The following patents were issued to IBM inventors by the United States Patent Office.

United States
6,269,510	T. G. Van Kessel, G. J. Beardsley, T. S. Bullard, C. K. Huynh, and D. L. Walker		Post CMP clean brush with torque monitor
6,270,353	J. W. Andrews, B. T. Hwang, H. S. Landis, S.-N. Mei, J. M. Tyler, and E. J. Vishnesky		Low cost shallow trench isolation using non-conformal dielectric material
6,270,363	P. J. Brofman, J. U. Knickerbocker, S. K. Ray, and K. A. Stalter		Z-axis compressible polymer with fine metal matrix suspension
6,270,369	K. Fujii, K. Kato, S. Mori, T. Ohtani, and T. Studwell		Sub-card board connector, sub-card board, modem sub-card, and a computer having this connector
6,270,646	D. S. Chung, L. S. Collins, W. E. Corbin, Jr., H. Deligianni, D. C. Edelstein, J. E. Fluegel, J. W. Korejwa, P. S. Locke, C. E. Uzoh, and E. G. Walton		Electroplating apparatus and method using a compressible contact
6,270,947	S. Schulze and F. Zach		Method and apparatus for reducing non-uniformity area effects in the manufacture of semiconductor devices
6,270,949	T. B. Faure, S. D. Flanders, J. P. Levin, H. G. Linde, and J. F. Shepard		Single component developer for copolymer resists
6,271,054	A. W. Ballantine, G. A. Dunbar III, J. V. Hart III, D. K. Johnson, and G. C. MacDougall		Method for reducing dark current effects in a charge couple device
6,271,059	C. L. Bertin, W. R. Tonti, and R. Q. Williams		Chip interconnection structure using stub terminals
6,271,076	R. B. Laibowitz, T. M. Shaw, and J. M. Viggiano		Method for fabricating a novel metallized oxide structure
6,271,080	T. Furukawa, J. A. Mandelman, and W. R. Tonti		Structure and method for planar MOSFET DRAM cell free of wordline gate conductor to storage trench overlay sensitivity
6,271,093	J. Alsmeier and J. A. Mandelman		Methods for reducing anomalous narrow channel effect in trench-bounded buried-channel p-MOSFETs
6,271,094	D. C. Boyd, H. I. Hanafi, M. Ieong, and W. C. Natzle		Method of making MOSFET with high dielectric constant gate insulator and minimum overlap capacitance
6,271,100	A. W. Ballantine, D. D. Coolbaugh, and J. D. Gilbert		Chemically enhanced anneal for removing trench stress resulting in improved bipolar yield
6,271,102	D. W. Brouillette, R. F. Cook, T. G. Ference, W. J. Howell, E. G. Liniger, and R. L. Mendelson		Method and system for dicing wafers, and semiconductor structures incorporating the products thereof
6,271,111	S. Farooq, S. Kaja, and L. Wang		High density pluggable connector array and process thereof
6,271,142	U. Gruening, C. J. Radens, and D. Tobben		Process for manufacture of trench DRAM capacitor buried plates
6,271,503	R. R. Hall, F. Marconi, and P. M. Nichols		Dimensional compensating vacuum fixture
6,271,540	T. Miyamoto and T. Tsujimura		Thin film transistor with silicon oxynitride film and silicon nitride channel passivation film for preventing a back channel effect and a method for fabricating the same
6,271,542	P. G. Emma, S. M. Gates, and W. Hwang		Merged logic and memory combining thin film and bulk SI transistors
6,271,555	M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, D. V. Horak, and W. P. Noble, Jr.		Borderless wordline for DRAM cell
6,271,565	T. B. Hook, D. Hoyniak, and E. J. Nowak		Asymmetrical field effect transistor
6,271,578	T.-C. Chen and A. R. Mitwalsky		Crack stops
6,271,595	T. H. Ivers, J. C. Liu, V. J. McGahay, and H. A. Nye III		Method for improving adhesion to copper , copper germanide and/or germanium nitride between the copper and dielectric layer of silicon oxide or nitride)
6,271,599	B. N. Agarwala and W. H. Ma		Wire interconnect structure for electrically and mechanically connecting an integrated circuit chip to a substrate
6,271,647	R. E. Galbraith, J. M. Gisi, S. P. Norgaard, D. D. Reetz, and D. J. Ziebarth		Method and apparatus for estimating the service life of a battery
6,271,652	A. Burstein and D. Shkap		Voltage regulator with gain boosting
6,271,686	S. N. Storino and J. V. Tran		Method for elimination of parasitic bipolar action in silicon on insulator (SOI) dynamic logic circuits
6,271,717	R. J. Houghton and C. P. Miller		Bias circuit for series connected decoupling capacitors
6,271,775	G. A. Jaquette, F. A. Kampf, and O. C. Strohacker		Method for reducing data expansion during data compression
6,271,793	M. J. Brady, J. Rubino, and R. Saraf		Radio frequency (RF) transponder (tag) with composite antenna
6,271,823	J. G. Gordon II, M. W. Hart, and S. A. Swanson		Reflective electrophoretic display with laterally adjacent color cells using a reflective panel
6,271,830	V. Berstis		Three-point capacitor trackpoint
6,271,834	K. W. May and E. J. Selker		Integrated pointing device having tactile feedback
6,271,842	D. D. C. Bardon, R. E. Berry, S. H. Isensee, and D. J. Roberts		Navigation via environmental objects in three-dimensional workspace interactive displays
6,271,843	A. P. Brush II, D. B. Lection, D. A. Schell, and K. B. Sizer		Methods systems and computer program products for transporting users in three dimensional virtual reality worlds using transportation vehicles
6,271,846	A. E. Martinez and M. D. Rahn		Method for reanchoring branches within a directory tree
6,271,977	P. W. Chung and S. A. Jove		Multi-state preamplifier for disk drives
6,271,995	R. E. Fontana, Jr., L. H. Lane, M. L. Williams III, and C. E. Yeack-Scranton		Magnetic head for recording with ultra low force
