Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 03/07

20070073553 - Adaptive commerce systems and methods: A system and method for adaptive commerce is disclosed. Adaptive commerce enables recommendations of products or services based on usage behaviors and commercial contextual information. Commercial contextual information may include the business environment of the recommendation recipient, purchase histories, and product or service attributes. Bundles of products and/or services, or... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20070073551 - Apparatus, systems and methods for online, multi-parcel, multi-carrier, multi-service enterprise parcel shipping management: The present invention provides a plurality of Enterprises with a single online user interface with which the Enterprise can provide Enterprise Shippers, shipping origination users and shipping intermediary users with an automated parcel management system for a plurality of supported Carriers for a plurality of services. The present invention provides... Agent: Khorsandi Patent Law Group, A.l.c.

20070073550 - Centralized digital paper distribution across an industry: A first entity, receives from customer or form an agency on behalf of a customer an ingredient list comprising ingredients and contact information for a supplier of each ingredient. For each ingredient needing a certificate, the first entity contacts each respective supplier requesting a copy of a kosher letter for... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20070073554 - Location-aware adaptive systems and methods: A system and method for location-aware adaptive commercial processes is disclosed. Location-aware adaptive systems enable recommendations of products or services to be generated and delivered to a potential customer that are contextualized for the potential customer's location, as well as in accordance with inferences derived from captured usage behaviors associated... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20070073547 - Method for determining useful life of a vehicle: A method for determining the useful life of a vehicle includes a distribution process for estimating a size of at least one group of vehicles; a determining process for determining a size of a subgroup of the vehicles, wherein each vehicle of the subgroup has a common defect; and a... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070073552 - On-demand transportation system: The transportation system and method includes a server in communication with a user and a vehicle via a wired or wireless data channel. The user provides the server with transportation request information, and requests transportation options from the server. The user may seek transportation either for a passenger or for... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070073546 - Secure real estate info dissemination system: A system for general data dissemination and, more particularly, to disseminating pictures and sounds relating to real estate properties, using a secure radio frequency data link communicating with a PC, laptop, PDA, or cell phone. A sealed, high-security data dissemination device, using standard-availability data-retrieval systems and standard data protocol, enhancing... Agent: Engelbert Wolfgang Kehren

20070073548 - System and method for providing a system that includes on-line and off-line features in a network environment: An apparatus for coordinating a relationship in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes an on-line component and an... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073549 - System and method for providing testing and matching in a network environment: An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site offers a test that includes a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070073559 - Clinical care utilization management system: A computer implemented system facilities the submission of clinical events date to a reviewing agency by prompting for date needed to authorize the appropriateness of the event. The system directs an appropriate submission to authorize the event. The system further stores the patient clinical event data and presents the date... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070073558 - Internet based patient-monitoring system featuring interactive messaging engine: The invention provides: 1) a monitoring device featuring systems that monitor the patient's vital sign and exercise information; 2) an Internet-based system configured to receive, store, and display vital sign and exercise from the monitoring device, and blood test information from an external blood test; and 3) a messaging system... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070073556 - System and method for coordinating examination scheduling: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method of coordinating scheduling including: evaluating patient associated information corresponding to a patient having a scheduled examination; evaluating healthcare service provider associated information corresponding to at least one healthcare service provider; predicting an efficiency for one of the at least one healthcare... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070073555 - System and process for facilitating the provision of health care: A system for facilitating the provision of health care to patients, including computerised means (135) for logging patient data relating to health of the patients, and an administration system (105) in communication with the computerised means and configured to determine a risk status of each patient based on the patient... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070073557 - System, method and device for making and delivering genetic-based personalized nutrient and supplement mixtures: A system for preparing a genetically-based personalized mixture of nutrients and other ingredients that includes an input device to input genetic information of a user into the system, an identifying device to identify a genetic profile of the user based on the user input information, and a processing device to... Agent: Fredric Abramson

20070073560 - Methods and apparatus for increasing and/or for monitoring a party's compliance with a schedule for taking medicines: Methods and apparatus are provided for increasing and/or monitoring a party's compliance with a schedule for taking medicines. In a first embodiment, a method is provided for use by a first container that is adapted to store a first medicine. The method includes storing information regarding the first medicine and... Agent: Walker Digital

20070073561 - Intellectual property umbrella captive insurer: One embodiment of the invention is a proactive intellectual property (IP) risk management tool, such as an intellectual property umbrella captive (IPUC). In some embodiments, execution of the IPUC includes an initial assessment of the IP Value-at-Risk (Phase I); creation and funding of the required structure (Phase II); and implementation... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073563 - Air travel system and method for planning roundtrip flights using one way combinable fares: A method and system for making roundtrip air flight reservations includes an end-user receiving a response having departure dates with a lowest cost outbound fare for each date and return dates with a lowest cost inbound fare for each date, outbound flight and inbound flight segments each priced with One... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070073562 - System, method, and computer program product for providing travel information using information obtained from other travelers: A system, method, and computer program product provide and display travel information in response to a request from a user. The travel information may be obtained from many different sources, such as trip journal websites, and may comprise complete or partial travel itineraries, as well as textual, audio, or video... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070073564 - Information transmission terminal, information transmission method, article information transmission system and article information transmission method: A user terminal 20 transfers a transmission request and a usage policy of personal information to the respective transfer destination terminals 30 in accordance with the kind of personal information requested from a personal information collecting server 10, and collects personal information transmitted from the respective transfer destination terminals 30... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070073565 - Resource allocation system and method: A resource allocation system including a server and data repository. The data repository stores historic usage data of resources, typically training courses. The server processes resource priority data and the historic usage data to generate a high level resource allocation plan (HLP). The server generates an operational resource allocation plan... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070073571 - Closed-loop supply chain in the paper packaging sector: Apparatuses and methods for providing a closed loop supply chain in a paper packaging business sector. A closed loop supply chain, as provided by a paper packaging company, includes collecting paper packaging waste from a retailer, producing paper material from the paper packaging waste, converting the paper material into packaging... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

