Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 07/08

20080183488 - Apparatus and methods for providing career employment services: Systems, methods, distributed networks, and computer-readable media are provided that relate to recruiting and employment services. Background information associated with talent-capability attributes is received from talent. Job description information is received from employers. Prospective matches are identified between employers and talent, and employers and talent are given an opportunity to... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080183479 - Business process reconstruction method, and its program and computer: A system managing computer communicable with an ESB execution computer has a storage portion for storing deploy information which has service names for designating services constructing a business process and service-deployed ESB execution computers in association with each other. And, it has a processing portion which, based on the deployment... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080183486 - Computer method of collecting, managing and using job applicant data for specific employment opportunities: A method and computer program product include providing a generic employment application. A customized employment application is generated by an employer based upon, at least in part, the generic employment application. A unique web page is associated with the customized employment application. Access by a prospective employee is provided to... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080183480 - Customized payment transaction notification: A method for customizing alerts and notifications for portable consumer device transactions is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method comprising receiving information that a transaction associated with a portable consumer device is occurring, and providing an alert to a consumer associated with the portable consumer... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080183491 - Data processing system intended to facilitate confronting an offer and a demand: A data processing system (X) is adapted to confront an offer (O) and a demand (D), in particular in the field of transportation of travelers or goods. The system (X) receives requests corresponding to new offers/demands, formulated by users (Cx) of the data processing system and data corresponding to offers/demands... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080183482 - 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

20080183489 - Method and apparatus for listing goods for sale: A method for using a telephone to list a seller's good for sale on a website including the steps of receiving good-identifying information from a seller via a telephone and presenting the good for sale on a website. The good-identifying information may be received as a series of tones generated... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080183485 - Method and apparatus for providing location specific information: A method and apparatus for providing location specific information. Event data pertaining to an event is received from an event reporting system that has gathered the event data from a data gathering means. The event data includes location identification data, event type data, and event description data. At least one... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080183490 - Method and computer software code for implementing a revised mission plan for a powered system: A method for determining when to request a revised mission plan from a computer-readable instruction that when executed by a processor cause the processor to generate a mission plan for a powered system, the method including identifying whether at least one revised mission plan request is a mandatory mission plan... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080183487 - Musical contents storage system having server computer and electronic musical devices: A musical contents system comprises a contents providing server comprising a connecting unit that connects to a communication network, and a contents storage unit that stores musical contents in a storage area corresponding to a user of an electronic musical device; and an electronic musical device comprising a connecting unit... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080183483 - Office management solution: A spatial database interface for generally managing assets in a graphical user environment is disclosed, in the particular context of a CAOM office management software solution for managing office facilities inclusive of office layouts (equipment, furniture, information technology assets and other assets) and basic human resources within a physically-defined office... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver

20080183481 - Service provider server, service providing method and recording medium recorded with service providing program: A service provider server 1, when receiving a charge-free service providing request, inquires about existence or non-existence of data coincident with credit card number data sent from a client, with which the charge-free service providing request accompanies, and, if a predetermined condition is satisfied, provides the charge-free service.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080183478 - System and method for automating listing and re-listing of auction items: A computerized method of listing items at an auction site using pre-stored item numbers and item keys. Item numbers and keys are obtained from the auction site by submitting to the site a generic item description and generic auction parameter data. In response to the submission the auction site returns... Agent: Dechert LLP

20080183484 - Vehicle diagnosis system: A vehicle diagnosis system is configured to instruct vehicle operations required to finish a diagnosis without any increase in the storage capacity of an on-vehicle electronic control unit. When a repair person requests results of a self-diagnosis of a vehicle executed by an ECU using a diagnosis terminal, a management... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080183495 - Economically sustainable, standards-based rhio architecture and application environment and method of use: Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for health information exchange. Certain embodiments provide a health information exchange system. The system includes an interface accommodating a plurality of data sources transmitting data for storage at the health information exchange system. The system also includes a shared data repository configured to aggregate... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080183497 - Method and apparatus for internet-based community of health experts: A computer enabled interactive consulting chat room and associated Internet search website with a search engine capability all linked at a single site to address medical questions specific to a medical patient's needs, combined with a consulting room computer enabled interactivity between specialists, treating care-giver, patient and other patients with... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080183492 - Method for comparing prescription drug formularies: A method may enable a benefits consultant or other user to quantitatively compare competing PBM formularies across a representative sample of all drugs covered under a health benefits plan to present a comprehensive analysis of the formulary and its influence on a client's net cost. The method may determine a... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080183498 - Methods and systems for site startup: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide clinical site information to clinical trial managers to support clinical trial management. One embodiment is a method for providing information in response to an inquiry. A plurality of site attributes is received. The site attributes can include information regarding the sites that may... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080183493 - Patient handling device specification system and method of using the same: A computer program product for specifying the patient handling equipment necessary to physically move a patient in a healthcare facility includes a computer program with a computer readable storage medium having specification commands stored thereon. A patient profile entry device is connected to the storage medium for entering data regarding... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080183494 - System and method for autonomous data gathering and intelligent assessment: A technique is provided for assessing a user. The technique includes automatically querying the user and relaying user responses to an assessment subsystem. The technique also includes automatically and intelligently assessing the user based on the user responses and generating questions for subsequent query based at least in part on... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080183496 - System and method for collaborative patient care: A system for developing a patient care plan and executing the patient care plan and assessing the success of the planning and execution of the patient care plan. A coordinated, collaborative approach to the development of a patient care plan at the admission of a patient to a health care... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20080183503 - Method and apparatus for generating toxicology reports: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for generating toxicology reports. Using the methods and apparatus disclosed herein, physicians can more easily understand toxicological lab test results. Physicians receive a toxicology report that explains, in plain language, the toxicological lab test results. A rules engine provides rules for interpreting the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080183504 - Point-of-care information entry: A point-of-care touch/click entry system can be used to replace and/or augment standard dictation transcription models in medical record systems (which comprise institution-centric data). Key word entry can better standardized medical record display, can be linked directly to diagnostic and billing codes to automate billing thus decreasing payers claims of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080183501 - System and method for automated categorization of reference exams: An automated system and method for updating reference materials in a healthcare setting. The automated system may comprise a collection of medical reference materials connected to a network, an exam database connected to the network, and a workstation connected to the network for evaluating data stored in the exam database.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080183499 - System and method for determining a person centric infection risk associated with encountering a healthcare provider: A system and method provide for determining a patient's infection risk associated with a specific healthcare provider encounter. The method incorporates the steps of assessing infection risk factors for a particular patient and comparing those factors to a set of benchmark infection risk factors derived from historical patient outcomes data.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080183502 - Systems and methods for remote patient monitoring and communication: A method according to one aspect of the present invention includes receiving patient information, analyzing the patient information to identify a condition for the patient, formatting a report based on the patient information and the patient condition, and contacting the patient when the patient condition satisfies a predetermined threshold condition.... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080183500 - Systems and processes for health management: Systems and processes for health management may include a website for managing diseases and/or therapies. Questions based on user information, such as a health condition and/or treatment regimen of the user, may be presented on the website. Answers to the questions may be received and analyzed. A response may be... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080183505 - Centralized eob archiving and access: Methods and systems provide substantiation proof of claims made against medical spending accounts. Medical-insurance adjudication explanations are received at a benefits-records system, specifying a medical-insurance claim submitted to a medical insurer and identifying an adjudication decision of the medical insurance claim. The medical-insurance adjudication explanations are stored in a common... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080183506 - Method for quantifying risk for use in underwriting and insuring such risk and method for measuring the adequacy of the security required under the fiduciary prudence and prohibited transaction provisions of the employee retirement security act of 1974: A system and method are provided that identify and assess potential areas of exposure for insurance underwriting purposes and allows for the reduction or potential elimination of extensive analysis of such areas of exposure by insurance companies, and also allows for immediate underwriting of risk in reliance of the system's... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080183508 - Methods for real-time underwriting: Methods for providing substantially real-time quotes are provided. In one respect, a method may receive from a potential customer authorization to access at least the potential customer's pharmacy profile. The pharmacy profile may be retrieved and a risk score may be generated as a function of the pharmacy profile. A... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080183507 - Products and processes for indicating documents for a life based product: A method comprising receiving at least one document that is associated with a life insurance policy; assigning a respective value to each of the at least one document, in which the value indicates a level of importance; determining a summation of the at least one document; determining an indication for... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080183509 - System and method for assisting a buyer in selecting a supplier of goods or services: A method for assisting buyers in selecting a supplier of a good or service begins by receiving a price quote for the good or service from the supplier. A request is then submitted to an insurance company requesting the company to issue a policy for reimbursing the buyer for economic... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20080183510 - System and method for financing other post employment benefit (opeb) plans: A method of financing a post employment benefit plan includes obtaining funds to fund the benefit plan which creates a debt, obtaining life insurance policies for selected employees, and creating a plan trust. The life insurance policies are single-premium private placement variable universal life type life insurance policies and have... Agent: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080183511 - Property management solution: The invention provides a residence management solution for offering, reserving and managing accommodations. The invention further provides a system and methods for providing various member services to members of a Destination Club. The invention also provides an integrated on-line system for carrying out functions associated with such a residence management... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20080183512 - System and method for estimating seat value: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generating an itinerary in response to a request from a user are provided. For example, the system includes a memory comprising a fare table, wherein the fare table includes a plurality of travel markets each associated with a fare and at least one... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080183534 - Advertising system and method using internet web browser: There is provided an advertising system and method using an Internet web browser, in which one of a menu bar, location bar, tool bar, etc. in the screen of the web browser, that is not used for displaying information from a server, is used for displaying advertisements, during a period... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080183525 - Business microscope system: A sensor-net system for digitizing a relationship between persons in an organization includes plural terminals and a processor for processing data received from those terminals. Each of the terminals includes a sensor for sensing a physical amount and a data sender for sending data denoting the physical amount sensed by... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080183519 - Business process for ultra vires transactions: An audit system automatically ensures compliance with relevant policy by identifying an entity offering a non-audit service that also provides audit services to the enterprise, and ensuring the service is permissible and proper approval has been obtained. If the non-audit service is prohibited or proper approval from an audit committee... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080183523 - Carbon credit workflow system: A computer-driven, web-based system and method that facilitates the creation and transaction of carbon credits and, more particularly, to a web-enabled software system that facilitates the analysis, calculation, preparation, documentation, data management, workflow management, trading and storage of certified emissions and energy credits or offsets (green credits).... Agent: H. Michael Brucker Law Corp.

20080183528 - Intelligent event adaptation mechanism for business performance monitoring: An intelligent business event adapter receives information technology (IT) events and raw data from a backend enterprise application to capture, analyze, transform, enrich, aggregate, and correlate application-dependent IT-level events into a business level event which is communicated to a business performance monitoring (BPM) server. The adapter comprises four modules: an... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183529 - Mergers and acquisitions using component business model: A method of combining businesses by creating a target component map based on the business strategy of the resulting company, and using that target map to generate a component map for each constituent company in the combination. The constituent component map describes the current state of each component instantiated in... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183527 - Method and apparatus for designing and planning of workforce evolution: Mathematical means and methods are used within the context of mathematical models of a workforce evolution to address key issues in workforce design and planning. Examples of such mathematical means and methods are (but not limited to) fluid-flow models and diffusion-process models. In each case, these mathematical models characterize the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183524 - Method and apparatus for determining design modification effects on a computerized engineering model: An engineering simulation tool uses boundary regions of proposed design modifications to a finite design element to assess the impact of those proposed design modifications. This tool allows a designer to incorporate a new design feature into a proposed model and generate simulated performance results for the proposed design without... Agent: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

20080183530 - Method and apparatus for model-driven managed business services: A mechanism provides a model-driven solution template-based approach for managed business services. Key assets of the business services are templatized and made configurable. The mechanism implements a metamodel describing standard service offerings that can be configured to meet specific business and operational requirements at a level of business process and... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183533 - Method and apparatus for network-based sales force automation: A method and apparatus for network-based sales force automation are provided that meet objectives of increasing sales and marketing efficiency and efficiency of technical and customer support by providing multi-dimensional displays of transactional information to users. Transactional information of deals, contacts, accounts, and leads is provided over the Internet using... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080183518 - Method and system for analyzing patent flow: A method for analyzing patent flow. The method comprises: receiving a company set including an entity name; retrieving assignment data for the entity name, where the assignment data includes at least one assignment record having an assignor, an assignee, and a patent identifier associated with the assigner and the assignee,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080183531 - Method and system for balancing asset liability and supply flexibility in extended value networks: The present invention provides a method, a system, and a computer-readable medium with instructions for a computer to optimize one or more tradeoffs between or among serviceability, liability, and/or inventory in a multi-tier network of suppliers. The probabilistic optimization of tradeoffs enables assets stored at one or a plurality of... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, PC.

20080183535 - Method and system for inspecting rental vehicles: A system for inspecting rental vehicles includes an image capture booth coupled to a rental car computer. In one embodiment, the image capture booth includes a first camera mounted on a first tower, a second camera mounted on a second tower, and a path defined between the first tower and... Agent: Alexander Ching

20080183526 - Method and system for interfacing with a shipping service: A logistics node receives a purchase order from a customer. The logistics node selects an appropriate carrier to transport products specified in the purchase order and conveys shipping instructions to the selected carrier. The logistics node also coordinates the shipment by interacting with a source node (associated with a supplier... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080183532 - Method for project preparing a procurement and accounts payable system: A method for coordinating a project for designing, implementing, and using a general procurement and accounts payable (GP/AP) system for a customer. A playbook database is created and includes templates of information relating to designing, implementing, and using the GP/AP system. The templates are particularized for the customer. A playbook... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080183520 - Methods and apparatus for evaluating an organization: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for developing scenarios for cyber exercises useful for evaluating the ability of an organization's infrastructure to handle situational anomalies. The methods and apparatus facilitate identification of a plurality of cyber elements, a plurality of participants, and a plurality of objectives for the exercise scenario. A... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080183516 - Methods and apparatus to determine when to deflect callers to websites: Methods and apparatus to determine when to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage comprises receiving a call from the caller, determining a performance metric associated with processing the call, and determining whether to offer the caller an option... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080183522 - Mobile asset data management system: An impact detection system and method for use with a mobile asset is described. The system includes a user input unit, a sensor, a processing unit, and a storage unit. The user input unit receives an operator identifier from the asset before the asset is operated. The sensor is coupled... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080183517 - Robustness of a workflow: It is difficult for managers or other operators to decide how best to modify an available pool of resources used for their workflows. Methods for achieving this by improving the robustness of workflows are described. The more robust a workflow, the better its ability to withstand detrimental changes to its... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080183521 - System and method for analyzing an operation of an organization: A method for analyzing an operation of an organization, especially in the context of an outsourcing. The method includes decomposing the operation along a value chain containing a plurality of processes, associating a process of the value chain with an element that is subject to the process, and designating a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080183515 - System and method for processing loans: Loan requests may be automatically processed for approval and fulfillment by a distributed processing system. The processing system receives loan requests and determines whether the loan should be approved and, if needed, request supplemental loan information from vendor systems. The processing system may further perform due diligence, generate closing documents... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080183514 - System and methods for using solution building blocks: A method for creating and delivering customer solutions includes analyzing a customer's requirements; selecting at least one solution building block as part of a customer solution; and delivering at least one customer solution. The at least one solution building block comprises a preconfigured bundle of at least one asset comprising... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080183544 - method for provisioning resources: [Solving means] Procedures starting from an initial state of the resource and ending in a state where each of resources is deployed for each service are identified, and the procedures are expressed as a directed graph having a state of the resource in each phase as a node (stage), and... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080183538 - Allocating resources to tasks in workflows: Previous workflow engines have typically used definitions of workflows with tasks having pre-assigned resources or resources computed by earlier tasks in the workflow. Also, previous workflow engines have typically used if-then rules and conditions to specify and control execution of tasks in the workflow. In contrast, the methods described herein... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080183537 - Approach to comprehensive requirements specifications for complex workflows: Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for creating a workflow that defines a business process. Specifically, an embodiment of the present invention provides a way for a user to gather overall goals of the business process and to use these goals to define a plurality of stages that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080183539 - Consistency checking in computer-implemented calendar systems: A computer-implemented calendar verification system including a computer configured to operate a calendar application, and a consistency checker operable by the computer, where the calendar application is operative to record information regarding a scheduled event, and where the consistency checker is operative to determine the consistency of a sender time-to-event,... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080183543 - Method and apparatus for capacity optimization and planning in an on-demand computing environment: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the best cluster of computing resources to handle each of a plurality of workloads by optimally grouping multiple workloads and determining the best resource cluster to handle each group.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183545 - Method and apparatus for designing and planning of workforce evolution: Mathematical means and methods are used within the context of mathematical models of a workforce evolution to address key issues in workforce design and planning. Examples of such mathematical means and methods are (but not limited to) fluid-flow models and diffusion-process models. In each case, these mathematical models characterize the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183546 - Method and system for automatic assignment of sales opportunities to human agents: A method (and system) of assigning a sales opportunity, includes creating an assignment model based on clustering historical sales opportunities, and providing a scoring mechanism on a plurality of sales agents for automatically optimizing an assignment of at least one sales opportunity to at least one of the plurality of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080183540 - Method and system for matching resources and co-resources: A method and apparatus are provided for matching resources and co-resources within a system. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of resources and co-resources where a first type of resource of the plurality of resources are preferentially matched with a first type of co-resource of the plurality... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. Jon P. Christensen

20080183542 - Method for resource planning of service offerings: The invention provides a method for optimizing a sourcing strategy for potential services offerings of large, multinational services organizations. This optimization method considers existing capabilities, resource skills, locations of the resources, costs of the resources, desired profit margins and other strategic sourcing policies to produce an optimized service offering staffing... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183541 - Method of transmitting portions of media: System and method for providing portions of a media to a recipient according a schedule. Recipient may submit a schedule identifying times and/or days and a desired media. Portions of the identified media may be transmitted to the recipient at the scheduled times and/or days. The transmission may include an... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080183536 - Workflow management system and workflow management method: The workflow management system for managing the workflow processing in which the processing object is the document data read and digitized by the image reading apparatus includes a document data acquisition unit to acquire, as the processing object in the workflow processing, the document data made to correspond to reliability... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080183547 - Clinical rotation scheduling system: There is provided a clinical rotation scheduling system. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a computerized method comprising accessing first clinical rotation related information associated with a school, accessing second clinical rotation related information associated with a medical facility, and creating a clinical rotation schedule based on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080183548 - Method for facilitating effective communications among members of an organization: the invention teaches a method for organizing a pattern of communications within an organization in order to achieve the goal of establishing and maintaining regular contact by and between individual members of an organization and to further allow and facilitate cordial and effective and integrated communication between such individual members... Agent: Charles E. Lykes Jr.

20080183549 - System and method for overcoming infeasibility determinations in using constraint satisfaction programming for scheduling human resources: A system and method are disclosed for allocating human resources to tasks using constraint satisfaction programming, where fictitious persons are used to satisfy required constraints, to ensure that the solution process continues until a solution is found, and capability constraints and job constraints are relaxed until a solution is found.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183560 - Back-channel media delivery system: A back-channel media delivery system that may be used for tracking the number and type of human impressions of media content rendered by the system during the time the media was rendered is provided. The back-channel media delivery system includes a rendering device for rendering media, an environmental sensor for... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080183555 - Determining and communicating excess advertiser demand information to users, such as publishers participating in, or expected to participate in, an advertising network: Excess advertiser demand may be determined and information regarding the determined excess advertiser demand may be communicated to a user, such as a publisher. The advertising network might be an online advertising network that serves ads relevant to content. Excess advertiser demand in an advertising network might be determined by... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080183561 - Marketplace for interactive advertising targeting events: A system and method for providing a targeting event marketplace is provided. Generally, the method contains the steps of: at least one targeted publisher and a targeting event marketplace entity agreeing to financial terms associated with revenues received from at least one buyer that obtains access to the Internet browser... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080183563 - Method and apparatus for network-based sales force automation: A method and apparatus for network-based sales force automation are provided that meet objectives of increasing sales and marketing efficiency and efficiency of technical and customer support by providing multi-dimensional displays of transactional information to users. Transactional information of deals, contacts, accounts, and leads is provided over the Internet using... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080183553 - Method and apparatus for workforce demand forecasting: A method of forecasting workforce demand, includes forecasting an ongoing engagements demand, forecasting an opportunities demand, forecasting a wedge engagements demand, representing a result of the forecasting the ongoing engagements demand as a first workforce demand statement, a result of the forecasting the opportunities demand as a second workforce demand... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080183550 - Method and system for estimating demand impact on a firm under crisis: Market demand is estimated for a firm under crisis, beginning with an operational demand forecast of a firm as input, correcting that forecast to account for the impact of a pandemic or other extraordinary market-disrupting circumstance, and providing a corrected operational demand forecast as output. The correction to account for... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20080183552 - Method for evaluating, analyzing, and benchmarking business sales performance: A method for evaluating a business sales environment. The method includes defining a first and second set of businesses, each forming a part of an industry. Defining a set of objective evaluation parameters suitable for evaluating a shopping experience. Weighted values are assigned to the evaluation parameters and information relevant... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080183562 - Method for managing and controlling stability in business activity monitoring and management systems: A stabilization methodology and system component in Business Activity Monitoring and Management systems. This enables firms to use Business Activity Management (BAM) systems to manage business activity by only responding to monitored data when the overall business performance can be improved. This enables firms to identify appropriate tradeoffs between potentially... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080183557 - Probabilistic inference of demographic information of a first domain using accepted demographic information of one or more source domains and a probability that a user will visit both the source domain(s) and the first domain: A demographic attribute value of a sink online document may be determined by (a) accepting a value(s) of the demographic attribute of a source online document, (b) accepting, for each of the source online documents having an accepted demographic attribute value, a probability that a user will visit or has... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080183556 - Probabilistic inference of site demographics from aggregate user internet usage and source demographic information: A demographic attribute value of a sink online document (such as Websites or Web pages) may be determined given a set of users who have visited at least one of the source documents and the sink document, by (a) accepting a value(s) of the demographic attribute, each of which values... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080183558 - System and method for automatically determining an advertisement type of a digital advertisement: Systems and methods for determining a type of a digital ad are disclosed. Generally, an ad type determination module automatically determines a type of a digital ad, such as a direct response ad or a branding ad, based on at least one of (1) a number of hyperlinks associated with... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080183559 - System and method for metadata use in advertising: Information is elicited from a consumer electronics device purchaser at the point of sale and used to provide targeted advertising to the purchaser and/or to facilitate service provision to the purchaser related to the CE device by a third party service provider and/or to provide the information to an entity... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080183554 - System and method for providing customized catalogs: Buying patterns and/or characteristics of a target customer are used to discern a reference customer that is characteristically related to the reference customer. Once a reference customer for the target customer is discerned, the system and method uses information regarding the reference customer, alone or further considering information regarding the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080183551 - Transaction feedback mechanisms: Randomness and/or blind submissions are employed to substantially remove biased feedback from online transaction rating processes. In one instance, a probability mechanism is determined before a transaction occurs but is not employed until after the transaction occurs. In another instance, feedback is collected from participants in a transaction in a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080183564 - Untethered interaction with aggregated metrics: Untethered interaction with a performance metric application in a service-based architecture is provided enabling users to have access to an enterprise library of summarized metrics and metric views in wireless environments. Metric data, aggregations, and analyses are provided to local application(s) for rendering personalized and scalable views. Through caching and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080183565 - Delayed transit fare assessment: At each of a plurality of point of sale terminals (POS) of a merchant, for each of a plurality of consumers, where each consumer seeks to conduct a transaction with the merchant for a good or service at a cost by using a payment device issued by an issuer in... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080183568 - Advertisement information management apparatus and advertisement information management method: An advertisement information management apparatus of the invention includes an advertisement-information displaying unit (i.e., a display unit 12 in a touch panel display 11 in FIG. 7) that acquires and displays one or plural kinds of advertisement information, a reading and writing unit (i.e., the cellular phone 6 and a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080183586 - Advertisement system and method involving a mountable electronic device having an input device: An advertisement system and method involving a mountable electronic device. The electronic device has a display device and a pivotable input device. The electronic device is configured to be operatively coupled to a network. By accessing the network, at least one advertisement image can be caused to be displayed by... Agent: Originatic LLC

