Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 02/08

20080052092 - A method for use with a wedding dress: There is a great need for an approach to facilitate hair and makeup preparations and selection and purchase of accessories, despite the unavailability a wedding dress. The methods of the current invention present a solution though the use of a substantially similar stand-in for the top portion of a wedding... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20080052099 - Entertainment diversion during real estate review: A method of enhancing personal reviews of available real estate which includes providing a vehicle that includes individually selectable entertainment for passengers in the vehicle. This provides a pleasant diversion during travel between real estate locations to facilitate such reviews and enhance the personal real estate review experience.... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080052090 - Method and device for the individual, location-independent designing of images, cards and similar: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the individual, location-independent design of pictures, cards and similar items, especially postcards. In contrast to conventional methods, systems and appliances for creating cards, photos and similar items, the invention creates the possibility of viewing and selecting the virtually finished product... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman

20080052097 - Method for economic valuation in seismic to simulation workflows: A method is disclosed for performing economic calculations in petro-technical workflows, comprising: designing an economic model including, building and running an economic calculation, the building and running step including, opening an economics dialog box, clicking an economics calculation tab in the economics dialog box, clicking a settings tab in the... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions Attn: Danita Maseles, Patent Counsel

20080052096 - Method of merchandising complementary medallions: A method of marketing complementary medallions optimizing customer selection and minimizing merchant inventory, stocking and display space requirements.... Agent: Charles L. Schwab Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20080052093 - Methods and apparatus for operating an intermodel facility: Methods and apparatus to operate an intermodal facility are disclosed. In the method described herein, a carrier enters into a contractual agreement with a separate intermodal facility owner to have exclusive use of the intermodal facility. Alternatively, a rail-to-truck and/or truck-to-rail intermodal facility owner may provide non-exclusive use to multiple... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080052091 - Secure near field transaction: A managed service may include first logic to receive identification information from a mobile device and send an authorization to a transaction device indicating that the mobile device is identified, the identified mobile device to participate in a transaction with the transaction device. The first logic may receive payment information... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080052095 - System and method for facilitating a low cost real estate transaction using a multiple listing service (mls): A system and method for reducing the cost of a real estate transaction while still employing a real estate agent, and still listing properties on websites disallowing the general public to list property for sale (or for lease) directly. Communication between seller and buyer is encouraged and payments to the... Agent: Steven Neil

20080052094 - Water dispensing systems and methods: A system for dispensing water comprises a water processing system comprising an input connected to receive water from a water supply system and an output configured to dispense a metered amount of processed water, the water processing system defining a closed path between the input and the output, a control... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080052112 - Clinical trial data processing and monitoring system: A patient image data processing system comprises a first validation processor for parsing a message conveying patient medical image data from an image provider to identify image metadata indicating first characteristics of the image. The first validation processor performs a first comparison by comparing the metadata with configuration data indicating... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080052110 - Referral system: A referral service system includes a user interface receiving, at a service location of a service provider, information identifying a referred entity. The service provider is a specialist or general practitioner in a professional field or trade that involves routinely rendering non-referral related services to persons seeking those services, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080052113 - System, method, and article of manufacture for managing a health and human services regional network: A method and health information exchange system for health and human care providers providing shared community health information records on individuals and their related household members in a secured relational database that is fully HIPAA compliant are disclosed. The system gathers a broad range of medical, epidemiological, and demographic information... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080052126 - Database system, program, image retrieving method, and report retrieving method: In a plurality of pieces of single report structured data that is stored in a structured database in a diagnosis information database, character information constructing a radiological report describing detailed information of image data is added as metadata for search to the image data. For example, only by designating image... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080052125 - Patient tracking systems for maintaining the contact information of enrollees in a clinical study: One of the inventions relates a method for maintaining the contact information of an enrollee in a clinical study while maintaining the anonymity of the enrollee from the clinical study sponsor. The method includes: (1) obtaining contact information for the enrollee in the clinical study; (2) entering the contact information... Agent: William Douglas Hare

20080052127 - System and method for providing electronic medical records: A system and method for collecting, aggregating and providing electronic medical records is presented. A patient enters information regarding medical services providers to a medical records service as part of a digital medical profile. The patient further submits a records authorization authorizing the release of the patient's medical records to... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080052140 - Distributed media planning and advertising campaign management: A user can audition creatives with in a snapshot of a proposed web page of a publisher website in the local application. Multiple snapshots of proposed pages for placement may be downloaded from publisher web sites and stored in a local library. The user can replace existing advertisements or other... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080052139 - Event driven diagramming method for project planning: An instantaneous, event driven diagramming method is provided which identifies discrete events within various activities performed during the course of a project and interrelates such events, where applicable, according to the timing and/or functional relationship between such events. An event driven diagram generated in accordance with the method of this... Agent: Gray Robinson, P.A.

20080052138 - Systems and methods for streamlining the provisioning of wireless applications in an organization: Systems and methods for streamlining the procurement and provisioning of devices, services, and applications are described. At least one embodiment includes a method comprising receiving a request from a member associated with an organization, the request operable to select at least one application to be executed on at least one... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080052143 - Sales plan evaluation support system: A technique is provided that supports making evaluations of impact on a business performance indicator, which varies depending on timing at which a change of plan is decided. A sales plan evaluation support system, includes: a unit which obtains master information that includes a sales plan of a product and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080052154 - Advertising system: A system and method for controlling display of advertisements in a communication network. The system comprises a central system comprising a central server, a central database and a control module controlling ordering and time scheduling of advertisements to be displayed in advertisement campaigns in a digital medium, wherein each advertisement... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080052164 - Gift card services for mobile devices: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for gift card services. In general, data characterizing a request to provide a merchant credit service to an intended recipient is received and a message to be sent to the intended recipient is generated, where the message characterizes a phone number to call... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20080052153 - Method and apparatus for facilitating targeted advertising: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs targeted advertising based on expenditure-related information from a financial application. During operation, the system first obtains the expenditure-related information from the financial application. Next, the system uses the expenditure-related information to select one or more advertisements to display to... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080052155 - Method and system of campaign management with code: e

