Recent IBM patents The following patents were recently issued by the countries in which the inventions were made. Canada 2,237,441 W. Kou Secure open tendering protocol in electronic procurement 2,212,316 J. W. Benayon and B. W. Thomson Method of recognizing fixed and variable sized DADA objects in multiple heaps 2,166,358 A. A. Al-Karmi, S. S. Singh, and B. S. Soor Programming information for servers and clients in a distributed computing environment 2,201,278 C. L. Brealey, J. G. Johnston, V. Klicnik, D. M. Lauzon, L. T. Loi, and A. A. Seelemann Hierarchical metadata store for an integrated development environment 2,212,194 B. Fielding and C. R. Plater Method and apparatus for controlling access in a video distribution network 2,212,477 B. Fielding and C. R. Plater Method and apparatus for maintaining directory services for a video 2,165,893 V. Klicnik and R. D. McDonald Visual application part partitioning for creating distributed object oriented applications China 552,385 J. Le Boudec and L. Truong Connectionless ATM data services Germany 19,611,896.4 S. Hornung and H. Schuy Load/unload-mechanism 19,633,466.7 W. Haenel Post-initialization of chip cards 69,704,231.6 H. Hilgers, P. Joeris, and M. Straub Surface modification of magnetic heads France 658,021 F. Bauchot, R. Bjorklund, A. Herzberg, S. Kutten, and M. Wetterwald A method and system for key distribution and authentication in a data communication network Great Britain 2,313,703 J. S. Beeteson and A. R. Knox Current sensing in vacuum electron devices 2,318,030 B. K. Aldred, H. S. Lambert, H. D. Mitchell, D. S. Renshaw, and G. Tuttle Communication system with exchange of capability information 2,318,486 C. J. Holloway Data communications system 2,318,539 A. Dobson and R. A. Merrick Data charting 2,331,387 A. Wilson Method and apparatus for controlling printers 2,353,633 J. S. Beeteson and A. R. Knox Display device Japan 1,105,240 H. Hirano Industrial design of multi-purpose passbook printer 3,153,863 A. Ohyama and K. Takahashi The mapping of data cell to print form fleld through mouse operations without programming 3,154,325 N. Morimoto, M. Numao, and S. Shimizu A method for indentifying digital camera and detecting alteration on digital images 3,155,489 D. W. Albrecht and A. Aoyagi Trace suspension assembly with dimple on polyimede layer 3,155,499 T. Okada, K. Tanaka, and T. Ushio Integrated demodulator for DVD and CD 3,155,991 T. Fukuda and H. Matsuzawa A method of parallel processing of multiple aggregate queries on shared-nothing multiprocessors 3,160,201 R. Kubota Full text search engine 3,165,099 M. Demura, H. Nagura, T. Tamura, and K. Tanaka Efficient erasure correction method for DVD 3,166,896 H. Hama, K. Iwano, and S. Misono Apparatus for virtually zooming candidates for selecton 3,166,905 M. Kitagawa, H. Nakano, and A. Yanagawa An image processing method 3,167,931 A. Takeuchi E2PROM write sequence for PC card terminal 3,167,980 M. Takagi Candidate sieving method 3,170,455 K. Iwata RAID with capacity merge function United States 6,113,649 N. Govindaraj Object representation of program and script components 6,113,759 C. Uzoh Anode design for semiconductor deposition having novel electrical contact assembly 6,113,769 P. C. Andricacos, J. Horkans, and C. Uzoh Apparatus to monitor and add plating solution of plating baths and controlling quality of deposited metal 6,114,019 A. C. Bhatt, D. H. Glatzel, V. R. Markovich, A. F. Moring, K. I. Papathomas, and D. J. Russell Circuit board assemblies having filled vias free from bleed-out 6,114,082 M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, D. V. Horak, A. D. Katnani, N. Patel, and P. Rabidoux Frequency doubling hybrid photoresist having negative and positive tone components and method of preparing the same 6,114,096 T. Brunner, R. Mih, and D. C. Wheeler Asymmetrical resist sidewall 6,114,098 B. K. Appelt, J. S. Kresge, J. M. Lauffer, and K. I. Papathomas Method of filling an aperture in a substrate 6,114,181 A. J. Gregoritsch Pre burn-in thermal bump card attach simulation to enhance reliability 6,114,221 W. R. Tonti and R. Q. Williams Method and apparatus for interconnecting multiple circuit chips 6,114,248 J. P. Gambino and M. Jaso Process to reduce localized polish stop erosion 6,114,249 D. F. Canaperi, R. Jagannathan, M. Krishnan, C. Morgan, and T. Wright Chemical mechanical polishing of multiple material substrates and slurry having improved selectivity 6,114,257 P. A. Ronsheim Process for modified oxidation of a semiconductor substrate using chlorine plasma 6,114,413 S. K. Kang, S. Purushothaman, and E. E. Simonyi Thermally conducting materials and applications for microelectronic packaging 6,114,450 M. Berger, A. J. Call, F. Pompeo, and K. G. Sachdev Aryl cyanate and/or diepoxide and tetrahydropyranyl-protected hydroxym ethylated phenolic or hydroxystyrene resin 6,114,458 C. J. Hawker, J. L. Hedrick, and M. Trollsas Highly branched radial block copolymers 6,114,662 D. Guidotti and K. L. Lee Continual flow rapid thermal processing apparatus and method 6,114,719 F. H. Dill, R. E. Fontana, T. Lin, S. S. Parkin, and C. Tsang Magnetic tunnel junction memory cell with in-stack biasing of the free ferromagnetic layer and memory array using the cell 6,114,725 T. Furukawa, M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, D. V. Horak, H. L. Kalter, J. A. Mandelman, P. Rabidoux, and J. J. Welser Novel structure for folded architecture pillar memory cell 6,114,736 K. Balasubramanyam, S. B. Brodsky, R. Conti, and B. El-Kareh Controlled dopant diffusion and metal contamination in thin polycide gate conductor of MOSFET device 6,114,937 J. Burghartz, D. C. Edelstein, C. Jahnes, and C. Uzoh Integrated circuit spiral inductor 6,114,960 R. J. Gilmour Method and apparatus for an integrated security device providing for automatic disablement 6,115,029 L. E. Gregg and W. Jaaskelainen Jr. Graphical pointing device and method for controlling a graphical pointer within a data processing system 6,115,030 V. Berstis and T. G. Zimmerman Improved trackpoint device 6,115,044 C. Alimpich, B. Jeffcoat, D. Neuhard, L. L. Vigil, and J. P. Wittig Data processor controller display with a tree of items with modification of child item properties designated at parent level without modification of parent item properties 6,115,046 L. P. Chen and X. F. Niu Enhanced computer aided design system 6,115,066 S. Gowda, H. J. Shin, H. P. Wong, P. Xiao, and J. Yang Image sensor with direct digital correlated sampling 6,115,070 J. Song and B. L. Yeo System and method for DCT domain inverse motion compensation using shared information 6,115,200 D. G. Allen and L. J. Serrano Method and apparatus for preventing write operations in the presence of post-shock motion 6,115,238 R. J. Von Gutfeld Apparatus for limiting viewing angle and glare of display and portable electronic device employing the same 6,115,249 G. L. Chiu and T. M. Cipolla Portable computer stand for enhanced cooling 6,115,308 D. Hanson and T. Kirihata Sense amplifier and method of using the same with pipelined read, restore and write operations 6,115,310 B. Ji, T. Kirihata, and D. Netis Wordline activation delay monitor using sample wordline located in data-storing array 6,115,339 D. J. Winarski Method and system in an optical storage disc drive for conserving laser power 6,115,361 G. R. Frazier and R. G. Hathorn Link incident reporting extended link service for networks 6,115,371 V. Berstis and J. L. Smith Satellite uplink separation using time multiplexed global positioning system cell location beacon system 6,115,422 R. E. Anderson and E. M. Foster Protocol and procedure for time base change in an MPEG-2 compliant datastream 6,115,509 F. J. Yeskel High volume image archive subsystem 6,115,544 S. H. Mueller Method and system for displaying error messages 6,115,616 A. Halperin, J. D. Rutledge, A. Schrott, C. Tresser, R. J. Von Gutfeld, and C. W. Wu Hand held telephone set with separable keyboard 6,115,648 F. D. Gallo System and method for non-invasive accessor recalibration 6,115,703 B. Bireley, L. R. Curran, F. L. Lin, A. B. Lobo, and J. Q. Wong A two-level caching system for prepared SQL statements in a relational database management system 6,115,712 N. Islam and V. Singh Mechanism for combining data analysis algorithms with databases on the internet 6,115,720 T. Bleizeffer, N. Church, K. L. Devine, P. Hughes, B. J. Kilburn, and D. E. Shough Method and apparatus for performing a health check on a database system 6,115,723 D. C. Fallside Algorithm to generate ML statements from the positions of objects on a canvas 6,115,736 M. Devarakonda, A. Mohindra, A. Purakayastha, and D. J. Zukowski System and method for automatically localizing access to remote network components using implicit agent relocation 6,115,745 V. Berstis and J. R. Thompson Scheduling of distributed agents for a dialup network 6,115,763 M. C. Cogswell, G. R. Currier, S. M. Douskey, J. R. Elliott, S. D. Vincent, J. M. Wallin, and P. Wiltgen Multi-core chip providing external core access with regular operation function interface and predetermined service operation service interface comprising core interface units and master interface unit 6,115,764 D. R. Chisholm and A. B. McNeill Acyclic cable bus having redundant path access 6,115,773 L. B. Capps Jr., R. C. Dixon, T. Nguyen, and K. H. Pham Circuit for detecting improper bus termination on a SCSI bus 6,115,789 C. M. Durham, P. J. Klim, and H. Ngo Method and system for determining which memory locations have been accessed in a self timed cache architecture 6,115,794 R. K. Arimilli and J. S. Dodson Method and system of providing a pseudo-precise inclusivity scheme in a sectored cache memory for maintaining cache coherency within a data-processing system 6,115,795 G. D. Gilda and S. L. Gregor Method and apparatus for configurable multiple level cache with coherency in a multiprocessor system 6,115,804 G. D. Carpenter, M. E. Dean, and D. Glasco Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) data processing system that permits multiple caches to concurrently hold data in a recent state from which data can be sourced by shared intervention 6,115,820 J. R. Lewis Determining theft of grammar code 6,115,829 R. E. Murray and T. J. Slegel Computer system with transparent processor sparing 6,115,912 A. H. Crudo, J. G. Davis, C. R. Le Coz, M. V. Pierson, A. K. Sarkhel, and A. K. Trivedi Apparatus and method for printed circuit board repair 6,115,928 N. J. Dauerer Fiber optic position indicator using liquid/air light transmission 6,116,127 W. D. Carbaugh, L. W. Herron, M. W. Kapfhammer, M. LaPlante, D. C. Long, N. A. Rizk, and J. Wylder Flex die punching apparatus and method 6,116,797 J. G. Brewington and R. H. Harris Double acting wrap spring drive 6,117,182 C. J. Alpert, A. Devgan, and S. T. Quay Optimum buffer placement for noise avoidance 6,117,185 W. J. Schmidt Skip list data storage during compilation 6,117,212 A. W. Buechele, J. T. Butler, and K. O. Muggenburg System for evacuating air from a viscous media 6,117,283 P. C. Chen, G. L. Gorman, C. Hwang, V. Raman, and R. Simmons Silicon coating on air bearing surface for magnetic thin film heads 6,117,367 R. J. Bezama, M. Cohn, B. V. Fasano, G. M. Johnson, R. A. Rita, R. V. Vallabhaneni, and N. Wier-Cavalieri Pastes for improved substrate dimensional control 6,117,498 K. Chondroudis, D. Mitzi, and M. Prikas Single source thermal ablation method for depositing organic-inorganic hybrid films 6,117,569 T. Lin and D. Mauri Spin valves with antiferromagnetic exchange pinning and high uniaxial anisotropy reference and keeper layers 6,117,620 J. H. Brannon, W. I. Imaino, A. Juliana, M. R. Latta, C. H. Lee, W. C. Leung, and H. J. Rosen Method of producing a calibration disk 6,117,771 W. J. Murphy and P. Tiwari Method for depositing cobalt 6,117,778 B. P. Jones and V. Y. Sardesai Semiconductor wafer edge bead removal method and tool 6,117,784 C. Uzoh Process for integrated circuit wiring 6,117,796 G. Gale, R. Jagannathan, K. P. Madden, K. J. McCullough, H. F. Okorn-Schmidt, K. Pope, and D. I. Rath Removal of silicon oxide 6,118,155 S. H. Voldman Integrated ESD structures for use in ESD circuitry 6,118,192 J. Karidis Applications of micro-electro-mechanical wobble motors as radio frequency transceiver components 6,118,261 C. K. Erdelyi and J. E. Gersbach Slew rate control circuit 6,118,318 J. A. Fifield and L. G. Heller Self biased differential amplifier with hysteresis 6,118,428 J. M. Blackman, B. A. Feigenbaum, M. A. Fiechtner, J. T. Galea, A. M. Gilbert, D. A. Kerr, P. R. King, T. Lay, I. Lomelli, D. Miclette, C. V. Powell, G. T. Puchtel, and J. M. Wagner Method and system for simultaneous presentation of multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces 6,118,518 P. C. Hobbs Assembly comprising a pocket 3-D scanner 6,118,609 K. Gong Method to adjust head switch time for improved disk drive performance 6,118,622 H. S. Gill Technique for robust resetting of spin valve head 6,118,623 C. Chiu, J. J. Fatula, R. Hsiao, and L.