Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 08/06

20060195331 - Computerized method and system for generating a display having a physical information item and an electronic information item: Methods and systems for generating a display, for instance, on an integrated message board, the display having at least one physical information item and at least one electronic information item are provided. The physical information item may include, by way of example only, a tagged physical object, hand-written data, and/or...

20060195325 - Data retrieval system: A browsing process is driven by user interaction. The user is presented with a selection of items 511, 512, . . . etc from a range. The user can give inputs representing interest in one or other of the items displayed. The inputs represent rewards, which are distributed to attribute...

20060195326 - Database employment and transitional housing program for ex-offenders: A database/software program containing information on ex-offenders, employers willing and able to hire them, and housing to the offenders for a period upon their release from prison. Employers use the information contained in the software to decide which individuals best suit their employment situation. Ex-offenders use the software to search...

20060195337 - Direct passthrough system for financial contributions: A system for direct donation utilizes an Internet-connected server accessible by potential donors using an Internet browser and a data store accessible to the server and storing information about potential recipients pre-qualified for donations. A software suite executing on the server has at least a first facility enabling a potential...

20060195329 - Dynamic credit amount and salary information display during flexible benefit enrollment: A method for updating a benefit program with a plurality of plans receives an input from an individual indicating a change to the benefit program, and updates the benefit program and the salary information of the individual consistent with the input. The individual is presented with a summary of the...

20060195328 - Enhancing web experiences using behavioral biometric data: A computerized method that provides a Web page having control structures for gathering behavioral biometrics. The method can receive behavioral biometric data in accordance with the control structures and in accordance with interactions of a user with the Web page. Additionally, the method can compare the received behavioral biometric data...

20060195334 - Integrated environmental emission reduction data management system and method: A system for tracking environmental performance of a producer of environmental emissions and of associating individual environmental emission reductions to the producer, to a variety of collected data, or both includes selecting a production practice of the producer and an appropriate protocol for converting the production practice to a measure...

20060195330 - Method and computer program product for enabling dynamic and adaptive business processes through an ontological data model: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for selecting services of a business process for execution is provided. Ontological data is read from a data store, and an ontological model representative of the ontological data is then generated. The ontological model is mapped to a business process...

20060195332 - Method and computer program product for generating a lightweight ontological data model: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for representing service relationships of a business process. A plurality of services are read, and first and second services of the plurality of services are selected. An output and effect of the first service is compared with an input and...

20060195327 - Method and system for reporting and processing information relating to railroad assets: Method, system, and computer program product are provided for reporting and processing information relating to railroad assets to user entities that form part of a railroad transportation network. The entities may comprise a plurality of entity groups performing distinct functions relative to the railroad assets, such as forming, operating, maintaining...

20060195336 - Methods and systems for dynamic parallel processing: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic parallel processing of a plurality of subprocesses of a process initiated by a parallel processing framework. The plurality of subprocesses may include processing of one or more data objects in a computer system including a plurality of servers for processing the plurality of...

20060195333 - Registry/repository based private market generator: A method for creating an electronic marketplace includes receiving from a first client a request to create an electronic marketplace and receiving information about a product associated with the marketplace. The information includes at least one of first product information and a reference to second product information. The method also...

20060195335 - System and method for career development: A computer system and method is disclosed that aids in career development. Several client workstations and servers are coupled together over a communications network. A web server provides access to a career development web site to client computers. The web server provides various career development modules, such as an information...

20060195338 - Web-based customer prospects harvester system: A web-based customer lead harvesting system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet. The users, who are typically business enterprises, may access the system to search unstructured Internet data...

20060195339 - Multiple resource planning system: A system for managing remote doctor medical request workflow may include a workflow module that optimizes assignments of medical requests to remote doctors based on parameterized doctor and scheduling information and may further include a forecasting module that predicts the hospital credentials, state licenses or doctors needed to fulfill a...

20060195340 - System and method for restoring health data in a database: A system and method for restoring health data stored in a database includes storing the healthcare data in a database located in a central server connected to a community of independent sources of the healthcare data for a first plurality of patients; replicating at least a portion of the database...

20060195343 - Method and program-encoded medium for computerized synchronization of distributed radiology system: Inconsistencies between the local data sets of a distributed radiology system are detected and corrected centrally. The corrections are communicated to the affected actors of the radiology system. The data sets of the affected actors are synchronized by incorporation of the corrections. Wrong associations and losses of x-ray images are...

20060195341 - Method and system for creating a conveniently accessible medical history: A method and system for creating a conveniently accessible medical history. An information-input node receives medical information and transmits it through an information-transmission connection to a record-creating node, which is remote from the information-input node. The record-creating node is for receiving the information through the information-transmission connection, for configuring it...

20060195342 - Method and system for providing medical healthcare services: A method is provided for ordering over a network one or more tests for a medical condition for a patient, the method including the steps of providing to the user over the network one or more tests for the patient that can be selected, allowing a user to select over...

20060195344 - Online reservation processing system and method with daylight saving time function: An online reservation processing system, which has a daylight saving time function, comprises a receiving module and a modulating module. The receiving module receives a set of reserving application data. The set of reserving application data at least comprises date information and time information. The modulating module modulates the time...

20060195346 - Labor market information analyzer for researchers, employers, staff and others: A computerized information system for analyzing labor market information consisting of a server having a plurality of categorizing and processing services for researchers, employers, staff and the like, a database of standard and proprietary format data and optional stored procedures operatively coupled with the server, and a plurality of input/output...

20060195345 - Selective merchandise price optimization: An interface that enables a user to determine optimum prices of products for sale. The interface includes a scenario/results processor through which the user prescribes an optimization scenario, and through which optimum prices are presented to the user. The optimum prices are determined by execution of the optimization scenario, where...

20060195350 - Design review, progress check information transmission method and apparatus: A design review, progress check information transmission method includes: a monitor condition selection and setup step (S15) of selecting and setting a plurality of desired monitor conditions based on a project name, check items, unique codes, a scheduled job start date and end date, an actual job start date and...

20060195347 - Distributed workflow techniques: Techniques for distributed workflow processing are presented. A first workflow system and a second workflow system process actions of a workflow. The workflow is coordinated through one or more identity services. The identity services also establish trusted and secure communications between the first and second workflow systems....

20060195351 - Internet-based system and method for leasing rental property to a prospective tenant based on criminal history: System and method for landlord analysis of the suitability of a prospective tenant based on the tenant's criminal history. Landlord predetermines via web-based interface various parameters under which an “accept” or “decline” report is issued. Landlord analysis is automated and provided via web-based interface....

