Abstract: The present invention includes a method of forming an aligned film on a substrate. The film is deposited and aligned in a single step by a method comprising the step of bombarding a substrate with an ion beam at a designated incident angle to simultaneously (a) deposit the film onto the substrate and (b) arrange an atomic structure of the film in at least one predetermined aligned direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and program for filtering a data object for content deemed unacceptable by a user. A data object requested by a viewer program is received. The data object is processed to determine predefined language statements. Information on the determined language statements is inputted into a neural network to produce an output value. A determination is then made as to whether the output value indicates that the data object is unacceptable. Viewer program access to the data object is inhibited upon determining that the data object is unacceptable.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for optimizing communication between buses operating at different frequencies. A high speed bus provides communication between high speed devices as well as provides communication to a lower speed bus which provides communications between low speed devices and between low speed devices and high speed devices. During transaction reset a bridge device that controls communication between the high and low speed buses determines the ratio of the respective bus clocks. The bridge device sets a logic state machine based on this data and selects from the higher frequency clock selected cycles on which transfers to the lower speed bus take place. The unused cycles of the high speed clock may then be used on the high speed bus for additional transfers. The clock ratios may be determined on each transaction reset and new data on clock ratios stored in the bridge device for subsequent operation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus in a data processing system for searching for documents. A first thread is initiated, wherein the first thread provides an interface with a user to manipulate the results returned by the second thread. A search request is received. A second thread is initiated, wherein the second thread performs a search using the search request and stored in the results in a data structure and wherein the first thread and the second thread are executed in parallel in the data processing system.

Abstract: A method and system for managing Windows desktops in a heterogeneous server environment is provided. A Windows User Profile is generated for a user and associatively stored with desktop information in a datastore on a heterogeneous server. The heterogeneous server may be a non-Windows-based server. The desktop information provides configurability of a desktop of a Windows-based data processing system. The desktop may be a restricted desktop that may be either non-modifiable or only temporarily modifiable by the user for a session on the Windows-based data processing system. The datastore may contain a pair of desktops for a user, in which one of the pair of desktops is a Windows NT desktop and one of the pair of desktops is a Windows 95 desktop or a Windows 98 desktop.

Abstract: A method to serve web pages from a server linked to a network of a plurality of clients, the server coupled to a plurality of data pages and to an access log. The method begins with reading an access log to collect data identifying pages that are most frequently accessed by a plurality of clients. The pages are retrieved, at least in part, from a database server coupled to a database storage. The one or more pages are stored in a cache as identified by the access log, where each of the pages are identified in the access log with at least one category of a search criteria received from the clients. An access request is received from one or more clients for a page based upon the search criteria received from the clients. The page from cache is retrieved if the page which has been requested was previously stored in cache. On the other hand, if the page, which has been requested, was not previously stored in cache then the page is retrieved from database storage.

Abstract: In a T-head design, it is desirable to reduce the side-writing that occurs during the write operation. The side-writing causes the track width to increase and therefore reduces the track density that can be achieved. The side-writing is caused by certain corners of the T-head producing extraneous fluxes over the magnetic disk. The extraneous fluxes write to the magnetic disk, causing the track width to be increased. The present invention recesses part of the T-head from the air bearing surface by a focused ion beam milling, an ion milling, or an etching process. The extraneous fluxes are therefore recessed from the magnetic disk by a shallow distance sufficient to prevent writing to the magnetic disk, but not so great a distance to inhibit the flux carrying capacity of the structure to the actively writing pole tip.

Abstract: New etch barriers of indium-tin-oxide in the manufacturing process of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display are self-assembled monolayers, such as n-alkylsilanes. A typical process of applying a self-assembled monolayer is to ink a hydrolyzed n-octadecyltrimethoxysilane solution on to a stamp and then to transfer the solution onto ITO. The surface of the stamp may be polar enough to be wet with polar self-assembled monolayer solutions of an akylsilane. A non-polar stamp surface may be treated with oxygen plasma to obtain a wettable polar surface.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture is provided for mapping persistent data objects residing in multiple data sources into a single, reusable software component accessible to an object-oriented programming language application performed by the computer, for multi-database access to data that may be physically distributed and stored in disparate DBMSs, each stored in an electronic storage device coupled to the computer. The method has steps for identifying data objects in multiple data sources, employing a multi-database software facility for connecting to the data sources containing the data objects, and registering the data objects with the multi-database software facility, creating a single virtual data object consolidating multiple attributes from the registered data objects, and establishing a connection to the multi-database software facility for referencing the virtual data object as though it was a single real data object.

Abstract: A method and system for determining component dimensional information in a component placement system. The component information is derived from the pick and place equipment which is used to place the components on the substrate. The component is grasped at substantially the centroid position and moved over the aperture of a camera. The edges of the component are located, and from the edges an accurate location of the centroid may be obtained. The centroid, as well as the length, width and thickness of the component is stored in a database for use during placing of the component. Other features derived include orientation indicia obtained from component features which are viewed by the camera. During placement, all features associated with the component necessary to accurately locate the component on a substrate are obtained from the database.