20080183582 - Advertisement system and method of doing business: A system for passive display of advertisements served from a network includes a computing device having a processor and memory connected to the network, a primary graphics display screen on the computing device, and a secondary graphics display screen connected to a port on the computing device, the secondary display... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080183587 - Advertising method using internet e-mail and chatting window: The present invention is related to an advertising method using internet e-mail and chatting window which involves an advertisement in e-mail or chatting window, and compensates the person for seeing the advertisement.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080183585 - Apparatus and methods for providing career employment services: Systems, methods, distributed networks, and computer-readable media are provided that relate to recruiting and employment services. Background information associated with talent-capability attributes is received from talent. Job description information is received from employers. Prospective matches are identified between employers and talent, and employers and talent are given an opportunity to... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080183575 - Back-channel media delivery system: A back-channel media delivery system that may be used for tracking the number and type of human impressions of media content rendered by the system during the time the media was rendered is provided. The back-channel media delivery system includes a rendering device for rendering media, an environmental sensor for... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080183566 - Episodic show, device and system operable to produce a promotional effect: A show including a series of episodes. Each one of the episodes includes a plot which varies with each one of the episodes and a plurality of characters who are affiliated with a service company. The service company is involved with a plurality of different commodities which are commercially available... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080183573 - Method and apparatus for increasing accessibility and effectiveness of advertisements delivered via a network: Network-delivered advertisements, and in particular Internet advertisements, are provided increased accessibility and effectiveness through automatic collection of ads, and later presentation of those ads by users. Typically, a publisher modifies a source file (e.g. an HTML file) to include the invention's software and metadata identifiers that uniquely identify advertising content... Agent: James Edward Muschetto

20080183583 - Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communication network: A method of ordering an item using a user mobile device and a system for processing such request. A user is provided with an item information identifying the item, the item information comprising an item description and an item identifier. The user requests to order the item by sending a... Agent: Nils H. Ljungman & Associates

20080183584 - Method and system for providing media content over a computer network: The disclosure provides for methods and systems for providing media content over a network. The method includes sending a query from a server over the network to a client regarding an ability of the client to playback the media content locally. The sending is automatic and initiated by the server.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080183567 - Method and system for updating links: An embodiment of the present invention relates to the updating of links on a first web site based on measurements on destination web sites. First links for directing users from a first web site to other web sites are provided and the directing of first users from the first web... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080183580 - Method, system and machine-readable media for the generation of electronically mediated performance experiences: A method, system and machine-readable media that support the generation of electronically mediated performances are provided. In one version, a digitized audio and video record of a live performance by a musical artist may be transmitted via the Internet or other electronics communications network to one or more remote venue.... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20080183572 - Methods and apparatus to convey sales information to customers using field service personnel: Methods and apparatus to convey information to customers using field service personnel are described. An example method obtains information associated with a customer service call for a customer prior to completion of the customer service call and automatically generates information associated with at least one of a product or a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080183570 - Methods and apparatus to deflect callers to websites: Methods and apparatus to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage comprises receiving a call from the caller, identifying a webpage based on information characterizing the call, and providing an address of the webpage to the caller when the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080183569 - Methods and apparatus to provide incentives to deflect callers to websites: Methods and apparatus to provide incentives to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage comprises receiving a call from the caller, offering an incentive to the caller to terminate the call and access the webpage, and providing an address... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080183581 - Methods and systems for managing coupons: A method for managing at least one coupon for a user equipped with a mobile terminal including a collector, a communicator, and a memory which store a set of data relating to the coupon, including collecting by the collection means of the mobile terminal, data contained in a terminal and/or... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080183571 - Methods and systems for provisioning and using an electronic coupon: Provided are methods and devices for the provision and use of an electronic coupon which includes receiving an electronic file at a mobile communication device. The electronic file includes a data string unique to a user of the mobile communication device and is also associated with a vendor location. The... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080183576 - Mobile service system and method using two-dimensional coupon code: A mobile service system using a two-dimensional coupon code and a method thereof are disclosed. A user captures the two-dimensional coupon code printed on a coupon and transmits the captured two-dimensional coupon code to a server, and captures a two-dimensional store code printed on a store medium and transmits the... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080183574 - Selective presentation of data items: A method includes identifying a plurality of data items responsive to a first query. A presentation value associated with each of the plurality of data items is determined, the presentation value of a respective data item being a value associated with the respective data item by a first user in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080183577 - 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

20080183578 - System and method for creating a customized video advertisement: A database and server system that stores and serves generic video ad templates which use generic placeholder text and placeholder audio. An advertiser chooses a particular generic video ad template and encodes the ad template with information (both visual text and audio) specific to the advertiser to create a complete... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20080183579 - System for originating and consummating sales and method: A system for originating and consummating sales of products using an online processor or manual operation is shown. The system includes an individual demonstrator for displaying a sponsored product, as opposed to an overt demonstration thereof, which attracts interest of a potential purchaser. A promotional and informational document is delivered... Agent: Daniel J. Meaney, Jr.

20080183588 - Method and system for validating consumer preferences and purchase items at point of sale: A method for linking consumer preferences and purchase decisions with point-of-sale systems, wherein the method includes: defining consumer preferences in a third-party system; obtaining consumer preference identification at a point of purchase; providing information about purchase items and the consumer preference identification to the third-party validation system; validating that the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080183589 - Aggregation of validated transactions for settlement: At each of a plurality of merchant Point Of Service terminals (POS), for each of a plurality of consumers, where each consumer seeks to conduct a transaction with the merchant for a good or service by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment system, data is... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080183595 - Digital data selling and buying transaction system, auxiliary digital data selling and buying system, digital data selling and buying transaction method, auxiliary digital data selling and buying method, and digital data selling and buying transaction app: Auxiliary digital data is sold and bought. A process for selling auxiliary digital data is performed with respect to a process for cancelling a limitation of use of the digital data. A process for buying the auxiliary digital data is performed. A process for receiving a selling request and a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080183590 - Methods for providing secure ecommerce transactions: A method of facilitating an eCommerce transaction between a consumer and an eCommerce merchant via a third party entity is provided. The eCommerce merchant receives a selection of goods for purchase and a first code from the consumer. The eCommerce merchant transmits at least a second code to the third... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080183594 - Musical contents storage system having server computer and electronic musical devices: A musical contents system comprises a contents providing server comprising a connecting unit that connects to a communication network, and a contents storage unit that stores musical contents in a storage area corresponding to a user of an electronic musical device; and an electronic musical device comprising a connecting unit... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080183593 - On-line payment transactions: A computer-implemented method includes generating on a user terminal a merchant web site associated with a merchant with code for a merchant web page, transmitting a product selection request for the user to a remote open payment system that is separate from the merchant, and displaying purchase information responsive to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080183591 - System for partner engagement in commercial distribution of digital porducts: A developer of digital products can provide one or more digital products for sale to a user, some of which are not purchased or active. Subsequently, when a user desires to purchase such digital products, only a license file needs to be provided to the user. To encourage such bundling,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080183592 - Systems and methods for reviewing gift information: A method of creating an aggregated Internet accessible registry includes the step of accepting a query from a registrant. The query contains an identifier and a search criteria, the identifier identifying one of a multitude of registry databases. Registries matching the search criteria in the selected registry database are retrieved.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080183596 - Bid system for presentation of data items: A method includes determining an expected revenue benefit value associated with a presentation of a data item. A likelihood of an event related to the data item is determined. A ranking value is assigned to the data item, the ranking value being automatically calculated using the expected benefit value and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080183598 - Method and system for platinum database: A method and system for providing real estate information to users, tailored to requirements and fields relating to the location of the property. A single repository, such as a database or database farm, is used with middle tier software on servers on a network, such as the Internet, to provide... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080183597 - Visual and spatially-oriented real estate valuation and best comparables report generation system and method: Real estate valuation system and method generally, and more specifically, a visual and spatially-oriented real estate valuation and best comparables report generation system and method.... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080183600 - Automotive core fulfillment system and method: A system and method for facilitating acquisition of automotive core parts from automotive recyclers for remanufacture includes identifying automotive cores and determining the value of the cores with a core fulfillment system. The core fulfillment system includes an interchange database with automotive core descriptions and corresponding interchange identification indicators. The... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080183599 - Inventory control and communication system: An inventory control and communication system provides automated real-time control of stock levels and ordering in a timely manner so that optimal stock levels are maintained. An inventory sensor that includes a storage unit, or bin, for each stock item or inventory object. One or more transducers are associated with... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080183601 - System and method for supporting a security-trade financing service: A system and method for supporting a security-trade financing service is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the method, the method includes the steps of maintaining an inventory data base which includes data identifying products; determining a cash/trade-credit blend for the purpose of providing financing to a company, wherein the... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080183602 - Method, system, and storage medium for facilitating excess inentory utilization in a manufacturing environment: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a storage medium for facilitating excess inventory utilization. The excess inventory includes parts used in end products. The storage medium includes instructions for a causing a computer to implement a method. The method includes translating sales specific terminology describing the end products... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080183604 - Operation support system for wireless networks: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an accounting management architecture for an operational support system for a wireless network comprises an accounting client capable of retrieving the accounting information from a base station and forwarding the accounting information to an accounting server of a connectivity service network (CSN)... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20080183603 - Policy enforcement over heterogeneous assets: One policy can be enforced over heterogeneous assets by having connectors monitoring assets execute asset type related checks to enforce the policy. In one embodiment, the present invention includes receiving, at one such connector managing a plurality of assets, an assignment of a policy to an asset of the plurality... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20080183605 - System and method for equity-based compensation accounting: A system for employee equity based compensation accounting, comprising a database for storing granting information derived from one or more equity based compensation grants to an employee, said database being configured to have a normalized data structure for storing said granting information; and a reporting module for generating from said... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson, LLP Suite 2600

20080183609 - Detecting structuring of financial transactions: A method of detecting structuring of financial transactions by instantiating an autonomous, intelligent, mobile agent (for example, an aglet) and attaching it to an onward wire transfer; gathering patterns of transfer activity at a recipient account wherein identities of parties to the transfer remain anonymous to the agent; and detecting... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080183606 - Medical savings accounts with investment and loan-account access: Methods and systems are disclosed for managing a medical savings account that invests funds in investment accounts. A request is received for payment of a healthcare expense incurred by a party authorized for recovery under the medical savings account. A balance is drawn against a line of credit secured by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080183608 - Payment system and method for web-based video editing system: A payment system for use with a web-based video editing system is provided. The payment system includes: a purchase subsystem configured to: receive a user request for a data-right combination; create a binding indicative of the data-right combination; and provide the binding for purchase by the user; and a preview... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080183607 - Transaction verification protocol for smart cards: A protocol appropriate for smartcard purchase applications such as those that might be completed between a terminal or ATM and a users personal card is disclosed The protocol provides a signature scheme which allows the card to authenticate the terminal without unnecessary signature verification which is an computationally intense operation... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080183637 - Asset analysis system and method for doing the same: A computer system for performing asset analysis on remote assets. More particularly, the computer system uses a methodology whereby an asset operating entity is able to electronically view the status of such assets as if the operating entity had personally attended to the asset.... Agent: David O. Cramer

20080183635 - Financing instrument evaluation based on equivalent time-scale based calculations: A system and method for evaluating financing instruments selected from a group of financing instruments available on a market. The market provides a plurality of dynamic exchange-based valuation events for each of the selected financing instruments. The system comprises an equivalence module configured for determining a fundamental value for each... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080183640 - Method and system for creating and trading derivative investment instruments based on an index of collateralized options: where Mt is a value of a LIBOR component of the portfolio at the close of date t, Nlast is a number of put options sold at a last roll date, and Pt is a price of the underlying option portfolio based on arithmetic averages of the last bid and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080183638 - Method and system for multiple portfolio optimization: Methods and systems for optimizing a plurality of portfolios, each portfolio including one or more shares of one or more tradable assets, and may include the steps of: receiving asset data associated with said plurality of said portfolios; receiving optimization constraints including at least one global constraint defining a constraint... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080183636 - Methods and systems for customizing amounts and duration of payments of life insurance product: An income protection insurance product provides for payment of future benefits that can be customized by amount and/or duration. The benefits are customizable to financially plan for fluctuations in the anticipated expenses of a designated beneficiary that can be attributed to future events, income needs, or the like. The customized... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080183639 - System and method for securities liquidity flow tracking, display and trading: A method, system and computer program that receives, processes, and displays level one, level two, and time and sales securities data. Through a variety of charts, the data is analyzed to identify liquidity trade imbalances and trends in trading liquidity. A logic based trading algorithm utilizes the current market maker... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080183612 - Method and apparatus for listing and trading a futures contract that physically settles into a swap: According to some embodiments, a futures contract is listed on a futures trading exchange. The futures contract physically settles upon expiration into a reference swap. The reference swap is cleared by a clearing house so that the physical settlement requires that the holder of a position in the futures contract... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080183610 - Method and system for on-line auctioning of money: A method for auctioning money. The method includes: creating a transaction pool, where the transaction pool comprises n terms, n participants, and a contribution amount for each term; receiving a first bid from the a first one of the n participants and receiving a second bid from a second one... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080183613 - Method for listing a futures contract that physically settles into a swap: According to some embodiments, a futures contract is listed on a futures trading exchange. The futures contract physically settles upon expiration into a reference swap. The reference swap is cleared by a clearing house so that the physical settlement requires that the holder of a position in the futures contract... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080183611 - Method of trading in real estate derivatives: The method may further include trading based on the index by deriving a trade value from the index value, and executing a trade based on the derived trade value. The method may be carried as instructions on a machine-readable medium and may be carried out using a computer for part... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080183615 - Standardization and management of over-the-counter financial instruments: A method of managing financial products is disclosed. The method includes receiving transaction parameters associated with a financial transaction, determining a standardized financial product, wherein the standardized financial transaction reflects the transaction parameters associated with the financial position, calculating a net present value position between the financial position and the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20080183614 - System and method for conducting electronic auctions with multi-parameter optimal bidding: An auction methodology wherein the auction competition among the bidders is generated by allowing each bidder to bid for non-price bid parameters (e.g., lead time, labor rate, contract length, etc.) in addition to the price of the lot on auction. Such a multi-parameter bidding provides the buyer (i.e., the auction... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080183616 - Systems and methods for optimization of a financial transaction: A method of determining a structure for financing a consumer product through a computer implemented process according to one embodiment comprising the steps of: receiving one or more fixed inputs including a monthly payment value and a down payment value; calculating a plurality of potential financial structures for the consumer... Agent: Don Rufus Hankey

20080183617 - Method for managing a home equity sales program: A system and method for conducting a home equity sales (HES) program enables a real estate property owner to sell a partial equity ownership interest in a real estate property. This allows the property owner to sell the interest outright to an investor and receive compensation for the sale of... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080183618 - Global government sanctions systems and methods: A suspect transaction dataset may be generated from screening a transaction dataset against a master suspect list. Often, this screening process results in a large percentage of false positives hits distributed among the data in the suspect transaction dataset. Among other things, embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080183620 - Internet billing method: An Internet billing method comprises establishing an agreement between an Internet access provider and a customer, and an agreement between the Internet access provider and a vendor, wherein the Internet access provider agrees with the customer and the vendor to bill the customer and remit to the vendor for products... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080183619 - Method and system for payment funding: Embodiments of a method and system for payment funding are disclosed. A funding specification request may be received. The funding specification request may define a plurality of payment sources to be used to pay for a selection of value in a networked system. A payment allocation designating a first payment... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080183621 - Payer direct hub: A system and methods for processing payment requests submitted by a payer through a single user interface. The system obtains a merchant identification and a processing platform associated with each payee. The system receives at least one payment request from the payer. Payment instructions are generated based on each payment... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080183622 - Signature based negative list for off line payment device validation: At each of a plurality of transit readers of a transit system, for each of a plurality of riders, where each rider seeks to conduct an access transaction with the transit system for access into the transit facility by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080183624 - Protecting presentations and binding presentation elements to the presentation: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates ensuring media integrity utilizing a root license and a leaf license. An interface component can receive at least one of media, content, data, or presentation with at least one element. A license component can associate a root license... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080183623 - Secure provisioning with time synchronization: A pay-per-use business model relies on an accurate, or at least, un-tampered, time reference for the administration of prepaid usage time, e.g. hours, or subscription expiration dates. A protocol for provisioning usage requires that any electronic device request for provisioning includes current time at the device. A server responding to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080183625 - Controlling access to technology based upon authorization: Methods and systems are provided for facilitating control of access to technology to authorized parties. A licensor provides licensure information to an application developer that includes a private key and a license, the license including an application public key and an identifying mark associated with the licensor, e.g., a digital... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080183626 - Software license agreement management based on temporary usage: A computer-automated system manages license agreements in a server that is partitioned into multiple partitions including physical partitions and/or virtual partitions operative in separate operating environments executing independent operating system and applications with resources dynamically allocated among the multiple partitions. A licensed software element is executed on the dynamically-allocated resources... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080183627 - Filtered healthcare payment card linked to tax-advantaged accounts: A system, method and computer program product for linking healthcare purchases to tax advantaged accounts by means of a card containing a card member's data. The system assists in substantiating eligible expenses for participating card holders. The system leverages existing data feeds. By flagging eligible purchases, the invention aids in... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080183629 - Method and system for secure authenticated payment on a computer network: A simple, secure and easy-to-deploy method and system for authenticating credit and debit cardholders at the point-of-sale on a computer network (e.g., the Internet) is disclosed. Cardholders are authenticated using digital signatures on a sales draft, in a manner that does not necessarily require any changes in the transaction flow... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080183628 - System for management of alternatively priced transactions on network: A system and method thereof, comprising means for: communicating through at least one computer network interface with each of (i) a plurality of providers of accountable resources, and (ii) a plurality of registrars which register clients, each client having access to accountable resources of providers, and maintain client-associated accounts therewith;... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080183630 - Pay station-based system and method for document processing: The subject application is directed to a pay station-based kiosk system and method for document processing. A document processing device receives a document processing request and calculates costs associated with the performance thereof. Transaction identification data is then received from an associated user and compared to common identifier data. When... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080183632 - Business method for brand creation and marketing: A business method for brand creation and marketing is performing by multiple sales of personal or legal entity attributes, for example names, surnames, own corporate parent brands, logotypes, popularity, reputation, trust, prestige and other attributes between sellers and purchasers, namely: from persons to persons; from legal entities to persons; from... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080183633 - Method and apparatus for facilitating sales and management of aftermarket products: Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code, and means for integrating the sale of an aftermarket product to a customer with the sale of a vehicle to the customer include receiving sales information associated with the sale of the vehicle, where the sales information includes dealer information and vehicle information. An... Agent: Goodwin Procter L.l.p Attn: Patent Administrator

20080183631 - Process for pairing off parties on a real estate and housing market: The invention provides a process for pairing off parties on a real estate and housing market such that the parties are enabled to limit and manage economical risks associated with transactions and contracts. A potential buyer or tenant is enabled to submit an earmarking advertisement defining constraint requirements for an... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080183634 - Systems and methods for managing material transactions: Systems and methods for managing material inventories and invoices. Specifically, a computer-based system for managing materials from multiple locations and standardized tracking of materials and invoices. The present invention preferably allows for material inventory tracking, generation of standardized bids and offers to purchase materials, generation of invoices, and tracking of... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080183513 - Reengineering event-driven field processes with a self-managed team approach: The invention provides a globally scalable, business-to-business (B2B) Mobile Process Service (MPS) that creates value for users and furthermore, through a franchise arrangement, allows value to be captured especially by telecom service providers. The MPS is characterized by conducting mass-customized, event-driven processes with teams dynamically maintained by requisition of these... Agent: Brian Keedwell

20080183641 - Generalized application virtualization method for business use on the web and the mini server using this method: The invention issued is a generalized application virtualization method for business use on the web and the mini server, including: (1) Initializing (which includes obtaining parameters, reading configuration file, and initializing a DDE service), application monitoring, registration and login. (2) Accessing to a server via Access Protocol from a client-side... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080177555 - Automated voting district generation using preexisting geopolitical boundaries: To assist the task of redistricting a region, such as a state, the region is divided into one or more sets of “super districts” that exactly cover the region. Each super district comprises one or more contiguous counties or other preexisting geopolitical sub-divisions, and contains an integral multiple of the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080177556 - Business object status management: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a business object status management. A computer-implemented method includes generating a state diagram using an Extensible Markup Language Schema Definition (XSD) file to represent a business object life cycle.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080177565 - Design managing means, design tool and method for work breakdown structure: A WBS design managing means in project management, comprising: a WBS tree-like architecture designing means for implementing graphical tree-like design of the work items included in a project and their relations, and mapping them into an enhanced WBS data structure; a WBS attribute editing means for defining and editing attributes... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080177562 - Graphically representing consumers' profiles: A method of graphically representing a personal profile for a consumer, includes the steps of identifying a plurality of categories, in which a major variable representing the appropriateness for the consumer of each category may be given a numerical value; allocating a colored block for each of the categories, wherein... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080177560 - Id lending system, computer-readable recording medium storing id lending program, and id lending method: An ID lending system uses an ID management table having a correlation between an ID and a request source which specifies a source of a lending request of the ID. An ID lending unit searches the ID management table for a request source upon receiving a lending request of an... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080177563 - Method and apparatus for generating standardized carbon emission reduction credits: This invention generally relates to a method and apparatus for determining carbon emission reduction credits and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for generating and quantifying standardized carbon emission reduction credits. General data and site-specific data, if available, are input into a carbon sequestration model to determine the approximate... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080177564 - Method and apparatus of supporting business performance management with active shared data spaces: A managed policy driven virtual data space for managing artifacts relationships and sharing artifacts among services. A policy model is used to represent business artifacts, sharing of the artifacts, and subscription of other artifacts that is of interest to current artifact and, to represent the various state of the artifact.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080177557 - Promotional system: A method for promoting a matter in connection with a motor sports event comprises: soliciting from a plurality of participants at least one image associated with each of the participants; collecting a fee from each participant submitting, or endorsing, an image in response to the solicitation; assembling a mosaic from... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080177558 - Resolution of virtual world revocable transfers: A method and system provides transactions and arrangements in virtual world environments. A user can participate in transactions to acquire virtual property and related virtual rights. In some implementations, real-world and virtual parties can be involved in a possible future transfer or related transfer revocation or related transfer modification involving... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080177554 - Software architecture for developing in-vehicle software applications: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a software architecture encoded on a computer readable medium is disclosed. The software architecture can be utilized for developing in-vehicle software applications for installation and execution on an in-vehicle computer system. The software architecture includes a number of vehicle application program interfaces... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080177561 - System and method for electronic transaction verification: A system and method for authenticating a physical address submitted in an online communication is disclosed. An online communication comprising a physical address to be verified is received. A verification identification (VID) is requested and received. A transaction verification document (TVD) comprising an indicia indicative of the VID is generated.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080177559 - Systems and methods for determining a benchmark price: A method is provided for generating an equipment benchmark price based on equipment sales records. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request for the equipment benchmark price for a piece of equipment of a first equipment age wherein the equipment benchmark price is associated with a first time... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080177575 - Intelligent image sets: A data structure (311) includes one or more of image data (312), presentation data (314), and application software (316). The application software (316) includes functionality which allows a user to view or otherwise manipulate the image data (312). The application software (316) also presents the image data (312) in accordance... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080177568 - Method and system for pay-per-use prescription validation: A business model for facilitating the deployment of prescription validation systems into pharmacies is installed in pharmacies for little or no up-front cost to the pharmacy. Instead, the pharmacy is charged on a per use basis, that is, charged every time a prescription is validated in the system. In this... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080177572 - Methods for developing and conducting a nutritional treatment program: The present invention relates to methods for developing and conducting a nutritional treatment program. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to methods for developing and conducting a nutritional treatment program to promote weight loss, or to treat or prevent other disease states, such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, etc.... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20080177570 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for disease management: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for disease management. According to embodiments, a method for providing social interaction between a first handheld medical testing and monitoring device and a second handheld medical testing and monitoring device is provided. According to the method, at least one of a social networking profile... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080177569 - Mobile phone based authentication and authorization system and process to manage sensitive individual records: Personal health records for a user of a wireless remote station are generated and stored electronically, and access may be provided to an authenticated and authorized individual. The health records may be stored at the remote station, or at a server. An individual requests access to the health records, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080177566 - Provider directory publisher: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for electronically publishing a directory of healthcare providers. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080177573 - System and method for gathering, managing, and analyzing patient recruitment: A system and method for gathering, managing, and analyzing patient recruitment contains logic configured to receive patient marketing material from a source and logic configured to determine whether the patient marketing material is approved for use by a system administrator. The system also contains logic configured to provide the patient... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa C/o Peter Nieves