20080052156 - Method for delivering targeted web advertisements and user annotations to a web page: The invention is a method for delivering targeted web advertising to internet users via a network capable of rating, annotating, linking, meta-tagging and otherwise annotating any definable data accessible through a global computer network. The system is comprised of a graphical user interface (GUI), a database, and software to connect... Agent: Peter S. Canelias Law Offices Of Peter S. Canelias

20080052152 - Methods and system for search engine revenue maximization in internet advertising: A method for improving Search Engine revenues from advertisements by selecting and displaying advertisements from a portfolio of advertisements that are likely to attract user traffic while maximizing the expected Search Engine revenues. Conventionally, each sponsored advertisement in the Search Engine portfolio is associated with one or more keywords from... Agent: Michael De Angeli Attorney At Law

20080052151 - Selecting advertisements based on serving area and map area: Methods and systems for selecting advertisements to present to a user of a computing device are provided. An advertisement system selects advertisements to display to a user based on the serving area of candidate advertisements. The advertisement system selects those candidate advertisements whose serving area encompasses the user's current location.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080052167 - System and method for generating and distributing financial service fee: The present invention provides a method and system that allows a payment service provider to provide incentives to clients based not only on the level of use of the payment services by the clients themselves, but also based on efforts by clients to promote use by others of the payment... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20080052166 - System and method for placement of local advertisements in national publications: Advertisement information and subscriber profiles received from a publisher together with subscriber characteristics received from an advertising buyer are analyzed to provide a publication subscriber recommendation for the advertising buyer. The subscriber recommendation facilitates targeted advertising to selected publication subscribers.... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20080052157 - System and method of dynamically managing an advertising campaign over an internet protocol based television network: A method of dynamically managing an advertising campaign over an internet protocol based television network, the method comprising the steps of: customizing the advertising campaign based on predetermined customization parameters; in response to customizing, providing a budgeting information for the advertising campaign based on budgeting parameters and displaying a content... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080052150 - Systems and methods for media planning, ad production, and ad placement for radio: Methods and systems for generating a radio media plan for a radio advertiser. The approach may include storing rate card information of a plurality of radio media properties; storing information regarding radio audience reached by the radio media properties; storing information regarding the radio advertiser; generating a media plan for... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080052173 - Fast food wrapping and delivery system and method for the same: The fast food wrapping and delivery method and system use an ink jet printer that can print patterns in either obverse form and reverse form to print a food order and nutrition information of a food on a food container in real-time. When a POS system receives the food order... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080052176 - Payment device to allow an automated means for ordering and payment by food establishment patrons: A method for paying at a food establishment that begins with a patron identifying a payment point at a consumption station of a food establishment. The payment point provides the patron an invoice of purchased items. A patron can then use a payment artifact to initiate a transaction with the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080052179 - Functional pricing for computer internet market: A method and system of conducting sales over the computer internet where the prices of the merchandises are dynamic functions of time instead of static rational numbers. In one embodiment, this method and system is a free market place that's able to conduct single-unit or multiple-unit sales of products and... Agent: Lauson & Schewe LLP

20080052181 - Integrated system for providing user services: Active forms are intended to replace paper forms to increase the efficiency of workflow within an organization. In addition to replacing paper forms, the basic nature of active forms makes them well suited for use in systems that encompass multiple organizations. The invention consists of improved methods and systems using... Agent: Sameh Michaiel

20080052182 - Method and system to accept and settle transaction payments for an unbanked consumer: A system and method is provided to accept and settle transaction payments for an unbanked consumer. A consumer initiates a transaction with a merchant, and the merchant may transmit transaction information to a central processing unit using an initiating processing unit. The central processing unit may generate a unique transaction... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20080052184 - Systems and methods for product authentication and warranty verification for online auction houses: The example embodiments herein relate to the field of electronic registration (ER) of purchased products and, more particularly, to an improved electronic registration system which enables online buyers and sellers (e.g. those participating in online auctions) to take advantage of the benefits associated with ER systems. The ER techniques enable... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080052180 - Transaction system with centralized data storage and authentication: A centralized transaction system including a server communicating with client workstations and remote devices. The system includes a server communicating with a terminal, a remote device, and a workstation. Both customers and vendors access the server through a workstation to set up and maintain information on the server and to... Agent: Knox Patents

