Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 03/06

20060069584 - Determining a term score for an animated graphics file: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine a term score based on frame scores, frame weights, and effect bonuses. The frame score represents a probability that the frame will be displayed, and in an embodiment is based on whether the frame may be skipped via...

20060069583 - Fundraising system and method thereof: A method for raising funds. A source prints brochures identifying items available for purchase, where at least one of the items are transferable gift certificates having a monetary value and are redeemable for classes of products offered for sale by the source. The source delivers the brochures to a youth...

20060069590 - Intelligent trust management method and system: Intelligent Trust Management provides a centralized security facility that gives system components a flexible mechanism for implementing security policies. System components such as applications create a request describing an action that needs to be checked against an appropriate security policy. The request is given to a trust system that determines...

20060069581 - Method and apparatus for warranty cost calculation: Method and apparatus for calculating warranty cost includes determining values for a plurality of parameters that characterize a corresponding plurality of physical conditions of a product that is returned under warranty, determining values for a plurality of variables that characterize a customer profile for the product and evaluating an expression...

20060069576 - Method and system for identifying candidate colleges for prospective college students: The invention relates to the method for a prospective college student college search and recommendation system. The invention is generally includes a method of receiving survey data gathered from a prospective college student, analyzing the survey data for relationships between one or more variables which correlate with actual college student...

20060069585 - Method for performing retail sales analysis: The invention provides a user with substantial flexibility in requesting and generating analysis projects on transaction and/or consumer data that is stored in one or more databases. Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a method for retailers and other authorized users, such as suppliers, to access and perform sophisticated, highly...

20060069588 - Method for recycling products: With the method and the data carrier of the invention, a reward or debiting linked with the recycling of the product (3) is automatically determined and credited or billed on an account linked with the identification module (50)....

20060069579 - Method of monitoring a facility: The present invention provides an efficient and simple method of monitoring a facility including entertainment functionality, wherein a first data set relevant to operational purposes of the facility is acquired and a second data set relevant to entertainment purposes is inputted. After selecting either the first or the second data...

20060069586 - Methods and apparatus for brokering services via a telephone directory: Methods and apparatus for brokering services are disclosed. The methods and apparatus described herein provide services to guests of hotels. A services directory is placed in each hotel room. The services directory includes a toll-free telephone number and a plurality of extension numbers. Each extension number is associated with a...

20060069575 - Process for advance payment real estate listing: A process for advance payment real estate listing. with the steps of: Payment for listing real estate is made in advance where the real estate has not yet come to market. Process will use proprietary computer and web based systems for management of information systems and data processing. (a) computer...

20060069587 - Retained publish/subscribe system: Publications are retained in a publish subscribe broker hierarchy. The hierarchy includes publishers publishing to publishing brokers and subscribers subscribing to receive publications from the publishing brokers. A subscriber subscribes to receive publications on at least one topic from at least a subset of publishing brokers in the hierarchy. The...

20060069574 - Selling system and selling method for pictures through internet and computer solftware thereof: A picture selling system using the internet and selling method thereof are disclosed. According to the present invention, an artist, a picture purchaser, a picture selling agency, a picture provider and a web server of a picture selling site are connected one another through the internet network. The web server...

20060069582 - System and method for community development: A method for community development is provided. A community platform is transported to and installed in an undeveloped area. A distribution system is connected to the community platform. At least one building in the undeveloped area is connected to the distribution system. Training is provided to a resident of the...

20060069578 - System and method for managing data concerning service dispatches: A system and method is disclosed in which service dispatch data records are generated and sorted for display. Service dispatch records are generated from data in a product database and a service provider database. A dispatch generation tool generates the service dispatches, and a service dispatch management module sorts and...

20060069577 - System and method for managing data concerning service dispatches involving geographic features: A method and system are disclosed that enable a seller of equipment to dispatch service personnel and parts to a remote location while taking into account geographic-specific conditions. The geographic-specific conditions can include, for example, inclement weather, planned activities and unplanned events that affect traffic to/from the remote location. The...

20060069580 - Systems and methods for providing user status information: In some embodiments, systems and methods for providing user status information may include providing information associated with a description of a user status. According to some embodiments, a mouse-over of an icon associated with a user may cause a status and information describing the status to be displayed. In some...

20060069589 - Topical sentiments in electronically stored communications: The present application presents methods for performing topical sentiment analysis on electronically stored communications employing fusion of polarity and topicality. The present application also provides methods for utilizing shallow NLP techniques to determine the polarity of an expression. The present application also provides a method for tuning a domain-specific polarity...

20060069591 - Dental image charting system and method: A computer system and method is disclosed that generates panoramic dental images and related dental charts. The system allows a user to specify which images the system should use for generating the panoramic image. The system then generates a panoramic image. An image-based chart and a graphic-based chart can be...

20060069592 - Travel savings assessment: A method and system for travel savings assessment is disclosed. The invention analyzes the total travel spend of an entity with many members, employees, or other personnel who incur travel costs using various metrics, estimates the savings that may be achieved by known or new entities, calculates and produces periodic...

20060069595 - Business system management procedures research and analysis methodology: The invention is a business services method (BSM) for procedures research and analysis, which comprises a process for selecting an appropriate medium for a given set of procedures, business procedure decomposition, and technology decomposition. More particularly, the inventive process comprises: organizing service requirements; collecting data; documenting “source activities,” the intended...

20060069594 - Method and computer program product for resource planning: According to a tendency of a resource allocation request from a customer, a resource configuration that a resource provider provides is changed. The resource allocation request from customer's client machine with respect to a resource that a local domain including a server, a network, and a storage provides is accumulated...

20060069593 - Notification transmission over a network based on observed data: One embodiment includes an apparatus that comprises a storage medium to store a database. The apparatus also includes a port to receive, over a network, data related to a number of observations at a work site based on input into an electronic device. The apparatus includes a processor to store...

20060069596 - Workflow hosting computing system using a collaborative application: A workflow hosting collaborative application computing system is disclosed. The workflow hosting collaborative application computing system comprises a collaborative application able to support workflow services; workflow services supported by the collaborative application including a virtual workflow operating system and workflow management tools; one or more application programs for communicating with...

20060069600 - Date calculator: A date calculator for calculating significant dates associated with processing of an intellectual property comprising, a display having a plurality of columns. The columns having a series of significant dates associated with the processing. A sliding portion having one column where significant events in the processing are listed and a...

20060069598 - Methods and systems for distributing stock in a distribution network: Systems and methods are disclosed for distributing stock in a distribution network. The distribution network may include a source location and a plurality of target locations. In the disclosed systems and methods, the stock requirements of the target locations may be categorized into a plurality of requirement types, wherein each...

