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 a