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 -