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Examiner: Smith, Jerry


Primary examiner statistics: 4686 patents; average approval time: 855 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 801 patents; average approval time: 646 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7373316 Automated sales support method
7373313 Service for enabling users to share information regarding product...
7373308 Computer system warranty upgrade method with configuration change...
7373307 Computer system warranty upgrade method
7366684 Blind-supply open commerce business system
7366689 Method of notifying information about commodity
7366688 System for processing applications for manufacture of vehicle par...
7363257 Method and system for in-line secondary transactions
7356493 Apparatus and method for passing information between catalogs in ...
7356489 System and method for virtually matching or comparing previously ...
7353191 Method and apparatus for selecting a desirable allocation of bids...
7353190 Gift-valuable article exchange assisting device and method, and c...
7353187 Methods and systems for storing predetermined multimedia informat...
7346541 System, method and computer readable medium for acquiring and ana...
7343324 Method, system, and computer readable medium for automatically pu...
7340416 Method, system, and computer readable medium for specifying a cus...
7340405 Method and system for developing optimized schedules
7340403 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for generating a div...
7340402 Generating a diverse set of travel options
7337132 Customizable two step mapping of extensible markup language data ...
7337130 Methods for automatically providing a personalized product
7337125 System and method for enhancing sales for service providers utili...
7337122 Method for producing a superior insurance model for commodity eve...
7333940 Method and computer-readable medium for negotiating reinsurance f...
7333939 Method for providing web-based insurance data processing services...
7333937 Health care financing method
7330819 Method and system for dynamic management of part reliability data
7328174 Sales enhancement system and method for retail businesses
7321861 Automation oriented healthcare delivery system and method based o...
7318043 Automatically identifying erroneous orders
7313529 Portable extender for data transmission within a medical device c...
7302399 Method and system for processing travel reservation data
7266510 Method for graphically representing clickstream data of a shoppin...
7263500 System, method, and device for graphically locating merchandise
7257549 Systems and circuits for providing support for user transactions ...
7257548 Method, apparatus and system for selecting, ordering and purchasi...
7249067 System and method for creating customized catalogues
7249065 Supplier proxy store to virtulize an external business entity
7249062 Method for transacting for a perishable object having an uncertai...
7249061 Method of electronic commerce including receiving an acceptance s...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7454086 Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents
7450768 Apparatus and method for processing image data based on object mo...
7447346 Image processing apparatus and image processing method capable of...
7424167 Tide filtering for video surveillance system
7412105 Tone selective adjustment of images
7403646 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and...
7397970 Automatic scene correlation and identification
7379615 Method for space-time filtering of noise in radiography
7359563 Method to stabilize a moving image
7359575 Dynamic warp map generation system and method
7356201 Process and device for the automatic rectification of single-chan...
7349585 Image processing system that internally transmits lowest-resoluti...
7340101 Device and method for compressing and decompressing data for grap...
7324678 Method for determining noise in radiography
7286710 Coding of a syntax element contained in a pre-coded video signal
7283680 Method for image processing by unsharp masking
7269297 Illuminant-neutral gray component replacement in systems for spec...
7221811 Method and apparatus for conveying image attributes
5911035 Method and apparatus for determining binocular affine disparity a...
5887121 Method of constrained Cartesian control of robotic mechanisms wit...
5845050 Method and apparatus for processing information and a method and ...
5835902 Concurrent learning and performance information processing system
5835683 System and method for authoring an expert system
5832188 Clock-synchronized motion control in discrete-time sampling syste...
5822741 Neural network/conceptual clustering fraud detection architecture
5819247 Apparatus and methods for machine learning hypotheses
5812740 Advanced modular cell placement system with neighborhood system d...
5809486 Fuzzy processing method and a processor implementing the same
5809493 Knowledge processing system employing confidence levels
5806051 Analog processor of antecedent parts of fuzzy logic rules
5805774 Circuit and method for determining membership in a set during a f...
5802507 Method for constructing a neural device for classification of obj...
5802508 Reasoning with rules in a multiple inheritance semantic network w...
5799134 One dimensional systolic array architecture for neural network
5796917 Method and apparatus for parallel processing of fuzzy rules
5793934 Method for the orientation, route planning and control of an auto...
5781704 Expert system method of performing crime site analysis
5771337 Cell for electronic diffusion network making it possible to creat...
5769639 Multi-educational device
5768476 Parallel multi-value neural networks
 
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