6,271,997	H. S. Gill		Read head spin valve sensor with triple antiparallel coupled free layer structure
6,272,054	J. E. Barth, Jr. and J. A. Fifield		Twin-cell memory architecture with shielded bitlines for embedded memory applications
6,272,086	G. A. Jaquette, L. G. Jesionowski, J. E. Kulakowski, and J. A. McDowell		Low cost tamper-resistant method for write-once read many (worm) storage
6,272,134	B. M. Bass, D. R. Henderson, E. H.-. Ku, S. J. Lemke, J. M. Rash, L. B. Reiss, and T. E. Ryle		Multicast frame support in hardware routing assist
6,272,146	R. J. Bowater, M. Cobbett, R. M. Jordan, and A. J. Ritchie		Bus connection set up and tear down
6,272,256	R. B. Arps and M. C. Constantinescu		Fast compression of periodic halftoned bitonal images
6,272,389	B. L. Dietrich		Method and system for capacity allocation in an assembly environment
6,272,482	D. L. Ehnebuske and B. J. A. McKee		Managing business rules using jurisdictions
6,272,486	J. M. Garth and J. A. Ruddy		Determining the optimal number of tasks for building a database index
6,272,487	T. A. Beavin, B. R. Iyer, A. Shibamiya, H. S. Tie, and M. Wang		Query optimization through the use of multi-column statistics to avoid the problems of non-indexed column correlation
6,272,488	D. T. Chang, S. T. Donn, D. M. Hembry, T. J. Lee, B. N. Soetarman, R. N. Summers, and F. C. Tung		Managing results of federated searches across heterogeneous datastores with a federated collection object
6,272,489	T. L. Rauch, S. D. Redpath, J. L. Scanlon, and D. A. Schell		Visually oriented, easily navigable search facility
6,272,492	J. B. Kay		Front-end proxy for transparently increasing web server functionality
6,272,504	M. Baentsch, P. Buhler, T. Eirich, F. Hoering, and M. Oestreicher		Flexibly deleting objects in a resource constrained environment
6,272,518	G. M. Blazo, K. D. Hall, C. Meng, and K. A. Streifert		System and method for porting a multithreaded program to a job model
6,272,523	M. E. Factor		Distributed networking using logical processes
6,272,531	T. J. L. Shrader		Method and system for recognizing and acting upon dynamic data on the internet
6,272,539	G. A. Cuomo, K. R. Kluttz, and S. Singhal		Methods, systems and computer program products for determining and visually representing a user's overall network delay in collaborative applications
6,272,541	D. C. Cromer, R. A. Dayan, H. Locker, M. Steinmetz, and J. P. Ward		Data processing system and method for determining a physical location of a client computer system coupled to a server via a physical network
6,272,542	S. A. Barnes and C. Lita		Method and apparatus for managing data pushed asynchronously to a pervasive computing client
6,272,554	D. Y. Chang and S. R. Hinkelman		Method and apparatus for a corba typecode data manipulator
6,272,564	H. M. Garrett, W. G. Holland, J. F. Logan, J. G. McDonald, and J. K. Stacy		Efficient data transfer mechanism for input/output devices
6,272,565	B. Lamberts		Method, system, and program for reordering a queue of input/output (I/O) commands into buckets defining ranges of consecutive sector numbers in a storage medium and performing iterations of a selection routine to select and I/O command to execute
6,272,566	D. J. Craft		System for maintaining proper buffering within video play list
6,272,573	J. L. Coale and S. VanGundy		Scalable modular data storage system
6,272,590	L. A. Riedle		Method and system for prefetching sequential data in a data storage system
6,272,601	J. M. Nunez and T. A. Petersen		Critical word forwarding in a multiprocessor system
6,272,603	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis		Cache coherency protocol having hovering (H), recent (R), and tagged (T) states
6,272,604	J. M. Nunez, R. C. Podnar, Jr., and M. J. Sullivan		Contingent response apparatus and method for maintaining cache coherency
6,272,605	C. M. Le and J. W. Pence		System using priority data of a host recall request to determine whether to release non-volatile storage with another host before processing further recall requests
6,272,607	M. Baentsch, P. Buhler, T. Eirich, F. Hoering, and M. Oestreicher		Method and apparatus for transactional writing of data into a persistent memory
6,272,626	M. Cobbett		System for setting a flag indicating a boot failure of loading a procedure and aborting additional loading attempt thereof when the flag is detected
6,272,628	M. Aguilar, S. Gupta, and J. M. Stafford		Boot code verification and recovery
6,272,654	P. T. Freiburger		Fast scannable output latch with domino logic input
6,272,662	D. Jadav, J. M. Menon, and K. Voruganti		Distributed storage system using front-end and back-end locking
6,272,665	T.-L. T. Bui and L. E. Johnson		Method and tool for automatically generating engineering change order
6,272,677	A. N. Lam and V.-T. Nguyen-Phuc		Method and system for automatic detection and distribution of code version updates
6,272,694	G. W. Knoth, R. B. Prime, and R. L. Weaver		Enhanced interface for electrostatic discharge garment
6,272,742	G. J. Armezzani, K. Desai V, J. S. Perkins, and J. J. Pessarchick		Method of electrically connecting substrates using solder balls
6,272,957	W. D. Carbaugh, Jr., L. W. Herron, M. W. Kapfhammer, M. J. LaPlante, D. C. Long, N. A. Rizk, and J. R. Wylder		Flex die punching apparatus and method
