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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| 7890361 | Method for the immediate escalation of at least one rule change in a catalog management system In a rules based management system for controlling multiple levels of related catalogs, a method for immediate escalation of, and response to, a request from a customer to change a rule associated with the customer. The rules associated with the customer are used to... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7868759 | Shopping cart bottom of the basket item detection Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to bottom of the basket (BOB) item detection and provide a method, system and computer program product for high-contrast BOB item detection. In one embodiment of the invention, a shopping cart B... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7694878 | RFID checkout system with tags A radio frequency identification (RFID) checkout system includes a reader, a first RFID tag, and a second RFID tag. The first tag is configured to be attached to an item selected to not be read by the reader, and the second tag is configured to be attached to an ite... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7621446 | Convertible self-checkout system A convertible self-checkout system includes a base and a stand rotatably mounted to the base. The stand includes an input/output device facing in a first direction and a product scanner, and the stand is positionable relative to the base in at least a first angular ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7587765 | Automatic virus fix A client computer is connected via a network to an anti-virus server. A signal from the anti-virus server notifies the client computer that an anti-virus needs to be immediately downloaded from the anti-virus server. The client computer disengages from the network, ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7533274 | Reducing the boot time of a TCPA based computing system when the core root of trust measurement is embedded in the boot block code A method, computer program product and system for reducing the boot time of a TCPA based computing system. A flash memory in the TCPA based computing system may include a register comprising bits configured to indicate whether the segments of the flash memory have b... | 05/12/2009 |
