"SISTEMA DE INVENTARIAçãO COM UMA INSTALAçãO DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS OU DE COMUNICAçãO" A invenção se refere a um sistema de inventariação para objetos, os quais, cada, apresentam uma identificação individual de objeto ou de estação, a qual é consultável sem fio, apresentando uma rede de computadores ou de comunicação, com pelo menos um sistema de processamento de dados ou de comunicação, previs...

Patente de Invenção: "GRâNULOS POLIMéRICOS LIVRES DE VACúOLOS". A presente invenção refere-se a um processo para a produção de granulados de polímero livres de vacúolo. O polímero é resfriado a uma temperatura de <243>50°C até apenas acima da temperatura de transição vítrea após ele ser extrudado e antes de ele ser cortado.; A process for preparing a vacuole-free polymer is disclosed. Extrud...

A laser system for treating features on the skin of a patient with laser light comprising: an imaging subsystem that locates features on the skin to be treated; a laser; laser optics that focuses light from the laser onto a feature located by the imaging subsystem; and a controller that when a feature is located, controls the laser to radiate a pulse of laser light that is focused by the laser opt...

The invention concerns aqueous dispersions containing a water dispersible polyamide and an acrylic, vinyl and/or styrene polymer. Said dispersions can be obtained either by mixing two dispersions, one containing the polyamide and the other the acrylic, vinyl and/or styrene polymer, or by preparing the latter in the presence of the polyamide. Whatever the mode of preparation from 50 to 99 % of the ...

The invention provides index performance alerts by sector. The index alerts are based on price performance measures of each industry, sector, sub-sector, or group (referred to collectively as "sector" herein). Users are able to define limits for the industry, sector, sub-sector, or group categories for alerts on price, volume, intraday range, current closing price relative to the intraday range, p...

A client-server interaction monitoring system on computer networks is disclosed. A computer agent system having a client device and a content server for analyzing client behavior in accessing the client device having an external correlator for correlating client inputs with content to provide an indication of client behavior; and a computer agent for carrying out tasks in response to client inputs...

A shaped article composed of an aromatic polyimide has a hollow, essentially spherical structure and a particle size of about 100 to about 1500 mu m, a density of about 1 to about 6 pounds/ft3 and a volume change of 1 to about 20% by a pressure treatment of 30 psi for 10 minutes at room temperature. A syntactic foam, made of a multiplicity of the shaped articles which are bounded together by a ma...

The present invention is directed toward the surface treatment of silicone medical devices such as contact lenses and medical implants. In particular, the present invention is directed to a method of modifying the surface of a medical device to increase its biocompatibility or hydrophilicity by coating the device with a hydrophilic polymer by means of reaction between reactive functionalities on t...

A method and system for sale of otherwise unavailable works via the Internet, the method including entering into agreements with owners of copyrights such as publishers, authors and other owners, to obtain a right to distribute in an electronic form, books, audio or video recordings, titles or other works of authorship that are not available for sale through normal distribution channels. The works...

A system and process is designed to provide a medium for playing sweepstakes style games on the Internet. A standard game medium for Bingo, playing cards, and other games is converted by a game algorithm to a product medium. The player is requested to select a series of products from a hierarchy of categories and sub-categories which the player will have an opportunity to win during the play of th...

A system and method for satisfying a customer's request (100) to purchase a particular product, part or service when none of the customer's existing vendors can do so. The invention operates by way of the Internet (108), providing customers (102) with a single interface (106) for relaying all of their requests to each of their vendors (104) regardless of the communication medium through which a pa...

An apparatus (10, 12, 14, 15) for managing an auction for a certificate of deposit comprising a control unit (24, 32) for posting a certificate of deposit request generated by a user, graphical means (14) for assisting in formulating a bid on said certificates of deposit, means for posting the bid (14) and means for receiving bids from others who desire to bid on the certificates of deposit (14).

A system and method for facilitating web navigation, and more specifically for providing the ability to access pre-screened web sites which are screened for the purpose of providing an improved e-commerce experience. The system and method includes using a conveniently sized web navigation device that accepts input from a variety of user input devices. The web navigation device is coupled to a brow...

In the virtual shopping environment of the present invention, consumers can perform a number of functions that mirror actual shopping behavior in a retail store while at the same time having the store layouts, prices and other retail environment details currently in effect. In accordance with the invention, data that changes infrequently is delivered to a consumer's computer in large quantities us...

A system is provided that conducts and facilitates complex trades between multiple parties by matching traders with items for which the traders wish to trade. In one embodiment, traders enter items that they are interested in trading into the system and identify other items in the system that they would be interested in receiving in return. The system then examines all entered items and all trader...

A method of processing reservation deposits provides for classifying prospective visitors to an event (11, 13, and 15) and the accommodations available for reservation to the visitors. Attendee attrition is minimized by assigning dates prior to the start of the event for processing of credit card authorizations, collection of deposits, and full or partial refunds for cancellations. An increasing s...

A computer system and method whereby a user (106) can quickly, conveniently and anonymously peruse a preformed network of service providers (108, 110, 112) segregated by specialty and/or geographic area, select providers from which the user would like to receive proposals, submit details regarding the desired service for incorporation into a request for proposal ("RFP") that is made available to e...

A publishing system includes a database that is adapted to store a plurality of documents, a plurality of computers, each of which is adapted to be coupled to the database; a network connecting the plurality of computers together for communication of data relating to the plurality of documents among the plurality of computers and the database, means for submitting a new document to the database, m...

Dermatological laser treatment methods, devices that employ air convection (air flow) enhanced cryogen spray cooling to reduce the risk of non-specific thermal injury of the epidermis, and underlying dermis during laser procedures such as wrinkle, hair or tattoo removal, or treatment of port wine stains are provided. A preferred device (10) comprises a directed airflow device (18) (air jet), a cry...

A trench capacitor for use with a substrate. The capacitor has an inner electrode formed above the substrate. The inner electrode has a plurality of metal layers, a dielectric partially surrounding the inner electrode, and an outer electrode partially surrounding the dielectric.