20060069597 - Pegging resources to shipments in a pre-existing production plan: In software systems for resource-constrained production planning (RCPP), it is often beneficial to determine a detailed association, or “pegging”, between the resources and the shipments that are enabled by those resources. The method implemented in the software systems is called “Pegging By Explosion” (PBE), for constructing a pegging of a...

20060069601 - Systems and methods for scheduling reoccurring deliveries and pickups: An improved scheduling system for scheduling, in real time, two or more customer visits (e.g. pickups, deliveries, or service visits) in response to a single request. The single request preferably specifies a date and a time window for a first customer visit, and a periodic schedule according to which the...

20060069599 - Workflow tasks in a collaborative application: Workflows designed to take advantage of the capabilities of workflow-enabled application programs are disclosed. Examples of workflow-enabled application programs are word processing application programs and e-mail application programs. In response to determining that an incomplete workflow task exists, forms data is sent to a workflow-enabled application program. In response to...

20060069602 - Method and system for describing consumer electronics using separate task and device descriptions: A method of representing user tasks to be performed by one or more of a plurality of electronic devices in a task orchestration system. Each device includes therein a function description specifying a function that the device can perform. The function descriptions are obtained from one or more of the...

20060069603 - Two-dimensional radial user interface for computer software applications: An improved user interface is provided for allowing the application of two properties or pieces of metadata to an object with a single user action. A two-dimensional radial menu (user interface) is provided. The radial menu is a generally pie-shaped user interface that is divided into two or more slices...

20060069604 - User interface for providing task management and calendar information: An electronic “To-Do” bar is provided in which displayed upcoming tasks, meetings, appointments and the like. The electronic To-Do bar is displayed in a lightweight menu of tasks, meetings and appointments and is displayed persistently in addition to other software functionality or user interfaces displayed on a user's computer display...

20060069605 - Workflow association in a collaborative application: A method for developing and managing workflows is disclosed. The method enables the development of workflows from workflow templates and/or preprogrammed components; associating a workflow with a schedule; modeling a workflow as a plurality of tasks and a plurality of human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction points; and persistently storing the internal...

20060069606 - Store modeling-based identification of marketing opportunities: Modeled data (12) regarding a plurality of consumer retail outlets is provided (11) and used (15) to identify at least one unleveraged marketing opportunity with respect to increasing sales of at least one consumer commodity via at least one of the plurality of consumer retail outlets. In a preferred approach,...

20060069608 - Computer product for outputting evaluation result: A computer-readable recording medium stores a computer program for outputting an evaluation result of a target to be evaluated by positioning the target on a chart that is formed with a plurality of coordinate axes that determine an evaluation value of the target. The computer program makes a computer execute...

20060069607 - Transformation of organizational structures and operations through outsourcing integration of mergers and acquisitions: Disclosed are tools and related methods for business organizations to quickly obtain, preserve and exploit new or improved assets, skills or capabilities that are important to growth and success. The tools and processes disclosed are adapted to preserve one or more target elements of an acquired target business organization by...

20060069609 - Automatic handset toll collection mechanism using a mobile communication system: An automatic handset toll collection mechanism for using a mobile device to communicate with a mobile communication system in a vehicle is provided. The mechanism comprises the following steps: determining a toll collection scheme for determining the corresponding relationship between the toll to be paid and the moving distance of...

20060069610 - Browsing device and platform for management and distrubtion in server mode, in particular for the display of advertising links: This device includes a display panel (11) having at least one display zone (14) arranged to display one or more links that provide access to other pages accessible on the computer network. This display panel (11) is linked to a management site (21) including means (24) for managing display panels...

20060069616 - Determining advertisements using user behavior information such as past navigation information: Ads better targeted to individual users can be determined by using (recent) navigation history. User navigation (e.g., Web browsing) may be tracked, recorded and maintained. The navigation history information, and perhaps information about a current document, may be used to determine content-relevant and personalized ads. By doing so the ads...

20060069614 - Managing on-line advertising using metrics such as return on investment and/or profit: To help advertisers to manage their online advertising, some business metric, such as ROI, profit, gross profit, etc., may be estimated and/or tracked with respect to an ad campaign, or a portion of the ad campaign. An advertiser may provide a business metric target, such as a target ROI, a...

20060069618 - Method and apparatus for enhanced browsing: A method and apparatus for enhanced browsing. The apparatus includes a user interface for presenting an enhanced browsing window of content identified by a link in a page displayed by a browser. The apparatus may include a prefetcher for prefetching the content and a cache for storing the window. The...

20060069617 - Method and apparatus for prefetching electronic data for enhanced browsing: A method and apparatus are provided for prefetching electronic data (e.g., a web page, HTML, a document, an image) viewable in a browser. When a browser is opened to a web page (or other form of electronic data) that contains links (e.g., hyperlinks) to other content, content described by one...

20060069611 - Method for advertising and selling products online: A method for advertising and selling products online includes: a) providing to a customer an item information template for inputting information into an electronic information database; b) prompting the customer via the template to enter item information into the database about at least one item for sale by the customer;...

20060069612 - System and method for generating an orchestrated advertising campaign: A system and related techniques host and serve selective, orchestrated advertising campaigns and other content to users depending on contributing advertisers' campaign strategies as well as use interests, prior history or experiences. According to embodiments, users may navigate to a Web or other network site which contains or invokes ads...

20060069613 - System for partial automation of content review of network advertisements: Upon receiving a proposed network advertisement from an advertiser, a publisher determines whether to automatically approve the proposed advertisement for publishing, automatically reject the proposed advertisement from being published, or manually verify the content of the proposed advertisement prior to publishing based on a distribution channel of the proposed advertisement,...

20060069619 - Systems and methods for facilitating group rewards: In some embodiments, systems, methods, and/or articles of manufacture may determine a rewards group comprising at least a first member and a second member, determine a reward that the group may earn in exchange for completing purchases at a retailer or for performing a task. Embodiments may further comprise determining,...

20060069615 - Systems and methods for subsidizing the printing costs of advertiser-sponsored documents delivered through broadcast networks: A method for a consumer to receive a consumer credit in exchange for the printing of an advertiser-sponsored document includes first, printing an advertiser-sponsored document, the advertiser-sponsored document having a page ID associated therewith. The advertiser-sponsored document includes supplemental content which is specific to a particular broadcast program, whereby the...

20060069620 - Methods and apparatus for food brokering customer service: Methods and apparatus for brokering food services are disclosed. The methods and apparatus described herein provide quality controlled room service to guests of hotels that do not otherwise have traditional room service available. A call center operator routes each call to the appropriate restaurant and stays on the phone line...

20060069624 - Automated sales support method & device: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored...

