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US20080243524 System and Method for Automating Internal Controls  
A computer-based system and method to enforce, monitor, and assess internal controls over financial reporting is provided. A bottom-up approach is used to model transaction-control workflows using...
US20080243517 SPEECH BOOKMARKS IN A VOICE USER INTERFACE USING A SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE AND ACOUSTICALLY GENERATED BASEFORMS  
A system and method for navigating a dialog hierarchy from a voice user interface (VUI) using speech bookmarks. The method can detect a user spoken command for bookmarking a location within a...
US20080243514 NATURAL ERROR HANDLING IN SPEECH RECOGNITION  
A user interface, and associated techniques, that permit a fast and efficient way of correcting speech recognition errors, or of diminishing their impact. The user may correct mistakes in a natural...
US20080243507 NATURAL ERROR HANDLING IN SPEECH RECOGNITION  
A user interface, and associated techniques, that permit a fast and efficient way of correcting speech recognition errors, or of diminishing their impact. The user may correct mistakes in a natural...
US20080243502 PARTIALLY FILLING MIXED-INITIATIVE FORMS FROM UTTERANCES HAVING SUB-THRESHOLD CONFIDENCE SCORES BASED UPON WORD-LEVEL CONFIDENCE DATA  
The invention discloses prompting for a spoken response that provides input for multiple elements. A single spoken utterance including content for multiple elements can be received, where each...
US20080243488 AUTOMATED GLOSSARY CREATION  
A method and device for creating a glossary includes a processor operable for executing computer instructions for identifying, in at least one information source, at least one glossary item...
US20080243487 HYBRID TEXT SEGMENTATION USING N-GRAMS AND LEXICAL INFORMATION  
A hybrid n-gram/lexical analysis tokenization system including a lexicon and a hybrid tokenizer operative to perform both N-gram tokenization of a text and lexical analysis tokenization of a text...
US20080243476 Voice Prompts for Use in Speech-to-Speech Translation System  
Techniques for employing improved prompts in a speech-to-speech translation system are disclosed. By way of example, a technique for use in indicating a dialogue turn in an automated...
US20080243468 PROVIDING MEMORY CONSISTENCY IN AN EMULATED PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT  
Memory consistency is provided in an emulated processing environment. A processor architected with a weak memory consistency emulates an architecture having a firm memory consistency. This memory...
US20080243467 EMULATED Z-SERIES QUEUED DIRECT I/O  
The emulation of an adapter for I/O to link a host data processing system to a local area network provides advantages of memory to memory transfer which results in higher data transfer rates while...
US20080243465 FACILITATING INPUT/OUTPUT PROCESSING OF ONE OR MORE GUEST PROCESSING SYSTEMS  
An article of manufacture, method and system are provided for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing of at least one guest processing system. The article of manufacture includes at least one...
US20080243462 INSTRUCTION ENCODING IN A HARDWARE SIMULATION ACCELERATOR  
A hardware simulation accelerator to simulate logic designs, a method to encode instructions for use in the hardware simulation accelerator, and a computer program product having code of the method...
US20080243453 CAPACITANCE MODELING  
A method of modeling capacitance for a structure comprising a pair of long conductors surrounded by a dielectric material and supported by a substrate. In particular, the structure may be on-chip...
US20080243451 METHOD FOR SEMANTIC MODELING OF STREAM PROCESSING COMPONENTS TO ENABLE AUTOMATIC APPLICATION COMPOSITION  
A method for modeling components of a stream processing application, includes: defining an input message pattern of a processing element, wherein the input message pattern includes variables...
US20080243450 METHOD FOR MODELING COMPONENTS OF AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPLICATION USING SEMANTIC GRAPH TRANSFORMATIONS  
A method for modeling a component of an information processing application, includes: defining an applicability condition of a component, wherein the applicability conditions includes variables...
US20080243449 METHOD FOR DECLARATIVE SEMANTIC EXPRESSION OF USER INTENT TO ENABLE GOAL-DRIVEN INFORMATION PROCESSING  
A method for constructing a processing request so that an information processing application satisfying the processing request can be assembled, includes: inputting a processing request, wherein...