20060195348 - Transportation planning with drop trailer arrangements: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with transportation planning in light of drop trailer arrangements are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method embodiment includes receiving orders that describe items to be delivered to facilities as controlled by order requirements. The method may also include accessing a transportation planning model that...

20060195349 - Weight estimating system and method for products of orders: A weight estimating system and a weight estimating method are proposed for products of orders. The weight estimating system includes an order database for storing order related data for clients; a pallet database for storing pallet weights and product quantities per pallet; a declaration product list database for storing data...

20060195352 - Method and system for demand pricing of leads: A method of demand dependent lead generation includes receiving a question from a consumer and forwarding the question to one or more subscribers. Preferably, the subscribers may review the question(s) from the consumers and individually determine whether to respond to one or more of the received questions. The subscribers are...

20060195353 - Lead generation method and system: A method of lead generation includes receiving a question from a consumer and forwarding the question to one or more subscribers to the system. One or more of the subscribers may respond to the question. The subscribers may review the questions from the consumers and decide whether to respond to...

20060195355 - Method and apparatus for preventing oligopoly collusion: A method and apparatus for reducing incentives for oligopolistic collusion comprises making managerial compensation dependent on relative profits rather than absolute profits. Since the managers of the firms in the industry are thereby placed in a zero-sum game, their compensation will be totally insensitive to gains in absolute profits resulting...

20060195354 - Method of scoring the performance of attendees at a meeting: A method of scoring the performance of attendees at a meeting based upon a predetermined desired performance criteria set by a meeting organizer or sponsor. All attendees at the meeting wear electronic tags where goals for the tag-wearer's meeting performance, such as session attendance, survey completion, conversing with certain people,...

20060195358 - Automated coupon distribution system: The present invention resides in a process for distributing product entitlements to frequent shopper program members. The process includes communicating with a central retailer server having product purchase histories of frequent shopper program members through a computer network. The frequent shopper program member data, including individual account numbers and related...

20060195359 - Combined rewards system and process: A system and process that awards rewards currency, e.g. cash back rebate or rewards points, for credit card and check card purchases and that provides rewards for a customer's enterprise relationship is provided. Further provided is a methodology for enrollment into the combined rewards program or the relationship rewards program....

20060195360 - Electronic coupon system, contribution level calculation method, electronic coupon processing device, and electronic coupon processing program: An electronic coupon system adds identification information for specifying users to electronic coupons every time electronic coupons are distributed among users, and when the electronic coupons are used, the identification information added to the electronic coupons are acquired as a distribution history of the electronic coupons distributed among the users....

20060195356 - Entertainment venue data analysis system and method: A system and method for analyzing entertainment venue data for improved venue management, comprising conventional computer hardware and including compatible software application for compiling and manipulating event consumer and sales data as well as third party consumer demographic data, including classification of event data into a plurality of event-type clusters,...

20060195361 - Location-based demographic profiling system and method of use: A location-based demographic profiling system and method is disclosed that enables users to access information about physical establishments indicating the demographic makeup of the patrons currently located within the establishment. In one embodiment, a location-based demographic profiling method is employed that includes receiving, over a network, a profile request from...

20060195357 - Providing and communicating synergies between absorbent articles and disposable wipes: A method and system for communicating a synergy between at least one absorbent articles product and at least one wipes product. Said method and system capable of directing a consumer to select a particular combination of absorbent articles product and wipes product. Said method and system including at least one...

20060195362 - Recommendation system: A computer-implemented service analyzes purchase histories and/or other types of behavioral data of users on an aggregated basis to detect and quantify associations between particular items represented in an electronic catalog. The detected associations are stored in a mapping structure that maps items to related items, and is used to...

20060195364 - Buyer-initiated shipping system: A system and method in which a buyer registers for a buyer's shipping account and uses the shipping account to pay shipping costs associated with purchases made over the Internet. When a buyer purchases merchandise over the Internet from either a retailer's website or from an individual through an online...

20060195366 - Granting greater rights to stored content: In a method for granting relatively greater rights to stored content, a target device is disconnected from a content service, content is played on the target device, and a purchase selection of the content is detected. In addition, an entry of the content purchase selection is logged and a characteristic...

20060195367 - Payment system and method for use in an electronic commerce system: A method and system of payment of goods and services in an electronic commerce system, reduces the transfer and processing costs for each purchase made by a customer from a merchant; using a customer agent, a merchant agent, an account manager associated with the agents for administration of customer accounts...

20060195363 - Persistent object for online activities: A persistent object for online activities is described. In an implementation, a method is described in which a persistent object is created which references a plurality of clients for participation in an online activity over a network. The persistent object is stored to be callable by at least one of...

20060195365 - System and method for scheduling location-specific services: A system for scheduling a location-specific service appointment, the system comprising a communication network, a target service location, a desired service type, a service provider grouping, and an availability calendar. The communication network interconnects data input devices, data output devices, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU unit comprises...

20060195368 - System and process for local acquisition of products priced online: A system and process for establishing prices for products on line and for allowing acquisition of those products from retailers that honor such prices. The system and process involve a customer having a credit card account, a computer terminal configured to access a network, and a central authority coupled to...

20060195369 - Color selection, coordination, purchase and delivery system: A system embodied as a website including a first, second and third pluralities of display screens, the first enabling an at-home user to select a first color which coordinates with a second selected color, the second enabling the user to select for purchase one or more of a plurality of...

20060195370 - Inventory management method, system, and computer program: A method for identifying on-shelf availability of inventory items is provided. The method can comprise: collecting sales information comprising a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU), a sale date, and a sale quantity, from one or more sources; aggregating the sales information by calculating two or more measures comprising at least an...

20060195371 - Method and system of communication for automated inventory systems: Various embodiments of this invention are directed towards the communication infrastructure of an automated inventory system, on which the necessary communication between a dispensing unit and an administrative unit of the system occurs. To facilitate the integration of the automated inventory system into the client's computer network, the infrastructure is...

20060195372 - Automatic transfer of balance between balance sheet accounts: A method of recording financial data is provided. The method includes establishing a first balance sheet account having a balance. The first balance sheet account is associated with a second balance sheet account. The method further includes automatically transferring the balance on the first balance sheet account to the second...

20060195379 - Attention economy for attention to messages, tasks and resources: A centrally tracked artificial currency is provided within the context of an enterprise. This currency serves as a unit of account, medium of exchange, and store of value in a corporate “attention economy.” Users (typically coworkers) in the enterprise are allotted a base number of currency units, which they can...

20060195376 - Compensation techniques for virtual credit transactions: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users...

20060195381 - Electronic apparatus, charging system and method, charge processing device, storage medium, and prepaid card: An apparatus of the invention comprises an operation inputting element for designating one of a plurality of functions; a function executing element for executing the function designated by the operating inputting element; a measuring element for measuring the time during which each of the functions has been executed by the...