-C. Lee A high definition chevron type MR sensor 6,118,630 A. Argumedo Compliant edge guiding and following system for tape 6,118,632 T. R. Albrecht, P. M. Baumgart, T. A. Nguyen, K. A. Rubin, and A. C. Tam Magnetic disk stack having laser-bump identifiers on magnetic disks 6,118,659 S. T. Adams, W. V. Cranston, W. E. Hamel, J. K. Koenig, and J. McCloskey Heat sink clamping spring additionally holding a ZIF socket locked 6,118,667 C. Grosser, M. S. Mansuria, and L. H. Webster Card insulator and guide for a computer system having hot plugable adapter cards 6,118,683 S. Butt, G. Kunkel, and C. Radens Dynamic random access memory cell layout 6,118,707 S. W. Gould, J. A. Iadanza, F. R. Keyser, and T. Zittritsch Field-programmable memory array 6,118,719 T. Dell, B. G. Hazelzet, and M. W. Kellogg Self-initiated self-refresh mode for memory modules 6,118,726 B. Ji and T. Kirihata Shared row decoder 6,118,740 C. DeCusatis and L. Jacobowitz In a system for creating, reading and writing on rotatable information storage media, a method for writing closely spaced information tracks 6,118,745 R. A. Hutchins, G. Jaquette, and K. Tsuruta Acquisition of highly variable data frequency by digital edge processing 6,118,780 J. M. Dunn, A. G. Ganek, E. H. Stern, and B. E. Willner Communication network and method of operation for real time user selection of voice and/or data paths in the network 6,118,788 P. Kermani, M. Naghshineh, C. M. Olsen, T. Ozugur, and B. Rezvani Balanced media access methods for wireless networks 6,118,823 J. D. Carr Control scheme for shared-use dual-port predicted error array 6,118,873 J. B. Lotspiech and K. S. McCurley System for encrypting broadcast programs in the presence of compromised receiver devices 6,118,880 G. D. Kokkosoulis and D. A. Temple Method and system for dynamically maintaining audio balance in a stereo audio system 6,118,890 A. W. Senior System and method for broad classification of biometric patterns 6,118,939 R. L. Foshee, J. J. Hawkins, and C. J. Nack Method and system for a replaceable application interface at the user task level 6,118,940 R. F. Berry Method and apparatus for benchmarking byte code sequences 6,119,085 J. R. Lewis and K. A. Ortega Reconciling recognition and text to speech vocabularies 6,119,086 A. P. Ittycheriah, S. Maes, and D. Nahamoo Speech coding via speech recognition and synthesis based on pre-enrolled tokens 6,119,112 R. R. Bush Optimum cessation of training in neural networks 6,119,116 R. A. Rose System and method for accessing and distributing audio CD data over a network 6,119,128 D. K. Courter, M. H. Hu, L. M. Kunioka-Weiss, T. T. Majithia, D. A. Matamoros, J. A. Ruddy, and Y. Y. Wang Recovering different types of objects with one pass of the log 6,119,133 J. Celi Jr. and W. L. Nusbickel Extensible method and apparatus for retrieving files having unique record identifiers as file names during program execution 6,119,143 D. M. Dias, J. Wolf, and P. S. Yu A computer system and method for load balancing with selective control 6,119,151 T. G. Cantrell, S. Jaji, A. A. Shaheen, and R. B. Ward System and method for efficient cache management in a distributed file system 6,119,161 C. Lita and J. R. Thompson Managing connection requests in a dialup computer network 6,119,166 L. D. Bergman and J. Turek Controlling communications with local application using a browser application 6,119,169 B. J. Schuh Network system having disk drive bypass circuits 6,119,191 D. Neal and S. M. Thurber Performing PCI access cycles through PCI bridge hub routing 6,119,201 J. E. Kulakowski, R. J. Means, and D. J. Winarski Disk under-run protection using formatted padding sectors (amended) 6,119,202 J. M. Borkenhagen and J. I. Brookhouser Method and apparatus to interleave level 1 data cache line fill data between system bus and level 2 data cache for improved processor performance 6,119,204 J. Chang, J. M. Nunez, T. A. Petersen, and Unknown Data processing system and method for maintaining translation lookaside buffer (TLB) coherency without enforcing complete instruction serialization 6,119,209 E. M. Bauman, R. E. Galbraith, and M. Johnson Backup directory for a write cache 6,119,219 D. Bair, M. S. Farrell, B. W. Krumm, P. K. Mak, J. A. Navarro, T. J. Slegel, and C. F. Webb System serialization with early release of individual processor 6,119,224 C. P. Roth Fast shift amount decode for VMX shift and VPERM instructions 6,119,241 M. S. Michail, W. D. Pricer, and S. T. Ventrone Self regulating temperature/performance/voltage scheme for micros (X86) 6,119,246 A. Kitamorn, C. A. McLaughlin, and S. Nulu Error collection coordination for software-readable and non-software readable fault isolation registers in a computer system 6,119,247 D. E. House and B. J. Owings Remote debugging of internet applications 6,122,289 P. Brown, K. A. Cousins, J. R. Flanagan, B. Isrel, B. Rajaraman, A. J. Stagg, and M. Zee Methods, systems and computer program products for controlling data flow through a communications adapter 6,119,331 T. Y. Chang, H. P. Lee, and J. Lo Notching the first pole piece of a write head with a notching layer in a combined magnetic head 6,119,555 F. D. DiMaria Precision punch and die design and construction 6,120,179 D. E. Houser and F. S. Poch Method and apparatus for measuring drill hole temperatures 6,120,552 J. M. Kurtzberg, M. Levanoni, and J. S. Lew A method to exhibit parallelism for computer implementation of a computational processing 6,120,885 A. J. Call, S. A. DeLaurentis, S. Farooq, S. K. Kang, S. Purushothaman, and K. A. Stalter Structure, materials, and methods for socketable ball grid 6,120,909 N. A. Bojarczuk, S. Guha, and R. Haight Monolithic silicon-based nitride display device 6,121,064 J. Lasky, B. Philips, A. Speranza, J. Wong, and M. Yu STI fill for SOI which makes SOI inspectable 6,121,069 C. M. Boyko, A. P. Ingraham, V. R. Markovich, and D. J. Russell Interconnect structure for joining a chip to a circuit card 6,121,078 J. DeBrosse and M. R. Wordeman Integrated circuit planarization and fill biasing design method 6,121,106 W. F. Ellis, R. J. Houghton, M. G. Levy, and W. R. Tonti Method for forming an integrated trench capacitor 6,121,122 J. Dunn, P. B. Gray, K. K. Kieft, N. Schmidt, and S. A. St. Onge Method of contacting a silicide-based Schottky diode 6,121,128 M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, D. V. Horak, and W. P. Noble Method for making borderless wordline for DRAM cell 6,121,129 N. A. Greco, S. E. Greco, and T. Wagner Method of contact structure formation 6,121,536 J. W. Malcolm Method and apparatus for encoding test in a mid data stream 6,121,539 J. A. Casey, S. Dwyer, G. M. Johnson, D. C. Long, and K. Prettyman Thermoelectric devices and methods for making the same 6,121,595 D. Lewis, A. Viehbeck, and S. J. Whitehair Applicator to provide uniform electric and magnetic fields over a large area and for continuous processing 6,121,642 D. M. Newns Junction mott transition field effect transistor (JMTFET) and switch for logic and memory applications 6,121,651 T. Furukawa, M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, D. V. Horak, and J. A. Mandelman DRAM cell with three-sided-gate transfer device 6,121,659 T. Christensen and J. E. Sheets Buried patterned conductor planes for semiconductor-on-insulator integrated circuit 6,121,661 F. Assaderaghi, L. L. Hsu, and J. A. Mandelman Silicon-on-insulation structure for electrostatic discharge protection and improved heat dissipation 6,121,771 A. Moser Magnetic force microscopy probe with bar magnet tip 6,121,796 M. K. Ciraula and D. G. Mikan Power-saving dynamic circuit 6,121,810 R. A. Philpott Integrated delay line calibration method and apparatus for direct access storage device (DASD) 6,121,850 U. Ghoshal Digitally adjustable inductive element adaptable to frequency tune an LC oscillator 6,121,971 D. D. Bardon, R. E. Berry, S. H. Isensee, and D. J. Roberts Method and system for providing visual hierarchy of task groups and related viewpoints of a three dimensional environment in a display of a computer system 6,121,973 T. Furuhata, T. Itoh, and K. Shimada Quadrilateral mesh generation method and apparatus 6,122,056 M. Hibbs and S. Peng Direct phase shift measurement between interference patterns using aerial image measurement tool (as amended) 6,122,125 D. L. Clare, G. M. Frees, and L. J. Serrano Head selectable servo notch filter and method for improving servo system performance 6,122,138 V. D. Khanna, S. Kumar, and M. Sri-Jayantha Disk drive with vibration synchronizing rib 6,122,139 H. Dang, N. Kagami, V. D. Khanna, G. McVicker, Y. Nakagawa, K. Satoh, A. Sharma, and M. Sri-Jayantha Disk drive rotary actuator system including synchronous counter torque generator 6,122,144 T. Y. Chang, D. E. Heim, and H. P. Lee Contoured pole tip structures for minimizing side track erasure 6,122,150 H. S. Gill Antiparallel (AP) pinned spin valve sensor with giant magnetoresistive (GMR) enhancing layer 6,122,254 M. Aydemir and C. Jeffries A method and apparatus for network flow control with perceptive parameters 6,122,256 N. C. Berglund Fail-safe communications network for use in system power control 6,122,277 D. L. Garmire, D. G. Grice, and T. Zhang Improved parallel computer network broadcasting and acknowledgement 6,122,627 M. J. Carey and G. G. Kiernan A system, method, and program for object building in queries over object views 6,122,628 V. Castelli, C. S. Li, and A. Thomasian Multidimensional data clustering and dimension reduction for indexing and searching 6,122,631 R. Berbec, J. L. Brady, J. M. Caffrey, J. Crimi, A. P. Fenaroli, M. C. Iatridis, G. S. Puchkoff, R. Sanchez, M. R. Whalen, and J. A. Williams Dynamic server-managed access control for a distributed file system 6,122,634 S. Brodsky, S. Mitra, and R. Panwar Fractal nested layout for hierarchical systems 6,122,636 W. E. Malloy, S. Moore, G. Robinson, and C. Tomlyn Relational emulation of multi-dimensional database index 6,122,638 G. Huber and D. W. McCauley Object-oriented processor and method for caching intermediate data in an object-oriented processor 6,122,659 H. T. Olnowich Memory controller for controlling memory accesses across networks in distributed shared memory processing systems 6,122,660 Y. Baransky, H. Franke, and P. Pattnaik Method for distributing digital TV signal and selection of content 6,122,666 J. Beurket, P. K. Malkin, W. Rubin, P. S. Yu, and G. Ziedins Method for collaborative transformation and caching of web objects in a proxy network 6,122,674 H. T. Olnowich Bi-directional network adapter for interfacing local node of shared parallel processing system to multi-stage switching network for communications with remote node 6,122,683 Y. M. Ku and T. Q. Nguyen Handshake minimizing serial-to-parallel interface with shift register coupled by parallel bus to address logic and control logic 6,122,691 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, J. D. Lewis, and D. E. Williams Apparatus and method of layering cache and architectural specific functions to permit generic interface definition 6,122,692 A. E. Okpisz and T. A. Petersen Eliminate adjacent address collisions on a pipelined response bus 6,122,710 M. Kumar and H. Pham Dynamic word line driver for cache 6,122,716 J. L. Combs Method of authentication for use in computer system with mapped memory 6,122,723 K. G. Day, D. E. Denning, R. G. Emberty, C. A. Klein, D. D. McBride, and E. Pawlowski Switching multi-initiator SCSI devices to a singular target bus 6,122,754 W. Litwin, M. J. Menon, and T. Risch Method and system for data recovery using a distributed and scalable data structure 6,122,760 D. A. Grosch and M. D. Knox Burn-in technique for chips containing different types of IC circuitry 6,122,926 S. Kang, H. V. Mahaney, R. R. Schmidt, and P. Singh Low thermal conductance insulated cooling assembly for IC chip modules 6,123,825 S. H. Boettcher, P. DeHaven, C. C. Parks, A. H. Simon, and C. Uzoh Electromigration-resistant copper microstructure and process of making 6,124,041 F. Y. Audi, L. D. David, R. S. Divakaruni, S. Farooq, L. W. Herron, H. M. Lasky, A. Mastreani, G. Natarajan, S. N. Reddy, V. Sura, R. V. Vallabhaneni, and