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. The principal's credit card information is used in a repeating cycle of pre-authorized charges so that the card account serves as effective... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070168201 - Formula for automatic prioritization of the business impact based on a failure on a service in a loosely coupled application: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for dynamically and deterministically evaluating the priority to assign to fixing a failed service for a business process comprising multiple independent services. A monitoring service of a computer system monitors the process and dynamically detects one or more failed services among the existing services.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070168208 - Location recommendation method and system: A method of recommending a location is provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070168217 - Method and system for improved user management of a fleet of vehicles: A system and method for managing a fleet of vehicles provides users of the system with improved functionality that may include features such as one-way rental activity tracking, user-configurable fleet definitions, monitoring vehicle eligibility for sale as a used vehicle on the basis of pre-existing agreements, the ability to designate... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070168199 - Method of operating a talent business: A method of selecting and recruiting extras for use in film, television productions and commercials, comprising creating and maintaining a server with a database containing profiles for available extras. The casting director is then provided with a portable computer to connect to and access the database. The casting director downloads... Agent: Vermette & Company

20070168207 - Point of sale display for lighting fixtures: A plurality of lighting fixtures with interchangeable sensors and transmitters are displayed for sale to the consuming public such that a customer of such a display may easily choose a specific lighting fixture and combine it with a specific sensor and/or transmitter enabling the customer to buy a lighting fixture... Agent: Botkin & Hall, LLP

20070168202 - Restaurant drive-through monitoring system: A system for tracking a speed of service at a restaurant for a vehicle receives an indicator that the vehicle is present in a menu board area from a first detector, and receives an indicator that an order for the vehicle is entered at a POS device. The system then... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070168216 - Social networking and e-commerce integration: The present invention relates to methods, systems and databases for sharing user inputted data obtained from two different environments. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of obtaining user inputted data (e.g., metadata or links) from a social networking environment, and providing the data to other users in an... Agent: Antoinette G. Giugliano, P.C.

20070168210 - System and method for attracting private investment in a cooperative: The present invention relates to an improved system and method for forming a cooperative. In one embodiment, the system and method relates to forming both a corporation entity and a cooperative entity and selling some ownership percentage of the corporation to the cooperative. In a further embodiment, the system and... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070168204 - System, computer program product and method of correlating safety solutions with business climate: A system, computer program product and method of correlating safety solutions implemented in a facility with the facility's business climate are provided. The system, computer program product and method are used for designing safety solutions for a facility. While doing so, a user such as a security consultant, may derive... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20070168206 - Techniques for process tracking and monitoring: Techniques are presented for process tracking and monitoring. A tracking service monitors a good or service through a processing plan and takes selective measurements. A dashboard service presents the processing plan, locations for the good or service, and other metadata. The dashboard service also identifies cause and effect relationships derived... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070168214 - Virtual credit with transferability: A method and system provides credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users can make simulated purchases or... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070168215 - Voice controlled business scheduling system and method: A fully automated, voice controlled business appointment/reservation system is provided. The system has a natural language voice user interface that emulates a live office administrator for appointment/reservation bookkeeping. It includes an efficient availability searching mechanism which enables a telephone user to quickly search and reserve available time slot based on... Agent: Yilissa Tang

20070168224 - Advanced diabetes management system (adms): An automated healthcare communication system that facilitates communications between healthcare providers and patients and provides timely data to providers to help patients self manage their diabetes. Messages are presented to patients at pre-selected times to help them learn about the disease and develop appropriate behaviors that improve their health and... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070168221 - Communicating medical information: Systems and methods for communicating medical information. Several embodiments also include generating alerts related to medical information, which can be transmitted to different medical entities. Prescription information from a provider describing a medication prescribed for a patient can be received by a management server via the Internet. This prescription information... Agent: R. Burns Israelsen Workman Nydegger

20070168231 - Information presentation system, computer program, and computer software product: Associated information is prepared and stored in a support information DB, the information being such that elements belonging to a plurality of element items respectively forming medical information on at least one patient are associated with each other between the items. Then, on a medical-support-information presenting screen displayed at a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070168220 - Method and system for delivering educational content: The invention provides a method, system and computer program for delivering an exercise for accomplishing a goal. A method for delivering the exercise includes an identification receiving step of receiving identification information regarding a user, a goal receiving step of receiving goal information, and a delivering step of delivering an... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20070168230 - Method for conditioning body weight and device for implementing this method: A device for conditioning the weight of a user comprises: measuring means for measuring at least one physical characteristic of the user and coding it in a weight signal; a computerized control unit in communication with the measuring means for processing the weight signal; a display in communication with the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070168226 - Personalized body image: Delivery of health information to a patient suffering from a chronic condition is personalized by displaying the health information directly on a customized image of a body. The patient's medical record, standards of care for the condition, prescribed treatments, and patient input are applied to a generalized health model of... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070168227 - System and method for automated screening of individuals for various weight loss treatment options: A system and method for performing an internet-based automated assessment of an individual as a candidate for various weight loss therapies is described. The system and method includes providing a web site where a candidate can access and answer a questionnaire. The password for accessing the website is provided by... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20070168232 - System and method for implementing healthcare fraud countermeasures: A method of discouraging healthcare fraud in conjunction with providing a health care service to a patient in which the patient provides a biometric signature. An event record is created where the event record creates an association between the biometric signature, a patient identifier, and location information indicating a location... Agent: Stuart T. Langley, Esq. Hogan & Hartson, LLP

20070168222 - System and method for providing hierarchical medical device control for automated patient management: A system and method for providing hierarchical medical device control for automated patient management is presented. A processor is operatively coupled to a plurality of medical devices on a substantially continual basis to receive sensor data. A control strategy is assigned to the processor to specify actions to be taken... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070168219 - Systems and methods for facilitating delivery of consulting services: A method for providing consulting services includes assembling a plurality of solutions or recommendations designed to promote cost savings and improved operational efficiency of a business enterprise, categorizing at least a subset of the plurality of solutions or recommendations into groups, selecting client-relevant solutions, recommendations or groups from the plurality... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070168225 - Workflow generator for medical-clinical facilities: In a method, a system and a central control device for generation of a workflow for a medical treatment of a patient, the treatment is divided into treatment segments that are implemented on a number of instances. After the acquisition of a symptom list, a set of diagnostic questions is... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070168234 - Efficient system and method for obtaining preferred rates for provision of health care services: Techniques are disclosed for allowing a heath care provider to receive payment from a customer's pre-funded account in exchange for health services provided to a customer, through the use of a healthcare card. The card is issued to the customer by a health plan organization and is linked to a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070168237 - Methods and systems for a guest online-reservable system: A computer-implemented method for facilitating a guest reservable online celebrity interaction (GROCI) between a guest and a celebrity via a computer-network is provided. The celebrity is a fictional character. The computer-implemented method includes providing an avenue for promoting the celebrity. The computer-implemented method also includes receiving reservation data from the... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070168240 - Architectural design for make to stock application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing a make to stock process. 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... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070168242 - Networked system for interactive communication and remote monitoring of pharmaceutical manufacturer and clinical trials: A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070168241 - Survey-based management performance evaluation systems: A system for use in evaluating the performance of an individual, the system being adapted for: (A) analyzing a first set of data to determine: (1) at least one target area for improvement, and (2) a first target area performance measurement that corresponds to a particular measurement of performance within... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070168243 - Accommodating unforeseen events using an electronic calendar: Methods and computer program products for accommodating unforeseen events using an electronic calendar. Occurrences of unforeseen events pertinent to preexisting appointments are detected. Occurrences of unforeseen events may be detected by, for example, accepting input from the user conveyed by, for example, a keyboard, a mouse click, or a menu... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070168244 - Methods and apparatus for coordinating and selecting protocols for resources acquisition from multiple resource managers: Techniques are disclosed for allocation of resources under the control of resource managers and the choice and coordination of resource acquisition protocols to communicate with these resource managers. The resource managers may be distributed and heterogeneous. For example, a technique for use by a service provider for allocating one or... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070168246 - Reducing risks related to check verification: Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide scores that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. Share of wallet scores can be used as a parameter for determining whether or not to accept and/or guarantee a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070168247 - Survey-based management performance evaluation systems: A system for use in evaluating the performance of an individual, the system being adapted for: (A) analyzing a first set of data to determine: (1) at least one target area for improvement, and (2) a first target area performance measurement that corresponds to a particular measurement of performance within... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070168255 - Classification and management of keywords across multiple campaigns: A system for classifying and managing keywords across multiple campaigns comprises a classification manager, a bid management system, a web analytics tool and a search engine. The classification manager interfaces with the bid management system and the web analytics tool to provide user interfaces for reviewing data about specific keywords... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070168254 - Media play optimization: Systems, methods, and a user interface for automatically scheduling a media play is disclosed. The user can specify criteria for play of the media play, including times, stations, and/or external criteria such as a weather condition or the occurrence of an event. Information relevant to the entered criteria is received... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070168251 - Method and apparatus for a promotional couponing system: A system is provided for the creation and management of promotional coupons or vouchers using coupon templates written in a template definition language, promotions, and promotional campaigns for the generation and issuance of promotional coupons either in real time or based on a predetermined date and/or time by a printer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070168256 - Method and apparatus for marketing information to an individual using inquirey management: A method and apparatus for facilitating providing information to an individual using inquiry management, including providing a database of information which is associated to correspond with selections on a selection menu, a mechanism for input, collection and storage of user data, where selection data items may be associated with content... Agent: Harding, Early, Follmer & Frailey 86 The Commons At Valley Forge East

20070168249 - Method of invisibly linking documents: A method of invisibly linking documents. The invisible link can be created using images or text links. The purpose of the method is to give websites the ability to generate revenue without having to sell visual space and allow advertisers to purchase non-visual citations that will increase the number and... Agent: Brian Echard

20070168250 - Method of merging art production and prepress: A web-based, interactive tool provides a method of linking marketing strategies to field sales and marketing. In particular, the web-based tool allows the coordination of marketing and promotional schedules, preferred design work and pricing information, among other things, to allow substantially on-demand printing of marketing and promotional materials. The web-based... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070168248 - Sales promotion device: There is provided a sales promotion device (10) for modifying purchasing behavior. The device (10) is distinguished in that it includes spatially co-located first and second component parts (20, 30; 40, 50, 60). The first component part (20, 30) comprises a consumer product (20) and the second component part (40,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070168257 - Container management method and container management system: A container stock management technique in a hospital and a culture center is provided. A stock management device (1) manages both transfer (outgoing transfer) of cells sampled at the hospital to the culture center, and transfer (incoming transfer) of the cells cultured from the sampled cells at the culture center,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070168262 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium for storing the program: Disclosed herein is an information processing system including an information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus different from the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes: a first communication unit, a first storage unit, a data generation unit, and a transmission control unit. The other information processing apparatus... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070168260 - Payment apparatus and method: Techniques are provided for updating an offline parameter of a payment device having an online-capable application and a primarily offline application. The offline parameter can be a counter reflective of an offline spending balance. The same parameter can be shared between the applications, or cross-application visibility of the parameter can... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070168261 - System and method for displaying inventory and future inventory for purchase: An embodiment of the invention provides the ability for forest products sellers to provide potential buyers with price and availability information about their products, whether or not those products are in existing inventory. It gives the seller control over which products can be pre-sold prior to production or purchase, and... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070168259 - Systems and methods for semantic editorial control and video/audio editing: In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to create and customize a version of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. Based on semantic criteria, the media content management application may use editing/assembly software packages to construct a version of the... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070168263 - Method for providing a shortcut to shipping information: A method and system are provided for a user to determine the status of a shipment being transported by a carrier. The user performs a transaction at a web site, and chooses a type of shipment. A file in markup language includes at least one link to shipment tracking information,... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070168265 - Method, transaction card or identification system for transaction network comprising proprietary card network, eft, ach, or atm, and global account for end user automatic or manual presetting or adjustment of multiple account balance payoff, billing cycle: The present invention provides methods, systems and transaction cards or identification systems, using transaction network comprising proprietary card network, EFT, ACH, or ATM, for end user management of a global financial account by manual or automatic prepaying, prepaying, paying or unpaying, debiting or crediting, or readjustment or presetting, using parameters... Agent: Guy Kevin Townsend