20060069625 - Automated sales support method & device: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored...

20060069622 - Business to business management mode of internet(2): The present invention relates to a business to business management mode of the Internet which can be used to respectively classify the products in the market according to the functional feature, the configuration feature, and the material feature of the products, for building a set of classified table of products...

20060069626 - Pay tv billing, system activation, and e-commerce using a pay-tv receiver: An initiation of a purchase is received from a user into a receiver. Receiver software is activated that causes the display of a purchase screen having at least one field. Purchase information is received from the user into the field. The purchase information identifies an initial television subscription service for...

20060069623 - System, program product, and methods for online image handling: A system to facilitate electronic commerce associated with an online marketplace, program product, and methods are provided. Electronic commerce over a computer network is facilitated by a computer system that forms a community of computers that enable the users to buy and sell items in an online marketplace. To list...

20060069621 - Tier-based dynamic incentive arbitration in an on-demand computing environment: A system for allocating resources which are anticipated to be available in an on-demand computing at some time in the future, wherein a producer trending agent (PTA) lists resources according to a trend prediction of resource availability in the past, a consumer trending agent (CTA) places bids for listed resources...

20060069627 - Gift registry system: A registry system for creating a gift register. The registry system includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device includes an application with instructions to: (1) create a wish list that includes one or more items selected by a first person and a first identifying code; (2) store...

20060069628 - Apparatus and method for generating reports from shared objects: The invention includes a computer readable medium with executable instructions to generate a report. The executable instructions include executable instructions to supply a prompt group corresponding to a cascading prompt. A list of values is accessed to identify values to be supplied to the prompt group. Prompt presentation values are...

20060069629 - Methods and systems for redeploying stock in a distribution network: Systems and methods are disclosed for redeploying stock between inventory locations. The systems and methods may include receiving a redeployment indication indicating stock to be redeployed and determining, based on the redeployment indication, the first inventory location for receiving the stock and the second inventory location for redeploying the stock....

20060069630 - Coding apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for permitting the scanning of database information from a data-containing document. The data-containing document may be a bill, invoice or fillable form, and contains both database information and bar code symbology containing the database information. A user needing to input the database information, instead of doing...

20060069634 - Methods and systems for providing enhanced capital advantaged preferred securities: In one aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising: (a) forming a limited liability company (“LLC”) operable to issue LLC preferred securities; (b) forming a trust operable to issue trust preferred securities and to purchase LLC preferred securities from the LLC; and (c) issuing subordinated notes with at least a...

20060069633 - System and method for basket trades and trade allocation: A system and method where a client creates a basket of intended stock orders, slices the basket into one or more waves of orders, sends trade orders to a broker/dealer for execution, and allocates stocks to one or more client accounts. A backend server receives basket or wave orders, breaks...

20060069631 - System and method for providing an incentive program: The present invention provides a computer-based system and method for providing a management tool and incentive program that gives an incentive to borrowers to meet specified requirements. The program rewards the borrower with a benefit when the borrower satisfies the necessary requirements....

20060069632 - Systems and methods for general aggregation of characteristics and key figures: Computer-implemented methods, computer systems, and computer programs product are provided for automated generic and parallel aggregation of characteristics and key figures of unsorted mass data being of specific economic interest, particularly associated with financial institutions, and with financial affairs in banking practice. The parallel aggregation may reduce the amount of...

20060069638 - Bid management unit, bid management method and computer program product: The bid management unit has a lockout management section that determines whether to impose restrictions on submission of bid information by a participant terminal according to a predetermined determination condition, and a lockout timer that control a timing to perform determination in the lockout management section. The bid management unit...

20060069636 - Computer implemented and/or assisted methods and systems for providing guaranteed, specified and/or predetermined execution prices in a guaranteed, specified and/or predetermined timeframe on the purchase or sale of, for example, listed options: Methods and systems are provided which enable options broker-dealers to guarantee execution of an option trade order within a specified time window. By providing means to quantify and mitigate the effects of several factors which contribute to options market inefficiency (e.g., market structure, regulatory constraints, and “market misbehavior”), these methods...

20060069635 - Method of buying or selling items and a user interface to facilitate the same: A method of buying or selling items having at least one market and its associated processes are disclosed. The method includes the steps of, under control of a client system, displaying information identifying at least one item and a bid and/or ask price for the item in the market; and...

20060069639 - System and methods for prioritized management of financial instruments: The invention relates to an improved means for interactive computerized communications having a facilitated capability for order entry and order execution, and providing an enhanced range of trading forms and methods to clients of brokerage firms dealing in financial securities. In particular, the invention relates to a type of interactive...

20060069637 - Systems and methods for providing neutral price improvement: Electronic trading systems and methods are provided that permit traders to submit price improvement orders that are traded at predetermined pricing increments and that maintain a position in a trading stack based on the size of other orders already existing in the stack at the time the order is submitted....

20060069641 - Method, computer program product, and system for assuming a loan: A system, computer program product, and method that enable a parent's Federal PLUS Loan to be refinanced by the student into a new private loan product. The system includes a computer network, server, storage device and Web Site. The system, computer program product and method all allow for online application...

20060069640 - System and method for providing loan consolidation: The present invention provides a computer-based system and method for providing processing loan consolidation applications. The method includes accepting a consolidation application from a borrower, the consolidation application containing information about a borrower and underlying loans to be consolidated. The application is validated to determine that the consolidation application is...

20060069642 - Methods and systems for exchanging and or transferring various forms of value: Methods and systems for exchanging various forms of value, including coins, currency, credit, debit, and/or bank account funds, for prepaid cash cards, credit cards, phone cards, and the like. In one embodiment, a value exchange machine includes a coin input region, a coin sorting/counting apparatus, a card reader, and a...

20060069643 - Contingency network access for accounts or information: The invention teaches an improved security system for accounts or information accessed over a local or wide area network, where the account holder is provided with an alternate security code, usually related to a PIN. During an assault, kidnapping, intimidation or other adverse event, the alternate security or access code/identifier...

20060069645 - Method and apparatus for providing secured content distribution: A method and apparatus for providing secured content distribution using a media hub is disclosed. In one embodiment, conditional access encrypted content is received at the media hub. The conditional access encrypted content is decrypted. The content is re-encrypted in accordance with a unique tier associated with the media hub...

20060069646 - Method of controlling a terminal device: A terminal device reliably controlling the usage right with improved convenience is provided. The terminal device reads out a medium identifier held in a computer-readable content recording medium. Usage rights information for each content held in a computer-readable usage rights recording medium is read out, and the usage rights information...

