Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090011835 | VIDEO GAMES INCLUDING REAL-LIFE ATTRIBUTES AND/OR FANSTASY SETTINGS - A video gaming system and related network interfaces with an online fantasy sports game. The fantasy sports game can be enhanced using various features of the video game play. In one aspect of the invention the video game system provide a video game console platform for the fantasy team owner to attend the fantasy draft over a network that includes the Internet. Attending the fantasy draft includes selecting available real-life athletes from a list of available real-life athletes in the fantasy draft as members of a fantasy team roster and receiving information describing fantasy draft selections by other fantasy team owners attending the fantasy draft. The video game system includes instructions for displaying sports video game characters associated with the same real-life athletes being drafted in the online fantasy game. | 01-08-2009 |
20100089293 | HIGH EARLY STRENGTH POZZOLAN CEMENT BLENDS - A high early strength pozzolan cement includes larger sized pozzolan particles and smaller sized hydraulic cement particles which contain tricalcium silicate (e.g., Portland cement). Particles larger than 10 μm are predominantly (50%, 65%, 75%, 85% or 95%) pozzolan particles, and particles smaller than 10 μm are predominantly (50%, 65%, 75%, 85% or 95%) hydraulic cement particles. Excess calcium from the hydraulic cement forms calcium hydroxide available for reaction with the pozzolan particles, optionally in combination with supplemental lime. At least 30%, 40%, 45%, 55%, 65% or 75% of the pozzolan cement (combined pozzolan and hydraulic cement particles) consists of pozzolan, and less than 70%, 60%, 55%, 45%, 35% or 25% consists of hydraulic cement. | 04-15-2010 |
20100174709 | Methods For Searching Private Social Network Data - A method for searching a database that includes private social network data includes providing one or more databases including a plurality of database entries, a first portion of the database entries including private social network data and a second portion including non-social network data that is publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. The method further includes receiving a keyword search request from a search request user and searching the one or more databases or a keyword index thereof using one or more keywords and determining a hierarchy for the search result items. The method also includes displaying at least a portion of the search results items according to the hierarchy. And, determining whether the user has access rights to a particular subset of the private social network data and wherein if the user has access rights to the particular subset of private social network data, using at least a portion of the particular subset of social network data in the step of (i) searching the one or more databases, (ii) determining the hierarchy, and/or (iii) displaying the search result items. | 07-08-2010 |
20100313795 | HIGH EARLY STRENGTH POZZOLAN CEMENT BLENDS - A high early strength pozzolan cement includes larger sized pozzolan particles blended with smaller sized hydraulic cement particles containing tricalcium silicate and/or dicalcium silicate (e.g., Portland cement). Excess calcium release from the hydraulic cement when mixed with water forms calcium hydroxide available for reaction with the pozzolan. The fineness of the hydraulic cement particles is substantially greater than the fineness of the pozzolan particles (e.g., about 1.25 to about 50 times greater). Reducing or eliminating coarse hydraulic cement particles that cannot fully hydrate but include unreacted cores reduces or eliminates wasted cement normally found in concrete. Replacing some or all of the coarse cement particles with pozzolan particles provides a pozzolan cement composition having significantly lower water demand compared to the hydraulic cement by itself. | 12-16-2010 |
20110259246 | HIGH EARLY STRENGTH POZZOLAN CEMENT BLENDS - A high early strength blended cement composition includes larger sized fly ash and/or natural pozzolan particles blended with smaller sized hydraulic cement particles containing tricalcium silicate and/or dicalcium silicate (e.g., Portland cement and/or ground granulated blast furnace slag). Excess calcium released from the hydraulic cement particles when mixed with water forms calcium hydroxide available for reaction with the fly ash and/or natural pozzolan. The fineness of the hydraulic cement particles is substantially greater than the fineness of the fly ash and/or natural pozzolan particles (e.g., about 1.25 to about 50 times greater). Reducing or eliminating coarse hydraulic cement particles that cannot fully hydrate but include unreacted cores reduces or eliminates wasted cement normally found in concrete. Replacing some or all of the coarse cement particles with coarse pozzolan particles provides a blended cement composition having significantly lower water demand compared to the hydraulic cement fraction by itself. | 10-27-2011 |
20120012034 | NARROW PSD HYDRAULIC CEMENT, CEMENT-SCM BLENDS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME - Hydraulic cements, such as Portland cements and other cements that include substantial quantities of tricalcium silicate (C | 01-19-2012 |
20120085263 | NARROW PSD HYDRAULIC CEMENT, CEMENT-SCM BLENDS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME - Hydraulic cements, such as Portland cements and other cements that include substantial quantities of tricalcium silicate (C | 04-12-2012 |
20120145046 | ENGINEERED CEMENT INCORPORATING SCMs AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME - Engineered cements are described that include an engineered clinker fraction designed for use with one or more supplementary cementitious material (“SCM”) fractions. The engineered clinker fraction has a narrow particle size distribution (“PSD”) with a relatively high tricalcium silicate (“C | 06-14-2012 |
20120185474 | METHODS FOR SEARCHING PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK DATA - A method for searching a database that includes private network data includes providing one or more databases including a plurality of database entries, a first portion of the database entries including private social network data and a second portion including non-social network data that is publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. The method further includes receiving a keyword search request from a search request user and searching the one or more databases or a keyword index thereof using one or more keywords and ranking ranking the search result items according to relevancy. The method also includes displaying at least a portion of the search results items as a selectable link where a first portion of the selectable links are to private network data and a second portion of the links are to public, non-social network data. | 07-19-2012 |
20120270615 | VIDEO GAMES INCLUDING REAL-LIFE ATTRIBUTES AND/OR FANTASY TEAM SETTINGS - A video gaming system and related network interfaces with an online fantasy sports game. The video game play is enhanced using various features of a fantasy sports game. Similarly, the fantasy sports game can be enhanced using various features of the video game play. In one aspect of the invention the video game system acquires a team roster of the fantasy sport game and the team roster is used to define the sports video game team. The sports video game also acquires sports video game parameters that are associated with real-life attributes of video game team members that are associated with the real-life team members. The video game play changes frequently over a sports season due to the changing video game parameters and fantasy sports settings being used to define video game play. | 10-25-2012 |
20120270650 | VIDEO GAMES INCLUDING SELECTABLE AND/OR GEOGRAPHICALLY RELEVANT ADVERTISING - A video gaming system and related network interfaces with an online fantasy sports game. The video game play is enhanced using selectable and/or geographically relevant in-game advertising. A video game program product can include video game instructions, video game character parameters, and image data configured to provide a video game environment in the video game. The video game program product can include instructions configured to display a first selectable advertisement in the video game environment, wherein when selected by a user of the video game, (i) an advertisement web page is electronically directed to the user (ii) advertisement information is made accessible to the video game user, (iii) additional advertisement information is displayed to the user, or (iv) additional advertisement information is downloaded into the video game for viewing by the user. | 10-25-2012 |
20120276964 | VIDEO GAMES INCLUDING REAL-LIFE ATTRIBUTES AND/OR FANTASY TEAM SETTINGS - A video gaming system and related network interfaces with an online fantasy sports game. The video game play is enhanced using various features of a fantasy sports game. Similarly, the fantasy sports game can be enhanced using various features of the video game play. In one aspect of the invention the video game system acquires a team roster of the fantasy sport game and the team roster is used to define the sports video game team. The sports video game also acquires sports video game parameters that are associated with real-life attributes of video game team members that are associated with the real-life team members. The video game play changes frequently over a sports season due to the changing video game parameters and fantasy sports settings being used to define video game play. | 11-01-2012 |
20130192493 | NARROW PSD HYDRAULIC CEMENT, CEMENT-SCM BLENDS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME - Hydraulic cements, such as Portland cements and other cements that include substantial quantities of tricalcium silicate (C | 08-01-2013 |
20140182140 | SAFETY CUTTING DEVICE - A safety cutting device includes a slidable insert that moves longitudinally within a cavity of a housing. The slidable insert has a cutting blade attached and moves within the housing from a safe position in which the blade is covered to an exposed position for cutting. The safety device has a release button positioned near an anterior end of the housing. A biasing member automatically retracts the blade when the release button is activated. | 07-03-2014 |
20140299023 | HIGH EARLY STRENGTH CEMENT-SCM BLENDS - Hydraulic cements, such as Portland cements and other cements that include substantial quantities of tricalcium silicate (C | 10-09-2014 |