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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7496636 | Method and system for resolving Universal Resource Locators (URLs) from script code A system and method are disclosed for resolving Universal Resource Locators (URLs). The URL resolving system examines the script code to obtain URLs from the examination output in the context of website crawling. ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7483979 | Method and system for virtualizing metadata between disparate systems A non-programmatic method for virtualizing the metadata of external systems at a front-end system is disclosed. The front-end system is provided with programmatic hooks that enable the external capture of its search for metadata and its commands to retrieve properti... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7467650 | Dispenser protector device The present invention is a dispenser protector device and method. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a fastener that is associated with a dispenser spigot, or like device. A shield is formed, or otherwise connected, to the fastener such that ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7464086 | Metatag-based datamining A system for displaying products or services for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or k... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7458093 | System and method for presenting fantasy sports content with broadcast content A system and method for presenting fantasy sports content with broadcast content is disclosed. One aspect of the invention is to provide a way for a user to customize and configure how fantasy-sports-related content is presented along with broadcast content. In one ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454887 | Footwear integrated strapless spur system A strapless spur system having a retainer attached to a boot or other footwear, a detachable base with a spring loaded plunger for secure attachment and detachment of the base to the retainer on the footwear. A preferred embodiment includes a mechanism built into th... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7440944 | Method and apparatus for efficient training of support vector machines The present invention provides a system and method for building fast and efficient support vector classifiers for large data classification problems which is useful for classifying pages from the World Wide Web and other problems with sparse matrices and large numbe... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7423979 | Method and system for determining network characteristics using routing protocols A method and system are described herein for obtaining IGP network information useful in determining network routing topologies. The method involves querying a router for its router identifier and all its area identifiers, counting the router's number of area identi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421406 | System and method for asset accumulation and risk management The system and method of the present invention removes barriers that undermine efficient risk-management. The invention prioritizes consumers by predicting their unmet demand for risk protection. Once deemed eligible, consumers are enrolled and funds are allocated t... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418733 | Determining threat level associated with network activity Network devices such as intrusion detection systems, routers, firewalls, servers, and other network devices are monitored to aggregate all event data generated by monitored devices to provide a threat ranking of all network activity. A threat level for a given host ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406466 | Reputation based search A method of providing relevant search information comprises receiving a search term. The method also comprises locating a first search result that matches the search term, wherein the first search result is associated with a first measure of reputation, locating a s... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406465 | System and methods for ranking the relative value of terms in a multi-term search query using deletion prediction The likely relevance of each term of a search-engine query of two or more terms is determined by their deletion probability scores. If the deletion probability scores are significantly different, the deletion probability score can be used to return targeted ads rela... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406460 | Technique for ranking records of a database A technique for ranking records of a database is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for ranking records of a database located during a search of an index to the database performed in response to a query, wher... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406455 | Automatic recognition and flagging of anomalous items within sets of automatically classified items The present invention comprises a method and software for recognizing and flagging a data item used by one or more application program as falling within the scope of a rule but anomalous when compared with other data items falling within the scope of the rule. The m... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406516 | System and method for monitoring the use of a resource by a client connected to a computer network having one or more servers in communication with one or more clients A method for monitoring client interaction with a resource downloaded from a server in a computer network includes the steps of using a client to specify an address of a resource located on a first server, downloading a file corresponding to the resource from the fi... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398461 | Method for ranking web page search results A system for indexing a document including: receiving a document to be processed for inclusion in an index of documents; locating a set of documents that include hyperlinks to the document; retrieving anchortext associated with each hyperlink; parsing the anchortext... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398266 | Dynamically categorizing entity information A set of criteria is acquired that defines a category of entities. The set of criteria is dynamically applied to identify an entity that meets the criteria. It is determined that the entity is registered as having control over at least a portion of a World-Wide Web ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392202 | Methods and systems for providing an insurance policy with an inflation protection option This invention provides methods and systems for providing an insurance policy having an inflation protection option that is computed at least partially based on information useful in offering a long term care insurance policy to an individual and at least partially ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383191 | Method and system for predicting causes of network service outages using time domain correlation Methods and systems are described for predicting the likely causes of service outages using only time information, and for predicting and the likely costs of service outages. The likely causes are found by defining a narrow likely cause window around an outage based... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376722 | Network resource monitoring and measurement system and method A method and system for analysing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communication network (18) so as to ascertain information or usage of one or more resources, such as resource servers (2). A data collection and processing means (20... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363368 | System and method for transaction recording and playback The system and method of the present invention comprises functionality to record the steps of a user's navigation transaction and to subsequently play back those steps to determine service availability and levels. The present invention comprises a method for recordi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359982 | System and method for facilitating access to content information The invention disclosed herein presents systems and methods for facilitating access to content information. The method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request for the content information, choosing a data service provider access obj... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349949 | System and method for facilitating development of a customizable portlet The method disclosed herein presents systems and methods for facilitating development of a customizable portlet. The invention comprises receiving requested content information, merging presentation information with the requested content information to form merged i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346629 | Systems and methods for search processing using superunits In a search processing system, a concept network is generated from a set of queries by parsing the queries into units and defining various relationships between the units based in part on patterns of units that appear together in queries. Units in the concept networ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346556 | System and method for performing purchase transactions utilizing a broadcast-based device Disclosed is a system and method for performing purchase transactions utilizing a broadcast-based device. In one embodiment, an online user interface is used to enter a plurality of user preferences that are then used to tailor what purchase options will be availabl... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340460 | Vector analysis of histograms for units of a concept network in search query processing A set of concept networks is generated, with each concept network based on a different group of queries. From these concept networks, histogram vectors are defined for various units, where a unit's histogram vector reflects the frequency of occurrence of that unit i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330857 | Search engine with two-dimensional linearly scalable parallel architecture In a search engine with two-dimensional scalable architecture for searching of a collection of documents, the search engine comprises data processing units which forms set of nodes connected in a network, a first set of nodes comprising dispatch nodes, a second set ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7318178 | Method and system for reducing false alarms in network fault management systems Methods and systems are described for reducing the number of false alarms in fault correlation software used to detect and diagnose faults in computer networks and similar systems. The fault correlation software includes rules that monitor a number of indicators tha... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313820 | Method and system for providing an authorization framework for applications A framework is provided for declaratively specifying authorization enforcement points and associating them with classes and subclasses by using declarations that map constants, local variables, or instance variables to permission classes and subclasses such as Java ... | 12/25/2007 |
| D557520 | Multi-use tray table | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308445 | Method for estimating coverage of web search engines A computerized method is used to estimate the relative coverage of Web search engines. Each search engine maintains an index of words of pages located at specific URL addresses in a network. The method generates a random query. The random query is a logical combinat... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7289164 | System and method for color palette conversion from TV unsafe to TV safe colors The system and software of the present invention presents a process for translating a source palette containing TV unsafe colors into a resultant modified palette containing only TV safe colors, while preserving the color trends in the source palette. The software w... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287258 | Thread consistency support system and method A thread consistency support system 10 provides thread consistency from a Connector Application Program Interface 50 that creates multiple threads to a Thread-dependent Connector 40 that only allows a single thread to link to that connector for ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7260583 | Web page connectivity server construction A process for constructing a server for collecting, arranging and storing data that defines the connectivity of pages on the World Wide Web (Web). The process input is a set of compressed ASCII links files, wherein each links file is a series of source URLs and corr... | 08/21/2007 |
| D548496 | Tray table | 08/14/2007 |
| 7237185 | System and method for distributing internet content in the form of an album The present invention is a system and method for gathering disparate content from various sources including the Internet and broadcasting such content for display on a television receiver. The content is captured, rendered, and placed into predetermined templates to... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225184 | Disambiguation of search phrases using interpretation clusters In one implementation a method for disambiguation of search phrases is provided, which may include identifying interpretation clusters using bidded search terms of content providers and influencing a position of a search result in a search results list based on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219090 | Method and system for blending search engine results from disparate sources into one search result Provided is a method and system for blending a plurality of search engine results from a respective plurality of search sources into one search engine. A result list of entries is received from each search source. Each result list includes at least, for each entry o... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203747 | Load balancing system and method in a multiprocessor system A system and method are disclosed for selecting a resource, among a plurality of resources, for servicing a request. To select a resource to service the request, a first resource is randomly selected. If a first load value associated with the first resource does not... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197497 | Method and apparatus for machine learning a document relevance function Provided is a method and computer program product for determining a document relevance function for estimating a relevance score of a document in a database with respect to a query. For each of a plurality of test queries, a respective set of result documents is col... | 03/27/2007 |
