a processor and a memory field for containing a computer interface having a number of graphic elements each representing a function,

an element being directly displayed on a screen in case this element is entirely displayed all the time and independently of whether or not this element has been activated, and

an element being selectively displayable on the screen in case this element is not entirely displayed all the time but is only entirely displayed after this element has been activated.

The processor system being adapted for displaying at least one element directly on screen, characterized in the processor system being adapted for allocating a first element parameter to a first element, the first element parameter being a function of a number of times this first element has been activated.

Prior art focused on computer software application that has a menu or other computer user interface that includes a Most Frequently Used list of items (media, applications, functionality) and the list order and/or contents changes in response to use metrics of the media/application/functionality may be of interest.  In some cases, prior art indicating an interactive Most Frequently Used list of menu items, e.g., the user may use the list to select that media/application/functionality, may be of interest. 

sampling the relative movements, from one or more images captured by said at least one video camera of said field of view, of an individual with respect to a moved, movable or moving object located within said field of view using said at least one video camera to generate a video signal;

electronically comparing said video signal of at least one video camera with known characteristics of relative movements of the individual with respect to the object that are indicative of an individual having criminal intent;

determining the level of criminal intent of said individual, said determining step being dependent of said electronically comparing step; and

generating a signal indicating that a predetermined level of criminal intent is present as determined by said determining step.

Other areas of interest include motion detection / exception (e.g., based on object size, speed, or direction), perimeter violation tools, and video analytics (e.g., object left behind, object removed) from the relevant time period.

Please see the Description and Requirements to Match fields for important information.

Each reference should have been published or issued pre-2006.

References of particular interest will describe a locking system and method for a portable electronic device.

Steps for locking the device comprise:

a) Inserting a locking member that is part of an attachment mechanism into a rectangular security slot, having in a wall of the portable electronic device;

b) Dimensions of the rectangular security slot should be about 3 mm×7 mm;

c) Securing said attachment mechanism to the portable electronic device via the rectangular security slot, having dimensions of about 3 mm×7 mm;

d) Maintaining a locked configuration using the attachment mechanism, wherein the portable electronic device is secured to an object other than the portable electronic device. 

Below are three examples of references of interest that are already known to help with your search:

•  US patent 5,987,937
•  US patent 6,058,744
•  Macintosh (Apple) Portable security slot

Additional references for the Macintosh (Apple) Portable security slot that disclose the dimensions of the security slot would be of interest as well. 

Each patent should have a minimum of 3 years remaining to its term.

References of particular interest should comprise:

•  The message file is part of the program header, thus all message sets are stored in the program header. Furthermore, the message file does not have to be a file, but can be a directory or something similar.

•  The steps of determining the language of the message set in the program header and searching the message file for a message set shall mean: in a uniform list of message sets which is present in the memory device determining the language of the first message set and if this does not match the preferred natural language searching the other message sets for a match.

•  Loading shall mean reloading the matching message set within the memory device for utilization by the program.

For additional information please see claims 1 and 6 in the downloadable copy of the patent.

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The system retrieves two parcels (for example, two 16 bit words), and determines whether the two parcels contain a single two parcel instruction (a 32 bit instruction) or two instructions of one parcel each (two 16 bit instructions).  This determination must be made in a single clock cycle.  Depending on the determination, the processor either 1) issues a detected two-parcel instruction (a 32 bit instruction) in the same clock cycle or 2) issues a one parcel instruction (16-bit instruction) on the same clock cycle, and issues a one parcel instruction (the next 16-bit instruction of the 32 bits originally fetched) on the subsequent clock cycle.

References of interest must disclose:

•  A system capable of processing variable length instructions (for example, 16-bit or 32 bit instructions) where decoding and issuance of the instruction takes a total of one clock cycle, regardless of the size of the instruction.

•  If a determination is made that the two received parcels contain two instructions of a size of one parcel, the second instruction of the set is issued without further decoding or determination step performed on the second instruction.

•  The ability of the system to process variable length instructions (of size N or 2N) may be an efficient first filter to reduce the number of irrelevant search results.

