Abstract: A cloned database is created in the form of a writeable point-in-time image (WPPI) of the source database. After the cloned database is created, either the source database or the cloned database is modified so that both databases may be online simultaneously in a same domain.

Abstract: A computer based system and method automatically classifies a financial transaction. The system and method establish a set of parameters associated with the financial transaction and classify the financial transaction as a function of the set of parameter.

Abstract: A computer based system and method automatically determines taxes for a contract for equipment. A set of contract characteristics and customer location information is input by a user. The appropriate set of tax rules to apply are determined as a function of the customer location information a contract type based on the contract characteristics under the set of tax rules is determined and a tax amount is calculated based on the contract characteristics, the contract type and the set of tax rules.

Abstract: A floral delivery box apparatus which provides protection of a floral arrangement associated therewith from being damaged while carried or damaged from tipping during delivery and further allows for floral wrapping thereof, composed of a box member and a base member. The base is provided with a plurality of wings which are connected by stapling to the side walls of the box. The box is configured to receive the pot of a floral arrangement, and the base is configured to provide a planar surface having an area much larger than that of the box. In this regard, the box serves as a receptacle to restrain lateral movement of the floral arrangement with respect to the base, and the base serves as an anti-tipping member, where a sufficiently large lever arm between the center thereof and the edge of the base is such that the floral arrangement is immune to tipping over during normally encountered inertial forces of transportation by a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A mode detector for microwave oven magnetrons is disclosed including means for sensing interruption of anode current and providing a discrete indication thereof. An alternative embodiment discloses means to count the number of such interruptions. A method of detecting incipient failure of the magnetron is disclosed wherein the discrete output of a mode detector is observed and a determination is made that an incipient failure exists when the mode detector output frequency exceeds a predetermined limit.

Abstract: A switch is disclosed which includes both a switching assembly and a bridge rectifier, the switch assembly including contacts for connecting a DC motor such as the motor of an electric lawn mower, to AC supply lines or for short-circuiting the motor to rapidly stop rotation of the motor. Diodes of the bridge rectifier have terminals which are directly secured to portions of metal members which also carry contacts of the switch and/or serve as terminals for connection to the motor or the supply lines.