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| 7752117 | System and method for money management in electronic trading environment A system and method for money management in an electronic trading environment are presented. According to one embodiment, a trader may configure a plurality of filters, each including at least one filter criteria and filter condition. When a money management module ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752115 | Method and apparatus for a fair exchange A fair exchange is disclosed to reduce potential inequities in an electronic trading environment. Market data is sent from a host system to client devices through one or more synchronized local communication servers such that the data can be displayed simultaneously... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751871 | Method and device for carrying out optical pick up Disclosed is an optical imaging method and device enabling display and 3D measurement of tridimensional objects (1), whereby at least two individual images are captured one after the other and the image conversion is controlled or regulated differently for th... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751645 | Precision optical systems with performance characterization and uses thereof A camera for aerial photography includes a reference projector that projects collimated beams of light into the optical system entrance aperture which are imaged by an image recording device. The beams produce fiducial images present in every image captured by the i... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751270 | Memory device with reduced standby power consumption and method for operating same Disclosed herein are memory devices comprising a plurality of memory cells to which a standby voltage is to be supplied during standby mode to avoid loss of data, and methods of operating said memory devices, the methods comprising: (a) determining an actual value o... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747782 | System and method for providing and displaying information content A system and method is provided for enabling an electronic device to efficiently access information content. A server browser accesses the information content over a network. The accessed information content is retrieved and adapted for presentation for the electron... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747510 | System and method for smart hedging in an electronic trading environment A system and associated methods are provided for smart hedging in an electronic trading environment. According to one example method, a first order for a first tradeable object and a second order for a second tradeable object are placed based on a spread strategy. U... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747493 | System and method for changing order priority levels in an electronic trading environment A system and method for fee-based order priority level modification in an electronic trading environment are described. When an order reaches an exchange, a priority level of the order may be changed to a higher priority level, and the priority level of the order in... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746824 | Method and apparatus for establishing multiple bandwidth-limited connections for a communication device A system and method is described for communicating with a communication device. An uplink connection uniquely associated with the communication device and uniquely associated with an uplink-session identifier is established. The uplink connection is a wireless conne... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7745411 | Methods for promoting erythropoiesis The present invention provides methods, compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits for the augmentation of erythropoiesis by potentiating erythropoietin-induced differentiation with angiotensinogen, angiotensin I (AI), AI analogues, AI fragments and analogues ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744927 | Methods of promoting hematopoietic and mesenchymal cell proliferation and differentiation The present invention provides methods, improved cell culture medium and kits for promoting hematopoietic and mesenchymal stem and lineage-specific cell proliferation and differentiation by growth in the presence of angiotensinogen, angiotensin I (AI), AI analogues,... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744872 | Peptides for detection of antibody to The invention provides compositions and methods for the detection and quantification of Ehrlichia ewingii, Ehrlichia ewingii antibodies, antibody fragments, and polypeptides. ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742977 | System and method for dynamic quantity orders in an electronic trading environment A system and method for dynamic quantity orders in an electronic trading environment are described. According to one method, a dynamic quantity order includes a price, a desired order quantity and a percentage associated with an estimated order quantity that will be... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742976 | System and method for smart hedging in an electronic trading environment A system and associated methods are provided for smart hedging in an electronic trading environment. According to one example method, a first order for a first tradeable object and a second order for a second tradeable object are placed based on a spread strategy. U... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742974 | Flexible system and method for electronic trading System, method, and program products offer flexibility to the rather rigid way of trading in an electronic trading system. Orders for a tradeable object may typically get matched according to set terms and/or conditions at an electronic exchange. A trader may log on... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742962 | System and method for coalescing market data at a client device A client device coalesces data received from an exchange, and provides a client application such as a graphical user interface with the opportunity to process fewer, but up-to-date, data updates from an exchange when a large volume of prices becomes available. Accor... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742662 | Photonic crystal sensors with intergrated fluid containment structure Photonic crystal (PC) sensors, and sensor arrays and sensing systems incorporating PC sensors are described which have integrated fluid containment and/or fluid handling structures. Sensors and sensing systems of the present disclosure are capable of high throughput... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742443 | Transmit power management in shared-communications channel networks A method of ameliorating the hidden node problem in wireless local area networks employing power control is disclosed. The illustrative embodiments function in a variety of ways that have a common theme: while the Data Frames are transmitted at lesser potency, at le... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742388 | Packet generation systems and methods Disclosed herein are various embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for increasing packet generation in a digital communication system. In one exemplary method embodiment, subcarriers are added to a packet in a wireless local area network transmission to inc... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7741059 | Methods and compositions for detection of (p120) The invention provides methods and compositions for the detection of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7740476 | Method and workstation for generating virtual tooth models from three-dimensional tooth data A method is described for taking a three-dimensional virtual model of the dentition and associated anatomical structures of a patient and isolating individual teeth from the rest of the anatomical structure, e.g. gums, to thereby produce individual, virtual three-di... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739452 | Method and apparatus for hardware enforced virtual sequentiality A mechanism receives memory reads and writes from a packet processing engine, each memory access having an associated packet identifier or sequence number. The mechanism is placed between a processing engine and a memory system such that write data is buffered and i... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739184 | System and method for providing market data in an electronic trading environment A system and methods are developed for providing market data in an electronic trading environment. One example method includes determining a probability model comprising a probability corresponding to a change in relation to a market data parameter, then, using the ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739164 | System and method for displaying risk data in an electronic trading environment An example graphical interface and method for displaying risk related data are described. One example graphical interface includes a data structure comprising a plurality of data nodes and at least one risk data point associated with each node, and further comprises... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738354 | Crosstalk identification for spectrum management in broadband telecommunications systems Crosstalk between subscriber loops used to transmit different broadband services through the same bundled telephone cable is a significant limitation to providing digital subscriber line services. A method for estimating the crosstalk, identifying the sources of the... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7737892 | Time delay beamformer and method of time delay beamforming A time delay beamformer comprises input channels, which have associated samplers arranged to sample inputs signal carried upon the input channels. The samplers sample the input channels at a number of points in time to produce a number of sampled signals. An adaptiv... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7737392 | Photonic crystal sensors with integrated fluid containment structure, sample handling devices incorporating same, and uses thereof for biomolecular interaction analysis Photonic crystal (PC) sensors, and sensor arrays and sensing systems incorporating PC sensors are described which have integrated fluid containment and/or fluid handling structures. The PC sensors are further integrated into a sample handling device such as a microw... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7736905 | Method and system for determining whether a drug will be effective on a patient with a disease A process of determining whether a patient with a disease or disorder will be responsive to a drug, used to treat the disease or disorder, including obtaining a test spectrum produced by a mass spectrometer from a serum produced from the patient. The test spectrum m... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7736660 | Roundworm coproantigen detection A composition, device, kit and method for detecting the presence or absence of roundworm in a fecal sample. The composition, device, kit and method of the present invention may be used to confirm the presence or absence of roundworm in a fecal sample from a mammal t... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7736635 | Branched molecular scaffolds for linking polymer residues to biologically active moieties Branched molecular scaffolds are provided which are capable of linking two polymer residues (derived, for example, from polyethylene glycol) to two, three or four residues derived from biologically active molecules (e.g. from whole antibodies or from functionally ac... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7735244 | Portable travel footwear The portable travel footwear and method of the present invention overcomes the limitations of footwear of the prior art by providing improved portable travel footwear, that is durable, flexible, elastic, and lightweight. The portable travel footwear protects bare or... | 06/15/2010 |
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| 7735104 | System and method for navigation of indexed video content Systems and methods for providing enhanced navigation of stored digital video content based upon a content-based index. Includes generation and storage of an index, as well as navigation based on the segments defined by the index. An example system is embodied in a ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734850 | Method for stream based compressed file download with interruption recovery and further decompressing and de-archiving data in filesystem A system and method are provided for storing and using recovery state information during a data stream transfer, such as a download. During the download of compressed, archived data, the system tracks the position of the last file boundary and the position of the la... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734789 | Method and device for tunnel switching A method and device for providing switched tunnel connections from a user to a destination or a multiple number of destinations. Tunnels are switched from a user to a destination by receiving an incoming tunnel connection from the user and initiating a switched tunn... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734535 | Method and system for quantity entry A trading screen may include a plurality of next trade quantity regions that comprise a plurality of locations, each location being associated a price on a price axis. The quantities can be entered into the various locations in the next trade quantity regions and th... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734532 | System and method for electronic spread trading in real and synthetically generated markets A system and method are provided to analyze synthetic and real markets that offer interchangeable tradeable objects to find market opportunities that a trader may capitalize on. A synthetic market is an electronic market created out of real markets by a computer ter... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734528 | System and method for event-based trading A system and method for news-based trading are developed. According to one method, a trader can pre-define a trading strategy including a number of trading rules to be applied based on a comparison of one or more estimated event values to the respective actual event... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734070 | Method and system for immersing face images into a video sequence The present invention is a system and method for immersing facial images of people captured automatically from an image or a sequence of images into a live video playback sequence. This method allows viewers to perceive a participation in the viewed “movie” segm... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7732609 | 5-(arylsulfonyl)-pyrazolopiperidines The invention provides N-cyclic sulfonamido compounds of Formula I wherein A, B, R1, R1a, R2, R2a, R3 and R3a are as described in the specification. Compound... | 06/08/2010 |
