Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7530110 | System and method for fuzzy multi-level security An access control system and method includes a risk index module which computes a risk index for a dimension contributing to risk. A boundary range defined for a parameter representing each risk index such that the parameter above the range is unacceptable, below th... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529804 | System and method for comprehensive automatic color customization in an email message based on cultural perspective A method for customizing color in an email message based on cultural perspective of each recipient is provided. At least one existing color used in an email message is determined, and a domain name and/or information for each recipient of the email message is analyz... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527510 | Power connection apparatus of direct type backlight unit Provided is a single integral power connection apparatus of a backlight unit with a pressure cam that compresses a lamp lead receiver including plate springs using an elastic restoring force of a cam spring such that the lamp lead receiver comes in contact with a le... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526047 | Method for encoding a message into geometrically uniform space-time trellis codes A method for coding messages by group codes over label alphabet and H-symmetric labeling is provided in order to encode geometrically uniform space-time trellis codes considering a distance spectrum. The coding method makes the complexity of code searching reduced c... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523298 | Polymorphic branch predictor and method with selectable mode of prediction A polymorphic branch predictor and method includes a plurality of branch prediction methods. The methods are selectively enabled to perform branch prediction. A selection mechanism is configured to select one or more of the branch prediction methods in accordance wi... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519927 | Wiring methods to reduce metal variation effects on launch-capture clock pairs in order to minimize cycle-time overlap violations Wiring structures and methods for integrated circuit designs which are adapted to reduce metal variation effects on launch-capture clock pairs in order to minimize cycle time overlap violations in launch/capture clocking systems are provided, whereby the A/B/C (test... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516220 | Method and system for detecting and deterring robot access of web-based interfaces by using minimum expected human response time The present principles provide systems and methods for detecting robot-access of a web-based interface by utilizing a minimum expected human response time (MEHRT) to complete a pre-determined task. After a user is prompted to complete the pre-determined task, a user... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516091 | System and method for electronic settlement using keyboard having multiple card identification and charging functions An electronic settlement system/method includes a keyboard having multiple card identification and charging functions. The electronic settlement may include charges with a smart card, an RF card, or a magnetic card using the keyboard with an electronic cash manageme... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512919 | System and method for incremental statistical timing analysis of digital circuits The present invention is a system and method for efficiently and incrementally updating the statistical timing of a digital circuit after a change has been made in the circuit. One or more changes in the circuit is/are followed by timing queries that are answered ef... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511543 | Automatic static phase error and jitter compensation in PLL circuits An instantaneous phase error detector (IPED) and method includes a first gate configured to logically OR output phase error signals as data to a first latch, and a second gate configured to logically combine the output phase error signals to clock the first latch. A... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509053 | Impedance matching circuit with simultaneous shielding of parasitic effects for transceiver modules A method for fabricating a transceiver, which simultaneously provides impedance matched transmission for radio frequency (RF) and shields against transmission losses due to parasitic effects includes identifying parasitic electromagnetic elements associated with an ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506333 | Method, system, and computer program product for managing foreign holidays for a computer application based on email A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing foreign holidays for a computer application based on email. The method includes receiving email information relating to foreign countries that a user communicates with, calculating based on the... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506216 | System and method of workload-dependent reliability projection and monitoring for microprocessor chips and systems A system and method for projecting reliability includes a module, such as a chip, which includes workload inputs, which account for activity on the chip. A reliability module interacts with the chip to determine a reliability measurement for the chip based upon the ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504311 | Structure and method of integrating compound and elemental semiconductors for high-performance CMOS A method for fabricating a semiconductor substrate includes epitaxially growing an elemental semiconductor layer on a compound semiconductor substrate. An insulating layer is deposited on top of the elemental semiconductor layer, so as to form a first substrate. The... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7496733 | System and method of execution of register pointer instructions ahead of instruction issues A pipeline system and method includes a plurality of operational stages. The stages include a pointer register stage which stores pointer information and updates, and a rename and dependence checking stage located downstream of the pointer register stage, which rena... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496663 | System and method for detecting status changes in a network using virtual coordinate mapping A system and method for scalable status change detection in a network of nodes includes embedding node coordinate positions into a virtual map environment. A cluster of nodes are represented with a representative node to form a hierarchy of nodes and clusters where ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496616 | Method, apparatus and system for resistance to side channel attacks on random number generators A random number generator (RNG) resistant to side channel attacks includes an activation pseudo random number generator (APRNG) having an activation output connected to an activation seed input to provide a next seed to the activation seed input. A second random num... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492850 | Phase locked loop apparatus with adjustable phase shift The phase locked loop (PLL) with adjustable phase shift is described. The PLL includes a voltage controlled oscillator which is capable of generating multiple phase shifted output signals, and multiple phase detectors capable of determining the phase differences bet... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492808 | Decoding method using adaptive step-size algorithm for a space-time coded DS-CDMA system Disclosed is a method for decoding received signals on communication channels between at least one transmit antenna and plural receive antennas in a space-time coded direct sequence (DS)-CDMA communication system. The decoding method includes steps of: adjusting the... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493610 | Versioning optimization for dynamically-typed languages A system and method for optimizing program code in dynamic languages includes gathering hot-type information from a program by employing inferencing or profiling to get the hot-type information for operator uses, and inserting guards in the program based on data flo... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490105 | Externalized selection middleware for variability management A system and method for dynamically selecting logical operations using external criteria, includes providing tools for defining a selection criteria set having parameters including dimensions and valid values, wherein the selection criteria set includes a plurality ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489025 | Device and method for fabricating double-sided SOI wafer scale package with optical through via connections A semiconductor package includes an SOI wafer having a first side including an integrated circuit system, and a second side, opposite the first side, forming at least one cavity. At least one chip or component is placed in the cavity. An optical through via is forme... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7488661 | Device and method for improving interface adhesion in thin film structures A device and method for improving adhesion for thin film layers includes applying a diblock copolymer on a surface where adhesion to subsequent layers is needed and curing the diblock copolymer. Pores are formed in the diblock copolymer by treating the diblock copol... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487017 | Systems and methods for generating pattern keys for use in navigation systems to predict user destinations Systems and methods for automatically generating pattern keys based on models of user travel patterns and behavior, wherein the pattern keys may be used in automated navigation systems for fast and efficient prediction of user destinations. ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487184 | Method, system, and computer program product for improved round robin for time series data A method, system, and computer program product are provided for improved round robin for time series data. The method includes receiving user inputs specifying a time period and a sample rate for collection of delta samples. Each delta sample represents a difference... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7480617 | Method for likelihood computation in multi-stream HMM based speech recognition A method for speech recognition includes determining active Gaussians related to a first feature stream and a second feature stream by labeling at least one of the first and second streams, and determining active Gaussians co-occurring in the first stream and the se... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7475198 | Asynchronous symmetric multiprocessing An apparatus for serializing concurrent requests to multiple processors includes a signal merging tree structure and a traversal mechanism. The tree structure has a root node and leaf nodes for connecting a data consumer to the root. The tree structure serializes co... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7475015 | Semantic language modeling and confidence measurement A system and method for speech recognition includes generating a set of likely hypotheses in recognizing speech, rescoring the likely hypotheses by using semantic content by employing semantic structured language models, and scoring parse trees to identify a best se... | 01/06/2009 |
| D583964 | Mesh fence panel | 12/30/2008 |
| 7470616 | Damascene wiring fabrication methods incorporating dielectric cap etch process with hard mask retention Methods for fabricating metal wiring layers of a semiconductor device are provided where damascene interconnect structures are formed in a BEOL process that incorporates a dielectric cap-open-first process to achieve hard mask retention and to control the gouging of... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7472061 | Systems and methods for building a native language phoneme lexicon having native pronunciations of non-native words derived from non-native pronunciations Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon includes native phonetic transcriptions (base forms) for non-native ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7468662 | Method for spatio-temporal event detection using composite definitions for camera systems A method for monitoring events includes defining alert events based on primitive event types in an environment monitored by monitoring devices. Alert parameters are set for each alert event, and alert events are combined to create a composite alert event based on a ... | 12/23/2008 |