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

20080208611 - Addressing method for freight, cargo and mail: A delivery system for delivery of an item to an actual physical location by means of a virtual address selected by a recipient, is provided. The virtual address is associated with the actual physical address by means of a database.... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke

20080208606 - Dynamic price tracking for products and services in electronic commerce: A computing system for tracking price changes in assets like products and services includes a data storage device for storing executable code, and a processing system associated with the data storage device. The computing system receives an identity of an asset with a price that is subject to change over... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080208604 - Information processing system, information processing method and computer readable medium: An information processing system includes a receiving unit, a risk control matrix storage unit and a dummy control setting unit. The receiving unit receives assumed risks and controls corresponding to the assumed risks. The risk control matrix storage unit stores a risk control matrix in which a correspondence relation between... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080208614 - Management and publication of ideas for inventions accumulated in a computer database: A method of managing ideas includes the following steps: (a) maintaining a computer database for accumulating ideas for prospectively patentable inventions; (b) systematically establishing contractual obligations by contributors of said ideas to said database to transfer property rights to inventions respectively derived at least in part from said contributed ideas... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080208602 - Method and apparatus for an on-line building registry and organizer: The invention also comprises a method of automated data collection and construction management organization from a user comprising the steps of: receiving a request from a user machine to access an internet Web site having a program including a series of options including an organizer, wherein the Web site displays... Agent: Kristin C. Castle

20080208607 - Method and apparatus for providing customized contents based on terminal information: Provided is a method and apparatus for providing customized contents based on terminal information. The method includes obtaining information on a terminal that operates contents; if a user selects contents, determining whether the selected contents are available or if it is necessary to request a contents provider to provide the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080208616 - Method and system for supplier prioritization: A method and system for selecting potential bidders or suppliers for a current electronic auction by using quantitative models to create a prioritized list of potential suppliers. A prioritization software analyzes a supplier's bidding participation history and bidding competitiveness history from the bidding data collected for all prior auctions in... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080208613 - Method for digitally marking media content: A method of allowing a consumer to digitally mark portions of media content and later retrieve the marked portions uniquely keyed to that consumer, comprising the steps of: retrieving a sample of the media content; entering a unique identifier; keying the retrieved sample to the unique identifier; and at a... Agent: Briggs And Morgan P.a.

20080208612 - Method to develop new high net worth prospects and clients, and to maintain and manage clients and their business derived from the global equestrian community in a cost efficient and competitively enhanced manner for the financial institution: A method to identify and to access in a meaningful manner qualified prospects—clients derived from the Global Equestrian Community for global financial institutions offering private banking-wealth management services and other financial advisory services in a manner that reduces or minimizes the cost and inefficiency of new prospect—client development in an... Agent: James D. Whisenand

20080208615 - Methods and apparatus for performing task management based on user context: Task management techniques based on user context are provided. More particularly, techniques are presented for calculating task attribute values based on user context data. Once task attributes of a user have been determined, the tasks can be prioritized and a suggestion can be made to the user to perform the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080208610 - Methods and systems for script operations management: Systems and methods for detecting, reporting and repairing of damaged scripts used to obtain financial account information from financial institutions are described, along with systems and methods for improved communications to users of financial software of the status of repair efforts. The systems and methods provide for improved speed in... Agent: Kirton & Mcconkie A Professional Corporation, Attorneys At Law

20080208603 - Remotely managing enterprise resources: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for remotely managing enterprise resources. In some implementations, a method includes remotely receiving information associated with heterogeneous assets in an enterprise network. Transactions for remotely managing the heterogeneous assets are generated in response to at least the information. The management... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080208609 - Smart inspections: Systems and methods for customized vehicle inspections are provided. An inspection module is configured to receive data regarding vehicle repairs and repair recommendations from a variety of data sources. From the received data, the inspection module analyzes the repair recommendation and/or repair data indicated in the data received from the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080208608 - System and method for exchanging cases entrusted to expert by clients: Disclosed therein are a system and method for exchanging cases entrusted to experts by clients, which can maximize expertise by exchanging cases entrusted by clients with experts in an expert group in a one-to-one manner. The system for exchanging cases entrusted to experts by clients in which experts in expert... Agent: Weiner & Burt, P.c.

20080208605 - Systems and methods for responding to the occurrence of an event: The system and method provide a business continuity application to a portion of a displaced workforce of an organization when an event occurs. The business continuity application, executing on a server within a data center, is used to define a response scenario to the occurrence of an event. The business... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080208617 - Wireless telephone data backup system: A system for backing up data on a wireless telephone having a data store containing a user's personal information. A method and application are provided.... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP Attn: Thomas B. Haverstock

20080208620 - Information access to self-describing data framework: An overall health strategy system that can change consumer behavior by providing an integrated data platform together with individualized third-party services which leverage the data to supply health-related advice, care and products is provided. An interconnected health-related data network can be leveraged in order to proactively (or retroactively) analyze and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080208618 - Medical information system: A medical information system receives patient data and information from various sources and displays such information in a variety of formats for use by member of a medical team in a hospital, clinic, or office. The system receives patient information from doctors, pharmacists, patient monitoring equipment, testing laboratories, and/or computer... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080208622 - Method of delivery of care for assisted living facilities: The present invention relates to methods and tools for the delivery and administration of care to residents of an assisted living facility. The health of elderly residents almost always declines after moving to an assisted living facility, and up until now, a high level of medical care and the integration... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP/los Angeles

