Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 05/08

20080126109 - Aggregation of multiple media streams to a user: A media stream aggregation mechanism receives and analyzes multiple media streams and creates an aggregate media stream output based on user preferences. In this manner a media provider that uses the media stream aggregation mechanism potentially may provide a customized presentation to each user based on user preferences. By providing... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080126111 - Global product management of a vehicle and a fleet of vehicles: A system and method for global product management includes an onboard microserver located on a vehicle, a plurality of subsystem microservers, and a ground mirror database configured to be located remote of the vehicle. The onboard microserver includes a computer processor, memory storage, and a web-based server enabling local and... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080126110 - Integrated software support for a distributed business application with seamless backend communications: The disclosure provides integrated software for supporting a distributed business application comprising computer readable instructions embodied on media. The integrated support software is operable to automatically monitor the distributed business application for potential incidents. It also facilitates continuous data exchange between the distributed business application and a remote support module... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080126105 - Kit for the creation of custom postage and a method for using same: In a kit for the creation of custom postage at least one artform is provided and includes an a real portion upon which a user can create original artwork. An order form is also provided for ordering a quantity of custom postage, as is at least one shipping receptacle for... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080126112 - Method and apparatus for processing messages based on interactive history and context between sender and recipient: Techniques for processing messages based on interactive history and context between a sender and a recipient are described herein. In one embodiment, a process includes, but is not limited to, in response to a message to be received by a recipient from a sender over a network, determining one or... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080126107 - Method and system for determining one or more royalty distributions: A method determines one or more royalty distributions. The method determines a predetermined royalty rate for one or more sales of media content. Further, the method determines one or more predetermined royalty sharing percentages of the royalty rate. In addition, the method stores the media content on a media server.... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20080126106 - Self-service deposit method and apparatus: A self-service deposit terminal for bank notes, in the deposited notes are subjected to an acceptance procedure in which the deposited notes are passed through a note validator and a decision is made regarding the validity of the notes, so as to differentiate between: a) authentic notes; b) counterfeit notes;... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080126115 - System and method for handling a request for a good or service: A system and method for handling a request for a good or service provided by a business, member, or professional. A determination of who may be able to fulfill the received request is made by comparing the request to information stored in a database regarding the goods or services associated... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080126108 - System and method for implementing a meteorological network for improved atmospheric modeling: A system and method for designing and implementing a meteorological network to provide input data to atmospheric dispersion models for predicting the potential impact of hazardous material release into an environment. This method and system may be used for both initial design and for continuous improvement to the network, and... Agent: Law Office Of Rod D. Baker

20080126114 - System and method for project management of land development: A project management system for development of land is provided. An embodiment includes a project management engine interconnecting a plurality of workstations. Users at each workstation can select lots on a subdivision proposal. When the project management engine determines a sufficient number of lots are selected, provision of services for... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080126113 - Systems and methods for creating and participating in ad-hoc virtual communities: Systems and methods are described for creating and expiring ad hoc communities of mobile and fixed-line phone and Internet users for the purpose of facilitating one-to-many communication amongst the users in response to live events. Embodiments of the invention allow one-to-many communication by any individual participant in a community to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080126123 - Customizing healthcare information: Customized healthcare information is provided to a user based, at least in part, on the user's healthcare literacy. More specifically, customized healthcare information is provided to the user by determining the user's healthcare literacy, selecting healthcare information from one or more data stores based, at least in part, on the... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080126126 - Method and apparatus for managing and locating hospital assets, patients and personnel: An apparatus and method for facilitating locating, tracking and managing of hospital assets, patients and hospital personnel within a healthcare facility, providing one or more signal detecting devices configured in locations within a healthcare facility, providing associated patient RFID tags which may be sensed as the patient moves within the... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080126127 - Method and system for estimating usage of blood products: A method for estimating blood and blood product usage in a facility comprising obtaining a first set of publicly available data, obtaining a second set of publicly available data, and querying a user for data specific to the facility. The method further includes using the data from the first set... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080126128 - Method, apparatus and system for providing insurance coverage and claims payment for single event surgical and diagnostic procedures: A method and system are provided for determining whether to issue insurance coverage for one or more specific events, such as a specific surgical event or diagnostic procedure. The method and system include consideration of a variety of risk criteria associated with the event or procedure, as well as policy... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080126117 - Optimization of a medication therapy regimen: A method of optimizing a medication therapy regimen identifies opportunities to optimize a medication therapy regimen by removing and/or replacing medications. Methods of optimizing a medication therapy regimen and intervention thereof are provided herein. The methods of optimizing a medication therapy regimen include receiving information on medications for a person... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080126129 - Process for enhancing aesthetic or medical skin procedure: The present invention is used to help individuals in improving the results of a skin aesthetic procedure. Furthermore, the present invention is based on individual-specific information, provides the individual with skin treatment recommendations prior to the skin aesthetic procedure, and recommends the factors to enhance the skin aesthetic procedures.... Agent: Defillo & Associates, Inc.

20080126124 - Quantitative assessment, evaluation and triage of the health status of an individual: A method for the quantitative assessment of an individual's health status comprising selecting at least one measurable parameter of an individual; segmenting each parameter into a plurality of ranges that include a measured result for each selected parameter; assigning a scaled value to each range for each selected parameter to... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080126125 - Remote health care: Among other things, a remote health care system includes a diagnostic receiver, a medical records module in data communication with the diagnostic receiver, and an emergency services module in data communication with the diagnostic receiver. The diagnostic receiver is configured to receive a diagnostic test from a patient, the medical... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080126122 - Smart bed system and apparatus: A smart bed apparatus adapted to retain a patient and a smart bed system are disclosed herein. The smart bed apparatus includes a plurality of output devices, a smart bed computer operatively connected to the output devices, and a care plan stored on the smart bed computer. The smart bed... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080126118 - Systems, methods and apparatus for a network application framework system: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments a central computer provides a communication path between a customer computer, a vendor computer and an expert computer. In some embodiments, a tiered fee structure that includes one or more incentive is transmitted between the computers.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080126119 - Systems, methods and apparatus for a network application framework system: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments a central computer provides a communication path between a customer computer, a vendor computer and an expert computer. In some embodiments, a tiered fee structure that includes one or more incentive is transmitted between the computers.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080126120 - Systems, methods and apparatus for a network application framework system: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments a central computer provides a communication path between a customer computer, a vendor computer and an expert computer. In some embodiments, a tiered fee structure that includes one or more incentive is transmitted between the computers.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080126121 - Systems, methods and apparatus for a network application framework system: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments a central computer provides a communication path between a customer computer, a vendor computer and an expert computer. In some embodiments, a tiered fee structure that includes one or more incentive is transmitted between the computers.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080126130 - Compliance with a medication therapy regimen: A method of intervention prevents adverse health outcomes resulting from non-compliance with a medication therapy regimen. Methods of determining compliance with a medication therapy regimen and intervention thereof are provided herein. The methods of determining compliance with a medication therapy regimen include receiving medication data which includes data relating to... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080126134 - Integrated emergency medical database system: An integrated medical database system for the emergency medical transportation business is disclosed. The system includes a dispatch module, clinical module, administration module and billing module. Each module may communicate data with one or more of the other modules to form a system incorporating data sharing, thus achieving an end-to-end... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080126135 - Paperless medication prescription system: A paperless medication prescription is provided which allows prescriptions to be transferred electronically between a doctor's office and a pharmacy. The system involves the use of a secure smart card or other patient controlled memory medium in conjunction with a networked system of computers. Redundant information is stored on the... Agent: The Matthews Firm

20080126131 - Predictive modeling and risk stratification of a medication therapy regimen: A method of predictive modeling and risk stratification of a medication therapy regimen identifies potentially adverse health outcomes resulting from the medication therapy regimen. Methods of predictive modeling and risk stratification of a medication therapy regimen and intervention thereof are provided herein. The methods of predictive modeling and risk stratification... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080126133 - Sharing medical information: A healthcare professional (e.g., doctor, nurse, receptionist, medical billing administrator) can access a patient's workflow to add, delete, change, and/or approve of items associated with the workflow (e.g., refer patient to specialist, schedule an appointment, communicate patient information, add blood test, view blood test results). Another healthcare professional can access... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080126132 - Smart bed system: A smart bed system is disclosed herein. The smart bed system includes a smart bed adapted to accommodate a patient. The smart bed includes a smart bed computer operatively connectable to one or more monitoring devices. The smart bed computer is configured to store any monitored data recorded by the... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080126137 - Method and apparatus for obtaining and using event data recorder triage data: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method for receiving information regarding a vehicle involved in an accident, determining availability of event data recorder (EDR) data from the vehicle based on the information, and if the EDR data is available, assigning a level of suitability for data collection... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080126139 - Method and system for determining rate of insurance: A method and system for determining a rate of insurance for management liability coverage which determines a base premium, a limit/retention factor, shared limit credits, and other rating considerations. The limit/retention factor, shared limit credits, and rating considerations are applied to the base premium to ascertain a resultant premium. Another... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080126136 - Method and system for insuring against loss in connection with an online financial transaction: A method and system for insuring a consumer against a loss incurred in connection with an online financial transaction service which loss occurs in the consumer's account and for which the consumer would normally have liability under applicable banking regulations, as well as losses from fees, such as returned check... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080126138 - System and method for presenting insurance offers: A system and method for presenting insurance offers is provided. User information is received via a user interface. A database stores the user information, and also stores a plurality of insurance policy offers, each of which has a corresponding base purchase value. An offer interface is provided for presenting a... Agent: Jerry A. Cherney

20080126140 - System and method for providing transferable pre-need services and transferable pre-need plans as a service: The pre-need combination risk protection insurance policy; a transferable, portable pre-need or individual insurance policy with combination risk protection features in a single product or pre-need product in conjunction with life event services dependent on a service provider, group of service providers, merchandise providers and having a contractual association with... Agent: Secure Financial Group, LLC

20080126141 - Address determination for residency restricted offers: Embodiments of the present invention provide for computerized address determination for residency restricted offers. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080126142 - Promotional in-store demonstration coordination system and method: The invention comprises a system and method for facilitating the scheduling and performance of a promotional in-store demonstration. The system and method coordinates information between the primary entities involved in the demonstration, including vendors, retailers and event affiliates. The system may include a web-based interface that enables each entity to... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080126143 - System and method for managing booking and expensing of travel products and services: A system and method for booking and expensing travel products and services utilizing multiple data sources and presenting information pulled from the multiple data sources in one user-friendly format. The following features are included: graphical city selection; policy enforcement; request and approval queues: in-browser agent support; request prioritization; email confirmation... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080126146 - Contact history for promotion management: A computer implemented method for producing a contact history for a marketing campaign is described. The method includes producing a promotion version history table for the marketing campaign, with the promotion version history table recording promotion attribute values for each promotion version at runtime, producing a treatment history table for... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080126147 - Determining method for exposure of a service: Candidate services are identified using goal-service modeling or other techniques. A candidate service is tested using a business alignment test, a composability test, an externalized service description test, and a redundancy test. When all tests are successfully passed, the candidate service is exposed for use in a client solution, such... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080126152 - Internet-based advertising and marketing management interactive system: An internet-based advertising and marketing management interactive system, comprising a first web site including an interactive visual interface based on a software program, making available on a screen a plurality of adjacent boxes displayed in a prearranged order, including images and/or texts with synthesized information about a brand or service... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080126155 - Method and apparatus for enterprise operation assessment: A method and an apparatus for automatic generation of an enterprise operation health assessment of an organization by dynamically accessing an associated enterprise information system are described. The assessment may be initiated in response to a query over a network. Business transaction information during course of operations within the organization... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080126160 - Method and device for evaluating a trend analysis system: A device for evaluating a trend analysis system comprises: an allowable value input unit for receiving allowable values of false positives and allowable values of false negatives made by the trend analysis system; and an accuracy computation unit for computing an accuracy of the trend analysis system as a function... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080126144 - Method and system for improving the accuracy of a business forecast: A method and system for improving the accuracy of the business forecast is introduced. The method is based on initializing the simulation by the actual state of the business process instances and using the historic data, adjusted by the deviations, as the simulation data feed. The computer system utilizing this... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080126148 - Method and system for real time measurement data adjudication and service level evaluation: A method and system for adjudicating measurement data in real time and re-adjudicating a segment of an input measurement data stream upon submission of a new adjudication instruction in a service level evaluation system. An adjudication instruction associated with a service level is received. Measurement data including a first measurement... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080126150 - Method for assessing reliability requirements of a safety instrumented control function: A method for analyzing a system for safety to personnel is disclosed comprising: identifying at least one operating parameter of a first subcomponent of said product; identifying an inherent hazard of said first subcomponents based on an analysis of the at least one operating parameter; identifying features of the structure... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20080126154 - Method for processing advanced ship notices (asns): A method is disclosed for automatically processing Advanced Ship Notices (ASNs). In one embodiment, the method receives a first set of data associated with an ASN. The method further compares one or more data fields included in the first set of data with a second set of data associated with... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080126159 - Method of managing advertisement and system for executing the method: A method of managing an advertisement and a system for executing the method are provided. The method of managing the advertisement includes the steps of: detecting non-relevant traffics to an online advertisement of an advertiser; notifying said advertiser of the non-relevant traffics to said online advertisement; and upon receipt of... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080126149 - Method to determine process input variables' values that optimally balance customer based probability of achieving quality and costs for multiple competing attributes: A method for balancing competing attributes in a multi-attribute design optimization, which receives attributes and a set of input variables as inputs, and incorporates the variation of the input variables, is disclosed. The method receives transfer functions for the performance as a function of the input variables and for the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080126145 - Methods and systems for distribution of a mobile wallet for a mobile device: Methods and systems for distributing a mobile device application for use in making and receiving payments utilizing a mobile device such as a mobile telephone (cellphone) or wireless connected personal digital assistant (PDA). A downloadable mobile device application, when installed on a compatible mobile device, is operative for communicating with... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080126151 - Process modeling systems and methods: Providers and sourcing locations for recommended optimization processes of operational processes are evaluated based on provider metrics and sourcing metrics. Providers and sourcing locations for the optimization processes are recommended based on the provider and sourcing evaluations.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080126158 - System and method for categorizing activities in computer-accessible environments: The invention discloses a system and method for collecting over time significant amounts of low-level data about automated devices used by the users, and for analyzing these data over time in order to achieve insight into what improves the users' ability to perform their activity and what hinders their performance.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080126153 - System and method for determination of executive compensation in a public company: An executive compensation system for a public company that objectively determines every quarter the executive compensation for the executive-group automatically based on input of the compensation policy, revenue, profit, and stock price parameters. The system has functions that objectively and automatically allocates the executive-group compensation into the individual members of... Agent: Tara Chand Singhal

20080126156 - System and method for managing simulation models: A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage, distribution, and/or the like. The method includes storing model and model... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080126157 - Systems, methods and apparatuses for importation and exportation transaction logistics facilitation: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for market generation and matches of importation and exportation transactions; i.e., a cross-border Logistics Facilitator (hereinafter “Logistics Facilitator”). Through its various components, the cross-border Logistics Facilitator creates new markets by generating and facilitating three stages of a cross-border trade transaction:... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080126165 - Dynamic overlay metrics: A system and method visually depict the status of a project. A resource may be expended to complete the project. An expenditure graph depicting the total amount of the resource estimated to finish the project may be displayed. The project may have a related production schedule having a milestone. An... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080126162 - Integrated activity logging and incident reporting: A solution for improving the logging, tracking, and/or reporting of activities and incidents of a project, and more particularly, to an integrated activity logging and incident reporting system is provided. A method may include: providing an on-line electronic database, wherein the database includes a plurality of activities related to the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080126161 - Integration of workflow and rules: Various technologies for integrating workflow services are described. In accordance with one described embodiment, an integrated workflow services system includes a host process, such as a Windows® application program. The host process hosts a workflow foundation runtime engine for executing workflows and a workflow foundation library. A workflow executable by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080126167 - Invitee-participant matching system for meeting scheduling: A system that schedules a meeting with a meeting invitee includes a database that is configured to store records associated with potential meeting participants that meet one or more pre-qualification criteria. A meeting notifier provides notice regarding a future meeting to the potential meeting participants having records in the database.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080126163 - It service management technology enablement: Disclosed are a method and system for transforming organizations from a supply driven to service oriented, demand driven IT organization. The IT Service Management Technology Enablement Model provides a method for supply-oriented customers to move to an advanced, demand driven service utility. The method outlines the key technical enablers that... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080126164 - Multi-item single delivery location processing: A method for processing an order for quantities of several different items involves identifying locations that handle all of the different items, determining whether one of the locations can supply the requested quantities of all of the different items, and confirming the order if such a location exists. Systems and... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080126168 - Oilfield management system: Systems and methods of managing a workflow of an oilfield activity are provided. A problem in the oilfield activity is identified, where the oilfield activity includes a number of tasks necessary to complete a project of a number of projects in the workflow, and where the number of tasks are... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080126166 - System-design support program and method: A system-design support program and method capable of visualizing costs necessary for system creation and maintenance in an easy-to-understand manner. When a function-selection receiving means receives functions selected and input, to be applied to a computer system, a resource output means refers to a resource information table which has resource... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080126169 - Systems and methods for electronic marketing: An exemplary system includes a publisher subsystem configured to communicate with an access device and an advertiser device over a data communication network. The publisher subsystem includes a publish module, a session module, and an allocation module. The publish module is configured to publish content over the data communication network,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080126171 - Performance-based logistics for aerospace and defense programs: This invention relates to an automated method and system for forming and implementing a performance-based logistic contract through managing the maintenance an item of equipment in accordance with a maintenance plan. Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for maintaining an item of equipment supports the provision... Agent: Accenture, LLP C/o Hogan & Hartson, LLP (ipgroup)

20080126172 - System and method for facilitating generation and performance of on-line evaluations: A system and method for facilitating on-line generation and assignment of evaluations for entities of a particular organization comprising: a web-based server device for generating web-based communications for delivery to web-enabled devices over a communications network, and receiving web-based communications via the network; an evaluation build module for initiating a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080126170 - Systems and methods for retrieving potential real estate leads: Computer-implemented methods and systems for retrieving potential real estate leads such as expired MLS listings, for-sale-by-owner properties, and foreclosures are described. Expired listings and/or the other leads may be automatically updated, by scanning several electronic sources to discover owner information and when a property is sold or listed/re-listed with a... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080126173 - Custom survey generation method and system: A custom survey generation method and system. The system comprises a computing apparatus comprising a list of business processes, reporting outcomes, and groups of questions. The computing system presents to a user the list. The computing system receives from the user a selection for a business process and an associated... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080126175 - Interactive user interface for collecting and processing nomenclature and placement metrics for website design: Computer implemented methods for conducting interactive surveys that define aspects of a web page, is disclosed. One method includes generating an interactive survey user interface (UI), where the interactive survey UI provides a plurality of selectable nomenclature items for a plurality of page objects of the web page. Then, enabling... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20080126174 - Method and apparatus for facilitating peer-to-peer electronic commerce: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for determining a list of providers of a commodity. During operation, the system receives a description of the commodity from a customer at a server. Then, the system uses the description to identify a list of providers of the commodity. Next,... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080126187 - Method and system for determining the ability of an organization to successfully interact with government: A novel method and system for analyzing the capability of an organization to effectively advocate on its behalf in the public arena is generally disclosed. The method can help an organization identify existing relationships between members of the organization and participants in government that could be exploited to further the... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080126180 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126181 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126182 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126183 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126184 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126185 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126186 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126177 - Stage play advertising and distribution methodology: The present invention discloses a new method for modern theatre to find and expand its audience. The result yields an ideal advertisement for future stage productions, as the nature of theatre encourages the reinterpretation of playwrights' works. Presently for a playwright, the process of mailing scripts for consideration for production... Agent: Gordon G. Waggett, P.C.

20080126178 - Surge-based online advertising: Surge-based advertising permits deployment of advertisements in response to substantially real-time changes in user activity.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126179 - System and method for tracking and predicting response to a presentation: There is disclosed a customer relations management (CRM) system for capturing response information to a presentation to an audience. The system includes a presentation module for presenting objects of the presentation to the audience, a tracking module for capturing the response information during presentation of the objects of the presentation... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080126176 - User-profile based web page recommendation system and user-profile based web page recommendation method: A web page recommendation system includes a browsing history database which contains information related to the web pages that a user browsed; a stability score calculating part which calculates stability scores that represent the stability of the user's web page browsing tendencies, based on the information in the browsing history... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080126188 - Method for automatically detecting the use of a means of transport conveying persons: Disclosed is a method for automatically detecting the use of a means of transport (10; 16) conveying persons. According to said method, a transmitter emits signals, a receiver receives signals emitted by the transmitter, positional and/or movement-related data of the means of transport are determined, and the use of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080126193 - Ad delivery and implementation system: An ad delivery and implementation system is provided. One method includes attaching a unique identifier to a brand ad. Providing the brand ad to be displayed on a graphic user interface (GUI). Upon selection of the brand ad, reading the unique identifier and identifying the brand ad by reading the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080126210 - Method and apparatus for electronic product information and business transactions: A shopping aid for electronically supplying product information is provided. In one aspect of the invention, product, sales, status, availability and/or other related product information may be transmitted locally from a computer system associated with a merchant or from the Internet to a portable electronic device of the consumer. The... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080126209 - Method and apparatus to allocate and recycle telephone numbers in a call-tracking system: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method. The method includes dynamically allocating a telephone number to an advertisement on a just-in-time basis; and if the telephone number is not called for a predefined period of time, then unallocating the telephone number.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv2)

20080126207 - Method for increasing use of alternative transportation network: A method involves associating a plurality of readable tags having user identifiers with a plurality of users, storing the user identifier of each of the readable tags in a database, and reading the tags using a plurality of tag readers disposed across a transportation network as the users carrying the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080126190 - Method of providing clothing by subscription: Embodiments comprise a method of providing clothing through a subscription service. Subscribers are enrolled into the service. A lifestyle profile category is selected for each subscriber and information concerning each subscriber's clothing sizes is obtained. Periodically, clothing is chosen for each subscriber based in part on his lifestyle profile category... Agent: Leyendecker & Lemire, LLC

20080126195 - Methods and compositions for treating lactose intolerance: The invention provides methods and compostions for treating lactose intolerance. In embodiments, the invention provides methods and composition for decreasing symptoms of lactose intolerance by administering to an individual suffering from lactose intolerance increasing doses of lactose using a protocol such that at the end of treatment the individual's symptoms... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080126198 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126199 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126200 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126201 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126202 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126203 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080126194 - Methods for advertising in airport and/or seaport security areas: The present invention provides methods for advertising in airport and/or seaport security areas, wherein advertising revenue that is generated by advertising fees that are collected by a security container distributor from an advertiser as a result of a sale of one or more advertisements is shared by the security container... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

20080126189 - Mobile assemblies and methods of using same: A mobile comprising one or more: (1) support arm structures (e.g., having one or more elongate arms); (2) charms (e.g., items that are supported by the mobile and that are adapted to provide a desired visual effect); and/or (3) charm attachment members that are adapted to support the mobile's various... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080126206 - Providing advertising to buyers of real estate utilizing virtual tours: A method of providing virtual tour based advertising comprising providing a virtual tour technology to a real estate agent which enables the real estate agent to create a virtual tour, uploading the virtual tour to a host server such that the virtual tour is available for viewing across a distributed... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080126196 - System and method for a consumer notification and a retail item purchase price negotiation: A method is provided for interacting with a consumer in a shopping establishment. The method includes communicating a notification to a wireless communications device located in a shopping establishment and belonging to a consumer. The notification identifies a retail item having a negotiable purchase price or a special purchase price... Agent: Motorola C/o Darby & Darby PC

20080126204 - System and method for computer-created advertisements: The invention relates to a computerized method for a user to create an advertisement by displaying a plurality of advertising formats for selection by a user; displaying a template corresponding to a selected advertising format; displaying a plurality of product references for selection by the user; displaying on the template... Agent: James Remenick Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20080126205 - System and method for computer-created advertisements: The invention relates to a computerized method for a user to create an advertisement by displaying a plurality of advertising formats for selection by a user; displaying a template corresponding to a selected advertising format; displaying a plurality of product references for selection by the user; displaying on the template... Agent: James Remenick Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20080126197 - System and method for network-based talent contest: A talent contest management platform provides an interface for artists to submit video presentations and fans to view the video presentations through the Internet to allow fans to vote to select artist talent contest winners from plural contest stages, each stage having an associated content genre. A voting system accepts... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080126191 - System and method for tagging, searching for, and presenting items contained within video media assets: A system and method for computerized searching for items of interest contained in visual media assets, such as a movie or video, stores digital tag information for tagged visual media assets which includes for each tag a time code for a representative image frame, an address code for the storage... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Godbey Griffiths Reiss & Chong

