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International Business Machines Corporation

Michael Herasimtschuk

Gerard M Salem

Craig R Selinger

Matthew Edward Aubertine

Harold J Broker

Michael A Granato

Ronald P Checca

Kianoush Beyzavi

Michael J Jurkovic

Paul R Zehr

David A Haeussler

Toilet armrest support system comprises a removable armrest platform having a centrally disposed opening that conforms to the opening over an existing toilet bowl rim. The removable armrest platform supports detachable armrests configured to provide a wider area under the armrests for larger individuals requiring more space. The relatively thin and rigid platform slides underneath an existing toilet seat and engages a docking sub-system fastened to existing hinge openings with toilet seat fasteners on the rear of the toilet. The docking sub-system is of unitary construction comprising docking bar, docking ports at each end of the docking bar, and an anchor block between the docking ports. The removable platform easily slides into the docking ports and under the elevated anchor block. A locking mechanism on the anchor block locks the removable platform securely in place which can then be removed just as easily and quickly.

Toilet armrest support system

A method is provided to assign component I/O (input/output, the interface area between levels of physical packaging) pins for all components at each level of the computer system. In a hierarchical, top-down design methodology, the I/O pins for each computer system component are assigned to nets (a net is an interconnection of pins on a level of packaging, or between levels of packaging) based on wire length, electrical limits and timing. Parameters that are considered are net priority (the importance of this net to the system, relative to other nets in the system), location of physical components, location of physical component I/Os at all computer system levels of physical packaging hierarchy, and I/O pin characteristics. An iterative method is used to assign and reassign I/O pins at each level based on timing. As I/Os are reassigned at each lower component level, new assignments are made at all higher levels of the system packaging hierarchy based on the changed parameters at the lower level. I/Os assignment by this method for a computer system package design reduces the occurance of any critical nets failing length, electrical or timing constraints due to poor I/O assignments. The method has built in checks to avoid being trapped in an NP complete situation (a form of endless loop).

Method of I/O pin assignment in a hierarchial packaging system

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