Month of January 2004

Life Science Application Integration Platform (LSAIP) described in this article is a new approach to solve life science informatics application integration challenges. The methods included in this system are using an integration container, a set of channels, and a set of development tools that enable heterogeneous LS...

Disclosed a method and system to provide the ability to constrain the usage of an individual's credit card or similar payment device.

This invention describes a system which improves the accuracy of machine recognition of dynamic handwriting. The system generates static handwriting data from dynamic handwriting data, generates a machine recognition systems for each data type and combines the two recognition systems to improve the machine...

This invention describes a system for multimedia and cross-media search and retrieval of multimedia documents in a multimedia database. The invention processes a multimedia database into sets of features which it stores and indexes. Multimedia queries can then be made on the indexed multimedia database. The...

This invention describes a personal digital notepad with on-board handwriting recognition.

In the area of grid computing and Java* software, this innovation describes a system and method for remotely and transparently accessing Java objects, and when the objects are hosted on machines with the sharing the same high-speed memory bus, then directly addressing them through shared memory.

Improved Method of Feeding Slurry Catalysts to a Gas Phase Reactor A method of controlling the size of drops of liquid catalyst entering a gas phase polymerization reactor is taught herein to prevent the formation of large flaky particles which might result from the use poorly distributed polymerization catalysts...

The general concern about running an olefin polymerization reactor with a low bed level is the sheeting of the expanded section. These reactors can be used to produce polyethylene, polypropylene, EPDM rubbers and similar thermoplastic products. Sheets are formed due to poor or no scrubbing of resin off the conical...