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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8140251 | Management of traffic signals at road intersection to avoid blocking vehicles A computer controlled system for managing traffic signals at the intersection of at least two traffic lanes to avoid collisions between motor vehicles in intersecting lanes. An implementation with means for controlling traffic signals at the intersection to permit v... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8056014 | Web portal page interactive user interfaces with maximum accessibility to user selected portlets A Web portal page at a Web display station having a plurality of portlet sections, each portlet including text and at least one active hyperlink to another Web page. An implementation enabling a user to enter one of the displayed portlet sections, enlarging the area... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8020085 | Assigning priority levels to hyperlinks embedded in the created Web documents The creator or author of the Web document or page at the Web site source of the page is enabled to prioritize all of the hyperlinks to other Web documents embedded in the Web page in order to optimize the needs such as the business needs of the host. The prioritizat... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019651 | Method, system, and computer usable medium for ensuring purchasers are charged a most favorable price A network Web service indirect channel distribution system, method and computer program that ensures purchasers are charged the most favored prices. An implementation enabling a system host to negotiate prices for vendor registered goods and services, means for modi... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7975238 | Identifying previously bookmarked hyperlinks in a received Web page in a World Wide Web network browser system for searching Presenting to a user at a receiving Web station, who is viewing a received Web document or Web page, a very clear picture of which hyperlinks in each Web page are linked to a Web page/document that has already been bookmarked by the user. A system for tracking bookm... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970936 | In a world wide web communications network simplifying the uniform resource locators (URLS) displayed in association with received web documents Simplifying any cumbersome URLs that are made public. The function of converting to simplify cumbersome URLs is performed by Web service providers for appropriate fees. Accordingly, the converted URL will have a new domain portion, i.e. the Web service provider's do... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7933886 | System for conducting searches on the world wide web enabling the search requester to modify the domain context of a search responsive to an excessive number of hits on combinations of keywords The user requesting the search is enabled to analyze the list of excessive hits in a manner organized through a Web content manager on the user's display screen, and reduce the excessive hits through the elimination of extraneous domains or subdomains captured by th... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7881234 | Detecting interruptions in audio conversations and conferences, and using a conversation marker indicative of the interrupted conversation An implementation for detecting interruptions in audio conversations between a plurality of participants comprising continuously recording the most recent predetermined time segment of the conversation stream of one participant in the conversation, monitoring the co... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7787742 | Compact optical permanent read-only recording discs with read-write sections enabling users to write data to personalize the discs to the users' needs A consumer is provided with an implementation to personalize his compact optical recording discs. A compact optical recording disc comprising a primary section including a read-only permanent digital data recording, and an ancillary read-write section enabling a use... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7774453 | System and method for handling location information The present invention is a system and method for handling location information. The goal of the present invention is to allow users to collect and evaluate information from multiple sources, and thus make proper use of all available location information. Location so... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7668930 | Web service distribution system over the World Wide Web using web services description language (WSDL) standard including implementation for uniformly generating all fault conditions in WSDL message format A Web Service distribution system with the standard combination of a general protocol for the transporting and handling of data entities to and from Web stations, e.g. SOAP layered over HTTP, including means for detecting fault conditions in these general protocol t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7647402 | Protecting contents of computer data files from suspected intruders by renaming and hiding data files subjected to intrusion Protecting data files from being stolen or compromised in a data processing operation having stored data in a plurality of data files by receiving user requests for access to data files, determining whether said requests are unauthorized intrusions into the requeste... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643797 | Radio frequency identification (RFID) system for dynamically and automatically establishing communication between a mobile wireless communicating device and a data processing system RFID tags to provide a relatively low power and power conserving wireless communication system to dynamically and automatically transfer all preselected data developed in designated digital devices to a centralized data processing system. Inclusion, in the target mo... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7281235 | Computer controlled system for modularizing the information technology structure of a business enterprise into a structure of holonic self-contained modules A system for facilitating the reorganization of the information technology of a business organization into a structure that is modular and, thus, interchangeable between business units within the enterprise, and particularly within World Wide Web enterprises involvi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7139379 | Monitoring telephone conferences through a network of computer controlled display terminals, each associated with a telephone station and displaying a user-interactive monitoring page Monitoring of any conventional telephone conference in which a requisite set of conference attendees respectively at a corresponding set of telephone stations are connected into a telephone conference. In association with the telephone conference, a communication ne... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7103810 | System for the tracking of errors in a communication network enabling users to selectively bypass system error logs and make real-time responses to detected errors Enabling users of systems maintaining periodically sampled error logs to selectively make real-time responses to certain error conditions. An error management system which comprises an implementation for monitoring error conditions and responsive to the monitoring f... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7028296 | Distributing computer programs to a customer's multiple client computers through a hypertext markup language document distributed to and stored on the customer's network server computer the transmission to and the storage in a customer server computer connected to a network of a plurality of client computers, a Hypertext Markup Language document that includes an embedded program applet for selectively accessing each of the application programs bein... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6934707 | NETWORK TRANSMISSION OF PAGES IN LINKABLE MARKUP LANGUAGE TO RECEIVING DISPLAY STATIONS WITH CURRENTLY DISPLAYED PAGES CONTROLLED BY TAGS IN SUCCEEDING PAGES TO PRODUCE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING TRANSITIONS BETWEEN PAGES Transitions between current and succeeding World Wide Web (Web) pages are provided which are aesthetically desirable, make the user comfortable and may be easily variable by both designers and users of Web pages in computer managed communication networks such as the... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6915311 | DATABASE SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE CLEARING OF STORED CONFLICTING REPLICATED DOCUMENTS BY PERIODIC APPLICATION OF A PRIORITIZED SEQUENCE OF ATTRIBUTES WITH VALUES TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN REPLICATED DOCUMENTS Periodically clearing databases of stored conflicting replicated documents in a regular automatic way which comprises a combination of defining a prioritized sequence of predetermined attribute values to be applied to distinguish between the stored documents in each... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6856333 | Providing a user interactive interface for physically impaired users dynamically modifiable responsive to preliminary user capability testing Enhancing access for physically impaired users to selectable items in a hierarchical arrangement through the preliminary testing of a user response time in moving a user controlled on-screen pointer from a start point over an equal distance to each of a plurality of... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6823513 | Workflow distribution process granting to operators with assigned activities access to needed computer resources and withdrawing such access upon the completion of the assigned activity A method for limiting access of each of a plurality of operators having assigned activities in an overall workflow distribution, to computer resources needed to respectively complete each activity through a computer controlled interactive display interface. A workfl... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6816176 | Temporarily moving adjacent or overlapping icons away from specific icons being approached by an on-screen pointer on user interactive display interfaces In an interactive display interface, an implementation for setting up around each of the selectable items, e.g. icons, a perimeter zone or halo at a predetermined distance from the perimeter of the item or icon. Thus, when an icon with such a halo is approached by a... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6734884 | Viewer interactive three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional images in virtual three-dimensional workspace A system, method and computer program are provided for a virtual three-dimensional workspace wherein certain three-dimensional objects represent or serve as proxies for a variety of user interactive application programs. Such objects may be selected or triggered by ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728675 | Data processor controlled display system with audio identifiers for overlapping windows in an interactive graphical user interface There is provided a user friendly display interface system for the interactive handling and sorting out of windows in complex window hierarchical graphical user interfaces. The system provides for the storage of a hierarchy of windows which are displayable to overla... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6715056 | Network document transmission to receiving display stations with automatic sizing of received document caches based upon user activity in prior browsing sessions A data processor controlled user interactive display system for displaying hypertext documents, each including a sequence of display screen pages received at a receiving display station from a communications network such as the World Wide Web. Automatic sizing of th... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6694506 | Object oriented programming system with objects for dynamically connecting functioning programming objects with objects for general purpose operations A computer controlled object oriented programming system for distributive program development over networks such as the internet with implement for interfacing a plurality of programming objects with each other to provide combination objects combining pro... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6657642 | User interactive display interfaces with means for interactive formation of combination display objects representative of combined interactive functions A system, method and computer program are provided for an interactive data processor controlled display interface wherein the user may dynamically select a plurality of objects (tools) and combine these tools into a combination tool which simultaneously p... | 12/02/2003 |
