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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7181689 | Method for sorting and displaying a multiple user database A method for organizing and displaying multiple calendars (200, 300, 400, and 500) from multiple devices (102, 104, 106, and 108) to give an appearance of a single user calendar (1100 and 1200) on a user's device is disclose... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6585520 | Method and system for enhancing memorization by using a mnemonic display A method and system is disclosed for enhancing a memorization process by using a mnemonic display implemented with a grid learning system. First, the grid learning system is implemented on a predetermined display area of a display device with a plurality ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6408218 | Shop floor control system An apparatus for monitoring the assembling, testing, and inspection of a product is provided comprising a plurality of kits, wherein each kit contains a plurality of parts to be assembled together to form a product. The apparatus further comprises a plura... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6345821 | Household chore designation game A game for designating chores is provided comprising a board structure having a front face from which markings can be erased. Defined areas of the face are divided into at least a chore region and a name region. Numbered chores are listed in the chore reg... | 02/12/2002 |
| 5810395 | Method for recording and tracking the progress of activities A method for indicating and tracking the progress of activities is disclosed wherein a table containing a calendar covering at least a portion of a calendar year is provided. Activities which are intended to be undertaken during the period of time covered... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5554034 | Workpiece organizer An organizer is disclosed herein for identifying a workpiece with a noted project or owner on a work chart. The chart has rows and columns containing indicia characterizing the workpiece and further including visual labels of a given shape and identificat... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5546564 | Cost estimating system A data estimating system for estimating a value of the highest probability which would correspond to a desired factor by statistically processing data having been determined from a plurality of factors. The factors are roughly divided into basic factors a... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5443387 | Planning tool including support having delimited reception zones to receive movable slips A planning too includes at least one set of detachable slips and at least one support, one side of which can temporarily receive slips in a given order. The slips each have a side which can be written on and a side partially coated with a pressure-sensiti... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5429373 | Play money to be earned and spent by children Play money to be earned and spent by children comprising a plurality of sheets of bills of money of various numerical denominations, the money having printed thereon the denominations, a happy child face and "money" printed thereon, such money adapted to ... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5317699 | Schedule management system with common memory for multiple users A schedule management system has a dispersive management unit. A data communication unit provides for communicating between a common schedule data storage memory units and for updating the schedule data which is so commonly stored. Data storage is based o... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5304066 | Machine shop management system A method for managing work progress of separate work jobs in a machine shop having a plurality of separate machining operations comprises applying to a work order document a row of colored labels with each colored associated with a respective one of the m... | 04/19/1994 |
| 4859187 | Database management enhancement device An enhancement device for database management systems utilizing a board or screen format having an array of cells with a set of mnemonic icons selctively positioned as portals to associated keys identifying records in the database, the set of icons prefer... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4853495 | Electronic blackboard and electronic blackboard system An electronic blackboard wherein a multiplicity of heads for reading and writing storage data in relation to memories are disposed lengthwise and breadthwise on the surface of a board so that data can be read from and written into the memories on the boar... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4700318 | Project construction with depiction means and methods Construction of projects such as buildings, bridges, dams, industrial plants, means of transport, or the like with the aid of means and methods for incremental depiction of such buildings, etc. Complex structural features of the construction project are d... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4511161 | Identification and control apparatus, for example, for service personnel for a restaurant A method and apparatus for dividing the working space of a restaurant into selected stations and for assigning service personnel to these stations comprising identification elements each associated with a respective subject and adapted for being magnetica... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4386475 | Scheduling board overrider system My invention provides a movable overrider system for moving a reference element board 15r over the front faces of track-supported module boards 15 of a modular scheduling board system 10. An upper wall track 12 supports a trolley bracket 20 that carries a... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4108356 | Scheduling tool A scheduling tool for establishing estimated duration of a contractual obligation involving multiple phases and associated functions thereof is utilized with a normalized scale and various overlays determined in accordance with statistical information rel... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4019027 | Apparatus and method for schedule monitoring and control For the scheduling of activities, particularly construction activities by the Critical Path Method, an apparatus is provided with a mechanical simulation of the network associated with the method, and is adapted to support a network chart of activities an... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4006345 | Scheduling tool A scheduling tool for establishing estimated duration of a contractual obligation involving multiple phases and associated functions thereof is utilized with a normalized scale and various overlays determined in accordance with statistical information rel... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4003150 | Scheduling board A scheduling board providing for the orderly listing of jobs or operations scheduled and/or contracted to be performed and the progress thereof in relation to the time allotted to each for their completion, said board incorporating an elongate, relatively... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3995387 | Shop load display system A shop load display system for indicating the distribution of a plurality of variable work loads among a plurality of variable work loads among a plurality of personnel. A display board has space thereon for listing each employee. Interval indicia are for... | 12/07/1976 |