20060069644 - Method, device and computer program product for activating the right of use of at least one secured content item: The invention discloses a method, device and computer program product for activating the right of use of at least one secured content item in a device. The method comprises providing a device with at least one unencrypted rights object, wherein the at least one rights object assigns the right of...

20060069647 - System and method for digital payment of document processing services: This invention is directed to a system and method for the digital payment of document processing services. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method which uses a pre-paid or digital payment mechanism to charge for document processing services....

20060069648 - Transmission apparatus and method, reception apparatus and method, management apparatus and method, charging apparatus and method, providing apparatus and method, and recording medium: This invention relates to a transmission apparatus for transmitting digital content data via a communication medium, comprising attachment means for attaching cost information per unit data volume to the digital content data; and transmission means for transmitting the digital content data attached with the cost information after converting a data...

20060069650 - Device and method for reproducing encrypted contents: The present invention provides a technique for improving the convenience of the user while protecting the copyright of contents. A device receives contents usage right information from a storage device, and decrypts encrypted contents data using a contents key contained in the contents usage right information thus received. At this...

20060069651 - Method and apparatus for distributing multimedia programs: Distribution of audio and other multimedia content is accomplished by generating a multimedia session consisting of at least one multimedia program, generating a data session consisting of digital files including at least one software player program and a digital compressed file corresponding to the multimedia program; and distributing the multimedia...

20060069649 - Method and system for providing secure codecs: A system and method is arranged to provide compression and decompression of digital content in a secure manner. The system is configured to authenticate a source of the digital content, and to further determine a consumer's entitlements and rights for access to the digital content. Based upon the determined entitlements...

20060069652 - Copy component, program and method thereof: Disclosed herein is a copy component for copying a license describing a usage rule of the content between storage components that store the license in storages, the copy component comprising, a receiving section for receiving the license from the first storage component that stores the license in the first storage,...

20060069653 - First computer process and second computer process proxy-executing code on behalf of first process: Upon a first process encountering a triggering device, a second process chooses whether to proxy-execute code corresponding to the triggering device of the first process on behalf of such first process based at least in part on whether a license evaluator of the second process has determined that the first...

20060069654 - System for voucher or token verification: The present invention allows verification of a voucher or token prior to redemption. The voucher or token has a code associated therewith so that a value of the voucher or token may be stored in a database. Later when the voucher or token is presented to a cashier for redemption,...

20060069655 - Mutual authentication system and method for protection of postal security devices and infrastructure: A method of authenticating a PSD and an initializing infrastructure that uses a secret key, a PSD public/private key pair and a provider public/private key pair. The infrastructure prepares a signed provider key record using the provider public key and the provider private key and a first MAC using the...

20060069656 - Teleconference system, on-site server, management server, teleconference management method and progam: A teleconference system includes an on-site server provided in a site to control a device in the site, and a management server that connects sites to generate a shared workspace. The shared workspace manages a task that realize collaboration between on-site servers, and the on-site server generates a session key...

20060069657 - Multiple customer and multiple location pc service provider system: The present invention contemplates a system whereby a service provider can service a large number of customers (millions) and connect them to their rented PC from millions of locations around the world. Many customers (10 to 100 thousand) can be connected simultaneously. The service provider is responsible for maintaining the...

20060069658 - Trust lookup protocol: A trust look-up protocol is described that allows a meta-trusted third party, or trust directory, to mediate between parties of potential business collaborations and trusted third parties that are counted on to authorize or otherwise validate the business collaborations. The trust directory receives a trust request for a collaboration from...

20060069659 - Defect monitoring system: A method of determining a cost effective number of corrective tests to perform on a process experiencing process excursions. A test cost for each corrective test is determined, and a total test cost for each of an incremental number of corrective tests is calculated. An effect of each corrective test...

20060069660 - Methods and apparatus for monitoring equipment productivity: The disclosed invention comprises methods and apparatus for affordably optimizing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of manufacturing one or more production parts from one or more production machines. A preprogrammed microprocessor receives and stores, data from sensors attached to a production machine and transmits the data to an Ethernet hub...

20060069661 - System and method for automated configuration of meters: A number of meters to be configured according to a particular billing rate. Multiple billing rates may be defined, named, and stored for use. Each such billing rate may include time of use (TOU) configuration parameters and/or demand configuration parameters. Alternatively, a billing rate may include strictly consumption based parameters....

20060059004 - Apparatus and method for managing account information: A method includes receiving account information associated with a user. The account information includes an electronic mail (“email”) address associated with the user. The method also includes storing the account information in an account associated with the email address. The method further includes validating the email address associated with the...

20060059003 - Context data in upnp service information: A system, device, and method provide for the selection of a device to perform a service using context information for the device. The context information may be included in a request from a control point device to the device or may be included in a response from the device to...

20060059009 - Enhanced trade compliance system: country of origin certifications: Methods and systems are described that allow supplier information to be captured and processed for imported or exported products that have multiple supply sources. Each of the products may be classified under a plurality of HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) codes, which may then be assigned to the product. The assigned...

20060059008 - Method and system for determining a costing sequence for transfers between a plurality of cost groups: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for sequencing cost calculation. In one embodiment a processing sequence, comprising a plurality of hierarchy levels, is created for a plurality of cost groups. The processing sequence is used in an iterative process for calculating the cost of an item...

20060059010 - Product and price determination system: Price structures and product structures may be associated with price structure determinants and product availability determinants. A price structure and its associated price structure determinants may define the conditions under which a price is applicable to a customer purchasing a specific product. A product structure and its associated product availability...

20060059002 - Rental estimation method: In a rental estimation method according to the present invention, rental information with regard to rental devices is provided to a customer through a data exchange between a terminal (9) of the customer and a management server (5) of a rental company. The rental estimation method includes a data input...

20060059006 - System method and article of manufacture for internet based affiliate pooling: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program for affording Virtual Affiliates access to an existing affiliate system. First, having been assigned a unique identifier within a source affiliate system, a Webmaster operates a web site. Next, a request for a target Merchant Web site triggers a correlation...

20060059007 - Systems and methods for integrating course data: A system and method for integrating course data is provided. A receiver comprises a computer and a mobile device. A server provides the receiver with at least one on-line course page, and transmits at least one mobile course page to the mobile device of the receiver via instant message or...

20060059005 - Systems and methods for managing data in an advanced planning environment: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing data in an advanced planning environment. In one exemplary method, data is managed during the execution of a plurality of planning services, the planning services using one or more objects represented by data stored in a database. The method may include reading a...

20060059011 - Systems for automated proposal generation: The present application describes certain exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for automated proposal generation, tracking, and/or management. Certain exemplary embodiments of the systems and/or methods can be viewed as web-based software tools adapted for use by sales entities and/or related support personnel, such as Application Engineers (AEs), that seek...

