Multimedia Library of Ancient Religious Manuscripts

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Over the years, Multispan has provided charitable services in the development of a database-driven multimedia library of audio segments from related lectures and quotes concerning ancient religious manuscript discoveries organized by topics.

See www.iwillexplore.com

Solving Mathematical Story Problems

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As a result of trying to help students appreciate mathematics in the context of the real world and improve their ability to solve story problems,  Multispan created patented systems and methods for solving mathematical word problems.   Many occasions of direct inspiration led to the development of a new generation of math and science educational calculators (called meaning calculators) that extend graphing calculators and use patented and proprietary technologies to formulate quantitative word problems.

See http://iwillexplore.com/bin/calc.html

As part of this initiative, we also developed and deployed an online book concerning Unified Mathematics that demonstrates the use of just Microsoft WORD to create a website.

See www.unifiedmath.com

Patented Ecommerce System

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After analyzing the purchasing processes at the Mirage Hotel over a period of several months, Multispan’s founder Dr. Ranel Erickson received inspiration on several occasions when developing a new innovative bid-analysis system that greatly improved the purchasers’ productivity while cutting costs by ten to twenty percent.  This became the patented core technology for Purchase Pro, a spin -off venture that experienced a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) during the dot-com era (2000) and at its peak reached  a market capitalization of more than one billion dollars.  This company grew to over 100 technical employees and contractors and serviced companies such as Mirage Resorts, Best Western Hotels, Walt Disney World, Marriott, and Office Depot.

ARIA Sports Book Display System

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Multispan developed a Flex 3 application (that integrated technologies such as SQL Server 2005, mySQL, PHP, Linux, Mac minis, and high definition video screens)  for displaying sports odds information in the new ARIA Race and Sports Book and other MGM/Mirage properties.

Mars Corporation Product Kiosk

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Multispan developed a FLEX 3 based kiosk application for Mars Corporation for entertainment companies to purchase products at trade shows.  This application reads and writes data to Sony FeliCa integrated circuit (IC) cards.