Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7539974 | Scalable synchronous and asynchronous processing of monitoring rules A rules runtime engine for scheduling and concurrently processing of rules. The engine efficiently runs a large number of rules in a parallel fashion. This is accomplished by authoring rules in a rule definition language, passing these rules through the translator f... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539659 | Multidimensional timeline browsers for broadcast media The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that effectuates selective viewing of multimedia audio and/or visual content. The disclosed system can include a component that obtains multimedia audio or visual content from a broadcast server, categorizes... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539550 | Safety versus availability graphical user interface The claimed subject matter provides industrial automation systems and/or methods that visualize availability and safety levels. An optimization component can generate a voting configuration that provides an optimized combination of a safety level and an availability... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539478 | Select content audio playback system for automobiles The present invention provides a large capacity, user defined audio content delivery system. The system delivers uninterrupted music and delivers information content (e.g., news by evaluating and encoding an input audio stream while outputting another stream. Undesi... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539452 | Waste toner collecting apparatus, image forming apparatus and process cartridge of image forming apparatus A waste toner collecting apparatus of the present invention reliably prevents waste toner from spilling when replacing the waste toner box by opening the front cover of an image forming apparatus as the first through fifth shutters close the respective waste toner c... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539436 | Image forming apparatus provided with a cooling mechanism for cooling portions An image forming apparatus is provided with a cooling mechanism mechanism having an air-cooling fan and a cooling duct for guiding cooling air from this air-cooling fan to desired positions to be cooled. A plurality of rectangular holes are formed in the longitudina... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539431 | Image forming apparatus and techniques for collecting toner In an image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a sheet of paper, a technique for achieving adequate toner collection from the photoconductive surface of the photoconductor to suit the situation is provided. An image forming apparatus performs image formin... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539364 | Method and apparatus facilitating mechanical beam steering for optical integrated circuits Actuators facilitating mechanical beam steering for optical integrated circuits are disclosed. The mechanical beam steering can mitigate thermal sensitivity of optical circuits, for example, arrayed waveguides. Also disclosed are methods for fabricating optical inte... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539260 | Detecting the number of transmit antennas in wireless communication systems To detect the number of transmit antennas, a fast Fourier transform operation is performed on the received samples of the transmitted long training symbols of a preamble. Next, each of the Fourier transformed results is multiplied with the reference frequency-domain... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538707 | Digital-to-analog converting circuit and digital-to-analog converting method A digital-to-analog converting circuit includes: 2N or more number of digital-to-analog converting elements converting an input digital code of N+1 (N is an integer equal to or more than two) values to an analog code to output; a selecting section selecting N-number... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536366 | Contingency table estimation via sketches Systems and methods that enhance estimate(s) of features (e.g., word associations), via employing a sampling component (e.g., sketches) that facilitates computations of sample contingency tables, and designates occurrences (or absence) of features in data (e.g., wor... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535784 | Semiconductor memory device having replica circuit A semiconductor memory device includes first and second cell arrays which have memory cells arrayed in row and column directions, first and second bit lines which are connected to the memory cells arrayed in the column direction, and first and second sense amplifier... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533411 | Order-based human interactive proofs (HIPs) and automatic difficulty rating of HIPs The present invention involves a system and method that facilitate identifying human interaction by utilizing HIPs such as order-based HIPs and determining a difficulty rating of any type of HIPs in an automated fashion. Order-based HIPs require a user to identify e... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533348 | System that facilitates maintaining business calendars A calendar customization system comprises an interface component that receives responses to one or more questions relating to a calendar. A execution automatically generates a multi-dimensional structure for the calendar, the structure generated as a function of the... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533123 | Declarative pinning A system and method is provided for efficiently pinning references to the managed heap. The system and method allow for references to managed objects to be declared as pinned during a call to unmanaged code. The references are then reported as pinned to a garbage co... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533112 | Context hierarchies for address searching The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for storing and maintaining a large volume of data in a hierarchical data structure. In particular, geographical data can be stored in the hierarchical data structure to facilitate location and retrieval of data... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533088 | Database reverse query matching The subject invention pertains to database reverse query matching. A text document can be received and analyzed to determine which, if any, queries the document matches. To enable such functionality, a number of intermediate structures such as tables are generated i... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533082 | Soliciting information based on a computer user's context A user search request is received and context information for the user is identified. The user search request and the context information are then combined to generate search criteria corresponding to the user search request, providing for information solicitation b... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532982 | Freeze forecasting device for hot water heating apparatus and hot water heating apparatus A freeze forecasting device for a hot water heating apparatus, for forecasting a possibility of freeze of water in a water passage circuit due to reduction in outside air temperature at a forecast target time on a forecast target day. The device includes a clock por... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532826 | Optical demultiplexer and receiver assembly Apparatus for demultiplexing a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal comprising a plurality of signals each having a different wavelength. The apparatus comprises a demultiplexer sub-assembly and a multi-channel receiver optical sub-assembly. The demultiple... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532430 | Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording medium includes a servo area where servo data used for detecting a position of a magnetic head on a magnetic recording medium is recorded; and a writable data area, arranged side by side with the servo area in a track direction, on which user da... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532144 | AD converter and radio receiver Disclosed is an AD converter including: a first conversion stage including a quantizing part to generate m parallel pieces of quantized signals from m pieces of input analog signals representing n-dimensional vectors (n≦m≦2n), a decoding part to generate m piece... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532113 | System and methods for determining the location dynamics of a portable computing device A location system for locating and determining the motion and velocity of a wireless device. The methods include direct inferences about whether a device is in motion versus static based on a statistical analysis of the variation of radio signal strengths over time.... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532069 | Differential amplifying circuit Disclosed is a differential amplifying circuit including an amplifying circuit, wherein 1) a drain of a sixth transistor is connected to a drain of an eighth transistor, and a drain of a tenth transistor is connected to a drain of a fourth transistor, and 2) a ratio... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532013 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and measuring method of terminator resistor in the semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit for receiving a signal having been propagated through a transmission line, has a control circuit that controls on/off of a first to fourth switching circuits, wherein the control circuit turns off the first switching circuit and th... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531845 | Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device includes: a body having a recess, a step being provided on a side wall of the recess; a semiconductor light emitting element mounted in the recess; and a resin layer. The resin layer covers at least a portion of an inner surface... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530566 | Sheet post-processing apparatus A sheet post-processing apparatus includes driving rollers that are arranged in a leading end position in a sheet conveying direction of a standby tray and axis of which are perpendicular to the conveying direction and driven rollers that rotate following the drivin... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530565 | Method and apparatus for processing printed sheets incorporated reference An apparatus for processing printed sheets includes a processing tray and a standby tray having a pair of tray members that are movable in a width direction of sheets. The tray members are movable between a first position where a sheet is placed on the tray members ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530080 | Implementation of alias preserving structural subtyping with precise types using transparent adapters A system and method for employing a programming language based on structural types on top of a nominal type runtime environment is disclosed. The system utilizes adapters and coercive subtyping to achieve precise typing while preserving aliasing. Furthermore, the sy... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7530050 | Method and system for developing software using nodes A method for creating software provides a plurality of nodes and a directory of applications. Each application is created by use of at least a portion of the plurality of the nodes. At least a portion of the plurality of nodes are selected to create a selected node ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7530021 | Instant meeting preparation architecture Architecture that facilitates generation of an event report that is an aggregation of public and private data related to a specific task. Information about the event is automatically compiled, including the recipients, URLs, shares, attachments, and documents, as we... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529736 | Performant relevance improvements in search query results Property store information and an aggregation of a plurality of ranking mechanisms, including a learning mechanism, are leveraged to provide performant query results with increased user relevancy. The learning mechanism permits query feedback to be accepted to facil... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529683 | Principals and methods for balancing the timeliness of communications and information delivery with the expected cost of interruption via deferral policies A system is provided that facilitates information processing for a user. The system includes an analyzer to automatically determine one or more states of a user's availability based on patterns of the user's interruptability. A deferral component generates or forwar... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529516 | Method and apparatus for image processing An image processing apparatus according to this invention has an apparatus body containing an image forming part, an opening/closing member attached to be openable/closable about an opening/closing shaft via a hinge with respect to an upper surface of the apparatus ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526755 | Plug-in pre- and postconditions for static program analysis A system and method employing pre- and/or post-condition(s) specified at a source code level and persisted (e.g., in associated object code and/or a specification repository) facilitating static checking of the object code is provided. The system and method are base... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526503 | Interactive schema translation with instance-level mapping A system and method facilitating data access operations is provided. The system can facilitate an executable, instance-level interaction between a source model (e.g., schema) expressed in a first metamodel (e.g., object-oriented metamodel) and a target model express... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526501 | State transition logic for a persistent object graph The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates handling a change associated with a database. An interface that can receive data associated with a change to data via an object graph. A state transition logic component that can maintain ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526216 | Fixing device and fixing method A fixing device includes a first heater provided at a central part of a roller body in a longitudinal direction thereof and a second heater provided at the end of the roller body in the longitudinal direction thereof. A single thermostat is provided at a position wh... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526129 | Lifting ink annotations from paper A computer-implemented system for obtaining ink annotations from paper comprises a comparator that compares an initial electronic version of a document with an electronic image of an annotated version of the document to identify a handwritten annotation. The system ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525934 | Mixed reuse of feeder link and user link bandwidth An apparatus and method for a wireless communication system in which a forward/uplink portion and a return/uplink portion are assigned within an available frequency bandwidth is disclosed. More particularly, a service area is divided into multiple regions. The assig... | 04/28/2009 |