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 & Parry

20070061169 - Method and system for providing online medical records: A method for providing a consumer with the ability to access and collect personal health records associated with the consumer in a secure and private manner is provided. The method includes assigning a toll-free phone number individually associated with and dedicated to the consumer for private fax and voice communications... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070061170 - Method and system for providing online medical records: A method for providing a consumer with the ability to access and collect health records associated with the consumer through use of a consumer account is provided. The method includes assigning a destination address individually associated with the consumer account for receiving communications from at least one healthcare provider, associating... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070061172 - Health care financing: A health care finance system according to the invention features an expanded health care savings and asset account that may be funded in a variety of ways. An insurance carrier is paid a premium out of the account. When a patient sees a health care provider, the health care provider... Agent: Kenneth M. Fagin

20070061173 - System and method for the assessment, pricing, and provisioning of distance-based vehicle insurance: A system and method for assessing, pricing, and provisioning distance-based vehicle insurance are provided. In one example, the method receives identification information of a customer and an associated vehicle, and a current odometer reading. Multiple coverage types are provided to the customer, as is at least one quote when the... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20070061174 - System, method, and computer program product for detecting and resolving pricing errors for products listed in an inventory system: The present invention generates a concise display of travel products, received from an inventory system, that are associated with potentially erroneous fare prices. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention compare travel product sales parameters such as, for example, price and sales volume, to averages of comparable sales parameters from stored... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070061178 - Business development system and methodology: A very early stage business development system and method is implemented within an abbreviated period of time to produce an objective decision point of whether or not to proceed to the next stage of business formation.... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20070061175 - Method and apparatus for tracking an intent: A method for tracking an intent comprises, for an intent parameter, searching a Structure Access Intent Tracker database for at least one record pertaining to the intent parameter, each record identifying an intent. The method also comprises, in response to the searching, a provision of a report that includes a... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070061177 - Method for providing a contextual view of a process step: A computer implemented method for providing a contextual view of a specified process step, including the steps of receiving an indication of relevancy of at least one element of the specified process step to a current process step, wherein the current process step is not the specified process step, and... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20070061176 - System and method for analysis and display of workflows: The disclosed embodiments relate to the modeling of complex workflows, such as the workflows found in a clinical medical environment. The disclosed embodiments model clinical medical workflows using Activities, Artifacts and Roles as the fundamental elements wherein the relationship among the elements defines the model. By use of the disclosed... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070061180 - Centralized job scheduling maturity model: The invention provides systems and methods for improving the job scheduling structure of an organization by raising the job scheduling maturity level of the organization. In one embodiment, a plurality of job management maturity levels may be defined and arranged in a hierarchy. Current job management information may then be... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070061179 - Method for managing human resources: Disclosed herein is an integrated method and system for managing human resources. Specifically, the method and system integrates several processes (e.g., a process for developing a strategy and particularly for developing a set of rules on how human resources will be managed and sourced, a process for developing a long-term... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070061181 - System and method for construction planning: Systems and methods for construction planning, including the take-off process, estimating, specification and merchandising of resources used in construction projects, are disclosed. In one embodiment, an object class for each of a plurality of resources is created. Resources are the materials, equipment and labor that are required to complete a... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

20070061182 - Workflow operational console: The invention comprises a method of reporting and displaying workflow status information in a computer system having a workflow application and a graphical user interface including a display, the method comprising retrieving a set of metadata properties from a memory in the computer system, wherein at least one metadata property... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070061184 - Estimation system: An assessment notation method for use in determining the scope and cost of repairs. As assessor is able to mark boxes, on paper or an electronic device, that correspond to various types of repairs or alterations. Within each box is a subfield that allows for more precise assessments of needed... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20070061183 - Systems and methods for performing long-term simulation: Systems and methods for long-range simulation are provided. A representative method includes: defining at least one resource description, wherein a resource description comprises a group of resources that have similar characteristics, and wherein defining comprises specifying the characteristics, including at least one capability and at least one performance measure; defining... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070061189 - Method for motivating competitors in an enterprise setting: A computer has computer instructions corresponding to a method for motivating competitors in an enterprise setting. The computer, for example, has computer instructions for providing (102) a number of selectable iconic figures in a customizable graphical user interface (GUI). The computer further has computer instructions for selecting (108) an iconic... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070061188 - Method for providing tailored product information: A method of providing tailored product information to a consumer. The method includes the steps of: collecting information from a plurality of consumers; establishing at least a first consumer grouping and a second consumer grouping; placing each consumer in either the first consumer grouping or the second consumer grouping based... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070061185 - Method, system, and computer program product for implementing availability messaging services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing availability messaging services is provided. The method includes associating a user with an audience type with respect to an entity. The entity provides at least one product or service. The method also includes defining and applying at least one domain to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20070061187 - Modular system for determining return on investment from marketing communications: A modular system for determining return on investment from marketing communications which provides an efficient and timely process for measuring the effectiveness of marketing activities. The system is modular so that certain functions may be selectively added based upon the type of marketing communications for which return on investment is... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070061190 - Multichannel tiered profile marketing method and apparatus: A method for optimizing a marketing campaign is provided. Initially, an analysis of a client's transaction data is performed. Campaign objectives are selected based upon the findings of this analysis. Rules are selected for each campaign based upon the rules' ability to achieve the selected objectives. Based on the rules,... Agent: Brian L. Michaelis Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20070061186 - Multiple layer manufacturing line rejection management system: A data processing system for analyzing rejection rejections in a manufacturing process having more than one level of manufacture stores test results from an nth-level test for review by an OEM and, subject to consent of the nth level vendor, for review by a vendor on a lower level. The... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070061191 - Application change request to deployment maturity model: The invention provides a system and method of improving change management structure of an organization, wherein change management structure includes process definitions for managing change requests to software applications. In one embodiment, the invention may include receiving current change management information regarding an organization. A current maturity level for the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070061192 - Apparatus and method for locating, identifying and tracking vehicles in a parking area: A method for use in the management of vehicle parking in a vehicle parking area having a plurality of vehicle parking spaces, the method comprising determining the locations of vacant vehicle parking spaces; and displaying the locations of vacant vehicle parking spaces to people seeking to park vehicles.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070061193 - Advertisement on demand service: A method for distributing advertisements. The method comprises initiating a telephone call from a telephone and sending a request for an advertisement from the telephone, the request including a unique identifier associated with the advertisement and a telephone number associated with the telephone. The request is received at server for... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070061194 - Device and method for generating commercial-containing music data and commercial-containing music data: Problem to be Solved: The object of the present invention is to enable music distribution implemented over the Internet to provide music less expensively than in the past or free of charge. Solution: The present invention provides commercial-containing music data comprised of inserting commercial data before and/or after music data.... Agent: Yasuhiro Kikuchi

20070061196 - Entering advertisement creatives and buying ad space in offline properties, such as print publications for example, online: Processes for advertising on offline properties, such as print publications, may be improved by (a) accepting ad creative information and associating it with an ad identifier, (b) accepting offline property information and associating it with a property identifier, (c) determining at least one ad, each having an associated ad identifier,... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070061195 - Framework for selecting and delivering advertisements over a network based on combined short-term and long-term user behavioral interests: Targeted advertising content is provided for display in a page over a network in accordance with a technique in which advertisements are selected based on a determination of a user's short-term and long-term behavioral interests. Short-term and long-term information relating to a user's online activities is collected and associated with... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070061203 - Method and system for collecting and communicating dynamically incorporated advertising information: Methods and systems for dynamically incorporating advertising content into multimedia environments, such as games, are provided. Example embodiments include a dynamic inserter, which selects content, based upon a set of criteria, to deliver to a receiving client system, such as a game client. The receiving client system typically dynamically determines... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070061202 - Method and system for dynamically incorporating advertising content into multimedia environments: Methods and systems for dynamically incorporating advertising content into multimedia environments, such as games, are provided. Example embodiments include a dynamic inserter, which selects content, based upon a set of criteria, to deliver to a receiving client system, such as a game client. The receiving client system typically dynamically determines... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070061204 - Method and system for dynamically incorporating advertising content into multimedia environments: Methods and systems for dynamically incorporating advertising content into multimedia environments, such as games, are provided. Example embodiments include a dynamic inserter, which selects content, based upon a set of criteria, to deliver to a receiving client system, such as a game client. The receiving client system typically dynamically determines... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070061208 - Method and system for marketing and/or shopping: A method of marketing is presented in which a customers in stores use wireless bar code reading terminals to read bar codes related to products in the stores and retrieve information related to the scanned products. A database of customer accounts is maintained and the database includes information related to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070061201 - Method and system for modifying object behavior based upon dynamically incorporated advertising content: Methods and systems for dynamically incorporating advertising content into multimedia environments, such as games, are provided. Example embodiments include a dynamic inserter, which selects content, based upon a set of criteria, to deliver to a receiving client system, such as a game client. The receiving client system typically dynamically determines... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070061200 - Method for assigning transportation route naming rights: A method for managing the display rights for transportation means by acquiring the display rights for such transportation means from an operating company that owns or control such transportation means and then assigning them to clients who make use of them for the purposes of a display or title in... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070061198 - Mobile pay-per-call campaign creation: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for associating a merchant's contact information with a mobile content, placing a call related to the merchant's contact information from a mobile communication facility, and soliciting the merchant for a future advertising campaign.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061197 - Presentation of sponsored content on mobile communication facilities: Improved search capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications devices such as cell phones, as well as improved techniques for delivering sponsored content in a mobile communication environment.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061199 - System and method for creating customer intimacy with a brand: A system and method for creating, implementing, managing and analyzing various elements of a strategy for creating customer or audience intimacy with a brand, including but not limited to an individual, concept, group or other entity. One exemplary embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a set of tools for... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070061207 - System and method for offering multiple products: A system and method for a supplier to offer multiple products to a first person and multiple pre-owned products to a second person is disclosed.... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070061206 - System and method for providing rapid rebate payments: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system that has the ability to allow consumers to process rebates on-line and receive the rebate on an accelerated basis in exchange for assigning the rebate to a third party. One embodiment of the invention provides the consumer with a disbursement option... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070061205 - System and method of providing advertisements to mobile devices: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of providing advertisements to mobile devices. In an embodiment, an approximate position of a mobile device along a path can be determined based at least partially on data identifying the mobile device within a cellular coverage region. A service can... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070061209 - Restaurant electronic menu, ordering and payment system and method: The restaurant electronic menu, ordering and payment devices and the order processing computer system allows restaurant patrons to review the menu, select food and beverages from the menu and electronically place their orders even before a seating in the restaurant is available. The system provides food and beverage orders to... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070061210 - Methods for reducing retail out-of-stocks using store-level rfid data: Methods and systems for predicting out-of-stock occurrences and for assigning root causes to out-of-stock occurrences are described. In one implementation, inventory data and point of sale data are collected. An expected lost sales value is determined. A true demand is determined based on the point-of-sale data and the expected lost... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070061211 - Preventing mobile communication facility click fraud: Improved capabilities are disclosed for receiving a request to connect to sponsored content from a mobile communication facility, receiving information relating to a characteristic associated with the mobile communication facility, and assessing the appropriateness of the request based at least in part on the information relating to the characteristic. Based... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061215 - Audio playlist creation system and method: Information about desired songs is collected on a portable memory device in communication with a radio tuner. The radio tuner may receive signals from a terrestrial or satellite digital radio transmission, or from an analog radio transmission. These transmissions may include text data about the current song being played. Upon... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070061216 - Budget-dependent pseudo bid in auction: In auctioning items, pseudo bids are determined based on the bid price and auction budget submitted by a bidder. The bid associated with the highest pseudo bid is identified as the winning bid. A consistent pseudo bid function is applied to determine the pseudo bids for each of the bids,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070061214 - Conductive islands for printable electronic paper: Electric paper with an anisotropic conductive island writing and viewing surface includes a ground plane, a media layer that is formed adjacent to the ground plane and that includes a plurality of microencapsulated multi-chromal particles, and a conductive layer formed adjacent to the media layer, wherein the conductive layer includes... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070061223 - E-commerce transaction aggregation and processing: Methods, systems, and media for aggregating and processing product information are disclosed. Embodiments include hardware and/or software for receiving an electronic receipt from a merchant that describes a transaction for a product by a purchaser and gathering product information from one or more sources such as the merchant, the product's... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070061220 - Initial product offering system and method: A system and method for making an initial product offering of tangible products and services. A price for a product may be determined by calculating an aggregate customer history factor by aggregating customer history factors of potential purchasers in a buying group, calculating a cumulative demand for a product as... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070061217 - Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service: A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070061219 - Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service: A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070061218 - Method and apparatus for conducting an online information service: A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070061213 - Method for perpetually providing goods or service: A method for perpetually providing goods and/or services to a customer of an original supplier or successor to an original supplier is provided. An entity separate from the original supplier or successor to the original supplier is provided with a goods and /or service list wherein each good and/or service... Agent: Paul J. Cook

