Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 09/07

20070225990 - Custody calculation system: A method creating a custody order and custody calculation comprising: inputting general background information relating to the parent and child for whom custody is to be shared; calculating a custody percentage between the respective parents based upon a plurality of criteria; generating a Court Order relating to custody; and generating... Agent: NationalIPRights Center, LLC Scott J. Fields, Esq.

20070226002 - Financial gaming system and method: A gaming system and method within a gaming establishment having a plurality of electronic gaming devices for a player to play games of chance or skill. A central database stores a financial account for the player. Each of the plurality of gaming devices communicates with the central database either directly... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20070225995 - Method and security modules for an incident deployment and response system for facilitating access to private civil security resources: A plurality of private civil security resources comprise, at least in part, civil security provisions, civil security facilities, and civil security provisions. Authorized beneficiaries are then provided with consideration-based access to this plurality of private civil security resources. A management system is used to manage at least the private civil... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070225993 - Method for civilly-catastrophic event-based transport service and vehicles therefor: Consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers is provided with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to at least transport service for at least authorized beneficiaries. Arrangements are provided for at least the transport service. This includes determining at least one pick-up location for collecting at least one authorized beneficiary... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070226001 - Method for conserving real property resources: A method for preserving real property for conservation including presenting to potential customers a selection of real property for conservation; accepting a customer selection of the real property for consideration; conducting an aspect of another transaction via a network; and applying money associated from another transaction to a conservative-based transaction... Agent: Hoffman Wasson & Gitler, P.c Crystal Center 2, Suite 522

20070225994 - Method for providing private civil security services bundled with second party products: A first party provides private civil security resources that comprise, at least in part: civil security provisions, civil security facilities, and civil security services. The first party also knowingly permits a second party to offer a product bundle that comprises at least one second party product and at least partial... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070226000 - Method of distributing and marketing repair information: A system and method for delivering targeted, specific repair or task information to allow a consumer to complete a repair or task without having to resort to comprehensive materials. The targeted or specific repair or task information can be delivered to the consumer in a variety of formats, including computer... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva, P.C.

20070225998 - Systems and methods for providing, marketing, and supporting integrated web-based software: Embodiments of the invention are systems and methods for providing, marketing, and supporting integrated web-based software. In one embodiment, a method of providing an integrated financial and benefits system is provided. The method can include offering to a prospective entity an integrated system comprising a payroll module integrated with a... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070226008 - Automated system and method for prioritization of waiting patients: The present invention provides an automated triage system performs a computerized method that includes the steps of: (1) for plurality of patients, gathering medical factor(s) associated with each patient's medical condition, where the medical condition may be (a) a type of injury, (b) a symptom, (c) a condition of a... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20070226007 - Health service support system: A method for deciding items and parameters for selection of health guidance receivers, and a method for readjusting the method. To that end, there is provided a health service support system including a routine for computing a health guidance effect on a time-series basis by the category obtained by combining... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070226016 - System and method for certifying the restoration of damaged property: In an exemplary embodiment, a server system provides a user interface that allows a user to Submit daily moisture content readings for a variety of damaged property during the restoration process. The user interface also allows a user to submit target values for each of the moisture content readings. The... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226018 - System and method for managing an insurance claim: In an exemplary embodiment, a server system provides a user interface that allows users to submit a variety of claim data for an insurance claim stemming from water damage to an insured property. The server system utilizes the user-submitted claim data to generate additional claim data. The user-submitted claim data... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226017 - System and method for mitigating damage to an insured property: In an exemplary embodiment, a server system includes a user interface that allows a first user (such as a claim administrator or an insurance carrier) to submit the date/time that a contractor is dispatched to an insured property and that allows a second user (such as a claim administrator or... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226021 - Distributed system and method for event ticket management and delivery: A ticket management system and method accommodates distributed ticket delivery by enabling ticket purchasers to select from among a plurality of distribution options. In addition to physical mailing, the present invention provides for electronic transmission of tickets directly to purchasers or directly to remote kiosks or stations for pick up.... Agent: Williams Mullen

20070226029 - System and method for automatically monitoring the performance of a contractor in the management of an insurance claim: In an exemplary embodiment, a server system stores a plurality of textual scripts in a database server in association with a plurality of contractor actions. Each of the textual scripts comprises an alert notifying the contractor of an obligation to perform the associated contractor action. The server system generates a... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226044 - Real-time subjective/objective venue evaluation method: Disclosed is a method for providing a real-time evaluation of venues such as clubs, bars and restaurants. The real-time evaluation provides a user member with an instantaneous snapshot of a venue's happenings. The method evaluates a venue based upon both subjective and demographic criteria. Subjective criteria provide an understanding of... Agent: Steven L Schmid

20070226046 - Sales agent feedback system: A programmed system and method using software and a web site set up for buyer's agent promotional content which provides potential buyer feedback information automatically to a seller's agent. The seller's agent and seller view the buyer's agent web site which promotes the buyer's agent's for sale offerings which might... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20070226060 - Method and system for creating advertisement-list which divides big advertiser's advertising information: A method and system for creating an advertising list including a big advertiser's advertising information, which can prevent a big advertiser's advertising information, less associated with a content page, from being displaying only because the big advertiser purchased a plurality of keywords, and thereby control ‘the Poor Get Poorer and... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070226057 - System for managing dynamic placement of advertisements in electronic information pages: A system for serving electronic advertisements over a data packet network has a node connected to the data packet network, data storage accessible to the node for holding advertisements for service and associated data, and a software instance running on the node for selecting and causing placement of advertisements including... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070226058 - Time based electronic advertisement: Determining performance of an electronic advertisement is disclosed. Data associated with a measured time of the electronic advertisement is received. The received data is analyzed to determine a performance value of the advertisement. In some cases, the performance value is associated with a time based electronic advertisement cost model.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070226063 - Real-time subjective and demographic venue evaluation method: Disclosed is a method for providing a real-time evaluation of venues such as clubs, bars and restaurants. The real-time evaluation provides a user member with an instantaneous snapshot of a venue's happenings. The method evaluates a venue based upon both subjective and demographic criteria. Subjective criteria provide an understanding of... Agent: Steven L. Schmid

20070226072 - System and method for managing the sale of salvage items in connection with the management of an insurance claim: In an exemplary embodiment, a claim administrator receives a list of salvage items associated with an insurance claim. The claims administrator dispatches a contractor to retrieve and store the salvage items, wherein the contractor is preferably a member of a restoration network associated with the claim administrator. The claim administrator... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226089 - System and method for distributing building materials in a controlled manner: The disclosure relates to a portable system for distributing building materials comprising a motor vehicle which can be in the form of a truck. Disposed on a flat bed of the truck is at least one container coupled to the motor vehicle. The container can include at least one stirrer... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070226153 - System and method for analyzing distributions for taxation analysis: A method and system receives one or more target distribution amounts corresponding to currency totals for one or more foreign entities to distribute to one or more domestic entities in one or more years, the foreign entities being direct or indirect subsidiaries of the one or more domestic entities, then... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070226154 - Method integrating annuities, mortality contingent bonds and derivatives, for benefiting charitable organizations: A method for benefiting charitable organizations integrating annuities, mortality contingent bond or other mortality-hedging derivative. A plurality of donors is grouped into a block, each donor in the block selecting at least one benefiting charity. At least one lending entity issues a mortality contingent bond loan or a derivative loan... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070226125 - Interactive system and method for transacting business: A system is disclosed allowing potential buyers of products or services to collectively bargain with potential sellers. Potential buyers of the same product or service are organized into a buyers' group through a user interface. Potential sellers may bid against one another to win the business of individual buyers' group,... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070226129 - System and method of detecting mortgage related fraud: Embodiments include systems and methods of detecting fraud. In particular, one embodiment includes a system and method of detecting fraud in mortgage applications. For example, one embodiment includes a computerized method of detecting fraud that includes receiving mortgage data associated with an applicant and at least one entity related to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070226146 - System and method for maintaining a history of transferable and updatable media: Embodiments of the present invention provide exemplary systems and methods for maintaining a media history. The exemplary system comprises a tracking module at a user device configured to determine a media status. The tracking module is configured to determine whether media has been updated, customized, or transferred after being received... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070225999 - Commerce exchange system: A commerce exchange system manages contracts between manufacturers, distributors, and purchasers, and is accessible by all of the contracting parties over the Internet. Group purchasing organizations can access the system to place orders for distribution to various end users. The system stores data representing information regarding all of the parties... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070226004 - Identification, storage and display of land data on a website: Disclosed is a land website that provides a personalized database on which data can be stored, retrieved, customized and communicated (e.g., by e-mail) relating to a particular piece of property. The database can be accessible via a password and a security code over the Internet and may be encrypted for... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20070225991 - Materials management system and method: A materials management system and method configured to handle materials events is provided. The materials management system can be configured to receive event information, comprising information pertaining to a hazardous materials event, to store data pertaining to a plurality of hazardous materials, to retrieve stored data based on the event... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070225986 - Method and system for instantiating entitlements into contracts: Techniques to facilitate the creation of contracts and to automatically instantiate entitlements into contracts. A number of entitlement templates may be created for various entitlements. Each entitlement template is typically defined to include certain specifically defined entitlements. The entitlement templates may further be associated with products. A contract may thereafter... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070225988 - Method designed for international students or candidates in the united states to search for employers who may be receptive to their candidacy and search current job opportunities or postings from these employers: The invention is based on internet search, commercially and publicly available databases, and uses commercially available RSS/XML technology. By combining two hitherto disconnected searches typically used by international candidates, the method provides a sequential and single process that international candidates can use to pinpoint employment opportunities in the United States.... Agent: Vivek Bapat

20070225992 - Modular web-based asp application for multiple products: A method of providing business information data to a user, including allowing the user unlimited access to interactive, customizable modular applications through a single platform. The applications interface with a database to provide real-time business information data to the user, the business information data relating to an entity and being... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070226003 - Professional time tracking and recouping system and software: An apparatus and a method for tracking time spent on one or more Internet sites. The tracked information may then be used to generate detailed records containing the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) of the sites visited, the exact time spent on each site, and a record of any downloads, file... Agent: Ip Strategies

20070225987 - Real estate exchange: A method of selling and buying a real estate lot includes registering a real estate lot, posting the registered real estate lot, reserving a registered real estate lot for purchase, and determining a fee associated to the potential sale of the registered lot. The fee is based on the number... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070225989 - System and method for managing enterprise environmental impacts: Environmental impacts from enterprise operations are efficiently and accurately tracked and reported. Manufacturing resource activities and sales and recovery activities are automatically aggregated for selection of environmental information by an environmental impact engine and storage at an environmental impact database. The environmental information is coordinated for presentation as environmental impact... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070225996 - 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

20070225997 - 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

20070226006 - Determining expected cost for a medical visit: A method for automatically determining the expected cost for a medical visit includes entering patient identification information (30); accessing the patient's medical records; entering a reason for the patient's visit (35), identifying the patient's health-care plan (50); and calculating an expected cost and payment for the medical visit.... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070226009 - Methods and systems for prescription review to identify substitutions: Provided are methods and systems for prescription review and substitution. Embodiments can allow for selecting a more cost favorable pharmaceutical regime.... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070226010 - Patient check-in/scheduling kiosk: A method and system for facilitating activity scheduling for a patient including the steps of providing an interface device for checking a patient in at the facility, receiving identifying information for the patient, identifying currently scheduled appointments for the patient where the currently scheduled appointments are associated with currently scheduled... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070226011 - Patient's and physicians' data management: A method of managing health and health-care data on patients by patients and physicians who insert or input health and health-care information on patients into health and health-care data in computers and servers. The information is distributed in the data and databases and retrieve to be shown in positions on... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20070226005 - Totaldentist: A dental system for dental patients at a dental office is disclosed that is completely digital in storage of data. The data is obtained from instrumentation and patients, as well as from staff. The data is used to operate the dental office and treat the patients. Non-linear Web technology is... Agent: David M. Ostfeld Adams And Reese LLP

20070226013 - Method and apparatus for automated generation and transmission of data in a standardized machine-readable format: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for generating data in a standardized machine-readable format. A method receives data from one or more patient health monitors at a centralized repository. The method then generates one or more files containing at least a portion of the data and stores... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070226012 - Methods of measuring symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis: A method for diagnosing, assessing, and determining of the efficacy of a treatment regimen for chronic rhinosinusitis is presented. The method comprises collecting subjective information from a patient or patient population in the form of patient entries into a daily diary, wherein the daily diary comprises the patient responses to... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070226015 - Products and processes for processing information in a market for life instruments: According to an embodiment, a life settlement module that is operable to receive information relating to a life insurance policy, and to calculate a value or range of values that characterizes the life insurance policy. An annuity module that is operable to receive information relating to an annuity, and in... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070226014 - System and method of classifying vehicle insurance applicants: A method of evaluating insurance risk of a vehicle insurance applicant provides identifying a plurality of temporal identifiers related to acquired driving experience for the applicant, where the temporal identifiers include valid license duration, license elements duration, credit duration, no-need no-prior submission, learner permit duration, no license violation duration; and... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070226019 - Computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for configuring language dependent features: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for configuring language dependent features for a hotel room. A hotel guest is associated with a hotel room. The language preference for the hotel guest is located. The language preference is used to configure language dependent features for the hotel... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070226020 - Systems and methods for pre-computing price or availability of a resource: Methods for checking for the availability of a rental resource by providing a pre-computed availability data set for at least one rental resource including an availability data entry for each of a plurality of rental periods beginning on each of a plurality of start times and extending for each of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070226024 - Method, system, and computer program product for the dynamic generation of business intelligence alert triggers: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for dynamically generating business intelligence alert triggers. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: identifying an attribute; monitoring data values associated with the attribute; analyzing the data values to establish a baseline value; generating... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070226022 - Progressive refinement model for business processes: In one embodiment, a method for refining a business process model includes receiving business process data pertaining to a first phase of a business process definition from a first class of users, creating a model of a business process using the business process data received from the first class of... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226023 - Providing multiple views of a business process definition to different users: In one embodiment, a method for providing multiple views of a business process definition includes storing a model of a business process, and providing different view points of the model to different classes of users.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226025 - Method and system for managing time-based organization hierarchies: A method, system, and article of manufacture for defining and managing time-based organization hierarchies are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user interface, including a plurality of user interface displays configured to receive a user input to define and/or manage one or more instances of a time-based organization hierarchy, may... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226026 - Method and system for monitoring achievement and attainment and calculating compensation via time-based organization hierarchies: A method, system, and article of manufacture for defining and managing instances of time-based organization hierarchies, and for monitoring achievement and attainment, and calculating compensation for individuals and/or groups within instances of the time-based organization hierarchies are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may define and/or manage one or... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226027 - Method and system for sales-credit assignment via time-based organization hierarchies: A method, system, and article of manufacture for defining and managing instances of time-based organization hierarchies, and for assigning sales credit to corresponding positions within the time-based organization hierarchy in response to a sales data input are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may define and/or manage one or... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226028 - Sharing system management responsibility with an autonomic manager: A method to share systems management responsibility may include allowing formation of a manual manager, wherein the manual manager is formable as a manageable resource capable of being monitored and controlled. The method may also include permitting the autonomic manager to be monitored and controlled by the manual manager using... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20070226030 - Signature loop authorizing method and apparatus: Systems and methods for automating and increasing the efficiency of business processes using a role structure which is preferably hierarchical. The hierarchical role structure defines a plurality of roles within several hierarchical levels. Various rights are associated with the different roles to enable positions which are associated with the roles... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20070226033 - Distributed cognitive aid method and system for scheduling and interactive task guidance: The present invention discloses a device, system and method for providing scheduling assistance and interactive task guidance. The present invention allows multiple users to receive schedules and instructions remotely on any device with access to a central server. Multiple, authorized users can remotely access the schedule and instructions, permitting multiple... Agent: Debra M. Parrish, Esq.

