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Sun Microsystems, Inc.

James W Rose

Godfrey P D'Souza

James F Testa

Jonathan J Stinehelfer

Theodore C Chen

The present invention is a software product that provides merchants that sell time-slot inventories tools to capitalize on the Internet revolution. The present invention enables the creation of web-sites for merchants with a built-in web-based reservation booking system. This offers customers the on-line benefits of access, selection and immediacy in making real-time reservation/appointments over the Internet. The software product also simplifies the merchant's booking process by providing a central web-based reservation/appointment management system that can be used for all bookings, regardless if made by telephone, by a walk-in customer, or by a customer via the Internet. The software product also provides the merchant with a powerful direct marketing tool. As a merchant uses the software product, user-customer profiles and demographics are captured in the database module, thus creating (in Web jargon) a 'community' of customers specific to the merchant. The merchant is thus empowered, using the mail module, to directly communicate with its customer base, using customer profiles and demographics to create a highly targeted and effective marketing and promotional ad campaign. The software product also allows the merchant to auction off time-slot inventory over the Internet. Lastly, the software product enables the creation of Web 'super-communities' consisting of the aggregate of all the individual merchant's customer-communities using the software product.

Apparatus and method for an internet based computer reservation booking system

A storage cell includes a first bit line, a storage circuit, and a pass transistor. The storage circuit has a first storage node for holding a logic state indicative of a logic value. The pass transistor is coupled to the first bit line and the first storage node for establishing a conduction path therebetween. The pass transistor receives a bias voltage to switch the pass transistor into a substantially nonconducting state when the storage cell is not being accessed. The reverse bias on the first transistor substantially reduces the leakage current through the pass transistor.

Storage cell using low powered/low threshold CMOS pass transistors

The invention includes a mechanic's creeper having a bowed frame and a method for constructing the frame. The frame comprises a pair of parallel longitudinal rails of rectangular metal tubing bowed to form an arch for increased strength against vertical loads resting on the creeper. A plurality of metal cross members are welded to the underside of the longitudinal rails to form the frame. A creeper bed formed by wood or metal sheet, a headrest and castors for movement are attached to the frame. To construct the creeper frame, the longitudinal rails are fixed parallel to each other and the cross members welded in a predetermined sequential order across the underside of the frame. The sequential welding causes the metal of the underside of the longitudinal rails to expand as it is heated and then to contract as it cools to a length less than its original length to bow the rails lengthwise.

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

James W Rose