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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057692 | Method and apparatus for collecting and providing information of interest to user regarding multimedia content A method of collecting information of interest to a user regarding multimedia content is described. The method may include receiving first content about the information of interest to the user among the multimedia content, collecting metadata of the first content by usi... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057742 | MRW INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORT OF MERCHANT DATA PROCESSING A method begins by receiving, from a requesting device, a request to access a record within an entity profile database. The method continues by authenticating the requesting device. When the requesting device is authenticated, the method continues by determining status ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057743 | WEB-BASED SERVICES FOR QUERYING AND MATCHING LIKES AND DISLIKES OF INDIVIDUALS A method for centrally providing a profile of a user's degree of preference for one or more items across categories in a plurality of domains of interest in a taxonomy of preferences is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a user's degree of pre... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057765 | EMAIL ATTACHMENT STORAGE METHOD AND SYSTEM An email method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, an email addressed to a recipient. The computing system retrieves from an internal table of files, a file link and an ID associated with an attached file attached to the email. The file lin... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057843 | USER-TRANSPARENT SYSTEM FOR UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING NETWORK-DISTRIBUTED DEVICES WITHOUT EXPLICITLY PROVIDED DEVICE OR USER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION A technique for uniquely identifying devices without explicitly provided device or user identifying information in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Mobile Internet, in which content is downloaded from a server to a device browser executing at a client de... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057504 | FUNCTIONAL EXTENSIONS FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS A system may include generation of extension metadata defining a functional extension associated with a business object, and generation of a runtime metadata buffer comprising enhanced metadata, the enhanced metadata based on core metadata of the business object and the... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057938 | Method for Sparse Object Streaming in Mobile Devices A communication system includes a wireless communication device that is adapted to send and receive data associated with at least one application. A computer server is in communication with the wireless communication device. The computer server is adapted to determine a... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057750 | File Transfer Using Standard Blocks and Standard-Block Identifiers Instead of transferring a large original file, such as a virtual-machine image file, from a source system to a target system, the original file is encoded to define a recipe file that is transferred. The recipe is then decoded to yield a duplicate of the original file o... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057745 | VIRTUAL DATABASE SYSTEM A method and apparatus for distributing a database implementation across multiple servers. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving information identifying an implementation of a database having a database schema, identifying the number of database servers to ho... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057829 | CROSS SITE, CROSS DOMAIN SESSION SHARING WITHOUT DATABASE REPLICATION A method of providing access to data via a public communications network includes the receiving a first data session request having a storage group mark, the storage group mark defining a server storage group, a load balancer route the request to a first server that pro... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057723 | PROVIDING ANSWER TO KEYWORD BASED QUERY FROM NATURAL OWNER OF INFORMATION A type of search engine (referred to as the “Get Engine”) receives one or more keywords, semantically formulates a question being asked from the keywords, generates specifications for the query, and searches a website index to determine websites that are likely owne... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057711 | EXTRACTION OF CRITICAL INFORMATION FROM DATABASE Some embodiments of extraction of critical information from a database in a networked system have been presented. In one embodiment, a subset of data from the database in the networked system is extracted. The subset of data is indexed to generate an index. Using the in... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057748 | Method and Apparatus for Parameterized Promotion and Delivery of Data The invention includes a method and apparatus for promoting a data item within a data distribution network. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring at least one parameter for the data item where the data item is associated with an application or service, propaga... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057744 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CASCADING A MIDDLEWARE TO A DATA ORCHESTRATION ENGINE Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium storing instructions thereon for implementing methods are directed to facilitating data exchange, such as accessing and operating on data objects, between field applications, such as mobile clients, and dedicated servers by... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057752 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM A document management apparatus capable of processing a request from a user logged in from an information processing apparatus via a network, includes a user management unit configured to manage attribute information for specifying document information to be used by a u... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057897 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING NETWORKS Provided is a method and apparatus for managing networks. The method includes defining a set of managed objects of each of the networks to be managed, sending a request for information about the set of managed objects to an agent of the networks to be managed, and recog... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057746 | VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION A computer implemented method provides a way of storing custom access control rules with information to which they apply. The rules can be associated with individual pieces of information, to provide a finer grained level of access without the need for prior knowledge o... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057749 | METHOD FOR PLAYING E-MAIL A method for playing an E-mail is provided. The E-mail is read in from a mail transmitting and receiving apparatus, and the E-mail includes a number of mail information fields. Further, an assigned filed data is checked, and at least one of the mail information fields i... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054715 | IMAGE SCALING ARRANGEMENT Methods and system for transferring images between devices are disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred a... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057751 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING A PRODUCTION RULE FOR A MEMORY MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS A method for evaluating a production rule for usage as a test input process for a memory management analysis is carried out via a server process. The server process accesses at least a database of a manufacturing execution system. At least one user table is retrieved ou... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054417 | PORTABLE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS There is provided a portable radiographic imaging apparatus including: an image output unit which detects a radiation which penetrates an object to be imaged and is irradiated on a surface to be irradiated of a casing, and outputs data of a radiographic image which repr... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057747 | UNIVERSAL PIXEL MANAGEMENT A single universal reporting pixel is embedded in a web page. The web page may contain one or more advertisements. One or more third-party reporting pixels are associated with the universal reporting pixel. Upon serving the web page, the universal reporting pixel causes... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057539 | Internet-based location intelligence system An internet-based location intelligence system comprising,