US20080243437 TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTING ANOMALY IN OBSERVATION TARGET  
A system, method, and computer program product allowing an information processing apparatus to function as a system for detecting an anomaly in an observation target on the basis of time series...
US20080242326 SMS WRAPPER/DEWRAPPER AND MOBILE DEVICES EMBEDDED WITH THE SMS WRAPPER/DEWRAPPER  
Disclosed is a method for providing a GUI for manipulation utilizing a SMS in PDU mode, comprising: receiving a SMS message which comprises encoded SM data; parsing said SM data for decoding to...
US20080242318 Consolidating Online Privacy Preferences  
User privacy preferences are consolidated for location-based services. A mobile user is able to control the service providers to which the mobile user's location is transmitted as well as control...
US20080242288 CENTRALIZED VOICE RECOGNITION UNIT FOR WIRELESS CONTROL OF PERSONAL MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES  
Described are a method and system for controlling the operation of personal mobile electronic devices disposed about a user. Each device is adapted to receive command according to a common wireless...
US20080242265 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC PRESENCE INFORMATION AS COLLECTED BY A MOBILE DEVICE  
A system and method for detecting proximity of at least one outside party to a multi-party communication includes steps of: receiving presence information of the at least one outside party, wherein...
US20080242118 METHODS FOR FORMING DENSE DIELECTRIC LAYER OVER POROUS DIELECTRICS  
Methods for forming a dense dielectric layer over the surface of an opening in a porous inter-layer dielectric having an ultra-low dielectric constant are disclosed. The disclosure provides methods...
US20080242070 INTEGRATION SCHEMES FOR FABRICATING POLYSILICON GATE MOSFET AND HIGH-K DIELECTRIC METAL GATE MOSFET  
Multiple integration schemes for manufacturing dual gate semiconductor structures are disclosed. By employing the novel integration schemes, polysilicon gate MOSFETs and high-k dielectric metal...
US20080242041 Selective Deposition of Germanium Spacers on Nitride  
A method of selectively forming a germanium structure within semiconductor manufacturing processes removes the native oxide from a nitride surface in a chemical oxide removal (COR) process and then...
US20080242016 METHODS FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES WITH REDUCED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LATCH-UP AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES FORMED BY THE METHODS  
Semiconductor methods and device structures for suppressing latch-up in bulk CMOS devices. The method comprises forming a trench in the semiconductor material of the substrate with first sidewalls...
US20080241418 RELEASE LAYER FOR IMPRINTED PHOTOCATIONIC CURABLE RESINS  
An imprint process comprising coating a selected surface of a micropatterned template with a release composition having a basic reactive moiety; wherein the template is transparent to UV radiation;...
US20080241369 METHOD OF FABRICATING A MAGNETIC SHIFT REGISTER  
A magnetic data track used in a magnetic shift register memory system may be fabricated by forming a multilayered stack of alternating dielectric and/or silicon layers. A trench is etched in the...
US20080240892 STORAGE BUFFER DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS  
A storage buffer system for an automated material handling system (AMHS) includes a retractable buffer device disposed in proximity to a processing tool, the retractable buffer device having an...
US20080240445 DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING MATCHING SERVICE  
A computer for a service provider receives from each member of two groups who is a user of a service via a mediating computer, a priority list in which member IDs of the other group is permuted in...
US20080240436 Method and apparatus for determining whether to encrypt outbound traffic  
An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for processing outbound traffic passing through a port. This port is for a server and receives a request from a client. The request includes...
US20080240381 Method and Apparatus for Providing Contextual Information with Telephone Calls  
The present invention is directed to a method for propagating contextual data in an audio communication by storing the contextual data obtained from a calling party in an extensible mark-up...
US20080240373 SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING MP3 PLAYER  
Communicating an audio message to a listener of an audio player device. An audio message file is generated at a workstation and sent to the audio player device via a network. In response to receipt...
US20080240320 TRANSMIT CLOCK GENERATOR  
A transmit clock generator includes a first local clock generator and a second local clock generator, each receiving an external PLL clock signal and respectively generating first and second...
