Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 06/07

20070150320 - Itinerary planning system and method: An itinerary planning system and method applicable to data processing systems is proposed, comprising: a database having travel information and itinerary planning conditions; a setting module for receiving information on itinerary planning conditions set by the user; a searching module for retrieving from the database the travel information that corresponds... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070150324 - Method, system and computer program for supporting evaluation of a service: A method and system for determining a variable compensation amount according to the degree of achievement by avoiding stop at the stage where value brought about to a client by a solution is qualitatively evaluated, avoiding compensation calculation from being performed by accumulation of cost such as labor cost, and... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070150328 - System and method for supporting purchase or production of products by potential demand prediction: To support a purchase or a production of a product by accurately predicting a sold amount of the product. A system that supports a purchase or a production of a product, the system including an input section for accepting an input of a history of a supplied amount and a... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070150331 - Method and apparatus for marketing retail goods: Merchandising and marketing data collection systems (100, 400, 500, 700, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500) collect data on shopper's (816) interaction with merchandise samples (106, 414, 1212, 1400, 1502), page store personnel, output promotional vouchers and use the merchandise samples to access information about the capabilities of the merchandise being sold.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070150369 - Method and system for determining the optimal travel route by which customers can purchase local goods at the lowest total cost: A method and system for providing customers with means to determine a) how far the customer should be willing to travel to a vendor to purchase locally sold goods and b) what routes the customer should take to minimize his or her total costs. Customers use an Internet search engine... Agent: Norman H. Zivin Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070150373 - System for delivering multi-temperature goods: A system for delivering multi-temperature goods includes a goods distribution center, a goods collecting station, a plurality of customer ends, and a transport vehicle. The goods collecting station collects and temporarily stores goods of different storage temperatures to be dispatched for or delivered to customer ends. The transport vehicle conveys... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070150400 - Transacting system and method for three-way trading: A transacting system is used for processing information in a three-way trading. The transacting system includes a first terminal for loading order notices into the transacting system, a second terminal for loading production lists and shipping notices into the transacting system, a third terminal for generating delivery confirmation receipts and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070150295 - Asset management system: An asset management system is provided. The system may include one or more data collection devices configured to monitor one or more operating conditions of a leased machine. At least one of the one or more data collection devices may be configured to directly monitor operation of at least one... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150303 - Asynchronous web service invocation model: A system and method for asynchronously invoking a remote web service on a server by application code residing on a client. The web service invoke request received from application code residing on the client, passes an invoke request to a web service residing on a server, receives a result from... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070150294 - License activation for preloaded software: A method for a manufacturer of an information handling system to pay royalties for software preloaded onto an information handling system which includes determining when software that is preloaded onto the information handling system is executed by a user and paying a royalty for the software when the software is... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070150293 - Method and system for cmmi diagnosis and analysis: A method for CMMI or the like diagnosis and analysis may include generating a set of questions in response to process areas selected for diagnosis. The method may also include selecting an appropriate path sequence for further questions in response to a respondent's answers to the set questions and any... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20070150298 - Method and system for valuing intangible assets: The present invention provides a method and system for valuing patent assets based on statistical survival analysis. An estimated value probability distribution curve is calculated for an identified group of patent assets using statistical analysis of PTO maintenance fee records. Expected valuations for individual patent assets are calculated based on... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070150299 - Method, system, and apparatus for the management of the electronic files: The primary design goals of the current system are (as a matter of example, but not limited to the following, by any means): to enable Organizations to send documents to Readers ensuring that only those authorized Readers can “read” the contents; to be a low cost, easy to use system,... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20070150304 - 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

20070150292 - Real estate investment report gererator: A method for generating a report of real estate property information on a set of properties, including pricing and property characteristics, maps, driving directions, driving times, automatically generated lists and map plots of comparable properties (“comps”) sold recently in the area along with their property characteristics, equity analysis, loan amortization... Agent: James P Nichols

20070150301 - Reciprocal data file publishing and matching system: A method of reciprocally publishing and matching data files is disclosed. The method includes facilitating the creation of Category A and Category B data files having a respective sets of characteristics defined utilizing a common language architecture, associating enhancement objects with each data file, identifying characteristics in each data file... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070150302 - Reciprocal data file publishing and matching system: A method of reciprocally publishing and matching data files is disclosed. The method includes facilitating the creation of Category A and Category B data files having a respective sets of characteristics defined utilizing a common language architecture, associating enhancement objects with each data file, identifying characteristics in each data file... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070150300 - Service recommendation system and service recommendation method: A service recommendation system and a service recommendation method capable of improving the probability of the estimation of a user task and recommending a service depending on a user task can be provided. The user role obtaining unit 210 of the service recommendation server 100 obtains the role of a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070150296 - System and method for automated processing of requests for approval of materials for business development: A system and method for automated processing requests for reviewing and approving business development materials, such as marketing flipbooks and request for proposals, etc., for compliance and performance approval employs an application server that presents a web-based request form. A requestor uses the request form to enter information regarding the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070150297 - Systems and methods for providing a single source to identify providers to assist in the purchase, insurance, and finance of property: Examples of the systems and methods described herein provide a user with a single source that allows the user to identify service providers to assist in the purchase, insurance, and finance of property such as real estate. The systems and methods also provide for advertising for goods and services associated... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070150310 - A method of motivating an individual to improve lifestyle factors: The invention relates to a method of assessing the pro-inflammatory immune health of a healthy individual comprising: (a) establishing a benchmark pro-inflammatory protein value set, wherein the pro-inflammatory protein value is determined by a calculation made using levels of pro-inflammatory protein measured in samples of non-blood body fluid collected from... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070150307 - Displaying clinical predicted length of stay of patients for workload balancing in a healthcare environment: A computerized system method for displaying a predicted length of stay and actual length of stay in an inpatient healthcare facility for a patient is provided. A predicted length of stay and an actual length of inpatient stay in a healthcare facility for a patient are accessed. The predicted length... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070150309 - Health and wellness guidance system: A health and wellness guidance system is provided. The system may include a memory configured to store health-related information about individual members of a population. The system may also include a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to assemble at least one tailored health risk assessment questionnaire package... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150308 - Healthcare management system: A healthcare management system is provided. The system may include a memory configured to store health-related information about individual members of a population and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to select a first treatment intervention for addressing predetermined symptoms of an individual member... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150312 - Method and apparatus for distribution of vaccine: According to a computer-implemented approach for scheduling and administering a vaccine to a patient, the patient submits information to an administrator. The administrator arranges a convenient appointment for the patient at a local medical provider to receive a vaccine. Provided that the patient is eligible and inventory of vaccine is... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070150305 - Method for selecting a potential participant for a medical study on the basis of a selection criterion: During a method for selecting a potential participant for a medical study on the basis of a selection criterion, patient data assigned to a patient are electronically stored. A secondary criterion is assigned to the selection criterion. The patient data are electronically evaluated on the basis of the secondary criterion.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070150311 - System for exchanging patient medical information between different healthcare facilities: A Patient Information Sharing and Transfer System provides a system for moving patient information and clinical data between healthcare facilities using predictive capability across an enterprise or groups of patient health care facilities. A system for exchanging patient medical information between different healthcare facilities comprises a monitor for monitoring activities... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070150306 - Testing-dependent administration of a nutraceutical: A method, system, and computer program product are described for receiving a test result of a state of a subject and indicating an amount of a nutraceutical partly based on the test result and partly based on a regimen.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070150316 - Discovering billable health care plans: A method for discovering billable health plan enrollment for a patient includes receiving patient information for one or more patients from a medical service provider. The patient information is analyzed, and a sample of patients and a sample of health care plans are selected based on the analysis. An enrollment... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070150314 - Method for carrying out quality control of medical data records collected from different but comparable patient collectives within the bounds of a medical plan: A method is disclosed for carrying out quality control of medical data records collected from different but comparable patient collectives within the bounds of a medical plan. In the method, for each data record, a quality control parameter assigned thereto is determined in the same manner. Further, the quality control... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070150313 - Method for evaluating the quality of electronically stored, particularly medical, knowledge data: A method is for evaluating the quality of electronically stored, particularly medical, knowledge data. The knowledge data are stored in a database; quality data correlated with the knowledge data are stored in the database, and; when a user accesses the knowledge data, the quality data are automatically provided to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070150315 - Policy driven access to electronic healthcare records: A method and article of manufacture for managing access to electronic healthcare records is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention generally allow individuals to define an access policy regarding electronic healthcare records and health care providers who may have shared access to a data repository storing the records. Typically, the access... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070150317 - Asset management system: An asset management system is provided. The system may include one or more data collection devices configured to monitor one or more operating conditions of a machine in real time. The system may also include a processor configured to receive data from the one or more data collection devices and... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150318 - Method and system for pricing and marketing financial products: A method and system for pricing, designing, and marketing, insurance policy contracts is disclosed. The policy contracts comprise a first period of coverage for a first benefit amount for which a premium is paid to an insurer on behalf of an insured person by a sponsoring organization and a second... Agent: Cozen O'connor, P.C.

20070150319 - Method of expediting insurance claims: A method and apparatus are provided for processing an insurance claim. The method includes the steps of receiving a claim for a loss from an insured through an Internet connection and determining a policy type from the claim. The method further includes the steps of retrieving a set of keywords... Agent: Jon P. Christensen Welsh & Katz, Ltd.

20070150321 - Method and apparatus for internet feast: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for internet feast, or holding feast online. Internet media communications is utilized as feast platform on which the feast is held and feast related information is exchanged. Based on the worldwide speared of internet, feasters from different places could meet,... Agent: Yuanping Zhao Biyun Zhou

20070150323 - Method and system for generating supply chain planning information: A method and a system for generating supply chain planning information are provided, which are used to dynamically adjust the control factors of the supply information provided by an original supplier and an original logistics provider, after the first supply chain planning information has been generated through a conventional supply... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070150322 - Method for systematic modeling and evaluation of application flows: A system and method for modeling and evaluating resource requirements of services is disclosed. The system and method in one aspect enable describing an application session in a software model, for example, as a sequence of events in a sequence diagram, annotating the sequence diagram with information and using the... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070150325 - Resource management system: A resource management system identifies, tracks and corrects deficiencies in resources and predictions, decisions and actions in connection with buying, using operation and sale of human, operating and manufacturing resources in an enterprise. This allows the specification of the best solution for a specific application based on constraints, such as... Agent: Kenneth P. Robinson

20070150326 - Information apparatus: In an information apparatus having a scheduler function of notifying a user of a predetermined “schedule” as a reminder on a notice “scheduled” date, that function is structured to prevent carelessly sending old reminders, or many unintentional reminders. In this apparatus, a reminder notification is validated only for “schedules” for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070150329 - Just-in-time workflow: Disclosed are arrangements, referred to as just-in-time workflow (JITW) arrangements, which provide a decentralised process (900) for performing a sequence of tasks, in which individual network services successively identify (961), assemble (960) and execute (962) a chain of subsequent network services on the basis of their suitability to communicate over... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070150327 - Project management method and system: A computer based method and system is provided for facilitating the management of a project. The method includes receiving task data, associated resource data, associated timing data and associated task-related dependency data. This data is typically arranged to be viewed in a task-centric manner through a task-centric display interface where... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070150330 - Rules-based method and system for managing emergent and dynamic processes: This invention details a method, and a device incorporating the same, for managing and controlling dynamic and emergent processes, including multi-entity business processes and enterprise workflow. The method is declarative, goal-driven, enables continuous modification in response to real-world events and measures, and capable of adaptation through self-modification.... Agent: David O. Mcgovern

20070150333 - Energy and chemical species utility management system: A method for energy and chemical species utility management having an integrated software system and infrastructure arrangements configured to manage one or more levels of utilities operation, arranged in co-operative fashion to achieve collective goals.... Agent: Arnold & Ferrera, L.L.P.

20070150332 - Heuristic supply chain modeling method and system: A method is provided for supply chain modeling by a supply chain entity within a supply chain including a plurality of supply chain entities. The method may include obtaining an order fulfillment requirement for a product from a downstream supply chain entity and identifying one or more representative subsystems of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150334 - Offer delivery system: An offer delivery system provides a mechanism for coordinating presentation of offers to customers that may originate from multiple different sources and that may be delivered to the customers over different channels. The systems makes use of rules to prioritize, select, and time the delivery of offers to any particular... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070150335 - System and method for predicting external events from electronic author activity: A system and method for collecting and analyzing electronic discussion messages to categorize the message communications and the identify trends and patterns in pre-determined markets. The system comprises an electronic data discussion system wherein electronic messages are collected and analyzed according to characteristics and data inherent in the messages. Objective... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20070150336 - System and method for controlling passage through a gate of a parking lot: A system and method for controlling movement of gate of a parking lot provides an access document reading means for reading an access identifier of an access document of customer. The access identifier is transmitted from access control device to a lot control device which consults a database in which... Agent: Franz Bonsang C/o Protections Equinox Int'l Inc.

20070150337 - Trucking document delivery system and method: Aspects of the invention are related to a point of sale system located at a truck stop that integrates an image processing device, such as a scanner. The system can transmit transportation documents to at least one remote recipient. Such a system can streamline the billing process in the trucking... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070150341 - Advertising content timeout methods in multiple-source advertising systems: Systems and methods are provided for ensuring timely receipt of advertisements in response to an advertisement request. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a base request from an advertisement requester; identifying a total response time allowed to process the base request, wherein the total response time allowed includes a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150340 - Advertising technique: A method for purchase of goods and/or services comprising the steps of, (a) a user placing a personal advertisement through a service provider or vendor with a image or picture which is blurred on partially blurred as to body portions or plurality of body portions, or to which contains text... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20070150351 - Customized communication document creation system and method: A personalized communication document pertaining to financial products or services is provided, including a method and system for preparing the same. The financial product and/or financial services are associated with a set of separate descriptions, characteristics and/or identifications, any one of which may be presented within a personalized content section... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070150347 - Dynamic backfill of advertisement content using second advertisement source: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically backfilling a deficient number of advertisements from an advertisement supplier. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a first request from an advertisement requester, the first request identifying a desired number of advertisements to receive from a first advertisement supplier; identifying a first... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150346 - Dynamic rotation of multiple keyphrases for advertising content supplier: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically rotating keywords to be used to alter an advertisement request from an advertisement requester. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a base request from an advertisement requester; identifying at least two potential keywords associated with the base request; and assigning a usage... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150342 - Dynamic selection of blended content from multiple media sources: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically ordering advertisements received from at least one advertisement supplier. In one embodiment, a method includes sending a request to at least a first advertisement supplier; receiving one or more advertisements from the at least first advertisement supplier; identifying a prioritizing parameter associated with... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150343 - Dynamically altering requests to increase user response to advertisements: Systems and methods are provided for increasing user response to advertisements. Embodiments include an optimization engine configured to identify a request from a requester; identify at least one potential keyword associated with the request; associate the at least one potential keyword with at least one criteria bin; and identify at... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150345 - Keyword value maximization for advertisement systems with multiple advertisement sources: Systems and methods are provided for increasing user response to advertisements. Methods include identifying a base request from an advertisement requester, identifying a first keyword and a second keyword associated with the base request, ranking the first keyword and the second keyword based on a user response history associated with... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150354 - Method and apparatus for conducting a transaction based on brand indifference: A method and apparatus allows a customer to indicate his or her brand indifference within a product category, and then receive a benefit for purchasing a product chosen by a third party from within this product category. This method and apparatus is particularly useful in differentiating between brand-loyal or brand-sensitive... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070150339 - Method and apparatus for electronic message (coupon) distribution: A system and method for creating and retrieving coupons using an electronic coupon database includes registering coupons with the database by a vendor, and then registering cell phones, also with the database; so that cell phones subsequently can request coupons from the database. The coupons are encrypted and sent to... Agent: Lavalle D. Ptak

20070150349 - Method and system for culling star performers, trendsetters and connectors from a pool of users: In one embodiment, method that can be performed on a system, is provided to take not just a person's time and location into consideration, but also has knowledge of and takes into account their availability, their preferences, their schedule, their purpose for being at their current location, and/or their next... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070150350 - Personalized communication documents, system and method for preparing same: A personalized communication document pertaining to financial products or services is provided, including a method and system for preparing the same. The financial product and/or financial services are associated with a set of separate descriptions, characteristics and/or identifications, any one of which may be presented within a personalized content section... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070150348 - Providing and using a quality score in association with the serving of ads to determine page layout: Systems and methods are provided for providing a quality score associated with an advertisement response to be used to assist in determining the display of the advertisement response on a user interface. Methods include sending a quality score associated with an advertisement response as well as receiving and using a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150344 - Selection and use of different keyphrases for different advertising content suppliers: Systems and methods are provided for increasing user response to advertisements from advertisement suppliers obtained in response to keywords. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a base request from an advertisement requester; identifying a first and second keyword associated with the base request, the first and second keyword having... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150353 - System and method for creation, distribution and tracking of advertising via electronic networks: A system and method for creation, distribution and tracking of advertising via electronic networks, enabling creation of advertisements using licensed third party content and placement of said ads at desired network locations, utilizing an auction of ad spaces based on bids placed by advertisers to have their ads displayed at... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