20070168267 - Automated aggregation and comparison of business spending relative to similar businesses: A system and method compares aggregated spending transactions of a target entity with those of a collection of entities. The system and method aggregates spending transactions of the target entity, and compares with the corresponding aggregated spending transactions of the collection of entities.... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20070168266 - Systems, methods and computer readable code for visualizing and managing digital cash: Systems, methods and computer readable code for handling (for example, visualizing and/or managing) digital cash are provided. According to some embodiments, digital cash bundles are each represented as graphical icons associated a visual indication of at least one digital cash attribute of the respective digital cash bundle. Exemplary digital cash... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070168271 - Method and system for collecting and evaluating insider transaction data: The present invention relates to methods and systems for evaluating insider financial transaction data in which a transaction score is determined for an insider transaction using one or more attributes of public insider financial transaction data. The transaction score can be used for determining a value or ranking for a... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20070168272 - Method and system for managing collateralized obligations to satisfy predetermined investment ratings requirements: A method and system are provided which generate a collateral quality formula, based on a data set of collateral quality values, used to guide purchases and sales of collateral by CDO managers to satisfy investment ratings requirements, such as those established by independent ratings services, such as, for example, Moody's... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070168269 - Method for analyzing financial stock market trend: A method for analyzing a financial stock market trend according to this invention is provided, in which a parameter formula is used to form a long-term trend region and an intermediate-term trend region and to analyze a Bull-and-Bear trend in a long period of the financial stock market and in... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070168270 - Method for estimating expected cash flow of an investment instrument: A method for estimating future cash flows of an investment instrument (or portfolio of investment instruments) is performed by simulating past performance (i.e., cash flows similar instruments based on actual data of past performance, using the simulated past performance to generate a distribution of possible future performance outcomes of the... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070168268 - Mortality put options and methods, systems, and products for providing same: This invention provides systems, methods, and designs for a novel financial product which provides many lifecycle investment advantages compared to existing state of the art products currently available.... Agent: Mr. Jeffrey S. Lange Generation Advisors

20070168273 - Systems and methods for multi-style portfolio (msp) cash flow enhancement: Systems and methods are provided for multi-style portfolio cash flow enhancement. The systems and methods include identifying a first set of one or more investment sleeves within an investment account as underweighted relative to a desired target and identifying a second set of one or more investment sleeves within the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070168274 - System and method for financial management of advance earned income credit: A system and method for financial management of advance earned income credit, wherein eligible taxpayers may elect direct deposit of their paychecks (i.e., net pay), advance earned income credit (advance EIC) inclusive, onto a stored-value debit card that functions as a main bank account. Thereafter, the advance EIC portion of... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20070168276 - Global electronic trading system: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for facilitating trading two items (L,Q) from the group of items comprising commodities and financial instruments. At least two agents (2) want to trade the items (L,Q). There is a trading channel (3) between the two agents (2) allowing for the execution of trades.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070168275 - Method for trading using volume submissions: A method for reducing the amount of time for a user to submit an order is provided. Volume submission allows a user to submit and revise orders with a single action on a volume entry region. Typically, a user has to set a price and quantity. Many users wait for... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070168277 - Merchant credit issuance and monitoring systems and methods: A method of extending credit to a merchant establishing a transaction processing relationship with the merchant and extending credit to the merchant contingent on the transaction processing relationship. Extending credit includes a right to collateralize funds resulting from the transaction processing relationship, otherwise due the merchant, if the merchant defaults... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070168278 - System and method for matching loan consumers and lenders: A system and method for matching a loan consumer with lenders via the Internet includes receiving loan consumer application information. The application information is stored in a database. An internally specified filter is applied to the information to determine if the loan consumer meets a set of loan criteria. A... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070168280 - Digital currency: This novel invention consists of a small, portable electronic device that is used to transfer monetary value in all situations where other forms of money are currently used, including but not limited to: paper money, credit cards, and checks. The electronic device, which is linked to a main server to... Agent: Eugene Oak

20070168279 - Disposable payment account: Methods are provided of processing a transaction between a consumer and a merchant with a disposable financial account. The disposable financial account is created automatically at a financial institution upon receipt of information provided by the consumer requesting creation of the account through an interface with the financial institution. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070168281 - 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.

20070168284 - Management of encrypted storage media: A method for use of a physical data storage medium, the method including receiving a first read request for data stored in any of a plurality of storage sub-units on a physical data storage medium, and decrypting the requested data if an indicator associated with the requested data storage sub-unit... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070168285 - Systems and methods for neutralizing unauthorized attempts to monitor user activity: Systems and methods for neutralizing unauthorized attempts to monitor user activity are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a detection module configured to detect an attempt to receive a message that is related to a protected application program. The system also includes a neutralization module configured to set a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070168286 - Content use management device: A memory card 2 has a storage section 22 for storing coupon data 221 and expiration date data 222 as information about contents, and a processing section 21 for performing processing pertaining to the contents. When information about the time of the portable terminal 1 has been changed, card control... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070168291 - Electronic negotiable documents: A method of electronically issuing an electronic negotiable document (END) includes the steps of creating as data an END and storing this in tamper-resistant document carrier hardware containing a unique public-secret key pair for signing and verifying, and a unique document-carrier identifier; signing the unique document-carrier identifier; the END and... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070168287 - Method and apparatus for distributing media in a pay per play architecture with remote playback: A system for rendering media content in accordance with the invention includes a first platform for storing media content, wherein the media content comprises an unrenderable state when received by the first platform. The system further includes a second platform that is communicatively coupled with the first platform for rendering... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070168288 - Method and system for dynamic digital rights bundling: Methods and systems for dynamically bundling portions into secured destination files are provided. Example embodiments provide a Dynamic Digital Rights Bundling System (“DDRBS”), which dynamically bundles a set of portions each variously containing digital rights management components, user interface controls, and content, into a secured destination file in response to... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070168290 - System and method for biometric authorization for age verification: The present invention is a system and method of biometric-based age verification for authorizing presenter access of age-restricted good or services between an age presenter and an age verifier. System presenters register at least one biometric identifier, at least one identification number, personal age-verifying data, and personal identity-verifying data. A... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP Firm 21269

20070168292 - Memory system with versatile content control: The owner of proprietor interest is in a better position to control access to the encrypted content in the medium if the encryption-decryption key is stored in the medium itself and substantially inaccessible to external devices. Only those host devices with the proper credentials are able to access the key.... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz LLP

20070168293 - Method and apparatus for authorizing rights issuers in a content distribution system: Method and apparatus for rights issuer authorization in a content distribution system is described. In one example, a message is received at a client device from a first rights issuer. A digital certificate is obtained for the first rights issuer. The digital certificate is processed to verify the first rights... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070168294 - Digital content use right management system: A digital content use right management system includes a digital content server device 1 to store an encrypted digital content, a license server device 2 to generate and transmit license data 4 containing an available location of the digital content and a decryption key to decrypt the digital content, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070168296 - Method of providing a mobile non-secular media service: Disclosed is a method for providing a mobile, non-secular media delivery service. The service provides both audio and audiovisual materials of a religious nature to individuals for a set period of time for a fee. The service is mobile and meets the customer at a convenient location. The method further... Agent: Steven L. Schmid

20070168295 - Verification method for personal credit purchases: A verification method for personal credit purchases is disclosed. The method utilizes a user data, at least one prerecorded AV data and a user status authentication data stored on a central server to verify of a personal credit purchase. The method of the present invention avoids illegal use of the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070168297 - Efficient method and system for secure business-to-business transaction: A system and method of conducting secure business-to-business transactions by exchanging commitments and secure transaction tokens, where two levels of verification stringency are used for increasing the efficiency while maintaining sufficient security. The commitments are verified by a more stringent standard, such as PKI operations while the secure transaction tokens... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070168298 - Method and apparatus for establishing peer-to-peer karma and trust: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for establishing peer-to-peer karma and trust by a first user in a network includes engaging in a transaction with at least a second user in the network and exchanging feedback with the second network user regarding the transaction, where a copy of... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070168299 - Method and system for protection and security of io devices using credentials: A method and system for protection and security of IO devices using credential are provided. The system may include at least one consumer arranged to initiate IO requests from the IO device, and the IO requests may include IO capability allocation and additional parameters. The system may also include an... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070168300 - Electronic transaction system and a transaction terminal adapted for such a system: A system for performing electronic transaction comprises:—a human interface module SPED comprising a keypad KP, a display D, a card reader CR, a processing means MP and an internal bus B for connecting these elements,—a hosting means HT connectable to the human interface module SPED through connection means C1, said... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070168301 - System and method for exchanging information among exchange applications: In a system and method for performing message-based business processes among a plurality of applications, configuration data is stored in a data store in a gateway, the configuration data including information defining one or more simple transactions that can be performed by the gateway. A gateway message is received at... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070168304 - Method of financing mobile assets: A method of deploying a mobile asset includes assigning a priority factor to a plurality of users and determining departure information for each of the users. The method further includes determining a movement information associated with each departure information and deploying the asset based on the departure information, movement information... Agent: Paul M. Hletko

20070168303 - Software model process interaction: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for defining interactions between two process components. For each process component, at least one inbound operation and at least one outbound operation are defined. The inbound operations can be initiated by the other process component to read or modify data encapsulated in a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070162290 - System and method for managing product composition testing: An exemplary system includes a database (3), and a website (20) connected thereto. The database is configured for storing RoHS specifications, and the website is configured for information exchange with the database. The website includes a creating module (204), an uploading module (210), a RoHS checking module (212) and a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070162335 - Advertiser sponsored media download and distribution using real-time ad and media matching and concatenation: Methods and systems for distributing content. A method may include requesting, through a computer network, a download of particular content; receiving the particular content, wherein the particular content is combined with an advertisement; storing the particular content and the advertisement in a user's content play device; receiving a user request... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070162340 - Integrated consumer rewards/product placement advertising program: Various embodiments of systems, methods, devices, and computer software for implementing an integrated consumer rewards/product placement advertising program are provided. One embodiment comprises a product placement advertising method. One such method comprises: associating a media project with a rewards program; providing a product placement advertisement opportunity in the media project... Agent: Shutts & Bowen, LLP

20070162334 - Systems and methods to convert a call generated from an advertisement: Methods and systems for converting a call generated from an advertisement. One embodiment includes: establishing a real time communication connection between a first entity and a second entity via a communication reference embedded in an advertisement that is presented on behalf of the second entity; billing the second entity for... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070162345 - Tax refund system and method: A tax refund system and method are disclosed. By the tax refund system of the present invention, a tax refund card embedded with memory is utilized to purchase merchandises in a tax-free shop so that the work of the tax-free shop can record the information relating to those purchased merchandises... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070162361 - method and data processing system for performing an audit: A computerized method of evaluating a questionnaire comprising a set of questions of a category, wherein the method comprises the step of requesting a response for each question of the set of questions from an auditee, wherein each response is given in form of a quantitative value. The method further... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070162366 - Anti-phishing communication system: A system and method for electronic message verification are described. One embodiment adds a unique code to electronic messages which a user can provide to a financial services company website. The code can be verified and a verification notice is provided to the user if the message was authentic. Authentication... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070162403 - System and method for financing with a convertible repurchase agreement: A financial instrument comprises a condition wherein a first party agrees to deliver a number of first securities to a second party at a first time. The financial instrument further comprises a condition wherein the second party agrees to deliver a first amount to the first party at the first... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070162379 - Computer-implemented method and system for managing keyword bidding prices: A computer-implemented method and system for managing keyword bidding prices are disclosed. An example system embodiment includes an automatic keyword bidding module, operably coupled with a processor and a memory, operable to determine a revenue per click value associated with a keyword, obtain bidding information associated with the keyword, obtain... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070162378 - Systems and methods for providing trading exclusivity/priority in response to quantity of items traded in electronic trading systems: Systems and methods for providing trading exclusivity/priority in response to quantity of items traded in electronic trading systems is provided. The method preferably includes receiving an incoming order for the item and determining whether the incoming order matches a current order for the item and satisfies a minimum volume requirement.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070162397 - Method, apparatus, and program product for processing product evaluations: A technique for determining a match between a character string including an evaluation and product information stored in a storage device and including a feature description of a product. The character string includes a name of an evaluation object to be evaluated and an evaluation expression representing the evaluation of... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070162301 - 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

20070162289 - Differentiated charging in packet data networks: Method and nodes involving communicating charging information (CI) in a network comprising at least a serving node (SGSN) and a gateway node (GGSN) wherein charging information (CI) relating to a particular PDP context for a given mobile station is gathered in the gateway node and transmitted in a GTP header... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070162295 - Healthcare management system and method: A system and method for managing healthcare in which payers, providers, pharmacists, and/or patients can interact with appropriate aspects of a particular treatment or surveillance plan. Treatment and/or surveillance plans can be designed, created, selected, implemented, tracked, evaluated, modified, improved, expanded, and/or otherwise managed. Outcomes data can be used to... Agent: Falkowski PLLC

