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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 |
| 8100322 | Systems, apparatus, and methods for obtaining satisfaction ratings for online purchases Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for collecting and combining consumer satisfaction ratings for online purchases. Users may be prompted for purchase satisfaction after an expected delivery date. Information from one or more user responses may then be co... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8091776 | System and method for quality management utilizing barcode indicators A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least on... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8056800 | Systems and methods for configuration management Systems and methods for configuration management in an article of manufacture disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for documenting a configuration of an article of manufacture includes an identifier positioned on the article of manufacture. A local positioning sys... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7946474 | Method of and apparatus for forecasting cash demand and load schedules for money dispensers A method of and apparatus for forecasting cash demand for an automated teller machine (ATM) or any other cash dispensing devices for individual days, weeks and multi-day load periods. In one embodiment, an expected value of withdrawal for any particular period, as w... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7938316 | Online purchasing system supporting sellers with affordability screening An online system uses, in various embodiments of the invention, credit report information, loan affordability screening and credit approval and management functionality to facilitate the purchase and finance of products online. The online system may include both sel... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7926707 | Maintenance support for high priority customers A method includes receiving a problem ticket, which contains a priority level indicator and a customer identifier, that describes a telecommunications network event such as a problem. The problem ticket is associated with and transmitted to a workcenter and a portio... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7918388 | Attention economy for attention to messages, tasks and resources A centrally tracked artificial currency is provided within the context of an enterprise. This currency serves as a unit of account, medium of exchange, and store of value in a corporate “attention economy.” Users (typically coworkers) in the enterprise are allot... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7909241 | Systems, methods and computer program products for implementing processes relating to retail sales The present invention provides a system that facilitates the selection of purchasable items for use in an environs defined by the customer. In one aspect, the system includes a processing element capable of proposing a plurality of purchasable items to the customer ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7905393 | Generating an optimized supplier allocation plan Generating an optimized supplier allocation plan includes identifying parts and suppliers associated with an allocation problem, where each supplier can supply at least one part. One or more objective functions are selected. Each objective function has part variable... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908304 | Method and system for managing distributor information An embodiment of the invention provides a system that enables financial services companies to manage and track information about a sales force. The system includes components for managing distributors information, for validating and tracking licenses and credentials... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7896230 | Method and business process for the estimation of erosion costs in assemble-to-order manufacturing operations A method for forecasting the component surpluses for a target planning period is provided. To begin this method, a planner first identifies each component required to produce a product. For each component, the planner defines a planned level and an uncancelable leve... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7886959 | Security monitoring system for a bulk foodstuff transport container A security monitoring system provides for the secure transport of a bulk foodstuff container. The system includes an electromechanical locking mechanism allowing access by only authorized persons, a positional locator for determining the geographical position of the... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886960 | Redistribution of parts in a distribution network Redistributing parts includes defining locations. An actual inventory of parts is established among the locations, and a desired allocation of the parts is established among the locations. A demand for the parts at each location is determined using the actual invent... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7883002 | Automated listing management Disclosed is a sales system for lots of items that includes business rule definition logic. The sales system also includes offering creation logic that is operative to dynamically create different offerings for items in the lots. The offering creation logic optimize... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883003 | Tracking system using personal digital key groups A system and method provides efficient and highly reliable customer tracking. A Personal Digital Key (PDK) is associated with and carried by a user. The PDK wirelessly communicates with a receiver/decoder circuit (RDC) that can be coupled to a variety of electronic ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7850071 | Portable tool and work management data collection system A work management data collection system 1 is provided with a data collection mechanism in a tool 2, and by counting a number of times a work operation has been executed or the like, obtains a work data identifying the work task that has been executed ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7828202 | System and method for controlling the transport of articles A system and method for controlling the transport of articles comprises in one embodiment one or more communication devices for receiving and transmitting data, at least one primary server in communication with the primary server for allocating couriers for the coll... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823770 | Method and system for maintaining confidentiality of personal information during E-commerce transactions A method for maintaining confidentiality of personal information during E-commerce transactions. The method includes: (1) compiling a profile of personal information within a depository for at least the buying party to an E-commerce transaction; (2) providing the bu... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7815103 | Method of and system for prediction of the state of health of an apparatus A method is describe of predicting the probable future condition of one or more components within an apparatus comprising a plurality of sensors arranged to monitor the operation of components of the apparatus and a control means arranged to receive said information... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7748609 | System and method for browser based access to smart cards A client-side application extension executable on a host computer from within a web-browser having the capability of executing at least one web-browser add-on to provide a user access to a smart card, connected to the host computer having a smart card resource manag... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7743976 | Method for labeling sample containers A method of providing sample containers with an automatically readable identification for an analysis device, in which the sample container may be heated to an operating temperature for analysis. It is the object of the invention to improve the identification of sam... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7712654 | Goods supply system A goods supply system that retrieves parts for making up a product from goods storage locations in a supply area and supplies them to an assembly line, which comprises: a storage means that registers key information on the product and parts information including inf... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7703670 | Method and apparatus for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain having disparate systems The present invention describes a method and system for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain of trading partners having disparate systems. A trading partner exchange (TPE) interfaces with each of the disparate systems and gathers information pert... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7686208 | Simultaneous real-time presentation of financial information The present invention is defined by the following claims, and nothing in this section should be taken as a limitation on those claims. By way of introduction, the preferred embodiments describe below include a method of simultaneously presenting user specific real-t... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7673790 | Vote by mail envelope that protects integrity of ballot during signature verification A vote-by-mail return envelope that includes a pouch portion for containing the ballot and a stub portion on which the voter applies his/her signature and method for processing are provided. Each portion of the envelope contains a respective barcode that identifies ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7673791 | Method and apparatus for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain having disparate systems The present invention describes a method and system for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain of trading partners having disparate systems. A trading partner exchange (TPE) interfaces with each of the disparate systems and gathers information pert... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7614547 | Marketplace system capable of using purchase history data to generate listing request messages An electronic marketplace system provides various features for assisting users in listing products for sale, locating the listings for a product, and performing related actions. A user wishing to sell a product can browse to an existing description of the product in... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7607572 | Formalizing, diffusing, and enforcing policy advisories and monitoring policy compliance in the management of networks An apparatus and method for centralized policy management of large-scale networks (221) of computational devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a number of distributed clients (400) run on registered computers (201-203), gathering p... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7604162 | Method and system for management of terminal devices The present invention relates to a method and a system for management of terminal devices. The core of the present invention is as follows: a terminal device monitors and acquires events generated in the terminal device under off-line conditions, and reports the eve... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600671 | Method of determining the cause of an error state in an apparatus A method is described for determining the cause of an error state for one or more components within an apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plurality of sensors arranged to monitor the operation of components of the apparatus and a control means arranged to receive ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7594601 | Optimized deployment of parts in a distribution network A method for deploying parts is disclosed. Locations that include supply locations and demand locations are defined. A supply location supplies parts to a demand location. A demand is computed for each part at each location. An availability lead-time is estimated fo... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7562812 | Redistribution of parts in a distribution network Redistributing parts includes defining locations. An actual inventory of parts is established among the locations, and a desired allocation of the parts is established among the locations. A demand for the parts at each location is determined using the actual invent... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7448534 | Philanthropy management apparatus, system, and methods of use and doing business A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitabl... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440901 | Method and system to communicate agricultural product information to a consumer A method to communicate agricultural product information to a user includes receiving, at a management information system, a request for agricultural product information. The request includes an agricultural product identifier. An agricultural product record, identi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434730 | part availability business process A system and method for identifying and ordering parts and monitoring inventory levels is presented. The method includes the steps of capturing identifying information from the part, identify the part from the identifying information and ordering the part from a por... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7427016 | System and method for screening for fraud in commercial transactions A method for screening for potential fraud in commercial paper is provided. For example, a method of the invention comprises steps of presenting a check for cashing to a check cashing agent (e.g., a bank teller); scanning or inspecting the check for data; selecting ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424972 | Automated banking machine system and method An automated banking machine (152) includes a plurality of transaction function devices. The transaction function devices include a card reader (170), a keypad (172), a printer (174), a bill dispenser (176), a coin dispenser (17... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425898 | Label with removable RFID portion A self adhesive label including a removable RFID tag. The multi-layer label includes a content label and a base label. A removable portion of the content label includes an RFID tag. An exposable portion of the base label is exposed when the removable portion of the ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7401728 | Feed-forward control in event-based manufacturing systems Communication between machines in an event-based manufacturing system. In an event-based manufacturing system, material-specific data obtained for a material produced during a first manufacturing operation is used to govern a second manufacturing operation to decrea... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397376 | Object tracking method and system using tags A method and system of tracking documents uses tags and a workflow. Initially, a workflow is developed for each document or type of documents using a state diagram. The workflow specifies a subset of one or more destinations that the document is allowed to travel an... | 07/08/2008 |
