Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090037422 | COMBINING CAPTURE AND APPLY IN A DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an information sharing mechanism comprising a memory structure may be provided in a database system. In an embodiment, mined information transferred by a capture process to an associated apply process can be wri... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090037442 | Reconfiguring Propagation Streams in Distributed Information Sharing Splitting and merging database object information sharing streams. Streams are also referred to herein as “propagations”. Splitting and merging information sharing streams can be used to improve performance in a information sharing environment when a failed or slow ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090037553 | Configuring or Reconfiguring a Multi-Master Information Sharing Environment Configuring an n-way multi-master information sharing topology. Adding a new node (e.g., database server) to the information sharing topology can be implemented as follows. Initially, the new node is added as a slave of a particular co-master in the information sharing ... | 02/05/2009 |
