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

United States
6,343,609	B. Kim		Cleaning with liquified gas and megasonics
6,343,732	S. P. Graves and P. D. Isaacs		Passive and active heat retention device for solder fountain rework
6,343,974	D. L. Franca, R. Khoury, J. M. Ocasio, and U. A. Ziemins		Real-time method for profiling and conditioning chemical-mechanical polishing pads
6,344,099	M. A. Gaynes, A. O. Johnson, R. R. Kodnani, M. V. Pierson, and E. J. Tasillo		TFT panel alignment and attachment method and apparatus
6,344,106	E. J. Frankoski, J. D. Jones, R. H. Katyl, and L. B. Ratcliff		Apparatus, and corresponding method, for chemically etching substrates
6,344,123	P. Bhatnagar		Method and apparatus for electroplating alloy films
6,344,124	P. Bhatnagar		Method and apparatus for electroplating alloy films
6,344,125	P. S. Locke, K. S. Petrarca, S. Subbanna, and R. P. Volant		Pattern-sensitive electrolytic metal plating
6,344,129	P. C. Andricacos, C. Cabral, Jr., L. M. Gignac, P. S. Locke, K. P. Rodbell, and C. E. Uzoh		Method for plating copper conductors and devices formed
6,344,234	A. Bitaillou, H. M. Dalal, K. M. Fallon, G. J. Gaudenzi, K. R. Herman, F. Pierre, and G. Robert		Method for forming reflowed solder ball with low melting point metal cap
6,344,305	A. Afzali-Ardakani, W. R. Brunsvold, A. D. Katnani, D. C. LaTulipe, Jr., Q. Lin, and D. E. Seeger		Radiation sensitive silicon-containing resists
6,344,373	A. Bhattacharyya, R. M. Geffken, C. H. Lam, and R. K. Leidy		Antifuse structure and process
6,344,381	J. A. Bracchitta, J. A. Mandelman, S. A. Parke, and M. R. Wordeman		Method for forming pillar CMOS
6,344,383	W. S. Berry, J. P. Gambino, J. A. Mandelman, and W. R. Tonti		Structure and method for dual gate oxidation for CMOS technology
6,344,389	G. B. Bronner, J. P. Gambino, and C. J. Radens		Self-aligned damascene interconnect
6,344,390	M. Bostelmann, C. Bucher, P. Raffin, F. Rodier, and J.-M. Rousseau		Methods of forming the buried strap and its quantum barrier in deep trench cell capacitors
6,344,409	M. A. Jaso and R. F. Schnabel		Dummy patterns for aluminum chemical polishing (CMP)
6,344,414	K. M. Davis, F. F. Jamin, B. P. Jones, and M. F. Lofaro		Chemical-mechanical polishing system having a bi-material wafer backing film assembly
6,344,416	T. Furukawa, M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, and D. V. Horak		Deliberate semiconductor film variation to compensate for radial processing differences, determine optimal device characteristics, or produce small productions
6,344,422	B. Borgognoni, F. Leverd, B. Sauvage, and P. Vekeman		Method of depositing a BSG layer
6,344,660	C. D. Dimitrakopoulos, P. R. Duncombe, B. K. Furman, R. B. Laibowitz, D. A. Neumayer, and S. Purushothaman		Thin-film field-effect transistor with organic semiconductor requiring low operating voltages
6,344,662	C. D. Dimitrakopoulos, C. R. Kagan, and D. B. Mitzi		Thin-film field-effect transistor with organic-inorganic hybrid semiconductor requiring low operating voltages
6,344,671	F. Assaderaghi, M. J. Hargrove, J. A. Mandelman, N. J. Rohrer, and P. Smeys		Pair of FETs including a shared SOI body contact and the method of forming the FETs
6,344,673	C. Aussilhou, C. Buchet, P. Raffin, F. Rodier, and J.-M. Rousseau		Multilayered quantum conducting barrier structures
6,344,679	W. A. Klaasen, W. D. Pricer, and J. H. Rankin		Diode with alterable conductivity and method of making same
6,344,698	R. L. Barr, R. T. Froebel, and P. Sonntag		More robust alignment mark design
6,344,720	N. Bui and J. A. Koski		Current mode PWM technique for a brushless motor
6,344,738	J. H. Garcia, T. Mello, E. C. O'Brien, J. D. Perrault, B. C. Robinson, and H. S. Seing		Non-magnetic system for a memory disk test system
6,344,756	D. R. Cecchi, C. C. Hanson, and C. W. Preuss		Echo cancellation circuit for a bi-directional current mode link
6,344,768	T. C. Daun-Lindberg and M. L. Miller		Full-bridge DC-to-DC converter having an unipolar gate drive
