Month of July 2005

DataCenters are becoming increasingly more difficult to power and cool as a result of the newer higher power processors and more ultra dense packaging, i.e BladeCenter. As a result, there are many more complex challenges. These challenges arise from the difficulty in getting the cool air where it is most needed, and...

During the regular check out or self check out process, if a customer buys an age restricted item e.g. alcohol, cigarettes, or a rated-R movie they are required to show a proof of their age like drivers license. This process requires intervention from a cashier which can be time consuming for the customer, and incur...

Radio Frequency Identification Tags For Personal Computers and Other Devices Containing Multiple Components allowing automated licensing checks, registration, helpdesk assistance, installation recovery, and more.

The idea is to put LEDs and photo sensors around the top of the shopping cart. These could be used to detect when an item has been inserted into the shopping cart. By combining these sensors with a shopping cart companion, suspicious activity can be detected.

Disclosed is a system that uses a Wizard as part of a sales configuration process to provide a customer with the ability to custom-define a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configuration. The wizard is called once the storage subsystem hardware configuration is decided and the customer elects to have IBM...

What is proposed is a method of cross device notification in which devices, once they are powered on or initiated notify other communcation devices or channels.

When a customer uses a "self-checkout" device such as grocery stores kiosks, gas pumps, and atms a company employee never touches the credit card and may never have visual contact with the card. The result of this "no-touch" transaction is that a vital step of preventing credit card fraud no longer performed (such as...

Processor allocation is a system function in multiprocessors used to manage processor assignment when multiple tasks are running in the system. Processor allocation is sometimes referred to as multiprocessor partitioning or space sharing, depending of the context on which the term is used, but it always has the goal...

Disclosed is a method for the layout of a large-scale scalable NUMA system so that the processor network interconnect wiring density (i.e., the number of cables) is kept small and the average length and maximum length of the cables be kept short. These are among the factors that determine the scalability of the system...