20080126208 - System and method providing customer incentive to purchase fuel at a store: A system and computer-implemented method of providing an incentive for a customer to purchase fuel at a store that sells products or services and fuel. The system detects that the customer purchased a threshold quantity of fuel in a first visit to the store, and provides the customer with a... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20080126192 - System and methods for distributing sales of advertisement slots: A system and methods for distributing sales of advertisement slots involves the presentation of at least two advertisement slots, each slot from a different source. One or more potential sellers are able to select one or more advertisement slots through a user interface associated with one of the sources. A... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080126211 - Method and apparatus for a mutual fund \"gift\" card: A mutual fund “gift” card method and apparatus is presented. An established financial network between a mutual fund “gift” card issuer, a broker and a retail financial institution allows for the gifting of a monetary sum to a recipient in which the gift giver retains some control over how the... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20080126212 - Method of marketing credit card accounts and point-of-sale payment devices: A method for issuing a permanent credit device to a user at a point of sale involves the use of a credit device for performing point of sale transactions which is able to be programmed on the fly with new or existing credit account information for one or more accounts... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP

20080126213 - Peer-to-peer data replication for off-line transactions in a retail fueling environment: A failsafe, redundant storage system for storing additional copies of off-line transactional or payment information generated by service station forecourt devices. The forecourt devices accept customer payment information for carrying out transactions. The payment information is communicated to a payment server for processing. The forecourt devices may be configured to... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080126215 - Bidding system and method: A bidding method for buying products over the Internet comprising: a. setting parameters for a bid; b. opening the bid; c. accepting offers in the bid, if the offers conform to predefined requirements and the parameters of the bid; d. closing the bid according to predefined requirements and the parameters... Agent: Nissim Orfaly

20080126221 - Intelligent multimedia e-catalog: An intelligent product catalog system provides for electronic creation, management and viewing of product information using a multimedia display system. A central database repository stores the product information and provides for an unlimited number of product attributes and dynamic reconfiguration of the product information. The central database repository comprises a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080126223 - Managing transfer of content: A system and method for transferring ownership of disc storage media utilizing unique disc identification includes a disc storage medium with a permanently recorded disc identification, a user console with a set identification, a network, and a host server managing a user database and a disc database. Upon purchase of... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080126222 - Method and device for subscribing purchase item in mobile broadcast multicast service: The present invention relates to Mobile Broadcast Multicast technologies, and discloses a method for subscribing a purchase item in Mobile Broadcast Multicast Service, so that the subscription operation and update operation of the purchase item in BCAST are simplified, and the utilization of system resources is improved. In the present... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080126217 - Method for arranging trials of a merchadize: A method for arranging trials of a merchandise is disclosed, which comprises collecting addresses of a first and second trial customer over a communication means, shipping the merchandise to a first trial customer for a trial of the same by the first trial customer, and instructing a transportation of the... Agent: Peigen Jiang

20080126214 - Ordering supplies from an operator control panel of storage apparatus: Storage apparatus and methods that allow direct ordering of storage supplies from a vendor. Exemplary storage apparatus comprises a housing, and a controller contained within the housing that is configured to robotically manage removable media. A communications module is coupled to the controller for communicating with the vendor. An operator... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080126220 - Remote ordering system: A remote ordering system is provided using an electronic menu having a series of input devices corresponding to various menu items aligned with the input devices, and a wireless transmitter to send selected menu items to a receiving device for processing. A display to show selected menu items, an alpha-numeric... Agent: Daniel J. Baril

20080126224 - Request type grid computing: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for providing access to a grid computing environment. In one environment, requests include resource specific criteria used to identify a particular grid resource to perform the request. In another embodiment, a request includes a queue criterion used to identify one of a plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080126218 - System and method for providing shipping services: Shipping costs are managed in a process wherein a plurality of entities who possess articles ship the articles via a mail system to a plurality of entities who receive the articles. A database is maintained of articles and article attributes. For each shipped article, the shipment control entity receives information... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080126219 - System for and method for organizing and distributing audio or audiovisual information: This document describes, among other things, according to one example embodiment, there is provided methods and systems for managing and organizing audio or audiovisual content, and for producing audio or audiovisual compilations from the content. According to one example embodiment, there is provided a content server system that receives content... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080126216 - Systems and methods for operating a business that provides telephony services to an enterprise: Systems and methods for operating a business to provide telephony services are described. The method includes obtaining one or more mobile phone subscriptions for an enterprise and receiving via a web site a request for a subscription to one or more telephony services for the enterprise. The web site and... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080126225 - Intermediary service for application intergration of e-commerce functionality: A system is disclosed for supporting integration of electronic commerce functionality into an application. The system includes an intermediary service layer that is configured to receive a collection of listing information from an application. The intermediary layer is also configured to electronically communicate a representation of the collection of listing... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080126226 - Process and apparatus for advertising component placement: A method of digital advertising, comprising: receiving a plurality of video material sources; optionally converting video material from a format of said sources into one or more placement operating formats; placing a digital advertising component into video material; and outputting the video material with the digital advertising component integrated within... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080126227 - Application access for support users: One embodiment of the invention relates to a system for providing a support function in maintaining a computing system. The system includes a computer-implemented interface configured to receive a support user identification and a system user identification. The system also includes a support user implementation engine configured to set a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080126228 - Order supporting apparatus, control method for an order supporting apparatus, order supporting system, and computer readable storage medium: An order supporting apparatus connected to a monitoring apparatus over a network, the monitoring apparatus determining a supply status of devices in the network and sends supply shortage information regarding at least one of the devices determined to have a supply shortage to the order supporting apparatus. In particular, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126229 - Request type grid computing: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for providing access to a grid computing environment. In one environment, requests include resource specific criteria used to identify a particular grid resource to perform the request. In another embodiment, a request includes a queue criterion used to identify one of a plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080126230 - Flexible charging mechanisms for ip multimedia services: A method of processing service related accounting requests at an Online Charging System of an IP Multimedia Subsystem. The method comprises receiving a service related accounting request from an IP Multimedia Subsystem Serving Element, the request containing an identification of the chargeable events measuring methods supported by the Serving Element.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080126233 - Purchase notification system: A system and a method for transmitting an alert of an account authorization request to a user associated with the account are disclosed. The system generally includes a database operable to receive a notification of an authorization request associated with a financial account of a user, and an alert distributor... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080126231 - System and method for evaluating a security traders performance: The present invention is a method for evaluating one or many security trader's performance using technical analysis. The method of the present invention provides for the application of mathematically definable metrics by establishing a correspondence between an account balance and price while and at the same time creating a correspondence... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20080126232 - System and method for routing internet transactions from within an organizational network: A method for receiving credit for revenue generating activities conducted on one or more designated Internet domains through an organization's internal network includes the steps of: detecting that a user of the internal network has requested access to one of the designated domains; routing user access to the designated domain;... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080126234 - Virtual credit in simulated environments: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080126268 - Method for structuring a transaction: In one embodiment the present invention relates to a method for structuring a transaction involving a first party having a long position in a security and a second party desiring to acquire short exposure to the security. In one example an agent or intermediary acts between the first party and... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080126269 - System for and method of risk minimization and enhanced returns in an intellectual capital based venture investment: The disclosure relates to an investment risk minimization system involving a venture capital investor and a venture needing investment from the venture capital investor. In such a system, an exemplary method can include providing an investment to a venture having an intellectual asset, and receiving a security interest in the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080126267 - System for managing the total risk exposure for a portfolio of loans: A computer system for monitoring and enhancing the collateral security underlying a set of loans is provided, including a system for calculating the unsecured value of the set at any time and for initiating additional collateral enhancement instruments when the unsecured value exceeds a certain limit. The system may include... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080126270 - System for and method of risk minimization and enhanced returns in an intellectual capital based venture investment: The disclosure relates to an investment risk minimization system involving a venture capital investor and a venture needing investment from the venture capital investor. In such a system, an exemplary method can include providing an investment to a venture having an intellectual asset, and receiving a security interest in the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080126237 - Auction market with price improvement mechanism: A system for auctioning financial products over a distributed, networked computer system includes a plurality of workstations for entering orders for financial products into the distributed, networked computer system. The orders specify a price for the financial product, a quantity of the financial product and exposure time which the order... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080126241 - Auctioning similar examples of an item: Elements (1911, 1912) are auctioned that represent similar examples of an item that are substantially mutually exchangeable and are susceptible to being ranked in order of perceived value. The method involves arranging said elements in a list (2203) of perceived value and allocating a standard price for each of said... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080126242 - Automated auctioning with a reserve: The auctioning a plurality of elements that represent similar examples of an item and that may be ranked in an order of perceived value is shown. A reserve price is established for all of the elements and the availability of only a single exemplar (2305) of the elements is displayed... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080126240 - Automated sales with offer grouping: The sale of items is automated. Elements (1304) are displayed that are available for sale and receptive to offers being made. Each of the elements is displayed with a region (1405) receptive to an offer price being entered. In response to selecting a grouping function (1501), individual items are placed... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080126239 - Automated sales with varying discounts: A method of automating the sale of items in which an item is offered for sale at a discount over a predetermined period of time (1001,1002), wherein said discount varies and is defined as a function with respect to time such that the available discount varies with time.... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080126243 - Methods and systems for market clearance: In a marketplace, offers are processed that are intended to be associated with other offers in a pool. The offers specify conditions for acceptance. Improvable offers are received that are capable of being associated with offers having more favorable specifications than initial offers associated with the improvable offers. Nonimprovable offers... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080126238 - Multi-stage automated auctions: An automated auctioning method is disclosed having a multifunction (pre-auction) stage (501), an auction stage (502) and a fulfillment stage (503). During the multifunction stage it is possible to buy an element (507), make an offer (506) or place an auction bid (504). During the auction stage it is only... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080126235 - Real estate investment vehicle and method: An Investment System (Vehicle) invests or holds an ownership interest in real property, receiving income from the property for the benefit of the underlying owners in the Vehicle. The Vehicle offers fractional ownership interests to investors owning real property which are exchanged for an ownership in the Vehicle. Such exchanges... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20080126236 - Securities auction system and method: A system and method of conducting a securities auction through the use of a computer network including programs and databases to be accessed by participants through the Internet using a standard browser. The seller inputs bid requests through a website that may be accessed by bidders once they are logged... Agent: Joseph Caldas

20080126244 - Loan application information routing system and method with real-time credit check and demographics augmentation: Loan application information routing systems and methods with real-time credit check and demographics augmentation are provided. Also provided are systems and methods for managing relationships with customers (e.g., initiating follow-up contacts) and interfacing with lenders.... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080126246 - Method for aggregating and selling independent sales offices and merchant level sales representatives: A business method of aggregating and selling Independent Sales Offices and Merchant Level Sales Representatives is disclosed. A preferred embodiment involves having a business, which is familiar with transactions involving Independent Sales Offices and Merchant Level Sales Representatives determine who are interested in selling their book of clients and sorting... Agent: Lambert & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20080126247 - Method to entice individuals to obtain auto insurance: A method of enticing an individual to obtain and maintain automobile insurance. The method includes the steps of offering a potential policy holder an accruing cash value according to a predetermined schedule and establishing a separate account for receiving deposits for the policy holder. Depositing a predetermined portion of policy... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080126245 - System and method for centralized banking: A system and method is disclosed for providing personal financial services at a single branch location for customers having accounts at a plurality of private financial institutions. First and second customer provide information representing their respective private financial accounts. The accounts may be held at different institutions. The branch location... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080126248 - Method and system for managing drm agent in user domain in digital rights management: A method and system for managing at least one DRM agent intending to join or leave a user domain in a Digital Rights Management (DRM) is provided, in which a Domain Enforcement Agent (DEA) manages the joining and leaving of the DRM agent resident in a home network it manages,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080126249 - System and method for providing remote financial services: A self-propelled mobile platform having systems for delivering credit instruments, such as paychecks, and providing check cashing, money transfers, bill payments, money orders, phone cards, debit cards, and ATM services at remote sites for customers or potential customers who either do not have a banking relationship with a financial institution... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080126253 - Electronic money settlement method and system and terminal and tangible medium: A settlement environment is described. A POS device reads a barcode of an item to be bought by a user, and the POS device identifies plural electronic money settlement devices embedded in a cell-phone, and the POS device compares predetermined discounted settlement value of identified plural electronic money settlement devices,... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080126250 - Interactive television service supply system for providing online payment for interactive tv users by integrating bank payment scheme: An interactive television service supply system for providing online payment for interactive TV users by integrating a bank payment scheme is provided. The system is connected with at least one set-top box to the finance system of a bank financial system via a network, for the users to perform payment... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080126252 - Method and system for converting mail order/telephone order transactions into e-commerce transactions: A system and method for use in the authentication of payment instrument non-Internet transactions. A server transmits the transaction information to the authentication network associated with the issuer of the cardholder's card to determine whether the cardholder is enrolled in the card issuer's authentication program, and if so, will transmit... Agent: Robert G. Lancaster Bryan Cave, LLP

20080126251 - System and method for utilizing a portable network device to initiate and authorize a payment transaction: A portable network device authorizes a payment services system to execute a payment transaction from a payer account associated with the portable network device to a merchant's payee account. The portable network device comprises a network communication system, a user interface, and a payment application. The payment application obtains a... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080126254 - Computerized transaction bargaining system and method: A method and system for automated bargaining in a round by round manner is disclosed. The method and system are capable of multiple rounds. The method and system are used in testing non-equal values in normal rounds for satisfaction of a predetermined criterion. If the criterion is not satisfied in... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080126255 - Interactive media content delivery system and method: A method for delivery of exposed content from a content provider to a user, wherein the method is immediately able to provide the time and location of the exposure, thereby facilitating the identification of the content and subsequent delivery of the content. The method includes perceiving the content by the... Agent: Naomi Assia Law Offices C/o LandonIPInc.

20080126256 - System and method for relaxing media access restrictions over time: A disk bears a multimedia program and a player plays the program. The player is responsive to an image restraint token (IRT) to play the multimedia program only in a low resolution format and not in a high resolution format prior to an IRT expiration date. The player is then... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080126257 - Capacity ordering from storage apparatus: Storage apparatus and related methods for managing removable media. A controller is coupled to an operator control panel and is in communication with an user interface. The controller is configured to robotically manage the removable media and to monitor a licensed storage capacity of the storage apparatus, and can communicate... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080126258 - Authentication of e-commerce transactions using a wireless telecommunications device: An e-commerce transaction is conducted between a merchant system and a telecommunications device on a consumer's account. The merchant system obtains authorization from an authentication device of the consumer before completing the e-commerce transaction. A registry server, accessible by the merchant system, may be used to maintain a database of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080126259 - System and method for providing signal compatability: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for transforming characters stored in a fixed format into an alternate format or template with which the fixed format would otherwise be incompatible. In particular, methods and systems are disclosed for reading a customer identification (CID) number from a radio frequency identification device... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080126260 - Point of sale transaction device with magnetic stripe emulator and biometric authentication: A handheld unit which is capable of emulating a plurality of smartcards or magnetic stripe cards. The unit has the capability of storing a plurality of data sets representing a plurality of accounts. The unit is equipped with an RF interface that can emulate a smartcard interface that is capable... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP

20080126261 - Cashless vending system and method: A system and method for activating a vending machine utilizing a wireless link to a cell phone in conjunction with a security feature using a finger print reader or personal identification number (PIN). An account is established with a payment processing center (PPC) who oversees the movement and distribution of... Agent: James Richards

20080126262 - System and method for secure transactions: A system and method for conducting secure transactions are disclosed. The system includes a transaction card having a self-programming region for periodic update of a verification code, a server used for authenticating the card, and a network for transmitting data between the transaction card and the server. The method includes... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080126266 - Computerized dispute resolution system and method: A method and system for automated dispute resolution is disclosed. The method and system are used in testing non-equal values in normal rounds for satisfaction of a condition. If the condition is not satisfied in the normal rounds, power round values are tested for satisfaction of a power round condition.... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080126265 - Method and process for providing relevant data, comparing proposal alternatives, and reconciling proposals, invoices, and purchase orders with actual costs in a workflow process: The present invention provides a process and system for matching buyers and sellers of either goods or services, or goods and services for a project. The invention enables a buyer to specify a project in terms of physical, functional, temporal, financial, and transactional parameters that can be automatically converted, by... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080126264 - Systems and methods for price optimization using business segmentation: The optimization of product prices using business segmentation is provided. The business is segmented into a plurality of selected segments, each including a subset of products. Segmenting utilizes fixed dimensions and variable dimensions. Pricing power and pricing risk is computed for each segment. Pricing power is an ability to alter... Agent: Kang Lim

20080126263 - Transferable by-catch quotas: The present application relates to systems and methods related to by-catch quota. In some embodiments, systems and/or methods relates to distributing, allocating, and/or transferring the quota amongst, for example fishermen. Computer systems may be used to transfer and/or distribute the quota amongst interested parties.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080126116 - Method and apparatus for a private information system and service transactions that minimize theft of identity data: A method and apparatus (10) for a privacy system (12) that facilitates anonymous service transactions globally between a customer (20) and a service merchant (22) and that minimizes the theft of personally sensitive identity data. The privacy system (12) allows the customer (20) to receive service (60) from the merchant... Agent: Tara Chand Singhai

20080126271 - Deterministic pricing management of a portfolio of one or more applications: In certain embodiments, a method for deterministic pricing management of a portfolio of one or more applications comprises, for each of the one or more applications: (1) receiving information associated with the application for a plurality of pricing drivers comprising one or more business pricing drivers and one or more... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080120125 - Contact center resource subscription notification: A contact center is provided that includes an input operable to receive work items 204a-w, a work item processing agent 200 to populate work item containers 212a-i with information respecting the received work items, and a notification agent 216 to notify subscribing entities of state changes in the work item... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.c.

20080120122 - Field site data gathering and reporting system and method: A system and method of reporting and displaying field survey data related to particular features located at remote sites that includes generating GPS data related to a feature with a handheld device, generating at least one image of the location, entering text data related to the location on the handheld... Agent: Epstein Becker & Green, P.c.

20080120126 - Intelligent parallel processing system and method: In one exemplary embodiment, a method and system for an automated intelligent parallel processing enabled architectural framework for supporting electronic human services (EHS) is disclosed. The system and method may include, for example, a methodology and process environment component having an intelligent parallel business process, a collaborative environment component, and... Agent: Maier & Maier, Pllc

20080120123 - Method and system for finding similar charts for financial analysis: Embodiments of the invention concern finding correlations between related traded items, such as securities, commodities, currencies, or contracts. The pricing information of multiple traded items from one or more markets is analyzed and a user is provided with a listing of pairs or larger groups of traded items which are... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080120127 - Method for checking electronic tickets stored on user terminals: Disclosed is a method for checking electronic tickets which are assigned to user terminals and are preferably used within a system for automatically detecting the utilization of chargeable means of transport conveying persons and/or deducting the fare. According to said method, a verification data telegram is transmitted while user terminals... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080120119 - Method for servicing an electronic certificate for a big-name brand: A method for servicing an electronic certificate for a big-name brand. An electronic certificate (1) per goods is created and transmitted to the client (50) such as a mobile phone, etc., through a communication network (40) by request, the electronic certificate (1) comprising an identification code, a secret code, a... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20080120124 - Method of tracking changes of subscribers for an in-vehicle telematics service: A method of tracking changes of subscribers for an in-vehicle telematics service includes periodically monitoring a service record database, which includes vehicle service information that is indicative of one or more vehicle service checks performed on one or more vehicles, and recognizing that a new vehicle service check is added... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080120121 - Modification of a diagram for business process optimization: System and method for displaying information regarding a business process. A diagram of the business process may be displayed on a display. The diagram may include a plurality of icons connected by lines, where each of the icons represents a respective step in the business process and the lines indicate... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel Pc

20080120131 - Personalized note card and shoe delivery for same: Personalized note card and shoe delivery for same is disclosed. The personalized note card system contains the required elements to allow a first person to customize a personal, yet inspirational hand written note card system and, more particularly, to a note card and card placing system and method. Additionally, the... Agent: Gary B. Rogers

20080120120 - Ranking method and system: A ranking method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system from a first user, a selection for a first candidate skill. The first user is presented with a first group of predetermined criteria. The first group is associated with the first candidate skill. The first user assigns... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080120128 - System and method for gathering customer data: A system and a method for gathering customer data at a physical sales meeting premise. At least one RFID transponder is intended to be placed at the sales meeting premise. A customer data registration system includes storage for storing customer data, and element for compiling a digital material based on... Agent: Venable LLP

20080120130 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for storing and retrieving product availability information from a storage cache: The present invention provides methods for efficiently handling product availability queries. The present invention provides a local availability cache that is prepopulated with product availability listings from various product sources. Customer product availability queries are processed using the prepopulated availability cache, as opposed to independently querying each product source. The... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080120135 - Abstraction of communication protocols for pacs collaboration software: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for collaboration between systems in a healthcare environment. Certain embodiments provide a collaboration framework enabling electronic communication in a healthcare environment. The framework includes a plurality of communication abstraction layers, each of the plurality of communication abstraction layers defining interface... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080120134 - Data transfer method: Presented is a method of transferring data for medical image processing. The method includes providing at least two computers in communication with a computer network, and transferring in real-time screen contents of one of the at least two computers to the other of the at least two computers. The method... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080120132 - Dynamic tag display system and method: A dynamic tag display system and method for dynamically changing the presentation of at least one patient demographic by changing from a first presentation mode to a second presentation mode for that at least one patient demographic, if a condition is met and also for dynamically indicating a measurement value... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: Box Ip Dept.

20080120136 - Health care product payment reimbursement system and method: The present invention involves a health care reimbursement method and server for a manufacturer of a product fulfilling an order to health care provider. The method involves purchasing an order from a manufacturer for a predetermined price, for example via a computer server. The method further involves receiving utilization data... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080120133 - Method for predicting the payment of medical debt: The present invention provides methods, systems, and computer program products that are useful for establishing contractual terms and agreements between health care providers and health care payors. For example, one embodiment of the present invention provides a method for predicting a person's payment of a medical debt. Another embodiment of... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.c.

20080120142 - Case management for image-based training, decision support, and consultation: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for medical case management are described herein. In various embodiments, a server receives a plurality of medically-related documents being associated with a medical case. The server may organize the documents into a case portfolio for distribution to a client for interactive viewing and editing of the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080120137 - Data arrangement, method, dental-care-related device and software product for dental-care quality assurance: The invention relates to a data arrangement in connection with dental care, which arrangement includes at least one dental-care device (U, T) and a data system (S). In the arrangement, information related to a predetermined dental treatment event performed by the dental care device (U, T) is transmitted and stored... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20080120140 - Managing medical imaging data: A method is provided for managing medical imaging data. The method includes storing location information that indicates a location of an imaging data set created for a medical purpose of a patient in an electronic file created for the medical purpose.... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080120139 - Method of managing employee healthcare for an employer involving a marketing entity: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing employee healthcare for an employer. The method initially provides for receiving healthcare benefit information from a healthcare insurer. The healthcare insurer provides healthcare benefits to employees of the employer. Medical history information is received from... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080120141 - Methods and systems for creation of hanging protocols using eye tracking and voice command and control: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for hanging protocol generation using eye tracking and/or voice command and control. Certain embodiments provide a method for creating a hanging protocol based on at least one of eye tracking and voice command and control input in a clinical environment.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080120138 - Systems and methods for automatic severity ranking and notification system: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for automatic prioritizing and ranking of patients in a medical center. The method includes acquiring medical information associated with a patient, prioritizing and ranking the patient based on the acquired medical information, and routing the patient's medical information to an appropriate... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080120144 - Futures based exchange systems and methods: Systems and methods for trading property loss or damage on a futures-based exchange. A system can include receiving information related to one or more futures-based contracts. A transaction is generated with respect to the one or more futures-based contracts. The futures-based exchange is used as a clearing house with respect... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080120143 - Method for providing discounted insurance: A discount provision under an insurance policy allows an entity to pay a required premium to provide future access and a discount for future insurance coverage under the insurance policy, the future insurance coverage available upon a predetermined event. A method for providing an insurance policy having a discount provision... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080120145 - System and method for providing healthcare-related services: A system and method for providing healthcare-related services according to which the healthcare-related services include, but are not limited to, health insurance benefit activation services and/or healthcare-related education services.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080120146 - Method for emulating student actions in an on-line course registration system: A method for emulating student actions in an on-line course registration system. The on-line course registration system is maintained on a first computer. A student implements the inventive method by running software on a second computer. The software running on the second computer collects log in information and desired course... Agent: John Wiley Horton, Attorney Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.a.