20080052193 - Integrated communication systems and methods for purpose of product presentation and direct sales: A system to automatically consolidate and standardize different digitized product offers of various companies on the basis of a fully integrated process chain to automatically and on the basis of a fully integrated process chain, collectively communicate and market the product offers to end-users via various media retaining the product... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080052199 - Computer system and method for selecting applicable documents based on dependency to products: In an embodiment, inventories are received from clients, and the inventories identify products that are installed at the clients. In response to a request from a client, a document is selected based on a dependency indication. In an embodiment, the document is selected if the dependency indication indicates the document... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080052203 - Design and management of an online environment that serves hierarchical community networks: An online environment for creating community networks using a hierarchical architecture to create groups in a given community network where users can organize and manage activities, communications, and payments, and develop links to other groups, and develop mutually-beneficial relationships with merchants in the local or group-related communities is described.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080052198 - Electronic shelf labels, electronic shelf label system server, electronic shelf label system: The electronic shelf label displays, for each size, the inventory quantity, together with commercial item detailed information that includes the commercial item name and the price of each commercial item that is placed at a commercial item shelf position to which the electronic shelf label is attached. The configurations also... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080052202 - Method and apparatus for mapping content descriptions to reusable containers: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for mapping a content description to a container. The process identifies a container placed in a storage unit to form an identified container. The identified container includes an unidentified content. The process displays a set of predictive content descriptions for the unidentified... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080052200 - Method and apparatus for monitoring depletion of an item: A computer implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer usable program code for monitoring a real-time depletion of an item in a storage unit. A controller identifies an item placed in the storage unit to form an identified item. The controller detects a change in mass sensor data from a mass... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080052201 - Method and apparatus for tracking usage of an item within a storage unit using location sensors: A method, apparatus, system, and computer usable program product for identifying a usage of an item in a storage unit. The process identifies an item in the storage unit to form an identified item. The process determines a location of the identified item based on location data received from a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080052206 - System and method for billing users for communicating over a communications network: A system and method for billing a user of a communications network. The method may include accessing network usage information associated with a user, where the network usage information may include information indicative of the user communicating data packets including real-time content and non-real-time content over a packet network operated... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080052208 - System, method, and computer program product for processing payments: Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for verifying payment data related to payments sent from a payor to a biller and/or accelerating posting of such payments. More particularly, a system is provided for receiving payment data related to a payment sent... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080052207 - Systems and methods for issuing and servicing a low credit risk weight sovereign debt security: Systems and methods for the issuance of low-risk debt securities, referred to as LITE Securities, in exchange for high-risk debt securities which have been issued by an emerging-market sovereign government in the global capital market and which have been purchased by an investor which resides in the sovereign government's country.... Agent: Smetrix Financial Renan Paglin

20080052248 - Investment allocation system, analysis module and method thereof: An investment allocation system, analysis module and method thereof for allocation of a total investment are disclosed. The investment allocation system comprises an input module, an analysis module and a allotment amount computation mode. The input module is used to input the historical data of a benchmark asset and multiple... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080052249 - Investment allocation system, analysis module and method thereof: An investment allocation system, analysis module and method thereof for allocation of a total investment are disclosed. The investment allocation system comprises an input module, an analysis module and a allotment amount computation mode. The input module is used to input the historical data of a benchmark asset and multiple... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080052250 - Investment allocation system, analysis module and method thereof: An investment allocation system, analysis module and method thereof for allocation of a total investment are disclosed. The investment allocation system comprises an input module, an analysis module and a allotment amount computation mode. The input module is used to input the historical data of a benchmark asset and multiple... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080052215 - Online omnibus trading system: A trading system comprised of a multiplicity of entities each of which trades securities, among other instruments, presents itself to prime brokers and clearing entities as single account for all purposes, including trading, clearing and reconciliation, thereby creating an omnibus online system to provide the benefits of such prime broker... Agent: James D. Fornari, Esq. C/o Gersten Savage LLP

20080052216 - System and method for determining used vehicle market values for use in hedging risks associated with used vehicle futures contracts: A method and system of generating a market settlement value for use with settlement of vehicle futures contracts traded on a commodities exchange. The system comprises a data repository that stores vehicle data files, a history filter operatively connected to the data repository and configured to filter select vehicle data... Agent: Arthur W. Johnson

20080052214 - System and method for securities borrowing and lending: Disclosed is a an electronic system for equities securities lending and financing. In particular, the disclosed system provides a hub for electronic financial transactions such as securities borrowing and lending and facilitates the ability of borrowers and lenders to locate suitable counterparties and engage in direct negotiations in a securities... Agent: Wayne C. Jaeschke, Jr. Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080052224 - Method for guaranteeing a peer-to-peer loan: Guaranteed peer-to-peer lending in which loan payments between a borrower and a lender include an allocation to an account of a guarantor includes in one aspect a selection of borrower classes including a guaranteed class made available by a server to a first client machine. The server receives from lenders... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080052226 - Utilizing phrase tokens in transactions: A system and method for facilitating transactions utilizing phrase tokens are provided. Individual entities can be associated with unambiguous transaction phrase tokens, such as multiple word phrases. The transaction phrase tokens are associated with transaction accounts by a service provider such that the entities can complete a transaction without having... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080052229 - Automated loan repayment system and method: Systems and methods for automated loan repayment involve utilizing consumer payment authorization, clearing, and settlement systems to allow a merchant to reduce an outstanding loan amount. After a customer identifier (e.g., a credit, debit, smart, charge, payment, etc. card account number) is accepted as payment from the customer, information related... Agent: Gerald T. Bodner. Esq. Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20080052231 - Transaction system: Transaction systems are disclosed that enable a customer to obtain services from a service provider via any of a variety of communication systems on a direct fee basis. The transaction system can be independent of the communication system used to complete the transaction and the billing system used to provide... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080052241 - User input streaming media purchase system: A media appliance for receiving streaming media content from the Internet includes a user activatable buy button to permit user purchase of selected media content. User operation of the buy button communicates with a media materials agent to obtain identification of the media content and determine the availability of a... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080052242 - Systems and methods for exchanging graphics between communication devices: Systems and methods are provided for distributing graphic assets among users of personal communication devices. The graphic assets may include, for example, an avatar and/or avatar accessories used to exchange messages over cellular telephones. A method includes providing an authorized first user with an authoring version of the graphic asset.... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080052246 - Developing and sustaining capabilities of a business: A business wishes to improve its capabilities by developing and sustaining its communities of practice. A business model is provided having components and attributes for various levels of each component. The community is assessed based on the attributes. A community development roadmap is developed of activities for improving the level... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080052101 - Apparatuses, methods, and systems for building a risk evaluation product: The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080052098 - Automation and streamlining of recruiting and background screening via bi-directional communication and process integration: A system includes an integration framework proxy and an integration framework. The integration framework proxy and the integration framework provide for integration of an applicant tracking system with a background screening system. Such integration permits bidirectional communication between the applicant tracking system and the background screening system to occur.... Agent: St. George & Carnegie

