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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8121818 | Method and system for diagnostics of apparatus Proposed is a method, implemented in software, for estimating fault state of an apparatus outfitted with sensors. At each execution period the method processes sensor data from the apparatus to obtain a set of parity parameters, which are further used for estimating... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8030829 | Hybrid piezoelectric composites with high electromechanical characteristics A hybrid piezoelectric composite comprises a layer of a polymer matrix comprising particles of a PZT group in a micro range of dimensions, which is sandwiched between two layers of a polymer matrix comprising particles of a dielectric material in a nano range of dim... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7989553 | Epoxy-amine composition modified with hydroxyalkyl urethane Disclosed is a novel epoxy-amine composition modified a hydroxyalkyl urethane, which is obtained as a result of a reaction between a primary amine (C1) and a monocyclocarbonate (C2), wherein modifier (C) is represented by the following formula ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7989541 | Liquid solventless synthetic-rubber-based composition A synthetic-rubber-based composition that consists of a low-molecular-weight rubber selected from polybutadiene comprising about 75% to about 92% cis-1,4 units, sulfur, a vulcanization accelerator, and an active filler wherein the sulfur, accelerator, and active fil... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7897204 | Method of strengthening tool material by penetration of reinforcing particles A method of strengthening the matrix of a high-speed steel for forming a composite tool material by super-deep penetration of reinforcing particles into and through the matrix of the tool material. The particles interact with the matrix in the form of a high-speed j... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895297 | System and method for enabling wireless internet access in public areas The computerized inventive system enables both the wireless internet service providers and conventional wired internet service providers to redirect users to partner websites through appropriate affiliate links and to enable the aforesaid service providers to partic... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7839909 | Heterostructure, injector laser, semiconductor amplifying element and a semiconductor optical amplifier a final stage The heterostructures are used for creation of semiconductor injection emission sources: injection lasers, semiconductor amplifying elements, semiconductor optical amplifiers that are used in fiber optic communication and data transmission systems, in optical superhi... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7787508 | Injector laser Injection radiators are used for pumping solid-state and fiber lasers and amplifiers used for producing medical devices, laser production equipment, lasers generating a double-frequency radiation and in the form of highly efficient general-purpose solid-state radiat... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7747619 | Computerized system and method for advanced advertising The invention provides an improved algorithm for selecting paid advertisements for inclusion with search engine results or with any resource retrieved from the Internet. The algorithm collects personalized data of each user and feeds the collected personalized data ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7693872 | Software web crowler and method therefor System for crawling the web for multimedia files and indexing the files based on sound analysis and algorithmic translation. ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7668774 | Method and system of trading a standardized contract A system, method, and corresponding computer program product facilitates trading of a standardized contract. The terms of the contract may be such that it provides a payout from one party to the other based on the price, yield, level or other measure of an asset, ba... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7647305 | Method and apparatus for implementing search engine with cost per action revenue model The inventive technology enables the search engine operator to charge the advertisers who place their links on the search engine only if the user uses the search results to visit the advertiser's web portal(s) and generates revenue for the advertiser. This concept i... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7631013 | System and method for publishing, distributing, and reading electronic interactive books A book or other digital content is represented as a set of objects in a relational database schema format called IBF (Interactive Book Format) and the controlling system software. This design provides for viewing books in a manner that coordinates additional informa... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7621768 | Space saving miniature connector for electric devices The invention has an object to provide a connector 10 which achieves a reduced overall height of the order of 1.0 mm and space-saving substrate (in the inserting direction of a circuit board) and which obtains stable connection with a slight operating force a... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7610190 | Systems and methods for hybrid text summarization Techniques are provided for segmenting text into categorized discourse constituents and attaching discourse constituents into a structural representation of discourse. Techniques for determining hybrid structural and non-structural summaries of a text are also provi... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7591661 | Connector The invention provides a connector enabling a dead space of a substrate to be reduced while maintaining connection strength. For this purpose, H-shaped contacts comprise holding means permitting pushing portions of a pivoting member to be pivoted between pressure re... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7561740 | Systems and methods for automatic graphical sequence completion A possible portion providing method involving receiving a pattern provided using a movable member, the pattern corresponding to a traveling path of the movable member, and the provided pattern corresponding to a portion of an intended sequence, determining at least ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7550371 | Method of producing SIMOX wafer A SIMOX wafer is produced by implanting an oxygen ions into a surface of a Si substrate and then conducting a high-temperature annealing, in which an atmosphere in at least an end stage of the high-temperature annealing treatment is an Ar or N2 atmosphere... | 06/23/2009 |
| D576103 | Electric connector | 09/02/2008 |
| 7379987 | Integrated service management system The present invention provides techniques for creation, operation, management, and access control of network-based storage services. Specific embodiments provide improved efficiency of the service management tasks used for designing, operating and accounting the rob... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7363294 | Indexing for contextual revisitation and digest generation A medium, system and method of processing content information. In one exemplary embodiment, the medium, system and method include determining associated previously accessed content information in response to an action performed on a document containing information a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349961 | Detecting configuration inconsistency in storage networks The present invention provides techniques for managing configurations within centralized storage management systems. Specific embodiments provide users such as IT managers the capability to check configurations of SAN devices in a system and detect any inconsistenci... | 03/25/2008 |
| D563889 | Electric connector | 03/11/2008 |
| 7302536 | Method and apparatus for managing replication volumes Aspects of the invention provide for at least one first data portion of a first storage device in a system to be updated to a second storage and further replicating the update to a second data storage portion of the second storage device if a substantial system erro... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7283958 | Systems and method for resolving ambiguity Techniques are provided for resolving ambiguity in natural language speech. Speech is recognized using automatic speech recognition. A theory of discourse analysis is determined and at least one set of candidate discourse functions is determined based on the theory ... | 10/16/2007 |
