Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 08/07

20070203727 - Emergency supplies pre-positioning and access control method: One provides (101) a plurality of carriable containers having emergency supplies contained therein wherein each of these carriable containers is readily carriable by an average adult human. These carriable containers are then placed (103) within one or more corresponding controlled access containers as are provided at one or more publicly... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070203736 - Interactive 411 directory assistance: A system for providing interactive directory assistance includes a voice portal, a first set of application servers, and a second set of application servers. The voice portal receives verbal input from a user requesting directory assistance. The first set of application servers provides access to one or more sites. Each... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070203738 - Method and apparatus for providing a rewards-based feedback incentive mechanism: A rewards-based feedback incentive program allows registered feedback providers to receive credits redeemable at multiple registered businesses in exchange for providing usable feedback to one or more of the businesses. A processor receives a request from a registered business to provide at least one universal credit to a registered feedback... Agent: Brinkle Y, Morgan, Solomon, Tatum, Stanley, Lunny, & Crosby, LLP

20070203717 - Method for creating a data repository from disparate sources of subscriber behavioral data in communications networks: A method for extracting event data from a communications network provider is described. The method includes the steps of receiving event records containing event data from a communications network. Event data from the call data records is extracted and the extracted is stored in a data repository. The stored data... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070203726 - Statement checker assistant: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for managing financial data associated with a plurality of financial service providers. According to one embodiment, a method of managing financial account information associated with one or more financial service providers can comprise receiving one or more selections defining a report to be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070203735 - Transaction enabled information system: A system for providing transaction-enabled information includes a first application server and at least one second application server. The first application server provides access to plurality of sites. Each of the plurality of sites is associated with at least one transaction grammar. The at least one second application server receives... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070203751 - Medication advisory system: A medication information repository and analysis system receives prescription information indicating medication prescriptions filled for the patient, analyzes the prescription information to determine an estimate of recent medication consumption by the patient, and stores a medication advisory message indicating prescription and recent medication consumption information for the patient in association... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20070203750 - Method and apparatus for managing health care information: A method for managing health care related information includes the steps of providing a computer database, and storing health care related information in the database A computer for use by a health care provider is provided, and the health care provider computer is operatively connected to the database. A plurality... Agent: David P Dureska Buckingham Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

20070203759 - Portfolio management system with gradient display features: The present invention provides a tool to depict the relative impact to the losses of a insurer's portfolio from catastrophic events, such as a hurricanes or earthquakes, at a specific risk level by geographic area using a grid level database and a spatial database to generate maps. The maps developed... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070203764 - Method and apparatus for offering event tickets: An apparatus for offering future event information to a present event ticket holder includes—a user database for storing predetermined information associated with present event tickets, a ticket database for storing event information associated with present and future events, and a unit for determining the status of the present event tickets.... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070203768 - System and method for dynamically tracking and state forecasting tagged entities: A method is provided for dynamically tracking a plurality of entities progressing through an operation each having an electronic tagging device associated therewith. The method includes sensing signals emitted by each of the plurality of tagging devices, at predetermined instances or when triggered by external events, by a plurality of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

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20070203792 - Electronic device capable of delivering coupons to a pos system and to a sales server: Using the coupons stored in an electronic device, a user can reduce the cost of their purchases during a sales event conducted with the point-of-sale (POS) device. The user can download coupons and rebate information to the electronic device from a sales portal, or they can be sent to the... Agent: Bindu Rama Rao

20070203791 - Management and personalization of electronic coupons in a wireless network: A computerized method for presenting an electronic coupon to a user of a mobile telephone over a mobile telephone network. Activity of the user on the mobile telephone is monitored to obtain activity information. The activity information is processed to extract user data specific to the user. Based on the... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070203803 - Merchandise tracking and ordering system: A system, typically offered in electronic network such as the Internet, automates the supply chain business process and provides functionality for vendors to quote items and for the retailer to review and approve quotations. The system sends purchase orders to vendors for review and approval, and tracks goods received and... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20070203815 - Aggregating tax data and facilitating tax payments: A system is shown for aggregating tax data for parcels of real property that are subject to taxation in a plurality of governmental taxing jurisdictions. The data is aggregated by a service provider, who in turn provides the data to a variety of users using consistent or customized data formats.... Agent: Bingham Mchale LLP

20070203816 - Interactive financial charting and related news correlation: Techniques are disclosed by which users looking for financial information about publicly traded or private companies may richly and interactively navigate both pricing and material news information about those companies. The techniques facilitate and encourage the user's use and understanding of financial information presented. Related company information can also be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070203818 - Methods and systems for accessing information related to an order of a commodity: Methods of allowing a customer to access information related to an order of a commodity include gathering inspection information from a commodity lot, collecting grower, field, and packing information associated with the commodity lot, recording purchase orders associated with the commodity lot, assigning a trace code to each of the... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070203855 - Index and financial product and method and system for managing said index and financial product: An index generally includes two index components. A first index component tracks a basket of futures contracts including at least two or more sets of futures contracts with different delivery months spread over a selected time period. The basket of futures contracts being rolled as certain futures contracts in the... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070203821 - Computer system, method and software capable of listing identified goods in transit or storage and managing buyer and seller communications regarding such goods: The present invention provides an improved network computer and communication system permitting sellers to list identified goods in transit or identified goods in storage on a network buyer and seller introductory forum further providing a communication management system for managing certain communications between sellers and potential buyers with respect to... Agent: J. G. Mullins Ste. 304

20070203822 - Methods and systems for virtual trading of securities: A virtual trading method and system such that customers select investments, but the funds transferred in the amount of such investments are instead invested by an investment company. Customers receive the value of their selected investments and potentially incentives provided by the investment company, such as rebates.... Agent: Ruttler Law LLC

20070203832 - Intermediary payment system and method for gaming: A method for enabling consumers in a gaming context to push funds from a traditional open loop account to a closed loop account, and back. At the request of a consumer, funds are transferred to an open loop account of an intermediary payment system that holds or keeps track of... Agent: Lawrence D.eisen Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

20070203840 - Method and apparatus for connecting a network of electronic signs: A method and apparatus allows owners of electronic signs, such as retailers, real estate owners, other space owners, and content providers, such as advertisers, entertainment producers, event promoters, visual artists, and the general community to participate in an open content network, in which electronic signs are universally uniquely identified and... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070203842 - Transmission device: A transmitting apparatus is provided, which is capable of adding information indicating presence/absence of copyright protection information on an optical disc on which music contents are recorded in a format of digital audio, MP3, or the like. In this transmitting apparatus, when a loaded optical disc is determined to be... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070203850 - Multifactor authentication system: Systems and methods are provided to allow for multifactor authentication of automatic teller machines (ATM) transactions and transactions at a merchant's point of sale. In an illustrative implementation, a secondary PIN request is delivered to participating users, and/or a one-time use, randomly generated secondary PIN to a customer's mobile phone... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070203720 - Computing a group of related companies for financial information systems: Techniques are disclosed by which users looking for financial information about publicly traded or private companies may richly and interactively navigate both pricing and material news information about those companies. The techniques facilitate and encourage the user's use and understanding of financial information presented. Related company information can also be... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070203718 - Computing system for modeling of regulatory practices: A system and method for providing a business architecture model which clearly identifies regulatory practices applicable to a business, and how these regulatory practices affect different aspects of a business. The business architecture model according to the present system and method may also be easily modified to model the costs... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070203721 - Extensible web service: In order to make business software operate remotely as a web service, the web service may have to be extendible. This extendibility may require several additions to the base software that is now operating as a web service program.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070203710 - Managing future career paths: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for using competency-related information for individuals to provide a variety of benefits is described. In some situations, competency-related information is used to assist members of an organization in managing future career paths within the organization. An organization member can specify a starting position type... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203729 - Media buying system for placement on digital messaging devices: A process for selling or auctioning digital advertising includes the steps of assembling ad placement criteria into discrete advertising packages that are of unique benefit to advertisers. Setting prices for advertising packages that will be viewable online. Enabling an electronic bidding process which concludes in a winner. A selection of... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070203732 - Method and apparatus for a merchant profile builder: A merchant profile builder (MPB) is provided. The complete merchant profiling process is split into three pieces: Data Preprocessing, Weekly Summary Calculation, and Merchant Profile Calculation. In the Data Preprocessing stage, authorization data and daily fraud data are processed on a weekly basis to yield: an authorization extract file and... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070203741 - Method and apparatus for automatic notification and response: A disclosed notification and response system enables applications to communicate with recipients using a number of different media. The notification and response system (i) sends requests to one or more recipients, using the medium specified by each individual recipient; (ii) collects and processes responses; and (iii) forwards the responses to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070203715 - Method and means for registering a debit card: A method and means of registering for a debit card includes a card having an account number that is the same as an account number encoded on a magnetic strip of the card. Removably attached to the card is a first and a second label. The first label has the... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20070203722 - Method for determining a future value of greenhouse gas credits: A method for evaluating a greenhouse gas reduction project is disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more parameters associated with a greenhouse gas reduction project. The method also includes determining an amount of greenhouse gas credits potentially generated during the lifecycle of a greenhouse gas reduction project. The method... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070203739 - Method of providing an interactive service procedure graphic display: A method for providing a means for providing service information of an apparatus such as movies demonstrating service procedures and other service information important or relevant to at least one of a: viewer, said apparatus, and said service procedure. The method teaches a graphic display to allow for interactivity with... Agent: Frank John Williams

20070203716 - Method, system, and computer program product for implementing part performance management services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing part performance management services is provided. The method includes gathering service data for products. The serviced components of the products are identified in the service data by replacement component part numbers. The method also includes mapping the service data to manufacturing... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20070203724 - Methods and systems for accessing information related to an order of a commodity: Methods of allowing a customer to access information related to an order of a commodity include entering the information into a central database, updating a content of a web-based application with the information within the central database, and allowing the customer to access the information via the web-based application. The... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070203723 - Methods for designing, pricing, and scheduling well services and data processing systems therefor: Methods comprising for pricing and scheduling one or more well services comprising obtaining input data for the one or more well services, determining the well service specifications, determining a schedule for the one or more well services, determining costs for the one or more well services, and determining the price... Agent: Robert A. Kent Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

20070203711 - Personalized learning recommendations: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for using competency-related information for individuals to provide a variety of benefits is described. In some situations, gaps are identified between current competencies of individuals and target competencies for those individuals, and the individuals are provided with assistance in reducing or eliminating those competency... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203713 - Presenting aggregate competency information: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for using competency-related information for individuals to provide a variety of benefits are described. In some situations, users, such as managers, may request information about the skills of a group of employees. Various techniques to select the group may be provided. The type of... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203733 - Protected quote finder: A method of automatically finding a market venue for a limit order, including identifying which of a plurality of market venues on a list of potential routing destinations would offer an order protection from trade-through. Moreover, if at least two of the market venues would offer the order protection from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070203714 - Purchasable token bandwidth portioning: Embodiments of purchasable token bandwidth portioning techniques are described herein. Tokens are designated to portion bandwidth, allocated by a content provider to stream contents, to a plurality of client devices as a group. When one of the client devices attempts to consume content that would cause the group to exceed... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070203730 - Real property transaction database and method to monitor the status of a real property transaction: A method to is disclosed to monitor the status of a real-property transaction. The method supplies a tracking system comprising a server comprising memory, a database encoded in the memory, and a plurality of data input devices in communication with the server, wherein the database comprises a plurality of database... Agent: Dale F. Regelman

20070203712 - Screening electronic service requests: A facility for screening service requests for requesting assistance is described. The facility receives from a user a service request that requests assistance with solving a problem associated with a system accessible to the user and includes information related to the system. The facility searches a collection of system status... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203725 - Security arrangements for virtual world obligations: A method and system provides transactions and arrangements in virtual world environments. A user can participate in transactions to acquire virtual property and related virtual rights. In some implementations, real-world and virtual parties can be involved in virtual collateral transactions as well as conditional transfers and/or revocations involving various types... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070203719 - System and method for downloading user interface components to wireless devices: A method of processing a user interface component is provided and includes receiving one or more user interface components that can be communicated to a wireless device. A component risk level for each of the one or more user interface components is determined and assigned to each of the one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070203731 - System and method for dynamically integrating financial information in an application program environment: Method and system for dynamically integrating financial information on a single platform are described. A variation template is created for an end user, which requests and captures financial information. It is the end user that formulates the financial information to be implemented on the template. The user's information captured on... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070203728 - System and method for facilitating integration of automated applications within a healthcare practice: The invention provides a system and method of building an application interface which permits the easy building of translation and transformation rules to integrate seamlessly with existing applications and devices used in a healthcare practice.... Agent: Clements Walker

20070203740 - Systemic enterprise management method and apparatus: An automated system and method provides a diagnosis and remedy to a business information system through a case matching process. From an initial model of a proposed system architecture, performance metrics are modeled and compared against a set of user-defined corporate and business requirements. The performance metrics include cost, quality... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070203734 - Systems and methods of providing online live auctions: A system and method of providing online live auction services is provided. In certain embodiments a client bidding module provide simultaneous access to multiple live auction events so that users can participate in several events taking place at the same time. Other embodiments include methods for estimating the time at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070203737 - Virtual technology transfer office: An online, and therefore virtual, technology transfer office accessible by multiple inventive entities is provided. The systems and methods of the invention provide a comprehensive interface to a remote application that collects information related to inventions, ranks the inventions, solicits approval for pursuing intellectual property protection, funding, financing, commercializing or... Agent: Parks Knowlton LLC

20070203749 - Business methods for compounds for treatment of proliferative disorders: Methods and systems for marketing pharmaceutical compositions including cIAP binding compounds are described herein.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070203744 - Clinical workflow simulation tool and method: The present method and system provides a simulation of a clinical workflow in a healthcare facility which models the processes and treatment of patients at a healthcare facility and enables various processes to be compared and shown in interaction with one another. Actual data from the healthcare facility is provided... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070203752 - Computer implemented medical integrated decision support system: A software-based, integrated member decision support system provides a method for corporations, insurance carriers, health maintenance organizations, physicians, physician groups, or other clients to efficiently provide medical, pharmaceutical, and health benefit advice and information for an enrolled population. The system contains one or more databases which include member profiles, clinical... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070203747 - E-commerce systems and methods: The invention is in general directed to methods and processes for generating revenue via an electronic commerce website. The invention is also directed to methods of processing product orders and selling product related to protocols, workflows, or other applications. The invention also contemplates methods for selling products, which include previously... Agent: Invitrogen Corporation C/o Intellevate

20070203742 - Integrated emergency medical transportion database and virtual private network system: A system and method for providing secure data communications and user access authorization for an integrated emergency medical transportation database. The secure communications and user authorization is provided by a Virtual Private Network (“VPN”), allowing confidential patient medical records to be transmitted via a public network such as the Internet... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070203743 - Method and program for the preparation of dental work: The invention refers to a method, to a computer program and to a data processing machine for the preparatory work of dental treatment. This invention in particular considers technical parameters concerning the order of the individual treatment steps. For one embodiment, it is intended to issue parts of the treatment... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070203745 - Method for resolving workflow conflicts of multiple connected information systems to a central data management system: In a healthcare data management system having autonomous information systems for scheduling procedures on imaging modalities via a central data management system, a conflict resolution method is provided. Logic for identifying conflicting messages is provided at the data management system by comparing key information in data fields. Upon identifying a... Agent: Schiff Hardin LLP Patent Department

20070203748 - System and method for modifying and routing dicom examination files: The invention comprises a system and method for receiving a DICOM image file from a first DICOM storage service class user, employing rules on the DICOM image file and forwarding the DICOM image file to a second DICOM storage service class user in accordance with the rules. After router configuration... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070203746 - System and user interface enabling user order item selection for medical and other fields: A user interface system reduces the number of user interactions required in order data entry by providing data representing a candidate order for provision of an item or services including user modifiable values of a set of related attributes and provides further candidate alternatives in response to user selection of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070203755 - Medication administration information and user interface system: A system supports a nursing medication management workflow by providing both a work shift overview of a medication regimen giving nurses a comprehensive view of information needed to plan and track medication administrations throughout a shift and an intuitive and quick way for nurses to document medication administrations. A medication... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070203754 - Network health record and repository systems and methods: Methods and systems for healthcare information management. One system according to one embodiment of the present invention for managing a patient's healthcare information at a plurality of locations, said system comprising: a plurality of facilities where the patient's healthcare information is stored; a repository and management system; wherein said repository... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070203753 - System for communication of health care data: An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070203758 - Automated insurance enrollment, underwriting, and claims adjusting: An insurance enrollment and underwriting method includes comprising providing a first user interface with one or more controls for enabling a user to specify one or more health conditions in an enrollment application for pet health insurance. Data representing one or more health conditions specified through the first user interface... Agent: Ormiston & Mckinney, PLLC

20070203756 - Configuration of employee benefit plans: A method, system, and computer program product to create a quote for providing a benefit, such as an employee benefit of a group health insurance policy or a retirement plan. Products that can be associated with the quote are automatically determined using at least one rule for associating products with... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203757 - Healthcare debit card linked to healthcare-related and non-healthcare-related financial accounts: A healthcare financial payment system and method are disclosed in which a debit card which may be used by a cardholder to pay for medical products and services is linked with a healthcare-related financial account associated with the cardholder as well as with a non-healthcare-related financial account belonging to the... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.c. Attn: Linda Kasulke, Docket Coordinator

20070203760 - Interactive electronic bill payment system: A system for coordinating the submission and processing of a bill according to predictive payment data of a plan. The system comprises a provider interface and an integrated database for receiving a predictive payment plan submitted from the provider interface. The system also has a predictive payment request of the... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070203763 - Management of the flow of persons and advertisement distribution via wireless media: A system and method of wirelessly managing the loading of patrons to an attraction in an entertainment environment is disclosed. A patron can register with the entertainment environment utilizing a wireless device owned by the patron. An electronic entry ticket for the attraction is allocated to the patron through the... Agent: The Walt Disney Company C/o Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070203762 - Method for modeling processes in airlines and other industries, including cost asssesment of service disruptions: Methods and systems for modeling functional processes in enterprises, and for simulating and valuing the effects of various products and services on those processes, are described herein. The cost of disruptions in service of commercial fleets of transportation vehicles such as aircraft, is assessed. The causes of the disruptions are... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070203761 - Predictive scheduling for procedure medicine: Scheduling techniques are disclosed that employ one or more predictive scheduling classification algorithms configured to exploit historical data of previously scheduled and completed medical procedures. Thus, a new patient that is similarly-situated to previously treated patients can have a medical procedure automatically predicted and scheduled based on historical procedure data... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070203765 - Method for correlating and tracking passengers and baggage for a trackable passenger trip: A system and method track both passenger and baggage during passenger trips, improving trip security, reducing lost baggage, allowing remote baggage check-in and retrieval, and allowing billing and financial transactions among system users. A passenger identification code (PIC) identifies a passenger, a trip starting location, and both a carrier and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070203767 - Apparatus and method for indexing data changes: A computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner includes executable instructions to: create a data table characterizing data values; standardize changes between data values to produce standardized values; and apply a weighting factor to the standardized values to produce a data change index.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070203770 - Method and apparatus providing a supply chain management system useful in outsourced manufacturing: A method is disclosed for automatically identifying and resolving one or more discrepancies in an outsourced manufacturing supply chain in which a plurality of supply chain partners participate. According to this aspect, information representing one or more supply chain events is received from each of the supply chain partners in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070203769 - Method of selecting and matching professionals: A method of selecting desired repairs persons in a system by a user, which includes the process of forming a collective of repair persons on a system and allows users to sign on to the system. Once signed on to the system, users are able to search for matching repair... Agent: Law Offices Of Alozie N. Etufugh, PLLC

20070203766 - Process framework and planning tools for aligning strategic capability for business transformation: A business transformation alignment framework and toolset. A system is disclosed that includes: a data interface system for storing and displaying business transformation data categorized into initiative data, capability data and IT requirement data; a mapping system for mapping between initiative data, capability data and IT requirement data; and a... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070203772 - Method and system for assigning responsibility for developing a compensation plan: A method and system for assigning responsibility for developing compensation plans. The compensation system assigns responsibility for developing compensation plans to various managers within the management hierarchy of an organization. Each responsible manager is responsible for developing the compensation plan for their direct reports and for any indirect reports whose... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203773 - Method for avoiding or limiting early build due to yield decreases: Disclosed are embodiments of an improved production planning method that avoids or limits early builds. The method comprises running a conventional production planning program using standard inputs (e.g., date effective yields). The outputs of the program (e.g., a plan including planned inventory overstocks at given times) are evaluated to determine... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070203776 - Method of displaying resume over the internet in a secure manner: A method and apparatus for storing a resume on a server which is part of a computer network (e.g. the Internet), providing a method for the owner of the resume (job candidate) to mask out certain confidential information (such as the owner's identity) while maintaining the “look and feel” of... Agent: Donald C. Simpson, Esquire

20070203777 - Method of improving throughput performance of an automotive repair shop: A method of improving the throughput of an automotive collision repair shop is disclosed comprising the steps of conducting a market analysis of a collision repair shop to determine a potential value of sales by the repair shop; analyzing the relative volume of sales by severity of repair needed for... Agent: The Webb Law Firm

20070203775 - Monitoring and integration of an organization's planning processes: A planning monitor and control system is provided for use with an enterprise computing system. The system generates a user interface planning visual display that includes a list view area containing a list of planning projects predefined to be included in a list of planning projects of interest to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070203771 - System and method for processing complex orders: A complex order processing system is implemented in an architecture that allows customer service representatives and customers to access the customer's accounts, service profiles, quotes, and orders. Account information can be entered and updated. Quotes can be generated for various configurations of products and services having different types of charges... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203774 - Vendor managed inventory liability tracking automation: A method of monitoring both customer/vendor liability in a supply contract where the customer provides a forecast and the supplier responds to that forecast committing assets/resources for satisfaction of that forecast over multiple forecasting cycles, comprising measuring liability over a set of transactions instead of per transaction basis; assigning Liability... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070203779 - System and method to provide maintenance for an electrical power generation, transmission and distribution system: A method for providing maintenance to an electrical power generation, transmission and distribution system, and an information system and one or more computer program software means for carrying out same. A method to provide maintenance to an electrical power generation facility and/or an electrical power transmission and distribution network system... Agent: Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20070203778 - Workflow management: Methods and system for managing workflow in an information data processing system are described herein. A workflow server communicates with and receives work items from one or more information systems, such as a customer information system. Work items may include exceptions spawned by each information system, e.g., an item or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070203783 - Market simulation model: Methods and computer program products for providing a market simulation model. A method includes receiving consumer data including one or more ratings of a product characteristic, the ratings reflecting a latent measure of the product characteristic. The ratings are represented as a probability distribution. The latent measure of the product... Agent: Kathryn A Marra General Motors Corporation

20070203781 - Method and system for providing a trust-based reputation service for virtual organization formation: A method and system for a source participant assessing trustworthiness of a destination participant through one or more neighboring participants in a collaborative environment. The method comprises modeling all of the participants as network nodes and relationships between the participants as network paths and identifying a set of the network... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070203784 - Method of analyzing email content of registered users of a website and present these users with an offer: The invention is a method for analyzing content of email messages of registered users of an electronic commerce website and presenting these users with an offer (e.g., a digital coupon, a sale offer, or an advertisement) relevant to the analyzed email content.... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070203785 - Method of assisting a sales representative in selling: A computer implemented method of providing feedback to a sales representative for a sales opportunity to a customer, comprising: determining, in dependence on information received from the sales representative, a probability that the sales opportunity will result in a sale by the sales representative; determining, in dependence on information received... Agent: Dinesh Agarwal, P.C.

