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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7543080 | Dual port USB interface A dual port interface is disclosed comprising a host port and a peripheral port. The host port and the peripheral port are defined using predetermined signals. In a preferred embodiment the dual port interface is used in a network comprising one or more a dual port ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7422454 | Retractable memory drive A retractable memory drive in accordance with the present invention comprises a top casing, a middle carrier, an electronic device such as a USB thumb drive, and a bottom casing. A positioning device on the middle carrier has a portion that protrudes outside the cas... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422051 | System and method for using a flexible composite surface for pressure-drop free heat transfer enhancement and flow drag reduction A flexible composite sheet (FCS) comprising a membrane, a substrate coupled to the membrane, and a plurality of ridges coupled between the membrane and the substrate, wherein a vibratory motion is induced from the flow to at least one segment of membrane spanning a ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419897 | Method of fabricating circuit board having different electrical connection structures A method of fabricating an electrical connecting structure of a circuit board is disclosed. The method includes: providing a circuit board having a plurality of first and a plurality of second conductive pads; forming on the circuit board a solder mask having a plur... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417967 | System and method for allowing an access point in a wireless network to operate at maximum speed A system and method for allowing an access point in a wireless network to operate at maximum speed includes determining if there is at least one client within the network that is operating at less than the maximum speed. If there is, then instruct the at least one c... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417352 | Brush holder and manufacturing method thereof A brush holder incorporates a terminal integral part, which has a coupling portion. The coupling portion couples the terminals with each other. The brush holder has a resin body and a plurality of terminals. The resin body has an opening. The terminals are embedded ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415302 | Method and system for leading macromolecule substances into living target cells A method and system for leading macromolecule substances into target cells includes an image picking unit, an image merging unit, an injection unit, and an energy conversion module. The image picking unit is used for picking up the three-dimensional (3D) and the 3D ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7399399 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor package substrate A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package is proposed. A circuit board with a circuit layer on at least one surface thereof is provided. The circuit board has at least one free area, and the circuit layer has a plurality of electrically connecting pads dist... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7380324 | Gear puller jaw Apparatus and methods for removing a gear from a shaft. In one embodiment, the invention includes a slotted gear puller which engages the web of a gear and can be used to pull the gear from the shaft based on engagement of the gear puller with the gear in the area o... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378345 | Metal electroplating process of an electrically connecting pad structure of circuit board and structure thereof A metal electroplating process of an electrically connecting pad structure of a circuit board and structure thereof are proposed. First, a circuit board with a patterned circuit layer formed on at least one surface thereof is provided, wherein the circuit layer defi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7194323 | Method and system for object oriented approach and data model for configure-to-order manufacturing system A method and system for product fulfillment in an automated manufacturing system is disclosed. The method and system of the present invention includes obtaining requirements for a product from a customer. The method and system further includes creating a plan from t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7026672 | Stress assisted current driven switching for magnetic memory applications A method and system for providing a magnetic memory is disclosed. The method and system include providing a plurality of magnetic elements and providing at least one stress-assist layer. Each of the plurality of magnetic elements is configured to be written using sp... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6892305 | Method and system for booting up a computer system in a secure fashion A method and system for booting up a computer system in a secure fashion is disclosed. The method and system comprise determining the presence of a security feature element during an initialization of the computer system wherein the security feature element includes... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6868355 | Automatic calibration of a masking process simulator A method and system is provided for automatically calibrating a masking process simulator using a calibration mask and process parameters to produce a calibration pattern on a wafer. A digital image is created of the calibration pattern, and the edges of the pattern... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6865094 | Circuit for AC adapter to reduce power drawn from an AC power source An AC adapter which reduces the amount of power drawn from an AC power source when a system is disconnected from the adapter, includes: a rectifier bridge for rectifying an AC voltage from an AC power supply; a conversion circuit coupled to the rectifier bridge for ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6857029 | Scalable on-chip bus performance monitoring synchronization mechanism and method of use A bus performance monitoring mechanism for systems on a chip (SOC) is disclosed. The system comprises a muxing logic adapted to be coupled to a plurality of master devices, a plurality of slave devices, a plurality of generic signals and a plurality of control signa... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6833747 | Level translator circuit for use between circuits having distinct power supplies A level translator circuit for use between a lower voltage potential circuit and a higher voltage potential circuit is disclosed. The translator circuit comprises a first transistor coupled to the lower voltage potential circuit and a bootstrap mechanism coupled to ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6782525 | Wafer process critical dimension, alignment, and registration analysis simulation tool An improved process simulation system for simulating results of fabrication process for a semiconductor device design is disclosed. According to the method and system disclosed herein, the process simulator receives processing parameters and mask data for at least t... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6766401 | Increasing control information from a single general purpose input/output (GPIO) mechanism Aspects for increasing control information from a single general purpose input/output (GPIO) mechanism are described. The aspects include establishing a plurality of voltage levels to indicate a plurality of states for association with installed options on a compute... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6762638 | Circuit for preserving data in a flip-flop and a method of use A method and a flip-flop is disclosed in which power consumption is reduced in a standby mode. In a first aspect, the flip-flop comprises a first latch adapted to be coupled to a first power supply and a second latch coupled to the first latch and adapted to be coup... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6735145 | Method and circuit for optimizing power consumption and performance of driver circuits A method and circuit for optimizing power consumption and performance of driver circuits are described. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide an enhanced driver circuit. The enhanced driver circuit provides a first voltage, and a detector c... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6719385 | System for holding a device in a computer system A system for holding a device in a computer system, the computer system including a drive cage for holding the device, is disclosed. The system comprises a first rail coupled to one side of the device and adapted to fit into the drive cage and a second rail coupled ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6716518 | Method and system for absorbent sponge membrane for spill protection in electronic devices A method and system of reversibly absorbing liquid penetrations into electronic devices having a body and circuitry is described. The method and system comprises providing an absorbent sponge membrane structure in sheet-like form. The structure contains a hydrogel-f... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6684326 | Method and system for authenticated boot operations in a computer system of a networked computing environment Method and system aspects for performing an authenticated boot of a computer system in a networked computing environment are provided. The aspects include integration of boot manager services into a power on self test (POST) routine of a client system. Th... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6675317 | Method and system for determining erase procedures run on a hard drive A method and system for erasing a drive of a computer system is disclosed. The method and system include scrubbing the drive and writing a message to a portion of the drive such that the message will be provided to a user in response to the drive being bo... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6639917 | Converged service for interconnected local area networks A converged service frame format is defined to support any-to-any connections between Ethernet and Token Ring LANs. The converged service frame format is a superset of standard Ethernet frame formats defined in IEEE 802.3 specifications. Where the frame s... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6633245 | Method and system for correcting quantization loss during analog to digital to analog signal conversion A method and system for correcting quantization loss of a signal during analog to digital to analog signal conversion, wherein the quantization loss is a function of (sin x)/x, is disclosed. The system and method of the present invention includes utilizin... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6608758 | Chassis shielding system A computer chassis in accordance with the present invention is disclosed. The chassis includes a first body, a second body, and an electromagnetic shield coupled between the first body and the second body. The shield includes a plurality of dimples and a ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6604112 | Method and system for managing an AIX UNIX server using an SNMP interface A method and system for allowing a server to be configured using a standard protocol is disclosed. The server includes a proprietary database having a plurality of classes. Each of the plurality of classes is capable of including at least one object insta... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6531932 | Microstrip package having optimized signal line impedance control A method for fabricating a microstrip package to optimize signal trace impedance control is disclosed. The method includes patterning a plurality of signal traces on a multilayer substrate, and patterning a plurality of guard traces on the multilayer subs... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6512293 | Mechanically interlocking ball grid array packages and method of making A method and apparatus for providing a ball grid array assembly formed from interlocking ball grid array packages is disclosed. Each of the ball grid array packages has interlocking edge features for mechanical connection, whereby joining the plurality of... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6507762 | Method and system for remotely controlling an appliance using a personal digital assistant A method and system for remotely controlling an appliance including a first wireless communication port is disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system provide a portable digital device for remotely controlling an appliance. The portable digital device... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6487098 | Power factor correction (PFC) circuit that eliminates an inrush current limit circuit Aspects for a power converter with power factor correction (PFC) circuit are described. The aspects include a buck/boost circuit for achieving a DC voltage from an AC input voltage signal line without developing an inrush current from the AC input voltage... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6415296 | Method and system for more efficiently providing a copy in a raid data storage system The present invention provides a method and system for more efficiently providing a copy of a portion of a source drive of a plurality of drives in a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) data storage system. The portion of the source drive includes... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6378038 | Method and system for caching data using raid level selection A method and system for storing data in a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) data storage subsystem is disclosed. The RAID data storage subsystem includes a plurality of drives. The method and system include temporarily storing data in a first po... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6373722 | Power supply system for providing an auxiliary output voltage A power supply system is disclosed. The circuit comprises a main power supply portion, the main power supply portion including a transformer, and an auxiliary power supply portion wherein the auxiliary power supply portion is coupled to the main power sup... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6339436 | User defined dynamic help The present invention provides a method for providing user-defined dynamic help text which is displayed integrally with the application. The method includes utilizing a monitoring program to monitor a plurality of events for the application; determining i... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6297970 | Multiple output synchronous rectifier circuit providing zero volt switch mode operation A zero voltage switching synchronous rectification circuit for providing multiple output voltages from a single input voltage is disclosed. The circuit comprises a single transformer coupled to the single input voltage and at least two synchronous rectifi... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6272649 | Method and system for ensuring cache file integrity Aspects for ensuring the integrity of a cache file utilized by an application program interface of a computer system are provided. A method aspect includes forming a checksum with a modification date value of each of a plurality of files, storing the chec... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6181114 | Boost circuit which includes an additional winding for providing an auxiliary output voltage A boost circuit is disclosed. The circuit comprises a boost transistor, a pulse width modulator coupled to the boost transistor, and a boost inductor coupled to the boost transistor and the pulse width modulator, the boost inductor including a winding whi... | 01/30/2001 |