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20070073568 - Method and apparatus to predict activity: An activity prediction method includes reading activity statistics data of an object group of people from a database storing activity statistic data made by consolidating activity patterns of people, and modifying the readout activity statistics data according to the object group to obtain activity occurrence provability of the object group.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070073569 - Method and software for managing kitchen and bath design projects: Method and software for managing a construction project. The method comprises the steps of receiving a request of creating a new construction project track or opening an existing construction project track, receiving budget criteria and determining project task budget information for each project task based on the budget criteria.... Agent: Brent A. Hawkins

20070073566 - System and method for production system operations timing: Disclosed is a system and method for managing operations of a system. The method includes partitioning the system into a plurality of subsystems. The method further includes, for each subsystem, creating an agent to associate with the subsystem, providing to the agent one or more goals for the subsystem, and... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070073567 - Technique for building customizable process flows rapidly: A tool is provided for developing a service process with separate service components and wiring logic. The development tool allows a developer to develop a plurality of service components, wherein each service component in the plurality of service components has generic inputs and outputs, and to deploy the plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070073572 - Data collection and distribution system: A method and apparatus for dynamically managing workflow information factors (who, what, when and where) and systematically combining (binding) these factors to facilitate the efficient completion of various jobs, which may be independent or interrelated and may involve work being performed by any number of discreet business enterprises. The invention's... Agent: Brinkle Y, Morgan, Solomon, Tatum, Stanley, Lunny, & Crosby, LLP

20070073573 - Global resource staffing migration analysis resource tool (gr smart): A Global Resource Staffing Migration Analysis Resource Tool (GR SMART), which automates the global resource solution development process, including automation of global resource migration staffing and non-labor cost elements solution). GR SMART is a software utility executed by a data processing system to generate migration staffing plans and associated non-labor... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070073574 - Network marketing system: A network marketing system wherein an online vendor enables users to send offers to friends or acquaintances and then rewards the users if the friends or acquaintances accept the offer. The system allows the vendor to market to new users while relying on current users of the system to find... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070073575 - Progress management system: A progress management system employing a progress map that enables the visual monitoring of the progress status of an overall operation, the amount of each task, progress status or the like for each person in charge, in addition to the status of progress of each task, on a single screen.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070073576 - Resource capacity planning: An integrated Resource Capacity Planning (RCP) process and tool program is presented. The RCP program includes identifying future labor needs and predicted labor supply. A gap analysis between the predicted future needs and supply is performed. Based on the gap analysis, resource actions are planned and taken to alleviate predicted... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070073577 - System and method of real estate market growth analysis and display: Data extracted from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) or similar database are mined to analyze and display real estate market growth. A plurality of selection criteria that define a real estate market is accepted and two time period definitions are also accepted. Data associated with properties in the defined real... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070073578 - Dock management system and processing of product: A system and method for dock management. The system includes a controller which stores and processes product information obtained from product. The product information includes at least product storage location and required process information. The controller activates a system which indicates the location of a particular product which is ready... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070073579 - Click fraud resistant learning of click through rate: Click-based algorithms are leveraged to provide protection against fraudulent user clicks of online advertisements. This enables mitigation of short term losses due to the fraudulent clicks and also mitigates long term advantages caused by the fraud. The techniques employed utilize “expected click wait” instead of CTR to determine the likelihood... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070073589 - Electronic capture of promotions: Multiple different advertisements each containing a different promotion are electronically displayed on electronic displays placed throughout a store. A consumer selects and captures one of the displayed promotions by entering the consumer identification and the identification of the selected promotion at a consumer interface device corresponding to the display presenting... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070073580 - Method and system for delivering online sales promotions: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner identifies a product on a web page as it is displayed on a user's computer, retrieves information regarding the availability of discounts or promotions for that product and notifies the user. An exemplary method according to the invention... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073587 - Pre-sale data broadcast system and method: A method for promoting the sale of a substitute product at the point of sale (POS). At least one POS terminal communicates with a POS. server which in turn communicates with various manufacturer servers to transmit information therebetween. Upon the presentation of an original product for purchase by a consumer... Agent: Dean Alderucci Walker Digital Corporation

20070073582 - Real-world incentives offered to virtual world participants: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A virtual world patron can participate in various virtual world activities including transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070073586 - Self-serve ordering system and method with consumer favorites: A self-service ordering system including customer favorites includes a mechanism for identifying a customer and for receiving an order from the customer. In the case of a new customer, the received order is stored in memory and correlated with the identified customer identification information. The system uses the order stored... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070073588 - System and method for administering spend driven rebates: The system enables participating service establishments to select and configure rebate programs and define which corporate clients to include in the offer. Corporate clients may interface with the system in order to view corporate card spend data, including a summary of savings obtained through purchases made with participating service establishments.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer

20070073581 - System and method for delivering pay for performance advertising in conjunction with distributed media content: An advertising system provides content relevant advertisements to a client system for rendering in association with an instance of distributed content. The advertising system comprises a web server receiving content requests and redirect requests from the client system. Each content request includes: i) a unique identifier distinguishing the instance of... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20070073583 - Systems and methods for media planning, ad production, and ad placement: Methods and systems for providing a media plan for an advertiser. The approach may include storing rate card information of a plurality of media properties; storing information regarding audience reached by the media properties; storing information regarding the advertiser; generating a media plan based on the rate card information, information... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070073584 - Systems and methods for media planning, ad production, and ad placement for internet: Methods and systems for generating an on-line media plan for an on-line advertiser. The approach may include storing information regarding advertising rates of a plurality of on-line media properties; storing information regarding on-line audience reached by the on-line media properties; storing information regarding the on-line advertiser; generating a media plan... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070073585 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for enabling an advertiser to measure user viewing of and response to advertisements: Systems, methods, apparatus, and/or computer program products for measuring if, when, how, and/or to what degree a user responds to an advertisement to enable an advertiser to produce an unique advertisement for the user and measure the effectiveness of advertisements through wireless and other media channels. The system incorporates static... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070073590 - Remote monitor for physiological parameters and durable medical supplies: A method and system for determining need for additional medical supplies includes receiving a test result from a remote computing device. The method and system also include updating a supply counter based on receiving the test result and determining if the supply counter exceeds a limit. The method and system... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070073594 - E-commerce infrastructure and transaction system to commoditize unutilized, and underutilized assets & resources and excess capacity, via sharing or bartering arrangements transacted throught the econoshare system invention: A method for sharing resources between an owner and a sharer including forming a list of profiles that described the resource, displaying the list of profiles, determining from the list of profiles a profile of a resource that will satisfy a requirement of either the sharer or the owner, forming... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr

20070073598 - Generation and execution of custom requests for quote: A request for quote (RFQ) engine (10) includes a data and metrics designer (22) that generates, in response to input from a user, a data and metrics model (42) for an RFQ template using a data and metrics meta-model (32). The RFQ engine (10) also includes a state transition designer... Agent: James E. Walton I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20070073597 - Method and system for a customer to place an order with a human order taken in a customer-selected language: A method and system for a customer to orally place an order with a human order taker permits the customer to select the language in which the order is placed. The system receives a signal reflective of the customer's choice of language and, based on this signal, connects the customer... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070073593 - Method and system for consumer price alerts: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner notifies users of price conditions, including both conditions set by the user and conditions determined to be of interest to the user. An exemplary method according to the invention is a method for online consumer price alerts in... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073592 - Method and system for network-based comparision shopping: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner facilitates comparison shopping retail products online. An exemplary method according to the invention is a method for automated comparative shopping. A product for sale by a first merchant that is displayed to a user on a web page... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073591 - Method and system for online product data comparison: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner generates and stores records regarding online product offerings from a variety of merchants, obtains records relating to a product displayed on a merchant web page, then normalizes and compares the two records to determine whether or not the... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073596 - Systems and methods for marketing and selling media: An apparatus to generate a playlist of media created by emerging artists for use by a media distribution center in response to purchasing decisions stored on a website comprises a storage unit configured to receive and store a plurality of media titles from a plurality of emerging artists, an interface... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073595 - Systems and methods to facilitate commerce in the vehicle aftermarket: A system and method for facilitating commerce, the system and method including the steps of allowing a user to select one or more items from a list presented to the user, associating the one or more items with at least one alias, mapping the one or more items into a... Agent: Law Office Of Michael P. Eddy

20070073599 - Method and system for updating a database: A method and system is provided that in a fully automated manner updates a database system containing product-related information in an automated comparative shopping system. An exemplary method according to the invention is a method that updates a database by extracting first product-related information about a product from a merchant... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070073600 - Floor plan finance serial number tracking system and method: A method and system for selling a product or service to a lead and generating an income statement including entries associated with an order placed by the lead includes receiving information from a lead. A pre-sale marketing campaign stream is assigned to the lead based upon the received information, with... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070073601 - Floor plan finance serial number tracking system and method: A business management computer program allows a business owner to track inventory items that are being financed by serial number. According to one aspect of the present invention, This process typically includes defining the a floor plan, tagging items on purchase orders, receiving the inventory, assigning the serial number to... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070073602 - Method, system, and program product for conditional rule-based billing with real-time error checking and for on-demand segmented labor recovery and reporting: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for conditional rule-based billing with real-time error checking and for on-demand segmented labor recovery and reporting. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a record in a database for a device to be... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070073603 - System and method to facilitate the procurement of information from a user: A method to facilitate procurement of information from a user. The method includes delivering information to the user from a computer prompting the user to enter at the computer information identifying a project, prompting the user to perform at the computer an action to specify a billing-related information relating to... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070073604 - The forest factory valuation model: Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for determining a value of a forest factory. A stump land value component and a biomass component of a forest factory are determined. A value of the forest factory is obtained by combining the components. The stump land value component may be normalized by a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070073606 - A slider bar interface for quick limit buying and selling of commodities: A method and system for commodity transactions utilizing a slider bar to quickly determine a price for a transaction based upon a par price for the commodity. The use of a slider bar allows a trader to quickly determine a price for the transaction relative to par and transmit that... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070073608 - Cash only marketplace system for trading securities: A method, system and programmed medium for use by buyers and sellers in the trading of a security. All transactions will involve only cash. The system provides an electronic marketplace in which only customers are involved in any trade. Brokers, specialists, market makers, and stock transfer agents are not required.... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070073610 - Job auction method and system: An online auction system enables a consumer to post job description for a job, a second module that enables a plurality of service providers to view the job description and submit a proposal to the consumer for performing the job, and a third module that enables the consumer to select... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070073609 - Method for computerized wagering: A system and method for networked exchange are disclosed. A system for networked exchange comprises an internal proxy (140); an exchange processor (120) in communication with the internal proxy (140); a database (130) in communication with the internal proxy (140); an external proxy (150) in communication with the internal proxy... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20070073607 - On-line system for buyer seller matching and negotiation: An on-line system for creating an open market for matching buyers and sellers of brand name products. The system enables buyers to achieve the maximum value in the purchased product by engaging in open ended on-line reverse auction and negotiation process with multiple sellers of the specified product. The system... Agent: Cyr & Associates, P.A.

