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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| 8447714 | System for electronic learning synapse with spike-timing dependent plasticity using phase change memory A system, method and computer program product for producing spike-dependent plasticity in an artificial synapse is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for producing spike-dependent plasticity in an artificial neuron comprises generating a pre-synaptic s... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8442355 | System and method for generating a multi-dimensional image A system and method for generating a multi-dimensional image of an object in a scene is disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a spectral estimation module configured to convert a two-dimensional (2D) high-resolution light intensity image of the scene to a spectra... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8434902 | Modular lighting fixture system A modular lighting fixture system includes plural modular lighting segments, each modular lighting segment including a mating system for mechanically connecting the modular lighting segment to another modular lighting segment. The modular lighting segments fit toget... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8432938 | Method and system for video stream transmission over wireless channels A method and system for transmitting video information from a sender to a receiver over a wireless channel, is provided. Video information bits are placed into multiple data packets, and transmitted in a burst sequence from a sender to a receiver over a wireless cha... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8428608 | Method and system for resource allocation in relay enhanced cellular systems A method and system for allocating resources for a relay enhanced cellular communication system including a base station, one or more mobile stations and one or more relay stations, is provided. Resource allocation involves allocating subcarriers to one or more acce... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8417191 | Method and system for beamforming communication in high throughput wireless communication systems A method and system for beamforming communication in high throughput wireless communications. Analog beamforming involves constructing analog beamforming coefficients for beamforming communication on a wireless channel. Constructing analog beamforming coefficients i... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8413056 | Method and apparatus for a home network auto-tree builder A method and system is provided for detecting, commanding and controlling diverse home devices currently connected to a home network. An interface is provided for accessing the home devices that are currently connected to a home network. According to the method, a d... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8412554 | Method and system for describing consumer electronics using separate task and device descriptions A method of representing user tasks to be performed by one or more of a plurality of electronic devices in a task orchestration system. Each device includes therein a function description specifying a function that the device can perform. The function descriptions a... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8407193 | Data deduplication for streaming sequential data storage applications Data deduplication compression in a streaming storage application, is provided. The disclosed deduplication process provides a deduplication archive that enables storage of the archive to, and extraction from, a streaming storage medium. One implementation involves ... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8401595 | Method and system for integrated wireless power and data communication A method and system of integrated wireless power and data transmission in a wireless device having a data communication circuit for wireless data communication and a power reception circuit including a charge storage unit. The wireless device is tuned to receive wir... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400955 | System and method for power saving by coordinated wake-up in a wireless multi-band network A system and method for wireless communication over multi-rate channels are disclosed. One embodiment of the system operates on wake-up schedules for power saving. The system includes a first multi-band wireless station that is capable of using a first frequency ban... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8396018 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having beacon design A system and method for efficiently communicating messages over a low-rate channel between multiple devices in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video is disclosed. The method includes various control bits in a beacon control field of a beacon fram... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8391122 | System and method for enabling efficient small writes to worm storage According to the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a WORM storage system, the method including a sector-append capability. The method includes receiving data to be written to a WORM storage system. In addition, the method includes identifyin... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8386706 | Method and system for secure data storage A method and system for secure data storage and retrieval is provided. A sequence of data units is divided into multiple subsets of data units corresponding to multiple data channels. The multiple data channels are assigned to multiple data writers based on a key co... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8386410 | System and method for semantic information extraction framework for integrated systems management The invention provides an enterprise administration system and method. The system includes a user interface module configured to enter administration terms or select a predetermined script of administration terms, a knowledge base configured to store system informat... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385362 | Method and system for contention-based medium access schemes for directional wireless transmission with asymmetric antenna system (AAS) in wireless communication systems A method and system for wireless communication in an asymmetric antenna system (AAS) communication system is provided. A wireless station performs carrier sensing by sensing a wireless communication channel for ongoing communications in one or more directions. Upon ... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385207 | Method and apparatus for end-to-end network congestion management The invention provides a method and apparatus for network congestion management. The method includes inserting a probe frame into data traffic in the network from a first endpoint in the network, reflecting the probe frame from a second endpoint in the network back ... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8382420 | Cart stop A cart stop suitable for use with a lift platform is described. The cart stop has a closed position which allows a cart or other wheeled device to move over it. The cart stop also has an open position which prevents the cart or other wheeled device from rolling off ... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8375296 | Reusing style sheet assets In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided comprising: parsing a document, wherein the document contains at least one reference to a style sheet; for each referenced style sheet: determining if a ruleset corresponding to the referenced styl... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8370351 | Method and system for generating playlists for content items A method and system for generating playlists for content items is provided. Generating a playlist involves monitoring user interaction with one or more content items as user-content interactions, determining a context associated with one or more user-content interac... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8369578 | Method and system for position determination using image deformation A method and system of position determination using image deformation is provided. One implementation involves storing an actual tag in a reference data module, receiving an image of a visual tag, the image captured by an image capturing device, comparing properties... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8365053 | Encoding and decoding data using store and exclusive or operations The invention provides a method, device and system for encoding and decoding data. The method includes receiving information including data units, storing the data units into a memory and encoding the data units by performing a plurality of store and exclusive-or op... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8363675 | Method and system for transmission of uncompressed video over wireless communication channels A method and system is provided for transmission of video information pixels over wireless channels, where each video pixel includes a plurality of components and each component comprises video information bits. The information bites are logically grouped into multi... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8355387 | System and method for bandwidth reservation protocol for spatial reuse in a wireless communication network A system and method for providing spatial reuse in a wireless network for communicating compressed and uncompressed audio/video is disclosed. A bandwidth reservation request for data communication with a receiver to a coordinator is transmitted. A first response ind... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8352907 | Software application recreation A software application recreation in a computing environment is provided. One embodiment involves analyzing program execution trace data of a software application, and using the analysis results in recreating an executable version of the software application from da... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8345681 | Method and system for wireless communication of audio in wireless networks A method and system for audio transmission in a wireless communication system which transmits digital video and digital audio in High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) format. Position information of audio packets within the HDMI frame is obtained. Digital audi... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8341130 | Scalable file management for a shared file system Managing a shared file system comprising a directory and files stored on a multiple storage devices shared by plural processing nodes, is provided. A plurality of parallel directory traversal records are partitioned into a plurality of ranges to allow for the record... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8331265 | System and method for adaptive beamforming training using fixed time window for heterogeneous antenna systems A system and method for performing a beamforming training between heterogeneous wireless devices in a wireless network is disclosed. A number of time slots in a fixed-time period are assigned for transmit and/or receive sector training. The number of time slots assi... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8330484 | Integrated circuit and method of testing the integrity of electrical connection of the circuit to external equipment An integrated circuit and method of testing the integrity of the electrical connection of the integrated circuit to external equipment are provided. The integrated circuit comprises an output port including output contacts for coupling the integrated circuit to exte... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8326891 | Managing a hierarchy of databases Monitoring an activity profile for a given row of a database and determining a target database for a given row based on the activity profile of the given row. Identifying any row related to the given row and moving the given row and any row related to the given row ... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8325686 | Method and system for channel time allocation and access control in wireless network for high-definition video transmission A channel time allocation and access control process for communication in wireless networks is provided. The channel time is divided into channel time blocks (CTBs), including one or more reserved CTBs and one or more unreserved CTBs. Schedules are implemented, wher... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8320605 | Electro-acoustic transducer An electro-acoustic transducer with a front part having an acoustically radiating surface, a supporting part that supports the front part and that extends from a peripheral region of the front part in a direction away from the acoustically radiating surface, and a r... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8306060 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a composite frame format A system and method for efficiently communicating uncompressed video and for efficiently communicating corresponding acknowledgements in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes aggregating multi... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8301690 | Correlator system for web services A web service is correlated. One implementation involves correlating requests for Web services in an information technology network by automatically correlating a request to a Web service by: searching in said network for Web services that can satisfy the request, s... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8300832 | System and method for copy protection for digital signals Embodiments of the present invention provide for the copy protection of distributed material after conditional access is applied, regardless of where the material is distributed. The solutions described provide the advantage of being sufficiently simple in implement... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8300661 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video using mode changes based on channel feedback (CF) Method and system for transmission of uncompressed video information from a sender to a receiver over wireless channels are disclosed. For example, according to one embodiment, when channel conditions (e.g., noise or interference) worsens, one or more least signific... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8291386 | System and process for debugging object-oriented programming code A process and system for interactive debugging of a computer program, is provided. One implementation involves providing a class for an object oriented computer program capable of executing on a computer system, the class having class methods defining a semantic fie... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8291245 | Method, apparatus and system for reducing power consumption based on storage device data migration The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for reducing power consumption involving data storage devices. One embodiment involves storing data in a first memory; in response to the first memory exceeding a first threshold, migrating the data from the firs... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8290523 | Method and system for accurate clock synchronization for communication networks A high accuracy clock synchronization mechanism between a sender and a receiver in a communication network achieves time synchronization using broadcast beacons, directly at the PHY/MAC layer of the sender and the receiver, to minimize synchronization delay jitter. ... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8289940 | System and method for channel access in dual rate wireless networks A system and method for wireless communication over multi-rate channels are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes source and destination devices that use first and second channels under a contention-based protocol. The first channel is directional with a ... | 10/16/2012 |
