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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7826995 | Apparatus for testing electronic devices The invention provides an apparatus for testing an integrated circuits on devices including a plurality of electrical subassemblies including a plurality of pattern generator, driver, and power boards divided into physical zones with each physical zone including one... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817788 | Content distribution system and method A content distribution system is described. The content distribution system includes a show account database and a plurality of credit cards stored in the show account database. The content distribution system also has a linking module associating a viewer entering ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809721 | Ranking of objects using semantic and nonsemantic features in a system and method for conducting a search The invention provides for a system for ranking data including a first calculation component that calculates a qualitative semantic similarity score of at least one data entry from at least one data source, a second calculation component that calculates a general qu... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801893 | Similarity detection and clustering of images A system and method for determining if a set of images in a large collection of images are near duplicates allows for improved management and retrieval of images. Images are processed, image signatures are generated for each image in the set of images, and the gener... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800382 | System for testing an integrated circuit of a device and its method of use A cartridge, including a cartridge frame, formations on the cartridge frame for mounting the cartridge frame in a fixed position to an apparatus frame, a contactor support structure, a contactor interface on the contactor support structure, a plurality of terminals,... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7788151 | Systems and methods for accessing a secure electronic environment with a mobile device The invention provides a system and methods for multifactor authentication of a mobile device for access to an electronic account. The mobile device may serve as one factor of a multifactor authentication process. A time based activation code may be generated in ord... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7781987 | Method and system for automatically controlling power supply to a lamp of a vehicle A system for automatically controlling power supply to a lamp (101) of a vehicle, the system comprising: a detection module (20) to detect whether the vehicle is stationary or non-stationary; a controller (102) to receive a signal (25) ha... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7762822 | Apparatus for testing electronic devices An apparatus is described for burn-in and/or functional testing of microelectronic circuits of unsingulated wafers. A large number of power, ground, and signal connections can be made to a large number of contacts on a wafer. The apparatus has a cartridge that allow... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7759642 | Pattern invariant focusing of a charged particle beam A method for focusing a scanning microscope, including scanning a primary charged particle beam across first sites of a reference die of a wafer, detecting a secondary beam emitted from the sites, and computing first focus scores for the sites based on the secondary... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7711851 | Domain name marketplace An electronic marketplace allows owners of unused Internet domain names to lease the domain names using a bidding process. The system allows owners to monetize domain names and lessees to obtain customers who are redirected from targeted domain names. ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711850 | Electronic marketplace used to lease domain names and redirect web surfers from leased domain names An electronic marketplace allows owners of unused Internet domain names to lease the domain names using a bidding process. The system allows owners to monetize domain names and lessees to obtain customers who are redirected from targeted domain names. ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7685130 | Searching for services in natural language A method for answering search queries about services is disclosed. The method includes searching a plurality of storage media on a network for a natural language service metastatement. The natural language service metastatement is typically generated by a service pr... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680775 | Methods and systems for generating query and result-based relevance indexes Methods and systems for generating query and result-based relevance indexes are provided. For one embodiment, a plurality of queries is received from a plurality of users. Each query of the plurality of queries is measured based on one or more metrics. The measured ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7670794 | Managing glycemia status in diabetic patients Methods for monitoring and managing glycemia status in a diabetic patient are disclosed. The methods comprise measuring in a diabetic patient, serum concentrations of HbA1c, glucose and inorganic phosphate and comparing the measured concentrations with reference con... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669055 | Key transformation unit for a tamper resistant module Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for securely transporting a software application onto a tamper resistant module (TRM) (103) by using an individualized TRM key set. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises: storing a key pair uniqu... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667475 | Electronics tester with a signal distribution board and a wafer chuck having different coefficients of thermal expansion The invention relates to a tester apparatus of the kind including a portable supporting structure for removably holding and testing a substrate carrying a microelectronic circuit. An interface on the stationary structure is connected to the first interface when the ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7642066 | High throughput pharmaceutical screening using High throughput drug screening assay methods and related apparatus are described. Wild-type Drosophila are raised in multi-well microtiter plates on a growth medium having a high level of a sugar such as glucose. The high sugar diet during development induces... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639162 | Map interface with removable path locations A map user interlace is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a first map and the initial path displayed on the first map, the initial path being from a starting location v... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634424 | Network-based sweepstakes systems and method A system and method for automatically enrolling users of a website or other network-based service in sweepstakes. A user of a user computer system connects to a host computer system hosting a website or other network-based service and is awarded points for accessing... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7633260 | Apparatus and method for starting and stopping an AC induction motor An apparatus for controlling the starting and stopping of an AC induction motor, the apparatus comprises a first and a second magnetic permeable portions having a plurality of legs wherein a magnetic control flux of the second magnetic has an opposite magnetic polar... | 12/15/2009 |