20070073605 - System and method for trading options in the marketplace: A method for trading non financial options in a virtual marketplace, including an option seller that provides for trading an option in respect of product or service. The option is associated with option price and option terms including option expiration date. An option buyer provides a buying price. There is... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070073611 - Third-party market center information delivery system: A system and method are disclosed for third-party information distributors to deliver information to market participants through a market center. The third-party information distributor can set when the information should and should not be distributed.... Agent: Lefevour Law Group, LLC

20070073612 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing credit services: A method, system, and computer program product for providing credit services is provided. The method includes establishing a first and second minimum levels of eligibility for a first and second set of financing options, respectively. The second set of financing options includes additional credit offer terms for mitigating risk. In... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070073613 - Simultaneous bidding and matching platform for loan borrower and lenders: The present invention is a simultaneous bidding platform facilitate loan transactions process between borrowers and lenders. Matching module of the bidding and matching platform automatically match higher preferred interest-rate borrower bid sheet with lower preferred yield-rate lender bid sheet. The module generates bidding and matching loan borrowers' results, actual loan... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070073616 - Method and system for designating and tracking feature sets for individual accounts: A improved method of managing feature sets associated with credit card account numbers includes (1) storing in a first database a plurality of credit card account numbers, wherein each credit card account number comprises a bank identification number (BIN), a sub-BIN, an account number and a verification or validation value,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070073615 - Presentation instrument transaction processing pricing systems and methods: A method of processing a presentation instrument transaction for a merchant. includes, at a host computer system, receiving transaction information from the merchant for a presentation instrument transaction to process. The transaction information includes a ticket amount. The method also includes, at the host computer system, determining a settlement amount... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070073614 - Real world interaction with virtual world privileges: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world entertainment, educational, and transactional activities. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world activities and transactions. The participant or... Agent: Searete LLC

20070073617 - System and method for evaluation of money transfer patterns: A system and method for evaluating records of money transfers for suspicious or irregular transaction patterns. A fraud processing server evaluates money transfer records by blocks, each block consisting of records having the same characteristic relating to location, such as the country where the transfer originates. A second characteristic of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070073618 - Release of funds based on criteria: A method and system to transfer payment to a seller of a network-based commerce transaction are described herein. The method includes generating a risk model based on seller-specific criteria, and releasing funds from a holding account to the seller based on the risk model.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070073619 - Biometric anti-fraud plastic card: The biometric anti-fraud plastic card is a highly secure biometric “Smart” card that can be used for credit card purchases. Biometric technology is used to authenticate the cardholder's identity prior to use. Only for a limited amount of time after the cardholder has been authenticated does the card become active/valid... Agent: Rebecca Claudette Smith

20070073620 - Method and apparatus for decrypting an encrypted supplementary data set: Removable media such as optical discs may carry valuable audio-visual data representing movies or the like, which are sold by content providers or studios. To prevent pirate copies, data on these media are often encrypted for copy protection. This copy protection may use a disc specific electronic decryption key, which... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070073621 - Transaction coordinator for digital certificate validation and other services: Systems and methods for facilitating electronic commerce by securely providing certificate-related and other services including certificate validation and warranty. In a preferred embodiment, these services are provided within the context of a four-corner trust model. The four-corner model comprises a buyer, or subscribing customer, and a seller, or relying customer,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070073622 - Method for preventing identity theft: A method of preventing identity theft where a personal document control number is assigned and printed on the document when the document is manufactured. The personal document control number is stored in an electronic file and transmitted to the database of a remote, independent, third party service provider. The document... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20070073623 - Method of manufacturing application software: A method for manufacturing an application software by providing data comprising the software content and data comprising at least media serial code specific to the application. The media serial code is used to provide a personalized application software. The method also provides data comprising a primary computer program, which is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070073624 - Content transaction system and method, and program providing medium therefor: A user device receives the content, and pays a content fee, based on the usage control policy of the content, by electronic money up to the allowable amount of money set in an issue log. The user device then creates a usage log including a content identifier and sends it... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal

20070073627 - Apparatus and method for processing license keys using dynamic field mapping: A method of processing licensing keys includes specifying a program defining a set of executable instructions where different subsets of executable instructions define different products. A set of licensing keys are constructed. Each licensing key has a fixed number of symbols, where each symbol includes multiple bits. At least one... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070073626 - Integrated media management and rights distribution apparatus: The present invention advantageously provides an integrated rights management and licensing system for storing, researching, buying, and selling intellectual property rights. In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes a rights owner application, a central repository, and a licensing application to integrate the management, researching and licensing of intellectual property. Accordingly,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070073625 - System and method of licensing intellectual property assets: This disclosure provides an improved system and method of licensing intellectual property rights. This disclosure relates to intellectual property licensing arrangements involving a plurality of patents or other intellectual property assets that may be licensed by or on behalf of the owner(s) to one or more entities, and in which... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070073628 - Method of securing postage data records in a postage printing device: In a system including a postage printing device and a data center, wherein the postage printing device and the data center have a first set of keys for use in requesting and downloading a plurality of postage data records from the data center for use in printing postal indicia, a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070073629 - Payment system and clearinghouse of internet transactions: An automated payment system and clearinghouse for effecting payment on online transactions without having to divulge sensitive financial information to a merchant. The payment system and clearinghouse provides a secure and safe vehicle to perform e-commerce transactions worldwide independently of the customer and merchant locations. This allows banks to offer... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070073630 - Fraud analyst smart cookie: A fraudulent business transaction application (FBTA) is provided in embodiments of the present invention for monitoring fraudulent transactions. When a consumer supplies account access information in order to carry out an Internet business transaction, the FBTA uses an online fraud mitigation engine to detect phishing intrusions and identity theft. Embodiments... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070067179 - Framed art visualization software: Aspects of the present invention are directed at providing an application program that allows a user to select, model, and visualize components of a framed artwork. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that allows a user to create a digitized representation of a framed artwork. More specifically,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070067180 - Property rating and ranking system and method: The present invention relates to the field of property or real estate. In one form, the invention relates to the rating of property. In another form, the present invention relates to the ranking of property based on various inputs into the system and method of the present invention. The rating... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20070067177 - Quality assurance system and methods of use: A quality assurance system having an ambient condition indicator provides a current visual indication of the cumulative exposure over time of a host product to an ambient condition such as temperature or humidity. The indicator's visual response is correlated with the response characteristics of any one of a wide range... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070067178 - 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)... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070067175 - Systems and methods for the provision of data processing services to multiple entities: In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, information integration software can be used to gather and transform information from data processing system monitors and present the information in one or more custom screens or views which can enable operations personnel and management personnel to manage and operate a system with... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20070067176 - Television show business method for combining advertising and content: Methods for developing TV shows associated with marketing are described.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070067187 - Electronic lifestyle integration apparatus and method of establishment: An electronic lifestyle integration apparatus is provided. The electronic lifestyle integration apparatus comprises an input unit, a memory unit, a radio frequency (RF) unit, a display unit, a central processing unit (CPU) and a timer. The input unit chooses a plurality lifestyle information items. Then, the life information items are... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070067188 - Integrated passcode referral system and method for facilitating the administration of psychological assessments: An integrated passcode referral system and method for facilitating the administration of psychological assessments. The system allows a professional to refer tests to patients without the professional having to purchase any of them; track the referrals; view patient test scores and testing information; and view a list of available tests.... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070067185 - Medical diagnosis feedback tool: A computer implemented medical event notification system and method for a healthcare facility is provided. The system includes at least one user computer and at least one computer server operatively coupled for communication over a computer network. The computer server operates at least a portion of a medical notification software... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20070067186 - Method and system for electronically prescribing medications: Methods, systems and devices for electronically prescribing medication to a patient include providing to a prescriber prescription medications in response to a request to prescribe medication to a patient, allowing selection of one of the prescription medications, in response to the selection of one of the prescription medications, determining in... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070067182 - Structured data authoring and editing system: The present invention offers an extensive suite of tools that facilitate and enhance the capability within a healthcare institution to establish and maintain an evidence-based best practice approach to providing patient care. Using evidence, term vocabulary and default structured content (order sets) embodiments of the invention enable the localization of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070067184 - Structured data authoring and editing system: The present invention offers an extensice suite of tools that facilitate and enhance the capability within a healthcare institution to establish and maintain an evidence-based best practice approach to providing patent care. Using evidence, term vocabulary and default structured content (order sets) embodiments of the invention enable the localization of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070067183 - Structured date authoring and editing system: The present invention offers an extensive suite of tools that facilitate and enhance the capability within a healthcare institution to establish and maintain an evidence-based best practice approach to providing patient care. Using evidence, term vocabulary and default structured content (order sets) embodiments of the invention enable the localization of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070067181 - System and method for intelligence building in an expert system: A method, system and article of manufacture for intelligence building in expert systems and, more particularly, for evaluating treatment decisions overriding recommended treatments that are generated by expert systems. One embodiment provides a method of evaluating treatment decisions, comprising receiving a specification of a decided treatment for a patient having... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070067189 - Method and apparatus for screening, enrollment and management of patients in clinical trials: A computer-implemented method of tracking patient data in a clinical trial is provided. The clinical trial has one or more investigative sites which perform patient screening and enrollment for the clinical trial, one or more diagnostic sites which perform analysis on one or more patient diagnostic tests ordered by an... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070067190 - Method and apparatus to provide for the provision of medically-related information: One provides (102) an opportunity for an information-processing entity to submit medically-related information regarding individuals. Upon receiving (103) such information from such an information-possessing entity, one then arranges (104) for the digital storage of such medically-related information as well as corresponding compensation to be provided (105) to the information-possessing entity... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070067191 - Claim adjustment quality review: The present invention relates to a financial reinspection system that allows for efficient identification of financial issues regarding claim disbursements. One embodiment of the present invention is a database system in which all claims are tracked. Each tracked claim includes a plurality of characteristics or data items such as the... Agent: Kirton & Mcconkie

20070067192 - System and method for providing transferable pre-need funeral services: A system and method for providing pre-need funeral services that enables a consumer to select a funeral plan and servicing funeral home, within a desired budget, through a website service or associated telephonic system. Following subscription to a service plan, the consumer will be provided with a debit card or... Agent: Myers & Kaplan, Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20070067194 - Computerized scheduling system and method for apparatus-implemented medical procedures: In a computerized system and method for scheduling medical procedures implemented by a number of medical apparatuses in a clinic or hospital, an exam or therapy is scheduled using a particular medical apparatus with a set time duration, and the exam or therapy is conducted and the actual time duration... Agent: Schiff Hardin LLP Patent Department

20070067193 - System and method for booking of hotel accommodations for travelers: A method of making a hotel reservation includes receiving a reservation request from a booking source, wherein the reservation request is based on an allocation to the booking source from a hotel and wherein the reservation request is price-blind; transmitting the reservation request to the hotel; receiving a confirmation from... Agent: Bardmesser Law Group, P.C.

