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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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120036507 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS ON A DEVICE The invention provides a system, a method and a computer program product that facilitate access to one or more applications by a computing device. The invention includes determining one or more contexts associated with at least one of the computing device and a user of ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036505 | Information Processing Apparatus that Automatically and Sequentially Displays Graphical User Interface Images and Recording Medium Storing Program An information processing apparatus includes a display device; a storage device storing a program that includes a main program and N subsequent programs, and a subsequent processing code; and a processor displaying a GUI screen on the display device in accordance with t... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036496 | PLUG-IN BASED HIGH AVAILABILITY APPLICATION MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (AMF) A high availability method enabling addition and removal of an application plug-in comprises launching the high availability system using a processor, said high availability system having an application framework (AMF), requesting data obtainable by the application plug... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030667 | PACKAGING AN APPLICATION A method for packaging an application, for use with a system comprising the application and a plurality of libraries, the method comprising: in response to runtime execution of the application, monitoring library data associated with at least one of the plurality of lib... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030512 | PROVISIONING OF DATA TO A VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT COMPUTING SYSTEM Various embodiments include a software provisioning system and method for a vehicle infotainment computer. Software provisioning of the vehicle infotainment computer may occur during vehicle assembly. A software provisioning request may be received for custom installing... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120017208 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING DEVICE DRIVERS A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for scanning a computing device to identify a plurality of devices included within the computing device, thus generating a list of identified devices. The list of identified devices is compare... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011491 | EFFICIENT RECORDING AND REPLAYING OF THE EXECUTION PATH OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM To monitor the execution path of executable code, only non-deterministic jump instructions of the executable code are instrumented by replacing them with respective recording instructions that record the results of executions of the non-deterministic jump instructions a... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011497 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSTALLING SOFTWARE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for installing software in a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus for installing software in a mobile communication terminal, includes an external memory having software to be installed, a detector of the mobile communicati... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005049 | ALPHA II LICENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM The Alpha II installation architecture requires extra management of per-seat installations to ensure the games are only installed with as many instances as were sold to the site. The License Management method manages and enforces proper per-license activation since a me... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110321028 | APPLICATIONS INCLUDING MULTIPLE EXPERIENCE MODULES An application on a device includes multiple experience modules that each implement a set of features when the application is running on the device. Each of the multiple experience modules includes a first component that includes code specific to a particular type of th... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321035 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT WIRELESS INFORMATION Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to collect wireless information are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves installing an operating system and a data collector to execute outside a context of the operating system on a wireless handheld dev... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321034 | Method for Improving the Performance of Computers In a method for improving the performance of a computer system by releasing computer resources, a list P of programs installed on a computer system is determined. All relevant extension points EP of the computer system are searched for registered entries. A list A of au... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321033 | Application Blueprint and Deployment Model for Dynamic Business Service Management (BSM) Disclosed are systems and methods for model based provisioning of applications and servers (both physical and virtual) to execute provisioned applications in a reliable and repeatable manner. Several aspects of a complex application management including compliance, chan... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321027 | REBOOTLESS DISPLAY DRIVER UPGRADES Systems and methods for rebootless updating of a IHV display driver are disclosed. According to such a method, first, the operating system stops the driver from running Second, the system switches over to an interim or temporary display driver, which be a default driver... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321036 | GENERATING AND USING CONSTRAINTS ASSOCIATED WITH SOFTWARE RELATED PRODUCTS A computer implemented method and apparatus is provided for generating and using constraints that are associated with software programs or other software entities intended for use in a specified data processing system or environment. One embodiment is directed to a meth... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310257 | DIGITAL CAMERA FOR SHARING DIGITAL IMAGES A digital camera capable of sharing digital images using a plurality of host computers, comprising: memory for storing captured digital images and for storing installation software that can be used to install digital image sharing software on the plurality of host compu... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307531 | Converting Images in Virtual Environments The different illustrative embodiments provide a method, computer program product, and apparatus for converting a first image for a virtual machine formatted for a first virtual environment. A second image is created, wherein the second image is non-specific to any virt... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302575 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR THE SAME In a print control apparatus that searches for and installs a printer driver supporting a specified output device, hardware information on the output device is obtained by searching the output device. A printer driver that matches the output device is searched from the ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302570 | SCHEMA SPECIFICATION TO IMPROVE PRODUCT CONSUMABILITY ON INSTALLATION, CONFIGURATION, AND/OR UN-INSTALLATION ACTIVITY Provided are techniques for retrieving a universal schema specification file that defines a structure of a product specific data set, retrieving the product specific data set that defines a specific configuration for a version of a product, validating the product specif... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296401 | ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE AND ONLINE SERVICES The subject disclosure relates to pre-installed software and services, such as online services, and markets for pre-installed software and online services. In one aspect, the disclosed subject matter facilitates contracting between software vendors and device manufactur... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296395 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CLIENT QUALIFICATION TO EXECUTE PACKAGE UPDATE MANAGER A compatibility tool can certify compliance between software packages managers, used by or known to a user, and software packages to be updated or installed on a computing system. Additionally, the compatibility tool can identify a software package manager that is compa... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295101 | MODULAR SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY A facility for performing patient localization for radiation therapy is described. The facility activates two or more discrete software modules, and performs interactions between the activated software modules. Based upon the performed interactions, the facility perform... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296377 | DEPLOYMENT SCRIPT GENERATION AND EXECUTION Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to deployment scripts. In aspects, in conjunction with creating a package for deploying software to a target, an installation script is also created. The installation script includes instructions for deploying the so... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296399 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF NON VOLATILE ITEMS AND PROVISIONING FILES FOR A COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE SERVICE ACCOUNTS Methods and systems enable communication devices equipped with software defined radio based chipset modules to seamlessly re-program the communication device to operate on any of a variety of service provider networks. By re-programming a communication device equipped w... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296400 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING LICENSE An information processing apparatus includes an install unit to receive install data for software to install the software for providing a function, an acquisition unit to acquire a license file for activating the function, a management unit to manage information indicat... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289493 | SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES EMBEDDED SOFTWARE TO AN EMBEDDED SYSTEM A system automates the provision of embedded software to an embedded system. The system may include a portable device having a portable device application that provides the embedded software to the embedded system, a communication link coupling the portable device to th... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289491 | Method and Device for Program Installation A method for installing an application program is disclosed. The method includes detecting a system platform, and detecting preprocessing software required by the application program according to the system platform and a compilation script and accordingly generating a ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289325 | Data encryption device for storage medium A data encryption device for storage medium has an encryption key input interface for acquiring a user encryption key; a block code encoder for encoding and decoding data; a scrambler connected with the encryption key input interface and the block code encoder to scramb... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110276959 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INSTALLATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INSTALLATION METHOD An information processing apparatus useful in simplifying installation operations performed by an installation operator and preventing interpolation, by a third person, of a range of a value to be set for a parameter of an application to be installed includes a confirma... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271279 | Secure Virtual Machine An approach to securely distributing and running virtual machines is described that addresses the inherent insecurity of mobile virtual machines by authenticating a user before establishing a specialized virtualization runtime environment that includes a filesystem driv... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265080 | DYNAMIC RETRIEVAL OF INSTALLATION PACKAGES WHEN INSTALLING SOFTWARE A method and apparatus for dynamic retrieval of installation packages when installing software is described herein. In one embodiment, a process can be provided to determine a specific installation package to be installed for software having one or more packages to be i... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110265079 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING OPTIMAL PARAMETERSOF AN EQUALIZATION FILTER In an electronic device and a method for computing optimal parameters of an equalization filter, an output file, which comprises times and voltages of data points that represent a signal, of electronic circuit simulation software is loaded, and is read using the install... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264718 | Virtual System Administration Environment For Non-Root User A virtual system environment in a computing system allows non-root users to perform administrative operations normally requiring root privileges. A virtual control module has a virtual file system with virtual directories corresponding to one or more of the system direc... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258597 | Unified Framework and Method for Call Control and Media Control A communication system and method include a server hosting an interactive voice response or self-help application in a Java virtual machine. The communication application is programmed with a unified communication API, which is provided by a unified application framewor... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258701 | Protecting A Virtualization System Against Computer Attacks In certain embodiments, protecting a virtualization system against computer attacks comprises facilitating operation of hypervisors comprising operation zone hypervisors and one or more forensic hypervisors. Each hypervisor operates on a corresponding physical machine, ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252038 | SEARCH EXTENSIBILITY TO THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method to extend search capabilities to third party applications installed on a device. In one embodiment, records associated with a third party application are indexed in a process isolated from other thi... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252416 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, DEVICE DRIVER SETTING DEVICE, INSTALL DEVICE, DEVICE DRIVER PACKAGE, METHOD FOR SETTING DEVICE DRIVER AND INSTALL METHOD A device driver setting device includes an acquiring unit, an allowing unit, and a writing unit. The acquiring unit acquires, from a data group constituting a device driver, condition information for each of one or more items which the device driver refers to. The condi... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246980 | Facilitating Software Acquisition In certain embodiments, facilitating software acquisition includes accessing a memory storing software programs. A selected software program is identified. One or more product requirements of the selected software program and one or more target parameters of a target en... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246617 | Virtual Application Extension Points A virtual application may be configured with several extension points within a host operating system. The virtual application may be configured with a private namespace in which various components, such as registry settings, dynamic linked libraries, and other component... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246976 | Central Service Provisioning System A system, which implemented as programming on a suitable computing device, manages the configuration of a software system. The system includes a create properties configuration module that identifies and stores a collection of properties related to the configuration of ... | 10/06/2011 |
