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Patent No. 6637447

Beerbrella

A small umbrella which may be removably attached to a beverage container in order to shade the beverage container from the direct rays of the sun.

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Examiner: Cao, Chun


Primary examiner statistics: 713 patents; average approval time: 711 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 214 patents; average approval time: 1186 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8181049 Method for controlling a frequency of a clock signal to control p...
8181054 Arrangement and method for controlling power modes of hardware re...
8176309 Boot system has BIOS that reads rescue operating system from memo...
8176342 Real-time inference of power efficiency metrics for a computer sy...
8171272 Critical pre-OS driver verification
8171322 Portable electronic devices with power management capabilities
8171326 L1 flush mechanism to flush cache for power down and handle coher...
8171333 Sub-beam forming transmitter circuitry for ultrasound system
8166326 Managing power consumption in a computer
8161311 Apparatus and method for redundant and spread spectrum clocking
8161275 Configuring media player
8161487 Controller for controlling a plurality of logical resources of a ...
8156360 Systems and methods for waking wireless LAN devices
8145891 Bios-selectable data wiping system
8135945 Flexible boot methods for multi-processor devices
8132029 Method for managing the power transmitted from a central network ...
8127156 Systems and methods for control of integrated circuits comprising...
8127128 Synchronization of swappable module in modular system
8127122 Selection of boot drive in a computer system
8122238 Multi-channel algorithm infrastructure for programmable hardware ...
8108667 System and method for configuring option ROM
8099613 Method and apparatus for reduced power consumption in an image fo...
8099589 System and method for rapid boot of secondary operating system
8090965 System and method for testing memory power management modes in an...
8086884 System and method for implementing an integrated circuit having d...
8078858 Manufacturing boot process with minimal component initialization
8078862 Method for assigning physical data address range in multiprocesso...
8078893 Power supply method for supplying power to external device by sel...
8078855 Method and system for booting and automatically updating software...
8078901 Method for increasing a processor operating frequency when other ...
8078891 Method, device, and system for guaranteed minimum processor power...
8078889 Method and apparatus for negotiating power between power sourcing...
8074091 Storage apparatus for power saving and achieving longest mean tim...
8074085 Method for controlling the power supply from a power source to a ...
8074088 Electronic circuit and electronic device
8069363 Double data rate output latch for static RAM device has edge-trig...
8065549 Scan-based integrated circuit having clock frequency divider
RE42936 Method and apparatus to minimize computer apparatus initial progr...
8060761 Electrical power sharing circuit has control unit for controlling...
8055922 Power management via DIMM read operation limiter

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7089437 Apparatus for determining power consumed by a bus of a digital si...
6901524 Processor having real-time power conservation and thermal managem...
6871292 Sequencer and method of selectively inhibiting clock signals to e...
6845456 CPU utilization measurement techniques for use in power managemen...
6829703 Method for validating system configuration in a mass customized e...
6826704 Microprocessor employing a performance throttling mechanism for p...
6826683 Predicting the health of a computer system by determining a set o...
6810481 Electronic device, control method therefor, and storage medium pr...
6810478 System for remote booting of muntliple operating systems using ch...
6810434 Multimedia interface having a processor and reconfigurable logic
6802028 Computer virus detection and removal
6799278 System and method for processing power management signals in a pe...
6795913 Method for restarting an apparatus if the integrity of data in a ...
6789187 Processor reset and instruction fetches
6789205 System for determining intrinsic safety status of the combination...
6785828 Apparatus and method for a low power, multi-level GTL I/O buffer ...
6785829 Multiple operating frequencies in a processor
6785806 Bios having macro/effector pairs for hardware initialization
6782480 Method and apparatus for accessing system information
6782482 Image processing apparatus has a CPU that reduces operation capab...
6779044 Access control for an information processing device
6775784 Power supply control circuit and method for cutting off unnecessa...
6772360 Extension signal generator coupled to an extension timer and an e...
6772328 Dynamic initialization of processor module via motherboard interf...
6766448 Microcomputer for transferring program data to an internal memory...
6763477 Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using a ...
6763478 Variable clock cycle for processor, bus and components for power ...
6763455 Masking logical unit numbers in a shared data storage system
6760852 System and method for monitoring and controlling a power-manageab...
6760858 Method enabling an exchange of data between a smart card and an a...
6754836 Microcomputer capable of switching between low current consumptio...
6754818 Method and system for bootstrapping from a different boot image w...
6751744 Method of integrated circuit design checking using progressive in...
6751741 Computer power management apparatus and method for optimizing CPU...
6735704 Autonomic control of power subsystems in a redundant power system
6732266 Method and apparatus for reconfiguring circuit board and integrat...
6732282 System and method of determining the power relationship among dev...
6732261 Method and apparatus for implementing a register scan process
6728892 Method for conserving power in a can microcontroller and a can mi...
6725390 Method and an apparatus for adjusting clock signal to sample data
 
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