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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.

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Examiner: Brown, Sheree


Primary examiner statistics: 33 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 33 patents; average approval time: 1725 days

Patents as Primary Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
8190622 Data picker application
8185524 Method and system for locating events in-context
8185495 Representation of qualitative object changes in a knowledge based...
8176087 Data processing
8176012 Read-only mirroring for load sharing
8166012 Cluster storage using subsegmenting
8161024 Selection of rows and values from indexes with updates
8161070 Efficient delta handling in star and snowflake schemes
8150891 System for IP address lookup using substring and prefix matching
8150889 Parallel processing framework
8150820 Mechanism for visible users and groups
8145678 Information feeds of a social network
8140552 Method and apparatus for optimizing lead time for service provisi...
8131782 Shadow directory structure in a distributed segmented file system
8126930 Micro-bucket testing for page optimization
8121979 System and method for replication and synchronisation
8108366 Sequenced modification of multiple entities based on an abstract ...
8108345 Managing rich presence collections in a single request
8103622 Rate of change monitoring for a volume storing application data i...
8099433 Managing information about relationships in a social network via ...
8082239 Defining sub-cube scope based upon a query
8078652 Virtual columns
8069186 Computer system architecture for automatic context associations
8069185 Information retrieval
8046352 Expression replacement in virtual columns
8019788 Data compression and file segmentation in directmodel JT datastor...
8019720 Asynchronous method and system for performing an operation on met...
8005790 Object cloning management system and method
7984032 Iterators for applying term occurrence-level constraints in natur...
7966308 Use of a set based approach to constructing complex queries for m...
7958116 System and method for trans-factor ranking of search results
7953718 Data processing apparatus, method, and program
7877427 Printing apparatus and control method thereof

Patents as Assistant Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
7444317 System and method for managing file names for file system filter ...
7421442 System and method for data capture and reporting
7421420 Method for device selection
7421427 Method and apparatus for allowing host application data to be acc...
7415482 XBRL enabler for business documents
7412455 Software framework that facilitates design and implementation of ...
7370033 Method for extracting association rules from transactions in a da...
7370049 Detection and prevention of writing conflicts within nested query...
7370042 Method and system for the architecture and implementation of a co...
7363286 File system path alias
7363284 System and method for building a balanced B-tree
7359926 System for optimization of database replication/synchronization
7343365 Computer system architecture for automatic context associations
7340467 System and method for maintaining a distributed database of hyper...
7318056 System and method for performing click stream analysis
7305379 System for automated storage management for databases
7287046 Method and system of compacting sparse directories in a file syst...
7281014 Method and apparatus for moving data between storage devices
7246105 Storage device management method, system and program
7246122 Schema-based services for identity-based data access to favorite ...
7236978 Configurable input buffer
7233938 Systems and methods for coding information
7225211 Multi-class storage mechanism
7222139 Method, system and program for synchronizing data
7222125 Data structure managing device, data structure managing system, d...
7197518 Method and apparatus for recovery of the association of construct...
7167857 Method and system for finding approximate matches in database
7143105 Database system
7139778 Linear programming approach to assigning benefit to database phys...
7127465 Memory-efficient metadata organization in a storage array
7124152 Data storage device with deterministic caching and retention capa...
7043487 Method for storing XML documents in a relational database system ...
6996570 Data storage system having a unified container layer for an activ...
 
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