Author: claimsbot

1. A tea beverage, which comprises starch at a content of 0.009% by weight or more and ultrafine ground tea leaves having an average particle size of 1 \u03bcm or less.
2. The tea beverage according to claim 1, wherein the content of the ultrafine ground tea leaves is 0.02% to 0.5% by weight.
3. The tea beverage according to claim 1, wherein the ultrafine ground tea leaves are incorporated in the form of a dispersion.
4. The tea beverage according to claim 1, wherein the starch is derived from a cereal.
5. The tea beverage according to claim 4, wherein the cereal is one or more members selected from brown rice, buckwheat, barley, and pearl barley.
6. The tea beverage according to claim 1, which is intended for drinking at a temperature below room temperature.
7. The tea beverage according to claim 1, which is a container-filled beverage.
8. A process for producing a cereal tea beverage, which comprises the following steps:
1. obtaining a solvent extract of a cereal;
2. obtaining a dispersion of ultrafine ground tea leaves; and
3. mixing the solvent extract of a cereal and the dispersion of ultrafine ground tea leaves.
9. A method for improving the taste and flavor of a cereal tea, which comprises adding ultrafine ground tea leaves having an average particle size of 1 \u03bcm or less to suppress stickiness originating from cereal starch.
10. The tea beverage according to claim 2, wherein the ultrafine ground tea leaves are incorporated in the form of a dispersion.
11. The tea beverage according to claim 2, wherein the starch is derived from a cereal.
12. The tea beverage according to claim 3, wherein the starch is derived from a cereal.
13. The tea beverage according to claim 2, which is intended for drinking at a temperature below room temperature.
14. The tea beverage according to claim 3, which is intended for drinking at a temperature below room temperature.
15. The tea beverage according to claim 4, which is intended for drinking at a temperature below room temperature.
16. The tea beverage according to claim 5, which is intended for drinking at a temperature below room temperature.
17. The tea beverage according to claim 2, which is a container-filled beverage.
18. The tea beverage according to claim 3, which is a container-filled beverage.
19. The tea beverage according to claim 4, which is a container-filled beverage.
20. The tea beverage according to claim 5, which is a container-filled beverage.
21. The tea beverage according to claim 6, which is a container-filled beverage.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method for protecting a host located within a computer network, the method comprising:
mapping a public host address for a public host to a secret host address for a secret host containing data accessible over the computer network, said public host address being available from a domain name system server;
receiving a request for communication with the secret host at the public host;
forwarding said request from the public host to the secret host; and
processing said request at the secret host and communicating from the secret host over the network,
wherein said communication appears to be sent from the public host;
wherein forwarding said request comprises:
determining whether an attack is consuming significant resources,
if it is determined that an attack is not consuming significant resources, slowing down the forwarding of said request short of stopping the same, and
if it is determined that an attack is consuming significant resources, stopping the forwarding of said request;
wherein, after stopping the forwarding of said request, said secret host notifies select clients of an address of an alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node, and attempts to track down a source of the attack, where, after the attack has stopped, the address of the alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node is replaced with the public host address;
wherein a notification that the public host is under attack is received at the secret host;
wherein a notification that the public host is congested is received at the secret host.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the network is the Internet and the secret host is a server.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the server hosts a Web site.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving a request comprises receiving a URL at the domain name system server, the domain name system server providing an IP address of the public host corresponding to the URL.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein tracking down the source of the attack comprises performing a trace back at the secret host.
6. A computer program product for protecting a host located within a computer network, comprising:
computer code that maps a public host address for a public host to a secret host address for a secret host containing data accessible over the computer network, said public host address being available from a domain name system server;
computer code that receives a request for communication with the secret host at the public host;
computer code that forwards said request from the public host to the secret host;
computer code that processes said request at the secret host and communicates from the secret host over the network, wherein said communication appears to be sent from the public host; and
a computer-readable storage medium for storing the codes;
wherein forwarding said request comprises:
determining whether an attack is consuming significant resources,
if it is determined that an attack is not consuming significant resources, slowing down the forwarding of said request short of stopping the same, and
if it is determined that an attack is consuming significant resources, stopping the forwarding of said request;
wherein, after stopping the forwarding of said request, said secret host notifies select clients of an address of an alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node, and attempts to track down a source of the attack, where, after the attack has stopped, the address of the alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node is replaced with the public host address;
wherein a notification that the public host is under attack is received at the secret host;
wherein a notification that the public host is congested is received at the secret host.
