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3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7945600 | Techniques for organizing data to support efficient review and analysis Techniques for organizing a corpus of electronic documents. The electronic documents are organized in a manner that facilitates review of the documents. The documents are organized into a concept-based hierarchical collection of folders based upon contents of the do... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7877388 | Method and system for guided cluster based processing on prototypes A method (and system) for clustering a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The method includes inputting a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The items are provided into a clustering process. The method also inputs an... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7822812 | Techniques for sharing content information with members of a virtual user group in a network environment without compromising user privacy Techniques for sharing content information between members of a virtual user group without compromising the privacy of the members. A user can identify content information to be shared with other members of a virtual user group using a user computer system. The cont... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7664821 | Systems and methods for determining communication chains based on messages A pool of messages, e.g., e-mails and/or other electronic documents that each correspond to a communication from a sender to a recipient, is analyzed to identify communication chains between a source and a target. Sender and recipient identifiers extracted from the ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7469246 | Method and system for classifying or clustering one item into multiple categories A method (and system) for associating an item with only less than ten categories from a collection of more than hundred categories. Each category includes a model, which determines a process. The process determines a degree of closeness to a set of features of items... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7308451 | Method and system for guided cluster based processing on prototypes A method (and system) for clustering a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The method includes inputting a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The items are provided into a clustering process. The method also inputs an... | 12/11/2007 |
