Matthew C Pike

US Patent:

20070233580, Oct 4, 2007

Filed:

Apr 2, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/695579

Inventors:

Matthew Pike - Minnetrista MN, US
Mark Mendel - Minneapolis MN, US

Assignee:

DIGITAL RIVER, INC. - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705026000

Abstract:

In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a set of API's for integrated retailers to perform standard order fulfillment operations to fulfill and return products on behalf of their clients is described. A common catalog on a software platform is intended be a flexible common hub around which many different commerce models can be implemented. Integrated retailer is one such model on which e-commerce occurs. Integrated retailers are permitted to sell product from the common catalog with another company providing back-end fulfillment. The common catalog infrastructure's pre-existing XML catalog export facility provides product information to the retailer. The Retail Web Service (RWS) provides the fulfillment functions as a REST-style web service.

US Patent:

20090242218, Oct 1, 2009

Filed:

Mar 12, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/381485

Inventors:

Marthinus Cornelius Van Schoor - Medford MA, US
Attila Jozsef Lengyel - Somerville MA, US
Matthew Pike - Medford MA, US

International Classification:

A62C 37/00

US Classification:

169 56

Abstract:

A sprinkler head including a sprinkler body with a passage for fluid and a seal mechanism sealing the passage, and a cage member. A frangible bulb extends between the cage member and the seal. A shape memory alloy element is associated with the frangible bulb and has a first configuration that fits within, about, or abutting the bulb and a second configuration at a predetermined temperature which breaks the frangible bulb releasing the fluid through the passage.