20070150338 - Systems, methods and computer programs for enabling interactive viewer control of advertising content: Systems, methods and computer programs enable interactive viewer control of advertising content. A monitor is configured to receive audio and video content having associated therewith an indicator that alternative content is available. The system comprises a first controller, a profile store and an advertisement store. The controller receives and stores... Agent: John S. Pratt Kilpatrick Stockton LLP 36968

20070150352 - Techniques for transaction data coordination: A method for coordinating transaction data for targeted offer generation includes facilitating opt-in to a cardholder offer generation scheme, and facilitating obtaining transaction data associated with a card transaction, via a payment card processing network. The transaction data includes (i) attribute data indicative of an attribute of at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070150355 - 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 allocate said money in a manner that provides incentive to an Internet user to interact with a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070150356 - System and method for validating asset tracking codes: A system and method for validating adherence of an UII identifier code to one of several prescribed DOD codes by means of a programmed series of tests. First the code is tested for a prescribed header and a last character message. If one or the other is not found, the... Agent: Snider & Associates

20070150357 - Electronic commerce method using combined publicity according to goods/service type and computer readable recording media storing program for executing the same: Electronic commerce method using combined publicity according to goods/service type includes the steps of refer-ring to a unique communication code or a detailed product/service code input by a client accessing a central service provider server to read corresponding product/service information; transmitting order-related information to a specific member store terminal; delivering... Agent: Jones Day

20070150366 - Integrated solar agent business model: A method of delivering a solar system and related services from a solar system vendor to a customer is provided. The method includes estimating the customer's solar system requirements, delivering the estimated requirements to the customer, providing a sales lead that includes the estimated requirements to a contractor, the contractor... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070150362 - Location-based comparative shopping service for wireless telecommunications network: A method of providing a location-based comparative shopping service (30) to a subscriber includes: receiving a request to conduct a search for a product from the subscriber via a mobile station (20) being served by a wireless telecommunications network (10); determining a location of the mobile station (20); generating a... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070150375 - Method and apparatus for efficient meal delivery: A method and system for accepting order and scheduling delivery of meals to buyers. A Mobile Pickup Station (MPS) server is placed within a computer network and lists a number of participating restaurants on its web site. A buyer logs onto the MPS web site to order food from a... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20070150367 - Method and apparatus for receiving order item, and computer product: An ordering system of a purchaser system registers order-item receiving procedure judgment information, indicating whether an in-transit inventory management is performed, in a collation pattern master database on a collation pattern master server. A shipping system of a supplier system sets the order-item receiving procedure judgment information based on a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070150374 - Method system and storage medium for facilitating web searching and brand recognition capabilities over a computer network: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for facilitating website searching and brand recognition capabilities over a computer network. The system comprises a server, a search engine in a communication with the server, and a website marking tool including a user interface executing... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070150363 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing website management services: A method, system, and computer program product for providing website management services is provided. The method includes providing technical services for a website including options that are configurable by a representative of the website. The technical services include at least one of: verifying operability of web page links for the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070150361 - Methods, systems, and products for facilitating electronic purchases: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for facilitating electronic purchases. A record of a customer's selection of items is received at a merchant's server. Some items in the record are associated with a different merchant and were selected from the different merchant's website. The merchant inspects the record for items... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070150368 - On-line personalized content and merchandising environment: A story-based approach is used to display information to a user in an online environment in a way that is easy to navigate and appealing to the user. Content of the story can be selected and organized for the user based on information and attributes obtained for the user, through... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070150371 - Online menu and food preparation systems and methods: Online menu and food preparation systems and methods are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method may comprise assisting an owner of a kitchen business to at least partially customize the plurality of customer screens. The method may also comprise using the customer screens to assist a customer of the... Agent: Trenner Law Firm, LLC

20070150364 - Self-service terminal: A self-service terminal comprising: application flow logic which collates information provided by a user of the terminal; configuration information associated with each of a plurality of individually-controllable layers, and a presentation component responsive to the application flow logic. The presentation component operates on the configuration information for each layer to... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070150359 - Social marketing network: A social marketing network (5) for marketing digital content (6, 7, 8) the network (5) comprising: a first shop (10) to sell particular digital content (6, 7, 8); a plurality of second shops (15, 20, 25) to sell the particular digital content (6, 7, 8), the second shops (15, 20,... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070150365 - Suggested item category systems and methods: A method and a system that associate items offered by sellers and others with selected categories within a network-based system are provided. The method and system may operate to include receiving a request including an item identification having at least one token, parsing the item identification to identify the token,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070150360 - System and method for purchasing goods being displayed in a video stream: A purchasing system correlated to the display of video content in a video stream. The purchasing system includes a video stream display configured to display a video stream including video content and a purchasing interface configured to display an item available for purchase based on the video content.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070150370 - System for increasing on-line shopping presence: A method for creating an online mall by which a service provider obtains product information for one or more products from merchant web sites, wherein the product information includes total price data for the one or more products; and creates a shopping cart web site for at least one merchant... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070150358 - Systems and methods for distributing media production: Various systems and methods for preparing, planning, creating, designing, and/or distributing media publications and processes related thereto are described herein. As just one of many examples, a system for facilitating media production is disclosed. The system includes a computer readable medium that includes instructions executable by a microprocessor to graphically... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070150372 - Vendor and consumer matching: A system for use as an intermediary between products vendors and consumers of products includes an input subsystem adapted for receiving product opportunity information from a vendor, and a selection engine adapted to access and process the product opportunity information and consumer information to associate the product opportunity with at... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070150377 - Computerized dispute resolution system and method: An automated method capable of multiple rounds for settling a dispute among adverse parties which dispute involves monetary values is described together with an automated system for carrying out such method.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070150376 - Managing a catalog display in an e-commerce system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for managing a catalog display in an e-commerce system. In an embodiment, an e-commerce data processing system can include a catalog sub-system and catalog display management logic. The catalog display management logic can include program code enabled... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070150378 - Method and apparatus for selling an aging food product: In accordance with some described embodiments, methods and apparatus are provided for determining a food product and determining a price range defining a maximum price and a minimum price. An indication is stored that the food product may be offered, as a set of one or more food products, in... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070150380 - Integral distribution managing system and method: An integral distribution managing system, which cooperates with at least one supplier terminal, at least one distributor terminal and at least one retailer terminal, includes the following modules. A supplier terminal inputs supplier information through the managing interface module. A distributor terminal inputs distributor information and a distributor trade command... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070150379 - Method and system for real-time monitoring of part availability: A method and system for real-time monitoring of part availability uses a computer-based data integration system communicating with at least one plant related database and at least one supplier related database to collect part usage and shipment data and to assess the collected data to predict an exception to a... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070150381 - Method for monitoring products in a refrigerator: Method for monitoring products in a refrigerator, wherein the refrigerator (1) comprises at least a compartment (2) for containing products (3), a door (4) adapted to close said compartment (2) and radio frequency transmission means (5) adapted to communicate with a plurality of transponders (6) associated with said products (3)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070150382 - System and method for pharmaceutical management and tracking: A product inventory management system including a cabinet configured to contain an inventory of product units having RFID tags and further configured to monitor the inventory by wirelessly detecting the RFID tags, and a server system configured to communicate over a network with the cabinet, the server system capable of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070150383 - Method and apparatus for processing receptacles of items in a materials handling facility: Methods and apparatuses for the processing of receptacles containing heterogeneous inventory items in materials handling facilities are generally described. Dirty picking may be described as a mechanism for the “batch” processing of a receptacle which includes multiple heterogeneous inventory items with different identification codes in a materials handling facility as... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070150385 - Accountant audit/review console: A system and method are disclosed to provide financial information in a report format for financial audits and/or reviews.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070150384 - System and method for revenue and expense realignment: A system and method for revenue and expense realignment is provided. A revenue and expense realignment application (RECAST) comprising of a rules engine executing on a computer receives revenue and/or expense transactions. At predetermined time intervals, the RECAST executes a series of steps, each of which has one or more... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070150387 - Consistent set of interfaces derived from a business object model: A business object model, which reflects data that used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070150386 - Method for encouraging reporting of income/tips by sole proprietors and employees of cash based businesses: A method for reporting income/tips by sole proprietor/employees of cash based businesses comprising: registering with the federal and local government as a cashed based business; reporting of gross income by the cash based business at designated time frames; and offering benefits by the federal and local government to the cash... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070150389 - Method and system for displaying an image instead of data: Displaying graphical indicators, instead of data, based on user-defined conditions. The user can specify conditions for displaying graphical indicators instead of actual data by specifying a test, values, and an image. The graphical indicators can be pre-assigned images that are dynamically applied based on the underlying text or numeric data... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070150388 - Processing data calls from wireless handsets to information nodes: In an exemplary method, a data call origination request containing a URL of the destination web server is received from a wireless handset supported by a mobility service provider at a switching node of the telecommunication network. A determination is made if the owner of the destination web server has... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070150399 - Computer methods and apparatus for optimizing portfolios of multiple participants: Computer technology for substantially optimizing portfolios of multiple participants is disclosed. Preferably the portfolios of such multiple participants comprise fixed income instruments. The disclosed systems and methods include using at least one computer system for storing digital data representing portfolio holdings of multiple parties and, in particular, for each participant... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070150398 - Investor sentiment barometer: A method comprising the steps of supplying an interactive environment through which a plurality of financial system users can express their sentiment towards a predefined stock, analyzing the users' sentiment expressions in order to deduce the users' sentiment towards the predefined stock and supplying the deduced users' sentiment towards the... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20070150397 - Search engine for stock investment strategies: A method comprising the steps of calculating a large amount of investment strategies for predefined stocks; finding a predefined number of investment strategies, which feature the best calculated rating results for each type of rating; calculating a weighted evaluation score for each of the strategies; and forwarding to an end-user... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20070150396 - Stock value chains: Methods for creating and maintaining stock value chains. One embodiment comprises the steps of receiving a stock symbol, creating a value chain for the stock symbol, and returning the value chain of the stock symbol.... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20070150393 - 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 present value distribution(s) of contingent future value and present value(s) of respective exercise price(s) at an expiration exercise point and/or one... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070150394 - 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 asset value for exercising a contingent claim of an option. The method may include determining a present value conditional distribution of contingent future benefits attributable to the exercise of a contingent claim, including conditioning a distribution of... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070150395 - 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 distribution of contingent future benefits at an expiration exercise point, and present values of respective exercise prices at... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070150392 - System, method and computer program product for performing a contingent claim valuation of a combination option: A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing a contingent claim valuation of a combination option including one or more multi-stage contingent claims, and an early-launch contingent claim. The method may include determining a first value representing payoffs attributable to exercise of the early-launch contingent claim at... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070150390 - System, method and computer program product for performing a contingent claim valuation of a multi-stage option: A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing a contingent claim valuation of a multi-stage option including a plurality of contingent claims exercisable at a plurality of respective exercise points including one or more exercise points before an expiration exercise point. The method may include determining a... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070150391 - System, method and computer program product for performing a contingent claim valuation of an early-launch option: A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing a contingent claim valuation of an early-launch option including a contingent claim exercisable at one of a plurality of decision points including one or more decision points before an expiration exercise point. The method may include determining first and... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070150406 - Bidder monitoring tool for integrated auction and product ordering system: A monitoring tool that permits a buyer to search for and participate in auctions conducted on a website of the buyer's vendor. The monitoring tool provides a navigation frame having entries therein that represent predetermined searches across both the enterprise auction system and the enterprise product ordering and fulfillment system.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070150405 - Exchange-based auction for offerings: A method and system are disclosed for determining the public offering price and the allocation of securities by an exchange-based auction conducted by the underwriters and the issuers of the securities. The exchange-based auction is conducted through the apparatus of a securities exchange such that all qualified individual and institutional... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070150401 - Graphical user interface and method for displaying market data and entering trading orders: A method, and a graphical user interface and communicating user input device, for use in electronic trading an instrument on an electronic exchange having an inside market. Aligned dyamic bid, dynamic offer and dynamic price ladders are displayed, either in conventional grid format or in “price wheels” or other spatial... Agent: Michael P. Mazza, LLC

20070150403 - Method and system for a mobile auction concierge: A system (100) and method (600) is provided for auctioning an item using a mobile device (102). A mobile device can include a camera (202) for capturing an image of an item of interest, a processor (204) for entering the image into a database (140), an image recognition unit (206)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070150408 - Method and system for linking an anonymous electronic trade order to an identity of a trader: A method for automatically linking an anonymous electronic trade order having an order quantity (q) to an identity of a trader by providing an identity marker (s) of the trader; embedding the identity marker (s) by splitting the anonymous trade order into a number (n) of trade orders each having... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070150407 - Order book display tool for trading financial instruments: A method and a program product embodied on a computer-readable medium for efficiently and intuitively placing a trade order through an order book display having an order display component and a market order book display component are provided. The method for efficiently and intuitively placing a trade order includes dynamically... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070150404 - System and method for providing private stable matchings: A system and method for providing private stable matchings is presented. At least one set of matcher preferences for an active participant and at least one set of matchee preferences for a passive participant are accumulated. Private stable matched bids from the at least one matcher preferences set and the... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070150402 - Variable price auction: The present invention provides a method and system for conducting an open online auction. The seller will provide both a minimum price to which he/she is willing to sell an item and a desired price that is higher than the minimum price. The minimum price and desired price set by... Agent: Smart Auctions, Inc. Attn : Robert Longman & Sophia C. Li

20070150410 - Loan marketing method and apparatus: The method of determining the best commercial loan interest rate, which includes scanning the loan market for the lowest interest rate available among reputable banks or mortgage lenders; setting that rate as a benchmark rate; selecting a group of bid participating banks, and mortgage lenders willing to participate in a... Agent: William W. Haefliger

20070150409 - Unsecured to secured home equity credit conversion system and method: A system and method for extending and securing credit with an applicant's equity in real property is provided. An applicant first applies for a home equity line of credit. The necessary documentation and steps to secure credit with an interest in real property can be time consuming. To provide more... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070150413 - Apparatus and method for creating and using electronic currency on global computer networks: An e-commerce database system that maintains a list of merchant and customer accounts, each account has an assigned amount of UNEEs (e-commerce currency units) and identification information about the merchants or customers. The electronic currency units are purchased by a customer for placement into their UNEE account. Payments in UNEE's... Agent: John C. Smith, Esq.

20070150412 - Apparatus and method of providing a transaction screen: An apparatus and a method for selectively providing a teller with a transaction screen is disclosed. The apparatus includes a document input device, a screen transaction selector, and a screen generator. The document input device captures content from received documents. The screen transaction selector uses at least a portion of... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070150411 - Universal payment system: A universal payment, coupon redemption and customer loyalty system is disclosed. Consumers may purchase goods and services through a universal payment identifier that facilities Internet, merchant, and consumer-to-consumer or mobile-to-mobile transfer of money and non-cash instruments. The universal payment identifier may be used as a universal credit/debit card, coupon redemption... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20070150414 - System and method for facilitating payment transactions: A system and method of payment of an end-user account with a service provider includes a computer system that makes payments to service providers on behalf of end-users and that is operable to exchange information with a terminal at the point of sale or a web-enabled computer system operated by... Agent: Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

20070150415 - Method and apparatus for creating and entering a pin code: A method and apparatus for creating a link key and enabling a secure communication link between two or more devices in which a biometric information sample is obtained (102); a PIN code is produced using the biometric information sample (104); and a link key is created using the PIN code... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070150416 - Systems and methods for copy protection during multi-factor authenticating of electronic transactions: A specially configured payment card that functions as both a standard payment, e.g., bank credit, debit, or ATM card for use in point-of-purchase transactions and an optical storage device that can be read by any common CD or DVD drive for use in secure online E-Commerce transactions. In order to... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070150417 - Method and system for managing software licenses and reducing unauthorized use of software: A method and system for software license management that allows a user to easily move a software license from one computer to another and the software vendor to control unlicensed use. A server maintains user account information including computers licensed to run the software and computers no longer licensed to... Agent: Ying Chen

20070150418 - Software licensing using certificate issued by authorized authority: Software is governed by a digital license that specifies a certificate that must be present in order for the software (or certain features thereof) to be used. A root authority authorizes a license server to issue certificates that are called for in the digital license for an item of software.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070150419 - Internet transaction authentication apparatus, method, & system for improving security of internet transactions: An Internet Transaction Authentication (ITA) is a customer authentication apparatus disclosed herein. One embodiment employs an enclosure with USB interface capability; a second embodiment employs a similar enclosure with local wireless connectivity. ITA apparatuses achieve two important authentication goals: (1) Cryptographic authentication of websites to customers by providing real-time website... Agent: Douglas Kozlay Suite 304

20070150420 - Establishing mutual authentication and secure channels in devices without previous credentials: The invention provides for installing encryption keys on a device not having any previous security credentials. An installation authority generates a security token to be used by the device for secure communications, and an installation credential for the device, and stores them in association with one another. A user of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070150421 - Networked franking system with facilitated maintenance: In a mail franking system including a franking management module (32) and at least one data processing means (34A-34D) associated with means of printing a postmark (36A-36B, 38A-38B) and connected to the franking management module via a local area network (LAN), it is provided that the franking management module includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070150423 - Low cost system and method for updating secure data in internal flash while driving motors and printing: A method includes retrieving and printing a first portion of an information based indicia (IBI) from a memory, and writing at least one datum to a flash memory while retrieving and printing a second portion of the IBI from the memory.... Agent: George M. Macdonald, Pitney Bowes Inc. Intellectual Property And Technology Law Dept.