6,344,807	M. Hassner, N. Heise, and W. Hirt		Packet-frame generator for creating an encoded packet frame and method thereof
6,344,859	C. Alimpich, B. N. Jeffcoat, D. E. Neuhard, L. L. Vigil, and J. P. J. Wittig		Data processor controlled display system with a plurality of selectable basic function interfaces for the control of varying types of customer requirements and with additional customized functions
6,344,863	R. B. Capelli, J. Kubik, M. J. Sullivan, and J. M. Wagner		Three-dimensional GUI windows with variable-speed perspective movement
6,344,874	R. M. Helms and J. V. Taglione		Imaging system using a data transmitting light source for subject illumination
6,344,877	S. M. Gowda, H. J. Shin, H.-S. P. Wong, P. H. Xiao, and J. Yang		Image sensor with dummy pixel or dummy pixel array
6,344,886	K. Kawada, Y. Oki, and M. Suzuki		Light guide device enhancing a polarized component and liquid crystal display device
6,344,938	G. J. Smith		Method and apparatus for preemptive head crash avoidance in a disk drive
6,344,942	E. J. Yarmchuk		Method and apparatus for absolute track spacing determination for self-servowriting
6,344,943	N. Kitazaki, K. Satoh, A. Sharma, S. M. Sri-Jayantha, and I. Yoneda		Increased and randomized output sampling to reduce positioning noise in a data storage system
6,344,949	T. R. Albrecht, R. E. Fontana, Jr., P. Kasiraj, E. H. Klaassen, R. N. Payne, and T. C. Reiley		Flying height adjustment for air bearing sliders
6,344,952	R. G. Biskeborn, T. Y. Chen, M. J. Doscher, J. D. Jarratt, and P. V. Koeppe		Serpentine resistive shunt for MR heads having conductive shields
6,344,964	E. Adler		Capacitor having sidewall spacer protecting the dielectric layer
6,344,967	D. J. Winarski and G. G. Zamora		Laptop computer with ergonomically enhanced interface features
6,345,038	C. R. Selinger		Improving access to congested networks
6,345,055	C. A. Alexander, Jr., J. K. Frick, and E. J. Rovner		Method and system for providing interoperability between network clients having different versions of local-area network emulation user network interface within an asynchronous transfer mode emulated local-area network
6,345,098	S. M. Matyas, Jr. and A. Roginsky		Method, system and apparatus for improved reliability in generating secret cryptographic variables
6,345,103	T. M. Cipolla, S. H. Maes, and P. A. Moskowitz		Visor mounting of microphone for vehicle operator
6,345,241	F. W. Brice, R. P. Tarcza, and L. W. Wyman		Method and apparatus for simulation of data in a virtual environment using a queued direct input-output device
6,345,249	K. A. Coe, S. J. Friedland, B. L. Lewis, K. A. Ortega, and M. E. Smith		Automatic analysis of a speech dictated document
6,345,250	D. G. Martin		Developing voice response applications from pre-recorded voice and stored text-to-speech prompts
6,345,252	H. S. M. Beigi, A. C. L. Tritschler, and M. Viswanathan		Methods and apparatus for retrieving audio information using content and speaker information
6,345,253	M. Viswanathan		Method and apparatus for retrieving audio information using primary and supplemental indexes
6,345,254	B. E. Ballard, J. R. Lewis, A. Nassiff, K. A. Ortega, R. E. Van Buskirk, and H. Wang		Method and apparatus for improving speech command recognition accuracy using event-based constraints
6,345,256	Q. Gong, C. Kindell, and K. L. Milsted		Automated method and apparatus to package digital content for electronic distribution using the identity of the source content
6,345,267	G. M. Lohman, E. J. Shekita, D. E. Simmen, and M. S. Urata		Method and system for look ahead query evaluation planning based on interesting partition properties
6,345,269	T. Kappenberger and E. Vicari		System and method for communicating with various electronic archive systems
6,345,271	R. L. Dempsey, D. A. DeSimone, A. C. Fockler, T. Q. Ha, and M. P. Vo		Method and apparatus for transforming queries
