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Patent No. 5678617

Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter

A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.

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Examiner: Wang, Philip


Primary examiner statistics: 98 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 51 patents; average approval time: 74 days

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8161472 Methods and apparatus for incorporating a partial page on a clien...
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8141044 Method and system for identifying sources of operating system jit...
8141056 Just-in-time dynamic instrumentation
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8141055 Method for dynamic discovery of code segments in instrumented bin...
8132154 Displaying comment statistics information
8132164 System, method and computer program product for virtual patching
8127282 Recompilation of a class with a java static variable
8122424 Automatic natural language translation during information transfe...
8117590 Program developing apparatus, program developing method and compu...
8117610 System and method for integrated artifact management
8108833 Automatically generating a graphical data flow program from a sta...
8104018 Configuring a software product
8099711 System and method for multi-level security filtering of model rep...
8091085 Installation of updated software for server components
8069434 Integrated model checking and issue resolution framework
8060867 Systems and methods for excluding user specified applications
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8060861 Tool to generate active page interface instructions
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8051414 Method and system for remote software updating of a medical devic...
8037450 System and methods for tracing code generation in template engine...
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8037467 Single stream processing with multi-version support of applicatio...
8028268 System and method for building software package for embedded syst...
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7987447 Approach for automatically generating program code
7984426 Graphical representation of dependencies between changes of sourc...
7979851 System and program product for providing computing-environment co...
7979846 Automatic test generation for reference testing

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7743369 Enhanced function point analysis
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7725882 System and method for profiling processes in a computing system
7607119 Variational path profiling
7603654 Determining XML schema type equivalence
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7587715 System and method for selective installation of one or more compo...
7568194 Method and system for availability checking on distributed object...
7458066 Computer system and method for transferring executables between p...
7448019 Dynamic readjustment and interpolation of progress method and sys...
7426713 Controlling a GUI display for a plug-in
7421679 Method, apparatus and interface for testing web services
7415706 Dynamic handling of multiple software component versions for devi...
7412689 Method and apparatus for creating a hierarchical model to facilit...
7412694 Detecting program phases with periodic call-stack sampling during...
7401324 Method and apparatus for performing time measurements during inst...
7373641 Method, computer unit and program for converting a program
7353502 System and method for creation of software components
7346890 Method and system for creating linkable programming languages
7343597 Methods and apparatus for communication between an application an...
7322029 Method and system for recovering program code in a computer syste...
7322026 Scoring assertions
7293263 System and method for memory leak detection in a virtual machine ...
7293251 Initiating and debugging a process in a high assurance execution ...
7287247 Instrumenting a software application that includes distributed ob...
7275235 Graphical application development system for test, measurement an...
7272826 Hierarchical breakpoint groups
7249347 Software application domain and storage domain interface process ...
7237223 Apparatus and method for real-time caution and warning and system...
7237224 Data structure used for skeleton function of a class in a skeleto...
7234132 Application integration model for dynamic software component asse...
7225437 Dynamic distributed make
7216333 Fingerprint subtype checking
7213241 Methods and apparatus for dispatching Java™ software as an appl...
7210140 Software support for virtual machine interpreter (VMI) accelerati...
7210118 Method and apparatus for modifying relocatable object code filed ...
7203939 Dense allocation for data storage
7197743 Method for generating computer software for embedded systems
7197747 Compiling method, apparatus, and program
7197745 User debugger for use on processes running in a high assurance ke...
 
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