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Patent No. 5443036

Method of exercising a cat

A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall.

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Examiner: Pardo, Thuy N.


Primary examiner statistics: 242 patents; average approval time: 248 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 164 patents; average approval time: 972 days

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Patent No. Patent Title:
7542991 Computerized hazardous material response tool
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7457829 Resynchronization of multiple copies of a database after a diverg...
7457821 Method and apparatus for identifying programming object attribute...
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7454423 Enterprise link for a software database
7451147 Flexible encryption scheme for GSO target passwords
7451150 Real estate information exchange process and system
7451159 Method and apparatus for identifying programming object attribute...
7447713 System and method for archiving and outputting documents or graph...
7447701 Automatic configuration of attribute sets
7447691 System and method to determine the validity of an interaction on ...
7444348 System for enhancing a query interface
7444334 Transaction-based object-oriented multipart database method and a...
7437383 System and method for searching heterogeneous electronic director...
7430561 Search engine system for locating web pages with product offering...
7430557 System and method for improving database reorganization time
7424486 Selection of search phrases to suggest to users in view of action...
7401090 Computer-based business planning processes
7401093 System and method for managing file data during consistency point...
7395259 Search engine system and associated content analysis methods for ...
7395273 System providing receipt inspection reporting
7386566 External metadata processing
7383269 Navigating a software project repository
7376664 Method for evaluating a transformer design
7366722 System and method for specifying application services and distrib...
7363330 Work monitor with file synchronization
7359911 System and method for building a database defining a plurality of...
7349918 Method and system for searching binary files
7349929 Accessing data based on user identity
7343385 System for processing objects for storage in a document or other ...
7318074 System and method for achieving deferred invalidation consistency
7315864 System and method for creating a book of reports over a computer ...
7310654 Method and system for providing image incremental and disaster re...
7308445 Method for estimating coverage of web search engines
7308463 Providing requested file mapping information for a file on a stor...
7305415 Apparatus for classifying or disambiguating data
7299232 Low overhead methods and apparatus shared access storage devices
7290008 Method to extend a uniform resource identifier to encode resource...
7284008 Dynamic document context mark-up technique implemented over a com...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6829618 Disc layout and optimization process
6738768 System and method for efficient information capture
6684226 Method for storing data in one or more files so that both previou...
6629109 System and method of enabling file revision management of applica...
6615213 System and method for communicating data from a client data proce...
6542894 Execution of multiple models using data segmentation
6539396 Multi-object identifier system and method for information service...
6523042 System and method for translating to and from hierarchical inform...
6507839 Generalized term frequency scores in information retrieval system...
6507847 History database structure for Usenet
6496818 Semi-automatic index term augmentation in document retrieval
6484168 System for information discovery
6484160 Process for optimizing accesses to a database
6484182 Method and apparatus for publishing part datasheets
6480852 Method and system for rating bookmarks in a web browser
6477522 Dynamic performance based server selection
6473760 Apparatus for printing information automatically combined from tw...
6466947 Apparatus and method for dynamically verifying information in a d...
6466945 Accurate processing through procedure validation in software cont...
6463443 Method and device for directory services for telecommunication
6446077 Inherited information propagator for objects
6434561 Method and system for accessing electronic resources via machine-...
6434559 Critical resource management
6434574 System and method for storing and retrieving filenames and files ...
6421660 Enhanced searching method and apparatus for variable bit chains
6405188 Information retrieval system
6393429 File handling device, and a recording medium storing a file handl...
6377954 Object-oriented processing system and object-oriented case appara...
6370548 System and method for achieving local number portability
6356911 Shortest path search system
6345273 Search system having user-interface for searching online informat...
6343292 System and method for providing text descriptions to electronic d...
6339773 Data extractor
6338064 Method for enabling a web server running a "closed" native operat...
6334132 Method and apparatus for creating a customized summary of text by...
6330561 Method and apparatus for improving end to end performance of a da...
6317752 Version testing in database mining
6314419 Methods and apparatus for generating query feedback based on co-o...
6314417 Processing multiple database transactions in the same process to ...
6308179 User level controlled mechanism inter-positioned in a read/write ...
 
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