20080177567 - System and method for predictive modeling driven behavioral health care management: A system and method for administering reductions in future behavioral health care costs through interventions in an insurance plan participant's behavioral health regimen, is disclosed. Information is processed and provided to case managers and/or health care providers in a manner than significantly improves the ability of such individuals to selectively... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080177571 - System and method for public health surveillance and response: A system and method for public health surveillance and response employ at least one processing center configured to receive medical data and to process the medical data to generate processed medical data indicative of a medical event. The method and system can provide to a subscriber of the system and... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080177574 - Systems and methods to improve the efficiencies of immunization registries: Systems and methods are provided for setting up and sending healthcare alerts (e.g. immunization reminders) to patients/caregivers through the use of communications devices. In an embodiment, information about a patient's/caregiver's wireless device (e.g. cell phones) is collected and reported to an immunization registry. The registry is linked to a system... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080177577 - Method and system for managing appeals: A system and method for managing insurance claim denials. The system and method reviews a denial of claim from an insurer and a patient medical record received from a healthcare provider to determine if an appeal should be filed for the denial. It prepares an appeal to the denial comprising... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080177576 - System and method for interactive integration of electronic medical health records: The present invention provides a system and method for interactive integration of electronic patient medical records, the system and method having a central personal health record database networked to one or more local medical records maintained by individual health care providers, wherein the central personal health records and the local... Agent: Gregory J. Lavorgna, Esquire Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20080177578 - System and method for obtaining, processing and evaluating patient information for diagnosing disease and selecting treatment: A computer-based system and method is disclosed which constructs medical histories by direct interactions between the patient and system that acquires pertinent and relevant medical information covering the complete life of a given patient. The system and method insure that a complete life long medical history is acquired from every... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080177579 - System and user interface for clinical reporting and ordering provision of an item: A user interlace system enables user selection of related parameters identifying an order for providing an item or service. The system employs a repository including information identifying candidate items or services for order and associated corresponding related order parameters in which an individual item or service for order is associated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080177582 - Life settlement method and apparatus: Methods and devices for reducing costs associated with life settlement transactions include an initial economic evaluation and a targeted but abbreviated verification of information provided by a potential customer and gathering of additional information, followed by a conditional offer for those policies that satisfy the economic criteria (e.g., face value... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080177581 - Method and system for providing quotes to replace insured items: A web-based method for identifying items to replace insured items includes receiving item specification information from at least one of a user, a manufacturer, a distributor, a system administrator, and an authorizing agent, and utilizing a server to compare the received specification information with pre-stored information. The method also includes... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080177583 - Method for providing insurance and an insurance policy protecting persons against malpractice, willful misconduct or products liability: A method of providing insurance and an insurance policy to pay to an insured individual in the event of his/her personal injury due to negligence and/or professional malpractice or a defective product. The insurance policy may cover one or more categories of loss, such as, but not limited to, non-economic... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080177580 - Method for providing insurance protection against the loss of group health insurance coverage in the event of a disability of a plan participant: A method for providing insurance protection against the inability to pay for, and consequential loss of, group health insurance benefits if an individual employee who is an active participant in the employer's group health plan becomes disabled. The invention provides for a disability insurance policy, or alternatively a combination of... Agent: Mark G. Gabriel

20080177584 - Systems, methods, and media for managing a travel itinerary: Systems, methods and media for managing a travel itinerary of a user are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for managing the user's travel itinerary based on the location of the user are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving user location information and estimating the arrival time of the user at... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080177586 - Apparatus and method for identifying process elements: An exemplary method for identifying process elements includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of relevant request-response pairs including request identifiers, mapping the request identifiers to corresponding artifacts, identifying actions based on the artifacts, and mapping the actions to process elements such that each given one of the process elements... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080177597 - Associations of single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotype with feed intake and feed efficiency in beef cattle: The physiological regulation of intake, growth and energy partitioning in animals is under the control of multiple genes, which may be important candidates for unraveling the genetic variation in economically relevant traits in beef production. The present invention relates to the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their haplotypes,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080177593 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080177594 - Electronic sales system: A method comprises making a set of personal profiles available, from at least one buy-side user to at least one sell-side user, each personal profile in the set of personal profiles including a first set of first values for a plurality of information fields, the plurality of information fields relating... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080177592 - Enterprise evaluation supporting device: Input of cause-and-effect model information where the coefficients at which three evaluated values, i.e., the evaluated values of business strategy, research-and-development strategy, and intellectual property strategy influence the company evaluated value, the coefficients at which the three evaluated values and the company evaluated value influence the observable indexes respectively, the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080177589 - Identifying and managing strategic partner relationships: Systems and methods that identify and manage partner relationships. The systems and methods presented herein provide that a third-party trustee collect and process confidential customer information from a plurality of interested parties. The third-party trustee acts as a neutral intermediary between the parties. The third-party trustee processes and analyzes the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080177598 - It asset management system: The system provides a method to automate the complex processes that occur at the end-of-life of IT hardware assets, and at the same time, increase the resale value of these assets. Using the system, an IT manager is able to identify a scalable number of systems for Secure Disk Wiping,... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080177602 - Method and apparatus for delivering presentations: A method and system are disclosed that connects an end user, a specialist and a host website, via a network, so that the end user can view at least one presentation. The specialist provides information relating to the end user to the host website. The host website produces a product... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080177605 - Method and apparatus for generating standardized environmental benefit credits: A method and apparatus for determining standardized environmental attributes is disclosed, including a method and apparatus for generating and quantifying standardized carbon emission reduction credits. General data and site-specific data, if available, are input into a suitable model to determine the approximate change in the environmental attribute as a result... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080177585 - Method apparatus and computer program for managing purchases: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for managing and auditing purchases in progress which are made by a number of individuals belonging to a liable organisation, such as employees making purchases in parallel on behalf of a company. The invention comprises a managing server, including a... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080177595 - Method for establishing consistency of provided services across geographic or cultural differences: A method of standardizing provided services by categorizing the provided services into one or more functional disciplines; establishing a plurality of service maturity levels for each functional discipline; establishing a plurality of service maturity criteria for each serve maturity level; assessing the service maturity level for each functional discipline according... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn: Ip Docketing

20080177599 - Method of determining safety stock levels: Methods, software products, and systems for determining safety stock levels are set forth herein. In one embodiment, a method of determining safety stock levels includes the steps: determining aggregate top-level product demands; determining aggregate top-level product demand variations; determining aggregate top-level product target service levels; determining respective smoothing time frames... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080177600 - Methods and systems for measuring online chat performance: Methods and systems for measuring chat performance are described. Certain users accessing a website are inhibited by a chat system from receiving online chat service, while other users are provided with online chat service, wherein users can textually communicate with another entity. Optionally, the chat system causes web beacons or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080177596 - Personal referral online advertisement system: An advertising referral service operates a referral service website including a listing agent interface that allows a listing agent to offer ads for placing on websites and a hosting agent interface that allows a hosting agent to select an ad offered by the listing agent and place the selected ad... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.c.

20080177587 - Prioritizing orders using business factors: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for prioritizing orders. One or more business factors are prioritized to form prioritized business factors. One or more orders for entities are received. Data about the entities is retrieved. Build sequences for the entities are determined. The build sequences are evaluated... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080177603 - System and method for controlling distribution of electronic coupons: A method for controlling access to an advertisement in a network includes assigning an identifier to a client computer and receiving a request from a client application operating on the client computer to access the advertisement. The request includes the identifier assigned to the client computer. The advertisement has an... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080177601 - System and method for monitoring multinational insurance: A method for monitoring insurance, which includes steps of storing a plurality of Tax Records in a database, where each Tax Record corresponds to one or more insurance agreements, and permitting the display of at least one of the plurality of Tax Records. The method assists insurers with multinational customers... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper Us LLP

20080177604 - System and method for providing a discount: In particular, systems and methods are provided for delivering a discount using a partner-issued currency or a combination of virtual currency and partner-issued currency. Inventive systems and methods offer a high-perceived savings value to an end-user while maintaining the perception of product value. Further, systems and methods for providing a... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080177591 - System and method for rfid-based printed media reading activity data acquisition and analysis: The subject invention provides a means of automatically detecting and recording a person's use of magazines, i.e. printed media exposure, for the purpose of market research. The present invention comprises one or more electrically conductive marker regions applied to certain specific locations on one or more magazine pages. In one... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080177588 - Systems and methods for selecting aesthetic settings for use in displaying advertisements over a network: Systems and methods are provided for selecting aesthetic settings that increase, and preferably optimize, the yield (e.g., click-through rate) of advertisements displayed over a network (e.g., within internet web pages).... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080177590 - Vehicle-lead generating systems: The disclosure provides for a system that stores electronically information regarding used-vehicles, including used-vehicle values; presents, to a consumer over an network, a list of used-vehicle information (by year, make, model, body, engine, optional equipment or other classification depending on vehicle type) within a structured document, (for example, a web... Agent: Law Office Of Andrew P. Lahser, Plc

20080177608 - Business method for enabling personalized medicine: A method of determining a theranostic plan for a pharmaceutical, the plan being optimized in terms of return on investment (ROI), the method comprising, determining a plurality of planning frameworks which take the pharmaceutical from a point of conception to a point of marketing and beyond, for the or each... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080177609 - Electronic calendar associating tasks and appointments: An electronic calendar allowing the association of a task with an appointment is provided. The association between the task and the appointment represents when a user intends to address the task relative to the appointment. The task is displayed in an electronic calendar view based on the association with the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080177607 - Integrated energy merchant value chain: Methods and systems for structuring and operating an integrated energy merchant enterprise are provided. Enterprise core value creation functions are first identified. The core value creation functions are those that are primary profit and loss drivers and are generally market facing entities. The core value creation functions are then integrated... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20080177611 - Means and methods to coordinate meetings and generation of related documents: Meetings are coordinated by a meeting coordinator who enters the identity of invitees, possible meeting times and locations and other meeting parameters. Invitees may report their acceptance, rejection and/or personal preferences for meeting times and locations. If all invites respond and a consensus is not reached, the meeting coordinator may... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20080177606 - Method and system for allocating calls to call center vendors: A system (and method) for allocating a contact to a vendor includes determining a real-time allocation of contact based upon one of a client-to-service provider payment structure, a service provider-to-vendor payment structure, and a real-time client contact handling demand.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080177612 - Method and system for designing, storing, and executing workflows for laboratory processes: A method and system for designing, storing, and executing workflows for laboratory processes have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises executing a workflow. The workflow includes a process activity, a system activity, and a flow control activity. A first user interface is adapted to collect one... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080177610 - Visual responsibility matrix for technical designs or solutions: A visual responsibility matrix is provided that communicates the scope of a technical design or solution used to perform a service. The visual responsibility matrix is a spreadsheet that contains a logical diagram that is representative of components that are in the scope of the technical design or solution. A... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080177614 - Method and system for estimating dynamics of workforce absenteeism using information on pandemic spread and mitigation actions: The present invention provides a method and system estimating the likelihood of employees not being available for work as a result of pandemic occurrence and effectiveness of related mitigation actions. The invention allows users to assess the impact of pandemic on availability of corporate workforce and to estimate the effectiveness... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080177613 - System to improve predictive maintenance and warranty cost/price estimation: A method and system of predicting a maintenance schedule and estimating a cost for warranty service of systems, for example, hardware systems, is provided. The method and system in one aspect may collect component usage data and obtain component reliability data for each of the plurality of components. A component... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080177617 - Content production/sharing platform: Systems and methods provide a computer-implemented interactive system and methods allowing the interactive production and/or sharing of content. In an illustrative implementation, a computing environment comprises a content production/content engine having at least one instruction providing for the production and/or sharing of content according to one or more elected content... Agent: Amit Gupta

20080177619 - Information decision apparatus, method thereof and computer-readable recording medium thereof: The present invention provides an information decision apparatus including the following parts: A target transactor finding part finds target transactors in accordance with promoting product information so as to focus only on potential transactors who may be interested in buying the promoting product; A transaction tendencies analyzing part analyzes transactor's... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080177616 - Interactive electronic commerce and message interchange system featuring delivery of messages tailored to individual users: e

20080177620 - Method and system for designing a catalog with optimized product placement: The current invention provides a method, system and computer program product for designing a catalog with optimized placement of items. Past user transactions are used to estimate the effect of nature and placement of an item on the response of users to the catalogs in terms of items clicked on... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080177615 - Method and system for minimizing risk in contact center management contracts: A method (and system) for contact center management contract evaluation including determining a potential profitability/risk for contact center management based upon a proposed contract term between one of a client and a service provider, and a service provider and a vendor.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080177622 - System and method for conducting dependency analysis of business components: A system and method is provided for the ontological representation of the meta-models of businesses and their processes, activities, and components in one or more semantic web markup languages to enable reasoning and analyzing of instances of enterprise business models to infer relationships of business entities which are previously unknown... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080177621 - System and method for marketing mix optimization for brand equity management: A method of marketing optimization with respect to brand lifetime management formulates a problem of brand equity maximization utilizing Markov Decision Process (MDP) thereby casting brand equity management as a long term regard optimization problem in MDP, The marketing mix is optimized by formulating the mix as actions in MDP... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080177618 - Systems and methods for advertisement: Systems and methods are presented for selection of advertisement by a user that is targeted to the market of the user. Such advertisement selection may be automated without the need for direct communication by the advertiser to the user and can be changed or updated at will.... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, Llc

20080177623 - Monitoring user interactions with a document editing system: A human editor uses a document editing system to edit a draft document. The editor's editing behavior is monitored and logged. Statistics are developed from the log to produce an assessment of the editor's productivity. This assessment, in combination with assessments of other editors, may be used to develop behavioral... Agent: Robert Plotkin, Pc

20080177627 - Electronic advertisement delivery system and method: In one implementation, the invention can be an ad-control system for a computer network further comprising a user system. The user system is adapted to generate a user-interactive computer-simulated graphical environment (CSGE) having at least one graphical representation of a product-related item. The user system enables a user to select... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.c.

20080177625 - Internet-based sales system and method incorporating a lottery: Various embodiments of the invention are directed towards an Internet-based system and business method for conducting a lottery in order to sell products, goods, and services over the Internet. In various embodiments of the invention, consumers access a web site that allows them to submit an ante amount in order... Agent: Marc E. Hankin, Esq.

20080177630 - Method apparatus, system, media, and signals for billing a sponsor of an object link in interactive sequenced media: A system for displaying interactive sequenced media is disclosed. The system includes a client display apparatus and a billing server, the client display apparatus and the billing server being in communication with a computer network. The client display apparatus includes a processor circuit operably configured to cause at least one... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080177628 - Method for transmitting cash register information by the internet: The problem with Point of Sale (POS) receipts is that the information is “dead” because it is only printed. A solution is to send it to the customer by the Internet allowing it to remain in a digital format. A system and a method for transmitting by the Internet cash... Agent: Raymond Payette

20080177631 - Methods, devices and systems for taxable basis implementation: A computer-implemented method of determining taxable basis amounts for a plurality of applicable taxes for a transaction line having a line amount includes steps of providing and evaluating a plurality of taxable basis formulae, one taxable basis formula for each of the plurality of applicable taxes that includes at least... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.c.

20080177629 - Off-road vehicle course associated with commercial complex: The invention relates to an off-road vehicle course associated with a commercial complex, such as a traditional shopping center including retail shopping malls, wherein customers can drive sample off-road vehicles in the off-road conditions that the vehicles are designed for as a means of entertainment. The course can wind through... Agent: Patent Office Of J. John Shimazaki, Pllc

20080177626 - System and method for determining user preferences in a telecommunications network: A system and method for determining user preferences in a telecommunications network are disclosed. As one example, a system for determining user preferences in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The system includes a first server configured to receive and store a plurality of user address books, a second server configured... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080177632 - Weight based upselling: Weight based upselling, including receiving a purchase request for an item from a customer; determining a weight of the item; identifying, in dependence upon the weight of the item, a shipping weight range and a shipping cost for the item, where the shipping weight range includes a maximum shipping weight;... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080177633 - Processing charitable contribution: Among other things, generating a transaction slip associated with a transaction. The slip includes a non-contribution associated with a retail transaction, and a space for a customer to provide an amount for contribution. The slip is received from the customer. The contribution amount and non-contribution amount are identified from the... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080177634 - Method for transmitting cash register information by the internet: A system and a method for transmitting by the Internet cash register information to a customer. The cash register looks up the customer's digital record, updates it with the current sales, selects an appropriate protocol, attaches additional information and sends the current sales information with the additional information to the... Agent: Raymond Payette

20080177637 - Customer relationship management methods and systems: The present application provides computer implemented methods and corresponding computer system that perform the methods that include the step or steps of receiving a plurality of orders for an item from each of a plurality of users. The orders include various types of orders, including a first, second, and third... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080177635 - Method, system, and apparatus for suggesting or requesting a proxy transaction: “Buy This for Me” (BTFM) is a business model, where shoppers/users can go shopping on-line, and upon checkout, seek the assistance of a friend (typically, someone they know, and whose email address or other contact information they know, such as physical address, SMS/cell, etc.), for the purpose of paying for... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20080177638 - Real time re-purposing of a mobile application using xml data: An online purchasing system has a host server with a merchant's database of products, prices, and operations, and user identifiers and accounts, linked to a banking system for tracking financial transactions. Users access the server for reviewing the merchant database and pre-selecting a subset of products defining a personalized user... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080177636 - Shop apparatus, purchaser apparatus, purchaser identity proving apparatus, and purchaser identity verifying apparatus: A purchaser apparatus stores “anonymous order information including an order ID and purchaser identity verifying information” and “purchaser identity proving secret information”. A shop apparatus stores “anonymous order information including an order ID and purchaser identity verifying information”. If necessary, a purchaser sends a request including an order ID and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080177641 - Method and system for online cooperative shopping: A method of providing a collaborative shopping experience is provided to a shopper accessing an on-line shopping experience. Whilst it is extremely convenient to order products and services over the World Wide Web this is not the social activity physically shopping with friends and family provides. Accordingly the invention provides... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080177639 - System and method for facilitating the retail sale of customizable products: A fully automated system is provided for “virtually” creating an object having two or more variable characteristics. A user is prompted to select a value for each of these characteristics, whereupon the system accesses a database to determine the cost, on a real-time basis, for each of these selected values... Agent: James G. Coplit, Esq. Grimes & Battersby, LLP

20080177640 - System and method for using image analysis and search in e-commerce: Embodiments described herein provide a system and method for providing merchandise items at a network site. According to an embodiment, an image of a merchandise item is obtained. The image is programmatically analyzed to determine information about the merchandise item. The information is used to generate a presentation that includes... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080177642 - Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products for risk management: Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products for risk management are provided. A computer-implemented method includes establishing guidelines for processing commitment-related activities for an investment fund. The computer-implemented method further includes establishing criteria and threshold values for triggering events associated with the commitment-related activities. The computer-implemented method also includes applying... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080177644 - Method and system of fractional telecommunications switch ownership: Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method and system of fractional telecommunications switch ownership. In one embodiment, an ownership interest in a telecommunications switch is transferred to one or more third parties. In another embodiment, two or more third parties each hold an ownership interest in separate fractions... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080177645 - Methods and systems for managing and trading using a shared order book as internal exchange: Methods and corresponding system are herewith provided that, in certain embodiments, include the steps or steps of receiving a plurality of orders for an item from computing devices associated with a plurality of internal users; receiving a plurality of orders for the item from computing devices associated with a plurality... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080177643 - System and method for invoice management: A managed invoice management system is provided that eliminates paper and manual functions from the accounts payable process. The system allows a user to digitize invoices, extract key data, add general ledger codes, and validate invoices against purchase orders for each of a plurality of clients, based on a client... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20080177646 - Work site remote monitoring and employee time tracking system and method: A work site monitoring and employee time tracking system that includes a work site Internet connection having a broadband modem in communication with a router for transporting data to and from the work site and a work site IP camera in communication with the router for transporting images from the... Agent: William J. Mason Maccord Mason Pllc

20080177647 - Online compliance engine: An online compliance engine stored on a computer readable storage medium includes an intercept module programmed to intercept a request by a client for content on a destination server, and a compliance module programmed to access and parse the content from the destination server requested by the client, and to... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080177648 - Confidence based web service application assembly: A composite application may be assembled from one or more component services, and at least one component service of the composite application is monitored. A determination is made of a probability of breach for each monitored component service of the composite application and an economic metric of the composite application... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.l.p.

20080177651 - Personally customizable credit card accounts: A method for managing charging transactions enables, within a data processing system, a designation, by an owner of a chargeable account number and in association with the chargeable account number, of at least one specified allowed vendor within an allowed vendors listing and a corresponding amount limit chargeable by the... Agent: Andrew J. Dillon Felsman, Bradley, Vanden, Gunter & Dillon, LLP

20080177649 - Surplus payment collection system and method: Surplus payments are added to credit card and other retail transactions. The surplus payments are handled by surplus payment server within a credit card processing system. A cardholder may select a surplus payment amount to be added to each transaction, the account to which surplus payments are to be deposited,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080177650 - 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

20080177671 - Accelerated depreciation of separated assets with valuation guidance based on electronic market survey of electronic web and non-web marketplaces, tiny simple application (called a t-sap) used with a real estate web platform to provide intelligent guidan: The current invention is a system and a destination web site that will serve the needs of Real Estate investors in a unique way. The system has an Accelerated Depreciation of separated assets with valuation guidance tiny simple application for a real estate web application platform that serves unique functions... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080177675 - Commodity-based index and investment and financial risk management products: Investment and financial risk management products and methods are provided that are based on a commodity index. The commodity index has a numerical value that, based on an algorithm, tracks the settlement prices of a predetermined group of commodities on a futures exchange. Based on this index, a futures contract... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080177674 - Financial instrument: An improved financial instrument for the simultaneous issuing of an underlying financial asset such as a bond asset and an associated protective option both having a substantially long lifetime and an identical expiration date is disclosed. The financial asset and the associated protective option are offered as an integral financial... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20080177672 - Method for managing liability: A method for allowing a second party manager to manage the liability of a first party funded liability issuer by either removing at least a fraction of the funded liability from the issuer's balance sheet or at least offsetting it with a guarantee from the manager to cover the risk... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20080177673 - Methods for measuring hedging value-at-risk and profitability: Systems and methods for measuring value-at-risk and profitability of hedging in relation to BMA debt obligations are provided using rigorous statistical solutions that address problems associated with municipalities involved in swap hedging face. Various embodiments permit users to quantify POL hedging basis risk through a VAR-style loss measurement and statistics... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080177670 - Statistical system to trade selected capital markets: A financial investment trading system where trading signals are automatically generated by a computer system.... Agent: Netp&l, Inc.