20060195373 - Enterprise portfolio analysis using finite state markov decision process: This invention introduces a method, system and computer readable media that enables a computer system or computer networked system to perform enterprise portfolio transition optimization. The invention considers several key factors that are traditionally treated informally. The invention provides a sequential decision model for enterprise portfolio transition management of computer...

20060195377 - Financial ventures based on virtual credit: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users...

20060195378 - Hybrid charge account for virtual world credit: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users...

20060195375 - System and method of evaluating credit instruments: Systems and methods for analyzing and evaluating credit instruments are disclosed. The systems and methods generate a residual value, including the market's view of loss given default for the credit instrument, based on market pricing information for the credit instrument. The residual value, referred to as iLGD, is indicative of...

20060195380 - Systemic investment data analysis: A system and method for outputting hypothetical investment defining data (411) are provided by the present invention. The system comprises a plurality of networked terminals (101 to 104), each of which is configured with at least processing means (208), memory means (209), networking means (211, 212) and visual display means...

20060195374 - Wealth replacement rider: A method for determining a death benefit with respect to a charitable gift annuity contract, the method determining the death benefit funded on an after-tax basis of the charitable gift annuity. The method comprises determining if a wealth replacement rider has been selected; and if the wealth replacement rider has...

20060195388 - Click based trading with intuitive grid display of market depth: A method and system for reducing the time it takes for a trader to place a trade when electronically trading on an exchange, thus increasing the likelihood that the trader will have orders filled at desirable prices and quantities. The “Mercury” display and trading method of the present invention ensure...

20060195387 - Click based trading with intuitive grid display of market depth and price consolidation: A method and system for reducing the time it takes for a trader to place a trade when electronically trading on an exchange, thus increasing the likelihood that the trader will have orders filled at desirable prices and quantities. The “Mercury” display and trading method of the present invention ensure...

20060195389 - Click based trading with market depth display: A method and system for reducing the time it takes for a trader to place a trade when electronically trading commodities on an exchange, thus increasing the likelihood that the trader will have orders filled at desirable prices and quantities. Click based trading, as described herein and specifically the “Click”...

20060195386 - Global trading network: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for facilitating trading two items (L,Q) from the group of items comprising commodities and financial instruments. At least two agents (2) want to trade the items (L,Q). There is a trading channel (3) between the two agents (2) allowing for the execution of trades....

20060195382 - Method for providing auction service via the internet and a system thereof: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for providing an auction service via the Internet. The auction service providing method includes the step of maintaining a commodity information database (DB). Thereafter, a bid information DB is maintained. Bid request data including specific bid price information is received from bidders. The...

20060195383 - Method of generating and displayjing stock index: An arithmetic operation for calculating a value of a Masuda ratio (Mratio) or a value substantially equivalent to the Masuda ratio (Mratio) on the basis of the stock price information on a database is executed. The Masuda ratio (Mratio) is represented by a formula Mratio={(B−E)/SUM}×100, where SUM is a total...

20060195385 - System and method for exchanging sales leads: A subscriber-based sales leads exchange system and method for efficiently maximizing revenue to lead sellers and for providing high quality, temporally relevant sales leads to lead buyers based on a transaction between a lead seller and a customer of said lead seller....

20060195384 - Systems and methods for determining vehicle salvage value: An exemplary system for determining vehicle salvage value includes a valuation subsystem configured to communicate with one or more access devices over a data communication network. The valuation subsystem includes a bid module and a valuation module. The bid module is configured to solicit bids for a vehicle over the...

20060195390 - Administration of dual component financial instruments: Methods and systems for administering a dual component financial instrument (DCFI) are described. The DCFI includes a revolving loan component and one or more installment loans. A holder of the DCFI account can use the revolving loan to pay for expenses, e.g., educational expenses. At predetermined intervals, e.g., annually on...

20060195392 - Method and system for enabling a life insurance premium loan: A loan is secured by insurance policy collateral between a lender, borrower with the insurance policy, and an intermediary. The intermediary establishes a securities account and holds the insurance policy, which designates the borrower as the beneficial owner and the intermediary as the record owner. The borrower disburses the loan...

20060195391 - Modeling loss in a term structured financial portfolio: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, an apparatus, simulation method, and system for modeling loss in a term structured financial portfolio are provided. An historical date range, time unit specification, maturity duration, evaluation horizon, random effects specification, and set of portfolio covariates are selected. Historical data is...

20060195393 - Creation of recurring transactions: A computer implemented method for recording financial information is provided. The method includes identifying a transaction as recurring. A recurring transaction occurs multiple times according to a frequency value. The method also includes creating two or more transactions from the recurring transaction according to the frequency value....

20060195394 - Payment options for virtual credit: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users...

20060195396 - Centralized customer care for electronic payments and other transactions via a wide area communications network: Customer care is provided via a wide area communications network to a user who has previously requested payment of a bill of a biller on the user's behalf by a bill payment service provider. The communications network has multiple different network sites including a first network site associated with a...

20060195397 - Centralized electronic bill presentment: To make bill information available for presentation to a user entity, a first network site receives a request of the user entity for bill information, from a third network site associated with the user entity. In response, bill information representing a bill of a biller entity for the user entity...

20060195400 - Controlling access to electronic content: A computer-implemented method of controlling access to electronic content includes receiving electronic content and producing a file that includes the electronic content and instructions for collecting and transmitting payment information. The method further includes receiving a reply to the transmitted message and selectively providing access to the electronic content based...

20060195395 - Facilitating electronic payment on behalf of a customer of electronic presented bills: To facilitate electronic presentment of a bill of a biller for a customer and payment of the presented bill on behalf of the customer via a communications network, a first network site associated with a bill payment entity receives a request for billing information from a second network site associated...

20060195398 - Method and apparatus for processing payment requests: A request is received from a user to register to use a payment system. Further received is identification of a user bank account to which received payments are to be deposited. An email address is also received along with an amount from the user. A request for payment is generated...

20060195399 - System and method for interrelating and storing advertisements, tearsheets, and invoices: A website including a search web page configured to search for invoices and to display a web page with at least one found invoice summary. There is a link between the at least one found invoice summary and an invoice which, when activated, displays a web page with an invoice...

20060195402 - Secure data transmission using undiscoverable or black data: Methods and systems of encrypting data. One method includes establishing data that includes discoverable or “white” data and undiscoverable or “black” data. Black data is generally unrecognizable. For example, it may be random data. White data generally has recognizable content or is transmitted in a recognizable format. A first key...

