Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144853 | Methods, systems, and devices for providing contact information Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, comprising storing, within a telecommunications network, contact information for each of a plurality of contacts, the contact information for at least one of the plurality of contacts comprising a telephone availabili... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140539 | Systems, devices, and/or methods for determining dataset estimators Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which can comprise automatically storing a sketch of a dataset that supports automatic determination of an estimator of properties of a dataset. The automatic determination can be based upon computed adjusted weigh... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134936 | Methods, systems and computer-readable media for dynamically recognizing and processing service order types in a network management system Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for dynamically recognizing and processing service order types in a network management system. Service type data for a new service order type is registered in a database table while the network management sy... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131792 | Apparatus and method for correlating synchronous and asynchronous data streams Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: automatically: receiving a plurality of elements for each of a plurality of continuous data streams; treating the plurality of elements as a first data stream matrix that defines a first dimensionality; redu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127428 | Proceeding for the manufacturing of a stator for an electric motor and of an electric motor A process for manufacturing an outer stator for an electric motor whereby the stator comprises stator poles surrounded by coils. A laminar body of ferromagnetic material is prepared, with elongated form and provided with laminar protrusions. A coil of conductive mat... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8104147 | Fluid-tight slide fastener A fluid tight slide fastener (10) including a slider (15) slidably associated with opposite edges (12a) of two flanking strips (12) to provide for their closure, and an upper end stop (16) with which the slider (15) i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8036342 | Methods and systems for providing foreign call back number compatibility for VoIP E9-1-1 calls Systems and methods provide foreign call back number compatibility. The systems and methods receive a local telephone number assigned to a subscriber, the subscriber having a non-local telephone number as the normal calling number of the subscriber. Furthermore, the... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8012717 | Method for the production of cladribine A method for producing cladribine (2-chloro-2′ deoxyadenosine) comprising the steps of: a) reaction of 2-deoxyuridine with 2-chloroadenine, in the presence of uridine phosphorylase (UPase) and purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNPase) in an aqueous reaction medium ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8002226 | Accessory device assembly for an aquarium, particularly heater assembly An accessory device (1) for an aquarium is described, in particular for a thermal heater (2), which may be vertically positioned. It comprises an accessory device (2) for operation of said aquarium and supporting means (4, 5) for supporti... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7940703 | Real-time multimedia conferencing over an ATM network using an intelligent ATM cable modem and hybrid fiber-coax access A technique for providing real-time multimedia conferencing services with guaranteed performance, in a hybrid networking environment, by interconnecting cable modem-based premises networks via hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) access networks and an ATM wide area network i... | 05/10/2011 |
| RE42173 | Compressor unit | 03/01/2011 |
| 7849115 | Method and apparatus for adapting computer-based systems to end-user profiles The present invention relates to a method of adapting computer programs to user profiles, including providing a user with a questionnaire to determine at least one of the user's intelligence, personality, emotional state, computer experience, sensory skills, motor s... | 12/07/2010 |
| D622973 | Bicycle seat | 09/07/2010 |
| 7711337 | Adaptive impedance matching module (AIMM) control architectures An embodiment of the present invention an apparatus, comprising an adaptive impedance matching module (AIMM) adapted to minimize the magnitude of an input reflection coefficient seen at an RFin port under boundary conditions of a variable load impedance Z... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7699321 | Clamping device and method for the production of a clamping device A chuck for accommodating a collet chuck, comprising a housing and a chucking tool seat that is assigned to the housing. The chucking tool seat is embedded in the housing as a separate part via an intermediate filling that is made of polymer concrete for connecting ... | 04/20/2010 |
| D609485 | Chair | 02/09/2010 |
| 7577639 | Method for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing rhetorical content A system and method are disclosed for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing rhetorical content. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a content management system (400) having a database (... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7543798 | Portable battery-operated winch with electrical outputs for accessory devices A portable winch apparatus having a rechargeable battery and electrical outlets for the charging and operation of external accessory devices. The winch is housed in a casing with various anchor attachments that allow for multiple dragging, towing, and lifting arrang... | 06/09/2009 |
| 6857137 | Urine collection device A portable urine collection device having a closed loop system that is easily usable by a patient. The urine collection device includes a urine collection receptacle for receiving a fluid from a patient. The urine collection receptacle may be coupled to a reservoir ... | 02/22/2005 |
| D590615 | Chair | 04/21/2009 |
