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

20070174080 - Method and apparatus for improved transaction security using a telephone as a security token: A method and apparatus are disclosed by which customers of an institution, such as a bank, may register one or more of their landline telephone or mobile telephone numbers and associate the telephone numbers with their account and thereafter in conjunction with a remote transaction, use the registered telephone to... Agent: Christopher Outwater

20070174089 - System and method for generating related product recommendations and offers: A system and method determine a healthcare/personal care product based on symptoms entered. The system and method can then determine related products for recommendation and offers available for the related products and the healthcare/personal care products.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070174087 - System and method for managing form-generated data: A system and method for managing form-generated data related to a patient encounter involves translating location information related to a user writing on a form into a contextualized data element that includes contextual information. The contextual information helps to explain and/or give meaning to the user writing. Contextual information may... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20070174085 - System and method for ordered recommendation of healthcare or personal care products: A system and method rank search results based on bidding for search result rankings. The search result rankings can include healthcare products based on search terms of symptoms.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070174088 - System and method for product location determination and indication: A system and method recommend products (e.g., healthcare products) based on a user's requirements (e.g., symptoms). The system and method then indicate where the recommended product(s) is/are located.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070174096 - Systems and methods for providing health insurance coverage: The present invention provides a system that quickly and efficiently supplies an applicant with application questions that are dynamically tailored to a particular applicant, decides whether to offer the applicant long term health insurance coverage and terms of the offer, and equips an agent with information necessary to provide a... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070174099 - Personnel performance monitoring system and method: A system and method for monitoring and managing personnel performance, particularly security personnel, providing real time, ongoing and geographical response information enabling employers or service providers to conduct performance analysis on their personnel, to create a global and/or local response performance record and to facilitate the taking of the necessary... Agent: Dennis R. Haszko Patent Law Office Of D.r.haszko

20070174118 - Facilitating client-side management of online advertising information, such as advertising account information: A client-side editing application allows advertisers and/or customer service representatives to easily and efficiently view, navigate, and edit ad accounts, even those with large numbers of campaigns, ad_groups, keywords and ad creatives. Information viewable in a user interface screen may be limited in scope by a node selection of a... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070174136 - Delivery management system and method using smart communicator: Disclosed is a delivery management system and method using a smart communicator. The delivery management system includes a selling server for selling articles online; a delivery server for managing delivery of articles sold by the selling server; a mailbox which reads information from an information storage attached to an arrived... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070174137 - Purchasing method and purchasing system: The invention relates to a purchasing system and purchasing method. The purchasing system comprises a first setting device, a receiving device, a determining device and a first purchasing device. The first setting device is used for setting an article information and a participating information. The receiving device is used for... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070174143 - Xml based internet and browser system and method: The present invention, in accordance with one aspect, provides a new system and method for linking to internet files wherein a variety of options are presented. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a new architecture for a web site as well as systems and methods for providing... Agent: Glen M. Diehl Diehl Servilla LLC

20070174148 - Method for resource management in a supply chain: A method for resource management in a supply chain is provided. The method is used by a pallet device (106) that can be associated with a pallet (104) in the supply chain. The pallet is associated with one or more resources. Further, the supply chain includes a decentralized control system... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070174154 - Methods and systems for aligning business interests: Methods and systems of dynamically aligning interests in a business relationship are disclosed. Some embodiments provide a method of profit sharing between business entities, comprising: determining a baseline cost for a service or product; determining a savings relative to that baseline cost; and allocating a portion of that savings to... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070174156 - Representations of cash locations: A cash management system includes a cash location business object, an owner business object associated with the cash location business object, and a provider business object associated with the cash location business object. The cash location business object further includes a plurality of attributes including a type of cash.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174157 - System and method for generating suppliers guarantee deposits: A method is provided for calculating an amount of guarantee deposit of a supplier, comprising: providing a server, in which stores a standard guarantee deposit rate table, a defect rate table, a standard defect rate table, a materials table recording a quantity and a unit price of each type of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070174162 - Systems and methods for establishing first on the follow trading priority in electronic trading systems: Systems and methods for trading an item in an electronic trading system are provided. The method preferably includes transitioning the trading system from a first trading state to a second trading state. Once the trading system has transitioned to the second state, the method includes determining whether an existing order... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070174210 - Method and system for issuing convertible preferred securities: A convertible security issued by a financial institution. The security comprises a conversion price, and a provision that allows call of the convertible security only after a predetermined period. The security also comprises a provision that allows conversion of the convertible security if a trading price of shares of common... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070174180 - Reverse auction system with retractible bids: An improvement in a reverse auction in which bids for one or more articles of merchandise or one or more services are made by bidders, the winner of the auction being the bidder with the lowest unique bid at the end of the auction. Each bidder is allowed a predetermined... Agent: Berliner & Associates Robert Berliner

20070174188 - Electronic marketplace that facilitates transactions between consolidated buyers and/or sellers: Systems, databases, methods, and implementations provide for electronic management of negotiations for a proposed transaction, where at least one of the first and second sides of the transaction include multiple subscribing parties. Contemplated transactions preferably, but do not necessarily rise to the level of a legally biding commitment, and include... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070174187 - Systems and methods to process payment: Methods and apparatuses to provide services to transfer funds to an automatically identified account. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a communication at a communication reference assigned to a first entity, the communication instructing an amount of funds and an account from which the funds are to be transferred;... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070174194 - Check-printing machine and payroll system: A payroll system includes at least one interface station having a processor, an input device, a printer, paper such as blank check stock, and a display. The payroll system includes a company payroll computer system remote from the kiosk that includes payroll compensation and benefit data. The company computer and... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20070174200 - Medium purchase and playback protection system and its method: The present invention relates to a medium purchase and playback protection medium method, comprising the steps of: a user of a portable electronic device buying a storage device from a supplier, wherein the portable electronic device includes a set of first identification codes, and the storage device includes a set... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070174205 - System, method and storage medium for license management: There is provided a license management system including an issuance system that issues a license for digital content which includes an instruction to change a usage condition for a related license if the related license which has the usage condition to be changed exists, and a user system that, if... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070174206 - System for secure online selling, buying and bill pay in an electronic commerce setting: A method and system for biometric-secure online selling, buying and bill paying in electronic commerce and retail point-of-sale settings that also simplifies the checkout process and eliminates fraudulent transactions. The system relies on an exchange service provider (ESP) that hosts multiple servers: one implementing a web portal for secure online... Agent: Royal Craig Ober|kaler

