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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177109 | Method and apparatus for support of a medical device A catch plate is provided for supporting the weight of a tool by a connected cable. The catch plate includes an elongate formable body with a through opening at one end for attaching the plate to a vertical surface, and a hook feature formed in the elongate body at ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8128931 | Intrathecal and intratumoral superantigens to treat malignant disease The presence of tumor nodules in organs often results in serious clinical manifestations and the permeation by cancer cells of sheaths surrounding organs often produces clinical manifestations of pleural effusion, ascites or cerebral edema. The present invention add... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7776822 | Intrathecal and intratumoral superantigens to treat malignant disease The presence of tumor nodules in organs often results in serious clinical manifestations and the permeation by cancer cells of sheaths surrounding organs often produces clinical manifestations of pleural effusion, ascites or cerebral edema. The present invention add... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7762045 | Method and apparatus for supplying gas to an area An apparatus for supplying one or more gases, such as oxygen, to a target area, comprising a top layer and a bottom layer sealed around the perimeter of the layers to form a reservoir between the layers, wherein the top layer is not gas-permeable and the bottom laye... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7633961 | Edge-router scaling for BGP peering with virtual private routed networks (VPRN) An edge router in a packet network has a processor resource for processing events, at least one scheduler managing all events for processing by the processor resource, at least one ready list, and individual event pipelines dedicated to individual ones of BGP peers.... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7308776 | Pole anchor footing system A pole anchor footing system for effectively supporting a post structure within a ground surface. The pole anchor footing system includes a resilient body having a neck portion and a base portion, and an elongate member extending into the body from an upper end of t... | 12/18/2007 |
| 6924737 | Vehicle engine status detection mechanism for presenting engine status to third-party automotive accessories A circuit for detecting voltage states output from a voltage generating engine has a first connection point connecting the circuit to a voltage output of the engine, a second connection point connecting the circuit to electrical ground and a digital output signal po... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6901699 | Seed-starter cell and tray for starting plants A starter cell for starting a plant has a first opening at the topmost portion of the cell for facilitating plant seeding and growth, a second opening at the bottommost portion of the cell for facilitating root passage for air pruning of the root, and a plurality of... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6899369 | Method and apparatus for reducing drag on a vehicle in motion and channeling air flow to form a bug shield A system for reducing turbulence and therefore improving fuel efficiency for land-operated vehicles uses at least one linear array of vortex generators along typically a leading edge of a vehicle profile. I addition an aerodynamic bug diversion system is provided fo... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6870849 | Apparatus and method for efficient hashing in networks An apparatus and method for efficient hashing uses both an identifying portion of a data packet, e.g., source and destination ID, and an identifying value of the node, e.g., the IP address of the node, to generate a hash result. By inserting a unique value into the ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6263066 | Multimedia managing and prioritized queuing system integrated with intelligent routing capability A queueing system in a call center is adapted to queue voice mails as well as live telephone calls. In a preferred embodiment the calls include both connection-oriented switched telephony (COST) calls and Data Network Telephony (DNT) calls. Callers are en... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6250181 | Striking tool A head-to-handle interface for a striking tool having a plane of symmetry has a web in the plane of symmetry and sidewalls around the periphery of the web except for the direction of joining the handle to the head, the web and sidewalls forming socket are... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6243995 | Method and apparatus for closing openings under tiles along eave line An eave closure for tile roofing has a nailing flange with a surface extending along a full length of the closure, and a riser portion contiguous with the nailing flange at substantially a right angle to the surface of the nailing flange, the riser portio... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6233294 | Method and apparatus for accomplishing high bandwidth serial communication between semiconductor devices A serial communication system for two IC devices has a separate master chip connected to both of the IC devices, the master chip having a clock generator and circuitry for affecting serial data transmission and control between the master chip and the devi... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6230197 | Method and apparatus for rules-based storage and retrieval of multimedia interactions within a communication center A multimedia call center includes facility for storing copies of transactions associated with the call center in a data repository, relating the transactions according to specific criteria, and an interactive interface for a user to access the files from ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6229888 | System and method for operating a plurality of call centers A system and method for routing telephone calls from a network-level routing station to individual ones of a plurality of call centers having computer telephony integration (CTI) servers at each call center for monitoring and controlling telephony switche... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226705 | Integrated network switching hub and bus structure A network switching hub is implemented on an IC chip, and has a bus connected to external ports through sets of direct switches, which may be sets of queue switch transistors. The direct switches are opened and closed by action of an on-board arbitrator c... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6215783 | Private IP telephony backbone linking widely-distributed enterprise sites A hybrid IP backbone network spans geographic locations of two or more publicly-switched telephone networks and includes nodes with translation servers adapted to translate between data protocols compatible with the PSTNs and a data protocol compatible wi... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212642 | Management of data before zero volt suspend in computer power management A power management system for computers compresses contents of system RAM and stores the contents on a non-volatile storage device before power is suspended to a motherboard, which removes power also from RAM. By compression, the capacity required of the ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212178 | Method and apparatus for selectively presenting media-options to clients of a multimedia call center In an enterprise-hosted multimedia telecommunications center, a client-facing interactive single-media pre-processing interface has an answering facility adapted for greeting and pre-instructing a client making a contact to the pre-processing interface, a... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6208373 | Method and apparatus for enabling a videoconferencing participant to appear focused on camera to corresponding users A system for avoiding lost look in video conferencing utilizes multiple cameras outside a monitor screen at a conferencing station for capturing images of a participant and a processor system enabled to utilize video streams from the cameras and software ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6206972 | Method and apparatus for providing uniform gas delivery to substrates in CVD and PECVD processes A showerhead diffuser apparatus for a CVD process has a first channel region having first plural independent radially-concentric channels and individual gas supply ports from a first side of the apparatus to individual ones of the first channels, a second... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6205485 | Simulcast WEB page delivery using a 3D user interface system A multimedia broadcast system provides program schedule information simulcast as a Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) data stream including commands and displayable, selectable indicia associated with the commands, along with programs for display. A set to... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6205412 | Methods in computer simulation of telephony systems A computer simulation system adapted for simulating a telephony call center comprises individual software modules simulating separate entities of the call center in the simulated call center, and a graphical user interface (GUI). In the GUI the individual... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6205446 | Method for merging multiple knowledge bases into one optimized and compressed knowledge base A system for integrating multiple related knowledge base files into a single file keeping all of the parameters and constraints of the multiple files operates by identifying two or more common parameters among the files, and merging the two or more parame... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6201863 | Personal desktop router A personal telephone call router adapted to execute on a personal computer (PC) connected to a local area network (LAN) wherein the LAN is also connected to a computerized telephony switching system has a graphic user interface allowing an individual user... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6201804 | Network telephony interface systems between data network telephony and plain old telephone service including CTI enhancement A telephony call center system has Data Network Telephony (DNT)-capable telephone apparatus at agent stations connected on a Local Area Network (LAN), a data router at the call center connected on the LAN with a data port connected to a data network capab... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6200893 | Radical-assisted sequential CVD A new method for CVD deposition on a substrate is taught wherein radical species are used in alternate steps to depositions from a molecular precursor to treat the material deposited from the molecular precursor and to prepare the substrate surface with a... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6199077 | Server-side web summary generation and presentation A portal server includes a software agent configured to do summary searches for subscribers based on Internet destinations provided by the subscribers, to retrieve information from such destinations based on pre-programmed site information, and to downloa... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6198833 | Enhanced interactive video with object tracking and hyperlinking A tracking software module for tracking a moving image entity in a video display has an interface for receiving and processing a video data stream while the video presentation provided by the data stream is presented on a display as a series of bitmapped ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6198739 | Voice extensions in a call-in center employing virtual restructuring for computer telephony integrated functionality A multi-media call center has agent stations with telephones and multi-media computer platforms, wherein the telephones and computer platforms are connected by a bridge circuit adapted to allow audio data to be shared between the telephones and the comput... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6189256 | Method and apparatus enabling remote release of hooks and hook assemblies to free fishing lures A fishing method and apparatus is provided comprising a lure module enhanced with circuitry that is capable of releasing hooks upon detection of a signal sent from a user operated, remote device enhanced with circuitry to send the signals causing hook rel... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6186283 | Vehicle-anchor-stabilization system for winching operations An anchor system for stabilizing a vehicle during a pulling operation, such as with a winch or a come-along, has a wheel or track stop with a tether that attaches to a frame member, such as a bumper, of the pulling vehicle. The wheel or track of the vehic... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185292 | Skill-based real-time call routing in telephony systems A telephone call-routing system comprises an initial call-processing unit with a first telephone line adapted for receiving calls from customers, and includes a call-routing processor adapted for routing incoming calls to selected destinations; and a remo... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185291 | Personal desktop router A personal telephone all router adapted to execute on a personal computer (PC) connected to a local area network (LAN) wherein the LAN is also connected to a computerized telephony switching system has a user interface allowing an individual user to custo... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185287 | Parallel data transfer and synchronization A telephone call-routing system comprises an initial call-processing unit adapted for receiving calls from customers, and includes a processor system adapted for eliciting information from a caller. In a preferred embodiment calls are forwarded to telepho... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6181788 | Uniform control of mixed platforms in telephony Uniform control of mixed platforms is provided in telephony by connecting computer-telephony integration (CTI) processors to telephony switching units in a network, and connecting the CTI processors by data links separate from the telephony links connecti... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6181692 | Method and apparatus for data routing, delivery, and authentication in a packet data network A server connected to a data network for transmitting files over the data network to one of a plurality of destination servers is adapted to spawn a software agent in response to a file to be transmitted and meeting certain preset criteria, such as file s... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6178348 | Method and apparatus for maintenance of pierced orifices A needle for use with an apparatus for injecting fluid into a pierced body orifice has a hollow body having an axis and an internal bore along the axis, a blunt, closed first end, an open second end with an interface to a closure for attachment to a reser... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6178239 | Telephony call-center scripting by petri net principles and techniques A call center management system comprises a graphical user interface (GUI) adapted for modeling call center behavior, and the behavior of objects within a call center, as Petri Net directed graphs. Once developed, the Petri Net graphs can be compiled as s... | 01/23/2001 |
