Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7890547 | Content delivery server A method and arrangement for implementing a content delivery server is disclosed. The arrangement contains at least one content delivery server and plurality of content terminals. The first computer has means to identify at least one set of content data items from p... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7499906 | Method and apparatus for optimization in workflow management systems Activities within a workflow are either data management activities (DMAs) or non-DMAs. A workflow is typically carried out by a system by executing one activity after the other. This can, however, be very time consuming. A method and system are provided for optimizi... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7434172 | Color and symbol coded visual cues for relating screen items to each other Described is a system and method for visually delineating a relationship between diverse, but related graphical objects in a graphical user interface. An icon that has a specified color scheme is associated with the diverse, but related graphical objects. When one o... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7401097 | System and method for creating compilations of content A web-based system, method and program product are provided for creating a compilation of content stored in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities, managing, displaying, and searching the content, then creating and exporting compilat... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7356766 | Method and system for adding content to a content object stored in a data repository A web-based system, method and program product are provided for adding content to a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities. Each noncontainer content object i... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346844 | Method and system for moving content in a content object stored in a data repository A web-based system, method and program product are provided for adding content to a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities. Each noncontainer content object i... | 03/18/2008 |
| 6816873 | Method for managing distributed savepoints across multiple DBMS's within a distributed transaction System, method, and program product for managing transactions on a plurality of Database Management Systems residing on separate participant servers and a coordinator server. A single transaction proceeds by multiple steps across more then one of the plurality of Da... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6754670 | Mapping relational tables to object oriented classes A computer system providing a framework for mapping relational tables to object oriented classes. The framework includes an attribute class for defining data corresponding to columns in a relational table and including data objects used to map between the relational... | 06/22/2004 |
| 5687042 | Slider having shifted crown peak for reduced fly height sensitivity For a slider having convex curvature along its length, or "crown", a method for reducing fly height variation due to crown by shifting the peak of the crown toward the leading end, and the resultant slider structure. In a preferred method, peak shifting i... | 11/11/1997 |
