Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 04/07

20070094042 - Contextual mobile content placement on a mobile communication facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for displaying mobile content in association with a website on a mobile communication facility based at least in part on receiving a website request from a mobile carrier gateway, receiving contextual information relating to the requested website, associating the received... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070094043 - Energy service business method and system: An energy service business system includes a database which stores past data about an energy consumption of a facility before taking energy-saving measures, a measurer which measures present data of the energy consumption after taking the energy-saving measures, and a calculator which calculates energy curtailment quantities facility before and after... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070094038 - Franchising business method: At least one embodiment of the invention pertains to a business method for efficiently allocating and operating franchises based on customer assignment rather than the traditional geographical assignment. A franchisor allocates customers to a particular franchise based on the franchisee's ability to service such customers. A franchisor can control the... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20070094039 - Methods and systems of monitoring child welfare and juvenile justice services: A method and system of collecting, evaluating, and sharing information about the status of at least one child under the auspices of a child welfare agency, a juvenile justice agency or another responsible agency that comprises: enabling various individuals to asynchronously submit structured and unstructured information about a child through... Agent: Gerard P. Norton Norton & Diehl LLC

20070094041 - Simulating user immersion in data representations: The disclosure provides various systems, methods, and software supporting user immersion in data representations. Software for virtual immersion in large datasets identifies a dataset at least partially based on abstract information, with the dataset comprising a plurality of data elements including at least a first data element of a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094040 - System for acquiring rights to lease a floating production system: A system for acquiring rights to lease a floating production system including leassee client devices, leassor client devices, and a database server system is disclosed. The leassee client devices and leassor client devices communicate with the database server system. The database server system maintains a catalog of floating production systems... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070094048 - Expert knowledge combination process based medical risk stratifying method and system: A method is provided for a medical risk stratification system. The method may include obtaining data records associated with one or more health variables and a plurality of medical risks from a plurality of MRS models based on an expert knowledge combination process and establishing a medical risk process model... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070094049 - Method and apparatus for remote health monitoring and providing health related information: A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remote computing facility configured for signal communication with, and... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070094045 - Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing a notification of a message in a health care environment: The present invention relates to methods, systems, and apparatus for providing a notification of a message in a health care environment. One embodiment of the invention includes a method for providing a message notification associated with care of a patient in a health care environment, comprising: receiving a message from... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070094046 - Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing real time query support and graphical views of patient care information: The present invention relates to methods, systems, and apparatus for providing query support for a real time patient care graphical view. One embodiment of the invention includes a method for providing information associated with care of a patient in a health care environment. The method includes receiving location information associated... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070094047 - Payment convergence system and method: A method and system is provided for convergence of multiple independent applications into a single payment vehicle. In the context of a medical procedure, the invention provides for the convergence of medical/dental insurance with at least one secondary payment source to effect payment for the entire procedure. Through the instant... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070094044 - Web based health and wellness resource locator: The current system can include user-initiated, system-prompted and sometimes human-assisted consumer access to specific filters within the automated system. These filters can direct the consumers/patient to a rank ordered list of various health and wellness providers that are relatively available. This list can be segmented by various criteria that are... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070094052 - Medical imaging and report management: This invention provides methods of capturing, transporting, and reporting video patient studies using electronic networks. A medical image reporting system may include a data harvester that receives digital video clips for review by a radiologist, cardiologist, or other specialist, an application that provides a convenient user interface for the user... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070094051 - Method for conducting business at a medical practice: The invention concerns a method for conducting business at a medical practice. The method includes acquiring a customizable medical database containing information about medical conditions, and personalizing the database with details of the medical practice. The method further includes providing consultations at the medical practice, including identification of a patient's... Agent: Kenneth M. Fagin

20070094050 - Method for linking sets of data comprising medical therapeutic indications: A method is for linking sets of data including medical therapeutic indications. According to the method, the respective set of data of a therapeutic indication is provided with at least one output while a reference regarding a therapeutic indication that follows in a treatment process is allocated to an output... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070094053 - Life insurance option: A method of providing deferred life insurance through a life insurance option. The deferred life insurance becomes effective later in the life of an insured after the option matures. The insured pays at least one payment during a first period for the deferred life insurance policy option. The deferred life... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070094054 - Method for defining qualified direct cost: A method for use in connection with an insurance product under which an insurer will provide death benefits to employees of an employer includes creating an irrevocable trust as a welfare benefit fund; purchasing a whole life insurance policy, the whole life insurance policy being owned by the irrevocable trust;... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070094056 - System, method, and computer program product for reducing the burden on an inventory system by retrieving, translating, and displaying attributes information corresponding to travel itineraries listed in the inventory system: The present invention generates a concise listing of low-priced travel itinerary options including attributes information that discloses amenities or incentives that may be offered with the listed itinerary options. The invention generates the listing in response to a user input after retrieving itinerary options from an inventory system. The invention... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070094055 - Working machine management system: A server (10) enables users (A-B) sharing the same working machine (1) to mutually monitor a usage state by each user. The server (10) receives a user ID, the working time, the engine cooling water temperature, and the current position that are detected in the working machine (1) through a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070094059 - Capability progress modelling component: A capability progress modelling component for determining the progress of adoption of an on-demand capabilities model by an organization, the deployment progress component comprising: a completion state descriptor component for receiving inputs from an entity describing a current state, a target state and a modelled state for the organization; and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070094058 - Refurbishing and resale techniques for data storage tape: Techniques are described for reselling and/or refurbishing data tape media. The techniques may involve determining life information associated with a data tape medium and reselling the data tape medium when a remaining life of the data tape medium is larger than a pre-defined threshold. In this manner, the quality of... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20070094060 - Strategy trees for data mining: A method for applying a strategy to a dataset in a data mining system to address a business problem, comprising: receiving at least one conditional expression defining the strategy from a user through a graphical user interface (“GUI”) displayed on a display screen of the data mining system; applying the... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070094057 - System and method for automatic computation of validation metrics for global logistics processes: A validation matrix computation system automatically computes a validation matrix to analyze performance and efficiency of a global logistics process. The present system comprises identifying metrics and automatically computing the metrics to derive a validation matrix from the metrics. The system comprises a metric capture module installed at all participant... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070094062 - Apparatus and method for long range planning and implementation of digital subscriber network: A method is provided for designing a communications network. A variation of parameters is introduced into a set of parameters located in at least one of a plurality of databases related to the communications network. A set of business rules is applied to the varied set of parameters in order... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070094061 - Method and system for predicting resource requirements for service engagements: A method and system for predicting resource requirements of a current service engagement by modeling records of past service engagements to create and classify templates of service resource usage. This is done by clustering past engagements into groups having similar time series requirements for service resources. A service resource template... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, PC

20070094064 - Method for financial system process automation comprising scheduling and scoping: A method for financial system process automation comprising a first process for scheduling financial account tasks which are in-scope and a second process for evaluating rules for placing financial account tasks “in-scope”. A method for efficiently and systematically selecting tasks for scheduling from a list of conditionally needed tasks that... Agent: Patentry

20070094063 - Supply chain etransformation apparatus: Supply Chain eTransformation transforms a Target Company into an ecompany ready to integrate an eSupply Chain Management Program. The strategy component develops a strategy for transforming the Target Company into the ecompany taking into consideration success factors, business challenges and vision of the eCompany. The design component designs an eCompany... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070094065 - Activity planning method and system: A computer-implemented method for planning an activity is disclosed. The method includes receiving a suggestion pertaining to the activity from an initiator and receiving a list of invitees, the list of invitees including at least two invitees. The method further includes executing a decision program, using input data, to generate... Agent: Chenghsiu Wu

20070094068 - Lifecycle objectification of non-activity objects in an activity thread: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to state awareness of a non-live object, and provide a method, system and computer program product for lifecycle model instance objectification of a non-activity object in an activity thread. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070094066 - Method and apparatus for recommendation engine using pair-wise co-occurrence consistency: The invention, referred to herein as PeaCoCk, uses a unique blend of technologies from statistics, information theory, and graph theory to quantify and discover patterns in relationships between entities, such as products and customers, as evidenced by purchase behavior. In contrast to traditional purchase-frequency based market basket analysis techniques, such... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070094067 - Method and apparatus for recommendation engine using pair-wise co-occurrence consistency: The invention, referred to herein as PeaCoCk, uses a unique blend of technologies from statistics, information theory, and graph theory to quantify and discover patterns in relationships between entities, such as products and customers, as evidenced by purchase behavior. In contrast to traditional purchase-frequency based market basket analysis techniques, such... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070094069 - Method and system for charging a vehicle for parking: The present invention is directed to a method for charging vehicles for utilizing parking rights in a parking zone and a system thereof. The method comprises the steps of: during a specified time period (e.g. a day, a week, one or more month(s), etc.), intermittently collecting information of utilizing parking... Agent: Anna Berman

20070094082 - Ad serving method and apparatus for asynchronous advertising in time and space shifted media network: A podcast system and method are provided to select and deliver media ads over a network to a user device and to insert the media ads in media content subscribed to and delivered over the network to the user device.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070094073 - Advertisements for initiating and/or establishing user-advertiser telephone calls: Advertisements that facilitate telephonic communications between users and advertisers, and which avoid perceived problems or limitations of PPC and CTC offerings, are described. These advertisements may include offer information used to score the ad and/or to assess a charge to the advertiser in the event of a call conversion.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070094072 - Apparatus and method of identifying critical factors in a pay-for-performance advertising network: An apparatus and method for improving the performance of an Internet website includes a performance processor that identifies a plurality of critical performance factors that facilitate improved website performance and then tests in real time, by utilization of an application programming interface, the influence of individual ones of said plurality... Agent: Jerry Richard Potts

20070094075 - Coupon book and methods of design and use thereof: Embodiments of the present invention describe a system for designing and generating customized coupon books of any size. The system comprises an Enterprise Resource Product (ERP) that is connected to a network over which users of the system can access the ERP. The system includes functionality permitting a user to... Agent: Leyendecker Lemire & Daley, LLC

20070094077 - Guiding system for producing presentation folders: The present invention relates to a guiding system for producing presentation folders comprising an information processing unit, an information collection unit, a storage unit, a first printing unit, a communication unit and a handwriting and position detection device, wherein the information processing unit has a communication channel to the handwriting... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070094076 - Inernet-based brand marketing communication network for enabling commission-based e-commerce transactions along the fabric of the world wide web (www) using server-side driven multi-mode virtual kiosks (mmvks): Internet-based Enterprise-Level Brand Management And Marketing Communication Network based on an innovative brand command, control and communication architecture (BC3), which gives brand owners complete command and control over the wide range of brand-building assets, messaging and promotions scattered throughout the Web, and how they are communicated to directly consumers at... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C. Soundview Plaza

20070094078 - Internet shopping portal: An Internet shopping portal configured to present a user with a Internet shopping portal including a link to one of a number of possible online vendors of goods and services; and to reward the user for using the Internet shopping portal with an authorisation or credit which can be used... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070094083 - Matching ads to content and users for time and space shifted media network: A podcast system and method are provided to select and deliver media ads over a network to a user device and to insert the media ads in media content subscribed to and delivered over the network to the user device.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070094074 - Method and system for facilitating trading of digital media space: A system for trading media space includes a server node which receives requests for media space from buyers and offers of media space from sellers. The server node includes a set of rules for matching one of the requests and with a composite offer including a plurality of media spaces... Agent: Alfred W. Froebrich, Esq. Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070094079 - Method of offsetting wireless telecommunications device usage costs by placing and selling advertisements on wireless telecommunications devices: A method offsetting the cost of wireless telecommunication device usage through the placement of advertisements onto wireless telecommunication devices. Wireless telecommunication providers sell advertisers the opportunity to place visual advertisements on to the devices of its customers. The wireless telecommunication providers can enhance the revenue generated by such sales by... Agent: Scott Philip Brown

20070094071 - Pushing content to browsers: Users can interact with networked content by using browsers. Certain content (and/or links to certain content) can be pushed to a browser for convenient selection by a user of the browser.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070094081 - Resolution of rules for association of advertising and content in a time and space shifted media network: A podcast system and method are provided to select and deliver media ads over a network to a user device and to insert the media ads in media content subscribed to and delivered over the network to the user device.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070094080 - Smart shopping method and system: A smart shopping system, method and program are provided. The cost-effective system, method and program provide for uploading participating partners' digital savings and rewards offers to a program administration website; approving offer content by a system administrator and escrow payment of all savings and rewards offer liabilities by participating partners;... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20070094070 - System and method for electronically managing individual and business information: Systems and methods for electronically managing individual and business information. The systems and methods encompass three printing stages of pre-printing, printing, and post-printing. In one embodiment, the invention provides contact information by a printer, the contact information derived from a single raw data set provided to a printer to obtain... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070094084 - System and method for transponder-enabled account transactions: A transponder-initiated transaction system is electromagnetically coupled to an account transponder device at the point of sale. The account transponder device may be embedded within a watch, key chain or other personal article for convenience or affinity. The transponder device may communicate account information to an RF-enabled point of sale... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070094085 - Method and system for providing multiple services via a point-of-sale portal architecture: A secure point-of-sale (POS) portal architecture for delivering multiple services is provided. According to one exemplary aspect of the architecture, a number of services offered by various parties are integrated for delivery to merchants. The parties offering the services include, for example, payment processors and merchant acquirers and other external... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070094086 - System for and method of facilitating sales activities, and program generator for generating a program for realizing the same: In response to a request from a terminal, a sales-force server creates a page for providing information regarding sales activities, and sends the created page to the terminal. An e-mail server sends an e-mail including a word(s) registered in a first word table to a new addressee. The sales-force server... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094087 - System and method of handling product returns: A method and program product for conducting business transactions, transferring product ownership and handling product returns with paperless receipts. Biometric data and product or transaction specific identification information is included with electronic receipts generated for each purchase. The same information may be collected when a product is presented for a... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Printers

20070094088 - System and method of directly providing electronic receipts: A method and program product for providing paperless receipts for conducting business transactions. Biometric data and product specific identification information is collected with each purchase and included with an electronic receipt generated for each purchase. The collected product specific information may include product serial numbers for some products, all products... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Printers

20070094092 - Auction negotiation support systems and methods: Methods for auction negotiation support executed by a negotiator agent module are provided. The best bid corresponding to a product/service and a total number of negotiator agent modules placing the best bid are received. It is determined that a bid is placed by a following strategy or an exceeding strategy.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070094090 - Customized food preparation apparatus and method: An improved method of preparing and selling an article of food from a retail establishment is disclosed. The method includes receiving an order from a customer where the order identifies ingredients and a quantity for the ingredients. The order also includes a preparation instruction for at least one of the... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070094095 - Internet anti-fraud cardholder verification system: A method for detecting on-line fraudulent transactions is presented. In at least one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of registering a potential customer, receiving customer data comprising at least a customer telephone number having a customer area code and customer exchange and a customer address having a customer ZIP... Agent: Hitchcock Evert LLP

20070094096 - Method and apparatus for providing a shopping list service: A method and apparatus is disclosed that provides an Internet wish list for deferred purchasing. A user clicks on an add to wish list button located on locations, such as, a product page, a banner ad, or search results to add an item to the wish list. A reminder system... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070094093 - Method of producing individualized printed products: The present invention relates to a method for producing individualized printed products by analyzing target person-relevant data utilizing machine learning which comprises the steps of: collecting individualized data, evaluating the individualized data based on a learning classification algorithm as well as generating an evaluation, producing individualized printed products based on... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070094091 - Peer-to peer reselling of software programs with payback: A method and system for peer-to-peer reselling of a software program, comprising creating a new installable version of the software program on a first computer device, transferring the new version to another computer device, executing transaction to purchase the software program and enabling a payback mechanism so that the first... Agent: Maria Nilova Patentica C\o Landon-ip, Inc.

