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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131593 | System and method for automated proposal evaluation A computer based method for automated submission and evaluation of business proposals by providing a database mutually accessible to a proposal sponsor and at least one requesting user community, communicating with the user community and interactively requesting one... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128552 | Surgical instrument for treating female pelvic prolapse A surgical instrument for treating female pelvic prolapse comprising a mesh sling for implanting into the pelvis of a female, which provides support to the urethra, the anterior vaginal wall, and the posterior vaginal wall with the sling defining a tissue-anchoring ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8095435 | Method to effectuate point of use control and accountability of monitored articles The method and system for a material cabinet for use in cooperation with a plurality of articles stored in the material cabinet is disclosed. Each of the plurality of articles having a radio frequency identification tag attached thereto is connected through at least... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8068975 | Determining an estimate of the weight and balance of an aircraft automatically in advance and up to the point of take-off A method, system and computer program product for determining an estimate of the weight and balance of an aircraft automatically in advance and up to the point of take-off. A weight and balance system may receive information from a flight operating system, a reserva... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060532 | Determining suitability of entity to provide products or services based on factors of acquisition context A method, system and computer program product for determining the suitability of an entity to provide products or services. Category and measurement data is received concerning the entity where each category is assigned a value based on the acquisition context. If t... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8029872 | Application of a coating forming material onto at least one substrate The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the formation of a coating on a substrate. The coating is formed by the deposition of a coating forming material onto the substrate in an atomised form via a nozzle, nebulizer or the like. The material is applied a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8008649 | Incorporating gate control over a resonant tunneling structure in CMOS to reduce off-state current leakage, supply voltage and power consumption A semiconductor device and method for fabricating a semiconductor device incorporating gate control over a resonant tunneling structure. The semiconductor device includes a source terminal, a gate terminal, a drain terminal, and a resonant tunneling structure locate... | 08/30/2011 |
| D643226 | Convertible sofa with multiple positions | 08/16/2011 |
| 7935061 | Method and apparatus for monitoring physiological conditions The invention concerns a physiological monitoring device that, in one embodiment, comprises a capacitive sensor. The sensor comprises a first plate, a second plate and a dielectric medium coupled to the first plate and second plate. A power source charges the sensor... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7901607 | Method of low temperature imprinting process with high pattern transfer yield The present invention is directed to novel methods of imprinting substrate-supported or freestanding structures at low cost, with high pattern transfer yield, and using low processing temperature. Such methods overcome many of the above-described limitations of the ... | 03/08/2011 |
| D630510 | Sippy cup lid for a beverage can | 01/11/2011 |
| D621174 | Sofa bed with storage area | 08/10/2010 |
| 7760640 | Electronic message delivery system including a network device In a computer network system based on an open system interconnection model, where the computer network system includes at least a network layer (Layer 3) and an application layer (Layer 7), a system and a method for managing electronic message traffic into and out o... | 07/20/2010 |
| D618929 | Sofa-bed with storage space | 07/06/2010 |
| 7734623 | Semantics-based method and apparatus for document analysis A system and method for producing semantically-rich representations of texts to amplify and sharpen the interpretations of texts. The method relies on the fact that there is a substantial amount of semantic content associated with most text strings that is not expli... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725337 | Quantifying revenue and profit impact of retiming flights while taking into consideration non-linear ramifications and constraints A method, system and computer program product for efficiently quantifying the economic impact of retiming flights without the necessity of implementing the traditional airline forecasting system from scratch. A forecast module computes the difference in impact prior... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7704432 | Imprint lithographic method for making a polymeric structure An imprint lithographic method for making a polymeric structure comprising the steps of: (a) providing a mold having a shape forming a mold pattern; (b) providing a substrate having a higher surface energy relative... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698212 | Online settlement statement and funding control system and method The present invention integrates data from multiple outside sources for the purpose of managing the closing, funding, and audit of a real property transaction using a secure, computer network, such as an internet-based network, and graphic user interface(s), thereby... | 04/13/2010 |
| D613522 | Three piece storage table set | 04/13/2010 |
| 7685122 | Facilitating suspension of batch application program access to shared IMS resources The present invention includes aspects pertaining to enabling an IMS batch application program to temporarily release its access to IMS resources that it shares with an IMS database management system or other non-IMS system agent, without terminating the application... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676430 | System and method for installing a remote credit card authorization on a system with a TCPA complaint chipset The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) Specification is implemented to allow a credit card company to remotely install a credit card private key into a TCPA module to create a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). More specifically, when a credit worthy user applie... | 03/09/2010 |
