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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443292 | Gathering data concerning publication usage Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436291 | Protection of devices in a redundant configuration A network communication device is provided, comprising a control processor for controlling operation of the device, a reset module which is controllable independently of the control processor for performing a reset operation of the device, and a reset control interf... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7415441 | Printing system, apparatus and method for automatically printing records of electronic transactions A method and system for automatically printing a hard copy of transaction information relating to a transaction conducted electronically between a user-side and a supplier side. A control apparatus performs an operation of identifying a selected aspect of informatio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408460 | Gathering data concerning publication usage Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7391315 | System and method for monitoring security at a plurality of premises A security system includes at least one audio sensor located at a premises that receives audio signals and converts the audio signals to digitized audio signals. A server is located remote from the plurality of premises and receives the digitized audio signals from ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7336192 | System and device for monitoring at least one household electric user, in particular a household appliance A system that monitors at least a household electric user, in particular a household appliance, includes a monitoring device that is connected between a source of electric energy and the electric user, the monitoring device including a metering means for detecting o... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7280994 | Enhanced air travel security method and apparatus A method of screening passengers for a passenger aircraft flight includes a step of obtaining voluntary consent from a plurality of passengers to perform background check. The method further includes formulating a data record associated with each of the plurality of... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7257415 | Voice-controlled wireless communications system and method A wireless communication system has a central computer, one or more wireless access points and one or more personal badges that communicate wirelessly with the one or more wireless access points. The badges provide the user with a communications device that permits ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251588 | System for metric introspection in monitoring sources According to one embodiment, a method comprises storing metric definitions for at least one monitored component in a machine-readable format to a data storage device. The method further comprises enabling access by at least one monitoring tool to the metric definiti... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7239338 | Videophone system and method System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display devi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7218203 | Motion activated reminder system A motion activated, voice controlled reminder system, wherein a programmable device automatically reminds the intended receiver of a future event, without any extraordinary action on the part of the recipient, thus enabling the user to, via a telephone, leave a mess... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203619 | Biometric quality control process Systems and methods configured to guide and manage laboratory analytical process control operations. A Biometric quality control (QC) process application is configured to monitor bias and imprecision for each test, characterize patient population data distributions ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187265 | Equipment housing with interfacing computer An equipment housing is provided upon which heavy computing equipment, such as servers, routers, switches, and others may be mounted. A computing device is attached to the housing. The computing device is interfaced with the equipment on the housing, and also with a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7102485 | Motion activated communication device A motion activated, voice control communications device interactive with voice mail systems and electronic mail systems and effective as a stand-alone unit. In general, when a motion detector detects motion in the vicinity of the device, a microprocessor receives in... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099723 | Providing distributed scene programming of a home automation and control system A method and apparatus for providing a simple user interface for programming scenes and multi-way groups in a home automation and control system is provided. Each device participating in the home automation and control system is equipped with control logic for provi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079046 | Multi-point data acquisition apparatus An object of the present invention is to realize a multi-point data acquisition apparatus which enables communication with multiple measurement modules at high speed. The present invention improves upon a multi-point data acquisition apparatus comprising a main modu... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7050933 | Biometric quality control process Systems and methods configured to guide and manage laboratory analytical process control operations. A Biometric quality control (QC) process application is configured to monitor bias and imprecision for each test, characterize patient population data distributions ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6990319 | Wireless, ground link-based aircraft data communication method A flight information communication system has a plurality of RF direct sequence spread spectrum ground data links that link respective aircraft-resident subsystems, in each of which a copy of its flight performance data is stored, with airport-located subsystems. Th... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6982625 | Event-recorder for transmitting and storing electronic signature data An electronic event recorder for attachment to a vehicle is provided which can broadcast encrypted signature and data, thereby leaving behind an electronic version of a “fingerprint” in the event of an accident or traffic violation. The fingerprint, captured by ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6970751 | Method and apparatus for providing distributed scene programming of a home automation and control system A method and apparatus for providing a simple user interface for programming scenes and multi-way groups in a home automation and control system is provided. Each device participating in the home automation and control system is equipped with control logic for provi... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968376 | Home gateway apparatus A home gateway apparatus connected to intra-home terminal devices in a home network, has external interfaces to external terminals; internal interfaces to the intra-home terminal devices; a management table memory having management information to be sent and a desti... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6961003 | Electronic messenger An apparatus for taking an electronic message from a user and actively notifying a receiver is disclosed. The apparatus includes a message input device for receiving the electronic message from the user, a message storing device for storing the electronic message th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6917299 | Point of sale (POS) terminal security system A security system for electronic circuits (e.g. electronic circuits contained within a secure POS terminal) is provided that is both more tamper resistant, and tamper responsive and less expensive than the prior art epoxy potting. This is achieved by inserting an el... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6853291 | System device and method for monitoring electric users, particularly household appliances A system that includes one or more household appliances that belong to the same household environment and are connected to a network monitors diagnostic and/or statistical information produced by the electronic control systems of the appliances. The electronic contr... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6823223 | Method and apparatus for providing distributed scene programming of a home automation and control system A method and apparatus for providing a simple user interface for programming scenes and multi-way groups in a home automation and control system is provided. Each device participating in the home automation and control system is equipped with control logic for provi... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6823399 | Apparatus control method and transmission device An apparatus controlling method for performing control between apparatuses connected to a predetermined bus line, in which in a data transmission between a first apparatus and a second apparatus, presetting of settings for inputting or outputting of data in the firs... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6806808 | Wireless event-recording device with identification codes A wireless recording device can be interrogated to determine its identity and its state. The state indicates whether a particular physical or chemical event has taken place. In effect, the physical or chemical event is recorded by the device. The identity of the dev... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804197 | Clock switching for a synchronous memory in network probe circuitry Network probe circuitry is disclosed that is comprised of a host interface system, a line interface system, a memory controller, and a memory. The memory controller receives clock signals from the host interface system and the line interface system. The memory contr... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6737954 | Event-recorder for transmitting and storing electronic signature data An electronic event recorder for attachment to a vehicle is provided which can broadcast encrypted signature and data, thereby leaving behind an electronic version of a “fingerprint” in the event of an accident or traffic violation. The fingerprint, captured by ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6711472 | Method and device for controlling operational sequences, particularly in a vehicle A method and a device for controlling operational sequences, particularly in a vehicle, at least one sensor having a connection unit being connected via a bus system to at least one control unit for controlling the operational sequences, the control unit likewise ha... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6693534 | Emergency alarm system using pull-station with camera An emergency alarm system is provided having a manually operated pull-station that activates the system. The emergency alarm system has a camera that provides image data of the area surrounding the pull-station. The emergency alarm system also has a contr... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6693515 | Sequenced audio help label A sequenced audio help label having a plurality of recorded audio messages that are played back in a predetermined sequence, one at a time, in response to a user activating a button or trigger to signal play of the next message. The label may be affixed t... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6545587 | Bidirectional remote control system, bidirectional remote controller, and device controlled by bidirectional remote controller A bidirectional remote control system including a bidirectional remote controller and first and second devices controlled thereby, wherein the first device is for receiving a request of device information from the bidirectional remote controller and for s... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6539342 | Sorting objects based on physical characteristics In this invention, the detection result indicating physical characteristics obtained from sensor sections and associated with a to-be-detected object for which it is determined that determination of detection thereof by a high-speed detecting process is d... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6496949 | Emergency backup system, method and program product therefor An emergency backup system, method and computer program product for backing up data on one or more computers located in an identified danger zone. When an emergency occurs, computers in the danger zone are connected to a network. The computers may be dist... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6469623 | Smoke detector maintenance and verification tool A smoke detector verification system, which includes a smoke detector, a portable computer system and an optical receiver, verifies the operation of the smoke detector. The smoke detector includes a light emitting diode (LED) that is periodically modulate... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6298282 | Robot crash sensor system A method of detecting object scratching during robotic arm movement of the object. The method includes providing a robotic arm for grasping and placing of an object into a cassette and providing a cassette having an entrance for receiving an object therei... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6244174 | Maintenance and inspection system for a printing machine A maintenance and diagnostic system for a printing machine, preferably a sheet-fed offset printing machine, includes a control system having at least one computer and is connected to signal transmitters that are sensors and/or limit switches. The main dri... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6163270 | Apparatus and method for controlling communication in an electronic control and monitoring system An apparatus includes a demultiplexer/multiplexer and a local area network (LAN) controller that use an installed cable television cable to establish and control a home LAN. One or more channels of the cable are separated and blocked from the cable televi... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5978352 | Multiplex transmission system A multiplex transmission system is made up of a master load control unit which is connected to a multiplex transmission network and is capable of executing a multiplexing operation based on control specification information as a master system, slave load ... | 11/02/1999 |