20070203782 - Misclassification minimization and applications: The invention provides improved methods for selecting items most likely to be the best items in a population of items. In accordance with certain preferred embodiments the probability that an item is among the best items in the population is determined by calculating the misclassification probability of each item and... Agent: Larry S. Millstein Holland & Knight LLP

20070203786 - Learning-based performance reporting: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for using learning activity information, such as for individuals in an organization, to provide a variety of benefits is described. In some situations, reporting functionality is available to provide information about completed learning activities, such as in the form of reports for presentation. In... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203787 - Retail facility: A retail facility employs various devices, equipment, techniques and methods that are well suited for the retail merchandising of bottled beverages, such as wine and liquors, but may be applied to other products as well, such as clothing, footwear, food items, tools, luggage, office supplies, toys, sporting goods, computer products,... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070203795 - Chasing rewards associated with accounts: The present invention is directed to a method for linking accounts corresponding to different products together to create a group so that group processing can be performed at the group level while independent processing of the accounts is performed at the account level. The method links the accounts into a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070203789 - Designing hyperlink structures: The subject disclosure pertains to an architecture that maximizes revenue of a website. In particular, the hyperlink structure between the web pages of a website can be designed to maximize the revenue generated from traffic on the website. That is, the set of hyperlinks placed on web pages is optimized... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070203788 - Gift giving process and system: The invention provides a method of giving a gift instrument having a value to a recipient. The method comprises (a) ordering the gift instrument from a central processing facility, (b) delivering the gift instrument to the recipient, (c) receiving the gift instrument by the recipient, (d) redeeming the gift instrument... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070203793 - System and method for providing a fuel purchase incentive with the sale of a vehicle: A fuel purchase incentive is provided incident to the sale of a vehicle. With respect to the sale of an automobile, the incentive consists of a program price, for example a discount price or a capped maximum price, for a specified quantity of a specified brand and type of gasoline.... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070203794 - System and method for providing a fuel purchase incentive with the sale of a vehicle: A fuel purchase incentive is provided incident to the sale of a vehicle. With respect to the sale of an automobile, the incentive consists of a program price, for example a discount price or a capped maximum price, for a specified quantity of a specified brand and type of gasoline.... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070203790 - User to user recommender: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for recommending relevant users to other users in a user community. In one implementation of such a method, two different sets of data are considered: a) music (or other items) that users have been listening to (or otherwise engaging), and b) music (or... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070203796 - Rfid advertisement and purchase information dispersion method: A business method that includes an RFID tag embedded into (1) a display advertisement (printed or illuminated) or (2) into a product with or without an RFID logo indicating the RFID presence. The display advertisement or product is communicated with by a user of a mobile communications unit (MCU) such... Agent: Glen Russell Stevick

20070203797 - Configurable media-independent server: The present invention provides a configurable system for communicating via multiple communication channels of different media types. The system includes multiple channel drivers for communicating with a corresponding communication channel of multiple communication channels of different media types. The system includes a command table for storing commands associated with a... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203799 - Data structure for a complex order processing system: A data structure for a complex order processing system is implemented in a set of tables for assets, quotes, and orders. The asset table includes information regarding products currently installed and services being delivered to a customer's premises. The aggregate asset tables for a customer represent the customer's service profile.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203802 - Method for collecting, testing and distributing milk: The disclosure is related generally to a method for facilitating the collection and distribution of milk over a computer network among a milk provider, a milk company and a milk distribution center.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney LLP

20070203800 - Method for protecting equity in purchased goods: A method 10 for protecting equity in purchased goods that are disposed of during a predetermined time period after purchase, includes establishing the purchase date and price for the purchased goods 14, determining a purchaser's equity in the purchased goods on the purchase date 16, selecting a time period for... Agent: Cherskov & Flaynik The Civic Opera Building

20070203801 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatic group ordering of food from restaurants: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for automatic online group ordering of food from a restaurant. According to one method, input for creating a group online food order from a restaurant is received. The input defines a group of individuals to invite to participate... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070203804 - Rapid entry system for the placement of orders via the internet: A method provides for placing and executing electronic commercial transactions via the Internet with the aid of a vendor computer to generate a transaction ID that is subsequently transmitted by a customer to the vendor. The transaction includes the vendor's network address, and parameters associated with preconfigured commercial transaction. Transaction... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070203798 - User interface for a complex order processing system: A user interface for a computerized complex order processing system presents a list of products and services associated with an account, a list of quotes associated with the account, a list of orders associated with the account, and several user-selectable options. The options allow the user to transfer a service... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203806 - Book publishing systems and methods: A system and a method is provided wherein a web site may provide templates for producing high quality brochures, fliers, book, magazines, periodicals and the like where the consumer may select from the templates in a plurality of different fields, including real estate, law, education, medicine, dentistry and the like.... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070203805 - Method for designing and constructing a residence for a customer: A method for designing and constructing a residence in a geographical area for a customer, wherein the customer receives a completed residence design and a bidding process without charge. The customer is provided a database of residential construction products by a service provider. The customer chooses a residential product package... Agent: Alan J. Ross, Esq

20070203807 - Remote shopping system with integrated product specific advertising: Internet advertising has always been a hit and miss proposition. The targeted product specific advertising program disclosed is different because it searches the shopper's list for specific products that a shopper is planning to buy. For example, suppose a merchant wants to target shoppers that have a particular brand or... Agent: Lawrence J. Deangelis

20070203812 - Machine having automatic component registration: A component registration system for a machine is disclosed. The component registration system has a component located on the machine, a data system remote from the machine, and a controller in communication with the component and the data system. The controller is configured to automatically collect information from the component... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070203809 - Method and apparatus for regulating store inventory: Disclosed is a method and system for regulating the amount of stock in a display area to prevent the display area from being depleted of stock, resulting in loss of sales. The system utilizes RFID technology to track the number of stock items in the display area and to compare... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070203811 - Method of auditing inventory: A method of auditing inventory. The method includes determining a first check as a function of an identifying tag. The first check is configured to identify at least one first condition. The identifying tag is indicative of at least one of a rating, a ranking within a hierarchical scale, a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070203808 - Product management system: Pre-shipment data includes, in addition to product data representing features of the products P, data that associate product identification data for identifying each of the products P included in the product data with package identification data for identifying a carton C containing the products P. A management warehouse system 3a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070203810 - Supply chain modeling method and system: A method is provided for supply chain modeling by a supply chain entity within a supply chain. The supply chain may include a plurality of supply chain entities. The method may include establishing a first supply chain model representing interrelationships between an inventory cost of the supply chain entity and... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070203813 - Systems for receiving and forming marketplaces for working on digital information blocks: A remote access medical image exchange system utilizes a decentralized, i.e., self-organizing, distribution system combined with bid queues to establish a market place which allows for continuously negotiated prices with control (over who reads the images, when they are read and what the fee will be for such a reading)... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20070203814 - System and method for comparing and analyzing expenditures and savings over different time periods: A method of comparing and analyzing expenditures and savings for a first and a second time period includes a first step of receiving consumption data, expenditure data and market price data for the first and second time periods, a second step of calculating data representing a change in savings from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070203817 - Virtual collateral for real-world obligations: A method and system provides transactions and arrangements in virtual world environments. A user can participate in transactions to acquire virtual property and related virtual rights. In some implementations, real-world and virtual parties can be involved in virtual collateral transactions as well as conditional transfers and/or revocations involving various types... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070203819 - System, method, apparatus and product for use in association with transactions: Systems, methods, apparatus and/or computer program products presented herein may be used in association with transactions. In one aspect, a method includes issuing a number of shares of a first entity to a second entity, where the second entity is a bankruptcy remote subsidiary of the first entity, creating a... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070203820 - Relationship management in an auction environment: A system for providing relationship management in an auction environment is disclosed. The system includes a relationship management system and an auction system. The relationship management system and the auction system are communicatively coupled to one another. The relationship management system is configured to provide access to a relationship management... Agent: Csa LLP

20070203823 - Systems and methods of providing online live auctions: A system and method of providing online live auction services is provided. In certain embodiments a client bidding module provide simultaneous access to multiple live auction events so that users can participate in several events taking place at the same time. Other embodiments include methods for estimating the time at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070203824 - Systems and methods of providing online live auctions: A system and method of providing online live auction services is provided. In certain embodiments a client bidding module provide simultaneous access to multiple live auction events so that users can participate in several events taking place at the same time. Other embodiments include methods for estimating the time at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070203826 - Fraud early warning system and method: A fraud early warning system and method for monitoring transactional behavior of an account holder and evaluating that behavior by comparing it to biographical data and/or the past behavior of the account holder. The system and method is applicable to real-time wire transfers, online transactions, automated teller machine transactions, point-of-sale... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070203827 - Method for enhancing revenue and minimizing charge-off loss for financial institutions: In one embodiment, a computer accessible medium stores a plurality of instructions which, when executed: (i) statistically analyze account data corresponding to a plurality of accounts at a financial institution to determine which account data items are most strongly correlated to a charge-off event in an account (and/or a fee... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070203828 - 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

20070203825 - Systems and methods for enabling charitable contributions from property: Systems and methods that provide new methods of charitable giving that increase the flow of contributions from donors to charities. In this way, the present invention helps many charitable causes that are desperately in need of financial support. Most wealth is in real estate, and the new form of charitable... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070203829 - System and methods for transmitting funds and instituting loans: A combination money transmitter and loan system includes a central computer having a processor and a memory. Multiple user accounts are stored in the memory, each having a unique user identifier and a user balance indicative of a monetary balance value. A loan database stores a loan amount, a loan... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070203830 - Using payment indicators in a common image: A method and system are described for transmitting a common image including at least a payment indication of a first-type charge by a first source and a payment indication of a second-type charge by a second source and receiving a user input relating to one or more of the payment... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070203831 - Using payment mode rankings responsive to item attributes: A method and system are described for obtaining at least a first mode ranking and a second mode ranking responsive to one or more categorical attributes of a first item and to one or more payment mode use constraints and transmitting at least an indication of a first payment mode... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070203833 - Method and system for facilitating payment transactions using access devices: A payment system for facilitating a payment transaction between a payer and a payee is disclosed. The payment system includes a payer access device, a payee access device, and a services hub. The services hub is configured to communicate with the payer device and the payee device; maintain information relating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20070203834 - System for invoice record management and asset-backed commercial paper program management: A computerized system that will allow healthcare providers to access the commercial paper market by “selling” their patient claims to asset backed commercial paper conduits. The system generates the statistical information on the historic collection experience of the provider's claims required by both the rating agencies and the sponsors of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070203835 - Automated teller service using wireless telephony: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for requesting ATM transactions via a separate cellular connection to arrangements for accessing a customer's account and controlling an ATM machine in response to data provided over the separate connection. A customer accesses an application server of a telephony service provider network.... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070203836 - Text message payment: A computer-implemented method of effectuating an electronic on-line payment includes receiving at a computer server system a text message from a payor containing a payment request representing a payment amount sent by a payor device operating independently of the computer server system, determining a payment amount associated with the text... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070203837 - Exchange and integration of mixed data formats: Systems and methods for processing textual messages which are integrated with one or more digital attachments is described. These systems and methods are useful in the electronic filing and processing of, for example, image data, and of textual data associated with the image data. One particular application of these systems... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20070203838 - Encryption/decryption method and apparatus for controlling content use based on license information: A method and apparatus for encrypting or decrypting digital content are provided. In the method, a binding range is selected from a plurality of binding ranges of content use based on license information of the content, and the content is encrypted based on the selected binding range so that the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070203839 - Mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal moves and backs up a content, which was downloaded from a content server, to a personal computer. When the mobile communication terminal receives an encryption key generation request from the personal computer via a cable, the mobile communication terminal extracts information to be used for generating... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070203841 - Service level digital rights management support in a multi-content aggregation and delivery system: Content may be provided to an access device by the content delivery platform. When the access device decides to access the content, a request may be received at the content delivery platform. The request is intercepted at a URL proxy, which determines if the content has been purchased or not.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070203843 - System and method for efficient encryption and decryption of drm rights objects: A content encryption/decryption system is disclosed that provides for the use of multiple DRM rights objects. The disclosed system also provides for use in non-connected, connected and mixed mode transmission models.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070203844 - Activation key for a wireless-enabled device: A user sets up an account including radio identification, billing information, etc. via a web-based account creation device, or over the telephone with an account representative. An activation key is provided to the user that identifies the radio device and the users account. An activation screen is displayed to a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070203845 - Method and system for creating multimedia: A method and system for providing licensed content to a user is provided, wherein the method and system allow the user to create multimedia including licensed content by providing access to licensed content; tracking the licensed content accessed, an associated provider or providers for the accessed licensed content, the number... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff, Eastman Kodak Company

20070203846 - System and method for providing a flexible licensing system for digital content: A system and method for providing a flexible licensing system for digital content is described. In some cases, the system utilizes tokens or other valuations to facilitate the purchase or exchange of content.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070203848 - Account linking with privacy keys: A computer system includes a security module programmed to generate a first privacy key for use with secure communications with a first web site, and a second privacy key for use with secure communications with a second web site, the first and second keys being different. The computer system also... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070203847 - Electronic payment of content: The present invention relates to a method for a receiving device operated by a buyer of performing payment of content to be received from a transmitting device operated by a seller, said method comprises the steps of: setting up a private communication channel between said receiving device and said transmitting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070203849 - Endpoint verification using common attributes: A system for endpoint verification includes a computer system programmed to access one web site of a plurality of web sites associated with an organization. The computer system is programmed to receive a digital certificate of the web site and to display an attribute from the digital certificate to the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070203851 - Entity validation framework: A method is provided for validating one entity, say a business or job applicant, for another entity (the requesting entity), say another business, that includes the steps of, classifying the entity type to be validated based on one or more predefined classifiers of an entity, applying one or more validation... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070203852 - Identity information including reputation information: A system for providing reputation information includes a relying party programmed to receive a security token including a claim with reputation information associated with a party, and the relying party is further programmed to utilize the reputation information when deciding whether to transact with the party. A method of providing... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070203854 - Electronic contracting: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for computer-facilitated construction of health care contracts.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070203853 - Partitioned credit system: The present invention discloses a wherein the total available credit for a user is divided into discrete subsets which may be attributed to different purposes such as internet purchases, business transactions, emergency spending, etc., or to different users such as children, travelers, etc.... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20070203858 - Method and apparatus for enabling use of design software with a price based on design complexity: A computer software product and method provides a capability to charge for use of software based on the complexity of the processing to be performed. The complexity of design software processing may correspond to the complexity of shapes received as input to the design.... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070203856 - Method and apparatus for estimator tool: A software estimator tool implements an estimation process. The tool implements a bottom-up estimation process and a top-down estimation process. The bottom-up estimation process calculates an cumulative estimated level of effort for selected stages during the implementation of a custom software product, the custom software product being comprised of pre-written... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070203857 - Method and system for estimating spare parts costs: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electronic method for estimating a quantity of spare parts needed for a machine is disclosed. The machine includes a number of replaceable part populations. The method includes receiving (1) life data for a number of part populations in the machine and... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070203859 - Method and system for paying for a service: A system of paying for a service that is delivered to a user by a provider of said service, the system including print means for printing out a docket issued by the service provider and bearing the amount to be paid for the requested service, and franking means for printing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070203860 - Energy budget manager: A method of monitoring energy consumption includes steps of establishing an energy budget for a future time period, receiving device information for a plurality of electrical devices and associating the device information with the energy budget, periodically measuring electrical usage from the plurality of electrical devices, projecting future energy consumption... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070198285 - Apparatus and methods of advertising utilizing photographic printer services with keyword targeting: A method for printing a photographic print including the steps of receiving advertising content from an advertiser; receiving advertiser input from an advertiser associated with the advertising content; receiving image data from a customer; receiving customer input from a customer associated with the image data; comparing the customer input to... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070198287 - Method and apparatus allowing individuals to enroll into a known group, dispense tokens, and rapidly identify group members: A method and apparatus are disclosed by which a holder of an ATM or other pre-existing account may submit to biometric data collection and receive an identification token, and/or a value token. The tokens are associated with the account record, biometric data, and other previously or subsequently gathered information. Subsequent... Agent: Christopher Outwater

20070198288 - Sales method through internet: m

20070198284 - Systems and methods for facilitating contact center coaching: Systems and methods for facilitating contact center coaching are provided. In this regard, a representative method for coaching an agent of a contact center includes: displaying, to a user, information corresponding to a condition indicating that the agent is failing to meet pre-established criteria; receiving input from the user, the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198299 - Method for identifying minority health factor disparities within geographic zones: A method for identifying minority health factor disparities within a first geographic zones, such as a state boundary of the United States, including the steps of determining the per cent prevalence of a health factor, for example diabetes, within the first geographic zone, identifying minority demographic group sub-zones within the... Agent: Kile Goekjian Reed & Mcmanus

20070198302 - Method and system for reducing the incidence of defensive medicine: Methods and systems are described that implement evidence-based schemata in a health care system that embody practice guidelines and/or a standard of care. Physicians in the health care system agree to adhere to the practice guidelines. An insured patient assigns/subrogates the right to sue a physician malpractice to the health... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070198316 - Method and system for accessing declined event invitations: A method and system for accessing declined invitations is provided. The method includes receiving notification of an available time slot, retrieving stored declined event invitations, and presenting the declined event invitations to a user. The user can accept of a previously declined event invitation for the available time slot. When... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070198318 - Repair relevant information providing system: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus. In the apparatus, the shortest repair days information is determined by comparing days presented by the first transportation days information with a sum of days presented by the second transportation days information and the third transportation days information so as to acquire... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20070198326 - Process of using real estate mls sales statistics to create a benchmark for sales requirements in specific areas of a country, state, or city to qualify real estate agents and brokers from other companies (brokerages) to market themselves on a website of: Process of using real estate MLS sales statistics to create a benchmark for sales requirements in specific areas of a state of city, to qualify real estate agents and brokers from other companies (brokerages) to market themselves on a website of a licensed third party real estate broker while not... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20070198325 - System and method for facilitating triggers and workflows in workforce optimization: The systems and methods described herein provide a notification engine that facilitates integration of solutions for performing workforce management, quality monitoring, e-learning, performance management, and analytics functionality. The notification engine facilitates combining quality monitoring/call recording with performance management and e-learning functionality as a unified integrated solution. The combination can be... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198330 - Integrated contact center systems for facilitating contact center coaching: Systems and methods for facilitating contact center coaching are provided. In this regard, a representative integrated contact center system incorporates a workforce manager, a quality monitor, and a coaching system. The workforce manager includes a scheduler. The quality monitor is configured to provide, to the scheduler, at least one quality... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198329 - System and method for facilitating triggers and workflows in workforce optimization: The systems and methods described herein provide a notification engine that facilitates integration of solutions for performing workforce management, quality monitoring, e-learning, performance management, and analytics functionality. The notification engine facilitates combining quality monitoring/call recording with performance management and e-learning functionality as a unified integrated solution. The combination can be... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198350 - Global constraints in open exchange platforms: In a system that provides an open exchange environment to connect business entities through a network, methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for enabling a first of the business entities to specify global constraint information; and identifying, at least in part on the global constraint information, a set... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070198353 - Method and system for creating and distributing and audio newspaper: An audio newspaper system obtains or receives non-audio content items from a publisher and converts them into audio format content items. As part of the conversion, the software may be configured to create summaries from the content items. The summaries may include an overall news summary or headline summaries for... Agent: Fred Zollinger Iii

20070198345 - Method and system for creating profit using personal website:

20070198347 - Process for distributing product entitlements to members of a retail store's frequent shopper program: A process for distributing entitlements in a retail store to shoppers who are members of that retail store's frequent shopper program that includes obtaining individual frequent shopper program member data from the retailer. Past product purchases of each frequent shopper program member are analyzed and categorized, and compared to a... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20070198357 - Inventory and patient management system: A system and/or method for managing patients and products used in the treatment of their sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is provided. A barcode scanner preferably scans product data and wirelessly communicates it to a database for use in an inventory management system for tracking and generating product and patient information for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070198364 - Method and system for managing multiple catalogs of files on a network: Systems and methods have been developed for managing multiple catalogs of files on a network. The systems and methods may manage a catalog of files with rights for sale and a catalog of rights presented for free public use. The systems and methods may manage these multiple catalogs via determining... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070198363 - Method and system for managing pricing structures and delivery channels for rights in files on a network: Systems and methods have been developed for modifying pricing structures of rights in files on a network. Systems and methods have also been developed for modifying delivery channels of rights in files on a network. The systems and methods may provide multiple sales models, delivery channels and/or pricing structures for... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070198367 - Parts catalog system, method and program to generate parts catalog, and recording medium storing the program: A parts catalog system includes an image generator, an attribute data generator, a database, and a catalog generator. The image generator generates an illustration image of a part and installation diagram data in which the part is installed in a unit from three-dimensional model data. The attribute data generator generates... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070198381 - Charitable gift program: The present invention relates to methods of implementing charitable gift programs.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20070198382 - Method of saving for a time delayed purchase: A method of saving for a time delayed purchase includes establishing a savings account through a website provided by a third party service provider. The savings account establishes the savings goal, the time frame, the recommended contribution, and the savings category and/or category of retailer(s). Once established, a customer designates... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20070198377 - Mortality and expense risk charges with premium-based breakpoints in annuity products: Annuities are provided that specify breakpoint ranges for Mortality & Expense (M&E) rates. These breakpoint ranges may be associated with a premium payment amount and/or aggregate premium payment amount. This payment amount may fall within one of the breakpoint ranges associated with a particular M&E rate, which may be considered... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070198384 - Online systems for matching consumers and real estate professionals: One embodiment of online systems for matching consumers and real estate professionals relates to collecting consumer information from a consumer and service provider information from a plurality of service providers through an internet-based interface and mediating an exchange of at least a portion of the information between the consumers and... Agent: Dardi & Associates, PLLC

20070198398 - Electronic commerce global relational actualizing bargaining method and apparatus: An Internet trading apparatus and method is disclosed for use in a computerized open market community over the World Wide Web. The apparatus and method may include a web based online trading electronic core unity portal: to bid, browse, buy, grab, promote, sell, swap, trade, and track products and services... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20070198415 - Method and apparatus for categorized reception of an audio program: A method and associated apparatus for receiving an audio track by first receiving a program authorization category and a category indicator for an audio track. A received audio track is presented when the audio track category indicator is substantially equivalent to the received program authorization category.... Agent: Intellectual Property Development Jack Ivan J'maev

20070198420 - Method and a system for outbound content security in computer networks: The present invention relates to a method and a system for protecting data in a computer network. A device is placed on a network edge in such a way, that all outgoing data has to pass through it. Separately, a set of data that is not allowed to leave the... Agent: J.d. Harriman Ii, Esq. Dla Piper US LLP