20080120147 - Methods and apparatus for electronically storing travel agents coupons: Methods and apparatus to electronically save agent coupon data while printing an airline ticket in conjunction with an airlines travel agency reservation system include the steps of inputting passenger flight information into an airline reservation system that outputs the information in ASCII form, identifying the information corresponding to an airline... Agent: Richard M. Saccocio, P.a.

20080120148 - Analysis of multiple assets in view of uncertainties: A client-server based system for building and executing flows (i.e., interconnected systems of algorithms). The client allows a user to build a flow specification and send the flow specification to the server. The server assembles the flow from the flow spec and executes the flow. A flow may be configured... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080120156 - Apparatus and method for internet advertising compensation: The apparatus and methods of the present invention implement an advertising model whereby the Affiliate ID used by an advertising network to normally credit the Affiliate whose site an advertisement is displayed on is instead substituted for the Affiliate ID of a different Affiliate in exchange for physical and tangible... Agent: Wright Law Group, Pllc

20080120149 - Automated logistics support system incorporating a product integrity analysis system: According to one embodiment of the invention, a computer implemented system includes an integrated logistics support system and a product integrity analysis system that utilize an integrated database. The product integrity analysis system is operable to retrieve at least a portion of logistics data records from the database, calculate an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080120153 - Business process diagram data collection: System and method for displaying information regarding a business process. A diagram of the business process may be displayed on a display. The diagram may include a plurality of icons connected by lines, where each of the icons represents a respective step in the business process and the lines indicate... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel Pc

20080120151 - Data management: A method of charging for secure data management and item authentication. The method includes charging an initiation fee to a customer to create an entry for an item owned or manufactured by the customer. The entry may include (i) information associated with the item, and (ii) information about a security... Agent: Christopher P. Ricci Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20080120150 - Processing of trade show information: A system determines a level of interest of items at a trade shown (e.g., a trade show exhibit or presentation) based on data about the identity of the items presented at the trade show (e.g., a trade show exhibit or presentation) and information indicating items in which attendees have expressed... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080120154 - System and method for advertisement generation: The application discloses apparatuses, systems and methods for providing the generation, serving and distribution of advertisements. Specifically, the disclosed system is particularly suited for the efficient generation and distribution of ads representing narrow offers that are typically advertised using classified ads. Various implementations described herein, discuss generating an advertisement from... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080120152 - System and method for managing numerous facets of a work relationship: A system and method of managing numerous facets of work relationships. In a preferred form, the system provides end-to-end integration of the contract resourcing process (“requisition to check”) for a multitude of clients and a multitude of service providers. Preferably, the system includes a logo management component that allows a... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, Llc

20080120155 - Systems and methods for distributing targeted incentives to financial institution customers: An incentive distribution system is used in distributing, tracking and redeeming product incentives offered by manufacturers and distributors of consumer goods through a financial institution. A financial institution distributes an incentives list to each of its customers, based on information relating to the customers, containing the incentives relating to the... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080120159 - Enterprise resource planning system enhancement for program management: A method for automating the management of an enterprise resource planning system comprises defining a first resource plan and storing the first resource plan into a first table, automatically storing the first resource plan into a resource plan space, and performing a first resource plan command and revising the first... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080120157 - Golf course tee-time management system: A golf course tee-time management system including a data server coupled through the internet to a plurality of participating golf facilities. Each participating golf facility has interface software coupling the participating golf facility to the data server. The data server and the interface software are designed to provide tee-sheets in... Agent: Michael Winfield Goltry

20080120161 - Home selling system and method: Embodiments herein are directed to a home selling system and method. According to one embodiment, a home seller registers with the system and establishes a price for their home as well as an open house date. Agents that are located proximate to the home are notified automatically by the system.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080120160 - Method and system for listing an item: An inventory number identifier may be associated with an item number of an inventory account within a system inventory. The inventory number identifier may indicate a number of units of the item available for purchase according to the inventory account of a user. The inventory number identifier may be selected... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080120163 - Method of providing a degradation drum: In one aspect of the invention a degradation drum comprises a generally cylindrical body comprising inner and outer diameters. At least one degradation assembly is disposed on the outer diameter and it comprises a holder and a pick shank secured within a bore of the holder. At least one lubricant... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20080120158 - Methods and apparatuses for organizing events: Techniques for organizing events via an electronic organizer are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a process includes, but is not limited to, dynamically accessing a first event organization system over a network to retrieve a first event data representing one or more events scheduled by the first... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080120162 - System and method for monitoring, recording and reporting the servicing of private onsite wastewater treatment systems: A system and method for monitoring, recording, tracking and reporting the inspection, maintenance and servicing of private onsite wastewater treatment systems is disclosed... Agent: Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field LLP Attn: Ip Practice Group

20080120164 - Contact center agent work awareness algorithm: A contact center is provided that includes an input operable to receive work items 204a-w, a work item processing agent 200 to populate work item containers 212a-I with information respecting the received work items, and an Aagent Work Awareness Algorithm (AWAA) server notification agent 216 to notify subscribing AWAA agent... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.c.

20080120165 - Large-scale aggregating and reporting of ad data: Statistical data relating to one or more parameters associated with an advertisement may be gathered. The statistical data may be filtered to a Universal Resource Locator (URL) or domain level. The statistical data may be aggregated and evaluated, including applying a filter to the statistical data. The filtered data may... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080120166 - Method for rating an entity: A method for determining a reliable rating for an entity includes steps or acts of: receiving a bounded rating of the entity to be rated from a rater, wherein the bounded rating is a first number selected from a bounded interval of integers; retrieving a bounded current rating for the... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20080120168 - Method of promoting a selected business via a computerized system: A method for marketing, advertizing or promoting a selected business via a computerized system 10 includes selecting a business (block 12) for promotion in a selected geographical area (block 14); determining potential customers quantities for the selected business in the selected geographical area (block 16); disposing information pertaining to the... Agent: Donald G. Flaynik, Jr. Cherskov & Flaynik

20080120167 - Personal inventory and marketing electronic system and method: The present invention relates generally to a personal inventory and marketing electronic system and method. The system comprises a RFID tag interrogator that collects data from RFID tags attached to user's items, a host computer that stores and processes such data, a computer interface and a software resident on the... Agent: Ac Technologies, S.a.

20080120169 - Method of evaluating a salesforce and creating tailored training programs: A method of evaluating a sales team during real-time sales situations and creating a tailored training program for each member of that team taking into account the team member's individual capabilities and weaknesses, while minimizing the member's time out of the sales field and providing a more efficient way to... Agent: Ukitlaw.com

20080120170 - System and method for providing efficiency scores for airspace: A system and method for determining a current efficiency score for an airport, receiving a request to compare the current efficiency score with a previous efficiency score, retrieving the previous efficiency score and displaying the current efficiency score and the previous efficiency score to a user. Also, a system having... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080120171 - Map information processing apparatus: An apparatus includes a map information storage section (16) for storing map information on an area by area basis formed in meshes; a positioning section (15) for measuring its own present location; a new road detecting section (19) for deciding that a new road is detected when the present location... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080120181 - Advertisement playing and monitoring system: An advertisement playing and monitoring system uses a remote control system to transmit an advertisement file to an advertisement processing machine. The advertisement processing machine stores the advertisement file in a storage unit and plays the advertisement file on a display unit by an image-processing unit. The advertisement processing machine... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080120175 - Driver input analysis and feedback system: A method of driver training to improve fuel economy performance of a vehicle, the method including, receiving selected vehicle and driver operating data indicative of driving conditions and operator inputs captured during previous vehicle operation, processing the received selected vehicle and driver operating data, and generating driving recommendations to improve... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080120184 - Interactive advertisement mechanism on a mobile device: The invention includes systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for enabling interactive advertisements (as well as other objects) to be loaded on mobile devices (as well as other types of devices), and for users of mobile devices to operate with such interactive advertisements on their mobile... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080120177 - Method and apparatus for facilitating device redundancy in a fault-tolerant system: Method and apparatus for facilitating device redundancy in a fault tolerant system is described. One aspect of the invention relates to common redundancy for a set of devices in a redundancy group. Each of the devices is in either an active role or a standby role. Virtual configurations for the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080120174 - Method and system for flexible product and service bundling: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method and system for flexible product and service bundling comprising an item presentation module that displays a plurality of items and a bundling module that receives a plurality of user selections based on the plurality of items, forms a custom bundle... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080120173 - Method and system of advertising in a mobile communication system: A method for advertising in a mobile communication system may include generating a request for advertisement information, transmitting the request for advertisement information to advertisement device, wherein the advertisement device stores a plurality of advertisement information, receiving requested advertisement information from the advertisement device, storing the requested advertisement information in... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080120180 - Method for advertising in the internet: A method for advertising in the Internet includes the steps of: providing storable content to be downloaded in a network server; displaying a main window on a screen of a network access machine for showing advertisement information therein when a network user begins to download the storable content from the... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080120179 - Method of commerce: A magazine lottery system comprises a unique identification number on each purchased magazine, providing sufficient personal information to identify the purchaser, giving this information to a database, and selecting at least one winner from the database, and optionally televising the winner.... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler

20080120182 - Methods and systems for providing personalized information: A system and method for providing personalized information to a consumer includes a contactless device containing electronic consumer data, a contactless device reader, a service platform connected to the contactless device reader for processing the consumer data and creating customized information from the consumer data, and an output device including... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080120178 - Methods, systems and apparatus for delivery of media: Systems, methods and apparatus for collecting data and presenting media to a user are provided. The systems generally includes a data gathering module associated with an electronic device. The data gathering module communicates gathered data to a management module, which manages at least one user profile based on the gathered... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080120176 - Providing an advertisement to a calling party before ringback: Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide an advertisement or other type of informational message to a calling party before providing ringback tones. A communication network described herein receives a call from the calling party to the called party, and temporarily interrupts call processing for the call. The... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080120185 - System and method for computer-created advertisements: The invention relates to a computerized method for a user to create an advertisement by displaying a plurality of advertising formats for selection by a user; displaying a template corresponding to a selected advertising format; displaying a plurality of product references for selection by the user; displaying on the template... Agent: James Remenick Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20080120183 - Systems and methods for communicating personal information: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for an information facility, where the information facility enables a first user to transmit personal information to a second user. The information facility may receive a first text message from an origin, and transmit a second text message to a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080120188 - Food temperature collection, storage and retrieval system: An automated system for collecting, storing and retrieving temperature data relative to food items and food storage equipment includes a hand-held display and data input unit coupled to a temperature probe. The system may include, in the hand-held unit, a memory element for storing one or more predetermined temperature ranges... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080120187 - Mobile serving cart and system incorporating same: A mobile cart for serving food and/or beverages is described. According to various implementations, the cart is equipped with a removable mission module. The mission module includes equipment that is used by the cart to perform its designated mission, such as an oven (for a hot food service mission module),... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080120189 - Method and apparatus for providing workflow automation: An approach is provided for automating workflow. A sales order is received. One of a plurality of implementation centers is selected based on a rule. The sales order is stored in one of a plurality of queues that are mapped to the implementation centers.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080120191 - Remote display tamper detection using data integrity operations: Methods and systems for detecting tampering of a remote display. According to one method, a first data integrity result is generated by performing a first data integrity operation on display data to be displayed on the remote display at a secure module. The display data is transmitted from the secure... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080120192 - Commission statement generator: Systems and methods are described for securely generating a validated commission statement so that the recipient can be confident that the contents of the validated commission statement meet the recipients dynamically generated validation requirements. The systems and methods collect data from the vending machine operator's sources and then checks the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080120193 - Food product scale and related in-store random weight item transaction system with rfid capabilities: A random weight item transaction system include a scale with label RIFD tag functionality, service person RFID tag functionality and customer RFID tag functionality. A slicer in proximity to the scale may include service person and bulk food product RFID functionalities. The scale may make weigh transaction data available to... Agent: Thompson Hine L.l.p. Intellectual Property Group

20080120194 - method of assisting a business in acquiring merchant services: A method of assisting a business in acquiring merchant services includes the following steps: gathering the information of the business; comparing the gathered information to a repopulated rate grid from merchant acquirers; and providing the business with at least one competitive acquirer rate.... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, P.c.

20080120197 - Browser having resident software tools: A browser having a resident shopping cart tool, a resident product comparison tool and/or a resident wish list tool is disclosed. These tools can either reside permanently with the browser or be downloaded to the browser for use. For example, the tools can be downloaded from a central site to... Agent: Diehl Servilla Llc

20080120196 - System and method for offering a title for sale over the internet: The present invention relates to a system and method for interacting with digital media that permits creating, editing, combining, producing, and using digital media content. In one aspect of the invention, these features are implemented using a “virtual container” or unit that contains structured information. This structured information includes the... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080120195 - Systems and methods for identification and authentication of a user: The present invention generally relates to a computer security system for use in the identification and authentication of a user prior to an on-line transaction. In one aspect, a method for facilitating a secure transaction over a network is provided. The method includes collecting a username and password associated with... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080120199 - Method and system for upgrading a previously purchased media asset: Systems and methods for upgrading from one or more digital media assets to a set of digital media assets over a network are described. A potential purchaser can be notified of available upgrade opportunities that are available for purchase. The potential purchaser can elect to pursue an upgrade opportunity so... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20080120205 - Automatically processing inventory discrepancies: A method is disclosed that provides for automated processing of inventory discrepancies. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying an inventory discrepancy between an expected quantity of an inventory item and an actual quantity of the inventory item. The method further includes generating a discrepancy record based on the inventory... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080120200 - Method and system for automatic inventory variance identification: A system for performing an inventory count. A scan of an object is initiated according to a profile in order to perform the inventory count of the object. A scan result is compared with a recorded level for the object to determine if a variance exists between the scan result... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080120207 - Method and system for electronically managing product inventory using a database: A method, system, and machine-readable medium for providing targeted information in relation to pharmaceutical product inventory management is disclosed. The system is adapted to manage an entity's outpatient medication inventory without the need for maintaining a separate inventory in a manner which is quick, easy, and efficient.... Agent: P.jeff Martin Of The Mcgougan Law Firm, Llc Suite 200

20080120204 - Method for transferring product service records: A computer system is disclosed for tracking and transferring product service records using a product service history database. The computer system includes a computer readable medium having instructions for receiving service information associated with a product. The medium also has instructions for receiving service dealers' demographic information and receiving an... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080120201 - Shipping container rotation angle and impact detector: A method for monitoring a container is disclosed. The method involves recording a plurality of forces experienced by the container with an electronic detection device and storing each recorded experience from the electronic detection device as tracking data, the tracking data comprising a corresponding date and time of occurrence. Based... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080120206 - Stock level management: A computer-implemented method of managing stock levels. An example method includes the step of obtaining stock level information for a plurality of locations for a first product. A first best seller location is determined for the first product from the plurality of locations. The method further includes the step of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080120202 - System and method for detecting digital media status in a sorter: The present invention provides for automation of the process of ensuring that the contents of the return mailed digital media, comprising a disc enclosed in a sleeve, is correct for redistribution. A camera on a sorting machine is used to scan a first code on a hub of the disc... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080120203 - Systems and methods for managing the transportation of dangerous materials: Systems and methods are provided for managing the transportation of dangerous materials. In one embodiment, a system is provided. The system comprises a database for storing master data for a set of materials. Each material has an assigned regulation applicable for the transportation of the material. The master data indicates... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080120208 - System and method for receiving and changing a bill of material for vehicle components: In at least one embodiment, first data from a first functional group is received describing an attribute of a first component of a bill of material, second data from a second functional group is received describing the attribute of the first component, and the first data and the second data... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080120209 - Combining accounting data with bates stamping feature: An accounting record and a numbering record are automatically combined to create Bates numbers that are then automatically applied to the pages of input documents to produce Bates numbered documents. A document can be an electronic document or a printed document. A print job or a scanning job can be... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20080120210 - System and method for managing accounts payable and accounts receivable: A system and method for managing accounts payable that allocates at least a portion of an invoiced dollar amount to a virtual account associated with a vendor, allows the vendor to request that a dispersal dollar amount be transferred from the virtual account to a real account associated with the... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080120212 - System and method for invoice imaging through negative confirmation process: A system for processing invoices including a front-end requisition and catalog system; a back-end procurement system; a scanner for scanning images of invoices; an image system and store for storing said scanned images and serving them to said workstation keyed to said invoice in connection with positive or negative confirmation... Agent: Shelley M Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20080120214 - Adaptive authentication options: A method for authenticating a consumer for a portable consumer device is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes receiving a transaction message relating to a request by a consumer to conduct a transaction using a portable consumer device, wherein the consumer was previously enrolled in an authentication program and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080120213 - System and method facilitating whole loan tri-party repurchase agreement transactions: A system and method facilitates tri-party repurchase transactions for whole loans. The system and method obtain details regarding a whole loan to be used for collateral in a tri-party agreement transaction with an investor, from both the dealer or trader offering the whole loan as collateral and one or more... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080120215 - Systems and methods related to lifetime mortgages: The present invention relates to a mortgage having a forward portion and a reverse portion. In the forward portion, the borrower receives a loan from a lender in order to purchase or refinance a property, such as a home. In the reverse portion, the property has accumulated sufficient equity to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080120252 - Arbitrage of tracking securities: A financial product is based on a first fund that is traded on a trading marketplace in a first country. The financial product is registered in the first country. The first fund has the characteristics of being based on an index of securities that are traded in a second, different... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080120247 - Bidder system using multiple computers communicating data to carry out selling fixed income instruments: An electronic system, the system for selling fixed income instruments, the system including a second computer having an output device and at least one buyer's computer having an electrically coupled input device and a monitor, the buyer's computer and the second computer being respectively located, the computers being used in... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20080120248 - Currency transaction process: The present invention relates to a process of executing an on-line transaction for the purchase and sale of currencies or other traded assets. A sale order is entered simultaneously with the purchase order to take effect upon the market price reaching either a predetermined gain or loss in value. Tokens... Agent: William M. Hobby, Iii

20080120245 - Method and apparatus for increasing investment return and asset liquidity: Investment return on a liquid or illiquid asset is increased by granting the right to pledge the asset to an entity that can deploy the asset more efficiently than its owner. Using the committed assets—and the resulting ability of the entity to pledge those assets and borrow capital at advantageous... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080120253 - Method and system for evaluating pricing of assets: Methods are provided for detecting price manipulation in assets by receiving data indicating returns on an asset, generating a histogram of returns data, determining a first area under a curve of the histogram in a first interval, determining a second area under the curve of the histogram in a second... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080120250 - Method and system for generating and trading derivative investment instruments based on an implied correlation index: A system and method for creating and trading derivative instruments based on an implied correlation index is disclosed. A version of the method may include obtaining implied volatility values for both a stock index and constituent stocks in the stock index. A value reflecting an implied correlation between the stock... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080120249 - Method of creating and trading derivative investment products based on a statistical property reflecting the volatility of an underlying asset: A method of creating and trading derivative contracts based on a statistical property reflecting a volatility of an underlying asset is disclosed. Typically, an underlying asset is chosen to be a base of a volatility derivative and a processor calculates a value of the statistical property reflecting an average volatility... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080120246 - System and method for trading financial instruments associated with future events: A financial instrument, and methods and systems for trading the financial instrument are provided. In one method, a trader enters into a futures contract for at least one share of a non-public company at a time prior to an initial public offering of stock of the company at an expected... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080120251 - System and software for providing recommendations to optimize a portfolio of items: A method of operating a computer system includes storing, in the computer system, a database containing performance measure data regarding performance measures of a plurality of items. The method further includes inputting into the computer system a plurality of performance measure constraints. The method also includes modeling the performance measure... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar, Llc General Electric Company

20080120221 - Brokering loyalty points: Provided are business methods pertaining to a clearinghouse or brokerage that converts loyalty points to a currency (known or invented, real or virtual) in order to reduce the loyalty points liability of a corporation.... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20080120218 - Method and system for using payment history for conducting commercial transactions: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving transaction data relating to a plurality of commercial transactions conducted by a plurality of buyers and sellers conducting commercial transactions using a transaction processing system, and then receiving a request for transaction information relating to the received transaction data from an entity,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080120222 - Methods and apparatus relating to the formulation and trading of risk management contracts: m

20080120219 - Opportunity-based ordering platform system: The present invention relates to an opportunity-based ordering platform system. By applying the steps of the present invention, the seller's capability is more competitive and the buyers have an opportunity to purchase goods with a lower price. The system comprises a red tag goods bidding platform, a blue tag goods... Agent: John G. Chupa Law Offices Of John Chupa & Associates, P.c.

20080120220 - System and method for detecting trading opportunities in financial markets: A system and method for facilitating trading in financial markets is presented. The system and method provides dealers, salespersons, and traders of securities the ability to anonymously share their own or their client's interest to trade securities, to identify and match potential trading opportunities between the parties, and to automatically... Agent: Thompson Hine L.l.p. Intellectual Property Group

20080120224 - Centralized loan application and processing: A credit operations center is connected to provide functionality, monitoring and control over one or more locations, such as a store that may sell goods or services. In conjunction with the purchase of these goods or services, it may be necessary to secure credit for their purchase. To assist with... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080120227 - Method and system for mortgage exchange: A method and system for electronically facilitating real estate transactions by providing accurate representations of the loans a borrower is qualified to receive, which are based on actual data, rather than estimates. All actions required for completing the real estate transaction, from entry of the borrower information to the closing... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080120226 - Methods and systems for refinancing mortgages: A method and system facilitate management of a payment of a home mortgage loan issued by one of a financial lender and a broker using a computer coupled to a database. The method comprises storing key mortgage loan information associated with a borrower, including data identifying the borrower, an amount... Agent: Mark Leo Wegmann

20080120225 - Valuation methods, apparatus, media and signals, and methods relating to asset-secured loans: A computer-implemented method includes determining, in respect of a loan secured by an asset, a present value of a right of a borrower of the loan to choose during a term of the loan to require an entity to pay the loan in full on the borrower's behalf in exchange... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080120230 - Method and device for providing the device with access rights to access rights controlled digital content: A method for providing access rights to access rights controlled digital content. A file comprising a playable preview, instructions on how to procure access rights, and the access rights controlled digital data is transferred to the device that plays the preview and the instructions. The user then provides instructions to... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080120228 - Money fund banking system with multiple banks and/or rates: Providing interest to clients' deposited funds without limitation on the number of demand withdrawals from deposit accounts is accomplished by an administration system that keeps all of the records for the clients' deposits and withdrawals, calculates the total of the deposits and withdrawals for all clients, and uses the calculation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080120229 - Systems and methods for multiple sessions during an on-line transaction: The present invention generally relates to a system and a method for establishing a separate session during an on-line session. In one aspect, a method for establishing a session with a server during an on-line transaction session is provided. The method includes detecting an on-line payment page and inserting a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080120231 - Money refillable credit card: A credit containment card and accompanying system affords a user the ability to purchase a card which can transfer or receive funds from either a bank or credit card administrator, but is not limited to any individual of these providers. The system includes four main functional components: a plurality of... Agent: Lambert & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20080120232 - Online cash reporting system and method: A system for remotely receiving and reporting cash transactions. The system may include a remotely positioned safe, the safe having an automated device configured to authenticate and count cash receipts in the safe, a communication device, and a processor configured to control the authentication, counting, and communicating processes; and a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080120233 - On-us cash withdrawal at a point-of-sale: Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer programs, merchant terminals, etc. for providing an on-us cash withdrawal service at a point-of-sale are provided. One embodiment comprises a method for providing a cash withdrawal service at a point-of-sale. One such method comprises: issuing an association-branded financial card to a cardholder, the association-branded... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080120236 - Dynamic magnetic stripe: A method and computer readable medium for conducting a transaction, comprising receiving a verification value and a portion of a dynamic data element, determining candidate dynamic data elements using the portion of the dynamic data element, calculating candidate verification values using candidate dynamic data elements, and determining if the received... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080120237 - Method for prevent crime of finance service system using telephone number codes and identification code: A method for preventing crimes against financial service providers uses a telephone number code and identification code provided by the account owner to a dealing bank. The telephone number code and identification code are registered and stored in the database of the dealing bank and used as identity-recognizing authorization information... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080120235 - Network-based consumer transactions with credit accounts: A computer-implemented method and system is operable to: receive a purchase transaction from a purchaser, the purchase transaction including purchase transaction information including a purchaser credit number associated with a purchaser credit account previously established on a payment site, use the purchaser credit number to obtain associated purchaser credit account... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080120234 - Variable revenue sharing for multiple account payment instruments: A method and system are disclosed for facilitating allocation of payments among multiple transaction instrument partners. The method and system comprises receiving at a network a transaction authorization request from a merchant; determining the total amount of merchant fee to be charged for the total transaction; subtracting from the total... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080120239 - Method and system for adapting pre-defined rights of a digital content: A method and system for adapting one or more pre-defined rights of a digital content (106) is disclosed. The method includes detecting (304) transformation of the digital content. The transformation results in a transformed digital content. The method also includes evaluating (306) a new content utility value of the transformed... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080120240 - Trusted infrastructure support systems, methods and techniques for secure electronic commerce, electronic transactions, commerce process control and automation, distributed computing, and rights management: Different support functions can be collected together in hierarchical and/or in networked relationships to suit various business models and/or other objectives. Modular support functions can combined in different arrays to form different Commerce Utility Systems for different design implementations and purposes. These Commerce Utility Systems can be distributed across a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080120241 - Method and apparatus for reproducing discontinuous av data: Provided is a method of sharing content to which digital rights management (DRM) is applied. In the method of sharing the content between a first device storing the content and a second device while they are connected, the first device receives a request for transmission of the content from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080120242 - Method and system for managing the transmission of protected content and licenses over media transfer protocol: Methods and systems for preventing reception of licensed protected content prior to reception of a license, in a content rendering device wherein, the license corresponds to the licensed protected content and to the content rendering device. The license may be stored on the content rendering device in a database that... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080120243 - Contractor's smart card device and method: A method for contractors working in single or multiple buildings or facilities to have a standardized card that would contain all information required by facilities personnel. This card allows facilities personnel to obtain the necessary personal, licensing, insurance, and other required information to pull building permits from local government building... Agent: Frank B. Arenas, Esq.

