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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941614 | External memory controller node A memory controller to provide memory access services in an adaptive computing engine is provided. The controller comprises: a network interface configured to receive a memory request from a programmable network; and a memory interface configured to access a memory ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939323 | Method of isolating cells from umbilical cord The present invention relates a method for isolating four cell types from a single umbilical cord as pure cultures. These cell lines (epithelial cells, fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells) can be characterized and utilized in experimental models a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937591 | Method and system for providing a device which can be adapted on an ongoing basis A method and system for adapting a device is disclosed. The method and system comprises providing a data stream to the device to be changed based upon a parameter. In a second aspect an adaptable device is disclosed. The adaptable device comprises an adaptable compu... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937539 | External memory controller node A memory controller to provide memory access services in an adaptive computing engine is provided. The controller comprises: a network interface configured to receive a memory request from a programmable network; and a memory interface configured to access a memory ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937538 | External memory controller node A memory controller to provide memory access services in an adaptive computing engine is provided. The controller comprises: a network interface configured to receive a memory request from a programmable network; and a memory interface configured to access a memory ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7917372 | Pharmacy benefits management method and apparatus A pharmacy benefits management system and method. A processor server has claim information relating to pharmacy benefits claims, and information relating to a claims processing formularly stored therein. A provider server has pharmacy benefits plan structure informa... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7910624 | Compositions for the treatment of blood disorders The invention relates to compositions containing chemical compounds and compositions containing steel factor which stimulate the expression of hemoglobin or globin protein such as embryonic or fetal globin, or the proliferation of hemoglobin expressing and other cel... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906136 | Conveniently implantable sustained release drug compositions This invention provides for biocompatible and biodegradable syringeable liquid, implantable solid, and injectable gel pharmaceutical formulations useful for the treatment of systemic and local disease states. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7883891 | Unique properties of stem cells The present invention is directed to unique properties of stem cells, including methods to identify stem cell markers by identifying molecules associated specifically with chromosomes in stem cells. More particularly, we have discovered that somatic stem cells repea... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7829678 | Recombinant monoclonal antibodies and corresponding antigens for colon and pancreatic cancers The present invention provides for recombinant monoclonal antibodies that bind to human colorectal and pancreatic carcinoma-associated antigens, along with nucleic acid sequences encoding the antibody chains, and the amino acid sequences corresponding to the nucleic... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7809644 | Digital work structure A digital work and data structure for use within a system for enforcing usage rights associated with digital content, including a description tree file including descriptor blocks organized in a hierarchical manner. The descriptor blocks include usage rights associa... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809151 | Microphone assembly comprising magnetically activatable element for signal switching and field indication A microphone assembly comprising a transducer for receiving sound and outputting a corresponding control signal. The assembly also comprises means for detecting a magnetic field and outputting a signal relating to the field. A hearing aid comprising the assembly has... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809050 | Method and system for reconfigurable channel coding Aspects of a reconfigurable system for providing channel coding in a wireless communication device are described. The aspects include a plurality of computation elements for performing channel coding operations and memory for storing programs to direct each of the p... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805703 | System and method for representing the interactions between multiple inputs and at least one output The invention relates to a system and method for visually representing the interactions of input variables and output variables using a visualization field. The method comprises generating a visualization field on a display device, generating input variable indicato... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7797374 | System and method for providing digital messaging services An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a system and method for providing digital messaging services received from multiple sources over a communications network. The system includes a client system, including a display screen coupled to a communications... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792884 | System and method for conducting tailored search The system provides for a web-based user-interactive interface for providing focused tailored searches from various available databases. The interface permits a user to select search terms of interest, and to choose a database from various available databases. The s... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792730 | Resource amount determination technique A data processing system and method are provided for repetitively determining a resource amount for counterbalancing the transfer of a failure risk pertaining to a bundle of constructs that may individually fail. The system has data storage for storing reference val... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788182 | Method for loaning digital works A method, system and software for permitting use of digital works having rights associated therewith within a system having repositories configured to enable use of the digital work in accordance with the rights, including associating a transfer right with a digital... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7788166 | Implied index correlation and dispersion A data processing apparatus and method are provided for calculating an implied correlation and/or dispersion of an index that has a plurality of constituents. Data is received which describes properties of the index and properties of at least some of its constituent... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783528 | System and method for generating an alternative product recommendation A method and system for automatically generating a naturally reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of determining at least one attribute associated with the selected product,... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778841 | System and method for generating information relating to histories for a plurality of vehicles System and method for generating information relating to a vehicle's history. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of identifying target records in a database, determining a total number of owners for each vehicle based on the target records, and display... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7776667 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof, liquid crystal television system, and EL television system It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that has high driving ability (that is, large W/L) according to a method in which the use efficiency of a material is improved and the throughput and yield are enha... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774280 | System and method for managing transfer of rights using shared state variables A method, system and device for transferring rights adapted to be associated with items from a rights supplier to a rights consumer, including obtaining a set of rights associated with an item, the set of rights including meta-rights specifying derivable rights that... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774279 | Rights offering and granting Processes and systems for offering and granting digital rights that govern distribution and usage of content, services and resources. The processes and systems provide a basis for flexible business models and negotiation transactions between content providers and us... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765403 | System for controlling the distribution and use of rendered digital works through watermarking A trusted rendering system for use in a system for controlling the distribution and use of digital works. A trusted rendering system facilitates the protection of rendered digital works which have been rendered on a system which controls the distribution and use of ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7763720 | Recombinant monoclonal antibodies and corresponding antigens for colon and pancreatic cancers The present invention provides for purified or highly pure recombinant monoclonal antibodies that bind to human colorectal and pancreatic carcinoma-associated antigens (CPAA), along with nucleic acid sequences encoding the antibody chains, and the amino acid sequenc... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7752419 | Method and system for managing hardware resources to implement system functions using an adaptive computing architecture The present invention concerns a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The exemplary IC embodiment includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7743259 | System and method for digital rights management using a standard rendering engine A system and method for the secure distribution and consumption of electronic documents using a standard rendering engine. The documents can usage rights associated therewith. A server stores at least one of the documents in computer readable form. A client having a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7743220 | External memory controller node A computing machine and system to provide multiple independent simultaneous memory requests is disclosed. The computing machine includes a memory. A plurality of heterogeneous computational nodes embodied in an integrated circuit are configured to make requests for ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7736859 | Method for detecting acid-resistant microorganisms in the stool The invention relates to a method for detecting an infection of a mammal with an acid-resistant microorganism, wherein (a) a stool sample of a mammal is incubated with at least two different monoclonal antibodies, fragments or derivatives thereof or aptamers under c... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725401 | Method and apparatus for establishing usage rights for digital content to be created in the future Usage rights for a digital work are established prior to creation of the corresponding content. The rights can be associated with the content after the content is created. A content creation, such as a video recorder or a still camera, device can store labels of the... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724144 | Label having a cavity for receiving a RFID device and an apparatus and method of making and assembling the same The present invention includes an apparatus for inserting a radio frequency device into a label. A ribbon of labels has a plurality of labels and a cavity formed in each of the labels. A mechanism linearly advances the ribbon of labels. A device inserts at least one... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720767 | Method and system to support dynamic rights and resources sharing The invention relates to method for deriving a sub-right from a right, the right comprising a plurality of components, each of which specifies an aspect of the right. A component may be, for example, a principal, an action, a resource, and a condition. The invention... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716151 | Apparatus, method and product for optimizing software system workload performance scenarios using multiple criteria decision making The present technique is an apparatus and method evaluating software performance. The method identifies performance scenarios using a knowledge base and selects the performance scenarios from a context module using operational laws. The system analyzes performance c... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7703012 | Adaptable transfer and publication of digital media An adaptable method for facilitating user interaction with digital media objects. Representations of substantially-reduced data size of each of the digital media objects are transferred before the transfer of copies of the original data size of each of the digital m... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701134 | Active matrix display device with improved operating performance An object of the present invention is to provide an EL display device having a high operation performance and reliability. The switching TFT 201 formed within a pixel has a multi-gate structure, which is a structure which imposes an importance on reduc... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698279 | Product feature and relation comparison system A method of presenting data regarding products. Feature categories are assigned to each product category based on available data. A weighted importance is assigned to each feature category of each product category based on the available data. The items in the produc... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693896 | Apparatus and method for perusing selected vehicles having a clean title history A system and method for allowing a consumer to search a database containing used vehicles from a variety of sellers that can be queried to provide search results that include only vehicles having clean title histories. ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685642 | System and method for controlling rights expressions by stakeholders of an item A system and method for controlling a rights expression specifying a manner of use of an item, including specifying by a provider of an item a rights expression indicating a manner of use of the item by a recipient of the item and a condition for use of the item by ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7683249 | Device and method for controlling playback devices for digital information, especially music information The invention relates to a playback control unit which is connected with a playback device for CDs or records, wherein these provide coded information by means of which the playback device can be controlled. In this way, in addition to the playback speed, further fu... | 03/23/2010 |
