Abstract: Techniques for reconstructing a target hierarchy tree structure from profiling data of a computer system according to a predefined relational model, so as to obtain profiling information of a certain selected node. The predefined relational model is defined in advance according to a hierarchy tree structure of the profiling data, and is stored in an external storage system. The hierarchy tree structures can be constructed dynamically as required, thus the occupied amount of a memory can be seduced and users can view the profiling data freely.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 10, 2007
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Long Cheng, Yi Fei Fang, Liang Qi, Yi Zhen Xu, Pu Yang
Abstract: A fixing unit includes a heating member which includes a core member, and a heating layer. The heating layer is disposed on an outer circumference of the core member. The heating layer includes an elastic material, and carbon nanotube doped with metal and distributed in the elastic material as a conductive filler of the heating layer. A press member faces the heating member to form a fixing nip. The fixing unit applies heat and pressure to toner on a medium passing through the fixing nip, to fix the toner on the medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 11, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Ha-jin Kim, In-taek Han, Sang-soo Jee, Sang-eui Lee, Dong-earn Kim
Abstract: In a binary floating point processor, the exponents of each of the various types of operands are recoded into an internal format, by biasing the exponents with the minimum exponent value of the result precision (“Emin”), i.e., the recoded value of the exponent is the represented value of the exponent minus Emin. Emin depends only on the result precision of the instruction that is currently being executed in the binary floating point processor. The exponent computations are then performed in this new format. The underflow check for all result precisions is a check against zero and overflow checks are performed against a positive number that depends on the result precision. The exponent values are in a 2's complement representation, so the underflow check simply becomes a check of the sign bit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 9, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Maarten J. Boersma, K. Michael Kroener, Petra Leber, Silvia M. Mueller, Jochen Preiss, Kerstin Schelm
Abstract: A field effect transistor (FET) includes a drain formed of a first material, a source formed of the first material, a channel formed by a nanostructure coupling the source to the drain, and a gate formed between the source and the drain and surrounding the nanostructure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2012
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Josephine B. Chang, Michael A. Guillorn, Eric A. Joseph
Abstract: A user interface is presented on a monitor of a media device for providing information about available programs. The user interface includes an array having three columns (channel, current show, and next show) with commonly aligned rows. Each row of the channel column includes an indicator. Each row of the current show column includes a title naming a program currently available on a channel of the media device corresponding to the indicator in a commonly aligned row of the channel column. Each row of the next show column includes a title naming a show available after the current program on the same channel. The currently available program may be displayed on the monitor in response to a viewer selected row, indicator, and/or title in the array.
Abstract: A TFT array substrate includes a semiconductive oxide layer disposed on an insulating substrate and including a channel portion, a gate electrode overlapping the semiconductive oxide layer, a gate insulating layer interposed between the semiconductive oxide layer and the gate electrode, and a passivation layer disposed on the semiconductive oxide layer and the gate electrode. At least one of the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer includes an oxynitride layer, and the oxynitride layer has a higher concentration of oxygen than that of nitrogen in a location of the oxynitride layer closer to the semiconductive oxide layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 9, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Je-Hun Lee, Ki-Won Kim, Do-Hyun Kim, Woo-Geun Lee, Kap-Soo Yoon
Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a fuel stabilizer system is provided. The fuel stabilizer system includes a fuel additive storage unit that stores fuel stability fluid. A fuel stability fluid supply system supplies fuel stability fluid from the fuel additive storage unit to a fuel storage unit. A control module estimates an age of fuel in the fuel storage unit and selectively controls the fuel stability fluid supply system to supply fuel stability fluid to the fuel storage unit based on the age of the fuel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 26, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventors:
Pui-Kei Yuen, Steven P. Kemp, Andrew E. Buczynksky
Abstract: An indirectly induced tunnel emitter for a tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) structure includes an outer sheath that at least partially surrounds an elongated core element, the elongated core element formed from a first semiconductor material; an insulator layer disposed between the outer sheath and the core element; the outer sheath disposed at a location corresponding to a source region of the TFET structure; and a source contact that shorts the outer sheath to the core element; wherein the outer sheath is configured to introduce a carrier concentration in the source region of the core element sufficient for tunneling into a channel region of the TFET structure during an on state.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 31, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Mikael T. Bjoerk, Siegfried F. Karg, Joachim Knoch, Heike E. Riel, Walter H. Riess, Paul M. Solomon
Abstract: A driving device for a display device includes a gray voltage generator generating a plurality of gray voltages, a voltage selector selecting an output voltage from the plurality of gray voltages, a voltage level converter converting a level of the output voltage selected by the voltage selector and applying the output voltage with a converted level to data lines, a first switching unit connecting the voltage level converter to the voltage selector and the data lines, and a second switching unit directly connecting the voltage selector and the data lines. Operating times of the first and second switching units are different. Accordingly, when a data voltage is charged in or discharged from a data line, since a separate discharging transistor or a separate discharging amplifier is not used, power consumption and an area of a data driver are reduced.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 16, 2007
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignees:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation, Hanyang University
Inventors:
Cheol-Min Kim, Il-Gon Kim, Tae-Hyeong Park, Gi-Chang Lee, Oh-Kyong Kwon
Abstract: A method for detecting soft errors in an integrated circuit (IC) due to transient-particle emission, the IC comprising at least one chip and a substrate includes mixing an epoxy with a radioactive source to form a hot underfill (HUF); underfilling the chip with the HUF; sealing the underfilled chip; measuring a radioactivity of the HUF at an edge of the chip; measuring the radioactivity of the HUF on a test coupon; testing the IC for soft errors by determining a current radioactivity of the HUF at the time of testing based on the measured radioactivity; and after the expiration of a radioactive decay period of the radioactive source, using the IC in a computing device by a user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 17, 2010
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Michael Gaynes, Michael S. Gordon, Nancy C. LaBianca, Kenneth F. Latzko, Aparna Prabhakar
Abstract: A cross-linked metal-containing polyamic acid includes a metal and a cross-linked polyamic acid which is a condensation product of an acid anhydride represented by Formula 1 and a diamine compound: where the group comprises a C5-C20 carbocycle having a cross-linkable functional group or a C4-C20 heterocycle having a cross-linkable functional group. A cross-linked metal-containing polyimide, a method of manufacturing the cross-linked metal-containing polyimide, a polyimide film including the cross-linked metal-containing polyimide, and a method of making the polyimide film are disclosed.