20080120244 - Automated negotiation system and method: A negotiation system can include at least one negotiation database configured to store a set of seller information comprising a subject matter identification and a set of seller price information including a list price and a lowest price, the subject matter identification identifying a subject matter of a negotiation, a... Agent: David M. Mello

20080120129 - Consistent set of interfaces derived from a business object model: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080120172 - Toll fee system and method: A toll fee tracking system comprising a toll authority adapted to collect data associated with at least one toll fee tracking device and a toll rental entity adapted to communicate with the toll authority and a third part entity. This Abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an Abstract... Agent: Winstead Pc

20080120186 - Real-time wireless e-coupon (promotion) definition based on available segment: Advertising messages are provided to mobile terminals of those users identified by user information as meeting certain criteria, such as users fitting particular user profiles and/or users located in a particular desired location. The content of the advertising messages is dynamically generated based on the number of mobile terminals to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080120190 - Financial transaction and/or wireless communication device authorization, notification and/or security apparatus and method.: A transaction authorization, notification and/or security apparatus, which comprises a device for issuing an authorization request for a transaction, a device for processing the authorization request and for transmitting a first one of a signal, data and information in response to the authorization request and a communication device for receiving... Agent: Raymond A. Joao, Esq.

20080120198 - Storage medium for facilitating parts procurement and production planning across an extended supply chain: A storage medium for managing a supply chain is provided. The storage medium includes instructions for implementing a method. The method includes transmitting a bid request from a bill of material (BOM) file to a web site and receiving a response from a supplier, resulting in an award notice. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Fishkill

20080120211 - System and method for modifying attribute data pertaining to financial assets in a data processing system: A processing system for modifying attributes of a plurality of loans is described. The processing system includes an attribute change processor for receiving and implementing a proposed change to an attribute of at least one of the plurality of loans and a loan pricing processor for generating a pricing value... Agent: Fann-mke C/o Foley & Lardner LLP

20080120216 - System and method for asset utilization: The present invention is a computer system or method for obtaining, maintaining and controlling an exchange of tangible assets over a global computer network. In one embodiment, the present invention is a computer system having memory, the system being adapted to identify one or more art assets which may be... Agent: Southwest Intellectual Property Services, Llc

20080120217 - System and method for calculating intra-period volatility: Disclosed is a system and method for calculating an intra-period volatility of a security. The system includes a means for collecting tick or selected time interval data from a data source, an interface or storage means for collecting or retrieving assumptions and variables used in the determination, and a processor... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080120223 - Architecture for anonymous trading system: An anonymous trading system comprises a network of broker nodes, each of which have an equal status and can match orders, initiate deals and distribute prices. Trading agents are connected to some or all of the broker nodes. The network is arranged to conform to a series of rules and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080120238 - Business-to business commerce using financial transaction numbers: Controlled Payment Numbers (CPNs) which issue as a unique payment number for each transaction uniquely identify the transaction for matching the purchase and payment information. The issuance of the CPN is controlled by business rules which are designed to and effectively restrict the use of the CPN, such that if... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080120254 - System, method and medium for providing mixed color cullet brokering services: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for brokering the purchase and/or sale of mixed-color glass and/or cullet, optionally over a computer network. In one embodiment, the broker facilitates the purchase and/or sale of three color mixed cullet between beneficiators, MRFs and/or glass plants, in order to supply, for... Agent: Wilmerhale/dc

20080120255 - Water supply insurance method: A water supply insurance method for providing an emergency water supply in a severe water shortage includes the steps of securing water rights to a water source and initiating discussion with a water-using client for issuing of a water supply insurance policy, including information pertaining to expected water needs, term... Agent: Law Offices Of Adam H. Jacobs Patent Attorney

20080120256 - Apparatus and process for increasing the consumer awareness of consumer products: The present invention provides a bank of rooms having a thematic relationship to a consumer product. The bank of rooms is provided with a plurality of individual rooms. Each of the rooms has fixtures disposed therein. The fixtures are thematically related to the consumer product. The fixtures are arranged within... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080114611 - Marketing/fundraising/reward system and method: Provided is a marketing/fundraising/reward method and system including providing a member with product with an incorporated authenticity tag including a personalized part, a unique number part, an encoded part, and a system identification section, assigning a unique number to be displayed in the unique number part, encoding the encoded part... Agent: Perry M. Fonseca & Associates, P.c.

20080114609 - Method and system for conducting pre-employment process: A system and method for collecting and validating information in connection with the pre-employment process. A potential employee is presented with a plurality of questions relating to at least one of personal profile information, personal identification information, employment information, regulatory information, and policy acknowledgement information. One or more responses to... Agent: Daniel H. Golub Alison B. Weisberg

20080114612 - Responder route and site-specific critical data system: A route and site-specific critical data system for emergency responders as they travel and approach an incident site, comprising a field survey database, a computer-executable GIS extension application interfaced with said database, a mobile GPS receiver, and a mobile user interface that includes a display screen capable of touch-screen icon... Agent: Virginia P. Shogren, P.c.

20080114610 - System and method for marking memorials: A system for offering memorials, markers, monuments, and similar death care items through the Internet or a network in conjunction with a charity or similar donative entity or institution. The marker (or other item) is shown on a web-page accessible through the Internet. Potential customers can view and browse markers... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20080114608 - System and method for rating performance: A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating a rating scale to be used in an evaluation form, the rating scale comprising a plurality of rating levels, each comprising at least one element to rate and a plurality of qualifying quantifiers, associating at least one of the qualifying quantifiers to... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080114607 - System for generating advertisements based on search intent: A system and method for generating advertisements based on search intent. The system includes a query engine, and an advertisement engine. The query engine receives a query from the user. The query engine analyzes the query to determine a query intent that is matched to a predetermined domain. A translated... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080114613 - Integrated electronic healthcare management system: An integrated electronic medical records and health care management system includes a managing application for receiving and storing member data associated with at least one member of a health plan. A risk assessment application coupled to the managing application generates a level of care for the member based upon the... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080114616 - Method and system for clinical trial compliance: A method for improving clinical trial compliance for a business entity using a computer system including a database is provided. The method includes selecting a clinical trial facility and at least one clinical trial subject, creating a clinical trial protocol including at least medical service cost data for an insurance... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080114615 - Methods and systems for gesture-based healthcare application interaction in thin-air display: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for improved clinical workflow using gesture recognition. Certain embodiments provide a method for gesture-based interaction in a clinical environment. The method includes detecting a gesture in a thin-air display space. The method also includes identifying the detected gesture. The method... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080114614 - Methods and systems for healthcare application interaction using gesture-based interaction enhanced with pressure sensitivity: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for clinical workflow using gesture recognition. Certain embodiments provide a method for gesture-based interaction in a clinical environment. The method includes detecting a gesture made on a sensor surface. The method also includes determining a pressure applied to make the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080114617 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining an optimum hernia repair procedure: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for determining an optimum hernia repair procedure for a pre-operative patient. Responses to a health questionnaire administered to post-operative patients are scored to determine an overall score indicative of the post-operative patient's quality of life following a hernia repair procedure. Each overall... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080114618 - Patient information management system: A computer-implemented system for patient information management, including at least one database having a plurality of data fields populated with patient data, clinician data, physician data, healthcare provider data, device data, medical data, health data, presentation data, identification data, administrator data, or any combination thereof. The system provides a patient... Agent: Michael W. Haas Respironics, Inc.

20080114621 - Airline ticket change constrainer: A ticket change constrainer which allows reissuing or revalidating an already issued airline ticket includes a ticket change domain reducer operable to reduce an input search domain of change opportunities on the basis of change conditions set in the already issued ticket. It also includes a ticket change valuer operable... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080114623 - Airline ticket change constrainer: An automated system and a method for checking an already issued airline ticket prior to having a requester submitting a change request of the already issued airline ticket are described. The system comprises a ticket data retriever unit for retrieving, with a ticket reference provided by the requester, the already... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080114622 - System and method of protecting prices: A method and system for protecting prices is provided. The price protection system increases consumer confidence when making purchases by reducing the risk associated with fluctuating prices. The price protection system receives a purchase specification from a consumer. Next, the price protection system determines the risk that the prices of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080114630 - Aerospace and defense program analysis tool: The invention provides automatically examines an Aerospace and Defense (A&D) company's financial data and evaluating factors affecting the company's value, and using this evaluation to assess the desirability of proposed changes in various stages of an A&D project. Specifically, the present invention evaluates changes in an A&D company's value through... Agent: Accenture, LLP C/o Hogan & Hartson, LLP (ipgroup)

20080114624 - Click-fraud protector: Determining the probability that a user or program fraudulently initiated a web-page request is described herein. A data-mining component is configured to determine attributes associated with the web-page request. A computation component is configured to calculate a probability that the web-page request was fraudulently initiated. To calculate this probability, the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080114628 - Enterprise proposal management system: A system and method for managing an enterprise is provided. The system and method may be based on a layered architecture including a data center that may store all documents and data abstractions for an enterprise. One or more services may interact with an enterprise resource planning system and/or a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080114633 - Method and apparatus for analyzing activity in a space: The present invention provides a system and a method for analyzing activity of people in a of people in a space. Continuous raw video imagery is received from one or more sensors placed in a pre-defined regions of the space. This imagery is analyzed to determine basic characteristics of the... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler Pc

20080114625 - Method and system for analyzing schedule trends: A method for determining a variance trend in schedule data includes retrieving schedule data comprising a task description of a task and a plurality of milestones associated with the task including a baseline milestone associated with a baseline deadline, a first updated milestone associated with a first updated deadline, and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080114631 - Service evaluation system, service evaluation method, recording medium storing service evaluation program: A service evaluation system that evaluates a service in an IT system providing the service to a service user using an IT resource operated by a service operator includes a log acquisition part that acquires log data of the IT resource from a log data storage part, an interpretation data... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080114626 - System and method for capturing process instance information: A system and method for capturing and information about a process instance in a business system is provided. A unique process instance identifier may be assigned to each business object created, used, or modified during execution of the process intnce. The identifier may then be used to monitor or analyze... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080114627 - System and method for capturing process instance information in complex or distributed systems: A system and method for capturing and information about a process instance in a business system is provided. A unique process instance identifier may be assigned to each business object created, used, or modified during execution of the process instance. The identifier may then be used to monitor or analyze... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080114632 - System and method for using optical storage media analysis: Aspects of the present invention involve an optical storage media inventory system and methods that leverages the capabilities of an optical storage media characterization device to direct repair of the optical storage media if it is damaged, to assess pecuniary penalties to a rental customer responsible for the damage or... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080114629 - System for matching users and transportation providers: A system for matching one or more users and a transportation provider. The system may include identifying a first user, identifying a second user, identifying a transportation provider and matching the first user, the second user and the transportation provider.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080114635 - Method and apparatus for calculating importance degrees for resources: A method for calculating an importance degree for a resource according to this invention includes: receiving a first importance degree assigned to a resource node to be allocated or having been allocated to a specific business service based on an original policy in the specific business service; and converting the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080114634 - Method, system, and computer program product for determining availability and order scheduling of diverse products and services: A method, system, and computer program product for determining availability and order scheduling of diverse products and services is provided. The method includes receiving an order with a plurality of element orders. The element orders are organized into one or more delivery groups. A first pass alignment date is determined... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Fishkill

20080114638 - Parameter-based appointment scheduling system and method: A system for automatically scheduling an appointment for performing a task includes a task time generation module configured to calculate a total time for performing the task in accordance with task parameters provided by a user. The system includes an availability determination module in communication with the task time generation... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080114636 - Smart meetings interactive electronic calendar: The Smart Meetings Plug-in for automated calendaring software allows meeting invitees to add comments when accepting a meeting invitation so that all invitees to the meeting can see the comments in the calendar entry created by accepting the meeting invitation. When automated calendaring software sends an invitation to a first... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080114637 - System and method for implementing database concurrency for allowing multiple agents to coordinate execution of tasks in a cluster: A system, computer-implementable method, and computer-readable medium for processing a collection of work items in a data processing system. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an agent monitor assembles a work items list that includes a collection of work items, wherein at least one work item among... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080114640 - Method for planning parts demand coverage based on variable percentage of substitution parts: A method is provided for meeting anticipated parts demands, by controlling substitute part inventory coverage based on percentage requirements. The method is characterized by substitution sets determined as a ratio of the current PN level. In one embodiment, current parts of specified type and substitute parts functionally equivalent to the... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080114641 - Process and apparatus for marketing data collection and analysis aggregation of funds: The present invention comprises methods and an apparatus for the marketing data collection and analysis and the aggregation of funds from advertisers. The techniques include receiving data from a Web site that has a marketing program uploaded from a provider server, for data collection, analysis and the aggregation of funds,... Agent: Kristin C. Castle, Esq.

20080114639 - User interaction-biased advertising: On-line and/or off-line advertisement interactions are tracked for individual users. This information can then be utilized to adjust display parameters for an advertisement. Tracking can be accomplished via a client-side tracking mechanism and/or a server side tracking mechanism. The advertisement interactions allow advertisers to adjust their advertising campaigns to better... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080114645 - Advertisement scheme for use with interactive content: A method for use in advertising includes initiating playing of interactive content, suspending playing of the interactive content, displaying an advertisement, and resuming playing of the interactive content. A computer program product includes a medium embodying a computer program for causing a computer to perform these operations, and a system... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080114656 - Airport radio: An airport-specific radio broadcast system for broadcasting to a confined region in and about an airport having plural concourses therein includes a broadcast facility having at least one RF transmitter therein; receivers operably connected to a public speaker system in each airport concourse; broadcast content for broadcast to a specific... Agent: Robert D. Varitz, P.c.

20080114649 - Collecting consumer information: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for collecting consumer information. A first message is received from a portable communication device having a device identifier. The first message includes an item code that identifies a promotional item. It is verified whether the device identifier is registered for a promotional... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP Attn: Dc Patent Docketing

20080114644 - Convergence of terms within a collaborative tagging environment: Tools and techniques for converging terms within a collaborative tagging environment are described herein. Methods for converging divergent contributions to the collaborative tagging environment may include receiving respective contributions from users within the environment. The methods may identify at least some of the contributions as divergent, and enable the users... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080114646 - Method and system for facilitating a fantasy sports contest at the point of sale: A method for facilitating a contest, promotion, or other activity is disclosed, wherein the activity participant receives an access code at the point of sale—either by receiving a magnetic card or other portable electronically-readable device with the access code thereon, or via communication with the participant's own portable electronically-readable device.... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20080114654 - Method of selling a custom product as an over-the-counter commodity item: The present disclosure provides a method of selling a supplier's product to a consumer, wherein the method includes providing a physical representation of a product to the consumer. The physical representation includes a temporarily concealed first unique identifier corresponding to the physical representation of the product. The method further includes... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080114643 - Methods of creating electronic customs invoices: A method of creating an electronic customs invoice which includes receiving oder information, creating an order request using the order information, and verifying the accuracy of the order request. The method further includes organizing the order request based on a plurality of categories, generating a billing statement using the order... Agent: Trueman H Denny Hewlett-packard Company

20080114651 - Omaha - user price incentive model: The claimed subject invention presents a system and method to compensate a user of a service platform in return for information regarding the user's intent. The compensation comprises rewards points and direct payments, which can be used to claim rewards online and offline. The compensation is securely maintained in compensation... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080114650 - Online coupon distribution method: An online coupon distribution method includes (a) registering coupons in the coupon distribution server, at the seller terminal, (b) selecting, at the purchaser terminal, one of the registered coupons to purchase the coupon, whereby providing the purchase desire information to the coupon distribution server, (c) requesting, at the coupon distribution... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc

20080114648 - System and method for distributing advertisements in an internet protocol television system: A method for delivering targeted advertisement data to opt-in subscribers in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed, the system comprising selecting an advertising target group of opt-in IPTV subscribers based on an advertiser's advertising target request; and multicasting an advertisement from an IPTV advertising server to the advertising... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, Pc

20080114653 - Systems and methods for allocating a consumer access right to a live event: A performer credit program facilitates crediting, tracking, and accumulating performer credits for consumer activity such as purchasing items related to a performer. Consumers manage performer credits in a performer credit account through a performer credit account facility and can elect to convert accumulated credits to access rights that can be... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080114647 - Wireless system for coupon acquisition and redemption: A paperless merchandise discount coupons acquisition and redemption system is provide by employing the consumer's cell phone or other wireless device. The consumer registers in the system with the unique IMEI number or Bluetooth(trademark) friendly address, and specifies products interested. The system matches the consumer's registered information and in response... Agent: David W. Wong

20080114658 - System and method for issuing prepaid negotiable instruments: Pre-paid negotiable instruments are issued in response to a request at a host system from the holder of a stored-value account. The request is made through an IVR system or a web interface, and the host allocates funds from the account and provides a balance remaining after the negotiable instrument... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080114659 - System and methods for servicing electronic transactions: A method for using an electronic transaction device with an electronic transaction service provider may include the steps of registering the electronic transaction device with the electronic transaction device service provider, registering a plurality of accounts corresponding to a plurality of service institutions, providing a data connection between the electronic... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080114660 - System and method for translating bill of material information for vehicle components: Systems and methods are provided for translating between bills of material based on an identifier associated with a component definition and a function definition. The component definition and the function definition are a component and function definition for a bill of material such that another component from that bill of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080114664 - Broadcast programming data capture: A portable device is used to capture, in real time, data sufficient to identify a product or service promoted, or a music track played, on a broadcast medium such as radio or television. The capture device can be a standalone implementation, or an application program executable on a personal communication... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080114661 - Contraint satisfaction for solutions to an auction winner-determination problem: A set of solutions satisfying a constraint for an auction winner-determination problem are computed by generating a graph of paths, wherein each path represents a solution to the auction winner-determination problem that satisfies the constraint.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080114662 - E-commerce system and method employing accumulative assembly of orders: A method of selling goods is disclosed. The method includes initiating an accumulator having a set point, the set point reflecting an amount of goods to be shipped, the accumulator keeping track of buyer orders, soliciting buyer orders, and shipping the goods upon reaching the set point. An so associated... Agent: Douglas E. Mackenzie

20080114665 - Licensing system: At least one embodiment of the present invention pertains to a process to: 1) license songs from copyright owners (licensors) for use by DJs (licensees) for inclusion in their mix compilations, such as using a single license for one or more mix compilations; 2) allow DJs to create and sell... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080114663 - Product resale system and method: This invention includes systems and methods for processing charitable donations. One embodiment includes a web based system adapted capture information related to the items for charitable donation, assigning at least one charitable organization to receive a benefit of the donated item, monitoring and updating the status of the item for... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080114667 - Systems and methods for automatically providing one or more event driven global available to promise services in a supply chain: Systems and methods are provided for automatically providing one or more event driven global available to promise services in a supply chain. In one implementation, the system includes an inbound interface for interfacing with a plurality of data storage devices, in at least one of which one or more documents... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080114668 - Method, system, and computer program product for collaborative and integrated intellectual property management: A method, system, and computer program product for collaborative and integrated intellectual property management are provided. The method includes defining a sequence of phases for an intellectual property management model. The phases are defined by task-based components in conjunction with a workflow component and a messaging component. The task-based components... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Fishkill

20080114669 - Rating communications and special communities: A number of communication entities can be associated to provide one or more special communities. A special rating can be applied to certain communication events of users associated with a special community. Users associated with a special community can be offered various services if they have subscribed to one or... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080114670 - Systems and methods for a transaction vetting service: An embodiment relates generally to a method of processing a financial transaction. The method includes receiving a requested transaction, where the requested transaction is transferring a sum of money or other assets from an originator to a receiver. The method also includes applying a set of rules to the requested... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080114703 - Method and tool for retirement income management: The present invention is a method of monitoring a retirement income plan and managing retirement income through use of a retirement income planning tool. The retirement income planning tool is comprised of modules working together in order to facilitate planning, monitoring, management and generation of a retirement income plan. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080114702 - System and method for making positions held by a trader fungible: Positions held by a trader are made fungible by selecting a first position in a first futures contract that is deliverable and selecting a second position in a second futures contract, wherein the first and second futures contracts are traded in a first and second market, respectively. Offsetting the first... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20080114700 - System and method for optimized asset management: The invention provides a system and method for optimizing asset management within an organization. The invention includes an asset management database that comprises the identity of a plurality of assets managed by the organization and associations between at least one of the plurality of assets and one or more existing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080114704 - System and method for providing financial services to high net worth individuals: A system and method for providing financial and other services to high net worth individuals is described. A significant feature is the method for selecting and managing a comprehensive set of service providers for optimal efficiency and effectiveness. The associated system provides a depository for client data, and enhances communication... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080114701 - System and method for using analyst data to identify peer securities: A system and method is provided for identifying peer securities relative to a primary security based, at least in part, on analyst coverage. Peer securities may be identified for the primary security by identifying one or more analysts associated with the primary security, and generating a set of candidate peer... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080114705 - Springing real estate mortgage investment conduit: A method and combination which allow Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) issuers to issue Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) via a trust structure while allowing non-REIT entities to finance the equity portion of the deal are provided. An upfront solution is provided to address the traditional constraints of equity financing under a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080114671 - Cascade bidding: Some embodiments may provide a method and a system for receiving a first limit price, associated with a bidder, on a first auction-format listing, receiving a second limit price, associated with the bidder, on a second auction-format listing, making a first determination as to whether a first condition exists that... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080114672 - Method and system for bidding on advertisements: A system and method for bidding on advertisements. The system includes a query engine and an advertisement engine. The query engine receives a query from the user. The query engine analyzes the query to determine a query intent that is matched to a predetermined domain. A translated query is generated... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080114673 - Internet-based mortgage analysis and savings account implementation and management network: Internet-based method of and system for enabling home owners with adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) and Interest Only (IO) loans to mitigate the financial risks associated with payment shock when the interest rates on their ARM or IO loans readjust during the life of such loans. The Internet-based system comprises a... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., Pc Soundview Plaza

20080114675 - Parking payment system using a cell phone or other mobile device: A parking payment system is provided that includes a telecommunication provider and a mobile device. The mobile device is supported by the telecommunication provider. The mobile device promotes a customer identifying a parking space and further promotes the customer selecting to pay for the parking space. The telecommunication provider bills... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080114678 - Method and apparatus for remote authorization: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing remote authorization of transactions. The process suspends a transaction at a first location in response to detecting the occurrence of an override condition. The process then sends a request for authorization to a user operating a remote computing... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080114680 - Method an system for printing an image from an arbitrary website: One embodiment of the invention provides a method to for printing an image from an arbitrary website. The method comprises, on a server system associated with the arbitrary website generating a link to the image; and sending the link to a client system; and on a server system associated with... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080114683 - Remote time and attendance system and method: A system and method for remote time collection are provided. Generally, various embodiments of the invention provide users with a system and method for tracking employee time and/or confirming job site arrival remotely. In accordance with various embodiments, a system and method for remote time collection comprises a variety of... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.l.p. (main)

20080114681 - System and method for providing private demand-driven pricing: A system and method for providing private demand-driven pricing for fixed cost digital goods are described. Symmetric private information retrieval is engaged on a table that includes public key encryptions of prices for digital goods stored in a database by a seller system, wherein a desired marginal pricing level has... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080114682 - System and method for providing private demand-driven pricing: A system and method for providing private demand-driven pricing for fixed cost digital goods are described. An encrypted price of identically-priced digital goods is additively perturbed. The digital goods are stored in a database by a seller system and an approximate revenue maximizing price for the digital goods has not... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080114686 - Apparatuses for linking content with license: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor is configured to retrieve a first parameter associated with a license; retrieve a second parameter associated with the encrypted content; generate a third parameter based on the first and second parameters;... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080114687 - Method and apparatus for moving, dividing, or merging copyrighted content: According to an aspect of this invention, in moving copyrighted content acquired from a rights server from a first terminal to a second terminal, the first terminal of the moving source re-encrypts a key encryption key contained in the rights object of the copyrighted content as the moving target by... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080114689 - Patient information management method: A computer-implemented system for patient information management, including at least one database having a plurality of data fields populated with patient data, clinician data, physician data, healthcare provider data, device data, medical data, health data, presentation data, identification data, administrator data, or any combination thereof. The system provides a patient... Agent: Michael W. Haas Respironics, Inc.

