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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100196661 | METHOD FOR PATTERNING NANO-SCALE PATTERNS OF MOLECULES ON A SURFACE OF A MATERIAL Probe-based methods for patterning a surface of a material are described. In particular, high resolution patterning of molecules on a surface of a material, such as nano-scale patterns with feature sizes of less than 30 nanometers, are described. In one aspect, a method... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20090049308 | Method for Effective Tamper Resistance A system, method, and computer program product for preventing a malicious user from analyzing and modifying software content. The one-way functions used in prior art systems using dynamically evolving audit logs or self-modifying applications are replaced with a one-way... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20080251846 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR LOW CAPACITANCE ESD ROBUST DIODES A diode having a capacitance below 0.1 pF and a breakdown voltage of at least 500V. The diode has an anode of a first conductivity type and a cathode of a second conductivity type disposed below the anode. At least one of the cathode and anode have multiple, vertically ... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080148061 | METHOD FOR EFFECTIVE TAMPER RESISTANCE A system, method, and computer program product for preventing a malicious user from analyzing and modifying software content. The one-way functions used in prior art systems using dynamically evolving audit logs or self-modifying applications are replaced with a one-way... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080013385 | ASYNCHRONOUS SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY An asynchronous pseudo SRAM having compatibility with asynchronous SRAMs. A read request or a write request of data is provided at arbitrary timing to the asynchronous pseudo SRAM, the asynchronous pseudo SRAM includes a memory cell array comprising dynamic memory cells... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070282799 | System and method for semantic analysis of intelligent device discovery The present invention provides a method, system, and service of analyzing electronic documents in an intranet, where the intranet includes a plurality of web sites. In an exemplary embodiment, the method, system, and service include (1) crawling HTML content and ... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070283410 | System and Method for Effecting Information Governance A method to manage data located on networked devices is provided. The method includes replicating objects residing on the devices and collecting information about at least one of the objects or the devices. The method further includes receiving input on desired informat... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070067244 | Renewable traitor tracing A system, method, and computer program product to renewably prevent traitors in a broadcast encryption system from re-using compromised keys. A license agency assigns individual receivers a set of Sequence Keys preferably at manufacture, and assigns Sequence Key Blocks ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070016580 | EXTRACTING INFORMATION ABOUT REFERENCES TO ENTITIES ROM A PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS The present invention provides a method and system of extracting information about references to entities from a plurality of electronic documents. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include (1) applying at least one document quality measure to eac... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20070011751 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING DATA WITHIN A STORAGE SYSTEM According to the present invention, there is provided a system for securing data with a storage system. The system includes at least one storage device. In addition, the system includes a security mechanism for recognizing an attempt to insert or remove the storage devi... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060255383 | Spin-Polarization Devices Using Rare Earth-Transition Metal Alloys A tunnel barrier in proximity with a layer of a rare earth element-transition metal (RE-TM) alloy forms a device that passes negatively spin-polarized current. The rare earth element includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er,... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060253440 | ELIMINATING FILE REDUNDANCY IN A COMPUTER FILESYSTEM AND ESTABLISHING MATCH PERMISSION IN A COMPUTER FILESYSTEM The present invention provides a method and system of eliminating file redundancy for at least one computer file in a computer filesystem and a method and system of establishing match permission for at least one computer file in a computer filesystem. The present invent... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060248456 | ASSIGNING A PUBLICATION DATE FOR AT LEAST ONE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT The present invention provides a method and system of assigning a publication date for at least one electronic document, where the publication date includes the year that the document was published, the month that the document was published, and the day that the documen... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060248592 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING DISCLOSURE IN HIPPOCRATIC DATABASES A tool for enforcing limited disclosure rules in a software application, typically an unmodified database. The invention enables individual queries to respect data subjects' preferences and choices by storing privacy semantics, classifying data items into categories, re... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060190502 | BACKING UP AT LEAST ONE ENCRYPTED COMPUTER FILE The present invention provides a method and system of backing up at least one encrypted computer file encrypted by an encryption filter driver running on an operating system of a computer system and restoring at least one encrypted computer file encrypted by an encrypti... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060181980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING EFFICIENT SMALL WRITES TO WORM STORAGE According to the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a WORM storage system, the method including a sector-append capability. The method includes receiving data to be written to a WORM storage system. In addition, the method includes identifying a ... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060153378 | READ/WRITE MEDIA KEY BLOCK A recorder system contains a media key block (MKB) and selectively writes protected content into a recording medium according to the following content protection logic, to combat theft of the protected content: If the medium does not have a MKB, then the recorder writes... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060131375 | ANTI-TRACKING SYSTEM TO ENSURE CONSUMER PRIVACY A system, method and computer program product for enabling a user to detect nearby RFID tags and identify nearby RFID readers to enhance user privacy. A portable RFID reader scans for nearby tags, and a universal RFID tag detects nearby readers. The invention can alert ... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060129588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING DATA WITH A WRITE-ONCE INDEX According to the present invention, there is provided a system for organizing data objects for fast retrieval. The system includes at least one data storage medium defining data sectors. In addition, the system includes at least one data object on the data storage mediu... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060109985 | BROADCAST ENCRYPTION WITH DUAL TREE SIZES A method, system, and computer program product for broadcast encryption key management. The invention eliminates the need for pre-specification of a maximum number of keys that can be employed in a given broadcast encryption system by enabling an initial key to be exten... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060112264 | Method and Computer Program Product for Finding the Longest Common Subsequences Between Files with Applications to Differential Compression A differential compression method and computer program product combines hash value techniques and suffix array techniques. The invention finds the best matches for every offset of the version file, with respect to a certain granularity and above a certain length thresho... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060106818 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PERFORMING A CURRENT FILESYSTEM BACKUP WITH RESPECT TO A PREVIOUS FILESYSTEM BACKUP USING DIRECTORYWISE HARDLINKING FOR A COMPUTER FILESYSTEM The present invention provides a method and system of performing a current filesystem backup with respect to a previous filesystem backup using directorywise hardlinking for a computer filesystem. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include (1) identifying... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060100848 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING LANGUAGE SPECIFIC DIACRITICS FOR DIFFERENT LANGUAGES USING A SINGLE KEYBOARD LAYOUT A diacritic chording system uses a single standard keyboard layout to generate diacritical characters used, for example, by Latin-based languages or languages based on a Roman character set, providing a universal keyboard The key combination required to select a diacrit... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060098354 | Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Using Amorphous Materials as Reference and Free Layers Magnetic tunnel junctions are constructed from a MgO or Mg—ZnO tunnel barrier and amorphous magnetic layers in proximity with, and on respective sides of, the tunnel barrier. The amorphous magnetic layer preferably includes Co and at least one additional element selec... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060093862 | MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS WITH HIGH TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE USING NON-bcc MAGNETIC MATERIALS Magnetic material, which is not normally bcc-structured under ambient conditions, is induced into becoming bcc as a result of its proximity to a suitable templating material, such as a bcc-structured underlayer that is in contact with the magnetic material. The magnetic... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060075294 | System and Method for Reliably Storing Data and Providing Efficient Incremental Backup and Asynchronous Mirroring by Preferentially Handling New Data According to the present invention, there is provided a method for reliably storing data in a computer system. The method includes receiving a piece of data to be stored at a storage system. In addition, the method includes writing a first copy of the data to the storag... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20050289448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GATHERING, INDEXING, AND SUPPLYING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATA CHARTS A system, method and search engine for searching images for data contained therein. Training images are provided and image attributes are extracted from the training images. Attributes extracted from training images include image features characteristic of a particular ... | 12/29/2005 |
| 20050132281 | Method and System of Annotation for Electronic Documents The present invention provides a method of annotation for electronic document, a method for creating, modifying and browsing an annotation in an electronic document, and an apparatus and system for editing, browsing annotations in electronic document. The method of anno... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050086228 | Conditionalized Access Control Based on Dynamic Content Analysis According to the present invention, there is provided a method and apparatus for controlling an access for a client application residing on a user computer to data stored on a network computer within a network. The method comprises the steps of receiving a request from ... | 04/21/2005 |