20080052104 - Group content substitution in media works: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080052107 - Method of user surf list: A virtual network resource infrastructure for hosting and managing a plurality of e-malls and each e-mall uses the virtual network resource infrastructure for offering e-commerce solution and the hosting of: e-shops, e-distributors and web sites. Also, on-line foreign language interface translation and interface exchange. Further having satellite e-malls with e-services... Agent: John Almeida

20080052109 - Proximal advertising using hand-held communication devices: A system for commercial promotion has a first computerized appliance enabled for data reception on a close-proximity wireless local area network (LAN) having a limited effective range, and for providing received data in a human-understandable form to a user of the first appliance, and a second computerized appliance enabled for... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080052105 - Real-time navigation system for mobile environment: A system and method for providing navigational information to a user connected in real-time, such as through a wireless telephone, PDA, or other device. The system provides navigational information to the user in the form most useful to the user, such as according to landmarks, or the number of blocks... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080052103 - Selection of individuals from a pool of candidates in a competition system: An integrated highly automated competition system allows for selection of one or more competition winners. Documents can be submitted electronically or by hardcopy. Document submissions are checked against databases to determine duplicate existence by a variety of information extracted from the documents. Candidates are filtered by one or more filters... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080052108 - System and method for activating a communication device at a point of sale: Methods of activating a communication device are disclosed. These methods may comprise receiving at a central processor an authorization request from a merchant terminal at the merchant store to authorize activation of a communication device, the central processor being in selective communication with the merchant terminal and a communications service... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080052102 - System and method for collecting and normalizing entitlement data within an enterprise: A compliance manager system automates monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles, making it possible for organizations to easily establish a sustainable access governance model. The system enables organizations to gain enterprise-wide visibility into all user entitlements and roles and, in particular, to monitor who has access... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080052106 - Systems and methods wherein a security deposit facilitates a transaction in which a benefit is applied in exchange for performance of a task: Systems and methods are provided wherein a security deposit is used to facilitate a transaction with a customer. It is arranged for a benefit to be applied to the transaction in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer. For example, a subsidy provider may offer to... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080052100 - Tax efficient business organizations: Methods for minimizing tax burdens are described that involve establishing (or converting) and structuring two business entities; first, a corporate entity (S-Corp or C-Corp), and second, an LLC (or similar partnership taxed entity) both of which business entities are owned, directly or indirectly, by a group of business owners. The... Agent: Kammer Browning PLLC

20080052114 - Computational systems and methods related to nutraceuticals: The present disclosure relates to computational systems and methods related to nutraceuticals.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080052119 - Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system: A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are used to enable expert and general practitioner knowledge to be encoded for access... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052115 - Computerized medical information system: A system for managing electronic medical records, including: (a) an originator facility, having: data sources storing data segments in different formats; and a data encoder configured to construct a consolidated electronic medical record from the data segments, the data encoder being configured to attach a unique identification tag to the... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20080052120 - Disease management system and health assessment method: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052116 - Disease management system and method: One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052122 - Disease management system and method: One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052118 - Disease management system and method including permission database: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052123 - Disease management system and method including preview mode: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052121 - Disease management system operating on a network: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052117 - Medical decision auditing method and system: A method for monitoring a medical related decision made by a medical professional includes providing access to a plurality of databases. Each of the plurality of databases contains medical related information and rules governing medical care. The method also includes receiving medical analysis information from the medical professional. The medical... Agent: Mark R. Malek, Esquire The Torpy Group, P.l .

20080052111 - System and method for providing a personal health summary: A system and method provide consumer personal health summaries to consumers and medical professionals and includes receiving a set of search criteria; and retrieving one or more personal health summaries based on said set of search criteria, wherein the at least one personal health summary comprises claim data.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080052132 - Disease management system and method including therapeutic alterations permission level: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052130 - Disease management system and method including therapy optimization: A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052124 - Health care information management apparatus system and method of use and doing business: A computerized system is described which can facilitates a health care practitioner in tracking clinical data about a patient, linking diagnostic and procedural code charges at the point of care, and exchanging such data with clinicians responsible for the cross-coverage of management responsibilities. Data may be captured on remote computer... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080052131 - 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: International Business Machines Intellectual Property Law

20080052128 - Medical billing auditing method and system: A method for assessing billing compliance of a medical related decision may include receiving medical related information relating to the medical related decision and applying at least one rule to the medical related information. The method may also include auditing the medical related decision for compliance with the at least... Agent: Mark R. Malek, Esquire The Torpy Group, P.l.

20080052129 - Medical information searching and indexing method and system: A method for assisting a medical professional with making a medical related decision based on patient information includes providing access to a plurality of databases containing medical related information and at least one rule governing medical care. The method may also include searching for patient information on at least one... Agent: Mark R. Malek, Esquire The Torpy Group, P.l.

