System and method for monitoring computer usage
The present invention is directed to a system and method for monitoring computer usage. In a preferred embodiment, a computer operator specifies discrete moments of a computer's usage at which screen ... Read More
Inventors: Olah, Laslo; Friedler, Ferenc; Kovacs, Zoltan;, Assignee: Olah; Laslo (Plano, TX) |
System and method for performing discrete simulation of ergonomic movements
OF THE INVENTION In the following detailed description of an embodiment, consistent with the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings that form a part thereof, and in which is shown ... Read More
Inventors: Elyea, Larry L.; Brown, John W.; Aubin, David J.; Cathell, Vance J.;, Assignee: United States Postal Service (Washington, DC) |
Startup and operational techniques for a digital flowmeter
FIG 1A is an illustration of a digital flowmeter using a bent flowtube 102. Specifically, the bent flowtube 102 may be used to measure one or more physical characteristics of, for example, a (traveli... Read More
Inventors: Henry, Manus P.; Zamora, Mayela E.;, Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc. (Foxboro, MA) |
Digital prescription carrier and monitor system
The present invention provides a method and a prescription carrier apparatus for storing prescription data by a physician and for retrieval by a pharmacist. The carrier data cannot be accessed by the ... Read More
Inventors: Stoll, Thomas G.; Schmidt, Karl P.;, Assignee: NextMed, LLC (Kansas City, MO) |
Anisotropic neutron scatter method and apparatus
OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a neutron resonant scatter analysis system which requires only a single monoenergetic neutron beam for its operation. The invention relies upon the ani... Read More
Inventors: Gomberg, Henry J.;, Assignee: Penetron, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) |
Metering incoming deliverable mail to identify delivery delays
This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a system that allows a third party, such as a postage meter manufacturer or PSD manufacturer, to collate data, process the data... Read More
Inventors: Sansone, Ronald P.; McFiggans, Robert B.;, Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc. (Stamford, CT) |
Metering incoming deliverable mail
This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a system that indicates when normal digital postage meter mail or PSD mail is received by an addressee. The foregoing is accomp... Read More
Inventors: McFiggans, Robert B.; Sansone, Ronald P.;, Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc. (Stamford, CT) |
Secure on-line PC postage metering system
OF THE PRESENT INVENTION A method and apparatus for providing a secure software rental system is described. In the following description, numerous specific details, such as number and nature of messa... Read More
Inventors: Ananda, Mohan;, Assignee: Stamps.Com, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA) |
Automated self-service mail processing and storing systems
The present invention is directed to automated self-service mailing systems which will process and securely store packages and letters of various sizes for subsequent pick-up by a commercial carrier. ... Read More
Inventors: Gil, Asher; Daron, John B.; Vettical, Celestine;, Assignee: PI Electronics Corp. (Houston, TX) |
Mail processing apparatus and collection box with a mail article sealer
Accordingly, one embodiment of the present invention provides a mail processing apparatus, including an enclosure adapted for receiving deposited mail articles, a depository port adapted for passing d... Read More
Inventors: Felice, Robert J.; Fitzgibbons, Patrick J.; Taylor, Louis B.;, Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD) |
Firewall subscription service system and method
A method and system are described for creating and maintaining a firewall subscription service. A firewall is established within the firewall service. Customers are permitted to subscribe to the firew... Read More
Inventors: Boies, Stephen J.; Dinkin, Samuel H.; Moskowitz, Paul A.; Yu, Philip S.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Information processing system using information caching based on user activity
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an information processing system in which the necessary information can be transferred via a network by the time this information becomes ... Read More
Inventors: Takagi, Masahiro; Kamitake, Takashi;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Method for parity analysis and remedy calculation
The present invention meets the needs described above by providing a method for determining whether parity exists between the services provided by an ILEC to its customers and the services provided by... Read More
Inventors: Shellum, Paul; Elmore, Mitch; Grant, Bill;, Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Wilmington, DE) |
System for electronic barter, trading and redeeming points accumulated in frequent use reward programs
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT With reference to FIG. 4, a plurality of reward server computers 10, 12, 14, a trading server 20, a merchant computer 30 and a user computer 40 are shown in communication ... Read More
Inventors: Postrel, Richard;, Assignee: Signature Systems, LLC (Miami Beach, FL) |
Computer aided real-time decision support system and method
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system having a nature of information simultaneity between the dealer/trader and customers, capable of allowing the dealer/trader and i... Read More
Inventors: Kosaka, Michitaka; Mizuno, Hirotaka; Sasaki, Toshiro; Naoe, Hidenori; Matsumoto, Kuniaki;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and system for selling and purchasing media advertising over a distributed communication network
