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Patent No. 5443036

Method of exercising a cat

A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall.

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Assignee: WorldGate Service, Inc.


Location: Trevose, PA
No. of patents: 7

NumberTitleIssue Date
8089502Adaptive video telephone system
A videophone system providing high resolution video transmission between videophones utilizes compressed video signals and audio signals which may be transmitted through any communications network, with the system providing real time adaptive error recovery and sync...
01/03/2012
8063928Videophone system and method
System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display devi...
11/22/2011
7239338Videophone system and method
System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display devi...
07/03/2007
D512698Video phone
12/13/2005
6477579Access system and method for providing interactive access to an information source through a networked distribution system
A system and method for accessing Internet-based and other information through a user television in a television distribution network enables a user to access and view information which is related to the programming content of a currently viewed televisio...
11/05/2002
6389075MPEG encoding technique for encoding web pages
A method and apparatus for digitally encoding video image data, which is particularly suited for encoding Internet Web pages, eliminates the need for performing time consuming, computationally intensive motion vector searches by taking advantage of prior ...
05/14/2002
6266369MPEG encoding technique for encoding web pages
A method and apparatus for digitally encoding video image data, which is particularly suited for encoding Internet Web pages, eliminates the need for performing time consuming, computationally intensive motion vector searches by taking advantage of prior ...
07/24/2001
 
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