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Electrified Table Cloth

An electrified table cloth for preventing crawling insects from gaining access to the consumer's food or drink.

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Examiner: Cumming, William


Primary examiner statistics: 737 patents; average approval time: 738 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 217 patents; average approval time: 697 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7463906 Method and apparatus for collecting information for use in a smar...
7463578 Transmission parameter control device
7460854 Memory device for a cellular telephone
7454200 Personal handyphone system component employment of prepay telepho...
7454165 Methods of receiving signaling information in a communication net...
7454213 Traffic management in radio system
7454201 System for providing message services through a private network a...
7450522 Power control system using acknowledgments
7447487 Method for controlling channel re-selection
7444157 Method and apparatus for beam selection in a smart antenna system
7440759 System and method for dynamic channel allocation in a communicati...
7437127 Method and system for determining existence of a predetermined wi...
7437161 Method of fast data transmission of mobile stations via the same ...
7433713 Mobile radio base station
7433697 Synchronized UWB piconets for Simultaneously Operating Piconet pe...
7433681 Method and device arrangement for using a text message to control...
7430428 Method for communicating teletype information in a vehicle commun...
7428406 Data transfer method for halting communication of data when a tra...
7428411 Location-based security rules
7426397 Interactive digital television messaging system
7421248 Method and apparatus for adjusting operational parameter of a wir...
7421281 Methods and apparatus for supporting group communications
7418271 Smart antenna apparatus
7415248 Multiband radio antenna with a flat parasitic element
7412236 Resource proxy for mobile wireless electronic devices
7412234 System and method for using location information to execute an ac...
7409202 Communications restrictions for mobile group communication device...
7406305 System for managing prepaid wireless service
7403777 Mobile communication system, mobile station and diversity handove...
7403790 Methods for signaling broadcast and multicast information in comm...
7403801 Portable telephone with bookmark sort function
7403794 Client terminal having a temporary connection establishing unit
7400877 Method of supporting multiple service levels in a wireless data n...
7400898 Method for operation of HARQ in a broadband wireless access commu...
7398081 Device and system for selective wireless communication with conta...
7398108 Mobile communication system, radio base station apparatus, operat...
7395094 Method and apparatus for synchronizing a smart antenna apparatus ...
7392014 Measurement of channel characteristics in a communication system
7391750 System and method for dynamically allocating resources in a mobil...
7383052 System and method for using location information to execute an ac...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
5673306 Cellular rental phone system and method having realtime data coll...
5655001 Wireless telecommunication system using protocol conversion for ...
5592535 Mobile-radio network with debit accounts
5570411 Call priority in a mobile radiotelephone system
5557654 System and method for authenticating subscribers of a transmissio...
5544222 Cellular digtial packet data mobile data base station
5537610 Mobile communication having mobile subscribers, PCN network, PBX ...
5537458 Facsimile transmission in a digital cellular radio network
5533097 Portable communication system comprising a local and wide area ...
5533094 Allocation of paging capacity in cellular applications by storing...
5533098 Wide-area-network trunked radio system which controls the signal ...
5528665 Telephone exchange apparatus for both mobile and stationary stati...
5528667 Time management for cordless telephone by inputs from a user thro...
5528664 Cellular data overlay system providing packet-switched communicat...
5526398 Method of operating a combination radiotelephone and paging devic...
5526404 Worldwide satellite telephone system and a network coordinating g...
5524044 Mobile telephone having a portable telephone, vehicle-mounted boo...
5524045 Cordless telephone terminal controlling system
5521963 System and method for using integrated services digital networks ...
5519758 Radiotelephonic process for locating mobile subscribers and a ...
5517552 Facsimile apparatus with cordless phone, a ring signal detection,...
5504802 Communication system apparatus for transmitting and receiving dat...
5504803 Method for automatic mode selection for a dual-mode telephone han...
5500887 Data access method for subscriber location information
5500888 Cordless telephone security code initiation and prevention system
5495518 Car telephone apparatus having operational control program replac...
5493603 Radio telephone set for digital communication which alerts the us...
5491740 Automated key actuating cellular telephone programmer
5490202 Attachable and detachable additional device for use with a portab...
5490201 Method in conjunction with updating one or more HLR-databases inc...
5487099 Portable telephone having an additional device for making externa...
5485505 Apparatus and method for remotely initiating operation of a cellu...
5483575 System for correlating RF usage in a trunked communication networ...
5481593 Cordless telephone set with a call detecting unit which protects ...
5479486 Cordless telephone set having a warning signal representing that ...
5479474 Communication system having a remote unit, a fixed unit and a ...
5475735 Method of providing wireless local loop operation with local mobi...
5467381 Method and system for restructuring a call signal frame in a cell...
5463674 Cellular cordless telephone which polls information in a memory t...
5463672 Personal mobile communications system having central station for ...
 
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