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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 7590584 | Computer system for virtual share dealing A computer system buys and sells virtual shares on behalf of investors, usually investing small sums, in order to reduce the dealing costs for small transactions. The system thus maintains a notional level of shares held on behalf of all the investors who participat... | 09/15/2009 |
| 6862576 | Secure locker system and method A locker system which permits secure delivery, or collection, of goods at a location and that can be associated with a single household or disposed centrally with respect to a plurality of households. A set of lockers, which may be of different sizes, capable of bei... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6782103 | Cryptographic key management Business data flows from one computer system (1) to another (2) and its integrity can be protected by cryptographic means, such as digital signatures. In particular, a source system (1) may use a private key (DSPR) to sign outgoing data, and a d... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6728696 | Method and apparatus for generating a keyword list from tables to facilitate searching an electronic catalog A computer-implemented method is described, for searching for items in an electronic catalog, e.g. an on-line catalog accessible over the Internet. A hierarchy of category names is defined, each item in the electronic catalog being associated with one of those categ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6725242 | Multiple-computer data processing system and method with time-versioned data storage A data processor comprises a number of databases for storing records and a plurality of user systems capable of accessing the databases. The user systems each include a datastore/application environment instance with which users can interface. Host systems may inclu... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6684227 | Electronic content store In a method for storing and accessing objects in an electronic content store (e.g. for a Website), each object is assigned a version number, such that multiple instances of the same object with different version numbers may coexist. When accessing an obje... | 01/27/2004 |