20070162297 - Information processing apparatus and case example output method and program: An information processing apparatus capable of outputting a case example(s) satisfying the needs of customers without inputting keywords is disclosed. The apparatus includes an output device, an action needs storage unit for storing needs information indicating the customer needs in correspondence to action information indicating action contents of the customers... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070162299 - Materials location system and selecting method of materials receiving locations: Working efficiency improvement of shipping and receiving operations in a materials storage location is contemplated. An optimal location is provided so as to minimize work volume in shipping operation when receiving materials control objects in a materials storage location to improve working efficiency in the materials stockroom. As means to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070162294 - Method and apparatus for providing context-sensitive community links: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that provides a context-sensitive “community link,” which enables a system or application user to easily access a community forum related to a specific system or application feature. During operation, the system provides a user with access to the system or application... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070162287 - Method and system for monitoring a packaging process or filling process: First and second items of data information are detected during a method for automatically monitoring a packaging or filling process of a packaging machine. The first items specify the packaging and/or a packaging material used for forming the packaging, and the second items serve to describe machine parts, or machine... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070162288 - Method for automatically generating a spare parts list: A method for automatic creation of a spare part list for a product having a predetermined order code formed from a plurality of feature fields M1, M2, M3, etc. having corresponding attributes characterizing the product spare part codes of individual spare parts being stored in a file, which spare part... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070162293 - Method for valuing used motor vehicles: A method for valuing a used motor vehicle provides an reliable and verifiable valuation based on information about the vehicle as provided by its manufacturer. The method considers the optional equipment with which the vehicle was originally provided in determining its value, and can also consider other originally provided information... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070162296 - Methods and apparatuses for audio advertisements: Methods and apparatuses to present audio advertisements and deliver communication leads. One embodiment includes: providing an advertisement, on behalf of a party, to a customer over a real time communication channel that is capable of audio transmission; connecting the customer to the party according to a response to the advertisement;... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070162300 - Methods of facilitating contact management using a computerized system including a set of titles: A method of optimizing a contact management system using a computerized system including a set of titles. The method includes storing a set of user identity records in an identity management site, wherein each record of the set of user identity records can be redeemed by a pointer. The method... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070162291 - System and method for delivering home inspection quotes over a multi-user network: The present invention is a website with an SQL database to provide information about home inspectors and instant home inspection quotes online with its own scheduling system and a home inspection report database enabling users, home buyers, real estate professionals, mortgage brokers, loan officers, attorneys and/or any other person to... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20070162292 - System and method for negotiating retailer access to consumer-owned content via negotiated electronic agreements in a retail environment: A consumer maintains control of certain personal information via the consumer's decision to create, store and offer a retailer conditional access to certain portions of the consumer's identifying information. The consumer is able to set individualized conditions of how access may be acquired and in view of what exchange or... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070162298 - Systems and methods for presenting data items: Systems, methods, and software for presenting data are described. Previously accessed data items are presented in a manner that is non-chronological relative to when the data items were accessed. The presentation optionally includes an indication of a significance of the data item with the representation.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070162302 - Cosign feature of medical note-taking software: Medical note-taking software is used by healthcare professionals to author notes to be used by the software in generating medical documents. The present invention adds cosign functionality. Each healthcare professional user of the software is assigned a level of authority over notes which can be used by the software application... Agent: Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C. The Financial Center

20070162305 - Electronic medical information exchange and management system: The present invention provides methods and systems to manage the exchange of medical information between two or more entities. Particularly, the present invention provides for computer-implemented systems and methods that are useful for transferring diagnostic medical examinations between hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers, medical clinics, physicians, physician groups, or entities employing... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070162304 - Methods and systems for monitoring quality and performance at a healthcare facility: Methods, systems and computer program products are used in monitoring patients, staff, assets and visitors at a facility, initiating a response to prevent or mitigate harm, and assess and ensure overall quality and performance, and refine individual patient, staff and visitor profiles. A plurality of sensors throughout the facility provide... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070162309 - Prescription verification system: An apparatus and method for permitting a pharmacist to verify a refill of a filled prescription stored on a host system. A prescription refill screen is provided by the host system to a pharmacy system associated with the pharmacist. The prescription refill screen is associated with the filled prescription. Refill... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070162306 - System and methods for performing distributed payment transactions: An interoperable process and device for its practice for ensuring that a payment is made by a payor for services rendered. The process includes receiving information from at least one stakeholder indicating that a payment process should be completed. The process further includes funding a service provided by a service... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070162308 - System and methods for performing distributed transactions: A system and methods is described for providing unified and secure centralizing information management to permit interoperability of disparate stakeholders in the healthcare industry access and update information under a common scheme thereby creating a more efficient delivery system for all the stakeholders such as patients, doctors, clinics, hospitals, insurance... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070162303 - Systems and methods for shifting prescription market share by presenting pricing differentials for therapeutic alternatives: While a pharmacist may know of other medications approved by the FDA for the same medical condition, the pharmacist typically does not know what the therapeutically equivalent dose of those products is when compared to the originally prescribed item In addition to this lack of equivalent dosage information, the pharmacist... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070162307 - Toolbar user interface for information system: A method of operating an interoperable healthcare information system using a user interface of a computer system connected to the healthcare information system via a network is disclosed. Member identification information is received from a user via the user interface. The member identification information is sent to the healthcare information... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070162310 - Medical office electronic management system and method: The invention broadly comprises a method for processing work flow regarding a medical visit including the steps identifying the selection, in an electronic medical records system (EMRS), of a condition during the visit and displaying a treatment plan regarding the condition. In some aspects, the selection is regarding treatment, documentation,... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20070162312 - Physician treatment ordering system: A system provides decision support information that improves patient care by enabling physicians who are placing orders to see historical treatment ordering patterns and adjust order associated workflow (e.g., as part of a computerized Health Care Order Entry System) based on an analysis of past orders placed on similar types... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070162311 - System and method for longitudinal patient dosimetry management decision support: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system for patient dosimetry management including a processing component. The processing component is capable of receiving and/or aggregating dosimetry data from a plurality of information sources. Each information source in the plurality of information sources includes dosimetry data for a patient.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070162313 - Certificate holder liability insurance: The Certificate Holder Liability Insurance policy is a new concept in insurance coverage, a new approach to handling the potential coverage problems presented to certificate holders when accepting certificates of insurance from certificate providers and a better means to assure certificate holders that the coverage they require and depend on... Agent: Charles L. Young, Jr.

20070162314 - Multi-traveler flight pass: A method of managing a multi-traveler flight pass based on interaction with a user, comprising: allocating a bank of available air travel credit to the multi-traveler flight pass; associating air travel conditions with the multi-traveler flight pass; and, in response to receiving from the user data identifying a plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070162317 - Configuration extensions for a telecommunications service provider: A customer care architecture integrates a full range of customer care and dunning billing features in a customer care system. The customer care architecture defines and implements multiple workflows which support dunning action requests while centralizing customer account control at the customer care system in an end-to-end telecommunications system framework.... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070162315 - Space reservation system: The invention is directed to a space reservation system that has the ability to receive occupancy information relating to a space. The occupancy information originates from a sensor. The invention is also directed to an occupancy sensing apparatus for a space reservation system. The sensing apparatus includes a sensor and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070162316 - System and method for evaluating a requirements process and project risk-requirements management methodology: A system, method and computer program product for requirements management. Particularly, a requirements management scheme performs at least the following functions: 1) it guides a team through the requirements process and provides a structure for collecting “requests”. By using the scheme, team members are prompted to think about and record... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070162319 - System and method for facilitating bilateral and multi: Techniques for facilitating evaluation, in connection with the procurement or delivery of products or services, in a context of at least one of (i) a financial transaction and (ii) operation of an enterprise, such context involving a member of a first class of parties in a first role and a... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070162318 - System and method for managing business processes: A business process management system includes a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is accessible via a network that manages access by users to documents, enables dynamic generation of a workflow process by a user, executes and monitors the workflow and maintains information about the workflow, and enables integration... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070162320 - Document security within a business enterprise: A computer-based method for defining an enterprise organisation providing electronic document security. Enterprise elements of management groups are defined to correspond with an area of accountability, each group having one of several types, including “line of business”, “key results area”, and “senior management”. Each group has several subgroups, including “group... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20070162323 - Integrated online job recruitment system: The present invention provides an easy to use system and method for assisting job seekers in locating job opportunities and applying for the same using an online connectivity protocol which is simple to use and highly efficient in terms of time consumption. The system identifies and extracts keywords from the... Agent: Innovalex

20070162321 - Outsourcing of services: A method for identifying human-resource work content to outsource offshore of an organization. The method is provided on a computer readable medium and includes the steps of identifying at least one task being performed by an organization; associating each identified task with a functional group within a plurality of functional... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070162322 - Social calendar: A social calendar is provided for managing social events. A social calendar application provides an interface which allows a user to manage events during social time periods. The interface emphasizes social periods in multiple-day views. The emphasis on social periods may be implemented by allocating more scheduling bandwidth to social... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070162324 - Workflow management system: A disclosed workflow management system includes a first database for holding a task model created by generalizing a past task instance of a workflow; a second database for holding a task instance that is a specific past task instance of a workflow; a task model reusing unit configured to reuse... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070162326 - Multi-party, multi-tier system for managing paper purchase and distribution: A system, including apparatuses and methods, for paper production and distribution in a communication network environment with multi-party and multi-level production and distribution relationships. The system receives, from one or more communicatively connected paper purchaser computers, parameters representative of the total surface area and physical characteristics of paper products required... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070162325 - Pos-predictive food buffet: A method, system and computer-program for speculative stocking consumable goods are presented. The method includes the steps method for speculative stocking consumable items, the method comprising: receiving a current speculative order from a current customer for a consumable item; and speculatively preparing the consumable item, according to the current speculative... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070162327 - Method for obtaining traffic information using billing information of mobile terminal: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining traffic information using billing information of a mobile terminal. The method can prevent crosstalk between a vehicle on a highway and a vehicle on a local road parallel to the highway and obtain correct traffic information associated with the highway, when... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070162342 - Digital advertising system: An exemplary embodiment providing for one or more improvements includes an advertising auction system that has an administration server for managing available advertising space and advertising auctions. One or more publishers list their available advertising space at the administration server and one or advertisers bid on the available advertising space... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070162328 - Lbs nowcasting sensitive advertising and promotion system and method: A system and method for combining the delivery of advertising with weather predictions that are limited in geo-graphical area and time, and hence which are much more precise but also more time sensitive than regular weather forecasts. The present invention is preferably implemented with “nowcasting”.... Agent: Sullivan & Worcester LLP

20070162330 - Method and apparatus for conducting a sweepstakes: A personal identification card for use in a sweepstakes network is capable of being purchased for goods and services unrelated to a sweepstakes. The personal identification card includes a personal identification number associated with the personal identification card and readable and writeable digital storage means for storing digital data related... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20070162337 - Method and system for distributing and redeeming targeted offers to customers: Methods and systems are provided for activating and redeeming product discount offers targeted to particular customers. Information related to a merchant loyalty program such as t-logs, customer loyalty information, redemption history, customer segmentation data, and merchant product taxonomies are regularly transmitted to an incentive management system for storage. Merchants can... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070162341 - Method and system for distribution and use of coupons: A method and system for coupon distribution and use. A merchant provisions a coupon with a coupon server, and the coupon server delivers the coupon to a consumer's device via SMS, WAP push, e-mail, instant messaging, or in another manner. The consumer then presents the device to a merchant at... Agent: Sprint

20070162339 - Method and system for sending and processing messages received electronically: In a computer system of a sender, means is generated for a message. The means represents a reward offer for a receiver of the message for acting on the message. The message and means are sent to at least one receiver. The message and means associated with the message are... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070162336 - Method and system for surplus management: A surplus management system disclosed herein includes a promotion module adapted to generate promotions based on the surplus, a scheduler module adapted to schedule the promotions over a period, a coupon generation module adapted to generate coupons for the promotion, a database adapted to store the promotion, the schedule and... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070162329 - Method for offering a search-word advertisement and generating a search result list in response to the search-demand of a searcher and a system thereof: The present invention relates to method and system for providing a search word advertisement which can compute a predetermined expected advertisement cost by predicting the maximum number of expected clicks at the future point with respect to particular search listing, and subtract a cost for execution of advertisement from the... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070162332 - Method of providing variable rewards in an online pay for performance business model: A host receives one or more listings of property or goods or services. A plurality of rewards and criteria for providing such reward to users who enter into transactions corresponding to the listings are received. A claim from the user that he has entered into a transaction corresponding to one... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070162333 - Method of verifying a claim in an online pay for performance business model: A host identifies a user at a client computer and transmits listings of property or goods or services to the client computer for display to the user. The host logs the transmitted listings and the dates of the transmissions. A claim from the user that he has entered into a... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070162343 - Serious intent mechanism and method: A method and system for determining a serious intent to purchase a good or service, comprising the steps of: receiving a declaration of intent to purchase a good or service from a buyer entity and not receiving at substantially the same time a commitment to purchase that good or service... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070162331 - Systems and methods for providing information and conducting business using the internet: The present invention provides systems and methods of doing business that provide revenue streams to ISP based on advertising revenue for advertisements displayed to ISP customers as a result of Internet communication sessions. In certain configurations, the invention provides redirect services based on pre-defined criteria, and displays advertising on redirection... Agent: LatimerIPLaw LLP

20070162344 - Targeted advertisement network that integrates with store-shopping: A new targeted Advertisement network that integrates with store-shopping includes at least one on-line provider of advertisements, a network of computers with assigned attributes for displaying the advertisements, a module collecting the assigned attributes of the computers and delivering the advertisements to the computers accordingly, and a desktop program installed... Agent: Jianfeng Jiang

20070162338 - Us savings bond gift system and method to redeem a gift card for a us savings bond through internet redemption: The invention provides a system and method for a donor to purchase a combined greeting-card and stored-value POSA card to be given to a recipient who can redeem the stored-value associated with the POSA card for a US savings bond through the recipient's completion of HTML forms including the entering... Agent: Alun L. Palmer, Patent Agent

20070162346 - Click and run software purchasing: A method for selling and executing an application using a remote file system for a plurality of clients that includes receiving a purchase request for the application from a client of the plurality of clients, adding an application icon to the remote file system for the client, wherein the application... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070162349 - Client side brand protection: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing authentication of brand information used on a website. According to one embodiment, providing reputation based authentication of brand information can comprise collecting information related to each of a plurality of websites. The information can relate to use of brand information... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070162351 - Dynamically fabricated store for distribution of media content: A method for implementing a media content store includes providing a set of exemplary storefronts for the media content store; receiving a designation of a selected storefront and media content in an origination format; transforming the media content into a distribution format; and offering the transformed media content to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070162352 - Dynamically fabricated store for distribution of media content: A method for implementing a media content store includes providing a set of exemplary storefronts for the media content store; receiving a designation of a selected storefront and media content in an origination format; transforming the media content into a distribution format; and offering the transformed media content to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070162350 - Method and apparatus for retrieving remote data based on local indicia: A method and apparatus for scanning an indicium local to a user on an advertisement or product. The scanning may be carried out by using a user device, such as a cellular phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), as an input device. The indicium may include an alphanumeric code encoded... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070162347 - Method and system for registering potential acquirers of vehicles that are not currently on the market: A register interest system receives from a potential acquirer of assets an indication that the potential acquirer is interested in acquiring rights in a specific asset that is not currently on the market. The register interest system stores indications that the potential acquirers are interested in specific assets. When a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070162348 - Method, apparatus and processes for real-time interactive online ordering and re-ordering and over the counter purchasing with rebate, saving, and investing processes: The Invention encompasses a system comprising a novel Volume Purchase Rebate Business Method, Volume Purchase Rebate Appliance sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive Showroom sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive Showcase sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive SalesPerson sub-system and Online-Interactive Ordering or Online-Interactive Re-Ordering sub-systems, and methods and processes for purchasing or... Agent: Morris E. Lewis

20070162353 - Online store using common carrier: 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.

