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20090076831 | ONLINE AUCTION PROPAGATION - It has been discovered that instances of an item to be sold in online auctions may be linked to an already created online auction listing for the item. The associating propagates the online auction listing to these other item instances. The propagating allows junior bidders (i.e., losing bidders) to continue pursuing purchase of the associated item instances and allows the junior sellers of the associated item instances to leverage the information of the online auction listing. | 03-19-2009 |
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20120136745 | ONLINE AUCTION PROPAGATION - Some example embodiments include a method that includes generating an indication of a first item being auctioned in an online auction system. Responsive to locating an online auction in the online auction system for a second item having one or more attributes that exceed a matching threshold with the first item, the method includes associating the first item with the located online auction using the generated indication of the first item. Also, after the online auction for the second item ends and in response to determining a bid of a junior bidder and data about the junior bidder satisfy a set of one or more conditions for sale of the first item, the method includes notifying the junior bidder in the online auction of the first item in the online auction system, wherein the junior bidder is junior to a winning bidder in the online auction for the second item. | 05-31-2012 |
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20100147768 | RENEWABLE SORBENT MATERIAL AND METHOD OF USE - Sorbent materials include a support, a base material comprising a first compound covalently bound to the support, and an active material reversibly bound to the base material, wherein the active material comprises a second compound with at least one functional group selected for binding a target species. The active material with the bound target species can be removed by washing the sorbent material with a solvent in which the second compound is soluble. The sorbent material can be regenerated by reversibly binding one or more second compounds having a selected functional group to the washed base material. | 06-17-2010 |
20100147770 | FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON SORBENT AND PROCESS FOR SELECTIVE CAPTURE OF PRESELECTED METALS - A composition and process are described that provide for selective capture of targeted materials, including metals and chemical targets. The composition includes an activated carbon scaffold that is chemically modified to include ligands with a high affinity for selective capture of metals and chemical targets. The invention finds use, e.g., as heavy metal sorbents, as catalyst supports, in analytical applications such as ion chromatography, and in devices such as analytical instruments and chemical sensors. | 06-17-2010 |
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20110263924 | FUNCTIONALIZED MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE ANALYTE SENSOR - A method and system for simply and efficiently determining quantities of a preselected material in a particular solution by the placement of at least one superparamagnetic nanoparticle having a specified functionalized organic material connected thereto into a particular sample solution, wherein preselected analytes attach to the functionalized organic groups, these superparamagnetic nanoparticles are then collected at a collection site and analyzed for the presence of a particular analyte. | 10-27-2011 |
20120106691 | Method and System for Radioisotope Generation - A system and a process for producing selected isotopic daughter products from parent materials characterized by the steps of loading the parent material upon a sorbent having a functional group configured to selectively bind the parent material under designated conditions, generating the selected isotopic daughter products, and eluting said selected isotopic daughter products from the sorbent. In one embodiment, the process also includes the step of passing an eluent formed by the elution step through a second sorbent material that is configured to remove a preselected material from said eluent. In some applications a passage of the material through a third sorbent material after passage through the second sorbent material is also performed. | 05-03-2012 |
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