20070150422 - Method of placing an order for a custom stamp: A method of placing an order for a custom stamp, including purchasing a standard stamp mount where each stamp mount has associated with it a separate discreet identifier. Under control of a client system, information for ordering the custom stamp is displayed and a request to order the custom stamp... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20070143172 - System and method for predicting card member spending using collaborative filtering: The disclosed method and system allows a credit or charge card issuer to provide its card members with a list of restaurants that might be of interest based on the financial transactions of similar card members. In one instance, this method filters financial transaction data from a plurality of card... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070143181 - Fully automated interactive promotion tool including wizard-driven web interface: Systems and methods for providing web-based promotions and promotional tools. The system allows smaller marketers to quickly and easily build and deploy a customized and professional web-based promotion using a fully automated interactive promotional tool including a wizard-driven web interface. The promotion wizard guides an advertiser through the process of... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070143180 - Multiple use rebate card: Methods for using a rebate card and preventing the retention of rebate value when the product that prompted the rebate is returned are disclosed. Methods for using the rebate card may be limited for use at a particular retailer and/or for a particular manufacturer's goods or services. Methods for preventing... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Riverfront Plaza, East Tower

20070143188 - System and method for processing items placed in a container: A system and method for processing items placed in a container. The system includes a cart having a system for processing items stored therein, comprising: a detection system that detects the placement of an item into the cart; a near field communication (NFC) reader for reading and storing information from... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070143132 - Automated valuation of a plurality of properties: Disclosed are various embodiments of a system and method for valuing a plurality of properties. Assessor data is obtained that indicates a designated subdivision and various criteria for each of the properties. Assessor data is placed into a standard format to create a master data file. Modeling techniques are then... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20070143131 - Automatic cost generator for use with an automated supply chain optimizer: An automatic cost generation apparatus is provided for automatically converting user supplied definitions/requirements into cost parameters for use by a cost-based supply chain optimizer. In one example, this is achieved by generating a linear programming model that incorporates the requirements/definitions as a set of linear constraints. The linear programming model... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070143122 - Business method for correlating product reviews published on the world wide web to provide an overall value assessment of the product being reviewed: A searching method in the Internet that correlates publicly available product reviews for products by initially predetermining a set of review terms indicative of a favorable review and also predetermining a set of review terms indicative of an unfavorable review. From a requesting station, databases in the Internet are searched... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070143129 - Business website system: A network business system with live unidirectional or bidirectional audio-video feed, allowing customers to interact with customer support, customer service, sales agents, live demonstrations, and each other. The website system further features a method for assisting customers in selecting purchases, and provides a method for customers to get bonuses and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070143124 - Extensible object data enabled manufacturing: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for using extensible object data (or other XML-based models of an ordered product) to directly drive manufacturing in an optimized manner. A customer order or request to create an item is received at a manufacturing facility. The customer order... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070143125 - Method and system for embedding mailer specified mailing instructions on a mail piece to automate mail processing: Methods and systems that allow a sender of a mail piece to easily specify delivery instructions and/or services for a mail piece and that allows mail processing systems to identify and account for the specified delivery instructions and/or services without the need for any pre-sorting or input of information prior... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070143128 - Method and system for providing customized recommendations to users: In one embodiment, a method includes transforming ratings provided by users for an object of interest into one or more correlated recommendations based on the level of trust of a recommendation recipient towards the users, and presenting the correlated recommendations to the recommendation recipient.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070143134 - Method and system for reducing lead-time in the packaging industry: A system for integrating a packaging supply chain from a point that a digital contract proof is available through delivery of finished packaging materials to an end user, wherein said system comprises a computer system accessible for interactive communications with users, said computer system comprising a first memory area for... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20070143133 - Method and system relating to multilateral customized messaging system for cards, letters and correspondence: Method and system for the creation and mailing of personalized correspondence to specified recipients through an electronic medium. A customer views an interface through an electronic devise wherein the interface displays one of a number of different application for which he/she can use to create custom correspondence. Upon the entry... Agent: Andrew Velcoff

20070143126 - Method and system to determine a desirable diet: A method and system of determining a desirable diet based on mathematical programming algorithms is disclosed. A user is presented with a list of diet items whose nutrient breakdown have been stored on a computer. The user selects the items he wishes to eat, along with a preference ranking, and... Agent: Anjan Ghose

20070143121 - Method for feature utilization in an electronic device: A method for feature utilization in an electronic device (102) is disclosed. The method includes determining (302) whether the electronic device is registered for one or more paid services with a network (104). The method further includes controlling (304) access to one or more network service independent features in the... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070143130 - Network of instruction stations: In an embodiment, a student may be provided with instructions via computer in an area in which illustrating the physical positioning of the human body or other object may be beneficial. In an embodiment a system of one or more instruction stations may be provided where the student may record... Agent: David Lewis

20070143119 - Probability adjustment of a virtual world loss event: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented system includes a virtual world in which a participant may participate and that includes a loss event having a likelihood of occurrence. The computer-implemented system also includes a record of a protected loss corresponding to... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070143120 - System and method for configuring an input arrangement for a computing device: Described is a system comprising a computing device detachably coupled to an input arrangement. Upon authenticating a user, a corresponding user profile is retrieved from a memory module and uploaded into at least one of the device and the arrangement. The profile stores user's preferences for inputting data via the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070143123 - System, method and service for recording household assets: An archiving method that includes a step of identifying a residential property. Items contained within the residential property can be categorized. Entries for each of the categorized items can be recorded within a household asset tracking database. Digital images of the residential property can be obtained, where the digital images... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070143127 - Virtual host: The present invention relates to a self-service engine for implementation in a business management system for rendering a virtual host. The virtual host replaces a customer service representative usually employed in an enterprise, such as a retail outlet, hotel or the like, who assists a customer. The self-service engine determines... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20070143143 - patient discharge data processing system: A system for managing patient discharge instruction preparation includes an interface for receiving data indicating a discharge date of a patient and a workflow processor. The workflow processor automatically, initiates communication of discharge task identification information to task lists associated with multiple different healthcare workers to initiate performance of discharge... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070143140 - Collecting patient opinion information associated with a prescription medication: The present invention relates to prescription management systems and associated methods, including prescription management methods in computing environments that provide prescription fulfillment management, related care support services, patient opinion information collection, and the ability to interface a prescription management system with other related systems. Certain embodiments of the invention are... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070143136 - Handling radiology orders in a computerized environment: Computerized methods, systems, and user interfaces for handling one or more radiology orders are provided. Such methods, systems, and user interfaces allow a radiologist, radiological technician, or other healthcare professional to efficiently review and approve, modify, or reject electronic requests from ordering physicians to have patients undergo radiological examination. Such... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070143141 - Integrated clinical and medication reconciliation system: An integrated clinical and medication reconciliation system includes a clinical information system incorporating a patient record management system and treatment order processing system. A medication reconciliation system incorporates a user interface providing a display image including a first image area identifying medications a patient is receiving following admission to a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070143135 - Method and computer program product for measuring and utilizing efficiency of medical resource and services providers: A method and computer program product is provided that, in various embodiments, may provide a measure of efficiency of resources used in medical treatment plan options. A normalized Relative Resource Value (RRV) may be obtained that measures the level of resources required to satisfy a “normal” case for a particular... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070143142 - Patient medication history management system: A medication information acquisition system facilitates collection and accurate consolidation of home medication history from data sources providing data of varying degrees of accuracy. A medication information acquisition system automatically acquires patient medication information from multiple different sources. The system includes an acquisition processor for, in response to user command,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070143138 - Prescription care support services: The present invention relates to prescription management systems and associated methods, including prescription management methods in computing environments that provide prescription fulfillment management, related care support services, patient opinion information collection, and the ability to interface a prescription management system with other related systems. Certain embodiments of the invention are... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070143139 - Prescription management systems and associated methods: The present invention relates to prescription management systems and associated methods, including prescription management methods in computing environments that provide prescription fulfillment management, related care support services, patient opinion information collection, and the ability to interface a prescription management system with other related systems. Certain embodiments of the invention are... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070143137 - Prescription management systems with interface elements and associated methods: The present invention relates to prescription management systems and associated methods, including prescription management methods in computing environments that provide prescription fulfillment management, related care support services, patient opinion information collection, and the ability to interface a prescription management system with other related systems. Certain embodiments of the invention are... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070143144 - System and method for managing pedigree information: Methods and systems are provided for managing and transmitting pedigree information. The methods and systems allow a user to access a pedigree information portal to submit and transmit pedigree data to a recipient of the physical drug product. The method provides security and reliability in relaying the drug history and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070143145 - Systems and methods for evaluating patient-specific information and providing patient management recommendations for healthcare providers: The present invention relates to the use of computerized systems for evaluating patient-specific data for the purpose of providing healthcare providers with recommendations for adhering to best medical practices.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070143148 - Anonymous brokering of patient health records: Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for brokering electronic health records of individuals. The individuals define respective policies that govern the accessibility to their records. Requests for health records are processed by applying the appropriate policies to determine which records may be returned.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070143149 - Data tagging and report customization method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for use with a database that includes patient charts where each chart includes subsets of patient data, the method for allowing a physician to generate a custom report view (CRV) including at least a subset of the patient data, the method comprising the steps of, during... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070143150 - Information processing system: The present invention provides a technique for supporting accurate and smooth creation of a report. Information in which elements belonging to items included in a plurality of items of elements constructing a report are associated with each other between the items is stored in an input support database. Partial information... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070143146 - Method and information system for performing a clinical study on a patient: A method is disclosed for performing a clinical study on a patient. The study-related or patient-related data is stored in a memory during the study. The memory is readable by a physician who is foreign to the study and is associated with the patient. An information system for a clinical... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143151 - Preventive health care device, system and method: The present invention provides a system, method and device for assisting users in assessing individual health, deriving intervention programs and making health related decisions. A health assessment-intervention component collects and screens diagnostic and demographic data from clients and assists in forming health-care related decisions, action plans and treatment plans. The... Agent: Williams Mullen

20070143152 - Smart card for pharmaceutical consumer: A smart card for assignment to a patient, comprises a processor, a memory and an interface for input and output of data. The card holds patient drug usage information, and obtains data from an external drug database regarding drugs stored in the usage information. The card calculates a warning about... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070143147 - Systems, methods and apparatus of an image network adapted to process and display image data from a mobile digital imaging system: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, a mobile digital electronic imaging system includes an adapter operable to transmit a digital image to a network. In some embodiments, a network is operable to receive a digital image from a mobile digital electronic imaging system and perform... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070143157 - 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

20070143153 - Demand tracking system and method for a transportation carrier: An automated system and method for tracking and recording demand for the services (e.g., flights) provided by a transportation carrier are disclosed. According to the invention, selected availability request that are soliciting information regarding the availability of services are recorded. Further, selected booking requests are recorded regardless of whether those... Agent: Unisys Corporation Ms 4773

20070143156 - Method and website for making travel plans: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a method and a website for making travel plans between an originating location and a destination that may be at least partially determined by weather criteria, travel time and cost, and preselected activities that may exist at the destination during the time... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070143154 - System and method for managing customer-based availability for a transportation carrier: A customer-based availability system and method for a service provider such as a transportation carrier is disclosed. This system and method provides programmable logic to allow predetermined request types and service types to be defined. Associations are then formed between request types and service types. When a request is received... Agent: Unisys Corporation Ms 4773

20070143155 - System, method, and computer program product for reducing the burden on an inventory system by assembling a suggested themed travel itinerary in response to minimal user input: The present invention generates a concise listing of low-priced travel products in an interactive itinerary format in response to a simplified user input that may include specification of a selected travel theme. The interactive itinerary generated by the invention may allow the user to revise the itinerary to add, remove,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070143161 - Application independent rendering of scorecard metrics: Application independent rendering of scorecard metrics is provided. A hierarchy for scorecard metrics, such as KPI's, KPI groups, and objectives, is determined and data associated with each scorecard metric is retrieved based on the hierarchy. Scorecard calculation is performed based on the retrieved data and the hierarchy. A scorecard representation... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143160 - Management of new offering development via value flow control: A business method for defining, controlling, and optimizing a flow of value down a workflow pipeline includes creating a phase-gate workflow pipeline for one or more projects in which completion of one or more predetermined activities of each project advances the project to a succeeding phase in the pipeline. Each... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070143158 - Method for detecting fraud in a value document such as a check: A method for detecting possible fraud in a document includes receiving an electronic image of the document and extracting data from the image that includes a plurality of printed characters. Next, one or more properties of the characters are measured, the properties are compared to at least one corresponding normative... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070143162 - Rfid with two tier connectivity, rfid in the plc rack, secure rfid tags and rfid multiplexer system: A device by which RFID data can pass from the RFID reader, or from the plant floor PLC and reader, to business applications at the enterprise level. The RFID tag date is easily integrated into a PLC for integration with other equipment. The security of the overall system is maintained... Agent: Bryan H. Opalko, Esquire Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070143159 - System and method for outcomes-based delivery of services: A systems-assisted method for defining and managing a public value network according to one or more desired outcomes of the public value network, which includes creating a public value network representation by defining participants in the network, relationships between the participants, and a desired outcome the network, assigning a maturity... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070143163 - Systems and methods for organizing and monitoring data collection: Methods, systems, apparatus and computer readable media are provided for managing data collection. In one implementation, a data collection initiative is implemented. Tasks associated with the data collection initiative are provided to participants, and information is received from the participants in response to the tasks. A status of the data... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070143164 - Business practice management system: A business practice management system includes a client contact management workflow made up of multiple stages of interaction between users of the system and clients of a business practice. Tasks, events, forms, and conditions of the stages provide conditions for moving from one stage to another, and define interactions between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143165 - Customer relationship management system and method: A software-based customer relationship management system and method.... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070143166 - Statistical method for autonomic and self-organizing business processes: In a Workflow Management System with a workflow having a sequence of activities of an underlying business process, logical wait situations occur when a given activity depends upon completion of a prerequisite preparation activity. A method for decreasing the resulting run-time delays includes: identifying a primary activity and an associated... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070143168 - Meeting scheduling service: A meeting scheduling service is provided that overcomes the problems of accessing scheduling information due to organizational boundaries.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070143167 - Method of candidate selection using an organization-specific job profile: A method and system for selecting a candidate for a work position using performance data from each worker in a pool of existing workers, the method including the steps of: (a) inputting into a computer-implemented processing stage, for each worker in the pool of existing workers: (i) a Personal Profile... Agent: Mark Friedman Bill Polkinghorn

20070143169 - Real-time workload information scheduling and tracking system and related methods: A real-time workload information scheduling and tracking system and related methods are disclosed that greatly facilitate production operations. Real-time views can be displayed at a variety of time period granularities (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc.) showing completion status for tasks and sub-tasks that have been assigned by the... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070143170 - Materials including coded writing: A system and method of using a coded language to market assets, including goods and/or services. A first asset can be offered with materials that are at least partially written in an uncoded language. A second asset, that is related to the first asset, can be offered with materials that... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070143173 - Method and system for anonymous communication of information about a home: A system for establishing anonymous communications includes a plurality of party terminals, a plurality of requester terminals, and a central controller. The system receives and stores party data about respective parties. In some embodiments, a party may be a homeowner. Upon receiving criteria for parties of interest from a requester... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070143171 - Target pricing method: A method and process of target pricing a value, such as a bid, or other price which includes the steps of pricing the value using stored list prices in a product model, costing the value using stored costs in the product model, calculating. an equivalent competitor net price for the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070143175 - Centralized model for coordinating update of multiple reports: Updates to multiple reports are centrally managed in a business logic system. A scorecard application provides a scorecard presentation and determines a report parameter associated with the presentation based on user selection, user credentials, and the like. Data that includes content and/or metadata associated with the report parameter is provided... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143174 - Repeated inheritance of heterogeneous business metrics: An approach and a data structure for inheriting reporting metrics in a business logic system are provided. A scorecard structure includes a top level metric (scorecard) that receives aggregated scores from hierarchically structured lower level measures such as KPI's and objectives. Each KPI may be assigned target values and each... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143176 - Advertising keyword cross-selling: Seed keywords are leveraged to provide expanded keywords that are then associated with relevant advertisers. Instances can also include locating potential advertisers based on the expanded keywords. Inverse lookup techniques are employed to determine which keywords are associated with an advertiser. Filtering can then be employed to eliminate inappropriate keywords... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070143183 - Apparatus and method of providing multimedia content: An apparatus and method for providing multimedia contents is provided. The apparatus includes an analyzing unit that analyzes a quantity ratio corresponding to a type of first multimedia content included in an album, a mood code generating unit that generates a mood code corresponding to the quantity ratio as the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070143184 - Method of facilitating advertising research and use of the method: This disclosure provides a method of facilitating advertising research by providing a plurality of individual customer inputs, said plurality of individual customer inputs being obtained from searches by one or more customers using a customer response facilitation system, and characterized in that the final output of each search session includes... Agent: Charles R. Szmanda