20070226035 - Intelligent free-time search: Techniques are disclosed for performing free-time searches that exploit information of the type used with electronic calendars. By leveraging advanced calendaring system information and using location, other context information such as corporate policy, legal constraints, and technology constraints, and user-specific preferences to provide a complete picture of a person's availability,... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070226031 - Methods and apparatuses for grouped option specification: Methods and apparatuses for grouped customization for an application with a plurality of users. In one embodiment, option values for options are grouped (e.g., to represent best practices) for selection by groups of users, such as users of companies of different industries of a hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226032 - Providing contextual collaboration within enterprise applications: An enhanced enterprise system integrates enterprise application functionality of a conventional enterprise system and collaboration functionality of a conventional collaboration system to provide a centralized project or team space for managing and capturing the collaborative activity that is inherent in the enterprise application processes. For example, the enhanced enterprise system... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226034 - Wireless communication device meeting scheduler: Systems and methods for scheduling meetings between users of wireless communication devices allow the wireless communication device of a meeting organizer to schedule a meeting with one or more attendees. At the appointed time of the scheduled meeting, the wireless communication device of the meeting organizer (or an appointed deputy... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070226042 - Apparatus and method for improved forecasting: A computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner includes executable instructions to: generate a data series characterizing data values; identify any unreliable pattern present in the data series; and determine if a forecast should be made for the unreliable pattern.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226043 - Computer system and method for optimized provision of manufactured parts: In a computer system or method for optimized provision of production parts at a manufacturer, a demand for parts is detected with a manufacturer computer system. Data describing the demand are automatically provided over a data connection to at least one vendor computer system of a specific vendor, the data... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070226048 - Lead processing: Apparatus, method and system network for lead processing are described. More particularly, a web-based client-server system is described where a sales force automation system is used for updating databases and routing tasks based on user activity. In particular, action item form screen images and lead form screen images may be... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20070226047 - Method and process for capturing, storing, processing and displaying customer satisfaction information: A process and method for collecting, validating, storing, scoring and presenting consumer satisfaction feedback on the delivery of goods and services sold to consumers by service providers. The feedback of consumers is collected by using electronic forms to capture consumer responses to questions on surveys. Consumer feedback is scored over... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20070226041 - Method for tailoring a survey to a vehicle: System(s) and method(s) for tailoring a survey to a vehicle having a telematics unit operatively disposed therein are disclosed. The system(s) and method(s) include the steps of receiving vehicle data, analyzing the vehicle data, and automatically selecting an appropriate survey based upon automatic recognition and analysis of the vehicle data.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070226038 - Modeling of business process data: In one embodiment, a business process meta-model is defined that represents a business process. The business process meta-model includes control flow elements pertaining to a control flow of the business process, and annotation elements providing details for the control flow elements.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226037 - Modeling of opportunity data: An opportunity class is defined that represents an opportunity and identifies relationships of the opportunity with various entities related to the opportunity.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226036 - Parts marketing system: a parts marketing system includes: a database unit for storing distribution data of dimensions or characteristics of each lot, and price and delivery date with respect to delivery parts; an input unit for inputting the customer's product specifications and the distribution data of dimensions or characteristics of parts combined by... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070226040 - Product market determination: Determining product marketability may be accomplished by electronically performing various calculations on related data. The marketability may be determined by a processing device receiving business characteristic terms, industry sub-segment terms and validation terms for each business characteristic term of each industry sub-segment. The processing device calculates one or more criteria... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070226039 - System and method for assessing segmentation strategies: In a novel computer-implemented method and system for assessing segmentation strategies, at least two models are selected for a plurality of segments. Segment performance of the segmentation strategy segments according to selected models is measured. Aggregate segmentation strategy performance data is obtained by aggregating segment performance for each segmentation strategy.... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070226045 - System and method for processing preference data: A method and system for facilitating the offering, marketing and sale of one or more products and services which receives at least one identifier of a first product associated with a first vendor; receives preference data associated with said at least one identifier from at least one consumer; presents data... Agent: Zhimin Chen

20070226050 - Determining performance proficiency within an organization: Described are methods and mechanisms for determining performance proficiency within an organization. The method includes receiving rating data that includes one or more values that are each associated with an element and each element describes a specific rating criterion associated with a specific rating subject. The method additionally includes producing... Agent: Whitaker Law Group

20070226049 - Modeling of employee performance result data: An employee performance result class is defined that represents an employee performance result and identifies relationships of the employee performance result with various entities related to the employee performance result.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226054 - Coordinated multiple sales promotions: Electronic sales promotion information is created that includes multiple sales promotion items that may apply to the same product sales transaction, and electronic sales orders are processed using the created electronic sales promotion information. A method of creating sales promotion information includes receiving user-initiated input to generate a sales promotion... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070226056 - Handheld device for use at point of sale, checkout device and system and method for tracking advertising effectiveness: A method for receiving advertising data at a point-of-sale includes inputting good data related to a good at a store checkout via store employee or a store scanner and comparing the good data to advertising data in a handheld device, the advertising data having been scanned by a customer from... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070226055 - Incentive system and method for tracking advertising effectiveness: A method for tracking advertising effectiveness includes causing an advertising code with an advertisement to be printed, the advertising code identifying the advertisement, the advertising code capable of being scanned by a handheld device of a potential customer. The potential customer is then provided with an incentive to scan the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070226062 - Internet contest: In general, the invention relates to providing infrastructure, process controls, and software to design, advertise, and implement an on-line contest in which participants in the contest search the Internet for a target in order to earn a reward. Hints and/or hidden objects may provide clues as to where to look... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070226051 - Method and system for pay-per-transaction promotions and measurement of resulting roi: A beginning to end method of distributing marketing promotions to consumers through mobile devices is disclosed. Sellers of goods or services set criteria for the selection of consumers eligible to receive coupons or other promotional material. Consumers who request product information are sent mobile messages that contain personalized promotions matched... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20070226052 - Online purchase optimization: A system, method and apparatus for online purchase optimization is provided. In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a plurality of items. The method also includes preparing a data structure representing a list of complete sets of combinations of the plurality of items.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070226061 - System and method of advertisement via mobile terminal: The present invention provides a method for delivering an advertisement to a user comprising providing an advertisement by the advertiser to the service system, followed by delivering the advertisement by the service system to a mobile phone of a user through mobile phone communication network. The user determines to browse... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070226059 - System for electronic barter, trading and redeeming points accumulated in frequent use reward programs: A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns reward points from a plurality of reward points issuing entities, each of the reward points issuing entities tracking the user's earned reward points in a user reward point account stored on a rewards... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070226053 - System for uploading video advertisements, solicit user feedback, and create ratings/rankings: A method for uploading rating a multimedia advertising comprising of the steps providing web service for storing a plurality of applications programs for permitting an advertiser to place a multimedia advertisement for review by an end user; providing a first user interface for an advertiser to upload a multimedia advertisement... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070226064 - Dynamic pricing system and method: A dynamic pricing system and method that enables prices for sellable objects to be dynamically adjusted using pricing factors corresponding to attributes of the sellable objects. Product administrators are enabled to define sellable products and extended attributes for the products, while pricing administrators are enabled to define price lists for... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226066 - Configurator using structure and rules to provide a user interface: A configurator using structure and rules to provide a user interface. According to one embodiment of the invention, a customizable product class is created. The customizable product class includes a set of one or more attributes to define the customizable product class. A component product class is added to the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226068 - Customized extensions of electronic database objects: A computer-implemented method for configuring a customized extension for an electronic product transaction database object class includes receiving user-initiated input that selects a set type predefined for at least one electronic product database object class that defines a product type for which instances of the electronic product database object class... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070226073 - Garment development and production system utilizing a standardized garment data format: A garment development and production system includes a garment data format (GDF) browser that communicates garment data with a garment component knowledge database (GCK-DB). The GDF browser includes a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays a classification tree section, a parameter section, a visualization section, and a comments section. In... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070226070 - Hybrid live and silent auction: A system and method for facilitating a hybrid live and silent auction for auctioning a plurality of items, comprising: a plurality of interactive display devices dispersed throughout an area where an auction will take place during a first period of time (silent auction), each of the interactive display devices being... Agent: Michael M. Murray

20070226069 - Photo book display system and method: A photo book display system is provided having customized photos. The photo book display system, comprising: an outside cover having a top flap, a bottom flap, a closing flap, and an attachment member, the top flap attached to the bottom flap in a rotatable manner, and the closing flap attached... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20070226067 - Quantity checking of product purchase orders: A computer-implemented method for processing spare parts purchase orders includes receiving, during a manufacturing planning phase, an estimate of the number of the spare parts that will be needed to be produced during a given period to satisfy expected purchase orders for the spare part. The method also includes receiving... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070226076 - Sale system of optical characteristic image data: A sale system, comprising using a measuring instrument which measures lenses in eyeglasses with frames and which is supplied to the home of a customer; and making and providing lenses based on data measured by the measuring instrument. In an embodiment of the invention, the data measured by the measuring... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20070226065 - System & method for augmenting sales in small footprint retail establishments: A system and method for increasing sales at stores with limited inventory space is described. The system and method facilitates ordering, billing, packaging, delivery, compensation and information exchange for items that are not normally stocked at stores having this type of constraint. An order station is located at the store;... Agent: George R. Reardon

20070226071 - System and method for generating work order instructions: A system and method for generating a work order instructions is described. In one embodiment an order from a customer is received, which includes information for a desired end product and the information is converted into machine-readable work order instructions, which includes instructions to alter goods in accordance with the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070226074 - System and method for networked loyalty program: The present invention provides a system for implementing a purchaser incentive program on a network-wide level. The system associates SKU and UPC data on a network level to provide consumers with a purchasing environment that is both convenient and cost-efficient. The association of SKU and UPC data at a network... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070226075 - Transaction method of reusable parts: The present invention gives techniques for using an information system, including a computer, to provide a user, such as a manufacturer, with reusable parts for use in the building of or maintaining a product. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method, using a computer, for buying a reusable... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070226077 - Collaborative structured tagging for item encyclopedias: Collaborative structured tagging enables a community of users to define different types of tags for online content. The diverse tag types provide a non-flat or dimensional tagging data structure that supports navigation and search for content, as well as comparison of the content. In one implementation, the collaborative structured tagging... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070226084 - Electronic product catalog for organizational electronic commerce: A networked data processing system (D-NET) facilitates and conducts secure electronic commerce based on national deployment independent of the Internet. A “publish and subscribe” model is used in which vendors publish catalogs and information about product and service offerings to D-NET applications which utilize an electronic product/service database with predefined... Agent: D-net Corporation Attn: Roger E. Cowles

20070226078 - Guiding info tabs with guide selection: Every presence has needs. A need could be consumer electronics, loans, autos, or knowledge, etc. The presence uses search engines, online marketplace to become knowledgeable about a need and if needed, buy the need. The idea of the invention is to provide an easy way for the user to become... Agent: Mr.nagendra Nagarajayya

20070226082 - Method and system for demand and supply map/shopping path model graphical platform and supplying offers based on purchase intentions: Methods and systems allowing a consumer to use a graphical tool that summarizes, compares and browses multiple offers for products or services over a network or communications medium such as via the Internet. In specific embodiments, potential purchasers can make declarations to buy, which sellers can use to generate improved... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20070226079 - Method and system for linking customers and vendors: A method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating and linking a vendor with a customer desiring the goods and/or services of the vendor. A remotely located system is contacted by the customer who then requests information that is displayed on a computer for the customer. The customer responds to this... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070226080 - Method and system for linking customers and vendors: A method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating and linking a vendor with a customer desiring the vendor's goods and/or services. A customer contacts a remotely located system, requests information, and responds to this information by inputting a request to the remote system. This request includes information regarding, e.g., a... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070226081 - System for selling products: To aid potential purchasers in selecting products and services and to generate sales leads that may be sold to sellers, an Internet-based website is provided comprising products that are not available through the website's proprietor.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070226083 - Wire-mesh selection internet website: The present invention is an Internet wire-mesh merchandising system that comprises a webserver for generating a web presence. Potential customers looking to select and buy wire mesh are allowed to log-on to a website operated by a wire-mesh retailer, distributor, and manufacturer. An HTML product page includes navigation buttons that... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070226087 - Contextual pattern decoder engine: The present disclosure includes a system and method for learning (or discovering and extracting) business knowledge from a collection of source code. The collection of source code is abstracted to generate an abstracted data stream, which is then transformed to an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. The transformed data in... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070226088 - Item management systems and associated methods: The present invention is directed generally toward item management systems and associated methods. Aspects of the invention are directed toward receiving items, inducting the items into the item management system and storing the items. In certain embodiments, inducting the item can include imaging at least a portion of the item... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070226085 - System and method for automated mapping of data in a multi-valued data structure: A method for managing a database comprises receiving a data record comprising a plurality of interface labels. The method continues by identifying in the data record a particular interface label and an associated label position. The method continues by storing the identified interface label and the associated label position in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070226086 - System and method for credit card lost-and-found notification: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for sending a first notification message to a credit card agency alerting the credit card agency of a misplaced credit card, an identification of a credit card owner, and a location of the misplaced credit card; in response to receiving the first notification message,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070226090 - Systems and methods for costing reciprocal relationships: Computer-implemented systems and methods for performing cost analysis. As an example, a system and method can be provided for the generation of a cost allocation that does not include double counting of cost allocation.... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070226091 - Systems and methods for determining cost targets for cost reduction projects: Techniques for determining cost targets for cost reduction projects which reduce costs of an assembled product are described. The assembled product includes a plurality of subcomponents for which cost reduction projects may be pursued. The technique includes receiving first cost data for subcomponents of a business enterprise's assembled product and... Agent: Priest & Goldstein, PLLC

20070226092 - Systems and methods for managing cost reduction projects to increase cost savings for replacement subcomponents: A technique for managing cost reduction projects which reduces costs of an assembled product is described. The assembled product includes a plurality of subcomponents. The technique includes determining a best of the best (BOB) assembled product containing least cost subcomponents and ensuring that the total cost of the BOB assembled... Agent: Priest & Goldstein, PLLC

20070226096 - Accounting transactions by list: A method and system are provided for processing multiple related financial transactions in a computer-based financial accounting system. A user interface is provided to receive the information corresponding to the multiple related financial transactions. If desired, any of a common transaction type, date and amount can be specified. The user... Agent: Osha - Liang L.L.P. (intuit)

20070226093 - Financial services data model: A data model that allows for relationships between entities, also referred to as parties, to be modeled as attributes of an entity and for customization of the data model in a manner that facilitates upgrading of the data model. In some embodiments, the data model may facilitate creation and processing... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226097 - Merchant integrated subscription model: A system, method, and computer program product for integrating one or more purchase transactions by one or more customers with a merchant and a financial institution is provided. A financial institution may provide an integrated subscription service to subscribing merchants. The integrated subscription service allows the merchant, financial institution, or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070226095 - Method for generating predictive models for a business problem via supervised learning: A method for solving a business problem includes pooling transaction data received from a plurality of subscribers over a network, the transaction data including samples of fraudulent transactions. A data mining algorithm is then applied to the pooled transaction data, resulting in a predictive model that detects a fraudulent transaction.... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak / Oracle

20070226100 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226101 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226102 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226103 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226104 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226105 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226106 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226107 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226108 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226109 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226110 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226098 - Process and architecture for structuring facilities revenue bond financing: A process and architecture may be implemented to structure bond financing or refinancing for facilities construction and/or renovation to improve economic and business terms for involved or interested parties.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070226099 - System and method for predicting the financial health of a business entity: A method for predicting the financial health of a business entity is provided. The method comprises generating one or more anomaly scores and one or more multi-dimensional time-varying patterns for one or more financial metrics related to a business entity and analyzing the one or more anomaly scores and the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070226094 - System and method for using intellectual property holding companies to validate the market value of intellectual property and provide investment opportunities: Methods are disclosed for using computers, computer programs, algorithms and computer networks and communications hardware and protocols to calculate and optimize cash flows and capital structures in financing structures relating to intellectual property holding companies.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070226116 - Automated service level management in financial terms: Electronic contracts or “eContracts” for representing service level agreements are provided. In one illustrative embodiment, the eContract may comprise information pertaining to: (a) descriptions of business transactions in IT terms; (b) financial implications of business transaction service levels; and (c) reporting to be done in business terms. Of course, the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070226112 - International financing and investment structure: The financing and investment structure of the present invention comprises a financing instrument, which is based on an investing entity's investment in a domestic company holding interests in a plurality of foreign companies, for investing by the investing entity in one of foreign companies. The domestic company gives the investing... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070226115 - Methods and systems for providing deductible piers: In one aspect, the invention comprises a security that: (a) is tax deductible; (b) receives equity credit of 40-75% from Moody's and S&P; and (c) qualifies for net share settled accounting. In another aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising: (a) structuring a convertible security to be tax deductible; (b)... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070226111 - Pension liability allocation: A method of setting pension plan investment policy, overlay derivative strategy and other pension policies, initiated by the calculation of a ratio for any existing, putative or alternative asset portfolio of a pension fund with specific reference to the pension plan's liabilities. The method's calculated ratio X/Y, referred to as... Agent: Antonio L. Tan-torres Jr.