20080177676 - System for pricing financial instruments: A method of determining an estimate of the market value of a traded unit of a financial instrument, and apparatus for carrying out the method, said instrument comprising a fund of individually priced securities and the exact composition of said fund being withheld from the market, said method comprising selecting... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080177677 - Non profit fund raising methodologies with grant of options: This invention allows a donor to receive an immediate tax write off from their donation, yet still receive an interest in profits from future research funded by the donation, as a gift of out of the money options. The charity gets a new pool of donors who can potentially make... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080177652 - Methods and systems for managing and trading using a shared order book as internal exchange: Methods and corresponding system are herewith provided that, in certain embodiments, include the steps or steps of receiving a plurality of orders for an item from computing devices associated with a plurality of internal users; receiving a plurality of orders for the item from computing devices associated with a plurality... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080177654 - Non-deterministic trading systems and methods: Financial instruments are traded within an electronic marketplace. A proposed trade is received from one market constituent. Trade probabilities representing an estimate that the proposed trade can occur between the party entering the trade and other parties participating in the market are determined. The proposed trades are then presented to... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080177653 - System and method for enabling service providers to create real-time reverse auctions for location based services: A system and method facilitates the matching of service providers based on certain criteria such as, but not limited to, location of the provider in relation to a customer location, customer requests based on the location of the customer, the type of service requested and other possible attributes such as... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20080177655 - Systems and methods of underwriting business credit: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for underwriting an unsecured line of credit for a buyer using a buyer's trade credit score, and the unsecured line of credit can be used by the buyer to purchase goods and services from a plurality of sellers. In addition,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080177656 - Client applications with third party payment integration: An application module enables users of a business application to incorporate a third party payment link into documents (e.g., invoices) that are created in an off-line environment. The third party payment link enables a receiver of an electronic copy of the document to navigate the link to a third party... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080177657 - Internet billing method: An Internet billing method comprises establishing an agreement between an Internet access provider and a customer, and an agreement between the Internet access provider and a vendor, wherein the Internet access provider agrees with the customer and the vendor to bill the customer and remit to the vendor for products... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080177658 - Internet billing method: An Internet billing method comprises establishing an agreement between an Internet access provider and a customer, and an agreement between the Internet access provider and a vendor, wherein the Internet access provider agrees with the customer and the vendor to bill the customer and remit to the vendor for products... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080177660 - System and method for consumer control over card-based transactions: A system and method for consumer control over card-based transactions and associated accounts. An interface is provided between a merchant or the merchant's bank and the bank or banks at which the consumer has accounts for card-based transactions. The interface acts as an intermediary which is accessible to the consumer... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080177659 - Systems and methods for providing financial processing in conjunction with instant messaging and other communications: The invention provides a system and method for providing financial processing in conjunction with instant messaging (IM) to a user using a user device, the system including an IM bank processing portion that is provided to conduct chat sessions with users using IM so as to receive financial information from... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080177662 - Mobile merchant user interface: A merchant is provided the ability to receive and process wireless financial transactions through interaction with a mobile device. The merchant can be authenticated with an account-based service through various techniques including biometric techniques. The merchant can receive a customer's payment information for a sales transaction and input such payment... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080177663 - Performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080177661 - System and methods for phone-based payments: This specification describes technologies relating to a phone-based payment system for transferring funds between payers and payees, and methods of providing such a system. In general, one aspect is implemented as a method of electronic payment that includes receiving a payer identifier from a payer, and the payer identifier is... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20080177664 - Measurement data accuracy validation key: Shippers can provide shipment data that may be inaccurate. A third party verifier can independently verify the physical attributes of a shipment and can append digital verification information to the forms used by the sender and recipient to exchange physical attribute data. A validation key added by the third party... Agent: The Watson Intellectual Property Group, Plc

20080177665 - System and method for secure asset management: A system and method of secure asset management comprising an RFID tag attached to an asset, a portable computing device equipped with an RFID transceiver, an inspector RFID authentication badge, and a central database server. The RFID tag includes historical management records of the asset and a cryptographic hash calculated... Agent: Pieter Noordam

20080177666 - System for managing rental access by a user to an audio or audiovisual work: The system includes elements (1, 7) forming a server for the rental of a catalog of works, elements (7) for the user's selection of at least one work, elements (7) for writing to members (10) forming a user's medium for the storage of a copy of the selected work and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080177667 - Mobile computing retail platform: A retail system, an access point at a venue to provide access to a network, at least one mobile platform in communication with the access point, the mobile platform having a user interface populated with a pre-programmed menu of selections, a server coupled to the access point to manage network... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080177668 - Computerized person-to-person payment system and method without use of currency: An electronic funds system, including a plurality of payment devices, each payment device including a payment application for (i) transferring funds to another payment device, (ii) receiving funds from another payment device, and (iii) synchronizing transactions with a bank server computer, a queue manager for queuing transactions for synchronization with... Agent: Soquel Group, Llc

20080177669 - Methods related to engagement of service providers: A method includes receiving from a potential consumer of services information related to a matter pertaining to the subject matter of the services; storing the information in a storage medium; communicating to a provider of services at least a portion of the stored information; receiving an indication that the provider... Agent: Howard Ip Law Group

20080177624 - Receipt card systems: The receipt card system provides a system and method for accumulating and storing transaction line-item detail on behalf of consumers. The system permits consumers to view stored transaction line-item detail in a variety of ways using a web browser interface. It also includes a means for consumers to download transaction... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20080177678 - Method of communicating between a utility and its customer locations: A method for communicating between a utility and individual customer locations includes the step of communicating between the utility and customers and between the utility and customer equipment located at each individual customer location via the Internet or via an advanced utility meter. The method of communicating typically includes the... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson Pc

20080172238 - Electronic system with run-time information: An electronic system is provided including providing a run-time system having a timing generator, an information generator, and a non-volatile storage; retrieving a system information from the non-volatile storage; and enabling the run-time system including generating an information timer, updating the system information based on the information timer for generating... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080172239 - Interactive legal forms processing system: The present invention is a system and method for automatically generating documents such as those required for divorce, eviction and small claims proceedings and other legal actions. A preferred embodiment of the system includes a server computer system and a user computer system connected to a network. The server computer... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080172237 - Inventory-less transaction branding and fulfillment method: A method in support of fulfilling an e-commerce transaction between an outlet and a customer with respect to products not held in inventory by the outlet. When a customer selects one of the items not held in inventory by the outlet, the outlet transmits a purchase order to the provider;... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080172236 - Method and system for controlling prepaid data services: A method for controlling prepaid data services of at least two service groups of different charging criteria in a network is described. In the method resources are reserved from the prepayment system. An initial data delivery limit is set in a rating device for each group based on the resources... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080172240 - Method for optimizing a fee tariff system for a user of a telecommunication system: A method for selecting an optimized individual fee tariff system for a user of a telecommunication system. The fee tariff system includes fee rates for at least two different types of services, the method including receiving user data, the user data comprising an actual total sum of money paid for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080172242 - Methods, systems, computer products and website for power maintenance and restoration: Methods, systems, computer products and a website for electrical power maintenance and restoration. Exemplary embodiments include an electrical power maintenance and restoration system, including a server having an interface for communicating over a computer network, a database having a region of memory having data related to an inventory of electrical... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080172243 - System and method for providing targeted, interactive, multimedia content for entertaining, advertising, and promotional purposes: A system and method provides content to a plurality of kiosks located in establishments for playback at those establishments. The system includes a management server that controls the delivery of the content to the kiosks, and schedules the playback of the content. The kiosks have one or more display screens... Agent: Michael R. Reinemann Cesari & Mckenna, LLP

20080172244 - Systems and methods for displaying current prices, including hotel room rental rates, with markers simultaneously on a map: There is disclosed systems and methods for displaying current prices of goods or services provided at a plurality of locations within a geographical area. In an embodiment, a system includes a computer terminal, a map server, an information source, a set of map markers, and a web server. In another... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20080172241 - Systems and methods for new address validation: Systems and methods are provided for validating an address associated with a delivery item. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method validates addresses associated with a delivery item. The method includes the steps of electronically receiving a data file from a sender, the data file comprising one or more addresses, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080172252 - Apparatus and method for revenue distribution generated from delivering healthcare advertisements via emr systems, rhin, and electronic advertising servers: A system and method for effectively distributing revenues generated from delivering specific healthcare advertisements and non health-care specific advertisements over electronic medical record systems (EMR) and a regional healthcare information network (RHIN) using an electronic advertising server in a manner compliant with HIPAA and Federal Anti-Kickback laws. The system consists... Agent: Orion Law Group

20080172251 - Clinical cost control management module: A system enables a healthcare organization to evaluate cost efficient treatment options early in a patient treatment process by automatic monitoring of profit or loss of a treatment, in real-time and enables a clinical user to screen, simulate and control treatment profit or loss during a patient visit, based on... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080172245 - Communication system for information of medical doctor's questions to patients, terminal apparatus for medical doctor and terminal apparatus for patient: A communication system for information of medical doctor's questions to patients includes a terminal apparatus for medical doctor, a terminal apparatus for patient, and a database server apparatus for storing question sets for medical doctor's questions to patients, which are connected through a communication network. The terminal apparatus for patient... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080172249 - Knowledge-based ordering systeming for radiological procedures: A system and method may generate a radiological request by which to conduct a radiological procedure that employs a series of procedural steps to acquire internal images of a patient. Each step may have a corresponding protocol item which affects image quality and the time required to complete the step.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080172247 - Method to decrease the risk of a vaccine-induced chronic immune mediated disorder in humans with a family history of the disorder: A method of safer immunization against infectious diseases by considering the potential recipients family history or other risk factors for a chronic immune mediated disorders, especially type 1 diabetes prior to immunizing the recipient. The method may include screening potential recipients of a vaccine and selectivity avoiding immunizing or administering... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080172248 - System and method for enabling health care providers to effect compensatory invoicing of patients who use a coverage entity in addition to their health insurer: A system and method is provided for compensatory invoicing of a patient for health care services rendered by a Health Care Provider. The system and method enables a Health Care Provider to obtain payment of Full Rates for services rendered to a patient in circumstances where a Health Insurance Entity... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080172250 - System and method for enabling health care providers to effect compensatory invoicing of patients who use a coverage entity in addition to their health insurer: A system and method is provided for compensatory invoicing of a patient for health care services rendered by a Health Care Provider. The system and method enables a Health Care Provider to obtain payment of Full Rates for services rendered to a patient in circumstances where a Health Insurance Entity... Agent: Stephen Ambrose

20080172246 - Systems, methods and computer product for disease risk reduction, education and assessment: Systems, methods and a software product for disease reduction education and risk assessment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for computer-assisted disease risk assessment and education includes a processor that generates at least a plurality of questions directed to a disease risk assessment for a user. Based upon responses... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080172255 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus 104 according to the present invention includes a DB 130 which stores patient information of a subject, a display unit 140 that displays a group of intra-subject images of the subject and patient information, an input unit 120 that inputs at least a part of the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080172254 - Method for providing electronic medical records: A system and method for collecting, aggregating and providing electronic medical records is presented. A patient enters information regarding medical services providers to a medical records service as part of a digital medical profile. The patient further submits a records authorization authorizing the release of the patient's medical records to... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080172253 - System and method for administering medication: An administration system (10) for administering medication (25) to peoples the system comprising: a medicine cabinet (20) to contain a plurality of medication (25), each medication (25) identified by at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) tag (26); at Feast one RFID reader (40) to monitor the storage and removal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080172260 - Efficient cash accumulation within an insurance policy: The use of an insurance policy to accumulate a cash balance. The insurance policy is set up, however, such that a cash balance can be accumulated rapidly. The insurance policy is structured such that a portion of a premium for the insurance policy is directed towards non-term coverage that results... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080172257 - Health insurance fraud detection using social network analytics: Healthcare fraud detection is accomplished by mining social relationships and analyzing their patterns based on network data structures. Social networks are constructed which depict referral patterns (from health insurance claim information) and associations (from publicly available connection data) to analyze referral patterns and detect possible fraud, abuse and unnecessary overuse.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080172256 - Method for financing a provider of energy to a utility: a

20080172259 - System and method of underwriting price risk with an insured window contract: The invention embodies a system and method of underwriting price risk with an insured window contract. The system and method has application in any marketplace where there is a transparent price that exhibits volatility over time. It is applicable to both buyers and sellers facing price risk in the marketplace.... Agent: Charles W. Grant

20080172258 - System, method, and user interface for facilitating automotive glass repair and replacement: A system, method and user interface facilitating automotive glass repair and/or replacement utilizes a graphical user interface to display text that facilitates in arranging for repair and/or replacement of damaged automotive glass.... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080172261 - Adjusting a consumer experience based on a 3d captured image stream of a consumer response: A response processing system captures a three-dimensional movement of the consumer within a consumer environment, wherein the three-dimensional movement is determined using at least one image capture device aimed at the consumer. The response processing system identifies at least one behavior of the consumer in response to at least one... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080172269 - Business intelligence framework: A framework for implementing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions at an organization level is provided. The framework includes an architecture module, a process module, an operations and support module, a governance module and a delivery module. The architecture module includes an execution architecture, an operations architecture and a development architecture. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080172264 - Managed service for detection of anomalous transactions: A managed service for the detection of fraud and/or anomalous transactions is disclosed. In one implementation, the managed service receives data from customers over a wide area network, the data for each customer relating to information that the customer would like monitored for anomalous transactions. The service may analyze data... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080172271 - Method and apparatus for monitoring invalid clicks: A charging method of an Internet advertisement is provided. A method of monitoring an invalid click on a search advertisement, the method including: tracking user's activities after clicking a web site which is displayed as online advertisement, based, at least in part, upon predetermined rules; collecting the tracking information of... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080172262 - Method and system for disaster mitigation planning and business impact assessment: The present invention provides a method and system making it possible to reduce a description of the impact of a disaster on the world at large to measurable, firm-specific operational and financial implications. This makes it possible to bridge the divide between disaster prediction and business planning by facilitating the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080172270 - Method and system for performing complaince checking of direct shipment of wines: A method of compliance checking includes defining a set of rules related to shipping alcohol to a region. Compliance checking is performed by determining if a shipping client associated with a plurality of shipping orders is compliant with each of the set of rules when executing a plurality of shipping... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20080172266 - Method for automatically analyzing patent bibliographic data and apparatus thereof: The present invention is related to an automatic analysis method of the patent bibliographic data. One of the automatic analysis methods of the present invention is to analyze the statistical results related to the patent bibliographic data of past years, and mainly includes: functionalizing step, which makes one or more... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080172272 - Method of performing integrated oilfield operations: A method of performing oilfield operations for an oilfield having a subterranean formation with a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a business analysis of the oilfield based on business inputs, generating an operational analysis of the oilfield based on operational inputs, and selectively integrating the business analysis... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080172267 - Rotation planning apparatus and rotation planning system: An apparatus or system is used for planning the rotation of part usage between shafts or plants based at least on schedule information relating to operation and inspection-purpose shutdown, attribute information relating to part life, part maintenance periods, and other part attributes, and part information relating to the parts to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080172273 - System and method for alignment of an enterprise to a component business model: A system and method for representing a business with a component map of a target state of the business, arraying the components by competency and by management level, where each component is a group of cohesive business activities within a competency, and each competency is a non-overlapping partition of the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080172265 - System and method for environmental utilization: A system and related method for managing of a geographic area, such as an area of land having at least one resource wherein direct and indirect revenue streams may be obtained is disclosed. The system allows for determination of the value of an area of land based on a selected... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20080172268 - System and method of enhancing cost performance of mechanical systems including life-limited parts: A method is provided that includes receiving a primary work scope comprising a set of tasks associated with maintenance of the mechanical system including a life-limited part. The method further includes generating a set of work scopes for the mechanical system, where each work scope of the set of work... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080172263 - Transitioning an organization to a service management oriented organization: The present invention provides an approach to transition an IT organization such as a data center to a service management oriented organization. Specifically, under the present invention, data is gathered pertaining to how the organization is currently managed. Then a set of workshops is planned to provide education on IT... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080172277 - Algorithmic framework for scheduling steelmaking production optimizing the flow of molten iron subject to inventory constraints: A method of scheduling of the manufacturing operations required to produce cast steel products from molten iron in a steel manufacturing plant.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080172276 - Apparatus, system, and method for assessing information technology environment needs: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for assessing information technology environment needs. A survey module surveys an IT environment. A current profile module creates a current profile of the IT environment. A business need module identifies a business need for the IT environment. A model profile module creates a... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080172274 - Data delivered to targeted mobile device: A data management system for a mobile device includes a communications module storing content created by a user of the system for delivery to a customer. A database module is connected to the communications module, matching customer data with user data and an identified geographic location of the customer in... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080172280 - Manufacturing schedule optimization: The invention provides a computer-implemented method for scheduling a manufacturing process for manufacturing a plurality of items, the method comprising: determining costs associated with switching the manufacturing process between different items; determining a set of costs associated with an inventory level for each item deviating outside predefined parameters associated with... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080172279 - Method of coordinating and stabilizing the delivery of wind generated energy: The invention relates to a method of coordinating and stabilizing the delivery of wind generated power, such as to a power grid, or a facility having pneumatically driven equipment, so as to avoid sudden surges and spikes, despite wind speed fluctuations and oscillations. The method preferably uses a plurality of... Agent: Patent Office Of J. John Shimazaki, PLLC

20080172275 - Resource planning to handle contact volume across a plurality of contact channels: Various embodiments of a system and method for determining staffing requirements or other resource requirements for a plurality of contact channels are disclosed. A contact volume forecast may be performed at a beginning of a season. The contact volume forecast may predict variability in contact volume over a plurality of... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080172278 - Service management system: A service management system includes a voice portal system configured to receive service description data from a service professional via voice recognition, and a service posting database system operatively connected to the voice portal system and configured to store the received service description data.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080172283 - Automatic reminder for repeating calendar events: Managing repeating events in a calendar application, including scheduling a series of repeating events using a calendar application executed by a computer, and configuring the calendar application to provide a reminder announcing the last event in the series as being the last event in the series.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080172284 - Management of job candidate interview process using online facility: A method for managing an interview process of at least one candidate for a job is disclosed. The method includes selecting a list of attributes pertinent to the job and selecting a list of interviewers of the at least one candidate. The method further includes assigning at least one attribute... Agent: Kaliko & Yeager, L.L.C.

20080172281 - Scheduling service based on usage data: Usage data is compiled by a manufacture and may be used to note or predict the time for additional services and maintenance. Based on the prediction, additional actions may be taken, such as creating service requests, ordering parts needed for services, scheduling service providers and designing efficient service provider schedules.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080172282 - Traffic based labor allocation method and system: A method and system for distributing labor based upon determinations of traffic in a facility, such as a store. Daily traffic forecast information is obtained for each day within a given time period from a source of such information. Calendar and event information for the facility for each day within... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20080172287 - Automated domain determination in business logic applications: Data ranges (domains) for statistical analysis of performance metrics are determined automatically based on user inputs for ending and starting periods. User interfaces are provided with allowances for addressing missing data in a consistent manner and for creating analyties over different time domains such as fiscal and Gregorian calendar measurements.... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080172289 - Automatic pricing measurement and analysis method and system: A method is provided for analyzing pricing and revenue information of a product of a business organization having a plurality of data suppliers. The method may include obtaining transaction data associated with the product and obtaining ledger data associated with the product. The method may also include merging the transaction... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080172288 - Method and system of determining and issuing user incentives on a web server via assessment of user-generated content relevance and value: Provided are computer implemented methods for rewarding a user of a web-based application, comprising: providing a web-based application accessible by a plurality of users via an interface, wherein the application interface provides for user-directed posting and retrieval of content relating to the application; monitoring use by the plurality of users... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080172285 - Redemption system for mobile device: A redemption system for a mobile device includes a database module for determining a target customer. A streaming module is connected to the database module for serving content to the target customer. A priority module is connected to the streaming module for implementing a content delivery schedule. The streaming module... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080172286 - System and method for forecasting contact volume: Various embodiments of a planning and execution process used to forecast contact volumes that will occur over the course of a season and determine resources necessary to handle the contact volumes are disclosed. The planning and execution process may be used to determine staffing resources necessary to service contact volumes... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080172290 - System for providing multimedia content to customers and method thereof: Disclosed are a system and a method for providing multimedia content to customers at a vendor location. A control server and a plurality of patron devices are provided at the vendor location. The control server receives the multimedia content from at least one multimedia content source. Each patron device of... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080172295 - Advertising apparatus for airplane service cart: An advertising apparatus for placement on a food cart or “duty free” cart permits the passenger to readily identify that “duty free” sale is taking place. The advertising apparatus also permit vendors and manufacturers of the “duty free” items to advertise their products directly on the cart for clear viewing... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080172291 - Content delivery system for mobile device: A content delivery system for a mobile device includes sending a program rating message to a first registered customer to query whether the first registered customer desires to rate content. The system delivers a program share message to the first registered customer to query whether the first registered customer desires... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080172299 - Health reminders provided by product and service entities: The present methods and systems of this invention provide health reminder or health awareness tools to individual end users that are not specific to the product or service being provided by the entity that is providing the health reminder, wherein such methods can also include where advertisements for products and... Agent: Ronald John Rosenberger

20080172292 - Incentive system for mobile device: An incentive system is delivered via a mobile device. A database module registers a customer in the system. The registered customer is provided the mobile device for free or reduced cost. A streaming module is connected to the database module for serving content to the customer. A priority module is... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080172298 - Method of implementing an incentive-based recycling system: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a recycling system and method thereof. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of implementing an incentive-based recycling system which rewards clients for recycling recyclable goods via financial or other incentives. In one embodiment, a method of implementing... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20080172294 - Online modified dutch auction: A system and method are provided for selling products in a modified Dutch auction format. A limited quantity of a designated product is offered for sale. The products are offered at an initial price, which is then discounted over time. Buyers may choose to purchase a product at any time... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080172293 - Optimization framework for association of advertisements with sequential media: A method and apparatus are disclosed that are suitable for automatically identifying appropriate advertisements and locations for composting an advertisement with a media file for user consumption.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080172296 - System for providing multimedia content to customers and method thereof: Disclosed are a system and a method for providing multimedia content to customers at a vendor location. A control server and a plurality of patron devices are provided at the vendor location. The control server receives the multimedia content from at least one multimedia content source. Each patron device of... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080172297 - Systems and methods for advancing collections on unpaid debts: Systems and methods for advancing collections on unpaid debts. Incentives that provide monetary and/or non-monetary rewards are utilized to encourage, promote, enable, and/or facilitate a collection of one or more unpaid accounts. A book of vouchers may be purchased for a letter-writing service, wherein the cost of the book is... Agent: Michael F. Krieger Kirton & Mcconkie

20080172301 - Boomtime: A facilitator supports numerous organizations that supply personal services by providing infrastructure and a management interface for controlling and customizing the infrastructure. The infrastructure includes databases, a web site, scheduling tools, and sales tools. The sales tools can offer both personal services and goods, such as shampoo or lotion. The... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080172302 - Creating and manufacturing documents that initially exceed equipment finishing capacity: Techniques described herein overcome many of the issues that have previously made the printing of a single copy of a book from a digital version unattractive and infeasible. According to one embodiment of the invention, an automated mechanism such as a computer program automatically determines whether the spine thickness of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080172303 - Internet-based shipping, tracking and delivery network and system components supporting the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from the point of pickup and completed while shipment is being transported to its: A global-extensive Internet-based shipping, tracking, and delivery network supporting the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from the point of pickup and completed while shipment is transported to the first scanning point in the network so as to significantly reduce delivery time, and enable early clearance of... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., PC Soundview Plaza

20080172300 - Purchasing of individual features of a software product: In various embodiments, a user may, via a processing device, indicate a desire to purchase a feature of an installed software product. A purchase request may be sent to an e-commerce server, or other server. The purchase request may be validated and information concerning the software product, the feature of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080172304 - System and method for enabling cash gifts in an online gift registry: A system and method for facilitating cash gifts by enabling a gift recipient to create an online gift registry which includes an option to allow gift givers to make cash gifts in addition to traditional consumer goods from multiple merchants. Other applications of the system and method include, but are... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080172305 - System, method and article of manufacture for shipping a package privately to a customer: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention facilitate in sending a package (112) to a customer at a physical address via a shipper (106) while preserving customer privacy. In accordance with an embodiment, an order is received from the customer (102). The order may include a unique identifier corresponding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080172306 - Systems and methods for electronic gifting: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for electronic gifting. In an exemplary gift purchasing method, a control system receives from a purchasing system a gift purchase request that includes a mobile telephone number (or other unique telephonic identifier) associated with a wireless gift recipient system, sends to a payment authorization... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080172307 - Bidding and gift registry system and method for mobile device: A bidding system for a mobile device includes a database module for selecting a target audience including a plurality of registered customers to deliver content, a streaming module connected to the database module for serving content to the plurality of registered customers, and a priority module connected to the streaming... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080172308 - Method and apparatus for specifying product characteristics by combining characteristics of products: A computer-implemented method for specifying the characteristics of a desired item includes specifying a plurality of items, each of which possess at least one but not all characteristics of the desired item, selecting a subset of characteristics from each of said plurality of items, combining selected subsets of characteristics into... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080172309 - Online marketing: In an embodiment an item is offered for download at an initial offering, which may be free. In an embodiment, reviews of the item are sought. After receiving a predetermined number of orders for the item, increasing the price of the item. In an embodiment, the buyers establish accounts in... Agent: David Lewis

20080172310 - Method, computer program product and system for verifying financial data: The method, system and computer program product for verifying financial data provides tracking and reporting of the reconciliation and approval process by providing a hierarchical list of users responsible for verification of at least a portion of the financial data and automatically notifying the users responsible for the reconciliation and... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080172311 - Mobile workforce management apparatus and method: A handheld unit and an associated network and method are provided for tracking the worksite information for a plurality of workers assigned to various worksites and electronically distributing payroll to those workers that opt to participate in a stored value card program. In order to track the worksite information for... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080172313 - Billing system and method for determining transportation charges for packages: A billing system for determining package transportation charges. The billing system includes a reader to read a package identifier associated with said package and the reader generates a package identifier signal and transmits the same to a microprocessor. The billing system also includes a package sizer having a plurality of... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20080172312 - System and method for resource management: A system uses an intelligent load controller for managing use of a consumable resource at an associated load. The controller has a resource measuring component for measuring the rate of use of the resource by the associated load, including measuring at least one of an instantaneous usage rate and a... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080172316 - Bank card fraud detection and/or prevention methods: Bank card fraud detection and/or prevention methods can generally involve determining a common point of compromise and/or identifying merchants associated with bank card transaction frequencies which exceed a predetermined threshold value which is indicative of potentially fraudulent bank card activity. These methods can further involve identifying other bank cards used... Agent: John E. Grosselin, Iii Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC

20080172314 - Financial institution-based transaction processing system and approach: Transaction processing for financial institution-based transactions is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction processing approach involves the processing of financial aspects of a transaction between buying and selling parties using transaction rules associated with a sponsoring financial institution. Transaction-related information is processed as a... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20080172315 - Integrated content viewing and payment: A content purchaser can freely and fluidly zoom into and out of content at a continuous range of resolutions. The price for the viewed content is calculated using a price function, such as a binary price function, a discrete price function, or a continuous price function. Payment can be made... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080172317 - Mobile phone payment with disabling feature: A method and system for payments for mobile phone payments with a disabling feature is disclosed. The method includes activating a mobile phone containing contactless payment systems, and having a timeout feature disable the contactless payment systems after a set period of time.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080172345 - System and method for automatically investing a portion of interest charged in a mortgage installment payment: A method and a system are provided to allocate a borrower's monthly home loan repayments to a loan provider to an interest payment account and an equity accrual account; and, to further allocate to a retirement or education account a monthly amount of savings that is correlated to that portion... Agent: Sander Rabin Md Jd A Professional Corporation