7. The computer program product of claim 6 wherein the computer readable medium is selected from the group consisting of CD-ROM, floppy disk, tape, flash memory, system memory, hard drive, and data signal embodied in a carrier wave.
8. A system for protecting a host located within a computer network, the system comprising:
a public host having a public host address available from a DNS server; and
a secret host having a secret host address and containing data accessible over the computer network,
said public host address being mapped to said secret host address;
wherein the public host is operable to forward requests received from the network to the secret host and the secret host is operable to process said requests and communicate from the secret host to the network with said communication appearing to be sent from the public host;
wherein forwarding said requests comprises:
determining whether an attack is consuming significant resources,
if it is determined that an attack is not consuming significant resources, slowing down the forwarding of said requests short of stopping the same, and
if it is determined that an attack is consuming significant resources, stopping the forwarding of said requests;
wherein after stopping the forwarding of said request, said secret host notifies select clients of an address of an alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node, and attempts to track down a source of the attack, where, after the attack has stopped the address of the alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node is replaced with the public host address;
wherein a notification that the public host is under attack is received at the secret host;
wherein a notification that the public host is congested is received at the secret host.
9. The system of claim 8 wherein the secret host is configured to manage the public host.
10. A method for hiding an IP address of a computer node located within a computer network, the method comprising:
associating an IP address for a public node with an IP address of a secret node such that only the public node has access to the IP address of the secret node, said IP address for the public node being available from a DNS server;
receiving packets from the network at the public node;
forwarding said packets from the public node to the secret node; and
responding to said packets at the secret node such that a response appears to be sent from the public node rather than the secret node;
wherein the method further comprises:
determining whether an attack is consuming significant resources;
if it is determined that an attack is not consuming significant resources, slowing down the forwarding of said packets short of stopping the same;
if it is determined that an attack is consuming significant resources, stopping the forwarding of said packets;
wherein, after stopping the forwarding of said packets, said secret node requests that the DNS server replace the IP address for the public node with an IP address of an alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node, and attempts to track down a source of the attack, where, after the attack has stopped, the IP address of the alternate Post Office Box Internet Protocol (POBIP) node is replaced with the IP address for the public node;
wherein a notification that the public node is under attack is received at the secret host;
wherein a notification that the public node is congested is received at the secret host.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the packets contain requests for data and the secret node is a server hosting a Web site.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein the packets contain e-mail.

1. An electro-magnetic bandgap structure comprising a plurality of conductive plates bridge-connected with one another on a same plane,
whereas each of the conductive plates comprises:
an internal patch;
a first ring patch configured to be electrically separated from the internal patch and to surround the internal patch; and
a second ring patch configured to surround the first ring patch and to be electrically connected with the first ring patch through a portion.
2. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 1, wherein an air gap is formed between the internal patch and the first ring patch and between the second ring patch and the first ring patch excluding a connecting portion.
3. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 1, wherein the portion through which the first ring patch is electrically connected with the second ring patch is an end of one of outer corners of the first ring patch.
4. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 1, wherein all of the plurality of conductive plates are electrically connected with one another by bridge-connecting one conductive plate with another conductive plate adjacent to the conductive plate through an end of a corner.
5. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 1, wherein the plurality of conductive plates have a same shape and area and are two-dimensionally disposed on the same plane.
6. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 1, wherein a conductive layer is adjacently located in an upper part or a lower part of an area in which the plurality of conductive plates are disposed, whereas a dielectric layer is interposed between the plurality of conductive plates and the adjacently located conductive layer.
7. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 6, further comprising at least one via configured to penetrate through the dielectric layer, one end of the via being electrically connected with the internal patch, the other end of the via being electrically connected with the adjacently located conductive layer.
8. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 1, wherein the internal patch has a shape obtained by reducing an outline shape of the conductive plate without modifying the outline shape and is located at the center of the conductive plate.
9. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 8, wherein the first ring patch and the second ring patch have a respective outline shape obtained by sequentially enlarging an outline shape of the internal patch.
10. The electro-magnetic bandgap structure of claim 8, wherein the outline shape of the conductive plate is a rectangle.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. Throttle device with a device housing comprising an inlet and an outlet and with a throttle element arranged in a connecting duct connecting the inlet and the outlet, said throttle element comprising at least first and second throttle components to be adjusted relative to one another and by the relative position of which an opening surface of the throttle element is determined, at least the first throttle component being actively connected with a drive means for an adjustment relative to the second throttle component, characterized in that the first and second throttle components are throttling discs to be rotated relative to one another, at least one of which being movably connected with a rotary adjustment device of the drive means, each of the first and second throttling discs comprising at least one throttle opening the overlap of which determines the opening surface depending on the relative position of the first and second throttling discs.
2. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that the first throttling disc is fixed relative to the device housing.
3. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that the first throttling disc forms a part of the connecting duct with at least one throttle opening.
4. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that a fixation disc is in particular detachably inserted into the device housing adjacent to the outlet, the first throttling disc being stationarily fixed to the fixation disc.
5. Throttle device according to claim 4, characterized in that the fixation disc comprises an essentially centric hole forming a part of the connecting duct.
6. Throttle device according to claim 5, characterized in that the hole is expanded towards the outlet.
7. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that the second throttling disc is rotatable and is arranged directly adjacent to the first throttling disc and is a part of the connecting duct with at least one throttle opening.
8. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that the rotary adjustment device is movably connected with the second throttling disc via a connecting sleeve as operating element of the throttle element forming a part of the connecting duct and being inserted in the device housing.
9. Throttle device according to claim 8, characterized in that the inlet is formed in the area of the connecting sleeve.
10. Throttle device according to claim 8, characterized in that the inlet comprises an inlet sleeve projecting into the connecting duct through a guiding slot in the connecting sleeve.
11. Throttle device according to claim 10, characterized in that the guiding slot extends over an angle of 180\xb0 in the circumferential direction of the connecting sleeve.
12. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that the rotary adjustment device is formed by a fixed sleeve fixed relative to the device housing and a rotary sleeve to be rotated relative thereto, the rotary sleeve being movably connected on the one hand with a connecting sleeve and on the other hand with the drive means.
13. Throttle device according to claim 12, characterized in that in each fixed sleeve and rotary sleeve at least one slot is formed, the slots comprising various inclinations in a longitudinal direction of the sleeve and overlapping at least for receiving an insertion element, which is movable by the drive means.
14. Throttle device according to claim 13, characterized in that the insertion element projects essentially radially to the outside from a rotating spindle or a nut of a screw.
15. Throttle device according to claim 14, characterized in that the rotating spindle and nut form a ball screw.
16. Throttle device according to claim 14, characterized in that the rotating spindle is mounted in the device housing rotatably, but cannot be axially shifted.
17. Throttle device according to claim 14, characterized in that the nut can be moved along the rotating spindle and rotated thereabout.
18. Throttle device according to claim 14, characterized in that two insertion elements project outside from the nut opposite to one another and engage in correspondingly arranged slot pairs of rotary sleeve and fixed sleeve.
19. Throttle device according to claim 14, characterized in that the insertion element is detachably mounted at the nut.
20. Throttle device according to claim 12, characterized in that the rotary sleeve is rotatably mounted in the device housing at both its ends.
21. Throttle device according to claim 12, characterized in that the rotary sleeve comprises an annular flange radially projecting to the inside at its end facing the operating element, one end of the rotating spindle being rotatably mounted in the annular flange.
22. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that each throttling disc is stationarily connected with its respectively associated component in particular by a number of pins.
23. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one throttling disc comprises a number of throttle openings arranged in a throttling disc plane.
24. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that the same number andor the same shape andor the same size of throttle openings are arranged in the throttling discs.
25. Throttle device according to claim 1, characterized in that the throttle opening is formed in a circumferential direction of the throttling disc with a growing opening surface.