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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7996775 | Instant messaging communication system and method A method of providing instant messaging communication between a first user and at least one other user via a communication network. The method comprises: executing an instant messaging client at a user terminal of the first user, the instant messaging client having ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7750695 | Phase-locked loop circuitry using charge pumps with current mirror circuitry A system and method for performing phase-locked loop is disclosed. The system includes phase frequency detector circuitry, charge pump circuitry having first current mirror circuitry and second current mirror circuitry, loop filter circuitry, and voltage controlled ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7665633 | Apparatus and method of dispensing small quantities of particles An apparatus for dispensing small quantities of particles, the apparatus comprises a hopper (20) provided with a sieve (21) at a bottom portion thereof, the hoper defining a powder-containing zone (42) above the sieve which in use contains powde... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7639685 | Method and apparatus for multicast forwarding A method or corresponding apparatus in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention determines how many copies of a multicast packet are to be sent, as copies, to multiple destinations based on information in the multicast packet and a group (e.g., bridge node) ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7526964 | Applied and residual stress measurements using magnetic field sensors Methods are described for the use of conformable eddy-current sensors and sensor arrays for characterizing residual stresses and applied loads in materials. In addition, for magnetizable materials such as steels, these methods can be used to determine carbide conten... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7501234 | Stress proteins and uses therefor The present invention relates to stress proteins and methods of modulating an individual's immune response. In particular, it relates to the use of such stress proteins in immune therapy and prophylaxis, which results in an induction or enhancement of an individual'... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501125 | Vivo CTL elicitation by heat shock protein fusion proteins maps to a discrete domain and is CD4+ T cell-independent The present invention relates to a method of inducing a CD8+ CTL response to a molecule in an individual deficient in CD4+ T cells comprising administering to the individual an hsp or a portion of an ATP binding domain of an hsp joined to the m... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7407655 | Method of inhibiting leukocytes with human CXC chemokine receptor 3 antibody The present invention relates to proteins or polypeptides, referred to herein as isolated and/or recombinant mammalian (e.g., human) IP-10/Mig receptor proteins designated CXC Chemokine Receptor 3 (CXCR3) and variants thereof, including those characterized by select... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7366294 | Communication system tonal component maintenance techniques An apparatus and method for suppressing noise is presented. The apparatus may utilize a filter bank of bandpass filters to split the input noisy speech-containing signal into separate frequency bands. To determine whether the input signal contains speech, DTMF tones... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7047273 | Load balancing in set top cable box environment A scalable messaging system for data transmission between the network devices, such as set top boxes, and a central system server, such as a server which maintains a database of event logs for the network. Individual routers at the data center broadcast an announcem... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7005256 | Gene chip technology for determining memory genes The present invention relates to methods of identifying genes involved in memory formation. This is accomplished by performing a gene chip identification of those genes expressed during transcription-dependent memory formation but not during transcription-independen... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002036 | Synthesis of 2-alkyl amino acids Non-natural amino acids such as 2-alkylated amino acids allow for the synthesis of a wider variety of peptidal and non-peptidal pharmaceutically active agents. A method of preparing a 2-alkyl amino acid involves a Michael-type addition of a nucleophile to a dialkyl ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6911879 | Electronic phase shifter with enhanced phase shift performance A varactor based phase shifter that increases phase shift range using a lower characteristic impedance between quadrature ports than is used at its input/output ports. The circuit makes use of a four port coupler arrangement that imbeds a quarter wave impedance tran... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6888504 | Aperiodic array antenna An antenna array that uses at least two passive antennas and one active antenna disposed above a ground plane, but electrically isolated from the ground plane, and a respective resonant strip positioned beneath each passive antenna. The passive antenna elements are ... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6889209 | Method and apparatus for protecting information and privacy A mechanism for the purchase of tags for copies of software ensures that identity of the purchaser of a tag table identifier value included in a purchased tag is not revealed. A mechanism of Call-Ups from the user device to a guardian center ensures that each tag ta... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6769899 | Independent X/Y flow adjustable extrusion die An adjustable extrusion die shapes a melt into a non-circular cross-sectional profile form. The wall thickness of the profile is adjustable by moving two adjustment plates orthogonal to each other and transverse to the flow of the melt. Movement of each adjustment p... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6767535 | Suppressing tumor formation using cells expressing JE/monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 A method of suppressing tumor formation in a vertebrate by administering JE/MCP-1 is described. Also described are methods of treating localized complications of malignancies and methods of combatting parasitic infection by administering JE/MCP-1. ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6767549 | Ionic polymers as anti-infective agents A method for treating a microbial infection in a mammal, such as a human, comprising treating the mammal with a therapeutically effective amount of a polymer comprising an amino group or an ammonium group attached to the polymer backbone via an aliphatic spacer grou... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6705864 | Dental articulator A dental model articulator includes two hinge-jointed arms, each arm having segments connected to a hinge joint having mating elements, one integral to each segment of an arm. One element includes two cymbals that are coaxial on a major hinge axis and concave facing... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6690004 | Method and apparatus for electrospray-augmented high field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry Method and apparatus for the analysis of compounds using electrospray in high field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry.... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6633567 | Method and apparatus for searching a filtering database with one search operation Multiple searches of a filtering database increase the time for filtering a data packet received by a switch. A switch including a translator and a filtering database for performing a single search is presented. The translator provides a translated identi... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6618717 | Computer method and apparatus for determining content owner of a website Computer method and apparatus identifies content owner of a Web site. A collecting step or element collects candidate names from the subject Web site. For each candidate name, a test module (or testing step) runs tests that provide quantitative/statistica... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6552066 | Protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors for treating osteoarthritis Disclosed is a method of treating an individual or animal with osteoarthritis. The method comprises administering to the individual or animal a therapeutically effective amount of a protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor.... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6539369 | Method and apparatus for storing sparse and dense subtrees in a longest prefix match lookup table We present a lookup table which allows sparse subtree descriptors and dense subtree descriptors to be stored in the same memory. A subtree entry in the memory stores a dense subtree descriptor for a dense subtree or a plurality of sparse subtree descripto... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6517827 | Anionic polymers as toxin binders and antibacterial agent The present invention relates to a method of inhibiting a toxin in an animal, such as a human, by administering to the animal a therapeutically effective amount of a polymer having a plurality of pendant acid functional groups which are directly attached ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6500448 | Composition for sustained release of human growth hormone A pharmaceutical composition for the sustained release of human growth hormone from a polymer matrix is disclosed. The pharmaceutical composition comprises a biocompatible polymer, particles of metal cation-complexed human growth hormone wherein said part... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6495823 | Micromachined field asymmetric ion mobility filter and detection system A micromechanical field asymmetric ion mobility filter for a detection system includes a pair of spaced substrates defining between them a flow path between a sample inlet and an outlet; an ion filter disposed in the path and including a pair of spaced fi... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6480876 | System for integrating task and data parallelism in dynamic applications A system for integrating task and data parallelism in a dynamic application that includes at least one task for processing an input data stream to produce an output data stream replaces the at least one task with the following components. A splitter task ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6479313 | Method of manufacturing GaN-based p-type compound semiconductors and light emitting diodes Compound semiconductor material is irradiated with x-ray radiation to activate a dopant material. Active carrier concentration efficiency may be improved over known methods, including conventional thermal annealing. The method may be employed for III-V gr... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6465207 | Silver-based staining processes employing non-gelling gelatin An automated method for the silver metal staining of a biological specimen includes treating the biological specimen with a solution including non-gelling gelatin, a solution including a silver salt and a solution including a reducing agent. Non-gelling g... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6465425 | Microencapsulation and sustained release of biologically active acid-stable or free sulfhydryl-containing proteins This invention relates to sustained release compositions, and methods of forming and using said compositions, for the sustained release of biologically active acid-stable or free sulfhydryl-containing proteins, in particular ଲ-IFN. The sustained rel... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6455074 | Methods for fabricating polymer-based controlled release devices The present invention relates to a polymer-based sustained release device, and methods of forming and using the device for the sustained release of an active agent. The improved method of the invention for forming a polymer-based sustained release device ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6438591 | Entity management system A system for managing an assemblage of entities. The entities interface within the assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and further interface with the system to permit the carrying out of management functions. The system includ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6420982 | Multi-stage lookup for translating between signals of different bit lengths A method and apparatus is provided for translating an L-bit put signal to a W-bit output signal such as a virtual network identification signal to an internal virtual network signal. The translation is performed using a multi-stage lookup. The input signa... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6408218 | Shop floor control system An apparatus for monitoring the assembling, testing, and inspection of a product is provided comprising a plurality of kits, wherein each kit contains a plurality of parts to be assembled together to form a product. The apparatus further comprises a plura... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6393390 | LPAS speech coder using vector quantized, multi-codebook, multi-tap pitch predictor and optimized ternary source excitation codebook derivation A method and apparatus for reducing the complexity of linear prediction analysis-by-synthesis (LPAS) speech coders. The method and apparatus include product code vector quantization (PCVQ) of multi-tap pitch predictor coefficients, which reduces the searc... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6360241 | Computer method and apparatus for division and square root operations using signed digit The invention provides computer apparatus for performing a square root or division operation generating a root or quotient. A partial remainder is stored in radix-2 or radix-4 signed digit format. A decoder is provided for computing a root or quotient dig... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6337851 | Method and apparatus for relative error scheduling in a communications network using discrete rates and proportional rate scaling A method of scheduling a plurality of data flows in a shared resource in a computer system, each of the data flows containing a plurality of data cells including the steps of providing a scheduler in the shared resource, initializing the scheduler to rece... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6324623 | Computing system for implementing a shared cache In a multi-threaded computing environment, a shared cache system reduces the amount of redundant information stored in memory. A cache memory area provides both global readable data and private writable data to processing threads. A particular processing ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6319710 | Human narcolepsy gene The gene for hypocretin (orexin) receptor 1 (HCRTR1), which is associated with narcolepsy, is disclosed. Also described are methods of diagnosis of narcolepsy, pharmaceutical compositions comprising nucleic acids comprising the HCRTR1 gene, as well as met... | 11/20/2001 |