20070094094 - Sending three-dimensional images over a network: A benefit is obtained for sending digital information over a network. The digital information is representative of three-dimensional images which include photographic images. The receiving computer renders the images from the received digital information, and a viewer at the receiving computer can interactively choose a viewpoint or perspective to view... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070094097 - System and method for secured authorized user-initiated transactions: A universal, secure hardware/software system and method that allows a customer to be in control of a transaction, grant or deny access to charge a credit card, or gain access to an internet or internet account. The embodiments provide a verification process that validates the user's identity and prevents unauthorized... Agent: Paula Comensky-owurowa

20070094089 - System and method for utilizing rfid tags to manage automotive parts: A system and method for utilizing RFID tags to manage automotive parts. A system is provided that includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader configured to read data from RFID tags affixed to parts located throughout a vehicle, wherein each RFID tag uniquely identifies a part; a data processing system... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070094099 - Integrated electronic shopping cart system and method: Integrated shopping cart functionality is provided on a first website so that products/services from different affiliated websites can be integrated into the shopping cart at the first website and the e-commerce functionality of the first website can be utilized to purchase the selected products/services. A framework for integrating this functionality... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070094100 - Integrated electronic shopping cart system and method: Integrated shopping cart functionality is provided on a first website so that products/services from different affiliated websites can be integrated into the shopping cart at the first website and the e-commerce functionality of the first website can be utilized to purchase the selected products/services. A framework for integrating this functionality... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070094098 - Systems and methods for automated parallelization of back-order processing: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide mechanisms to determine the availability of one or more order items within a supply chain environment. In one embodiment, the method may comprise defining a profile to be associated with an availability check, wherein the availability check consists of a filter process, a sort... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070094104 - Internet method and computer product for preparing state income tax withholding forms: An automated method and computer product for processing employee state income tax exemption certificates. The system includes a method for determining the required state exemption forms, if any, as well as a method for completing and submitting the forms. An employee logs-on to a state forms website on a remote... Agent: Etherton Law Group, LLC

20070094102 - Methods and systems for rounding with availability check: Systems and methods are provide for optimizing the result of an availability check of a required quantity of products, wherein a plurality of rounding algorithms are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises a first step of rounding, according to at least one predetermined rounding algorithm, the... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070094101 - System and method for efficient storage destination determination in a storage facility: A system and method to improve storage efficiency in a warehouse. Storage combinations are assigned a ranking base on the distance from optimal storage. After sorting the data structure base on the ranking a best available storage combination can be identified by iterating the table in a rank order. In... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070094103 - System, managing computer program product and method for managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for managing documents are disclosed. The system includes a document manger configured to receive job information from a remote user via a network, the job information being related to a job performed on a document. The document manager can generate billing information based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094106 - Adaptive high fidelity reproduction system: Audio is adaptively associated with speakers, depending on the speaker configuration that is present. Each speaker it receives an audio assignment based on its individual spectral characteristics. As more speakers are added, content is adaptively associated with that you speaker, and taken away from the previous.... Agent: Scott C Harris

20070094105 - System for acquiring rights to lease a drilling rig: A system for acquiring rights to lease a drilling rig for periods of time and/or particular activities and including leassee client devices, leassor client devices, and a database server system is disclosed. The leassee client devices and leassor client devices communicate with the database server system. The database server system... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070094108 - Display module: A display module for displaying information on a screen, using a display data structure, wherein the display data structure is a doubly linked list. A display space in defined in video memory and the display space is filled by sequentially copying at least a portion of a set of characters... Agent: Maine & Asmus

20070094107 - Method of evaluating and managing equipment lease portfolios: A method of evaluating and managing equipment leases including determining the relative relationship between the lessee and various lessors by reviewing UCC filings and internal company documents to determine the true overall cost of leasing. Additionally, weaknesses on how leases are formed are studied so as to develop a more... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20070094110 - System and method for improved time reporting and billing: The present invention provides an integrated time reporting and billing solution that facilitates billing and payment for time-related activities and manages contract workflow from end to end. The present invention can be employed in any industry for any employment relationship where in-house or supplemental contract labor is tracked by time.... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20070094109 - Time and attendance method and system: The present invention relates to a method of generating a GUI screen, for time and attendance, including displaying a timesheet in a graphical bar format; receiving time entries in the timesheet; displaying the time entries along the graphical bar; and totaling the time entries. The time entries are displayed in... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070094115 - Agricultural transaction system involving non-agricultural inputs: The disclosure describes methods for performing agricultural transactions involving the exchange of inputs, such as agricultural equipment, non-equipment agricultural inputs, and non-agricultural inputs, in consideration of a commitment to deliver a specified quantity of an agricultural commodity over a specified period of time. In consideration of the commitment and, in... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070094112 - Methods for facilitating charitable donations through links to independent financial transactions: The present invention describes a method for facilitating donations to a charitable organization wherein a financial transaction involving property is linked to a conditional pledge. A fundraising program facilitates the transactions which directly contribute to affiliated charitable organizations. A property seller aligns with the fundraising program to list their property... Agent: Kammer Browning PLLC

20070094116 - Methods for facilitating political campaign contributions through links to independent financial transactions: The present invention describes a method for facilitating contributions to a political campaign wherein a financial transaction involving property is linked to a conditional pledge. A fundraising program facilitates the transactions which directly contribute to affiliated political campaign fundraising organizations. A property seller aligns with the fundraising program to list... Agent: Kammer Browning PLLC

20070094111 - Multiclient/multiconversation system for carrying out financial transactions and/or accessing information by means of sms messages: System for setting up conversations between an institution, such as a bank, and an end client, where the conversations may be initiated both by the institution and by the client, using the transmission of SMS short messages. The system includes a set of components, including an institution HOST, a first... Agent: Power Del Valle LLP

20070094114 - Systems and methods for providing flexible incentive rewards: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a financial account with incentives. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes receiving a selection of at least one identified merchant from a customer, the customer being associated with the financial account. The method also includes providing a first incentive to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070094113 - Transactional mobile system: Disclosed is a secure transactional mobile system having a central hub in communication with a wireless network and/or device such a mobile phone, wherein the central hub processes a transactional request from the wireless device for validating the request. The central hub may forwards the validated request to a transactional... Agent: Steven L. Schmid

20070094117 - Enterprise evaluation device and enterprise evaluation program: There are provided an enterprise evaluation device and an enterprise evaluation program capable of acquiring a profit of a particular enterprise and the number of patents owned by the particular enterprise and calculating and outputting an index indicating a profit per one patent (or utility model) of the total number... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070094118 - Exposure management system and method: In a risk exposure system and method, a processor may receive from an external system exposure records having data elements mapped to data elements of an internal representation of an exposure record. The system and method may generate new exposure data objects based on the mapped data, automatically assign exposure... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070094119 - System and method for improving asset liquidity in a trading exchange network: Asset liquidity is improved in a transaction network by identifying a potential party to an asset transaction based on an analysis of asset portfolio data. Portfolio data is provided by asset manager clients and transaction proposal data is provided by broker clients. The portfolio data is analyzed in view of... Agent: Baker & Botts L.L.P.

20070094121 - System and method for organizational and personal portfolio: An intelligent and automated system and method for establishment, collection, and maintaining of organizational and personal portfolios. In relationship to the present invention the term intelligent refers to the systems program structure which facilitates simple user entry while performing complex operations and manipulations, transparent to the individual. The term automated... Agent: Michael T. Perkins

20070094120 - System and method for providing integrated hedge accounting in parallel valuation areas: In a system and method for providing hedge accounting data for a plurality of hedging relationships, a processor may store a plurality of risk exposure data objects, hedging instrument data objects, hedging relationship data objects, and rule set data objects, may assign the same exposure data objects and hedging instrument... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070094122 - Method and apparatus for dynamic pricing exchange: A method and apparatus for dynamic pricing exchange have been disclosed.... Agent: Heimlich Law

20070094123 - Method and system for an auction based on reducing bid: The present invention provides an auction method and system, that is, a seller proposes an expected selling price of an item in a tender offered by the seller and the item is announced and bid on the auction system provided by the manager of auction system, and a end time... Agent: Alan D. Kamrath Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070094125 - Mortgage management system and method: A system and method for minimizing mortgage payments and operable in conjunction with an insurance policy. The system comprises a first module that contains information regarding terms of a mortgage. The terms include a principal amount of a mortgage, and an interest rate for the mortgage. Further, a second module... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070094127 - Mortgage management system and method: A system and method for reducing mortgage payments and operable in conjunction with an insurance policy. The system comprises a first module that contains information regarding terms of a mortgage. The terms include a principal amount of a mortgage, and an interest rate for the mortgage. Further, a second module... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070094129 - System and method for adding value to a stored-value account using provider specific pin: Systems and methods for processing stored value card requests are disclosed herein. The method may generally comprise: distributing a stored-value card to a first merchant for distribution to a customer having an account with a specific provider, the stored-value card having an associated identifier that can be used to associate... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070094128 - System and method for communications and interface with assets and data sets: The present invention provides a monitoring, communication and interface system and method. The monitoring, communication and interface system and method monitors assets and/or datasets for changes in conditions or states of the assets or datasets pursuant to a protocol. The monitoring, communication and interface system utilizes existing communications networks to... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20070094126 - System and method for credit account incorporating conditional teasers: Certain embodiments of the present invention are directed to credit accounts having conditional teasers. Conditional teasers include incentives offered to potential customers of the financial institution providing the credit accounts. The conditions may be related to the activity of the customers after they have established an account relationship. The activity... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070094124 - Technical process to verify transactions made on credit and debit card accounts using wireless devices via airpay: This document presents a technical process for verifying credit and debit card transactions via wireless devices. This process is called AirPay. The AirPay process reduces fraud by giving consumers a tool to verify all transactions made by their credit and debit cards using wireless devices such as their wireless telephones.... Agent: Karl E. Hall

20070094131 - Bad debt recovery system and method in a prepaid services environment: In a system and method for enabling bad debt recovery in a prepaid services environment, a bad debt balance (acquired under a post-paid regime) is stored in a bad debt database associated with the customer who accumulated the bad debt. Deposits by the customer into a pre-paid account are then... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070094130 - 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: Jeffrey H. Kamenetsky, Esq. Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070094132 - System and method for person to person electronic fund transfer using video payphones: The transferring of funds using SMART cards over a network is described. A dispenser for SMART cards, connected to a data network is configured to credit SMART cards. A point-of-sale SMART card reader, connected to the data network, is configured to debit SMART cards. An account server connected to the... Agent: Vincent Anthony Waterson

20070094134 - Calculating and displaying interest avoided by use of a particular interest calculation method: Systems, methods, and computer program products for presenting, on a statement associated with a financial transaction instrument, an amount of interest avoided during a statement period. A first interest amount is computed for the statement period according to a first interest calculation method, the first interest amount being an interest... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070094139 - Media item payment system and associated method of use: A system and method of calculating payment associated with the use of a media item when a media item (whether it is a composite media item and/or media item portion) is purchased and/or used. In one embodiment, the system receives data indicating the use or purchase of a media item,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070094138 - Method for dispensing, paying for, and advertising prescription drugs: A method and system wherein a customer contracts with a pharmacy product distribution organization to make installment payments for medical products and wherein a customer can be provided with full prescription including, but not limited to, one or more years supply of the prescription.... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20070094136 - Method of selecting line item kind for invoice database: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an interface on a user display by a computer system, which enables the user to input, view, and interact with an invoice. The invoice may include one or more line items, each having one or more item attributes. One of the item attributes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070094133 - Systems and methods for managing an expenditure cycle: The invention includes receiving a first data set that includes information associated with claims under a benefit plan. The first data set is searched for a first claim from the claims that includes at least one detail in common with a second claim from the claims. A report including the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070094137 - Systems and methods for processing transaction data to perform a merchant chargeback: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention may be used as part of determining whether to chargeback a purchase transaction amount to a merchant. To this end, the system may heuristically analyze purchase transaction data to determine which transactions to analyze for chargeback processing. For instance, the system may... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070094135 - Text and multimedia messaging payment method: Described is a system that relates to purchases of and/or access to remotely located goods, services and information in general, such as through the Internet or by mobile phone devices, including chat services, dating services, matchmaking services, meeting services, access to games and other executable products, access to wallpaper displays... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20070094140 - System for direct presentment of cash letters: A system is provided for the direct presentment of cash letters having images of cash items from a sending institution computer to a receiving institution computer. The computerized host system has a web-server communicating with at least one sending institution computer. The computerized host system receives from the at least... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070094141 - Method and apparatus for facilitating adjustment of an audit state in a computing environment: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates adjusting an audit state in a computing environment. During operation the system receives a key from a third-party at an audit system. Note that the key is associated with a corresponding audit-control profile. Next, the system validates the key,... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070094142 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing media content delivery audit and verification services: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing media content delivery audit and verification services are disclosed. In one example, a monitoring system analyzes messages associated with communications in a wireless communications network. The monitoring system identifies, from the messages, messages that are associated with the request for or delivery... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070094144 - Authorization code recovering method: A method for recovering an authorization code which is assigned to a licensee by a licensor and is stored in an access-protected data processing device that is connected to a computer of said licensee via an interface. A backup file which is part of the authorization code and contains the... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20070094147 - License-based path management method for a computer system: An access path management method for a storage network system where a plurality of paths are formed between a data storage system and a host computer which uses the data storage system, an integrated management server monitors port resources constantly. When a port overloads or when a failure occurs in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070094145 - Method and system to support dynamic rights and resources sharing: The invention relates to method for deriving a sub-right from a right, the right comprising a plurality of components, each of which specifies an aspect of the right. A component may be, for example, a principal, an action, a resource, and a condition. The invention also relates to a method... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070094146 - Method for acquiring rights to lease a drilling rig: A method for acquiring rights to lease a drilling rig using client devices with secure information and qualifications bulletin boards is disclosed. The method authenticates a leassee of a drilling rig using a leassee client device to communicate with leassors using a secure server system. The leassee creates a bid... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070094148 - Method of licensing functionality after initial transaction: Methods for licensing functionality after an initial transaction are provided. One such method is directed to licensing after an initial transaction of a customer obtaining a supply item including the step of prompting the customer to acquire a usage license for the supply item.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070094143 - Multimedia-type contents reproduction device and reproduction method, and recording medium having stored thereon data used for the same: The object is to provide a data structure appropriate for performing rights management for multimedia-type contents, to further provide a recording medium containing data with the data structure, a reproduction device and a reproduction method for reproducing the data. The present invention is a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070094149 - Smartcard-based value transfer: In a value transfer scheme, users are provided with programmable devices, for example, smart cards, capable of carrying data representing at least one available commodity value. Data representing user accounts is held at a remote processing station. Transactions between users are effected by the off-line exchange of data between users'respective... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070094151 - Systems and methods of rules-based database access for account authentication: Systems and methods for authenticating a customer association with a particular deposit account used when conducting financial transactions on behalf of the customer. The system receives identity information and routing and transit number or account number (RTN/DDA) information, where at least a portion of identity information identifies an account holder... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070094150 - Transaction authorization service: System and method for authorizing transactions, such as payments or money transfers. A source entity may initiate a transaction with a target entity via a first communications channel. In initiating the transaction, the source entity may indicate that the transaction is to be performed through a transaction authorization service. The... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070094153 - Infrastructure for postage meter communication, accessible through service provider: A system for providing postal and other services to postal security devices is established in which a secured communication connection is obtained through a service provider. The connection once established provides access to a central postal data center. As part of the authentication of a connection by the service provider,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070094154 - Processing transactions using a register portion to track transactions: Systems and methods are provided that keep check of financial transactions by maintaining a count of the financial transactions using a register portion, in conjunction with performing authentication further to inputting transaction data from a data-bearing record that is stored in a device. The system may include a communication portion... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070094152 - Secure electronic transaction authentication enhanced with rfid: Methods, computer program products and systems for authenticating an electronic transaction conducted over an electronic communications link with a user device of a transaction authorizer. A method includes establishing the electronic communications link with the user device of the authorizer, receiving an authentication code from an authorizer RFID over the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20070094155 - System and method for automated management of an address database: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for electronically managing an address database such as AMS, and more particularly a system and method for automatically managing an address database through the use of a web-based application. Moreover, embodiments of the invention manage an address database, such as AMS,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070088562 - Method and program product for identifying educational content for a business initiative: A method and program product for identifying educational content and skill requirements for a business initiative is provided. The method includes defining a business initiative having a framework with predefined levels of skill. Further, for each of the predefined levels of skill, the method includes identifying one or more standard... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070088560 - Method and system for conveying context information in a personal and family security environment: A system (100) and method (200) of conveying context information in a personal and family security environment monitor (201) a sender's environment, encode (202) a context signal that is used to activate a sound, a haptic, or a light representative of the sender's environment, and transmit (206) the context signal.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070088559 - Method for computerising and standardizing medical information: The present invention is to provide a method for computerizing and standardizing medical information, which can provide web screens through terminals to enable doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or the like to immediately online input and read a variety of information created upon treating and caring for patients in a hospital, and... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070088561 - System and method for developing a proposal: The invention is a computer-based system and method for developing a proposal, such as a grant or contract proposal, more preferably a laboratory management contract proposal. It provides an opportunity for individuals to apply concepts and hone proposal drafting skills that they have otherwise learned but need additional experience or... Agent: Saint Louis University Office Of Innovation And Intellectual Property

