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Banner Engineering Corporation

Lavelle Industries, Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Ppc Broadband, Inc.

Highway Equipment Company

Ccteg (china Coal Technology and Engineering Group Corp)

Flexible Products Company

Michael A Dean

Lucinda Stone

Kevin J Guthrie

Haozhe Dong

Daniel P Brown

Charles B Martin

Charles E Thomas

Charles Dolezalek

Allen L Malloy

Roger Phillips, Jr

Ashley Wise

Wade David Oberpriller

Paul L Snyder

Quyen C Dao

Peter Cervelli

Robert D Bolls

Daniel W Reeves

Christopher Dales

A flapper kit comprises a flapper body, a pair of mounting legs disposed rearwardly of the flapper body and a unitary mounting bar, the mounting bar used in combination with a flush valve overfill portion, the collective elements forming an assembly.

Toilet flapper replacement kit and assembly

A radar system for detecting objects can comprise an RF transmitter that emits RF light and at least one light source that emits visible light in response to the RF light detecting the presence of an object. The system can include a dielectric lens that collects and focuses the RF light. The dielectric lens can also include features that collect and scatter the visible light.

Radar systems and methods for detecting objects

An improved toilet flapper valve is used to cover and seal a main flush valve orifice, which flapper valve comprises a pair of rotatable legs and leg clips having two-way adjustment capabilities and which serve to function as mounting arms. The two-way adjustment of the rotatable leg clips allows for use of the same flapper valve with a variety of makes and models of flush valves, and flush valves having pegs that may be spaced apart so as to adjust for pegs that may have different diameters or that may be separated from one another by different distances depending on the flush valve used in the toilet. The flapper valve of the present invention also includes a variably-adjustable air outlet capability.

Toilet flapper valve with adjustable mounts and assembly

Toilet plunger holder

Methods, programs products and systems are provided for presenting retrieved search engine results text items to a user on a display device through a graphical user interface configured to associate displayed text items with a search term modification action. Selecting a displayed text item through a graphical user interface component cursor routine automatically instigates modifying of the search term through the associated modification action with the selected text item to generate a modified search term and causes a search engine component to search the modified search term and retrieve new search results similarly presented, enabling additional automatic iterations of search term modifying, searching and result presenting. Modifying a search term may occur automatically or through a selection from a generated list of revising actions, and presenting search results text items may include ordering and presenting a list of result text items relative to an occurrence frequency.

Enhanced search query modification

One embodiment relates to a cable connector. The cable connector includes a body having a forward end and a rearward end opposite the forward end, a post disposed at least partially within the body, a fastener coupled to the forward end of the body, and a compressible member disposed on an outer surface of the body. The post includes a flange portion extending radially from a forward end of the post. The fastener is axially movable between a forward position and a rearward position, and wherein the fastener comprises an interior surface configured to contact the flange portion of the post when the fastener is in the forward position. The compressible member is configured to force the fastener toward the forward position such that the interior surface of the fastener provides a continuous pressure against the flange of the post when the fastener is in the forward position.

Cable connector

An electronic advertising system that provides self-serve control for the centralized automated creation and publication of customized advertising presentations to multiple electronic media venues. The customized advertising presentations are automatically created by the central controller from raw advertising information to comply with the criteria of each selected multiple electronic media venue. Self-serve interfaces are provided for sellers to input raw advertising information and information to select electronic media venues, and for media venues to input criteria for each electronic media venue. The criteria may include style, content, editorial, and design criteria. Information such as distribution factors, media venue layout, and price charged for publication may be used by the central controller. The system also includes programs to manage conflicting advertising information data input, to provide presentation file format conversion, an operator review interface program, an advertising presentation screening program, an operator owned content server, and internet capability.

Method for using computers to facilitate and control the creating of a plurality of functions

Multiple signal characteristics representing an entire field of view of an FMCW (FM-CW) sensor are evaluated to determine whether the field of view has changed. Signal characteristics representing the field can be compared to representative signal characteristics obtained from previous scans. At least one signal characteristic representing at least a portion of the scene can be evaluated by comparing the signal characteristic to a dynamic threshold. The dynamic threshold can be redefined after each scan from the statistics of the signal characteristic. The dead zone of a sensor can be reduced by filtering out noise that would otherwise overshadow a signal representing the near-field region of a scene. The noise can be filtered by subtracting a polynomial curve from a time-domain signal representing the scene after fitting the polynomial curve to a representative signal generated based on previous scene scans.

