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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7831958 | Systems and methods for distributing updated information Systems and methods for distributing updated property information to interrelated components based on property changes in other components are provided that allow the use of component abstraction. In one embodiment, the present invention may include a property broke... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7818320 | Enhanced search results based on user feedback relating to search result abstracts The present invention provides for enhanced search results in response to a search request based on a search term. The enhanced search results generate a search results page including a plurality of document identifiers including a hyperlink and an abstract, each ab... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814513 | Video channel creation systems and methods The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more channels for the organization of content items. A method according to one embodiment comprises selecting a content item and one or more items of metadata for the selected conten... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814096 | Query based search engine Providing a search result in some embodiments comprises receiving a user query, determining whether an equivalent query of the user query is included in a pre-existing query set wherein the pre-existing query set is associated with an answer, and providing the answe... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809745 | Method for generating structured query results using lexical clustering The present invention provides for the generation of structured query results using lexical clustering which includes collecting one or more search queries and data associated with the one or more search queries. The present invention further includes preprocessing ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809731 | System and method for reordering a result set copyright notice The present invention relates to systems and methods for the reordering of an ordered result set using a weight associated with a query and values associated with items in a result set. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query and generating a... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797287 | User interface for navigating a keyword space The present invention relates to systems, methods, and user interfaces for browsing a collection of content items saved by a user or by one or more buddies associated with a given user. The method of the present invention comprises saving one or more content items a... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797173 | Methods and systems for providing juvenile insurance product with premium waiver feature The present invention provides methods and systems for providing juvenile insurance having a waiver of premium feature at a premium or death benefit computed based on a variable that is not directly dependent on the age, health, or gender of the initial owner or pay... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788284 | System and method for knowledge based search system The present invention provides functionality for conducting a knowledge based by finding search results from limited topic domains. According to one embodiment, the method of the present invention includes retrieving the context of a given user and identifying a plu... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7788158 | Dynamic pari-mutuel market The present invention provides a method of speculating on a future event or the value of an asset in a market. The speculating may take the form of trading, hedging or wagering. A plurality of speculations on the outcome of the future event is received. For each one... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7770229 | System and method for the propagation of DRM protected content The present invention may be utilized for the distribution of content items protected according to various digital rights management platforms. According to one embodiment, a method for the propagation of DRM protected content to one or more devices connected to a n... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761436 | Apparatus and method for controlling content access based on shared annotations for annotated users in a folksonomy scheme A method for sharing content with a user includes receiving from a user a first set of keywords for annotating an annotated user; receiving from the user a second set of keywords that designate whether annotated content annotated by at least one keyword included in ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756817 | System and method for enabling parallel access to serially compressed files The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a compressed data file providing access to one or more selected portions of data contained within the data file. The file is partitioned into one or more chunks, a given chunk comprising a ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752220 | Alternative search query processing in a term bidding system A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for thei... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7748053 | Bullet-resistant back extender A bullet-resistant back extender includes an armor carrier having an inner pocket with a bullet-resistant ballistic panel disposed within the inner pocket and an upper portion of the armor carrier having a fastener to attach the bullet-resistant back extender to a f... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747686 | System and method for interacting with data using visual surrogates The present invention relates to systems and methods for facilitating the interaction with data using interactive data structures. The method of the present invention comprises generating one or more objects associated with one or more items of content. The one or m... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747648 | World modeling using a relationship network with communication channels to entities Systems and methods for information retrieval and communication employ a world model. The world model is made up of interrelated entity models, each of which corresponds to an entity in the real world, such as a person, place, business, other tangible thing, communi... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747614 | Difference control for generating and displaying a difference result set from the result sets of a plurality of search engines The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result se... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747613 | Presentation of differences between multiple searches The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result se... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747612 | Indication of exclusive items in a result set The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result se... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739708 | System and method for revenue based advertisement placement The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for ranking one or more advertisements. The method of the present invention comprises retrieving a result set comprising one or more advertisements responsive to a request. A clickability score is calcula... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739264 | System and method for generating substitutable queries on the basis of one or more features The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more related queries with respect to a given query. The method may comprise receiving a query comprising one or more terms, generating a corpus of candidate reformulations and identi... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739163 | User interface and method for facilitating a realty transaction The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating a realty transaction using a computer system including at least one database. A first informational computer screen display is provided for displaying information obtained from the database about on... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734565 | Query string matching method and apparatus In one implementation, a method is provided for increasing relevance of database search results. The method includes receiving a subject query string and determining a trained edit distance between the subject query string and a candidate string using trained cost f... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7716732 | Secure online repository Techniques for secure online storage. A user is registered for securely storing documents on a network. User documents are stored on a network server. The user documents include documents for disposing of user property after death or for effecting user medical decis... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707201 | Systems and methods for managing and using multiple concept networks for assisted search processing Multiple concept networks are generated from subsets of received queries. These concept networks can be used in various ways to enhance response to subsequent queries. In one embodiment, concept networks can be merged into a larger concept network that can be used t... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702541 | Targeted e-commerce system A system for displaying products for purchase on any document displayed on any computer device, comprising conducting a statistical frequency analysis of the word occurrence in the document to determine the primary subject matter of the document and/or keywords in t... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698347 | System and method for shortening click URLS The present invention is directed to a system and method for reducing the size of one or more keys encoded into a link to a target resource. The method of one embodiment comprises receiving a request for a target resource, encoding a link to the target resource with... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698327 | Universal search interface systems and methods Systems and methods for enhancing information retrieval and communication functionality through the use of a universal interface that is configurable to interface with multiple applications resident on a user computer, and which provides a persistent two-way communi... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689554 | System and method for identifying related queries for languages with multiple writing systems The present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying one or more queries related to a given query. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query written according to one or more writing systems of a language with multiple writing sy... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685209 | Apparatus and method for normalizing user-selected keywords in a folksonomy An annotation method for annotating content includes displaying a set of suggested keywords on an editing interface page configured to receive one or more annotations for the content. A request is received via the editing interface page to annotate the content with ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685198 | Systems and methods for collaborative tag suggestions A set of general criteria have been defined to improve the efficacy of a tagging system, and have been applied to present collaborative tag suggestions to a user. The collaborative tag suggestions are based on a goodness measure for tags derived from collective user... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685197 | System and methods for indentifying the potential advertising value of terms found on web pages The present invention provides a method and system for identifying terms in a requested Web document which can be used to identify other web page documents in which the user is likely to have an interest. Terms on previously prepared lists are compared to the conten... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685084 | Term expansion using associative matching of labeled term pairs Various embodiments are directed to a system and method providing associative matching of terms. Candidate terms are selected for building one or more associative matching models from one or more selected candidate sources. Associativity is defined to give editors t... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685078 | Method and appartus for using measures to learn balanced relevance functions from expert and user judgments The present invention relates to systems and methods for determining a content item relevance function. The method comprises collecting user preference data at a search provider for storage in a user preference data store and collecting expert-judgment data at the s... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685019 | System and method for optimizing the delivery of advertisements The present invention relates to systems and methods for the optimized delivery of one or more advertisements from a group of advertisements. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a request for one or more advertisements and retrieving advertisemen... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680804 | System and method for navigating and indexing content According to one embodiment, a content data store maintains the one or more content items in accordance with a programmable indexing schemes, with each container in the comprising storage for one or more references to one or more content items. Systems and methods a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680760 | System and method for labeling a document A system and method for selecting a proxy keyword for an unknown document. An unknown document is received by a receiver. A plurality of candidate documents and corresponding keywords are determined for the unknown document. Using the keywords from the candidate doc... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680697 | Searching for a seller of a product A method of searching for a seller of a product. The method comprises the steps of: indicating a product; indicating a geographical search location; and searching for a seller of the product that is located within a search distance of the geographical search locatio... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7673316 | System and method for enhancing broadcast programs with information on the world wide web The present invention is directed to a system and method for viewer real-time access complementary information related to a broadcast program including selecting a plurality of topics drawing his or her attention and for accessing additional information related to t... | 03/02/2010 |
