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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373320 | Mechanism and business method for implementing a service contract futures exchange The present invention relates a futures exchange for services contracts. The SerFEx is an electronic market system that enables the exchange of cash (spot and forward) contracts and futures contracts for the delivery of services. Services are traded on the exchange ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366692 | Method and system for generating an index of investment returns A method and system for generating returns for investments in asset classes such as bonds, currencies, and commodities. The index of these returns may be used as a benchmark to measure the investment performance of one or more of the asset classes that make up the i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7343336 | Computerized system and method for optimizing after-tax proceeds A computerized system and method process financial securities and instruments to accurately determine and optimize the after-tax proceeds an investor could expect to have at the end of a holding period for each of a set of investment strategies and determines an opt... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7319983 | Account status system and method for managing a closing of a user account Method for managing a closing of an account of a user. The method includes receiving an identifier of the account of the user, retrieving status information associated with the identifier and determining whether the account is coded to close from the retrieved statu... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7257554 | Anonymous purchases while allowing verifiable identities for refunds returned along the paths taken to make the purchases An electronic commerce system and method has a number of computer systems connected by a network, including a broker computer system having a database of scrips representing a form of currency, a vendor computer system having a database containing products which may... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254558 | Method and system for prioritizing debt collections A collections prioritization method and system for use in a financial services business is disclosed. The system is configured to generate a collection priority value from information stored on the system and queue the accounts for collection action based on the pri... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251630 | Distributed bid processing method for open-cry and descending price auctions A distributed bid processing method uses a number of computers to process bids for a given open-cry auction or descending price auction in a distributed manner. The computers examine a set of bids and quickly filter out the losing bids. This helps in achieving faste... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251629 | Automated trading system in an electronic trading exchange An electronic exchange system network includes a trader site having an automated trading system capable of submitting orders to an exchange site. The automated trading system determines whether an order should be submitted based on, for example, the current market p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7219083 | Currency system A currency system (10) is described. The system (10) comprises a currency network (12) for handling and distributing currency, an information router (40) for receiving currency information from the currency network (12), a currency... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7181423 | System and method for stock options market management A system and method for analyzing the characteristics of sub-time periods of a time period over which a change of trend of a price evolution of a plurality of stock options occurs is disclosed. The system comprises means for storing data representative of the price ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177833 | Automated trading system in an electronic trading exchange An electronic exchange system network includes a trader site having an automated trading system capable of submitting orders and/or quotes to an exchange site. The automated trading system determines whether an order or quote should be submitted based on, for exampl... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171382 | Method and system of enabling minors to make stock market transactions via the Internet with adult authorization A method and system for enabling adults to perform stock market transactions on behalf of minors and other young persons who have demonstrated sufficient knowledge of the stock market. The method comprises enabling an adult to set up and put money into a custodial a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167837 | Fair-value pricing of a financial asset The fair value of a fund is determined by analyzing various factors indicative of how each underlying asset of the fund would be valued on the open market. The fund may be an international mutual fund that includes underlying assets, which include international equi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165043 | Valuation prediction models in situations with missing inputs A method of valuation of large groups of assets by partial full underwriting, partial sample underwriting and inferred values of the remainder using an iterative and adaptive supervised and unsupervised statistical evaluation of all assets and statistical inferences... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7155411 | Integrating payment accounts and an electronic wallet An electronic wallet including is made available to a user and is capable of storing a wide variety of different types of accounts (including both payment accounts and traditional credit card accounts). An identification of the different accounts corresponding to a ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149713 | System and method for automating investment planning A computerized scheme automates investment planning for a client. In the scheme, data regarding the client's desired asset allocation, current asset portfolio and preferred domain are input into a computer or processor. This data are used to automatically generate f... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143060 | Trading party profiles in system for facilitating trade processing and trade management A system for facilitating the processing and settlement of a securities trade is provided. The system includes a computer which receives trade execution information and trade allocation information indicative of an executed trade by first and second trading parties.... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7062457 | Method and system for entertainment production financing A system for purchasing from an intermediary a right to a payment related to the performance of an entertainment production. The system comprises a transaction server for generating web page data for a web page that displays information concerning one or more entert... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7035821 | Methods and apparatus for processing cash advance requests Methods and apparatus for processing cash advance requests are described. In one embodiment, the system includes a data repository, and a process management and workflow system coupled to the data repository. The process management and workflow system is configured ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024390 | Electronic wallet management system, electronic wallet device, electronic wallet management unit, and terminal station The invention solves the inconvenience that a customer would experience when his/her electronic wallet was lost or broken down. A backup condition testing means tests predefined backup conditions to determine whether to make a backup, when an electronic wallet devic... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6976008 | Internet billing method An Internet billing method comprises establishing an agreement between an Internet access provider and a customer, and an agreement between the Internet access provider and a vendor, wherein the Internet access provider agrees with the customer and the vendor to bil... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6947901 | Derivative securities trading product utilizing subsets of indices or portfolios A first equity instrument which represents an ownership interest in a portfolio of stocks. The portfolio of stocks is a subset of a larger portfolio of stocks, which also has a corresponding second equity instrument representing an ownership interest in the larger p... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6629888 | Hidden image game piece A hidden image game piece and a method by which a hidden image game piece is produced. A first pattern of colored ink is deposited on a transparent or highly translucent substrate at 110-180 density, forming the image which is to be hidden. Then a second ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6470325 | Method and data processing system for managing a mutual fund brokerage The invention provides a method of managing a mutual fund brokerage wherein subscribers, intending to purchase mutual fund portions in at least one mutual fund, enter into a service contract with the mutual fund brokerage. Each subscriber pays to the brok... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6411940 | Internet billing method An Internet billing method comprises establishing an agreement between an Internet access provider and a customer, and an agreement between the Internet access provider and a vendor, wherein the Internet access provider agrees with the customer and the ve... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6349291 | Method and system for analysis, display and dissemination of financial information using resampled statistical methods The present invention provides a method and system for the statistical analysis, display and dissemination of financial data over an information network such as the Internet and WWW. The present invention utilizes resampled statistical methods for the ana... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6324521 | Network photograph service system Upon providing a network photograph service, a prompt service can be provided to a customer without losing the advantage thereof such as ease of understanding where to access and collective data management. A service center receiving an order of a printin... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6321213 | Electronic money processing method having a transaction fee collecting function and an electronic money storage apparatus for the same An electronic money storage apparatus includes that an amount of remittance p is determined on a remitting side and a receiving side. A remitting apparatus obtains a remitter's transaction fee x and an amount y to be stored in a transaction fee storage ar... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6315207 | Smart diskette device adaptable to receive electronic medium An element which can be plugged into an electronic data processing (EDP) device, for receiving a user card which is equipped with components, including at least one of a processor and/or data memory, a frame having an exterior form, which is designed to a... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6252933 | X-ray generating apparatus Air cooled x-ray generating apparatus is provided with a unitary vacuum enclosure having a rotating anode target and a cathode assembly for generating x-rays. The cathode assembly may be placed within the vacuum enclosure through an opening in the top wal... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6230976 | Pinless dithering assembly for data reading A scanning system and method of data reading in which the scanning system is provided with a dithering assembly that is compact, easy to assemble, and configured to protect the more delicate scanning components, such as flexures, from damage due to extern... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6220513 | Methods and apparatus for determining bar code label location information A system for synchronization of the angular position of a rotating optical assembly in a bar code scanner having a rotating optical assembly. The optical assembly is rotated by a motor which produces a fixed number of pulses per rotation, the pulses occur... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6216950 | Optical scanning apparatus An optical scanning apparatus which reduces operator workload at a checkout counter and configured to be inexpensive to manufacture. In particular this optical scanning apparatus is designed so that an operator can scan merchandise without tilting these c... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6213398 | Data/pen well A data well arrangement is for storing data and for interfacing with a writing implement having a writing end with a writing tip and data transfer end with a data transfer tip. The data well arrangement has a housing with an inlet opening for receiving an... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212251 | Helical scanning type X-ray CT apparatus with movable gantry A helical-scanning type of X-ray CT apparatus includes a dolly 15 and a gantry body 7 mounted on the dolly 15. The dolly 15 is capable of translation relatively to a patient 5 lying on a tabletop 3. An X-ray tube 9 and an X-ray-detector 11 opposing the X-... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6206286 | Bar code reader A double-reading preventive control processing unit, when demodulated data corresponding to a whole bar code is obtained in an M10-OK buffer, notifies a reading-OK processing unit of this demodulated data on condition that a double-reading preventive time... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6202926 | Magnetic recording medium and method of making the same A magnetic recording medium, and methods of making and reading the same, including on at least a portion of a substrate an irreversible recording layer which contains an irreversible recording material undergoing an irreversible change of saturation magne... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6202931 | Memory card and method for producing same The invention relates to a memory card of the type comprising a card body (1) having an integrated circuit (2) embedded in one face thereof, with said face carrying a conductor pattern (3) made up of a plurality of conductive areas (4) and of associated c... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6199765 | Printer media with bar code identification system A bi-directionally scannable bar code pattern having a parallel array of alternating lines and spaces, each having selected widths. Each line has a common series of segments and segment spaces of selected lengths. The length of each segment may be the sam... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6196456 | Automated teller machine The present invention relates to an automated teller machine including a secure enclosure (25) within which is a secure autoteller subsystem (24) comprising a currency dispenser (30) and a depository (32) for the deposit of currency, cheques or other fina... | 03/06/2001 |