6,273,328	Y. Maeda and Y. Tsukada		Solder bump forming method and apparatus
6,273,400	D. M. Kuchta		Semiconductor wafer testing structure
6,273,797	K. R. Becker, S. R. Cline, P. A. Manfredi, and D. P. Nadeau		In-situ automated CMP wedge conditioner
6,274,214	J. Y.-Y. Chan, J. B. Pavelka, F. L. Pompeo, and H. T. Toy		Microelectronic package module with temporary lid
6,274,291	A. C. Bhatt, J. C. Camp, M. B. Fletcher, K. L. Potter, and J. A. Welsh		Method of reducing defects in I/C card and resulting card
6,274,393	T. J. Hartswick		Method for measuring submicron images
6,274,440	K. C. Arndt, A. C. Brintzinger, R. A. Conti, D. R. Cote, C. Narayan, R. Ramachandran, T. S. Rupp, and S. K. Srinivasan		Manufacturing of cavity fuses on gate conductor level
6,274,441	R. Divakaruni, J. A. Mandelman, and W. R. Tonti		Method of forming bitline diffusion halo under gate conductor ledge
6,274,446	P. D. Agnello and P. I. Smeys		Method for fabricating abrupt source/drain extensions with controllable gate electrode overlap
6,274,465	A. W. Ballantine, J. J. Ellis-Monaghan, T. Furukawa, G. R. Miller, and J. A. Slinkman		DC electric field assisted anneal
6,274,467	J. P. Gambino, L. L. Hsu, J. A. Mandelman, C. J. Radens, and W. R. Tonti		Dual work function gate conductors with self-aligned insulating cap
6,274,474	D. V. Caletka and E. A. Johnson		Method of forming BGA interconnections having mixed solder profiles
6,274,836	E. Walach		Method and system for multi-stream object sorting
6,274,916	W. E. Donath, D. M. Newns, and P. C. Pattnaik		Ultrafast nanoscale field effect transistor
6,274,935	C. E. Uzoh		Copper wire-bonding pad
6,275,028	H. Asano, T. Endo, K. Kuroki, T. Matsui, H. Suzuki, and K. Yamaguchi		Methods for initializing and/or resetting GMR heads by applying oppositely directed magnetic fields
6,275,051	T. W. Bachelder, D. R. Barringer, D. R. Conti, J. M. Crafts, D. L. Gardell, P. M. Gaschke, M. R. Laforce, C. H. Perry, R. R. Schmidt, J. J. Van Horn, and W. H. White		Segmented architecture for wafer test and burn-in
6,275,056	S. Kobayashi		Prober device having a specific linear expansion coefficient and probe pitch and method of probing thereof
6,275,082	R. Houghton and O. Kiehl		Receiver with switched current feedback for controlled hysteresis
6,275,094	H. C. Cranford, Jr. and G. B. Stephens		CMOS device and circuit and method of operation dynamically controlling threshold voltage
6,275,096	L. L. C. Hsu, O. Weinfurtner, and M. R. Wordeman		Charge pump system having multiple independently activated charge pumps and corresponding method
6,275,122	J. L. Speidell and J. F. Ziegler		Encapsulated mems band-pass filter for integrated circuits
6,275,142	B. Cohen and I. Paleiov		Interactive enhancement for printed books
6,275,199	K. D. Aaker, S. J. Amell, L. E. Behrens, B. R. Culbertson, H. G. Kiel, E. J. Nelson, A. Nomura, and S. Okimoto		Method and apparatus for background and foreground color control of image and facsimile data display on a non-programmable-terminal
6,275,222	P. W. M. Desain		System and method for synchronizing a graphic image and a media event
6,275,227	G. F. DeStefano		Computer system and method for controlling the same utilizing a user interface control integrated with multiple sets of instructional material therefor
6,275,233	A. P. Gueziec		Surface simplification preserving a solid volume
6,275,254	J. Beeteson and A. Knox		Auto-stereoscopic display device and system
6,275,259	S. M. Gowda, H. J. Shin, H.-S. P. Wong, P. H. Xiao, and J. Yang		Digital automatic gain control circuit for image system
6,275,345	H. H. Ottesen and G. J. Smith		System and method for estimating a frequency of slider airbearing resonance
6,275,362	M. Pinarbasi		Magnetic read head having spin valve sensor with improved seed layer for a free layer
6,275,363	H. S. Gill		Read head with dual tunnel junction sensor
6,275,381	G. G. Daves, D. L. Edwards, S. Farooq, S. Iruvanti, and F. L. Pompeo		Thermal paste preforms as a heat transfer media between a chip and a heat sink and method thereof
6,275,427	A. G. Aipperspach, T. A. Christensen, and D. M. Dewanz		Stability test for silicon on insulator SRAM memory cells utilizing disturb operations to stress memory cells under test
6,275,507	R. E. Anderson, E. M. Foster, and G. W. Rohrbaugh		Transport demultiplexor for an MPEG-2 compliant data stream
6,275,583	J. H. Derby and D. R. Thomas		Circuits and methods for improved network interface circuit protection
6,275,599	R. L. Adler, B. P. Kitchens, C. P. Tresser, and C. W. Wu		Compressed image authentication and verification
6,275,612	N. Imoto		Character data input apparatus and method thereof
6,275,771	V. Berstis and J. L. Smith		Time multiplexed global positioning system cell location beacon system
6,275,785	S. Currie and J. M. Flenley		Hardware simulator for a transaction processing system
6,275,790	D. B. Kumhyr, K. Yamamoto, S. L. Yates, and K. H. Yu		Introspective editor system, program, and method for software translation
6,275,792	J. R. Lewis		Method and system for generating a minimal set of test phrases for testing a natural commands grammar
6,275,801	M. Novak and M. Picheny		Non-leaf node penalty score assignment system and method for improving acoustic fast match speed in large vocabulary systems
6,275,803	J. R. Lewis		Updating a language model based on a function-word to total-word ratio
