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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184176 | Digital camera blending and clashing color warning system A system, method and program product for detecting and warning of problematic color combinations. A system is disclosed that includes a color warning system having: a scanning system for detecting proximately located objects appearing in an electronic view finder of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8140969 | Displaying synchronously documents to a user A method and a data processing system for displaying a first document and a second document in a synchronized way are disclosed. The first document includes a first set of control tags. The second document includes a second set of control tags. A control tag of the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140679 | Method and system for automated session resource clean-up in a distributed client-server environment Systems and methods for automatically managing session resources in a distributed network of processors are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a system for managing the use of resources in a system where a remote client uses resources at a server for a l... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136721 | Enhanced check code line image capture for improved OCR A method for enhancing a check code line image of a captured document such as a bank check. The method includes capturing an electronic image of a document; locating a code line region within the electronic image of the document; and performing a localized video gai... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8117224 | Accuracy measurement of database search algorithms A system, method and program product for evaluating search algorithms. A method is provided that includes: defining a population of searches and database records from a search history database; applying a sampling method and direct sampling rates to each search/reco... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106776 | Reading short distance emission RFID tags to locate items in a container The present invention is directed to reading short distance emission RFID tags to locate items in a container. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving, by a plurality of first RFID tags, a signal broadcast by an RFID re... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095498 | Data mining model interpretation, optimization, and customization using statistical techniques A system, method, and program product for interpreting, optimizing, and customizing data mining models through the use of statistical techniques that utilize diagnostic measures and statistical significance testing. A data processing system is disclosed that include... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095128 | Device management system for remotely accessing terminal equipments A device management system for remotely setting parameters to Terminal Equipments connected to a network comprises a Terminal Equipment management application (210), servers connected to the network, each supporting a different remote management protocol, and... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8041834 | System and method for enabling a wireless sensor network by mote communication A system and method for implementing a wireless sensor network. The system comprises a plurality of motes, each mote having a sensor and a wireless communication system for communicating with neighboring motes; a distributed routing table distributed amongst each of... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024156 | Using statistics to locate signals in noise Computation of variance or variance of the autocorrelation over a moving window of various sizes of a signal containing noise and possibly a small digital signal provides a sensitive, frequency independent indication of the likelihood of the presence of a small puls... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015128 | Biometric security using neuroplastic fidelity A system, method and program product for providing biometric security using neuroplastic fidelity. A method is disclosed that includes: receiving biometric data; analyzing the biometric data with a probabilistic neural network and outputting a chromosome containing ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005973 | Method and system for playing video on a mobile device The invention provides a system and a method for automatically switching from a local storage to a remote storage for recording a broadcast video stream, the switching being triggered by the fact that the local storage is almost full, and for automatically switching... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004974 | Virtualized computing architecture having multiple realms An architecture and method for implementing a nodal complex (NC) supporting multiple quality of service (QoS) realms is provided. The disclosed architecture includes: a first set of extended enterprise service bus (EESB) rules for supporting nodes operating in a sub... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7953673 | Multiple interest matchmaking in personal business networks The present invention can increase the odds of choosing the right people for a team by considering their “rate of interest/knowledge” in multiple topics. Given a known contacts network, represented by nodes interconnected by links, several different sub-networks... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952775 | Gray scale image cleaning system and method A gray scale image cleaning algorithm for improved check code line OCR. An image processing system for processing a gray scale image is provided that includes: a system for generating a first thresholded black white image from the gray scale image; a system for gene... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7937420 | Method and system for intelligent storage management A storage management system is provided. The storage management system may includes a data collector configured to receive storage management information for storage. The storage manager includes an agent configured to collect storage management information for a st... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930401 | Accessing shared resources with improved request peak management A solution is provided for accessing a shared resource in a data processing system (such as a server of a DAM application) by a plurality of exploiter entities (such as clients). A corresponding method starts with the step of monitoring an activity of each enabled e... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917941 | System and method for providing physical web security using IP addresses A system and method for providing security for an Internet server. The system comprises: a logical security system for processing login and password data received from a client device during a server session in order to authenticate a user; and a physical security s... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917852 | System and method for visually analyzing geographic data A system and method for analyzing, searching and viewing demographic data within different geographic regions. A system is provided that includes: a mapping system for displaying a map having a plurality of geographic regions, wherein each geographic region is selec... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908022 | System and method for reducing toxic waste in manufacturing processes A system and method of optimizing a manufacturing process so as to reduce toxic waste in the process. In an embodiment, the method includes: describing the manufacturing process using a plurality of nodes, each node representing a component or a process; connecting ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7885474 | Solution for detecting a streak in a compressed gray scale image A solution for detecting a streak in a JPEG image is disclosed that includes an extraction system for extracting a DC value from each cell block in the compressed image; an identification system for identifying a peak DC value in each rank of cell blocks within the ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882123 | Method and system for intelligent storage management A storage management system is provided. The storage management system may includes a data collector configured to receive storage management information for storage. The storage manager includes an agent configured to collect storage management information for a st... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876773 | Method, apparatus and program for transferring data A method, apparatus, and program for allowing a first transmitting apparatus among a plurality of transmitting apparatuses connected to a network to transmit data packets to the network. The method includes: receiving a control packet transmitted from a second trans... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869980 | Using statistics to locate signals in noise Computation of variance or variance of the autocorrelation over a moving window of various sizes of a signal containing noise and possibly a small digital signal provides a sensitive, frequency independent indication of the likelihood of the presence of a small puls... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860765 | System and method for assessing risks of a software solution for a customer A risk assessment system and method. A system is provided that includes: a risk avoidance process for implementing a customer solution, wherein the risk avoidance process includes markers where a risk is assessed; a system for assigning a value to a first risk coeff... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7813575 | Enhancing compression while transcoding JPEG images Further compression of data allowing economical storage of data for extended periods of time in high-speed access memory is performed in reduced time by performing further compression during transcoding in the transform domain and without restoring image data to its... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7570835 | Edge smoothing filter for character recognition A system and method for correcting defects in a black white image. An edge smoothing filter is disclosed that comprises: a system for selecting a block of pixels comprising one center pixel and eight exterior pixels; and an algorithm that examines the block of pixel... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7499580 | System for determining image resolution using MICR characters A system for determining the image resolution of a check image using MICR characters. The disclosed system includes an extracting system for extracting a magnetic ink code recognition (MICR) code line from the document image, wherein the extracting system provides c... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7480080 | Defect and maintenance detection for image capture device Defect and maintenance detection for an image capture device (ICD) capable of distinguishing between a defect in the ICD and one on the imaged object. The defect detection system includes, inter alia: a value combiner that combines a brightest image video value for ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7475158 | Method for enabling a wireless sensor network by mote communication A system and method for implementing a wireless sensor network. The system comprises a plurality of motes, each mote having a sensor and a wireless communication system for communicating with neighboring motes; a distributed routing table distributed amongst each of... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7454068 | System and method for providing black white image compression A compression system and method for compressing a bitonal image. A system is disclosed that comprises: a scaling system for geometrically scaling the bitonal image such that transition and isolated attributes are preserved, wherein the scaling system reduces contigu... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7436657 | Keyboard illumination device for portable computer The present invention is directed to a device for illuminating a keyboard or other portion of a PC main body unit of a portable computer (e.g., a convertible PC that can be used as a notebook PC or a tablet PC) by utilizing a center latch mechanism. An embodiment of... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7406183 | System and method of sorting document images based on image quality A document processing system and method for using image quality to sort documents. The document processing system comprises: a document sorting system that designates a destination pocket for each document based on data gathered from each document; a document imagin... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401055 | System and method for setting special wholesale pricing for resellers A system and method for calculating a special wholesale pricing between a wholesaler and a reseller for a transaction between the reseller and an end-user. A wholesale discount pricing system is provided that comprises: a system for inputting a special pricing reque... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392311 | System and method for throttling events in an information technology system A system and method for generating throttling parameters for an information management (IT) system based on historical event log data. The system comprises: an identification system that examines the historical event log data and identifies throttling candidates, wh... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386160 | System and method for determining image resolution using MICR characters A system and method for determining the image resolution of a check image using MICR characters. The disclosed system includes an extracting system for extracting a magnetic ink code recognition (MICR) code line from the document image, wherein the extracting system... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386719 | System and method for eliminating viruses at a web page server A system and method for providing anti-virus protection to a web server. The method comprises the steps of: receiving web pages that are to be stored at the web server; stripping active elements from the web pages being stored at the web server; storing the web page... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370366 | Data management system and method A data management system and method are provided. Specifically, the present invention includes a system for controlling access to data and ensuring that the confidentiality of the data is maintained. In addition, the present invention provides a system for updating ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362908 | Adaptive generation of Q-table2 for improved image quality Brightness correction and image enhancement are derived to compensate for changes in captured image data by hardware scanners and the like by statistically measuring the captured data and generating or selecting a compensation quantization table to be substituted in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7336813 | System and method of determining image skew using connected components A system and method for determining skew of a document image. An image processing system is provided, comprising: an image segmentation system that identifies and segments a line of printed characters; and a skew processing system that determines the skew by calcula... | 02/26/2008 |
