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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| 20090104898 | A TELEPHONE USING A CONNECTION NETWORK FOR PROCESSING DATA REMOTELY FROM THE TELEPHONE A system of connection between computers. First and second computers are connected over a network. The network preferably uses an existing channel, such as a wireless connection or a telephone line. The first computer may be a PDA or a cell phone. One aspect may take sp... | 04/23/2009 |
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| 20090100523 | SPAM DETECTION WITHIN IMAGES OF A COMMUNICATION Determining undesirable, or “spam” communication, by reviewing and recognizing portions within the communications that are things other than ASCII or text. Images are analyzed to determine whether the content of the images is likely to represent undesired content. T... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090100444 | Embeded driver for an electronic device An electronics module with driver information electronically associated therein. The driver information may be in a memory on the electronics module. The memory may store drivers for multiple operating systems, including a virtual machine type operating system that can ... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090100271 | Counterfeit Prevention System based on Random Processes and Cryptography A first portion of a label is formed using a chaotic process that cannot be controlled and forms a portion of the label using the chaotic information. A prospective counterfeiter cannot control the first portion of the label, and hence can only form a different random p... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090100255 | Guaranteed core access in a multiple core processing system Exclusive access to a core or part of a core, or to multiple cores, but in any case less than all of the cores, of a multiple core processing system. The access can be requested by an instruction, or by a routine. Once granted, the access provides exclusive access to th... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090100187 | Media Player With Automatic Streaming of Media Files A media streaming device which automatically senses the proximity of an auxiliary media player such as a digital picture frame or digital audio device, and automatically streams the media information from the player to the auxiliary media player. Commissions can be sent... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090100168 | AUTOMATIC LOCATION DETECTION IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Automatic position location detection, such as satellite position information is used along with a computer to enhance an operation over a remote information channel or a network. This may be used over the Internet to enhance an Internet transaction by determining the o... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090100157 | Virtual session on a removable memory A virtual session for a computer in which files that are worked on or automatically stored to a portable device such as a hard drive. Depending on the options that are selected, helper files for those programs may also be stored. Those helper files may be files that ena... | 04/16/2009 |