20070174079 - Apparatus and method for digital imaging, education, and internal marketing software and system: A method and system for automatically managing multiple different functions of an office by storing or linking together multiple different types of data that is normally stored separately, such that summary reports requiring data from fields normally not stored together can be created efficiently and effectively, and a method and... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070174068 - Architectural design for physical inventory application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing physical inventory. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service interface operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070174081 - Computer system for processing rental car reservations with automated callback reminders: Computer based rental vehicle tracking and reservation systems provide a callback reminder function. An automated scheduler uses a rules engine to create and update the callback reminders. The scheduler uses one or more sets of business rules embodied as algorithms in a rules engine to process the rental records. The... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070174069 - Continuous integration of business intelligence software: A system of developing and monitoring a business intelligence environment that utilizes automatic version control and continuous integration techniques to produce tested, reliable business intelligence. Errors are detected and corrected continuously to reduce the time needed by report authors to locate and correct errors in report specifications, metadata models, analysis... Agent: Michael A. O'neil Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20070174066 - Device and method for time and knowledge exchange and management: A knowledge management system includes a profile manager for managing user profiles and a bid manager for receiving a project listing and a set of project parameters associated with the listing. The bid manager also provides a bidding room according to at least one of the project parameters. In addition,... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070174077 - Executing system and executing method of intelligent rule base service: An executing system and executing method of intelligent rule base service (IRBS) is provided. The executing system uses a rule base service interface for receiving a service request content which includes a header from a rule base service module, and obtains a proper rule from the rule base according to... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc. Suite 250

20070174067 - Information reproducing apparatus and information reproducing method: An information recording medium comprises an encrypted content purchased through a network, and purchase-type information indicative of a purchase type of the content which is included in a management information area conforming to a digital versatile disk-video recording standard.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070174073 - Management of information related to recyclable containers: Methods and apparatus are provided for managing information relating to consumer recycling activities. In one embodiment, a method is provided in which a consumer returns beverage containers to a redemption kiosk offering a significantly improved consumer experience. Rather than having to wait for an attendant to count the containers and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070174070 - Method and apparatus for compiling data from property title documents: A method and apparatus for collecting property data from sources using a mobile device, such as a tablet pc, and to upload that property data to a database. The property data is then proofed and immediately returned to the searcher using the mobile device for error corrections. If there are... Agent: First American Real Estate C/o Snell & Wilmer, LLP

20070174065 - Method and device for automatic checking of the availability of technical equipment in or at a building: The method serves for automatic checking of the availability of technical equipment which is arranged in or at a building and executes at least one repeatable procedure, and comprises the following steps. There is determined at least one estimated value (NS(i,t)) for the frequency of the performance of the procedure... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20070174083 - Method of presenting leasing arrangements: A method and apparatus are provided for presenting leasing arrangements for a plurality of rental spaces. The method includes the steps of providing a graphical user interface that depicts the plurality of rental spaces within a two-dimensional layout on a display of the graphical user interface where a relative size... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070174072 - Method, system and computer program for displaying an image of framed artwork: A computer generated representation of artwork surrounded by framing components is created by the steps of positioning the artwork and framing components at designated locations on a template, taking a digital photograph of the artwork and components, transferring the photograph into computer memory, identifying the components in the photograph from... Agent: William J. Mason Maccord Mason PLLC

20070174074 - Method, system, and program product for detecting behavior change in transactional data: A computer-implemented method, system, and program product for accumulating and analyzing transactional data to detect a behavior change, which may be due to customer dissatisfaction. Specifically, under the present invention, a transactional data value is provided that reflects a measurement of transactions that have occurred in a particular time period.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070174064 - Multiple tickets for receiving content: A method is disclosed for accessing content via a device (30) whereby a ticket (20) is used that can be sent to the device (30) and whereby a validation count field (26) is comprised by the ticket (20) that is arranged for being decreased each time that content is accessed.... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20070174082 - Payment authorization using location data: Systems and methods are provided for payment authorization using location data. In an illustrative implementation, a payment authorization platform comprises a location score based authorization engine and at least one instruction set. In the illustrative implementation, the instruction set comprises one or more instructions to instruct the location score based... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070174076 - System and method for providing real-time access of real estate property transaction information and status via voice communication networks: A system and method for providing real-time access of real estate property transaction status via voice communication networks. The system and method provides real estate professionals and their clients mobile access to the most recent escrow and title information of their respective real properties transactions via a voice driven interface.... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20070174075 - Tamper sensitive warranty management for autonomic computing systems: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to warranty management and provide a method, system and computer program product for tamper sensitive warranty management for autonomic computing systems. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for tamper sensitive warranty management for an autonomic computing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070174071 - Techniques for managing information relating to recyclable containers: Methods and apparatus are provided for managing information relating to recycling activities. In one embodiment, a method is provided in which a consumer returns beverage containers to a redemption kiosk offering a significantly improved consumer experience. Rather than having to wait for an attendant to count the containers and provide... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070174078 - Walk through system and method: A method and system for performing site walks in connection with a bid is disclosed. The method and system includes filming the site walk on the day when the property owner permits the site walk and providing the site walk electronically to one or more contractors and subcontractors... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke

20070174084 - System and method for connecting individuals with remote volunteer medical personnel: A method of providing an individual seeking medical attention (20) access to a remotely located volunteer medical professional (40) includes: screening the individual (20) to determine a type of medical attention that is called for; searching through a plurality of volunteer medical professionals having diverse medical qualifications; selecting a volunteer... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070174086 - System and method for early identification of safety concerns of new drugs: A system and method for identifying safety concerns regarding a drug identify a first group of patients that have received the drug from a database of healthcare claims and extract one or more medical events that the first group of patients have experienced from the database. The system and method... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070174093 - Method and system for secure and protected electronic patient tracking: The present invention provides a method and a system for tracking patients during a medical emergency or in a medical facility. The present invention provides for recording patient data, assigning the patient to a medical facility or resource and updating patient tracking information with this information. Further, the medical facility... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20070174091 - Methods, data structures, systems and computer program products for identifying obsure patterns in healthcare related data: Methods, data structures, systems and computer program products are provided for identifying patterns in available healthcare related data. A triggering observation in the available healthcare related data is hierarchically related to at least one additional observation in the available healthcare related data based on a possible relationship between the triggering... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070174090 - Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing medical procedure information in healthcare databases: Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing medical procedure information stored in healthcare databases are provided. A medical procedure query associated with a single patient or a group of patients is received. Query results are provided responsive to the medical procedure query. The query results may include medical procedures... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070174092 - Systems and methods for improving patient compliance with a prescription drug regimen: A system for improving patient compliance with a prescription drug regimen is described. The system includes a patient database for storing patient information, the information including contact information for a patient communication device (such as a telephone, cell phone, computer, or PDA) along with a method for communicating with that... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070174094 - Evaluating a subrogation potential of an insurance claim: A method, system and computer program product for evaluating a subrogation potential of a target insurance claim is disclosed. A peer group of claims that are expected to include similar behaviors as the target claim and have been successfully subrogated is established to determine a normal behavior that the target... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070174095 - System and method for evaluating risk associated with a crop insurance policy: A system and method for evaluating the risk of insuring a grower comprises a communications interface for obtaining a geographic area yield (e.g., mean geographic area yield) of a crop for a particular geographic area (e.g., county) for a corresponding time period. A yield monitor or a yield sensor, associated... Agent: Deere & Company

20070174097 - Method for comparing average travel costs in intersected markets: A method for comparing average travel costs in intersected markets is disclosed and comprises a method for measuring and comparing average costs incurred by buyers of travel, where the average cost of a specified supplier is derived from multiple markets, and the average cost from other suppliers is derived from... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070174098 - Business context sensitive attribute override: A context sensitive object attribute override method includes retrieving an object attribute responsive to a request for the object attribute in a transaction in a commerce system, determining whether a context for the transaction is associated with an overridden form of the object attribute, and overriding the object attribute with... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070174100 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing a scheduler with a financial reporting system: In order to maintain the integrity of data between a scheduler and a financial management tool, current states of the two systems are compared and line items that do not agree are flagged, followed by an electronic recursive update of one of the systems based on an evaluation of the... Agent: Patent Dept. Bae Systems

20070174101 - Workflow scheduler: An interactive workflow schedule optimiser arranged to enable a user to reconfigure an instantiated workflow for a task comprising a plurality of actions having a predetermined dependency relationship to each other. The optimiser comprises means to input one or more user-specified constraint conditions into the workflow schedule optimiser; means to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070174103 - Automated tool for monitoring archaeological sites (atmas™): An automation tool for resource managers to effectively schedule on-site visits and manage information obtained thereby. An embodiment of the present invention, the Automated Tool for Monitoring Archaeological Sites (ATMAS™), automates the process by which cultural resource (CR) managers on various installations prioritize and schedule CR sites for monitoring. Other... Agent: Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity Attn: Cehec-oc

20070174102 - Method and software for selecting securities for investment: A method and software for selecting a portfolio of securities for investment purposes, which consistently provides a superior return to the market. Companies are evaluated and ranked according to data reflective of their level of employee commitment. Securities of companies having a high level of employee commitment are selected for... Agent: Vermette & Co.

20070174104 - Method and system for rotating roles in calendar events: A scheduling system is provided including a server running a scheduling application and a plurality of clients running replicas of the scheduling application. A user interface is presented to a client for creating a repeating calendar event. The user interface includes a field to designate candidates for a role in... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070174107 - Method and system for product design: The present invention illustrates a method and system of textual analysis for designing a new product for a required end application using textual analysis of information sources. A method and system of textual analysis is presented for designing a new product for an entirely new end application using one or... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070174106 - Method for reducing implementation time for policy based systems management tools: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for effectively reducing a complicated problem space to enable faster implementation of system management software, and in particular, policy management for security software. The policy management tool of the present invention receives input from a user to configure a policy model,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070174108 - Multi-region market research study processing: A research service includes a number of functions for reporting and analyzing data from a multi-region research survey. The service provides an analysis interface to a research client to receive client input using a regional communication mode corresponding to the research client. Based on the client input, the service analyzes... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070174105 - System and method for marketing mix optimization for brand equity management: A method of marketing optimization with respect to brand lifetime management formulates a problem of brand equity maximization utilizing Markov Decision Process (MDP) thereby casting brand equity management as a long term regard optimization problem in MDP, The marketing mix is optimized by formulating the mix as actions in MDP... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070174109 - System and method for transforming an enterprise using a component business model: A system and method are described for using a Component Business Model (CBM) to transform a business. A CBM map is used to identify components that collaborate to provide a specified capability, and a repository supporting the CBM map is filtered to provide a view of the identified components that... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070174111 - Evaluating a performance of a customer support resource in the context of a peer group: A method, system and computer program product for evaluating a performance of an object customer support resource in providing a customer support service is disclosed. A peer group of customer support resources that are expected to behave comparably as the object customer support resource is established to determine a normal... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070174110 - Methods and systems to effect comprehensive customer relationship management solutions: Embodiments of the invention provide methods for effecting a desired business solution. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of aspects of a business are analyzed. Each aspect corresponds to an element of a particular domain of a set of domains wherein the plurality of aspects corresponds... Agent: Csa LLP

