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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172722 | Athletic performance monitoring systems and methods in a team sports environment Systems and methods for sensing and monitoring various athletic performance metrics, e.g., during the course of a game, a practice, a training session, training drills, and the like, are described. These systems and methods can provide useful metrics for players and... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160949 | Order risk management for financial product processing Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative product orders at an exchange. Traders provide derivative product order risk data to the exchange. The order risk data may include maximum delta, gamma and/or vega utilization values for derivative product c... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155961 | Adaptation of automatic speech recognition acoustic models A user terminal may determine a phoneme distribution of a text corpus, determine an acoustic model gain distribution of phonemes of an acoustic model before and after adaptation of the acoustic model, determine a desired phoneme distribution based on the phoneme dis... | 04/10/2012 |
| D655301 | Display screen with user interface | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125855 | User interface features for a watch A watch provides a chronographic function while the watch is in a “sport” mode. If a user activates a button relating to the chronographic function, such as a “start/lap” button, then the light for the watch will automatically activate. The light may remain ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8060425 | Evaluation and adjustment of settlement value curves Disclosed is a method that is useful in connection with providing discount factors for an exchange-traded mark-to-market derivative product that has a variable tick rate, such as an interest rate swap product. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a ser... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054910 | Digital broadcast service discovery correlation Aspects of the invention are directed to service and channel discovery in a digital broadcast network. A pilot synchronization symbol, which has known characteristics, is included as a first symbol of digital broadcast frames. The pilot symbol, which can be decoded ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046792 | Multi-channel audio enhancement for television A comprehensive mechanism is provided for broadcasting and accessing multiple audio sources in connection with the viewing of a television program. In the preferred embodiment, the first step in providing audio is collecting the audio through the use of standard aud... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046289 | Electronic pitcard for wireless financial exchange Systems and method for facilitating trading in a financial exchange including generating a pitcard interface on a wireless handheld computer. The pitcard interface includes a plurality of information display windows; a plurality of user input controls; and a view-sp... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8029412 | Portable hurdle A portable hurdle for use primarily athletes has a base portion operably secured to a bow portion that holds the hurdle to a predefined height when the bow portion is placed in tension by a securing structure. The hurdle lays substantially flat when the bow portion ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028443 | Systems for activating and/or authenticating electronic devices for operation with footwear Articles of footwear and footwear systems include modules, e.g., for sensing physical and/or physiological characteristics associated with use of the footwear or for performing other functions. Such systems and methods may use physical or other interaction(s) betwee... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024255 | Factorization of interest rate swap variation Methods are described for processing and clearing derivative products such as interest rate swaps (IRSs). A swap value factor (SVF) may be generated to calculate the mark-to-market value of an IRS. The SVF may be a function of interest rates derived from a yield cur... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010158 | Synchronization of mobile terminals Embodiments are directed to activation and performance of multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“multi-SIM”) automatic synchronization of mobile devices. A user may specify one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed, ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8007419 | Overspeed trainer system A single-handed overspeed trainer system that detachably tethers an athlete to a trainer through a substantially quiet, non-hook and loop material, release structure is disclosed. In one embodiment, the athlete wears a belt with a substantially rigid loop extending ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001568 | Methods and systems for displaying recommended content alternatives In a content distribution system, in which broadcast content is distributed and provided to a television viewer, a method and apparatus for providing a compact guide display of a plurality of television show or program recommendations, optionally with descriptions, ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000621 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is configured to reduce follow-up delay in impedance fluctuation and to reduce an accuracy fall in power supply control. The image forming apparatus includes a transfer element, a supply element, a detection element, a modification element... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996301 | Out of band credit control Systems and method for mediating risks associated with orders in an electronic trading system are provided. A front end component includes a plurality of trading engines that receive orders from traders. A back-end component includes a match system. The system inclu... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991684 | Order risk management for derivative products Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative product orders at an exchange. Traders provide derivative product order risk data to the exchange. The order risk data may include maximum delta, gamma and/or vega utilization values for derivative product c... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986687 | Multicast data transfer An edge router (6) for multicast data transfer comprises a cache (10). In response to a request for a file from a host (3a), the router (6) retrieves the file from a content provider (2). The file, comprising data packets A-... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7966154 | Pressure sensing systems for sports, and associated methods A system determines athletic performance. A pressure sensor senses change in elevation. A microprocessor processes signals from the pressure sensor to determine speed corresponding to the change in elevation. A display reports the speed to a user. ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963424 | Integrated beverage and ice dispenser assembly A beverage dispenser with plural dispensing heads from which different beverages are dispensed. The dispenser has an ice bin from which ice is dispensed. A motor drives an agitator internal to the ice bin. The motor is removably attached to the ice bin by locking pi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962312 | Monitoring activity of a user in locomotion on foot A method involves using at least one device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing to automatically measure amounts of time taken by the user to complete respective distance intervals. During the outing, data representing the au... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949488 | Movement monitoring systems and associated methods Systems and methods are disclosed that monitor movement of a person, or of a vehicle ridden by the person, to determine speed, distance traveled and/or airtime of the person or vehicle. Accelerometer-based sensors, pressure sensors or Doppler sensors may be employed... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946959 | Training scripts A training script device is described that conveniently allows a user to create a training script defining one or more steps of a workout routine, where each step may include an activity, a duration for performing that activity, and an intensity at which the activit... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7924876 | Time slicing and statistical multiplexing in a digital wireless network In accordance with an aspect of the invention, flexible burst boundaries, within an allowable range, allow statistical multiplexing to be performed in conjunction with time slicing in a digital broadcast network. The signalling of the delta-t is performed such that ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7899749 | System and method for providing intelligent market data snapshots Systems and methods are provided for processing and distributing market data. Critical data, such as data showing that a market price has changed is distributed without further delay. When the market data does not result in a change in a market price or does not mee... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898906 | User interface features for a watch A watch provides a chronographic function while the watch is in a “sport” mode. If a user activates a button relating to the chronographic function, such as a “start/lap” button, then the light for the watch will automatically activate. The light may remain ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891200 | Vending machine improvement A vending machine system includes a control module for controlling a cooling system. The cooling system, which includes an evaporator, may omit a heating element for defrosting the evaporator. In operation, the control module cycles an evaporator fan in conjunction ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890412 | Distributed trading bus architecture A distributed trading system for handling a plurality of order requests, each order request comprising parameters under which a participant will buy and/or sell a futures contract. A validator component is coupled to a messaging bus and has a first interface for rec... | 02/15/2011 |
| D632775 | Cooling unit | 02/15/2011 |
| 7883282 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed tray for loading a recording sheet, a sheet feed roller that conveys the recording sheet toward an image forming device, a conveyor roller that is disposed downstream of the sheet feed roller in a recording sheet conv... | 02/08/2011 |
| D632380 | Cooling unit | 02/08/2011 |
| 7849064 | Application programming interface combining asset listings A system, method and API for processing and providing a unified list of the content offerings of multiple content sources. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| D628595 | Icon for a display screen | 12/07/2010 |
| D628594 | Icon for a display screen | 12/07/2010 |
| D628589 | Icon for a display screen | 12/07/2010 |
| D628588 | Group of icons for a display screen | 12/07/2010 |
| D628580 | Animated computer-programmed transition for a display screen | 12/07/2010 |
| 7870219 | System method and apparatus for portable digital identity Two-way digital media devices typically store digital identifying data that identify the user to providers of content and interactive data. In the case of a Web browser of a personal computer, the digital identity is stored in the form of a plurality of cookies that... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7840892 | Organization and maintenance of images using metadata Data for electronic images is stored in a server. Metadata is assigned to each image file and categorizes each image according to one or more schemes. Possible metadata schemes include image date, one or more image subjects, and image location. The image files may t... | 11/23/2010 |
