Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8153911 | Dynamically weighing mail pieces in real time within an automated destination bar code sorter machine by temporarily accelerating the mail piece and capturing resulting closed loop motor torque sample data Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving at high speed, and for checking that the correct amount of postage has been paid for delivery of the article. An article (900) is received from an intake transpor... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8129635 | Weighing a moving object using captured torque data Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving at high speed. An article (900) is received from an intake transport (1200), and gripped in a weighing station (1310), in between a capstan roller a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8106315 | Envelope weighing apparatus with gripping compensation for variable thickness envelopes Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving at high speed. An article (900) is received from an intake transport (1200), and gripped in a weighing station (1310), in between a capstan roller a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8032927 | Verification engine for user authentication Computer-implemented system and methods for authenticating the identity of a person, for example a customer (1) of an E-Commerce web site (15). The web site or other verification “client” (110) contacts a verification engine (10, 100)... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7847206 | Mailpiece reject processing with window inserts Improvements are disclosed for further processing of a mail piece initially rejected from an automatic sorting machine. In the case of a window envelope, the envelope is rotated or inverted, shaken, and rotated to reposition the insert. Address recognition is repeat... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7748029 | Authentication query strategizer and results compiler Embodiments of the present invention encompass systems and methods for use in identity authentication. One illustrative application is in the context of authenticating the identity of a subject by verifying items of identifying information stored by, or accessible t... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7687727 | Weigh on the fly Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving, for example along a transport path (FIG. 2). In one embodiment, a weigh station comprises a servo motor 110 driven by a servo feed back loop (126, 128 | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676433 | Secure, confidential authentication with private data Risk of personal identity theft, especially in connection with on-line commerce, is mitigated by maintaining private data in a secure database maintained by a trusted third party verification service. To authenticate the identity of a user or customer, in one embodi... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7379603 | Rollup functions and methods Methods of organizing a series of sibling data entities in a digital computer are provided for preserving sibling ranking information associated with the sibling data entities and for attaching the sibling ranking information to a joint parent of the sibling data en... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7343623 | Authentication query strategizer and results compiler Embodiments of the present invention encompass systems and methods for use in identity authentication. One illustrative application is in the context of authenticating the identity of a subject by verifying items of identifying information stored by, or accessible t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333987 | Controlled-access database system and method A controlled database system is designed for rapid access of data records with reduced memory storage requirements. The database system employs a set of obfuscated data records stored in data crystals that can only be accessed and read by an iterator, which is not d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7120302 | Method for improving the accuracy of character recognition processes The present invention embodies a character recognition method for constructing a result string from a plurality of result sets. Each result set comprises at least one candidate character, and each candidate character has an associated confidence indication. The meth... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7031519 | Orthogonal technology for character recognition The present invention encompasses a self-orthogonal character recognition engine for executing an iterative method employing a database of predetermined character strings. The method receives a digital representation of a character string. It then generates a propos... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6643648 | Secure, limited-access database system and method A limited-access database system is designed for rapid access of data records with reduced memory storage requirements. The database system employs a set of obfuscated data records stored in data crystals that can only be accessed and read by an iterator,... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6597809 | Rollup functions for efficient storage presentation and analysis of data Methods of organizing a series of sibling data entities in a digital computer are provided for preserving sibling ranking information associated with the sibling data entities and for attaching the sibling ranking information to a joint parent of the sibl... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6539112 | Methods and system for identifying a reference region on an image of a dropped-out form This invention relates to the field of optical character recognition for data in drop-out forms. In the absence of permanent, fixed landmarks, this invention uses the structure of the entered data to provide a landmark to be used in solving various proble... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6330357 | Extracting user data from a scanned image of a pre-printed form Human and machine readability of pre-printed forms that have been completed with user data is impeded where the user data overlaps zone descriptions, constraint boxes or other markings of the pre-printed form. A "form fracturing" methodology is described ... | 12/11/2001 |