Configurable radar sensor

The present disclosure relates to a radar device and technique for detecting the presence of objects located in the near-field of a frequency modulated, continuous wave (FMCW) radar device. The technique includes transmitting and receiving a frequency modulated signal, generating an intermediate frequency signal based on the transmitted and received signals, and analyzing the frequency content of the intermediate frequency signal. The frequency content of the intermediate signal is analyzed without filtering out a carrier signal.

Detecting objects within a near-field of a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system

A system and method for providing a fork sensor including an emitter, a receiver, and at least one lens assembly wherein the width of the effective beam does not depend upon the size of the emitter or the receiver. One aspect of the present invention is a method for detecting or counting the number of objects interrupting the effective beam of the fork sensor. Another aspect of the present invention is a method for measuring the dimensions of objects using the fork sensor.

Self-contained fork sensor having a wide effective beam

An internet advertising system and method that enables a third party professional to manage the creation, publication, and display of advertisements on internet media venues owned or controlled by entities other than the seller and other than the third party professional in a form automatically modified to comply with the media venues' presentation rules, which may include design or style standards for 'look and feel,' editorial standards, and distribution factors. Self-serve, menu driven interfaces are provided for third party professionals to target internet media venues, and for internet media venues to enter their presentation rules. An ad modification engine processes or customizes the advertisement for publication and display on each internet media venue in compliance with the media venue's presentation rules.

Internet advertising system and method

An internet advertising system and method that provides a seller self-serve control for creation, publication, and display of advertisements on internet media venues owned or controlled by entities other than the seller in a form automatically modified to comply with the media venues' presentation rules, which may include design or style standards for 'look and feel,' editorial standards, and distribution factors. Self-serve, menu driven interfaces are provided for sellers to target internet media venues, and for internet media venues to enter their presentation rules. An ad modification engine processes or customizes the advertisement for publication and display on each internet media venue in compliance with the media venue's presentation rules. The system also includes an online reporting tool, an interface for a seller's accounting management system to automatically update advertisements and control publication timing, and a buyer interface for purchase, reservation, or referral regarding the advertised product or service.

The present invention is a method and apparatus that automatically updates the presentation of available limited, fixed or time sensitive inventory, for sale or reservation, on a buyer interface in a time-sensitive and time-appropriate basis. The automatic two-way network communications method of the present invention provides the necessary coordination of inventory and sales between the seller interface and the buyer interface in either real time or near real time or as delayed or batch processing. This can take place by either manual or automatic means from the invention or from third party management or inventory control software. The invention allows for a substantial reduction of the communications and computer resources necessary to control and coordinate the availability, presentation, and sales of common, unique, or time-sensitive products, goods, and services. The present invention allows for the sales process to be adjusted so as to optimize the communications and computer resources used in relationship to the sales volume and Seller, Buyer, and usage profiles.

METHOD OF USING A NETWORK OF COMPUTERS TO CONTROL THE RESERVATION OR SALE OF AVAILABLE LIMITED FIXED OR TIME SENSITIVE INVENTORY BETWEEN A SELLER INTERFACE AND A BUYER INTERFACE USING TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS

&ldquo;The present invention is a method and apparatus that allows individual competing, as well as complementing suppliers, vendors, service providers, purveyors, and other types of sellers as companies, individuals, or as any other entity, controlled design and publication of print media advertising and outreach. The present invention allows for standards or guidelines to be set by print media and then automatically applied in the creation of advertising or outreach presentations.&rdquo;

Method of using a network of computers to facilitate and control the publishing of presentations to a plurality of print media venues

The present invention is a method and apparatus that allows for the verification and substantiation of the purchase of access or admission to those facilities, sites, businesses, venues, sporting events, or reserved services that traditionally have controlled access by means of tickets, passes, admission documents, reservations, reservation confirmations, or other substantiation. The invention provides several methods for the buyer to provide an ID at the time of purchase, which is then transmitted electronically to the facility, site, business, venue, sporting event, or reserved service. That buyer ID is then confirmed by the facility, site, business, or venue by means of readers or scanners of the magnetic, smart, or optical ID cards or by other electronic means. This confirmation may automatically result in the printing of the tickets, passes, admission documents, reservation confirmations, or other documents required for admittance or automatic and immediate physical admittance of the buyer or ID holder.

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

Michael A Dean