20070174112 - Systems and methods for ticketless parking validation: Methods, systems, and software for ticketless parking validation. A method comprises creating an electronic parking account associated with a use of a parking facility, electronically storing at least one credit amount, and associating the at least one credit amount with the electronic parking account as a result of identifying the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070174117 - Advertising that is relevant to a person: A person is viewing a display. By evaluating tracked information about the person, the display and/or the content being viewed, a tracking system determines that an opportunity exists to present an advertisement that is relevant to the person in the context of the person currently viewing the display. The tracking... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070174123 - Apparatus and method for incentive marketing: An incentive apparatus and method provides a purchaser of fuel at a store, such as a convenience store, a chance to win an award. A unique identifier is assigned to the fuel purchase. The fuel purchaser provides the unique identifier to a kiosk or other customer interface device located in... Agent: Michael E. Sellers Gable Gotwals

20070174116 - Electronic coupon systems and methods to operate the same: Electronic coupon systems and methods to operate the same are disclosed. A disclosed example coupon management system includes a processor to determine an applicable coupon for an item to be purchased, and a network interface to receive a coupon selection from a remotely located user device, and to send the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070174122 - Electronic publication distribution method and system: A method and system for distributing an electronic publication allows the distribution of customized publications, including customized advertising, customized content, or both. In accordance with the method for distributing an electronic publication, an electronic publication is retrieved from storage. The electronic publication is delivered to the consumer by electronically sending... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070174113 - Enterprise incentive management: The invention include systems and methods of managing incentives within an organization. In one aspect of the invention, this includes approval of a new or modified incentive plan, or of new or modified incentive distributions. In another aspect of the invention, this includes providing notice of a new or modified... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070174115 - In-store consumer-based personalized offer presentation system and method: A method and apparatus for presenting customized presentation offers to a consumer having a shopping device prior to the consumer's check out in a retail environment is set forth. Using a keyword-driven rule-based method, the present invention identifies certain information regarding the consumer, items selected for purchase, retail environment and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070174121 - Interactive advertising methods and apparatus: The present disclosure concerns novel, interactive advertising methods and apparatus. Specifically, in one embodiment, the present disclosure teaches a method of advertising goods and affording customers a chance to win the advertised goods after making a payment or a donation. An apparatus comprising an advertising medium and a game facilitates... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20070174127 - Method and system for adjusting the balance of account of the advertiser in a keyword advertisement: The account balance adjusting method includes the steps of maintaining an advertiser information database; extracting at least one search information associated with a keyword; determining one search information through a predetermined bidding process using the first bidding price; generating a search result list; maintaining the first bidding price and the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070174114 - Method and system for scheduling electronic advertising: A method for scheduling advertising comprises the steps of: estimating a respective fraction of delivered advertisement impressions that result in a response from a user for each of a plurality of advertising contracts, estimating a value per impression for each of the advertising contracts, and scheduling an advertising line under... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070174119 - Method, system, and program product for graphically representing a marketing optimization: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for graphically representing a marketing optimization. In one embodiment, the method includes: selecting from a plurality of promotion events a promotion event having the highest return ratio (RR); graphically displaying the RR of the selected promotion event as a function of... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070174124 - Methods and apparatuses for prioritizing featured listings: Methods and apparatuses for presenting selected listings as featured listings sorted based on value scores. One embodiment includes: selecting a first subset of listings from a set of listings according to one or more predetermined criteria; computing value scores of the first subset of listings based on an indicator of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070174120 - System and method for facilitating commercial transactions: An electronic fund transfer system that provides vital marketing information to participating merchants and purchasing records to customers while offering the most efficient and effective system to deliver the best terms and conditions for the products and services requested by customers. The system includes an electronic funds transfer card that... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20070174126 - System and method providing customer incentive to purchase non-fuel products and services: A system and computer-implemented method of providing an incentive for a customer to purchase non-fuel products or services at a store that sells the products or services and fuel. The system detects that the customer purchased a number of non-fuel products or services in a first visit to the store,... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20070174125 - Targeted ad insertion: In response to one or more ad break indications, one or more channel changes may be caused from a program stream channel to one or more other channels comprising advertising content.... Agent: Fsp LLC

20070174128 - 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

20070174135 - Method and system for promoting bids on seller's related items: A method for showing potential bidders of online auctions specific items currently at auction for a given seller by embedding a display window object inside item pages of items posted for auction by the same seller, where the display window object includes a rotating group of images and means for... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070174134 - Method and system for providing gifts to a person: Described herein is a method for providing flower giving services to a flower giver using a computer network. The method includes the steps of providing a computer network, providing an internet website operatively associated with the computer network, providing the flower giver with means for ordering a number of flowers,... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20070174132 - Offering sewing patterns over a public network: The invention is directed at systems and methods for offering sewing patterns over a public network. Briefly stated, sewing patterns are delivered as tiled patterns over the public network and printed at a local computing device for assembly by a customer.... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20070174133 - Searching for a seller of a product: A method of searching for a seller of a product. The method comprises the steps of: indicating a product; indicating a geographical search location; and searching for a seller of the product that is located within a search distance of the geographical search location.... Agent: Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP

20070174131 - System and method for managing information handling system wireless network provisioning: Information handling systems are built to order with provisioned wireless wide area network (WWAN) service coordinated through a WWAN network provider as part of the manufacture of the information handling system. A WWAN component is built into the information handling system and then queried to retrieve a WWAN identifier, such... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070174129 - System and method for ordering of goods and services with alternative payment: A system and method for providing on-line purchases of Internet and retail goods or services by people with no credit cards, using existing infrastructure, is disclosed. The present system and method allows a person with no credit cards to order a good or service being offered for sale, by having... Agent: Esteban A. Rockett

20070174130 - System and methods for remote access to stored items: Remote access to a computerized inventory, which includes images of items stored in a storage unit that is assigned to a customer, is provided so that the customer may view the images of the stored items. The remote access may further allow the customer to select particular items, according to... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070174141 - Buyer terminal, buying representative method, consignment buying system and consignment buying method: A buyer terminal for electronic market enabling a member to access a hosting service and consign a commodity purchase to another member. The consignment purchase system comprises an imaging device for computerizing the image of a commodity that a buyer can purchase a computer system for computerizing registration information on... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070174140 - Electronic sell-through of multimedia content through points-of-sale: A point-of-sale system for electronic sell-through of multimedia content comprises a kiosk for customer selection and transfer of multimedia content to a customer device. The kiosk may include a local multimedia library containing multimedia content in machine-readable form, a customer communication interface adapted to facilitate electronic communication between the kiosk... Agent: Walter W. Duft Law Offices Of Walter W. Duft

20070174142 - Method for increasing the efficiency of drive through businesses: Disclosed is a method for increasing the efficiency and speed of operations at businesses with drive through windows and extends feasibility of this facility to additional business enterprises. The method includes providing a series of ordering bays that are located at a distance from the business. A driver pulls up... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP Attn: Stefan V. Stein/IPDept.