| 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057717 | System And Method For Generating A Search Ranking Score For A Web Page A system and method for generating a search ranking score for a web page. The system comprises a training data processor effective to receive training data including at least a first page, a first label, a second page and a second label. The system further comprises a f... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057580 | UNIFIED PAYMENT CARD A consolidation system for consumer gift cards, prepaid purchase cards or loyalty accounts which allows the consumer the flexibility to maintain account with a variety of independent merchants, each account individually tabulated, and access to each account available fr... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049721 | Local Agent for Remote File Access System Systems and methods for remote file access are disclosed: According to an embodiment, a local agent polls a server for a task request at a polling interval scheduled by a schedule timer in accordance with a set of local agent and remote client preferences. The local age... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049720 | SYNCHING DATA Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for synching data with one or more servers. One or more data resources are received. A version number and a unique identifier are assigned to each data resource not already assigned to an e... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049718 | Transactional Processing for Clustered File Systems Systems and methods for transactional processing within a clustered file system wherein user defined transactions operate on data segments of the file system data. The users are provided within an interface for using a transactional mechanism, namely services for openin... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049717 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR SYCHRONIZATION OF PROCESS CONTROL SERVERS A method for synchronization of data stored in redundant servers of a process control system is described. The redundant servers include an active server and at least one standby server, in communication with a plurality of applications. The method includes generating a... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049719 | Techniques for the association, customization and automation of content from multiple sources on a single display Techniques for the association, customization and automation of content from multiple sources on a single display device are described. A method includes storing an association rule as defined by a user, where the association rule defines a main content source and an as... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049716 | MEDIA VALIDATION SYSTEM A media validation system including a plurality of media storage devices which contain a quantity of content thereon, a user computer processor assembly structured to operatively access a select media storage device, a verification module, and a communicative link betwe... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049542 | SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BLOOD PROCESSING PROCEDURES Systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for managing blood processing operations and data for one or more blood component collection facilities are provided. An example system for networking the blood component collection facility includes a system computer includ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042629 | FILE SERVER WHICH CONDUCTS A MEMORY TEST UPON BOOT UP Provided is a file server providing a file service to a host computer, including an interface coupled to the host computer; a processor; a memory; and an interface coupled to a disk drive. The file server is configured to calculate a capacity of storage areas in the mem... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042626 | Transactional File System A transactional file system wherein multiple file system operations may be performed as a transaction. An application specifies that file system-related operations are to be handled as a transaction, and the application is given a file handle associated with a transacti... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042630 | SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT DATA OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK AND METHOD OF ARRANGING NODES FOR DISTRIBUTION OF DATA OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK The invention is a system for distributing content data over a computer network and a method of arranging receiver nodes in a computer network such that the capacity of the server is effectively multiplied many times over, and may even be increased exponentially. The in... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BACKING UP A PHONEBOOK IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A system and method for backing up a phonebook in an electronic device creates a backup file, copies data in the phonebook to the backup file, and sets an identification for the backup file. The system and method further attaches the backup file to an multimedia service... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBJECTS Embodiments of a classification pipeline disclosed herein have the ability to both collect data as it occurs and dynamically redact it, allowing ongoing statistics to be gathered and maintained while simultaneously constraining the total amount of storage capacity that ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042679 | Method and interprocess communication driver for managing requests of a database client to a database server The present invention concerns a method for managing the interprocess communication between at least one database client process (2) and at least one database server process (3) in a database system (5), wherein the at least one database client proc... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042377 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD) Device, system, and method of Computer-Aided-Design (CAD). A system of CAD may include a server to provide data of a CAD model to at least one client, wherein the server is capable of providing to the client section information defining a plurality of geometric sections... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING A SET OF DOMAIN NAMES TO RECOVER In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and system that receives a seed term, obtains a corpus of candidate terms, where each candidate term comprises the seed term or variants of the seed term, obtains network traffic information associated with ea... | 02/18/2010 |