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| US-7,373,320 |
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... |
| US-7,373,319 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating sales of goods by independent
parties A method for facilitating sales of goods by independent parties. An independent seller is presented with a menu including selectable options for deriving a sale... |
| US-7,373,318 |
Information recommendation apparatus and information recommendation system An information recommendation apparatus selects and recommends contents coincident with or similar to conditions input. The conditions are represented by... |
| US-7,373,317 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating sales of goods by independent
parties A method for facilitating sales of goods of independent sellers. The method involves receiving a standard identification code, such as a UPC or ISBN code, of... |
| US-7,373,316 |
Automated sales support method A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more... |
| US-7,373,315 |
Vehicle body business methods Various vehicle body business processes are described which capitalize upon the interchangeability of vehicle bodies on a flat rolling chassis. The ability to... |
| US-7,373,314 |
Unified product purchasing method The present invention is directed to providing a method, apparatus and system for a unified product purchasing service and order injection system. More... |
| US-7,373,313 |
Service for enabling users to share information regarding products
represented on web pages A client executes in conjunction with a web browser on a user computer. The client interacts with a data server to provide user access to product-related... |
| US-7,373,312 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating user registration in an on-line
auction environment A method and apparatus for facilitating user registration in a network-based transaction facility are described. According to one embodiment, a user associated... |
| US-7,373,311 |
Method for constructing an updateable database of subject behavior
patterns Disclosed is a method for maintaining compact descriptions of the behavior of customers in a database of information relating to customer transactions. Of all... |
| US-7,373,310 |
Workflow system matrix organization search engine A rule-based search engine is used in conjunction with an automated network-based workflow system (which in turn is interfaced with an organizational database)... |
| US-7,373,309 |
System and method for calculating and displaying estimated wait times for
transaction request based on the... A reception management system for handling transactions includes a plurality of ACMs (Automated Contract/Consulting Terminals) for receiving procedure requests... |
| US-7,373,308 |
Computer system warranty upgrade method with configuration change
detection feature A computer system warranty upgrade method and apparatus are provided. The computer system is programmed to detect a change in its configuration such as when new... |
| US-7,373,307 |
Computer system warranty upgrade method A computer system warranty upgrade method and apparatus are provided. When a warranty upgrade is desired, the computer requesting a warranty upgrade sends its... |
| US-7,373,306 |
Systems and methods for tracking employee leaves under the FMLA Methods and systems for processing and tracking employee requests for leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) are disclosed. One method disclosed... |
| US-7,373,305 |
Accounting apparatus, accounting method, and computer-readable program
storage medium for storing program... A printer performs a printing operation by driving a cartridge to discharge ink. The ink in the printer is billed according to the amount of actual use of ink.... |
| US-7,373,304 |
System and method for integrated customer management An automated system and method for customer management deploys customer databases to profile customer service requests for distribution to appropriately assigned... |
| US-7,373,303 |
Methods and systems for estimating building reconstruction costs Systems and methods are provided for estimating a reconstruction cost for a building as well as for a designated area within a building. Reconstruction pricing... |
| US-7,373,302 |
Brain signal selection by contraction mapping with iterated function
systems The invention is a device for adapting a computer to enable identification of those subsets of a stream of signal values which form patterns when contraction... |
| US-7,373,301 |
Method for detecting emotions from speech using speaker identification To reduce the error rate when classifying emotions from an acoustical speech input (SI) only, it is suggested to include a process of speaker identification to... |
| US-7,373,300 |
System and method of providing a spoken dialog interface to a website Disclosed is a system and method for generating a spoken dialog service from website data. Spoken dialog components typically include an automatic speech... |
| US-7,373,299 |
Variable voice rate apparatus and variable voice rate method A variable voice rate apparatus to control a reproduction rate of voice, includes a voice data generation unit configured to generate voice data from the voice,... |
| US-7,373,298 |
Apparatus and method for coding excitation signal An excitation signal coding apparatus capable of improving an error resilience by changing an excitation vector search method (more specifically, an error... |
| US-7,373,297 |
Automated speech recognition filter An automated speech recognition filter is disclosed. The automated speech recognition filter device provides a speech signal to an automated speech platform that... |
| US-7,373,296 |
Method and apparatus for classifying a spectro-temporal interval of an
input audio signal, and a coder... A method of classifying a spectro-temporal interval of an input audio signal (x(t)) is disclosed. A spectro-temporal interval of the input audio signal is first... |
| US-7,373,295 |
