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| 20090062760 | Absorbent Article with a Slitted Absorbent Core - The invention relates to slit absorbent articles and the use of slits in absorbent materials to provide improved liquid intake rate, flexibility and softness compared to the unmodified material. The absorbent material, including superabsorbent materials, are particularly useful as absorbent cores in disposable absorbent articles such as diapers, incontinent products, sanitary napkins and the like. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090124991 | Body Conforming Disposable Absorbent Article Having Leg Wraps and Internal Topsheet and Method of Making Same - A secondary internal topsheet and leg wrap structure is provided in a disposable absorbent garment such as a diaper or training pants. The leg wrap structure has a base layer, a top layer, and an elastic construction disposed inbetween. The elastic construction includes a plurality of spaced apart elastic elements that are aligned in a generally in generally parallel relation. The leg wrap structure and secondary topsheet provides for the efficient formation of a reservoir and a plurality of fluid dams each capable of capturing a quantity of fluid to minimize the occurrence of fluid leaks from the absorbent article. Methods of forming such absorbent articles are disclosed. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20110015607 | (BATMAN) DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE HAVING LEG WRAPS AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A leg wrap structure is provided in a disposable absorbent garment such as a diaper or training pants. The leg wrap structure has a base layer, a top layer, and an elastic construction disposed therebetween. The elastic construction includes a plurality of spaced apart (e.g. generally equally spaced apart) elastic elements (e.g. strands or threads) that are aligned in a generally in generally parallel relation. Further, the top and base layers define a region of inelasticity. The leg wrap structure provides for the efficient formation of a reservoir and a plurality of fluid dams each capable of capturing a quantity of fluid to minimize the occurrence of fluid leaks from the absorbent article. Methods of forming such absorbent articles are disclosed. | 01-20-2011 |
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| 20090100113 | TRANSACTION LOG MANAGEMENT - A transaction processing system comprising a transaction log, a log management policy, a profile and a log manager, and method for managing the transaction log are provided. The method comprises maintaining a transaction log of recoverable changes made by transaction processing tasks; storing a log management policy including at least one log threshold and a plurality of possible actions associated therewith; and generating a historical profile comprising a set of acceptable values for characteristics of the log resource usage of tasks. Such log resource usage characteristics may include time taken for a task to complete, CPU resource consumed, number of log records made, etc. From a comparison of the profile behaviour to the actual behaviour of a task which has been identified as holding up trimming of the log, the likelihood that the identified task has entered an invalid loop and represents a ‘bad’ transaction instance, rather than simply just taking a long time to complete, can be inferred. Thus the most appropriate action can be selected and taken. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090100434 | TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT - A method and transaction processing system for managing transaction processing tasks are provided. The transaction processing system comprises a transaction log, a log management policy, a log manager and a dispatcher. The method comprises maintaining a transaction log of recoverable changes made by transaction processing tasks and storing a log management policy including at least one log threshold. Usage of the log by transaction processing tasks is then monitored to determine when a log threshold is reached. When a log threshold is reached the active task having the oldest log entry of all active tasks is identified and its dispatching priority is increased. This increases the likelihood that the identified task will be dispatched, and should mean that the task will more quickly reach normal completion. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090319593 | Optimized Message Format for Synchronization Flows Between Transaction Processing Systems - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for synchronizing flows between transaction processing systems. In one illustrative embodiment, responsive to a failure or interruption in processing between systems, the computer implemented method locates all units of recovery for a particular connection to form a set of identified units of recovery and builds a single message containing the set of identified units of recovery. The computer implemented method further sends the single message from a sending system to a partner system for processing. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100185903 | Failure Repetition Avoidance - Avoiding failure repetition in data processing includes storing a sequence of circumstances leading up to a previous failure, monitoring circumstances in a current process, matching a sequence of circumstances in the current process to a stored sequence of circumstances, and applying rules to determine if the current process should proceed. | 07-22-2010 |
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| 20090089339 | TRANSACTION LOG MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for managing a log-full condition of a transaction log in a transaction processing system are provided. The transaction log has a plurality of log records each associated with a particular transaction. When a log-full condition is detected, the active transaction having the oldest log entry of all active transactions is identified and logging for all transactions except for the identified transaction is temporarily suspended. A dynamic transaction backout of the identified transaction is initiated, with the writing of a backout record for the identified transaction to the log being delayed. The method waits for confirmation that the backout has completed before trimming the log. Then the delayed backout record for the identified transaction is written to the log and normal logging is resumed. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090193280 | Method and System for In-doubt Resolution in Transaction Processing - A method and system are provided for in-doubt resolution in transaction processing involving at least two distributed transaction processing systems. The method includes a resynchronization method when re-establishing a connection between two distributed transaction processing systems. The method includes re-establishing a connection between a first transaction processing system and a second transaction processing system following a failure; the first transaction processing system searching for any unresolved units of recovery and resynchronizing each unresolved unit of recovery with the second transaction processing system; and when the first transaction processing system has finished processing its unresolved units of recovery, the second transaction processing system then searches for any unresolved units of recovery and resynchronizes each unresolved unit of recovery with the first transaction processing system. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193286 | Method and System for In-doubt Resolution in Transaction Processing - A method and system are provided for in-doubt resolution in transaction processing involving at least two distributed transaction processing systems. The method includes an initial exchange of information to establish an identifier for coordinating units of recovery in distributed transaction processing systems. The method includes a first transaction processing system creating a local unit of recovery and sending a request to a second transaction processing system to create a coordinating unit of recovery, the request including an identifier of the local unit of recovery. The second transaction processing system starts a coordinating unit of recovery and recording the identifier in association with the coordinating unit of recovery. In the event of a failure, one of the first and second transaction processing systems uses the identifier to locate the unit of recovery on the other of the first and second transaction processing systems to resynchronize the units of recovery. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090240742 | Transaction Log Management - A transaction processing system comprising a transaction log, a log management policy, a profile and a log manager, and method for managing the transaction log are provided. The method comprises maintaining a transaction log of recoverable changes made by transaction processing tasks, each task having an associated transaction type; storing a log management policy including at least one log threshold and a plurality of possible actions associated therewith; and storing a profile of log resource usage characteristics of tasks for different types of transactions. Usage of the log by transaction processing tasks is monitored to determine when a log threshold is reached. The profile indicates the normal logging behaviour of particular types of transaction by identifying ranges of acceptable values for a plurality of log resource usage characteristics. Such characteristics may include time taken for a task to complete, CPU resource consumed, number of log records made, etc. From a comparison of the profile behaviour with the current log resource usage of a task which has been identified as holding up trimming of the log, likelihood that the identified task having entered an invalid loop and represents a ‘bad’ program, rather than simply validly taking a long time to complete can be inferred. Thus the most appropriate action can be selected and taken. | 09-24-2009 |