20060195401 - Systems for selectively enabling and disabling access to software applications over a network and methods for using same: The present invention provides systems and methods for controlling access to networked applications. An embodiment of the invention discloses using developer and access keys to validate and control user access to one or more network applications. The network access and licensing system disclosed includes a customer computer, one or more...

20060195403 - System and method for improved portable media file retention: A method of acquiring rights to content to be burned to a CD, comprising defining a first content set; defining a second content set comprised of content selected from the first content set whose content attributes match those selected by a user; identifying as a third content set that content...

20060195404 - System and method for providing grace licensing to disconnected network license users: A method and/or system for providing grace licensing to disconnected network license users provides a server with a grace enabled license having a grace criteria, provides a client computer with an application operable with the grace enabled license, provides the grace enabled license from the server to the client computer...

20060195405 - Digital content distribution system: The content distribution system according to the present invention is comprised of: a server device and a terminal device, the server device providing the terminal device with a license for using a content based on transaction processes, each including receiving of a request message, sending of a response message, and...

20060190274 - Cooperative product promotion system and method: Computer-implemented systems and methods for presenting personalized custom product designs to the customers of a second company. Email content promoting customizable products and containing images of product designs is prepared by the product vendor and supplied to a second company. The second company creates and sends an email containing the...

20060190289 - Detecting test fraud and theft from the analysis of test event and response data: The principles of the present invention provide for detecting anomalous test event and response data indicative of test fraud and/or test theft for numerous administered tests. A computing system accesses test event and response data for one or more administered instances of the test either during “real-time” or following the...

20060190286 - Electronic systems and methods for information process automation: Systems and methods of the embodiments of the inventive subject matter provide for automation of information service work, for example the work of financial advisors and for enforcing and facilitating the adherence of such information workers to regulatory requirements....

20060190287 - Fraudulent address database: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method to collect information about potentially suspect addresses across many members of a commerce platform or a fraudulent address database system, thus reducing the chance of exposure to fraudulent charges for merchants providing services as members....

20060190275 - Intellectual property management system: The present invention provides a system for managing and maintaining information related to unique and limited edition products, including graphics and “cartoon” characters used on those products as well as the issuing and tracking of certificates of authenticity for those products. The system also maintains legal rights information such as...

20060190280 - Method and apparatus for management for use in fleet service and logistics: An apparatus and a method for managing a fleet of assets and their associated logistics are disclosed. The apparatus includes an Autonomic Product Support (“APS”) system, a simulator, and fleet data including logistical data. A user can interact with the fleet data to make management decisions both in maintenance and...

20060190285 - Method and apparatus for storage and distribution of real estate related data: Systems, methods, and software for storage and distribution of real estate related data. Some embodiments include a database of data representing three-dimensional topographic views of geographic areas and a computer system adapted to present a topographic view of a geographic area based on a query by a user for information...

20060190271 - Method for forming rate compatible code using high dimensional product codes: Provided is a method for forming a rate compatible code using high dimensional product codes and a computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implements the program. The rate compatible code, which can provide various encoding rates, is formed by discriminating parity blocks and determining a punctured pattern for...

20060190272 - Method for the estate transaction by network of member store: Since conventional real estate portal sites are one-directionally provided by real estate portal site operators, wrong information may be provided. Also, since a large amount of real estate information must be frequently provided and changed, material and human resources must borne. Also, customers must visit corresponding real estate agents in...

20060190273 - Method, system, and storage medium for implementing transaction-based data exchange: A method for implementing transaction-based data exchange. The method includes transferring information relating to a product via a transmission means selected by an individual at a computing device requesting the information. The information includes at least one of warranty information, accounting information, pricing information, and product details. The method further...

20060190278 - Online real estate transaction system: An apparatus, method and program product to provide an online marketplace to enable real estate sellers, passive, real estate investors, and master lessees and sponsors of TIC transactions to contract regarding fractional and other real estate interests, including TIC property, remainder interest, estate for years, subordinated fee interest and sale-leaseback...

20060190277 - Online transaction system for fractional interests in real estate: An apparatus, method and program product to provide an online marketplace to enable real estate sellers, passive, real estate investors, and master lessees and sponsors of TIC transactions to contract regarding fractional and other real estate interests, including TIC property, remainder interest, estate for years, subordinated fee interest and sale-leaseback...

20060190283 - Participating in risk mitigation in a virtual world: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a system includes a computing device couplable to a virtual world via a public network, and instructions. The instructions when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to activate a virtual character that represents a...

20060190282 - Providing risk mitigation in a virtual world: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a method includes operating a protection entity associated with a virtual world configured to interact with a participant via a network, participating in a risk management arrangement with the participant, and saving a record of the arrangement....

20060190284 - Reporting a participant loss in a virtual world: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, the system includes a covered-loss detection module operable to identify an occurrence of a defined loss in a virtual world suffered by a participant of at least two participants (hereafter referred to as “the participant”) that participate...

20060190293 - Responding to requests for data: A user information item is associated with a data set selected by a user for delivery over an electronic network. The user's present and previous data selections are analyzed to identify a user information category related to at least one of these data selections, and the user information item is...

20060190288 - System and method for allocating prescriptions to non-reporting outlets: A method for predicting market information for a plurality of pharmaceutical outlets includes the steps of receiving first data representing purchases and sales of at least one pharmaceutical product from at least one pharmaceutical outlet over a time period in the past, calculating the amount of prescriptions that are not...

20060190279 - System and method for marketing and managing real property: A system and method for marketing and managing real property including a transaction server managed by a system administrator and a data manager that may be placed in communication with a remote terminal or client computer via a network communication line such as the Internet. The transaction server preferably provides...

20060190276 - System and method for reserving ground transportation: An inventory of ground transportation vehicles is stored at a server. The inventory includes information about each ground transportation vehicle including fees for travel in a respective ground transportation vehicle as a function of geographical zones to be traveled. A request is made by an end user from a remote...

20060190290 - Systems and methods for distributing electronic files: An electronic content exchange system according to various embodiments of the invention is configured for super distribution of digital media data such as music, movies, games, software, and other copyrighted materials from content owners to consumers, while enabling content owners to retain control of their digital media assets. In certain...

20060190292 - Systems and methods for evaluating the appearance of a gemstone: Of the “four C's,” cut has historically been the most complex to understand and assess. This application presents a three-dimensional mathematical model o study the interaction of light with a fully faceted, colorless, symmetrical round-brilliant-cut diamond. With this model, one can analyze how various appearance factors (brilliance, fire, and scintillation)...

20060190281 - Systems and methods to facilitate self regulation of social networks through trading and gift exchange: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates self-regulation of a social network system based at least in part on user behavior, and in particular on good or desirable user behavior. The system and method involve monitoring user behavior such as user activity and user interactions with...