6,275,805	R. V. Buskirk, F. Fado, P. Guasti, A. Nassiff, and H. Ruback		Maintaining input device identity
6,275,810	D. J. Hetherington and D. B. Kumhyr		Method for scheduling holidays in distributed computer enterprise locales
6,275,818	N. I. Subramanian and S. Venkataraman		Cost based optimization of decision support queries using transient views
6,275,826	R. V. Geiner, S. J. Greenspan, S. J. Kinder, and D. M. Zobre		Program products for pacing the frequency at which systems of a multisystem environment compress log streams
6,275,832	J. A. Watts and S. J. Watts		Providing transaction undo without logging
6,275,833	L. E. Nakamura and S. E. Tate		Method and system for generating materials for presentation on a non-frame capable web browser
6,275,839	G. Gerwig, K. J. Getzlaff, and M. Kroner		Method and system for immediate exponent normalization in a fast floating point adder
6,275,848	G. K. Arnold		Method and apparatus for automated referencing of electronic information
6,275,851	D. C. Cromer, R. A. Dayan, B. J. Ellison, E. R. Kern, and R. S. Springfield		Data processing system and method for remotely controlling modification of a client's initialization settings
6,275,852	L. Abrahams, K. H. Appleman, A. W. Bidwell, A. R. Dalsass, R. Filepp, M. L. Gordon, F. M. Lee, S. Meo, M. J. Silfen, D. Tiemann, A. M. Wolf, and F. C. Young		Interactive computer network and method of operation
6,275,854	V. Berstis and M. A. Himmel		Method and apparatus for detecting actual viewing of electronic advertisements
6,275,858	C. L. Bates and P. R. Day		Intelligent method, apparatus and computer program product for automated refreshing of internet web pages
6,275,862	N. Sharma and N. Sundaresan		Automatic categorization of bookmarks in a web browser
6,275,863	A. Leff, F. N. Parr, and J. T. Rayfield		System and method for programming and executing long running transactions
6,275,867	E. J. Bendert, R. B. Bennett, E. Johnson, and R. M. Nugent		Operation-partitioned off-loading of operations in a distributed environment
6,275,876	B. L. Beukema, R. E. Fuhs, G. M. Nordstrom, T. R. Sand, and K. M. Valk		Specifying wrap register for storing memory address to store completion status of instruction to external device
6,275,884	D. J. Craft and W. G. Voigt		Method for interconnecting components within a data processing system
6,275,890	W. R. Lee and D. Wallach		Low latency data path in a cross-bar switch providing dynamically prioritized bus arbitration
6,275,895	M. Tabo		Memory refreshing system
6,275,900	D. A. Liberty		Hybrid NUMA/S-COMA system and method
6,275,906	J. M. Nunez, T. A. Peterson, and M. J. Sullivan		Coherency maintenance in a multiprocessor system
6,275,907	Y. Baumgartner, G. D. Carpenter, M. E. Dean, A. Elman, J. S. Fields, Jr., and D. B. Glasco		Reservation management in a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) data processing system
6,275,908	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis		Cache coherency protocol including an hr state
6,275,909	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, J. B. Joyner, and J. D. Lewis		Multiprocessor system bus with system controller explicitly updating snooper cache state information
6,275,918	W. E. Burky, P. S. Lenk, D. Q. Nguyen, D. A. Schroter, S.-H. S. Tung, and M. T. Vaden		Obtaining load target operand pre-fetch address from history table information upon incremented number of access indicator threshold
6,275,937	B. T. Hailpern, P. K. Malkin, C. C. Palmer, R. J. Schloss, S. R. White, and P. S.-L. Yu		Collaborative server processing of content and meta-information with application to virus checking in a server network
6,275,944	I.-L. Kao and I. M. Milman		Method and system for single sign on using configuration directives with respect to target types
6,275,958	B. A. Carpenter and G. C. Johari		Fault detection in a redundant power converter
6,275,964	K. Nagin, B. Rochberger, J. Satran, D. Sheinwald, and E. Zeidner		Software enhanced error correction mechanism in a data communication system
6,275,965	C. E. Cox, M. A. Hassner, A. Patel, and B. M. Trager		Method and apparatus for efficient error detection and correction in long byte strings using generalized, integrated, interleaved reed-solomon codewords
6,275,968	A. A. Dean, K. J. Goodnow, and S. T. Ventrone		Apparatus and method to reduce node toggling in semiconductor devices
6,275,974	R. A. Bartels and U. A. Finkler		Efficient tracing of shorts in very large nets in hierarchical designs using breadth-first search with optimal pruning
6,275,979	T. J. Graser and S. L. Halter		Implementation for an object oriented run-time extensible item
6,275,986	G. W. Ewart		Compile-time data dependency verification
6,275,987	B. J. Fraley and I. H. Schneider		Adaptive, predictive progress indicator
6,276,246	R. J. Bezama, L. Economikos, M. J. LaPlante, D. C. Long, and K. C. O'Neil		Method for punching slug from workpiece
6,276,370	E. E. Fisch, G. W. Gale, H. F. Okorn-Schmidt, and W. A. Syverson		Sonic cleaning with an interference signal
6,276,596	L. R. Bolde, G. P. Brouillette, J. H. Covell, D. Danovitch, P. A. Gruber, and C. C. Lei		Low temperature solder column attach by injection molded solder and structure formed
6,276,844	P. W. Coteus, R. H. Genz, A. P. Lanzetta, W. E. Maule, D. J. Phipps, J. K. Tam, and J. D. Wagoner		Clustered, buffered simms and assemblies thereof
