A kissing shield comprised of a thin, flexible membrane and a frame or holder.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182684 | Hydrocyclone separator A hydrocyclone separator includes a separator body having an upper body part and a lower body part narrower than the upper body part in diameter; a feeder connected helically to the upper body part from a lateral side for feeding in a raw liquid; an upstream outlet ... | 05/22/2012 |
| D659893 | Lamp cup | 05/15/2012 |
| D659892 | Lamp cup | 05/15/2012 |
| D659891 | Lamp cup | 05/15/2012 |
| 8122515 | Access control with decomposable values and its application for virtual worlds An access control method performed by a network server to which a plurality of users are connected is disclosed. In the access control method, upon access from each user to data stored in a network resource, the access control method searches a plurality of access c... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108365 | Consistency of a database management system A database management system for determining consistency in a hierarchical database sequentially reads pointers of a plurality of segment data, generates an address hash value, which is a hash value of retention addresses of the segment data having been read, genera... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095535 | Updating indexing tables in a database system Updating an indexing tables in a database system comprising a database storing item tables of items appended by timestamps. Each of items is further categorized by timestamp into said tables, and said item tables being indexed by indexing data. The database system f... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8088303 | Warm-white light-emitting diode and its phosphor powder The present invention discloses a warm-white-light emitting diode has the substrate of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) heterojunction containing a large amount of quantum wells and having a light conversion polymer layer, characterized by that the light conversion po... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082913 | Striker for paint ball gun A paint ball gun includes a body, a valve unit and a striking unit. The valve unit is disposed in the body. The striking unit is disposed in the body, and includes a striker and a collar. The striker is made of metal and formed with a striking tip at an end for hitt... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078570 | Versioning data warehouses A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the method, system, and computer program product may include hardware, process steps, and computer program instructions for supporting versioning in a data warehouse. The data war... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060505 | Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying white space opportunities in a given industry A method for analyzing predefined subject matter in a patent database being for use with a set of target patents, each target patent related to the predefined subject matter, the method comprising: creating a feature space based on frequently occurring terms found i... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056138 | System, method, and service for detecting improper manipulation of an application A piracy protection system incorporates tamper detection capabilities into a protected copy of an application by disassembling a statically linked binary of the application, modifying some of the instructions in the application, and then rewriting all of the modifie... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8056054 | Business information warehouse toolkit and language for warehousing simplification and automation A method for use with an information (or data) warehouse comprises managing the information warehouse with instructions in a declarative language. The instructions specify information warehouse-level tasks to be done without specifying certain details of how the tas... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055635 | System and method for verifying the integrity and completeness of records A correctness verification system receives a query, executes the query using a query logic, and produces a query result. The query result comprises data records that satisfy the query, data verification objects associated with the data records, index segments access... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054577 | Tape roller guide with integral recording head An integral recording head, for use in a linear tape drive system, includes a circumferentially grooved roller guide assembly and a recording head actuator assembly. The circumferential groove feature is incorporated on the surfaces of the roller guide assembly, and... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041706 | Information integration across autonomous enterprises A system, method, and computer program product for processing a query spanning separate databases while revealing only minimal information beyond a query answer, by executing only specific information-limiting protocols according to query type. ... | 10/18/2011 |
| D647273 | Portable wheel ramp | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032782 | System, method, and service for providing a generic RAID engine and optimizer A generic RAID engine system accepts an access request, accepts a metadata input comprising a layout description and, optionally, a plurality of resource optimization objectives, accepts a dynamic input comprising a dynamic state of an I/O stack comprising the gener... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032732 | System and method for generating a cache-aware bloom filter A cache-aware Bloom filter system segments a bit vector of a cache-aware Bloom filter into fixed-size blocks. The system hashes an item to be inserted into the cache-aware Bloom filter to identify one of the fixed-size blocks as a selected block for receiving the it... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023655 | System, method, and service for tracing traitors from content protection circumvention devices A traitor tracing system generates a hypothesized model of the circumvention device that models a hypothesized set of device keys compromised by the circumvention device. The system iteratively invokes a subset tracing system to identify a compromised device key unt... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020118 | Presentation of items arranged in a hierarchy An aspect of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for presenting items in a hierarchy comprising parent items and sub-items. The method comprises the steps of: identifying one or more parent items in the hierarchy, wherein all sub-items of th... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019756 | Computer apparatus, computer program and method, for calculating importance of electronic document on computer network, based on comments on electronic document included in another electronic document associated with former electronic document A computer program, method and computer apparatus for calculating the total importance of an electronic document on the basis of (i) a plurality of electronic documents chained to each other in a relation of referencing and being referenced, from a start electronic ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7979436 | Entity-based business intelligence A method is disclosed for conducting a query to transform data in a pre-existing database, the method comprising: collecting database information from the pre-existing database, the database information including inconsistent dimensional tables and fact tables; runn... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974866 | System and method for managing workflow among a plurality of business processes associated respectively with users having access rights to artifacts A system and method for managing a workflow are provided. A system for managing a workflow in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a storage unit for storing, as an access history for each of at least one artifact, identification information of a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971078 | System and method for measurement-based power and energy accounting for virtual machines A method for measurement-based power and energy accounting for virtual machines distributed among at least one hosting device is disclosed. The method comprising determining an energy for the hosting device during a first time interval and a second time interval, pa... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7964497 | Structure to facilitate plating into high aspect ratio vias Improved high aspect ratio vias and techniques for the formation thereof are provided. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a copper plated high aspect ratio via is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A high aspect ratio via is etched in a dielectr... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962563 | System and method for managing storage system performance as a resource A scheduler selects an I/O from a session of a pool and updates token buckets associated with resource limits and reserves for the session and the pool and statistics used in determining fair sharing. To select an I/O, the scheduler identifies sessions with a non-em... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958381 | Energy conservation in multipath data communications A method, system, and computer usable program product for energy conservation in multipath data communications are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A current utilization of each of several of I/O devices is determined. A violation determination is made whet... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953977 | Security and ticketing system control and management A security device of this invention includes a nonvolatile storage unit 22 for storing a validity check unit including a counter updated every time signature function means 30 is called up, a volatile storage unit 24 for reading and storing a co... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953368 | RFIC chip, and position recognition system and security system using the same Included are: a circuit unit having a non-volatile memory; a circuit unit having a volatile memory; a read-write circuit for reading data from, writing data into, the non-volatile memory, and for reading data from, writing data into, the volatile memory; an antenna ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949715 | Method, server and program product for delivering messages There is provided a method, a system and a program product for delivering on-target messages needed for a user, without omissions. A method for delivering a plurality of delivery messages in a delivery message database to one or more clients, comprising the steps of... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937428 | System and method for generating and using a dynamic bloom filter A dynamic Bloom filter comprises a cascaded set of Bloom filters. The system estimates or guesses a cardinality of input items, selects a number of hash functions based on the desired false positive rate, and allocates memory for an initial Bloom filter based on the... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937350 | Method, system and program product for determining a time for retraining a data mining model The invention relates to a method for determining a time for retraining a data mining model, including the steps of: calculating multivariate statistics of a training model during a training phase; storing the multivariate statistics in the data mining model; evalua... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936356 | Information processing method for information registration, and information processing method for information retrieval An information processor for information registration, capturing means captures a graphics processing command, and database registering means registers, as information about completed work in the database, information about a series of graphics processing commands c... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934571 | Moving base for robotic vacuum cleaner A moving base for robotic vacuum cleaner includes a base; a motor mounted in a motor chamber on the base to alternatively drive a drive shaft thereof to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise; a primary wheel fixed to and rotating along with the drive shaft of the mot... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925725 | Information processing apparatus, method, and program for generating setting information for electronic device The present invention provides an apparatus, method, and program for automatically generating setting information for a different model on the basis of settings previously made. Additionally, the present invention is directed to automatically determining one piece o... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924850 | System and method for managing and controlling communications performed by a computer terminal connected to a network The present invention provides a system which maintains a function of monitoring and controlling a network regardless of an increase of data to be downloaded by a computer whose access to the network is restricted. The system includes: a first interface for transmit... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921454 | System and method for user password protection A system and method are disclosed for protecting a password assigned to a user, the method comprising: providing a password entry screen having a virtual keyboard, the virtual keyboard including a plurality of character keys arranged in a non-QWERTY format; authenti... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919710 | Solar cell containing silicon and chalcopyrite semiconductor layers A solar cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a stacked semiconductor layer. The stacked semiconductor layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The stacked semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor layer, a s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912805 | System for matching pattern-based data A pattern-based data matching system matches pattern-based data. The data matching system generates a regular expression pattern for input datasets and describes similarity measures between the generated patterns. The data matching system analyzes an input dataset i... | 03/22/2011 |