D. R. Wall Copper-based paste containing copper aluminate for microstructural and shrinkage control of copper-filled vias 6,124,074 J. F. Maniscalco and P. R. Varanasi Photoresist compositions with cyclic olefin polymers and hydrophobic non-steroidal multi-alicyclic additives 6,124,141 K. P. Muller and V. C. Prakash Non-destructive method and device for measuring the depth of a buried interface 6,124,199 G. B. Bronner, J. P. Gambino, D. E. Kotecki, and C. J. Radens Method for simultaneously forming a storage-capacitor electrode and interconnect 6,124,639 A. G. Domenicucci, L. M. Gignac, Y. Wang, H. S. Wildman, and K. H. Wong Flat interface for a highly disordered metal-silicon contact barrier film 6,124,856 E. P. Bryan, W. H. Jones, and P. B. Moody Method and apparatus for displaying modeless bar interfaces in a computer system 6,124,857 I. Inoue, T. Itoh, S. Karube, K. Shimada, and A. Yamada Meshing method and apparatus 6,124,914 P. Chaudhari, C. E. Farrell, J. A. Lacey, and S. C. Lien Method and apparatus for forming an alignment pattern on a surface using a particle beam useful for a liquid crystal 6,124,994 D. J. Malone System and method for providing nonadjacent redundancy synchronization bytes 6,125,005 F. C. Lee, U. V. Nayak, and R. N. Payne Altitude insensitive air bearing using pitch compensation for data storage applications 6,125,007 J. L. Beck, T. A. Gregory, and C. G. Keller Membrane seal secured to inner and outer oscillating bearing members for small angle oscillations within confined axial space 6,125,036 S. Kang, H. V. Mahaney, R. R. Schmidt, and P. Singh Moisture barrier seals for cooled IC chip module assemblies 6,125,119 R. J. Cherukuri and D. A. Sinicrope Dynamic permanent virtual connection (DPVC) at user-to-network interfaces in frame relay networks 6,125,361 S. Chakrabarti and B. E. Dom Feature diffusion across hyperlinks 6,125,364 F. Castellucci, A. R. Greef, and T. Maguire A flexible object persistence framework using data cursor objects loaded from superclasses 6,125,370 D. K. Courter, P. S. Desai, C. A. Friske, J. M. Garth, K. D. Gougherty, L. M. Kunioka-Weiss, D. E. Raiman, J. A. Ruddy, J. A. Watts, and K. R. Ziedenstein Repartitioning data 6,125,382 C. H. Brobst, C. H. Chou, and S. N. Gerard Distributed thread mechanism and method 6,125,384 M. L. Brandt, K. Brown, P. Dykes, E. D. Lindberg, D. E. Olson, J. E. Selden, D. D. Snyder, and J. O. Walts Computer apparatus and method for communicating between software applications and computers on the world-wide web 6,125,393 C. E. Clark, S. J. Greenspan, J. D. Haggar, and D. R. Sutherland System of compressing the tail of a sparse log stream of a multisystem environment 6,125,400 G. A. Cohen, D. L. Kaminsky, and J. Seeber Method and system of running object oriented programs across a network through compression and distillation of remote method invocation 6,125,417 R. T. Bailis, T. Bonds, R. L. Draughn, A. D. Genzlinger, D. J. Jensen, C. S. Lingafelt, B. S. Oakley, and M. J. Ward Hot plug of adapters using optical switches 6,125,444 M. A. Check, M. S. Farrell, J. S. Liptay, T. J. Slegel, and C. F. Webb Millimode capable computer system providing global branch history table disables and separate millicode disables which enable millicode disable to be turned off for some sections of code execution but not disabled for all 6,125,461 L. M. Huisman, D. R. Knebel, P. Nigh, P. N. Sanda, and X. Xiao Method for identifying long paths in integrated circuits 6,125,465 W. V. Huott, T. J. Koprowski, and T. G. McNamara Isolation/removal of faults during LBIST testing 6,125,467 R. C. Dixon Method and apparatus for partial word read through ECC block 6,125,496 L. C. Stevens Pad and roller assembly for cleaning semiconductor wafers 6,125,531 D. S. Farquhar, V. R. Markovich, K. I. Papathomas, and L. L. Schmidt Method of making a printed circuit board having filled holes and a fill member for use therewith including reinforcement means 6,125,687 G. M. McClelland and C. T. Rettner Apparatus for measuring outgassing of volatile materials from an object 6,126,203 C. Dwork, M. Naor, and F. Pestoni Machine-readable checks 6,126,456 J. S. Campbell and R. W. Nesky Solder column tip compliancy modification for use in BGA socket connector 6,126,761 P. Dehaven, C. C. Goldsmith, J. L. Hurd, S. Kaja, M. S. Legere, and E. D. Perfecto Process of controlling grain growth in metal films 6,126,798 R. J. Contolini, J. O. Dukovic, and J. Reid Membrane partition system for plating of wafers 6,126,806 C. Uzoh Enhancing copper electromigration resistance with indium and oxygen lamination 6,126,848 J. A. Gilhooly, L. Li, C. Morgan, W. Surovic, and C. Wei Indirect endpoint detection by chemical reaction and chemiluminescence 6,127,025 A. C. Bhatt, D. H. Glatzel, V. R. Markovich, A. F. Moring, K. I. Papathomas, and D. J. Russell Circuit board with wiring sealing filled holes 6,127,045 H. S. Gill Magnetic tunnel junction device with optimized ferromagnetic layer 6,127,053 T. Lin, D. Mauri, and J. F. Smyth Spin valves with high uniaxial anisotropy reference and keeper layers 6,127,069 J. G. Balz, M. W. Kapfhammer, M. LaPlante, and D. C. Long A method of visually inspecting positioning of a pattern on a substrate 6,127,071 N. Lu Serif mask design for correcting severe corner rounding and line end shortening in lithography 6,127,097 N. R. Bantu, A. Bhatt, A. C. Bhatt, G. W. Jones, J. A. Kotylo, R. J. Owen, K. I. Papathomas, and A. K. Vardya Photoresist develop and strip solvent compositions and method for their use 6,127,204 P. D. Isaacs, C. J. Mathison, and M. Swain Column grid array or ball grid array pad on via 6,127,215 H. O. Joachim, J. A. Mandelman, and R. Rengarajan Deep divot mask for enhanced buried-channel PFET performance and reliability 6,127,253 J. M. Rubino and R. Saraf Lead-free interconnection for electronic devices 6,127,686 C. E. Obszarny Thin resist process by sub-threshold exposure 6,127,721 B. Dinkel and C. Narayan Soft passivation layer in semiconductor fabrication 6,127,731 M. K. Hoffmeyer Capped solder bumps which form an interconnection with a tailored reflow melting point 6,127,735 D. G. Berger, G. Brouillette, D. Danovitch, P. A. Gruber, B. L. Humphrey, M. Liehr, W. T. Motsiff, and C. J. Sambucetti Interconnect for low temperature chip attachment 6,127,832 R. R. Comulada, M. Goldowsky, J. P. Karidis, G. McVicker, and Y. Y. Yu Electrical test tool having easily replaceable electrical probe 6,127,840 P. W. Coteus, D. M. Dreps, and F. D. Ferraiolo Dynamic line termination clamping circuit 6,127,851 C. E. Boice, J. M. Kaczmarczyk, and M. P. Vachon Circuit and method for differentiating multiple modules 6,127,866 A. M. Chu, J. M. Dortu, J. A. Fifield, and J. E. Rotella Delay-locked-loop (DLL) having symmetrical rising and falling clock edge type delays 6,127,867 T. C. Coughlin Jr. and W. F. Lawson Zero set-up high speed CMOS latched-receiver 6,127,878 D. Hanson and G. Mueller Driver circuit 6,128,017 C. Alimpich, B. Jeffcoat, D. Neuhard, L. L. Vigil, and J. P. Wittig Data processor controlled display interface for control of operations with unintrusive error message monitoring 6,128,025 A. A. Bright, S. Kosonocky, and K. W. Warren Embedded frame buffer system and synchronization method 6,128,089 C. P. Ausschnitt and D. Nyyssonen Combined segmented and nonsegmented bar-in-bar targets 6,128,149 R. Y. Li Method and system for detecting common mode disturbances from a dual stripe magnetoresistive head 6,128,178 D. M. Newns Very thin film, capacitor for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) 6,128,262 C. DeCusatis and L. Jacobowitz System for creating, reading and writing on rotatable information storage media, a method for customizing said media with timing information 6,128,267 C. DeCusatis and L. Jacobowitz Active tracking method for optical disk storage 6,128,484 K. L. Milsted, K. D. Nguyen, and P. Singkornrat Wireless transceivers for remotely controlling a computer 6,128,510 T. J. Beukema, M. Cina, E. B. Flint, B. P. Gaucher, Y. Kwark, M. Oprysko, W. E. Pence, and S. Ponnapalli Cordless data/facsimile modem 6,128,611 B. Doan and S. M. Ho An internet enabled generic application program for accessing hierarchical data 6,128,612 J. Brereton, A. R. Coden, and M. S. Schwartz Method and system for translating an ad-hoc query language using common table expressions 6,128,619 A. J. Fogarasi, S. M. Ho, D. W. Ling, and K. M. McBride Generating an internet application for accessing a hierarchical database 6,128,622 M. A. Bach, I. H. Chung, J. K. Flanigan, C. A. Garcia, J. E. Hill, S. T. Kuo, T. Lai, K. M. McBride, and H. M. Rowe-Anderson A user interface for creating programs specifications for accessing database persistent objects 6,128,630 D. M. Shackelford Data processor controlled display interface for control of operations with unintrusive error message monitoring 6,128,648 M. S. Chen, K. L. Wu, and P. S. Yu An information handling system and method for maintaining coherency between servers and mobile terminals 6,128,655 D. Fields, S. D. Hassinger, and W. Hurley Distribution mechanism for filtering, formatting and reuse of web based content 6,128,674 B. Beukema, P. A. Buckland, W. T. Chen, D. A. Elko, I. D. Judd, and R. J. Recio Method of minimizing host CPU utilization in driving an adapter by residing in system memory a command/status block a soft interrupt block and a status block queue 6,128,683 M. A. Griese, B. N. Harding, and D. C. Mairet Method and system for allowing a plurality of SCSI hosts to interact with a DASD storage subsystem 6,128,705 R. K. Arimilli, J. M. Kaiser, and D. E. Williams Method and apparatus for executing multiply-initiated, multiply-sourced variable delay system bus operations 6,128,707 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis Adaptive writeback of cache line data in a computer operated with burst mode transfer cycles 6,128,710 S. J. Greenspan, K. E. Plambeck, and C. A. Scalzi Method utilizing a set of blocking-symbol resource-manipulation instructions for protecting the integrity of data in noncontiguous data objects of resources in a shared memory of a multiple processor computer system 6,128,720 J. Glossner, L. D. Larsen, G. G. Pechanek, and S. Vassiliadis Distributed processing array with component processors performing customized interpretation of instructions 6,128,722 R. E. Fry, D. Q. Nguyen, and A. T. Williams Data processing system having an apparatus for exception tracking during out-of-order operation and method therefor 6,128,738 R. Doyle, J. R. Hind, and J. H. King Certificate based security in SNA data flows 6,128,746 S. D. Clark, R. S. Jensen, J. A. Kirscht, P. W. Rudrud, and M. G. Veldhuizen Continuously powered mainstore for large memory subsystems 6,128,752 K. R. Griess, A. C. Merenda, and D. L. Pierce Fault tolerant design for AC defects 6,128,755 S. E. Bello, K. A. Hua, and J. K. Peir Fault tolerant multiple processor system with signature voting 6,129,476 R. T. Berman, C. R. Mendel, and W. Sprague Breakaway precision robot end effector 6,129,610 J. K. Stephens Polish pressure modulation in CMP to preferentially polish raised features 6,129,955 D. L. Dittrich, S. J. Fuerniss, K. I. Papathomas, and D. W. Wang Encapsulating a solder joint with a photo cured epoxy resin or cyanate 6,130,145 J. Faltermeier, M. Ilg, and R. Srinivasan Improved policide 6,130,161 L. Ashley, H. M. Dalal, D. B. Nguyen, and H. S. Rathore A method of forming copper interconnections with enhanced electromigration and reduced defect sensitivity 6,130,170 L. D. David and L. Fanti Process improvements for titanium-tungsten etching in the presence of electroplated C4's 6,130,182 M. Naeem Dielectric catalyst structures 6,130,432 H. C. Pfeiffer, J. J. Senesi, and M. A. Sturans Particle beam system with dynamic focusing 6,130,453 S. N. Mei and E. J. Vishnesky Flash memory structure with floating gate in vertical trench 6,130,469 J. Bracchitta and W. D. Pricer Electrically alterable antifuse using FET 6,130,472 C. Feger and J. P. Hummel Moisture and ion barrier for protection of devices and interconnect structures 6,130,475 T. Dell, G. C. Feng, and M. W. Kellogg Clock distribution system for synchronous circuit assemblies 6,130,476 W. R. LaFontaine Jr., P. A. Mescher, and C. G. Woychik Semiconductor chip package having chip-to-carrier mechanical/electrical connection formed via solid state diffusion 6,130,479 E. D. Blackshear and P. Chalco Nickel alloy films for reduced intermetallic formation in solder 6,130,733 A. C. Lowe A light-scattering display having a structured solid state selectivity reflective layer formed inside the display cell 6,130,750 C. P. Ausschnitt and T. Brunner Optical metrology tool and method of using same 6,130,795 D. A. Freitas and K. R. Vannorsdel Method and apparatus to sense and report connection integrity of a differential ECL transmission line having proper parallel termination 6,130,809 H. A. Santini Write head before read head constructed merged magnetic head with track width and zero throat height defined by first pole tip 6,130,814 J. Z. Sun Current-induced magnetic switching device and memory including the same 6,130,835 R. E. Scheuerlein Voltage biasing for magnetic RAM with magnetic tunnel memory cells 6,130,854 S. W. Gould, J. A. Iadanza, F. R. Keyser, and T. Zittritsch Field-programmable memory array 6,130,889 R. H. Boivie, N. K. Feldman, A. Viswanathan, and R. M. Woundy Determining and maintaining hop-count for switched networks 6,131,110 C. Bates and P. R. Day System and method for predicting user interest in unaccessed sites by counting the number of links to the unaccessed sites in previously accessed sites 6,131,113 E. Ellsworth, L. H. Evans, S. S. Ghoman, T. C. Jarvis, M. J. Kalos, R. O'Neill, L. Phan, D. B. Schreiber, and B. D. Watson Managing a shared resource in a multi-processor system 6,131,182 M. Beakes, B. A. Chappell, T. I. Chappell, G. S. Ditlow, B. L. Dorfman, B. M. Fleischer, V. Narayanan, R. Philhower, G. A. Sai Halasz, G. Shahidi, and D. Widiger Method and apparatus for synthesizing and optimizing control logic based on SRCMOS logic array macros 6,131,185 N. Coskun and B. A. Tate Method and system for visually debugging on object in an object oriented system 6,131,187 A. C. Chow and Y. Liao Method and system for translating exception handling semantics of a bytecode class file 6,131,258 J. H. Comfort, A. Grill, D. E. Kotecki, and K. L. Saenger Sidewall capacitor with L-shaped dielectric 6,131,271 R. E. Fontana, H.