20070088563 - System and method for managing a continuing education program: A system and method for managing a continuing education program. A request submission to attend a CLE course may be sent to a supervisor to be approved or disapproved. The method may include storing on an electronic storage device the financial information related to a budget for the continuing education... Agent: Patton Boggs

20070088564 - Healthcare provider data submission and billing system and method: A healthcare insurance claim processing system and method generates a first set of data fields for display in a healthcare claim form. The first set includes requests for patient billing and medical information, and a request for a medical procedure code. The medical procedure code associated with a medical diagnosis... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070088568 - Method and apparatus for inter-pharmacy workload balancing using resource function assignments: The system distributes workload amongst a plurality of pharmacy resources that are connected by a computer network. Work orders are queued at each pharmacy resource and redistributed based on existing workload distribution, capacity of pharmacy resources, and/or product demand.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088574 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and treating medical signs and symptoms: A method may identify, through a form, one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects. The method may also record, through the form, one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects associated with a person. The method may then identify, through the form, one... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070088575 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and treating medical signs and symptoms: A method may identify, through a form, one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects. The method may also record, through the form, one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects associated with a person. The method may then identify, through the form, one... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070088573 - Method and interface for adaptive radiation therapy: A system and method for developing and analyzing radiation therapy treatment plans and a computer-generated user interface for presenting data relating to a radiation therapy treatment plan. The user interface includes a list of fractions identified in the treatment plan, data identifying delivery status of the fraction, and data identifying... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070088572 - System and method for alert escalation processing in healthcare information systems: An alert management system and method for use in healthcare clinical decision support. The alert management system includes an alert mode and an escalation mode. The alert mode is capable of receiving a rule payload generated by a rule engine and is further capable of generating an initial alert message.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070088571 - System and method for improved care provider management: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for managing care provider relationships including a user interface component and a database. The user interface component is capable of specifying an association between a patient and a care provider. The association includes a role for the care provider. The database... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070088570 - System and method for predicting device deterioration: A system and method is provided for predicting deterioration in a mechanical device. The deterioration prediction system and method includes a dynamic model of the mechanical device and a state estimator to predict deterioration in a mechanical device. The dynamic model includes a plurality of evolving health states that describe... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070088567 - System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing for compound medication: An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088565 - System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing for medication payments: An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088569 - System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing for prescription verification: An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088566 - System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing for specialty medication: An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088577 - Methods and systems for measuring physician adherence to guidelines: Methods and systems for determining and comparing physician adherence to guidelines are disclosed. The methods can comprise receiving patient data, scoring criteria, determining domain and overall scores, and comparing said scores. The methods can comprise receiving patient data, scoring criteria, determining overall scores, and comparing said scores. The methods provide... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070088578 - System and method for creating and displaying optional order sets in healthcare environment: A method, system and computerized medium in a computerized environment for placing optional orders for an order set for a patient is provided. A request to display an order set for a patient is received. The order set comprises one or more optional orders. The optional orders that may or... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070088576 - System and method for enabling a proper dispensation of medication: A system and method of composing medicine orders is disclosed. Patient dosage information for multiple medications is merged into a personalized medication schedule for the consumer. The schedule is printed on paper divided into sections by lines of perforation. Individual doses of medication are added to each section corresponding to... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070088582 - Financial methods using a charitably integrated business operation: Supporting charitable giving in furtherance of a business objective of the business comprises proceeding with the business objective in response to a decision by a decision maker by performing several steps. A trust is established to achieve at least a part of the business objective, the trust having a term,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070088581 - Financial methods using a non-trust based charitably integrated business operation: Supporting charitable giving by a business in furtherance of a business objective comprises granting to a charity a remainder interest in a real property. A life estate or a term of years estate is reserved to the business or another. A person is permitted to live on the real property... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070088579 - Systems and methods for automated processing and assessment of an insurance disclosure via a network: The present invention relates to methods and systems for automated processing and assessment of an insurance disclosure. One embodiment of the invention can comprise an automated disclosure processing application engine. The automated disclosure processing application engine can be adapted to receive health care-related information. Health care-related information, also known as... Agent: Christopher J. Chan Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070088580 - Systems and methods for providing comparative health care information via a network: The invention relates to methods and systems for providing comparative health care information via a network. One embodiment of the invention can comprise a comparative information application engine. The comparative information application engine can be adapted to receive claim-related information. Claim-related information can be stored in a database or other... Agent: Christopher J. Chan Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070088583 - Autonomic workflow application program generator and method thereof: The automatic workflow application program generator of this invention automatically generates workflow definition files to be executed in the computer system by including organization and role definition information, activity definition information and data entity information input by user. Users may input definitions and cite definitions of workflow, organization/role, activities and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070088585 - Capturing the result of an approval process/workflow and declaring it a record: Electronically capturing the result of an approval process/workflow for a record, and declaring the result as a record with a relationship to the approved record. The result of the approval process/workflow includes at least one workflow log or map. The workflow log may include the identities of those who took... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070088586 - Sales management system and method thereof: An SFA server stores a customer database. The customer database stores: a customer name and/or staff name of corresponding customer; a business transaction of the customer; detail information representing business activities for achieving the business transaction, a completion scheduled date, and an actual completion date; information for determining whether each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070088584 - Systems and methods for managing lifecycle costs of an asset inventory: A method of managing lifecycle costs for an asset inventory is provided. The method includes obtaining data related to assets for the asset inventory and analyzing the obtained data to generate a plurality of domain-dependent rules having parameters corresponding to assets of the asset inventory. The method also includes determining... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070088591 - Alarm system and method for production schedule contronl: An alarm system (10) includes a plan management module (100), a production management module (200) and an alarm management module (300). The plan management module receives a customer order and sets planned delivery data according to the customer order. The production management module downloads production data. The alarm management module... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070088587 - Delivery date simulation and control: A method and system for determining a merchant ship date and a corresponding customer receipt date when processing an order in an ERP system. The method includes accessing a delivery date simulation form stored in the ERP system during processing of the new order and changing an existing order. The... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070088589 - Method and system for assessing automation package readiness and and effort for completion: A system, method and program product for evaluating workflows includes formulating a list of categories for workforce projects to be evaluated. A list is then formulated of questions for each category. Ranges are set up and then applied to the categories. Base line days, a multiplier, and a weight are... Agent: John E. Campbell IBM Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070088588 - Method, apparatus and network for renting textbooks: A method and apparatus for transacting a commercial rental of textbooks and other items between independent suppliers and independent users by a facilitator that does not generally maintain an inventory of the items for rent and without requiring a subscription with the users.... Agent: The Law Firm Of Michael R. Mckenna

20070088592 - Methods and systems for scheduling events: A method for scheduling events according to network information. Network information, event information, and user preference information are acquired. The Network information is time-related. The network information, event information, and user preference information are then matched to obtain a matching result. Events are scheduled according to the matching result. Each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070088593 - Supply plan control method and computer-readable recording medium having recorded supply plan control program: A supply plan control method which allows an effective product supply plan to be made, ensuring equality among orderers in different time zones. When an order for a subject of transaction is specified, a possible allocation recipient customer extraction section extracts a customer servicing at the time when the order... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070088590 - System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing for out of stock medication: An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088594 - Method and apparatus for inter-pharmacy workload balancing: The system distributes workload amongst a plurality of pharmacy resources that are connected by a computer network. Work orders are queued at each pharmacy resource and redistributed based on existing workload distribution, capacity of pharmacy resources, and/or product demand.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088595 - Method and system for secured virtual relationship management: A system and method to collaborate participants of different administrative domains in a workflow process is provided. The system includes a membership module for managing the participants, an event module for correlating activities of the workflow process, the membership module and the event module exchanging information relating to changes in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070088597 - Method of tracking social services: A method and apparatus are provided for tracking a plurality of social services clients. The method may be at least partially implemented by the programmed computer and may include the step of providing a social services client of the plurality of social services clients with a customized set of services... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. 22nd Floor

20070088596 - System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing: An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070088599 - Apparatus and method for analyzing new product performance: A business method manages items associated with a business entity. The business method includes storing item unique identifiers, associating each identifier with at least one descriptor that further describes the item, tracking a performance of each item through the at least one descriptor, analyzing the tracked performance of the item,... Agent: Thomas E. Young, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070088600 - Database and information software application for managing, tracking and disseminating product specifications and product sample analytical data in a petroleum refining, storage and transportation operation: A centralized database system used for storing, tracking and disseminating product specification and sample analysis data for a petroleum refining and distribution operation.... Agent: Emch, Schaffer, Schaub & Porcello Co

20070088598 - Mechanism for using processlets to model service processes: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for using read-only process components to model service processes. User input is received indicating an attempt to establish a connection from a selected read-only process component to a previously selected read-only process component. Responsive to receiving the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070088601 - On-line interview processing: An interview method and system that allows a hiring individual to use a networked computer system to interview candidates without requiring the hiring individual to participate personally during the interview by devoting time and resources to a meeting, the capability of conducting on-line interviews is provided using generic or customized... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070088602 - Method and system for an assessment initiative within a multi-level organization: A system of hardware and software provides a systematic and systemic method for performing assessment of the effectiveness of different levels within an institution. The system includes template driven definitions that span multiple tiers of hierarchically arranged operating units within the institution thereby providing flexibility and customization to handle a... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070088606 - Data collection and dissemination system with terminal having literature distribution: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for collecting and disseminating customer data and for distributing real estate marketing literature. The system includes a customer terminal, which is in communication with a data center, which, in turn, is in communication with a business terminal. The customer terminal includes... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070088607 - Measuring dwell time on an internet advertisement: A process for measuring the dwell time of a user on an advertiser's clickable advertisement in a sponsor's web page, browser, or downloaded program (a “channel”) appearing in a global communications network like the Internet. A click event by the user is monitored for in the channel. Whether the click... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070088608 - Method and system for creating ad-books: A method and apparatus and format and and form are provided for preparing ad-books or related print or publishing for an organization or organizations or a plethora of organizations over a communications network. The method includes preparing an ads or messages at a user terminal connected to the communications network.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070088603 - Method and system for targeted data delivery using weight-based scoring: A user profile is accessed. One or more items in the user profile are weighted and a score is determined. The user is eligible to be presented with data if the score satisfies a threshold.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070088604 - Method of tracking price, product and promotional marketing communications at the primary, secondary and tertiary level: A method of tracking price, product and promotional marketing communications at a plurality of levels is disclosed. The method includes providing a marketing communication with identification information, price information and product information for a primary product and a secondary product; linking an order with the marketing communication via the marketing... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070088609 - Optimizer for selecting supplemental content based on content productivity of a document: Content is selected for display at a client computer communicating over a computer network by determining a relevance score for content of a document at a server computer for delivery to a requesting client computer, determining at least one valuation for the content from each of two or more supplemental... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070088605 - System and method for achieving linear advertisement impression delivery under uneven, volatile traffic conditions: A tolerance band is determined for an online advertisement campaign. The tolerance band defines upper and lower bounds on acceptable deviation from a cumulative linear advertisement delivery goal for the length of the campaign and may be employed to manage delivery of advertisement impressions during the campaign. The upper and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070088610 - System and method for electronic reservation of real-time redemption of advertiser's loyalty points for rewards and discount coupons and gift card certificates: A system and method enable a consumer to redeem loyalty points and coupons. The consumer is presented with a choice of electronic loyalty point redemption options and coupons, specific to the consumer and based on a behavioral purchasing rating system. The consumer's selections are transmitted to the participating vendor so... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20070088611 - Effecting ancillary actions on a transaction network: This invention generally relates to a method, system, apparatus and/or computer instruction code for operating a POS network and in particular relates to of the operation of a POS network to increase the functionality thereof.... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070088612 - System and method for enabling a fundraising and contributions program using fundraising cards redeemable for branded stored-value cards: Disclosed is a system and method for enabling a fundraising program using fundraising cards redeemable by NPO supporters for branded stored-value cards. The system includes a scrip company host system having a server, where the server includes a microcontroller. A remote user device, having a display, is operatively coupled to... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070088613 - Method for managing a plurality of imaging supply items for an organization: Methods for managing a plurality of imaging supply items for an organization, such as those that include associating the organization with a program, the program pertaining to the use of a plurality of imaging apparatuses in conjunction with a plurality of imaging supply items; associating an imaging apparatus with the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070088618 - Data collection and dissemination system with literature distribution and email follow-up: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for collecting and disseminating customer and agent data, distributing real estate marketing literature, issuing literature vouchers, issuing commission receipts, and sending follow-up emails to solicit feedback data. The system includes a customer terminal, which is in communication with a data center,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070088622 - Digital media commerce in a peer-to-peer network: A computerized service for commerce in digital media in a peer-to-peer network having client modules, controlled by service members, that intercommunicate in the network, locally store digital media container (DMC) files encapsulating digital media works, and deliver DMC file to other client modules via the network. A service module communicates... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070088614 - Electronic information item selection for trade and traded item control delivery system: The objective of this invention is to provide a solution that enable real, delayed or relayed time trade and delivery of time-tagged electronic information items from/among same or different regions' information content providers (190a, 190b) and/or their subscribers (201, 202, 211, 212, 221, 222) , or via their corresponding region's... Agent: Shuya Huo Allison Huo

20070088623 - Method and system for providing absorbent articles to a consumer: A system and method for providing kits of absorbent articles to consumers includes a selection tool that collects information about the consumer's cycle characteristics and use preferences and selects for the consumer a cycle kit of absorbent articles. An interactive ordering tool allows online purchase of a kit. An auto-send... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070088619 - Moulding decorating kit and online ordering system: An on-line ordering and/or fulfillment system for a moulding decorating kit is provided. The system includes a user interface with a control for specifying a design, a control for selecting a moulding type, a control for specifying a substrate size, and a module for determining the number of pieces of... Agent: Mark Young, P.A.

