Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 04/06

20060089837 - Apparatus, system and method for dispute resolution, regulation compliance and quality management in financial institutions: An apparatus, system and method for multimedia capturing, logging and retrieval are disclosed. The apparatus provides time synchronized voice and data interactions capturing and logging, secured playback and retrieval functionality for dispute resolution, for detecting negative and positive conduct, for business analysis and performance, and for quality management. The apparatus...

20060089844 - Dynamic replenisher management: Replenishable device asset management comprises accumulating device usage information for fleet assets comprising a plurality of replenishable devices and vehicles associated with the replenishable devices, storing the device usage information for the fleet assets in a global memory, and using the device usage information to manage the fleet assets....

20060089839 - Enhanced customer design visual integration (ecdvi): An Enhanced Customer Design Visual Integration (ECDVI) utilizing a Web based application to support Interior and Exterior Painting, Decorating, Landscaping, and other design integration efforts. This solution will provide customer with the capability to take a digital picture of a setting and integrate it into a future concept or solution...

20060089845 - Golf course management system: A golf course management system has an administration manager for managing administrative information including member information, a golf service manager for managing golf services using the member information; an auxiliary service manager for managing auxiliary services, the auxiliary service manager being linked with the golf service manager to handle golf...

20060089840 - Health tracking method and apparatus: A health and fitness system that maintains fitness data for members. Members can update their information in kiosks in health clubs or other locations. Members can belong to teams or departments, and progress and health goals of each team can be monitored and compared. A team which has surpassed the...

20060089851 - Informing consumers about carbon usage based on purchases: A method of processing financial data may include determining if a relationship exists between a particular item of said financial data and a quantifiable quality-related characteristic. It may further include generating data quantifying usage of the quality-related characteristic based on a particular item of financial data....

20060089846 - Linked hierarchical airline maintenance process modeling: A plurality of display files representing aircraft maintenance processes are generated and linked in a hierarchy. A general level display file defines a number of divisions of aircraft maintenance processes that can include managerial as well as labor related divisions. Linked display files appearing below the general level file in...

20060089850 - Method of conducting a blackjack-like game: The player places an initial wager and a target sum game, such as blackjack, is played by dealing an initial hand to the player and at least one card to a dealer. If the player has obtained a qualifying initial hand, the player is rewarded according to a pay table...

20060089841 - Method of gift giving utilizing a reusable gift container: A method of gift giving, utilizing a reusable gift container, whereby a gift container history is generated including one or more items of past user personal information. The gift container has at least one unique physical feature; a container history document; and an identifier, whereby the gift container can be...

20060089838 - Method of streaming multimedia data: The invention relates to a method of streaming multimedia for providing seamless stream switching. The method consists in streaming multimedia data from a server (15) to a client (14) over a network (13) having a variable bandwidth. The client is intended to decode a subset of streams within a set...

20060089848 - Political party donations from consumer goods sales: A computer-implemented method for causing a donation to be made to a political party. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of consumers, order data indicative of a desired consumer transaction and a proposed donation to a political party; consummating the desired consumer transaction; on the basis of...

20060089849 - Product definition system: A data processing system defines products that a service provider may offer to customers. A completed product definition may include product definitions, price definitions, discount definitions, and commitment definitions. Each of the definitions may be employed as a re-useable component building block for establishing completed product definitions....

20060089852 - Production system and production method: To provide a product development and manufacturing system to be used in the increasingly competitive electronic equipment market, which enables the process from product planning to design, manufacturing, and sales of a product to be performed efficiently while incorporating newly developed techniques, to thereby minimize or avoid risks. The present...

20060089843 - Programmable, interactive task oriented hotspot, image map, or layer hyperlinks within a multimedia program and interactive product, purchase or information page within a media player, with capabilities to purchase products right out of media programs and: Described is a system and method whereby special layers, hotspots or image maps can be programmed in to media displayed through common Internet enabled media players so that users or viewers of the media can interact in a minimally obtrusive fashion with the media being shown to perform a host...

20060089842 - System and method for finding, analyzing, controlling, timing and strategizing real estate investing online: The present invention teaches a computer implemented method for providing comprehensive real estate services to subscribing users via a remote computer network comprising the acts of: providing a computer network for researching real estate; receiving a plurality of property listings from a plurality of property listing sources including realtors, owners,...

20060089847 - System and method for providing automated real estate transaction management with centralized transaction information storage: A system and method for providing automated real estate transaction management with centralized transaction information storage is described. Transaction information is centrally maintained and includes a plurality of transaction specifications. Each such transaction specification includes one or more deadlines that provide an agent component and a client component. An agent...

20060089859 - Information management and material distribution for sterilization facilities: An automated system for management of information and distribution of materials associated with sterilization procedures includes a network server and client computers that communicate via a computer network. The client computers are distributed among sterilization facilities that require sterilization services. The network server exchanges a variety of information with the...

20060089856 - Integrated pharmaceutical dispensing and patient management monitoring: A pharmaceutical monitoring system includes a communication system, a host, and an interrogator/transmitter unit. The communication system is configured to upload patient drug parameters from a pharmaceutical information source to the host, and the interrogator/transmitter unit is configured to download the patient drug parameters from the host via the communication...

20060089858 - Means and method of applying rfid and pki technologies for patient safety: A system and a method for applying RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technologies for patient health safety to install RFID tag and RFID reader on the medicine-storing appliance. By sensing the RFID tag on medicine, the RFID reader stores the medical records such as medicine usage...

20060089854 - Medication management system: A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The...

20060089855 - Medication management system: A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The...

20060089853 - Multi-agent distributed environment for a hierarchical medical environment: The invention presents a system and a method that allows clients to communicate with their service providers. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the clients are patients, the service providers are health care professionals (HCP), and the system is used for intelligent remote health care monitoring. Components of the...

20060089857 - Transcription data security: A computer program product for use with dictated medical patient information resides on a computer-readable medium and comprises computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to analyze the dictated information, identify likely confidential information in the dictated medical patient information, and treat the likely confidential information disparately from likely non-confidential information...

20060089861 - Survey based risk assessment for processes, entities and enterprise: An audit system creates, deploys, and analyzes surveys to perform risk assessment. Surveys can be associated with one or more contexts, which include an enterprise, an organization, a business process, a risk, a control, or any combination thereof. The audit system generates survey questionnaires for a context automatically using a...

20060089860 - System and method for creating a favorable risk pool for portability and conversion life insurance programs: A method of providing portability and conversion life insurance plans to departing employees is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of establishing risk parameters for pricing an insurance policy, collecting data regarding a departing employee's individual risk level upon termination of employment, assigning the departing employee a rating based on...

20060089862 - System and method for modeling benefits: Data of one or more individuals associated with a benefit plan are analyzed. The data can include information about benefits provided to the one or more individuals under the benefit plan, such as a medical benefit plan, a prescription benefit plan, or a retirement benefit plan. One or more expenses...

