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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7996259 | Method for developing electronic documents providing e-commerce tools A method of assisting a website designer in establishing an arrangement between a first website being designed by the website designer and a second website in order to market the first website at the second website upon the activation of the first website on the int... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7975409 | Snow plow assembly with resilient snow plow blade mounting structure A snow plow assembly with a longitudinally extending plow body has a blade mounting structure that supports a longitudinally extending plow blade. The blade mounting structure has a series of hinges that receive a longitudinally extending pivot rod to couple the plo... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966772 | Tubular insert for excavated hole with safety cover A tubular insert sleeve for an excavated hole and a safety cover fitted to cover an operatively upper end of the insert sleeve are provided to maintain the integrity of an excavated hole and limit access to the hole in order to improve the safety of the public. The ... | 06/28/2011 |
| D640851 | Cleaning device for artificial pools | 06/28/2011 |
| D640398 | Clamp with square lamp | 06/21/2011 |
| D640397 | Clamp with round lamp | 06/21/2011 |
| 7922567 | Method and apparatus for separating meat from bone A separator apparatus that separates meat from bone in two distinct separation stages includes a rotary cam pump in series with a deboning screw assembly. In the first separation stage, substantially bone-free meat is separated from bone as the meat-bone mixture pas... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912047 | Method and program for classifying fragmented messages Prioritization of fragmented messages in an ORB is achieved by intercepting the flow of message data within the ORB, marking the current data stream location and issuing sufficient read commands to gather the message header and control area information. Then classif... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904414 | Adaptive multi-channel answering service for knowledge management systems Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to inquiry resolution for KM systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for multi-channel answering services for inquiry resolution in a KM system. In an exemplary... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890361 | Method for the immediate escalation of at least one rule change in a catalog management system In a rules based management system for controlling multiple levels of related catalogs, a method for immediate escalation of, and response to, a request from a customer to change a rule associated with the customer. The rules associated with the customer are used to... | 02/15/2011 |
| D632561 | Lid and container assembly | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886076 | Bypassing routing stacks using mobile internet protocol Methods, systems and computer program products for load balancing using Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) Version 6 are provided. A request for a connection is received from a client at a routing stack. A Mobile IP Version 6 Binding Update message is transmitted from th... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885924 | Management of recorded data for online simulations Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to online simulations. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing recorded data for an online simulation can be provided. The method can include determining that a first e... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882550 | Customized untrusted certificate replication Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to electronic messaging security through replicated certificate stores and provide a method, system and computer program product user-specific certificate repository replication. In one embodime... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7882546 | Controlling access of a client system to an access protected remote resource The present invention provides a security module for Web application, especially a portal application, using a rewriter proxy. The security module ensures that the rewritten URIs are appended by an authentication identifier for determining whether the rewritten URI ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877486 | Auto-establishment of a voice channel of access to a session for a composite service from a visual channel of access to the session for the composite service Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. A method for auto-establishing a voice channel of access to a session for a composite service can include es... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877399 | Method, system, and computer program product for comparing two computer files A method and system for comparing two documents, such as XML (Extensible Markup Language) files, where each document is capable of being parsed into a DOM (Document Object Model) trees. Each tree structure is converted into an array of leaf paths containing nodes. T... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873730 | Method and system for collaborative computing environment access restriction and orphan data management A method and system for collaborative computing environment access restriction and orphan data management is provided in the form of establishment and implementation of a data handling policy in which the data handling policy for one of a person and a role is stored... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873636 | Method, system and program product for matching a network document with a set of filters Under the present invention, a set of filters (e.g., one or more) is associated with a hierarchical tree, which includes sets of namespace nodes, element nodes and variable nodes. Once the set of filters is associated with the hierarchical tree, a network document i... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870425 | De-centralized nodal failover handling Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for de-centralized nodal failover handling in a high availability computing architecture. The system can include multiple different nodes coupled to one another in a cluster o... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869347 | Futile neighbor state loop prevention in high availability networks A method for detecting and managing a futile neighbor state loop during link state routing is disclosed. The method can include reading a threshold parameter for link state routing, wherein the threshold parameter indicates a number of routing attempts, and performi... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868759 | Shopping cart bottom of the basket item detection Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to bottom of the basket (BOB) item detection and provide a method, system and computer program product for high-contrast BOB item detection. In one embodiment of the invention, a shopping cart B... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7867583 | Artificial plant barrier system Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to plant hedges or barriers and provide a method, system and apparatus for creating artificial plant hedges or barriers. In one embodiment of the invention, an artificial plant barrier s... | 01/11/2011 |
| D630507 | Lid and container assembly | 01/11/2011 |
| D630506 | Produce container with lid assembly | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861181 | Autonomic user interface widgets A method, system and apparatus for autonomically configuring a user interface. The system can include at least one widget programmed to be disposed in the user interface. The widget can include a dynamically configurable presentation field. Additionally, the system ... | 12/28/2010 |
| D628796 | Credit card holder | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844909 | Dynamically rendering a button in a hypermedia content browser A method of rendering a button in a hypermedia content browser. The method can include decoding a network address received from the content browser to determine encoded characteristics for a button. Once the encoded characteristics for the button have been determine... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844561 | Problem determination rules processing A context-sensitive pre-evaluation analysis of a set of rules is performed based on the circumstance or the current state of a rule clause directed to an infrequently changing condition. A group of multiple-clause rules are identified which each have a clause defini... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836063 | Customizable data translation method and system The method and system of the present invention provides a customizable and configurable data translation tool that transforms data from one learning format to another. The invention further provides a flexible handling of data sources by extracting source data, such... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835596 | Componentized application sharing The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for componentized application sharing. The system can include a multiplicity of different pluggable image processing modules. Each of the different pluggable image processing modules can conform to a single int... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7832152 | Alignment of posts to accommodate barrier sections The present invention provides a system for adjusting a position of a post within a pile. The system includes a post including a vertical groove on one side and a vertical groove on another side for accommodating a sound wall panel. The system also includes a pile i... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7827608 | Data leak protection system, method and apparatus A method, system and apparatus for data leak prevention. An information system, such as a database system, which has been configured for data leak protection in accordance with the present invention can include an IDS coupled to the information system and a data lea... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827501 | Interactive alert bubbles for alert management Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert bubble management and provide a method, data processing system and computer program product for interactive alert bubbles for alert bubble management. In one embodiment of the i... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827288 | Model autocompletion for composite services synchronization Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the auto-completion of values in a model in a composite services enablement data processing system. The method can include establishing for a common session, multiple chan... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827132 | Peer based event conversion A rule set to convert an event into a standardized format can be established based on cooperation among peer processing nodes. A processing node that receives the event takes the initial responsibility to convert the event. The responsible processing node initially ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826600 | Method and procedure for compiling and caching VoiceXML documents in a voice XML interpreter A method and system of compiling and caching voice application documents in order to provide more efficient retrieval of resources in a web-programming model such as in the VoiceXML domain. The method and system of the present invention requires that a voice applica... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822848 | Alert log activity thread integration Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert management in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for activity thread integra... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7821921 | Reliable and resilient end-to-end connectivity for heterogeneous networks Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to connectivity management in a heterogeneous network and provide a method, system and computer program product for resilient and reliable end-to-end connectivity in a heterogeneous netw... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809666 | Method and system for sequential compilation and execution of rules Systems and methods for matching objects against a set of rules are described. The present invention is a novel rule execution algorithm that generally operates with greater efficiency than known algorithms. The algorithm uses a test analyzer to determine the relati... | 10/05/2010 |
