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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7328184 | Financial instruments, system, and exchanges (financial, stock, option and commodity) based upon realized volatility A financial instrument, exchange, and method based upon the volatility in the price of an underlying. Such volatility contracts have a creation date, a term expiring at an expiration date, and a settlement price at the expiration date defined as “Svolâ€... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7266509 | System and method for combining interactive game with infomercial A combination multi-media interactive game and video infomercial acts as an advertising business method wherein a seller of merchandise can combine both an advertising infomercial with a player and/or participant's playing an interactive game. Preferably, the game i... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7211279 | Nutraceutical method and additive for improving human physiology A method for creating a coffee drink that having the addition of a nutraceutical additive composition of milk thistle; chromium picolinate, and carnitine. Milk thistle is present from about 50 to 99.7 parts by weight of the total composition, and preferably 50 to 60... | 05/01/2007 |
| 6976342 | Fully interlocking synthetic, simulated shake siding An interlocking rectangular sheet of simulated shakes for lock-up assembly upon a structure in an upwardly directed fashion having a thermo-formed base sheet with an exposure surface and a top and bottom surface. The bottom surface terminates in a cross-sectionally ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6709399 | Method and system for the detection of heart disease A method and system for the detection of heart disease in a patient, having a remote testing unit for gathering analog data concerning the status of a patient's heart, converting the data to digital form, applying FFT's to the converted data, transferring the data t... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6619902 | Automated storage and retrieval system and indexing/insertion extraction mechanism therefor A storage and retrieval system includes at least two pairs of two confrontingly opposed, columnar arrays. Each of the pairs of columnar arrays defines a plurality of vertically spaced tray-receiving recesses, and an access region between the columns, in w... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6584471 | System and method for the adaptive, hierarchical receipt, ranking, organization and display of information based upon democratic criteria and resultant dynamic profiling A system and method for receiving, organizing and displaying information received from a plurality of users, having a hierarchical database with at least one expandable level, at least one of the at least one expandable levels having at least two expandab... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6578761 | Method for issuance of satellite credit and debit cards The present invention relates to a method for a credit card holder to issue satellite debit cards out of his pre-established credit card, without the need for prior approval by his credit card company. The satellite card could be issued to himself or to a... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6575807 | Animated, foam filled toy figure A compressible figure form which includes an air permeable skin and a compressible resilient foam core, wherein the compressible resilient foam core includes resilient mechanical means within a cavity within said core. The resilient mechanical means is co... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6457024 | Wearable hypermedium system A wearable hypermedium information retrieval system for displaying predetermined digitized data, having a computer having an I/O port; a large capacity information storage and retrieval device interfaced with the I/O port adapted to receive a memory mediu... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6416055 | Board game and method for teaching fundamental aspects of advocacy, debating, negotiation and judicial decision-making A board game and method for teaching negotiation, advocacy and judicial decision-making skills to players, in which a board is providing having spaces upon which players may randomly, sequentially land. One of the players is determined at the outset to be... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6289542 | Combined remote controller and bottle opening device An electronic device controlling and bottle opening device, having a handle portion for grasping; a top portion of the handle portion having a keypad; a rear portion behind the top portion and having an aperture; and a bottle opening device fixedly displa... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6263546 | Apparatus for the removable retention of an item of personal property An apparatus having a back region for attachment to a surface, a front region for engagement of the item of personal property, and a substantially vertical aperture region defined within and between the front and back region. The aperture region has a top... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6152140 | Physio/energetic therapeutic method and interactive monitoring device A physio/energetic therapeutic method for articulating various acupressure points in a specific sequence, in which these points have been heretofore "forbidden" because of the risk of termination of pregnancy, involving three sets of points that are artic... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6066670 | Therapeutic compositions and methods of use According to the present invention, there is provided an admixture of sorbic acid, malic acid, fumaric acid, crotonic acid, and optionally aconitic acid. Further contemplated by the present invention are methods for treating various pathological condition... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5943714 | Suspended sleeping platform assembly A vertically-displaceable bed platform suspended from a ceiling having a platform with two forward and two rearward engagement regions, and four pulley members each disposed an equal vertical distance from the engagement regions such that two correspond w... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5895453 | Method and system for the detection, management and prevention of losses in retail and other environments Method and system for the detection of suspect sales transactions in a sales environment having point of sale devices and sales locations, having a first processor for gathering record information reflecting sales transactions that have occurred in the en... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5810540 | Automated storage and retrieval system and bin insertion/extraction mechanism therefor A storage and retrieval system includes sat least two pairs of two confrontingly opposed, columnar arrays. Each of the pairs of columnar arrays defines a plurality of vertically spaced tray-receiving recesses. One or more platforms are provided, each vert... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5784806 | Flexible foot gear A comfortable and breathable foot gear in the form of a sneaker/boot comprises a flexible sole constituting a lower portion of said garment, and a stretch fabric material constituting an upper portion of the foot garment that is securely attached to the f... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5781913 | Wearable hypermedium system A wearable hypermedium information retrieval system for displaying predetermined digitized data, having a computer having an I/O port; a large capacity information storage and retrieval device interfaced with the I/O port adapted to receive a memory mediu... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5748780 | Method and apparatus for imaging, image processing and data compression A method for processing an image, consisting of a foreground and a background, to produce a highly compressed and accurate representation of the image, including the steps of scanning the image to create a digital image of the image, comparing the digital... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5717915 | Method of merging large databases in parallel The semantic integration problem for merging multiple databases of very large size, the merge/purge problem, can be solved by multiple runs of the sorted neighborhood method or the clustering method with small windows followed by the computation of the tr... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5683762 | Centerpiece assembly simulating floral arrangement A container including an elongated hollow member having two ends, an axis, a maximum width and an aperture and being adapted to contain objects; a decorative element being axially attached to one of the ends of the elongated hollow member and having a max... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5668897 | Method and apparatus for imaging, image processing and data compression merge/purge techniques for document image databases A method for processing an image, consisting of a foreground and a background, to produce a highly compressed and accurate representation of the image, including the steps of scanning the image to create a digital image of the image, comparing the digital... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5588215 | Transportable measurement device for children's clothes An apparatus for measuring apparel, having an elongated member with a surface, a first reference point on the surface and a second marking on said surface such that the distance between said first reference point and the second marking is equal to the dis... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5583110 | Detection of neoplasms by hormonal tumor stimulation test A method for screening for cancer, a cancer test, a screening system a patient monitoring system and medicinal dosage form for measuring stimulating a specific, detectable response from a stimulus-responsive neoplasm, comprising administering a neoplasm-a... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5500575 | Switchmode AC power controller A switchmode AC power controller for controlling the current through a load such as a large lamp array connected to an alternating current source. The controller contains an AC solid state switch, a synchro-flywheel, an output inductor and capacitor. The ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5497486 | Method of merging large databases in parallel The semantic integration problem for merging multiple databases of very large size, the merge/purge problem, can be solved by multiple runs of the sorted neighborhood method or the clustering method with small windows followed by the computation of the tr... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5415277 | Multipurpose stackable carrier A system of stackable containers including a plurality of carriers, each container comprising means for linking a carrier with a next adjacent stacked carrier, a plurality of means for containing objects, a handle, adapted to suspend the carrier and conta... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5380568 | Centerpiece assembly simulating floral bouquet A centerpiece assembly in which an array of floral-like elements is supported on a rack to simulate a bouquet of cut flowers. Each element in the array has a stem formed by a transparent tubular wand filled with pellets of candy whose color imparts color ... | 01/10/1995 |
