Author: claimsbot

1. A polygonal shaped carton formed from a single blank, said carton comprising:
a front panel;
a rear panel spaced apart and substantially parallel to said front panel;
a plurality of side panels extending substantially perpendicularly from said front panel;
a plurality of miter panels extending contiguously with plurality of said side panels, said front panel, and said rear panels;
at least one miter tab configured to secure said rear panel to one of said side panels;
a bottom; and,
a top opposite said bottom, wherein said front panel, said rear panel, said plurality of miter panels, said at least one miter tab, and said bottom form a polyhedron that receives granulated or powdered product therein, said top configured close said carton such that in a sealing arrangement.
2. The carton of claim 1 wherein said bottom comprises a first major lower flap, a second major lower flap, at least one minor flap, and a plurality of miter flaps, said top comprises a first major flap, a second major flap, at least one minor flap, and a plurality of miter flaps.
3. The carton of claim 2 further comprising adhesive applied to a reverse face of said blank.
4. The carton of claim 2 wherein said plurality of miter flaps are each triangular-shaped, said bottom first major lower flap is folded beneath said bottom at least one minor flap and beneath at two of said bottom plurality of miter flaps, said bottom second major lower flap is folded across said bottom first major lower flap.
5. The carton of claim 2 wherein said plurality of miter flaps are each triangular-shaped, said top first major lower flap is folded beneath said top at least one minor flap and beneath at two of said top plurality of miter flaps, said top second major lower flap is folded across said top first major lower flap.
6. The carton of claim 2 wherein said top further comprises a tear strip extending at least partially across said top second major flap, said tear strip facilitates a user opening and re-closing said carton.
7. The carton of claim 2 wherein at least one of said top first major flap and said top second major flap comprises at least one cut line configured to facilitate a user opening said carton.
8. The carton of claim 2 wherein said bottom and top first and second major flaps facilitate reducing sifting of a product from said carton.
9. The carton of claim 2 wherein said bottom and top first and second major flaps facilitate reducing stresses induced to said carton.
10. The carton of claim 2 wherein a portion of said top first major flap is configured to interlock with a portion of said second major flap after said carton as been opened from a fully assembled state.
11. The carton of claim 1 wherein said carton has an octagonal shape when fully assembled.
12. A carton for packaging a product, said carton formed from a single blank of material and comprising:
a top;
a bottom opposite said top;
a front panel;
an opposite rear panel spaced a distance from said front panel, said rear panel substantially parallel to said front panel;
a plurality of side panels oriented substantially perpendicularly to said front panel; and
a plurality of miter panels extending contiguously with said side panels, said front panel, and said rear panels, said front panel, said rear panel, and said plurality of side panels each extending between said top and said bottom, a portion of said miter panel is configured to secure said rear panel to at least one of said side panels such that sifting of the product from said carton is facilitated to be prevented when said carton is fully assembled.
13. A carton in accordance with claim 12 wherein each of said plurality of miter panels comprises at least one miter tab configured to facilitate sealing said carton to prevent sifting of the product from said carton.
14. A carton in accordance with claim 13 wherein each of said at least one miter tabs is triangular-shaped and comprises an emboss pad, said emboss pad facilitates assembly of said carton.
15. A carton in accordance with claim 13 wherein said at least one miter tab comprises a plurality of upper miter tabs and a plurality of lower miter tabs, each of said plurality of upper miter tabs each extends outward from each of said miter panels adjacent said top, each of said plurality of lower miter tabs extends outward from each of said miter panels adjacent said carton bottom.
16. A carton in accordance with claim 13 wherein said top comprises a tear strip formed integrally therewith, said tear strip is removable from said top to facilitate removing product from said carton.
17. A carton in accordance with claim 16 wherein said top further comprises at least a first cut line extending substantially parallel to said tear strip and at least a second cut line extending substantially perpendicular to said tear strip.
18. A carton in accordance with claim 16 wherein said top further comprises a first major flap and a second major flap, a portion of said first major flap is configured to interlock with a portion of said second major flap after said tear strip has been removed.
19. A carton in accordance with claim 12 wherein said top comprises a first major flap and a second major flap, and at least one minor flap, said first major flap is folded beneath said second major flap and said at least one minor flap when said top is closed.
20. A carton in accordance with claim 12 wherein said bottom comprises a first major flap and a second major flap, and at least one minor flap, said first major flap is folded beneath said second major flap and said at least one minor flap when said carton bottom is closed.
