Abstract: There is provided by this invention a portable, elastic, and resilient exercising sleeve that can be placed around the torso and the extremities of the body for performing muscle strengthening and conditioning exercises that is generally comprised of a large elastic oblong center section having connected at opposite ends thereof a plurality of smaller elastic positioning sections with the large oblong center section and the smaller positioning sections co-joined to form a one piece multiple muscle exercise device. The exercising sleeve is disposed to receive the extremities of the human body for stretching and strengthening the muscles.

Abstract: There is provided by this invention a portable, elastic, and resilient exercising sleeve that can be placed around the torso and the extremities of the body for performing muscle strengthening and conditioning exercises that is generally comprised of a large elastic oblong center section having connected at opposite ends thereof a plurality of smaller elastic positioning sections with the large oblong center section and the smaller positioning sections co-joined to form a one piece multiple muscle exercise device. The exercising sleeve is disposed to receive the extremities of the human body for stretching and strengthening the muscles.

Abstract: There is provided by this invention a process that obligates and joins manufacturers and or distribution outlets with customers for a predetermined fee to provide and allow purchasers to exchange purchased products after a predetermined time for a new product. Manufacturers and or outlets assume responsibility to sell or if chosen re-exchange the returned product. The products may be the type that depreciates with age and use, such as automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, equipment, machinery, etc. Manufacturer and or outlet provides product at the established value level to the customer for a certain length of time. Customer uses the product for a determined length of time, for example one year, then returns and exchanges said product each year for new product throughout the term of the agreement, allowing customer to maintain new status and factory warranty and eliminating the hassles of selling the product.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses faceted metadata to facilitate navigation through information resources. During operation, the system receives a query from a client at a server. The system then performs the query on metadata, wherein the metadata contains facets that describe characteristics of the information resources. While performing the query, the system generates results that identify information resources that satisfy the query. Next, the system constructs a response containing the results, the query, and suggestions on how to refine the query. The system then sends the response to the client, thereby allowing the client to refine the query. In this way, the client and server can work together in a stateless manner to refine the query without having to maintain state information about the query on the server.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses faceted metadata to facilitate navigation through information resources. During operation, the system receives a query from a client at a server. The system then performs the query on metadata, wherein the metadata contains facets that describe characteristics of the information resources. While performing the query, the system generates results that identify information resources that satisfy the query. Next, the system constructs a response containing the results, the query, and suggestions on how to refine the query. The system then sends the response to the client, thereby allowing the client to refine the query. In this way, the client and server can work together in a stateless manner to refine the query without having to maintain state information about the query on the server.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for producing personalized web site content to be presented to a user of a content provider web site based upon information gathered regarding the user. The system operates by receiving data sent from a remote browser to a personalization server. This data is sent by a web page on the remote browser and includes an identifier for the user. This web page was previously sent from the content provider web site to the remote browser while the remote browser was navigating through the content provider web site. The personalization server uses the identifier to look up information related to the user in a database associated with the personalization server. This information is used to produce personalized web site content for the user based upon the interests of the user. For example, personalized web site content can include hypertext markup language (HTML) code, images or navigational options to other web locations.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for making predictions about data records from an incoming stream of data records. This system operates by discovering predictive relationships in an online manner between fields in records in the incoming stream of data records as the incoming stream of data records is received. These predictive relationships can used to predict values in fields based on other field values in the same record. This facilitates cleansing of data by allowing transaction values to be validated based upon predictions made from other field values in the same transaction record. It also allows missing field values to be predicted based upon the other field values. A variation of this embodiment provides for filtering transaction records based upon discovered predictive relationships and routing the transaction records to other servers in real-time.