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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090126018 | PASSWORD EXPIRATION BASED ON VULNERABILITY DETECTION Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for password expiration based on vulnerability detection. The computer implemented method comprises receiving a request for a password after re-activa... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126019 | NETWORK-BASED INFECTION DETECTION USING HOST SLOWDOWN Host malware (or change) may be detected by (1) receiving baseline set of response time information for each of one or more transactions involving (A) the host and (B) at least one peer of the host, (2) determining or receiving a later set of response time information f... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126020 | ENGINE FOR RULE BASED CONTENT FILTERING An engine for editing contents of data containers has a set of processors which hosts a set of controllers, each controller coupled to a respective set of transcoders. A memory device stores an array of Boolean variables characterizing the contents of a container, and a... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126021 | SECURE INITIALIZATION OF INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM Secure initialization for detecting intrusions is disclosed. The secure initialization includes storing a behavior profile associated with an application, and reading the stored behavior profile that is cryptographically protected. The method further includes monitoring... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126022 | Method and System for Generating Data for Security Assessment A system for creating data to be inputted to a security assessment system is provided with: a system configuration information collection unit for collecting system configuration information from an assessment object system; an attribute information input unit for recei... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126023 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORECASTING SECURITY THREAT LEVEL OF NETWORK Provided are an apparatus and method for forecasting the security threat level of a network. The apparatus includes: a security data collection unit for collecting traffic data and intrusion detection data transmitted from an external network to a managed network; a mal... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126024 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE LICENSES AND STORAGE APPARATUS The management of software licenses becomes easy without incurring an increase in costs to effectively prevent software applications from unauthorized use. The software license managing method including: judging, when a software program installed in a computer is execut... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126025 | System for protecting information A system in accordance with the present invention protects information. The system includes a processor for processing information and a state machine utilizing tables for determining protection requirements for the information.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126026 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MALICIOUS-CODE SPREADING SITES USING SEARCH ENGINE Provided is a method for enabling a user terminal to avoid exposure to a malicious code, by classifying web pages including a malicious code and blocking user access to the web pages including the malicious code when a user searches for a web page using a search engine.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126027 | FILE ACCESSING AND RETRIEVAL USING SOFT DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method and/or system for enabling access to computer file content using an open routine having a proprietary argument.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126028 | Securing electronic control unit code Methods and systems are provided for securing electronic control unit code. In one implementation, a method is provided. According to the method, an order for the program code may be transmitted to a developer. The order may include specifications and an authentication ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126029 | Permanent Data Hardware Integrity A method for processing digital data X of an item of software coded on lx bits, for detecting faults in an electronic circuit comprising at least one bus, a processing unit, a memory for running the software, and a hardware architecture. The digital data X is... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126030 | Tamper detection line circuitry for use in authenticating an integrated circuit Provided is tamper detection line circuitry for an authentication integrated circuit for use in authenticating an integrated circuit. The tamper detection line circuitry includes a source of pseudo-random bits, and an XOR gate with two inputs and an output in signal com... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126031 | MICE LACKING ALPHA 1G SHOWING ENHANCED NOVELTY-SEEKING AND ALCOHOL PREFERENCE AND THERAPEUTIC METHODS FOR MOOD DISORDERS BY MODULATING ALPHA 1G T-TYPE CALCIUM CHANNELS The present invention relates to a novel use of an α1G T-type calcium channel transgenic mouse as a nervous disease model, more particularly, a novel use of a mouse deficient in α1G T-type calcium channel showing novelty-seeking and alcohol preference as a nervous dis... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126032 | Method to produce cloned embryos and adults from cultured cells A nuclear transfer method is provided wherein nuclear DNA in whole or part is injected into enucleated oocytes. The method is suitable for different donor cells, and preferably ES cells.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126033 | Method of selective breeding based on ob genotype A method for improving efficiencies in livestock production comprises grouping livestock animals, such as cattle and pigs, during the period of their retention in a feeding facility according to the genetic predisposition of individual livestock animals to deposit fat, ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126034 | Environmentally Stable Sensors and Methods of Using the Same Environmentally stable biosensors are disclosed, which comprise a ligand binding domain from a thermophilic organism conjugated to donor and fluorescent moieties that permit detection and measurement of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer upon ligand binding. Such bi... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126035 | Rice Hybrid XL729 A rice hybrid designated XL729 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice hybrid XL729, to the plants of rice hybrid XL729 and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the hybrid XL729 with itself or another rice plant. The invention furt... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126036 | Brassica Oleracea Plants with a Resistance to Mycosphaerella Brassicicola On embodiment of the present invention discloses Brassica oleracea plants with a resistance gene to Mycosphaerella brassicicola. An embodiment of the invention also discloses a method for providing a Brassica oleracea plant with a resistance to M... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126037 | TOMTATO PLANTS HAVING HIGHER LEVELS OF RESISTANCE TO BOTRYTIS The present invention relates to a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with resistance to Botrytis cinerea in tomato, comprising the steps of crossing a Botrytis-resistant donor tomato plant with a non-resistant, or Botrytis... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126038 | Rna constructs The present invention concerns concatemer and/or stabilized RNA constructs capable of forming dsRNA, optionally comprising a sequence capable of protecting the dsRNA against RNA processing in a host cell. The invention also relates to methods of producing these construc... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126039 | Plants Having Increased Yield And Method For Making The Same The present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield in plants grown under non-stress growth conditions relative to yield in corresponding wild type plants grown under comparable conditions, the method comprising preferentially increasing activity in the c... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126040 | Plant Vernalization Independence (VIP) Genes, Proteins, and Methods Of Use The present invention relates to plant genes involved in regulating flowering, and especially to genes involved in the induction of flowering in response to cold, or vernalization. In particular, the present invention provides the identification, cloning, and characteri... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126041 | Regeneration The invention relates to the field of regeneration of cells and the vegetative propagation of (micro)-organisms or specific parts such as tissues or organs thereof, for example of those cells grown in tissue or organ culture, and more in particular to the seedless propa... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126042 | Polynucleotides and polypeptides involved in plant fiber development and methods of using same Isolated polynucleotides are provided. Each of the isolated polynucleotides comprise a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 26, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 115, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124, 126, 9... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126043 | GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH IMPROVED PATHOGEN RESISTANCE AND DROUGHT TOLERANCE The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype due to altered expression of a PRDT1 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance and i... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126044 | SYNTHETIC GENES ENCODING CRY1AC Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions containing a synthetic nucleotide sequence encoding a Cry1Ac protein are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA construc... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126045 | Transgenic Plant for Producing Polyglutamic Acid A method for preparing a transgenic plant for producing polyglutamic acid and a transgenic method prepared by this method are provided. The method of the present invention comprises introducing a nucleic acid encoding the polyglutamic acid synthase A (pgsA), a nucleic a... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126046 | Plants having improved growth characteristics and method for making the same The present invention concerns a method for improving growth characteristics of plants by increasing expression and/or activity in a plant of an LRR receptor kinase or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant an RLK827 nucleic acid molecul... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126047 | REGULATOR FOR FLOWERING TIME, TRANSGENIC PLANT TRANSFORMED WITH THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR REGULATING FLOWERING TIME The present invention relates to a flowering-time and/or stem elongation regulator isolated from rice, which is selected from OsMADS50, OsMADSS1, OsMADS56, OsMADS14, OsTRX1, OsVIN1, OsCOL4 and OsCOLS, a DNA construct containing the regulator, a transgenic plant, a part ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126048 | Method For Growing Forskohlin Containing Coleus In A Temperate Climate The present invention is a method of growing and harvesting forskohlin-containing cultivars of the Coleus plant in North America and other geographic areas that results in increased yield of the phytochemical forskohlin per plant, as well as increasing rhizome an... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126049 | SEED COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR REDUCING AND PREVENTING THE RELEASE OF GENETICALLY MANIPULATED POLLEN The present invention relates to a seed composition and a method for reducing and, if desired, for preventing the release of pollen or functional pollen from genetically modified crops by cultivating fields stands of plants bearing target GMO traits in a male sterile ve... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126050 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES, DNA CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS FOR THE ALTERATION OF PLANT CELLULOSE CONTENT Polynucleotide, DNA constructs and methods are disclosed for the modification of cellulose content in plant tissues. Plants are transformed with constructs encoding either an active Anabaena sp. sucrose synthase gene or a soybean nodule sucrose synthase gene, whi... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126051 | Method and System for Sample Preparation Method and system for preparing samples for use in electron microscopy. The method and system use a focused ion beam (FIB) instrument and a scanning electron microscope to improve the time efficiency of the FIB instrument. The FIB instrument incorporates machining means... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126052 | Floribunda rose plant named 'WEKjutono' A new variety of Floribunda rose suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of bright orange coloration.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126053 | Variety of Ceanothus plant named 'FIT02' A new cultivar of Ceanothus named ‘FIT02’ that is characterized by chocolate brown and dark purple mature foliage, an upright, vigorous habit, and small clusters of flowers in Summer. In combination these traits set ‘FIT02’ apart from all other existing v... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126054 | Pennisetum alopecuroides plant named 'PAV300' A new and distinct variety of Pennisetum alopecuroides plant named ‘PAV300’ is characterized by its semi-dwarf and compact, dense growth habit with green-white variegated leaves that are finer and more narrow than other varieties of Pennisetum alopecuroide... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126055 | PENSTEMON PLANT NAMED 'PENHARED' A new Penstemon plant, particularly distinguished by its red colored flower with white throat, early flowering, and good branching habit.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090126056 | PENSTEMON PLANT NAME 'PENHARCAR' A new Penstemon plant, particularly distinguished by its carmine flower color with white throat, early flowering, and good branching habit.... | 05/14/2009 |