20060190291 - Time phased configured product reutilization sales model: A time-phased reutilization of configured products is provided. Partially configured products are detected. Each partially configured product is analyzed to determine if the partially configured product is a valid partially configured product, suitable for being modified into other configurations. A time phased management process is applied to the valid partially...

20060190299 - Active agent delivery method: A method for active agent delivery is provided which includes orchestrating focus groups and clinical studies and the distribution of educational materials and guidelines for counseling patients with regard to what the patients need to know and what the patients must do in order to both avoid adverse side effects...

20060190294 - Medispatch: a concept for secure medical communication: Medispatch is a proposal for a service to provide an unmet medical need for secure universal communication between patients and their health care providers or facilities. The features of the service are security through encryption, authentication of the sender and receiver of information, and non-repudiation of the information. Through a...

20060190296 - Method and system for referring healthcare professionals in compliance with various transaction constraints: Techniques for providing public access to a predetermined class of healthcare providers using a plurality of electronic communications systems and in compliance with a predetermined set of regulatory criteria governing the provision of healthcare. The method and system establish an electronic healthcare provider database of regulatory requirements associated with public...

20060190297 - Portable charge capture and inventory management: Portable charge capture/inventory management systems and methods include a system comprising at least one server at a first location. The server of an embodiment includes inventory data and patient data. The inventory data includes information of drugs and supplies of a facility that is a patient treatment facility. The patient...

20060190300 - Post payment provider agreement process: A method and business technique for reviewing medical service provider bills, recalculating and providing payment recommendation to a paying party for the bills. The method includes analyzing medical bills and determining erroneous and inappropriate charges on bills. The method provides a payment recommendation using multiple databases and sophisticated mathematical modeling...

20060190295 - Systems and methods for assessing and optimizing healthcare administration: A comprehensive patient data assessment system and method for use in generating, tracking and analyzing medical data related to healthcare administered by a group of physicians to a specified patient population. The system is operative to track data related to the claims history, case management, pharmacy data, and lab tests/results...

20060190298 - Systems and methods for coordinating the flow of events in a health care setting using a workflow module: A method and system of coordinating events that occur between a time that a person enters a health care setting and a time that the person is discharged from the health care setting by generating and operating a health care setting specific workflow module that includes receiving a selection of...

20060190303 - Coordinated health and human services delivery system and process: A system (200) and method (500) is provided for a coordinated health care service delivery program. The method can include providing services to clients at high risk for chronic disease including co-morbidities and consequent disabilities associated with the chronic disease, linking community and vocational services (130) for facilitating community inclusion...

20060190301 - Method and apparatus for automated generation of a patient treatment plan: A method and apparatus for generating a patient treatment plan includes processing that begins by providing a list of health care services to a patient and/or care provider. The processing continues by prompting for input of digital information regarding the patient when health care services applicable to addressing the patient's...

20060190302 - System and method for managing patient care: The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing care to a patient, comprising a patient care device having a number of configuration databases stored in a memory in the device. Each configuration database preferably includes protocols, operating limits, rule sets and/or operating features that collectively define...

20060190304 - Casualty insurance service system for computers and related equipments: A casualty insurance service system for a specific computer and related equipment is provided, in which a maintenance contract regarding the computer or related equipment is adopted as an insurance contract, and service for the insurance contract is at least broken down to a client insurance service offered on a...

20060190305 - Method and system for providing insurance: A system and method for providing insurance to an individual who has deposited a body tissue or organ in a depository of such organs or tissues, for example, umbilical cord-blood or blood from another source, foreskin or other skin, lymph, fetal stem cells, adult stem cells, lymph or sperm, involves...

20060190307 - Automated fulfillment system for optimizing web-based transactions: In a method and system for providing travel fulfillment, a plurality of criteria for the travel fulfillment is received by a client from a user. Continual searches for the published prices fulfilling the plurality of prices are conducted concurrently during a time interval by the client and a server coupled...

20060190306 - Guest room assigning system, guest room assigning program: A server computer (P2) is configured to allot to a user a guest room to be provided for the user from plural guest rooms, the server computer (P2) including: guest room information storage means (2B) configured to store guest room condition information on the guest rooms as to whether each...

20060190308 - Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection engine: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third...

20060190309 - Method and system for reservation and management of recreational activities: A reservation and management system for recreational activities offered by a plurality of activity operators, comprises a database for storing information regarding a plurality of recreational activities, including inventory information and a financial record containing financial information, for reservation transactions carried out for said activity and profile information for a...

20060190312 - Method for assembly of projects and system for practicing method: The present invention teaches a method and system for assembling projects. The method comprises the steps of 1) gathering and assembling expert knowledge; 2) identifying relevant parameters and defining rules; 3) programming key parameters into a core system; and 4) providing a computer based medium for users to input information,...

20060190310 - System and method for designing effective business policies via business rules analysis: Methods and systems are provided for analyzing the business rules, business metrics, and decision parameters for a firm or organization, processing a subset of such data to form output, and offering access to selective views of such output including evaluation and comparative data regarding execution of such business rules, information...

20060190311 - System and method for product level projections of pharmacy prescriptions within product therapy classes: Systems and methods for product level projections of pharmacy prescriptions within product therapy classes are provided. Average wholesale dollar sales amounts are obtained or estimated at channel/outlet/product-therapy levels. All of the average wholesale dollar sales amounts are converted to prescription data at channel/outlet/product-therapy levels using a correlation function. The correlation...

20060190313 - Calendar overlays: Implementing an electronic calendar can include accessing a first electronic calendar owned by a first party, accessing a second electronic calendar owned by a second party, and presenting a view that combines at least one existing entry from within each of the first and second electronic calendars. Source information for...

20060190316 - Computer based system and method for gathering and processing scientific project data: An apparatus and method for automating credit-eligibility determination (such as tax credits) of scientific or research projects are provided. The apparatus includes a general purpose computing device that is operable to determine a set of weightings to be applied to responses that are received for a predefined set of questions....

20060190314 - Method and system for testing of policies to determine cost savings: Method and system for testing policies to determine cost savings, which in one embodiment comprises receiving identities of a set of one or more persons associated within an organization, the one or more person's travel related expenditures are to be governed by at least a first and second policy; from...

20060190315 - Method and system for unused ticket management: A method and system for unused ticket management, that identifying travel data related to one of future or past travel data for one or more travelers; identifying one or more unused travel purchase; generating a value for the unused travel purchase, the value corresponding to the one or more travelers,...