20070226113 - Systems and methods for providing virtual financial markets: Systems and methods for combining information about financial instruments traded on at least two financial markets to create a virtual market. The method may comprise the steps of (1) determining a common price measure type for instruments traded on two (or more) financial markets; (2) determining a common tick size... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070226114 - Using commercial share of wallet to manage investments: 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.

20070226117 - Certification program to facilitate the aquisition of investment personal property: Information is obtained that leads to the acquisition of certified personal investment property for a tax-beneficial exchange. An intranet and web site shows items certified under the certification program which are available for exchange. At least one of the items is selected for viewing. The item is displayed on a... Agent: Paul E. Paray

20070226118 - Auction bidding method: Systems and methods for a computer-implemented auction bidding process that assigns a winning bid quantity and a winning bid amount to each bid in an ordered list of bids by a single resolution of the ordered bid list based on the maximum amount the bidder is willing to pay for... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226121 - Auction system and method: An auction system includes a plurality of participant devices and an auctioneer device. The participant devices correspond to a plurality of participants and are configured to receive auction information input by a participant and to display auction information to a participant. The auctioneer device is configured to process the auction... Agent: Charles Xue

20070226122 - Electronic trading system: An electronic trading system facilitates electronic trades of fungible trading elements. Fungible trading elements are electronically displayed and the system facilitates the trading operations. A risk factor for a particular transaction may be determined and based on this risk factor, the electronic trading system may elect straight through processing (STP)... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070226119 - Online valuation and trading of digital media: An online valuation and trading system for commodities, such as digital media, assigns objective trading or economic values to commodities to facilitate fair trades and trading. Entities accessing or logging onto the site input information pertaining to commodities to be surrendered and acquired. Based upon the information, the online valuation... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070226123 - Products and processes for managing life instruments: According to an embodiment, a method includes accessing a listing of a plurality of profiles of life insurance policies. A profile is selected from the listing, and the trading status of the profile can be viewed. A buy command or sell command is submitted to an exchange system to trade... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070226124 - Reducing pendency of accounts receivable: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for reducing pendency for accounts receivable. Method and system aspects of the present invention include receiving by a trading service accessible over a network a submission of AR and AP from the companies; and paying the AP of each of the companies to... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20070226126 - Systems and methods for providing a trading interface: Systems and methods for configurable trading interfaces that allow a trader to quickly and easily submit trading commands to a trading system are provided. Using these systems and methods, a trader can using various trading interfaces to initiate trading commands, configure various display features and default command settings, and control... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070226127 - Systems and methods for providing a trading interface: Systems and methods for configurable trading interfaces that allow a trader to quickly and easily submit trading commands to a trading system are provided. Using these systems and methods, a trader can using various trading interfaces to initiate trading commands, configure various display features and default command settings, and control... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070226120 - Systems, methods and computer program products for processing orders subject to investment restrictions: Methods and systems process multiple trade orders subject to investment account restrictions. The restrictions are associated with the holding of one or more securities or with a cash position in an investment account. Each received order to perform an investment account management action is processed to determine whether performance of... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070226131 - Data processing method and apparatus for mitigating risk in financing purchases of goods including but not limited to automobiles: An electronic data processing risk mitigation clearinghouse can assure a lender that a given independent dealer transaction will be handled in a regular, orderly way and that the lender's dealer risk is mitigated. The lender can be assured that loans will not originate from unduly risky dealers, and that liens... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070226133 - Membership-based mortgage purchases: A membership program for mortgage purchases discounts the costs normally paid by the homeowner when taking out a mortgage, yet provides a reasonable profit to the brokerage or direct lending institution. Membership is maintained by payment of an initial membership fee and periodic membership dues. The member is entitled to... Agent: Cyr & Associates, P.A.

20070226132 - Merchant application and underwriting systems and methods: A method for establishing credit services with a merchant account using a computer system comprises receiving at a server computer application information on a merchant applying for a credit service. The application information is stored in a database. At the server computer, a request from a credit investigator is received... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070226128 - Method and apparatus for capturing commercial loan application data and assigning a commercial loan request: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for capturing commercial loan application data and assigning a commercial loan request are disclosed herein. Embodiments of the invention provide mechanisms for capturing commercial loan application data, assigning a commercial loan request, monitoring an approval process, and administering association of accounts with approved requests... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226130 - Using commercial share of wallet to make lending decisions: 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.

20070226136 - Electronic factoring: The present invention is a method and system for electronic factoring. An electronic platform is provided for guaranteeing payment of receivables. Information from users is input into a profile database upon the electronic platform and is accessible by all users. The buyers are assigned a credit limit and are able... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070226134 - Method and system for making taxable structured settlement payments: A framework for providing structured settlement payment programs allows a claimant of a settlement for a non-physical tort injury to receive periodic future payments for the injury without triggering a current U.S. federal income tax liability on the present value of the future payments. The obligation of the defendant of... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070226137 - Method of and system for making purchaser over a computer network: A method of and system for making purchases over a computer network using an ATM card or the like is provided. In accordance with the invention, a consumer transmits his ATM card number over the network to an on-line merchant. The on-line merchant then forwards the ATM card number to... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070226135 - Monetary terminal processing server, monetary terminal processing method, monetary terminal, arithmetic instruction input and amount change information input unit: An object is to properly perform failure recovery in an electronic money system where on-line terminals and off-line terminals coexist. For both an electronic money card and a center server, a flag selectable between two values, “transaction in progress” and “transaction completed”, is prepared. In the course of processing information... Agent: Bruce L Adams Adams & Wilks

20070226139 - Systems and methods for bank determination and payment handling: Systems and methods are provided for automated payment handling. In one implementation, a method is provided for processing of a payment request. The method may include determining, using the payment request, an entity that will receive a payment, and determining an outgoing bank account to use for the payment. Further,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070226138 - Systems and methods for subscriber to payee cross pollination: Systems and methods for processing subscriber and payee information include storing information identifying a first subscriber of an electronic payment service, and receiving information identifying an intended payee from a second subscriber. A determination is then made that the first subscriber and the intended payee of the second subscriber are... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070226141 - Debit purchasing of stored value card for use by and/or delivery to others: A method of issuing a purchase card is provided. The method includes the steps of presenting a purchaser with the opportunity to buy the purchase card, determining whether the purchaser has sufficient funds to pay for the purchase card, creating a purchase card account for a recipient designated by the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070226140 - Expedited issuance and activation of a transaction instrument: A method and computer program code for expediting issuance and activation of transaction instruments upon application therefor. A first set of application information is collected from an applicant. The first set of application information is processed to determine whether all required information has been obtained. If the first set of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070226142 - Remote communication of deposit data from deposit bag rfid tag to depository: An automated banking apparatus is operative to carry out banking transactions commonly required by merchants. The apparatus includes an item accepting depository for accepting deposit items, such as deposit bags, currency, and checks. The apparatus further includes an input device that is operative to interrogate an RFID tag to obtain... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070226143 - Contents providing apparatus, method and system: Disclosed is a contents providing apparatus which is responsive to a request from an authentic purchaser of contents to provide contents the format of which has been converted into a format different from the format with which the contents were provided to the authentic purchaser. The user registration is made... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070226147 - Contents distribution system for handling secondary products utilizing raw material contents: A contents distribution system uses a copyright rental use scheme in which the economical burden on the users at a time of utilizing contents can be reduced to a reasonable level, and appropriate fees can be collected for the copyrights of the contents created and provided at each stage by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070226144 - Method and apparatus to record usage of a portable media: A method and system for providing a media to keep a record of its usage, and for the record to belong to the user of the media, are disclosed. The media includes a media content, and a media content processor for retrieving the media content in response to a media... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20070226145 - Method for accessing information on object having tag, local server, ons proxy, program, tag creation method, device having tag writer, tag, and program for controlling device having tag writer: A method and system for providing access to information on an article to which a tag is coupled. A local server reads the tag containing a virtual ID that includes an encryption of a bit string. The bit string includes an article ID containing a manufacturer ID. The local server... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070226150 - Distribution of digital licenses and software via license tokens: A method and apparatus for distribution of digital licenses and software via license tokens allows an end user access to software licenses or products by providing a licensing token, allowing a unique code or token to substitute for authentication. A distributor distributes software and licenses for software manufacturers. The software... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070226148 - Image processing apparatus and license management method thereof: The present invention is a license management method capable of managing licenses given to an image processing apparatus while ensuring security and of easily granting the licenses. The image processing apparatus having a program storage means which stores a program for performing an option function validated only while the license... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070226149 - License verification system and method: A system and method collects regulatory licensing requirements, employment data for a professional and licensing data for the professional, and determines the professional's licensing requirements. Based on the professional's licensing requirements, the system and method determines compliance with the regulatory licensing requirements.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20070226151 - Method for processing a cashless payment transaction: Proposed is a method for processing a cashless payment transaction between an owner of a personal electronic means of payment (1, 12) and a payee. The special feature of the inventive method is that at a first time (t1) a data record is transmitted from the owner's personal electronic means... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070226152 - System and method for anonymous transactions and conveyances: A system and associated methods enabling a customer or transferee to acquire a product or service from a merchant, vendor or transferor through the services of an intermediate entity using a transaction protocol that shields the customer's name or other identifying information from the intermediate entity, the merchant, vendor or... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20070226155 - Extended attribute-based pricing system and method: An extended attribute-based pricing system and method that enables users to build sellable objects based on selected products and extended attributes for those products. Product administrators are enabled to define sellable products and extended attributes for the products, while pricing administrators are enabled to define price lists for the sellable... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070226156 - Mail sorting and sequencing system: A mail sorting and sequencing system having a number of DPP units cooperating with one another to sort and sequence mail items of three different types of mail. Each DPP unit having: a conveyor system wherein a number of trucks travel along a path; at least three truck feed units... Agent: Liniak, Berenato & White Ste. 240

20070219820 - Anomaly tracking system and method for detecting fraud and errors in the healthcare field: An electronic data analysis system and method of anomaly tracking decision trees for identifying anomalies to detect errors or fraud in multiple healthcare operational functions. The unique aspects of such electronic tools include the contemporaneous data mining and data mapping aspects of Health Information Pipelines, Private Health Information, Operational Flow... Agent: Ryndak & Suri LLP

20070219818 - Mobile system and method for processing real estate transactions: A mobile system and method are provided for closing real estate transactions remotely. A mobile closing unit (24), which is included in a housing (20) having a satellite or wireless antenna (48), includes a printer (28) connected to a router (40) having a wireless card (84) for connecting to a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070219814 - Publicly-funded privately facilitated access to survival resources method: A private entity provides (101), prior to a civilly-catastrophic event having occurred, at least one survival resource. This private entity then provides for holding (102) this resource in readiness to facilitate serving public members who are affected by a subsequent civilly-catastrophic event. Then, in response to the occurrence of such... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070219817 - Universal negotiation forum: A negotiation system is disclosed for use in conducting formal and informal negotiations over any subject matter. The system has a web based use interface, which has a dialog board, a submission panel, and a status board. The parties in negotiation can use the web interface to use the server... Agent: Az Patent Law Firm

20070219827 - Apparatus for processing a prescription and method of using same: An apparatus for processing a prescription and method of using same for processing a prescription for a patient, comprising: at least one storage device; and a processor disposed in communication with the at least one storage device, the at least one storage device storing: a program for controlling the processor;... Agent: Gfd Patents, LLC

20070219826 - Method and system for patient information processing and management: A donor processing and information management system disclosed herein allows donor processing centers to facilitate their operations and decrease the use of paperwork and forms by using electronic workstations to enter donor and donation information. Embodiments of the system also facilitate operations of the donor processing centers by automating the... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070219828 - System and method for providing information with respect to the use of healthcare spending accounts: A system and method which considers information such as amounts in one or more healthcare accounts of a consumer, limitations of a healthcare plan under which the consumer is covered, relevant tax rates for the consumer, rate(s) of return on investment for out-of-pocket fund(s) of the consumer, and rate(s) of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070219839 - Workflow processing apparatus, workflow processing method, and computer program product: A workflow processing apparatus includes a request receiving unit that receives an input related to a work, an execution-flow creating unit that creates an execution flow to perform the work, and an execution determining unit that determines whether the execution flow is executable. The workflow processing apparatus further includes an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070219850 - Methods and systems for displaying and trending opportunity, contact and activity information: A configurable web based tool capable of trending analysis and graphically displaying opportunity contact data and activity.... Agent: John Scott Winterla

20070219866 - Passive shopper identification systems utilized to optimize advertising: The present invention relates to a method of optimizing advertising. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods for utilizing a mobile communications device to track consumer shopping patterns and purchases in association with a loyalty tracking device, which uniquely identifies each particular customer as they proceed through a shopping... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070219876 - Physical on demand testing with version support: A method for testing versions for remote manufacturing of software media from a network is described. An interface to a user is provided for creation of a physical on demand product. A product version is created for the physical on demand product that includes an electronic copy of a product... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20070219885 - Method and apparatus for a model assessing debtor behavior: A computer implemented method for assessing different expected payment behavior of a debtor with respect to different creditors.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P.

20070219884 - Method for the monetary valuation of trademarks: It is becoming increasingly important to many business enterprises to put a monetary value on individual trademarks or on an entire trademark portfolio. To simplify trademark valuation without this resulting in any loss of quality, and in particular to provide a method for valuation of trademarks, which method can be... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070219906 - Methods and apparatus for selling music using sca information: Method and apparatus for the purchasing of music using SCA data in common radio waves. This invention allows a portable device to record URLs and keywords inputed by the user for retrieval later by a software program capable of running searches on specified servers or placing a purchase using a... Agent: Nicholas J. Thomas

20070219911 - Apparatus and method for utilizing data block of right to decrypt content: Provided is a content decrypting apparatus given a bunch of secret keys and capable of decrypting a piece of content stored in a storage medium using a data block representing a right of decryption, including a communication circuit configured to request and receive the data block including a bunch of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070219912 - Information distribution system, information distribution method, and program product for information distribution: An information distribution system includes a selecting unit that selects distribution information to be distributed to a user from stored information that is stored in compliance with distribution standards, a distributing unit that distributes the distribution information selected by the selecting unit, to the user, a receiving unit that receives... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070219910 - Providing a limited use syndicated media to authorized users: A system and method for providing a limited use syndicated media item to authorized users. In one embodiment, a universal resource identifier that identifies the syndicated media item may be limited to a predetermined number of times it may be accessed by a particular user. In one embodiment, the limited... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070219921 - Apparatus and method for digital rights management: An apparatus and method is provided for digital rights management. The method for digital rights management includes receiving encrypted content and a rights object representing use rights of the encrypted content, receiving a software module managing the rights object, and generating a new rights object using the software module.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070219920 - Content management method and apparatus: A content management method and apparatus for storing and deleting content, backing up content, and restoring the backup content are provided. The method includes receiving the content from a first server and storing the content, and generating and storing content information including information about a location from which the content... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070219923 - Licensing media consumption using digital currency: Methods and apparatus for issuing licenses to allow end users to consume digital media content on a user device by responding to licensing requests by determining the number of digital tokens required to license the requested consumption and then issuing the license if the end user's account has a sufficient... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070219922 - Method of generating license, and method and apparatus for providing contents using the same: A method and apparatus for generating and updating a license for content and for providing content are provided. The method of generating a license includes generating license signature information for authenticating the license; generating use rule information for controlling the use of the content; generating authentication code information for authenticating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070219924 - User interfacing for licensed media consumption using digital currency: Methods and apparatuses for displaying a user interface including a display area with at least one control button and facilitating the licensing of digital media content through the user interface while providing sensory feedback to the user upon the user selecting the control button.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070219926 - Secure method and system of identity authentication: This application describes a system and method that enables the two parties to a transaction to authenticate each other's identity in such a manner as to be secure against all known threats. We examined various situations to show that the system withstands various attacks, even the sophisticated ones. It can... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20070219819 - Method and system for detecting title fraud: A method of detecting title fraud utilizes an electronic database in which is stored information relating to one or more title transactions. Such information includes common addresses of real estate properties, and at least one of a type of title transaction involved, and identifying indicia of parties to the title... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070219811 - Method for using an internet-based crm application to create an on-line leads marketplace: A method for creating a viable on-line leads marketplace is described whereby an internet-based CRM application is used for gathering metrics on leads which can then be used by potential buyers to objectively evaluate the quality of the leads before bidding on their purchase.... Agent: Maad Abu-ghazalah

