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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181231 | Method and system for transmitting authentication context information A system of the present invention uses an identity provider to provide the authentication services for multiple service providers. An identity provider communicates with one or more service providers. A user that wishes to gain access to a service provider is authen... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180703 | Consumer behaviors at lender level The present disclosure generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to lender credit scoring, lender profiling, lender behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to rating lenders based on data derived from their re... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180611 | System and method for determining resource allocation among simulation models A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180548 | Deceleration controlled braking A system, apparatus and method of controlling a brake system of a vehicle having a brake input device, such as a brake pedal, a plurality of rotating wheels and a plurality of brakes, each brake of the plurality of brakes corresponding to one wheel of the plurality ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178037 | System for releasing gas into molten metal A device for releasing gas into molten metal includes a base having a discharge. The discharge has a first section including a first cross-sectional area and a second section including a second cross-sectional area, wherein the first section is upstream of the secon... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177308 | Controller for electromechanical braking system with running clearance adjustment and method A system and method for establishing a running clearance position for an electromechanical actuator (28), wherein the running clearance is based on an actuator ram (34) position attained during a force application to a brake stack (30). In parti... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177130 | Spend diagnostics and lead management A method and system are used to optimize utilization of a transaction card by a card member. The system and method including generating a first data set based on data stored in a database representing industries of the card members. Generating a second data set repr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176062 | Service provider framework Providing a dynamic data translation service in a framework that encapsulates other valuable service functions is disclosed. An information technology infrastructure operates in different environments, uses different formats and accesses complex and frequently chang... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175945 | Using commercial share of wallet to compile marketing company lists Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175857 | System and method for analysis and maintenance of simulation models A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173740 | Styrene tetrablock copolymers and polymer blend compositions based upon such copolymers A composition of matter that may be used to make transparent, substantially gel-free polymeric films includes at least a styrenic block copolymer and a thermoplastic resin other than the styrenic block copolymer. The styrenic block copolymer (e.g. S-I-B-S) has four ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173554 | Method of depositing dielectric film having Si-N bonds by modified peald method A method of forming dielectric film having Si—N bonds on a semiconductor substrate by plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD), includes: introducing a nitrogen- and hydrogen-containing reactive gas and a rare gas into a reaction space inside which the semi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172135 | Systems and methods for gesture-based interaction with computer systems The present disclosure facilitates gesture-based interaction with a computer-system. The method may comprise pairing a transaction account with a likeness, receiving the likeness and a transaction request based upon the location of a marker in three dimensional spac... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170998 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for estimating accuracy of linking of customer relationships The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a business to estimate linking errors in customer relationships in a database and to identify metrics that improve the linking accuracy. In an embodiment, a plurality of sample customer relationship... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170938 | Using commercial share of wallet to rate business prospects Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170848 | System and method for providing simulation model penetration presentation A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170847 | System and method for evaluating simulation model penetration A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170644 | Method for fast multi-slice mapping of myelin water fraction Mapping of myelin water content in white matter may provide important information for early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and the detection of white matter abnormality in other diseases. It is disclosed here that free induction decay (FID) of each voxel at multipl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169264 | Distributed Doherty amplifiers Doherty and distributed amplifier (DA) designs are combined to achieve, wideband amplifiers with high efficiency dynamic range. A modified Doherty amplifier includes a wideband phase shifter providing first and second outputs, a main amplifier coupled to the first o... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166336 | Method and system for campaign management Campaign-production management is performed for a plurality of campaigns on at least a primary server or a secondary server. The plurality of campaigns is processed on the primary server. The contents of the plurality of campaigns are synchronized between the primar... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166332 | Treatment system for enhancing safety of computer peripheral for use with medical devices by isolating host AC power A method and system for enhancing computer peripheral safety is provided. In accordance with various aspects of the present invention, the exemplary method and system are configured to monitor and/or isolate alternating current (A.C.) supplies with and/or from any p... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165946 | Customized financial transaction pricing Enabling innovative merchant transaction pricing capability, while improving pricing process efficiency, is disclosed. When a merchant submits financial transaction account records to a payment processor for payment, the payment processor utilizes granular transacti... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165858 | System and method for providing a model usage report for simulation models A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165857 | System and method for evaluating human resource allocation for simulation models A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165540 | Systems, methods and devices for dual closed loop modulation controller for nonlinear RF amplifier In accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention, systems, methods and devices are configured to facilitate RF envelope amplitude control. For example, a RF envelope amplitude control system comprises: a RF amplifier, wherein the RF amplifie... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164326 | Non-contact sensor system and method for velocity determination A non-contact sensor system is provided that comprises a first sensor element disposed within a first member having an axis Y, and a second member configured to rotate about the axis Y at a value X. The second member is configured to interface with the first member.... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161809 | Brake wear measurement apparatus and method A brake wear measurement apparatus for use on a brake assembly equipped with a wear pin having a plunger slidably mounted in the plunger sleeve having a first end and second end and wherein when the brake wear measurement apparatus is placed over the wear pin, the w... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160850 | System and method for evaluating simulation model performance A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160849 | System, method and computer readable medium for visualizing metadata dependencies of simulation models A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160507 | Transceiver single cable protocol system and method A single-cable protocol and associated methods and systems enable improved communication efficiency and/or reduced cost. Transmit information, receive information, telemetry information, and/or DC power may be multiplexed onto a single cable, eliminating the need fo... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160368 | Image feature extraction method and image compression method The image feature extraction method of the present invention includes: the step of performing k2 dividing process at least once on a given image so as to convert the given image into a multi-divided image, where the k2 dividing process comprise... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157181 | Wireless transaction fobs and methods of using the same The invention relates to transaction tokens (“fobs”) having wireless functionality and methods of using the same. More specifically, fobs having radio frequency functionality such that information, such as payment information, identification information, or othe... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157062 | Wheel and brake assembly A wheel and brake assembly (10) having a torque bar (24) supported at a mid-span location. The torque bar (24) can be pre-loaded at a mid-span location. The pre-load can be effected by a spacer block (150) that is interposed between the w... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156549 | Device independent authentication system and method A system is disclosed which facilitates authentication processes with web-enabled wireless devices, including those that do not support the use of cookie files. To facilitate such authentication, a web server analyzes an HTTP request file from a communication device... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156127 | Method and system for data arbitration A method, system, and machine-readable medium for transforming raw data into business intelligent data that provides a reliable, consistent value and other associated data for the data element is provided. The method includes determining a most frequently occurring ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156028 | Technology portfolio health assessment system and method A system and method for producing infrastructure health assessments enabling enterprises to monitor the health of individual technology portfolios and plan accordingly is disclosed. The tool uses two primary assessments to determine: 1) an infrastructure score based... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155937 | System and method for summarizing analysis of models in a modeling environment A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155936 | System and method for managing simulation models A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152875 | Method and apparatus for producing methane from carbonaceous material A method for producing methane (69) from a carbonaceous (22) material includes conveying pulverized carbonaceous material (28) entrained in an inert carrier fluid, such as carbon dioxide (36), into a reactor (34). The reactor (3... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151944 | Algorithm to determine wheel and brake cooling A system and device for estimating an amount of time needed for a vehicle brake assembly to cool to a predetermined temperature includes a first input for receiving data indicative of a temperature of the brake assembly, a second input for receiving data indicative ... | 04/10/2012 |