20070162354 - Real-time electronic business transaction system and method for reporting stfc/fct data to customer: A real-time electronic business transaction system and method is proposed, which is capable of reporting STFC (Ship To First Commitment) and FCT (Factory Cycle Time) data in real time to a customer in response to an electronic purchase order from the customer. The proposed electronic business transaction system comprises an... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070162355 - Method and apparatus for interactive criteria-based commodity comparisons: A method and apparatus to remember and attempt to persist relative differences between automatically adjusted current weight values for non-directly adjusted graphic user interface elements, notwithstanding previous automatic adjustment of these current weighting values to a point of equality. A plurality of user-alterable graphic user interface elements are provided (101),... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070162357 - Cellar management system and methods for managing a wine cellar: An inventory management system is provided for a wine cellar that includes a plurality of walls defining cells for receiving bottles of wine. The system includes a database for storing data relating to the wine cellar and inventory within the wine cellar, a user device for use by a user... Agent: John S. Beulick (13307)

20070162360 - Container inventory management systems, methods and tools: An inventory management system configured for use in association with at least one container containing an amount of inventory material at a monitored location is provided. The system includes at least one measurement instrument operatively associated with the container, the measurement instrument being configured to generate at least one data... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP Henry W. Oliver Building

20070162356 - Inventory mitigation collaboration and balancing system with organized and archivable communication means: A computer-implemented inventory management system is provided in which inventory data and inventory balancing transactions are conducted external to existing inventory databases and within which communication means are integrated and organized by means allowing for storage, archival and auditing. More particularly, the invention relates to an inventory managements system which... Agent: Office Of Donald Grant Kelly Intellectual Asset Management Associates, LLC

20070162358 - Methods and system for actively managing a cellar: A cellar management system is provided for managing a cellar that stores a plurality of wine bottles. Said system including a processor and a user device connected with the processor. The user device configured to input specific features of a bottle in the cellar thereby forming a database. Wherein a... Agent: John S. Beulick (13307)

20070162359 - System and method for containerized data storage and tracking: The invention provides a method and system for automatically aggregating data items and storage media and placing each in a container, based on a storage preferences. The items in the container are generally of a similar type or classification. The container may be tracked by the system instead of individually... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070162362 - Financial information analysis supporting method and system: A financial information analysis supporting system supports analysis of financial information capable of effectively analyzing financial information described in the extended taxonomy and XBRL containing the extended taxonomy. The system includes a reference degree judgment system for receiving XBRL data and generating a reference degree for supporting analysis of the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070162363 - System and method for front end business logic and validation: A hybird Notes/DB2 environment provides a requisition catalog on the Web. Client browsers are connected to a GWA infrastructure including a first network dispatcher and a virtual cluster of Domino.Go servers. The network dispatcher sprays out browser requests among configured .nsf servers in virtual server cluster. Communications from this virtual... Agent: Shelley M. Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20070162364 - Method for charging for a service in a communication network: In one aspect an operator of a stateless proxy, or application broker to offer a reliable, trustworthy charging system which is accurate in definable intervals in a simple manner to registered application service suppliers, or registered clients, in which, during the provision of the service, the client and server are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070162372 - Computer based system to generate data for implementing regional and metropolitan economic, land use and transportation planning: The present invention comprises a method for forecasting future economic conditions, land utilization and transportation network utilization and performance of a metropolitan area having a plurality of economic zones, the method includes the steps of: a) receiving a set of calibration values from a first input device; b) calculating a... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20070162369 - Internet-based method of and system for transfering and exercising monetary rights within a financial marketplace: An Internet-based method of and system which inherently recognizes the separate and transferable rights associated with money (cash) ownership, thereby enabling the maximization of economic value that such personal property can support within society. According to the Internet-based method and system, the rights that customers of banks, brokerage firms, insurers... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., PC Soundview Plaza

20070162370 - Method and system for determining an effect of a financial decision on a plurality of related entities: A method for determining an effect of a financial decision on a plurality of related entities includes the step of receiving an identification of a first entity. An identification of a plurality of entities and an identification of a relationship between the first entity and each entity in the plurality... Agent: Patent Group Attn: John D. Lanza

20070162367 - Method of creating and utilizing healthcare related commodoties: Disclosed are novel tangible financial instruments that allow entities to effectively and efficiently hedge the highly volatile fluctuations associated with predicting healthcare costs and revenues by converting healthcare services into commodities and constructing a financial derivative and a security with an underlying value based on the commodity. The financial instruments... Agent: Ward & Olivo Suite 300

20070162368 - Methods and systems for providing, via an application service provider model, assistance to financial professionals by enumerating available resources to improve an analysis of a client and an identification of client needs by the financial services profe: In an application service provider model, a method for enumerating available resources to improve an analysis of a client and an identification of client needs by a financial services professional includes the step of enumerating a plurality of techniques. A network transmission including at least one characteristic associated with a... Agent: Attn: John D. Lanza Patent Group

20070162371 - Methods and systems for providing, via an application service provider model, assistance to financial professionals by tailoring a presentation of information to a client through generation of customized reports: In an application service provider model, a system for assisting a financial services professional to tailor a presentation of information to a client through generation of customized reports includes a model, a plurality of reporting components, a selection of at least one of the plurality of reporting components, an enumeration... Agent: Attn: John D. Lanza Patent Group

20070162365 - Securities aid: A computer-implemented method and system for a systematic trading of financial securities consistent with investment strategies which in turn inherently dictates the time to sell such securities. A method utilizing a computer system for inputting investment portfolio parameters pertaining to a security of interest and interactively utilizing the computer to... Agent: Earl J. Weinreb

20070162375 - Method and system for determining an effect of a financial decision on a plurality of related entities and providing a graphical representation of the plurality of related entities: A system for determining an effect of a financial decision on a plurality of related entities includes a first association, a second association, and a graphical representation. The first association is between a first entity and each entity in a plurality of entities related to the first entity. The second... Agent: Patent Group Attn: John D. Lanza

20070162374 - Methods and systems for providing, via an application service provider model, assistance to financial professionals by tailoring a presentation of information to a client: In an application service provider model, a system for assisting a financial services professional to tailor a presentation of information to a client includes a graphical representation, an identification, and a modeling component. The graphical representation is of a first entity and a plurality of entities related to the first... Agent: Attn: John D. Lanza Patent Group

20070162373 - Methods, systems and computer program products to facilitate the formation and trading of derivatives contracts: This invention relates to methods, systems and computer programs to facilitate the formation trading and risk management of derivatives on one or more underlying. It innovates in the following areas: 1. The decomposition of any derivatives contract into fundamental building block structures called basis instruments in a multi-period, multi-securities market.... Agent: Phil Kongtcheu Pfk Technologies

20070162376 - 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 price(s) at... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20070162377 - System and method for an online exchange of private data: Based on the small world theory of networking, the present invention provides access to a previously unavailable source of private data, necessary for commerce, by facilitating the sale of private data from members of the general public. For example, the seeker of private data, such as consumer information, submits a... Agent: W. Scott Petty, Esq. King & Spalding LLP

20070162380 - Computer system for controlling a system of managing fluctuating cash flows: Apparatus (method implemented with a machine, the machine, and the method for making the machine, and products produced thereby) for controlling a system of managing cash flows for a transaction, the apparatus including: data processing means arranged for receiving information into memory, said information including respective descriptions of risks, statistical... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna

20070162381 - Method for providing financial instruments to customers of a service provider: Methods for providing financial instruments to customers and applicants of a service provider are disclosed. One method, among others, includes providing a device such as a mobile telephone to a user, and providing the user with a contactless card having a financial account identifier that is associated with a financial... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070162383 - Fundraising systems and methods: A method implemented by a fundraising system is provided. The fundraising system includes at least one fundraising apparatus, at least one fundraising apparatus operator, and at least one donating person. The method includes: receiving by the apparatus operator an amount of funds from a donating person, said amount corresponding to... Agent: Paparella & Associates, PLC

20070162384 - Infrastructure for a consumer-commerce interface payment instrumentality: A functional infrastructure for a consumer-commerce interface payment instrumentality comprises: a) a financial institution participant; b) an information technology (IT) participant; and c) a card manufacturer/supplier participant; said IT participant interfacing with said financial institution (a) and said card manufacturer/supplier (c) and providing transaction processing thereby providing consumers with a... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20070162385 - Relay server, relaying method and payment system: A relay server to be installed in a payment system which is suitably used in a specially designed terminal having limited communication functions such as a portable telephone. The relay server is provided in the payment system including a user terminal to take payment procedures through a network, a shop... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070162386 - Relay server, relaying method and payment system: A relay server to be installed in a payment system which is suitably used in a specially designed terminal having limited communication functions such as a portable telephone. The relay server is provided in the payment system including a user terminal to take payment procedures through a network, a shop... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070162382 - System and method for transferring funds from the united states to nationals in ofac-regulated countries: A system and method for transferring funds from the United States to nationals located in one or more countries regulated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury use a primary/secondary card. A U.S. bank issues a primary card to a U.S. citizen... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070162387 - System and method for optimized funding of electronic transactions: The invention provides systems and methods for managing transactions. The system includes a data input portion that communicates first information regarding a payment request, as well as a decision reference data store for communicating second information regarding parameters for use in determining a payment option for the payment request. The... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070162388 - Method and system for automated teller machine configuration: Methods, systems, and software are disclosed for configuring an ATM. The ATM receives one or more configuration messages in an XML-based format. The ATM interprets the one or more configuration messages. The ATM restricts one or more ATM operations based on at least a portion of the one or more... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070162389 - Method and system for automated teller machine online/offline operation: Methods, systems, and software are disclosed for configuring an ATM. The ATM receives an online/offline configuration message that specifies one or more conditions when the ATM is to go online. The ATM goes offline and performing zero or more offline transactions. The ATM goes online based at least in part... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070162391 - Dynamically fabricated store for distribution of media content: A method for implementing a media content store includes providing a set of exemplary storefronts for the media content store; receiving a designation of a selected storefront and media content in an origination format; transforming the media content into a distribution format; and offering the transformed media content to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070162390 - Techniques for distributing and monitoring content: Techniques for distributing and monitoring content are provided. Identifiers are separated from content embedded on content media. When content media is interfaced to a machine, the associated identifier is acquired. The identifier is submitted to an authentication service for authentication. If successful authentication occurs, an access key is supplied to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070162393 - Apparatus and method for preventing unauthorized copying: The present invention relates to an apparatus for preventing unauthorized copying that comprises a casing, an optical storage device, a control center installed in the casing and coupled to the optical storage device, and an input/output port installed in the casing and exposed from the casing and coupled to an... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070162396 - Determining advertising placement on preprocessed content: Advertising placement is determined based on preprocessed content. A first content available over a network is retrieved. One or more first-type elements associated with the first content using a rule-based algorithm is selected. The one or more first-type elements are selected from a plurality of predefined elements associated with a... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070162392 - Management of streaming content: Embodiments of streaming content management are described herein. For example, techniques may be employed to manage streams received by client devices such that the client devices may receive content and share functionality.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070162395 - Media management and tracking: A system is described for enabling a user to listen to songs on a network-enabled device, including an embedded receiver for receiving at least one song list, and for receiving music streamed over a wireless network, list navigation software, for navigating the at least one song list and selecting a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070162394 - Rapid identification of message authentication: Techniques are presented for uniquely identifying authentication associated with messages. A message is inspected for sender or domain identifying information associated with a sender of the message or a sender's domain. The identifying information is authenticated, and if authentication, then distinctive metadata is associated with the message. The distinctive metadata... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070162398 - Method and apparatus for transferring usage rights and digital work having transferable usage rights: A method, system and computer program product for transferring a digital work, including receiving by a first device a first digital work including digital content which is associated with usage rights and transfer permission information; sending to a server a request to transfer the digital content to a second device,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070162400 - Method and apparatus for managing digital content in a content management system: Methods and apparatus for managing rights associated with digital content in a digital exchange system (e.g., a content management system) are provided. The method includes providing one or more first templates, and providing one or more second templates. Each first template corresponds to one or more rights of a first... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070162399 - Method and apparatus for providing broadcast trigger messages: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for obtaining rights management data for broadcast or multicast content. In one embodiment, a broadcast trigger message is obtained from a broadcast source. At least one content license identifier from said broadcast trigger message is obtained. Afterwards, at least one content license... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070162401 - Loyalty link method and apparatus with audio performance for integrating customer information with dealer management information: A customer data capture system integrated with a dealership data management system allows customer and vehicle maintenance data to be exchanged between a kiosk on the floor of the dealership and the data management system. The customer inserts a customized card into a kiosk, and interacts with the pre-programmed software... Agent: Stephen C. Glazier Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20070162402 - Securing of electronic transactions: A method in an approval service and a corresponding method in a user identity unit for securing of an electronic transaction. The method comprises a number of steps that begins with receiving of a request of approving a business transaction associated with at least one user identity and one business... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070156433 - Electronic commerce method and system with customizable product displays: A method and system for presenting customized neon signs is disclosed. Customized signs may be created through entering customized text, selecting a sign style, inserting or deleting icons or other graphical features, entering an image, and choosing the colors of sign features such as text, icons, borders, and the like.... Agent: Sean M. Fitzgerald