-C. Guthrie, W. L. Guthrie, E. J. Lee, L.-C. Lee, and F. Martin Method of planarizing first pole piece layer of write head by lapping without delamination of first pole piece layer from wafer substrate 6,131,278 S. W. MacQuarrie, W. R. Storr, and J. W. Wilson Metal substrate having an IC chip and carrier mounting 6,131,279 G. W. Jones, R. W. Keesler, V. R. Markovich, W. J. Rudik, J. W. Wilson, and W. E. Wilson Integrated manufacturing packaging process 6,131,794 J. A. Burke, D. C. Olson, J. Tersigni, and J. S. Wolfe Shaving blade for chip site dressing 6,131,796 S. Kaja, S. N. Reddy, and D. R. Wall Direct brazing of refractory metal features 6,132,510 A. W. Buechele, J. T. Butler, K. O. Muggenburg, and M. G. Reichel Nozzle apparatus for extruding conductive paste 6,132,632 D. E. Haney, R. Huber, C. Hwang, D. Perez, and J. W. Williams Method and apparatus for achieving etch rate uniformity in a reactive ion etcher 6,132,644 M. Angelopoulos, E. D. Babich, I. Babich, K. J. Chen, W. Moreau, and D. E. Seeger Energy sensitive electrically conductive admixtures, uses thereof, methods of fabrication and structures fabricated therewith 6,132,813 P. C. Chen, R. Hsiao, S. V. Nguyen, and A. C. Ting High density plasma surface modification for improving antiwetting properties 6,132,940 R. Mih and F. X. Zach Method for producing constant profile sidewalls 6,133,136 D. C. Edelstein, V. McGahay, H. A. Nye III, B. R. Ottey, and W. Price Robust interconnect structure 6,133,139 H. M. Dalal, D. B. Nguyen, and H. S. Rathore Self-aligned composite insulator with sub-half-micron multilevel high density electrical interconnections and process thereof 6,133,540 J. U. Knickerbocker, M. Laplante, D. C. Long, and T. Weiss Apparatus and method for producing punch pin with spherical head 6,133,608 F. Assaderaghi, R. C. Flaker, L. L. Hsu, and J. A. Mandelman SOI-body selective link method and apparatus 6,133,610 R. J. Bolam, S. Kulkarni, and D. J. Schepis Silicon-on-insulator chip having an isolation barrier for reliability and process of manufacture 6,133,633 D. G. Berger, G. Brouillette, D. Danovitch, P. A. Gruber, R. S. Patel, S. Roux, C. J. Sambucetti, and J. L. Speidell Method for building interconnect structures by injection molded solder and structures built 6,133,749 P. R. Hansen and H. Pilo Variable impedance output driver circuit using analog biases to match driver output impedance to loan input impedance 6,133,758 C. M. Durham and P. J. Klim Selectable self-timed replacement for self-resetting circuitry 6,133,759 J. Beck, R. P. Masleid, and T. R. Toms Decoupled reset dynamic logic circuit 6,133,799 W. H. Favors, E. W. MacDonald, S. Mukherjee, and L. Warriner Voltage-controlled oscillator utilizing threshold voltage control silicon on insulator MOSFETs 6,133,916 A. E. Bukszar, C. A. Pickover, and D. J. Winarski Graphical user interface providing access to files downloaded over a network 6,134,068 J. E. Donaldson Disk drive spindle synchronization apparatus and method 6,134,080 M. Y. Chang and M. A. Church Magnetic head with precisely defined zero throat height 6,134,107 M. L. Buller, B. Kerrigan, and J. W. Young Reverse convective airflow cooling of computer enclosure 6,134,164 G. M. Lattimore and G. A. Yeung Sensing circuit for a memory cell array 6,134,182 J. J. Covino and H. Pilo Cycle independent data to echo clock tracking circuit 6,134,284 N. James Circuit and method for receiving system clock signals 6,134,366 M. L. Loeb and S. E. Wallace Reduced dispersion optical waveguide and methods for fabricating the same 6,134,540 M. J. Carey and G. G. Kiernan A system, method, and program for applying query rewrite technology to object building 6,134,541 V. Castelli, C. S. Li, and A. Thomasian Searching multidimensional indexes using associated clustering and dimension reduction information 6,134,555 A. Chadha, B. Iyer, H. Messatfa, and J. Yi Dimension reduction using association rules for data mining application 6,134,588 T. Guenthner, F. D. Lawlor, and C. Schmitt High availability web browser access to servers 6,134,597 P. F. Rieth and J. S. Stevens CRC hash compressed server object identifier 6,134,616 D. L. Beatty Method and apparatus for dynamic reenumeration and reconfiguration of computer devices after system hibernation 6,134,620 C.-S. Hui, K. J. Venkatramani, and B. J. Wolford Tri-state bus contention circuit preventing false switching caused by poor synchronization 6,134,621 R. A. Kelley, D. Neal, J. Nicholson, and S. M. Thurber Variable slot configuration for multi-speed bus 6,134,623 R. E. Garcia and J. R. Paveza Method and system for taking advantage of a pre-stage of data between a host processor and a memory system 6,134,645 D. Q. Nguyen Instruction completion logic distributed among execution units for improving completion efficiency 6,134,646 K. A. Feiste, T. Ngo, and A. M. Youngs System and method for executing and completing store instructions 6,134,657 W. J. Johnson, R. S. Keller, G. C. Manthuruthil, and M. L. Williams Method and system for access validation in a computer system 6,134,676 C. B. Ford and G. A. Van Huben Programmable hardware event monitoring method 6,134,682 S. F. Oakland Testable bus control logic circuitry and method for using same 6,134,684 J. Baumgartner, K. D. Klapproth, and D. Mui Method and system for error detection in test units utilizing pseudo-random data 6,134,699 J. A. Steenburgh and S. S. Woodward Method and apparatus for detecting virtual address parity error for a translation lookaside buffer 6,134,704 J. Adams, G. Clarke, K. J. Goodnow, S. W. Gould, and S. T. Ventrone Integrated circuit macro apparatus 6,134,710 F. E. Levine and C. P. Roth Adaptive method and system to minimize the effect of long cache misses 6,134,772 J. D. Kulesza, V. R. Markovich, K. I. Papathomas, and J. G. Sabia Via fill compositions for direct attach of devices and methods of applying same 6,134,776 M. K. Hoffmeyer Heatsink and package structure for wirebond chip rework and replacement 6,134,858 J. B. Gutelius, S. C. McIntosh, and B. D. Notohardjono Computer equipment having an earthquake damage protection mechanism 6,135,379 A. J. Argumedo Magnetic recording tape leader for single reel tape cartridge 6,135,865 G. J. Beardsley, C. Huynh, S. Messier, and D. Walker CMP apparatus with built-in slurry distribution and removal 6,136,419 B. V. Fasano, R. F. Indyk, S. M. Kamath, J. U. Knickerbocker, S. I. Langenthal, D. O'Connor, and S. N. Reddy Ceramic substrate having a sealed layer 6,136,498 P. Jagannathan, L. L. Linehan, W. M. Moreau, and R. J. Smith Polymer-bound sensitizer 6,136,513 A. P. Angelopoulos, G. W. Jones, L. J. Matienzo, T. R. Miller, and W. D. Taylor Method of uniformly depositing seed and a conductor and the resultant printed circuit structure 6,136,655 F. Assaderaghi, C. L. Bertin, J. P. Gambino, L. L. Hsu, and J. A. Mandelman Method of making low voltage active body semiconductor device 6,136,656 J. S. Brown, R. J. Gauthier, W. R. Tonti, and S. H. Voldman Method to create a depleted poly MOSFET 6,136,664 L. Economikos, D. E. Kotecki, and J. A. Mandelman Filling of high aspect ratio trench isolation 6,136,669 F. A. Flitsch and M. S. Fung Mobile charge immune process 6,136,686 J. P. Gambino, M. Jaso, and H. Wong Fabrication of interconnects with two different thicknesses 6,136,709 L. A. Clevenger, R. C. Iggulden, and S. Weber Improved metal line deposition process 6,136,733 L. R. Blumberg, R. M. Japp, W. J. Rudik, and J. F. Surowka Method of reducing coefficient of thermal expansion in chip attach packages 6,137,042 J. M. Kurtzberg and J. S. Lew Visual display for music generated via electric apparatus 6,137,128 S. J. Holmes, H. L. Kalter, S. Tiwari, and J. J. Welser Self-isolated and self-aligned 4F-square vertical FET-trench cells 6,137,129 C. L. Bertin, J. E. Cronin, E. L. Hedberg, and J. A. Mandelman High performance direct coupled FET memory cell 6,137,158 M. S. Cohen, M. Gauvin, G. W. Johnson, D. Kuchta, A. A. Lacerte, N. A. Lee, S. E. Ouimet, S. Spanoudis, S. Tremblay, and J. Trewhella Leadframe and leadframe assembly for parallel optical computer link 6,137,161 D. A. Gilliland and J. L. Peacock Interposer array module for capacitive decoupling and filtering 6,137,299 R. R. Cadieux, G. C. Correia, G. Hill, and A. P. Ingraham Method and apparatus for testing integrated circuit chips 6,137,376 J. Imbornone and J. M. Mourant Printed balun circuits 6,137,468 A. E. Martinez and S. J. Martinez Method and apparatus for altering a display in response to changes in attitude relative to a plane 6,137,476 M. Hocker and D. Winarski Data mouse 6,137,487 M. L. Mantha Method and apparatus for manipulating graphical objects in a data processing system 6,137,494 S. I. Nin Method and means for evaluating a tetrahedral linear interpolation function 6,137,578 C. P. Ausschnitt Segmented bar-in-bar target 6,137,594 W. C. Decker, H. C. Lee, and J. L. Zable System, method and program for converting an externally defined four dimensional colorant (CMYK) into an equivalent four dimensional colorant defined in terms of the four inks (CMYK) that are associated with a given printer by using a three dimension 6,137,596 W. C. Decker, H. C. Lee, and J. L. Zable System, method, and program for converting three dimensional colorants to more than three dimensional colorants 6,137,643 D. T. Flynn Thermal asperity detection with long magnet rejection for direct access storage device (DASD) 6,137,644 S. R. Hetzler, P. Kasiraj, and R. H. New Method for adaptive formatting and track traversal in data storage devices 6,137,684 D. N. Ayd, R. M. Ecker, F. Edlinger, T. S. Farrow, and P. W. Kelly Camming mechanism for joining modular electronic enclosures 6,137,694 D. P. Beaman, B. Kerrigan, and J. W. Young Integral EMC shielding for computer enclosures 6,137,797 B. M. Bass, J. S. Chorpenning, D. R. Henderson, E. H. Ku, K. H. Potter Jr., S. B. Schrum Jr., M. S. Siegel, and N. C. Strole Process definition for source route switching 6,137,804 S. S. Allison, K. J. Barker, S. H. Johnson, and J. K. Lee A system and method for automatic retry of a transmit, independent of a host processor, after an underrun occurs in a LAN 6,137,805 V. Berstis Method and apparatus to remotely configure a data processing system 6,138,099 J. R. Lewis and M. E. Smith Automatically updating language models 6,138,103 F. Cheng, D. P. Connors, T. R. Ervolina, and R. Srinivasan Method for production planning in an uncertain demand environment 6,138,115 R. Agrawal, M. Mehta, and J. C. Shafer Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier in parallel in a multi-processor system 6,138,117 R. J. Bayardo Method and system for mining long patterns from databases 6,138,124 S. R. Beckhardt Field level