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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7028000 | Estimating base sales volume using a low-pass filter approach Within each iteration of an iterative process: (1) a low-pass filter is applied to an actual sales volumes series to extract low frequency components representing a base sales volume series for the iteration; and (2) a locally optimal base sales volume series is det... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6708174 | System and method for retrieving information according to improved matching criteria A system for retrieving information for a user includes a database containing values for one or more parameters of one or more available items, each available item with corresponding parameter values. A matching server receives values for one or more parameters of a... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6233493 | Computer-implemented product development planning method A computer-implemented system (10) for product development planning. The system (10) models a business enterprise in terms of its proposed products and the tasks and resources used to develop them. A optimizing engine comprised of a genetic algorithm (13)... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6188989 | System and method for managing available to promised product (ATP) A system and method are disclosed for automatically managing available to promise product and making of promises to fulfill customer requests from the available to promise product. The system includes a data storage device that stores at least one seller ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6085220 | Enterprise interaction hub for managing an enterprise web system An enterprise interaction hub (10) is disclosed which includes a number of layers that interact to manage an enterprise web system. An interaction layer (12) receives requests to the enterprise web system and returns responsive web pages. A presentation l... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6076108 | System and method for maintaining a state for a user session using a web system having a global session server A system and method are provided for maintaining states for user sessions with a web system. Maintaining state includes receiving a request from a user that initiates a user session with the web system and processing the request to provide a web page to t... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6055519 | Framework for negotiation and tracking of sale of goods A computer implemented system and process are provided for negotiation and tracking of sale of goods. In this system and process, a negotiation engine (16) operates to store data representing a current state (18) of a negotiation between a seller and buye... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6047290 | Computer implemented planning system and process providing mechanism for grouping and prioritizing consumer objects based on multiple criteria A computer implemented planning system and process are disclosed that providing mechanism for grouping and prioritizing consumer objects based on multiple criteria. The manufacturing of a product is planned using an object model that includes buffer objec... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5983194 | Planning coordination systems for coordinating separate factory planning systems and a method of operation A planning coordination system (30) and method are provided that automatically coordinate a planning system (32) associated with a first factory (28) with separate planning systems (16, 24, 40) of a plurality of factories (12, 20, 36) in a manufacturing c... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5845258 | Strategy driven planning system and method of operation A strategy driven planning system (10) is provided that includes a plan (14) defining a scheduled operation of a user environment. An environment (16) defines behavior and constraints of the user environment. A plurality of strategies (20) each defining a... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5832532 | Model-independent and interactive report generation system and method of operation A computer software system is provided. The computer software system includes a compiler operable to receive a worksheet definition and to access a plurality of model interface functions. The worksheet definition is named and parameterized and comprises a... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5764543 | Extensible model network representation system for process planning A computer software system for modeling a process capability on a computer is provided. The computer software system comprises an operation model type for defining a plurality of operation models (33, 36, 44, 52 and 57). Each operation model represents an... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5630123 | Software system utilizing a filtered priority queue and method of operation A software system (2) utilizing a filtered priority queue (10) is provided. A filtering module (4) is operable to access a plurality of data records of entities (16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28) of a priority queue and to filter and arrange the data records... | 05/13/1997 |
