229 results about "Numeric data" patented technology

Methods and systems provide a “chart view” for a markup language referred to as Reusable Data Markup Language (“RDML”). Generally, a chart view comprises the components necessary for automatically manipulating and displaying a graphical display of numerical data contained in RDML markup documents. RDML is a markup language, such as the Hypertext Markup Language (“HTML”) or the Extensible Markup Language (“XML”). Generally, RDML facilitates the browsing and manipulation of numbers, as opposed to text as in HTML, and does so by requiring attributes describing the meaning of the numbers to be attached to the numbers. Upon receiving RDML markup documents, the chart view transforms, formats, manipulates and displays data stored in the markup documents using the attributes describing the meaning of the data. The chart view uses the attributes of the numbers to, for example, facilitate the simultaneous display of different series of numbers of different types on a single chart and automatically display appropriate axis labels, axis titles, chart titles, number precision, etc. A chart view may be a component of a data viewer used to retrieve, manipulate, and view documents in the RDML format.

A cooking appliance employing rapid cook technology includes an electronic oven control system employing an alpha-numeric data entry and display arrangement. The cooking appliance includes a display which incorporates a series of vertically spaced information display zones, with each of the zones being capable of displaying both alpha and numeric data to a user of the appliance. Text and numeric data can be entered by the user through a ten-digit keypad provided on a control panel of the appliance. Each labeled numeric key (0–9) can be used to input a corresponding numeric data symbol, as well as additional text information. This arrangement advantageously makes purchasing and operating a sophisticated cooking appliance more appealing and less intimidating to a consumer.

An electronic programming guide (“EPG”) in accordance with the invention provides pictograms and/or logos, to indicate to a television viewer the television programs being displayed on a television. The EPG information display format is thus easier to recognize than prior art EPG formats. In one embodiment, the EPG pictograms have 3D characteristics. The EPG information can be displayed in a window within a television screen while a program is being shown on the remainder of the screen. Thus, the viewer can know what is playing on the various channels while he or she is watching one of the channels. In one embodiment, the EPG is used in conjunction with a remote controller that includes a help button for facilitating operation of the EPG by the user. The EPG comprises a set of geometric surfaces located in virtual 3D space. The pictograms and/or logos, along with alpha-numeric text data and video clips are applied to the geometric surfaces using a 3D graphics pipeline. The video clips can comprise video programs, preview clips, or video data stored on a hard drive. The appearance of the pictograms, logos, alpha-numeric data and/or video clips can be modified in response to a user actuating a control element on a remote controller. Such modification can include changing the position of the geometric surface, or its lighting. All or some of the pictograms, logos, alpha-numeric data and video clips can be changed over time based on broadcast data. In one embodiment, internet HTML pages are parsed and applied to geometric surfaces in 3D virtual space.

A virtual vocabulary database is provided for use with a with a particular user database as part of a speech recognition system. Vocabulary elements within the virtual database are imported from the user database and are tagged to include numerical data corresponding to the historical use of the vocabulary element within the user database. For each speech input, potential vocabulary element matches from the speech recognition system are provided to the virtual database software which creates virtual sub-vocabularies from the criteria according to predefined criteria templates. The software then applies vocabulary element weighting adjustments according to the virtual sub-vocabulary weightings and applies the adjustment to the default weighting provided by the speech recognition system. The modified weightings are returned with the associated vocabulary elements to the speech engine for selection of an appropriate match to the input speech.

A number of items of data from a data source (12) are to be processed, and then supplied to a data destination (16–17). Each item of data may be image data, text data, numeric data or some other type of data, or a combination of these types of data. The processing of each data item is controlled by a project definition (14, 71, 101), which includes a plurality of modules selected from a variety of available modules (Tables 1–4). The modules have input and output ports which are interrelated by binding information. Each project definition can be developed on one machine (211, 226), and then transmitted through a network (208, 206) to a different location on the network, where the project definition will be stored and/or executed by at least one different machine (212, 221–223).

Systems, methods and computer program products for the secure, efficient, and accurate purchasing of products and services electronically without the User entering any alpha numeric data (e.g., login, password, shipping address, credit card and bank account information). In response to an advertisement sent to a User's electronic communications account (e.g. email account), a purchase is made by clicking on a hyperlink within the electronic message, wherein they are redirected to a webpage confirming the purchase. Within the webpage, non-verified Users must subsequently select the form of electronic communications to receive from the Offer Provider in order to confirm the purchase again or to cancel the order. Forms of electronic communications comprise email, SMS/text, or phone call with their verbal response. In all scenarios, the User must have previously provided the merchant, or Offer Provider, with their electronic communications address, billing information, and possibly shipping information, such as through a previous purchase.

