Optimal presentation and editing of business data in a browser-based user interface of an integrated web-based business information system is described, including a browser at a user computer in dynamic communication with a web server allowing database editing and updating without browser page refreshes. For optimizing the data input/editing experience of the user, an array of features in various combinations is provided including: single-click instantiation of cell editing in a table displayed by the browser; single off-click or keyboard commits instantiating cell-wise data transfers; bulk editing allowing group modification of data elements across a plurality of adjacently-displayed or non-adjacently displayed records; client-side, location-based caching of old cell values allowing selective go-back for any edited or bulk-edited cell, in any order desired by the user, prior to a page-refreshing input event; and easy establishment/modification of sub-records associated with any of a displayed list of records using sub-record access icons, rollover menus, and auxiliary browser windows.

Facilitating data manipulation in a browser-based user interface of an enterprise business application

A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object.

Image Capture and Identification System and Process

Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices

The disclosed methods and apparatus relate generally to the electronics media industry, such as cable television (CATV), home shopping services, on-line computer services and computer memory applications. These methods and apparatus allow a user to access and make use of electronic media input and output devices by reference to and/or utilization of standard printed matter, such as magazines, textbooks, or any other printed matter that can be correlated to electronic media.

Method and apparatus for accessing electronic data via a familiar printed medium

A system and method for automatically providing content associated with captured information is described. In some examples, the system receives input by a user, and automatically provides content or links to content associated with the input. In some examples, the system receives input via text entry or by capturing text from a rendered document, such as a printed document, an object, an audio stream, and so on.

Automatically providing content associated with captured information, such as information captured in real-time

The present invention provides a system and method for interactively providing product and related information to a user based upon product identification information, such as a UPC code, and enabling the user to engage in various transactions related to the product. According to one aspect of the present invention, the system informs and educates the user about a particular product or service which the user is interested in and enables the user to efficiently purchase the product or service. The system is also configured to offer personalized transactional benefits to the user based on the amount and/or type of personal information that is provided by the user.

Method and system for interactively providing product related information on demand and providing personalized transactional benefits at a point of purchase

A mobile device is described for providing a personalized transactional benefit at a point of purchase. The mobile device includes a communications module that is configured to retrieve from a network personalized identification information associated with a consumer based on a personalized identifier uniquely associated with the consumer. The mobile device further includes a reader coupled to the communications module. The reader is configured to capture, at the point of purchase, an image representing a product identification indicia. The communications module accesses the network to identify the captured image and to retrieve from the network information associated with the captured image. Finally, the mobile device includes a visual output device coupled to the communications module. The visual output device is configured to visually output the personalized transactional benefit based on the personalized identification information associated with the consumer and the information associated with the captured image. The consumer identity is preferably shielded from a retail establishment where the product identification indicia is captured.

Providing a personalized transactional benefit at a point of purchase

Fiber reinforced composition and manufacture of said composition

Fibre-reinforced pellets comprising a thermoplastics 
polymer and containing at least 30% by volume of reinforc­
ing filaments extending longitudinally of the pellets which 
have been produced by cutting a structure made in a 
continuous process under conditions which give an excep­
tionally high degree of wetting of the filaments by the 
thermoplastics polymer. The thorough wetting gives rise to a 
product which can be further processed even in vigorous 
mixing processes such as injection moulding to give 
moulded articles with surprisingly high retention of the fibre 
length in the fabricated article and in which the reinforce­
ment is provided by individually wetted filaments.

Pellets of fibre-reinforced compositions and methods for producing such pellets

Fibre-reinforced thermoplastic moulded articles comprising at least 30% by weight of reinforcing filaments are formed by injection moulding pellets cut to a length of 2 to 100mm from a thermoformable fibre-reinforced structure. The fibre-reinforced structure comprises a thermoplastic polymer and the reinforcing filaments, the filaments being aligned and having been wetted by a melt of the thermoplastic in a melt pultrusion process, in which the extent of wetting is at least 70%. In the moulded articles, the reinforcing filaments are present in the form of individually dispersed filaments and at least 50% by weight of which have a length of at least 2mm.

Peter J Williams

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Method and system for interactively providing product related information on demand and providing personalized transactional benefits at a point of purchase

Providing a personalized transactional benefit at a point of purchase

Fiber reinforced composition and manufacture of said composition

Pellets of fibre-reinforced compositions and methods for producing such pellets

Fibre-reinforced moulded articles