20080052136 - Apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing a reconfigurable insurance quote generator user interface: The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080052135 - Apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing a risk evaluation product builder user interface: The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080052137 - Apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing a risk scoring engine user interface: The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080052133 - Methods and systems for providing longevity insurance with or without an asset based premium: The present invention provides methods and systems for providing longevity insurance by obtaining information useful for issuing a longevity insurance contract for an individual, and determining a premium or an income payment for the individual that are computed based at least in part on an individual's age at a predetermined... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080052134 - Rich claim reporting system: A rich-media system allows a user to illustrate damage and request payment in accordance with an insurance policy or another arrangement. The rich-media system includes network servers that may operate and appear to remote client applications and remote computers as if the network servers were a single computer. A damage... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080052141 - E-business operations measurements reporting: An example of a solution provided here comprises: (a) collecting data from a production environment, utilizing a plurality of probes; (b) performing calculations, regarding availability or response time or both, with at least part of the data; (c) outputting statistics, resulting from the calculations; and (d) performing (a)-(c) above for... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080052145 - Power aggregation system for distributed electric resources: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080052144 - System and method for managing workflow: A system and method for managing a workflow are provided. A system for managing a workflow in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a storage unit for storing, as an access history for each of at least one artifact, identification information of a business process that has accessed... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080052142 - System and method for real-time display of emergencies, resources and personnel: A system and method displays real-time incidents and resources on a map and/or in a report to enable incident commanders to view and allocate resources accordingly.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20080052146 - Project management system: A production contest management system enables management of workflow and scoring of projects, for example in a production contest environment. A project is divided into “phases.” Project managers can specify project phases, and for each phase, required timing and deliverables. For phases that involve a review (e.g., screening, review board,... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080052148 - Products and processes for managing the prices of vending machine inventory: According to one embodiment of the disclosed invention, an apparatus determines a current price of a product for sale by the vending machine. It then determines, for the product, a price increment, a predetermined price, and a demand threshold, that are defined by data stored in at least one data... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080052147 - System and method for influencing public opinion: A method and system for influencing public opinion are provided for influencing public opinion using a community of members. Methodologies and/or techniques are included to collect Influence Points; analyze Influence Points to find URLs of Interest (UOI) where the community needs act; plan effective campaigns; distribute tasks derived from campaigns... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080052149 - Value chain management: A system for managing a value chain includes a planning application that receives planning data from a number of entities included in a value chain and automatically generates a plan according to the planning data. At least two of the entities do not directly communicate planning data to one another.... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080052161 - Alteration of promotional content in media works: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080052162 - Calendar-based advertising: A calendar-based advertising system inserts advertisements into a calendar.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080052172 - Geographic area multiple service card system: The invention provides consumers with the services of multiple cards or accounts while allowing consumers to carry a single card, transponder, code and/or other access device. Because the card may access combined services such as financial transaction services and transportation services, the system may facilitate charging the financial account for... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080052170 - Internet-based frequency and award redemption system and method: An on-line frequency award program is disclosed. A user may access the program on-line and may browse a product catalog for shopping. The user may electronically place an order, upon which the program automatically checks the user's credit and electronically issues a purchase order to the supplying company. The program... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080052160 - Method and apparatus for generating a sale offer to selected individuals over electronic network systems: Methods and systems are provided for generating a sale offer over an electronic network (e.g., the Internet). Such methods and systems may be used to increase the revenue of a website by offering, at a substantially discounted or virtually free basis, one or more goods and/or services to visitors of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080052169 - Method and apparatus for providing a coupon offer having a variable value: A method by which a coupon having a variable benefit is provided includes generating a coupon having a variable benefit, wherein a duplicate of the coupon is transmitted from one recipient to another recipient, receiving an indication that a first recipient has performed a qualifying action, such as receiving, registering... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080052168 - Method and system for providing targeted advertising in public places and carriers: A method and system for providing targeted advertising in public places and carriers such as trains, buses, train stations, shopping malls, airports, etc. The demographics, purchasing history and/or personal preferences of individuals in the public place are collected from personal digital assistants (PDAs) or other wireless communication devices carried by... Agent: Ibm Corporation (syl-rsw) C/o Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP

20080052165 - Peer to peer distribution system and method: Methods and related systems relating to peer to peer content distribution.... Agent: Searete LLC

20080052158 - Pos advertising system, method, and computer program product: An apparatus, method, system, and computer-program product for producing valuable POS indicia that provides value to both the customer and to the establishment. The apparatus includes a Point-Of-Sale (POS) system for generating a receipt of a commercial transaction at a location of the commercial transaction; a POS receipt module, coupled... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20080052159 - Service promotion using encodable review codes: According to certain embodiments, at least one encodable review code associated with providing services to a consumer is provided for use as a consumer interface to interact with the consumer, wherein the encodable review code is encoded based on a review code type.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080052163 - System and method for managing a purchase of a product from a vendor: A method of managing a purchase of a product from a vendor includes receiving a plurality of purchase requests from a plurality of buyers, generating a collective purchase order based on the plurality of received purchase requests, where the collective purchase order includes information indicative of each product sought for... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080052171 - System and method for targeting advertisements: An advertisement selection system is presented in which vectors describing an actual or hypothetical market for a product or desired viewing audience can be determined. An ad characterization vector is transmitted along with a consumer ID. The consumer ID is used to retrieve a consumer characterization vector which is correlated... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc./prime

20080052174 - Information administering system for an eating house: A customer of an eating house orders refreshments by pressing a first touch panel provided at a customer's seat, watching a liquid-crystal monitor on which a menu of the refreshment and an average cooking time thereof are displayed. A cook inputs cooking-state information with a second touch panel provided in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080052175 - Method and apparatus for vending products: A method and apparatus is disclosed for advancing the sale of vending machine products. The invention enables selling products without revealing the identity of the product. By concealing the identity of the products from a consumer prior to receiving payment, the present invention promotes the automated sale of perishable, slow-selling... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080052177 - Multi-tier pricing of individual products based on volume discounts: A point of sale system or other computer system stores a product pricing database in which a full price and discount prices corresponding to one or more discount pricing tiers are stored for each product available for sale. Each of the discount prices for a given product has an associated... Agent: Dean Alderucci Walker Digital Corporation