20080208624 - Methods and systems for providing clinical display and search of electronic medical record data from a variety of information systems: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for providing clinical display and search of electronic medical data from a variety of information systems. Certain embodiments provide a user interface system including a processor aggregating data relating to a patient from a plurality of information systems to form... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080208626 - Novel methods and systems for prescribing sample prescriptions: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing sample prescriptions electronically and creating a complete data set of information regarding the life-cycle of the sample prescription. In one embodiment, a sample prescription system comprises a management module that stores files corresponding to sample prescriptions. Each corresponding file is linked to a... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080208627 - Securing pairing of electronic devices: The present invention relates to secure paring of electronically controlled devices adapted to communicate with each other. The invention provides a system comprising a local (200) unit and a remote (100) unit. The local unit comprises a local transmitter (270), a local receiver (280), a local sensor (290), and a... Agent: Novo Nordisk, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080208621 - Self-describing data framework: A system that can enable establishment of a self-describing data network is provided. Generally, the innovation provides a mechanism by which self-describing data can be collected, validated and stored in such a way that permits each data element to be inherently self-describing. The manner in which the data is stored... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080208623 - System and method for determining and displaying acuity levels for patients: A system and method for calculating and displaying an acuity level for a patient is provided. A single indication from a user specifying a care needs assessment for a patient is received. A single indication from a user specifying an assessment of activities of daily living for the patient is... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080208619 - System and method for evaluating healthcare information technology: A method for evaluating a healthcare information system includes first determining a first specification for the healthcare information system. The first specifications may include healthcare profile data for specifying a profile of a healthcare provider, technology profile data for specifying a profile of technology resources, and performance data for measuring... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080208628 - System and method for targeted healthcare messaging: A system and method for targeted healthcare messaging is provided. The system includes a central targeted messaging server for receiving targeted advertisements or messages, such as information about one or more clinical trials, from a plurality of data sources, a notification database for storing the targeted messages and associated, pre-defined... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080208625 - Xds registry and repository for multiple affinity domains: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a health information system. The health information system includes a hub, first affinity domain, and a second affinity domain. The hub includes a registry, a data repository, and a patient identity manager. Each of the first and second affinity domains includes a data... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080208635 - Data maintenance via patient monitoring technique: Exemplary embodiments provide a verification technique that facilitates administration of a health-related procedure to an intended recipient patient or group of patients. An interface template or signal protocol may be configured to establish suitable matching between the patient and various types of objects used to administer the health-related procedure. In... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080208634 - Electronic method and system that improves efficiencies for rendering diagnosis of radiology procedures: An electronic method and system for improving radiologists' efficiencies when viewing radiology procedures and rendering diagnosis in a manner that emulates current methods and apparatus. The method of the present invention includes reviewing electronic radiology images and reports contained in a patient's digital master folder (an information object invented to... Agent: Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.l.p.

20080208632 - Freezing a network- delivered healthcare questionnaire: A network-delivered healthcare questionnaire may be frozen to prevent misinformation and confusion between a healthcare provider and a patient during a medical course of treatment. A patient accesses the questionnaire regarding an event such as a test or procedure during the patent's course of treatment. The patient submits responses to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080208633 - Logical interface for medical record data mining: In accordance with an embodiment, a logical interface for mining medical data records comprises a data processor for receiving input of a selection of criteria for a medical records query, a database of medical records, responsive to a query, for outputting patient medical record data responsive to the query, and... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20080208629 - Medical information and data management system: A computer-implemented method administers medical care for a plurality of onsite clinics. Preexisting medical data is aggregated to generate a plurality of gross health care expenses which are organized according to each of a plurality of health conditions. Each of the plurality of gross health care expenses is prioritized according... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080208630 - Methods and systems for accessing a saved patient context in a clinical information system: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for saving and accessing a saved patient context within a clinical information system via a user interface. Certain embodiments provide a clinical information system displaying electronic patient information. The system includes a user interface displaying at least one or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080208631 - Methods and systems for providing clinical documentation for a patient lifetime in a single interface: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for comprehensive clinical documentation of patient lifetime via a unified interface. Certain embodiments provide a user interface system displaying an electronic patient record. The system includes a timeline representation of a patient record. The timeline includes a plurality of data... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080208640 - Collateral damage limits: A method for marketing and insuring 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 are... Agent: Bruce Bradford Thomas

20080208636 - Keychain information tag: An information tag is provided that enables important vehicle insurance information and identification to be kept on a keychain or analogous object, for example. In one illustrative embodiment, an information tag includes a card, an aperture in the card, and a set of content disposed on the card, wherein the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080208637 - Method and system for assessing environmental risk associated with parcel of real property: Disclosed is a system and method for assessing environmental risk associated with a parcel of real property through the form of reports which can be generated without the significant expense and time delay of a physical site inspection. Also disclosed is a method to facilitate contaminated land transactions by reports... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080208638 - Methods and systems for administration of funds: A method of administering access to funds in at least one account for which disbursement of funds from the account requires meeting qualifications includes the acts of providing a computer interface via which at least one member can log onto a system; determining if the member is eligible for disbursement... Agent: Bartony & Hare, LLP

20080208639 - System and method for processing warranty claims: A software and/or hardware facility for enabling warranty claims processing between warrantors and warrantees. The facility allows a warrantee to identify if a particular product or service is covered by a warranty, and to make a warranty claim for such covered product or service. Upon submission of a warranty claim,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080208642 - Interactive optical cards and other hand-held devices with increased connectivity: A system for deriving benefits from the reception and processing of composite video signals by a hand-held device, such as a smart card. Video signals are modulated with auxiliary data creating composite video signals. The composite video signals are then transmitted to and received by a hand-held device. The auxiliary... Agent: Peter S. Gilster Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.c.

20080208641 - Remote customisation module and system comprising said module: A remote customisation module for a logic engine, running upon a server remote from said logic engine, comprises a communication interface arranged to communicate with the logic engine and with an application running upon said server. The module also comprises a logic element arranged to receive an incoming request for... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080208643 - Follow your stars: The invention allows delivering, to end-users of websites proposing series of events or organizing meetings, the best comprehensive, i.e., home to home, travel packages for each one of the proposed events or meetings so that they are aware of all opportunities and travel consequences (overall durations and costs, overnight stays... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080208644 - Apparatus and method for measuring service performance: A method for measuring satisfaction within a service environment including the steps of modeling contractual customer service relationships using a hierarchical composition model with discrete abstract elements, creating and distributing customer perception surveys having questions, wherein the questions are dynamically generated from a computer database based on events within the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080208653 - Computer networks: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of analysing a computer infrastructure providing a service, an intended quality level of the service being defined by at least one service level objective defining a service level quality objective and a related compliance level, the computer... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080208648 - Constraints-based analysis and strategy planning methods and tools: Disclosed herein are methods and related tools for assisting users in analyzing and identifying various constraints that limit the impact of business growth strategies, and for helping those users identify, research, and/or implement strategies in light of identified constraints. More particularly, disclosed are information management methods and electronic computing tools... Agent: Accenture, LLP C/o Hogan & Hartson, LLP (ipgroup)

