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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431217 | Reference equipment for testing contactless payment devices Reference equipment including a reference card and a reference reader is provided for testing electronic payment devices such as cards and card readers. The reference equipment is designed to simulate the external behavior of a variety of payment devices that are cu... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424977 | Method and system for conducting contactless payment card transactions A system and method for enhancing functional interoperability of contactless payment devices that are used for conducting electronic payment transactions between consumers and merchants. The contactless payment devices include RFID-embedded cards issued to consumers... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7395252 | Innervated stochastic controller for real time business decision-making support An Innervated Stochastic Controller optimizes business decision-making under uncertainty through time. The Innervated Stochastic Controller uses a unified reinforcement learning algorithm to treat multiple interconnected operational levels of a business process in a... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379919 | Method and system for conducting secure payments over a computer network A method is provided for conducting a financial transaction by a purchaser with a merchant having an acquirer bank, over a communications network. The method includes the steps of sending a first authorization request using a pseudo account number associated with a ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7355197 | Light-emitting component and process for its preparation A light-emitting component comprising organic layers and having several layers between a base contact and a cover contact, the corresponding process for its preparation. At least one polymer layer and two molecular layers are arranged, so that when the cover contact... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346521 | System and methods for generating physician profiles concerning prescription therapy practices A system and methods for generating a profile concerning the prescription therapy practices of physicians in a therapeutic area of interest. A plurality of historical de-identified patient prescription records are analyzed, and the records are categorized based on c... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336362 | Arsenic meter A field test-kit for analyzing arsenic concentration in water samples is provided. The kit includes a portable infrared beam photometer for measuring light absorbance in aqueous specimens. An infrared light emitting diode is configured to direct a beam of light thro... | 02/26/2008 |
| D562172 | Wrist band holding a proximity payment device | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330455 | Method and communication device for expanding the range of data transmission rates in wireless local area networks A communication device and a method for transmitting data in wireless local area networks is provided. The device and method are deployed in networks in which the data information elements include an element identification part, a length statement part and an inform... | 02/12/2008 |
| D560538 | Combined Fob with RFID payment device | 01/29/2008 |
| D560066 | Key cover with RFID payment device | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315375 | Reagents for arsenic meter A formulation for preparing water samples for determining arsenic concentration by colorimetry is provided. The chemical reagents in the formulation may be provided as premeasured and premixed tablets or pills. The chemical reagents include sulfamic acid, an oxidize... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314170 | System and method for product imputation relating to sample stores Prescriptions are imputed or allocated to a non-reporting sample outlet in a universe of outlets that generally report prescription data to a database. Prescriptions are imputed or allocated based on the outlet's recent prescription or physician distribution. Prescr... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7299974 | System and method for generating collision-free identifiers for financial transaction cards A one-way permutation over financial transaction card data provides a merchant with a unique card identifier for each financial transaction card that is used by a customer to purchase goods from a merchant. This card identifier, which is not the actual financial tra... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287695 | Method and system for conducting transactions using a payment card with two technologies A system for conducting financial transactions is provided wherein payment cards have stored account information including a first portion readable by a first machine-readable technology and a second portion readable by a second different machine-readable technology... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274141 | Inverted organic light emitting diode with doped layers A light emitting component with organic layers, e.g., an organic light-emitting diode, which includes a substrate, at least one light emitting layer, and at least one charge carrier transport layer, having a cathode on the substrate and light emission through the an... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7252226 | System and method for using a prepaid card A system for using a prepaid card permits a card user to purchase a card, issued by an issuer such as a bank, through an agent at a retail establishment via a terminal, select a PIN, have the card activated at the point of purchase, use the card to purchase goods an... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250906 | Methods and apparatus for identifying asset location in communication networks The location of unmodified wireless assets in a wireless communication network may be identified using time differences of arrivals of a communication sequence at different network receivers. Time-stamping devices may include correlator circuits in parallel with sig... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7199836 | Object-based audio-visual terminal and bitstream structure As information to be processed at an object-based video or audio-visual (AV) terminal, an object-oriented bitstream includes objects, composition information, and scene demarcation information. Such bitstream structure allows on-line editing, e.g. cut and paste, ins... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196507 | Apparatus for testing substrates An apparatus for testing substrates reduces the area required and the costs which arise with the testing of substrates, in particular semiconductor wafers, during the production process. The apparatus includes testing arrangements comprising a chuck, a chuck drive, ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191950 | Portable tendering and customer service stations and related systems and method A portable tendering station includes a movable housing, a removable terminal attached to the housing for acquiring transaction information, and at least one peripheral device attached to the housing and coupled to the terminal for conveying the transaction informat... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7176960 | System and methods for generating spherical mosaic images Systems and methods for generating an omnidirectional mosaic image are presented in which a number of images are acquired about an axis of rotational. The images have a large field of view along the axis of rotation and a small field of view or image width in a seco... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174304 | System and method for estimating product distribution using a product specific universe A method for estimating the sales of specialty products includes defining a first product specific universe using wholesale purchasing data to determine a product specific store size for a first group of retail outlets. A second product specific universe is defined ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174134 | Transmit power control for mobile unit In a wireless local area network which includes access point having variable transmitter power levels, transmitter power data is sent from the access points to the mobile units and used by the mobile units in order to provide a corresponding variation in the transmi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7151007 | Doped organic semiconductor materials and process for their preparation The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of doped organic semiconductor materials having an increased charge carrier density and effective charge carrier mobility, by doping with a dopant, a process in which after mixing the dopant into the org... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7143716 | Portable watercraft A lightweight, portable kayak is provided. The kayak is developed around a skeletal frame to which the kayak skin is permanently attached. The kayak skeletal frame may have one or more segments that can be compressed or folded individually. The compressed kayak can ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7114541 | Method for producing a 3-D micro flow cell and a 3-D micro flow cell A 3D micro flow cell is fabricated by forming a first spacer on a substrate to define the flow channel of the cell extending between inlet and outlet openings. A second spacer, comprising a pasty adhesive is applied outside the first spacer or in a groove on the fir... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7084905 | Method and apparatus for obtaining high dynamic range images Disclosed are method and apparatus for obtaining relatively high dynamic range images using a relatively low dynamic range image sensor without significant loss of resolution. The image sensor has an array of light-sensing elements with different sensitivity levels ... | 08/01/2006 |
| D526012 | Card with a transparent, multi-lens, patterned film | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080235 | Device and method for generating and executing compressed programs of a very long instruction word processor A method for controlling functional units in a processor, according to which in a configuration a sequence of primary instruction words which consists of several instruction word parts and originates from a translation of a program code is compressed and stored as a... | 07/18/2006 |
| D524860 | Card with a fluorescent border | 07/11/2006 |
| 7057408 | Method and prober for contacting a contact area with a contact tip A method of contacting a contact area with the tip of a contact needle (contact tip) in a prober and the arrangement of such a prober, is based on the object of ensuring reliable contacting and direct observation of the establishment of the contact between the conta... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7039809 | Asymmetric encrypted pin Secure protection and distribution of a personal identification number (PIN) is achieved by using a first encryption process only for PIN data and a second encryption process for non-PIN data. The first encryption process uses asymmetric encryption, where a public k... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7037356 | Method for operating rotary hearth type reducing furnace and rotary hearth type reducing furnace facilities The present invention provides a method of operation and a facility for the same suppressing the generation of dioxins in the combustion exhaust gas and efficiently reclaiming heat from high temperature combustion exhaust gas when firing and reducing fines of chromi... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028595 | Precision double-sided aspheric element A precision optical element is described, such as is used in thermal imaging systems in the infra-red, manufactured by means of single point machining, with both of its surfaces having an aspheric form, with or without the addition of a diffractive optics pattern. T... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030811 | Methods and apparatus for identifying asset location in communication networks The location of unmodified wireless assets in a wireless communication network may be identified using time differences of arrivals of a communication sequence at different network receivers. Time-stamping devices may include correlator circuits in parallel with sig... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030812 | Wireless clock synchronization A system and method for synchronizing internal clocks of receiving stations of a locating system are described. A beacon transmits reference data packets at a known position. A first arrival time is compared to a second arrival time to determine a correlated arrival... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020194 | Apparatus and method for vector descriptor representation and multimedia data retrieval The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for vector descriptor representation and multimedia data retrieval, which can quantize a plurality of feature values described by a vector descriptor respectively, represent the quantized feature values in t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019049 | Process for preparing thermoplastic transparent resin The present invention relates to an impact resistant resin composition having superior balance of physical properties of chromacity, impact resistance and strength, and a process for preparing an impact resistant resin composition that can largely reduce draining tr... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015765 | Resonant clock distribution for very large scale integrated circuits A circuit for distributing a clock signal in an integrated circuit includes a capacitive clock distribution circuit having at least conductor therein. At least one inductor is formed in a metal layer of the integrated circuit and is coupled to the clock distribution... | 03/21/2006 |
