Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7383229 | Access control and metering system for streaming media The present invention provides systems and techniques for transmitting a streaming media file. One of the techniques includes sending a metering uniform resource locator (URL) from a first server to a client player over a network, and sending a streaming media file ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7365855 | Optical sensing devices with SPR sensors based on differential phase interrogation and measuring method using the same Disclosed is an optical sensing device, which comprises a light source emitting a light; a beam splitter; an SPR sensor unit comprising a sensing surface; and a detecting mechanism; and a converting unit converting the first beam and the second beam from the optical... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7346630 | Method and system for delivery alerts to a user Delivering one or more alert messages via one or more delivery methods to one or more users who have indicated an interest in receiving the alert messages. A delivery service receives an alert document and a list of receiving users. This list indicates which users d... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7334001 | Method and system for data collection for alert delivery Managing data collection for one or more scheduled alert messages. A primary or backup poller manager coordinates any number of poller services to access content and generate the alert messages. At a predefined period the poller manager is informed that an existing ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7313133 | Selecting a network based on metrics for real time communication A system, method, and apparatus are directed towards routing a Voice over IP (VOIP) messages over a network. The VOIP messages are sent by a source client device to a destination client device through a portal service that has access to multiple routing services suc... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7263586 | Cache coherency for multiple independent cache of a domain Distinguishing between snoops initiated internally with respect to a processing unit and snoops initiated externally with respect to a processing unit allows maintenance of cache coherency for a processing unit with multiple independent cache nits. A processing unit... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7206745 | Method and apparatus for accessing targeted, personalized voice/audio web content through wireless devices A wireless web system allows users to navigate web pages that include links to audio content where the pages are provided over a data connection and the audio content is provided over a voice connection. An audio content reference generator generates a reference to ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197544 | Voice and video greeting system for personal advertisement and method A system is provided for appending a personal greeting onto a personal advertisement for presentation on a hosted website over the Internet. The system includes a client, a communication link, and a server. The client has an input device and a browser. The server ha... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7163410 | Secure cable system Secure cable connections in a structure. Cables are routed between a fixed surface and a removable surface to connectors within a lockable enclosure. Removable surfaces include raised floors, suspended ceilings, and the like that generally comprise tiles for access ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7143181 | System and method of sending chunks of data over wireless devices In a network carrying a web page containing data, a method for dividing the web page into a maximum size chunk. In one aspect, the method comprises determining a chunk size limit, dividing the web page data into segments having a size no greater than said chunk size... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142527 | System and method for transmission scheduling using network membership information and neighborhood information A system and method is directed at providing collision-free transmission of packets into a channel, such that: an upper bound can be enforced for the time elapsed between two consecutive time slots assigned to the same node; no collision-avoidance handshake is requi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143118 | Method and system for alert delivery architecture An architecture for providing an alert message based on content that may be received as an event based feed or a time based feed in one or more formats. The architecture includes a data collection processing module for normalizing the content into a predefined data ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7076645 | Method of rebooting a multi-device cluster while maintaining cluster operation The present invention is directed at rebooting a cluster while maintaining cluster operation. Cluster operation is automatically maintained during the reboot since at least one member of the cluster stays active during the process. An administrator triggers the rebo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7023843 | Programmable scheduling for IP routers A scheduling system for IP routers is provided. A programmable scheduler for IP routers can support single stage and multistage scheduling. This allows flexible combinations of scheduling and widens dramatically the available QoS solutions to operators. With this ki... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6973086 | Method and system for securing mobile IPv6 home address option using ingress filtering The invention provides for disabling communication at the access router on a visited network that supports mobile IP v6 and the home address destination option. Until a home agent or a correspondent node authenticates the home IP address of the mobile node and the a... | 12/06/2005 |