In the time frame of interest, many improvements were being made to the performance of general purpose CPU systems that are not relevant to the system features described above.  References that merely disclose hardware common to general purpose CPU systems are not of interest (i.e. keyword searching for many CPU architecture terms in the patent claim).

References of specific interest may disclose:

A 3D graphics rendering system that performs all of the processing steps using data in floating point format:

•  a processor for performing geometric calculations on a plurality of vertices of a primitive;

•  a rasterization circuit coupled to the processor that rasterizes the primitive according to a rasterization process which operates on a floating point format;

•  a frame buffer coupled to the rasterization circuit for storing a plurality of color values in floating point format;

The floating point format is comprised of sixteen bits in an s10e5 format (16-bit floating point format consisting of one sign bit, ten mantissa bits, and five exponent bits).

The architecture disclosed in the Study patent is identical to the block diagram from the Open GL standard. Please see the attached image for a comparison of Fig. 2 of the Study patent and the Open GL Standard

U.S. Patent references of particular interest should not include or reference the Open GL standard, but should similarly perform all of the above processing steps in floating point format.  U.S. non-patent literature, foreign patents and applications, and PCT applications which incorporate Open GL and use floating point throughout the entire image processing computer system (including storing pixels in the frame buffer in floating point format) are preferred. 

References of particular interest should disclose:

A large-area, wide aspect ratio (> 1.3: 1) LCD display that includes at least the highlighted layers arranged in the order shown in the attached figure below.

Other Areas of Interest:

 •  Well-known Japanese LCD manufacturers (such as Sony or Hitachi) may have previously patented or disclosed an LCD with similar layer arrangement as recited in Claims 1 and 15 of the Study patent. 

•  3M was a pioneer in the area of brightness enhancement films and has several related patents , but they don't disclose the use of optical compensation film or large-area wide aspect ratio display.

This Study is a request for US PATENTS AND US PATENT APPLICATIONS ONLY that relate to technology in the field of the LTE Technology Standard.  Please see the Description and Requirements to Match fields for important information.

The Reward is guaranteed to be paid to the Researcher who submits the best collection of patents including patents issued post 2009.

The Reward is guaranteed to be paid to the Researcher who submits the best collection of patents including patents issued post 2009.

●  providing a receiver having a sleep mode and an active mode, wherein, in operation, the receiver continuously consumes less electrical power in the sleep mode than in the active mode;

●  receiving radio signals at an input of the receiver;

●  rejecting any of said radio signals not having a data rate equal to a predetermined first data rate;

●  while the receiver is in the sleep mode, continuously maintaining the receiver in the sleep mode until the receiver receives a radio signal that has a data rate equal to said first data rate and that is not rejected;

●  while the receiver is in the sleep mode, detecting when the receiver receives a radio signal that has a data rate equal to said first data rate and that is not rejected; and switching the receiver from the sleep mode to the active mode in response to detecting said first data rate.

●   receiving a request from a first wireless device, the request comprising:

◊  a parameter to select a group of one or more second wireless devices from a plurality of second wireless devices within a communication range of the first wireless device, and return link configuration information;

●  comparing the parameter to a value stored in a second wireless device to determine if the second wireless device is a member of the group; and

●  transmitting a reply signal from the second wireless device in accordance with one of a plurality of modulation types selected using the return link configuration information, wherein the return link configuration information is used to select one of at least three different pulse waveforms to multiply with a baseband waveform.

Other embodiments of interest are viewable in the downloadable copies of the patents.

•  transmitting a carrier signal;
•  detecting the presence of at least one of the transponders in the field;
•  receiving data from all of the transponders in the field;
•  determining whether the received data is valid; and
•  in response to determining that the received data is invalid, informing all transponders in the field that there was an incomplete read, the informing including suppressing the carrier. 