20060059013 - Attached personal information device: An information storage device may be semi-permanently attached to a wearer. The device can include an outer casing configured to be compatible with long term contact with a human body. A data storage component may store information of the wearer and a transceiver may wirelessly communicate information from the data...

20060059012 - Automated medical record creation system: A system and method for creating and editing a medical database containing patient histories allows users to prepare a medical chart through color coded templates using interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs)....

20060059015 - Computer installation for establishing a diagnosis: A method and computer installation for communicating with one or more other computer installations with a processor, and memory with data and instructions stored therein so that the processor can execute a predetermined program. The program enables the processor to receive the following data: anamnesis data for a client; physical/diagnostic...

20060059014 - Interactive system for confirming the sexual health status of an individual: An interactive system for exchanging information about an individual's sexual health status and method for confirming sexual health status of individuals. Basically the system involves means for registering and storing an individual's sexual health status along with his/her personal identity and means for online access to an individual's sexual health...

20060059018 - Medical practice management method, and portable terminal, management server, and medical practice management system using the same: A medical practice management system of the present invention acquires schedule information on a medical practice to be administered to a patient. Information on medical equipment corresponding to the acquired schedule information is selected from among pieces of information on medical equipment to be used in medical practices, stored in...

20060059017 - Method and system for performing post-marketing surveillance of drugs using pharmacy-based cohorts: A database contains confidential patient information. A researcher conducting a post-marketing study provides selection criteria to a maintainer of the database. The maintainer uses the selection criteria to select a cohort of potential post-marketing study subjects. The maintainer sends a questionnaire to each subject in the cohort. Optionally, the maintainer...

20060059016 - Verifying personal authority without requiring unique personal identification: Methods and systems are disclosed for managing confidential information (116). In some cases, a group characteristic description (512) is submitted (304), in conjunction with the submission (306) of confidential information, for storage in an electronic repository (510). A code (522) is supplied (308) in response. The electronic repository is free...

20060059019 - Medical order management system and user interface: A physician order entry user interface system facilitates resolution of a problem associated with an order for a treatment to be administered to a patient. A user interface system for use in managing orders for providing treatment for a patient, includes a display processor for initiating generation of data representing...

20060059021 - Independent adjuster advisor: In various embodiments, assignments may be managed between a user system and a computer system. For example, insurance companies may manage assignments made to adjusters. Assignments may be assigned to vendors. Vendors may access an assignment program and transmit billing information and/or transmit reports to a computer system about assigned...

20060059022 - Method and system for determining absorption costs for transfers between a plurality of cost groups: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for determining absorption costs for transfers between a plurality of cost groups. In one embodiment, a transferable item is identified. A plurality of cost group sets among which the transferable item is transferred is then defined. Then, a processing sequence...

20060059020 - Return-of-premium insurance system and method: An insurance method comprising a return-of-premium (ROP) benefit is disclosed. The ROP benefit is applied to property and casualty insurance and related insurance forms. The ROP benefit provides a return of all premiums after a set period of insurance, less the amount of any claims made by the insured. The...

20060059024 - Advanced travel management system: Computer-based systems are described that afford the ability to associate a travel related object with a travel relate event and/or other travel related object. The system enables the acquisition, integration and management of data supplied by multiple, heterogeneous sources; single and multi-level exception handling, error correction, data enhancement, and data...

20060059023 - Method system and apparatus for providing transportation services: A system and method for providing taxi patrons with a taxi-reservation system which facilitates better taxi service, better time utilization and financial rewards for taxi drivers who provide better service, and more efficient pricing for buyers. The taxi-reservation system allows patrons to rate the taxi service they receive as well...

20060059025 - Terminal device and session management device: A communication system capable of performing beneficial session hierarchical control. A server performs hierarchical control over sessions at a session control section based on a session control data. The session control data consists of session hierarchical control data and event operation control data. The former indicates a session ID and...

20060059026 - Compliance workbench: An audit system formally communicates the results of an audit to company officers. The audit system allows company officers to review the audit information in detail to identify specific risks, their associated financial controls, and the potentially impacted financial accounts. The audit system displays a summary of audit results identifying...

20060059028 - Context search system: A computer based media, method and system for context search for an individual, a team, a division, an organization, an organization combination or some combination thereof....

20060059027 - System and method for specifying functional and non-functional requirements for a project: A method for modeling requirements of a product includes defining an abstract use case for each feature of said product; hierarchically decomposing each abstract use case until concrete use cases are specified for each feature; depicting every actor who would use said product as communicating with a concrete use case...

20060059029 - Autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for the autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand. The method comprises: providing a business process document for expressing the business process, wherein the business process comprises a plurality of components and a workflow; providing a...

20060059030 - Method and decision support system for optimal allocation of expendable resources in internet marketing with resource-dependant effectiveness and use of a-posteriori information: A method and decision support system for optimal allocation of expendable resources in any type of repetitive business transaction with resource-dependant effectiveness and use of a-posteriori information i.e., internet marketing (IM) transaction, in which the computerized system: creates the list of IM providers to be considered, contacts them over the...

20060059033 - Interaction object: The present invention provides a system and method for providing customer relationship management by tracking customer interactions. Customer interactions include contact with customers using asynchronous communications such as e-mail, short message service (SMS) text messages from mobile phones, letters and FAXes. The system and method of the present invention include...

20060059034 - Measuring customer service levels: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for measuring how well interactive components of a service facility that are accessible to users through a communication network perform in serving users, the interactive components being a proper subset of all of the interactive components of the service facility, and using the...

20060059036 - Method and system for managing a supply chain of a commodity class: A method of managing a supply chain of a commodity class includes inputting one or more performance measures for a selected member of the commodity class into a data store; inputting one or more characteristics of the selected member into the data store; comparing the one or more characteristics of...

20060059035 - Mobile sales online manager for handheld devices: The present invention provides a method and system for giving users of various handheld devices access to mobile sales software online. The functionality accessed by users is provided by individual development components (DCs). Use of individual development components allows users to turn off certain components and also customize components without...

20060059031 - Risk management: A method of performing risk assessment for a service provider, includes creating a sales prospect. The method also includes determining conflicts and risks for the prospect based on answering a plurality of questions relating to the prospect. The method further includes determining whether or not the prospect should be allowed...

20060059032 - System, computer program product, and method for enterprise modeling, temporal activity-based costing and utilization: A method of temporal, activity-based cost modeling for an organization is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) determining a plurality of data types contributing to costs related to one or more activities of the organization; (b) capturing data elements corresponding to the data types; (c) Creating an ontological...