20060089863 - Service management for multi-compartment vehicles: A process and method for optimizing the placement of at least one depot stop within a predetermined delivery route. The invention provides an evaluation of each compartment in a multi-compartment vehicle in order to determine the optimal placement of depots along the route. This optimization is performed both for deliveries...

20060089864 - Formal sequential lagrangian algorithm for large scale resource scheduling optimization: A method and computer program product for optimization of large scale resource scheduling problems. Large scale resource scheduling problems are computationally very hard and extremely time consuming to solve. This invention provides a Lagrangian relaxation based solution method. The method has two distinct characteristics. First, the method is formal. It...

20060089866 - Computer system for exchanging workflows and methods thereof: A computer-readable storage medium (100) for exchanging workflows (112), said workflows (112) presented by way of a graphical user interface (GUI) (102), the storage medium (100) comprising computer instructions for selecting (502) at least one workflow (112) from a plurality of workflows, and associating (506) the at least one workflow...

20060089865 - Computer-aided method for managing a part shipping apparatus development project: A computer-aided method for managing a part shipping apparatus development project including a plurality of predetermined processes or procedures is provided. The method includes receiving information about the part and storing a first set of data which identifies the part in at least one database. The method further includes filling...

20060089867 - Inventory control system and method: The invention suppresses stock excess or deficiency of circulation items through a life cycle of the circulation items. In an inventory control system, an information processing device calculates an index (KPI) which shows a current phase of a circulation item from actual data of the circulation item, at predetermined timing...

20060089868 - System, method and computer program product for analyzing and packaging information related to an organization: A computer-implemented method includes generating a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI includes information related to an organization, and includes performance measures and a performance composite that are each associated with a value. The organization information, performance measure(s) and performance composite in the GUI include elements of an information hierarchy,...

20060089869 - Systems and methods for automated reporting of vendor non-compliance: Systems and methods are disclosed for automated reporting of any vendor noncompliance with purchaser-specified requirements in handling shipment of ordered products. The invention receives base data related to a purchaser order from a purchaser. Meanwhile, it obtains shipping data related to a shipment of ordered product in fulfillment of the...

20060089874 - Generating income for a beneficiary organisation and loyalty points using purchases by a consumer: The present invention relates to computer implemented loyalty or loyalty provider methods and systems for generating income for a beneficiary organisation and/or loyalty points using purchases by an individual, company or other entity (generally referred to as a consumer). In another aspects, it also relates to a code carried by...

20060089875 - Integrated online purchase reward system: An integrated online purchase reward system includes one or more first information processing devices, one or more second information processing devices, a network, and one or more purchase transaction monitoring devices which read in a purchase transaction medium, and print out purchase transaction records on the purchase transaction media as...

20060089870 - Intelligent and time varying out of home information or advertising system: An integrated advertising or messaging system that may target various socio-economic groups, as a function of time, weekday, traffic conditions and weather is provided. The system may offer real time interactions with receivers, to provide additional information or the ordering of goods or services. The concept yields optimising and cost...

20060089880 - Method and apparatus for automatic placement of advertising: A computer system for automatic replacement of direct advertisements in scarce media includes an advertising server for selecting a direct advertisement based on certain criteria. Transaction results of the direct advertisement placement are reported back to the advertising server, and an associated accounting system. In one embodiment, the direct advertiser's...

20060089878 - Method and system for generating real-time directions associated with product promotions: A method and system for generating customized incentives involving electronic distribution of coupons to remote personal computers based on proximity of the computer to a retail center are disclosed. A repository, such as an online service provider or a web site on the Internet, stores packages of incentive data for...

20060089879 - Method of advertising for hotels and lodges: A method and system for advertising that includes preparing a band that includes printed indicia around a pillow in a hotel or the like that includes promotional benefits to the customer that would conventionally replace a typical chocolate placed on the pillow....

20060089876 - Proximal advertising using hand-held communication devices: A system for commercial promotion has a first computerized appliance enabled for data reception on a close-proximity wireless local area network (LAN) having a limited effective range, and for providing received data in a human-understandable form to a user of the first appliance, and a second computerized appliance enabled for...

20060089873 - Salon-spa business method: A method of operating a beauty salon-spa, includes a salon-spa program, wherein a member of the salon-spa program signs a service agreement, pays a monthly fee for an effective period of the service agreement, and receives a service package, comprising a plurality of salon-spa-related services, every month for the effective...

20060089871 - System and method for generating advertising sales: The system and method described herein generally relate to method and system for generating advertising revenue by promoting products with advertisements placed thereon to a target market where the distribution of such products may be subsidized by advertising revenues. The system and method facilitate sales transactions by, at least at...

20060089877 - System for paying vendor invoices: A system for using credit card accounts to pay vendor invoices....

20060089872 - Three step method for determining commissions: The invention provides for a method for determining the commission to be paid to sales representatives in multi-tiered marketing structures. The three step method of positioning new associates in said marketing structures assures each associate greater opportunity to earn increased commissions....

20060089881 - Retail restaurant business: In a retail food establishment, substantially all the food items on the menu are identified with their respective trademarks. Menus displayed on a board and printed menus handed to customers both make use of trademarks identifying the food items. Trademarks can be graphic logos or simple text....

20060089883 - Apparatus and method for facilitating and augmenting delivery confirmation: A method and apparatus ins disclosed for minimum-cost mailing utilizing the First Class Delivery Confirmation service of United States Postal Service. In one aspect, the invention provides light-weight packaging which meets USPS delivery confirmation dimensional standards without creasing contents. In another aspect the invention automatically electronically retrieves delivery confirmation data...

20060089886 - E-commerce business methodologies for supply and demand chain management: A system and method for providing integrated logistics services. In the system, an electronic trading facility, a logistics services group, a commercial-finance group; and an information-support group are organized and arranged to communicate and exchange information with each other over the Internet in order to provide logistics services to a...

20060089887 - Information service providing method: An information service providing method with higher security. When a request from an information terminal is received through a first communication line, a reply to this request is sent to the information terminal through not only the first communication line but also a second communication line different from the first...

20060089882 - On-line shopping system: An on-line shopping system for selling a product over an electronic communication network such as the Internet (as detailed in FIG. 1). The shopping system comprises an e-commerce supplier processor, which is accessible by a number of potential buyers of the product, via the Internet. The processor has software executable...

20060089885 - Optimized purchase order generation: The present invention provides a system and method for optimizing a purchase order. While generating a purchase order, a purchasing agent may aggregate a company's purchasing requirements into a single purchase order, receive notification of a supplier's offers for discounts to determine whether it would be advantageous to modify a...