21. A carton in accordance with claim 12 wherein said carton has an octagonal shape when fully assembled.
22. A method of assembling a carton for packaging a product, said method comprising:
providing a single blank of material;
forming a carton having at least five sides and including a front panel, an opposite rear panel that is spaced a distance from the front panel, wherein at least two side panels extends substantially perpendicularly from the front panel;
folding a first major flap over a second major flap and over at least one minor flap to form a bottom for the carton, wherein the flaps facilitate preventing sifting of the product from the carton; and
folding at least one flap to form a top for the carton.
23. A method in accordance with claim 22 wherein forming a carton having at least five sides further comprises forming the carton to include a plurality of miter panels that extend contiguously with the side panels, the front panel, and the rear panel.
24. A method in accordance with claim 23 further comprising folding at least a portion of each miter panel to facilitate coupling the rear panel to at least one side panel.
25. A method in accordance with claim 22 wherein forming a carton having at least five sides further comprises forming the carton to have an octagonal shape when fully assembled.
26. A method in accordance with claim 22 further comprising folding a first major flap over a second major flap and over at least one minor flap to form a top for the carton, wherein the flaps facilitate preventing sifting of the product from the top of the carton.
27. A method in accordance with claim 26 wherein folding a first major flap over a second major flap and over at least one minor flap to form a top for the carton further comprises providing a tear strip formed integrally with one of the top first major flap and the top second major flap, wherein the tear strip facilitates removing product from said carton.
28. A method in accordance with claim 26 further comprising:
forming at least a first cut line extending substantially parallel to said tear strip in one of the first major flap and the second major flap; and
forming at least a second cut line extending substantially perpendicular to said tear strip in one of the first major flap and the second major flap.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

In the claims:

1. A method of linking applications to a device having shadow memories comprising the steps of:
providing software applications to be linked to devices having shadow memories;
coupling a linker between said applications and said devices wherein said linker defines code placement into said memory devices; and
storing in said linker descriptive information of said shadow memories of said device to enable said linker to get the device to a correct overlay state to access the device memories.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said linker is a visual linker.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the descriptive information includes overlay configurations of a memory map.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the descriptive information for each configuration includes the information of the state the device has to be in for the shadow memory map to be visible in the address space.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the descriptive information for each configuration is the information as to how to get the device into the state that makes each configuration visible in the address space and how to get the device back into the state it was in before the state was changed.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the descriptive information includes how to find out the state the device is currently in.
7. The method of claim 1 including the step of downloading the applications to the correct shadow memories.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the description information for each configuration is the information as to how to get the device into the state that makes a shadow memory visible in the address space, how to get the device back into the state it was.
9. The method of claim 1 including the step of debugging code and data that reside in shadow memories.
10. The method of claim 1 including the step of debugging code and data that resides in shadow memories wherein the description information for each shadow memory configuration is the information of how to find out the state the device is in.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein said linker generates the necessary code stub to set control values during call operation.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein said linker examines a call or branch to determine if the instruction is transferring control to a piece of code that resides in a memory device that is not always visible to the processor, and if so, directs the call to a linker generated code stub that performs the operations necessary to make the shadow memory holding the code appear in the address space.
13. The method of claim 12 said code stub modifies shadow memory control bit.
14. The method of claim 12 including the step after the correct memory appears in the address space the step of calling the routine.
15. The method of claim 14 including the steps of performing the called routine and upon returning from called routine, returning the memory configuration to its previous state.
16. The method of claim 13 including the steps of calling the routine and performing the routine after the correct shadow memory appears in the address space.
17. The method of claim 16 including the step of modifying shadow memory control bits to return memory configuration to prior state after the routine is performed.
18. The method of claim 17 wherein the descriptive information for each configuration includes the information of the state the device has to be in for the shadow memory map to be visible in the address space.
19. The method of claim 18 wherein the descriptive information for each configuration is the information as to how to get the device into the state that makes each configuration visible in the address space, how to get the device back into the state it was in before the state was changed and how to find out the state the device is currently in.
20. A method of linking applications to a device having memories comprising the steps of:
providing software applications to be linked to devices having memories;
coupling a linker between said applications and said devices wherein said linker defines code placement into said memory devices; and
storing in said linker descriptive information of said memories of said device to enable said linker to get the device to a correct overlay state to access the device memories wherein said linker examines a call or branch to determine if the instruction is transferring control to a piece of code that resides in an overlay, and if so, directs the call to a linker generated code stub that determines if the code is already present in the overlay, and if not, copies the code from its slow memory access to fast memory access prior to calling the routine.
