Abstract: Among other things, a server controls access to private information about attributes of a unique item, during one or more stages of an online transaction for the unique item between a first online party and a second online party. The controlling of the access to the private information includes the server digitally storing (a) the private information, (b) a listing of the unique item for the online transaction received from the first online party, the listing including one or more constraints on access to the private information by the second online party at one or more stages of the online transaction, and (c) an indicator of a current stage of the one or more stages of the online sale transaction. The server allows or prevents access to the private information at one of the stages of the online transaction through a browser or an app installed on a device of the second online party and based on the current stage of the online transaction.

Abstract: Among other things, a server controls access to private information about attributes of a unique item, during one or more stages of an online transaction for the unique item between a first online party and a second online party. The controlling of the access to the private information includes the server digitally storing (a) the private information, (b) a listing of the unique item for the online transaction received from the first online party, the listing including one or more constraints on access to the private information by the second online party at one or more stages of the online transaction, and (c) an indicator of a current stage of the one or more stages of the online sale transaction. The server allows or prevents access to the private information at one of the stages of the online transaction through a browser or an app installed on a device of the second online party and based on the current stage of the online transaction.

Abstract: Among other things, a server controls access to private information about attributes of a unique item, during one or more stages of an online transaction for the unique item between a first online party and a second online party. The controlling of the access to the private information includes the server digitally storing (a) the private information, (b) a listing of the unique item for the online transaction received from the first online party, the listing including one or more constraints on access to the private information by the second online party at one or more stages of the online transaction, and (c) an indicator of a current stage of the one or more stages of the online sale transaction. The server allows or prevents access to the private information at one of the stages of the online transaction through a browser or an app installed on a device of the second online party and based on the current stage of the online transaction.

Abstract: A system and method (referred to as a system) schedules vehicles transporting freight on a mesh network using a machine learning process. The system receives transportation requests over a network from a plurality of customer portals that include loading times, loading locations, destination locations, delivery times, and freight requirements. The system mines large data sets from remote sites that reflect distances between the loading locations and the destination locations and corresponding freight rates associated with distances through the machine learning process. The system predicts shipping schedules that include predicted departure time and a predicted arrival time associated with the plurality of shipping schedules. The system matches the transportation requests with the plurality of shipping schedules in real time based on a plurality of shipping preferences, carrier availabilities, and projected probabilities that a plurality of carriers will accept loads.

Abstract: The present invention teaches a novel mobile-enabled secure, interactive, scalable, multi-platform cloud-based system for monitoring, managing, organizing, sharing, evaluating and/or promoting unique art objects, and the like, and interconnecting members of the art world, such as artists, galleries, museums, collectors, auction houses, art fairs, institutions, and art organizations. The cloud-based portfolio management tool provides unique capabilities for collectors to be able to engage interactively with their art, in a manner that permits the fusing of such management with market history and insurance data.

Abstract: A process for assisting a user to order the IT services the user wants even if the user is not familiar with the proper IT terminology or concepts.

Abstract: A computer implemented process which executes computer instructions to carry out the steps of at least one fulfillment workflow to bring an instance of an information technology service into existence. If management approvals are necessary, at least one approval workflow is also executed. The steps of the preferred embodiment of the process are: using a computer to access a data structure of a service action and perform a fulfillment process comprising the steps: (A) using a computer to follow pointers in said data structure to an appropriate fulfillment workflow; (B) loading said fulfillment workflow into memory of said computer; (C) using said computer to execute computer instructions pointed to by one or more pointers in said fulfillment workflow; and (D) receiving and recording any feedback data entered by a human who has been given instructions by said computer to carry out one or more steps of said fulfillment workflow.

Abstract: A process to assist an IT professional to interact with a computer to establish an IT services catalog by performing the following steps: (1) providing some computer displayed means by which the IT professional can choose between multiple processes including defining a new service, defining a relationship between a service and another service or IT resource, defining cost information or defining a service action which, when executed, can create, modify or destroy an instance of the service; (2) when the user chooses to define a new service, interacting with the user in any way to create a data structure which defines the service and which includes validation constraints and/or validation formulas; (3) when the user chooses to define a relationship, interacting with the user in any way to determine whether the relationship is to other IT services or to IT resources and to establish filter conditions within the selected class and to record appropriate pointers and filter conditions in the data structure which d

Abstract: A cryogenic gas compression system including a storage container and a gas/liquid mixer coupled to the storage container which employs a controlled flow of cryogenic liquid from the storage container to provide gas cooling action, and compressor for compressing the output gas to a high pressure. A sensor provides an indication of the gas entering the compressor and feeds it to a controller which controls the quantity of liquid cryogen fed from the storage container to the mixer.

Abstract: A cryogenic liquid vaporizer system 10 comprising an outer tube 22 for exposure to the atmosphere and enclosing an inner tube 16 to form an annulus 36. The fluid enters the inner tube 16 as liquid, flows in the inner tube 16 where it is at least partially vaporized, and discharges into the outer tube 22. In one embodiment the fluid discharges near the end 34 of the outer tube 22 and counterflow in the annulus 36 where it is usually completely vaporized and partially superheated. In another embodiment, the fluid discharges into the outer tube 22 and continues to flow in the longitudinal space 38 provided by the length of outer tube 22. The annulus 36 is occupied by quiescent fluid.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for supplying from a vessel to a pump liquified gas with subcooling so as to avoid cavitation during pumping. A supply conduit supplies liquified gas from the vessel bottom to a pump sump which envelops the flowpath elements of a pump and the pump suction. A return conduit returns vapor and excess liquified gas from the sump to the bottom of the vessel. Heating means, preferably heat leak into the return conduit, reduces the density of the fluid in the return conduit thereby increasing the rate of liquified gas flow in the supply conduit and reducing its temperature rise enroute to the pump. Further subcooling is secured by locating the intake to the supply conduit remote from a wall of the vessel in a cooler strata of liquid, and the discharge of the return conduit proximate to a wall of the vessel in a warmer strata in the vessel.

Abstract: A reciprocating-type pump with simplified construction and enhanced performance is achieved by the use of a unitary, rigid pump body support structure and modular pump component designs. This unitary structure includes forward and rearward pump body mounting plates to which the pump body is secured, with the overall support structure being securely attached to the power frame of the pump by means of a power frame mounting plate. Rigid connecting members secure said plates together to form the unitary structure that is particularly advantageous for use in the fabrication of cryogenic pumps suitable for high pressure operation. Valve means, packing means and a pump body cooling jacket can be conveniently secured to the unitary support structure.

Abstract: The cryogenic pump is of the reciprocating type using a differential diameter piston assembly having a reciprocating piston and piston rod in which the piston is of a diameter larger than the piston rod so as to form a variable volume annulus within the pumping chamber about the piston rod. The pumping chamber is surrounded with a cooling jacket connected by a passageway to the variable volume annulus. Blow by fluid is collected in the variable volume annulus during each suction stroke of the reciprocating piston and passed into the cooling jacket during each discharge stroke so as to cause collected blow by liquid in the cooling jacket to flash during consecutive discharge strokes.

Abstract: The cryogenic reciprocating pump includes a pump body having a cylindrical pumping chamber extending from the forward end of the pump body to the pump body rearward end. A piston is reciprocated in the pumping chamber under the control of a piston rod extending from the pumping chamber. A packing assembly surrounds the piston rod and is coupled through an intermediate section to the rearward end of the pump body. The intermediate section comprises a tubular shell of low thermal conductivity material and a corrugated metal expansion member. The packing assembly is affixed to a support member connected to the pump body at the forward end thereof.