20070088621 - Online purchasing method: A method of managing multiple, simultaneous, multi-parameter negotiations for and purchase of products or services in an online private contract environment. Embodiments of this method may comprise: a process to compile a database consisting of value-relevant product attributes and buyer demand attributes; a protocol to search, sort and display products... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070088620 - Order processing: In one aspect, orders for goods or services are enabled to be received from electronic devices situated at multiple points at which orders are to be placed, and the orders are received electronically through a communication medium that enables automatic identification of the location at which each of the orders... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070088615 - System and method for network-based management of physical and online stores utilizing dual-interfaces general-purpose computers: The system and method of the invention can provide a system and method that manage both an online store and physical stores utilizing dual-interfaces general-purpose computers. The present invention utilizes a centralized database for managing both an online store and physical stores. The management functionalities for the online store and... Agent: Yu Meng

20070088617 - System of interactive real-person audio-visual on-line shop and method of the same: The present invention provides a system of interactive real-person audio-visual on-line shop, which comprises a management module and at least one service module. Moreover, the system further comprises at least one service terminal for the agents to provide real time service. After the user logins into the system, her/he could... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20070088624 - Systems and methods for providing remote ordering capabilities: The invention relates to methods and systems for receiving, processing and fulfilling remotely placed orders. In one aspect, requests to place an order are received from a remote location, and based on a customer identifier included in the request, customer preference data is retrieved. An electronic selection menu based on... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070088616 - Systems and methods for searching for entertainment tickets via internet: Systems and methods are provided for collecting and listing entertainment ticket information from multiple data sources, and facilitating the sales of entertainment tickets over a network. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for offering to sell entertainment tickets over a network. The method includes the steps... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Finnegan, Henderson, LLP

20070088625 - Systems and methods for storing and retrieving goods and services information using parameter/value databases: Improvements for parametized storage and retrieval of multiple different types of marketplace items include: (a) providing lists recommended parameters to guide users' entry and searching of data; (b) limiting users to suggesting additions of new parameters to the system; (c) an item classification based in whole or in part upon... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP Robert D. Fish

20070088627 - Brochure creation internet system: An Internet business site provides a service to users for creating brochures and other information pieces using data elements found in Internet sites that have been activated for making copies of the data elements upon selection by users.... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20070088629 - Integrated electronic shopping cart system and method: Integrated shopping cart functionality is provided on a first website so that products/services from different affiliated websites can be integrated into the shopping cart at the first website and the e-commerce functionality of the first website can be utilized to purchase the selected products/services. A framework for integrating this functionality... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070088626 - Method, system, and computer program product for determining an optimal database refresh rate: A method, system, and computer program product for determining an optimal database refresh rate is provided. The method includes simulating a shopping system that includes a plurality of databases, the simulating including updating the plurality of databases in accordance with a database refresh rate. The method also includes repeating the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20070088628 - Online shopping system: An online shopping system that permits a customer to submit online orders for items and/or services from a store that serves both walk-in customers and online customers. The online shopping system presents an online display of an order cutoff time and an associated delivery window for items selected by the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070088630 - Assessment and/or deployment of computer network component(s): A system and method that facilitates automated assessment and/or deployment related to computer network(s) is provided. The assessment system can be employed to automatically discover network asset(s) and inventory the discovered asset(s) (e.g., hardware and/or software). The deployment system can utilize the inventory to (1) create diagram(s) of the network... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070088631 - Internal routing: Methods and apparatus provide for routing goods from a source location to a final destination through an intermediate location. An intermediate warehouse task or transfer order is generated with reference to the movement of the goods to the intermediate location rather than movement to the final destination. A routing table... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070088633 - Method and system for optimal or near-optimal selection of content for broadcast in a commercial environment: Many different embodiments of the present invention are directed to customizing and optimizing entertainment-content and information-content broadcast within retail establishments. In many embodiment of the present invention, an automated system employs a wide variety of different types of processed and compiled input information to compile and filter available content for... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070088632 - Methods, devices and storage media for managing inventory: A device for managing inventory, such as tools and equipment, includes a user interface in operable communication with a processor and a storage medium; a transceiver in operable communication with an antenna and the processor, the transceiver operable for communicating with a tool or a piece of equipment; and a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070088634 - System for quality control and operations management: A conventional problem with commodity quality control in a traceability system is inability to appropriately change settings for quality measurement according to environmental changes. The present invention provides a system which solves the problem and realizes real-time quality control with low power consumption. In the system for commodity quality control... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070088635 - Determining policy compliance based on existing compliance results: The application of compliance results from at least a portion of one policy to one or more additional policies that are different from the first policy without having to run compliance checks for the one or more additional policies. The policies consist of compliance checks that each have one or... Agent: Symantec Corporation C/o Workman Nydegger Adrian J. Lee

20070088637 - Financial accounting methods and systems to account for assets and liabilities: A method to calculate true ex-ante operating income, via a present value calculation and posting in a double-entry bookkeeping framework based upon credits and debits, is disclosed. The ultimate object is a true ex-ante net income accounting measurement that better serves financial statements users.... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070088636 - Reading, organizing and manipulating accounting data: A financial reporting system for reading, organizing and manipulating any accounting data and producing financial reports that may be customized to the preferences of the user. In one embodiment there is an organizational data structure for accounting data, including a trial balance data structure having a plurality of trial balance... Agent: Maine & Asmus

20070088638 - Method and apparatus for a web based punch clock/time clock: A system and method for building GUI screen screens for a time keeping and expense tracking system includes a time keeping and expense tracking (TKET) server that includes computer instructions that define logic for building GUI screen screens according to user definitions, communication channel throughput capacity, and terminal capacity. Initially,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070088639 - Auditing system with interactive rule construction user interface: A system for auditing telecommunication billing data comprises a rule-construction user interface and an audit component. The rule-construction user interface comprises a plurality of rule condition parameter menus to construct an audit rule for at least one telecommunication billing attribute. In a particular embodiment, before baselining the audit rule, a... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070088640 - System, computer program product and method for managing documents: A system, method and computer program product for managing documents are disclosed. The system includes a document manger configured to receive job information from a remote user via a network, the job information being related to a job performed on a document. The document manager can generate billing information based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070088644 - Financial instrument: In the preferred embodiment, the invention includes a combination of three financial agreements: a first financial agreement entered between a first entity (such as an angel investor) and a second entity (such as a financial services company), a second financial agreement entered between a third entity (such as a startup... Agent: Schox PLC

20070088643 - Method of buying property with a lease option contract: The instant invention facilitates home purchasing for parties that desire a lease-to-own option for a home purchase. The instant invention provides the Future Home Buyer the choice to buy the home of their choice on the open market by entering into a lease option agreement via the operation of the... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070088641 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing services accounts through electronic budget adjustments based on defined rules: Services accounts are managed by defining budget categories for the services accounts. Budgets are defined for the respective categories and rules are defined for the budget categories. Input on usage of the services is electronically received and the budgets are electronically adjusted based on the received input and the defined... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070088642 - System and method for calculating savings: A system and method for calculating savings using a savings calculator for calculating savings realized over a period of time for several travel-related categories of expenses using respective pre-defined formulas and for producing a savings summary report and worksheets.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070088646 - Electronic trading system: A client terminal for use in an electronic trading system and a method of operating such a system are disclosed. The terminal comprises: a data interface for sending data to and receiving data from a server; a user interface including a display for presenting information to a user and receiving... Agent: Taylor Russell & Russell, P.C.

20070088649 - Manager selection: A method for measuring the performance of fund managers. The method comprises collecting quantitative performance data on the fund managers within a predefined service sector, comparing the quantitative performance of the fund managers against a chosen benchmark over a predefined period, calculating the probability of randomly selecting an outperforming fund... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070088647 - Revenue bearing, commodity and precious metal investment instrument and method: An investment method is provided that allows the investor can participate with 100% of its investment in the development of the “underlying” (such as Gold)—no Cap and no Floor and is able to generate Income out of the active managed collateral, after deducting the costs for hedging or storage insurance.... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20070088648 - System and method for determining data points for financial bar charts and their presentation: A method for analyzing financial data related to a financial instrument traded on an electronic exchange includes serially receiving sets of price and volume data including a price corresponding to a best bid, a best ask, or a trade, and a volume representing the volume of units of the financial... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070088645 - System and method of valuation of intellectual property: Intellectual property Exchange, its website www.IPEXL.com, consists of three separate exchanges, namely, intel-lectual property Stock Exchange, intellectual property Index Exchange and intellectual property Portfolio Exchange. Intellectual property Stock Exchange creates a market, which enables buyers and sellers to efficiently and reliably trade intellectual property stocks and licenses at fair market... Agent: Hugh R. Kress Browning Bushman P.C.

20070088650 - Systems and methods for information management over a distributed network: An information distribution system distributes information over a distributed network in a multi-phase manner. In particular, the information distribution system provides, for example, to an end user, a model for determining a particular output. Then, as a user requests the most current output of the model, a parameter set is... Agent: Sheridan Ross P C

20070088652 - Apparatus, system, and method for internet trade: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for facilitating internet trading by combining trading network information and social network information. The apparatus may determine a search parameter and a level of degree of contact between a searcher and members associated with a social network. The level of degree of contract... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070088655 - Method for the electronic processing of share transactions: The methodology of the invention is based on the monitoring of the evolution of two securities, one in view of the sale S1 and the other in view of the purchase S2. When the value of the security to be sold develops positively as regards the security to purchase, in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070088651 - Method of trading securities: A method and a system for setting up a security trade over a network are presented. The method entails calculating a call strike price and a put strike price based on the current market price and a probability factor. A sale is recommended for a predetermined number of call options... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070088654 - Methods and machine readable mediums to enable a fixed price purchase within an online auction environment: A method of allowing a seller in an auction facility to offer buyers the option of buying an offering at a pre-auction seller determined price or using a regular auction process. If a buyer is given the option to purchase at the seller determined price and decides to use the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070088653 - Processing of trades that exceed warning limits: A trading system determines whether a pending trade between a trader and a counterparty exceeds one or more warning limits, and may process the pending trade based upon specifications by the trader and counterparty, which specifications indicate how each party wants to process over-warning-limit pending trades.... Agent: Matthew T. Byrne Fish & Neave

20070088656 - Virtual world property disposition after real-world occurrence: A method and system provides transactions and arrangements in virtual world environments. A user can participate in transactions to acquire virtual property and related virtual rights. In some implementations, real-world and virtual parties can be involved in possible transfers of various types of virtual property and virtual property rights.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070088657 - Information tracking system and method involving charitable giving: The present invention relates to information tracking systems involving charitable giving. More particularly, this invention relates to a system and method for tracking charitable giving in conjunction with and without the issuance of a credit or charge card. Further, the invention associates charitable donations with business transactions, and more particularly,... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070088658 - Method and system for providing accounting for electronic trading: A method and system for providing accounting for electronic trading. Electronic trading information for real, synthetic, spread, black box or yield curve trades is obtained on an application on a target device from one or more electronic trading exchanges. The trading electronic information is processed to create accounting information that... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20070088659 - Distribution of selected digitally-encoded content to a storage device, user device, or other distribution target with concurrent rendering of selected content: Various embodiments of the present invention provide selected content rendering, by a kiosk-based content-retailing system, or other content-retailing or content-distribution system, while selected content is being downloaded to a user device, written to a content-storage medium, or otherwise distributed to a target distribution medium. By concurrently rendering content and distributing... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070088660 - Digital security for distributing media content to a local area network: A digital security system (100) for distributing media content to a local area network (104). The system (100) comprises a media provider (106), media devices (110-116) for receiving media content from the media provider (106) and a remote agent (108) for communicating with the media provider (106) and the media... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070088662 - Forum selection in litigation: A method of obtaining litigation significant information for venue selection and the like includes identifying a group of active judges to be analyzed, and classifying the outcomes for cases of a predetermined type for those judges.... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070088663 - Method and apparatus for negotiating a contract over a computer network: The invention provides a system and method that facilitates a structured contract negotiation between two parties, such as parties to a real estate transaction. A series of predefined milestone negotiation steps are executed on a computer that couples two parties through a network, such as the Internet. The negotiators answer... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070088661 - Real-time deal engagement outcome determination: A real-time deal engagement outcome determination method and system as well as a deal engagement system implementing the method are disclosed. The real-time deal engagement outcome determination is based on the determination of the outcome of possible scenarios for received taken positions and setting a combined outcome as the deal... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070083380 - Data container and set of metadata for association with a media item and composite media items: Various types of metadata and data containers associated with a media item and media item portions. In one aspect, a data container associated a media item, a rights-preserving metadata subset associated with a media item portion, and a set of metadata associated with a composite media item. In another aspect,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070083383 - Design of flexible packaging incorporating two-dimensional graphics: A method to aid designing flexible packaging for wrapping around a solid object and finalizing the packaging. The method includes accepting a description of the surface of a sheet of packaging material after wrapping around the solid object and finalizing, using a mapping of points in the 2D plane of... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070083381 - Method and system for creating receipt on paper with embedded rfid tags therein: A central information processing system and method that issues receipts or tickets that can be securely validated at points of redemption. The method and system couple a client system with a server system and also couple at least one Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader to the client system. The method... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070083378 - Secure application programming interface: Secure application programming interfaces are provided to enable communications between one or more services and one or more processes. The secure application programming interfaces expose services to the processes based on the trust level associated with the services and the trust level of the processes. The trust level of the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070083379 - System and method for processing and mailing digital media: A system and method for preparing digital media for delivery. Outgoing digital media are automatedly inserted into empty digital media envelopes. A scanner scans a code on the digital media. Based on the code, the system determines an intended delivery address. The system applies delivery address information, as determined from... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070083382 - 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