20080208662 - Goods information display system, method, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof: Setting input unit 12 receives from a user an input concerning setting of conditions for selecting goods for topics of display, and registers the inputted setting information in a setting information storage 22. Goods selector 14 selects goods for topics of display on the basis of sales information recorded in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080208647 - Information technologies operations performance benchmarking: A proactive IT infrastructure support system is set forth which provides operations performance benchmarking. The operations performance benchmarking makes use of data that is available from a direct supply model. The operations performance benchmarking collects, analyzes, and formats the data into a single, easy-to-use interface that provides customers an ability... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080208651 - Lead disbursement system and method: A method includes associating a lead with a subset of participants from a plurality of participants. The associating is performed based on a criteria list. A priority is determined for each participant from the subset of participants. A capacity coefficient is determined for each participant from the subset of participants.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080208659 - Method and apparatus combining control theory and business performance management: A control methodology and component in Business Performance Management (BPM) Systems. This enables firms to exploit control theoretic techniques for Business Performance Management. Information from BPM systems is used to calibrate models of the business process. This model is then used to assess and optimize control actions to manage business... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080208663 - Method and apparatus for providing a benefit during a transaction for use during a later transaction: A method and apparatus for allowing a customer to purchase or otherwise receive a benefit during a first transaction that will be redeemed by the customer or provided to the customer at a later time or during a future transaction for the purchase, rental, lease, etc. of one or more... Agent: Walker Digital Management, Llc

20080208654 - Method and apparatus for site and building selection: A site/building decision facilitating apparatus including a database that correlates building characteristics with business driver factors, a processor linked to the database and running a program to perform the following acts: receiving business driver factor information for a first building project via an input device and identifying a subset of... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080208658 - Method and system for estimating supply impact on a firm under a global crisis: The availability of relevant business resources, or supply, during a global crisis or disruption are estimated by using a forecast of a baseline supply of human resources and various forms of infrastructure and raw materials for a firm as input. That forecast is corrected to account for the impact of... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080208655 - Method and system for generating documentation and approvals for entities and transactions and generating current and historical reporting related thereto: The enterprise database system provides methods, data, and user interfaces for generating approvals and documentation related to forming or acquiring an entity or to initiating a transaction involving an entity. The system also provides the ability to store entity or transaction information in a historical database for retrieval. The system... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) Llc

20080208661 - Method and system of using anrtifacts to identify elements of a component business model: A method and system are described for using business artifacts to identify elements of a component business model. Artifacts operated upon by the business are first identified, and then used to analyze the business into business operations. This is done by identifying every business activity that acts on an artifact,... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c Suite 340

20080208652 - Method and system utilizing online analytical processing (olap) for making predictions about business locations: A method and system that utilizes OLAP and supporting data structures for making predictions about business locations. The method includes providing a spatial map and analyzing heterogeneous data having a spatial component to find utilizable data. Relationships are automatically extracted from the utilizable data by employing machine learning. The step... Agent: Kevin H. Fortin

20080208646 - Method for increasing productivity and safety in the mining and heavy construction industries: A method for increasing productivity and safety in the mining and heavy construction industries comprising: evaluating equipment operator skills; correlating the evaluated operator skills to skill levels; calculating an average site skill level; correlating the average site skill level to an incident rate; establishing equipment costs based on the incident... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease

20080208645 - Method for logic tree traversal: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for traversing a business object tree and an associated policy object tree. The traversal determines determine all ancestral business objects to any one business object of interest. The traversal also determines all policy objects associated with the ancestral objects or... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080208657 - Method, apparatus and software for managing the generation of process events by a software process: A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for managing the generation of process events generated by a software process for supply to a process monitoring system, in which the generation of process events can be enabled or disabled on a group basis.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080208664 - Optimization of class scheduling under demand uncertainty: A stochastic integer programming based constrained optimization technique enables optimal allocation of classrooms and instructors to requested classes associated with cancellation probabilities. An analytical tool allows optimization of overall operational revenue/profit under different planning scenarios involving chaining of various classes, prerequisite relationships, and inter-class spacing requirements. This system allows the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080208649 - Secure information sharing architecture, processes and tools for post merger integration: Disclosed herein are architectures and related processes and tools for enabling secure information sharing during the regulatory review period of mergers and acquisitions. A secure information sharing architecture and related processes and tools is provided that facilitates data gathering and information organizing to accelerate the post merger integration process for... Agent: Accenture, LLP C/o Hogan & Hartson, LLP (ipgroup)

20080208660 - System and method for analyzing and managing business performance: A system and method for analyzing and managing business performance by designing and evaluating the performance of a business process model comprising a flow of business tasks and artifact sources that generate business artifacts. Business processes may be parsed to identify transformation opportunities meeting transformation conditions specified in a transformation... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080208650 - Tracking telecommunication expenses: The present disclosure is directed to tracking telecommunication expenses. In some implementations, a method includes aggregating data associated with telecommunication services used by an employee. One or more policies of an enterprise are automatically identified for evaluating the used services. The enterprise policies are associated with the employee. A violation... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080208656 - Vehicle managing method, vehicle managing apparatus and vehicle managing program: A method is disclosed for performing comprehensive management for vehicles owned by clients, including an appropriate number of vehicles to be operated and appropriate operation methods, instead of simple maintenance and management of the vehicles, and according to this method, a vehicle managing apparatus, a client terminal, a workshop terminal... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080208666 - Business process modeling to facilitate collaborative data submission: Technologies are described herein for modeling business processes that facilitate the collaborative submission of data in a WFM system by modeling business processes in terms of cycles and assignments. A cycle defines a scenario for the business process along with a window of time in which the business process should... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208669 - Hotel system and method: A hotel system and method is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a hotel is located on one or more floors of a building that is primarily used for purposes other than lodging services, and the size of the hotel and/or its facilities and/or services are scaled to primarily meet the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080208668 - Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating monetization rights and access and optimizing the value of digital content: A method and apparatus dynamically allocates monetization access and optimizes the value of digital content by managing the access rights and monetization rights, delivery, measurement and by accounting for advertising, promotion and digital messaging within, over, and around digital content across a distributed network of business entities and a distributed... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080208667 - Method for multi-sourcing technology based services: A computer implemented method of assigning responsibility for multi-sourced technology based services, the method including the steps of: defining a plurality of service delivery functions, defining collections of services that are to be provided by several service providers, providing metrics associating the service delivery functions with the collections of services,... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080208670 - Method, system, and storage medium for performing business process modeling: Exemplary embodiments include a method for performing business process modeling. The method includes identifying capabilities, activities, and requirements associated with a business problem or an opportunity. The activities are operable for implementing the capabilities and the capabilities are operable for resolving the business problem or exploiting the opportunity. For each... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080208665 - Organizational project management maturity development methods and systems: Methods and computer program products for developing an organization's project management skills through assessment of its project management maturity based on a set of organizations project management best practices is disclosed. To assess an organization's project management maturity, an assessment scope is defined within a set of organizational project management... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080208672 - Method and system for web-based support subscriptions: Embodiments pertain generally to a method for providing subscription services based on virtual machines. The method includes providing for a service portal for users to subscribe to subscription services for at least one of technical support and software based on the virtual machines and providing the subscription services based on... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080208671 - System and method for matching people and jobs using social network metrics: A computer-implement method and the associated system of computing resources provides an automated work force management capability that optimizes work assignments for individual workers using work force management techniques in combination with social networking analysis (SNA). The work force management attributes are enhanced using SNA. Bipartite graphing processes are used... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080208675 - Directory assistance with sms and data support: The current invention is a system for providing directory assistance service in which a user sends a request to the system and the system will, based on the request, return one or more advertisements. The user may select one of the advertisements, which may be in a visible or audible... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080208678 - Generating an optimized price schedule for a product: Generating a price schedule involves generating a graph having paths that include states with values. The graph is generated by determining the values of a successor state from the values of a predecessor state. An optimal path is selected, and a price schedule is determined from the optimal path. Computing... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080208676 - Integration of multiple consumer communications: A system, computer program product and method including delivering an initial promotion to a customer, determining a status of the initial promotion delivered, selecting a related promotion based on the status of the initial promotion determined, and delivering the related promotion to the customer. The related promotion is selected based... Agent: Neifeld Ip Law, Pc

