service requiring confidentiality in a service-oriented...
US20080288963 Selective event registration  
An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, register each partition in a logically-partitioned computer to send local events to an aggregation component and register a first...
US20080288957 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING COMMUNICATION IN MPI PROGRAMS FOR AN EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT  
A system and method for mapping application tasks to processors in a computing environment that takes into account the hardware communication topology of a machine and an application communication...
US20080288944 Consistent Method System and Computer Program for Developing Software Asset Based Solutions  
A method, computer program and system for consuming reusable software assets, said assets being described with elements and attributes, said assets containing at least one variable element (VPs)...
US20080288942 Monitoring performance of a logically-partitioned computer  
An apparatus, system, and storage medium that in an embodiment collect a performance metric of a first partition in a logically-partitioned computer. If the difference between the performance...
US20080288937 ENABLING SOFTWARE SERVICE IN A HOSTED ENVIRONMENT  
A method and system are disclosed for providing use of a given software application in a hosted computing environment. This hosted environment includes a host domain including a host server and a...
US20080288931 Using Dynamic Call Graphs For Creating State Machines  
A method and system capable of creating UML protocol state machine for classes and interfaces of a software, by instrumenting the software to obtain a call graph comprising classes and interfaces...
US20080288929 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RUN-TIME STATISTICS DEPENDENT PROGRAM EXECUTION USING SOURCE-CODING  
Disclosed are a method and system for optimized, dynamic data-dependent program execution. The disclosed system comprises a statistics computer which computes statistics of the incoming data at the...
US20080288924 Remotely Handling Exceptions Through STAF  
An apparatus for communicating between a child test program and a parent test program in a test environment. A child test framework is provided to catch an exception thrown by the child test...
US20080288910 STRUCTURE FOR ESTIMATING POWER CONSUMPTION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY  
A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing integrated circuitry. The design structure includes first hardware for executing first software...
US20080288903 Generating testcases based on numbers of testcases previously generated  
An apparatus, computer system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, receive elements and a goal for each of the elements. In various embodiments, the elements may represent commands or...
US20080288901 Formally deriving a minimal clock-gating scheme  
The present invention provides a fully automatic method for obtaining a circuit having minimized power consumption due to clock-gating. A circuit design to be optimized is modified to a reduced...
US20080288883 CONFIRMING AN ACTION UTILIZING A SINGLE BUTTON OBJECT  
A computer readable medium being capable of confirming an action through a confirmation button is presented. According to the present invention, an action and its confirmation are enforced within...
US20080288864 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ENABLE PRIORITIZED PRESENTATION CONTENT DELIVERY AND DISPLAY  
A method and device for content presentation are disclosed. The device receives one or more elements of content according to the priority setting thereof. The device displays the received elements....
US20080288858 STRUCTURED DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM  
Statistical information about instance documents and schema information are used to integrate multiple state transitions that enable sectioning of a structure document, thereby generating an...
US20080288854 Deriving Menu-Based Voice Markup from Visual Markup  
A visual markup to voice markup transcoding system, method and machine readable storage. The basic method can include identifying at least one heading in visual markup; creating a corresponding...
US20080288830 METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR FACILITATING THE ANALYSIS OF ERROR MESSAGES  
A solution is proposed for managing a software application. A corresponding method ( 300 ) starts with the step of detecting ( 306 ) an error condition of the software application. An error message...
US20080288827 METHOD FOR VISUALIZING RESULTS OF ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS ON TRANSACTION PERFORMANCE DATA  
Mechanisms for graph manipulation of transactional performance data are provided in order to identify and emphasize root causes of electronic business system transaction processing performance...
US20080288826 TRACE INFORMATION COLLECTING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM  
Occurrence of a failure in a computer system is appropriately detected, and information required for removing the failure is automatically collected. A trace information collecting system of the...
US20080288820 MULTI-DIRECTIONAL FAULT DETECTION SYSTEM  
An apparatus, program product and method checks for nodal faults in a group of nodes comprising a center node and all adjacent nodes. The center node concurrently communicates with the immediately...
US20080288819 Computing System with Transactional Memory Using Millicode Assists  
A computing system processes memory transactions for parallel processing of multiple threads of execution with millicode assists. The computing system transactional memory support provides a...
