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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110044791 | Battery Exchange Station At the battery exchange station a discharged battery is removed and a charged battery is inserted into an electric vehicle. The battery is inserted and removed along a vertical axis, i.e., into and out of the bottom of the vehicle. The battery exchange system is located... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110028215 | Video Game System with Mixing of Independent Pre-Encoded Digital Audio Bitstreams A computer-implemented method of encoding audio includes accessing a plurality of independent audio source streams, each of which includes a sequence of source frames. Respective source frames of each sequence include respective pluralities of pulse-code modulated audio... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025615 | Touchpad with a Double-Layer Printed Circuit Board Structure The present invention provides a touchpad with a double-layer printed circuit board structure. The touchpad comprises an upper layer, a bottom layer, a first conductor; and a second conductor; wherein the upper layer is configured to act as a touch-sensitive zone, and c... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110000005 | POSTURE IMPROVING GARMENT A garment adapted to be worn by a wearer. The garment includes a main body portion that is configured to be worn over at least a portion of the wearer's lumbo-pelvic region, hips and at least a portion of the legs, wherein the main body portion includes first and second... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332724 | Accessing a Serial Number of a Removable Non-Volatile Memory Device A removable non-volatile memory device durably stores a serial number or identifier, which is used to mark multimedia content legally stored on the removable non-volatile memory device. In order to retrieve the serial number, a host electronic system coupled to the remo... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332652 | Distributed Methodology for Approximate Event Counting In a method and system for aggregating event information, events are received at a first plurality of nodes in a distributed system. For the events received at each node aggregated attribute information is determined in accordance with two or more rules and stored in di... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100330329 | Vehicle With Drag-Reducing Outer Surface A vehicle with a drag-reducing outer surface. A method of reducing aerodynamic or hydrodynamic drag on a vehicle includes the steps of: providing an outer surface on a body of the vehicle, with the outer surface including spaced apart turbulence-inducing structures ther... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100326807 | LIGHT GUIDE PLATE, LIGHT GUIDE KEY PLATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE LIGHT GUIDE KEY PLATE A light guide key plate includes a light guide plate (1). The light guide plate (1) has a plate body (11) with a plurality of keyholes (12). The plate body (11) is formed with flow passages (13) at one side thereof for communica... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100312747 | Computer Systems and Methods for Visualizing Data A method for forming a visual plot using a hierarchical structure of a dataset. The dataset comprises a measure and a dimension. The dimension consists of a plurality of levels. The plurality of levels form a dimension hierarchy. The visual plot is constructed based on ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100293029 | System and Method for Automatically Scheduling Appointments The system and method for automatically scheduling appointments includes receiving, at the appointment server system, appointment preference information from a client system associated with a user, wherein the appointment preference information includes contact details ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100284623 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DOCUMENT GENRES A system, a computer readable storage medium including instructions, and method for generating genre models used to identify genres of a document. For each document image in a set of document images that are associated with one or more genres, the document image is segm... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100276998 | Battery-Based Grid Energy Storage for Balancing the Load of a Power Grid The present invention provides a battery-based grid energy storage for balancing the load of an power grid, wherein the energy storage comprises: a battery array; a bi-directional inverter unit; the bi-directional inverter system is configured to charge battery array us... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100269128 | Method and System for Remotely Controlling Consumer Electronic Devices A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content. The media system presents the first sequence of media content to an end-user and generates a fingerprint of the sequence of media content. The fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of referen... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100268694 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING WEB APPLICATIONS A system and a method for sharing web pages. In some embodiments, the following operations are preformed at a client computer system having one or more processors that execute one or more programs stored in memory of the client computer system. A representation of a web... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100264699 | Floorboard Assembly for Vehicle A floorboard assembly for vehicle, comprising a front floorboard (2) and a middle floorboard (6) that are connected in a fixed manner or formed integrally, wherein, the front floorboard (2) is in ridge shape, roughly flat at both sides and raised in... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262424 | Method of Eliminating Background Noise and a Device Using the Same The present invention provides a method of eliminating background noise and a device using the same. The method of eliminating background noise comprises the steps of: detecting an effective value of a received audio signal, and generating an average power signal of the... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100257370 | Apparatus And Method for Supporting Content Exchange Between Different DRM Domains Provided is a system for exchanging contents between a first DRM apparatus and a second DRM apparatus, wherein each of which belongs to different DRM domain. The first DRM apparatus includes unpackaging means for unpackaging first DRM formatted contents into clear resou... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100256717 | Sensory Motor Stimulation Garment and Method A garment for stimulation of a wearer's sensory motor system. The garment includes a main body portion that includes an anterior portion and a posterior portion and at least one sensory motor stimulation member associated with the main body portion. The garment is confi... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100256522 | Easily Retrieved Biological Specimen Pouch The invention relates to a surgical apparatus that includes an easily retrieved biological specimen pouch. The pouch has a flexible wall, a serrated open end and a closed end. There are a plurality of string-hosting slots and a plurality of notches at the open end. The ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100245823 | Methods and Systems for Imaging Skin Using Polarized Lighting An imaging system for imaging skin includes a light source to illuminate a subject and a first polarizer to polarize light provided by the light source to illuminate the subject. The imaging system also includes a photodetector to acquire an image of the subject as illu... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100235402 | Method for Grasping Information of Web Site Through Analyzing Structure of Web Page The present invention provides a method for determining website information through web page structure analysis, including: generating, when a web page starts to move, a movement start message that contains IDs issued to identify respective web pages; generating, when a... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100235368 | Multiple Related Event Handling Based on XML Encoded Event Handling Definitions In a method and system for collecting event information, XML documents specifying event parsing logic for respective groups of related events are loaded. Representations for the parsing logic contained in the plurality of XML documents are stored in one or more parsing ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100220216 | Digital Camera with Virtual Memory A digital camera captures successive first and second images using an image sensor to produce image data, and processes the image data of the successive first and second images. The processing of the second image overlaps processing of the first image in time. The proce... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100218099 | Systems and Methods for Audience-Enabled Access to Presentation Content A system and method for accessing content provided by a presenter during a presentation is described. The system and method includes a presentation module used by a presenter to display presentation materials to audience members during a presentation. Also included is a... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100214284 | MODEL CREATION USING VISUAL MARKUP LANGUAGES A method and system for defining a model by analyzing images of a physical space. In some embodiments the images of a physical space contain distinctive visual features with associated semantic information, and the model is defined using image feature detection techniqu... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211461 | System for Displaying and Managing Information on Webpage Using Indicator Disclosed is a system for displaying and managing information on a webpage using an indicator in which, a memo and so forth can be recorded in the desired contents of the webpage through the indicator and the URL of the webpage can be stored with the indicator to call o... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100207582 | Multi-Cell Protection Circuit and Method A multi-cell protection circuit and method. The multi-cell protection circuit comprises one or more multi-cell protection chips, a charge control switch (M2) and a discharge control switch (M1). Each multi-cell protection chip comprises a multi-cell protec... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100205718 | Convertible Bag and Vest Combination A combination of a vest and a versatile, adaptable bag allows a person to comfortably carry articles, even while physically active. The vest is contoured to the shape of a person's body, limiting the jostling of the vest and integrally attached bag as the person moves. ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100187734 | Hydraulic Mount and Filling Device for the Same A hydraulic mount and a filling device for the hydraulic mount are provided. The hydraulic mount (1) comprises a casing (2) and a support body (6, 7) arranged in an upper part of the casing (2), wherein, the casing (2) and the support ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100178944 | Automatic Email Account Creation An email account is automatically created and associated with a communication device when an email is received for the communication device. The email is addressed using addressing information that includes a phone number associated with the recipient communication devi... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100177956 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE MEDIA CATEGORIZATION Systems and methods for automating digital file classification are described. The systems and methods include generating a plurality of classifiers from a plurality of first features of a plurality of first digital files, each of the plurality of first digital files hav... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100174506 | System and Method for Determining an Attitude of a Device Undergoing Dynamic Acceleration Using a Kalman Filter A system, a computer readable storage medium including instructions, and a method for determining an attitude of a device undergoing dynamic acceleration. A difference between a first accelerometer measurement received from a first multi-dimensional accelerometer of the... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100173439 | Methods and systems of transferring a substrate to minimize heat loss A method of transferring one or more substrates between process modules or load lock stations while minimizing heat loss is provided. In some embodiments the method comprising the steps of: identifying a destination location D1 for a substrate S1 present at an initial p... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100167503 | Methods and systems of transferring, docking and processing substrates In accordance with some embodiments described herein, a method for transferring a substrate to two or more process modules is provided, comprising loading at least one substrate into one or more mobile transverse chambers, the mobile transverse chambers being carried on... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100167246 | Method for Improving Cognition and Motor Timing A method of training a subject to improve anticipatory timing includes presenting the subject with multiple sequences of stimuli, receiving sensor signals associated with responses by the subject to the stimuli, and recording response times in accordance with the sensor... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100164515 | Method and System for Measuring Water Hardness Prior to adding detergent or chelant, the conductivity of water in a washing chamber is measured. The maximum concentration of hard water ions that could correspond to the measured conductivity is determined, i.e., it is assumed that all of the conductivity is from calc... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100162955 | Systems and methods for substrate processing In accordance with some embodiments described herein, a system for processing substrates includes two or more process modules, a substrate handling robot, a load lock chamber, and a transverse substrate handler. The transverse substrate handler includes mobile transvers... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100162954 | Integrated facility and process chamber for substrate processing In accordance with some embodiments described herein, a process module facility is provided, comprising: at least one process chamber carried in frame, a subfloor adjacent the process module, a stationary pump and electrical box positioned atop the subfloor; and gas con... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100159741 | Magnetic Cord Management System A cord management apparatus comprises one or more magnets, configurable to be coupled to an electronic cord. The apparatus comprises one or more sheaths configured to be coupled to at least a portion of the electronic cord, wherein the one or more sheaths are configured... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156381 | Voltage Regulating Device for Load Starting The present invention provides a voltage regulating device for load starting, wherein the voltage regulating device comprises a voltage regulating circuit, and a switch circuit configured to be operably coupled between an output terminal of voltage regulating circuit an... | 06/24/2010 |