20070156426 - Internally unique referencing for correlation: A method of identifying transactions in a value chain involves representing multiple business documents associated with a value chain with unique internal representations. In one embodiment, a contract is represented with a first unique internal representation, a purchase order is represented with a second unique internal representation, and an invoice... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156446 - Internet-based marketing, productivity enhancement and referral system: A method where sellers advertising on an Internet website pay a fee to a party that refers a customer to the seller for the seller's product or service. Buyers are also able to access helpful tools within the website that allows buyers to view specific pricing and feedback information on... Agent: Tim Jolly Wendy Netzky - Jolly

20070156436 - Method and apparatus for completing a transaction using a wireless mobile communication channel and another communication channel: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for completing a transaction using a wireless mobile communication channel and another communication channel, particularly another communication channel that provides for near field radio channels (NFC), as well as other communication channels, such as Bluetooth or WIFI. The present invention also provides... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070156442 - Rental system for travel kits: A rental system for a travel kits is provided. The rental system includes providing a travel kit; establishing rental terms and charging a rental fee for the travel kit; and charging an additional fee if the travel kit is not returned in compliance with the rental terms. In an embodiment... Agent: Muhammad Safder Ali

20070156418 - System and method to model business processes from a template: In an embodiment, a system and method models a business process object. The system and method provides a business object template having a plurality of data nodes, actions, and queries. One or more business process objects are instantiated from the business object template. The one or more business objects are... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156454 - Biological information deleting method and system: The disclosed biological information deleting method and system reliably delete biological information and execute a service withdrawal process by implementing a user terminal and a member management apparatus networked together. Machine readable media have programs of instructions for executing the service withdrawal process. The member server executes the service withdrawal... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070156456 - System for monitoring healthcare related activity in a healthcare enterprise: A system provides comprehensive patient and resource status information (manpower and equipment required to maintain optimal patient care) in an organization (e.g., a hospital) for use in adjusting resources to meet existing and future conditions. A system for monitoring activity in a healthcare enterprise includes an acquisition interface for acquiring... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070156497 - Interactive communications service and system: A method for establishing communication between at least two persons includes an initial introductory card handed by a first person/donor who wishes to establish a relationship with a second/person recipient. The recipient utilizes the identifying indicia on the card to ascertain more about the person on an internet-based website, the... Agent: Chase Law Firm L.c

20070156502 - Tracking and managing contacts through a structured hierarchy: A system and method which manages contacts using a structured hierarchy comprising at least two levels is disclosed. Accordingly, a first contact is introduced or referred to a user by a second contact. In the system a user interface receives information about the first contact and a database stores the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070156518 - Invoice verification hub: A system includes a first business object including a first source of information, a second business object including a second source of information, and a hub operatively connected to the first business object and the second business object. The system also includes an information checking mechanism for comparing information from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156523 - Method and system to process an incentive: A method to process an incentive includes, at a commerce server, receiving an incentive identification code that identifies an incentive amount to be used for at least a partial payment of a transaction. A determination is made at the commerce server whether the incentive is valid. If the incentive is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070156516 - Product-based advertising: A method and a system that identify seller ads to potential buyers within a network-based commerce system are provided. The method and system may operate to receive a request including a product identification and financial metrics from a seller, and assign to the seller, based on a distance function and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070156527 - System and method for promoting advertisement generated revenue via the internet: A method and system for promoting advertisement generated revenue are disclosed. Each of a plurality of stored advertiser web pages which are displayable without any initial advertising costs can be searched and loaded by means of a plurality of customer terminals in communication with a service provider website via a... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20070156586 - System and method for comparison of private values: An embodiment includes a first system for computing a contribution to a greater-than comparison of a first private value and a second private value. The first system includes: an accessing unit configured to access the first private value; a processor unit configured to compute a first encrypted value by encrypting... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070156590 - Method and apparatus for re-importing content: A method and apparatus for protecting digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system. The method of re-importing a second content file, which was imported from a first content file, as a third content file, includes determining whether to allow the re-importing of the second content file based on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156603 - Method and apparatus for generating a license: A method and apparatus for protecting digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system are provided. The method includes: determining a usage bind of content based on usage constraint information of the content; and generating a license of the content for each usage bind. According to the method and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156437 - Automated method, system, and program for aiding in product advertisement: The disclosed subject matter involves marketing a client's product to third parties. The client defines the information to communicate to the third parties. Said information is entered into an automated system which third parties are able to contact at their discretion. When the third party contacts the system, the system... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070156415 - Changing delivery parameters in processing physical mail based on recipient's response to electronic notification: A method for changing a delivery parameter of a mail piece intended to be delivered to an intended recipient, the method including receiving a first electronic file from a mailer regarding the mail piece; sending a first electronic communication to the intended recipient based upon the first electronic file; and... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070156422 - Changing the contents of physical mail based on recipient's response to electronic notification: A method of preparing mail pieces to be mailed by a mailer is provided including preparing a plurality of potential content members for the mail pieces; sending a first electronic file from the mailer to a service provider; sending a first communication from the service provider to an intended recipient... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070156445 - Charter system and method for purchasing and qualifying a distributor position in a multi-level marketing business: A system and method for purchasing a distributor position in a multi-level marketing business. The system includes: a multi-level distribution channel, having a distributor position and a management position that forms a business organization; an inclusion instrument configured to include an entity as a distributor in the distributor position; and... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070156440 - Computer system, method and software for acquiring, evaluating, conforming, classifying and storing on a server a digital media file from a client to establish or create a digital media file having a bandwidth compatible with client's account for delivery: The present invention generally provides a computer digital media files and server management system, including client billing system software and file management software that contain software logic for receiving and transmitting digital media in a network environment in a bandwidth manner that is compatible with a server client's account. Client... Agent: J G Mullins

20070156443 - Electronic system and apparatuses coupling ticketing on mobile devices with event sponsorship and interaction: The instant disclosure is a continuation in part of this inventor's previously disclosed US and PCT patent applications that claim operating systems, apparatuses and mobile phone devices for live event and common carrier electronic ticketing, event interaction and the end-to-end production, editing, authenticated distribution and management of event-associated Recordings. It... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070156413 - Ims gateway systems and methods that provide session status checking: IMS gateway systems and methods are disclosed for providing mid-session status checking in an IMS network. An IMS gateway system described herein includes a budget control system and a status checking system. When a session has been established in the IMS network, the budget control system performs budget control for... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070156447 - Method and apparatus for obtaining external charged content in upnp network: An apparatus and method capable of purchasing external charged content in a UPnP network are provided. A media server (MS) provides a media renderer (MR) with a URL that executes a CGI that that performs purchasing of a charged content included in an external server, and, if the MR requests... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156444 - Method and system for conducting transactions with oligopolistic entities: A method for conducting a business transaction using a payment processing network is disclosed. The method includes sending an authorization request message including an authorization request to an issuer, where the authorization request message originates from a business consumer purchasing goods or services from an oligopolistic business entity. The issuer... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20070156448 - Method and system for electronic solicitation of votes affecting corporate affairs: A method, system, and program product for the electronic delivery and distribution of an electronic solicitation on shareholder issues from an issuer to a plurality of shareholders. The method includes creating an electronic solicitation message that provides shareholder access to solicitation content; tagging the electronic solicitation message with at least... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070156432 - Method and system using parameterized configurations: A system and method to reduce configuration administration using system independent configuration parameters. A persistent storage unit returns system independent configuration entries. Some of the entries contain parameters. A configuration resolver resolves the parameter to obtain a static value for the configuration entry that may be passed to a configuration... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156429 - Online transaction related to vacation rental property: A system and method for completing an automated online transaction related to vacation rental property between an owner and a prospective rentor. Owners of vacation rental property provide information in the form of a Listing to an owner database at a website which provides access to the owner database by... Agent: Hasse & Nesbitt LLC

20070156420 - Performance modeling and the application life cycle: End-to-end guidance for managing performance and scalability throughout the application life cycle to reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership is provided. In one aspect, the novel innovation provides a framework that organizes performance into prioritized categories where choices can impact performance and scalability success. The logical units of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070156435 - Personalized geographic directory: A collection of technologies enable users to interact more effectively with items in a geographic directory. The items may include venues such as a restaurant, and actions, such as reserving a table at the restaurant. Items may also include events, productions, or other types of geographic or geotemporal items.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070156416 - Processing electronic and physical mailpieces in a postal carrier system based upon an electronic mail file: A method of changing delivery parameters of a mail piece is provided including mailing the mail piece; sending an intended recipient of the mail piece information regarding the mailed mail piece; providing the intended recipient with an opportunity to change at least a first one of the delivery parameters of... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070156423 - Processing physical mail based on recipient's response to electronic notification: A method of communicating information regarding a mail piece including sending a first electronic file regarding the mail piece from a mailer of the mail piece to a service provider; and receiving, by the mailer, a second electronic file containing information from the first electronic file and information regarding a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070156427 - Recalculation as a function of changed data: A process to evaluate selected data is started. An earliest effective date of changed selected data is determined, and data generated by prior run processes occurring after the earliest effective data is recalculated. In one embodiment, a coarse exclusive lock may be used to ensure only one evaluation is processed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156439 - Returned items revalue process: A process for processing the return of products in a single location including: (1) forecasting parts necessary for refurbishing a certain type of a returned product; (2) receiving the returned product at the single location; (3) analyzing the returned product to determine how to refurbish the products; (4) forwarding the... Agent: Joseph A. Fuchs Everest Intellectual Property Law Group

20070156430 - Software model deployment units: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for forming deployment units. Groups of process components, each group characterizing software that is independently operable, are identified. Thereafter, a plurality of deployment units, each deployment unit associated with at least one identified group of process components are formed. Each process component is... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156434 - Synchronizing image data among applications and devices: For providing synchronization of image data among diverse devices and applications, exemplary systems include a direct client application providing a user interface operable to allow a user to organize image data according to albums, and to select one or more albums for synchronization with one or more server interfaces that... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070156419 - System and method for a private e-mail system based on an electronic manifest system: A method for notifying an intended recipient of a mail piece regarding the mail piece is provided including receiving a first electronic file regarding the mail piece from a mailer of the mail piece by a service provider; authenticating the mailer identification information in the first electronic file by the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070156431 - System and method for filtering components: A system and method of starting or stopping components using filters. The filter including an action to be performed on a component, a component type, a vendor name, and a component name.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156441 - System and method for generating and administering a refundable ticket for an entertainment facility: A system and a method for providing a ticket for entering an entertainment facility and administering provisions of the ticket are provided. The method includes generating the ticket that permits a person to enter the entertainment facility. The ticket is offered for a price. The ticket has one or more... Agent: Stephen Leal Tupper

