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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6901397 | Method and apparatus for providing web-based assistance to customers and service representatives A web-based application is used to assist customer service representatives or others answer questions about various items such as electronic equipment. The application provides the user with an interface with links to additional pages of information. In one embodime... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6405188 | Information retrieval system Methods and systems for providing an improved IR system that performs information retrieval by using probabilities. When performing information retrieval, the improved IR system utilizes both the prior probability that a document is relevant independent o... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6370579 | Method and apparatus for striping packets over parallel communication links A system for performing packet based data communications over a parallel set of sublinks is provided. A transmitter unit separates the sublinks into an available set of sublinks and a busy set of sublinks. This transmitter avoids processing delays by util... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6351468 | Communications protocol in a wireless personal area network A communications protocol that is used in a network having a hub device connected to a plurality of peripheral devices includes a synchronization beacon frame that is broadcast by the hub device to the peripheral devices for permitting the peripheral devi... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6327349 | Method and apparatus for identifying a rate center using a location routing number In a telephone network supporting local number portability, a system and method for assigning a location identifier uses a location routing number to identify the geographic location of a customer. A local carrier assigns a telephone number to a customer.... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6324648 | Secure gateway having user identification and password authentication A computer system provides authenticated access for a client computer over an insecure, public network to one of a plurality of destination servers on private, secure network, through the use of a client-side X.509 digital certificate. A firewall is dispo... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6314091 | Wireless personal area network with automatic detachment A personal area network includes a plurality of peripheral devices attached to the network, at least one attaching peripheral device requesting to attach to the network, and a hub device connected to the network and communicating with the plurality of per... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6311182 | Voice activated web browser A voice activated and operated Internet web browser where voiced utterances are digitized and the digitized representation is input to a speech recognition program is disclosed. The speech recognition program determines the most likely set of words from a... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6310893 | Method and system for connectionless communication in a cell relay satellite network A method and system for communicating a packet over a cell relay satellite network, without establishing a connection in the cell relay satellite network, comprises the steps of segmenting the packet into a number of segments at a source node in the commu... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6310966 | Biometric certificates Biometric identification is combined with digital certificates for electronic authentication as biometric certificates. The biometric certificates are managed through the use of a biometric certificate management system. Biometric certificates may be used... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6283406 | Use of flow injection and extraction to control blade vortex interaction and high speed impulsive noise in helicopters An active control device for reducing high-speed impulsive ("HSI") and blade vortex interaction ("BVI") noise in a rotor aircraft, such as a helicopter, is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of rotor blades extending radially in spaced relationsh... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6272140 | Bandwidth allocation in a wireless personal area network A network includes a hub device connected to a plurality of peripheral devices. The hub device includes a send token register, a receive token register, and a communication protocol engine. The send token register contains tokens for allocation of output ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6243465 | Method of providing video programming nearly on demand A method for providing video programming in a nearly on demand basis is disclosed. A video network includes a video server that operates several video recorders to simultaneously exhibit video performances or programs on a plurality of channels. The video... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6240051 | Acoustic surveillance apparatus and method An apparatus and method for detecting, locating, tracking, or classifying an acoustic energy source located on a far side of a structure is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a receiving device samples a plurality of points on a near sid... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6208746 | Biometric watermarks A biometric watermark system and method generate a biometrically encoded bitstream from biometric data of a user and from electronic data to be transmitted to the user. The encoded bitstream has the biometric data acting as a biometric watermark. The enco... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6202151 | System and method for authenticating electronic transactions using biometric certificates A technique for combining biometric identification with digital certificates for electronic authentication called biometric certificates. The technique includes the management of biometric certificates through the use of a biometric certificate management... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6185619 | Method and apparatus for balancing the process load on network servers according to network and serve based policies According to the present invention, a method and system provides the ability to assign requests for data objects made by clients among multiple network servers. The invention provides a distributed computing system and methods to assign user requests to r... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6173803 | High amplitude sound wave generator A method and device for generating a high amplitude sound wave is provided. The device includes a housing having an open end. A piston is slidably disposed in the open end of the housing and forms a chamber for holding a pressurized liquid. The pressurize... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6105010 | Biometric certifying authorities A biometric certifying authority (BCA) management system and method provide and maintain a hierarchical relationship among biometric certifying authorities in the issuance of biometric certificates. Biometric certificates may be used in all electronic tra... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5896440 | System and method for providing a unified communications link between divergent communication networks A unified communication system is designed using an agreed upon transmission protocol between different carriers. The protocol is used to allow the automatic gathering of administrative data (such as trouble reports) from diverse locations within a sendin... | 04/20/1999 |
