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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7945685 | Controlled relay of media streams across network perimeters The invention provides an apparatus and method to establish media sessions for media streams crossing a network boundary. The system includes a media relay controlled by a media configurator control module. The media relay reserves media paths (that include ports in... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7661629 | Systems and methods for destabilizing an airfoil vortex Apparatuses and methods for the controlled trailing wake flows. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment is directed to an aircraft system that includes an airfoil having first and second oppositely facing flow surfaces and a tip. The system can further includ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661525 | Collapsible pill cup with timer A pill case has an oblong base with pill spaces on opposite sides of a cup holder in the base. A collapsible cup is provided within the cup holder. A lid has an accessory housing. The lid is attached to the base via a hinge or fold joint. The lid may have a lower ed... | 02/16/2010 |
| D610136 | Bottom housing for a mobile communication device | 02/16/2010 |
| D610037 | Electric vehicle | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661116 | Auction for targeted content Displaying personalized content to content observers by content providers (e.g., advertisers) who disseminate content over a network is disclosed. In particular, enabling the display of targeted content to television viewers is disclosed. Identification of the conte... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660960 | Modified machine architecture with partial memory updating The updating of only some memory locations in a multiple computer environment in which at least one applications program (50) executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers M1, M2. . . . Mn each of which has a local memory, is disclosed. Me... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660911 | Block-based data striping to flash memory In various embodiments, options for data striping to FLASH memory are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an SATA to ATA bridge, an ATA to USB bridge coupled to the SATA to ATA bridge, and a USB interface coupled to the ATA ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660899 | Web site cobrowsing Cobrowsing web sites by two or more users is disclosed. For a cobrowsing session between a first client of a first user and a second client of a second user, the cobrowsing session is first initiated. The first user browses a web site on the first client. The first ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660850 | Supporting a serial and a parallel invitation protocol A method and system for establishing a multiparty session with a mesh configuration by sending out invitations to endpoints in parallel is provided. To initiate a session, an initiating endpoint sends invitations in parallel to the endpoints that are to be in the se... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660804 | Joint optimization of wrapper generation and template detection A method and system for generating wrappers for hierarchically organized documents by jointly optimizing template detection and wrapper generation is provided. A wrapper generation system generates a wrapper for documents with similar templates by identifying a clus... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660800 | Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659985 | Document transmission and routing with recipient control, such as facsimile document transmission and routing Techniques for transmitting information to a recipient under their control are described. In some situations, the techniques are used in conjunction with a fax delivery system to, as part of a connection established to perform a fax transmission, provide a variety o... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659151 | Flip chip with interposer, and methods of making same A device is disclosed which includes a die comprising an integrated circuit and an interposer that is coupled to the die, the interposer having a smaller footprint than that of the die. A method is disclosed which includes operatively coupling an interposer to a die... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7658546 | Bearing assembly A bearing assembly comprising a housing and a ball at least partially housed within the housing. The housing comprises a race having a concave bearing surface, a sleeve surrounding the race, and a resilient member disposed between the race and the sleeve. The surfac... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7658231 | Residential fire sprinkler A pendent type residential fire sprinkler is described. The residential fire sprinkler has a body with a K-factor of at least 6 passage coupled to a deflector assembly that distributes fluid flowing through the passage over a coverage area to perform in accordance w... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7658143 | Oscillating hot dog grill A hot dog grill for cooking hot dogs or similar food products is disclosed. The grill has an inclined heating surface defined on a sloping top plate. A grill assembly having a top cross member is placed over and in proximity to the heating surface. The grill assembl... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657923 | Framework for a security system A framework for a security system is described. The framework may be used to track which security engines are available to enforce security policies. A security engine is a software resource that enforces security policies designed to help ensure that a vulnerabilit... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657666 | Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library, including removable media A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the med... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657644 | Methods and apparatus for streaming media multicast A method for a cache for providing streaming media data to a client system includes receiving a request from a client system for a media meta file, the media meta file comprising a unicast URL for a stream of media data, retrieving the media meta file, initiating a ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657617 | Method and system for collecting performance related information for a remote device In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising for each tuple containing a counter and an object; and for at least one remote device in a network that has the particular object and counter contained in the tuple, automatically sampling the counter. | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657504 | User interface for displaying images of sights A method and system for identifying sights associated with a location and for displaying images associated with those sights is provided. A tour system identifies sights associated with a location by submitting a search request formed using the location to an image ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657458 | Vendor-driven, social-network enabled review collection system and method The embodiments of the present system include a review engine that is connected to support modules and databases that receive, store and retrieve reviews, based upon the subject and the users' relationship to the authors of the reviews. The review engine comprises a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657433 | Speech recognition accuracy with multi-confidence thresholds A speech recognition system uses multiple confidence thresholds to improve the quality of speech recognition results. The choice of which confidence threshold to use for a particular utterance may be based on one or more features relating to the utterance. In one pa... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657303 | Guided radiation therapy system A system and method for accurately locating and tracking the position of a target, such as a tumor or the like, within a body. In one embodiment, the system is a target locating and monitoring system usable with a radiation delivery source that delivers selected dos... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657302 | Guided radiation therapy system A system and method for accurately locating and tracking the position of a target, such as a tumor or the like, within a body. In one embodiment, the system is a target locating and monitoring system usable with a radiation delivery source that delivers selected dos... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657301 | Guided radiation therapy system A system and method for accurately locating and tracking the position of a target, such as a tumor or the like, within a body. In one embodiment, the system is a target locating and monitoring system usable with a radiation delivery source that delivers selected dos... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657089 | Automatic classification of photographs and graphics A method and system for classifying an image as a photograph or a graphic based on a ranked prevalent color histogram feature or a ranked region size feature is provided. The prevalent color histogram feature contains counts of the colors that are most prevalent in ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656786 | Method for pulse shape design for OFDM A computationally efficient pulse shaping method for OFDM that produces mutually orthogonal transmission pulses having fast spectral decay is provided. The pulse shaping method comprises an iterative method for designing OFDM transmission pulses that satisfy prescri... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7655617 | Conjugates of soluble peptidic compounds with membrane-binding agents The present invention provides, among other things, soluble derivatives of soluble polypeptides that incorporate membrane binding elements. Methods of making these soluble derivatives, and methods of using these soluble derivatives also are provided. ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7655500 | Packaged microelectronic devices and methods for packaging microelectronic devices Packaged microelectronic devices and methods for packaging microelectronic devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of packaging a microelectronic device including a microelectronic die having a first side with a plurality of bond-pads and a second ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7655168 | Tools for manufacturing composite parts and methods for using such tools Tools for manufacturing composite parts and methods for using such tools are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin part from a plurality of fibers positioned on a tool having a femal... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654903 | Online gaming cheating prevention system and method Technology is provided for preventing cheating during online gaming, including a first online gaming server computer system configured to gather information regarding cheaters detected during online gaming; a second online gaming server computer system configured to... | 02/02/2010 |
| RE41094 | CCD scanner powered by a serial bus A scanner has a scanning module for generating image data by way of scanning a document, a motor for driving the scanning module, and a control circuit electrically connected to the scanning module and the motor for controlling operations of the scanner. The scannin... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653812 | Method and system for evaluating confidence in a sending domain to accurately assign a trust that a communication is not unwanted A method and system for identifying whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwanted by the recipient is provided. A trust system relies on a trust provider, such as a sending domain, to indicate whether an electronic communication is likely to be unwant... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653726 | Online forecasting system and method System and method for real-time on-line interactive forecasting of an element, the method comprising: receiving a user input for a forecast element; and capturing at least one forecast of an element or event, storing that at least one forecast of an element or event... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653684 | Enabling inter-subsystem resource sharing Techniques for enabling inter-subsystem resource sharing are provided. A subsystem executing an application (“app subsystem”) receives resources from another subsystem providing a resource (“resource subsystem”), such as a DLL. Then, when an application of t... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653599 | Methods and systems for exchanging and/or transferring various forms of value Methods and systems for exchanging various forms of value, including coins, currency, credit, debit, and/or bank account funds, for prepaid cash cards, credit cards, phone cards, and the like. In one embodiment, a value exchange machine includes a coin input region,... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653438 | Methods and apparatus for renal neuromodulation Methods and apparatus are provided for renal neuromodulation using a pulsed electric field to effectuate electroporation or electrofusion. It is expected that renal neuromodulation (e.g., denervation) may, among other things, reduce expansion of an acute myocardial ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653185 | Universal document transport A universal document transport facility is described where, in various embodiments, the facility recognizes document requests based on a received document, interacts with document routing rules and workflow requirements with respect to the received document, and man... | 01/26/2010 |