20060089884 - Systems and methods for communicating information between a customer and a supplier: Systems and methods for exchanging information between a customer and a supplier are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a customer system that receives customer data from a customer, and a corresponding supplier system that receives supplier data generated by the supplier. A communications system between the customer system...

20060089888 - Medical implant distribution method and system: A method of supply of medical implants directly from an implant manufacturer to a hospital without going via a distributor, allows the manufacturer to sell an implant to the hospital at the same price as they would ordinarily sell to a distributor which provides the hospital with the implant at...

20060089889 - System for visualizing financial data: A system for visualizing financial data of an organization comprises a database for storing and processing the financial data, a dynamic rules based engine, a graphical interface for depicting the financial data as instruments that are part of an instrument panel within a vehicle, such as an airplane, and a...

20060089890 - Performance monitoring system, method and apparatus: A computer in a networked computer system is programmed to perform a performance monitoring method for an invoicing process, the invoicing process generating an invoice occupying one or more of a plurality of discrete states at any one time. The method includes the steps of defining performance criteria for at...

20060089891 - System and method for generating expense information: A system and method for generating expense information are provided. According to the invention, an employee's bill having itemized charges is received and stored in a data storage system. The itemized charges are processed to determine whether they are business-related, in whole or in part, or not business-related using data...

20060089893 - Automated teller machine having access point and method for providing financial service using the same: An automated teller machine (ATM) having a wireless network access apparatus and a method for providing financial services using the ATM are provided. The ATM includes a user interface unit, a first financial processing unit, a first network access unit, a second network access unit, and a second financial service...

20060089895 - Data processing system and method incorporating feedback: A data processing system and method are disclosed which finds particular application to equity finance mortgages. An Overall System (600) is formed from a Target Investment System (100), an Asset Origination System (200), an Asset Securitization System (400), an Asset Servicing System (300) and an Asset Management System (500). Financial...

20060089894 - Financial institution portal system and method: Systems and methods utilizing a portal on a single computer platform for improving risk assessment and business reporting are disclosed. The portal integrates at least two financial information resources such as, for example, an electronic credit report (eCR) database, an electronic know your customer (eKYC) database, a client business management...

20060089892 - Methods and apparatus for investment portfolio selection, allocation, and management to generate sustainable withdrawals: Methods and apparatus are provided for determining a minimum distribution rate and an investment allocation among individual investments of different types, including income generating investments that may be counter-balanced by principal protection investments, according to predefined ratios, determining a distribution amount based upon a performance level of individual investments and...

20060089900 - Internet auction clocking system and method of use: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for time tracking with respect to an item in an auction. Certain embodiments include a clock for tracking a time associated with an item sold to a buyer, wherein the time is elapsed after sale of the item, and...

20060089899 - Intra-day matching message system and method: A system and method that provides a message engine to facilitate intra-day receiving of first data relative to the trade transaction on behalf of one party to the trade transaction, wherein the first data include a code identifying an opposing party to the transaction; sending a message to the designated...

20060089898 - Intra-day matching system and method: A system and method that provides intra-day confirmation of non-anonymous trade transactions made at an exchange includes the entry into a computer system of first data relative to the trade transaction on behalf of one party to the trade transaction, wherein the first data include a code identifying an opposing...

20060089896 - Method and system for estimating valuation: A method for valuation of the market, sectors of the market, industries in the market or companies, where price ratios of a predetermined group of securities representing the market, sector or industry are determined and debt adjusted ratios are determined by adjusting the price ratios using debt to capitalization ratios...

20060089897 - Systems and methods for online trade-in of goods: An online trade-in system comprises: a pricing guide module, an affiliates module, a marketplace listing module, a trade-in website module, a transaction processing module, an inventory handling module, a database and a marketplace manager. The marketplace manager creates an online trade-in system that accesses the other modules to complete a...

20060089901 - Uniform price auction method: The invention relates to an auction method for selling a plurality of articles of same type, which comprises the steps of: (a) determining the cost C of a single article to the seller; (b) dividing the range of expected bids for the product into a limited number of prices p;...

20060089902 - Method and system for the financial feasibility of time-sharing of retirement community units using reverse mortgages: This invention relates to retirement communities. Specifically, a computer-implemented method and system enhances retired homeowners' accessibility to the retirement community on time-sharing basis and broadens the client base for the management and/or developers of such communities. The method particularly addresses the needs of those retired homeowners who will consider joining...

20060089903 - Multi-party-transaction information access system: A multi-party transaction management system includes a web-page server that includes a multi-party transaction web-page. This web-page allows authorized users to enter contact information and transaction information that may only be viewed by the authorized users. The transaction information includes transaction process steps, electronic word-processing documents, and notes. Authorized users...

20060089904 - Price point: The Price Point Pricing Center is a flexible system designed to provide the business with industry-standard pricing methodologies, including: The ability to charge different rates based on an application's source Risk-based pricing, including the ability to price based on drivers such as credit source, CLTV, and line amount The ability...

20060089905 - Credit and identity protection network: A computer network, Credit and Identity Protection Network (“CIPN”), is established to detect credit damage and identity theft occurring to individuals, organizations, and other entities. It automatically advises the potential victims to verify the possible fraudulent activities and helps them to take proper actions to protect their credit and identity....

20060089907 - Invoice verification process: The present invention provides a system and method for automatically verifying an invoice or credit memorandum and generating a payment or crediting an account. Upon receipt of a paper invoice or credit memorandum, an electronic invoice or credit memorandum having identifiable content may be generated using, for example, optical character...

20060089906 - Method for securing a payment transaction over a public network: A method for processing a payment transaction between a buyer and a seller over a network using a payment manager is provided. The payment manager manages a plurality of buyer and seller accounts, each account having an account id associated with it. The payment manager receives payment authorization requests for...

20060089908 - User configurable alerts for atm transactions: A method, system and computer program product for enabling user-customization of an ATM display/receipt for a transaction carried out at an automated teller machine (ATM). The customer/user of the ATM creates/selects specific alerts to be outputted during subsequent ATM transactions. The alerts/notices are linked to the customer account. During subsequent...

20060089909 - Cardless transaction system: A method of conducting cardless and cashless transactions is disclosed. A user, such as from a plurality of students of one or more clients or schools, presents a familiar user ID number and a PIN at a participating merchant. A server receives the user ID and PIN from the merchant...

20060089910 - Method for providing contents for a wireless communication device: The invention relates to a method for providing contents in a wireless communication device (5a, 5b, 5c) which is equipped with at least means for utilizing the contents. In the method, at least one content component (21a-21f) is formed of the contents. The at least one content component (21a-21f) is...

20060089913 - Method and apparatus for optimizing networking potential using a secured system for an online community: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for users to search networks, both their own network and their peers' networks, all under the umbrella of a “multiple level access” security system. The present invention has been designed to optimize networking capabilities among users in a comprehensive online community. Networking...

