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Napoleon Bonaparte ; When told of the Robert Fulton steamboat
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7685060 | System and method for managing financial account information A system is provided that includes a party file having a plurality of party records with each of the plurality of party records having party information relating to one of a plurality of parties. Also included is an account file having a plurality of account records... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7620638 | Process for selecting an object in a PLM database and apparatus implementing this process The invention is directed to a process, an apparatus and a program for selecting an object in a PLM database containing modeled objects. The invention allows a user to rapidly display a view of the set of objects while allowing for selecting an object in the view, f... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7595802 | Method and system for graphically navigating among stored objects The invention is directed to a product life cycle management (PLM) system, comprising a database storing objects, preferably 3D objects, and relations between said objects. The PLM system provides a graphical user interface suitable for displaying to a user a graphi... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7595799 | Process for creating from a mesh an isotopologic set of parameterized surfaces A process for creating from a mesh an isotopologic set of parameterized surfaces includes providing a mesh having a plurality of vertices connected by edges, defining faces, the vertices comprising regular vertices of valence 4 and irregular vertices of valen... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7587303 | Non-linear solver for a flexible slender-body system For determining the behavior of a flexible system submitted to predetermined displacement boundary conditions, a process uses geometrically non-linear finite element analysis. The process has a plurality of incremental steps within a total Lagrangian formalism with ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7567935 | Short trade information system A method is provided for presenting short-sale information associated with a plurality of securities and includes the steps of receiving the short-sale information from at least one source; filtering the short-sale information and presenting the filtered short-sale ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7558753 | Price improvement crossing system A method provided for matching a buy order having a buy order price and a sell order having a sell order price that includes the step of determining if the buy order price is not less than the sell order price. Next, an NBBO price range is identified and it is deter... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555498 | Server process for accessing data from client processes A computer system allows client processes to access data through a server process. The server process contains an application and a engine. The engine receives requests in a first language from one of the client processes and issues responses in the first language t... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7542603 | Process for drafting a curve in a computer-aided design system A curve is created in a computer-aided design system, based on a set of points inputted by the user. A polyline is computed and the curvature envelope along said polyline is computed to determine particular points (A0, A1, A2, A... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7499845 | Fastener tightening analysis Analyzing the mechanical state of an assembly modeled by a computer aided design system includes generating a model of a fastener and a part of the assembly. The fastener model includes an engaging region and the part model includes a receiving region to fastenably ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495662 | Part design system using a context-free grammar A declarative system for designing parts or assemblies of parts is based on a history-based design system (40), which has a storage format with primitives and operations; a modeled object is defined in the history based design system by an ordered sequence of... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7469223 | Index selection method A method for forming an index in which a universe of N instruments is initially defined. In a second step, a covariance matrix is assigned to the universe. In a third step, one of the instruments from the universe is removed. In a fourth step, a residual variance of... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7418416 | Gamma trading tool Automated hedging of financial instruments can include the automated generation of orders to hedge a financial exposure associated with a first financial instrument (e.g., to hedge a risk associated with the value of an option). The hedging orders include buy and se... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7400323 | Process for creating a parametric surface having a required geometrical continuity Creating a parametric surface having a required geometrical continuity Gi from a set of parametric elementary surfaces includes providing a set of parametric elementary surfaces, each elementary surface having edges, with vertices joining adjacent edges, each elemen... | 07/15/2008 |