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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190553 | Methods and systems for quantum search, computation and memory A system for performing multi-dimensional quantum search, quantum computation, quantum memory, quantum storage, and quantum retrieval includes a structure and method for: enabling components and systems for quantum search, and more particularly to improved local and... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190552 | Method of estimating salt contamination A method of estimating a salt contamination is provided. The method includes preparing salt contamination data measured at a plurality of areas, preparing geographical factor data of areas for estimating, preparing rainfall amount data near the areas, setting a corr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185491 | Method of organizing software design decision instances A method of organizing received decision instances based on reference architecture, including determining a respective particular project phase attribute for each of the decision instances, classifying the decision instances, determining a respective scope attribute... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185492 | Messaging application with multiple viewports for presenting messages in different orders In a method for displaying messages, a system displays messages from a single user account in multiple viewports. Each viewport orders messages based on an importance score that is calculated based on the user's prior interactions with messages in his user account t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180726 | Constraint failure analysis using constraint evaluation tree of constraint patterns A method and device for performing a constraint failure analysis on an instance model. The present invention provides a convenient tool to bridge between a model-constraint designer and a model user, reduce load for model/constraint usability, simplify the learning ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180727 | Method and apparatus for navigating modeling of a building using nonparametric user input building design data A system and method of navigating modeling of a building, including: receiving nonparametric user input building design data, organizing the nonparametric user input building design data, and globally editing the non-parametric data element in multiple objects withi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176001 | System and method for detecting spam over internet telephony (SPIT) in IP telecommunication systems A method and system for detecting a spam over internet telephony (SPIT) is disclosed. Incoming call requests are received and analyzed using heuristic algorithms. A runtime action is provided based on the analysis using the heuristic algorithms. The heuristic algori... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165985 | System and method for performing discovery of digital information in a subject area A system and method for performing discovery of digital information in a subject area is provided. Each of topics in a subject area, training material for the topics, and a corpus comprising digital information are designated. Topic models for each of the topics are... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165986 | Method and system for real time production management and reservoir characterization The present invention is a system and method for generating predictions for various parameters in a reservoir. The invention includes receiving input data characterizing the reservoir and determining transient areas. The transient areas are determined by receiving d... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160994 | System for simulating events in a real environment System for simulating events in a real environment containing static objects and dynamic objects: a) position locating unit for continuously determining the real environment the position of the dynamic objects in relation to the static objects within a time period i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160995 | Tropical cyclone prediction system and method A method of predicting information related to a characteristic of a tropical cyclone includes obtaining a plurality of model tracks corresponding to the tropical cyclone from at least one forecast center. A factor from a set of factors is assigned to each of the plu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156070 | Insulin pump programming software with basal profile preview feature Insulin pump programming software is disclosed that generates thumbnail images of basal rate profile data contained in source files and displays the images to permit an operator to select the desired profile data without opening the source files. The software also p... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150796 | Methods and systems for inducing behavior in a population cohort Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out identifying a member of a population cohort; and inducing at least one behavior in the member of the population cohort based on an association between the popu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150795 | Methods and devices for analysis of clustered data, in particular action potentials (i.e. neuron firing signals in the brain) Methods for clustering of multi-dimensional data allow unsupervised grouping of multi-dimensional data points into clusters having like characteristics. The methods may be usefully applied to extracellular action potentials (neuronal spikes) measured from the brain,... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145591 | Detection of hostile intent from movement patterns An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method comprising identifying a suspect; determining that the suspect has moved a first distance in a target zone around a target during a first time period; determining a suspect-target distance between the suspec... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145592 | Calculating web page importance based on a conditional markov random walk An importance system calculates the importance of pages using a conditional Markov random walk model rather than a conventional Markov random walk model. The importance system calculates the importance of pages factoring in the importance of sites that contain those... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140466 | System and method for maintaining and utilizing Bernoulli samples over evolving multisets One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for incrementally maintaining a Bernoulli sample S with sampling rate q over a multiset R in the presence of update, delete, and insert transactions. The method includes processing items inserted into R using... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140465 | Apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling a device under test An apparatus is provided for monitoring and controlling a device under test, the device under test comprising a plurality of registers, each register having a register value and comprising a plurality of data bits for controlling a setting or settings of the device ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140467 | Quantum state estimation method, quantum state estimation device and computer program A control section virtually divides a surface of an adsorbing material into a plurality of regions (cells) in accordance with a computer program. Further, the control section-allocates a normal distribution function to each of the divided cells, and sets a linear co... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135664 | Change management using collective data A method for providing information associated with configuration changes to a computer system is provided. The method includes receiving a description of a starting configuration and a description of a configuration change. The method further includes linking the de... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135662 | Usage based indicators to assess the impact of scholarly works: architecture and method Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the r... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135663 | Automated many-sorted theorem prover The present invention is a method for automatic proving using many-sorted first-order logic. Embodiments of the invention apply a modified method of resolution of first-ordered logic. The method of resolution further comprises: processing at least one first sentence... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126838 | Systems and methods of developing intuitive decision-making trainers Systems and methods can provide an immersive learning environment based on cognitive task analysis followed by an analysis of instructional requirements and development of an instructional strategy. One or more immersive scenarios can be created and presented via an... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121973 | Event handling system An event handling system to schedule and translate semantic deductions form Intelligent Agents and sensors into events capable of being made observable by a Recipient system such as monitor that provides a particular view of virtual objects and events is disclosed. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117150 | Method of forecasting a magnetic or electrical environment from an ocean volume A method of ocean property forecasting. The method includes generating one of a magnetic field prediction and an electric field prediction between a first observation point and a plurality of uniform ocean cells by generating a vector sum of magnetic field contribut... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117149 | Prediction weighting method based on prediction contexts A method for prediction weights determination for use in compression (particularly image compression) and forecasting applications. Prediction weights determining significance of different predictions when calculating generalized prediction are calculated using spec... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108334 | Search circuit in decoding unit of low-density parity-check codes and method thereof The present invention relates to a search circuit in a decoding unit of low-density parity-check codes, which used for searching a minimum value and a next minimum value from r input values, where r is an integer greater than 3. The search circuit includes a first s... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103615 | Intelligently interactive profiling system and method One aspect of the invention is a method for identifying at least one property of data. An example of the method includes receiving data, and making assessments regarding the data. The method also includes applying at least one behavioral operator, and outputting res... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103614 | Definition and utilization of relational tags A system is described which allows a user to define a relational tag. The relational tag describes how a first item is related to a second item within an identified qualifying context. For instance, the relational tag may state that the first item is ranked higher t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099380 | Blind evaluation of nearest neighbor queries wherein locations of users are transformed into a transformed space using a plurality of keys Systems and techniques are described for blind evaluation of nearest neighbor queries. Locations of multiple users in an original space are received. The locations in the original space are encoded into encoded locations in a transformed space. A relative proximity ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099381 | Processing high-dimensional data via EM-style iterative algorithm Systems and methods are disclosed for factorizing high-dimensional data by simultaneously capturing factors for all data dimensions and their correlations in a factor model, wherein the factor model provides a parsimonious description of the data; and generating a c... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090675 | HVAC system that controls an asset via a wide area network in accordance with a business strategy using predictor and responder data points Included are embodiments for asset commissioning. At least one embodiment of a method includes classifying at least one data point of an environment controlling asset as a responder data point and classifying at least one other data point of the environment controll... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090676 | Systems and methods for real time classification and performance monitoring of batch processes Systems and methods (300) for offline/online performance monitoring of batch processes (BPs) involving obtaining archived data (AD) obtained during runs of BP and including information defining a batch quality attribute for each run. The method also involves ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086557 | Method and system for retrieving statements of information sources and associating a factuality assessment to the statements A system and method for providing a factuality assessment of a retrieved information source's statement are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user's query which identifies an information source whose statements are to be retrieved, retrieving documents whic... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086558 | Computer-implemented system for human resources management A system and method for testing and/or evaluating employees or potential employees is disclosed. A computer arranges a plurality of applicants in a stack ranked table. The table may rank or re-rank applicants against each other, from best to worst, after successive ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082220 | Computing solutions to problems using dynamic association between abstract graphs A device, system, and method for solving a plurality of sub-problems representing a main problem pertaining to an environment. An abstract graph corresponding to each of the sub-problems may be constructed in a computing system for each of the sub-problems. At least... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078569 | Estimating transaction risk using sub-models characterizing cross-interaction among categorical and non-categorical variables In one aspect, input data for a predictive model characterizing a level of risk for a data transaction is received that includes values for categorical variables and one or more of binary variables and continuous variables the predictive model. Thereafter, one or mo... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073806 | Message log analysis for system behavior evaluation A technique is disclosed that enables the run-time behavior of a data-processing system to be analyzed and, in many cases, to be predicted. In particular, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention comprises i) transforming the messages that constitute an ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073809 | Graphical model for data validation Data may be received from the source and based on training; a confidence level may be determined that a specific element in the data is correctly assigned to a master category given that the source assigned the data to one of the plurality of assigned source categor... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073807 | Inferring demographics for website members Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for estimating an actual age of a member of a website. A set of related members for the member is identified. The related members are members of the same website. Age infor... | 12/06/2011 |