| D589711 | Chair | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512949 | Status hub used by autonomic application servers A method for serving applications including receiving a component status publication and acquiring a client request. The component status publication can specify a usage level for an application component. A server response for the client request can be selected fro... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7493145 | Providing telephone services based on a subscriber voice identification A method of providing a telephony service can include creating a database of subscriber identities and subscriber voice prints and telephony services associated with the subscriber identities and receiving a spoken utterance from a subscriber. A subscriber identity ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7486785 | Method for customer recognition and management A method for handling a customer call in a customer relationship management system can include, responsive to receiving a telephone call from a caller, receiving caller biometric information via the telephone call which uniquely identifies the caller. The caller bio... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7482577 | System and method of sorting materials using holographic laser steering The present invention employs a beam steering apparatus to isolate valuable cells from other cells, tissues, and contaminants. In one embodiment, the system balances optical trapping against biasing flow to parallelize cell sorting under the flexible control of comp... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7472184 | Framework for restricting resources consumed by ghost agents A method for restricting resources consumed by a ghost agent can include the step of identifying a host, which is a software object operating within the grid environment and movable from one grid to another grid within the grid environment. The method also can inclu... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469276 | Service offering for the delivery of information with continuing improvement A method for providing information to a receiver can include the step of receiving a request from a remotely located information requestor that specifics an information receiver: initiating a transaction to handle the request utilizing previously recorded informatio... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7438729 | Fluid bed granulation process In order to produce granules granulometrically polidispersed in a very little range, a fluid bed granulation process of the type comprising the steps of preparing a fluid bed of seeds (S1) of the substance to be granulated, having a free surface (P) substanti... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434781 | Remotely actuated quick connect/disconnect coupling A water flushing system for a pressurized subterranean water distribution system includes an inlet conduit for receiving pressurized water from the subterranean water distribution system; an outlet fluidly connected to the inlet conduit for discharging pressurized w... | 10/14/2008 |
| D574620 | Chair | 08/12/2008 |
| 7401233 | Method, system, and apparatus for dynamic data-driven privacy policy protection and data sharing A method of sharing telematics data for a vehicle with service providers can include receiving the telematics data for the vehicle, where the telematics data dynamically changes over time, and comparing the telematics data with a privacy policy associated with the v... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7379553 | Sound source search system It is possible to simultaneously identify the sound coming direction from a sound source in all directions and estimate the sound intensity of the sound source. A plurality of microphones (11) are arranged on the surface of a baffle (10) of a shape suc... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7377808 | Method for sealing partition bushing connector coaxial contacts, adapted coaxial contact and resulting connector A method for sealing coaxial contacts of a partition bushing connector to seal hermetically a connector (C) of the type which consists in inserting the contacts (300) constituting the connector to the inside of the recessed part (130) of said support (... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7374692 | Treatment of ballast water The invention relates to hydrocyclones for ballast water treatment. The invention further relates to ballast water treatment systems comprising such hydrocyclones and methods of operating such hydrocyclones and ballast water treatment systems. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| RE40315 | Coated substrate with high reflectance A transparent coated substrate with rather high reflectance, especially for use as in exterior glazing panels for buildings or automotives, is provided by a substrate carrying a coating stack comprising a pyrolytically-formed main layer containing oxide of tin and a... | 05/13/2008 |
| D539955 | Portable rechargeable halogen searchlight | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200400 | Mobile to 802.11 voice multi-network roaming utilizing SIP signaling with SIP proxy or redirect server A method of roaming between a mobile network and a wireless network can include receiving, over the wireless network, an invite from a user agent disposed within a mobile communications device. The mobile communications device can be engaged in a call over a voice c... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198850 | Glazing A glazing panel comprises in sequence at least a glass substrate, a base antireflective layer comprising at least a base antireflective lower layer and a base antireflective upper layer which is of a different composition to that of the base antireflective lower lay... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187236 | Rail-to-rail differential input amplification stage with main and surrogate differential pairs An operational amplifier input stage provides a symmetrical rail-to-rail input common-mode voltage without turning off either pair of complementary differential input transistors. Secondary, or surrogate, transistor pairs assume the function of the complementary dif... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187762 | Conferencing additional callers into an established voice browsing session A call conferencing method using a voice browser can include establishing a voice browsing session between a calling party and the voice browser. An inbound call from an additional party can be received and the additional party can be conferenced into the voice brow... | 03/06/2007 |
