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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8054946 | Method and system for one-way delay measurement in communication network A pilot signal is transmitted from a transmitting device through a communication network under test to a receiving device. The pilot signal is transmitted at a known transmit time and in a voice channel. Incoming signals within the voice channel at the receiving dev... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7864926 | System and method for conducting variable voice path assurance tests A system and method for conducting variable VPA testing is disclosed. The method includes provisions to detect or measure the utilization of a trunk line and use that information to establish a level of VPA testing for that trunk line. Although a wide variety of rel... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7729477 | System and method for detecting continuity of network lines The present disclosure provides a system and method for detecting faults related to lines linked to provide network services. The method includes storing a synthetic value for the performance of a line, receiving a measured value of a performance parameter of the li... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7439747 | Location of high resistance ground faults on buried power-cables The location of high resistance ground faults within buried co-axial power cables can be detected by transmitting a combined signal along the cable at a primary frequency of 0.718 Hz and a primary amplitude in the order of 4,500 volts peak to peak. This combined sig... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7373169 | Earphone antenna and portable radio equipment provided with earphone antenna An earphone antenna includes an audio signal transmission path formed by connecting a first shield wire of a coaxial cable to a ground, connecting a central conductor of the coaxial cable to a pair of first signal lines of an earphone cable via a capacitor which exh... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363529 | Automated DSL network testing software tool A DSL network testing tool [110] tests multiple elements 9141, 143] in a DSL circuit. The testing tool may operate in either a single circuit test mode or a batch mode. In batch test mode, the network testing tool receives multiple DSL phone numbers an... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353295 | Distributed services architecture through use of a dynamic service point map An information management system within a client/server based computer system is disclosed. The information management system manages information as to the dynamic locations and continuous changes relating to services offered within the computer system. The informat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352711 | Circuit arrangement and method for data transmission In the inventive circuit arrangement and appertaining method, data of at least respectively one ISDN data connection, a traditional telephone connection as well as of a broadband data connection are transmitted in an SDSL frame of an SDSL data connection, where the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350185 | System, method, and computer program product for effort estimation A system and method for establishing an estimate for proposals and other customer requests which precludes an extensive up front investment in expert opinion and design. This is accomplished by applying a pattern-based technique toward rough application effort sizin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349345 | Method and apparatus for testing communications between a network edge device and a customer premises device A method and apparatus for testing communications within a broadband network between a network edge device and a customer premises device. Network data traffic is diverted from the customer premises device to a test device. The test device emulates the customer prem... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339891 | Method and system for evaluating wireless applications The present invention provides a method and system for evaluating wireless applications utilizing a test console, an application model builder, a test repository manager, a simulator, a test controller, test agents, and a comparator in order to test the performance ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336061 | Group wiring system allowing locating of wire pairs and method for locating wire pairs in group wiring system A group wiring system includes a hub of a server system, a distribution frame including a plurality of wire pair receptacles, a plurality of remote receptacles, a testing device, and a plurality of testing circuits. Each testing circuit is coupled between conductive... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334038 | Broadband service control network Services are provided in an architecture utilizing a framework of standardized interconnection mechanisms that allow for the dynamic addition of new services that meet rules for the distributed services network. Likewise, new agents may readily be added to the netwo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327673 | Asymmetric digital subscriber line provision flow control on digital subscriber line access multiplexer switches Disclosed is a system for an ADSL access network for providing ADSL provision flow control at a DSLAM switch. The system includes an element management system in communication with a DSLAM switch; and a network management system in communication with the element man... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305654 | Test schedule estimator for legacy builds A test schedule estimator for performing fixes on released software. In a preferred embodiment, historic data from similar builds are used with other data to estimate a time required to perform testing and release based on the number of fixes implemented. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302051 | System and method for providing an automatic telephone call back from information provided at a data terminal The system and method provides an automatic telephone call back in response to a request for assistance made at a remote data terminal by an inquiring party. The inquiring party provides information at the data terminal, the information is transferred over a data pa... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295655 | Systems and methods for determining the status of telephone lines Systems and methods for detecting a status of a telephone line. Some of the systems include a telecommunications system which comprises a dial tone tester integrated with a demarcation device. Such dial tone testers can include a visual device or an audible device i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289604 | System and method for subscriber loop testing A method for testing subscriber loop conditions includes receiving test signal data from a test signal provider, receiving a request for transmitting a test signal described by the test signal data, and transmitting the test signal over a communication channel. The ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286646 | Subscriber line validation of a telephone network A method of validating connection data for a node of a telephone network involves processing a report file for terminal pairs at a network node. The records in the report file are divided into three categories in dependence on the nature of the information in each r... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283479 | Cable TV system or other similar communication system A cable TV system, which is arranged to permit a transmission of signals in the return direction from local networks (10), included in the system, to a head end (11) of the system within a predetermined carrier frequency band, serving for the transmiss... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275965 | Testing tools for I/O ports A testing tool for testing an I/O port includes a cable and a testing card. The cable includes a port formed at one end thereof configured for being connected to the I/O port, and a first connector formed at an opposite end thereof. The testing card includes two tes... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276911 | Detection of malfunctioning bulbs in decorative light strings A system for locating a malfunctioning bulb in a decorative light string uses an antenna that produces an output signal corresponding to the strength of the electric field produced by a portion of the light string near the antenna. An amplifier is coupled to the ant... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272209 | Automated DSL performance adjustment The present application discloses an automated digital subscriber line performance control system comprising a computer system including a logic module to evaluate performance of a plurality of DSL lines and to automatically select a set of DSL lines from the plural... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7254228 | Method and system for effective utilizing the switching capacity of local exchanges To support a changing volume of a voice-grade traffic in an access network having a local exchange with a limited capacity, provide two or more access networks each having subscribers and associated local exchange with a limited capacity; each capable of dividing tr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7239687 | Telecommunications When delivering a broadband service, such as xDSL, without inband POTS, it is necessary to separate the analogue POTS signal and the xDSL signal from each other at both the CO (Central Office) and the CP (Customer's Premises). This can be achieved by using an active... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224787 | Methods and systems for performing special service maintenance and installation operations in a telecommunications system Methods and systems are provided for processing data in association with an operation performed by a technician at a customer service location in a telecommunications system. In one embodiment, the method includes transmitting data related to at least one piece of e... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221899 | Customer support system A customer support system for improving the skill of a person engaged in a business with reduced cost for technical training support and enhancing practical training. The customer support system includes a computer system for introducing training contents from a ser... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216339 | System and method of determining software maturity using Bayesian design of experiments A system and method for determining software maturity, the method comprising the steps of building an uncensored belief distribution from a set of observed test data, building belief distributions based on improvement factors, convoluting the uncensored belief distr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203738 | System and method for distributing application objects A system and method for subscribing to a distribution by a subscriber which distributes a distribution package from a source database to a destination database. The system/method includes accessing a subscriber object upon receiving a distribution package distribute... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200205 | Interface device for testing a telecommunication circuit An interface device and method for testing a telecommunication circuit by utilizing a test cord that has a first end that is integrated with the interface device and a second end that terminates with a test connector. Upon insertion of the test connector into a test... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194539 | Method and system for display of activity of users A method and system for the display of the activity of users at a plurality of workstations (108, 110) is provided. The plurality of workstations (108, 110) are grouped in more than one distributed geographical location (102, 104). The disclosed... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190766 | System and method for conducting variable voice path assurance tests A system and method for conducting variable VPA testing is disclosed. The method includes provisions to detect or measure the utilization of a trunk line and use that information to establish a level of VPA testing for that trunk line. Although a wide variety of rel... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187928 | Call delivery systems for roaming prepaid subscribers The invention provides systems and methods that operate to provide seamless roaming to a prepaid subscriber in as many markets as possible. To that end, the systems of the invention include a location register (LR) that can determine the type, or class, of serving m... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177395 | Electronic looping systems for telecommunications system central offices A telecommunications system central office includes a piece of central office equipment and a cross-connect frame that is configured to provide a connection point to the piece of central office electronic equipment. An electronic looping system is connected between ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167909 | Service management apparatus for managing service information for services present in network system and apparatus for instructing service management apparatus In a network system capable of providing various services dispersed among plural apparatuses, the invention provides a service management apparatus capable of managing service information on the services present in the network system. The service management apparatu... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158614 | Metallic test access for xDSL connectors A metal port block is used on an intermediate distributor or vertical terminal block in a connection architecture to obtain a metal contact of the combined voice and data signals, which can subsequently be monitored by a test rack, without needing to disconnect or r... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158616 | Automated and integrated call control server Allowing a tester of a telephonic device to issue call control commands to a call control server using an intuitive set of commands and using both data lines for data call control commands, and voice lines for touch tone or “DTMF” call control commands. The user... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153142 | Retrofit kit for interconnect cabling system System and method for automatically obtaining the connectivity status, or map, of a cabling system in data and/or voice networks are disclosed. A suitable retrofit kit for this purpose comprises a plurality of upgraded patch cords for replacement of respective used ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149751 | System and method for distributing selected objects from a source database to a destination database A system and method for distributing objects to one or more subscribers. The system/method allows an administrator to create a distribution by allowing the administrator to select one or more objects for distribution to the subscriber(s). Once the distribution is de... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149285 | Dynamic, automated double-ended system and method for testing and qualifying metallic telecommunication loops A multi-unit test system performs automated and dynamically alterable, double-ended testing of telephone lines, whose service is provided on copper cable pairs. A prescribed set of (e.g., twelve) individual tests are executed either from a hand-held measurement unit... | 12/12/2006 |
