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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366983 | Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction A spell checker based on the noisy channel model has a source model and an error model. The source model determines how likely a word w in a dictionary is to have been generated. The error model determines how likely the word w was to have been incorrectly entered a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356188 | Recognizer of text-based work Described herein is a technology for recognizing the content of text documents. The technology determines one or more hash values for the content of a text document. Alternatively, the technology may generate a “sifted text” version of a document. In one impleme... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350142 | Method and system for creating a table version of a document A table version of a document is generated by computing a table layout of the document and generating the table version based on the table layout. Computing the table layout can include recording the positions of each object in the document while recording the posit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350145 | Methods and systems for providing technology-assisted content development A computerized system and method for personalizing a document. In one embodiment, a user at a computer retrieves a first message comprising at least one change point from memory. A change point is a word or phrase which may be substituted for other words/phrases by ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343565 | Handheld device graphical user interfaces for displaying patient medical records Ergonomic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying medical record information obtained from various sources within handheld devices are provided. A GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions.... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340673 | System and method for browser document editing Method, system and computer code for editing text in a document displayed in a World Wide Web browser. User edit requests intended to modify a font parameter of one or more characters within a text box are replaced by a predefined substitute edit request prior to up... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340604 | Using dynamic web components to remotely control the security state of web pages The invention automatically controls whether displayed web pages and associated frames displayed within a web browser are secure or non-secure. A dynamic “Web Component” remotely controls web page security states. The Web Component uses the same script and HTML ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334003 | Methods and systems for extracting related information from flat files Methods and systems for extracting related information from multiple two-dimensional files are provided. The method includes comparing data contained in at least one field of each record of a first file to data in a related field of each record of a second file. A r... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325191 | Preservation of source code formatting Documents before and after editing are compared. Changes are applied to the original document, thus preserving the existing formatting. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322047 | Data security system and method associated with data mining The data security method, system and associated data mining enables multiple users, each having a respective security clearance level to access security sensitive words, data objects, characters or icons. The method extracts security sensitive words, data objects, c... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320104 | Text grid creation tools Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (2a). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (3). A first menu (20) having a u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315902 | Compression and abbreviation for fixed length messaging A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length r... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313540 | Electronic communication system and method for facilitating financial transaction bidding and reporting processes A system and method for electronically communicating investment plan information between money managers and issuers of investment contracts to facilitate plan inquiry and plan bidding processes. An import specification is defined, identifying database format charact... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313513 | Method for editing and enhancing readability of authored documents Various methods are disclosed for improving the readability of authored documents. The methods generally involve scanning a sentence to check for specific signs of potential writing problems, and applying associated sign-dependent decision logic to assess whether pa... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305617 | Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling forced grid line spacing. The height of text consisting of a plurality of characters to be arranged within a current line in a grid displayed on a display d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302635 | Computer system and method of displaying hypertext documents with internal hypertext link definitions A computer system and method display internal and external hypertext link definitions in different representations to simplify a user's recognition of the external/internal status of each hypertext link definition in a document. Additional information, such as the d... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296145 | Method of secure communication over a distributed network without using secure socket layer A system and method for conducting secure distributed network communications without using Secure Socket Layer. A frame having an embedded security applet is forwarded by the device to an external node on the network. The security applet prompts a user at the extern... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287221 | Differential dynamic content delivery with text display in dependence upon sound level Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, where the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element i... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286658 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A method for use in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown in which Caller ID data originating from the public switched telephone network or other caller identifying data is received in a paging signal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281245 | Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application A method and system are provided for downloading software components from a remote source to a software application for providing updates or additions to the application's functionality. All components and files that may be utilized to update or add to functionality... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266500 | Method and system for automatic action control during speech deliveries A system and method of automatically controlling actions in dependence on a text of a speech includes storing most words or word combinations of the speech text. During the delivery of the speech, the speech text is captured by an acoustic recording device and appli... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260780 | Method and apparatus for providing foreign language text display when encoding is not available A method and apparatus include referencing a phonetic language database that includes double-byte font entries and associated phonetic representations of the double-byte font entries. At least one of the double-byte font entries is used to obtain a phonetic represen... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257210 | Picture phone with caller id Pictures are transmitted to a wireless picture phone with caller ID from a message originator and used by the message recipient to identify who is to sending the picture. In one embodiment the pictures are sent to a message center along with the caller ID of the mes... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249317 | Information processing apparatus, its control method, and storage medium This invention allows easy update of an image to be included in a document which is submitted on the network. For this purpose, data that set the image sensing times and image sensing states of a camera (111) the pan angle, tilt angle, and zoom ratio of which... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246321 | Editing data The invention relates to a method of editing data generated by handwriting. The method comprises the steps of detecting an initiation of an editing; identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edite... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240067 | System and methodology for extraction and aggregation of data from dynamic content A system and methodology for extraction and aggregation of data from dynamic content is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for extracting and structuring items of data from content available via the Internet, the method comprises steps ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225408 | System and user interface for communicating and processing patient record information A system facilitates the secure access, transfer and update of patient record information and the creation and navigation of image menus supporting the location and access of desired patient record data by a user. A system provides a user interface for use by a port... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207034 | Undo infrastructure Methods, systems, and computer program products that automatically generate and track undo information so that the developer of a user interface object need not be responsible for generating and tracking undo information. Change notifications for changes to an objec... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200812 | Method, apparatus and system for enabling users to selectively greek documents Documents may be greeked in whole or in part prior to viewing. Embodiments of the invention enable users to selectively greek and/or ungreek their documents for viewing in public locations. Various forms of greeking and/or ungreeking may be utilized to enable the us... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197695 | Automated paragraph layout Methods and apparatus for calculating paragraph layout. A method begins with a first node in a paragraph and calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ended in the node (140). For every subsequent node in the paragraph, the method calc... | 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 |
| 7191396 | Automated paragraph layout Methods and apparatus for calculating paragraph layout. A method begins with a first node in a paragraph and calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ended in the node. For every subsequent node in the paragraph, the method calculates an opt... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191390 | Automated paragraph layout Methods and apparatus for calculating paragraph layout. A method begins with a first node in a paragraph and calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ended in the node. For every subsequent node in the paragraph, the method calculates an opt... | 03/13/2007 |
