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US20080156918 METHOD FOR REDUCING OCCURRENCES OF TAPE STICK CONDITIONS IN MAGNETIC TAPE  
Disclosed is a method for reducing occurrences of tape stick conditions in magnetic tape, the method including stopping functional rotation of each of two bi-directionally rotatable reels of a...
US20080156864 Detecting Wear Through Use of Information-Transmitting Devices  
Detecting wear through use of information-transmitting devices. At least one information-transmitting wireless device is provided for each of one or more wear positions of an item, wherein each of...
US20080156849 MOLD SHAVE APPARATUS AND INJECTION MOLDED SOLDERING PROCESS  
An apparatus and a method for the removal of excess solder or contaminant, which are encountered on the surfaces of injection mold prior to the transfer of a solder on a silicon wafer. More...
US20080156664 MRAM WET ETCH METHOD  
An etching process is employed to selectively pattern the top magnetic film layer, the tunnel barrier, and the pinned bottom magnetic layer of a magnetic thin film structure. The pinned bottom...
US20080156636 Homogeneous Copper Interconnects for BEOL  
Defects on the edge of copper interconnects for back end of the line semiconductor devices are alleviated by an interconnect that comprises an impure copper seed layer. The impure copper seed layer...
US20080156265 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING NICKEL SILICIDE WITH LOW DEFECT DENSITY IN FET DEVICES  
A method and an apparatus are provided in which non-directional and directional metal (e.g. Ni) deposition steps are performed in the same process chamber. A first plasma is formed for removing...
US20080156257 CLUSTERED SURFACE PREPARATION FOR SILICIDE AND METAL CONTACTS  
A cluster tool is provided for the implementing of a clustered and integrated surface pre-cleaning of the surface of semiconductor devices. More particularly, there is provided a cluster tool and a...
US20080155821 LAND GRID ARRAY (LGA) INTERPOSER UTILIZING METAL-ON-ELASTOMER HEMI-TORUS AND OTHER MULTIPLE POINTS OF CONTACT GEOMETRIES  
A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane....
US20080155692 SYSTEM FOR PREVENTION OF BUFFER OVERFLOW INTRUSIONS  
Disclosed as a system and method for providing enhanced security to processes running on a data processing system. The disclosed system and method selectively revokes execute privileges from memory...
US20080155688 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GLOBAL SESSION PERSISTENCE  
An apparatus and method provide persistent data during a user session on a networked computer system. A global data cache is divided into three sections: trusted, protected, and unprotected. An...
US20080155682 METHOD OF HANDLING USER GROUPS IN DESKTOP AND WEB BASED APPLICATIONS IN A HETEROGENEOUS AUTHENTICATION ENVIRONMENT  
An embodiment of the present invention is a method that effectuates the handling of user group membership information in a heterogeneous information technology (IT) environment having multiple...
US20080155662 METHOD OF HANDLING USER AUTHENTICATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS AUTHENTICATION ENVIRONMENT  
An embodiment of the present invention is a method that effectuates the handling user authentication in a heterogeneous information technology (IT) environment having multiple authentication sources.
US20080155652 USING AN ACCESS CONTROL LIST RULE TO GENERATE AN ACCESS CONTROL LIST FOR A DOCUMENT INCLUDED IN A FILE PLAN  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using an access control list rule to generate an access control list for a document included in a file plan. A file plan includes a...
US20080155641 METHOD AND SYSTEM MANAGING A DATABASE SYSTEM USING A POLICY FRAMEWORK  
A method and system for managing a computer system are described. The method and system include defining and storing a policy using a policy manager. In one aspect, the policy manager also...
US20080155586 Method and device for processing video stream in digital video broadcasting systems  
The invention provides a novel method for enhancing user experiences, especially when changing channels, in digital video broadcasting systems. The invention provides a mechanism to show a low...
US20080155573 USER-CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES  
A method and a computer program product for managing user-configurable variables are provided. The method and the computer program product provide for defining a plurality of user-configurable...
