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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7233928 | Rule-based system for determining price adjustments in a product catalog A method for computing a price quote for a product using a contract. The method includes identifying the set of price rules for a plurality of products associated with the contract. Each price rule in the set of price rules is either a hard price rule or a soft pric... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233333 | Collapsible (folding) graph Generally, the present invention is directed towards a system and method for displaying a scientific research data set viewable on an electronic display. The system is made up of a computerized device having an electronic display for displaying a selectable range of... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7234118 | Method and apparatus for setting parameters in a system A method and apparatus for compensating for deficiencies existing in programs to assist a user through installing a program. Polling the status of jobs requested by the user of a workstation is done so that the user may eventually be provided with status reports reg... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233328 | Flexible and modified multiresolution geometry caching based on ray differentials A method and apparatus for rendering a plurality of objects. The method includes receiving ray differential information associated with a ray, determining a first resolution associated with a first surface patch based on at least information associated with the ray ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231632 | System for reducing the number of programs necessary to render an image A system for reducing memory and computational requirements of graphics operations. The system provides techniques for combining otherwise individual operations to apply filters to images. A combined filter emerging from the combination spares the processor time and... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230625 | Multi-variable operations Operation of a multi-variable drilling-rig is carried out within an envelope defined by convex hulls (TC,BC) that are derived from sets of historical values for the variables accumulated in a store (3) from previous operations. A display unit (5) shows... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228234 | Weather data quality control and ranking method A method and system for performing quality control checks upon weather data are provided. The weather data includes information pertaining to a plurality of weather parameters. The quality control checks may identify inaccurate weather parameters or be used to rank ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228501 | Method for selecting a font The invention is generally directed to a method for selecting a font that uses a mark-up language document to group together multiple pre-existing fonts into a single font family or “virtual font.” The mark-up language document includes rules regarding the condi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227558 | Apparatus and method for sorting line break numbers for line break locations within series of figures The object of the present invention is to assign line break numbers to locations where line breaks have been made in order to separate a series of figures configured by connecting a number of figures into parts in a manner which makes it easy for a user to view a dr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228301 | Method for normalizing document metadata to improve search results using an alias relationship directory service The present invention provides methods, systems, and computer program products for normalizing document search terms through use of an alias database, as may be found in an alias relationship file, such as a directory service. A gatherer module receives as input (or... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227549 | Indicating and manipulating a zoom region of a waveform A method of indicating and manipulating a zoom region of a waveform being displayed includes a zoom region indicator. The zoom region indicator has an associated marker that spans the zoom region but is never less than a minimum span to allow ease of identifying or ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228492 | 2D graph displaying document locations of user-specified concept of interest According to one embodiment of the present invention, methods and systems for displaying an interest profile for an electronically stored document are provided. Interest profiles provide features that can enhance the experience of reading or using the electronic doc... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224362 | Systems and methods for providing visualization and network diagrams Visualization techniques tools and systems for displaying network diagrams to convey both focus and context to a user of the display. Network diagrams may be displayed to emulate a three dimensional presentation. Network diagrams may be presented with items of inter... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224363 | Computer-readable recording medium with waveform editing program stored and waveform editing system A waveform editing program displays waveforms of different types generated from the same data on the same screen, so that the characteristics of the waveforms can be easy to know, and with improved operability in the waveform editing, desired waveforms can be easily... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225252 | Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen object information observed on computer network and observation display system using computer network Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed as observation object on a computer network which is specified by a push request and an observation display system using a co... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225138 | Business information system and method of managing business information Provision of an organization definition information storing unit for storing organization definition information, a contents storing unit for storing contents provided for users, a customizing information storing unit for storing in set, as customizing information, ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225405 | System and method for audio creation and editing in a multimedia messaging environment A system for editing audio objects in which a variety of audio objects are represented as images and laid out in a 2 dimensional visual environment. The system includes a display unit, a processing unit, a user interface unit, and a device for playing/receiving audi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222149 | Ordering decision nodes in distributed decision making A system includes a weighted directional dependency graph defining one or more dependency links in a distributed system having a plurality of nodes. A weight is defined for each of the dependency links. A node ordering module generates a node order based on a cycle-... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221377 | Apparatus and method for collecting and displaying information in a workflow system A method and apparatus for extensible real-time workflows are described. The present invention allows a user of a transaction processing system, such as a customer relationship management (CRM) tool or an automatic call distribution (ACD), for example, to easily add... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221367 | Queue management system and method The invention provides a data visualisation system comprising a data value memory in which is maintained a finite set of data values obtained from monitoring apparatus and a display configured to display a representation of each data value centered on respective dat... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222308 | Slider bar scaling in a graphical user interface A graphical user interface element for modifying parameters of a graphing widget includes a first slider bar with a first slider control operable to adjust a first parameter of a graphing widget, and a second slider bar with a second slider control operable to adjus... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219307 | Methods for graphically representing interactions among entities Methods for graphically representing interactions among entities within an organization are provided. These methods, in their basic form, include providing graphical objects corresponding to the entities, varying graphical properties of the graphical objects to corr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219202 | Cluster storage system and replication creation method thereof In a storage system having a plurality of control units each connected with a plurality of disk units, it is provided that a replication is created in the volume of the disk units connected to different control units. The replication creation unit of a given control... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218325 | Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plur... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219105 | Method, system and computer program product for profiling entities The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for profiling an entity based on information obtained form at least one information source. Various contexts associated with the entity are identified. This can be achieved by using a clust... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219034 | System and methods for display of time-series data distribution A system and methods for displaying data distribution information for time-series data is described. The methods include computing a condensed quantile function that may be used to generate approximate histograms for the time-series data, while decreasing the data s... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215338 | System and method for presentation of data streams An in-vivo sensing system and a method for creating a summarized graphical presentation of a data stream captured in-vivo. The graphical presentation may be in the form of for example a color bar. The color bar may be a fixed display along side a streaming display o... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216116 | Data analysis system with automated query and visualization environment setup A primary graphical input device such as a scroll bar or slider is displayed in order to allow graphical input and adjustment of at least one parameter, such as the page number of a displayed document in a word-processing program or a range value in a data visualiza... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215337 | Systems and methods for the estimation of user interest in graph theoretic structures Techniques for estimating user interest in graph structures are provided. A graph structure containing at least two nodes, a threshold disinterest value and at least one interesting node within the graph structure are determined. Each determined interesting node is ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212213 | Color display instrument and method for use thereof A method for graphically displaying on a display device, a musical note in a range of notes within an octave, in a range of octaves. The method including, determining the display attributes of a reference octave selected from the range of octaves, receiving a musica... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212201 | Method and apparatus for segmenting an image in order to locate a part thereof A method is disclosed to automatically segment 3D and higher-dimensional images into two subsets without user intervention, with no topological restriction on the solution, and in such a way that the solution is an optimal in a precisely defined optimization criteri... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212208 | System and method to present and display multiple data using enhanced box charts A system and method for presenting and displaying multiple data in graphical form. A universal, objective, and quantifiable measuring presentation tool provides a quick graphic display of multiple data (e.g., parameters, functions, or metrics) under study. This data... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212670 | Method of feature identification and analysis A method for efficiently and accurately inventorying image features such as timber, including steps of segmenting digital images into tree stands, segmenting tree stands into tree crowns, each tree crown having a tree crown area, classifying tree crowns based on spe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212999 | User interface for an electronic trading system A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote clien... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212209 | System and method of representing personal profile in symmetrical graphical form A computer system generates a symmetrical graphical image representative of a personal profile of a subject. Personal attributes of the subject are acquired through an assessment tool. The personal attributes are acquired through website and stored on a computer sys... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213059 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product to determine the progress of Web page downloads Progress is determined for downloading a Web Page having included objects. The method includes accessing the Web Page, and estimating a total size for the Web Page. The estimating includes reading file sizes for the objects. The file size for such an object has an a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209992 | Graphics display system with unified memory architecture A graphics display system integrated circuit is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics display system processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The system incorporates a unified memory architecture that ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205992 | Method of mapping into triangles an area of wireless lan and portable device thereof The invention provides a method of mapping into tessellating triangles an area from a set of sample point spaced over the area. First, each point is connected to every other point to create a group of lines. Then the number of intersections of each line is counted. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7207009 | Method and system for displaying an image instead of data Displaying graphical indicators, instead of data, based on user-defined conditions. The user can specify conditions for displaying graphical indicators instead of actual data by specifying a test, values, and an image. The graphical indicators can be pre-assigned im... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206074 | Apparatus and method for measuring spectral reflectance and apparatus for measuring film thickness A film thickness measurement apparatus has an image pickup part (32) for acquiring a plurality of single-band images corresponding to a plurality of wavelengths, and the image pickup part (32) acquires a plurality of reference single-band images repres... | 04/17/2007 |
