Richard G Bednar, 67541 Fredericks Rd, Westover, NY 13790

6897869, May 24, 2005

Oct 25, 1999

09/426579

Richard G. Bednar - Johnson City NY, US
Donald J. Malling - Brackney PA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06T011/20

345441, 345440, 345442, 345443, 345490

The minimum number of rectangles required to fill a particular polygon and which meet input parameters including minimum stripe width, maximum stripe width, stripe overlap amount, maximum number of borders, and whether or not to merge adjacent borders, is determined by: (1) bordering, including computing a border width which is wide as possible, bordering all non-orthogonal polygons with one or more borders, merging borders when appropriate, halting bordering as soon as the interior can be efficiently filled using orthogonal fill rectangles; (2) filling, including filling the interior of the bordered non-orthogonal polygon or the unbordered orthogonal polygon with orthogonal paint stripes, filling, if possible, the uncovered area with a single least encompassing rectangle, otherwise generating orthogonal stripes using the minimum stripe width and where practical merging them with a previous adjacent stripe; and (3) processing, including locating any and all unfilled portions of the original polygon, applying steps (1) and (2) for areas which lie along the original polygon border, and applying step (2) for areas which do not lie along the original polygon border.

8024800, Sep 20, 2011

Sep 25, 2006

11/534700

Richard Gregory Bednar - Johnson City NY, US
Baraa Kahf - Davis CA, US
Gautam Majumdar - Wappingers Falls NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

726 22, 726 23, 726 24

A file attachment processing method and system. The method comprises generating by a first computing system, a configurable list comprising valid computer file types for computer files. The valid computer file types for the computer files comprising a low risk for comprising computer viruses. The first computing system comprises a memory device. The first computing system stores the configurable list in the memory device. The first computing system receives a computer file comprising a first file type. The first computing system compares the first file type to the list to determine if the first file type comprises a valid file type from the first list.

6269327, Jul 31, 2001

Feb 11, 1999

9/248342

Richard G. Bednar - Johnson City NY
Thomas P. Comino - Vestal NY
Donald J. Malling - Brackney PA
David P. Pagnani - Endicott NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06G 748
H01L 2940

703 8

Chip carrier topology including a plurality of bond lines radiating from a line of chip pads to at least one of zero or more finger lines and zero or more voltage lines is defined by first collecting topology parameters selected from the set including the number of rows of fingers; the spacing between rows of fingers; finger style, said finger style being one of arc-of-circle, constant-bond-length, and encompassing-rectangle; location of voltage rings; value of voltage rings; location of chip pads; voltage of chip pads; dimensions of output fingers; minimum finger pair spacing; maximum finger angle with respect to its bond line; minimum spacing of bond line terminations at voltage rings; and minimum spacing of bond line terminations with respect to and adjacent bond line which terminates at a finger. A plurality of possible topology solutions are generated, and a single possible topology solution selected for further processing. From the single possible solution, a topology solution is generated by placing a middle finger with respect to a middle chip pad, processing alternative chip pads to the right and left sequentially from the middle chip pad selectively to position ring intercepts, inner row fingers and outer row fingers.