Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 05/07

20070124166 - Automated web-based application preparation and submission tool: Improved methods for drafting, preparing, and submitting a patent application are described. The system incorporates a web-based tool in which applications are drafted. The web-based tool allows for real time analysis of the application as it is being drafted. Automated suggestions, prior art searching, researcher and attorney recommendations are also... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070124155 - Consolidating and managing hardware maintenance services: Methods, systems, and computer program products consolidate and manage maintenance services for hardware devices and their associated operating system. A method involves categorizing each hardware device into one of a plurality of device categories, establishing support levels where each support level defines service response criteria, and pricing services based on... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070124151 - Encoded multi-key index data stream structure: Disclosed is an index data stream structure for digital contents metadata containing an encoded multi-key for digital contents metadata defined in the TV-Anytime forum (that is, TVA metadata), thereby allowing a receiver receiving the digital contents metadata to locate the metadata meeting a plurality of conditions, that is, composite conditions,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070124152 - Hiv integrase inhibitors: The present invention features compounds that are HIV integrase inhibitors and therefore are useful in the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC.... Agent: Glaxosmithkline Corporate Intellectual Property, Mai B475

20070124162 - Method for allocating system costs: The present invention serves for the solution of the operational problem of cost accounting according to causation in the field of operational accounting. According to the invention, system performance data are used to this end which permit to allocate the actual utilization of the infrastructure and the computer to individual... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070124153 - Method for eliminating a follow up action for an electronically delivered document: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for eliminating a follow-up action regarding an electronically sent document. The method includes embedding a follow-up action elimination button into an electronic document, transmitting the electronic document from a first computer to a second computer through a network, displaying the follow-up action elimination... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070124160 - Method for improving service data flow based charging and system thereof: A method for improving service data flow based charging and a system thereof are disclosed, A CRF may determine, according to input information provided by an AF or TPF, that the charging method for the current data flow service is an online or offline charging method, and provide the TPF... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070124161 - Method of evaluating contact center performance: A method and apparatus are provided for objectively grading a performance of a contact center based upon input from a plurality of customers of the contact center. The method includes the steps of receiving a consumer importance rating and a consumer satisfaction rating on the performance of the contact center... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070124159 - Methods and systems for developing market intelligence: Methods and systems are provided for characterizing market distribution for a business having multiple business representatives. The business is considered to be in competition with one or more competitors, each of which also has multiple representatives. Locations are determined both for the business representatives and for the competitor representatives, and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070124167 - Methods and systems for retrieving data stored in a database: A computer-implemented, transaction-making, municipal bond trading system having a capability to conduct a private electronic auction of bid wanteds between a central brokers' broker and multiple prospective remote bidders and to maintain a reference database of accurate individual bond lot descriptions and identifications, including CUSIP™ numbers.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070124168 - Methods and systems for retrieving data stored in a database: A computer-implemented, transaction-making, municipal bond trading system having a capability to conduct a private electronic auction of bid wanteds between a central brokers' broker and multiple prospective remote bidders and to maintain a reference database of accurate individual bond lot descriptions and identifications, including CUSIP (trademark) numbers.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070124157 - Network-based navigation system having virtual drive-thru advertisements integrated with actual imagery from along a physical route: A network-based navigation system includes a user interface and a computer server system that can access a map database, an actual imagery database and an advertisement database in order to provide visual route guidance information having virtual drive-thru advertisements integrated with actual imagery from along a physical route. The user... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070124158 - Presence managing method and apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to relieve the burden on a watcher that uses a presence system to subscribe to the presence information of people and objects. For example, an attribute is a product name, and products A, B, C have the identical attribute value “DVDRecorder.” The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070124156 - Representing business transactions: Methods, systems, configurations, and computer program products create, represent, and manage Business Object Documents (BODs), coordinating the interfaces between two or more computer systems exchanging transactions thru a messaging architecture. The online validation of a BOD to prevent spoofing is performed by use of a relational database. While some aspects... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070124154 - Reverse rating system for determining duration of a usage transaction: A reverse rating system determines the duration for which a phone call or other transaction may continue, given an account balance on a pre-paid customer account. The duration may take into consideration multiple time bands, applicable discounts, rating plans and other characteristics of the customer account and telecommunications service. The... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070124163 - System and method for active documentation of charitable activities: A computer implemented business method for providing an independent source of information regarding the charitable activities of a plurality of members is presented. The method connects an interested party with an authoritative reference for charitable giving.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070124165 - System and method for pairing providers with consumers of online goods and services: A method and system is provided that operates as an intelligent intermediary between online consumers and providers of goods and services. The system operates to receive a request initiated by a consumer and transmitted over a global communication network (e.g., the Internet), said request comprised of a highly intuitive and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070124164 - Telephone minutes kiosk system: A method of conducting business with a telephone subscriber, the method including the steps of forming a subscriber account containing value corresponding to telephone minutes. Value is added to the subscriber account by the presentation of funds in the form of currency value; acceptance of the presented funds; conversion of... Agent: Rohm & Monsanto, PLC

20070124173 - Message and program system supporting communication: One aspect of this invention embodies a method of messaging upon a network involving at least one physician, at least one patient and a workflow engine. Each physician operates a computer from time to time capable of receiving and sending messages upon the network at a corresponding address on the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070124169 - Networked system of thin client diagnostic imaging scanners: A medical imaging scanner is constructed such that its data acquisition subsystem is located at the site of a medical imaging scan. Through either a wired or wireless link, the raw data collected during the scan is transmitted to a remotely located image processing and reconstruction subsystem that processes the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070124172 - Pharmaceutical marketing device and method: A healthcare professional enters signature data into a signature capture device upon receipt of a pharmaceutical product. The signature capture device receives the signature data and displays a promotional message for the pharmaceutical product while receiving the signature data.... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070124170 - Process for control of restricted product sales in accordance with legal restrictions and expedited creation of a customer log: In an effort to control the production of illegal drugs such as methamphetamine, new statutes have placed restrictions on the sale of common cold remedies that contain pseudoephedrine and other precursors used in the production of these illegal drugs. Many common products, such as Sudafed® cold medicine, have been removed... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070124171 - System and method for universal medication identification: A system or a method for identifying a pharmaceutical dosage form of a drug or medication is provided that improves safety in handling and administration of the drug or medication. A system for assigning a unique identification code to all dosage forms is provided to indicate specific classes of drugs,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070124175 - Computational and/or control systems and methods related to nutraceutical agent selection and dosing: The present disclosure relates to computational and/or control systems and methods related to nutraceutical agent selection and dosing.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070124176 - Computational and/or control systems and methods related to nutraceutical agent selection and dosing: The present disclosure relates to computational and/or control systems and methods related to nutraceutical agent selection and dosing.... Agent: Searete LLC

20070124174 - Medical alert jewelry: A method for confidentially retaining and delivering a patient's medical information to emergency healthcare personnel through the use of stylish, luxurious, yet clearly identifiable medical alert jewelry. The jewelry contains information about the patient's specific medical condition as well as a toll-free telephone number where additional medical information may be... Agent: Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated

20070124178 - Method and device for maintaining and providing access to electronic clinical records: In a method for accessing, recording and maintaining the clinical records of medical patients, a database is established for receiving and maintaining comprehensive clinical records of medical patients. The database is remotely accessible by one or more care givers and has software-based programming associated therewith. The database us populated with... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070124179 - Network media access control system for encouraging patient compliance with a treatment plan: A system and method for controlling patient access to an entertainment program to encourage a patient to comply with a treatment plan. The method includes the step of collecting compliance data from the patient. In one embodiment, the compliance data includes measurements of a physiological condition of the patient as... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070124177 - System and method for controlling the delivery of medication to a patient: A care management system in which the management of the administration of care for patients is automated. Hospital information systems are monitored and the information from those systems is used in verifying the administrations of care to patients. The care management system monitors ongoing administrations for progress and automatically updates... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070124180 - Information processing system: There has been a problem in that it is necessary to separately access the sites of hotels, airlines and the like to arrange reservations, resulting in complicated operations. There are provided a user information receiving portion 133 that receives traveler information, which is information relating to a traveler, and travel... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070124181 - System and method for accepting a reservation based on statistical profitability: A system and method enable the acceptance of transportation reservations based on statistical profitability. As such, overbooking is enabled when statistically profitable based on a confidence level and probability of space available.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070124182 - Controlled data collection system for improving print shop operation: A control system usable in a print shop where print jobs are processed with at least one print shop related resource is provided. The at least one print shop related resource is operated over multiple discrete time intervals such that production related data is generated for each one of the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070124183 - Method for identifying anomalous behaviour of a dynamic system: The invention provides, particularly although not exclusively in the context of a fuel injection system of a compression-ignition internal combustion engine, a method for detecting anomalous behaviour of a dynamic system (40), the method including i) determining a system model including plurality of characteristic parameters to define the dynamic system... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070124184 - Method for use of a customer experience business model to manage an organization by cross-functional processes from the perspective of customer experiences: One embodiment of the present invention is a method of organizing a business to align goals of the business with goals of customers of the business and accelerate value creation for both the business and the customers of the business, the method comprising: identifying one or more experiences of customers... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/cargill, Inc.

20070124187 - Cross system workflow manager: A cross system workflow management system includes a memory device storing an instruction set. The instruction set includes a plurality of instructions, each instruction having an execution command and a system identifier. The instruction set may also include a data set. A central processing system includes a task processing device.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070124188 - Expert referral and conflict management: Provided herein are methods and systems for expert referral and conflict management.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070124190 - Method and system for estimating supply impact on a firm under a global crisis: The availability of relevant business resources, or supply, during a global crisis or disruption are estimated by using a forecast of a baseline supply of human resources and various forms of infrastructure and raw materials for a firm as input. That forecast is corrected to account for the impact of... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070124186 - Method of managing project uncertainties using event chains: The method of managing project uncertainties using event chains is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: (a) identification of events which may occur during a course of an activity, determining their probability and impact, (b) identification of event chains; and (c) performing quantitative analysis to determine effect of events... Agent: Lev Virine

20070124185 - State engine for business process execution: A method and system are described for maintaining the states of the instances of business processes. The method and the system use the definitions of the business processes to interpret the messages from the business activities, associate the messages with the expected and unexpected business activities in the known and... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070124189 - Sustaining a fleet of configuration-controlled assets: Methods, systems, and computer program products sustain a fleet of configuration-controlled assets. The method involves integrating a plurality of previously separate systems with reusable business transactions associated with managing a fleet of vehicles. The method also involves receiving operational data associated with a vehicle of the fleet, integrating the operational... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070124193 - Configuration of a control center in a risk detection system: A first data set containing at least one first item of configuration information is created as a function of at least one first rule. Then, a second data set containing at least one second item of configuration information is created as a function of the first data set and with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070124195 - Disambiguating point-of-sale data through item indexing: A point-of-sale interface receives point-of-sale quantities for a number of individual items, as well as point-of-sale quantity for a miscellaneous group item that includes undifferentiated sales of one or more of the individual items. An item indexer calculates an item index for at least one individual item, the item index... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070124192 - Dynamic conversion rate optimization: A method for dynamically optimizing the conversion rate of a solicitation over time, the method including selecting a presentation factor in a solicitation, creating at least two versions of the solicitation by varying the factor, determining a conversion rate for each of the versions, presenting one of the versions having... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070124191 - Method and system for selecting participants in an online collaborative environment: A method and system to select one or more participants in an online collaborative process are provided. The method includes receiving selection information and identifying a potential list of the participants from an information system based on the selection information, the information system containing transaction data relating to prior collaboration... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070124194 - Systems and methods to facilitate keyword portfolio management: According to some embodiments, advertising response information is collected for a search keyword, the advertising response information being associated with a plurality of users and a plurality of ranked positions in a list of advertisements presented to users. A non-linear function may then be performed on the advertising response information... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070124196 - System and method for internet based procurement of goods and services: A system for internet-based procurement of non-cataloged goods and services based upon qualified resumes includes a human resources procurement server, an associate vendor terminal, and a hiring manager terminal. The associate vendor terminal is connected to the human resources procurement server. The hiring manager terminal is connected to the human... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, PC

20070124197 - System, method and computer readable medium for billing: A system, method, and computer readable medium for billing comprises receiving, by a toll authority, data related to a tracking device coupled to a rented transport, contemporaneously receiving, by the device from the toll authority, information including at least one of: a direction of travel by the transport, a location... Agent: Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20070124198 - System, method and computer readable medium for billing tolls: Billing tolls accumulated during a rental period comprises a third party entity, a toll authority, and a toll rental entity coupled to the third party entity and to the toll authority, wherein the third party entity sends a request for service to the toll rental entity, wherein the toll rental... Agent: Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20070124199 - System, method and computer readable medium for toll service activation and billing: A system, method, and computer readable medium for toll service activation and billing, comprises receiving fleet information at a toll authority via a toll rental entity, receiving a service request at the toll rental entity, sending toll usage data related to the service request to a third party entity, receiving... Agent: Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20070124201 - Digital content access system and methods: Systems and methods for allowing access to digital content. Digital content and targeted advertisements are separately provided to a user device. At least one interactive viewer test is used to verify that the user has viewed the targeted advertisements as a prerequisite to being given the rights to playback the... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070124205 - Enhanced modem for direct advertising information via an lcd screen: This disclosure increases the utility of a modem. An added color LCD gives the modem the added capability of displaying whatever message a given advertiser wishes to display. These messages could contain anything from special offers on products to industry updates. The modem also incorporates a button which transmits a... Agent: Dennis L. Cook, Esq. The Law Offices Of Dennis L Cook PLLC

20070124208 - Method and apparatus for tagging data: A system is provided that permits the use of classification information that can be interpreted by a computer system. To this end, a system and method may be provided for creating classification information that may be interpreted by a computer system. Such classification information may be associated with content, and... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070124207 - Methods and apparatuses to provide prompts in connecting customers to advertisers: Methods and apparatuses to selectively prompt customers in connecting the customers to advertisers via communication references provided advertisements. One embodiment includes: establishing a communication connection with a customer, the connection being initiated by the customer using a communication reference provided in an advertisement; determining a prompt to the customer to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070124206 - Methods and apparatuses to select communication tracking mechanisms: Methods and apparatuses to select tracking mechanisms for the performance determination of advertisements. One embodiment includes: selecting one reference type from a plurality of reference types; and determining a reference of the selected type, the reference to be embedded in an advertisement to count communication leads generated from the advertisement.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070124204 - System and method for a merchant loyalty system: A system and method for implementing a merchant loyalty program is disclosed. The invention includes receiving purchase data, wherein the purchase data comprises a consumer account code, a purchase amount, and a service establishment code; associating the service establishment code with a merchant proprietor rewards account code; calculating a reward... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070124209 - System and method for tracking and establishing a progressive discount based upon a customer's visits to a retail establishment: In accordance with one described embodiment, methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for determining a progressive discount for a customer. In one example, a customer is provided with a discount that is incremented if the customer visits at least once in a pre-defined period.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070124202 - Systems and methods for collecting data and measuring user behavior when viewing online content: Methods and systems are described for a method that enables the examining of user behavior while viewing content on the Internet. The collection and analysis of user behavior heuristics can be very useful in determining a user's interests and can be used in delivering more targeted ads to the user.... Agent: Rupak Nag

20070124203 - Systems and methods for marketing programs segmentation: Systems and methods for method of measuring the efficiency of a plurality of marketing programs for a campaign involving a plurality of saleables and at least one distribution channel. The steps of the methods include: determining a plurality of marketing program segments, wherein each segment corresponds to a unique combination... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070124200 - Systems and methods for providing online contextual advertising in multilingual environments: Methods and systems are described for real time, targeted, contextual ad serving in a multilingual online environment. Upon receiving a request for serving an ad to a non-English Web site, an ad server obtains non-English content from the particular Web site page and has it translated to English. The English... Agent: Rupak Nag

20070124211 - Methods and apparatus for wireless point-of-sale transactions: The present invention relates to systems, methods and apparatus for making purchase transactions at a point-of-sale. A wireless purchase device (WPD) comprising a short range communications device for communication with vendor point-of-sale equipment such as a wireless vendor device (WVD) and a long range communications device for communications with credit... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070124210 - System and method for performing automated testing of a merchant message: Error-testing of merchant messages to be used with point-of-sale (POS) devices is performed by an automated system that receives a formatted message to be tested from a merchant or an agent of the merchant, performs a computer-implemented evaluation of the message according to predefined message-validation rules to detect one or... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070124212 - E-mail based gift delivery: A method enabling a first party to purchase a gift and to deliver the gift to a second party includes providing a retailer website that enables the first party to peruse and select a gift from an on-line catalog, receiving an e-mail address of the second party or a pseudonym... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20070124214 - Stored value transaction system including an integrated database server: An integrated database and information server are provided that efficiently share information and tasks between various stored value programs. A server is configured to provide reusable objects and data structures that are suitably shared between various stored value products. A database at the server allows data to be shared between... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070124213 - Systems and methods for automatically assigning an incoming quantity of goods in response to an event: Systems and methods are provided for automatically assigning an incoming quantity of goods in response to an event. In one implementation, a system is provided for automatically assigning an incoming quantity of goods in response to an event. The system comprises an inbound interface for interfacing with a plurality of... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070124216 - Systems and methods for locating and purchasing proximal inventory items: The inventive subject matter relates to novel systems and methods for creating and/or maintaining at least one database with availability and location information for inventory items available for sale by one or more sellers; for permitting potential customers to search, preferably in near real time, for the availability and location... Agent: Gary M. Nath The Nath Law Group

20070124215 - Virtual shopping with personal image environment: A method of and system for assisting on-line purchaser evaluation of commercial items has at least: a user communicating on-line from a user processor with a server; the user processor providing digital image data on a user created digital image; the server providing digital image data of a multiplicity of... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20070124218 - Computational and/or control systems related to individualized nutraceutical selection and packaging: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that may be used with nutraceutical agents.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070124219 - Computational and/or control systems related to individualized nutraceutical selection and packaging: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that may be used with nutraceutical agents.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070124217 - Quantity availability for inventory items: Systems and methods provide quantity availability information for inventory items via a user interface. The user customizes a quantity available definition, from which the system calculates quantity available for various inventory items and dynamically updates the calculation as a result of changes to inventory classes making up the definition. Using... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070124220 - Serialization and database methods for tubulars and oilfield equipment: Methods and apparatus identify downhole equipment and correlate input data with the equipment to improve planning and/or inventory operations. For some embodiments, oilfield equipment or tubular goods such as drill pipe include a shaped recess along an outer circumference for receiving a tag cartridge by shrink fitting. Once tagged, detector... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070124221 - System and method of assisting goods collection and recording medium: An exchange assisting system is provided in an exchange center. Each maker who trades in used goods, such as copying machines, for new ones from a business entity brings goods produced by other makers into the exchange center. The system manages the inventory information of goods delivered from each maker... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124223 - Integrated materials management for commercial aircraft fleets: Turnkey maintenance of a customer's aircraft fleet is managed by a single management service provider (MSP) controlling integrated maintenance and materials services from a central operations site. The MSP converts data received directly from on-board aircraft systems into information it uses to manage maintenance service providers and parts suppliers. The... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20070124222 - Integrated materials management for commercial aircraft fleets including access to real-time on-board systems information: Turnkey maintenance of a customer's aircraft fleet is managed by a single management service provider (MSP) controlling integrated maintenance and materials services from a central operations site. The MSP converts data received directly from on-board aircraft systems into information it uses to manage maintenance service providers and parts suppliers. The... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070124225 - Method for rectifying faults in technical facilities: Faults in technical facilities are oftentimes unanticipatable and unplannable. For the operator of a facility, it is therefore always uncertain when and at what level costs will be incurred for fault rectification. A method is therefore proposed for rectifying faults in technical facilities by which for a defined period of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070124224 - Method of money transfer using payroll deduction: Embodiments of methods for transferring money using a payroll deduction process is described. An employer acting as an agent for a licensed money transmitter deducts money an employee desires to transfer to an intended recipient from the employee's periodic compensation. A transfer request is processed with the licensed money transmitter... Agent: Leyendecker Lemire & Daley, LLC

