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20090177771 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET TRAFFIC MONITORING BY THIRD PARTIES USING MONITORING IMPLEMENTS - Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, a first packet, sent from a user client, having a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria is detected. Upon detection of the first packet, a second packet is forwarded to the user client. The second packet has a redirection with a fabricated web content request to a monitoring web page including at least one monitoring implement. | 07-09-2009 |
20090216882 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET TRAFFIC MONITORING BY THIRD PARTIES USING MONITORING IMPLEMENTS TRANSMITTED VIA PIGGYBACKING HTTP TRANSACTIONS - Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method that includes a network service provider analyzing an HTTP transaction involving an internet user client. The network service provider responds to the HTTP transaction by forwarding, to the internet user client, a modified web object including a monitoring implement. After forwarding the modified web object to the internet user client, the network service provider forwards a web object, originally associated with the HTTP transaction, to the internet user client. | 08-27-2009 |
20100024032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING AN INTERNET USER'S PRIVACY DIRECTIVE - Disclosed is a method for effecting an internet user's privacy directive. In the method, copied packets, that are based on original packets sent from a user client, are monitored for a web content request including state information that is not in compliance with a user's privacy directive. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request including noncompliant state information, the state information is modified to comply with the user's privacy directive. A replacement packet is forwarded to the user client such that the user client receives the replacement packet before receiving a response packet from a target server of the corresponding original packet. The replacement packet has a redirection with a renewed web content request including the modified state information. | 01-28-2010 |
20100306052 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING INTERNET CONTENT THROUGH REDIRECTION OF EMBEDDED OBJECTS - Disclosed is a method, and related apparatus, for directing network service provider selected embedded objects to an internet user client. In the method, a network service provider maintains a database of internet user clients that includes a particular service-type value for each internet user client. The network service provider analyzes an HTTP transaction involving the internet user client. The network service provider responds to an HTTP transaction requesting an embedded web object by forwarding to the internet user client, an alternative embedded web object selected in accordance with the user client's particular service-type value, wherein the alternative embedded web object arrives to the internet user client before a response to the originally requested embedded web object. The network service provider causes the originally requested embedded web object to be forwarded to the internet user client after the alternative embedded web object is forwarded to the internet user client. | 12-02-2010 |
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20120079701 | Method and apparatus for mounting a sheath onto the distal end of a surgical shaft instrument - A method for mounting a sheath onto the distal end of a surgical shaft instrument, in particular the tool tip of a dilation instrument. The method makes handling easy and allows the sheath to be fastened on the instrument in a rapid manner sparing of material, characterized by these steps: a) fastening the sheath on an apparatus for mounting a sheath onto the distal end of a surgical shaft instrument; b) radially widening at least the proximal end of the sheath and inserting the distal end of the surgical shaft instrument into the widened sheath c) transferring the sheath from the apparatus to the distal end of the surgical shaft instrument; and d) removing the distal end of the surgical shaft instrument from the apparatus. The invention also relates to an apparatus to perform this method. | 04-05-2012 |
20120209255 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A medical instrument with a hollow shaft and a handle mounted on the proximal end of the shaft, such that the shaft can be rotated around its longitudinal axis by a power drive, and such that the power drive is configured as an adjusting wheel that can both be rotated around the longitudinal axis of the shaft and also moved in the longitudinal direction of the shaft. To provide a medical instrument whose power drive makes simple and secure operation of the shaft rotation possible, the power drive can be actuated in every working position in one-handed operation, independently of any other actuation of the handle. | 08-16-2012 |
20130302084 | Tool for a medical instrument - A tool for a distal end or on a distal end of a shaft of a medical instrument includes a basic body, a mouth part which is pivotable about a pivot axis in relation to the basic body, and a bearing which defines the pivot axis, wherein the bearing includes two axial pins which are spaced apart from one another, each with a radial surface which is rotationally symmetrical with respect to the pivot axis. | 11-14-2013 |
