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US-6,105,010 Biometric certifying authorities
A biometric certifying authority (BCA) management system and method provide and maintain a hierarchical relationship among biometric certifying authorities in...
US-6,105,009 Automated teller machine dispenser of debit cards
An automated machine for dispensing debit cards that includes an automated teller machine (ATM) with input and output capabilities and a dispenser for debit...
US-6,105,008 Internet loading system using smart card
An architecture and system loads and uses a smart card for payment of goods and/or services purchased on-line over the Internet. A client module on a client...
US-6,105,007 Automatic financial account processing system
A method and apparatus for closed loop, automatic processing of typical financial transactions, including loans, setting up checking, savings and individual...
US-6,105,006 Transaction authentication for 1-way wireless financial messaging units
A secure financial messaging unit (906) includes a wide area radio frequency receiver (804), a selective call decoder (1004), a financial transaction processor...
US-6,105,005 System for enhanced financial trading support
A multi-purpose data processing system that is capable of going on-line to provide an operative link with established financial markets in support of subscriber...
US-6,105,004 Product monitoring system particularly useful in merchandising and inventory control
A product monitoring system for monitoring a variety of products grouped according to their identities on shelves, includes a central computer storing the...
US-6,105,003 Customer data processing system provided in a showroom
A customer data processing system for quick sales of desired goods, for example, a car, based on a questionnaire obtained from a customer. A salesman estimates...
US-6,105,002 Retail store efficiently configured to distribute electronic coupons at multiple product locations
A system for creating, dispensing, and redeeming electronic discount coupons in a store. The system includes a "smart card", product stations adjacent to...
US-6,105,001 Non-cash transaction incentive and commission distribution system
An electronic fund transfer system is disclosed wherein commissions for point-of-sale purchase transactions are determined and distributed to members of an...
US-6,105,000 Financial rebate program for utilities based on degree days
A financial rebate program provides a rebate to purchasers or sellers of energy such as electrical power and natural gas for a deviation from expected weather...
US-6,104,999 Transaction sets for automated electronic ordering of telecommunications products and services
A system and method for electronically exchanging information related to telecommunication services includes separating data representing the information to be...
US-6,104,998 System for coding voice signals to optimize bandwidth occupation in high speed packet switching networks
A system for coding voice signal to optimize bandwidth occupation in a High Speed Packet Switching network while ensuring best voice transmission quality. The...
US-6,104,997 Digital audio receiver with multi-channel swapping
A digital audio receiver with multi-channel swapping capabilities receives as inputs at least two AES serial digital audio streams. The audio streams are...
US-6,104,996 Audio coding with low-order adaptive prediction of transients
An encoder comprising predictive coding means for encoding electronic signals input thereto is disclosed. The predictive coding means is adapted to operate in a...
US-6,104,995 Speaker identification system for authorizing a decision on an electronic document
A principal identification system, approval system and recording medium store a plurality of different voice patterns corresponding to a plurality of persons....
US-6,104,994 Method for speech coding under background noise conditions
A method of coding speech under background noise conditions wherein during active voice speech segments an analysis-by-synthesis method is used. However, when a...
US-6,104,993 Apparatus and method for rate determination in a communication system
To accurately determine rate and voice activity in moderate-to-low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) to maximize voice quality, system capacity and/or battery life,...
US-6,104,992 Adaptive gain reduction to produce fixed codebook target signal
A multi-rate speech codec supports a plurality of encoding bit rate modes by adaptively selecting encoding bit rate modes to match communication channel...
US-6,104,991 Speech encoding and decoding system which modifies encoding and decoding characteristics based on an audio signal
The present invention relates to a speech encoder/decoder system employing digital transmission in which the encoding and decoding operations are complimentary,...
US-6,104,990 Language independent phrase extraction
A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more...
US-6,104,989 Real time detection of topical changes and topic identification via likelihood based methods
A method is disclosed for detecting topical changes and topic identification in texts in real time using likelihood ratio based methods. In accordance with the...
US-6,104,988 Electronic control assembly testing system
An automotive powertrain assembly testing system comprising an interface module adapted to interconnect between an electronic control module of an automotive...
US-6,104,987 System for monitoring dryer drum temperatures
A system is provided for monitoring the temperature of dryer drums in papermaking or textile machinery. Wireless temperature sensors are mounted to each dryer...
US-6,104,986 Continuously variable constant-attenuation phase shifter
A method and apparatus for a phase shifter includes a controller controlling a voltage controlled phase shifting circuit for shifting the phase of a high...
US-6,104,985 Device for classifying electronic components
An apparatus for classifying a device as being a first device type or a second device type, includes a fixture for coupling at least one device to be identified...
US-6,104,984 Automated method of frequency determination in software metric data through the use of the multiple signal...
In accordance with the present invention, a method for obtaining frequency nformation about a given data set is realized. The method comprises the steps of...
US-6,104,983 Method and apparatus for measuring waveform quality of CDMA signal
The present invention offers a method and apparatus for measuring the waveform quality of a CDMA signal with increased accuracy. A baseband digital measuring...
US-6,104,982 Compression method and apparatus for seismic data
The method includes the steps of applying a local spatial trigonometric transformation to seismic data to generate transformed data and compressing the...
US-6,104,981 Method of assisting detection of man-made structures in a digital elevation map (DEM)
A method of detecting man-made structures in a digital representation of a terrain, wherein said representation is a digital elevation map, and wherein said...
US-6,104,980 Vehicular operation processing system
A vehicular operation processing system has a memory card for storing coordinates of a plurality of check point sets, each of which is composed of a set of check...
US-6,104,979 Integrated swath guidance system
An integrated guidance system for use in swath guidance applications combines the display of swath navigation information with swath guidance system information....
US-6,104,978 GPS-based centralized tracking system with reduced energy consumption
A communication method reduces both the asset energy requirements and communication channel occupancy in a reduced order GPS asset tracking system. The asset is...
US-6,104,977 Method and system for engine control
A system and method for reducing cab vibration during engine shutdown in a vehicle, including an internal combustion engine, an engine brake, and an electronic...
US-6,104,976 Vehicle speed control system
A vehicle speed control system comprises a section for calculating a command driving force-required to make a sensed vehicle speed equal to a preset command...
US-6,104,975 Method and apparatus for calculating a pseudo crank rotational speed for a bicycle
A pseudo crank rotational speed determining unit for a bicycle includes a speed determining unit which determines a speed of the bicycle and a pseudo crank...
US-6,104,974 System for varying the gear ratio for a multi-step transmission
A system for changing the gear ratio with a multi-step reduction gear, where a flywheel is accelerated or decelerated during a change in gear ratio. The...
US-6,104,973 Device for starting occupant crash protector
A device for starting an occupant crash protector can output, as a start signal, a logical product of an output of a collision determining mechanism and an...
US-6,104,972 Passenger sensing system
A background heat source unit 4 having a plurality of heat sources, which are arranged substantially at a fixed interval and set to a temperature different from...
US-6,104,971 Controller, in particular motor vehicle controller
A control apparatus, especially a motor vehicle control apparatus, is described having: a first control unit (13), a first programmable memory unit (14), which...
US-6,104,970 Crawler inspection vehicle with precise mapping capability
A crawler vehicle for inspection of the floor of a tank partially filled with a liquid includes telemetry carried by a tether between the vehicle and the remote...
US-6,104,969 Methods and apparatus for operating an input device in a turbulent environment
An apparatus and a method are provided for processing a user input that is used to drive cursor movement on a display in a vehicle that is operating in a...
US-6,104,968 Programmable supervisory circuit and applications therefore
The invention herein provides a supervisory circuit which is adapted to monitor an input signal and produce as an output signal, a parametric signal...
US-6,104,967 Fault-tolerant battery system employing intra-battery network architecture
A distributed energy storing system employing a communications network is disclosed. A distributed battery system includes a number of energy storing modules,...
US-6,104,966 Primal tracking
A method and system for tracking and identifying food products as they are being processed is disclosed, wherein no tags or encodings are attached to the food...
US-6,104,965 Control of workstations in assembly lines
A workstation (1) in an assembly line for placing components onto workpieces is associated with a conveyor (3) for conveying the workpieces into and out of...
US-6,104,964 Processing rate calculation apparatus, a processing rate calculation method, and a computer readable recording...
A processing result storage device stores data on the results of an etching apparatus having processed a product. An apparatus property storage device stores...
US-6,104,963 Communication system for distributed-object building automation system
A distributed computer-implemented building automation system for supporting applications that interact with building automation devices. The building automation...
US-6,104,962 System for and method of allocating processing tasks of a control program configured to control a distributed...
A method and system for allocating programming objects of a control program configured to control a distributed control system having a plurality of distributed...
US-6,104,961 Endocardial defibrillation lead with looped cable conductor
An implantable endocardial defibrillation lead having a looped cable conductor for conducting at least high voltage defibrillation shocks. A coil electrode is...
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