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Patent No. 5970981

Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy

A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.

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Class 715/796 - Bring to top


Subclass of Class 715 - Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing
Definition: Subject matter wherein the window is restored to its previous
No. of patents: 11
Last issue date: 06/10/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7386807System and method for monitoring application response and providing visual treatment
A system and method are provided for determining the status of an application and altering the corresponding application window if necessary in order to convey information to the user and improve the user experience. The system and method of the invention allow visu...
06/10/2008
7380218Method 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
7366246Method to maximize receiver performance in a multi-stream system
A receiver includes a channel decoder select circuit, a plurality of communication channels, at least one maximum ratio combiner circuit, and a forward error correction circuit. The plurality of communication channels receive wireless information from channel demodu...
04/29/2008
7350156Audio signal editing apparatus and control method therefor
Interlocking flag, indicating whether or not an interlocked display should be made, can be set in association with predetermined editing operators. When any of the operators is operated, a displayed screen on a display is switched over to a screen related to the ope...
03/25/2008
7320112Information processing apparatus and method, and information processing program
Executing a desired processing immediately by a simple operation using a jog dial for example. The display unit (3) has a jog dial (4) (a first operating means) and a back button (5) (second operating means) provided vertically at the right uppe...
01/15/2008
7174361Scripting task-level user-interfaces
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for use in network-centric computing for scripting user-interface components together on an as-needed basis for purposes of executing a software application preferably stored on a server. The application may be called from a con...
02/06/2007
7168048Method and structure for implementing a layered object windows
A display window is attributed a layering attribute such that underlying display windows are blended with the layered display window and displayed on the display screen. In a first embodiment, the layered window and the underlying window are represented as bitmaps. ...
01/23/2007
7159169Apparatus and methods for forward error correction decoding
An apparatus includes an instruction decoder, at least one control register coupled to the instruction decoder, and an add-compare-select (ACS) engine coupled to the at least one control register. The instruction decoder is operative to control the ACS engine to per...
01/02/2007
7103850Multi-plane metaphoric desktop and methods of operation associated therewith
A computing device is provided with a number of programming instructions to cause display of first execution results of a first set of applications in a first plane of a metaphoric desktop, and display of second execution results of a second set of applications in a...
09/05/2006
6928623Method and system for selecting a target window for automatic fill-in
An improved data processing system in which a user of a GUI can easily designate one of a plurality of windows to be automatically filled in with predetermined, pre-stored information. A method and system are disclosed for selection of a target window from among a p...
08/09/2005
5815150Display apparatus
The shapes of a plurality of parts are displayed simultaneously on a display screen. When the shape of one of the parts is designated in a "hide" mode, the display of the shape of this part is inhibited and an icon is displayed in its place. When the icon...
09/29/1998
 
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