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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: Gu, Shawn X


Primary examiner statistics: 108 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 74 patents; average approval time: 80 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8190813 Terminal apparatus with restricted non-volatile storage medium
8185690 Memory module, memory system, and information device
8185692 Unified cache structure that facilitates accessing translation ta...
8180974 System, apparatus, and method for modifying the order of memory a...
8180988 Method and system for authenticating storage device connected thr...
8176250 System and method for testing a memory
8176246 Distributing lookup operations in a striped storage system
8176275 Method and apparatus for de-duplication after mirror operation
8176274 Electronic data reproduction
8166237 Configurable allocation of thread queue resources in an FPGA
8166276 Translate and verify instruction for a processor
8151052 Memory card with removable cover
8151050 System for handling input/output requests between storage arrays ...
8145848 Processor and method for writeback buffer reuse
8145841 Method and system for initializing storage in a storage system
8140748 IT automation appliance imaging system and method
8140753 Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID syste...
8140757 Network acceleration and long-distance pattern detection using im...
8140770 Data processing system and method for predictively selecting a sc...
8140810 Storage management command control in virtualized environment
8140742 System for accessing non volatile memory
8135921 Automated paging device management in a shared memory partition d...
8135928 Self-adjusting change tracking for fast resynchronization
8127077 Virtual path storage system and control method for the same
8127087 Memory controller for improved read port selection in a memory mi...
8122200 Modified machine architecture with advanced synchronization
8122193 Storage device and user device including the same
8122198 Modified machine architecture with partial memory updating
8122199 Multi port memory device with shared memory area using latch type...
8117384 Searching a content addressable memory with modifiable comparands
8108646 Storage system and storage control method that compress and store...
8108648 Various methods and apparatus for address tiling
8103828 Virtualization method and storage apparatus for a storage system ...
8095764 Dynamic application aware storage configuration
8095765 Memory block management
8086794 System and method for data migration between computer cluster arc...
8082409 Data storage device and data management method in data storage de...
8082393 Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID syste...
8078803 Apparatus and methods to reduce castouts in a multi-level cache h...
8078825 Composite hash and list partitioning of database tables

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7925831 Disk array apparatus and disk array apparatus control method
7899987 File storage in a computer system with diverse storage media
7877541 Method and system for accessing non-volatile memory
7873780 Searching a content addressable memory
7802054 Apparatus and methods using invalidity indicators for buffered me...
7797480 Method for reading non-volatile storage using pre-conditioning wa...
7797504 Device for processing information based on stored identifiers and...
7797484 Managing access to disk storage
7793048 System bus structure for large L2 cache array topology with diffe...
7783835 System and method of improving task switching and page translatio...
7783841 Efficient coherency communication utilizing an IG coherency state
7779292 Efficient storage of metadata in a system memory
7774555 Data processing system and method for efficient coherency communi...
7774538 Method for ternary contents address memory table management
7761670 Modified machine architecture with advanced synchronization
7752399 Exclusion control method and information processing apparatus
7747821 Network acceleration and long-distance pattern detection using im...
7747826 Data processing system and method for efficient communication uti...
7743218 Updating an invalid coherency state in response to snooping an op...
7739443 Memory controller, memory device and control method for the memor...
7734881 Adapting RCU for real-time operating system usage
7734870 Storage subsystem and storage system
7725667 Method for identifying the time at which data was written to a da...
7711902 Area effective cache with pseudo associative memory
7707381 Storage system for processing access request from host and method...
7707362 Context-free data transactions between dual operating systems emb...
7702855 Optimizing cached access to stack storage
7702881 Method and system for data transfers across different address spa...
7698496 Cache memory observation device and method of analyzing processor
7685361 Virtualization method and storage apparatus for a storage system ...
7673108 Methods and systems for distributed caching in presence of update...
7660960 Modified machine architecture with partial memory updating
7650466 Method and apparatus for managing cache partitioning using a dyna...
7644231 Selective information caching on disk drive
7631158 Disk snapshot method using a copy-on-write table in a user space
7620778 Low power microprocessor cache memory and method of operation
7613880 Memory module, memory system, and information device
7610451 Data transfer mechanism using unidirectional pull bus and push bu...
7610436 Semiconductor device having flash memory with a data length table
7603520 Record apparatus, record method, and program for writing data to ...
 
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