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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299165 | System, method, and computer program product for identifying manufacturing-specific regions in object models A system, method, and computer program product for decomposing a product model into manufacturing specific regions, including a corresponding system, method, and computer program product incorporating an object view visualization method for decomposing a product mod... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7280990 | Method and system for designing and modeling a product in a knowledge based engineering environment An interactive design system includes a design application that creates and models a geometry of an object. A programming language application defines engineering rules that may be associated with the object. The programming language application associates the geome... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7257462 | System, method, and computer program product for localized cavity milling design A system, method, and computer program comprising loading a part definition; receiving a user selection of a local area of a part to be cut, the part corresponding to the part definition; creating a cut area max/min box according to the user selection; preparing a t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7222057 | Topology modeler According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for modeling a feature associated with a deformed material is provided. The method includes generating a first mesh having a model of a feature and a second mesh. A normal distance between a point on the model o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7146594 | System, method, and computer program product for schematic generation A method for electrical schematic creation includes loading a schematic definition file, and determining circuit component placement relationships according to the schematic definition file and a component rule set. The method also includes defining a location of a ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7106331 | Bi-directional propagation in a curve network A system, method, and computer program product for performing edits on related curves by automatically defining an associative entity that is upstream of either curve being connected. The connecting entity is called an ‘intermediary’. When creating a connection ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098918 | System and method for shape preservation of curves in an editing process A system, method, and computer program product which allows more versatile manual and automatic edits by embedding behaviors in the curve elements. These imbedded behaviors allow intelligent shape preservation during a curve edit. Each curve carries a behavior prope... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7065478 | Computer-aided progressive die design system and method According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for designing a progressive die used in the manufacturing of a part formed from sheet metal includes receiving, at a computer, information regarding one or more features of the part, and determining... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7028051 | Method of real-time business collaboration Computer architecture and software for computer network communication such that data is at least partially converted between distinct transport protocols in order to optimize transmission of the data, and preferably to allow persistent connections to be maintained a... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027048 | Computerized deformation analyzer According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining deformation of a surface of a material is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computer, an elastic deformation range and a plastic deformation range of the material. The method also inc... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6922690 | System and method for creating a datum reference frame A system and method for creating a datum reference frame includes selecting a first datum, wherein the first datum comprises a plurality of faces. A first definition for the selected first datum is determined. One or more second datums, based on the determined first... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6917361 | Method and system for computing a transverse derivative field along a curve on a surface According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for computing a transversal derivative field along a curve on a surface includes receiving data defining the surface, the surface represented in terms of parameters u and v as S(u,v), and receiving ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6897862 | Method and system for applying constraints to chains of curves A method and system for applying constraints to a wireframe chain of curves for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is disclosed, whereby a geometric constraint network can be expanded to include chains of curves as types of wireframe entities. As such, a chain of curves ca... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6877009 | System and method for compiling and displaying a pruned information set The processing system 10 is disclosed which uses a user interface 12 to interact with the search and control engine 16 and the display engine 18. The search and control engine 16 operates on a data set 14 to identify specifi... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6865510 | Adaptive asymmetric network connectivity probing system and method A system and method for analyzing network traffic between a client system and multiple mirror systems, to determine the most efficient data transfer paths for accessing the mirrored data. Accordingly, a set of network probes are passed between network point pairs. A... | 03/08/2005 |
