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Software and Software Methods Issued
Patents
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Interactive Internet
Shopping and Data Integration Method and System
A method and system for interactively shopping
for groceries, especially on an Internet web site, where the
user may create a shopping list, shop for items from the
list at a selected Grocery Storey store, arrange for pick up
or delivery of the selected items and payment, or to
download the list to a PDA or for printing with the store's
layout for use in the store. Users are required to register
and provide specific demographic information (useful to
Manufacturers and stores) to be eligible to receive the
benefits of use of the web site, such as menu creation,
coupon downloads, menu planning, and recipe input. Shopping
lists may be created from a single input screen using
standard language text; and products may be automatically
suggested to the user based on best regular price or
retailer's specials. Recipes may be altered to meet numbers
of servings or dietary requirements and changes stored for
future use. |
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Computer System for Trapshooting Competitions
A computer system utilizing a local
area network and multiple computers used in association with
a trapshooting competition of the type wherein each entrant
in each event is, at one of multiple squad-assignment
stations, assigned to a squad (of particular entrants)
scheduled for shooting at a specific time and place. This
system's operators, software, and hardware efficiently
manage the competition, including computer-assisting
assignment of each entrant to a position in a squad. The
computer system has a method for temporarily restricting
access to an entrant list for a squad of an event to a
particular computer workstation, enabling efficient
assigning of an additional entrant to a
temporarily-restricted entrant list, as well as handling
functions like handicapping, scoring, fees, prizes, etc. |
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Monitoring System
A system for improved monitoring of
changes in the location and conditions surrounding people
and property, utilizing fixed and moveable logic processors,
which communicate with each other as well as receivers.
Non-continuous signaling may be used to provide for reduced
power consumption, and network coupling may be used to
provided for exporting information to anywhere in the world. |
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System For Creating and Maintaining a Database of
Information Utilizing User Opinions
A system for automatically creating
and maintaining a database of information utilizing user
opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional
experiences. Described is an Internet system
assisting/motivating a population of users interested in
information about certain categories of subjects to
automatically maintain the database content and to improve
the usefulness and quality of the database information
without any substantial management by the website
owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form
of both comments and ratings about which natural-language
terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user
searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred
such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are
further preferred to be evaluative and approving. |
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System For Creating and Maintaining a Database of
Information Utilizing User Opinions
A system for automatically creating
and maintaining a database of information utilizing user
opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional
experiences. Described is an Internet system
assisting/motivating a population of users interested in
information about certain categories of subjects to
automatically maintain the database content and to improve
the usefulness and quality of the database information
without any substantial management by the website
owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form
of both comments and ratings about which natural-language
terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user
searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred
such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are
further preferred to be evaluative and approving. |
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Intelligent Sociable
Computer Systems
Disclosed are computer systems with
intelligent or autonomous decision systems which include
means for determining relevancy, i.e., the threats to and
opportunities of the autonomous decision system. Also
disclosed are such autonomous decision systems constructed
and arranged to interact sociably with humans, including the
use of natural languages and bonding. The desired "whether
concrete is included in abstract" computation system is
enhanced by a system of categorizing natural objects using
as primitives a set of self tendencies suitable, when
hierarchically assigned to objects, to do incremental
simulation of "future" situations (including such objects)
from a presented situation. Using such primitives and
computation system, planning, learning, languaging, etc.,
are efficiently accomplished. |
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