20070219815 - Network based method of rating persons giving ratings: The invention consists in a computer network based method for rating persons who rate rateable factors. The method comprising the steps of providing a reward to a person making a rating of a rateable factor. The quantum of the reward is adjusted according to at least one criteria, which may... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070219821 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070219810 - Personal profile-based private civil security subscription method: Consideration-based private civil security subscriptions are offered (101) to candidate subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to at least one life-sustaining resource. Personal profiles are established (104) for at least some candidate beneficiaries of such a subscription and those personal profiles are used (105) to determine the consideration... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070219809 - Puppetry based communication system, method and internet utility: A puppetry based system and method is provided. Specifically, the puppetry based system and method comprises a computer environment including one or more images, symbols and other proprietary content (collectively referred to as “images”). A printer is connected to the computer environment for printing the images in paper form. A... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070219813 - Purchase option-based emergency supplies provisioning method: A plurality of various emergency-related supplies are stockpiled (101) and consideration-based options are provided (102) to each of a plurality of entities (wherein at least some of these entities are geographically disparate with respect to one another) to provide a right to purchase portions of the plurality of various emergency-related... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070219812 - Subscription-based multi-person emergency shelter method: Consideration-based private civil security subscriptions are accepted (101) from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to a secure multi-person emergency shelter (201). That shelter is then maintained (102) pending a need to permit subscription-based access to the secure multi-person emergency shelter in the event of a catastrophic event.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070219816 - System and method of prioritizing items in a queue: A system and method of prioritizing items in a queue is provided. The system and method includes the creation of a document queue comprising a plurality of items and the assignment of a queue position to each of the plurality of items based upon one or more determining factors, such... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070219825 - Method of managing and reducing side effects associated with exposure to a drug: A method for restricted distribution of a drug to a patient while minimizing the occurrence of adverse side effects. The method restricts access to the drug by preventing distribution to certain patients for whom the drug may be contraindicated. The method permits a prescription to be filled by a pharmacy... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070219822 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing targeted displays for pharmacy signature capture systems: A pharmacy signature capture system can display a targeted message for playing to a signor using criteria that are based on a prescription number that is provided during a pharmacy transaction. The functionality of a signature capture system can thereby be enhanced to provide targeted educational messages concerning the pharmaceutical... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070219823 - Patient monitoring device for remote patient monitoring: A patient monitoring device is disclosed herein for the remote monitoring of a patient. In an embodiment of the present invention, the monitoring device provides the monitoring of patient physiological parameters and supports bidirectional data and communications transmission with a centrally located clinician. In a further embodiment, the monitoring device... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070219824 - System and method for identifying and analyzing patterns or aberrations in healthcare claims: In a system and method for identifying aberrations in treatment pattern for a medical condition, a group of healthcare claim data to be analyzed is identified, wherein the group of healthcare claim data to be analyzed includes claim data representing treatment of the medical condition. Actual treatment pattern data is... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070219829 - Medical record association for disability determinations: An electronic medical record system and method are disclosed, the system comprising a medical query generated based on a medical or disability rules collection and based on an individual's medical or disability claim; an electronic medical record containing data responsive to said query; a viewing module for displaying at least... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070219830 - System and method of remote care on-line monitoring: A system and a method by which a clinician may monitor and communicate with a plurality of remotely located patients. This monitoring may be facilitated using a variety of communication protocols. Modular treatments and institutionally created standards are combined with clinician-provided input and decisions to provide the patient an individualized... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070219831 - Flight risk management system: A Flight Risk Management System (“FRMS”). The system provides supplementary preflight and in-flight guidance to relatively inexperienced owner/operators of high performance aircraft. A pilot wishing to enroll in the FRMS must have an aircraft equipped with an in-flight data recorder capable of monitoring the aircraft's state and communicating this state... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A. 2nd Floor

20070219832 - Travel profile access system and method: A universal travel profile access system and method. The system allows a user to create and store the user's travel profile for future retrieval. The user can then access the travel profile from one or more multiple travel reservation systems. The system includes a central database system coupled to one... Agent: Fidel D. Nwamu

20070219833 - Visualization of airline flight schedules: A method for visualizing airline flight schedules graphically simulates the effect of a program implemented in airline flight operations to reduce the effect of disruptions in scheduled airline flights. One or more disruptions are introduced into a pre-selected airline flight schedule, using frequency distributions of disruptions and disruption severities, resulting... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070219834 - System and method for transportation crew logistic management: A system, method and software product manages transportation crew logistic. An arrival/departure feed provides arrival and departure times of transportation equipment. A crew scheduling system feed provides information of crew members traveling on the equipment and hotels are notified of crew members prior to their arrival. Stored value cards, for... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070219835 - Rough-cut manufacturing operations for use in planning: An electronic data structure, tangibly embodied in an electronic information carrier, models a manufacturing process, and a computer-implemented method that generates and that uses the data structure. The data structure includes a header structure comprising planned time duration information for a defined manufacturing operation of the manufacturing process. The data... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070219836 - Shipping planning system: The shipping planning system decides the product, the shipping quantity and the price from which the maximum profit increase can be obtained based on the relational database between the price and the shipping quantity. The plan is made under the assumption that an available resource (inventory) is consumed firstly, an... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070219841 - Facility modelization for facility benchmarking: Users desire to normalize raw data from meter load profile acquisition systems against some attributes (i.e., properties) of a facility, such as the number of employees. The facility area, and the number of products produced would be additional potential attributes for consideration. Normalization involves dividing a load profile channel such... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070219837 - Method and structure for risk-based workforce management and planning: A method of managing resources, includes identifying a project or service opportunity that has disparate resource attribute requirements. At least one of internal and external flexible resources suitable for the project or service opportunities are also identified. The internal and external flexible resources are correlated with the disparate resource attribute... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070219840 - System and method for web based project management: A system and method for web based project management which tracks, manages and assesses multiple project types associated with one or more land parcels.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070219838 - System and method of calculating a projected service cost assessment: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for computing a serviceability assessment, calculating a preventative maintenance assessment, and in response to computing the serviceability and preventative maintenance assessments, computing a projected service cost assessment. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a processor, a data bus, and a computer-readable medium... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070219844 - Event scheduling system: A system and method directed to the automatic scheduling of sports events. Once a master event is entered, at least one dependent event is automatically created. The event is a dependent event because for scheduling, it depends upon scheduling information of the master event. The method further includes scheduling the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070219843 - Method and apparatus for providing work flows used to resolve alarm conditions detected in a system: A method and apparatus of providing workflows (400-404) to the operators of network management systems (114) and subsystems (202-208) is disclosed. The method identifies a plurality of tasks (210-228) that can be accomplished by at least one of the subsystem accessible for the workflows and groups the tasks into a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070219842 - System and method for assigning and scheduling activities: Techniques to facilitate assignment and scheduling of activities. In accordance with a method, a chart showing a calendar of schedule for a number of available resources is provided in a first frame (or window) in a user interface menu, and a number of objects representative of a number of unplanned... Agent: Csa LLP

20070219848 - Analytic method and system for optimizing and accelerating sales: The present invention generally relates to a system and method for analyzing sales opportunities, and more particularly, provides a seller of goods and/or services the ability to predict whether potential customers are suitable to engage in a particular transaction. The present invention also assists a seller in identifying and removing... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20070219851 - Apparatus and method for generating and developing a sales lead: A user device displays advertisements that invite potential customers to respond. Responses to the advertisement (i.e. sales leads) are sent by the user device to a router. The router identifies the responding user device and compares the user device with a security blacklist. The router also compares the user response... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070219849 - Automated method, system, and program for generation of an audio survey: The disclosed subject matter involves method and system for creating a survey for clients to be administered to third parties. The client provides information as to the survey parameters. The survey is placed in an automated audio format and administered to third parties. Options available include the use of a... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070219852 - Customer identification system and method: A method and system are presented for identifying a customer in a commercial transaction using less than complete identifying information. A name for the customer is extracted from a credit card during a purchase transaction. A trade area for the point of sale location is used to restrict a search... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070219847 - Internet-based marketing and sales application and method for targeted marketing of a product and/or service: A method for determining a secondary value having a second-highest priority in a list of values in a spreadsheet is provided. A primary value having a highest priority in the list of values is determined. The secondary value is determined to be equal to the primary value if more than... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20070219845 - Microfranchise: MicroFranchise—Process/System for individuals in direct or personal service industries to have personal ownership of their work with widely recognizable branding and systems, increasing quality of service to the customer and building personal wealth.... Agent: David Crane You've Got It Maid

20070219846 - System and method for providing economic analyses: A method and system for performing economic analysis that includes the organization and structure of the economic models, organization and presentation of the content associated with the economic models, the organization and structure of the software models used to construct electronic versions of the economic models and content, the idea... Agent: Steven Allen Mogensen

20070219854 - Document examiner comment system: A system is described wherein interested entities are able to review opinions rendered by patent examiners and provide commentary on the opinion. The commentary may be stored with the opinion for review by other parties. Moreover, the commentary may be used to refine the types and number of applications that... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070219855 - Method and system to decentralize patent examination: The present disclosure provides various novel means for outsourcing patent applications for examination. The disclosure describes various automated and non-automated means for selecting a qualified agency and examiner to perform the examination. The disclosure further discloses means for review of a patent at the request of holders of patents, licensees... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070219853 - Patent examiner selection: The present disclosure provides various novel means for selecting and assigning patent applications for examination. The disclosure describes various automated and non-automated means for selecting a qualified examiner based on a number of criteria including the examiner's history, current workload and the subject matter of the filed application. The disclosure... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070219864 - Automated broadcast advertising transaction system and method: A system and method for synchronizing broadcast advertising inventory data between a broadcast vendor system and a media buyer's media resource planning system features a database that stores advertising inventory data received from the broadcast vendor system and the media buyer's resource planning system. A matching application in communication with... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20070219863 - Content generation revenue sharing: Techniques are described that facilitate generating useful content based on user interactions, such as by providing an answer-providing service that facilitates interactions between users who supply questions and users who supply responses to the questions of other users, as well as using the generated content in various ways. In some... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070219865 - Method and system for collecting, tracking and reporting consumer data to improve marketing practices for merchants and banks: A method and system for improving marketing practices for merchants and banks, the method and system comprising advertising via a commercial offer solicited to a consumer, wherein upon noticing the commercial offer, the consumer is directed to a website for a facilitator; collecting data from the consumer at a website,... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070219859 - Method and system for optimizing the viewing of advertising: Disclosed are methods and systems for controlling the frequency that a user views an advertisement. In particular, the systems monitor the number of times an advertisement is played to a user. Once the advertisement has been played a predetermined number of times, the advertisement is replaced by another advertisement.... Agent: Optv/mofo C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070219856 - Method and system of recommending television programs: Method and system of recommending television programs that may be of interest to a user. The method and system may include configuring a recommendations menu to facilitate user selection of recommended programs. The method and system may track any number of characteristics for the user for use in selecting the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070219861 - Personnel motivation model: A method, system, tool, and computer program product for modeling human motivation within an enterprise thereby allowing a manager to properly design or change organizational structure, select personnel for projects, select goals, and consider values and relationships to design incentives to properly motivate individuals in order to achieve enterprise objectives.... Agent: Law Office Of Stephen R. Loe

20070219860 - Presenting advertising information requested from a webpage: Methods and systems for presenting advertising information in association with a web page from which such information is requested, the web page being part of a plurality of web pages having a relationship with one another (e.g., an advertising/publishing network) are provided. Advertising information may include prospective or historical information... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070219857 - System and method for advertising and selling products and services over a decentralized network: A system and method for advertising and selling products and services over a decentralized network is disclosed. Generally, a seller uses a stand-alone seller application to reserve keywords with a syndicated web feed provider and to send both a banner advertisement and a web-based media advertisement associated with the reserved... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070219858 - System and method for advertising and selling products and services over a decentralized network: A system and method for advertising and selling products and services over a decentralized network is disclosed. Generally, a seller uses a stand-alone seller application to generate an offer listing including an offer of sale. At least a portion of the offer listing is sent to a syndicated web feed... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070219862 - System and method for identifying and processing recyclables: A system and methods for encouraging a user to continue recycling behavior through various rewards systems and economic benefits, each of which contribute to the overall efficiency and sustainability of a recycling program. The system includes both hardware and software components that are adapted to receive, quantify and assess the... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20070219869 - System and method for networked loyalty program: The present invention provides a system for implementing a purchaser incentive program on a network-wide level. The system associates SKU and UPC data on a network level to provide consumers with a purchasing environment that is both convenient and cost-efficient. The association of SKU and UPC data at a network... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20070219868 - System and method for offering multiple products: A system and method for a supplier to offer multiple products to a first person and multiple pre-owned products to a second person is disclosed.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070219867 - System and methodology for incentivizing purchasers and providing purchase price rewards: A cost-effective, bounded, scalable method of paying determined portions of a customer's initial purchase price to the customer as rewards for new business that originates from the customer includes rewarding a first purchaser for subsequent purchases originating from such first purchaser, determining an initial purchase amount for an initial purchase... Agent: Mark Young, P.A.

20070219872 - Affliate marketing system and method for retail stores: A affiliate marketing system and method for retail stores involves assigning a unique retail store identifier to a retail store and presenting the unique retail store identifier and a website address in conjunction with a product offered for sale in the retail store. A purchaser of the product may access... Agent: Gofigure, L.L.C.

20070219873 - Internet procurement method with user manipulated fields and distribution form for use therewith: In a method for procuring goods, the need for particular goods and the procurement habits of a customer are determined. A web site is hosted and is operative with a software-based program and a content database. Data indicative of the customer's needs for particular goods is input into content database.... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070219877 - Method and system for managing home shopper data: A computerized home shopper registration system is provided that enables the use of standardized questions during a home shopper's registration. Further, a computerized data management system is provided that allows more efficient use of information collected from home shopper.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070219874 - Method and systems for facilitating event purchases: The present invention is directed to facilitating purchases for events, and more particularly, displaying purchase recommendations and links in conjunction with events in a calendar displayed in a computer desktop application. In one aspect, the invention is a method comprising displaying a calendar in a computer desktop application; receiving information... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070219875 - Method and systems for using a client-server network to facilitate event purchases: A method for facilitating event purchases using a client-server framework includes displaying a calendar in a computer desktop application; receiving information from a server corresponding to an event; and displaying a reminder in the calendar corresponding to the given event, said reminder comprising information corresponding to said event, and at... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070219871 - Methods for developing a multilevel person to person affiliate marketing network using electronic communications: A method for developing a direct person-to-person multilevel direct affiliate marketing network using electronic communications makes a first person an affiliate member of an affiliate marketing program via an online registration process. An electronic communication is generated that has a unique hyperlink that, when selected, links to a source associated... Agent: Devon A. Rolf Gofigure, L.L.C.

