Bizarre Patents
Pneumatic Shoe Lacing Apparatus
This invention provides a pneumatic shoe lacing apparatus for the pneumatic lacing of shoe.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190703 | Extensible browser platform for web applications An enhancement to a web browser offers an extension mechanism for web applications to utilize client-side resources, thereby moving more extensibility and flexibility to the client-side. The web browser may expose some control interfaces to meet various requirements... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190571 | Managing data with backup server indexing Indexing functionality can be shifted to one or more backup servers in a backup system. In one implementation, a backup server can receive one or more data backups from one or more production servers. The backup server can then build or create one or more indexes at... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190706 | Network based digital media server A media server is hosted in a service provider's network so that media content can be stored from or rendered to a private network such as a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network. Media content may be stored directly by accessing the media server or by down... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190705 | Communication capability coupons A system and method establishes communications between first and second parties. A request initiated by a first party is generated for establishing a communications channel over a first communications network between the first and second parties. An intermediary ser... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190704 | System and method for distributing a media content file over a network A customer computer accesses, through a network, a media content file, as follows. A session is opened between a customer computer and either an application server or a media content server. A request to view a media content file is received from the computer. A tem... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185602 | Transaction processing using multiple protocol engines in systems having multiple multi-processor clusters A multi-processor computer system is described in which transaction processing in each cluster of processors is distributed among multiple protocol engines. Each cluster includes a plurality of local nodes and an interconnection controller interconnected by a local ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185604 | Methods and systems for retrieving information over a computer network A method for retrieving information is provided. The method uses a server system coupled to a centralized database and at least one client system. The method includes selecting an object from an electronic document displayed on a client system, displaying a function... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185603 | Method for accessing a function of a real-world object A method to provide access to Aspects of Aspect Objects from a standard web browser. A web browser sends a request of access to a certain Aspect of an Aspect Object. The request includes a URL address. The URL address specifies the Aspect, the Aspect Object. The met... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185606 | Email change tracking Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for email change tracking. In an illustrative embodiment the computer implemented method comprises receiving an email having an annotation defining an annotat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185605 | Methods and apparatuses for accessing an application on a remote device In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses display an application that is accessible on a target device; select content associated within the application wherein the content is located on the target device; and remotely access the content on the target device on... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185607 | Querying wireless network offerings A request is received at an emulation system configured to communicate over a wireless network. The request indicates content to be retrieved from over the wireless network. A content request for the content to be retrieved over the wireless network is generated at ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180845 | Remote debugging of software Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for allowing an end user at an end user system to remotely debug a back-end application program executing on a back-end system. To access the services of the back-end application program, the end user syste... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180846 | Method and apparatus for obtaining agent status in a network management application A system determines status of agent execution of a command in a network. The system identifies a command to be performed by an agent and issues the command to the agent for execution. The agent operates a status manager that tracks execution status of commands in th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180849 | System and method for managing web services A system for managing a plurality of web services of a service oriented architecture (SOA) comprising a registry including a description of each of the plurality of web services registered in the registry, a service filter adapted to filter at least one request of a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180850 | Data transmission device, data transmission system and address registration method A data transmission device receives an instruction from a user via a user interface to search for address information registered in an LDAP server. An address management module of the data transmission device acquires the address information from the LDAP server, an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180848 | Apparatus and method for distributing video image to a plurality of live communication interfaces simultaneously An apparatus and a method for distributing video image are provided. The apparatus stores a video image captured by a video unit through a monitor module. When a plurality of communication interfaces are activated simultaneously, the video image previously stored in... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180844 | System for linking from objects to remote resources A machine readable code (e.g., digital watermark or bar code) conveyed with objects is used in establishing links to associated electronic resources, such as web pages. The object can be physical (e.g., a magazine page) or electronic (e.g., music data). The associat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180851 | Management of pre-fetched mapping data incorporating user-specified locations Map tile data for displaying graphic elements of a web-based mapping system in a mobile computing device may be pre-fetched to the device based on selection of an option to store the data at the device. A request for mapping system data may be sent from a mobile com... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180847 | Flexible web service deployment An apparatus and method for deploying web services in a web services infrastructure are provided. With the apparatus and method, a deployment descriptor for a web service is retrieved from a configuration file. A location type in the deployment descriptor is provide... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180732 | Distributing data in master data management systems Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for distributing data in a data management system. The technique includes identifying one or more objects in a central data store for distribution, determining if a routing exists for at least one object of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176043 | Ranking search results Content items and other entities may be ranked or organized according to a relevance to a user. Relevance may take into consideration recency, proximity, popularity, air time (e.g., of television shows) and the like. In one example, the popularity and age of a movie... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176079 | Restricting access to network resources through recursive URL classification In one example, a server-based system may provide a recursive classification of the contents of a URL by: 1) receiving a request for a URL-classification list associated with a base URL, 2) constructing the URL-classification list, and 3) providing, in response to t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171107 | Method and apparatus for editing, filtering, ranking, and approving content The system provides a method and apparatus for editing, filtering, ranking and approving content. In one embodiment, the system provides a browsing environment for children that routes all internet requests through a central server. A request to a blocked website is... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171104 | Scheduling and searching meetings in a network environment Provided are a method, system, and program for scheduling and searching meetings in a network environment. A form is transmitted over a network to be rendered at an organizer computer to enable entry of information on a meeting. The form is received having organizer... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171105 | Modification of information utility based upon context A method of disseminating information in system having data sources and data recipients includes receiving a generic utility function at a data source for information to be delivered to a data recipient based upon an application for which the information is to be us... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171108 | System and method for providing remote forensics capability A system and method for performing a forensic analysis of a subject computer having a non-volatile memory with a second computer is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes executing on the subject computer a first code segment configured to provide communic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171106 | Per file system usage of networks A method, information processing system, and computer program product access data in a system. The system includes a plurality of Network Shared Disk servers and at least one set of Network Shared Disks. Each of the Network Shared Disks are served by at least one of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171103 | Methods and apparatus for providing access to content Methods and apparatus are provided for providing access to content via messaging services, such as email, voicemail, instant messaging, text messaging, or other similar messaging services. A content server is provided that includes a user interface, a web server and... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166058 | Identifying interest twins in an online community Techniques are described for identifying one or more “interest twins” of a user. An interest twin of a user in another user that has demonstrated interests in items that are the same as or similar to the items in which the user has demonstrated an interest. Vari... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166129 | Method and system for providing media content to a user For providing to a user on a communication terminal (1) media content (31) from a content server (3), a Session Initiation Protocol message, addressed to a resource identifier identifying the media content (31), is transmitted from the co... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166130 | Methods and systems for exchanging data between a command and control information system and an enterprise resource planning system Systems and methods are provided for exchanging data between an enterprise resource planning system and a command and control information system. In one exemplary embodiment, a system is provided that includes a data warehouse for collecting, interpreting, consolida... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166131 | Network delivery of entertainment software A system and method for preparing entertainment software for reduced network delivery time includes analyzing entertainment software to identify a first stage implementing a subset of the functionality of the entertainment software such that the first stage is deliv... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166132 | Systems and methods for client-side encoding of user-generated content Methods and systems are disclosed that facilitate client-side encoding of content. Certain embodiments involve sending a user's client device items for encoding content that will be uploaded to an upload recipient. In some cases, a client-device may receive an encod... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161130 | Bottom-up analysis of network sites An approach for identifying suspect network sites in a network environment entails using one or more malware analysis modules to identify distribution sites that host malicious content and/or benign content. The approach then uses a linking analysis module to identi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161031 | Method for sorting and displaying data on a portable electronic device A method of sorting and displaying data on a portable electronic device includes: determining geographical coordinates of the portable electronic device, providing search criteria to the portable electronic device, performing a search in a database based on the sear... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161129 | Communication system, network system, information controller and terminal equipment Information of a terminal equipment used by a user among the pieces of terminal equipment connected to a network is registered in prescribed registering means and a transmission path from the terminal equipment of a transmitter to the terminal equipment of a receive... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156196 | Information processing device and information processing method An information processing device capable of communicating with an external device connected thereto via a network and includes an application acquisition unit that obtains an application program to be used to control a function of the external device from an applica... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156195 | Systems and methods for obtaining ultra-high data availability and geographic disaster tolerance Network data storage systems and methods allow computers reading and writing data at a plurality of data centers separated by, potentially, large distances to replicate data between sites such that the data is protected from failures, including complete Site failure... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156194 | Signaling gateway A signaling gateway for passing messages from a first network to an application server process provided on a second network, the messages comprising a transaction identifier, the signaling gateway being operable to receive a message and read the transaction identifi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156197 | Systems and methods for accessing and controlling media stored remotely In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a server that stores a set of media files. The server is configured to send an authentication code to a first communication device in response to a request from the first communication device to access the set of media file... | 04/10/2012 |