20070198423 - Method,system and computer program for metering usage of multiple instances of software components: A solution (500) for metering the usage of software products is proposed. For this purpose, a software catalogue (520c) is used to associate each software product to be metered with an installation signature and a usage signature. In the proposed solution, a scope (A2-A5) is determined for each installation item... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070198431 - Method and apparatus for transferring content license: A method and apparatus for transferring a content license are provided in which a license can be transferred between devices that use content even if a connection is not made with a device providing the corresponding content. The apparatus includes a license providing device that provides a license for specified... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198434 - Method and apparatus for generating rights object by means of delegation of authority: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a rights object by means of the delegation of authority. The method includes performing authentication with a rights issuer; receiving a first rights object from the rights issuer; receiving authorization signature information from the rights issuer; converting the first rights object into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198278 - Automatically determining a current value for a real estate property, such as a home, that is tailored to input from a human user, such as its owner: A facility procuring information about a distinguished property from its owner that is usable to refine an automatic valuation of the distinguished property is described. The facility displays information about the distinguished property used in the automatic valuation of the distinguished property. The facility obtains user input from the owner... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198286 - Communication device, communication method, program, and recording medium: A communication device, operable to communicate with an electronic device via a network, may include a storage section, an image capturing section, and an identification section. The storage section may store device identification information identifying the electronic device and one or more face images of one or more users that... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070198281 - Contact reminder apparatus, system, and method: A contact reminder apparatus, system and method are provided. The illustrative embodiments provide a mechanism for providing contact reminder messages to a user based on communications with contacts from a variety of different communication devices. The illustrative embodiments synchronize communication logs and contacts from communication devices that may be of... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070198290 - Device for effecting the positionally accurate conveyance of flat articles to be sorted to an input device for a sorting conveyor: A last mile delivery system (LAMIS system) for delivery of parcels to recipients includes Automatic Delivery Machines (ADMs) that are located in public places. Each ADM has a local computer and data and communication network connection, and a set of cells for storing parcels, and a single access mechanism for... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070198280 - Device, method and system for creating, framing, transporting, displaying, and selling artwork: A device, method and system for creating, framing, transporting, displaying, and selling artwork. The method generally includes the steps of supplying a specialized sheet of paper to an individual or a group of individuals wherein the sheet includes an identified area for receiving artwork produced by an individual or a... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070198275 - Method and system for processing intelligence information: A method and system for routing intelligence information related to security. The security system provides rules that identify conditions and routing instructions that are to be applied to intelligence information. A security organization may create and modify rules to ensure the appropriate routing of intelligence information in a timely manner.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198289 - Product design support method and system: A product design support method and system are disclosed in which assuming that a globally distributed commodity is disposed of as a waste product by different recycle methods in different regions or countries, the recycle cost and environmental load accrued by different processing methods are quantified using the product design... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070198283 - Revenue management system and method: A real-time customer relation management system is disclosed. The system can provide increased availability, reduced internal latencies, and reduced data processing and transfer. The system can provide real time processing and batch processing. The system architecture can have an in-memory write-through cache. The cache can store data that would have... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070198279 - Shipping management tool and method: A shipping management tool comprises a system that allows for information to be loaded therein. The tool can compile at least one of shipment and material information into the system; rating information representative of the material to be shipped; information concerning one or more carriers for the material to be... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070198277 - Single identifier transformation system and method: A single identifier system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070198276 - System for procuring services: A system for procuring services such as, in particular, rideshare opportunities and transportation services, has at least one stationary server and a multitude of subscribers including suppliers and interested parties. The system includes a communications arrangement which enable at least an information exchange between the stationary server and the subscribers.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070198282 - Systems and methods for managing powered industrial vehicles: Systems and methods for managing powered industrial vehicles are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes an analyzer module configured to determine route data based on facility layout data. The system also includes a dispatch management module configured to receive a request to transport cargo from a first location to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070198291 - Xml instrumentation interface for tree-based monitoring architecture: An interface for providing monitoring information from any monitored component to a central monitoring system in which an XML document is created according to a DTD conforming to a tree-structured monitoring architecture and then is made available to the central monitoring system either by posting it as an HTTP message... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070198294 - Computerized system and method for breaking-out and modifying components of cross-phase groups: Computerized methods for modifying at least one clinical order are provided. The methods may include receiving a clinical order having components associated with a plurality of phases, associating a plurality of the components to form a cross-phase group, the components including a component associated with a first phase and a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070198293 - Computerized system and method for modifying components of healthcare orders which are associated into cross-phase groups: Computerized methods for modifying at least one component of a clinical order are provided. The methods may include receiving a clinical order, the clinical order having a first component associated with a first phase and a second component associated with a second phase, wherein the first and second components have... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070198292 - Computerized system and method for verifying authority to modify clinical orders: Computerized methods for verifying authority to modify clinical orders are provided. The methods may include receiving a clinical order having components associated with a plurality of phases; associating a plurality of the components to form a cross-phase group, the components including components associated with a first phase and a second... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070198295 - Method and system for routing information to an appropriate care provider: The method and system includes efficiently routing remotely acquired patient data to both clinical and non-clinical care providers. The method and system collects a set of physiological data from the patient, accesses a set of routing rules from a routing database, and routes the set of physiological data to the... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070198296 - Patient health management portal: A secure online patient health management portal for patient and payer/provider communication, documentation and improved workflow efficiency. A payer/provider portal provides patient and file management, patient tasking and reminders, calendaring, creation and management of medical condition templates, aggregate report generation and electronic informed consent. A patient portal provides personal health... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070198298 - System and methods for automated payment for health care services utilizing health savings accounts: The invention provides a system and method for the automated payment of health care costs. The invention facilitates the payment to health care provider of amounts owed by a patient and amounts owed by the health insurance company in a single automated transaction.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070198297 - Systems and methods for managing information relating to medical fluids and containers therefor: The present invention relates to management of information relating to medical fluids, containers therefore, and medical fluid administration devices for administering such medical fluids to patients. Data tags (e.g., RFID tags) are generally associated with containers of the invention and may be electromagnetically read from and/or written to using an... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070198300 - Method and system for computing trajectories of chronic disease patients: The method and system includes producing a trajectory report to illustrate for the patient the benefit of complying with a prescribed treatment regimen. The method and system collects a set of physiological, self assessment, and compliance data from the patient, accesses a patient medical record database and a de-identified compliance... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070198301 - Method and system for representation of current and historical medical data: A method and system for reporting medical data including both current and past medical results for medical tests performed on a patient is provided. The medical data is output in columns, and the current results and past results of the same medical test are presented in the same row. In... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070198303 - Consumer directed checking account coverage system: A system and method that includes the use of a bank checking account that can be connected to insurance coverage. In particular, a banking consumer can purchase insurance coverage for unexpected events that may affect the historical deposits and withdrawals relating to the checking accounts. Additionally, insurance coverage other than... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070198311 - System and method for completing a rental agreement online: A method for completing a rental contract online includes entering reservation-related information and rental-related information for an item or service, such as a vehicle rental service. The entering step enters: (a) the rental-related information without employing a master rental agreement, such as a user's master agreement with a vehicle rental... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070198304 - System for online travel planning: A method for travel planning employing a computerized database query system, the method including user designation of at least one desired travel parameter and system presentation to user of at least one proposed travel region, based on the user designation, the at least one proposed travel region having geographical boundaries... Agent: Kevin Chen

20070198306 - Travel information departure date/duration grid: A method and system for presenting travel information in a way that facilitates identifying travel plans that satisfy objectives is provided. A travel information system collects travel information for the travel items on various observation dates including the current date and presents the travel information to a user in a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198309 - Travel information fare history graph: A method and system for presenting travel information in a way that facilitates identifying travel plans that satisfy objectives is provided. A travel information system collects travel information for the travel items on various observation dates including the current date and presents the travel information to a user in a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198307 - Travel information future fare graph: A method and system for presenting travel information in a way that facilitates identifying travel plans that satisfy objectives is provided. A travel information system collects travel information for the travel items on various observation dates including the current date and presents the travel information to a user in a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198310 - Travel information interval grid: A method and system for presenting travel information in a way that facilitates identifying travel plans that satisfy objectives is provided. A travel information system collects travel information for the travel items on various observation dates including the current date and presents the travel information to a user in a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198308 - Travel information route map: A method and system for presenting travel information in a way that facilitates identifying travel plans that satisfy objectives is provided. A travel information system collects travel information for the travel items on various observation dates including the current date and presents the travel information to a user in a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198305 - 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

20070198312 - Data quality management using business process modeling: A business process modeling framework is used for data quality analysis. The modeling framework represents the sources of transactions entering the information processing system, the various tasks within the process that manipulate or transform these transactions, and the data repositories in which the transactions are stored or aggregated. A subset... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20070198313 - Method and system for managing material movement and inventory: A method is provided that involves entering input data into a computer program including at least one of item number, manufacturing cost, material demand, supplier site, shipping frequency, transit time, and container cost, determining material management costs for a plurality of shipment options, and outputting from the computer program at... Agent: Diane F. Covello Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20070198319 - Automated system and method for managing a process for the shopping and selection of human entities: A system and method for automatically managing a multi-step process in which human providers are selected, typically for employment and dating services. The selection process includes background checking, testing, interviewing, and acceptance by the provider and selecting entity, through automated sequencing, coordinating, tracking, status reporting, and an optional human intervention.... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070198315 - Distribution of business documents to multiple parties: A method for generating business documents includes generating a primary business document from one party to a business transaction for another party to a business transaction. It is determined whether to apply a customization to the primary business document. An intermediary business document is generated responsive to determining whether to... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070198314 - Selection of items based on relative importance: Methods and systems for prioritizing items and displaying those items in a single view of a personal information management (PIM) application are disclosed. PIM software can prioritize items for display in the single view based on a comparison of the date of creation of the item versus the amount of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070198317 - Systems, program product, and methods for organization realignment: A system to realign an organization structure, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system includes an organization realignment program server, a database accessible to the organization realignment program server, a plurality of process development team member computers, a plurality of process development representative computers, and an organization realignment... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070198324 - Enabling connections between and events attended by people: Through a user interface on a computer, a user is enabled to define questions to be answered by attendees of an event, the answers to the questions being indicative of connections corresponding to pairs of attendees, a computer receives answers to the questions from the attendees through a user interface,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070198320 - Method and system for automatically generating forecasts: A method and system for defining and generating forecasts. The forecast system receives a forecast definition from a user, generates a forecast in accordance with the forecast definition, stores a forecast snapshot of the generated forecast, and presents to users forecast information derived from the forecast snapshots. A forecast definition... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198328 - Storage capacity planning: A system and methods for capacity planning of electronic systems storage are provided. Features include a non-invasive data discovery and collection mechanism, an adaptive grouping mechanism, a flexible analysis mechanism, predictive modeling and forecasting mechanisms, and a business metric and correlation mechanism. A discovery engine that ascertains the availability of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070198327 - Systems and methods for measuring, targeting, verifying, and reporting advertising impressions: Systems and methods are disclosed that enable an advertising or marketing company to identify with greater particularity the shows, movies, channels, entertainment commodity, commodity distribution channel, etc. in which they should place their ad for greatest effect, that is to attain the desired number of impressions in by the desired... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070198322 - Systems and methods for workforce optimization: Systems and methods are disclosed for an integrated process for optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, the method comprises: defining contact center business goals; planning at least one campaign to implement the goals; scheduling and deploying a workforce in accordance with the campaign to produce agent-customer interactions;... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198323 - Systems and methods for workforce optimization and analytics: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a content recorder configured to record content of plurality of agent interactions; an analytics component configured to perform speech analysis on at least a portion of the agent interactions,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198321 - Website analysis combining quantitative and qualitative data: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with predicting website user satisfaction based on current actions analyzed in light of combined quantitative and qualitative data are described. One example system embodiment includes logic for acquiring both quantitative website usage data and qualitative website satisfaction data. The example system also includes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070198331 - System and method for monitoring trading manager performance: A system for monitoring trade manager performance includes a user interface module, a data warehouse in communication with said user interface module, an analytics module in communication with said data warehouse, and a data conversion module in communication with said data warehouse and with at least one file server, and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070198332 - Plurality of stackable dishware: A plurality of stackable dishware, the stackable dishware comprising a first dishware and a second dishware, the second dishware configured to being stackable adjacent to the first dishware, wherein the first and second dishware are configured to defining a three dimensional shape when stacked.... Agent: Apex Patents, LLC

20070198333 - Systems and methods for cross-intrabay transport: A transport system. The transport system comprises a first interbay component, a second interbay component, a plurality of intrabay components, and a route controller. The first and second interbay components transport the vehicles between the tool bays. Each of the intrabay components, linked with the second interbay component, transports the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198344 - Advertiser interface for entering user distributed advertisement-enabled advertisement information: User distributed advertisements (UDA ads) facilitates insertion of manually selected ads into a document that is to be distributed (e.g., transmitted, published, and/or posted) such that the document is to be made available to other users. For example, manually selected ads can be inserted into an email to be sent... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070198341 - Advertising system using personal website and method of generating profit using the same: The present invention relates, in general, to an advertising system using a personal website and a method of generating profit using the advertising system and, more particularly, to an advertising system using a personal website, which provides a personal website, having the same domain name as an information provision server,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070198343 - Assessing advertiser charges for manual user insertion of one or more ads into a document to be made available to another user or users, for distribution of such documents and/or for user actions on such distributed ads: User distributed advertisements (UDA ads) facilitates insertion of manually selected ads into a document that is to be distributed (e.g., transmitted, published, and/or posted) such that the document is to be made available to other users. For example, manually selected ads can be inserted into an email to be sent... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070198336 - Automated system and method for discounting medical bills of self-pay patients: A system and method for consistently, reliably and equitably discounting medical bills of self-pay patients includes a networked discounting engine operably coupled to a plurality of databases. The discounting engine is adapted to receive patient account data from one or more patient registration systems. Based upon the patient account data... Agent: Mark James Young

20070198338 - Customer selected coalition systems and methods: An electronic system for processing a redemption of loyalty points from a coalition of merchants. The system may include a database to store loyalty point information about a loyalty account associated with an account holder. The loyalty point information may include the amounts of loyalty points accumulated with each of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070198348 - Cybermedia sms advertisement display panel: The invention provides a kind of new-type digital short-message advertisement-broadcasting device, wherein it includes a digital short-message receiver, which is used to receive short-message via mobile communication network and send the said short-message to the central-control module, the said central-control module modifies the playing order in the program-list file of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070198346 - Hybrid network based advertising system and method: The invention relates to a system and method for presenting advertisements to a user. A user network processing device transmits at least one user request for an advertisement and presents advertisements served in response to the user request for an advertisement to the user. A content provider server having a... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070198351 - Marketing bar code method for distribution of promotional pieces: A method of tracking parcels and assembling bulk mail parcels using barcodes.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070198355 - Method of providing online incentives: A method of providing incentives to bidders on an auction item using a database and a system, the method including creating the consumer profile for at least one consumer, choosing at least one of the unsold items from the inventory based on the consumer information in the consumer profile, generating... Agent: Jeffrey P. La Forest

20070198356 - Promotion packaging transmission groups: Embodiments of the invention relate to routing promotion content files to groups of end node devices having the same or similar device attributes, such as data storage capacity, called transmission groups. Specifically, a promotion is assembled into one or more data packages, with a package being created for each different... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070198342 - Providing rewards for manual user insertion of one or more ads into a document to be made available to another user or users, for distribution of such documents, and/or for user actions on such distributed ads: User distributed advertisements (UDA ads) facilitates insertion of manually selected ads into a document that is to be distributed (e.g., transmitted, published, and/or posted) such that the document is to be made available to other users. For example, manually selected ads can be inserted into an email to be sent... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070198334 - Spontaneous delivery marketing system and method: A spontaneous delivery marketing system and method is disclosed. Customised offers for consumers are generated by an application server (106) which extracts targeted offers for particular consumers from database (104) by application software contained in processor (P2) associated with the server (104) and server (106). Particular offers for particular consumers... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198335 - System and method for providing loyalty rewards to an assistant designated to manage a financial transaction account: Systems, methods and computer program products for rewarding a holder of a transaction account linked to a financial transaction instrument, and rewarding an assistant who has been designated by the transaction account holder to manage the transaction account, the transaction account holder and the assistant each participating in a loyalty... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070198354 - System and method for tiered filtering of purchase transactions: A filtering module to process purchase transaction data received from a retailer POS is disclosed. Merchant information is used to filter purchase transactions by determining whether the purchase transaction qualifies an initiating purchaser for a reward. The retailer POS transmits purchase data from a merchant to a host, wherein the... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070198337 - Systems and methods for electronic marketing: An exemplary system includes a publisher subsystem configured to communicate with an access device and an advertiser device over a data communication network. The publisher subsystem includes a publish module, a session module, and an allocation module. The publish module is configured to publish content over the data communication network,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070198349 - Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content: In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided.... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070198339 - Targeted mobile advertisements: A method of generating relevant promotional materials for transmission to a mobile device includes receiving a query from the mobile device, identifying a plurality of advertisements associated with an advertiser-directed delivery parameter that match parameters for the mobile device, and generating a response to the query comprising search results and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070198352 - Transactional system for eliminating the necessity of third party loyalty benefit processors: A transactional system for eliminating the necessity of third party processors, who are typically employed for processing loyalty benefits obtained during various point-of-sale loyalty programs such as rebates, cashbacks, discounts, and etc. The system is to be used in conjunction with credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, and so on... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070198340 - User distributed search results: A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. In... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070198360 - Apparatus and methods for community based purchasing by mobile buyers: Community based purchasing methods and apparatus for products/services may include accumulating micro payments from a plurality of mobile buyers equipped with wireless communication devices. A seller, upon notification of accumulation of a predetermined total of micro payments, may then deliver the product/service. Payment by a mobile user may be escrowed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070198366 - Automated system and method for managing a process for the shopping and selection of human entities: A system and method for automatically managing a multi-step process in which human providers are selected, typically for employment and dating services. The selection process includes background checking, testing, interviewing, and acceptance by the provider and selecting entity, through automated sequencing, coordinating, tracking, status reporting, and an optional human intervention.... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070198358 - Card settlement system: A user purchases a card on which an identification number is printed and masked, calls a line for registration by the user's mobile telephone terminal in advance, inputs the identification number, and registers the telephone number of the mobile telephone terminal of the user in a settlement processing server. When... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070198361 - Electronic commerce system and method for detecting fraud: An electronic commerce system managing sale and distribution of products over the Internet or other type of network. In order to prevent attempts by users to fraudulently obtain the products, system analyzes the information submitted by the users in connection with stored and associated information in an order to determine... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070198362 - Electronic commerce system and method for detecting fraud: An electronic commerce system managing sale and distribution of products over the Internet or other type of network. In order to prevent attempts by users to fraudulently obtain the products, system analyzes the information submitted by the users in connection with stored and associated information in an order to determine... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070198365 - Electronic trading post: A method and system for on-line trading and selling, e.g., in an on-line auction, are disclosed. The system provides a polytopic market data (PMD) database for use in spotting fraudulent or suspicions items for sale or trade. The system may include a Sale-it-Now feature that uses historical price data and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070198370 - Product specifications modifying method and product specifications modifying system: A method and a system with which the buyer can modify the specifications of a product so as to make it satisfy the needs of the buyer, while allowing mass production and maintaining the marketability of the product. With a product specifications modifying method and a product specifications modifying system... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070198371 - Recording/reproducing device and recording/reproducing method: A high-speed dubbing unit 10 for dubbing digital data from an optical disk 15 to a hard disk 16 at a high speed is connected via a public telephone line to a payment imposing unit 20. A control unit 13 is provided for generating in its basic data generator 13B... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070198359 - System and method for customer requests and contact management: A method and a web-based system is provided that enables a customer service center of a company to provide its customers with a choice of different modes for establishing contact with customer service representatives. The different modes of contact are displayed on a single web page. The modes of contact... Agent: David Tichane

20070198368 - System and method for customer requests and contact management: A method and a web-based system is provided that enables a customer service center of a company to provide its customers with a choice of different modes for establishing contact with customer service representatives. The different modes of contact are displayed on a single web page. The modes of contact... Agent: William L, Botjer

20070198369 - System and method for submitting an offer to purchase over a network-based commerce facility: A system and method to facilitate a transaction in a network-based commerce facility is provided. The method includes presenting a plurality of listings to a user, and monitoring selection of one of the plurality of listings by the user. Thereafter, the user is provided with an indication of an equivalent... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070198373 - Electronic activity and business system and method: An electronic system for regulating activity that includes a standard user interface that requires all information presented in the system to be formatted in a standard (logical) manner that is designed to achieve results. The standard (logical) manner requires users to successively provide subject information, purpose information, and objective and... Agent: Robert E. Rosenthal Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP

20070198372 - Philanthropy management apparatus, system, and methods of use and doing business: A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitable projects and provides remote users and others with management tools... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070198374 - Method and system for distributing product information: A method and system of associating product codes with product characteristics, and using those product codes to send and receive information about those characteristics to destinations on a network when the values of those characteristics change.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070198375 - Transfer verification products and methods: A documentation product and methods for using the product to check a shipment and take responsibility for a shipment are disclosed. The documentation product includes a transfer document that corresponds to a shipment. The transfer document includes identification of a carrier, identification of a destination, and identification of an image.... Agent: Michael A. Hawes Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070198376 - Methods and systems for managing reconciliation and write-off in an accrual accounting environment: A computer-implemented method of managing reconciliation and write-off data in an accrual-based accounting environment may include steps of retrieving a plurality of transactions associated with a predetermined purchase order from a database coupled to a computer network; calculating an aggregate accrual balance of the retrieved plurality of transactions and associating... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C.

