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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8044772 | Expert system assistance for persons in danger Methods and systems using one or more expert systems to quickly assist (e.g., advise and/or rescue) persons in danger at a location (e.g., buildings, tunnels, bridges, factories, refineries, recreational areas, such as parks, golf courses, ski-slopes, public transpo... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7830305 | Locator beacon system having global communication capability The invention provides an emergency communication device capable of transmitting an emergency alert signal using more than one wireless communication system. When a commercial wireless carrier network is available, the device transmits the emergency alert signal to ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7511603 | Filtered in-box for voice mail, e-mail, pages, web-based information, and faxes The present invention is directed to a system for displaying, organizing, and prioritizing the incoming information on a wireless device. Using the present invention the wireless device can display the number of voice mails, e-mails, pages, and Internet information ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7394345 | Arrangement for indicating presence of individual When an entity (such as a customer using a communication device 131, 141, 151 . . . ) attempts to communicate with a target (such as an employee), an arrangement indicates to the customer, “status” information describing at least the employee's present an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372371 | Notification lights, locations and rules for a computer system Notifications to computer users are provided via indicators such as lights. The indicators are controlled according to rules, to convey computer-related state information to users in a consistent manner. Locations of visible indicators are chosen to facilitate easy ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7340674 | Method and apparatus for normalizing quoting styles in electronic mail messages In the context of applications such as finding messages dealing with a particular topic, or finding inter-conversation topic groupings via centroid-based clustering methods, the essential text of a first message is adjusted to avoid vector distance distortions based... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7286503 | System and apparatus for avoiding interference between fixed and moveable base transceiver station Apparatus for providing telephone connection between one or more cellular radio telephones and a cellular radio switching system, comprises at least one moveable base transceiver station (511) for providing a radio connection with the cellular radio telephone... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7248885 | Automatic/timed silencing of mobile phone from a network A method and system provides automatic/timed silencing of a mobile phone by a telecommunications network. The method has the steps of: forming a schedule of silence at a mobile phone; sending the schedule of silence to a mobile switching center; storing the schedule... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7221331 | Method and system for auxiliary display of information for a computing device A method and system for auxiliary display of information for a computing device. An auxiliary display is integrated with a computing system to provide an area where notifications can be peripherally presented off-screen. Whenever a background task sends a notificati... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209048 | Device for monitoring and alerting of a power disruption to electrical equipment or an appliance The present invention is a simple, inexpensive and reliable device for monitoring and alerting of a power disruption to an appliance or a piece of equipment. An audible and/or visual alarm may be generated in the event that a specific or a piece of electrical equipm... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7193531 | Method for providing security Using a mobile terminal while moving, a user has a voice conversation with a security terminal provided by a security service provider. This conversation creates a situation in which it is possible to immediately send an alarm if an emergency occurs, thus repelling ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7174151 | Ensuring EAS performance in audio signal encoding An encoding system for encoding a first ancillary code in media data and monitoring for reception of a second ancillary code that has a higher priority than the first ancillary code, such that upon detection of the higher priority ancillary code the encoding system ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162474 | Recipient controlled contact directories A presence system 4 manages communications in a network 2 between initiating parties 8 and recipient parties 6. The system 4 has a database 10 storing entries each relating to recipient parties 6. Each entry is stored... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7120488 | Therapy-delivering portable medical device capable of triggering and communicating with an alarm system A therapy-delivering, portable medical device (200) capable of triggering and/or communicating with an alarm system (100), as well as a related system and method therefor. The portable medical device (200) is configured to establish a communicat... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7107341 | System and method of managing information distribution to mobile stations A system for managing information distribution to a mobile station in communication with a wireless network includes a host service operable to receive a data item associated with the mobile station and determine whether a network resource is associated with the mob... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099700 | Message display method in mobile terminal Disclosed is a message display method in a mobile communication terminal, which includes the steps of receiving a message, detecting message information from the received message, and displaying detected caller information on LCD by a scroll system. The present inve... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7084754 | Communication status management system and method The present invention provides a method for communication status management. A first status change request is received from a user, the first status change request including at least a first user status and a first duration. A first current user communication status... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7053753 | Wireless community alerting system A pager-based alert system includes a monitor center that is in telephonic or data communication with a paging station allowing the command center to send multi-digit code words where selected digits comprise an address for selecting one or more of a plurality of ph... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050818 | Location based service request system A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless phone, with... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7031437 | Method and system for providing remote access to previously transmitted enterprise messages In one example of the invention, a notification system is coupled to a plurality of message services including a voice mail server, an email server and an information server in an office. Messages left for a user (e.g. voice mail, email, CRM event, etc.) are deposit... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024461 | Session initiation protocol enabled set-top device A method and apparatus for handling subscriber services from different sources without requiring interaction with different devices. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for receiving multimedia services using session initiation protocol (SIP) ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7003724 | Method and system for display of electronic mail The invention provides a sequence of increasingly detailed presentation levels to assist a user in deciding whether a thread is of interest. If so, the text of the threaded messages is presented at a level of detail corresponding to the user's level of indicated int... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998978 | Method and apparatus for responding to medical alerts A method, system, and article of manufacture for responding to medical alerts, one embodiment of which comprises receiving a medical alert having an associated alert location, detecting a current location for each of a plurality of medical staff members, and selecti... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6980213 | Terminal device for mobile communication In a mobile communication terminal device that obtains data including text or an image from an external server through a digital network, a display displays display data DD generated based on data in a first storage unit. A plurality of display modes are predetermin... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973449 | System, method of portable USB key interfaced to computer system for facilitating the recovery and/or identification of a missing person having person's unique identification, biological information A system, method, and software for facilitating the identification and recovery of missing persons. In one aspect, the invention is a system comprising a portable device comprising a computer memory medium and means for interfacing with a computer system having a di... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970906 | Voice mail caller identification A notification system for providing unified alerts about messages left for a user in a communication system is coupled to a voice mail service in an office. When voice mail messages are left for a user, the voice mail service sends header information about the new m... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6971008 | Authorization of services in a conditional access system A cable television system provides conditional access to services. The cable television system includes a headend from which service “instances”, or programs, are broadcast and a plurality of set top units for receiving the instances and selectively decrypting t... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970082 | System and method of communicating home security data between a vehicle and a home A system for communicating home security data between a vehicle having a vehicle element and a home comprising an interface coupled to the vehicle element configured to establish a communication link with a home security system and a processing circuit configured to... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963042 | Remote controlled circuit breaker switch handle engagement apparatus A remote controlled circuit breaker switch handle engagement apparatus is provided. The apparatus is adapted to be removably attached across a circuit breaker face-plate of a traditional residential and commercial circuit breaker in order to facilitate remote comple... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6960986 | Support system using data carrier system To provide a support system using a data carrier system by which an activity or a work operation by means of human beings and robots may be supported in a variety of environments. The support system comprises at least one tag being a data carrier that is disposed at... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6950020 | Surveillance system, method of remotely controlling sensor apparatus, and surveillance remote controller A vehicle surveillance system includes a vehicle-installed sensor apparatus for transmitting by radio, sensor information acquired by a sensor, a communication adapter for receiving by radio the sensor information from the vehicle-installed sensor apparatus and tran... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941126 | Wireless weather alerts A method of delivering weather information to a wireless device. The method includes obtaining weather information from a weather information server, obtaining a subset of the weather information from the weather information, and sending the subset of the weather in... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6917797 | Personal signal transmission and tracking system for locating individuals A personal safety signaling apparatus is provided for communicating the presence of an emergency to a monitoring station. The monitoring station then triangulates the location of the emergency signal and alerts an emergency response vehicle. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6871288 | Computerized password verification system and method for ATM transactions A computerized password verification system and associated method is disclosed for discreet recognition and reporting of a duress transaction being imposed upon a user at an ATM or other remote cash-dispensing terminal. The inventive system utilizes conventional ATM... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6628194 | Filtered in-box for voice mail, e-mail, pages, web-based information, and faxes Wireless devices and systems are configured to display the number of voice mails, e-mails, and Internet information alerts that are received during a selected time interval. Incoming information can be organized by user-specified criteria such as sender i... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6574480 | Method and apparatus for providing intelligent emergency paging A method and apparatus for providing intelligent paging services is disclosed. A server receives a paging request from a customer. The page request may be, for example, a telephone call initiated by the customer from a telephone. The server then determine... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6487425 | Method and system for switching a mobile station from a low power limited operations mode to a normal operating mode A method of supporting a switch from a limited operations low power operating mode of a mobile station (50) to a normal operating mode of the mobile station (50) in a wireless network (40). The method comprising the step of causing the mobile station (50)... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6462665 | Method and apparatus for sending a weather condition alert A method and apparatus of an alert system for notifying subscribers of weather or hazardous conditions. A weather-tracking source or service broadcasts weather or hazardous conditions across the nation to alert the general public of potentially dangerous ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6392560 | Reminding device A reminding device to permit the user to determine, at a later date, using a portable device, whether a routine task to secure an object or piece of equipment has been performed.... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6295001 | Tornado warning system A pager receiver based system provides a method and an apparatus for receiving and detecting a tornado alert or other severe weather alert from the National Weather Service, determining the region or grid block to which the alert applies, and broadcasting... | 09/25/2001 |