Optimizers must work with numeric data from a variety of sources including column statistics, estimated filter factors, record counts estimated costs and the like. Embodiments provided herein define and represent any such numeric measurements as a Vector of N dimensions, where n is a number of aspects of measurements that a particular optimizer is configured to consider. A particular embodiment provides a 4-dimensional vector where the dimensions represent magnitude, confidence, variance interval, and penalty. Examples of measurements considered by the optimizer, and which may be represented as a vector, include cost, estimated selectivity of a predicate, estimated number of records returned from part or all of a query, estimated record fanout when joining one file to another, etc.

A system and apparatus monitors dump truck loads and activity. A truck picks up a load and haul ticket at one location, such as a gravel or sand pit, and delivers them to another, such as a job fill site. An operator at the job site scans a bar code on the truck to log arrival of the load and creates a scan record of the arriving or departing truck. A touch screen on the scanner may be used to enter optional numeric data from other sources such as the haul ticket or truck odometer. The operator's hand-held, cellular- or radio-based scanner connects directly to a centralized data processor and uploads scan records through a wireless, internet-based communication link. From such truck and load data, the processor provides contemporaneous reports via internet connection about truck identifications, load sizes and actual delivery times of loads, enabling efficient, automated job management and accounting for invoicing and job site volume of hauling activity, while displacing the laborious handling of manual haul tickets issued at the pickup site and collected by the operator.

A number of items of data from a data source (12) can be processed and then deposited in at least one data destination (16, 17). The data can be image data, text data, numeric data or some other type of data, or a combination of these types of data. The processing of the data is controlled by a project definition (14, 71, 101) which includes a plurality of modules selected from a variety of available modules (Tables 1-4). The modules have input and output ports which are interrelated by binding information. Execution of the project definition can be initiated by various events. One such event is the receipt of a communication expressed in a publication communication protocol. Another such event is an update to the data in the data source, resulting in automatic initiation of the execution of the project definition.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for indexing, validating, recovering, and consolidating a database indexed by range-bound numeric data are disclosed. According to one method, at least one index is computed based on a first key within a first range of numeric data. An entry corresponding to the index is accessed in a database having entries indexed by range-bound numeric data. From the entry, a bitmap having bits indicating the presence or absence of data corresponding to different keys within the first range of numeric data is read. Data corresponding to the first key is located using the bitmap.

A method for operating a computerized system for processing cashless and cardless financial transactions, the method comprising the steps of: registering a user's fingerprint with an entity, by using the user's fingerprint to create a first image of the user's fingerprint and then storing the first image of the user's fingerprint in a digital database of the entity; associating the first image of the user's fingerprint, now registered, with at least one debit or credit account of the user; receiving, through a transaction device, a request to authorize a financial transaction, wherein said request comprises a second image of the user's fingerprint taken by the transaction device at the time the request to authorize the financial transaction is made; and, authenticating the request to authorize the financial transaction, by comparing in real time, through a computer network, the second image with the first image of the user's fingerprint.

Systems, methods and computer program products for the secure, efficient, and accurate purchasing of products and services electronically without the User entering any alpha numeric data (e.g., login, password, shipping address, credit card and bank account information). In response to an advertisement sent to a User's electronic communications account (e.g. email account), a purchase is made by clicking on a hyperlink within the electronic message, wherein they are redirected to a webpage confirming the purchase. Within the webpage, non-verified Users must subsequently select the form of electronic communications to receive from the Offer Provider in order to confirm the purchase again or to cancel the order. Forms of electronic communications comprise email, SMS/text, or phone call with their verbal response. In all scenarios, the User must have previously provided the merchant, or Offer Provider, with their electronic communications address, billing information, and possibly shipping information, such as through a previous purchase.

A number of items of data from a data source (12) can be processed and deposited in a data destination (16-17). The data can be image data, text data, numeric data or some other type of data, or a combination of these types of data. The processing of the data is controlled by a project definition (14, 71, 101), which includes a plurality of modules selected from a variety of available modules (Table 1-4). The modules have input and output ports which interrelated by binding information. During creation of the project definition, a data preview (691-692) is presented to show how sample data would be affected by the current settings of parameters which affect operation of that module.

The invention discloses a commodity anti-counterfeiting code batch generation method which comprises the following steps: encoding identity information of a certain batch of commodities to generate a batch of commodity identification codes and setting a commodity production-sequence-number numerical sequence with a certain length; according to a corresponding relation of custom batch commodity identification code characters and numeric data, converting the batch of commodity identification codes into a numerical sequence; respectively carrying out scrambling on ciphertext characters in a corresponding relation among the production-sequence-number numerical sequence, the custom numeric data and the ciphertext characters of a certain batch of commodities by utilizing a position variation scrambling rule before and after chaos sequences are sorted; enabling each commodity in the batch of commodities to sequentially carry out displacement and scrambling on the transcoded numerical sequence according to the corresponding chaos sequences and the position variation scrambling rule before and after the chaos sequences are sorted and generating an anti-counterfeiting number of each commodity so as to combine and produce commodity anti-counterfeiting codes in batch. The method disclosed by the invention is simple and easy to operate, has high safety and is unlikely to crack; the commodity anti-counterfeiting codes generated in batch have uniqueness and unforgeability.