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Patent No. 5443036

Method of exercising a cat

A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall.

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Examiner: Rones, Charles


Primary examiner statistics: 1015 patents; average approval time: 1015 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 209 patents; average approval time: 1052 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8117155 Collection-based object replication
8108373 Selecting an author of missing content in a content management sy...
8108387 Method of detecting character string pattern at high speed using ...
8108352 Data store replication for entity based partition
8108398 Auto-summary generator and filter
8103684 Abstract pipeline component connection
8103699 Contents reordering in a contents reproduction apparatus
8103690 Realtime database architecture
8095529 Full-text relevancy ranking
8086620 Inference of query relationships
8082230 System and method for mounting a file system on multiple host com...
8082261 System and method for associating NIS attributes with CIFS client...
8078585 Reactive file recovery based on file naming and access informatio...
8065264 Systems and methods for optimizing database queries
8065307 Parsing, analysis and scoring of document content
8065272 Systems and methods for tracking changes to a volume
8060534 Event management
8046369 Media asset rating system
8046375 Geo targeted commerce
8046388 Program additional data creating device, video program editing de...
8046391 Storage apparatus and its file control method and storage system
8041735 Distributed file system and method
8041676 Backup and restore of file system objects of unknown type
8041727 System, method, and computer program product for finding web serv...
8041699 Process of dynamic taxonomy for browsing and retrieving informati...
8037014 Method and apparatus for aggregating and submitting form data
8037071 Methods and systems for dynamically rearranging search results in...
8037103 Accessing a non-relational store with a container-managed persist...
8032483 Using game responses to gather data
8032526 Recommendation information generation apparatus and recommendatio...
8032529 Enhanced bloom filters
8024371 Managing inverse references between objects in object-oriented so...
8024308 Electronic previous search results log
8024354 System and method for managing data using a hierarchical metadata...
8024324 Information retrieval with unified search using multiple facets
8019799 Computer system operable to automatically reorganize files to avo...
8019766 Processes for calculating item distances and performing item clus...
8019725 Software update management
8015222 Virtual repository management
8015146 Methods and systems for assisting information processing by using...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6578044 Method and system for typesafe attribute matching
6442553 Hash system and hash method for transforming records to be hashed
6418431 Information retrieval and speech recognition based on language mo...
6385605 Information retrieval apparatus and a method
6377953 Database having an integrated transformation engine using picklin...
6366923 Gathering selected information from the world wide web
6363378 Ranking of query feedback terms in an information retrieval syste...
6363396 Object hashing with incremental changes
6360230 Method and system for uniformly accessing multiple directory serv...
6353837 Method and apparatus providing mass storage access from systems u...
6351749 Multi-threading, multi-tasking architecture for a relational data...
6351751 Persistent storage managers for configuring client/server environ...
6343300 File updating method capable of updating an operation file withou...
6341293 Real-time computer "garbage collector"
6341278 Recording and reproducing apparatus and method for accessing data...
6334125 Method and apparatus for loading data into a cube forest data str...
6332145 Method for creating browsing data of an information searching app...
6330569 Method for versioning a UML model in a repository in accordance w...
6324542 Enterprise connectivity to handheld devices
6324546 Automatic logging of application program launches
6321237 Recording and reproducing apparatus and method for accessing data...
6321235 Global caching and sharing of SQL statements in a heterogeneous a...
6314432 System and method for retrieval, saving and printing of using hyp...
6314434 Structured data management system and computer-readable method fo...
6314423 Searching and serving bookmark sets based on client specific info...
6311184 Sort and merge functions with input and output procedures
6308180 Computer process data transferring with automatic clipping of pic...
6304871 Method and system for characterizing applications for use with da...
6304881 Remote data access and synchronization
6301584 System and method for retrieving entities and integrating data
6301583 Method and apparatus for generating data files for an applet-base...
6298351 Modifying an unreliable training set for supervised classificatio...
6298346 Method and apparatus for supporting cooperative activity
6298341 System and method for generating domain names and for facilitatin...
6298342 Electronic database operations for perspective transformations on...
6295530 Internet service of differently formatted viewable data signals i...
6295536 Computer architecture for multi-organization data access
6285997 Query optimization with deferred update and autonomous sources
6286012 Information filtering apparatus and information filtering method
6286013 Method and system for providing a common name space for long and ...
 
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