20070198378 - Matched pairs investment fund systems and methods: Systems and methods for pairing investment capital with capital seeking entities including the steps of locating and establishing a relationship with a suitable paired growth company in need of capital, locating and establishing a relationship with a paired publicly traded company with available capital, establishing a fund for investing capital... Agent: Law Office Of Michael P. Eddy Michael P. Eddy

20070198383 - Method and apparatus for data center analysis and planning: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for data center analysis and planning. One embodiment of a method for planning future investment in a data center comprising a plurality of data center resources includes estimating a baseline value for future capacity requirements of the data center, based... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070198379 - Systems and methods for facilitating real property transactions: This patent document discloses systems and methods for generating additional revenue by facilitating real property transfers or the financing of real property. One example method includes facilitating a sale of a real property by securing a reservation of a residual right in the real property. Because of the reservation, a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070198380 - Systems and methods for generating future revenue from a real property: Systems and methods for generating future revenue from real property are provided. An example method includes (i) establishing a residual right associated with a real property and (ii) at a later time, determining whether a fee associated with the residual right is due. The establishing step may include (a) identifying... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070198389 - Locality based index: An inventive index includes securities from one or more select companies headquartered in at least two geographic or political localities within a select geographic region. For example, the index can include the ten largest publicly traded corporations by market capitalization within each of the fifty states of the United States... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070198386 - Method and system for creating and trading derivative investment instruments based on an index of financial exchanges: A method and system for creating a stock index for a predetermined group of securities and futures exchanges is disclosed. The method may include obtaining first trade information for each security representative of the predetermined group of securities and futures exchanges during a first time period, aggregating the first trade... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070198387 - Price and risk evaluation system for financial product or its derivatives, dealing system, recording medium storing a price and risk evaluation program, and recording medium storing a dealing program: A system for correctly evaluating a price distribution and a risk distribution for a financial product or its derivatives introduces a probability density function generated with a Boltzmann model at a higher accuracy than the Gaussian distribution for a probability density. The system has an initial value setup unit and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070198385 - Process and method for establishing a commodity ceiling cap option targeted for retail consumption: A product and process that will enable retail consumers to hedge their exposure to volatile household commodities, such as gasoline and natural gas, by implementing optionality through channels where individuals already purchase those commodities. In turn, this aggregated retail optionality provides an attractive investment vehicle for institutions active in the... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070198388 - System and method for automatically providing personalized notices concerning financial products and/or services: A personalized notice pertaining to financial products or services is provided, including a method and system for preparing the same. The financial product and/or financial services are associated with a set of separate descriptions, characteristics and/or identifications, any one of which may be presented within a personalized content section of... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070198390 - System and method for multi-state tax analysis: In an embodiment one or more alternate entity structures are created in response to a base entity structure. A tax liability is determined for each alternate entity structure and the base entity structure; furthermore, a result is generated in response to comparing each of the determined tax liabilities with one... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070198397 - Electronic trading system: An electronic trading system is disclosed for principally for trading in intangible things, particularly financial instruments. The trading system comprising a quality-of-service (QoS) subsystem, which subsystem is operative to impose limitations upon trading activities in order that the performance of a component of the system or of the system as... Agent: Taylor Russell & Russell, P.C.

20070198393 - Method and system for auctioning bonds using a full-time public network: A method for auctioning bonds to a trading house or by a trader using a full-time public network, including several steps. A connection is established (160) to a full-time public network. Trading house or trader criteria received via the full-time public network is accepted (162). Risk analytics is performed (164)... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070198394 - Method and system for auctioning commodities & futures using a full-time public network: A method for auctioning commodities & futures to a trading house or by a trader using a full-time public network, including several steps. A connection is established (160) to a full-time public network. Trading house or trader criteria received via the full-time public network is accepted (162). Risk analytics is... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070198392 - Method and system for auctioning currency using a full-time public network: A method for auctioning currency to an exchange house or by a currency exchanger using a full-time public network, including several steps. A connection is established (160) to a full-time public network. Exchange house or currency exchanger criteria received via the full-time public network is accepted (162). Risk analytics is... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070198395 - Method and system for auctioning stock using a full-time public network: A method for auctioning stock to a purchaser or by a brokerage using a full-time public network, including several steps. A connection is established (160) to a full-time public network. Brokerage or brokerage criteria received via the full-time public network is accepted (162). Risk analytics is performed (164) to facilitate... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070198391 - Method and system for conducting a block auction: The present invention relates to a system and method for performing a block auction. In a block auction, a block request is enabled to be executed against the plurality of quotes of different bidders, which comprise at least a part of the request volume. In accordance with the present invention,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070198396 - Parallelization command driven data handling: A data processing system and method is provided for managing futures contracts that are based on baskets of credit default swaps as underlyings. A data storage stores data identifying each credit default swap of at least two baskets, and repetitively updated values for credit default swaps of the baskets. A... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070198399 - System and method for securing auction payment of monetary, goods, or services: A system and method that includes web server or a newspaper ad that allows people to auction their monetary, goods or services for someone else monetary, goods, or services by depositing the variable value of the “monetary, goods, or services” in to a Deposit Bank. A System and method comprise... Agent: Su V. Nguyen

20070198400 - Using remote handheld devices for bidder participation in computer-assisted auctions: Remote bidding devices such as an RF code tag with no display are used to provide bid inputs at an auction. Handheld devices are associated with bidder identities before the auction begins. To submit a bid, the user presses a bid button on the handheld device A unique code is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070198401 - System and method for automatic evaluation of credit requests: A system for credit request processing comprises an automated decision tool that is configured as a single point of entry for all credit requests for a lending entity. The automated decision tool is configured to receive client information data and data from a plurality of databases. The automated decision tool... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070198404 - System and method for linked account having sweep feature: A computer-implemented method for facilitating electronic funds transactions is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method may comprise the steps of: issuing a transaction card to a cardholder by associating the transaction card with a demand deposit account from which the cardholder is authorized to electronically disburse funds; receiving an... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070198402 - System and method for transferring a financial transaction account according to predetermined criteria: Migration of a first type of financial transaction instrument to a second type of financial transaction instrument is beneficial when the first instrument no longer is suitable for an account holder due to a change in the account holder's situation. A list of consumers for which an event has occurred... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070198403 - Using a transaction card account to make recurring loan payments: A system, method, and computer program product are used to make recurring loan payments (e.g., mortgage payments) through a transaction card account. Information is received at a transaction account system from a loan company system corresponding to an application received at the loan company system from a requester for a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070198407 - Self-pay management system and process for the healthcare industry: A system and method are described for quickly supplying health care and other service providers with a financial profile of those customers who must pay for all or a portion of their services out of pocket. This allows the service provider to make more consistent and effective decisions about managing... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070198405 - Systems and methods for facilitating commercial transactions between parties residing at remote locations: s

20070198406 - 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.

20070198408 - Methods to facilitate cash payments: Methods to facilitate cash payments are provided. The methods use a tangible medium that includes information about a seller, a buyer, and a financial institution that will accept the buyer's cash payment. A party other than the buyer has a deposit account at the financial institution that will accept the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070198409 - E-mail bank account statement for internet banking when carrying out online payments via e-mail and method for preparing an e-mail bank account statement: The E-mail bank account statement consists of an E:mail and contains a heading part with a data (3), posting text (4), debit (5), credit (6), value date (7) and balance (8). The posting text (4) is a source of information. The E-mail bank account statement can be used for Internet... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20070198410 - Credit fraud prevention systems and methods: The present invention seeks to minimize, reduce and/or eliminate credit fraud, identity theft and erroneous the incurrence of charges. The present invention allows individuals and/or entities to passively authenticate credit/banking access in real-time. Embodiments of the invention includes methods, systems, programs, and/or methods of doing business for banking/credit transactions including,... Agent: Lacy Kolo

20070198411 - Transaction processing: A transaction processing system for the real time authorisation of payment transactions, The system comprises a verification system (4) connected to an issuer card management system (3). A cardholder can access the system via an interface (2) which can be for example the Internet, a wireless device, telephone, or a... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070198413 - Content providing system, content reproducing device, content reproducing method, and computer program: A content reproducing device decrypts and outputs an encrypted content encrypted by a content key received from a content transmitting device. The content reproducing device includes a content key obtaining unit for obtaining the content key, and a storage unit for storing the key unique to the content transmitting device,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070198412 - Graphics processing unit used for cryptographic processing: A graphics processing unit is programmed to carry out cryptographic processing so that fast, effective cryptographic processing solutions can be provided without incurring additional hardware costs. The graphics processing unit can efficiently carry out cryptographic processing because it has an architecture that is configured to handle a large number of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070198416 - Apparatus for secure digital content distribution and methods therefor: A method of transmitting a first digital content file from a first sender device configured with a key library to a receiver device configured with a receiver identity and a first sender-receiver key is disclosed. The method includes identifying the first sender-receiver key within the key library based on the... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070198417 - Method and system for content distribution: A first device transfers to a second device content that is encrypted with a content key. The second device requests access to the content from an authorized agent. Upon a determination that any conditions for approving such a request are satisfied, the authorized agent decrypts a superdistribution key with its... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070198414 - Method and system for selectively providing access to content: A method of operating a digital program playback device, including: receiving, via a first communications network, a data stream including an encrypted data portion representative of a program; identifying, from the received data stream, an identifier associated with the program; transmitting the program identifier and a device identifier associated with... Agent: Joseph J Laks Thomson Licensing Inc

20070198419 - Method of transferring digital rights: A system and method of transferring digital rights from a first device to a second device. A target rights management object is transferred from the first device to the second device. A probabilistic data structure is created that identifies each of a class of rights management objects that are present... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070198418 - System and method for facilitating fund-raising through online digital media content sales: A system (100) and method for managing fond raising activities by various types of organizations (210) through the promotion and sale of digital media content (160) is provided. Vouchers or media cards (152), for redemption of songs, videos, animation, games, etc., may be provided to non-profit organizations (210) or other... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070198422 - System and method for providing a flexible licensing system for digital content: A system and method for providing a flexible licensing system for digital content is described. In some cases, the system utilizes tokens or other valuations to facilitate the purchase or exchange of content.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198421 - Systems and methods for dynamic digital asset resource management: A system and method for providing a flexible licensing system for digital content is described. In some cases, the system utilizes tokens or other valuations to facilitate the purchase or exchange of content.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198424 - Content playback device: To provide a content playback device capable of protecting content according to DRM, when decrypting encrypted content recorded on a recording medium and playing the decrypted content. If key generation information is “00”, a key control unit 104 concatenates a decrypted media key and content information in this order, and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070198425 - Method and system for auditing digital rights in a content management system: The method includes receiving digital content, determining whether the digital content has been previously protected in accordance with a digital rights management system, and if the digital content has not been previously protected then storing the digital content in the content management system. Otherwise, the method further includes extracting a... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070198427 - Computer service licensing management: A variety of technologies related to the management of computer licenses for accessing services are applied. Licenses can be purchased in a dynamic license pack. Dynamic license packs can be activated and stored. Licenses can be automatically provisioned. License provisioning rules can be used to automatically provision licenses to licensable... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070198430 - Data processing device: There is provided a data processing device realizing a purchase after trial listening of a large-capacity content and enabling export of a content to a different content handling system, transfer of the content to a reproduction-dedicated terminal, and copying. A mobile communication terminal device (11) using the data processing device... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070198426 - Method and apparatus for digital copyright exchange: An apparatus and method for enabling commercial exchange of copyrighted digital media and other digital files (104) where there is a fee due to the owner (102), such as but are not limited to, music, movies, books, software, games and photos. This structure will compensate the copyright owner (102) and... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070198429 - Method for synchronous encryption between a client and a licensing agent: A licensing system is disclosed for performing synchronous encryption with a client over an IP-compliant network. In disclosed embodiments, the system includes a licensing agent configured to pass a data structure unencrypted in an initial communication between the licensing agent/client pair and pass a first key to said client responsive... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070198428 - Purchasing of computer service access licenses: Purchasing of computer licenses for accessing computer services can be integrated, automated, and secured in a variety of ways. License purchasing rules can be created and used to automatically purchase licenses. License purchasing can take place via an online license purchase portal. Purchased licenses can be automatically downloaded and installed.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070198432 - Transactional services: Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070198433 - Anti-fraud presentation instruments, systems and methods: The invention provides improved security for stored-value instruments. For example, a point-of-sale device may receive a request to process a transaction (such as an activation, redemption, funds recharge, etc.) with a presentation instrument. The point-of-sale device may receive a first identifier associated with the instrument. Merely by way of example,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070198435 - Method and system for providing online authentication utilizing biometric data: A system and method for securely authenticating a user for the purpose of accessing information such as private financial or personal information, in an online environment are disclosed. In addition, a system and method for allowing consumers to make secure payments from an electronic wallet with biometric authentication are disclosed.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070198436 - Method and apparatus for secure access payment and identification: According to one aspect, the invention provides a system for validating an identity of a user to enable or prevent an occurrence of an event. In one embodiment, the system includes a first device including a wireless transmitter which is configured to transmit validation information, a second device including a... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070198437 - 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, a gateway message is received at the gateway, the gateway message including a gateway message header and a payload, the gateway message header including a routing slip block providing a template of a complex transaction... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070198438 - System, method and computer program product for an acquisition partner interface for integrating multiple partner channels into a transaction account issuer platform: A system, method and computer program product for interfacing disparate partner systems to a transaction account issuer system is disclosed. A Web server receives a request from a disparate partner system, such as a Web service, a portal and/or a partner microsite and an application server extracts a partner identifier... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070198439 - Robust cardinality and cost estimation for skyline operator: The claimed subject matter relates to incorporating a skyline operator within a relational database engine, and more particularly to a database engine that utilizes novel techniques to determine the lowest cost of generating the skyline produced by the skyline operator. The database engine receives queries and associated preferences and based... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070198440 - System for determining postage rates on the basis of the thickness of the mail items: A system for determining postage rates, said system comprising a lever mounted to pivot about a pivot axis, a wheel disposed at one end of the lever and in contact, at rest, with a conveyor surface on which a mail item is conveyed, measurement means disposed at the other end... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198441 - System and method for printing multiple postage indicia: A system and method for printing multiple postage indicia, such as an outbound and/or an associated return postage meter stamp, including a desired postage amount, onto a document or label is described. A processor based system is programmed to interact with a customer to produce the desired postage indicia and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070198442 - Sales method for mobile media: The preferred invention is a method of sale of mobile media advertising where a bid system determines which entity gets to advertise at a specific time and location and direction of travel of the mobile media and said advertising is performed within a specific time and location and direction of... Agent: Stephen T. Horn

20070198443 - System and method for advertising in a communication system: A system for advertising in a communication system includes an advertisement device adapted to store and provide a plurality of advertisement information, a communication device and a communications provider adapted to provide communication to and from the communication device. The communication device further includes a call requesting device adapted to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070192119 - Deliberation request allocation system, deliberation request allocation program, and deliberation request allocation method: There is disclosed a deliberation request allocation system, deliberation request allocation program, and deliberation request allocation method, which are capable of calling all the divisions that are related to a standard to a deliberation, when a new standard is established or an existing standard is revised. The system comprises: a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070192129 - Method and system for the objective quantification of fame: A system and method for establishing fame-related weighted values associated with persons, places, or things through the automated analysis and collection of quantitative and contextual fame-related data, and for presenting such objective measurement to one or more users of such system.... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20070192121 - Method, system, and computer program product for honoring customer privacy and preferences: In a business where business units market products or services to customers, a method and system implement customer preferences for customer privacy, customer contact, and other marketing preferences. The method entails creating a centralized customer privacy and preferences storage and processing system, wherein are stored both legal requirements and business... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070192122 - Method, system, and computer program product for linking customer information: In a business where a database tracks customers and manages customer accounts, a method and system correctly link accounts with customers. The method entails reading customer information for a first customer and for a second customer, and then utilizing personal identification information obtained from other sources to determine if the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070192127 - Press release management system apparatus and method: A press release server serves up a first web page with a press release management console and receives a press release and trackback management settings therethrough. The press release server serves up a second web page with the press release and a press release trackback URL. The press release server... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20070192128 - System and method for managing manufacturing information: A system for managing data within an organization that is intended to provide tactical and/or role-based data. The system includes a data acquisition module, a data processing module and an output module. The data acquisition module acquires operational data and financial data related to the operational data. The data processing... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070192126 - System and method for partner inclusion into an enterprise network: An automated system, method, and computer program product for enabling a real time transaction through a web service enabled supplier service network involving at least one supplier and at least one buyer, including providing a forward auction service to the at least one seller for selling at least one item... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070192130 - System and method for rating service providers: A method and system to search for and compare service providers. A database may be searched by a potential service buyer and results may be returned. The results may be listed in such a manner as to reflect one or more of a variety of ratings techniques. The ratings applied... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20070192144 - Health care analysis system and methods: Methods and systems for providing health care information about one or more health care providers to a health care consumer. A database stores health care information, including the costs charged by multiple health care providers for identical health care services. A consumer search module retrieves the cost information from the... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070192151 - Data analysis and visualization method: Analyzing data relating to an organization is performed by defining interconnections between data nodes belonging to a first organizational chart of the organization and data nodes belonging to a second organizational chart of the organization. Typically, the defined interconnections are for correlating the first organizational chart and the second organizational... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192157 - Interactive system for managing, tracking and reporting work and staff performance in a business environment: Tracking flow of work includes storing setup information in a database in which the setup information includes tasks to be performed. The tasks are allocated to users designated to perform the tasks and details of completed tasks are stored in the database. Users may receive information relating to tasks and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070192168 - Map and inventory-based on-line purchases: Systems and methods for survey based qualification of keyword searches and survey based qualification of keyword advertising. A searcher provides a search query to a search engine and is presented with at least one query-specific survey question. The searcher's original query and/or response to the query-specific survey question(s) are then... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070192166 - Survey-based qualification of keyword searches: Systems and methods for survey based qualification of keyword searches and survey based qualification of keyword advertising. A searcher provides a search query to a search engine and is presented with at least one query-specific survey question. The searcher's original query and/or response to the query-specific survey question(s) are then... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070192175 - System and method for deliberating a proposal: A system for deliberating a proposal according to a preferred embodiment is provided. The system includes: a database server for storing data on the proposal to be decided; an application server for obtaining and analyzing the data on the proposal in the database server, extracting outlines of the proposal, informing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070192194 - Metalevel electronic marketplace for advertising: A method using an intermediary electronic marketplace for sourcing advertisements from multiple advertisement suppliers that use an electronic marketplace to acquire, select, and place electronic advertisements and providing the advertisements to publishers. By operating as an intermediary, the method can automatically compare prices of advertisements from multiple sources, allowing effective... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070192180 - Real estate media/prospect tracking system: An online media/prospective buyer tracking system that allows a seller or auctioneer of real estate to analyze the cost of advertising used to bring prospective buyers to an auction website wherein media codes embedded in the advertising references correspond to individual online web pages capable of recognizing the source of... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070192209 - Mortgage loan origination system and method: A loan origination system and method includes a special button that is placed on a loan Originator's website, a web page linked to the special button with a loan application button provided by a direct lender, a personal assistant provided by the direct lender and assigned to the loan Originator,... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20070192206 - Product evaluation system enabling internet shopping through various portals using various mobile devices: A product evaluation system for permitting a consumer to obtain information about an item of interest. The system includes a core engine processor and an item pricing module. The core engine processor is capable of receiving a communication from the consumer's mobile phone. The core engine processor constructs a query... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070192217 - Entity linking in open exchange platforms: In a system that provides an open exchange environment to connect business entities through a network, methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for enabling links to be established between a first business entity and respective second entities; and for each established link, defining a business relationship between the... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070192112 - A method for providing pavement degradation equipment: A method for providing pavement degradation equipment comprises the following steps: a first party providing pavement degradation equipment to a second party, the pavement degradation equipment comprising at least one tool comprising a first end adapted for connection to a motor vehicle and a second end comprising a superhard material... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20070192118 - Automatically-generated workflow report diagrams: A facility for providing a workflow report document for a number of instances of a business process is described. In connection with information specifying the display of an arrangement of shapes each representing a constituent action of the business process, the facility provides information specifying the display in connection with... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070192113 - Ivr system manager: An IVR system designer receives design specification data (which may be either state definition data or IVR system document data) and stores it in a database. A design specification report can be generated based on the stored design specification data. The report may correspond to a chosen period of time... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20070192117 - Layered freight security method: A method, apparatus and computer usable program code for layered security of freight. Information for the mobile container carrier is verified within a database before allowing the mobile container into a facility in response to receiving a mobile container from a carrier. A thorough inspection of the mobile container is... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070192115 - Method for initiating a real estate transaction: The invention teaches a method of initiating communication between a purchaser and an owner of property not advertised or publicly offered for sale. The method includes the steps of the purchaser identifying a target property to a website portal utilizing the Internet and the website portal initiating a property inquiry... Agent: Law Office Of David Mcewing

20070192114 - Method of automated estate management: A method of accumulating and maintaining selected records of a principal and assuring that certain actions take place as requested by the principal including the steps of preparing, in digital form, an inventory database of personal, medical, legal and financial information of the principal. The personal information includes a set... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20070192125 - Method of transmitting update data for a stock market order book: The invention relates to a method of remotely updating an original order book comprising order data indexed according to at least one parameter stored in a distribution server. The method includes the steps of the distribution server receiving update data, the update data comprising at least one attribute of at... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070192124 - Order fulfillment system: A computing system sending, across a wide area network, a real-time stream of orders, such as delivery date-specific. The computer system can be interposed between a web processing system and a provider of shipments and preferably utilizing a carrier management system. Exemplary embodiments include, depending on the implementation, apparatus or... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20070192111 - Peer-to-peer network method and system for shipment delivery transactions: A method and system facilitate peer-to-peer delivery of shipments external of traditional shipping industry channels by listing at least one non-commercial shipment in a non-commercial shipment data set using a shipment listing template. The shipment listing template permits direct listing of the non-commercial shipment by an individual user for delivering... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070192116 - Position-sensitive events: Techniques for position-sensitive events are provided. Positioning information is used to acquire events for a given geographical location or within a configurable distance of that geographical location. In an embodiment, a route is provided from a current position of a requester to a destination location associated with a selected one... Agent: David L. Terrell Garmin International, Inc.

