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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150012 | Method and apparatus for deriving the present local time of a target station A communication system that enables a requesting station to receive information for the local time of the present situs of a target station. The communication system includes a time server that receives a request for the local time of the current situs of the target... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7443964 | Caller ID messaging Methods, systems, and apparatuses for caller identification messaging are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a calling party uses a Caller ID Messaging Device that supplants the incoming calling line identification (ICLID) signal with a Caller ID Messaging Sign... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7372358 | Portable computer supporting paging instructions A portable computer is described that contains a circuit for receiving pages and performing security functions based on the received page. Once a page has been received by the portable computer, the computer's hard drive can be automatically reformatted, or the port... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7353274 | Method, apparatus, and system for determining whether a computer is within a particular location Some embodiments provide a method of determining whether a lottery player or the player's computer is within a particular location. The player's computer is connected to a computer network. The method transmits, through the computer network, a pass code and a teleph... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7269249 | Systems and methods for providing user profile information in conjunction with an enhanced caller information system An enhanced caller-id service providing multi-media based caller information to subscribers via a server system. The server system can combine user-provided profile information with other data to provide more detailed reports for the subscriber. The server can also ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7248681 | System and method for real-time fraud detection within a telecommunication network Real time detection of the fraudulent use of a telecommunications network is accomplished by analyzing data for each call that is occurring within the network. A signal protocol receiver is used to collect signaling protocol for each call that is occurring within th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248678 | Methods and apparatus for routing and accounting of revenue generating calls using natural language voice recognition Techniques and systems for routing and information collection for telephone calls are described. Upon initiation of a revenue generating call, a data management module creates a call interaction record, including a unique call identifier and information generated by... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7010360 | Automatic conversion of dates and times for messaging A system and method are disclosed for automatically converting dates and times in electronic text messages to the local dates and times of the message recipients. For example, when a text message is sent to an intended recipient, a messaging server can recognize dat... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003466 | Destination device initiated caller identification A method, system, and program for origin device initiated caller identification are provided. In response to detecting a call extended to a destination device, extending a request from said destination device to an origin device requesting a voice utterance of the c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6960713 | Portable telephone A portable telephone produces either beep sound or melody sound as incoming call sound. The melody sound is produced based on music data, which are stored in advance or downloaded from the prescribed distribution center, wherein the music data represent the melody o... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6801608 | Telephone incoming signal discriminator A telephone incoming signal discriminator includes a first relay, an FSK detector, a DTMF detector, a pin detector, a tone amplifier and oscillation control, an FSK/DTMF decoder IC, a memory, a buzzer, a comparison/setting control IC, an auto answer machine, and a s... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6738460 | Apparatus for indicating caller availability A caller identification availability apparatus located adjacent a caller's telephone. The caller identification availability apparatus indicates who, among a select group of people, are available to receive telephone calls. Each caller within a select group has a si... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6546084 | Voice mail system and method with subscriber selection of agent personalities telephone user interface address book and time zone awareness A system for indicating to a message subscriber when a message has been left for that subscriber accommodates multiple time zones by providing information to the subscriber related to the subscriber's time zone indicating that the message was left. When t... | 04/08/2003 |
| 5901209 | Caller ID substitution for selected telephone callers A system and method for selectively adjusting the caller identification of a calling party based, in party, on parameters associated with adjusting the calling party. Security codes can be used in conjunction with a database to insure that the substituted... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5646839 | Telephone-based personnel tracking system A computer system includes hardware for interfacing with the public telephone network and for accepting incoming telephone calls. The computer system detects from the incoming telephone calls automatic number identification data (ANI data), such as Caller... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5351290 | Telecommunications fraud prevention system and method A fraud prevention system and method are provided which utilize communication between an intelligent network platform 14 and a local telecommunications device 10. The local telecommunications device 10 comprises a memory 20 which stores various data value... | 09/27/1994 |
| 4320258 | Arrangement for requesting service for called telephone subscribers An improved ringing control circuit in a stored program telephone switching system which provides a called subscriber an interval or window of time after answering a call to send a request for special services such as identification of the number of the c... | 03/16/1982 |