replication method 6,138,127 M. Pasch Apparatus and method for recycling an object 6,138,150 S. R. Nichols, K. N. Schroeder, and S. L. Wentz Method for remotely controlling computer resources via the internet with a web browser 6,138,156 J. C. Fletcher, D. L. Kaminsky, and C. Kessler Selecting and applying content-reducing filters based on dynamic environmental factors 6,138,160 S. J. Boies, S. Levy, and M. J. Ryan System with wake up server and wake up monitor for facilitating dial up connection between two application partners via internet 6,138,169 T. J. Freund, S. A. Holdsworth, and S. A. Smith System and method for creating an object oriented transaction service that achieves interoperability with encina procedural transactions 6,138,187 D. E. Denning, R. G. Emberty, and C. A. Klein Method and system for increasing spatial reuse in a serial storage architecture subsystem 6,138,200 C. R. Ogilvie System for allocating bus bandwidth by assigning priority for each bus duration time slot to application using bus frame and bus duration 6,138,206 M. T. Fisher and G. D. Gilda Data register for multicycle data cache read 6,138,208 S. H. Dhong, H. P. Hofstee, D. Meltzer, and J. A. Silberman Multiple level cache memory with overlapped L1 and L2 memory access 6,138,209 D. J. Krolak and S. B. Levenstein Data processing system and multi-way set associative cache utilizing class predict data structure and method thereof 6,138,215 J. H. Bartik and M. A. Check Method for absolute address history table synonym resolution 6,138,218 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis Forward progress on retried snoop hits 6,138,223 M. A. Check and J. S. Liptay Absolute address history table index generation for predicting instruction and operand cache accesses 6,138,224 R. Lisle Method for paging software wavetable synthesis samples 6,138,242 L. H. Massman and W. W. Plyler Power adapter for powering a remote device through a computer data port 6,138,243 B. G. Mealey and M. S. Williams Method and system for keeping time across a multiprocessor system 6,138,350 A. C. Bhatt, D. H. Glatzel, V. R. Markovich, A. F. Moring, K. I. Papathomas, and D. J. Russell Process for manufacturing a circuit board with filled holes 6,138,839 W. V. Cranston, J. McCloskey, J. J. Tout, and F. C. Yentz Pivoted latching bar for retaining expansion cards 6,138,893 D. V. Caletka, K. Knadle, and C. G. Woychik Method for producing a reliable BGA solder joint interconnection 6,139,078 T. Bodiker and J. P. Hollowell Self-aligning end effector for small components 6,139,198 S. H. Danforth, I. R. Forman, and H. H. Madduri System and method for enabling tracing of program execution in an object-oriented system 6,139,647 M. Armacost, S. Grundon, D. Harmon, and D. M. Kenney Selective removal of vertical portions of a film 6,139,661 J. E. Cronin, J. D. Poole, and M. C. Weller Two step SMT method using masked cure 6,139,666 B. V. Fasano, R. F. Indyk, S. M. Kamath, S. I. Langenthal, and S. N. Reddy Method and material for producing ceramic surfaces with easily removable contact sheets 6,139,759 L. A. Doezema, P. Kaszuba, L. Moszkowicz, J. M. Never, and J. A. Slinkman Method of manufacturing silicided silicon microtips for scanning probe microscopy 6,139,778 M. Angelopoulos, R. A. DiPietro, and J. M. Shaw Vibrational methods of deaggregation of electrically conductive polymers and precursors thereof 6,140,015 A. Katnani, M. Khojasteh, R. Kwong, and P. R. Varanasi Photoresist compositions with pendant polar-functionalized aromatic groups and acid-labile branching 6,140,171 A. Allen, J. Lasky, R. W. Mann, J. Pekarik, J. Rankin, E. Sengle, and F. R. White FET device containing a conducting sidewall spacer for local interconnect and method for its fabrication 6,140,175 R. L. Kleinhenz and C. J. Radens Self-aligned deep trench DRAM array device 6,140,208 F. Agahi, G. B. Bronner, B. Flietner, E. N. Hammerl, H. Ho, and R. Srinivasan Shallow trench isolation (STI) with bilayer of oxide-nitride for VLSI applications 6,140,217 H. C. Jones and J. G. Ryan Technique for extending the limits of photolithography 6,140,226 A. Grill, J. P. Hummel, C. Jahnes, V. V. Patel, and K. Saenger Dual damascene processing for semiconductor chip interconnects 6,140,234 S. E. Greco and C. Uzoh Method to selectively fill recesses with conductive metal 6,140,462 M. Angelopoulos, A. G. MacDiarmid, and W. G. Zheng Oxidative/reductive methods of deaggregation of electrically conductive polymers and precursors thereof and methods of fabricating articles therewith 6,140,846 F. Chan, S. P. Koch, and D. W. Stout Driver circuit configured for use with receiver 6,140,855 D. Hanson, T. Kirihata, and G. Mueller Dynamic-latch-receiver with self-reset pointer 6,140,885 W. W. Abadeer, J. Connor, and P. R. Hansen On-chip automatic system for impedance matching in very high speed input-output chip interfacing 6,140,990 E. S. Schlig Active matrix liquid crystal display incorporating pixel inversion with reduced drive pulse amplitudes 6,141,005 D. J. Hetherington, D. B. Kumhyr, and M. McNally Combined display of locale-sensitive calendards in a distributed computer enterprise environment 6,141,008 M. A. Bloomfield Method and system for providing size adjustment for a maximized window in a computer system graphical user interface 6,141,093 B. Argyle, A. Halperin, M. E. Scaman, and E. J. Yarmchuk Method and apparatus for locating power plane shorts using polarized light microscopy 6,141,176 M. Blaum, B. Kabelac, L. Serrano, and M. H. Yu Data storage disk with information encoded in the position error signal fields 6,141,191 W. Y. Lee, T. Lin, D. Mauri, and R. J. Wilson Spin valves with enhanced GMR and thermal stability 6,141,200 F. F. Hinedi and L. Mamileti Stacked PFET off-chip driver with a latch bias generator for overvoltage protection 6,141,209 D. P. Beaman, M. L. Buller, L. T. Cooper, B. Kerrigan, J. R. Pugley, and J. W. Young Quick-release computer chassis 6,141,216 J. A. Ho-Lung, V. Kamath, and T. Wong Quick-release hinge joint for heat pipe 6,141,242 F. Assaderaghi, L. L. Hsu, and J. A. Mandelman Low cost mixed memory integration with substantially coplanar gate surfaces 6,141,245 C. L. Bertin, J. A. Fifield, E. L. Hedberg, R. J. Houghton, T. D. Sullivan, S. W. Tomashot, and W. R. Tonti Impedance control using fuses 6,141,267 L. L. Hsu, T. K. Kirihata, and C. Narayan Defect management engine for semiconductor memories and memory systems 6,141,325 O. Gerstel Paradigm for enabling interoperability between different subnetworks 6,141,351 K. J. Goodnow, M. S. Michail, W. D. Pricer, and S. T. Ventrone Radio frequency bus for broadband microprocessor communications 6,141,403 F. W. Dain, C. B. Dillon, L. V. Marks, and S. D. Rhodes Modem protocol 6,141,445 V. Castelli, I. Kontoyiannis, J. T. Robinson, and J. Turek Multiresolution lossless/lossy compression and storage of data for efficient processing thereof 6,141,632 F. Assaderaghi, P. D. Muench, G. E. Smith, L. F. Wagner, and T. L. Walters Method to use in simulation of an SOI device 6,141,634 E. B. Flint, B. P. Gaucher, Y. Kwark, and D. Liu AC power line network simulator 6,141,659 K. S. Barker, A. O'Donnell, D. A. Schell, and B. T. Smith Systems, methods and computer program products for retrieving documents from multiple document servers via a single client session 6,141,660 M. A. Bach, K. J. Charlet, S. M. Ho, K. M. McBride, H. M. Rowe-Anderson, T. B. Sander, and T. Vogel A command line interface for creating business objects for accessing a hierarchical database 6,141,699 J. L. Gentry, J. Luzzi, S. M. Reps, J. F. Taylor, and G. Zhu Interactive display system for sequential retrieval and display of a plurality of interrelated data sets 6,141,714 R. K. Arimilli, J. M. Kaiser, and D. E. Williams Method and apparatus for executing self-snooped unresolvable system bus operations 6,141,731 B. C. Beardsley, M. T. Benhase, D. A. Martin, R. L. Morton, and M. A. Reid Method and system for managing data in cache using multiple data structures 6,141,733 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis Cache coherency protocol with independent implementation of optimized cache operations 6,141,758 M. Benantar, R. H. High Jr., and M. Rathi Method and system of maintaining client server security associations in a distributed computing system 6,141,771 D. G. Hostetter and J. T. O'Brien Method and system for providing a trusted machine state 6,141,783 J. J. Ashley, M. Blaum, B. Marcus, and C. M. Melas Error propagation limiting encoder/decoder for multilevel decision feedback equalization 6,141,784 G. T. Davis and J. H. Derby Method and system in a data communications system for the retransmission of only an incorrectly transmitted portion of a data packet 6,141,786 C. E. Cox, M. Hassner, B. M. Trager, and S. Winograd Method and apparatus for performing arithmetic operations on Galois fields and their extensions 6,141,792 L. E. Acker, M. H. Conner, and A. R. Martin Object oriented framework for specifying the format of compiler output with a template facility 6,141,858 J. W. Berberich and N. B. Schirle Head suspension lift CAM adjustment 6,141,866 J. G. Davis, J. W. Heater, and A. T. Mays Universal tool for uniformly applying a force to a plurality of components on a circuit board 6,142,361 F. J. Downes Jr., R. M. Japp, and M. V. Pierson Chip C4 assembly improvement using magnetic force and adhesive 6,142,726 T. Jantz, R. Kuder, D. C. Linnell, R. A. Meyen, and R. P. Westerfield Automated chamfering method 6,142,802 J. Berg, D. P. Gaio, and W. K. Hogan Guide rail and CAM system with integrated connector for removable transceiver 6,142,829 R. D. O'Groske, G. Oldenburg, S. M. Thorvilson, and R. V. Tointon Ferrite block in a cable connector premold 6,143,117 K. Kelly, A. K. Malhotra, E. D. Perfecto, and R. Yu Process for transferring a thin-film structure to a temporary carrier 6,143,388 X. Bian, M. F. Doerner, S. Duan, J. Li, and S. M. Mirzamaani Thin film disk with onset layer 6,143,635 D. C. Boyd, S. M. Burns, H. I. Hanafi, Y. Taur, and W. C. Wille Field effect transistor with improved implants and method for making such transistors 6,143,640 J. E. Cronin and B. Luther Method of fabricating a stacked via in copper/polyimide beol 6,143,643 K. Carter, C. J. Hawker, J. L. Hedrick, V. Y. Lee, R. D. Miller, W. Volksen, and D. Y. Yoon Process for manufacture of integrated circuit device using organosilicate insulative matrices 6,144,013 R. C. Chu, M. J. Ellsworth Jr., and R. E. Simons Local humidity control system for low temperature electronic module 6,144,037 A. B. El-Kareh, B. El-Kareh, and J. G. Ryan Capacitor charging sensor 6,144,054 F. Agahi, L. L. Hsu, and J. A. Mandelman DRAM cell having an annular signal transfer region 6,144,081 C. M. Hsieh, L. L. Hsu, L. R. Logan, J. A. Mandelman, and S. Ogura Method to suppress subthreshold leakage due to sharp isolation corners in submicron FET structures 6,144,086 J. S. Brown, R. J. Gauthier, R. W. Mann, and S. H. Voldman Structure for improved latch-up using dual depth STI with impurity implant 6,144,178 T. Hirano and K. Satoh Disk drive with controlled reduced internal pressure 6,144,224 J. F. Lee and D. L. Ostapko Clock distribution network with dual wire routing 6,144,325 T. Chiu, D. G. Mikan, and J. Nguyen Register file array having a two-bit to four-bit encoder 6,144,361 J. G. Gordon II, M. W. Hart, and S. A. Swanson Transmissive electrophoretic display with vertical electrodes 6,144,367 V. Berstis Method and system for simultaneous operation of multiple handheld control devices in a data processing system 6,144,371 G. J. Clary and K. Nathan Thinkscribe combined electronic and paper based scheduling 6,144,379 R. L. Bertram, F. S. Krauss, and M. LaFauci A computer controlled user interactive display system for presenting graphs with interactive icons for accessing related graphs 6,144,381 A. P. Brush, K. R. Kluttz, and D. Lection Systems, methods and computer program products for compass navigation of avatars in three dimensional worlds 6,144,554 L. S. Mok Laptop computer with slidable keyboard for exposing a heat generating surface for more efficient heat dissipation 6,144,609 G. M. Lattimore, D. Wendel, and F. C. Wernicke Multiport memory cell having a reduced number of write wordlines 6,144,668 B. M. Bass, D. R. Henderson, E. H. Ku, S. Lemke, J. Rash, L. B. Reiss, and T. E. Ryle Simultaneous cut through and store-and-forward frame support in a network device 6,144,744 E. D'Avignon, R. S. DeBellis, R. M. Smith, and P. C. Yeh Method and apparatus for the secure transfer of objects between cryptographic processors 