Patents Assigned to A & A Corporation
  • Splitting certificate status responses evenly across multiple distributed certificate status responders
    Patent number: 9300478
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for evenly distributing certificate status validity messages across multiple response servers. A certificate authority (CA) may partition subsets of online certificate status protocol (OCSP) responses to each be handled by OCSP response servers. The partitions are based on serial numbers of the underlying digital certificates of the OCSP responses. For example, to determine which OCSP response server is assigned to distribute a particular OCSP response, a modulo operation may be performed between the last octet value of the underlying certificate serial number and the total number of available OCSP response servers of the CA. The result yields a partition number that may be used to identify the corresponding OCSP response server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SYMANTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hoa Ly, Hari Veladanda
  • Universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions
    Patent number: 9299101
    Abstract: A universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions. A request is received from a user to begin an order. User information is collected from one or more data repositories. The user information is consolidated and a determination is made as to what additional data is required to complete the order. The additional data is requested from the user and is received from the user. The additional data includes one or more user conditions for placing the order. The order is then stored. The order for the product includes the one or more user conditions, and the order is placed only after all of the one or more user conditions have been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Lau, Jin Li, Jimmy Lo, Joanna W. Ng
  • Debugging an optimized design implemented in a device with a pre-optimized design simulation
    Patent number: 9298865
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms debug a device implementing an optimized design using a pre-optimized design simulation. For example, data indicating interconnect in a pre-optimized design to simulate may be received. A node in common between the pre-optimized design and an optimized design may be identified. A tap at the output of the node in the optimized design may be inserted for providing data for the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Yi Peng
  • Generating a data structure to maintain error and connection information on components and use the data structure to determine an error correction operation
    Patent number: 9298541
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating data structure to maintain error and connection information on components and use the data structure to determine an error correction operation. For each of a plurality of first level components in enclosures connected to second level components, errors at the first level component and a connection between the first level component to one of the second level components are determined and error variables are set to indicate whether an error was reported at the first level component. A data structure is generated indicating connections among the first level components and the second level components. The error variable values and the data structure are used to determine an error correction operation with respect to at least one of the first level component and the connected second level component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xue Dong Gao, Chang Ping Lu, Todd C. Sorenson, Jeffrey R. Steffan
  • Affinity group access to global data
    Patent number: 9298622
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium to share data on a global basis within a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) computer system are disclosed. The method may include grouping a plurality of processor cores into a plurality of affinity groups. Global data may be copied into a plurality of group data structures. Each group data structure may correspond to an affinity group. The method may read a first group data structure by a thread executing on a processor core associated with a first affinity group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart Z. Jacobs, David A. Larson
  • Overcoming variance in stacked capacitors
    Patent number: 9299505
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a method of forming an energy storage device is described in which a porous structure of an electrically conductive substrate is measured in-situ while being electrochemically etched in an electrochemical etching bath until a predetermined value is obtained, at which point the electrically conductive substrate may be removed from the electrochemical etching bath. In another embodiment, a method of forming an energy storage device is described in which an electrically conductive porous structure is measured to determine the energy storage capacity of the electrically conductive porous structure. The energy storage capacity of the electrically conductive porous structure is then reduced until a predetermined energy storage capacity value is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Eric C. Hannah, Cary L. Pint, Charles W. Holzwarth, John L. Gustafson
  • System and method for determining when cloud virtual machines need to be updated
    Patent number: 9298443