6,276,987	J. A. Gilhooly, L. Li, C. O. Morgan III, and C. Wei		Chemical mechanical polishing endpoint process control
6,277,442	G. D. Beaumont, G. L. Caron, and F. P. Robillard		Closed chamber method and apparatus for the coating of liquid films
6,277,527	L. W. Liebmann and D. S. O'Grady		Method of making a twin alternating phase shift mask
6,277,543	T. Furukawa, M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, D. V. Horak, and P. A. Rabidoux		Method for forming features using frequency doubling hybrid resist and device formed thereby
6,277,546	G. Breyta, N. J. Clecak, W. D. Hinsberg III, D. C. Hofer, H. Ito, S. A. MacDonald, and R. Sooriyakumaran		Process for imaging of photoresist
6,277,799	J. N. Humenik, J. U. Knickerbocker, G. A. Pomerantz, and K. G. Sachdev		Aqueous cleaning of paste residue
6,278,049	J. A. Casey, S. R. Dwyer, G. M. Johnson, D. C. Long, and K. M. Prettyman		Thermoelectric devices and methods for making the same
6,278,102	T. B. Hook, J. B. Johnson, R. Leidy, and H.-S. P. Wong		Method of detecting electromagnetic radiation with bandgap engineered active pixel cell design
6,278,147	A. P. Cowley, T. J. Dalton, P. A. Emmi, E. Kaltalioglu, and V. J. McGahay		On-chip decoupling capacitor with bottom hardmask
6,278,157	S. N. Storino and J. V. Tran		Method and apparatus for elimination of parasitic bipolar action in logic circuits including complementary oxide semiconductor (CMOS) silicon on insulator (SOI) elements
6,278,171	K. C. Arndt, L. L. Hsu, J. A. Mandelman, and K. P. Muller		Sublithographic fuses using a phase shift mask
6,278,184	P. J. Brofman, P. A. Coico, M. G. Courtney, L. S. Goldmann, R. A. Jackson, W. E. Sablinski, K. A. Stalter, H. T. Toy, and L. Wang		Solder disc connection
6,278,193	P. A. Coico and J. H. Covell		Optical sensing method to place flip chips
6,278,210	A. Chiu, R. Contreras, J. J. Fatula, Jr., R. W. Hitzfeld, G. Prada-Silva, and R. Schieferstein		Rotary element apparatus with wireless power transfer
6,278,279	T. C. Daun-Lindberg and S. W. Steele		Path test for a DC battery back-up system
6,278,304	D. Livezey		Look-ahead enabling charge pump in phase-locked loop circuits
6,278,317	L. L. C. Hsu, O. Weinfurtner, and M. R. Wordeman		Charge pump system having multiple charging rates and corresponding method
6,278,339	W. W. Abadeer, J. Connor, and P. R. Hansen		Termination resistance independent system for impedance matching in high speed input-output chip interfacing
6,278,443	H. Y. Amro and J. P. Dodson		Touch screen with random finger placement and rolling on screen to control the movement of information on-screen
6,278,457	F. Bernardini, P. Borrel, and J. P. Menon		Methods and apparatus for performing sampling based synthesis of three-dimensional geometric models
6,278,463	S. G. Chapman and B. M. Collins		Digital image processing
6,278,502	E. G. Colgan and K. R. Schleupen		Pixel capacitor formed from multiple layers
6,278,515	S. E. Knight and C. A. Whiting		Method and apparatus for adjusting a tilt of a lithography tool
6,278,570	H. Akiyama, M. Kanamaru, A. Morita, and S. Tsuda		Method and apparatus for moving a head arm assembly to a landing zone in a disk drive storage device
6,278,571	N. X. Bui, J. Fukuda, G. A. Jaquette, J. A. Koski, and K. Tsuruta		Adaptive servo gap detection for timing based servo
6,278,577	J. A. Aboaf, E. V. Denison, J. D. Friedman, and V. N. Kahwaty		Asymmetric recording head for same gap servo optimization
6,278,585	S. A. Olson, D. D. Palmer, and A. Vesci		Transducer suspension termination system
6,278,589	H. S. Gill		Dual GMR sensor with a single afm layer
6,278,590	H. S. Gill and J. D. Westwood		High moment laminated layer with nickel cobalt or nickel iron cobalt based alloy layer for first pole piece of write head
6,278,591	T. Y. Chang and J.-S. J. Lo		Inverted merged MR head having plated notched first pole tip and self-aligned second pole tip
6,278,597	K. R. Covi, E. J. Seminaro, S. Shevach, and D. F. Sorenson		Conditional over-voltage protection for redundant phase-shift converters
6,278,598	K. Suzuki and S. Yamazaki		PC switch circuit with discharge circuitry
6,278,614	D. P. Beaman, M. L. Buller, B. M. Kerrigan, and J. R. Pugley		Expansion card retention apparatus and method
6,278,615	J. R. Brezina, J. S. Corbin, Jr., and D. E. Massey		Heatsink grounding spring and shield apparatus
6,278,693	B. K. Aldred, H. S. Lambert, H. D. Mitchell, and D. S. Renshaw		Communications systems with quality of service parameters
6,278,695	B. Bevill, Jr., K. J. Christensen, J. Dagher, F. E. Noel, R. E. Rehquate, and T. Stammely		Multi-port LAN switch for a token-ring network
6,278,704	T. E. Creamer, Z. A. B. G. Lozinski, B. D. Mandalia, and P. P. Mansey		Extended telephone services via telephone lines shared for standard telephony and internet access
6,278,729	J. R. Thompson		Method and apparatus for testing a communications line in a data processing system
6,278,735	N. Mohsenian		Real-time single pass variable bit rate control strategy and encoder
6,278,747	R. A. Hutchins, G. A. Jaquette, and K. Tsuruta		Method and apparatus for performing digital detection of data stored on an optical medium
6,278,772	R. J. Bowater and L. L. Porter		Voice recognition of telephone conversations
6,278,956	A. Leroux, D. Petit, and S. Posson		Method of locating a failed latch in a defective shift register