20070174139 - Mobile music store and performance venue: A mobile music store and performance venue wherein the music store can be placed at a location convenient to consumers of recorded music products. More specifically a vehicle which provides a mobile musical performance stage that contains a retail store for selling musical recordings on both physical recording medium and... Agent: Mark Sgantzos The Martinez Group PLLC

20070174144 - Online store product availability: A technique for effecting electronic commerce using a data network is described. The data network includes a plurality of subsystems which, together, form an integrated system for receiving customer orders for selected items via a data network, fulfilling the customer orders, and delivering the ordered products to the customers. Moreover,... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20070174138 - Web model and method implementing technical merit index to assist in evaluating engineering products: A technical merit index-based web model for implementing a technical merit index tool facilitates product selection. A technical user input section is populated via a global network with defined selection factors and desired values for each of the selection factors for a product to be selected. A product supplier input... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20070174145 - Controlling logistics execution in a computer application: A method for managing a supply chain for a business enterprise in a manner that is applicable to many different business enterprises and a computer program product for performing the method are provided. The method includes creating a logistics data object for use in triggering a task related to site... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070174152 - Handheld system for information acquisition, verification, recording, processing, display and communication: A portable system and method that automates collection, integration, analysis, reporting and archiving of data and collection and archiving of specimens in a variety of applications while insuring chain of custody integrity not attainable conventionally. Applications include: forensics, municipal management, utility management, real estate, insurance, environmental protection and remediation, safety,... Agent: Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity Attn: Cehec-oc

20070174146 - Hierarchical stock allocation system and method: For enterprises having more than one location for their stock inventory, expressing the inventory according to a hierarchical tree of stock locations within the enterprise may allow increased flexibility, planning, and management of stock actions. The method described in this document may allow stock to be ordered, moved, replenished, or... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070174149 - Method and apparatus for dynamic specification of a business value by a discovered resource: A method for dynamic specification of a business value by a discovered resource that includes registering or discovering a resource within a business system; specifying a business value for the resource; and then computing a business value of the entire business system, based upon the resource's business value. An apparatus... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070174151 - Shipment provider system: A computing system receiving, from a wide area network, a real-time stream of delivery date-specific orders, the computing system processing the stream, the processing including controlling printing of the stream of delivery date-specific orders. Exemplary embodiments include, depending on the implementation, apparatus or system, communication systems, articles of manufacture, method... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20070174150 - System and method for providing user help tips: In a system and method for providing user help tips, the system may determine a relevance to a user of a plurality of tips, may assign priority categories to the tips based on the relevance and may determine which tip to output based on the priority categories of the tips.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070174147 - System and method for updating a playlist based upon ratings: A method, computer program product and client electronic device for updating a radio playlist includes detecting in a memory a user-defined track rating for a digital audio encoded track included within a predetermined radio playlist of a plurality of digital audio encoded tracks. The radio playlist is updated based on... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070174158 - Data processing system, rfid reader and data processing method: The present invention relates to a data processing system comprising a posting component for receiving a posting request. The posting request contains a process code being indicative of one of a plurality of business processes and at least one object identifier for identification of an object of the one business... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070174155 - Inventory tracking objects: A system has a plurality of operational components within a value chain. A due management operational component within the value chain has a due inventory object that provides central storage for payments due from customers. A payment operational component within the value chain has a payment registry inventory object that... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174153 - Realignment free data report method and apparatus: A system includes a source of revenue information, a source of cost information, a sales order business object that provides revenue information and attributes regarding at least one product sold, and additional business objects that provide additional attributes related to the at least one product sold. The system also includes... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174159 - Methods, systems, and products for monitoring transactions: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for monitoring transactions. Retail transaction messages are received, and the retail transaction messages describe retail transactions between retail subscribers and a software application. Wholesale transaction messages are also received, and the wholesale transaction messages describe wholesale transactions between the software application and wholesale subscribers... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070174160 - Hierarchical transaction filtering: Systems and methods of allocating transactions among business objects are described. Allocation is accomplished using a multi-phase process. In a first phase, allocation of the transactions among a set of business objects is attempted. In a subsequent phase, allocation of transactions that were either unallocated, under-allocated, or over-allocated in the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070174161 - Method and system for creating a plan of projects: A method of creating a plan of projects to invest in for an investment program. The investment program is for a period of time, for example 5 years. A plurality of investment projects are defined. Each investment project has at least one resource requirement (e.g. a project cost and/or an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070174165 - Method and system for providing foreign exchange price information and hedge: Methods and systems for providing foreign exchange price information and entering into foreign exchange transactions are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a price provider receives foreign exchange rates and, based thereon, provides clients with foreign exchange indicative rates. Such indicative rats are preferably in the form of a streaming price feed.... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070174163 - Money management on-line courses: An on-line interactive course is directed to teens and college students and uses anecdotal, situational and questioning approaches with interactive slides.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070174164 - Network/processor fraud scoring for card not present transactions: A system, method, and computer program for providing a merchant with a fraud score for a card not present transaction. A card not present transaction is detected. A fraud score is appended to a message that provides information about the card not present transaction. The message is transmitted to the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070174166 - Prepaid financial account incentives system and method: A system and method for creating and managing incentives for buyers of prepaid financial accounts to engage in certain activities with those accounts. Account holders agree to fund a prepaid account with a minimum amount and to forego using the account for an agreed time period, to maintain minimum account... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.c. Attn: Linda Kasulke, Docket Coordinator

20070174167 - Derivative relationship news event reporting: Presenting news events relevant to derivative entities of a main subject by associating derivative entities with the main subject based on a direct relationship with the main subject, filtering news events to identify main news events relevant to the main subject, identifying the derivative entities associated with the main subject,... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) LLC

20070174169 - Method and apparatus for financial investing: A method of administering an annuity to create incentives for an annuity holder to perform one or more pre-selected acts includes implementing a policy role to the annuity upon receiving a rider application by the annuity holder, affecting the annuity in a first manner upon implementing the policy role, and... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070174168 - Securities grading system: A system and method for categorizing (i.e., grading) securities based on a combination of the market performance of the security and the commercial, business performance of the issuer of that stock.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070174170 - Combined 1031-1033 exchange: The invention is a method of deferring taxes on real estate property by exchanging investment real estate property under IRS 1031 exchange rules for a real estate property that is subject to condemnation. The property subject to condemnation is then sold, and the owner claims the benefit if a 1033... Agent: Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P.

20070174171 - Auction system: A method for auctioning a lot, in which a plurality of messages are received from a plurality of bidders for the lot, with each message including a bid for the lot. A bid acceptance message is sent by SMS to each of the bidders notifying the bidder of the status... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070174172 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for identifying business offerings based on customer needs: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method, system, and program product for identifying business offerings based on customer needs. In a typical embodiment, the present invention is implemented in conjunction with a spreadsheet computer program such as LOTUS 1-2-3, MICROSOFT EXCEL or the like. In any event, under the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070174178 - Direct access bond trading platform: A method for performing bond trading transactions between a trading platform and a Customer and which allows its bond customers to trade with each other and thus, providing additional liquidity. The method includes receiving, by the trading platform, bond pricing information for a particular bond from a first bond buyer/seller,... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070174179 - Method and system for optimal pricing and allocation with canceling/modifying of indications of interest: 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

20070174181 - Method and system for providing foreign exchange price information and hedge: Methods and systems for providing foreign exchange price information and entering into foreign exchange transactions are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a price provider receives foreign exchange rates and, based thereon, provides clients with foreign exchange indicative rates. Such indicative rats are preferably in the form of a streaming price feed.... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070174173 - Method for displaying market data and entering trading orders: A GUI display and method for mapping market prices and volumes for facilitating electronic trading of a traded instrument. A plurality of prices in the market are displayed for the traded instrument, together with a plurality of corresponding market volumes. Each of the market values may be positioned on the... Agent: Michael P. Mazza, LLC

20070174175 - Method for estimating the time position of queued electronic orders: A method and system for estimating and displaying the time position of queued electronic orders to market participants, whether the price and volume data for the orders is distributed by an electronic market using an aggregate volume distribution method or an order volume distribution method, by applying a worst case... Agent: Michael P. Mazza, LLC

20070174174 - Method for indicating current market prices across a range of prices: A GUI display, method and system facilitating electronic trading. The GUI display presents market scope for a traded instrument, including showing and differentiating the current market from at least one selected historical market. A separately denoted last traded price may also be displayed. Preferably, an order entry tool, including a... Agent: Michael P. Mazza, LLC

20070174176 - Optimized order routing for electronic trading: A method for optimizing the rate at which an order-related message is received by an electronic market. Passive messages may be transmitted along different order routes from a user/trader to an electronic market. The fastest or most expeditious route may be calculated, and active messages may then be transmitted along... Agent: Michael P. Mazza, LLC

20070174182 - Security receipts management system: A computer system for managing, creating, and support of a novel investment instrument, known as a Security Receipt. This receipt provides translation of ownership of plural underlying securities to the holder of the receipt in a seamless and efficient way. The system permits enhanced security creation, and orderly support to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070174177 - System and method for trading a financial investment instrument: A method of purchasing a financial instrument. Steps include: selecting a financial instrument; observing a buy signal on a slow stochastics oscillator, wherein the buy signal is a crossover of a fast line crossing up through a slow line; observing a confirming buy signal on a Williams % R oscillator,... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070174183 - Context determinants in virtual world environment: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A virtual world patron can participate in various virtual world activities and transactions. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world activities and transactions. The virtual world patron may... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070174184 - Fraud control when granting instant credit: Credit applicants may apply for instant credit, and use an instant account number (“IAN”) to make purchases after the instant credit has been granted. Fraud control methods may be used in authorizing the instant credit. When the IAN is issued to purchase airline tickets, it can be ensured that the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070174185 - Adaptive method and software architecture for efficient transaction processing and error management: A new type of transaction manager is disclosed that provides a unique set of methods and components for efficient transaction processing, error management, and transaction recovery. The combination of these methods and components are applicable to a wide range of business and technical scenarios that do not lend themselves to... Agent: George S. Cole, Esq.

20070174186 - Authenticated and distributed transaction processing: An integrity network is used to authorize electronic transfer of funds between two entities such as a caller or user and a third party. The network is accessed by a user via an electronic device that is capable of transmitting voice, such as a telephone. The network uses voice recognition... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174190 - Cash transaction verification and crediting apparatus: To enable the payment of charges, for example those for mobile telephones, with cash there is provided an automated terminal for receiving payments including an input for currency notes, an acceptor for such currency notes and an input for information on an account for charges to which payment is required... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070174189 - Systems and methods for facilitating commercial transactions between parties residing at remote locations: The present invention provides a system and method for facilitating commercial transactions involving the exchange of monetary value for goods, services, or other value between remote individuals, as in the case of transactions between users of a distributed computer network such as the Internet. Remote individuals are provided with a... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070174192 - Billing system for information dispersal system: A billing process is disclosed for a information dispersal system or digital data storage system. In one embodiment of the invention, the original data to be stored is separated into a number of data “slices” or shares in such a manner that the data in each subset is less usable... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070174191 - Factoring system and method: A computerized system and method for facilitating proposed factoring transactions between a funding source and a client in which the funding source advances funds to the client based on accounts receivable to the client by one or more customers on one or more invoices includes a computer program that receives... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070174193 - System and method for providing single sign-on functionality: Single sign on functionality is provided from a financial institution's financial services platform to at least one third party maintained application.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070174195 - Key system, key device and information apparatus: Security technology for information devices such as cellular phones, personal computers, and the like, and more specifically a technique capable of restricting use of or removing restrictions on the use of information devices with a low-cost configuration. A key system includes a key device and a cellular phone capable of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174196 - System and method for verifying authenticity: The disclosure provides systems and methods for helping authenticate products and registrations of such products. One method for providing a product comprises providing a product associated with a first identifier, such as a serial number, to a customer. The method further includes providing a registration form with a second identifier... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070174198 - Content data distributing system, content data distributing method, and commodity selling method: e

20070174197 - Method to protect digital data using the open mobile alliance digital rights management standard: A method to protect digital rights using an OMA DRM standard has acts of generating an encryption key and an ID unique to a user and a decryption key, encrypting the digital content using the encryption key into an encrypted object, packaging the ID and the decryption key into a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070174199 - System and method for electronic delivery of media: The present disclosure provides for a system for electronic distribution of media. The system includes media including instructions having contact information and a unique code identifying the media, a computing device configured to transmit an electronic message based on the contact information, the electronic message including the unique code. The... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070174201 - Digital data processing apparatus and method, data reproducing terminal apparatus, data processing terminal apparatus, and terminal apparatus: A digital data processing apparatus which receives digital data whose use is charged for through a data recording medium or a network and uses the received digital data by using use right data, wherein the apparatus has memory means in which use history information of the digital data has been... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070174204 - Purchasing and copy protecting method for a digital content: The present invention relates to a purchasing and copy protecting method for a digital content, comprising the steps of: a user of an electronic device buying a digital content from a supplier through a network, wherein the electronic device at least includes a set of first identification codes and a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070174203 - Right management device, terminal device, and right management system: A service provider (SP) 21 receives an original license including an edit condition that shows designation of a range of a usage condition from a CP license management server 114 of a content provider (CP) 11. On the basis of the received original license, a sales license generation tool 211... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070174202 - System and method for enabling software programs which need to be enabled: The invention relates to a system for the execution of at least one release license software program which is used to control and/or regulate a tool machine, and/or a production machine and/or a manual automatic machine, wherein the release of the release license software program can be obtained by means... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070174207 - Method and apparatus for information management and collaborative design: A method and apparatus are disclosed for managing information in a collaborative design environment. A host zone includes host zone information handling systems (IHSs) that associate with a business entity such as an integrated circuit design and manufacturing house. The host zone IHSs store host zone confidential information. The method... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20070174208 - System and method for global automated address verification: The present invention provides a system and method for mitigating identity theft risk by restricting shipment of merchandise purchased with instant credit to a verified address. Customer authentication information associated with instant credit is identified. The customer authentication information is verified. Shipment of merchandise purchased with the instant credit is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070174209 - System and method for data feed acceleration and encryption: Systems and methods for providing accelerated transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency associated with data transmission of conventional systems.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070174211 - Automatic packaging system and method: An automatic packaging system is provided. The automatic packaging system includes a user interface, a selection-controlling module, an alarm-controlling module, and a package module. The user interface is for receiving user input. The selection-controlling module is for enabling and controlling a vibrating plate to select parts according to the user... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070174212 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing location-specific transaction services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing location-specific transaction services by a dispensing device situated in a defined geographic community are provided. The method includes providing location-specific information, including costs for items specific to the defined geographic community, and which are representative of a cost of living for... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20070174213 - Integrated postage and shipping label system: The present invention is generally directed to online postage services and systems that have an online connection, and more particularly to systems and methods for enabling a shipping label service to be integrated with a third party application or website. One preferred embodiment includes a computer program product having a... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070174214 - Integrated fraud management systems and methods: Methods and systems for managing a plurality of alerts. One system can include a fraud management module operative to receive a plurality of alerts from a plurality of fraud detection tools and to process the plurality of alerts, each of the plurality of alerts indicating potentially fraudulent activity.... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070174216 - Mail handling machine: A mail handling machine including a print module for printing a postal imprint on a mail item, said print module being stationary and disposed transversely relative to the direction D of movement of the mail items and parallel to the longitudinal edges of each mail item. Preferably, said print module... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174217 - Method of paying for postage amounts via a telecommunications network: m

20070174215 - Postage meter having a vertical path: In a postage meter including a print module for printing on mail items, a feed tray for feeding in mail items to said print module, and a collection tray for receiving the mail items once they have been franked by the print module, said feed tray is inclined in two... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174218 - Printer, control method, and used amount acquiring method: There is provided a printer that performs print on a medium by color materials, including: an advance information reading and writing section that reads and writes advance information from and in an advance information holder for storing the advance information; a print control section that outputs a print driving signal... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070174219 - Renewable energy usage fee: A method of collecting, analyzing, calculating and comparing the production of electricity by a renewable energy device; said renewable energy device is capable of having the amount the production of electricity communicated with a said online gathering system; and an independent device, or another renewable energy device or historical meteorological... Agent: Christian James Bryant, Jr.

20070168213 - Methods of operating a coal burning facility: Methods involve adding sorbent components, such as calcium oxide, alumina, and silica, as well as optional halogens as part of environmental control. Use of the sorbents leads to significant reductions in sulfur and mercury emissions that otherwise would result from burning coal. Use of the sorbents leads to production of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070168211 - Optimizing schedule and itinerary for open houses: A computer system for scheduling open houses can include an activity analysis module programmed to analyze one or more characteristics or factors associated with one or more properties that are located within an activity zone. The computer system can also include a schedule optimization module programmed to suggest an optimum... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070168209 - System and method for implementing a revenue recognition model: A system and method for implementing a revenue recognition model in an automated environment includes receiving rules, over a communications network, associated with an entity. Information associated with a transaction is received, and one or more automated processes are implemented to determine whether revenue from the transaction is recognizable.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168212 - System, method, and program for adjusting work schedules: There is provided a system for adjusting a work schedule by sending email to employees who are not due to work to request them to change the work schedule if the number of employees due to work is less than a required number of employees. The system includes a receiver... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070168223 - Configurable clinical information system and method of use: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a user-configurable clinical information system. Certain embodiments provide for a user-configurable data and functionality entry and retrieval system. Certain embodiments provide a system and method for configuration and/or customization of patient and practice data entry, analysis and manipulation. Certain embodiments provide a configurable... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070168229 - Health care network system using smart communicator and method thereof: The present invention relates to a health care network system and a method thereof utilizing a smart communicator. The health care network system of the present invention includes: a hospital server for providing a prescription based on information of a user's health state and abnormality corresponding to the user's prescription... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070168228 - Integrated prescription management and compliance system: A system and method for prescription therapy management and compliance are provided. The system framework integrates primary databases from pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), health plans, and EHR providers with a secondary database system, user interface, and wireless messaging platform, in order to extract and aggregate user-specific prescription data and... Agent: Jon P. Christensen

20070168233 - Method for actuarial determination of the cost of one-time procedural or professional liability insurance policy: A new business method involving the algorithmic use of data from a wide variety of sources to provide the actuarial information needed to accurately assess the exposure liability and risk probabilities associated with the performance of any specific medical (or other) procedure or service. The major factors include, but are... Agent: David G. Henry

20070168235 - Provision of financial benefits associated with investment products: A variable annuity or other investment vehicle may be offered that invests in a single public mutual fund to allow an investor to be taxed on a non-deferred capital gains basis as opposed to a tax-deferred income basis. Additionally or alternatively, an insurance policy may be wrapped around, or otherwise... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070168236 - Multi-passenger multi-route travel planning: Multiple passenger multiple route techniques are disclosed including sending independent queries to a travel planning system for each of a plurality of passenger groups and receiving lists of individual solutions appropriate for the passenger groups in response to the independent queries. The lists are combined to provide joint solutions according... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070168238 - Multi-passenger multi-route travel planning: Techniques for processing a multiple passenger, multiple route query are disclosed. The techniques include a travel planning system that searches for airline tickets in response to queries and a server that sends multiple, individual queries to the travel planning system and combines solutions received from execution of the multiple individual... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070168239 - Multi-passenger multi-route travel planning: Multiple passenger multiple route travel queries are solved using travel planning systems that receive multiple, individual queries to produce individual solutions that meet joint travel requirements. The multiple, individual sub-queries are merged to produce joint solutions for the passenger groups.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070168245 - User interface for inputting multi-passenger multi-route travel planning query: A user interface displayed on a computer monitor includes fields for entering data for a multiple passenger, multiple route query, the fields including a first set of fields corresponding to travel segments of a first passenger group, a second set of fields corresponding to travel segments of a second passenger... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070168252 - Method and system for dynamically prioritizing advertiser communications over a network based on telephone numbers: A communication routing system utilizes an online network-based auction marketplace, typically in real time. The system routs received telephonic communications to specific intended destinations in accordance with modifiable bid amounts entered by entities associated with the specific intended destinations.... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070168253 - Retail outlet, article of clothing and method of promoting sale of same: A retail outlet includes a building structure comprising an arena housing a sporting event for a particular sport. The building structure is located in a selected country. A point of sale in the building structure offers jerseys for sale while the sporting event is ongoing. The jerseys are of a... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070168258 - Auction system: An auction system for use in auctions is provided. In the auction system, a recording medium is attached to an auction item. An auction participant reads information about the auction item out of the recording medium using a mobile data device. In order to place a bid on the auction... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070168264 - Automatic package conformance validation: Systems and methods for automatic package conformance validation are described. A package is a logical entity that specifies multiple datastreams for use by an application to render pages and resources associated with one or more documents. In one aspect, the systems and methods automatically validate conformance of the package in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070168302 - Retirement plan advisory system: A method is provided for advisory assistance from an advisor to a fiduciary for qualified retirement plan selection and investment due diligence. The method includes evaluating products and services offered by a plurality of plan providers, reviewing reports provided by the advisor and selecting a plan. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070168282 - Systems and/or methods for simplifying payment systems, and payment instruments implementing the same: The exemplary embodiments described herein relate to systems and/or methods for simplifying payment systems, and payment instruments implementing the same. In particular, certain exemplary embodiments relate to a single payment device (e.g., a card) with multiple magnetic strips, a single payment device being linked to multiple accounts, a single payment... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070168283 - Self-service money remittance with an access card: Self-service methods for money remittance and kiosks are provided. An exemplary kiosk includes a video display, a card reader, a keypad, a money validation device, and a processor in communication with a database and a processing system across a network. A person can remit money to a recipient by simply... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070168289 - Electronic musical apparatus, server, electronic musical system, and computer-readable medium including program for implementing control method for the apparatus, the server, and the system: An electronic musical apparatus which is shared by a plurality of users and is capable of making environmental settings for individual users without imposing burdens on the users. Authentication of biometric information or possession information on each user is performed, and environmental setting information for setting an environment of the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070168203 - Context-based mapping of a content repository in a context driven component execution environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for a content repository mapping method. In one embodiment, the method can include obtaining a context to a transaction and selecting a content repository from among a set of content repositories based upon the obtained context. Each... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070168200 - Customer management system: In order to provide a customer information control system that allows a manufacturer fabricating network home appliances to perform accurate management of customer information, usage function information, and the like in the usage of a network home appliance, the customer management system according to the present invention is constructed from... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070168205 - Dynamic food orders during travel: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for creating a dynamic food order for a traveler. A food order is received from the traveler. A determination is made as to whether a real-time itinerary for the traveler has changed. In response to a change in the real-time itinerary, the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168218 - Electronic bond and guaranty process and business method: Disclosed is a method by which suretyship bonds and guaranties can be purchased and deployed over the Internet in real time, providing automatic application evaluation and policy binding. Th