20080208677 - Method and system for evaluating customers of a financial institution using customer relationship value tags: A computerized method and system for evaluating customers of a financial institution using customer relationship value tags associated customer treatment actions includes automatically analyzing information about a customer from a database of the financial institution by a customer assessment engine using a predefined statistical model to assess the value of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 76615

20080208673 - System and method for providing a sample of a product to shoppers: A system and method for providing a sample of a product to shoppers is disclosed. A card reader (115) is provided for reading a shopper's card to identify the shopper and a targeted list (111) of promotions for that shopper can be generated by a printer (116). Sample products which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080208679 - System and program product for selecting a supplier: Under the present invention, componentized costs for providing/producing an item are collected from a plurality of suppliers. The componentized costs include the fixed and variable costs associated with raw materials and production for providing the item according to various specifications and order quantities. When a buyer wishes to obtain the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080208674 - Targeting advertising content in a virtual universe (vu): In general, the present invention allows advertising content to be targeted in a VU. Specifically, users' VU inventories that include visible assets are made available to an advertiser or other third party. This asset information is analyzed by the other party to determine the user's potential real world interests. Based... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080208680 - Driveon pay(tm) as wimax-compatible menu-driven dashtop mobile payment platform: DriveOn Pay™ is a location-based Privacy-friendly dashtop mobile payment platform (DMPP), based on mobile WiMAX IEEE 802-16e-2005. It is an all-in-one solution geared to integrate all other dashtop gadgets in view of the growing necessity of the real-time bridge syncing cyberworld and real world, which is central to mobile broadband... Agent: Kyu Hwang Cho

20080208681 - Payment using a mobile device: A mobile device is provided with payment data to enable the mobile device to complete a purchase transaction at a collection terminal. The mobile device requests and receives a payment data value over a wireless network to configure the mobile device as an electronic wallet such that a subsequent purchase... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080208685 - Advertisement planning and payment in a virtual universe (vu): the present invention provides an approach for planning and paying for advertisements in a VU. Specifically, under the present invention, it is first determined which sections of a region of the VU (referred to herein as “portions” or the VU), and which avatars are most viewed. This data is the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080208690 - Advertisement system using mash-up map and method thereof: A map advertisement system and method by using a mash-up map advertisement is provided, which can operate various advertisement cost billing policies. The map advertisement system includes an advertisement management unit for generating an advertisement layer and an identifier of the advertisement layer based on advertisement information including geographic location... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080208694 - Concession tray: A concession tray that selectively supports a plurality of concessions or light-weight items in a substantially horizontal position relative to a stadium seat. Generally, the concession tray comprises a supporting tray portion, a transitional mechanism, and/or a coupling mechanism. The tray portion comprises a substantially planar surface configured to support... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080208684 - Invocation of advertisements in a virtual universe (vu): The present invention provides an approach to invoke advertisement(s) in a VU. Specifically, an advertisement is virtually associated with a user of the virtual space. The advertisement will then be visually referenced in the VU, and optionally distinguished/highlighted (e.g., using visual effects such as colors, icons, flashing icons, etc.). The... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080208686 - Method and system for computer-implemented marketing by a small number of advertisers doing business in a single market: In a class of embodiments, a method of computer-implemented marketing including the steps of providing a web page that includes distinct advertising space for each of N advertisers doing business in a single market but not for any other advertiser, where 1≦N≦8 and the advertising space for each of the... Agent: Attn: Alfred A. Equitz Girard & Equitz LLP

20080208693 - Method and system of facilitating a purchase between a buyer and a seller: A computerized system and/or method of facilitating a purchase between a buyer and a seller, comprising: a computer storing personal information from a buyer; the computer utilizing the information to assign an account identifier to the buyer, the account identifier not including the personal information of the buyer; the computer... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080208688 - Methods and systems for handling of mobile discount certificates using mobile devices: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for handling of mobile discount certificates, including integrating databases of consumer information, product information, discount certificate information, and other useful data with the ubiquitous personal communications networks accessible by the modern consumer. According to one embodiment, a method for handling mobile discount... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208689 - Prepaid financial account up-front incentives management system and method: A system and method for providing an incentive to holders of financial accounts, e.g., prepaid account holders, to engage in certain activities with those accounts. Account holders may be provided an up-front incentive based on a commitment to engage in certain account activities in the future, such as to refrain... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.c. Attn: Linda Kasulke, Docket Coordinator