20080052178 - Information processing system, information processing device, information processing method, and information recording meduim: An information processing system, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information record medium that are controlled to generate an operation effect sound that differs for each user of a card upon an operation for electronic money are provided. A card 10 records user information 12, balance... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080052187 - Customized content based on user's registration and preset data: A virtual network resource infrastructure for hosting and managing a plurality of e-malls and each e-mall uses the virtual network resource infrastructure for offering e-commerce solution and the hosting of: e-shops, e-distributors and web sites. Also, on-line foreign language interface translation and interface exchange. Further having satellite e-malls with e-services... Agent: John Almeida

20080052188 - Method and apparatus for facilitating purchase agreements with a retailer: Methods and systems for facilitating an agreement to purchase multiple units of a product are presented herein. The agreement may specify, for example, a period of time during which purchases of the multiple units of the product are to be made and a minimum and/or maximum number of transactions in... Agent: Magdalena M. Fincham Walker Digital, LLC

20080052190 - Method and apparatus for facilitating purchase agreements with a retailer: Methods and systems for facilitating an agreement to purchase multiple units of a product are presented herein. The agreement may specify, for example, a period of time during which purchases of the multiple units of the product are to be made and a minimum and/or maximum number of transactions in... Agent: Magdalena M. Fincham Walker Digital, LLC

20080052191 - Method and apparatus for facilitating purchase agreements with a retailer: Methods and systems for facilitating an agreement to purchase multiple units of a product are presented herein. The agreement may specify, for example, a period of time during which purchases of the multiple units of the product are to be made and a minimum and/or maximum number of transactions in... Agent: Magdalena M. Fincham Walker Digital, LLC

20080052192 - Method and system for purchasing event tickets using a mobile communication device: A method for using a mobile communication device to purchase a ticket for an event. The method comprises locating an event of interest to a user through the mobile communication device, displaying a seating map of a venue in which the event of interest is being held, the seating map... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080052183 - Online card present transaction: An online card-present transaction system facilitates card-present type transactions with a merchant over a public network. A host system is configured to accept authentication data from a user via an authentication device. The host system, after authenticating a user is configured to retrieve the user's account information from a user... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080052189 - Purchasing, redemption, and settlement systems and methods wherein a buyer takes possession at a retailer of a product purchased using a communication network: Purchasing, redemption and settlement systems and methods are provided wherein a buyer takes possession of a product at a retailer. A purchasing system may communicate with a buyer through a communication network to establish a first price for a product between the buyer and a seller. The purchasing system may... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080052185 - System for concurrent optimization of business economics and customer value: A computer-implemented system and method to provide options on products to enhance customers' experience. A computer-implemented system is operated that delivers to a customer an option to utilize up to n of m selected products, where n is less than or equal to m. Information is recorded in a data... Agent: Tenon & Groove, LLC C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080052186 - System for utilizing redemption information: A system to determine offers and/or to determine the acceptability of offers based on received information relating to product redemption at a third party. According to one embodiment, the system includes arrangement for a customer to redeem a product from a third party, reception of information relating to a redemption... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080052194 - Lens order system, lens order method, lens order program and recording medium storing the lens order program: A lens order system, includes: a server unit, including: a data recognizer that recognizes lens design detail data relating to design details of a lens; an image storage that stores object image data relating to an image of an object; an image recognizer that recognizes the object image data based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080052197 - Method of three level solutions hosted in a virtual network: A virtual network resource infrastructure for hosting and managing a plurality of e-malls and each e-mall uses the virtual network resource infrastructure for offering e-commerce solution and the hosting of: e-shops, e-distributors and web sites. Also, on-line foreign language interface translation and interface exchange. Further having satellite e-malls with e-services... Agent: John Almeida

20080052196 - System and method for displaying status information to a viewer: A system for facilitating the information transfer and processing associated with home construction and home sales. Various discrete software modules are disclosed each handling a specific task associated with home construction and sales. Also, a system for communicating between separate data bases is disclosed wherein separate and distinct sales offices,... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20080052195 - System and method for real-time bidding for internet advertising space: A method implemented in a computer system for determining an advertisement in response to an advertising opportunity, wherein the advertising opportunity is an opportunity to place the advertisement on a web page subsequent to a request for the web page by a browser. The computer system receives an indication of... Agent: Beh Investments LLC