20070083392 - Automatic patient parameter acquisition system: A patient parameter acquisition interface system automatically acquires a patient parameter such as height or weight without human transcription error together with patient vital signs and provides the information to a clinical information system and other workflow applications that automatically use patient height (or other parameters) for calculations such as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070083391 - Measuring performance improvement for a clinical process: Systems and methods are provided for measuring performance improvements within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities that have the greatest... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083384 - Method and system for posture awareness training: A system is provided for capturing a plurality of digital images of a given person for providing posture analysis and posture awareness training. The images may be displayed in a screen along with interactive vertical lines (vertical axis) and horizontal lines (top, bottom, and middle). An orthogonal gridline may be... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070083390 - Monitoring clinical processes for process optimization: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities that... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083386 - Opportunity-based clinical process optimization: Systems and methods are provided for identifying opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities that... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083385 - Optimized practice process model for clinical process improvement: Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying, analyzing, and adopting opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083387 - Prioritizing opportunities for clinical process improvement: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities that... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083388 - User interface for analyzing opportunities for clinical process improvement: User interfaces are provided for analyzing opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities that have... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083389 - User interface for prioritizing opportunities for clinical process improvement: Methods and user interfaces are provided for prioritizing opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083396 - Image interpretation support system: An image interpretation support system by which past image interpretation results on an examination as an object of follow-up observation can be easily grasped. The system has: a server for storing a report database accumulating difference information between past reports in association with the respective past reports; and an image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070083394 - Medical data collection for pda: A method for creating, storing and transferring electronic patient records and for more effectively managing patient accounts receivable and billing includes storing one or more medical forms; converting each of the forms to a sequence of simplified screen displays; downloading said sequence of screen displays to a computer; and entering... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20070083395 - Method and apparatus for a patient information system and method of use: A system and method for managing information is disclosed. The method may include configuring a list of patients based on specified criteria and accessing patient data for a specific patient from the list of patients. The list of patients may include the name of at least one patient and various... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070083393 - Portable record in electronic form: A system and method of creating and updating a mobile record accessible by a user and authorized providers is described.... Agent: Michael Howell Med Connect Health System, LLC

20070083399 - Electronic funds transfer-based system and method for payment plans: A system and method enabling medical providers to establish electronic funds transfer-based (EFT-based) payment plans. This can include a secure internet application for creating managing and tracking payment transactions and business processes required to effectively institute the payment plans and programs.... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20070083397 - System and method for establishing electronic funds transfer-based medical payment plans at point of service: A system and method enabling medical providers to establish electronic funds transfer-based recurring payment plans at the time of service and maintain and report on the plan afterwards. This can include a secure internet application for creating managing and tracking payment transactions and business processes required to effectively institute the... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20070083398 - System to manage maintenance of a pipeline structure, program product, and related methods: A system to manage and analyze conditions of pipeline structures, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system can include a computer defining a pipeline management computer having a processor and memory coupled to the processor to store operating instructions therein to manage and analyze conditions of the pipeline... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070083400 - Reservation-based preauthorization payment system: A method and system for allowing the setting of reservations and the pre-authorization of credit to purchase a desired service for which a reservation is made. A customer accesses a reservation system that is integrated with a credit authorization system. The customer may make a reservation and substantially simultaneously become... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070083401 - Travel and expense management: A travel and expense management is proposed that runs on a computer system. A business calendar system receives travel data for a trip from an employee user. The travel data is transmitted from the business calendar system to a travel service retention system using a conduit software program. The travel... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070083407 - Analyzing operational results using rule-based policy models: Methods, systems, and products that execute modeled business controls on a modeled input work item to generate a corresponding modeled output work item. Input data values included in the modeled input work item either match or approximate corresponding values included in a corresponding actual input work item. Each modeled business... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070083402 - Enterprise evaluation device and enterprise evaluation program: There are provided an enterprise evaluation device and an enterprise evaluation program capable of calculating and outputting an index for judging the attitude of a particular enterprise for research and development according to the investment size for the research and development activities. The enterprise evaluation device includes: financial affair information... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070083405 - Market-driven design of information technology components: Techniques for designing information technology components by influencing design of a component using a set of criteria that reflect requirements of a target market. Each of the criteria may have one or more attributes, and may be different in priority from one another. The criteria are preferably directed toward ensuring,... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070083403 - Referral management method, apparatus and system: A referral information communication and management method, apparatus and system, with related computer-readable media, signals, data-structures and program codes, involving, in response to signals received from respective client computers associated with a referrer and referee of a referral from the referrer to the referee: (1) storing information pertaining to the... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20070083409 - System and method for management of resources in emergency and operational situations: Provided is a method for designing, managing and executing response plans. Specific plan and resources are defined and a defined plan is executed either automatically or manually according to pre-determined or “real-time” parameter definitions. An executed plan notifies, by various user-defined means, actively or pre-defined parties in a near simultaneous... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070083404 - System and method for partnering an independent business enterprise with a privately owned correctional facility: A system and method for partnering an independent business enterprise with a privately owned correctional facility. The independent business enterprise is located within the confines of the privately owned correctional facility. The independent business enterprise employs all or part of the general prison population as its workforce. The privately owned... Agent: Perret Doise A Professional Law Corporation

20070083406 - System, method, and computer program product for context-based business process management: A method, and corresponding hardware and software implementations, including receiving a client login from a client user; loading contextual information including at least one contextual parameter; determining a business process according to the contextual information; and executing the business process.... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20070083408 - Systems and methods to provide a communication reference in a representation of a geographical region: Systems and methods to provide a reference for communication with a business is disclosed here. One embodiment includes providing a reference for real-time communication with a business to be placed in a representation of a geographical region at a location within the representation corresponding to a location of the business,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070083413 - Allocating inventory levels: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to allocating inventory across a plurality of locations in a supply chain. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining a total time-phased inventory and target safety stock level for each of the items at each location based on the baseline inventory as determined... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070083412 - Budgeting requirements model generator: A budget requirements model generator (BRMG) that determines budgeting requirements for a project across funding categories. The BRMG is organized in a hierarchical structure. The hierarchical structure is imposed on a budgetary process thereby providing uniform budgeting tools at all levels of an organization. A baseline budget is determined at... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070083415 - Computerized internetwork system for automated training, management, and accounting of distributors: A computerized method, apparatus, and system for office administration, reporting, commissions, order processing, support for recruiting, training, retention, and website replication, as well as other support functions may be provided over the Internet. Product presentations, lead capture, and other interactions with web visitors may be provided for distributors in a... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20070083410 - Method of scheduling delivery of goods: This invention relates to a method of scheduling delivery of goods from a Logistics Company Depot (LCD) (2) to a customer having a customer communications device (3) having an associated customer account and being capable of receiving and transmitting a text message in a system comprising a scheduling computer (4)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070083414 - Scalable, low-latency network architecture for multiplexed baggage scanning: Network architecture for image scanning, providing a scalable, low latency arrangement for multiplexed scanning. A system and method for inspecting baggage having a plurality of scanners for providing images of the baggage and a plurality of workstations for receiving the images. There is workflow software for managing the workflow messages... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP (formerly Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP)

20070083411 - Schedule coordinates method for project scheduling: A method is provided for generating feasible schedule for project consisting of related tasks. Project may contain tasks with given duration and tasks with given volume. Splitting may be allowed for some of tasks with given duration. Constraints are given that may include resource constraints. Method uses schedule coordinates for... Agent: Alberton Yosef

20070083417 - Real-time collaboration and workflow management for a marketing campaign: A system for enabling real-time collaboration and workflow management of a marketing campaign within a marketing organization is disclosed. In one aspect, user displays for the marketing organization's computer system are provided. A role portal component provides at least two respective role portals that correspond to at least two marketing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070083416 - System architecture for scheduling and product management: A modular system architecture for a process stream generating historical work transactional data. The data are received by a system Data Import Module. The Data Import Module transforms the historical work transactional data into at least one Workload Volume. A Forecast Module in communication with the Data Import Module receives... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070083419 - Assessing information technology components: Techniques for assessing information technology components by comparing a component (including a component still under development) to a set of criteria. Each of the criteria may have one or more attributes, and may be different in priority from one another. In preferred embodiments, a component assessment score is created as... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070083421 - Business process model design measurement: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for aiding in the development of Business Process Model (BPM) design. A BPM Design is created by a design editor, and contains model data that describes the design. The design is stored in a datastore. Sets of measurements are derived from the model data... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070083418 - Enhancing insight-driven customer interactions with an engine: Insight-driven interactions with customers may be enhanced in a holistic approach. A customer relationship management (“CRM”) methodology may include: (1) evaluating a customer strategy; (2) identifying customer segments from a customer base; (3) forming an interaction strategy; (4) defining a series of experiences based on the strategy; (5) applying those... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20070083420 - Role-based assessment of information technology packages: Techniques for assessing information technology packages by comparing a package (including a package still under development) to a set of criteria. Each of the criteria may have one or more attributes, and may be different in priority from one another. In preferred embodiments, an assessment score is created as a... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070083422 - Method of testing an incentive compensation plan for fairness and equity: A method of testing an incentive compensation (“IC”) plan tests whether the plan computes incentive compensation to various participants in a fair manner, considering the differences in various characteristics that impact success in their job responsibilities, independently of their performance, such as, for a sales force as one example, characteristics... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070083423 - Method and system for unmoderated content collaboration: This invention discloses a method and system for computer-based, unmoderated content collaboration among a community of users. A network server (101) holds a host application (103) (e.g., Internet website) and content. The host application (103) permits a community of users at network clients (102) (e.g., Internet web browsers (114)) to... Agent: David Mcclure Delbridge

20070083424 - Portal for secure validation of parking and integrated services: An interface to a parking application, such as a web portal, is provided over a secure network connection to tenants for managing parking validation services as well as related parking services and other integrated building services. An authenticated user may provide information for authorizing full, partial, or subsidized payment for... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070083426 - Display device: An electronic display device and associated system and method is described. In one embodiment, the device is formed as a product replica, having an LCD screen embedded therein for displaying video content. The device has a footprint identical to products in a display area, allowing incorporation of the device into... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070083425 - Distributed system enabling integration and automation of marketing, sales and service: The present invention provides a distributed electronic management system enabling the creation, distribution and tracking of at least one electronic message to at least one predetermined potential customer, said system comprising: a data storage system for organizing and storing a plurality of content, selected portions of said content for insertion... Agent: Brandon N. Sklar. Esq. (patent Prosecution) Kaye Scholer, LLP

20070083429 - Enabling contextually placed ads in print media: Techniques for matching advertisements to articles are provided. According to one aspect, advertisements are automatically matched with to-be-published articles based at least in part on the concepts to which the advertisements and the articles pertain. The concepts to which the advertisements and the articles pertain are automatically determined so that... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070083432 - Information service: An information service includes a network and material on the network provided by an entity. The network provides or is linked to, a request for information elements for submission of a request by the submitter to the entity. Elements are provided to optionally provide an inducement to likely submitters or... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070083430 - Integrated pos computer system: A POS CS includes an additional logical control logging of transaction data, transmission of the transaction data to a central CS, identification of CIDs in transactions qualifying for marketing information, and instruction of printers for printing the marketing information for a CID during a transaction involving the CID at a... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20070083431 - Method of promoting a concentrated product line: A method of advertising a comprehensive line of concentrated products of a single advertiser comprising the steps of placing the advertiser's products on a planar layout and locating an equivalent amount of competitor's non-concentrated products in sectors radiating out from and adjacent to the concentrated products so as to provide... Agent: Law Office Of John C. Mcmahon

20070083435 - Profits give-back device, profits give-back method, program storage media, profits give-back system, content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, and content providing system: A profit give-back device, profit give-back method, program storage medium, profit give-back system, content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, and content providing system are disclosed. Profits give-back processing is performed according to the accumulated points proportionate to the number of times the content with a commercial video... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083434 - System and method for brokering the sale of advertising on containers: A system and method for the automated brokering of advertising space on beverage or similar containers offered by retail distributors, and more particularly brokering of advertising space on retailer-branded products for related goods or services (e.g., milk jug container advertising for breakfast cereal or cookies).... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070083427 - System and method for evaluating redemption value of incentive award points: A system and method for effectively analyzing points received in incentive points program and how to best use those points. Such incentive points programs include, for example, credit cards and airline reward programs that accrue points, which in turn can be redeemed for various products and services.... Agent: Shumaker Loop & Kendrick

20070083428 - System and method for navigation by advertising landmark: The invention comprises a system and method for advertising by the display of routes of travel in which advertisements are employed as sensory landmarks positioned on or near the route of travel. Selection of the particular landmark advertisement to be displayed may be according to a variety of methods such... Agent: L.a. Husick

20070083433 - System and method for sellers to reward buyer opt-in and repeat purchases using payment transfer agent coupons codes: A system and method for operating a buyer reward system used by one or more sellers independent of market venue or ecommerce software to reward buyers with a discount for opting-in to the seller's reward program and email list and for making subsequent purchases; said reward disbursed using payment transfer... Agent: Alun L. Palmer, Patent Agent

20070083438 - A method and system for delivery of targeted commercial messages: A method for delivery of targeted commercial messages. The method comprises assembling a plurality of potential purchaser profiles in an electronic file for presentation to at least one potential advertiser of goods or services applicable to a substantial portion of the plurality of potential purchasers, developing commercial message selection criteria... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070083439 - Identification scheme for a communication device: Architecture for presenting m-commerce transaction data to a user. An m-commerce device includes a device reading apparatus adapted to read a dataform. At least one item for purchase has associated therewith an item dataform readable by the m-commerce device, the item dataform linked to item information of the item. A... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070083440 - Method, system and computer program product for secure electronic purchasing from a plurality of merchants on a common web site: An electronic advertising and purchasing system and method is implemented in a global computer network to enable a consumer to purchase or gain additional information about advertised goods or services while the consumer remains connected to a hosting web site. The hosting server includes a sessions manager that sends instructions... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070083437 - Methods and systems for facilitating bids on products and services: Methods and systems for bidding on items include a predetermined price or range associated with an item, the price not disclosed to bidders. Successful bids conform to a predetermined success rule(s) determined independently of the amounts of other bids. Successful bids can be immediately communicated to the successful bidders. Price... Agent: Jlb Consulting C/o Portfolio Ip