6,144,945 A. Garg and J. R. Kalagnanam Method for fast and accurate evaluation of periodic review inventory policy 6,144,967 C. M. Nock Object oriented processing log analysis tool framework mechanism 6,144,970 C. R. Bonner and R. W. Lyle Technique for inplace reorganization of a LOB table space 6,144,990 M. L. Brandt, P. Dykes, and E. D. Lindberg Computer apparatus and method for communicating between software applications and computers on the world-wide web using universal variable handling 6,145,021 M. A. Dawson III and J. Landry Using programmable plug and play resource data to provide relief for resource-constrained personal computer systems 6,145,031 S. D. Mastie and M. Xie Multiple insertion point queue to order and select elements to be processed 6,145,032 J. Bannister, G. D. Carpenter, and D. Glasco System for recirculation of communication transactions in data processing in the event of communication stall 6,145,036 M. A. Barenys, C. R. Genz, J. G. Goodwin, and F. C. Gray Polling of failed devices on an I2C bus 6,145,038 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis Method and system for early slave forwarding of strictly ordered bus operations 6,145,053 G. J. Smith Data security method using head disk stiction 6,145,057 R. K. Arimilli and J. S. Dodson Precise method and system for selecting an alternative cache entry for replacement in response to a conflict between cache operation requests 6,145,059 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis Cache coherency protocols with posted operations and tagged coherency states 6,145,119 D. E. House, B. J. Owings, and S. S. Pei Programming development environment for intranet and internet applications employing unique project data structure 6,145,188 W. W. Brooks Jr., J. T. Coffey, T. P. Fracek, R. E. Lagergren, J. M. Rigotti, and M. A. Schlimmer Fan and fold head lead termination method using flex cable with edge termination pads 6,146,150 N. K. Roberts Circuit card with separate interfaces for different bus architectures 6,146,755 S. Guha and A. Gupta High density magnetic recording medium utilizing selective growth of ferromagnetic material 6,147,009 A. Grill, C. Jahnes, V. V. Patel, and L. Perraud Hydrogenated oxidized silicon carbon material 6,147,177 R. D. Allen, J. Opitz, R. Sooriyakumaran, and T. I. Wallow Polycyclic resist compositions with increased etch resistance 6,147,402 J. J. Cuomo, H. M. Dalal, L. L. Hsu, and R. V. Joshi Refractory metal capped low resistivity metal conductor lines and vias 6,147,506 U. M. Ahmad and E. R. Atwood Wafer test fixture using a biasing bladder and methodology 6,147,508 J. Beck, D. W. Boerstler, C. M. Durham, and P. J. Klim Power consumption control mechanism and method therefor 6,147,683 A. E. Martinez and M. D. Rahn Graphical selection marker and method for lists that are larger than a display window 6,147,687 M. C. Wanderski Dynamic and selective buffering tree view refresh with viewable pending notification 6,147,698 W. C. Decker and J. L. Zable Density control for a printer 6,147,730 R. A. Budd, G. L. Chiu, M. J. Cordes, S. Cordes, and J. P. Doyle Color filters for flat panel displays 6,147,769 B. K. Jackson and M. L. Williams Display of selected printer response for distinct applications 6,147,856 J. Karidis Variable capacitor with wobble motor disc selector 6,147,871 J. R. DeWitt and J. H. Neer Low profile riser card assembly for a computer system 6,148,000 R. H. Boivie, N. K. Feldman, A. Viswanathan, and R. M. Woundy Merging of data cells at network nodes 6,148,278 C. Castaldo Emulating the S/390 ``read backwards'' tape operation on SCSI attached tape devices 6,148,290 A. Dan and F. N. Parr Service contract for managing service systems 6,148,295 T. R. Albrecht and C. H. Heino Composite ramp structure for data storage devices 6,148,295 N. Megiddo and U. Shaft Method for computing near neighbors of a query point in a database 6,148,295 T. W. Wu Composite ramp structure for data storage devices 6,148,328 G. A. Cuomo and S. K. Singhal Method and system for signaling presence of users in a networked environment 6,148,335 N. Haggard, C. Molloy, G. Quesenberry, R. Robinson, and H. Stuck Performance/capacity management framework over many servers 6,148,340 R. Bittinger, N. C. Brubaker, B. C. Housel, and S. Wang Method and system for differencing container files 6,148,352 J. L. Coale and S. R. Van Gundy Scalable modular data storage system 6,148,361 G. D. Carpenter, M. E. Dean, P. L. Debacker, D. Glasco, and R. L. Rockhold Interrupt architecture for a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) data processing system 6,148,375 S. J. Baylor and Y. Hsu Hierarchical bus simple coma architecture for shared memory multiprocessors 6,148,383 W. F. Micka and Y. Novick Storage system employing universal timer for peer-to-peer asynchronous maintenance of consistent mirrored storage 6,148,394 K. A. Chiarot, D. S. Ray, S. Tung, and B. D. Williamson Apparatus and method for tracking out of order load instructions to avoid data coherency violations in a processor 6,148,410 M. E. Baskey, D. E. Dillenberger, G. S. Goldszmidt, G. D. Hunt, E. M. Levy-Abegnoli, J. M. Nick, and D. W. Schmidt Fault tolerant recoverable TCP/IP connection router 6,148,412 D. M. Cannon, M. A. Kaczmarski, and D. P. Warren Availability and recovery of files using copy storage pools 6,148,419 G. H. Ahrens, M. C. Duron, B. Faust, F. C. Gray, and K. P. Szabo System diagnostic location codes 6,134,546 R. J. Bestgen, R. L. Egan, and C. L. Ramler Method and computer program product for implementing subquery join 6,149,048 W. Brearley, L. Economikos, P. F. Findeis, K. Kelly, B. W. Leenstra, A. G. Merryman, E. D. Perfecto, C. Prasad, J. P. Wood, and R. Yu Apparatus and method for use in manufacturing semiconductor devices 6,149,464 B. J. Debauche, P. D. Patel, and S. H. Weingart Apparatus for detecting cable attachment 6,149,465 J. Berg, D. P. Gaio, and W. K. Hogan Guide rail system with integrated wedge connector for removable transceiver 6,149,498 T. G. Van Kessel and C. R. Whitaker Semiconductor wafer handling system 6,150,001 J. L. Hedrick, C. M. Mate, and J. Wu Magnetic recording disk with polycyanate ester overlayer and method for making it 6,150,061 J. R. Stack Clover-leaf solder mask opening 6,150,212 R. Divakaruni, J. P. Gambino, J. A. Mandelman, C. J. Radens, and W. R. Tonti Shallow trench isolation method utilizing combination of spacer and fill 6,150,230 D. E. Kotecki and W. H. Ma Trench separator for self-defining discontinuous film 6,150,255 F. J. Downes Jr., S. J. Fuerniss, G. R. Hill, A. P. Ingraham, V. R. Markovich, and J. A. Molla Method of planarizing a curved substrate and resulting structure 6,150,258 T. W. Mountsier and M. J. Shapiro Plasma deposited fluorinated amorphous carbon films 6,150,282 G. Gale, R. Jagannathan, K. P. Madden, K. J. McCullough, H. F. Okorn-Schmidt, K. Pope, and D. I. Rath Selective removal of etching residues 6,150,536 K. Chondroudis and D. Mitzi Dye doped organic-inorganic hybrid materials 6,150,670 J. Faltermeier, U. Gruening, S. G. Hegde, R. Jammy, B. S. Lee, and H. Tews Process for fabricating a uniform gate oxide of a vertical transistor 6,150,707 R. K. Cook, C. Gruszecki, S. E. Luce, M. A. Passaro, and F. Scholl Metal-to-metal capacitor having thin insulator 6,150,716 S. W. MacQuarrie, W. R. Storr, and J. W. Wilson Metal substrate having an IC chip and carrier mounting 6,150,723 R. M. Geffken and J. M. Harper Copper stud structure with refractory metal liner 6,150,726 N. B. Feilchenfeld, S. J. Fuerniss, M. A. Gaynes, P. Hoontrakul, and M. V. Pierson Component carrier with raised bonding sites 6,150,834 M. K. Ciraula, C. M. Durham, and P. J. Klim Elimination of SOI parasitic bipolar effect 6,150,869 S. N. Storino, J. V. Tran, and R. R. Williams Method and apparatus for body control in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) domino circuits 6,150,961 N. Alewine, J. C. Colson, A. P. Ittycheriah, S. Maes, and P. A. Moskowitz Automated traffic mapping 6,151,024 C. Alimpich, B. Jeffcoat, D. Neuhard, L. L. Vigil, and J. P. Wittig Data processor controlled display interface with tree hierarchy of elements view expandable into multiple detailed views 6,151,179 J. M. Poss Signal processing circuit with feedback extracted from a sampled analog error signal 6,151,198 G. J. Chung, T. Lincoln, and W. L. Prater Overmolding of actuator e-block by thixotropic of semisolid forging 6,151,200 L. L. Hsu, J. B. Kuang, S. Ratanaphanyarat, and M. J. Saccamango Method of discharging SOI floating body charge 6,151,202 M. W. Mueller, P. M. Thomsen, and L. M. Walter Discharging electrostatic charge during hot card insertion 6,151,211 R. A. Dayan and H. J. Locker Active ventilation of a packaged electronic device during operation 6,151,217 P. M. Thomsen Apparatus and method for enabling hot plugging of a integrated circuit 6,151,266 W. H. Henkels, W. Hwang, and R. V. Joshi Asynchronous multiport register file with self resetting write operation 6,151,589 C. Aggarwal and P. S. Yu Methods for performing large scale auctions and online negotiations 6,151,599 M. Ault, G. L. Child, E. Plassmann, B. A. Rich, T. J. Shrader, and K. K. Soper Web client scripting test architecture for web server-based authentication 6,151,622 M. Fraenkel and S. K. Singhal Method and system for portably enabling view synchronization over the world-wide web using frame hierarchies 6,151,623 C. G. Harrison, S. Nichols, and R. Spagna Agent activity report via object embedding 6,151,655 M. Blake, M. Fee, C. Jones, P. K. Mak, and G. E. Strait Computer system deadlock request resolution 6,151,661 H. W. Adams III, T. B. Genduso, and W. L. Leung Cache memory storage space management system and method 6,151,664 J. M. Borkenhagen, G. G. Fagerness, J. D. Irish, and D. J. Krolak Programmable SRAM and DRAM cache interface with preset access priorities 6,151,685 J. Li, D. K. Nguyen, M. S. Shih, and H. F. Yun System and method for recovering a segment directory for a log structured array 6,151,700 O. O. Fox An object oriented distributed programming system for computer controlled networks with selective capture of program property data identifying a particular program version 6,153,043 D. C. Edelstein, W. J. Horkans, S. E. Luce, N. E. Lustig, K. R. Pope, and P. D. Roper Elimination of photo-induced electrochemical dissolution in chemical mechanical polishing 6,153,474 D. Dobuzinsky, S. D. Halle, E. N. Hammerl, H. Ho, M. Jaso, J. A. Mandelman, and R. Srinivasan Method of controllably forming a locos oxide layer over a portion of a vertically extending sidewall of a trench extending into a semiconductor substrate 6,153,491 D. E. Kotecki and W. H. Ma Overhanging separator for self-defining discontinuous film 6,153,505 L. Bolde, P. A. Gruber, and C. C. Lei Plastic solder array using injection molded solder 6,153,536 D. Brouillette and R. L. Mendelson Method for mounting wafer frame at backside grinding (BSG) tool 6,153,696 G. Breyta, D. J. Dawson, H. Ito, M. Khojasteh, R. Kwong, E. Macy, D. P. Merritt, W. M. Moreau, S. E. Perreault, H. S. Sachdev, and R. L. Wood Process for forming carbonates of hydroxyaromatic compounds 6,153,725 M. Angelopoulos and R. A. DiPietro Control of polymerization kinetics and rate of polymer precipitation as a means of controlling the aggregation and morphology in conductive polymers and precursors thereof 6,153,885 R. A. Kendall Toroidal charged particle deflector with high mechanical stability and accuracy 6,153,902 T. Furukawa, U. Gruening, D. V. Horak, J. A. Mandelman, C. J. Radens, and T. S. Rupp Vertical DRAM cell with wordline self-aligned to storage trench 6,153,934 A. Allen, J. Lasky, R. W. Mann, J. Rankin, and F. R. White Buried butted contact and method for fabricating 6,153,935 T. J. Dalton, D. C. Edelstein, J. G. Gaudiello, M. Krishnan, S. Malhotra, M. McGlashan-Powell, E. O'Sullivan, and C. J. Sambucetti Dual etch stop/diffusion barrier for damascene interconnects 6,154,091 J. P. Pennings, G. E. Smith, and M. H. Wood SOI sense amplifier with body contact structure 6,154,200 D. Challener, J. L. Levine, and M. A. Schappert Computer input stylus and system 6,154,361 D. H. Anderson, K. C. Green, O. M. Herrera, K. R. Schneebeli, and P. P. Urbisci Disk drive chassis for reducing transmission of vibrations between disk-drive units of a disk-drive array 6,154,751 M. Ault, G. L. Child, E. Plassmann, B. A. Rich, T. J. Shrader, and K. K. Soper Method for executing a user requested CGI program in a new authentication context while protecting operation of a default webserver program 6,154,768 Q. Chen, T. E. Murphy