20060190317 - Tow claims system for secondary tow and salvage management: A method and system for unified secondary management of tow claims and salvage tow data, and specifically for simplifying the workflow of attending insurers, towers, and a manager (operator of an application service provider). The system is implemented in software form and includes an Insurance Company Module for allowing Clients...

20060190319 - Realtime, structured, paperless research methodology for focus groups: A methodology for realtime paperless research in focus group generating valid actionable feedback and data before, during or within a very short period of the session. The methodology includes collection, processing mapping, analyzing and recognizing patterns of data points using multiple iterations in order to generate and output the valid...

20060190318 - System and method for identifying and measuring performance discrepancies among sales territories: A system for measuring performance discrepancies (101). The system (includes a display). (102), such as a monitor, which permits a user to view data, to interact with the process and to view the results of the process. The system includes a system processor (103), for processing data according to instructions...

20060190326 - Advertisement-purpose recordable optical disk, advertisement image forming method, and optical disk recording apparatus: In an optical disk, while restricting a program area which has been defined as to the normal disk and on which a user can record arbitrary information, a remaining area located outside this restricted program area is previously secured as an advertisement area where an advertisement-purpose visible image is formed....

20060190334 - Automated system and method for discounting medical bills of self-pay patients: A system and method for consistently, reliably and equitably discounting medical bills of self-pay patients includes a networked discounting engine operably coupled to a plurality of databases. The discounting engine is adapted to receive patient account data from one or more patient registration systems. Based upon the patient account data...

20060190328 - Automatic flight management in an online marketplace: A database search system includes a database of search terms, each search term associated with a bid amount payable by an advertiser of a plurality of advertisers and a search engine responsive to search queries from searchers for searching the database. A flight management agent is responsive to advertiser-specified parameters...

20060190333 - Brand monitoring and marketing system: A brand management system for providing marketing and monitoring services for brands or products over the global computer networks. The brand management system can include a bot used to automatically monitor certain web sites and web postings for specific keywords. The keywords may be related to particular brands or products....

20060190323 - Consumer education and loyalty reward system: A system and method for educating and rewarding a consumer of a prescribed pharmaceutical or intervention is provided. The system includes a means for enrolling the consumer in a consumer loyalty rewards program, a means for providing the consumer with information relating to the intervention, a means for tracking purchases...

20060190320 - Content distribution systems, distribution method, content processing device, and processing method: The present invention provided a contents delivery system (11) that can deliver contents by way of the Internet. In the system, a browser (23) requests a contents server (75) to delivery a startup file. The contents server (75) transmits the startup file to the browser (23). The startup file describes...

20060190330 - Delivering targeted advertising to mobile devices: A method for loading a layout with advertising item data is provided. Layout header data is parsed. A layout item object is then built. Global layout variables are replaced with values. Local layout variables are replaced with data from content objects. Displayed data is then created....

20060190331 - Delivering targeted advertising to mobile devices: A method of delivering advertising items to a client at a portable device is provided. A client ID is sent to a host server. A downloaded advertising item is produced relative to a product or service from the host server. The downloaded advertising item is parsed and stored. In response...

20060190335 - Method and apparatus for defining routing of customers between merchants: A server or Internet service provider computer selects a soliciting merchant and an outputting merchant based on various factors. In one embodiment, the soliciting merchant is selected is its activity rate (e.g. sales rate) is low. The outputting merchant provides offers for bonuses to customers on behalf of the soliciting...

20060190327 - Method and apparatus for encouraged visitation web advertising: A method for advertising over the Internet by first sending a notice to a product. A receiver integrated in the product receives the signal and an indication is presented to a user. The user then responds to the indication by visiting a web site....

20060190321 - Method and computing system for games, lottery and/or advertising campaign events using sms or multimedia messages: This invention concerns a method and computing system for game, lottery and advertising campaign events in order to encourage the use of chained SMS or Multimedia messages where the sender, responsible for supporting all associated costs, becomes eligible for winning randomly awarded prizes set according to predetermined rules, using the...

20060190332 - Method and device for dispensing and purchasing customized gift cards: A system, method and processor-readable storage medium for purchasing a gift card are disclosed. Information may be received identifying an amount and a merchant for a gift card. The purchaser of the gift card may provide payment information. The information identifying the amount and the merchant for the gift card...

20060190322 - Method and system for managing an incentive fund: A sponsor or another establishes a pool of incentive funds to be used by designated merchants to fund sponsored incentive programs for at least one of a sale and a lease of a product. An amount of each incentive fund is allocated for a designated merchant. One or more credit...

20060190324 - Method for providing reduced cost imaging to customers: A method for reducing a cost of imaging to a customer includes determining a rate of consumption of imaging substance from a supply item; and, based on the rate of consumption, offering to the customer an imaging reward....

20060190325 - No-fee, internet, marketing system with new-member, introducer identification: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for various embodiments directed to a novel network marketing system. In one embodiment of the present invention, the network marketing method is free to join and rewards participants with real money based on recommended product purchases. Rules are provided in various embodiments...

20060190329 - System and method for facilitating product placement advertising: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-implemented system for facilitating product placement advertising. The system may include a user registration module including an account type selection component for allowing a user to select one of a buyer account and a seller account, wherein a...

20060190336 - System and method for pay for performance advertising in general media: A method for providing advertising services in general media using a pay for performance model is provided. A service provider defines at least one biddable advertisement for presentation in advertising media. A bid amount chargeable to a participating advertiser upon a response to the at least one biddable advertisement is...

20060190337 - System and method of point-of-sale manufacturer rebate program: A manufacturer rebate-processing program uses a program administrator to implement the rebate program. A rebate program card is issued to consumers to identify the rebate-qualifying product. The consumer presents the card to the merchant when making a purchase. The purchase transaction information from the merchant is forwarded to the rebate...

20060190338 - Sales planning support system, sales planning support method, and computer product: A managing computer adds a bulk-sales negotiation ID to a bulk-sales negotiation to distinguish the bulk sales negotiation from a normal sales negotiation. An amount of scheduled shipment and completed shipment for the bulk sales negotiation is managed by a bulk-sales-negotiation managing unit based on the bulk-sales negotiation ID. The...

20060190339 - Policy-based store catalog synchronization: A method, system and program product for policy-based navigational catalog synchronization. A method for policy-based store catalog synchronization can include applying inclusion rules to a node filter during a synchronization process between a store catalog and a navigational catalog. The applying step can include reading store-level product and category inclusion...

20060190340 - Find it fast, locate an item in a store or facility: This invention comprises the processes, methods and systems for a customer or company associate to locate an item in a store or facility based solely on the name of the item or a part of the item name. To enter an item name, the customer or company associate utilizes an...