20070219870 - Online charging in mobile networks: A method of using accounting certificates to allow a subscriber of a home network to purchase services or products via a mobile communications network, the method comprising sending a request for an accounting certificate from a subscriber's mobile terminal to a certificate issuing node, upon receipt of the request at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070219878 - Simulation of conditions in a batching process: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for batching items (9,11) of non-uniform weight into batches fulfilling certain weight criteria. The items (9,11) are conveyed across a scale (10) registering the weight of each item individually, and subsequently, the items (9,11) are combined into batches. In particular,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070219880 - Accounts payable process: Techniques for performing an accounts payable process may include receiving transaction data including at least one of invoice data, purchase order data, and vendor data; and verifying a transaction by matching a dynamic data set of client-specified multi-dimensional criteria to the transaction data. An accounts payable system may include a... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070219879 - System and method for automatically generating expense reports: A system and method for enabling a user to automatically generate an expense report is provided. The system and method enable a user to track daily activities and tasks that can be associated with expenses. When the user desires to generate an expense report, the expenses associated with activities and... Agent: Csa LLP

20070219881 - Method and system for tracking computer system usage through a remote access security device: A system and method for monitoring remote computer access and associated costs is provided. The system includes a remotely located communication server in communication with multiple host computer networks and in communication with a network access server. First and second memory devices contain a list of authorized users for the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070219883 - Mortality and longevity indexed financial instruments: Financial instruments are indexed to a standardized measure of publicly available longevity and mortality demographic data. A first financial instrument includes a zero-coupon bond and Experience Coupons. The zero-coupon bond accrues interest over its term at a base interest rate. The Experience Coupons, which are responsive to differences in actual... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070219887 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070219888 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070219889 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070219890 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070219891 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070219892 - Obtaining consent for electronic delivery of compliance information: A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070219886 - System and method for managing data relating to non-traditional investments: Systems and methods for managing (e.g., collecting, creating, formatting, provisioning) of data on non-traditional investments are disclosed. The systems and methods involve collecting data regarding non-traditional investments and associated sponsors from numerous sources and presenting the data for direct comparison and analysis by investment professionals. The systems and methods also... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070219882 - Systems, methods and computer program products for electronic trading of financial instruments: An internet-protocol based anonymous trading system which enables traders to identify bids and offers which they are eligible to trade based upon a color coded methodology which gives the trader credit preference information about the potential counterparty while still maintaining the anonymity of the potential counterparty. To that end, each... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070219895 - Deriving a probability distribution of a value of an asset at a future time: Data are received that represents current prices of options on a given asset. An estimate is derived from the data of a corresponding implied probability distribution of the price of the asset at a future time. Information about the probability distribution is made available within a time frame that is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070219894 - Global opportunity fund: The Fund is structured as a fixed income note. Underlying the Fund is (a) a calibrated global fixed income index structured to generate 6%-8% per annum and (b) fund of private equity funds organized to generate short and frequent realizations. These short realizations fall under the category of secondaries, leverage... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070219893 - Methods and systems for risk management: In one aspect, the invention comprises acquiring background data regarding securities positions and regarding real-time pricing data; performing calculations regarding intermediate measures of performance of the securities; receiving configuration data for a portfolio of securities and one or more data requests, at least one of the data requests comprising a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070219896 - Methods and systems for facilitating investment in consumer interest in online media: There is provided herein methods and systems for facilitating the trading, i.e. purchase and sale, of consumer interest arising from online media assets. A particular online media asset trading platform 102 is described, including various traffic capture 202, data mining, analytic 204 and customer lead sales 206 functions. Further provided... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070219898 - System and method for discretionary broker quotes and pegged broker quotes: To represent broker interest in a security, a system receives broker interest to buy or sell a security at a first price with a minimum trade size, and receives an order with an order trade size. The system determines whether the order trade size is greater than the minimum trade... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070219897 - System and method for evaluating trade execution: A method and system for evaluating the execution of a trade of n shares from among a total of N shares of a security traded in a selected time period. According to one embodiment, a trader determines a single share price variance of the N shares, determines a correction coefficient... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070219899 - Financial transaction facilitation financing method and system: A method and system are disclosed. The method may include providing a risk sharing negotiable document for a fixed amount for the purchase of the property to both a buyer and a seller of the property for a fixed period of time, acquiring a current value of the property at... Agent: Duckor Spradling Metzger & Wynne A Law Corporation

20070219900 - Method and apparatus for allowing secured overdrafts of reloadable debit card accounts: The invention discloses a reloadable debit card which may be overdrawn by authorized merchants thus allowing future and recurring payments to be made via ACH transactions against this debit card. In addition, the cardholder may repay indebtedness simply by depositing funds onto the reloadable debit card.... Agent: Schwartz Cooper CharteredIPDepartment

20070219901 - Apparatus and method for performing secure financial transactions in an instant messaging environment: An apparatus and method provide simple and secure financial transactions in an instant messaging (IM) environment. Two users may engage in an IM session (chat session), with negotiations for a product or service taking place during the chat session. One or both of the users may activate an IM financial... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070219902 - Electronic payment method and related system and devices: The invention proposes an electronic payment method through a telecommunication network, the payment relating to a service provided to a buying entity by a selling entity. According to the method, an amount corresponding to the service is debited from an account of the buying entity. At least first and second... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070219903 - 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

20070219904 - System and method for electronic processing of payment obligations: Methods for processing data related to obligations to pay (“OP”) (e.g., checks) in connection with an electronic accounting system (“AS”) are disclosed. In an embodiment of one method, data for one or more OPs (e.g., scanned images of the paper checks) is received. For each of the OPs: it is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070219905 - Payment authorization system for financial transactions using a mesh-capable device: A remotely programmable system for authorizing customer purchases includes a portable unit having a method for obtaining the customer's information, a method for entering the purchase amount and customer's signature, a mesh-capable wireless transceiver for securely transmitting the customer's information to a mesh-capable host device, where said mesh-capable host device... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070219907 - One-click digital package purchase and archive: A method for providing a package of digital items to a user is described. The digital items are packaged into a package, and the package is encrypted and wrapped in a digital rights management system. A purchase request is received from the user requesting purchase of the package. The package... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070219908 - Providing syndicated media to authorized users: System and method for providing a syndicated media item to authorized users. In one embodiment authorization can be granted through payment, in exchange for watching advertisements and/or as part of another Internet service. A syndication feed comprising a link to an authorization server instead of a direct link to the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070219909 - System and method for automatically updating timed drm keys: A system and method for renewing the ability of a component to play digital content. A timer is established, and before the elapse of the timer the component is engaged with a battery charging cradle. By virtue of the component being engaged with the cradle, the timer is reset.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070219914 - Document-based civilly-catastrophic event personal action guide facilitation method: One provides (102) a text-based document that is configured and arranged to elicit information regarding one or more persons regarding specific personal actions to be uniquely taken by such persons in specific response to a civilly-catastrophic event having occurred. One then uses (103) that text-based document to obtain such information... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070219913 - Subscription-based catastrophe-triggered rescue services facilitation method and apparatus: One or more non-human-powered vehicles (301, 302) are pre-positioned (102) and maintained (103) at a predetermined location (201) as are corresponding full-time rescue service personnel (104). Consideration-based private civil security subscriptions (307) are then accepted (106) from subscribers with respect to these resources. In particular, such a subscription can provide... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070219915 - Digital content encryption and decryption method and workflow system using digital content: Disclosure of information is controlled selectively depending on users such that a plurality of users having different roles bearing no inclusive relation with one another can access the same area. Content is divided into a plurality of areas. For each of the areas obtained by division, secret keys (encryption/decryption keys... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070219916 - Systems and methods for tracking and verifying the authenticity of an item: The inventive subject matter relates to novel systems and methods for tracking and/or verifying the authenticity of items, such as in commerce or society.... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070219917 - Digital license sharing system and method: A digital license sharing method, system and apparatus is provided for use in a digital rights management system. Usage rights in respect of digital content are transferred between content player devices or applications by associating with each player a status indication. Transfer is carried out by transmitting a request to... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070219919 - Process of accessing licensed digital content on mediadirect enabled systems in a multiple operating system environment: A process for accessing digital content on instant on enabled information handling systems in which the instant on enabled information handling system includes a license management module that resides within a main operating system partition. When a user attempts to access licensed digital content via a instant on partition, the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070219918 - System and method for controlling access to protected information: 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

20070219925 - Remote authentication of two dimensional barcoded indicia: An indicia authentication system includes a franking device for embedding identification and encrypted authentication data into indicia and applying the indicia to an article, and a computing device for utilizing the identification data to retrieve a key for deciphering the encrypted authentication data, where the computing device is adapted to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070219927 - Method and device for identifying the person depositing suspicious banknotes at an automatic teller machine: In a method for identifying the depositor of suspicious banknotes at an automatic teller machine, wherein the deposited banknotes are subjected to an authenticity test in the automatic teller machine and classified into authentic, forged and unsuspicious banknotes depending on the result of the authenticity test, and wherein the suspicious... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070219928 - Strategy-driven methodology for reducing identity theft: A strategy-driven methodology for reducing identity theft comprises the steps of attempting to gain system access, and presenting at least one list of user choices instead of granting system access, as practiced conventionally. The presented list contains at least one choice that is preset by a registered user. Other steps... Agent: Cislo & Thomas, LLP

20070219929 - Planning granularity in manufacturing computing systems: A computer-implemented method (and associated computer program products and systems) generates electronic data for use in planning execution of a manufacturing process. The method includes receiving a user-defined grouping of multiple execution-level manufacturing entities (for example, operations and resources) that are defined in a manufacturing process execution-level electronic data model... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070219931 - Systems and methods for prioritizing and tracking cost reduction projects: Determining how to prioritize cost reduction projects for replacing subcomponents composing an assembled product with new subcomponents is described. To this end, forecast sales data for subcomponents composing the assembled product is received. Utilizing the forecast sales data, a cost savings schedule for subcomponents of costs saved by introducing the... Agent: Priest & Goldstein, PLLC

20070219930 - Systems and methods for selecting a least cost technology: Techniques for determining a business case for selecting a least cost technology are described. To this end, forecast sales data of one or more configurations of an assembled product is received. Usage factors of a plurality of subcomponents composing the assembled product are also received. A usage factor may suitably... Agent: Priest & Goldstein, PLLC

20070219932 - Cooperative energy farms and virtual net metering: The present invention is directed to a method of providing current energy consumers with a method by which they are able to pay for renewable energy from Cooperative Energy Farms and Virtual Net Metering. Power Output Data is sent to the Ratepayer via Internet. Power Out-put Data is sent to... Agent: Richard D. Clarke Law Office Of Richard D. Clarke

20070214000 - Global customer satisfaction system: A global customer satisfaction system includes point-of-sale customer feedback terminals for receiving in-store customer feedback including satisfaction ratings and other customer feedback regarding participating vendors as the customer pays for purchases. The system also includes post-sale customer feedback terminals for receiving more detailed customer feedback regarding the vendors from members... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20070214011 - Patient discharge system and associated methods: A system and method for improving patient discharge from a healthcare facility automates several areas of the patient discharge process, using automatically placed contacts with communications devices. The system includes a website that is accessible by registered users, primarily nurses and physicians. Critical elements of patient discharge, currently requiring many... Agent: Jacqueline E. Hartt, Ph.d Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20070214023 - Spatial database system for generation of weather event and risk reports: The present invention is a tool including a spatial database and a data warehouse used to track portfolio sites that are affected by weather events, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, hail, tornados, or manmade events. A spatial database provides rich spatial geometry features using earth longitude and latitude as a... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070214024 - Airline transactions using mobile handsets: This invention proposes a method for a subscriber to exchange information and transact with a plurality of airline companies for real time search, comparison and transaction activities over mobile networks connecting a subscriber's handset, online infrastructure of airline companies, a service delivery engine and online banking infrastructure. The invention allows... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070214027 - Development of actual risk costs based on estimated risk costs as well as probabilistic restriction of the actual risk costs: An evaluation is performed for a device, an application and/or a method, in particular a method for establishing a technical system such as a power plant for instance, the assessment being carried out on the basis of costs for risks. In accordance with the method, the costs for specific risks... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070214026 - Logistics system and method: A logistics system is used for automatically making a budget for freights delivery. The logistics system comprises an input module for inputting freights information, departure terminal information, destination terminal information and/or commands for querying and/or modifying data stored in said logistics system, a data module for storing basic logistics data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070214036 - Online product design: The method and system disclosed herein provide a means for developing product designs for a given product concept of a problem provider over a network. A problem provider inputs product design requirements of a product concept in a user interface. An environmental element module identifies environment elements for the product... Agent: Ashok Tankha Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070214037 - System and method of obtaining and using anonymous data: A system and method that anonymously collects and uses consumer purchase data, including radio frequency metrics, linked to individual characteristics, including demographic and attitudinal profiles of each user, while protecting individual user's identities. Uniquely identifying information about the user is not requested or recorded, keeping individual users anonymous and protected... Agent: John Nielsen Randick O'dea & Tooliatos, LLP

20070214052 - Consumer driven telecommunication integrated system for hospitality application: The invention is an all-in-one and quality assurance control loop system for the process of Restaurant Operation. It has interfaces and expression of restaurant information on a website. This website will include marketing applications for restaurants such as games, auctions, message banners, job portals, event boards, broadcasting systems, fan group... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20070214057 - Sales event with real-time pricing: Disclosed are apparatus, methods, systems, and computer program products for providing pricing options for a sales event of online shopping over a data network. In one embodiment, an item selection signal is received over the data network from a data processing device associated with a customer. The item selection signal... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070214075 - Auction management system: An auction management system that consolidates auction posting, monitoring, and closing for multiple auction users on multiple auction sites. An auction consolidator provides an Internet interface between auction sellers, auction buyers, and auction sites. The auction management system provides a unified platform where sellers post auction submissions, enter auction tracking... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20070214076 - Systems and methods for analyzing data: Information regarding individuals that fit a bad performance definition, such as individuals that have previously defaulted on a financial instrument or have declared bankruptcy, is used to develop a model that is usable to determine whether an individual that does not fit the bad performance definition is more likely to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070214080 - Intermediary payment system and method: A method for enabling consumers 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 virtual closed loop accounts... Agent: Lawrence D. Eisen Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070214093 - System for secure payment and authentication: A system and method for biometric-secure point-of-sale or online transactions and/or authentication and ID verification for restricted access that simplifies the checkout process and eliminates fraudulent transactions. The system employs a credit-card-sized device with integral fingerprint reader, on-board memory with pre-designated card number, infrared coder, power strip, plus at least... Agent: Royal W. Craig Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver

20070214001 - Downloadable control policies for instant messaging usage: An instant message enabled device and method are provided. The method may include accessing at least one control policy for usage of an instant messaging (IM) service using an IM enabled client device. The method may also include installing data related to the at least one control policy at the... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070213999 - Epc provisioning system using business rules: An EPC provisioning system comprising a EPC server can dynamically provide EPC code blocks for one product to multiple client sites. The EPC server can use business rules to determine the EPC codes for the multiple client sites.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070213996 - Know-how service system: A know-how service system capable of handling integrally a life cycle management extended from installment to operation, maintenance, and scrapping of various equipments in a facility such as a plant, a factory, a hospital, a school, a vessel, or the like by utilizing a know-how scattered and held individually via... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070213997 - Method and apparatus for receiving product recall notices using broadcast channel: Disclosed are a method and various embodiments thereof for receiving a recall signal by determining a recall signaling frequency; receiving a recall signal on the determined recall signaling frequency; capturing a recall message from the recall signal when the recall message is targeted to at least one of a simple... Agent: Intellectual Property Development Jack Ivan J'maev

20070213991 - Method for buying items using sms or mms in a mobile telecommunication network: A method for buying items using SMS or MMS in a mobile telecommunication network has been provided. After receiving a SMS or MMS on a mobile phone containing information about the item which can be bought, the user selectively presses a key on the mobile phone for either asking for... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070213995 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a mobile referral system: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a mobile referral system are provided. The method includes presenting a referral form on a mobile device display, the referral form including data fields for receiving information and selections from a referring individual. The data fields include customer contact information fields, a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070213998 - National addictions vigilance, intervention and prevention program: A substance abuse surveillance system comprising a source of respondent responses to a self-administered virtual interview and a data collector coupled to receive from the source multiple respondent responses and analyzing the same in near real-time to form current substance abuse data, the data collector allowing access to the current... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070213994 - Rfid business process-decoupling of design and deployment time activities: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates implementing a binding between a radio frequency identification (RFID) process and a device. An RFID process can receive a tag read event from a device and make the tag read event available for at least one high level... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070213993 - Tool and process for acquisition of a large number of employees from another company in a plurality of countries: Employees are acquired in many countries as a result of an outsourcing deal. Compliance with the different laws and regulations as well as cultural and language differences is determined and maintained simultaneously for all countries involved, rather than one at a time as in prior art tools and processes. Interconnected... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070213992 - Verifying a usage of a transportation resource: A method, system and computer program product for verifying a usage of a transportation resource by an object user of the transportation resource is disclosed. A peer group of users that are expected to behave similarly as the object user is established to determine a normal behavior that the object... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070214007 - Case-finding systems and methods: The present invention relates to quality improvement in patient care. In particular, the present invention relates to a rapid, easily computer-implemented case-finding algorithm to identify patients with target clinical conditions.... Agent: Jones Day

20070214008 - Computational and/or control systems and methods related to nutraceutical agent selection and dosing: The present disclosure relates to computational and/or control systems and methods related to nutraceutical agent selection and dosing.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070214005 - Medical account system and method: A system and method for enabling a benefactor to help pay the costs of medical items of a consumer, such as a family member or friend. The benefactor funds a stored value account. A medical card that identifies the account is issued to the consumer. The card is presented to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070214003 - Medication management system: A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical,device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The medication... Agent: Brian R. Woodworth

20070214013 - Method and system for assessing, quantifying, coding & communicating a patient's health and perioperative risk: A multi-dimensional system for assessing, coding, quantifying, displaying, integrating and communicating information relating to patient health and perioperative risk includes a mechanism for inputting patient information and providing an output relating to the patient health and perioperative risk. The output includes a score for the physical condition of the patient,... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20070214006 - Method and system for producing performance reports for payors: The method and system includes producing performance reports for payors that require performance evidence. The method and system collects a set of clinical data from the patient, combines the set of remote patient data with a set of EMR data, de-identifies this data, and produces a set of reports including... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070214012 - Method of using online communities for effective clinical trial recruitment: A method of recruiting clinical trial candidates using an online community is disclosed that includes creating an illness-specific online community. Membership accounts are created for members joining the online community. Personal and medical information is collected from the members and categorized and stored in a member database. Information on a... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070214009 - System and method for clinical strategy for therapeutic pharmacies: A system and method of distributing pharmaceutical prescriptions within a network of pharmacies based review of prescription claim data and patient medical state to enable stratification of patients, wherein each pharmacy within the network has been established to handle one or more particular patient medical states.... Agent: James M. Hunter, Jr.