20070061222 - Placing a purchase order using one of multiple procurement options: A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a user at a client system and received by a server system. The client system can display information identifying the item and, for each of multiple procurement options having information... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070061221 - Process for generating revenue through placement of free computers and online web access: A process for generating revenue whereby customers are enrolled in a subscription program. Under the program, customers are given a free computer and internet access in exchange for agreeing to purchase a minimum amount of products and/or services from vendors associated with the program. Revenue is generated through the collection... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20070061212 - Quoting system for housing components: A quoting system for housing components, especially cabinets, includes a product database storing a plurality of product identifiers for different cabinet components, each having an associated cabinet style. The database also includes identifiers for products and/or services that are outsourced. The user need enter the description and product or service... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070061225 - Facilitating procurement of food items: The present invention broadly relates to a procurement system and corresponding procurement method which enables a consumer to order a food item online by accessing the system and selecting the ingredients for the desired food item. After selecting the desired food item, an order signal is sent to a cell... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070061224 - Method and system for ordering and performing printing services and postal services: The invention relates to a method for ordering and performing printing services and mailing services in a system in which a user can generate an order for an individual piece of mail that is to be sent on an order component of the system in a way that involves little... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070061227 - Determining a computer system inventory: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, start a boot loader executing in a computer system, where the boot loader receives a load image from a server and stores the load image in volatile memory. The load image determines a detected inventory of the computer system... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070061226 - Product inventory management system: A product inventory management system is provided that includes a receiving management section (11) for carrying out receiving management of a product, an inventory section (12) for stocking the product, a shipping management section (13) for carrying out shipping management of the product, and allocation determination means (14) for determining... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070061229 - Managing payment for sponsored content presented to mobile communication facilities: Improved capabilities are disclosed for managing delivery of sponsored content to mobile communication devices such as cell phones.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061228 - Method for valuing forwards, futures and options on real estate: A system and method for matching buy and sell orders is provided. A daily cash index of real estate values for a local region is maintained and a trading instrument representative of an interest in real estate in the local region is created. In this regard, a cash settlement of... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070061230 - Network-based trading system and method: A network based trading system and method are provided which combine economies-of-scale enjoyed by institutional investors and mutual funds with direct ownership of securities to permit individual investors to participate in the bond market in a cost effective manner. Through team investing, institutional economies-of-scale are created for individuals by allowing... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070061231 - Network-based trading system and method: A network based trading system and method are provided which combine economies-of-scale enjoyed by institutional investors and mutual funds with direct ownership of securities to permit individual investors to participate in the bond market in a cost effective manner. Through team investing, institutional economies-of-scale are created for individuals by allowing... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070061236 - Combination of financial instruments and method for implementing investment strategy: There is provided a method of marketing financial instruments. The method includes offering a discount certificate and a put certificate at the same time by a single issuer. The put certificate is tailored to the discount certificate so that when held at the same time, the certificates provide a particular... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070061237 - Graphical user interface for retirement income planning: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a graphical user interface for retirement income planning. One embodiment of a graphical user interface for guiding a user through the planning of an income stream includes one or more user input fields for receiving data from the user, where the data relates to... Agent: Kin-wah Tong, Esq. Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070061234 - Hedge accounting method and system: Methods and systems for identifying pairings of transactions that constitute or establish hedging relationships and determining the eligibility of particular financial instruments for hedge-accounting treatment. The methods and systems permit a user to generate a new forecasted transaction to be associated with the selected financial instrument. Data is generated indicative... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070061238 - Method and apparatus for retirement income planning: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for retirement income planning. One embodiment of a method for planning an income stream includes receiving personal data relating to an individual, where the personal data includes the value of the individual's projected income and the value of the individual's... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P.

20070061232 - Method and system for forecasting reliability of assets: A method and system of forecasting reliability of an asset is provided. The method includes identifying peer units of the asset by using selected criteria, performing a search for the peer units based upon the selected criteria, and constructing local predictive models using the peer units. The method also includes... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070061233 - Method for securities trading using variable product orders: A method for trading securities. A trader generates a variable derivative product order that identifies at least a derivative product, an underlying financial product or instrument, a pricing formula, and values of price determination variables needed by the pricing formula to establish a price for the derivative. The variable product... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070061235 - System and method for pooling of investment assets: A system and method for pooling of investment funds enables a multinational corporation to cause its employee benefit plans from multiple international jurisdictions to pool their investments into a single entity, which invests in various financial products including exchange traded debt and equity securities as well as other securities. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070061247 - Expected value and prioritization of mobile content: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving an expected value for each of a plurality of mobile content, and ordering the plurality of mobile content for presentation on a mobile communication facility based at least in part on the expected value.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061242 - Implicit searching for mobile content: In embodiments of the present invention, a method and a system are described for automatically generating an implicit search query from a mobile communication facility based on at least one parameter, and delivering relevant mobile content to the mobile communication facility, wherein the relevance may be based at least in... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061244 - Increasing mobile interactivity: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for caching search related data on a mobile communication facility, coordinating the presentation of the cached information with network information to the mobile communication facility display to facilitate response to user queries with up to date information, and implicitly downloading... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061249 - License market, license contracts and method for trading license contracts: A license exchange is provided that allows for companies who desire to obtain licenses for intellectual property and speculators to bid in order to set pricing for license contracts that provide for market rates to be set for such licenses. The exchange insures liquidity for such license contracts by providing... Agent: David L. Newman

20070061245 - Location based presentation of mobile content: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for tracking a mobile communication facility, presenting search results based at least in part on a first location, and presenting updated search results based at least in part on a second location, including a predicted second location.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061241 - Method for trading securities: A method for trading securities including options. A trader generates a variable derivative product order that identifies at least a derivative product, an underlying financial product or instrument, a pricing formula, and values of price determination variables needed by the pricing formula to establish a price for the derivative. The... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070061246 - Mobile campaign creation: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for analyzing an advertiser's mobile content website, generating keywords that represent relevant terms used on the content website, and presenting a marketing program associated with the keywords to a mobile content sponsor.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061243 - Mobile content spidering and compatibility determination: An aspect of the present invention relates to systems and methods for indexing mobile content, wherein the indexing is based at least in part on compatibility between the content and a mobile communication facility.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061248 - Networked loan market and lending management system: A system for matching lending orders and borrowing orders as well as optional subsidizing orders and/or selling orders and generating composite loans and portfolio loans, as well as a loan manager that manages the life cycle of composite loans and portfolio loans: The system includes: a borrowing order receiver, configured... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070061239 - Sports player investment system: A sports player investment system which prior allocates a fractional ownership in a business entity among a plurality of sports organizations each of which have a plurality of sports players which can also obtain a sports player's fractional ownership allocation within corresponding sport organization's fractional ownership allocation in the business... Agent: Cr Miles, P.C.

20070061240 - Truth revealing market equilibrium: To use market clearing methods to determine market equilibrium, a market clearing situation is established by determining a number of items to be sold at the market price and allotting a number of pseudo items assignable to bids below the market price. Once bids are received for the items, using... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070061253 - Method and article for soliciting and processing charitable donations: A method and article for soliciting and processing charitable donations from account holders of a financial institution are disclosed. In one embodiment, the article is a portion of a package mailed by the financial institution to the account holders and includes authorization to charge a donation to an account holder's... Agent: Catalina + Associates, LLC

20070061252 - Method and system to create and distribute excess funds from consumer spending transactions: An improved system for consumer payors to save and donate whenever they use cash at a point of sale terminal, write a check, use an ATM machine, or use a credit or debit card. The POS system is a network composed of subscriber/payors, neutral merchant/collectors, a central clearinghouse, and provider... Agent: Bertram V. Burke, Chairman, Every Penny Counts, Inc.