20060190353 - Method and apparatus for vending and delivering telephone services: A method and apparatus for providing electronically mailable call credits and call connections to be charged thereto are purchased by a customer for a recipient through the Internet and sent via email to the recipient. The recipient requests a call by activating an icon associated with the email. An application...

20060190352 - Method for providing history data to sellers about internet auction and marketplaces: The present invention provides a method and apparatus to allow sellers at online auctions to optimize the way they sell items and get the best possible price for the items. The invention provides a method for searching a database for data on previous sales of similar items at online auction...

20060190343 - Method of marketing memberships in a consumer group: An organization is presented that includes members of a consumer group. A facilitator coordinates and issues memberships in the organization. The facilitator negotiates with suppliers for favorable deals for members of the organization. The memberships are sold primarily by existing members. For each membership sold, a facilitator fee is paid...

20060190341 - On-line planogram system: A retail system for implementing planograms includes a communications network, a central computing system, and a plurality of retail computing systems. The central computing system is configured to receive and to transmit a plurality of planograms, each planogram being associated with one retail store of a plurality of retail stores...

20060190346 - Order file processing using order variables from two sources and authentication: Methods for purchasing of goods or services over the internet. A customer has a customer account set up at a bank with associated account information. The account information includes verification information for verification parameters, such as authorized computer identification, authorized delivery addresses, authorized user identification, authorized telephone caller identification, and/or...

20060190349 - Order support system, server, method, and program: At access from the orderer terminal, an order support server sends to the orderer terminal an order input form to order a concealing item to conceal a radio base station of cellulars. Upon receipt of order information from the orderer terminal, the information including the order input form containing at...

20060190342 - Parts supersession system: The present invention provides a system and method for identifying replacement parts. Replacement parts may be identified although they do not correlate to obsolete parts on a one-to-one basis. Both replaced parts and their substitutes may be tracked by, for example, associating an identifier with the part. Each identifier may...

20060190348 - System and method for computerized ordering: The present invention discloses a method and system for computerized ordering at least one product being a part of a final shopping list. The system comprises a first computerized trolley configured to facilitate a user to select at least one product among products being offered by one or more shops...

20060190351 - System and method for controlling financial transactions over a wireless network: A system and method for controlling financial transactions is disclosed. A customer, using a wireless device, identifies a point of sale and the amount of a transaction at that point of sale is first communicated to a central service and then transmitted to the wireless device for display at the...

20060190354 - System and method for enabling multi-element bidding for influencinga position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine: A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network such as the Internet to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list generated by an Internet search engine. A database stores accounts for the network information providers. Each account contains contact and billing...

20060190344 - System and method for interactively delivering expert information to remote outlets: A networked interactive expert system is disclosed for selectively providing relevant expertise when a user requires such assistance. System provides a set of networked facilities for determining an expertise needed by a customer based on a location. Such location can be either physical or logical. A physical “location” corresponds, for...

20060190347 - System and process for sales, validation, rewards and delivery of prepaid debit cards: Systems and Processes allow for sales, validation, rewards and dispense of prepaid debit cards and the like, which may have multiple personalities and may be offer and market under a vast plurality of names. Said prepaid debit card is prepaid with the monetary value loaded on the card on fixed...

20060190350 - Systems and methods for finding, presenting and selling compatible goods: An system for finding, presenting and selling compatible products includes: 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 compatibility reference files. The compatibility input module is used to receive and store compatibility...

20060190345 - Vending equipment: An electromechanical vending machine is adapted to dispense physical products and digital information content to a user. The machine includes a payment unit for processing a payment from the user; a user input device for enabling user selection of one or more items to be dispensed; a physical product dispensing...

20060190358 - Content distribution system for generating content streams to suit different users and facilitating e-commerce transactions using broadcast content metadata: A content distribution system is provided to facilitate e-commerce transactions for products and services associated with distributed content. A content stream comprising content blocks, reference content blocks and floating reference content blocks uses metadata to identify products and services associated with content blocks. The metadata and floating reference content blocks...

20060190357 - Method for displaying display information: A method for displaying display information (DI) via a start up screen (StS) and/or via a shut down screen (ShS) of a display means (DM) of a customer device (CD) is provided wherein a step of providing primary information data (PID) is realized by said customer device (CD) by passively...

20060190355 - System and method for designing and operating an electronic store: Methods and systems for operating an electronic store permit a merchant to organize and advertise descriptions of product inventory over the Internet....

20060190356 - System and method for quality assurance: A quality assurance method is disclosed in which individual packages are selected and grouped together according to what is to be sent to a specific receiver; the method includes providing a group of individual packages at least a plurality of which have visual identifiers thereon; a Pick List in the...

20060190359 - Consignment inventory management and reconciliation system: A consignment inventory management and reconciliation method and system that tracks and reconciles on-hand quality which represents consignment items that were placed at the consignment location and are physically located at the consignment location at a given time; unbilled quantity which represents consignment items which were placed at the consignment...

20060190362 - Enhanced method and computer program product for providing supply chain execution processes in an outsourced manufacturing environment: A method and computer program product for facilitating supply chain processes in an outsourced manufacturing environment is provided. The method includes a customer focus team system providing logistical administrative services for a contract manufacturer on behalf of a manufacturing enterprise. The customer focus team is assigned to the contract manufacturer...

20060190363 - Managing home inventory: In accordance with the present invention, a storage area is provided within a particular home for storing food-related items. A database of intended food-related inventory items for the storage area is adjusted by a controller according to food-related inventory preferences received at the controller. The controller updates the database of...

20060190361 - Method and system for managing inventory for a migration using forecast/inventory displays: The invention provides one or more displays to assist a user in managing inventory for one or more migration components in a migration. In particular, forecast data for each migration component is generated based on migration data for one or more targets and a plurality of time frames. One or...

20060190360 - System and method for controlling the transport of articles: A system and method for controlling the transport of articles comprises in one embodiment one or more communication devices for receiving and transmitting data, at least one primary server in communication with the primary server for allocating couriers for the collection and delivery of articles, a program for controlling the...

20060190364 - Method and system for improved bill of material creation and maintenance: A central information processing system and method create and maintain a bill of materials (BOM) for design and manufacture of a product linking by receiving a BOM, assembled to a predefined point of completion adequate for processing by a reviewing party, automatically communicating feedback to the reviewing party indicating the...

20060190365 - Electronically assisted enterprise journal system: A method for processing accounting data of an enterprise is provided. The method includes entering accounting data entries associated with one or more accounts in memory of an interactive system, the interactive system capable of communicating with a batch system. At least some of the accounting data entries are copied...