20080114685 - System and method for preventing unauthorized installation of a software program: A system and method for preventing unauthorized installation of a software program utilizes an activation key that is based on a hardware key and a software key. The hardware key is associated with a particular hardware device, while the software key is associated with the software program to be installed.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080114688 - Systems and methods for providing bundles of rights: Methods and systems of providing a bundle of rights is disclosed herein. Data that defines a rights bundle is received at a rights engine. The data that defines the rights bundle is indicative of access rights and obligations with respect to any content item to which the bundle of rights... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080114684 - Termination of transactions: A system and method of terminating a transaction between a merchant and customer are disclosed.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080114691 - Processing transactions: A system and method of terminating a transaction between a merchant and customer are disclosed.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080114690 - System and method for performing partner settlement for managed services in an ip multimedia subsystem (ims) network: The present invention can provide multimedia services by hosting within an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) compliant environment of a network operator at least one multimedia service, which is associated with a managed service provider. Instance-specific execution metrics can be determined for instances of the multimedia service. The execution metrics... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080114694 - Method and system for making transactions through electronic portable devices which can be connected to a communication network, and associated portable electronic device: A method and system for making transactions with at least one merchant site trough an electronic portable device which can be connected to a communication network, comprising a connection of an electronic device to an intermediary site through the communication network. The said intermediary site being connectable to at least... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080114693 - Method for allowing content protected by a first drm system to be accessed by a second drm system: A method for allowing content protected by a first DRM system to be accessed by a second DRM system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a request is received from a host application for a license for content protected by a first DRM system, the first DRM system being different from... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080114695 - Process for implementing a method for the on-line sale of software product use licenses through a data network, and software component which allows carrying out said process: Online sale of software product use licenses through a data network by offering software products (SOFT) through vendor sites, purchasing a license on-line on one of said vendor sites, and activating said license on-line by a different licensing site. A specific component (COMP) is provided with the software product (SOFT)... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080114692 - System for allowing content protected by a first drm system to be accessed by a second drm system: A system and computer-readable media storing operational instructions for allowing content protected by a first DRM system to be accessed by a second DRM system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a request is received from a host application for a license for content protected by a first DRM system, the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080114696 - System for packaging, processing, activating, and deactivating multiple individual transaction cards as a singular unit: A transaction card processing and activation system comprising the identification of a unique identifier corresponding to an aggregate of transaction cards of affiliated or non-affiliated card issuers and the activation of each transaction card corresponding to the unique identifier of the aggregate irrespective of the number, types, or card issuers... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080114697 - Using biometric tokens to pre-stage and complete transactions: A system that supports multi-stage transactions through the use of biometric tokens, such as fingerprint images or iris scans. A user pre-stages a transaction by providing transaction details that can be used a later time to complete the transaction, and the system stores the transaction details in a transaction record... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080114699 - System, hardware and method for mobile pos payment: The present invention provides a system, hardware and method for mobile payment via a low-cost simple POS station and a mobile device. A general objective of the invention is to process payment authorization via the mobile consumer's own mobile device and mobile network, instead of the POS network's backbone.... Agent: Gong Yi Yuan

20080114619 - Method of reinsuring an insolvent insurance or reinsurance company's liabilities: The invention provides a method for reinsuring an insolvent Insurance Company's liabilities. The method includes determining the shortfall of the Insurance Company's assets and Reinsurer's obligations to cover underlying claims, determining a guaranteed payment rate of the claims, and indemnifying at least a portion of the Insurance Company's liability for... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080114620 - Software, system and method for computer based assessing of health insurance risk profiles for a group seeking health insurance and providing a composite insurance policy: The present invention provides a computer system including software with computer implemented methods for assessing health insurance risk profiles for a company group and for its individual employees, which system provides methods for assigning the appropriate health insurance costs and/or rates for the company group. In a preferred aspect, the... Agent: John J G Mullins

20080114642 - Network advertising: The present invention is a method and apparatus for collecting information about network (internet) users for determining advertising to be presented to the users. In one embodiment, user profiles are determined, and advertising is selectively provided by comparing user personal information in such profiles with a desired demographic profile. User... Agent: Sheridan Ross Pc

20080114652 - Apparatus and method for predicting the performance of a new internet advertising experiment: A computer readable storage medium has executable instructions to identify a new Internet advertising experiment including values. The effectiveness of the values in prior Internet advertising experiments is evaluated. The performance of the new Internet advertising experiment is predicted based upon the effectiveness of the values in the prior Internet... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080114655 - Integrated home inspection, warranty and vendor information system: This invention is a system for creating an interactive home inspection report having an inspection item associated with a target property by receiving home inspection information, creating an electronic home inspection report, determining whether the inspection item needs maintenance or repair, receiving vendor information from the vendor computer readable medium... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.a.

20080114657 - Internet payment system and method: A system and method for facilitating payment for online purchases is disclosed. The system allows consumers/customers who shop online to select, at the time of checkout, direct payment from an account as the payment option. An electronic bill (ebill), independent of any confidential financial information pertaining to the consumer, is... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080114666 - Method and system for managing transaction of vitrual image: A method and system for managing a transaction of the virtual images. The method includes generating a requirement for a virtual image of a user according to the user's request and a demand data of amount of payment promised by the user for the virtual image. And the demand data... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080114674 - Asp business decision engine: A decision engine is provided that integrates all components of a credit application process, including access to and manipulation of credit bureau data, credit scoring, credit decisioning, and matching the correct products, into a single application service provider (ASP) platform which is accessible through a series of Application Programming Interfaces... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080114676 - Method for providing a prepaid debit card for debt recovery: Prepaid debit card and cash-back bonuses as an incentive tool for debt recovery. Charge-off accounts are obtained from third party credit holders. The customers for these accounts are contacted for enrollment into a prepaid debit card program. The prepaid debit card program is an incentive to get the customers to... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080114677 - User configurable alerts for atm transactions: A method, system and computer program product for enabling user-customization of an ATM display/receipt for a transaction carried out at an automated teller machine (ATM). The customer/user of the ATM creates/selects specific alerts to be outputted during subsequent ATM transactions. The alerts/notices are linked to the customer account. During subsequent... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080114679 - System and method for providing advanced funding for proceeds from a resolved dispute: A computer executable system and method for dispute resolution with advance funding capability. After calculating a difference between the demand and the offer in at least one round and determining whether the difference falls within at least one criterion, the claim is resolved if the difference falls within the at... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080114698 - Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments: Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent third party—tests the load modules or other executables to verify that their corresponding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080114706 - System and methods for creating probabilistic products and for facilitating probabilistic selling: A method for creating a probabilistic product is provided. The method includes creating a set of product identifiers corresponding to a plurality of products offered by a single seller, each of the plurality of product identifiers uniquely corresponding to one of the plurality of products. The method also includes selecting... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080114707 - Taximeter using digital speed or distance as input: There is provided an electronic taximeter that accepts a digital data input representative of one of a vehicle speed and a distance traveled by the vehicle. The digital data signal may be taken from the electronic engine bus of the vehicle or from the On Board Diagnostic connector. The taximeter... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080109241 - method, system and computer program for metering usage of software products with a dynamically optimised license use: A solution for metering usage of at least one software product on a data processing system, the at least one software product having a plurality of available associated licenses, each license having a set of attributes. An event indicative of the use of the at least one product on the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080109235 - Apparatus and method for creating business process workflows within business intelligence systems: A computer readable storage medium includes computer executable instructions to receive an action type. A set of logic is associated with the action type. An action is defined based on the action type. The action includes a further set of logic that extends the set of logic associated with the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080109232 - Evaluative information system and method: A system and method for aggregating and organizing evaluative information for a particular product from at least one information source. An evaluation summary is generated by the system and method which gives users a quick and convenient view of the overall trends among the evaluative information available, including such information... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080109246 - Method for cooperative transport of parcels: The system and methods disclosed allow cooperative transport of parcels by aggregating excess carrying capacity of participating individual transport agents planning on or actually engaging in travels. Parcels are accepted at a sorter where a transport agent, who is traveling generally in the direction the parcel needs to go, picks... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080109231 - Mult card promotional item: Four sided cards such as taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,525,060, can be imprinted as business cards for use as promotional items. Such cards can be imprinted with information of an individual and also a logo or identifying information of a second party as well.... Agent: Hugh Leobner C/o Crown Industries Inc

20080109256 - Adaptive system for financial claim reimbursement processing: A system improves payment claims transactions by analyzing payments transactions to update payment edit rules according to information derived from the transactions. A system adapts rules used for processing claim adjudication data provided by a payer organization concerning a claim for reimbursement for provision of healthcare to a patient previously... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080109253 - Method for providing information and obtaining consent: A method of providing information is disclosed for use in facilitating informed consent. The method may include providing a database containing information regarding one or more subjects. Access may be provided to the database through a client, such as a health care provider, to one or more users, such as... Agent: Karl R Cannon

20080109251 - Method of providing integrated healthcare services: An integrative healthcare model is provided in which standard acute care medicine is supplemented by a process involving an awareness phase, an intervention phase, an education phase and a treatment phase which is implemented to address root causes of health issues and bring about lifestyle changes leading to improved health.... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.a.

20080109252 - Predicting patient compliance with medical treatment: Methods for predicting a patient's adherence to a medical treatment and optimizing the patient's treatment are provided. A questionnaire is developed using statistical analysis and/or mathematical modeling of factors affecting patient adherence, and is administered to a patient. Such factors may include the patient's openness to being persuaded to adhere... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080109250 - System and method for creating and rendering dicom structured clinical reporting via the internet: The assembly and communications of a generic reporting engine for offering clinical structured reports using the Internet in an encrypted manner is provided. This method of rendering structured reports employs a DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) software database engine that maps clinical report data into a clinical structured reporting data format... Agent: The Matthews Firm

20080109260 - Electronic data capture in a medical workflow system: A method and a system for capturing drug administration data in a medical environment. Patient and drug identifiers are inputted into a handheld device comprising a scanner, a processor and a data storage device. The patient identifiers and the drug identifiers are transmitted to a server. The patient and drug... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080109259 - Method and apparatus for implementing patient data download for multiple different meter types: A method and apparatus implements patient data downloading for multiple different meter types, such as multiple different blood glucose meters. A plurality of serial ports is provided, each arranged for connection to a respective meter of the multiple different meter types. Information is displayed and user selections are identified. Responsive... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080109258 - Process to administer, store, and disseminate information via a web-enabled interface and database: A process to securely administer, store, and disseminate independent medical examination (IME) reports via a web-enabled interface includes a system for auditing a generation process of completed IME reports and the end report itself. A sequenced delivery system enables scheduling of delivery of IME reports and related information according to... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080109263 - Contingent wellness benefits for life insurance: A method for rewarding life insurance policy holders who satisfy requirements relating to insured individuals' wellness includes segmenting a group of insured individuals into a W group that qualifies for a wellness benefit and a S group that does not qualify for the wellness benefit. Qualification for the wellness benefit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080109265 - Method for selling motion-actuated seats in movie theaters: A method for selling seats in a movie theater, comprising the steps of: providing a first screening room in a movie theater with actuated seats providing movement in synchronization with a motion picture having a feature-length presentation being projected; selling access to non-actuated seats in the movie theater at a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080109283 - Apparatus and method for mixing business intelligence and business process workflows: A computer readable storage medium includes computer executable instructions to receive an action originated from a client application of a business intelligence system. Data providing context about the action is received from the business intelligence system. The action is passed to a business process system or a data source, such... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080109272 - Apparatus, system, method and computer program product for analysis of fraud in transaction data: In one non-limiting aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a computer-implemented method to make a decision as to whether a particular claim submitted by a first economic agent for approval by a second economic agent may be a fraudulent claim. The method includes applying statistics to information... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080109269 - Enterprise performance improvement planning and execution system: The invention is an online methodology for classifying, searching, validating and assessing solutions resulting in one of more of the following: a reduction in the price of goods consumed across one or more business processes, a reduction in the volume of goods consumed across one or more business processes, a... Agent: Christopher Westwood

20080109268 - Method and apparatus for examining workflow processes: A method and apparatus for examining workflow processes is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a workflow monitoring system having a definition element that selectively defines one or more workflow process elements of a corresponding workflow, and a monitor element that identifies... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080109271 - Method for managing ergonomic risk exposure in manufacturing: A system and method of planning an operational task of a workplace collects data related to at least one task. An ergonomic risk score of each task is generated. A determination is made if the ergonomic risk score is acceptable. An option is provided to a user to proceed with... Agent: The Boeing Company C/o Weiss & Moy, P.c.

20080109266 - Method, computer program product and milking station for initiating an action to be performed with respect to a milking animal: A method includes the steps of recording milk yields (MY?1#191, MY?2#191, MY?N#191) from milkings of an udder quarter or udder of a milking animal; recording the times (t1, t2, . . . , tN) of the milkings; calculating milk secretion rates (MSR1, MSR2, . . . , MSRN) for said... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080109267 - Online startup of an innovation project: computer-readable project information is stored in a computing system, such information being obtained from a user at a user computer in response to prompting the user to submit information addressing: (i) a need for a project; (ii) a goal of the project; (iii) a manner in which success of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080109277 - Search results positioning based on radio metrics: In one embodiment, a method is illustrated as including sorting a group of broadcast advertisement search results using a broadcast metric, the broadcast metric providing a basis to place a member of the group of broadcast advertisement search results in a higher position relative to at least one other member... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080109270 - Selection of performance indicators for workflow monitoring: A method of monitoring workflow performance includes selecting a workflow for a job in a production process environment, wherein the job corresponds to a job category. The method also may include accessing a knowledge base to automatically select a set of performance indicators that correspond to the job category. Process... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080109274 - System and method for predicting a casing variation of a term: Systems and methods for predicting a proper casing variation of a term are disclosed. Generally, a term casing suggestion tool receives a term. The term casing suggestion tool determines whether a database of editorial decisions includes a proper casing variation of the received term. If the database of editorial decisions... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080109273 - System and method for predicting a displayable form of a term: Systems and methods for predicting a displayable form of a term is disclosed. Generally, a displayable form suggestion tool receives a term. The displayable form suggestion tool canonicalizes the term and applies a displayable form model based on search logs of an online advertisement service provider to the received term... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080109275 - System and method for remote sales, reporting and inventory management: Briefly, according to an embodiment of the invention a method for remote sales, reporting, and inventory management for a vessel comprises steps or acts of: generating a form comprising voyage information; automatically extracting the voyage information from the form; populating a summary report with the extracted voyage information from the... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20080109276 - System for portal architecture: A system for a portal architecture may include a model service component. The model service component may be arranged to connect a presentation device to a business manager component. An aspect oriented architecture may be associated with the model service component. A service oriented architecture may be associated with the... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080109291 - Executing and tracking strategic plans: A method for generating and tracking a strategic plan is disclosed. The method includes generating a plurality of assignments necessary for achieving a strategic plan for a business association, wherein each assignment is associated with at least one user of said strategic plan and presented to such a user or... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080109292 - Voice-enabled workflow item interface: Methods and apparatuses enable providing a workflow work activity of a particular interface type to a different interface type. The work activity can be potentially worked on in the different interface type. In one embodiment, the work activity can be completed in the different interface type and cleared from the... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080109295 - Monitoring usage of a portable user appliance: Methods and systems for gathering data concerning usage of a portable user appliance are disclosed. Content created in the use of the portable user appliance is monitored to produce content related data. The content related data is communicated to a usage data processing facility for producing reports of interest to... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.c.

20080109293 - System and method for communication market information: The invention relates to a communication system for gathering, bundling and communicating market information and to a method of communicating such information.... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20080109294 - Systems and methods of enhancing leads: A client transmits one or more lead records to a lead enhancement module that is configured to enhance the received lead records and return enhanced lead records to the client. In one embodiment, the client specifies which of a plurality of enhancements should be applied to lead records received from... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080109299 - Multi-tiered career progression system and method: The present invention pertains to the computerized systems and methods for processing and evaluating employee career advancement in a multi-tiered environment, defining a career path or job advancement structure within a company. Each tier may be associated with seniority and skills requirements. The promotion decision is electronically evaluated against the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080109302 - Connectionless information transfer from advertising device: A system for conveying wireless information between an advertising device (advertiser) and another wireless communication device (receiving device). The advertiser's broadcast signal (advertisement) may inform the receiving device that information is available from the advertiser without the requirement of establishing a formal network connection. This information may be then be... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080109303 - Inflatable financial transaction product: A financial transaction product includes a housing and an account identifier. The housing includes a bladder configured to be selectively inflated and deflated. The account identifier is on the housing and links the housing to at least one of a financial account or a financial record such that the housing... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20080109304 - Method and system for personalized promotional advertising via registered card technology: The process helps entities that sell advertising (such as media companies) quantify the effectiveness of this advertising to merchants by tracking every time a registered consumer makes a purchase with the merchant. Additionally, the process helps both advertising and fundraising entities, such as non-profits, capture a percentage of the spending... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.c.

20080109301 - Real-time federated auctions and purchasing: A method and system is provided for conducting a purchasing activity among federated devices in an ad hoc network. In one example, the purchasing activity is an auction. Devices may be identified for federating into the ad hoc network. The devices may be identified, for example, based on distance from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080109300 - System and method for managing the distribution of advertisements for video content: A method of distributing ad units for presentation with video content in a packet based communication system is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing campaign criteria for each of a plurality of ad units in a memory wherein the campaign criteria includes ad unit type information, network identifying... Agent: Capital Legal Group, Llc

20080109305 - Using internet advertising as a test bed for radio advertisements: This document describes, among other things, systems and methods for using internet advertising as a test bed for radio advertisements. A method comprises accessing an advertisement script at an online system; presenting at least a portion of the advertisement script using an audio recording to a user of the online... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080109319 - Family stored value card program: A family stored value card program is provided. One embodiment is a method for implementing a stored value card program. One such method comprises: identifying an existing stored value card account; and enabling a first customer associated with the existing stored value card account to establish a new stored value... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080109324 - Business model for internet commerce: A method of e-commere which allows a supplier/manufacturer to display and sell its products to customers without requiring the supplier/manufacturer to maintain a website and where the Supplier/Manufacturer sets the selling price and gross margin requirements for products sold on the website. The supplier/manufacturer needs only input product information using... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080109320 - Interactive rfid transaction automation: A RFID device and method that is used for businesses that demand a secure and speedy transaction method. The RFID device is read by a RFID reader and the customer's order and much of transaction are automated. The RFID device is capable of being used in drive-through businesses or can... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, Llc

20080109326 - Special occasion gift ordering business method - \"remember easy\": A business method process of combining a computer assisted display of gifts, choosing a gift, directing the gift to be provided, and then purchasing the gift for future delivery. The method provides a system that takes the selection from the purchaser, receives a payment, schedules a delivery of the gift,... Agent: Ritchison Law Offices, Pc John D. Ritchison

20080109329 - Method and apparatus for variable regulatory or conditional use compliance maximizing use of available inventory: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing variable regulatory compliance in a supply chain. The process identifies a variable regulatory compliance for a production order. Variable regulatory compliance is a percentage of a given attribute of the production order in compliance with order compliance rules. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080109330 - Method and system for constructing buildings: A business method for constructing a building that includes providing a catalog of building components from suppliers in an established network of suppliers. Construction specifications for a building are inputted into a computer containing the database and components are selected from the building component database that correspond with the construction... Agent: Nova Chemicals Inc.