20070124226 - Method for verifying data in a dating service, dating-service database including verified member data, and method for prioritizing search results including verified data, and methods for verifying data: An online dating service uses verified biographical data to encourage members to provide truthful biographical data and to increase members' reliance on the veracity of the information found during searches of members. In particular, the database uses verified wealth, verified professions, and verified pictures of the members. Methods for verifying... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Blanco, Pl

20070124227 - System and method for trading off upside and downside values of a portfolio: A system and method for valuing a portfolio in terms of its performance relative to a specified benchmark under a range of future scenarios is disclosed. In particular, a portfolio is taken and two values related to the portfolio are calculated: the first value corresponding to an amount by which... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070124232 - Computer-based right distribution system with password protection: An automated ticket auctioning system receives and evaluates bid information records received from a plurality of remote terminals. Each bid information record corresponds to at least one bid for one or more desired seats at a venue. Each bid information record may also include a plurality of additional bids identified... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070124228 - Electronic bartering: An electronic bartering system and method for facilitating a trade of a first item owned by a first user for a second item owned by a second user when the first user and the second user are connected to a network. The electronic bartering system and method receives a request... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070124230 - Model-based selection of trade execution strategies: Effective selection of trade execution strategies using a multi-dimensional model is disclosed. A relationship exists between order difficulty and execution strategy. Execution strategy depends on order difficulty, and order difficulty has many dimensions. The multi-dimensional model classifies trade orders according to the dimensions, and then maps these classified trade orders... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070124229 - Random drawing auction system and method based on entrance fee profit model: A random drawing auction system and method based on an entrance fee profit model are provided. In the random drawing auction system and method, information of an item to be auctioned is registered directly or through a seller. An entrance fee of the item is collected from each buyer wishing... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070124233 - System and method for an efficient dynamic multi-unit auction: The present invention implements an auction in which multiple types of goods may be auctioned in a dynamic process. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is a system and method for a computer implemented dynamic multi-unit auction in which the price paid or received by bidders tends to be... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070124231 - System and method for matching electronic proposals to electronic requests: A system for receiving bid requests and bid proposals sent thereto over a data-packet-network (DPN) and for matching the bid proposals to the bid requests includes at least one input/output port for receiving the bid requests and the bid proposals, at least one memory utility for storing the bid requests... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070124236 - Credit risk profiling method and system: A method is provided for a credit risk profiling system. The method may include establishing a credit risk process model indicative of interrelationships between one or more credit risks and a plurality of financial parameters and obtaining a set of values corresponding to the plurality of financial parameters. The method... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070124235 - Method and system for income estimation: An automated method and system estimates income of an individual loan applicant using credit bureau information and loan attributes. The method and system can use the credit bureau and loan information to calibrate an applicant's debt-burden in cases where such information is not readily available or is unverifiable. The method... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070124234 - Method, system, and computer program product for on-demand creation and distribution of customized dynamic contracts: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for the on-demand creation and distribution of customized dynamic contracts. At least one business opportunity is extracted from an opportunity database. For each extracted business opportunity, a credit score for a customer associated with the extracted business opportunity is... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070124239 - Multi-player game using simulated credit transactions: A method and system provides credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users can make simulated purchases or... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20070124240 - On-line higher education financing system: A method of providing a user with education financing information, includes the acts of: maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect; sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070124238 - System and method for immediate issuance of transaction cards: A system and method for substantially immediate issuance of transaction cards includes at least one unassigned transaction card including a storage medium having a card number encoded thereupon. The system also includes a computing system configured to receive application information from an applicant that has been provided said unassigned transaction... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070124237 - System and method for optimizing cross-sell decisions for financial products: A method for selecting a target list of customers for making cross sell offers to, for a financial product is provided. The method includes obtaining customer-level information related to one or more members from a historical database. The method then includes building one or more response models and one or... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070124242 - Funds transfer system: An international funds transfer system for transferring monetary funds between various countries and currencies. The funds transfer system includes a customer interface system that allows a remitter to create, validate and initiate a remittance transaction A host computer system is in communication with the customer interface system The host computer... Agent: Ian F. Burns & Associates

20070124241 - Vanity mailbox system: A system that facilitates financial transactions is disclosed. In particular, the present invention relates to a vanity mailbox system that extends the presence of a business, increases the convenience to the customer of conducting financial transactions, and improves the cash flow for the business.... Agent: George R. Reardon

20070124243 - Information processing apparatus, print control apparatus, printed control system: An information processing apparatus, which encrypts print data (PDL), receives a personal identification code (PIN) input by a user, generates a random number (rnd), encrypts the generated random number by using the personal identification code or an encryption key generated based on the personal identification code, converts the personal identification... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070124245 - Information terminal: When content owned by a source device are played back in a rendering device, a content key is transferred from the source device to the rendering device via a secure session every time playback is carried out. Then, encoded content are decoded and played back to be outputted by using... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070124246 - Self-learning real-time priorization of fraud control actions: A predictive model system is used to detect telecommunications fraud. Call records (CDRs) provided by telephone companies are evaluated against specified rules. If one or more rules are matched, the system generates an alert. Pending alerts for a customer form a case, describing the caller's calling patterns. A predictive model... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070124247 - Systems and methods for conducting transactions and communications using a trusted third party: Systems and methods are provided for managing the transfer of electronic files. In one embodiment, a sender transfers an encrypted version of a file (such as a digitally encoded audio track, movie, document, or the like) to someone who wishes to receive it. The receiver computes a hash of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070124244 - Traffic analyzer and security methods: A system (10) and a method (40) of initiating security measures based on mobile traffic patterns can include monitoring (42) identification information (such as Medium Access Control (MAC) Identification information) for a given network access point (11-18) for mobile wireless devices (23), determining (44) if a pattern of identification information... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070124250 - Content management program, method and device: An encrypted content and its encryption key under a copy right use condition of prohibiting a copy by the device having received a content are stored, and the encrypted content is copy-transferred with another device through the network, and at the same time, the encryption key is transferred through the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070124248 - Media property monetization apparatus and method: A monetization method and system for time-shifted media properties such as “podcasts” and the like is shown and described. The system uses a content server to coordinate the distribution of media properties as content premiums for the purpose of goods or services from applicable retailers. The retailers may provide immediate... Agent: J. Charles Dougherty

20070124249 - Methods and devices for image and digital rights management: Described herein is an image capturing device such as a mobile communication device and methods for capturing and transmitting digital rights data. The methods include capturing (502) an image to generate a data and/or an image file, capturing (504) a pointer to digital rights information data embedded in a signal... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070124251 - Content use control device, reording device, reproduction device, recording medium, and content use control method: A collective content consisting of a plurality of partial contents holding license information including a use condition can be appropriately used according to the use condition contained in the license information in each of the partial contents. A content use control device includes an input/output I/F, license generation unit, output... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070124252 - Reception device, transmission device, security module, and digital right management system: A broadcast station that is a transmission device assigns an ID and a license transformation period to a license to be generated, and transmits to a terminal apparatus 102, in order to provide a digital right management system which can provide a protection for the rights of a provider while... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070124253 - Utility services usage and demand reporting system: An electric power usage and reporting system for collecting electric power demand readings from multiple properties which may be either commonly owned or leased by the same company, processing the demand data to generate KWH and KW information on an individual property basis and on a combined properties basis and... Agent: John Horn

20070124254 - Online charging in a communications network: A communications network in which service flows between an end user and the network are transported via a gateway (8) which identifies different service flows and notifies them to a credit control function (12) of the network. The credit control function grants a cache representing an amount of and end... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070124256 - Comprehensive identity protection system: A system and method for protecting identity fraud are disclosed. A system includes a detection subsystem to identify applications and/or accounts at risk of identity fraud, and a disposition subsystem to process data provided by the detection system and to determine whether identity fraud exists in the applications and/or accounts.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070124255 - Pluggable heterogeneous reconciliation: An automated method for facilitating management of a data processing environment, including pluggable heterogeneous reconciliation, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method may include facilitating detecting of a change to an element of a data processing device of the data processing environment. In various embodiments, the method may further include... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070124257 - Builders service program system and method: A system and method for using a service network that provides services for customers. The operation of the service network comprises requesting a service from a service provider in the network, execution of the service for member customers, payment of an amount to the service provider for the service and... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, P.l.l.c.

20070124259 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for resource allocation: Systems and methods are described for processing queue data and for providing queue messaging over a network. An illustrative queuing system includes a first queue configured to hold resource requests from a plurality of users, and program code stored in computer readable memory configured to determine or estimate whether a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070124258 - Online reporting tool for conferencing customers: Embodiments consistent with the present invention provide an integrated system for conferencing services reporting to support customer billing needs. Systems consistent with the present invention enable a customer to retrieve and use integrated usage data, including data for unbilled conferencing services. Furthermore, systems consistent with the present invention provide an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070124260 - Method and device for franking postal items: The invention relates to a method for franking postal items. The franking note is prepared on a central system and is then transferred to a client system to be printed out. The franking note is transferred from the central system to the client system in two steps. In a first... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070124261 - System and method for processing custom postal indicia: A mailpiece is received in a stream of mail. The mailpiece has a postage stamp thereon. The stamp includes an image. Automatic mail handling equipment detects that the image was identified as being a problematic image and removes the image from the mail stream.... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070124262 - Programming electronic meter settings using a bandwidth limited communications channel: A system for transferring a sequence of actions to an electronic meter through a bandwidth limited communications channel. The sequence of actions is programmed as a program file that is broken into pieces for transmission to the electronic meter. The pieces are received by the electronic meter, verified not to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070118391 - Business method using the automated processing of paper and unstructured electronic documents: The invention features a business method that takes advantage of the ability to convert unorganized information in the form of paper documents, document images, and electronic documents arid converts the information to an organized electronic form referred to as Knowledge Objects. The invention further encompasses forming electronic Business Objects, such... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070118385 - Capturing and utilizing business-to-recipient mailing preferences: The present invention is directed to a system and method for capturing and utilizing communication preferences of recipients of certain communications, and more particularly to a system and method for providing a recipient or consumer with a single site or single source for selectively choosing which mail, telephone, or email... Agent: Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C

20070118386 - Capturing data from user selected portions of a business process and transferring captured data to user identified destinations: A graphical user interface (GUI) displays a flow of activities of a business process, including any portion thereof from which capture of data is permitted. The GUI receives, in an operation, at least an indication of a business process portion from which data is to be captured (“sensor”), an identification... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20070118392 - Classification and management of keywords across multiple campaigns: A system for classifying and managing keywords across multiple campaigns comprises a classification manager, a bid management system, a web analytics tool and a search engine. The classification manager interfaces with the bid management system and the web analytics tool to provide user interfaces for reviewing data about specific keywords... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070118389 - Integrated teleconferencing system: A method provides supervision to a includes providing a plurality of information channels for communicating information to the service provider and the user and integrating the information channels to provide access to supervisory functionality for supervising the information channels of the plurality of information channels by way of a single... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20070118390 - Interactive resource management educational system and method: The present invention is directed to a method and system for educating a targeted population subset in resource management. The system may include resource training components for providing the targeted population subset with information related to the resource. The system may additionally include resource acquisition components for allowing the targeted... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070118393 - Method of compensating an employee: A computer system for monitoring and enhancing the collateral security underlying a set of loans is provided, including a system for calculating the unsecured value of the set at any time and for initiating additional collateral enhancement instruments when the unsecured value exceeds a certain limit. The system may include... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070118395 - Methods and systems utilizing a programmable sign display located in proximity to a traffic light: Methods and systems use a programmable sign display located in proximity to a traffic light to provide information to motorists upon the motorists directing their attention toward the traffic light. The programmable sign display may receive programming for content to be displayed in various ways, such as through an interface... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070118387 - Requirement analyzing with dynamic qualification blocks: A method for matching an object with a set of qualifications to an object with a set of requirements includes determining whether one or more predetermined blocks of qualifications are wholly or partially fulfilled by the set of qualifications and matching the object with the set of qualifications to the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070118396 - System and method for identifying desirable subscribers: According to exemplary embodiments, a content-access information database and a subscriber attribute database are merged to create a subscriber information database. A data analyzer, such as a data mining application, provides tools for identifying desirable subscribers within the merged database.... Agent: Walters & Zimmerman, PLLC

20070118388 - System and method for providing data to a wireless device: Described is a system comprising a database, a wireless computing unit and a server. The database stores product data which includes a product identifier of a product, at least one function identifier corresponding to the product and product-function data for each of the at least one function of the product.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070118394 - Value synthesis infrastructure and ontological analysis system: The invention shows explicitly how direct and honest communication utilizing a distributed computing network, shared content and services, and a focus on social network dynamics and situational context can directly create experiential and realized value for all participants around the globe. Contributors (20), having instructional content to share (22) pertaining... Agent: Kyle A. Cahoon

20070118403 - 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.

20070118404 - 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.

20070118400 - Method and system for gesture recognition to drive healthcare applications: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for improved clinical workflow using gesture recognition. Certain embodiments include establishing a communication link between an interface and a remote system, and utilizing gesture input to transmit data to, retrieve data from, and/or trigger functionality at the remote system via... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070118397 - Monitoring of medical conditions: The present invention provides a medical device (13) and an associated computing system (12) for performing a medical test a predetermined number of times, before a control means disables the test device, and subsequent analyses of the test.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070118402 - System and method for consumer/patient flushot reservation: This invention relates to the field of vaccine management and, in particular to a system and method for reserving a dose of influenza vaccine. The system for reserving a flu-shot comprises a user interface and a matching node. The method comprises receiving a flu shot reservation from a user and... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070118398 - System and method for estimating life expectancy and providing customized advice for improving life expectancy: A system is disclosed for estimating a person's life expectancy and for providing customized advice for improving the person's life expectancy. The system may, for example, be accessible to the person through a website, which may provide the person with a questionnaire containing questions to which the person responds. The... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070118399 - System and method for integrated learning and understanding of healthcare informatics: An informatics system permits data entities from a wide range of data sources to be accessed and evaluated. The sources of the data entities may be simply data sources, such as for articles and other non-patient or population specific information, as well as controllable and prescribable sources, such diagnostic imaging,... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070118401 - System and method for real-time healthcare business decision support through intelligent data aggregation and data modeling: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a real-time healthcare business decision support system including a plurality of information sources, a processing component, and a user interface component. Each information source includes resource information for a resource in a healthcare environment. The healthcare environment includes a plurality of resources. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070118406 - User centered method of assessing physical capability and capacity for creating and providing unique care protocols with ongoing assessment: A system and method are disclosed for assessments, which can be self-conducted or performed with the assistance of a healthcare provider. The system and method assist a user to interact with a user-centered system utilizing the musculo-skeletal system as a basis for generation a protocol for treatment for wellness, general... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070118405 - User interface for infusion pump remote controller and method of using the same: A control system for controlling an infusion pump, including interface components for allowing a user to receive and provide information, a processor connected to the user interface components and adapted to provide instructions to the infusion pump, and a computer program having setup instructions that cause the processor to enter... Agent: Insulet Corporation

20070118407 - Medical practitioner's database: This medical database utility design is a unique functional arrangement of all required components of a medical record. The information is converted into a digital format facilitating efficient and versatile usage of pertinent data. All components of the conventional medical chart are designed into a format that greatly enhances the... Agent: Roger D. Glymph

20070118408 - System and method for radiology decision support using picture-in-picture: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system for viewing medical images including a set of image slices, a selected image, an overview image, and a user interface component. The selected image is selected from the set of image slices. The overview image includes a representation of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070118413 - Method of administration and health management: A method for benefits administration is described. A benefit plan is provided, comprised of a Health Care Account and an Umbrella Account. Through financial incentives, benefit plan beneficiaries are encouraged to spend funds in the funded Health Care Account and the funded Umbrella Account so that, at the end of... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070118410 - Method, system and computer program product for generating an electronic bill having optimized insurance claim items: A method, system and computer program product for generating an electronic bill having optimized insurance claim items based on an insurance carrier of a patient are provided. The method includes receiving insurance carrier data which identifies a patient's insurance carrier and patient data which identifies a patient. The method also... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070118409 - Methods and system for processing insurance claims for damaged gemstones: A method for processing a claim for a damaged gemstone that is insured is provided. The method comprises receiving from an insured the damaged gemstone, reconditioning the damaged gemstone, inspecting the reconditioned gemstone, and providing a salvage value amount based on the inspection of the reconditioned gemstone.... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070118411 - Premium transition factor: Auto insurance customers can be transitioned from an initial rating algorithm A to a subsequent algorithm B by phasing in the transition over a period of several years. The premium charged during the transition period is equal to the premium calculated under the rating algorithm B minus a premium adjustment.... Agent: Mark S. Nowotarski

20070118412 - System for remote evaluation of ultrasound information obtained by a programmed application-specific data collection device: A system which includes at least one ultrasound data collection device which is programmable to carry out a specific ultrasound procedure. The resulting ultrasound data is transmitted via a local server to the internet and from there to a web database server which processes the raw ultrasound data and provides... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20070118414 - Business process system management method: A prediction method for predicting a computer-resource usage amount with the use of a service call relation to be extracted from a business process definition. A resource allocation method includes, before adding a new business process to the system, steps of calculating the computer-resource predicted usage amount by using a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070118415 - Intelligent meeting scheduler: A method, apparatus, and system for implementing a intelligent meeting scheduler that accounts for the travel time and distances of the meeting participants. Some features of the meeting scheduling system include (1) scheduling meetings, (2) calculating travel time to the meeting for each participant, (3) adjusting individual participants schedules to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070118416 - Method and system for planning: The present invention relates to a way of planning an action, namely deciding whether the action is generic or unique and then planning the action according to a first procedure if the action is generic or alternatively planning the action according to a second procedure if the action is unique.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070118417 - System and method of generating business case models: A computer implemented system and method for evaluating the impact of a project implementation within a customer situation allows building a business case model for each category of products to be associated within the project implementation and then consolidating all the category business case models into a final general business... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20070118418 - Method and process for employing a retired workforce: A method, system, and computer program product for assembling a project team is provided. In one embodiment potential team members, such as, for example, retirees from a company, with appropriate qualifications are notified of a project for which team members are needed. The potential team members are identified based on... Agent: Gardere/eds Gardere Wynne Sewell Intellectual Property

20070118420 - Context determinants in virtual world environment: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A virtual world patron can participate in various virtual world activities and transactions. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world activities and transactions. The virtual world patron may... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070118419 - Customer profitability and value analysis system: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing a business's profitability. A system for analyzing customer profitability includes an interface for receiving customer, revenue and cost data from external business operating systems. Customer, revenue, and cost data are stored on a database. A data transformation module operates on the customer data,... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070118421 - Demand forecasting method, system and computer readable storage medium: Disclosed are a demand forecasting method, a demand forecasting program, and a demand forecasting system that can adequately forecast a demand for a commodity. A management computer calculates a trend function with respect to demand values. The management computer then calculates the ratio of the demand values to a trend... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070118422 - Device and method for management of operating materials and/or supplies of an analyzer and analyzing system: An automation process for the management of operating materials and/or supplies of an analyzer or analyzing system, preferably for applications in medical, environmental or food technology, comprising the following steps: (a) automatic recording of data on operating materials and/or supplies, in particular type and maximum useful life of the operating... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070118424 - Method and system for compensating a salesperson: A system and a method for compensating a salesperson of a company includes compensation based on each client assigned to an exclusive geographic territory of the salesperson, wherein the compensation continues so long as the client receives the services offered by the company. The salesperson receives continuous periodic compensation for... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070118426 - Portable communications device and method: A device and method of providing wireless communications is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes determining that a plurality of wireless networks are concurrently available to provide wireless communication for a telephone device wherein the plurality of wireless networks include different types of networks, selecting one of the plurality... Agent: Melvin L. Barnes, Jr.