20080208683 - Providing preferred treatment based on preferred conduct: A method, system and computer program product for encouraging a virtual world user to perform a conduct are disclosed. According an embodiment, a method for encouraging a virtual world user to perform a conduct comprises: monitoring the virtual world user with respect to the conduct; and providing an infrastructural treatment... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080208682 - Revenue generation and sharing for content sharing services: Generating advertising revenue for a content sharing service is provided herein. Content received from content contributors at a content sharing service is parsed to identify items for which affiliate advertising links may be provided. Affiliate advertising links are then added to the content based on the identified items. The affiliate... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080208691 - Server, advertisement distribution method, and program: According to the present invention, there is provided a server managing community service on network signed up by specific user. The server including a community management part managing at least one community and a category of the community generated in community service on network signed up by specific user, the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080208692 - Sponsored content creation and distribution: Users create custom media presentations by combining licensed content and sponsored content as selected by the user.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080208695 - System and method for improved retail sales: A system for facilitating retail sales includes a kiosk located in a retail establishment, and maintained and operated by a third party, apart from the retail establishment. The kiosk couples with at least one vendor having one or more items for sale and displays the one or more items for... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080208687 - Systems and methods for providing consolidated card delivery for a plurality of advertisers: This invention relates generally to advertising, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing consolidated card delivery for a plurality of advertisers. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a website, the website being a software application accessible over a wide-area-network; accepting a first request through the website from... Agent: Ruttler Law Pllc One Union Square

20080208696 - Point of sale system with web-based back-office: This invention provides a system and a method for managing a range of businesses. The business operations range from a single branch to a large chain of stores or branches. This invention relates to the managing of the points of sale (POS) with Web-based back-office systems. POS transaction engine terminals... Agent: George O Saile And Assocs

20080208697 - Secure system and method for payment card and data storage and processing via information splitting: A method is provided for securely storing and retrieving data. A data unit is split by an entity, into a first component and at least a further second component such that the data unit cannot be reconstructed without having the first and second component. The second component is stored on... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080208698 - Point of sale video server processing system: This invention provides a system and a method for low cost video surveillance and archiving which is synchronized with point of sale (POS) transactions. There is no local storage of video at the POS. There is high speed transmission of the video out of the stores to central servers. All... Agent: George O Saile And Assocs

20080208699 - Sales-assistance processing method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium: A method, system, and computer-readable medium of sales assistance include transmitting between a first sales site and a server a first message indicating that a product is unavailable at the first sales site. The method, system, and computer-readable medium also include determining and transmitting, between the server and the first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080208707 - Expense tracking, electronic ordering, invoice presentment, and payment system and method: Systems and methods for tracking and billing expenses throughout a transaction, such as the sale or management of a real estate property. In one embodiment, a budget is created that details expected incomes on the property and costs associated with the sale or management of the property. The budget may... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080208700 - Method for facilitating the sale, transfer and/or assignment of intellectual property: A new and improved method for facilitating the sale, transfer, and/or assignment of intellectual property is herein disclosed.... Agent: Heather A. Davis

20080208704 - Methods to conduct sales of products or services over a communication network: Methods are provided for conducting sales of a product or service over a communication network. A gateway system is provided that has a database with one or more catalogs of content for products or services. Buyers select products or services through the gateway system. The gateway system hosts the purchase... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080208703 - Online college bookstore: A system and method for distributing college textbooks on a college campus comprising the steps of locating unique indicia that is correlated with a unique college course. The unique college course is associated with at least one textbook having an ISB Number. Providing the located unique indicia to a first... Agent: Belasco, Jacobs & Townsley LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080208706 - Optical disc apparatus: When device information is transmitted from a DVD recorder to a server, the server transmits selectable function information that is selectable in the DVD recorder side to the DVD recorder. If a reproducing function for MP3, for example, is selected from the selectable function information, the DVD recorder transmits information... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080208708 - Payment system and method, server apparatus, payment processing method, and computer program product: A payment system having a server apparatus (50) capable of transmitting and receiving information via a communication network (1), a first terminal apparatus (10) for a purchase application, a second terminal apparatus (20) for an installment payment organization and a third terminal apparatus (30) for a settlement service organization. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080208705 - Personalized shopping assistant: Methods and systems of providing purchasing suggestions to a shopper are disclosed. Data are maintained representing one or more profiles of individuals. Each such profile includes a plurality of fields descriptive of qualities of one of the individuals. A request is received over a public network from the shopper to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208702 - System and method for configuring a configurable product: Product configuration selections automatically cross-over between plural product types based upon end user component selections. If end user component selections initiate a cross-over trigger, the end user is presented with an option to cross over from an initially-selected product type to a product type associated with the cross-over trigger. Upon... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080208701 - System and method for processing vehicle transactions: A method and system for processing a transaction request prior to a vehicle arriving at a service station is provided. Upon entering a wireless service area of a back office system associated with a service station, a driver and/or truck may request certain transactions. The back office system may communicate... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080208718 - Allowing consumers to purchase merchandise over the internet on a point-of-origin basis: m

20080208710 - Commodity trade assisting system and computer program: A commodity trade assisting system, for assisting a shop in exhibiting a commodity traded at the shop in a virtual shop and managing it, includes: a communication unit for communicating with a shop terminal which records and manages information on the commodity over a network; a database for storing commodity... Agent: Paul A. Guss Paul A. Guss Attorney At Law

20080208712 - Computer based systems to conduct sales of products or services over a communication network: A computer based system is provided for sales of a product or service. A gateway system is provided that has a database with one or more catalogs of content for products or services: A merchant interface, for a merchant, is coupled to the gateway system. A buyer interface, for a... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080208717 - Internet auction system and method: The inventive system includes a software that allows a buyer to monitor and control competing interaction between various sellers by simultaneously accessing the desired item's description, image, if available or if requested, and other information, and coordinating communication between these sellers to make a final choice. A computer based auction... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080208715 - Method, system and apparatus for providing a personalized electronic shopping center: According to embodiments of the present invention, a user's local storage system may be used to create a virtual personal mall comprising one or more virtual personal stores and configured for purchasing products by one or several providers. The virtual personal store and/or virtual personal mall may be organized in... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080208714 - Methods and systems for social shopping on a network-based marketplace: Methods and systems are provided for social shopping on a network-based marketplace. Specifically, the method receives a request, over a network, from a user in a community of users. The request is for an activity associated with a listing for sale in a network-based marketplace. The network-based marketplace is used... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080208711 - Print pricing: The invention relates to systems and methods for creating a pricing model to be used when ordering printed materials online. In particular, the invention automatically creates a pricing spreadsheet when orderable printed product type information is configured. Thereafter, a user can edit the spreadsheet to create a modified pricing spreadsheet... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080208716 - Product information system: Product information may be structured using a product hierarchy so that products may be uniquely identified. A first level of the product hierarchy may be associated with product make and model information. A second level of the product hierarchy may be associated with product year information. A third level of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080208709 - Ready-to-assemble bed foundation: A ready-to-assemble bed foundation including a pair of exterior beams connectable to a pair of transverse end members having openings, and an interior beam between the exterior beams having opposing end portions configured to engage the openings in the transverse end members. A method of selling a bed, and a... Agent: Maccord Mason Pllc

