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ACACIA RESEARCH CORP. symbol ACTG
By fred | August 19, 2008
I guess if you have been investing in stocks the greater part of your 79 years it is like an addiction. Like needing a ‘fix’ every so often. I told myself I was going to take a long vacation from writing about or thinking about stocks. Ha! That is a joke!
Those of you not into stocks, might as well click off now, cause this is all about a stock that may — could be — hopefully will be — hope, hope, hope a big winner.
I will be giving you a wealth of information as follows, little of it came from YAHOO, I have no reason why? I have no idea, seems they should have more info on this company. However you can go to their web pages - you can get all the info you want.
This is very long, the very long last part of this report is my printing off about the patents they have. The reason I did that is some of you ‘brains’ in this tech stuff that confuses the hell out of your old Uncle Fred may understand it all. I would like all the comments from those of you that have more understanding of what this company has I can get!
As you will note the company has a huge growth in revenues from 2004 to 2007 increased from 4 million to 52 million, a heck of large increase. Also check out the list of major, huge market companies they do business with and hold patents for. Go to their web pages for the complete list of majors.
RISK - maybe some, love it, me? I am buying a few shares just to feed my addiction. Like an old drunk — gotta do it! The fact that this stock is below $4 now and with in the year was over $17 is something I love. That insiders have purchased over a quarter million shares in June of this year, almost makes my interest in this stock a love affair.
INFORMATION AS FOLLOWS:
ACACIA RESEARCH CORP – ACACIA TECHNOLOGIES Stock symbol ACTG Price $3.96
NOTE: YAHOO has not ‘Profile’ nor do they list key statistics. Information taken from the company site.
52 week prices $3.96 low – $17.92 high
Cash and investments $45.7 million
Shares outstanding 30.1 million
Cash and investments per share $1.52
Just a few of their licensees are – 3M, Dell, GE, Intel, Sony, Walt Disney and many many others ALL big names, huge companies.
RAISE IN REVENUES – In 2004 their sales were $4,284,000 in 2007 their sales were $52,597,000 a unbelievable increase.
INSIDER BUYING: During June 2008 insiders purchase over a quarter million shares.
For facts related to patents, who they have, which are now providing profits, go to this page:
http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/docs/AcaciaFactSheet.pdf
Acacia Research’s subisidiaries are in the business of acquiring, developing, licensing and enforcing patents. We help patent holders protect their patented inventions from unauthorized use and generate revenue from licensing and, if necessary, enforcing their patents. Our clients are primarily individual inventors and small companies with limited resources to deal with unauthorized users but include some large companies wanting to generate revenues from their patented technologies.
Acacia has the expertise and resources to evaluate commercially valuable patents in any technology area or industry. Acacia currently controls 97 patent portfolios covering a variety of applications, which include the following:
Aligned Wafer Bonding
Audio Communications Fraud Detection
Audio Storage and Retrieval System
Audio Video Enhancement & Synchronization
Authorized Spending Accounts
Automated Notification of Tax Return Status
Broadcast Data Retrieval
Color Correction For Video Graphics Systems
Compact Disk
Compiler
Computer Graphics
Computer Memory Cache Coherency
Computer Simulations
Continuous TV Viewer Measuring
Copy Protection
Credit Card Fraud Protection
Database Access
Database Management
Database Retrieval
Data Encryption
Digital Newspaper Delivery
Digital Video Production
DMT®
Document Generation
Document Retrieval Using Global Word Co-Occurrence Patterns
DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory)
Dynamic Manufacturing Modeling
Ecommerce Pricing
Electronic Address List Management
Electronic Message Advertising
Embedded Broadcast Data
Encrypted Media & Playback Devices
Enhanced Internet Navigation
Enterprise Content Management
Facilities Operation Management System
File Locking In Shared Storage Networks
Flash Memory
Fluid Flow Control And Monitoring
Hearing Aid ECS
Heated Surgical Blades
High Quality Image Processing
High Resolution Optics
Image Resolution Enhancement
Improved Printing
Interactive Content In A Cable Distribution System
Internet Radio Advertising
Interstitial Internet Advertising
Laparoscopic Surgery
Laptop Connectivity
Location Based Services
Medical Image Stabilization