20070118425 - User device agent 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

20070118423 - Vehicular advertising system: A vehicular advertising system and method for generating an income stream from advertising including a display device mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle owner or lessee will receive an incentive from an advertiser or seller to mount the display device to the vehicle in the form of a payment for... Agent: Philip H. Haymond

20070118427 - Method and system for screening online purchases: In recent years, there has been an increase in both credit card/debit card fraud and online purchasing. Within the emergence of the electronic commerce marketplace, there does not exist the same protections for merchants as there exists for traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Therefore, to assist in preventing fraud, specifically online fraud,... Agent: Storm LLP

20070118436 - Collectible holders having radio frequency identification tags and systems and methods for using the same: A collectible holder is provided. Such a holder may encapsulate a collectible and a radio frequency identification tag. Scanners may be utilized to simultaneously scan a number of RFID-enabled holders such that information about a large number of collectibles can be obtained in a short period of time. Such information... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070118438 - Interactive menu application: A system including the steps of: storing an electronic image, where the electronic image includes a portion related to an offer; associating the portion with a price; sending the electronic image over a wide-area network; displaying the electronic image upon a network-capable device, where the device is structured and arranged... Agent: Law Office Of Wayne Carroll

20070118440 - Matching program and system for corporate meeting planners and hospitality providers: The computerized bidding method matches hospitality facility data and meeting requirement data, permits the posting of offers and responsive bidding by both hospitality facility vendors and meeting planners, and facilitates the exchange of data. In a simplified system, meeting planner requirement data (at least meeting planner contact data, facilities requirement... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20070118439 - Product space browser: A product space browser (PSB), which comprises a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates insight discovery through exploration and analysis of product space graphs generated by applying a product affinity engine to retailer's transaction data in a market basket context, is disclosed.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070118437 - Property proximate interactive sales kiosk: An interactive sales kiosk system. A system may include a number of deployed interactive sales kiosks, each of which is proximate to the property being promoted and communicatively coupled to a remote configuration computer that may be located at a central location. Each interactive sales kiosk may include a display,... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070118430 - Query analysis for geographic-based listing service: A unique system and method facilitates analyzes searches or queries that are geographic based. In particular, a user can submit a geo-tag based search for items posted on a listing service according to the item's location or geo-tag information. The geo-tag information for each item can be approximate such as... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070118428 - Spectacle lens supply system, spectacle wearing parameter measurement apparatus, spectacle wearing test system, spectacle lens, and spectacle: Aims to enable to supply an optimal and dedicated spectacle lens or spectacle for each spectacle wearer, and also to verify a spectacle wearing state appropriately. A spectacle wearing parameter measurement system, sets a spectacle wearer to be in a distance vision state or a near vision state in which,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070118433 - System and method for agent based developer self selection: A method, system, and computer program product for matching developers or entities with certain skills with work projects is provided. In one embodiment, a project manager utilizes a bid management agent which receives project specifications from the project manager specifying such things as, for example, project duration, work product desired,... Agent: Gardere/eds Gardere Wynne Sewell Intellectual Property

20070118435 - System and method for matching vendors with consumers: An online system is disclosed for matching vendors with consumers. Vendors pay a subscription fee to be listed with the system. Software automatically matches vendors with consumer requests based upon the category of goods and/or services described in the request and the geographical area (e.g., zip code) in which the... Agent: Sullivan & Worcester LLP

20070118429 - System and method for product tracking and mapping: A system and method of providing a map for locating or finding a product in a store are provided. User information identifying the product is received at a kiosk or user terminal in the store, product location information is retrieved by a server or central node from an inventory table... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070118434 - System and method for transaction automation: A system and method provides a user of a network-based commerce system drag and drop functionality that allows a user to purchase goods from a network-based transaction system through the use of links and images.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070118431 - System for configuring a chemical separation system: The present invention relates to a configuration system for configuring and ordering a chemical separation system, which configuration system comprises a configuration tool, a database comprising data relating to chemical separation hardware modules and the linkage of said hardware modules. Said configuration system enables a user in real-time to obtain... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20070118432 - Systems and methods for optimizing revenue in search engine auctions: Systems and methods are disclosed for improving the allocation of an on-line query to a bidder. One method comprises determining a tradeoff value corresponding to the bidder and rating the bidder in relation to other bidders according to the tradeoff value. Another method comprises receiving a query, assigning a bid... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070118441 - Editable electronic catalogs: This document describes, among other things, systems and methods for managing a community-editable product catalog. A method receives, by a network-based commerce system, an indication from a client computer to create a listing for a product. The method determines whether a catalog entry associated with the product exists and when... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070118442 - Method and system for a digital video disk catalog: An interactive, informative and entertaining digital shopping catalog offered on a digital data carrier (“DVD”) which provides the features of interactive playing of the DVD media files, tracking of the past media files played and ability to purchase products on-line or by telephone connection.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070118443 - Method and system for surplus management: A surplus management system disclosed herein includes a promotion module adapted to generate promotions based on the surplus, a scheduler module adapted to schedule the promotions over a period, a coupon generation module adapted to generate coupons for the promotion, a database adapted to store the promotion, the schedule and... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070118444 - Analytic tool for evaluating average revenue per user for multiple revenue streams: An analytic tool and method for investigating and analyzing a business's revenue sources are provided. An analytic tool provides an interactive revenue decomposition tree (140) which breaks down a business's various revenue streams into their constituent components. Individual revenue sources can be analyzed on a per customer or per user... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070118445 - System and method for investment accounting and auditing: A system and method allows a user to accurately track and account for investments, as well as determine and present financial and tax consequences of financial and realizable events related to such investments. The system receives identifying data for a security, which includes at least data regarding a tax lot... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070118446 - System and method for managing relationships in a procurement transaction: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing a plurality of invoicing parties associated with a business partner in a procurement management system. The system may suggest an invoicing party as a default invoicing party in an invoice associated with the business partner. The suggested invoicing party may be selected from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070118447 - Computer support for multi-jurisdictional investment: Machine and related manufacturer controlling multi-jurisdictional investment; a computer system arranged to receive information and locate said information into a memory, the information including investment specifications and pricing data for the financial product, the computer system further including: an input device for receiving the information and converting the information into... Agent: Peter K Trzyna

20070118448 - My corporate lotto: My Corporate Lotto (MCL) was developed primarily as a lottery game management computer application, designed to maintain, and distribute funds, to members of a syndicate known as shareholders. With MCL, winnings are distributed proportionally to how much each shareholder has invested in the syndicate or group, known as the Corporation.... Agent: Jeffery Thompson

20070118449 - Trust-linked debit card technology: A revenue-producing debit card system and method for users who have bank accounts includes a trust account and plural debit cards. Each debit card is linked to a trust account that allows overnight balances to be invested at a profit for the benefit of the account holder. The system also... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070118454 - Cross-currency implied spreads: The disclosed systems and methods relate to allowing trading of over the counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange (“FX”) contracts on a centralized matching and clearing mechanism, such as that of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (“CME”'s) futures exchange system (the “Exchange”). The disclosed systems and methods allow for anonymous transactions, centralized clearing,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20070118452 - Financial instrument trading interface with dynamic price scale: A method for trading a financial instrument includes displaying a dynamic price scale containing a plurality of prices corresponding to orders for a financial instrument dynamically shifting the prices in the price scale when the inside market changes, displaying a plurality of buy order entry cells aligned with prices in... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070118451 - Investment method: A low-risk or no-risk method of realizing investment gain on a loan by borrowing at a fixed rate at simple interest and investing the loan proceeds in an insured or otherwise guaranteed financial product, such as a Certificate of Deposit, providing compound interest income in excess of the borrowed interest... Agent: Timothy F. Mills

20070118453 - Multiple quote risk management: The disclosed systems and methods relate to allowing trading of over the counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange (“FX”) contracts on a centralized matching and clearing mechanism, such as that of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (“CME”'s) futures exchange system (the “Exchange”). The disclosed systems and methods allow for anonymous transactions, centralized clearing,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20070118450 - Tax managed buy-write fund: A system and method is provided for administering a tax-managed, buy-write investment fund having a plurality of units available for sale to the public. An index representing a first portfolio of assets having desired performance characteristics is identified. A second portfolio of assets is configured to have performance characteristics similar... Agent: Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20070118460 - Detection of intra-firm matching and response thereto: The disclosed systems and methods relate to allowing trading of over the counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange (“FX”) contracts on a centralized matching and clearing mechanism, such as that of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (“CME”'s) futures exchange system (the “Exchange”). The disclosed systems and methods allow for anonymous transactions, centralized clearing,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20070118456 - Hybrid cross-margining: A hybrid cross-margining system is disclosed. The disclosed provides for both joint accounts, maintained by multiple exchanges, as well as non-joint accounts, whereby the system recognizes both intra-account offsets within the joint account and inter-exchange offsets between the joint account and accounts maintained by another exchange to minimize the margin... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20070118461 - Incentive points redemption program carried out via an on-line auction: An incentives points-based on-line auction method is presented that is based upon an on-line system including a catalog of potential auction items and a database of participants that are eligible to take part in the auction and the participants' associated eligible points. The method includes designating a set of auction... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070118457 - Inter-market smart-routing for combination spread order trading: Techniques for creating a complex order and routing the complex order to one or more exchanges to achieve optimal pricing without exposing the customer to the conventional legging risks associated with the trading of complex orders are provided. The trading system of the present disclosure provides this mechanism by routing... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070118466 - Managed trading process: About ninety percent of traders who trade financial instruments lose money trading in a real account, whereas a vast majority of them make money trading the simulated account. The reasons for losing money in real accounts may be related to: (a) fear, (b) greed (c) stress (d) no proper money... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20070118463 - Method and system for optimal pricing and allocation in an offering of a plurality of types: A method and system for the determination of optimal pricing and allocation of securities in an open, competitive environment. The method and system may also be used in developing pre-markets of other items that are difficult to price and allocate in a competitive manner, such as the underwriting/securitization of contracts... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070118464 - Method and system for optimal pricing and allocation with additional units allocated: A method and system for the determination of optimal pricing and allocation of securities in an open, competitive environment. The method and system may also be used in developing pre-markets of other items that are difficult to price and allocate in a competitive manner, such as the underwriting/securitization of contracts... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070118465 - Method and system for optimal pricing and allocation with limits on units offered: A method and system for the determination of optimal pricing and allocation of securities in an open, competitive environment. The method and system may also be used in developing pre-markets of other items that are difficult to price and allocate in a competitive manner, such as the underwriting/securitization of contracts... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070118467 - Methods and systems for retrieving data stored in a database: A computer-implemented, transaction-making, municipal bond trading system having a capability to conduct a private electronic auction of bid wanteds between a central brokers' broker and multiple prospective remote bidders and to maintain a reference database of accurate individual bond lot descriptions and identifications, including CUSIP (trademark) numbers.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070118468 - Methods and systems for retrieving data stored in a database: A computer-implemented, transaction-making, municipal bond trading system having a capability to conduct a private electronic auction of bid wanteds between a central brokers' broker and multiple prospective remote bidders and to maintain a reference database of accurate individual bond lot descriptions and identifications, including CUSIP (trademark) numbers.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070118469 - Methods and systems for retrieving data stored in a database: A computer-implemented, transaction-making, municipal bond trading system having a capability to conduct a private electronic auction of bid wanteds between a central brokers' broker and multiple prospective remote bidders and to maintain a reference database of accurate individual bond lot descriptions and identifications, including CUSIP (trademark) numbers.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070118462 - Network and method for trading derivatives by providing enhanced rfq visibility: A computer network and method for electronically trading derivatives. One preferred method of trading includes providing indicative quotes to market participants (which typically includes subscribers, but may also include market makers) to provide a non-binding indication of how the market makers are likely to price the particular derivative. A participant... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20070118459 - System and method for centralized clearing of over the counter foreign exchange instruments: The disclosed systems and methods relate to allowing trading of over the counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange (“FX”) contracts on a centralized matching and clearing mechanism, such as that of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (“CME”'s) futures exchange system (the “Exchange”). The disclosed systems and methods allow for anonymous transactions, centralized clearing,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20070118455 - System and method for directed request for quote: The disclosed systems and methods relate to allowing trading of over the counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange (“FX”) contracts on a centralized matching and clearing mechanism, such as that of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (“CME”'s) futures exchange system (the “Exchange”). The disclosed systems and methods allow for anonymous transactions, centralized clearing,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20070118458 - System and method for providing magnified advance payments on securities and financial security products related to the same: A forward delivery agreement supplies funds in exchange for debt service and converts debt service payments into access to higher productivity assets by providing increased flexibility. An issue and management system for long-term bonds is also disclosed. The system provides dynamic accumulation of compound interest by high-quality, high-yield assets in... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20070118470 - System and method for establishing or modifying an account with user selectable terms: The present invention relates to methods for allowing an account holder to easily customize the terms of an account such as a loan account, an asset account, a mortgage account, an insurance account, or a brokerage account. Exemplary embodiments of the invention allow the user to specify various preferred terms... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070118471 - Contract system: A method for efficient contracting comprises receiving a request for a financial transaction having transaction parameters, selecting candidate transactions based on one or more of the transaction parameters and combining the selected candidate transactions to provide a transaction solution. The selecting may comprise calculating one or more figures of merit... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070118472 - Online incremental payment method: According to the invention, a process for transferring funds between a payor and a payee in an online transaction is disclosed. In one step, information is received from the payor for debiting a bank account associated with the payor. Authorization is transmitted to the payee to request debits from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070118473 - Close proximity transactional mobile system: Disclosed is a transactional mobile system having a central hub in communication with a wireless network wherein a wireless device is in communication with a collection point. The communication between the wireless device and collection point is that of line of sight communication whereby the communication between the two occurs... Agent: Steven L. Schmid

20070118474 - System and apparatus for smart card personalization: A smart card personalization system maintains a database containing card issuer data format templates, card applications, card operating system commands, and personalization equipment specifications and provides a centralized interface of inputs and outputs to a card issuing process which dynamically adjusts to changes in the issuing process to easily permit... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070118475 - Controlled entertainment spending account: A computer-based method for allocating parental funds in preestablished accounts for use by children, including the steps of: providing a bank or credit account containing parental funds for allocation to at least one child; creating a secondary account file with an internet video file supplier accessible by a child for... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070118478 - System and method for adding value to a stored-value account: A system and method for adding value into a customer's stored-value account is provided. A stored-value card is distributed to a merchant for distribution to a customer who has an account with a specific provider of goods and/or services. The stored-value card has an associated identifier that can be used... Agent: J. Michael Martinez De Andino, Esq. Hunton & Williams LLP

20070118476 - System and method to automate payment for a commerce transaction: The invention provides a computerized electronic auction payment system and method for effecting a real-time payment for an item won in an electronic auction by setting up and maintaining electronic auction payment accounts for prospective bidders and sellers. The prospective bidders provide funds to their electronic auction payment accounts maintained... Agent: George Likourezos

20070118477 - Value insertion using bill pay card preassociated with biller: The present invention is directed at systems and methods of inserting value into a customer account with a provider of goods or services. Methods may comprise distributing to a customer a bill pay card wherein the bill pay cards comprise information sufficient to identify the provider of goods or services,... Agent: J. Michael Martinez De Andino, Esq. Hunton & Williams LLP

20070118479 - System and method for controlling access to personal identification information contained in documents: A system and method for creating a document containing secured personal identification information includes a database containing personal identification information; a classifier module for collecting and classifying the personal identification information; a memory module for storing the classified personal identification information; a password generator for associating a password combination with... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070118480 - Information recording apparatus, control program and recording medium: The information recording apparatus is at least provided with an identification means 12 for reading the utilization license information from the recording medium, and for identifying whether the recording medium is a recording medium for which the utilization of the music data is permitted, the music data obtaining means 13... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070118481 - Method and apparatus for monitoring software usage: In one embodiment, and in accord with a method for monitoring software usage, a periodic determination is made as to how many of a particular hardware resource are active within a defined computing environment. Then, in accord with a number of the particular hardware resources that are determined to be... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070118482 - Security display: A device (1) for decrypting encrypted images comprises an array of sensor elements (11) for sensing a first image, for example an encrypted image, and an array of display elements (12) for displaying a second image, for example a decrypted image. At least some display elements comprise integrated sensor elements,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070118483 - Device, system and method for reducing an interaction time for a contactless transaction: A method. The method comprises, at a reader, performing at least one transaction-based risk management process prior to energizing a contactless interface, initiating communication with a card utilized for the contactless transaction, receiving information associated with the card, and terminating communication with the card to authorizing the contactless transaction.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070118484 - Conveying reliable identity in electronic collaboration: A method, system, and program product stored on a computer-readable medium, for conveying reliable identity in electronic collaboration that includes evaluating information element(s) of an electronic interaction (e.g., message) so as to obtain a “confidence value” of the identity of the sender of the electronic interaction, based on the evaluation... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070118486 - Computerized transaction bargaining system and method: A method and system for automated bargaining is disclosed. The method and system are used in testing non-equal values in normal rounds for satisfaction of a condition. If the condition is not satisfied in the normal rounds, power round values are tested for satisfaction of a power round condition. If... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070118485 - Interactive contract service: A method of drafting and searching model contracts on the internet, of holding them available on the internet, of adjusting such contracts to the user's personal needs, of adjusting such contracts to the user's personal needs by intercommunication with a legal counsel or contract party in an interactive “conference room”... Agent: Norbert Guerbauer

20070118487 - Product cost modeling method and system: A method is provided for a product cost modeling system. The method may include establishing a product cost process model indicative of interrelationships between product costs of one or more existing products and a respective plurality of characteristic parameters of the existing products. The method may also include obtaining a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070118488 - Mail delivery notification process: A mail delivery notification arrangement for maximizing the efficiency of notification and mail pick up on a regular basis. In this embodiment, the mail drop off location utilizes a bar code, RFID or other identifying and notification methods as input to the process. When a letter or package is received... Agent: Mr.robert E. Bozzomo