Jr., P. F. Rieth, and J. S. Stevens System and method for negotiating functions and features 6,154,790 G. W. Kilmer, G. B. Pruett, and J. P. Ward System for monitoring and reporting serial numbers of hard disk drives in a computer system using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology 6,154,792 T. P. Giordano, B. W. Knapp, R. P. Mech, and D. R. Welsh Method and computer program product for paging control using a reference structure including a reference bitmap 6,154,822 M. S. Spencer Method and system for improving data storage and access for programs written in mid-level programming languages 6,154,836 M. A. Dawson III and J. Landry Method and system for configuring plug and play devices for a computer operating system 6,154,852 D. L. Amundson, D. R. Halley, P. D. Koeller, L. W. Koser, and L. M. Smith Method and apparatus for data backup and recovery 6,154,858 H. H. Ottesen and G. J. Smith In situ method and apparatus for detecting surface defects to identify handling damage in a disk drive 6,154,868 C. E. Cox, M. D. Flickner, J. L. Hafner, M. Hassner, B. M. Trager, and S. Winograd Method and means for computationally efficient on-the-fly error location correction in linear cyclic codes using ultra-fast error location 6,155,289 K. A. Carlsen Method and system for sub-atmospheric gas delivery with backflow control 6,156,091 J. A. Casey Controlled porosity for ceramic contact sheets and setter tiles 6,156,165 M. V. Pierson and T. B. Youngs, Jr. Method of forming a metallization feature on an edge of an IC chip 6,156,221 K. L. Covert, J. M. Lauffer, and P. A. Moschak Copper etching compositions, processes and products derived therefrom 6,156,375 H. L. Hu, R. E. Lee, H. A. Santini, and C. Tsang Method of making read/write magnetoresistive (MR) head with sunken components 6,156,445 F. C. Burns, W. W. Fleming, V. Y. Lee, and R. W. Snyder Ablatively photodecomposable compositions 6,156,461 B. J. Grenon, R. A. Haight, D. M. Hayden, M. Hibbs, J. P. Levin, T. E. Neary, R. A. Rochefort, D. A. Schmidt, J. G. Smolinski, and A. Wagner Method for repair of photomasks 6,156,484 E. Bassous, G. Das, F. D. Egitto, N. B. Feilchenfeld, E. Foster, S. J. Fuerniss, J. S. Kamperman, D. J. Mikalsen, M. R. Scheuermann, and D. B. Stone Gray scale etching for thin flexible interposer 6,157,067 L. L. Hsu and D. Netis Metal oxide semiconductor capacitor utilizing dummy lithographic patterns 6,157,168 R. S. Malik Secondary power supply for an uninterruptable power system 6,157,216 G. M. Lattimore, D. G. Mikan, B. Patel, and G. A. Yeung Circuit driver on SOI for merged logic and memory circuits 6,157,336 T. C. Nguyen and J. M. Poss Target specific folded analog to digital converter for direct access storage device (DASD) 6,157,374 E. K. Evans and R. M. West Graphics display system and method for providing internally timed time-varying properties of display attributes 6,157,380 P. W. Bennett, D. S. Desai, S. Harnett, S. Kulkarni, A. M. Mizell, and D. S. Wood Generic mechanism to create opendoc parts from workplace shell objects 6,157,381 C. L. Bates and P. R. Day Computer system, user interface component and method utilizing non-linear scroll bar 6,157,530 J. P. Pequignot, T. Rahman, J. Sloan, D. W. Stout, and S. H. Voldman Method and apparatus for providing ESD protection 6,157,555 B. Hemena and R. S. Malik Current limiter responsive to changing parallel power supply capacity 6,157,740 D. J. Buerkle and C. H. Ngai Compression/decompression engine for enhanced memory storage in MPEG decoder 6,157,910 K. A. Ortega Deferred correction file transfer for updating a speech file by creating a file log of corrections 6,157,915 K. Bhaskaran, D. P. Connors, F. F. Heath, and N. Nayak Method and apparatus for collaboratively managing supply chains 6,157,933 J. Celi, Jr., V. S. Moore, W. L. Nusbickel, and G. R. Walters Method and apparatus for loading multiple animated images on a web-page with limited network throughput 6,157,940 F. R. Marullo and D. H. Randall Automated client-based web server stress tool simulating simultaneous multiple user server accesses 6,157,960 D. L. Kaminsky, A. King, and Z. Li Technique for programmatically creating distributed object programs 6,157,962 P. Hodges, M. G. Hurley, N. K. Ouchi, and M. S. Shih Multipath I/O storage systems with multipath I/O request mechanisms 6,157,980 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis Cache directory addressing scheme for variable cache sizes 6,157,981 B. Blaner, H. Burkhart, R. Herzl, K. Lauricella, C. R. Ogilvie and A. Tran Real time invariant behavior cache 6,158,020 D. Cromer, H. J. Locker, D. Rhoades, R. S. Springfield, and J. P. Ward Remote jumper set and reset 6,158,024 M. Mandal Method and apparatus for structured memory analysis of data processing systems and applications 6,158,027 G. S. Bush, R. Cideciyan, J. D. Coker, E. S. Eleftheriou, R. L. Galbraith, and D. J. Stanek Enhanced noise-predictive maximum likelihood (NPML) data detection method and apparatus for direct access storage device (DASD) 6,158,032 G. R. Currier, L. L. Day, S. M. Douskey, P. A. Ganfield, and J. M. Wallin Data processing system, circuit arrangement and program product including multi-path scan interface and methods thereof 6,158,107 T. Chang and J. Lo Inverted merged MR head with plated notched first pole tip and self-aligned second pole tip 6,158,108 D. J. Seagle Method of making magnetic head with vialess lead layers from MR sensor to pads 6,158,118 D. E. McConnell and C. M. Munoz-Bustamante Method and apparatus for aligning surface mounted optoelectric semiconductor devices on a printed circuit board 6,158,644 P. J. Brofman, M. G. Courtney, S. Farooq, M. J. Interrante, R. A. Jackson, G. B. Martin, S. K. Ray, W. E. Sablinski, and K. A. Stalter Method for enhancing fatigue life of ball grid arrays 6,159,354 R. J. Contolini, J. O. Dukovic, J. Feng, E. Patton, J. Reid, and S. Taatjas Electric potential shaping method for electroplating 6,159,641 T. H. Baum, P. B. Comita, and F. M. Schellenberg Method for the repair of defects in lithographic masks 6,159,787 J. M. Aitken and A. W. Strong Structures and processes for reduced topography trench capacitors 6,159,807 A. Bryant and E. J. Nowak Self-aligned dynamic threshold CMOS device 6,159,870 A. B. Chakravarti, R. Conti, F. V. Liucci, and D. Restaino Borophosphosilicate glass incorporated with fluorine for low thermal budget gap fill 6,160,292 R. C. Flaker, L. L. Hsu, and J. B. Kuang Circuit and methods to improve the operation of SOI devices 6,160,302 A. M. Palagonia Laser fusible link 6,160,386 B. Hemena and R. S. Malik Parallel power system which includes over voltage protection 6,160,557 C. Narayanaswami Method and apparatus providing efficient rasterization with data dependent adaptations 6,160,687 M. Pinarbasi Method of providing improvement in the prevention of shield-to-lead shorts in MR/GMR heads, MR/GMR heads produced thereby and storage devices using MR/GMR heads produced thereby 6,160,724 B. Hemena and R. S. Malik Boost doubler circuit wherein an AC bridge rectifier is not required 6,160,748 M. Kumar Apparatus and method for maintaining bit line charge state during a read operation 6,161,090 D. Kanevsky and S. Maes Apparatus and methods for speaker verification/identification/classification employing non-acoustic and/or acoustic models and databases 6,161,109 D. A. Matamoros and J. A. Ruddy Accumulating changes in a data base management system by copying the data object to the image copy if the data object identifier of the data object is greater than the image identifier of the image copy 6,161,112 B. J. Cragun and P. R. Day Web page presentation control mechanism and method 6,161,145 A. Bainbridge, S. Cocks, D. F. Ferguson, T. J. Freund, A. Leff, G. Normington, J. T. Rayfield, and R. A. Storey Updating server-related data at a client 6,161,164 S. H. Dhong and J. A. Silberman Content addressable memory accessed by the sum of two operands 6,161,166 R. W. Doing, R. N. Kalla, and S. J. Schwinn Instruction cache for multithreaded processor 6,161,178 D. Cromer, J. W. Freeman, and R. S. Springfield Data processing system and method for specification of one of a plurality of password requirements for each boot device 6,161,180 S. M. Matyas and S. W. Smith Authentication for secure devices with limited cryptography 6,161,189 R. K. Arimilli, J. D. Lewis, and D. E. Williams Latch and hold circuit that permits subcircuits of an integrated circuit to operate at different frequencies 6,161,208 P. F. Dutton, S. L. Gregor, and H. H. Li Storage subsystem including an error correcting cache and means for performing memory to memory transfers 6,161,388 U. Ghoshal Enhanced duty cycle design for microthermoelectromechanical coolers 6,162,305 R. Hsiao, D. Mauri, and N. L. Robertson Method of making spin valve read head with plasma produced metal oxide insulation layer between lead and shield layers 6,162,365 A. Bhatt and J. G. Gaudiello PD etch mask for copper circuitization 6,162,532 C. Black, S. M. Gates, C. B. Murray, and S. Sun Magnetic storage medium formed of nanoparticles 6,162,565 V. Chao, S. A. Estes, T. B. Faure, and T. Wagner Dilute acid rinse after develop for chrome etch 6,162,582 R. Hsiao, T. Lin, and H. A. Santini Method of making high resolution lead to shield short-resistant read head 6,162,659 L. Wu Method for manufacturing a package structure having a heat spreader for integrated circuit chips 6,162,660 W. R. LaFontaine, P. A. Mescher, and C. G. Woychik Method for joining a semiconductor chip to a chip carrier substrate and resulting chip package 6,162,997 I. Memis Circuit board with primary and secondary through holes 6,163,045 J. Alsmeier, L. L. Hsu, J. A. Mandelman, and W. R. Tonti Reduced parasitic leakage in semiconductor devices 6,163,073 J. G. Patel Integrated heatsink and heatpipe 6,163,090 R. E. Brown, C. Bunker, and J. C. Lo Probe position actuator with an elongated stroke 6,163,169 W. F. Lawson CMOS tri-state control circuit for a bidirectional I/O with slew rate control 6,163,173 S. N. Storino, G. Uhlmann, and R. R. Williams Method and apparatus for implementing adjustable logic threshold in dynamic circuits for maximizing circuit performance 6,163,250 P. A. Moskowitz System and method for sensing objects on surface of vehicle 6,163,367 C. E. Obszarny Apparatus and method for in-situ adjustment of light transmission in a photolithography process 6,163,420 J. M. Poss Interleaved analog tracking timing and gain feedback loops for partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) data detection for direct access storage device (DASD) 6,163,442 H. S. Gill, H. P. Lee, M. P. Salo, J. F. Smyth, J. D. Westwood, and S. W. Yuan High moment bilayer first pole piece layer of a write head with high magnetic stability for promoting read signal symmetry of a read head 6,163,465 M. Criscolo, B. Kerrigan, S. Sung, and H. C. Tanner Cable storage compartment for network computer 6,163,510 P. Lee, E. H. Stern, and B. E. Willner Multimedia search and indexing system and method of operation using audio cues with signal thresholds 6,163,536 J. M. Dunn, E. H. Stern, and B. E. Willner Communication system including a client controlled gateway for concurrent voice/data messaging with a data server 6,163,683 J. M. Dunn, P. Lee, E. H. Stern, and B. E. Willner Broadcast data radio system and receiver apparatus therefor 6,163,773 G. T. Kishi Data storage system with trained predictive cache management engine 6,163,779 V. Berstis, M. L. Mantha, M. Modh, and S. Radhakrishnan Method of saving a web page to a local hard drive to enable client-side browsing 6,163,791 M. S. Schmookler and D. Senzig High accuracy estimates of elementary functions 6,163,802 B. G. Ernst, G. E. Hedgefield, M. S. Lees, and K. K. Lin Message tracking system 6,163,812 A. S. Gopal, R. Neves, and S. Vajracharya Adaptive fast path architecture for commercial operating systems and information server applications 6,163,813 E. H. Jenney Pattern for instantiating objects of unknown type in object-oriented applications 6,163,815 Y. Baumgartner, J. S. Fields, Jr., G. L. Guthrie, and K. A. Riek Dynamic disablement of a transaction ordering in response to an error 6,163,820 H. M. Garrett, W. G. Holland, J. F. Logan, J. G. McDonald, and K. Stacy Efficient data transfer mechanism for input/output devices 6,163,857 P. K. Mak, P. J. Meaney, W. W. Shen, and G. E. Strait Computer system UE recovery logic 6,163,862 R. D. Adams, E. S. Cooley, and P. R. Hansen On-chip test circuit for evaluating an on-chip signal using an external test signal 6,163,880 G. Ramalingam and