Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 04/08

20080097772 - Automatic disposition of referrals in an online marketplace: A computer-implemented method and system is operable to: receive a referral, the referral including referral information identifying a referred party, obtain referred party information related to the referred party, and use the referral information and the referred party information to automatically produce a disposition for the referral.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080097775 - Drm content player and play method for portable terminal: A Digital Rights Management (DRM) content player and play method for a portable terminal are disclosed. The DRM content player includes a first memory unit for storing a license stating usage rights upon an associated DRM content, and a content list of DRM contents, a second memory unit for storing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080097770 - Ink cartridge vending machine: A vending machine capable of refilling used ink cartridges as well as dispensing filled ink cartridges is closed. The vending machine includes at least one cartridge receptacle for receiving an ink cartridge, a user interface, a display unit, a nozzle health check module, a printhead servicing module, an ink reservoir,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080097776 - Succession success probability assessment system and associated methods: A system and method for delivering an assessment to individuals currently having an involvement in and those potentially acquiring an involvement in the management of an established business are provided. The system and method include an assessment of a plurality of factors that have been shown to influence the success... Agent: Jacqueline E. Hartt, Ph.d Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20080097771 - System and method for creating distributed applications utilizing portable devices and physical location of the portable device: A system and method for creating and deploying distributed applications. A template defines a business process by means of validation, input, permission and workflow rules. The specific business process is performed by first creating a document that is a particular instantiation of the template. The document embeds all of the... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080097769 - Systems and methods for providing customer feedback: Methods and systems of customer feedback include collecting customer feedback while the customer is physically located in a retail environment, transmitting the customer feedback through a wireless communication facility to a data processing facility, wherein the data processing facility automatically compares the customer feedback to at least one threshold value... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097768 - Visualization of future value predictions and supporting factors for real estate by block: Methods and systems for block level visual presentation of real estate forecasts and related statistical confidence indicators and supporting factors. The visual presentations build upon a data set comprising block level future value predictions, statistical confidence indicators and supporting factors. A map of a user selected geographical area is visually... Agent: Hahn And Moodley LLP

20080097784 - Appropriateness of a medication therapy regimen: A method of determining the appropriateness of a medication therapy regimen detects and reduces gaps occurring between established standards of treatment and treatment provided to a person through a medication therapy regimen. Methods of determining the appropriateness of a medication or medication therapy regimen and intervention thereof are provided herein.... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080097786 - Digital data security in healthcare enterprise: Method and system for providing services in healthcare enterprises for authentication and forensic analysis of medical and dental records of patients comprising text, image, video and speech stored and communicated in digital form are disclosed. The digital images may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional comprising, for example, photographs, x-rays, CT-scans, other... Agent: Memory Medical Systems

20080097787 - Multi-dose pharmacy label: A pharmacy label includes a patient section, a first drug section, and a second drug section. The patient section has patient-specific information printed thereon, and the first and second drug sections have first and second drug-specific information printed thereon, respectively. The patient section further contains a prescription number printed thereon.... Agent: Francis Kowalik/walgreen Co. Law Dept. M.s. 1425

20080097789 - Quality management of patient data for health care providers: A system and a method of identifying a need to modify data entries in a database containing healthcare admissions data. An exemplary data quality management system is useful for managing healthcare admissions data. According to an embodiment the system can include a first computer system comprising at least one server... Agent: Ferdinand M. Romano, Esquire Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080097785 - System and method to quantify patients clinical trends and monitoring their status progression: A system for facilitating identification of correlations over time between patient monitoring signal histories to facilitate the making and revising of healthcare decisions includes patient monitoring equipment (144), a memory (146), a computing device (148), and a display device (152). A method for facilitating identification of correlations over time between... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080097795 - Database system, program, and information processing method: A disease-symptom-combination DB storing information obtained by combining each of disease name elements indicative of diseases with one or more symptom elements each indicative of a symptom, and a disease-care-combination DB storing information obtained by combining each of the disease name elements with a plurality of care elements each indicative... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080097791 - System and method for coupling patient data with executable guideline decision support system: A system and method are provided for exchanging data between a local information storage system (26) storing first data elements associated with respective data, and an executable guideline decision support system (12) executable on at least one processor for storing a plurality of executable guidelines and executing the guidelines, including... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080097796 - System and method for salvage calculation, fraud prevention and insurance adjustment: Disclosed is a novel system and method that provides real time information to an insurance adjuster. The system obtains information related to an insured item which has an outstanding claim. Information includes the cost to repair a specific item, the salvage value of the item, and the cost to replace... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080097798 - Method and system for creating and processing rental vehicle reservations using vouchers: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for creating and managing rental vehicle reservations. According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed for creating and managing a rental vehicle reservation, the system comprising: (a) a user computer, and (b) a reservation computer system that is in communication with the user computer... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20080097799 - Method for processing data requests: A method and system of processing reservation data comprises establishing network communications between at least one user device and a check-in server, collecting information, at the check-in server, from one user device regarding at least one passenger's reservation information, establishing network communications between one or more information sources and the... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080097806 - Social online memory systems: A system is described including the steps of receiving a set of a digital-medium from an organization; dividing the set into a free portion and a paid portion; distributing to a person, associated with the organization, the set; allowing performing of the free portion; collecting a payment from the person;... Agent: Law Office Of Andrew P. Lahser, PLC

20080097800 - System and method for marketing and developing a custom substation: A computer implemented method of marketing an electricity distribution and transmission substation to a customer by a substation vendor. The method includes collecting functional information relating to intended use and location of the substation. The method also includes identifying at least one substation configuration from a database of plural substation... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP (abbi)

20080097805 - Transaction processing method: The transaction processing method is a computer-implemented method capable of logging events related to a consumer at a point of transaction. The event logging is performed at a transaction processing center. The transaction processing center can log such events as: receipts generated by a plurality of merchants doing business with... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080097812 - Method and load input device for optimizing log truck productivity: A method of optimizing log truck productivity utilizing technology allowing the entry of log truck orders from the field. The present invention generally seeks to improve productivity by (1) minimizing the distances log trucks drive with empty loads and (2) improving coordination between groups of log truck drivers and groups... Agent: John Wiley Horton, Attorney Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080097810 - System and method of managing workflow for express creation and initialization of merchant accounts: A credit card processing system uses an express processing module to create and initialize merchant accounts. The credit card processing system includes a merchant, bank, and credit card association which are connected by electronic communication links. The express processing module uses a plurality of data entry screens to compile and... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080097811 - Systems and methods for reducing poverty: Systems and methods for generating and monitoring a plan to reduce poverty include identifying market opportunities exploitable by one or more smallholders; generating an intervention plan to assist the smallholders; establishing a supply chain to deliver supplies to the smallholders and establishing a linkage with an output market; and monitoring... Agent: Tran & Associates

20080097815 - Methods for employing temporary time zones and predictive locations and systems thereof: A method, system, and computer readable medium for enabling a user within an application to select a time zone for a temporary period of time include selecting a temporary time zone having a start time and an end time, and changing a time of events that fall within the temporary... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080097814 - Salon point of sale: A solon point of sale user interface, comprising a display operable to display point of sale information, such as hair salon information, for at least one of: a product and a service an augmentable visual presentation of client information. The visual representation augments at least one of: a client's hair... Agent: James Koustoumbardis

20080097820 - Automated clustering of records, biased by supervised classification processing: An unsupervised classification approach is improved by imposing some order into the treatment of the records and their attributes, which otherwise would be treated as random variables. A method is provided to identify particular attributes that are most associated with the “good” records within each of the plurality of groups... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080097828 - Method of delivering an advertisement via related computer systems: A method of delivering an advertisement related to hyperlink printed on a substrate, said method comprising the steps of: determining, in a first computer system, a context of said hyperlink; sending the context to a second computer system; and receiving, in a third computer system, one or more advertisements that... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080097829 - Multivariate testing optimization method: An advertisement optimization approach is presented, which utilizes multivariate testing to correlate characteristics of an advertisement to favorable responses received from an environment to which the advertisement was provided. As one example, a text based webpage advertisement may be tested to optimize a variety of different characteristics of the advertisement... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080097821 - Recommendations utilizing meta-data based pair-wise lift predictions: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for facilitating generation of item recommendations based at least in part upon pair-wise lift. Pair-wise lift is a measure of correlation between a pair of items and is generally calculated based upon past usage data. If usage data is insufficient or unavailable,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080097836 - Advertisement presentment in an electronic device: A method including receiving at least one advertisement in a device and presenting a first information of at least one advertisement in response to the device being activated from an idle state.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080097842 - Automated merchandising network system: An automated network merchandising system provides a platform for delivering relevant retail offers to interested consumers online. A backend content pipeline analyzes and processes delivered catalog content into a merchandisable universe of products (MUP). On a user-facing end, corner stores—ad units appearing on pages of publishers' web sites—display offers from... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080097840 - Mail advertising addressing system: A method of manufacturing an advertising device comprising manufacturing an advertising device describing at least one attribute of at least one product or service is disclosed. A facility address is retrieved from a database of establishment locations the address of one or more facilities offering the product or service. In... Agent: Anthony H. Handal Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20080097841 - Mail advertising addressing system: A method of manufacturing an information bearing device comprising manufacturing an information bearing device describing at least one attribute of at least one product or service is disclosed. A facility address is retrieved from a database of establishment locations of the addresses of one or more facilities offering the product... Agent: Anthony H. Handal Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20080097837 - Method and system for printing information related to internet advertisements: A method and system for placing an excitable icon in or next to a screen Internet advertisement offering users the ability to print information related to the advertised product or service, which could consist of, but is not limited to, a marketing brochure or coupon. The method and system performs... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080097854 - Method for creating and analyzing advertisements: A method for analyzing advertisements and advertising campaigns. Important images are selected from one or more advertisements and then ranked. The most important images are then assigned to a category which preferably corresponds to a memory type, such as knowledge, emotion, or action. The relative numbers of images in each... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20080097839 - Method of motivating exposure to advertisements: A provider prepares at least one quest including a plurality of tasks; offers, preferably for sale, advertising access in association with the tasks; and presents the quest(s) (20) to participants, with respective advertisements being presented in association with the tasks (24,26). The provider also provides incentives such as prizes for... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080097843 - Method of network merchandising incorporating contextual and personalized advertising: A method of network merchandising incorporates contextual and personalized advertising with human input to deliver relevant retail offers to interested online consumers efficiently and intelligently. Catalog content from retailers is downloaded, semantically analyzed and merged. The merged content is filtered using machine- and human-generated specifications to produce a merchandisable universe... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080097835 - Rating-based sorting and displaying of reviews: A computer system receives customer reviews for a subject, for example, a product, service, or market participant. Each review includes a rating of the subject and a comment about the subject. The rating may be favorable, unfavorable, or intermediate. The system sorts the reviews in a default order, for example,... Agent: Anatoly S. Weiser

20080097838 - Revenue-based advertising auction: Implementations of a revenue-based advertising auction are described. Bidders submit advertisements to be assigned to ad slots such that each advertisement has an associated bid vector that indicates a value known to the auctioneer that the bidder is offering to pay for placement of the advertisement in each of the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080097853 - System and method for supplying integrated mileage service: Provided are a system and method for supplying an integrated mileage service. The system includes: a member store point of sale (POS) terminal for receiving mileage accumulation or spending request data including a card number of an integrated mileage card into which a plurality of membership cards are integrated, a... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080097849 - Systems and methods for using personas: The present invention provides systems and methods for increasing 3rd party advertising on an interactive site, by assigning characteristics to portions of a website, and using those characteristics to personalize presentation of the website by according to personas of visitors. Persona characteristics can represent any distinguishing feature of interest, including... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080097845 - Systems and methods to provide voice connections via local telephone numbers: Methods and apparatuses to dynamically allocate location dependent telephone numbers to facilitate voice connections between people. One embodiment includes: responsive to a request from a user, selecting a telephone number from a plurality of telephone numbers of a connection server to match a location indicator of the request; embedding the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080097866 - Guarantying payment for transactions: Techniques for guaranteeing payment to a seller of a commodity purchased by a buyer are described. A selection of a sales proposal for purchasing the commodity from the seller is received. The sales proposal specifies the conditions under which the commodity will be delivered to the buyer. The seller is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080097865 - Method to manage an automatic and interactive e-commerce site: Method to operate an Internet e-commerce site for the sale of complex systems. Price and delivery time are automatically calculated as soon as the buyer makes every single choice between options that are automatically enabled by the system based on previous choices. A printable quote is automatically generated and can... Agent: Paolo Forlani

20080097867 - System and method of collaborative filtering based on attribute profiling: A system and/or a method of collaborative filtering based on attribute profiling is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a product profile of a content-based product through applying any number of value data assigned by a user to a set of attributes embodying possible reasons as to why... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080097864 - Systems and methods for an intelligent toolbar that provides contextual bidding opportunities: Online bidding opportunities on goods and/or services are targeted to an individual user based, in part, on the user's navigation history. User navigation (e.g., Web browsing, search requests, etc.) may be tracked, recorded and maintained. User navigation information may be used to determine content-relevant and personalized bidding opportunities for goods... Agent: Parag Patel

20080097863 - Systems and methods for receiving and sponsoring media content: A method and system of sponsoring a media item is disclosed herein. A media item is received from a submitter. The media item is published for consumer access. Requests for the media item are received from media consumers. A number of consumer requests for the media item is counted. A... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080097876 - Programmable expiration date verification system: A programmable expiration date verification system is disclosed. According to one aspect, a programmable expiration date verification system including a programmable expiration date module is provided. The programmable expiration date module includes a memory device operable to store an expiration date and a communication port operable to receive a communication... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20080097878 - System and method for automatic payment of estimated tax due: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method and system for accepting financial information from a customer for generating an estimated tax due to the taxing authority and a date by which the estimated tax is due, and periodically impounding an amount of money from an account held by... Agent: Sabety+associates

20080097879 - System and method of interfacing web services to express creation and initialization of merchant accounts: A credit card processing system uses an express processing module to create and initialize merchant accounts. The credit card processing system includes a merchant, bank, and credit card association which are connected by electronic communication links. The express processing module uses a plurality of data entry screens to compile and... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080097881 - Wealth management education system and method: A wealth management education system and method thereof includes a storage unit, an input unit, an event selection unit and an ROI computation unit. The storage unit containing historical data of multiple capital markets, correlation matrices among those market, and multiple economic events. A user uses the input unit to... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai & Associates, P.C.

20080097931 - Computer assisted process for providing liquidity to an enterprise by utilizing intellectual property assets: A computer program storing computer instructions therein for instructing a computer to perform analytical steps for the aggregation and securitization of intellectual property assets, the securitization initiated by an analytical entity and managed by a management company, the program comprising: a recording medium readable by the computer; and the computer... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080097894 - Real-time live and remote integrated auction method: The present invention relates to an auction method with mixed live and remote participation that seeks to avoid unfavorable conditions for both live bidders at the auction site and remote bidders who access the auction by computerized means. Particularly, the present invention relates to auctions in which some of the... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20080097886 - Reference price framework: A method of computer-assisted price modeling is provided, which uses a reference price to assist in evaluating discretionary pricing of transactional services provided (i) by a professional among his own transactions or (ii) by a target professional among others' transactions. A universe of pricing episode data is segmented into groupings... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20080097889 - System and method for calculating optimal rates in a multi-source price engine in over the counter markets: A system and method calculate an optimal rates in a multi-source price engine in over the counter (OTC) markets. The system and method integrate rates from multiple liquidity sources to generate an output rate that can be transacted upon. Specifically, the system and method calculate a best bid/offer rate from... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080097887 - System and method for prioritized data delivery in an electronic trading environment: A system and method for prioritized data delivery in an electronic trading environment are described herein. According to one example embodiment, by prioritizing the messages associated with a tradeable object, the bandwidth and system resource usage may be optimally reduced, and any loss of priority content in the messages sent... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20080097890 - System and method for providing price validation for market makers in over the counter markets: A system and method provide price validation for market makers in over the counter (OTC) markets. Specifically, the system compares a new or existing price provided by a market maker with a base rate. If the unilateral difference is less than or equal to a configurable tolerance, the price may... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080097892 - Trading system and method: The present invention provides an on-line trading system and method for ordering and executing trades in financial markets, such as foreign exchange markets. The system and method permit account holders to automatically trade in one or more markets based on recommendations provided by signal providers, without the need for the... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080097891 - Virtual stock market service based on search index: The present application provides a method and system which provide a virtual stock exchange service. In one particular implementation, the system includes a resource locator database, a resource locator search server, a listed resource domain database, a user database, and a virtual stock trading management server. The resource locator database... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080097897 - System and method of express creation and initialization of merchant accounts: A credit card processing system uses an express processing module to create and initialize merchant accounts. The credit card processing system includes a merchant, bank, and credit card association which are connected by electronic communication links. The express processing module uses a plurality of data entry screens to compile and... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080097900 - Method, system and apparatus for increasing the deposit-based assets of banking institutions subject to fractional-reserve banking: A system, method and apparatus for increasing the asset base of a banking institution having a first and second account captive therein for fractional-reserve banking, having a portable device for encrypted containment of currency amounts linked to the first account at the banking institution and enabled to perform commercial transactions... Agent: Mitchell A. Stein, Esq. Stein Law, P.C.