20060059037 - Local enforcement of remotely managed parking payment systems: A parking payment status map represents payment status of multiple parking locations as recorded on a parking management computer system. The map is retrieved by a parking control officer through a wireless communications network from the parking management computer system. The parking control officer can therefore verify payment status of...

20060059038 - Electronic money value conversion device, system, and electronic money value conversion method: The present invention is relative to a system enabling a through operation between a mileage system and an electronic money system. The mileage system is such a system in which mile points as distance points corresponding to the flight distance of an aircraft are accumulated and exchanged for boarding tickets...

20060059046 - Method and system for assigning bonus-credits to the user of products: The present invention relates to a method and a system for identifying, recording and processing data relating to a recipient and user of products and services obtained from a company, which runs a bonus program. In particular, he present method comprises assigning a code to products, that is transferred upon...

20060059045 - Method and system for entertainment content distribution: Methods and systems for providing entertainment content to a consumer are described. An entertainment content unit is received from an entertainment content provider and multiple advertising content units are received from one or more advertising content providers. A modified entertainment content unit is generated including a set of advertising content...

20060059044 - Method and system to provide advertisements based on wireless access points: Methods and system to provide advertisements in a view of an end user accessing a wireless access point. The advertisements are related to the WAP based on a predetermined criterion....

20060059043 - Method and system to provide wireless access at a reduced rate: Methods and system for providing wireless access at a reduced rate. In one embodiment, access to a WAP is provided to an end-user at a rate subsidized by a first entity. The first entity includes advertisements in an end-user view....

20060059039 - Promotional materials within digital cinema data stream: A method that provides a motion picture promotional item using digital data at an exhibition site. The method includes receiving motion picture digital data at the exhibition site; and receiving supplemental data transmitted along with the motion picture digital data, the supplemental data to be used for forming the promotional...

20060059041 - System and method for advertising on donated equipment: A method for advertising on donated equipment includes steps of matching a donor to a donee; identifying equipment to be donated; establishing a donation agreement; displaying an advertisement on the equipment in accordance with the donation agreement; and using the equipment in accordance with the donation agreement. A system for...

20060059047 - System and method for providing electronic media: A system and method for providing electronic media is given. At least one kiosk is remotely located relative to a management portion which governs and controls the operations of the kiosk. The kiosk is connected to the management portion via a network and provides media available through the network using...

20060059042 - System for rotation of software advertisements: An advertising system including an application for execution by a client, a promoter, an advertising server, and a displayer, where the application is operative to communicate to the promoter information relating to either of the life cycle and the current status of either of the application and the client, where...

20060059040 - Systems and methods of data transfer in a distributed computer network: A method of transporting electronic data in a distributed computer network, where the method includes receiving, at a first network node, a first data packet that includes a network event identifier, a user account identifier, and network event data, where the user account identifier points to a location on the...

20060059054 - Apparel size service: Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparel size service to provide a customer or user with an apparel size recommendation....

20060059049 - Method and system for providing a path through a store to items associated with a task: The present invention is related to a computer system that provides a path through at least one store to items associated with a task. Aspects of the present invention include defining a route criteria that identifies other products that may be of interest to a shopper, determining where in the...

20060059053 - Method to identify, discover, and/or sell products via a web site on the internet: A method and system for doing business and generating revenue via a web site are disclosed. The method includes listing at least one media form on a web site hosted on a computer-based platform. The method also includes listing at least one product featured in the at least one media...

20060059050 - Record-keeping system for transmission and production of content: A system for producing content, the content depicting at least one person, includes: means for producing content; a first database; first input means for providing information pertaining to a person to be depicted in the content to the first database; and means for providing a signature of the person to...

20060059051 - Record-keeping system for transmission and production of content: A method for producing content, the content depicting at least one person, at least a portion of the content being subject to a record-keeping requirement, includes the steps of: providing a system including means for producing content, a first database, a plurality of additional databases, the first database and the...

20060059052 - Record-keeping system for transmission and production of content: A method for producing content, the content depicting at least one person, at least a portion of the content being subject to a record-keeping requirement, includes the steps of: providing a system including means for producing content, a first database, a second database in communication with the first database, first...

20060059048 - Self-distribution methods, coded self-distribution methods, and systems for distributing information: A self-distribution method for distributing information content among network connected devices of a communications network includes receiving a query having a code against a database from a wireless communications device, the code uniquely representing one of an advertising campaign, a product, or a service. The method also includes generating a...

20060059055 - Systems and methods for transacting business over a global communications network such as the internet: A business model/process is described for conducting business transactions over the Internet, allowing buyers to reduce the price of the selected product/service based on the buyer's performance during a collateral activity. Sellers offer the product/service within a specified price range, and buyers accept the offer, in exchange for the opportunity...

20060059056 - Proximity sensor: A proximity sensor 717 comprising a combination of an arbitrarily selected one of a plurality of types of detection end modules 707, a plurality of types of output circuit modules 709 and a plurality of types of outer shell cases 711. The detection end module 707 includes an integrated arrangement...

20060059057 - Method and system for tracking computer system usage through a remote access security device: A system and method for monitoring remote computer access and associated costs is provided. The system includes a remotely located communication server in communication with multiple host computer networks and in communication with a network access server. First and second memory devices contain a list of authorized users for the...

20060059071 - Method and system for separating personal data accounts: s

20060059061 - Methods and systems for identifying and tracking potential property rights in software products: Methods and systems for identifying and tracking potential property rights in a software product and useful in auditing the software product are disclosed. Files of the software product are scanned to determine potential property rights, preferably by scanning the source code of the files to identify certain textual strings and/or...

20060059063 - Methods and systems for visualizing financial anomalies: A visualization technique for directing the attention of analysts to anomalous values of performance measures associated with a target entity is described. A grid of cells is created where each row represents a particular performance metric, and each column a particular time period. For each cell, an anomaly score is...

20060059072 - Pattern matcher: A user can select from one of a number of predefined patterns, create a new pattern, or import a pattern from existing data. With a time interval specified, a search is performed and comparable patterns identified in one or more streams of securities data. Filtering can be performed before and/or...

20060059070 - Philanthropic financial planning tool: A philanthropic planning tool aids in planning multi-year staged donations by showing the tax consequences of a donation and the effect of the donation on an asset base across a number of years. The tax considerations for donations based on cash, securities or a mix of different assets can be...

20060059074 - Synthetic funds having structured notes: The present invention relates to synthetic funds for purchase by investors. A structured note is structured to provide customized equity returns/exposure. Terms of each structured note may be specified by the purchaser and the structured notes may be unsecured liabilities of the obligor, e.g., there are no underlying assets upon...

20060059073 - System and method for analyzing financial risk: The invention relates to the development of systems and methods for assessing a particular loan's financial risk due to process variations that have occurred in the underwriting and closing of the loan. The financial risk associated with a particular loan is expressed in terms of a quantitative score (a financial...

