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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7448233 | Method for manufacturing optical waveguide, optical waveguide device, electro-optical apparatus and electronic apparatus A method for manufacturing an optical waveguide includes the steps of forming a liquid-repellent region upon a substrate, and forming the optical waveguide in a region upon the substrate other than the liquid-repellent region. ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445011 | Method for improving the loading capacity of tobacco The invention relates to a process for enhancing the filling capacity of tobacco, such as cut tobacco leaf or tobacco midribs, or tobacco additional material, by treating the tobacco material having an initial moisture of 10-30% with a treatment gas consisting of ni... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7434420 | Process for glass molding A process for glass molding includes the steps of: gradually increasing a working temperature to a formation temperature T1 while maintaining a normal pressure and an initial mold position; maintaining the formation temperature T1 for about 60 ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7422719 | Process for removing oil-based components and forming ceramic bodies An improvement in a process of forming ceramic articles comprising oil-based components or extrusion aids, the improvement including removing the oil-based components after drying and prior to firing by flowing a heated gas through the green ceramic honeycomb articl... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7412849 | Device for blank pressing optical glass bodies The device for blank pressing glass bodies includes a first rotary indexing table with preforms for forming parisons from glass gobs; a second rotary indexing table having pressing molds and pressing tools for pressing the parisons into final form after formation in... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409955 | Cigarette preserver-container A combined cigarette cutter and container includes a cigarette cutter illustratively engaged to an upper inside surface of a lid of a container which holds preferably a single cigarette (or cigar). The user may partially smoke it, cut off the used portion using the ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409956 | Methods for adapting an automated cigarette making apparatus Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7404405 | Portable hookah system and hookah containment device Disclosed is a hookah containment device that allows a user to smoke a prepared hookah while engaging in foot traffic. A portable hookah system includes a hookah and the hookah containment device tailored to mate with the hookah in a fashion to vertically stabilize ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398783 | Smoking article The invention relates to a reconstituted smoking material which comprises a non-polyol aerosol generator, tobacco (optional), binder (optional) and inorganic filler. A further polyol aerosol generator may also be contained in the smoking material. There is also prov... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392809 | Electrically heated cigarette smoking system lighter cartridge dryer A dryer for a smoking device includes a heating element adapted to fit within a cigarette receiving portion of the smoking device, the heating element projecting from a base portion of the dryer. The base portion of the dryer has an interface surface on which the sm... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7387127 | Cigar holder for golf cart A cigar holder assembly is provided for golf carts utilizing biased clasps to hold one or more cigars in a vertical position over a removable ashtray. Temporary and permanent means for attaching the cigar holder to a golf cart are provided, and a swivel mount is pro... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7383704 | Apparatus for deposition by flame hydrolysis An outside chemical vapor deposition apparatus is disclosed for depositing porous glass-forming material onto a target rod to form a cylindrical body, with substantially higher efficiency than could prior apparatus. The apparatus includes two separate burner arrays,... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380553 | Receptacle for extinguishing and storing cigarette butts A receptacle for extinguishing and storing spent smoking items, namely cigarette or cigar butts, comprising a container and a cap connected to the container for receiving and storing the butts. The cap contains a porous snuffing tube formed within and through the ca... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7363367 | Systems and methods for robust, real-time measurement of network performance Methods and apparatuses for obtaining delay, jitter, and loss statistics of a path between server and an end user coupled via an internetwork are described. The server may comprise a web server in communication with the end user via the Internet. Statistics are obta... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7325547 | Curling device A curling device for a filter tip attachment comprises at least one blade-like element offered to a continuous strip of paper material at a selected contact zone in such a way as to deform the material as it advances, so that single tipping papers separated from the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318329 | Method of making a container from a bottle A bottle is separated along at least one or two severance planes and the base of the bottle is discarded leaving the body portion behind. The body portion having a rim (10) is inverted to form the bowl of the goblet. Under heat and rotation, the original mout... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7281395 | Gob distributor for a glass forming machine The gob distributor for a glass forming machine has at least one scoop channel which can be pivoted in a reciprocating manner about a vertical axis. A lower end of each scoop channel can be successively orientated, by the pivoting motion, so as to be aligned with a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7254603 | On-chip inter-network performance optimization using configurable performance parameters A method and apparatus for on-chip inter-network performance optimization using configurable performance parameters have been described. ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7240109 | Remote services system service module interface The invention relates to an apparatus for interfacing between a plurality of service modules and a remote services system which includes a service module application program interface. The service module application program interface provides an interface between th... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233982 | Arrangement for accessing an IP-based messaging server by telephone for management of stored messages A method in an application server for accessing a messaging server includes receiving, from a browser configured for dynamic control of audio operations, an HTTP request having an audio file that stores received voice signals specifying a messaging operation; identi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233986 | Method and apparatus for accessing management information base data A method and apparatus for accessing management information base data is described. A method in a network element comprises collecting a first set of management information base (MIB) data in a framer's memory, maintaining a second set of MIB data that is periodical... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225252 | Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen object information observed on computer network and observation display system using computer network Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed as observation object on a computer network which is specified by a push request and an observation display system using a co... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216148 | Storage system having a plurality of controllers A storage system having a plurality of disk controllers for accepting computer access through a SAN, and a plurality of file servers for accepting computer access through a LAN. The disk controllers and file servers are connected through a connection unit to a plura... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216177 | Apparatus and method for supplying electronic content to network appliances A system and method communicates data from a web content provider to a wireless computing device (e.g., a PDA, a cellular phone) via a proxy server. The proxy server transforms web content “on-the-fly” into a streamlined format, optimizes it for display, and del... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206841 | Rendezvous for locating peer-to-peer resources A system and method for providing rendezvous nodes in a peer-to-peer networking environment is described. Rendezvous nodes preferably cache information about network resources that may be useful to peer nodes on a peer-to-peer network. In one embodiment, a network o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206836 | System and method for reforming a distributed data system cluster after temporary node failures or restarts Data stored within a cluster may be distributed among nodes each storing a portion of the data. The data may be replicated wherein different nodes store copies of the same portion of the data. In response to detecting the failure of a node, the cluster may initiate ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203752 | Method and system for managing location information for wireless communications devices A system and method provide for establishment and use of permission sets for subscribers where client applications in a wireless communication environment are requesting location information for a particular wireless communications device from a provider of such inf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203763 | Server cluster interconnection using network processor A server farm formed by a plurality of computer systems joined together by a network processor which transfers data exchanged with an external network supported by the server farm at a data rate substantially the same as the data flow rate of the network and related... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7188184 | Information service system An information service system is provided, particularly for use by the police. The information service system communicates with application devices used by the police and includes an intelligent and dynamically implemented portal for standardized access to downstrea... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177312 | Server arbitrated reliable multicast system and a process for accessing the same A system and a process for a session layer protocol allows a large number of client machines to receive a reliable data stream over inherently unreliable multicast connections in a highly efficient and scalable manner. More specifically, streaming of high-quality vi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175466 | Plug The present invention relates to a plug comprising a main housing, at least one conductor guide and a supplementary part. To improve the plug such that the conductor guide can be assembled as easily as possible and its correct position easily checked, with the condu... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172461 | Electrical connector An electrical connector is provided that includes a housing holding a plurality of contact modules. Each contact module contains a contact lead frame that includes signal leads and ground leads arranged in one of a first and second patterns. The first and second pat... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173907 | Voice over ATM AAL2 bandwidth allocation methodology Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a virtual channel connection. The number of fax calls expected in a trunk group is divided by the number of DS0s in the trunk group and multiplied by the number of DS0s in a subset of the trunk group. The result equal... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168991 | Detachable connector and front-panel device including same A detachable connector is provided in which a male connector unit mounted to a movable panel is attachable to and detachable from a female connector unit mounted to a main body. In a pair of first and second female terminals, the first female terminal which has a lo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170870 | Data packet transmission for channel-sharing collocated wireless devices Interference between collocated wireless devices sharing the same RF channel is avoided or minimized by a new header format provided for the first data packet in an RF transmission. By inclusion of an invalid pulse in the header of each isolated data packet, an FM r... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171450 | Framework to enable integration of anti-spam technologies A method that enables multiple spam detection solutions to be deployed in a manageable and rational manner to determine if a message is spam is presented. A framework invokes one or more anti-spam filters to analyze the message and return a confidence level of wheth... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166002 | Connection terminal A connection terminal comprises a terminal connection unit and a blade spring. A male terminal is inserted in the terminal connection unit. The blade spring is disposed in the terminal connection unit and press-contacts with the male terminal by means of reacting fo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167460 | Method and apparatus for providing variable rate data in a communications system using non-orthogonal overflow channels A variable rate transmission system where a packet of variable rate data is transmitted on a traffic channel if the capacity of the traffic channel is greater than or equal to the data rate of the packet. When the rate of the packet of variable rate data exceeds the... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167921 | Full duplex re-transmitter Method for efficiently exploiting an upstream channel bandwidth of full-duplex connection between a user and network. Data from the network is received by a user. The data is stored on the user's storage device, for a predetermined period of time for further use. Th... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163424 | Housing for a thin active probe A housing for a thin active probe has two identical molded housing-halves that when assembled form a cavity that encloses the chassis upon which is carried the active circuitry of the probe. The parts exhibit complementary self-symmetry about a longitudinal axis, su... | 01/16/2007 |