20080109331 - Method and system for content-based billing in ip networks: A method and system for content-based billing in IP-networks, carry out and transmit to a control gateway module the authentication and/or service authorization of an IP-node based on the IMSI of the SIM card of the node for HLR and/or VLR of a GSM network and guide the access of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080109332 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing global exchange services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing global exchange services is provided. The method includes establishing a network-based communications hub for exchange service entities. The communications hub is established by classifying the exchange service entities by client and client vendor, determining a subscription status identifier for the client... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080109335 - Delivering electronic messages from a user's electronic message service provider to a system for facilitating financial transactions: A financial transaction system detects an identifier for a user requesting a financial transaction at an interface of the financial transaction system. The financial transactions system accesses from the electronic message service provider for the user using the identifier, at least one electronic message addressed to the user and sent... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080109336 - Independent sales organization toolbox (iso) internet software system: The acquiring of transactional payments and merchant processing within the payments industry can be seen as a shifting business model that reflects the desires of financial sales and service organizations, from multiple channels, as well as entrepreneurial individuals, to engage in various aspects of the merchant payments processing business. With... Agent: James L. Isett

20080109334 - Method and system for providing payment codes: Methods for providing payment codes to borrowers are disclosed. One method, among others, includes providing payment codes through at least one self-service channel. The borrowers may retrieve their payment codes through the at least one self-service channel without the assistance of another person.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080109337 - Method of financing and maintaining a railway track: The present invention proposes a leasing arrangement of composite railroad ties constructed of, for example, recycled automobile tires, to a customer over a lengthy term while ownership in the ties remains with the supplier/leassor. The leasing arrangement can be spread over twenty years or longer, such that the initial start... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080109333 - System and method for premium finance management: Aspects of the present invention are directed to a method and system for premium financing for financing life insurance premiums for a life insurance policy issued by an insurer. The premium financing method may include obtaining taxable variable rate bonds from a bond issuing entity for funding the life insurance... Agent: Baker & Daniels

20080109339 - Systems and methods for creating hedges of arbitrary complexity using financial derivatives of constant risk: The application of financial derivatives for hedging can often be very complex for an institution that feels they may need to incorporate them into their portfolio. We have designed a fundamental financial atom of constant risk (omega) for the purchaser and almost risk-free for the issuer and for constructing minimal... Agent: Lester Seigel

20080109379 - Cellular automata financial trading method and system: The invention claims a new method of generating financial trading alerts, improved buying and selling decisions, and financial controls using cellular automata. An array known as a Virtual Trading Neighborhood (“VTN”) is comprised of cells that comprise financial data received from active traders including intentions to buy and sell and... Agent: Matthew G. Mckinney

20080109377 - Determining portfolio performance measures by weight-based action detection: A portfolio-analysis tool receives data that describe an actual portfolio. It computes from those data the returns or other performance measures of hypothetical portfolios whose holdings are drawn from the assets that the actual portfolio held during some period. Among the purposes of doing so is to detect biases made... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080109378 - Financial product frequent identification and comparision service: Systems and methods for identifying and comparing financial products on a regular basis are disclosed. Client information is collected, validated, and stored in a data warehouse and kept up to date. Client information is periodically transmitted to decisionmaking components and information about financial products for which the client is eligible... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, Llc

20080109382 - Method and system for computer-based portfolio protection for security transactions: A novel approach provides automatic security protection for individual investors, either at the time of a transaction of a security, or after the transaction has been made. More specifically, a button or other similar kind of acceptance component is placed on a web page of the transaction, which allows for... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080109381 - Private equity fund valuation and due diligence analysis system and method with deal-level benchmark: Private equity fund valuation and due diligence analysis software that combines available information on private equity funds, the organizations and individuals managing these funds, the underlying deals for these funds and companies comparable to the deals for these funds and utilizes multivariate statistical regression or other possible analysis techniques to... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20080109384 - System and method for determining optimal investment strategy: An artificial expert system and method for determining whether to buy, sell, or hold a specific Individually Traded Unit (ITU) of publicly traded units residing in a securities or investment portfolio owned or controlled by a user, wherein the portfolio comprises of at least the trading statistics of each ITU.... Agent: Wood And Eisenberg, Pllc

20080109383 - System and method for displaying simple binary elements for multiple technical analysis indicators representing the status of an equity issue for simplified decision making: The present invention provides a system and method for performing complex analysis of multiple technical analysis indicators, generating multiple binary elements, then presenting the results of the analysis to a user in an easily understandable way. In the present invention, technical analysis indicators (TAI) are used to determine whether a... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080109385 - System and method for managing investments in infrastructure assets: A system comprises a memory operable to store financial data associated with a business entity having a plurality of shares. The business entity may receive, directly or indirectly, income associated with rent or lease of infrastructure assets, the rent or lease paid by a first company to a second company.... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080109380 - System, report, and computer-readable medium for analyzing a stock portfolio: The present invention is directed to a stock portfolio analysis system able to determine an optimal covered call trade for each of a plurality of stocks within a stock investor's portfolio, determine an improved key rating factor associated with each optimal covered call trade, and produce a trade report that... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080109344 - Fair revenue participation contracts and exchange: A new class of investment instruments, Fair Revenue Participation Contracts (FRPC), and Redeemable Revenue Participation Contracts (RRPC), that allows investors to participate in revenue rather than profits. The FRPC gives the investor rights to the revenues of an issuing company, it being structured as a promise to pay X% of... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Royal W. Craig

20080109343 - Shared resource management: Methods, apparatus, systems, and programs for computers are provided for automatic allocation of resource occupiers (e.g. data, people) to available resources (e.g. bandwidth, radio frequency spectrum, theatre seats). Allocation of resources to resource occupiers is based on a measure of urgency of allocation derived from the size of the resource... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080109348 - Credit system with over-limit analysis: An over-limit analysis system is presented for approving an over-limit amount in real-time and in response to a credit request from a borrower, which includes an over-limit amount. An over-limit cushion to which the borrower is entitled is determined by comparing financial and other information collected from the borrower to... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080109349 - System and method of processing loan applications: A system and method of providing a loan applicant with a loan and a lending institution that will honor that loan. An application server receives application data and loan data and filters the loan data in light of the application data to determine a best available loan for the applicant.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080109347 - System and methods for constructing loans: A system and methods for the construction of a loan are provided. In an illustrative implementation, a loan is secured by a first mortgage that may be bifurcated into at least two promissory notes—a senior note and at least one junior, subordinated, Hyper-Note. In an illustrative implementation, the amounts, term... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080109350 - Financial transaction card with storage chamber: A financial transaction card includes a housing and an account identifier. The housing includes a soft and pliable material and defines a chamber configured to maintain at least one item. The account identifier is disposed on an exterior surface of the housing. The account identifier is configured to link the... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20080109354 - Account management: According to the present invention there is provided a method of managing access to at least one service account comprising storing identify verification details of at least one service account in a repository and releasing the identity verification details to a third party on production of proof of death of... Agent: David S. Resnick

20080109355 - Method and apparatus for bill payments at an automatic teller machine: A method, apparatus and computer implemented instructions for processing a bill in an automatic teller machine. The bill is scanned to form a bill image in which the bill includes a markup language providing payment information. Optical character recognition is performed on the bill image to identify the payment information.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080109356 - Fraud detection system and method for loading stored value cards: A database is provided for maintaining card loading merchant information including a merchant security rating as well as a cardholder information and card activity data. A fraud detection program is run at the time of a loading event or an ATM withdrawal event in order to determine whether or not... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080109360 - Method, system and apparatus for distributing digital information including digital rights management information to a plurality of devices: A system (10) and method (50) for distributing digital information, including download information and activation or digital rights management information, to one or more branch devices. The method includes a root device receiving digital information from an information source, and transmitting the download information and the activation information associated with... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080109364 - Method for enhancing drm authority, enhanced drm authority content, and portable terminal using the same: A method for enhancing a Digital Rights Management (DRM) authority, a content having an enhanced DRM authority and a portable terminal using the same. Reproduction of divisional regions of the content is prevented when a corresponding count value is equal to a permitted maximum number of reproductions. The DRM authority... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080109363 - System and method for generating revenue for publishers of multimedia content over a network: A system and method for compensating publishers of content items, such as a video, graphics, songs, movies, images, advertisements, or any other type of content, in response to, or as a precondition to, viewing of a given content item by others at a host website. For example, multimedia content publishers... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080109365 - Granular customizable authentication for service provisioning: Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for providing customizable authentication for service provisioning. A first user is enabled to customize an authentication system associated with a service. Customizing the authentication system includes defining a first executable authentication rule for a second user and a second executable... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080109366 - Rearragement of media content while preserving digital rights management protection: An arrangement for managing a media file having an associated DRM license is provided by enabling the copying of the media file stored on a source medium to a target medium only when both the source medium and the target medium are held in custody by a media server. The... Agent: Mayer & Williams Pc

20080109368 - Digital rights management license archiving: An arrangement is provided where a media server temporarily stores a DRM license that is associated with downloaded media content prior to copying the DRM license to a physical archival medium such as an optical disc. When the media server confirms that the DRM license is successfully copied to the... Agent: Mayer & Williams Pc

20080109367 - Method and apparatus for self-licensing data: A method for licensing generated data for use with certain advanced software provided by a first software supplier, while allowing use of licensed data with software provided by other software providers includes, for the first software provider, contracting with a user of the generated data to provide a license generator... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080109372 - Securing payment data: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture or arrangement that can limit access to sensitive information by means of encryption. In particular, data obtained from a payment instrument at, e.g., a Point-Of-Sale (POS) location can be encrypted at an early stage such that a POS (or another) application does... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080109375 - Position-enhanced wireless transaction security: Methods and apparatus for enhancing the security of wireless transactions through the use of position information are provided. In particular, methods and apparatus are provided for wirelessly receiving information relating to a position of a wireless electronic device by a self-service terminal, and taking action on some or all of... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080109237 - Configuration system of a vehicle and process for the configuration of at least one control unit of the configuration system: A configuration system of a vehicle has at least one functional unit, a control unit pertaining to the functional unit, and a parametrizing unit provided in the vehicle, which is operatively connected with the control unit. The configuring system includes a storage device which can be read out by the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080109233 - Contingent rights exchange relating to a private event, good or service: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace screening individuals by one or more criterion, wherein the screening pre-qualifies an individual, and provide pre-qualified individuals with the ability to acquire a contingent right.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109249 - Digital media distribution and trading system used via a computer network: A digital media file sharing system includes a fair share server, a user computer, and a second user computer. The fair share server includes a user library information database and a media library, the media library storing digital media files. A user computer includes a user computer media library and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080109247 - Logistic pki service system, mobile terminal, logistic pki service method used for the same, and recording medium in which corresponding program is recorded: The present invention provides a logistic PKI service system that improves reliability and security of its distribution portion. An article displayed on a shop terminal is purchased from a user's mobile terminal via a network. Then, a shop terminal receives distribution label data from a PKI. The user's mobile terminal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080109245 - Method and system for managing domain specific and viewer specific reputation on online communities: A method and system evaluate the quality of a contribution in a particular domain made by a user of an online community. The quality of a contribution in a particular domain is assessed by assigning domain specific reputation score to the users of the online community. A domain specific reputation... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20080109244 - Method and system for managing reputation profile on online communities: A method and a system for evaluating the quality of a contribution made by a user in a distributed online community framework are disclosed. The quality of contribution is assessed by assigning a reputation score to the user across multiple online communities. The reputation scores of users are assigned on... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20080109248 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for technology comparisons: In one aspect, a method for comparing suppliers includes sending survey questions for receipt by supplier computer systems. Programming instructions are also sent for receipt and execution by the supplier computer systems. The programming instructions are for causing the supplier computer systems to return supplier survey answers to a server.... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080109243 - Product demonstration system and method: A method of demonstrating an appliance by customizing a multimedia presentation in real time based on the consumer information.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair Pc

20080109236 - Production of defined monodisperse heparosan polymers and unnatural polymers with polysaccharide synthases: The present invention relates to methodology for polymer grafting by a polysaccharide synthase and, more particularly, polymer grafting using the hyaluronate or chondroitin or heparin/heparosan synthases from Pasteurella, in order to create a variety of glycosaminoglycan oligosaccharides having a natural or chimeric or hybrid sugar structure with a targeted size... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.c.

20080109234 - Secondary market for contingent rights exchange: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing a contingent event certificate secondary trading market, a user interface for accessing the secondary market, and access to the secondary market for the purposes of trading contingent event certificates.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109238 - Systems and methods for allocating a consumer access right to a live event: A performer credit program facilitates crediting, tracking, and accumulating performer credits for consumer activity such as purchasing items related to a performer. Consumers manage performer credits in a performer credit account through a performer credit account facility and can elect to convert accumulated credits to access rights that can be... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109239 - Systems and methods for allocating a consumer access right to a live event: A performer credit program facilitates crediting, tracking, and accumulating performer credits for consumer activity such as purchasing items related to a performer. Consumers manage performer credits in a performer credit account through a performer credit account facility and can elect to convert accumulated credits to access rights that can be... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109240 - Systems and methods for matching, selecting, narrowcasting, and/or classifying based on rights management and/or other information: Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080109242 - Systems and methods for matching, selecting, narrowcasting, and/or classifying based on rights management and/or other information: Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080109255 - Bed management: A computing device, system, method and machine readable medium for managing beds of a healthcare facility is provided. A system includes a client device and a server computing device. The client device may generate a request to assign a bed to a patient, present a list of beds to assign... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20080109254 - Interoperability across heterogeneous taxonomies: Interoperability across two or more heterogeneous clinical medical error taxonomies can be improved by associating categories in various taxonomies with one or more categories in a master taxonomy. These associations can be expressed using a unique identifier, e.g., a number that identifies one or more categories in the master taxonomy.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080109257 - Systems and methods for a holistic well-being assessment: Systems and methods are described for an assessment tool built on a holistic well-being improvement model. The model consists of a series of assessments including, but not limited to a well-being improvement assessment, work productivity assessment, and a clinical health risk assessment. A member would complete these assessments through an... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080109261 - Method and apparatus for providing information, and computer product: An information providing apparatus includes an updating unit that updates an electronic medical chart of a patient; an acquiring unit that acquires information identifying contents of diagnosis and treatment recorded on the updated electronic medical chart; an authenticating unit that authenticates the patient based on the acquired information and information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080109262 - Rules based ticketing for self-scheduling of appointments: A method of allowing patients to schedule their own appointments on a computerized scheduling system. The method includes operating the computerized scheduling system to provide a first set of rules associated with a first entity, the first entity being a collection of healthcare providers. The first set of rules regulates... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080109264 - Method and system for converting an annuity fund to a life insurance policy: A method and system for converting an annuity fund to a life insurance policy at a predetermined conversion date comprising the following steps: establishing an annuity fund of a predetermined and purchasing a fixed annuity for the annuity fund, establishing an irrevocable life insurance conversion plan including selecting the predetermined... Agent: Arthur W. Fisher Iii

20080109284 - Auction for targeted content: Displaying personalized content to content observers by content providers (e.g., advertisers) who disseminate content over a network is disclosed. In particular, enabling the display of targeted content to television viewers is disclosed. Identification of the content observer(s) observing a content display device at a particular time (and/or identification of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080109290 - Business model for interactive development of a product: A business model for interactive development of a product (10) that is comprised of a production facility (12), a website (16), a website host (18), a website access (20) and a revenue generator (24). The production facility (12) interfaces with the website (16) where choices pertaining to the product (10)... Agent: Albert O Cota

20080109286 - Sales force automation and method: A salesforce automation system which integrates computerized, intelligent automated salesperson support for multiple phases of the sales process. Various subsystems may be provided to facilitate the sales process which may include pre-sales lead generation, maximize time spent with the customer, effectively manage an order, ensure customer satisfaction and retain the... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, Llc

20080109287 - System and architecture for managing distributed design chains: Systems, architectures, and data structures are described which are used to manage distributed design chains, specifically for domains in which data reside in multiple applications and are linked through complex interrelationships. The design chains or design networks integrated by the invention may include multiple companies in multiple sites collaborating to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080109289 - System and method for systematic management and measurement of workplace real estate and the use of real estate by people: The present invention provides a system and method for measuring the actual use of real estate space, overall and by individual, in a variety of corporate real estate environments in order to facilitate the maximization of return on real estate and resource investments, optimize the efficiency of workspaces, automate the... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080109288 - Systems and methods for post-trade transaction cost estimation of transaction costs: A system for post-trade estimation of transaction costs. The system may include transaction cost estimation facilities configured to receive order data relating to a plurality of trade orders, receive execution data relating to a plurality of trades corresponding to the plurality of trade orders, to calculate post trade estimated transaction... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080109279 - Systems and methods for transferring funds from a sending account: Provided herein are methods and systems for transferring funds from a sending account to a payee. In embodiments, the sending account may be a pre-paid wireless telephone account. The methods and systems may involve a transaction management system, an account setup module, a funds transfer module and a reporting module.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109280 - Systems and methods for transferring funds from a sending account: Provided herein are methods and systems for transferring funds from a sending account to a payee. In embodiments, the sending account may be a pre-paid wireless telephone account. The methods and systems may involve a transaction management system, an account setup module, a funds transfer module and a reporting module.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109281 - Systems and methods for transferring funds from a sending account: Provided herein are methods and systems for transferring funds from a sending account to a payee. In embodiments, the sending account may be a pre-paid wireless telephone account. The methods and systems may involve a transaction management system, an account setup module, a funds transfer module and a reporting module.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109282 - Systems and methods for transferring funds from a sending account: Provided herein are methods and systems for transferring funds from a sending account to a payee. In embodiments, the sending account may be a pre-paid wireless telephone account. The methods and systems may involve a transaction management system, an account setup module, a funds transfer module and a reporting module.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109285 - Techniques for determining relevant advertisements in response to queries: Techniques for determining relevant advertisements in response to queries is disclosed. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the techniques may be realized as a computer implemented method for determining relevant advertisements in response to a query. The method may comprise: receiving a query from a user device;... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080109278 - Trading system on user commitments to participate in questionnaires and other interactions: A questionnaire network makes it possible to create, disseminate, conduct questionnaires or surveys on mobile handsets and to collect results for processing and storage. The questionnaire network is powered by a questionnaire creation tool and a questionnaire trading system. A questionnaire trading system for QTime makes it possible for producers... Agent: Bindu Rama Rao

20080109296 - Contingent rights exchange associated with a social network: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing a user interface for accessing a social networking platform, and allowing a user of the social networking platform to at least one of purchasing and offering a contingent event certificate via the social networking platform.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109298 - Method for enhancing television advertising viewership: A method and apparatus for enhancing television advertising viewership. Advertisers deliver content demographic and associated data as metadata along with content to a service that is in communication with a large number of multimedia devices. Each device supplies information to the service that tells about the user of the device's... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080109297 - Methods and systems for pricing contingent rights: The present invention relates to providing a contingent right to purchase an event ticket within an integrated rights marketplace, wherein the cost of the contingent right is based at least in part on a measure of demand for the contingent right. In embodiments, the present invention may provide a contingent... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109318 - Business method for facilitating advertisement response: This invention relates to a business method of facilitating response to advertisements, presented in any medium, and the use of the method for the purpose of performing demographic research.... Agent: Charles R. Szmanda

20080109308 - Internet-based frequency and award redemption system and method: An on-line frequency award program is disclosed. A user may access the program on-line and may browse a product catalog for shopping. The user may electronically place an order, upon which the program automatically checks the user's credit and electronically issues a purchase order to the supplying company. The program... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080109306 - Media marketplaces: Aspects of the present invention include methods and systems that involve enabling content item generators to present content items for association of advertisements; enabling an advertiser to request association of an advertisement with at least one of the presented content items; and associating the content items with advertising, tracking, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109315 - Method and apparatus for determining a customer's likelihood of paying off a financial account: A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for predicting or otherwise determining a customer's likelihood of paying off a financial account. The financial account may have a maximum loan amount, interest rate, minimum monthly payment, or other term or condition associated with it. In some embodiments, the financial... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080109314 - Method and apparatus for determining a customer's likelihood of reusing a financial account: A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for predicting or otherwise determining a customer's likelihood of reactivating or reusing a financial account, particularly when the account has a zero or near zero balance. The financial account may have a maximum loan amount, interest rate, minimum monthly payment, or... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080109311 - Method of providing product demonstrations: A method of enabling adaptable demonstrations of a household appliance comprising providing consumer-specific updates to a demonstration software at a location remote from an appliance and downloading the consumer-specific updates to the appliance over an information network in response to a determined characteristic of the consumer or enabling a video... Agent: Mcgarry Bair Pc

20080109307 - Methods and systems for securing content played on mobile devices: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109316 - Pointer region capture to form a registry independent of a merchant site: A method, apparatus and system of method and system of pointer region capture to form a registry independent of a merchant site is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method a registry module, includes determining an item boundary surrounding a current location of a pointer based on a merchant site mapping... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP C/o Intellevate

20080109309 - Powered print advertisements, product packaging, and trading cards: Compact powered systems are provided that include a substrate, a thin battery, an activation element, and an output device in electrical communication. The compact powered systems may be dynamic, powered print advertisements, product packaging, trading cards, printed ephemera or printed media that activate when subjected to an outside influence or... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080109310 - Product demonstration system and method: A method of demonstrating a household appliance by executing a demonstration software to cause demonstration of at least one component of the appliance and to display related information on a user interface of the appliance by a multimedia program.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair Pc

20080109312 - Product demonstration systems: An appliance having a smart device in communication with multiple components of the appliance and a user interface of the appliance, the smart device having an updatable demonstration software that takes over control of the multiple components from the controller when executing the demonstration software to implement a demonstration of... Agent: Mcgarry Bair Pc

20080109313 - System and method for toy adoption and marketing: A method provides defining a profile associated with an image representing a real toy or product, said profile including at least one variable parameter therein, which variable parameter effects the way the image is displayed on the website, based on said interacting, changing a part of the profile that includes... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080109317 - Wireless dissemination of environment aware information: The method and system disclosed herein enables non-spamming dissemination of environment and proximity aware information and advertisements to a user of a mobile device. The method disclosed herein provides a client application on the mobile device. The client application detects the presence of base station sensor devices in proximity to... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080109323 - Associating media channels with a contingent rights exchange: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace offering a contingent right to an event for sale to users of a television and or telephone network, using a television and or telephone interface and its associated controls to transact the contingent right, and associating the television and or telephone... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109325 - 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..

20080109321 - Contingent forward rights exchange: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing an interface that includes a rights market, and enables users of the interface to interact with an offer of a right within the interface, the right being associated with a contingency. In embodiments of the invention, the integrated rights marketplace... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109322 - Rights exchange user interface: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing a user interface for accessing the marketplace, and enable using the interface for the purposes of managing aspects of the integrated rights marketplace.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109327 - System and method for interacting with item catalogs: The present invention comprises a system and method for presenting large numbers of items on a display screen. According to one aspect of the present invention, information is harvested from a plurality of sites and over a plurality of times and aggregated into a single item set. According to another... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080109328 - Turn-around time information management system, storage medium, and turn-around time information management method: An order data obtaining device displays a list of components on a Web page, and recognizes components selected on the Web page, thereby obtaining order data of a product that is formed of a plurality of components. A turnaround time display control device obtains turn-around time information of each of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080109340 - System and method for processing retrieval requests: A system for processing transaction data is provided. The system includes a substitute draft system that receives a retrieval request and generates a substitute draft in response to the retrieval request. The system also includes a merchant interface that is connected to the retrieval system. The merchant interface generates a... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20080109338 - Virtual credit in simulated environments: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080109342 - Electronic asset assignment and tracking: Electronic asset assignment and tracking systems and methods are provided. When assets and attributes are not specified at the time of a trade, a user may assign assets, corresponding quantities, and other attributes post trade. A limit may be set on the time allotted for assigning the assets. When the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080109341 - System and method for providing a deferred premium annuity: A system and method for providing an investor the ability to purchase an option or pay a fee to exchange a future value of an asset or a portfolio of assets, regardless of future performance or value, for at least one annuity outcome on a future date, where the outcome... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080109345 - Contingent rights exchange relating to non-post season sporting events: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing an interface for offering a right to attend a regular season sporting event, the right being subject to a contingency, the contingency selected from the group consisting of the presence of a team in the sporting event, the presence of... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109346 - Methods and systems for managing longevity risk: A method for managing risk of longevity is presented in which transactions with supplier and demander entities which benefit from longevity increases or decreases, respectively, are hedged by an intermediary. For example, the intermediary may purchase a first bond from a first entity and sell a second bond to a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080109351 - Method and system for training traders: Systems and methods are provided which enable students to participate in a simulated, electronic trading environment. The concept is one where the eSpeed rules based system and GUI may be used to educate students on the trading of financial products. The system may be “live” using real-time information and held... Agent: Joel Weiss Fish & Neave

20080109353 - Communication system using communication network and communication method: A communication system for guaranteeing only one each of two processing operations, correlated with each other and executed on different devices. A server has a unit which, on receipt of a first processing request, with identification information, executes this processing only once for one item of the identification, and a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080109352 - Systems and methods for transferring funds from a sending account: Provided herein are methods and systems for transferring funds from a sending account to a payee. In embodiments, the sending account may be a pre-paid wireless telephone account. The methods and systems may involve a transaction management system, an account setup module, a funds transfer module and a reporting module.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080109357 - System and method for monitoring commercial transactions: Commercial transactions are monitored by sending a notification of the transaction to the person responsible for paying for the transaction during the occurrence of the transaction. Preferably, the notification is sent when a request for authorizing the commercial transaction is sent to an authorizing entity. In one embodiment of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080109358 - System and method for providing a credit card with multiple credit lines: A system and method for providing a credit card with multiple lines of credit. One of the disclosed methods include, for example, analyzing credit information of a cardholder to determine a level of risk associated with the cardholder; establishing a general purpose credit line based on the determined level of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080109359 - Value transfer center system: The invention relates to a method and a device for the generation of checkable forgery-proof documents with an externally supplied cryptographic module, whereby the checking authenticity of the document is carried out without using key information belonging to the cryptographic module. According to the invention, the method and the device... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080109361 - Health record access system and method: A record access system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. Pllc