Medical Monitoring
Micromirror Digital Display
Microprocessor
Microprocessor Enhancement
Multi-Dimensional Bar Codes
Multi-Dimensional Database Compression
Online Ad Tracking
Online Auction Guarantees
Optical Switching
Parallel Processing With Shared Memory
Peer To Peer Communications
Physical Access Control
Picture Archiving & Communication Systems
Pointing Device
Pop-Up Internet Advertising
Portable Storage Devices With Links
Product Activation
Projector
Purifying Nucleic Acid
Radio Communication With Graphics
Relational Database Access
Remote Management Of Imaging Devices
Remote Video Camera
Resource Scheduling
Rule Based Monitoring
Software Feature Enablement
Software License Management
Spreadsheet Automation
Storage Technology
Surgical Catheter
Telematics
Television Data Display
Television Signal Scrambling
Text Auto-Completion
Vehicle Anti-Theft Parking Systems
Vehicle Maintenance
Videoconferencing
Video Editing
Virtual Computer Workspaces
Virtual Server
Web Personalization
Wireless Digital Messaging
Workspace With Moving Viewpoint
ALIGNED WAFER BONDING
This patented technology generally relates to the precision alignment and bonding of micromechanical, electrical and optical structures. This technology can be used for the bonding of surface features in the fabrication of Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) and semiconductor.
AUDIO COMMUNICATIONS FRAUD DETECTION
The patents and applications generally relate to methods for determining and preventing fraud when using telephonic, computer network, or other communication services to complete a sale. The claims cover methods for preventing fraud during the purchase of services for entertainment or technical support, such as psychic readings and computer software support. These methods help protect vendors from credit card charge-backs and help protect customers whose credit card numbers may have been stolen.
AUDIO STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
This patented technology generally relates to the retrieval, storage, and playback of audio information on portable devices. This technology can be used by portable music players and digital voice recorders to record and playback audio.
AUDIO/VIDEO ENHANCEMENT & SYNCHRONIZATION
The Audio/Video Enhancement and Synchronization technologies generally relate to the use of an adaptive noise reduction filtering system for analog and digital video signals, especially those used in video compression systems and for video displays, and for synchronizing video and audio signals utilized in systems where the audio and video components are stored, transmitted or otherwise processed separately.
AUTHORIZED SPENDING ACCOUNTS
This patented technology generally relates to systems and methods for allocating funds in authorized financial spending accounts. This technology may be used in products such as Internet-related purchase accounts and pre-paid credit accounts.
AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION OF TAX RETURN STATUS
This patented technology generally relates to a system for monitoring the status of a client’s tax return and automatically notifying the client of a change in status. This system can be used by a tax preparation service to monitor the electronic filing of their client’s income tax returns.
BROADCAST DATA RETRIEVAL
This patented technology generally relates to a system for broadcasting and receiving programming content together with supplemental data such as the title of a song, artist, or a catalog number, that can be stored and recalled for later viewing. This technology can be used in satellite radio, and other broadcasting where data is transmitted along with the content.
COLOR CORRECTION FOR VIDEO GRAPHICS SYSTEMS
This patented technology generally relates to methods for altering the colors of isolated objects in a video graphics system. The technology can be used to efficiently and accurately change colors of objects in a video frame or digital picture without affecting the entire image.
COMPACT DISK
The patent covers certain systems for recording and playing compact disks containing compressed audio data utilizing certain data-compression methods. This technology, consisting in part of a CD drive that reads MPEG Layer-3 (MP3) compressed digital audio data recorded on a CD, and an integrated circuit chip which decompresses the data and produces a non-compressed audio output can be used in DVD and CD players.
COMPILER
This patented technology generally relates to software object pre-compilation and linking in software compilers. The technology may be used in the development of application software such as operating systems, business software, video games, Internet commerce, and enterprise software.
