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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180137 | Comparison of optical and magnetic character data for identification of character defect type A system for determining a plurality of PCS values for a document image representing a document having at least one area of interest on a surface of the physical item for containing critical data and a background image positioned on the surface, the document suitabl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170900 | Supply chain discovery services A discovery server is provided for tracking an object in a supply chain in accordance with a plurality of predefined events. The object is identifiable by an object identifier. The discovery server comprises the following elements. A communication interface is confi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167650 | Formed gasket for an electronic connector Described is an electronic connector. The electronic connector has a substrate body for housing electronic pins and a cable. The substrate body is fabricated from a first material, such as hard plastic and has at least one passage from its exterior to its interior. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155975 | System and method for providing configuration and settlement processing of financial transactions using a hierarchy node model Client systems use a scanner to convert a paper form of a document to a digital representation and then send the digital representation over a network to a host system for storage. The host system archives the digital representation and determines the appropriate pr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150440 | System and method for reducing power consumed by a wireless communication device A system and method are provided for facilitating reduced power consumption when communicating between a wireless communication device and a wireless communication controller. A power management controller comprising a power saving detection unit and a power level c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149813 | Wireless device having fast-receive mode for measuring received signal strength (RSSI) for higher time division multiple access (TDMA) multislot classes A wireless communications device having a fast-receive mode for measuring received signal strength indication (RSSI) enables the device to handle higher time division multiple access (TDMA) multislot classes without requiring that the device include either a second ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148135 | Cellulose producing strain of proteus myxofaciens A method for producing bacterial cellulose, said method comprising culturing a biologically pure culture of a cellulose-producing Proteus strain in a liquid medium suitable for culturing facultatively anaerobic microorganisms, separating bacterial cellulose p... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144055 | GPS pre-aquisition for geotagging digital photos A handheld electronic device, such as a GPS-enabled wireless communications device with an embedded camera, a GPS-enabled camera-phone or a GPS-enabled digital camera, determines whether ephemeris data needs to be obtained for geotagging digital photos taken with th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139625 | High frequency system on chip transceiver A system-on-chip (SOC) transceiver is provided. The transceiver is configured to operate in excess of 100 GHz and comprising the following components. A quadrature oscillator is configured to generate a fundamental frequency and a second harmonic frequency and compr... | 03/20/2012 |
| D656063 | Gemstone | 03/20/2012 |
| D656062 | Gemstone | 03/20/2012 |
| D656061 | Gemstone | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132149 | System and method for applying development patterns for component based applications A computing device and method for coordinating the development of a client application including application components comprising one or more of at least one of a data component, a message component or a screen component, having corresponding component definitions,... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131779 | System and method for interactive multi-dimensional visual representation of information content and properties A system and method of information retrieval and triage for Information analysis provides an for interactive multi-dimensional and linked visual representation of information content and properties. A query Interface plans and obtains result sets. A dimension interf... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125998 | Backup system and method for network data communications A system and method for coupling a communications device to a primary communications network having a first communications format and to a secondary communications network having a second communications format, such that the communications device is configured for h... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108274 | Interactive electronic bill payment system A system for coordinating the submission and processing of a bill according to predictive payment data of a plan. The system comprises a provider interface and an integrated database for receiving a predictive payment plan submitted from the provider interface. The ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107975 | Shared image database with geographic navigation There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099526 | Method and apparatus for enabling and disabling a lock mode by squeezing or pinching the sides of a portable electronic device towards one another A portable electronic device including a processor provided in a housing, the processor for switching the portable electronic device from a normal operating mode to a device lock mode and a first input device and a second input device provided in the housing. Actuat... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096797 | Roots type gear compressor with helical lobes having feedback cavity A gear compressor or supercharger for compressing compressible fluids such as air, having a pair of intermeshing helical lobed rotors. A plenum or cavity is provided at a rear end of the gear compressor, situated rearwardly of said rotors and below an respective axi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089491 | Dynamic theme color palette generation There is provided a method of changing a theme for a user interface of a computer system comprising receiving an identification of an image with which to define a color palette of a theme for rendering elements of a user interface on a color display of the computer ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087644 | Shaped packing element The present invention provides a packing element comprising at least one sheet having a plurality of deformations, the sheet being operable to form a folded or helical configuration wherein adjacent portions of the at least one sheet are spaced to allow for flow of ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8080158 | Vessel and method for treating contaminated water A vessel and method for removing immiscible fluid from contaminated water, the vessel comprising: at least one chamber; an injection line in fluid communication with an inlet of the one chamber; bubble generation means in fluid communication with the injection line ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079525 | System and method for decoding barcodes captured with a color image sensor A computing device and method for reading a barcode captured with a color image sensor is disclosed. The barcode can have features and background that have equal brightness such that the barcode could not be decoded with known greyscale decoding techniques. The meth... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073239 | Error detection system for verifying the construction of paper boxes A method for inspecting a feature applied to a box blank during manufacture of a paper box, comprising the steps of illuminating at least that portion of box blank including the feature with an illumination source, receiving an image of the illuminated portion of th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072797 | SRAM cell without dedicated access transistors A Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell without dedicated access transistors is described. The SRAM cell comprises a plurality of transistors configured to provide at least a pair of storage nodes for storing complementary logic values represented by corresponding... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072749 | Push to release cover for a portable electronic device A cover assembly for a portable electronic device is described. The cover assembly has a cover comprising: two cover extensions extending substantially perpendicular from the cover. Each of the two cover extensions has an abutment towards a center. An angular spring... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070007 | Herb keeper with flexible projection Described is a herb keeper comprising a body having a closed end and an open end defining a cavity therebetween, and a removable tray portion sized to be slidingly received within the cavity of the body, at least one flexible projection extending from the body towar... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069451 | System and method of compact messaging in network communications by removing tags and utilizing predefined message definitions A method of compact messaging between a schema-based service and a device over a network, the device and the service having a predetermined knowledge of element descriptors shared between the device and the service based on a structured definition language. The meth... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066477 | Staged centrifugal pump apparatus for pumping a viscous fluid A pump apparatus comprising a series of stacked impellers rotating about a common axis, for pumping a viscous fluid mixture upwardly from an underground location. The pump apparatus comprises a generally cylindrical housing having an intake at or near its suction en... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065679 | System and method for flexible application hosting on a wireless device A method of dynamically hosting an application program on a wireless device, a content of the application partitioned into a plurality of module envelopes, each of the module envelopes having a portion of the modules comprising the application, the method comprising... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060554 | System and method for enabling asynchronous push-based applications on a wireless device There is provided a system and method of enabling asynchronous push-based applications on a wireless device in a system having an application gateway server including an application repository and a server proxy including an event sink for communicating between the ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059631 | Location system and method for assisting emergency services in identifying the physical location of an IP telephony user A location device for associating a physical location with a communications device. The communications device has assigned device identification and uses an assigned network address for use in routing call data over a communications network. The location device comp... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055314 | System and method of determining standby time for mobile stations A method and system for determining standby time for a mobile station uses a battery simulator, a base station emulator, a computer to control the test equipment and MSUT for testing a mobile station. The computer includes a module for determining a radio off batter... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053481 | Low-pressure Fischer-Tropsch process A Fischer-Tropsch process for producing diesel fuel or diesel blending stock with a high cetane number, in a concentration of 65-90 wt % at pressures below 200 psia, using a cobalt catalyst with a rhenium and/or ruthenium promoter. The catalyst is a cobalt catalyst ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8037084 | Method and system for transcoding web pages by limiting selection through direction Signature schema documents, pre-defined in a query language, provide one or more instructions for application by an engine to transcode web pages of respective web sites. The instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract a subset of data from ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018181 | Method and apparatus for achieving inherent ignition voltage in operation of a high intensity discharge lamp A high intensity discharge lamp, such as a high power sodium or metal halide lamp, having an electronic ballast. The electronic ballast may incorporate resonance-based circuitry for achieving an ignition state via a frequency sweeping step, the particular ignition v... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015256 | Method and apparatus for parallel sequencing of messages between disparate information systems A system and method are provided for coordinating concurrent processing of messages communicated over a network. The messages include a pair of related messages having a common first unique identifier and an unrelated message having a second unique identifier differ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014770 | System and method for managing data to be pushed to a wireless device when the device may be outside of a coverage range A push proxy server for pushing data to a wireless device having a coverage state of online or offline. The push proxy server comprises a coverage state detector, memory, a data store, and a transceiver. The coverage state detector determines the coverage state of t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8001529 | System and method of testing wireless component applications A test harness system and method of functionality testing of wireless component applications is provided. The test harness system comprises at least one testlet for testing at least one target application log event and at least one event handler for validating at le... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996404 | System and method for detecting and analyzing pattern relationships In its broad aspect, the invention provides a method for analyzing relationships among patterns within a data set having a set of samples and associated attribute values defining each attribute of each said sample. The method comprises receiving at an input at least... | 08/09/2011 |
