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  • Method for controlling a manufacturing process utilizing control charts
    Patent number: 5735546
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methodology for qualitatively extending and exploiting the utility of presently known manufacturing control charts, so that one is enabled to take corrective actions prior to out-of-control conditions occurring. To this end, the invention retrofits extant control-charts with a predictive or forecasting capability combined with a signal capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome M. Kurtzberg, Menachem Levanoni
  • Digital video decoder and deinterlacer, format/frame rate converter with common memory
    Patent number: 5757967
    Abstract: A video decoder/format/frame rate converter with common memory is provided. This device decodes a compressed, interlaced video stream and converts the decoded output to a non-interlaced format and/or a format with a different frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Cesar Augusto Gonzales, Thomas Akos Horvath, Elliot Neil Linzer, Prasoon Tiwari
  • Method for using sorting techniques in a type-safe way
    Patent number: 5787001
    Abstract: A method for invoking an arbitrary sorting technique in a type-safe way. In one aspect, the method comprises the steps of providing a hierarchical schedule class comprising a schedule float subclass and a sorting schedule float subclass, subsumed by the schedule float subclass. The sorting schedule float subclass, in turn, comprises a schedule attribute class; a filter class; and a pair compare class. The method further includes using the hierarchical schedule class with each of an independent group consisting of a schedule attribute strategy, a filter strategy and a pair compare class strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Walter C. Dietrich, Jr., Thomas Robert Ervolina, John Peter Fasano, Jung-Mu Tang
  • Assembly for measuring a trench depth parameter of a workpiece
    Patent number: 5691540
    Abstract: An assembly for measuring a trench depth parameter of a workpiece is disclosed. The assembly has an ultra-violet radiation source; a split fiber bundle having a first branch for propagating the ultra-violet radiation from the radiation source to a lens, and a second branch; a lens for focusing the UV radiation to the workpiece and refocusing an ultra-violet interference signal to the second branch; and a detector responsive to the ultra-violet interference signal received through the second branch. The detector transforms the ultra-violet interference signal to an electrical signal which is a measure of a trench depth of the workpiece. The ultra-violet interference signal is developed when ultra-violet radiation propagates through the workpiece and reflects from its base region to thereby interfere with ultra-violet radiation that is directly reflected by a workpiece surface which is different from the base region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Scott D. Halle, Philip Charles Danby Hobbs, Tadashi Mitsui, Theodore G. van Kessel, Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSITION BETWEEN IBM® WEBSPHERE® MQ WORKFLOW AND IBM® WEBSPHERE® PROCESS SERVER
    Publication number: 20090132463
    Abstract: A computer program for allowing a client computer program written to communicate with WMQWF to communicate with computing elements running WMQWF or WPS includes a receiving code segment receiving said requests from a WMQWF client library, a target device selection code segment for determining a target device from said request and a list of said computing elements, a first transformation code segment for transforming said request from a format understood by said client computer program to a format understood by said target device, a dispatch code segment for sending said request to said target device, a monitor code segment for waiting for a response from said target device, a second transformation code segment for transforming said response from a format understood by said target device to a format understood said client computer program, and a response code segment for providing said response to said client code segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: EMERICON, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Eric Ducos
  • DATA PROCESSING
    Publication number: 20120233224
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for identifying inactive objects in an entity. The inactive objects may be purged from an entity to reduce the size of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventor: Vijay Muthugadooru Gowdra
  • Object classification
    Publication number: 20050071334
    Abstract: Classification of objects using the best boolean expression that represents the most optimal combination of the underlying features is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Laxmi Parida, Ajay Royyuru
  • Method and system for automatic selection of a test system in a network environment
    Publication number: 20030131088
    Abstract: Computer program product and systems using the method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher M. Morrissey, Xiaoping Chen
  • Multi-channel codebook dependent compensation
    Publication number: 20020143528
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, in the context of speech recognition, for compensating in the cepstral domain for the effect of an interfering signal by using a reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Sabine Deligne, Ramesh A. Gopinath
  • Self assembled nano-devices using DNA
    Publication number: 20040046002
    Abstract: An article of manufacture including an organic structure and inorganic atoms bonded to specific locations on the organic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: IBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ravi F. Saraf, Hemantha K. Wickramesinghe
  • Enhanced plasma etching
    Patent number: 5110409
    Abstract: Increased etching rates are obtained by plasma etching wherein the power is applied in a cyclical or oscillating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: IBM
    Inventors: Frank D. Egitto, Walter E. Mlynko
  • Tertiary amine azides in hypergolic liquid or gel fuels propellant systems
    Patent number: 6013143
    Abstract: Inhibited Red Fuming Nitric Acid (IRFNA) type IIIB and monomethyl hydrazine (MMH) ignite when contacted with each other because of a hypergolic chemical reaction and are the preferred oxidizer and fuel for bipropellant rocket propulsion systems. These propellants can deliver a specific impulse of 284 lbf sec/Ibm and density impulse of 13.36 lbf sec/cubic inch when the engine operating pressure is 2000 psi. Special precautions must be used when handling because of its toxic properties. A fuel gel propellant fuel that would be a suitable replacement for MMH must be less toxic and have a competitive density impulse for the same engine operating conditions. Three compounds meeting the specified requirements have been synthesized and their physical and ballistic properties are evaluated herein as shown in Table 1. The chemical names for these compounds are dimethylaminoethylazide (DMAZ), pyrollidinylethylazide (PYAZ), and bis (ethyl azide)methylamine (BAZ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Darren M. Thompson
  • Package for electronic device
    Patent number: D440489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: IBM Japan Business Logistics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Igami, Yuhta Ishii
  • Image scanner
    Patent number: D284475
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: IBM International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Manabe
  • Computer lower expansion unit
    Patent number: D322965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Steven A. Silverstein, James P. Wang
  • Enclosure for a brightness sensor
    Patent number: D371516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Guber, Volker Boettinger
  • Control unit with a printer
    Patent number: D372936
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Harmut Droege, Ludwig Fischer, Wolfgang Fischer, Walter Hinz, Tayssir Scheib, Dieter Sonnentag
  • Point of sale terminal
    Patent number: D379825
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Hartmut Droege, Ludwig Fischer, Wolfgang Fischer, Walter Hinz, Tayssir Scheib, Dieter Sonnentag
  • Point of sale terminal
    Patent number: D381675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Harmut Droege, Ludwig Fischer, Wolfgang Fischer, D. Walter Hinz, Tayssir Scheib, Dieter Sonnentag
  • Point of sale terminal
    Patent number: D393479
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Harmut Droege, Ludwig Fischer, Wolfgang Fischer, Walter Hinz, Tayssir Scheib, Dieter Sonnentag
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