Abstract: An electronic board assembly carrying connectors on each side of its lower edge which is adapted to withstand the relatively strong forces required to insert or remove the assembly, e.g., from a backplane board, and yet provide many electrical contacts along the interconnection sites. The electronic board assembly comprises two symmetrical elementary PCBs electrically coupled together, each carrying a connector on its external lower edge. In one embodiment, these two PCBs are coupled together by a flexible adhesive insulative layer and maintained by mechanical devices such that the distance between these two connectors is set to a predetermined distance (to align precisely with the backplane board). The mechanical device used to maintain a predetermined distance between the two connectors of the assembly may comprise a U-shaped member, the upper part of this member being strategically inserted between these connectors.

Abstract: A computer program product is provided as a session search system and associated method that provide a novel type of query referred to as “session query”. In the context of a session query, a user issues a search query using, for example, a web-based form. This query is processed immediately by the search engine, yielding search result elements that are returned within the new context of a “dynamic search result set”. As long as the user is reviewing the “dynamic search result set” of the session query, the search result is updated automatically in almost real-time, when new information arrives. When the user is no longer interested in continuing the search, the session query is terminated. The session search system generally includes two modules: A client module that presents the “dynamic search result set” to the user, and a server module that manages the current set of active session queries.

Abstract: A data collection program collects data from a user's workstation and captures the user environment data, including user settings and program application data. The user environment data is stored for duplication processing on a new workstation. One embodiment provides for a workstation list that is read by the data collection program for collecting data from one or more workstations. The stored user environment data is then processed by a duplication process to duplicate the user environment data from the old workstation onto a new workstation. One embodiment includes saving the user environment data to a data storage area connected to a server and then read from the data storage area to duplicate the user environment data to a new workstation also connected to the server. Another embodiment includes saving the user environment data to a nonvolatile computer operable medium for duplicating user environment data to a new workstation.

Abstract: The combination of audio and video speech recognition in a manner to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems in noisy environments. Contemplated are methods and apparatus in which a video signal associated with a video source and an audio signal associated with the video signal are processed, the most likely viseme associated with the audio signal and video signal is determined and, thereafter, the most likely phoneme associated with the audio signal and video signal is determined.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device (and a method for producing the device) includes a multilayered structure with a substrate layer providing a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and at least one layer of light emitting organic material between the first and second electrode layers. The second electrode layer includes at least two separate layers, a layer of a semi-transparent metal electrode and a layer of light transparent lateral conductor, is deposited onto the layer of light emitting organic material such as depositing the semi-transparent metal electrode layer onto the layer of light emitting organic material, depositing subsequently at least one protection layer thereupon and depositing the light transparent lateral conductor layer onto the protection layer.

Abstract: A method, system, program, and data structure for restricting host access to at least one logical device. Each logical device comprises a section of physical storage space that is non-overlapping with the physical storage space associated with other logical devices. At least one logical device and at least one host are assigned to a cluster group. A cluster group is defined such that hosts that are not in a particular cluster group cannot access the logical devices that are assigned to the cluster group. Further, within each cluster group, a logical number is assigned to each logical device in the cluster group such that no host member of that cluster group uses the assigned logical number to access another logical device. The hosts in the cluster group use the logical number to access the logical device to which the logical number is assigned.

Abstract: A method for patterning an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) film by using a chemically amplified resist, causing no resist separation nor adhesion degradation even if the ITO film is exposed to white light after the resist development. An amorphous ITO film is formed on a wafer. A negative chemically amplified resist is applied directly to the ITO film, and the resist film is exposed and developed. The structure having a resist pattern on the amorphous ITO film is free from resist separation and adhesion degradation even if the resist pattern is exposed to white light, and therefore the later manufacturing steps are not adversely affected, enabling proper visual inspection. After the structure is judged to be acceptable at the visual inspection, the amorphous ITO film is etched using the resist pattern as a mask, and then the resist pattern is removed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing includes 2 mushroom plating process starts with an overplated component which includes an enlarged mushroom head having outer portions which overhang a resist layer. The next step in the first process embodiment is a heating step in which the resist layer is hard baked. Thereafter, using a dry etch process, such as a reactive ion etch (RIE) process, the hard baked resist layer is removed in all areas except beneath the overhang of the mushroom head. The area beneath the overhang thereby remains filled with hard baked resist. Thereafter, the device is ultimately encapsulated such that no voids and/or redeposition problems exist under the overhang due to the presence of the hard baked resist. In an alternative process embodiment of the present invention the dry etch process is conducted first upon the resist layer, such that the resist layer is removed in all areas except under the overhang. Thereafter, the device is baked, such that hard baked resist remains beneath the overhang.

Abstract: A method of self-trimming pattern, includes forming a pattern containing a plurality of regular or irregular features within a first material deposited on a substrate, depositing a conformal layer of second material, and etching the second material to form spacers of the second material along the sidewalls of the features in the first material.

Abstract: A non-uniform memory access (NUMA) computer system includes a node interconnect to which a remote node and a home node are coupled. The home node contains a home system memory, and the remote node includes at least one processing unit and a cache. In response to the cache deallocating an unmodified cache line that corresponds to data resident in the home system memory, a cache controller of the cache issues a deallocate operation on a local interconnect of the remote node. In one embodiment, the deallocate operation is further transmitted to the home node via the node interconnect only in response to an indication, such as a combined response, that no other cache in the remote node caches the cache line. In response to receipt of the deallocate operation, a memory controller in the home node updates a local memory directory associated with the home system memory to indicate that the remote node does not hold a copy of the cache line.