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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6751296 | System and method for creating a transaction usage record A method of creating a transaction usage record is provided. An input signal is received. A transaction usage record is created in response to the input signal. An event jacket is created. The event jacket is associated with the transaction usage record. A request t... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6725256 | System and method for creating an e-mail usage record A method of creating an email usage record is provided. An input signal is received. An email usage record is created in response to the received input signal. An event jacket is created. The event jacket is associated with the email usage record. A command to send ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6711246 | System and method for creating a page usage record A method of creating a page usage record is provided. An input signal is received. A page usage record is created in response to the input signal. An event jacket is created. The event jacket is associated with the page usage record. A request to send a page is rece... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6315204 | Optical code reader and methods and articles therefor A method comprises steps of sensing a first user action, transmitting a first optical message in response to the first user action, and performing at least one optical code reading step in response to non-receipt of a valid response to the first optical m... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6292176 | Method and system for displaying textual information A system for displaying textual information includes a receiver (300) for receiving textual information that includes a plurality of words. A text segmenter (302), operatively associated with the receiver (300), segments the plurality of words into a plur... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6269336 | Voice browser for interactive services and methods thereof The present invention relates to a markup language to provide interactive services. A markup language document in accordance with the present invention includes a dialog element including a plurality of markup language elements. Each of the plurality of m... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6260760 | Optical code reader including circuitry for processing the symbology An optical detector optically senses a bar code. A multi-bit analog-to-digital converter is responsive to the optical detector to generate a plurality of digital sample values based on the bar code. A bar code detector processes the plurality of digital s... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6203981 | Transistor-based molecular detection apparatus and method Adjacent first and second transistors are integrated with a substrate. Each of the first and second transistors has a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a semiconductive channel formed of an organic material, the semiconductive chan... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6180003 | Portable apparatus for storing and disinfecting a fluid using ultraviolet source An apparatus for storing and disinfecting a fluid includes a container (12) and a cap member (16) for containing the fluid and a cap member (16). The container (12) defines an opening (14) through which the fluid is dispensed therein and is removed theref... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6178402 | Method, apparatus and system for generating acoustic parameters in a text-to-speech system using a neural network The present invention provides a method, device and system to generate acoustic parameters in a text-to-speech system utilizing a neural network to generate a representation of a trajectory in an acoustic parameter space across a phonetic segment.... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6151594 | Artificial neuron and method of using same An artificial neuron, which may be implemented either in hardware or software, has only one significant processing element in the form of a multiplier. Inputs are first fed through gating functions to produce gated inputs. These gated inputs are then mult... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6137654 | Device having a diskette-like housing and a wireless transceiver and methods therefor An interface device includes at least one of an infrared receiver (14) and an infrared transmitter (16) to communicate with an external device (39). The infrared receiver (14) and/or the infrared transmitter (16) is supported by a diskette-like housing (1... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6138151 | Network navigation method for printed articles by using embedded codes for article-associated links A network navigation method includes steps of reading a first code (24) from an object (12), communicating a portion of the first code (24) to a first database (54), receiving translation information from the first database (54) to associate a plurality o... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131813 | Optical code reader and methods and articles therefor A method comprises steps of sensing a first user action, transmitting a first optical message in response to the first user action, and performing at least one optical code reading step in response to non-receipt of a valid response to the first optical m... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6126075 | Optical code reader including circuitry for processing the read symbology An amplifier has an input responsive to an optical detector. An analog-to-digital converter is responsive to an output of the amplifier. A processor activates an optical emitter, and reads a first sample from the analog-to-digital converter. Upon determin... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6117630 | Molecular detection apparatus and method An apparatus comprises a disk-shaped support member (20) supporting a first sample-processing device (28) and a second sample-processing device (30). The first sample-processing device (28) has an elongate portion oriented along a first radial axis (32) o... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6112992 | Optical code reader and methods and articles therefor An apparatus for providing an optical code reading mode and a data communication mode comprises an optical detector, a variable-gain amplifier having an input and an output, an optical code reader circuit and a data communication circuit. The input of the... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6110748 | Optical storage medium for binding assays In accordance with a first aspect, a binding assay comprises a machine-readable storage medium which supports a molecular receptor (22). In accordance with a second aspect, a support member (50) supports first (22) and second (24) molecular receptors and ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6111568 | Personal computer system, compact disk, and method for interactively viewing the earth A method of interactively viewing the Earth including the steps of: selecting satellite viewpoint of a region of the Earth; reading prestored image of the region of the Earth from the satellite viewpoint; displaying the prestored image; selecting prestore... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6103467 | Method and system for synthesizing oligonucleotides using nucleotide-specific dispensing bars A plurality of oligonucleotides are synthesized at a plurality of locations on a substrate using a plurality of dispensing bars. Each of the plurality of dispensing bars has a respective plurality of dispensing heads arranged along a respective axis. Each... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6085209 | Method and system for performing an IIR filtering operation A method and system for an IIR filter are provided. A sequence of input signals is converted to a first sequence of log signals, while a sequence of feedback signals is converted to a second sequence of log signals. IIR filtering coefficients are then add... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6078938 | Method and system for solving linear systems A system and method of using a computer processor (34) to generate a solution to a linear system of equations is provided. The computer processor (34) executes a Jacobi iterative technique to produce outputs representing the solution. Multiplication opera... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6065031 | Log converter utilizing offset and method of use thereof A digital log converter is provided which includes a comparator (10) and a log signal generator (20). Upon receiving a digital input signal (12), the comparator (10) determines whether an upper bit-slice of the input signal (12) equals zero. If the upper ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6060023 | Molecular sensing apparatus A molecular sensing apparatus comprises a first electrode (10), a second electrode (12), a first molecule (20), a second molecule (22), and a third molecule (34). The first molecule (20) has a first chain of nucleic bases (30) and a first group (24). The ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6057167 | Magnetoresistance-based method and apparatus for molecular detection A binding of a molecule with a molecular receptor at a binding site is sensed using a magnetoresistive member proximate to the binding site. A magnetic field associated with the molecule acts to modify an electrical characteristic of the magnetoresistive ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6055556 | Apparatus and method for matrix multiplication A system (400) alternatively performs real matrix operation in a first mode or performs complex matrix multiplication in a second mode. One input matrix (e.g., {B}) stays in a plurality of memory fields (430-k), while the other input matrix (e.g., {A}) is... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6048692 | Sensors for electrically sensing binding events for supported molecular receptors A first sensor (18) for electrically sensing a molecular binding event includes a receptor-supporting element (20) into which a reagent is diffusable, at least one molecular receptor (22) supported by the receptor-supporting element (20), and a first elec... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6048691 | Method and system for performing a binding assay A method of performing a binding assay which comprises the steps of separating a plurality of sample fragments into a plurality of subsamples and applying each of the plurality of subsamples to a respective one of a plurality of binding assays. A system w... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6042720 | Apparatus for storing and disinfecting a fluid An apparatus for storing and disinfecting a fluid includes a container (12) for containing the fluid and a cap member (16). The container (12) defines an opening (14) through which the fluid is dispensed therein and is removed therefrom. The cap member (1... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6032195 | Method, system, and article for navigating an electronic network and performing a task using a destination-specific software agent A method comprises steps of reading (80) an optical code (14) associated with a destination (20) of an electronic network (10), retrieving (92) task information associated with the destination (20) based upon the optical code (14), linking (94) to the des... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6032168 | Computer system to perform a filter operation using a logarithm and inverse-logarithm converter and methods thereof In a parallel computer system having N parallel computing units a data pipeline connects all the computing units. In addition the computing units are coupled to a random access memory so that each computing unit is assigned to one column of the memory arr... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6023719 | Signal processor and method for fast Fourier transformation With reference to FIG. 1 signal processor (10) for performing transformations of sets of input data points comprises a memory for storing a first half input data points and a second half input data points, an adder unit for pairwise adding one real part o... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6003058 | Apparatus and methods for performing arithimetic operations on vectors and/or matrices A multiply-multiply-accumulate (MMA) system (10) efficiently evaluates matrix products X=F*C. Matrix C is dissected into submatrices A and B taking advantage of symmetry in C. LOG unit (14) converts B, A, and F to LOG values B', A' and F'. These are summe... | 12/14/1999 |
| 6000835 | Method and system for performing an L11 norm operation A method and system for an L1 norm operation are provided. A sequence of input signals is distributed through a data pipeline to a programmable accumulator. The accumulator sums the input signals to generate an output signal. The L1 ... | 12/14/1999 |
| 6002946 | Handheld device having an optical data reader A handheld device comprises a housing and an optical reader supported by the housing. The housing can include a corner portion at which the optical reader is accessible. Alternatively, the housing can define a major exterior surface at which the optical r... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5995105 | Methods and systems for providing a resource in an electronic network A method of providing a resource in an electronic network (20) which includes receiving a signal associated with machine-readable data (16) read from a network navigation device (10). The network navigation device (10) has a human-viewable image (14). The... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5986651 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for producing a network navigation device A method of producing a network navigation device which includes writing machine-readable data (16) to a substrate (12), and writing a human-viewable image (14) to the substrate (12). The machine-readable data (16) provides an instruction for linking to a... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5969324 | Accounting methods and systems using transaction information associated with a nonpredictable bar code An accounting system includes a point of sale terminal (20) to print a transaction receipt (26) having a nonpredictable bar code (36) and human-readable transaction information (34) based upon the transaction data. The point of sale terminal (20) communic... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5969606 | Food storage apparatus and methods and systems for monitoring a food item A food storage apparatus (22) comprises a container (26) to contain a food item (20), a humidity sensor (34) to sense a humidity within the container (26), and a transmitter (66) responsive to the humidity sensor (34) to transmit a signal based upon the h... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5968112 | Signal processor and method for Fourier Transformation Parallel signal processor (10) (FIG. 2) performs a Fourier Transformation of an input signal; The transformation coefficients are converted once to logarithmic form and stored in a cache memory. The input data is converted serially to logarithmic form, an... | 10/19/1999 |