20070192123 - Process and device for authentication and/or identification: The authentication process for a group of products includes, for each product: a step for marking the product to produce a mark representative of a first content and, a step of associating a data carrier to the product, the data carrier bearing an item of information representing, firstly, the first... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070192131 - System and method for automatic pricing of remotely hosted applications: Automatic pricing of remotely hosted applications permits users to enter customer data and flexibly prices various product offerings, product lines, and applications. An initial build of a computer system, modifications to an existing computer system configuration, extended services, and enhancements are incorporated. Errors are checked for and can be corrected.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070192120 - System and method for determining current replacement values for new or existing landscape architectural objects: Disclosed is a system and method for determining the current replacement value of plants, trees, shrubs, and other landscape architectural objects by identifying the object; uploading information about the object and its location to a relational database which is used to construct average current replacement values; using the database to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070192137 - Access control in an electronic medical record system: A patient-centric medical record access and control method is disclosed wherein the patient has full read privileges and limited write privileges to the patient's electronic medical record account, and further wherein the patient can designate specific individual and institutional healthcare providers with access to the patients EMR account, and can... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070192134 - Clinical decision support system: A clinical decision support system and methods are provided for the management of acute and chronic disorders.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070192133 - Patient record system: A patient record system operable to store a patient record corresponding to a patient and having patient information, the patient record system being operable, as part of a medical process, to; receive a request for patient information from an input/output device, retrieve patient information from the patient record, transmit the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070192135 - Signature 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 automatic signature functionality. Each healthcare professional user of the software is allowed to enter and save a digital facsimile signature which can, in the discretion... Agent: Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C. The Financial Center

20070192132 - System and method of prioritizing and administering healthcare to patients having multiple integral diagnoses: A method of administering healthcare to patients with multiple integral diagnoses such that the clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life of said patients are improved while medical costs are minimized. A patient population is first identified. The population is then stratified into specific levels of intervention. Each individual patient... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070192136 - Systems and methods for facilitating medical order fulfillment: A method of establishing an order includes receiving discrete medical findings data associated with a patient, receiving order data associated with the patient, receiving findings selection data indicative of at least a portion of the discrete medical findings data, and communicating the order data and select findings data to a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070192141 - Health care assisting device: A target value recording unit (602) of a health care assisting device (600) receives an input of a target value of biological information of the user that is concerned with a challenging item relating to the lifestyle, at the beginning of a predetermined period of time. A measurement value input... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070192138 - Medical record system in a wide-area network environment: High speed data processing devices are set up near a PACS server network which stores medical image data. Devices for preparation of electronic medical reports, attached to electronic medical reports image processing parameters together with image data information, are used during an image diagnosis. Terminal devices for browsing electronic medical... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070192142 - Method of providing enhanced health care and prescription information via customized prescription manager and portable medical/prescription statements: The present invention relates to a method of providing enhanced health care and medical prescription information via customized prescription manager and portable medical/prescription statements. The prescription manager and portable medical/prescription statements may cover periods of time and can be provided by mail or electronically, and can be provided routinely or... Agent: James C. Eaves Jr. Greenebaum Doll & Mcdonald PLLC

20070192143 - Quality metric extraction and editing for medical data: Medical related quality of care information is extracted and edited for reporting. Patient records are mined. The mining may include mining unstructured data to create structured information. Measures are derived automatically from the structured information. A user may then edit the measures, data points used to derive the measures, or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070192140 - Systems and methods for extending an information standard through compatible online access: A personal health record communications network system including a document source for originating a healthcare information document associated with a patient wherein the document includes identifying elements of at least one of the patient and a document consumer. A sending agent, associated with the document source and in communication with... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070192139 - Systems and methods for patient re-identification: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for retrieving and re-identifying patient data. Patient data may be re-identified by retrieving an encrypted or abstracted patient identifier. The identifier is used to retrieve a patient identifier associated with patient identification information. Patient identification information may be inserted into... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070192145 - Computerized sales system program: A computerized sales system is provided. The system includes a general purpose computer system for performing the steps of the method in accordance with programming code operating on the computer; a graphical user interface for display of information and materials to a user of the system; a preparation step area... Agent: Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C. Suite 2500

20070192146 - Transparent healthcare transaction management system: A healthcare payment transaction system for managing and arranging payment for a healthcare service transaction provided by a healthcare service provider to a patient, particularly where the payment is to be paid by an insurer. The system includes an electronic deposit account for the healthcare service provider whereby the healthcare... Agent: J. Wiley Horton, Esquire Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20070192147 - Booking engine for booking airline tickets on multiple host environments: A system and method of booking an itinerary on at least one of a multiplicity of host environments include a plurality of host adaptor modules. Each host adaptor module is configured to interact with one of the plurality of host ticketing environments. A booking engine is provided for receiving commands... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon

20070192150 - Method and apparatus for identifying problem causes in a multi-node system: An SLO (service level objective) is represented by a model that includes nodes that represent elements in a system that are used to fulfill the SLO and information that represents dependencies between the elements. Telemetry information is received describing a condition of an element in the system. The telemetry information... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070192148 - Method for surveying fishery sources and device for effecting such method: Survey of fishery resources is automatically effected by providing an identification element (i.e. IC tag) to each fishing gear, locating a plurality of such fishing gears under the sea to catch fishery resources, thereafter, using a reading device (e.g. tag reader) to read all the identification elements to obtain an... Agent: Snider & Associates

20070192149 - System and method for managing risk in services solution development: A system (and method, and method for deploying computing infrastructure) for planning for development of at least one services solution offering, includes a generating unit that generates an action plan for at least one portion of a development lifecycle of the services solution offering.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070192153 - Information processing terminal and server for supporting quality improvement concerning product manufacture: An information processing terminal for supporting quality improvement concerning product manufacture includes a workflow arrangement part acquiring row information indicating a first arrangement location of each of a plurality of workflows being arranged in an area for arranging the plurality of workflows for verifying the quality improvement, and displaying the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070192154 - Managing service requirements for airports: Disclosed is a method for the creation of maintenance plans. The maintenance plans are created by determining the service requirements for equipment, and normalizing the service requirements. These service requests are formalized in the language of XML Schema and semantic heterogeneity between different plans resolved with the use of ontologies.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070192155 - Network based, interactive project management apparatus and method: An apparatus and method utilizing a network based interactive computer system for project management. Information modules are provided and accessible by authorized project team members to assign tasks, prepare documents, request collaboration for information and issue resolution. Smart electronic mail notifications are provided to enable quick response to notifications with... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070192156 - Network based, interactive project management apparatus and method: An apparatus and method utilizing a network based interactive computer system for project management. Information modules are provided and accessible by authorized project team members to assign tasks, prepare documents, request collaboration for information and issue resolution. Smart electronic mail notifications are provided to enable quick response to notifications with... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070192152 - Software phase sequencer editor and method of editing: A phase sequence system for performing a task is disclosed. The system includes a controller operationally connected to a system and operational software for operating the system. The operational software comprises a sequence of numbers to perform the task. A phase editor is operationally connected to the controller to edit... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070192159 - Interactive advisory system: A method of generating individualized real-time weather and environmental data including the steps of receiving user profiles that identify communicator devices and identifications of pre-determined weather and environmental sensors associated with designated locations; analyzing weather and environmental information as well as sensor data from the weather and environmental sensors to... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070192158 - Performing scheduled device management: For performing scheduled device management, a server generates a scheduling context that includes commands for device management and generates a device management object that includes a schedule for executing such commands, and transmits these to a terminal. The terminal monitors the schedule included in the management object, and according to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070192162 - Collecting crm data for feedback: Collecting and analyzing usage data from a CRM database provides useful insights into improving future versions of CRM software. Options for the type of data to be collected may be presented and several opportunities may be available to tailor the data to be communicated to the CRM provider.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070192171 - Computer apparatus and methods supporting different categories of users: The computer apparatus and methods of the preferred embodiment uses computer technology in a unique way to motivate children to devote more time to educational and cultural enrichment. In the preferred embodiment, educational material is provided at a child's local computer under control of a central computer system connected to... Agent: Mikhail Lotvin

20070192164 - Generation of contextual image-containing advertisements: According to embodiments of the invention, an advertisement-generation system generates image-containing advertisements. The advertisement-generation system includes: at least one feature-selection guideline that specifies at least one recommended feature for image-containing advertisements based on advertiser inputs that specify at least one of advertisement-target-audience information, cost information, and advertiser-industry information; an image-clip... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070192167 - Methods and systems for managing transaction card customer accounts: Methods and systems for managing transaction card customer accounts provided by a financial institution for a plurality of customers involves dividing the plurality of accounts into a plurality of predefined customer value segments by the financial institution and identifying accounts in each of the customer value segments that exhibits characteristics... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070192161 - On-demand customer satisfaction measurement: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to customer relationship management and provide a method, system and computer program product for on-demand customer satisfaction measurement. In one embodiment of the invention, an on-demand customer satisfaction measurement method can include matching a target profile to a... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070192160 - Plan solver: Systems and methods for supply chain management and identification of feasible plans. Identification of feasible plans includes simultaneous breadth and depth satisfaction of demands. Demands are satisfied using multiple sources of supply, consideration of substitute items, generation of supply, and/or reallocation of supply previously pegged for satisfaction of a lower... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070192169 - Reputation system: Reputation systems have been used to promote trust between participants in activities including online activities such as online market places. Existing online market places provide a reputation system which is a simple cumulative registry of user ratings on a given market place member. However, this simple system is open to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070192163 - Satisfaction metrics and methods of implementation: The subject invention relates generally to satisfaction metrics, their methods of administration, and computer programmable products loaded with the satisfaction metrics. The satisfaction metrics of the subject invention allow the participant to assess his or her satisfaction with general and specific attributes of any organization and to assign a relative... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070192170 - System and method for optimizing product development portfolios and integrating product strategy with brand strategy: A business and software method to cost-effectively optimize product and/or service development portfolios, to reduce time to market, and to better integrate and align product or service strategy with brand strategy. The business and software method includes defining in detail the product and service attributes that characterize the ideal customer... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070192165 - Using commercial share of wallet in financial databases: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070192174 - Monitoring task performance: One system embodiment includes providing a number of sensors for monitoring an individual in performing a number of tasks from a list of tasks to be completed, the number of tasks each including, an associated number of steps to be completed by the individual, monitoring the performance of a task... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC Suite 500

20070192172 - Process for recruiting and certifying technician candidates: On-line preliminary screening of technician candidates is carried out automatically at a central office and the names of certified technician candidates are provided to businesses, e.g., franchise operators, in the same or nearby geographic location as the candidate. Candidates are directed to an interactive survey of background information. Alternatively, candidates... Agent: Bernhard P. Molldrem, Jr.

20070192173 - System and method for training a machine operator: An operator training system for a machine is disclosed. The operator training system comprises an interface in communication with a machine and a processor communicatively coupled to the interface. The processor is configured to receive, via the interface, operation data associated with operation of the machine. The processor is further... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070192176 - Computerized voting system: Any business, individuals, groups of people, or government that is Officially facilitating the voting process use sources of computer data and other data to create lists of every eligible Voter. The List of Eligible Voters contains the name and physical mailing address for each Voter. The Official host then arranges... Agent: Dan Onischuk

20070192177 - Billing a rented third party transport including an on-board unit: A system, method, and computer readable medium for toll service activation using an on-board unit in a third party transport comprises, a third party entity, a toll rental entity, and an on-board unit communicably coupled to the third party entity and to the toll rental entity, wherein the on-board unit,... Agent: Rg & Associates

20070192181 - Automatically modifying web pages to integrate advertising without changing ui: Methods and system are disclosed for customizing web pages without changing user interface (UI) elements. Keywords, texts, or phrases are located within the web pages and correspondingly turned into links to provide new information like rich media advertisements. The physical layout of the web pages remains intact with only visual... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070192190 - Method and system for scoring quality of traffic to network sites: A software and/or hardware facility for scoring the quality of traffic to a site accessible via the Internet or other network. The facility extracts data from one or more data logs that are obtained from a publisher, advertiser, or third party. A multi-factor analysis in the form of a rule... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070192189 - Method for display of advertising: Improvements in systems and methods for advertising. Systems and methods according to the invention include specially-adapted computer networks 200, unique data input and acquisition devices 261, and processes for implementing, monitoring, and assessing advertising campaigns. Systems and methods are particularly useful in advertising campaigns directed to multiple locations, and are... Agent: Torys LLP

20070192185 - Method for selling goods and services by association via cocast content: An exemplary method and apparatus for co-casting advertisements for the sale of advertising and other content via broadcast medium.... Agent: The Farrow Law Firm Suite 50

20070192182 - Method of delivering coupons using customer data: A system architecture and method are provided that allow a retailer to provide a unique shopping experience to their customers. The customers, who belong to multiple affinity groups and have a purchasing history, are provided coupons via a wireless mobile device at the time they enter a zone on or... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070192188 - Methods for real estate investment, development, and sales: Methods are provided for real estate investment, development, and ownership. The methods allow multiple users to combine their resources to purchase, make improvements to, and individually own and/or sell real property. The users save money or realize greater profits on real estate transactions by taking on the roles of upstream... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070192187 - Rewarding frequent fliers with last seat availability: An airline may offer two procedures for redeeming frequent flier miles for tickets on a specified flight of that airline, with one procedure available to frequent flier program members that do not have transactional cards associated with the frequent flier program, and another redemption procedure available to frequent flier program... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070192186 - Search, transfer, and booking tool for multiple rewards programs: Many customers are members of multiple frequent customer programs. When a customer wishes to book reward travel, searching each frequent customer program of which the customer is a member is difficult and time-consuming. A rewards program provider, such as a transactional account company, can provide members the opportunity to link... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070192179 - Survey-based qualification of keyword searches: Systems and methods for survey based qualification of keyword searches and survey based qualification of keyword advertising. A searcher provides a search query to a search engine and is presented with at least one query-specific survey question. The searcher's original query and/or response to the query-specific survey question(s) are then... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070192183 - System and architecture for providing retail buying options to consumer using customer data: A system architecture and method are provided that allow a retailer to provide a unique shopping experience to their customers. The customers, who belong to multiple affinity groups and have a purchasing history, are provided coupons via a wireless mobile device at the time they enter a zone on or... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070192191 - System and method for shipping and delivering parcels to a virtual address: A computer-based system and method for shipping and delivering a parcel, including reserving a terminal for a parcel; placing the parcel in the terminal, the parcel having a virtual delivery address of a recipient; picking up the parcel by a carrier; converting, through a central computer system, the virtual address... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070192195 - System and method of economic incentives to foster behavioral changes that improve health: A web based electronic system with the capacity to record vital behavioral information while providing a platform for participating insurance companies to offer incentives for patients to engage in specific preventive care and/or health promotion practices. The system includes either an electronic funds transfer card that can be used as... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20070192192 - Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content: In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided.... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070192193 - Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content: In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided.... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070192178 - Transaction method and system: A transaction system (10) for use by users, comprising: electronic tokens (24) for storing and processing token transaction data (28) and token reward data (30), each for use by a respective user; a computer server (12) for storing and processing server transaction data (32) and server reward data (18) associated... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070192184 - Web access control: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling user access to websites. A user profile is stored for each user. The profile includes a restriction requirement. Each accessible website has an associated restriction rating. If a user tries to access a website, the restriction requirement of the user... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070192196 - Order taking system for a quick service restaurant using multiple wireless communication channels: Order taking system for a quick service restaurant enabling a customer to place an order for an item from a drive-through lane, the quick service restaurant having a plurality of staff persons for completing the order. A drive-through order point is positioned in the proximity of the drive-through lane. A... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070192197 - Prepaid service using rewriteable card: A rewriteable plastic card is an ideal token for a prepaid service program. Prepaid service is popular in the automotive retail industry where automobile owners may be entitled to a certain number of future maintenance service items such as oil changes, tire rotations, and fuel treatments. The cost of such... Agent: David L. Fisher, Jr.

20070192207 - Apparatus and method for facilitating a purchase using information provided on a media playing device: Disclosed are apparatus and method for facilitating a purchase in conjunction with media content information. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a transmission of media content, information regarding the content, and information for facilitating a purchase of at least one of a copy of the content, a good,... Agent: Anatoly S. Weiser

20070192212 - Approach for processing electronic orders: Processing an electronic order involves receiving from a mobile customer device first order data for an order that contains less than a minimum set of data required by a merchant to completely process the order. Additional information required by the merchant to completely process the order is retrieved. Second order... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070192204 - Method and apparatus for creating contextual auction feeds: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating contextualized live auction feeds. The method of generating contextualized live auction feeds comprises receiving context data from a user. The method further comprises utilizing the context data received from the user to search auctions. The method, in one embodiment, includes generating... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070192200 - Method and apparatus for the home delivery of local retail e-commerce orders: A method and apparatus for empowering general population to deliver e-commerce orders from retail stores to buyers. The method and apparatus comprises a database of patrons who register with the system to do home delivery of e-commerce orders, a database of e-commerce orders from the store, a database of buyers... Agent: O'connor & Company

20070192210 - Method and system automatically to price a promotional product: A computer-implemented method to price a promotional product includes the generation of a user interface that facilitates input of specification information concerning the promotional product, the specification information including product information identifying a base product to be decorated and decoration manufacturing process information identifying a process whereby a decoration is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070192205 - Method, device, and computer product for selling property: The present invention includes a computerized system incorporating high resolution imaging, printing and database management, in a multimedia environment, for the marketing, selection, purchase, and sale of unique, high monetary value characteristic products, including the processing of all documents to effect and settle the resulting transaction, over a high speed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070192201 - Methods and systems for collaborative bidding in automated actions: Systems and methods are provided for controlling automated auctions and other collaborative tasks. In one exemplary implementation, a system is provided that includes an administrative server running software operative to coordinate an automated auction among a plurality of collaborative bidding entities. One or more collaborative bidding servers are also provided,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070192211 - Portable music player and photographic image commercial transactions system: An image commercial transactions system and method that are able to implement the sales to the purpose of the seller. An e-commerce system for selling a picture and a handling condition specific to the picture, both being recorded on a predetermined recording medium in a predetermined format. The picture to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070192202 - Stock account/order/market price inquiry service method using a mobile terminal: Disclosed is a stock account/order/market price inquiry service method using a mobile terminal that is able to perform a stock account/order/market price inquiry service through a mobile terminal using a stock chip. A stock account/order/market price inquiry service method comprising the steps of: (1) displaying a lower menu page on... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070192198 - System and method for leveraging a payment authorization environment for offering and fulfilling the cross selling of products to existing customers, up selling, and acquisition of new customers: A method, system and computer program product for communicating to a consumer one or more offers at a merchant communication device. Predefined offers are stored in a database. A portal selects one or more of the predefined offers, which are then communicated to the consumer through the merchant communication device.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070192199 - System and method for managing meetings budgets and allocating and reconciling expenditures: A system, method, and computer program product for managing meetings and allocating and reconciling expenditures. Scheduling information for a plurality of meetings is stored in a database. A plurality of budgets is stored in the database, each of the budgets being associated with and defining budget items for one of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070192208 - Transaction system: With respect to one order information piece in security transaction, processing of reception, transaction condition confirmation, transaction settlement and result transmission is executed serially. A transaction system is configured so as to divide a transaction including a plurality of transaction requests into predetermined units and execute resultant processing units in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070192203 - Virtual reality shopping system: The Virtual Reality Shopping System and methods provides the means to extend to the Internet shopper the same shopping experience as being in the physical store. The system and methods of the Virtual Reality Shopping System Software builds upon commercially available software tools in the areas of multi-media and Internet... Agent: Michael V. Di Stefano

20070192215 - Computer-implemented registration for providing inventory fulfillment services to merchants: Methods and systems for offering inventory fulfillment services to merchants. According to one embodiment, a system may include a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The instructions may be executable by at least one of the processors to implement an inventory management... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070192213 - Feedback control theoretic parts inventory management model: A system and method for calibrating an inventory planning model in a parts supply chain. The inventory planning model is determined based on certain input. A performance monitor measures the parts supply chain and provides performance metrics. The movement of parts through the parts supply chain is also monitored by... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070192214 - Method and apparatus to signal rental asset use completion: An apparatus and method to provide rental status indication includes a user interface to allow a user to input that the rental asset is no longer in use. On indication from a user that the rental status is no longer in use, a sensor determines if the asset is in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070192216 - System and method for enhancing supply chain transactions: A system and method for processing particulars of a transaction over a network. The system comprises a supply chain tracking module for receiving supply chain event data from at least one supply chain monitor, the supply chain data relating to the condition or location of an item along a supply... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070192218 - System and method for approval and allocation of costs in electronic procurement: A system, method and computer program product for approval and allocation of costs in electronic procurement is described, wherein approval and allocation of costs are made in response to an electronic invoice, which includes information used to allocate procurement costs to one or more cost centers.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070192219 - Consumer investing program utilizing special offers, rebates and discounts: A process of consumer investing under a plan participated in by a consumer and a commercial entity, and administered by a banking and/or investment entity includes entering into an agreement between the consumer and the banking and/or investment entity whereby the consumer becomes a member of the plan. A commercial... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20070192220 - Method for developing, financing and administering an asset protected executive benefit program: A method is provided for developing, financing and administering an asset-protected executive benefit. An employer or Investor makes an investment in an LLC whereby the Employer or Investor becomes the preferred, non-managing member and is entitled to receive a guaranteed payment plus pre-established rate of return. An Executive also makes... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070192221 - Present valuation of emission credit and allowance futures: The present invention is directed to a computer-operated method for determining the present value of a futures contract for a commodity. The method includes selecting an expiration date for the futures contract, calculating a customized interest rate factor based on interest rates surveyed from a plurality of lending institutions, and... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070192222 - System and method for producing transaction level detail based on a card spend transaction: A system is disclosed for providing charge transaction detail comprising financial account spend transactions. Through a mapping of a merchant's item codes with an issuer's item codes, the system provides clients with a more descriptive report based on any one or more transaction instruments associated with the financial account. The... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070192227 - Ioi-based block trading systems, methods, interfaces, and software: In the financial-services industry, there are online centers that help brokers to match sellers and buyers of stock based on indications of interest (IOIs). However, at least some of these centers are not only limited in the types of IOIs that they provide, but also in the ways how they... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070192228 - Methods and systems for providing book accounting indices: In at least one aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising the steps of: identifying a first portfolio of securities as corresponding, at a specified time, to an index; calculating, for the first portfolio, a first set of performance values comprising one or more of: book yield, book income, and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070192224 - Pool-based system for organizing and measuring personalized financial management techniques: A system and method for a money pools system is presented. The money pools system includes a plurality of financial positions that are allocated to a plurality of pools. A category may be used to contain a grouping of pools. Multiple categories allow a user to view aggregated financial positions... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070192223 - Single-security rebalancing: Techniques for rebalancing a single type security associated with at least one of multiple investment styles within a multi-style investment account is provided. The security could be, as desired, rebalanced in only the one investment style, or in more than one of the multiple investment styles. It is determined if... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070192226 - System and method for providing a custom hedged adjustable rate mortgage: Methods, media, and systems for providing a custom hedged adjustable rate mortgage are provided. These methods, media, and systems provide hedges and mortgages that may be used in conjunction with the retail mortgage sector. To facilitate these hedges and mortgages, computer systems are provided that allow a user to calculate... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070192225 - Systems and methods for automated repurchase agreement matching: A system and method for facilitating tri-party repurchase (or other) agreement transactions. A dealer or trader sends instructions to an intermediary third party characterizing a previously agreed-upon set of terms for a repurchase agreement between the dealer and an investor. The parties can thereafter approve or reject the deal allegement... Agent: Jack & Barufka Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070192234 - Computer system and method for speculating on a financial market: A method in a computer system for a user to speculate on a financial market, comprises presenting a prompt to the user requesting parameter(s) defining a custom contract on future characteristic(s) of the financial market, presenting to the user a calculated value, such as a price, payout, or odds, for... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070192233 - Continuous clock auction with proxy bidding: A continuous clock auction with proxy bidding can be a forward auction or a reverse auction, for one or more products. An auction manager determines initial eligibility for each bidder, and sets a starting price for each product. At the initial starting price(s), bidders submit initial offers for each product.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070192230 - Match system that uses a non-indexed collection of orders: Match engine systems and methods that allow for rapid processing of orders are provided. Pending orders are arranged as a non-indexed collection of orders and may be stored in the cache memory of a processor. The physical locations of pending orders stored in the cache memory may correspond to the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20070192231 - Method and system for calculating bids in an auction: A method of conducting an auction includes positioning a first processor capable of at least calculating bids, determining winning scenarios in an auction, and accepting bids in a location in which the auction is being conducted. The method further includes positioning at least one bid query processor capable of at... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070192232 - System and method to create markets and trade intercommodity spreads: A method for creating a market associated with a first product, a second product, and a parameter, wherein the first product and the second product are related by the parameter, includes the steps of establishing settlement prices for the first and second products and receiving a value for the parameter... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20070192229 - Transaction management system and method: The present invention relates to the field of online commerce. In particular it relates to the operation of electronic markets in which there are plurality of sellers.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070192236 - It risk management framework and methods: A method for treating information technology (IT) risk of an organization including identifying a plurality of IT risks, where each of the plurality of IT risks is based on a known problem and is associated with an IT asset classification and an IT consequence classification, calculating a plurality of IT... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070192235 - Method and apparatus for processing financial transactions subject to different financing terms: A financial payment vehicle, such as a charge or credit card, provides lower financing terms on purchases that meet specified criteria (i.e. a minimum threshold transaction amount, a purchase from a particular industry or at particular merchants, and/or other enrollment qualifications) and further provides standard financing terms for purchases that... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070192238 - Method and system for corporate overdraft: Methods and systems for providing a Shari'a compliant overdraft facility. A client offers to sell an asset to an overdraft provider, such as a financial institution. If the asset meets credit eligibility criteria, the provider may set up an overdraft account for conducting trade of the asset or part of... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070192239 - Method of determining parameters of long-term lease: There is disclosed a technique for determining parameters of a long-term lease of an asset. The method involves determining a set of payments defining an amortisation path from an initial value (A) to a final residual value (M) of said asset over a long-term lease period, and determining a plurality... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070192241 - Methods and systems for computing platform: Hardware accelerated analytical computing apparatus, method and system includes one or more analytical processing units. Each processing unit is formed of a respective field programmable gate array (FPGA) and performs a respective analytical operation. An application interface enables use of respective desired ones of the analytical processing units by one... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070192237 - Multi-pool loan security mechanism: A multi-pool method of providing loans is performed by receiving a batch of loan applications from a lending entity. Selected loan applications are identified for a first pool and a second pool. The first pool consists of loan applications from borrowers with a better credit rating than the credit rating... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070192242 - System and method for credit risk detection and monitoring: A method for credit risk evaluation includes receiving a set of credit related data associated with a client. Risk events are detected from this set of credit related data according to preset rules, and a set of thresholds and filters is applied to determine whether each detected risk event is... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070192240 - Systems and methods for detecting fraud: A method for detecting likely fraud is described. The method includes obtaining from a first financial organization first information relating to a first financial account indicative of financial performance for the first financial account, obtaining from a second financial organization independent of the first financial organization second information relating to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070192244 - Method and system for balance transfer operations: A system and method for extending a balance reduction offer to a set of borrowers selected from a pool is provided. A lender, for instance a financial institution issuing credit cards to a pool of borrowers, selects a subset of borrowers based upon a criterion. The balance reduction offer includes... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070192243 - Methods and systems for analyzing electronic payment transaction data for errors: Methods are provided for identifying errors in data relating to at least one electronic payment transaction request. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving data relating to at least one electronic payment request and analyzing the electronic payment request data based upon a predefined set of rules. Specifically, the data... Agent: Brandon N. Sklar. Esq. (patent Prosecution) Kaye Scholer, LLP