US20080240222 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BALANCING DELAY OF SIGNAL COMMUNICATION PATHS THROUGH WELL VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT  
A method of balancing signal interconnect path delays between an analog domain and a digital domain of an integrated circuit includes applying a test signal to a selected one of a plurality of...
US20080240156 Method and apparatus for adaptive bandwidth control with defined priorities for different networks  
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to receive data from a source at a plurality of gateways for distribution using a selected priority. The data is...
US20080240134 MULTI-NODE, PERIPHERAL COMPONENT SWITCH FOR A COMPUTER SYSTEM  
Disclosed are a PCI-Express multi-node switch assembly and a computer system including the switch assembly. This switch assembly comprises first and second interconnected PCI-Express switches, each...
US20080240110 MEMORY SYSTEM WITH APPARATUS AND METHOD TO ENABLE BALANCED BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION  
A memory subsystem includes Data Store 0 and Data Store 1 . Each data store is partitioned into N buffers, N>1. An increment of memory is formed by a buffer pair, with each buffer of the...
US20080239985 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SERVICES MODEL BASED PROVISIONING IN A MULTITENANT ENVIRONMENT  
A method, system and computer usable program code is disclosed for mapping a logical topology to information technology (IT) resources. The method comprises the steps of generating a logical...
US20080239945 PERIPHERAL COMPONENT SWITCH HAVING AUTOMATIC LINK FAILOVER  
Disclosed are a PCI switch assembly, having automatic link failover, and a computer system including that switch assembly. The switch assembly comprises first and second interconnected, peripheral...
US20080239942 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING RECOVERY FROM AN INTERMITTENT HARDWARE FAULT  
Systems and methods for verifying recovery from intermittent hardware faults. Exemplary embodiments include a method for verifying recovery from intermittent hardware faults, the method including...
US20080239860 Apparatus and Method for Providing Multiple Reads/Writes Using a 2Read/2Write Register File Array  
An apparatus and method are provided for reading a plurality of consecutive entries and writing a plurality of consecutive entries with only one read address and one write address using a...
US20080239844 IMPLEMENTING CALIBRATION OF DQS SAMPLING DURING SYNCHRONOUS DRAM READS  
A method and calibration apparatus implement calibration of sampling of a data strobe signal (DQS) during synchronous dynamic random access memory (DRAM) reads. A calibration control is provided to...
US20080239792 METAL SILICIDE ALLOY LOCAL INTERCONNECT  
A local interconnect is formed with a gate conductor line that has an exposed sidewall on an active area of a semiconductor substrate. The exposes sidewall comprises a silicon containing material...
US20080239785 HIGH DENSITY PLANAR MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALL MEMORY APPARATUS  
A magnetic domain wall memory apparatus with write/read capability includes a plurality of coplanar shift register structures each comprising an elongated track formed from a ferromagnetic material...
US20080239784 HIGH DENSITY PLANAR MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALL MEMORY APPARATUS  
A magnetic domain wall memory apparatus with write/read capability includes a plurality of coplanar shift register structures each comprising an elongated track formed from a ferromagnetic material...
US20080239651 TOOL-LESS ELECTRONIC COMPONENT RETENTION  
Provided is an apparatus comprising a latch mechanism, wherein the latch mechanism comprises a touch point, push points, pull back handles, and a latch tongue adapted to move up and down, wherein...
US20080239650 MOUNTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS  
Provided is an apparatus comprising a tray coupled to leaf spring mounts with multiple guide slots, the multiple guide slots adapted to receive multiple guide pins coupled to an electronic...
US20080239539 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENTS  
An apparatus and method for measuring the physical quantities of a data center during operation and method for servicing large-scale computing systems is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cart...
US20080238923 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ASSEMBLING STREAM PROCESSING GRAPHS IN STREAM PROCESSING SYSTEMS  
A method for assembling stream processing graphs in a stream processing system, includes: performing, in an offline manner, translating a plurality of processing element and data source...
US20080238735 Fast Implementation Of Decoding Function For Variable Length Encoding  
An embodiment of the present inventions is a method for encoding/decoding data of variable length format and is used to omit unnecessary pieces of data for the purpose of improving processing...