20070143187 - Method to generate advertising revenue based on time and location: A method and apparatus to facilitate targeted advertisement and listing services to customers using a shopping system. The shopping system may be an interactive television system. The targeted advertising allows for improved targeting by allowing advertisers to bid on advertising space based on the time a user is shopping and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070143182 - Methods and apparatuses to provide application programming interface for retrieving pay per call advertisements: Methods and apparatuses to provide access to advertisement database through an application programming interface. One embodiment includes receiving a request according to an application program interface over a network connection; and in response to the request, providing at least a portion of an advertisement according to the application programming interface.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070143178 - Methods and systems for facilitating communications between parties: Methods and systems for facilitating communications and commerce between remote device users and merchants or sponsors, particularly adapted for small-screen portable devices such as cellular telephones and personal digital assistants. The invention enables sponsors to quickly and easily, without the requirement for specialized or expensive equipment, establish Web sites to... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070143177 - Rebate card system: A method and system for using a rebate card are disclosed. The method may comprise initiating a purchase transaction for one or more products at a point of sale, determining whether the purchase transaction qualifies for a rebate, determining a rebate value based on the purchase transaction and the rebate,... Agent: J. Michael Martinez De Andino, Esq. Hunton & Williams LLP

20070143185 - Systems and methods for allocating a consumer access right to a live event: A performer credit program facilitates crediting, tracking, and accumulating performer credits for consumer activity such as purchasing items related to a performer. Consumers manage performer credits in a performer credit account through a performer credit account facility and can elect to convert accumulated credits to access rights that can be... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070143179 - Systems and methods for automatic control of marketing actions: A method for automatically performing marketing actions. The method includes receiving consumer input relating to a product and/or service (“Product/Service”) from a service information display, receiving contextual input associated with the consumer input, placing the received consumer and contextual input into one or more segmented data groups, wherein each segmented... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070143186 - Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for optimizing allocation of an advertising budget that maximizes sales and/or profits and enabling advertisers to buy media online: A system, apparatus, methods, and computer program products enabling an advertiser to increase or maximize sales and/or profits of a company, brand, and/or product by determining the optimum size of an advertising budget and/or optimizing the allocation of an advertising budget to those media channels, operators within any given media... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070143194 - Authorization system and method: A request is received from a first consumer to sell at least one ticket, in which a provider of the ticket has authorized the ticket to be sold. Information regarding the ticket may then be presented to at least a second consumer, who may make an indication to purchase the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070143190 - Methods and systems to reserve wine from a cellar: A method for providing a cellar management system for a cellar includes providing a central server, operatively connecting a first user device with the central server via a network, and providing a database configured to contain specific information about each wine bottle input through the user device. The server is... Agent: John S. Beulick (13307)

20070143191 - Multimedia book and method: Multimedia systems and articles for teaching or conveying information, and methods of selling information. Embodiments include a cover, pages attached to the cover, and machine-readable storage media located within a case attached to the cover that includes a tray and a hinged lid. The cover and pages may be browsable... Agent: Allan W. Watts Bryan Cave, LLP

20070143189 - Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating online gift shopping: According to embodiments of the present invention, a method for facilitating online gift shopping includes: receiving an order for a gift for a recipient from an online shopper via a computer network; providing a gift notice for the recipient to inform the recipient that the gift has been ordered for... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070143192 - Transferring a ticket: A request is received from a first consumer to sell at least one ticket, in which a provider of the ticket may have authorized the ticket to be sold. Information regarding the ticket may then be presented to at least a second consumer, who may make an indication to purchase... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070143193 - Transferring an item: A request is received from a first consumer to sell at least one ticket, in which a provider of the ticket may have authorized the ticket to be sold. Information regarding the ticket may then be presented to at least a second consumer, who may make an indication to purchase... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070143196 - Methods and systems for the securitization of certificates of deposit: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for securitization of certificates of deposit. In addition, the present invention relates to a corresponding security itself (e.g., a security associated with one or more certificates of deposit). As such, in one embodiment, the present invention creates a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070143195 - Systems and methods for evaluating terms of a deal to purchase a vehicle: Systems and methods provide advice to a customer that is purchasing a vehicle. For example, a customer may use a hand-held device while at a dealership, or use a computer, to enter terms of a deal, such as financing information. The customer may use the device to send the information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070143200 - Method for creating and pricing options: A preferred embodiment of the subject invention is directed to creation and pricing of an option related to a target zone in a time-price plot. If the price curve against time enters this zone (in a preferred embodiment, a “box”), a fixed amount of money is paid to the owner... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070143199 - S/m for providing an option to convert a portfolio of assets into a guaranteed income flow at a future date: A system and method for providing an investor the ability to purchase an option to exchange a future value of an asset or a portfolio of assets, regardless of future performance or value, for at least one non-cash settlement instrument outcome on a future date, where the outcome of such... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070143198 - System and method for generating real-time indicators in a trading list or portfolio: A system and method for detecting an abnormal trading condition of a security uses real-time and estimated values of one or more variables associated with the condition of the security to generate one or more analytic metrics that are compared to empirical distributions based on one or more peer groups... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070143197 - Systems and methods for calculating reserve capital requirements: Computer assisted methods of estimating a future market value of a financial asset. The methods may comprise the steps of determining, with a computer system, a future reserve capital requirement for the financial asset under a future regulatory framework and determining a future profitability metric for the financial asset considering... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070143206 - Method and system for generating an auction using a product catalog in an integrated internal auction system: A seller may use an existing product catalog in a seller business information management system to generate an auction and populate auction parameters to expedite and facilitate the auction creation process. The information in the product catalog may be used to provide auction parameters (populate auction fields) in addition to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070143205 - Method and system for implementing configurable order options for integrated auction services on a seller's e-commerce site: An internal auction system may allow a seller to designate configurable order options for an auction using an internal auction application. These configurable order options may include a product configuration option, an accessory option, a cross-selling product option, an up-sell product option, and a down-sell product option. A configuration order... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070143202 - Method for procuring parts: A method is provided for requesting a quotation for manipulating at least one part. The method includes establishing at least one request for quotation and sending the at least one request to at least one supplier. The method also includes receiving a price from the at least one supplier for... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070143203 - System and method for processing composite trading orders: A system for processing a composite trading order comprises a memory operable to store market data received from one or more market centers. The system further comprises a processor operable to generate a composite value based at least in part on the market data. The processor is further operable to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070143204 - System and method for processing composite trading orders at a client: An apparatus for processing a composite trading order comprises an interface operable to display a composite value representing a weighted quantity of a plurality of trading products. The apparatus further comprises a processor operable to receive at least one input representing a composite trading order, wherein the at least one... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070143201 - Systems and methods for selling vehicle repossession rights: Systems and methods provide online auctions or sales of vehicle repossession rights wherein the winning bid or buyer receives the right to repossess a vehicle. Using an Internet website maintained by a server, a user may view repossessed property, such as a vehicle, place a bid, or purchase the right... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070143207 - Method and system for lease of assets, such as trailers, storage devices and facilities: A method and system of providing for the rapid availability of assets to customers wherein a lease method and system is provided which includes lease terms, a leasable asset with a unique identifier, associating the lease terms with the asset through the unique identifier, at least one sensor on the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070143208 - Automatic teller machine as lead source: There is a method of generating a business lead from a user of an automatic teller machine (ATM), including: reading identifying information from an ATM card of the user; presenting the user with a business offer; enabling the user to affirm a desire to be contacted by actuating only a... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070143209 - Method and system for facilitating financial transactions over the internet using registered financial instruments: A method for enabling two individual consumers to complete a transaction that includes payment from one consumer (the payor, or buyer) to another consumer (the payee, or seller). An intermediary typically operates the service over a computer network of nodes, such as the Internet. The buyer has the convenience of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070143213 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070143212 - Online product distribution using fingerprint and encryption: An online product distribution method provides copyright protection and enhanced control over user access to an online product through the use of a fingerprint combined with a double encryption method that provides two layers of protection against unauthorized access to a product prior to a release date. The double encryption... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/ea

20070143210 - System and method for embedding user authentication information in encrypted data: The present invention is directed to a system and method for secure document transmission. The method begins by receiving first and second key portions into a data storage associated with a document processing device. The first key portion suitably includes data representing a user of the document processing device and... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070143211 - Systems and methods for multi-factor authenticating of electronic transactions: A specially configured payment card that functions as both a standard payment, e.g., bank credit, debit, or ATM card for use in point-of-purchase transactions and an optical storage device that can be read by any common CD or DVD drive for use in secure online E-Commerce transactions. The card has... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070143216 - Data signal with a database and a compressed key: Described herein are one or more data signal implementations having at least a database and a compressed key.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070143215 - Device, system and method for storing and exchanging medical data: The present invention relates to a system for storing and exchanging medical data, the system comprising: —a plurality of portable electronic storage devices, each storage device comprising an interface and one or more data carriers on which are stored medical data representative of the health of at least one individual... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20070143218 - Method and apparatus for reporting usage of multimedia content by multimedia-enabled devices: A multimedia-enabled device reports usage of multimedia content by the device to a remote system associated with the multimedia content. For example, the multimedia-enabled device maintains usage data at a multimedia-enabled device by tracking usage of multimedia content received from or associated with a content provider and reports the usage... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070143217 - Network access to item information: Included are systems for communicating product information to a user. At least one embodiment of a system may include logic configured to receive a product identifier from a user device and logic configured to determine a product that corresponds to the received product identifier. In at least one embodiment, the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143214 - User access to a registry of business entity definitions: The present invention provides an apparatus, method and computer program product for a registry, such as a UDDI registry, to restrict access to business entity definitions contained in the registry according to permission details associated with the business service definition. A business entity definition may comprise a plurality of information... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070143220 - Billing system and method for charging users for utilization of shared resource: Disclosed is a billing system that charges resource users for the utilization of a shared resource. The billing system acquires data representing a resource utilization rate at intervals, calculates a utilization rate difference between the acquired resource utilization rate and a reference (average) resource utilization rate, and substitutes the utilization... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070143219 - Method for delivering content and content server which delivers content: A method for delivering content includes processing the content to protect copyright of the content, deciding use conditions of the content, and describing a first digital item or a second digital item in which the first digital item is defined in a form of Digital Item Declaration, the first digital... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070143221 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program recording medium, and data recording medium: A management center registers user information that includes user identification information for identifying a user terminal and improvement-information identification information for identifying improvement information recorded in an optical disk and processed by the user terminal. When a user terminal requests improvement information through a network, the management center searches for... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070143223 - Caching information for kernel and boot components: A cache is provided that stores licensing policies and information for components. The cache is available early in the boot cycle, such as during initialization and startup of the operating system, for use by the kernel and early boot components. Kernel and early boot components can then call a kernel... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070143222 - Licensing upsell: A licensing system provides for various versions of an application within a software product. A license type is identified from a product key that is associated with the software product. The license type may correspond to a hybrid license. When the license type is a hybrid license, an application state... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143224 - Method for managing licenses for digital content loaded onto built to order information handling systems: A method of managing licenses for content installed onto information handling systems which includes storing an image and regularly updated content on an imaging server, storing license information relating to the content on a license management server, merging the image and at least some of the content to provide a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070143226 - Method and apparatus for securing and authenticating encoded data and documents containing such data: A method and apparatus for determining the distance between transitions from a first logical state to a second logical state stored on a medium (i.e., a document). This determination is used to precisely characterize the information pattern in order to authenticate the information and the medium on which the information... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070143225 - Method and system for authorizing automated teller machine access: The invention features a method for authorizing access to an ATM. An ATM receives from a user first biometric information and a first identifier corresponding to at least the user. The ATM transmits the first identifier to a first computer outside the ATM. The first computer reads second biometric information... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070143227 - Systems and methods for conducting secure payment transactions using a formatted data structure: A formatted data structure is provided for conveying the results of ecommerce authentication programs that are used to authenticate a cardholder's on-line transactions. The data structure, which has at most a 20-byte length, is designed to be compatible with 3-D Secure message protocols used in e-commerce. The data structure includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070143228 - Licensing matrix: A licensing system provides for enabling and disabling features based on the product key included with a software product. A distribution channel associated with the software product is identified. The distribution channel is identified according to a channel ID obtained from the product key. A set of default features associated... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143229 - Secure data exchange, notably of certified for factoring: a session manager (41), responsive to an initialization of a connection with successful identification for opening a session of distant station, associated with a single token, and with a memory space dedicated to the distant station in the memory manager, the data exchanges with the distant station during a session... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070143231 - Computer-implemented method and system for managing accounting and billing of transactions over public media such as the internet: A system and method for managing accounting and billing e-commerce (including m-commerce) transactions. The user may connect to the e-commerce network by placing a call from a land line or sending a text message. The user may then purchase goods and/or services after meeting required user qualifications, such as minimum... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070143230 - Transaction verification system: This invention uses separate, parallel communication channels to authorise and authenticate a transaction. A primary data channel (PSTN, radio or the like) is used to communicate between the merchant terminal and the bank, and a parallel data channel (a mobile phone network for instance) is used for the authentication process.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143232 - Mail markings with key encoding: A mail piece marking for a mail piece including a first section printed with a first ink; and a second section printed with a second different ink. The first and second sections include a substantially same color in normal daylight. The first and second sections are intermixed such that combined... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070136075 - Air travel system: An air travel system in which pre-flight check-in of passengers and luggage items are conducted at passenger confirmed addresses remote from the airport of departure. All relevant luggage items are collected during the course of the pre-flight check-in and transported in secure vehicles to the airport of departure for security... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070136084 - Article distribution system and article distribution method used in this system: An article distribution system is provided that can find threads that are active for articles among the users of a community. A user terminal for receiving the contribution of articles that are viewed among users is connected by way of a communication network to an article distribution device for registering... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136077 - Asset inspection apparatus and methods: A method of conducting asset inspections is presented. Data models describe characteristics of one or more assets from which a description of actual assets are built. Multiple customized inspection surveys directed toward the assets can be created from a single data model. Inspection surveys identify inspection point where inspection data... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20070136076 - Client property recordation service: A method for handling information associated with property information in conjunction with a recordation service. The method including a step of enrolling a client with a recordation service. During the enrolling step the client can identify a property. The property can have at least one building located upon it. An... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070136080 - Garment registry: A garment registration system enabling garments, such as dresses, to be registered with an event attendee to reduce the likelihood of two or more event attendees wearing an identical dress to the same event. The garment registration system may be available for viewing over the Internet or other appropriate communication... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070136081 - House enclosed in a structure and method of using and marketing the same: A freestanding house and a method of selling homes and other products and services relating to real estate and finance using this house that includes at least one bedroom, at least one bathroom, a plurality of walls, and a full roof, wherein the house is located within a structure. In... Agent: Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP

20070136087 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An apparatus generates a processing route defining a processing order of plural processing processes to process print data. In the apparatus, a selection unit selects devices that can process the print data according to output setting information, and a generation unit generates at least one processing route for processing the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070136079 - Method and system for planned transportation cross-docking: A system and method are provided for planned transportation cross-docking. A predetermined route for transportation of goods from a source location to an intermediate location to a destination location is provided. A document associated with goods is generated. The document indicates the predetermined route and includes cross-docking at the intermediate... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070136088 - Method for diagnosing a leak related problem in a vehicle: The present disclosure generally pertains to a method for diagnosing a leak related problem for a vehicle. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the method comprises receiving, from a purchaser of a vehicle, a complaint about an operational performance of the vehicle, the vehicle having an abnormal leak; retrieving, in... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070136074 - Method of selling commodities and sharing sales profits using internet: The present invention relates, in general, to a method of selling commodities and sharing sales profits using the Internet and, more particularly, to a method of selling commodities and sharing sales profits using the Internet, which not only allows a commodity purchaser to give a predetermined deposit to a commodity... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070136085 - Personalized gemstone certificate card: The invention is a personalized gemstone certificate card (PGCC) and on-line process for generating the PGCC document. The PGCC is a personalized, special occasion greeting card and gemstone certification for commemorating the gift of a gemstone or jewelry piece. The PGCC is given with the gemstone to a recipient. The... Agent: Cook & Franke S.c.

20070136082 - System and method for energy diversion investigation management: A method, system and program product for managing energy diversion investigations. An energy diversion case is identified and case information is entered into an energy diversion investigation application. The data entered into the application is automatically accumulated and stored in an energy diversion investigations database. An energy diversion case file... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070136086 - System and method for providing location-based information to a mobile device: A computer system and method for allowing a user to request location-based information about businesses in a given area. The user accesses a location-based service over a global computer network, such as the Internet, from a client device. Examples of client devices used to access the service include Internet and/or... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070136078 - Vehicle event recorder systems: Vehicle recorder systems are arranged in configured with a video camera, light-weight memory systems, and radio communications facility suitable for use in conjunction with an automobile. An automobile equipped with these video recorder systems used normally throughout the service today, provides a video record of unusual events which may occur... Agent: Smartdrive Systems, Inc.

