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A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7516147 | URL system and method for licensing content A licensing system and method for deploying digital content is provided. A client system can download the digital content from the server and, if a valid license for the content is also found on the server, software may be permitted to run digital content. The licen... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7424550 | System and method for specifying access to resources in a mobile code system Mobile code, such as an applet, is permitted to create a network connection with a content server on a network, without restricting the applet only to connections from the computer from which it was downloaded. This is achieved in accordance with the principles of t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7401327 | System and method supporting property values as options A class includes fields to support values of properties in preallocated memory space and an option data structure which supports, in instances of the class, references to option values without preallocation of memory space. The field and option values are accessed i... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7373639 | System and method supporting type checking of options To support values of properties, a class includes fields to support values in preallocated memory space and with an option data structure which supports, in instances of the class, references to option values without preallocation of memory space. The field and opti... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7340720 | System and method supporting mapping of option bindings To support values of properties, a class includes fields to support values in preallocated memory space and with an option data structure which supports, in instances of the class, references to option values without preallocation of memory space. If a value has not... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7281017 | Views for software atomization Views for software atomization provide runtime transformations of existing atoms in atom databases to create new or virtual atom databases. Views provide for sharing of code and data atoms that are stored in an atom database, as well as providing sharing of code and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7225438 | Lazy compilation of template-generated classes in dynamic compilation execution environments Template-generated classes in program code are compiled efficiently through a process of lazy compilation resulting in improved compilation times. Lazy compilation includes the generation of objects representing a class template and a template-generated class as wel... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7117507 | Software atomization Software atomization provides a method of loading atomized computer program code and data on demand by loading, from an atom database, into a memory, an atom defining code or data in a fine-grained, individually addressable manner. Atoms comprise an atom identifier,... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6993588 | System and methods for securely permitting mobile code to access resources over a network A system and methods are disclosed that permit mobile code, such as an applet, to create a network connection with a content server on a network, without exposing the client computer that is running the applet, or other computers with which the client computer may c... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6931385 | Interactive examples for online coding tutorials Methods and apparatus for generating an interactive coding example for an online computer language tutorial are shown. The interactive coding example is displayed in an electronic document as part of an online computer language tutorial. An interactive example windo... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6915433 | Securely extensible component meta-data Methods and apparatus are provided for associating meta-data with digital components and for updating the meta-data with meta-data supplements. Security provisions are included to ensure unauthorized updates are not permitted. ... | 07/05/2005 |