20070156428 - System and method for internally ordering goods and services: A system and method for ordering goods in a distributed message based business management system uses an internal request business object that identifies parties involved, items, status of items, and identification and administrative information of an internal request. The internal business object includes actions comprising the ability to submit action... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156417 - Systems and methods to collect and augment decedent data: Systems, methods, and software to collect, validate, and disseminate or otherwise use of data of decedents. Some embodiments include receiving and obtaining decedent data from various sources to augment decedent data and making the augmented decedent data available to others.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156424 - Tool and method for quantifying product technical merit to facilitate product selection: A technical merit index tool establishes qualification thresholds to facilitate product selection. The technical merit index tool includes a technical user input section including defined selection factors and desired values for each of the selection factors for a product to be selected. A product supplier input section includes product specifications... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20070156421 - Training using simulated work environment: A simulated work environment for teaching business skills to participants through a fictional company with organizational roles filled by the participants, information about the initial status of the company, a communication link through which the participants can be given information or communicate, and an objective that the participants must achieve... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070156438 - Ubiquitous imaging device based check image capture: A method or corresponding apparatus for remote transmission of a negotiable instrument. In an example embodiment, the process provides a carrier that secures a negotiable instrument. Next, the process creates a unique identifier, associated with the carrier, and generates an electronic image of the negotiable instrument. After generating the electronic... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070156425 - Using optimization algorithm for quantifying product technical merit to facilitate product selection: A technical merit index tool establishes qualification thresholds to facilitate product selection. The technical merit index tool includes a technical user input section including defined selection factors and desired values for each of the selection factors for a product to be selected. The desired values include a weight factor relating... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20070156414 - Using radio frequency identification (rfid) technology to assist visually impaired people and others to find businesses, services and facilities: Businesses, services and facilities announce their presence using ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tags that operate at 915 MHz and can be read as far as 25 feet, or microwave frequency RFID tags that operate at 2.45 GHz and can be read as far away as 100 feet.... Agent: Mohammad Wasim Akhtar

20070156453 - Integrated treatment planning system: A medical treatment planning system includes a computer including a processor and memory, data stored in the memory, said data including a priori of information relating to medical conditions, medical treatments and treatment results, and treatment planning logic stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The treatment planning... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brainlab)

20070156452 - Medication order processing and reconciliation: A system and method for managing medication orders, including verbal orders and changes to those orders, is described. A server receives mediation orders from a pharmacy and communicates those orders to an infusion pump. The infusion pump communicates status messages to the server and the server compares the status messages... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070156449 - Medicine management system: a combination adequacy judging means (1) rearranges the medicine information according to the medicine codes stored in the storage means (2) when two or more medicines are included in information of one or more prescriptions for a patient, and judges combination adequacy with reference to the combination modification information called... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070156457 - Method and apparatus for interactively monitoring a physiological condition and for interactively providing health-related information: An interactive health monitoring system. A multimedia processor is a electronic apparatus comprising a microprocessor, hardware, software, and a modem. One or more physiological data monitors are coupled to provide a signal representative of a user's physiological parameter to the multimedia processor through an isolated interface circuit. A hand-held program... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070156450 - Networked modular and remotely configurable system and method of remotely monitoring patient healthcare characteristics: The present invention is a system and method of remotely monitoring patient health care characteristics. The system utilizes at least two micro-scale to millimeter-scale sensors, a wireless network, a central hub and pre-processing center and a means for notifying a clinician of the remote patient's condition. The system and method... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070156458 - Sieve of words in health-care data: A system of selecting contents of health-care data on patients documenting actions or services performed by physicians wherein data are organized into categories and groups of data and wherein values are assigned to words and terms. The categories, groups and values are used to computer-automatically select contents of data.... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20070156451 - System and method for portable display of relevant healthcare information: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for portable display of relevant information for healthcare applications. Certain embodiments include a portable computing device having a plurality of records including icons, waveforms, and/or parameters related to medical cases. In certain embodiments, medical images are reduced to icons for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070156455 - System and method for providing a consumer healthcare guide: A system and method for providing a consumer healthcare guide receive a set of search criteria and retrieve one or more health-related listings based on the set of search criteria. The health-related listings may include healthcare quality data and/or consumer cost data, which may include provider listings and/or facility listings.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070156459 - System for conducting clinical trials: There is disclosed a system (1) for conducting a clinical trial of a pharmaceutical substance on a plurality of trial participants. The system (1) includes a central database (2) having a memory means in communication with a database means, one or more trial sites each having a remote computer (3)... Agent: Duane Morris

20070156463 - Insurance product model-based apparatus and method: An insurance product model comprising insurance policy metadata is provided (101) in a computer memory. The insurance policy metadata may comprise, at least in part, data that describes information that comprises a given corresponding insurance policy. A computer then serves to substantively interpret (102) this insurance product model to facilitate... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070156464 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A method according to some embodiments of the present invention provides for a game server to receive policy requirements of a user for a gambling loss insurance policy from a terminal. The game server determines a premium amount based on the policy requirements of the user and transmits information concerning... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070156465 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A method according to some embodiments of the present invention provides for a game server to receive policy requirements of a user for a gambling loss insurance policy from a terminal. The game server determines a premium amount based on the policy requirements of the user and transmits information concerning... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070156466 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A method according to some embodiments of the present invention provides for a game server to receive policy requirements of a user for a gambling loss insurance policy from a terminal. The game server determines a premium amount based on the policy requirements of the user and transmits information concerning... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070156467 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A system and method for providing a gambling loss insurance policy automatically computes insurance premiums and processes gambling sessions covered by the gambling loss insurance policies. The players may purchase the insurance policies using various means such as coins, earned winnings, or credit cards. The gambling loss insurance system provides... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070156461 - Method of offering insurance and providing insurance registration to trade show owners, management and exhibitors: Disclosed is a method of providing insurance registration services to the owner or management of a trade show. The method includes receiving a list of exhibitors for the trade show from the owner or management and offering to the exhibitors insurance coverage for the trade show. The method may further... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070156462 - Security insurance: An insurance instrument designed to compensate civilians, professionals, corporations, public figures, high-profile individuals and/or business owners from costs associated with criminal litigation, comprising three sectors of coverage; litigation expenses, business operating expenses, and loss of income expenses. The insurance instrument provides full coverage for individuals upon arrest, and continues throughout... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070156468 - System and method for the assessment, pricing, and provisioning of distance-based vehicle insurance: A method of assessing, pricing, and provisioning distance-based vehicle insurance is disclosed. The method includes receiving a vehicle identification number of a vehicle to be insured from a customer, receiving an preliminary odometer reading of the vehicle to be insured from the customer, and obtaining from the customer a legally... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20070156460 - System having a locally interacting distributed joint equilibrium-based search for policies and global policy selection: A system for coming up with policies of behavior for various agents engaged in a task. These policies consider costs and benefits of actions and outcomes, and uncertainties. The system utilizes limited neighborhoods of agents for expedited computing in large arrangements. Also sought are local and global optimums in terms... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070156469 - Airline management system generating routings based on stored customer preference data: The invention is directed to a computer environment in which a management system for a transportation carrier, e.g., an airline carrier, generates a list of routings based on preference data for a customer. The preference data includes data that may be used to select a particular routing, e.g., ticket class,... Agent: Unisys Corporation Ms 4773

20070156470 - Automatically calculating a discount using a reservation system: System, apparatus and methods for automatically calculating a discount for a customer offered by a merchant through a reservation system to a customer. A reservation file is provided and contains data relating to a reservation, and transaction data relating to payment account transactions is accessed. One or more elements of... Agent: Lewis And Roca, LLP

20070156475 - Architectural design for plan-driven procurement application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing plan-driven procurement. 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.

20070156476 - Architectural design for service request and order management application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing service request and order management. 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... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156473 - Controlling logistics execution across computer applications: A method for controlling logistics and a computer program product for performing the method are provided. The method includes a macro-logistics control component for triggering multiple micro-logistic components to perform a series of logistics operations, where the series of logistics operations form an integrated logistic process to perform a particular... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156478 - High performance business framework and associated analysis and diagnostic tools and processes: Disclosed is a high performance business framework and related tools and processes for describing how known high performance businesses derive performance contributions from three building blocks. The present invention provides methods and tools for researching, measuring and quantifying these three building blocks to enable assessments to be made of various... Agent: Accenture, LLP C/o Hogan & Hartson, LLP (ipgroup)

20070156479 - Multivariate statistical forecasting system, method and software: The software, methods and system of the current invention creates an interactive, auto-execution financial trading platform with unique forecasting algorithms, trading graphs and data mining features. The platform uses a univariate and multivariate architecture that is designed to improve performance of predictors and speed up calculations. Trading graphs, data mining... Agent: Gross & Associates

20070156471 - Spectral method for sparse principal component analysis: A method maximizes a candidate solution to a cardinality-constrained combinatorial optimization problem of sparse principal component analysis. An approximate method has as input a covariance matrix A, a candidate solution, and a sparsity parameter k. A variational renormalization for the candidate solution vector x with regards to the eigenvalue structure... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070156474 - System and method for distributed and integrated asset management: In an embodiment, a plurality of logical deployment units are distributed throughout a system. Each logical deployment unit is provided with one or more business objects. Links are set up between the plurality of logical deployment units, and the logical deployment units are enabled to receive a business transaction and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156477 - System and method for rules-based capitalization: In an embodiment, a computer-based system in a business organization is configured with a set of business rules. The computer-based system is further configured to receive an indication of a transaction within the business organization, and to automatically determine, based on the set of business rules, a location in a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156472 - Systems and methods for testing internal control effectiveness: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for managing internal controls. Internal control systems and methods are also disclosed that provide a service catalog comprising one or more test services relating to internal applications. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for testing operating effectiveness of controls for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070156493 - Architectural desigh for time recording application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing time recording. 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.

20070156490 - Architectural design for internal projects application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing an internal projects application useful for planning and executing internal projects and measures, including network scheduling, resource staffing, cost estimation and management, time confirmation, and progress monitoring. The application is structured... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156489 - Architectural design for service procurement application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing service procurement. 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.

20070156495 - Audit planning: An audit planning system enables users to plan effective audits by identifying audit units having potentially large impacts and risks on an enterprise and enabling users to select audit units to include in audits based on a variety of different criteria. The audit planning system displays the audit units of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070156480 - Commitment-process project-management methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided for coordinating a project-commitment process for an organization. An interface is provided to a computational system for coordinating communications among personnel of the organization. A request is received from a customer or an agent of the customer at the organization. The request includes specification of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070156483 - Context switching and method: Systems and methods for context switching within enterprise resource planning systems are contemplated, including a first and second user context. A user performing tasks in the first user context actuates an actuator in communication with a context switcher. The context switcher changes the user's user context from the first user... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156484 - Cross company project management: Cross company project management includes receiving guideline data for a project, where the project includes one or more phases, each phase including one or more tasks and each task including one or more sub-projects. The project management further includes determining associated data utilized for each of the sub-projects and a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156491 - Method and system for request processing in a supply chain: A method and a decentralized system for processing an order request for a resource are provided. An order request is processed in a decentralized system device (202) of the decentralized system (108). The decentralized system includes at least one operator device, and at least one pallet with an associated wireless... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070156481 - Method for purchasing and supplying super retail stores through combining and/or sharing resources used to supply super retail stores among retailers: A method for supplying a super retail store by a business organization operating or seeking to operate super retail stores, through combining partially, combining entirely, sharing partially, sharing entirely, combining partially and sharing partially, and combining partially and sharing entirely resources used to supply super retail stores with another business... Agent: George Cox Beighley, Jr.

20070156496 - Methods and systems for managing aircraft maintenance and material supply: Methods and systems for managing aircraft maintenance and material supply by a business entity for at least one customer are provided. The method includes managing a plurality of maintenance activities for an aircraft by the business entity wherein the plurality of maintenance activities are performed by at least one maintenance... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070156485 - Modeling user input and interaction in workflow based applications: Systems and methods that implement interactivity as part of a workflow itself. Data is passed in and out of the workflow to form an interactive workflow, via employing an interactive activity component. Such interactive activity component models suspension points within a workflow definition, wherein user input and associated interaction can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070156486 - Multiple concurrent workflow persistence schemes: Systems and methods that supply workflow management and workflow interaction with a plurality of persistence stores via employing a routing persistence service and an association lookup component. The routing persistence service routes and/or assigns each workflow instance to a corresponding persistence store, and the association lookup component manages caching associations... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070156487 - Object model on workflow: Systems and methods that objectify view of workflows and management behavior via an access component that supplies access to the real workflow instance. The subject innovation enables custom features to be defined for interaction during run time. For example, custom features (e.g., strongly typed workflow) can include, a method(s), an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070156482 - System and method for generating and providing priority information: In a procurement system and method, a processor may receive a plurality of purchase order (P.O.) requests, extract data from fields of each of the P.O. requests, based on the extracted data, assign each of the P.O. requests to a corresponding priority category, and output a list of the P.O.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156494 - System and method for providing profile enhancement using scheduling information: A system and method of enhancing a profile of a portable device. The system and method includes defining an event type in a scheduling tool and scheduling a time to initiate the event type. The system and method further includes associating a notification profile of a device with the defined... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070156488 - System and method to embed checklist items and issues in project management: In an embodiment, a process for managing a project includes providing a first project summary task node, one or more second summary task nodes that are associated with the first project summary task node, and one or more third task nodes that are associated with each second summary task node.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156492 - Systems and methods for managing asset installation and evaluation: Efficient and effective centralized management of automated field force installation and evaluation of assets. Service representatives can each perform an asset installation and/or an asset evaluation with the aid of a handheld device. The handheld device can display worksheets comprising a sequence of instructions and prompts related to the installation/evaluation.... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070156499 - Architectural design for self-service procurement application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing self-service procurement used to procure goods and services “ad hoc” by requests from within an organization. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces,... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156500 - Architectural design for sell from stock application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing sell from stock software useful to process quotations, capture orders, process delivery and invoice. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156498 - Generating information for use in performing physical operations: A method to be performed in a procedure of manufacturing a product includes receiving, in a computer system, a request to initiate a manufacturing procedure including at least a first physical operation modeled as a manufacturing-type operation in the computer system and a second physical operation modeled as a warehouse-type... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156503 - Merger integration framework and tool: A method and computer system are provided for navigating an electronic methodology tool for a merger integration of businesses. The methodology tool is configured to display to a user various activities for accomplishing an integration of businesses. Each of the activities has associated tasks for completing the activity. A first... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20070156501 - System and method for implementing meeting moderator failover and failback: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for scheduling a meeting, determining a set of policies for selecting a replacement meeting moderator if an original meeting moderator is not present in the meeting, specifying the a set of policies for reestablishing control of the meeting to the original meeting moderator when... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070156506 - Apparatus and method for replicating data in file system: A data replication system comprises a NAS controller and a storage system. In a first embodiment, after a NAS system takes a snapshot of a volume, the NAS system changes the referral information within the volume. Also, as an additional way to ensure the consistency after taking a snapshot, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156508 - Capacity management index system and method: A system and method is provided that generates an index, providing predictive and actionable intelligence to ensure that a Technology Infrastructure Group (TIG) makes tactical and strategic decisions in support of needs of customers. The invention measures overall health of an infrastructure, specifically with respect to how efficiently various services... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070156505 - Method and system for providing feedback on business transactions using computer applications: Methods and systems for providing feedback on business transactions using computer applications are provided. A method for providing feedback on sponsored content effectiveness includes collecting purchasing information for purchases by a user of a computer application in response to display of sponsored content in the computer application. The purchasing information... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156510 - Methods and systems for determining reliability of product demand forecasts: A method has been devised to produce a Confidence Prediction metric which gives the business user some indication as to the future reliability of the current week's forecast. The forecasting method analyzes historical demand data and prior product demand forecasts to calculate forecast errors for the prior product demand forecasts,... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070156504 - Providing feminine care product recommendations tailored to the composition and rheological properties of vaginal discharge: Identifying attributes of feminine care products corresponding to the biological and rheological properties of vaginal discharge of a consumer based on predefined correlations. Aspects of the invention obtain vaginal discharge data of the consumer and identify the attributes to the consumer to aid the consumer in making a purchase decision... Agent: Senniger Powers (kcc)

20070156509 - Real-world incentives offered to virtual world participants: 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 including transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070156507 - System and methods for identifying talent: Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying talent via local, national, or worldwide talent competitions, which eliminate or minimize the costs and/or risks of identifying such talent and generate significant charitable donations. In one aspect of the present invention, artists' or bands' songs are made available to critics such as... Agent: Law Offices Of Rita C. Chipperson

20070156511 - Dependent object deviation: In an embodiment, a computer-based process is configured to execute a business process based on a set of rules. The computer-based process is further configured to execute the business process based on a deviation from the set of rules. The set of rules is applicable to the business process, and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156512 - System and method for modeling an asset portfolio and predicting performance thereof: Systems and methods are disclosed that forecast or predict the performance of an organization or business unit within the organization. The forecast is generated by storing asset and performance data in a database. A user may request the asset and performance data associated with a particular business unit based on... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070156531 - Computerized management system for multi-chain promotions and related audit system: A promotion management system identifies store-selected identifiers as necessary to implement a particular promotion across multiple store chains. An audit system compares number of promotion offers distributed to number of linking items sold.... Agent: Thompson Hine LLP

20070156534 - Content file downloading over a network with usage rights: A method of distributing content over a network comprising: providing a content file comprising media content from a content source; providing an advertisement file comprising advertisement content from an advertisement provider, combining said content file and said advertisement file into a combined file in playable format, configured such that a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070156513 - Coupon exchange network and service bureau: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for a coupon service facilitated by a coupon service bureau that manages the easy creation and exchange of targeted coupons created by users (150, 160) and other coupon associates. Moreover, immediate coupon information may be provided at the store using coupon devices... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070156526 - Coupon-point system for managing supportive services to business in a semiconductor foundry environment: A semiconductor coupon-service system, includes a coupon-service module for managing a semiconductor service; a coupon generator, in connection with the semiconductor service, for generating a coupon associated with the semiconductor service; and a coupon maintainer, in connection with the semiconductor service, for processing coupon operations associated with the coupon.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070156514 - Estimating ad quality from observed user behavior: A system obtains ratings associated with a first set of advertisements hosted by one or more servers, where the ratings indicate a quality of the first set of advertisements. The system observes multiple different first user actions associated with user selection of advertisements of the first set of advertisements and... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070156529 - 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

20070156519 - Method and system for providing sponsored content based on previous provided content: Methods and systems for providing sponsored content based on previously provided content are provided. A method for providing sponsored content for use with a computer application includes accessing a history of sponsored content presented to a user of a computer application. Additional sponsored content is provided for presentation to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156515 - Method for integrating attitudinal and behavioral data for marketing consumer products: A method and system for marketing a consumer product is disclosed. According to the method, attitudinal information and purchase behavioral information is obtained from a plurality of consumers. For instance, consumers may be surveyed regarding their attitudes about purchasing a product category and about the amount of product contained in... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070156528 - On-line coupon distribution system: A web-based application allowing registered MEMBERs to search for and print promotional coupons offered by ADVERTISERs who have the capability to design the terms of such coupons, as well as their graphic design. The relational database management system and software employed allows for registration of users as MEMBERs and ADVERTISERs.... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070156522 - Social context monitor: The method tracks keywords about a non-user of a computer and stores it in various contact profiles. The keywords in the contact profiles can be compared to stored content and content related to the keywords in the contact profile may be communicated to the user.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070156530 - System and method for dynamically identifying, prioritizing and offering reward categories: A system and method for identifying and offering rewards. The method comprises the steps of determining a user's transaction history or category history, such as, for example, spending history, transaction history, merchant history, purchases history, services history, product history, channel history, frequency of spending history, SKU history , redemption history,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070156532 - System and method for evaluating and/or monitoring efectiveness of on-line advertising: A system and a method for measuring and monitoring effectiveness of on-line advertising are provided. The system and method provide a code attached to, for example, an advertising banner of a company that may advertise goods and/or services of the company. The code provides a signal to a server when... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070156517 - System and method for redemption of a coupon using a mobile cellular telephone: A system and a method for redeeming a coupon issued by a merchant are provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a text message transmitted by a user, determining a telephone number from which the text message was transmitted, debiting an amount corresponding to the value of the coupon... Agent: David A. Kalow, Esq. Kalow & Springut LLP

20070156521 - Systems and methods for commerce in media program related merchandise: The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for delivering a media program and purchase opportunities related to the media program to user equipment. A media program and its related merchandise information can be located at a distribution facility. The distribution facility can tailor the purchase opportunities it provides to the... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070156524 - Systems and methods for content customization: Methods and systems for providing customized advertisements; for example, including storing a set of templates of components of advertisements, the templates defining a set of media objects; receiving, over a computer network, information related to an advertiser; based on the information related to the advertiser, presenting to the advertiser, over... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070156533 - Systems and methods for determining whether to offer a reward at a point of return: Computerized decision-making systems and methods are described for determining whether to provide one or more rewards, such as a coupon or instant discount, to a customer requesting to make a merchandise return at a store, and, if so, to determine the terms of the reward, such as value, expiration date/time... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070156525 - Systems and methods for media planning, ad production, and ad placement for television: Methods and systems for generating a television media plan for a television advertiser. The approach may include storing rate card information of a plurality of television media properties; storing information regarding television audience reached by the television media properties; storing information regarding the television advertiser; generating a media plan for... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070156520 - Using search query information to determine relevant ads for a landing page of an ad: Advertisers can generate revenue (or credits) from an advertising network by allowing relevant ads to be shown with their properties (e.g., a document such as a Web page), and allow an ad delivery system to serve relevant ads. For example, the advertiser document may include at least one supplemental advertisement... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070156535 - Cancellation of transactions: Cancellation of transactions is detected in a business operations system, and a cancellation message uniquely identifying an operational document describing the transaction is created. The cancellation message is sent to various components in the business operations system and to other systems as desired. The receiving entity is free to select... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156536 - Stock flow management system and method: A computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier includes instructions that, when executed, perform operations that modify stock levels of a storage location in a logistic environment system. The operations include receiving information indicating a stock level change at storage location database objects that each represent a storage... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156538 - Architectural design for product catalog management application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing catalog management useful to create or update published catalogs based on product master data changes or external supplier catalogs. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156541 - Beauty care product selling aid and method for facilitating the selling of a beauty care product: A method for facilitating the selling of a beauty care product comprising the step of portraying a first image or image region to communicate skin appearance before using the beauty care product, and portraying a second image or image region to communicate skin appearance after using the beauty care product.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070156542 - Beauty care product selling aid and method for facilitating the selling of a beauty care product: A beauty care product selling aid including a tangible medium of expression, and an image fixed in the tangible medium of expression. The image includes a non-skin illustration having a first geometrical figure and a second geometrical figure, wherein the first geometrical figure comprises pixels that are individually discernable with... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070156540 - Method and apparatus for re-configurable vehicle interior design and business transaction: The subject methods and apparatus allow the buyer of an automobile to configure and design a personalized interior space prior to purchasing the automobile. The buyer selects modular interior components from a library of choices provided by the manufacturer, and designs his/her custom automobile by using an interactive design domain... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070156537 - Methods and systems for determining the user's interests: The present invention provides systems and methods to allow those offering products and services, for example, via web pages, to collect accurate preferences and requirements with a minimum of effort required from a potential customer. Product information containing priority indicators is presented to a user while the user is viewing... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156539 - Systems and methods for commerce in media program related merchandise: The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for delivering a media program and purchase opportunities related to the media program to user equipment. A media program and its related merchandise information can be located at a distribution facility. The distribution facility can tailor the purchase opportunities it provides to the... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070156544 - Identity preservation and tracing system: Producers and handlers of various grown commodities commingle products together during storage and transportation. The commingling of similar varieties of products with different attributes or characteristics makes it difficult to distinguish between like products. A system is described that tracks lots of these products from their creation through the entire... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070156545 - Product flow based auto-id infrastructure: A system includes a memory for storing a predetermined path through a plurality of data reading points in a auto-ID system, a plurality of auto-ID tracking devices operable to track an asset at the data reading points, and a processor. The processor is operable to receive data provided from the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156543 - Spare parts inventory management: A method for managing spare parts and tools for a manufacturing enterprise is disclosed. Historical demand values are statistically analyzed to determine optimal stocking levels for spare parts based upon required availability percentages, parts lead times, and the statistical distribution parts demand levels. Parts stocking decisions can also be based... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070156546 - Reconciliation method and apparatus: A method includes selecting a set of transaction records from an accounting function, selecting a set of transaction records from a logical deployment unit, and checking the set of transaction records from the accounting function against the set of transaction records from a logical deployment unit, wherein the accounting function... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156547 - Method, system, device and function for generating and transferring a bill: The present invention provides a method for generating a bill, a method for transferring a bill, a system for transferring a bill, a device for generating the bill, a switching device and a charging collection function (CCF), the main solution of which includes: setting bill transfer configration information according to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070156550 - Architectural design for cash and liquidity management application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing cash and liquidity management useful to assure that an organization has sufficient liquidity to fulfill all outstanding debits in time. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156553 - Credit proxy system and method: A system and method of providing to a consumer or other debtor protection against use of the debtor's identity to establish credit using an intermediary that is adapted to communicate with both the debtor and a potential credit grantor. There is a registration process in which the debtor registers with... Agent: Brian M. Dingman, Esq. Mirick, O'connell, Demallie & Lougee

20070156557 - Enhancing delinquent debt collection using statistical models of debt historical information and account events: A predictive model, for example, a neural network, evaluates individual debt holder accounts and predicts the amount that will be collected on each account based on learned relationships among known variables. The predictive model is generated using historical data of delinquent debt accounts, the collection methods used to collect the... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070156559 - Financial planning system: The financial planning tool is software defining a data structure which generates a financial-estate plan using liquidity analysis of a comprehensive list of client assets (categories I-IV, personal, reserve capital, unprotected retirement, and protected retirement assets). The system obtains asset net equity before and after tax and calculates life annual... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20070156554 - Method and apparatus for computer assisted settling of debts: A method and apparatus is provided for consumers to receive the recent settlement histories of their creditors in a web-hosted application that drives the settlement process, so they can use this insider knowledge to settle their debts for cents-on-the-dollar. One embodiment provides a computer assisted tool that tells consumers what... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070156556 - Method and system for an online-like account processing and management: The present invention is embodied in an online-like transaction processing method and system for processing account information contained in batch process files, the method including: reading at least one batch file containing a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records being related to an associated one of a... Agent: Plevy, Howard & Darcy, P.C.

20070156552 - Method and system for debt management: A system and method for debt management is provided, comprising logic for receiving financial information, wherein the financial information comprises debt information. The system further comprises logic for generating a debt impact analysis based on the financial information, and logic for generating a first debt management proposal by analyzing a... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20070156551 - Method of creating and utilizing healthcare related commodoties: Disclosed are novel tangible financial instruments that allow entities to effectively and efficiently hedge the highly volatile fluctuations associated with predicting healthcare costs and revenues by converting healthcare services into commodities and constructing a financial derivative and a security with an underlying value based on the commodity. The financial instruments... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20070156558 - Process for comprehensive financial and estate planning: A process for generating a financial and liquidity estate plan for a client and a life insurance product for use therewith. The process includes determining the client's assets and defining a plurality of asset categories based on type and purpose of asset. The process also includes categorizing the client's assets... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20070156549 - System and method for managing negotiable items: A system and method for managing an inventory of negotiable instruments. The system comprises an enterprise server, a data network, a database, and a network interface. The data network coupled the enterprise server to the database. The network interface couples a branch or other location to the enterprise server via... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070156548 - Systems and methods for minimizing financial loss in a business via article protection: Disclosed are systems and methods for minimizing loss to a service business via article protection. In one aspect of the invention, protectors manufactured from a flexible, chemical-resistant material are provided. A client may place his personal possessions in the protector while receiving goods or services that may potentially damage or... Agent: Law Offices Of Rita C. Chipperson

20070156555 - Systems, methods and programs for determining optimal financial structures and risk exposures: A model for analyzing a cashflow sensitive instrument is described that uses an optimization model of a data set associated with a cashflow sensitive instrument, which optimization model is based at least in part on an interest rate model and a cash-flow model. The interest rate model is at least... Agent: Peter C. Orr

20070156562 - Index determined from fixed income securities data: An index may be determined based on price information regarding current activity taking place on one or more fixed income securities.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070156561 - Index for fixed income securities market: An index for a fixed income securities market may be determined based on price information regarding current activity taking place on one or more securities.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070156560 - Multiple fixed rate distribution schedules from a single investment strategy model: The Multiple Fixed Rate Distribution Schedules From a Single Investment Strategy Model allows an investment firm to establish a portfolio based on an investment strategy and then offer a menu of different distribution rate choices from that portfolio.... Agent: Keith B. Diffenderffer

20070156563 - Real estate derivative securities and method for trading them: A method for creating and marketing a commercial or residential real estate derivative instrument in the form of a structured note, future contract, or call or put option that provides a cash-settled payout to the buyer at a predetermined expiration date defined by the derivative instrument based upon the occurrence... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070156564 - Tax reporting system and method: Various new and non-obvious apparatus and methods for gathering and reporting tax credits to the IRS are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, reporters are chosen in a business. Question sets tailored for the individual reporters are presented to the reporters at periodic intervals. The reporters are expected to answer the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070156567 - Automated method and system for market making, centralized margin facility and clearing of synthetic orders: An automated method and system achieves higher than currently possible leverage in trading synthetic positions (e.g., Asset Packages) consisting of cash equivalent and its derivative. The derivative leg of the Asset Package is used as collateral for the whole package to the extent that it hedges the market risk of... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20070156574 - Automated trading system in an electronic trading exchange: An electronic exchange system network includes a trader site having an automated trading system capable of submitting orders and/or quotes to an exchange site. The automated trading system determines whether an order or quote should be submitted based on, for example, the current market price of an option and theoretical... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070156571 - Computer system: A method of conducting a telephone or internet based reverse auction for selling units where the reverse auction is transmitted to users on a medium, the method comprising the steps of providing a number of units for sale and storing a preliminary available quantity in an allocation database initially indicative... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070156569 - Date detector: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a date detector. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes loading a store of financial data, receiving a calendar start date, receiving a calendar end date, comparing the received calendar start date and the received calendar end... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070156568 - Method and system for distributed trading limit enforcement: A method for enforcement of trading limits for groups of traders. Each trader's workstation periodically transmits information on the trader's outstanding and executed orders to a risk management workstation. The risk management workstation aggregates this information for the traders in the group and returns this global information periodically to each... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070156575 - Method for optimal winner determination in combinatorial auctions: In a multi-unit combinatorial auction, reverse auction, or exchange, a number of bids can be received, with each bid including one or more items and for each item a desired quantity thereof. Each bid also includes a price. A number of unique combinations of bids can be formed from the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070156573 - Methods and systems for commoditizing interest rate swap risk transfers: A data structure method, class, system and computer program product for trading a commoditised financial claim. The claim obligates one party to pay on demand to a second party on any date an amount transparently determined with reference to a market quote for pre-specified spot-starting benchmark interest rate swap contracts... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070156572 - Securitization of a commercial transaction: A method and apparatus for generating a tradable security includes confirming a vendor's compliance with predefined terms of a commercial transaction, such that a buyer is obligated to make a due payment. The method and apparatus further includes electronically rating a financial commitment relating to a receivable account for the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156565 - System and method for a trading interface incorporating a chart: A graphical interface and method are provided for displaying market information corresponding to a tradeable object. One graphical interface includes a chart region for displaying historical market data in relation to a first value axis, and a market grid region in alignment with the chart region. The market grid region... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20070156570 - System and method for a trading interface incorporating a chart: A graphical interface and method are provided for displaying market information corresponding to a tradeable object. One graphical interface includes a chart region for displaying historical market data in relation to a first value axis, and a market grid region in alignment with the chart region. The market grid region... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20070156566 - System and method for seller and item filters: A system and method uses seller and item filters to identify items listed on a network based transaction facility that are qualified for a network based elite transaction facility.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070156576 - Dynamic credit score alteration: A method for providing credit score information for a user to the user is provided. The method comprises offering the user an option to obtain information related to a credit score via a computer networking arrangement. The method further determines credit score information once the option is selected by the... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070156577 - Process for seeking authorization for present receipt of legal tender and associated system: A process and system for seeking authorization for present receipt of legal tender in a requested amount, including: receiving an input entered through a user interface, the input comprising a value for the requested amount (encoded information from an identification item may also be read); transmitting the input over a... Agent: Jean M. Macheledt

20070156580 - Enhanced transaction resolution techniques: A method for completing a transaction is presented. The method comprises establishing network communications between a user and a server, receiving information, at the server, regarding the transaction, seeking available information pertinent to the transaction from at least one source external to the server and the user, processing data from... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070156578 - Method and system for reducing a number of financial transactions: A method for reducing the number of transactions may include determining a net value of at least one return-exchange transaction. The method may also include sending a single transaction to a payment provider based on one of a positive and a negative net value.... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20070156581 - Method for future payment transactions: A method for the online modification, submission and approval processing of a future payment request to afford a user the ability to renegotiate established loan agreement debt terms in which network communications are established between a user, such as a debtor, and a server is presented. The method comprises receiving... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070156579 - System and method of reducing or eliminating change in cash transaction by crediting at least part of change to buyer's account over electronic medium: A method of reducing or eliminating change in a cash transaction includes receiving a cash payment for an article or a service from a buyer; and crediting at least part of change from the cash payment due the buyer to an account of the buyer over an electronic medium. A... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070156583 - Clearing receivables with improved search: A system and method match payments with invoices. A payment is received from a business partner. Multiple fields of an invoice database are concatenated to form a single string per record, and a search for an invoice corresponding to the payment is performed. The search may be a fuzzy search... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156584 - Supply chain financing systems and methods: In an electronic supply chain finance system, a method of enabling a supplier optionally to sell accounts receivable owed to the supplier, comprising receiving a payment obligation from a buyer, the payment obligation having a value and a maturity date, presenting the payment obligation to the supplier prior to the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070156582 - System and method for generating a reimbursement request: In a reimbursement request workflow system and method, a processor may generate a reimbursement request by converting at least a selected portion of a purchase order request into the reimbursement request or by retrieving content provided by an external catalogue, extracting data from the retrieved content, and populating fields of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156587 - Content protection using encryption key embedded with content file: Content on a storage medium is protected from unauthorized use, such as excessive copying or expired playback. A storage medium contains encrypted content and an encrypted content key with rules such as usage and copy rules. An interface between a record/playback device and the storage medium has enhanced security by... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20070156585 - System and method for processing feedback entries received from software: A method and system for processing feedback entries received from software provided by a vendor to an end user machine. The end user machine includes the software, a feedback module, and a database. The feedback module: generates a secret key k(0) and makes the key k(0) known to both the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070156597 - 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

20070156596 - Information processing apparatus, setup method and computer-readable recording medium on which setup program is recorded: An information processing apparatus includes a detection section for detecting that the information processing apparatus is started for the first time, a selection section for selecting at least one kind of the setting information from among a plurality of kinds of the setting information where it is detected by the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070156589 - Integrating personalized listings of media content into an electronic program guide: Methods, computer programs, and systems for integrating personalized listings of media content into an electronic program guide. A user profile is retrieved that sets forth information about a user's preferences. Media content information is received that is indicative of a media type, a title, and/or descriptive information, for each of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070156593 - Method for clustered data transmission: The present invention relates to the field of data transmission from a server to a remote workstation. According to the present invention, data is grouped into groups of data and, by merely comparing group identifiers, only the contents of the groups modified by an update are sent to the remote... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070156591 - Program distribution server, method, program, and recording medium: A program distribution server distributes a plurality of software supplied from an external vender to a user terminal upon request. The program distribution server includes first information that relates to a function included in the software. Second information is included to specify the function of the software. A function is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070156588 - Scalable leases: Scalable leases reduce latency and reduce the burden on a server in managing data leases. Instead of processing individual lease requests for clients seeking access to the same data, scalable leases provide for blanket leases that all of the clients can use to access the selected data. Leases may be... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070156592 - Secure authentication method and system: An automated method for authenticating a customer with a vendor, the method including the steps of (a) the customer nominating a remote authentication agent, (b) the customer identifying themselves by transmission of customer credentials to the authentication agent via a network connection, (c) the vendor identifying themselves by transmission of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070156594 - System and method for allowing creators, artsists, and owners to protect and profit from content: The present invention offers novel and superior means for protecting and profiting from digital content. The rights-centric, creator-centric digital rights management application will lead to greater revenue and rights for artists, and a new era of creator's entrepreneurship, as opposed to the dominant aggregator's entrepreneurship. The present invention offers a... Agent: Dr. Elliot Mcgucken

20070156595 - Universal media bar for controlling different types of media: Techniques for using a universal media bar for controlling different types of media are described.... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070156600 - management device, network apparatus, and management method: A terminal management device manages the sharing by at the least one business entity of costs related to distributed terminal devices. In a case that a new business entity, which uses the terminal devices and provides services after the terminal devices have been distributed, the terminal management device computes and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070156598 - Apparatus and method for importing content including plural pieces of usage constraint information: An apparatus and method for protecting digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system. In the apparatus and method, usage rules for respective content parts included in a first content file are determined based on plural items of information in the first content file, and a second content file... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156599 - Method and apparatus for importing content: A method and apparatus for protecting digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system are provided. The method includes: determining a usage rule for content included in a first content file based on usage constraint information included in the first content file; and generating a second content file complying... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156602 - Information distribution apparatus, information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, control method of information distribution apparatus, control method of information processing apparatus, and control program: An information distribution apparatus that distributes an application program to an external apparatus through a communication line includes: an application storage unit that stores a plurality of application programs; and an application distribution unit that, when a distribution request of an application program is made from the external apparatus, reads... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070156601 - Method and system for providing interoperability between digital rights management systems: Methods and apparatus for managing digital content in content management system are provided. The content management system includes a filter operable to automatically determine a first protected format of digital content that has been imported into the content management system, and a transformer operable to transform the digital content from... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070156605 - Method and arrangement for provision of security relevant services via a security module of a franking machine: In a method and an arrangement for provision of at least one secured service via a security module of a franking machine for at least one procedure for data processing that is executed in a data processing device that can be connected with the franking machine, the procedure requests a... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070156604 - Method and system for constructing and using a personalized database of trusted metadata: A method and system for constructing and using a personalized database of trusted metadata is described. One illustrative embodiment constructs a personalized database of trusted metadata for a computer user by establishing an informer network associated with the computer user, the informer network including the computer user and at least... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070156606 - Method of securing a check transaction: A method of securing a check transaction where an On-Us financial institution establishes checking account information for a consumer. The checking account information is transmitted to a service provider. The service provider creates a virtual account for the checking account that is used in a financial transaction. The financial transaction... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20070156608 - 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

20070156609 - 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

20070156610 - 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

20070156607 - Shared royalty platform for content royalty management: Systems and methods for the dynamic processing of royalties are disclosed. Sales records are processed on a transaction basis rather than in batch mode. This process also allows correction of information retroactively, rather than delaying the entire processing of the information. One embodiment includes a system comprising a message broker... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070156611 - Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as via a third-party transaction authorization system that automatically authorizes transactions between parties. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070156612 - Method for addressing mail using an identification code and a database to determine the physical address of a mail item.: A method for addressing mail by initially using an identification code to address the mail item instead of a physical address. The identification code is then used to determine the physical destination address of the mail item. The foregoing is accomplished by using an identification code to initially address a... Agent: Jacques P. Lafleur

20070156613 - Time conditioned display of time-related information such as hours of operation for a business: A method for display of time-related information, such information being descriptive of one or more predictable states of a described subject as a function of time, includes representation of said time-related information relating one or more states of the subject to a representation of time, determination of a time condition... Agent: Michael J. Safoutin