Patents Examined by Debra F Charles
  • Patent number: 7321870
    Abstract: A system and method for providing financial and other services to high net worth individuals is described. A significant feature is the method for selecting and managing a comprehensive set of service providers for optimal efficiency and effectiveness. The associated system provides a depository for client data, and enhances communication between client, client data, and service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Inventors: Stephen W. Comiskey, Timothy H. Meyers
  • Patent number: 7219084
    Abstract: In a system and a method for postal matter processing, with automatic reception of postal matter in receiving stations and with a staggered postal matter processing, acquisition of shipping data and providing the postal matter with a machine-readable marking and storage of the mail take place in the receiving stations. The marked postal matter is transported to a remote distributing station having at least one franking means at which transfer of the shipping data allocated to the marking into a memory of the franking means ensues. The postal matter is franked in the distributing station according to the data that are stored in the memory allocated to the marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus Gettwart, Henning Hentschel, Hartmut Neumann
  • Patent number: 6990467
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and program for determining the price of an option to pay for or sell cargo freight facility on the Internet and for facilitating the sale and exercise of those options including the underlying contract which is made transferable. By purchasing an option, a customer can lock in a specified freight cost without tying up his money and without risking the higher cost fee if there is a rise later. Pricing of these options may be based on several criterion including, date of departure, type of cargo and so on. By selling such option, the carriers will have extra cash flow and reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Inventor: Khai Hee Kwan
  • Patent number: 6990473
    Abstract: One or a plurality of commodities are placed in a commodity exhibition shelf (8). Information peculiar to any commodity is read using an input device (2) under the control of a control device (1). It is checked from the information whether any condition, for example, a discount should be given or the like, is stored with respect to the commodity in an information storage device (4). If a condition is stored, then the condition is displayed on a display device (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yabuki
  • Patent number: 6903681
    Abstract: A global synchronization unit (GSU) for time and space (TS) stamping of input data elements. The GSU comprises a GPS Receiver and an associated antenna for receiving GPS signals from signal sources associated with a GPS system symbolically embedded within a global reference system, and processing received GPS signals so as to automatically produce time and space (TS) stamp data element representative of the time and space coordinates of the GSU with respect to said global reference system at each data sampling instant occurring within the GSU. The GSU further comprises a central processor, operably connected to the GPS Receiver, and also a data input port, operably connected to a data input device and the central processor, for receiving an input data element from the data input device, at each data sampling instant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Reveo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadeg M. Faris, Gregory Hamlin, James P. Flannery