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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7051180 | Masterless building block binding to partitions using identifiers and indicators A masterless approach binds multiprocessor building blocks to partitions of a computer system using identifiers and indicators. A number of building blocks communicate among each other to determine a partition to which each building block is to be partitioned. For e... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043558 | Data communication apparatus and data communication method The present invention aims to embody a cache server which can provide the service of the same quality as a media server. A client sends a delivery request for a streaming delivery of a specific media file to a media server, and a cache checking unit of the cache ser... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039256 | Efficient verification of recognition results A method for increasing efficiency of interaction by an operator with data on a computer display includes presenting the data to the operator on the computer display, and providing multiple instances of an on-screen control at different locations on the display for ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039651 | System and method for executing a large object fetch query against a database A database server helps to streamline the retrieval of LOB values by deciding to send a locator in replacement of the LOB value, or the LOB value itself, depending upon the specific LOB value being retrieved. A threshold value is determined in a fetch query, and the... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039784 | Video distribution system using dynamic disk load balancing with variable sub-segmenting A method and apparatus for dynamically balancing the loading of video data storage devices facilitates the transfer of video data by acquiring a listing of locations and loading of all segments of a requested video data. Those storage devices containing copies of ea... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035943 | Web server content replication Changes to files in a master source file set on a master computer are identified. Local host addresses of the files are converted to uniform resource locators. The identified changes are stored in a modification list comprising the uniform resource locators specifyi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035847 | Server for synchronization of files A server stores files. Distributed clients access the server, to learn about changes made to the files on the server, and to push local changes of the files onto the server. A synchronization application is used to synchronize the clients and server, synchronizing m... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035860 | Trusted access by an extendible framework method, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product Appropriate actions are identified and associated with a selected artifact in a framework providing a customized application program. A metamodel is specified for a capture of relevant information pertaining to the selected artifact. This metamodel is implemented as... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035908 | Method for multiprocessor communication within a shared memory architecture An apparatus comprising a shared memory and a multiprocessor logic circuit. The shared memory may be configured to store data. The multiprocessor logic circuit may comprise a plurality of processors and a message circuit. The message circuit may be configured to pas... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035911 | Method and system for community data caching A cache module (26) at a client computer (12) controls a cache portion (28) on a storage device (24). The cache module communicates with other cache modules at other clients to form a cache community (15). The cache modules store W... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031973 | Accounting for references between a client and server that use disparate e-mail storage formats In one exemplary implementation, a client receives a record from a server. The record has a server identification key that uniquely identifies the record from any other records. If the record is viewable by a user in one or more folders, there are corresponding one ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7032229 | Automatic tracking of user progress in a software application A method for automatically tracking application and content usage is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method first recites the step of accessing an application interface (API) call with a parameter specifying a first portion of conte... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028078 | System and method for performing virtual device I/O operations Systems, methods, apparatus and software can make use of separated I/O processors and strategy processors (implemented in hardware and/or software) to perform virtual device I/O operations. I/O processors operating on cluster nodes, storage appliance ports, or other... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028137 | Storage control subsystem for managing logical volumes The present invention provides a storage control subsystem that facilitates logical volume access management by a host. Before copying, the host instructs a disk array device to identify the states of target logical volumes and collect information in control memory,... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028147 | System and method for efficiently and reliably performing write cache mirroring Various embodiments of systems and methods for performing write cache mirroring may involve accessing different mapped regions within a memory. The memory controller may automatically mirror write requests to another memory. Write requests targeting one mapped regio... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028096 | Method and apparatus for caching for streaming data Streaming video data from the video title is delivered to a client from a central server and a proxy server. To reduce the backbone bandwidth required, a portion of the video title is cached at the proxy server where the portion cached is distributed over the video ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028077 | Communication system and communication method A communication system includes a first network on which a file server and an access point are connected via a first communication link and a second network on which the access point and a terminal are connected via a second communication link. The terminal establis... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024466 | Network configured for delivery of content for download to a recipient Network systems and processes for delivery of electronic content to recipient processors may be configured to facilitate the delivery of relatively large content items and/or a relatively large number of content items. In one example, a movie rental system and proce... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024463 | Network system, control method, control apparatus, and multiprocessor A logical name of shared data is defined. A network system comprises a communication portion for exchanges of data with other control apparatuses; a link memory (15) for storing data shared through the network; an indirect reference table (16) for stor... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020707 | Scalable, reliable session initiation protocol (SIP) signaling routing node A scalable, reliable session initiation protocol (SIP) signaling router includes cluster nodes for performing SIP services. A location server replicates its database of SIP location information to each of the cluster nodes. Because each cluster node maintains its ow... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020684 | System and method for optimistic caching Transactions are granted concurrent access to a data item through the use of an optimistic concurrency algorithm. Each transaction gets its own instance of the data item, such as in a cache or in an entity bean, such that it is not necessary to lock the data. The in... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017188 | Method and apparatus for secure content delivery over broadband access networks A system for secure delivery of on-demand content over broadband access networks utilizes a pair of servers and security mechanisms to prevent client processes from accessing and executing content without authorization. A plurality of encrypted titles are stored on ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7017016 | Distributed processing system A distributed processing system which enables a plurality of computers to make quick access to a shared storage unit. A storage quota management unit manages storage quotas, which limit the total amount of data that each user can store on the shared storage unit. Wh... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016923 | Multi-threaded garbage collector employing cascaded memory arrays of task identifiers to implement work stealing queues for task identification and processing A computer system employing a plurality of concurrent threads to perform tasks that dynamically identify further similar tasks employs a double-ended queue (“deque”) to list the dynamically identified tasks. If a thread's deque runs out of tasks while other thre... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010554 | Delegation of metadata management in a storage system by leasing of free file system blocks and i-nodes from a file system owner Metadata management in a file server or storage network is delegated from a primary data processor to a secondary data processor in order to reduce data traffic between the primary data processor and the secondary data processor. The primary data processor retains r... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010728 | Data file search by example A method of generating reports for data in the form of a multiplicity of data files in an accessible data storage medium uses a user interface to specify a desired report and a sample data file name, the data file names having a variable portion and a non-variable p... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010657 | Avoiding deadlock between storage assignments by devices in a network A method of avoiding deadlock during managing storage of items in a network (102) of heterogeneous storage devices (104,106,108). The method firstly detects (402) a storage event. Detection is effected by the local storage device and then the me... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010576 | Efficient method of globalization and synchronization of distributed resources in distributed peer data processing environments Syndrome values are employed as a mechanism for synchronization and consistency in a distributed data processing environment. Syndromes are computed for local resources on individual peer nodes and an aggregate syndrome is computed from the individual syndromes. Thi... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007158 | Method for providing a configuration extensible markup language (XML) page to a user for configuring an XML based storage handling controller An Extensible Markup Language (XML) based storage handling controller for a storage medium is provided. The XML based storage handling controller includes storage handling firmware that is in communication with a storage medium. The storage handling firmware is capa... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006152 | System and method for providing picture-in-picture timebase management Systems and methods that provide picture-in-picture timebase management are provided. In one example, a method may include the steps of sending a first video signal and a second video signal to a video decoder; sending a first audio signal to the audio decoder, the ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007071 | Method and apparatus for reducing pool starvation in a shared memory switch A switch includes a reserved pool of buffers in a shared memory. The reserved pool of buffers is reserved for exclusive use by an egress port. The switch includes pool select logic which selects a free buffer from the reserved pool for storing data received from an ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007151 | System, device, and method for controlling access to a memory In a system, device, and method for controlling access to a memory, a memory interface device is used to coordinate access to a memory device by a number of host applications. The memory interface device is situated between the number of host applications and the me... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007142 | Network data storage-related operations A network in which one embodiment of the present invention may be practiced may include first and second network nodes coupled together via a network communications link, and first and second sets of mass storage devices associated with the first and second network ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003631 | System having address-based intranode coherency and data-based internode coherency A system comprises a plurality of nodes, each node comprising one or more coherent agents coupled to an interconnect. Ownership of a coherency block accessed by a transaction on the interconnect is transferred responsive to transmission of the address on the interco... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003634 | System and method for creating logical pairs of storage devices in a multiprocessor environment A storage system which manages a plurality of storage control apparatus in an integrated manner is provided. An I/O request issued by a host apparatus to a second storage control apparatus is forwarded to the second storage control apparatus through a first storage ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000037 | Large array of mass data storage devices connected to a computer by a serial link A peripheral data storage subsystem is for use with a computer system. The computer system has a host PCI bus and a serial PCI host bus adapter coupled to the host PCI bus. The peripheral data storage subsystem includes a plurality of data storage devices and a data... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999988 | Method and system for data layout and replacement in distributed streaming caches on the Internet A cache replacement system and method for changing the number of cached copies of segments of a media clip in response to rank change for the media clip is disclosed. Whenever rank change for a media clip is detected at an origin server, rank change information is d... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999424 | Method for displaying data In accordance with a specific aspect of the present invention, a compressed video stream, such as an MPEG-2 video stream, is received by a transport demultiplexor, synchronized, parsed into separate packet types, and written to buffer locations external the demultip... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999998 | Shared memory coupling of network infrastructure devices Described herein are systems and methods of coupling network infrastructure devices through a shared memory facility, rather than through conventional network I/O (input/output) adapters. All communications through the resulting network infrastructure service system... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996607 | Storage subsystem and method employing load balancing A storage subsystem that directly interfaces with a network, provides connections for routers with a conventional multi-path function, and performs access load balancing among a plurality of input/output ports. Each channel controller is assigned with a channel cont... | 02/07/2006 |
