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...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112798 | Hardware-aided software code measurement Described is an independent computation environment that is built into one or more hardware components of a computer system, wherein the independent computation environment hosts a logic that measures the health of other software code that executes in memory. Exampl... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112796 | Secure federation of data communications networks Techniques for secure federation of data communications networks are provided. The techniques employ an edge proxy server to route messages depending on a federation mode. In Direct federation mode, an edge proxy server of a network is configured to exchange message... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112771 | Managing component programs within a service application Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform methods in accordance with embodiments hereof, for managing component programs within a service application according to a service mode... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112770 | Providing alternative content in a windowed environment The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture or extension to a window manager. In particular, the extension can provide for a window rotation feature that can be exposed as a rotate button. Additionally or alternatively, the rotation feature can be activate... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112764 | Devices as services in a decentralized operating system Various embodiments of the present invention transform devices into Web services or special-purpose servers that are capable of communicating with personal computers. Various embodiments of the present invention allow various low-level aspects of device drivers to r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112755 | Reducing latencies in computing systems using probabilistic and/or decision-theoretic reasoning under scarce memory resources Architecture that employs probabilistic and/or decision-theoretic model(s) of application usage to predict application use and in view of bounded or limited-availability memory. The model(s) is applied with cost-benefit analysis to guide memory management in an oper... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112751 | Executing tasks through multiple processors that process different portions of a replicable task A developer can declare one or more tasks as being replicable. A library manages all tasks that are accessed by an application, including replicable tasks, and further establishes a task manager during requested task execution. During execution, the library generate... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112740 | Core object-oriented type system for semi-structured data A type system employing structural subtyping is disclosed herein. A core type system supports several structural types, such as stream, choice, intersection and sequence. Also part of the core type system is a new invariant type, which denotes values whose dynamic t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112714 | Customizing application page loading in a discovery interface A system provides customized user interface data to a media application, such as a media discovery interface, or to any application for that matter, thereby extending the original application. Via a network connection, elements of the user interface can be downloade... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112673 | System and method of preventing a web browser plug-in module from generating a failure The present invention improves the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known fail... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112610 | Partition bus A method and system are provided for integrating partitions in a virtual machine environment. Specifically, a partition bus is provided, where the partition bus operatively connects partitions in such a way that it functions as a data transport mechanism allowing fo... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112597 | Critical memory Typical computer programs may incur costly memory errors that result in corrupted data. A new memory model is presented wherein it may be determined that certain data is critical and critical data may be stored and protected during computer application execution. Cr... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112556 | Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected A peripheral device, with first and second communication conductors, is connectable to a computer having one of a first interface and a second interface. The first interface communicates with the peripheral device over a differential data connection having a first d... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112552 | Default peripheral device selection based on location In accordance with one or more aspects of the default peripheral device selection based on location, a current location of a computing device is obtained. A mapping record of default peripheral devices to locations is accessed to identify a default peripheral device... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112546 | Routing users to receive online services based on online behavior Tools and techniques for routing users to receive online services based on online behavior are provided. These tools may receive representations of activity involving different users in interacting with online services, and may analyze these representations of user ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112535 | Securing a server in a dynamic addressing environment A dynamic address router may provide dynamically updated routing to a device with a dynamic network address as well as provide a security certificate for the device. The device may be routed using a subordinate domain name. The principal domain name and a security c... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112513 | Multi-user display proxy server A multi-user host computer system comprises processor blades combined with terminal services blades to provide acceleration and proxy server functions for supporting a variety of remote terminals. For each remote terminal, the terminal services blade and proxy serve... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112496 | Efficient algorithm for finding candidate objects for remote differential compression The present invention finds candidate objects for remote differential compression. Objects are updated between two or more computing devices using remote differential compression (RDC) techniques such that required data transfers are minimized. An algorithm provides... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112492 | Shared object stores for a networked computer system A store of interfaced software objects are distributed between a server computer and multiple client computers to support an object oriented application communication environment that provides communication between software applications on each client computer. The ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112481 | Document message state management engine A state management sub-system that assists in transmitting and processing documents and messages between two applications in a sequentially correct order through an integration server is disclosed. The state management subsystem analyzes the message and enters state... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112480 | Signaling support for sharer switching in application sharing Architecture for seamless role switching in application sharing. A multipoint control unit (MCU) can be used for connecting multiple clients over a network. An application sharing component establishes an application sharing session over the MCU, and application con... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112477 | Content identification for peer-to-peer content retrieval Described is a technology in which client content requests to a server over a wide area network (WAN) are responded to with hash information by which the client may locate the content among one or more peer sources coupled to the client via a local area network (LAN... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112475 | Managing data delivery based on device state Managing power-consuming resources on a first computing device by adjusting data delivery from a plurality of second computing devices based on a state of the first computing device. The state of the first computing device is provided to the second computing devices... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112470 | Virtual javascript object notation A client receives an object definition defining an object and an array of elements from a server. Each of the elements in the received array includes data representing objects associated with a data store of the server. The client instantiates a plurality of objects... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112464 | On-demand access to container file directories One or more levels of a stub directory from a container file are written out to a storage device. The stub directory initially includes identifiers of one or more directories in the one or more levels of the stub directory but not identifiers of additional directori... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112452 | Serverless distributed file system A serverless distributed file system manages the storage of files and directories using one or more directory groups. The directories may be managed using Byzantine-fault-tolerant groups, whereas files are managed without using Byzantine-fault-tolerant groups. Addit... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112450 | Priority messaging and priority scheduling Systems and methods that set priority levels to messaging systems initiated between end points (e.g., two SQL point services) thru service brokers. A priority component can apply priority at a session level to add priority capabilities on top of service brokers, and... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112444 | Provisions for validating content using a content registration authority Strategies are described for validating content transferred over a communication channel using a more effective approach than heretofore provided in the art. A content registration authority is provided which registers the content disseminated by one or more content... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112421 | Query selection for effectively learning ranking functions A learning system for a search ranking function model may include a computer program that iteratively refines the model using new queries and associated documents from an unlabeled training set. The unlabeled training set may include a set of queries for which the a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112409 | Predicting future queries from log data A system, media, and method for selecting future queries are provided. The selected future queries are used to transmit appropriate online advertising to a user that issues queries to a search engine. The search engine is coupled to a prediction component that predi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112404 | Providing search results for mobile computing devices Search results are provided for mobile computing devices. Search results are retrieved based on a search term. Each of the search results is assigned to one or more categories. The categories and the assigned search results are provided to the mobile computing devic... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112402 | Automatic disambiguation based on a reference resource A novel system for automatically indicating the specific identity of ambiguous named entities is provided. An automatic disambiguation data collection is created using a reference resource. Explicit named entities are catalogued from the reference resource, together... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112383 | Systems and methods for a database engine in-process data provider Various embodiments of the present invention enable functions, procedures, and triggers to be written in any of the .NET languages and executed by the RDBMS. User code can access data from the local or other SQL servers using the SQL Programming Model and both the S... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112379 | Policy processor for configuration management A policy processor is described that may be used to implement a system for managing the configuration of assets in a distributed computing network, such as an enterprise network. The policy processor resides on a managed node in the distributed computing network and... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112366 | Expert system and visualization for multi-server capacity management A system is disclosed that includes an interface to receive a resource governance rule applicable to one or more hardware resources supporting a monitored software application. The system includes utilization logic to measure usage of a particular hardware resource ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112269 | Determining utility of a question A question search system provides a collection of questions having words for use in evaluating the utility of the questions based on a language model. The question search system calculates n-gram probabilities for words within the questions of the collection. The n-... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112268 | Method and system for prioritizing communications based on sentence classifications A method and system for prioritizing communications based on classifications of sentences within the communications is provided. A sentence classification system may classify sentences of communications according to various classifications such as “sentence mode.â... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112116 | Bidirectional dynamic offloading of tasks between a host and a mobile device One or more functions are exposed by a mobile device to a host connected to the mobile device. A function of the one or more functions is executed at the mobile device in response to a request from the host, wherein the function is associated with a host task. The r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111922 | Bi-directional handwriting insertion and correction Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing bi-handwriting directional handwriting recognition and correction. A combined handwriting recognizer is provided that supports left-to-right and right-to-left language recognition by using a combined di... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111821 | Automated follow-up call in a telephone interaction system A follow-up call to a user is made after completion of a first call with a voice user interface module operable on a computer. The voice user interface module inquiries about information communicated in the first call. ... | 02/07/2012 |
