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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6533582 | In-office tooth whitening A dental office procedure for whitening patient teeth involves the basic steps of: (1) coating a specially-prepared patient dentition impression with a tooth whitening agent; (2) placing the coated patient dentition impression into the patient's mouth; (3... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6480851 | Efficient computation of aggregated data in containers supporting item level access control A computer system data container such as a directory or data folder includes various items (e.g., e-mail messages) having item level security controls. In this invention, the computer system ignores files for which the viewer has no viewing rights when su... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6459454 | Systems for adaptively deinterlacing video on a per pixel basis Systems for adaptively deinterlacing interlaced video to generate a progressive frame on a per pixel basis. Two consecutive fields of interlaced video are converted into a frame of progressive video. One of the fields is replicated to generate half the li... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6460180 | Enabling and/or disabling selected types of broadcast triggers Information from an information resource may be displayed with television video in a synchronized fashion. A trigger, broadcast along with the television video, identifies the resource and indicates how information from the resource should display. When a... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6450810 | Cushioned, fiber-covered dental applicators A dental instrument is configured to be positioned adjacent the teeth and gums of a patient without injuring or causing pain to sensitive teeth or gums. The dental instrument includes: (i) a main body having a proximal end and a distal end, the main body ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6439744 | Decorative ground lighting stake assembly and system A decorative lighting system for deploying a string of decorative lights above a ground surface, includes (i) a string of decorative lights comprising a plurality of electrical sockets each connected by wiring strung between each of the sockets, each sock... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6430289 | System and method for computerized status monitor and use in a telephone network A telecommunication system combines telephone technology and computer. network technology to monitor a caller and callee's computer activity and to access call processing criteria selected by the caller and callee and stored on the computer network. A com... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6425885 | Hydraulic syringe A manually operated hydraulic syringe includes a syringe barrel having an interior surface. The interior surface bounds a first chamber having a first transverse cross-sectional area and a second chamber having a second transverse cross-sectional area. Th... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6422865 | Endodontic irrigator tips having cannulas with annealed distal portions and related methods An endodontic irrigator tip having a cannula with an annealed distal portion and a proximal portion enables the cannula to easily move within a root canal. The cannula extends from a hub that is adapted for coupling with a syringe or other delivery device... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6423750 | Systems for delivering anti-infective compositions to treat disordered tissue such as cold sores The present invention relates to the treatment of disordered epithelial tissues such as cold sores and other complications resulting from disorders such as herpes, and the like. The invention relates to the use of an anti-infective and/or antimicrobial ac... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6424342 | Decompressing and compositing graphical image data Systems and methods for mapping, decompressing, and compositing graphical image in preparation for displaying an image on a display screen. Graphical image data is received by a graphics engine, which maps portions of the data to pixel positions on the di... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6422868 | In-office tooth whitening A dental office procedure for whitening patient teeth involves the basic steps of: (1) heating a specially-prepared patient dentition impression to a temperature in the range of approximately from 110° F. to 130° F.; (2) coating the heated patient denti... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421054 | Methods and apparatus for performing grid fitting and hinting operations Methods and apparatus for utilizing pixel sub-components which form a pixel element of an LCD display, e.g., as separate luminous intensity elements, are described. Each pixel of a color LCD display is comprised of three non-overlapping red, green and blu... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6420431 | Methods for treating disordered tissue through agitated delivery of anti-infective compositions The present invention relates to the treatment of disordered epithelial tissues such as cold sores and other complications resulting from disorders such as herpes, and the like. The invention relates to the use of an anti-infective and/or antimicrobial ac... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6421439 | System and method for user affiliation in a telephone network A telecommunication system combines telephone technology and Internet technology to establish one or more user-specified affiliation lists. The affiliation lists are stored on the Internet and are accessible by the user and by the telecommunication portio... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6415438 | Trigger having a time attribute An interactive television trigger has a time attribute value that indicates a future time when the trigger is to be executed. In many situations, the trigger is sent to the receiver unit prior to the future time (e.g., to account for bandwidth limitations... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6415318 | Inter-enterprise messaging system using bridgehead servers Systems and methods for transmitting messages, such as real-time messages, from an entity outside a firewall to a recipient inside the firewall. The messages include the address of a bridgehead server exposed through the firewall and information identifyi... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6414032 | Anti-infective compositions for treating disordered tissue such as cold sores The present invention relates to the treatment of disordered epithelial tissues such as cold sores and other complications resulting from disorders such as herpes, and the like. The invention relates to the use of an anti-infective and/or antimicrobial ac... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6409993 | Dental bleaching compositions incorporating perborates Dental bleaching compositions that include perborate bleaching agents, such as sodium perborate monohydrate. The bleaching agent is dispersed within a sticky and viscous carrier such as a mixture of propylene glycol and silica fume. Anhydrous propylene gl... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6410599 | Antiseptic compositions suitable for application to human tissue The present invention relates to an antiseptic composition for treating a human infected with a virus, a bacteria or a fungus, for example, disordered epithelial tissues such as cold sores and other complications resulting from herpes and the like. The co... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6408298 | Methods and systems for copying and moving across virtual namespaces A method is described for moving a collection of resources from a source virtual namespace to a destination virtual namespace. For example, the method could copy or move the files within a URI directory "http://server/dir1/" to a new URI directory "http:/... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6402514 | Dental wedge with elastomeric sides for enhanced retention The invention generally provides for a dental wedge with elastomeric sides. The body of the dental wedge comprises a head and a tip and generally tapers from the head to the tip. The body of the dental wedge also comprises recessed or mounting surfaces lo... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6402723 | Inline hemostasis valve A hemostasis valve apparatus includes (i) a valve body having a lumen therethrough; (ii) a first resiliently deformable seal disposed within the valve body; and (iii) a plunger having a lumen extending therethrough. A passageway extends through the lumens... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400801 | Smooth radiopaque endodontic marking tools and related methods Enhanced radiographic detection is provided by an endodontic marking instrument having a highly radiopaque elongate member, thereby enabling a dentist to better identify the location of the instrument in a root canal and the length of the root canal. The ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6398761 | Double syringe barrels with ported delivery ends The syringe system has a two separate pathways for delivering two materials for mixing. The syringe system has a plunger unit with two plungers that engage two barrels of a dual barrel cartridge to push the two materials into two separate lumens in a nipp... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400407 | Communicating logical addresses of resources in a data service channel of a video signal A method and apparatus for communicating logical addresses within a broadcast television signal are provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, a logical address of a resource, e.g., a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), may be communicated to... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6396473 | Overlay graphics memory management method and apparatus The invention frees up memory to other uses by allocating memory to video graphics buffering only to the extent required. It also saves graphic processor bandwidth by processing, e.g. blending, only to the extent required. It does so by defining a regular... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6396505 | Methods and apparatus for detecting and reducing color errors in images Display apparatus, and methods for displaying images, e.g., text, on gray scale and color monitors where each pixel includes multiple pixel sub-components are described. Filtering and/or displaced sampling is used to generate pixel sub-component luminous ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393456 | System, method, and computer program product for workflow processing using internet interoperable electronic messaging with mime multiple content type A client computer in a communications network with a server computer assembles a record set that has a MIME declaration header with a multipart content type and a content sub-type indicative of a workflow media type. The first client computer also assembl... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6392993 | Method and computer program product for efficiently and reliably sending small data messages from a sending system to a large number of receiving systems In a network with a sending system networked to at least one receiving system, it is sometimes desirable to transfer relatively short messages between the sending system and one or more receiving systems in a highly reliable yet highly efficient manner. T... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6391283 | Methods and apparatus for activating dental compositions Compositions, method and systems for bleaching tooth surfaces in an accelerated manner. The dental bleaching compositions include a bleaching agent and a stable radiant energy absorbing material that acts as a bleaching agent activator. The dental bleachi... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6387353 | Light or heat activated dental bleaching compositions Dental bleaching compositions are made with a bleaching agent and a stable radiant-energy absorbing compound that acts as a bleaching agent activator. The dental bleaching compositions of the present invention can be one-part, pre-mixed compositions that ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6382979 | Apparatus and methods for accelerating dental treatments Apparatus, kits and methods for providing accelerated treatment of a patient's teeth. The apparatus, kits and methods involve the use of a dental impression tray that includes a patient dentition impression formed from a dental impression material such as... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6381602 | Enforcing access control on resources at a location other than the source location Systems and methods for enforcing access control on secured documents that are stored outside of the direct control of the original application that would normally store and govern access to the documents. Access security can be enforced at a search engin... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6381627 | Method and computer readable medium for discovering master DNS server computers for a given domain name in multiple master and multiple namespace configurations The invention detects multiple master DNS server computers and handles multiple namespaces. In traditional DNS, each zone or domain has a primary or master server computer as well as one or more slave server computers. Both the master server computer and ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6374357 | System and method for regulating a network service provider's ability to host distributed applications in a distributed processing environment The present invention is directed to a novel system and method for regulating a network service provider's ability to provide network services to a distributed application executing on a network connected computer, which is dependent upon whether the NSP ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6368109 | Kits for use in accelerating dental treatments Apparatus, kits and methods for providing accelerated treatment of a patient's teeth. The apparatus, kits and methods involve the use of a dental impression tray that includes a patient dentition impression formed from a dental impression material such as... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6370599 | System for ascertaining task off-load capabilities of a device and enabling selected capabilities and when needed selectively and dynamically requesting the device to perform the task The present invention is directed to a method and computer program product for offloading specific processing tasks that would otherwise be performed in a computer system's processor and memory, to a peripheral device, or devices, that are connected to th... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6367034 | Using query language for event filtering and aggregation Systems and methods for reporting the occurrence of events in a computer system to event subscriber software. A computer system includes an event-filtering component that receives notification of the occurrence of events, filters the events, and reports s... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363386 | System and method for managing property information related to a resource A method is described for managing property information related to a resource such as a computer file or directory. First, a property file is created for storing property information related to the resource. Next, the property file is directly associated ... | 03/26/2002 |
