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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8145690 | Dynamic legal database providing historical and current versions of bodies of law Information collections defining a common subject such as a codified or uncodified body of law are stored on a computer readable medium in association with temporal information indicating the state or status with respect to time of parts of the information collectio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7744139 | Method for seizing rows of bag packings (pouches) A method for picking up and handling filled, closed rectangular bags, film packs and pouches, which have a bottom side, and two longitudinal sides, and are provided on the bottom side with a bottom fold. The pouches, standing on one of the longitudinal sides, are ar... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7689495 | System and method for processing trades using volume-weighted-average pricing techniques A computerized system and method electronically conduct trades in securities, display information corresponding to orders, match the orders, and price the matched orders on the basis of volume-weighted-average price (VWAP). Orders are matched of buyers and sellers w... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676455 | Identifying and/or extracting data in connection with creating or updating a record in a database The invention provides systems, methods, and computer programs to improve the accuracy and efficiency with which data analysts can use news stories, press releases, and other sources of information to maintain databases that contain information about individuals and... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7567913 | Method and system for ordering a laboratory test for a patient and obtaining results thereof A method is provided for receiving an order for a laboratory test of a biological specimen for a patient utilizing a computer network including a client computer and a central computer. The method includes facilitating a connection between the client computer and th... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7478429 | Network overload detection and mitigation system and method A system and method is disclosed for detecting and/or mitigating an overload condition from one or more first computers, such as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, viral attack, or the like, targeting one or more of a plurality of second computers locate... | 01/13/2009 |