20070136083 - Vehicle payment system and method of using bidreturn communication link: Provided is a method for disabling a motor vehicle when a user of the motor vehicle fails to complete a specific task, such as making a loan or lease payment. The method comprises first determining a payment due deadline and forwarding a signal on a two-way communication system a predetermined... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070136092 - Computational and/or control systems related to individualized pharmaceutical and nutraceutical selection and packaging: The present disclosure relates to computational and/or control systems related to individualized pharmaceutical and nutraceutical selection and packaging.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070136095 - Icon queues for workflow management: Telemedicine is the practice of medicine at a distance by physicians dispersed over small to large geographic locations. The scheduling and tracking the activities of a plurality of physicians who deliver professional services by telemedicine, namely telephysicians, at discontinuous geographic locations is cumbersome and inefficient. This invention describes a command... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070136091 - Method and system for patient transfers and referrals: Techniques for patient transfers and referrals are disclosed, including generating a request for the referral and the transfer, the request including information identifying one or more specialists and one or more medical transportation service providers, sending the request for the referral and the transfer to the one or more specialists... Agent: Ryan Mctaggart

20070136089 - Method and system to optimize and automate clinical workflow: In a method for optimizing and automating patient clinical workflow where medical personnel oversee a patient from intake to an end of the clinical workflow, at least one patient monitoring unit is provided which monitors clinical activities related to the patient during at least a portion of the clinical workflow.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070136093 - Methods, systems, and programs for health and wellness management: Methods and systems for health and wellness management, including computer programs for implementing such methods and systems, are disclosed. An illustrative system for managing the health and wellness of plan members within a health plan can include a plan sponsor, a behavior modification program targeted to one or more plan... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20070136097 - Risk reduction method for surgical procedures: A system and method of training, and the equipment with which to effectively decrease the chance of surgical error, and, when an error does occur, to recognize the problem and fix it is disclosed. The application of crew management techniques combined with the surgical safety computers, safe screens and drop... Agent: Dennis L. Cook, Esq. The Law Offices Of Dennis L Cook PLLC

20070136090 - System and method for macro-enhanced clinical workflow: The present invention provides a method and system for macro-enhanced clinical workflow. The method and system enables printing of a prescription form, a laboratory test form, and a medical information handout based on at least user input to an electronic medical record (“EMR”). The method and system also enables the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070136094 - System for entertaining children while in a healthcare environment: An educational and marketing tool to be provided to children in healthcare settings such as, for example, physician offices, hospitals and outpatient facilities, is disclosed.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070136096 - Systems and methods for maintaining and accessing medical information: Methods and systems related to computer based systems for maintaining and updating a database for medical and other service providers. A computer system serving as a network server makes a relational database available to users, such as medical practitioners, nurses, and social workers. Users log in over a network connection... Agent: Morriss O''bryant Compagni, P.C.

20070136099 - Distributed medicine system: The embodiments presented in this document provide for distributed medicine systems and methods to treat patient with the distributed medicine system. A distributed medicine system includes a plurality of portable medical response units (PMRU), at one or more remote locations, communicatively coupled or connected to a plurality of medical treatment... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070136101 - Image transfer device, an image diagnostic device equipped with the same, an image management server, and an image display device: Instructions are issued for transfer or recording of medical images to other devices on a network or recording to media such as movable storage media, the historical information regarding the transfer or recording corresponding to the instructional content of a transfer or recording is attached, and the medical image with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070136103 - Method for providing medical service in hospital based on rfid: Provided is a method to provide a medical service in a hospital based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The method includes the steps of: a) storing diverse data to provide the service; b) extracting personal identification (ID) using an RFID reader from a RFID tag in a predetermined range; c)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070136102 - Methods for refining patient, staff and visitor profiles used in monitoring quality and performance at a healthcare facility: Methods, systems and computer program products are used in monitoring patients, staff, assets and visitors at a facility, initiating a response to prevent or mitigate harm, and assess and ensure overall quality and performance, and refine individual patient, staff and visitor profiles. A plurality of sensors throughout the facility provide... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070136098 - System and method for providing a secure feature set distribution infrastructure for medical device management: A system and method for providing a secure feature set distribution infrastructure for medical device management is presented. A unique association is mapped for data download between a medical device and a communications device transiently coupleable to the medical device. A configuration catalog is maintained, including operational characteristics of at... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070136100 - Systems and methods for accelerated payment of pharmacy prescription claims: Methods and systems are related to the payment of pharmacy benefits under an insurance policy. The system includes pharmacies, a real-time claims processing adjudication component, an information component and a claims processing or billing component. When a qualified patient submits a prescription to a participating pharmacy, the pharmacy collects identifying... Agent: Morriss O''bryant Compagni, P.C.

20070136108 - Class action settlement fund and method of funding a class action settlement using a mixture of cash and insurance: A class action settlement is funded by obtaining an insurance contract that is adapted to pay a benefit depending on the claims for cash payments made by class members. In one embodiment of the invention, an amount of cash sufficient to satisfy an estimated fraction of the total possible claims... Agent: Bradley Corsello 14th Floor

20070136105 - Insuring decisions within an organization: Provided are systems, methods and techniques for insuring decisions within an organization. In representative implementations, project insurance is provided to an individual working on a project for an organization. The project insurance has (i) a payout event that is defined as a failure of the project to meet a specified... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070136107 - Method and system for determining automobile insurance rates based on driving abilities of individuals: A method and system for determining an automobile insurance rate for a person by measuring a person's ability to perform a task or series of tasks, wherein the measurement correlates to a risk of loss. After the identity of the person seeking insurance is challenged and verified, a user interface... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070136106 - Method and system of managing and administering automotive glass repairs and replacements: A processing system includes one or more computers having a plurality of software modules that are connected to the Internet for remote access by an insurance companies and glass repair shops alike. The processing system manages the storage and retrieval of insurance claim information for the repair of automotive glass.... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070136104 - Method for valuation of real and personal property: A method for assessing differences in value distributions of real property and personal property coverage at an insured's site comprising collecting information on the amount of insurance coverage from various sources to provide a database and using the database information to create a distribution of values for the building and... Agent: Pepe & Hazard, LLP

20070136109 - Systems and methods for customizing homeowner's insurance: Systems and methods provide customizable insurance according to consumer preferences. Demand simulators may be used to guide the creation of optimized packages of features, which consumers may select from to form an insurance product appropriate for their particular needs. Packages may be formed with a particular appeal to consumers with... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070136111 - 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

20070136112 - 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

20070136110 - Method of table management: A method of table management utilizes a software program to manage the setup for a restaurant on any given date or occasion, prioritize seating, manage waiting lists, manage reservations, and assign seating order based on planning and layout factor information for the restaurant combined with real-time data received from the... Agent: Michael A. O'neil Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20070136117 - Information processing apparatus and workflow generation method: According to the claimed invention, an information processing apparatus generating a workflow that defines a processing order of a plurality of processes, and having a storage that stores workflow information used to define processing in the respective processes included in the workflow, comprises a reception unit adapted to receive a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070136114 - Method and system for providing audio-guided deployment of data processing systems: A method for providing audio-guided deployment of a data processing system is disclosed. An unpack instruction related to a data processing system in a first container for audio presentation is designated, and one or more position sensors in the first container are queried to determine whether the position sensors are... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070136116 - Patent-related tools and methodology for use in research and development projects: The present invention is related to patent-related tools, and methodologies involving those tools, for assisting in all stages of research and development (R&D) projects. The IPAM server may be used in conjunction with the tools and methodologies to aid in R&D projects. These tools or methods include, but are not... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070136113 - Stakeholder interests system and method: Stakeholders with an interest in content or digital works create business models which are associated by virtue of their position in a hierarchy. This positioning often corresponds to the structure of collections of content or digital works. When these are requested, business model reconciliation occurs by consulting the relevant sibling,... Agent: Etherton Law Group, LLC

20070136115 - Statistical pattern recognition and analysis: A technique is provided for analyzing a dataset. The technique includes generating multivariate parameters to capture statistical patterns over time and/or across dimensions in the dataset, and developing a dynamic model based on the multivariate parameters for analyzing the dataset.... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070136118 - Method and apparatus for customer scheduling to reduce wait times and increase throughput: A time and motion study is conducted to gather timings and factors for each portion of customer visits in an organization. This study draws data from existing management systems as well as special-purpose software built to collect additional data not available in current systems. Multiple regression is then used to... Agent: Robert M. Storwick

20070136119 - Recurrence definition identification: A solution for managing dates is provided, in which a recurrence definition that represents a list of dates using a recurrence rule is automatically identified. The recurrence definition may also include a set of exceptions, which account for variations from a recurring pattern in the list of dates. In one... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070136120 - System and method for providing service: A service providing system connected to clients comprises an acquisition unit for acquiring first data that indicates a clients' operating status; a prediction unit for predicting the failure of facilities owned by the clients based on the first data; and an output unit for outputting second data indicating resources for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070136121 - System, method, and storage medium for workflow management: A workflow management system includes a print control section that, upon receiving an instruction to print an electronic document used in a workflow, causes a printing device to print, together with the electronic document, identification information for identifying the workflow or an activity of the workflow, the workflow or the... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070136123 - Electronic method and system for monitoring destination ramp systems: A electronic method for monitoring one or more destination ramps in a manufacturing enterprise which manufactures a number of products for purchase through a number of dealers. The method includes the steps of receiving ramp profile information for one or more destination ramps and daily activity information for the one... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070136122 - Interactive billboard and contact service: An electronic billboard provides a “third-party” response-number for viewers to respond to a currently displayed electronic message. For the duration that a message is displayed on the electronic billboard, and optionally for a short duration afterwards, calls that are received at the response-number are routed to a contact-number of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070136125 - Method and system for evaluating consumer demand for multiple products and services at remotely located equipment: A method and system are provided for estimating consumer demand at remotely located equipment and establishing dispatch schedules for servicing the remotely located equipment. Data from the remotely located equipment may be classified into a hierarchy or various levels of reliability for use in calculating a consumer demand estimate for... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070136124 - Method, program, and system for conducting trade studies and evaluation activities: A comparative evaluation of a plurality of alternative candidates is performed by creating a plurality of evaluation criteria for evaluating the alternative candidates, comparing pairs of the evaluation criteria and assigning a relative weight to each compared pair of evaluation criteria, assigning an evaluation value to the evaluation criteria for... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070136126 - System and method for multi-enterprise supply chain optimization: A method of optimizing multi-enterprise supply chain agreements using an electronic scenario based option contract includes creating at a buyer computer a plurality of scenarios of forecasted demand for one or more products and communicating from the buyer computer to a seller computer an offer to enter into an option... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20070136128 - Method and system to provide electronic parking validation for drivers using a pay by cell parking system: A method and a system provide electronic parking validation using a pay by cell parking system is disclosed. The system allows any entity to offer instant parking credit covering a portion or the whole amount of parking charges. The credit is directly applicable to the current parking charges. The system... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070136127 - Vehicle parking system: A vehicle parking system has at least one host computer and multiple gate controllers set respectively at an entrance of a corresponding parking space and connected to the host computer. Each gate controller has an auto-restraining and parking fee charging and collection capability. When a vehicle enters a parking space,... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070136129 - Customer data collection system: A method includes identifying a usage fee and a monitoring fee for a user of a multifunction system over a time period. The monitoring fee entitles the user to receive monitoring of one or more usage data points on the multifunction system over the time period. Each usage data points... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070136131 - Delivery, organization, and redemption of virtual offers from the internet, interactive-tv, wireless devices and other electronic means: Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with consumers' credit cards for redemption. In disclosed methods, coupon databases are associated with consumers and associated with the consumers' credit cards. Coupon offers are stored in the coupon databases and are redeemed by consumers by the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070136133 - Digital signage transaction and delivery methods: Methods for providing digital signage advertisements for display in retail locations are described. In an embodiment, the method comprises facilitating an on-line transaction for digital signage advertisement space in a retail location, receiving a digital signage advertisement responsive to the on-line transaction, and providing over an electronic network the digital... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070136130 - Interactive multimedia push system and method of operating the same: A communication device for interactive advertising includes a first interface for communicating with a server receiving from the server a media presentation of a product including purchase information of the product retrievable by a portable device, and a second interface for communicating with the portable device displaying the media presentation... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070136134 - Method and system for generating revenue using a multi-screen display system: A method of generating advertising revenue using a multi-screen display system is provided. The method includes providing a multi-screen display system having a plurality of screens, and dedicating and advertisement screen, chosen from the plurality of screens, for showing an advertisement. The method also includes showing an advertisement on at... Agent: Mass Engineered Design Inc.

20070136136 - Method of intercepting and replacing advertising content: A method of detecting and replacing advertisements within HTML documents provided to a user of a web browser is presented, where the user is operating with a computer display as part of a server based computing environment. The method providing for the replacement of advertisements based upon different criteria according... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070136135 - Permanent category-based promotion for credit card usage: A series of time-bounded bonus rewards programs is disclosed for offering by a financial institution. Consumers enroll in each program and are thereafter provided bonus rewards on consumer purchases with a credit card on goods and services from one or more select merchant categories until the program's expiration. These bonus... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070136137 - Remote feature delivery for output devices: A programmable feature is remotely delivered to an output device, such as a printer. The delivery of the feature is initiated by the customer tendering payment for the feature. The customer is provided with a coupon and the coupon is subsequently redeemed. The customer receives a feature key in response... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20070136132 - Systems and methods for distributing promotions over message broadcasting and local wireless systems: A system and method for distributing promotions to mobile devices located in a broadcast target area and as a function of a promotion client identifier, the system and method including transmitting a first plurality of promotions associated with a plurality of promotion clients having locations in a target area, receiving... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070136138 - System and method for analyzing network bandwidth: The present invention relates to a system and method comprising, estimating the workload generation by an application under development at an early stage in the lifecycle. In these aspects, using actual business volume data, use case details and the screens associated with each, the present system estimates approximate bandwidth requirements... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070136139 - Apparatus and method of protecting user's privacy information and intellectual property against denial of information attack: Provided are an apparatus and method of protecting a user's privacy information and corporate intellectual property against a denial-of-information (DoI) attack, and more particularly, a privacy & intellectual property protection framework (PIPPF) and a network-based privacy & intellectual property protection system (NPIPPS). The PIPPF includes the NPIPPS and an integrated... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070136143 - Method for creating an on-line leads marketplace by automatically submitting contact information in a standard electronic format: A method is presented for creating an on-line leads marketplace by capturing contact information and transmitting it electronically to an on-line leads marketplace. Contact information from visitors to websites or registrants to Podcasts or RSS feeds is electronically submitted to an on-line leads marketplace in a standard format, where it... Agent: Maad Abu-ghazalah

20070136140 - Provision of shopping information to mobile devices: A system for communicating information relating to an item to a mobile unit comprises a search component that receives a request relating to the item from the mobile unit over an intranet and searches inventory of a plurality of merchants for information relating to the item. A communication component provides... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070136142 - System and method for providing image products and/or services: A system and method for obtaining photographic products and/or services comprises bundling image capture and printing technologies into products and/or services that are paid for by a consumer with monthly or yearly subscription fees. The system and method involves selecting a camera and selecting a photographic products/service plan which designates... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070136145 - System and method for transmitting information regarding supplies and suppliers for image forming equipment: A method and a system to help users of image forming equipment make informed decision on when to order supplied therefor and from which supplier. The equipment at the user side automatically sends status information to a service center that keeps a database of independent suppliers. The service center analyzes... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070136141 - System and method that provides for trading monetary, goods, or services: A system and method that includes web server or a newspaper ad that allows people to trade their monetary, goods or services for someone else monetary, goods, or services by depositing the variable value of the monetary, goods, or services into a Deposit Bank. A method comprise of a posting... Agent: Su Van Nguyen

20070136144 - System which enables a mobile telephone to be used to locate goods or services: A system which enables a mobile telephone to be used to locate goods or services, comprising the following elements: (a) a communications network to allow a mobile telephone operator to receive, from the mobile telephone, criteria defining the goods or services required; (b) a searching system connected to receive the... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070136146 - Online shopping system: An online shopping system that permits a customer to submit online orders for items and/or services from a store that serves both walk-in customers and online customers. The online shopping system presents an online display of an order cutoff time and an associated delivery window for items selected by the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070136147 - Philanthropy management apparatus, system, and methods of use and doing business: A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitable projects and provides remote users and others with management tools... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070136148 - Philanthropy management apparatus, system, and methods of use and doing business: A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitable projects and provides remote users and others with management tools... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070136149 - Restricted purchase of regulated items over a network: A technique is disclosed for implementing electronic commerce transactions via a data network. A regulated item selected by a customer is identified. The regulated item may correspond to an item which satisfies predetermined criteria, indicating that the regulated item is prohibited from being purchased by the customer. Action is then... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20070136153 - Apparatus for managing inventory in internet based multistage logistics collaborative system and method thereof: An apparatus and method for managing inventory in an Internet based multistage logistics collaborative system are provided. The apparatus includes: an inventory management apparatus for managing sale and inventory information in real time, determining whether an automatic product supply to perform or not based on inventory in each distributor, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070136150 - Identifying potential modifications of a shipping item design: Systems and methods of identifying potential modifications of a shipping item design are described. In one aspect, a first number of homogeneous copies of the shipping item in a first design state that fit on a specified shipping pallet is identified. One or more modifications of the shipping item's design... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070136152 - Methods and apparatus for managing location information for movable objects: Systems and techniques for locating stored goods. A plurality of fixed contactless identification devices are deployed in an area. Each fixed device exhibits a fixed device identifier that can be read from a distance. Locations within the area are identified through mapping to combinations of fixed device identifiers detected at... Agent: Paul W. Martin

