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| 20080269946 | PROCESSING OF UNDELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED MAIL - In some example, a computerized method includes sorting mail that comprises a multiple pass mail sort operation. The multiple pass mail sort operation for a mail piece that is undeliverable as addressed comprises performing a first pass of the multiple pass mail sort operation, wherein performing the first pass comprises capturing data to identify a feature of the mail piece. The multiple pass mail sort operation comprises generating a fingerprint for the mail piece between performing the first pass and performing a second pass of the multiple pass mail sort operation. The fingerprint is derived from the feature of the mail piece that is identified during the first pass. The multiple pass mail sort operation comprises performing the second pass of the multiple pass mail sort operation, wherein performing the second pass comprises determining a final disposition of the mail piece that is undeliverable as addressed, wherein the fingerprint is used to identify the mail piece during the determining of the final disposition. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090143898 | DETERMINING DISPOSITION OF UNDELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED MAIL - In some example, a computerized method includes sorting mail, wherein sorting mail for a mail piece comprises reading an encoded value located on the mail piece. Sorting the mail also includes decoding the encoded value to determine an identification of a class of the mail piece and an identification of a service type of the mail piece. Sorting the mail includes performing the following operation in response to determining that the mail piece is undeliverable as addressed: performing final disposition of the mail piece using at least one of the identification of the class of the mail piece or the identification of the service type of the mail piece derived from the encoded value, in response to a determination that the mail piece is an actual undeliverable as addressed mail piece. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20120072014 | PROCESSING OF UNDELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED MAIL - A computerized method includes sorting mail that comprises a multiple pass mail sort operation, wherein the multiple pass mail sort operation for a mail piece that is undeliverable as addressed comprises performing a first pass of the multiple pass mail sort operation, wherein performing the first pass comprises capturing data to identify a feature of the mail piece. The multiple pass mail sort operation also includes generating a first fingerprint for the mail piece between performing the first pass and performing a second pass of the multiple pass mail sort operation. The multiple pass mail sort operation also includes performing the second pass of the multiple pass mail sort operation. Performing the second pass includes determining a final disposition of the mail piece that is undeliverable as addressed. | 03-22-2012 |
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| 20090112646 | REPEATABLE AND STANDARDIZED APPROACH FOR DEPLOYMENT OF A PORTABLE SOA INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN A CLIENT ENVIRONMENT - The present invention discloses a repeatable and standardized approach for deploying a SOA infrastructure to client environments. The approach is designed to accelerate a deployment by leveraging existing integration assets and utilizing a phased approach when executing the deployment. It is preferred to perform the integration with significant client participation, which speeds the deployment process while ensuring knowledge of a resulting SOA solution is transferred to a client's IT team. Stages of the phased approach can include a transition enablement stage, an environment preparation stage, a sandbox delivery stage, and an integration and skills transfer stage. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113310 | ROLE TAILORED PORTAL SOLUTION INTEGRATING NEAR REAL-TIME METRICS, BUSINESS LOGIC, ONLINE COLLABORATION, AND WEB 2.0 CONTENT - The disclosed solution provides a tailored user experience available through a Web portal that addresses the multiple-view, multiple-data needs of operations, supervisory, policy making, and executive personnel of an organization. These various roles can all be concerned with measurement/assessment of an organization's compliance with performance targets, for which real-time, near real-time or other metrics are gathered. The metrics can be presented in a role tailored fashion to the portal users in near real-time along with federation of analysis and trend calculation output. Business logic can be applied to the federated data and near real-time metrics to automatically effectuate actions and/or to suggest responses when received metrics exceed previously established boundaries. Collaboration tools and Web 2.0 information sharing technologies can be integrated in the portal to facilitate rapid coordinated responses and to share information across the organization. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113385 | SOA SOFTWARE COMPONENTS THAT ENDURE FROM PROTOTYPING TO PRODUCTION - The disclosed invention presents a multi-phased approach for developing a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution using front end SOA components that endure throughout the SOA development lifecycle. The approach can determine interface requirements between a set of services to be implemented in a SOA solution and SOA front end. The SOA front end can conform to the determined interface requirements. The SOA front end can also be interactively utilized early within and can be applicable to all phases of a SOA lifecycle, which includes design, development, and implementation phases. The SOA front end can be combined with a service emulator to form an interactive prototype of the SOA solution. The SOA front end can also be combined with a set of SOA back end components to form the SOA solution. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090313562 | OUTAGE MANAGEMENT PORTAL LEVERAGING BACK-END RESOURCES TO CREATE A ROLE AND USER TAILORED FRONT-END INTERFACE FOR COORDINATING OUTAGE RESPONSES - A solution for centrally managing and federating outage specific information and for rapidly providing controlled access to this information in a role tailored fashion. The information can be gathered and provided in real-time along with programmatically determined proposed actions. An information recipient can configure and dynamically change the manner in which the information is presented, so that relevant information for that recipient can be rapidly digested. For example, a manager with a moderate level of technical knowledge may want information to be presented pictorially and in summary fashion, while a highly technical troubleshooter may want to configure information presentation to show key network statistics and values. In one embodiment, outage information can be presented in a Web portal having multiple discrete and customizable portlets, which include a geography portlet and a system portlet. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100153283 | ELECTRONIC PROFESSIONAL MENTORING FRAMEWORK - Mentoring relationships between mentors and protégés can be established within mentoring data that conforms to standards of a mentoring framework. For each mentoring relationship, a mentoring path can be established. Each mentoring path can include a set of defined phases, each phase having a bounded beginning and ending, each phase further including at least one goal, at least one activity completion of which marks a progression towards achieving an associated goal, and timelines associated with at least one of the activities. Interactive user interfaces can be presented upon network attached client devices to users assigned a mentoring role who participate in at least one mentoring relationship for which the mentoring data is maintained. Performance input can be received via the interactive user interfaces, which results in the mentoring data being updated. “Web 2.0-style” techniques can be leveraged to gather rating and access information associated with content or electronic assets, thereby augmenting “conventional” approaches that rate only the delivery of the mentorship relationship itself A progression along the mentoring path can be changed based upon the updated mentoring data. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100198649 | ROLE TAILORED DASHBOARDS AND SCORECARDS IN A PORTAL SOLUTION THAT INTEGRATES RETRIEVED METRICS ACROSS AN ENTERPRISE - A user can log into an organization portal. An organizational role can be determined for the user. For a decision maker, a set of metric driven portlets can be graphically presented within the organization portal. The metrics driven portlets can include at least one scorecard and at least one dashboard, each tailored for the determined organizational role. The scorecard and the dashboard can be dynamically updated based upon metrics provided by a plurality of discrete services. The discrete services can obtain the metrics from a set of geographically distributed data sources. The discrete services can be functionally independent of each other and can be responsible for federating data in a portlet and role specific manner. Online collaboration capabilities can be provided through collaboration and alerting portlets of the organization portal, and which can be tailored for the determined organizational role. The collaboration and alerting portlets provide the ability for action takers and decision makers to effectively share information. The organizational role based portal, providing users with appropriate metrics, near real time and/or cumulative data, and collaboration capabilities to trigger effective sharing of information and decision making is the overarching theme and embodiment of this invention, which enables action takers with the ability to raise awareness of potential issues to appropriate decision makers. With such awareness, decision makers can leverage scorecard metrics to determine appropriate courses of action and to communicate directives back to action takers. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20120115122 | DYNAMIC ROLE-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL SYMBIONT FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT - The disclosure provides a computer-based learning system that minimizes the “distance” between applications (for which instructions are provided) and the instructions themselves. That is, the instructional material provided is dynamically integrated with a “state” of one or more applications, which constantly change as a user interacts with the application. Further, the instructional information is visually presented within a common screen, window, or focus region as the application, in a minimally intrusive manner. For example, the instruction window can be an overlay that is designed to “hide from” or to avoid obscuring application content of particular interest to a user. Various techniques can be used to ensure the instructions are provided unobtrusively, including use of transparency settings to make instructions legible, resizing techniques, variable shading, font size/contrast/style adjustments, and the like. | 05-10-2012 |
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| 20080282251 | THREAD DE-EMPHASIS INSTRUCTION FOR MULTITHREADED PROCESSOR - A technique for scheduling execution of threads at a processor is disclosed. The technique includes executing a thread de-emphasis instruction of a thread that de-emphasizes the thread until the number of pending memory transactions, such as cache misses, associated with the thread are at or below a threshold. While the thread is de-emphasized, other threads at the processor that have a higher priority can be executed or assigned system resources. Accordingly, the likelihood of a stall in the processor is reduced. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090037666 | CACHE LOCKING DEVICE AND METHODS THEREOF - A method and device for locking a cache line of a cache is disclosed. The method includes automatically changing a state of a cache line from a valid locked state to an invalid locked state in response to receiving an indication that a memory location external to the cache and corresponding to the cache line is associated with an access request by a processor or other data access module. Thus, the locked state of a cache line is maintained even after data in the locked cache line is invalidated. By maintaining the invalid locked state, the cache line is not available for reallocation by the cache. This allows locked cache lines that become invalidated to remain locked without additional software overhead to periodically determine whether the lock has been lost due to invalidation of the cache line. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090113137 | PSEUDO LEAST RECENTLY USED (PLRU) CACHE REPLACEMENT - A multi-way cache system includes multi-way cache storage circuitry, a pseudo least recently used (PLRU) tree state representative of a PLRU tree, the PLRU tree having a plurality of levels, and PLRU control circuitry coupled to the multi-way cache storage circuitry and the PLRU tree state. The PLRU control circuitry has programmable PLRU tree level update enable circuitry which selects Y levels of the plurality of levels of the PLRU tree to be updated. The PLRU control circuitry, in response to an address hitting or resulting in an allocation in the multi-way cache storage circuitry, updates only the selected Y levels of the PLRU tree state. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090164737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING POTENTIALLY SELF-INCONSISTENT MEMORY TRANSACTIONS - A processor provides memory request and a coherency state value for a coherency granule associated with a memory request. The processor further provides either a first indicator or a second indicator depending on whether the coherency state value represents a cumulative coherency state for a plurality of caches of the processor. The first indicator and the second indicator identify the coherency state value as representing a cumulative coherency state or a potentially non-cumulative coherency state, respectively. If the second indicator is provided, a transaction management module determines whether to request the cumulative coherency state for the coherency granule in response to receiving the second indicator. The transaction management module then provides an indicator of the request for the cumulative coherency state to the processor in response to determining to request the cumulative coherency state. Otherwise, the transaction management module processes the memory transaction without requesting the cumulative coherency state. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090249302 | Method and Apparatus to Trace and Correlate Data Trace and Instruction Trace for Out-of-Order Processors - In a data processing system, a marked bit is used to identify a data access instruction throughout the pipeline to indicate that the instruction meets user-specified criteria (e.g., a meets a data address range of interest). Based on the marked bit, an in-order program correlation message is generated which indicates when the data access instruction occurs relative to the instruction stream. The marked bit is also used to generate an in-order data trace message. As a result, the trace streams including only data access instructions meeting user-specified criteria may be post-processed and correlated precisely. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100306302 | TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING IF A LOGICAL SUM OF A FIRST OPERAND AND A SECOND OPERAND IS THE SAME AS A THIRD OPERAND - A system is used to determine if a sum of a first operand and a second operand is the same as a third operand wherein a comparison to the third operand is of variable length. This is particularly useful in a content addressable memory (CAM) where the likelihood of hit is commonly improved over a set associative cache and allows for the CAM to identify different things. For example, an entry can be one length to identify a page of a memory and another entry be a different length to identify a page of memory. This is better understood by reference to the following description and the drawings. | 12-02-2010 |
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| 20090190345 | MULTIPARAMETER STAGE LIGHTING APPARATUS WITH GRAPHICAL OUTPUT - A multiparameter stage lighting apparatus is provided comprising a lamp housing, which may include a plurality of sets of light emitting diodes, each set of light emitting diodes having a plurality of colors, the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes forming an additive color mixing system. The multiparameter stage lighting apparatus may further include a plurality of pie shaped light emitting circuit boards, one light emitting circuit board for each set of the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes, each set of the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes mounted to its respective light emitting circuit board. The multiparameter stage lighting apparatus may further include a plurality of light emitting diode signaling circuit boards, one for each of the plurality of pie shaped light emitting circuit boards. Each of the plurality of light emitting diode signaling circuit boards may be connected to its corresponding pie shaped light emitting circuit boards by a corresponding one of a plurality of multiconductor cables. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20120020072 | MULTIPARAMETER STAGE LIGHTING APPARATUS WITH GRAPHICAL OUTPUT - A multiparameter stage lighting apparatus is provided comprising a lamp housing, which may include a plurality of sets of light emitting diodes, each set of light emitting diodes having a plurality of colors, the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes forming an additive color mixing system. The multiparameter stage lighting apparatus may further include a plurality of pie shaped light emitting circuit boards, one light emitting circuit board for each set of the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes, each set of the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes mounted to its respective light emitting circuit board. The multiparameter stage lighting apparatus may further include a plurality of light emitting diode signaling circuit boards, one for each of the plurality of pie shaped light emitting circuit boards. | 01-26-2012 |