20070112576 - Centralized management of maintenance and materials for commercial aircraft fleets with fleet-wide benchmarking data: Turnkey maintenance of a customer's aircraft fleet is managed by a single management service provider (MSP) controlling integrated maintenance and materials services from a central operations site. The MSP converts data received directly from on-board aircraft systems into information it uses to manage maintenance service providers and parts suppliers. The... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070112584 - Electronic service of process system and method for carrying out service of court papers: A system and method for online creation and integration of service of process functions is provided, for use in conjunction with paper or electronic filing of court papers. By logging on to a web page, the user can access a rules and decision matrix database providing the rules and requirements... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070112578 - Infrastructure architecture for secure network management with peer to peer functionality: Architecture defining a secure virtual network of communities of two or more participants where security and business management reporting is a result of a network architecture and where participants can maintain absolute security and control over their services independent of any other participant according to implemented selection rules of the... Agent: Edwin M. Baranowski Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP

20070112583 - Learning-based automatic commercial content detection: Systems and methods for learning-based automatic commercial content detection are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods include a training component and an analyzing component. The training component trains a commercial content classification model using a kernel support vector machine. The analyzing component analyzes program data such as video... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070112579 - Market management system: A market management system is designed to manage energy industry standardized transactions between energy providers and utility distribution customers. The system includes business process and transaction validations along with transaction tracking. The market management system processes transactions in its own data format but stores the transactions in a client's customer... Agent: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld

20070112580 - Method for controlling digital rights of the \"play n times\" type for a digital audio and/or video content and device implementing this method: m

20070112582 - Method for value-added reselling of marketing leads from multiple lead sources: A method for value-added resales of leads originated by multiple lead sources. A reseller purchases unqualified leads on a contingent basis from multiple lead sources, consolidates all marketing leads from the various lead sources in a database, scrubs the lead data to ensure integrity (dupes are eliminated, phone numbers are... Agent: Royal Craig Ober/kaler

20070112577 - Methods and facilities for a municipal solid waste management system: The present invention includes a system and method for creating a municipal solid waste (MSW) system to address the multiple types of waste that are disposed by the public, and further, to provide a waste management solution that provides for the sustained economic development and growth of communities. The present... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20070112581 - Ordering system: A system for designing and ordering a stent graft is described. The system includes a user interface for designing and ordering the stent graft, and a centralised data processor remote from and in communication with the user interface for processing and storing entered information. The user interface further includes a... Agent: Cook Group Patent Office

20070112575 - System and method for configuring a state of an internet protocol television network: A system for configuring an IPTV network is provided. The system includes a computer program accessible to a video server that includes instructions to configure the network to a first state, collect subscriber data for a plurality of geographical regions, correlate the subscriber data to available channels, compute video server... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070112574 - System and method for use of mobile policy agents and local services, within a geographically distributed service grid, to provide greater security via local intelligence and life-cycle management for rfld tagged items: This invention provides a system, method, and software program for providing software intelligence to Radio Frequency Identity (RFID) tags. Utilizing the unique characteristics of the Service Grid, mobile software agents can relocate in close proximity to RFID tagged items. Once associated with the tag, these RFID agents migrate near where... Agent: William Sprott Greene

20070112595 - Assistance related to health: In one aspect, a method related to health-related data management. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070112586 - Clinical genomics merged repository and partial episode support with support abstract and semantic meaning preserving data sniffers: Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for processing and storing medical episode data with workflow status designations. In one embodiment, a patient episode data is moved from differentiated data stores, via an information broker, to assigned data handlers. The data handlers then pass their respective data to a loader and... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070112585 - Cognition analysis: Methods for evaluating information about the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain can be used for diagnosis and gene identification. Exemplary methods and data management features consolidate relationships within multi-dimensional complex data sets, erg., data sets that include systems biology measures, such as those obtained from neuroimaging,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070112591 - Generating a request from a nutraceutical inventory: A method, system, and computer program product are described for registering a nutraceutical-containing dispensation from an inventory and responding to the registering by indicating a request quantity partly based on the inventory and partly based on a consumption regimen.... Agent: Searete LLC

20070112599 - Method and system for generating and validating clinical reports with built-in automated measurement and decision support: A method and system for generation and validation of clinical reports with built-in automated measurement and decision support is provided. XML templates may be used for ensuring report data quality. The template data may include static, dynamic, calculated data, and others. The validation method may be based on formal logical... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070112594 - Method and system for providing specialty medical services: One or more discrete, scalable operating units are organized to facilitate local medical practices in incorporating apheresis treatment procedures, without substantial capital investment or disruption in practice operations. A parent company forms a management services organization, which in turn establishes one or more specialty apheresis facilities. The management services organization... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070112596 - Method of associating meta-data of radiation image with image: Method of associating meta-data relating to a radiation image of an object with the radiation image wherein the meta-data are broadcast and are detected and associated with an activated radiation image recording device.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20070112597 - Monetizing large-scale information collection and mining: The subject matter described herein facilitates monetizing a database of unclean health-related data collected on a large-scale and pertaining to a non-selected population. At least one pattern can be automatically ascertained from the unclean health-related data at least in part by applying a statistical technique, a data mining technique and/or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112592 - Payments in providing assistance related to health: In one aspect, a method related to health-related data management. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070112587 - Providing assistance related to health: In one aspect, a method related to health-related data management. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070112593 - Selection system, dispensing system and treatment with a one-a-day combination pill for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and anti-platelet treatment: The present invention relates to a selection system, a dispensing system and a process using a matrix enabling a physician to select one of the plurality of one-a-day combinatory pills. The system and method uses matrices of a plurality of one-a-day pill formulations (a total of 144-177 combinatory pill formulas,... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20070112590 - Subscriptions for assistance related to health: In one aspect, a method related to health-related data management. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070112600 - System for massaging a person: The invention provides a system for massaging a person. A removable structure provides an area to receive a massage. A supporting apparatus supports the person receiving a massage. An electronic scheduling system enables the person to schedule the massage.... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070112601 - System of calibrating physicians' practices of medicine: A system of standardizing and measuring physicians' practices of medicine and services to patients wherein digital information on medicine, health and health-care, health and health-care data on patients generated by physicians and information on physicians and physicians' practices of medicine and services are compiled and manipulated to generate data adaptable... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20070112598 - Tools for health and wellness: A tool for providing health and/or wellness services is described herein. Not necessarily clean or unclean data about a plurality of self-selected or non-selected or unselected subjects is received. The data can be aggregated and mined at least in part by employing a statistical algorithm, a data-mining algorithm and/or a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112588 - User interface for providing assistance related to health: In one aspect, a method related to health-related data management. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20070112589 - User interface for providing assistance related to health: In one aspect, a method related to health-related data management. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070112603 - Digital data entry methods and devices: The invention provides methods and devices for data entry, particularly with respect to patient care and medical treatment data. In one aspect, a data entry device according to the invention includes a touch screen for entering patient data during a treatment session and a digital processor for managing the display... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070112602 - System and method for managing patient care through automated messaging: A system and method in accordance with the invention allow a user to select when messages relating to medication events are sent and to select the content parameters of those messages. In one aspect, a user selects certain event types, the occurrence of which will cause a message to be... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070112604 - Computer system managing an insurance reserve requirement by segmenting risk components in a reinsurance transaction: Apparatus (method implemented with a machine, the machine, and the method for making the machine, and products produced thereby). The computer system can, for example, be structured (e.g., including programmed) to carry out the steps of: calculating an insurance reserve requirement from data; segmenting, for the reserve requirement, an insured... Agent: Peter K Trzyna

20070112605 - Software support insurance (ssi) policy: In a method and system for providing a software support insurance (SSI) policy, an authorized copy of a source code for a software product is received. A software risk index for the software product is assessed, where the software risk index is a function of the source code, a support... Agent: Vasant V. Chaphekar

20070112606 - Collapsible itineraries: Method and system for grouping and displaying travel itineraries are disclosed. The method for grouping travel itineraries includes receiving a list of travel itineraries, grouping the list of travel itineraries to one or more clusters according to a set of grouping parameters, selecting a lead itinerary to represent each of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070112607 - Score-based alerting in business logic: Score-based alerting is provided in a business logic application to provide summary status information on heterogeneous measures such as KPI's and Objectives, which are derived from aggregated KPI's, for monitoring organizational performance. Criteria for alerts are based on comparison of raw data to threshold values, trends of aggregated scores, and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070112608 - Integrated maintenance services for fleet aircraft: Turnkey maintenance of a customer's aircraft fleet is managed by a single management service provider (MSP) controlling integrated maintenance and materials services from a central operations site. The MSP converts data received directly from on-board aircraft systems into information it uses to manage maintenance service providers and parts suppliers. The... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20070112609 - Methods and apparatus to incorporate user feedback during planning: Methods and apparatus to incorporate user feedback during planning. In one embodiment, first and second plans are generated for which user feedback is obtained and used to generate a revised plan.... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070112610 - System and method for clinical process decisioning: A system and method for use in planning procedures subject to variation is provided comprising the following components: a duration estimator module configured to characterize average duration times and variations from average for a given procedure or activity; a block allocation planner module configured to schedule procedures or activities in... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070112611 - System and method for program management: System and method for managing a program plan includes creating a business needs statement by determining a scope and concept; developing an understanding of objective's for a solution; designing, developing, and testing the solution; implementing the solution; and maintaining the solution. The system may include a computer implemented interface between... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070112613 - Membership based skills data dissemination system: A membership based skills data dissemination system; said system adapted to accept postings of personal skills data of respective ones of fee paying subscribing members; each subscribing member instigating and controlling their said personal skills data on a searchable database; said personal skills data including data comprising a description of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070112612 - Method and system for managing non-game tasks with a game: The method and system includes selecting via an application one or more non-game tasks that need to be completed during a pre-determined amount of time. The one or more selected non-game tasks are associated with one or more graphical game entities. Events are periodically provided encouraging completion of the one... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20070112616 - Allocation requirements system and methodology: A service matching system for determining an optimized number of service providers for a given geographical region includes the determination of the allocation target that is proportional to the volume of services needed in the region. The need for additional service providers to service this demand is determined by the... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20070112614 - Identifying target customers for campaigns to increase average revenue per user: A method of increasing average revenue per user and a system architecture for providing analytical tools for implementing the method are provided. The method of increasing revenue relies on executing direct contact marketing campaigns to stimulate revenue growth. A business's current revenue stream and historical revenue trends are analyzed to... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070112617 - Marketing system for a niche business: A marketing system having one or more modules with instructions for execution on a computer system. In one embodiment the system has a client database module for managing client information. The system also has a module for generating advertising material based upon customer information input into the system. The advertising... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070112615 - Method and system for boosting the average revenue per user of products or services: A method of increasing average revenue per user and a system architecture for providing analytical tools for implementing the method are provided. The method of increasing revenue relies on executing direct contact marketing campaigns to stimulate revenue growth. A business's current revenue stream and historical revenue trends are analyzed to... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070112619 - Retailer optimization using market segmentation top quintile process: A method for determining an optimal number of lottery retailers is disclosed. The optimal number of lottery retailers for a region can be determined based households of the same segmentations purchasing lottery products similarly, and there is a strong correlation between lottery agent density (population/retailers) and per capita lottery sales.... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070112618 - Systems and methods for automatic generation of information: Methods and systems consistent with the principles of some embodiments of the present invention provide for determining a set of variables that together have strong predictive power relative to some target variable(s); identifying a subset of variables that together describe the majority of the information in the database; statistically segmenting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070112621 - Method for automatic determination and charging for the use of a paid parking area: The invention is directed to a method for the automatic determination and charging for the use of a paid parking area as well as a transmitting apparatus for the method in accordance with the invention, a user terminal in accordance with the invention as well as a method for the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070112620 - Permit-based parking environment management method and system: A system and method for managing a permit-based parking environment governed by a parking program. The permit-based parking environment includes a number of parking permits each including a unique RFID tag and tag number. One or more RFID readers are used to scan the vehicles parked in the parking environment... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070112626 - Computer interactive customer relationship management system: In a method for managing a relationship with a plurality of participants relating to a predetermined subject, each participant is presented a participant data input interface, which includes a participant identification data field, a participant goal indication data field, and a participant experience data field. A targeted participant list, including... Agent: Bryan W. Bockhop, Esq.

20070112628 - Distributing media files: The present invention is directed to a system, method, and apparatus of downloading digital media files by a user wherein a computer user may download digital media files without incurring any charges whereby the computer user is subject to a targeted advertisement, in particular, during the file download time. Fees... Agent: Shirley S. Ma, Esq.

20070112623 - E-mail rebate processing system: A system of doing business which includes accessing, by consumers, merchants and credit card partners a website maintained by the owner of the system, the website having a specialized account therein for each of the consumers, merchants and credit card partners, each account being particularly identified to that particular consumer,... Agent: William S. Dorman

20070112627 - Method for distributing advertisements to client devices using an obscured ad monitoring function: Software for use on a client device that is configured for communications via a communications network instantiates a communications function that effects an advertisement download communication link between the client device and an advertisement distribution server system via the communications network, at selected advertisement download times, an advertisement download function... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070112629 - Rebate processing system and method offering selectable disbursement options: A system is disclosed that provides computer-aided processing of a rebate on a product. The system includes a rebate processing center communicating over a network with a manufacturer, a distributor, and a consumer. The rebate processing center maintains a promotion table and a transaction table in order to facilitate processing... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112625 - System and method for displaying advertisement using flash memory storage devices: A method for displaying advertisement content is provided. The method includes, launching an application from a removable memory device with a plurality of non-volatile memory cells and a controller including a processor, wherein the application is launched when the removable memory device interfaces with a host system; launching a display... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070112631 - System and method for networked loyalty program: The present invention provides a system for implementing a loyalty program on a network-wide level. The system associates UPC and SKU data on a network level to reward consumers and/or to analyze the data for a variety of business purposes, such as market segmentation analyses and/or analyses relating to consumer... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070112632 - System and method for networked loyalty program: The present invention provides a system for implementing a loyalty program on a network-wide level. The system associates UPC and SKU data on a network level to reward consumers and/or to analyze the data for a variety of business purposes, such as market segmentation analyses and/or analyses relating to consumer... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070112630 - Techniques for rendering advertisments with rich media: In one embodiment, an advertisement is matched to subject matter in a portion of rich media content, such as a digital video, Flash™ animation, etc. For example, during the playing of rich media content, it may be determined by audio recognition techniques that the content's subject matter matches or correlates... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070112624 - Use of patron profiles in virtual world environment: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A virtual world patron can participate in various virtual world activities and transactions. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world activities and transactions. The virtual world patron may... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070112622 - Web-based incentive system and method: A method for providing an incentive to an Internet user to interact with a website. The present invention includes a network capable of capturing a portion of money related to Internet commerce, and allocating said money in a manner that provides incentive to an Internet user to interact with a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070112633 - Method and apparatus for facilitating the sale of subscriptions to periodicals: A POS terminal receives a signal that indicates an item, for example, via a bar code scanner. The POS terminal ascertains whether the item is associated with an offer for a rebate. If so, a code is generated and output to the customer, such as on a printed receipt. The... Agent: Dean Alderucci Walker Digital Corporation

20070112636 - Community based marketing system and method: A system and method for facilitating incentive delivery from vendors to communities is provided through a networked system. Members of a community, which is a group of consumers having a common association characteristic, access the networked system by entering a unique community identifier in a member interface portal. Upon accessing... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070112638 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070112639 - Content display monitor: The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070112637 - Interactive peer validation for product choices: A method of facilitating purchasing decisions, the method comprising: providing a survey such as an online questionnaire comprising a plurality of questions; providing as choices in the survey a limited set of products from one manufacturer to be surveyed among a predetermined set of consumer peers; urging users to complete... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070112643 - Method and system for scheduling transaction listings at a network-based transaction facility: According to the present invention, there is provided a method to facilitate propagating a plurality of transaction listings to a network-based transaction facility. An input interface is presented at a seller application to receive from a user, a plurality of transaction listings, each transaction listing including an associated start time.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070112644 - Method and system to adjust a seller fixed price offer: Methods and systems including an auction method including an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process for purchasing a seller's offering to a buyer. The seller may adjust a seller fixed-price offer during the auction price-setting process. Various embodiments include a network-based commerce system including, a processor coupled to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070112640 - Method and system to publish a seller fixed price offer: An auction method presents an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process for purchasing a seller's offering to a buyer. The seller is provided with a mechanism to adjust and publish a seller fixed-price offer during the auction price-setting process.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070112645 - Sales system with sales activity feedback: A networked sales method and a network sales terminal for use in communicating with a sales server via a network. Various embodiments include a networked sales method comprising presenting via a first network a plurality of price choices to a user for an item on a sales screen, converting available... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070112634 - System and method for confirming customer transactions: Systems and methods are provided for collecting sales confirmation data from customers contemporaneously with transactions between the customers and sales associates. The sales confirmation data is compared to sales data received from the sales associate to determine whether and which transactions are attributable to the sales associates. The sales confirmation... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070112635 - System and method for monitoring, aggregation and presentation of product prices collected from multiple electronic marketplaces: The present invention relates to a method of monitoring, aggregation and presentation of prices listed for products in multiple electronic marketplaces. Specifically, the present invention allows for stock-like monitoring of product prices over a time period and across multiple electronic marketplaces. The resulting display of product price trends provides potential... Agent: Mr. Sanjin Loncaric

20070112641 - System and methods for providing financial account information over a network: A system and method for providing financial account messages to customers while accessing web sites is disclosed. Methods, systems and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention enable a financial account issuer to provide an application to customer's computer system over a network. The application may be configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070112642 - System and methods for providing financial account information over a network: A system and method for providing financial account messages to customers while accessing web sites is disclosed. Methods, systems and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention enable a financial account issuer to provide an application to customer's computer system over a network. The application may be configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070112648 - Method for marketing to audience members based upon votes cast by audience members: A new and improved method for marketing to customers based upon incoming telephone calls is herein disclosed. A marketing method for use with a broadcast featuring multiple performers for whom at least one audience member may vote, the vote being based upon a performer's performance, the vote being communicated by... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20070112646 - Method of bidding on the construction and installation of a fire alarm or security system: A method for bidding upon the construction of an alarm or security system first includes establishing a single database in which is stored all information relevant to the bidding process, and using the database to provide a centralized bidding program for component dealers and equipment installers. The database is used... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070112647 - Webstore supporting multiple merchants: A technique for effecting electronic commerce using a data network is described. The data network includes a plurality of subsystems which, together, form an integrated system for receiving customer orders for selected items via a data network, fulfilling the customer orders, and delivering the ordered products to the customers. Moreover,... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20070112651 - Apparatus and method for analyzing out of stock conditions: A method of evaluating out of stock conditions includes determining a minimum provable stock level relying upon RFID and non-RFID information sources.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070112650 - Entry of invoice before goods receipt: Systems and methods are disclosed for suggesting item information for an invoice based on information in a related purchase order and/or goods receipt. Consistent with the principles of the invention, the procurement management system, upon initiation of an invoice entry, may search for a related purchase order and may determine... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070112649 - Material and device inventory tracking system for medical and other uses: A system repetitively verifies a quantity of items against a baseline quantity of items, and manages the baseline quantity of items at the same time. A display processor initiates generation of data, representing a display image on a user interface. The display image presents a pre-populated list of item types... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070112653 - System and method for account reconciliation: An account reconciliation system having a particular usefulness in the reconciliation of centrally billed accounts and more specifically, in the reconciliation of centrally billed accounts in the travel industry is provided. The system and methods of the present invention expand on the traditional match/non-match techniques and provide complete transaction management... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070112652 - Throughput accounting for professional, scientific and technical services: A method, system and computer-usable medium that includes: inputting a Throughput (T), an Investment (I) and an Operating Expense (OE) into a Throughput Accounting logic to create performance measures, resource measures, decision support measures and control measures; storing the performance measures, resource measures, decision support measures and control measures in... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070112654 - System and method for monitoring home healthcare workers: Healthcare services at a patient's residence are monitored by placing an identification device in the residence and by a healthcare worker carrying a data acquisition device. Whenever proximate to the residence, the data acquisition device receives a wireless signal that carries an identifier from the identification device. The data acquisition... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070112660 - Disposition of proprietary virtual rights: 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