20070067195 - Apparatus and method for simulating an analytic value chain: A computer-implemented simulator models the entire analytic value chain so that data generation, model fitting and strategy optimization are an integral part of the simulation. Data collection efforts, data mining algorithms, predictive modeling technologies and strategy development methodologies define the analytic value chain of a business operation: data→models→strategies→profit. Inputs to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070067197 - Efficiently routing customer inquiries created with a self-service application: An electronic customer inquiry is properly routed, even when multiple salient terms are included in the electronic inquiry. Initially salient terms aee extracted from the electronic inquiry. Then each salient term is linked with at least one Action-Object and a probability that the Action-Object matches a purpose of the electronic... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070067196 - Project management system: A project management system having executable program modules, including a first module to create a requirement by a requestor. A second module receives an identity of a first receiver and sends the requirement to the first receiver. A third module sends an acceptance of the requirement to the requestor, and... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070067200 - Access point triangulation for task assignment of warehouse employees: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to assign one or more tasks to a plurality of warehouse employees. In one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises receiving an order for an item stored in a warehouse. A location of the item in the warehouse can be determined. A... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070067202 - Method and system for establishing relationship between business organizations: A relationship between a first business organization, which offers a plurality of services, and one or more second business organizations is established. Vendors that support business activity applications are identified. The business activity applications are associated with a plurality of business processes and technology. A business relationship is negotiated with... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070067201 - Method and system for parallel scheduling of complex dags under uncertainty: A methods and systems for addressing parallel scheduling problem where a directed acyclic graph (dag) modeling t tasks and their dependencies needs to be executed on n unreliable workers. The methods and systems determine how workers get assigned to tasks (possibly in parallel and redundantly) throughout execution, so as to... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070067198 - Method for fostering participant engagement in a structured environment: The invention is a method of fostering engagement in an organization's efforts to meet stated objectives. The method includes identifying objectives to be met, identifying activities that will aid the organization in meeting the stated objectives, and assigning point values to the activities. The method further includes determining a number... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070067199 - System and method for selecting a best-suited individual for performing a task from a plurality of individuals: The present invention provides a computer implemented system and method for selecting a best-suited individual for performing a task from a plurality of individuals. The method including identifying a plurality of individuals for performing a task, receiving a task to be assigned to an individual, assessing the suitability of each... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070067209 - Determining commercial share of wallet: Commercial size of spending wallet (“SoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“SoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. Commercial SoW is a modeling approach that utilizes various data... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070067204 - Enterprise economic modeling: Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for predicting how business decisions will impact an enterprise. A group of models may be used to model aspects of an enterprise and business units over a multiyear period. Models relating to different business parameters may be linked so that it may be determined... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070067211 - Graphical forecasting interface: A system, method, apparatus, and technique for gathering and providing information forecasts is disclosed. An example of a system according to the technique includes a graph module having at least and interactive portion and an optional static portion. The interactive portion of the graph can be capable of plotting future... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070067205 - Industry associated referral marketing system and method: A referral marketing system and method is provided that allows for the marketing of goods or services of a provider to its customer by aiding in the marketing of the goods/services of the customer. In a preferred embodiment the system and method of the instant invention is used to market... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070067212 - System and method for aiding product design and quantifying acceptance: Methods and systems for designing new products may comprise having rated a first plurality of existing products in a product field according to a second plurality of product attributes; assigning each of the said first plurality of existing products a location in a space having the said second plurality of... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20070067213 - System and method for modifying a baseline to predict sales of products: Modifying factors are calculated using pre-factors that are identified as influencing a baseline calculation. The modifying factors are applied to the baseline calculation to more accurately forecast the effect of real market forces as identified by the pre-factors on a baseline.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070067203 - System for data collection from a point of sale: Disclosed is a system for data collection from a point of sale, product display area, or point of service area, that includes a data receiving and processing center. The system is stand-alone and portable, and collects real-time data about the customers. Such data includes tracking the number of customers passing... Agent: Angenehm Law Firm, Ltd.

20070067210 - Systems and methods for creating and maintaining a market intelligence portal: Systems and methods for creating and maintaining a market intelligence portal. Using automated data processing techniques, a market intelligence campaign is defined and executed to determine the most productive approach for marketing new products in a particular market segment. A key component of the systems and methods is identifying key... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070067207 - Using commercial share of wallet to analyze vendors in online marketplaces: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070067206 - Using commercial share of wallet to compile marketing company lists: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070067208 - Using commercial share of wallet to rate investments: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070067214 - System and method for purchasing and distributing remnant media and media advertising: A system and method for distributing remnant media.... Agent: Weiss & Weiss

20070067215 - Flexible advertising system which allows advertisers with different value propositions to express such value propositions to the advertising system: Different advertisers that may have different value propositions and that may desire different types of ad spots may effectively participate in an advertising network. An advertiser may express various value propositions using various types of offers, such as offers (or maximum offers) per impression, selection, and/or conversion (or some other... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070067219 - Methods and apparatuses to manage multiple advertisements: Systems and methods to facilitate the management of multiple pay for performance advertisements. In one embodiment, a method includes: generating a user interface to show a plurality of advertisements simultaneously and to allow editing of any of the plurality of advertisements; and updating an advertisement database according to input received... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070067217 - System and method for selecting advertising: One aspect relates to a system for collecting user classifications of content and using such classifications to match ads to appropriate content. In such a manner, more appropriate associations between ads and content may be made. Such classifications may be collected, for example, using a social bookmarking system.... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070067216 - System and method of cooperative marketing of goods and services: A system and method of delivering targeted marketing materials which allows the advertiser to associate itself and its products and services with a personal milestone of a prospective customer without using the normal delivery channels associated with junk mail or spam.... Agent: Patrick D. Mcpherson Duane Morris LLP

20070067218 - Web based promotion of drug products driven by price point and performance rebates: A system and method in accordance with the principles of the invention provides a Web based drug product promotion which uses an administrator's webpage to list a network of participating pharmacies and promotes lower pricing of drug products by its network than that offered by other pharmacies. This is accomplished... Agent: Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione

20070067220 - System and methods for tracking consumers in a store environment: A method of modifying a store environment parameter is provided.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070067221 - System and methods for tracking consumers in a store environment: A method of determining whether a product is removed from a display is provided.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070067222 - System and methods for tracking consumers in a store environment: A virtual store environment is provided.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070067223 - Electronic method and system for executing retroactive price adjustment: An electronic method and system for executing retroactive price adjustments includes a computer that is configured to receive a purchase agreement pertaining to goods and/or services. The method includes receiving a price adjustment on a pricing line of the purchase agreement through the use of the computer and receiving an... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070067224 - System, method, and user interface for interacting with an e-commerce website: A user interface for communicating over a voice channel regarding an item that is available at an e-commerce website is disclosed and includes a speaker to communicate at least one audible voice message and at least one audible non-voice message. The audible voice message can indicate the status of an... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070067225 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining rankings of product providers displayed via a product source system: The present invention generates a ranked display listing of product providers (such as hotels) in response to a user query wherein the rank is generated based upon a performance factor determined by the system. The invention generates the performance factor based on the popularlity of a given product provider as... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070067226 - Visual database for linking geography to seismic data: A medium having a plurality of computer readable files relating to geophysical seismic data recorded thereon. The files include a map display having multiple levels of geographic detail and including a plurality of surface seismic data lines. A plurality of compressed seismic data files is also included, each file producing... Agent: Conoccophilips Company - I.p. Legal

20070067227 - Equipment-information transmitting apparatus, service control apparatus, equipment-information transmitting method, and computer products: An information generating unit generates identification information for an equipment based on environment information of the equipment. A search-result transmitting unit searches, when an information output request for equipment information generated based on the identification information is received, a database for the equipment information corresponding to the identification information, and... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070067228 - Interjurisdictional consumption analysis in transportation applications: A method and system is provided that allows fuelling and jurisdiction crossing data to be captured and transmitted to a central location to be stored. Fuelling data is captured by a fuelling station terminal about fuel purchased by a vehicle at a fuelling station. This fuelling data is then transmitted... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20070067229 - Electronic lending and borrowing system: A common forum for borrowing and lending includes a plurality of remote devices associated with respective potential counterparts, a communications network for permitting communication between the remote devices, and a central server computer. Each user enters preferences and data pertaining to what he or she would like to lend or... Agent: Gilbreth, Roebuck, Bynum, Derrington, Etal.

20070067230 - Method and structure for raising funding for a public company and financing the issuance of securities: In a method and structure for raising funding for a public company through the issuance of a derivative-related security, placing the derivative-related security into at least a first public market. An underwriter borrows an amount of an issuer's shares at least one of prior to, in conjunction with, shortly after... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070067231 - Order matching system: A order matching system which allows users to define and modify buy/sell order schedules for execution within one or more transaction destinations. The system uses order schedules and associated evaluation heuristics to evaluate and update order characteristics such as price and quantity based on user-specified criteria. The matching system comprises... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070067233 - Financial decision systems: The financial decision system provides for real-time calculation of buying pressure and selling pressure for any tradable instrument market. Additionally, it provides real-time visual simultaneous plots and charts of buying pressure and selling pressure. Further, the system automatically presents buy and sell indicators and expert commentary based on automatically detected... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20070067232 - Method for computerized wagering: A system and method for networked exchange are disclosed. A system for networked exchange comprises an internal proxy (140); an exchange processor (120) in communication with the internal proxy (140); a database (130) in communication with the internal proxy (140); an external proxy (150) in communication with the internal proxy... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20070067234 - Mortgage loan system and method: A system and method are provided for qualifying and selecting mortgage loans for a borrower. The method includes the operation of collecting mortgage loan information from the borrower. A further operation is obtaining credit information for the borrower via a network based on the mortgage loan information. The combined mortgage... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070067235 - Preferred credit information data collection method: A creditor creates a lock box at a financial institution. The lock box includes an escrow provision. A consumer makes regularly scheduled payments to the financial institution and designates the payment either for the creditor's lock box or for the escrow account. The financial institution reports all payments and escrow... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070067236 - Method and system for advancing funds: A method for providing funds to a first party based upon accounts receivable due to a first party includes calculating an amount of accounts receivable due to the first party from accounts receivable debtors of the first party or from a portion of the accounts receivable debtors. A second party... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070067237 - Methods and systems for the transfer of money services provided to non-citizen residents: A method of transferring monies from a non-citizen resident of one country to their family members residing in another country, including setting up an account at a local bank in which funds will be deposited and from which funds will be transferred from, requesting an EFT from the bank to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070067239 - Method and apparatus for transferring financial information: A request is received to transfer bill payment data from a first account associated with a first entity to a second account associated with a second entity. Bill payment information is retrieved from the first entity. The second account is accessed and the bill payment data is established at the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070067238 - System and method for transferring information between financial accounts: Systems and methods are provided to transfer account information from one application to another application. An example involves using a data extraction routine to access a customer electronic payment account at a first entity, obtain data associated therewith, and transfer the information to a new electronic payment account a second... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070067240 - Method, system, and program product for resolving unmatched payments: Electronic payment processing including a data processing methodology and apparatus that facilitates resolving unmatched payments with customer accounts at a payee. This is accomplished by comparing an unmatched check or other payment received with previously resolved payments and associated customer numbers, as stored in a database. The first, and ongoing,... Agent: James Grant George

20070067241 - Trial access terms for media files: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for sharing media files. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a file sharing application configured to initiate a communication session with a file server, where the file server... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070067242 - System and method for assigning sequence keys to a media player to enable hybrid traitor tracing: A hybrid traitor-tracing enabling system comprises an inner code and a multi-level outer code. The inner code comprises encrypted tables comprising codewords for file segment variations. One level of the multi-level outer code comprises assignments of a cluster of sequence keys to manufacturers or models of media players. Another level... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070067246 - Authorization identification and management system and method of using the same: An authorization identification and management system includes a code-producing unit, a code database unit and an audit unit. The code-producing unit produces a plurality of sets of predetermined code to authorize a licensee. Each set of predetermined code is disposed on a corresponding product. The code database unit stores each... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070067245 - Method and apparatus for content protection on hand held devices: An exemplary method and apparatus for provided controlled access to content through a series of hardware and software rights management methods.... Agent: Fathy Yassa

20070067244 - Renewable traitor tracing: A system, method, and computer program product to renewably prevent traitors in a broadcast encryption system from re-using compromised keys. A license agency assigns individual receivers a set of Sequence Keys preferably at manufacture, and assigns Sequence Key Blocks (SKBs) to protected content files to be distributed. The files may... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070067243 - Trial access for media files from a media list: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for sharing media files. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a file sharing application configured to initiate a communication session with a file server, where the file server... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070067247 - Method and system for medical procedure activity-based costing and margin analysis: The invention provides a method and system for performing activity-based costing and procedure margin analysis for medical practices. Medical practice costs are allocated across relevant production activity based on procedure-specific, location-specific, modifier-adjusted Relative Value Units. Procedure production volumes, production costs and Payer fees are integrated and analyzed to determine such... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070067248 - Method and system for validating and verifying mail items: Method of validating mail items by a sender with a view to their handover to a mail distribution service, wherein the mail items are handed over to the mail distribution service by the sender without affixing any post mark, the mail items each being provided with a unique identification number... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070067249 - Method of delivering a franking service via a communications network: t

20070067250 - Prescription order packaging system and method: A system for automatically packaging prescription orders composed of one or more prescription containers. The system includes a printer for generating literature associated with each order and a packer for packing the prescription containers and the associated literature into a package. The packer has a scale or other means for... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20070061156 - Compliance assurance systems and methods: In one embodiment, a compliance assurance system is disclosed which comprises a user interface, logic, and a data store. The user interface is configured to receive a request from a user to display at least a subset of legal obligations assigned to the user and to display the subset of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070061158 - Compliance management using complexity factors: Systems, methods, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for managing compliance of legal obligations using complexity factors. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving legal obligation information for a plurality of legal obligations and receiving a complexity factor for each of at least a subset of the legal obligations. The legal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070061160 - Comprehensive system with retention capability for a survivor: A system for assembling, retaining, and using information pertaining to an individual's life and estate in preparation for the individual's death or incapacitation is provided. The system has an instruction including a first set of directions for assembling a source of information regarding a first individual's life and estate. The... Agent: Wallenstein & Wagner, Ltd.

20070061153 - Method and system for reducing energy costs in an industrially operated facility: Method for reducing energy costs in an industrially operated facility. For a lasting and comprehensive reduction in the energy costs in an industrially operated facility, the invention provides for at least one of the energy flows of the facility, from its purchase, its conversion in at least one secondary process,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070061159 - Method for determining sexual compatibility: A method is provided for selecting and matching persons based on their sexual personality types. The method includes a process for qualifying a user to participate in a testing process, administering a test to determine a person's preferences with respect to particular aspects of sexual behavior, and reporting the results... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070061157 - Obligation assignment systems and methods: Systems, methods, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for managing assignment of obligations. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, at a compliance assurance system, an indication of a termination of employment of an individual and determining, with the compliance assurance system, the individual was assigned an obligation. A new responsible... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070061161 - Print system: A processing-related information storage unit stores processing-related information pertaining to processing of an original image. A processed image generation unit generates a processed image based on print data and processing-relating information, both pertaining to an original image. A processing-related information alteration receipt unit guides a user in altering the processing-related... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070061154 - Product data exchange: A product data exchange system 300 is used for exchanging technical product data between respective computer systems (310, 320, 340, 350, 360) of a plurality of collaborating companies. At least a computer system (310) of a first one of the collaborating companies includes a plurality of distinct data management systems... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070061162 - System, method and computer program product for facilitating a real estate exchange: A method is provided for facilitating a real estate exchange that includes a sale portion and a purchase portion. The method includes identifying properties of an exchangor for the sale portion of the exchange, and properties of one or more sellers for the purchase portion of the exchange. The properties... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070061163 - System, method and computer program product for facilitating real estate transactions: A method is provided that includes providing a service including providing (a) seller information relating to properties of sellers, and/or (b) buyer information relating to buyers. A buyer and seller are engaged (for an engagement period) in communication regarding a property of the seller. During the engagement period, communication between... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070061155 - Universal vehicle communication & management system: The invention provides a method for integrating the mobile vehicle with existing or future Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMN). The PLMN may be any existing cellular networks (GSM, CDMA, HSPDA, HSUPA) or future 4G network and future high speed data network WiMAX. Based on the wireless connection with existing public... Agent: Yiming Ji

20070061165 - Displaying patient treatment information since a previous visit: Methods, computer-readable media, and user interfaces for displaying patient treatment data that is new or updated since a time a particular user last saw a particular clinical patient or last accessed patient data relevant to the patient are disclosed. Patient data in a computerized healthcare system is accessed and filtered... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070061164 - Healthcare information storage system: A healthcare information storage system for the capture, storage, and retrieval of healthcare information, including a data input device including an audio input apparatus and video input apparatus for receiving audio and video information captured by the audio input apparatus and video input apparatus, and a data transmitting device for... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070061167 - Remote health monitoring and maintenance system: A system and method is described that enables a health care provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus operated by a health care provider and a remotely programmable patient apparatus that is operated by a patient. The health... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070061166 - Techniques for improving loss ratios: Techniques and systems are described hereafter for reducing medical non-compliance by (1) developing the compliance-profile of a member, (2) using the profile to automatically generate a set of interventions, (3) categorizing, prioritizing and selecting the interventions, (4) incorporating the selected interventions into a personalized member user interface page, (5) serving... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070061171 - Displaying clinical orders and results since a previous visit: Methods and computer-readable media are disclosed for simultaneously displaying clinical orders and results that are new or have been updated since the last time a particular user saw a particular patient or last accessed that patient's data. Clinical data in a computerized healthcare system is accessed and filtered to display... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070061168 - Method and apparatus for evaluating variations between health care service providers: A method and an apparatus for evaluating variations in a certain outcome between a given health care service provider and a reference health care service provider. The reference health care service provider is characterized and the given health care service provider are characterized respectively by a first and second rate... Agent: Ladas &