•  establishing a first predetermined number of bits to be used as unique identification numbers, and establishing for respective devices unique identification numbers respectively having the first predetermined number of bits;

•  establishing a second predetermined number of bits to be used for random values;

•  causing the devices to select random values, wherein respective devices choose random values independently of random values selected by the other devices;

•  transmitting a command, from the interrogator, requesting devices having random values within a first specified group of random values to respond;

•  receiving the command at multiple devices, devices receiving the command respectively determining if the random value chosen by the device falls within the first specified group and, if so, sending a reply to the interrogator; and

•  determining using the interrogator if a collision occurred between devices that sent a reply and, if so, creating a second specified group smaller than the first specified group; and, if not, again transmitting a command requesting devices having random values within the first specified group of random values to respond.

•  receiving a request, said request including a defined subgroup of possible numbers;

• generating a first random number and a second random number;

•  and communicating a response including at least one of the first random number and the second random number at a time based at least in part on the second random number upon receipt of a request identifying the defined subgroup.

●  a first memory for storing an arbitration address having a first number of bits;

●  a second memory for storing a unique address having a second number of bits, the second number being greater than the first number;

●  a transmitter circuit for transmitting messages;

●  a receiver circuit for receiving command message signals;

●  a first logic circuit for detecting whether a signal received by the receiver circuit is a Generate command message and, if so, for randomly choosing a new value for the arbitration address and storing the newly chosen arbitration address in the first memory; and

●  a second logic circuit for detecting whether a signal received by the receiver circuit is an Identify command message which specifies for response a group of addresses which includes the arbitration address stored in the first memory of the responder transceiver and, if so, for controlling the transmitter circuit to transmit an Arbitration ID message containing the arbitration address stored in the first memory and to transmit a Unique ID message containing the unique address stored in the second memory.

(a) sensing, within said shoe, when said shoe leaves the ground during said jump;

(b) sensing, within said shoe, when said shoe returns to the ground at the end of said jump;

(c) activating a hang time indicator on said shoe during the time interval between said shoe leaving and returning to the ground as sensed in steps (a) and (b), respectively, said indicator providing an indication of hang time in a manner perceptible to said person, and

An athletic shoe comprising:

a sole;

a shoe upper mounted on said sole;

a timing device disposed at least partly in said sole for measuring an amount of time the athletic shoe is off the ground and in the air; and

a notification device operatively coupled to said timing device and disposed in said upper for notifying a wearer of the athletic shoe of a message, said message including information related to said amount of time the athletic shoe is off the ground and in the air.

We are looking for prior art describing a cup (or similar structure) that includes a flexible material that acts as a valve or diaphragm, and the flexible material has an opening. The cup also has a blocking element below the flexible material.  In some embodiments, the blocking element blocks the opening when a user is not drinking from the cup. The flexible material flexes (perhaps even inverting) when a user sucks on the spout, which allows the opening (at least partially) to let liquid flow.  Additionally, the sippy cup may also include a barrier that affects how much the flexible material can flex. 

Figure 2 of the attached image displays cross-sectional views of the subunit 39 that includes the valve for the sippy cup shown Figure 1.  The fact that there are dual valves for different directions of air flow is not important, but the manner in which the valves invert or flex is important.  For more details, see the description and figures of US 7,243,814.

We would also like to get prior art for the valve shown in the diagram and pictures shown in Figure 3 of the attached image.

Additional information for searching, such as analagous art and related companies can be found on the first page in the attached known prior art list.

1.)  The plug detector detects the presence of two contact pins (prongs) of the plug in the socket;
2.)  The supply device only applies the supply voltage to the socket if both contact pins are detected at the same time; and
3.)  The time interval between detection of the first contact pin and detection of the second contact pin does not exceed a predetermined maximum time.

In particular, we seek a document that discloses:

An electrical outlet having a mechanism, preferably mechanical switches, that separately detects the presence of two prongs of a plug as the prongs are inserted into the outlet.  The detection of the first prong starts a timer and the detection of the second prong stops the timer.  If the elapsed time is greater than a pre-determined value, then electrical power is not provided to the outlet.

This type of safety outlet is intended to prevent arcing or tampering with the outlet.  While an outlet for an aircraft cabin is preferred, outlets for other applications are acceptable.  For example, an outlet for use in a home to prevent a child from placing foreign objects into the outlet or an outlet for use in a hospital or space environment where arcing could be a danger. 

