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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185234 | Device and method for controlling the loading and/or unloading process of an airplane The invention relates to a device and a method for controlling the loading and/or unloading process of an aeroplane. According to the invention, a parcel introduced into the aeroplane is identified, a weight is associated with the parcel, the position of the parcel ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7522971 | Method and system for collecting and pooling unqualified batches of mail for pre-sorting A method and system is provided for collecting relatively small batches of mail that, alone, would not qualify for mailing at a pre-sorted postage rate and pooling them together with others for pre-sorting into a qualified batch of pre-sorted mail. The inventive met... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7412814 | Bottle or container transfer system for automated prescription filling Computer assisted systems, methods and mediums for filling one or more orders. One embodiment of the present invention is a system that includes an order consolidation station configured to receive at least one bottle containing pills individually counted and/or at ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411502 | Radio frequency identification tag based tray and tray receiving method and apparatus A tray (201) comprises electrically conductive material and has at least one hand-graspable fixture (203). This hand-graspable fixture comprises an electrical conductor (301) disposed in a location that is likely to be operably interacted with b... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7394380 | System and method for improved item tracking A method for tracking objects, including identifying and locating an object using a first method, identifying and locating a person using a second method, and associating the object and the person. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379788 | Manufactured article treatment processing system A manufactured article treatment processing method and system includes reading out from a manufactured article being subjected to treatment information of component parts of the article and specific properties of the component parts, extraction of the component part... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367731 | Feeding accuracy adjustment apparatus, recording apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus, feeding accuracy adjustment method for recording medium The printer 1 includes a controller 32 for feeding at least a sort of recording medium P to a feed mechanism, obtaining a tendency of degradation of feed accuracy with respect to at least one sort of the recording medium, calculating an adjustment valu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363105 | Insertion control According to the invention, an insertion system for collating sheets of printed material for insertion into an envelope is disclosed. The insertion system includes an insertion machine, application software and an operating system. Included in the application softwa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349853 | Method and system for routing hardcopy mail A method and system for routing hardcopy mail is provided. Specifically, a recipient is assigned a unique identifier. The recipient can electronically designate a mailing address to be associated with the assigned identifier. A sender wishing to send the recipient a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333873 | Method and device for providing cards to be applied to a carrier A method and a device for providing cards for processing first cause a drawing of a card from at least one card magazine. The cards are arranged in a plurality of card magazines and may be drawn from the same, and information regarding their card type is further ass... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333231 | Method and system for generating and finishing documents For generating and finishing documents, a first data file in a first format, which describes the content of a document, is provided. The first data file is converted into a second data file (21-25; 121-125) in a second format, in which image def... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325375 | Selective product inserter apparatus and process The combination of a plurality of streams of printed products. The first stream of products is selectively inserted into a packaging device while being merged into a second stream of products. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7308330 | Dynamic order swapping in BTO environment A method for addressing process variability in a build-to-order, mass customization production environment. The method includes receiving an order for a product having a particular configuration defined by the order, initiating a production order specifically assign... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7284749 | Sheet processing systems and methods Systems and methods for processing sheets, statements, and/or inserts prior to mailing are provided. One sheet processing system includes a receiver adapted to receive first and second sheets to be processed. The first sheet originates from a stack of first sheets o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280888 | Method and system for prepaid inserter machine In a mail inserting machine that a user uses to process mailpieces for a prepaid quantity, a counter is installed in an inaccessible manner to keep count of the processed mailpieces. The machine is disabled when the prepaid quantity is used up. In order to allow the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270528 | Flash curing in selective deposition modeling A flash curing system for solid freeform fabrication which generates a plurality of radiation emitting pulses that forms a planar flash. The planar flash initiates curing of a curable material dispensed by a solid freeform fabrication apparatus. The radiation emitti... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269474 | Controlled self-adjusting process for reducing selected dimensions of electronic products A method provides a self-learning mechanism for developing a database of information to be used in guiding selection of parts for temporary removal from a product, in order to reduce product dimensions for shipping and delivery or the like. In one embodiment a produ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7255338 | Method and apparatus for processing sheet material The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc., wherein different groups of sheet material are processed one after the other, the different groups of sheet materia... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243074 | Capacity monitoring process for a goods delivery system A method for determining capacity utilization and predicting the future capacity utilization of a goods delivery system from a supplier to a buyer utilizing a system having at least one delivery agent, at least one store, at least one manufacturer, and a plurality o... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233907 | Parcel or service delivery with partially scheduled time windows A delivery scheduling system that is configured for scheduling the delivery of an item or service from a sender to an intended recipient. After receiving a signal indicating that, for example, a particular package is to be delivered to an intended recipient, the sys... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225983 | Intelligent parcel monitoring and controlling apparatus and method and terminal for executing real-time parcel pickup and delivery and operation method thereof Provided are an intelligent parcel monitoring and controlling apparatus for real-time pickup and delivery, a method thereof, a terminal for the intelligent parcel monitoring and controlling apparatus, and a method for operating the terminal. The apparatus can correc... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219095 | Installation and method for updating an address database with recorded address records Installation and method for updating an address database in a database memory (44) containing recorded address records, making use of the following steps: receiving and processing address data as shown on items of post; storing the address data; the determina... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210106 | Authorized item distribution lists A facility for specifying the distribution of products and generating product distribution lists. The facility receives account definitions, which may include information specifying account hierarchies. One or more product categories may be associated with each acco... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7198260 | Method for synchronizing a number of paper feeding channels of a paper processing system The invention relates to a method for automatically synchronizing a number of paper feeding channels of an inserting system involving the following steps: a) inspecting the sheets provided for output in one of the channels by comparing their group sequence number an... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197376 | Mail processing system and method of delivering mail items to delivery location therein In a mail processing system that delivers articles to delivery locations a first transport vehicle at a first loading point is loaded with a first article, and guided along a first delivery path to a first delivery location. A second transport vehicle at a second lo... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185477 | Bottle or container transfer system for automated prescription filling Computer assisted systems, methods and mediums for filling one or more orders. One embodiment of the present invention is a system that includes an order consolidation station configured to receive at least one bottle containing pills individually counted and/or at ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185812 | Packaging inspection and verification system and method A packaging inspection and verification system and method are applied to products to be packaged. An identification device reads type barcodes of the products and labels affixed to packing boxes for receiving product accessories. A processing unit obtains from a dat... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184178 | Product and document fulfillment system A product and document fulfilment system for merging together discrete articles and specific documentation which pertains to each discrete article, and for packaging and labelling the same. The system comprises an article conveyor on which discrete articles are carr... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171487 | Method and system for application specific packet forwarding The present invention provides a method and system handling information exchange through networks 102 to 110 for interactive information exchange, especially for interactive Internet based game show. At least one server 120 and a plurality of cl... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7155877 | System for use in an assembly line A transfer system (10) is comprised of an air conveyor (11), a servo conveyor (12), and a fan feeder (13). In a typical configuration, the air conveyor is located at a first location where it receives packaged articles from a bagger syste... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7159054 | System and method for digital protection and control device for a power distribution network A digital protection and control (P & C) device for a power distribution network, which comprises a computerized control unit comprising a microprocessor. The P & C device, according to the present invention, further comprises an external computerized palmtop comput... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155305 | System and methods for home appliance identification and control in a networked environment A home control and automation system and method. The system generally includes one or more wireless remote controls, a plurality of appliances (including network enabled appliances and traditional legacy appliances in the exemplary system), associated control centri... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7138596 | Apparatus and method for mail sorting A method for sorting mail to a case having a plurality of slots is described, wherein each slot corresponds to a destination. The method includes steps of loading a mail piece to be sorted into a delivery robot, determining for the mail piece a destination slot the ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130803 | Unique virtual dynamically-capable addressing system and method of mail and parcel delivery and forwarding A system and method for unique virtual dynamically-capable (UVDC) addressing relating to mail and parcel delivery and forwarding. The UVDC addressing system comprises at least one data collection processing and storage Host that creates a unique virtual dynamically-... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130073 | Efficient storage and rendering of patterns in a printer Patterns are processed minimizing resources such as memory and/or processing power. According to one aspect, when a pattern object is received with the same identifier as that of an earlier received pattern, a count is maintained reflecting a number of times the ear... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7118034 | Systems and methods for package sortation and delivery using radio frequency identification technology A disclosed method comprises scanning a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag on a package to generate scanned data, and generating a handling instruction for the package based on the scanned data. The handling instruction can be executed to route the package to... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103836 | Method and system for generating materials for presentation on a non-frame capable web browser A method and system are disclosed for managing Internet presentation materials in a single file format for ease of administration while presenting to an Internet requestor only those portions of the file requested, for maximum performance. Also disclosed is a system... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103438 | System and method for searching and verifying documents in a document processing device A method of processing barcoded tickets in a document processing device including receiving a stack of barcoded tickets in an input receptacle of a document processing device. Each barcoded ticket includes a document-identifier or ticket number that identifies the b... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095527 | Method and apparatus for printing transparent graphics A method for printing documents containing transparent graphics objects includes creating a transparency list containing the transparent graphics objects of said document, and printing only objects contained in said transparency list as bitmaps. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084878 | Rendering page descriptions In rendering a page description on a rendering system, a method comprises the step of receiving objects and generating one or more sets of render instructions. For each received object it is first determined whether by adding the corresponding render instructions of... | 08/01/2006 |