US20080288810 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESOURCES DURING SYSTEM INITIALIZATION AND STARTUP  
A method for managing a system's computer resources, includes: detecting an error condition in a computer resource; labeling the computer resource as not usable based on the error condition...
US20080288760 BRANCH TARGET PREDICTION FOR MULTI-TARGET BRANCHES BY IDENTIFYING A REPEATED PATTERN  
An information processing system for branch target prediction includes: a first memory for storing entries for multi-target branch, wherein each entry includes a plurality of target addresses...
US20080288757 Communicating Instructions and Data Between a Processor and External Devices  
A mechanism for communicating instructions and data between a processor and external devices are provided. The mechanism makes use of a channel interface as the primary mechanism for communicating...
US20080288749 READ-COPY UPDATE GRACE PERIOD DETECTION WITHOUT ATOMIC INSTRUCTIONS THAT GRACEFULLY HANDLES LARGE NUMBERS OF PROCESSORS  
A method, system and computer program product for avoiding unnecessary grace period token processing while detecting a grace period without atomic instructions in a read-copy update subsystem or...
US20080288739 SCALABLE PERFORMANCE-BASED VOLUME ALLOCATION IN LARGE STORAGE CONTROLLER COLLECTIONS  
A scalable, performance-based, volume allocation technique that can be applied in large storage controller collections is disclosed. A global resource tree of multiple nodes representing...
US20080288730 Transactional Memory System Which Employs Thread Assists Using Address History Tables  
A computing system uses specialized “Set Associative Transaction Tables” and additional “Summary Transaction Tables” to speed the processing of common transactional memory conflict cases...
US20080288727 Computing System with Optimized Support for Transactional Memory  
A computing system processes memory transactions for parallel processing of multiple threads of execution by support of which an application need not be aware. The computing system transactional...
US20080288726 Transactional Memory System with Fast Processing of Common Conflicts  
A computing system processes memory transactions for parallel processing of multiple threads of execution by support of which an application need not be aware. The computing system transactional...
US20080288720 MULTI-WAFER 3D CAM CELL  
A multi-wafer CAM cell in which the negative effects of increased travel distance have been substantially reduced is provided. The multi-wafer CAM cell is achieved in the present invention by...
US20080288685 SHARED SIMULTANEOUSLY-CONNECTED DRIVES  
Local drive presence is provided for local and remote drives by maintaining a plurality of uninterrupted protocol connections between a plurality of I/O controllers and a plurality of device...
US20080288682 Database Contention and Deadlock Detection and Reduction Within Application Servers  
A method in a data processing system for detecting and reducing database contention and deadlock caused from within an application server. A determination is made as to whether a set of parameters...
US20080288679 Resetting a Hypertransport Link in a Blade Server  
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for resetting a HyperTransport link in a blade server, including reassigning, by a blade management module, a gate signal from...
US20080288670 USE OF VIRTUAL TARGETS FOR PREPARING AND SERVICING REQUESTS FOR SERVER-FREE DATA TRANSFER OPERATIONS  
A system and method are disclosed for utilizing virtual targets and abstract copy orders in preparing and servicing requests for server-free data transfer operations in a data storage network. The...
US20080288655 Subscription Propagation in a High Performance Highly Available Content based Publish Subscribe System  
The present invention is directed to a publish/subscribe system containing a plurality of brokers, a plurality of subscribers and plurality of brokers including publisher connecting brokers,...
US20080288649 USING PRESENCE PROXIES TO GROUP PRESENCE NOTIFICATIONS  
The present invention discloses a method and a system for using presence proxies to group presence notifications. In the invention, a presence server can accept, manage, and distribute presence...
US20080288645 COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT USING TWO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS TO DETERMINE STATE OF A NETWORK NODE TO ELIMINATE MESSAGE RESPONSE DELAYS IN SYSTEM PROCESSING  
The determination of node and/or adapter liveness in a distributed network data processing system is carried out via one messaging protocol that can be assisted by a second messaging protocol which...
US20080288632 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN A DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS  
A method and system constructs a socio-technical network representing design and development processes. In one aspect, a network of inter-personal interactions comprising at least a plurality of...