Nov 2002 is the date of filing the patent application, while May 2004 is the
publish date. For regular patent application, the USPTO will treat that
application with secrecy for the first 18 months of the examining process.
About 18 months after the application, the USPTO will publish the patent
You can get the list of patents from here:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=384&entry=69779
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