Prior art that discloses a mechanism to sense the presence of two prongs of a plug includes U.S. Patent No. 4,591,732 and U.S. Patent No. 4,871,924.  The successful document must definitively disclose a timing feature. 

References of interest should focus on the features shown in the attached figure.

Figure 1 shows the system prior to a plug being inserted into the socket.  Sensor switches in the socket are open.  

Figure 2 illustrates the plug inserted into the socket.  The prongs depress plungers closing sense switch 1 and sense switch 2.  When sense switch 1 is closed, a timer is started.  When sense switch 2 is then closed, the timer is stopped and the time interval measured.  If the timer interval is less than a predetermined value, such as 100 milliseconds, then a proper plug insertion is determined and the Sense Timer sends an ENABLE signal to the Voltage Supply, closing the relay from the Voltage Supply to the Socket and powering the device attached to the plug.

Figure 3 illustrates the action if only one sensor is activated such as inserting a nail.  Sense switch 1 detects the object and the timer is started.  Since sense switch 2 is not activated within the predetermined time interval and power is not enabled.  

This study relates to a composition comprising a mixture of a B0 base diesel fuel and a B100 methyl ester or ethyl ester biodiesel fuel, wherein the B100 biodiesel fuel contains no more than 0.20 wt. % total glycerin.

This patent is very close to the industry standard approved by ASTM (D6751), which can be viewed here.

Each patent should have a minimum of 3 years remaining to its term.

We are particularly interested in inventions relating to security and privacy, servers and storage, data center management, and provisioning and elasticity.

Each patent should have a minimum of 3 years remaining to its term.

A management component operatively connected to the graphical windowing environment creates an input panel window for display on the screen. An input method is selected from among a plurality of such input methods and installed, whereby the input method can call functions of the management component. Each input method includes a defined interface set which makes the input method pluggable into other executable code that is capable of interfacing with the defined interface set.  Each input method further includes a corresponding input panel, such as a keyboard, which it draws in the input panel window. When user data is received via the input panel, the input method calls a function of the management component to pass the user data thereto, and in response, the management component communicates the user data to the graphical windowing environment such as in a windows message. An application program receives the message, such as corresponding to a keystroke, as if the message was generated on a hardware keyboard.

The management component is distinct from the application programs and is configured to:

a) identify one of the input methods as a selected input method,

b) activate the selected input method,

c) communicate with the selected input method via the method's defined interface set,

d) identify information about user data received by the selected input method, and

e) pass the information about the received user data to an active application program of the plurality of application programs.

The viscosupplement is administered intra-articularly to the knee joint in a single dose (either as a single injection or as a series of multiple injections within a 24-hour period) and comprises a hyaluronan (HA) based viscosupplement that does not contain additional active components.  The total dosage is between 24 mg and 100 mg.

References of particular interest will disclose a method of administering 2 or 3 intra-articular injections of Synvisc® of Jonexa (viscosupplement) at one time.

References disclosing a method of administering 2 or 3 intra-articular injections of the following viscosupplement products at one time are also of interest:

•  Artz® or Supartz® or Artzal

•  Hyalgan® or Hyalart

•  Euflexxa®

•  Orthovisc® or Monovisc®

•  Neovisc

•  Ostenil

•  Suplasyn

•  BioHy

An example of a good reference is US Patent No. 5,844,278.  The focus of the search will be for references including all claimed elements in the '055 Study patent.

This patent claim relates to

A method for starting a process (e.g., launching a program, playing content stored on media, etc.) comprising the steps of:

       automatically detecting insertion of a storage media into a powered up and booted host device (e.g., computer, media player, game console, etc.);

       continuing to detect insertion of newly inserted storage media without rebooting the host device;

       checking for a file of a predetermined name on each storage media whose insertion has been detected, and

       starting up a process from the file of the predetermined name,

the file with the predetermined name containing a sequence of instructions to be executed to start up the process, and

       wherein a process is started up each time the step of checking finds a file having the predetermined name.

a tank to receive liquid that is to be frothed, in which liquid a rotatable stirrer is positioned;

a stand associated with the tank;

a system for driving the stirrer; the stirrer being configured to be driven and held magnetically in the tank by the stirrer drive system: characterized in that it comprises a cordless frothing unit, which is removable with the respect to an electrical power supply unit and wherein the cordless frothing unit comprises the driving system to retain the stirrer in the tank by magnetic effect.

