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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6889214 | Virtual security device A system and method for remote postage metering of postage indicia, including demanding a desired postage amount and subsequently printing the postage indicia onto a piece of mail. A user inputs certain necessary information, as well as additional desired informatio... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6829595 | MicroTrac internet billing solutions A method for authenticating internet billing using a third party account server. Internet users maintain authentication information such as user PIN codes with a third party account server. An internet user seeking to purchase from and an internet vendor is linked t... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6820062 | Product information system The present invention features a Product Information System (PISYS) which presents advertising and product information to grocery shoppers. The system includes one or more shopping carts with a bar code scanner to read Universal Product Codes (UPCs) from merchandise... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6795813 | System and method for linking an indicium with address information of a mailpiece in a closed system postage meter System and method is provided for adding addressing information to an indicium printed by a closed system metering device. A scanning device is coupled to a closed system postage meter for scanning addressing information printed on a mailpiece. The addressing inform... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6785661 | System and method a risk based purchase of goods A system and method provides for enabling on-line transactional services among sellers and buyers having no previous relationship with each other. The system includes a financial clearinghouse for receiving a request for goods or services from a buyer and making a r... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6757843 | Method and apparatus for using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repair An embodiment consistent with the present invention includes a method and apparatus for forming a multicast repair tree. The methods perform by a data processor and comprises the steps of determining, for each of a plurality of potential heads in a multicast group, ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6748554 | Server architecture with detection and recovery of failed out-of-process application A server architecture includes a server program to receive a request from a client. In one aspect, an out-of-process application executing in a separate process from the server program is invoked to process the request and to generate a response to be returned to th... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6701453 | System for clustering software applications A system for fault tolerant execution of an application program in a server network, which includes: a first server for executing the application program; a cluster network database, coupled to the first server; an object, stored in the cluster network da... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6697963 | Method of updating a system environmental setting A fault tolerant computer system for obtaining and displaying, or updating the status of server components through a remote interface and either a local or remote client machine without intervention of the server operating system software. The remote mach... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6687684 | System and method for restrictively authorizing reprinting of mail pieces having postage indicia A postage printing system enables users to generate postage indicia and print mail pieces at client computers. Upon user determination of a mail piece print failure, a mail metering application on the client computer sends reprint request to an authorizin... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6654888 | Installing and controlling trial software According to one aspect of the invention, a method of creating a trial software product on a target system is provided. The method consists of intercepting file system calls from an installation process associated with a full software product and, respons... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6636967 | Electronic-watermark control apparatus and method, information control apparatus and method, and storage medium capable of being read by a computer An information control apparatus includes a superposition circuit for superposing a plurality of elements, each having electronic-watermark information, to provide a set of data, a determination circuit for determining, prior to superposition, a state of ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6636966 | Digital rights management within an embedded storage device A method is provided for enabling locked data stored on a storage medium and accessing it through a data storage engine contained within or connected to a host device. A user selects all or part of the data stored on the storage medium to enable. The host... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6631472 | Kernel mode protection A kernel mode protection circuit includes a processor, a program counter, a kernel program fetch supervisor circuit, a kernel data fetch supervisor circuit, a program memory, a data memory, a flip-flop circuit and two AND circuits. The data memory include... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6631473 | Adaptive countermeasure selection method and apparatus A method of selecting a security model for an organization operating an application on the organization's computer network is described. A current strength level for a countermeasure is determined based on input data and rules corresponding to the applica... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6625733 | Electronic information inquiry method A reference A divides the stored electronic information CA into more than one information element based on a dividing algorithm D (aD) applied with a dividing argument aD, selects information elements from the divided elem... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6606709 | Secure system for remote management and wake-up commands A security feature is added to the Wake On LAN packet protocol, and an extensible mechanism is provided allowing for other commands and options to be specified within the Wake On LAN packet. The protocol allows for signaling power management circuits in a... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6598167 | Secure customer interface for web based data management An integrated series of security protocols is disclosed that protect remote user communications with remote enterprise services, and simultaneously protect the enterprises services from third parties. In the first layer, an implementation of the Secure So... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6574735 | Information signal recording/reproducing system, information signal recording device, information signal reproducing device and information signal recording/reproducing process When digital image signals fed in through an input terminal are to be recorded on a disc, medium-related information, such as a serial number recorded in a table of contents of the disc, is read from the disc and is spectrum-spread in a spectrum spreading... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6532450 | Financial management system including an offset payment process The present invention is a system that includes a first financial management system handling receivables and a second financial management system handling payables. The receivables system sends debt offset information to an offset payment system and the p... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6513018 | Method and apparatus for scoring the likelihood of a desired performance result Apparatus and methods for generating a score predictive of the likelihood of a desired performance result for a selected receiver of that performance from a selected performer that includes memory means storing performance information of the selected perf... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6513017 | System and method for household grocery management A system for h household grocery management is provided. The system includes a bar code scanner (22) operable to scan a bar code on a grocery item and to provide bar code data obtained thereby. The system also includes a computer system (20) coupled to re... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6513121 | Securing feature activation in a telecommunication system Periodically sending by a telecommunication controlled application an encrypted message to a licensed server to request permission to run and to obtain a list of permitted features. The license server application is executing on the same processor as the ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6513019 | Financial consolidation and communication platform An integrated financial data reporting system provides for real time data entry, assessment, and report generation. The system includes message formatting, database management, and select applications for preparing sophisticated financial presentations in... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6505176 | Workflow management system for an automated credit application system A workflow management system for an automated credit application processing system. The workflow management system automatically coordinates the workflow among various workgroups and entities involved in the credit application process. The steps and rule ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6499020 | Method and device for improving the efficiency of a postage meter A method and device for improving the efficiency of a postage meter by using a sensing to detect the edges of an incoming envelope in order to initiate a multi-speed profile for transporting the envelope with different speeds through the postage meter. Wi... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6496808 | Using smartcards to enable probabilistic transaction on an untrusted device The present method permits a user to conduct remote transactions without a network while using an untrusted computing device, such as a hand-held personal digital assistant or a laptop computer. The computing device is augmented with a smartcard reader, a... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6493675 | Apparatus and system for managing work flow, and computer-readable storage medium for storing work flow management program A system for managing a work flow functions efficiently at a high speed. To attain this, the system includes a plurality of work flow support units, and a work flow support unit management unit. The work flow support unit management unit determines which ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6490673 | Processor, compiling apparatus, and compile program recorded on a recording medium Each of registers R0 to R31 is divided into the upper 32-bit area and the lower 32-bit area. A register writing control unit 431 outputs information to the selectors 4321 and 4322 on the registers and the locations (upper and lower areas) in which data is... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6484144 | Method and system for healthcare treatment planning and assessment Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a comprehensive assessment and planning system. Methods and systems consistent with employ a preventive approach to predicting the likelihood of an entity entering a degraded future state b... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6480830 | Active calendar system An "active" calendar automatically analyzes a user's calendar entries and sends machine-readable messages to destinations appropriate to content of the calendar entry. A group of event categories is established, each category specifying one class of antic... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6477508 | System and apparatus for broadcasting, capturing, storing, selecting and then forwarding selected product data and viewer choices to vendor host computers A Broadcast Marketing System (BMS) creates, transmits, captures, stores and forwards selected home shopping product ordering information in a manner that increases the likelihood that a TV or radio viewer/listener will order a product promoted on a direct... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6466920 | Method and system for preventing illegal use of digital contents, processing program thereof, and recording medium for the program In a method of preventing an illegal use of digital contents, a status information for controlling the replay processing of the digital contents is set in the digital contents. The replay processing of the digital contents is controlled in accordance with... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6463467 | Method and apparatus of secure server control of local media via a trigger through a network for instant local access of encrypted data on an internet webpage A method of transmitting protected video and/or graphic data over the Internet from a Web site, by encrypting the video and/or graphic data and storing it at a Web site associated with a server, and by encrypting a video player and storing it at the Web s... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6460022 | Process for protecting sensitive price information from internet based data collection systems A process for protecting sensitive price information from Internet based data collection systems with the steps of: analyzing specific price information and breaking each price down into a sequence of numbers, instead of representing the pricing numbers a... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6460140 | System for controlling the use of licensed software A system is described for controlling the distribution of licensed software. The system includes a license registration database which may be contacted by a user using a web browser, e-mail, or another approach, to provide to that system a registration ke... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6453419 | System and method for implementing a security policy A system and method of implementing a security policy, comprising the steps of providing a plurality of access policies, defining a process and connecting the access policies and the process to form a security policy.... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6449601 | Distributed live auction A method for distributing a live auction over the Internet to remote bidders. A human proxy attends the live auction in order to monitor the auction and compose status updates that are distributed to remote bidders via the Internet in real time to allow t... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6438527 | Method and apparatus for paying bills electronically using machine readable information from an invoice Data capture which occurs at the consumer end of an electronic bill pay transaction is assisted by machine readable information in a standardized format on an invoice where the machine readable information includes biller identification and a C-B account ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434535 | System for prepayment of electronic content using removable media and for prevention of unauthorized copying of same A system and method for distribution of electronic content over a network infrastructure and compensation of vendors of such data using prepaid media that includes a client device for operation by a user desiring to receive the electronic content and serv... | 08/13/2002 |