6,278,959	M. H. Alferness		Method and system for monitoring the performance of a data processing system
6,278,966	S. K. Howard, D. C. Martin, and M. E. P. Plutowski		Method and system for emulating web site traffic to identify web site usage patterns
6,278,969	D. D. King and R. J. Redpath		Method and system for improving machine translation accuracy using translation memory
6,278,977	R. Agrawal, F. Leymann, and D. Roller		Deriving process models for workflow management systems from audit trails
6,278,994	G. Y. C. Fuh, N. M. Mattos, B. T.-V. Tran, and Y. Wang		Fully integrated architecture for user-defined search
6,278,997	R. Agrawal, R. J. Bayardo, and D. Gunopulos		System and method for constraint-based rule mining in large, dense data-sets
6,279,002	N. Lenz and W. Schawer		System and procedure for measuring the performance of applications by means of messages
6,279,003	C. M. Lee, R. W. Lyle, and H. M. Wang		Self-describing multiple key format database index
6,279,004	C. M. Lee, R. W. Lyle, S. J. Schmandt, H. M. Wang, and Y. Wang		Database index key versioning
6,279,024	B. A. Chappell, T. I. Chappell, S. H. Dhong, and M. S. Milshtein		High performance, low power incrementer for dynamic circuits
6,279,030	K. H. Britton, S. Graham, and D. L. Kaminsky		Dynamic java(TM) class selection and download based on changeable attributes
6,279,034	S. Jarriel, C. L. Jung, M. McNally, and B. J. Vetter		Distributed monitor timer service for use in a distributed computing environment
6,279,036	V. Berstis and M. A. Himmel		Method and apparatus for detecting actual viewing or electronic advertisements
6,279,041	S. B. Baber, K. H. Britton, J. R. Hind, B. C. Housel III, and A. A. Wesley		Methods, systems and computer program products for differencing data communications using a message queue
6,279,046	W. J. Armstrong and N. Nayar		Event-driven communications interface for logically-partitioned computer
6,279,047	H. Bublitz and K. Rindtorff		Method for simplifying communication with chip cards
6,279,064	T. C. Bronson, W. L. Lee, and V. P. Zeyak, Jr.		System and method for loading commands to a bus, directly loading selective commands while queuing and strictly ordering other commands
6,279,074	J. W. Pence		Contention handling for task requests to storage devices within a host system
6,279,085	G. D. Carpenter and D. B. Glasco		Method and system for avoiding livelocks due to colliding writebacks within a non-uniform memory access system
6,279,086	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, J. B. Joyner, and J. D. Lewis		Multiprocessor system bus with combined snoop responses implicitly updating snooper LRU position
6,279,092	P. A. Franaszek, P. Heidelberger, and D. E. Poff		Kernel identification for space management in compressed memory systems
6,279,105	B. R. Konigsburg and D. S. Levitan		Pipelined two-cycle branch target address cache
6,279,122	G. D. Hitchcock and L. P. Prissel		Apparatus and method for self generating error simulation test data from production code
6,279,127	B. B. Moore		System for predicting year-2000 instruction failures
6,279,128	W. C. Arnold, J. Bruck, D. M. Chess, C. E. Cox, M. D. Flickner, J. O. Kephart, G. B. Sorkin, and S. R. White		Autonomous system for recognition of patterns formed by stored data during computer memory scrubbing
6,279,136	J. E. Kulakowski, R. J. Means, and D. J. Winarski		Error correction code system which inhibits the transfer of padded sectors
6,279,138	D. Jadav, D. R. Kenchammana-Hosekote, and J. M. Menon		System for changing the parity structure of a raid array
6,279,140	A. A. Slane		Method and apparatus for checksum verification with receive packet processing
6,279,142	M. A. Bowen, M. Cases, and H. H. Smith		Method of on-chip interconnect design
6,279,144	W. H. Henkels, W. Hwang, R. V. Joshi, and A. T. Williams		Provably correct storage arrays
6,279,149	J. H. Field, G. Ramalingam, and F. Tip		Aggregate structure identification and its application to program analysis
6,279,151	F. C. Breslau, P. G. Greenstein, and J. T. Rodell		Method and apparatus for remote source code inclusion
6,279,815	G. C. Correia, J. E. Cronin, and E. J. Sprogis		Stacked chip process carrier
6,279,827	A. J. Yeckley		Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for dynamically positioning magnetic shielding to reduce magnetic interference at a magnetic read head
6,280,094	L. J. Gilliland, H. S. Nagaraj, and D. Stacer		Ball bearing oil/grease loss containment shield
6,280,527	J. T. Butler, M. E. Cropp, D. W. DiAngelo, J. F. Harmuth, J. N. Humenik, J. U. Knickerbocker, D. S. MacKin, G. A. Pomerantz, K. G. Sachdev, D. E. Speed, C. A. Sullivan, B. E. Tripp, and J. C. Utter		Aqueous quaternary ammonium hydroxide as a screening mask cleaner
6,280,797	J. P. Kuczynski and D. O. Lewis		Coating material and method for providing asset protection
6,280,813	M. J. Carey, E. E. Fullerton, B. A. Gurney, H. J. Rosen, and M. E. Schabes		Magnetic recording media with antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic films as the recording layer
6,280,884	G. C. Bjorklund, W. E. Moerner, and S. M. Silence		Process for photorefractive index grating formation
6,280,887	N. Lu		Complementary and exchange mask design methodology for optical proximity correction in microlithography
6,280,901	A. Aviram, A. T. S. Pomerene, and D. E. Seeger		High sensitivity, photo-active polymer and developers for high resolution resist applications