20080208713 - Virtual catalog: Records, including data for a virtual catalog, may be received from a number of sources. Each of the received records may be validated and a determination may be made as to whether one or more previously-received records matches the received record. When two or more records are determined to be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208719 - Expert system for optimization of retail shelf space: A business rules engine works with an optimization engine through various user interfaces to facilitate increased efficiency in retail space planning. Rules and models are built from templates that are stored in a repository. Business analysts and retail space planners both have access to the repository to develop models and... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080208721 - Computer system and method for determining an earthquake damage index: In a computer system and a computer-implemented method for determining a damage index indicative of damage caused by an earthquake to a portfolio of objects associated with a geographical area, local portfolio replacement value indices are stored assigned to object or grid coordinates of the geographical area. For each coordinate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080208727 - Endorsement image processing system, method and program product: A processing method, system and program product for processing checks, the system comprising: one or more computers; an electronic portal for receiving electronic data regarding an identity of a depositor for one or more checks; an association-determining electronic device for determining for each of the checks at least one business... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080208726 - Method and system for securing credit accounts: An enterprising identity thief may open new credit accounts in a consumer's name and then place a credit freeze on a consumer's credit file, thus making it more difficult to detect or remedy the identity theft. This problem may be solved by automatically requesting a security freeze at each of... Agent: Venable LLP

20080208725 - System and method facilitating private currency: Computer-based systems and methods for facilitating private currency. Merchants who desire to use private currency participate in a merchant network wherein network members agree to accept private currency. Consumers are provided with a consumer account that may include both a private currency account and a commodities account. Consumers are provided... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080208722 - System and method for displaying option market information: The present invention provides a method of displaying option market information including establishing a communication link between a member computer and a central computer, accessing option trading data from the central computer through the member computer, and inputting at least one signal to the member computer. The signal represents either... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080208723 - System and method for settling trades in a digital merchant exchange: A system and method for settling trades in a digital merchant exchange includes a buyer, a seller, a transaction agent, a network and a capital pool. The buyer and seller communicate through the network to agree on a contract. When the goods are received or the services are performed, the... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080208724 - System and method for settling trades in a digital merchant exchange: A system and method for settling trades in a digital merchant exchange includes a buyer, a seller, a transaction agent, a network and a capital pool. The buyer and seller communicate through the network to agree on a contract. When the goods are received or the services are performed, the... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080208720 - Type-driven rules for financial intellegence: Financial intelligence architecture that employs financial types that are combined with rules to build financial behavior into the product. Types have behaviors such that types can be assigned that lead to the physical creation of underlying code which embodies the behaviors. Extensibility is provided at least by type parameterization and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208769 - Creation and maintenance of a liquid \"alternative beta\" investment fund: A method of creating and managing one or more investment funds that seek to match or exceed the investment performance of a distinct subset (the “alternative beta”) of the return stream provided by the hedge fund industry by replicating it through a dynamically-managed portfolio of liquid financial instruments. The method... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080208764 - Defined fixed percentage rate distribution schedule for open end mutual funds: The Defined Fixed Rate Distribution Schedule standardizes by prospectus the rate of distributed income for a specific mutual fund. This will allow shareholders the ability to assess future income potential as well as risk and reward.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080208768 - Derivative contract and method for creating same from a predefined percentage of an underlying security: e

20080208765 - Method and apparatus for comparison of variable term financial instruments using life extension duration computation: A method of evaluating a variable term security including assessing life extension risk of the variable term security due to a deviation from nominal life expectancy of the variable term security, computing a summary factor of said life extension risk, and comparing the summary factor of said life extension risk... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080208767 - Predicting the performance of algorithmic investment strategies: A new type of financial forecasting model, which permits investment returns (as well as other portfolio characteristics) to be forecast according to the state of the portfolio is described. For example, the illustrative embodiment prescribes methods for designing and testing such models, and it specifies ways to use the outputs... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080208766 - System and method for an indexed debt instrument with deposit insurance pass through in a qualified program administered by an institutional investor: A system and a method for an indexed debt instrument mitigates risk perceived by an institutional investor acting as administrator of an eligible employee benefit plan when the indexed debt instrument is issued by a bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in response to a deposit made... Agent: Terrance A. Meador Incaplaw

20080208734 - Automated trading exchange system having integrated quote risk monitoring and integrated quote modification services: An automated trading exchange having integrated quote risk monitoring and quote modification services. An apparatus is implemented using at least one computer, having memory, and a processor. The computer is configured to receive orders and quotes, wherein specified ones of the quotes are contained in a quote group, and have... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080208732 - Fixed-income system for managing pre-trade activity: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing pre-trade activity. In general, a distribution of information about what traders and customers want to do may be known. Users may be made aware of trade ideas that can be proposed to a trading desk's buy-side clients. Relevant information on the... Agent: Howard Pein

20080208728 - Fractional forward contracts: A financial instrument, called a fractional forward contract, and a way of using it to apportion risk between parties (100 and 170) contracting to buy (160) and sell (110) a commodity at a future date by providing for parties (100 and 170) to buy (160) and sell (110) a specified... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080208731 - Methods and computer program products for auctioning on-line advertisements based on internet search term query origination location: In some methods for auctioning on-line advertisement placement services, an on-line advertisement placement service is offered based on at least one search term and based on at least one geographic area where the at least one search term will originate. Monetary bids are received from entities responsive to the offer... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080208729 - Methods and systems for measuring comparative data: Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of determining a first instance in which a first request is received by an exchange; determining a second instance in which a second request is received by the exchange, in which the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080208733 - System and method for auctioning services over an information exchange network: t

20080208730 - Wave volatility measuring method: A method for detecting wave volatility involves an objective definition for trend development. A new labeling scheme for monitoring price movements in the market categorizes development and degree of trend automatically. A means for detecting degree of trend involves a novel use of a mathematical equation for detecting trend development... Agent: Danton S. Long