The present invention provides a solution to the problems and shortcomings in the art as described above, by providing a method and system for bringing media sellers and media buyers together at a cen... Read More
Inventors: Del Sesto, Justin;, Assignee: DirectRep, LLC (Washington, DC) |
Multi-media information record device, and a multi-media information playback device
It is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-media information playback device, in which readout of display data from a recording medium is not necessary each time a part of a screen im... Read More
Inventors: Oashi, Masahiro; Kusumi, Yuki; Kawai, Masahiro; Kawahara, Chihiro; Sasaki, Ryoichi;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Osaka, JP) |
System and method for transferring a session from one application server to another without losing existing resources
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a system and method for allowing a session to be transferred from one application server to another in a multimedia system without losing existing res... Read More
Inventors: Dixon, Peggy PakFan; Shi, Danling; Verburg, Richard Lee; Wood, Donald Edwin;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Ad controller for use in implementing user-transparent network-distributed advertising and for interstitially displaying an advertisement so distributed
Advantageously, our present inventive technique satisfies this need by overcoming the deficiencies associated with conventional web-based interstitial advertising techniques. Our present invention acc... Read More
Inventors: Landsman, Rick W.; Lee, Wei-Yeh;, Assignee: Unicast Communications Corporation (New York, NY) |
Customer billing relationships software
OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a Customer Billing Relationships accounting software system. For clarity, the invention is described below from two perspectives: an application architecture... Read More
Inventors: Rome, Joseph B.; Parris, Raymonda J.; O'Bryan, Susan S.;, Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Wilmington, DE) |
Electronic game system
Embodiment of the invention, described below, permit a user on a connected device to interact with a persistent game world. The user may be playing a game any type of connected device, either wired o... Read More
Inventors: Lloyd, David B.; Tillotson, Mark;, Assignee: nGame Limited (Cambridge, GB) |
Method for knowledge management
The present invention provides a method of creating sustainable knowledge management practices by creating knowledge communities. A community is a group of people with a common purpose and a motivatio... Read More
Inventors: Wizdo, Lori D.; Farbrother, Ian; McHugh, Michael Williams; Goodall, Alex; Taylor, Robert Martin; Geraghty, Barbara Toddie; McCabe, Susan; Kane, James; Beyer, N. Lee;, Assignee: Unisys Corporation (Blue Bell, PA) |
Method of determining the acceptability of a request to preengage receipt and/or payment of money in an ATM system using the same
An object of the present invention is to enable changing of the preengagement data by a customer when a preengagement is not accepted. Another object of the present invention is to prevent an occurran... Read More
Inventors: Matsuura, Kunihisa; Horiba, Yoshio;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Comparative performance modeling for distributed object oriented applications
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 illustrates a typical distributed system with mixed hardware and platform "host" systems interconnected over different types of hardware. In the example illustrate... Read More
Inventors: McDonald, Richard Denison; Rass, Anita Krista; Qin, Bin; Thompson, Brighid Anne;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Multi-transaction service system
It is the object of the invention to provide a multi-transaction service system which does not suffer from the disadvantages of known arrangements of a separate delivery channel for each service. Acco... Read More
Inventors: Eaton, Morag M.; Horn, David; Cranston, Ian A.; Ambler, Stephen;, Assignee: NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH) |
System and method of targeted marketing
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to FIG. 1, the overall conceptual framework of the present invention is described. The present invention is an integrated network of content providers who are es... Read More
Inventors: Jones, III, Charles L.; Eginton, William A.;, Assignee: Marketswitch Corp. (Dulles, VA) |
Computer-implemented decision management system with dynamically generated questions and answer choices
An object of the invention, therefore, is to provide a simple, easy-to-use authoring program for writing applications for a computer-assisted decision management advice system such as a document assem... Read More
Inventors: Fagg, III, Fred D.; Bergsman, Peter D.;, Assignee: Expert Systems Publishing Co. (Lake Oswego, OR) |
System configuration proposal method and tool therefor
It is an object of the invention to provide a system configuration evaluation/proposal support method which can quantitatively evaluate the influences of a support information system and the ability o... Read More
Inventors: Nagai, Yasuhiko; Nakayama, Yoshiyuki; Matsui, Susumu;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Financial instruments and systems
I claim: 1. A financial services system comprising: first means operative to issue to each of a number of individual entities a financial certificate in exchange for an amount of dollar-equivalent val... Read More
Inventors: Nilssen, Ole K.;, Assignee: |
System and method for financial instrument modeling and valuation
What is claimed is: 1. A method for automatically generating software code in a target language for modeling and valuing a financial instrument, comprising the steps of: a) developing a problem specif... Read More
Inventors: Kant, Elaine; Randall, Curt;, Assignee: Scicomp, Inc. (Austin, TX) |
Finance 
