Month of February 2003

A knee bolster with a variable or adjustable stiffness that may be varied is disclosed. The knee bolster may be a “bladder” type knee bolster that allows for its stiffness to be adjusted during design, development and/or operation of the vehicle.

A method to provide an emergency boot image via any disk on a computer system.

This article discusses an algorithm by which when parent pages are reloaded in the cache of a World Wide Web browser client, the associated child pages will automatically get reloaded.

A MOBILE C-ARM X-RAY IMAGER WITH A DOCKING MECHANISM IS PROPOSED FOR USE IN A RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT VAULT. THE C-ARM IS DOCKED NEAR THE FOOT OF THE LINEAR ACCELERATOR TREATMENT TABLE SO AS NOT TO INTERFERE WITH THE CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR THE LINAC. TO IMAGE, THE COUCH IS DRIVEN TO A CONSTANT LONGITUDENAL OFFSET, THE...

This document summarizes requirements for prioritizing access to circuit-switched network, end system and proxy resources for emergency preparedness communications using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Disclosed is an application of an N-way tree data structure in an IP networking environment to achieve a self-adapting N-way recursive data redundancy solution. The tree is constructed of iSCSI mirror volumes. Each tree root or subtree root is a system with a RAID 1 volume. The RAID 1 volume consists of the mirror...

This document reviews the original function and purpose of the domain name system (DNS). It contrasts that history with some of the purposes for which the DNS has recently been applied and some of the newer demands being placed upon it or suggested for it. A framework for an alternative to placing these additional...

An apparatus and method for blind-mate attachment is disclosed. The blind-mate panel interlock provides for attachment of a panel (such as a door trim panel) to a vehicle without the use of screws, bolts, rivets, or push-in fasteners (e.g., Christmas tree fasteners), or the like. Unlike known blind mate attachments,...

Effective use of the Enterprise JavaBeans specification support for unknown primary keys can be achieved by having the primary key support returning itself as a string. The unknown primary key support enables the deployer to change the attributes of the enterprise bean that are used as its primary key. While this...