20060190366 - Preview period-end closing: An accounting system is disclosed that provides support for an ability to preview a period-end closing process. When a preview option is activated, the system is configured to provide a view of transactions that would be generated if the period-end closing process were to be carried out. During the preview,...

20060190367 - Process for determining object level profitability: A process for determining object level profitability includes the steps of (1) preparing information to be accessed electronically, (2) establishing rules for processing the prepared information, (3) calculating at least one marginal value of profit using established rules as applied to a selected set of prepared information, (4) calculating a...

20060190376 - Charged-off accounts receivable lease program: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide Credit Grantors with an alternative to warehousing or the selling of aged accounts receivables. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide Creditors immediate cash for their accounts receivables placed on lease, shifts the cost, liabilities and collection efforts to a third party and...

20060190373 - Computer-system control related to standard application in islamic compliant financing: A computer-aided system of illustrating, the system including: specifying, to a computer system, a private constant-dollar instrument, including defining a respective claim division on cash flow and an asset; entering data including actual cash flow datum and actual asset datum; calculating, with the computer system, respective values for each of...

20060190374 - Electronic bill pay and bill presentment account number treatment system and method: A technique is provided that transforms account number data received from the consumer into one or more forms based on use by specific processes. Further provided is a technique for establishing payees using these account numbers such that remittances can be routed via the most cost effective means, e.g. which...

20060190380 - Electronic transaction processing server with automated transaction evaluation: An electronic transaction processing server receives and evaluates invoice transaction files. The server comprises a network circuit for communicating over a frame switched network with each of a plurality of participating systems. The participating systems comprising at least one customer workstation and at least one vendor workstation. A session management...

20060190377 - Method and apparatus for pricing and administering a credit transaction: Systems and methods are provided to administer and price credit transactions...

20060190372 - Method and system for computing path dependent probabilities of attaining financial goals: A method and system for computing the probability of attaining one or multiple financial goals is disclosed. Each goal is analyzed and reduced to a series of cash flows. A threshold criterion of success is established. A plurality of paths are generated. Each path is checked on the basis of...

20060190371 - Method and system for portfolio optimization from ordering information: A method of optimizing a portfolio includes selecting an investment universe with a finite number of assets, forming a belief matrix based on one or more homogeneous inequality relationships among the expected returns of assets in the universe, selecting those asset returns that are consistent with the belief matrix to...

20060190369 - Predicting risk and return for a portfolio of entertainment projects: A portfolio of entertainment projects is selected such that the risk and return available to investors is attractive compared to other investments. Risk and return for a portfolio of entertainment projects is predicted based on the historical performance of past “similar” projects. In one implementation, characteristics that are predictive of...

20060190379 - Price grabber: Systems and methods for automatic price monitoring of an online marketplace. The online marketplace is a virtual store (e.g., web-based) for buyers and sellers to exchange goods or products. A system includes a price monitoring module coupled to a market server, and buyer and seller devices. The price monitoring module...

20060190378 - Process for verifiably communicating risk characteristics of an investment portfolio: In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, there is disclosed a process for verifiably communicating risk characteristics of an investment portfolio to an investor without disclosing the exact composition of the portfolio comprising: A procedure for the investment manager to describe acceptable characteristics of an investment portfolio within...

20060190368 - System and method for determining the financial impact of an event: The present invention provides a computer-based system, method and computer program product for inventorying assets and quickly determining the financial costs of an event impacting the location where such assets are located. A user is able to enter impact location identifiers and one or more asset impact variables using a...

20060190370 - System and method for evaluating and managing participatory real estate investments and transactions: An automated System and method for evaluating real estate Candidate Transactions for participatory funding by Investment Criteria based Managed Investment Funds; and, then managing the funded Candidate Transactions from purchase and/or construction to completion and/or sale. Complex, secured, real estate based participatory funding transactions, are evaluated, funded and transacted from...

20060190375 - Systemic investment data analysis: A system for outputting investment defining data (411) is provided, which comprises a plurality of networked terminals (101 to 104), each of which is configured with processing means (208), memory means (209), networking means (211, 212) and visual display means (202), said memory means (209) storing at least one data...

20060190386 - Automated order protection trading system: Methods and systems for trading financial or commodity assets are presented. In particular, the invention relates to a trading system and method that operates with third party data and a Third Party Inside Market to promote fair and orderly transactions. In some embodiments, a client order or client bid/offer is...

20060190382 - Calculator apparatus: A calculator is provided that includes an input pad that includes a sales tax button and a currency pad, which includes a change due button and a number of currency keys. The currency keys can be depressed in order to enter numeric values associated with currency. The change due button...

20060190381 - Collective purchase model for medical products: A procurement method for the collective purchase of products, including medical products such as cardiology implant devices, for use by members of a consortium. The members of the consortium can be physicians such as cardiologists. An advisory panel composed of consortium members first reviews available products in a relevant product...

20060190389 - Compound buy-buy auctions: Methods, systems and data structures are described for conducting buy-buy auctions. A method includes participating in a compound buy-buy auction having contingent bidding on a plurality of heterogeneous items substantially simultaneously contingent on buying one or more other items in another auction. A composite reverse auction, defined by a bid...

20060190390 - Compound buy-sell auctions: Methods, systems and data structures are described for conducting buy-sell auctions. A method includes participating in a compound buy-sell auction having contingent bidding on a plurality of heterogeneous items substantially simultaneously contingent on selling one or more other items in another auction. A composite reverse auction, defined by a bid...

20060190385 - Dynamic bidding, acquisition and tracking of e-commerce procurement channels for advertising and promotional spaces on wireless electronic devices: The present invention assists the critical real-time decision making required to make important decision on bidding on various customer procurement commodities in a wireless display advertising markets. The invention provides dynamic pricing as a function of the criteria of the wireless advertising criteria, such as exposures, type of advertisers and...

20060190387 - Normalized synthetic continuous double auctions: Methods, systems and data structures are described for conducting normalized synthetic continuous double auctions. A method includes participating in a normalized auction having contingent bidding on a plurality of heterogeneous item auctions. Contingent bidding includes price normalization as a function of at least one attribute. A composite reverse auction, defined...

20060190391 - Project work change in plan/scope administrative and business information synergy system and method: A project-work administrative management method includes receiving, from a buyer, project-administration configurations, storing transactional project work data relating to project work to be performed for the buyer by a supplier, receiving, from the buyer, configuration of project statement-of-work (SOW) records, processing a project change in plan/scope record set of the...

20060190388 - Synthetic continuous double auctions: Methods, systems and data structures are described for conducting synthetic continuous double auctions. A method includes participating in a synthetic continuous double auction having contingent bidding on a plurality of heterogeneous item auctions. A composite reverse aucti