Patents Represented by Attorney Konrad Raynes Victor & Mann, LLP
  • Patent number: 6365885
    Abstract: Embodiments include a process including providing a microwave radiation source and a processing chamber. The process includes generating a region of pure magnetic field from the microwave radiation in the processing chamber. A region of pure electric field from the microwave radiation is also generated. A material is positioned in the region of pure magnetic field while no portion of the material is positioned in the region of pure electric field, and the material is heated in the region of pure magnetic field. The heating may be conducted to sinter the material. The material may includes a metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Rustum Roy, Jiping Cheng, Dinesh K. Agrawal
  • Patent number: 6361661
    Abstract: A sputtering hybrid coil for a plasma chamber in a semiconductor fabrication has an enhanced sputtering surface and an internal coolant carrying channel thermally coupled to the sputtering surface to cool the sputtering surface and the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Applies Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Liubo Hong
  • Patent number: 6360365
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for managing background display information being installed on a computer system. Certain embodiments include at least one file set including install objects to install a computer program. The install objects include a graphics object containing background display information relating to the program. The install objects are processed to install the computer program, and the graphics object is processed to display the background display information on a display monitor. A copy of the graphics object is stored to a memory location, and the copy of the graphics file is maintained in the memory location after the program is installed onto the computer. Embodiments may also include a file set having uninstall objects to uninstall the computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Bryce Allen Curtis
  • Patent number: 6349356
    Abstract: Optimizing the retrieval of blocks of data from a tape media of a longitudinal serpentine tape drive. A device block map (DBM) is retrieved from the tape media and stored in memory. The DBM comprises a table having one or more rows and one or more columns for each block of data stored on the tape media. The columns are selected from the group comprising a wrap column, a position column, a logical block column, and a file identifier column. One or more retrieval paths for requested blocks of data are determined from an image of the physical layout of the requested blocks on the tape media generated by linear interpolation of the DBM stored in memory. Each of the retrieval paths comprises an ordered sequence of the blocks of data and the manner in which the tape media is to be traversed to accomplish the retrieval of the ordered sequence. A sum of distances is determined for each of the retrieval paths and an optimal one of the retrieval paths is selected based on the determined sum of distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Beverley Basham, Scott Milton Fry, John James Gniewek, Steven Douglas Johnson, Steven Bennett Wilson
  • Patent number: 6343265
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for mapping objects defined in a design model, such as an object oriented design model defined using a design language such as the Universal Modeling Language (UML), to a data model accessible to an application development tool. A design model is provided that includes at least two models. A first model includes a first class and a second model includes a second class. The first class and second class have the same name, and the first class and second class have at least one different attribute and method. The first model, the first class, and attributes and methods therein are mapped to a first data structure that indicates that the first class is included with the first model. The second model, the second class, and attributes and methods therein are mapped to a second data structure that indicates that the second class is included with the second model. In this way, the first class and the second class are distinguished according to their model in the data structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gennadievich Glebov, Rebecca Mei-Har Lau
  • Patent number: 6338114
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, program, and memory for erasing data. A table is provided indicating different groupings of system functions. Each grouping indicates at least one system function. For each grouping there is code to perform erase operations. An erase command to erase data in at least one storage location is received. A determination is then made of the grouping having system functions supported by the system and the table is processed to determine the code for the determined grouping. The code for the determined grouping is executed to perform erase operations with respect to each storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Aloysius Paulsen, David Michael Shackelford, John Glenn Thompson