| 5900879 | Three-dimensional workspace interactive display having browsing viewpoints for navigation and work viewpoints for user-object interactive non-navigational work functions with automatic switching to browsing viewpoints upon completion of work functions A system, method and computer program are provided for facilitating viewer navigation within a virtual reality three-dimensional workspace containing functional three-dimensional objects. The viewer has the capability of navigating towards such three-dime... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5767855 | Selectively enlarged viewer interactive three-dimensional objects in environmentally related virtual three-dimensional workspace displays A system, method and computer program are provided for a virtual three-dimensional workspace wherein the three-dimensional objects and the workspace in general are environmentally associated, particularly in real world size relationships. In the default o... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5533184 | Computer system for dynamically generating display screen panels providing interactive interfaces for application program steps A computer system for dynamically generating a set of display panels which will provide a user friendly interactive user interface for I/O as the steps in an application program requiring user interaction are carried out. The system involves a PC or works... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5241656 | Depth buffer clipping for window management In a computer system with a screen display on which is formed a plurality of at least partially overlapping windows associated with different applications, a depth buffer is added to the display adapter for providing with different applications, a depth b... | 08/31/1993 |
| 4791558 | System and method for generating an object module in a first format and then converting the first format into a format which is loadable into a selected computer A system for generating program object modules or decks of object code for selected computing systems is provided. The object module is generated from a conventional source program. The system has a compiler for generating an object module from the source... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4754409 | Method for dynamically collecting current data from specified external processes and procedures for use in an expert system A method for solving problems using an expert system in which the Rulebase includes a section having specific definitions of processes or procedures which are available to the expert system as a data source. The method allows data to be collected dynamica... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4703420 | System for arbitrating use of I/O bus by co-processor and higher priority I/O units in which co-processor automatically request bus access in anticipation of need A data processing system having a main processing unit, a memory subsystem, and a co-processor selectively connectable to said memory subsystem through an Input/Output Channel Controller which includes a control means for arbitrating access to the I/O Bus... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4695948 | Bus to bus converter using a RAM for multiple address mapping An improvement in a bus converter that provides a bus to bus address translation function permitting access from an I/O device connected on the I/O bus to a system bus and system memory, where the bus converter includes a circuit connected to the I/O bus ... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4672574 | Data communication system with terminal for displaying the coded stream of data being transmitted A communication system is provided in which one data transmitting display terminal has the capability of transmitting a data stream in coded form to at least one data receiving terminal over a communication linkage. This data transmitting terminal further... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4648061 | Electronic document distribution network with dynamic document interchange protocol generation An electronic document distribution network is provided having dynamic document interchange protocol generation. The electronic document distribution network has a dynamically variable number of communicating data processors at various locations, and thes... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4642792 | Data processor printer setup through a remote display terminal The disclosure relates to an improvement in data processing systems involving a host processor and a remote printer which prints alphanumeric characters from data communicated from the host to the printer. The improvement provides the provision of an inte... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4636098 | Ribbon drive coupling and cartridge tilt arrangement for print line visibility A ribbon cartridge (10) is attached to a carrier (1) of a printing device such that it is tiltable along an axis that is parallel to the print line to drop the ribbon such that the print line is visible. That part of cartridge (10) which is opposite of th... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4586035 | Display terminal with a cursor responsive virtual distributed menu An interactive display terminal of the multiple overlapping window type is provided. Each of the windows is smaller in dimension than the overall display screen. One or more of the windows have an associated virtual distributed menu which is made up of a ... | 04/29/1986 |