20080172323 - Method and system for initiating and clearing trades: A system and method are provided for facilitating the exchange of data between one or more price providers and customers who communicate with the price providers through various portals, each of which may use it own data format. In transmitting data from customer to price provider, the data output from... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080172322 - Method for scheduling future orders on an electronic commodity trading system: A method is provided for placing a trade order for a commodity on an electronic exchange to da executed at a future time, said method composing the steps of displaying a trading screen for a commodity market, said trading screen including a future time schedule and an order entry region... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080172319 - System and method for managing discretion trading orders: A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first order associated with a first discretion range. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive a counterorder associated with a second discretion range, wherein the first discretion range intersects... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080172320 - System and method for managing display of market data in an electronic trading system: A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first order associated with a particular trading product, wherein the first order is associated with a first price comprising a first root value. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080172318 - System and method for managing trading orders in aggregated order books: A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first order in a first order book. The first order is associated with a first group of traders, which is associated with a first ruleset. The memory is further operable to store a second order in a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080172321 - System and method for providing latency protection for trading orders: A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store an order associated with a first price. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to identify a latency value. The processor is further operable to receive a counterorder and to identify a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080172326 - Method and system for generating and sharing customized portable consumer devices: A method for receiving and presenting user-generated designs and sets of terms for portable consumer devices. The method provides for allowing a first person to create a customized design for a portable consumer device, and share the design with other consumers via a host site. Similarly, the method provides for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080172325 - Optimal reverse mortgage product and methods, systems, and products for providing same: This invention provides systems, methods, and designs for a novel financial product which provides many lifecycle investment advantages compared to existing state of the art products currently available.... Agent: Mr. Jeffrey S. Lange

20080172324 - System and method for modifying criteria used with decision engines: The present invention comprises a system and method for modifying and testing criteria attributes used with decision engines. The criteria attribute unit (10) receives proposed criteria attribute data from the proposed criteria input source (5). If the proposed criteria attribute data qualifies as acceptable criteria attribute data as reflected in... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080172328 - Method and system for generating electricity: The present invention discloses a method and system for converting sports movement into electrical energy and/or storing the generated electrical energy for later use and or injecting the generated electrical energy into nationwide and local electricity networks, comprising converting mechanical energy created by a human physical movement which is applied... Agent: Barry Choobin

20080172327 - System and method for monitoring and conducting transactions of objects of value: A system is provided for tracking and monitoring a transaction of an object of value such as, for example, a yacht, boat, ship, marine vessel, aircraft, motor vehicle, other transportation vehicles and real estate for personal, commercial and/or recreational use. The system includes at least one client device operable by... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20080172329 - Centralized affiliated marketplaces systems and methods: A centralized marketplace for efficient and streamlined third party listings, including advertisements, to be placed within marketplaces. An automated backend coordinates the listing transactions, including the collection of fees, timings of display of listings, etc. Additionally, each marketplace may facilitate the placement of listings in affiliated marketplaces and similarly receive... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080172330 - Methods, systems and agreements for increasing the likelihood of repayments under a financing agreement for renewable energy equipment: A business method is disclosed of increasing the probability of timely receiving payment for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE) by a consumer for power generation at a consumer premises, the renewable energy CPE adapted to deliver power onto a power grid. The method comprises creating an agreement between... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080172331 - Bill payment card method and system: The invention is directed to a system and method for managing a payment system. The method generally comprises activating a payment card, associating a value with the payment card, associating at least one third party with the bill payment card, receiving a request from a bill payment card user to... Agent: J. Michael Martinez De Andino, Esq. Hunton & Williams LLP

20080172332 - Check recognition system: A method, system, and computer readable storage to implement a method to determine flow schedules for processing a check presented at a bank by a patron. The flow schedule can be determined by using a routing number associated with the check and then looking up the routing number in a... Agent: Robert A. Blaha Smith Frohwein Tempel

20080172334 - Controlling delivery of broadcast encryption content for a network cluster from a content server outside the cluser: Controlling delivery of broadcast encryption content for a network cluster from a content server outside the cluster that include receiving in the content server from the network device a key management block for the cluster, a unique data token for the cluster, and an encrypted cluster id and calculating a... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080172333 - Detecting compromised ballots: A facility for discerning corruption of an electronic ballot is described. The facility sends from a first computer system to a second computer system an encrypted ballot that reflects a ballot choice selected by a voter. The facility then sends a confirmation from the second computer system to the first... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080172336 - Content distribution: A content distribution system stores encrypted content, an operating system, a decrypt application and a decrypt key on a portable storage device with a serial communication interface such as USB. The portable storage device may be connected to a hardware unit (containing a corresponding/compatible serial interface) designed to boot from... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080172337 - System to provide specific messages to patients: An apparatus and method for delivering targeted informational messages includes a computer system for creating a de-identified encrypted PID and de-identified patient transaction data in a retail store for transmission and storage. A subset of de-identified encrypted PIDs are associated with targeted informational messages by the system and transmitted to... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, P.C.,

20080172335 - User credit rating system to protect digital data: A method of protecting digital data by utilizing a credit rating system is disclosed. Users of a download service have credit ratings and credit histories. Initially when a user signs up for a download service, the user's credit rating is set to a predetermined level. As the user continues to... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080172338 - Information management system: An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications to allow a user of the workstation to connect to a network, such as the Internet. Each application has an analyzer, which monitors transmission data that the application is about to transmit to the network or about... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080172339 - Method and system for authenticating transactions: The illustrative embodiments provide a method, an apparatus, and a computer usable program product for authenticating a transaction. A confirmation device receives an authentication data pattern from a data processing system, wherein the authentication data pattern is generated in response to completing a transaction processed by the data processing system.... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080172340 - Method and system for carrying out a transaction between a mobile device and a terminal: A method of conducting a transaction between a user of a mobile electronic device and a vendor includes determining a location of the mobile electronic device. At least one transaction terminal that has a location-based relationship with the mobile electronic device is identified. A transaction code for authenticating the mobile... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080172341 - Methods for authentication: A method for managing access to application software contained on a computer system or network. The computer system utilizes an authentication component that is configured to receive a unique user account identifier and to generate an authentication passkey by using an identifying data element, typically called a “password”. The identifying... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080172343 - Data processing method for secure internet transactions: Method of processing secure online transactions such as authentication, ordering, purchasing and payment, whereby the need for any specific configuration of the Internet user's computer or the web pages of merchant sites or other sites is eliminated and only insertion of a data storage medium into said computer to carry... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080172342 - Secure money transfer systems and methods using biometric keys associated therewith: A method for transferring funds from a sender to a recipient includes receiving a request to transfer the funds from a sender; creating a transaction record having a transaction identifier; providing the transaction identifier to the sender; receiving the transaction identifier from a recipient; obtaining a first biometric sample from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080172344 - Social networking platform for business-to-business interaction: A social network for business-to-business platform using an e-commerce platform and system consolidate a tiered vertical market space by connecting multiple vendors to a target audience or consumer class through an affiliate network. In one embodiment, an affiliate network (200) includes consumer platforms (220), vendor platforms (230) and affiliate platforms... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080172346 - Methods, systems and agreements for increasing the likelihood of repayments under a financing agreement for renewable energy equipment: A business method is disclosed of increasing the probability of timely receiving payment for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE) by a consumer for power generation at a consumer premises, the renewable energy CPE adapted to deliver power onto a power grid. The method comprises creating an agreement between... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080167895 - Accounting method of the remote authentication dial in user service client: The present invention discloses a method for performing accounting of a user by a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service client (RADIUS), the method comprising, after the user requesting for a session in order to access a network has been authenticated successfully, performing, by the RADIUS client, accounting of the user... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080167887 - Anticipatory presentation of travel information: Systems and techniques for presenting travel information to a user are described. One or more parameters of a travel query of likely interest to the user are predicted by evaluating information associated with the user. A cache including predetermined cached travel options is accessed to provide a set of travel... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167893 - Assisting a seller in a sale of property: There is provided a method, performed by a service provider, that includes providing a service to a seller, to assist the seller in a sale of a property without an agent to represent the seller, wherein the service includes providing a toll-free telephone number that a party can call to... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080167894 - Assisting a seller in a sale of property: There is provided a method, performed by a service provider, that includes (a) providing a service to a seller for a fee, to assist the seller in a sale of a property without an agent to represent the seller, and (b) refunding the fee, if the seller lists the property... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080167886 - Detecting errors in a travel planning system: Systems and techniques for detecting errors in a travel planning system are described. Cached travel options stored in a cache database are analyzed to determine an anomaly in one or more of the cached travel options, and an administrator of the travel planning system is notified that a problem may... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167897 - Method and apparatus for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain having disparate systems: The present invention describes a method and system for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain of trading partners having disparate systems. A trading partner exchange (TPE) interfaces with each of the disparate systems and gathers information pertaining to a particular transaction. The information can be made available... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080167898 - Method and apparatus for network-based sales force automation: A method and apparatus for network-based sales force automation are provided that meet objectives of increasing sales and marketing efficiency and efficiency of technical and customer support by providing multi-dimensional displays of transactional information to users. Transactional information of deals, contacts, accounts, and leads is provided over the Internet using... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080167888 - Method and system for identification verification between at least a pair of entities: A method for identification verification between at least a pair of entities. The method includes the steps of: (a) specifying, by a first entity, at least one identification private credential attribute; and (c) incorporating the at least one identification private credential attribute in a communication between a second entity and... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080167883 - Method and system for monitoring and protecting real estate title (ownership) against fraudulent transaction (title theft) and mortgage fraud: A method for monitoring and protecting a designated real estate Title (Deed/Transfer) against title theft, fraudulent transaction, mortgage fraud includes process and steps of compiling selected data records associated with a designated real estate Title from plurality of predefined sources and storing the compiled data into an associated file within... Agent: Ramin Thavildar Khazaneh

20080167885 - Method and system to automatically generate a clearance request to deivate from a flight plan: A method to generate a clearance request to deviate from a flight plan comprising receiving input from at least one flight-plan-relevant source, determining a revised flight route based on the received input, and generating a preconfigured clearance request message to deviate from the flight plan for a user based on... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080167899 - Method for controlling operations of computing devices: The present invention provides a process to establish or configure a mode of operation for computing devices through the use of affinity groups, policy guidelines, and priority graphs. An affinity group is a group of peer devices identified by a network to which a target device is connected as being... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080167890 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080167889 - Price indexing: Among other things, transactions involving assets (for example, real estate assets) that share a common characteristic are represented as respective data points associated with values of the assets, the data points including transaction value information. Parameters are determined that fit probability density functions to at least one component of a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167884 - System and method for filling an order: A method for fulfilling inventory requests includes receiving an inventory request requesting an inventory item and selecting the requested inventory item from an inventory holder. The method further includes storing the requested inventory item in an order holder associated with the inventory request and moving the order holder to a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080167892 - System for ride sharing and method therefor: A method in a computer system for a ride sharing program is disclosed. The computer program will determine an amount of ride units that a ride to a predetermined destination is worth. At least two program members will agree to share the ride. Upon completion of the ride the amount... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080167896 - System for, and method of, monitoring the movement of mobile items: A system monitors parameters (e.g., speed, position, threshold boundaries) of mobile items attached to beacons and produces signals indicating these parameters. The system also monitors non-mobile parameters (e.g., battery life, door locks, windows) in the items. Different technologies (e.g., wireless) are provided for communicating between the beacons and a beacon... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080167891 - Systems, devices and methods for consumer segmentation: The selection and delivery of information to consumers is improved by a method and system for developing consolidated information and consumer classes. Consolidated classes permit direct matching of efficient packages of information to consumers. Consolidated classes also permit the identification and delivery of information to both consumers who actively seek... Agent: University Of Virginia Patent Foundation

20080167900 - Biometric characterization of agents and patient safety in biological injection or administration: A system for confirming agent compatibility with a patient to whom the agent is to be delivered includes at least one detector adapted to read stored biometric data of the patient associated with the agent and to measure biometric data of the patient, and a controller adapted to compare the... Agent: Gregory L Bradley Medrad Inc

20080167901 - Method of managing and providing healthcare: The business method of managing and providing healthcare includes the formation of a centralized management organization for managing and organizing at least one group purchasing cooperative, formed from a plurality of members. Preferably, the plurality of members are selected from employers. Data and information related to the plurality of members... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080167902 - Systems and methods for patient and study data export from a pacs database: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a user interface including a representation of a plurality of data items and an export control. Each data item in the plurality of data items represents at least one of patient information and study information stored in a picture archiving and communication system... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080167905 - Computer-based system and method for calculating an estimated risk premium: A computer-based system configured to calculate an estimated risk premium for reinsurance of a cedent's insurance policies covering loss event related fatalities and disabilities. The system stores, for different market scenarios, representative of loss events for a defined insurance market, frequency of loss event and number of insured individuals involved... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080167904 - Premium financed life insurance products and methods: Premium financed insurance products and methods which can eliminate the requirement for excess collateral beyond the policy itself are disclosed, wherein the premiums for an insurance policy covering the life of an insured are paid by a loan, and wherein the loan agreement, the policy and/or related documents include a... Agent: Daniel B. Schein, Ph.d., Esq., Inc.

20080167903 - System and method for providing insurance and financial benefits: A system and method of supplying insurance and financial benefits is provided. The method can include the step of entering into an insurance contract between a policyholder and an insurance provider. A beneficiary can be identified to be insured under the insurance contract and to receive selected benefits based on... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080167907 - Cache poller for providing travel planning information: Systems and techniques for travel planning are described. A travel planning system is queried with travel queries specifying parameters of trips. Answers to the queries are received from the travel planning system, and seat availability of flights in the itinerary information in the answers is predicted. Only those answers for... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167908 - Notification service for presenting travel information: Systems and techniques for presenting travel planning information to a user are described. First and second cached travel options are retrieved from a cache that stores travel planning travel options. The first cached result is obtained in response to submitting a travel query to a travel planning system at a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167910 - Providing travel information using a notification service: Systems and techniques for presenting travel information to a first enterprise are described. Cached travel options for travel planning are retrieved from a cache database storing predetermined travel planning options. The cached travel planning options are analyzed to detect a change in price of a flight operated by a second,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167911 - Scheduling integration for providing business automation: Scheduling integration is provided for business automation. Schedules and rules are set up for entities of a service business. When scheduling modifications are received, the schedules and rules for the service entities are considered for conflict. When a conflict does not exist, the scheduling modifications are associated with the schedules... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080167906 - Support for flexible travel planning: Systems and techniques for providing solutions to a travel query are described. A travel query specifying a range of one or more parameter of a desired trip for a user is received. Using the query, a search is performed on a cache database that stores cached travel options for travel... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167909 - Updating a database of travel information: Systems and techniques for determining staleness of a cached result for travel planning stored in a cache database are described. A first evaluation is performed to determine seat availability of flights associated with a cached result. A second evaluation is performed to determine a validity of one or more of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167912 - Providing travel information using cached summaries of travel options: Systems and techniques for maintaining a cache database storing cached results for travel planning are described. Results generated at and received from a travel planning system include travel parameters of a plurality of trips. Summary information generated from the results includes a first parameter corresponding to a combination of different... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167921 - Advertisement method using ring tone providing service and advertisement system thereof, and computer- readable media for recording advertisement method program: An advertisement method using a free ring tone providing service is provided. The advertisement method using the free ring tone providing service includes the steps of: embedding a Digital Rights Management (DRM) code into advertisement contents; acquiring DRM information of the advertisement contents via the DRM code embedded in the... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080167914 - Customer help supporting system, customer help supporting device, customer help supporting method, and customer help supporting program: A customer help supporting device includes an input unit (100) such as a microphone, a data processing unit (200A), a storage unit (300A) such as a hard disk, and an output unit (400) such as a display. The storage unit (300A) has a support information storage section (301) stores support... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080167915 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080167916 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080167917 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080167918 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080167919 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080167913 - Delivering content based on physical object characteristics: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering content based on physical object characteristics. When a physical object is detected within a specified proximity of a component of a computer system, the computer system submits an accessed object identifier for the physical object to a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080167924 - Determining a minimum price: Different minimum prices are assigned to different ad serving constraints (such as keywords, geolocations, serving times, etc.). A single auction minimum price may be determined for an auction using the minimum prices assigned to satisfied serving constraints of ads participating in the auction.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080167925 - Efficient processing of a convoy workflow scenario in a message driven process: An XLANG/s compiler detects convoy scenarios during compilation and generates runtime directives to correctly correlate incoming messages with business process instances. A convoy scenario, present in event driven processes, is defined by a correlation set initialized during a receive operation which is provided to a subsequent receive operation. The compiler... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080167920 - Methods and apparatus for developing cyber defense processes and a cadre of expertise: Methods and apparatus for developing cyber defense processes and a cadre of expertise are disclosed. The methods and apparatus improve the ability of an enterprise to defend against cyber attacks by (i) identifying risks and critical operations; (ii) determining the associated situational awareness and identifying threats by adversaries; (iii) organizing... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080167922 - Regulatory compliancy tool: A computer-based system and method for evaluating effectiveness of internal controls of an entity's financial statement, the method utilizing a set of evaluation criteria and a hierarchical structure comprising at least a top level, an intermediate level, and a component level. The top level comprises items corresponding to items in... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080167923 - System and method for applying predictive metric analysis for a business monitoring subsystem: Predictive metric analysis for business management is divided into build time, corresponding to the business owner view of the enterprise, and run time, corresponding to the information technology view of the enterprise. The build time consists of a predictive model and a monitoring model. These models go through transformation processes... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080167927 - System and method for ongoing supporting a procurement and accounts payable system: A system for deploying to a client accounting installation a general procurement and accounts payable application specifically configured for the client by an enterprise includes a database server for (1) maintaining on a storage device a database of templates describing procedures for assessing, preparing, developing, deploying and supporting the application,... Agent: Shelley M Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20080167926 - Technology budget manager for mobile employees: An automated system and method for budgeting technology expenses for an individual based on an objective standard, wherein the system comprises a database comprising a list of technologies used by the individual; a controller connected to the database, the controller being adapted to establish a monetary budget allotment for the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080167932 - Assisting a seller in a sale of property: There is provided a method, performed by a service provider, that includes (a) presenting a scheduler that shows a time during which a property is available for visiting, (b) enabling a seller of the property to access the scheduler via a communication network, to specify the time, and (c) enabling... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080167931 - Community resource management systems and methods: Systems for management of community resources; in certain aspects community resources including community-wide resources and individual unit (home, business) resources of a plurality of individual units; management including real-time supervision, monitoring, adjusting, and control of any and all resources, control via network (wired or wireless).... Agent: Guy Mcclung

20080167930 - Method and structure for end-to-end workforce management: A workforce management tool includes an input section that receives data from one or more data sources that together reflect data of substantially an entirety of a workforce of an organization. A plurality of service modules receive and process the data in accordance with requirements of different segments of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080167929 - Method and structure for generic architecture f0r integrated end-to-end workforce management: A method (and structure) for end-to-end workforce management, includes identifying sources of data that together reflect data of substantially the entirety of a workforce of an organization, identifying service components related to the workforce, and combining the data sources and service components into an integrated framework to support an end-to-end... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080167928 - Method and system for using a component business model to support value based pricing of business solutions: A method, system and service for using a Component Business Model (CBM) of an enterprise to support value based pricing of business solutions. Business solutions are composed from, and are described in terms of, services exposed by business components. Pricing is represented as the product of iterative negotiations between a... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080167937 - Meeting notification and modification service: Techniques are described for providing a meeting notification and automatic modification service. A system may be configured to identify an appointment in a calendar application, identify a geographic location of the appointment, and identify, before the appointment time, a geographic location of a first participant of the appointment. Based on... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080167934 - Method and apparatus for customer retention: Method and apparatus that facilitates customer retention, churn reduction, and customer satisfaction by predicting customer churn and taking an appropriate action to retain a customer is described. In an example, a customer retention method acquires information indicative of customer service usage by customers. The customer retention method then provides an... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080167938 - Reserving a time block in a calendar application to account for a travel time between geographic locations of appointments: Techniques are described for accounting for travel time in scheduling appointments in an electronic calendar. For example, a travel time between appointments may be identified and a time block may be reserved on a calendar application to account for such travel time. Geographic locations of adjacent appointments in a calendar... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080167933 - System and method for communicating status information: A method for communicating information pertaining to a task includes receiving wirelessly first status information. The first status information specifies a first status associated with a task. The method also includes indicating the first status to a user and receiving input from the user indicating a second status associated with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080167936 - System and method for generating and evaluating an innovation: A method for systematically generating and evaluating an innovation. The method includes identifying and selecting a new opportunity. The method also includes conceptualizing the new opportunity into a plurality of potential products and distributing an economic risk associated with the opportunity. The method can also include envisioning an organization for... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080167935 - System and method for identifying and/or for matching labor services via a computer network: A system and a method for identifying and/or for matching labor services via a computer network are provided. A laborer uses the computer network to input laborer information into the database. The database is programmed to generate a member number that allows the laborer to identify himself/herself to a contractor... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20080167947 - Consumer generated media content: This invention relates to consumer-generated media content. A first display area displays a marketing brand and a downcounter to show the time remaining for users to upload media items relating to the displayed brand. The first display area may also show the prize on offer and the brief that users... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080167946 - Internet-based customer referral system: An Internet-based customer referral system enables individuals and other business entities (“associates”) to market products sold on a merchant web site in return for commissions. Following registration, the associate sets up a web site (or other information dissemination system) to distribute hypertextual catalog documents that include marketing information (product reviews,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080167940 - Method and structure for increasing revenue for on-demand environments: A method and structure for computing a capacity-dependent price for an on-demand scenario includes a demand model module that stores a demand model for the on-demand scenario. A supply model module stores an evaluation of at least one of available and total supply for the on-demand scenario. A computing module... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080167948 - Method and system for determining a position of information based on an intention of a party concerned: A method and system for determining a position of information related to a media or data content based on an intention of a client concerned are provided. The method includes transmitting the content to the client, determining the position of the information based on the intention of the client, transmitting... Agent: Minho Park

20080167951 - Method and system for determining offering combinations in a multi-product environment: A multi-product environment is analyzed to identify combinations of products or services which represent strategic offerings of a company. For a multi-product environment and a set of client accounts, a segmentation tree is constructed to identify the offering groups of interest. The tree is first initialized as a root representing... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080167944 - Method and system for determining transactional data between a consumer and a merchant engaged in a purchase transaction: A method for determining transactional data between a consumer and a merchant engaged in a purchase transaction. This method includes the steps of: initiating or consummating a purchase transaction, such as an online credit transaction, between at least one consumer and at least one merchant; generating a transaction data set... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080167949 - Method and technique for media evaluation and comparing personalities: A method by which media presented to consumers can be evaluated for efficacy and likelihood of success in the market place. The method consists of calculating the media selection percentage of a given medium presented to consumers and utilizing the calculated media selection percentage in evaluating the likelihood of success... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20080167939 - Method of mapping dynamic market conditions to global manufacturing site analysis: A system and method for automatically simulating the affect of a plurality of factors on the cost of goods sold (COGS) resulting from changes in the allocation of goods to be sold in a plurality of predetermined markets. A predetermined plurality of markets are defined, each of which is allocated... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile. LLP

20080167942 - Periodic revenue forecasting for multiple levels of an enterprise using data from multiple sources: An embodiment of the present invention proposes to describe an enterprise or company in terms of its structure and represent that structure in performing revenue forecasts for the enterprise or company. Mapping the company structure in a multi-dimensional matrix, for example, can represent that structure. The revenue forecasting method is... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080167941 - Real estate price indexing: Among other things, transactions involving assets that share a common characteristic are represented as respective data points associated with values of the assets, the data points including transaction value information. Parameters that fit probability distribution functions to at least two respective components of a value spectrum of the data points... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167943 - Real time pricing, purchasing and auctioning of advertising time slots based on real time viewership, viewer demographics, and content characteristics: An exemplary advertising auction tool includes advertising data, detailed auction data such as pricing to bid on an advertisement time slot and desirable viewership characteristics and metrics, and business data for awarding the advertisement time slot and for distributing the advertisement. The auction tool receives near real-time viewership data about... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080167945 - Tissue storage and dispenser:

20080167950 - Virtual advertising network agency: A virtual advertising agency comprising an internet based forum supported by a website that enables internet enabled members of the public to upload content relating to at least a first branded consumer product to the website via web browsers; the virtual agency for mediating between brand owner of said first... Agent: Robert G. Lev