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
This patented technology consists of 14 graphics processing patents, mostly relating to the architecture of graphic systems. The patented technology relates to graphics processing systems that use an on-chip memory as a frame buffer and to systems comprising multiple graphics processors. The technology has applications in high-end personal computers and gaming consoles.
COMPUTER MEMORY CACHE COHERENCY
This patented technology generally relates to interface circuits used by intelligent peripheral devices with cache memory to communicate with the main computer memory. By synchronizing main computer memory and main cache memory, peripheral devices such as graphics processors can operate at much higher speeds, without costs associated with their own memory. This technology can be used in desktop, notebook, and server computer systems.
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
This patented technology generally relates to providing computer simulations of complex sytems. This technology allows a user to iteratively simulate complex systems using function modules having input variables and output variables.
CONTINUOUS TV VIEWER MEASURING
This patented technology, unlike prior systems that take snapshots of tuning to assess viewership, relates to uninterrupted and passive continuous monitoring and measuring of television viewers’ actions. Measurements include channel changes, channel surfing, video-on-demand and DVR viewership captured through the set-top box, stored and transmitted to a remote location for aggregation.
COPY PROTECTION
This patented technology prevents unauthorized duplication of media. This technology can be used to protect movies and games distributed on optical disks, as well as other forms of content on other types of media.
CREDIT CARD FRAUD PROTECTION
This patented technology generally relates to a computerized system for protecting retailers and consumers engaged in credit card, check card, and debit transactions. The system includes an electronic card reader, and the generation and use of a transaction number, which specifically identifies each transaction processed within the system. As a result, the retailer does not necessarily have to print detailed information concerning the cardholder’s identity or account number on the customer’s receipt.
DATABASE ACCESS
This patented technology generally facilitates smoother interoperation between databases and applications and can be deployed in a variety of markets including ecommerce, healthcare, telecom, and finance.
DATABASE MANAGEMENT
This patented technology generally relates to the improved combination, display, and coordination of certain information from data tables in a relational database software program. The user is able to easily track the impact of a change to one table, on other tables in the program through various tools including a graphical representation.
DATABASE RETRIEVAL
This patented technology generally relates to automatically retrieving database information stored in a plurality of formats, including structural and/or relational information.
DATA ENCRYPTION
This patented technology generally relates to the use of an operating system to transparently create encrypted file storage subsystem to fully secure user files from access by anyone other than the user.
DIGITAL NEWSPAPER DELIVERY
This patented technology generally relates to the distribution of news information to subscribers via the Internet or other communication networks, such as an online newspaper. This technology can be used to send headlines or abstracts of news items with links to the full article or other related information.
DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
These patented technologies generally relate to features that can be found in production video processing equipment. They cover improved methods of equipment interconnection, aspects of graphical user interface displays, and automation of video processing. These features allow ease of equipment interconnection, clearer information display, and automation of video production tasks previously performed manually. Other aspects of the patented technologies include rendering of certain 3D effects such as those used in video scene transitions.
DMT®
This patented technology generally relates to the transmission and receipt of digital audio and/or audio video content via a variety of means including the internet, cable, satellite, and local area networks. Elements of the DMT® transmission process include a source material library, identification encoding process, format conversion, sequence encoding, compressed data storage, and transmission. Elements of the DMT® receiving process include a transceiver, format conversion, storage, decompression, and playback. Click here for more information on DMT® technology.
DOCUMENT GENERATION
This patented technology generally relates to storing data in databases such that it could be used to quickly populate multiple document templates. This technology can be used in medical applications such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR), as well as document generation applications in the financial, legal, and insurance industries.
DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL USING GLOBAL WORD CO-OCCURRENCE PATTERNS
This patented technology generally relates to the search, ranking, and lexicographical indexing of documents using a software engine. This technology can be used by Web-based Search Engines to rank, index, and provide search capability to websites or document libraries.
DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory)
This patented technology consists of DRAM patents relating to the design and implementation of DRAM memory cells. These patents cover techniques to implement DRAM cells that are small in size, resulting in higher memory density and enhanced performance. This type of memory has applications in personnel computers and gamins systems.
