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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7109679 | Damping for electromechanical actuators Oscillation and other disturbance damping is provided for a system having a load driven by an electric motor, e.g., an electromagnetic actuator. Damping is achieved using feedback in an active mode, where power is supplied in a normal operation mode of the electroma... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7093607 | Methods and apparatus for maintaining pressure gain in a servovalve assembly A servovalve has a sleeve having both a first metering aperture and a second metering aperture in fluid communication with a single port cavity defined by the servovalve. A spool oriented within the sleeve has a first land and a second land and defines a channel ori... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7072343 | Methods and apparatus for controlling a data stream using a host agent acting on behalf of a host computer Techniques are provided for controlling a data stream without communicating with a host generating the data stream. A host agent (associated with the host generating the data stream) runs in a computerized data processing device and receives a request signal from a ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062675 | Data storage cache system shutdown scheme In a storage system including a write-back cache, dirty data can be flushed from the cache while a controller continues to service host I/O requests. A controller is capable of flushing all the dirty data in the cache to a storage device in response to an indication... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054127 | Methods and apparatus to protect against voltage surges A cable device includes an integrated surge protection circuit. In the event that, communication signals conveyed by the cable include (potentially damaging) transient voltages, the surge protection circuit integrated in the cable suppresses the transient voltages a... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7040491 | Techniques for managing a set of cables A cable management system has a chassis, a communications interface and an access panel assembly. The cable management system a chassis which is configured to hold a set of circuit boards. The communications interface is disposed adjacent a side of the chassis. The ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042562 | Systems and methods for inspecting an optical interface A system enables inspection of an optical connector. The system includes a positioning subassembly, an electronic sensor (e.g., a scanner, a camera, etc.), and a controller coupled to the positioning subassembly and the electronic sensor. The controller is configure... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043564 | Methods and apparatus for managing network traffic using network address translation A method manages network traffic using NAT in a data communications device having a NAT data structure (e.g., a NAT table). The method includes the step of creating, in the NAT data structure, a first entry to coordinate a first data flow from a server to a client (... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032883 | Hybrid butterfly fluid control valve A flow control valve system has a housing that defines a flow path, a throttle element disposed in the flow path, and a linkage assembly coupled to the throttle element and oriented substantially outside the flow path. With such an orientation, the linkage assembly ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027439 | Data storage system with improved network interface A data storage system has a backplane, processing circuitry and a NIC. The processing circuitry is physically connected to the backplane, and can perform block-based data access operations. The NIC has a first port that that couples to an external network, a second ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023869 | Data storage system with one or more integrated server-like behaviors A network adapter is provided that may be used in a network data storage system to facilitate data communication among external data exchanging devices and an input/output (I/O) controller residing in the system. The adapter includes one or more interfaces that may ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7022916 | Techniques for controlling movement of a set of cables An electronic cabinet has an electronic cabinet frame, and a chassis which slidably mounts to the electronic cabinet frame. The chassis is configured to house electronic equipment. The electronic cabinet further has a cable guide which is configured to guide movemen... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019976 | Methods and apparatus for thermally coupling a heat sink to a circuit board component A heat sink has a flexure member attached to a base of the heat sink and located between the base and an associated circuit board component. As the heat sink attaches to a circuit board carrying the circuit board component, the flexure member conforms to the surface... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013362 | Systems and methods for addressing memory An addressing circuit includes a first set of inputs configured to receive a first set of address signals en route from the set of processors to the memory and defining a least significant address portion. The addressing circuit further includes a second set of inpu... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000024 | Systems and methods for providing transmission control protocol communications In a computerized device, a technique for communicating with an external transmission control protocol device involves operating in a stateless manner. In particular, the technique includes providing an acknowledgment message to the external transmission control pro... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992374 | Techniques for manufacturing a circuit board with an improved layout for decoupling capacitors A circuit board module has an IC device, discrete components, and a circuit board structure in electrical communication with the IC device and the discrete component. The circuit board structure includes non-conductive material defining a top surface of the circuit ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987673 | Techniques for cooling a set of circuit boards within a rack mount cabinet A data storage subsystem is configured to mount within a rack mount cabinet. The data storage subsystem includes a housing configured to mount to a set of vertical rails of the rack mount cabinet, a set of circuit boards configured to install in a vertically aligned... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6973593 | System analyzer for a data storage system A system analyzer for a data storage system has a control module and a memory module. The system analyzer includes a logic analyzer, an input port that couples to the data storage system, an output port that couples to the logic analyzer, and a pre-processor which i... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6971805 | Techniques for providing multiple communications pathways A communications assembly includes a transmitter configured to receive a first electrical input signal and a second electrical input signal, and to provide a light signal having (i) light modulation based on the first electrical input signal and (ii) average power o... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973537 | Disk cache interfacing system and method In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a cache that includes interface that receives data access requests that specify respective data storage addresses, a back-end interface that can retrieve data identified by the data storage addresses, cache storage... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6961052 | Methods and apparatus for providing multi-directional navigation control A navigation control apparatus, such as used to control a cursor on a display of an IP telephone, has a geometry that allows a user to produce a diagonal motion of the cursor displayed on the IP telephone. The navigation control apparatus has a support mount having ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6955410 | Techniques for interconnecting electronic cabinet frames An electronic system has electronic equipment (e.g., data storage equipment), and an electronic cabinet assembly which is configured to support the electronic equipment. The electronic cabinet assembly includes a first electronic cabinet frame defining a first set o... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952351 | Systems and methods for installing a circuit board assembly utilizing an insertion delay latch An insertion delay subassembly includes a support member which is configured to mount to the circuit board, and a lever coupled to the support member. The lever is configured to reside in a first orientation relative to the support member when the circuit board init... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952785 | Methods and apparatus for powering a data communications port A data communications device includes a supervisory circuit, a power supply, and a power circuit. The power circuit includes a data communications port, a power supply connection coupled to the power supply, and a power controller coupled to the data communications ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6948685 | Locking device with solenoid release pin A locking device with a solenoid release actuator includes a housing, a plunger axially slidable within the housing, a biasing member for biasing the plunger in a first direction, one or more locking balls, and the locking balls disposed in an aperture in the housin... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6948031 | Methods and apparatus for transferring a data element within a data storage system The invention is directed to techniques for transferring data within a data storage system that includes, among other things, an interconnection mechanism having a point-to-point channel between an interface circuit (e.g., a director) and a volatile memory cache cir... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941308 | Methods and apparatus for accessing a doubly linked list in a data storage system A data storage system has storage devices, a processor which is configured to move data to and from the storage devices, and a bus coupled to the processor. The data storage system further includes a memory board having (i) an interface which couples to the bus, (ii... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934152 | Systems and methods for connecting an electronic apparatus to a backplane An electronic apparatus includes a first assembly and a second assembly. Each assembly has a circuit board defining a front side and a back side, a set of connectors mounted to the front side of that circuit board, and a heat sink disposed over the front side of tha... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6925504 | Methods and apparatus for obtaining content from a content-originating device within a computerized network A technique can be used to obtain content (e.g., a live feed, pre-positioned content, etc.) from a content-originating device (a content source). The technique involves identifying a tree-based location-path having a series of locations which leads from the computer... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924908 | Color management systems and methods with improved color matching techniques Improved color management techniques use sample identifiers that define sample color areas having core areas and buffer areas adjacent the core areas. The core area defined by each sample identifier includes a unique set of colors. However, the buffer area defined b... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924437 | Techniques for coupling an object to a circuit board using a surface mount coupling device A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board which defines circuit board pads, a set of surface mount electronic components soldered to a first set of the circuit board pads using a surface mount soldering process, and a set of surface mount coupling devices so... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6914780 | Methods and apparatus for cooling a circuit board component using a heat pipe assembly A circuit board assembly has a circuit board coupled to a support plane and defining a space between the circuit board and the support member. A circuit board component mounts to the circuit board and is oriented within the space defined by the circuit board and the... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909052 | Techniques for making a circuit board with improved impedance characteristics A circuit board has a first signal layer having a set of conductors, a second signal layer having a conductive plane and a non-conductive region, and a third signal layer having a conductive region that mirrors the non-conductive region of the second signal layer. T... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6906544 | Methods and apparatus for testing a circuit board using a surface mountable adaptor A surface mount adaptor allows for removable attachment of debugging connectors to a circuit board and provides high density access to the circuit board under test at a single location. A circuit board testing assembly has a support member having debugging connector... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904556 | Systems and methods which utilize parity sets A memory system and method of using same are provided. One embodiment of the system includes a semiconductor memory that is configured to include a multiplicity of memory segments. The memory segments are grouped into groups. Each of the groups includes N respective... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904541 | Methods and apparatus for providing power to electronic circuitry An electronic system has critical circuitry, non-critical circuitry having a first section and a second section, and a power sub-system. The power sub-system has a first power assembly, a second power assembly, and a set of connections. The set of connections is con... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6894220 | Methods and apparatus for grounding a circuit board A grounding member support forms an interference or friction fit with an opening defined by a circuit board. A compliant, electrically conductive grounding member couples to the grounding member support. The grounding member electrically couples a grounding layer of... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6877059 | Communications architecture for a high throughput storage processor A storage processor particularly suited to RAID systems provides high throughput for applications such as streaming video data. An embodiment is configured as an ASIC with a high degree of parallelism in its interconnections. The preferred embodiment provides a stor... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6876952 | Methods and apparatus for maintaining queues One or more queues store data information such as packets or data flows for later transmission to downstream communication devices. A real-time clock tracks current time and an advancement of a moving time reference, which is displaced with respect to the current ti... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6874162 | Reversible jacket having multiple hoods The present invention provides a reversible jacket that includes two independently functional flexible hoods that allow a person wearing the jacket to utilize one hood in one configuration of the jacket, and the other hood in a reversed configuration. A reversible j... | 04/05/2005 |