20060089911 - Method for transferring purchased and downloaded content to a new information handling system by consuming additional content rights: A method for loading previously purchased content onto a new information handling system which includes determining whether a user has available transfer options based upon a unique identifier, and loading the previously purchased content onto the new information handling system if the user has available transfer options....

20060089912 - Updating usage conditions in lieu of download digital rights management protected content: A method on an end user system for creating additional copies onto at least one computer readable medium such as CDs, DVDs, ZipDisks™, tape, Flash memory, and RAM. The method comprising the steps of: receiving encrypted content with associated usage conditions and a first hash value; receiving a selection from...

20060089914 - Apparatus, systems and methods for compensating broadcast sources: In one aspect, the invention relates to a method of compensating a broadcast source. The method includes the steps of delivering a plurality of content elements originating from a broadcast source to a receiver; generating a playout list of the plurality of content elements, identifying the broadcast source, identifying one...

20060089915 - Computer system for automating the controlled distribution of documents: The present invention is the system for providing secure access to certified and authenticated electronic documents. The system enables authenticating or certifying authorities (103) to make available electronic documents in a secure repository (101). The system provides for online viewing of documents without their certification marks and direct printing of...

20060089916 - Content recording apparatus, method for controlling the content recording apparatus, and recording program for the content recording apparatus: Disclosed is a content recording apparatus having recording devices A and B and first and second encrypting units that are provided for the respective recording devices. When receiving stream data representing content from an input unit, a rate changing unit operates so as to input streams of data in parallel...

20060089917 - License synchronization: A method of synchronizing. A method of synchronizing comprising, transferring at least one license of a plurality of licenses from a first PC, populating a license store on a CE device with the at least one license of the plurality of licenses from the first PC, populating a synchronization list...

20060089918 - System and method for performing real-time market researches: A system for performing market researches is proposed. The system includes a sniffer for detecting an event relating to the selection of one or more goods by a consumer (for example, the insertion of each product on sale in a supermarket into a shopping cart), a transmitter for notifying the...

20060089919 - Transaction processing: A customer inserts a security device (D) into the USB port of his computer (C). When a transaction request confirmation (1) is transmitted to a merchant server (M), the merchant server (M) instructs an account server (AS). The account server (AS) performs customer verification, and payment (either with a local...

20060089920 - Method and system for evaluating costs of various design and maintenance approaches: The method and system quantify the impact of various design and operational solutions for equipment modules of a structure and the overall structure based upon economic factors. In particular, the method and system provide cost evaluation of various maintenance approaches for at least one equipment module that is part of...

20060089921 - Mailpiece tracking: A method and system to process and track mailpieces. A code is printed on the mailpiece that can include an identification of a metering device generating the code and a subscriber number of a subscriber generating the mailpiece. The code is scanned during a processing step in a mailpiece delivery...

20060089922 - Method, system, and apparatus for allocating resources to a software configurable computing environment: A unit for defining resources for a software configurable computing environment. The unit can include an entity configured to be software associated with at least one asset. Each asset can be a physical asset that provides at least one resource. The software configurable computing environment can include the entity. The...

20060085203 - Computer-implemented method and system for determining vehicle delivery estimated time of arrival: An integrated computer-implemented method for determining a delivery estimated time of arrival (“ETA”) for a vehicle. The method includes receiving post-release quality hold information, upfitter throughput information and historical delivery segment performance information relating to an undelivered vehicle; and determining a delivery ETA for the undelivered vehicle based on the...

20060085213 - Customizing transaction processing in a computer application: Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application and to assign a collection of business process rules to one of multiple predefined points in a business process of a...

20060085201 - Customs inspection and data processing system and method thereof for web-based processing of customs information: A multi-user, multi-organization web-based system for processing customs information is provided. The system includes a server device connected to a communication network and having a communication server module for communicating over the network. The server device receives a declaration pertaining to a consignment, including identification of specific goods in the...

20060085209 - Establishment of vehicle item categories: At year-end, vehicles in a dealership's inventory are programmatically assigned an item category and base price for each vehicle is validated, as may be required to take advantage of favorable tax treatment. Manufacturer-provided vehicle model codes are often not consistently unique or specific enough for this purpose. Preferred embodiments compare...

20060085211 - Measurement tool for effective sales management: The invention is a tool to improve sales force effectiveness. The tool includes an assessment, and analyzing the assessment according to defined dependencies. The organization addresses the issues presented by the assessment according to the dependencies. Data is gathered and parameters are computed from the data to provide an ongoing...

20060085202 - Method and a system for responding to a request for access to an application service: The present invention relates to a method and a server for responding to a request for access to an application service, which service is deployed in a system that associates specific areas of a position coded surface with corresponding application services. According to the invention, an enterprise paper look-up service...

20060085216 - Method and apparatus for discouraging non-meritorious lawsuits and providing recourse for victims thereof: A method for discouraging non-meritorious malpractice claims and providing recourse for victims thereof is provided. The method comprises collecting record data relating to medical malpractice litigation, selecting desired data from the record data using a case evaluation algorithm, and storing the desired data in a user accessible site database. The...

20060085204 - Method and system for testing information handling system components: A method and a system are provided for determining whether an information handling system (“IHS”) component is in condition for a warranty return. In response to determining that the IHS component is in condition for a warranty return and in response to an encryption algorithm, an encrypted return authorization number...

20060085205 - Method, program and system for the implementation of cognitive business processes: A cognitive business process (CBP) for use by an enterprise. A knowledge engine and knowledge base are used by an end user when information is received regarding a potential business transaction. The knowledge engine uses the information about the potential business transaction, goals of the business enterprise and knowledge residing...

20060085212 - Optimization of a materials recycling facility: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a Materials Recovery Facility. An input stream of recycled materials is provided, wherein the composition of the input stream is subject to variation during a time interval. The input stream goes to a separator that separates it into first and second output streams...

20060085217 - Self-management system and method: According to the invention, a self-management system and method for organizing the key aspects of one's life is disclosed. The system and method include a core manager configured to allow central pooling of data and services that relate to common aspects of life. The system and method also include at...

20060085206 - System and method for a controller to define, determine, and execute cross-application processes: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to providing flexible process configurations for software systems and to the execution of those software systems. In one embodiment, a user may use a cross-application process controller to select and arrange the methods that constitute a software system. In an embodiment, the cross-application...

20060085207 - System and method for appraiser-assisted valuation: A system and method that allows an appraiser, real estate broker or other professional, based on preliminary information about a requested appraisal, to use any of a plurality of automated valuation products to effectively calculate an appraisal value. In one embodiment, a lender places an order electronically with or through...

20060085210 - System and method for facilitating like kind exchanges: An interactive computer system, preferably hosted on the Internet, has interfaces that obtain entity-specific information regarding a property owner, obtain property-specific information of the property to be exchanged in a 1031 exchange, and establish a contract that engages the services of a facilitator to handle the exchange. An inducement to...