US20080155565 Automatic Completion of Command Line Arguments  
A method and system for facilitating user interaction with a shell. In one embodiment, the method and system include receiving command input in a command line, wherein the command input comprises a...
US20080155564 EVENT CORRELATION BASED TROUBLE TICKET RESOLUTION SYSTEM INCORPORATING ADAPTIVE RULES OPTIMIZATION  
A system and method for event correlation and adaptive rules optimization in the context of a trouble ticket resolution system. The adaptive rules optimizer incorporates learning principles that...
US20080155555 DETERMINING AN EXTENSION TO USE TO PROCESS AN INPUT OBJECT TO A CALL IN A PROGRAM  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining an extension to use to process an input object to a call in a program. An association of parameter definitions is indicated...
US20080155548 AUTONOMIC LOGGING SUPPORT  
A system, method and article of manufacture for event management in data processing systems and more particularly to managing events occurring in data processing systems in order to provide an...
US20080155534 System and Methods for Applying Social Computing Paradigm to Software Installation and Configuration  
A method for installation and configuration of a software product includes installing a software product and determining configuration settings of the software product based upon a social network...
US20080155515 Method and System for Graphical User Interface Testing  
A method and system are provided for testing a graphical user (GUI) ( 204 ). The method includes providing a pattern ( 230 ) of a collection of generalised interface object types and searching an...
US20080155514 Method and System for Graphical User Interface Testing  
A method and system are provided for testing a graphical user (GUI) ( 204 ). The method includes applying a test step ( 208, 222 ) to a GUI under test ( 204 ) and finding a control in the GUI under...
US20080155512 METHOD OF GENERATING AND UTILIZING DEBUG HISTORY  
The present invention is generally directed towards providing a method, system and article of manufacture for generating and utilizing debug history to improve the debugging process. By providing...
US20080155505 METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES AN INTERACTIVE DEBUGGING SESSION  
A computer program product is disclosed. The computer program product includes a computer useable medium having a computer readable program. The computer readable program when executed on a...
US20080155504 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED MERGING OF MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF A SOFTWARE COMPONENT FOR AN APPLICATION  
A method and system provides a merging process that provides an algorithm for processing the results of multiple versions of a software component or file such that further filtering of the changes...
US20080155502 METHOD AND PROCESS FOR HANDLING PARTIALLY TRANSLATED SCRIPTS  
A method, article, and system to implement software that manages script execution, and more particularly to providing a method, article, and system for handling the output and translation of text...
US20080155500 METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCHEMA MAPPING APPLICATION CODE  
A method for automatic generation of schema mapping application code. The method includes loading a code generation tool with source and target schemas. The method further includes defining the...
US20080155499 SPECIFYING USER DEFINED OR TRANSLATOR DEFINITIONS TO USE TO INTERPRET MNEMONICS IN A COMPUTER PROGRAM  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for specifying user defined or translator definitions to use to interpret mnemonics in a computer program. A mnemonic is processed in the...
US20080155498 Apparatus for Automatically Converting Numeric Data to a Processor Efficient Format for Performing Arithmetic Operations  
A compiler (or interpreter) detects source language instructions performing arithmetic operations using a fixed point format (preferably packed decimal). Where the operation can be performed...
US20080155492 DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR CREATING CONVERGED APPLICATIONS THAT INCLUDE SIP AND WEB COMPONENTS  
A software development environment including a set of SIP tools and a set of Web tools. The SIP tools are configured to create software able to execute upon a SIP server. The Web tools are...
US20080155486 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING WIRING VIAS DURING SYNTHESIS OF ELECTRONIC DESIGNS  
Systems and methods for reducing wire vias during synthesis of electronic designs. Exemplary embodiments include an electronic design via reduction method, including marking a plurality of nets,...
US20080155482 AUTOMATED OPTIMIZATION OF VLSI LAYOUTS FOR REGULARITY  
VLSI lithographic fidelity is improved via reducing the pattern space of difficult patterns or structures in a design layout for an integrated circuit design, and thereby increasing the regularity...