| D603205 | Optical media disc case | 11/03/2009 |
| D603204 | Optical media disc case | 11/03/2009 |
| D603203 | Optical media disc case | 11/03/2009 |
| D603202 | Optical media disc case | 11/03/2009 |
| 7594575 | Optical disc package An optical disc package (10) for containing optical media (11), the package (10) being made solely from a resiliently flexible plastics material, the package (10) comprising: a first half (20) having protruding members (40) ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7565367 | Enhanced popularity ranking A method of organizing information in which the search activities of previous users is monitored and such activity is used to organize information for future users. The user activities are monitored from a time and use based perspective to insure more relevant resul... | 07/21/2009 |
| 6856037 | Method and apparatus for converting dissipated heat to work energy A method for converting lower temperature dissipated heat to other useful energy and apparatus therefore. Heat energy is transferred to a fluid contained within a conduit, and natural convection of the fluid is utilized to transfer kinetic energy of the heat to anot... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6753815 | Antenna device The present invention is an antenna apparatus attached to an electronic device and includes an antenna section (11) having an antenna element (18) provided with two or more power supply points (19) and two or more earth points (20); and a... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6740290 | High purity cobalt, method of manufacturing thereof, and high purity cobalt targets High purity cobalt with a very few content of impurities such as copper, a method of manufacturing thereof, and high purity cobalt targets are provided. The cobalt containing impurities such as copper is dissolved in a hydrochloric acid solution, and the concentrati... | 05/25/2004 |
| 7539818 | Network object cache engine The invention provides a method and system for caching information objects transmitted using a computer network. A cache engine determines directly when and where to store those objects in a memory (such as RAM) and mass storage (such as one or more disk drives), so... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7530880 | Method and apparatus for improved chemical mechanical planarization pad with pressure control and process monitor A pad for CMP operations includes a guide plate having a plurality of holes therein and being affixed to a compressible under-layer; and a plurality of pressure-sensing and process monitoring polishing elements each affixed to the compressible under-layer and passin... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7523495 | Methods and systems for IC card application loading Systems and methods are described that provide a new type of application load unit for use in the secure loading of applications and/or data onto integrated circuit cards or smart cards. Plaintext key transformation units can be created for each of a plurality of sm... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520664 | Timepiece apparatus A timepiece apparatus (10) comprising: a rotatable shaft (30) operatively connected to a magnet (40); a magnetic detection device (50) to detect a magnetic field of the magnet (40) when proximal to the magnetic detection device ( | 04/21/2009 |
| 7510708 | Disruption of the REG pathway Disruption of the Reg signalling pathway permits spontaneous and therapeutic induction of pro-apoptotic signals to be more effective. Disruption can be accomplished by means of antibodies, antisense, RNA interference, small molecule inhibitors, etc. These can be use... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505642 | FBG sensor interrogation method using semiconductor optical amplifier in ring cavity configuration A sensor device that uses a number of bragg grating (FBG) sensors and novel interrogation system with a ring cavity configuration for simultaneous time-division-multiplexex (TDM) and wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) interrogation of FBG sensors. The ring cavity... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7500243 | Load balancing method and system using multiple load balancing servers Load balancing method and system for balancing a processing load in a network, wherein load balancer upon receiving a client request selects one of a plurality of processing servers for serving the request. The selection of a processing server may be based on a loca... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7500195 | Method and system for transforming content for execution on multiple platforms A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content f... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7485866 | Method and apparatus for increasing spatial resolution of a pet scanner A method and apparatus for increasing the resolution of a Positron Emission Tomography scanner. The method and apparatus comprise elements and acts for centering a region of interest of an object at a point between first and second detector arrays at least about ten... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7466814 | Switch code routing management method and system The present invention provides a method and system for maintaining and updating records of the routing of switches in a telecommunication network. Routing information is retrieved from a routing guide, and corresponding routing information is retrieved from switches... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7455972 | PCR-based method of detecting murine calicivirus The invention disclosed herein relates to a newly discovered murine norovirus, and compositions and methods related thereto. ... | 11/25/2008 |