20060085219 - System and method for managing intellectual property: The present invention relates to methods and systems for intellectual property management. In an embodiment, a system includes an intellectual property asset inventory system to manage an inventory of intellectual property assets. A product inventory system manages an inventory of products, where the inventory of products correspond to a plurality...

20060085220 - System and method for selecting and protecting intellectual property assets: The present invention relates to systems and methods for intellectual property asset selection and protection. In an embodiment, an intellectual property selection system receives from an innovator an innovation submission describing an innovation. An intellectual property protection system receives at least a portion of the innovation submission and manages obtaining...

20060085214 - Using customized data to control transaction processing in a computer application: Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application. A data structure is used to store business process rules. The data structure includes a condition portion and an execution portion...

20060085215 - Using execution points to customize transaction processing in a computer application: Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application. A data structure is used to store business process rules. The data structure includes a condition portion and an execution portion...

20060085218 - Vehicle downtime reporting tool: A vehicle downtime reporting tool comprises a computer-implemented interface to a database, wherein the database contains time-related information pertaining to a repair order for a vehicle, a computer-implemented downtime calculator that calculates the vehicle downtime by determining the time from a triggering event to an ending event, and a computer-implemented...

20060085208 - Vehicle identification system: According to the present invention, a method for identifying a vehicle for sale is disclosed. In one step, an indicia or code is registered. A least one fact about the vehicle, such as the vehicle price, the vehicle mileage, and the vehicle seller contact is registered. An interested party makes...

20060085226 - Emergency identification, medical treatment and records access authorization media: The single notice or notification of the present invention, whether in printed or electronic media form, provides an authorization to treat in accordance with the guidelines set out by the patient and to contact those persons and entities designated by the patient including medical conditions, medications being taken and allergies...

20060085222 - Healthcare administration transaction method and system for the same: A system for automated processing of encounter and billing data while in a roaming environment, comprising a static system that creates appointment and encounter slots, and reserves a space for data from a missing patient encounter, and a wireless system that includes (1) a handheld device that receives and displays...

20060085225 - System and method for managing a patient with chronic disease: A computerized method for managing a patient, particularly one suffering from a chronic disease, is disclosed....

20060085227 - System and method for patient-worn monitoring of patients in geographically dispersed health care locations: A patient-worn monitoring system and method for geographically dispersed health care locations. A patient-worn monitoring system comprises a network, a body-worn monitoring station, a monitoring station server, a remote command center, and a rules engine. The network comprises a first sub-network and a second sub-network. The body-worn monitoring station comprises...

20060085223 - System and user interface for presenting treatment information: A workflow system and user interface coordinates information concerning a course of treatment of a patient, as well as data from a treatment device and links appointment data from a scheduling system with actual treatment activity information in order to show a complete timeline of a course of treatment. A...

20060085224 - System for evaluating skills of to-be-examined person: According to a question displayed on a computer screen, a to-be-examined person selects, out of constituent elements (components) displayed on the screen, constituent elements that he considers optimum for the question and then makes a design by constructing them on the screen, and the content of the design on the...

20060085228 - System of conserving health-care buyers' resources: A system of conserving health-care resources of health-care buyers and health-care consumers comprises the displays and uses of health-care consumers' health and health-care data based on which physicians and patients interact using a network of computers and servers to effect the allocations, uses and conservations of health-care resources of health-care...

20060085221 - Universal charge routing system for medical billing: A medical charge router receives charge information from a variety of sources and converts it to a standard charge format for automated processing and routing to one of multiple billing programs....

20060085229 - Remote command center for patient monitoring relationship to other applications: A remote command center for providing services to geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. A datastore accessible to the remote command center receives patient data from geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. Monitored data elements of geographically dispersed hospitalized patients are also received at the remote command center and stored in the datastore. A...

20060085231 - Method and system for distribution and payment for pharmaceuticals: The method involves the distribution of cards in connection with a program being administered. The cards are preferably, but not necessarily, in the form of a standard debit card issued through a standard network, such as VISA. In addition to any debit card indicia, the cards have on them the...

20060085230 - Methods and systems for healthcare assessment: Certain embodiments provide methods and systems by which a predictive modeling provider may provide a client with predictive healthcare analysis. The predictive healthcare analysis may be used to assess whether a beneficiary is likely to develop conditions requiring healthcare. If such conditions are identified, intervention plans are developed and implemented...

20060085232 - Automated remote access password-authenticated hunting and fishing reservation system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computerized system for forming a network of member hunters and fishermen and member landowners for processing request and/or reservation of such landowner's property for use in hunting and/or fishing activities by member hunters and fishermen through at least one central processing unit, storage...

20060085240 - Aggregate transit times: A method and system to provide aggregate transit time. In one embodiment, the method, which may be performed by a system, comprises receiving information identifying a shipping destination; and in response to the information, providing data related to on-time performance for one or more shipping vendors providing shipping services to...

20060085236 - Automated management of airport revenues: A solution is described which provides an airport with the tools to accurately manage all sources of airside revenues, including operational revenues and capital programs. The system of the present invention relies on the acquisition of any and all data related to the operations, property, lease, and revenue management of...

20060085235 - Inventory mitigation and balancing system for dynamically and iteratively tracking, matching, and exchanging inventory excess and storage: A computer-implemented inventory management system is provided in which inventory data and inventory balancing transactions are conducted external to existing inventory databases by means of automated and computerized system permitting the participation of multiple users and warehouse locations to track, search, match and complete inventory mitigation and balancing transactions. More...

20060085234 - Method and apparatus for constructing a forecast standard deviation for automated valuation modeling: A method and apparatus for deriving Sigmas or forecast standard deviations for valuations of properties valued by an automated valuation model without reference to the underlying mathematical architecture and without reference to a particular data structure of the automated valuation model and for providing right-tail and responsive confidence scores consistent...

20060085238 - Method and system for monitoring an issue: The present invention is a web-based software application designed to monitor implementation of an issue. The invention includes receiving information from a user on the issue to be monitored; receiving information from a user on an assignment on the issue; and sending the assignment to a recipient. An acknowledgement is...

20060085237 - Method of improving information technology processes of a business using value stream management: A method for improving an information technology process of a business comprises the steps of selecting an administrative value stream having a series of steps, preparing a current state value stream map corresponding to the administrative value stream, preparing a future state value stream map based on lean concepts to...

20060085239 - Method of selecting and matching professionals: A method of selecting desired professionals in a system by a user which includes the process of forming a collective of repair persons on a system and allows users to sign on to the system. Once signed on to the system, users are able to search for matching repair persons...

20060085233 - Peer-to-peer complaint system and method: A method and system of managing and handling consumer complaints is provided. The method includes receiving a complaint from a consumer regarding a merchant, forwarding the complaint to the merchant for a merchant's response, displaying the complaint and the merchant's response, if one is received, for a plurality of users...

