Month of October 2006

Overcoming resolv.conf limitations by using by modifying a hosts file

Discussion threads have a tendency of becoming voluminous, with users posting quick and short, spontaneous comments that may have little value. Finding individual posts after a while becomes very tricky. Furthermore, new visitors to a thread or any visitors to a discussion thread that is no longer active find it...

Frequently discussion threads are started with the intention of resolving an issue by consensus. After the discussion has taken place, it would be nice to have a statistical summary of the consensus. We currently don't know of any solutions for this apart from manually doing a visual scan over the thread. The...

Disclosed is a method for an isolation bridge for package power planes. Benefits include improved functionality, improved performance, and improved cost effectiveness.

A motor vehicle bonnet (hood) structure which minimizes injury when struck by a pedestrian's head comprises an outer panel bonded to an inner panel and secured at the periphery by bonding, seaming or welding. The inner panel has a series of circular impressions that are pressed upwards to a nominal 5mm height from...

Householding is an important basic task in data cleansing. Householding determines whether individual records belong to a larger group. We propose a method and system of clustering-based entity householding. It can automatically discover entity household using the internal latent semantic features and clustering...

Disclosed is a methodology that enables business process modeling in swimlanes that can be formed based on various modeling entities. Users can view a process flow with different dynamics and more flexibility using an application that implements this methodology.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) group provides a protocol framework that supports server redundancy and session failover providing fault tolerance. The RSerPool protocol framework allows a pool of redundant information sources to be viewed as a single transport end point...

A computer-implemented method for automatically detecting shapes in a medical image and for determining and characterizing which portions of a medical image correspond to a shape of interest.