6,280,908	A. Aviram and M. J. Rooks		Post-development resist hardening by vapor silylation
6,281,064	G. B. Bronner, R. Divakaruni, and J. A. Mandelman		Method for providing dual work function doping and protective insulating cap
6,281,068	P. Coronel, D. Cruau, F. Leverd, R. MacCagnan, and E. Mass		Method for buried plate formation in deep trench capacitors
6,281,084	H. Akatsu, R. Divakaruni, and G. Y. Lee		Disposable spacers for improved array gapfill in high density DRAMs
6,281,095	R. J. Bolam, S. B. Kulkarni, and D. J. Schepis		Process of manufacturing silicon-on-insulator chip having an isolation barrier for reliability
6,281,105	J. M. Cotte, J. M. Roldan, C. J. Sambucetti, and R. F. Saraf		Electrode modification using an unzippable polymer paste
6,281,114	L. Clevenger, C. Lin, and R. F. Schnabel		Planarization after metal chemical mechanical polishing in semiconductor wafer fabrication
6,281,437	S. W. Anderson, G. J. Armezzani, and D. P. Labzentis		Method of forming an electrical connection between a conductive member having a dual thickness substrate and a conductor and electronic package including said connection
6,281,451	H. H. Chan, Q. Chen, and E. J. Tayar		Electrical cable device
6,281,452	R. L. Canull, G. DiGiacomo, A. P. Giri, L. S. Goldmann, K. A. Kelly, B. W. Leenstra, V. R. Markovich, E. D. Perfecto, C. Prasad, S. Purushothaman, J. M. Sullivan, and R. Yu		Multi-level thin-film electronic packaging structure and related method
6,281,479	D. Guidotti and K. L. Lee		Continual flow rapid thermal processing apparatus and method
6,281,539	R. Divakaruni and J. A. Mandelman		Structure and process for 6F2 DT cell having vertical MOSFET and large storage capacitance
6,281,551	K. K. Chan, C. P. D'Emic, E. C. Jones, P. M. Solomon, and S. Tiwari		Back-plane for semiconductor device
6,281,573	E. R. Atwood, J. A. Benenati, G. DiGiacomo, and H. Quinones		Thermal enhancement approach using solder compositions in the liquid state
6,281,576	M. C. Hakey and W. H.-L. Ma		Method of fabricating structure for chip micro-joining
6,281,581	K. Desai V and A. K. Sarkhel		Substrate structure for improving attachment reliability of semiconductor chips and modules
6,281,583	B. Dirahoui, D. C. Edelstein, R. C. Greenlese, and H. C. Jones		Planar integrated circuit interconnect
6,281,593	J. S. Brown, A. Bryant, R. J. Gauthier, Jr., and S. H. Voldman		SOI MOSFET body contact and method of fabrication
6,281,676	H. H. Ottesen and G. J. Smith		Rigid disk surface defect detection and classification
6,281,677	M. C. Cosci, P. M. Green, and L. A. Oliver		Method for defect marking and analysis of thin film hard disks
6,281,692	P. F. Bodenweber, R. R. Comulada, M. S. Farooq, C. J. Hendricks, P. B. Hodge, V. P. Peterson, T. W. Spoor, K. M. Wiley, and Y.-Y. Yu		Interposer for maintaining temporary contact between a substrate and a test bed
6,281,702	D. T. Hui		CMOS small signal terminated hysteresis receiver
6,281,731	J. A. Fifield, R. J. Houghton, W. D. Pricer, and W. R. Tonti		Control of hysteresis characteristic within a CMOS differential receiver
6,281,737	J. B. Kuang, P.-F. Lu, and M. J. Saccamango		Method and apparatus for reducing parasitic bipolar current in a silicon-on-insulator transistor
6,281,816	F. A. Kampf		Method and apparatus for reducing data expansion during data compression
6,281,860	G. H. Ahrens, Jr., M. C. Duron, R. A. Faust, F. C. Gray, and K. P. Szabo		Cues for status information
6,281,874	B. Cohen, H. Krupnik, and Z. Sivan		Method and system for downloading graphic images on the internet
6,281,886	R. Ranieri		Touchscreen keyboard support for multi-byte character languages
6,281,888	F. Hoffman and T. G. Zimmerman		Pen input device using electrostatic coupling
6,281,896	C. Alimpich, B. N. Jeffcoat, D. E. Neuhard, L. L. Vigil, and J. P. J. Wittig		Data processor controlled interface with multiple tree of elements views expandable into individual detail views
6,281,897	R. E. Berry and S. H. Isensee		Method and apparatus for moving and retrieving objects in a graphical user environment
6,281,903	I. M. Martin and B.-O. Schneider		Methods and apparatus for embedding 2D image content into 3D models
6,281,984	W. C. Decker, H. C. Lee, and J. L. Zable		Enhanced 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 (C'M'Y'K') that are associated with a given printer
6,281,993	M.-P. Bernal, H. J. Coufal, R. K. Grygier, C. M. Jefferson, E. Oesterschoze, and K. F. Walsh		Phase shifting element for optical information processing storing systems
6,282,038	A. R. Bonaccio, R. A. Philpott, P. J. Windler, and G. S. Winn		Variable gain amplifier with temperature compensation for use in a disk drive system
6,282,046	G. R. Houston and L. J. Serrano		Current limiting in high performance files
6,282,051	T. R. Albrecht, R. C. Barrett, and J. H. Eaton		Timing based servo system for magnetic tape systems
6,282,064	A. D. Erpelding, D. D. Palmer, S. Pattanaik, and O. J. Ruiz		Head gimbal assembly with integrated electrical conductors
6,282,068	M. Pinarbasi		Antiparallel (AP) pinned read head with improved GMR
6,282,084	D. R. Goerdt and E. A. Leitner		Transportable support apparatus for portable computers
6,282,089	T. Nakanishi and T. Nishio		Portable computer cooling method and computer holder
6,282,113	J. K. DeBrosse		Four F-squared gapless dual layer bitline DRAM array architecture
