Ying Li, 6555 River Oaks Pl UNIT 435, San Jose, CA 95134

6921711, Jul 26, 2005

Sep 9, 2003

10/605106

Cyril Cabral, Jr. - Ossining NY, US
Paul C. Jamison - Hopewell Junction NY, US
Victor Ku - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Ying Li - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Vijay Narayanan - New York NY, US
An L Steegen - Stamford CT, US
Yun-Yu Wang - Poughquag NY, US
Kwong H. Wong - Wappingers Falls NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H01L021/443

438589, 438592, 438595

A structure and method for a metal replacement gate of a high performance device is provided. A sacrificial gate structure is first formed on an etch stop layer provided on a semiconductor substrate. A pair of spacers is provided on sidewalls of the sacrificial gate structure. The sacrificial gate structure is then removed, forming an opening. Subsequently, a metal gate including an first layer of metal such as tungsten, a diffusion barrier such as titanium nitride, and a second layer of metal such as tungsten is formed in the opening between the spacers.

6989318, Jan 24, 2006

Oct 22, 2003

10/605727

Bruce B. Doris - Brewster NY, US
Ying Li - Poughkeepsie NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H01L 21/76
H01L 29/00

438433, 438242, 257501, 257506

A method for reducing shallow trench isolation (STI) consumption during semiconductor device processing includes forming a hardmask over a semiconductor substrate, patterning the hardmask and forming a trench within the substrate. The trench is filled with an insulative material that is implanted with boron ions and thereafter annealed.

7047494, May 16, 2006

May 7, 2002

10/140794

Peng Wu - Mountain View CA, US
Ying Li - Los Angeles CA, US
Daniel Tretter - Palo Alto CA, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 13/00

715723, 715719

A system and method for merging scenes in a video sequence and constructing a keyframe to represent the underlying merged video content includes decomposing a video sequence into a series of component scenes, merging component scene pairs until a predetermined number of scene sets remain, extracting a keyframe from each scene set containing a single component scene, and constructing a new keyframe for each scene set containing a plurality of component scenes.

7306983, Dec 11, 2007

Dec 10, 2004

10/905024

Dureseti Chidambarrao - Weston CT, US
Ying Li - Newburgh NY, US
Rajeev Malik - Pleasantville NY, US
Shreesh Narasimha - Beacon NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H01L 21/8238

438199, 438230, 438581, 438583, 438791, 438FOR 431, 257E21292, 257E21293

The present invention provides a semiconductor device having dual nitride liners, a silicide layer, and a protective layer beneath one of the nitride liners for preventing the etching of the silicide layer. A first aspect of the invention provides a method for use in the manufacture of a semiconductor device comprising the steps of applying a protective layer to a device, applying a first silicon nitride liner to the device, removing a portion of the first silicon nitride liner, removing a portion of the protective layer, and applying a second silicon nitride liner to the device.

RE40011, Jan 22, 2008

Oct 19, 2001

10/084757

Nghia Tran - Milpitas CA, US
Ying Xuan Li - Cupertino CA, US
Janusz Balicki - San Jose CA, US
John Costello - Los Altos CA, US

Altera Corporation - San Jose CA

H03K 19/173

326 46, 326 40

A programmable input/output device for use with a programmable logic device (PLD) is presented comprising an input buffer, an output buffer and programmable elements. The programmable elements may be programmed to select a logic standard for the input/output device to operate at. For instance, a given set of Select Bits applied to the programmable elements may select TTL logic, in which case the input and output buffers would operate according to the voltage levels appropriate for TTL logic (e. g. , 0. 4 volts to 2. 4 volts). For a different set of Select Bits, the GTL logic standard would be applied (e. g. , 0. 8 volts to 1. 2 volts). The invention enables a single PLD to be used in conjunction with various types of external circuitry.

7348635, Mar 25, 2008

Dec 10, 2004

10/905025

Dureseti Chidambarrao - Weston CT, US
Ying Li - Newburgh NY, US
Rajeev Malik - Pleasantville NY, US
Shreesh Narasimha - Beacon NY, US
Haining Yang - Wappingers Falls NY, US
Huilong Zhu - Poughkeepsie NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H01L 31/00

257369, 257E27062

The present invention provides a semiconductor device having dual nitride liners, which provide an increased transverse stress state for at least one FET and methods for the manufacture of such a device. A first aspect of the invention provides a method for use in the manufacture of a semiconductor device comprising the steps of applying a first silicon nitride liner to the device and applying a second silicon nitride liner adjacent the first silicon nitride liner, wherein at least one of the first and second silicon nitride liners induces a transverse stress in a silicon channel beneath at least one of the first and second silicon nitride liner.

7380005, May 27, 2008

Nov 20, 2007

11/943150

Ying Li - Mohegan Lake NY, US
Robert E. Strom - Ridgefield CT, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/173
G06F 9/46

709226, 718101, 718102, 718104, 718105, 718106

Systems, methods and computer program products for improving overall end-to-end runtime latency of flow graphs of message transformations which are placed onto an overlay network of broker machines by aggressively replicating stateless transformations. Exemplary embodiments include a method including defining a message transformation graph, receiving information about measured and estimated properties of a message flow, receiving information about physical brokers and links in the overlay network onto which the message transformation graph is deployed, labeling each of a plurality of stateless transformations associated with the flow graph as replicable, heuristically determining a number of replicas and a corresponding load partitioning ratios among the number of replicas for each stateless transformation, converting the message transformation graph into an enhanced flow graph, running a placement algorithm with the enhanced flow graph and consolidating each of the plurality of virtual replicas that are assigned to a common message broker.

7382933, Jun 3, 2008

Aug 24, 2005

11/210305

Chitra Dorai - Chappaqua NY, US
Ying Li - Mohegan Lake NY, US
Youngja Park - Edgewater NJ, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 9/36

382276, 382164, 382168, 382171, 382173

System and method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units where each semantic unit relates to a generally complete thematic topic. A computer implemented method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units wherein each semantic unit relates to a theme or a topic, comprises dividing a video into a plurality of homogeneous segments, analyzing audio and visual content of the video, extracting a plurality of keywords from the speech content of each of the plurality of homogeneous segments of the video, and detecting and merging a plurality of groups of semantically related and temporally adjacent homogeneous segments into a series of semantic units in accordance with the results of both the audio and visual analysis and the keyword extraction. The present invention can be applied to generate important table-of-contents as well as index tables for videos to facilitate efficient video topic searching and browsing.