US20080155403 METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR USING PARTICIPANT-SPECIFIED PRIORITIES OF COLLABORATIVE EVENTS TO INDICATE COMPOSITE AVAILABILITY LEVELS FOR EACH OF A PLURALITY OF TIMESLOTS  
Receiving participant-specified priority levels for each of a plurality of collaborative events. The participant-specified priority levels are used to calculate relative availability levels for...
US20080155398 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE SPELL CHECKING  
A system and method for adaptive spell checking and correction. The method includes tracking frequencies of historical replacement strings of characters, and providing a list of ā€œnā€ number of...
US20080155383 Apparatus and method to generate, store, and read, a plurality of error correction coded data sets  
An apparatus and method are disclosed to receive information and to generate, store, and read, a plurality of error correction coded data sets using that information. Applicants' storage controller...
US20080155379 Data Storage Device And Data Processing Method  
An exclusive OR (XOR) of user data (sector) 0, user data (sector) 1 and user data (sector) 2 is performed to provide virtual user data, thereby giving rise to a correlation of the sectors 0 ...
US20080155360 Apparatus and method to repair an error condition in a device comprising a computer readable medium comprising computer readable code  
An apparatus and method are disclosed to detect and repair an error condition in a device comprising a computer readable medium comprising computer readable code. The method supplies an engineering...
US20080155336 METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFYING COMPONENTS CONTRIBUTING TO SERVICE DEGRADATION  
A method, system and program product for dynamically identifying one or more components or resources contributing to a service degradation is provided. The method includes providing a dynamic...
US20080155333 METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC RECOVERY FROM PREMATURE REBOOT OF A SYSTEM DURING A CONCURRENT UPGRADE  
A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing automatic recovery from premature reboot of a system during a concurrent upgrade is disclosed. A concurrent code-load to a plurality of...
US20080155315 METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND SYSTEM FOR LIMITING ACCESS BY A FAILED NODE  
In a multi-node computer system, file access by a failed node is limited. Upon receipt on an indication of a node failure, a fencing command is sent to disks in a disk subsystem to which the failed...
US20080155311 TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING THE START POSITION TO WRITE DATA ON TAPE WITH RESISTANCE FOR MEDIA DEFECT  
An embodiment of the present invention is a method of computing the write start position of redundant data. In this regard, data integrity against a vertical defect in tape media can be increased...
US20080155305 COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM DETERMINATION BASED ON GRAPH VISUALIZATION  
Mapping an application configuration, a network configuration, or both, into a problem/symptom space defining a graphical user interface so as to facilitate problem determination and resolution....
US20080155234 THREAD STARVATION PROFILER  
A profiler of a multithreaded process that determines whether a process is runnable but not running by determining whether a process is both waiting for the processor and also not waiting for other...
US20080155226 PREFETCH MECHANISM BASED ON PAGE TABLE ATTRIBUTES  
A prefetch mechanism using prefetch attributes is disclosed. In one aspect, an explicit request for data stored in a memory is provided, and a prefetch attribute in a page table entry associated...
US20080155221 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT RETRIEVAL OF DATA OF LARGE OR UNKNOWN LENGTH BY A NATIVE APPLICATION PROGRAM  
A method and system for efficient allocation of memory in database retrieval employs a technique which allocates a memory portion of a first size which may or may not be smaller than a data item to...
US20080155218 Optimized Data Migration with a Support Processor  
A system migrates data between a source device and a target device in a storage system. A processor is operational within a local domain of the storage system. A redundant array of independent...
US20080155213 Data Logging and Hot Spare Device Management  
A method provides for dynamic data logging in a storage subsystem. The method determines if a plurality of storage devices has been assigned as a plurality of hot spare devices in the storage...
US20080155212 Immediate Copy Target Pull of Volume Data  
A composite storage server employs a plurality of distributed storage sites including a mount site, a source copy site and one or more copy target sites for executing a storage of volume data...
US20080155201 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING SNOOP REQUESTS USING MULTIPLE SNOOP CACHES  
A method and apparatus for implementing a snoop filter unit associated with a single processor in a multiprocessor system. The snoop filter unit has a plurality of ports, each port receiving snoop...