20080167952 - Communication session assessment: A communication session analyzer is integrated or otherwise coupled to an audio player to generate a system for analyzing voice-based communication sessions. Embodiments of the system also include a data store and an output device, respectively. The analyzer identifies a communication session attribute. An automated or human reviewer of a... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080167953 - Method and apparatus for location-aware job tracking correlated with multimedia information: Method and apparatus for job tracking is described. One aspect of the invention relates to tracking performance of a job. An interface is configured to capture multimedia data related to the job. A time capturing module is configured to track time-of-day. A location module is configured to determine location. A... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080167961 - Contactless transaction: A method associated with a contactless phone. The method includes sending a balance inquiry response message to a mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a contactless element that is configured to communicate with a contactless reader in a point of sale terminal. The account balance inquiry response message provides an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080167954 - Contents reproducing device, contents processing device, contents distribution server, contents reproducing method, contents processing method, and program: A content reproduction apparatus includes a group ID storage section L for storing a group ID produced uniquely in a unit of a user; a radio transmitter section 524 for transmitting a content stored in a storage medium by radio communication; a radio receiver section 522 for receiving a content... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080167957 - Integrating placement of advertisements in multiple media types: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system for integrating placement of advertisements in multiple types of media. An advertiser accesses a single user interface to place ads in both online venues and broadcast venues. For example, an advertiser may place both online ads and radio ads via... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080167958 - Interactive system designed for the supply or submission of general information as well as advertising marketing and other material through electronic communication technologies, either in connection or in line with location-based services, with the possi: The object of this invention is an interactive system designed for the supply or submission of general information as well as advertising, marketing and other material through electronic communication technologies, either in connection or in line with location-based services, with the possibility of interactive connections. The system is comprised of... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20080167955 - Location based advertising and traffic warning system: A system and method for providing a user with traffic and sponsor information. The system generally includes a processor, traffic and location antennas in communication with the processor, a traffic location table database in communication with the processor, and a memory unit in communication with the processor and having processor... Agent: Visteon

20080167964 - Method and system for implementing a customer incentive program: A system and method for implementing a customer incentive program that conditionally rewards a customer based upon the customer's movement through a shopping area and/or responses to questions which refer to the shopping area, sections of the shopping area and/or products located in the shopping area. While moving through a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080167956 - Method and system for offering a credit product by a credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of sale: A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080167963 - Method for computing price discounts in an e-commerce environment: A method and structure for a set of rules processed by combining a procedural rule engine and a pattern matching inference engine to compute and apply discounts to customer orders in an electronic commerce system. The rule processing occurs in multiple phases. First all applicable discounts are computed. Then all... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080167962 - System and method for a customer loyalty program integrated into shopping cart checkout software and utilizing email marketing: A system and method for operating a loyalty reward program integrated with a shopping cart checkout software through the buyer's online invoice and utilizing email marketing. A seller registers with the system and takes steps to integrate the loyalty system into the seller's shopping cart checkout software including the addition... Agent: Tabbatha Lawe

20080167960 - System and method for collective response aggregation: This invention relates to a system and methods for aggregated question answering by a number of entities, holding solutions competitions, and rewarding contestants who solutions are closest to the actual solution, and rewarding contestants who participate in competitions for their participation regardless of performance.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080167959 - System and method for enhanced content distribution: An infrastructure that supports, facilitates, etc., in new and creative ways, the enhanced distribution of the myriad forms of content (which might include, possibly inter alia, news items, traffic alerts, weather notices, travel advisories, stock quotations, advertisements, coupons, educational factoids, etc.) within established wireless messaging paradigms such as, possibly inter... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080167965 - Apparatus, system, and method for extracting real world value from a virtual account: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for extracting real world value from a virtual account by receiving point-of-sale information from a consumer, converting a real currency purchase amount to an equivalent virtual value, and processing the transaction. The point-of-sale information comprises a real currency purchase amount and account information,... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080167966 - Transaction system and method: The present invention generally relates to cashless transactions. In particular, the present invention relates to methods (100) for conducting cashless transactions and systems (400, 500) for implementing said methods. In a first aspect there is provided a method (100) of processing a cashless transaction. The method includes, determining (102) a... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080167971 - Automated pricing system: A method and system are disclosed for a rapid and automated creation of a price schedule comprising steps and an implementation for providing a set of construction plans created with an architectural software design tool, such as CAD, and a palette of 2-dimensional and/or 3-dimensional architectural parametric symbols that correspond... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

20080167968 - Creating and purchasing ringtones: Techniques for creating and purchasing ringtones for use in electronic devices, such as mobile phones (e.g., cellular phones) or other telephone-enabled devices (e.g., Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), multi-function devices) are disclosed. These techniques can use a media management application and/or an online media store to browse, create, edit, purchase, and/or... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080167972 - E-commerce transaction aggregation and processing: Embodiments include hardware and/or software for receiving an electronic receipt from a merchant that describes a transaction for a product by a purchaser and gathering product information from one or more sources such as the merchant, the product's manufacturer, the purchaser's bank, and/or an accessories dealer. Upon gathering the product... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080167970 - System and a method for access management and billing: An access management system for managing network access of an end-user to one or more online content sources of a number of content providers. The system comprises a content proxy unit that stores the concealed addresses of the content sources. The content proxy unit is designed to receive a request... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080167969 - System and method for computerized ordering among replaceable or otherwise associated products: The present invention discloses a system and a method for computerized ordering at least one first product being a part of a computerized shopping list. The method comprising a) receiving at least part of the computerized shopping list, said part comprising the first product, b) generating a list of associated... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080167967 - Transparent commodity trading networks and methods of facilitating transactions among buyers and sellers of products and services: A transparent commodity trading network facilitates transactions among parties. A plurality of mobile communications devices are each configured to broadcast product/service needs and/or product/service offerings of a party associated with the respective mobile communications device. Each mobile communications device is configured to receive product/service needs and/or product/service offerings broadcast by... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080167974 - Commodity information registering method and system which automatically matches commodity model and category with the commodity information: A goods information registration method includes: maintaining a goods model database including a goods model identifier which is used in a predetermined shopping mall relay server; receiving a goods identifier or a goods name of goods information which is registered in a predetermined shopping mall server; extracting a model name... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080167975 - Cyber shopping mall management apparatus, and system and method for managing cyber shopping mall using the same: Provided are a cyber shopping mall management apparatus, and a system and method for managing a cyber shopping mall using the apparatus that can reduce a return rate of a purchased wear item. The cyber shopping mall management method includes adjusting a size of an image of a wear item... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080167973 - Providing travel information using cached query answers: Systems and techniques for presenting travel information to a user are described. A code that includes predetermined travel parameters specified by the user is included in a web page. Access to the web page by a user is detected. A travel query is populated with the predetermined travel parameters and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080167976 - Management system and method for a biostrip: The present invention discloses a management system and method for a biostrip. The management method is applicable to a biomedical measurement device to manage at least one biostrip. The management method comprises the following steps: inputting at least one piece of setting data of the biostrip; generating a count reference... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080167977 - Determining proportionate use of system resources by applications executing in a shared hosting environment: Determining proportionate use of system resources by applications executing in a shared hosting environment, including executing monitor agents, one monitor agent for one or more instances of the applications, including collecting by the monitor agents data describing each instance of use of a system resource by an instance of the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080167980 - Credit card transaction methods employing wireless terminal location and registered purchasing locations: A credit card transaction authorization method includes receiving information concerning a prospective remote credit card transaction with a credit card, obtaining location information from a wireless network provider for a wireless terminal that is associated with a cardholder of the credit card for the prospective credit card transaction, and correlating... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080167979 - Processes and methodologies for equity structures in shared ownership ventures: New methods for use of improved vehicles allowing preemption of traditional hotel and vacation resort models for fractional ownership are disclosed. According to the teachings of the instant disclosures, unmatched return on investment dollars coupled with choices of properties and locations allows provision of amenities that are unparalleled in both... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080167978 - System and method for identifying asset restrictions applicable to movement of tangible assets: A system, method, and program product is provided that identifies asset restrictions pertaining to the movement of tangible assets. The system reads a list of assets intended to be moved from a first geographical location to a new geographical location. Each of the assets in the list includes asset descriptive... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080168006 - Method and apparatus for retirement income planning: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for retirement income planning. One embodiment of a method for defining an income stream for an individual includes allocating, in response to receiving lifestyle or personal preferences from the individual, equity belonging to the individual among one or more investments... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080168000 - Method for making a charitable donation: Methods for funding a charity and passing assets to a beneficiary are disclosed. A modified charitable lead annuity trust is employed for these purposes. The modified CLAT is structured to make relatively small annual annuity payments to a designated charity as compared to the annual payments made to a charity... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080167999 - Methods of selling and issuing loan-backed investment certificates providing for interest-only payments until, and principal repayment at, maturity: A method carried out by selling one or more investment certificates in exchange for consideration, wherein each of the investment certificates represents a transferable right secured by at least one first pool of documented, monetary obligations, and wherein each of the investment certificates is at least characterized as follows: (i)... Agent: Mcglinchey Stafford, PLLC

20080168001 - Price indexing: Transactions involving assets that share a common characteristic are represented as respective data points associated with values of the assets, the data points including transaction value information, the data points theoretically excluding data points that are outside defined cutoffs, the cutoffs being defined so that effectively no data points are... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080168002 - Price indexing: Transactions involving assets that share a common characteristic are represented as respective data points associated with values of the assets. The data points include transaction value information. Respective statistical values are determined for the data points with respect to a probability density function that fits a power law parameterization to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080168004 - Price indexing: Transactions involving assets that share a common characteristic are represented as respective data points associated with values of the assets. The data points include transaction value information. The data points belong to sets associated with respective geographical areas. Data points of at least two of the sets are aggregated into... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080168003 - System and method for securitizing zero coupon bond and equity index portfolios in a target date exchange traded fund: In a method and system for securitizing Zero Coupon Bonds and Equity Index portfolios, a Target Date Exchange Traded Fund structure is provided that can deliver investors a specific and unchanging portfolio that is precisely designed for an investment horizon between the present and a given Target Date. The ETF... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080168007 - Systems and methods for implementing an index-linked insurance product: An index-linked insurance product having an annual guarantee is implemented having a maximized hedged investment budget. A net premium payment is allocated to a fixed income investment and an annual fixed income yield is projected. The maximized hedged investment budget is determined by deducting from the projected annual fixed income... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080168005 - Theoretical stock price computing device, theoretical stock price computing method and theoretical stock price computing program: [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A theoretical stock price computing device obtains data on company evaluation indexes including intellectual property related indexes (S1), conducts a factor analysis and a multiple linear regression analysis on the data related to company evaluation indexes, computes the theoretical value of the after-tax business profit according... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080167981 - Methods and systems for commoditizing interest rate swap risk transfers: A data structure, method, class, system and computer program product for trading a commoditised financial claim. The claim obligates one party to pay on demand to a second party on any date an amount, for value spot, transparently determined with reference to a market quote for pre-specified spot-starting benchmark interest... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080167982 - Multi-directional, multi-dimensional reverse matrix auction: Methods and apparatus for providing a reverse auction are presented. A network based multi-directional and/or multi-dimensional reverse auction is described in which lender bid for loan terms and priority. A borrower provides loan terms, such as desired loan amount and optionally provides minimal loan requirements. Multiple bidders (1) select position,... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080167983 - Systems and methods for preventing attacks on online auction sales: In one embodiment the present invention includes a method for preventing attacks on auction sales of an online auction service provided by an auction server (A) within a network system, the method comprising an auction opening operation, a bid offering operation and an auction closing operation, wherein, in the auction... Agent: Charles L. Hamilton Fountainhead Law Group

20080167984 - Zero recovery credit default swap indices: A zero recovery credit default swap (CDS) having a portfolio of constituents, where a seller of the CDS agrees to pay a buyer a contingent payment upon each occurrence of a credit event involving a constituent of an underlying index. The contingent payment may equal the notional value times the... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080167985 - Internet based animal tracking information system: An Internet based animal tracking system that allows owners of an animal and other authorized users to securely input and/or access animal records. Once the animal's record is entered, it may be securely accessed by government entities and/or veterinary representatives for the purpose of tracking the animal's location, ownership, and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080167986 - Method and system for processing an account: A method and system for processing an account for a transaction between a merchant and a customer. The transaction provided goods and/or services by the merchant to the customer for which the merchant is owed a total payment by the customer to settle the account. The account is divided into... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080167987 - Method of administering an annuity having payments that maintain or increase in purchasing power: A method of administering a single premium immediate annuity is disclosed. The method includes specifying an income payment amount representing a base level of purchasing power each scheduled annuity payment shall be able to substantially achieve. The amount of the annuity payment to be made at scheduled intervals being adjusted... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080167988 - System and method of managing contactless payment transactions using a mobile communication device as a stored value device: A method and apparatus handling payment transactions in a system using mobile communication devices as stored value devices are disclosed. A transaction operations server receives multiple records of the transaction from the stored value device—one via a communication channel through the telecommunication provider network, and another via an independent communication... Agent: Macronix C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080167989 - Computer-based fund transmittal system and method: A fund transmittal system includes a first agent portal module for receiving funds from a first entity to initiate a first fund transaction. The system includes a transaction network and a transaction processor. The first agent portal module routes the first fund transaction to the transaction processor via the transaction... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080167990 - Purchasing alert methods and apparatus: Systems and techniques for receiving transaction information at an authentication system. The transaction information may be processed using different rule sets, based on the financial instrument used for the transaction (for example, a particular credit card, debit card, bank account, brokerage account, and the like). One or more alerts may... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080167991 - Mobile coupon method and system: A system and a method for using a portable consumer device such as a mobile phone are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method according to the present invention comprises referencing data regarding an individual consumer stored as part of a payment processing network to generate an electronic coupon targeted to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080167993 - Creating and purchasing ringtones: Techniques for creating and purchasing ringtones for use in electronic devices, such as mobile phones (e.g., cellular phones) or other telephone-enabled devices (e.g., Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), multi-function devices) are disclosed. These techniques can use a media management application and/or an online media store to browse, create, edit, purchase, and/or... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080167992 - Methods and systems for an accountable media advertising application: The systems and methods described herein relates to a system for allowing a consumer to track an advertisement for a product. The system includes an equipment for capturing a response by the consumer to the advertisement delivered from a first platform. The system also includes a portal, provided on a... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080167994 - Digital inheritance: The present invention relates to a method and a device of enabling inheritance of a digital content item. There is provided a method and a device by which inheritance of a digital content item is enabled by means of acquiring an inheritance license for an encrypted digital content item. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080167995 - Method for purchasing and editing ringtones: Techniques for purchasing, editing, and organizing ringtones are disclosed. These techniques involve, for instance, browsing a group of media assets, selecting a media asset from the group of media assets, choosing a segment of the media asset to be used as a ringtone, previewing the ringtone, purchasing the ringtone, and... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080167996 - Systems and methods for printing draft checks: A method for printing drafts includes: communicating between a second computer corresponding to a financial institution and a first computer corresponding to a company that has a financial account with the financial institution, wherein the first computer is located at the company's premises and remotely from the second computer; and... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080167998 - Online healthcare system and methods: An online healthcare method provides online health care from a healthcare provider to a patient online, comprising: (a) providing online communication between the patient and the healthcare provider; (b) providing online diagnosis and treatment by the provider for the patient; and (c) providing the user's medical records online to be... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080167997 - System and method for business or personal transactions: A system and method for creating a business transaction, wherein certain information related to the transaction are recorded on a business card having two parts. A first entity initiating the transaction records an offer or commitment on the first card part, the first card part identifying the first entity, and... Agent: David E. Orr

20080168008 - Exchanging retail pricing information: The present disclosure includes a method for providing pricing information. In some implementations, a method for providing pricing information includes receiving, from a first subscriber, a request for pricing information of one or more retailers. The request is associated with a unit provided by a retailer different from the one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080168009 - Business methods of renewable hydrocarbon-based fuel: A business process where hydrogen-depleted carbon, a fuel byproduct, that is removed from pumped-ion, electrochemical engines, or a similar device derived therefrom, is used directly or indirectly to supply carbon that is used as a reactant in solar-powered, liquid-hydrocarbon-fuel synthesizers, or a similar device derived therefrom, the reuse of the... Agent: Robert Johnson

20080162153 - Apparatus for group filtered reports: System and corresponding apparatus are provided that, in at least one embodiment, includes an first element configured to receiving a plurality of first representations and a second element configured to determine at least one group to which the first user belongs. Each first representation represents a report, and further configured... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080162158 - Authentication services compensation system: A system for compensating the provider of authentication services wherein users, in addition to merchants, may be the party who compensates the authentication service provider.... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20080162172 - Charging system for charging for image processing conducted based on image data, image processing apparatus, and charging program embodied on computer readable medium: In order to charge a proper amount of money to the transmitting source and the destination, an MFP accepts transmitting source specifying information for identifying a transmitting user, destination specifying information for specifying a data destination, specifying of the data, and a processing procedure defining processing executed with respect to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080162167 - Commodity logistics service system and a counterfeit-impeding method thereof: A commodity logistics service system and a counterfeit-impeding method thereof are disclosed. The present invention solves the problem of the prior art that lacks an impeding counterfeit function. The present invention provides a commodity logistics service system. The authorizing module of the commodity logistics service system has at least one... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080162159 - Component to support prepaid devices: A computing system comprises a motherboard. The computing system further comprises a processor and a control module that couples to the processor to initiate a lock mode based on a usage policy associated with lock mode and in response to detecting an event associated with a payment for the system.... Agent: Ling Hong Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080162162 - Machine readable colored envelopes: Systems and methods for providing a machine readable colored envelope and systems and methods for processing such envelopes are described. In certain examples, the machine readable colored envelopes are colored using a reversible negative photochromic colorant that bleaches when exposed to an activation energy such as ultraviolet radiation and returns... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080162179 - Maintenance support for high priority customers: A method includes receiving a problem ticket, which contains a priority level indicator and a customer identifier, that describes a telecommunications network event such as a problem. The problem ticket is associated with and transmitted to a workcenter and a portion within the workcenter based on at least anyone of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080162157 - Method and apparatus for creating and aggregating rankings of people, companies and products based on social network acquaintances and authoristies' opinions: A method and apparatus for collecting and graduating opinions about people and products, aggregating and normalizing all opinions about a given object to one value, for searching and automatic matching potential business partners. The system consists of: social network in which users define their relationship types; reference system which graduates... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080162178 - Method and apparatus for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain having disparate systems: The present invention describes a method and system for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain of trading partners having disparate systems. A trading partner exchange (TPE) interfaces with each of the disparate systems and gathers information pertaining to a particular transaction. The information can be made available... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080162152 - Method and apparatus for group filtered reports based on at least one second representation: Systems and corresponding methods are provided that, in at least one embodiment, includes the act or acts of receiving a plurality of first representations, receiving at least one second representation of at least one group; and filtering the plurality of first representations based, at least in part, on the at... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080162177 - Method and apparatus for network-based sales force management: A method and apparatus for network-based sales force automation are provided that meet objectives of increasing sales and marketing efficiency and efficiency of technical and customer support by providing multi-dimensional displays of transactional information to users. Transactional information of deals, contacts, accounts, and leads is provided over the Internet using... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080162165 - Method and system for analyzing non-patent references in a set of patents: A method for analyzing cited references cited in a patent set comprising two or more patents. The method comprises: parsing each cited reference cited by each patent to determine a respective title of each respective cited reference; storing the title of each cited reference and the cited reference in a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080162164 - Method and system for centralized management of sources of supply: Methods and systems for determining sources of supply are provided. The system for determining sources of supply is centralized so as to be accessible to a plurality of clients. Sources of supply may be determined and the results prioritized according to user defined criteria. Specifically, the system may offer or... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162173 - Method and system for collecting and using market data from various sources: A system and a method for collecting and using market data. The system includes a workstation, where at least one message is entered, a transmitter, where the at least one message is transmitted, a parser for parsing the at least one message, a data recognizer for identifying relevant information in... Agent: Brown, Rudnick, Berlack & Israels, LLP.

20080162170 - Method and system for digital rights management based on message exchange between drm agent and rendering: A method and system of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in a consumer environment where the DRM agent and the rendering application are implemented on separate devices is provided. A first control message is transmitted from the rendering application to notify the DRM agent about the details of a content consumption... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080162161 - Method for automated management of a telecommunication service: Method for automatically managing a telecommunication service for telecommunication service user includes detecting a telecommunication device associated with the telecommunication service user on a network, determining an activation state of the telecommunication service based on data regarding the detected telecommunication device, determining an account/device state based on data regarding the... Agent: Vonage

20080162174 - Method for identifying unregistered vehicles: A system and method for determining residency based upon the comparison of existing data in various datasets. Information relating to a new utility account in a first jurisdiction is inputted. The inputted information is compared with stored account information from a second jurisdiction. If the inputted information matches the stored... Agent: 24ip Law Group Usa, Pllc

20080162163 - Method for regenerating mailpiece content material in a mailpiece creation system: A method is provided for printing and regenerating mailpiece content material in a mailpiece creation system having a controller for modulating the flow of data a printing device. The method comprising the steps of producing an electronic version of the mailpiece content material and generating print stream data indicative of... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080162180 - Method of advertising and public service: A method of growing an advertising business and promoting public welfare includes steps of: (a) working with a government authority to enhance disaster preparedness in a community, (b) placing a storage structure at a site located in that community, (c) allowing the government authority to use storage space in the... Agent: King & Schickli, Pllc

20080162168 - Method of collecting information for a geographic database for use with a navigation system: A method for collecting geographic data for use with a navigation system is disclosed. A pedestrian segment associated with a path is identified. A text description of the pedestrian segment is collected. The text description includes one of a predetermined number of phrases and a name of at least one... Agent: Navteq North America, Llc

20080162160 - Method, system, and computer program product for creating smart services: A method, system, and computer program product are described for creating smart services. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for creating smart services includes defining a service based on a situation of a service subscriber and an event for interacting with the subscriber on behalf of the service. Access... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080162155 - Methods and apparatus providing an e-enabled ground architecture: A method for integrating airplane operation related services provided by ground-based systems is described. The method includes receiving information from a plurality of airplane service functions, the airplane service functions including airlines, airplanes, regulatory authorities, maintenance repair organizations, and aircraft manufacturers, the received information relating to airplane operation. The method... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080162169 - Passenger air transport freed of terrorist threats in transit: A method is given for an efficient and effective means of eliminating the possibility that civilian airline passenger belongings could be used as an opportunity for terrorists to kill passengers in transit. The essence of this method is to arrange for the passengers' baggage and personal transit articles to be... Agent: William E. Hodge

20080162176 - System and method for conveying image assets to a recipient: Embodiments of a system and method for conveying image assets to a recipient are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sender conveys at least one image asset to a service. The service stores a representation of the at least one image asset and a value indication on a media. The service... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080162175 - System and method for enabling informed decisions: An information system enables informed decisions based on personalized data. The system prompts a user for object specific data about an object at a basis of a decision, stores the object specific data, provides standards of care data, provides risk factors data, provides trusted general information and develops a personalized... Agent: Kuta Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080162156 - System and method for remote cross platform portable simulcast network: Disclosed is a method and system for a single broadband portal where all content may be delivered to users of varied electronic devices. An example embodiment (i) provides a user interface for enabling user selection of media contents per varied electronic devices, each varied electronic device having a respective platform,... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080162154 - System and method for vehicle advertising network: Disclosed is an advertising and marketing network where vehicles (especially traveling ones) are the advertising and marketing medium. Advertisers pay for a package where a certain number of vehicles display advertisement approved by the advertiser for a certain number of advertising impressions based upon average traffic on monitored roadways at... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080162166 - System for simply and directly providing local information based solely on zip code information: A web-based user interface and method for providing home and community information, move-in and move-out information, as well as vendor information in a simple and easy-to-access format for real estate professionals, future homeowners, and current homeowners. The user interface accepts only a zip code or town and city location information... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20080162171 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162185 - Automatic identification for spot measurements: A patient monitoring system (8) monitors physiological functions of a plurality of patients (12). Each clinician (10) and each patient (12) has an associated identification device (20, 22), which each includes an identification code corresponding to respective clinician and patient. Each identification device (20, 22) includes a respective body-coupled communication... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080162182 - Between-patient comparisons for risk stratification of future heart failure decompensation: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for using between-patient comparisons for risk stratification of future heart failure decompensation. A method comprises receiving patient data of a current patient, the patient data collected by a patient monitoring device; determining a reference group related to the patient; determining a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080162184 - Medical service support system: A medical service support system is provided which manages a use state of medical instrument used in medical operations with predetermined task sequence is provided. A reading unit reads use state specifying information recorded in the use state specifying information recording unit before the medical instruments are used for a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080162181 - Method and apparatus for health control: A method of health care financing, comprising: calculating an economic burden on an entity caused by a health situation; providing, by a third party, application and monitoring of a health plan for at least 10,000 individuals in least part of the entity; and paying to the third party in response... Agent: Martin Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080162183 - Method and system to enable physician labels on a remote server and use labels to verify and improve algorithm results: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods to enable physician labels on a remote server and use labels to verify and improve algorithm results. A method comprises using patient data in an automated analysis to obtain a result; receiving a message from the user, wherein the message is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080162186 - System and method for diet and exercise: A method for generating and implementing personalized exercise and diet regimens includes initial steps of inputting into an electronic device with a graphical user interface personal data, exercise and diet goals, and a database of food items and related nutritional information; subsequently generating exercise and diet programs correlated to the... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080162189 - Information management system in cosmetics sales: To enable a retail store that sells cosmetics to grasp the situations of its own customers who are cosmetics users precisely. An information management system includes a center side system, a plurality of store side systems and a plurality of member terminals both connected with the center side system, wherein... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080162192 - Medication adherence system: A system comprising a medication tray (10) and a docking station (20) for facilitating effective self-management of medication treatment by patients is provided. The medication tray (10) accepts medication filled containers (30) and mates with the docking station (20). The medication tray (10) receives prescription data at the time the... Agent: David W. Highet, Vp & Chief Ip Counsel Becton, Dickinson And Company