20070136151 - Post storing correction: Methods and apparatus provide a delay in posting a confirmation of a warehouse activity in a warehouse having decentralized management. The delay enables a process to be performed with respect to the goods associated with the confirmation. For example, the delay can enable a CRM system to route the goods... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070136154 - Tracking apparatus and method, as for an exhibition: A method and system for conducting an exhibition wherein a visitor having a visitor smart tag visits a plurality of stations comprises a plurality of stations each having a smart tag reader and an electronic memory associated therewith for storing information, e.g., identification information, therein. A visitor smart tag may... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20070136155 - Financial dimension sets and hierarchies: A computer-implemented accounting system supports financial transaction data entry using dimensions. Dimension sets are defined to include one or more selected dimensions. A hierarchy is defined relative to a dimension set, which hierarchy constrains allowed dimension values relative to the dimension set. One or more rules are defined relative to... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070136156 - Multi-jurisdictional payroll requirements: Payroll requirements are compiled from a plurality of jurisdictions. A plurality of payroll codes are cataloged that are required in one of the plurality of jurisdictions. A user representation includes the plurality of payroll codes. An implementation representation of calculating pay is formed. The implementation representation is based on the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070136158 - Accurate tax calculation: A facility for accurately computing taxes is described. In various embodiments, the facility receives configuration information, receiving a set of tax-related information, storing the received the tax-related information, and employs the stored tax-related information to calculate taxes for a transaction. In various embodiments, a system calculates taxes. The system comprises... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070136159 - Accurate tax calculation and modeling: A facility for accurately computing taxes is described. In various embodiments, the facility requests transaction information from a universal connector, requests a tax service provider to calculate taxes based on the transaction information, and reports the calculated taxes. In various embodiments, the facility additionally receives business practice change information and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070136157 - Disposable tax return preparation device: A tax return preparation kit is provided that contains a disposable tax return preparation device for receiving taxpayer input of tax related data for use in preparing an electronic tax return. The disposable tax return preparation device is adapted to prepare an electronic tax return based on the tax related... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070136160 - Tax refund system: A tax refund system is disclosed in which in exchange for a taxpayer assigning all or a portion of his or her tax refund, a participating provider provides to the taxpayer a spending vehicle with buying power at participating outlets. Tax return data for an individual's tax return is processed... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20070136165 - Computer software and system for automatic stock dealings: A computer readable medium is configured with instructions for causing a first computer system connected to a computer system of stock exchange market via a data communication network to automatically place a series of stock trade orders. The first computer system can include, for instance, a user computer, a brokerage... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070136166 - Invoiceless trading and settlement method and system: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention overcome the shortcomings of existing trading systems by providing an invoiceless trading system that creates incentives for customers to pay suppliers within a predetermined period of time, such as a settlement period. Specifically, the invoiceless trading system enables a customer to obtain... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070136167 - Method and apparatus for implementing financial transactions: A withdrawal of assets is initiated from a first account at a first financial institution. A deposit of the assets withdrawn from the first account is initiated to a second account at a second financial institution. The first account and the second account have a common account holder. The withdrawal... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070136168 - Method and apparatus for implementing financial transactions: A withdrawal of assets is initiated from a first account at a first financial institution. A deposit of the assets withdrawn from the first account is initiated to a second account at a second financial institution. The first account and the second account have a common account holder. The withdrawal... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070136169 - Method and apparatus for implementing financial transactions: A withdrawal of assets is initiated from a first account at a first financial institution. A deposit of the assets withdrawn from the first account is initiated to a second account at a second financial institution. The first account and the second account have a common account holder. The withdrawal... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070136161 - Method for funding establishment and operation of a trauma center: A method for securing funding for at least one of the establishment and operation of a Level I or Level II trauma center. A community in which a trauma center is to be established and/or maintained is identified. In addition, a plurality of local businesses in the community that may... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070136162 - Methods and systems for providing a purchase package for a vehicle: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a purchase package for a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving, at a financial account provider, information associated with a purchase package for a purchase transaction between a first merchant and the customer for a vehicle provided by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070136164 - Methods and systems for variable annuity risk management: In one aspect the invention comprises systems and methods for providing hedging against loss of value of a block of variable annuity policies to be sold, between the signing and closing dates of the transaction. In one embodiment, a purchase price adjustment grid (or formula) is used to adjust the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070136163 - Systems and methods for providing financing information based on a vehicle identification number: Systems and methods allow a customer to obtain a monthly payment and view possible financing options while shopping for a vehicle on a dealership's lot. A server may receive a VIN, calculate a monthly payment based on customer parameters, and transmit a message to a wireless device being used by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070136174 - Method and apparatus for managing information and communications related to municipal bonds and other securities: The present invention is a method and apparatus for gathering information from issuers of municipal securities and distributing information evenly to municipal disclosure repositories, regulatory bodies and the public. A central aspect of the present invention is a computer application, which can be implemented on a computer system that is... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070136172 - Method and system for construction of a passive absolute return index: The methodology described herein arranges a collection of positive return streams or market “betas” where a diversified set of these return streams are available at a lower cost. The methodology combines known risk premiums and exotic betas to arrive at its results. For example, such a method of identifying eligible... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070136171 - Method for picking securities: The invention is directed to a method, which may be used for selecting securities for purchase or sale. The method includes the use of customer polling. The customer polling may include questions, which are useful in determining customer perception as to which brands and companies are gaining, or falling, in... Agent: David A. Harlow Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

20070136173 - System for co-operative investing including co-operative option and futures exchange for structured financial products with revenue sharing: A system for co-operative trading of options and futures through an automated Internet portal for structured financial products such as a butterfly spread option call or put, and utilizing a co-operative option and future exchange of investor member units for revenue or profit sharing among investors of pre-selected structured financial... Agent: Sanford J. Piltch, Esq.

20070136170 - Variable momentum monitoring system: A variable momentum monitoring system including the steps of:receiving from a user an identification of a required variable data input; obtaining the current live static value (LSV) of the identified required data input from a dynamic live data-stream and determining it as a base reference input (RI); calculating at least... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070136176 - Auction system: The invention pertains to a system, and method, for auctioning articles, or products of various types, via a public data transmission network, such as the Internet. The bidders participate by submitting a bid via their bidder terminal, to the auction platform, which is integrated into the data transmission system, and... Agent: Hoffman Wasson & Gitler, P.c Crystal Center 2, Suite 522

20070136183 - Computer based matching system for buyers and sellers: A computer based system is disclosed which enables a buyer and a seller to be efficiently matched. The system can comprise a web based foreign exchange platform in which parties and counterparties post their requirements. A computer identifies and matches reciprocal, offsetting positions and effects a trade at a price... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070136181 - Method for establishing a value for a non-market security: Provided is a method and apparatus for establishing a value for a non-marketable security in which an electronic forum is provided for trading the securities and in which the value of the security is established by matches between sell offers and buy offers.... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20070136182 - Montage for automated market system: An electronic market for trading of securities includes a plurality of client stations for entering quotes for securities and a server process that receives quotes from the clients, aggregates the quotes and causes a total of all aggregated quotes to be displayed for a plurality of price levels on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070136175 - On-line auction system and the method for the same: The present invention provides a method for on-line auction. According to the present invention including the steps of deciding whether there is an auction opened for a particular item, producing a new auction for the item if there is no auction opened for the item, withdrawing a present price inspection... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070136177 - Registry for on-line auction system: A method and a system to conduct an on-line auction within a network-based commerce system with respect to offerings on a registry. The method includes in particular receiving offer data pertaining to offerings from a plurality of potential sellers, the offer data including seller identification data and offering identification data.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070136179 - System & method for providing reverse auction services: Reverse auction services are provided by processing a user logon request. If the user selects a buy transaction, these reverse auction services include providing a buy transaction service to the user. If the user selects a sell transaction, these reverse auction services include a sell transaction service. The buy transaction... Agent: Stephen R. Uriarte

20070136180 - System and methods for creating, trading, and settling currency futures contracts: The present invention provides for an electronic exchange that provides a marketplace for the trading and settling of currency futures contracts, having methods and systems that include features such as an enhanced execution facility, clearing facility and futures contracts to facilitate such market without the disadvantages of the existing foreign... Agent: Clifford Chance US LLP

20070136178 - Trust based architecture for listing service: A unique system and method that facilitates trust-based interaction within an online social marketplace is provided. The system and method involve allowing users of the marketplace to selectively interact with one another according to a trustworthiness factor. Users can be deemed trustworthy depending on which email groups they belong to... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070136186 - Automated loan evaluation system: Disclosed is a system and method of creating a probability of delinquency database using historical loan data and a plurality of loan factors, for use in determining a loan rate, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of multi-level loan factors; creating a pool from the historic loan data, wherein the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070136187 - Automated loan evaluation system: Disclosed is a system and method of creating a probability of delinquency database using historical loan data and a plurality of loan factors, for use in determining a loan rate, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of multi-level loan factors; creating a pool from the historic loan data, wherein the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070136185 - 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

20070136184 - Sharing credit information between credit-providing companies and debt-collection companies: Credit information is shared between credit-providing companies and debt-collection companies. A computer-implemented method includes receiving over a network first data from credit-providing companies. The first data represents credit information regarding debtors. This first data is stored within a centralized database. The method also includes receiving over the network second data... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070136188 - System and method for managing financial account information: A system is provided that includes a party file having a plurality of party records with each of the plurality of party records having party information relating to one of a plurality of parties. Also included is an account file having a plurality of account records with each of the... Agent: Joseph Levi, Esq. Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP

20070136189 - On-line cash register for use in providing a consumer-to-consumer payment service: A method for enabling two individual consumers to complete a transaction that includes payment from one consumer (the payor, or buyer) to another consumer (the payee, or seller). An intermediary typically operates the service over a computer network of nodes, such as the Internet. The buyer has the convenience of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070136191 - Electronic funds transfer: A consumer may make an electronic bill payment from his financial institution account to an intermediary for a certain amount. Data related to the bill payment transaction may be sent to a facilitation server associated with the intermediary. This data may be filtered to determine whether or not the data... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070136190 - Electronic service procurement and invoicing system: This invention relates to a system and method for creating a novel electronic service procurement and invoicing system.... Agent: The Intellect Law Group

20070136192 - Method and system for facilitating payment of an online auction transaction: A method for enabling two individual consumers to complete a transaction that includes payment from one consumer (the payor, or buyer) to another consumer (the payee, or seller). An intermediary typically operates the service over a computer network of nodes, such as the Internet. The buyer has the convenience of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070136194 - Hybrid card: A card-issuing financial institution provides a hybrid card for extending and building credit. The issued hybrid card has credit and debit functionality, and an account linked to the hybrid card to hold cardholder funds. The account provides security and a credit limit for extensions of credit and direct access to... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070136193 - Methods, transactional cards, and systems using account identifers customized by the account holder: Account identifiers for accounts such as credit and debit accounts are customized by the account holder. The account identifiers may include both numerical and non-numerical characters. The account identifiers may include various combinations of letters and numbers and may include words or even phrases. The name of the account holder,... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070136196 - Automated banking machine apparatus and system: An ATM is operative to conduct financial transactions in response to messages exchanged with a server via the Internet. The server is operative to send markup language documents to the ATM. The ATM includes a browser and can process received markup language documents. The documents include instructions that cause the... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070136195 - Providing communication service sessions: A communication system and method thereof are configured to provide a service including a communication network including a charging entity and a service provision node. A user terminal is configured to transmit a session control message to the charging entity identifying a service provision threshold determined by a user of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070136199 - Device for selectively blocking remote purchase requests: A method for partially verifying the legitimacy of a remote purchase request based on a card number from a card issuing financial institution. The method includes receiving and storing a first purchase request information set including an origin and a card number. Further, the origin and the card number are... Agent: Jonathan A. Small JasIPConsulting

20070136198 - Method of facilitating the tracing and/or auditing of operations performed during check image processing: A number of methods of processing checks are provided that enable the various parties involved in processing/clearing the checks to be able to audit the movement of the check, and specifically an image of the check, through the check processing/clearing system. In particular, cryptographic techniques are employed allow the various... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070136197 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for authorizing a service request based on account-holder-configured authorization rules: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for authorizing a service request based on account-holder-configured authorization rules. A request for service is received at a service provider from a service requester. The service provider communicates with an authorization agent for applying an account-holder-configured authorization rule specific to the service... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070136200 - Backup broker for private, integral and affordable distributed storage: A backup broker maintains a list of destination computers that may be ranked according to ability to satisfy quality service requires corresponding to data backup. When a source computer requests that any target file be backed up, the backup broker indicates one or more destination computers meeting a designated quality... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070136204 - Apparatus and method for implementing digital rights management systems in low-efficiency storage device: A host device and a method of implementing Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems in a low-efficiency storage device are provided. The host device includes a plurality of DRM systems and a DRM system-shared interface module. The DRM systems provide pieces of DRM-related data and data identifiers (IDs) which identify the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136201 - Customized container document modules using preferences: Accordingly, various exemplary embodiments of the present inventions may be directed to a method comprising storing preference information for a user related to a module for use with a container document, transmitting the preference information with a request for data related to the module and receiving module data customized based... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070136202 - Personal-information managing apparatus, method of providing personal information, computer product, and personal-information-providing system: An access-permission-information issuing unit issues access permission information for accessing personal information on a user, in response to a request from a personal terminal of the user. A personal-information notifying unit notifies a destination terminal of the personal information corresponding to the access permission information, under conditions that the destination... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070136203 - Subscriber management system and method thereof in the digital multimedia broadcasting: Disclosed are a subscriber management system and a method thereof using OOB (Out Of Band) channel in the DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting). The system of the invention transmits a message for the alteration of the subscriber information to terminal through the OOB, and receives the result of the transmitting of... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20070136205 - Digital rights management unit for a digital rights management system: The present invention relates to a DRM user unit (2) for interacting with DRM client units (3) and DRM server units (1) of a DRM system, said DRM client units (3) storing digital data objects (DDO) and said DRM server units (1) issuing digital rights objects (DRO) representing usage rights... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070136206 - System for intellectual property trading: The risks encountered by a buyer of intellectual property rights are reduced by an intellectual property rights audit process by which the intellectual property rights of a seller undergoes the audit where the seller is assisted by an intellectual property rights listing agent. To reduce the risks to the seller... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz LLP

20070136207 - Locking of applications for specially marked content: A method, device and computer program for locking applications running on a wireless device for specially marked content is presented wherein the application is marked in a special way to condition the device software to recognize that the application is restricted to specific content. A specific piece of content is... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070136208 - Image output apparatus and image output method: A terminal 102 creates setting data 400 and inputs setting data 400 into an image output apparatus 101. The image output apparatus 101 sets the initial settings, operation settings, equipment settings, etc. based on the setting data, holds the setting data, and performs various processes based on the set settings... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070136209 - Digital object title authentication: Embodiments for authenticating digital object title are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070136211 - Financial transactions with dynamic card verification values: A payment card comprises an internal dynamic card verification value (CVV) generator and a user display for card-not-present transactions. Card-present transactions with merchant card readers are enabled by a dynamic magnetic array internally associated with the card's magnetic stripe. The user display and a timer are triggered by the suer... Agent: Patents Pending

20070136210 - Method for the automatic control of fraud in an electronic transaction system: A method of automatically controlling fraud in an electronic transaction system. When a user initiates a session in the electronic transaction system, an element is generated and stored in a database in association with information identifying the user. Each time during the session the user commands the execution of an... Agent: Thomas Langer Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane

20070136212 - Systems and methods for protecting confidential information through geodemographic information aggregation: Systems and methods for providing demographic information for a geo-demographic cluster area within a predefined geographic region are disclosed. An illustrative method may include the steps of associating selected data entries from multiple databases with parcels of land in a predefined geographic region, generating household-specific demographic profiles for each parcel... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20070136213 - Inline system to detect and show proof of indicia fraud: A method that utilizes a first process that detects if a first printed region that is a fraudulent copy based on information associated with the first printed region; and utilizes the information obtained in the first process to determine in a second process if a second printed region is a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070136214 - Method for managing consumable material: A method for managing consumable material required to produce an indicia on pieces of markable material. The method is provided having the steps of: providing a device having consumable material, the device adapted to produce the indicia with the consumable material; providing a central location; connecting the device to the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070136216 - Technique for effectively generating postage indicia using a postal security device: In a franking system, a postal security device (PSD) is used to account for postage dispensation, and generate digital signatures for inclusion in postage indicia to authenticate same. In accordance with the invention, the PSD includes multiple crypto processors which participate in franking transactions and generate the digital signatures in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070136215 - Truncation of undeliverable mailpieces: Instead of returning undeliverable mail to mailers, a postal authority such as the U.S. Postal Service destroys the mail, while electronically transmitting, to the mailer, data that identifies undeliverable mailpieces and reasons why the mailpieces could not be delivered.... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. Intellectual Property And Technology Law Dept.

