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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175936 | Method and system for identifying reusable development components Methods, systems, and software for identifying reusable development components or other enterprise knowledge—whether developed internally or by third parties—are described herein. One method for identifying reusable development components includes receiving a re... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8095911 | Method and system for utilizing development components Methods, systems, and software for utilizing development components or other enterprise content—whether developed internally or by third parties—are described herein. One method for utilizing reusable development components includes presenting an interface to a ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8060536 | Managing structured and unstructured data within electronic communications This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing structured and unstructured data within electronic communications. In one implementation, software identifies an electronic communication associated with a user in an enterpr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051015 | Method and system for automated control of pricing A method, program product and system for automated control of pricing of a product or service. The method includes determining an initial price of the product, monitoring actual sales of the product at retail outlets, and adjusting the initial price during a selling... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050990 | Method of and system for generating purchase orders using an auction process A method of generating a purchase order includes receiving purchasing data for the item to be purchased in a computerized system and generating the purchase order based on received purchasing data for the item to be purchased, determining whether a sufficient amount... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046755 | Deploying software based on a calculated deployment risk level A computer-implemented method may include receiving first data that includes one or more configuration parameters that characterize an intended deployment of software and a target computer system on which the software is to be deployed. The computer-implemented meth... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046273 | System and method for purchase order creation, procurement, and controlling A computer-implemented system for managing purchasing orders for a plurality of items to be purchased is shown. The system includes a computer implemented purchase order management interface, the purchase order management interface configured to display data associa... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7979733 | Health check monitoring process A health check monitoring process embedded in a client system provides automation of monitoring processes of system and application components and creates and pushes incidents and/or administration tasks to a user or user interface if a critical situation or event, ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7930681 | Service and application management in information technology systems Systems and techniques for managing services and applications of a client system, such as an enterprise computer system, reduce the operational workload and optimize daily support process by deliverying embedded services in client system with direct connection of se... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7756820 | Activity browser Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for an activity browser. A computer system includes a user interface linked to a processor arranged to perform instructions in accordance with a business application stored in a memory, the business applica... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7667604 | Context-aware and real-time item tracking system architecture and scenarios Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time and context-aware tracking of items. Tags bound to items are read and information read from the tags and location information about the tags is provided by at least two enterprises and used to... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7505983 | Extending data flows Systems and techniques for extending data flows are thus described. In one aspect, an article includes one or more machine-readable media storing instructions operable to cause one or more machines to perform operations. The operations can include receiving extensio... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7467095 | Strategic planning and optimization system A computer program for strategic planning and optimization allows a user to model an enterprise to visualize an effect of a strategic constraint on a primary goal of the enterprise. The primary goal is represented by a primary objective function which, in turn, depe... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7363315 | Creating, editing, and displaying hierarchical data structures associated with data in a data source Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for configuring data structures. The techniques include receiving a description of a logical structure of a data model, the logical structure comprising a first set of elements; displa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353456 | Prototype page for simulating navigation in computer programs A prototype page for simulating navigation between objects in a computer program. A selection of a distribution of presentation areas is received. A placement of first and second icon symbols in at least one of the presentation areas is received. The first and secon... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340729 | Reducing recompilation frequency An article of manufacture and a method includes providing a system having an interface, dividing the interface into levels, associating a dependency list with a level, associating a client with the dependency list, and marking the clients associated with a dependenc... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7283987 | Compression scheme for improving cache behavior in database systems A cache-conscious version of the R-tree, called the CR-tree, is disclosed. To pack more entries in a node, the CR-tree compresses MBR keys, which occupy substantial part of the index data. It first represents the coordinates of an MBR key relatively to the lower lef... | 10/16/2007 |