20060059066 - System and method for asymmetric offsets in a risk management system: A system and method for using asymmetrical offsets for products in a risk management analysis system are disclosed. Conventional systems assign symmetrical offsets for products, that is, if two products have an 80% correlation they each would be assigned an offset of 80% with respect to each other. However, it...

20060059062 - System and method for determining optimal sourcing for aggregate goods and services: A method of allowing shoppers to compare prices from different vendors includes receiving a shopping list of goods and/or services from the user. The best available price for each item or service on the shopping list is determined, and is displayed to the user. A best available aggregate price for...

20060059065 - System and method for displaying a combined trading and risk management gui display: A graphic user interface is disclosed that combines a traditional trading, bookkeeping system or clearing system window with a detailed margin and/or collateral asset calculation analysis window on a single screen. The disclosed GUI provides the flexibility to analyze any combination of products or instrument classes such as single stock...

20060059064 - System and method for efficiently using collateral for risk offset: A system and method for analyzing correlation between the assets given by the trader for collateral and that trader's open positions is disclosed. Thus, if the collateral is correlated to the trader's open positions, then some offset can be given. If there is no correlation than the collateral is valued...

20060059069 - System and method for hybrid spreading for flexible spread participation: A system and method for risk analysis of a portfolio of derivative products is disclosed which is conducted based on a set of flexible rules. The system and method allow creating predefined sets of products for the purpose of future risk offsets. If a futures trade as a subset of...

20060059068 - System and method for hybrid spreading for risk management: A risk management system and method is disclosed which utilizes a flexible and configurable set of spreading techniques which may be incorporated into existing risk management software to enhance functionality, flexibility and accuracy. In the disclosed embodiments, multiple different types of spreading are combined to allow for a more accurate...

20060059067 - System and method of margining fixed payoff products: A system and method is disclosed for determining performance bonds related to fixed payoff products, i.e. contracts which payoff a fixed amount based on the outcome of an underlying event regardless of the particular value of the underlying event. The worst outcome of the overall portfolio, which may contain more...

20060059058 - System, method , and tool for comparing defined contribution lineups: The techniques described include determining a first and a second diversification measure of a plurality of funds in a first and a second defined contribution lineup, respectively, determining a first and a second risk factor for the plurality of finds in the first and the second defined contribution lineup, respectively,...

20060059060 - Systems and methods for executing planning services: Systems and methods are disclosed for executing services in an advanced planning environment. The services may comprise planning service that are executed using one or more objects stored in a database. Further, a planning profile may be provided, the planning profile including at least one process block containing a list...

20060059059 - Systems and methods for managing the execution of services: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing the execution of planning services in an advanced planning environment. The planning services may be executed using one or more objects stored in a database. A method for managing the execution of planning services may include accessing a planning profile, the planning profile...

20060059077 - Electronic completion of cash versus futures basis trades: An electronic trading system is described herein. More specifically, the electronic trading system may relate to the substantially simultaneous trading of cash instruments and their related futures contracts for interest-rate related instruments. The electronic trading system may also be used to allow a user (such as a market maker or...

20060059082 - Matching computer of a negotiated matching system: A matching computer is provided for a negotiated matching system that includes a plurality of remote terminals associated with respective potential counterparties, a communications network for permitting communication between the remote terminals, and the matching computer. Each user enters first parameters for a trading instrument into his or her remote...

20060059080 - Online electronic trading system including lines of credit: An electronic trade service device includes processing devices providing computational functions providing negotiation and resolution of commercial agreements between buyers and sellers. The service includes defining contract terms, including price and payment terms and securing electronic connections by the buyer and seller to an electronic trade system. The buyer is...

20060059081 - Opening price process for trading system: A system for determining an opening price for products traded over a distributed, networked computer system is described. The system includes a plurality of workstations for entering orders for financial products into the distributed, networked computer system, said orders specifying a quantity of the financial product. A plurality of workstations...

20060059079 - Price improvement in electronic trading system: Price improvement in credit screened trading systems is achieved by entering a maximum price improvement (MPI) amount with a maker quote. The system prepares separate quote queues for each trading floor including only quotes where bilateral credit exists. Quotes are arranged using Price, MPI, time priority. When a quote is...

20060059078 - Sell-side benchmarking of security trading: A benchmark price reflective of trading in a financial instrument for benchmarking sell-side traders performance is provided by calculating based on received trades a buy volume weighted average price and a sell volume weighted average price for every contra-side party trading in a selected security during a period of time....

20060059076 - System for aggregating executions in a communication network for securities transactions and the like: An execution concentrator is interposed in a communications network for handling information concerning securities transactions or the like, that concentrator acting to transmit transaction information to the trader or the like at such times and in such details as may be most convenient or efficient to the recipient, independently of...

20060059075 - Systems and methods for auctioning access to securities research resources: Methods and systems for auctioning units of securities research resources from a supplier of securities research services to potential consumers of the supplier's securities research are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the method includes the steps of receiving from a plurality of the potential consumers at least one bid for...

20060059083 - User interface for semi-fungible trading: A user interface and method are disclosed for providing trading between a plurality of semi-fungible and non-fungible goods. A plurality of book axes are displayed in a single interface, each book axis representing a market for a particular good. Orders for goods are displayed as marks on the axes to...

20060059086 - Computer system and method for marketing and making loans to individuals for retirement savings: A computer-based system and method administering and marketing a tax-advantaged loan program to loan consumers, plan administrators, and employers and method for lending money to employees based on their individual contributions to pension vehicles is disclosed. The system includes the use of computers and computer programs for marketing, underwriting, initiation,...

20060059084 - Method, system and computer program for on-demand short term loan processing: A method, system, and computer program for on-demand short term loan processing is disclosed which utilizes computing equipment (10) to expedite loan approval and the transfer of funds. The method preferably includes the steps of: (a) establishing a loan account for a customer (100); (b) providing the customer access to...

20060059085 - Method, system, and computer program for on-demand short term loan processing and overdraft protection: A method, system, and computer program for on-demand short term loan processing and overdraft protection is disclosed which utilizes computing equipment (10) to expedite and facilitate loan approval, overdraft protection, and the transfer of funds. The method generally includes the steps of: establishing a customer account for a customer; receiving...

20060059088 - Method and system for purchase card utilization and data reconciliation with enterprise resource planning/financial software: The present invention provides a system and method for using an organization's existing ERP to perform automated reconciliation of purchasing card transactions. A buyer receives invoices from a supplier requesting payment for goods or services. The buyer's ERP validates the invoice using, for example, a three-way match process. After three-way...