This Study relates to an aerodynamic golf club head including a club head body having a heel, toe, rear surface, ball striking face, upper surface and bottom surface, wherein the improvement comprises:

an aerodynamic configuration on, and substantially parallel with, said bottom surface adjacent said rear surface in the form of a c-shaped slot having an open end facing forwardly toward said ball striking face;said aerodynamic configuration further including a skid surface formed on and raised from said bottom surface; said skid surface having a wall separating said skid surface from said bottom surface, said c-shaped slot transecting a virtual centerline passing through said ball striking face and said rear surface of said club head.

An example of references that would be of particular interest can be seen by clicking here or clicking the "Known Prior Art" link below.

a. a plurality of needles, each configured to pierce the skin and draw fluid for analysis, having a retracted position and a position wherein it s extended from the housing a distance adapted to pierce skin;

b. an electrically or spring powered needle pushing apparatus to move each needle from the retracted position to the extended position;

c. an energy source located within the housing;

d. a plurality of analysis sites comprising an analysis preparation, each adapted to receive liquid drawn from a respective needle to wet the analysis preparation;

e. one or more light sources adapted to direct light at the analysis site;

f. one or more light detectors adapted to direct light at from the analysis sites; and

g. a processor;

wherein said elements a and d can be replaceably inserted into the analyte monitoring device as part of a cassette.

This Study is a request for references describing technology related to systems that involve moving webs, ribbons, tapes, belts or the like, such as reel-to-reel ribbon/tape/web/media systems.  The system has two spools on which the web etc. is carried, and which rotate to move the web etc.  Each spool is connected to a stepper motor.  The motors are centrally controlled to ensure accurate ribbon/tape/web/media positioning and tension.

The motor attached to one spool causes that spool to rotate and pay out a certain amount of ribbon/tape/web/media, while at the same time the motor attached to the other spool causes that spool to rotate and collect the same amount of ribbon/tape/web/media.

Components or elements may contact the tape between the two spools.  For example, tension sensors, rollers, vacuum chambers, capstans, tachometers, etc. may contact the tape between the spools.

The particular type of ribbon/tape/web/media used is not relevant.  Relevant art could relate to reel-to-reel audio cassettes, magnetic storage devices, printers or typewriters that used inked ribbon, newspaper printers, etc.

We are particularly interested in non-patent material describing the elements mentioned above.

Also, references of interest should be directed to the composition comprising a synthesized and isolated oligonucleotide which comprises a section having a defined nucleic acid sequence substantially complementary to the nucleic acid sequence of a prokaryotic organism such that the section hybridizes to the nucleic acid sequence of the prokaryotic organism but not to the nucleic acid sequence of a non-prokaryotic organism.

References are also requested discussing any of the following features:

-where the oligonucleotide has at least nine nucleotides;

-where the oligonucleotide has a section that is substantially complementary to the mycoplasma-specific sequence and the section is from nine to sixteen nucleotides.

-where the oligonucleotide has a section that is substantially complementary to the prokaryote-specific sequence and the section is from 9 to 23 nucleotides.

This Study relates to the methods for performing Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCR) and inhibiting the activity of a thermostable DNA polymerase.

One area of interest is directed to a purified and isolated non-naturally occurring nucleic acid ligand to a thermostable polymerase.

A second area of focus is directed to a method for performing Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCR).  The method comprises the step of including the nucleic acid ligand that inhibits the thermostable polymerase at ambient temperatures, but dissociates from the polymerase at elevated temperatures, wherein the inhibition of said polymerase by said nucleic ligand is temperature dependent.

The final area of focus is directed to a method for inhibiting the activity of a thermostable DNA polymerase, comprising adding a nucleic acid ligand that inhibits said DNA polymerase to a DNA polymerization reaction which is being maintained at a temperature at or below which said ligand inhibits polymerization wherein the DNA polymerase is Taq polymerase or Tth polymerase.