20080109362 - Method and system to digitally sign and deliver content in a geographically controlled manner via a network: A method and system to digitally sign a content license associated with content, and to distribute content via a network in a geographically controlled manner, commences when a content requester requests delivery of the encrypted content. A content delivery system performs a content to determine a geographic location associated with... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080109369 - Content management system: Content rights holders provide digital content to a hosting site to be used as reference content. The content owner specifies a policy for each digital content item, indicating how that content may be used on the site when uploaded by someone other than the content owner. An identification module compares... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080109370 - Extraction of information from e-mails and delivery to mobile phones, system and method: Information or items that otherwise might be carried in a person's wallet or purse may be managed and stored on a mobile phone. Embodiments include a software application loaded on a mobile phone and an Internet website through which certain information can be transmitted to the phone by the user,... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080109371 - Ic card and authentication method in electronic ticket distribution system: Between an IC card (1) and a electronic ticket server (2), upon purchasing an electronic ticket a public key cryptosystem is employed for a mutual authentication to keep a strict security, and a shared secret between the electronic ticket and a ticket collecting machine is sent on a secure channel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080109373 - Internet strawman and user interface therefor: A system and method for implementing an intermediary to preserve user privacy and anonymity in electronic transactions. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for facilitating a transaction between a subscriber and a vendor through an intermediary is provided. In this embodiment, the method comprises the step of receiving at... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080109374 - Internet server access control and monitoring systems: This invention relates to methods for controlling and monitoring access to network servers. In particular, the process described in the invention includes client-server sessions over the Internet. In this environment, when the user attempts to access an access-controlled file, the server subjects the request to a secondary server which determines... Agent: James M. Smith, Esq. Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080109376 - Targeted advertisement in the digital television environment: A method for targeted advertisement includes storing a profile tag associated with each user in a device maintained by that user. Each profile tag includes the demographic information of its associated user. A multitude of target tags are also transmitted to the users. Each target tag is associated with an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080109386 - Model option contracts: A method for constructing an option contract so that the option holder has the right to settle the contract by selling it back to the option seller at a settlement price determined by a specified valuation methodology that uses an option pricing model.... Agent: Bruce Bradford Thomas

20080109387 - Power theft detection system and method: A system and method of providing utility data services is provided. In one embodiment the method includes receiving meter data of the measured power consumed by a plurality of power customers, receiving delivered power data that includes data of the power delivered to the plurality of power customers, determining a... Agent: Capital Legal Group, Llc

20080103796 - Business process operation method and system: A format conversion decision definition generating unit 104 stores information whether or not a response message format from a service unit 134 may be utilized in all later service callings of a business process without format conversion in a repository 121 as format conversion decision information 127, by referring to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080103804 - Country assessment: Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing a country as a relocation option. More specifically, a line of business may assess a country by generating a geographic model that may be based on data about a country. The system and method of generating a geographic model may include the generation... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103792 - Decision support for tax rate selection: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant specifies tax rate(s), such as import tax and export tax, that apply to at least one other entity in the exchange. Since tax rate(s) can be expressed in different transactional terms by different parties, each tax rate is... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103797 - Determining a relative measure of fault risk for a built system: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and software for determining a relative measure of the risk of faults in a built product relative to a reference build of the product. The measure can be based on a balance between the additional risk added as a result of changes made... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080103798 - Identity protection: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system for providing identity protection that, in one embodiment, includes a fraud model for specifying patterns of events indicative of identity fraud and a business rules subsystem used to identify fraud that is specified by the fraud models. The system... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080103799 - Identity protection: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system for providing identity protection that, in one embodiment, includes a fraud model for specifying patterns of events indicative of identity fraud and a business rules subsystem used to identify fraud that is specified by the fraud models. The system... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080103800 - Identity protection: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system for providing identity protection that, in one embodiment, includes a fraud model for specifying patterns of events indicative of identity fraud and a business rules subsystem used to identify fraud that is specified by the fraud models. The system... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080103791 - Intelligent physical mail method and system: The intelligent physical mailpiece system may include a database of recipient preferences. A sender mail creation means is coupled to the recipient preference database. A processor is coupled to a scanner. A communications means is coupled between the processor and the sender mail creation means for communicating recipient preferences to... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080103789 - Legal text distribution and processing in mobile broadcasting: Systems and methods for processing and distributing legal text information allow content providers to distribute legal text to terminals receiving broadcast content. The legal text may include terms and conditions associated with content that a user may want to purchase or subscribe. Upon receiving a content selection that a user... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080103795 - Lightweight and heavyweight interfaces to federated advertising marketplace: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities from different advertising networks, the invention provides architectures for an online advertising marketplace that range from lightweight to heavyweight implementations. A lightweight client side implementation of an interface includes centralized processing and storage of federated advertising marketplace data by centralized... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103786 - Method and apparatus for representing and configuring flexible and extensible presentation patterns: Techniques are provided for representing and configuring flexible and extensible presentation patterns based on fine-grained architectural building blocks (ABBs). The techniques include defining ABBs, modeling the ABBs in a uniform manner, and creating at least one template using the ABBs, wherein the at least one template includes at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080103784 - Method and system for constructing an interactive online network of living and non-living entities: A method and system for generating an interactive computerized biological network consisting of living and non-living entities based upon the multiple relationship types which can exist between entities. The network can consist of multiple node types. Such node types can include persons, places, objects, and animals, each connected by one... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080103806 - Method and system for documenting and communicating automobile repair and maintenance history: A method for providing historical vehicle service data by entering vehicle service and parts replacement data and customer data by a service provider into a website; transferring the vehicle service and parts replacement data and the customer data from the website to a central server which creates the historical vehicle... Agent: Bush Intellectual Property Law Group, LLC

20080103809 - Method for preventing and/or deterring a criminal act: A method of preventing and/or deterring a criminal act, comprising standardizing a coordinated approach to a coding system for the identification of stolen property; advertising or publishing the method through a coordinated media campaign to maximize the psychological impact on the criminal mind that acts as the deterrent; and (3)... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080103787 - Methods, mobile terminals, servers and computer program products for wirelessly providing real property information: A method of providing real property information can include receiving, at a real property information server, geographic location information from a mobile terminal indicating a position of the mobile terminal and selectively transmitting real property information associated with real property included in a real property listing database from the server... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080103810 - Secure shipment method for barter transaction: Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can browse and search the lists to locate items they want to acquire and items they have available to trade,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080103793 - Sequence of algorithms to compute equilibrium prices in networks: The claimed subject matter provides an architecture for facilitating equilibrium solutions for resource allocation markets. One particular example of such markets can be a computer network environment. The architecture can model buyers as nodes and suppliers as edges, incorporating notions of an ascending price auction in order to provide optimal... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103790 - System and method for duplicate detection: A duplicate detection system is provided for analyzing and processing documents received at one or more capture sites. A physical document may be electronically captured at a capture site and subsequently transmitted to a regional or central processing system. The regional or central processing system may receive capture documents from... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103785 - System and method for providing extended warranty pricing: A method and system for quoting a purchase price for a vehicle warranty includes obtaining vehicle characteristic data based on a vehicle characteristic identifier; automatically decoding the vehicle characteristic data to determine a vehicle configuration and/or a vehicle status; and quoting a purchase price of a warranty plan based on... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080103788 - System, method and program product for predicting commercial off-the-shelf equipment reliability: A system, method and program product for predicting equipment reliability, especially for off-the-shelf equipment. Selected off-the-shelf equipment is distilled into fundamental elements, e.g., assemblies and components in the assemblies. Reliability statistics are gathered for assemblies and components in analogous equipment. Coefficients are generated to map the reliability statistics for the... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20080103794 - Virtual scenario generator: A virtual scenario generator is provided that applies a virtual scenario to real-world data, such as health and fitness related data, adding a creative way to track the real-world data and/or enhancing the data by adding a competitive element. Thus, the activity related to the real-world data can be incentivized... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103826 - Health care payment single payor facilitation system and method: The invention relates to the field of health care reimbursement, and more particularly to valuing claims generated by a health care provider for purposes of underwriting and accelerating such health care provider's reimbursement from a variety of payors.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080103818 - Health-related data audit: Systems (and corresponding methodologies) that facilitate tracking ‘actions’ associated with records and data maintained within a centralized health-related data repository are provided. Effectively, an audit trail helps the user keep track of all the changes and accesses that happened on the user's record and can help them understand the control... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103821 - Inventory control over pharmaceutical sample distributions software, systems and methodologies: Methods for managing the distribution of samples in support of activities of field representatives which differentiate on-hand and in-storage inventories of samples that have been previously allocated from a master inventory, for example, from the inventory of a pharmaceutical company. Field representatives are assisted in managing an inventory of samples... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103823 - Method for coordinating professional services: A method of doing business is practiced by a group of independent professionals to meet the varied but related needs of an individual. Professional entities, such as attorneys, physicians, pharmacists, realtors, architects, financial institutions and advisors, insurance agents, bondsman, psychologists, enter into a coalition agreement. The coalition agreement defines a... Agent: James R. Williams

20080103822 - Pharmaceutical representative expense report management software, systems, and methodologies: Electronic assigning of expense data related to sales calls to customers such as health care professionals (HCPs) aids in complying with local, state, federal, or other regulatory reporting requirements and guidelines. The method includes providing expense report data and presenting a line-item entry of the report on a display. Through... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103816 - Physician accreditation system with mechanism for automated records extraction: A system for accrediting physicians based on pre-determined best practices by examining the records for a subset of the physician's patients as measured against a set of criteria for the desired accreditation. The system provides a mechanism for automatically extracting patient records from a physician's electronic health records (EHR) system,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20080103814 - System and method for an integrated disease management system: An apparatus, method, and system for the design, administration and implementation of integrated disease management. The integrated disease management (“IDM”) system maximizes contact and enrollment rates of traditional remote disease management alone. This is accomplished through the creation of a system that combines telephonic-delivered disease management (i.e. traditional disease management)... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080103815 - System and method for estimating cost of medical treatment: In one embodiment, a method for estimating total cost of medical treatment comprises (a) receiving medical treatment data including medical facility location data, treatment cost data, and follow-up treatment data corresponding to at least one medical treatment provided by a plurality of medical facilities; (b) receiving accommodation data including accommodation... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20080103813 - System and method for portable safeguard context in a patient's room: According to a patient role and permissions indicators, an origin safeguard context including a patient origin location identifier, an associated origin space safeguard profile, and at least one associated previously-established set of control parameters, limit settings, and controllable device configurations are reconciled with a patient destination location identifier and an... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080103828 - Automated custom report generation system for medical information: A medical evaluation system for a procedural event comprises: determining key medical images (10) and medical reports; determining a clinician's preferences (85) for medical records obtained from a physician; determining the clinician's preferences for clinical information system records; determining the clinician's preferences for display of the medical images, medical reports,... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080103830 - Extensible and localizable health-related dictionary: A system that uses a health-related dictionary component to establish responses to requests from devices and applications is provided. The innovation discloses uses of a health-related dictionary to enable retrieval of standardized lists and taxonomies in the healthcare space as well as localization of health-related data. Examples of these taxonomies... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103834 - Method and apparatus of providing a radiation scorecard: The present invention relates to a method to measure, record, analyze, and report cumulative radiation exposure to the patient population and provide automated feedback and recommendations to ordering clinicians and consultant radiologists. The data provided from this “radiation scorecard” would in turn be automatically recorded into a centralized data repository... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080103829 - System and method for trading personal health data: A system and appertaining method are provided for authorizing and transmitting patient medical data by an owner of the data to a third party. Accordingly, a consent request module that is provided with information related to the third party via which the owner enters information related to user authorization data... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080103836 - Medical document attachment handling: Automating medical practice workflow and billing presents difficulties in many aspects, especially in interacting with the workflow, other healthcare providers, and within the constraints of payor requirements. Disclosed are methods, systems, software and means for automatically providing additional documentation to reconcile a billing claim. In one implementation, there is a... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080103837 - Risk reduction for participants in an online advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities from disparate advertising networks, a framework is provided for applying insurance terms to advertising transactions in the exchange, enabling risk sensitive participants to ease their participation in a potentially volatile online advertising marketplace. Participants can use the insurance mechanism of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103835 - Systems and methods for providing road insurance: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing road insurance for a road construction project. In one embodiment, a customer may request a first insurance coverage amount for a road in a road insurance management system. The road insurance management system may determine, based on one or more design requirements, a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103842 - Travel cost estimating: In one aspect, the invention is a method to estimate travel costs using a spreadsheet application. The method includes receiving inputs in a spreadsheet file using the spreadsheet application. The user inputs include an origination, a destination, a start date and an end date. The method also includes storing prices... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080103854 - Access control within a publish/subscribe system: There is disclosed a method for access control in a publish/subscribe system. Identification information is associated with the client's connection. A request is subsequently received from the client to publish or subscribe to a topic hosted by the system and that request has an identifier associated with it. It is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080103852 - Auction method and apparatus: An automatic system for determining outcomes to an auction process represents the auction by a directed graph and uses a K best solutions algorithm to determine the K best solutions. The system uses a particular graphical representation. Constraints may be included directly into the graph.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103849 - Calculating an aggregate of attribute values associated with plural cases: To calculate an aggregate of attribute values associated with plural cases, at least one parameter setting that affects a number of cases predicted positive by a classifier is selected. At least one measure pertaining to the plural cases is calculated, where the at least one measure is dependent upon the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103848 - Calculating an amount of enterprise resource to be assigned based on received parameters: A tool receives parameters relating to target enterprise objective of an enterprise, the cost of an enterprise resource associated with the enterprise, and an enterprise resource capacity. The tool calculates an amount of an enterprise resource to be assigned in an enterprise based on the received parameters relating to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103847 - Data prediction for business process metrics: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention include methods and systems for data prediction. A method includes analyzing time-series data in a business process with a single-metric technique and with a multiple-metric technique; and combining predictions from the single-metric technique and the multiple-metric technique to predict a predetermined change in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103843 - Integrating information for maintenance: Systems and techniques for integrating information for the planning and performance of maintenance activities are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a collection of descriptions of maintenance tasks in an enterprise, accessing one or more data stores to receive asset information characterizing assets in the enterprise, process information... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080103844 - Method to facilitate obtaining, storing, and subsequently conveying an organization's information for the benefit of successor organization-based agents: A party obtains (101) information from a plurality of different organizations and identifies (102) information recipient criteria as a function, at least in part, of at least one specific organization-based hierarchical function. This information and the information recipient criteria is then stored (108) non-volatily under conditions designed to preserve the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080103845 - Method, computer program product, and apparatus for managing decision support related event information: An apparatus for managing decision support related events and solutions includes a plurality of case management elements. Each of the case management elements is in communication with at least an associated one of a corresponding plurality of portal access controllers associated with a corresponding unit within an organization. Each of... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20080103856 - Methods for sales call data management and processing: Sales Tool and methodology for field representatives of products or services records the dates of site visits with customers, acquires sales data concerning consumption of a product or service in a region which is attributable to the customer, generates a chart that depicts the acquired sales data and superimposes on... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103851 - Products and processes for determining allocation of inventory for a vending machine: According to an embodiment, an allocation of inventory for a vending machine (e.g., a mix or set of types of products and respective quantities of products to be loaded into a snack or beverage vending machine) is determined. In an embodiment, a computer or other computing device may be configured... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080103846 - Sales funnel management method and system: A method for developing a business plan for a business entity includes providing a value indicating a predicted amount of business entity sales for one or more products. The method further includes, based on the provided value, determining, for each of one or more sales sources, an expected amount of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103850 - System and method for collecting advertisement information and for real-time analyzing: The present invention discloses a system for collecting advertisement information and for analyzing, the system comprising: an information carrier for carrying advertising information, for example, advertising media, advertising territory, advertiser, related contents or index of the advertising and the like; a writing apparatus for performing information compiling and generating of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080103858 - System for evaluating distressed buildings: Systems and methods of evaluating buildings that may be physically and/or financially distressed are provided. The disclosed subject matter obtains building condition indicator measurements, applies building condition indicator measurements to a mathematical relationship, and obtains a building score from the mathematical relationship and the building condition indicator measurements.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103860 - Executing pages of a guided process application in parallel: One or more users can execute tasks in a guided process involving dependent and independent steps modeled with parallel processing techniques. For example, a user can open one or more parent pages in a guided process through a user interface, where each of the one or more parent pages lists... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080103861 - Fair share scheduling for mixed clusters with multiple resources: A technique for determining scheduling priorities of jobs of different types to facilitate workload management in a clustered processing environment having a plurality of managed resource types is provided. The technique includes allocating shares of multiple managed resource types to users and user groups of the clustered processing environment. The... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080103862 - Instant messaged forms based business process decision point facilitation: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to decision point management for a business process and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messaging forms based business process decision point facilitation. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaged... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080103863 - Interactive 3d shortage tracking user interface: The claimed method and system provides a user interface that displays a plurality of product order bars (icons) along with a set of dependencies between product orders in a single graphical view. A plurality of iconic bars are used to represent a demand or product order for a segment of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080103864 - Model generation and distribution system: A method of distributing 3-dimensional model data, the model data being associated with a physical item, the method of distribution including the steps of: (i) storing at a central data store full 3-dimensional model data; (ii) receiving at the central data store a request for abridged model data in a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080103871 - Company project management system: A company project management system. The novel system includes a database server for providing multiple users with access to a project file, which includes a schedule for a project with a plurality of tasks and task dependencies, and a statusing system for concurrently obtaining performance updates from multiple users and... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080103870 - Cycle planning tool for territory management: Electronically creating a schedule plan of events which replicates one or more previously scheduled events. A source date range is acquired into a memory of a machine. A set of previously scheduled events within the source date range is identified. A target date range is received through a user interface.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103865 - Means and method for providing real time services and information: A system and method for real time services and information to clients. The system provides means for a consumer to enter into a service agreement with a service provider from any location in the world; the services can be requested at any time from any location, and have the service... Agent: Duncan G. Byers PC

20080103868 - Methods for planning workforce resources: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for planning workforce resources. One method includes defining workforce supply and uncertain workforce demand for plural different service projects using a set of skills that are preferred to complete the plural different service projects; and calculating costs to hire new employees having the set... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103869 - System and method for obtaining technical support services over a network: A system and method for obtaining technical support services over a network. A registered seeker of technical support services submits a search request to a task matching server. The search request comprises search criteria for identifying one or more registered providers of technical support services. The task matching server searches... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20080103867 - Systems, methods and computer program products for user-selected calendar and task alerts: A method for electronic information transfer by a sender. The method includes composing an electronic message, typically a calendar and/or task event, on a sender terminal. At least one announcement file is associated with an attribute of the electronic message, the announcement file configured for playing at a recipient terminal... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080103866 - Workflow control using an aggregate utility function: Provided are, inter alia, systems, methods and techniques for controlling workflow by identifying an individual job that is part of an overall deliverables package that covers multiple jobs. An aggregate utility function is obtained, specifying utility based on an aggregate metric across the overall deliverables package, and a current operating... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103872 - Managing sales and/or competition within an industry: The present invention provides systems and methods for improving overall profitability, and/or longevity of one or more businesses within an industry, by analyzing their position(s) within one or more market segment. In doing so, it is contemplated that the systems or methods may include managing sales (e.g. competition and/or volume,... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080103874 - Method for forecasting a future inventory demand: A method for forecasting a future inventory demand includes receiving historical demand data associated with a part number and statistically analyzing the historical demand data associated with one or more part numbers to identify each part number as one of a seasonal part number, a quasi-seasonal part number, a high... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103873 - Method of stimulating business development of neighborhood communities: The present invention provides a method of stimulating business development of neighborhood communities, accomplished by identifying a common aspect of target neighborhood communities, developing a brand related to the identified common aspect of the target communities, providing means for connecting these target communities using the developed brand; and utilizing the... Agent: Anna Vishev, Esq. Wolff & Samson PC

20080103875 - Methods and systems for an interactive data finder: The systems and methods disclosed herein include an interactive data finder that allows an advertisement purchaser to associate media programs with demographics and subscriber information. The data finder comprise a search module for processing input data to determine data representative of media buying opportunities as a function of search options,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080103876 - Sales funnel management method and system: A method for evaluating opportunities in a sales funnel management system is disclosed. The method includes selecting one or more filters from one or more respective filter categories. The method further includes using the selected one or more filters to filter data provided to a data file, and providing actual... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103880 - Computer-implemented method and system for collecting votes in a decision model: A computer-implemented method provides for collecting votes on importances in an existing analytic network process (ANP) model, the ANP model having items which are influence linked. The votes to be collected are determined, wherein the votes are with respect to items in the ANP model, the items being influence linked,... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080103907 - Apparatus and computer code for providing social-network dependent information retrieval services: Methods, apparatus and computer code for providing information retrieval services (e.g. handling search queries and providing electronic advertising) in accordance with a given user's social network are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an information retrieval operation is handled according to the click stream and/or taste profile and/or user profile of... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080103890 - Apparatus and method for consumer product promotion using payment device: A consumer product promotional assembly includes a consumer product, and a prize associated with the consumer product, the prize being spendable in a payment card infrastructure. The prize may employ, for example, radio frequency (RF) contactless technology or a bar coded or printed account number. In some embodiments, the prize... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080103903 - Arbitrage broker for online advertising exchange: For a multi-party online advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities and one or more third party participants, the disclosed systems and methods enable third party participation in arbitrage opportunities in online advertising transactions. A plurality of underlying transaction details are abstracted and provided to the third party participants without... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103886 - Determining relevance of a term to content using a combined model: A method and system for generating and using a combined model to identify whether a bid term is relevant to an advertisement is provided. A relevance system trains a combined model that includes an initial model and a decision tree model that are trained using features that represent relationships between... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080103889 - Dynamic multi-brand presentation: Products and/or services can be marketed in ways that allow configuration or selection of components, features or other attributes for which corresponding branding identities may be associated. In relation to such products, it has been discovered that consumers respond favorably to visually interconnected presentation of brands in which attributes of... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20080103908 - E-commerce epicenter business system: A marketing system comprising a personal design center designed to enable depiction of customer selected choices of modified parts of actual photos of design options overlaid on existing reality images with color display and with selectable groupings of the customer selected choice options. The selected choices of design options comprise... Agent: Israel Nissenbaum

20080103884 - Inserting advertisements into a slide show: Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically adding advertisements into a slide show data feed. The disclosure includes receiving a request for a slide show data feed and generating a modified slide show data feed from the original data feed. One or more advertisements are selected and inserted as slides... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080103899 - Inserting advertisements into a ticker: Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically adding advertisements into a ticker. The disclosure includes receiving a request for a ticker data feed and generating a modified ticker data feed from the original data feed. One or more advertisements are selected and inserted as data items into the modified ticker... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080103882 - Method for cost-sensitive autonomous information retrieval and extraction: A technique is provided for acquiring desired information from one or more information sources. The technique includes assessing the one or more information sources for the desired information, searching for the desired information within the one or more information sources based on the assessment, and automatically acquiring the desired information... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080103910 - Method for motivating behavioral changes through rewards: A method of motivating a person, through reward benefits, to participate in activities leading to a selected behavior wherein a benefactor establishes and defines a system of required behaviors for a beneficiary. The required behaviors earn the reward benefits, prior to a deadline for compliance. A program manager monitors the... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20080103897 - Normalizing and tracking user attributes for transactions in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each publishing entity can expose user attribute space(s) for its publishing inventory to the exchange, which are normalized to a common vocabulary within the exchange. Similarly, each advertising entity can specify one or more preferences for user attributes as requirements... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103906 - Online publishing of multimedia content: The method and system disclosed herein publishes user created multimedia content including voice, video, text, pictures, and a combination thereof on one or more publication virtual spaces, simultaneously. A client application, provided on a mobile device, creates and transfers the multimedia content to a publishing service. A protocol is provided... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080103902 - Orchestration and/or exploration of different advertising channels in a federated advertising network: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising entities and publishing entities from different advertising networks, automatic apportioning of advertising transactions across inventory from different advertising channels is provided. Optimal combinations or advertising bundles of different channels are generated for the participant based on an analysis of inventory across different advertising... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103883 - Providing feedback to an offer for advertising space: The disclosure includes a system and method for providing feedback to an offer for advertising space. In some implementations, a method includes receiving an offer for advertising space associated with a print media. The print media is associated with a publisher. A likelihood that the offer will be accepted by... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103901 - Resource initiated by a computer system 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

