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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8052628 | Spinal column brace for a contrast therapy system The present invention relates to a therapeutic spinal column brace system, comprising an active thermal exchange layer for providing thermal contrast therapy to a therapy site, an active compression bladder for providing compression to the therapy site, at least one... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7912792 | Systems and methods for making margin-sensitive price adjustments in an integrated price management system Systems and methods for generating margin sensitive pricing quotation in an integrated price adjustment system including: a) selecting products in selected product sets; b) providing pricing data corresponding to the products in selected product sets; c) providing g... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904355 | Systems and methods for a revenue causality analyzer A revenue causality analyzer that provides attribution of causality effects for changes in revenue. The analyzer includes a selector for selecting a reference time period and a comparison time period, a receiver configured to receive transaction data including prici... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7795513 | Stringed musical instruments, and methods of making the same Stringed musical instruments, and methods for manufacturing such instruments, are provided that include a unitary shell that includes a head, a neck and a body, a separate sound board adapted to be attached to the unitary shell, wherein the soundboard extends from t... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7763784 | Stringed musical instruments and methods of making thereof An improved stringed musical instrument includes a unitary shell having a head, a neck and a body. The unitary shell has an asymmetrical waist having a substantially flat side and a substantially concave side. The instrument also includes a soundboard configured to ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7694693 | Mixing valve for a contrast therapy system The present invention relates to fluid mixing valves, and more particularly, to mixing valve assemblies which incorporate a ball element and which are adapted for use in a thermal or contrast therapy system, or medical thermal therapy system. The ball element of the... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7680686 | System and methods for business to business price modeling using price change optimization The present invention relates to business to business market price control and management systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for generating price modeling and optimization modules in a business to business market setting... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7658205 | Systems for a fluid circuit coupler The fluid coupler comprises a male coupler, a female coupler, and a seal between the male coupler and the female coupler when they are coupled, preventing fluid leakage. The female coupler receives the male coupler when in a coupled position. The male coupler includ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7640198 | System and method for generating and displaying indexed price modeling data The present invention provides a system suitable for displaying price modeling data having an indexing module that calculates indexes based on price modeling data and a display module configured display a calculated index. Other embodiments provide a data aggregatio... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7613626 | Integrated price management systems with future-pricing and methods therefor The present invention presents systems and methods of future-pricing in an integrated price management system. The invention provides a method of maintaining at least one deal with a lowest price status for at least one product in the price management system by inpu... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7574202 | System and methods for a secure and segregated computer network The present invention is a method and system for managing a secure local area network wherein the local area network includes a plurality of private networks logically linked to a wireless network having a plurality of wireless access points for isolating data traff... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7540628 | Illuminated panels and methods therefor A system for illuminating panels such as advertising display panels is provided. Such illuminated panels include at least one row of point light sources located substantially within the at least one illuminated frame member, a diffusion layer have a diffusion edge f... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7249032 | Selective merchandise price optimization mechanism A method for optimizing the prices of products for sale. The method includes utilizing a computer-based scenario/results processor within an optimization server to present a sequence of data entry templates to a user, whereby the user specifies an optimization scena... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249031 | Selective merchandise price optimization An interface that enables a user to determine optimum prices of products for sale. The interface includes a scenario/results processor through which the user prescribes an optimization scenario, and through which optimum prices are presented to the user. The optimum... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240019 | Interface for merchandise price optimization An apparatus is provided for an interface enabling a user to determine optimum prices of products for sale. The interface includes a scenario/results processor that enables the user to prescribe an optimization scenario, and that presents the optimum prices to the u... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7130811 | Apparatus for merchandise promotion optimization Apparatus and method for determining an optimum promotion plan for merchandising of products for sale. A scenario/results processor enables a user to prescribe an optimization scenario, and presents the optimum promotion plan to the user, where the optimum promotion... | 10/31/2006 |
| 5761472 | Interleaving block operations employing an instruction set capable of delaying block-store instructions related to outstanding block-load instructions in a computer system A computer system which includes a processor having an instruction set capable of "delaying" block-store instructions related to any outstanding block-load instruction(s). Accordingly, a method for interleaving block data transfers and processing steps wh... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5729158 | Parametric tuning of an integrated circuit after fabrication The present invention provides an apparatus and method for repairing or improving the behavior of a tunable circuit of an integrated circuit (IC) when a target parameter exceeds a predetermined range due to a design and/or fabrication problem. The tunable... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5649093 | Server disk error recovery system The present invention provides a mass storage system suitable for incorporation in a video-on-demand server that is capable of detecting and correct errors without a substantial increase in processor capacity or memory buffer size, and without any increas... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5648893 | Upgradable multi-chip module A substrate, an alignment plate, a heat sink, a back plate, a plurality of spacers, and a plurality of nuts are used to removably package one or more semiconductor package into a single module. The semiconductor dies are packaged with tape automated bondi... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5594846 | Perspective correction of texture in graphics by adaptive approximation A computer graphics system includes a texel value generator capably of generating texel values using a minimal amount of computationally intensive divisions while maintaining a selectable texel accuracy criteria along a scan line. This is accomplished by ... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5592679 | Apparatus and method for distributed control in a processor architecture The present invention provides a multi-level instruction scheduling system for controlling multiple execution pipes of a distributed data flow (DDF) processor. The multi-level scheduling system includes a simple global instruction scheduler and multiple l... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5519851 | Portable PCMCIA interface for a host computer A portable PCMCIA interface for a host computer having a system bus. In one embodiment, the host computer is a SPARC based computer having an SBus and running the UNIX operating system. The PCMCIA interface provides a user application with access to a PCM... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5485106 | ECL to CMOS converter An efficient high-speed ECL to CMOS logic converter for BiCMOS integrated circuits. In one embodiment, a differential amplifier compares an ECL input signal to an ECL reference voltage and generates a pair of complementary intermediate signals on a corres... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5475840 | High performance dynamic linking through caching A method is disclosed for a method to dynamically link a new program image and related library programs into an executable application program image. The method provides for producing a linked list of the required programs by giving the linker an argument... | 12/12/1995 |
