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 sy