21. The method of claim 20 wherein said linker is a visual linker.
22. A method of linking applications to a device having memories comprising the steps of:
providing software applications to be linked to devices having memories;
coupling a linker between said applications and said devices wherein said linker defines code placement into said memory devices; and
storing in said linker descriptive information of said memories of said device to enable said linker to get the device to a correct overlay state to access the device memories.

1. A method comprising:
storing at least one of an image data or image information products in a database;
providing a search engine for searching the stored image data products;
if a desired image data or image information product of a requestor exists in the database, automatically generating a data product based on the desired image data product and a predefined attributes of the image specified by a requestor;
if a desired image data or image information product of a requestor does not exist in the database, automatically analyzing the desired image data or image information product and developing an image data or image information product based on the analysis and a predefined attributes of the image specified by a requester; and
automatically sending the generated or developed image data or image information product to the requester;
2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the image data or image information product includes:
instructing one or more of a plurality of remote sensing data sources to generate one or more images based on the desired image data or image information product and the predefined attributes of the image specified by a requester;
receiving the generated one or more images at a data management facility; and
generating the desired image data or image information product based on an imaging algorithm associated with the desired image data or image information product and stored in an algorithm database.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein developing the image data or image information product includes:
instructing one or more of the plurality of remote sensing data sources to generate one or more images based on the analysis and the predefined attributes of the image specified by a requester;
receiving the generated one or more images at a data management facility;
generating at least one of an imaging or information extraction algorithm based on the analysis; and
generating the desired image data or image information product based on the generated imaging algorithm and the received one or more images.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
when an algorithm is used to generate an image data or image information product, automatically reimbursing an owner of the algorithm that was used based on a reimbursement contract.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein sending includes at least one of electronically sending the image data or image information product to the requestor over a network, printing a hard copy and transporting the hard copy to the requester, and storing on a portable memory device and transporting the portable memory device to the requestor.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of remote sensing data sources includes one or more of a LandSat5 system, a LandSat7 system, a MODIS system, aircraft system, ground based system, or a SPOT system.
7. A system comprising:
means for storing image data or image information products in a database;
means for providing a search engine for searching the stored image data or image information products;
means for automatically generating a image data or image information product based on the desired image data or image information product and a predefined attributes of the image specified by a requester, if a desired image data or image information product of a requestor exists in the database;
means for automatically analyzing the desired image data or image information product and developing an image data or image information product based on the analysis and a predefined attributes of the image specified by a requestor, if a desired image data or image information product of a requestor does not exist in the database;
means for sending the generated or developed image data or image information product to the requestor; an
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the means for generating the image data or image information product includes:
means for instructing one or more of a plurality of remote sensing data sources to generate one or more images based on the desired image data or image information product and the predefined attributes of the image specified by a requestor;
means for receiving the generated one or more images at a data management facility; and
means for generating the desired image data or image information product based on an imaging algorithm associated with the desired image data or image information product and stored in an algorithm database.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the means for developing the image data or image information product includes:
means for instructing one or more of the plurality of remote sensing data sources to generate one or more images based on the analysis and the predefined attributes of the image specified by a requestor;
means for receiving the generated one or more images at a data management facility;
means for generating at least one of an imaging or information extraction algorithm based on the analysis; and
means for generating the desired image data or image information product based on the generated imaging or information extracting algorithm and the received one or more images.
10. The system of claim 9, further comprising:
means for reimbursing an owner of the algorithm that was used based on a reimbursement contract.
11. The system of claim 7, wherein the means for sending performs at least one of electronically sending the image data or image information product to the requestor over a network automatically, printing a hard copy and transporting the hard copy to the requester, and automatically storing on a portable memory device and transporting the portable memory device to the requestor.
12. The system of claim 7, wherein the plurality of remote sensing data sources includes one or more of a LandSat5 system, a LandSat7 system, a MODIS system, aircraft system, ground based system, or a SPOT system.
13. A system comprising:
a first database for storing at least one of an image data or image information products;
a second database for storing at least one of an image data or image information product algorithms; and
a processor coupled to the first and second databases and a network, the processor being configured to generate a graphical user interface,
wherein the graphical user interface includes:
a first component for allowing a requestor to search at least one of the stored image data or image information products or algorithms;
a second component for selecting at least one of the stored image data or image information products or algorithms;
a third component for selecting a predefined attributes of the image specified by a requestor;

the processor including:
a fourth component for generating an image data or image information product based on the selected image data or image information product and the selected geographic location;
a fifth component for receiving a request for an image data or image information product, if a desired image data or image information product can not be found in the first database; and
a sixth component for sending the generated image data or image information product to the requester;
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the fourth component includes:
an eighth component for instructing one or more of a plurality of remote sensing data sources to generate one or more images based on the selected image data or image information product and the selected geographic location;
a ninth component for receiving the generated one or more images; and
a tenth component for generating the desired image data or image information product based on at least one of an imaging or information extraction algorithm associated with the selected image data or image information product and stored in the second database.