6,345,279	C.-S. Li, R. Mohan, and J. R. Smith		Methods and apparatus for adapting multimedia content for client devices
6,345,280	C. E. Clark, S. J. Greenspan, and H. R. Shah		System of compressing a log stream using a scratch pad of logically deleted entries
6,345,286	S. H. Dhong, H. C. Ngo, and K. J. Nowka		6-to-3 carry-save adder
6,345,287	L. L. Fong, A. S. Gopal, N. Islam, A. L. Prodromidis, and M. S. Squillante		Gang scheduling for resource allocation in a cluster computing environment
6,345,289	J. B. Lotspiech and R. J. T. Morris		Intermediate system transmitting relevant selections based on permutation function applied consumer/information signature vectors for privacy
6,345,291	T. E. Murphy, Jr. and J. S. Stevens		Multiplexing of clients and applications among multiple servers
6,345,295	B. C. Beardsley, C. E. Jones, W. G. Sherman, and J. E. Smothers		Conducting traces in a computer system attachment network
6,345,299	E. R. Segal		Distributed security system for a communication network
6,345,306	G. R. Hintermeister, G. S. Hurlebaus, E. D. Lindberg, R. A. Mahlik, and M. B. Murphy		Packager apparatus and method for physically and logically packaging and distributing items in a distributed environment
6,345,310	S. S. Allison and K. J. Barker		Architecture for a multiple port adapter having a single media access control (MAC) with a single I/O port
6,345,311	F. C. Breslau, P. G. Greenstein, and J. T. Rodell		Method and system of dynamically moving objects between heterogeneous execution environments
6,345,312	R. A. Bobak, S. B. Compton, J. K. Johnson, D. L. Meck, and W. R. Richardson		Selectively dummying a data pipe transparent to a writer application
6,345,314	G. L. Cole, R. K. McGuire, and S. M. Pritko		Technique to minimize data transfer between two computers
6,345,316	A. E. Chessell, M. Mulholland, and K. S. Warr		Apparatus, method and computer program product for client/server computing with the ability to select which servers are capable of creating transaction state data
6,345,318	O. J. Gamon		System for maintaining a user-modifiable confirmation message configuration record that specifying with respect to a plurality of operations whether to communicate a confirmation message
6,345,322	R. S. Humphrey		Intelligently interpreting errors in build output log files
6,345,324	M. E. Baskey, F. W. Brice, Jr., S. G. Glassen, E. P. Hefferon, B. H. Ratcliff, A. R. Sager, A. J. Stagg, and S. R. Valley		Apparatus for transferring data using an interface element and a queued direct input-output device
6,345,325	M. E. Baskey, F. W. Brice, Jr., D. F. Casper, J. R. Easton, S. G. Glassen, E. P. Hefferon, B. H. Ratcliff, A. R. Sager, A. J. Stagg, and L. W. Wyman		Method and apparatus for ensuring accurate and timely processing of data using a queued direct input-output device
6,345,326	M. E. Baskey, F. W. Brice, D. F. Casper, J. R. Easton, S. G. Glassen, E. P. Hefferon, B. H. Ratcliff, A. J. Stagg, and L. W. Wyman		Computer program device and product for timely processing of data using a queued direct input-output device
6,345,327	M. E. Baskey, F. W. Brice, Jr., D. F. Casper, S. G. Glassen, E. P. Hefferon, A. S. Meritt, B. H. Ratcliff, A. R. Sager, D. W. Schmidt, A. J. Stagg, and S. R. Valley		Queuing method and apparatus for providing direct data processing access using a queued direct input-output device
6,345,329	M. E. Baskey, F. W. Brice, Jr., S. G. Glassen, E. P. Hefferon, B. H. Ratcliff, D. W. Schmidt, A. J. Stagg, S. R. Valley, and L. W. Wyman		Method and apparatus for exchanging data using a queued direct input-output device
6,345,331	C. F. Fuente		Device adapter being reintegrated with plurality of device adapters of network, or reestablishing permissions and resubmitting I/O requests depending on determined device state after failure
6,345,337	B. McNutt, D. A. Short, and B. J. Smith		Method and system for determining a cache single reference residency time
6,345,339	R. K. Arimilli and J. S. Dodson		Pseudo precise I-cache inclusivity for vertical caches
6,345,340	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis		Cache coherency protocol with ambiguous state for posted operations
6,345,341	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Fields, Jr., and S. Ghai		Method of cache management for dynamically disabling o state memory-consistent data
6,345,342	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, and W. J. Starke		Cache coherency protocol employing a read operation including a programmable flag to indicate deallocation of an intervened cache line
6,345,343	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, and W. J. Starke		Multiprocessor system bus protocol with command and snoop responses for modified-unsolicited cache state
6,345,344	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, and W. J. Starke		Cache allocation mechanism for modified-unsolicited cache state that modifies victimization priority bits
6,345,347	G. Biran		Address protection using a hardware-defined application key
6,345,356	J. E. Derrick, L. E. Eisen, H. Q. Le, and R. G. McDonald		Method and apparatus for software-based dispatch stall mechanism for scoreboarded IOPS
6,345,358	G. E. Hall, Jr., M. E. Molander, and I. B. Shields		System for maintaining visible presentation of status indication by undocking it when it is moving out of visible presentation space and redocking thereto
6,345,362	C. L. Bertin, A. A. Dean, K. J. Goodnow, S. W. Gould, W. D. Pricer, W. R. Tonti, and S. T. Ventrone		Managing VT for reduced power using a status table
6,345,366	H. Andoh, H. Asano, T. Endo, K. Kobayashi, H. Suzuki, and I. Yoneda		Method and device for error recovery
6,345,369	A. Kitamorn, C. A. McLaughlin, K. Patel, and D. L. Thorson		Environmental and power error handling extension and analysis for systems with redundant components
6,345,376	C. E. Cox, M. D. Flickner, J. L. Hafner, M. A. Hassner, B. M. Trager, and S. Winograd		Method and means for computationally efficient on-the-fly error correction in linear cyclic codes using ultra-fast error location
6,345,380	A. R. Bonaccio, H. Kalter, and W. R. Tonti		Interconnected integrated circuits having reduced inductance during switching and a method of interconnecting such circuits
6,345,382	S. C. Hughes		Run-time customization in object-oriented design
6,345,399	P. C. Jamison, T. Wagner, R. S. Wise, and H. Yan		Hard mask process to prevent surface roughness for selective dielectric etching
6,345,415	R. C. Laning		Self-captivating pinless hinge
6,345,429	E. Furey and D. J. Jalanti		Method for fastening objects flush to a surface
6,346,029	C. Arcona, M. A. Church, A. M. Desouches, and G. M. Moorefield II		Bow compensated lapping
6,346,158	E. G. Colgan, T. Heito, M. Noguchi, and M. Suzuki		Alignment of lenticular sheets
6,346,175	E. G. Colgan, J. M. E. Harper, K. P. Rodbell, and H. Takatsuji		Modification of in-plate refractory metal texture by use of refractory metal/nitride layer
6,346,183	A. Baer, R. Hsiao, C. Hwang, C. D. Snyder, and H. Xu		Use of thin carbon films as a bottom anti-reflective coating in manufacturing magnetic heads
6,346,352	D. M. Hayden, T. E. Neary, and J. N. Ross		Quartz defect removal utilizing gallium staining and femtosecond ablation
6,346,362	A. Aviram, C. R. Guarnieri, W.-S. Huang, R. W. Kwong, and D. R. Medeiros		Polymers and use thereof
6,346,484	J. M. Cotte, C. V. Jahnes, K. J. McCullough, W. M. Moreau, S. V. Nitta, K. L. Saenger, and J. P. Simons		Method for selective extraction of sacrificial place-holding material used in fabrication of air gap-containing interconnect structures
6,346,487	D. A. Buchanan, E. P. Gousev, C. J. Heenan, W. J. Hodge, S. M. Shank, and P. R. Varekamp		Apparatus and method for forming an oxynitride insulating layer on a semiconductor wafer
6,346,734	R. Divakaruni and M. E. Weybright		Modified gate conductor processing for poly length control in high density DRAMs
6,346,747	A. Grill, C. V. Jahnes, and V. V. Patel		Method for fabricating a thermally stable diamond-like carbon film as an intralevel or interlevel dielectric in a semiconductor device and device made
6,346,794	S. Odaohhara		Method of controlling charge and discharge of a plurality of batteries
6,346,846	C. L. Bertin, J. A. Fifield, R. J. Houghton, W. R. Tonti, and N. M. Van Heel		Methods and apparatus for blowing and sensing antifuses
6,346,848	D. Shkap		Apparatus and method for generating current linearly dependent on temperature
6,346,954	B. Ballard, S. Chu, and G. Steinbugler		User interface for configuring and managing a multi-drive data storage system
6,346,962	S. Goodridge		Control of video conferencing system with pointing device
6,346,975	P. Chaudhari, J. A. Lacey, and S.-C. A. Lien		Liquid crystal display having alignment layer using ion bombarded amorphous material 100a thickness or less
6,346,979	C. P. Ausschnitt, S. M. Mansfield, M. O. Neisser, and C. D. Wait		Process and apparatus to adjust exposure dose in lithography systems
6,347,042	W. White		Printed circuit board top side mounting standoff
6,347,049	J. R. Childress, B. A. Gurney, and M. Schwickert		Low resistance magnetic tunnel junction device with bilayer or multilayer tunnel barrier
6,347,058	R. J. Houghton and C. P. Miller		Sense amplifier with overdrive and regulated bitline voltage
6,347,287	M. F. Beckett, C. J. Ford, D. S. Moran, G. T. Patrick, S. M. Shaaban, and G. W. Twombly, Jr.		Calibration system and method for receiver guardband reductions
6,347,294	A. J. Booker, W. R. Lee, and N. D. Miles		Upgradeable highly integrated embedded CPU system
6,347,296	S. J. Friedland		Correcting speech recognition without first presenting alternatives
6,347,300	A. Minematsu		Speech correction apparatus and method
6,347,309	G. I. De Tremiolles and P. Tannhof		Circuits and method for shaping the influence field of neurons and neural networks resulting therefrom
6,347,312	D. J. Byrne, C. R. Murthy, S.-B. Shi, and C.-L. Shu		Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory server cache mechanism and method
6,347,316	R. J. Redpath		National language proxy file save and incremental cache translation option for world wide web documents
6,347,320	C. S. Christensen, J. M. Girouard, N. Ishmael, Jr., and R. D. Talbot		Search parameters
6,347,330	C. S. Dawson, M. A. Kaczmarski, B. J. Vining, R. G. Vining, and D. P. Warren, Jr.		Dynamic selective distribution of events to server receivers
6,347,331	D. P. Dutcher, R. M. George, B. K. Howe, and S. A. Smith		Method and apparatus to update a windows registry from a hetrogeneous server
6,347,338	E. R. Segal		Precomputed and distributed security system for a communication network
6,347,341	S. G. Glassen, K. J. Oakes, B. H. Ratcliff, and A. J. Stagg		Computer program product used for exchange and transfer of data having a siga vector and utilizing a queued direct input-output device
6,347,349	D. M. Neal and S. M. Thurber		System for determining whether a subsequent transaction may be allowed or must be allowed or must not be allowed to bypass a preceding transaction
6,347,361	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis		Cache coherency protocols with posted operations
6,347,363	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, and J. D. Lewis		Merged vertical cache controller mechanism with combined cache controller and snoop queries for in-line caches
6,347,364	J. Liedtke		Schedulable dynamic memory pinning
6,347,367	T. J. Dell, S. A. Grundon, and M. W. Kellogg		Data bus structure for use with multiple memory storage and driver receiver technologies and a method of operating such structures
6,347,376	K. S. Attwood, J. R. Godwin, L. H. Overby, Jr., B. S. Perry, and D. J. Wierbowski		Security rule database searching in a network security environment
6,347,383	E. Elnozahy		Method and system for address trace compression through loop detection and reduction
6,347,393	C. J. Alpert, A. Devgan, and S. T. Quay		Method and apparatus for performing buffer insertion with accurate gate and interconnect delay computation
6,347,397	B. A. Curtis		System, method, and program for providing an object-oriented install architecture
6,347,732	J. S. Akin, T. A. Schiesser, and J. A. Shriver III		Circuit board component retention
6,347,742	R. L. Bingham, K. E. Dimitri, M. Hasegawa, and D. J. Winarski		Variable focal length lenses
6,347,901	S. Park, S. Sathe, and A. Zubelewicz		Solder interconnect techniques
6,348,076	D. F. Canaperi, W. J. Cote, P. Feeney, M. Krishnan, J. C. Liu, M. F. Lofaro, P. Murphy, and E. J. White		Slurry for mechanical polishing (CMP) of metals and use thereof
6,348,100	S. A. Cummings, D. P. Hogan, and A. A. Rouleau III		Resist bowl cleaning
6,348,233	J. A. Brody, H. D. Cox, J. Garant, H. Liu, P. G. McLaughlin, and T. Wayson		Method of forming conductive line features for enhanced reliability of multi-layer ceramic substrates
6,348,299	A. Aviram and I. V. Babich		RIE etch resistant nonchemically amplified resist composition and use thereof
6,348,374	S. D. Athavale, G. B. Bronner, R. Divakaruni, U. Gruening, J. A. Mandelman, and C. J. Radens		Process for 4F2 STC cell having vertical MOSFET and buried-bitline conductor structure
6,348,388	J. E. Faltermeier, U. Gruening, S. G. Hegde, R. Jammy, B. S. Lee, and H. H. Tews		Process for fabricating a uniform gate oxide of a vertical transistor
6,348,394	J. Beintner, R. Divakaruni, H. Ho, R. G. La, Y. Li, J. A. Mandelman, and R. Srinivasan		Method and device for array threshold voltage control by trapped charge in trench isolation
6,348,395	L. A. Clevenger, L. L. C. Hsu, J. K. Stephens, and M. Wise		Diamond as a polish-stop layer for chemical-mechanical planarization in a damascene process flow
6,348,419	E. Batt, F. Grellner, P. C. Jamison, G. L. Miles, and D. C. Mosher		Modification of the wet characteristics of deposited layers and in-line control
6,348,731	L. Ashley, H. M. Dalal, D. B. Nguyen, H. S. Rathore, and R. G. Smith		Copper interconnections with enhanced electromigration resistance and reduced defect sensitivity and method of forming same
6,348,736	R. Cook, S. E. Greco, J. P. Hummel, J. Liu, V. J. McGahay, R. Mih, and K. Srivastava		In situ formation of protective layer on silsesquioxane dielectric for dual damascene process
6,348,737	G. G. Advocate, Jr., F. J. Downes, Jr., R. A. Kaschak, J. S. Kresge, L. J. Matienzo, and D. C. Van Hart		Metallic interlocking structure
6,348,738	J. Dery, F. D. Egitto, L. J. Matienzo, C. Ouellet, L. Ouellet, D. L. Questad, W. J. Rudik, and S. K. Tran		Flip chip assembly
6,348,827	N. M. Van Heel, D. E. Chapman, D. E. Douse, J. A. Fifield, and M. D. Jacunski		Programmable delay element and synchronous DRAM using the same
6,348,846	R. J. Von Gutfeld and J. F. Ziegler		Filter circuit including system for tuning resonant structures to change resonant frequencies thereof
6,348,877	V. Berstis and J. L. Smith		Method and system for alerting a pilot to the location of other aircraft
6,348,883	T. Okada, K. Tanaka, and T. Ushio		Method of converting bits of optical disk, demodulating method and apparatus
6,348,915	M. Nakano and H. Yamashita		Data-transferring method and apparatus for reducing the number of data-bit changes
6,348,925	B. Potu		Method and apparatus for block data transfer to reduce on-chip storage for interpolative video resizing
6,348,935	A. S. Malacinski and M. D. Rahn		Programmable tree viewer graphical user interface with integrated control panel
6,349,032	B. Chan, R. R. Hall, J. H. Sherman, and C. C. Tiberia		Electronic chip packaging
6,349,037	R. L. Draughn, C. L. Durham, R. F.-. Pan, and T. B. Vojnovich		Backplane for common building block
6,349,067	L. L. Hsu, R. M. Parent, L.-K. Wang, and M. R. Wordeman		System and method for preventing noise cross contamination between embedded DRAM and system chip
6,349,246	G. J. Smith and G. W. Van Leeuwen		Preemptive control of a vehicle computer system based on local and environmental sensing
6,349,257	M. C. Greenwood, L. I. Lieberman, T.-K. Liu, P. A. Moskowitz, and D. A. Wood		System for personalized mobile navigation information
6,349,265	M. C. Pitman and D. E. Platt		Method and apparatus for mapping components of descriptor vectors for molecular complexes to a space that discriminates between groups
6,349,275	S. M. Fohn, T. Magome, and J. F. Schumacher		Multiple concurrent language support system for electronic catalogue using a concept based knowledge representation
6,349,276	J. S. McCarley		Multilingual information retrieval with a transfer corpus
6,349,299	H. L. Shubin and E. W. Spencer		System and method for storing electronic contact information into an electronic address book
6,349,304	G. D. Boldt, J. S. Goddard, and S. E. Stucka		Graphical interface for copying settings from network source device to network target devices without transmitting values not usable for features supported by network target devices
6,349,309	C. C. Aggarwal and P. S.-L. Yu		System and method for detecting clusters of information with application to e-commerce
6,349,335	E. H. Jenney		Computer system, program product and method for monitoring the operational status of a computer
6,349,338	K. E. Seamons and W. H. Winsborough		Trust negotiation in a client/server data processing network using automatic incremental credential disclosure
6,349,350	R. G. Hathorn, B. W. Holley, and J. L. Iskiyan		System, method, and program for handling failed connections in an input/output (I/O) system
6,349,356	R. B. Basham, S. M. Fry, J. J. Gniewek, S. D. Johnson, and S. B. Wilson		Host-available device block map for optimized file retrieval from serpentine tape drives
6,349,360	R. K. Arimilli, V. E. Chung, G. L. Guthrie, and J. B. Joyner		System bus read address operations with data ordering preference hint bits
6,349,361	E. Altman, K. Ebcioglu, M. Gschwind, and S. Sathaye		Methods and apparatus for reordering and renaming memory references in a multiprocessor computer system
6,349,362	D. A. Luick		Scheme to partition a large lookaside buffer into an L2 cache array
6,349,367	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, J. B. Joyner, and J. D. Lewis		Method and system for communication in which a castout operation is cancelled in response to snoop responses
6,349,368	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Fields, Jr., and S. Ghai		High performance mechanism to support o state horizontal cache-to-cache transfers
6,349,369	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, and W. J. Starke		Protocol for transferring modified-unsolicited state during data intervention
6,349,372	C. D. Benveniste, P. A. Franaszek, J. T. Robinson, and C. O. Schulz		Virtual uncompressed cache for compressed main memory
6,349,382	K. A. Feiste, B. J. Ronchetti, and D. J. Shippy		System for store forwarding assigning load and store instructions to groups and reorder queues to keep track of program order
6,349,384	A. Key and V. Sethi		System, apparatus and method for processing instructions
6,349,390	T. J. Dell, B. G. Hazelzet, and M. W. Kellogg		On-board scrubbing of soft errors memory module
6,349,393	R. C. Cox		Method and apparatus for training an automated software test
6,349,394	B. C. Brock, E. Chiprout, E. N. Elnozahy, D. B. Glasco, R. Rajamony, F. L. Rawson III, and R. L. Rockhold		Performance monitoring in a NUMA computer
6,349,406	F. E. Levine and R. J. Urguhart		Method and system for compensating for instrumentation overhead in trace data by computing average minimum event times
6,349,871	N. A. Card, Jr., J. M. Ergler, J. D. Herard, P. R. Kasperek, R. S. McKinley, and D.-. Woan		Process for reworking circuit boards
6,350,183	P. A. Manfredi		High pressure cleaning
6,350,321	K. K. Chan, C. P. D'Emic, P. M. Kozlowski, M. Manny, R. M. Sicina, and S. Tiwari		UHV horizontal hot wall cluster CVD/growth design
6,350,548	R. K. Leidy and D. L. Meunier		Nested overlay measurement target
6,350,622	J. A. Misewich and A. G. Schrott		Process for fabrication of an all-epitaxial-oxide transistor
6,350,625	S. J. Chey, M. S. Cohen, S. A. Cordes, W. K. Hogan, S. K. Ray, and J. L. Speidell		Optoelectronic packaging submount arrangement providing 90 degree electrical conductor turns and method of forming thereof
6,350,653	J. W. Adkisson, R. Divakaruni, J. P. Gambino, and J. A. Mandelman		Embedded DRAM on silicon-on-insulator substrate
6,350,692	L. Economikos, R. Ramachandran, and A. Simpson		Increased polish removal rate of dielectric layers using fixed abrasive pads
6,350,993	J. O. Chu, R. Hammond, K. E. Ismail, S. J. Koester, P. M. Mooney, and J. A. Ott		High speed composite p-channel Si/SiGe heterostructure for field effect devices
6,351,019	J. K. DeBrosse and M. R. Wordeman		Planarized and fill biased integrated circuit chip
6,351,023	S. M. Gates and R. E. Scheuerlein		Semiconductor device having ultra-sharp p-n junction and method of manufacturing the same
6,351,030	R. D. Havens, R. M. Japp, J. A. Knight, M. D. Poliks, and A. M. Quinn		Electronic package utilizing protective coating
6,351,134	S. L. Dingle, D. L. Gardell, R. W. Koss, J. M. Leas, C. H. Perry, R. Prilik, J. J. Van Horn, and G. F. Walker		Semiconductor wafer test and burn-in
6,351,160	F. Chan and D. J. Daudelin		Method and apparatus for enhancing reliability of a high voltage input/output driver/receiver
6,351,343	N. Kagami, H. Kitahori, Y. Nakagawa, and K. Satoh		Arrangement structure of the printed circuit board and the interface cable connector of a magnetic disk drive
6,351,348	A. D. Erpelding, D. D. Palmer, S. Pattanaik, and O. J. Ruiz		Minimal stiffness conductors for a head gimbal assembly
6,351,382	M. Kuzuno, T. Nakanishi, T. Nishio, and Y. Yamada		Cooling method and device for notebook personal computer
6,351,391	C. A. Beliveau and W. D. Doeling		Signal busses on printed board structures mounting ASIC chips with signal termination resistor devices using planar signal terminating devices
6,351,393	J. S. Kresge, R. D. Sebesta, D. B. Stone, and J. R. Wilcox		Electronic package for electronic components and method of making same
6,351,429	L. L. Hsu, D. Netis, and J. M. Ross		Binary to binary-encoded-ternary (BET) decoder using reordered logic
6,351,439	H. Kobayashi, K. Miwa, and N. Morimoto		Method and system for managing access to data through data transformation
6,351,561	V. S. Iyengar		Generating decision-tree classifiers with oblique hyperplanes
6,351,566	A. Zlotnick		Method for image binarization
6,351,574	R. Shevach and E. Yair		Interactive verification of ocred characters
6,351,685	K. E. Dimitri, J. E. Kulakowski, and R. J. Means		Wireless communication between multiple intelligent pickers and with a central job queue in an automated data storage library
6,351,751	T. Saulpaugh, J. A. Schmidt, W. J. Tracey, B. A. Traversat, and S. Woodward		Persistent storage managers for configuring client/server environments
6,351,767	E. M. Batchelder, J. T. Chamberlain, C. E. Dumont, and A. J. Wharton		Method and system for automatically caching dynamic content based on a cacheability determination
6,351,772	T. E. Murphy, Jr. and J. S. Stevens		Multiplexing of clients and applications among multiple servers
6,351,775	P. S.-L. Yu		Loading balancing across servers in a computer network
6,351,784	D. M. Neal and S. M. Thurber		System for determining whether a subsequent transaction may be allowed or must be allowed or must not be allowed to bypass a preceding transaction
6,351,791	D. L. Freerksen, G. M. Lippert, and F. Mounes-Toussi		Circuit arrangement and method of maintaining cache coherence utilizing snoop response collection logic that disregards extraneous retry responses
6,351,819	N. C. Berglund, R. L. Billau, D. L. Dosch, B. G. Holthaus, T. J. Osten, and F. J. Ziecina		Heterogeneous system enclosure services connection
6,351,843	D. J. Berkley, F. J. De Gilio, M. I. Dinges, K. R. Evans, and T. R. Maeurer		Dynamically inserting a function into an application executable at runtime