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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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| 8185635 | Transport system for instant messaging An exemplary method involves creating a master session over a first connection through a server; and creating a virtual channel over the connection, the virtual channel operable to communicate a feature session. The method may involve establishing a direct connectio... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185608 | Continuous usability trial for a website A continuous website trial allows ongoing observation of user interactions with website for an indefinite period of time that is not ascertainable at initiation of the trial. Users are randomly assigned to either a control group or one or more test groups. The contr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185526 | Dynamic keyword suggestion and image-search re-ranking A content-based re-ranking (CBR) process may be performed on query results based on a selected keyword that is extracted from previous query results, and thereby increase a relevancy of search results. A search engine may perform the CBR process using a target image... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185355 | Slot-cache for caching aggregates of data with different expiry times Techniques for collecting and displaying sensor data captured by a spatially and temporally representative sample of sensors requested in a search query are described. The sensors are represented in an index structure (e.g., a data tree) having a plurality of leaf n... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185137 | Intensity-based maps The claimed subject matter relates to a first architecture that can create an intensity map based upon intensity scores, and to a second architecture that can provide intensity scores and can request and receive the intensity map. Intensity scores can relate to an a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184926 | Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs is described. In one implementation, a system combines a blurred image with a corresponding noisy image of the same subject to create a high-quality deblurred image. The blurred/noisy image pair can be acquired by an i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184819 | Microphone array signal enhancement A system and method facilitating signal enhancement utilizing an adaptive filter is provided. The invention includes an adaptive filter that filters an input based upon a plurality of adaptive coefficients, the adaptive filter modifying at least one of the adaptive ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184755 | Symbol synchronization for communication A communication system and method is disclosed that performs symbol boundary synchronization by generating a symbol alignment estimate from a partial signal correlation; and then refining the symbol alignment estimate via a carrier phase calculation. To generate the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184656 | Control channel negotiated intermittent wireless communication A dual mode communication device utilizes a control channel to exploit diversity, history, and context in advance of establishing a broadband data exchange session on a broadband but shorter range wireless data channel, maximizing productive use of such a session. A... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182424 | Diary-free calorimeter An indirect calorimeter estimates nutritional caloric intake by periodically monitoring weight and sensing physical exercise (i.e., physiological data and/or motion data related to physical exertion), which can then be used in a calorimetry model derived from regres... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181195 | Anonymous aggregated data collection An anonymous aggregated data collection system aggregates media access information in an anonymous data collection component without associating the media access information with any one particular client device. The anonymous data collection component further preve... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181103 | Annotation detection and anchoring on ink notes Systems and methods for detecting annotation digital ink strokes and further associating annotation digital ink strokes with word digital ink strokes are presented. Ink strokes are captured on a writing surface and then classified as words or annotations. Annotation... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181061 | Memory management and recovery for datacenters A system including a plurality of servers, a client, and a metadata server is described herein. The servers each store tracts of data, a plurality of the tracts comprising a byte sequence and being distributed among the plurality of servers. To locate the tracts, th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180986 | Memory conflict detection via mapping of the physical heap to control access permissions to the memory A transactional memory system is described for reporting memory access violations which occur when memory accesses made from instructions within a transaction conflict with memory accesses to the same memory location made from a non-transactional instruction. In an ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180887 | Geolocation mapping of network devices A geographic location of a network device is determined using response delay times from internet servers used as landmarks. A coordination server provides to a client a list of area landmark servers (ALS) with known geographic locations. The client probes ALSs, meas... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180826 | Media sharing and authoring on the web Exemplary media browsing, searching and authoring tools allow for media interaction over a web. An exemplary method includes acquiring digital video data, coding the digital video data using scalable video coding to generate scalable coded digital video data, analyz... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180658 | Exploitation of workflow solution spaces to account for changes to resources It is difficult for managers or other operators to decide how best to modify an available pool of resources used for their workflows. Methods for achieving this by improving the robustness of workflows are described. The more robust a workflow, the better its abilit... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180645 | Data preparation for media browsing A media browsing system prepares various media content and synchronizes the content for playback. A user can specify the content and preconfigure the manner in which the content will be subsequently accessible through a user interface. A variety of mobile phone and ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180624 | Fast beam-search decoding for phrasal statistical machine translation Improved systems, methods and apparatuses are provided for fast beam-search decoding for phrasal statistical machine translation. The provided techniques incorporate a front-loaded distortion penalty estimate for future estimated distortion penalty and/or early prun... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180465 | Multi-modal device power/mode management A system that facilitates managing resources (e.g., functionality, services) based at least in part upon an established context. More particularly, a context determination component can be employed to establish a context by processing sensor inputs or learning/infer... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180047 | Trapdoor pairings Systems and methods are described for trapdoor pairing. In one implementation, a trapdoor pairing is a cryptographic primitive generated by determining a bilinear pairing between an elliptic curve group and another group and selecting a parameter of the bilinear pai... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176500 | Closing a video stream object Techniques are provided for facilitating processing of interlaced video images for progressive video displays. A method receives from a renderer a query for a graphics device driver to a graphics processing capability that can be performed by an associated graphics ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176473 | Transformations for software obfuscation and individualization Methods and systems for software obfuscation are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the obfuscation includes integrating the checker code with product code to form integrated code. The product code includes a first portion that provides desired functionalities ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175442 | Program recording completion A program recording completion system automatically completes an incomplete program recording of a program. A recording application creates a program recording completion event corresponding to the incomplete program recording which includes program information to a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175382 | Learning image enhancement Image enhancement techniques are described to enhance an image in accordance with a set of training images. In an implementation, an image color tone map is generated for a facial region included in an image. The image color tone map may be normalized to a color ton... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175099 | Embedded system development platform A modular development platform is described which enables creation of reliable, compact, physically robust and power efficient embedded device prototypes. The platform consists of a base module which holds the processor and one or more peripheral modules each having... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175097 | Embedding a session description message in a real-time control protocol (RTCP) message Embedded within at least some Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP) messages sent from a media content source to a recipient is a session description message that describes a media presentation being streamed to the recipient. The session description message can be asso... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174828 | Narrow gap spray cooling in a globally cooled enclosure Electronic circuit boards are arranged as respective parallel pairs defining a narrow gap there between. One or more such pairs of boards are supported within a hermitically sealable housing and cooled by way of spraying an atomized liquid coolant from a plurality o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171522 | Systems and processes for managing policy change in a distributed enterprise A method for managing changes to policies in an enterprise includes receiving a systems policy change request to change a systems policy that implements a published enterprise policy, determining whether the requested systems policy change complies with the publishe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171431 | Handle flags The claimed subject matter provides techniques to effectuate and facilitate efficient and flexible selection of display objects. The system can include devices and components that acquire gestures from pointing instrumentalities and thereafter ascertains velocities ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171351 | Collecting information from user devices An information collection system may include a server and one or more user devices that are in electronic communication with each other. Information may be collected by the user devices. For example, a user device may collect information regarding an error that occu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171306 | Universal secure token for obfuscation and tamper resistance Program obfuscation is accomplished with tamper proof token including an embedded oracle. A public obfuscation function can be applied to any program/circuit to produce a new obfuscated program/circuit that makes calls to the corresponding oracle to facilitate progr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171115 | Resource equalization for inter- and intra- data center operations An exemplary component for managing requests for resources in a data center includes a service request module for receiving requests for resources from a plurality of services and a resource module to monitor resources in a data center and to match received requests... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171084 | Custom emoticons Methods and devices for creating and transferring custom emoticons allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication. In one implementation, custom emoticons can be included in a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170997 | Unbundled storage transaction services Systems (and corresponding methods) that unbundle the kernel or storage engine of a database system are provided. The unbundling separates transactional aspects from storage aspects. The two components of the storage engine resulting from the unbundling are a transa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170916 | Related-item tag suggestions Tag suggestions enable a hosting entity such as a website to determine one or more tags to suggest to a user for association with a particular item within an electronic catalog. After this determination, the hosting entity may suggest the determined tags to the user... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170591 | Proximity-based mobile message delivery Proximity-based mobile message delivery is described. In an embodiment, a first user stores a message intended for a second user on a first mobile terminal, while the first mobile terminal is located remote from a second mobile terminal of the second user. Subsequen... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169345 | Methods and systems for processing digital data rate and directional playback changes Various methods and systems permit digital data, such as video data, audio/video data, audio/video/subpicture data and the like, to be processed in a manner that permits playback at different speeds in both forward and reverse directions. Various embodiments are als... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167530 | Robotic pallet-emptying and magazine-loading apparatus Examples of a robotic de-palletizer and a robotic magazine loader are described herein. The robotic de-palletizer is configured to remove cases (e.g. HSC (half slotted cases) filled with product (e.g. disassembled cartons)) and to place the HSC on one or more convey... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658385 | Two-in-one cosmetic brush | 05/01/2012 |
