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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7225066 | Support system for a vehicular ECU control measurement system A support system comprises a support center 21 and a control measurement system 31 to be supported, which are connected via a computer network 28. The control measurement system 31 comprises means for collecting information which is avail... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222193 | Computer network payment system A method of electronic payment for data transferred across a computer network from a server to a client by means of at least one router which forwards data. An electronic data request is sent from the client to the server via one or more routers. The server then sen... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222110 | Charge information processing apparatus, franchise system provided with the charge information processing apparatus, charge calculating method, recording medium, and program A charge information calculating apparatus according to the present invention has a configuration provided with inputting means for inputting information, and charge calculating means for calculating introduction expenses of facilities required for working as a fran... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222165 | Service provision support system A communications service provision support system supports multiple different types of services during a service session. The system when in use comprises a session manager which performs functions generic to each of the multiple different types of services during s... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222293 | Professional time tracking and reporting system An apparatus and a method for tracking time spent on one or more Internet sites. The tracked information may then be used to generate detailed records containing the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) of the sites visited, the exact time spent on each site, and a reco... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216799 | Terminal providing system A plurality of terminals (40) that are provided to users, and a providing device (20) are placed at a providing place (2). The providing device includes a memory that stores information concerning the plurality of terminals (40). The prov... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219361 | Tray of optical disk player A tray of an optical disk player including a disk mounting portion on which an optical disk is stably mounted; a front wall formed on the front to surround the disk mounting portion; a rear wall formed on the rear of the tray to surround the disk mounting portion, t... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218851 | Communication network design with wavelength converters A design system receives a configuration of the communication network wherein the configuration includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links interconnecting the nodes. The design system also receives a protection scheme for the communication network. The d... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219097 | Authentication history certification system and method thereof To provide a system and its method for receiving inquiries for personal histories or performing certification of histories collectively. The present invention provides an authentication history certification system for certifying a personal history on a compu... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219344 | Method and apparatus for deploying programs and computing platforms to selected computers Management of computer software in an enterprise includes receiving program requests from client computers associated with different enterprises. The program requests are validated and at least one requested program is sent from a database to at least one client com... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218722 | System and method for providing call management services in a virtual private network using voice or video over internet protocol A system and method for providing call management services in a Virtual Private Network of the present invention uses the advantages of end-to-end Internet Protocol signaling. The system and method of the present invention includes a user profile which offers both a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216108 | Transferable meter licenses using smartcard technology A metering system is provided including a smartcard reader and peripheral computer in communication with a metering apparatus. A smartcard with memory, microprocessor, and license counter may then be engaged with a smartcard reader in the metering system to effect m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216043 | Push communications architecture for intelligent electronic devices A power management architecture for an electrical power distribution system, or portion thereof, is disclosed. The architecture includes multiple intelligent electronic devices (“IED's”) distributed throughout the power distribution system to manage the flow and... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213754 | Dynamic pricing system with graphical user interface A system for dynamically pricing products available from one or more merchants. The system sends a first price for a product from a processor to a customer device, and receives a report of sale for the product at the first price from a merchant computer. The system ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215433 | Print order system and method A user orders prints of pictures in a relatively easy manner. In a place such as a convenience store, a print order device and a print order receiver are installed with a one-to-one correspondence therebetween. The user orders prints of images from the print order d... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216111 | Accounting apparatus, accounting method, and computer-readable program storage medium for storing program having accounting function A printer performs a printing operation by driving a cartridge to discharge ink. The ink in the printer is billed according to the amount of actual use of ink. In a service center, the head ID is first input. Then, the head ID is verified against the user ID. The am... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212996 | System and method for dynamic, multivariable comparison of financial products A multivariable search system for the comparative analysis of financial products allows the user to enter a set of criteria of their choice with desired ranges and in addition, a weighting factor to be applied to the criteria. Mutual funds, for instance, may be sear... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212977 | Managing apparatus and managing method of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus Power consumption of electric equipment used in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus (100) is obtained and the total amount is displayed as calories by a display means. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus is configured so that the equipment is set up... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209904 | Method for simulating an optimized supplier in a market A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product are provided for simulating two or more suppliers in a market and forecasting their financial performance, with one supplier using optimization that utilizes feedback in generating an optimal price. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209859 | Method and apparatus for sequentially collecting and analyzing real time data with interactive monitoring A system, comprising a plurality of slave devices collecting real time data from process stations, a master device receiving the collected data from the plurality of slave devices, wherein the master device polls the plurality of slave devices in a predetermined ord... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209870 | Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning design apparatus and method A system and method for designing an HVAC system using a database to manage values of properties corresponding to design elements. Elements include substantially all physical components and connections available for creating an HVAC system design. A user interface r... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206753 | Methods for facilitating a retail environment The methods of the invention provide a variety of processes that may be performed by a mobile retail system or a mobile robot system. In accordance with one process, the invention provides a method of facilitating a retail environment, comprising the steps of provid... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206762 | Betting system and method A fixed-odds betting system comprises a user terminal operable to accept parameters input by a user and relating to a fixed-odds bet on an aspect of a financial market; and a central processing machine having a data feed to a source of data concerning a financial ma... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206763 | Method and system for commodity-based currency for payment of accounts A system and method for permitting gold or other commodities to circulate as currency requires a network of system users that participate in financial transactions where payment is made in units of gold. The gold is kept in secure storage at a deposit site for the b... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206692 | System and method for estimating impedance time through a road network A method and apparatus are provided for estimating an impedance through a node at an intersection between roads in a roadway network. The impedance may be measured in time or distance, for example. Characteristic information describes at least one feature of the int... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7207043 | Programmatic response-time based workload distribution techniques Workload is programmatically distributed across a set of execution resources. In a multithreaded server environment, response time to end users is improved while increasing the efficiency of software execution and resource usage. Execution time and wait/queued time ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206644 | Method and system for optimizing operation schedule of plant A plant-operation-schedule optimization system includes a data inputting device transmitting a future operation planned value of at least one plant to be controlled; an operation-data inputting device transmitting operation data concerning the plant; and an operatio... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203660 | Apparatus, system, and method for dynamic demand reporting and affectation An apparatus, system, and method for dynamic demand monitoring and/or affectation uniquely allows a provider to access, utilize and/or integrate demand setting, reporting, and updating into a commerce system. In one non-limiting example embodiment, the present discl... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203734 | Methods and apparatus for selecting an insurance carrier for an online insurance policy purchase Methods and apparatus for selecting an insurance carrier for an online insurance policy purchase are disclosed. A user at a client device, such as a personal computer connected to the Internet, receives a plurality of business insurance quotes with minimal data inpu... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203657 | General packet-based payment and transaction method and system A method and system to enable data packets to engage in two-way transactions with various facilities, electronic equipment, and data sources, performing various services. This is accomplished by the loading of data packets with access tokens, denominated at certain ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203478 | Network support for mobile service plan minute exchange by category One embodiment of the present method is for allowing a mobile subscriber to negotiate via a mobile terminal a trade of minutes by category according to a predetermined exchange rate as set forth by a service provider. In this embodiment the method may have the steps... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200579 | Method and apparatus for determining prices that maximize revenue A method and apparatus for determining one or more prices that maximizes revenue for a given demand curve. For determining a single price that maximizes revenue, a geometric analysis of the demand curve is used to find a price that gives a first angle that is equal ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200519 | Analysis system for analyzing the condition of a machine A system for analyzing the condition of a machine having a rotating shaft and a machine body with a measuring point includes a client part communicating with a supplier part computer via a communications network. The client part includes a sensor attachable at the m... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200570 | Multi-attribute auction methodology and system A way to conduct complex transactions by auction efficiently and with a high degree of automation is provided by a methodology for conducting auctions in which bids contain multiple attributes, as opposed to a single attribute (price). Bidders are requested to speci... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197431 | Method and system for determining the use and non-use of software programs A method and system for auditing software systems by monitoring the use and non-use of software programs in a computer. An operating system of the computer controls execution of software products through the invocation of respective load modules thereof. A monitor i... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197474 | Method of modeling product demand subject to a large number of interactions A data processing system-implemented method or data processing system readable medium can be used to model operating parameter(s) for a vendor. Detailed analysis of the impact of prices or other variables, on the demand of each item, is performed. These allow us to ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194684 | Method of spell-checking search queries A computer-implemented method for determining whether a target text-string is correctly spelled is provided. The target text-string is compared to a corpus to determine a set of contexts which each include an occurrence of the target text-string. Using heuristics, e... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191157 | System, method and computer program product for the optimization of price to satisfy certain business objectives A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product are provided for determining an optimal price. First, a plurality of parameters is received including, but not limited to a plurality of prices associated with a price-frequency mathematical distribu... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191145 | Method and system automatically to price a promotional product A computer-implemented method to price a promotional product includes the generation of a user interface that facilitates input of specification information concerning the promotional product, the specification information including product information identifying a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190149 | Method and apparatus for determining actual reactive capability curves A system for generating updated reactive capability curves of a generator operates the generator at a number of operating load levels and at a number of different power factors to collect data regarding the real and reactive power generated at each of the various op... | 03/13/2007 |
