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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178113 | Cosmetic composition and methods of use A cosmetic composition is provided including about 25 wt % to about 55 wt % Aloe vera gel, about 9 wt % to about 33 wt % exfoliant, about 5 wt % to about 20 wt % vitamin C, and about 0.25 wt % to about 1.0 wt % retinyl propionate (vitamin A), wherein said com... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166184 | Integrating enterprise identity authorization in conferences Disclosed herein are embodiments for validating a user joining a conferencing session. According to various embodiments, a first identifier is received. A user is identified from a plurality of users based at least in part on the first identifier. A second identifie... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166041 | Search index format optimizations A search index structure which extends a typical composite index by incorporating an index which is optimized for fast retrieval from storage and which eliminates data which is specific to phrase searching. Other data is represented in a manner which allows it to be... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156448 | Site navigation and site navigation data source A concept for providing hierarchical navigation information relative to one or more databases within a distributed computer system is described. In one aspect, this includes a process for hierarchically organizing bodies of information that includes: receiving a que... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155861 | Method for controlling a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine In a method for controlling a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine with at least one combustion chamber, into which fuel can be injected via a fuel injector, the fuel injector being activated for the implementation of a normal start-up with specified ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155624 | Automatic wireless device message management responsive to end user preferences Automatically retrieving messages by a wireless telephone based on user preferences. A method of the invention receives a notification, on a wireless device, indicating that a computing device has a message for a user. One or more rules associated with the user are ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148941 | Equipment system comprising a battery-operated electrical device, a rechargeable battery unit, and a battery charger An equipment system includes a battery unit (10) having a monitoring circuit (14), which detects at least one operating parameter of the battery unit (10) and furnishes a control signal, dependent on the operating parameter, for switching means ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147741 | Method and manufacturing a glass fiber reinforced article, and a glass fiber reinforced article A glass fiber reinforced article can be manufactured by: applying a mixture of glass fiber and binder over a mold surface of a first mold section to form a glass fiber matrix, wherein the binder comprises an organic solvent based binder capable of holding the glass ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147582 | Air cleaner arrangements; serviceable filter elements; and, methods An air cleaner arrangement or assembly is provided. The air cleaner arrangement includes a serviceable filter cartridge. The air cleaner assembly also includes an arrangement for positioning the filter cartridge into a preferred, sealing, orientation and for securin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142101 | Hydrocarbon-adsorbing porous pavement structure A water-pervious pavement structure comprising wearing course comprising a water-pervious combination of recycled glass and aggregate bound together with an adhesive binder and held within a plurality of connected, open grid pockets; and a layer of unbound recycled ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137024 | Hydrocarbon-adsorbing porous pavement structure A water-pervious pavement structure comprising wearing course comprising a water-pervious combination of recycled glass and aggregate bound together with a flexible adhesive binder and held within a plurality of connected, open grid pockets; and a layer of unbound r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136193 | Side broom having memory recall and method for performing the same The present disclosure relates generally to debris collection devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a debris collection vehicle utilizing a side broom having memory recall functionality. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132449 | Procedure for diagnosing an exhaust gas treatment device and device for implementing the procedure Procedures for diagnosing an exhaust gas treatment device, which is dosing a reagent into the exhaust gas area of a combustion process, whereby the reagent is brought up to a dosing pressure and subsequently dosed, at which the diagnosis is undertaken with the aid o... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130193 | System and method for eyes-free interaction with a computing device through environmental awareness A system and method for eyes-free interaction with a computing device through environmental awareness. A smart computing device includes non-environmental impact settings that indicate what type of user impact will be recognized as an input. The smart computing devi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128913 | Sunscreen composition with enhanced UV-A absorber stability and methods A sunscreen composition is provided according to the present invention. The sunscreen composition includes a skin bonding polymer composition comprising a hydrophobic polymer/hydrophilic polymer adduct, at least one sunscreen active agent comprising a UV-A absorber,... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8118900 | Dust collector and methods A dust collector includes a housing with a tubesheet and at least one filter element. A reverse pulse cleaning arrangement is provided to periodically emit gas pulses into a downstream flow face of the filter element. The reverse pulse cleaning arrangement includes ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8114221 | Method and composition for cleaning tubular systems employing moving three-phase contact lines The narrow diameter channel has a diameter of about 0.02 centimeter to about 1.6 centimeters and a length of about 0.75 meter to about 5 meters. The internal surface of the narrow diameter channel is hydrophobic, and the surface flow entities exhibit an advancing co... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112103 | Methods and systems for mobile device messaging Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for mobile device messaging. Mobile device messaging comprises collecting from an originating system information including content data to be sent to the mobile device. One ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108587 | Free-space reduction in cached database pages A computing system stores a database comprising pages. Each of the pages is the same size. When a page is requested, a block of virtual memory addresses is associated with the page and a set of physical data storage locations is committed to the block of virtual mem... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105488 | Waste water treatment method Systems and methods have been developed for reclaiming water contaminated with the expected range of contaminants typically associated with produced water, including water contaminated with slick water, methanol and boron. The system includes anaerobically digesting... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095785 | Authentication of entitlement authorization in conditional access systems A method for determining whether the terminal is authorized to receive the selected service is practiced in a terminal of a conditional access system in which a user selects a service, the selected service being associated with a frequency, the terminal having a tun... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083861 | Apparatus and method for cleaning pipelines, tubing and membranes using two-phase flow An apparatus and method for cleaning passageways and the like with a two-phase mixture of gas under pressure and an aqueous cleaning solution. The two-phase cleaning mixture is generated in a module and is passed out of the module at a predetermined rate that determ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080271 | Food interleaver, method for imparting flavor to food product, and combination food product and food interleaver A food interleaver is provided according to the invention. The food interleaver includes a paper base sheet, a release and barrier component for providing the food interleaver with release and barrier properties, and a food flavorant component. The food flavorant co... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079038 | Method and apparatus for creating, sending, and using self-descriptive objects as messages over a message queuing network An invention for creating, sending, and using self-descriptive objects as messages over a network is disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, self-descriptive persistent dictionary objects are serialized and sent as messages across a message queuing net... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078880 | Portable personal identity information A user interacts with a client containing personal identity information operable to identify the user to a relying party when the relying party is presented with claims comprising a portion of the personal identity information. The personal identity information incl... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073906 | Inviting a conferencing unaware endpoint to a conference Systems and methods that enable conference unaware clients to participate in the conference. A conferencing component is aware of what protocol to employ, and enables devices and/or end points that employ disparate or heterogeneous protocols to participate in the sa... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073638 | Method for determining the ignitability of fuel with an unknown fuel quality The invention relates to a method for determining the ignitability of fuel, particularly of diesel, biodiesel, gas-to-liquid or biomass-to-liquid fuel, with an unknown fuel quality for an internal combustion engine. Provision is made for the density of the fuel to b... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069712 | Method for the diagnosing of a catalytic converter located in an exhaust gas flow, and device for carrying out said method Disclosed are a method and a device for diagnosing a catalytic converter located in a exhaust gas flow. Said method and device are based on an evaluation of the hygroscopic properties of the catalytic converter. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067087 | Heat seal adhesive paper product, method for manufacturing, and laminate product A heat seal adhesive paper product is provided according to the invention. The heat seal adhesive paper product comprises a paper substrate and a heat activatable adhesive. The heat activatable adhesive comprises a result of applying an aqueous polymer dispersion to... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065600 | Systems and methods for defining web content navigation The described systems and methods are directed at defining web content navigation. The disclosed technique enables the development of web content for a scenario without having to create every navigational control that is needed to manage the flow through the web con... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065327 | Management of collections of websites This disclosure describes techniques that enable a subscriber of a data center to manage a site collection group hosted by the data center. A site collection group is a set of site collections that belong to a single subscriber. A site collection is a collection of ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065282 | Modeling recurring events in a data store Time-related properties may be modeled independent of a base object. Rather than storing time properties with the object, they may be stored independently. A given object may be stored once, even if it has a recurrent time property. The description of a “meeting,â... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8034973 | Process for obtaining highly soluble linear alkylbenzene sulfonates The present invention relates to a process for obtaining a highly soluble linear alkylbenzene sulfonate with an adjustable 2-phenyl isomer content and an extremely low sulfonation color, in which a catalytic system based on highly stable solid catalysts and with a h... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032914 | Systems and methods for dynamically allocating bandwidth in a digital broadband delivery system Systems and methods for dynamically allocating bandwidth in a digital broadband delivery system are disclosed. One example method includes receiving information describing subscriber requests for content delivery, receiving bandwidth allocation criteria, and process... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8020091 | Alignment and breaking of mathematical expressions in documents Embodiments relate to systems and methods for formatting a set of expressions in a document. In embodiments, the systems and methods provide the ability to format a set of expressions by aligning expressions or parts of expressions to each other or to the margins of... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019827 | Quick deploy of content Non-administrators selectively move content from a source network to a destination network. The source network includes a deployment server that can deploy an item and its dependencies (if any) listed in a quick deploy list without having to get specific administrat... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8012900 | Nano-linked metallocene catalyst compositions and their polymer products The present invention provides polymerization catalyst compositions employing novel dinuclear metallocene compounds. Methods for making these new dinuclear metallocene compounds and for using such compounds in catalyst compositions for the polymerization and copolym... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010997 | Enforcing device settings for mobile devices The present embodiments extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for enforcing device settings for mobile devices. Generally, a computer system enforces appropriate mobile device settings (e.g., policy and/or configuration settings) prior to permitt... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8007572 | Filter element, air cleaner, and methods A filter arrangement includes a filter element, a frame construction secured to the filter element, and a handle member secured to the filter element. In preferred embodiments, the handle member is secured to the frame construction. Preferably, the filter element in... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006273 | Updating download options for unavailable media content A method provides download options for purchasable recordable media (PRM). The method includes storing a download option associated with a PRM content instance, updating the option, and transmitting the option to a digital home communication terminal. The option inc... | 08/23/2011 |
