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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 |
| 5007016 | Fractal-type periodic temporal signal generator A signal generator generates a temporal signal with a periodic configuration defined by an arrangement of seed patterns resulting from a branching construction iteratively using laws for composing several patterns and consisting in defining the periodic c... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4941124 | Text comparator with counter shift register A text comparator which includes a decoded data memory (13) which contains a plurality of shift registers (SR2d-SR7F), one shift register for each of the plurality of different symbols forming the data base stored within the mass storage device (11). The ... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4916655 | Method and apparatus for retrieval of a search string A skip table is prepared from which a state of a subsequent symbol string and an address of one or plural symbols to be subsequently inputted can be readily determined by making reference to a set of a current symbol string search state and one or plural ... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4833610 | Morphological/phonetic method for ranking word similarities A computer method is disclosed for ranking word similarities which is applicable to a variety of dictionary applications such as synonym generation, linguistic analysis, document characterization, etc. The method is based upon transforming an input word s... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4794528 | Pattern matching method for tree structured data In order to highly speed up the pattern matching of tree structured data in a logic programming language, the priority order is set when the data owned by the individual nodes of a tree structure are to be transversely sought, and the tree structured data... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4625295 | Textual comparison system for locating desired character strings and delimiter characters A text comparator receives data stored in a mass storage device. The text comparator includes word logic, delimiter logic, set logic, set combination logic, proximity logic, and programming logic. The delimiter logic serves to monitor the characters trans... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4575795 | Apparatus for detecting a predetermined character of a data string The present invention relates to digital logic circuitry for detecting a predetermined character of a data string for operand data stored in a temporary storage memory or while the data is being loaded into the temporary storage memory, wherein the data s... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4524427 | Method for making comparisons between reference logical entities and logical entities proceeding from a file The present invention relates to a method which uses results from comparisons, to permute data sources into read-out and/or into read-in for restarting or storage the information. Comparisons are made between data which does not necessarily issue from the... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4500955 | Full word coding for information processing Words input to an information processing system character-by-character are given unique unitary representations independent of alphanumeric content and order. A user selects a particular vocabulary set containing the unique unitary representations of each... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4486857 | Display system for the suppression and regeneration of characters in a series of fields in a stored record A microprocessor having a limited display capability is programmed to display a series of data fields from a record in which certain characters are selectively suppressed so that the whole or a selected portion of a record is represented. Upon actuation a... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4433392 | Interactive data retrieval apparatus An interactive data retrieval apparatus in which a data base store is searched by content using search keys entered by an operator. Dedicated hardware includes a plurality of search modules and apparatus for clocking the byte-wide data stream read from th... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4327407 | Data driven processor A data driven processor for searching data stored in memory to identify messages or other data containing operator selected keywords containing alpha-numeric or other characters and for performing arithmetic and other functions performed by processors. Th... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4314356 | High-speed term searcher A method and apparatus for high-speed searching of a byte stream for predetermined words or terms. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for use in combination with a data source supplying a stream of binary signal... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4283771 | On-chip bubble domain relational data base system A bubble domain chip is designed to provide the components necessary to perform all essential data-base functions. Many cross-linked loops in parallel allow the interchange of distinct columns of information. The use of an on-chip decoder achieves effecti... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4241402 | Finite state automaton with multiple state types The subject of this disclosure is a Finite State Automaton (FSA) used as part of a term detector employed in a digital pattern search system (searcher). In particular the invention includes various advances in the art of FSA design which make the FSA prac... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4149262 | Associative memory device with variable recognition criteria An improved associative memory employs plural separately addressable memories, e.g., random access memories (RAMs), which may be written into, or read from in conventional fashion. In a recognition mode, information is sequentially read from differing mem... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4145753 | Comparing apparatus for variable length word A comparing apparatus for comparing variable length word information comprises: first and second memory means for storing record information to be compared, each record information including a plurality of variable length word information arranged in seri... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4145737 | Associative memory device with time shared comparators An improved associative memory employs plural separately addressable memories, e.g., random access memories (RAMs), which may be written into, or read from in conventional fashion. In a recognition mode, information is sequentially read from differing mem... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4144564 | Associative memory An improved associative memory employs plural separately addressable memories, e.g., random access memories (RAMs), which may be written into, or read from in conventional fashion. In a recognition mode, information is read from differing memory locations... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4094001 | Digital logic circuits for comparing ordered character strings of variable length Apparatus for automatically searching for a string of ordered characters stored on a magnetic tape wherein the string may be of selectable length employing a dynamic buffer register for storing the candidate strings of characters to be searched and a stat... | 06/06/1978 |
| 3964029 | Information retrieval systems An information retrieval system in which each record in a file is scanned and a hit signal is produced if it matches a search criterion. The hits are stored in a plurality of bit maps. Each record has an identifying index, which is transformed in a number... | 06/15/1976 |