15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor further includes:
an eleventh component for reimbursing an owner of the algorithm that was used to generate the selected image data or image information product based on a reimbursement contract.
16. The system of claim 13, wherein the sixth component performs at least one of electronically sending the image data or image information product to the requestor over the network, printing a hard copy, and storing on a portable memory device.
17. The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of remote sensing data sources includes one or more of a LandSat5 system, a LandSat7 system, a MODIS system, aircraft system, ground based system, or a SPOT system.
18. A system comprising:
a delivery unit;
a network;
a data management facility including:
a first database for storing image data or image information products;
a second database for storing image data or image information product algorithms; and
a processor coupled to the first and second databases and the network, the processor being configured to generate a graphical user interface,
wherein the graphical user interface includes:
a first component for allowing a requestor to search at least one of the stored image data or image information products or algorithms;
a second component for selecting at least one of the stored image data or image information products or algorithms;
a third component for selecting a predefined attributes of the image specified by a requestor;

the processor including:
a fourth component for generating an image data or image information product based on the selected image data or image information product and the selected geographic location;
a fifth component for receiving a request for an image data or image information product, if a desired image data or image information product can not be found in the first database; and
a sixth component for sending the generated image data or image information product to the requester;
19. The system of claim 18, wherein the fourth component includes:
an eighth component for instructing one or more of a plurality of remote sensing data sources to generate one or more images based on the selected image data or image information product and the selected geographic location;
a ninth component for receiving the generated one or more images; and
a tenth component for generating the desired image data or image information product based on at least one of an imaging or information extraction algorithm associated with the selected image data or image information product and stored in the second database.
20. The system of claim 19, wherein the processor further includes:
an eleventh component for reimbursing an owner of the algorithm that was used to generate the selected image data or image information product based on a reimbursement contract.
21. The system of claim 18, wherein the sixth component performs at least one of electronically sending the image data or image information product to the requestor over the network, printing a hard copy, and storing on a portable memory device.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein the sixth component further performs sending a request to the delivery unit to transport the hard copy or portable memory device to the requestor.
23. The system of claim 18, wherein the plurality of remote sensing data sources includes one or more of a LandSat5 system, a LandSat7 system, a MODIS system, aircraft system, ground based system, or a SPOT system.
24. A method comprising:
storing image data or image information products in a database;
providing a search engine for searching the stored image data or image information products;
receiving payment information from a requestor;
if a desired image data or image information product of a requestor exists in the database, automatically generating an image data or image information product based on the desired image data or image information product and a predefined attributes of the image specified by the requestor;
if a desired image data or image information product of a requestor does not exist in the database, automatically analyzing the desired image data or image information product and developing an image data or image information product based on the analysis and a predefined attributes of the image specified by the requester;
automatically sending the generated or developed image data or image information product to the requestor; and
automatically billing the requestor based on the generated or developed image data or image information product and the received payment information.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method of determining variance in heterogeneous data, the heterogeneous data including a time dimension and a magnitude dimension, the method comprising:
storing an electronically accessible database of the heterogeneous data in a system, the system including at least one computing device with a processor and memory, the memory storing executable instructions that are executable by the processor;
determining the magnitude dimension that is associated with the time dimension having distinguishing extreme magnitudes of the heterogeneous data in the electronically accessible database, the distinguishing extreme magnitudes being stored in the memory of the system;
generating a weight of the heterogeneous data of the time dimension having the distinguishing extreme magnitudes in the memory of the system more than the heterogeneous data outside of the time dimension distinguishing extreme magnitudes of the heterogeneous data in the memory of the system; and
generating an estimated risk of the heterogeneous data in the electronically accessible database in the system in reference to the weight in the memory of the system.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the magnitude dimension further comprises:
a performance parameter comprising at least one of corporate financial data and stock performance metrics.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the magnitude dimension that is associated with the time dimension having distinguishing extreme magnitudes further comprises:
identifying data of the heterogeneous data having the magnitude dimension that is greater than a predetermined cutoff value.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the predetermined cutoff value further comprises:
2 standard deviations of the heterogeneous data of the electronically accessible database of the system.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the weight further comprises:
generating a first divider comprising a reverse divider of a 1 year average priceearnings ratio in a historical sample of average priceearnings ratio;
generating a second divider comprising a divider of a 1 year average junk spread;
generating a third divider comprising a reverse divider of 180-day change in average 1-year junk spreads, at the time at which the priceearnings ratio of the heterogeneous data is observed;
summing the first divider, the second divider and twice the third divider;
dividing the sum by 20, yielding a quotient; and
subtracting 1 from the quotient of the dividing, yielding the weight of the heterogeneous data in the electronically accessible database in the system.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the estimated risk of the heterogeneous data in the electronically accessible database in the system in reference to the weight in the memory of the system further comprises:
generating the estimated risk in reference to the weight of the heterogeneous data of the time dimension having the distinguishing extreme magnitudes in the memory of the system, a risk statistic, a scaling based on a confidence level of the risk statistic and a selected extreme period return of an asset.