20080162188 - Method and system for generating graphical medication information: A system may include a prescription card manager configured to generate medication information cards. The prescription card manager may include a pharmacy database interface configured to receive notifications associated with medication prescriptions, each notification including identifications of a patient, a medication, and instructions associated with a specific medication prescription. A... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080162191 - Pharmaceutical waste identification system: A pharmaceutical waste identification system presents pharmaceutical waste information and, in response to a client entering a pharmaceutical name, the system provides a pharmaceutical waste disposal recommendation. This recommendation can include a labeling recommendation for a container for the pharmaceutical, a disposal recommendation for an empty container previously containing the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080162187 - Prescription fulfillment apparatus and method: A system for fulfillment by a medical products supplier of medical prescriptions issued by a prescriptionist for patients with reimbursement by a third party provider, in which each patient is provided with a uniquely associated prescription authorization card having an electronically addressable memory encoded by a data station with the... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20080162190 - System and method for a patient-specific and clinician-specific pay-for-performance management system: A pay for performance system and method are described in which doctors of a patient are compensated based on the work performed for the patient using incentives that are insurer-specific, patient-specific, and visit-specific.... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080162195 - Collateral damage coverage: A method for marketing, underwriting, and adjusting damages that are associated with insured loss events but that are not covered by traditional insurance policies. This method permits the marketing of loss expense coverage, underwriting, and claim adjustment processes of insurance to be performed by reference to the loss payments that... Agent: Bruce Bradford Thomas

20080162193 - Data recording system and data recording method: To record mileage of a motor vehicle to determine a motor vehicle insurance premium, a portable data carrier is connected to a data input terminal, which is connected to a fuel pump. The data input terminal receives a distance traveled data item from the motor vehicle, for example from a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080162194 - Method for underwriting multinational insurance business in accordance with national and international laws: A method for providing insurance, which includes steps of issuing a first insurance policy covering risk disposed in one or more different countries, determining if one or more of the countries prohibit insurance issued by foreign insurers, and subsequently issuing one or more additional insurance policies, if such insurance is... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper Us LLP

20080162199 - Method and system for communicating vehicle repair information to a business-to-business rental vehicle reservation management computer system: Various aspects of a system and method are disclosed for communicating vehicle repair data among a plurality of parties, wherein a data pump is employed to automate the extraction of vehicle repair data such as labor hours estimation data from a repair facility computer system for delivery to interested parties,... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20080162198 - Method and system for conference room scheduling: A method for conference room scheduling includes detecting a user in a first location, obtaining reservation information associated with the first location, determining based on the reservation information whether the first location is reserved and notifying the user whether the first location is reserved.... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080162196 - System and method for centralizing and processing ticket exchange information: Method and system for identifying and consolidating information related to unused airline tickets. The information is retrieved from a global distribution system (GDS) and consolidated in a database of the booking agent, giving the booking agent automatic access to the information when there is an option to exchange the unused... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20080162197 - System and method for redemption and exchange of unused tickets: A method of facilitating and performing the redemption and exchange of unused tickets includes steps of determining the availability of unused tickets, calculating a redemption value of an available unused ticket, and updating a status of the unused ticket. The availability is determined by querying a database containing information pertaining... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20080162224 - Appraisal evaluation and scoring system and method: A system and related methods for the management and evaluation of real estate appraisals comprising, a method of determining a standardized score representative of the accuracy and quality of a real estate appraisal. Data from the appraisal is extracted and evaluated according to a plurality of compliance and risk based... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20080162209 - Configurable actions in a dashboard application: A dashboard application can enable a user to quickly view data (and, in a particular aspect, data from one or more business applications) in an efficient manner. The dashboard application can be used to view data about one or more metrics that reflect the performance of a business, as derived... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080162210 - Configurable goals in a dashborad application: A dashboard application can enable a user to quickly view data (and, in a particular aspect, data from one or more business applications) in an efficient manner. The dashboard application may allow a user to configure one or more goals, and/or to issue an alert when the goal(s) are not... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080162208 - Context information management: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to manage context information of events. Data characterizing an event is received, a data structure is generated, and an event resolution procedure that is to be initiated is determined (e.g., based on the data characterizing the event and one or more associated business... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080162212 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162213 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162214 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162215 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162216 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162217 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162218 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162219 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162220 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162221 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162222 - Decision object for associating a plurality of business plans: Enterprise methods and systems are provided in which decision types are defined with attributes that can be stored as decision objects that assist in storing and executing decisions. The methods and systems include methods for logically linking decision processes based on commonality of decision variables across different aspects of an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162202 - Detecting inappropriate activity by analysis of user interactions: Techniques are described for detecting inappropriate activities based on interactions with Web sites and other electronic information services. In some situations, the techniques involve analyzing user interactions with an electronic information service in order to determine whether the user interactions are likely to reflect fraudulent activities by the user. In... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080162201 - Displaying a model-based computer user interface: Techniques for displaying a user interface on a computer display device are described. The techniques include displaying, on a computer display device, a model panel in a computer user interface where the model panel corresponds to one of an academic model or an industry model. The displayed model panel includes... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080162225 - Information management system: An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications to allow a user of the workstation to connect to a network, such as the Internet. Each application has an analyzer, which monitors transmission data that the application is about to transmit to the network or about... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080162232 - Method and apparatus for business process analysis and optimization: A methodology for business process analysis and optimization. This enables firms to analyze business processes using stochastic processing network models to estimate process key performance indicators. Based on these indicators, alternate process models can be further developed and analyzed, in order to optimize business objectives. The analysis methodology can be... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080162227 - Method and apparatus for combatting click fraud: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for combatting click fraud. In a system including a first entity, a second entity, a third entity, and a fourth entity, the first entity performs a transaction with the second entity. The transaction between the first entity and the second entity may be an... Agent: Weinick & Associates, Llc

20080162233 - Method and system for soliciting charitable contributions using digital content over a network: A method and system for soliciting charitable contributions using digital content files over a global computer network, e.g., the Internet, via community web sites are provided. The method and system allow a user, e.g., a solicitor or soliciting member, to post digital data on a community web site soliciting charitable... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080162228 - Method and system for the integrating advertising in user generated contributions: The invention is to a method of generating user contribution such as a video or slide presentation that incorporates both images and sounds. The method may include integrating an advertisement into a user generated contribution for posting on a communication network. The advertising may be used to pay video generation,... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080162230 - Method, system, and storage medium for facilitating excess inventory utilization in a manufacturing environment: A method and storage medium for utilizing excess inventory of parts that are used in end products and having part identifiers are provided. The method includes identifying an excess inventory of parts including part identifiers and a quantity associated with each part identifier. The method also includes identifying potential end... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080162203 - Network commerce system with lead-based feedback: A network commerce system comprises a product sale listing searchable by a consumer and comprising one or more products provided by a third-party vendor in a pay-per-lead format. A pay-per-lead tracking module is operable to track consumer leads provided to the third-party vendor; and a feedback system enables at least... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162207 - Relation-based hierarchy evaluation of recursive nodes: Systems and processes may access data in various graph structures, often including data models that do not partially or fully utilize relations such as hierarchical graphs. For example, software for processing this non-relational data identifies a data model that includes a plurality of nodes independent of relations, each non-root node... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162206 - Rich media engagement market targeting: Targeting potential consumers for marketing purposes involves receiving an indication that a particular user interacted with a particular rich media advertisement in a particular manner. The ability to monitor more user interactions with an advertisement, such as a mouseover of a certain panel of a rich media advertisement, provides for... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080162231 - Service for enabling users to share information regarding products represented on web pages: A system is disclosed that enables users to share product-related information across web pages. The system includes a client that executes on a user computer. The client interacts with a data server to provide user access to product-related information associated with products represented on web pages accessed by the user.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080162200 - Statistics based method for neutralizing financial impact of click fraud: A method, system and computer-readable medium for reducing a financial impact of click fraud are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes, but is not limited to, the steps of: testing a sample of click events for fraudulent clicks of the PPC link, wherein the testing of the sample... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080162223 - System and method for analyzing and correcting retail data: A computer system and method is disclosed that analyzes and corrects retail data. The system and method includes several client workstations and one or more servers coupled together over a network. A database stores various data used by the system. A business logic server uses competitive and complementary fusion to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162211 - System and method for buying and selling event tickets: A system and method are provided for facilitating the buying and selling of event tickets. The system and method disclosed herein includes a system and method for valuing and selling unsold tickets shortly before and/or during the event. Embodiments disclosed herein allow users to interact with a ticket trading system... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, Pllc

20080162229 - System and method for processing of clinical trial data for multiple clinical trials through associated trial ids: A system and method for processing clinical trial data in a network communication environment according to a trial protocol. The trial protocol defining a plurality of data quality requirements and analysis functions for use in processing the clinical trial data, the method comprising: accessing a plurality of the trial protocols... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080162226 - System and storage medium for providing an end-to-end business process for electronic supplier qualification and quality management: A system for facilitating supplier qualification and quality management functions includes an application executing on a host system and a web-based user interface provided by the application, the web-based user interface collaboratively enabling qualification of suppliers, parts, and technologies over a network. The system also includes a shared data repository... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080162204 - Tracking and management of logistical processes: A method is provided for managing a plurality of processes associated with a supply chain network. The method may include accumulating performance data relating to each of the plurality of processes and comparing the accumulated performance data against a predetermined threshold value. The method may also include assigning a performance... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080162205 - Validity path node pattern for structure evaluation of time-dependent acyclic graphs: Systems and processes may access data using a generic graph framework or other graph interface upon request from a business application. Some data retrieved by the interface may be organized as an acyclic graph structure that includes some temporal, time-based, or otherwise time-dependent nodes. In some cases, the acyclic graph... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162237 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing challenge and proposal type calendar events for review, modification and approval: A method includes sending a proposed event from an originating calendar application to a recipient calendar application, and one of replying with an approval of the proposed event or a modification to the proposed event from the recipient calendar application to the originating calendar application. Also disclosed are computer program... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080162239 - Assembly, and associated method, for planning computer system resource requirements: A capacity planning project planning tool, and an associated method, for a computer system. Planning is provided by which to determine computer system resource requirements needed pursuant to a project. A common data base is created and populated with planning data related to the system planning project. The data stored... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080162240 - Global enterprise printing and mailing: Systems, devices, and methods for global enterprise workflow management are disclosed. The system may include a communications module, memory, and processor for executing a method of managing job information. The system receives job information and uses a model to identify a desirable resource to execute the job. Then the system... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080162235 - Method and means for optimizing maintenance work schedules: The optimization algorithm described herein combines stochastic programming and intelligent enumeration schemes that exploit the problem structure to avoid evaluating solutions that on their face are known to be non-optimal. The optimization algorithm finds the module workscope decisions and LLP replacement decisions that minimize expected future maintenance cost per engine... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c. (p&w)

20080162241 - Method and system for matching and monitoring freight loads: A method and system for matching a load tendered by a participating freight transportation company with an available truck of another freight transportation company for transporting that load, and then providing for monitoring of the matched load throughout transport, is implemented through a computer network. Each participating freight transportation company... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080162236 - Method for trust management in complex organizations: Complex organizations include a plurality of parties, including some parties whose financial performance relies upon the behavior of another party meeting an expectation of trust. A method of managing trust relationships within a complex organization includes determining a dependency value relating to an extent to which the financial performance of... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080162238 - Methods and interface for set-partitioning decision support tool: A visual interactive multi-criteria decision-making method and computer-based apparatus for portfolio management. The method/apparatus supports partitioning of a portfolio of physical or other assets into two mutually exclusive categories, such as assets recommended for sale and assets recommended for retention. The method/apparatus utilizes one or more coupled 2-D projections of... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080162234 - Time zone switcher for multi-jurisdictional end users: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to time zone management for calendaring and scheduling (C&S) systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for flexible time zone switching in a C&S system. In one embodiment of the invention, a flexible time zone... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080162247 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing calendar application including modular time units, invitee monitoring and man-time unit scheduling capability: A method includes receiving a scheduling event at a calendar application from a user, where the scheduling event includes at least an identification of a task and an amount of time needed to complete the task; monitoring a calendar of the user with the calendar application to identify an unscheduled... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080162242 - Dispatching prioritized jobs at multiple locations to workers: A system, method and computer program product are provided for assigning prioritized jobs at multiple locations to workers with the objective of maximizing the number of higher priority jobs assigned, with secondary objectives of minimizing worker travel time between locations and of balancing workload across workers. In doing so, the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080162251 - Electronic calendaring system with an exposed application programming interface: Systems of the present invention provide for granting and/or receiving electronic calendar access via an exposed API. An exemplary system may include a customer's electronic calendar that is configured to accept an event from a business by exposing the electronic calendar's API to the business. The system may also include... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080162252 - Granting electronic calendar access to a second party via an exposed application programming interface: Methods of the present invention provide for granting electronic calendar access to a second party via an exposed API. An exemplary method may comprise the step of adding a business to a trust list. The business may then be granted access to a customer's electronic calendar to schedule an event,... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080162246 - Method and system for contract based call center and/or contact center management: A method (and system) for allocating contacts to a vendor including determining an allocation of contacts to a vendor based upon one of a client to service provider payment structure, a service provider to vendor payment structure, and a client contact handling demand.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080162254 - Method and system for patient care triage: Techniques for use in accordance with patient care are provided. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for use in accordance with patient care comprises the following steps/operations. One or more metrics associated with one or more patients are received. One or more priorities associated with the one or... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080162245 - Method for user oriented real time consolidation of business process specification language process steps: A method for utilizing business process specification language to enable collaboration between roles by executing tasks in an order defined by the business process specification language process flow, while minimizing the need for a user to utilize a process execution engine to claim the tasks. The method includes determining a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rsw

20080162248 - Oilfield management system and method: Systems and methods for managing and performing oilfield operations for an oilfield having geological formations and reservoirs therein are disclosed. The systems and methods provide a graphical user interface that allows a user to graphically define, edit, and automatically run a workflow for managing and performing oilfield operations. Lines are... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080162243 - Peripheral deadline indicators in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to deadline management and real-time monitoring of task and event progress and provide a method, system and computer program product for providing peripheral deadline indicators for tasks and events. In one embodiment of the invention, a peripheral deadline... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080162253 - Receiving electronic calendar access from a first party via an exposed application programming interface: Methods of the present invention provide for receiving electronic calendar access to a second party via an exposed API. An exemplary method may comprise the step of receiving access to the exposed Application Programming Interface (API) of a customer's electronic calendar to schedule an event. A record indicating access to... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080162250 - Single user interface window event scheduling: An approach to handling single user interface window event scheduling is presented. A user sends an event request to a scheduling tool, whereby the scheduling tool provides participant schedules, location schedules, and equipment schedules for the user to easily view in a single user interface window. In turn, the user... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080162249 - System and method for managing requests for services: A system and method for managing requests for services, in particular via the use of the Internet. The system maintains a information concerning capabilities and availabilities of a plurality of service providers such as repair technicians, temporary employees, in-home health care providers (e.g., nurses), and the like, which information is... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080162244 - System and method for reordering meeting agenda items prior to the occurrence of the meeting based upon partial participation by the meeting participants: The system and method of the present invention allows a Chair to a meeting to pre-define an agenda in the meeting invitation and to send the meeting invitation to the Invitees/Attendees. The Invitees/Attendees receive the meeting notice to determine whether they can attend the meeting during the time/date specified. In... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080162268 - Analytical e-commerce processing system and methods: A system and methods which enable modeling of end consumer interests based on online activity and producing e-commerce reports is described. The method includes scoring and classifying interests and preferences of consumers in relation to various items being offered as function of time and utilizing such scores to predict purchasing... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080162269 - Analytical e-commerce processing system and methods: A system and methods which enable modeling of end consumer interests based on online activity and producing e-commerce reports is described. The method includes scoring and classifying interests and preferences of consumers in relation to various items being offered as function of time and utilizing such scores to predict purchasing... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080162267 - Apparatus and method of collaborative funding of new products and/or services: This invention is a Collaborative Funding Engine (the Engine) that accurately predicts initial demand for and facilitates the funding of design, research, development and/or delivery of products, and/or services (Outputs). The Engine enables one or a plurality of those (the Customers) who desire specific Outputs to combine their resources in... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080162259 - Associated community platform: Embodiments of an associated community platform are shown. Some embodiments comprise a receiver residing on a server to receive data from one or more nodes that are apart of a merchant network, a calculator residing on the server to calculate a score based upon the data, a mapper residing on... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162266 - Business object acting as a logically central source for agreements on objectives: This disclosure provides various embodiments of a system and method for implementing a logically centralized source for agreements on objectives. In one aspect, the method identifies one or more requirements associated with a business entity for use in a business object stored within a logically centralized repository, the repository storing... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162265 - Collaborative content evaluation: A method and system determines respective reputation values for one or more users of a network-based community, the respective reputation values being based on one or more user attributes associated with the one or more users. The method and system receives o content included in one or more communications from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162263 - Customer preference elicitation based on a web-enabled betting game: A method of eliciting customer preferences includes establishing a computer-enabled facility accessible to the target audience of participants, determining features to collect bets on, determining which participants may register, determining a betting period, determining betting rules, determining how to decide winners and prizes, registering the participants participation using the website,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080162258 - Data triggers for improved customer marketing: Utilization of information in a closed loop data system further augments modeling while at the same time enabling customization of offers based on spend patterns. Data mining techniques are leveraged to identify rules to determine higher response rate populations. These rules are referred to herein as “triggers,” in that the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080162264 - Default value initialization of business objects: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, provided default values for business objects. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for providing default values for attributes of business objects. The method may comprise receiving, at a first service provider, a call to instantiate a first business object. The... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080162271 - Gift card sharing in a custom merchandise environment: A method and system a gift card sharing in a custom merchandise environment. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a product template having a region in which customization is allowable, applying a design of a creator user in the region, generating a set of parameters in which further customization... Agent: Intellevate

20080162262 - Immersive visualization center for creating and designing a \"total design simulation\" and for improved relationship management and market research: Embodiments of the invention include methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for generating and using virtual reality simulations to conduct market research and related activities. An immersive visualization center may be used to manage relationships with customers, choosers, shoppers, and users. The visualization center may allow customers (or other relevant... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p. Attn: Gero G. Mcclellan / Kimberly-clark

20080162270 - Method and system for forecasting future order requirements: A method and system for forecasting distribution center (DC) or warehouse product suggested order quantities required to meet future product demands for a retailer. In determining DC/warehouse order quantities, a bias factor and Adaptive Forecast Error (AFE) are calculated from prior product demand and sales data and applied to DC/warehouse... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080162260 - Network node ad targeting: A computer-implemented method for displaying advertisements to members of a network comprises identifying one or more communities of members, identifying one or more influencers in the one or more communities, and placing one or more advertisements at the profiles of one or more members in the identified one or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080162255 - System and method for presenting a competitive comparison of a recommended or custom card: A system, computer product and method for presenting a competitive comparison of a recommended financial transaction instrument. A set of questions is presented to a consumer in order to determine psychographic characteristics of the consumer. At least one subset of questions is presented based on answers to the set of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20080162256 - System and method for profiling consumers and creating a recommended or customer card: A system, computer product and method for profiling consumers to recommend a financial transaction instrument having benefits tailored to psychographic characteristics of the consumer. A set of questions is presented to a consumer, in order to determine the psychographic characteristics of the consumer. At least one subset of questions is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20080162257 - Tracking responses to advertisements in static web pages: The present disclosure includes a system and method for tracking responses to advertisements in static images. In some implementations, a method for tracking advertisements includes transmitting a static image for displaying an advertisement in the static Web page in response to at least a request for an advertisement to embed... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080162261 - Virtual reality system including personalized virtual environments: Embodiments of the invention include methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for generating and using virtual reality simulations to conduct market research and related activities, where the virtual reality simulations include personalized aspects of a participant's environment, such as simulations of a virtual home derived from the participant's physical home.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p. Attn: Gero G. Mcclellan / Kimberly-clark

20080162274 - E-tool providing learning distribution: A computer system providing learning distribution is disclosed. The computer system has a platform, at least one input device, and a central processing unit in communication with the platform and the at least one input device. The central processing unit is configured to identify an individual's role and position within... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080162272 - Methods and apparatus to collect runtime trace data associated with application performance: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to perform runtime trace filtering associated with application performance analysis are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves generating a first performance value based on first performance data associated with a first function of a first application process. A difference value is generated based on... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080162273 - System and method of tracking process for managing decisions: A computer program product and method for improving quality of decisions call for a tracking runtime component, a decision modeling component, and a decision analytics component wherein the tracking runtime component provides for tracking executed decisions; the decision modeling component provides for modeling the executed decisions; and the decision analytics... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080162275 - Author-assisted information extraction: A system for extracting information from web pages wherein the web page author assists the user to easily collect specific facts and key points from the page. The system includes a first sub-system for presenting the facts and key points to the user at appropriate times and to allow the... Agent: Charles G. Call

20080162288 - Flexible order structure: An order processing system includes an order structure in which an order includes multiple objects representing items being purchased, shipping methods, payment parameters, and other parts of an order. The order can include one or more of each of the types of objects. Items in the order can be divided... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080162276 - Interactive terminal with advertising screen: A terminal for presenting menu information and advertising information to consumers at an outlet for goods or services, such as a take away food bar. The two types of information are preferably displayed by different software subsystems on different screens, with the menu information being displayed on a touchscreen. Advertising... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080162287 - Method and system for ad-rotation and talent agencies allowing talent to protect and profit from talent and content: The present invention pertains to a talent agency that allows the talent to profit via sales of products, affiliate relationships, and ads which may be served via a simple, tiered banner-rotation system. The novel talent agency will allow the talent to protect and profit from their content and profiles and... Agent: Dr. Elliot Mcgucken

20080162286 - Method and system for tracking telephone calls: A system for tracking telephone calls made in response to advertising campaigns in electronic or other media is provided. The system permits an advertiser to associate specific and distinct telephone numbers with associated advertising campaigns. The system further modifies advertiser-provided information in response to the advertising campaign to which a... Agent: John Berryhill

20080162283 - Method of advertising real estate and signage for same: A method of advertising a particular property of real estate comprising preparing a sign particular to the particular property, the sign containing critical information which is unique to the particular property, not readily ascertainable by a person observing the property from a public vantage point, and critical to a potential... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080162285 - Method of transformational bidding with rebates and discounts: A method of transforming bidding with rebates and discounts in an electronic auction using a system and machine readable medium, the method including receiving a first bid from a first bidder and a second bid from a second bidder, wherein at least one of a rebate and discount is offered... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080162282 - Methods, systems, and products to distributing reward points: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for distributing reward points. Blocks of point are assigned to at least one advertiser for distribution in advertising. An account is established for a user. A credit request is received from the user for processing an advertiser's content. A predetermined number of points associated... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, Pllc

20080162277 - Providing advertising: The present disclosure includes a system and methods for providing advertising. In some implementations, a method includes associating a plurality of ad spaces of at least two different types as a unit. The unit is offered to one or more advertisers for purchase.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080162280 - Rebate processing tool: A computer system for a rebate processing tool is provided. The computer system has a platform, at least one input device, and a central processing unit in communication with the platform and the at least one input device. The central processing unit is configured to receive, at a computer, a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080162289 - Sales promotion system and sales promotion method for merchandise by rebate: A sales promotion system of merchandise utilizing an Internet site, includes information providing unit for sending predetermined information to an information terminal device of a user via the Internet site. And the sales promotion system of merchandise further includes unit for calculating a cumulative total of charges or point values... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080162284 - System and method for conducting electronic commerce and providing incentives therein: A system is provided for conducting electronic commerce and for increasing a conversion rate of visitors to a specific online merchant's website by promoting an incentive. The incentive is designed to encourage the customers to complete a purchase of goods and/or services offered by the online merchant. In one embodiment,... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080162281 - System for creating media objects including advertisements: A system is disclosed for creating a media object. The system may include a database for maintaining a first set of information including a plurality of media objects, each of the plurality of media objects having an associated object content, and a second set of information including a plurality of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080162279 - Systems and methods for facilitating relationships in an e-commerce marketplace: There are provided methods and system for facilitating relationships in an e-commerce marketplace. For example, in one embodiment, there is provided a computerized method for suggesting new products to a marketplace player, the method Including receiving an indication of one or more purchases by a marketplace player, comparing the received... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162278 - Systems and methods for providing business ratings in an e-commerce marketplace: There are provided methods and system for providing business ratings in an e-commerce marketplace. For example, in one embodiment, there is provided a computerized method including compiling a plurality of business attributes associated with a business entity to create a business profile for the business entity, compiling transaction information associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162290 - Method and apparatus for determining meal status in a restaurant environment: A meal status system and method provides a timing map/list of all activities taking place in a restaurant environment. Timing data is managed, monitored and analyzed to provide, for example, service staff efficiency monitoring, kitchen and bar staff monitoring and generating statistical reports and generated more accurate timing models for... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20080162291 - Dynamic updating of product profiles for active lifestyles: A method and wireless communication device are provided for managing information associated with purchases of active lifestyle products. The method includes receiving a notification (704) indicating a purchase transaction associated with at least one radio frequency ID enabled item. The notification is analyzed (706) and in response to the analyzing... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080162292 - Point-of-sales system: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a point-of-sales (POS) system. A method includes, in a POS device linked to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network, enabling a set of VoIP core functions interfaced with a POS application process, the set of VoIP core functions selected from the... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080162293 - Supplementing a self-service transaction with information from an internet search: A self-service terminal includes a self-service application and a network search engine. The self-service application is configured to direct operation of the self-service terminal as it engages with a human user in conducting a self-service transaction between the human user and a business entity. The network search engine is configured... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080162294 - Consumer oriented services system and method: A method and computer program product for maintaining, on a first computing device, consumer identification and billing information concerning a user. A directory of ecommerce merchants is maintained on a second computing device. The first computing device and the second computing device are interfaced via a distributed computing network. The... Agent: Holland & Knight

20080162295 - Method and system for payment authentication: Embodiments for a method and system for payment authentication are disclosed. An electronic payment data structure may include one or more electronic payment fields. Each electronic payment field may provide access to an account value from a payment source selected from at least one payment source. A payment transaction data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162298 - Online ordering system and method: Systems and methods for facilitating an on-line purchase of at least one item on behalf of a consumer are disclosed. A consumer may shop and purchase at least one item on a consolidated shopping (CS) website displaying one or more items available for purchase on one or more different merchant... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.l.p.