20070061255 - Point of sale credit system: A method and system for providing credit at a point of sale are provided. The method includes both an open-ended model and a closed-ended model. In the open-ended model a card, such as a credit card, is provided to the customer. The customer first enters into an agreement for repayment... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070061251 - System and method for payroll system and benefits administration: The present invention relates to a system and method for using a payroll deduction process as a payment process and efficient means by which employees of a business can purchase and manage their employee benefits. An employer authorizes the inventive system to accept payroll deduction as a payment option for... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070061250 - System and method for virtual capital operation on the internet: A system for virtual capital operation over a network such as the internet includes a platform for a transaction between a first user and a second user of the system, a data processor for processing the flow of virtual currency occurred at the transaction between the first user and second... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070061254 - Systems and methods for opening, funding, and managing financial accounts: Systems and methods for opening, funding, and managing financial accounts are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for opening and funding a financial account includes electronically receiving application information for a first account from a customer, verifying the identity of the customer and, after verification, establishing the first account.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070061257 - Method for making an online payment through a payment enabler system: A method for processing person-to-person payments and money requests using a computer network. A payment enabler linked to the Internet enables an individual to register for an account through which the individual can make payments to other individuals, request money from other individuals, and access other functionality to facilitate the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070061258 - Method for requesting and receiving an online payment through a payment enabler system: A method for processing person-to-person payments and money requests using a computer network. A payment enabler linked to the Internet enables an individual to register for an account through which the individual can make payments to other individuals, request money from other individuals, and access other functionality to facilitate the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070061256 - Optical payment transceiver and system using the same: An optical payment transceiver and an optical settlement system using the same uses a personal portable terminal incorporated with an optical transceiver as a card substitute payment unit for settlement. Here, card information is incorporated in a personal portable terminal incorporated with an optical transceiver such as a portable phone... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070061260 - Electronic multiparty accounts receivable and accounts payable system: The invention concerns a multiparty accounts receivable and accounts payable system that allows business trading partners to use a single, shared system for both accounts receivable and accounts payable management. The system of the invention forms an electronic “bridge” between a plurality of business trading partners for purposes of invoicing,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070061259 - Mass compromise/point of compromise analytic detection and compromised card portfolio management system: A system and method for managing mass compromise of financial transaction devices is disclosed. A method includes maintaining a summary of a transaction history for a financial transaction device, and forming a device history profile based on the transaction history, the device history profile including predictive variables indicative of fraud... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070061261 - Content delivery apparatus, user terminal device, relief management method and computer program: A content delivery apparatus, when a content delivery request is outputted from a user terminal device, encrypts the requested content with an encryption key, adds a view period to it to deliver it to a request source and delivers a viewing key in response to a view request from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070061265 - A system and method for the provision of audio and/or visual services: A content management device for moving digital audio and/or visual content to the edge of a network so that it is available in a controlled way, while avoiding bandwidth limitations. The device has a removable digital storage unit and appropriate control circuitry including a content fetcher module and an end-user... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070061267 - Controlling database copyrights: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a utilization permit key may be pre-defined to permit at least one of displaying, editing, storing, copying, and/or transferring of digital data.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070061263 - Crafted identities: Crafted identities are provided. A statement is provided to the principal for using a crafted identity. The statement includes an identifier that provides access to a resource when presented by the principal to the resource. The statement also includes one or more roles and permissions for the crafted identity when... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070061266 - Security systems and methods for use with structured and unstructured data: Disclosed herein are systems and methods including hardware, software and electronic service components and systems to provide large-scale, reliable, and secure foundations for distributed databases and content management systems combining unstructured and structured data, and allowing post-input reorganization to achieve a high degree of flexibility.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061262 - System and method for populating information handling system music devices with music: Portable music devices are manufactured prepopulated with songs selected by the users who placed orders for the devices so that the devices are delivered to the users ready to play the songs selected by the users. An order engine interfaced with the Internet provides users with song titles based on... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070061264 - System and method for secure inter-domain document transmission: The present invention is directed to a system and method for secure inter-domain document transmission. Encrypted electronic document data is received from a source domain into a target domain. The encrypted electronic document includes header data containing encrypted user authentication data and data representing an identified file server associated with... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070061269 - Apparatus and method for licensing: In an apparatus for enabling the usage of an information package in an execution unit a provider is arranged, which is configured for storing license data wherein the information package is personalized to a user by said license data assigned to the information package. Furthermore, the execution unit is located... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070061268 - Prepaid or pay-as-you-go software, content and services delivered in a secure manner: A computer participates in a system for licensing use in a metered fashion using individual licenses cryptographically linked to the computer and a particular service provider or underwriter. The computer may have a cryptographic unit, secure memory, sanction and metering functions as part of a secure execution environment for enabling... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070061270 - Closing funds management system: The invention provides an electronic method of managing a timely and irrevocable transfer of closing funds between parties within a closed community of authenticated participants using an electronic interface accessible over a distributed network. A value transaction is negotiated and finalized between a first party and a second party. The... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070061271 - Prepaid service in a packet-switched mobile communication network: A method and system for implementing a prepaid service in a packet-switched mobile communication network, in which information requested by a mobile station is delivered to the mobile station so long as the subscriber has maintained a sufficient prepaid balance from which the service charges can be deducted. An access... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070061272 - Access administration system and method for a currency compartment: An access administration system is provided for administering and controlling access to a currency compartment for currency. The system has a system computer for receiving user information comprising an identifier and unique biological identification information representing biological information of a particular user. The system stores the identifier and the unique... Agent: Wallenstein & Wagner, Ltd.

20070061273 - 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.

20070061274 - Pipeline path analysis: This disclosure relates to path analysis, determination, and optimization for pipelines. The methods, systems, and computer executable code disclosed herein contemplate the evaluation of numerous aspects and constraints of an area around a potential pipeline path in a project. Further the methods, systems, and computer executable code may be deployed... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070061275 - Method and system for dispensing virtual stamps: A method and system for a virtual stamp dispensing metering system is provided wherein indicia of varying values are calculated at a data center and downloaded to a mailing machine on a periodic basis. The mailing machine securely stores the indicia and dispenses the indicia as needed. At the end... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070055532 - Court electronic filing system: A system and method for electronically filing a court paper. The system may include a court server that provides an electronic filing portal. The portal can be accessed from a remote computer. The court server is coupled to a court relational database and a master database. The court paper can... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070055534 - Method and system for implementing advertising and marketing campaign in electronic and computer devices: The invention is a advertising and marketing system relates to method and system to implement advertising and marketing campaign by delivering advertising and marketing message in electronic and computer devices. It integrates with the applications of the electronic and computer devices and applies algorithms to assign routing paths for message... Agent: Mr. Lau Wai Yin Room 3103, 31 Floor

20070055533 - Method for protection and licensing of designs: A method for protecting a custom design of a product provides that a manufacturer of the custom designed product agrees not to make the product according to the design for others in return for a payment from the designer. The protection, which is between the manufacturer and the designer, may... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070055536 - Methods of treating subterranean formations using well characteristics: Methods of treating subterranean formations using well characteristics. An embodiment include a method of treating a subterranean formation that comprises obtaining one or more well characteristics for a well servicing treatment, determining a price of the well servicing treatment based on the one or more well characteristics, and performing the... Agent: Craig W. Roddy Halliburton Energy Services

20070055535 - System and method for funding and evaluating revenue potential of an entertainment project: A system and method for receiving a financial contribution for a project from a plurality of participants in an interactive offering. Preferably, promotional media that demonstrates the project is generated, and provided to at least one of the participants. The project is preferably demonstrated to the at least one participant... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070055548 - Accessing data related to tissue coding: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that accept an identification of at least one instance of at least one treatment parameter, the at least one treatment parameter including at least one target-related tissue ancestry-correlated binding site, and that provide at least two instances of at... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20070055541 - Accessing predictive data: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that provide a graphical illustration of a first possible outcome of a use of a treatment parameter with respect to at least one body portion, based on a first dataset associated with a first predictive basis, and that modify... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20070055542 - Accessing predictive data: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that provide a graphical illustration of a first possible outcome of a use of a treatment parameter with respect to at least one body portion, the first possible outcome based on at least one dataset associated with at least... Agent: Searete Llc Suite 110

20070055540 - Data techniques related to tissue coding: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that define an association between at least two instances of at least one treatment parameter and at least one instance of at least one treatment characteristic, the at least one treatment parameter including at least one target-related tissue ancestry-correlated... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20070055546 - Data techniques related to tissue coding: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that define an association between at least two instances of at least one treatment parameter and at least one instance of at least one treatment characteristic, the at least one treatment parameter including at least one target-related tissue ancestry-correlated... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20070055547 - Data techniques related to tissue coding: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that define an association between at least two instances of at least one treatment parameter and at least one instance of at least one treatment characteristic, the at least one treatment parameter including at least one target-related tissue ancestry-correlated... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20070055537 - Device for assistance in the selection of a compression orthosis and in adapting same to the morphology of a limb: The invention relates to a device for assistance in the selection of a compression orthesis and in adapting same to the morphology of a limb. The inventive device consists of: means (26) for establishing a first file containing data representative of the morphological characteristics of the limb (30), comprising the... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20070055538 - Diagnostic image security system: A method for restricting unauthorised access to a patient's diagnostic images. Patient identification data is stored in a first database and diagnostic images associated with the patient are stored in a remote second database. The patient is issued with an access code which is provided to a user who is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070055549 - Employee assistance coaching program: The invention features a method for providing an EAP (employee assistance program) to multiple members of a first organization having at least fifty members. The method includes having a second organization provide to the first organization multiple EAP coaches who assist the multiple members of the first organization in achieving... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20070055543 - Medical resource estimation and simulation system: A healthcare decision support system simulates effects of a change in a number of patients. A repository includes patient specific clinical and non-clinical data, comprising multiple medical record attributes of multiple patients. A simulation processor receives data representing multiple factors for adjusting a value representing number of patients in corresponding... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070055544 - Search techniques related to tissue coding: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that receive a request for a treatment option, the request associated with at least one query parameter, determine at least one treatment parameter, based on the request, the at least one treatment parameter including at least one target-related tissue... Agent: Searete Llc

20070055539 - System and method for consumer/patient flushot reservation: This invention relates to the field of vaccine management and, in particular to a system and method for reserving a dose of influenza vaccine. The system for reserving a flu-shot comprises a user interface and a matching node. The method comprises receiving a flu shot reservation from a user and... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070055545 - System and user interface for processing patient medical data: A clinical data processing system systematically organizes and analyzes clinically significant information of a patient using a result flag indicating a critical or abnormal result to automate display of a view of clinical data in various contexts including diagnosis, insurance, medical complaint assessment and others to improve patient care. A... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070055551 - Nutritional optimization system and method: A method and system for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of receiving personal information, e.g., relating to health and diet, about the person, determining a health model for the person, determining an effect on the health model for at least two nutritional supplements, optimizing a proposed... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070055550 - Personal transportable healthcare data base: A personal transportable patient healthcare data base. The data base includes data processes for storing bar coded specific health care information classified by general health care classifications. A data entry may be by entering a respective bar code for a specific healthcare fact. A warning notice for a specific healthcare... Agent: Joel I Rosenblatt

20070055552 - System and method for health care data integration and management: In an exemplary embodiment, a method creates an electronic health record and analyzes that record to present a summary report. The report may optionally include treatment opportunities, strategies, and plans for the physician and patient. Data processing steps used to create and analyze the record and deliver the summary data... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070055553 - Method and system for processing insurance coverage requests: A method and system for processing insurance coverage requests. An insurance data processing system (IDPS) receives at least one request from a customer relating to insurance coverage for the customer. Each request independently requests activation or deactivation of the insurance coverage. The requests are ordered in a time sequence if... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070055554 - Apparatus and methods for providing queue messaging over a network: Systems and methods are described for processing queue data and for providing queue messaging over a network. An illustrative queuing system includes a first queue configured to hold resource requests from a plurality of users, and program code stored in computer readable memory configured to determine or estimate whether a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070055555 - Method, system, and computer program product for interfacing with information sources: A method, system and computer program product for interfacing between information requesters and information sources. In an embodiment, information is obtained from one or more information sources in response to client requests. In an embodiment, information received from information sources is cached for future use, such as for future client... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Pllc

20070055557 - Method and apparatus for optimization in workflow management systems: Activities within a workflow are either data management activities (DMAs) or non-DMAs. A workflow is typically carried out by a system by executing one activity after the other. This can, however, be very time consuming. A method and system are provided for optimizing a group of activities (GOA) comprising a... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, Llc

20070055558 - Method and apparatus for probabilistic workflow mining: A method and processing system for generating a workflow graph from empirical data of a process are described. Data for multiple instances of a process are obtained, the data including information about task ordering. The processing system analyzes occurrences of tasks to identify order constraints. A set of nodes representing... Agent: Jones Day

20070055556 - Spreadsheet generator: A system and method automates the creation of business models via generators that generate data structures and models based on general assumptions regarding business models. A time series generator automatically generates a time series model suitable for creating a spreadsheet, even though the input description of the business model may... Agent: Collen Ip

20070055560 - Document creation and review system, method and apparatus: A problem faced by many businesses is a lack of resources necessary to hire competent professional assistance. This is particularly problematic for individuals, inventors, sole proprietors, entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses. The present invention advantageously enables the professional review of any number of different types of documents, including but not... Agent: Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.