DYNAMIC MANUFACTURING MODELING
This patented technology generally relates to a modeling and control process used to decrease costs and increase production for factory operations. Such simulation modeling can include a variety of parameters such as products, fabrication sequences, collections of job sets, scheduling rules, and machine reliability standards. This technology can be used for exacting manufacturing processes such as semiconductor fabrication.
ECOMMERCE PRICING
This patented technology generally relates to transacting business over a network such as the Internet. This technology can be used in auctions or competitive transactions where the final price is based upon the buyer’s actions.
ELECTRONIC ADDRESS LIST MANAGEMENT
This patented technology can allow a user to manage an address list on a computer and transfer the list to an electronic device such as a cell phone.
ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ADVERTISING
This patented technology generally relates to the software, methods and systems used in insert, transmit and display background images and graphics. This technology may be used in instant messaging “skins” and email backgrounds.
EMBEDDED BROADCAST DATA
This patented technology generally relates to embedding auxiliary display data in a TV broadcast signal. It enables the transmission of data using the RF carrier signal for subsequent display on a television. This technology may be used in commercial TV systems where enhanced display data is desired without having to encode it as part of the video stream.
ENCRYPTED MEDIA & PLAYBACK DEVICES
This patented technology generally relates to encryption/decryption techniques used in media and players. It covers the devices and methods used to play back movies and other content from encrypted media. This technology is applicable to media such as high definition discs and stand-alone players, as well as game consoles and PC’s with high definition drives.
ENHANCED INTERNET NAVIGATION
This patented technology generally relates to enhanced Internet navigation by retrieving a page from a hyper-linked website for retrieval offline on a personal computer. This enables certain website content to be saved, retrieved, and accessed locally, without the need for Internet connectivity.
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
This patented technology generally relates to categorization and sharing of information within an organization and can be used to organize Internet links, electronic files and hardcopy documents.
FACILITIES OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
This patented technology generally relates to a computerized system for managing operations of a facility. This system can be used to manage the maintenance of a facility by defining inspection schedules and generating work orders.
FILE LOCKING IN SHARED STORAGE NETWORKS
The patent relates to a file locking system for use in shared storage networks such as iSCSI. The use of the patented technology removes a single point of failure for companies migrating existing Storage Area Network (SAN) implementations to iSCSI or for those creating new shared storage networks.
FLASH MEMORY
This patented technology consists of 16 flash memory patents realting to architecture, manufacturing and operation of flash memory, including NOR flash. The patented technology covers techniques for enhancing the performance and reliability of the flash memory cell. NOR flash memory is extensively used in cell phones.
FLUID FLOW CONTROL AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGY
The patent relates to systems used in the remote control and monitoring of fluid flow, both gas and liquid. This technology can be used in heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing and other industrial, commercial and residential fluid flow systems.
HEARING AID ECS
This patented technology shields hearing aids from electromagnetic interference produced by portable electronic devices such as cell phones, cordless phones, wireless headphones and headsets, and WIFI and Bluetooth enabled devices.
HEATED SURGICAL BLADES
This patented technology relates to surgical instruments, such as scalpels, that are heated to reduce bleeding when tissue is cut. These devices can be used in orthopedics, endoscopy, arthroscopy, trauma, wound care, cosmetic, and numerous other surgical procedures.
HIGH QUALITY IMAGE PROCESSING
This patented technology generally relates to methods for improving print image quality through the use of advanced signal processing techniques for transforming continuous toned images into high quality half toned images. This technology can be used in printing products such as high end laser printers and image setters.
HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICS
These patents generally relate to refractive and diffractive systems and methods for improving imaging capabilities in multi-element optical systems by using fewer elements. The patented systems and techniques have applications in military imaging systems such as thermal weapon sites, as well as commercial products like camera lenses and optical printers.
IMAGE RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT
This patented technology generally relates to the modification of images to be displayed on a video or printed display to improve the perceived image quality beyond the basic pixel resolution of the display original image.
IMPROVED PRINTING
This patented technology renders finer detail and eliminates artifacts found in traditional halftone patterns. High-volume, commercial printers, newspapers and publishers can use this technology to improve print quality while cutting costs.
INTERACTIVE CONTENT IN A CABLE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
This patented technology generally relates to the distribution and use of interactive content through cable distribution systems. This technology can be used to distribute web or television content, such as video on demand, requested by cable subscribers.
INTERNET RADIO ADVERTISING
This patented technology generally relates to advertisement replacement for Internet radio. This technology can be used by radio stations to replace broadcast advertisements for distribution over the Internet.
INTERSTITIAL INTERNET ADVERTISING
This patented technology generally relates to the display of certain advertising, informational, and branding messages that appear between or outside web pages when the user is conducting a search, by storing the message prior to being displayed. This technology is most commonly used by travel based and other reservation based websites.
LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY
This patented technology relates to devices used by surgeons to help repair broken or damaged blood vessels or gastrointestinal organs. The devices can be used by cardiologists, gastrointestinal specialists, and other medical professionals.
LAPTOP CONNECTIVITY
This patented technology is used to connect a laptop or other portable computer to multiple external devices such as a keyboard, monitor, printer, or mouse, through a single connector from the laptop to the docking station. The use of a single connector for multiple devices makes it easier to remove the laptop from the devices when it is used remotely, and to reconnect the laptop to the devices when it is returned to the docking station.
LOCATION BASED SERVICES
This patented technology generally relates to the provision of cellular location based services (LBS). More specifically, the technology claimed by the patents is applicable to key aspects of several LBSs, including wireless emergency (E911) Phase II service, handset based navigation, and many other LBSs that rely on knowing the precise location of a mobile user.
MEDICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION
This patented technology can be used in stabilizing medical images for interventional procedures such as
cardiac catheters and stents, and for diagnostics procedures such as visualization of arterial lesions.
MEDICAL MONITORING
This patented technology detects patient statistics or lab results, such as vital signs or blood test, which are outside a specified range and then automatically pages the appropriate medical personnel with a critical event message.
MICROMIRROR DIGITAL DISPLAY
This patented technology generally relates to techniques for using micromirrors to display a color image having gray scale gradations and is utilized in large screen televisions and projectors.
MICROPROCESSOR
This patented technology generally relates to the execution of instructions by a processor and has applications in personal computers, servers and embedded processors.
MICROPROCESSOR ENHANCEMENT
This patented technology generally relates to an architecture employed in advanced pipeline microprocessors. This architecture allows for conditional execution of microprocessor instructions, and a later determination of whether the instructions executed should be written back to memory. By conditionally executing instructions in this architecture, significant improvements in microprocessor speed can be achieved. Certain pipelined processor manufacturers are adopting this method of processing to improve processor speed.
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BAR CODES
This patented technology generally relates to encoding and reading a data matrix consisting of an array of data cells with a border. The data matrix can contain a variety, amount, and depth of information that would not fit on to an ordinary bar code. This patented technology can have many applications in the manufacturing, distribution, operations, accounting, and security industries such as tracking the movement of products, collection of data, improved production capabilities and anti-counterfeiting.
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATABASE COMPRESSION
This patented technology generally relates to the compression of databases. The technology enables the compressed information to be accessible in real time and generates cost savings in enterprise storage.
ONLINE AD TRACKING
This patented technology generally relates to tracking advertising usage on a network such as the Internet. For example, this technology can be used to track click through rates of web site advertising.
ONLINE AUCTION GUARANTEES
This patented technology generally relates to methods for securing the performance of online auction participants such as using guarantees and providing corresponding visual indication of guaranteed auctions.
OPTICAL SWITCHING
This patented technology generally relates to the optical switching equipment used in fiber optic communications, such as dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM). This technology may be used in equipment such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM’s) that aggregate data and voice traffic for transport over fiber optic networks.
PARALLEL PROCESSING WITH SHARED MEMORY
This patented technology generally relates to a parallel processor comprising multiple processing elements capable of performing parallel operations with access to shared memory. This technology may be applicable to computing systems, game consoles and graphic processing.
PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATIONS
This patented technology generally relates to network communications between two devices. This technology can be used by the owners of network devices, such as computers or MP3 players, to share music, photos, or other content with each other.
PHYSICAL ACCESS CONTROL
This patented technology generally relates to security systems that use smart cards to allow entry to restricted areas. This technology may be used in military and civilian government facilities as well as corporate environments that require verifiable personnel access.
PICTURE ARCHIVING & COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
This patented technology generally relates to progressive downloading used in medical systems called “PACS”. PACS enable multiple, remote users to simultaneously access image data from remote display terminals over common phone and data networks, such as the Internet. PACS are commonly used by hospitals to acquire, store, archive and transmit patient image data for remote access by their physicians, at their homes, offices or within the hospital at the point of care.
POINTING DEVICE
This patented technology generally relates to hand held devices that include pointing devices, such as a joy stick, capable of carrying out multiple user selectable functions.
POP-UP INTERNET ADVERTISING
This patented technology generally relates to user activated displays on a website, most commonly known as Pop-Ups or Pop-Unders. The displays can include advertising, surveys, messages, sound, video, applets and any other graphic or textual content.
PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICES WITH LINKS
This patented technology generally relates to products sold or distributed on CDs or DVDs that include a link to retrieve additional data via the Internet. This technology can be used by companies that distribute their products on CDs or DVDs and provide links for software upgrades, user manuals, audio files, and other purposes.
PRODUCT ACTIVATION
This patented technology generally relates to accessing data through the submission of a product identification and computer specific information to a remote station. The remote station sends an encrypted key that is stored on the computer and provides access to the data. This technology can be used by software and other products to help deter the distribution of illegal copies. Other aspects of the technologies generally relate to accessing clear data, and encrypted data via an identification label. Once decrypted, the clear and decrypted data are combined to activate software programs, and other files.
PROJECTOR
This patented technology generally relates to products and systems that include optics for projecting images. This technology can be used in projectors for business and home theater applications, as well as rear projection TV’s.
PURIFYING NUCLEIC ACIDS
These patents generally relate to methods and equipment used to purify plasmid DNA products. This technology may be used in the production of ultrapure pharmaceutical quality nucleic acids for DNA-vaccines and gene therapies. The technology is applicable to biotech products for a wide variety of diseases.
RADIO COMMUNICATION WITH GRAPHICS
This patented technology generally relates to the transmission of visual data over radio communication channels. This technology can be used to transmit visual graphics to vehicles. Examples of use would be visual representations of weather or traffic conditions.
RELATIONAL DATABASE ACCESS
This patented technology generally relate to the use of SQL queries to manipulate 3GL application data. This technology enables the use of SQL relational database query language to access non-relational data files produced by applications written in a third-generation general purpose programming language, such as C, C++, or Cobol.
REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF IMAGING DEVICE
This patented technology generally relates to systems and methods that provide remote control and monitoring of networked imaging devices such as copiers, printers and fax machines.
REMOTE VIDEO CAMERA
These patents relate to remote control of video cameras and other devices used in areas such as videoconferencing and surveillance systems. The uses of the patented technology include improved remote management of video camera functions such as pan, tilt, and focus, and improved device control in a networked videoconferencing system.
RESOURCE SCHEDULING
This patented technology generally relates to methods and software application tools for scheduling and managing resources used in manufacturing facilities, hospital facilities, fleet delivery organizations, and other resource-dependent markets. These resource scheduling tools can be integrated as part of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution used to manage a company’s complete operations.
RULE BASED MONITORING
This patented technology can be used to monitor a variety of hardware and software systems such as network nodes, servers, databases and applications.
SOFTWARE FEATURE ENABLEMENT
This patented technology generally relates to the enablement of features in software products. This technology can be used by software companies to release versions of their products with some features disabled or otherwise not available to the end user. The end user can then enable the features upon authentication for the software company.
SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGEMENT
This patented technology generally relates to technology for monitoring and tracking the use of software applications across a network. This technology can be used to provide a system for managing software license compliance in an enterprise environment as well as metering actual usage levels in a Software-as-A-Service (SaaS) environment.
SPREADSHEET AUTOMATION
This patented technology generally relates to automating the production of worksheet files for use by electronic spreadsheet programs. Specifically, the patented technology permits the efficient retrieval of data from external databases by allowing the user to select specific data from a database and import the specified data into a spreadsheet program through uniquely streamlined spreadsheet commands. The adaptive quality of the technology permits, among other things, the user to retrieve updated information from an external database without creating formatting issues in the user’s spreadsheet program.
STORAGE TECHNOLOGY
This patented technology generally relates to diverse aspects of storage devices and related technology. The patented technology covers data transfer, fault tolerance, caching, data integrity and error correction.
SURGICAL CATHETER
This patented technology generally relates to surgical devices, such as percutaneously insertable catheters and cannulas, that are used to access the circulatory system. These devices can be used in cardiology and other surgical procedures.
TELEMATICS
This patented technology generally relates to technology for displaying mobile vehicle information on a map. This technology can be used in navigation and fleet management systems that combine wireless communication with GPS tracking and map displays.
TELEVISION DATA DISPLAY
This patented technology generally relates to a device for extracting data from a TV signal for display to a viewer. Similar to how closed caption data is handled, this technology can be used to extract data such as weather reports, sports scores, and news feeds, and display this data to the television viewer. This technology also provides for the data to be stored and retrieved at a later time by the television viewer.
TELEVISION SIGNAL SCRAMBLING
This patented technology generally relates to the scrambling of broadcast signals whereby the unscrambling is accomplished through a removable card, commonly known as a “smart card.”
TEXT AUTO-COMPLETION
This patented technology generally relates to systems and software that perform auto-completion of user text entry. This technology may be used in cell phones/PDA’s, computers, email clients, web browsers, search engines and other applications where auto-completion makes text entry more efficient.
VEHICLE ANTI-THEFT PARKING SYSTEMS
This patented technology generally relates to methods of automatically identifying a vehicle through a characteristic, such as a license plate number, in order to deter vehicle theft. This technology is applicable to airports, hotels, shopping centers and other parking areas that employ access control.
VEHICLE MAINTENANCE
This patented technology generally relates to vehicle maintenance alerts. This technology may be used to alert a driver that an oil change or other vehicle maintenance should be performed.
VIDEOCONFERENCING
This patented technology relates to videoconferencing systems and services based on the Internet.
VIDEO EDITING
This patented technology generally relates to altering video streams in real time to remove portions of an original image and substitute elements to create a new image. This technology can be used to digitally change the background of a video image without using traditional blue screen techniques.
VIRTUAL COMPUTER WORKSPACES
This patented technology generally relates to the virtualization of multiple workspaces and their associated system resources. This technology can be used by a computer user to create multiple views on their desktop computer or server and is applicable to a variety of markets from enterprise server and software products to virtual reality and video games.
VIRTUAL SERVER
This patented technology generally relates to server virtualization. The technology can be used as a hardware replacement in enterprise, telecommunications, and ISP applications to consolidate servers and to centralize infrastructure management.
WEB PERSONALIZATION
This patented technology generally relates to technology for user preferences and automatically personalizing a user’s online experience. The technology is applicable to web sites that use categories plus attributes to identify items, and where individual attributes apply to multiple categories.
WIRELESS DIGITAL MESSAGING
This patented technology generally relates to transmitting digital content to wireless devices, such as cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players and laptop computers, including wireless systems that deliver digital content, such as images, graphics, photographs, image-embedded e-mail and facsimiles. Among the primary applications for this technology are mobile phone picture messaging and email/fax delivery.
WORKSPACE WITH MOVING VIEWPOINT
This patented technology generally relates to the three dimensional systems capable adjusting the viewpoint pitch, yaw, and roll. This technology can be used in a 3D camera fly-by system while zooming in and out of very large spacial areas such as those utilized for the cartography of planets, solar systems, and galaxies.
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