H. Srinivasan Object model for java 6,163,950 T. Bodiker and J. P. Hollowell Self-aligning end effector for small components 6,164,076 R. C. Chu, M. J. Ellsworth, Jr., and R. E. Simons Thermoelectric cooling assembly with thermal space transformer interposed between cascaded thermoelectric stages for improved thermal performance 6,164,633 V. P. Mulligan, C. Tompkins, and W. F. Yuen Multiple size wafer vacuum chuck 6,165,170 J. Felsenstein, S. H. Gomory, and J. J. Wynne Laser dermablator and dermablation 6,165,278 P. J. Hart, V. Sirtori, S. Varinelli, M. Verderio, and F. Zambon Removing thermal grease from electronic cards 6,165,629 B. M. Kellner, K. M. McGuire, K. G. Sachdev, and P. J. Sorce Structure and process for thin film interconnect 6,165,649 B. J. Grenon, R. A. Haight, D. M. Hayden, M. Hibbs, J. P. Levin, T. E. Neary, R. A. Rochefort, D. A. Schmidt, J. G. Smolinski, and A. Wagner Methods for repair of photomasks 6,165,651 W. J. Adair, D. S. O'Grady, and S. Peng Apparatus for tuning an attenuating phase shift mask 6,165,673 R. D. Allen, G. Breyta, R. A. DiPietro, D. C. Hofer, H. Ito, J. Opitz, and T. I. Wallow Resist composition with radiation sensitive acid generator 6,165,678 R. D. Allen, R. A. DiPietro, R. Sooriyakumaran, T. I. Wallow, and G. M. Wallraff Lithographic photoresist composition and process for its use in the manufacture of integrated circuits 6,165,885 M. A. Gaynes and M. V. Pierson Method of making components with solder balls 6,165,917 J. Batey, P. M. Fryer, and J. H. Souk Passivation of copper with ammonia-free silicon nitride and application to TFT/LCD 6,166,332 T. S. Farrow, T. Keung, and J. Walker Method and apparatus for controlling the bend in a ribbon cable 6,166,420 R. J. Gauthier, D. J. Schepis, and S. H. Voldman Method and structure of high and low K buried oxide for SOI technology 6,166,423 J. P. Gambino, M. Jaso, and D. E. Kotecki Integrated circuit having a via and a capacitor 6,166,437 S. H. Dhong, K. J. Nowka, and M. J. Shapiro Silicon on silicon package with precision align macro 6,166,561 J. A. Fifield and C. P. Miller Method and apparatus for protecting off chip driver circuitry employing a split rail power supply 6,166,688 D. Cromer, R. A. Dayan, B. Ellison, E. Kern, H. J. Locker, and J. P. Ward Data processing system and method for disabling a portable computer outside an authorized area 6,166,735 B. E. Dom and D. Petkovic Video story boarding interface for selective downloading and displaying of desired portions of remote-stored video data object 6,166,901 J. R. Drake, E. T. Gamble, and J. Pacheco Vibration dampening system for removable hard disk drive carriers 6,166,948 S. S. Parkin Magnetic memory array with magnetic tunnel junction memory cells having flux: closed free layers 6,166,981 T. Kirihata Method for addressing electrical fuses 6,167,032 S. S. Allison, K. J. Barker, S. H. Johnson, and J. K. Lee System and method for avoiding host transmit underruns in a communication network 6,167,055 A. G. Ganek, E. H. Stern, and B. E. Willner Apparatus for provision of broadband signals over installed telephone wiring 6,167,332 J. M. Kurtzberg and M. Levanoni Method and apparatus suitable for optimizing an operation of a self-guided vehicle 6,167,408 D. M. Cannon and D. R. Crockett Comparative update tracking to synchronize local operating parameters with centrally maintained reference parameters in a multiprocessing system 6,167,441 M. C. Azua Customization of web pages based on requester type 6,167,444 E. B. Boden, P. A. Gebler, Jr., and F. A. Gruber Method and system for exchanging routing information 6,167,453 C. H. Becker and J. I. Knutson Method and apparatus for utilizing URLs to specify local or remote java bean repositories 6,167,459 B. C. Beardsley, A. S. Meritt, M. A. Paulsen, and H. M. Yudenfriend System for reassigning alias addresses to an input/output device 6,167,475 J. D. Carr Data transfer method/engine for pipelining shared memory bus accesses 6,167,494 R. W. Cheston, R. P. Hoggarth, R. I. Knox, H. J. Locker, and D. Rhoades Method and system for recovering from operating system failure 6,167,500 K. A. Feiste, J. S. Muhich, and S. W. White Mechanism for queuing store data and method therefor 6,167,521 S. W. Smith and S. H. Weingart Securely downloading and executing code from mutually suspicious authorities 6,167,524 K. J. Goodnow, M. S. Michail, J. G. Patel, W. D. Pricer, and S. T. Ventrone Apparatus and method for efficient battery utilization in portable personal computers 6,167,557 P. Kudva, D. S. Kung, and L. Stok Method and apparatus for logic synthesis employing size independent timing optimization 6,167,615 B. T. Ma, A. K. Sarkhel, and P. K. Seto Method for producing circuit board assemblies using surface mount components with finely spaced leads 6,167,621 G. F. Goth and J. J. Loparco Center feed parallel flow cold plate for dual refrigeration systems 6,167,753 D. Chen, E. Flecha, J. Hammond, and K. G. Roessler Detecting fields with a single-pass, dual-amplitude-mode scanning force microscope 6,168,693 G. Landry and C. Uzoh Apparatus and methods to control the uniformity of electroplated workpiece 6,168,732 A. Afzali, M. Angelopoulos, V. A. Bourgault, L. D. Comerford, M. W. Mirre, S. Molis, N. M. Patel, R. Saraf, J. M. Shaw, and P. Spellane Inherently conducting blends of polyaniline with commodity and engineering resins 6,168,845 R. E. Fontana, R. Hsiao, E. E. Marinero, H. A. Santini, and B. D. Terris Patterned magnetic media and method of making the same using selective oxidation 6,169,281 D. Chen, E. Flecha, J. Hammond, Y. Martin, and K. G. Roessler Apparatus and method for determining side wall profiles using a scanning probe microscope having a probe dithered in lateral directions 6,169,412 R. A. Byers Adjustable tooling pin for a card test fixture 6,169,541 R. M. Smith Method, apparatus and system for integrating television signals with internet access 6,169,548 T. Haynes Easily dismissed message windows 6,169,639 M. P. Salo and A. J. Wallash Unipolar last write for improved magnetic stability 6,169,795 J. M. Dunn and E. H. Stern An internet telephony callback system and method of operation 6,169,805 J. M. Dunn, A. G. Ganek, E. H. Stern, and B. E. Willner System and method of operation for providing user's security on-demand over unsecure networks 6,169,930 M. D. Blachek and G. J. Smith Method and apparatus for preventing cold temperature induced damage in a disk drive 6,169,989 M. Eichstaedt, Q. Lu, and S. H. Teng Method and apparatus for parallel profile matching in a large scale webcasting system 6,170,022 J. Linville, B. A. Makrucki, E. Suffern, and J. R. Warren Method and system for providing congestion control in a data communications network 6,170,023 B. C. Beardsley, J. L. Iskiyan, J. E. McIlvain, P. R. Mills, M. A. Paulsen, W. G. Thompson, and H. M. Yudenfriend System for accessing an input/output device using multiple addresses 6,170,029 R. A. Kelley and D. Neal Voltage overshoot control in hot plug system 6,170,045 R. A. Bobak, S. B. Compton, J. K. Johnson, A. F. Martens, M. M. Maurer, D. L. Meck, W. R. Richardson, and M. A. Wright Cross-system data piping using an external shared memory 6,170,059 G. W. Kilmer, G. B. Pruett, and J. P. Ward Tracking memory modules within a computer system 6,170,078 M. Erle, M. Graf, L. M. Huisman, and Z. Zhang Fault simulation using dynamically alterable behavioral models 6,173,294 A. Azagury, E. Kolodner, E. Petrank, and Z. Yehudai A method for combining card marking with remembered set for generational garbage collection with more than two generations 6,170,630 V. J. Goss, R. A. McCord, Jr., and J. N. Smith Transportation apparatus for system monitored operations testing 6,171,436 C. Huynh, H. G. Linde, P. Marmillion, A. M. Palagonia, B. A. Pierson, and M. J. Rutten Method of removing slurry particles 6,171,513 R. R. Comulada, K. M. Davis, F. F. Jamin, B. P. Jones, F. Krug, and M. F. Lofaro Chemical-mechanical polishing system having a bi-material wafer backing film and two-piece wafer carrier 6,171,757 M. Angelopoulos, A. Aviram, C. R. Guarnieri, and R. Kwong Organometallic polymers and use thereof 6,171,873 J. Blondin, D. Brouillette, R. F. Cook, D. F. Diefenderfer, E. G. Liniger, and R. L. Mendelson Method and apparatus for preventing chip breakage during semiconductor manufacturing using wafer grinding striation information 6,171,918 J. S. Brown, R. J. Gauthier, E. J. Nowak, M. H. Tong, and S. H. Voldman Depleted poly MOSFET structure and method 6,171,971 W. Natzle Freestanding multilayer IC wiring structure 6,171,988 B. V. Fasano and R. A. Rita Low loss glass ceramic composition with modifiable dielectric constant 6,172,385 P. R. Duncombe, R. B. Laibowitz, D. Neumayer, K. Saenger, and T. M. Shaw Multilayer ferroelectric capacitor structure 6,172,399 K. L. Lee, D. Lewis, and R. G. Viswanathan Formation of ultra-shallow semiconductor junction using microwave annealing 6,172,512 R. J. Evans, D. F. Heidel, J. A. Kash, D. R. Knebel, and J. C. Tsang Image processing methods for the optical detection of dynamic errors in integrated circuits 6,172,522 M. K. Kerr and W. F. Lawson Slew rate controlled predriver circuit 6,172,529 P. J. Klim and J. E. Dunning A compound domino logic circuit having output noise elimination 6,172,531 A. G. Aipperspach and P. T. Freiburger Low power wordline decoder circuit with minimized hold time 6,172,676 B. O. Wood Method and computer program product for implementing multiple drag and drop operations for large objects without blocking an operating system interface 6,172,769 R. Rao, G. R. Thompson, C. Tresser, and C. W. Wu Printer dependent descreening method 6,172,833 S. M. Fry, S. D. Johnson, and S. B. Wilson Retrieval of serpentine pattern data using a memory device of a tape cartridge 6,172,848 H. A. Santini Write head with self aligned pedestal shaped pole tips that are separated by a zero throat height defining layer 6,172,871 J. A. Ho-Lung, V. Kamath, M. S. Mansuria, and T.- L. Wong Method and system in a data processing system for efficiently cooling a portable computer system 6,172,920 S. H. Dhong, M. Ohkubo, S. Onishi, and O. Takahashi Data transfer using two stage bit switch in memory circuit 6,172,981 K. J. Christensen, N. E. Cox, J. P. Ervin, and R. C. Matlack, Jr. Method and system for distributing network routing functions to local area network stations 6,173,044 P. D. Hortensius, L. Lumelsky, and A. Narasimhan Multipoint simultaneous voice and data services using a media splitter gateway architecture 6,173,112 G. G. Gruse, G. E. Hamblin, M. M. Hurtado, and K. L. Milsted Method and system for recording in-process broadcast programs 6,173,234 C. H. Lee Axial bearing fly height measurement to detect oil deficiency 6,173,281 R. J. Bestgen, T. P. Giordano, B. W. Knapp, and D. R. Welsh Method and computer program product for processing and combining data sets including bitmaps 6,173,288 R. A. Diedrich, S. T. Evans, and J. K. Finkenaur System and method for building a data structure of converted values without keywords from an input string including keyword/text value pairs 6,173,292 R. J. Barber, D. M. Herbert, C. Mohan, A. Somani, S. Watts, and M. Zaharioudakis Data recovery in a transactional database using write-ahead logging and file caching 6,173,358 J. L. Combs Computer system having dual bus architecture with audio/video/CD drive controller/coprocessor having integral bus arbitrator 6,173,359 W. C. Carlson and J. W. Peake Storage and access to scratch mounts in VTS system 6,173,360 B. C. Beardsley, K. F. Day, M. H. Hartung, and W. F. Micka Apparatus and method for allowing existing ECKD MVS DASD for using an escon interface to be used by an open storage using SCSI-type interface 6,173,371 R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, J. D. Lewis, and D. E. Williams Demand-based issuance of cache operations to a processor bus 6,173,376 C. B. Fowler, W. W. Grunbok, Jr., G. F. Martino, and P. J. Vasek, Jr. Data backup and restore method and system in a multisystem environment 6,173,382 T. Dell and M. W. Kellogg Dynamic configuration of memory module using presence detect data 6,173,402 R. A. Chapman Technique for localizing keyphrase-based data encryption and decryption 6,173,415 W. Litwin, M. J. Menon, and T. Risch System for a scalable distributed data structure having scalable availability 6,173,439 B. A. Carlson, T. Graser, J. U. Lindblom, A. Nilsson, and T. Pernbeck Interface mechanism and method for accessing non-object oriented data from within an object oriented framework 6,173,720 R. Arndt, G. Gale, F. W. Kern, K. P. Madden, H