Abstract: Watersport towers provide various features including legs that rotate relative to a cross-member of the tower that the legs are hingedly attached to such that the tower may adjust to various boat sizes and mounting locations, so that the tower may fold down in a first manner, and so that the tower is more compliant. Other features include leg attachment points of the cross-member that rotate to further allow the tower to adjust to various boat sizes and to allow the tower to fold down in an alternative manner. Other features include mounting bases that hingedly connect to the ends of the tower legs enabling the mounting bases to rotate relative to the legs such that the mounting bases can adapt to various boat mounting locations ranging from horizontal to vertical. Additionally, pads with recessed areas surrounding mounting holes may be utilized at the point of attachment to a boat to remove stress at the mounting holes of the boat.

Abstract: A telephone caller account management system is disclosed. The system includes a server computer having a customer account database created therein and a workstation in communication with the server computer. The workstation includes a monitor screen, a data entry device and a memory. The memory stores a first program and a second program. The first program, upon execution by the workstation, causes the workstation to display a first interactive form on the monitor screen, receive a first input from a user of the workstation, receive a second input from the user through the data entry device, and access a configuration file for the second program in response to the second input from the user. The first interactive form lists one or more configuration parameters for the second program along with corresponding current values for the one or more configuration parameters. The user sends the first input to the workstation through the data entry device.

Abstract: A system for and method of charging or maintaining a charge of a battery of a vehicle is disclosed. The system utilizes a light-transforming cell that can transform light energy to current. The cell may be supported such that the cell is exposed to light energy. Current produced by the cell is communicated with the battery through electrical connectors, which may have a switch. This invention may decrease occasions when a vehicle operator faces a weakened or dead battery in a vehicle because the invention serves to maintain the charge of the vehicle's battery when the vehicle is not in use.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to reusable, launderable water-soluble coveralls.

Abstract: Portable devices and associated methods for orienting a receiver that is supported on a mast by a mounting bracket in a desired orientation. In one embodiment, the portable device includes an actuator that is removably coupled to the mounting bracket and, upon actuation thereof, rotates the mounting bracket and the receiver about the mast to the desired orientation and, upon deactivation thereof, may be decoupled from the mounting bracket while the mounting bracket retains the receiver in the desired orientation.

Abstract: Vibrating fishing lures provide water dynamics to attract fish such as by increasing the amount of flashing that occurs and/or by increasing the surface ripple produced by lure vibration. A vibrating fishing lure has an elongate lure body with a cavity that houses an elongate battery and an elongate electric motor. The longitudinal axis of the lure body, battery, and motor are substantially co-linear so that activation of the electric motor causes the lure body to vibrate and to begin rotation about the longitudinal axis of the lure body. A vibrating fishing lure has an eccentrically weighted motor that lies within the surface plane of water that the lure floats upon so that then activation of the motor causes the vibration of the lure body with a maximum amplitude at the surface plane of the water to maximize surface ripple.

Abstract: Call detail service is provided using a trigger that only activates after the disposition of a telephone call is known, for example, a T-Busy and/or a T_NoAnswer. When a telephone call encounters the T-Busy or T_NoAnswer trigger a terminating central office switch attempts to complete the call. If the call is not completed because it is busy or not answered, the information related to the call is sent to a service control point. The service control point creates a call information record. The call information record is sent to a service management system that used the call information record to create a call detail report. Using the T_Busy and/or T_NoAnswer triggers eliminates the need to collect data for every telephone call to determine which calls are not completed because they are not answered or busy. As a result processing complexity and storage requirements are significantly reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheelchair that provides for efficient, safe transfer of a patient from the wheelchair to a bed or from a bed to the wheelchair. The wheelchair may be locked to a bed using small wheels attached to the wheelchair, that engages a track mounted onto the bed.

Abstract: A system and method for verifying the integrity of a DSL circuit on a shared telephone line. The invention uses the amplitude modulation principles to overcome the difficulty associated with a blocking capacitor that isolates a DSLAM on the DSL circuit from the rest of the shared telephone line. A transmitter of the invention mixes a high frequency carrier signal and a low frequency audio signal to produce an amplitude-modulated test signal. The amplitude modulated signal is supplied to the telephone line at a main distributing frame side of the blocking capacitor and is detected by a receiver at the DSLAM side of the blocking capacitor.

Abstract: A device for promoting the remote communication of a portable computer is described having a base that is attachable to the computer, an antenna that projects outward from the base, and a cable that connects the base to the computer. The device is made adjustable to fit a variety of different types of portable computers and be secured tightly on to them.

Abstract: A vibrating fishing lure provides a circuit board to control application of power from a battery to an electric motor within a cavity of the lure body. The circuit board includes pin receptacles that receive conductor pins of one or more of the various components to allow the components to be plugged in and frictionally fixed to the circuit board to establish electrical connection. Furthermore, the conductor pins frictionally fixed to the circuit board may be non-corrosive so that they may be exposed to the water without corroding.

Abstract: The present invention is a non-corrosive, low-fuming oven cleaning composition that can be used easily on vertical oven surfaces. The present invention is a cleaning composition containing a tripolyphosphate and a thickening agent to promote in adherence to vertical surfaces.