20070192245 - Persistent dynamic payment service: The invention comprises online methods, systems, and software for improving the processing of payments from financial accounts, particularly credit and debit card payments made from consumers to merchants in online transactions. The preferred embodiment of the invention involves inserting a trusted third party online service into the payment authorization process.... Agent: Foothill Law Group

20070192246 - System and method for redirecting internet traffic: Disclosed is a system and method for receiving payment by brokering web site traffic. A first domain is registered, and an offer of payment is received from a party in exchange for receiving redirected internet traffic. The traffic requested a resource associated with the first domain and is redirected to... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070192248 - Method and apparatus for facilitating financial monitoring by guardians: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enables a guardian to monitor a financial account on behalf of an account owner, such as a senior citizen. During operation, the system receives a request from the guardian to access the financial account. In response to this request, the... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070192247 - Method and apparatus for implementing an activity watch for financial accounts: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates an “activity watch” operation on a financial account. During operation, the system receives records for transactions associated with the financial account. These records are received at a third-party server from a financial institution which maintains the financial account, wherein... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070192249 - System, method and computer program product for authorizing transactions using enhanced authorization data: The present invention provides systems, methods and computer program products for authorizing transactions based on, at least in part on, enhanced authorization data. In one embodiment, enhanced authorization data is received in a request for authorization to accept a transaction instrument as payment. Examples of enhanced authorization data include an... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070192250 - Information processing apparatus, control method for the same, program and storage medium: An information processing apparatus that generates private information used as one of an encryption key for encrypting data or a generation key for generating falsification detection information used in detecting falsification of data, comprises a storage unit adapted to prestore key information, an input unit adapted to input calculation target... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070192251 - Methods and systems for verifying the accuracy of reported information: Systems and methods are disclosed for verifying the accuracy of reported information. The systems and methods may include generating a hash based on ingredient data related to the creation of a report, storing the hash and the ingredients in a database, the hash being associated with the ingredient data in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070192252 - Cryptographic methods, apparatus and systems for storage media electronic rights management in closed and connected appliances: A rights management arrangement for storage media such as optical digital video disks (DVDs, also called digital versatile disks) provides adequate copy protection in a limited, inexpensive mass-produceable, low-capability platform such as a dedicated home consumer disk player and also provides enhanced, more flexible security techniques and methods when the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070192253 - Digital content delivery assistance system and method: A digital content delivery assistance system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070192254 - Multi-processing financial transaction processing system: A financial transaction processing system is disclosed, wherein substantial processing efficiencies are provided with, additionally, a substantial decrease in the size of the executable code. Each transaction processed by the transaction processing system is described by a transaction data descriptor that includes a series of subtransaction data descriptions of actions... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070192255 - Content use system, information terminal, and settlement system: Provided is a new system for content use and settlement. A user requests a mobile telephone charge management server (3000) to perform proxy settlement for goods purchased using mobile telephones 1 (4100), 2 (4200) and 3 (4300). The mobile telephone charge management server (3000) makes an inquiry to a registration... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070192256 - Facilitating the negotiation of standards for inter-enterprise collaboration between trading partners: A system that facilitates the negotiation of a standard for inter-enterprise collaboration between trading partners includes a set of meta-model elements. Each element in the set can be negotiated by enterprises and incorporated into a negotiated meta-model that describes an agreement between the enterprises as to collaborations between the enterprises.... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20070192257 - Method of supplying admixture formulations for concrete: A method for an admixture producer to provide admixture formulations to a concrete producer, including inputting technical information, wherein the technical information is inputted into the computer control system by the concrete producer, determining types and levels of admixture raw materials that are needed to attain the desired performance characteristics,... Agent: Basf Corporation Patent Department

20070192258 - Method for controlling when mail is received by a recipient: A computer controlled method that enables a mailer to control when recipients will receive mail mailed by the mailer. The method involves receiving a mailing composition, the desired mailing in home delivery date ranges and carrier schedules; utilizing a prediction model built from historical delivery data to predict when the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070192259 - Branding conveyance systems, methods and articles of manufacture: Methods and apparatus for constructing and using a print advertising and branding conveyance device (PABCS), and means of use.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070192260 - Method of placing visible advertising: A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a method of placing visible advertising on the upper surface of a road (1). This method includes determining the location of any traffic control signs that are applied to the surface of the road, such as the location of signs (22, 25). Following... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070185728 - Starter-interrupt device incorporating global positioning system functionality: An onboard starter-interrupt device incorporates Global Positioning System (GPS) functionality in addition to payment schedule enforcement functions. In response to certain events, and/or on a periodic basis, the onboard device transmits vehicle location data to an operations center. In one aspect, a “geo-fence”, or virtual boundary, can be defined; if... Agent: Amir H. Raubvogel Attorney At Law

20070185732 - Internet system for connecting healthcare providers and patients: An Internet-based system involves a database and search capabilities for connecting patients with healthcare providers, e.g., physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, treatment facilities, etc., and further enables such providers to reach patients with whom they may not otherwise come into contact. A patient may access the healthcare provider information through a... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070185736 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating communications, workflow, and task assignments in medical practices and clinics: A method of facilitating patient examinations in a medical office includes the following steps performed via a handheld device: identifying an examination location of a patient; identifying one or more medical procedures to be performed, wherein the one or more medical procedures are selected from the group consisting of: laboratory... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070185739 - Method and system for providing clinical care: The present invention describes a method that is operative within a clinical environment in which real-time locations of personnel and resources are tracked. The method begins in association with entry of a patient into the clinical environment, such as when a patient is in transit, or has been admitted, to... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070185741 - Methods and systems for providing and underwriting life insurance benefits convertible into other benefits: Method and system for providing a insurance policy with convertible benefits. The method includes receiving information to determine a first type of benefit which will be provided under a first type of insurance, a second type of benefit to be provided under a second type of insurance policy, and a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070185745 - Reservation and ticketing process for space-available seats to airline employees: A process for reserving and ticketing interline travel for an airline employee affiliate. The airline employee affiliate develops a travel itinerary for interline travel. The travel itinerary is processed in electronic form in a common information platform administered by a third party purchase facilitator. An electronic ticket data is associated... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20070185778 - Method and apparatus for the home delivery of local retail e-commerce orders: The method and apparatus disclosed herein empowers the general population to deliver e-commerce orders from retail stores to buyers. Embodiments of the invention reduce overall fuel usage, creating value for all members of the value chain: reduction in delivery fees for buyer, higher customer satisfaction and purchasing of goods for... Agent: O'connor & Company

20070185779 - Open exchange platforms: Techniques for identifying a set of business entities eligible to participate in a transaction involving a purchase or sale of a product, commodity or service; generating a graph of the set of business entities using pre-stored information defining relationships between the business entities in the set, each business entity in... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070185777 - Structured computer-assisted method and apparatus for filtering information presentation: Information is gathered from merchants such as car dealers by online forms or other means soliciting particular differentiating factors such as services and specialties (e.g., languages spoken, financing options, other information). When a consumer desires to perform a search, he or she is asked by the exemplary illustrative non-limiting implementation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070185789 - Magazine circulation scoring model: The invention pertains a magazine scoring model that includes the evaluation of magazine circulation data reported to a circulation agency. The evaluated data for one specific magazine is then compared to the evaluated data of other magazines, and each magazine is given a score based on its ranking in each... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070185808 - Systems and methods for providing a personalized exchange market: The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing a personalized exchange market, and more specifically, to systems and methods for establishing personalized pledge agreements for uncertain future events or occurrences. In one embodiment, the invention includes a method including the steps of facilitating a pledge offer via a... Agent: Ruttler Law LLC

20070185810 - System, method, and computer program product for saving and investing through use of transaction cards: A system, method, and computer program product are used for saving through use of transaction cards. This is done through associating a transaction account of the transaction card with one or more deposit accounts. An amount of funds to be deposited from the transaction account into the deposit account is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185817 - Apparatus for facilitating the sale, transfer, and/or assignment of intellectual property: A new and improved apparatus for facilitating the sale, transfer, and/or assignment of intellectual property is herein disclosed.... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20070185816 - Search engine for facilitating the sale, transfer, and/or assignment of intellectual property: A new and improved search engine for facilitating the sale, transfer, and/or assignment of intellectual property is herein disclosed.... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20070185727 - Automatically determining a current value for a real estate property, such as a home, that is tailored to input from a human user, such as its owner: A facility procuring information about a distinguished property from a user knowledgeable about the distinguished property that is usable to refine an automatic valuation of the distinguished property is described. The facility displays information about the distinguished property used in the automatic valuation of the distinguished property. The facility obtains... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185721 - Content center and method for business process applications: A content center and method for business process applications are provided. A method for providing services for a business process includes providing a content center for a business process application. Access to a service for performing a step of the business process may be provided in or otherwise with the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070185723 - Method and apparatus for facilitating consumer and employment interview transactions: The present inventive method and apparatus facilitates consumer transactions whereby a website system facilitates consumer product and service purchasing via a global communication network to a vendor or group of “employer” computers in response to the receipt of a job listing request from a consumer computer via the network. Thereafter... Agent: Richard Shellnutt

20070185722 - Method for tracking employees: A method is provided for tracking prescreened candidates by a tracking employer. A database is created of prescreened candidates having been previously selected by the tracking employer as candidates the employer wishes to track. The candidates are selected from the group consisting of prospective employees and former employees. The database... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070185726 - Methods and systems for processing suspicious delivery fee payment indicia: Methods and systems for detecting suspicious use of coded payment indicia on a delivery item, such as fraudulent IBI on a delivery item placed in the U.S. postal system and taking action triggered by the suspicion. Actions may include extracting the suspicious delivery item from the delivery process, recording images... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070185725 - Process for the tracking of recording artist's, music publishers, and writer's revenues: A Software Process and Program that collects data from various income sources, including the calculation of the Units Sold into actual dollar amounts per Unit; streamlines that data according to the Artists' percentage of earnings as stated in their Recording Agreement, then it calculates and consolidates that revenue information on... Agent: Pamela Black

20070185720 - Sequencing updates to business objects: A system and method for compensating for disruptions to update transmissions is disclosed. A first application component stores an instance of a business object. The first application component reconciles the instance with data stored on a second application component. The first application component receives a business object update from the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185724 - System and method for managing quota groups in a metered service enterprise: A method for optimizing the architecture of a quota regime in a metered service enterprise. A quota regime is defined as a service area having a finite service call capacity to provide maintenance services to a subscriber base of the metered service enterprise. The cost of servicing the subscribers within... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20070185729 - System for negotiating green tags or fixed price energy contracts: The present invention describes a method for encouraging the production and use of electricity from renewable energy sources. A clearing house is established for facilitating various agreements and contracts between green power generators, electricity utilities and electricity end users. A computer model would be employed to help produce fixed costs... Agent: Mitchell B. Wasson, Esq. Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C.

20070185733 - Medical case scheduling, logistics management and associated data management: Methods and systems enable the electronic scheduling of medical procedures. Schedulers log into a scheduling system to electronically submit medical procedure requests. Requests include entry of patient data together with at least one of: procedure date, procedure place, procedure time, required equipment, requested medical personnel, as part of the first... Agent: Ortiz And Lopez, PLLC Registered Patent Attorneys

20070185731 - System, method, and computer program product for reducing the burden on scheduling systems by forecasting a demand for medical resources using retrieved billing data: The present invention generates a forecast factor indicating an anticipated demand for a medical resource in a medical facility during a selected time period. The invention generates the forecast factor using billing data retrieved from one or more billing data systems wherein the retrieved billing data is from a prior... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070185730 - Systems and methods for dynamic exam priority: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for exam prioritization including a priority indicator and a database. The priority indicator is assigned a priority level selected from at least three available priority levels. The at least three available priority levels represent categories of patient acuity. The database is... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070185735 - Systems and methods for providing a customized medical health care monitoring system: The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing a customized health care monitoring system. One embodiment of the present invention relates to providing individuals with a health care monitoring system that specifically accommodates their health care needs. The method includes receiving health related information, including but not limited... Agent: Baker & Associates PLLC

20070185734 - Using diagnoses to identify adults with disabilities: Individuals with disabilities may be classified under a particular health risk level using an access risk classification system based on nonstatistical risks. This computer methodology and system collects and aggregates medical data, which includes a person identifier and the person identifier's medical codes. By applying a data mining technique, each... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20070185738 - Context information processing system used for accessing medical data: A context information processing system used for accessing medical data includes an acquisition processor for acquiring configuration information indicating a type of a particular patient identification tag reader device of a plurality of different types of tag reader device and a format of patient identification data used by the particular... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070185737 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing a level of anonymity to patient records/information: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for providing a level of anonymity to patient records/information. A unique user identification (ID) associated with a current user is received at an interface of a computer database environment. A first role code associated with a first role of the current user... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070185740 - System and method using medical information-containing electronic devices: A system and method for providing medical information in an emergency comprises a pair of cards, each having an electronic device thereon. One large card is used both for home and medical visits, with a smaller card carried on one's person for medical emergencies. Readers are provided at home and... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070185742 - Securitized insurance or insurance-like protection: A method of securitized insurance or insurance like protection is provided that eliminates accounting mismatches created when an institution such as a bank, insurance company or corporation wishes to gain protection for an outstanding obligation of payment. An insurance or insurance like protection is purchasable by the institution that protects... Agent: Clifford Chance US LLP

20070185743 - System for automated insurance underwriting: There is disclosed a system that enables an efficient and flexible way to provide automated rating and underwriting based on a specific set of rules. The system includes a software running on a centralized or distributed computing system and accessing different databases. The software system can be access by insurance... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070185744 - System and method for providing customized travel guides and itineraries over a distributed network: A system and method are disclosed for providing a customized travel guide and customized travel itinerary, combining segments from multiple travel service providers. The system programmatically creates itineraries, checking for time constraints and interferences. Travelers prioritize activities allowing for a traveler to instruct the service to expand or shrink the... Agent: Patrick M. Dwyer PC

20070185747 - Business process assistance wizard: A business process guide may assist tracking and updating business processes, such as marketing business processes. The business processes may be part of a customer relationship management system. High level business process elements may be displayed which may be selected to display additional information about the elements.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070185751 - Drug life cycle management system: A system and method are provided for collecting all data relevant to a drug product throughout the life cycle of the drug product(life cycle data), applying a common rules set to determine and initiate responsive action and storing the collected data into a centralized data repository. The system and method... Agent: Biddle & Associates

20070185746 - Intelligent event adaptation mechanism for business performance monitoring: An intelligent business event adapter receives information technology (IT) events and raw data from a backend enterprise application to capture, analyze, transform, enrich, aggregate, and correlate application-dependent IT-level events into a business level event which is communicated to a business performance monitoring (BPM) server. The adapter comprises four modules: an... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20070185748 - Method for tracking hand-harvested field crops: A method for tracking hand-harvested field crops includes outfitting each worker that is working in the field with a corresponding first wireless communication device; associating with each produce crate that is actively used in the field a corresponding second wireless communication device; generating localization data to define each field region... Agent: Deere & Company

20070185749 - Method for tracking hand-harvested orchard crops: A method for tracking hand-harvested orchard crops includes associating with each tree of interest in an orchard a corresponding first wireless communication device; outfitting each worker that is working in the orchard with a corresponding second wireless communication device; associating with each produce bin that is actively used in the... Agent: Deere & Company

20070185750 - Method, apparatus and computer program for scheduling the extraction of a resource and for determining the net present value of an extraction schedule: The scheduling of extraction of a resource within a mine is disclosed which comprises obtaining drill hole grade data relating to the resource and creating a plurality of different block models, with each block in each model having a resource grade and each of the block models honoring the drill... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070185753 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A disclosed image processing apparatus executes an application relevant to image processing The image processing apparatus includes a request analyzing layer configured to analyze a user-specified request requesting a service; and a workflow control layer configured to control a workflow corresponding to the service in response to a request requesting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070185752 - Method and apparatus for scheduling appointments for multiple location entries: A method for creating a meeting request by scheduling an appointment using a scheduling software system, includes displaying to a user, invitee information including time zone information indicating time zones invitees plan to be in on particular dates and creating a meeting request for a specific date by scheduling an... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070185755 - Method and interface to assist a senior manager reassign project work in a crisis-like situation: A method for enabling a senior manager/VP to reassign an affected project when a current manager resigns, uses a fact-driven approach to find a quick replacement manager (if necessary) with the full knowledge of the impact of the project reassignment on the organization. The senior manager uses a UI connected... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185754 - Task responsibility system: Some embodiments of a task responsibility system may be implemented as an application to support people, machines, or both functioning in a manufacturing or production environment, warehouse environment, or other work environment. The focus is on a plant-local solution. In such circumstances, the task responsibility system may identify and direct... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070185758 - Business method for transitioning grant and/or donation dependent organizations to self-sufficient enterprises: A business method or design created specifically to transition cultural and community services organizations from grant and donation-dependent Title 26, U.S.C. §501(c)(3) organizations to self-sufficient enterprises. In an exemplary method, the business method or design transitions a plurality of grant and/or donation-dependent organizations to self-sufficient enterprises by determining a group... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20070185760 - Redistribution of parts in a distribution network: Redistributing parts includes defining locations. An actual inventory of parts is established among the locations, and a desired allocation of the parts is established among the locations. A demand for the parts at each location is determined using the actual inventory and the desired allocation. Paths are determined, where a... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20070185756 - Shopping pattern analysis system and method based on rfid: Disclosed is a system and method for detecting a location of a consumer in a store using a RFID, analyzing a shopping traffic line of the consumer by checking shopping time of the consumer in a zone in the store and tracing the location of the consumer, and analyzing a... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070185759 - System and method for managing the development and manufacturing of a beverage: A system and method for managing the development and manufacturing process of a beverage is disclosed. The method comprises capturing and recording the development and manufacturing history of the beverage in order to generate a product history. The product history is stored on a computer and is searchable in multiple... Agent: Jones Day

20070185757 - Talent relationship management with e-recruiting: A method for performing Talent Relationship Management (TRM) of candidates uses target groups formed for specified purposes from candidates constituting a talent pool. The target groups may be formed by a recruiter based on candidate attributes obtained from questionnaires, surveys and from data base information, and may be used for... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185761 - Anonymous electronic voting system and anonymous electronic voting method: A voting server transmits a list of plaintext and encrypted voting data obtained by encrypting the plaintext to a voter terminal, and the voter terminal a selected encrypted candidate name corresponding to the plaintext elected by the voter to an encryption server. The encryption server returns encrypted voting data obtained... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070185767 - Apparatus and methods of advertising utilizing photographic printer services: A method for printing on a photographic print including a step of receiving advertising data from an advertiser. The method further includes receiving image data from a customer. The method further includes combining the advertising data and the image data into coupled data. The method further includes printing a photographic... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070185762 - Data communication control system, communication system, service providing method, and computer program: A data communication control system, a communication system, a service providing method, and a computer program, issuing a code train to be used as a keyword through a variety of media such as the Internet, various stores, magazines, and television broadcasting and radio broadcasting while providing, from a game server... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070185770 - Electronic advertising display: The invention of this application is a method and apparatus for remotely operated electronic advertising displays. The method and apparatus described herein allows for advertising images to be displayed on a plurality of advertising display units, the display units being accessible to a content distribution system through a wireless data... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070185772 - Exchange rate calculator: Provided is a computation apparatus that is able to adequately obtain a relative value of an incentive point issued by each shop, by computing an exchange rate used in exchanging shop points of the shop into common points. The computation apparatus (25) stores a function for defining the exchange rate... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070185763 - Information providing system, method thereof, and program: An information providing system includes a database having advertisement information and a bid amount of money of an advertisement stored correspondingly. Corresponding pieces of advertisement information are select from the database responding to a retrieval request from a terminal to decide an advertisement publishing order based upon the bid amount... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070185765 - Method for registering a collectible: A method for registering a collectible, and a subsequent method for verifying the registration, can be carried out by first collecting a registration fee, then receiving purchaser and collectible information, then inputting the information into a database, then assigning a certificate number and registration number for the collectible, and then... Agent: Global Patents