Speech coder and speech decoder An excitation vector generator is provided for generating an excitation vector. The excitation vector includes a pulse vector generator that has at least one... |
| US-7,373,294 |
Intonation transformation for speech therapy and the like The intonation of speech is modified by an appropriate combination of resampling and time-domain harmonic scaling. Resampling increases (upsampling) or decreases... |
| US-7,373,293 |
Quantization noise shaping method and apparatus A method and apparatus for shaping quantization noise generated when compressing audio data at a low bit rate is disclosed. A predetermined quantization noise... |
| US-7,373,292 |
Text-to-scene conversion A system is disclosed for generating a scene description from a set of words. The system includes modules that perform the following functions: performing a... |
| US-7,373,291 |
Linguistic support for a recognizer of mathematical expressions The present invention provides a new source of information, linguistic models, to improve the accuracy of mathematical recognition. Specifically, the present... |
| US-7,373,290 |
Method and system for reducing storage requirements of simulation data via
keyword restrictions Disclosed herein is a method of managing data results of simulation processing of a hardware description language (HDL) model based upon keywords. In accordance... |
| US-7,373,289 |
Electrical isomorphism Method and system for determining electrical isomorphism between two electrical networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes representing the... |
| US-7,373,288 |
Method for modelling compositional and/or multiphase transfers between the
porous matrix and the fractures of a... A method for simulating compositional and/or multiphase transfers between the porous matrix and the fractures of a fractured multilayer porous medium, which are... |
| US-7,373,287 |
Finite element analysis tire footprint smoothing algorithm using multiple
load cases A method and apparatus for predicting the shape of a contact region of a finite element model deformed against a contact surface. The contact surface may be a... |
| US-7,373,286 |
Efficient data representation of teeth model A computer-implemented method generates a computer model of one or more teeth by receiving as input a digital data set of meshes representing the teeth;... |
| US-7,373,285 |
Application of phase behavior models in production allocation systems The present invention is directed to a method for allocating revenue or taxes to individual fluid streams commingled during an oil and gas production process,... |
| US-7,373,284 |
Method of evaluating the performance of a product using a virtual
environment In a method of evaluating a product worn on a body, a computer based body sub-model of at least a portion of the body is created. A computer based product... |
| US-7,373,283 |
Monitoring and fault detection system and method using improved empirical
model for range extrema A method and apparatus for improved monitoring the operational state of instrumented systems is provided. An empirical model characterizes normal or desirable... |
| US-7,373,282 |
Fault severity check and source identification A fault severity check and source identification method for a frequency domain instrument accesses acquired reflection data for a transmission line under test.... |
| US-7,373,281 |
High bandwidth oscilloscope A method for improving bandwidth of an oscilloscope involves, in preferred embodiments, the use of frequency up-conversion and down-conversion techniques. In an... |
| US-7,373,280 |
Method and system for detecting measurement error A method of and system for detecting a measurement error. The method includes: receiving measurement data from a measurement unit and user expression data from a... |
| US-7,373,279 |
Network A network including a bus through which data is transmitted and a plurality of network devices connected to the bus to form the network. In the network, at least... |
| US-7,373,278 |
Method of latent fault checking a cooling module A method of latent fault checking a cooling module of an embedded computer chassis may include prior to detection of an active fault in the cooling module,... |
| US-7,373,277 |
Methods and systems for detection of selected defects particularly in
relatively noisy inspection data Various methods and systems for detection of selected defects particularly in relatively noisy inspection data are provided. One method includes applying a... |
| US-7,373,276 |
Quantitative evaluation of emulsion stability based on critical electric
field measurements A method for quantitative evaluation of emulsion stability using Critical Electric Field (CEF) determinations over a range of conditions, such as a range of... |
| US-7,373,275 |
System and method of point matching measured positions to template
positions A system and method of point matching measured positions to template, or reference, positions for various applications may generally comprise creating force... |
| US-7,373,274 |
Methods and structure for improved interactive statistical analysis Methods and associated structure for flexible, easy-to-use, robust, statistical analysis of one or more factors associated with a continuous response outcome. A... |
| US-7,373,273 |
Light extractor for a light guide lamp There is described a light extractor (8) for a light guide lamp (1) whose useful surface, that is to say, the surface that, in use, faces the emission surface... |
| US-7,373,272 |
Temperature compensated resonant transmission line sensor A position sensing system uses a resonant transmission line having a moveable dielectric as a position sensor. The system includes circuitry that supplies an RF... |
| US-7,373,271 |
System and method for measuring position and orientation using
distortion-compensated magnetic fields An electromagnetic tracking system (600) and a distortion compensation method (500) that utilize a lead-lag network model to compensate for position and... |
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