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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 |
| 20120110463 | Application Recommendation A method for application recommendation performed by a computerized application recommendation system includes receiving usage data for applications within a category of applications from a plurality of users, and providing a first user with a recommendation for a first... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110317 | CONTENT DOWNLOAD MANAGER A system is configured to receive input to define one or more download policies from a group of available download policies, including one or more network restriction policies, one or more time restriction policies, one or more event restriction policies, and one or mor... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110464 | CONTENT SHARING INTERFACE FOR SHARING CONTENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting, within a web page, a graphical representation of a content sharing interface including at least one button icon, receiving user input to the button icon, i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084660 | QUICK CONNECT AND DISCONNECT, BASE LINE CONFIGURATION, AND STYLE CONFIGURATOR An approach for quick connect, quick disconnect, style configurator and baseline change actions for station/platform systems. For a quick connect, a user may receive a list of available groups, select a particular group, and provide site number and controller number for... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED END-USER SUPPORT A system and method for displaying content in a browser window associated with an end-user is described. In one implementation, data that includes links is received from a content provider, each of the links is identified and encoded, and the received data along with th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084661 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AN INTERACTIVE ART MARKETPLACE IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT Information related to art is provided in networked computing environments wherein users can participate in public or private online interactive video conferences, chat rooms and other online sessions led by art galleries or art gallery affiliates. User's may switch bet... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND GRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATING PROGRAMMATICALLY-GENERATED MEDIA ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO A USER'S SOCIALLY RECOMMENDED MEDIA ITEMS A system and method for automatically, programmatically generating media item recommendations on a graphical user interface (GUI) based on a friend media item recommendation selected by a user. In the preferred embodiment, a selected media item recommendation is display... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072847 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INTERNET PAGE AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME Information may be displayed on a mobile terminal by receiving information of a first Internet page, displaying the information on a first screen of a display, designating a first area of the first Internet page displayed on the first screen, and displaying the designat... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072845 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING LIVE MEDIA TAGS INTO TYPES Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for classifying a live media tag into a type. A system configured to practice the method receives a group of tags generated in real time and associated with at least a portion of a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054628 | Top200RX A method and system for placing a request for prescription medication information via the World Wide Web. The request is placed by a user at a client system and received by a server system. The server system receives client information including identification of the cl... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054626 | SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS-BASED CLOUD PROVISIONING In an aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a provisioning component, a first selection of one or more infrastructure parameters; receiving, at the provisioning component, a second selection of one or more platform parameters; receiving... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054627 | SELECTION AND DELIVERY OF INVITATIONAL CONTENT BASED ON PREDICTION OF USER INTENT Systems and methods are provided for delivering invitational content based on a prediction of the intent of a user. In particular, partial action sequences are identified in a journal of events associated with the user. Thereafter, the partial sequences are analyzed and... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054629 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LOCATING NETWORK FILES A system, method, and computer program product for accessing web pages on a network are provided. In use, different users are provided access to a plurality of sections of a file selected by the different users based on a community value for at least one community dimen... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047440 | SHIPPING ADDRESS POPULATION USING ONLINE ADDRESS BOOK A method for automatically generating a custom name list for use in an order form which can be submitted to an Internet shopping site to complete an order. The method utilizes address book data, stored primarily online utilizing a third party service. In one method acco... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046864 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING UTILIZING A VEHICULAR ASSEMBLY A system, method, and computer program product are provided for social networking utilizing a vehicular assembly. In operation, a vehicular assembly is utilized to communicate with a mobile device. Information about social contacts is received, utilizing the mobile devi... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047442 | HOVERCARD PIVOTING FOR MOBILE DEVICES Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for invoking execution of web based applications. In one aspect, a method includes receiving user input at a computing device, displaying a contact hovercard on a display ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047441 | UPDATE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS An update management method and apparatus therefor are provided, the update management method including the operations of storing one or more pieces of update information related to at least one channel from a plurality of channels in a storage unit of a user terminal; ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042258 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING, MAINTAINING, AND GROWING AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK An on-line community/social network system and method for provide a novel technique that enables an on-line community system to obtain information necessary to provide additional and more robust features to its users, solely from the user's participation in the communit... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042257 | UPDATING APPLICATION DATA AFTER ANTICIPATING IMMINENT USE Obtaining application data for applications executing on a computing device in anticipation of imminent use of the computing device. The computing device detects an occurrence of a pre-defined event on the first computing device and obtains the application data in respo... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036445 | Secured Client-Server Computer System for Interactive Applications A client-server type computer system for graphical applications is provided, that is to say, for displaying data in the form of software units called “widgets” on display screens called “display units”, said system being intended to control the operation of a ma... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036444 | Systems and Methods for Interactive Web-based Social Networking and Activities Coordination Automated, user-centric, interactive web-based social networking systems and methods for at least two groups of users, including customer users, which are individuals, and service provider users, which are associated with restaurants, businesses, and/or service provider... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036446 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ACCESS TO A RESOURCE BASED ON SOCIAL SYNCHRONY AND HOMOPHILY Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing resources. A system for managing resources is configured for categorizing users according to at least one of common user characteristics and common user behaviors with... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036552 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DEVICES AND METHOD OF OPERATION OF SAME A managed services platform and method of operation of same are described herein. The platform can include a device management service (DMS) server in which the DMS server can act as a gateway for communications with one or more computing devices, and the computing devi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030576 | REDUCING THE VALUE OF A BROWSER FINGERPRINT A method, operable on a processing device, for reducing the value of a browser fingerprint may include receiving, by the processing device, a request to provide a list of plugins installed on a browser. The method may also include generating, by the processing device, a... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030773 | MANAGING DEVICE CONNECTIVITY AND NETWORK BASED SERVICES Methods and apparatus are provided for interoperating a device with network based services. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting registration with a service account, providing a graphical display for user selection during output associated with content stored ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030575 | AUTOMATED IMAGE-SELECTION SYSTEM A computer system comprising storage for storing a plurality of digital image files, each digital image file including a digital image and metadata defining the included digital image. An input system of the computer system enables a user to select first and second date... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA-DRIVEN WEB PAGE NAVIGATION CONTROL A system and method for web application navigation control includes updating navigation data models used in navigation constraints with received data from an end-user or system. Without needing a centralized application-specific controller, from a collection of extensib... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030578 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT ENHANCED MAPPING WITHIN A USER INTERFACE A system and method for Context Enhanced Mapping. A request is received from a user over a network for a map comprising an identification of a physical location, and at least one criteria. The physical location is mapped. Spatial, temporal, topical, and social data avai... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030022 | ELECTRONIC BOOK SYSTEM AND CONTENT SERVER An electronic book system which enables selecting and distributing music matching contents etc. of an electronic book and playing the selected music upon browsing the electronic book. A typical embodiment of the present invention includes a content server and a terminal... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023390 | INTEGRATED LINK STATISTICS WITHIN AN APPLICATION To enhance the user experience for users of an application, such as a web browser, the application obtains statistics on shortened links that are displayed in an application or that are associated with displayed unshortened links. The statistics may include, for example... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120011444 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REFERENCING AN ATTACHMENT IN A COMMUNICATION Methods and systems are described for referencing an attachment in a communication. A first node representing a first communicant and a second node representing a second communicant communicate via a first communication including a resource as an attachment and includin... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005585 | USER-WIDGET-BASED TRANSACTION SYSTEM A method and system are described to provide a user-widget-based transaction environment. In one example embodiment, an electronic magazine may be presented to a user device as a widget without using a browser. The electronic magazine may comprise two or more data pages... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A WEB SEARCH Disclosed is a method and system for providing to a user rapid access to search resources while interacting with electronic documents by providing for recognition of user initiated search triggers that result in searches being performed with minimal user input or page n... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005584 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLOUD COMPUTING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE A method and apparatus for providing a cloud computing graphical user interface is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request to display an aggregate of cloud computing system resources of different cloud computing systems. The method may also... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320953 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROJECTING A USER INTERFACE VIA PARTITION STREAMING Various methods for projecting a user interface via multiple encoded streams are provided. One example method includes generating first and at least second data streams. The data included in the first and second data streams may be configured to cause respective partiti... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110319056 | REMOTE ACCESS TO A MOBILE DEVICE The disclosed subject matter relates to various architectures that can facilitate establishing a remote user interface (UI) by way of a secure connection session. The remote UI can reflect one or more interfaces extant on a mobile device (e.g., a smartphone with a Linux... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320395 | Optimization of Multi-channel Commerce Content provided by a decision engine system is described. Content, stored in a server system, is provided to a plurality of display units at a plurality of touch point devices. One or more features are determined to optimize the content provided to the plurality of dis... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320954 | RELATED WEB FEED CORRELATION WITH DYNAMIC CONTENT ACCESS At least one element of received first feed content of a first feed is determined by a computer client device to include a first feed correlation identifier. The first feed correlation identifier identifies a portion of a second feed associated with the at least one ele... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314383 | SECURED AND FILTERED PERSONAL INFORMATION PUBLISHING Selectively shared and filtered personal information collections are provided. Personal information collections include calendars, task lists, address books, and other collections of information that may be provided by personal information manager (PIM) software. Person... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314382 | SYSTEMS OF COMPUTERIZED AGENTS AND USER-DIRECTED SEMANTIC NETWORKING A system, method and computer program product in which semi-autonomous agents interact with a semantic network. In a basic embodiment of the system, a data structure providing a semantic network is provided in a non-transitory, computer-readable medium within a computer... | 12/22/2011 |
