Patents Assigned to International Business Machines Corporatoin
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Patent number: 9342121Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for non interruptive fluid cooling of an electronic enclosure. One or more electronic component packages may be removable from a circuit card having a fluid flow system. When installed, the electronic component packages are coincident to and in a thermal relationship with the fluid flow system. If a particular electronic component package becomes non-functional, it may be removed from the electronic enclosure without affecting either the fluid flow system or other neighboring electronic component packages.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporatoinInventors: William James Anderl, Evan George Colgan, James Dorance Gerken, Christopher Michael Marroquin, Shurong Tian
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Patent number: 8445313Abstract: A method of forming bit line aligned to a phase change material that includes forming a pedestal of a sacrificial material on a portion of a lower electrode and forming at least one dielectric material adjacent to the sacrificial material, wherein the at least one dielectric material has an upper surface substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the pedestal of the sacrificial material. The pedestal of the sacrificial material is removed selective to the at least one dielectric material and the lower electrode to provide an opening to an exposed surface of the lower electrode. A phase change material is formed on the exposed surface of the lower electrode, and the opening is filled with a conductive fill material. A self-aligned etch back process is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignees: International Business Machines Corporatoin, Macronix International Co., Ltd.Inventors: Matthew J. Breitwisch, Chieh-Fang Chen, Shih-Hung Chen, Eric A. Joseph, Chung Hon Lam, Michael F. Lofaro, Hsiang-Lan Lung, Alejandro G. Schrott, Min Yang
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Patent number: 8094122Abstract: A computer system aids user positioning of a pointing device by providing an animated post warp retro guide in conjunction with an eye tracking system, based on perceived user intent, to assist a user in maintaining continuity for pointer warps. An eye tracking apparatus monitors a user's eye orientation while the user views a video display, detects the eye orientation relative to the video display, and automatically moves the positioning device to the calculated eye orientation of the user, while providing an animated history of the first location of pointing device and a second location of the pointing device. To enable the user to maintain continuity while reading lines of text, a reading guide and visual indicator are also provided. Automated text scrolling and paging is provided to further accommodate a user to maintain continuity while reading large blocks of text.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporatoinInventors: Mark E. Molander, Nicole S. Zeisz
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Publication number: 20080134202Abstract: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and computer programs for event-based control of subscription matching in a publish/subscribe communications environment. Activation and/or deactivation events are associated with subscriptions at a publish/subscribe broker and are used to control when a subscription is active. The broker is responsive to temporally-unpredictable events, such as receipt of a published message on a predefined activation topic, to activate subscription matching for messages that are subsequently received or which have been received earlier and retained at the broker. Conventional subscription matching can be avoided for a registered subscription while that subscription is inactive, and subscribers are not required to explicitly and repeatedly subscribe and unsubscribe.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATOINInventors: Ian Gerald Craggs, Anthony Alan Garrard, Ian Robert Harwood, Andrew Ian Hickson, David Locke, Andrew David Reynolds, Andrew James Stanford-Clark, Jane Louise Stockdill
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Patent number: 6674603Abstract: A servo system and method for calibrating servo index positions of a magnetic tape for track following linear servo edges, each servo edge comprising an interface between dissimilar recorded servo signals, the edges on opposite lateral sides of a middle servo signal. A servo loop laterally positions a servo sensor where the servo signals are at estimated ratios representing the locations of the servo edges. An independent position sensor indicates the mechanical lateral position of the servo sensor at the sensed servo edges. The servo loop repositions the servo sensor to a plurality of lateral positions at predetermined displacements from the independent position sensor sensed servo edges, and track follows at each of the predetermined offsets.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2001Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporatoinInventors: Robert Beverley Basham, Alex Chliwnyj
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Patent number: 5838169Abstract: A logic block comprised of several transistors is provided. The logic block has several inputs and an output for communicating the result of its logic operation. A precharge device having a clock input is connected to the output of the logic block. The precharge device periodically allows the output of the logic block to become valid. This is accomplished by holding the output of the logic block at a fixed voltage level when the clock input is at a first voltage level, and when the clock input changes to a second voltage level, the precharge device allows the result of the logic function performed by the logic block to appear at the output of the logic block. Also, a charge redistribution prevention device is connected to at least one of the transistors included in the logic block. The charge redistribution prevention device prevents charge redistribution by applying a voltage to at least one of the transistors in the logic block.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1996Date of Patent: November 17, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporatoinInventor: Eric Bernard Schorn