20070214004 - System and method for managing the lifecycle of a patent case: A method for managing the lifecycle of a patent case is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: uploading files of the patent case, and saving the uploaded files; analyzing the saved files to confirm the last completed control proceeding of the patent case; updating status of the patent case;... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070214002 - System for outpatient treatment of chronic health conditions: A system for outpatient treatment of patients diagnosed with a chronic health related condition includes a virtual office site operated with a server. The virtual office site is accessible over a network by a patient using a first browser, a physician using a second browser and a nurse case manager... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070214010 - Systems and methods for utilizing a secure electronic gateway at a physician's office: A method of communicating with a physician's office that includes a host computer receiving, via the network interface, one or more data files from a data delivery device remotely located in a physician's office. The method further includes determining a set of data processing programs to be utilized when processing... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070214017 - Diagnostic imaging simplified user interface methods and apparatus: Apparatus includes an imaging system with a user interface, and a hospital radiological information system (RIS) coupled to the imaging system such that the user interface allows for bi-directional data transfer between the imaging system and the RIS.... Agent: Fisher Patent Group, LLC

20070214015 - Healthcare management: A computer assessment is performed of ways for managing an individual's health. A patient report is generated, from the computer assessment, for the individual's use. The patient report provides advice tailored to help the individual manage the individual's health. A healthcare provider report is generated, from the computer assessment, for... Agent: Hanes & Schutz, LLC

20070214018 - Method which creates a community-wide health information infrastructure: A system for a community-wide health information infrastructure incorporates applications of information technology in conjunction with an incremental approach that creates incentives for voluntary participation for health care providers, payers, and patients from the onset. It identifies the hierarchical importance of categories of medical and health information and sets forth... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070214019 - Patient data archiving apparatus: A method of archiving on a removable media, desired information retrieved from a medical device implanted within a patient. The method comprising the steps of transferring patient data from a medical device to a computer, performing an operation on said patient data within the computer to separate it into a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070214014 - Pharmacy quality checking and alert system and method: The disclosure presents a system and method for preventing pharmacy errors for a prescription. The system and method receives prescription data comprising medication data and direction data for the delivery of medication identified within the medication data for the prescription, transmits the prescription data to a pharmacy computer memory associated... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20070214016 - Policy-driven relocation of electronic healthcare records in a network environment: A method and apparatus for storing electronic healthcare records is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for managing electronic healthcare records in a hybrid domain that includes a high-availability centralized data store and set of distributed data nodes. A set of location policies may be used to determine whether... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070214021 - Automated service offering and loss recovery system: A method and computer instructions for tracking an insurable item is shown. A computer receives a consumer identifier that is uniquely associated with a consumer. The computer also receives a serial number associated with an insurable item from a transponder attached to the insurable item. The computer records to a... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070214022 - Method and system for long term care insurance product: A method includes providing a long-term care insurance product to an insured, determining a benefit pool associated with the long-term care insurance product, the benefit pool based on benefits available to the insured at a future point in time after issuance of the long-term care insurance product and calculated by... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070214020 - Modeling of insurance product data: An insurance product class is defined which includes multiple data elements that are common to various insurance product types. Further, several classes derived from the insurance product class are defined, with each derived class extending the common data elements to include data elements that are specific to a certain insurance... Agent: Csa LLP

20070214025 - Business engagement management: A solution for managing a business engagement between a provider and a client is provided. The business engagement includes one or more business solutions for which a client risk preference level is obtained. One of a plurality of engagement types is also obtained for the business solution(s) based on a... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070214032 - Automated system and method for managing a process for the shopping and selection of human entities: s

20070214029 - For each item enumerator: The subject disclosure pertains to a loop enumerator. The enumerator includes its own collection of items that can be generated manually or loaded from a file. Further, the items themselves can be collections of variable size. These collections of items can be customized to enable enumeration over non-uniform data and/or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070214028 - System and method for automatically installing verifying and configuring functionalities in the system components of a distributed network: The invention relates to a system for the automatic installation, verification and configuration of functionality that is stored in installation, verification and/or configuration files for system components that are located in a distributed network. Said system comprises a system design tool for generating, checking and configuring the installation, verification and/or... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070214031 - System and method for fuel procurement planning: A system creating a purchasing and delivery plan for a commodity is provided. This system sets the number of delivery means that deliver the commodity according to each delivery schedule and the amount of the commodity purchases from each supplier as variables, and for a mixed integer programming problem that... Agent: Ido Tuchman

20070214030 - Systems and methods for matching, selecting, narrowcasting, and/or classifying based on rights management and/or other information: Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070214033 - Transportation scheduling system: Methods for scheduling a transportation operation such as the operation of an airline. The method desirably selects a demand (100) for transportation specifying an origin, destination, and time of arrival or departure, and selects resources from a database of available resources such as aircraft (508), crew, and departure gates. The... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070214035 - Casual personnel recruitment method and system: A method and system is provided for recruitment and management of casual personnel via a telecommunications network. One or more casual employees register a job seeker profile including details of the casual employee's availability in a database. A prospective employer nominates search criteria including a date and/or time when the... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070214034 - Systems and methods for managing and regulating object allocations: Systems and methods are disclosed for the management and regulation of allocations of objects of a first entity to objects of a second entity, wherein the first entity and the second entity can in each case communicate via an interface with the system. In one exemplary embodiment, a system may... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070214043 - Advertisement providing service control system: An advertisement providing service control device operated by a mobile carrier, has means receiving, from a mobile communication terminal utilized by a user, an encrypted advertisement code corresponding to two-dimensional code acquired from a two-dimensional code attached advertisement provided by a sponsor enterprise, means judging validity of the received encrypted... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070214042 - Advertising triggered by sequences of user actions: Selecting advertisements for presentation based on user actions on a computing device is provided. The selected advertisements are associated with products or services that enable or enhance tasks that a user may be attempting to perform on the user device. User actions on the computing device are tracked, and tasks... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070214046 - Architecture for information dissemination in wireless mobile ad hoc networks: In future large-scale Emergency Response/Management (ER/EM) to terrorism and natural disasters, sharing the so-called common operational picture amongst dynamic task groups provides immediate advantages. In an ER/EM scenario, dissemination of the right data to the right person at the right time has a direct benefit. Timely and bandwidth efficient dissemination... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070214049 - Broadcast television reward program and method of use for issuing, aggregating and redeeming sponsor's reward points: A loyalty program operated in association with a television broadcast network, wherein reward content is provided along with television content (programming and/or advertising) to generate a television broadcast signal that is transmitted to a plurality of viewers. Each viewer may view or hear the reward content via their television receiver... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070214050 - Delivery of internet ads: Delivering advertisements via the Internet may include extracting an index file, including a bid price, and a table of contents pointing to a start location of the keyword in the index file. Keywords in the query string may be matched to advertisements by searching the table of contents to locate... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070214044 - Method and system for adjusting balance of account of advertiser in keyword advertisement: Disclosed are a method for adjusting the account balance of an advertiser in keyword advertising, the method comprising the steps of: maintaining an advertiser information database for storing bidding price information, minimum balance for account maintenance, and information on the account balance by each search result; generating a search result... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070214039 - Method and system for creating marketing campaigns using stand alone imaging techniques: Method and system for creating marketing campaigns using stand alone imaging techniques. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for providing custom processing of one or more images. The method includes a step for creating a plurality of different campaigns through an electronic interface. The electronic interface... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070214048 - Method and system for developing and managing a computer-based marketing campaign: A computer-implemented method of implementing an advertising campaign may include receiving content that includes a plurality of terms, analyzing the content for one or more terms that are relevant to a product or service, using at least one of the relevant terms to develop a plurality of keywords and automatically... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070214038 - Method and system for incenting viewers to remain with their current digital media content: A system, method, and computer program by which a content provider can display an incentive for a user to remain with their current channel or program. When the user attempts to leave the current program, a pop-up window containing an incentive to remain with the current program is displayed. The... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070214040 - Method for prompting responses to advertisements: An automated method, performed by a computer-based system, for promoting responses to advertisements via a service provider (SP) network includes wirelessly transmitting a message to a mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is within a predetermined boundary range of an advertising location. The message includes a telephone number... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070214047 - Methods and apparatus for presenting offers to qualified consumers: A system which allows identification of a consumer as belonging to a designated category and makes special offers available to consumers who are members of the designated category is described. The system comprises a database of offers accessible through connection by consumer operated computers upon authentication of consumer registration, an... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20070214051 - Release note/advertisement print out after firmware upgrade: This invention relates to a method for printing out release notes/advertisements after the firmware in the printer or other such firmware-containing devices have been upgraded. Such methods of this type, generally, provide the printer user with release notes which detail how the printer was upgraded and/or provide the user with... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070214041 - System and method for location-based mapping of soft-keys on a mobile communication device: A system and method for transmission of advertisements includes wirelessly broadcasting from a location, information that includes a telephone number associated an advertisement and user credentials. The information is received by a mobile communication device associated with a user of a service provider network. After being received, the telephone number... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070214045 - System and method for operating a marketplace for internet ad media and for delivering ads according to trades made in that marketplace: A method and system to operate an Internet-based exchange that offers commoditized Ad Media. The system receives the identity of Ad Media from a publisher, automatically classifies the Ad Media so as to associate the classified Ad Media with other like Ad Media and groups the associated Ad Media into... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070214053 - Method and apparatus for monitoring the status and transfer of food products: A system and method is provided for monitoring a status of a plurality of products, such as prepared food, located in product locations within stations throughout a restaurant. The status of each product indicates whether that product exists in a particular storage location, and whether that product has exceeded its... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20070214054 - Direct currency conversion: This invention concerns direct currency conversion, that is automatic currency conversion at point of payment for card transactions. In particular it concerns a method for operating equipment associated with a financial transaction. The method includes the steps of: Presenting a card related to a customer's account. Recording a card number... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070214055 - System for beverage dispensing and sales tracking: Some embodiments provide a system for beverage dispensing and sales tracking. The system includes a data manager, a data store, and one or more sales nodes. In some embodiments, the data manager includes a point-of-sale server function. In some embodiments, the data manager obtains information from the sales nodes related... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070214056 - Instant ownership auction method: An auction instrument imposes an initial seller obligation for an initial seller to sell an auction item to a first purchaser upon the first purchaser issuing a first bid purchase and a first purchaser obligation to sell the auction item to a second purchaser upon the second purchaser issuing a... Agent: David B. Cochran Jones Day

20070214060 - Method and system for providing multi-organization resource management: Facilitating the purchase of at least one resource is disclosed. Data is received from a set of one or more external applications. An approved purchase requisition is received. Information associated with the purchase requisition is validated. The purchase requisition is converted into a valid purchase order. The valid purchase order... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070214058 - Method, apparatus, and system for determining whether a computer is within a particular location: Some embodiments provide a method of determining whether a lottery player or the player's computer is within a particular location. The player's computer is connected to a computer network. The method transmits, through the computer network, a pass code and a telephone number to the lottery player's computer. The method... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070214059 - On-line interactive system and method for transacting business: The present invention includes a method for transacting business over a network between multiple buyers and sellers. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention operates within an improved extranet system which is a secure, limited access network which operates within the larger public packet switched network (Internet) and allows only registered... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070214062 - Centralized electronic sales using a consolidator: The present invention provides an electronically accessible site that lists a product and associated distributors that distribute the product to customers. A customer purchases a product from the electronically accessible site, and during the purchasing process, the customer selects the distributor he wants to receive the product from. The order... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20070214061 - Information terminal apparatus, method of controlling the same, computer product, and information output system: A positional-information detecting unit detects positional information indicating a position in a store. A customer-attribute-information storing unit stores a behavioral attribute of the user. A product-related-information storing unit stores the product-related information in association with the positional information and the behavioral attribute. An information-output control unit acquires the product-related information... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070214067 - Extreme capacity management in an electronic marketplace environment: A system (10) for managing a capacity extreme at a first entity (12) in a supply chain includes a planning application (36) that receives status data for at least the first entity (12) reflecting the capacity extreme at the first entity (12) and generates a plan (34) according to the... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20070214063 - Inventory balance common object: Stored inventory balance information in a first format for use by a first computerized system is transformed to readily make the stored inventory balance information available for use in a second computerized system that utilizes a second format in a cost-efficient and time-efficient manner.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070214064 - Inventory location common object: Stored inventory location information in a first format for use by a first computerized system is transformed to readily make the stored inventory location information available for use in a second computerized system that utilizes a second format in a cost-efficient and time-efficient manner.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070214065 - Inventory transaction common object: Stored inventory transaction information in a first format for use by a first computerized system is transformed to readily make the stored inventory transaction information available for use in a second computerized system that utilizes a second format in a cost-efficient and time-efficient manner.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070214066 - Profiling item sellers to inform item purchasing decisions and build trust in a multiple-seller marketplace: A facility for responding to a request for information about an item is described. The facility receives a request for information about the item. Among a plurality of sellers, the facility identifies those sellers (1) that are offering the item for sale, (2) whose availability level for the selected item... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070214068 - Method and system for generating invoices with entitlements: Techniques to generate invoices for “events” (e.g., activities, orders, and so on) and taking into account applicable entitlements. The events are for actions and/or transactions to be performed, and may be related to contracts having entitlements that may specify special pricing for the events. An entitlement may define what event... Agent: Csa LLP

20070214069 - System for collecting billable information in a group communication system: Systems and methods are provided for collecting and managing billable information in a group communication system such as a push-to-talk (PTT) dispatch system. A local node collects the billable event data associated with the group communication and stores it in a flat file database. The billable event data is forwarded... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070214070 - Water conditioner device: A water treatment device. High power magnets are pressed against one another against one another, with like poles facing one another, to form alternating poles. Water is passed through the alternating polarity magnetic field. The water is kept in contact with the field for a time that induces a potential... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070214071 - Methods, apparatuses and computer readable media for facilitating the creation of a forward contract for an insurance policy: The present invention relates to methods, apparatuses and computer readable media for facilitating the creation of a forward contract on an insurance policy.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20070214072 - Methods, apparatuses and computer readable media for facilitating the creation of a forward contract for an insurance policy: The present invention relates to methods, apparatuses and computer readable media for facilitating the creation of a forward contract on an insurance policy.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20070214073 - Facilitator arrangement, method and computer program product for managing a real-estate portfolio: A method includes receiving, and storing in a computer-readable storage medium, asset base criteria for one or more properties of a participant, where the asset base criteria characterizes the respective one or more properties of the participant. Acquisition criteria for one or more properties one or more other participants anticipate... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070214074 - System for interactive participation by remote bidders in live auctions: A distributed auction system allows remote bidders to interactively participate by computer in live auctions conducted on-site by an auctioneer. A client program that runs on the computers of the remote bidders displays real time auction status information extracted from status messages, and provides functionality of the remote bidders to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070214077 - Systems and methods for asset based lending (abl) valuation and pricing: An automated asset based lending (ABL) system that integrates supplier receivables data, allowing financial institutions optimally to value and price lending against those receivables, thus enabling financial institutions to offer suppliers a maximum borrowing base with minimum risk and highest return to the financial institution, further enabling the financial institution... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070214078 - Bill payment apparatus and method: The invention provides a method of processing the payment of a bill on behalf of a payee to a billing entity that issued the bill. The payee takes the bill to a service center, such as located in a convenience store or check cashing store, and presents the bill to... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070214079 - System and method for providing a financial transaction instrument with user-definable authorization criteria: Authorization limits on the use of a financial transaction instrument, such as a credit card and the like, may be set by an owner of a financial account corresponding to the financial transaction instrument. The owner provides information identifying the owner, the financial account, and the financial transaction instrument corresponding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070214081 - Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for providing a stream of payments: A method, computer readable medium, and apparatus for providing a more consistent stream of aggregate payments that are to satisfy a plurality of obligations to receive payments in exchange for transfers of interests in one or more intellectual property assets.... Agent: Michael N Haynes

20070214082 - Methods and systems for case budgeting and expense reduction: A method and system for managing legal fees and minimizing costs of an organization involves periodically receiving case budget information consisting at least in part of identification, billing rate, and hours for each person projected to work on a legal project for the organization. The case budget information is received... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070214084 - Credit hour financing method including a credit hour card: A credit hour financing method which involves providing a financial instrument which has a value equal to and redeemable only for fractional, single or multiple credit hours at an institution of higher learning and redeeming said financial instrument for credit hours at said institution of higher learning.... Agent: Dale Frye

20070214083 - Method and system for providing prepaid data service: A method and system for providing prepaid data service. A subscriber terminal may establish a connection with a communications network. Based on a balance of a prepaid account, traffic from the subscriber terminal may be directed to a self-service portal. At the self-service portal, a user of the subscriber terminal... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20070214085 - System and method for detecting fraudulent calls: Systems and methods for evaluating transactions to determine if suspicious activities are possibly present. Various methods include providing a reference designator list with information associated with one or more suspicious activities. Using the reference designator list, a first and a second transaction systems are evaluated. Various systems include two or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070214086 - Method and system of check presentation: A method and system of check presentation. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising accepting a first paper check and a second paper check in exchange for a good or service (the second paper check postdated), converting the first paper check and the second paper check into... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070214087 - Content purchase processing terminal, method thereof and program: A content purchase processing terminal achieves smooth purchase processing of content without the need for burdensome interactions between a content distributor and a user who wants to purchase the content. A content purchase processing terminal includes a secret information managing section for managing secret information on the user and the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070214089 - Managing a virtual persona through selective association: A technique is provided to generally provide user support across multiple accounts by allowing a single person or user to represent multiple organizations. An embodiment may typically provide support for a user to act on behalf of an account in the form of a virtual persona and also to provide... Agent: Gregory M. Doudnikoff International Business Machines

20070214088 - System and method for preventing network misuse: A system and method for preventing misuse conditions on a data network are described. Embodiments of the system and method evaluate potential network misuse signatures by analyzing variables such as the state of the network and/or target, the context in which the potential misuse signatures are detected, the response/reaction of... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070214090 - Digital data processing apparatus and method, data reproducing terminal apparatus, data processing terminal apparatus, and terminal apparatus: A digital data processing apparatus which receives digital data whose use is charged for through a data recording medium or a network and uses the received digital data by using use right data, wherein the apparatus has memory means in which use history information of the digital data has been... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070214091 - Electronic payment instrument system and method: A payment instrument that may be purchased at a retail location and used for conducting money transfers and other financial transactions. The amount associated with the instrument is stored in an non-banking account maintained by a money transfer entity. In order to activate the instrument after it has been purchased,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070214092 - Systems and methods for processing check identifiers using replacement symbols: An original check identifier in MICR format includes separator symbols that do not appear on a typical computer keyboard. When a user is entering a check identifier from a computer or a telephone, the user is instructed to replace the separator symbols with replacement symbols that appear on a typical... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070214094 - Value information management system, recording medium, printer device, account adjusting device, electronic data printing method, and computer program: A secure memory card 13 securely stores therein a payment-related electronic receipt, a printer 14 prints the electronic receipt, and deletes the electronic receipt from the secure memory card 13 after completion of the printing, and transmits a receipt ID identifying the electronic receipt to a receipt management server 17,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070214095 - Monitoring and notification system and method: The present invention provides a method and system for monitoring a plurality of sources meeting predetermined criteria and providing a user the data meeting the criteria. The method and system are particularly suited for monitoring sources potentially containing information related to class actions and providing the user with data related... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070214096 - Multi-jurisdictional electronic-commerce legal products, methods of production and methods of conducting business therewith: The present invention provides novel e-commerce methods for the user-fabrication of jurisdiction specific documents of a legal nature and various methods of conducting business comprising such methods, fabricated documents and a system encompassing such methods and products.... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20070208592 - Computerized plant selection system: A computerized plant selection system comprises a probe and a computer. The probe is installed at a proposed site for a plant. The probe collects environmental data at the site. The environmental data are uploaded to a computer. The computer identifies one or more compatible plant species using the environmental... Agent: Scot A. Reader, Esq.

20070208591 - Computerized system for targeted horticultural advertising: A computerized system for targeted horticultural advertising. In some embodiments, the system comprises a computer. The computer receives environmental data collected at a horticultural site. The computer determines conformance of the environmental data to a plant species profile and directs a user to commercial information regarding a plant associated with... Agent: Scot A. Reader, Esq.

20070208590 - Federated customer servicer broker: An architecture for facilitating provision of service includes a primary contact center and a federated customer service broker under control of a primary business, i.e., the business on behalf of which the customer service is to be provided. The broker accepts and maintains submissions from customer service providers (“Subscribers”) indicating... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070208589 - Methodology for recruiting and retaining employees for temporary staffing companies: A computer-implemented method is provided for encouraging referrals of persons for employment. Information is stored that identifies each of a plurality of referring parties, that is, information identifying persons or entities that refer a person or entity that is a candidate for a position at an employer party. The person... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070208594 - Method for electronic examination of medical fees: Disclosed is a method for electronic examination of medical fees, and more particularly to a method for electronic examination of medical fees using a system for electronic examination of medical fees. The system includes a transmit/receive server, a bill examination server, a management terminal and examiner terminals, and communicates with... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070208601 - System for enterprise performance transformation: This invention generally relates to models and methods pertaining to strengthening the competitiveness of a business enterprise by transforming the efficiency and effectiveness of its SG&A (Selling, General& Administrative) functions like Information Technology, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Procurement and Supply Chain Operations, such transformation called ‘Enterprise Performance Transformation’. In... Agent: Michael A. O'nell Michael A. O'nell, P.C.

20070208602 - System and method for provisioning workflow-enhanced bundles of computing resources: A system and method for provisioning a user with one or more related computing resources (e.g., applications, content, and/or services) which are collected into a bundle. The bundled computing resources are directed to the performance of one or more tasks. In addition, one or more workflows may be established and... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070208612 - Method and system for detecting and reporting sales trends: Traditionally, fads, crazes, and sudden sales trends have tended to catch suppliers and retailers off-guard. Thus, the supply could oftentimes not meet the demand, which could diminish overall sales. With the present system, however, trends, crazes, and/or fads can be detected, and the overall sales can be predicted. Once the... Agent: Storm LLP

20070208618 - Coupon code systems and methods: A method for providing a coupon code to a recipient via a network includes storing a coupon code on a tangible storage medium of a host computer, receiving a request for the coupon code from the recipient, and providing the recipient with the coupon code via the network in response... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070208621 - Method of and system for generating list using flexible adjustment of advertising domain: A method of and system for generating a list using flexible adjustment of an advertising domain, in which the domain size of a display field is determined depending on the number of advertising information to be arranged in each display field so as to create a search result list through... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070208629 - Shopping using exemplars: One aspect relates to using an exemplar that could at least partially be interacted with by a user for at least partially recognizing an at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be purchased by the user. Another aspect relates to shopping for an at least one goods, items,... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070208641 - Automated loan processing system and method for processing loans: A method for managing loan processing workflow includes a workflow of a logical sequence of interdependent tasks to be performed to complete processing of a loan from initial input to closing. The workflow has tasks and notifications. Each task has an associated status, either resolved or not resolved. Related tasks... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.A.

20070208640 - Method and apparatus for assessing debtor payment behavior: A computer implemented method that merges historical debtor placement data and historical credit data according to a bivariate analysis to create model of debtor behavior. The model is adapted for processing current debtor placement data and credit data to value a debt portfolio or determine a probability of payment and/or... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P.

20070208651 - Platform for customizing a derivative portfolio trading strategy: The inventor discovered a method for exploiting asymmetrical market return patterns that involves the steps of identifying seasons during which equities have historically done poorly, entering a short sell position on a portfolio of call options at or near the beginning of that season, and closing out the short sell... Agent: Eric W. Cernyar, P.C.

20070208654 - Trading system and method having a configurable market depth tool with dynamic price axis: A system and method for the electronic trading of investment vehicles, such as stocks, bonds, options, commodities, stock and futures index contracts, and the like, is disclosed. The system and method provide a graphical user interface having a versatile and efficient market depth tool with a dynamic price axis for... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070208661 - Method for home buyer loan approval process validation: A method for receiving and verifying information received from a prospective home buyer and providing an indicia to the home buyer of loan approval. Such indicia is then used by the home buyer in soliciting property to purchase and in obtaining a final loan for purchase of the selected property.... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070208662 - Biometric based authorization systems for electronic fund transfers: A money transfer authorization method that includes the step of providing transferor biometric information to a party verification processor that verifies an identity of the transferor by comparing the transferor biometric information with previously registered biometric information from the transferor, where the transferor provides transfer identity information to receive the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070208663 - Method and apparatus for home buyers loan approval validation: A computer database for storing information regarding prospective purchasers of property, lenders to purchasers of property, sellers of property to the purchaser which is made accessible to such purchasers, lenders, and sellers to verify the validity of the status of such purchasers, lenders, and sellers and to validate the approval... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070208665 - Electronic document creating device, storage medium storing electronic document creating program, electronic document creating method, and storage medium storing electronic form: There is provided an electronic document creating device that creates a new electronic document. The electronic document creating device includes an obtaining unit, an assigning unit, and a prevention processing unit. The obtaining unit obtains an electronic form containing one or a plurality of variable fields, to each of which... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070208670 - Method and system for selling rights in files on a network: Systems and methods have been developed for selling rights in files on a network. The systems and methods may provide the ability for a user to purchase a right in a file about which the user may know little or nothing. The systems and methods may provide a publisher of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070208575 - Competency self-assessment approval: 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, individuals may propose self-assessments of competencies that they believe that they possess, such as specified skill levels of specified skills. Various techniques to independently approve proposed self-assessed... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208583 - Computing popularity based upon subscriptions: Computing the popularity of a source of serial online content based upon a number of subscriptions to the source of serial online content is disclosed. In some embodiments, upon receiving an indication that a subscription to a source of serial online content has been requested, a popularity score for the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070208580 - Electronic method and system for monitoring distribution facilities: An electronic method for monitoring one or more distribution facilities in a manufacturing enterprise which manufactures a number of products for purchase through a number of dealers. The method includes the steps of receiving distribution facility profile information for one or more distribution facilities and daily activity information for the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070208573 - Engine to present user interface based on a logical structure, such as one for a customer relationship management system: A flowchart-based tool can be used to build a logical structure. In the context of a customer relationship management (CRM) system, the logical structure can comprise an ordered set of questions and branching logic that are presented to a customer of the business when the customer contacts the business with... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208572 - Managing competencies of groups: 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, competencies associated with individuals are used to assist in managing competencies associated with groups of individuals. A user can specify aggregate target competencies for a group of... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208576 - Method and system for accessing business applications via a standard interface: A method and system for integrating business application elements of an external business application into an internal business application where the integration system maps the output of external business applications to a Extensible Markup Language (“XML”) format. The XML format defines a standard format for the business application elements generated... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208584 - Method and system for managing fundraising campaigns: A method of providing greeting cards, the method comprises: providing, over a communication network, a list of potential recipients of a greeting card to multiple potential senders; receiving, from multiple potential senders, selection indication representative of one or more selected recipients and greeting information associated with the selection; generating, for... Agent: Cornus Consulting, LLC

20070208582 - Method, system, and program product for providing an aggregated view: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for providing an aggregated view. In one embodiment, the invention includes selecting at least one criterion satisfied by at least two components of a system; aggregating the at least two components based on their provision of a same service at different... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070208578 - Modeling of job profile data: A job profile class is defined that represents a job profile and identifies relationships of the job profile with various entities related to the job profile.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208577 - Position common object: Stored employee position management information in a first format for use by a first computerized system is transformed to readily make the stored employee position management information available for use in a second computerized system that utilizes a second format in a cost-efficient and time-efficient manner.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208581 - Query-able network address registry based on network address description and network presence level with a market for trading network presence level: This invention provides a method for the exchange of Internet place utility on an open market similar to the stock market. This place utility comprises the products and services sold on the Internet such as job board postings, classified advertisements, search engine position, and etc. Internet place utility does not... Agent: Jody Sharpe

20070208586 - Smart card applications implementing cgi agents and directory services: The invention relates to a method for listing a user in a directory server and/or locating a subscriber in an internet-type network (RI), by consulting a directory server (SAi), in such a way as to determine an IP address associated with this subscriber. To do so, a smart card (2a)... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070208579 - System and method for closed loop decisionmaking in an automated care system: There is disclosed a system functional for operating and updating an interactive voice response self care system which utilizes various types of models. The system is capable of improving the performance of the self care system through updating the models used in that system in a closed loop manner. The... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070208574 - System and method for managing master data information in an enterprise system: A system and method for the management of information in an enterprise system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the enterprise system includes a primary system and a legacy system. The primary system includes an application or interface that can be used to communicate with and receive communications from a legacy... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208588 - System for developing a values-based, behavior-driven human resources system: The present invention includes a software system for developing a values-based, behavior-driven human resources system for at least one organization that includes a plurality of personnel. The software system includes a first software program that is operable to receive at least one input and generate at least one values-based, behavior-driven... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20070208585 - Systems and methods for providing time-in-transit information to a user: Systems and methods for allowing a user to input a zip code and select between receiving a time-in-transmit map for shipments inbound to the zip code or a time-in-transmit map for shipments outbound from the zip code, and displaying the requested time-in-transmit map to the user. Alternatively, a user may... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070208587 - Systems, software, and methods for communication-based business process messaging: A computerized system is described. The systems and methods of example embodiments include one or more shells for maintaining information, and one or more requests and responses related to the information to be maintained. A workflow paradigm may govern the acquisition and/or management of information through the requests and responses.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070208593 - Diet compliance system: A computer-based system for monitoring and improving a user's dietary compliance by providing the user with multiple forms of feedback designed to encourage adherence to a dietary program. In one embodiment the system comprises a personal computer having a commercially available telephony card and a cellular telephone carried by the... Agent: Clausen Miller, P.c

20070208595 - Medicine management apparatus and medicine management system: A medicine management apparatus 100 includes: a medicine storage 148 which stores a plurality of medicines used at a site of medical care; a storage and retrieval detector 146 which, when a medicine handling personnel manipulates the apparatus to store or retrieve an accommodated medicine to be accommodated in the... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070208596 - Service module in clinical workflow simulation tool for healthcare institutions: A service module for use in method for simulation of a clinical workflow in a healthcare facility which models the processes and treatment of patients is described. Each service has a module name and duration and is associated with data representing required resources such as rooms, personnel, equipment, consumables, workplace... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070208598 - Method of dispensing and tracking the giving of medical items to patients: A method of tracking dispensed medical items for use by patients associated with a health care institution. The method includes storing in a data store in connection with a computer, data representative of patients and medical items prescribed for the patients. A record is included in the data store of... Agent: Walker & Jocke, L.p.a.

20070208597 - System and method for osteoporosis assessment and medication adherence evaluation: An osteoporosis assessment system and method. The system and method generally include an input device that can be a computer that can be further connected to a network. The system can therefore be web-based. The system receives patient data and data related to osteoporosis. The method is implemented to correlate... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070208599 - Methods and systems for optimization of innovative capacity and economic value from knowledge, human and risk capital asset sets: Methods and systems for optimizing innovative capacity and new economic value from aggregates of public and private national, state, provincial and industry sector assets are disclosed. Sets of policy adjustment operations are performed to existing levels of the assets to attain desired benchmark settings based on optimal values and relationships... Agent: Dr. Alan B. Cornford

20070208600 - Method and apparatus for pre-emptive operational risk management and risk discovery: A computer implemented method and a computer system implementing the method provide enterprises with pre-emptive/proactive operational risk management. First, historical data on the occurrence of operational risk events and other internal business/external metrics and indicators are collected. This is followed by construction of a model for correlating the risk events... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20070208603 - Workflow system, information processor, and method and program for workflow management: A workflow system is provided in which one person in charge efficiently processes each activity assigned to successive nodes. When a client request management program execution unit 330 of a workflow server 30 receives a request to terminate processing for a node from a user's computer terminal for operation 20,... Agent: John L. Rogitz Rogitz & Associates

20070208604 - Method and system for scheduling activities: Techniques to schedule activities. In one method, a request to book an appointment for an activity in a particular schedule is initially received. In response, time slots available in the schedule for booking the activity are determined, and a set (all or a subset) of the time slots is provided... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208605 - System and method for using business services: A system and method for using business services within a customer relationship management (CRM) application. Business services are objects that encapsulate and simplify the use of some set of functionality. The CRM application includes an object manager that manages business objects as well as business services. Business objects are associated... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208606 - Workflow management system and method: A computerized workflow management method and system to provide operational support for complex multi-step processes, having particular utility in supporting operations involving securitizations for which periodic valuation and distribution computations, disbursements and reporting must be set up and executed. The invention permits unification of manual operations and operations performed by... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070208611 - Determining one or more performance metrics related to ads enabled for manual insertion into a document for distribution, and/or using such performance metric or metrics: 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

20070208608 - Forecasting and revenue management system: A system that enables users to generate and manage forecasts through an integrated software tool. Forecast administrators are enabled to create forecast series data that define a forecast's structure and provide search criteria that is used in generating forecasts. These data also define who may participate in creating forecasts, and... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208607 - Method for forecasting and revenue management: A method and system that enables users to generate and manage forecasts through an integrated software tool. Forecast administrators are enabled to create forecast series data that define a forecast's structure and provide search criteria that is used in generating forecasts. These data also define who may participate in creating... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208613 - Reputation system for web pages and online entities: A method for providing a measure of trust for each participant in a network is disclosed, together with a method to calculate it automatically. In particular, a method for rating online entities, such as online identities is provided, which also takes into account the reputation of the raters.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070208609 - Supply and demand planning including backwards order item allocation: A method, system and program product for providing supply and demand planning including backwards order item allocation is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention includes a method for supply and demand planning in an enterprise including: identifying an order item occurring at a prospective period that exceeds an enterprise build... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070208614 - System and method for benchmarking electronic message activity: A system and method for collecting and analyzing electronic discussion messages to categorize the message communications and the identify trends and patterns in pre-determined markets. The system comprises an electronic data discussion system wherein electronic messages are collected and analyzed according to characteristics and data inherent in the messages. The... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20070208610 - System and method for delivering advertising with enhanced effectiveness: A method for generating an advertisement impression which moves a selected instance of advertisement content in conjunction with a mouse pointer on a client rendering system includes defining, in a placement database, a plurality of instances of advertisement content. Each instance of advertisement content is associated with an advertisement category,... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20070208624 - Administering equity incentive award program: Provided are computer-based methods and apparatus for carrying out an incentive award program by a business entity, comprising the steps of participating in a transaction having at least two parties, determining at least one of these parties to be an award recipient, and providing as the incentive award an investment... Agent: Elman Technology Law, P.C.

20070208620 - Interactive media management system and method for network applications: A media management system has a web-based interface configured to provide substantially real-time media pricing, provide substantially real-time media availability, and facilitate substantially real-time buying of media.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070208615 - Internet based sales system: A method of selling products and services over the Internet for HVAC and other related devices and services. The customer is kept online as questions are asked so that an eventual work estimate and contract can be prepared electronically for the customer. The customer always has the option of contacting... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20070208623 - Method and system for user-driven advertising: A method and system for computerized presentation of promotional content, which decreases or eliminates the intrusive and unsolicited nature of computer-related advertisements. The present invention allows providing of specific advertisements to a targeted group of people, while presenting a minimal intrusion in the workflow of both targeted and non-targeted users.... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070208616 - Method, system, and apparatus for advertising: A method, system, and apparatus for enabling a display device to display advertisements is disclosed. The display device is enabled to simultaneously display a first advertisement and a representation of a geographical region. The geographical region is within a geographical super-region, and the geographical super-region is associated with a first... Agent: Bryan K. Hanks

20070208619 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing targeted advertising to communications devices: A method, system, and computer program product for providing targeted advertising services are provided. The method includes gathering profile data, behavior data, and external data for users of communications devices accessing content over a network. The method also includes creating a database of demographic profiles based on the gathered data,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070208617 - Product carriage car that has fields for advertisements: A product carriage car includes exposed areas for advertisements for use as a bag and package container to carry desired products for any kind of commercial organizations, marketing, sales, promotions, and while being used as a bag or package container, the product carriage care presents the exposed advertisement for products... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070208622 - Promotional methods involving the use of tokens: A business method of promoting commercial activity and goodwill in a municipality which involves identifying consumers to be attracted to participate in commercial activity within a municipality, distributing at least one token to each of the identified consumers, allowing the consumers to exchange the tokens for discount cards that have... Agent: Butzel Long

20070208625 - Retail system for selling products based on a flexible product description: According to one described embodiment, a method is provided in which transaction information is determined. The transaction information is associated with (i) a buyer who has arranged to purchase a product from a central controller at a first price established between the buyer and the central controller and (ii) a... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070208631 - Considering selling exemplar-based goods, items, or services: One aspect relates to managing deliveries of at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services. Another aspect relates to considering selling goods, items, and/or... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070208633 - Display article customization system and method of use: A method and system in which a user can design, customize and order a display article to desired specifications over a network, such as the Internet. The user can access a website comprising the display article customization system to customize the display article by adding text, graphics and other features... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070208634 - Method, apparatus and article-of-manufacture for the creation, issuance, valuation/pricing, trading and exercise of options for attendance rights, and derivative instruments thereon: Computer-related methods, apparatus, and/or articles of manufacture to permit/facilitate the creation, marketing, and/or distribution of options to purchase tickets to a particular future event, particularly an elimination format competition, when the chosen competitor's qualification for such a game is currently uncertain, but where the uncertainty will be resolved prior to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070208630 - Method, system and apparatus for automatic real-time iterative commercial transactions over the internet in a multiple-buyer, multiple-seller marketplace, optimizing both buyer and seller needs based upon the dynamics of market conditions: A method of communications network shopping by buyers of products and services for purchasing such from sellers in which buyers request an automatic reverse auctioneer or auction controller to initiate a reverse auction in real time amongst willing sellers and to solicit their automatic real-time iterative bidding price quotations for... Agent: Rines & Rines

20070208626 - Order taking system & method with local and/or remote monitoring: An order taking system and method for an establishment enabling a customer to place an order for an item from the establishment. Order placing equipment is located near the establishment being capable of receiving the order for the item from the customer. A first voice communication link is established between... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070208628 - System and method for content and time merchandizing: An on-line exchange, called TimeEx, to or on which Stars, typically Celebrities link or host their Websites, which Websites show their lives, houses, movements in recorded and or real time, or offer live interactive interviews to many or just one. Fans can log onto TimeEx, search for their favorite Star,... Agent: Ahmad Amiri

20070208627 - System and method of facilitating group gifts: A method for facilitating group gifts, including prompting a first user to provide registration information, prompting the first user to prompt at least one additional user to provide registration information as a friend of the first user, prompting any users that have provided registration information as friends of each other... Agent: Ethan D. Civan

20070208632 - System, method and apparatus for conducting secure online monetary transactions: A system, apparatus, and methods for conducting secure online monetary transactions are disclosed. One implementation of the system is configured to generate an account associated with a distributed branded media element. The account includes an account balance that may be used to purchase goods/services. A system user accesses the distributed... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070208635 - Systems and methods for facilitating a transaction by matching seller information and buyer information: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate a transaction between a seller and a buyer. According to one embodiment, seller offer information is received at a controller. The seller offer information is associated with an item, such as a secondary market item, being offered for sale by a seller. Buyer... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070208637 - Commission management system: A computer system and method for managing commissions, including: a storage device containing a database having commission data and a periodic extract of sales transactions stored therein; a user interface for inputting the commission data into the database and viewing the commission data stored in the database; and a processor... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070208636 - Mechanized tax worksheet: A system and method for verifying charges on a customer bill includes a computers for downloading, from a mainframe computer, to a local server billing data associated with a customer account, populating a database with a portion of the billing data, performing pre-calculation functions on another portion of the billing... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070208638 - Consumer credit finance cashflow funding system: A funding system including a local processor operable by a broker, the local processor including an input means to allow the broker to input data in respect of a funding request, and the local processor analysing the data using predefined rules to determine whether funding will be offered in response... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070208639 - Method and system for presenting 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

20070208642 - System and method for wagering-based transferable financial instruments: An apparatus for providing a financial instrument comprises a memory operable to store a plurality of predefined states wherein each of the predefined states corresponds to at least one potential outcome of a probabilistic event. The memory further stores a plurality of predefined termination criteria wherein each predefined state corresponds... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070208644 - Hedging risk in an investment vehicle: A method for managing an investment vehicle. An option is purchased for protection of cash flows to be paid by the investment vehicle to designated investors. An option is sold offsetting the purchased option at least in part. The cash flows and security priorities of the investment vehicle are structured... Agent: The Law Office Of Donna L. Angotti

20070208645 - Investment advice systems and methods: The present invention provides investment advice systems. One version of the present invention provides investment advice systems that allow a user to select one or more advisors from a list of investment advisors. According to this version of the invention, the end user can receive advice on a particular transaction... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070208643 - System and method of investing funds: In one aspect, the invention provides a data communications network including communication devices enabling communication between a user and a funds investment system, a method of investing funds with asset manager programs by distributing total funds available for investment to a plurality of asset manager programs said distribution effected by... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070208646 - Business yield-enhancement trust: Supporting charitable giving in furtherance of a business objective of the business comprises proceeding with the business objective in response to a decision by a decision maker by performing several steps. A trust is established to achieve at least a part of the business objective, the trust having a term,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070208657 - Algorithmic trading system and method for automated trading of financial instruments: Provided is an algorithmic trading system and method for automated trading of financial instruments. Also provided is an algorithmic trading system and method for testing automated trading of financial instruments, or for “back-testing” an executing trading strategy of the algorithmic trading system. An executing trading strategy is formed by processing... Agent: Cynthia Smith Rts Realtime Systems Inc.

20070208656 - E-commerce transaction facilitation system and method: o

20070208653 - Facilitated acceleration of information revelation: Through a variety of market or quasi-market techniques, internal corporate information can be conveyed to external markets in a manner that reflects knowledge, opinions, predictions, and the like of corporate personnel without requiring disclosure of specific insider or other confidential corporate information. The market techniques may include highly concrete mechanisms... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070208649 - Hybrid multi-thread and multi-process computer simulation system and methods: A method for performing a calculation that includes determining solutions for a plurality of problem modules. The problem modules are of differing complexities, and their solutions are combined to determine a solution to the calculation. The method may include directing each of the problem modules to at least one master... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070208658 - Method and system for pricing options: A method for providing a bid price and/or an offer price of an option relating to an underlying asset, the method including the steps of receiving first input data corresponding to a plurality of parameters defining the option, receiving second input data corresponding to a plurality of current market conditions... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070208659 - Method and system for pricing options: A method for providing a bid price and/or an offer price of an option relating to an underlying asset, the method including the steps of receiving first input data corresponding to a plurality of parameters defining the option, receiving second input data corresponding to a plurality of current market conditions... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070208650 - System and method for creating, listing, and clearing flexible short term interest rate derivative instruments: The present invention relates to a process for designing, creating and distributing financial instruments which allow investors to trade flex short term interest derivative contracts that can be customized to meet its investor's needs by choosing the actual terms of the contract from a list of flexible features that include... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070208647 - System and method for placing a trade order for a tradeable instrument on an electronic exchange: A system and method for placing a trade order for a tradable instrument on an electronic exchange. The method includes displaying a trade order dartboard on a client terminal where the dartboard displays a market depth of the tradable instrument comprising information representing trade orders at an inside market and... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070208655 - Systems and methods for matching desired prices of mis-matched items: The present invention is systems and methods for matching desired purchases and sales of mis-matched items. These systems and methods compare the requirements of potential buyers and sellers of items against those of sets of other potential buyers and sellers of items to construct transaction sets that will enable an... Agent: Matthew T. Byrne Fish & Neave

20070208652 - 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

20070208648 - Trading system with elfs and umpires: Price setting for a security occurs by automatically engaging in a price discovery procedure before responding to a request for a current buy or sell price of the security to provide an automatically discovered price that is better than a book price. The book price is the best price in... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20070208660 - Correct your bad credit: Let me point out what is new about this process versus the old credit repair process: A) In the old process of credit repair you need to write numerous letters pertaining to each account and/or use codes stipulated in the fair credit reporting act to respond or challenge the credit... Agent: Charles B. Perry

20070208664 - Computer implemented online music distribution system: A computer implemented online music distribution system provides for the secure delivery of audio data and related media, including text and images, over the Internet. The online music distribution system provides a client-server system including a distribution server including a delivery server, and an HTTP server and or Secure Server,... Agent: John S. Egbert Egbert Law Offices

20070208666 - Method of paying toll for mobile telephones: There is described a communication apparatus (10) for communicating via one or more services provided by a service provider (80). The apparatus (10) is preferably a mobile telephone. Moreover, the apparatus (10) includes a memory device (30) susceptible to receive one or more data carriers (20) distributed by the provider... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070208667 - Method and apparatus for switching between multiple versions of a software program: Methods and apparatus for switching between multiple copies of a software program on a computer system are provided. The method includes detecting a plurality of copies of the software program on a computer system, receiving input selecting one of the detected plurality of copies of the software program to be... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070208668 - Multiple drm management: In one embodiment, a method for enabling a single assembly of content to be played on a plurality of player devices, each having at least one available digital rights management (DRM) algorithm involves registering a plurality of player devices associated with a client with a database registry, wherein each of... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20070208669 - System, method, and computer program product for managing and analyzing intellectual property (ip) related transactions: A system, method, and computer program product for processing data are described herein. The system maintains first databases of patents, and second databases of non-patent information of interest to a corporate entity. The system also maintains one or more groups. Each of the groups comprises any number of the patents... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070208671 - Financial transactions with dynamic personal account numbers: A method for securing financial transactions involving payment cards includes associating a sixteen-digit personal account number (PAN) with a particular payment card and user, wherein are included fields for a system number, a bank/product number, a user account number, and a check digit. A four-digit expiration date (MMYY) associated with... Agent: Patents Pending

20070208672 - Hardware/software capability rating system: Techniques and tools for rating computer products are described. For example, software ratings are based on subjective evaluations to determine computer system requirements for a positive user experience, while a computer running a capability tool rates a computer system's (or hardware component's) ability to run software. A capability rating for... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070208673 - Method and system for increasing sales of digital product modules: A method for selling a digital product (software, multimedia object, and so forth) having a plurality of modules to a customer, the method comprising the steps of: upon closing a deal with the customer where a first group of the modules have been purchased by the customer and a second... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070208675 - Device for conveying and guiding mail items: The invention relates to a device for conveying and guiding mail items in a postage meter provided with an inkjet print head, in which postage meter each mail item, which has a top face and a bottom face, passes under the print head between a top reference surface defined by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070208674 - Printer and method for operating same: A method for operating a printer. The method comprises the steps of: accessing an electronic mail server account, the account being used by the electronic mail server to store electronic mail messages directed to a particular electronic mail destination; obtaining, from the electronic mail server, any electronic mail message that... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070208676 - Method and system for ordering and delivering a product: A method and system of buying a product for delivery to a specific individual or entity using a customized picture frame which includes selecting and placing an order for a specific item to be prepared and delivered. A photographic image of the provider is transmitted by the entity where the... Agent: Andrew F. Sayko, Jr