20070112657 - Exchange traded fund or the like related to basket of fixed income securities having similar maturities: An exchange traded fund (ETF) is composed of a basket of fixed income securities. The fixed income securities have maturity dates within a relatively narrow range from a predefined range of each other (e.g., within approximately from five years from the launch of the ETF). The ETF pays interest to... Agent: Peter F. Weinberg Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

20070112656 - Merchant powered click-to-call method: A method is disclosed for enhancing the predictability, scalability and cost effectiveness of online advertising with voice over IP connectivity and event tracking technologies. A service provider maintains a list of merchants who have offered to pay for customer VoIP calls to their establishment. The service provider maintains a real... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070112659 - Method and system for generating and trading derivative investment instruments based on a covered stock portfolio benchmark index: m

20070112658 - Methods for non-cash employee compensation: Disclosed herein are methods of non-cash employee compensation. An exemplary embodiment of a method of non-cash employee compensation may comprise a synthetic stock option program using a synthetic call. A synthetic call can be created without an actual call option by buying both the stock and a put option on... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070112655 - Prepaid financial account incentives system and method: A system and method for creating and managing incentives for buyers of prepaid financial accounts to engage in certain activities with those accounts. Account holders agree to fund a prepaid account with a minimum amount and to forego using the account for an agreed time period in exchange for a... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.c. Attn: Linda Kasulke, Docket Coordinator

20070112661 - System, method and computer program product for determining a minimum asset value for exercising a contingent claim of an option: A system, method and computer program product are provided for determining a minimum future benefits value for exercising a contingent claim of an option. The method may include determining a present value of an asset at a selected decision point, and a present value of an exercise price required to... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070112662 - Profiling the investment style of institutional investors: The present invention provides a method of profiling institutional investors. In accordance with the principles of the present invention, the pseudo portfolio is created to see how an investor has behaved given a choice between a value and a growth stock. The investor's historical portfolio is filtered through the pseudo... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20070112665 - Method and system for electronic trading via a yield curve: A method and system for providing electronic trading via yield curves. The method and system allow automatic execution of electronic trades with yield curve trading strategies using real, synthetic, black box, spread, and supply differential yield curve trading information.... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C. Suite 325

20070112664 - Method and system for providing a quotation and reservation mechanism for integrated auction services on a seller's e-commerce site: An internal auction system may generate a quotation for the quantity of a product included in an auction published on the seller's e-commerce site so that the appropriate quantity of the product is identified and/or available on the successful completion of the auction. In conjunction with generating the quotation, a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070112663 - Operating system and method for use in auction service based upon lowest bid price: The present invention notifies all buyers joining an auction of bid prices offered thereby in real time, such that an auction operator's unlawful operation can be disabled, and the probability of a successful bid can be increased by a strategic plan of a buyer joining the auction, not by chance... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070112669 - Apparatus for creating a financial plan for funding of college education: A computer-implemented apparatus creates a financial plan for parental funding of a student's college education. The plan includes a variable life insurance policy, a schedule of estimated college loans to be applied for by the parent for each of the years of attendance by the student, consolidation loan recommendations for... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070112670 - Automated credit application system: A computer based credit application processing system provides a graphical user interface, automatic software update downloading, lender to lender routing of credit applications, and integration with in-house finance and insurance systems and third party data entry facilities, among other features. Web site linkage is also accommodated.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070112666 - Computer system for the calculation of interests for entrustments of money: Procedure for the calculation of interests for entrustments of money comprising: memorization of quantities of money K indicative of the possible amounts of credit granted; memorization of an additional remuneration M indicative of the requirements of the lender for granting the loan; processing of an additional amount of money L... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070112668 - Method and apparatus for a consumer interactive credit report analysis and score reconciliation adaptive education and counseling system: An interactive credit report educational and counseling system provides a method and system for compiling, presenting and explaining a consumer's credit report in an easier to understand and more user friendly format. A consumer's credit performance information is characterized and a customized display of a consumer's credit report information is... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20070112667 - System and method for providing a fraud risk score: A computer-implemented method for providing a predictive measure of fraud risk. The method includes receiving applicant identification data, identifying predictive fraud patterns by matching the applicant identification data to a historical search database, calculating a predictive measure of fraud risk using the predictive fraud patterns; and providing the predictive measure... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070112671 - Transaction management system and method: The present invention relates to the field of online commerce. In particular it relates to the operation of electronic markets in which there are a plurality of both sellers and buyers.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070112672 - Systems, methods and computer program products for negotiation of risk transfer for products: A product risk acceptance contract (PRAC) system server communicates with a PRAC system provider client coupled thereto and responsively generates a record of an offer for a risk transfer for a product (e.g., a good, intangible asset and/or service). The PRAC system server further communicates with a PRAC system consumer... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070112673 - Method for autorising mandates of payment by credit cards and related apparatuses: The invention concerns a method, and the related apparatuses, for authorizing mandates of payment through credit instruments, a user being the owner of at least one credit instrument, which is issued by an issuing institution (21) and of a telephone (20), which is provided with the functionality of sending and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070112674 - Automated payment system and method: An automated payment system for processing payment by a customer to a company. The payment system includes a document scanning system which has an input receptacle adapted to accept a document. After receiving an authorization agreement from the customer, the scanner acquires at least one image from the document. Also... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Jenkens & Gilchrist

20070112676 - Digital rights management in a mobile communications environment: The invention provides a method, system, and computer program product to control the access, copying, and/or transfer of a digital asset by mobile, wireless devices using a digital voucher. The digital voucher references a primary content that contains all of the expression for that particular asset and a secondary content... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070112675 - Goods and services locator language for uniform resource identifier components: A process and method to define, describe, order, and display the components that comprise the query portion of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) into a human readable, easy to remember string of characters that map the physical location of a resource.... Agent: Brenda J. Flinn

20070112677 - Method and system for intercepting transactions for encryption: The present invention is directed to a method and system for intercepting transactions for encryption. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, an application for a storage device is monitored. A transaction for the storage device is intercepted. An encryption request within the transaction is identified. Performance... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112679 - Digital rights management method and system: A digital rights management (DRM) method and system are provided. The method includes a DRM playback device changing a Rights Object (RO), transmitting the RO to an RO issuance authority, and the RO issuance authority receiving and storing the RO.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070112678 - Method and system for operating a secondary market for digital music: A system is disclosed that operates a secondary market for digital music licenses. The system includes a license administration center communicating over a network with a content provider, a selling first consumer, and a purchasing second consumer. The license administration center operates to receive bids and offers for digital music... Agent: Matthew Himelfarb

20070112680 - System and method for processing digital media content in a mobile device: A method for processing digital media content in a mobile device, wherein the digital media content is protected using digital rights management, wherein a digital rights protection removing unit is assigned to the protected digital media content and which digital rights protection removing unit is used to remove the protection... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070112681 - Content distribution system, license distribution method and terminal device: The transmission format A license conversion unit (430) of the terminal device (120) converts the transmission format license (710), which is obtained from the license relay server (110), described in a transmission format into a processing format license (510) to be specified by the conversion format specification information (711) and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070112683 - Method and system for extending access to a product: A method and system for managing payment for a license for a licensed product is provided. The method includes the use of regulations to enforce payment for the license that is issued to a client. The license is issued to the client by a license manager. The license manager informs... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070112684 - Method for determining by a license server whether a client software application is licensed: A license server is disclosed that may operate oven an IP-compliant network. The license server includes a database for storing and retrieving license records associated with a client software application. The license server may be configured to receive a license validity inquiry request from a client module over the IP-compliant... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070112682 - On-demand cpu licensing activation: A method and apparatus for on-demand CPU licensing. An embodiment of a processor license system includes an agent to determine that a computer processing element in a computer system is faulty or unreliable. The system further includes an activation license manager. The activation license manager provides automatic activation of a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112685 - Contents distribution system, recording apparatus, signature apparatus, contents supply apparatus, and contents playback apparatus: Second content relating to first content recorded on a portable recording medium is prevented from being illegally used. A contents supply apparatus outputs signature data and the second content to a playback apparatus, the signature data having been generated based on content information relating to at least one of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070112686 - Method and system for securely distributing computer software products: A product distribution and payment system for limited use or otherwise restricted digital software products. Digital content data comprising a software product to be rented is made available to customers through a detachable local storage medium, such as a DVD or CD-ROM disc, or over a network connection. The product... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070112687 - System and method for revenue sharing for multimedia sharing in social network: When a person uses a first portable music player to wirelessly transmit a tune to a person with a second player in a social networking transaction for playing by the second player for a limited time, if the second person subsequently purchases an unrestricted version of the tune, the first... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070112688 - Method and apparatus for secure online transactions: A method and apparatus for performing secure online transactions provides a user interface that is intuitive and easily to understand. The invention integrates an online wallet service with credit card issuers that provide online credit card authentication services. The method provides a keypad interface for PIN entry, or an interface... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070112690 - Method and system for performing legal services over the internet: A method and system for rendering certain types of legal services, by licensed and practicing lawyers, to clients and potential clients of a law firm. The method and system comprises certain client-software components and server computers which facilitate the acquisition of information entered by the client and specific legal service... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Fulbright Tower

20070112689 - System for media integration: A system is disclosed to serve marketing, sales and promotional needs of community event promoters and sponsors, particularly community events such as festivals and fairs. The system integrates radio advertising, television advertising, an Internet website, electronic messaging, in-person interaction, a chamber of commerce tour and specially filmed media presentations, providing... Agent: Patrick M. Dwyer PC

20070112691 - Date effective quantity on hand and adjusted unit cost calculation: An accounting method can insert changes that affect average cost calculations after the initial average cost calculations. The method can go back in time and add in transactions that affect average cost and re-calculate average cost based on the added entry to all entries after the added entry.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070112692 - Drawing take off system: A drawing take off system itemizes components shown on a paper drawing. The take off system includes a sleeve for holding a standard pen, a computer having a software module, and an interface connection between the sleeve and the computer. The software module maintains a list of each component model... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070112693 - Method and system for obtaining a discovered price: A method and system for determining an optimal price at which to perform a batch auction of financial assets. Orders, according to a variety of predetermined order types, are received from qualified market participants and communicated to an auction system according to the invention. The auction system takes into account... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070112694 - Facility energy management system: A method of managing energy supplied to a facility comprises monitoring a marginal cost of electricity from an electricity vendor; and determining a facility current electrical load and a facility current heating load. The method also comprises obtaining fuel to supply energy to meet the heating load when the marginal... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070106518 - Combined locating, tracking and communications system: A combined locating, tracking and communications system (10), including a server (12), a plurality of area transceivers (14) configured to communicate with the server (12) and having an associated reception range (34), a plurality of zone transceivers (16) configured to communicate with the area transceiver (14), a plurality of tags... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20070106523 - Information system and method for generating appraisal reports for real properties: A system and method for facilitating appraisals is disclosed. A lender and/or customer may request an appraisal from a manager or administrator, by posting the request to an Internet site form. The manager checks the schedules of local appraisers, selects an appraiser and schedules the appraisal. Once the appraisal has... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20070106529 - Method and system for providing a barcode image over a network: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a barcode image. A client is operable to create a request for a barcode image and send the request to a server. The request comprises data to be converted to a barcode. The server is operable to receive the request from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070106528 - Method and system of restricted substance management and recycling: A method is provided of restricted substance management and recycling in a manufacturing environment. The method includes the steps of inputting restricted substances and recycle content data of parts supplied by an inputter of information and receiving the inputted data by a receiver of information via a computer system. The... Agent: Daniel H. Bliss

20070106519 - Method to secure the execution of a program against attacks by radiation or other: A method for verifying execution of a program, wherein the program comprises a first code portion and a second code portion. The method includes entering the first code portion, where the first code portion includes a first plurality of instructions, executing the first code portion, calculating a first checksum during... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070106524 - Methods and systems for retrieving data stored in a database: A computer-implemented, transaction-making, municipal bond trading system having a capability to conduct a private electronic auction of bid wanteds between a central brokers' broker and multiple prospective remote bidders and to maintain a reference database of accurate individual bond lot descriptions and identifications, including CUSIP (trademark) numbers.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070106525 - Sparse data environmental equipment threshold alarm system and method: A sparse data system is provided for verifying operational compliance of a plurality of wastewater treatment systems. To reduce operational costs to a minimum, the quantity of data transmitted is minimized and the data is only transmitted at certain times. If systems are compliant, then information is preferably not sent.... Agent: C. James Bushman

20070106527 - Sparse data environmental equipment threshold compliance alarm system and method: A sparse data system is provided for verifying operational compliance of a plurality of environmental systems. To reduce operational costs to a minimum, the quantity of data transmitted is minimized and the data is only transmitted at certain times. If systems are compliant, then information is preferably not sent. If... Agent: C. James Bushman

20070106526 - Supervisory authority in virtual world environment: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world experiences including activities, settings, events, purchases, sales and diverse transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070106520 - System and method for conducting dependency analysis of business components: A system and method is provided for the ontological representation of the meta-models of businesses and their processes, activities, and components in one or more semantic web markup languages to enable reasoning and analyzing of instances of enterprise business models to infer relationships of business entities which are previously unknown... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20070106521 - System and method to process media with preset credit: A preset credit media includes: a document part, and availability information and credit for the document part. The document part is all or less than all of an audio file, a visual file, a text file, or a data file. The availability information includes a monetary cost or time availability... Agent: Fernandez & Associates, LLP

20070106522 - System for distributing packages and channels to a device: A system for distributing packages and channels to a device includes associating weights with the packages and channels. The default ordering of packages on a device display and the default ordering of channels on a program guide is determined according to the weights. In addition, the weights may be used... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070106534 - Computerized system and method for predicting and tracking billing groups for patients in a healthcare environment: A computerized system and method in a healthcare environment for calculating one or more predicted billing groups for a patient is provided. One or more data elements for a patient are received prior to the patient being discharged from a healthcare facility. The one or more data elements are utilized... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070106533 - Medical practice pattern tool: The invention is a business process embodied in a software algorithm that determines difference in practice patterns among physicians for the main cost components of given conditions.... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20070106531 - Method and process that automatically finds patients for clinical drug or device trials: A method and system to rapidly and precisely identify patient candidates for clinical trials comprises a database component operative to maintain a hospital patient database component and its plurality of hospital databases and their corresponding plurality of patient names and medical records, in communication with one or more medical practice... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070106530 - Oscillation suppression: The invention relates to oscillation suppression and, more particularly, concerns a method and apparatus for suppressing oscillation in a signal identified as or suspected of containing an oscillation due to feedback. The method involves converting the signal into frequency bands in the frequency domain, applying, for a selected period of... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20070106532 - Planning of simultaneous examinations for a single patient within one time slot: The current invention is in the field of scheduling appointments for exams to be performed on patients in a clinical environment, where an appointment must be consistent with the availability of different resources, such as rooms, medical devices and medical or paramedical staff. An opportunity arises when two or more... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070106535 - Electronic medical information system, electronic medical information programs, and computer-readable recording media for storing the electronic medical information: Problem The problem is to facilitate viewing of temporal correlation between patient's chief complaint and doctor's interview results associated with the patient's chief complaint. Means of Solution The temporal correlation can be viewed by providing an electronic medical information system equipped with a control server comprising an input means for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070106536 - Opml-based patient records: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106537 - Syndicating mri data in a healthcare environment: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106540 - Business method, electronic unit and software system for advertising and real estate trade intermediation: A specific business method, an electronic unit and software system for trade intermediation, when an effective tool on real estate market is trading with warranted real estate transaction services, time-limited conditional option commission blank form and extra parte mediation reward. Such a business method could be supported by network, reference... Agent: Vladimir Kovalcik

20070106538 - Employing user interaction to generate health care rewards: The invention provides for customizing the presentation of healthcare insurance information and wellness information for a healthcare insurance subscriber. This customized information can be presented at a website, which can include, but is not limited to, claims (paid, pending and denied), referral status, answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs), explanations... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070106539 - System and method for the assessment, pricing, and provisioning of distance-based vehicle insurance: A method for assessing, pricing, and provisioning distance-based vehicle insurance is disclosed. Receiving identification information of a customer and an associated vehicle, a current odometer reading of the vehicle, and a garaging location of the vehicle is disclosed. The customer is provided with a quote including a policy rate identifying... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20070106541 - Method for the construction and execution of a distributed workflow in a communication system: The invention relates to a method for construction of a distributed workflow. A workflow specification comprising the invocation of a number of locatable functions is obtained. The workflow specification is divided into partitions based on the host nodes where the locatable functions are hosted. From the partitions are generated stub... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070106543 - Server-based systems and methods for processing fuel orders: Methods and systems for handling petrochemical fuel orders. A method can include providing, over a network, fuel order data to a vehicle operator's communication device and displaying the received data to the fuel vehicle operator. A system is located at the fuel loading facility and monitors dispensing of fuel from... Agent: John V. Biernacki Jones Day

20070106542 - System and method for providing technology data integration services: The management and integration of data and categorizing and reporting the results thereof are accomplished by using at least three information levels of the data path, which comprise a transactions level, an extraction, transformation and load level, and a business information level. At the transformation and load level, data are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070106544 - E-management market method: A method to develop, implement, operate and maintain a market-based management strategy with the application of commercial market practices. An e-management market is developed to meet the business activities defined by an organization, community of interest, or community of practice in need of a results based management technique to replace... Agent: Angela J. Burth

20070106545 - System and method for rate and capacity planning: The invention relates to methods for production rate and capacity planning used to answer key questions necessary for planning efficient production operations, where the goal is to plan the performance of some repetitive body of work subject to a combination of constraints on duration, rate, and resources. In one embodiment,... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070106546 - Systems and methods for automatically selecting a plurality of specific order items from a plurality of order items: Systems and methods are provided for automatically selecting a plurality of specific order items from a plurality of order items, wherein the plurality of specific order items meet one or more predefined criteria. In one implementation, the system includes an inbound interface for interfacing with a plurality of data storage... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070106548 - Internet based calendar system linking all parties relevant to the automated maintenance of scheduled events: An Internet based system providing a variety of linked interfaces to several classes of users based on the needs of these user classes, the benefit of which being the automation of as many scheduling tasks as possible. These interfaces could include: A web based interface for home based users, a... Agent: Steven L. Bratt

20070106547 - System and method for a household services marketplace: A system and method are disclosed for the operation of an In-home Assistant Service. The service provides a marketplace to connect households with assistants for frequent and specialized jobs. The service collects profile data of potential assistants including multiple skills the assistant can provide. It also enables the household to... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke, L.L.P.

20070106551 - 22nets: method, system, and apparatus for building content and talent marketplaces and archives based on a social network: The novel social network described herein allows content creators, as well content aggregators and network builders, to profit in novel manners. A method and system allows users, who create content archives and marketplaces in which individuals and content in the database are connected by mutually defined relationships determined by the... Agent: Dr. Elliot Mcgucken

20070106550 - Modeling marketing data: A method for identifying how market drivers affect sales performance data. The method includes accepting historical data that includes market data associated with a plurality of market drivers, and sales performance data relating to one or more products. The method also includes generating a model relating the market drivers and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070106549 - Turnkey aviation budget management: Systems and methods for turnkey aviation budget management are described. In one aspect, a budget is determined based on a flight schedule and an operating plan for an aircraft. The operating plan is based on the flight schedule. The operating plan indicates operational flow of one or more services and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070106552 - Government systems in which individuals vote directly and in which representatives are partially or completely replaced: Methods of government are presented which allow for the representation of the views of the constituents in substantially real time. These methods include approaches in which (1) all or (2) part of a representative's voting power is returned to the constituents represented. These methods further include approaches in which there... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070106557 - Advertisements with compensation for attention: Methods and systems for advertising are disclosed. In the disclosed methods, an advertisement is selectively broadcast or otherwise distributed with a compensation tag indicating that a user may receive compensation for his or her attention to the advertisements. If the user responds to the compensation tag, his or her attention... Agent: Andrew Mcaleavey

20070106556 - Joint redemption account: A method of combining reward points from multiple accounts within the same rewards program into a joint redemption account. The method comprises establishing an on-line joint redemption or community reward account to which program members can contribute rewards points; allowing two or more contributing program members to contribute rewards points... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070106554 - Method and apparatus for providing flexible travel discounts to travelers: Systems and method of providing online discount offer programs to users provide for receiving travel information associated with the user and presenting a set of discount offers to the user based on the travel information. A modified set of discount offers can be presented to the user in response to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070106555 - Optimum pricing system and method for advertisements on a webpage: A method and system for determining the optimal cost-per-click a website provider may charge for graphical objects on a first webpage based on an initial event at a first website, a subsequent event at second webpage and an event fee. The graphical objects might include, for instance, advertisements on a... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20070106553 - Pari-mutuel betting with bonus feature: The intention is to provide a variety of bonusing products that function through a bonusing system network intended to recognize and automatically reward players participating in pari-mutuel and wagering in all forms including wagers made at tracks, through tote systems' wagering terminals, Internet, telephone and other electronic means with the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070106558 - System and method of automatic insufficient funds notification and overdraft protection: A method and program product for conducting business transactions and avoiding inadvertent overdrafts. First, the value of an intended purchase is estimated and an electronic receipt is generated for the estimate. An account identified for payment (e.g., a checking account or a credit card account) is analyzed for sufficient funds... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Printers

20070106559 - Fuel dispenser commerce: Systems and processes may provide for commerce at a fuel dispenser. In one general aspect, a system and process at a fuel dispenser may have the ability to present a user interface including data regarding at least one merchant remote from the fuel dispenser's fueling facility and to determine if... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070106563 - Apparatus and method for managing data of rental contracts: There are disclosed an apparatus and a method for managing data of rental contracts with a plurality of customers. The apparatus is provided with a storage, an input device, and a controller. The storage stores a plurality of contract data, each of which includes a customer ID, item IDs, numbers... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070106569 - Architecture for managing prepaid wireless communications services: The present invention is directed to a system and method for managing a prepaid wireless account for voice and data communications services. According to one embodiment the communications system, having a prepaid architecture for managing a plurality of prepaid wireless accounts for communication services, wherein each prepaid account is associated... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070106560 - Electronic, computer-implemented method and system of tracking purchase order history: A computer-implemented method for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise. The method can include electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version has a date and number and the second version is a purchase order amendment or revision to the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070106567 - Information capture, processing and retrieval system and method of operating the same: An information capture, processing and retrieval (“ICPR”) system shared by multiple buyers, suppliers and workers concurrently and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the ICPR system includes an order documentation subsystem configured to document orders for the suppliers and the buyers with respect to the workers. Each... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070106566 - Method and arrangement for providing automated searching service on the real estate market: The invention relates to a method and a system for providing an automated searching service operating in a data network on a real estate market. A potential buyer looking for a suitable object is represented by a purchase advertisement provided with certain constraint requirements. A potential seller selling a certain... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070106561 - Method and system for generating and linking composite images: A method and system for personalizing goods or services by including thereon a visible indication of the person or persons that are intended to utilize the goods and services. In one embodiment, based on computer processing, a series of parameters are calculated that can be used to generate a composite... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070106570 - Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network: A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a purchaser at a client system and received by a server system. The server system receives purchaser information including identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070106571 - Method and system to adjust a seller fixed price offer: Methods and systems including an auction method including an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process for purchasing a seller's offering to a buyer. The seller may adjust a seller fixed-price offer during the auction price-setting process. Various embodiments include a network-based commerce system including, a processor coupled to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070106565 - Method for using a communications network to define a product, and the ordering thereof by a consumer: Method is described that enables a creator user, such as a consumer, to define a product over a communications network making use of a client device to customize a product description in relation to available retailer information, and to customize, and/or cause the assignment of a customized, product identifier to... Agent: Pedro Coelho

20070106564 - Mobile phone as a point of sale (pos) device: A system and method for provisioning one or more value added services to a postpaid/prepaid mobile account and/or a postpaid/prepaid mobile device using a wireless communication device as a point-of-sale device, is disclosed.... Agent: Vorys Sater Seymour Pease

20070106568 - Ordering system and method for pizza and other goods and services using a stateless communication protocol: A system and appertaining methods are provided that makes it possible to order pizza and other products using an instant messaging or other signaling mechanisms such as cell-phones and two-way pagers, using a tokenized representation of the order elements. Signaling mechanisms provide context sensitive help to facilitate the use of... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070106562 - Presentation production system: A fully customizable system and method for producing videos utilizing a “front-end” and/or a “two-step” decentralized business model for receiving input parameters from the customer or user and for presenting production elements for selection based on the input parameters. The system providing feedback by calculating total price, production time and... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070106573 - Computerized dispute resolution system and method: A method and system for automated dispute resolution is disclosed. The method and system are used in testing non-equal values in normal rounds for satisfaction of a condition. If the condition is not satisfied in the normal rounds, power round values are tested for satisfaction of a power round condition.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070106572 - System for selection of remediation applications for workspace: A system for marketing applications, the system having a computer processor, a display operably connected to the computer processor, and a user interface for receiving instructions from a user. The user interface is operably connected to the computer processor; wherein the computer processor is programmed to display an application menu... Agent: Perman & Green

20070106574 - Inventory management system and method for a cellular communications system: A method and system for managing inventory in a cellular communications systems utilises wireless ID tag readers to monitor items of inventory. This enables all items of inventory at a cell site to be monitored and a central database periodically updated. In one embodiment GPS units at each site or... Agent: Eric D. Cohen

20070106575 - Philanthropy management and metrics system: Organizations, which may be charitable organizations, may plan, implement, and report to interested on the impact their projects. Users may create and modify components, which demonstrate a relationship between, for example, a donor donation, and an effect of that donation. Users can set up, modify and allowing reporting on, for... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070106580 - Account-level fraud detector and associated methods: A method of generating a model for performing account-level fraud detection is disclosed, and includes obtaining a plurality of candidate rules for referrals of financial transactions, calculating a savings density for each of the plurality of rules, selecting a rule from the plurality of rules having the maximum savings density,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070106577 - Apparatus and method for facilitating trusted business intelligence: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to form a report; process trust values, where each trust value characterizes the accuracy of an attribute of the report; combine trust values to provide an aggregate trust value associated with the report; and supply a user with the report and the aggregate... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070106576 - Disposition of component virtual property rights: 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

20070106578 - Financial data management system and method: An financial data management system. The system includes a first input for receiving a first set of financial data from a first data source and a second input for receiving a second set of financial data from a second data source. A first interface unit is connected to the first... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20070106583 - Method and system for creating and trading derivative investment products based on a statistical property reflecting the variance of an underlying asset: A system and method for creating a limited risk derivative based on a realized variance of an underlying equity is disclosed. In one implementation, a limited risk derivative product includes a capped value for a statistical property reflecting a variance of the underlying equity is calculated based on a pari-mutuel... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070106579 - Methods and systems for issuing a convertible financial instrument: A convertible financial instrument for raising capital by an issuing business in compliance with Sharia principles is provided. The financial instrument includes a sukuk portion representing a non-equity ownership interest in the business, and a conversion portion exercisable upon reaching a conversion date. The sukuk portion includes a coupon return... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070106584 - System and method for educating consumers about available low interest financing options: A system and method for educating consumers about an available personal finance option, wherein a long-form infomercial is used to provide information about the personal finance option to consumers. If a consumer is interested in taking advantage of the personal finance option, the consumer can visit a web site, call... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070106582 - System and method of detecting fraud: Embodiments include systems and methods of detecting fraud. In particular, one embodiment includes a system and method of detecting fraud in transaction data such as payment card transaction data. For example, one embodiment includes a computerized method of detecting that comprises receiving data associated with a financial transaction and at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070106581 - Systems and methods for a financial services reward program: Systems and method for implementing a financial services benefit reward program, e.g. a credit card or debit card reward program, for a plurality of participants comprises the steps of determining a program fee based on a financial transaction by a participant; contributing at least a portion of said program fee... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070106585 - A system and method of financing through the preservation of principal (pop): The current invention creates a financial structure has two distinct components. The first component of the structure is that it allows an investor to pay for, or exchange for, partnership interests with something other than cash, including low basis securities, defined as any security that has large unrealized capital gains,... Agent: Jeffrey Furr

20070106587 - Exchange traded fund formed from at least two underlying indexes: The invention is directed towards systems and methods for trading a portion of a pool of assets formed from one or more groups of assets. Two or more groups of assets are combined into an asset pool such that the asset pool includes the same assets as the two or... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070106591 - Method and instrument for financing backed by collateralized debt obligation-type structures: Disclosed is a method for financing assets. The method entails executing a CDO-type structure and a related financing agreement associated with the financed assets, preferably high-risk assets (such as motion picture production loans) and which have highly volatile returns. In one embodiment, the co-financing arrangement between an equity investor and... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20070106588 - Method and system for funding a contingent event with convertible securities: A system and method for funding a contingent event with convertible securities comprise obtaining a commitment from at least one investor to purchase shares of convertible securities, and enforcing the commitment within a first predetermined period by selling the shares of convertible securities to the investors. The shares of convertible... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070106589 - Method for determining an optimal and tailored lifetime income and death benefit package: An annuitant is able to select and optimize the allocation of a premium for insurance coverage between lifetime income benefits for the annuitant and death benefits to the annuitant's beneficiaries. A set of underwriting factors is established to provide the insurance coverage and value both the lifetime income to the... Agent: Pepe & Hazard, LLP

20070106590 - System and method for changing the view of a trading screen: A trading screen displays market information, such as working orders, buy and sell orders, and other items of interest, in association with values on a value axis. Each item of interest is therefore displayed in relation to the value axis to provide a trader with an intuitive display of the... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20070106586 - System and method for monitoring physical assets: A system and method for monitoring physical assets. An asset is registered at a site and simultaneously appraised for value. The registered asset is periodically evaluated over time to estimate and record value fluctuations in the asset. Upon request, the asset's current value is reported. Asset owners are periodically offered... Agent: Bernhard Kreten Weintraub Genshlea Chediak

20070106592 - Method and apparatus for collection of personal income tax information: An arrangement for organizing information for preparation of an income tax return is provided. The arrangement has a number of tax form sheets with each tax form sheet marked with a relevancy indicator that indicates the type or types of income applicable to the tax form sheet. Each tax form... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070106593 - Adaptive stochastic transaction system: An adaptive stochastic transaction system in which a vendor or first transactor offers a trade object to a vendee or second transactor at a variable, stochastic offer value formed from a pseudorandom value. The vendor communicates the stochastic offer value to the vendee in the form of a stochastic decision... Agent: John F. O'rourke Wang, Hartmann & Gibbs, P.c

20070106594 - Electronic ownership control system and method: Electronic ownership control systems and methods. Fractional interests in commodities are controlled, transfers initiated or executed, and management of commodities is provided.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070106597 - Method and system for generating an auction using a template in an integrated internal auction system: A seller may define a template using an internal auction application in an integrated internal auction system that may then be used to generate an auction. The template information may be used to provide auction parameter values and/or product information. The template may be created by copying an existing auction... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070106596 - Method and system for implementing multiple auctions for a product on a seller's e-commerce site: An internal auction application may allow a seller to create a multiple auction for a plurality of products and allow a buyer to see and bid on the multiple auction as appropriate. The internal auction application may receive parameters for the multiple auction from the seller and an associated plurality... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070106595 - Monitoring tool for integrated product ordering/fulfillment center and auction system: An administrative tool is provided for auction systems in which auction sellers are permitted to monitor, access and modify their instructions. An enterprise network includes a communication manager, a product ordering/fulfillment application to respond to electronic product purchase requests and initiate fulfillment thereof, the product ordering/fulfillment manager supported by a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070106599 - Method and apparatus for dynamic risk assessment: A method and apparatus for assessing at least one aggregate risk associated with an at least one first task associated with an at least one project, reducing said aggregate risk or alerting about said aggregate risk, the method comprising the steps of: determining a partial risk associated with said task;... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070106598 - Methods and apparatus for providing mortgage insurance with appraisal reimbursement: Systems and techniques for combined insurance packages to address consumer concerns that mortgage insurance is difficult to cancel are described. A system and method according to one aspect of the present invention receives notification that a mortgage insurance policy is to be canceled, automatically inquires if a customer has obtained... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20070106601 - Methods and apparatus relating to the formulation and trading of risk management contracts: Methods and apparatus which deal with the management of risk relating to specified, yet unknown, future events are disclosed. ‘Sponsor’ stakeholders specify a particular product relating to an event or phenomenon for which there is a range of possible future outcomes. ‘Ordering’ stakeholders then offer contracts relating to the predetermined... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070106600 - Real estate transaction method and system: A method to facilitate a real estate transaction of a property for sale from a seller. The method includes establishing sales information on at least an asking price for the property; establishing further information on the financial status of the property and seller; preparing mediation information for a third party... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070106602 - Card purchase transaction processing: The disclosed system and method provides a way for merchants and customers to use charge cards as payment for special pre-arranged pricing. The disclosed system and method allow both the merchant and the customer additional flexibility in carrying out pre-arranged pricing schemes. Embodiments of the disclosed system and method enable... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20070106603 - Method and apparatus for loan repayment: An efficient loan repayment mechanism applicable to residential property mortgage loans, or any other kind of loan, such as vehicle loans, home improvement loans, etc. Advantageously, the system and method may be utilized to more quickly repay a loan even without any increase of the out-of-pocket expense from the borrower.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070106604 - System for conducting commercial transactions: The invention provides a system for conducting commercial transactions in an economic environment including one or more banking institutions, a plurality of merchants (as defined), and a plurality of participating system members (as defined) associated with at least one cellular telephone network. The system employs an independent general computerized server... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070106608 - Advancing payment to an affiliate based on company electronic link activity: A method for advancing payment of a portion of one or more amounts due under an affiliate program to an affiliate, the amount being owed by a merchant of a website subject to the affiliate program. The method includes the steps of, first, providing a means for transmitting information to... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070106605 - Apparatus and method for determining billable resources on a computer network: An apparatus and method for determining billable resources on a computer network determines from network activity data which resources on a computer network are active. The activity monitor then compares the active resources to asset data that indicates the resources being billed to the client. If the active resources on... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070106609 - Masking private billing data by assigning other billing data to use in commerce with businesses: A method and apparatus for shielding a user's private billing data, such as credit card information, or other billing arrangements, but distributing different billing data to businesses during commerce therewith. Also disclosed is assigning the different billing data through real-time and advance distribution of the different billing data to a... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070106610 - Method and system for selecting and purchasing media advertising: The subject invention is directed to a method and system for selecting and purchasing media advertising in a user/server environment accessed through a Web site. The method includes accessing a server system through a Web site by an advertiser in which the advertiser provides information relating to buying criteria and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070106606 - Near real time payment card processing with on-line authorization on a vehicle: Systems and methods for near real time payment processing on a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes logging in at least one operator to conduct one or more transactions on a payment transaction system, and then automatically propagating at least one piece of itinerary information into each... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070106607 - Process for linked healthcare and financial transaction initiation: Methods and systems for acquiring a pre-approval from a responsible party and receiving funds from a financial account related to the pre-approval in the healthcare field are described herein. A method for collecting payment from an individual for services rendered by a provider is disclosed. The method includes verifying an... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070106613 - Automated accounting system: A multiple agency transaction accounting system includes a plurality of point of service stations that conduct, for multiple agencies, respective agency transactions that are associated with various reporting requirements, fees and commissions. A universal transaction encoding subsystem encodes the agency transaction data received from the plurality of stations into universal... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070106611 - Method and system for preventing identity theft and providing credit independent completion of transactions: A method and system for preventing identity theft and providing an anonymous payment mechanism, such as a payment card, and for completing transactions using the mechanism. The payment mechanism is prepaid and has associated therewith an address, a unique identifier for the mechanism (e.g., card number), and a password. Transactions... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070106612 - Methods and systems for identity authentication: The Greenlist tool provides payors desiring to pay a merchant a means to locate, validate and effect the transfer of assets to another party by routing transaction requests to a third party that functions as the transaction enabler. This task is performed without divulging confidential information about transactors while assigning... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070106614 - Method and device for making available encoded digital data: In a method for preventing unwanted use of encoded digital data (D1, D2; D1′ D2′), provision is made for authorization-to-use information (BBI1, BBI2; BBI1′, BBI2′) to be made available to a data-sink device (3), which authorization-to-use information (BBI1, BBI2; BBI1′, BBI2′) is made available separately from the digital data (D1,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070106615 - System and method for selectively changing parameter settings based on lineage analysis of digital information: Software lineages arise through purchase and reproduction. Lineages are tracked by storing lineage-relevant information in variable regions of software instances and/or in a central database according to methods disclosed.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070106617 - Legal compliance system for the sale of regulated products or services: Legal compliance system for facilitating the sale of regulated products and services. System may include an input module configured to receive licensing data including a shipping address. System may include a processing module configured to access official licensing data, to determine from the official licensing data whether the received licensing... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070106616 - License information management apparatus and license information management method: A total control unit (113) specifies a content corresponding to a reproduction instruction received from a user (S202). Further, the total control unit (113) verifies whether or not there is a LT corresponding to the specified content in a secure flash unit (120). In the case where there is the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070106618 - Wireless-linked online transaction system for portable intelligent electronic device: A wireless-linked online transaction system is proposed, which is designed for use with a portable intelligent electronic device, and which is characterized by the use of an advertising-side unit embodied in the form of an RFID chip to store a set of wireless Web page data and code and mounted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070106619 - Method of and system for authenticating a transaction initiated from a non-internet enabled device: A method of and system for authenticating a transaction initiated from a non-internet enabled device (101) is disclosed. In broad terms, this invention defines systems and methods that enable Issuers (107), Acquirers and Merchants (105) to use existing online cardholder authentication protocols to authenticate cardholders transacting with non-internet enabled devices.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070106620 - Verification of a testimonial: A method for verifying, to a third party, information in a testimonial from a user provided via a network. The method includes, first, providing a means for transmitting website information from a website owner to an administrator. Next, a means is provided for enabling the administrator to verify the website... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070106621 - Computerized dispute resolution system and method: A method and system for automated bargaining is disclosed. The method and system are used in testing non-equal values in normal rounds for satisfaction of a condition. If the condition is not satisfied in the normal rounds, power round values are tested for satisfaction of a power round condition. If... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070106623 - System and method for benefit plan cost estimation: A computer-based method and system to enable a benefit plan sponsor to design a plurality of benefit plans to be offered to a given participant population and for determining the cost of sponsoring the plans for the participant population by predicting utilization for each of the plans based upon historical... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20070106622 - System, method and program to manage software licenses: Computer system, method and program for estimating an increase in software license cost for executing a computer program with a first processor(s) instead of a second, less powerful processor(s). An identification is made of a plurality of computers in which the computer program is currently installed. The total processor power... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070106624 - System, method, and apparatus for assessing injury risk: The invention relates to a method of assessing injury risk, an injury risk assessment system, and computer-executable instructions configured to facilitate a method of injury risk assessment. The methodology of the invention employs the extraction of at least one user risk variable from a user assessment data set. Once user... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070100641 - A method and system for improving the financial success and financing options of film production: A method of film development, production and financing through an Internet Web site which allows the general public to participate by casting votes for those films, in treatment form, they wish to be made and by purchasing shares of a film or other means of providing financial support. Further, the... Agent: Scott Warner

20070100650 - Action functionality for mobile content search results: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving a search query from a mobile communication facility, retrieving at least one search result associated with the search query, associating a selectable action command with the at least one search result, and presenting the at least one search... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070100644 - Consumer-initiated marketing for real-estate connected products: A website for marketing real estate or products relating to real estate includes personal webspaces for users. Assigned user roles determine which capabilities they may configure into their webspaces. Users may communicate with each other and with merchants, e.g., by sharing webspaces or by dialogs. Merchants may send product information... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070100647 - Eligibility list management in a distributed group membership system: A method for eligibility list management in a distributed group membership system, including receiving an eligibility list change request with respect to an eligibility list of a group of computing elements, removing from a view of the group any active members in the group who are to be removed from... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070100643 - Enterprise integrity modeling: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for risk assessment and analysis In one general aspect, asset data representing a set of assets is received, the asset data includes a respective value for each asset in the set of assets having a value. Threat data representing a set of threats... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070100642 - Enterprise integrity simulation: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for risk assessment and analysis. Asset data representing a set of assets is received. Threat data representing a set of threats is received. Measures data representing a set of measures is received. A loss expectancy based upon the value of the assets, the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070100646 - Global process template and adaptation of global process to local country to facilitate migration to shared service center: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for creating a Global Process Template (GPT) that describes standardized aspects of a business process used by clients of multiple Shared Service Centers (SSCs), wherein the GPT defines uniform business processes, core business processes, and local business processes.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070100645 - Management of a process: A method for controlling a process configured to manipulate objects is disclosed. The method includes identifying at least one object to be manipulated within the process. The method also includes consuming at least one resource to manipulate the at least one object and monitoring the consumption of the at least... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070100654 - Marketing of co-branded business cards: A system and method for making business cards available for free, or at greatly reduced prices to customers is provided. The system and method for providing business cards to be made available to a customer at a greatly reduced cost, or for free is provided wherein if the customer is... Agent: Robert D. Fish Rutan & Tucker, LLP

20070100640 - Method for operating a detector for identifying the overlapping of flat mail in a sorting machine: The invention relates to a method whereby the average costs for each unidentified overlap in a distribution and sorting process and the average costs for the renewed sorting and distribution of each identified overlapped item of mail are determined. Before the sorting operation, the identification rate of the detector is... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070100652 - Mobile pay per call: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for presenting sponsored phone numbers in association with mobile content delivered to a mobile communications facility, based at least in part on associating a query on the mobile communications facility with relevant information. Relevant information may include personal user information,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070100651 - Mobile payment facilitation: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for using a mobile communication facility to complete a transaction, paying for the transaction with an account associated with the mobile communication facility, and receiving a bill for the transaction along with a bill for other activities associated with the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070100653 - Mobile website analyzer: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for analyzing mobile content for compatibility with a criterion associated with a mobile communication facility type. The method further includes ranking the mobile content based at least in part on the compatibility such that the ranking may be used in... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070100649 - Products and processes for vending a plurality of products: Package deals comprising component products from inventory groups are offered and sold to customers of vending machines. In some embodiments, an association of the component products with the inventory groups is indicated by at least one of a placement of the component products and/or physical indicia associated with the component... Agent: Walker Digital

20070100655 - Real estate transaction method: A method of selling and promoting real estate is disclosed whereby a home improvement service provider loans money to a property seller to enable the property seller to improve her home prior to sale. The improvements are completed by the home improvement service provider and the loan is paid back... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070100656 - System and method for sponsorship sourcing system: A system and method are disclosed for automating the interaction between the producers of festivals and events and potential festival and event sponsors for the purpose of selling, sourcing and exchanging sponsorship assets. The system receives data input from producers regarding sponsorship assets and from potential event sponsors about their... Agent: Patrick M. Dwyer PC

20070100657 - System of products having complimentary outer surface contours and indicia: The present invention is directed to a system comprising two or more products wherein each product comprises complimentary outer surface contours which are mutually engagable in intimate contact to the other product and wherein each product comprises an indicia that extends across each product and communicates that the products are... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070100648 - Systems and methods for delivering content customized for a plurality of mobile platforms: A mobile application development platform comprises a toolset configured to streamline the development process for mobile applications. The streamline development process can enable efficiencies for the development of applications such as video streaming and uploading as well as image delivery and uploading. The development platform provides multi-language support. The development... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070100660 - Electronic physician's order entering system: An electronic physician's orders system that automates and simplifies existing methods of generating, maintaining and retrieving physician's orders. In contrast to other systems, the electronic physician's orders system can create physician's orders electronically at the point-of-care and can maintain the orders in an Orders' Database or print the orders for... Agent: Crockett & Crockett Suite 400

20070100658 - Formation and expansion method for a medical case study collection: A computer transmits at least one medical case study to a central computer. The central computer determines classification features relating to the case study and a cross-reference to the case study, at which the case study can be called up by a user computer. Alternatively, the computer transmits the classification... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070100664 - Integrated healthcare and financial card: A magnetic swipe card for storing and transmitting data is described herein. The magnetic swipe card includes a magnetic stripe having at least two tracks holding encoded data. A first track at least includes data for at least one first party payment source. A second track at least includes data... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070100662 - Integrated pharmacy error tracking and reporting system and method: The disclosure presents a system and method for efficiently capturing, tracking, analyzing, and providing continuous quality improvement in an integrated manner in relation to errors which occur in the distribution of medication to patients through a multi-store pharmacy operation. The system and method include receiving error event data for a... Agent: Francis Kowalik/walgreen Co. Law Dept. M.s. 1425

20070100659 - Management of clinical data exceptions in clinical information systems: A clinical data exception management system receives clinical messages from a third party system, applies data validation rules to perform validation of various components of the received clinical messages, and stores the invalidated message and a rule (or rules) that invalidated the message. The system then resolves an exception and... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070100661 - Method to reduce health care costs: A method to reduce healthcare costs consisting of, the costs to treat a patient at a local medical facility and the costs to treat the patient at a distant medical facility. If the patient requires emergency treatment or is unable to travel then he/she is treated at a local medical... Agent: Dino Scorziello

20070100663 - Methods and systems for web based centralized patient assessment: Assessment of clinical trial data collected at different clinical trial sites is centralized to reduce statistical variance in clinical trial data. Secure network locations for collection of clinical trial assessment data are connected with a central clinical data management server and associated database. The clinical trial assessment data received from... Agent: Manatt Phelps And Phillips Robert D. Becker

20070100666 - Devices and systems for contextual and physiological-based detection, monitoring, reporting, entertainment, and control of other devices: A monitoring system comprises a module having at least one sensor which could be an electric-field sensor within a housing. The device may be durable or disposable. A receiver may be provided to obtain and display data from the module. The module may also display the output data. The output... Agent: Bodymedia, Inc. C/o Portfolioip

20070100665 - Messaging to remote patients in a networked health-monitoring system: A networked health-monitoring system configured to collect and process patient health-related data. A plurality of remote patient sites each includes at least one display, a data management unit for collecting patient health-related data, a memory, and stored program instructions for generating health-monitoring related information on the display. A central server... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070100667 - System and method for analyzing data during automated patient management: A system and method for analyzing data during automated patient management is disclosed. A patient enrolled under automated patient management is identified with information including at least one of treatment profile and medical history. Device measures are collected to provide raw physiometry for the patient regularly recorded by an implantable... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070100669 - Collaborative intelligent task processor for insurance claims: An insurance claim processing system may include an insurance claim database, an event processor component, a task engine component and a collaborative intelligent task processor. The insurance claim database may be configured to store and provide access to data in a data record that is related to an insurance claim.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070100668 - Insurance deductible payment plans and related services: A method for providing an insurance deductible payment service includes a service provider receiving contributions from a client and limiting the client's rights to the contributions to withdrawal for the purpose of paying an insurance deductible. As a result of an deductible assessed to the client, the method includes making... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070100670 - Method and system to display data: A system and method are provided to communicate insurance information to a user via a networked-based system. The method may comprise receiving application details from a user which are then processed to identify a plurality of available insurance plans for the user. Thereafter, a recommended group of plans from the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070100671 - Method and apparatus for curriculum exclusive booking in a curriculum management system: Method and apparatus for curriculum exclusive booking is provided. A request is received for booking a course and based on a value of a first booking option it is determined whether the course is allowed to be booked, whether the course is bookable only as part of a curriculum, or... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070100672 - Formatting value-bearing item indicia: Various embodiments of the present invention would provide methods and systems for generating and printing an identifier on a sheet of label stock that comprises a plurality of same-sized labels. In the exemplary embodiment, the identifier would comprise an identification of a media type of the sheet of label stock,... Agent: Khorsandi Patent Law Group A Law Corp.,

20070100674 - Device, method and computer program product for determining an importance of multiple business entities: A method for calculating an importance of multiple business entities, the method includes receiving dependency information representative of dependencies between multiple business entities; and utilizing a probability based mathematical model of a business infrastructure for determining the importance of multiple business entities. A device that includes a memory element adapted... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070100673 - Matrix methodology for modeling a business intelligence system based on individual life cycles within a business process: The present invention relates to a matrix methodology used for modeling a comprehensive Business Intelligence system based on a business process lifecycle approach that comprises of the steps of: modeling, building, generating and analyzing in order to analyze a business process end to end. In accordance with the present invention,... Agent: Evergreen Valley Law Group

20070100675 - Supply chain workload balancing: Information may be provided to user regarding an issued sales order quote for an entity. Thereafter, an input may be received from the user assigning the issued sales order quote with a conversion probability factor indicating a likelihood that the issued sales order quote being converted into a sales order.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070100676 - Method and system for optimally scheduling user activities related to web applications: A method and system for optimally scheduling an activity managed by a web application. Date and time ranges are initialized with predefined values. A tentative start date included in the date range and a tentative start time included in the time range are automatically calculated, and are included in a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070100677 - Methods, systems, and media to improve employee productivity using radio frequency identification: Methods, systems, and media to improve employee productivity using radio frequency identification (RFID) are disclosed. Embodiments comprise a method of transmitting information from RFID tags, receiving the information in an RFID tag reader, analyzing the information to select a number of employees to work in a work area, and dispatching... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070100678 - System and method for exercising peremptory challenges during jury selection: A system and method is provided for determining whether an attorney should exercise a peremptory challenge to excuse a prospective juror based on, for example: (1) the location of the juror in the selection order; (2) the rank or score assigned to each potential peremptory challenge; (3) the jurors identified... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070100683 - Automatic generation of calendarization curves: The present invention is directed to a method of generating estimates of a sales opportunity's impact. In the preferred embodiment, software carries out the method on a computer. The software provides a graphical user interface that the user uses to input several variables including the following: a number of events... Agent: Friedrich Gartner

20070100679 - Enhancing insight-driven customer interactions: 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

20070100681 - Loss reporting system and method: A loss reporting system and method for tracking, monitoring and evaluating loss in an enterprise is provided. The system receives product data from enterprise facilities, stores the product data, calculates performance information from the product data, and compares the performance information to a predetermined performance standard. The system can generate... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P.

20070100680 - Method and apparatus for retail data mining 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

20070100682 - Method of conducting market research by means of strategically placed computerized kiosks: The present invention is a method for conducting market research by means of strategically placed computerized kiosks that offer respondents various incentives for their participation. Respondents providing complete contact information are entered into a drawing for a prize, as well as, receive a coupon upon completing the market research questionnaire.... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20070100684 - Method of evaluating sales opportunities: The present invention is directed to an Internet-based sales opportunity management tool designed to help sales managers organize input from their sales representatives into a consistent set of areas and determine which opportunities reflect the highest level of importance to the organization. Management can then make a judgment on the... Agent: Friedrich Gartner

20070100685 - Portfolio infrastructure management method and system: A forecast need of at least one data center for a future time is determined based on anticipated-resource-usage values for a plurality of anticipated projects. If an existing inventory of data center components does not satisfy the forecast need, at least one data center component is procured from at least... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070100686 - System for evaluating relevance between persons: Embodiments herein properly determine relevance between persons. Embodiments herein provide a system for evaluating relevance between persons, including relevance detecting means for detecting directed relevance of a person as a target to another person based on a text in which evaluations or feelings of the other person by another person... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070100687 - Vehicle management system: A vehicle management system is disclosed that can eliminate user dissatisfaction with toll collection at a time of traffic congestion and improve driving safety. In this system, when a vehicle (101) with an on-board communication terminal apparatus (102) passes through gates (103, 106) provided at the entrance and exit of... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070100698 - Adaptive advertisements and adaptive advertising distribution system: An advertising system for displaying adaptive advertisements that can change the displayed content in response to external inputs can be used in public places such as transit stations, arenas, stadiums, retail stores, and squares. The advertising system can also be deployed in transit vehicles. The advertisements make use of a... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070100699 - Interactive system and methods to obtain media product ratings: An interactive polling data collection website designed so the general media product consuming public will have an opportunity to interactively submit their input on what media product they are or have just finished watching or listening to. People can log-on to the website and register as members. Once they are... Agent: John M. White

20070100688 - Method and apparatus for dynamic ad creation: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for selecting relating to content selection. In one aspect, the invention provides methods and apparatus for determining appropriate content based upon various other input data, particularly for individuals on whom personal data is already known. In another aspect of the invention provides method... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070100695 - Method and system for advertisement using internet browser to insert advertisements: An electronic advertisement method and system for an Internet browser with a book-like page-based flipping interface. Full pages of electronic advertisements presented on the computer screen are possible without obstructing the viewing and reading of other contents. This benefits both the viewer as well as the advertiser. An advertisement matching/delivery... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070100691 - Method and system for conducting promotional programs: A method for using promotional programs and merchant values is disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving an authorization request message including a merchant verification value through a payment processing network, where the authorization request message is associated with a purchase by a consumer. A merchant-specific promotional program is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070100694 - Method and system for encouraging reuse and recycling of shopping bags: A method of encouraging the reuse or shopping bags by the inclusion of a tracking symbol on the shopping bag and recording when the shopping bag is reused to carry away purchased items from a store. Rewards may be provided based on if and/or the number of times that the... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20070100697 - Method and/or system for rendering service providers with relevant advertising and/or marketing information: The main thrust of the present invention is to help pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers (“pharma”) market their products more effectively to physicians (“Service Providers”). Products can be drugs, medical devices or health services that are used by physicians to treat patients. In the present invention, profile of a... Agent: Srinivas Kolla

20070100692 - Methods relating to co-packaging occasion-based products: The disclosure provides for a method for increasing the sales of co-packaged occasion-based products. The method uses the steps of: 1. determining an occasion, 2. identifying a consumer need/habit/practice for the occasion, 3. identifying solutions that meet the consumer need/habit/practice, and 4. co-packaging the identified occasion-based products that meet the... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20070100696 - Multimedia system and method for controlling vending machines: A multimedia system for controlling a plurality of remote vending machines includes an enterprise control center, a network coupling the enterprise control center and the plurality of remote vending machines, a touch screen associated with each of the plurality of vending machines for selecting items to be vended therein, and... Agent: Venable LLP

20070100689 - Selection and/or application of special ad styles: An end user's enjoyment of online ads may be increased, a likelihood that an end user will notice an ad may be increased, performance (e.g., selection rate) of an ad may be increase, brand association between an advertising network and an ad may be increased, and/or brand association between a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070100690 - System and method for providing targeted advertisements in user requested multimedia content: A method and system is disclosed for providing targeted advertising material in multimedia content to a user device via the internet. This method includes operations of receiving a request for multimedia content from a user device via the internet, determining geo-location information about the user device, and retrieving the requested... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070100693 - Systems and methods for offering real estate promotions to buyers and buyers' agents: Systems and methods are disclosed for allowing an agent to create one or more promotions to send to real estate buyers and their agents. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of creating a promotion for a real estate service by at least one real estate agent associated with the real... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070100700 - Parking space payment system and method: A parking space payment method and system includes suitable payment means which enable the user to pay a given amount in order to use an authorised parking space for a corresponding length of time. The aforementioned payment means co-operate with suitable processing and communication means in order to provide the... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070100701 - Digital rights management engine systems and methods: Systems and methods are described for performing digital rights management. In one embodiment, a digital rights management engine is provided that evaluates license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. In some embodiments, the licenses contain control programs that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070100708 - Custom user definable keyword bidding system and method: A system and method allow a user or business entity to create customized rules for bidding on keywords to/from a search engine. A bid automation engine allows a user or business entity to specify a number of rules for bidding on keywords used in Internet advertising campaigns. The bid automation... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070100702 - Method and system for facilitating ordering of garments: A user who desires, for example, to order a dress shirt, is instructed to select a preferred fitting dress shirt, to lay the shirt flat and to take a set of measurements from the flat laying shirt according to key measurements, The set of measurements taken is then input and... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070100709 - Method and system for providing commodity information in shopping commodity searching service: A method and system for providing product information, which can retrieve an advertising shopping mall that has suggested a bidding price for an upper display area, and can sort product information of the retrieved advertising shopping mall according to a predetermined standard, and display the sorted product information in the... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070100707 - Scart-card (secure consumer advantaged retail trading): The present invention is an apparatus for the money transactions required in the selling of merchandise or media content on the Internet and uses at least one in-person contact with the buyer. A predefined transaction originating at a real place of business authorizes access to web content or merchandise from... Agent: James L. Driessen

20070100703 - Selling system: A selling system adopting the invention includes a storage medium storing information on a product to be purchased as purchase information, and a selling device that reads the purchase information from the storage medium and provides the product according to that purchase information. Thus, if purchase information stored on the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070100704 - Shopping assistant: A multi-modal device that can substantially facilitate intelligent shopping. Electronic receipts can be provided to a user wirelessly and stored/indexed on the multi-modal device. Receipts can be categorized (e.g., personal, business, client entertainment) thereby facilitating financial management and accounting. Likewise, such electronic receipts can provide for easier return/exchange of goods.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070100706 - System and method for order verification: A system and method provides a user of a network-based commerce facility the ability to either purchase all of the items in his electronic shopping cart, to purchase some of the items in his electronic shopping cart, or to purchase none of the items in his electronic shopping cart.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070100710 - System and methods for m-commerce transactions: System and methods are provided to allow for a secondary confirmation when engaging in mobile commerce transactions. In an illustrative implementation, the herein described system and methods allow parties engaged in m-commerce transactions to perform multiple transactions simultaneously over a plurality of phone numbers or short codes assigned to each... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070100705 - Virtual reality shopping system: A virtual reality shopping system is composed of a login page, a character configuration and selection page, and a virtual reality shopping page. The login page is configured as a system for acknowledging or adding members. After a basic buyer character is chosen, the character configuration and selection page can... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070100711 - Payment method employing a bill of exchange: In accordance with the invention a method for moving goods and/or services from a seller to a buyer and involving the transport of goods or a report or other like document or thing is disclosed. At the same time, the invention assures the movement of a payment for the goods... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070100713 - Identifying inventory items within an image: In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for isolating and capturing an image of an inventory item from an image that contains multiple items and/or extraneous space. The user interface allows the user to import an image into an application, identify one or more regions of the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070100712 - System and method for facilitating the implementation of changes to the configuration of resources in an enterprise: System and method for facilitating the implementation of changes to the configuration of resources in an enterprise. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate the use of historical information about an enterprise's IT configuration to evaluate the risk and impact of proposed changes. Risk can be evaluated using a success history... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20070100714 - Method for billable timekeeping: A method for billable timekeeping using a computer is described. The method comprises generating a time input window corresponding to an event for receiving and recording a start time and an end time for the event against an identifier; comparing the start time and end time of the event with... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070100717 - Detecting missing records in financial transactions by applying business rules: A financial transactions control system for imposing controls on the processing of financial transactions may include a storage system configured to store records relating to the financial transactions and a set of user-specified business rules, each of which specifies a grouping of a subset of the records, and an exception... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070100719 - Estimating the spend capacity of consumer households: The spend capacity of a consumer typically increases as the number of consumers in the household increases, since the consumer can draw on the spending power of other consumers in the household. The size of wallet of the household is thus a better indicator of the consumer's spend capacity than... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070100715 - Financial instrument providing a guaranteed growth rate and a guarantee of lifetime payments: A method for providing a financial instrument includes determining an initial account balance associated with a financial instrument based upon an initial deposit amount, wherein the financial instrument includes an account with an account balance that changes over time. The method further includes establishing a first guarantee of a protected... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070100716 - Financial transaction controls using sending and receiving control data: A financial transactions control system may impose controls on the processing of financial transaction data that is generated by sending jobs and received and processed by receiving jobs. It may include a control data generating system associated with each of the receiving jobs configured to generate receiving control data that... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070100718 - Systems and methods for financial instrument inspection: Systems and methods for user-configurable financial instrument inspection are provided. A user may select the type of financial performance information and presentation format of the financial performance information to be displayed when the user selects a particular financial instrument. The user may associate a set of financial performance information and... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070100720 - Annuity having an enhanced rate of return based on performance of an index: A computer implemented method of assessing an interest increase in an annuity linked to an index of equities includes determining a change in an equity index over a time period, setting an interest increase in an annuity to a floor if the determined change in the equity index is not... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070100724 - Electronic enterprise capital marketplace and monitoring apparatus and method: An automated and interactive system that facilitates efficient capitalization/liquidation and monitoring of private and publicly-traded enterprises through a network-driven marketplace is disclosed. The system may be comprised of a dynamic process for enterprise characterization, a customizable computational engine that utilizes statistical reference information to quantify a multi-factor scoring value for... Agent: J. Charles Dougherty

20070100726 - Equity-indexed annuity for group savings programs: A Group Equity-Indexed Annuity (GEIA) with a guaranteed minimum equity related return for a set of individuals are provided. An algorithm sets a “participation rate” of a GEIA contract as well as the carrier margin, risk and opportunity for recovery. The carrier is held accountable to the participation rate produced... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070100725 - Hybrid financial product: Disclosed is a hybrid financial security. The security is structured as a collateralized debt obligation which contains senior notes and income notes. Proceeds from the sale of the notes are utilized to purchase the underlying collateral, which is below investment grade debt obligations. The hybrid financial security has improved liquidity,... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20070100727 - Method and system for providing flexible income, liquidity options and permanent legacy benefits for annuities: Methods and systems are described herein for providing an annuity including flexible income, liquidity options or permanent legacy benefits. Providing the annuity generally includes receiving information useful for issuing an annuity that provides for a first level of income payments during a first time period and a second level of... Agent: Dreier LLP

20070100721 - Method and system for repatriating earnings: A financial instrument comprises a forward contract with a first maturity date, a preferred security with the first maturity date, and a debt instrument with a second maturity date that is after the first maturity date. The forward contract is issued by a parent company, the preferred security is issued... Agent: Chris Holm Milbank Tweed Hadley & Mccloy LLP

20070100728 - Methods and systems for providing transaction data: A method for analyzing transactional payment data is shown. Transaction data, relating to a transaction between a payor and at least one of a plurality of payees is collected. The collected transaction data from a plurality of payors is normalized to create normalized data. The normalized data is scaled to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070100722 - Modeling financial instruments using bid and ask prices: A method for modeling an investment significant parameter of a financial instrument, using a computer. At least one series of historical bid prices of the financial instrument or historical ask prices of the financial instrument is provided. A financial model type that has at least one variable parameter is selected.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070100723 - System and method for structuring and facilitating financial transactions: A method and system for creating a “bankruptcy proof” synthetic loan from financial instruments involves creating a schedule of payments due based on a desired loan amount, interest rate, and loan term, and then executing a series swap agreements, each of which is exempt from certain bankruptcy protections, that have... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070100729 - Systems and methods for making conditional sales of investments: Methods and systems for raising capital through the conditional sale of investments online, wherein each investment provides an owner with a financial interest in an entity that (i) produces, develops, provides or has a financial interest in a specified good, service, event, achievement, or venture; or (ii) commits to produce,... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070100738 - Cyclical auction system supporting variable termination: A method and system for conducting auctions of multiple lots of items is provided. An auction system allows sponsors to set up auctions for the sale of one or more lots. The auction system allows considerable flexibility to a sponsor in defining how the auction should be conducted. An auction... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070100739 - Method and system for implementing a target group for integrated auction services on a seller's e-commerce site: A seller may designate a target group of customers allowed to access an auction on a seller's e-commerce site in an internal auction system creating a bidder restriction on the auction. Customers not in this target group are not allowed to see auction details and may not participate in the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070100740 - Method and system for scheduling multiple auctions for a product on a seller's e-commerce site: An internal auction system may allow a seller to enter a scheduled auction. The scheduled auction may be a simple scheduled auction and a conditional scheduled auction. The internal auction system may receive parameters for the scheduled auction, determine a scheduled auction as a function of the received parameters, create... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070100741 - Method and system for viewing auction information in a seller's product catalog in an internal auction system: A customer may view auction information in an existing product catalog on a seller e-commerce site. The auction information may be integrated into the product catalog and may inform the customer about both existing auctions and the status of the auctions. For example, an icon may be displayed in the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070100730 - Normalization algorithm for improving performance of modules depending on price feed changes in real-time transactional trading systems: The paper describes a method of improving the performance of modules detecting stop, limit, margin call, and other feed based conditions on accounts with individual feed settings. It provides a way of eliminating repetitive re-calculation of bid and asks values for accounts with individual feed settings. This significantly increases the... Agent: Dmitry Batashvili Sergey Nekipelyy

20070100737 - Processing of orders in an trading system once warning limits are exceeded: A trading system allows a trader and/or counterparty to control whether the trader and/or counterparty wants to continue to be able to trade with the other when a pending trade between the trader and counterparty exceeds one or more warning limits.... Agent: Matthew T. Byrne Fish & Neave

20070100732 - System and method for aggregation of implied bids and offers for short-term interest rate futures and options: A method and system for facilitating trading of financial products is provided. The method includes receiving bids and/or offers for a financial product and aggregating bids and offers that are at the same price level. For financial products that include calendar spreads, such as short-term interest rate futures or options,... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070100735 - System and method for automated trading: An automated trader facilitates automatic trading of tradeable objects over one or more electronic exchanges. According to one embodiment, an automated trader utilizes a user programmable interface. The user programmable interface allows the user to simply develop a program that is based on a set of specifications and relationships given... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20070100736 - System and method for coordinating automated and semi-automated trading tools: The present embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products that provide tools for use in any type of electronic trading environment. In one aspect, leaning manager includes software that can be implemented on any type of computer device for tracking and/or coordinating the buying and selling of available market... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070100742 - System and method for processing orders for securities: Trade processing system and method. Tiers are established, representing a range of values associated with a trade size and a percentage of an average daily volume of trading in a security. The tiers are associated with a price improvement. An order, associated with an order size, to trade in the... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070100733 - System and method for simultaneous trading of options: A method and system for facilitating trading of equity and index options is provided. The system incentivizes market makers to voluntarily agree to restrict the bid/offer spread on price quotes for options by enabling the market makers to submit batches of bids and offers simultaneously. The system also provides protection... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070100734 - System and method for trading financial instruments based on undisclosed values: In electronic trading venues, there may be orders for which the full information is not publicly displayed. For example, the full quantity of an order available for trading or the most aggressive price at which an order can be traded may not be made public. A system and method are... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070100731 - System and method for trading short-term rate derivative futures: A method and system for facilitating trading of a plurality of financial derivative products are provided. Financial derivative products called strips, packs, bundles, and condors are defined, and each is based on combinations of quarterly deliveries of a short term interest rate (STIR) futures contract. The system includes a server... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070100743 - Computer system for the management of loans: A loan management system, which may be used to manage mortgages, includes a mortgage arrangement or “product” definition means for defining different data processing operations to be performed on different mortgages. Different sets of control data may be provided in, or linked to, the product definition means so as to... Agent: Baker & Botts L.L.P.

20070100744 - Method and system for administering money laundering prevention program: A money laundering prevention program administered by a financial institution. A plurality of risk factors associated with a potential for conducting illicit activities in connection with an account held at the financial institution are identified. The risk factors include jurisdiction-based risk factors, entity type-based risk factors, and/or business type-based risk... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070100745 - Method for prepaid debit card with overdraft capabilities: Disclosed is a method for implementing a prepaid debit card with overdraft capabilities. The system utilizes a real-time overdraft privilege risk analysis scoring module to calculate scores based on several criteria. The customer accounts are established within an aggregated general ledger account and are monitored and managed by a core... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070100747 - Methods and systems for managing transaction card accounts: A method and system for managing transaction card accounts involves providing a customer a transaction card account by a financial institution against which the customer can charge predetermined types of transactions during predefined account statement periods and sending a statement of charges against the account to the customer at an... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070100748 - Multi-channel transaction system for transferring assets between accounts at different financial institutions: Embodiments of a system for providing an integrated financial system to facilitate the transfer of funds among accounts held at different financial institutions and over different networks are described. The system executes a transaction involving a withdrawal of assets from a first account at a first financial institution and a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070100746 - Systems and methods for staging transactions, payments and collections: The present invention relates to systems and methods for staging transactions and facilitating payments by consumers to a lender or merchant to consummate a financial transaction and/or to maintain a financial relationship. In one embodiment, a method for accepting payments from a consumer includes receiving a promise-to-pay record from a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070100749 - Online bill payment management and projected account balances: User-entered transactions, not yet recorded or processed by a financial institution, transactions generated by the user in other systems such as biller direct websites or presented bills, and transactions received from the financial institution are combined so as to develop and display projected balances at a banking website. Projected balances... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20070100750 - Automatic settlement of user account with creditor from transaction kiosk: A transaction kiosk collects cash from a user and then electronically negotiates with the user's creditor to settle a balance on an account with the creditor. The bank recognizes the cash deposited in the transaction kiosk by the user as security for the settlement amount. The cash deposited in the... Agent: Hensley Kim & Edgington, LLC

20070100751 - Method and system for processing and preventing credit card fraud in simultaneous remote wholesale exchange and local fullfillment of retail transactions by third party retailers: A method for completing a card transaction for a consumer includes the steps of presenting card information relating to the card transaction to a first merchant online in order to pay for the merchandise to be delivered to the consumer, submitting the card information through a gateway of the first... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr

20070100752 - Systems and methods for secure financial transaction authorization: A system, process and methods for providing secure point of sale and financial transaction authorization, secure party-to-party financial transaction authorization and secure internet transaction authorization using a multi-layer security mechanism aimed at thwarting fraud. A procedure of involving computer system to be utilized with a mobile network to create a... Agent: Rajeev Madnawat Tm Patent Group

20070100754 - Financial transaction network security: A business model for the manufacture and control of payment cards used in consumer financial transactions circulates a population of payments cards with user identification and account access codes. Each use of an individual card produces a variation of its user access code according to an encryption program seeded with... Agent: Patents Pending

20070100753 - Information terminal device and content backup method: A management information generating section generates management information in which the correspondence between content data and rights data is described when a Digital Content Format container containing encrypted content data and a rights object described in association with a right to decrypt the content data are stored in an external... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070100757 - Content protection arrangements: Content protection arrangements govern use of particular electronic content in a consumer electronic device. An exemplary arrangement authorizes use based not just on usage control data corresponding to the content, but also based on the type of output with which the device is equipped. Thus, for example, playback of a... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070100755 - Identification of protected content items by means of icons: When displaying display items representing a set of content items including items protected by a number of different digital rights management systems on the display of a content access system, the set of display items representing the content items includes icons associated at least with the display items for each... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070100758 - Method for law firms to assist clients in acquiring and commercially exploiting intellectual property: Methods for facilitating commercial exploitation of IPR and IPR-related opportunities by a law firm on behalf of law firm clients are described, including posting on a law firm website IPR and IPR-related opportunities that clients of the law firm are interested in soliciting offers for possible commercial exploitation, and posting... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070100756 - Secure storage: A portable secure storage device provides a means to transport media from one media player to another while maintaining the security of and the rights associated with the content stored in the portable secure storage device. The device contains a security engine for managing digital rights associated with content stored... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070100759 - Storage medium conversion method, program and device: A user terminal converts stored contents of an SD card to contain second encrypted content key data equivalent to an encrypted title key of SD Audio, and encrypted content equivalent to encrypted content of the SD Audio. Accordingly, compatibility can be realized between an encryption dual key system as a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070100760 - System and method for selling work machine projects: Systems and methods are disclosed for selling work machine projects. According to one embodiment, a method of selling projects performable by work machines is disclosed and includes receiving, at a processing device, one or more predefined parameters indicative of a proposed work project. The method also includes determining, based on... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070100761 - Authentication and tracking system: A subset of unique codes (64) is generated (32) from a set of codes. The subset of codes are stored (50) in a database on a secure server (68) and each of the codes (64) is marked on a corresponding instantiation (58) of the product. The marked instantiations (58) are... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070100768 - Digital rights management engine systems and methods: Systems and methods are described for performing digital rights management. In one embodiment, a digital rights management engine is provided that evaluates license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. In some embodiments, the licenses contain control programs that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070100763 - Method and system for providing drm license: A system for providing a digital rights management (DRM) license includes a sink system requesting a license for content, a source system generating and providing a plurality of sub-rights tokens, which include binding information having path information that indicates relations among a plurality of principals, in accordance with the request,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100764 - Method and system for providing drm license: A system and method for providing a digital rights management (DRM) license are provided. The system includes a sink system which requests a license for content; a source system which generates and provides a first rights token including binding information related to the license, in accordance with the request; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100767 - Method and system for providing drm license: A system for providing digital rights management (DRM) license is provided. The system includes a sink system requesting a license for content, a source system generating and providing a first rights token including binding information related to the license, in accordance with the request, and a rights mediator generating a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100762 - Secure license key method and system: A secure license key solution provides software license keys for enabling and/or tracing use of software where a license key comprises a message encrypted by a private key and the public key for verifying the message according to asymmetric encryption techniques. The message and public key may be used by... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070100766 - System and method for user logging of audio and video broadcast content: A system and method for a user to log broadcast content at the time of the broadcast by selecting the content source on a device, the device having been configured to send the user's selection, date and timestamp, and a unique identification to a content server. The content server obtains... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070100765 - Workflow system and object generating apparatus: A workflow system which restricts improper operations on an object circulated in a workflow by dynamically modifying access rights for the object according to the working status of the workflow. For example, the workflow system is a system which processes an object according to a workflow having a plurality of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070100769 - Franking system with distributed metering: In a mail franking system including a central secure metering device (PSD 20) connected to a remote credit reloading server (26) and a plurality of local franking management modules (22-1 to 22-N) each including a local secure metering device (28-1 to 28-N) and connected to said central secure metering device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100770 - System and method for facilitating on-line payment: The present invention relates to a system and method for facilitating on-line payment particularly for goods or services purchased via a merchant site on the Internet. The system enables payment from an existing customer account at a financial institution, but does not require the user to provide credit card details.... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070100771 - Hardware multimedia endpoint and personal computer: A hardware multimedia endpoint is located on an adapter card of a personal computer system and comprises an interface for interfacing to the computer system and a processor for receiving cryptographic information from the computer, for processing the cryptographic information and for outputting cryptographic information to the computer. This exchange... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070100772 - Method for amortizing authentication overhead: A method is disclosed for amortizing the authentication overhead of data transmissions. The method comprises establishing a first secure transmission of data between a transmitter and a receiver by transmitting at least one token to the receiver during the first secure transmission. There may be any number of senders and... Agent: Pollack, P.C.

20070100773 - Transaction security system having user defined security parameters: A fraud-prevention system having user security parameters based on user instruction. A user specifies the security parameter for a transaction. The security parameter may include, but is not limited to a geographic location, a monetary value range, a transaction mode, an account access parameter, a class of goods, or a... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070100774 - Method of providing identity theft protection: Methods of providing identity theft protection is disclosed. The method includes providing a contract of insurance is made in which the rights and duties of an insurer and an insured relating to the legal services are set out; and coupling the contract to a sale of goods, services, or real... Agent: Robert L. Abdon

20070100775 - Method for estimating the cost of a future project: A computer system for estimating the cost of a future project is disclosed. The computer system has a console, at least one input device, and a central processing unit in communication with the console and the at least one input device. The central processing unit is configured to receive one... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070100777 - Price determination of digital media files in a peer-to-peer network: A process for determining the price of a digital media file for members of a service engaging in commerce in a peer-to-peer network having member controlled client systems and a service operator controlled service system. The client systems locally store digital media container (DMC) files encapsulating the digital media files... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070100778 - Process for optimal economic efficiency in postal operations: A process for optimal economic efficiency in postal operations generally comprises the steps of conveying objects such as postal inserts from a first repository to a second repository and offline pre-processing a combination from among at least one of said objects based on assigned criteria. The offline pre-process collects customer-specific... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070100776 - Route optimization of services provided by one or more service providers for combined links: A technique performs route optimization of services provided by one or more service providers (SPs) for communication links that are combined in a computer network. According to the novel technique, performance characteristics and statistics (“link data”) for two or more combined links are merged to form link data for a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070100779 - Method and system for extracting web data: An apparatus for providing an analysis of attitudes expressed in web content, comprising: a collector for collecting attitude-data in relation to a predetermined subject from one or more pre-selected web site, the attitude-data containing attitudes in relation to the predetermined subject; a processor, associated with the collector, for processing the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.