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Fork With Timer

A fork with timer for providing a cue to a user after an elapsed period of time for indicating that another bite of food using the fork may be taken.

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Examiner: Yao, Kwang Bin


Primary examiner statistics: 651 patents; average approval time: 652 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 236 patents; average approval time: 1025 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7463590 System and method for threat detection and response
7463654 Stackable routers employing a routing protocol
7463653 Apparatus and method for compression of the timing trace stream
7460552 Method for managing a group in a star network and apparatus using...
7457236 Method for providing fault-tolerant application cluster service
7457289 Inter-proxy communication protocol for mobile IP
7457263 Apparatus and method for channel request in a wireless communicat...
7457237 Shared risk group handling within a media gateway
7453879 Method and apparatus for determining the landing zone of a TCP pa...
7453810 Method and apparatus for closed loop, out-of-band backpressure me...
7450607 Communication in a data network
7450601 Method and communication apparatus for controlling a jitter buffe...
7450553 System and method for selecting beacon transmission starting poin...
7450615 Apparatus and method for automatically bypassing a load coil in a...
7450608 Subscriber distribution network apparatus and subscriber line uni...
7447236 Method and apparatus for determining an arrival time associated w...
7447225 Multiple multicast forwarder prevention during NSF recovery of co...
7443887 Packet processing circuit
7443399 Communication terminal apparatus and method for displaying charac...
7440460 Apparatus and method for forwarding mixed data packet types in a ...
7440412 Link quality prediction
7440461 Methods and apparatus for detecting patterns in a data stream
7436859 Demultiplexing device
7433312 Dynamic band allocation circuit, dynamic band allocation method, ...
7433317 Network connection apparatus and network connection switching met...
7430174 Data flow between a communication node and a mobile node in a mob...
7430181 Method and apparatus for automatically configuring devices on a w...
7430163 Data stream transmission preprocessing
7430175 Method and system for managing traffic in fibre channel systems
7430217 Method and apparatus of prioritising the usage of slotted links b...
7430179 Quality determination for packetized information
7430180 Package switching network with a deterministic behavior
7430213 Method and telecommunications node for distribution of terminatin...
7430220 System load based dynamic segmentation for network interface card...
7428224 Radio base station system, and method and program for controlling...
7423972 System and method for a transmission rate controller
7420982 Method and system for keeping a fibre channel arbitrated loop ope...
7420983 Dynamic assignment of re-assembly queues
7420993 Variable length code multiplexer and variable length code demulti...
7420928 Testing of transmission quality in packet-based networks

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6331982 Connection control system and method in a switch
6330235 Method and apparatus providing data communication over an existin...
6327258 Method and apparatus for routing internet calls
6320858 Asynchronous transfer mode switch with logical multicasting
6320876 N:1 transcoder
6295299 Data path architecture for a LAN switch
6256292 Self-healing line switched ring for ATM traffic
6246670 Method and apparatus for preventing misrouting of data in a radio...
6243380 Method and apparatus for mapping asynchronous ports to HDLC addre...
6233229 Method of allocating frequency bands to different cells, and TDMA...
6233234 Secure LAN/internet telephony
6226263 ATM network externally controlled for network resource reservatio...
6222833 Device and method for multiuser detection in DS-CDMA system
6222819 Processing data transmitted and received over a wireless link con...
6222830 Communication system using repeated data selection
6219352 Queue management with support for multicasts in an asynchronous t...
6215784 Method and system for voice call completion using information ret...
6215778 Bearer channel modification system for a code division multiple a...
6212204 Subscriber line multiplexer
6212185 Multiple network address resolution
6212197 Apparatus and method for accessing memory in a TDM network
6212194 Network routing switch with non-blocking arbitration system
6205121 Method of establishing logical connections in a synchronous digit...
6201815 Transport packet stream separating circuit in which packet can be...
6198753 Method and apparatus for facilitating an interface to a digital s...
6198746 Data transmission system in which cell retransmission can be avoi...
6198727 Method and apparatus for providing 10Base-T/100Base-TX link assur...
6195341 Communication method, base station and terminal apparatus
6195363 Transmission right managing method and communication system
6195335 Data switch
6195358 Internet telephony signal conversion
6192046 Apparatus and method for efficiently transferring ATM cells acros...
6192042 Device and method for multiuser detection is DS-CDMA system
6192054 Accelerated fibre channel hub and protocol
6188679 CDMA chip synchronization circuit
6185189 Method for adapting committed information rate over frame relay s...
6185218 Communication method and apparatus for use in a computing network...
6181680 Communication monitoring in ATM switch
6160792 Pulse amplitude modulated tone generator
6160814 Distributed shared-memory packet switch
 
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