20070055559 - Method and system for the fire response dispatch protocol of an emergency dispatch system: A method and system for receiving, processing, responding and managing firefighter request calls is described. A consistent, standard and systematic process is provided which in combination with adequate training, supervision and quality assurance service to provide a technique for classifying the criticality of calls into various determinate levels for appropriate... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070055561 - Location and time sensitive wireless calendaring: A computer-implemented method provides location-sensitive and time-sensitive calendaring to a wireless device, such as a cell phone, pager, PDA, etc. A user's calendar is maintained with a number of appointments, start times and end times for the appointments, meeting place and a list of attendees for the appointments. When the... Agent: Attention: Murrell W. Blackburn Merchant & Gould Llc

20070055562 - System and methods for multi-modal game augmented interactive marketing: The present invention provides systems and methods for multi-modal game augmented interactive marketing, or information presentation. A system for interactive marketing may includes a plurality of advertising units, each unit including a processor adapted to run one or more steps in an entertainment sequence. A public distribution system may distribute... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20070055563 - System and methods for tracking consumers in a store environment: A virtual store environment is provided.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070055564 - System for facilitating management and organisational development processes: Business scorecard software provides management with traffic light displays to reflect strategy, objectives and targets. Typically, these systems focus on the Kaplan and Norton Balanced Scorecard and scorecarding of numbers. Search engines, knowledge retrieval systems and web portals use meta data to retrieve relevant information. The current invention provides a... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20070055567 - Donation mechanism: A method and apparatus for effecting and controlling associated transactions, wherein crediting a third party is confirmed on submitting content to a predetermined recipient on selection of the submitter. The content is sent as a short message, multimedia message or e-mail and the associated transaction involves charging the submitter's telecommunications... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070055569 - Method and system for placement and pricing of internet-based advertisements or services: Presented are embodiments of methods and systems that provide for Internet advertisement pricing and placement to be variably based on the advertisement's performance within a given category of Internet media, while at the same time achieving predictable delivery and pricing for both advertisers and publishers. Techniques are presented where an... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20070055565 - Method for directed advertising and information distribution using a wireless communications network: A method of and system for directing targeted advertising or transmitting information to end users, using wireless or mobile media, including cellular media, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and system interconnects (a) advertisers or sponsors, (b) wireless device users (“system users”), and (c) wireless telecommunications companies (“telecoms”), via... Agent: Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

20070055570 - Method for improvement of promotion response: A method of and software for determining effectiveness of sales call efforts in a marketing environment in which representatives make contact with a customer in accordance with a prioritized list, comprising the steps of: (1) creating on a computer an electronic prioritized list of customers for representatives of an organization... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20070055568 - Online real-time price discounting system and method: An on-line price discounting system and method that enables a host retailer to sell an item at different prices to different buyers, the method comprising offering the item for sale on a host site, the item having a host item description and a host offering price; providing a buyer with... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20070055566 - System, method, apparatus and computer media for user control of advertising: A system for presenting a user selected advertisement to a user includes a sponsor selector configured to obtain an advertisement selection of the user. The advertisement selection includes at least one user preferred advertising source. The system also includes a sponsor select server that receives the advertisement selection of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070055571 - System and method for capturing sales tax deduction information from monetary card transactions: Systems and methods are provided for managing sales tax information. The information may be generated, for example, in connection with transactions involving financial accounts, such as a credit card account. The sales tax information may be received electronically from, for example, a merchant or a point of sale device. A... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070055572 - Managing stock available to on-line and in-person shoppers: A method for managing stock so that a merchant who provides both on-line and in-person shopping may dependably advise an on-line shopper regarding availability of an item. An approximate quantity available of the item is determined, and then adjusted according to an estimate of the quantity of the item held... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070055574 - Commonly available device statistics for pos devices: POS device statistics information is managed such that the information is available commonly without the device being claimed by one application during retrieval of statistics information. A helper class DeviceStatistics object facilitates storing of statistics information in a common statistic repository that may be hardware based or software based, for... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070055573 - System and method for nutritional information feedback at the point of sale: A computer program, method, system and/or apparatus for providing a purchaser, at the point of sale, the nutritional information of the food item(s) the purchaser has selected for purchase. The nutritional feedback method operational at a point of sale, the nutritional feedback method comprising identifying a food item selected for... Agent: Mathew L. Grell

20070055575 - Automated order book reconciliation process: Methods, systems and apparatus for determining a current state of an order book for order request reconciliation. A customer inputs an order request for a desired quantity of items to be shipped to a recipient into the system. A supplier inputs a shipment quantity of any such previously shipped items... Agent: Delio & Peterson, Llc

20070055577 - Internet and wireless integrated virtual presence: A server operating a website with discrete transactional webpages identifies subject matter for a sales contract between a merchant and an inquiring party. The website is provided with an augment logon procedure for potential inquiring parties, be they offerees or offerors to a contractual relationship. As part of the logon... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055578 - Internet and wireless integrated virtual presence: A server operating a website with discrete transactional webpages identifies subject matter for a sales contract between a merchant and an inquiring party. The website is provided with an augment logon procedure for potential inquiring parties, be they offerees or offerors to a contractual relationship. As part of the logon... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055580 - Method and apparatus for facilitating online purchase of regulated products over a data network: A technique is disclosed for implementing electronic commerce transactions via a data network. A regulated item selected by a customer is identified. The regulated item may correspond to an item which satisfies predetermined criteria, indicating that the regulated item is prohibited from being purchased by the customer. Action is then... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20070055579 - Method for providing on-line shopping search service and system thereof: The present invention relates to method and system for providing an online shopping search service, and more particularly, to method and system for providing an online shopping search service, which constructs a database systematically including information about a product registrant, a product registered by the product registrant and a seller... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070055576 - Procurement matching: There is disclosed procurement matching apparatus and methods. Procurement requests may be recorded which include a description of goods or services desired for procurement, a category of the desired goods or services, and an identity of a requester of the desired goods or services. Procurement search criteria may be received.... Agent: Socal Ip Law Group LLP

20070055581 - Flexible magazine management service: A method for managing a magazine subscription management service is disclosed. A magazine package is associated with a consumer, wherein the package includes a price based on a number of magazines in the package. Selections for the number of magazines are received from a consumer, each selected magazine having a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070055582 - Transaction processing with core and distributor processor implementations: Transaction processing for distributor-based transactions is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction management approach involves the processing of aspects of a transaction between contracting parties using transaction rules associated with an administrator and at least one distributor sponsoring the transaction. In some applications, the... Agent: Crawford Maunu Pllc

20070055588 - Automatic watching system: There is provided a monitoring system for remotely monitoring an item, the monitoring system including a recording device for recording a visual record of the item, a communicator for communicating the visual record, and a security device for controlling access to the monitoring system. Also provided is a method of... Agent: Kohn & Associates Pllc

20070055586 - Computer program product, system and methods for tracking supply chain items: The present inventive subject matter relates to a computer program product, system and method which allows multiple parties to monitor items in a supply chain via a network.... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070055587 - Generating an order plan for a supply chain network: Generating an order plan is disclosed. Data describing priority levels including at least one item request is accessed. Data describing a supply chain network (10) including network components (11) that supply one or more items to satisfy an item request is accessed. For each priority level, and for each item... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20070055583 - Media package system: The present invention is a point-of-purchase system for selecting a presentation material set. This system solves the problem for the casual consumer or professional business manager in selecting a combination of media components wherein the provided selection system has a skilled judgment associated with the selection. The system is the... Agent: Terry B. Morris

20070055585 - Method of generating multiple recommendations for multi-objective available-to-sell (ats) optimization problem: Methods, systems and apparatus for providing a variety of end product build plans based on multiple business scenarios for exhausting excess inventory. Raw financial data and variable scaling-factors are input into a scenario engine component along with a business objective that contains logic. The scaling factor may be embedded within... Agent: Delio & Peterson, Llc

20070055584 - Systems and methods for tracking goods: Systems and methods are provided for tracking goods. In one implementation, commercial goods are tracked in a trade zone having customs procedures. The goods include sets of bonded goods that are stored at a plurality of physically non-contiguous bonded storage locations and at least one set of unbonded goods that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070055589 - Financial accounting methods and systems to account for assets and liabilities: For several decades, financial accounting theory and practice has been plagued by difficulties regarding accounting for asset and liability value changes. A general solution to this problem is disclosed that serves both the “Going-concern Earning-power” and “Asset and Liability” views of income determination.... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070055590 - Handling multiple currencies in a project management system: A project management system is enabled to handle multiple currencies within managed projects. An exchange series includes currency definition parameters such as currency pairing, frequency of rate change, and effective date of exchange rate. Using the exchange series and a strong definition of cost for tasks and resources (i.e. indicating... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070055591 - Systems and methods for applying tax legislation: Systems and methods are provided for applying tax legislation. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes means for receiving a request for performing a tax calculation, the request including a first mark-up language document containing transaction data. The system also includes means for performing the tax calculation and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070055592 - Fully automated payroll data processing system using gui worked time recorder: This invented single PC payroll software, operating on a single PC, introduces an invented computerized payroll method which allows one to perform a complete payroll processing task without the need of an external worked time recorder and an intermediate data transferring device used by the traditional computerized payroll method. The... Agent: Quyen T. Vu

20070055599 - Method and apparatus for managing a virtual portfolio of investment objects: A method and apparatus system for managing virtual mutual funds. A plurality of investment managers manage a plurality of accounts for a plurality of investors. The investors directly hold assets in the accounts so that the investors may take advantage of any tax benefits generated by transactions using the assets... Agent: Venable LLP

20070055594 - Method and system for assisting a client in the transfer of usage of accounts at one or more financial institutions: A system and method of assisting a client transfer financial services using a first account to a second account collects relevant information and authorization from the client. The system and method maintains a database of counterparties providing services to clients of financial institutions and uses the information provided by the... Agent: Lang Michener

20070055597 - Method and system for manipulating purchase information: A method and system for generating customized categories for financial transaction reports associated with portable consumer devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, a financial transaction reporting system is configured to track and output a user's financial transactions associated with the user's portable consumer device for both credit and debit transactions.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055600 - Method for controlling spending: An inventive method for controlling spending is disclosed herein. The method includes providing multiple unique identifiers for an account and establishing a spending limit for each identifier.... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20070055595 - Methods and system for assessing loss severity for commercial loans: A method for predicting expected and unexpected loss outcomes for a portfolio of loans is provided. The loans are issued by a lender to a plurality of borrowers. The method includes recording key account and risk attributes for a historical portfolio of loans, recording actual default and loss information for... Agent: John S. Beulick C/o Armstrong Teasdale, LLP

20070055596 - System for preparing financial disclosures by unifying financial close and financial control steps: A financial close system of record integrating: managing a financial period close process, attesting to adequate internal controls applicable to the period, displaying qualitative status of confidence and quantitative measure of progress in a financial control and the electronic archiving of the three as an executable and auditable embodiment of... Agent: Patentry

20070055593 - Systems and methods for implementing directed trust services: A trust accounting system and securities broker platform are closely integrated such that a third-party investment manager is notified of an amount of principal cash that is available for investment. Investments made are reported to the trust accounting system. Information flow between the third-party investment manager and the trust accounting... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070055598 - Using accounting data based indexing to create a portfolio of assets: A system, method and computer program product creates an index based on accounting based data, as well as a portfolio of financial objects based on the index where the portfolio is weighted according to accounting based data. A passive investment system may be based on indices created from various metrics.... Agent: Venable LLP