20080208737 - Funds transfer method and apparatus: A withdrawal of assets is initiated from a first account at a first financial institution. A deposit of the assets withdrawn from the first account is initiated to a second account at a second financial institution. The first account and the second account have a common account holder. The withdrawal... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080208735 - Method, system, and computer program product for managing business customer contacts: In an enterprise where a database maintains multiple accounts for business customers, a method, system, and computer program product correctly links accounts which are associated with a common business. Business identification information from one or more external data sources is obtained and the format of the business identification data is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080208736 - System and method for settling trades in a digital merchant exchange: A system and method for settling trades in a digital merchant exchange includes a buyer, a seller, a transaction agent, a network and a capital pool. The buyer and seller communicate through the network to agree on a contract. When the goods are received or the services are performed, the... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20080208738 - Automated bill validation for electronic and telephonic transactions: The present invention is directed to verifying information related to one or more transactions using an electronic or telephonic medium, for example. In operation, a user of the electronic or telephonic medium makes phone calls, uses bandwidth or data, or purchases items. Information associated with the transactions is sent to... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080208740 - Music reproducing system for collaboration, program reproducer, music data distributor and program producer: A music reproducing system includes a musical instrument for reproducing a music tune on the basis of the MIDI music data, a sound reproducer for reproducing a music tune and/or narration from audio data codes and a server computer for distributing programs, MIDI files and audio files to the musical... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080208739 - Transactional services associated with mobile devices: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for a service provider capable of providing transactional services to mobile device users are described herein. In one embodiment, the service provider is adapted to receive a request from a mobile device known to the service provider to transfer value associated with the mobile device, the... Agent: Olympic Patent Works Pllc

20080208741 - Account information lookup systems and methods in mobile commerce: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing account information to a mobile wallet application in a mobile commerce system. According to one embodiment, a method of providing account information for a financial account to a mobile wallet of a mobile device can comprise receiving at a mobile wallet... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208745 - Method and apparatus for distribution of greeting cards with electronic commerce transaction: A system for enabling on-line creation of greeting cards and distribution of the cards with gifts also purchased on-line includes a server system and one or more client systems. The server system is accessible online and enables network users to select and customize electronic versions of greeting cards. The customizations... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20080208744 - Mobile commerce systems and methods: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for utilizing mobile electronic devices in various types of financial transactions. According to one embodiment, a method of providing a plurality of mobile commerce functions can comprise receiving a communication related to a function of a mobile wallet application of a mobile device.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208742 - Provisioning of a device for mobile commerce: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for provisioning information to a mobile device in a mobile commerce system. According to one embodiment, a method of provisioning information to a mobile wallet application of a mobile device can comprise receiving at a mobile wallet server registration information for the mobile... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208743 - Transfer of value between mobile devices in a mobile commerce system: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for handling payment transactions in a mobile commerce system and initiated between mobile devices. According to one embodiment, a method of processing a payment transaction from a first mobile wallet application of a first mobile device to a second mobile wallet application of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208746 - Management of financial transactions using debit networks: Methods and systems are disclosed of enrolling a customer to perform an action. A first piece of information is received at an authentication processor from an over-the-air processor. The first piece of information was provided to the over-the-air processor by the customer from a mobile electronic device. A second piece... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208749 - Method and system for enabling commerce using bridge between real world and proprietary environments: A system, apparatus, and method is provided for enabling commerce transactions, and other forms of commercial activity among participants in a gaming or other forms of virtual environment and the real world, or between a participant in one virtual environment and a participant in a second virtual environment, using or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208747 - Method for restricting a use of a credit or debit card: A method for restricting a use of a credit or debit card when buying an item, comprising an allocation to said card of an identifier and associated therewith a series of restrictions relating to a buying behaviour, said series of restrictions being stored within an item restrictions database, remote from... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20080208748 - Transaction system and method: A transaction system having security parameters can authorize transactions based on a merchant category code, a card verification value code, a geographic location, a monetary value range, a transaction mode, an account access parameter, a class of goods, or a class of services, for example.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080208750 - Method and system of using rfid in the workflow of blood center: A method and a system for using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in the workflow of a blood center and a medical institution from a network Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information system. The CRM comprises an RFID technique system, a computer database system, and a computer information network. The information transferred... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080208752 - Content communication and purchase using a computer-based media component: Content communication and purchases using a computer-based media component are described. A tuner component can individually interact with client components, where each communication of content may be varied or configured independent of interactions with other client components. Additionally, content can be purchased using the computer-based media component, where the purchase... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208753 - Method and system for providing information on pre-purchase and post-purchase items using rfid and computer-readable storage media storing programs for executing the method: Pre-purchase and post-purchase item information provision methods and systems using an RFID technology and computer readable storage media storing programs for executing the methods are provided. A pre-purchase item information provision method for a radio frequency identification system according to the present invention includes transmitting, if a mobile reader is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080208751 - Method, apparatus and system for providing added value content to feature content end users: A system, method and apparatus are provided for offering or providing added value content associated with feature content to feature content end users. The system includes a receiver that has a processor or controller for reading end user or feature content, such as a film or programming event. The feature... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080208756 - Apparatus and method for providing security domain: An apparatus and method for providing a security domain are provided. The apparatus includes a security domain which is not connected to an external system and which manages a digital rights management (DRM) license requiring security; a non-security domain which can be connected to the external system and which manages... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080208755 - Method and an apparatus to provide interoperability between different protection schemes: Some embodiments of a method and an apparatus to provide interoperability between different digital content protection schemes have been presented. In one embodiment, a first copy of digital content encrypted using a first protection scheme is received from a user. In response to a request from the user, it is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208754 - Method for detecting duplicated instances of a software license: A method for issuing and updating a software program license for a computer, with a unique identifier data object embedded in the computer and referenced by the license. The unique identifier may also be used with a conventional computer fingerprint. The software program does not run on a computer without... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080208757 - Systems and methods for processing claims in real-time: Claim processing system providing an interface to permit pharmacy and medical management systems to use the Internet to transmit third-party insurance claims on a claim-by-claim basis in real-time or near-real-time to one or more claim servers that receive insurance claim requests over the Internet in an encrypted form. The one... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080208758 - Method and apparatus for secure transactions: A method and apparatus is provided for secure terminals that facilitate secure data transmission and are compliant with the payment card industry (PCI) data security requirements. A security processor is combined with an application processor and a display into a secure display control unit (SDCU) that provides tamper resistance and... Agent: Wallace, Llc

