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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4310726 | Method of identifying a calling station at a call terminating facility A method is disclosed illustratively in an emergency call handling system for automatically providing the identity of a calling station to a call terminating facility, such as a call answering bureau. In response to an appropriate call, a data base is acc... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4278844 | Communication system selective call screening arrangement A call screening arrangement is disclosed for an intercom communication system in which call features are activated by entering a two digit code from the rotary or multifrequency dial of the connected station sets. Incoming calls to a called station are s... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4277649 | Method and apparatus for screening telephone calls A telephone system is disclosed for providing customized telephone services. A called customer can screen calls incoming to his station based on the identity of the calling line. The calling line's identity is forwarded to the switching office containing ... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4275385 | Infrared personnel locator system An infrared personnel locator system using a periodic unique infrared identification code emitted from a battery-powered transmitter unit to identify the person carrying the transmitter unit to an overhead infrared receiver as the person enters the receiv... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4224479 | Method of controlling call traffic in a communication switching system Call traffic in a stored program controlled telephone switching system is controlled by performing code gapping on telephone calls to a particular called customer. Code gapping is performed by limiting the rate at which successive attempts may be made to ... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4191860 | Data base communication call processing method A method is disclosed for processing call data among telephone switching offices and a remotely situated data base system for deriving call service information needed to complete special service calls, such as INward WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) cal... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4150257 | Communication system call coverage arrangements Call coverage problems are solved in a telephone communication system by arranging the system on a station orientation basis so that any call directed to a station on any line appearance at that station will be covered by a single button on any one of a n... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4028499 | Universal/assigned night answering system for EPABX Universal/Assigned Night Answering system incorporated in an EPABX system permits any telephone station to answer a universal incoming call or an associated assigned incoming call from incoming trunk line while retaining the ability to initiate calls to o... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4028498 | Private automatic branch exchange system and apparatus A private automatic branch telephone exchange system which includes an integral system for maintaining and updating selected data information. Interconnections between subscriber lines and trunk lines are accomplished with a unique non-blocking switching ... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4013843 | Marker for extending calls to remote junctions in a telecommunications system A marker designed to control a switching circuit for extending an outgoing call to a remote junction, identified by a characteristic digit or digit combination at the beginning of a call number emitted by a local subscriber, includes a first and a second ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3965306 | Telephone line transfer circuit Transfer of an incoming call on a first telephone line for a first subscriber set to a second, independent telephone line for a second subscriber set is accomplished without permitting a party at the first subscriber set to listen to the transferred call.... | 06/22/1976 |
