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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D603210 | Appliance | 11/03/2009 |
| 7606890 | System and methodology providing namespace and protocol management in an industrial controller environment The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating remote namespace management in an industrial control environment. An industrial control system is provided that includes an industrial controller to communicate with a network such as the Interne... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7570929 | 802.11 networks using dynamic power control for RF transmission A system and method is provided for adjusting transmission power of different portions of a data packet. The system and method is especially useful when utilizing the IEEE 802.11 standard protocol due to the varying transmission data rates of a packet. A IEEE 802.11... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7562161 | Universal graphic adapter for interfacing with UGA hardware via UGA virtual machine and means for abstracting details of the UGA hardware The subject invention relates to a Universal Graphics Adapter (UGA) that is a hardware-independent design that encapsulates and abstracts low-level graphics hardware in a standard manner through firmware. UGA is a firmware standard, intended to wrap existing or plan... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7548831 | Apparatus and method for detecting abnormal sign There is provided with a method including: acquiring string data made up of a plurality of monitoring items from an apparatus to be monitored at predetermined or arbitrary time intervals; storing each acquired string data in a storage temporarily; calculating an ave... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548789 | Editing lifecycle and deployment of objects in an industrial automation environment An editor in an industrial automation environment comprises an input component that receives modification data relating to at least one of lifecycle and deployment of an object, the object is associated with a programmable logic controller and configured in accordan... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7301093 | System and method that facilitates customizing media The present invention relates to a system and method for customizing media (e.g., songs, text, books, stories, video, audio . . . ) via a computer network, such as the Internet. A system in accordance with the invention includes a component that provides for a user ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299868 | Method and system for recovery of hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon-bearing information A method and system for recovery of hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation. A gaseous component of the produced hydrocarbon-containing fluid is separated from the fluid. The gaseous component is combusted with air in a power plant. Mixing and compressing ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7288751 | Imaging system, methodology, and applications employing reciprocal space optical design An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system includes a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer medium to scale the sensor and receptors in accordance with resolvable ch... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7248716 | Imaging system, methodology, and applications employing reciprocal space optical design An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system includes a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer medium to scale the sensor and receptors in accordance with resolvable ch... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7543053 | Intelligent quarantining for spam prevention The subject invention provides for an intelligent quarantining system and method that facilitates a more robust classification system in connection with spam prevention. The invention involves holding back some messages that appear to be questionable, suspicious, or... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542969 | Domain knowledge-assisted information processing A method of searching for information includes receiving a query, providing the query to a first search engine that searches a set of data sources, the data sources having relationships to an ontology, receiving search results from the search engine, analyzing the s... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542761 | Voice quality on a communication link based on customer feedback Architecture that facilitates initiation of a user feedback signal during a telephone call when perceiving reduced voice quality. In response to receiving the feedback signal, the telephone network performs a number of measurements on the system and related to the u... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7536654 | Photo browse and zoom Groups of photo thumbnails are presented to the user, and where a user selects one of the thumbnails, a transition is provided replacing the group of thumbnails with the photo represented by the selected thumbnail. The photo may be displayed without cropping or stre... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536650 | System and method that facilitates computer desktop use via scaling of displayed objects with shifts to the periphery The present invention relates to a system that facilitates multi-tasking in a computing environment. A focus area component defines a focus area within a display space—the focus area occupying a subset area of the display space area. A scaling component scales dis... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536173 | Methods and apparatus for over-the-air programming of a wireless unit Methods and apparatus for secure over-the-air (OTA) programming, and particularly, activation, of a wireless unit in a particular communications system. The unit stores a stored key having been generated by using a key algorithm (K-algorithm) with an identifier asso... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535767 | Reading multi-cell memory devices utilizing complementary bit information Providing differentiation between overlapping memory cell bits in multi-cell memory devices is described herein. By way of example, select groups of memory cells of the multi-cell memory devices can be iteratively disabled to render state distributions of remaining,... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533812 | Reader application markup language schema The subject invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates executing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) process by employing a reader application markup language (RAML) schema that provides a portable format to setup and deploy such RFID process. A ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533735 | Digital authentication over acoustic channel Method and apparatus for controlling access to a secure network, system or application is disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for requesting authentication includes a storage medium that stores a cryptographic key, a processor that generates an access code us... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505596 | Automatic detection of wireless network type A system and method for facilitating automatic detection of a type of wireless network is provided. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, wireless network client(s) can automatically detect the “type” of a network (e.g., method of authentication... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7503033 | Model for business workflow processes A methodology of reducing process algebra to a language that facilitates modeling a business workflow process is provided. A process algebra is reduced to a model for business workflow processes. The model is then reduced to a scheduling programming language to allo... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502773 | System and method facilitating page indexing employing reference information A system and method facilitating page indexing employing reference information (e.g., anchor text) is provided. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a page index system having a page data store and a crawler component is provided. The page data sto... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502622 | Customized signature messaging service Architecture that facilitates the broadcast of a custom signature message to one or more portable wireless devices that enter an associated area of coverage. A subscriber to the service pays a premium to have the rights to broadcast the custom message to all users w... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502572 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method It is an object of the invention to provide an image forming apparatus and an image forming method that can reduce generation of a waste toner. An image forming apparatus according to the invention includes an image bearing member on which a toner image is fo... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502480 | System and method for implementing a flat audio volume control model A system and method for implementing a flat volume model for software application audio signals is provided. A computer system generates a flat volume characteristics tree based upon current hardware/software values from an audio setting hierarchy. The computer syst... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501892 | Amplifier circuit and communication device An amplifier circuit according to the present invention comprises: a first differential amplifier circuit including a first transistor having a gate terminal forming a first input node, a second transistor having a gate terminal forming a second input node and havin... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501178 | Fiber for artificial hair The object of the present invention is to provide fiber for artificial hair which is deformable by hands at will and has the shape-retaining property. The present invention relates to fiber for artificial hair containing a plastically deformable filament (A) contain... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500252 | System and method for bridging object systems A system and method is provided for bridging disparate object systems. The system includes a first wrapper to bridge communications between a first object system and a second object system and a second wrapper to bridge communications between the second object syste... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499896 | Systems and methods for estimating and integrating measures of human cognitive load into the behavior of computational applications and services The present invention relates to a system and methodology for automatically performing computerized actions. By comparing a received textual input against a list of words in a text classification system an action probability can be determined for automated performan... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499704 | Display caller ID on IPTV screen A system that automatically delivers telephony network services from a dual mode service technology platform to an external entity. The system includes a sensing component that detects the presence of a mobile handset registered on a cellular network, and registers ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499588 | Low resolution OCR for camera acquired documents A global optimization framework for optical character recognition (OCR) of low-resolution photographed documents that combines a binarization-type process, segmentation, and recognition into a single process. The framework includes a machine learning approach traine... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499309 | Using organic semiconductor memory in conjunction with a MEMS actuator for an ultra high density memory A metal sulfide based non-volatile memory device is provided herein. The device is comprised of a substrate, a backplane, a planar memory media including a dense array of metal sulfide based memory cells, and a MEMS probe based actuator. The cells of the memory devi... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498736 | Luminescent material A luminescent material is provided, which includes a material formed of a single composition containing the main crystal phase and an activator which causes light emission. The material exhibits a narrowband light emission spectrum in a wavelength ranging from 540 n... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498553 | Image reading device A technology capable of preventing generation of a problem due to saturation of an output value in an image pick-up section caused by a variation of illumination light from a light source. An image reading device includes a plurality of light sources each of which i... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496889 | Whitespace keywords The present invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates expanding keywords within an existing computer programming language by employing a whitespace keyword containing embedded whitespace. A whitespace component can receive code, and create a whitesp... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496849 | Supplying enhanced computer user's context data Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations, the providing of information includes receiving from first and second sources indications of ability to supply values for, re... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496677 | Associating computer resources to modules in a graph based on a selected overall performance goal for the graph Frame-based streaming data flows through a graph of multiple interconnected processing modules. The modules have a set of performance parameters whose values specify the sensitivity of each module to the selection of certain resources of a system. A user specifies o... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495802 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program It is an object of the invention to provide a technique for preventing image quality deterioration of a print image involved in adjustment of color conversion parameters in image formation processing. An image processing apparatus includes: a change informati... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7494489 | Systems and methods that facilitate minimally invasive spine surgery A system and method that facilitates minimally invasive spine surgery. The system includes screw preparation instruments that include a targeted guide with a laser attached to a fluoroscope, at least one polyaxial screw and rod guidance instruments that selectively ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7494064 | ASIC for supporting multiple functions of a portable data collection device A portable bar code reading terminal includes an ASIC having circuitry for both a laser scanner and an imager. The terminal also includes a data blender for distributing data from multiple sources to multiple destinations based on the type and/or content of the data... | 02/24/2009 |
