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Michael Wayne Brown

Michael A Paolini

Scott Lee Winters

Joseph Herbert McIntyre

Kelvin Roderick Lawrence

James Mark Weaver

Rabindranath Dutta

Andrew Douglas Hately

Newton James Smith, Jr

Bruce Anthony Beadle

Stephen B Boston

Douglas Scott Rothert

Victor S Moore

Cristi Nesbitt Ullmann

David Earl Blaschke

Cornell G Wright, Jr

Allen Chester Wynn

Mark Joseph Hamzy

Folu Okunseinde

Ronald W Bassett

David R Cheng

Wing-Ying Stephanie Leung

Seema Sheth-Voss

Randolph Michael Forlenza

Scott Thomas Jones

Paul Stuart Williamson

Miguel Sang

John William Barrs

Michael Richard Cooper

Michael Aaron Kaply

Aaron Keith Reed

Robert Michael Russin

Dwip N Banerjee

Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger

Jerry Walter Malcolm

Steven Francis Best

Kumar Ravi

Brian Kunes

Olivia Angus

Friedemann Schwenkreis

Mark Alvin Sehorne

Daniel Elskens

Chad Cole

Leonard Robert Nizinski, Jr

David Trebas

Kevin Roderick Lawrence

Leon P Doud

Donald W Schmidt

Viktors Berstis

Rajesh Ramkrishna Bordawekar

Mark Wayne VanderWiele

David Mark Wendt

Chung Tien Nguyen

David B Emmes

Jeffrey David Aman

Radhakrishnan Sethuraman

Aidon Paul Jennery

Manuel Silveyra

Jeffrey Allen Jones

Weiming Gu

Brian Keith Howe

Gregory D Adams

Stefan Georg Derdak

Paul Jerome Kilpatrick

Scott E Garfinkle

Michael Thomas Collins

Newton J Smith

Donna Ngar-Ting Dillenberger

A surgical access system includes a connector including an arm, a coupling element, a rod, and a ridged slider. The arm includes first and second notched sections disposed in opposed lateral sides thereof. The coupling element includes a body section defining an opening therethrough, and opposed tabs protruding therefrom that are configured to receive the second notched section therebetween such that the arm is pivotably coupled to the coupling element. The rod includes a shaft having a plurality of angled grooves defined partially along a length thereof. The rod extends through the opening of the coupling element and the first notched section of the arm. The ridged slider includes a first surface having a plurality of ridges extending along a partial length thereof. The ridged slider extends through the coupling element with the plurality of ridges operably engaged with the plurality of angled grooves of the rod.

Orthopedic surgical system including surgical access systems, distraction systems, and methods of using same

A method, system, and apparatus for extending JavaScript to operate more fully as an object oriented language. A multiple inheritance module may be configured to enable JavaScript to implement multiple inheritance. A messaging module may be configured to enable JavaScript to implement messaging. A polymorphism module may be configured to enable JavaScript to implement polymorphism.

Javascript extension tool

A method, system, and program for billing for service provided to destination device according to the calling plan of the individual receiving the call. An authenticated identity for a callee answering a call placed to a destination device is received at an intermediary device. The intermediary device then accesses a billing plan for the authenticated identity of the callee and loads the billing plan for specifying charges for the call, such that telephone service billed to the callee is accessible at multiple destination devices.

Destination device billing according to call recipient

Personal video recording including identifying a message point in operation of a PVR and transmitting a message. Embodiments include associating a message type with the message point and selecting, in dependence upon the message type, a message to be transmitted. Embodiments include receiving a response to the message; selecting, in dependence upon the response, a command to be executed; and executing the selected command.

Personal video recording with messaging

A method, system, and program for intermediary device initiated caller identification are provided. A trusted telephone network detects a call initiation connection from an origin device. The trusted telephone network then brokers a connection between the origin device and an external server enabled to perform a caller identity authentication service. A voice utterance for a caller is received at the external server from the origin device. The server authenticates a caller identity associated with the voice utterance and transfer the authenticated caller identity to the trusted telephone network. The trusted telephone network then specifies services available for the call according to a caller profile for the authenticated caller identity.

Intermediary device initiated caller identification

A method, system, and apparatus for storing data in a cloud environment that enables a multi-user interface, automatic data backup, and has a schema-less data storage. A data storage database may be provided in the cloud to store one or more data objects. A data management module may be configured to assign each data object a unique ID, wherein each unique ID comprises a timestamp with a granularity between about 0.1 millionths of second and 50 millionths of a second with each ID guaranteed to be unique without regard to the number of servers assigning IDs. A data backup module may be configured to create a new data object with a unique ID in response to a request to modify an original data object, wherein the original data object remains stored with its unique ID.

Storing application data with a unique ID

Producing, by a digital media production hub from users' digital expressions of preferences, information describing a user community's preference for replacing the modifiable part of the digital media product with a replacement part; receiving, in the digital media production hub from a media product owner, the digital media product and a digital grant of rights to modify and distribute the digital media product; receiving, by the digital media production hub from a media parts provider, at least one replacement part, a digital grant of rights to use the replacement part to modify the digital media product, and a digital grant of rights to distribute the replacement part with the digital media product; and replacing, by the digital media production hub in accordance with the information describing the user community preference and the digital grants of rights, the modifiable part with the replacement part.

Modifying a digital media product

A computer system detects a call from a caller at a hold queue, wherein an identity of the caller is authenticated according to a voice identity of the caller. The computer system accesses a caller profile according to the identity of the caller, wherein the caller profile comprises at least one previously earned advancement token. The computer system offers the caller an option of redeeming the previously earned advancement token for adjustment of a position of the caller in the hold queue.

Controlling hold queue position adjustment

Automated personal video recording, including recording, for a group comprising a number of members, a show having a storage space requirement, in which each of the members has allocated storage space on a personal video recorder ('PVR') optionally including free space, and apportioning the show's storage space requirement, including apportioning to each member an apportioned amount of the show's storage space requirement. When a member's apportioned amount of the show's storage space requirement exceeds the member's free space by a deficit amount: selecting, in dependence upon the deficit amount, one or more lenders; borrowing, in dependence upon the deficit amount, from the lenders for the group, at least one loan amount of storage space; and apportioning the loan amount among the members.

Personal video recording with apportioned loans of storage space

Automated personal video recording on a personal video recorder, including recording shows, each show having an original compression level; further compressing a recorded show to a new compression level, the new compression level being higher than the recorded show's original compression level, thereby making available free space; and recording at least part of a new show in free space made available by further compressing the recorded show. Embodiments include recording a show having a compression level and increasing the show's compression level while recording.

Personal video recording with further compression of recorded shows

Automated personal video recording comprising scheduling a show for a user having allocated storage space on a personal video recorder ('PVR'), wherein the show has a storage space requirement that exceeds the user's free space, and the PVR is coupled for data communications to a storage space provider; and transmitting to the storage space provider an order to record the show through the storage space provider in storage space on a remote PVR that is coupled for data communications to the storage space provider. Receiving in a storage space provider from a personal video recorder ('PVR') an order to record a show on a remote PVR, the order comprising an identification of a show and a schedule for recording the show; selecting a remote PVR; and recording the show, in dependence upon the show identification and the schedule for recording the show, in storage space on the selected remote PVR.

Personal video recording with storage space distributed among remote personal video recorders

Growing community of inventors

Georgetown, TX, United States of America

Michael Wayne Brown