I-bed for cooperating personal electronic device
Granted: November 12, 2013
Patent Number:
8583144
An accessory for use with a cooperating portable electronic device (PED) is provided. The accessory includes a station that can support a PED, and also charge it in some embodiments. A cooperating PED transmits an action signal when it receives an incoming call or text. When the station senses the action signal, it further generates a human-perceptible indication to help notify the user, who might have walked away. The human-perceptible indication can include a call sound or a light…
Methods, systems, and computer program products for obtaining best execution of orders to buy or sell a financial instrument for which a net asset value is periodically calculated
Granted: November 5, 2013
Patent Number:
8577787
The present invention uses new order entry types (formats) and new order management methods to meet the order and transaction management needs of investors, traders, brokers, market makers and service providers for institutional traders for transactions in NAV Instruments by integrating the implementation of trades when conventional markets and NAV-based trading markets operate contemporaneously. Among other features, the invention provides methods and computer systems for determining…
Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating non-transparent exchange-traded fund share creations and redemptions with optional early cutoff times
Granted: May 28, 2013
Patent Number:
8452682
A system, method and computer product for providing risk information and cost estimation tools to traders in exchange-traded fund shares. The disclosed processes develop, calculate, and publish supplemental information using confidential fund data to support trading in exchange-traded funds with portfolios that are not totally transparent and that use portfolio composition files that are not identical to the fund portfolios. The supplementary trading information preserves fund portfolio…
Process for the preparation of hydroxy polymer esters and their use
Granted: April 2, 2013
Patent Number:
8410262
This invention covers a novel method for the preparation of hydroxy polymer esters of amino, alkylamino and quaternary ammonium acids and their use in several fields of industry, including the use as additives in the manufacture of paper or paperboard. The esterification of the hydroxy polymer, preferably starch, is performed under semianhydrous conditions by heating homogenized mixtures of the hydroxy polymer and reagents.
Variants of NAV-based trading for less closely-linked components of index arbitrage complexes
Granted: December 11, 2012
Patent Number:
8332307
Systems and methods are provided in which a first module is configured to execute a trade of a securities futures product on an underlying financial instrument for which a valuation relative to at least one of (a) a net asset value and (b) a closing price, is calculated and published at or after a specified time. A second module determines a price for the executed trade, in which the price is specified relative to the valuation and/or the valuation with a basis adjustment. The second…
Methods, systems, and computer program products for obtaining best execution of orders to buy or sell a financial instrument for which a net asset value is periodically calculated
Granted: November 6, 2012
Patent Number:
8306901
The present invention uses new order entry types (formats) and new order management methods to meet the order and transaction management needs of investors, traders, brokers, market makers and service providers for institutional traders for transactions in NAV Instruments by integrating the implementation of trades when conventional markets and NAV-based trading markets operate contemporaneously. Among other features, the invention provides methods and computer systems for determining…
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing risk management information and tools to traders in fund shares
Granted: March 6, 2012
Patent Number:
8131621
A system, method and computer product for providing risk information and cost estimation tools to traders in exchange-traded fund shares. The disclosed processes develop, calculate, and publish supplemental information using confidential fund data to support trading in exchange-traded funds with portfolios that are not totally transparent and that use portfolio composition files that are not identical to the fund portfolios. The supplementary trading information preserves fund portfolio…
Dynamic natural language understanding
Granted: November 23, 2010
Patent Number:
7840400
Methods and systems for dynamic natural language understanding. A hierarchical structure of semantic categories is exploited to assist in the natural language understanding. Optionally, the natural language to be understood includes a request.
Measurement while drilling tool and method
Granted: August 5, 2008
Patent Number:
7408837
An apparatus for telemetering a downhole parameter from a well. The apparatus comprises a housing having a bore. The apparatus further comprises an annular main valve with an enlarged end positioned within the bore, with the main valve having a center of axis. A restrictor is concentrically disposed within the bore, the restrictor configured to define an annular passage with the main valve. The apparatus also includes: a pressure device for supplying hydraulic pressure to the main valve;…
Irrigation device
Granted: July 15, 2008
Patent Number:
D573250
Method and apparatus for radio frequency identification
Granted: May 20, 2008
Patent Number:
7376444
The present invention is a method and apparatus for radio frequency identification, comprising a supporter and a data card which can be connected with the supporter, wherein a user can easily carry and use an RFID data card, and, when co-operated with a supporter, the RFID data card can have wider application.