20060059087 - System and method for pricing of merchant accounts: A system for managing merchant payment transaction processing accounts is provided. The system includes a merchant initialization system that receives merchant account data from a user, such as to provide a quote to the merchant for payment processing. A transaction pricing system receives the merchant account data and provides transaction...

20060059089 - Transaction number management method in network commodity sales: A cart ID according to the present invention is an identification code including receipt information containing at least a receipt number (serial number) indicating a receipt number of the transaction, and further unmeaning password information. Furthermore, it is preferable that the receipt information has date information in which the cart...

20060059090 - Preview of payable broadcasts: Content items or portions of content items are made available for previewing according to various techniques. In some techniques, designated portions of content items are transmitted in plaintext, while the remaining portions are transmitted in encrypted form. In other techniques, an entire content item is transmitted in encrypted form. However,...

20060059091 - System and method for evaluating and enhancing source anonymity for encrypted web traffic: A system and method is provided for evaluating the effectiveness of data encryption for hiding the identity of the source of Web traffic. A signature is constructed from encrypted Web traffic for a Web page sent by a target Web site, and the signature is compared with archived traffic signatures...

20060059093 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer program: A data processing apparatus includes a position-information acquisition unit adapted to acquire position information of the data processing apparatus, a key-generation unit adapted to generate a key dependent on the position information acquired by the position-information acquisition unit, an encryption unit adapted to generate encrypted data by encrypting data using...

20060059094 - Method and apparatus for digital rights management: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for digital rights management that can make a host device effectively use rights objects stored in a portable storage device. The method includes requesting a portable storage device to search for a rights object that can execute a specified content object, selecting a...

20060059092 - Method and apparatus for user domain based white lists: A method is disclosed for determining a whether access to host requested by a user is permitted. User identifying information is obtained using any of a variety of techniques. The method includes determining a user domain, which indicates an identity of the user's home service provider. A list of hosts...

20060059095 - Selecting and downloading content to a portable player: A system includes a memory with logic and a processor configured with the logic to receive a user request from a user to designate a content instance for download, the user request received during a presentation of the content instance, wherein the processor is further configured with the logic to,...

20060059097 - Apparatus and method for automated management of digital media: The invention includes a method of using software to automate the acquisition, processing and syndication of digital media files, in particular, as it relates to this process, digital music files. This method can be extended to include all digital forms of intellectual property to which an individual, corporation, or other...

20060059096 - Location based licensing: The present invention provides a method and system for location-based digital rights management. Digital rights for protected content are restricted to a specific location or region by specifying the approved location of the consuming device within the license. This allows the content owner to specify the geographic locations/regions at which...

20060059098 - Method and mechanism for vending digital content: An Internet Box Office (IBO) system and technique vends digital content via a computer network, such as the Internet. The IBO system comprises a viewing system that cooperates with a Digital Rights Management system and various deployment enhancements within the Internet to provide an infrastructure that facilitates access to digital...

20060059106 - Content revocation and license modification in a digital rights management (drm) system on a computing device: Content revocation is achieved by disabling licenses issued to a computing device for the content. A content revocation is delivered within a license to the computing device. Upon license storage the content revocation is recognized, validated, and stored in a secure state store under the public key of the content...

20060059102 - License source component, license destination component, and method thereof: Disclosed herein is, a license source component for transferring a license defining a content usage rule to a license destination component, the license source component and the license destination component each being a unit of license processing, including, creating means for creating a message including a license, a manipulation type...

20060059105 - Move component, program, and move method: Disclosed herein is a move component for moving a license describing a usage rule of the content between a plurality of storage components each storing the license in a storage, the move component including: a receiving section for receiving the license from the first storage component that stores license in...

20060059104 - Rent component, program, and rent component method: Disclosed herein is a rent component for renting a license describing a usage rule of the content between storage components that store the license in storages, the rent component including a receiving section for receiving a license from the first storage component that stores the license in the first storage,...

20060059101 - Reproduction component, program and method thereof: Disclosed herein is a reproduction component for controlling reproduction of content on the basis of a license defining a usage rule of the content, the reproduction component including, receiving means for receiving the license from a storage component storing the license in a storage thereof, and controlling means for evaluating...

20060059103 - Return component, program, and return component method: Disclosed herein is a return component for returning a license describing a usage rule of the content between storage components that store the license in storages, the return component including a receiving section for receiving a rent license rented from the first storage component having the first storage, the rent...

20060059100 - Software license server with geographic location validation: A computer software license management system wrapper for use in a local computer is described. The software wrapper includes a wrapper interface that provides controlled access to a computer software application file. The software application file is encapsulated by security software code to protect it from unauthorized access. The software...

20060059099 - Software wrapper having use limitation within a geographic boundary: A computer software license management system wrapper for use in a local computer is described. The software wrapper includes a wrapper interface that provides controlled access to a computer software application file. The software application file is encapsulated by security software code to protect it from unauthorized access. The software...

20060059108 - Financial transaction approval system and method: A method of sale including processing a plurality of purchases to be sold to a consumer, identifying a consumer financial account held by a financial institution, receiving authorization from the financial institution to enable payment for the plurality of purchases from the consumer financial account, and providing the consumer with...

20060059107 - System and method for establishing eletronic business systems for supporting communications servuces commerce: A comprehensive electronic business support system comprises three layers: (1) the business layer, including various smart components which unify data and business processes across all customer interactions; (2) the integration layer, including various communications messaging interfaces and enterprise application integration adpaters, which provide a flexible, automated, and process driven solution...

20060059109 - Password protected keyless entry: This invention is a combination of a vehicle's control computer and either a cell phone or WIFI transceiver with the vehicle identification number (VIN) and a password programmed into the control computer. The password is selected by the vehicle's owner and would allow remote access to the vehicle, to open...

20060059111 - Authentication method for securely disclosing confidential information over the internet: An authentication method for securely disclosing confidential information over the internet using a three way authentication between the user, the user's registered computer and the transacting entity, such as a bank or other financial institution. The authenticating method applies another layer of security to internet transactions and provides a solution...

20060059110 - System and method for detecting card fraud: The invention discloses a system and method for notifying and authorizing card transaction by a user. The notifying and authorizing a card is done by a card fraud control system. The card user is notified on his hand held device by a short message service that a card transaction is...

20060053023 - Customer support system: A method is provided for centrally monitoring machines running at remote customer sites and providing customers with adequate support. The method includes collecting machine operating data, including data for each process stage, at the customer sites, and analyzing, at a central location, the collected machine operating data for each machine....

20060053024 - Lifting partner groups for allocation of lifted product consistent with production sharing contracts: An embodiment of the invention regards allocating lifted product volumes to specific entities of a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) through the use of Lifting