    Abstract: A method (and structure) for providing a computing infrastructure based on virtual machines. A virtual machine provisioning system, as executed by a processor on a network, receives a virtual machine request, as an input; retrieves a virtual machine image from a library of virtual machine images, to accommodate the virtual machine request; constructs an instantiated virtual machine from the selected virtual machine image by provisioning the selected virtual machine image to accommodate the virtual machine request; and outputs the instantiated virtual machine. An image update system determines an update timing for updating at least one of the virtual machine image and the virtual machine as instantiated, based on update costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Christopher C. Young
  • Water transfer printing method, transfer film for water transfer printing, ink for transfer film, and water transfer printed product
    Patent number: 9296253
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to be able to adjust gloss or impart gloss variation not only for a decoration layer of dark color such as black ink, but also for a decoration layer of light color other than black and the gloss of the ink printed portion is adjusted or the gloss variation where a high gloss pattern part and a low gloss pattern part are adjacent to each other is imparted according to the ratio of blend of ultraviolet ray absorbent and/or ultraviolet ray shielding agent contained in an ink of a print pattern of a transfer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: TAICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Ikeda, Akiko Tomiki
  • Branched amphipathic block polymer and molecular aggregate and drug delivery system using same
    Patent number: 9295734
    Abstract: Provided is a polymeric micelle pharmaceutical preparation that can increase the ratio of contrast at tumor site to background contrast in a short period of time after administration of a lactosome and can suppress the ABC phenomenon so that the lactosome can be administered more than once within a short span. A branched-type amphiphilic block polymer comprising: a multi-branched hydrophilic block comprising sarcosine; and a hydrophobic block comprising polylactic acid. The branched-type amphiphilic block polymer, wherein the number of branches of the hydrophilic block is 3. A molecular assembly comprising the branched-type amphiphilic block polymer. The molecular assembly further comprising a linear type amphiphilic block polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Eiichi Ozeki, Shunsaku Kimura, Akira Makino
  • Methods and apparatus for motion search refinement in a SIMD array processor
    Patent number: 9300958
    Abstract: Various approaches for motion search refinement in a processing element are discussed. A k/2+L+k/2 register stores an expanded row of an L×L macro block. A k-tap filter horizontally interpolates over the expanded row generating horizontal interpolation results. A transpose storage unit stores the interpolated results generated by the k-tap filter for k/2+L+k/2 entries, wherein rows or columns of data may be read out of the transpose storage unit in pipelined register stages. A k-tap filter vertically interpolates over the pipelined register stages generating vertical interpolation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Mihailo M. Stojancic, Gerald George Pechanek
  • Fuser device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9298145
    Abstract: A fuser device disclosed in the application, which fuses a developer to a medium, includes a first carrying part that contacts a surface of the medium on which the developer is transferred and carries the medium, a second carrying part that is positioned facing the first carrying part and carries the medium. A surface resistivity of the first carrying part is higher than a surface resistivity of the second carrying part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Takemasa Ishikuro
  • Functional diene polymer, preparation method thereof, and rubber composition comprising the same
    Patent number: 9296840
    Abstract: The present invention provides a functional diene polymer, a preparation method thereof and a rubber composition comprising the functional diene polymer. The functional diene polymer comprises at least one type of conjugated diene structural units and silane coupler functional units represented by formula (I) in its molecular chain, and the number-average molecular weight of the functional diene polymer is 50,000˜1,000,000; R1-R4 are C1-C20 linear or branched alkyl or heteroatom-containing C1-C20 linear or branched alkyl, and the heteroatom is selected from one or more of halogen, oxygen, sulfur, silicon, and phosphorus. Not only the relationship between the wet slip resistance and the rolling resistance of the functional diene polymer is effectively improved, but also the offensive odor produced in the rubber mixing process owing to the addition of the silane coupler is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aimin Liang, Lin Xu, Nini Wang, Xinhe Kang, Liangliang Qu, Ke Jiang, Chuanqing Li, Ximing Xie, Hui Liu, Wenjuan Sun
  • Methods, apparatus and system for selective duplication of subtasks
    Patent number: 9298553
    Abstract: A method for selective duplication of subtasks in a high-performance computing system includes: monitoring a health status of one or more nodes in a high-performance computing system, where one or more subtasks of a parallel task execute on the one or more nodes; identifying one or more nodes as having a likelihood of failure which exceeds a first prescribed threshold; selectively duplicating the one or more subtasks that execute on the one or more nodes having a likelihood of failure which exceeds the first prescribed threshold; and notifying a messaging library that one or more subtasks were duplicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos H. Andrade Costa, Chen-Yong Cher, Yoonho Park, Bryan S. Rosenburg, Kyung D. Ryu
  • Nonvolatile content addressable memory and method for operating same
    Patent number: 9299435
    Abstract: Provided is a nonvolatile content addressable memory. Each word circuit includes a plurality of segments having an order relation. Each of the segments includes one or more memory cells. Each of the memory cells includes a nonvolatile storage element. Each of the segments includes a power switch for turning on/off a power of a memory cell of the segment. During stand-by, all the power switches are turned off, and, in search operation, the power switch is turned on as necessary for each of the segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noboru Sakimura, Ryusuke Nebashi, Tadahiko Sugibayashi, Shoun Matsunaga, Takahiro Hanyu, Hideo Ohno
  • Systems and methods of integrated circuit clocking
    Patent number: 9300294
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for integrated circuit clocking. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit system includes a plurality of combinational logic groups, each combinational logic group having a propagation time; and means for delaying a synchronizing clock signal supplied to at least one of the plurality of combinational logic groups based upon a period of the synchronizing clock signal and the propagation time of the at least one combinational logic group. In another embodiment, a method includes delaying a clock signal to produce a delayed clock signal and communicating the clock signal and the delayed clock signal to separate groups of the combinational logic circuit during a clock cycle that results in a reduction in power consumption by the combinational logic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: East-West Innovation Corporation
    Inventors: Deanne Tran Vo, Thomas Jeffrey Bingel
  • Measuring endoscope apparatus and program
    Patent number: 9295371
    Abstract: An imaging section images a subject to generate an image. A display displays an image. A measuring section measures the size of the subject on the basis of the image. A recording section associates calibration data of a measuring endoscope apparatus including a value obtained when the measuring section measures the size of the calibrator on the basis of an image obtained when the imaging section has imaged the calibrator, and calibration data of the calibrator including a value obtained when the calibrator is measured by a higher-rank measuring instrument of a traceability system, and a value obtained when the measuring section measures the size of a measurement object different from the calibrator on the basis of an image of the measurement object, with the image of the measurement object image and records the associated data on a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sumito Nakano
  • Method to improve reliability of high-K metal gate stacks
    Patent number: 9299802
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a gate stack for a semiconductor device includes the following steps after removal of a dummy gate: growing a high-k dielectric layer over an area vacated by the dummy gate; depositing a thin metal layer over the high-k dielectric layer; annealing the replacement gate structure in an ambient atmosphere containing hydrogen; and depositing a gap fill layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ando, Eduard A. Cartier, Barry P. Linder, Vijay Narayanan
  • Stator of electric rotating machine
    Patent number: 9300178
    Abstract: The stator of a vehicle-use electric rotating machine includes a stator core having slots formed along a circumferential direction thereof, segment conductors having a rectangular cross section and wound on the stator core such that each of the slots accommodates at least two of the segment conductors to form a stator winding, a sheet-like electric insulating member disposed in each of the slots so as to surround the segment conductors accommodated in the slot, the electric insulating member being formed with a plurality of projections projecting toward a wall surface of the slot, and a resin filled in each of the slots so as to impregnate into the electric insulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Shiga, Hiroaki Takeda
  • Modulation methods for CMOS-based thermal sensors
    Patent number: 9297704
    Abstract: A method and circuit for determining a working temperature of a device, the method comprising: providing a first signal to a device having a temperature-sensitive characteristic; performing a function on the first signal by the device; demodulating a second signal output by the device to obtain a third signal thus generating a signal having reduced 1/f noise component; and based upon the first signal and the second signal, determining a working temperature of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Corcos, Michel Despont, Danny Elad, Thomas Morf, Mehmet Soyuer
  • Pressure recovery machine
    Patent number: D752716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Hirosawa, Norihiro Teramoto, Hirotaka Murakami