20070083436 - Profit-and-loss management information presentation method, profit-and-loss management information presentation device, and profit-and-loss management information presentation process program: Even in the case of a material producing company that uses common main starting materials and has in-house organizations corresponding to manufacturing processes, appropriate profit-and-loss management by each commercial product type can be realized. A solving method includes: a profit-and-loss storing step of linking at least product type information and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070083441 - User-personalized media sampling, recommendation and purchasing system using real-time inventory database: A user-personalized product sampling, recommendation and purchasing system uses customer identification numbers and associated customer profile data to tailor specific product recommendations to a customer at a content sampling station of a retail location. The customer also can use her customer profile to receive the same information from an Internet... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070083442 - Method, system and program products for batch and real-time availability: Methods, systems and program products for providing automated and consistent sales offerings availability messages, whereby a user type is identified, a catalog appropriate for such user type is provided and then a quantity of a sales offering is selected from the catalog. Availability data feeds are provided that may include... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20070083443 - Object loading system and method: The invention is a method for objects selection at a location comprising the steps of using a mobile computer having a bar code reader, a display, an audio output device, an audio input device, a tactile input device, text to speech software, a voice recognition software, objects selection applications software,... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070083444 - System and method for automatic reconciliation of transaction account spend: A system and method for facilitating automatic reconciliation of transaction card transactions is disclosed, wherein a user may request single-use account codes via the Internet. The system comprises various hardware and software systems to enable a card member, program administrator, or any other designated third-party to request one or more... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070083445 - System for monitoring patient supervision by health-care workers: A monitoring system in a medical facility provides an identification device to a patient and a data acquisition device to a health-care worker. The identification device wirelessly emits a first signal that identifies the patient and the data acquisition device emits a second signal. A determination is made in response... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070083446 - Method, system, and program product for providing revisional delta billing and re-billing in a dynamic project environment: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for providing revisional delta billing and re-billing in a dynamic project environment. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes capturing data points associated with a first billing at a first point in time, capturing... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070083448 - Consolidation systems and methods for physical presentation instruments and financial information: A system and method for providing a presentation instrument in combination with a financial statement includes a host computer system and a printer communicatively coupled to the host computer system. A presentation instrument initializing machine is communicably coupled to the host computer system. The system also includes a mail processing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070083447 - Methods and systems for providing preferred stock credit default swaps: In one aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising the steps of: (a) specifying a reference entity which is an obligor with respect to preferred securities; (b) defining a credit event to include deferral of dividend or coupon on the preferred securities; (c) specifying a payoff to include the preferred... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070083449 - System and method for special accounts: This invention provides methods and system for facilitating funding, disbursing, and accessing consumer tax preferential accounts wherein funding or disbursing is related to consumers POS transactions. Novel network computer systems and methods of their include a POS CS and a central CS. The central CS receives consumer purchase transaction data... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20070083450 - Commercial transaction management system: There is provided a system for appropriately determining a second trader as a partner of commercial transaction with a plurality of first traders, among a plurality of second traders according to a given rule. According to the commercial transaction management system of the present invention, a fourth processing unit 114... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070083453 - Differential commission and electronic order matching process for the distribution of primary market fixed income securities: An apparatus and process (collectively the “system”) for conducting and managing the primary offering of fixed income securities, specifically, but not exclusively, fixed rate municipal bonds at different prices for like maturities over electronic networks, particularly, but not exclusively, the Internet, is disclosed. A differential commission method for the distribution... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070083451 - Funding acquisition of university and non-profit patent portfolios: A method for funding IP procurement for non-profits such as universities and other non-profits that conduct research, includes providing a fund to hold interests in intellectual properties of a non-profit organization, receiving investments from investors to add to the fund to fund acquisition of intellectual properties of the non-profit, by... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070083454 - Method and apparatus for managing a portfolio of assets: A method of managing a portfolio of assets in order to take action in respect of the portfolio which comply with one or more requirement determined by a user, the method comprising the steps of: defining one or more requirements which align with the needs of the user; defining a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070083452 - Securities trade monitoring and evaluation system: A security price evaluation and exception reporting system and method evaluate an offer price or executed price for a security, such as a bond. Current offerings, past trades, or other market information related to the bond are selected based on first user selectable criteria. Current offerings, past trades, or other... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070083455 - System and method for automating investment planning: A computerized scheme automates investment planning for a client. In the scheme, data regarding the client's desired asset allocation, current asset portfolio and preferred domain are input into a processor. This data are used to automatically generate financial transaction recommendations for modifying the client's current asset portfolio to reach as... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070083456 - Algorithmic trading: An algorithmic trading system in which the trading algorithms, the operation of which is variable based on values input by a user of various trading algorithm parameters, are encoded and stored within a file structure is described. A method of updating the trading algorithms and trading algorithm parameters is also... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070083458 - Method and system for providing a graphical user interface and trading system for professional electronic trading: A method and system for providing a graphical user interface and trading system for professional electronic trading. A new professional trading application provides a back end trading platform that allows professional traders to quickly and efficiently execute electronic trades on one or more electronic trading exchanges. The new back end... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20070083457 - System and methods for pricing and allocation of commodities or securities: Systems and methods for conducting an auction of securities on the Web. The system and methods provide a bid mechanism whereby bidders are rewarded for priority of anonymously revealing their bids and provide an allocation of the securities which allows winning bidders to pay a single market-clearing price that sells... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070083463 - Fraud alert switch: A credit freeze on-off switch implemented through, for example a web page control, is provided for consumers to quickly and inexpensively freeze and unfreeze their credit files with the major credit bureaus. This helps prevent credit fraud before it happens.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070083460 - Identity theft and fraud protection system and method: A system and method for preventing personal identity theft when making online and offline purchases requires a purchaser to first subscribe and become a member user by registering and providing relevant personal identity information. Once registered, the member is assigned a user name and a password. The subscribing member's personal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070083462 - Method for coordinating investor--guaranteed loans over the internet: A method for coordinating investor-guaranteed loans over the internet whereby borrowers submit loan requests to a database and investors search the database and select borrowers. The investors then consent to act as guarantors on loans made to the selected borrowers and, in addition, make an investment by contributing funds to... Agent: Echeyde Cubillo

20070083459 - System and method for deferring payments: A system and method for making deferred payment purchases are disclosed. The system includes a deferred payment system provider (which includes a deferred payment server, pre-registered merchants, pre-approved customers and at least one financial institution. The deferred payment server, the customers and the merchants communicate over a network (e.g., the... Agent: Trace Eubanks

20070083461 - Systems and methods for extending consumer credit and processing transactions: A method for extending consumer credit comprises identifying a consumer having a first line of credit and extending a second line of credit restricted for use with a designated merchant or merchant association under a consumer's account. In some embodiments, a risk abatement account is funded to pay uncollectible receivables... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070083464 - Secure electronic payment system and methods: The invention provides a system and method for ensuring secure payment transactions. The invention provides for a chargeable and dischargeable security (CDS) system that allows users/account holders to have greater control over access to their accounts. The CDS-system may include a CDS-instrument, such as a credit or debit card that... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070083465 - Method and system using bill payment reminders: A method for automatic bill payment is disclosed. The method includes providing for an automatic bill payment process for a user of a portable consumer device, where the automatic bill payment process automatically pays periodic bills of the user at predetermined times. The method also includes providing for an automatic... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20070083466 - Emergency services notification from an atm systems and methods: Systems, methods, and software are described for facilitating contact with an emergency services provider from an ATM. An ATM network host computer system may receive a first communications signal from the ATM, comprising a request for emergency services. The ATM network host may determine at least one financial account associated... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070083467 - Partial encryption techniques for media data: Improved techniques to partially encrypt media files are disclosed. The encryption serves to cryptographically secure only a portion of the media data within a media file, while the remaining portion of the media data is not cryptographically secured. Although only partial encryption is used, the portion being encrypted serves to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070083470 - Architecture that manages access between a mobile communications device and an ip network: Architecture which includes functionality in a handset and a network that automates an access point association and authorization procedure. The invention builds on a framework specified as part of a generic access network controller to enable the network to transparently and dynamic detect, control, and manage which access points are... Agent: Cingular Wireless LLC

20070083468 - Content feed user interface with gallery display of same-type items: Additional content items that satisfy predefined criteria with respect to a user-selected content item are identified. The predefined criteria may be that the selected and additional content items have particular characteristics that are the same. Information corresponding to the selected and identified content items is presented to a user. Characteristics... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070083471 - Techniques and systems for electronic submission of media for network-based distribution: Methods and systems for submitting media to a media distribution site are disclosed. The submission of media to the media distribution site is able to be performed by numerous submitters in a uniform and computer-assisted manner. The submitted media can then be encoded in a largely automated manner at the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070083469 - Use of licensed content without identification thereof: A content key (CK) to decrypt a piece of encrypted content is obtained encrypted according to a public key of a licensor (PU-L) to result in (PU-L(CK)). (PU-L(CK)) is obscured according to (PU-L) and a value R to result in Obs (PU-L(CK)), and Obs (PU-L(CK)) is sent to the licensor,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070083472 - Customer satisfaction reporting: A system enables a customer to participate in a survey or otherwise answer questions about the customer's experience with a business. The system aggregates the responses of many customers and provides a reporting mechanism. A client, such as a representative of the business, can interact with the reporting mechanism to... Agent: Whitaker Law Group

20070083473 - Use of media storage structure with multiple pieces of content in a content-distribution system: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for distributing content over a network. The method distributes a single media storage structure to a device (e.g., a computer, portable player, etc.) that connects to the network. The media storage structure includes first and second pieces of encrypted content. Based on... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20070083474 - Administration of end-user licence agreements: Exemplary methods, systems, and products are described for administering end-user license agreements (‘EULAs’). Embodiments include receiving, in a response to a user's request for access to material subject to an end-user license agreement (‘EULA’), license data; determining, in dependence upon the license data and one or more license administration rules,... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070083476 - Method and system for enforcing user rights and maintaining consistency of user data in a data network: A method and system for enforcing user rights on user data, and maintaining consistency of the user data in a data network are disclosed. Each of a plurality of entities controls one or more network devices which are connected via the data network. Each network device includes at least one... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070083475 - System and method of managing digital rights: A system for managing subscriber access to content. The system may include a number of access points through which the subscribers access the content, a digital rights feature located remotely from the access points for storing digital rights of the subscribers to the content. Optionally, the digital rights feature is... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070083477 - Stored-value education account: According to the invention, a method for funding an account with an online money transfer system using a wide area network, where the account cannot be used for purchases outside a closed purchasing community, is disclosed. In one step, information about a money handler is accepted at the online money... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070083478 - Cogeneration implementation simulation method and system, and cogeneration device sail promotion method and system: A method and a system suitable for predicting the costs of implementing cogenerations in small-scaled places of business and ordinary homes. Transmitters (3) located at the respective ones of facilities transmit, by radio, data of electric power consumption amounts of the facilities as measured by electric power meters (1) and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083479 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a prepaid metering system: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a prepaid metering system an electric utility meter interface. The prepaid metering system includes a meter interface a customer interface unit and a revenue management system.... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070078668 - Authentication id interview method and apparatus: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining whether a responder is who he or she claims to be, by evaluating responses to a series of questions drawn from various data providers, e.g. real estate data about the responder's house; family members from other publicly available sources; etc. The invention... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070078675 - Contributor reputation-based message boards and forums: System and method for operating reputation-based communication or content service. Method includes obtaining metric related to first user contributor reputation; identifying communication or content having association with first user contributor; and processing communication or content to generate processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation. Service is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070078674 - Display method for image-based questionnaires: A network-enabled method and system for polling individuals about attributes of features that may be present on an image is provided. The system enables a user to indicate a region-of-interest, or to otherwise graphically indicate the location and extent of a feature, on an image. Information relating to the user's... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070078667 - Industrial operator interfaces interacting with higher-level business workflow: Systems and methods are provided that enable high-level and abstract business engines to affect and influence plant-floor or industrial operations via dynamic and flexible operator interfaces. In a similar manner, actions directed from the operator interfaces can be communicated to higher level decision components of an enterprise to facilitate automated... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078664 - Method and instrument for expressing gratitude for a scholastic experience: The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved method of expressing gratitude for a scholastic experience. The method includes a beneficiary and at least one benefactor. The method of expressing gratitude generally comprises the steps of drafting a government document having an expression of gratitude incorporated therein; showing... Agent: Ryan T. Grace Merchant & Gould

20070078663 - Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual: The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved method of proposing marriage to an individual. The method of proposing to an individual generally comprising the steps of meeting the individual; exchanging names with the individual; dating the individual (not necessary); drafting a government document having a proposal to... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070078666 - Method and system for development of on-campus facilities beneficial to institutions utilizing private capital subsidies: A method of financing and/or managing development of property located on institution-owned real estate is provided, which provides the institution with one or more improvement facilities in exchange for only periodic, limited term specialty use and occupancy rights in the developed facility, allowing use by the institution outside of the... Agent: Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP

20070078673 - Method for editing term and condition entries of a legal document: The present invention provides a method for editing term and condition entries of a legal document. The method includes the steps of: opening a legal document; integrating opinions on the term and condition entries of the legal document; editing the term and condition entries; determining whether any term and condition... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070078665 - Microbial estates for the efficient development and management of biogenic fuel resources: A method of transferring an interest in microbial rights associated with a parcel of land. The method includes recognizing a microbial estate that includes the microbial rights, where ownership interests in the microbial estate are separately transferable from other estates associated with the parcel of land, and transferring one or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070078676 - Report generator for allowing a financial entity to monitor securities class action lawsuits and potential monetary claims resulting therefrom: Reports are automatically created of securities class action lawsuits customized to show potential monetary claims resulting from the lawsuits for securities purchased or acquired by one or more financial entities. To produce the reports, a database of securities class action lawsuits is maintained. The lawsuit database includes a subset of... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070078670 - Selecting high quality reviews for display: A method and system of selecting reviews for display are described. Reviews for a subject are identified. A subset of the identified reviews is selected based on predefined quality criteria. The selection may also be based on zero or more other predefined criteria. A response that includes content from the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078671 - Selecting high quality text within identified reviews for display in review snippets: A method and system of selecting content from reviews for display are described. A review is identified and partitioned. A subset of the partitions is selected based on predefined criteria. A snippet is generated from the selected partitions. A response that includes the snippet is generated.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078669 - Selecting representative reviews for display: A method and system of selecting reviews for display are described. Reviews for a subject are identified and an overall rating for the subject is determined. A subset of the identified reviews is selected based on the rating range in which the overall rating falls. The selection may also be... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078672 - System and method for creating finalized legal documents: The present invention provides a method for creating finalized legal documents. The method includes the steps of: establishing a blank legal document; inputting data and inserting the data into the blank legal document; identifying the data and importing a corresponding template into the blank legal document; updating options of term... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070078679 - After-hours radiology system: A web-based system is disclosed for managing radiology services for one or more medical facilities. The system, comprising both hardware and software components, provides mechanisms by which radiographic images and demographic information about a patient are transmitted to a central location and efficiently combined, allowing a designated radiologist to efficiently... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20070078677 - Controlling access to medical records: A method for controlling the access of healthcare providers to the medical records of a patient held in a medical record database. A patient controls the access of healthcare providers to the patient's medical records held in a medical record database. The patient determines access rights to be granted to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070078681 - Disease simulation system and method: A system and method for predicting the effect of patient self-care actions on a disease control parameter. A future disease control parameter value X(tj) at time tj is determined from a prior disease control parameter value X(ti) at time ti based on an optimal control parameter value R(tj) at time... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070078678 - System and method for performing a computer assisted orthopaedic surgical procedure: A computer assisted surgery system includes a controller configured to display images of the surgical procedure according to a workflow plan. The controller is configured to retrieve data and determine the workflow plan based on the data. The controller may also be configured to record and store data related to... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070078680 - Systems and methods for analysis of healthcare provider performance: A system for measuring unwarranted healthcare service variations including the process of accessing patient data associated with a patient population, applying a predictive model to the patient data to determine the number of times that a healthcare measure is expected to occur, accessing the patient data to determine the number... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070078686 - Electronic health record transaction monitoring: Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for providing individuals with notifications pertaining to use of health records. In one embodiment, a network-accessible storage repository is configured to store a plurality of electronic health records regarding a plurality of individuals. Requests to access selective records of the plurality of individuals are... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070078682 - Electronic healthcare identification and reconciliation: A system and method for generating healthcare identification and reconciliation information are provided. In an illustrative implementation, a computer-implemented healthcare information and reconciliation platform (HIRP) maintains a HIR engine which is operable on various data including but not limited to patient data, network data, plan data, insurance carrier/payor data, and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070078689 - Electronic healthcare identification generation and management: A system and method for generating healthcare identification and reconciliation information and are provided. In an illustrative implementation, a computer-implemented healthcare information and reconciliation platform (HIRP) maintains a HIR engine which is operable on various data including but not limited to patient data, network data, plan data, insurance carrier/payor data,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070078687 - Managing electronic health records within a wide area care provider domain: Embodiments of the invention provide an individual with control over who may access an account of electronic health records (EHR records) related to the individual. The health records may be stored a network-accessible storage repository. An entity providing healthcare related goods or services may request access to an account by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070078683 - Method and apparatus for transferring medical treatment: A method and apparatus for securely and controllably transferring medical information is provided. An electronic device, like a portable computer, personal digital assistant or intelligent medical monitoring device, is configured to communicate with a healthcare provider's server. The device receives both an authorization code and a medical treatment description from... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070078684 - Models for sustaining and facilitating participation in health record data banks: Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for generating fees on the basis of accesses to health records. In one embodiment, requests are received to access one or more electronic health records of a plurality of electronic health records stored in a network-accessible storage repository. The plurality of electronic health records... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070078685 - Multiple accounts for health record bank: A health record databank configured to associate electronic health records with multiple-accounts is provided. A network-accessible storage repository is used to store a plurality of electronic medical records for a plurality of individuals. In turn, individuals are provided with an electronic health records account (EHR account), wherein the EHR account... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070078688 - Personal information retrieval system: The invention is a system allowing a person to carry with them a means for identifying themselves and enabling a service provider to access private data about the person. The invention is particularly suitable for the case of a person traveling who needs medical assistance. The novel system provides access... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20070078690 - Survivor benefit plan, method and computer program product for providing a survivor income-replacement plan that is adjusted for inflation: A method and computer program product for providing survivor income-replacement benefits having a guaranteed rate of interest with the possibility of a higher income stream to the designated survivor if supported by prevailing interest rates at the time of annuitization. In one embodiment, the insured would purchase either a fixed... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070078691 - Vacant seat reservation system: With using a boarding planned station name 211 registered by a portable information terminal 2, an information processing apparatus 4 produces vacant seat forecast information 410, including an alighting planned station name therein. While displaying this vacant seat forecast information on a terminal display portion 22, a seat-setup vacant seat... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070078693 - Method of process review and solutions development: A method of analyzing and recommending improvements to a company's workflow is disclosed. Meetings with multiple employees involved in the workflow are combined into one meeting, and the employees are encouraged and prompted to answer questions jointly. A guided approached is used utilizing a series of basic guiding principles for... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20070078692 - System for determining the outcome of a business decision: A method for determining an outcome of a business decision. The method may include creating a hierarchical map of a business and generating a computer simulation of the business based on the hierarchical map. The method may also include identifying an action and using the computer simulation to determine an... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070078696 - Integrating high level enterprise-level decision- making into real-time process control: An integrated production management system is disclosed for closed loop management of production requests within an enterprise. The production management system includes a business management (enterprise resource planning) system that issues production requests based upon business requirements. A production management system executes supervisory process control and manufacturing information applications providing... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070078695 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying assets for resource allocation: Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying assets for resource allocation are provided. The method includes gathering data that includes asset data and ambient area data. The asset data relates to each asset in an infrastructure and the ambient area data relates to a geographic region surrounding a corresponding... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070078694 - Setting reminders within processing of a business document: In a business automation software system, a specifier setting a reminder is added to a business object to provide a arbitrary reminder to the user adding the reminder. Prior to forwarding a business object from a sender to a recipient, a specifier is added to the business object indicating a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070078697 - Client appointment scheduling method, system, and computer program product for sales call, service scheduling and customer satisfaction analysis: A system, method and computer product for use in scheduling sales and service activities between service providers and customers, allowing for transfer of information between service providers and customers via phone, mail, e-mail, text messaging or web-based information transfer according to customer preferences and further allowing the service provider to... Agent: Gerald L. Robertson, Esq.

20070078698 - Supply and demand planning by omitting order item: Method, system and program product for providing supply and demand planning by omitting an atypical order item is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention includes a method of identifying an atypical order item, and omitting the atypical order item from at least one of the following: a forecast demand and... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070078699 - Systems and methods for reputation management: A reputation management system assigns reputation scores to various types of entities including, but not limited to people, products, advertisers and merchants. A reputation function is based on a directed graph including the reviewers and the reviews. The nodes in the graph represent the reviewers and the reviews and the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078700 - Systems and methods to facilitate product market management: The present invention is directed to automated computer-based product market management. A system for supporting product market management is provided, the system configured to receive market information items and to document received market information items in a database, and mutually relating the received market information items; receive information on product... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070078703 - Apparatus and method to estimate the value of a work process and determine gaps in current and desired states: A method involves identifying work elements of a work process which may be enhanced to provide a biggest impact on enhancing an overall value of the work process. The method involves identifying a plurality of work elements comprising a work process, interviewing one or more knowledgeable interviewees and determining existing... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20070078702 - Integrated technology quality model: An integrated technology quality model provides a decision-making matrix for managing and combining technology initiatives within a corporate environment. In a refining step, recommendations are made based on simple filters to decommission and/or clean up an existing technology portfolio. In an optimizing step, the data is further analyzed for details... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070078701 - Systems and methods for managing internal controls with import interface for external test results: Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for the management of internal controls. Embodiments consistent with the invention also relate to internal control systems and methods that provide an interface for uploading or importing test results from one application (e.g., an external application for testing controls) to another... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070078715 - Advertisement display processing method and apparatus associated with reproduction title: For individual users, information which is the latest and which is suitable to the users can be properly displayed or can be selectively displayed. A reproduction title is detected as a title of a recorded broadcast program and/or one of the user use states of distributed content titles such as... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070078709 - Advertising with audio content: The serving of advertisements with (e.g., on) audio documents may be improved in a number of ways. For example, a system may (a) accept information defining at least one ad spot associated with at least one instance of an audio document, (b) accept offers to have advertisements served in the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070078714 - Automatically matching advertisements to media files: The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting advertisement for delivery over a network in response to requests received from remote computing devices. In one aspect, the present invention includes a method and system for automatically matching an advertisement with a media file, such as a podcast... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078707 - Controlling the serving of advertisements, such as cost per impression advertisements for example, to improve the value of such serves: A (e.g., expected) performance of proposed ad placement is compared with a performance threshold (either an initial threshold or an adjusted threshold). The ad may be served if the expected performance meets the threshold (perhaps subject to additional conditions), but is not served if the expected performance is less than... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070078704 - Method and system for disseminating commercial information by mobile telephone: The invention enables a mobile telephone user to receive commercial information relating to the geographical position thereof on his/her telephone in the form of messages. The mobile telephone user voluntary registers with a service. Registration is received and stored in a data base. The mobile telephone user is also provided... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070078717 - Methods and apparatuses for prioritizing advertisements for presentation: Methods and apparatuses for sorting seller listings or advertisements of a seller network. One embodiment includes: determining an indicator of potential revenue that is expected to be generated from presentation of advertisements, based on statistical data indicating performance of the advertisements; and presenting one or more of the advertisements based... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070078711 - Prioritization of advertisements for delivery over a network based on predicted inventories: A method for providing advertising content for display in a page over a network is disclosed. The method may include determining at least one advertisement line that is qualified for display at a location in the page for the given web page visitor; determining a relative inventory scarcity value for... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070078719 - S/m for offering reward programs: A system and method for identifying and offering reward programs. The method comprises the step of determining at least one rewards program associated with a user. The next step involves determining the user's transaction history or reward program history with a first reward card associated with the rewards program. Then,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070078718 - System and method for monetizing internet usage: Toolbar incorporating software that collects, analyzes and protects information on user preferences determined based on user's online activities. Advertising is targeted to each user, while user's privacy is protected by storing all personal information on user's local computer. The toolbar permits advertisers to advertise without paying fees until advertising brings... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070078710 - System and method for providing unique and immediately redeemable incentive vouchers to a customer to encourage transactions with a business entity: The present invention provides unique and immediately redeemable incentive vouchers to a customer when specified transactions occur between the customer and a business entity so as to encourage the customer to initiate additional transactions with the business entity. More specifically, the present invention provides a tiered incentive program that issues... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070078716 - System and method of on-line merchandising: A system and method for on-line merchandising utilizing a gaming or promotional format which includes the on-line purchase of a pre-determined number of bids or entries each representing an equal opportunity for being awarded preselected merchandise at a reduced cost. A customer having purchased one or more bids from a... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20070078713 - System for associating an advertisement marker with a media file: Systems and methods are provided for automatically delivering media files with advertisements over a network. A method and system is disclosed for automatically adding an advertisement to the beginning or the end of a media file, such as a podcast episode, when the media file is requested by a consumer.... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078712 - Systems for inserting advertisements into a podcast: Systems and methods are provided for automatically delivering media files with advertisements over a network. A method and system is disclosed for automatically adding an advertisement to the beginning or the end of a media file, such as a podcast episode, when the media file is requested by a consumer.... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078706 - Targeted advertising: A targeted in-game advertising system is provided where advertising content may be delivered to a video game network environment. Advertisements may be delivered through the tagging of advertising assets in the video game environment according to one or more characteristics including user geographical location, personal preferences, a personal profile, video... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070078708 - Using speech recognition to determine advertisements relevant to audio content and/or audio content relevant to advertisements: Serving advertisements with (e.g., in) audio documents may be improved by (a) accepting at least a portion of a document including audio content, (b) analyzing the audio content to determine relevancy information for the document, and (c) determining at least one advertisement relevant to the document using at least the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070078705 - Virtualizing portals for electronic commerce: A system and method is disclosed for a virtual portal (vPortal), that can logically front-end and generate personalized presentations of eCommerce electronic (e.g., web portal) or paper-based (e.g., catalog) content, based on individual or group preferences and/or predetermined authorizations, through the implementation of a local portal registry (pRegistry), editable by... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070078720 - System and method for advertising in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network: A system and method are disclosed for advertising in a peer-to-peer hybrid network. In one example, the method includes selecting message content by an endpoint for delivery directly to another endpoint. The endpoint selects one of a message type and a communication channel to be used in delivering the message... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070078725 - Integrated customer fulfillment management: An integrated customer fulfillment management (ICFM) system allows a user to request a fulfillment package to be delivered to a recipient using a computing system. The fulfillment request, specifying personal information about the recipient is specified. The content of the fulfillment package is selected, which may include a communication personalized... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070078729 - Itinerary planning tool, system, method, software, and hardware: An activity-based itinerary planning tool permits a trip planner to incrementally build an itinerary, starting at a selected entry point and adding activities in a step-by-step manner, by taking into account commute times for different types of transportation and entry/exit conditions for particular activities/facilities, in order to present the user... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20070078730 - Method and device for reproduction of information: Provision is made for an information reproduction scheme which is intelligent and adjusts to the desires and needs of the user in a manner which is almost unnoticeable to the user and is associated with little or no additional effort on the part of the user, in that the selection,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070078727 - Method and system for electronic commerce using multiple roles: A computer system for conducting electronic commerce. The system provides multiple electronic shopping carts for each user. Each electronic shopping cart has an indication of items currently within the electronic shopping cart and billing and shipment information. The system generates a display that identifies each of the electronic shopping carts... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070078724 - Method for managing an electronic-commerce shopping cart: A method and system for managing an electronic commerce (e-commerce) shopping cart relating to communication between a shopper and a server over a communication network. A server identifies a secondary item in the shopping cart linked to a primary item in the shopping cart. The server changes an attribute of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070078721 - Process of auto-renewing limited time software and services agreement: An apparatus for preconfiguring an information handling system which includes means for configuring a system with options selected according to user input wherein the options includes at least one renewable component, means for enabling a customer to indicate authorization to automatically renew the renewable component, and a database that receives... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070078728 - Product exchange system: An exchange system for facilitating the purchase of products is described. The system is coupled, in one embodiment, to a communications link. Potential product purchasers and sellers may access the exchange system via the network, and submit offers and/or pricing requests to such system. In response to the requests, the... Agent: Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070078722 - System and method for mobile wireless transactions: Methods and systems are provided for mobile wireless transactions. The method comprises transmitting (105) a first signal having data indicating a first item, receiving (110) a second signal from a mobile wireless unit in response to the first signal when the mobile wireless unit is within a predetermined proximity to... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070078723 - System, method and apparatus for conducting secure online monetary transactions: A system, apparatus, and methods for conducting secure online monetary transactions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a networked purchasing system includes a media broker, a physical medium producer for manufacturing branded media, one or more merchants, one or more distributors, a consumer networked computer, a financial institution. A media broker... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke, L.L.P.

20070078726 - System, program product, and methods for online image handling: A system to facilitate electronic commerce associated with an online marketplace, program product, and methods are provided. Electronic commerce over a computer network is facilitated by a computer system that forms a community of computers that enable the users to buy and sell items in an online marketplace. To list... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070078734 - Commercial transaction system with third party referral: A system for conducting commercial transactions comprises an application server in communication with a proxy server. The application server hosts a software application program performing commercial transactions and is accessible by a user from a mobile telephone that hosts a corresponding client software program. The client software program receives a... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070078732 - Interactive information access system: The present invention provides a system and method for interactively vending products and services related to a video program. The invention provides for a video program to be displayed on a user display platform, the video program comprising vendible objects for which information is available in an object information database.... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070078733 - Procurement system managing off-contract internet purchases: A procurement system permits routine purchases through approved vendors in a catalog as well as off-catalog purchases via the web, the latter using a web access program that captures product information from the web to invoke the approval process normally used for catalog purchases.... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070078731 - System and method for auto-configuration based on a pre-paid subscription: A method, server, system and computer program product for providing one or more content files to a user terminal are provided, wherein the credit balance of a user associated with the user terminal is consulted prior to commencing the transmission of the content files. Where it is determined that the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070078735 - Blended editing of literal and non-literal values: An editing application may allow a user to change a literal property value of an object in a conventional manner. The functionality of the editing application may be expanded to allow a user to access non-literal values for property values, by allowing the user to define a calculation based on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070078736 - Enabling transactional mechanisms in an automated controller system: The claimed subject matter provides a controller that facilitates implementing a transaction between a controller and a business system within an industrial automation environment. An interface component can facilitate receipt of data associated with a business system at the programmable logic controller. The controller can incorporate a transaction component that... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078737 - Financial ventures based on virtual credit: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070078738 - Commodities based securities and roll neutrality therefor: The subject invention pertains to securities, preferably exchange traded funds, or ETFs, relating to commodities subject to futures contracts in a commodities market. More specifically, the invention relates to shipping certificates for commodities that dynamically compensate for commodity “roll neutrality” adjustments by altering the quantity of commodity associated with the... Agent: John M. Johnson Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

20070078739 - Commodities based securities and shipping certificate therefor: The subject invention pertains to securities, preferably exchange traded funds, or ETFs, relating to commodities subject to futures contracts in a commodities market. More specifically, the invention relates to shipping certificates for commodities that dynamically compensate for commodity “roll neutrality” adjustments by altering the quantity of commodity associated with the... Agent: John M. Johnson Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

20070078746 - Fair-value pricing of a financial asset: The fair value of a fund is determined by analyzing various factors indicative of how each underlying asset of the fund would be valued on the open market. The fund may be an international mutual fund that includes underlying assets, which include international equities. Because some of the underlying assets... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070078743 - Hybrid arm index: In at least one aspect, the invention comprises constructing one or more hybrid adjustable rate mortgage aggregates based on one or more of: agency, program, coupon, and origination year; for each of one or more of the aggregates, constructing one or more sub-aggregates based on one or more of: rate-index,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070078742 - Implementation of a prime broker to consolidate otc derivatives exposures: An interface that facilitates reporting, settlement, and financing charges for the fields of swaps (credit default, interest and other) and bond options. A system for aggregating, organizing, reporting and settling Over the Counter (“OTC”) derivative trades. Many clients refrain from trading Credit Default Swaps (“CDS”) due to the heavy documentation... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070078740 - Master-feeder index investment structure: An investment structure including at least one strategy portfolio and a plurality of index funds. The strategy portfolio purchases, sells or enters into derivative contracts of the plurality of the index funds in accordance with its predetermined strategy.... Agent: Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Attn: Joel E. Lutzker

20070078744 - Methods and systems for providing abs floating rate indices: In at least one aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising creating, based on specified rules, an index of asset-backed floating rate securities categorized into a plurality of asset classes; and pricing the index according to a matrix pricing method. In at least one other aspect, the invention comprises an... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070078745 - System and methods for facilitating informed trading of financial instruments: The invention relates to an improved means for interactive computerized communications having a facilitated capability for order entry and order execution, and providing an enhanced range of trading forms and methods to clients of brokerage firms dealing in financial instruments. In particular, the invention relates to a type of interactive... Agent: Charles C. Valauskas, Esq. Valauskas & Pine, LLC

20070078741 - Using commercial share of wallet in private equity 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.