20070185769 - Method, system and computer program product for rewarding purchase of branded products: A service provider can increase customer loyalty to their brand by offering branded products related to their business for sale to the general consumer. Points may be awarded in the service provider's rewards program at an accelerated earning rate when the consumer purchases a branded retail product using a transaction... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185764 - Method, system, and program product for increasing the effectiveness of customer contact strategies: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for increasing the effectiveness of a customer contact strategy. In one embodiment, the method includes assigning a value to each of a plurality of customer events; assigning each of the plurality of promotion events to a “bucket” having a predefined range... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070185768 - Pay-for-visit advertising based on visits to physical locations: A method and system for providing a pay-for-visit billing model for advertisements is provided. The advertisement system provides advertisements that have associated physical visit locations. The advertisement system provides advertisements to a mobile device or fixed of a user when the user is in the vicinity of or examining locations... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185771 - Prepaid subscription voucher: A computer-implemented method is provided for initiating a subscription to a periodical. The method comprises the steps of: purchasing a subscription voucher, wherein the voucher includes a plurality of periodical titles and a single monetary value. The purchaser then selects one of the plurality of periodical titles and indicates a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070185766 - System encouraging website visitors to recommend the site: A system for encouraging visitors to at least one Website to recommend the site to others by use of bonuses and other rewards to be given to the visitors. The system includes software that is downloaded or otherwise transferred to the Website and a proprietary server that downloads or otherwise... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070185774 - Auctioning with bid terminals: Methods and systems are provided for use in auctioning with bid terminals. A first method embodiment includes associating a number of stationary bid terminals with a number of auction items so that each stationary bid terminal is associated with no more than one auction item. The first method also includes... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC

20070185775 - Method and system for facilitating a purchase process: A transaction system and method is provided for enabling potential buyers to purchase goods through reverse on-line auction process. The transaction system is configured to automatically receive periodic uploads of information regarding goods for sale by suppliers and to store this information in a database. A potential buyer can login... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070185782 - Method for anonymous purchase of goods by not providing identifying information to a non-host entity: A method and system for facilitating the purchase of goods and services anonymously from an e-commerce website is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of transaction account numbers, each of which is associated with a monetary load value. The transaction account numbers are stored in a database having a... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070185781 - Method for anonymous purchase of goods by providing a plurality of account numbers: A method and system for facilitating the purchase of goods and services anonymously from an e-commerce website is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of transaction account numbers, each of which is associated with a monetary load value. The transaction account numbers are stored in a database having a... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070185773 - Method for the management of offers related to load transportation services: Method for the management of offers related to load transportation services. It comprises following steps: a) providing to a server a information items relating to firms needing transportation services, said information items including, per firm, at least a firm identifier and at least detail of one geographical zone of transport... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070185776 - System and method for presenting consumer purchasing opportunities through multiple communication and display mediums: An ordering system allows a consumer to interact with an ordering system so as to view advertising or promotions from merchants and to order products or services from merchants through the ordering system. A consumer utilizes an interactive consumer interface device to interface with the ordering system. The interactive consumer... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070185780 - System for anonymous purchase of goods by providing a pluarlity of active account numbers: A method and system for facilitating the purchase of goods and services anonymously from an e-commerce website is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of transaction account numbers, each of which is associated with a monetary load value. The transaction account numbers are stored in a database having a... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070185784 - Controlling product information: Methods, computer readable media, and systems including program instructions are provided for use with virtual product showrooms. A method embodiment includes providing a website with product information for a number of products offered by a distributor to a reseller. The embodiment also includes receiving a price control input, for a... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC

20070185785 - Location based creation of a catalog for a user: A method of, and an apparatus and computer usable program code for, dynamically creating an electronic catalog for a user by a catalog provider. At the outset, the catalog is created by identifying a current location of the user and receiving a second location. The contents of the catalog are... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070185783 - System and method for locating product data within an electronic catalog: A hierarchical menu structure having a plurality of submenus is navigable to a node selectable to request retrieval of a data file containing data related to a product within an electronic catalog. The plurality of submenus includes a plurality of levels of stock number submenus which are to be navigated... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070185788 - Authentication and tracking system: A subset of unique codes is generated from a set of codes. The subset of codes are stored in a database on a secure server and each of the codes is marked on a corresponding instantiation of the product. The marked instantiations are distributed. During their distribution, the marked instantiations... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070185787 - Method for automatically processing warranty registrations: The present invention is directed to a method for automatically registering a warranty for a vehicle by entering into a computer information identifying the vehicle, entering into a computer information related to the purchaser of the vehicle, and transmitting the information to a vehicle manufacturer in such as way as... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070185786 - Systems and methods for inventory allocation in mobile logistics networks: A system and method for optimizing an inventory placement policy for parts within an organization comprising a plurality of mobile entities allocates at least one of said parts to one of the plurality of mobile entities according to a demand within the plurality of mobile entities, and generates an output.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070185790 - System for global compensation of employees: An employee compensation system handles employees located world-wide using a single instance of global employee data. Compliance with various differing laws and regulations in separate countries is handled by separating and calculating unique requirements such as gross-to-net pay on a country specific basis. All other compensation tasks are processed on... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070185791 - System, method, and computer program product for automatically posting transactions associated with a transaction account into a general ledger: A system, method, and computer program product are used to automatically post substantially all transactions associated with a transaction account into a general ledger. Recent transaction data associated with the transaction account is received. The recent transaction data is compared (e.g., matched) to stored and categorized transaction data in the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185792 - Method and system for assisting in compiling employee tax deduction: A method for use by a payroll department for facilitating computing tax deductions of employees in their pay-checks, uses a tax workbench (and UI) which facilitates SAP or other software in carrying out the tax computation process to completion. The method may be incorporated into an existing SAP system known... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185793 - Method and computer network for coordinating a financial, insurance, investment, business service over the internet: The invention relates to a method and a computer for coordinating an electronic application between a company and a plurality of financial, insurance, investment and business service institutions via the Internet. This method involves displaying documents in a web site, and receiving financial, business structure, industry, Paydex Score and credit... Agent: Christopher George

20070185794 - Method and system for finance, distribution and speculation: This invention discloses a method and system that allows individuals to finance and speculate on the success of films and various other projects on the internet. According to the invention, Producers transmit a project offering using an internet-enabled device to a System website, and the System accepts bids from Consumers... Agent: Marc E. Hankin, Esq.

20070185795 - System and method for customizing financial instruments: A graphical user interface of a product configurator is accessible by user computers over a network. In one embodiment, the product configurator presents a plurality of product-based customization options from which a user may select. In response to such options, a user may provide product-based customization information to the product... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070185798 - Method and system for insuring against investment loss: Participants purchase into a given system for a given period of time. Those with investment gains, by definition, are without loss and need no compensation from the system. Those with investment losses are reimbursed by the system according to previously agreed upon terms. Total loss of a given system's participants... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070185797 - System and method for aggregating financial data for loan processing: A system and method for aggregating a user's financial data for submission to a third party, as part of a loan application or other transaction. The data may include asset data (e.g., statements from bank accounts, investment accounts, retirement accounts), credit data (e.g., statements from credit providers), payroll data (e.g.,... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070185796 - Virtual folders for financial accounts: Virtual folders for financial and asset accounts, which enable users to organize and manage account finances and assets according to source, purpose and disposition.... Agent: Lori Kingshott

20070185801 - Healthcare card incentive program for multiple users: A computer-implemented method and system to facilitate a purchase by at least first and second cardmembers using respective transaction instruments associated with a single tax-advantaged account. A request from a merchant to charge a purchase by the first cardmember against the tax-advantaged account for a transaction using the first transaction... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185802 - Incentive programs for healthcare cards: A computer-implemented method and system to facilitate a purchase by a cardmember using a transaction instrument associated with a tax-advantaged account, wherein the tax-advantaged account is associated with a healthcare plan. A request is received from a merchant to charge the tax-advantaged account for a transaction associated with the transaction... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185803 - Incentive programs for healthcare cards: A computer-implemented method and system to facilitate a purchase by a cardmember using a transaction instrument. A request to charge a tax-advantaged account for a transaction using the transaction instrument is received at a host computer. A determination is made whether the charge is for a covered tax-advantaged expense. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070185799 - Spending account systems and methods: A computer-implemented method and system to facilitate a purchase utilizing a tax-advantaged account. A request for payment for an item is received at a host computer. The item comprises any item that qualifies for pre-tax treatment, including, but not limited to: a medical expense; a dental expense; a dependent care... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185800 - Spending account systems and methods: A computer-implemented method and system to facilitate a purchase utilizing a tax-advantaged account. A request to charge the tax-advantaged account for an item is received at a host computer. A determination is made whether the item qualifies for pre-tax treatment. If the item qualifies for pre-tax treatment then at least... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185804 - Method to negotiate for wireless services: A system (100) and method (300) are disclosed to negotiate for wireless services. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method that operates in a communication device (116) for commercially negotiating (304-326) with a service provider for wireless services offered by way of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070185806 - Method and system for monitoring for and reporting of lien distress events: A computer-based method of monitoring for and reporting of a lien distress event relatable to a property within a client loan portfolio includes inputting property data from the portfolio, standardizing the data for querying a lien distress event database, monitoring the database for lien distress events relatable to the standardized... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070185805 - Method for providing payment of membership dues from loan pre-payment plan: A method for facilitating participation in a loan prepayment plan by participants who also desire the benefits of participation in a dues-requiring membership organization. As part of the benefit of participating in a loan prepayment plan, a participant has all or a portion of membership dues for the membership organization... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070185809 - Method and system for processing online charging: A method for processing online charging, according to an embodiment, includes: providing, by an Online Charging System (OCS), a credit limit and a monitoring condition to a Traffic Plane Function (TPF); requesting, by the TPF, the OCS to re-authorize a user if the credit limit has been used up or... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070185807 - System and method for online auction: A method for on-line commercial transactions (i.e., “electronic commerce” or “e-commerce”) creates a community in which the on-line commercial transactions are conducted among registered members. In one embodiment, a new member may be referred by an existing member, and the existing member's account is credited an amount which equals a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070185811 - Authorization of a transaction: In a method for authorizing a transaction by a user with the aid of a terminal which can communicate with a background system, a secret, which is known to the user and to the background system but not to an unauthorized attacker, is used. The background system transmits secret data,... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070185812 - Secure distribution of digital data: A secure digital data distribution system (100) for preventing unauthorized access to digital data. The system utilizes an identification system module (116) embedded in a digital storage media (114) to grant authorization to media players (118). Prior to reading the digital data recorded on the media (114), an identification system... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070185818 - Content sales support method and content sales support apparatus in super distribution system: A content sales support apparatus finds the number of possessions for each content of the encrypted contents stored at the user terminals and the average number of possessions of contents. The content sales support apparatus finds the number of purchases for each content of the keys purchased at the user... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070185813 - Cryptographic methods, apparatus and systems for storage media electronic rights management in closed and connected appliances: A rights management arrangement for storage media such as optical digital video disks (DVDs, also called digital versatile disks) provides adequate copy protection in a limited, inexpensive mass-produceable, low-capability platform such as a dedicated home consumer disk player and also provides enhanced, more flexible security techniques and methods when the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070185814 - Digital rights management engine systems and methods: Systems and methods are described for performing digital rights management. In one embodiment, a digital rights management engine is provided that evaluates license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. In some embodiments, the licenses contain control programs that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070185815 - Digital rights management engine systems and methods: Systems and methods are described for performing digital rights management. In one embodiment, a digital rights management engine is provided that evaluates license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. In some embodiments, the licenses contain control programs that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070185821 - Electronic purchasing method and apparatus for performing the same: A computer-assisted method includes hardware, software and telecommunications components that cooperatively achieve the technical effect of an improved electronic purchasing transaction system. In various embodiments of the invention, at least one master account is established for a client. A pool of limited use account identifiers or secondary account identifiers, that... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar, LLC General Electric Company

20070185819 - Method of establishing cooperative services in a computer system: A method of achieving co-acting services in a data system that includes telephone or data services and at least two computer systems. A transaction database connected to each computer contains transactions that are identified by transaction references, where each transaction is part of a data program for executing a service.... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20070185820 - Multi-account security verification system with a virtual account and linked multiple real accounts: A multi account security verification system, which consists off a virtual account card and a central authentication enterprise. The cardholder is able to select one of the real accounts belonging to the account owner by adding control digits to the virtual account number. The real account is retrieved from the... Agent: Albert I. Talker

20070185822 - System and method for online third-party payment processing: The present invention provides a system and method for a third party to process an online transaction of a first party on a computing device. In architecture, the system includes means for receiving an amount of the transaction from a first party and a means for processing the transaction. The... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070179801 - Computer system and process of accounting for sponsored websites: The invention, as shown and disclosed for a preferred embodiment is a computer system and method for advertising and obtaining proceeds for educational institutions and other related organizations. The system and method comprises a two-sided system, with one side being a hierarchal management system for the marketing, financial, and operations... Agent: Joel I Rosenblatt

20070179811 - Method and apparatus for generating an administrative quality assurance scorecard: The present invention provides a quality assurance system and method that generates a quality assurance (QA) scorecard for administrators that oversee use of digital devices in a radiological-based medical imaging study. According to one embodiment, client computers, servers, imaging devices, databases, and/or other components may be coupled to provided a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070179814 - System for processing data representing a deficiency in a record: A document deficiency processing system enables a clinician to complete a deficiency by filling and electronically signing a form online using a form template created and associated with a particular document type and automatically initiates sending the filled form to a patient record. A healthcare document processing system for processing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070179818 - Integrated method and system for claim submission, processing, resolution and advance funding: A method and system for integrated claim processing is provided that includes features and functions for entering claim-related data in a memory, generating a claim form and storing the claim form in the memory, transmitting the claim form to an insurance carrier, determining whether the claim will be paid by... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070179837 - Method of assessing consumer preference tendencies based on a user's own correlated information: Assessing consumer preference tendencies is performed by storing a N-dimensional data representation of users' consumer-history data with N>2. The users' consumer-history data relates to items that are associated, at least temporarily, with users. E item is categorizable as a consumer good, a service, or an opinion. First data is received... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070179836 - System, method, and computer program product for increasing inventory turnover using targeted consumer offers: Consumer, merchant, and transactional data from a closed loop network and external sources may be leveraged to increase demand of a merchant's inventory during normally low-demand periods. Extensive data mining is used to determine the excess merchant inventory and demand patterns at different times and different locations for merchants and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070179854 - Media predictive consignment: A method and system for enhanced electronic delivery and sale of a content item. In order to speed delivery and avoid congestion of a delivery channel, a potential customer is identified and the item delivered prior to solicitation by the customer. Delivery is at a time when communication resources available... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070179841 - Method and system for providing sponsored content based on user information: Methods and systems for providing sponsored content based on user information are provided. A method for providing sponsored content for use with a business application includes obtaining a user profile of a user of a business application. The user profile is used to provide sponsored content for use with the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070179856 - Revenue adjustment processes: In a system that provides an open exchange environment to connect business entities through a network, methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for performing a revenue adjustment process to distribute one of a revenue surplus or a revenue deficit amongst business entities involved in one or more transactions... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070179855 - System for optimizing energy purchase decisions: A method of determining an optimal energy portfolio for a customer includes: quantifying the customer's risk/reward profile; obtaining customer data, including historical and forward customer data, said customer data including at least customer budgetary constraints; obtaining market data, including historical and forward market data; and determining, as the optimal energy... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070179863 - Collective intelligence recommender system for travel information and travel industry marketing platform: Embodiments of the present invention provide travelers with the ability to get travel advice and travel related information from other users by using the collective intelligence of a web-based social network as well as using the social network for creating marketing and advertising opportunities for travel suppliers.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070179908 - Identifying and compensating for model mis-specification in factor risk models: Techniques for more accurately estimating the risk, or active risk, of an investment portfolio when using factor risk models are disclosed. This improved accuracy is achieved by identifying and compensating for the inherent “modeling error” present when risk is represented using a factor risk model. The approach adds one or... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20070179909 - System, method, and computer program for realizing a unified brokerage access channel: A brokerage aggregation system, method and computer program for receiving an electronic message having at least one activity request directed to one or more brokerage service firms and outputting the activity request. The system includes an input interface configured to receive the electronic message in a first predetermined format, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070179881 - System, method, and apparatus for trading in a decentralized market: A method and system for facilitating the execution of transactions in a decentralized market are provided herein. The decentralized market includes a number of execution points each associated with and maintained in a secure environment by a single participant. Each participant is able to control the amount of data that... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070179884 - Democracy of donations: The invention concerns paying donations, and in particular, donations paid by a business entity 14 based on sales. An administrator 18 of the democratic donations system receives and stores information on purchases made from a business entity that each have an associated donation. The administrator 18 then receives purchase information... Agent: Kenneth M. Fagin

20070179885 - Method and system for authorizing a funds transfer or payment using a phone number: A system and method for phone authorized transfers and/or payments are described. The system generates and authorizes instructions for funds transfers and payments between sender and recipient of participating institutions. The participating institutions of the sender and recipient of the funds transfer/payment may be the same or different, and may... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070179883 - System and method and computer readable code for visualizing and managing digital cash: Systems, methods and computer readable code for visualizing and managing digital cash. For example, a system for visualizing digital cash on a computing device includes: a digital cash status engine to determine at least one attribute of a digital cash bundle; and a digital cash management interface to represent said... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070179891 - Security control method for data transmission process of software protection apparatus and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a secure transmission method and apparatus, particularly to a security control method for a data transmission process and a software protection apparatus using the same, where data transmitted between a computer running protected software and the software protection apparatus is in a cipher-text form, and... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070179796 - Data pre-paid in simple ip data roaming: The described embodiments of the present invention outline two solutions to the problems desribed above regarding simple IP data access for pre-paid subscribers. The first solutions includes a method for providing pre-paid simple IP data service to a subscriber in a network, including: sending an access request from a point... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070179790 - Dynamic workflow approvals: A dynamic approval system, capable of integration with enterprise software systems, where approval requests are generated from within application programs and processed using one or more dynamic approval rules comprising discrete rule steps and step criteria. For each approval request, only those rule steps applicable to the requestor and type... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179800 - Email-based command interface for a telematics-equipped vehicle: An email-based interface to a telematics-equipped vehicle which allows a subscriber to send an email command to the vehicle to obtain vehicle information by return email or to carry out a vehicle function. The email-based interface method uses a vehicle email notification system and method in which triggers are used... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070179794 - Internet based credential management system: A secure credential management system (CMS) receives a document over the internet from an issuing institution and stores the document in a credential repository in an inbox associated with the person to which the document pertains. The CMS notifies the person that a document pertaining to him or her is... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20070179793 - Method and apparatus for model-driven managed business services: A mechanism provides a model-driven solution template-based approach for managed business services. Key assets of the business services are templatized and made configurable. The mechanism implements a metamodel describing standard service offerings that can be configured to meet specific business and operational requirements at a level of business process and... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070179797 - Method and apparatus for receiving a product notice using a notifier appendage: A product recall notice receiver that includes a housing with a strap orifice. A receiver si installed in the housing together with antenna, a power source and an indicator.... Agent: Intellectual Property Development Jack Ivan J'maev

20070179795 - Method and system for globalization of business processes: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system wherein a globalization component of software is decoupled from an overall business software platform. The decoupling allows changes required by the frequently-evolving and unpredictable environment of international regulation to be more quickly and easily made than in the past,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070179802 - Policy enforcement via attestations: Policy enforcement via attestations is provided. A principal operates within an environment and assumes roles having certain access rights to resources and the principal takes actions while assuming those roles. The roles and actions are monitored and attestations are raised under the proper set of circumstances. The attestations trigger policy... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/novell

20070179791 - System and method for configuring scoring rules and generating supplier performance ratings: A system and method for configuring a scoring rule is described. One embodiment includes constructing a performance level code for each performance metric in the scoring rule, designating performance levels and corresponding raw score ranges for each performance level code, assigning a performance metric point maximum to each performance metric... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179792 - System for providing a service to venues where people aggregate: A system and method for providing a service to promoters, including venues and advertising sponsors, who wish to provide promotions. The service includes making promoter promotions accessible by the mobile phones of members associated with an organization. Typically a promotion and member are matched based on the member's geographical position,... Agent: James F. Kramer

20070179799 - User-initiated vehicle email notification: A method and system for user-initiated vehicle email notifications in which an owner or user of the vehicle initiates the generation and transmission of an email message that provides diverse types of dynamic vehicle information to the owner or other authorized subscriber. The email notification can be triggered at the... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070179798 - Vehicle email system and method with financial notification features: A vehicle email notification system and method that provides the owner or other authorized subscriber with email messages containing dynamic vehicle information such as mileage and remaining oil life along with vehicle financial information such as lease information, end of lease options, and an estimated vehicle price based on mileage... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070179810 - Controls for antimicrobial use and infection: The present invention relates to protocols, systems, programs and methods for the integrated management of risk in a health care environment. The present invention relates to the management of antimicrobial therapy. The present invention relates to the management of infection and surgical site infections. The present invention further relates to... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070179806 - Medication therapy management process: A medication therapy management process. The system receives input data relating to a patient profile including, but not limited to, a patients age, gender, and race; medical history; medication history; and problems such as allergies. The patient data is then compared to one or more databases according to a set... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070179808 - Method and apparatus for medical covering group processing, review, and management: Certain embodiments include a method for a first covering group member belonging to a covering group of using a request list containing a request list component for each of the covering group members. The covering group containing at least two covering group members. Each of the request list components further... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070179805 - Method and system for improving the quality of service and care in a healthcare organization: A method for improving the quality of healthcare, efficiency, and patient satisfaction procedures is provided. The method includes conducting at least a first survey of patients regarding care provided before, during, and after a procedure, wherein the survey focuses on benchmarks identified as being relevant to quality of care. The... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070179804 - Method and system to offer and to acquire clinical knowledge using a centralized knowledge server: In a method and system for providing clinical knowledge from a provider to a medical user based on one or more diagnostic questions submitted by the user to the provider, a clinical knowledge communication server is provided with an associated knowledge database. The at least one or more diagnostic questions... Agent: Schiff Hardin LLP Patent Department

20070179803 - Method for verifying the feasibility of a medical study using acceptance criteria for patients: A method is for verifying the feasibility of a medical study using acceptance criteria for patients. The method includes defining target criteria for the study. Based on the acceptance criteria, a patient collective including potential patients is selected from a database containing patient data of patients. The patient data of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070179807 - Order profile safeguarding mechanism: An order management system that employs profile locking is provided for managing clinical orders in patient profiles. The system allows users to initiate lockable order actions (e.g., order actions requiring a profile lock for conflict checking) in a profile locked by another user. When a user attempts to initiate a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20070179809 - System and method for performing a cost-utility analysis of pharmaceutical interventions: A system and a method for performing a cost-utility analysis of pharmaceutical interventions where each pharmaceutical intervention is associated with several potential health states. The system includes a processor and a database. The database contains for each pharmaceutical intervention several utility values associated with each health state and a probability... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070179816 - Anatomical pain elimination system and methods for delivering personalized anatomical therapy sessions: A user directed interactive method and system for implementing customized therapy routines. The method and system obtains relevant information from a user via an interactive questionnaire and via digital therapeutic techniques to evaluate the user's pain and provide a customized treatment regimen. The user then implements the custom treatment regimen... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20070179812 - Health history formatting method and system for the same: A health history formatting system, comprising at least one computer server connected to a remote user interface via the Internet, wherein the health history formatting system: (a) elicits health history data from a patient, who personally transmits the data to the health history formatting system; (b) stores the data for... Agent: The Harris Firm

20070179813 - Medical re-pricing, payment and information management system: A medical re-pricing and payment system is described in which a provider of medical goods and/or services submits, via telephone or other communications medium, a request for payment amount determination for a patient encounter. A price determination system determines which of a plurality of fee schedules negotiated by the provider... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070179815 - Medical screening system and method: Systems and methods for screening large client populations (e.g., students) to identify those clients susceptible to a medical condition (e.g., a cardiac condition) are provided. In general, the system allows for a large number of clients to be tested at a convenient location (e.g., a school), on-site identification of those... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070179817 - System and method for per-patient licensing of interventional imaging software: A method for implementing per-use licensing for image processing software includes acquiring image data from an image scanner. Processed image data is calculated from the image data using an image processing module. The processed image data is exported. The use of the image processing module is logged in an accounting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070179819 - Integrated reservation and ticketing system: This invention is an apparatus and method that efficiently matches goods and service providers with consumers. The invention does this by taking inventory information from a provider and matching the goods or services in the inventory with individuals based on the individual's current geographic location and an individual's profile. The... Agent: Ketan S. Vakil, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070179824 - Apparatus and method for forecasting data using fuzzy boundaries: A computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner includes executable instructions to construct a control chart containing business data values and control limits that account for the inherent uncertainty associated with defining precise alert thresholds. A forecast is then made for the control chart and... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070179826 - Creating a modified ontological model of a business machine: Services of a business process are selected for execution. Ontological data is read from a data source corresponding to sub-process sets of the business process. Each sub-process set comprises at least one service. A first ontological model is generated from the read ontological data. Performance characteristics are read for at... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20070179822 - Method and apparatus for business process transformation wizard: A computer implemented method and a computer system implementing the method of a business process transformation wizard leads a business analyst through a series of steps to invoke business transformation patterns, in order to analyze the results of those processes. The wizard first prompts the business analyst to specify business... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, Christofferson, P.C.

20070179821 - Method for transformation of enterprise models to business process models: A transformation method is described having three phases. The first phase provides a tool and language independent annotation framework to capture semantics of entities as well as their relationships with other entities. The second phase converts the entities on the business level into corresponding entities on a technical level. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070179825 - Method of configuring a process model: In various embodiments, a system, method and apparatus is provided for configuring a process model. In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving management information related to a process. The method also includes receiving business information related to the process. The method further includes receiving technical information... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070179823 - Observation modeling: A model editor is configured to generate an observation model of the activity based on a modeling language. The observation model includes a specification of one or more activity metrics to be monitored. A monitor is configured to receive a plurality of models and events, such that at least one... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (rsw)

20070179820 - Regional benchmarking system: A database that generates summary as well as detailed comparisons between regions on a wide range of indicators, providing clear benchmarks to support the work of policymakers and analysts as well the general public. The first implementation of this data application system is the Regional Innovation Index, focused on economic... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20070179827 - Application processing and decision systems and processes: The present invention relates to application processing and decisioning systems and processes. One embodiment of the invention includes a method for automating decisioning for a credit request associated with an applicant. The method includes providing a user computer interface adapted to receive information associated with an applicant, and further adapted... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070179828 - Method and system for top-down business process definition and execution: A system and method is presented utilizing a set of software tools for the graphical definition of top-down workflow process models. Once defined, these models are completely useable enterprise applications that can be deployed in real-time without interrupting current business operations. The present invention has three main components: the process... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070179829 - Method and apparatus for workflow scheduling and forecasting: A method and system for workflow scheduling and forecasting is disclosed. The method may include automatically generating a predicted workforce schedule for a work tour period, such as a period of several weeks or months, and populating the workforce schedule with workforce members based on prioritized work tour preferences received... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070179830 - System and method for scheduling employee shifts: A system and method for scheduling employee shifts. Two types of users generally utilize the system to post and view schedules, managers and workers. A manager may define shifts for work areas and post the shifts so workers may obtain their schedule and know when to work. Workers may retrieve... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070179833 - Assisted business process exception management: A computer-implemented method of handling exceptions in a business process is disclosed. In one embodiment, a business process exception is identified, classified as being at least one of a plurality of exception types, wherein the classification is based at least in part on a plurality of classification rules, and allocated... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070179834 - Federation and attestation of online reputations: Techniques for federating and for attesting to online reputations are provided. A variety of reputation sources supply portions of reputation information about a principal. The portions are aggregated and optionally weighted to form a summary of reputation information. The summary is then represented as an attestation and optionally signed by... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070179832 - Methods and systems for managing online advertising assets: There are provided methods and systems for managing online advertising assets such as keywords. Taxonomical organizing of assets is used in combination with statistical analytical techniques to enable media/asset managers to straight-forwardly manage large numbers of assets based on the known performance of relatively smaller numbers of assets. Useful cost/performance... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070179835 - Syndicated ratings and reviews: The present invention relates to a computerized system and method for syndicating independent review and rating information for use by third parties. In one aspect, the present invention includes a method and system for allowing web site operators to cause syndicated ratings from an independent rating provider to appear on... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070179831 - Systems and methods of managing assignments: Disclosed are systems and methods of making assignments, particularly of sales leads. The assignments are considered either committed or uncommitted responsive to an effective date associated with one or more assignment rule used to make the assignments. Uncommitted assignments may be used to review the effects of changes in assignment... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179849 - Ad publisher performance and mitigation of click fraud: The claimed subject matter can provide a mechanism that facilitates a new advertising architecture in the advertising space, e.g., for ranking publishers of ads and/or mitigating click-fraud. A mechanism is provided to confirm transactions that occur between a customer and a merchant as well as an indication of which ad... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179846 - Ad targeting and/or pricing based on customer behavior: The claimed subject matter can provide a mechanism that facilitates a new advertising and/or referral architecture in the Internet advertising space, e.g., for advertising on search engine web pages and/or on content web pages. A mechanism is provided for ad targeting and pricing based upon customer behavior. Accordingly, the ad(s)... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179853 - Allocating rebate points: The claimed subject matter can provide a mechanism for issuing advertising rebates to the advertisers in the form of advertiser points. In one aspect the points can be issued as a function of a points ratio that can be determined and/or updated periodically based upon customer ratings. In another aspect,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179848 - Employing customer points to confirm transaction: The claimed subject matter can provide a mechanism that facilitates a new advertising and/or referral architecture in the Internet advertising space, e.g., for advertising on search engine web pages and/or on content web pages. A mechanism is provided to confirm transactions even without monitoring them e.g., by issuing perishable, non-redeemable... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179843 - Information engine and associated method of delivering targeted metrics: A wireless mobile computing device is provided for receiving and transmitting data. A wireless interface is configured to capture product parameters. The parameters function to at least identify the product with respect to a repository of information operably linked to the mobile computing device. A transceiving unit is configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070179851 - Information output system, information output method, and computer product: An output-history storing unit stores product information output to a terminal device as output history for each terminal device. A purchasing-history storing unit stores purchase information for identifying a product purchased by a user as purchasing history for each user. A verifying unit collates the output history stored in the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070179840 - Joint redemption account: A method of combining reward points from a plurality of rewards program accounts in a single rewards program into a joint redemption account is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a joint redemption or community reward account to which program members can contribute rewards points; allowing one or more contributing program... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070179852 - Media distribution systems: A media distribution computer system, in which the computer system is adapted for facilitating the communication (e.g., streaming) of advertisements, such as video advertisements, to a user in conjunction with the delivery of a media file to the user (such as a video or music file). The system may be... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070179845 - Merchant rankings in ad referrals: The claimed subject matter can provide a mechanism that facilitates a new advertising ranking architecture in the Internet advertising space, e.g., for advertising on search engine web pages and/or on content web pages. A mechanism is provided to confirm transactions even without monitoring them e.g., and, once verified, the customer... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179839 - Method and computer program product for redeeming loyalty points in an online raffle: Methods and computer program products for performing an online auction are described. An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-based method for performing an online raffle for an item, utilizing loyalty rewards points as currency. The method includes the following. Information about the item is displayed on a website.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070179838 - Method and system for coupon presentation: The present invention discloses a means and system whereby users are afforded redeemable coupons, rebates and gift certificates through display system incorporation of a graphic image of a currency acceptor slot that visually dispenses redeemable coupons, rebates and gift certificates comprised of a coupon image area for graphic images and... Agent: Michael I Kroll

20070179842 - Method and system to deliver a pixel or block based non-intrusive internet web advertisement mall service via interactive games using one-time numeric codes: A fully integrated pixel or block based non-intrusive web advertisement mall service system is disclosed. Components of this system include Block Ads Panel, Navigation Panel, Mall Selection Panel, Block JackPot Panel, General Message & Promotion Panel, Block JackPot Award Status Panel, Banner Ads Panel, Sponsor Subscription Panel, and Search Panel.... Agent: Chaing Chen

20070179850 - Method, system, and computer program product for rewarding customer loyalty: A service-related merchant may link its rewards program to a transaction account held by a consumer. Points may be awarded to the transaction account at an accelerated earning rate for various types of spend by the consumer, such as every day spend and direct spend. Additionally, points earned through any... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070179847 - Search engine segmentation: The claimed subject matter can provide a mechanism that facilitates market segmentation among search engines. A segmentation mechanism is provided that displays a plurality of search engines that can be employed in connection with a plurality of search types. Thus, an Internet search query can be analyzed, e.g., by keywords... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179844 - System and method for insuring frequent traveler reward miles: Air miles insurance allows customers to protect the value of their reward miles when a covered airline ceases operation and those reward miles are not honored by another carrier, or if a covered airline continues to operate, but discontinues its reward program and the miles are not honored by another... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070179857 - System and method for optimizing the selection and delivery of advertisements: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating weights with which one or more advertisements comprising an advertisement group are selected for distribution. The method of the present invention comprises retrieving analytics data for the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group, and retrieving advertiser specified... Agent: Seth H. Ostrow, Esq. Dreier LLP

20070179858 - Apparatus and method for optimized online shopping: The apparatus and methods disclosed herein implement a convenient and efficient web-browser based search-and-retrieve mechanism that incorporates a more responsive search engine coupled with an integrated collection display. The browser-based search-and-retrieve mechanism allows a user to quickly and easily retrieve a list of search items from a large database, select... Agent: Wright Law Group, PLLC

20070179859 - Blocking orders during order processing: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for blocking orders during order processing. A block for an order is received during processing of the order, wherein a reason for the block for the order is associated with the block for the order. A set of actions... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070179862 - Exhibitor assistant: Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to systems and methods for assisting a user in presenting an exhibition booth at an exhibition. In particular, embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for providing a user with a guided interface through which the user can arrange... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070179865 - Method for anonymous purchase of goods by providing a pluarlity of non-activated account numbers: A method and system for facilitating the purchase of goods and services anonymously from an e-commerce website is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of transaction account numbers, each of which is associated with a monetary load value. The transaction account numbers are stored in a database having a... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070179866 - Method for anonymous purchase of goods via an ecommerce website: A method and system for facilitating the purchase of goods and services anonymously from an e-commerce website is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of transaction account numbers, each of which is associated with a monetary load value. The transaction account numbers are stored in a database having a... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070179860 - Motor vehicle remarketing service: A method of marketing privately owned motor vehicles. The method is accomplished by use of electronic-commerce architecture in combination with a professional car care industry. The electronic-commerce architecture enables the thousands of brick-and-mortar professional car care enterprises to morph into one hybrid model resulting in a branded service that is... Agent: Craig Duncan Romero

20070179864 - Seating accessory: A seating pad assembly is provided for use by travelers to increase the comfort for a seat on a public transportation vehicle or at a public transit terminal. A system and method for ordering the seating pad assembly for a transportation seat includes at least one terminal configured for entering... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070179861 - Transaction entity to facilitate exchanges between remote customers and vendors: According to some embodiments, a transaction entity may determine historical pricing information associated with a plurality of vendors and a plurality of products. The transaction entity may also receive, from a remote customer, purchasing information associated with a requested product. A first price may be automatically calculated based at least... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070179868 - Electronic damaged vehicle estimating system that downloads part price data: A system for generating electronic cost repair estimates for damaged vehicles. The system includes one or more client computers connected to a server through a network. The server maintains a database of current vehicle part prices. The current vehicle part prices are downloaded to the client computers through the network.... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070179867 - Virtual reality shopping experience: A solution is provided for a method for a user to shop online in a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) setting by receiving a request at a shopping server to view a shopping location, having at least one store, and displaying the shopping location to the user's computer in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070179869 - Customer inventory enhancement system: A system, apparatus and process are disclosed for enhancing the business of a customer. The system inputs the inventory of individual components held by the customer and compares the individual components to a table of kits listing the individual components used in each kit. The system provides the customer with... Agent: William R. Gustavson

20070179870 - Account reconciliation system and method: Systems, methods and user interfaces that facilitate the reconciliation process in computerized accounting systems are provided. An advantageous feature of aspects of the account reconciliation systems and method provide that two types of entries are grouped together and their sums compared to determine if grouped entries are balanced. In addition,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179877 - Computerized method, apparatus and system for issuing surety bonds: A method, system and apparatus for obtaining a bond is disclosed. The invention, employs a computer system that has a work station in communication with a server to provide information on a contractor that is required by a surety over the computer system. The server is provided with owner/obligee information... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20070179876 - Dynamic computer software for trading securities: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method of trading securities, a computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for trading securities, and a computer program product for use with a graphics display device. The program determines a reference price for the security, monitors the value of the security... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070179874 - Method and system for securitizing a currency related commodity: Systems and methods for providing a tradable (e.g., exchange-listed) instrument by securitizing foreign currency using a foreign currency trust or other special-purpose vehicle that is established to hold one or more particular foreign currency and to issue foreign currency trust shares and/or receipts corresponding to the value of the foreign... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070179875 - Method for wirelessy real-time transmission of financial stock graphs and device of the time: A method for wirelessly real-time transmission of financial stock graphs and device of the same are disclosed, in which, a hyper text transfer protocol transmission servo module (HTTP transmission servo module) is added to a conventional finical quotation terminal. The hyper text transfer protocol transmission servo module is connected to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070179871 - System and method for providing and utilizing cascading express asset capitalization integration rules: A system and method is provided which minimizes the amount of human intervention required to capitalize expenditures into assets. According to one embodiment, asset (capitalization) integration rules pertaining to automatic asset creation and capitalization is set at a business unit level. When a project is created within the business unit,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179872 - System and method for utilizing proforma processing of adjustments in consolidation processes: A system and method is provided for utilizing proforma processing on adjustments in consolidation processes. The system comprises a proforma consolidation processor configured for consolidating at least one adjustment entry received from an adjustment journal. The proforma consolidation processor only performs consolidation on the at least one adjustment entry. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179873 - Transaction allocation: 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

20070179880 - Managing negotiation limits in an e-commerce system: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to negotiation limits management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for managing negotiation limits in an e-commerce system. In an embodiment of the invention, an e-commerce data processing system configured for negotiation limit management... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070179879 - Method and computer program product for creating a unique online auction: A computer-based method for performing an online auction of an item in which loyalty rewards points can be used as currency is presented. The method includes the following steps: Information about a large component of the auction item is displayed on a website, which allows customers to view the information... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070179878 - Method of optimum auction using network service: An optimum auction method using a network is disclosed. Especially, being different from a typical auction method for simply evaluating a personally proposed bod price, the optimum auction method evaluates various evaluation particulars for the auction and evaluation methods in overall, thereby selecting an optimum bidder who is close to... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070179882 - Method of increasing cash flow for a not-for-profit entity: A method of increasing cash flow for a not-for-profit entity (201) includes: (a) pledging a donation amount as collateral for a loan amount while the donation amount remains unrealized by the not-for-profit entity; (b) investing the loan amount at an investment rate greater than a lending rate for the loan... Agent: George C. Chen Bryan Cave LLP

20070179886 - Method for facilitating payment of a billing statement: A method for receiving payment from an account holder that does not require the account holder to write a check. The method includes the following steps: (a) issuing a periodic statement to the account holder, the statement including an amount owed by the account holder, checking account information of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070179887 - Periodical payment system, control method thereof, service provider of that payroll and control method thereof: Disclosed are a periodic payment system for service use fees and a control method thereof, and a service provider of the payment system and a control method thereof. The periodic payment system receiving information on credit of a subscriber from a payment information provider includes a payment acknowledgement server for... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070179888 - System for organizational fundraising using retail gift cards: The invention provides a method of increasing charitable giving. The method generally provides an indicia of a gift, the indicia having a denomination associated therewith, associating a charity with the indicia, and debiting the indicia and transferring an amount of the denomination to the charity. It is emphasized that this... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20070179889 - Automated banking machine system using internet address customer input: An automated banking machine (12) is operative to conduct transactions in response to HTML documents and TCP/IP messages exchanged with a local computer system (14) through an intranet (16), as well as in response to messages exchanged with foreign servers (20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 96) in a wide area... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070179890 - Secure access to transaction based information: The present invention includes a system and method for securing information and accessing secured information. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, information is secured by associating a context in which the information was generated, for example. To access the secured information, a user provides a point in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179892 - Previewing in live electronic commerce environment: A method for previewing electronic commerce content in a live electronic commerce environment is provided. A preview mode is selected on a live electronic commerce server, which invokes a preview application. A unique user session associated with a user is created for the preview mode. A user request is verified... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070179894 - System and method for leveraging procurement across companies and company groups: A leveraged procurement network (LPN) system for leveraging purchasing across company and company groups includes a front-end requisition and catalog system accessible by users from a plurality of companies in different company groups. Access to procurement resources is controlled by user profiles and resource profiles specifying for each user and... Agent: Shelley M. Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20070179893 - System and method for redistributing and licensing access to protected information among a plurality of devices: A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's Program. Software tools which can be incorporated into a Programmer's Program allow the User to access Advanced Features of the Programmer's Program... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070179895 - System and method for securing data through a pda portal: Consumers may utilize computing devices to assist in the purchase and/or loyalty process, and in particular, the consumer may utilize a PDA to facilitate the purchase and/or loyalty process. During the purchase and/or loyalty process, the consumer may need to insure that any content downloaded or used in association with... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070179896 - Locking changing hard disk content to a hardware token: A method for preventing unauthorized use of a software program on a computing device includes updating a state of a software program on a computing device to an updated state. Transmitting an update signal from the software program to a hardware token coupled to the computing device and updating a... Agent: Venable LLP

20070179897 - Conditional stream access: A method of transacting business in conjunction with playing protected media content owned by a media content owner, wherein said protected media content has been provided and enabled for playback on a first electronic equipment. The protected media content is streamed from the first electronic equipment to a second electronic... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070179899 - License management apparatus capable of efficiently executing job or workflow, license management system, license management method, and recording medium: A license management apparatus, a license management system, a license management method, and a recording medium are provided, in which a job or a work flow is executed efficiently. The order of grant of a license is controlled according to a grant request for a license for a function necessary... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070179900 - License protection system, billing system therewith, and method for licensing a software: A license protection system for licensing a software installation comprising a license server and an installed software, preferably a billing software, wherein the license server stores encrypted license information for the software, and the software comprises a retrieval means for retrieving license information from said license server and a decryption... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070179898 - Secure consumer distribution of content using subkeys for encryption and authentication: User-to-user (“superdistribution”) of digital content allows for management and control of the distribution by a content owner, content distributor or other owner or licensee of the content. Provisions are also available for identifying senders and receivers of content for purposes of compensating or encouraging distribution. A sending user generates a... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070179901 - Secure gateway providing adaptable access to services: A secure gateway for a postal services infrastructure includes a server for receiving credentials from a meter and operable to authenticate the meter utilizing the credentials, and circuitry for providing services from information associated with the authenticated meter.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070179902 - Printing apparatus system and method: A printing apparatus, system and method is provided, wherein the printing apparatus includes an imager and a verifier and prints images, such as postage indicia including addressee information on a material such as a mail piece. The apparatus verifies whether the images, such as postage indicia, printed on the material,... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070179904 - Apparatus and method for providing sealed storage in a data processing device: An apparatus and method for providing a sealed storage in a data processing device are provided. Processors of the data processing device may operate in a hardware isolation mode which allows a process to execute in an isolated environment on a processor and associated memory thereby being protected from access... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070179903 - Identity theft mitigation: Public-key authentication, based on public key cryptographic techniques, is utilized to authenticate a person opening an account. The person provides a declaration to use only public-key authentication and a copy of his/her public key to an authorized agent, such as a credit bureau. The person provides a signed request to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070179906 - Methods for operating infrastructure and applications for cryptographically-supported services: In an infrastructure in which some of a plurality of entities provide cryptographically supported services, a method of registering a subscriber entity of a plurality of entities at a principal entity of a plurality of entities, the method comprising the subscriber entity requesting service from the principal entity by sending... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070179905 - Stateless human detection for real-time messaging systems: Stateless human detection for real-time systems allows a real-time message system to challenge incoming messages suspected of being generated by an automated application. When a suspect message is detected, a challenge is presented to a sender of the message. The challenge is designed to require human intervention to provide a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070179907 - Security bootstrapping for distributed architecture devices: Securing the boot phase of a computing system implemented as a distributed architecture device can be performed by a system or method that uses hash functions and public key infrastructure (PKI) to verify the authenticity of modular subsystems. The modular subsystems can verify each other's authenticity, and can prevent unauthorized... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070179910 - Method and apparatus for monitoring a postage meter: A franking module is provided which allows the postal customer to apply indicia to an item of mail, the indicia including an indication of the current value of postage available in postage meter. The indicia would be read and the available postage value would be accessible by a third party... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070179911 - System and method for an on-line jurisdiction manager: The jurisdiction online manager manages required jurisdictional inspections mandated by a plurality of different jurisdictions performed by non-governmental entities. A central computer system receives object data for an object and most other information via a global computer network, typically the Internet. Based upon the provided object data, the jurisdiction online... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070179912 - System and method for an on-line jurisdiction manager: The jurisdiction online manager manages required jurisdictional inspections mandated by a plurality of different jurisdictions performed by non-governmental entities. A central computer system receives object data for an object and most other information via a global computer network, typically the Internet. Based upon the provided object data, the jurisdiction online... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070179913 - Intelligent indicia for document handling apparatus and method of use: An RFID system includes an RFID tag imbedded or printed on a print medium, such as a sheet of paper. The tagged sheet is used as part of a mail piece in a document handling system to direct the operation of the system through a controller. Data from the tagged... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070179914 - Pre-processing unit for documents to be printed, system including such a pre-processing unit, and method for pre-processing documents: A document pre-processing unit for pre-processing documents to be printed. The unit has a processor input for receiving document data at least representing content. A computing unit is connected to the processor input, for computing a number of sheets a physical document would include if printed in accordance with the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070179915 - System and method of remote videoing of meter readings: This invention is a type of system and method of remote videoing of meter readings. It can be used for remotely recording the readings of a meter. It comprises a video module that videos the figures indicated on the meter into meter data, a communication module at the household end... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C. Suite 500

20070179916 - Online wardrobe: A wardrobe closet that assists users in selecting and purchasing clothing is provided. A radio frequency receiver scans tags embedded in clothing to identify the clothing. When a user removes an article of clothing from the wardrobe closet, the wardrobe closet suggests other articles of clothing that match the removed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222