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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7158181 | System and methods for increasing fill-factor on pixelated sensor arrays A system and methodology that facilitates increasing the fill-factor of digital sensor arrays at a reduced cost. In general, fill-factor relates to the active area of the sensor array with respect to the inactive area or space between pixels on the array. By increas... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151246 | Imaging system and methodology An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system contains a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer medium to scale the sensor and receptors in accordance with resolvable ch... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7122776 | Imaging system for examining biological material Improved biological material imaging systems and related methods are provided by using an imaging system for imaging biological materials, the imaging system comprising a sensor having one or more receptors, and an image transfer medium to scale the one or more rece... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7109464 | Semiconductor imaging system and related methodology 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... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105795 | 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... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6956651 | Bioanalysis systems including optical integrated circuit Optical Integrated Circuits (OIC) in Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Analysis Systems combined with micorarray or microwell plates to provide enhanced sensitivity, stability, speed of analysis and reduced size are disclosed. Using the OIC with other optical analysis... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952881 | Programmable sighting system for a hunting bow A programmable sighting system for a hunting bow or professional archery bow. The system comprises a housing assembly for mounting the sighting system on the bow. A transparent window is positioned in the housing for viewing therethrough by a user to a target, and f... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6903323 | Imaging system and methodology employing reciprocal space optical design An imaging system and methodology is 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 to an object field of view. A computer, memory, and/or d... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6813008 | Microdissection optical system Improved laser capture microdissection systems and related methods are provided by using an imaging system for imaging the tissue sample from which a cell sample is to be obtained, the imaging system comprising a sensor having one or more receptors, and an image tra... | 11/02/2004 |
| 7392100 | System and methodology that facilitate factory automation services in a distributed industrial automation environment The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing automation services in a distributed industrial controller environment. In one aspect of the present invention, a data access service is provided that includes, sending and receiving data to and fro... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7280819 | Interrogate-response communication system with privacy indication A method of and apparatus for obtaining information about a product or service offering having an associated receiver responsive to an information request or query. The method comprise providing a portable subscriber device linked with a communication network, prese... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278115 | Methods, apparatus and data structures for providing a user interface to objects, the user interface exploiting spatial memory and visually indicating at least one object parameter A graphical user interface in which object thumbnails are rendered in a three-dimensional environment and which exploits spatial memory. The objects may be moved, continuously, with a two-dimensional input device. Pop-up title bars may be rendered over active object... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263667 | Methods, apparatus and data structures for providing a user interface which facilitates decision making A user interface for facilitating a decision making process, such as planning a trip. A unified view of various types of information related to an event may be provided. The unified view may be presented in a simulated three-dimensional environment having different ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7233933 | Methods and architecture for cross-device activity monitoring, reasoning, and visualization for providing status and forecasts of a users' presence and availability The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate collaboration and communications between entities such as between automated applications, parties to a communication and/or combinations thereof. The systems and methods of the present invention... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7213017 | Systems and methods for transforming query results into hierarchical information A computerized system and method for transforming (formatting or aggregating) the results of a query into a hierarchical information stream, such as an extensible Markup Language (XML) data stream is disclosed. A database server receives a query and generates a rows... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206866 | Continuous media priority aware storage scheduler The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate I/O access to a computer storage medium in a predictable and efficient manner. A scheduling system is provided that mitigates the problem of providing differing levels of performance guarantees ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7195702 | Tin alloy electroplating system Disclosed are systems and methods of plating a tin alloy in an efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly manner. An electrochemical cell containing an anolyte compartment and a catholyte compartment separated by a selective membrane is employed. The select... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194681 | Method for automatically assigning priorities to documents and messages Methods for prioritizing documents, such as email messages, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a document. The method assigns a measure of priority to the document, by employing a text classifier such as a Bayesian classifi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194527 | Media variations browser A system and method facilitating media browsing is provided. The invention includes a browsing component and a media display system that provides a focus media and related media. The focus media and the related media are associated based, at least in part, upon meta... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191159 | Transmitting information given constrained resources Prioritizing text such as e-mail messages, given constrained resources, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method first receives a plurality of messages, such as e-mail messages. The method prioritizes the messages, based on a predetermined criteria given a constrai... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177859 | Programming model for subscription services The present invention relates to a subscription modeling system and methodology. A query processor receives subscription query and subscriber information and transforms the query and subscriber information into data. An index component propagates at least one databa... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173619 | Matching digital information flow to a human perception system A method and system for matching digital information flow to the human perception system. In various embodiments, multi-monitor (multimon) support is leveraged to take advantage of multiple windowing and window positioning to separate elements of different tasks int... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168323 | System and method for optical vibration sensing A system for sensing vibration of a machine is provided. A light source directs a beam of light toward a light receiving system adapted to receive at least a portion of the beam of light. A light modulating system modulates the light beam received by the light recei... | 01/30/2007 |
| D535984 | Ring-shaped vehicle accessory | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171378 | Portable electronic terminal and data processing system The present invention relates to a personal shopping system for combined use in both the home of a user and a shopping establishment. The system includes a host computer which is coupled to a host modem and, optionally, to at least one wireless multi-access point. A... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168063 | Systems and methods for employing tagged types in a dynamic runtime environment The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate dynamic programming language execution in a managed code environment. A class component is provided that declares an inheritance hierarchy for one or more tagged values associated with a dynamic pr... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158959 | Automated web-based targeted advertising with quotas The invention provides systems and methods that can be used for targeted advertising. The system determines where to present impressions, such as advertisements, to maximize an expected utility subject to one or more constraints, which can include quotas and minimum... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153898 | Metal oxide sols as nanoscale additives for polymers Disclosed are metal oxide sols made by mixing at least one metal alkoxide, wherein the metal is a transition metal, a post-transition metal, an alkali metal, or alkaline earth metal; at least one organosilane; at least one boron oxide compound selected from the grou... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155444 | Promotion and demotion techniques to facilitate file property management between object systems The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate interoperability and compatibility between disparate data systems. In one aspect, a file transformation system is provided having at least one file associated with one or more unstructured prope... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155055 | System and method for progressively transforming and coding digital data A system and method facilitating progressively transforming and coding digital pictures is provided. The present invention via employment of a multi-resolution lapped transform provides for progressive rendering as well as mitigation of blocking artifacts and ringin... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151740 | Transmit power control for an OFDM-based wireless communication system An open loop power control system for an orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM)-based fixed/mobile wireless system. A preferred system and method comprise measuring signal strength of received interference-free pilot tones transmitted by a base station; det... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149832 | System and method for interrupt handling A system, methodology and/or computer architecture that facilitates processing device interrupts (including level-triggered interrupts) in a user-mode process is provided. The kernel interrupt handler can cause a dedicated thread in the process to wake and invoke th... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149946 | Systems and methods for enhanced stored data verification utilizing pageable pool memory The present invention utilizes pageable pool memory to provide, via a data verifier component, data verification information for storage mediums. By allowing the utilization of pageable pool memory, overflow from the pageable pool memory is paged and stored in a vir... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148144 | Method of forming copper sulfide layer over substrate Methods of forming copper sulfide regions or layers over a substrate are disclosed. The copper sulfide regions or layers are formed by contacting a sulfide compound with a substrate containing at least copper and contacting a copper vapor precursor with the substrat... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148892 | 3D navigation techniques A system and method is provided for facilitating navigation techniques in a three-dimensional virtual environment. The present invention couples input driving techniques to the state of one or more workspace variables (e.g., object state, virtual body state, environ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148142 | System and method for imprint lithography to facilitate dual damascene integration in a single imprint act A system and method are provided to facilitate dual damascene interconnect integration in a single imprint step. The method provides for creation of a translucent imprint mold with three-dimensional features comprising the dual damascene pattern to be imprinted. The... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7150001 | System and method to facilitate design-time component discovery A system and method for discovering the design time attributes of a component are provided. The invention includes a type descriptor that can access metadata associated with a component and report the metadata to a development tool. The invention further includes a ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149983 | User interface and method to facilitate hierarchical specification of queries using an information taxonomy A user interface, system, and method are disclosed to facilitate specification of queries and displaying corresponding results. The user interface presents the user with dimensions that contain one or more headings arranged according to an information taxonomy, whic... | 12/12/2006 |
