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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8122369 | System for providing information to a user The present invention is directed to a system for providing information to a user comprising: a screen for showing the information to the user, wherein the screen is the screen of a portable device or of a personal computer, receiving means for receiving one or more... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7814054 | System and method for providing common operators across multiple applications A system and technique for managing and manipulating data objects, and more particularly data files, of different types utilizing a common user interface. The system allows management of folders and files across many different file types native to many different sou... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7747962 | Systems and methods for displaying location-based maps on communication devices Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user in... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747963 | Displaying location-based content in a ticker of a handheld mobile communication device Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user in... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7712040 | Method for transmitting reserved mail and information terminal device When reserved mail fails to be transmitted, an error message is promptly displayed in a partial field of a display unit for a predetermined period of time. A user operates a specific key in the predetermined period of time, thereby allowing the user to return to a s... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7546546 | User defined contextual desktop folders Contextual desktop folders are provided in addition to a system desktop folder, thereby customized desktop folders (contextual desktop folders) are provided to a user. Thus, applications that have for example editing dialogs presented via a GUI interface, can have t... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7441203 | Interactive user interface presentation attributes for location-based content Tickers are populated with location-based information with interactive presentation attributes. The location-based information is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430724 | Systems and methods for displaying content in a ticker The timing, order, frequency or presentation attributes of content items in a ticker of a communication device are selected or determined using a scheduling system of the ticker. The location of the communication device is one of many attributes that may be used in ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7409644 | File system shell A file system shell is provided. One aspect of the shell provides virtual folders which expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file system structure on the disk. Users are able t... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7380218 | Method and apparatus for managing windows A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing windows in a foreground and a background in a data processing system. A buffer is monitored for user input in response to receiving a request to present a pop-up window in a foreground. A determination is m... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370283 | Systems and methods for populating a ticker using multiple data transmission modes Content to be presented on a ticker of a communication device is conveyed by being transmitted using one or more transmission modes that are intelligently selected according to various criteria. The mode is chosen from among a plurality of transmission modes availab... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7343564 | Systems and methods for displaying location-based maps on communication devices Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7266835 | Method and apparatus for secure transactions in an interactive television ticker A user can perform secure transactions via an interactive television ticker. While viewing an advertisement scrolling in the ticker, the user can select that advertisement to initiate an on-line transaction. That resulting transaction can be performed within the tic... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7237252 | Method and apparatus to invoke a shopping ticker A shopping ticker can be invoked when the viewer presses a BUY button on a remote control while a television program is being shown. The television program, which can be a commercial, may not necessarily have an interactive commerce opportunity originally associated... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7167562 | Security method using information transmission by optical means, and an optical disk for implementing the method An electronic security device has a light-receiving interface that receives a modulated light signal emitted by the screen of a computer making use of the data medium, an output interface adapted to emit output information as a function of the received input informa... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7120880 | Method and system for real-time determination of a subject's interest level to media content A system and method for unobtrusively detecting a subject's level of interest in media content, includes detecting to what a subject is attending, measuring a subject's relative arousal level; and combining information regarding the subject's arousal level and atten... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7017119 | System and method for display notification in a tabbed window setting A system and method are disclosed for informing users that data associated with one or more concurrently-running components has changed. In a preferred embodiment, the system and method comprise a GUI that includes a plurality of tabs associated with independently s... | 03/21/2006 |
| 5621874 | Three dimensional document representation using strands A system for displaying documents on a computer controlled display device is disclosed. The system displays documents either in a completely free-form, user controlled configuration or as strands, such that documents in a strand follow a strand path. The ... | 04/15/1997 |
