William F. Semple, a dentist, was awarded the first US Patent on chewing gum in 1869. His recipe contained powdered chalk.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6396929 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for high-availability multi-agent cryptographic key recovery An apparatus, method, and computer program product for high-availability multi-agent cryptographic key recovery. The present invention defines a key recovery block that specifies allowable subsets of the total set of key recovery agents that can participa... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6202159 | Vault controller dispatcher and methods of operation for handling interaction between browser sessions and vault processes in electronic business systems A vault controller in an electronic business system includes a dispatcher for servicing browser requests initiated by a user for conducting business with an enterprise or organization using a vault process. The dispatcher further responds to a secure depo... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6195682 | Concurrent server and method of operation having client-server affinity using exchanged client and server keys In a distributed information network, a broker server is coupled to a plurality of child servers and to a plurality of clients in the network. The broker server connects clients to a child server in a queue on a FIFO basis and provides the client with a k... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6169795 | Internet telephony callback system and method of operation A system and method to implement callback for unanswered telephone calls in an Internet Telephony Callback system. A calling station and a called station are each connected to the system through a local and remote service provider, respectively, each prov... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6163510 | Multimedia search and indexing system and method of operation using audio cues with signal thresholds A multimedia search and indexing system automatically selects scenes or events of interest from any media, i.e., video, film, sound for replay, in whole or in part, in other contexts. The entire audio track of a recorded event in video, film, sound, etc.,... | 12/19/2000 |