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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176568 | Tracing traitor coalitions and preventing piracy of digital content in a broadcast encryption system A system, method, and computer program product to find coalitions of receivers who collude to produce pirated protected content, then evaluates the confidence that particular members of each identified coalition are traitors versus innocent receivers incriminated by... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8142754 | Method for synthesis of high quality graphene A method is described herein for the providing of high quality graphene layers on silicon carbide wafers in a thermal process. With two wafers facing each other in close proximity, in a first vacuum heating stage, while maintained at a vacuum of around 10−6 | 03/27/2012 |
| 8120448 | High frequency nanotube oscillator A tunable nanostructure such as a nanotube is used to make an electromechanical oscillator. The mechanically oscillating nanotube can be provided with inertial clamps in the form of metal beads. The metal beads serve to clamp the nanotube so that the fundamental res... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8095980 | Detecting malicious behavior in data transmission of a de-duplication system The present invention provides a method and system of detecting malicious behavior in a series of data transmission de-duplication requests of a de-duplicated computer system. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include, (1) if the series includes at l... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8082260 | Handling content of a read-only file in a computer's file system Embodiments of the invention relate to manipulating the original content of at least one original read-only computer file in a file-system of a computer system, where the computer system includes an operating system including a framework for in-line monitoring of ac... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074069 | Reading a locked windows NFTS EFS encrypted computer file Embodiments of the invention relate to reading at least one locked, encrypted computer file encrypted by an encryption filter driver running on an operating system of a computer system, with an added kernel driver, while the operating system is running and reading a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8057863 | Electrostatic force assisted deposition of graphene An embodiment of a method of depositing graphene includes bringing a stamp into contact with a substrate over a contact area. The stamp has at least a few layers of the graphene covering the contact area. An electric field is developed over the contact area. The sta... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8033445 | Nano-soldering to single atomic layer A simple technique to solder submicron sized, ohmic contacts to nanostructures has been disclosed. The technique has several advantages over standard electron beam lithography methods, which are complex, costly, and can contaminate samples. To demonstrate the solder... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7996685 | Method for effective tamper resistance A system, method, and computer program product for preventing a malicious user from analyzing and modifying software content. The one-way functions used in prior art systems using dynamically evolving audit logs or self-modifying applications are replaced with a one... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7994783 | Integrated microchip incorporating atomic magnetometer and microfluidic channel for NMR and MRI An integral microfluidic device includes an alkali vapor cell and microfluidic channel, which can be used to detect magnetism for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Small magnetic fields in the vicinity of the vapor cell can be me... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7972437 | Hollow nanocrystals and method of making Described herein are hollow nanocrystals having various shapes that can be produced by a simple chemical process. The hollow nanocrystals described herein may have a shell as thin as 0.5 nm and outside diameters that can be controlled by the process of making. ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971070 | Read/write media key block A recorder system contains a media key block (MKB) and selectively writes protected content into a recording medium according to the following content protection logic, to combat theft of the protected content: If the medium does not have a MKB, then the recorder wr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7954092 | Creating an assured execution environment for at least one computer program executable on a computer system The present invention provides processor-implemented method and system of creating an assured execution environment for at least one computer program executable on a computer system. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include (1) converting the execut... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7915973 | Tunable multiwalled nanotube resonator A tunable nanoscale resonator has potential applications in precise mass, force, position, and frequency measurement. One embodiment of this device consists of a specially prepared multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) suspended between a metal electrode and a mobile, ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7862793 | Growth of and defect reduction in nanoscale materials Methods by which the growth of a nanostructure may be precisely controlled by an electrical current are described here. In one embodiment, an interior nanostructure is grown to a predetermined geometry inside another nanostructure, which serves as a reaction chamber... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852554 | Cryogenic immersion microscope A cryogenic immersion microscope whose objective lens is at least partially in contact with a liquid reservoir of a cryogenic liquid, in which reservoir a sample of interest is immersed is disclosed. When the cryogenic liquid has an index of refraction that reduces ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7809711 | System and method for semantic analysis of intelligent device discovery The present invention provides a method, system, and service of analyzing electronic documents in an intranet, where the intranet includes a plurality of web sites. In an exemplary embodiment, the method, system, and service include (1) crawling HTML content ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7725504 | Method and apparatus for helping user form structured diagram from unstructured information source The present invention provides a method and apparatus for helping a user form a structured diagram from an unstructured information source. Starting with one or more key information elements such as some special words, the requests of a customer contained in the inf... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7685088 | System and method for generating new concepts based on existing ontologies A system and a method for automatically generating new concepts based on existing ontologies are provided. The system creates new concepts in existing ontologies based on new concept descriptions expressed in a natural language format, and comprises: a normalizer fo... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7630984 | Method of determining access control effect by using policies When determining whether or not access by a user should be permitted by using policies, an access control determination device of the present invention expresses the access by the user to the data source with a predetermined path, retrieves an appropriate policy out... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7600133 | Backing up at least one encrypted computer file The present invention provides a method and system of backing up at least one encrypted computer file encrypted by an encryption filter driver running on an operating system of a computer system and restoring at least one encrypted computer file encrypted by an encr... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7567955 | Technique and method which dynamically generates various depth levels of abstracts for text based data sources on demand The present invention discloses a method for dynamically generating an abstract from a search result abstract retrieved from a search engine. Preferably embodied as a software program, the present invention allows a user to “zoom” in and out of the abstract ther... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7529537 | System and method for providing personal and emergency service hailing in wireless network A method and system for determining each location and identifier of a plurality of wireless communication devices, computing a distance between a location of a requesting device and the location of each of the plurality of wireless communication devices. The system ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7519902 | System and method for enhanced browser-based web crawling This invention pioneers an enhanced crawling mechanism and technique called “Enhanced Browser Based Web Crawling”. It permits the fault-tolerant gathering of dynamic data documents on the World Wide Web (WWW). The Enhanced Browser Based Web Crawler technology of... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7512598 | Synthesizing information-bearing content from multiple channels A method receives a query; separates a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tags each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern matches each EOC; calculates the respective distance fu... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7467391 | Allowing client applications to programmatically access web sites A method for creating a web service to programmatically access a network addressable location via an intermediate gateway includes analyzing a network at the location; generating, at the gateway, a service description file and an executable code for the network page... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7467180 | Automatically segmenting and populating a distributed computing problem A method is described for automatically segmenting and populating a distributed problem, including determining a bounding space that is at least equal in size to a problem space volume, partitioning the bounding space into a plurality of sub-spaces capable of holdin... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7426557 | System, method, and service for inducing a pattern of communication among various parties A communication pattern inducing system focuses on the propagation of topics amongst a plurality of nodes based on the text of the node rather than hyperlinks of the node. A node could represent a weblog or any other source of information such as person, a conversat... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7400711 | System and technique for dynamically interjecting live advertisements in the context of real-time isochronous (telephone-model) discourse A method, system and program storage device are provided for interjecting messages into a real-time isochronous discourse (such as a telephone call) between a plurality of callers wherein the method, system and device accesses the call between the callers, monitors ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392466 | Method and system of annotation for electronic documents The present invention provides a method of annotation for electronic document, a method for creating, modifying and browsing an annotation in an electronic document, and an apparatus and system for editing, browsing annotations in electronic document. The method of ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7363329 | Method for duplicate detection on web-scale data in supercomputing environments A method for duplicate detection on web-scale data in a supercomputing environment includes computing a hash of at least one document in a computer system to generate data packets from the at least one document and to generate a fixed size tuple of information from ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346559 | System and method for automating association of retail items to support shopping proposals A shopping server proposal system includes a mechanism that enhances the online retailer's existing database system with the necessary information to provide the desired services. The existing catalog of items is analyzed based on a set of predefined rules for a giv... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7251628 | Automated purchasing agent system and method A system and method of automating and managing bids within the context of an Internet auction is disclosed. The present invention permits continuous monitoring and verification of auctions on the Internet based on criterion such as highest bid on an item, maximum pe... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7191311 | Method and system of interconnecting processors of a parallel computer to facilitate torus partitioning The present invention provides a method and system of interconnecting L processors of a parallel computer to facilitate torus partitioning, (a) where each of the processors includes a processing unit and a switch, (b) where the switch includes a first external port,... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7089252 | System and method for rapid computation of PageRank A method of ranking a plurality of linked documents. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of documents, and determining a rank of each document. The rank of each document is generally a function of a rank of all other documents in the plurality of documents wh... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076443 | System and technique for automatically associating related advertisements to individual search results items of a search result set The resultant search result items from a search engine performing an Internet search are associated with similar or related advertisements. These associated advertisements, once acquired, may be viewed by a user on demand. An Internet user selects a query to submit ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6912521 | System and method for automatically conducting and managing surveys based on real-time information analysis The present invention provides a system and technique for initiating, conducting, and managing real-time surveys, in the context of a real-time discourse, such as Internet chat, to provide dynamic, real-time survey results. A surveyor initiates a survey by filling o... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6898631 | Platform for internet based real-time communication content selection A method of monitoring real-time communication on a computer network between at least two client computers connected by the network comprising first providing a database of keywords, with each of the keywords linked to a predefined rating. The method then includes m... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6671681 | System and technique for suggesting alternate query expressions based on prior user selections and their query strings An invention for monitoring user choices and selections on a search result web page and providing alternative query expressions to further narrow and enhance the user's search. Monitoring and recording user choices and selections is achieved by a query ma... | 12/30/2003 |
