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Alwyn Jakobus Hoffman, Potchefstroom ZA
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| 20090052309 | OPTICAL DISC COMPRISING RF TRANSPONDER - An optical disc having a center, an outer periphery and a metal layer between the center and the outer periphery. A tag comprising a radio frequency transponder is located in a region adjacent the outer periphery. This arrangement facilitates reading the transponder with an external reader when a plurality of discs are stacked one on top of the other. | 02-26-2009 |
Carlos Hoffman, Panama PA
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| 20100280867 | Advanced Sales System - A first entity maintains an advanced sales system on a server accessible over a global communications network. The first entity provides access to the server to a second entity which is a sales oriented business. The server houses at least a database, a product selection module, and a proposal generator. The database contains information on products for sale, information about the sales oriented business, and information about customers of the sales oriented business. The product selection module facilitates selection and accessorizing of products by the second entity. The proposal generator creates proposals based on input to the product selection module and information in the database. The advanced sales system provides structure to extremely large product offerings with large numbers of accessories associated with the product offerings. Some embodiments of the advanced sales system provide additional ordering support. | 11-04-2010 |
Christopher P. Hoffman, Hampshire GB
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| 20100103042 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING EMERGENCY LOCATOR BEACONS - An emergency locator beacon testing and communication system is described. The system uses privately-owned Local User Terminals which provide direct feeds to a privately-operated beacon information processor having dedicated on-line servers for consolidating and providing access to beacon test information. The system receives beacon signals relayed through the Cospas-Sarsat satellite system, correlates the beacons' unique identification numbers (UIN's) in the received signals to the UIN's of beacons known to be undergoing testing, collects the data transmitted by beacons under test, and displays beacon test results in a useful format on a user-friendly website. | 04-29-2010 |
Daniel Hoffman, Victoria CA
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| 20090249121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAMMAR BASED TEST PLANNING - The present disclosure generally relates to the testing of a system that includes software or hardware components. In some embodiments, a testing framework generates a set of test cases for a system under test using a grammar. Each test case may perform an action, such as provide an input to the system under test, and result in an output from the system under test. The inputs and outputs are then compared to the expected results to determine whether the system under test is performing correctly. Prior to generating the set of test cases from the grammar, the testing framework processes the grammar to identify attributes of the test cases to be derived from the grammar and facilitates the modification of the grammar. | 10-01-2009 |
Daniel Malcolm Hoffman, Victoria CA
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| 20090204848 | AUTOMATIC GRAMMAR BASED FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION - The present disclosure relates to automated testing of hardware and software systems. In some embodiments, a testing framework that generates a set of test cases for a system under test using a grammar is disclosed. The grammar may include terminal and nonterminal symbols with tags that describe a test sequence. The testing framework can use the grammar to generate a set of test cases. The testing framework can then receive feedback about the execution of the set of test cases from the system under test. In response to the feedback, the testing framework can generate a new set of grammars by automatically modifying or inserting tags in the original grammar. The new set of grammars can then be used to generate further test cases that intelligently explore the system under test for correctness, conformance, performance, security, or reliability. | 08-13-2009 |
Erik Leonard Hoffman, Nuenen NL
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| 20100198356 | METAPHYSICAL HIP PROSTHESIS - A hip prosthesis has an oblong plate with at one head end a mounting pin provided with a hinge ball, and at the opposite head end a fastening pin for fastening the hip prosthesis in a shaft of a bone. A first part of the plate extends on a first side of the mounting pin. The mounting pin forms an angle α smaller than 90 degrees with the first part of the plate and the tangent to the fastening pin at the location of the connection between the fastening pin and the first part of the plate forms an angle β greater than 90 degrees with the first part of the plate. In order to insert the hip prosthesis into a bone in a simple manner, the fastening pin includes a curved shape from the plate onwards in a direction to the first part of the plate. | 08-05-2010 |
Franz Hoffman, Martigny CH
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| 20120001921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING, MANAGING, SHARING AND DISPLAYING PERSONALIZED FONTS ON A CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE - The present invention concerns a method allowing at least an user's device connected to a server ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120001922 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND SHARING PERSONALIZED FONTS ON A CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE - The present invention concerns a method allowing an author to create a bitmap font and distributing it to at least an user's device connected to a server ( | 01-05-2012 |
Georg Hoffman, Champigny Sur Marne FR
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| 20100325323 | AUTOMATIC SOURCE CONCENTRATOR FOR A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM - The concentrator couples a plurality of digital and analog sources to an audio/video reader system suitable for reading one of the sources. Each available source is associated with a source identifier and an activated or deactivated state flag, as a result of the user taking action on a source. A register ( | 12-23-2010 |
Jürgen Hoffman, Untersiggenthal CH
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| 20100031670 | POWER STATION AND METHOD FOR ITS OPERATION - A power station ( | 02-11-2010 |
Jürgen Hoffman, Untersiggenthal CH
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| 20100031670 | POWER STATION AND METHOD FOR ITS OPERATION - A power station ( | 02-11-2010 |
Katrin Hoffman, Western Australia AU
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| 20120065134 | CD40-L INHIBITORY PHYLOMER PEPTIDES - The present invention provides compositions comprising peptidyl inhibitors of CD40L-dependent signalling that are not derived from a natural binding partner of CD40L such as CD40, or from a native CD40-CD40L interface. More particularly, the peptidyl inhibitors of the present invention are derived from natural sources that do not express CD40-CD40L costimulatory pathways. The invention also provides synthetic derivatives and analogs of the peptidyl inhibitors having enhanced binding affinity for CD40L or enhanced inhibitory activity relative to their parent molecules. | 03-15-2012 |
Kurt-Jurgen Hoffman, Kullavik SE
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| 20090326221 | New oxabispidine compunds useful in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias - There is provided compounds of formula I, | 12-31-2009 |
Marc Hoffman, Saint-Lambert CA
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| 20090056919 | Heat exchanger - Disclosed herein is a heat exchange apparatus, which comprises a hollow blade member having a first fluid inlet and a first fluid outlet and a first fluid passageway for a first fluid that extends between the inlet and the outlet. The blade member is sized and shaped to be located in a second fluid passageway for a second fluid. The blade member is configured to enhance thermal energy transfer between the fluids as they flow along their respective passageways. | 03-05-2009 |
Nathaniel Hoffman, Tokyo JP
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| 20090002380 | Graphics Processing Apparatus, Graphics Library Module And Graphics Processing Method - There is provided a graphics processing system that includes a main processing unit and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The main processing unit puts rendering commands generated using a graphics library in the queue of a command buffer in a main memory. In this process, the library function offered by the graphics library is converted into the rendering commands, without any rendering attributes retained in the library. The GPU reads and executes the rendering commands stacked in the command buffer, and generates rendering data in a frame buffer. | 01-01-2009 |
Owen Hoffman, Alberta CA
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| 20120080163 | SUBTERRANEAN CONTINUOUS LOOP HEAT EXCHANGER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND METHOD TO HEAT, COOL OR STORE ENERGY WITH SAME - A subterranean continuous loop heat exchanger is disclosed having a borehole including an entrance at a first end and an exit at a second end and a conduit for a fluid. A direction of fluid flow relative to the borehole is unidirectional, and a major length of the borehole is non-horizontal. The entrance and the exit are separated by a predetermined distance and a first thermal envelope at the entrance and a second thermal envelope at the exit are substantially independent. The conduit is positioned in at least a portion of the borehole and in operational connection to supply and return lines for connection to a ground sourced heat pump or to a heat exchanger system. Also disclosed are methods of constructing a subterranean continuous loop heat exchanger having at least one continuous borehole and a method of regulating a temperature in a structure with a system that includes the subterranean continuous loop heat exchanger. | 04-05-2012 |
Ryan Hoffman, Skien NO
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| 20100300486 | METHOD FOR WAX REMOVAL AND MEASUREMENT OF WAX THICKNESS - A method for removal of wax deposited on an inner wall in contact with a fluid stream. The method includes the steps of cooling the inner wall and the fluid stream to a temperature of or below the wax appearance temperature, enabling wax to dissolve and precipitate on the inner wall, and heating of the inner wall for a short period of time to release the deposited wax from the surface of the inner wall, mainly in the form of solid parts. The thickness of wax deposits in a pipe section can be determined by computing the temperatures obtained upstream and downstream in the said pipe section, before and after applying heat pulse. | 12-02-2010 |
Thomas Y. Hoffman, Leuven BE
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| 20090174003 | DUAL WORK FUNCTION DEVICE WITH STRESSOR LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a dual work function semiconductor device is disclosed. In one aspect, the method relates to providing a substrate with a first and a second region. A gate dielectric is formed overlying the first and the second region. A metal gate layer is formed overlying the gate dielectric on the first and the second region. The metal gate layer has a first (as-deposited) work function that can be modified upon inducing strain thereon. The method further relates to selecting a first strain which induces a first pre-determined work function shift (ΔWF1) in the first (as-deposited) work function of the metal gate layer on the first region and selectively forming a first strained conductive layer overlying the metal gate layer on the first region, the first strained conductive layer exerting the selected first strain on the metal gate layer. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090206417 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a dual work function semiconductor device is disclosed. In one aspect, a method starts by forming a host dielectric layer over a first and second region of a substrate. A first dielectric capping layer is formed overlying the host dielectric layer on the first and second region and later selectively removed to expose an underlying layer on the first region. A Hf-based dielectric capping layer is formed overlying the underlying layer on the first region and the first dielectric capping layer on the second region. The Hf-based dielectric capping layer is selected to have a healing effect on the exposed surface of the underlying layer on the first region. A control electrode is formed overlaying the Hf-based dielectric capping layer on the first region and on the second region. | 08-20-2009 |