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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175964 | Systems and methods for financing renewable energy systems A method for financing renewable energy systems includes offering a home loan to a homeowner in which the interest payable by the homeowner are tax deductible. A lease is also offered to the homeowner for the installation and use of a renewable energy system. A depo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166459 | Apparatus and method of generating self-debugging computer software In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of self debugging a computer program operating in a distributed processing environment. The method includes detecting a fault in a plurality of processing devices and classifying the faul... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165987 | System and method of machine-aided information extraction rule development An automatic rule generation system generates rules for fact extraction. A rule generation module receives a sample and generates a rule from the sample. A rule relaxation module generates a relaxed rule from the rule. A rule testing module generates a reverse index... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161460 | System and method of automatic interoperability checking for BPEL In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of determining whether computer processes can interact without deadlocks. The computer processes may be modeled in a process modeling language. The method includes (optionally) generating state diagrams from ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160920 | System and method of measuring process compliance In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of measuring process compliance. The method includes storing an adopted reference model of a business process and storing process instances of the business process. The method further inc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150814 | System and method of data cleansing using rule based formatting In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method for data cleansing using rule based formatting. The method includes tokenizing and parsing a first input data and a second input data. The method further includes including a first token ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145626 | Method and system for data processing using multidimensional filtering In one embodiment the present invention includes a method comprising receiving a data filter for filtering a collection of data, wherein the collection of data is configured as a star schema including a fact table and dimension tables. The data filter is applied aga... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134449 | Method and system for biometric keyboard A method for training a computing system using keyboard biometric information. The method includes depressing two or more keys on a keyboard input device for a first sequence of keys. The method then determines a key press time for each of the two or more keys to pr... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132147 | Semantic interpretation of software models for generating user interfaces In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of generating a user interface comprising storing an interpretation model that describes program logic corresponding to a user interface for a computer program. Elements of the interpretation model may be bou... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131636 | System and method for performing financial transactions on a network Embodiments of the present invention include a computer-implemented method of performing a financial transaction on a network comprising storing a plurality of risk factors and associated severities in a web-enabled remote policy database, the severities defining ac... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128369 | Blower impeller with partial tip blockage According to embodiments of the invention, an impeller includes a hub, and a plurality of radial blades for drawing the air inflow axially through the hub and delivering the drawn air radially towards the outside. A ring is attached to one or more tips of the plural... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126931 | Method and apparatus for displaying the composition of a data structure during runtime In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method for dynamically displaying, during runtime, the composition of a data structure in a tabular format. During execution of an application, a command indicating the name of a data structure ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111846 | Low distortion switching amplifier circuits and methods Embodiments of the present invention include switching amplifier circuits and methods. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a low distortion method of driving a switching amplifier comprising modulating an audio input signal to produce a half-wave recti... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8037450 | System and methods for tracing code generation in template engines Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for improved tracing code generation in template engines. Certain embodiments of the present invention may have a number of advantages as compared to many existing tracing engines. The creation of an e... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037408 | Systems and methods of validating templates Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods of validating templates. One embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method validating a template comprising receiving a target language schema, receiving a placeholder schema,... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018186 | Method and apparatus of fan motor brake An electronic system for controlling a fan motor includes a microcontroller and a drive circuit. The microcontroller draws power from a first voltage source and generates control signals for sending drive current to stator coils of a fan motor via the drive circuit.... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8008128 | Thin quad flat package with no leads (QFN) fabrication methods Embodiments of the present invention include a method of packaging semiconductor devices. The method comprises the steps of molding a surface of a wafer, sawing the wafer into individual devices, attaching the individual semiconductor device to an adhesive surface, ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005832 | Search document generation and use to provide recommendations Particular embodiments provide a search service using a search document. Complex, multi-site, multi-query searches may be performed using the search document. To use a search document, a user may activate the service. The search document may then capture data for an... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996525 | Systems and methods for dynamically provisioning cloud computing resources In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising specifying configuration information for creating one or more software servers as images on a cloud computing system, specifying a processing load threshold, and continuously m... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996435 | Apparatus and method for comparing computer documents using tree structures Embodiments of the present invention include a computer-implemented method of comparing computer documents such as programs and XML. A hierarchical level may be specified. For each hierarchical level between a root and the specified hierarchical level, first and sec... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990106 | Battery charging systems and methods with adjustable current limit Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for charging a battery using a regulator. In one embodiment, the present invention includes an electronic circuit comprising a regulator having an input coupled to a power source for receiving a voltage and a c... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7989740 | Heating cable A heating cable includes a bus wire structure that includes a plurality of bus wires. An insulation layer is provided to insulate the plurality of bus wires. A plurality of node areas exposes portions of the bus wires from the insulation. A heating element is wrappe... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987258 | Network measurement configuration apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a network measurement configuration apparatus which selects an IP meter for measurement traffic of a network, and sets a measurement rule in the IP meter. In order to achieve the above object, there is provided... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979296 | Universal worklist service and user interface Work items are collected from one or more work item providers for presentation to a workflow participant. A work item provider is typically a workflow management system (“WFMS”), but other providers of work items might exist that generate work items and may or m... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7948729 | Method and circuit for over-current protection In one embodiment the present invention includes an over-current protection method. The method comprises generating a switching signal, starting and stopping a timer, sensing a current through a switch, comparing a response time to a reference time, and generating a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945566 | System and method of information filtering In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of information filtering. The method includes storing a user goal. The method further includes generating search results corresponding to the user goal. The method further includes contin... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7915871 | Systems and methods for DC to DC conversion with current mode control In one embodiment the present invention includes a DC to DC converter device which includes an electronic circuit. The electronic circuit comprises a first comparator, a second comparator, a first switch, a first latch, and a current sensor. The inductor current inc... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904382 | Methods for financing renewable energy systems A business method for financing renewable energy systems includes offering a home loan to a homeowner in which the interest payable by the homeowner are tax deductable. A lease is also offered to the homeowner for the installation and use of a renewable energy syste... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7885847 | End user oriented workflow approach including structured processing of ad hoc workflows with a collaborative process engine In a structured workflow system, a configurable workflow engine provides mechanisms for executing and scheduling the work items in a defined way. End users use their discretion and define their own “local” processes and “local” rules for processing work item... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7871328 | Random pay using non-gaming revenue A wager amount from a player is received. A programmer input of information based on a specified average value, a specified minimum value, and a specified maximum value is determined. The specified average value is independently specified between the specified minim... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865939 | Method and transaction interface for secure data exchange between distinguishable networks In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for secure data exchange between an external network and an internal network (1 and 2) via a transaction interface (3), in which an external user can undertake predetermined data transac... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865887 | Context based event handling and execution with prioritization and interrupt management Embodiments of the present invention provide improved event handling between systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes software event handling method comprising receiving a first event from a first source system in a plurality of source systems, the... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7863865 | Systems and methods for pulse charging a battery Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for charging a battery. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising determining if a maximum current output of a power source is above a threshold, configuring a regulator coupled to t... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7840944 | Analytical regression testing on a software build Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for testing software involve generating a software build of source files and initiating tests on the software build. Each test is performed using a portion of the software build that corresponds to one or m... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840936 | Support of a platform-independent model including descriptions of modeling language entities Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for supporting a model including descriptions of modeling language entities in a visual modeling environment. A method includes providing a visual modeling tool and modeling language entities being entities... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840683 | Systems and methods of migrating sessions between computer systems Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods of migrating sessions between computer systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a session migration method comprising managing, by a session manager, a session between a client and a ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840455 | System and method of detecting fraudulent or erroneous invoices In one embodiment, the present invention includes methods for detecting fraudulent or erroneous invoices that use an associative memory and models of valid invoices. Incoming invoices may be applied against the models of valid invoices, and the models may access the... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7834591 | Switching battery charging systems and methods Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for charging a battery using a switching regulator. Some embodiments include programmable switching battery chargers that can be configured using digital techniques. Other embodiments include switching battery ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834561 | Systems and methods for powering a light emitting diode lamp In one embodiment, the present invention includes an electronic circuit for providing a power current to an LED lamp. The electronic circuit comprises a logic drive circuit, a VCO, a power switch, and a first current sensor. The VCO is coupled to provide a first log... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834433 | Semiconductor power device In one embodiment the present invention includes a semiconductor power device. The semiconductor power device includes a single gauge lead frame, a semiconductor die, and a heat sink. The semiconductor die is attached to a first level of the lead frame. The heat sin... | 11/16/2010 |
