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 pipe