20070136217 - Method and apparatus for remotely monitoring electricity rates: A system and method are provided for remotely capturing, processing and displaying spot electricity pricing information that enable a consumer to conveniently monitor market prices and use such information to determine when and how to consume electricity. A terminal is conveniently located within the residence of the consumer, and is... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070129960 - Corporate actions monitoring, evaluation and notification system and method: A computer-based, secure system for receiving, processing, analyzing, evaluating and reporting corporate action information. The system provides a functional data environment for processing corporate action information, keeping track of securities, holders, accounts, officers, and other types of essential corporate actions records, and generating appropriate notifications and responses. Corporate action data... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070129958 - Data sharing system and method: System and method for sharing data between a 3rd party website and a desktop application program on a user's computer, wherein the web pages of the 3rd party website access data associated with the application program such that the 3rd party web pages drive the data exchange. The 3rd party... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070129957 - Mail piece verification system and method: An image-based verification system integrates with mail finishing equipment, such as an inserter, in much the same way as a postage meter. The verification system registers individual mail pieces as they are processed and dynamically builds a postage summary report to accompany mail when it is sent to the post... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070129954 - Mapping and quality control system and method for the distribution of flyers, circulars and the like: A mapping and quality control system and method for the distribution of flyers, circulars and other such hardcopy media is disclosed. For example, a Web based system for displaying location-specific market data for an area in view of targeting a delivery of hardcopy media via a carrier in the area... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070129965 - Method and system for anonymous communication of information: A system for establishing anonymous communications includes a plurality of party terminals, a plurality of requester terminals, and a central controller. The system receives and stores party data about respective parties. Upon receiving criteria for parties of interest from a requester terminal and authorization from respective parties, the central controller... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070129966 - Method and system for anonymous communication of information: A system for establishing anonymous communications includes a plurality of party terminals, a plurality of requester terminals, and a central controller. The system receives and stores party data about respective parties. Upon receiving criteria for parties of interest from a requester terminal and authorization from respective parties, the central controller... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070129956 - Method for selecting media products: A method of selecting media products through use of collective intelligence includes making a representation of each of the candidate media products available to a plurality of evaluators and providing an electronic forum for said plurality of evaluators to engage in a process in which the evaluators evaluate and predict... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070129953 - Methods and systems for information strategy management: Systems and methods for information strategy management enable users to define and automate the flow and use of business intelligence within an organization. Users who to receive specific business intelligence content are identified by reference to their roles within the organization. The content, and conditions under which it is sent,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070129955 - System and method for issuing and using a loyalty point advance: A system and method for spending loyalty points over a computerized network to facilitate a loyalty point transaction is disclosed. The system enables a participant of a loyalty program to accept an advance of loyalty point when a loyalty account balance is insufficient to make a desired purchase. An amount... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070129964 - Systems and methods for transporting ordered products: Systems and methods are provided for processing a customer order specifying products and required quantities. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method performs a plurality of availability checks for the specified products with at least one location. Each availability check creates a result that comprises one or more products, locations, and... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070129959 - Virtual business card and method for sharing contact information electronically: An apparatus and system for sharing contact information for a contact information database electronically, the system comprising a first and second electronic device, each of device having memory module for storing data, the devices having contact information stored as computer readable data and an integrated wireless radio module, for wirelessly... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20070129961 - Virtual business restructuring methods: Virtual restructuring methods according to the present invention provide a mechanism for a diversified company or a joint business enterprise encompassing a plurality of business units having a degree of autonomy over their business operations, and having their own business methods and legacy information systems, to nevertheless reach customers as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070129962 - Virtual business restructuring methods: Virtual restructuring methods according to the present invention provide a mechanism for a diversified company or a joint business enterprise encompassing a plurality of business units having a degree of autonomy over their business operations, and having their own business methods and legacy information systems, to nevertheless reach customers as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070129963 - Virtual business restructuring methods: Virtual restructuring methods according to the present invention provide a mechanism for a diversified company or a joint business enterprise encompassing a plurality of business units having a degree of autonomy over their business operations, and having their own business methods and legacy information systems, to nevertheless reach customers as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070129967 - Automated method for medical care management: A computer-assisted method for diagnosing and treating illnesses and health complaints in patients in which diagnosis is performed by following processes specified in one or more diagnostic templates and treatment occurs pursuant to processes specified in one or more treatment templates. Both types of templates include processes related to selected... Agent: Woods, Rogers, P.L.C

20070129968 - System and method for developing a program in a health care facility: A system and method is set forth to utilize the capabilities of a communication through a computer network to make automation of the development of a hospital program feasible. Specifically, the timelines, guidelines, documentation, government standards, and other components of program implementation are set forth in an online application that... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20070129970 - Method and apparatus for location and presentation of information in an electronic patient record that is relevant to a user, in particular to a physician for supporting a decision: A method and apparatus for location and presentation of information in at least one electronic patient record that is relevant to a user, in particular relevant to a physician for supporting a decision or diagnosis, wherein depending on data with regard to at least one input of information into and/or... Agent: Schiff Hardin LLP Patent Department

20070129969 - Methods and apparatus for a medical data entry system: An efficient system for entry of patient information for use by a medical office, the system including a patient data entry system and an administration system for converting the patient information for use in medical office management systems. Patient data entry may also be performed remotely over the Internet. By... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070129971 - System and method for automated management and training in custom home design and build projects: The invention includes a system and method for using a database to sell a custom home project to a buyer. Electronic construction information related to specifications and costs associated with a plurality of projects is stored in the database. Further, electronic construction information related to specifications and costs associated with... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070129972 - System and method of dispensing insurance through a computer network: Systems and methods for facilitating the dispensing of insurance and of an insurance company selling insurance policies are provided, which may be network or Internet based, and may be managed through a general agent. Policy information from insurance companies may be received or stored. Data may be received from customers... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070129974 - Parking lot reservation system with electronic identification: A parking lot reservation system in which each vehicle sends to a remote server through a GPRS module a park reservation request carrying the information of the ID code and current location of the vehicle and specific conditions, and the remote server searches a parking lot database to select the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070129973 - System and a method for electronic registration of flying time and cosmic radiation: A system for electronic registration of air travel logbooks, wherein data input is performed by a person in two steps. The first step includes the input of data into a terminal and the correction of any errors. The second step includes the permainent storage and processing of the data in... Agent: Howard J. Klein Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070129975 - System for and method of providing services at a minimal price: A traveler provides parameters (e.g., origin, destination, price, date, departure time) for purchasing a ticket. The price may be below the established airline price. A calculation is provided of parameters (e.g., prices, dates, time) of flights of airlines traveling between the origin and the destination. A comparison is made between... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070129976 - Apparatus and methods for process and project management and control: An apparatus and method for project or process management and control. The apparatus and method are based on detailed task information, as obtained from miscellaneous sources, especially e-mail and other personal productivity tools. The apparatus and method create tasks and processes relevant for a project and provide real-time status information,... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070129979 - Method and system for supporting business process design by modeling role relationship: A business process design support system in the invention includes: the business process definition unit 201 of the business process definition system 2 which receives role relationship information defined by a designer, etc. and transmits the information to the risk/synergy evaluation system 3; the risk/synergy extraction unit 301 which extracts... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070129978 - Production plan apparatus: A plurality of takeoff objectives are set based on a takeoff request with respect to a target step in production lines, at least throughput of each production line, and basic information of a production plan for each production line, production plan data satisfying the plurality of takeoff objectives is obtained,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129977 - User interface incorporating data ecosystem awareness: A computer-implemented user interface embodied in a screen display comprises a plurality of data display components that each contain an indication of data that is selected based on a calculated assumption of contextual relevance to a characteristic of another display component.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070129981 - Business solution management: A method, system, and program product for managing one or more business solutions is provided. One or more candidate business solutions, each of which has a corresponding set of resource requirements and a corresponding business value that is based on a risk and an expected return are used to generate... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070129982 - Decentralised audit system in collaborative workflow environment: A system to manage a workflow includes a workflow model having a version, the version being executable by an execution engine as a specific workflow instance. The system includes a workflow data monitor to receive and associate audit information with an object processed by an execution engine in terms of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070129986 - Multi-layered online calendaring and purchasing: A computer-implemented method and system for generating and displaying a calendar containing user-selected events from user-selected categories. A plurality of categories of events are provided. The user can select which categories are of interest, and then select individual events within those categories. Events are overlaid on a calendar unique to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070129984 - Systems and methods for consolidating order processing items: Systems and methods are provided for processing, within a supply chain management system, a product order received from a customer. In one implementation, a method is provided that comprises determining, based on the received order, a consolidation location for the products and performing a TPOP check for at least a... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070129985 - Systems and methods for third party order processing: Systems and methods are provided for processing a product order which is directed from a customer to a first supplier. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes receiving a product order from a customer. Based on the received product order, the method determines products to be procured... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070129983 - Task and workflow management system for healthcare and other applications: A task management system uses patient tags (e.g., wireless RFID, Infrared tracking, GPS etc.) for patient location tracking, together with an integrated workflow system to automatically, track patient location how long they have been there and how many patients are at the same location (e.g., waiting room) and manages waiting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070129980 - Transactional atomicity in service interactions of business processes: Various implementations are disclosed for enabling transactions in which a reply constraint(s) is defined between a minimum and maximum number of a defined group of recipients that are requested to respond to a sender within a defined time limit. Further, a determination of whether the reply constraint is satisfied is... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070129987 - On-line business-packet creator for electronic forms: A method for identifying forms required for a business transaction and providing a packet containing the required forms to a requestor is provided. The method includes storing a set of rules in a first memory region accessible by a server, and storing for each of a plurality of tasks at... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070129988 - Apparatus and method for supplementing a data report with a highlighted exception trend: A method of processing data includes manipulating a data set to produce initial data results including an individual data value. The data set is compared to a data change function over a period of time to selectively identify trend data. Indicia of the trend data is superimposed on the individual... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070129994 - Architecture designing method and system for e-business solutions: The invention provides a method for designing an architecture for e-business solutions. A business description of the e-business solution is developed. The business description describes each actor and each business function in the e-business solution. The business description further describes each interaction among one or more actors and one or... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070129991 - Method and system for providing dynamic orthodontic assessment and treatment profiles: Method and system for providing dynamically generated orthodontic profile and associated treatment information is provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070129989 - Optimized tire category management method: A method of product category management that is not dependent on product sales history includes defining market segments to serve; setting a product screen of product characteristics for existing product lines and proposed product lines; calculating at least one trade area; determining product population and product demand potential within the... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070129995 - Performance-based marketing system and method: Systems and methods are provided for tracking new customer contacts to reward agency performance. A client tracking website is generated which includes tracking contact information usable by a customer to contact a client. A new customer contact database is provided to receive and log contact information when a customer uses... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070129992 - Re-optimization technique for use with an automated supply chain optimizer: An explanation device operates to generate explanatory information for a user regarding the cause of any demands that could not be satisfied by an automated supply chain optimizer. The explanation device identifies the cause for any unsatisfied demands by successfully relaxing various supply chain constraints while controlling the supply chain... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070129993 - System and method for automated lead nurturing: A system for multi-level e-marketing and automatic nurturing leads comprises an application for defining the parameters of a marketing program, an application for automatically sending online offers to a selected list of leads, an application for extracting score factors from responses, an application for scheduling follow-up nurturing communications, and at... Agent: Dahyee Law Group

20070129990 - System, method and computer program product for dynamically serving advertisements in an executing computer game based on the entity having jurisdiction over the advertising space in the game: A system, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing and measuring a software application, such as a video game, executing on a computing device, without having to change and recompile the original application code. The system includes a staging environment that monitors the execution of the application and indexes... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070129996 - Utilizing small group call center agents to improve productivity without impacting service level targets: In a call center, a plurality of agents comprises at least a first group associated with a first skill and a second group associated with a second skill. The second group may have a substantially larger number of agents than the first group, and accordingly the first and second groups... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070130004 - Ad campaign optimization: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods that optimize advertisement campaigns. In particular, total utility that can be derived by an advertiser given particular keywords is maximized. The price of each keyword/slot pair can be determined or estimated and bids adjusted automatically to maximize advertiser utility or return on... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070130015 - Advertisement revenue sharing for distributed video: A video distribution method modifies video to incorporate a tag that associates the video with an advertisement and facilitates payment of a share of advertising revenue to an owner of the video when the video and/or its associated advertisement are displayed at a client device.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070130008 - Apparatus, system, and method for listing aggregation: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for listing aggregation. The present invention may include a selection module configured select one or more publishers from a plurality of independent publishers in response to user input. The independent publishers are registered to distribute and publish a listing for a user. The... Agent: David J. Mckenzie

20070130012 - 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

20070129999 - Fraud detection in web-based advertising: Attributes of new account information and advertising campaigns for advertisers are evaluated by a fraud detection engine of a fraud system and a fraud score is augmented where fraud is suspected. The fraud detection engine evaluates the attributes of the advertising campaign, including attributes such as bid amount, maximum cost... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070130000 - Marketing and rewards system and method: An apparatus and method for providing a marketing program for a selected group of merchants which provides incentives to consumers to purchase goods and/or services from the selected group of merchants. The method comprises establishing one or more merchant selection rules, registering a consumer wishing to participate in the program,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070130010 - Media marketing system and method: A system and process is provided for distributing branding and content messages to wireless mobile devices such as mobile handsets. The system has a mobile media portal process that enables a content owner and one or more sponsors to cooperate in negotiating, planning, and executing a branding or content campaign.... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070130016 - Method and apparatus for determining a progressive discount for a customer based on the frequency of the customer's transactions: A system and method are disclosed for determining and applying a discount to a customer's transaction. The discount is of a progressive nature, wherein the value of a customer's discount increases if the customer meets the conditions associated with the discount. The system rewards more frequent or profitable customers with... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070130003 - Method and system of advertising: Method and system of advertising. The method and system permitting a user to select advertisements for viewing. The user may select the advertisements so that the advertisements appear during access to media services.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070130005 - Method for consumer data brokerage: The present invention provides a method to broker consumer data for the purpose of marketing activities and to compensate consumers for the use of their data. The method provides mechanisms and processes for consumer information brokers to allow providers of real-time advertisement platforms or any static advertisement platform to offer... Agent: Brinkle Y, Morgan, Solomon, Tatum, Stanley, Lunny, & Crosby, LLP

20070130006 - Point of sale terminal with advertising panels: According to one embodiment a point of sale terminal includes: a housing having a plurality of sides; and the housing one or more panels along the sides of the displaying advertising. Another embodiment is a method for displaying advertising to the public by applying an advertisement for a product or... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20070130013 - Product card used as shopping list and marketing method: A product card used as a shopping list tool features a written description and visual representation of a given product by way of a main image and a thumbnail image; a category/product classification; a card reference number used for advertising purpose to clearly identify the product card; a writing area... Agent: Inventarium

20070130001 - Real-world profile data for making virtual world contacts: 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

20070130002 - System and method for delivery pay for performance advertising with enhanced effectiveness: An advertising system provides content relevant advertisements to a client. The system comprises an advertisement object, an auto rendering object, and a distribution object. The advertisement object defined an instance of advertisement content in a placement database and defined, in association with the instance, each of a financial parameter and... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20070130009 - System and method for media play pricing: Systems and methods are described for pricing spots for media play on a broadcast station. The technique involves a pricing engine that receives a plurality of inputs and dynamically varies the price of a particular spot dependent on one or more of the plurality of received inputs. The pricing engine... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070130014 - System and method for providing advertisement: A method and system of advertising. In response to a request received from an advertiser, an audio advertisement is generated based on visual advertisement information. The audio advertisement is provided for presentation on behalf of the advertiser. In one embodiment, the audio advertisement is an abbreviated form of the visual... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070129998 - System for electronic barter, trading and redeeming points accumulated in frequent use reward programs: A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns reward points from a plurality of reward points issuing entities, each of the reward points issuing entities tracking the user's earned reward points in a user reward point account stored on a rewards... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070130011 - System for electronic barter, trading and redeeming points accumulated in frequent use reward programs: A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns rewards from a plurality of independent reward issuing entities, with each tracking the user's earned. A trading server accumulates some or all of the user's earned rewards from the reward servers and credits... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070129997 - Systems and methods for assigning monetary values to search terms: Methods and systems for associating an unbidded term with a bidded term and for pricing search terms. The method for associating an unbidded term with a bidded term comprises selecting a first set of search engine results for the unbidded term, selecting a second set of search engine results for... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070130007 - Systems and methods for semantic editorial control and video/audio editing: In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to create and customize a version of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. Based on semantic criteria, the media content management application may use editing/assembly software packages to construct a version of the... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070130017 - Method and apparatus for providing restaurant services: According to one embodiment of the invention, a system is provided that provides services to a patron in a restaurant that enhances the dining experience. For example, one embodiment provides a method of providing information for use by a patron of a restaurant at a table of the patron by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070130022 - Automated on-line purchasing system: An Internet-based purchasing system and associated method, including: (i) a remote terminal for use by a consumer; (ii) an on-line purchasing system, wherein the system further includes a system database in communication with the remote terminal for storing both consumer information and ticket and merchandise information; (iii) a user interface... Agent: Mcnees, Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070130020 - Consumer representation rendering with selected merchandise: A method, system, and program are provided for consumer representation rendering with selected merchandise. At least one computing system, in a network or stand-alone environment, accesses a consumer representation, wherein the consumer representation comprises a three dimensional model rendered to depict a consumer appearance and movement in each frame of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070130025 - Electronic settlement system, settlement apparatus, and terminal: A simple, easy, and safe electronic settlement system is provided. A user terminal such as a cellular phone is wirelessly connected to a synchronizing server. A cashier server of a mail order retailer activates a virtual cashier terminal, and connects to the synchronizing server. The synchronizing server sets a transaction... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070130018 - Integrated intelligent seo transaction platform: There is provided a system including a structuralizing HTML generation system having a Make robot for actually generating an optimal link system and generating an optimal page configuration. The system automatically causes a structuralizing HTML generation system to operate so as to realize an optimal SEO according to the analysis... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070130021 - Method of providing pet accessories and people accessories with decorative stones: Pet owners and others buy accessories for their animals such as harnesses, leashes, collars and other pet items. The invention adds decorative stones or jewels to the items. The decorative stones are matched to a color or colors of the animal. The owner and others can also be provided with... Agent: Albert W. Davis Jr

20070130023 - System and method for providing for out-of-home advertising utilizing a satellite network: A system and method for distributing content for a broadcaster on a communications network. The system may include a database operable to maintain the content for the broadcaster. A user interface may be in communication with the database and be operable (i) to provide a self-servicing scheduler for the broadcaster... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20070130024 - Systems and methods for time-dependent protection of available quantities: Methods and systems are disclosed for processing a product order. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes receiving a product order from a customer and determining, based on the received product order, at least one of a date on which the products should be available at a location... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070130019 - Terminal device and reception data display method: A terminal apparatus capable of easily selecting a most appropriate product as a gift for each gift receiver by displaying product information in consideration of the gift receiver. In this apparatus, product information reception section (103) extracts product information including attribute information from a received signal, so that it is... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070130030 - Method and system for number indexing for advertising: A method and system for number indexing for advertising. Alphanumeric identifiers (e.g., telephone number, voice-over-Internet Protocol identifier, an Internet Protocol identifier, an instant message identifier or an e-mail address identifier) are used to categorize and associate pre-determined advertising with the alphanumeric identifiers. When the alphanumeric identifier is received on a... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20070130026 - Method and system for providing business listings utilizing time based weightings: In order to provide enhanced database-derived information, such as enhanced directory assistance, a directory assistance operator receives a request from a telecommunications system user for listing information of a business that provides a desired product or service. A merchant database, containing business listings, as well as detailed data regarding products... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070130027 - 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.

20070130028 - 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.

20070130029 - Systems and methods for creation of structured order items during availability check: Methods and systems are provided for creating and managing structured order items. In one embodiment, a method is provided for creating and managing structured order items according to a customer order within a supply chain management system, wherein the customer order specifies a plurality of products and required quantities thereof.... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070130031 - Systems and methods for automatically reassigning an order confirmation in response to an incoming order: Systems and methods are provided for automatically reassigning an order confirmation in response to an incoming order. In one implementation, a system is provided for automatically reassigning an order confirmation in response to an incoming order. The system comprises an inbound interface for interfacing with a plurality of data storage... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070130033 - Apparatus and method for evaluating indirect loss caused by ubiquity effect: Provided are an apparatus for evaluating an indirect loss caused by a ubiquity effect by provision of a universal service, and a method thereof. The apparatus includes a first data storage unit for storing population statistics-related data, a second data storage unit for storing universal service offer-related data, a control... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070130032 - Dimension validation rules: A computer-implemented accounting system supports generation of a dimension validation rule that incorporates a wildcard. The wildcard provides means for limiting application of the dimension validation rule.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070130036 - 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

20070130039 - System and method for facilitating investment account transfers: The present invention is directed toward a system and method that facilitates investment account transfers where the time standard for reliably accomplishing a transfer may be decreased. A system for facilitating investment account transfers includes an administrator, a rules engine, a service case manager, and a messaging engine. The administrator... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070130035 - System and method for the provision of a financial product: A method is described for enabling a plurality of consumers to receive a term of life periodic payment from a financial product provider. The financial product provider secures an interest for a predetermined value over assets owned by the consumers, and calculates a series of period payments based on the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070130037 - System and/or method for funding one or more financial obligations: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and/or systems associated with funding one or more financial obligations, such as, for example, a benefits program, are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070130038 - Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items: Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items are provided. These systems and methods preferably include the trading of futures and options contracts, which will provide the liquidity and distribution network for luxury items. Possible embodiments of these systems and methods include... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070130034 - Tongs with encapsulated locking mechanism: A pair of locking kitchen tongs for use in handling food items and the like is disclosed. The tongs have a pair of rigid steel arms each having a workpiece engaging or grasping end, a body portion and a pivot end from which the arms are pivotally connected together. The... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070130040 - Method for selecting media products not widely known to the public at large for investment and development: A method of determining, for purposes of development or investment, information about one or more media products not yet widely known to the consuming public. The method includes making a representation of each of the candidate media products available to a plurality of evaluators, providing a forum for the plurality... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070130043 - System for selecting and purchasing assets and maintaining an investment portfolio: The invention is in the field of using a computer to provide automated investment allocation advice, selection of investment securities, customization of the automated advice, execution of investment securities, maintenance/monitoring of investment portfolios and rebalancing of investment portfolios. A user is connected to the Internet. The user connects to the... Agent: Elman Technology Law, P.C.

20070130042 - Systems and methods for structuring and conducting a public offering of equity securities: Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of a tax efficient manner for rewarding initial public offering inventors of a successful business, reducing commission expenses of secondary offerings used to finance the growth of the business, and shifting a large proportion of the rewards of the corporation's success to the initial public... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070130041 - Systems and methods for valuing a derivative involving a multiplicative index: Methods for calculating a value of a derivative based on a multiplicative index, where the multiplicative index is a multiple of an underlying index. The methods may comprise the steps of providing a first value of the underlying index and estimating a ratio of the multiplicative index over the underlying... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070130059 - Auction based procurement system: A method and system for performing an auction by determining a request for an item based on at least one of (i) an item to purchase, (ii) a performance specification of the item to purchase, and (iii) a term of a request for the item to purchase. The method and... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070130054 - Computerized auction system for use with multiple purchasing media: Systems and methods create and maintain an auction server operative to receive requests for displaying auction items. The bid values are displayed and received in units that are specific to a particular program in which the user is participating. Bid values can be displayed and received in differing units depending... Agent: Glen E. Schumann C/o Moss & Barnett

20070130058 - Method and apparatus for pricing a commodity: A method of pricing a commodity involving selecting a predetermined market factor, determining at a first time period a first market condition, and providing a formula capable of comparing a predetermined market factor to a market condition to determine the existence of a favorable pricing condition. The method prices a... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20070130045 - Method and apparatus for tracking the progress of an auction: The invention is a method for broadcasting the progress of an auction. The method includes designating an identifier for each potential bidder and electronically displaying a representation of the items being auctioned in a location that is accessible to the bidders. The method further includes electronically marking the items being... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070130053 - Method and system for optimal pricing and allocation with allotments: 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

20070130051 - Method and system for transacting a purchase using a credit card from the seller: A method is provided for transacting a purchase between a buyer and a seller over the Internet. The method comprises the steps of: (a) offering an item for sale through the use of a purchase transaction manager, where the purchase transaction manager resides on a computing device interconnected to the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070130046 - Quality of service for transmission of digital content: Methods, and/or systems, and/or apparatus for specifying quality of service for transmission of digital content are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070130048 - System and method for apportioning trading orders based on size of displayed quantities: An apparatus for processing trading orders comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores a first order and a second order. The first order is associated with a product and comprises a displayed quantity and a reserved quantity. The second order is associated with the product and comprises a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070130050 - System and method for matching trading orders based on priority: A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first trading order for a particular trading product, wherein the first trading order comprises a display portion and a reserve portion and is received from a first trader. The memory is further operable to store a second... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070130049 - System and method for replenishing quantities of trading orders: A system for replenishing trading orders comprises a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores a trading order comprising a total quantity of a product, and at least one formula to determine a displayed quantity for the trading order. The processor applies the formula to determine the displayed quantity.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070130047 - System and method for submitting trading orders: An apparatus for submitting trading orders comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores a default value associated with a trader, and a trading order associated with the trader. The trading order comprises a total quantity of a product. The processor is coupled to the memory and determines a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070130055 - Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items: Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items are provided. These systems and methods preferably include the trading of futures and options contracts, which will provide the liquidity and distribution network for luxury items. Possible embodiments of these systems and methods include... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070130056 - Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items: Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items are provided. These systems and methods preferably include the trading of futures and options contracts, which will provide the liquidity and distribution network for luxury items. Possible embodiments of these systems and methods include... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070130057 - Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items: Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items are provided. These systems and methods preferably include the trading of futures and options contracts, which will provide the liquidity and distribution network for luxury items. Possible embodiments of these systems and methods include... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070130044 - Transaction management system and method: An electronic transaction management system has at least some sellers associated with agencies. Information is provided for each agency to indicate whether the agency is prepared to offer sellers associated with the agency to buyers associated with other agencies and the terms of any such offer. A buyer interface is... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070130052 - Vehicular data exchange system and method therefor: The vehicular data exchange system of the present invention includes a plurality of computer terminals and a processor. Each of the computer terminals include an input device for inputting the vehicular data and a display device for visually displaying the inputted vehicular data which include vehicular characteristics data units and... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070130060 - Ethically coherent and scientifically logical method for allocating assets in portfolios of investments: The present invention concerns the technical aspects of applying ethics to the field of investment industry. It provides an ethically coherent and scientifically logical Method for allocating assets in portfolios of investments and a model Fund product that applies this Method to detract systemic tensions that generate frequent crisis of... Agent: Kairos Investments/ C/o Cs Ariarajah

20070130061 - 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

20070130062 - Bank transaction method linking accounts via common accounts: The present invention discloses a bank transaction method linking accounts via common accounts, wherein the existing accounts of the account holder and/or newly opened plural accounts link arbitrarily as defined by the account holder for convenient transactions between account holder's primary account and other's secondary accounts without using account numbers... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070130064 - Construction loan process system and method: A method of controlling fund distribution for a project contract. A funds source is provided for distribution by a funds control manager pursuant to a funds control agreement. Requests for payment are analyzed pursuant to the finds control agreement and funds are distributed according to the project contract.... Agent: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld

20070130063 - Method for paperless generation of electronic negotiable instruments: A method for accomplishing a paperless financial transaction is provided. The method, which may include the extension of credit, begins when a user submits data initiating and authorizing the financial transaction. From this data or a subset thereof, an electronically created check file or a combination of an electronically created... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070130065 - Methods and system for incentive maximizer aggregation account and automatic balance transfer: A method and system are provided for enrolling an external account having an account identifier in an incentive maximizer account, receiving a credential for the external account, and receiving a payment preference for the external account. The method includes periodically accessing external account to detect presence of new account activity.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070130066 - Method and software application for supporting the processing of invoices: Systems and methods are provided for computerized processing of invoices which a company has presented to, for example, two or more customers. The systems and methods may be configured to select, from a plurality of invoices, invoices which are due within a preselectable time or on a preselectable date and... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070130067 - System and method for notification of transmission and service costs of using telecommunication network: The aim of the invention is to permanently and preventively display the complete transmission and service costs of internet, online and telecommunication services that are offered by corresponding service providers (telecommunications internet and/or data service provider T/DSP) during use of said services. To this end, the costs are recorded and... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20070130068 - Content delivery system and method, and content processing apparatus and method: In an on-Internet multicasting content delivery system, information on each sub license in ECM (Entitlement Control Message) body includes a license ID as sub license identification information, type information indicative of whether a sub license is for preview or actual viewing and a location indicative of a stored position of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070130069 - Encapsulating address components: A transmitting node may utilize a shared secret to secure at least an encapsulated address component of an outbound message, and a receiving gateway may utilize the shared secret to authenticate and validate the secured addressed component of the received message.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070130071 - Information management system, information management method, and program product therefor: An information management system includes a determining portion that determines the number of pieces of information to be encrypted by an encryption key, depending on a processing ability of an information terminal that displays an electronic file, in which one or more pieces of the information are stored and encrypted... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070130070 - System and method for an anonymous exchange of private data: Facilitating the purchase and sale of private data between anonymous entities based on the use of encryption and a centralized on-line entity to exchange the private data in a secure environment. The seeker of private data, such as consumer information, transmits an encrypted query to the centralized exchange entity. The... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070130074 - Devices, systems and methods for restricting use of digital content: Devices, systems and methods for restricting use of digital content are provided. Among those embodiments which may be construed as providing a method for restricting use of digital data, a preferred method includes the steps of: enabling a user to receive digital data; and preventing the user from copying the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070130073 - Method, system and computer program for distributing software products in trial mode: A solution (300) for distributing software products in trial mode is proposed. This solution is based on the idea of leveraging a software distribution infrastructure. For this purpose, a trial software package (identified by a specific attribute) is provided (306-309) for any software product to be distributed in the trial... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070130072 - Optimizing output speed and replenishment in a photographic kiosk: The present invention discloses a digital photographic kiosk 100 that optimizes the output speed and the replenishment of consumable media. The kiosk includes a plurality of output print devices 110 that use consumable media. A system controller 102 in the kiosk 100 controls the utilization of consumable media by the... Agent: Matthew J. Booth & Associates, PLLC

20070130075 - System and method for executing a rental software program in distributed computing environment: A system and method for executing a rental software program in a distributed computing environment is provided. The system enables the streaming of software applications to the client computer. It also enables the system calls of the software application to be intercepted and analyzed in order to determine when one... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070130076 - Method of providing drm interoperability and ad hoc network device using the same: A method of providing digital rights management (DRM) interoperability and an ad hoc network device are provided where. a sink device requests a source device to transmit a receivable content in an ad hoc network, the source device provides DRM information corresponding to the requested receivable content, the sink device... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070130077 - Adaptive system for content monitoring: A content monitoring system applies policies to data transfers, and adapts the policies based on violations. Each policy includes a rule that detects violations and actions performed when the rule is violated. Policies may be adapted by, for example: enabling an inactive policy; modifying a parameter within a rule or... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070130078 - Digital rights management compliance with portable digital media device: A system for digital rights management in a portable digital media device is presented in which the portable digital device obtains a license for a digital media file with the assistance of a proxy application. A license request is formulated in and sent from the portable digital media device to... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070130081 - Downloadable software package incorporating license management software: A downloadable software package incorporating license management software is disclosed. The software package may include a client software application and an associated licensing module for managing use of the client software application. In preferred embodiments, the licensing module is configured to detect the use of the client software application and... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070130079 - Enforcing subscription validity: A system and method for management of software application use licenses and software application subscription licenses are provided. A software subscription service of one or more client computing devices having a number of subscriber-based software applications and a software subscriber agent. The software applications are associated with a software application... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070130080 - Information processing system and license management method: A queue management device (30A/30B) receiving jobs transmitted from a plurality of user terminals (10A/10B) stores the jobs to a queue corresponding to a base in which the user terminal is disposed. Each of the jobs to be stored includes a request of securing license. The queue management device requests... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070130082 - Licensing system using a firewall gateway for protecting and licensing computers: A licensing system using a firewall gateway for protecting and licensing computers is disclosed. A firewall gateway for separating a protected computer on a private network from a public network is provided. The protected computer has a client software application residing thereon that is licensed. A client module is provided... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070130083 - Method and apparatus for making a charitable donation: An apparatus and method of making a donation to a donee is disclosed. The apparatus includes a card having machine readable information including but not limited to the amount of the donation and the donee. The retailer enters information about the donation into a retail point of sale device and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070130084 - Key distribution for secure messaging: A transmitting gateway may utilize a retrieved domain-specific key to secure an outbound message, and a receiving gateway may utilize another retrieved domain-specific key to authenticate and validate the secured message.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070130086 - Material handling calculator: The present invention relates to systems and methods for calculating a cost for material handling. In particular, embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for booth related materials for providing a user with the ability to accurately calculate and store material handling estimates for one or more... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070130085 - Method and apparatus of secure authentication and electronic payment through mobile communication tool: The present invention relates to apparatus and method utilizing a mobile terminal as a tool for secure authentication and electronic payment. A random ID code is passed through a circle path to verify the nodes along the path. If the RID sent back matches the one generated for the current... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070130087 - Offline code based reloading system: An offline code-based reload device and method for adding value to a reconfigurable memory storage means in a portable storage medium. Reload is effected using a reload device not directly connected by telephone or any other communication network to a value supplier. The system uses a “one time use number”... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070130089 - Business website method: A network business method providing live unidirectional or bidirectional audio-video feed, allowing customers to interact with customer support, customer service, sales agents, live demonstrations, and each other. The business website method further features a method for assisting customers in selecting purchases, and provides a method for customers to get bonuses... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070130088 - System and method for facilitating value-adding businesses: A system and method for assisting a plurality of separate businesses is described. In one variation, the method includes establishing a plurality of customized Internet home pages corresponding to the plurality of separate value-adding businesses, and receiving a purchase order via at least one of the plurality of customized Internet... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070130090 - System for on-line merchant price setting: A method for setting a price for a product sold online by a subject merchant is provided. The method comprises accessing price information of at least one other merchant of the same product by applying a shopping robot to two or more shopping sites, including at least one price comparison... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070130091 - Meter tape with location indicator used for unique identification: A method for producing a metered tape and an indicium on a meter tape comprising determining a location on the meter tape where the indicium is to be printed, generating the indicium with information related to the location incorporated therein, and printing the indicium on the meter tape at the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070130092 - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for determining demand usage with electricity meters utilized with rolling billing periods: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed in which an electricity meter may determine demand peaks for a rolling billing period. The daily peaks for a plurality of quantities for a plurality of TOU tiers may be stored in entries in a queue. The peak demand information for a billing period... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070130093 - Utility management system and method: Disclosed are a system and method for controlling a water supply system having at least one pump and at least one storage facility. Also disclosed are a system and method of establishing a pumping schedule for a water supply system having at least one pump and at least one storage... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP