Month of April 2009

Customers are often frustrated when they can't determine the location of particular items within a store. This is frustrating for the customer and, therefore, ultimately bad for the retailer. Solutions have been proposed that use a customer's shopping list to dictate an optimal path through the store, or reveal...

Today's servers have multiple, separate NVMs (non-volatile memories). These include the flash BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) and various local EEPROMs (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories) connected to CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices), FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays),...

Disclosed is a method for providing close approximation of performance data in a multiprocessor environment using limited protection mechanisms.

Software method for end-to-end flow control

Described is a method to preserve reusable text during document migration.

Described is a method to consider required versus non-required receivers while broadcasting error notifications in a system with dynamic partitioning.

Described is a method for multipurpose index usage for multi-value probes.

Disclosed is a segmented cache for entity beans.

Disclosed are message control mechanisms for performance and convenience.

The invention disclosed here leverages existing speech recognition technology to provide contextual ads for users of voice chat. Several variations are presented.