20060085242 - Asset management system and method: An asset management system comprising data storage means capable of storing data and arranged to store asset data relating to a plurality of assets and datacenter data relating to at least one datacenter comprising at least one element, processing means capable of processing data and generating an output, the processing...

20060085243 - Business process management method and system: A service-oriented architecture includes applications, business services, business functions, and data repositories for developing human resource or other applications. A business service provides a set of business functions. The applications access business functions within business services. The business functions provide mechanisms for accessing and processing data in the data repositories....

20060085241 - Decentralized warehouse management: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products and systems, implementing and using techniques for managing data related to contents and operations of a warehouse. A request is received from one enterprise resource planning system from among two or more enterprise resource planning systems that are operable to exchange information with...

20060085244 - Systems and methods for distributed resource management: Systems and methods for distributed resource management are provided. The systems and methods may simulate a plurality of supply schedules for a family of parts, compare the plurality of supply schedules, and store a supply schedule selected from the plurality of supply schedules. Each supply schedule may be respectively associated...

20060085245 - Team collaboration system with business process management and records management: A user-friendly web-based team collaboration solution that provides diverse team members the opportunity to participate in synchronous and asynchronous activities through a teamspace. Using a single platform that integrates team collaboration with business process management, team activities may be implemented through ad-hoc tasks and business process management driven steps to...

20060085246 - Responsive promotion replenishment planning: Embodiments include a system for adjusting forecast demand data in light of actual sales of a product. The system and method may include forecasting demand for a time period then adjusting the demand forecast over that period of time based on sales feedback data. Forecasted demand may be distributed over...

20060085247 - System and method for analyzing analyst recommendations on a single stock basis: A system and method for measuring and creating a score for the performance of one or more contributor recommendations on a single stock. According to one embodiment, the score may be derived via a payoff function that depends on a variety of factors. For example, the factors may include one...

20060085248 - System and method for collection and analysis of electronic discussion messages: A system and method for collecting and analyzing electronic discussion messages to categorize the message communications and the identify trends and patterns in pre-determined markets. Electronic messages are collected and analyzed according to characteristics and data inherent in the messages. Objective data is collected by the system for use in...

20060085249 - Method and apparatus for mining patent data: A system for determining a relative value of at least one patent includes: a database configured to store at least one factor for calculating a Z score for the at least one patent; a database for storing at least one received subjective factor relevant to the at least one patent;...

20060085250 - Techniques for processing customer service transactions at customer site using mobile computing device: Techniques are described for facilitating delivery and adjustments of customer orders at a customer delivery site. A delivery courier is assigned a mobile field computing device for facilitating delivery and order adjustments of customer orders associated with that courier's delivery route. The mobile field computing device includes memory for storing...

20060085257 - A method for leveraging a company's brand: A method of interactive advertising in which a customer contacts a system for a particular product or service. The customer provides information and the system determines the appropriate advertising for the customer based on the information provided. The customer is able to place an order for products or services advertised...

20060085256 - Clip'n win! couponing marketing system: The integration of a puzzle within a coupon marketing environment using traditional print and/or digital media as a distribution vehicle, or some combination thereof. By using such an approach, the user is further motivated to proactively participate in the coupon marketing experience due to the desire to assemble the puzzle...

20060085258 - Computer implemented incentive compensation distribution system and associated methods: A computer implemented incentive compensation distribution system is for a plurality of revenue units of a business also including a home office supplying administrative services to the revenue units. The system may include a distribution module for calculating respective home office administrative services utilized by the revenue units. The distribution...

20060085260 - Coupon service system: A coupon service system is capable of reducing time and expenses needed for market research, making a correct and sure marketing plan, and providing customers with services that match their respective needs. The coupon service system includes a store terminal provided with a reader. When a cellular phone is brought...

20060085262 - Generating an advertisement with optimized advertising variable settings: The present invention relates to a method of optimizing advertising in response to customer data. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of acquiring data about the advertising preferences of particular groups of customers. For example, this data may include analyzing the shopping response of all married...

20060085252 - Incentive program: An incentive program is described that rewards the participants of the program based on the actions of at least something other than the participants. An incentive program coordinator that can be an individual, a legally created entity, or other organization can run the incentive program. The incentive program coordinator can...

20060085259 - Method and system for providing cooperative purchasing over social networks: The invention provides methods for facilitating a cooperative purchasing service. One method includes: providing a conditional purchase opportunity including a purchase threshold, providing information associated with the a conditional purchase opportunity to at least one display node, receiving a contingent purchase input from a user having a social network user...

20060085253 - Method and system to utilize a user network within a network-based commerce platform: A method and a system to utilize a user network within a network-based commerce platform. For example, the method includes identifying a target group including at least one other user of the network-based commerce system based on at least one group association rule, the at least one group association rule...

20060085261 - Online game advertising system: In one embodiment an online game advertising system provides an architecture for enabling the definition, sales, distribution, and management of interactive advertisements, sponsorships, and placements that appear within an online video game as part of the game experience or during idle load, wait, and pause screens. For example, in a...

20060085251 - System and method of presenting on-line product selection based on internal marketing and user popularity: An on-line Internet display of product viewing banners is selected and positioned in a predetermined viewing zone on a user screen, based upon: marketing personnel's selection/creation of a total selected number of possible preferred product viewing banners; and the number of hits on each preferred product viewing banner received from...

20060085254 - System and method to strengthen advertiser and consumer affinity: A system and method is provided for an on-demand advertising information vault so that advertisers may establish accounts for distributing advertisements on-line to potential subscribers. The on-demand information vault also provides for consumers to subscribe to advertisements from advertisers based on the consumer's preferences of categories of products or services....

20060085255 - System, method and apparatus for modeling and utilizing metrics, processes and technology in marketing applications: A system, method and apparatus for modeling and utilizing metrics, processes and technology in marketing applications. According to multiple embodiments, the present invention includes marketing models, processes, metrics and software implementations and the integration thereof in marketing management tools for analysis of marketing functions and methodology. In one aspect the...

20060085263 - User demographic profile driven advertising targeting: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for targeting advertising information transmitted over the Internet. The method involves creating a user profile and transmitting an agent and ad banner from a content provider to a target computer. At the target computer, information is collected and transmitted from the target...

20060085267 - Multi-function customer satisfaction survey device: A multi-function customer satisfaction survey device, system, and method. A restaurant management system includes a plurality of electronic tip trays and a base unit. Each of the tip trays electronically obtains and stores customer contact information, customer payment information, and responses to a customer satisfaction survey. A data transceiver wirelessly...

20060085264 - Restaurant and restaurant building: A restaurant receives orders from customers for a variety of different foods. Rather than preparing the foods itself, the restaurant relies of a series of specialty type restaurants to provide the food. The food is prepared and individually packaged by the specialty restaurants. The food is collected from the specialty...

20060085266 - Rfid system of restaurant automation: The restaurant ordering system employing RFID of the invention comprises a central database, at least an ordering device, at least a serving device, at least a managing device, at least a RFID customer tag, and at least a RFID dish tag, wherein, the central database is used for storing customer...

20060085265 - System and method for restaurant electronic menu: A system and method that provides an electronic menu wirelessly interconnected with a restaurant's server is provided. The restaurant server provides the electronic menu device with the menu items and menu software used to navigate through the menu items and options. The electronic menu provides the patron with details regarding...

20060085268 - Access to product supplemental information, in a store: The method of assisting customers in a store, that includes providing one or more customer accessible terminals (CATS) in a store; providing supplemental information concerning a product in the store, the information being accessible by use of the terminal to scan a code associated with the product; providing an indicator...

20060085269 - Transaction processing: A customer purchases a voucher by presenting a security card at a point-of-sale terminal (1). The terminal (11) communicates with a remote EPOS host (10) to validate the security data. The host (10) communicates with a transaction processor (30) to generate voucher data. Operations of the terminal (1) are triggered...

20060085270 - Process and system for providing information to customers at point of sale: Customers at a point of sale are provided with offers for goods and services, based on past transactions for that customer. Transaction histories are collected for customers, and customers are classified according to likely interest in future purchases based on previous transactions. When the customer makes a current transaction, that...

20060085285 - Automated method for conducting buy/sell transactions for non-commodity materials or devices: A method for conducting engineering process analysis is a unified part of evaluating buy/sell transactions for non-commodity materials or items and is particularly suited to the matching of buyers and sellers for non-commodity materials or items, defined as materials or items that cannot solely be distinguished by price alone, in...

20060085279 - Cartridge ordering management method and apparatus: A cartridge ordering management apparatus and method usable with an image forming apparatus. The method includes: managing cartridge order information which includes cartridge identification of each cartridge to be ordered, and generating order request information of cartridges to be ordered using the cartridge order information and transmitting the order request...

20060085284 - Dedicated communications network for the dissemination of information linked to themed events and a method of promoting business-to-business sales via the communications network: A communications network, such as a radio station, television station, or webcast, dedicated to the continuous dissemination of program content relating to the subject matter of themed events, themed events being live, scheduled events with attendees, the program content comprising segments involving subject matter experts and a program guest, the...

20060085276 - Ecommerce methods and systems: A method of conducting business transactions on a networked system includes receiving buyer registration information from a prospective buyer, including information describing a purchasing interest. Seller information is also received which includes information describing an offer being proffered by a prospective seller. At least some of the buyer information describing...

20060085271 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, method and program: The present invention relates to an information processing system, an information processing apparatus and method, and a program in which the purchase of content can be facilitated. When a device to which content data is downloaded and a device for giving an instruction to purchase the content data are different,...

20060085280 - Internet search engine with integrated e-commerce functionality: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an Internet search engine with e-commerce functionality (“e-commerce search engine”). In one embodiment of the present invention, users can use the e-commerce search engine to locate retail items by typing in a key-word search. The search results displayed by the e-commerce...

20060085287 - Method and apparatus for ordering goods, services and content over an internetwork: A billing system that allows a consumer to order products from computers connected to the Internet, wherein the consumer is automatically billed for the ordered good or service by its telephone service provider. When a consumer orders a product over the Internet, a plug-in component of the consumer's computer establishes...

20060085273 - Method and system for transmitting notifications to users of a logistic system: A method and system for transmitting notifications to users of a logistic system. Different events within the logistic system are used to call up different modules having respectively associated functions. The modules produce notification orders which are transmitted to a central sending component, which produces notifications which correspond to orders...

20060085274 - Methods and apparatus for selecting a color for use by a personal care product recommendation system: Methods and apparatus for measuring an electromagnetic radiation response property associated with a substrate and selecting a color for use by a personal care product recommendation system based on the measurement are disclosed. The method positions an electromagnetic source, an electromagnetic capture device, and a plurality of filters in a...

20060085289 - Methods and systems for electronic transactions: In the preferred computer system, the user is provided with a separate Internet-accessible entity referred to here as the “personal page.” A personal page, preferably, includes memory for storing information related to the user. For example, on his/her personal page the user indicates what he/she wishes to purchase, possibly along...

20060085281 - Online shopping system and method: There is provided a network shopping system that contributes to the omission of the item to be purchased and the prevention of purchasing an unnecessary item. Information of equipment that each client possesses is stored in net member DB. A main item, an option, or an item having a tendency...

20060085282 - Online shopping system and method: There is provided a network shopping system that contributes to the omission of the item to be purchased and the prevention of purchasing an unnecessary item. Information of equipment that each client possesses is stored in net member DB. A main item, an option, or an item having a tendency...

20060085288 - Product specifications modifying method and product specifications modifying system: A method and a system with which the buyer can modify the specifications of a product so as to make it satisfy the needs of the buyer, while allowing mass production and maintaining the marketability of the product. With a product specifications modifying method and a product specifications modifying system...

20060085278 - Renewal proposal support system: A renewal proposal support system that performs communication with a sales terminal device includes a configuration information storage unit for storing information on components of a product provided for a customer, a component information storage unit for storing the components, a configuration rule storage unit for storing information on advisability...

20060085272 - System and method for facilitating determination and evaluation of and placing orders for nutritional blend formulations: System and method are disclosed for helping users determine, evaluate, and/or place orders for nutritional blend formulations to be manufactured from available nutritional formulation materials. A web-accessible graphical user interface receives specifications from a user for a nutritional blend formulation (e.g., intended use, desired nutritional activity, and/or concentration of nutrients...

20060085275 - System and method for facilitating online transactions: A system or method for facilitating online transactions is disclosed. Data redundancy and time consuming input activity can be reduced by maintaining merchant profiles and purchaser profiles that can be accessed in a multitude of transactions involving different parties across a variety of different jurisdictions. A data-centric approach can be...

20060085283 - System and method for linking automobile buyers and sellers: A system and method for marketing automobiles. In one aspect of the invention, a website for marketing automobiles, the website comprising functionality as disclosed in FIGS. 9, 10, 12, and 13, alone or in combination. In another aspect of the invention, a world wide web enabled computer system is provided,...

20060085277 - System and method for transacting sales of home furnishings in a non-retail environment: A method and system for selecting an item of home furnishings displayed in an accommodation includes accepting from a user an identification associated with one of a plurality of accommodations. The furnishings displayed in the identified one of the plurality of accommodations are determined. Information identifying the displayed furnishings to...

