Abstract: A system and method for managing object relationships in an enterprise is presented. A request manager receives a view request from a user. The request manager retrieves a management definition object (MDO) and a perspective that corresponds to the view request, which the request manager uses to generate a view that includes nodes corresponding to an enterprise's objects. The user analyzes the generated view, and sends a command request to the request manager that corresponds to a plurality of the nodes. The request manager uses the retrieved perspective, the MDO, and also may access a backend in order to identify objects that correspond to the command request. Once the objects are identified, the command manager sends a command to the identified objects to the backend through plug-ins.

Abstract: The complexities of actions and recipes used in collaborative planning are defined using set theory and an accompanying formalization. The formalizations presented can be used as a basis for making decisions in relation choosing recipes, and other activities concerning collaborative task execution in a multi-agent environment. Introducing the notion of the complexity of a recipe and an action provides a measure of the difficulty of a task, based upon which decisions regarding the use of particular recipes and contractors can be made.

Abstract: A method and a corresponding system for authenticating software products are proposed. A digital certificate (260) and a corresponding private key (265) required to sign each product are stored on a server computer. Whenever a user needs to sign a product, he/she logs on a client computer and transmits a corresponding request to the server computer. The server computer verifies whether the request has been received from an authorized subject; for example, an address of the client computer and an identifier of the user are compared with a predefined list (245). If the result of the verification is positive, the product is signed and returned to the client computer. For this purpose, a script (250) called on the server computer includes either an instruction passing the access password to a signing tool (255) as a parameter or an instruction causing the signing tool (255) to import the access password from a registry of the server computer.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for using geographical taxonomy data in network-accessible registries (such as the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, or “UDDI”, registry), where this taxonomy data leverages spatial extenders within spatially-enabled databases. Built-in functions of a spatially-enabled object relational database system can then be used for entries in the network-accessible registry.

Abstract: A system and method of making broadcast content selectively available to users in different forms, including a system for charging and collecting compensation for at least one form. Broadcast content such as digital music or other information or entertainment is sent out in a protected form and receiving devices may be provided with different keys to unlock the content for long-term storage. The receiver also includes a system for requesting additional rights (such as permanent storage and playing of the content) and for compensating for that additional set of rights. When the user's request is received with the necessary compensation, the user is provided a permission for the greater rights and a method of accessing those rights; otherwise, the content is provided in an ephemeral form and ceases to exist on the users machine.

Abstract: A linking system and associated method are used to link two or more large dissimilar databases. The linking system generally includes a software program installed on a server with access to databases such as customer databases and organization databases. The linking system includes pointers, as needed, to link customers with positions, jobs, groups or other organizational entities. These pointers allow for a reduced maintenance of the underlying data, while the number of pointers used is relatively small. In addition, the set of information for each pointer can be modified without changing the structure or information of the linked databases.

Abstract: A synchronized optical clocking signal is provided to a plurality of optical receivers by providing a layer of a high absorption coefficient material, such as SiGe or Ge, on a front surface of a low absorption coefficient substrate, such as silicon. Diodes are formed in the germanium containing layer for receiving an optical signal and converting the optical signal into an electrical signal. An optical clocking signal is shined on the back surface of the silicon substrate. The light has a wavelength long enough so that it penetrates through the silicon substrate to the germanium containing layer. The wavelength is short enough so that the light is absorbed in the germanium containing layer and converted to the electrical clocking signal used for neighboring devices and circuits. The germanium concentration is graded so that minority carriers are quickly swept across junctions of the diodes and collected.

Abstract: A method of determining redistribution of objects among three or more containers in a network comprises determining an initial set of objects in each of the containers, identifying neighboring pairs of containers, determining a cost of moving objects between each of the neighboring pairs of containers, determining a desired change in occupancy of each container, and subsequently determining a desired total size of a set of objects to be moved between each identified neighboring pair of containers by solving a set of simultaneous linear equations. The objects are redistributed among the neighboring pairs of containers in accordance with the solution. The objects may be clock sinks and the containers clock nets on a chip, or the objects may be circuits to be placed in an integrated circuit and the containers regions of the chip, or the objects may be data files and the containers individual network server computers.

Abstract: A method and structure for determining a listing of host processors on a network to perform a parallel application, including determining a listing of all possible hosts on the network for performing the parallel application, determining for each of the possible hosts a current capacity and a current utilization, calculating for each of the possible hosts a difference between the current capacity and the current utilization, and selecting from the listing of all possible hosts a listing of hosts based on sorting the calculated differences.

Abstract: A networked virtual jukebox renders audible music or other audio files to all within audio range of the virtual jukebox. The order of rendering is determined by requesting methods, which include networked peer-voting input, recent play history, random selection and voting. Voting is received from each networked device in communication with the networked virtual jukebox using all types of input methods such as keyboard, mouse, and voice input. The networked virtual jukebox can also operate unattended by playing music and/or audio files based on random selection of past voting.

Abstract: A torch comprising a frame structure with a fuel container disposed therein, a flame guard cap extending upwardly from the frame with an aperture formed therein, a wick disposed in the aperture, and a rotatable snuffer cap attached to the frame and adapted to cover the wick.

Abstract: A dielectric structure, wherein two fully cured photoimageable dielectric (PID) layers of the structure are nonadhesively interfaced by a partially cured PID layer. The partially cured PID layer includes a power plane sandwiched between a first partially cured PID sheet and a second partially cured PID sheet. The fully cured PID layers each include an internal power plane, a plated via having a blind end conductively coupled to the internal power plane, and a plated via passing through the fully cured PID layer. The dielectric structure may further include a first PID film partially cured and nonadhesively coupled to one of the fully cured PID layers. The dialectric structure may further include a second PID film partially cured and nonadhesively coupled to the other fully cured PID layer.

Abstract: The universal, Web browser-based Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) test client is itself a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application packaged in a Web archive file. This archive, when extracted, consists of a set of files that are installed on a target application server. The installation makes it possible for a user of a Web browser on a workstation remote from the application server to perform a number of tests on, and invoke, methods in EJB beans that are installed on the staging, or even production, servers. It is also possible to perform tests in real time under real conditions.

Abstract: An interconnect structure including a patterned multilayer of spun-on dielectrics as well as methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The interconnect structure includes a patterned multilayer of spun-on dielectrics formed on a surface of a substrate. The patterned multilayer of spun-on dielectrics is composed of a bottom low-k dielectric, a buried etch stop layer, and a top low-k dielectric, wherein the bottom and top low-k dielectrics have a first composition, the said buried etch stop layer has a second composition which is different from the first composition and the buried etch stop layer is covalently bonded to said top and bottom low-k dielectrics. The interconnect structure further includes a polish stop layer formed on the patterned multilayer of spun-on dielectrics; and metal conductive regions formed within the patterned multilayer of spun-on dielectrics.