20070055604 - Enterprise planning: The invention is directed to a budget planning system that improves the accuracy and predictability of budget planning within large organizations by enabling organizations to reconcile corporate financial models and organizational targets with detailed spending forecasts. The budgeting system includes a database that is configured to store data defining a... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070055603 - Method and system for determining which mortgage choice is best for a consumer: A method and system for selecting a preferred debt instrument (e.g., mortgage) for an individual consumer, where the option adjusted spreads (OAS) and risk measures of a plurality of debt instruments are determined and ranked using standard bond valuation methodology. A typical scenario involves a consumer inputting a plurality of... Agent: S. Z. Szczepanski Foley & Lardner LLP

20070055602 - Methods and systems for financial account management: Provided herein are methods and systems for managing a plurality of investment accounts, allowing the automatic execution of financial plans.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20070055601 - Methods for enrolling participants in benefit plans: Methods and systems of enrolling a participant in at least one benefit plan. A method of enrolling at least one participant in at least one benefit plan including electronically receiving benefit plan information from a plan sponsor, electronically providing benefit plan information to the at least one participant, receiving benefit... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070055605 - Pension plan designs and methods for eliminating potentially age discriminatory accruals from cash balance pension plans: Defined benefit pension plans wherein an accrued benefit is capable of satisfying accrual rules of Internal Revenue Code Section 411(b)(1) using the 133 ⅓% rule of subparagraph B, that incorporate particular pension plan design components, and methods for reducing exposure to civil liability based on provisions of the Employee Retirement... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20070055616 - Enhanced online auction method apparatus and system: An enhanced online auction system facilitates auction buyers listing items wanted for purchase. Users such as traders may use the auction system to search the item-wanted listings, the item-available listings, or both. Item-available listings may be offered for immediate-sale, auction, or best-offer sale. Item-wanted listings may be solicited for immediate-purchase,... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, Llc

20070055614 - Management of orders not accepted by the stock market at the level of an order server: A process for putting orders through from a client station to a stock market with an order server and to an application for order management connected to the order server, which application for order management is suitable for handling a set of rules associated with orders, including sending to the... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper Us LLP

20070055610 - Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service: A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070055611 - Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service: A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070055612 - Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service: A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070055609 - Methods and systems for commoditizing interest rate swap risk transfers: A data structure method, class, system and computer program product for trading a commoditised financial claim. The claim obligates one party to pay on demand to a second party on any date an amount transparently determined with reference to a market quote for pre-specified spot-starting benchmark interest rate swap contracts... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070055613 - Methods for locally executing stock market orders: A process for locally executing stock market orders in a system including an order server associated with a plurality of clients suitable for receiving orders from the clients and transmitting the orders to the stock market and receiving a global order book from the stock market, the process including a... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper Us LLP

20070055607 - Midpoint matching system: An automated system for matching orders to buy and sell securities at the midpoint of a best bid and offer (“BBO”), wherein the automated system is adapted to (i) operate on a fully-anonymous and continuous basis, (ii) process multiple, computer-generated orders, of any size, transmitted by algorithmic, program, and other... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070055606 - System and method for a hybrid clock and proxy auction: The present invention is a system and method for a computer-implemented auction wherein a hybrid auction combining elements of a clock auction and a proxy auction. In particular, if the earlier phase (104) is a clock auction and the later phase (108) is a proxy auction, then the resulting hybrid... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070055615 - System and methods for disseminating real time information: A system and method for real time dissemination of information is provided. One server receives and data bases the information while another server disseminates the information; instead of one server receiving the information, data basing the information, and dissemination the information to all users requesting the information.... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070055608 - Trading rights facility: The trading rights facility of the present invention comprises guaranteeing an access for the quantity and price of a potential imbalanced or complex order, which price is acceptable to both the buyer and the seller, and to the market as a whole; and agreeing to fully deliver the quantities at... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma Novusip, Llc

20070055621 - Automated method and system for predicting and/or verifying income: An income predictor deploys an income model that is based on credit information obtained for a representative group of the general population. The credit information is matched against actual employment and income information to predict an income range having a specified confidence factor. The income predictor can be used by... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Pllc

20070055617 - Method and apparatus for creating a benefit plan: A benefit plan for a member of a Native American Indian tribe comprises providing a life insurance policy to be owned by the member and having provisions for a death benefit and a cash surrender value. A premium payment for the life insurance policy is received, wherein at least a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070055620 - Method and apparatus for creating a benefit plan: A benefit plan for a member of a Native American Indian tribe comprises providing a life insurance policy having a policy benefit to the member. A premium payment for the policy is received, wherein at least a portion of the premium payment is obtained from loan proceeds generated by a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070055618 - Method and system to determine resident qualifications: A system, method, apparatus, and computer program code, including obtaining a record of actual rental payments associated with residents of a portfolio of rental units corresponding to a rental unit; obtaining a credit rating for the residents of the portfolio of rental units; classifying the residents of the portfolio of... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar Llc

20070055622 - Method for verifying available funds: An inventive method for verifying available funds and credit rating is disclosed. The method includes providing verifying means for verifying identity of an account owner, transmitting verification information to a second source, verifying identity of account owner, determining amount of available funds, and reporting the amount of available funds.... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20070055619 - Systems and methods for analyzing disparate treatment in financial transactions: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing disparate treatment in financial transactions. Data processing software instructions may be used to process lending-related data to identify a plurality of primary factors and one or more secondary factors for use making a lending-related decision. Model facilitation software instructions may be used to... Agent: Stephen D. Scanlon

20070055628 - Authorizing transactions associated with accounts: Linking accounts corresponding to different products together to create a group so that group processing can be performed at the group level while independent processing of the accounts is performed at the account level. The method links the accounts into a group by linking a financial record for each account... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055624 - Floorplanning: The invention relates to a method and a system providing floor-planning of consignment financing involving transaction interfaces between a provider of goods (16), financing provider (14), dealer of the goods (12), and a banking provider (44) through a network for at least one of a telecommunication and data communication. Hence,... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070055625 - Method and system for expediting payment delivery: A method and system of the present invention are directed to expediting payments for scheduled delivery (e.g., same day delivery, next day delivery) to various payees or recipients. A computer implemented method and system for expediting payments may include receiving recipient data and payment data from a customer at a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070055627 - Method and system for preparing a transfer document: A system and method of preparing a transfer document for a client to transfer financial services using a first account to use a second account, the method comprising the steps of: (i) preparing a transfer document to effect transfer of the financial services, each transfer document identifying at least the... Agent: Lang Michener

20070055626 - Method and system for reporting cashflows to clients: A system and method of providing a client with cashflow monitoring during a transfer of services (e.g. pre-authorized debits and credits) from a first account to a second account, the method comprising the steps of: (i) determining an effective date for the transfer of each service, said effective dates creating... Agent: Lang Michener

20070055623 - System and method for providing partial payment in the electronic commerce: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a partial payment in the electronic commerce via the Internet. More particularly, the present invention relates to the present invention relates to a method and system which can more simplify procedures of payment when a user makes a payment... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070055629 - Methods and apparatus for distributing content to support multiple customer service entities and content packagers: System for distributing content to support multiple customer service entities and content packagers. A method is provided for distributing content. The method comprises receiving BCS parameters that identify one or more content packagers that are associated with one or more BCS providers. The method also includes receiving packager parameters that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070055630 - System and method for secured account numbers in proximity devices: A method and system for using a secured account number for processing proximity types of wireless financial transactions associated with portable consumer proximity devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a proximity type of wireless financial transaction request along with a secured account number from a portable... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070055631 - Copy right protecting digital publishing system: The application concerns a digital publishing system that prevents piracy and protects the intellectual property rights of authors and publishers, using the encryption-decryption techniques developed for the financial industry. The system includes the following: A DigiReader, a DigiBookstore, a PubNetmanager and a DigiGuard. Use of the system will replace the... Agent: Hdsl

20070055632 - Method and system for initiating and/or conducting a transaction that is associated with at least two corresponding declarations of intent: The present invention relates to a method and a system for initiating and/or conducting a transaction that is associated with at least two corresponding declarations of intent, in particular a payment transaction, between at least two transaction parties via a processing unit (3), in which payment transaction at least one... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070055633 - Secure nfc apparatus and method supporting various security modules in plug-in fashion: A secure NFC apparatus includes a plug-in socket, an NFC unit, and a protocol matching unit. A security module is inserted in the plug-in socket. The NFC unit communicates with the outside via non-contact NFC using signals based on an S2C protocol. The protocol matching unit determines the type of... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070055634 - Automated anonymous connection system (aacs) for facilitating business communication: A system for enabling direct communication between potential clients and a pool of micro-entrepreneurs (contractors). A client enters information in the Automated Anonymous Connection System (AACS) regarding a job to be performed. The job information is automatically broadcast to all registered contractors capable of completing the job. The contractors receive... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20070055635 - Method and apparatus for performing mobile transactions: A system and method for forming transactions between a first mobile user and a merchant is set forth. An issuing bank and acquiring bank may also be provided for receiving and transferring funds. A transaction controller coupled to the mobile user device, the merchant device, the issuing bank, and the... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.c.

20070055636 - Cellular minigrid: A system (1) for transferring a resource within an area (3) having a plurality of regions (5), the system (1) comprising: determining means (15) operable to determine whether any one or more of the regions (5) requires an amount of the resource; requesting means (15) operable to issue a request... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070055637 - Systems and methods for automated construction claim investigation, mediation and collection: A system and method for investigating and mediating construction claims is presented. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention a construction claim can be mediated by fully investigating the details and context of a construction claim; determining the actual causes for the lack of payment; determining the key parties and... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070055638 - Device and method for comparing structural components: A device and a method for comparing calculations for product components used in different product types. According to the invention, a list of product types, a list of parts valid for all product types, a database comprising descriptions of structural parts and a database comprising calculations for the components is... Agent: Davidson Davidson & Kappel

