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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050060753 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video data A system receives a transport stream containing video data and audio data. A determination is made regarding the time required to process the video data contained in the transport stream and the time required to process the audio data contained in the transport stream. ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060754 | Apparatus and method for distributed control of media dissemination A control system for media content data broadcast has a master control processor operatively associated with a web server, each having communication links to a computer network. At least one uplink, remote from the master control processor, is operatively connected to t... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060755 | Methods for enabling near video-on-demand and video-on-request services using digital video recorders A near video-on-demand (VOD) service enabled using a digital video recorder (DVR) for the simultaneous storage and playback of multimedia data. A DVR is connected over a network to a multimedia network source. A VOD selection is requested by the DVR from the network sou... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060756 | Methods for enabling near video-on-demand and video-on-request services using digital video recorders A near video-on-demand (VOD) service enabled using a digital video recorder (DVR) for the simultaneous storage and playback of multimedia data. A DVR is connected over a network to a multimedia network source. A VOD selection is requested by the DVR from the network sou... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060757 | Apparatus and method of broadcast service for transporting scene information An apparatus and method of broadcast service for more accurately and quickly performing predetermined trick play functions (such as, skip, and skim) by using a scene information that is transported with a broadcast stream in real time or non-real time mode. ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060758 | Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplem... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060759 | Encapsulated, streaming media automation and distribution system Disclosed are systems and methods for creating and distributing programming content carried by a digital streaming media to be a plurality of remote nodes located over a large geographic area to create customized broadcast quality programming at the remote nodes. At the... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060760 | Interspersed training for turbo coded modulation A communications system, having a combination Reed-Solomon encoder and a Turbo-Code encoder Data frame configuration which may be changed to accommodate embedded submarkers of known value. The submarkers are embedded in with the data order to aid synchronization in the ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060761 | Methods for direct visualization of active synapses A method for visualizing an active synapse wherein said method comprises: (a) exposing cells forming the active synapse to a biomarker comprising at least fragment C of tetanus toxin and a reporter protein; and (b) visualizing the biomarker; wherein the accumulation of ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060762 | Expression vectors The present invention provides novel regulatory elements and vectors for the expression of one or more proteins in a host cell. The present invention also provides methods for expressing one or more proteins, such as antibodies, in a host cell. These methods utilize the... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060763 | Mouse lambda light chain locus The present invention provides in a first aspect a mouse in which the λ (lambda) light chain locus has been functionally silenced. In one embodiment, the mouse λ light chain locus was functional silenced by deletion of gene segments coding for the λ light chain locus... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060764 | Mouse model for bone metabolism A mouse model for short-term bone metabolism is provided. The mouse is administered parathyroid hormone (PTH), PTH fragments, PTH analogues, parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP), PTHrP fragments, or PTRrP analogues. The mouse model can be used to screen for thera... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060765 | System and sequential culture media for in vitro fertilization Instead of immersing human reproductive cells in a single culture medium throughout the various procedures used in IVF, a process is provided by which the reproductive cells may be moved through a sequence of distinct culture media as the various IVF procedures are carr... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060766 | Expression of dominant negative transmembrane receptors in the milk of transgenic animals The present invention provides data to demonstrates the transgenic mammal production of membrane spanning receptor proteins in the milk of transgenic animals, offering a method of production of these proteins and dominant negative versions thereof for use as therapeutic... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060767 | DNA shuffling to produce herbicide selective crops Methods of shuffling DNA to obtain recombinant herbicide tolerance nucleic acids encoding proteins having new or improved herbicide tolerance activities, libraries of shuffled herbicide tolerance nucleic acids, transgenic plants and DNA shuffling mixtures are provided. ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060768 | Transgenic plants and methods for production thereof Genetic constructs, transformation vectors and methods are taught for production of transgenic plants which can be selectively removed from a growing site by application of a chemical agent or physiological stress. The invention links a target gene for the trait of comm... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060769 | Homologous recombination-mediated transgene deletion in plant cells A process to prepare a recombined transgenic Zea mays plant or plant cell from a first transgenic Zea mays plant cell, wherein the transgene in the recombinant plant or plant cell has an altered genetic structure relative to the genetic structure of the tr... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060770 | Antifungal proteins Anfifungal proteins which are analogues of the Rs-AFP2 protein and contain particular mutations in their amino acid sequence are disclosed. The mutated proteins possess enhanced salt-tolerant antifungal activity. The proteins are useful for combating fungal diseases in ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060771 | siRNA encoding constructs and methods for using the same siRNA encoding constructs and methods for using the same are provided. The subject constructs are characterized by including a siRNA coding domain flanked by opposing promoters. In using the subject constructs, sense and antisense strands of the desired siRNA product en... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060772 | Regulation of ethylene sensitivity during leaf and flower abscission Provided is the tissue specific manipulation of the EIN2 and EIN3 ethylene-signaling genes, permitting the controlled regulation of leaf and/or flower abscission, since flower and leaf abscission are positively regulated by the plant hormone ethylene. In particular, con... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060773 | Genetic control of plant growth and development The wheat Rht gene and homologues from other species including rice and maize (the D8 gene), useful for modification of growth and/or development characteristics of plants. Transgenic plants and methods and means for their production. ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060774 | Arabidopsis thaliana derived frigida gene conferring late flowering Disclosed are isolated nucleic acids obtainable from the FRI locus of plants which encode polypeptides capable of specifically altering, particularly delaying, the flowering time of a plant into which the nucleic acid is introduced. One preferred embodiment is the FRI n... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060775 | Production of human coagulation factor VIII from plant cells and whole plants The invention includes methods for production of a polypeptide having factor VIII activity by introduction of a polynucleotide construct into a plant cell. The construct includes an encoding sequence for a polypeptide of coagulation factor VIII or a functional variant t... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060776 | Expression of biologically active polypeptides in duckweed Methods, nucleic acid sequences, and transformed duckweed plant or duckweed nodule cultures for the expression and the secretion of biologically active polypeptides from genetically engineered duckweed are provided. Expression of recombinant polypeptides in duckweed is ... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060777 | High frequency plant transformation and/or regeneration The present invention is directed to methods for improving Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation and regeneration of transformed tissue. More specifically, the present invention provides methods for enhancing the frequency of plant transformation by Agro... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060778 | Heat tolerant broccoli Heat tolerant broccoli plants and seed produced therefrom are described. The heat tolerant broccoli plants are capable of producing a commercially acceptable broccoli head under heat stress growth conditions. The heat tolerant broccoli plants are exemplified by seeds de... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060779 | Lectin-derived progenitor cell preservation factors and methods of use The invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes a protein that is effective to preserve progenitor cells, such as hematopoietic progenitor cells. The nucleic acid comprises a sequence defined by SEQ ID NO:1, a homolog thereof, or a fragment there... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060780 | Cymbidium 'LOVELY VALLEY Peace in the World' A distinct cultivar of Cymbidium plant named ‘LOVELY VALLEY Peace in the World’ characterized by upright growth habit with particular vigor, free flowering, bright yellow-green flower with red lip, that is not normally characteristic of Cymbidium. Plan... | 03/17/2005 |