20140336688 | DILATATIONSVORRICHTUNG UND AUSDEHNBARER UBERZUG FUR EIN DILATATIONSINSTRUMENT - A dilation device including a dilation instrument which includes a distal radially expandable section which is coupled via an elongate shank to a handling section, and an expandable covering with a closed distal end and an open proximal end, for the expansion section of the dilation instrument. The covering has a shank section extending along the shank of the dilation instrument. The open proximal end of the covering is detachably coupled to the distal end of the handling section of the dilation instrument. Furthermore, the covering is disclosed per se, which consists of a mesh material and has a shank section, which is connected to a coupling sleeve at the open proximal end. | 11-13-2014 |
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20090024073 | Device for Intracorporeal Application of Auxiliary Medical Material - The invention relates to a device for intracorporeal application of auxiliary medical material, in particular for bio-materials and wound applications, having a hollow application tube for inserting the auxiliary medical material into the surgical area. To create a device for intracorporeal application of auxiliary medical material that ensures simple handling and a secure application of the auxiliary medical material in the surgical area, the invention is characterized by a winding insert that can be inserted into the hollow application tube and can be slid in the longitudinal direction of the application tube and on which it is possible to wind the auxiliary medical material that is to be applied. | 01-22-2009 |
20090082768 | Bipolar Medical Instrument - A bipolar medical instrument has a shaft and two jaw parts arranged at said distal end thereof. An axially movable force transmission element is disposed with said shaft and is surrounded by an isolating element. Said isolating element is connected to at least one of said two jaw parts in an articulated manner. Said two jaw parts are electrically isolated from one another and each provides an electrode to which high frequency current can be applied. A first electrical supply line is formed along said shaft via an electrically conductive first contact element to one of said two jaw parts. A second electrical supply line is formed along said axially movable force transmission element via an electrically conductive second contact element to the other of said two jaw parts. The first contact element is fixed at said isolating element surrounding said distal end area of said force transmission element. | 03-26-2009 |
20090082795 | Medical gripping and/or cutting instrument - The invention relates to a medical gripping and/or cutting instrument having a shaft on whose distal end a tool is positioned consisting of at least two jaw members and on whose proximal end a handle is positioned consisting of at least two gripping members. For opening and closing, at least one jaw member of the tool can move by means of a rotatably configured gripping member of the handle with respect to the other jaw member of the tool, and the rotatable gripping member of the handle can be secured by means of a notching mechanism on the at least one other gripping member of the handle, with the jaw members in an at least partly closed position. To produce a medical gripping and/or cutting instrument which allows a simple and rapid unnotching of the gripping members of the handle, it is proposed with the invention that a portion of at least one gripping member of the handle can move with respect to the remaining portion of this gripping member in such a way that the notching mechanism can be released, with the gripping members in an essentially unchanged position with respect to one another. | 03-26-2009 |
20090270842 | Handle for a Medical Instrument - A handle for a medical instrument having a handle housing that can be closed by a cover and having at least one drainage or irrigation hose in the handle housing that can be connected to a hose connection support. To create a handle that is of simple construction and ensures a reliable fluid-proof insulated connection of the hose and hose connection support while protecting the hose material, it is proposed that each drainage or irrigation hose should be connectable by an adaptor to the related hose connection support and that the adaptor upon closing the handle housing can be pressed against the hose connection support by a stop positioned on the cover or on the base portion of the handle housing. | 10-29-2009 |
20100274275 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR DILATING OSSEOUS STRUCTURES - A medical instrument for dilating osseous structures, with a shaft on whose distal end a tool point is positioned and on whose proximal end a handle is positioned, such that the handle and the tool point are in active connection with one another by means of an actuating element in such a way that by actuating the handle the tool point can spread radially at least partially and where the distal end of the actuating element has a thickened configuration. To provide a dilating instrument that is sufficiently stable and allows for sensitive actuation, it is proposed with the invention that the tool point should consist of several segments that can radiate radially outward and enclose the thickened distal end of the actuating element essentially completely, when the tool point is in the closed position. | 10-28-2010 |
20110245812 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR MICROINVASIVE SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS - A shaft for a medical instrument for a minimally invasive procedure includes a proximal end that is mechanically connectable or connected with an operational device and a distal end that is connectable or connected with a tool, whereby the shaft comprises a bent portion and whereby no plane exists from which the center points of all cross-sections of the shaft are at a lesser distance than one-third of a diameter of the shaft. | 10-06-2011 |