Abstract: A field effect transistor device includes a gate stack portion disposed on a substrate, and a channel region in the substrate having a depth partially defined by the gate stack portion and a silicon region of the substrate, the silicon region having a sloped profile such that a distal regions of the channel region have greater depth than a medial region of the channel region.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 2010
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Dechao Guo, Pranita Kulkarni, Philip J. Oldiges, Alexander Reznicek, Keith Kwong Hon Wong
Abstract: Systems and methods for an integrated antenna and satellite dish. Exemplary embodiments include an apparatus, including a satellite dish, a wireless antenna coupled to the satellite dish and a coupling box communicatively coupled to the satellite dish and the wireless antenna. Additional exemplary embodiments include a content communication method, including receiving a satellite signal, receiving a first wireless signal, performing coupling box processing on the satellite signal and the wireless signal, transmitting the satellite signal and the wireless signal to a set top box and performing set top box processing on the satellite signal and wireless signal. Further exemplary embodiments include a content communication system, including a satellite dish for receiving content from a satellite, a wireless antenna for receiving content from a wireless network and a coupling box for processing the content from the satellite and the content from the wireless network.
Abstract: A sealing bolt for sealing a container lid to a container body, the sealing bolt including: a first identity element configured so as to provide a first identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device; a second identity element configured so as to provide a second identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device; and a third identity element. The third identity element includes the first and second identity elements and a third identification signal is formed by the intersection points created by an overlap of the first and second identification signals. The invention also concerns a method for sealing a container lid to a container body using such a sealing bolt.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 16, 2007
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
The European Union, Represented by the European Commission
Inventors:
Marco Sironi, Piercarlo Tebaldi, Paolo Timossi
Abstract: The invention relates to a process of making a syngas mixture containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, comprising a step of contacting a gaseous feed mixture containing carbon dioxide and hydrogen with a catalyst, wherein the catalyst substantially consists of chromia/alumina. This process enables hydrogenation of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide with high selectivity, and good catalyst stability over time and under variations in processing conditions. The process can be applied separately, but can also be combined with other processes, for example up-stream with other synthesis processes for making products like aliphatic oxygenates, olefins or aromatics.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 24, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
Inventors:
Agaddin M. Kh. Mamedov, Abdulaziz M. Al-Jodai
Abstract: A “customized” caller ID service platform is utilized within a telecommunications network (which may be the PSTN, an IP network, or any other network for supporting voice communication) to allow for the caller ID information transmitted to a called party to be tailored to the specific called party. A database within the platform is configured to store a listing of registered subscribers and a set of “pre-defined called numbers” associated with each subscriber. For each listed number, the subscriber provides the specific customized information (for example, an account number) that is to be transmitted to that specific called number as the caller ID information. A registered subscriber is able to gain access to the platform and modify the entries as need be.
Abstract: An information processor and method for classifying user attributes of a plurality of nodes connected to a network. The information processor includes: an action history obtaining unit for generating a spammer-reporting action history set; a related node obtaining unit for generating a node set and a link set related to the spammer-reporting actions; an undirected graph generation unit for generating an undirected graph from the node set and the link set; and a max-cut computation unit classifying the nodes constituting the undirected graph into two exclusive sets that do not commonly include any element so as to maximize an indicator value defined by links bridging the two sets.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 27, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Raymond Harry Putra Rudy, Akiko Suzuki, Hiroki Yanagisawa
Abstract: A method for determining wellbore trajectory includes determining survey parameters in the wellbore; measuring force parameter(s) in the wellbore; and correcting the survey parameters using the measured force parameter(s). The downhole measured force parameters may include forces associated with an operation of a steering device such as an internal reaction force, and/or a bending moment. In variants, the method may include measuring a wellbore temperature; measuring a wellbore parameter in addition to the temperature; and correcting a survey parameter using the measured parameter and the measured temperature. These methods may include correcting survey parameters using measured wellbore diameters. Also, a processor in the wellbore may be programmed to perform the correction while in the wellbore and/or control a steering device using measurements provided by a sensor for measuring internal reaction forces.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 12, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
Baker Hughes Incorporated
Inventors:
Hanno Reckmann, Frank Schuberth, Bernd Santelmann
Abstract: An objective is to provide an organic photoreceptor exhibiting high sensitivity, suitable for exposure to a semiconductor laser having an emission wavelength of 350-500 nm or a light emitting diode, with which generation of memory images as well as image defects caused by very small charge leakage is inhibited, and also to provide an image forming apparatus fitted with the organic photoreceptor. Also disclosed is an organic photoreceptor possessing a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer provided on a conductive substrate, wherein the charge generation layer contains particles made of a condensed polycyclic pigment, having an average major axis length of 500 nm or less, an average aspect ratio of 2.5-5.0, and an aspect ratio variation coefficient of 16% or less.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 23, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: A method for creating an electronic identification card during a real time communications session including: presenting a user with an option to enter personal information; receiving a command from the user to send the electronic identification card including the personal information during the real time communications session; recording the personal information for the electronic identification card with a data entry method; and sending the electronic identification card to a device involved in the real time communications session.