System and method for providing fault-tolerant remote controlled computing devices
Granted: December 11, 2007
Patent Number:
7308487
A system and method for providing a fault-tolerant remote controlled computing device. A multi-tasking operating system and at least one primary process are executed on the computing device. A first monitor process determines whether any primary process is in a fault state. In response to any primary process being in a fault state, the first monitor process resolves the fault state of each such primary process. In certain embodiments, a local copy of a common configuration file and…
Device for setting a direction
Granted: July 10, 2007
Patent Number:
7241241
A direction setting device has a frame and a rotatably mounted shaft which supports a first belt pulley whose rotational position defines a direction to be set. A rotary motor on the frame supports a second belt pulley, and an endless belt extends around the first and second pulleys. A deflecting device deflects a second part of the belt while the motor is stationary at a set position of rotation, so as to change the effective length of the second part of the belt. A resilient tensioning…
Ear irrigation device
Granted: May 15, 2007
Patent Number:
D542910
Dynamic natural language understanding
Granted: May 8, 2007
Patent Number:
7216073
Methods and systems for dynamic natural language understanding. A hierarchical structure of semantic categories is exploited to assist in the natural language understanding. Optionally, the natural language to be understood includes a request.
High-repetition-rate passively mode-locked solid-state laser
Granted: September 12, 2006
Patent Number:
7106764
A passively mode-locked solid-state laser is designed to emit a continuous-wave train (51, 52) of electromagnetic-radiation pulses, the fundamental repetition rate of the emitted pulses exceeding 1 GHz, without Q-switching instabilities. The laser includes an optical resonator (3.1), a solid-state laser gain element (2) placed inside the optical resonator (3.1), a device (1) for exciting said laser gain element (2) to emit electromagnetic radiation having the effective wavelength, and a…
Ear irrigation device
Granted: September 27, 2005
Patent Number:
6949088
The invention provides an ear irrigation device for injecting a fluid into an external ear canal extending between an external ear and a tympanic membrane. The external ear canal includes an outer portion extending inwardly from the external ear and including cerumen-producing glands and an inner portion between the tympanic membrane and the outer portion. The ear irrigation device has a longitudinally extending body including an inward end and an outward end. Also, the ear irrigation…
Semiconductor saturable absorber device, and laser
Granted: November 30, 2004
Patent Number:
6826219
According to the invention, a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror device for reflecting at least a proportion of electromagnetic radiation of essentially one given optical frequency impinging on said device, comprises a substrate with a Bragg reflector, and on top of this Bragg reflector a layered structure with at least one layer with saturably absorbing semiconductor material. A low index dielectric coating layer is placed on said outermost surface of said structure. The Bragg…
Pulse-generating laser
Granted: August 17, 2004
Patent Number:
6778565
An optically pumped laser with an Er:Yb: doped solid state gain element is disclosed, which is passively mode-locked by means of a saturable absorber mirror. The laser is designed to operate at a fundamental repetition rate exceeding 1 GHz and preferably at an effective wavelength between 1525 nm and 1570 nm. Compared to state of the art solid state pulsed lasers, the threshold for Q-switched-mode-locked operation is substantially improved. Thus, according to one embodiment, the laser…
Optically nonlinear semiconductor material and a method for the production thereof
Granted: April 22, 2003
Patent Number:
6551850
Essentially non-linear optical material characteristics of a semiconductor material grown at low temperatures can be significantly improved by the following measures: Doping with foreign atoms and/or additional thermal annealing. If, for example GaAs grown at 300° C. is doped with Be to a concentration of 3·1019 cm−3, then the response time is reduced from 480 fs (curve 1.1) to 110 fs (curve 3.1), without the absorption modulation being reduced by this or the…
