Abstract: One or more embodiments provide for automated management of lumping services. A method includes managing collection of on-site facility lumping services data. Payment collection is managed for the lumping services. Customer integrated file uploads containing data elements for field operations related to the lumping services is provided. Automated check-in and check-out of drivers at facilities for tracking lumping services is provided. Purchase orders for the lumping services are scheduled. Fee assessment for the purchase orders is performed. A determination is made for an initiated refund request for one or more of the purchase orders. Granted refund requests are dynamically processed for the one or more purchase orders. One or more status displays for the lumping services is provided.

Abstract: A communications system is designed to allow sound-impaired persons to communicate with sound-unimpaired individuals via the Internet. When a sound-impaired person at a Text Teletypewriter (TTY) terminal initiates a call that is destined for a sound-unimpaired person, the communications system ascertains whether the sound unimpaired person is currently using the Internet and, if so, automatically completes the call over the Internet and the communications system without the help of any communications assistant.

Abstract: A self-contained, transportable reverse osmosis water purification unit has a limited throughput of no more than about 20 gpm of permeate in a single pass operation with reverse osmosis ("RO") modules which can be cleaned in place. When raw water is particularly fouled, the unit is operated in a double pass operation in which the permeate from the first pass is used as feed for a second RO module. The unit, referred to as a "purification container" "PC" or an ADROWPU because the PC is air-deliverable, comprises an enclosed weather-tight housing having a base on which the major components are removably mounted. For transportability, the PC has the overall dimensions of an ISO container, and is fitted with means to load and unload it on standard carriers. A high pressure pump is required to feed water freed from suspended solids to the RO modules.