20060085286 - Systems and methods for providing interactive assistance on purchase decision-making: Systems and methods for providing interactive assistance on purchase decision-making are provided. These systems and methods are preferably adapted to enable a purchase decision to be made by preferably interactively assisting the purchase decision-making process until a final purchase selection is made or indicated....

20060085290 - System and method for managing web based value added content: An electronic commerce system and method of displaying additional content offered to a user who is in the process of completing a purchase in order to maximize profits. The method determines if additional goods or services should be displayed together with the original order item as a group or should...

20060085297 - Customer interaction with inventory via rfid: Customer interaction with inventory via radio frequency identification (RFID) are disclosed, where a unique RFID is combined into ID cards, credit, debit, and smartcards. The current inventory RFID technology and RFID reader are moved into a place convenient to the end-user or customer to remove the need for cashiers. Some...

20060085291 - Inventory management method, inventory management system, and inventory management program: An inventory management method or system for controlling amounts of stocks is provided. The method comprises the steps of: storing delivery times and quantities of order lots accepted and restock lead times predetermined every item in a storage; selecting at least one order lot accepted, having a delivery time within...

20060085295 - Inventory mapping system and method: The present specification relates to inventory management. More specifically, the system and method disclosed in the specification provide for mapping inventories. In one of many possible embodiments, an inventory mapping method involves assigning fixture codes to inventory fixtures. The fixture codes are indicative of positional relationships of the inventory fixtures...

20060085296 - Inventory modeling and management: An inventory modeling and management system and method, within an inventory distribution system having multiple fulfillment nodes and distributing an inventory of multiple stock keeping units (SKUs), comprises determining whether there are inventory excesses and shortfalls for selected SKUs at selected fulfillment nodes, and analyzing the inventory excesses and shortfalls...

20060085294 - Method and system for catch-weight management: A multiple transaction quantity inventory management system including an inventory management component to store and manage inventory information using a base unit of measure (“UOM”) and in a valuation UOM related by at least one conversion factor for each of a plurality of goods; a material management component connected to...

20060085298 - Method of controlling product inventory: A business method and system for executing the method that involves gathering merchandise orders at a show in the home of a hostess. The method compiles the merchandise orders while maintaining a relationship between each individual order and information pertaining to the guest making the order. The guest information maintains...

20060085299 - Methods and systems for managing inventory by optimizing order quantity and safety stock: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention facilitate inventory management by determining an order quantity and a safety stock based on the order quantity that provide a minimum total cost, while satisfying a service level over an entire demand period for a good or service. In one embodiment, a...

20060085293 - System and method for processor-based inventory data collection and validation: A system and method for collecting and validating inventory data is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a processor-based inventory data collection system for efficiently collecting and validating inventory data includes a central processor coupled to a system bus. The central processor is adapted to receive the inventory data...

20060085292 - Systems and methods for managing alcoholic beverages: A systems and methods for managing alcoholic beverages, including separate operating levels. A first operating level, accessible to experts, includes a first database in which alcoholic beverage knowledge, including their respective service protocols, are indexed and stored and a first set of instructions for running the first database and communicating...

20060085302 - Flexible cost and revenue allocation for service orders: A method and system handles cost and revenue allocation for service orders. For a service order, there is allowed to be created planned rules for allocation of costs to one or more service providers and for allocation of expected revenues to be received from one or more service receivers, which...

20060085301 - System and method of cost distribution and invoice management for products having time-based benefits: The invention provides a method, system and machine readable program for managing cost distribution. The method, system and machine readable program are each configured to receive information relating to the total cost of a product and generate a multiple cost structure for the product by generating an acquisition cost of...

20060085300 - Systems and methods for auctioning government items: Systems and methods to support an electronic market place include a communication network to communicate purchase requests; one or more buyers coupled to the network to issue a purchase order specifying items from two or more suppliers; and a server coupled to the network to receive the purchase order, the...

20060085304 - Corporate business tax web site: A Corporate Business Income tax web site where a user enters the tax information into a web site using a web browser; the web site calculates the tax due or downloads mobile code and the mobile calculates the tax due; the corporate tax data is transferred to the taxing agency;...

20060085305 - Handling taxes in computer-based sales transactions: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for handling taxes in computer-based sales transactions. In a sales transaction, a buyer makes a purchase from a seller. The purchase has a purchase price and a tax amount owed on the purchase. In one aspect, the techniques include using a...

20060085306 - Integrated virtual tax auditing system: An integrated virtual tax auditing system for performing tax compliance functions for organizations having tax reporting requirements comprises a system database, an information assistant for extracting data from one or more client databases and inputting the data into the system database and a compliance auditor for performing a virtual audit...

20060085303 - Interface between online salary statement and tax declaration program: A method of electronically reporting information in response to an agency's request for information is disclosed. The electronic reporting process allows a user to report data and to file a declaration with the requesting agency. In particular, a tax agency can electronically request income tax information from a taxpayer. The...

20060085307 - Service billing method in a communication network: The present invention is directed to a method for service billing within a communication network, in which the billing system thereof requests a price list from the used service in order to determine an invoice sum for price recording system of said communication network. The invoice sum is determined by...

20060085308 - System and method for sales and service reconciliation: A system and method that provides access to entertainment services, such as, movies, music and/or games are described. The system may collect data relating to transactions for the services and may reconcile such transactions. The system may include an entertainment services device for completing remote point of sale (POS) transactions,...

20060085312 - Computer implemented and/or assisted methods and systems for detecting, tracking and responding to toxic, or likely toxic, orders in an equities order flow using toxicity and /or profit anlyzers: Methods and systems are provided which enable equities broker-dealers to execute an equity trade order while simultaneously eliminating (or at least reducing) exposure to the negative consequences associated with toxic (or likely toxic) orders in the equities market. By using toxicity and/or profit analyzers, for example, to detect, track and...

20060085316 - Dynamic book yield analysis: The present invention relates to systems, methods, data structures and user interfaces for generating and presenting information as to how and why the book yield of an investment portfolio changed over a time interval. Dynamic book yield analysis is particularly useful for bond portfolio analysis and management. Transactions and events...

20060085314 - Escrowing digital property in a secure information vault: Digital data can be escrowed by receiving escrow parameters including a condition(s) for releasing the escrowed data, and an escrow recipient. An escrow contract is then created based upon the specified escrow parameters. The escrowing further includes storing the digital data in a secure information vault, and storing the escrow...

20060085315 - Financial institution channel cooperation system, channel cooperating apparatus, and channel control apparatus: A financial institution channel cooperation system which connects a plurality of channels among delivery channels and supply channels of a financial institution includes: a channel control apparatus installed in a delivery channel element apparatus; and a channel cooperating apparatus which encloses the channel control apparatus and can be connected to...

20060085313 - Method of making a leveraged charitable donation while increasing net worth: A method of funding a tax-exempt organization. A donor utilizes an original principal sum that is separated into first and second distinct pa