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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7937503 | Apparatus for maintaining a limit value of a resource An apparatus for maintaining a limit value of a resource for use in a concurrent limit checking system comprising: a resource having an associated limit value; a plurality of request handlers having access to a plurality of sub-limit values, wherein the sub-limit va... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933958 | Real-time blog interaction The present invention is a system, method and apparatus for for real-time blogging. In a preferred aspect of the invention, a real-time bi-directional blogging system can include a blog and a bi-directional syndication interface to the blog. Importantly, an instant ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7885397 | On-demand seamless phone number updates A method, system and apparatus for on-demand phone number updating. A system for on-demand phone number updating can include a smooth number transition (SNT) call routing table mapping prior telephone numbers to new telephone numbers for corresponding SNT subscriber... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7844612 | Method for pruning objects in a service registry and repository Embodiments of the invention relate to a service registry and repository system, method and computer program product for accessing objects in an object repository. There is provided a method of managing an object database for objects that includes receiving an objec... | 11/30/2010 |
| D626215 | Mask assembly | 10/26/2010 |
| 7788205 | Using stochastic models to diagnose and predict complex system problems A plurality of stochastic models is built that predict the probabilities of state transitions for components in a complex system. The models are trained using output observations from the system at runtime. The overall state and health of the system can be determine... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7752502 | Method and apparatus for testing software A state table includes a plurality of possible states of a computer system and the corresponding actions which produce transitions between source and target states. A set of test programs is stored, each test program performing an action in the state table. A test s... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7650325 | Dynamic interface adapter for integration of source and target applications A method of supporting interaction of a source application running in an enterprise and multiple target applications performing semantically similar operations but having different interfaces. An application profile is associated with the source application. The app... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7644312 | Virtual machine monitoring for application operation diagnostics A method and system for monitoring the operation of an application in a virtual machine. The system can include a debug script processor programmed to command an application executing within the virtual machine according to instructions specified in a debug script. ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7581218 | Transaction processing in a distributed data processing system A method of pre-processing a transaction within an application program in a distributed data processing system. The system comprises a network, a first computer system, a second computer system and a communication channel between the computer systems for communicati... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7099936 | Multi-tier service level agreement method and system A method for managing multi-tier SLA relationships. The method can include first computing costs of utilizing edge server resources in a CDN, costs of dedicating content host resources in a content host in lieu of the utilization, and prospective revenues which can ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099873 | Content transcoding in a content distribution network An intermediate content transcoder. An intermediate content transcoder can include a communicative receiver configured to receive master content while in transit from a content source to at least one content sink in a content distribution network, and a communicativ... | 08/29/2006 |