6,282,115	T. Furukawa, D. V. Horak, and H. L. Kalter		Multi-level DRAM trench store utilizing two capacitors and two plates
6,282,116	S. Butt, G. Kunkel, and C. J. Radens		Dynamic random access memory
6,282,144	K. A. Batson, G. S. Koch, and S. T. Ventrone		Multi-ported memory with asynchronous and synchronous protocol
6,282,239	J. R. Thompson		Method and apparatus for testing a communications line in a data processing system
6,282,268	J. P. J. Hughes, B. Hulse, R. M. Jordan, C. E. Maynard, J. B. Pickering, and A. Ritchie		Voice processing system
6,282,269	R. J. Bowater and L. L. Porter		Voice mail on the internet
6,282,270	L. L. Porter		World wide web voice mail system
6,282,278	Y. N. Doganata and A. N. Tantawi		Universal conference control manager
6,282,291	Y. Kobayashi, S. Munetoh, and N. Oba		Method and apparatus for encrypting input bit sequence
6,282,318	B. L. Dietrich and W. C. Dietrich, Jr.		Method and system for combining pattern matching and optimization
6,282,459	A. W. Ballantine, E. E. Fisch, and R. A. Warren		Structure and method for detection of physical interference during transport of an article
6,282,486	C. L. Bates, P. R. Day, J. M. Ryan, and J. M. Santosuosso		Distributed system and method for detecting traffic patterns
6,282,541	P. Hoa, B. R. Iyer, B. R. Moore, and B. F. Smith		Efficient groupby aggregation in tournament tree sort
6,282,545	M. R. Coats		Mechanism for information extraction and traversal from an object base including a plurality of object classes
6,282,553	M. D. Flickner, Q. Lu, and C. H. Morimoto		Gaze-based secure keypad entry system
6,282,557	S. H. Dhong, H. C. Ngo, and K. J. Nowka		Low latency fused multiply-adder
6,282,560	C. K. Eilert and P. B. Yocom		Managing processor resources in a non-dedicated computer system
6,282,563	K. Kosaka, D. B. Lange, M. Oshima, and G. Yamamoto		Agent moving method, message transmission method, agent transmission method, agent acquisition method, message acquisition method and agent list acquisition method, and computer
6,282,569	M. Platt, A. J. Stanford-Clark, M. G. Taylor, and G. D. Wallis		Name server computer having a load levelling facility to spread the load from client computers across a plurality of server computers
6,282,570	T. K.-C. Leung, S. N. See, S. Wong, and C.-Y. Wu		Monitoring a large parallel database through dynamic grouping and sequential sampling
6,282,582	K. Kosaka and M. Oshima		Computer system, agent transmission method and agent reactivation method
6,282,584	M. M. Garroussi and A. Mansur		Structure and method for reading/writing signature commands from/to a plurality of controller pairs
6,282,596	R. Bealkowski and P. M. Bland		Method and system for hot-plugging a processor into a data processing system
6,282,600	W. E. Maule, R. S. Moore, D. W. Victor, and E. H. Welbon		Method and apparatus of resolving conflicting register access requests from a service processor and system processor
6,282,601	S. D. Goodman and B. B. Khatri		Multiprocessor data processing system and method of interrupt handling that facilitate identification of a processor requesting a system management interrupt
6,282,609	W. C. Carlson		Storage and access to scratch mounts in VTS system
6,282,613	W. W. S. Hsu and H. C. Young		Very efficient technique for dynamically tracking locality of a reference
6,282,615	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Fields, Jr., and S. Ghai		Multiprocessor system bus with a data-less castout mechanism
6,282,618	J. M. Flenley		Secure variable storage for internet applications
6,282,619	S. M. R. Islam, B. J. Oza, and P. A. Richardson		Logical drive migration for a raid adapter
6,282,628	K. E. Diefendorff, P. K. Dubey, R. R. Hochsprung, B. Olsson, and H. L. Scales III		Method and system for a result code for a single-instruction multiple-data predicate compare operation
6,282,642	D. C. Cromer, C. B. Gould, H. J. Locker, D. B. Rhoades, and J. P. Ward		System for presetting a first or second remote boot protocol by a computer remotely receiving and storing a boot parameter prior to being powered on
6,282,643	D. C. Cromer, B. J. Ellison, E. R. Kern, H. J. Locker, and R. S. Springfield		Computer system having flash memory bios which can be accessed remotely while protected mode operating system is running
6,282,649	H. S. Lambert and J. R. L. Orchard		Method for controlling access to electronically provided services and system for implementing such method
6,282,653	V. Berstis and M. A. Himmel		Royalty collection method and system for use of copyrighted digital materials on the internet
6,282,664	D. E. Staiger		Method and apparatus for switching an electronic system between an operating mode and stand-by mode
6,282,670	D. A. Kalman, A. B. McNeill, Jr., I. S. M. Rezaul, and P. A. Richardson		Managing defective media in a raid system
6,282,671	S. M. R. Islam and L. A. Riedle		Method and system for improved efficiency of parity calculation in raid system
6,282,674	J. M. Patel and M. I. Patel		Apparatus and method for retrieval of circuit state information
6,282,692	B. J. Rubin		Structure for improved capacitance and inductance calculation
6,282,695	L. N. Reddy and T. E. Rosser		System and method for restructuring of logic circuitry
6,282,703	J. Civlin, K. Z. Meth, and I. Nahshon		Statically linking an application process with a wrapper library