20080052204 - Binary trees for detecting inventory problems in an enterprise model: A binary tree structure for detecting inventory problems. A first embodiment detects on-hand inventory problems. A second embodiment detects inventory requirements problems. Both embodiments use a binary tree whose nodes store time values and delta values. The delta values represent inventory consumers or producers. The time values of trees used... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080052205 - System and method for identifying implicit events in a supply chain: The present invention is a method and system of identifying supply chain business scenarios using data from one or more Serialized Global Trade Identification Number (sGTIN) tag reads or other explicit supply chain data. Scenarios are asserted by calculating changes in data and comparing those with user definitions of scenario... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080052209 - Mobile collection application: A mobile collection application is disclosed that is capable of providing collection data to a field agent on a wireless pocket PC. A collection case inventory module is used to generate a list of collection cases on the wireless pocket PC. The field agent may view a detailed report of... Agent: Accenture Indy 33391 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080052210 - Lifetime income: The present invention provides an investment option known as a lifetime income share. Lifetime income shares mitigate survival risk, the risk that an individual will outlive his or her assets. More specifically, the purchase of a plurality of lifetime income shares guarantees an individual a predetermined, periodic income payment for... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080052213 - Method and apparatus for modeling and executing deferred award instrument plan: Administration of various deferred award instrument plan and asset account programs that can effectively provide economically efficient benefits by assisting an Employer in the identification of appropriate employees, and through the use of a novel modeling method and apparatus to implement a deferred award instrument program through a novel employee... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080052211 - Method and system for protecting an investment of a life insurance policy: A method and system for insuring against a potential loss in future value of a life insurance policy by providing a stated value insurance policy (“SV Policy”). The SV Policy is purchased by the owner of the life insurance policy contemporaneously with the purchase of the life insurance policy or... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080052212 - Securitized investment product for gaining exposure to a fund of managed accounts: A structured investment vehicle includes a master fund having a price being linked to a plurality of managed accounts; an enhanced fund that invests in the master fund on a leveraged basis; and a collateralized fund obligation that gains exposure to the enhanced fund through the purchase of fund-linked certificates... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080052217 - Adaptive matching program and system for corporate meeting planners and hospitality providers: The adaptive computerized bidding method matches hospitality facility (HF) data and meeting requirement data, permits the posting of offers and responsive bidding by both HF vendors and meeting planners (MPs), analysis of the initial search results by an MP supervisor (an adaptive input), analysis of the vendor search results by... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20080052221 - Computer method and system for intermediated exchanges: In a preferred embodiment, this invention includes software processes distributed on one or more computer systems that exchange messages in order to facilitate an intermediated exchange of financial commodities between a plurality of participants. The messages are exchanged according to a preferred protocol that leads to a satisfactory exchange that... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080052222 - Computer method and system for intermediated exchanges: In a preferred embodiment, this invention includes software processes distributed on one or more computer systems that exchange messages in order to facilitate an intermediated exchange of financial commodities between a plurality of participants. The messages are exchanged according to a preferred protocol that leads to a satisfactory exchange that... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080052223 - Derivatives trading methods that use a variable order price and a hedge transaction: Systems and methods are provided for executing a hedge transaction in connection with the execution of a derivative product order in which the price of the derivative product is defined by one or more variables. The hedge transaction may be executed at an exchange or match engine that is different... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080052218 - Method and system to implement seller authorized buying privileges within a network-based shopping facility: A method that commences by receiving a bid for a particular sales listing from a first bidder that is not pre-approved to bid on the particular sales listing. The method continues by restricting the bid for the particular sales listing from the bidding process associated with the particular sales listing,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080052220 - On-screen roller controlled price change: A system and method of providing control of prices in an on screen window having a price held for further transactions on an interface for traders of financial instruments. The interface contains a display of products for trading and respective prices for bids and offers. The user has a control... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080052219 - System for and method of expressive auctions of user events: Each bid received via a computer network is an offer for the right to cause at least one advert associated with the bid to be output to at least one device that is part of the computer network or in communication with the computer network in response to the bid... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080052225 - Instant credit card marketing system: According to some embodiments described in the disclosure, methods and systems are provided for offering a line of credit to a customer. In one example, information is generated about a customer arriving at a predetermined location of a sponsoring organization. An indication is obtained from a credit provider of a... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080052227 - Anonymous and secure internet payment method and mobile devices: An anonymous and secure on-line payment system and method based on the partially blind signature cryptographic method with revocable anonymity. To this end, an Anonymity Server (SA) enables the Customer (C) to acquire on-line anonymous payment means on the basis of a protocol that does not enable the Anonymity Server... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080052228 - Methods and systems for providing partially redeemable offering notes: In one aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising: (a) creating a partially redeemable offering note; (b) pricing the note; (c) issuing the note; and (d) redeeming the note. In another aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising: (a) buying a partially redeemable offering note issued by an issuer; and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080052233 - Method and system for scheduling a banking transaction through a mobile communication device: A method for scheduling a banking transaction using a mobile communication device. The method includes creating a task on the mobile communication device to perform a banking transaction while the mobile communication device has no network connectivity, the mobile communication device actively monitoring for an available network to access. In... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080052230 - System and method for dividing a remittance and distributing a portion of the funds to multiple investment products: A known charge card billing system communicates with an investment broker system, wherein the investment broker system includes an instruction arrangement database, payment hierarchy and an investment account. An interested cardholder suitably appoints the charge card administrator as a processing agent to collect and promptly remit the cardholder's voluntary, periodic... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080052232 - Wireless portable consumer electronics device facilitating multi-range transactions: A method for conducting a transaction is disclosed. The method includes using a first portable electronic device, and directly transmitting a request for payment to a second portable electronic device through a wireless link. Then, the second portable electronic device transmits an approval of the request for payment to the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080052234 - User configurable alerts for atm transactions: A method, system and computer program product for enabling user-customization of an ATM display/receipt for a transaction carried out at an automated teller machine (ATM). The customer/user of the ATM creates/selects specific alerts to be outputted during subsequent ATM transactions. The alerts/notices are linked to the customer account. During subsequent... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080052235 - Methods and systems for providing guaranteed merchant transactions: A network arrangement is provided for processing credit transactions. A financial network is used to route communications securely between interfaces with the financial network. Merchant systems are coupled with the interfaces, with each merchant system transmitting requests for authorization of credit transactions through the financial network. An issuer system authorizes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080052236 - Portable intelligent shopping device: A method for purchasing a selected item from a store includes: receiving a request for payment authorization from a sales terminal of the store, the request for payment authorization including an identifier of at least one selected item and a price for each selected item; presenting the price to a... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080052237 - Billing method and arrangement in a peer-to-peer network: In peer-to-peer networks, the services are not provided by central units, but the individual subscriber peers provide them reciprocally, with digitally signed data being stored as resources in the peer-to-network. The data can act as non-rejectable data for billing information if they are transmitted to central collection points. For optimization,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080052238 - Selectable market transaction over a network: A trading network (102) composed of client devices (108, 110) and at least one clearinghouse device (104) associated with at least one exchange (106) and enables a transaction that is started on a first market type, such as a credit type market exchange to be concluded on a second market... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080052239 - Content delivery apparatus, user terminal device, relief management method and computer program: A content delivery apparatus, when a content delivery request is outputted from a user terminal device, encrypts the requested content with an encryption key, adds a view period to it to deliver it to a request source and delivers a viewing key in response to a view request from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080052240 - Content delivery apparatus, user terminal device, relief management method and computer program: A content delivery apparatus, when a content delivery request is outputted from a user terminal device, encrypts the requested content with an encryption key, adds a view period to it to deliver it to a request source and delivers a viewing key in response to a view request from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080052243 - Portable intelligent shopping device: A mobile information processing device includes a display driver for displaying a bar code, the bar code including a representation of a user's acceptance of a price requested by a store for a selected item for purchase. The bar code may be one-dimensional or two-dimensional.... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080052244 - Anonymous transaction authentication: An automated system for the confirmed efficient authentication of an anonymous subscriber's profile data. The system is comprised of software/hardware interface to facilitate centralized access and exchange to easily and inexpensively allow the confirmed authentication of subscriber profiles of customers wishing to blind their transactions, while maintaining current services. In... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080052245 - Advanced multi-factor authentication methods: Methods, software, and systems for authenticating electronically accessible sites are described. In general, the development involves querying an identified user connected to an electronically accessible third party vendor site (e.g., a website) for a codebook identifier that corresponds to a codebook having a plurality of identification units, each of which... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052247 - Lease proposal system and method: A system for obtaining lease proposals from multiple landlords for a tenant includes a tenant workstation, a number of landlord workstations and a server in communication with the tenant and landlord workstations. The server features software and memory storage which permits a tenant to input tenant information using the tenant... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20080052251 - Charging method for semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, storage medium storing program for implementing the charging method, and semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus implementing the charging method: A charging method for a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, which can appropriately and promptly distribute profits between a customer and a manufacturer according to the yield of semiconductor devices. An indicator related to the yield of the semiconductor devices is measured, and a fee is charged for the usage of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080052252 - Dynamic pricing of items based on category with which the item is associated: A method of dynamically adjusting prices of items using a processor based upon the category to which the item is assigned is disclosed. The items are of the type that are deliverable over a network. A system includes memory for storing group indicators with regard to the items and a... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080052253 - System and method for message-bus-based advanced meter information system: Different adapters and applications may publish information on the messaging bus and retrieve information from the bus simultaneously in a manner that does not cause interference or problems in the publication or retrieval. Meter data is cleaned, validated and estimated by separate applications using the above-described application and retrieval processes... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080052254 - Pager device and system for parking payment charges: A vehicle-portable parking meter device for paying parking charges and for displaying paid parking time comprises a radio-operable two-way pager (304,401) having a display screen (106) and a contact or contactless storage chip. The pager (304,401) can be installed in a vehicle so the screen (106) is visible from outside.... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20080046260 - Automated litigation discovery method and system: An automated litigation discovery method and system are described. Data having a number of files is electronically gathered from different sources. The gathered data is automatically processed using a processor. The processor identifies software application files and compares the software application files to a database having a number of pre-existing... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080046256 - Casino promoting device system and method: A networked software junketeer for mediating between at least a first agent and at least a first casino operator comprising: a website comprising an agent side in data communication with a casino side; the agent side for offering at least a conditional deal to a punter of the agent in... Agent: Bruce E. Lilling Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20080046261 - Direct repair program management systems and methods thereof: A method and system for managing a direct repair program includes receiving one or more estimates of repair cost from one or more shops and determining which of the received one or more estimates are in compliance with one or more requirements. The one or more compliant estimates from the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080046254 - Electronic service manual generation method, additional data generation method, electronic service manual generation appartus, additional data generation apparatus, electronic service manual generation program, additional data generation program, and reco: Disclosed is a technique for generating a useful service manual and for improving the efficiency of data processing related to a service manual. According to this technique, an XML service manual generation control unit 1000 obtains various non-structured data and generates structured data based on the various non-structured data. At... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080046257 - Method of reflective and interactive relationship building: The present invention provides a method of building relationships between two or more people. In one aspect, the present invention includes the steps of a) identifying at least one group to which individual people belong; b) identifying two or more categories within the group, each of the individuals belonging to... Agent: Scott R. Kimsey Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080046275 - Methods and tools to support strategic decision making by specifying, relating and analyzing requirements, solutions, and deployments: The present invention discloses methods and tools for managing requirements, solutions, and deployments of a project. The invention provides for the creation of a portfolio of data pertaining to requirements, solutions, and deployments for the project. The relationships and dependencies between the data are mapped, and the portfolio of data... Agent: Tim Shen Law Office

20080046264 - Novel sales methodology: A comprehensive method for sales comprising an assignment of the individual's behavior, values and sales skills; the establishment of goals; the implementation of sales systems and tools to achieve the goods; and tracking; and implementing at least one additional sales technique.... Agent: NationalIPRights Center, LLC Scott J. Fields, Esq.

20080046266 - Service level agreement management: Consistent with embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods are disclosed for providing service level agreement management. The method may include collecting performance data on a data network and collecting service information including at least one rule. The rule may include a service level agreement rule and a contract... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080046259 - State-dependent entity based implementation of a service oriented architected application: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data granularity for an SOA and provide a method, system and computer program product for implementing an SOA using state-dependent entities. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for varying data granularity of a service component... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080046265 - System and method for creating and managing contracts flexibly: A system for creating and managing contracts flexibly is provided. The system includes a server, a plurality of client computers connected to the server via a network and a database. The server is configured for receiving information of desired contracts from users on the client computers, obtaining contract templates in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080046258 - System and method for wireless transactions: A system and method for using a consumer wireless device in retail transactions utilizes a fixed communication device that functions as a base station for the consumer wireless device. The fixed communication device has a limited coverage zone. When a consumer wireless device comes within the coverage zone of the...