20080103885 - Resource management: Also, identifying a budget, identifying a group of proposals, each proposal having a cost and an associated target party; routing a proposal in the group to the proposal's associated target party; in response to an acceptance of the proposal, reducing the budget by an amount equal to the cost of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103887 - Selecting advertisements based on consumer transactions: Systems, methods, and computer program products, are provided for selecting advertisements based on transactions. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes receiving information descriptive of a transaction, the information including an identification of an item from the transaction and identifying from a collection of advertisements one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103895 - Self-serve percent rotation of future site channels for online advertising: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates establishing a true market value for an online advertisement. An interface component can receive data related to at least one of a spot market or a future market. A dynamic pricing component can dynamically establish an ad price... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103900 - Sharing value back to distributed information providers in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, automatic value sharing is provided for distributed users of the advertising exchange that provide valuable information to the exchange. Users provide information that has quantifiable value to the advertising exchange and/or its participants. In exchange for the information, predicated on... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103898 - Specifying and normalizing utility functions of participants in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant can specify one or more utility functions that are invertible with respect to a common measure, such as revenue. In one non-limiting embodiment, each utility function is invertible with respect to expected revenue per standard advertising unit, e.g.,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103896 - Specifying, normalizing and tracking display properties for transactions in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant can specify one or more display properties as requirements or definitions for advertising transactions in the exchange. The disparate display properties of multiple participants are normalized within the advertising exchange to a common vocabulary by translating the display... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103894 - System and method for awarding and redeeming merit points for participation, competition, and performance in sports and in the arts and sciences: A method and process for providing a merit-based incentive points system for amateur sports and competitive and non-competitive events wherein merit points are purchased from points administrator and distributed by event organizers and sponsors as participation and performance awards to contestants and participants. Such merit points functioning as points currency... Agent: Gladstone Liang

20080103893 - System and method for generating forecasted bids for advertisement keywords: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a forecasted bid amount for a keyword in order to display one or more advertisements in response to a search request that includes the keyword at a given position within a ranked list of advertisements. The method may comprise... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080103892 - System and method for generating optimized bids for advertisement keywords: The present invention is directed towards systems and method for generating a bid amount for one or more keywords for a display of an advertisement associated with a given keyword. The method comprises calculating estimates of one or more advertising metrics for one or more keywords associated with one or... Agent: Seth H. Ostrow Dreier LLP

20080103891 - System and method for managing advertisements: In one aspect, the present invention provides a computerized system and method for placing ads that is, among other things, less paper-intensive and less error prone than conventional advertising systems and methods.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080103888 - System and method for tracking purchases related to digital advertisements: A system and method for tracking purchases relating to digital ads is disclosed. Generally, an ad provider receives an ad request and determines whether a user requesting the ad is a registered user. In response to determining the user is a registered user, the ad provider determines whether any membership-based... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080103911 - Apparatus and method of data dependent routing for data storage: An approach is provided for data dependent routing. Sales data including a transaction key is received. One of a plurality of order databases is selected based on the transaction key. The sales data is forwarded to the one order database for storage.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080103915 - Apparatus, system and method for providing a signal to request goods and/or services: An apparatus, a system and a method for displaying a visual signal that requests a good and/or service are provided. The system and the method have a communication device having a screen to display a signal that requests the good and/or the service. The signal may be, for example, a... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20080103916 - Apparatuses, methods, and systems for capital management product enrollment: An apparatus, method, and system for facilitating the enrollment of a party into a capital management product is disclosed. This system provides a centralized control structure for managing the enrollment of a party into a capital management product, such as a lockbox, and may communicate with multiple parties associated with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103923 - Centralized payment gateway system and method: As a company acquires commerce platforms the maintenance of integrations with payment service providers becomes an issue. The best thing is to keep the amount of developers needed to a minimum and reduce transaction costs to a minimum; therefore a centralized code base is best for a company. A gateway... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20080103914 - Intelligent inventory applications and services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for intelligent inventory applications and services. A purchase request to purchase a product is received that has a product number to be purchased, an account number to process for payment, and a purchaser's inventory information that identifies the purchaser's inventory database to update with... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080103918 - Method and system for making a re-order of pre-designated items by establishing a session and by sending a single short message using short message service via a cellular communications network: A method and process for providing a single text message to re-order pre-designated items of goods or services using a cellular phone over a cellular communications network, and a method and process for receiving a single text message to accept a re-order, process the re-order, initiate shipment, or delivery and... Agent: Stephen C. Glazier Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

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20080103913 - System and method for guided sales: A guided sales system provides a sales person and/or a customer with guidance through a sales process including detailed information about products and technologies. The guided sales system allows a user to enter information about the customer and the customer's needs, to identify products matching the customer's needs and to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080103936 - Automated decision assistant: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for or providing automated assistance in making a decision such as selecting a product when shopping. According to one embodiment, a method of providing automated decision assistance can comprise presenting a user interface for selecting between a plurality of products identified in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080103934 - Method and system for illustrating where a ticket is located in an event venue: A system and method of illustrating where at least one ticket is located in an event venue, comprising: accepting event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepting price criteria for the at least one ticket and the at least one event; displaying an interactive graphics-based... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC

20080103935 - System and method of global electronic trade in the internet: A system and method of global and local electronic trade in the Internet is provided. The method of global and local electronic trade for sellers and buyers via the Internet includes registering the sellers and the buyers; providing information regarding goods or services to the registered sellers and buyers; selecting... Agent: Dr. Pulnikova Valentina

20080103939 - Computerized-sensing system for a mini bar: Dispensing system with at least one dispenser 1 for articles that are available to be dispensed, preferably in form of a mini bar, an administering system for billing articles and/or administering the stock of the articles to be dispensed, or at least an interface 6 to such an administering system,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080103940 - Digital media envelope sleeve with identification markings: An improved digital media enclosure having two primary components, a sleeve into which the digital media is placed, and an envelope into which the sleeve is placed. At least one surface of the sleeve is printed with a plurality of identification markings on at least one of the sleeve's outer... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080103944 - Intelligent pallet: A intelligent pallet having and active RFID tag embedded therein is provided. The pallet is used within a leasing system and/or an inventory management system.... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20080103943 - Method of selling a vehicle: A method of selling a vehicle to a purchaser includes the steps of providing a vehicle sales network including a primary dealer and at least one secondary dealer, the secondary dealer maintaining a vehicle inventory, the primary dealer offering a vehicle from the vehicle inventory for sale to a purchaser,... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080103941 - Methods, systems, and products for managing inventory: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for managing inventory. A layout of a building is accessed that includes the number of rooms in the building and a description of each of each of the rooms. Article information is received that describes an article to be inventoried. The article information is... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080103945 - System and method for connecting entertainment media servers to local video shop inventories: A video shop access system allows consumers to receive information on title inventories available at local video shops in the consumers' geographical area through their home or wireless media servers. A video shop data center receives title information on inventory available at the local video shops and stores the title... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080103947 - Import/export tax to deal with ad trade deficits: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant specifies tax rate(s), such as import tax and export tax, that apply to at least one other entity in the exchange. Since tax rate(s) can be expressed in different transactional terms by different parties, each tax rate is... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103948 - Method of doing business by distributing high energy gas fracturing devices: A method of doing business by making a wireline service company's use of high energy gas fracturing devices available to well owners. The method starts with owning high energy gas fracturing packets made of a shell at least partially filled with propellant and shipping at least 10 of the packets... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20080103949 - System and method for reconciling one or more financial transactions: A system, method and computer program product for reconciling one or more financial transactions of one or more business units. The method includes capturing transaction data from the financial transactions using a first set of data logics. The capturing further includes extracting the transaction data from the financial transactions using... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080103989 - System and method for configurably displaying market information for an asset: Systems and methods are furnished to efficiently display market information about an asset. The information displayed about an asset commercialized in a market includes a window, including a market information display area, an offer button, a graphic button, a details button in the window and a configuration button in the... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080103988 - Systems and methods for tracking investment metrics: An interactive user interface for displaying information about one or more publicly traded companies at one time. The interface may comprise a two-dimensional chart comprising an x-axis and a y-axis and means for specifying financial metrics for the x- and y-axes. The interface may also include fields where the user... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080103955 - Accounting for trusted participants in an online advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities from disparate advertising networks, flexible advertising transaction accounting methods are provided for circumstances where a relatively small number of trusted participants agree to reduce onerous reporting requirements conducted at a per transaction level. Trusted participants optionally report aggregate data for... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103958 - Construction bidding system and method: A construction bidding system and method includes manager, general contractor and subcontractor workstations that communicate with a server hosting a website over a network such as the Internet. The server also communicates with a number of databases. A manager enters project information into a project database and selects general contractors... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20080103952 - Specifying and normalizing utility functions of participants in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant can specify one or more utility functions that are invertible with respect to a common measure, such as revenue. In one non-limiting embodiment, each utility function is invertible with respect to expected revenue per standard advertising unit, e.g.,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103953 - Tool for optimizing advertising across disparate advertising networks: An optimization tool is provided for individual participants who participate in multiple online advertising environments wherein the tool interfaces with the multiple environments in an optimal manner on behalf of the individual participants. A participant using the tool can specify goals and/or constraints for participating in one or more of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103959 - Location based credit: A method and system for offering credit to a prospective borrower are provided. A lender first determines a prospective borrower location, which may be a commercial outlet, such as a retail store where goods or services are offered. The lender then references a purchase history associated with the borrower at... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080103961 - Private institutional credit derivative: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a credit derivative to protect against the credit risk associated with a private debt on an individual basis. A financial institution lending money to a private entity may desire a credit derivative product that allows the financial institution to protect against the risk... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103962 - Ranking systems based on a risk: A method for ranking a plurality of systems based on their susceptibility to a selected risk that is determined from a plurality of risk indicators, is described herein. The method includes obtaining benchmark values for at least one benchmark system with a predetermined level of the predetermined risk; obtaining measured... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103960 - System and method for a website that provides homeowners with a web based tool for debt consolidation options: A system and method for a website, in the field of mortgage originating, which is a web based tool homeowners can access, free of charge, and enter their personal debt information and real property information. The website then calculates the data and provides the homeowner with a plurality of personalized... Agent: Mortgage Innovations, Inc. Dba Lionsaves.com

20080103970 - Debit card system loan provisions: Debit card systems having loan provisions, and methods of use. Such systems couple a debit card to a financial account having access to the national eft system. The debit card system satisfies the requirements of TISA Regulation DD. Debit card accounts of the invention enable the card holder to access... Agent: Wilhelm Law Service, S.c.

20080103965 - Just in time transactions: A system and method of terminating a transaction between a merchant and customer are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080103968 - Redemption of credit card rewards at a point of sale: Systems and methods are described for redeeming rewards at a merchant's point-of-sale. The reward redemption takes place in real time and can be accomplished without the active participation of the merchant. A single credit card with no additional information may be used with a single swipe from the consumer to... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080103967 - Refund request tool: A business may uniformly calculate and offer a fee refund to customers requesting refunds for fees charged to the customers' accounts. Rather than relying on individual employee discretion, a server may use account information and customer information to generate the fee refund amount to be offered to the customer. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103966 - System and/or method for dynamic determination of transaction processing fees: Disclosed are a system and method of determining a fee for processing a non-cash transaction between a merchant and customer.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080103969 - Value add broker for federated advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange, including publishing entities and advertising entities from disparate advertising networks, which facilitates transactions for publishing inventory, a value add broker is provided to aggregate information from third parties having valuable information for input to the exchange or to perform services that are valuable to transactions... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103971 - Method and system for tracking conversions in a system for targeted data delivery: A system and method for tracking conversions. Specifically, the method includes collecting user information about a user and generating a user profile based on the user information. The user profile is stored such that the user profile is used to achieve delivery of data that is targeted to the user... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103972 - Secure authentication and payment system: The present invention provides a service for allowing secure financial transactions to be carried out, the service involving authenticating a user's identity and/or status as part of a financial transaction with another party and in the event that the user is authenticated arranging for the transaction to be completed without... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080103973 - Electronic surveillance method and system: The present invention relates to an electronic surveillance method and system in a wideband wireless access system. If a law enforcement agency system requests electronic surveillance relative to a specified object, an electronic surveillance system first performs an authentication process using a codebook to authorize the electronic surveillance request. As... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080103974 - Movie key: Disclosed are a system and a method which enable utilizing rewritable portable memory devices, such as flash memory keys, for digital media content rentals, such as movies and audio files, while ensuring the security of the media content stored on the device. Users rent media content from dedicated digital media... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080103977 - Digital rights management for distributed devices: DRM protected content is shared in a peer-to-peer device context. In various embodiments, systems are enabled for peer-to-peer digital rights management (DRM) content roaming via revocation and synchronization. Local license revocation and remote license creation can facilitate P2P DRM content roam using license share counts. Derivative share count licenses, or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103976 - Digital rights management license renewal: A method of playing back content based on digital rights management (DRM) between a portable storage and a device and a portable storage for the same are provided. The method of playing back content using a portable storage includes requesting the portable storage to transmit a right to play back... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080103979 - Method of franking with early signature generation: A method of generating a digital signature at a postage meter, in which method a postal imprint is printed on a mail item once said mail item has been weighed and once its postage amount has been determined, said postal imprint being associated with a digital signature generated by means... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080103980 - Pay at pump encryption device: Embodiments of the present invention are drawn to systems and methods for securing information using cryptographically keyed units. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, a system is provided for securing information that uses two cryptographically keyed units to encrypt information flowing between a fuel pump device and a... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080103982 - Terminal data encryption: A method is disclosed. The method includes generating an initial key after interacting with an access device, storing the initial key at a key storage location, altering the initial key with a public key to form an altered key, and sending the altered key to a server computer along with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080103983 - Method and apparatus for selling used contents: Disclosed herein is a method of reselling content in a used content server connected to a Digital Right Management (DRM) server for managing authentication information of the content of at least one computing device. The method includes the steps of receiving information of requesting the resale of the content from... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080103984 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for mobile payment authentication and authorization: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for user authentication and mobile payment authorization are provided. A user operating a mobile terminal may submit a product for purchase at a point-of-sale and submit the user's phone number and personal identification number thereto. An authentication and authorization process is then performed to... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080103986 - Method and system for conducting barter transactions: Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can browse and search the lists to locate items they want to acquire and items they have available to trade.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080103987 - Method and system for managing multi-party barter transaction: Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can browse and search the lists to locate items they want to acquire and items they have available to trade,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080103803 - Contingent event rights relating to an event participant: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace offering a contingent right to purchase an event ticket in a rights marketplace, wherein the contingency is based at least in part upon a performance criterion of a participant in the event.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103802 - Contingent rights exchange relating to music production: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing a ticket purchase right to a contingent event, wherein the occurrence of the contingent event secures a right to purchase at least one event ticket (e.g., a concert ticket). In embodiments of the present invention, the integrated rights marketplace may... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103801 - Contingent travel rights exchange: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing an option to acquire access rights for air travel, wherein the option is dependent at least in part upon an outcome of a contingency event. The integrated rights marketplace may enable a purchase of the access rights upon the outcome,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103808 - Management of contract data: A system for contract processing. Sent by a procurement contract management system (PCMS) to decentralized execution systems is a list of I identifiers identifying a contract dataset in the PCMS earmarked for archiving. The PCMS receives from each DES a return list of M of the I identifiers approved by... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080103807 - Method and a system for rating party's electronic activities: There is provided a method for rating party's electronic activities, the method comprising defining measurable parameters related to said party's electronic activities to be rated; collecting data corresponding to said defined measurable parameters; and generating an objective rating of said party's electronic activities using said collected data. There is also... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20080103812 - Methods and apparatus for recognizing compact discs and issuing corresponding credits: For possible use in an electronic content distribution system, automatic recognition of compact discs or other storage media containing particular content, and corresponding account crediting is described. In an electronic content distribution system, such as those providing music available by digital downloading or streaming technologies, a user may ordinarily pay... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080103811 - Postal security system: The present invention is a postal security system for preventing identity theft, market profiling, and similar other activities. The present invention solves these problems by limiting access to the physical postal address of a user by assigning these physical postal addresses a virtual address, or also referred to as a... Agent: Ty Ung

20080103805 - Systems and methods for matching, selecting, narrowcasting, and/or classifying based on rights management and/or other information: Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080103827 - Drug delivery management system: The present invention relates to assisting patients in the taking of medication, and to assisting third parties in accumulating information regarding patient medication intake. The invention may be embodied a system including a portable medication monitor used in association with an instrumented medication package to provide intake data acquisition and... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080103824 - Medication dose calculator and associated methods: A medication dose calculator and method for comparing an inputted, ordered medication dosage with a known medication dosage range in a database including an input device for inputting a desired drug name, indicating whether the drug is for a child or an adult, an amount of the drugs that are... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20080103825 - Method and system for providing indexing and cataloguing of orthodontic related treatment profiles and options: Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080103817 - Portable memory devices and system and method for using same in pharmaceutical transactions: The present invention provides systems and methods for administering discount and sample redemption programs for prescription and/or non-prescription drugs and other products sold in a pharmacy, and for providing patient education information, through optical discs or other portable memory devices, whether optical or not.... Agent: Serious Usa, Inc. C/o Torys LLP

20080103819 - System for communication of health care data: An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080103820 - System for communication of health care data: An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080103831 - Disease management information system: A system automatically, provides a clinician with cancer specific staging criteria in response to a user selected cancer diagnosis name, calculates a stage of the disease in response to selection of particular staging criteria and associates treatments and clinical documentation with the cancer diagnosis and stage. A disease management information... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080103833 - Integrated system for generation and retention of medical records: A system for populating patient records by use of evidence-based relational database, which compares the medical practitioners diagnoses to predetermined responses, to produce accurate patient chart notes and the integration of stored and generated data into clinical and administrative medical record keeping and billing. Episodic encounters are developed into cases... Agent: Lee G. Meyer, Esq. Meyer & Associates, LLC

20080103832 - System for communication of health care data: An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080103840 - Financial arrangement to support implementation of a retirement medical program or to protect a users future medical needs: A method for providing a financial product that permits monies dedicated to a medical sub-account within a Dual-Purpose Profit Sharing plan (DPPSP) to maintain compliance with relevant IRS Tax Code provisions. The method comprising the steps of: establishing a document (MEDVAN) with provisions that maintain compliance with relevant IRS Tax... Agent: Tim Luedtke

20080103841 - Index and risk-linked reinsurance product: Disclosed is a novel insurance product that provides additional reinsurance coverage to mitigate risks associated with catastrophic events which adversely affect property and casualty insurance rates. The reinsurance product contains one or more tiers of protection which allows a purchaser to vary the coverage related to one or more catastrophic... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080103838 - Insurance estimating system: A method and system for reviewing and managing insurance estimates and images. The system includes electronic storage system that can track changes to the insurance estimates, a review station that allows a reviewer to review the estimates and potentially make changes to the estimates. Optionally the system and method also... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20080103839 - Methods and systems for providing an insurance policy with an inflation protection option: This invention provides methods and systems for providing an insurance policy having an inflation protection option that is computed at least partially based on information useful in offering a long term care insurance policy to an individual and at least partially based on the option for the individual to purchase... Agent: Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP

20080103859 - Project risk management system utilizing probability distributions: When the process plan made for execution is corrected based on the process correction condition, the variation amount in each of processes based on the process correction condition is calculated as the probability distribution using the probability distribution data generated by obtaining the probability distribution from the variation-amount prediction value... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080103855 - System and method for detecting anomalies in market data: A system and method for identifying data exceptions is disclosed. In some embodiments, data is monitored over a time period, a statistic is generated relating to the data, and it is determined whether the statistic exceeds a threshold In some embodiments, monitoring comprises monitoring the cost of a product or... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103857 - System and method for enterprise risk management: A system and method for assessing, controlling, and reporting risk in an enterprise related to governance, risk management, and compliance activities.... Agent: Patentry

20080103853 - Time factor feature generation system, time factor feature generation method and time factor feature generation program: A time factor feature generation system includes: a use status grasping portion that extracts transition data showing variations in degree of use of a site from log data; a variation data generating portion that generates, based on the transition data, variation data expressing the variations in degree of use of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080103878 - Determined rights and forward obligations for future items: 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..

20080103877 - Methods and apparatus for soliciting, tracking, aggregating, reporting opinions and/or poll results: Methods and apparatus for soliciting, tracking, aggregating and reporting popular and group-specific opinion via the Internet are described. In various embodiments, editors and Internet users utilize a poll module creation tool to create individual graphical polling modules for public or private distribution. Individual polling modules can be then be posted... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080103879 - User-specified online advertising: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for sponsoring content. Input from a user specifying one or more content items for inclusion in a property is received. Determinations are made as to whether the user satisfies one or more user criteria and whether the specified content items satisfy one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103881 - Advanced voting system and method: An advanced voting system is provided that includes one or more computing devices. The computing devices receive input of authentication data and utilize the authentication data to determine whether a voting session by a voter is authorized and to unlock ballot information specific to the voter or a group of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103904 - Fine-grained criteria targeting: A system and method for efficiently querying a network of logical digital advertising units by creating a list of named criteria meaningful for the particular network and then associate relevant criteria with each unit. A simplified query system is disclosed having two selection lists, one for choosing criteria of interest... Agent: Technology Law Group, LLC

20080103905 - Incentive imaging methods and devices: A method of providing incentives to customers which involves providing customers with cards having changeable display areas. During a transaction, the cards are received from the customers and an incentive image is displayed on the display areas of the cards when they are returned to the customers. The incentive images... Agent: Butzel Long

20080103909 - Promoting customer loyalty: A method and system for promoting customer loyalty with respect to any transactional activity is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes an accumulation phase and a disbursement phase. In the accumulation phase, a recency, a frequency, and an intensity of the customer's purchases is monitored and a loyalty... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080103912 - Method of providing transaction data, terminal, transaction method, method of enhancing bank statements, server, signals and computer program products corresponding thereto: A method is provided for supplying data representative of transactions between a client and at least one merchant, via a banking institution. The banking institution issues a statement to the client which, for each transaction, includes a statement line containing at least one reference for said transaction and/or the merchant,... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080103921 - 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..

20080103922 - 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..

20080103924 - 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..

20080103925 - 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..

20080103926 - 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..

20080103927 - 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..

20080103928 - 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..

20080103929 - 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..

20080103930 - 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..

20080103931 - 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..

20080103932 - 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..

20080103933 - 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..

20080103919 - Contingent consumer product rights exchange: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing an interface that includes a forward market domain. The marketplace may enable the creation of a contingent right to purchase a future product release, wherein the contingency is the occurrence of the product's release, and enable users of the interface... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103920 - Contingent rights relating to a weather phenomenon: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing an interface that includes a forward market domain. The marketplace may enable the creation a contingent right to an event, wherein the contingency is the occurrence of a weather phenomenon, and enable users of the interface to transact the contingent... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103938 - System and method for receiving a bid: An electronic auction system may include a bid validator connected between a network, a bid database and a merchandise catalog page. The example bid validator may receive over the network, bid information via an electronic mail message and further bid information via a web-based bid form. The example bid validator... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080103937 - System of machine maintenance: A system for remote maintenance for a machine. The system includes a database having information for a plurality of machines. A customer accesses the database in order to receive an illustration of at least one of said plurality of machines. Thereafter, the customer identifies a position of the machine illustration... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080103942 - Inventory management system: A web-based system for managing assets is provided. The system of the instant invention allows retail dealers and distributors to manage their inventory of items for sale with functionality that seamlessly and naturally links to functionality that satisfies floor plan lenders' interests in asset or collateral management in such a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080103946 - Sales force automation and method: A salesforce automation system which integrates computerized, intelligent automated salesperson support for multiple phases of the sales process. Various subsystems may be provided to facilitate the sales process which may include pre-sales lead generation, maximize time spent with the customer, effectively manage an order, ensure customer satisfaction and retain the... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20080103950 - System and method for smoothing financial data: Systems and methods for aggregating groups of input financial data such that the aggregated data reflects trends more smoothly than the input financial data are provided. More specifically, various methods and systems of the present invention provide for aggregating one or more selected data points from a set of input... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080103951 - Virtual credit in simulated environments: A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080103954 - Automated trading exchange system and method utilizing a randomized opening procedure: A method of opening option trading in an automated exchange trading system. The system receives orders and quotes and matches the orders and quotes to generate trades. The method includes the step of accepting, during a first time period, quotes and orders associated with an option class. The first time... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080103956 - Inter-firm transaction method and inter-firm transaction mediation method: A method for mediating transactions between firms including receiving registration demands and relevant product and firm information from purchasing firms and supplier firms, performing various mediating processing, and ultimately providing to the purchasing firm, the information that relates to selected supplier firm and products that the supplier firm wishes to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080103957 - User interfaces for f.a.i.r. systems: Through a variety of market or quasi-market techniques, internal corporate information can be conveyed to external markets in a manner that reflects knowledge, opinions, predictions, and the like of corporate personnel without requiring disclosure of specific insider or other confidential corporate information. The market techniques may include highly concrete mechanisms... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

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