20080097903 - Methods and systems for substantiation of healthcare expenses: Methods and systems are disclosed for processing a request to fund a purchase from a provider with a medical expense account. The request identifies expenses incurred with the purchase is received at a substantiation system and used to identify the provider. A determination is made whether the provider is included... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080097907 - Methods of operating a self-service check depositing terminal to deposit a plurality of checks in a single deposit transaction: A method is provided of operating a self-service check depositing terminal having a single-check acceptor. The method comprises receiving a request from a depositor to conduct a check deposit transaction to deposit a plurality of checks, after receiving the request, obtaining an authorization to allow the depositor to conduct the... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080097915 - Method and system for dynamic, real-time addition of advertisement to downloaded static content: A method and system for dynamic, real-time addition of advertisements to downloaded static content. The method comprises seamlessly combining a downloaded original content file with personalized information on a user device, and allowing the user either to use the combined original content and personalized information without possibility of personalized information... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080097919 - Method for providing protected audio/video content: A method for providing protected content, wherein content usage rights information and/or usage state information is embedded into obtained primary data that serves as a basis for a content item to be provided thereby providing the primary data with the embedded content usage rights information and/or usage state information as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080097920 - On-line website at which original artistic works are published, reviewed for content, sampled and purchased: A website is disclosed for enabling an artist to publish a plurality of his original works as (e.g., audio, video, and the like) digital files at a channel that is personal to the artist. Provided that the content of the artist's work is acceptable for publication as determined by a... Agent: Law Offices Of Morland C Fischer

20080097921 - Digital distribution management system and contents distribution management method using the same: A digital distribution management system and a contents distribution management method using the same are provided. The system is formed of a contents-user, a broker, a contents-owner, and a contents distributor. The broker receives a contents use fee from the contents-user, transmits a contract document for contents use to the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080097922 - System and method for adjusting the behavior of an application based on the drm status of the application: A system and method by which an application is capable of accessing its own DRM information stored in a content-agnostic DRM system. By being able to access its own DRM information, the application is able to improve the overall user experience by, among other things, making DRM-related information available to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080097923 - Method and apparatus for providing digital rights management content and license, and method and apparatus for using digital rights management content: A method and apparatus for providing digital rights management (DRM) content and a license, and a method and apparatus for using DRM content are provided. The method of providing DRM content and a license includes selecting usage conditions for content; transforming the usage conditions into a secure database (DB); and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080097927 - Method and system for allowing a user to make a plurality of offers to a plurality of advertisers: An electronic trading system (100) for allowing a user (101) to make a plurality of offers (102) to a plurality of advertisers (103, 104), each offer being for an advertised item (105, 106). The system (100) includes a memory device for storing information related to the offers (102). A processor,... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080097926 - Method and system for campaign management: Campaign-production management is performed for a plurality of campaigns on at least a primary server or a secondary server. The plurality of campaigns is processed on the primary server. The contents of the plurality of campaigns are synchronized between the primary server and the secondary server. On failure of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080097928 - Method and system of publishing campaign data: One embodiment of the invention provides a method of publishing campaign metadata from a database to a plurality of channel systems, the method includes: querying the database to select campaign metadata ready for publishing to a target channel system; selecting the target channel system from a plurality of channel systems... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080097777 - Electronic document execution: An electronic document execution system is provided. In one implementation, a method of executing a transaction includes creating a transaction document object populated with transaction document data and incorporating a signature image capture component; capturing a signature image via the signature image capture component of a party to the transaction... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080097781 - Employment sourcing system: An automated system and method for storing information from employment seeking candidates, evaluating each candidate's job-related qualifications based on criteria set by the employer, quickly eliminating unqualified candidates, and tracking the source that referred the candidate.... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080097767 - Method and system for providing real estate information using a computer network, such as the internet: The present invention provides methods and systems for providing real-estate information using a computer network, such as the Internet. A buyer information web page showing relevant buyer list information in an easy-to-read, summary format is created and displayed to a real estate agent. Buyer information provided includes summaries of various... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080097782 - Multi-utility energy control and facility automation system with dashboard having a plurality of interface gateways: A multi-utility energy and facility automation control system has control center computer(s) connected to various utility consuming systems and software that formats pertinent systems' energy data, stores, retrieves, diagnoses and acts in response to changes and includes a multi-utility master meter device and a plurality of sensors for utilities and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080097773 - Non-disclosure bond for deterring unauthorized disclosure and other misuse of intellectual property: The invention in some embodiments comprises a non-disclosure bond that deters a receiving party from disclosing confidential information and/or compensates a disclosing party in the event the receiving party discloses the confidential information.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080097783 - System and method for preference-based account enrollment: The present invention relates to an on-line, interactive, and fully integrated feature-based account enrollment management program that monitors, evaluates, acquires, activates, and manages accounts and executes functions to acquire, activate, and make available account structures for users by discovering, applying, managing, and automating appropriate acquisition and administration actions.... Agent: Gregory Fx Iannacci

20080097780 - Systems, methods and computer program products for automatically sending a status change message as a result of repair services that are performed on a network: A network administration system includes an Internet-based repair (eRepair) subsystem that is configured to accept customer trouble reports related to a network and to provide customer trouble report status information to customers. The administration system also includes a Work Force and Administration-Control (WFA/C) subsystem that is configured to manage repair... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080097774 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097778 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097779 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097788 - Cluster of correlated medical claims in an episode treatment group: A computer-implemented method for profiling medical claims to assist health care managers in determining the cost-efficiency and service quality of health care providers. The method allows an objective means for measuring and quantifying health care services. An episode treatment group (ETG) is a patient classification unit, which defines groups that... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080097790 - Methods for collecting fees for healthcare management group: Methods are provided for collecting fees for managing and optimizing the profitability of a plurality of physicians in a healthcare practice participating in an insurance network. The methods can include establishing a relationship between a healthcare consultation group and the healthcare practice participating in the insurance network to increase the... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080097794 - System and method for building and manipulating a centralized measurement value database: A system and method for building and/or manipulating a centralized medical image quantitative information database aid in diagnosing diseases, identifying prevalence of diseases, and analyzing market penetration data and efficacy of different drugs. In one embodiment, the diseases are bone-related, such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. Subjects' medical images, personal and... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080097793 - Systems and methods for remote patient monitoring and user interface: A method according to one aspect of the present invention includes receiving patient information, analyzing the patient information to identify a condition for the patient, and formatting a report based on the patient information and the patient condition. Embodiments of the present invention may be used to monitor any appropriate... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097792 - Treatment decision support system and user interface: A system provides clinicians with realtime medication suggestions. A treatment decision support system comprises at least one repository including information associating candidate treatment items, treatment costs, treatment supply availability, patient specific medical information and corresponding related treatment parameters. An individual treatment item is associated with multiple related treatment parameters. A... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080097797 - Retirement compensation agreement financing system and method: A retirement compensation arrangement (RCA) leveraged loan portfolio is created and debt instruments secured by the RCA leveraged loan portfolio are sold in a public or private offering. The fixed rate or floating rate debt instruments secured by the RCA leveraged loan portfolio provide investment access to high quality insurance... Agent: Jonathan S. Caplan, Esq. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20080097808 - Device and method for efficient delivery of redundant national television signals: A method and apparatus of broadcasting is provided that has a geographic identifier memory, an overlay memory storing an overlay, a receiver circuit for receiving a broadcast signal and a control circuit. The control circuit displays the overlay on the broadcast signal in response to the geographic identifier.... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080097803 - Inventory monitor for an article dispenser: A monitoring system for developing information data, for use in association with an opening that provides access for removal by a customer of articles stored in an article storage area. In one embodiment, the monitoring system includes a beam forming device adapted to be arranged about the perimeter of the... Agent: Lawrence C. Edelman,IPCounsel Fastcorp

20080097809 - Livestock management systems and methods: This invention relates to systems and methods for managing livestock, such as cattle, from conception to consumption. More particularly, this invention relates to systems and methods in which users, such as producers, feedlot managers, packers, buyers, sellers, and consumers, are brought together through shared information and improved communication. Users may... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080097801 - Method and system for monitoring transaction based system: 1. A method for monitoring transaction based systems monitoring their system resource and transaction performance data with thresholds on metrics, said method comprising the steps of collecting system resource data and transaction performance data on a period basis and each time a transaction performance metric is passed, triggering the collection... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080097804 - System and method for developing and managing a manufacturing process: A method for developing and managing a manufacturing process may include presenting a graphical user interface to define a project for developing and managing the manufacturing process for a product and storing the data entered to define the project in a database. The method may also include presenting a graphical... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080097807 - Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling business level service level agreements: Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs (Service level Agreements), and more particularly, systems and method for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs using probe points, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and business commitments. An XML (extensible Markup Language)-based specification referred to as BPCL (Business Process Commitment Language)... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080097802 - Time-series forecasting: A forecasting system is regulated with time-series data. The context of the time-series data is determined by one or more parameters encapsulated within a forecast data type, the forecast data type being arranged to present the time-series data in a generic form (independent of any context information) to a forecasting... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080097813 - System and method for optimizing advertisement campaigns according to advertiser specified business objectives: The present invention relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media comprising instructions for generating a media plan for distributing one or more advertisements comprising an advertisement campaign. The method of the present invention comprises retrieving one or more advertiser specified business objectives for the advertisement campaign and retrieving an... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080097816 - Analogy based updates for rapid development of data processing results: A method of creating an analogous workflow is provided. A first workflow is received at a first device, the first workflow including a plurality of first modules that are connected. A second workflow is received at the first device, the second workflow including a plurality of second modules that are... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080097818 - Client account and information management system and method: An information repository and management system for data regarding a client base which integrates a plurality of information types including database records, word processor files, e-mail, other hyperlinked documents, web pages and web sites. Implemented as a database application on a web-enabled database server, sales and marketing team members may... Agent: Robert H. Frantz

20080097819 - Dynamic force management system: Systems and methods for dynamic allocation of agents for a network, which in one embodiment among many, can be broadly summarized by a representative method of receiving network data for a given time interval, where the network data is related to calls between users of the network and agents having... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080097817 - Invitee-participant matching method for meeting scheduling: A method that schedules a meeting with a meeting invitee includes populating a database with potential meeting participants. A meeting notice is provides that notifies potential meeting participants of a future meeting with the invitee. One or more responding potential meeting participants and their associated records are identified. The identified... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080097824 - Campaign performance report: A system and method for efficiently estimating and reporting the rendition of digital advertising messages in a network of electronic displays in which advertising message blocks, supporting loop undersaturation and loop oversaturation, are formed, wherein the resulting advertising message block is constrained to a preexisting length specified by a loop... Agent: Technology Law Group, LLC

20080097827 - Demand aggregation for future item planning contingent upon threshold demand: The present invention relates to predicting, measuring, and/or guaranteeing demand for a contingent or hypothetical future item and, based upon that demand, determining whether or not to actually produce the future item. In particular, the present invention measures such demand via contingent event certificates and associated marketplaces.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097826 - Demand aggregation for future items contingent upon threshold demand: The present invention relates to predicting, measuring, and/or guaranteeing demand for a contingent or hypothetical future item and, based upon that demand, determining whether or not to actually produce the future item. In particular, the present invention measures such demand via contingent event certificates and associated marketplaces.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097834 - Method for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage: A method for the placement of advertisements on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such advertisements. The advertisements might include, for instance, advertisements on a webpage, and the event would include a user clicking on an advertisement. Data regarding the past performance of the advertisements... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080097831 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a reusable new product planning model: A system for implementing a reusable new product planning model includes a processor executing a new product forecast application. The new product forecast application implements a method. The method includes gathering historical demand data for products in a product set and determining a launch period for the products, the historical... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080097832 - Online system and method for dynamic segmentation and content presentation: An on-line system and method assembles, stores, and administers all of a company's merchandising content in a single location, and optimizes the effectiveness of the content by determining the content and format most likely to be of interest to the consumer. Generally, a merchant sets up at least one campaign... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080097833 - Rendering advertisements with documents having one or more topics using user topic interest information: Ambiguities with respect to a user topic interest may be resolved so that useful topic-relevant ads can be presented. Such ambiguities may be resolved by monitoring user behavior, determining a user topic interest (e.g., from a plurality of different candidate topics) based on the monitored behavior, and serving ads relevant... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080097822 - System and method for facilitating network connectivity based on user characteristics: A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network includes an attention manager, an identity manager, and an introduction manager. The attention manager generates data indicative of the current interests of the user. The identity manager manages data indicative of the interests of the user. The introduction manager... Agent: Jones Day

20080097825 - System and methods for proposing future items contingent upon threshold demand: The present invention relates to predicting, measuring, and/or guaranteeing demand for a contingent or hypothetical future item and, based upon that demand, determining whether or not to actually produce the future item. In particular, the present invention measures such demand via contingent event certificates and associated marketplaces.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097830 - Systems and methods for interactively delivering self-contained advertisement units to a web browser: A system for interactive delivery of self-contained advertisement units is disclosed. The system includes a client web browser, an advertisement unit database element, and an advertisement unit server element. The client web browser is configured to render a web page having a designated location for a first self-contained advertisement unit,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080097823 - User interaction causing click facilitator to collect ad click-through fee: A method of causing a proportion of a click-through fee to be credited to a facilitator of a user interaction with a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data enabling the user interaction, said method comprising the steps of: (a) a user performing the user interaction with... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080097848 - Day part frame criteria: A system and method for distributing target advertising content to various electronic displays in a network of electronic displays. The invention discloses the technique of partitioning the electronic displays, partitioned both by geography and time, and providing an associated loop policy and frame criteria rules for each frame. The loop... Agent: Technology Law Group, LLC

20080097844 - E-couponing: Handling electronic coupons includes accessing information indicating association of an electronic coupon with an account of a user that identifies multiple retail entities associated with the user. Information indicating association of electronic coupons with the user's account may be transmitted to respective computer systems associated with the multiple retail entities.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080097859 - Graphical internet search system and methods: A system and methods for web based graphical internet searching for locating unique items sought by buyers of designs, furnishings and accessories through use of the internet. The invention includes a search interface where both a seller and buyer will use the same graphical alphabet, which divides an item into... Agent: Altera Law Group

20080097846 - Information management system, information management server, portable terminal, and portable terminal control program: An information management system 200 including a portable telephone 100 having a settlement unit 107 which performs electronic settlement and an information management server 50 which gathers and manages settlement information, wherein the portable telephone 100 includes a settlement information transmission unit 117 which transmits the settlement information to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080097847 - Internet-based brand marketing communication network for managing and delivering choreographed brand marketing communications to consumers using mutli-mode virtual kiosks (mmvks): An Internet-based brand marketing communication network for managing and delivering brand marketing communications to consumers using server-side driven multi-mode virtual kiosks (MMVKs) that are created, deployed, and managed using a novel suite of Web-based marketing communication services. For each consumer product registered on the network, a MMVK is created, deployed... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C. Soundview Plaza

20080097852 - Method and system for providing interactive cardholder rewards image replacement: A system for facilitating image management for portable devices is disclosed. The system includes a host configured to maintain information relating to a first portable device and a second portable device and an interface device configured to communicate with the host and the first and second portable devices. The interface... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080097851 - Method of distributing information via mobile devices and enabling its use at a point of transaction: Methods and systems for utilizing promotion data accessible via a mobile device are disclosed. A digital record of promotion data from a product provider may be stored in a database. A plurality of such digital records may be aggregated for one or more providers. A digital record may be associated... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080097857 - Multiple party reward system utilizing single account: A method enabling a frequent shopper reward system capable of tracking performance data of a plurality of members or account holders linked to a single frequent shopper account.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080097850 - System and method for administering customized affinity and rewards programs: A system and method for administering customized affinity and rewards programs enables businesses to consolidate, deploy and administer a variety of customizable and integrated affinity programs and reward points programs for their customers and/or employees. Using the system, businesses and other entities (“business partners”) may design, implement and manage both... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080097858 - System, method and program product for delivery of digital content offerings at a retail establishment: A method and system for providing distributed network access point installation and management. A network provider installs and/or operates a plurality of access points at locations of a retail entity. Each access point may provide services such as Internet access, and/or content such as audio, video, text, and/or graphics, among... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080097860 - Systems and methods for advertising: Systems and methods for advertising on a computing device are described.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20080097856 - Systems and methods for redeeming rewards associated with accounts: Among other things, the present invention provides systems and methods for fulfilling reward redemptions. In some cases, the systems and methods receive redemption requests associated with an account. The redemption request can be satisfied from a reward associated with the account, or by accessing a reward associated with another account.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080097855 - Wireless electronic couponing technique: An electronic couponing technique includes transferring coupon information, which may include a coupon ID (identification) to a first portable terminal and storing same therein. The portable terminal displays a representation of the transferred coupon information on a display thereof. The stored coupon information may be transferred from the portable terminal... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080097861 - System and method providing backup local ordering for establishment using a remote ordering system: An order taking system and method for an establishment, or a plurality of establishments, each having an order taking facility associated with the establishment enabling a customer to place an order for an item from the establishment. Order placing equipment is located near the order taking facility being capable of... Agent: Iplm Group, P.A.

20080097862 - System and method for automated management of purchase in self-service-type sales point: In a system for automated management of purchase in a self-service-type sales point, a system management host, at least one trolley, and a plurality of different products are provided in the sales point. The products are individually provided with a barcode, and the trolley is assigned a specific certification number.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080097868 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097869 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097870 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080097872 - Intelligent agents for electronic commerce: A system for electronic commerce (10) having personal agents (12 and 13) that represent consumers and providers in a virtual marketplace (28). Consumer personal agents conceal the identity of the consumer and are capable of creating decision agents (14) that shop for products and assist consumers in comparing and ranking... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080097871 - Method and system for providing a widget usable in affiliate marketing: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The method and system include rendering the widget on a site. The widget dynamically displays multimedia content associated with a campaign. The widget is also embeddable, copyable, and allows for at least one user action. The method and... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080097874 - System and method for distributing information: A system for marketing real estate includes a property data device and a personal data device. The property data device is to be located in the vicinity of a real estate property, and the personal data device is to be provided to a user. The property data device is operable... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080097875 - System and method for providing absorbent paper products and packaging therefor having coordinated consumer-specified features: Methods and systems by which a consumer may select or specify coordinated features of an absorbent paper product and its packaging, such as a facial tissue or paper towel product, and then receive an absorbent paper product and packaging having the coordinated features selected or specified by the consumer.... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080097873 - System for online travel planning and hotel selection: A method for travel planning employing a computerized database query system, the method including user designation of at least one desired travel destination and system presentation to user of at least one proposed hotel, based on the user designation, the at least one proposed hotel in geographical proximity to or... Agent: Debra Hakimian

20080097877 - Method and system for investing in commodity futures contracts: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing a commodities index trading investment system may include selecting (110) a plurality of commodity groupings for an index; selecting (120) one or more commodities in each of the plurality of commodity groupings; and buying (130) highly collateralized... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080097883 - Conducting assisted self-service transactions: A system for use in assisting a self-service transaction at a service facility includes one or more self-service terminals, each configured to gather transaction information associated with a customer who is engaged in a business transaction with the service facility through the self-service terminal. The system also includes a teller... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080097880 - Remote electronic transactions: Embodiments of the invention relate to a list of entries, each of which is associated with a potential electronic transaction such as a gift purchase. Each entry comprises a plurality of displayable fields including a first field which is selectable to access a remote location, such as a web-server, —for... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080097882 - System and method for optimizing the use of credit resources: A system and method is provided for optimizing the use of credit resources. A financial system includes a database which stores customer credit/debit account information and use-consequence preference information. A master financial card is issued to the customer for all credit transactions. A host server receives information regarding the use... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080097885 - Computerized method and system for score based evaluation of capital market investment decisions and strategies: The disclosed computer-implemented investment management process particularly in the field of high yield corporate bond financial market consists of five distinct process phases. In a first phase, the financial market under evaluation is researched in order to obtain all the market business information necessary for the following market evaluation phases.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080097884 - Method of lowering the computational overhead involved in money management for systematic multi-strategy hedge funds: A data representation is deployed that comprises instances of a software object implementing a particular systematic trading strategy; there are multiple such instances (‘strategy instances’), each corresponding to a different trading strategy, with a strategy instance being paired with a tradable instrument. The method comprises the steps of: (a) each... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080097895 - Method and system for interactive initial offering of multi-class financial instruments: A method and system for underwriter offering of multi-class instruments including a central processing unit (CPU), a program memory, a structure database and an investor database. The structure database stores a structure representative of a plurality of classes of a multi-class instrument, and the system operates to (i) inform investors... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080097888 - Method for managing markets for commodities using fractional forward derivative: A fractional forward contract provides a financial instrument for managing trading of commodities that have variable and unpredictable availability at future dates by apportioning risk between parties (100, 170) by providing for parties (100, 170) to buy and sell a specified fraction of a commodity that the supplier (100) has... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080097896 - System and method for creating a customer account: An electronic auction system may include a bid validator connected between a network and a customer database. The example bid validator may receive bid information from a customer over the network. The example bid validator may use the bid information to detect whether the customer database includes a customer record... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080097893 - Trading system with internal order matching: Presented is a computer-based system for exchange order routing over a communication network which includes a client terminal configured to provide an end-user interface between the client terminal and a first server, the interface providing a template for building an order routing strategy including a stipulation string, and to submit... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080097898 - Transaction management system: The present invention is directed towards methods, apparatuses, and systems for facilitating and enhancing processes associated with financial transactions. The present invention monitors and manages transaction-level work flows, and facilitates coordination of the tasks and operations associated with financial transactions. Embodiments of the present invention also allow for automation of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080097902 - Management system for handling transactions between customer terminals and operator terminals: A reception management system for handling transactions includes a plurality of ACMs (Automated Contract/Consulting Terminals) for receiving procedure requests for predetermined transactions from customers, a plurality of ROTs (Remote Operation Terminals) to be employed by an operator for handling the procedure requests, a server for storing information for managing the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080097899 - Method and system for electronic settlement of checks: A system is provided for settling cash letters containing check images that are exchanged by banks connected to an image exchange system (IEX). Settlement amounts are computed and sent to the Federal Reserve Banks' National Settlement Service (FRBNSS) for settlement based upon business rules. Further, a method is provided for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080097901 - Transaction monitoring system: A system for exchanging transaction messages between different computer systems includes a data processor for monitoring transaction messages. The data processor has a transaction processor for assigning identifiers to both inbound transaction messages from source executable applications and outbound transaction messages for communication to destination executable applications, to individually identify... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080097904 - Methods of delivering payments to multiple parties: The disclosed subject matter includes a method of distributing a payment of funds made payable to two or more payees. In some embodiments, the method includes the following: receiving a payment of funds made payable to two or more payees; inviting each of the two or more payees to electronically... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20080097905 - Method for providing a money transfer service through a payment enabler system: A method for processing person-to-person payments and money requests using a computer network. A payment enabler linked to the Internet enables an individual to register for an account through which the individual can make payments to other individuals, request money from other individuals, and access other functionality to facilitate the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080097906 - Method and system for providing a widget usable in financial transactions: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The method and system include receiving a configuration of the widget and rendering the widget on a site. The widget is for dynamically displaying multimedia content, is embeddable, and is copyable. The configuration includes an event with which... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080097911 - Systems and methods for adapter-based communication with a medical device: A system according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a processor, a device interface, a data relay transceiver, and a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions. The processor executes the instructions in the memory to receive data from a medical device through a wired connection using... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097909 - Systems and methods for processing and transmittal of data from a plurality of medical devices: A method according to an aspect of the present invention includes receiving data from a plurality of medical devices through a wired connection, transmitting the data to an intermediary device, and formatting a message including the received data for transmission to a medical data server. This method can be practiced... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097908 - Systems and methods for processing and transmittal of medical data through an intermediary device: A method according to an aspect of the present invention includes receiving data through a wired connection from a medical device, transmitting the data to an intermediary device, and formatting a message including the received data for transmission to a medical data server. The intermediary device includes a software program... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097910 - Systems and methods for processing and transmittal of medical data through multiple interfaces: A system according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a processor, a plurality of device interfaces, a data relay transceiver, and a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions. The processor executes the instructions in the memory to receive data from one or more medical devices through... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097913 - Systems and methods for wireless processing and transmittal of data from a plurality of medical devices: One method according to the present invention includes receiving data wirelessly from a plurality of medical devices, transmitting the data to an intermediary device (such as a properly equipped mobile telephone or personal digital assistant), and formatting a message including the received data for transmission to a medical data server.... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097912 - Systems and methods for wireless processing and transmittal of medical data through an intermediary device: One method according to the present invention includes receiving data wirelessly from a medical device, transmitting the data to an intermediary device (such as a properly equipped mobile telephone or personal digital assistant), and formatting a message including the received data for transmission to a medical data server. The intermediary... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097914 - Systems and methods for wireless processing and transmittal of medical data through multiple interfaces: A system according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a processor, a plurality of medical device transceivers, a data relay transceiver, and a memory coupled to the processor, and storing instructions. Each medical data transceiver is configured to receive data wirelessly from one or more medical devices. The... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097918 - Internet-based, customizable clinical information system: An Internet-based, or Web-based, customizable clinical (patients' records and care) information system (“CIS”) is provided. More specifically, the clinical information system is Web/Internet based, whether it utilizes a browser-type user interface or a distributed application-type user interface; the clinical information system may include automatic disease staging and associated treatment planning... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20080097916 - Method of collecting and distributing information and sorting by bid price using wireless communication terminal: The present invention relates to a method of collecting and distributing information and sorting by bid price using wireless communication terminal, to resolve a problem of the prior art that the process of learning information related to advertisements or commodities for a user is cumbersome. The system of the present... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080097917 - Systems and methods for wireless processing and medical device monitoring via remote command execution: A method according to the present invention includes receiving data wirelessly from a medical device, transmitting the data to an intermediary device, formatting a message including the received data for transmission to a medical data server, and receiving a command from the medical data server. Commands from the medical data... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080097924 - Decentralized secure transaction system: A secure transaction system in accordance with one exemplary embodiment comprising a terminal; a secure access module coupled to the terminal; and a secure embedded device coupled to the secure access module during a transaction; wherein the business logic for controlling flow of the transaction is contained within the secure... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080097925 - Method of and system for authorizing purchases made over a computer network: A method of and system for authorizing purchases made over a computer network is provided. In accordance with the present invention, a consumer electronically transmits an ATM card number over the network to an on-line merchant from which the consumer desires to make a purchase. The on-line merchant then electronically... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080097930 - Electronic bartering system: A bartering system implements barters between a plurality of parties each having one or more classes of items available for barter. Preferably, barter orders are created by designating a selected quantity of a first class of items to be bartered, designating a date range for transferring title of the first... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20080097929 - Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receiving at a service provider a user's request for communications service. The user is permitted to negotiate with other service providers to fulfill the request for communications service.... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080097932 - Service utility pricing model: In one embodiment a method comprises a method of determining a price level for a computer-based service utility comprises determining a base price for the service utility, determining a loss premium for the service utility, and adding the loss premium to the base price level.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080097934 - Method and apparatus for pricing products in multi-level product and organizational groups: The invention organizes various pricing tables and price adjustment tables and various products and purchasing organizations based on “who” (i.e. which purchasing organization) is purchasing “what” (i.e. which product). The invention utilizes a denormalized table to relate the “who” to the “what” using denormalized numbers. The invention further organizes various... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080097933 - System and method for calculating real-time costing information: Real-time costing information is provided by a central knowledge base in communication with a database. The central knowledge base provides an application programming interface (API) through which queries are run on the content in the database. The database content includes a harmonized system (HS) module holding an HS tree unified... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080097935 - Access housing: The Applicant has invented a business model to supply housing with telecommunication and internet services supplemented with education and career training.... Agent: Mildred E. Boyer

20080091450 - Act support program, method, and apparatus: In a display area of a display, a KPT screen in which a theme area, a keep area (Keep), a problem area (Problem), and a try area (Try) are disposed is displayed. When a click of the area is detected, a new generation menu of an article corresponding to the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080091458 - Apparatus and method for generating title products: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for generating title products. A device accepts a title product search request for a title product for a property. The device initiates a search of databases that contain information about the property such as data or evidence of title. A rule engine... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080091455 - Automated method for receiving and evaluating job applications using a web-based system: An automated, Web-based system and method for rating a candidate for employment, wherein an application and/or resume are submitted electronically and are subjected to an automated review process, wherein the applicant's qualifications may be first rated against a minimal, pre-selected set of employment criteria, and wherein the application, if it... Agent: Gary L. Hausken

20080091449 - Billboard postage stamps new place for financial market:

20080091443 - Business listing search: A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes prompting a user to provide a type of business and an identifier of a specific business, receiving from the user a speech input having information about the type of business and the identifier, and recognizing, using a speech recognition... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091447 - Discrete pest management for public accommodations: A method for discrete pest management, preferably for public accommodations. The service provider dresses and behaves as a usual repairperson for the establishment. The attire of the service provider does not bear any logos or emblems that would indicate a need to patrons for pest management. Inspections are conducted, and... Agent: Pedersen & Company, PLLC

20080091441 - Employee management: Among other things, at least part of an organizational chart of an enterprise is displayed to a manager, the displayed organizational chart including employee positions and their relationships, and elements are displayed on the displayed organizational chart that can be invoked by the manager to perform actions with respect to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080091442 - Managing part number preferredness: Methods, systems and apparatus for defining, updating and communicating the current status of parts used by an enterprise to designers and procurement specialists. Allowable values of preferredness of parts are defined based on technology roadmaps, and these values are periodically checked in a current time period against certain criteria, and... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080091445 - Method and system for dynamic social networking based on similar travel itineraries: In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for dynamic social networking based on similar travel itineraries. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying a set of travel options selected in relation to a travel itinerary of a first traveler; searching a set of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080091446 - Method and system for maximizing revenue generated from service level agreements: A method for maximizing revenue generated from a plurality of service level agreements (SLAs) that includes receiving a first subset of the plurality of SLAs for executing a first plurality of jobs, wherein each SLA in the first subset specifies a first maximum requested delay that is greater than an... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080091444 - Method of facilitate obtaining, storing, and subsequently conveying information between related generations: A party (such as a private entity) obtains (101) information from a plurality of unrelated individuals. This party then identifies (104) candidate information recipients as a function of ancestral relationships to the unrelated individuals and also provides for non-volatily storing (105) the information under conditions designed to preserve the informational... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080091460 - Physical delivery location validation for enhancing mailstream composition: Hard copy mail pieces are processed to generate a mailstream containing only mail pieces with address information corresponding to valid physical delivery locations. An inserter device compiles the mail pieces. A validation system determines whether address information on mail pieces corresponds to valid physical delivery locations. A post inserter processing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080091448 - System and method of integrating enterprise applications: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to enterprise application integration. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a computer system including a service oriented architecture (SOA), where the system includes a composite application configured to present sales targeted information... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091466 - System and method for comparing and utilizing activity information and configuration information from multiple device management systems: A method of aggregating and using medical device data from a plurality of remote institutions. The system and method electronically receives at a central computer system a plurality of established medical device data, each of the plurality of established medical device data being received from a respective medication delivery system,... Agent: Brian R. Woodworth

20080091475 - Medication management and record access system: A wireless prescription management and access system integrated with participating pharmacies and the user's wireless communication account improves patient compliance by alerting the user to take medications in accordance with dosage requirements by transmission of a wireless reminder signal to the user's cellular telephone or other personal wireless device. The... Agent: Mark D. Bowen Stearns Weaver Miller, Et Al.

20080091468 - Method and apparatus for delivery of medical items on an electronic prescription: A method for dispensing medical items designated in a prescription, such as an electronic prescription, including providing the electronic prescription to a server, and the server providing the electronic prescription to a pharmacy or other agent that fills the prescription and provides the medical items to the patient. A consent... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080091469 - System for prescribing customized medical procedures: A system for prescribing a customized medical procedure that is to be performed on an individual patient.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080091473 - Workflow notification system for medical imaging apparatus, medical imaging apparatus, workflow notification method for medical imaging apparatus, and workflow notification program for medical imaging apparatus: According to the attributes of notification targets such as patients, radiology doctors, and nurses, information owned by medical imaging apparatuses is provided in appropriate timing to improve a workflow of hospitals. A dispatch agent being a software component is executed on a processor of a medical imaging apparatus. Different types... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080091476 - Computer control of non-debt funding system for home finance: Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna

20080091477 - Method and system for preferred vendor pre-transaction bidding: In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for preferred vender pre-transaction bidding. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing to a user one or more offers for sale of an item or service, the offers matching criteria pre-determined by one of a separate... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080091479 - Methods and system for preferred vendor pre-transaction bidding: In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for preferred vender pre-transaction bidding. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing to a user one or more offers for sale of an item or service, the offers matching criteria pre-determined by one of a separate... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080091478 - System and method for predictive booking of reservations based on historical aggregation and events: In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for predictive booking or reservations based on historical aggregation and events. In one embodiment, the method comprises surveying prices paid for traveler purchases or reservations to identify price increases for travel purchases or reservations, wherein the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080091481 - System and method for automatic review of travel changes and improved suggestions and rules set: In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for automatic review of travel changes and improved suggestions and rules set. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating an aggregate of travel history data based on one or more travelers, the data including changes made... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080091483 - Method and system for predicting the adoption of services, such as telecommunication services: An innovative service modeling framework is provided that can be used to analyze and assess the business opportunities of existing and emerging telecommunication services. This forecasting model/tool provides an approach to assess current and future markets—thus lowering investment risks, ensuring better decisions and subsequently having a greater impact. The core... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080091484 - Method for client workload characterization in a zseries benchmark center environment: A method for client workload characterization in a zSeries benchmark center environment. The method includes collecting client characterization data (CCCD). The method concludes with calibrating a large system performance reference (LSPR) relative to the client characterization data.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080091486 - Program, method, and apparatus for analyzing group work activities in a project: A computer program, method, and apparatus serving as a tool for analyzing teamwork activities performed by a group of workers at a particular workplace during a particular time period, based on actual work log records of individual workers. In response to a teamwork analysis request specifying a group of workers,... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080091485 - Report generation method and system: A report generation method and system. The system comprises a computing system comprising data. The computing system presents a first list comprising process categories for a plurality of processes. The computing system receives first selection of a process category from the first list. The computing system presents a second list... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080091494 - Application for after-hours event notifications: Disclosed herein too is a method for notifying a user of an early event prior to a first time t1 comprising selecting from a first command interface 20 of an implementation screen 10 an event that the user desires notification of; selecting from a second command interface 30 of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Boca Raton

20080091495 - Dates locator: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for locating one or more dates. Specific embodiments include a dates locator that is operable to analyze a date request in the form of natural language words or phrases and determine that such words or phrases correspond to a specific date or range of dates.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080091496 - Method and system for delivering and executing best practices in oilfield development projects: Oilfield development project planning and execution framework is disclosed for delivering and implementing expert knowledge and best practices in oilfield development projects. Such a project planning and execution framework integrates relevant expert knowledge and best practices with project planning and execution to guide a multi-discipline project team in successfully designing... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080091493 - Method and system for gathering and potentially sharing workflows: A method and system for receiving workflows, such as workflows of a medical facility, and potentially for sharing the workflows with others includes a portal with an interface to receive workflows of a user accessing the portal. The workflows may either be drawn at the interface using drawing tools or... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080091492 - Web-enabled deliverable-gate program management with scoring method for product development processes: The Deliverable is a schedule entity, related to program management of new product development that also links a user to the intellectual property being developed in the course of a scheduled product development effort. The Deliverable has a due date, owner, and parent project. The Gate object signifies the end... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080091503 - E-meeting preparation management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to e-meeting scheduling and provide a method, system and computer program product for e-meeting preparation in a calendaring and scheduling system. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for e-meeting preparation in a calendaring and scheduling system... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080091504 - Electronic calendar auto event resolution system and method: A system and method for event resolution The method includes determining whether a post-scheduled event or a pre-scheduled event conflicts with a scheduled event. The method further includes extracting details of the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event and automatically populating a response with at least some of the extracted... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080091502 - Method for processing concurrent personnel assignments: A method includes receiving a person identifier by a first set of computer program instructions; determining if there are a plurality of personnel assignments associated with the person identifier; and if there are a plurality of personnel assignments associated with the person identifier: selecting a specific personnel assignment from among... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080091505 - Method of charging for ad associated with zone of printed substrate: A method of obtaining a fee associated with an ad provided to a user in response to the user interacting with a printed substrate, the method comprising the steps of: (a) accepting a bid from an advertiser for provision of the ad when the user interacts with a predetermined zone... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080091498 - Method of optimizing a workforce through the identification and segmentation of resources and job tasks: A method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for optimizing a workforce for a company. An organizational development structure and an optimization performance structure are identified. A set of functional strategy tasks are developed using the organizational development structure and the optimization performance structure. An inventory... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080091507 - Methods, systems, and products for surveying facilities: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for surveying equipment, machinery, plants, and other facilities. Facilities data may be overlaid onto a map to generate a graphical mapping. When this graphical mapping is displayed, a selection may be received to create a survey of the facilities. Another selection of a facilities... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080091506 - Selection of ad on display device causing printed substrate click facilitator to collect ad click-through fee: A method of causing a proportion of a click-through fee to be credited to a facilitator of a user interaction with a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data enabling said user interaction via a sensing device, said sensing device reading at least some of the coded... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080091500 - System and method to cache calendar schedule for offline scheduling: Systems and methods for caching calendar schedules for offline scheduling services. Exemplary embodiments include managing electronic calendar schedules, including caching information related to a group of users while connected to a network, defining a relationship with the group of users, selectively implementing a cache refresh rate for the cached information,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080091499 - System and method to control caching for offline scheduling: Systems and methods to control caching for offline scheduling services. Exemplary embodiments include a computerized method for managing electronic calendar schedules, including selectively providing calendar information to a chairperson for caching the calendar information related to a group of users while connected to a network, defining a relationship with the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080091501 - Systems and methods of partial shift swapping: Systems and methods of partial shift swapping are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: receiving a partial shift swap request from an agent; determining a disposition of the partial shift swap request by applying a set of criteria associated with a validation rule to the partial shift swap... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080091510 - Computer systems and methods for surveying a population: Computer systems, computer program products and methods for surveying a target population are provided. A survey instrument is fielded to a sample population of the target population, where individual members in the sample population are selected from the target population such that the distribution of members in the sample that... Agent: Jones Day

20080091514 - Determining an executable growth strategy: A method, system and computer readable medium embodying computer executable modules for determining an executable growth strategy for a company by proactively identifying and evaluating specific unsolicited business propositions for the company according to criteria. The criteria include how well the business propositions address issues of targeted prospects and how... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080091508 - Multidimensional personal behavioral tomography: A method and computer program product for identifying attributes of customers and potential customers, allowing marketing to be directed at such consumers. Information is received regarding each of a number of consumers. This information can include demographic information, data regarding spending habits, and information as to how such attributes may... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080091509 - Online entertainment network for user-contributed content: The invention includes a system for providing an online entertainment network for user-contributed entertainment content. The system quickly and accurately identifies quality content from a vast pool of user-contributed content. User-contributed content is rated by those who contribute and those who view content. Fraud detection devices automatically detect and remove... Agent: Clock Tower Law Group

20080091523 - Computer readable medium with instructions for recovering acquisition cost: A computer readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions include instructions which when executed by the company, the client, or a third party, cause the processor to perform a method for recovering acquisition cost wherein a company is engaged by a client to provide... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20080091526 - Method and system for selecting and presenting web advertisements in a full-screen cinematic view: In response to user input associated with a previously displayed reduced-size version of an advertisement displayed in connection with a slideshow, a fall-screen view of the advertisement is displayed, for example according to a rule-based or probabilistic system to improve the applicability of the advertisement to the content being viewed.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080091527 - Method of charging for ads associated with predetermined concepts: A method of obtaining a fee associated with an ad provided to a user in response to the user interacting with a printed substrate, the method comprising the steps of: (a) accepting a bid from an advertiser for provision of the ad when the user interaction invokes a predetermined concept;... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080091534 - Method of delivering an advertisement after receiving a hyperlink context: A method of delivering an advertisement related to hyperlink printed on a substrate, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, in a second computer system, a context of said printed hyperlink, said context being determined by a first computer system; selecting one or more advertisements that relate to said context;... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080091532 - Method of delivering an advertisement from a computer system: A method of delivering an advertisement related to a hyperlink printed on a substrate, said hyperlink being initiated by a first computer system, said method comprising the steps of: determining a context of said hyperlink; selecting one or more advertisements that relate to said context; and delivering said one or... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080091533 - Method of delivering an advertisement to a user interacting with a hyperlink: A method of delivering an advertisement related to a hyperlink printed on a substrate, said method comprising the steps of: interacting with the hyperlink using a sensing device; and receiving a webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, said webpage including one or more advertisements relating to a context of the hyperlink.... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080091522 - Method to recover acquisition cost: A method for recovering acquisition cost wherein a company is engaged by a client to provide marketing media having a set acquisition cost, a recovery amount, and a recovery condition. The company performs or delivers the marketing media consistent with the acquisition agreement. At least two different audits are performed... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20080091521 - Supplemental display matching using syndication information: Supplemental content is determined relative to web page content of a publisher web page, to display in association with the web page content. Syndication data is received regarding the content of the publisher web page. The syndication data is processed to cause determination therefrom of supplemental content to be displayed... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080091524 - System and method for advertisement price adjustment utilizing traffic quality data: The present invention relates to systems and methods for generating an adjustment factor for a cost associated with a user selection of an advertisement displayed at a website. The method of the present invention comprises retrieving analytics data and traffic quality metric data associated with the website, and calculating a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080091525 - Virtual online community with geographically targeted advertising: A web-based virtual community allows members to know who is sharing their commute or travel and find out about their personal or professional interests. The community provides them a tool to efficiently use their commute time for social and professional networking or connect with people in their area. The community... Agent: Patent Department Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

20080091546 - Comparative shopping tool: The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can provide a non-invasive comparative shopping tool, such as a browser plug-in. For example, the plug-in can determine whether a web user is currently visiting a purchase page, thus indicating that the web user is likely to be interested in... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080091553 - Enhancing online shopping atmosphere: Representing activity in an online store is disclosed. Information associated with the activities of a second visitor to the store is received. An indication of the presence of a first visitor at the store is also received. The activities of the second visitor are displayed to the first visitor.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080091551 - Knowledge-based customizable product design system: Methods of requesting and designing a customizable product are disclosed. One method includes associating a plurality of graphical objects with the plurality of sales codes. The method also includes receiving one or more sales codes. The method includes selecting one or more graphical objects associated with the one or more... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080091554 - Method of selling software via network: In a method of selling software via network, a software provider pre-stores an executable program in a portable storage device; the executable program is executed automatically at a purchaser's personal computer connected to the storage device; the personal computer is connected to a software provider's server via a network after... Agent: Hdsl

20080091552 - Methods and systems for providing product information to a user: A method of providing product information to a user includes obtaining a product identifier from the user that identifies a product, wherein the product identifier is transmitted with a user's mobile device to a server configured to conduct an electronic search for product information regarding the product; conducting the electronic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080091550 - Real-time bidding using instant messaging clients: A system and method are provided to implement real-time bidding using instant messaging. In one embodiment, real time messaging may be provided through IM messaging via an IM server over the internet, between a client and a web-based commerce system. The IM server may be provided by various service providers.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080091547 - System for collaborative reviewing and ranking of product candidates: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the efficient, organized review and ranking of product candidates by a customer. The system and methods facilitate the easy collaboration of the provider and numerous personnel of customer involved in reviewing product candidates.... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire

20080091548 - Tag-driven concept-centric electronic marketplace: A domain that hosts a general e-commerce marketplace establishes multiple sub-domains to host niche electronic marketplaces. These niche sub-domain sites are built around a concept and offer for sale items that relevant to that concept. The items may be selected from the general e-commerce marketplace at the host domain, or... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080091555 - User generated style content: A system and method for user generated content includes receiving a user-selected data field, which includes reference to a particular item or element to be displayed on a web portal. The system and method associates the data field with an electronic log, such as automatically generating an electronic log entry... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080091549 - User supplied and refined tags: Managing online content via user supplied and/or refined tagging is disclosed. In some embodiments, a selection of an item available from an online store is received, and one or more tags to be associated with the item are received from a member of an online community comprising users of the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080091574 - Assistance in picking system: The present assistance in picking system assists in a putting-in operation to put an article, about which instructions have been issued, in storage sections on storage racks and a picking operation to pick articles, about which instructions have been issued, from the storage section. The system assigns positions of storage... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080091573 - Controlled depletion of a stochastically varying resource pool: A method for controlling resource pool depletion includes, at a first time, determining a first remainder of a depletion interval; on the basis of the first remainder, determining a first depletion rate for urging the pool to reach a selected state at the end of the depletion interval; on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080091580 - Methods for cost reduction and underwriting considerations for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment (cpe): The present invention teaches a variety of systems and methods providing cost reduction and underwriting considerations for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE). The present invention contemplates changing traditional escrow and/or underwriting considerations based on attributes of the CPE, as well as triggering installment payments based on landmark events.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080091581 - Systems and methods of reducing financing costs for renewable energy consumer premises equipment: The present invention teaches a variety of systems and methods for reducing borrowing and financing costs for renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE). The present invention contemplates grouping financing for a plurality of consumer for purchase, lease, installation and/or maintenance of renewable energy CPE for power generation at consumer premises.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080091621 - Covariance of retail loan product performances: The present invention relates to a method that allows managers of retail portfolios to compute performance time series that have been cleaned of marketing impacts, lifecycles, management actions, and seasonality, leaving only the performance changes due to the environment. These normalized series can be used to compute the necessary covariance... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080091622 - Index and fund based on investment time horizon: A method of determining membership in an index based on an investment time horizon comprises determining an asset allocation commensurate with the investment time horizon and constituting the index based on the asset allocation determination. The method may further comprise rebalancing the asset allocation, and the investment time horizon may... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091620 - Method and computer program product for estimating the relative innovation impact of companies: A method for estimating the relative impact of two or more patent portfolios belonging to one or more companies is disclosed. Each patent of a patent portfolio is categorized into at least one market segment. A Technological Strength Index (TSI) is computed for each patent based on patent citations. An... Agent: William L. Botjer

20080091586 - System and method for facilitating trading in an electronic market: A method and system for facilitating trading of financial instruments in a market are provided. The system comprises a server and an interface. The interface is configured to enable buy orders and sell orders to be entered. Each order has a price, a volume, and an entry time and relates... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080091588 - Financial products and methods relating thereto: The invention provides a financial product and methods and systems relating thereto for providing access by a borrower to an underlying investment in an employer firm or related entity as an adjunct to the borrower's employment such that repayment of the financial product includes the payment of a pre-determined share... Agent: Castellano PLLC

20080091589 - Method for underwriting the financing of solar consumer premises equipment: The present invention teaches a variety of methods for underwriting financing for renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE). The present invention contemplates financing a consumer purchasing, leasing, installing and/or maintaining renewable energy CPE for power generation at a consumer premises. The renewable energy CPE may be attached to a structure... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080091590 - Methods, systems and financial instruments for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment: The present invention teaches a variety of systems, methods and financial instruments for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE). The teaching contemplates, among other things, supporting financing for a renewable energy by securing attributes of the CPE that are separate from the naked power generated by the renewable energy... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080091592 - Predictive score for lending: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a predictive score for lending. A method includes receiving an employee's health insurance plan design information and general health and wellness data, weighting selected ones of the employee's health insurance plan design information and general health and wellness data, and generating a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080091595 - System and method for accessing wages: The present application is directed to a method of enabling an employer's employee to access wages via a creditor at times other than specified pay periods, comprising: a creditor providing a line of credit to the employee via an agreement with the employer whereby the employer agrees to pay any... Agent: John K. Buche

20080091597 - Bill payment methods: A method for paying bills is provided. The method includes receiving a list of creditors from a customer, calculating an average of a customer's periodic bills from the creditors, paying the periodic bills of the creditor on behalf of the customer, and charging the customer average periodic payments. The method... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

20080091598 - Method and system of executing an action on a portable data storage device: A method of and system for executing an action on a portable data storage device via a network, the method comprising the steps of: requesting, at a remote terminal, an action to be executed on the portable data storage device; transmitting the request from the remote terminal to a central... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080091607 - Commercial web: Provided are methods and systems for operating a web-based data service in which paying users receive a benefit for content provided to the service.... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080091605 - Method and apparatus for secure information distribution: A system and method for secure generation and distribution of digital encryption keys is disclosed. The system may also be used to protect and distribute other types of secure information, including digital, audio, video, or analog data, or physical objects. The system may include a tamper-respondent secure token device, which... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20080091608 - Method for an oma multimedia exchange: A method for an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) multimedia exchange allows a sender to send a multimedia data to a receiver via a rights issuer. The method begins by registering to the rights issuer and sending a pubic key from the sender to the rights issuer. Next, a right object... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080091606 - Proprietary encapsulated session container with embedded features for a post transferred option for electronic commerce along with a system for distribution and user access: A unique proprietary system of commerce and distribution which uses host proprietary file containers and a proprietary client to author, serve, and access sub file containers contained within. The file containers are marked with a version number and a random number for processes related to traditional software application like updates... Agent: William Grecia

20080091610 - Fully-embedded commercial transaction using an unobtrusive presentation without click-through: In another embodiment, a method of a delivery module of a distributor module includes embedding a commerce engine having a manifestation of an offering in a message portion of an electronic message, communicating the electronic message to a recipient, and enabling the recipient to transact the offering directly in the... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080091611 - User interaction causing click facilitator to collect sales commission fee:

20080091612 - Telephone communication system and methods: A telephone communication system for automatically linking a caller such as potential customer of goods or services to a supplier includes a computer having data storage such as a lookup table for storing a number of vanity identifiers and/or key words. The system also includes an automatic telephone answering device... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080091613 - Rights management in a cloud: Innovative aspects provided herein pertain to digital rights management (DRM) and/or enforcement in conjunction with remote network clouds and services. Digital rights management licenses/rights/policies can be applied to personal files to facilitate worry free remote storage and/or file sharing. These rights can be identity-centric rather than machine centric, thereby facilitating... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080091615 - Contents service apparatus and method: A method, apparatus, and system for intermediating contents service. The method includes changing at least part of contents to produce a plurality of pieces of changed key data which are different from each other; and managing trading of the contents between a first and a second device using the produced... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080091617 - Personal token read system and method: A system for facilitating secure transactions between a purchaser and a vendor is provided. The system might include a purchaser token data capture device for reading token data into the system, an encryption module for encrypting the token data and a network based vendor input form for communicating the encrypted... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080091618 - Enhanced network server authentication using a physical out-of-band channel: Systems and methods for increasing user trust by authenticating an electronic commerce server over an electronic communications channel using information received through an out-of-band communication in a physical communications channel are described. In one configuration, a paper bill is sent to a user by physical mail delivery and it includes... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080091619 - Method and system for processing micropayment transactions: Methods and systems for performing micropayment transactions over communication networks is provided. These methods and systems enable ubiquitous micropayments by providing a seemless payment solution in which micropayment is one of a plurality of payments facilitated. In an embodiment, the transaction value may be compared to a predefined threshold, and... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080091453 - Behaviormetrics application system for electronic transaction authorization: This invention discloses a system wherein behaviormetrics are utilized to authenticate electronic transactions, either alone or in combination with other identifiers such as PIN's, passwords, codes and the like. Probability profiles or probability distribution representations may be constructed for determining whether a purported or alleged authorized user is in fact... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080091461 - Community awareness management systems and methods: A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20080091462 - Method and system for automatically publishing content: The publishing system and method automates at least some portion of a publishing process. The system publishes content using metadata, rights templates and/or specifications, publishing profiles and business rules.... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080091451 - Methods and systems for compliance confirmation and incentives: Methods and systems are disclosed for promoting use of research devices by a plurality of research device users or by a single research device user in compliance with at least one predetermined use criterion. Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring use by a user of a research device in... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080091454 - Network-based platform for providing customer technical support: A technical support system includes a problems data store storing a problem information related to a plurality of problems identified in response to other reported incidents, a problem search module configured to search the problem information based on one or more key words to determine problem information that is relevant... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080091457 - System and method for facilitating web-based transactions between a buyer and a seller: The subject application is directed to a system and method for facilitating web-based transactions between a buyer and a seller. A page request is first received from a buyer device by an operator server, which analyzes the request to determine a corresponding XML document. The XML document is then retrieved... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080091456 - System and method for saving the rainforests.: The present invention tries to solve the problem of rainforests destruction by creating a strong financial incentive that makes preserving the rain forests much more profitable than destroying them. Preferably the idea of sustainable harvesting is combined with the idea of selling real acres to people and making sure that... Agent: Yaron Mayer

20080091459 - Transaction card design management system: A transaction card design creation apparatus comprising: a processor for generating a first user interface configured to enable creation of a product type transaction card design for application to a transaction card, and storing the product type transaction card design in a first storage device; and a processor for generating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080091452 - Visual physician office systems and methods: Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling a virtual physician office (VPO) that uses a network-based physician practice application and leverages the assets of a shared, communications network of legacy systems. A data connection is established with a rule-based application dataserver of a telecommunications network facility to control access, sharing,... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080091465 - Customizable system for monitoring record completion for healthcare and other uses: A system enables interested software applications, AKA subscribers, which are loosely coupled to a HIM (Healthcare Information Management) system, to receive interface transactions/notifications when one or more specific documents types are present in a patient's encounter folder. The system enables a named group of minimum content rules to be defined,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080091463 - Method for online health management: The invention disclosed herein is a method for online health management. The method is family centered with the family, the family's health care providers, and family's health insurance entities linked by computer for the sharing of information. The medical information stored in the online health management system database is available... Agent: David G. Moore Strasburger & Price, LLP

20080091467 - System and software of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long-term care facilities and related methods: A system, pharmacy management software, and related methods of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in patient care facilities are provided. The pharmacy management software, for example, can include instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the operations of providing instructions to pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080091464 - Systems and methods for disease management algorithm integration: A method of formulating a medical order for a patient includes transmitting a medical order interface to a healthcare provider interface device. The medical order interface includes a plurality of selectable medical order items. The method further includes, in response to receiving a selection of a medical order item of... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080091470 - Remote health care diagnostic tool: Disclosed are patient health systems and methods for transmission of patient health data from a patient data collection system to a provider analysis system. The patient health system include the patient data collection system coupled to a communications network and located proximate a patient, for collecting patient physiological data. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080091474 - System and method for generating de-identified health care data: A system and method for creating a unique alias associated with an individual identified in a health care database such that health care data, and particularly pharmaceutical-related data, can be efficiently gathered and analyzed. The system has a first data store for storing at least one record where each record... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080091471 - Systems and methods for obtaining, storing, processing and utilizing immunologic and other information of individuals and populations: A system and method for assessing the immunological status of one or more individuals in a patient population is presented. The method includes establishing a database comprising a plurality of records of information each representative of the immune status of an individual in the population, each of said records including... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080091472 - Treatment monitoring tool: A tool for monitoring a course of treatment for a patient, including standards of care making up the course of treatment. The tool permits tracking of multiple patients, their diagnoses, corresponding treatment regimens, and status of those regimens. Once a diagnosis is selected by a physician, the embodiment may list... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080091480 - Global reservation transaction management system and method: A reservation system and methodology ensures that all changes to a database in a federation are reliably and immediately communicated to all of the other databases in the federation. The system communicates information concerning hotel reservation transactions. The system comprises multiple applications each associated with one or more databases including... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080091482 - System, method, and computer program product for reducing the burden on an inventory system by assembling a suggested themed travel itinerary in response to minimal user input: The present invention generates a concise listing of low-priced travel products in an interactive itinerary format in response to a simplified user input that may include specification of a selected travel theme. The interactive itinerary generated by the invention may allow the user to revise the itinerary to add, remove,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080091489 - Acquiring, storing, and correlating profile data of cellular mobile communications system's users to events: A system to collect personal and demographic data from user's of cellular mobile communications system devices. This system uses a standard web browser to collect the personal and demographic data instead of the device itself because of the limited interactive experience available to cellular mobile communications system device users. After... Agent: James L. Davison

20080091487 - Apparatus and method for deriving advertising expenditure data: A method of evaluating advertising expenditures includes establishing a first relationship between advertising position and bid price. A second relationship between estimated expenditure per time period and bid price is formed. An average advertising position for an entity is observed. A frequency of appearance for the entity is located. The... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080091488 - Data dashboard: The present invention is a one page data dashboard of all revenue generated by a single department. The dashboard allows for trending across months and during a month. Revenue reports are generated by dozens of pages of individual bills. The dashboard succinctly organizes all revenue onto a single page that... Agent: Michael Ries

20080091491 - Method and/or system for flexible data handling: Methods and/or systems for representing and/or managing and/or querying data in an information system that allows non-programmer users to make additions of and/or modifications to data items while optionally preserving an underlying potentially complex data structure and preserving the ability to perform flexible and powerful queries and relationships in the... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish, A Law Corporation

20080091490 - System for managing risk: A system for use in managing risk, including: a knowledge base, for maintaining generic risk records each including a plurality of different fields; a data store of profiles, for maintaining profile risk records associated with a particular profile, each profile risk record including the same plurality of fields as a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080091497 - Broadcast days: A system and method for efficiently managing advertising content on a network of electronic displays utilizing a broadcast day rule set identifies suitable conditions for the display of electronic messages at each display locations. Alternate embodiments provide for managed frame layouts, a loop policy to managing repeating content, weighting parameters,... Agent: Technology Law Group, LLC

20080091518 - Adaptive cellular network advertising system: A method and software system by which the behavior, economic status, demographic profile, and other data describing cellphone subscribers are captured, stored, and analyzed, then edited and managed by the subscriber to create an accurate subscriber profile. A real-time subscriber monitoring system based upon cellphone location and direction of movement.... Agent: Henry Eisenson

20080091512 - Method and system for determining audience response to a sensory stimulus: The present invention is directed to a method and system for measuring the biologically based responses of an audience to a presentation that provides sensory stimulating experience and determining a measure of the level and pattern of engagement of that audience to the presentation. In particular, the invention is directed... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080091511 - Method and system for registering, credentialing, rating, and/or cataloging businesses, organizations, and individuals on a communications network: A method and system for registering, credentialing, rating, trending, monitoring and cataloging businesses, organizations, and individuals. The applicant business, organization, or individual clicks to a computer server to begin the registration process for the benefit of the applicant and its customer. The server system receives the request for registration and... Agent: Charles Peeler

20080091515 - Methods for utilizing user emotional state in a business process: Methods for receiving emotional state indications and identifying a business process problematic part or providing statistical data in correlation with corresponding business process parts or comparing interchangeable business process parts.... Agent: Patentvc Ltd.

20080091519 - Point-of-sale provider evaluation: A system provides information indicative of customer satisfaction respecting at least one service or sales provider, the system including at least one customer information entry component that provides customer input to a database supported by a financial service provider that assists point-of-sales or point-of-service payment to a site. The system... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A.

20080091516 - Response monitoring system for an advertising campaign: The system 11 includes an advertiser of the system 1101 which has joined an analytics network via client campaign server 301. The advertiser 1101 uses the analytics network to capture responses to each of his advertising placements 405. Responses originating from each advertising placement 405 are stored in the history... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080091513 - System and method for assessing marketing data: The present invention includes a system and method for managing media received from a plurality of media sources. Media content is received from a media source over a communication network. The media content is formatted in a first format and comprises news and advertising material relating to a respective subject.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080091517 - System and method for optimization of viral marketing efforts: A system and method for improving the performance of a viral marketing program develops a plurality of trials of a viral marketing program having a business objective with each trial having a plurality of attributes at least one of which differs from an attribute of the other of the plurality... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080091520 - Work management system and working machine equipped with the same: A work management system which is adaptable for various display modes demanded by an operator and which can increase working efficiency, and a working machine which is equipped with the work management system. In a work management system for managing work situations of a working machine, the system comprises a... Agent: Matting Stanger Malur & Bundidge P.C.

20080091542 - Advertising intermediation server: An advertising system where user's are rewarded for having advertisements displayed on their computing devices is described. Advertisement and scheduling information is provided by a server to the computing devices. Rewards are accrued by the server on behalf of the users.... Agent: Daryl D. Coutts

20080091537 - Computer-implemented method for pushing targeted advertisements to a user: A method for transmitting advertisements includes receiving information regarding location of a user, and user profile or user demographic information; and transmitting a targeted advertisement to the user, the targeted advertisement is selected from a set of advertisements as a function of the location of the user, and the user... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080091531 - Consumer incentive article and system: An incentive article for use by a business in providing an incentive to a first customer and a second customer is provided, including a card having a first portion including indicia thereon advising the first customer to provide the card to a second customer in order to receive an incentive,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080091538 - Discount-instrument methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided to apply a discount to a transaction. An identifier is extracted from a discount instrument and is transmitted to a host system. A validation is received from the host system for the discount instrument and a cost of the transaction is reduced in accordance with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080091529 - Fly buy coupon system: Media is received over a channel and played on a media-displaying screen. An advertising system produces Windows that represent the advertising, which preferably take up 5% of the area of the screen or less. These Windows are displayed over the media, but in locations that continuously move. The Windows are... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080091541 - Method and system for out-of-home proximity marketing and for delivering awarness information of general interest: The method comprises: programming a plurality of dispersed computer units for receiving and transmitting information from a centralized computer unit independently located with respect to that plurality of computer units, each of the latter being provided with a wireless transceiver, Bluetooth type, for collecting, storing and transmitting ID data from... Agent: Frederick Kaufman

20080091528 - Methods and systems for an alternative payment platform: Methods and systems are provided for providing an alternative payment platform, including method and systems for providing a platform for presenting an alternate offer to a user who is engaged with a primary offer and receiving an indication of the user's engagement with the alternate offer, wherein the user's engagement... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091539 - Methods and systems for offering bundled goods and services: A method and system implementing a variable pricing structure that applies to goods and services available from a vendor, and rewards customers who spend more is described. Customers can select a combination of the offered goods and services offered by a vendor, rather than choosing from among a few, pre-bundled... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080091530 - Methods and systems for providing cross-selling with online banking environments: A method of performing cross-selling within an authorized online banking environment. One method can include obtaining data relating to online banking activities performed by a customer within an authorized online banking environment, determining at least one product to offer the customer based on the data relating to online banking activities... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080091535 - Personalized consumer advertising placement: The subject personalized consumer advertising/ad placement system provides the ability for advertisers, ad agencies, and any other applicable organization to determine and electronically present their “ideal” consumer profile and have their advertisement/promotion placed in front of all consumers who match the profile based on the anonymous mining of the consumers... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080091540 - Systems and methods for redeeming rewards associated with accounts: Among other things, the present invention provides systems and methods for fulfilling reward redemptions. In some cases, the systems and methods receive redemption requests associated with an account. The redemption request can be satisfied from a reward associated with the account, or by accessing a reward associated with another account.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080091536 - Toll-free directory assistance with preferred advertisement listing: The current invention is a system for providing telephone directory assistance service in which a telephone user calls to the system and the system will, based on the requested number or type of service, hear a recorded advertisement. An advertiser may target its own telephone number so that consumer requests... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080091543 - Activating telephone-based services using a pos device: A method of providing telephone response unit (TRU)-based services includes receiving from a point-of-sale (POS) device a request at a host computer system to activate TRU-based services. The request includes an identifier that indicates the specific TRU-based services to be activated. The method also includes confirming the availability of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080091544 - Point-of-sale billing via hand-held devices: A payment resolution module is configured to communicate with hand-held devices (such as mobile phones, PDA'S, or computers) to allow purchase of products using the hand-held devices, without requiring the user of the hand-held device to enter payment information for each transaction. The user of the hand-held device may be... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080091545 - System and method for detecting fraudulent use of stored value instruments: The present invention is generally directed to systems and methods for detecting unauthorized or fraudulent use of stored-value instruments. A stored-value instrument can be any instrument (tangible or intangible) that may be associated with a debit account and/or may otherwise be presented for payment for goods and/or services, used to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080091557 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091558 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091559 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091560 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091561 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091562 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091563 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091564 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091565 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091566 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091567 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091568 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091569 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091570 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a “contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080091571 - Method for creating custom lyrics: The present invention relates to systems and methods for customizing media (e.g., songs, text, books, stories, video, audio . . . ) via a computer network, such as the Internet. In particular, the systems and methods provide for construction of on-line social communities where orders for customized media or representative... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080091556 - Web-based communication tool for pet owners: The subject application is directed to a system and method for interactive communication for associated pet owners. Selection data inclusive of attraction data is first received from multiple pet owners. Selection data with respect to the multiple associated pet owners, is associated with at least one attraction module. In one... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080091572 - System and method for automating association of retail items to support shopping proposals: A shopping server proposal system includes a mechanism that enhances the online retailer's existing database system with the necessary information to provide the desired services. The existing catalog of items is analyzed based on a set of predefined rules for a given retail store. This analysis determines which of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080091575 - Bill of lading transmission and processing system for less than a load carriers: The present invention automates the process of receiving transportation documentation and producing advance loading manifests therefrom to optimize load planning and dynamic product shipment and delivery control. Methods provide for receipt of the transportation documentation, initial preparation, and transmission of the documentation from on board a vehicle or while the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20080091577 - Enhanced trade compliance system: audit processing, payment balancing and amendment processing: Methods and systems for auditing invoice and payment records are disclosed. A computer system may receive a plurality of invoices and payment records, compare one of the invoices to a matching one of the payment records to identify a discrepancy between the invoice and the payment record, calculate an error... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080091576 - Reimbursement request system and method: According to one embodiment, a system for validating one or more data records comprises a server that is coupled to a first computer and a second computer. The first computer is associated with a landlord and has the one or more records corresponding to one or more tenants. The second... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080091578 - System and method for synchronizing ledger accounts by company group: A system and method for keeping ledger accounts in synchronization between a back-end procurement system and a front-end requisition and catalog system. An extract utility extracts a file of general ledger (G/L) accounts, including account code, description, and company code, from a chart of accounts in the back-end and transfers... Agent: Shelley M Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20080091579 - Health care payment system and method: The present invention involves a health care reimbursement pricing system that enhances a Provider's ability to pay for high-cost therapeutics, while accelerating payment to the Seller.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080091582 - Systems and methods for redeeming rewards associated with accounts: Among other things, the present invention provides systems and methods for fulfilling reward redemptions. In some cases, the systems and methods receive redemption requests associated with an account. The redemption request can be satisfied from a reward associated with the account, or by accessing a reward associated with another account.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080091584 - Hedge transactions using variable order prices: 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

20080091583 - Method for generating rule-based active futures selection indices: A method for generating a futures index based on active, rule-based analysis of at least two commodities futures is disclosed. The method can include identifying which commodity futures to include in a set under analysis. A parameter can be selected to measure a signal of future expected risk premium of... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080091585 - System for pricing financial instruments: A method of determining an estimate of the market value of a traded unit of a financial instrument, and apparatus for carrying out the method, said instrument comprising a fund of individually priced securities and the exact composition of said fund being withheld from the market, said method comprising selecting... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080091587 - System and method for pre-emptive auctioning: The present invention is a system and method for conducting advance selling of items not yet for sale including identifying desirable items not currently for sale to put up for advance auction, monitoring the item state and/or condition during the advance auction sale and conducting the advance auction.... Agent: Cedric G. Delacruz

20080091591 - Methods and systems for opening and funding a financial account online: Methods of systems of opening an account with a financial institution. One method can include electronically receiving account application information over at least one network. The account application information includes personal information associated with a customer requesting to open an account. The method also includes processing the account application information... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080091594 - Lending against the value of a life insurance policy: Loaning money includes determining a maximum loan amount based on a value of a life insurance policy. The value of the life insurance policy is linked to graduated basic amount-adjusted tables by age and sex predictive of at least one of the expectations of death or survivorship. The method includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091593 - Methods and systems for opening and funding a financial account online: Methods and systems for opening an account with a financial institution. One method can include electronically storing at least one rule for opening an account with a financial institution. The method can also include electronically receiving account application information from a remote device over at least one network, wherein the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080091596 - Secure and portable payment system: Payment systems are provided that utilize a portable device, and in particular, payment systems that utilize a first portable device that belongs to a seller and a second portable device that belongs to a buyer, but do not utilize a point of sale (POS) device.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080091599 - Stored value card account transfer system: Systems, methods, computer programs, merchant terminals, etc. for transferring funds between stored value card accounts are provided. One embodiment comprises a method for loading a stored value card. One such method comprises: identifying a first stored value card account associated with a first customer; receiving a selection from the first... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080091600 - Methods and systems for opening and funding a financial account online: Methods and systems for monitoring an online account opening service. One system can include an account management system that performs an online account opening service and includes a management console application. The online account opening service electronically receives account application information and funding information specifying at least one funding source,... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080091601 - Card reading arrangement including robotic card handling responsive to card sensing: A card reader arrangement includes a robotic card handling device to enable reading of a user card during a card-based transaction. A card sensing device is located adjacent a card slot remotely located from a card reader. Responsive to the card sensing device sensing an inserted card, the robotic card... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20080091602 - Smartcard internet authorization system: A system and method are disclosed for conducting electronic commerce such as a virtual purchase transaction with an on-line merchant. A user is provided with an intelligent token, such as a smart card containing a digital certificate. The intelligent token suitably authenticates with a wallet server on a network that... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080091603 - System and method for verifying the authenticity of a check and authorizing payment thereof: A system and method for verifying the authenticity and payment of a bank check at any of a plurality of banks or check cashing sites, wherein a payor or issuing site determines a first set of data including account and individualized payee data, which is communicated to a processing center... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20080091604 - Method for the compartmented provisioning of an electronic service: To enable services to be proposed in an optimal way on mobile terminals, the method provides for the compartmented provisioning of an electronic service on a user's electronic terminal to at least one provider subscribing to the service, the provider proposing this service to a plurality of consumers through the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080091609 - System and methods providing secure delivery of licenses and content: A computer network having a requesting node and a providing node permits data transfer therebetween when permitted by an authorizing node. Reports generated in response to authorizations and reports generated in response to data transfers are reconciled at a reconciliation node to improve the accuracy of payments collected and paid... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080091614 - Method to make payment or charge safe transactions using programmable mobile telephones: This is a method to carry out safe transactions using programmable mobile telephones. The use of programmable handsets—for example with Java technology—, to which an application is downloaded (e.g. Java application) allows people to carry out safe transactions. The application allows the buyer/seller to carry out the transaction, including the... Agent: The Chapar Firm, LLC

20080091616 - Communication system and method using visual interfaces for mobile transactions: The invention relates to a system and a method for providing a mobile transaction, such as a payment, the system including: a first means at a point of sale for entering transaction data and customer data and having a unique ID associated therewith; and a mobile transaction platform connected via... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080091623 - Technique to estimate the cost of streaming evaluation of xpaths: A method and apparatus for estimating the cost of streaming evaluation of XPaths is provided. Aggregate statistics are maintained by the database server upon initiation of a database function by the database administrator about the nodes of the XML document. Based upon these statistics and the complexity of the particular... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080091624 - Pricing optimization apparatus and method: A method or apparatus for automatically determining an optimum price for an offer by a first entity to a customer entity, comprising: obtaining a demand function representative of the customer, using the demand function and other factors include an intended product margin, building a goal function representative of goals of... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080091625 - Billing and payment methods and systems enabling consumer premises equipment: The present invention teaches a variety of systems and methods enabling renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE) such as dual metering techniques. The present invention contemplates, among other things, supporting, by increasing a likelihood of meeting financing obligations, a consumer purchasing, leasing, installing and/or maintaining renewable energy CPE for power... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080091626 - Systems, methods and financial instruments for renewable energy consumer premises equipment financing: The present invention teaches a variety of systems, methods and financial instruments for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE). The present invention contemplates, for example, supporting financing for a consumer purchasing, leasing, installing and/or maintaining renewable energy CPE for power generation at a consumer premises. The renewable CPE may... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080086316 - Competitive advantage assessment and portfolio management for intellectual property assets: Selected embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods and media for receiving and processing intellectual property competitive advantage information. In certain embodiments, among others, a user is prompted to provide at least a portion of the competitive advantage information, and at least a portion of the competitive advantage information... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080086314 - Entity-linking system to report the death of a person: A computer network system, which links one or more life insurances, a selected funeral home, hospitals and the Social Security Administration to notify all concerned entities when a death has occurred. A death notice is posted and automatically sent to a selected funeral home director who then notifies the appropriate... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, Llc

20080086320 - Integrated asset management: Methods and systems for integrated asset management are disclosed. According to one embodiment, information from a first reporting source about an asset is received. In addition, information is received about the asset from a second reporting source. Inspection information about the asset is received from a first enabled device. A... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086315 - Internet-based rental system and method: Embodiments described herein include Internet-based rental system and method that enable individuals to rent or to make available for rent, various types of assets from a common website. The system and method described include rental processing software that runs on the rental website to allow individuals to offer for rent... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080086318 - Lifestyle companion system: Methods and systems for providing a lifestyle companion system are provided. The lifestyle companion system can provide a platform to conduct a user interview. Based on the user interview responses, the system can suggest activities, references, and/or plug-in modules. During performance of activities, the system can provide audio and/or visual... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080086323 - Limiting access to asset management information: A system and method for limiting access to asset management information is disclosed. According to one embodiment, information is received from a first reporting source about an asset. Information from a second reporting source about the asset is also recited. The information from the first reporting source and the information... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086317 - Method and system for creating a non-repudiable chat log: A system for creating a reputable chat log. An initial quote is performed of a value of a register in response to a secure chat session being initiated. The value of the register is extended to record a message measurement within the register for the secure chat session in response... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080086322 - Method for automatic asset classification: A system and method for automatic asset classification is disclosed. According to one embodiment, at least one asset characteristic is received from a reporting source and a method automatically associates the asset characteristic with a graphical representation of the asset based on the asset characteristic. The method further provides the... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086331 - Acknowledgement of previous results for medication administration: Document of medication administration is provided by a clinician acknowledging previous clinical results such that the previous clinical results are used for documentation purposes. A command is received to document the administration of a medication to patient. Based on the command, it is determined that documentation of the medication administration... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086333 - Documentation of medication activities in context of mar: Management of patient activities for a clinician is provided including documenting administration of a medication to a patient. A timeline view area is presented showing clinical activities to be performed by a clinician for patients assigned to the clinician. The clinical activities include at least one medication administration activity. Activity... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086335 - Medical image information system, image server and client: Provided is a medical image information system that prepares a diagnosis report for which link information for referring to a medical image stored in an image server is set, and displays a medical image not stored in the image server. The medical image information system includes a reservation request unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080086328 - Patient activity coordinator: Management of patient activities for a clinician is described herein. A patient activity list provides a common view of activities for patients assigned to a clinician for a given time period, such as a shift. The patient activity list provides a simplified view with critical indicators providing critical patient information.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086334 - Providing clinical activity details in context: Management of patient activities for a clinician is providing using a patient activity list. The patient activity list includes a timeline view area showing scheduled clinical activities corresponding with patients assigned to the clinician. The timeline view area includes a number of time periods, and each scheduled clinical activity is... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086330 - Providing multidisciplinary activities in context of clinician's role relevant activities: Management of patient activities for a clinician is provided by a patient activity list the may present the clinician's role relevant activities in conjunction with multidisciplinary activities to be performed for a patient. A timeline view area is presented having role relevant scheduled activities for one or more patients assigned... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086329 - Resceduling clinical activities in context of activities view: Clinical activity management is provided by a patient activity list that allows rescheduling of clinical activities in context. A timeline view is presented including one or more scheduled clinical activities for at least one patient assigned to the clinician. The timeline view is divided into a number of time periods... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086326 - System and apparatus for dispensing controlled pharmaceutical products: The present invention is directed to a controlled dispensing system comprising at least one dispensing machine having a data input means for receiving information from an individual, an inventory of one or more products available for purchase provided that at least some of the products are scheduled products, a dispensing... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080086327 - System and method for determining and verifying disease classification codes: A system and method for determining an updated disease classification code for a patient within a managed care population consisting of (i) a patient condition processing unit for receiving a plurality of patient-related data, (ii) a diagnosis repository database coupled to the patient condition processing unit for storing a preestablished... Agent: Law Offices Of John R. Mugno

20080086325 - System and method for managing health risks: A system and method for managing health risks is provided. The system and method comprise identifying one or more relevant economic risk factors from health-related data collected from a person, providing an intervention plan to the person based on the relevant economic risk factors, authenticating an identity collected from a... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080086332 - Viewing clinical activity details within a selected time period: Management of patient activities for a clinician is provided via a patient activity list. The patient activity list includes a timeline view comprising a two-dimensional representation in which a first dimension corresponds with one or more patients assigned to the clinician and a second dimension corresponds with time periods. The... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086336 - Patient outcomes in context of documentation: Outcomes from a patient plan of care are provided in conjunction with documentation of patient assessment items to assist clinicians in the healthcare process. A documentation area for documenting assessment items for a patient and having areas for entering patient assessment information is presented. Additionally, an outcome icon is presented... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080086348 - Fast business process test case composition: Methods and apparatuses enable fast business process test case composition. Instead of the labor intensive and error-prone manual test case composition of previous systems, a group of one or more test agents enables creation of a business process test based on monitoring a business process application. The test agents monitor... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080086343 - Forming a business relationship network: A collective knowledge set of business relationship information from a plurality of sources is generated. The collective knowledge set is mapped as a plurality of navigable paths forming a business relationship network between a source and a target. One or more of the paths are identified as candidate paths most... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.c.

20080086341 - Method and apparatus for analyzing surveillance systems using a total surveillance time metric: A method comprises the steps of receiving information concerning the operation of surveillance assets, and using the information in a Monte Carlo simulation to produce an estimate of total surveillance time. An apparatus that is used to perform the method is also provided.... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

20080086342 - Methods of assessing fraud risk, and deterring, detecting, and mitigating fraud, within an organization: A method to assess risk of fraud within an organization is disclosed. A review of an organization's business processes with respect to risk is performed. A first business process fraud risk map is generated based on the review by generating and assigning first risk values to the business processes of... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20080086346 - Online auction profitability assessor: Online auction sellers use an interactive software tool to analyze the risk of listing certain items for sale in an online auction, where the software tool allows the user to use different listing strategies and pricing. The interactive software tool calculates costs of doing business on auction sites, including fees... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080086344 - Process for visualizing, analyzing and developing products, and a product: The present invention relates to a process for visualizing, analyzing and developing products, particularly products for industrial manufacture, which defines quantity and characteristics of at least two differentiation vectors (DV), simulates and develops at least one scenario for the manufacture of a product by combining the vectors (DV) and classifying,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080086349 - Unreported event status change determination and alerting: In a method for determining an unreported event status change for an asset, an asset management system receives a position of an asset from a reporting source coupled with the asset. The position is associated with a particular time by the reporting source. The position is compared to a previous... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086353 - Server level summary information of resource utilization: Embodiments provide a project management application that is configured to provide a server level summary of resource utilization. In an embodiment, a project management application provides a server level summary resource assignment (SRA). The server level SRA can be presented in a user interface as a summary rollup of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080086355 - System and method for forwarding and delegating asynchronous traking and quantifying of events: An apparatus and a method of cost recovery in a computerized system performs the steps of initiating a job task at a first computer, extracting job statistics relating to the initiated job task from a server, storing the job statistics in a database queue, asynchronously communicating the stored job statistics... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080086354 - Systems and methods for outsourcing software development: A method and computer program are disclosed to assist the user in constructing a decision-tree for outsourcing software development business processes. The tree contains a node for the cost of completing the business processes in-house, nodes containing the expected costs of outsourcing the complete business process to different vendors, and... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080086356 - Determining advertisements using user interest information and map-based location information: In response to a query for information in a geographic region or at a location, ranked ads may be plotted on, or in association with, a map (e.g., as a list beside the map), satellite photo, or any other form of visual representation of geographic information (referred to generally as... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080086362 - Method and system for extracting weight classified by ranking: A method and system for extracting a weight classified by a ranking which can calculate, in a keyword advertisement, a unit sale cost of an advertisement area exposing advertisement information by considering an advertising effect classified by a keyword, the advertising effect being acquired by using the corresponding advertisement area,... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080086361 - Method and system for rating advertisements: The present invention is directed to a method and system that enables viewers of advertisements, such as users of the Internet (or any other interactive platform like interactive T.V.) to share with other viewers or users their opinion and experience regarding advertisements. The system can keep track of the advertisements... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c.

20080086358 - Method and system for selecting a synchronous or asynchronous process to determine a forecast: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for selecting a synchronous or asynchronous process to determine a forecast. These mechanisms and methods for such synchronous/asynchronous process selection can enable embodiments to determine forecasts for multiple users (e.g. with hierarchical relationships, etc.) over an arbitrary time interval. The... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080086359 - Sales opportunity explorer: An interactive software tool processes accumulated point of sale consumption data so as to identify where sales problems and opportunities lie. Once identified, appropriate resources can then be deployed to fix the problem and to realize the opportunities so identified. The interactive software tool is designed to permit a user... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080086360 - System and method for advertising via mobile devices: A system and method for advertising via mobile devices is disclosed. The system includes a mobile device, a server and a network for providing communication between the mobile device and then server. According to one embodiment, the mobile device has a user input device and an advertisement interface. The server... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

20080086357 - System and method of managing assets: A system for managing at least one asset is provided. The system is operable to execute a plurality of program instructions for the acts of receiving a plurality of utilization statuses over a time interval for the least one asset having a unique identifier, calculating a trend for a plurality... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080086363 - Technology event detection, analysis, and reporting system: A technology analysis system automatically monitors information available from both publicly and privately distributed networks of information for details that are relevant to a technology hypothesis. The technology analysis system provides a technology radar that assists with determining how the technology hypothesis stands up against ongoing developments in technology. The... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080086366 - Method for interactive employment searching and skills specification: The present disclosure details apparatuses, systems and methods for an Interactive Employment Search Platform enabling interactive employment searching and skills specification. The Platform enables employers and job seekers to easily identify, connect, and coordinate with one another. The disclosed systems and methods collect profile data for jobs, employers, and job... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080086371 - Communication network subscription control: A method and corresponding equipment to enable a phone owner, who desires to lend a phone to a borrower, to define a temporary limit for the usage of the borrower, especially in a prepaid charging system. The charging system uses this temporary limit to restrict service usage such that when... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080086372 - Contextual banner advertising: A system and method to facilitate display of advertising information contextually related to web pages requested by users within a network are described. A request to display a web page is received from a user through a network. The web page and associated content information are further retrieved from a... Agent: Stattler - Suh Pc

20080086378 - Electronic checkout counter separator: Embodiments of the invention disclose an electronic checkout counter separator having a display and a communications interface whereby the separator receives advertisements for displaying on the display. An advertisement delivery system for delivering advertisement content to the electronic checkout counter separator is also disclosed.... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080086370 - Environmental services broker for mediating collaborative computing sessions: A method for establishing symbiotic relationships between at least one mobile computing device and at least one stationary computing device, includes steps of: interacting with a computing entity assigned to an area where the at least one mobile and stationary computing devices are located using at least one networking protocol;... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.a.

20080086368 - Location based, content targeted online advertising: An online advertisement is targeted to a publication medium (e.g., a website) based on a location of a user visiting the website, the content of the website and/or a location associated with the website content. Static and/or dynamic maps can be presented with the targeted advertisements on the website. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080086369 - Method and apparatus for message campaigns: One embodiment of the preset invention is a method for managing a message campaign that includes: (a) creating one or more messages to be sent to one or more members of a target audience for the message campaign, wherein the one or more messages comprise address information to be used... Agent: Mollborn Patents

20080086373 - Nutrition management and meal planning program: In one embodiment, the disclosed systems and methods include a computerized method for managing consumer data which includes providing a database coupled to a central terminal, storing in the database a plurality of records comprising nutritional information related to products available for purchase using a loyalty profile, associating in the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080086374 - Nutrition management and meal planning program: In one embodiment, computerized systems and methods for nutritional planning are disclosed that may comprise providing a database coupled to a central terminal, storing in the database a plurality of records comprising nutritional information related to products available for purchase using a loyalty profile, and associating in the database the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080086367 - Selective message displayer with a memo clip: An apparatus that can selectively display prearranged messages that may be erasable and rewritable or spaces for posting messages, and at the same time, function as a clip to retain pieces of papers or other suitable objects. The apparatus comprises a platform that again comprises a bottom layer, a message... Agent: The Soni Law Firm

20080086386 - Conducting remote shopping events: System and method for conducting a remote shopping event. The method may include scheduling the remote shopping event for a first shopper. The remote shopping event may occur at a first location while the first shopper may be located at a second location which is remote from the first location.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080086385 - Data processing system using independent and dependent assets: A data processing system comprises an administration control point, a plurality of independent assets and dependent assets, and a plurality of administration resource models. Each independent asset includes an administration zone connected to the administration control point. Each administration resource model defines configuration data required by a respective asset. Each... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080086382 - Facilitating simulated purchases of items by virtual representations of participants in computer-based simulations: A method for facilitating simulated purchases by virtual representations of participants in computer-based simulations of items outside of the context of computer-based simulations, the method including receiving a simulated payment for an item for purchase, where the simulated payment is associated with a virtual representation of a participant in a... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman Ibm Corporation

20080086384 - Method and system for providing pay-per-call services: A method and system are provided for connecting consumers and merchants. In accordance with one or more embodiments, the method includes (a) providing data on a plurality of merchants and one or more telephone numbers associated with each of the plurality of merchants; (b) receiving from a search system search... Agent: Boston Ip Law Group

20080086383 - Rule-based shopping: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generating an itinerary in response to a request from a user are provided. The system includes a memory for storing a market table associated with a respective market, a rule table comprising rules associated with a respective fare class, and a fare table... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080086387 - Information-delivery system and method and applications employing same: In one embodiment, an information-delivery system includes a first mechanism for identifying an entity for which to gather information and providing identity information in response thereto. A second mechanism employs the identity information to retrieve rating information pertaining to the entity, wherein the scoring information includes quantified information pertaining to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080086391 - Impromptu asset tracking: A system and method for impromptu asset tracking. According to one embodiment, information from a first reporting source about a first asset is received. Asset identification information about a second asset is received from the first reporting source. The first reporting source is coupled with the first asset. The asset... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086392 - Managing distribution of constrained product inventory from a warehouse: A method for optimally distributing inventory in short supply from a warehouse to retail stores served by the warehouse. The method compares future store product requirements with future warehouse inventory levels to identify potential product inventory constraints. Once a constrained product is identified, the method automatically adjusts store orders based... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080086395 - Method and apparatus for frequency independent processor utilization recording register in a simultaneously multi-threaded processor: The present invention thus provides for a method, system, and computer-usable medium that afford an equitably charging of a customer for computer usage time. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: tracking an amount of computer resources in a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) computer that are available to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080086399 - Auto credit scanner pre-approval process: The present invention includes an automated credit approval process that provides a pre-approval package based upon information gathered from a basic form of customer identification. A potential customer provides a basic form of personal information, such as a driver's license, to a vendor. The basic personal information is scanned into... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20080086400 - Computerized credit services information management system: A method of processing online applications is disclosed. The method includes receiving a customer contact lead, contacting the customer to obtain application data, preparing an application using the application data, and delivering the application to the customer. An electronic signature is accepted for completion of the application.... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080086398 - Virtual terminal for payment processing: In some embodiments, a process for performing transaction tasks using a virtual terminal comprises: presenting functions to a user, receiving a selected function, and performing the selected function. The presented functions may comprise: (a) activating at least one card; (b) deactivating a card; (c) generating a PIN; (d) inserting value;... Agent: J. Michael Martinez De Andino, Esq. Hunton & Williams LLP

20080086427 - Externally augmented asset management: A system and method for externally augmented asset management is disclosed. According to one embodiment, information from a first reporting source about an asset is received. In addition, information from a second reporting source about the asset is also received. Information from a third reporting source about at least one... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086428 - Method for enhancing revenue generation for a manufactured asset: A method for enhancing revenue generation for a manufactured asset is disclosed. In one embodiment, a database having asset information from a plurality of disparate sources is accessed. Asset information in the database is utilized to generate an asset report. The asset report is utilized at a manufacturer level to... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086407 - Method and system for buying and selling real estate at an optimal price on the internet: The present invention provides a reverse auction method and system, whereby upon payment of a fee, a seller uploads details of the property to be auctioned onto the auction system web-site provided by the manager of auction system. The system utilizes the information provided to set the necessary parameters of... Agent: Lisa J. Allen Allen & Brown

20080086405 - Template based matching: Systems and methods for matching orders are provided. One or more trade templates are created. The trade templates define groups of orders for financial instruments that may be combined such that all of the orders are matched. New orders and resting orders are analyzed using one or more trade templates... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080086409 - Fraud detection, risk analysis and compliance assessment: Techniques using data matching and clustering algorithms are disclosed to aid investigators in detecting potentially fraudulent activity, performing risk analysis or assessing compliance with applicable regulations.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080086411 - Rec credit distribution system and method: A method for promoting recycling from a fund established with revenue generated from the sale of environmental and/or power generation attributes by an entity producing renewable energy. The method comprises providing a point system by which a recycling consumer is credited for recycled materials collected. Further, the method provides for... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20080086417 - Payment abstraction layer: Described is a technology by which a payment abstraction layer enables application program developers to setup and/or enhance application programs to accept several payment tenders (e.g., including credit, debit, check and so forth) without requiring the application programs to implement the particular details of each payment solution provider. The payment... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080086416 - System and method for processing checks: An electronic payment system provides a graphical interface, a communication module and an account engine. The graphical interface is configured to receive information from a banking instrument. The communication module is configured to present the banking instrument electronically to a drawee bank. The account engine is configured to receive a... Agent: C. Brandon Browning Sirote & Permutt, P.c.

20080086415 - System and method for using credit and quality testing for the procurement and payment of goods and services: The invention relates generally to a method and system for managing the selection, procurement, and payment of goods and services. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for managing procurement and payment of goods and services integrated with both quality assurance services and a payment system to facilitate payment.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080086418 - Electronic payment instrument and packaging: Methods and systems provide and utilize a transceiver-based electronic payment device to consumers in an arrangement which allows for convenient carrying of the device and payment using the device.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080086419 - Back office conversion: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for handling a check submitted in a transaction. According to one embodiment, a method for handling a check submitted in a transaction can comprise requesting authorization of the transaction from a check processing device based on information from the check and other... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080086421 - Financial payment systems and methods using paperless check 21 items: Exemplary embodiments provide a digitally originated check (DOC) through an electronic payment system (EPS) which captures payor metadata instructions regarding the intended payment to a payee. The metadata may be stored in a database or the like for further processing instead of printing a paper check. An output of the... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080086422 - Techniques for accessing controlled media objects: Techniques for managing media objects are provided. The techniques include providing an algorithm configured to generate an identifier (ID) based on content of a first media object. The ID is then generated for the first media object. The ID allows the first device to identify the first media object to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080086424 - Guest limited authorization for electronic financial transaction cards: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for authorizing a guest to use an electronic financial transaction card, such as a credit card or debit card, are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving information about a desired guest transaction (which may be limited in size, timeframe, nature, etc.) from a customer associated... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080086425 - Method for ordering electronic transactions to an institution: The method of the invention allows a user to authorize and sign electronic transactions using token programs, even though the software used to effect said transactions is executed in the same terminal device that executes the token program, as it occurs in mobile telephones. A user utilizes an access application... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080086324 - Parts managing system, parts managing method, and computer program product: A parts managing system extracts data on each part configuring a designated three-dimensional model, with reference to three-dimensional model data and part configuration information, and stores and manages the data in an extracted-data storing unit. The parts managing system searches the extracted-data storing unit using specified retrieval information and displays... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080086319 - Social networking and dating platform and method: A social networking or dating platform and method that systematically documents and stores evaluations by participants of their networking or dating experiences. Each evaluation is then sent, by, for example, email and or SMS, to the other participant in the date. Advantageously, the system processes each evaluation to determine a... Agent: Jenner & Block LLP (kenneth L. Stein)

20080086321 - Utilizing historical data in an asset management environment: A method and system for utilizing historical data in an asset management environment are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method generates an asset information report from a database, wherein the asset information report comprises at least a portion of real-time information about the asset when the real-time information about... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080086338 - Customized visual marking for medication labeling: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed that provide a customized technique for marking medication and other health-related products with a visual identifier that includes a recognizable symbolic aspect to facilitate proper administration of a substance dosage to designated patent. Display implementations of the visual identifier may be incorporated in various product packaging... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080086339 - Customized visual marking for medication labeling: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed that provide a customized technique for marking medication and other health-related products with a visual identifier that includes a recognizable symbolic aspect to facilitate proper administration of a substance dosage to designated patent. Display implementations of the visual identifier may be incorporated in various product packaging... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080086337 - Web based integrated information system for sharing patient medical information cross-organizationally: Web-based system and computer enabled method for storage and distribution of medical information pertaining to patient care. This allows various actors in the medical care field to exchange information pertaining to particular patients in the form of electronic medical records.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080086340 - Crop quality insurance: A method for providing insurance includes providing a bundle of products and services to a crop producer, the bundle of products and services comprising seed products and insurance. The insurance provides a benefit to the crop producer if grain grown from the seed products does not meet or exceed a... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20080086345 - Asset data collection, presentation, and management: Systems and methods for asset data collection, presentation, and management. In one general aspect, a Web portal provides a centralized end-to-end view of IT operations of an organization. The portal may, for example, provide an organization's view of operations and asset data. Visibility of accurate data on an organization-wide scale... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080086347 - Business information management system, business information management method, and business information management program: A business information management system includes a data connection relationship information storage section storing connection relationships of data items forming a business information database, a data connection accuracy information storage section that stores data connection accuracy between data item pairs having a connection relationship, and a data change section that... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080086351 - System and method for improving resolution of channel data: Disclosed are methods for processing distribution channel data integrating business information with geographic data to produce integrated data, wherein the integrated data has greater resolution than the business information. Distribution channel data is captured and correlated with the integrated data to increase the resolution of the distribution channel data.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080086350 - System for generating an information catalog: A computer system and computer program product for generating and displaying an information catalog relating to a business model. The method includes accessing technical metadata from a data warehouse, accessing business metadata from a first source outside of the data warehouse, accessing presentation metadata from a second source outside of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080086352 - Transaction management system: The present invention is directed towards methods, apparatuses, and systems for facilitating and enhancing processes associated with financial transactions. The present invention monitors and manages transaction-level work flows, and facilitates coordination of the tasks and operations associated with financial transactions. Embodiments of the present invention also allow for automation of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080086364 - methods of creating and using a virtual consumer packaged goods marketplace: An agent-based computer model having consumer agents, retailer agents, and manufacturer agents represents the major participants in consumer packaged goods markets.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080086365 - Method of analyzing credit card transaction data: A method of analyzing debit and credit card transaction data to provide interpretations of customer purchasing patterns for use by third parties, such as financial services marketers, in providing offers and incentives to targeted groups of consumers. Bulk credit card or debit card transaction data that has been gathered for... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080086380 - 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

20080086379 - Digital downloading jukebox with enhanced communication features: Systems and/or methods for use in connection with digital downloading jukeboxes are provided. Such systems and/or methods may be used to provide enhanced communications capabilities, e.g., to registered users of jukeboxes. In certain exemplary embodiments, users may become registered users directly at a jukebox. Registered users also may, in certain... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080086376 - Incremental promotion for electronic commerce: A method and apparatus for offering a promotional award to a visitor to an electronic commerce site. The electronic commerce apparatus comprises a connection to a distributed communication network, at least one promotional awards storage area for a visitor, including a customer identifier storage and an award amount storage, and... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080086377 - Method and system for managing customers during peak or busy hours for restaurants and other industries: The invention describes a method and system for managing customers in a restaurant and similar service providing industries. Particularly it relates to accommodating more number of customers during peak or busy hours. The time spent by a customer at a table is reduced by providing an appropriate incentive, thereby reducing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080086375 - Method of and system for directory-assistance-based marketing: A method of intelligent marketing in response to a directory-assistance call from a caller. The method includes receiving a directory-assistance response from the caller, determining call attributes of the directory-assistance call, accessing, utilizing at least some of the call attributes, a profile of the caller, selecting at least one advertisement... Agent: Winstead Pc

20080086381 - Point-of-sale food servings calculator: A food servings calculator is presented. The calculator can be implemented as a computer-implemented method or point-of-sale system. Serving information for one or more foods is stored, preferably in a database. A number of servings of at least one food being purchased is electronically determined based on the serving information.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20080086390 - 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

20080086388 - Multi-picture online commerce feature: A software application that provides images of multiple items associated by a common seller on an on-line commerce network comprising query software for automatically retrieving from a list all items associated by a common seller from a server, retrieving the location of an image of each item and retrieving the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080086389 - Multi-picture online commerce feature: A software application that provides images of multiple items associated by a common seller on an on-line commerce network comprising query software for automatically retrieving from a list all items associated by a common seller from a server, retrieving the location of an image of each item and retrieving the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080086393 - Bill of lading transmission and processing system for less than a load carriers: The present invention automates the process of receiving transportation documentation and producing advance loading manifests therefrom to optimize load planning and dynamic product shipment and delivery control. Methods provide for receipt of the transportation documentation, initial preparation, and transmission of the documentation from on board a vehicle or while the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20080086394 - System and method for controlling a utility meter: A system and method for monitoring and controlling utility meters is provided. A collar communicatively connected to the utility meter monitors power usage and provides usage data, power quality data, and other data to the utility and the customer. The system provides for pre-pay power, and the collar relay can... Agent: Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.c.

20080086396 - Transaction finance processing system and approach: Transaction management for processing payment-related aspects of transactions is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction management approach involves the processing of payments on behalf of a buyer or other owing party. These payments are made, e.g., in connection with accounts payable or other functions... Agent: Crawford Maunu Pllc

20080086397 - Transaction payables processing system and approach: Transaction management for financial institution-based transactions is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction management approach involves the processing of financial aspects of transactions for a plurality of buyers using transaction rules associated with each buyer for automatically auditing each transaction (for each buyer) and... Agent: Crawford Maunu Pllc

20080086401 - Charting with depth of market volume flow: Systems and methods are described for generating depth of market (DOM) volume flow charts. According to various embodiments, the DOM volume of a financial instrument is monitored. The DOM volume can include volume elements corresponding to bid order volume and/or ask order volume of orders for the financial instrument that... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080086403 - Method and apparatus for managing transactions: A system receives account access information from a user. The account is then accessed using the received access information. Data is harvested from a web page associated with the account or received from another financial data source. The user's ability to access the account is authenticated based on the obtained... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080086402 - Personalized interactive network architecture: A system for personalizing interaction between a user communicating over at least one communication channel and a provider of information/products/services, the user having a communication device for communication over the channel with the provider, the system comprising a channel interface for interfacing with the channel, an information/product/service interface for interfacing... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080086404 - System and method for estimating conduit liquidity requirements in asset backed commercial paper: A method and system for financial modeling to predict the amount of liquidity needed to support a portfolio of assets that is being financed in the commercial paper market, or any other market that is sensitive to the provision of liquidity. As the ability to access these markets is related... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080086408 - Order risk management for derivative products: Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative product orders at an exchange. Traders provide derivative product order risk data to the exchange. The order risk data may include maximum delta, gamma and/or vega utilization values for derivative product contracts based on the same underlying product. Before executing a trade,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080086406 - System and method for handling an inquiry/offer process: A system and method are disclosed for handling an inquiry/offer process for large components in electrical engineering. Exemplary embodiments can handle an inquiry/offer process for a potential customer and create a possibility of achieving a maximum number of providers and of making an inquiry/offer process more accurate.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080086410 - System and method for providing a cash advance: A Loan system and cash advance product is provided which provides funds instantly to a financial institution or equivalent payment provider for pick-up by a registered user of the system. The user selects a cash advance product provided by an authorized distributor. The authorized distributor authenticates the user, pre-authorizes the... Agent: Schwartz Cooper Chartered Ip Department

20080086414 - Method and apparatus for computer-readable purchase receipts using multi-dimensional bar codes: An information entry and reporting system and method for tracking data associated with retail transactions at the point of sale. Transaction data is converted into a machine readable dataform pattern and printed onto a sales receipt provided to the purchaser. Subsequently, the purchaser uses a suitably configured scanning device to... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski, Esq. Gazdzinski & Associates, P.c.

20080086412 - Payment system and methods: Disclosed are methods for a system having a payment switch and a retailer. In a plurality of cards, a first signal corresponds to a signal common to the plurality of cards, and there is a second signal on a first card in the plurality of cards. The method includes receiving... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20080086413 - Systems and methods for collaborative payment strategies: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for collaborative payment strategies. Buyers, sellers, and financial institutions may utilize a collaborative payment application to facilitate collaboration and share best practices for processing payments and deductions as part of a collaborative payment system. In certain embodiments, the collaborative payment... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080086420 - Enhanced check 21 financial payment systems and methods: The present invention provides a digitally originated check (DOC) through an electronic payment system (EPS) which captures payor metadata instructions regarding the intended payment to a payee. The metadata is stored in a database or the like for further processing instead of printing a paper check. The DOC can be... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080086423 - Media player with license expiration warning: A media player is presented that is capable of playing time-limited media files such as those made available through subscription-type digital rights management schemes. Upon accessing a protected media file, the present invention analyzes the appropriate license. If the license has not expired, but will expire soon, the media player... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080086426 - Method and apparatus for managing transactions: A system receives account access information from a user. The account is then accessed using the received access information. Data is harvested from a web page associated with the account or received from another financial data source. The user's ability to access the account is authenticated based on the obtained... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080086429 - Econometric optimization engine: A preferred set of prices for a plurality of products, generally demand coefficients is provided. Cost data including activity-based costs is also received. A preferred set of prices that will provide a local optimum for the preferred set of prices which maximizes profit is then determined. In one embodiment, a... Agent: Kang Lim

20080086430 - System and method for automating the use of postal products in a networked environment: A formal mechanism for defining a broad variety of postal products using measurable attributes. The mechanism for the products then may be formalized into data structures and procedures executable by computer systems. Once the above is executed an automated production is established for the mail unit and suitable for delivery... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080082352 - Data classification methods using machine learning techniques: Methods for classifying documents are presented. Methods for analyzing documents associated with legal discovery are also presented. Methods for cleaning up data are also presented. Methods for verifying an association of an invoice with an entity are also presented. Method for managing medical records are presented. Method for face recognition... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080082344 - Electronic automated real estate appraisal information exchange and management system: A computer implemented system is provided in order to manage the exchange of information through three databases. The system is particularly useful for an appraisal management environment or other environments, which require an exchange between individuals in two or more categories such as consumers and appraisers. According to the preferred... Agent: Darnell J. Parker

20080082348 - Enterprise integrity content generation and utilization: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for risk assessment and analysis. In one general aspect, asset data representing a set of assets is received. Threat data representing a set of threats is received. Requirements data representing one or more requirements is received, wherein each requirement requires compliance with a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080082347 - Haul road maintenance management system: A haul road maintenance management system has a vehicle diagnostic module located onboard a haul vehicle and a database, which stores historical repair data relating to the haul vehicle. The haul road maintenance management system also has a controller in communication with the vehicle diagnostic module and the database. The... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082346 - System and method for automated processing of returns: A system and method are disclosed that provide for processing dealer returns. The system and method include receiving a list of parts from a dealer, wherein the list of parts includes at least one part the dealer seeks to return to a supplier of the part, and determining a return... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082345 - System and method for evaluating risks associated with delaying machine maintenance: A method for determining risk associated with delaying machine maintenance includes receiving health data associated with a machine and analyzing the health data based on predetermined threshold data to detect an event alert condition. A future failure date of a machine component is then estimated based on the health data... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082350 - Systems, methods, and software arrangements for improving uniformity of assets within an entity: A system for improving uniformity of assets within an entity includes a database for storing data. The data stored in the database is associated with a plurality of assets which are associated with a particular entity, and the data for each asset of the plurality of assets includes information associated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080082349 - Using information about a financial transaction to augment information in an online social network: A system that facilitates using information about a financial transaction to augment information in a representation of a social network. During operation, the system receives parameters for a financial transaction involving a number of entities. Next, the system determines one or more associations between the entities and the parameters. The... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080082361 - Adverse treatment event management system: A system provides clinicians with real-time adverse drug event or reaction alerts for a patient by evaluating patient information to determine if a patient is experiencing an actual or potential adverse drug event or reaction to a medication. A system manages adverse treatment events using an acquisition processor for dynamically... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080082358 - Clinical decision support triggered from another clinical decision support: Proactive and interactive clinical decision support events are triggered based on information provided by a user during other clinical decision support events. User-provided clinical information received during a first clinical decision support event and stored clinical information are compared against rules for initiating clinical decision support events. Based on the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080082359 - Computational systems for biomedical data: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that accepting an input identifying a treatment target in search of an agent, the input associated with at least one query parameter; determining, based on the input, at least one subset of study data for which at least one adverse... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20080082356 - System and method to optimize control cohorts using clustering algorithms: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for automatically selecting an optimal control cohort. Attributes are selected based on patient data. Treatment cohort records are clustered to form clustered treatment cohorts. Control cohort records are scored to form potential control cohort members. The optimal control cohort is... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080082357 - User interface for clinical decision support: User interfaces for proactive and interactive clinical decision support events are provided. When a clinical decision support event is initiated for a patient, relevant stored clinical information associated with the patient is accessed. A user interface is generated using the stored clinical information. A clinician may interact with the user... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080082367 - Computational systems for biomedical data: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting an input identifying at least one allergy, accessing data containing at least one innate determinant associated with the at least one allergy, and accessing data containing at least one acquired determinant associated with the at least... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080082365 - Proactive and interactive clinical decision support: Proactive and interactive clinical decision support events are provided. When a clinical decision support event is initiated for a patient, relevant stored clinical information associated with the patient is accessed. A user interface is generated using the stored clinical information. A clinician may interact with the user interface by providing... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080082372 - Driving simulator and method of evaluation of driver competency: A method determines insurability of drivers. The method includes simulating a driving experience for a driver in an interactive driving simulator. Performance of the driver in the simulated driving experience is evaluated to generate a driving proficiency score for the driver. The method also includes evaluating insurability of the driver... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080082369 - Financial instrument utilizing an optional benefit election: According to one embodiment of the invention, a financial instrument includes an account with an account balance that changes over time, wherein at least part of the account balance may be discretionarily withdrawn and wherein the initial account balance is based upon an initial deposit; a guarantee that a beneficiary... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080082370 - Insurance policy and method for providing an insurance policy having dormancy features: An insurance policy having a dormancy provision is provided in which the dormancy provision enables a policyholder to activate and deactivate benefits provided under the insurance policy. Also provided is a method for enabling a holder of an insurance policy with a dormancy provision to activate and deactivate benefits of... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080082373 - System and method for improved itinerary providing merchant information: Method of preparing an itinerary for a customer traveling to a destination. The method includes the steps of providing on the itinerary reservation information identifying the customer's schedule in relation to at least one of an accommodation, means of transport, and event and providing on the itinerary a listing of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20080082378 - Logistics start-up method: A method for implementing a new logistics program includes executing a plurality of start-up model phases for the new logistics program, the start-up phases including at least a program development phase, a pilot phase, a go-live phase, and a transition phase. During the program development phase, logistics processes are selected,... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082384 - Method and system career management assessment matching: A method for system for career matching assessment matching. One or more electronic questionnaires that are designed to reflect models of working environments, problem solving, communication and inter-personal skills are presented via a communications network. Each candidate and/or employer fills in a separate questionnaire. The particular pattern of their answers... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20080082382 - Method for fundraising by providing customized items: In a method for conducting a fundraiser, a facilitating entity is solicited by, or contacts an organization regarding offering pre-paid custom postcards as part of the fundraiser. At least one image is created for appearance on the postcard, the image being unique to an entity for which the fundraiser is... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080082376 - Methods and systems for compliance monitoring case management: A system for managing information of a case relating to possible lack of compliance of enterprise transactions with one or more predetermined compliance policies of an enterprise. An exceptions database stores information corresponding to exceptions indicative of a violation of an enterprise compliance policy. An input receives exceptions from a... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080082377 - Methods and systems for entity linking in compliance policy monitoring: A system for linking entities associated with electronic transactions that are monitored for compliance with predetermined compliance policies of an enterprise. The system allows establishment, codification, and maintenance of enterprise policies, monitors electronic transactions of the enterprise from various data sources, detects exceptions to established policies, reports exceptions to authorized... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080082374 - Methods and systems for mapping transaction data to common ontology for compliance monitoring: An automated transaction integrity monitoring system operative to monitor electronic transactions of an enterprise and detect exceptions indicating noncompliance with enterprise policies. The system allows establishment, codification, and maintenance of enterprise policies, monitors electronic transactions of the enterprise from various and possibly heterogeneous data sources, detects exceptions to established policies,... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080082375 - Methods and systems for policy statement execution engine: A policy statement execution engine for use in connection with a policy compliance monitoring system that determines exceptions to policies expressed by computer-executable policy statements. The system allows establishment, codification, and maintenance of enterprise policies, monitors electronic transactions of the enterprise from various data sources, detects exceptions to established policies,... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080082379 - Technical performance measures management process and system: A method for managing one or more technical performance measure parameters is provided. The method includes defining the one or more technical performance measures parameters and determining, tracking and trending one or more achieved capabilities and one or more projected capabilities of the one or more technical performance measures parameters.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080082385 - Project scheduling methods, systems, and apparatuses: A project scheduling method including separating the project into a plurality of phases to be completed in a sequential order, determining a first start date for a first phase and determining a next start date for a next phase in the plurality of phases by adding a first maximum lead... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20080082386 - Systems and methods for customer segmentation: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing customers using customer segmentation. In one embodiment, a customer relationship manager may implement a customer management architecture to define one or more customer segmentation rules based on one or more business metrics, and to organize customers into one or more customer groups based... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082387 - Systems and methods or partial shift swapping: Systems and methods of partial shift swapping are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises: receiving a partial shift swap request to swap a portion of a shift; and updating a schedule to reflect the partial shift swap request. The request is to swap a portion of the shift from an offering... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080082389 - Method and system for assessing schedule performance issues of a project: A computer-implemented method and system for assessing schedule performance issues of a project. A Behind Schedule Performance Index (BSPI), an ahead/behind trend graph, a behind schedule report or an ahead of schedule report is generated. The BSPI excludes an ahead of schedule component from the project's scheduled performance index. The... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080082390 - Methods for generating auxiliary data operations for a role based personalized business user workplace: Methods for generating auxiliary data operations for a role-based personalized business user workplace based on business processes includes analyzing a work-low of a business process to specify business items as an input or output of a task in the business process; identifying data operations for each one of the business... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080082391 - System and method for scheduling healthcare workers: A system and method for scheduling healthcare workers that includes a healthcare worker database containing information obtained from healthcare worker registries, healthcare facility databases, instructions to search for available healthcare workers from the healthcare worker database to fill an open work shift of a healthcare facility based on the facility's... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080082392 - System for carrying out industrial business process: The invention relates to a system for carrying out an industrial business process, which comprises means for graphically modeling the business process as an event-controlled process chain. An event-controlled process chain comprises interlinked work packages which are adapted to trigger at least one event each. The dependencies of the work... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080082398 - Customer survey data reporting system and method utilizing an electronic polling device in communication with an internet portal: A simple and attractive electronic survey device for collecting survey data includes an electronic housing including an electronic display, whereon survey questions are displayed. A user input interface is mounted on the electronic housing, and coupled to operate in response to displayed survey questions. A central processing unit (CPU) is... Agent: George A Leone, Sr Citadel Patent Law

20080082399 - Method and system for collecting, organizing, and analyzing emerging culture trends that influence consumers: The present invention relates to a method and system of collecting, organizing, and analyzing data, and more particularly, to a method and system of collecting data and grouping the data to determine culture segments and emerging culture trends that influence consumers and identify target affinity groups.... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20080082394 - Method and system for providing multi-dimensional feedback: A method and system for receiving multi-dimensional feedback in a survey comprises a participant interface module and a data analysis module. The participant interface module comprises a display of a media and a plurality of interactive indicators. Each of the plurality of interactive indicators can receive feedback from at least... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080082393 - Personal data mining: Personal data mining mechanisms and methods are employed to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered. Users supply personal data that can be analyzed in conjunction with data associated with a plurality of other users to provide useful information that can improve business operations and/or quality of life.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082402 - Advertisement server for wireless access points: A local advertising system provides wireless network access and advertisements to users. The local advertising system includes a connection with a wide-area network, such as the internet, and with a local-area network, which connects with users. The local advertising system intercepts network communications between users and the wide-area network. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080082416 - Community-based selection of advertisements for a concept-centric electronic marketplace: A domain that hosts a general e-commerce marketplace establishes multiple sub-domains to host niche electronic marketplaces. These niche sub-domain sites are built around a concept and offer for sale items that relevant to that concept. The sub-domain sites are operated by communities of individuals. Each community is responsible for determining... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080082401 - Consumer portable media device: A display container having a media output device, such as a display and/or an audio output device and/or a Braille output device, presents information, such as a movie trailer. A controller is coupled to the media output device. The controller accesses predetermined media content in response to a start event,... Agent: Joseph P. Curtin

20080082418 - Consumer specific conditional rewards: A set of conditional rewards are associated with a consumer. Thereafter, notice of a reward is given for each of the consumer's transactions upon one of the consumer's accounts that satisfies one of the conditional rewards in the set. The set may be selected by the consumer, or by the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080082411 - Consumer targeting methods, systems, and computer program products using multifactorial marketing models: Methods, systems and computer program products target specific consumers for a marketing campaign of goods and/or services by: (a) defining a multi-factorial mathematical model of defined parameters; (b) calculating a numerical value using the multi-factorial mathematical model for respective consumers; then (c) ranking the consumers based on the calculated value... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080082405 - Digital media benefit attachment mechanism: Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to a digital media benefit attachment mechanism for generating or attaching revenue rights and other benefits to one or more entities associated with socially distributed media.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080082410 - Dynamic generation of advertisement text: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for dynamically generating text associated with an advertisement are provided. Core text associated with an advertisement is received from an advertiser, as is at least one attribute relevant to the advertiser and/or a user. Based upon the received attribute(s), it is determined whether customization of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080082412 - Limited inventory module for a customer service and support system: The sale of limited directory advertising space is coordinated. An indication of an availability status of the limited directory advertising space is obtained. An order for the limited directory advertising space is received. The order for the limited directory advertising space is accepted when the availability status indicates that the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080082415 - Listing generation and advertising management utilizing catalog information: This document describes, among other things, systems and methods for generating advertising campaigns or listings utilizing catalog information. A method comprises receiving, by an online publication system, a product catalog; accessing, by the online publication system, a merchant profile; using the product catalog and the merchant profile to develop an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080082408 - Method and system for awarding cash: This system or method relates to the cash award directly awarded to the users of products and services, based on purchase, use, or other activities. The cash or cash equivalent are used here, such as e-check or regular check. The user's (participant's) authentication and fraud prevention are applied here. This... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20080082420 - Method for dynamic group formation and purchasing: A method provides for group purchasing of a product or service, comprising determining, by a first customer, a product or service to purchase from a vendor, contacting, by the first customer, a second customer interested in purchasing the product or services, establishing a customer-defined group identity with the first and... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080082403 - Method for providing customized information for using a public transportation system: A method for providing customized scheduling information for using a public transportation system, the method comprising providing a schedule request for reaching an intended destination using, the schedule request comprising a temporal indication, generating advertising data related to the schedule request and receiving a customized scheduling information comprising a generated... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080082404 - Remote prompting infrastructure: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for sending and receiving prompts to end-users inside and outside the home. A prompt, for example, a message, image, or sound is presented to the end user in order to notify them of a health event, serve as a simple reminder, helps... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080082407 - Rewarding good consumer credit card behavior: Systems and methods are described whereby credit card customers can receive predictable rewards that serve as incentives to manage their credit card debt payments wisely. In particular, credit card holders receive rewards when making several consecutive timely payments. Cardholders also receive rewards when, in a given timeframe, they make some... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080082409 - System and method for delayed acknowledgment of client requests in electronic mail system: An electronic mail (email) communication system includes a mobile office platform. A direct access proxy accesses an electronic mailbox of the user and pushes email from the electronic mailbox of the user to a wireless communications device. A web client engine is operative with the mobile office platform and includes... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080082413 - Targeting of advertisements based on mutual information sharing between devices over a network: A system and method to facilitate targeting of advertisements based on mutual information sharing between devices over a network are described. Users access an entity over a network and further initiate various events, which are subsequently captured by selective processing servers within the network-based entity. Each of such events or... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080082414 - Targeting of advertisements based on mutual information sharing between devices over a network: A system and method to facilitate targeting of advertisements based on mutual information sharing between devices over a network are described. Users access an entity over a network and further initiate various events, which are subsequently captured by selective processing servers within the network-based entity. Each of such events or... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080082406 - Treatment of episodic games responsive to user game playing activity: Information about how users have interacted with current and/or previous game episodes may be used to determine how to treat (e.g., in the process of marketing) subsequent game episodes. Information regarding a particular game player's behavior with respect to playing a particular episode of a game may be generated, and... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20080082422 - Method of networking marketing: The present invention is directed to an improved method of network marketing that combines direct response advertisement with network marketing. The invention includes providing a registry that stores debit and credit entries for individual IBO accounts, wherein the registry is in communication with a computer network. The invention also includes... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20080082424 - System for optimizing pickup of goods by a purchaser from a vendor using location-based advertising: A system for optimizing pickup of goods employs a server for tracking orders placed by purchasers with vendors for pick-up at delivery locations in a service area, a location-aware device operated by a purchaser for notifying the server of identity and location when a purchaser is ready to proceed in... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Patent Attorney

20080082425 - Method and system for prioritizing a bidder in an auction: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for conducting an auction includes allowing one or more bidders to each bid on one or more resources, and for each of the bidders: determining a priority level; calculating a bid rate interval; and regulating the relative likelihood of the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080082427 - Inventory management and recommendation tool: A computer system for an inventory management and recommendation tool is provided. The computer system has a platform, at least one input device, and a central processing unit in communication with the platform and the at least one input device. The central processing unit is configured to obtain a list... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082429 - Systems and methods for automatically resolving bin errors: Systems and methods are provided for automatically resolving bin errors. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes a difference analyzer that stores a record of a discrepancy involving stock. The system also includes an inventory server comprising a database of inventory records. The inventory server identifies a negative... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082428 - Systems and methods for automatically resolving stock discrepancies: Systems and methods are provided for automatically resolving stock discrepancies. In one embodiment, a difference analyzer stores a record of a claim specifying a discrepancy involving stock. An inventory server comprises a database of inventory records. The inventory server determines an aggregate quantity of all stock having a product number... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082430 - Systems and methods for print accounting: Systems and methods consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide for a method for print accounting. In some methods for print accounting, statistics related to print events are maintained and reported. The print accounting report may include a human-readable section and an encoded machine-readable section. In some embodiments, information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080082431 - Method and system for managing foreign investment tax refunds: A method and system is provided for efficiently managing foreign investor tax refunds. In one embodiment, a method is employed to resolve disputed tax refund amounts and to direct automatic, electronic deposits of tax refunds to foreign accounts. This method may employ a computer based system to enable an accounting... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080082433 - Online information marketplace: An online information marketplace allows users to buy and sell information, such as contact information. Information received from one or more information sources are provided to users. The received information may include information entered via freeform data entry. A subset of the information is provided to a user. The information... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080082459 - Account management systems and methods: Methods for providing an account rollover marketplace which includes providing a consumer computer interface with which consumers interact to pursue account rollovers, permitting each consumer to interact with the consumer computer interface to request to receive multiple rollover offers, and presenting multiple account rollover offers from different financial institutions to... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080082458 - Client savings modeling tool: A method, computer system, and program product for estimating savings realized in an enterprise. Data is input into a computer reflecting the dividing of the enterprise into sections Also input the computer is data reflecting the dividing of each section into one or more functions and recording the money spent... Agent: John E. Campbell IBM Intellectual Property

20080082457 - Methods and apparatus for offering and managing investment funds including loss protection features: Systems and techniques for organizing and managing investment funds. An investment fund is organized according to an agreement between a managing entity and a plurality of investors, with provisions for compensation for investor losses occurring due to declines in investment value. The risk associated with the obligation for compensation is... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20080082460 - Retirement income plan systems and methods: Systems and methods of implementing sponsored retirement income plans with all effective fiduciary discretion and responsibility residing with a fiduciary entity that is separate from a co-sponsor.... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20080082437 - Derivative products: Systems and methods are described for processing and clearing derivatives products with a binary outcome and having a final settlement based on a triggering event. A computer system configured to process and clear derivative products can accept initial and adjusted performance bonds from buyers and sellers, and adjust the market... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080082438 - Magnified bull and/or bear index participation notes: Techniques are described for securitizing, administrating and trading various index shares securitized by derivative, cash-settled instruments on the underlying index.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080082439 - Systems and methods for enabling trading of currency: Systems and method of enabling trading in currencies are provided. A method of trading a foreign currency option on an electronic trading system according to the invention may include executing a trade of the foreign currency option between a buyer and a seller, locking the trading system with respect to... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080082442 - Credit card management method using communication terminal: A credit card management method using a communication terminal is disclosed. In a process of credit data transmission in the credit card management method, credit data of a credit card selected from a list of registered credit cards are transmitted to a personal computer through a local radio communication network.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080082445 - Content sharing system and method: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a content sharing system including: a first device configured to acquire a right object; a second device configured to acquire a content of the right object from the first device; a session key generation unit provided in the first device... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080082447 - Portable mass storage device with virtual machine activation: A portable mass storage device is used to store large files such as digital pictures, movies and music. The mass storage device has firmware with security mechanisms that limit access to read write operations to ensure reliable operation of the device to prevent unwanted copying or storing of secure content... Agent: Winston & Strawn, LLP

20080082449 - Authentication for licensing in an embedded system: An industrial automation system is provided. This includes at least one license component that is granted by a third party to permit access to a portion of an industrial control component. At least one protocol component that is based in part on a private key exchange facilitates authentication and access... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080082448 - Influential digital rights management: Innovative aspects provided herein pertain to digital rights management (DRM) and/or enforcement in conjunction with remote network clouds and services. Digital rights management licenses/rights/policies can be applied to personal files to facilitate worry free remote storage and/or file sharing. These rights can be identity-centric rather than machine centric, thereby facilitating... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080082450 - Method and arrangement for managing licenses: The number of releasable licenses is registered in a first entity, the resource to be used being attributed and/or having withdrawn from it, by a second entity, a releasable license for use which is registered in the second entity and/or a license. In a synchronization step the difference between the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080082451 - Biometric authorization of electronic payments: A method for biometric authorization of an electronic payment between a consumer and a merchant comprising the steps of: (1) a consumer enrollment step for enrollment of a consumer biometric sample, identification information and shipping information and assignment of a unique digital identification number to the consumer; (2) an invoice... Agent: Brenda L. Speer Brenda L Speer, LLC

20080082452 - Proxy authentication methods and apparatus: m

20080082453 - Methods for bundling credits with electronic devices and systems for implementing the same: Methods are provided in which electronic devices are distributed while systems are maintained for conducting transactions with the electronic devices across a network. Each electronic device includes a unique device identification, and across the network a database stores an amount of credit in association with each unique device identification. To... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080082455 - System and method for communicating charging data records: A system and methods for communicating charging data records (CDRs) used to bill for services provided by an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The methods provide a removed field indication in reduced partial CDRs as well as an improved redundancy mechanism for communicating partial CDRs.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080082456 - System and method for assessing and improving the performance of an organization: Systems and methods for assessing and improving the performance of an organization, including: identifying a business measure; determining whether one or more target values are appropriate for the business measure; determining one or more actual-to-target values for the business measure in response to determining that corresponding target values are appropriate,... Agent: Giorgos A. Georgakis Chowdhury & Georgakis, PC

20080082354 - Compliance assessment reporting service: Disclosed herein is a method for providing assurance information regarding a business entity to a customer for an electronic transaction. The method comprises submitting a compliance token to a certificate authority as part of a certificate signing request wherein the compliance token comprises an assessment result describing the business entity's... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080082355 - Integrated rights marketplace systems and methods: The present invention relates to a marketplace for exchanging rights and, more specifically, to an integrated rights marketplace for exchanging contingent and determined rights. The integrated marketplace provides an interface that includes a forward market domain and at least one of a primary market domain and a secondary market domain,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080082353 - System and method for automatic access of a remote computer over a network: A system and method for using identification codes found on ordinary articles of commerce to access remote computers on a network. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computer is provided having a database that relates Uniform Product Code (“UPC”) numbers to Internet network addresses (or “URLs”). To... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20080082351 - System and method for providing customized messages relating to health plan members: A system and method generates customized health-related messages for one or more health plan members. The customized messages may include customized information relevant to each recipient member based on available member data, and provide the members with education, resources, knowledge and/or guidance on a member's accounts, benefits, health-related conditions and... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080082364 - Computational systems for biomedical data: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting an input identifying at least one allergy, searching an individual's health data to identify at least one innate allergy determinant of the allergy; searching the individual's health data to identify at least one acquired allergy determinant... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080082360 - Inventory monitoring and control applications: Inventory control system which automatically monitors weights of items both before and after dispensing. The difference in weight is used to determine an amount of product that has been dispensed. The amount of product that has been dispensed as compared with the amount of money that the employee takes in... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080082362 - Method for locating and displaying information in an information system of a medical facility: In a method for locating and for display of information in an information system of a medical facility, in particular a hospital, with a number of input and display apparatuses communicating via a network, input data defining in their entirety at least one procedure to be implemented are linked by... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080082363 - On-line healthcare consultation services system and method of using same: The present invention relates to a healthcare consultation system that includes a knowledge database, a decision support server, an interactive help system and a connection, wherein the connection comprises a remote assistance unit. The present invention also relates to a wearable computer capable of two-way audio/visual conferencing to provide 24/7... Agent: Vorys Sater Seymour Pease

20080082366 - automated medical treatment order processing system: A system employs a workflow engine and rules engine to automatically create, activate, discontinue, or perform other clinical orders functions without requiring a clinical user's interaction to initiate the orders. This facilitates advanced clinical workflow order automation, allowing to implement treatment protocols as automated system processes that improve clinical system... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080082368 - 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

20080082371 - System and method for evaluating a value of an insurance policy: The invention relates to a system and method for evaluating valuations groups of insurance policies. The steps involve a) retrieving at least one characteristic for each policy from the plurality of characteristics for each policy in the group of policies; b) obtaining at least one derived characteristics for each policy... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080082383 - Electronic enterprise capital marketplace and monitoring apparatus and method: An automated and interactive system that facilitates efficient capitalization/liquidation and monitoring of private and publicly-traded enterprises through a network-driven marketplace is disclosed. The system may be comprised of a dynamic process for enterprise characterization, a customizable computational engine that utilizes statistical reference information to quantify a multi-factor scoring value for... Agent: J. Charles Dougherty

20080082380 - Method for evaluating system risk: A method for evaluating a system having at least one portal is provided, wherein the method includes examining the at least one portal to identify at least one accessible portal, performing a qualitative analysis responsive to the at least one accessible portal, performing a quantitative analysis responsive to the qualitative... Agent: The Law Offices Of Steven Mchugh, LLC

20080082381 - User generated content publishing system: The invention is directed to a User Publishing System (UPS) that enables both content publishing for users that share what they know in articles and enabling these users to get paid for providing the content through use of a User Compensation System (UCS). The invention enables users to create and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080082388 - Project management method and system: The method and system for managing a project with multiple tasks and milestones by defining probabilities of key project events and assessing their performance risk. Each task of the project is described as a waveform propagating from this task to an assigned milestone, and each milestone is described as a... Agent: Bella Fishman Fishman Consulting

20080082400 - Advertisement campaign simulator: A shadow ad can be evaluated by receiving an ad request, identifying at least one shadow ad and at least one actual ad based on the received ad request, generating an ad ranking by analyzing one or more criteria associated with the identified at least one shadow ad and the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080082396 - Consumer marketing system and method: Consumer marketing systems and methods that utilize consumer data gathering techniques to allow merchants and businesses to more efficiently focus their marketing efforts towards those customers that are likely to buy their goods and/or services. The system provides: (1) increased customer usage and loyalty through unique, timely and relevant values... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20080082397 - Vendor selection based on auction of client marketing categories: Systems for targeting marketing to a user of a web site, providing advertisements to a consumer relating to various goods and/or services, and associating advertisements with a voucher are provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for targeting marketing to a user includes an interface viewable... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080082395 - Virtual closet: A method and system are disclosed that provide a forum for shopping between customers and merchants within a host website connected on a computer network. Merchants and customers are registered within the host website, and the products of registered merchants are loaded onto the host website. Registered customers shop exclusively... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080082417 - Advertising and fulfillment system: A method is provided for a method of purchasing goods online, which allows end users to receive money in return for browsing the internet and making purchases. According to the features of the invention, the end user enters a profile into YOUniverse, which is uploaded to the database. The user... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080082419 - Internet search and action incentivization system and associated methods: An Internet search provider and incentive system includes a database and a processor. The database contains user account data, data relating to items available, and a rule set for obtaining the items. A software system can receive a selection for a search to be performed and interface with an Internet... Agent: Jacqueline E. Hartt, Ph.d Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20080082421 - Monetization of an advanced contact identification system: An advanced contact identification system in a wireless communication network is configurable to increase subscribership and revenues for an enterprise service provider and vendors and to increase sales of content. A personal brand having a popular ringtone, graphic or other content may be widely shared among subscribers of the advanced... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080082423 - Article sales data processing apparatus: An article sales data processing apparatus has an electronic tag data memory and an article item buffer. In the case where the same data as electronic tag data read by an electronic tag reader is not stored in the electronic tag data memory, the read electronic tag data is added... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080082426 - System and method for enabling image recognition and searching of remote content on display: Images are analyzed by programmatic mechanisms for accessing one or more remote web pages to retrieve content on display at the remote web pages. The retrieved images may be analyzed to determine information about an object shown in a corresponding image of the content on display. At least a portion... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080082432 - Method for managing tax return information: A communication link is established between a first processor and a receiving processor located at a central data repository. Tax return information in electronic form are then downloaded to the central data repository. The electronic tax information is then converted into a new standard electronic document having a standard format.... Agent: Law Office Of Marc D. Machtinger, Ltd.

20080082434 - System and method for making payment: A payment system includes a central account registration system to bind multiple payment platforms into an account federation to accomplish convenient and secure cross-platform payment. The central account registration system assigns a federation user ID to each federation user and stores mapping information between the user's federation user ID and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080082435 - Ratio index: In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method of comparing financial parameters includes providing a first value representing at least a first financial parameter, providing a second value representing at least a second financial parameter, and calculating in a computer a ratio index comprising a time sequence of the ratio of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080082436 - System and method for creating and trading a digital derivative investment instrument: A method and system for creating and trading an investment instrument based on an initial public offering of an entity is disclosed that allows investors to take risk positions relative to the occurrence or non-occurrence of a contingent binary event. The contingent binary event will have one of two possible... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080082441 - Order risk management for financial product processing: Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative product orders at an exchange. Traders provide derivative product order risk data to the exchange. The order risk data may include maximum delta, gamma and/or vega utilization values for derivative product contracts based on the same underlying product. Before executing a trade,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080082440 - Systems and methods for providing non-fully-transparent markets: Method and systems are provided herewith for providing non-fully-transparent markets that includes or involves the step or steps of receiving a request to reveal a bid or an offer, in which the request is submitted by a user of an electronic trading system; transmitting a price and a size that... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080082443 - Advertisement space auction method, apparatus and storage medium: An advertisement space auction apparatus enabling a more strategic and open auction transaction to be realized using a network, including a memory storing advertisement space information and being accessible by a plurality of entities connected to the network, a bid data communication unit receiving bid data submitted via the network... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080082444 - Controlling electronic withdrawals: Controlling electronic withdrawals by a drawee including receiving in the drawee from a withdrawal device a withdrawal request, where the withdrawal request includes a withdrawal device identifier, a drawer identifier, and a withdrawal amount; retrieving from storage in computer memory of the drawee data representing limitations on electronic withdrawals for... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080082446 - Remote authorization for unlocking electronic data system and method: Controlling unauthorized access to software distributed to a user by a vendor. A verification key is generated by a product key generator and either embedded in the software prior to distribution or packaged with the software as a self-installing package. The verification key includes a public verification key. The combination... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080082454 - Method and apparatus for managing transactions: A system receives account access information from a user. The account is then accessed using the received access information. Data is harvested from a web page associated with the account or received from another financial data source. The user's ability to access the account is authenticated based on the obtained... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080082461 - Systems and methods for print accounting: Systems and methods consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide for a method for print accounting. In some methods for print accounting, statistics related to print events are maintained and reported. The print accounting report may include a human-readable section and an encoded machine-readable section. In some embodiments, information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080082462 - Systems and methods for print accounting: Systems and methods consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide for a method for print accounting. In some methods for print accounting, statistics related to print events are maintained and reported. The print accounting report may include a human-readable section and an encoded machine-readable section. In some embodiments, information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP