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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120125865 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PICKING UP PARTICLES FROM THE SURFACE OF A WATER SYSTEM The invention relates to an apparatus for picking up particles from the surface of a water system, in particular oil, algae or dirt particles, comprising a particle separation space, which is connected to an inflow opening through which water that contains particles can... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120067806 | APPARATUS FOR PICKING UP PARTICLES FROM THE SURFACE OF A WATER SYSTEM The invention relates to an apparatus for picking up particles from the surface of a water system, in particular particles of dirt, with a float (1), in which a particle separation chamber (8) is formed, into which particle-containing water can flow via an... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051229 | VIRTUALIZATION AND REPLAY-BASED SYSTEM FOR NETWORK DEBUGGING A method and system of analyzing a network to identify a network defect allows user selection of traffic subset to be recorded. After recording the selected traffic subset of the network traffic during network operation, the recorded traffic is then replayed at least in... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110190060 | AROUND DEVICE INTERACTION FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, FOR CONTROLLING A COMPUTER GAME AND FOR USER VERIFICATION An electronic device includes an around device interaction module configured to interact with a user of the electronic device. The around device interaction module includes a magnetic sensor operable to measure a magnetic field strength of a magnetic element and a contr... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110173705 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROCESSING ANNOTATED MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS USING GRANULAR AND HIERARCHICAL PERMISSIONS A method of processing at least one multimedia document includes determining at least one segment of the document. At least one type of permission is assigned to the at least one segment. The at least one type of permission is made available for a later use when process... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110167399 | DESIGN TOOL FOR THE TYPE AND FORM OF A CIRCUIT PRODUCTION The invention relates to a method for influencing a selecting a “type and form of a circuit implementation” in at least one layer (L1,L2) in a given integration task for an integrated circuit or many thereof aggregated in a wafer composite, a module on... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110141107 | Method for Producing an Autostereoscopic Display and System for an Autostereoscopic Display The invention relates to a methods for producing an autostereoscopic display, that shows at least one object. An illustrative method in accordance with the invention comprises, with the help of a radiation image design in a virtual optical imaging system, comprising at ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110122788 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS NETWORKS A method for organizing an architecture of access points in a distributed wireless network includes measuring interference between the access points, assigning radiofrequency channels to the access points based on the measured interference and creating distributed anten... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110047112 | Method for Detecting Airplane Flight Events, Mobile Communication Device, and Computational Unit Therefor A method for detecting airplane flight events using at least one acceleration sensor associated with a mobile communication device includes obtaining at least one acceleration signal from the at least one acceleration sensor; pre-processing the obtained at least one acc... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040688 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR THE DECENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL CONTENT A method for the decentralized distribution of digital content via a network includes providing content with a tag configured to allow at least one of an operator of a download portal and a content provider to track distribution of the content so as to collect data abou... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100061214 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A HOLOGRAM IN AN OPTICAL MEDIUM The invention relates to a method and a device for producing a hologram in an optical medium, particularly for storing data in the optical medium. In the method, the hologram is produced in the optical medium using laser beams, wherein the laser beams are formed from a ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100025453 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE GENERATION OF ULTRASONIC WIRE BONDS A method for generating a wire bond between a wire and an electrical contact member is provided. The method comprising the steps of: pressing a first surface of a portion of the wire against a second surface of the electrical contact member with a first force while vibr... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090326940 | AUTOMATED VOICE-OPERATED USER SUPPORT An information device for voice-operated support of a user includes a storage medium, a knowledge database, a processing unit, an input device, a recording component, a transcription component, and an ontological analysis component. A signal is detected by the input dev... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090244289 | AUDIO-VISUAL QUALITY ESTIMATION A method and an apparatus for estimating a quality of an audio-video signal includes calculating audio and video quality factors from audio and video technical characteristics. An audio-video quality factors interaction is computed from an interaction between the audio ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090187983 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED, LOCALIZED AUTHENTICATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF 802.11 A method for controlling Internet access of a mobile device by using a communication system having a number of access points includes the steps of performing a certificate-based authentication between an authentication access point and a mobile device seeking access to ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090099843 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE INTEGRAL AND DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT OF LISTENING SPEECH QUALITY A method for determining a speech quality measure of an output speech signal with respect to an input speech signal, wherein the input signal passes through a signal path of a data transmission system resulting in the output signal, includes the steps of pre-processing ... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20080025216 | Method and communication system for optimizing the throughput of a TCP flow in a wireless network A method and a system is provided for optimizing the throughput of a TCP flow from a TCP source to a TCP destination in a wireless network with the path of the flow encompassing a wireless link between a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The throughput is op... | 01/31/2008 |