20070078748 - Central pricing system and method: A system and method for providing responses to pricing inquiries that bypasses the trading desk is disclosed that includes a CPS database configured to receive and store pricing data from at least one data source and a CPS console configured to receive a pricing inquiry, estimate a price for the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070078755 - Currency trading system, methods, and software: In one aspect, the present invention comprises a system for trading currencies over a computer network. A preferred embodiment comprises: (a) a server front-end; (b) at least one database; (c) a transaction server; (d) a rate server; (e) a pricing engine; (f) an interest rate manager; (g) a trade manager;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070078753 - Directed order: A directed order process and related market center are disclosed, wherein a market center grants permission to order sending firms to send directed order flow to participating designated market makers. Such designated market makers create a virtual guarantee order book for each permissioned order sending firm. If an order sending... Agent: Lefevour Law Group, LLC

20070078754 - Method and system for marketing homes: A method and system accessible with the Internet by which a database of homebuyers and their purchase criteria is established by real estate agents of the homebuyers, and is searchable by homeowners who are considering selling their homes. Desired home criteria of a plurality of potential homebuyers are entered and... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.C.

20070078750 - Method of and a system for video editing on a computer network: Editing a video project via a computer network, includes submitting a video project by a submitter, receiving the proposed video product, reviewing the submitted video product by potential editors and bidding for the submitted video product, and choosing by the submitter of the video product an editor who won the... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070078756 - System and method for commodity valuation based on online auction bid information: A system for determining latent demand for at least one of a plurality of commodities includes an offer analyzer and a commodity selector. The offer analyzer analyzes at least a plurality of initially unaccepted offers for each of the plurality of commodities. The commodity selector selects at least one of... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070078749 - System and method for order placement in an electronic trading environment: A system and associated methods are provided for intelligent placement and movement of orders in an electronic trading environment. According to one example method, in addition to submitting a leg order at a calculated price level, additional orders, queue holder orders, are submitted for the leg order at prices either... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20070078752 - System and method for order placement in an electronic trading environment: A system and associated methods are provided for intelligent placement and movement of orders in an electronic trading environment. According to one example method, in addition to submitting a leg order at a calculated price level, additional orders, queue holder orders, are submitted for the leg order at prices either... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20070078747 - System and method for providing bidding on real estate among previously identified parties.: A system and method for providing bidding on real estate among previously identified parties. The system includes one or more servers storing and providing information about the real estate to be bid on; one or more means to invite pre-identified potential bidders to bid on each piece of real estate;... Agent: James H. Baack

20070078751 - System and method for providing secure financial transactions for open network commerce: A system for conducting commerce across a distributed network includes a remote consumer computer. A merchant server communicates with the remote consumer computer across an open network to enable purchasing of a product from the remote consumer computer. A financial clearing house server is located within a secured closed network... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070078757 - Method and device for determining the credit of users of the optical disc: The present invention relates to the credit of users, in particular to the determination of the credit of users of the optical disc.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070078758 - Risk assessment-based shopping of internet auctions: A method and process for simultaneously searching one or more internet auctions, augmented with automatic seller ratings expressing risk-of-injury to a buyer, with the steps of: A search parameter entry client, An artificial intelligence-based analysis engine that generates ratings of sellers expressing risk-of-injury to a buyer, An easy to understand... Agent: Robert A. Susskind

20070078759 - System and method for providing extra lines of credit: A system and method for upgrading existing credit cards with additional lines of credit is disclosed. Credit information associated with customers holding credit cards issued by a credit card issuer are analyzed to determine a level of risk associated with each customer. One or more extra line of credit may... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070078760 - Authentication by owner to shared payment instruments: The present invention provides a system and method which allows a primary instrument holder to allow limited and secure use of a payment instrument by a third party. The primary instrument holder is not required to communicate with the third party during a transaction and is not required to carry... Agent: Brown, Rudnick, Berlack & Israels, LLP.

20070078763 - Method and system for transferring funds between two phone callers: A system and method for enabling transfer of funds between two people engaged in a telephone communication. The method includes monitoring for a predetermined series of key presses by an initiator that are entered during the course of the telephone communication. In one embodiment, a funds transfer initiator account is... Agent: Lawrence D. Eisen Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070078762 - Systems, apparatus, and method re escrow data and documentation: The apparatus and method implements, manages, and tracks on-line digital transactions via an escrow, including opening, servicing, real-time or near-real time status of the broker, title company, lender, vendor, buyer and seller, and closing of an escrow via a medium such as the internet. Multiple access methods are employed. The... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070078761 - Universal mobile electronic commerce: Electronic commerce system and method allowing a customer having an account with a first payment service provider based in a home network to purchase goods and services from a merchant having an account with a second payment service provider based in a remote network, including: first payment service provider with... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070078765 - Automated maintenance contracts system and method: A program tracks all aspects of reoccurring maintenance contracts and automatically creates the monthly invoice for the customer. The program tracks Customer Information, the contract type, the work location, what equipment to service, what work to perform, the beginning and end of the contract period, the days to perform work,... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070078764 - Scalable lazy payment capture in online commerce systems: Embodiments of the invention can include an online commerce system, method and computer program product configured for scalable lazy payment capture. The system can include an online commerce system configured for communicative coupling with a merchant account system and one or more customers over a data communications network. The system... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070078766 - Charitable donations via atms: A methodology for providing customers of an enterprise with ability to make donations to selected charities via a new transaction flow at ATMs is provided. The transaction is like a debit transaction. A transaction is described that works similarly to a transfer function. The transaction can be for the enterprise's... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070078767 - Prepaid debit card processing: A method for processing prepaid card transactions including issuing a multiplicity of prepaid cards, each bearing prepaid card identification indicia, inputting the prepaid card identification indicia of a prepaid card into a point of sale terminal, communicating the prepaid card identification indicia from the point of sale terminal to a... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070078768 - System and a method for capture and dissemination of digital media across a computer network: A system and a method for creation of digital media and broadcast or publishing of that media across a computer network by connection of a removable storage device.... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20070078769 - Anti piracy system in a peer-to-peer network: A system for combating file piracy via peer-to-peer networks, comprising a plurality of terminal devices 1000a-1000c each running a client program arranged to emulate a peer-to-peer user is disclosed.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070078770 - Storage device having a usage history display and a usage history displaying method thereof: A storage device having a usage history display includes a control unit. The control unit has a security information analysis module. The security information analysis module is used for processing security information of the usage history. A display unit is connected with the control unit and is used for displaying... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070078771 - Construction payment management system and method with document tracking features: A system and method of managing a construction payment process involving a plurality of participants associated with the construction project and at least one document to be transferred between at least two participants of the plurality participants during the course of the construction project. One method can include assigning at... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070078772 - System and method for the distribution of digital content: A system and method for The present invention is a system and method for the distribution of digital content over a network, such as the Internet. The present invention distributes digital content though a virtually unlimited number of customizable websites. Although managed and operated by a central operator, each of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070078773 - Posting digital media: There is provided a method of posting online digital media content, the method may include receiving a digital media content and determining availability of associated posting copyright. The method may further include posting received digital media content, and/or modification(s) thereof, if copyright is available and under certain limitations or restrictions... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o LandonIPInc.

20070078774 - Method and apparatus for the identification of products displayed in media programs: A method and apparatus for the identification of products in a media program and making such products available for consumer purchase is presented. A consumer utilizes a “BeamBack” device to initiate a “screen grab” and thereby express interest in a placed and/or advertised product. An identifying marker is transmitted in... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20070078776 - Code-generating method for authorization identification and authorization identification and management system: An authorization identification and management system includes a License Code/Royalty Code generating unit, an authorization code database and an audit unit. The License Code/Royalty Code generating unit is used to provide a plurality of sets of License Code generated according to different products of a right holder and a plurality... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070078777 - System and method for digital rights management using advanced copy with issue rights, and managed copy tokens: A system, method and computer program product for a digital content player having a DRM agent to perform rights management operations on a digital content package, including loading rights management instructions to be executed by the digital content player, the rights management instructions being associated with the digital content package,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070078775 - System and method for preventing unauthorized use of digital works: A system and method for preventing unauthorized use of digital contents such as, but not limited to, music, movies, videos and computer games, henceforth referred to as “digital content” or “digital content”. The present invention protects the digital content by reformatting said digital content such that, the rendering context of... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070078778 - Cellular connectivity for a franking machine: A method of connecting a service provider to a franking machine. The method is provided having steps of: providing a franking machine at a first location, the franking machine having a communication interface; providing a server at a central location remote from the first location; connecting a cellular interface to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070078779 - Meter with notification capabilities: A system for providing franking services is provided. The system has at least one postal meter, at least one network and at least one data center. The at least one network is connected to the postal meter. The at least one network has user interfaces. The at least one data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070078780 - Bio-conversion system for banking and merchant markets: A high-security Transaction Card includes a card body having a perimeter and at least one face with a magnetic strip on at least one face or, electronic storage device such as used in a smart card having non-biometric data encoded therein. At least one two-dimensional Symbol encoded with binary data... Agent: Kagan Binder, PLLC

20070078783 - Biometric based authentication system with random generated pin: Provided are apparatus, system and methods for accessing information utilizing an authentication system for verifying that a user is an authorized user of the information access device, and that activation of the device is valid to access the information. The authentication system included in the device issued to an authorized... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070078782 - Entrance management system, control method thereof, information storage medium, authentication server, gate apparatus, and storage medium storing program: An entrance management system includes: an authentication gate apparatus which reads the user identifier stored in an information storage medium, controls the user's entrance to a management zone based on the user identifier, generates an intrazone user identifier associated with the user identifier and writes the intrazone user identifier to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070078781 - Information access control: Methods and systems are provided for information access control. Information read from a portable device is received. One portion of the information includes optical information read optically from the portable device and another portion of the information includes electromagnetic information read electromagnetically from the device. A cryptographic key is determined... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070078784 - System and method for storing information for a wireless device: A system and method for storing personal, medical, and insurance related information on a wireless device are disclosed. The information may be stored by sending it from a remote personal computer to a central database using the Internet. The information may be stored on the central database. The information may... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070078785 - Method and system for account management: A method and system for managing accounts that control access to resources of different providers. The account management system allows providers to use a common logon procedure through an account management server. The account management system dynamically creates accounts when users request to access resources. To access to a resource,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070078786 - Methods and systems for protection of identity: The present invention relates to a method to the creation and management of a secondary identification to avoid identify theft. Identity theft may occur over the internet, the purchase of goods and services by credit, and many other forms not yet known. The present invention creates a secondary identification for... Agent: Joseph M. Bous

20070078787 - Method and apparatus for conducting transactions over a network: A system enables tender of payment manually (e.g., cash, check, etc.) for transactions conducted over a network (e.g., the Internet). The system includes one or more computer systems each located at a corresponding agent site, one or more merchant systems and a server computer system in communication with the agent... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070078788 - Content recording method and system, media label distribution method and system, and media label distribution system: A content purchase certificate and the like is embedded together with content data to an optical disc such as a DVD or the like so as not to involve any influence on a reproduction operation. Identification by referencing the content purchase certificate is performed in a content management center connected... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070078790 - Computer-implemented product valuation tool: A method of valuing products based on demand probabilities. Products are designed by identifying product components, and combining the components in various combinations to provide standard and non-standard products. Components are valued using an algorithm that considers demand probability as well as known prices of standard products. The component values... Agent: James E. Walton I2technologies Us, Inc.

20070078789 - Method and system for formal contract drafting: A system, method and computer readable code for formal contract drafting is disclosed. In some embodiments, legal directive or legal directive objects are received through a user interface, and formal contract text, such as individual contract clauses, are generated from the received legal directs or legal direct objects. In some... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070078791 - Asset management system: An asset management system is provided. The system may include one or more data collection devices configured to monitor one or more operating conditions of a work machine. The system may also include a processor configured to receive data from the one or more data collection devices and predict a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070078792 - One view integrated project management system: Projects of any type require sophisticated management software programs. In reality, these management software programs are provided by various vendors and for different professional fields. For example, scheduling programs for construction professionals, blue print programs for drafting professionals, accounting programs for cost-control professionals. In addition, there are numerous other unofficial... Agent: Lau & Associates, LLC Michael N. Lau

20070078794 - Pool spares for data storage virtualization subsystem: A data storage virtualization subsystem (SVS) for providing storage to a host entity is disclosed. The SVS comprises a storage virtualization controller for connecting to the host entity, at least one physical storage device (PSD) pool, and at least one PSD is designated to be a pool spare PSD to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070078793 - System and method for aggregating item delivery information: Systems and methods for aggregating item delivery statistics in an item delivery system. In accordance with an illustrative embodiment, information associated with one or more delivery items is collected at one or more locations in the item delivery system. The collected item delivery information is forwarded to a management system... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070078795 - Method of obtaining a franking credit via a telecommunications network: Method of obtaining a franking credit including the following operations: entry via a user's portable communications device (10) of a unique identification number (12A) carried by a mail item (12) to be sent, entry of a franking credit at the portable communications device and transmission of the franking credit thus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070078796 - Weighing feeder: A mailing machine for franking mail items. The mailing machine has a franking section having a franking head, a feeder adapted to feed mail items from a mail stack to the franking section, a dynamic scale supporting the mail stack, and a processor connected to the franking section, the feeder... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070078797 - Method and system for parcel delivery in a ubiquitous environment and authenticaton server therefor: The invention provides a method and system for precise parcel delivery via mobile devices in a ubiquitous environment and an authentication server therefor. A reception center receives a request for parcel delivery from a sender and attaches a tag storing assigned individual ID and parcel information to the parcel. A... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078798 - Remote configuration and management of a franking machine: A method of remotely accessing a meter includes issuing a meter identifier through a browser, utilizing an HTTP server to recognize the URL and run an application program, and reporting the results of running the application program to the browser.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP