Month of May 2010

Background:

The present publication relates to a vacuum-sealed packaging of an active pharmaceutical substance which enhances its stability.

Object relational database systems (RDBMs) enable creation of new types, functions, procedures, aggregates, and table/index access methods to extend RDBMs. A set of new objects is developed for a purpose (e.g., spatial and text search) and packaged as datablades with database products such as IBM Informix datablades,...

A method and apparatus is disclosed identifying an unauthorized access to a disk drive. In response to identifying the unauthorized access, the apparatus physically destroy the disk drive, thereby rendering disk platters on the disk drive unreadable.

A method for an email sender to use different aliases in ‘FROM’ and ‘REPLY-TO’ fields of an email is disclosed. The method involves verifying one or more other aliases belonging to a sender who is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) authenticated.

A method and system for providing a common incentives tracker for multiple online communities is disclosed. The common incentives tracker manages incentives, such as reward points, user ranks, and the like received by a user from multiple online communities or social networks.

A method and system for leveling a digital photo frame is disclosed. The digital photo frame is provided with a built-in gyroscope that measures level of the digital photo frame with respect to ground and accordingly instructs a user to level it correctly with respect to the ground.