20080162296 - Repeat transaction rating: Embodiments of configuring elements of a server of a product or server sales architecture in mechanisms are described generally herein including a server that may enable a seller to specify information about an item offered for purchase or bid and may display information to potential buyers about the item along... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080162301 - Sales assistance system and method thereof with using computer network: A sales assistance system and method which allows a user to buy goods from stores near the user without directly purchasing the goods on a computer network. The system includes a server connected to a plurality of client terminals through the computer network. The server inputs a request to buy... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080162300 - System and method for purchasing linked with broadcast media: A system and method for purchasing goods and services related to a media stream, such as a radio or television broadcast, where a broadcast receiver receives a media stream. A person purchases the goods and services by indicating on a device the desire to purchase. The device can capture a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080162299 - System for brand name gift card exchange: The present invention provides for exchanging a gift card. Data associated with a first gift card is provided. The data associated with the first gift card is validated. With a money rebate associated with the first gift card, or a second gift card is selected. The first gift card is... Agent: Gregory W. Carr

20080162297 - Systems and methods for virtual consignment in an e-commerce marketplace: There are provided methods and system for facilitating relationships in an e-commerce marketplace. For example, in one embodiment, there is provided a computerized method for providing virtual consignment in an e-commerce system, including receiving a request to establish a virtual consignment for an item, transmitting an offer price from a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162305 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for a product manipulation and modification interface: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods and systems for a product manipulation and modification interface. Described herein are functionalities facilitating online procurement, shopping, transacting, editing and/or modification, and/or the like of goods and services across international borders, including a host of integrated tools for navigating the complexities of... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080162302 - Method and system for listing categorization: Embodiments of a method and system for listing categorization are disclosed. A category structure may be accessed. The category structure may include a plurality of categories for items. A set of training data may be accessed from a plurality of listings from at least one of supply data and/or demand... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162304 - Methods and apparatus for selling shipping services through a mediator's web site: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for enabling buyers, sellers and shipping companies (or carriers) to exchange goods, services and communications, through a system provided by a third party entity, referred to herein as the “mediator”. Particular to the present invention is to enable buyers to openly... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080162307 - Open, neutral electronic distribution system for digital content providing distribution channel support to publishers and retailers and abstract fulfillment for publishers: An online service and system are provided through which digital content publishers can package, protect, market and sell their content through on-line retailers, and through which on-line retailers can both build a unique inventory of digital content with all associated marketing metadata to sell through their on-line stores and seamlessly... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080162306 - Systems and methods for performing priority reservations and transactions: A reservation system for performing priority reservations and transactions, such as real estate reservations and transactions. In one embodiment, the reservation system can receive a reservation request from a potential buyer for reserving a next available priority number on an interest list. In some embodiments, the reservation system can create... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080162303 - Variable month cross-platform photo calendar builder: A system and method for ordering a print of a digitally represented still image on a calendar using a remote computer is provided. The system includes a remote computer connected to a photofinisher through a network. A computer readable medium is located on the photofinisher and has computer-executable instructions for... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080162308 - Creation and use of automated, agent-free baseline inventory of assets system: Methods of doing business which revolve around an automated computer-based, agentless asset discovery system to develop inventory information for use in various business processes. The automated inventory information is developed for multiple data centers to be consolidated into one data center to aid in the consolidation and an automated inventory... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish, A Law Corporation

20080162309 - Method of managing life stories: System, method, and apparatus for users in an online computer system to write and keep in perpetuity their life Stories, Legacies, and Memorials and tie them together with relationships within social networks. A computer system collects data in the form of text or uploaded files entered by an individual who... Agent: John Nielsen Randick O'dea & Tooliatos, LLP

20080162310 - System and method for creating and implementing community defined presentation structures: A presentation configuration system may receive metadata from multiple users utilizing tax preparation applications. The metadata may be tags or labels of interview segments of the tax preparation applications. The presentation configuration system may create community defined presentation structures from the metadata such that the community defined presentation structure includes... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Intuit, Inc.

20080162311 - Process and system for web-based evaluated receipt settlement of invoices: A method for web-based evaluated receipt settlement of a invoice, the method comprising: generating a purchase order number for a product; shipping of the product to customer by supplier; issuing of a receipt settlement via an Internet or Intranet to the customer; determining if a shipping notice exists to receive... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080162322 - Automated return item re-clear: Automatically, electronically re-clearing returned checks for payment and presentment. A check processing entity includes a check processing system. A re-clear module of the check processing system receives electronic information regarding a check returned by a receiving institution. The re-clear module automatically determines whether the check is eligible for re-clearing, i.e.,... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080162314 - Financial product: This invention provides various financial products and methods of investing. According to a first aspect an investor is able to invest funds that are linked to a commodity, and the investor is then able to switch from one currency to another. According to a second aspect, the investor is able... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080162313 - Integrated communication solution: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and machine-readable media for integrating communications between multiple systems and/or processes related to different aspects of financial transactions of a consumer. Generally speaking, an integrated communications engine can be communicatively coupled with and adapted to manage communications between a plurality of routines... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080162317 - Method and apparatus for integrated payments processing and decisioning for internet transactions: A method and apparatus provides a decisioning solution for merchants accepting Internet transactions, integrated with means for processing payments electronically. The invention claimed herein provides features, such as, but not limited to, electronic transfer of funds, authentication of parties, seemless integration with merchant's Web page, and reporting of suspicious activity.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080162312 - Method and system for monitoring secure applet events during contactless rfid/nfc communication: A system (211) and method (400) for reliable monitoring of secure applet events is provided. The system can include a Near Field Communication (NFC) modem (140) for communicating transaction events, a secure controller (200) for monitoring state transitions caused by the transaction events, and a mobile host (125) for receiving... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080162318 - Method of securely transferring funds via a mobile internet enabled device: A method and system are provided for the transferring of money from a first account to a second account using a mobile device having: a mobile device coupled to a world wide distributed computer network; a service module coupled to the world wide distributed computer network via a communications protocol;... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080162315 - Methods and systems for an alternative payment platform: Methods and systems are provided for providing an alternative payment platform, including method and systems for providing a platform for presenting an alternate offer to a user who is engaged with a primary offer and receiving an indication of the user's engagement with the alternate offer, wherein the user's engagement... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162316 - Methods and systems for an alternative payment platform: Methods and systems are provided for providing an alternative payment platform, including method and systems for providing a platform for presenting an alternate offer to a user who is engaged with a primary offer and receiving an indication of the user's engagement with the alternate offer, wherein the user's engagement... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162321 - System and method for processing duplicative electronic check return files: Processing duplicate items in image cash letter (“ICL”) return files for efficient handling. A duplicate item processing module can receive ICL return files comprising items representing duplicate electronic checks. The duplicate item processing module can determine whether the processing entity erroneously presented the item more than once. The duplicate item... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080162319 - System and method for processing duplicative electronic check reversal files: Processing duplicate items in image cash letter (“ICL”) reversal files for efficient handling. A duplicate item processing module can receive ICL reversal files comprising items representing duplicate electronic checks. The duplicate item processing module can determine whether the processing entity erroneously presented the item more than once. The duplicate item... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080162323 - System and method for providing online education: A system and method for creating and offering online courses and classes provides a computer program accessible over a computer network. The program includes a template for creating a course by assigning predefined attributes and/or parameters, and by adding lessons, activities, and/or material in conformance with predetermined rules. A selected... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.l.c.

20080162320 - Systems and methods for preventing duplicative electronic check processing: Preventing duplicate ICL files and/or ICL file elements, including duplicate ICLs, items, and item bundles, from being processed for payment and/or presentment. A duplicate detection module can assign a predictable and repeatable unique identifier to each ICL file and/or ICL file element. The duplicate detection module can determine whether each... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080162375 - Computer-based aggregated securities investment service: A computer-based aggregated security investment service interacts with one or more customers via one or more communication links. The service allows multiple customers to execute aggregated purchase orders of securities in dollar increments. Customers setting up accounts have the ability to select numerous different types of individual, joint, conventional, or... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080162376 - Limited network for facilitating communication of information relevant to analysis of a selected industry element: A method and network system is provided for limited communication of information relevant to analysis of a potential investment. A community manager facilitates open source information gatherings for particular subjects relevant to the investment decision and includes organizing a limited community forum of investment analysts interested in the particular subject... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080162378 - Method and system for displaying a current market depth position of an electronic trade on a graphical user interface: A method and system for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for electronic trading with display of an estimated execution position in a current market depth display list of electronic trades. The method and system via the GUI allow a current market depth position in a list of electronic trades... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.c.

20080162372 - Methods and systems for generating an investment trust comprising neutralized securities: Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of selecting a targeted investment fund from a plurality of investment funds; retrieving a filter associated with the targeted investment fund, in which the filter comprises one or more criteria for evaluating... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080162374 - System and method for investment in a portfolio of entertaiment productions: The invention relates to a system and method for raising a fund from investors for the purposes of distributing to a portfolio of startup investments, where each startup investment within the portfolio has been separately capitalized. Additionally, the invention relates to a system and method for investing in a milestone... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080162373 - System and method for monitoring accounts with insurance benefits: A method for providing an investment account comprises storing an account associated with an owner, wherein the account comprises a plurality of instruments. The account is associated with a current value based at least in part on the plurality of instruments and with a base amount that is periodically adjusted... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080162377 - System and method of managing cash and suggesting transactions in a multi-strategy portfolio: According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a system for managing an investment portfolio that is associated with at least two investment strategies, at least one of the investment strategies providing a strategy change in respect of a non-cash position by explicitly or implicitly specifying a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080162329 - Auction for each individual ad impression: In one aspect, there is provided a method for polling, by a script at a browser, one or more servers by sending messages to the one or more servers. The one or more messages may solicit one or more bids for presenting an ad at the browser. The one or... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080162334 - Complementary trading of interests: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically proposing currency exchange, hedging, and other trades in financial interests. A trader proposing or accepting a trade in a financial interest is presented with terms of or a prompt regarding a proposed complementary trade in a related interest.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080162335 - Gas engine electric power generating system effectively utilizing greenhouse gas emission credit: A gas engine electric power generating system in which an electric power generating apparatus including an electric power generator connected with a gas engine of a pilot fuel oil ignition type is installed near a coal mine. Recovered methane gas and ventilated methane gas from the mine are introduced into... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080162331 - Method and apparatus for a trading market design and deployment system: Conducting an auction is disclosed. Instructions specifying a market phase for an auction are received. An auction allocation policy is defined based at least in part on the instructions. A first bid is received during the market phase of the auction. The first bid price is automatically adjusted based on... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080162333 - Method and interface for presenting last traded quantity information: Trading software may receive trading information from an exchange. The trading software may use the trading information to compute an estimate of last traded total sweep quantity. The trading software may also display the last traded total sweep quantity on a trading screen.... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20080162332 - Method and system for controlling the initiation and duration of overtime interval in electronic auctions: A method and system for conducting electronic auctions is described. A dynamic lot closing extension feature avoids collisions in closing times of multiple lots by dynamically extending the closing time of a subsequent lot if a preceding lot's closing time is extended to be too close to the subsequent lot's... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080162328 - Method of determining an exchange allocation that promotes truthful bidding and improves the obtainment of exchange objectives: In an apparatus and method of solving a combinatorial exchange, a plurality of candidate allocations of input bids is determined from input bids and a set of bid vectors is formed from the input bids. A probability value, representing how likely the bids of a bid vector will comprise the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080162330 - Method, apparatus, and system for bidding in rounds: A method of conducting an auction in at least two rounds is disclosed. The method includes conducting the first auction round, applying a rule to an occurrence in the first auction round, and conducting the second auction round in accordance with the application of the rule to the occurrence in... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080162327 - Methods and systems for supplier quality management: An automated supplier quality management system includes tools to support standardized supplier quality assessments and storage and searching of supplier profiles. Supplier information can be filtered and sorted to provide qualification of suppliers, such as contract manufacturers or other suppliers. In some embodiments, supplier quality management can include the use... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.a.

20080162324 - System and method for controlled market data delivery in an electronic trading environment: A system and methods for controlled market data delivery are described. According to one example embodiment, upon detecting a preset threshold of updates in a queue at a gateway, a predetermined number of market updates may be processed before any data is sent to a client terminal. According to one... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20080162325 - Systems and methods for automatically backing out buy orders: A system and method for identifying a candidate set of at least one buy order associated with an investment account, determining a back out target value that identifies a fiscal amount by which the candidate set must to be reduced, and progressively decrementing a respective initial asset quantity of one... Agent: Sutherland Ii

20080162326 - Systems and methods for automatically backing out buy orders: A system and method for identifying a candidate set of one or more buy orders associated with an investment account, ordering the buy orders in the candidate set into a chain, determining a back out target value that identifies a fiscal amount by which the candidate set must be reduced,... Agent: Sutherland Ii

20080162338 - Method and system for mitigating risk of fraud in internet banking: A method and system are provided for mitigating the risk of fraud in Internet banking. In an embodiment comprising an end user seeking access to the Internet banking site of a financial institution, the end user having already satisfied a first authentication requirement (such as providing a valid user id... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20080162336 - Shared appreciation mortgage loan system and method: The present invention is a shared appreciation mortgage (SAM) loan finance system which establishes for a shared appreciation mortgage loan: a term (n); an interest rate (ri); a value of a real property at the time of origination of the SAM loan (vo); a borrower's invested equity (eb); a loan... Agent: Rubenstein & Glazer, Llc

20080162337 - System and methods for trading complex financial products: A system for managing the formation of and transactions relating to a syndicated loan is described which provides an interface for all active and prospective participants of a syndicated loan to interact with the system an each other, thereby making the syndication process more efficient and dynamic. In addition, a... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP.

20080162339 - System and method for creating, funding and using a dedicated bank account for a specific subsequent transaction: The invention provides a system and method for the creation of a special purpose gift bond account for the purchase of specific subsequent transaction. A card and card carrier are created and a donor purchases the card and card carrier to give to a recipient who completes online HTML forms... Agent: Tabbatha Lawe

20080162340 - Integrating enterprise information technology systems with a third-party on-line payment system: Techniques for displaying a graphical user interface operable to receive user input specifying a payment to be made to a payee and a payment method to be used to make the payment are described. The payment method is one of multiple ways of making the payment using the graphical user... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162341 - Paying multiple payees through integration of a third-party on-line payment system with an enterprise information technology system: Techniques for displaying a graphical user interface operable to receive user input specifying payments to be made are described. Each payment identifies a payee and a payment method to be used to make the payment. The techniques include making a determination as to whether any of the specified payments involve... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162342 - Methods and apparatus for funding transactions using debit cards issued by one institution and funds from accounts at other institutions: Methods and apparatus for funding transactions are presented herein. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an account information unit to store information about an account, the account being associated with a first financial institution. The apparatus can also include a transaction processor to receive a request for a debit amount,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162350 - Electronic purchasing and funds transfer systems and methods: An electronic transaction method, funds transfer apparatus and method for facilitating a funds transfer. The methods comprise sending information from a purchaser or payor to a funds transfer system separate from a vendor system or payee, validating and confirming personal financial information at the funds transfer system, and transferring funds... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080162348 - Electronic-purse transaction method and system: Users (302,403,406) of a bank (332,324)put funds into user credit account (112,114,116,118) from which the funds can be transferred to a consolidated e-purse ban account (120) within the bank (332,324). The consolidated e-pures bank account (120) i mirrored in a e-purse database (204), but with fund allocated to different e-purese... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Pllc

20080162344 - Method and system for enterprise software having direct debit mandates: A system and method for providing a financial software system to various actors in the financial supply chain to facilitate transactions and communications. Specifically, direct debit mandates may be modeled as a business or process object with generic services that can be consumed from other applications deployed at various actors... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080162343 - Method and system for user payment account management: Embodiments of a method and system for user payment account management in a networked system are disclosed. User information regarding a user, an account identifier, and a server location may be received from a merchant application. The account identifier may identify the user to the merchant application. An underwriting process... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162349 - Method of collecting money or resources from a group of contributors: A method of collecting money or resources from a group of contributors includes accepting a pledge from a first contributor, authorizing the pledge, and converting the authorized pledge to a payment. The pledge provides pledge information including an amount of money pledged and a method of payment. The pledge is... Agent: Schox Plc

20080162345 - Network-based payment system pre-funded accounts: Some embodiments may provide a method comprising creating a first funded account, associating the first funded account with a first account identifier, receiving a valid activation message including the first account identifier, and, in response to receiving the valid activation message, placing the first funded account into an active state,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162347 - System and method for effecting auction item payments through a network portal: A merchant/seller portal enables sellers of auction items on Internet auction sites to obtain cash payments from buyers identified only by their buyer pseudonyms. The portal includes an open network interface, a seller database in which data associated with a seller are stored, a buyer manager for verifying auction purchase... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20080162346 - User terminal location based credit card authorization servers, systems, methods and computer program products: Credit card transaction servers, systems, methods and computer program products receive information concerning a prospective credit card transaction with one of multiple credit card issuers and obtain location information from multiple wireless network providers for wireless terminal(s) that are associated with a user of the credit card for the prospective... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080162351 - Check conversion plus: A system for merchants to electronically process statistically-analyzed checks and receive payment on the same electronically from a third-party service provider while the image of the check writer's check is stored electronically and the payment itself is presented through the normal check-processing system.... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080162352 - Health maintenance system: Disclosed is a health maintenance system for comprehensive health assessment, abnormality detection, health monitoring, health pattern and trend detection, health strategy development, and health history archiving. The health maintenance system comprises a subscriber segment and a system segment, communicatively coupled. The subscriber segment acquires subscriber personal and health data from... Agent: Theodore M. Gizewski

20080162354 - Method for determining the price of superdistributed recordings: A method, apparatus or tangible computer medium (which stores computer executable code or program code) performs or facilitates: receiving from a first remote device protected content along with pricing attribute information for the protected content; requesting access to the protected content from a second remote device, the requesting including transmitting... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080162353 - Personal digital rights management agent-server: Systems and methods that facilitate the management of digital content in a local environment between a limited number of parties. A digital rights management (DRM) agent-server can be created in hardware in which both the agent-server and agent are trusted. A content owner can send digital content along with a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080162355 - System and method for helping and verifying a signer to sign electronic orders: A computer-based method for helping and verifying a signer to sign electronic orders is provides. The method includes the steps of: selecting a batch of electronic orders that need to be signed by a designated signer whose digital certificate has been recorded in advance; setting an identity for each of... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080162356 - Portable electronic display device for viewing publications and method of using the same: A method and system for viewing and distributing publications such as newspapers, magazines, catalogs, books, and the like in electronic format is provided. A portable device downloads electronic publications from a distributor and allows a user to view downloaded electronic publications. The portable device tracks the usage of the downloaded... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080162357 - System and method for secure downhole intelligent completions: A flow control apparatus for controlling fluid flow in a petroleum reservoir. The flow control apparatus has a flow control mechanism, a controller operable to control the flow control mechanism to adjust fluid flow through the flow control mechanism, the controller comprising a processor operable to execute according to a... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20080162359 - Method of recording and reproducing sample data to/from a recording medium and sample data containing recording medium: The present invention provides according to an embodiment a method of reproducing content, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a digital content from an external source, the digital content protected by Digital Right Management (DRM) information, the DRM information authorizing a reproduction of the digital content; (b) requesting the DRM... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080162358 - System and method for securely storing and organizing sdars content with drm and non-drm protected media content, and for facilitating obtaining purchased or subscription-based media based on received sdars content: Disclosed are a device and method for securely storing and organizing SDARS content on a portable player. SDARS audio content is stored on a private partition of the device not available to a client PC. Shadow files are stored on a public partition of the device. The shadow files contain... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080162360 - Tracking, distribution and management of apportionable licenses granted for distributed software products: A computer controlled implementation for distributing portions of a license to use software entities, granted by a licensor to a primary licensee, to subsequent secondary licensees comprising determining a dividable value for the primary license to use a software entity, enabling the primary licensee to grant a portion of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080162361 - Method and system for monitoring secure application execution events during contactless rfid/nfc communication: A system (211) and method (300) for reliable monitoring of secure application execution events is provided. The system can include a Near Field Communication (NFC) modem (140) for communicating transaction events of a secure contactless transaction (358) with a NFC reader (170), a secure controller (200) for monitoring state transitions... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080162362 - Increasing transaction authenticity with product license keys: Client computer systems can add authenticity to electronic payment requests through use of software license keys. In one implementation, for example, a payment request originating from a requestor (e.g., client computer system, point of sale terminal) sends one or more license key identifiers to a payment validating entity along with... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080162363 - Information communication system, user management apparatus thereof, information providing apparatus thereof and user terminal apparatus thereof: In an information communication system, user personal information is batch-managed in a user management center apparatus. The center apparatus issues temporary information, which includes temporary user information and temporary authentication information, in response to a log-in request from a user terminal apparatus that designates a net-shop apparatus, and sends the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080162365 - Aggregate constraints for payment transactions: This document describes tools capable of authorizing or enabling authorization of multiple payment transactions without requiring that a buyer or seller authorize each transaction separately. The tools may do so by enabling a buyer or seller to select aggregate constraints, such as a total price or number of transactions. Based... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080162364 - Remote control of a security system using e-mail: A system and method for controlling a local security system from a remote location using e-mail. The system receives an e-mail message from a remote e-mail terminal that contains at least one control instruction for controlling the local security system authenticate the e-mail message based upon at least one authentication... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080162366 - Authentication data-enabled transfers: Some embodiments may provide a method comprising receiving an identification of an entity from a network-based commerce system and receiving authentication data associated with the entity from the network-based commerce system, a combination including the authentication data and the identification being operable to facilitate a transfer of value affecting a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080162367 - System for networked media distribution: The present system provides a method and system for the distribution of electronic media content from a ce