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20090109027 | ANTI-THIEF DEVICE - A personal article anti-theft system includes a base retained on a surface and a hook connected to the base so that it can hang downward. A detection circuit is located within the base and is connected to the hook so as to detect the presence of an item on the hook. If the item is removed from the hook without authorization, e.g., during a theft, an alarm circuit operatively connected to the detection circuit will sense the removal of an item. If the alarm circuit is in a set condition, the removal will generate an alarm signal. The resulting alarm signal is received at a remote alarm detection circuit located at a distance from the base. Receipt of this signal causes the remote alarm to produce a humanly perceivable indication of the alarm. | 04-30-2009 |
20130027201 | METHOD OF ALERTING OWNERS TO THEFT OF PROPERTY - The present invention is directed to an anti-theft system for protecting portable personal items attached to the system and remotely signaling their removal. The system includes a base secured in place on the edge of a table or a wall. A pressure detecting mechanism is disposed to hang from the base so it can be used to hold the personal item, and so that the presence or absence of the item from the pressure detecting mechanism can be detected. Once the device is activated and a valuable personal item is placed on the pressure detecting mechanism, the removal of the item without first deactivating the device will cause an alarm to be activated. The alarm may be a sound or flashing light on the base of the device or generate a signal that may be received remotely by the owner. | 01-31-2013 |
20130037027 | AIR PURIFIER APPARATUS - The invention relates to a modular, portable, air purifier and mask device capable of supplying filtered or otherwise conditioned airflow to an individual. More specifically, the present invention provides a modular air purification system that allows for the selection of multiple types of air treatment modules, power modules and mask devices. Through selective combination of a variety of modules, a desired air quality and condition is achieved. | 02-14-2013 |
20140243940 | DISPOSABLE THERMAL REGULATION APPARATUS - The present invention is directed to a thermo-regulation device for treating an area with in need of thermal regulation. The invention includes a device configured to be fitted over an area in need of thermal regulation; wherein a plurality of cells are integral to the covering body, each cell is equipped with at least one of a plurality of reactants. Each cell of the present invention is in one configuration joined to a neighboring cell by a destructible barrier. The reactants are configured to produce a thermal event when combined with at least one other reactant. | 08-28-2014 |
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20100003368 | PROBIOTIC SUPPLEMENT, PROCESS FOR MAKING, AND PACKAGING - A pet food composition comprising a supplement is provided. The supplement can comprise a Probiotic component, a cocoa butter component, and a sweetener component. A process for making the supplement can comprise providing a sweetener component, a cocoa butter component, and a Probiotic component, mixing the cocoa butter component and Probiotic component to form a mixture in a temperature and humidity controlled chamber; mixing the mixture with the sweetener component in the temperature and humidity controlled chamber to form a final mixture; optionally mixing in a colorant with the final mixture; and cooling the final mixture. A package for the supplement can comprise a secondary container housing a primary container, which houses a supplement. An array of packages is also provided. | 01-07-2010 |
20100203225 | Supplement, Process for Making, and Packaging - A pet food composition comprising a supplement. The supplement can include a glucose mimetic component. The supplement can include a glucose mimetic component that is a glucose anti-metabolite. The glucose anti-metabolite can be 2-deoxy-D-glucose, 5-thio-D-glucose, 3-O-methylglucose, anhydrosugars including 1,5-anhydro-D-glucitol, 2,5-anhydro-D-glucitol, 2,5-anhydro-D-mannitol, mannoheptulose, and/or avocado extract comprising mannoheptulose. | 08-12-2010 |
20110099764 | HANDLE FOR REMOVABLE CLEANING IMPLEMENT - A handle for receiving a cleaning article, such as a dusting device. The handle has one or more tines which are disposed outboard of a reference plane. This geometry provides a friction fit for receiving a removable cleaning device on the tines, without substantial interference. The friction fit retains the cleaning article on the handle during use while reducing tearing which occurs during installation. | 05-05-2011 |
20120096662 | CLEANING DEVICE HAVING PLURAL AND CUSTOMIZABLE CLEANING SURFACES - A device for cleaning debris from a target surface. The device has a sole plate with permanent bristles and a removable/replaceable pad. The device also has a replaceable, on-board supply of cleanser. The pad/cleanser may be replaced when depleted and replaced with a new pad/cleanser or may simply be replaced with a new pad/cleanser when that pad/cleanser is more suitable for a particular cleaning task. | 04-26-2012 |
20130047358 | CLEANING DEVICE HAVING ONBOARD REPLACEABLE CLEANING PAD AND ONBOARD REPLACEABLE CLEANING SOLUTION - A device for cleaning debris from a target surface. The device has a sole plate with permanent cleaning material, such as bristles, and a removable/replaceable pad. The device also has a replaceable, on-board supply of cleaning solution. The pad/cleaning solution may be replaced when depleted and replaced with a new pad/cleaning solution or may simply be replaced with a new pad/cleaning solution when that pad/cleaning solution is more suitable for a particular cleaning task. | 02-28-2013 |
20130340186 | CLEANING DEVICE HAVING PLURAL AND CUSTOMIZABLE CLEANING SURFACES - A device for cleaning debris from a target surface. The device has a sole plate with permanent bristles and a removable/replaceable pad. The device also has a replaceable, on-board supply of cleanser. The pad/cleanser may be replaced when depleted and replaced with a new pad/cleanser or may simply be replaced with a new pad/cleanser when that pad/cleanser is more suitable for a particular cleaning task. | 12-26-2013 |
20150238005 | CLEANING DEVICE HAVING ONBOARD REPLACEABLE CLEANING PAD AND ONBOARD REPLACEABLE CLEANING SOLUTION - A device for cleaning debris from a target surface. The device has a sole plate with permanent cleaning material, such as bristles, and a removable/replaceable pad. The device also has a replaceable, on-board supply of cleaning solution. The pad/cleaning solution may be replaced when depleted and replaced with a new pad/cleaning solution or may simply be replaced with a new pad/cleaning solution when that pad/cleaning solution is more suitable for a particular cleaning task. | 08-27-2015 |
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20110167383 | Notification In Immersive Applications - A notification framework delivers notifications in a manner that is appropriate for a user's current experience. An API is implemented in the notification framework and provided to developers to develop applications utilizing such API to communicate with the framework. A display mode of an active application is determined by the framework. A notification generated by an alerting application is captured by the framework. The framework determines a mode of delivery based on the display mode and the notification, and delivers the notification accordingly. | 07-07-2011 |
20120204131 | ENHANCED APPLICATION LAUNCHER INTERFACE FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE - A system and method for providing application objects on a mobile computing device is disclosed. The method comprises automatically determining one or more categories for newly installed applications. Application meta-information about a library of installed applications, including meta-information associated with the newly installed applications, is maintained. The meta-information also includes category information. The method further comprises providing an application launch interface that presents selectable objects of individual applications that comprise the library of installed applications. Providing the application launch interface includes automatically organizing the selectable objects of individual applications by category, so that the selectable objects are displayed by category. | 08-09-2012 |
20130205217 | Display of an Online Catalog for Concurrent Downloading of Files - Example embodiments relate to provision of an online catalog of files. In example embodiments, a computing device may display an online catalog that identifies files available for download. The computing device may also output a corresponding user interface element for each file and set each user interface element to an initial state. Upon selection of a first file for download, the computing device may modify the user interface element for that file to a downloading state to indicate a status of the download while continuing to display the online catalog. Subsequently, upon selection of a second file for download, the computing device may modify the user interface element for the second file to the downloading state, such that the computing device may concurrently download multiple files. | 08-08-2013 |
20140297655 | Content Presentation Based on Social Recommendations - The disclosed subject matter presents a method of using social connections to provide a content region definition that priorities the display of content on a user device based on information obtained from the social connections of the user. | 10-02-2014 |
20150367770 | Attention and Event Management - The present disclosure provides techniques for dynamic driver attention and event notification management based on the current contextual information about a vehicle, driver attention, and a distraction weight of a notification of an event. A method may include receiving a first contextual information about a motorized vehicle. An indication of the occurrence of a first event may be received. It may be determined that the first event has a first event notification weight that satisfies a first notification threshold based on the first contextual information. As a result, a first notification of the first event may be provided to a user of the motorized vehicle. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370344 | Rotary Controller Arrangement - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for a rotary controller arrangement. A method may include receiving an indication that a rotary control element is moved to a first end position. A first action may be performed based on a selection of the first action at the first end position. An indication that the rotary control element is moved to a second end position may be received. A second action may be performed based on a selection of the second action at the second end position. The disclosed rotary controller arrangement includes assigning an action to the end point of rotation of a rotary control element. By assigning an action to an end point of rotation, a user may rotate the rotary control element to a particular end point to easily find and select the desired action. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370461 | Management of Media Player Functionality - Systems and techniques are provided for management of media player functionality. A template user interface including slots, each slot including definition for a control, may be received. The definition may include a position within a user interface and a size for the control. The control may be associated with a feature for media applications. A list including a feature for a first media application may be received. The feature for the first media application may use one of the slots of the template user interface. A translated interface for the first media application may be generated by replacing one the controls associated with the slots with a control for the feature of the first media application, where the control for the feature of the first media application uses the position in the definition associated with the slot for the replace control. The translated interface may be displayed. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370903 | Delivering Personalized Information - Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for providing an information card to the user based on determining that current location is a unique location and based a determined mode of arrival. The determination that a current location is a unique location may be based on a location history determined based on a user account or a device log. The information card may also be generated based on a user history or a user selection and may provide information about an establishment or travel directions. The information card may contain predictive information. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373138 | Dynamic Caching During Travel - Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for modifying a cache value based on an upcoming reduction in connection. A determination be made that a user device is in a travel mode and intended travel data may be received accordingly. Data throughput information corresponding to the intended travel data may be received. A determination that there is an upcoming reduction in connection may be made based on the data throughput information. A cache value (e.g., amount of data received, provided, or cached) may be modified based on the upcoming reduction in connection. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373666 | Notification Management - Systems device and techniques are disclosed for determining whether a mobile device is in vehicle mode. A notification may be received while the mobile device is in vehicle mode and the notification may be determined to be important or unimportant. If the notification is determined to be important, then the notification may be provided to the user via, an output mode (e.g., display or speaker). If the notification is determined to be unimportant, then the notification may not be provided to the user via the display until the mobile device is no longer in vehicle mode. | 12-24-2015 |
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20090125828 | Automatic Creation of Data Relationships - The disclosed implementations allow automatic and transparent creation of data relationships in a database application or other application in response to user generated trigger events. Related data records can be stored and displayed in layouts, screens, forms and user interfaces provided by the database application or other application. Additional or extended information corresponding to the related data can be stored and displayed. | 05-14-2009 |
20090125830 | Compound Fields - A compound field is automatically created in response to a trigger event. In one aspect, a user selects a field type and a compound field associated with the field type is automatically created. A compound field can be manipulated and presented as a single conceptual unit in a user interface (e.g., a form, screen or layout) of an application (e.g., a database application). When an object representing the compound field is dragged and dropped or otherwise selected in the user interface, the compound field is expanded to reveal one or more subfields capable of receiving data from a user. In another aspect, one or more background tables are automatically and transparently created to store compound field objects. In another aspect, a user can create their own compound field types. | 05-14-2009 |
20100083092 | Dynamic Schema Creation - In a database application executing on a computer system, a database table view is represented by a structured object located on a storage device coupled to the computer system. Responsive to a user pasting content (e.g., spreadsheet data) onto the view of the table, the database application determines if the content to be pasted extends beyond the number of rows (records in a database) or columns (database fields) currently displayed in the table view. If the content extends beyond the number of rows or columns currently displayed, the database application automatically adds one or more records or fields to the structured object on the storage device, and updates the table view to display one or more rows or columns corresponding to the records or fields added to the structured object. | 04-01-2010 |
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20110284723 | Semiconductor nano-wire antenna solar cells and detectors - Patterning planar photo-absorbing materials into arrays of nanowires is demonstrated as a method for increasing the total photon absorption in a given thickness of absorbing material. Such a method can provide faster, cheaper, and more efficient photo-detectors and solar cells. A thin nanowire can absorb many more photons than expected from the size of the nanowire. The reason for this effect is that such nanowires support cylindrical particle resonances which can collect photons from an area larger than the physical cross-section of the wire. These resonances are sometimes referred to as Mie resonances or Leaky Mode Resonances (LMRs). The nanowires can have various cross section shapes, such as square, circle, rectangle, triangle, etc. | 11-24-2011 |
20150364617 | Semiconductor Nanowire Antenna Solar Cells and Detectors - Patterning planar photo-absorbing materials into arrays of nanowires is demonstrated as a method for increasing the total photon absorption in a given thickness of absorbing material. Such a method can provide faster, cheaper, and more efficient photo-detectors and solar cells. A thin nanowire can absorb many more photons than expected from the size of the nanowire. The reason for this effect is that such nanowires support cylindrical particle resonances which can collect photons from an area larger than the physical cross-section of the wire. These resonances are sometimes referred to as Mie resonances or Leaky Mode Resonances (LMRs). The nanowires can have various cross section shapes, such as square, circle, rectangle, triangle, etc. | 12-17-2015 |
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20090293423 | FOOD PRODUCT SCALE AND RELATED IN-STORE RANDOM WEIGHT ITEM TRANSACTION SYSTEM WITH RFID - A random weight item transaction system include a scale with label RFID tag functionality, service person RFID tag functionality and customer RFID tag functionality. A slicer in proximity to the scale may include service person and bulk food product RFID functionalities. The scale may make weigh transaction data available to a computerized checkout system via a communications link or via writing the information to the label RFID tag. | 12-03-2009 |
20100327058 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING MESSAGES PRINTED BY AN IN-STORE LABEL PRINTER AND RELATED LABEL STRUCTURE - A method for selectively printing different messages on labels printed by an in-store scale involves providing an in-store scale including a label printing mechanism with a supply of labels and a communications link for receiving information from a site external to the store. The scale label printing mechanism is configured in a first state and, during the first state, simultaneous printing of two types of information on a first label takes place. In particular, both (i) product information for a specified product to which the first label will be applied and (ii) a first message pertaining to a product which is different than the specified product to which the first label will be applied, are printed on the first label. The in-store scale receives a message control signal via the communications link which configures the scale label printing mechanism in a second state. During the second state, simultaneous printing of two types of information on a second label takes place. In particular, both (i) product information for a specified product to which the second label will be applied and (ii) a second message, different than the first message, and also pertaining to a product which is different than the specified product to which the second label will be applied, are printed on the second label. | 12-30-2010 |
20120000714 | FOOD PRODUCT SCALE AND RELATED PROMOTIONAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A product pricing and incentive system uses a label supply in which continuous label stock has a series of laterally extending weakening lines spaced apart to define multiple label segments of common size. Single segment labels or multiple segment labels can be printed and output by a printing device based on whether an incentive-free product pricing label is to be produced or a combined product pricing and incentive label is to be produced. | 01-05-2012 |
20120123843 | Food Product Scale System And Method For Providing In-Store Incentives To Customers - A food product scale system includes a video commercial advertisement feature that is linked to an incentive item associated with a food product being weighed, where a coupon or other incentive label may also be printed for the incentive item. | 05-17-2012 |