20070055639 - Method and system for printing self-mailer including color-postal form: A method, for forming a tracked self-mailer is provided. The method comprises: generating a print image comprising a shipping label, a color-postal-form, and a document, wherein the shipping label comprises a delivery address, a return address, and a tracking number; printing the print image on a sheet of paper comprising... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070055640 - Remote meter reading using the existing mobile network: A system and method remotely monitor a plurality of meters in a non-wireless service network using a wireless system transmitting short message service messages separate from the non-wireless service network. The system includes a query computer for generating a query message including a command to a selected meter of the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070050202 - Business method for generating advertising claims: Business method for generating advertising claims by utilizing Confocal Raman Spectroscopy (CRS) for dermatological studies. The methods of the invention can be carried in vitro (either artificial skin or a sample of skin) or in vivo (directly on the human skin of a person).... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070050203 - Computer system for electronic cards and the like: Apparatus (method implemented with a machine, the machine, and the method for making the machine, and products produced thereby). The computer system can, for example, be structured (e.g., including programmed) to carry a method including: controlling, with at least one application computer program, a server system to create, and to... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20070050192 - Enhanced collaborative filtering technique for recommendation: A method for generating a recommendation for a user is provided. The method includes: identifying a first group of other users, the first group having a plurality of first individuals associated with user preferences and/or user profiles that are considered positive influences in generating a recommendation; and generating the recommendation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070050193 - Fuel use categorization for fuel tax reporting on commercial vehicles: A motor vehicle equipped with a controller area network supports vehicle management functions which categorize fuel usage by type and location of the vehicle. This allows fuel usage to be allocated between a non-taxable account and taxable accounts for each jurisdiction in which the vehicle is operated.... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20070050201 - Information system with propensity modelling and profiling engine: An information system having various databases (30-40 and 50-52) for storing data relating to products or services, and risk data models or propensity models. A web server (48) provides web pages (20) through which a user is able to express choices, which result in querying the product database (32) to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070050199 - Management system, management method, information processing apparatus, and information processing method: A management system includes: a first information processing apparatus disposed in correspondence with an entrance of a vehicle or an architecture having a plurality of seats, or a plurality of second information processing apparatuses respectively disposed in correspondence with the plurality of seats, or both of the first and second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070050195 - Method and system to model shipments for transportation planning/vehicle scheduling: A new model for transportation planning vehicle scheduling (TPVS). A database table for shipment documents independent of an order for goods, e.g., a sales order is created. When an order for goods is received, the database table is populated with a shipment document corresponding to, but independent of, the order... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050204 - Method, algorithm, and computer program for optimizing the performance of messages including advertisements in an interactive measurable medium: Method, procedure, algorithm, system, and computer program for improving and attempting to optimize the performance of messaging campaigns, particularly to marketing campaigns in which advertisements or other messages are distributed over an interactive measurable medium such as the Internet. A goal is to allocate the message alternatives to the customer... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070050200 - Method, processor and mail transport system for associating information with a mail item: In a method, data processor and mail transport system for a mail item, the mail item has an electronic memory device physically associated therewith that contains electronically stored information that is relevant for the transport of the mail item.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070050196 - Strategies for providing assets to client devices: Functionality is described for providing assets to a client environment, such as a set-top box. The functionality receives a request from the client environment that specifies an original set of parameter name-value pairs. A filtering module filters the original set of parameter name-value pairs to provide a set of germane... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070050197 - System and method of interacting with hotel information and services: An automated system and method are provided for interacting with hotel information and hotel services using client terminal devices. The client terminal devices may be located in hotel guest rooms, at the front desk, or in public areas throughout the hotel. The user may be automatically authenticated or the user... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070050198 - Systems and methods for improving product development processes: A method for developing products for a company comprises dividing a product development process into a plurality of project phases; for each of the plurality of project phases, defining deliverables by functional groups within the company; specifying a plurality of project gates between at least two pairs of adjacent phases;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070050194 - Systems and methods for providing open access to scientific information: Disclosed are systems and methods for providing expedited, unlimited, unrestricted, free or minimal cost access to information such as scientific research results. The methods and systems include receiving information, identifying at least one product included in the received information, retrieving links associated with the identified product or products, publishing the... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.C.

20070050205 - Healthcare payment system and method: A system and method for payment of health care costs. A bank holds a plurality of health savings accounts. Proceeds from the accounts may be used to pay for medical services provided by health care providers, with whom the bank has negotiated service rates. Coding information relating to the services... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070050206 - Method and apparatus for operating data management and control: By integrating supply chain data, verifying the data and converting it into a universal and consistent formal electronically, the invention provides real time, accurate information. With the addition of a supply chain monitoring and alerting component, the invention provide sup to the minute information and alerts that help managers make... Agent: Emch, Schaffer, Schaub & Porcello Co

20070050209 - Method for providing prescriptions and additional services at lower costs using an ethnic and demographic prescription program: A method is described for processing a prescription request for a customer that includes information about the geographic location of the customer. The method includes receiving the request at a prescription claims processing center, including the information about the geographic location of the customer. A prescription service provider that operates... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP Suite 3400

20070050208 - Methods and systems for health care resource management: Methods and systems for health-care resource management are described. One described method includes associating provision data with a charge item in a standardized chargemaster data store arranged as a hierarchy. The provision data is associated with provision of a health care-related service by a health-care provider and with a product... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070050211 - Mirror for showing a change of skin appearance: A tinted mirror which has been treated to reflect a modified image of skin is used to allow a subject to consider a potential change of the appearance of his/her skin, which would follow from the application of a cosmetic product such as self-tanning product. The mirror may be tinted... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070050207 - Quality controlled artificial eyelashes extension system: The present invention is a quality controlled artificial eyelashes extension system having two main features. One of the method and materials for the application of artificial lash hairs onto existing natural eyelashes of a human subject to extend the length of the natural eyelash. This feature provides the training and... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20070050210 - Systems and methods for providing pharmacy discounts for cash customers while maintaining third-party reimbursement rates: Embodiments of the present invention may allow for customer discount programs to be implemented for cash customers at one or more pharmacies. In particular, the customer discount programs may be implemented using switch-level transactions between one or more pharmacies and at least one switch provider, and without involvement of PBMs... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070050214 - Apparatus, system, and method for assessing and managing behavioral risk: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for assessing and managing behavioral risk. The present invention maintains an episode module configured to collect behavioral risk data, a risk assessment module configured to allow a user to assess behavioral risk in relation to environmental factors, and a treatment module configured to... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070050213 - Authentication processing method and apparatus: This invention is to provide a technique to appropriately authenticate the requesting side and the diagnosis side in the remote diagnosis system. In this invention, an authentication server communicating with a diagnosis requesting side terminal and a diagnosis side terminal carries out: at the beginning of a remote diagnosis, judging... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070050216 - Personal information system: The present invention provides systems and methods to realize the potential benefit of portable storage devices by taking advantage of standard PCs including an optical disk drive capable of reading an optical disk, such as a CD or a DVD, cost effective optical disks, and the Internet. In a preferred... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070050212 - Secure telerehabilitation system and method of use: A system and method for secure telerehabilitation is disclosed. The system and method can create results to evaluate patient performance. The results can then be uploaded to a server and stored in a database. The database can have secure fields for each doctor and secure fields for each patient within... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070050215 - System and method for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing behavioral advice and promoting adherence thereto: The present invention relates to a system and method for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing behavioral advice and promoting adherence thereto. More specifically, the invention relates to a system and method for eliciting one or more responses from an individual pertaining to the individual's health; for assessing, based... Agent: James C. Eaves Jr. Greenebaum Doll & Mcdonald PLLC

20070050218 - Engraftment of stem cell technology to life insurance policies and methods of reducing payouts on same: The present invention relates to including the invention in Key-Person, Term Life, or Critical Illiness Insurance policies to provide potential life-saving and health enhancements in addition to the death benefits covered under existing policies. The collection, processing and cryo-preservation of adult stem cells from any adult source, taken from peripheral... Agent: Coleman Sudol Sapone, P.C.

20070050220 - Health care provider payment assurance: A process for providing payment of a patient's share of health care treatment and products comprises issuing a medical expense credit card to the patient, wherein payments charged are not made until approved by a third party administrator. An audit of charges is performed by a third party administrator and... Agent: Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP

20070050219 - Healthcare claim and remittance processing system and associated method: A system for processing healthcare claims and remittances comprises a database and an electronic portal. The database contains previously received healthcare claims from a plurality of healthcare providers and previously received remittances from a plurality of payers. The electronic portal, connected to the database, receives a healthcare claim from a... Agent: John H. Thomas, P.C.

20070050217 - Method for forming a multi-peril insurance policy: A method that combines into one insurance policy, perils which tend to offset each other, the offsetting being manifested by negative correlations in the payouts of benefits for the offsetting pair or pairs of risks. The method includes, selecting a population of potential policyholders to be insured and dividing the... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20070050221 - Dispatch management model: A method includes monitoring a system for fault conditions, determining an estimated energy loss based on the fault condition, determining an estimated product loss and/or sales loss based on the fault condition, and scheduling maintenance to correct the fault condition. Maintenance is schedule to correct the fault condition prior to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070050225 - Automated resource planning tool and user interface: An automated tool for scheduling tasks to be performed based on resources available in a constrained environment. The tool gives crew members, employees, or others responsible for the performance of tasks in the constrained environment the power to adjust task schedules to take projected conditions into account.... Agent: Greenberg-traurig

20070050227 - Automated workflow composable action model: An automated workflow composable action model allows composition of actions into an activity flow. Activity flows can be based on an activity model, created on an ad hoc basis, or a combination of the two. A standard set of messages and interfaces provide flexibility and uniformity so that any of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070050226 - Information display system, information display apparatus, and information display method: A technology for displaying managed image information is disclosed. A schedule information item is acquired, a document is acquired as an image information item in an electronic format, the image information item and the schedule information item are registered in a data storing unit in association with each other, the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070050222 - System and method for determining demand distribution for safety stock planning: A system and method are described for identifying an appropriate demand distribution to use for safety stock planning within a supply chain management (“SCM”) system. For example, one embodiment of the invention comprises a computer-implemented method comprising: extracting historical demand characteristics for a product from a specified data source, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050223 - System and method of order split for transportation planning: A system and method of creating a transportation plan based on split orders. A received order is divided into split freight units that simulate a possible delivery for transportation. A delivery document is created and stored in persistent memory when the simulated split is planned and released.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050224 - System and method of rule-based control over transportation plan in case of order changes: A method and system for rule-based control of order changes in transportation planning. An effect of an order change received is evaluated to identify if the effect on the transportation plan retained in persistent memory exceeds a threshold. The transportation plan is maintained unaffected if the effect does not exceed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050230 - Computer facilitated ordering, tracking, and reporting system: An apparatus and process programmed by an administrator for allowing users to track service related information, including equipment, labor, location, profit, warranties, and costs. For example, the system allows a customer to visit a website on a computer network, such as the internet, and request a new work order or... Agent: Alvin Viray

20070050231 - Item allocation method, system and program for workflow system: Clients are prevented from issuing allocation requests to the same items by using a condition depending upon work and a selection key when selecting items to be allocated. By thus selecting allocation subjects so as not to cause competition and thereby reducing exclusive waiting, the efficiency of allocation processing in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070050229 - Methods and systems for providing access to decision critical information for food services supply chain management: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing access to decision critical information for food services supply chain management are provided in accordance with the present invention. A food services customer can input menu item information into at least one customer database for one or more food services locations. At least one... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20070050228 - Schedule management: A method and system to assign a trial schedule of a plurality of trial schedules to a worker based on a worker ranking relative to other workers, and based on an order preference of the worker relating to a set of schedule abstractions, the set of schedule abstractions being respectively... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070050232 - Method and system for enterprise monitoring based on a component business model: A method and system for enterprise monitoring maps monitor events to elements of a component business model of the enterprise and displays the mapped events using the component business model. Rules are used to determine whether events captured from a monitor source are monitor events. An enterprise monitor metamodel linking... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20070050234 - On-line design system and method: An online design system and method are provided. In a preferred embodiment, a landscape design system and method are provided. The system may provide interactive collaboration of one or more plans associated with a design project.... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070050236 - System and method for processing transaction information: A system and method for facilitating the management of transactions between parties in a networked environment are provided. A transaction processing system can include one or more buyer computing devices, one or more seller computing devices, one or more shipping computing devices and a central processing system. The central processing... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070050233 - System and method for synchronizing sales order confirmations with material flow determinations: A computer system and method for synchronizing sales order confirmations and material flow determinations in a supply chain management (SCM) environment. For example, a method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: receiving an indication of a new sales order having associated therewith a desired quantity and a desired... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050235 - System and method of modeling and optimizing product parameters from hierarchical structure: A computer-implemented method involves modeling of product decisions in a retail store. The product decision variables are profit, assortment, placement, promotion, and inventory. Various rules and constraints such as facing elasticity, shelf replenishment costs, shelf space, carrying costs, facing capacity, slotting fees, and cannibalization are defined for multiple product decision... Agent: Quarles & Brady, LLP

20070050238 - Computer-implemented apparatus and method for capturing and monitoring employee development and performance in a call center: An interactive computer-implemented apparatus and method for capturing and monitoring performance in a call center, and for promoting competition in productivity and quality metrics among employees comprising: a relational database, for use by all employees in the call center, comprising a competencies module defining competency requirements for each job in... Agent: Vesna N. Rafaty

20070050239 - Method for managing organizational capabilities: The invention pertains to a method of analyzing an organization's personnel and material resource data in order to provide organizational managers decision options in order maximize an organization's ability to perform its designated mission. The method is also contemplated to be able to be incorporated into a computer language such... Agent: Naval Medical Research Center Attn: (code 00l)

20070050237 - Visual designer for multi-dimensional business logic: A user interface is provided for visual feedback to a user in a business logic application for generating summary scores from heterogeneous measures for monitoring organizational performance. The user interface includes presenting selections for a scoring pattern, a banding type, and an indicator scheme. In response to the selections, icons,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070050240 - Wireless parking guidance system: A parking guidance system tracks available parking spaces and leads users to vacant spots through display boards placed at strategic locations in the parking lot. Sensor nodes are deployed at parking spaces or within traffic lanes to monitor parking space occupancy and wirelessly transmit this information. The sensor nodes form... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20070050245 - Affiliate marketing method that provides inbound affiliate link credit without coded urls: A method of affiliate marketing provides inbound affiliate link credit without coded URLs. Affiliate web sites link directly to merchant web sites, so that all of a merchant site's affiliates potentially contribute to its inbound link credit. The merchant web server parses incoming web page requests, and extracts the referrer.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070050253 - Automatically generating content for presenting in a preview pane for ads: The user interfaces, methods and systems described herein facilitate user interaction with an ad space by conveying additional advertising content via a preview pane and facilitate automatically generating the content of the preview pane. By way of example, an electronic advertisement is conveyed to a user in an ad space... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050256 - Method and apparatus for compensating participation in marketing research: A method for gathering marketing information from a player including transmitting a marketing question to a player proximate in space to a compensation dispensing machine, receiving a response to the marketing question from the player, and transmitting a signal to the compensation dispensing machine providing compensation to the player. The... Agent: Walker Digital

20070050244 - Method and system of distributing advertisements: Method and system of distributing advertisements for storage in a network. The stored advertisements being retrievable for insertion within or other association with services provided to a network subscriber. Identifying characteristics of the advertisement may be used to facilitate the storage thereof and identifying characteristics of the customs may be... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070050247 - Modifiable and configurable advertising apparatus: An advertising apparatus that may be affixed to a vertical surface, and includes a flat substrate containing a first portion that is capable of being written on, a second portion providing space for a calendar, and a third portion providing space for advertisements from multiple vendors.... Agent: Raymond C. Jones Carr, Morris & Graeff, PC

20070050251 - Monetizing a preview pane for ads: The user interfaces, methods and systems described herein facilitate user interaction with an ad space by conveying additional advertising content via a preview pane and facilitate charging for this functionality. By way of example, a user is provided with one or more ads from a plurality of different advertisers in... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050243 - Multi-unit system and methods for game augmented interactive marketing: The present invention provides multi-unit systems and methods for game augmented interactive marketing or information presentation. A system includes a first advertising unit includes a first processor and a second unit including a second processor both adapted to run an entertainment sequence. The user may restate information provided by the... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070050250 - Multimedia advertising method: A method for selling and distributing multimedia regular/classified advertisements from a single source includes the steps of establishing a website wherein advertisers compose and place Internet ads on the Internet from a remote terminal. The advertiser also selects categories and selected media in order to reach a target audience. A... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070050257 - Online publishing and management system and method: The present invention is an online publishing management system and method that includes at least one advertisement computer means for storing an advertisement file; at least one article computer means for storing an article file; and a publishing management server computer. The publishing management server computer includes user interface means... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070050252 - Preview pane for ads: The user interfaces, methods and systems described herein facilitate user interaction with an ad space by conveying additional advertising content via a preview pane. By way of example, an electronic advertisement may be conveyed to a user in an ad space provided by a third party. A secondary advertisement providing... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070050246 - Promotional advertising system and method for redeeming promotions using electronic customer credits: A promotional advertising system that is capable of providing electronic promotions to customers includes a database that maintains promotion information for a business and customer information for a customer. The promotion information identifies one or more promotions offered by the business, and the customer information identifies customer credits for the... Agent: Holly L. Rudnick

20070050258 - Receipt card systems: The receipt card system provides a system and method for accumulating and storing transaction line-item detail on behalf of consumers. The system permits consumers to view stored transaction line-item detail in a variety of ways using a web browser interface. It also includes a means for consumers to download transaction... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20070050242 - Solo-unit system and methods for game augmented interactive marketing: The present invention provides apparatus and methods for game augmented interactive marketing and information presentation. An apparatus includes a processor adapted to run an entertainment sequence, at least one sensor, at least one input device, and an audio output device. The apparatus may include a speech recognition system. A method... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070050254 - System and method for trading context-specific advertising: A method for executing trades involving advertising opportunities includes receiving a first order from a first party that indicates a first advertising context. The method also includes receiving a second order from a second party that indicates a second advertising context and determining that the first order matches the second... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070050248 - System and method to manage advertising and coupon presentation in vehicles: A method for utilizing presentation slots to manage advertising and coupon presentation to mobile communication devices over a communication network is stored and executed as an application for use by network devices. The method includes sensing vehicle context and vehicle events, based on vehicle sensor data. Presentation slots, particular circumstances... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070050241 - System for enhancing web-based marketing efficiency of fragmented business: A system and method for enhancing web-based marketing efficiency of fragmented business includes an exchange server computer having exchange server software operably associated with the publisher's web site having fragmentation software which is equipped to prompt a viewer to enter a path determining zone of fragmentation information where upon entry... Agent: A Patent Lawyer Corp, PC R William Graham

20070050249 - System for propagating advertisements for market controlled presentation: A method for propagating advertisement for market controlled presentation among communication devices over a communication network accessed by service providers and an advertising service is stored and executed as an application for use by network devices. The method includes receiving advertising requests and bids from potential advertisers, with each bid... Agent: Patent Documentation Center Xerox Corporation

20070050255 - System, method, and computer program product for allowing access to a promotion: A system, method, and computer program product are used to control access to promotions is disclosed. The system, method and computer program product control access to promotion information through receiving a partial account number of a cardholder at a customer service system that stores the promotion information, comparing the received... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070050260 - Residential ship space sales method: The present disclosure provides methods of selling space aboard a cruise ship. In certain embodiments, disclosed methods include incorporating a first business entity in a first jurisdiction and organizing a cooperative association. An interest in at least a portion of a ship is transferred, such as by a lease, by... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070050259 - System and method for user controlled log-in; interacting and log-out: A system in which a user controls the log-in, transaction, and log-out process with respect to a merchant. The user's presence at the merchant's facility triggers the log-in process, such that the merchant's systems become aware of the user's presence. Once the user is registered with the merchant, information and... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070050261 - Tracking assets between organizations in a consortium of organizations: A system includes a network of auto-id nodes and a processor. Each auto-id node includes index data that defines a hierarchical relationship between the auto-id node and another auto-id node within the network, and the auto-id nodes include a storage for storing status and history data about one or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070050267 - Image commercial transactions system and method: An image commercial transactions system and method that are able to implement sales to the purpose of the seller. An e-commerce system for selling a picture and a handling condition specific to the picture, both being recorded on a predetermined recording medium in a predetermined format. The picture to be... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070050265 - Method and apparatus for providing a list of items desired to be purchased: A method for providing across the Internet a list of items desired to be purchased by one or more buyers to a seller. Buyer related information is recorded into a buyer database. Items wanted related information is recorded into an items wanted database. The database records are populated by information... Agent: Gregory T. Zalecki

20070050264 - Method, apparatus and processes for interactive online and over the counter purchasing with rebate, saving, and investing processes while implementing provisions of the pension protection act of 2006: The Invention encompasses a system for planning, funding and managing pension accounts, pension funds, individual retirement funds or accounts (to include 401k, traditional, spousal or Roth IRA's) while using the provisions of the Pension Protection Act Of 2006. The invention comprising a novel Volume Purchase Rebate Business Method, Volume Purchase... Agent: Morris E. Lewis

20070050262 - Multimedia purchasing apparatus, purchasing and supplying method: The multimedia purchasing apparatus (100) for purchasing multimedia content (161) over a network (140), interacting with a user profiling unit (122) containing information on user preferences of multimedia, has a user negotiation unit (120) comprised, which is arranged to autonomously purchase the multimedia content (161) guided by a budget specification... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070050263 - Real estate sales/purchase system: An estate broker 12 offers a property. A customer extraction section 105 extracts customers who desire the offered property. A price range check section 108 checks a price range with a predetermined or more number of customers, and judges the distribution of desired prices. When desired prices are concentrated on... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070050266 - System and kiosk for commerce of optical media through multiple locations: A kiosk dispenses and receives recorded optical media using an interconnected central server, through an Internet Service Provider. The central server has databases and processing capabilities and is connected to a credit verification system. The databases collect inventory administration information and customer data (e.g., credit card information and email addresses)... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070050269 - Apparatus and method for passing information between catalogs in a computer operating system: An apparatus and method are disclosed for passing data between catalogs in a computer operating system. The apparatus includes an identifying module, a receiving module, a definition module, and an updating module. The identifying module identifies a first catalog having at least one data set to be passed to a... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070050268 - Matching cad objects with relevant manufacturer-and supplier-supplied content leveraging pay-for-placement search engine technology: A method integrated into a CAD application is disclosed for providing additional content related to CAD objects manipulated in the CAD application. Aspects of the present invention include automatically extracting a list of one or more attributes associated with the one or more CAD objects in response to a user... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070050270 - Methods for promoting entities through the sale of popular items: Disclosed herein are methods of promoting particular entities comprising creating a directory of entities and promoting the entities within the directory. The entity creating the directory promotes the entities within the directory by (i) offering items for sale, wherein each item for sale is marked with an identifier of an... Agent: Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP

20070050271 - Presence, pattern and weight sensor surface: The invention is a system for detecting and reporting the presence and/or weight of inventory items. The system includes a storage unit having a surface for storing inventory items, one or more sensors positioned on the surface, and a reporting unit for receiving and transmitting the first signal. The sensors... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20070050272 - Systems and methods for purchasing, invoicing and distributing items: A method for supplying items to dispensing units that hold at least one type of item and a record of inventory levels comprises periodically sending restocking information from the dispensing units over a network to a server computer. Ordering information is generated for the items to be restocked based on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070050276 - Method and system for measuring investment performance: The present invention relates to a method and system for measuring investment performance (e.g., total portfolio performance of individuals). In one example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), the method and system may be used for measuring investment performance of personal pension portfolios. In another example... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070050275 - Method and system for purchasing commodities: A method of purchasing a commodity at a low price is provided. The method involves gathering commodity-pricing information from at least one commodity-providing source periodically. The commodity-pricing information is uploaded to a commodity database periodically. A specific commodity contained within the commodity database and attached to commodity-pricing information is identified.... Agent: Hayes Soloway PC

20070050274 - Methods and systems for ranking and investing in financial instruments: Methods and systems for investing in financial instruments are disclosed. For each of a plurality of financial instruments, a net asset value pertaining to a company associated with the financial instrument and an expected return on investment for one or more of an asset acquisition, an asset disposition, an asset... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP 50th Floor

20070050273 - System and method for presenting price movements before or following recurring historical events: Computer systems and methods handling information about price movements of a financial instrument before or following a recurring historical event by specifying target financial instruments, recurring historical events, and computing returns of financial instruments each relative to a substantially single respective reference time, for a plurality of distinct times during... Agent: Perry Hoffman & Associates P.C.

20070050277 - System and method for providing a loan to a taxpayer: A system and method for providing to a taxpayer a loan in an amount based on the taxpayer's estimated tax refund amount due for a current year, the loan being provided to the taxpayer prior to year end of the current tax year and prior to completion and filing of... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20070050281 - Committed bidder auction: A Committed Bidder Auction is a system and a process that is an alternative to an English Auction. In a Committed Bidder Auction, one or more of the unsuccessful bidders is obligated to pay some amount, a fraction of their final and largest bid. The “Dollar Auction” well known to... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070050280 - Methods, software, and systems for over-the-counter trading: Methods, software, and hardware are disclosed for providing verified real time price quotes in an over-the-counter financial market. Systems are described that can comprise methods, software, and/or hardware to provide verified real time price information for securities traded over-the-counter. Verification methods of the invention include identifying suspect source data, wherein... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20070050279 - Reverse bidding for trip services: A method for reverse bidding of trip services among mobile communication devices. over a communication network is stored and executed as an application for use by network devices. The method includes specifying destination and selection criteria of a vehicle user and developing a trip specification based on the destination and... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070050278 - Trading rights facility: The trading rights facility of the present invention comprises guaranteeing an access for the quantity and price of a potential imbalanced or complex order, which price is acceptable to both the buyer, the seller, and the market as a whole; and agreeing to fully deliver the quantities at the discovered... Agent: Paul E. Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20070050286 - Computer-implemented lending analysis systems and methods: In accordance with the teachings described herein, computer-implemented lending analysis systems and methods are provided. A pre-processing module may be used to organize loan applicant data into a plurality of applicant groups based on one or more demographic factors, wherein a protected class is identified from the plurality of applicant... Agent: Stephen D. Scanlon

20070050282 - Financial risk mitigation optimization systems and methods: Systems and methods for optimizing financial risk mitigations. A system and method can be provided for the generation of a financial risk mitigation optimization model. The model can be used in determining an allocation of financial risk mitigations with respect to exposures.... Agent: Stephen D. Scanlon

20070050285 - Interactive loan information importing and editing web-based system: An interactive information management system generates a hierarchy of web pages for allowing mortgage brokers, lenders, and/or other personnel to track and manage each stage of the process of acquiring a mortgage. One web page includes a database search capability which is performed based on one or more user-specified criteria.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070050284 - Interactive loan searching and sorting web-based system: An interactive information management system generates a hierarchy of web pages for allowing mortgage brokers, lenders, and/or other personnel to track and manage each stage of the process of acquiring a mortgage. One web page includes a database search capability which is performed based on one or more user-specified criteria.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070050283 - Interactive web-based system for managing mortgage loans and services: An interactive information management system generates a hierarchy of web pages for allowing loan originators, lenders, and/or other personnel to track and manage each stage of the process of acquiring a mortgage. One web page includes a database search capability which is performed based on one or more user-specified criteria.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070050287 - Method for structuring a new loan: The preferred method for structuring a new loan includes receiving borrower information related to the new loan; receiving performance information related to funded loans; and determining a new loan risk for the new loan based on the borrower information and the performance information.... Agent: Schox PLC

20070050288 - System and method for integrating risk and marketing objectives for making credit offers: A system for integrating business risk and marketing objectives into a unified business strategy for providing credit to one or more members of a target population is provided. The system comprises a database comprising risk data and marketing data associated with the members of the target population and a scoring... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070050289 - System for processing non-prime credit applications: A system for processing credit applications. An adaptive decision engine produces a score determined by the risk associated with a credit application. The credit application is automatically approved or rejected if the score is above or below certain thresholds, and is otherwise referred for manual processing. The system may include... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070050290 - System and method for anonymized disclosure of corporate data in electronic negotiations: An automated electronic negotiation system permits anonymous negotiations between one or more buyer entities and one or more seller entities. Each buyer entity and seller entity registers and provides information related to the respective entity. The information is stored confidentially and released in a step-wise fashion only upon authorization. The... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070050291 - Method and system for cash remittances using a two country banking structure: A bank customer of a first bank in a first country has a bank account. The bank provides a banking service whereby customer is able to send cash to a recipient in a second country via a commingled bank account belonging to a second bank. The cash is provided to... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070050292 - System and method for consumer opt-out of payment conversions: In one embodiment, for example, software for consumer opt-out of payment conversions comprises computer readable instructions operable to identify check data of a physical check at a receiving entity. The software is further operable to compare the identified check data to an opt-out list to determine a match, with the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070050293 - Method and apparatus for distributing content to a client device: Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for distributing content to a client device is described. One aspect of the invention relates to distributing pre-encrypted content. In one example, pre-encrypted content is received at a server. Pre-encryption key data associated with the pre-encrypted content is obtained. The pre-encrypted content is decrypted... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070050294 - System and method for preventing disk cloning in set-top boxes: A set-top media system is disclosed which can be combined with an open architecture personal computer (PC) to provide a feature-rich secure integrated media center while meeting security rules of most major conditional access and content protection industry rules such as Cable Labs DFAST and PHILA agreements; and DTLA agreements... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070050295 - Shared information notation and tracking: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for sharing information during a customer service session. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method comprises the steps of: displaying a plurality of consumer service input process fields associated with a plurality of consumer service process steps, where the plurality of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070050300 - Electronic cash system: An electronic cash system processes a payment for an amount due, the payment being carried out using previously deposited funds. An account management device stores information identifying a user and information of an amount of money available to be utilized by the user based on the previously deposited funds. A... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070050299 - Media processing method and media processing program: A media processing method for performing media processing by causing a processor to execute plural program modules, including: a first step of controlling input/output of media data, determining at least one call time, and calling a second program module in a second layer at each determined call time, by executing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070050298 - Pay-per-view payment system and method: A system, method and computer program product are provided for commercial-based payment for pay-per-view movies. Initially, a plurality of movies is displayed, utilizing an output device. Then, utilizing an input device, selection of at least one of the movies is received. In conjunction with the present technique, it is determined... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070050296 - Printer transformation service: The present invention provides a method, data processing system and computer program product for providing a data stream transform service, for example for transforming a data stream into a format suitable for printing. A data-stream is divided into one or more work units, each work unit is provided to one... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070050297 - Using power state to enforce software metering state: A pay-per-use or metered-use computer uses directives from an operating system or other software component to determine whether to meter or not. Because such directives may not be trustworthy, a metering system may determine a state of the computer to verify that the metering state complies with a policy. If... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070050301 - System for software license control and method therefore: The present invention provides a system for monitoring the number and usage of licenses of an application over a network. A customer is allotted a certain number of excess licenses that are utilized on an as needed basis. Once one or more of these excess licenses are utilized, a notification... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070050302 - Method for calculating the economic profitability of power transformers and method for the optimization of the economic profitability of power transformers: a) calculating the total ownership cost (TOC) of the power transformer as a function of a depreciation period (40); b) calculating the revenue of the power transformer in a total investment to meet a determined demand; and c) use of the revenue of the power transformer and of the total... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070050303 - Biometric identification device: A biometric identification device includes a biometric sensor, an encryption factor, and a microprocessor. The biometric sensor is operable to sense a biometric characteristic from a user and to generate data representing the biometric characteristic. The microprocessor is coupled to the biometric sensor and is operable to generate a user... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070050305 - Rfid system for predictive product purchase date evaluation: Operating parameters and potentially related event dates are gathered from end users of computer systems and fed into a predictive model to generate post-sale predictions of purchase date when a product is presented from end users and fed into the prediction model. Products may be accepted for service, repair, return,... Agent: Cozen O'connor, P.C.

20070050304 - System and method of event triggered voice call origination: A method of selective call initiation is disclosed and includes receiving data from a computer based auction site. Further, the method includes detecting a notification event by evaluating the data with respect to notification criteria associated with a user account. Also, the method includes initiating a voice based call over... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070050306 - Systems and methods for providing interpretation services: A communications platform provides communication services for parties communicating in different languages. The communications platform may receive a language interpretation request from a first party via a telephone device and identify first and second languages associated with the request. The communications platform may determine whether the first party is associated... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070050307 - Method and apparatus for data recipient storage and retrieval of data using a network communication device: A system and method for data recipient invoked electronic commerce allowing data subjects to provide information over a network and data recipients to receive such information relating to the needs of s data subject such as purchases, distribution of application information and the like. The system includes a server having... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070050309 - Computerized third party negotiation: A computerized third party where each side submits a list of issues to be addressed, and then the computer then reports the combined list to both sides. Each side then submits to the computer a value function defined on all the factors in the combined list, and also enters the... Agent: Brad Close Tighe Patton, PLLC

20070050308 - Method, means and a computer program product for setting rating: This publication discloses a method for setting rating. It also discloses means and a computer software product for setting rating, a rating system, and a method in the rating system. In the method for setting rating, an internal event format of some event formed through a value system, an event-description... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070050311 - Assembly should cost application: A computer system for estimating the cost of an assembly has a processor and a database operably linked to the processor. The processor is configured to access an assembly cost structure stored in the database. The assembly cost structure has a bill of materials and a list of one or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070050310 - System and method for enhancing cost performance of mechanical systems: This disclosure is directed to a method to enhance cost performance of a mechanical system. The method includes inspecting the mechanical system to determine a primary work scope. The primary work scope is associated with a first subset of the set of modules. The method further includes accessing a computational... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070050312 - Apparatus for processing postal logistics using radio frequency identification and method using the same: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for processing postal logistics using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and a method using the same. The postal logistics processing apparatus includes a postal matter receipt system for registering receipt information of received postal matter, and issuing an RFID tag corresponding to the postal matter receipt... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050313 - Radio frequency identification tag for postal logistics processing apparatus and data configuration method thereof: Disclosed herein is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag for a postal logistics processing apparatus and a data configuration method thereof. The RFID tag for a postal logistics processing apparatus includes: a first area in which identification information of the tag is stored; a second area in which identification information... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070050314 - System and method for managing postage funds for use by multiple postage meters: A system for managing postage funds that includes a data center computer system for authorizing and accounting for postage fund downloads for one or more customers, a customer funds repository in electronic communication with the data center computer system, and a plurality of postage meters located at a customer site... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070050316 - System for automated package mailing: A walk up or drive through package mailing system is provided.... Agent: Licata & Tyrrell P.C.

20070050315 - System for high-speed automatic weighing of items in a mail stream: An apparatus for weighing mail pieces being advanced across a transport path including a weighing module having load cells, an in-feed drive module and a takeaway module. The scale platform is mounted independently of the in-feed drive module and the takeaway module, and the scale platform comprises an uninterrupted mail... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070050317 - Automated mail preparation system and method: A system for automatic preparation of mail pieces for special service mailing has a transport device for transporting a series of mail pieces such as envelopes one-by-one in a first path, each envelope having imprinted information. A scanner in the first path reads predetermined information off each envelope. Return receipts... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP