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Pizza Pie With Concentric Rings of Crust
A pizza mold for forming a plurality of concentric raised ridges of dough (i.e., crust) on the surface of a pizza pie.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8108491 | Method and system for control of access to global computer networks A system for controlling access to global computer network comprises a gateway computing device and one or more remote computer devices that are connected to the gateway computing device. The remote computer devices will gain access to the global computer network sy... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8055679 | Web browsing configuration and collaboratively filtered web sites for personal productivity Multiple users generate separate websites, which are compiled into an approved list of websites for an organization. This list of approved websites is saved in a database location. When a user desires to access the communication network, this method of this inventio... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046607 | Method, device and system for providing information from a computing device when the computing device is in a hibernate or power off state In a computing network containing multiple computing devices, a network card in a computing device provides the ability for the computing device to transmit specific types of information while the computing device is in an inactive state. The network card contains p... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8028790 | Sound projection device attachable to a user when not in use A megaphone comprises a rigid but bendable material with a tapered shape. When the material is folded, the produced megaphone has a small opening at one end and a larger opening at the other end. The megaphone has edges that form an opening along the side such that ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7962445 | Method and system for importing an application and server map to a business systems manager display An automated system displays enables a user to observe the activities in a system based on information in the display. From this display, the user can quickly identify the source of problems for the purpose of troubleshooting without the need to manually determine t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958460 | Method for predictive drag and drop operation to improve accessibility A method simplified drag and drop operations of display icons. This method calculates a projected path for an icon based on the past movement of the icon. The method highlights the “best fit” target icon as the mouse pointer moves across the screen. As the mouse... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7934216 | Method and system for load balancing of computing resources A load balancing method incorporates temporarily inactive machines as part of the resources capable of executing tasks during heavy process requests periods to alleviate some of the processing load on other computing resources. This method determines which computing... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7921170 | Method for virtual electronic mail address generation and usage A method and system creates virtual email identifications and dynamically map the virtual email-ids to the real email identities. A virtual email identify will be described in a specific fixed syntax that is easy for the users to remember and implement. The virtual ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7881943 | Method for speed correction of audio recordings The method adjusts the playback speed of an audio recording such that the pitch of the playback is substantially the same as the pitch at the time of the original recording. Assuming tuned instruments were used for the recording, the method alters the playback speed... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7794245 | Universal protection cover cap for a USB plug A USB cap cover has a conventional main body with an opening to engage the USB connector of a USB storage device. The USB cap of the present invention also contains an extension element that extends from at least one side of the open end of the USB cap. The extensio... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7689348 | Intelligent redirection of vehicular traffic due to congestion and real-time performance metrics An automated traffic control system provides real time alternative traffic flow solutions to address traffic congestion on a roadway. A process will pick routes to scan for real-time statistics on the traffic conditions and calculate an average vehicle speed (AVS) f... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7573386 | System and method for smart radio frequency identification tags The present invention is a method system that detects the altering of the contents of a package. This system comprises a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag that is affixed to a package. This RFID can receive, store and transmit information received related to... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7568097 | Method for file system security by controlling access to the file system resources using externally stored attributes The present invention is an algorithm that manages the ability of a user or software program to access certain protected file resources. This invention describes a method for file system security through techniques that control access to the file system resources us... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7509509 | Method and mechanism for cataloguing information on devices in a computing system In a computing network containing multiple computing devices, a network card in a computing device provides the ability for the computing device to transmit specific types of information while the computing device is in an inactive state. The network card contains p... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7491189 | Catheter insertion guide The present invention system allows for an easier insertion and placement of IV catheters. This invention comprises a clip device attachable to a conventional catheter. The clip enables the practitioner to insert and withdraw the catheter device from the patient wit... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493564 | Method for the display of visual sequencing of launched application portlets and task page relationship information in a web-base environment A display portlet is incorporated into a portal page in a web-based environment. This display portlet presents the launch sequence of the portlets that are currently running on that portal page. The displayed launch sequence indicates the source of a launched portle... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7484107 | Method for selective encryption within documents The present invention allows the user (author or creator) of a document to specify that certain portions of a document be selected for encryption while other portions of the document remain displayed as created. In addition, each encrypted section could have multipl... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7475114 | Method for notification of local action required to contents of electronic mail message The present invention provides a method to alert the recipient of an electronic message of some action that is required from the recipient. The invention also provides a method to alert the sender of the electronic message of the completion of the action required in... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471701 | Seamless integrated multiple wireless data connections The present invention provides a method that will enable a wireless telephone user to more easily download information and data by from locations accessed via a communication network. This invention accomplishes this task by expanding the bandwidth of the receiving ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7454788 | Method for adding and enforcing enhanced authorization policy on devices in computer operation systems In this invention, when security policy is attached to a file, a device protection manager is given the protected file's name. If the file is a special device file, then the device manager records the device specification in a device database. When a device access o... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7425903 | Dynamic vehicle grid infrastructure to allow vehicles to sense and respond to traffic conditions A dynamic ‘vehicle grid’ system provides the ability for drivers to be automatically warned to the conditions of other vehicles in the vicinity. In this grid system, a motor vehicle would be equipped with a transmitter, receiver, computer and a selection of sens... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7398214 | Method for translating slide presentations into different languages The present invention provides a method and system for translating presentation slides from one language to at least one additional language. In this method, text information from one slide can be extracted from a presentation slide. Addressing information contained... | 07/08/2008 |
| D570926 | Toy figure | 06/10/2008 |
| D570927 | Robot toy figure | 06/10/2008 |
| D570928 | Robot toy figure | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382276 | System and method for electronic road signs with in-car display capabilities The present invention is method and system for delivering road sign content information to a mobile computing device for display to the driver of a vehicle. The system consists of a wireless communication network in communication with a mobile computing device opera... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7350473 | Method and grid for tying layers of a quilt The present invention simplifies the process of placing quilt ties in the quilt during the quilt making process. The quilt tie device contains a plurality of openings that identify locations in the quilt for quilt ties. A quilt maker places the quilt tie device over... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346769 | Method for selective encryption within documents The present invention allows the user (author or creator) of a document to specify that certain portions of a document be selected for encryption while other portions of the document remain displayed as created. The user could employ a standard word processing edito... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7338055 | Method and workstation for single patient medical care A reconfigurable medical workstation enables efficient arrangement of medical equipment used to provide care to a specific patient. The workstation contains a comportment space that can be divided into compartments as needed to house the medical equipment. The compa... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333988 | Method for constructing and caching a chain of file identifiers and enabling inheritance of resource properties in file systems The techniques of the present invention involve constructing and caching a chain of FIDs that represent the directory path to a system resource. Typically a lookupname( ) service returns a handle to the object and a handle to the object's owning directory. The ownin... | 02/19/2008 |
| D561848 | Toy figure | 02/12/2008 |
| 7302406 | Method, apparatus and system for retrieval of specialized consumer information The system of the present invention is a method and system that enables consumers to receive specialized product and company information on demand to aid in consumer purchases. The system of this invention can comprise a physical interface device, a consumer profile... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7274781 | Method and system for enhancement of caller identification The present invention provides a method and system to enable a caller to send additional information along with the Caller Identification to a telephone receiver at the same time the caller makes the call. This additional information better informs the recipient of ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260718 | Method for adding external security to file system resources through symbolic link references The method of the invention assumes there is a security manager and mechanism present for defining, attaching, and evaluating external authorization policy to file resources based on the file's path name. In this invention, protected symbolic links and the resources... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7225442 | Method and system for dynamic utilization mechanisms for facilities whose reservation status can change dynamically This invention is a method and system for reserving a facility or service after the cancellation of an initial reservation for the facility of service. The system for this invention comprises a reservation center that contains reservation information about multiple ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7191221 | Method for managing electronic mail receipts using audio-visual notification enhancements The present invention provides a monitoring subsystem that would capture all incoming MDN messages (return receipts), and rather than posting individual MDN notes in the user's in-box, a tracking and update subsystem would correlate the incoming responses by reading... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185013 | Method for constructing and caching a chain of file identifiers and enabling inheritance of resource properties in file systems The techniques of the present invention involve constructing and caching a chain of FIDs that represent the directory path to a system resource. Typically a lookupname( ) service returns a handle to the object and a handle to the object's owning directory. The ownin... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181466 | Method and system for creating a storage repository for graphical images on a computer network A method and system creates a graphical display repository at a computer network location. The method also provides for the conversion and transfer of displays stored in a local database to the network repository. The storage method will enable graphical displays to... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7140027 | Method and system to reinitialize objects without losing a reference connection The present invention is a method and system that enables reference processes that have access to a long running object to maintain the current access to this object while this object performs a re-initialization operation in order to refresh data contained in the o... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7103176 | Direct coupling of telephone volume control with remote microphone gain and noise cancellation The present invention creates a method, apparatus and system by which a telephone unit volume control provides instantaneous coupling to and controlling of a connected telephone unit's microphone gain and noise cancellation circuitry. With this invention, an increas... | 09/05/2006 |