7. A method of determining variance in heterogeneous data, the heterogeneous data including a time dimension and a performance measurement, the method comprising:
storing an electronically accessible repository of the heterogeneous data in a system, the system including at least one computing device with a processor and memory, the memory storing executable instructions that are executable by the processor;
identifying unstable periods of the performance measurement of the heterogeneous data of the electronically accessible repository in the system;
generating a weight of the heterogeneous data of the time dimension having the unstable periods of the performance measurement of the heterogeneous data of the electronically accessible repository in the memory of the system; and
generating an instability estimator of a risk statistic of the heterogeneous data of the electronically accessible repository of the system in reference to the weight.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the identifying further comprises:
identifying data of the heterogeneous data having performance measurement that is greater than a cutoff.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the cutoff further comprises:
2 standard deviations of the heterogeneous data.
10. The method of claim 7, wherein generating the weight further comprises:
generating a first divider comprising a reverse divider of a 1 year average priceearnings ratio in a historical sample of average priceearnings ratio;
generating a second divider comprising a divider of a 1 year average junk spread;
generating a third divider comprising a reverse divider of 180-day change in average 1-year junk spreads, at the time at which the priceearnings ratio of the heterogeneous data is observed;
summing the first divider, the second divider and twice the third divider;
dividing the sum by 20, yielding a quotient; and
subtracting 1 from the quotient of the dividing, yielding the weight of the heterogeneous data in the electronically accessible repository in the system.
11. The method of claim 7, wherein generating the instability estimator of the risk statistic of the heterogeneous data in the electronically accessible repository in the system in reference to the weight in the memory of the system further comprises:
generating the instability estimator in reference to the weight of the heterogeneous data of the time dimension having the unstable periods in the memory of the system, a risk statistic, a scaling based on a confidence level of the risk statistic and a selected extreme period return of an asset.
12. The method of claim 7, wherein the heterogeneous data further comprises:
financial data.
13. A system comprising:
a processor;
a storage device coupled to the processor, operable to store heterogeneous financial data of an item and variance rules;
a weighting engine that is operable on the processor to receive, distinguish and identify extreme heterogeneous financial data and over-weight the extreme heterogeneous financial data; and
an analytical engine that is operable on the processor to receive the over-weighted extreme heterogeneous financial data, the variance rules, and the heterogeneous financial data, and operable on the processor to perform the variance rules on the heterogeneous financial data using the over-weighted extreme financial data to generate or yield an instability estimator.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the heterogeneous financial data further comprises:
securities data.
15. The system of claim 13, wherein the variance rules further comprise:
value-at-risk variance rules.
16. The system of claim 13, wherein the analytical engine further comprises:
a leading indicator of future periods of extreme activity of the item measured by the heterogeneous financial data.
17. The system of claim 13, wherein identify further comprises:
identify a subset of the heterogeneous financial data having performance measurement that is greater than a cutoff.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein the cutoff further comprises:
2 standard deviations of the heterogeneous financial data.
19. The system of claim 13, wherein generating the weight further comprises:
generating a first divider comprising a reverse divider of a 1 year average priceearnings ratio in a historical sample of average priceearnings ratio;
generating a second divider comprising a divider of a 1 year average junk spread;
generating a third divider comprising a reverse divider of 180-day change in average 1-year junk spreads, at a time at which the priceearnings ratio of the heterogeneous data is observed;
summing the first divider, the second divider and twice the third divider;
dividing the sum by 20, yielding a quotient; and
subtracting 1 from the quotient of the dividing, yielding the weight of the heterogeneous data in the storage device.
20. The system of claim 13, wherein generating the instability estimator of the heterogeneous financial data in the storage device in reference to the weight further comprises:
generating the instability estimator in reference to the weight of the heterogeneous financial data having unstable periods in the storage device, a scaling based on a confidence level of the risk statistic and a selected extreme period return of the item.