| D610366 | Sofa bed with multiple positions | 02/23/2010 |
| D609497 | Dresser | 02/09/2010 |
| D609496 | High chest | 02/09/2010 |
| 7653819 | Scalable paging of platform configuration registers A method, computer program, and system for paging platform configuration registers in and out of a trusted platform module. In a trusted computing platform, an unlimited number of platform configuration registers can be obtained through paging. The trust platform mo... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653663 | Guaranteeing the authenticity of the data stored in the archive storage A method, computer program product and system for archiving data from an operational database. Data to be archived from the operational database may be stored either as received or transformed in a manner that allows the transformed archived data to be retrieved bit... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7615179 | Method of imprinting shadow mask nanostructures for display pixel segregation The present invention is directed to micro- and nano-scale imprinting methods and the use of such methods to fabricate supported and/or free-standing 3-D micro- and/or nano-structures of polymeric, ceramic, and/or metallic materials, particularly for pixel segregati... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7607007 | Method and apparatus for message routing in a computer system Method and apparatus for message routing in a computer system (100) is provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving a message in a compressed or encrypted form (302, 402); extracting a portion of the message in its compressed or encrypted form... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7597129 | Door closure system A door structure, said structure for use particularly, although not necessarily exclusively, to selectively close an opening between a first environment which is at a temperature which is lower than the temperature of the environment on the opposing side of the open... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7594844 | Toy apparatus A toy apparatus is provided including a playbase movable between a first closed position and a second open position. The playbase includes one or more members and these members are provided in a substantially flattened condition when the playbase is in a first close... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7594028 | Counting of GVRP protocol data units within a network bridge Counters are implemented within an 802.1Q VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) bridge model to assist a network administrator in diagnosing network problems associated with the dynamic registration of VLANs. Such counters are able to count the number of dynamic VLANs p... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590641 | Selecting various algorithms to compress columns of analytic data in a read-only relational database in a manner that allows decompression of the compressed data using minimal system resources A method, computer program product and system for balancing compression efficiency against access performance. Source data is read from a database row by row and column by column within each row. Algorithm(s) are selected to compress the data read for each column. A... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7571332 | Reducing power consumed by a computer system during a hibernation or an off state by remotely waking up the computer system A method and system for reducing power consumed by a computer system. A network switch includes a processor coupled to a plurality of ports which are coupled to a plurality of computer systems. The processor includes logic for receiving a media access control addres... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7570474 | System, apparatus and method for automatically facilitating the discharge of static electricity from an apparatus One embodiment of the invention facilitates automatic static discharge from an apparatus such as an aircraft. The embodiment comprises an attachment structure, such as a jet canopy, having a system grounding port. The attachment structure can be operatively coupled ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567614 | Altering power consumption in communication links based on measured noise A method, circuit and system for altering the power consumption in communication links. A type of noise and an amount of jitter in a signal transmitted across a communication link is measured. Upon determining the contribution of the measured noise to the measured j... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7559843 | Method and apparatus for providing real-time machine learning to computer-controlled agents used in video games A method for providing real-time machine learning to agents used in video games is disclosed. Initially, adjusted fitnesses of a set of agents within a population are determined. An agent having a relatively low adjusted fitness is then removed from the population. ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7552286 | Performance of a cache by detecting cache lines that have been reused A method and system for improving the performance of a cache. The cache may include an array of tag entries where each tag entry includes an additional bit (“reused bit”) used to indicate whether its associated cache line has been reused, i.e., has been requeste... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7543256 | System and method for designing an integrated circuit device A method includes providing an initial IC device design, which design has a desired set of electrical characteristics. A layout representation corresponding to the initial device design is generated. A simulation tool is used to determine whether the layout represen... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539778 | Method for a caching mechanism for a central synchronization server The present invention discloses a new synchronization architecture for synchronization of data between different clients by using a central synchronization server linked to a Back End data store which additionally provides a cache for permanently buffering incoming ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538538 | Method of using a four terminal hybrid silicon/organic field effect sensor device A four terminal field effect device comprises a silicon field effect device with a silicon N-type semiconductor channel and an N+ source and drain region. An insulator is deposited over the N-type semiconductor channel. An organic semiconductor material is deposited... | 05/26/2009 |
