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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353658 | Systems and methods for freezing, storing, transporting, and thawing biopharmacuetical material A system for freezing, thawing, transporting, and storing a biopharmaceutical material, which includes a container, a supporting structure, a temperature control unit, and a transportation cart. The container is adapted to receive the biopharmaceutical material ther... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356490 | Services for increasing the utility of electronic wish lists A computer-implemented service, provided in association with a browsable electronic catalog, automatically notifies a user when an item being accessed in the catalog is on an electronic wish list of an “affiliated” user. The affiliations may be created explicitl... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356477 | Frames-based advertising service with response and activity reporting An advertising service divides a consumer transaction at a POS location into multiple time frames. The service then determines an advertisement (ad) for display in one of the time frames and displays the ad in one of the time frames. One of the time frames spans one... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354120 | Portable bar with portable barbecue A portable bar is provided, the bar comprises at least two frameworks, each of the frameworks has a front and back side and comprises a central frame with opposing ends and at least two side frames are situated on said opposing ends of the central frame and is perpe... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355195 | Method and apparatus for associating patient and exposure related data with a radiation image Patient identification data and/or exposure related data or a code uniquely identifying at least one of these data is transferred shortly before or during exposure to a radio-frequency tag or the like coupled to a radiation detector. Transfer may be executed through... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353991 | System and method for managing wireless point-of-sale transactions A system that enables a wireless point-of-sale transaction. In one embodiment the system comprises an account module, an account selection module, a display, an input interface, and a wireless transmitter. The account module stores account information corresponding ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353229 | Post-session internet advertising system The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350698 | Line item approval processing in an electronic purchasing system and method In an electronic purchasing system, a line item approval processing method and system. The line item approval system includes logic for approving a purchase requisition having a plurality of itemized goods and service and requiring approval by a plurality of authori... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350694 | System and method for narrowcasting item tracking Using a unique, mailer applied PLANET bar code offered by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), a mail tracking system automatically sends an electronic message to the mailer once mail passes through mail processing machines at each USPS facility. The message to the maile... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350708 | Method for data interchange Data interchange is performed by opening a document having tagged information including data tags and data. The data, such as data associated with data fields is updated. A target, such as a bar code is generated based on the data tags and data. The updated data is ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350715 | Tracking electronic devices Tracking electronic devices that are equipped with tracking tags and that are stored in designated locations. The position of a reading device is monitored as it traverses the designated locations of the electronic devices and is activated to interrogate the trackin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351062 | Educational devices, systems and methods using optical character recognition Educational devices, educational systems, and methods of teaching and learning reading are provided. The devices, systems, and methods can include an indicium reader, such as an optical character recognition device, for reading indicium from objects. Such objects ca... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350702 | Method, system and portable consumer device using wildcard values A portable consumer device is disclosed. The portable consumer device includes a body and a computer readable medium coupled to the body. The computer readable medium comprises a data string including one or more wildcard values. The data string is specifically asso... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347368 | Method of enrolling in an electronic toll or payment collection system A method of enrolling in an electronic toll or payment collection system including the steps of providing a kiosk that has a programmed computer with an interactive program for enrolling a user in the electronic toll or payment collection system including a user int... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347372 | System and method of notifying an operator of a result of attempting to read a product label A system for notifying an operator of a result of attempting to read a number of product labels on an item which produces only a single good read indication or bad read indication. The system includes a good read indicator, a bad read indicator, and control circuitr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347361 | System, method and program product for account transaction validation A system, method and program product for account transaction validation which may be downloaded or otherwise installed on a networked computing device such as a cell phone or other networked computing device. The networked computing device provides an encrypted vali... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347367 | System and method of verifying item placement on a security scale A system and method of verifying item placement on a security scale. The system includes a computer for receiving incremental weight signals from a security weight scale, wherein some of the incremental weight signals are unrelated to placement of items on the secur... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347373 | Method and system for utilizing a digital camera for retrieving and utilizing barcode information A method and system for utilizing an image capture device for obtaining information relating to an item having a barcode corresponding to a barcode number is described. The method and system includes capturing an image of the barcode and converting the image of the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344063 | Networked disposal and sample provisioning apparatus A waste disposal system comprises a waste disposal unit, including a processor, a scanner, a network interface coupled to a network, and a remote processing system coupled to the waste disposal unit via the network. The remote processing system includes a database s... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7344070 | POS system, input/output control apparatus for use in a POS system, and method A POS system and method having a POS terminal, at least one input device for providing input data such as product sale information to said POS terminal, a POS server to enable the POS terminal to complete a POS transaction based upon such product sale information, a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7344069 | POS system A POS system comprising a host unit and a plurality of POS terminal units connected thereto via a predetermined communication line for data transfer/receipt between each POS terminal unit and the host unit is disclosed. Execution programs of the POS system are store... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341191 | Internet-based system for enabling information-related transactions over the internet A novel transaction-enabling method and system are disclosed, wherein a transaction-enabling Java-Applet is embedded within an HTML-encoded document stored in an HTTP server at predetermined URL. When a code symbol (e.g., magstripe or bar code) encoded with the URL ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342494 | Inventoriable-object control and tracking system An inventoriable-object control and tracking system comprising, in accordance with its preferred embodiments, an object identification assembly having an electronic device, with a unique electronically-readable identification code, which is connected to an inventori... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341189 | Spectrally-encoded labeling and reading A spectrally-encoded label comprises a spectrally-selective optical element having a label spectral signature. The label spectral signature is determined according to a spectral-encoding scheme so as to represent predetermined label information within the spectral e... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341180 | Card settlement system A user purchases a card on which an identification number is printed and masked, calls a line for registration by the user's mobile telephone terminal in advance, inputs the identification number, and registers the telephone number of the mobile telephone terminal o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341181 | Method for biometric security using a smartcard The present invention discloses a method for facilitating biometric security in a smartcard-reader transaction system by proffering a biometric. The biometric may be proffered to a biometric sensor communicating with the smartcard-reader system. Proffering the biome... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341184 | Method and system for performing security on multiple unresolved objects in a self checkout A self-checkout system receives a plurality of objects for the identification of each object in the plurality of objects. The system allows security for a collection of the objects and a subset of the collection of objects to be resolved during a self checkout. In o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343317 | Real-time wireless e-coupon (promotion) definition based on available segment Advertising messages are provided to mobile terminals of those users identified by user information as meeting certain criteria, such as users fitting particular user profiles and/or users located in a particular desired location. The content of the advertising mess... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341185 | Method of marking and monitoring products at a self-service checkout terminal A method of marking products purchased through a self-service checkout terminal includes scanning a product to be purchased into a computer and issuing a tamper resistant label from a printer at the self-service checkout terminal. The tamper resistant label includes... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341178 | Processing apparatus, system and method for processing checks in communication with a host computer and a host computer for controlling the check processing apparatus Processing apparatus, system and method for processing checks in communication with a host computer for accurately detecting check multifeeding. The check processing system includes a check processing apparatus and a host computer in communication with the check pro... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343322 | Method and apparatus for marketing products over the internet A method and apparatus is disclosed for permitting an online user to buy merchandise over the Internet from multiple vendor sites, after a single entry of their credit card information. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention includes an online impulse mark... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337949 | System for marketing leisure activity services through prepaid tickets One-time-use tickets containing a unique identification code that allow for prepayment of entertainment or personal services are distributed and sold. When a ticket is sold, it is activated by the seller notifying a ticket information manager of its sale, at which t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337956 | System and method for facilitating the purchase of goods and services A system and method for facilitating commercial transactions between a consumer and a supplier of goods at a point of sale and authorized by a credit holder. The credit holder possesses a communications device for prestoring transaction information in a data base. T... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340419 | Method and apparatus for product display Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to display a type of product. Thereafter, a substitute product for the product is selected from a plurality of substitute products. The selection is based on expected revenue from display of the selected subst... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337961 | Location determining system with rotating laser beam and bar code reflectors A method and system for providing accurate location of a consumer service device (CSD) in a retail establishment via light modulated by a reflector with a location code. A plurality of location code reflectors (LCRs) are hung from the ceiling of the retail establish... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337962 | Method to detect false purchases with a consumer service device A method, system and computer program product for detecting false purchases is disclosed. The method includes detecting a motion across a product identifier in a self-service terminal and monitoring for a product identifier. In response to failing to detect the prod... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337976 | Semiconductor memory The object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor memory which executes executing multiple application programs and duplicating important data from one application program into another application program in security. An IC card (200) is one e... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337960 | Systems and methods for merchandise automatic checkout Systems and methods for automatically checking out items located on a moving conveyor belt for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of a checkout process and revenue at a point-of-sale. The system includes a conveyor subsystem for moving the items, a housing tha... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337959 | Parameter election method with balloting method for the selection of parameters in protocols (e.g. tandem free operation TFO) The invention relates to a method for defining parameters that are to be used for transmitting data between a first user and at least one second user, or for selecting protocol options or functions, which permits an efficient, flexible and adaptable selection of cod... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339836 | Data collector A data collector to be installed in an electrical storage device has a data reader and a base. The data reader is to be connected to the electrical storage device to store status data detected by the electrical storage device. The stored data has a specific format. ... | 03/04/2008 |