20080208759 - Processing of financial transactions using debit networks: Methods and systems are disclosed for executing financial transactions between customers and merchants. An identifier of a financial account is received from the customer at a merchant system. A one-time password is also received from the customer at the merchant system, with the customer having been provided with the one-time... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208760 - Method and system for verifying an electronic transaction: A method for verification of an electronic transaction between a consumer and a merchant, a credit issuers or any combination thereof. This method includes the steps of: obtaining a network data set including a plurality of data fields reflecting network data; obtaining a transaction data set including a plurality of... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080208761 - Secured transactional banner: By providing user interface functionality on a banner served on a webpage hosted by a third party, it is possible to carry out a secure transaction without the user leaving the banner. This is achieved by providing content and transaction middleware which co-operates with a served banner to, in the... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080208762 - Payments using a mobile commerce device: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for handling payment transactions in a mobile commerce system. According to one embodiment, a method of processing a payment transaction in a mobile commerce system can comprise receiving at a first acquirer system a communication from a point-of-sale (POS) device. The communication can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080208763 - System, method and computer program product for facilitating commercial real estate transactions involving percentage ownerships in properties: A method is provided that includes maintaining a database including information associated with a real-estate portfolio of an entity, where the real-estate portfolio includes one or more real-estate properties. The method also includes receiving selection of a property in the portfolio for offering one or more percentage ownerships thereof. An... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080208770 - Method and system for data metering: A method and system for tracking the type and amount of data processed by a computer system. In one embodiment, a logging system tracks data processed by a conversion system so that differential billing of customers can be performed based on the type of data and the quality of service... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080208771 - Method and system for providing recycling fees: A system for providing a fee associated with a location for an ordered object. In response to receiving an order for an object from a customer that includes a location for where to ship the object, it is determined whether the location requires a fee for the object. The fee... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208772 - Address forwarding for parcels: A method for sorting parcels may include reading, during a first sortation pass, machine readable indicia applied to the parcel prior to mailing and at least a portion of delivery address information on a parcel. The method may also include selecting a reference indicium from the machine readable indicia and... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080201162 - E-interview system and method: A system and method to create, present, and search “E-Interview” information. E-Interview information may comprise one or more of the following: a resume, a cover letter, a personality profile and interests, a perfect or ideal job description exercise, a character and values profile, a values statement, career goals, pre-answered job... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20080201164 - Leadership support system determining a danger of isolation of a group member even under temporarily worsened communication conditions: A leadership support system includes a leader terminal and plural member terminals. The member terminals, according to either the relay of communication information not addressed thereto or the reception of communication information addressed thereto, send back a response to the appropriate communication information. The leader terminal determines, based on the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080201160 - Method for managing car lease using car-use electronic device and mobile device: A method for managing car lease using a car-use electronic device and a mobile device, comprising steps of: picking up a car data from a data base for matching so as to provide a first data comprising a car password and a second data comprising a user password when an... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080201157 - Methods, systems, and computer software utilizing xbrl to electronically link the accounting records of multi-period contracts and multi-period loans and grants for management: A method, system and program product for managing a multi-period contract, comprising: receiving or extracting or generating new contract data on one or more of contracts, changes to the contracts, cost data, changes to the cost data; creating or updating with the new contract data an XBRL multi-period contract record... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080201161 - System and method for assessing condition and assigning value to watercraft: A computer-implemented system and method for evaluating watercraft, particularly from a remote location. The system includes an evaluation server that receives requests to evaluate a boat from clients. Upon receipt of an evaluation request, the evaluation server submits a request to the client to provide detailed information regarding the boat... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080201154 - System and method for continuous process improvement: A system and method for continuously handling ideas and incorporating them into a business process to improve the business and the business processes are disclosed. The system and method includes pipelining of ideas, organizing the management line personnel for driving the ideas into the business process and organizing, coaching and... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080201158 - System and method for visitation management in a controlled-access environment: A method of managing visitation includes accessing a visitation control system including a visitation session scheduling interface, communications devices, a switching interface, and at least one authentication interface, defining rules governing visitation, requesting a visitation session using the scheduling interface, assessing whether the visitation session complies with the rules governing... Agent: Wiley Rein LLP

20080201159 - System for automating and managing an enterprise ip environment: A system and method for tracking an innovation. The system and method determine one or more actions requested by a user with respect to stored information associated with the innovation, determine an identification of the user, and log the one or more actions and the identification of the user.... Agent: The Law Office Of Richard W. James

20080201156 - User-generated community publication in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus, and system of a user-generated community publication in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a geo-spatial environment in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating a physical location and/or an electronic location of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080201155 - Valet package handling: A method of reducing the burden, of carrying packages during a shopping trip to a mall type shopping center with retail stores, includes interconnecting valet kiosks with a computer network. Shoppers can conveniently drop packages at the nearest kiosk and be free to continue shopping. Shoppers receive a wallet sized... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20080201163 - Vehicle-value analyzing and messaging systems: A system, process and computer software is disclosed for electronically accessing financial terms related to the acquisition of a vehicle by a purchaser, including contact information, original vehicle information, and the settlement amount. This system may electronically accesses used vehicle valuations, including an estimate for a vehicle similar to the... Agent: Law Office Of Andrew P. Lahser, PLC

20080201169 - Device and method for automatic data acquisition and/or detection: Methods and devices for providing diabetes management including automatic time acquisition protocol is provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080201170 - Knowledge-based system for supporting radiological assessment and diagnostics: In a method and a system for determination of at least one additional examination process in the framework of a medical examination of a patient using a knowledge base, the knowledge base contains a number of rules, and each rule contains a condition from which a result can be derived.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080201167 - Method and system for optimizing utilization of a donor: A system (and method) for optimizing utilization of a human resource, including determining an emotional state or a physical state of the human resource, and determining whether the emotional state or the physical state of the human resource corresponds to a task.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080201171 - Patient notification system and method: In the practice of the present invention, a method and system for notifying a patient of a medical office about a pharmaceutical event based upon a pharmaceutical sample associated with the patient and corresponding to received event data, said patient selected from a list of patients retrievably stored within a... Agent: Intellectual Property Center, LLC

20080201165 - Practice management system (pms) integration: A system and computer program product for integrating verification of eligibility information of a card member enrolled in a health plan with a payment account required to pay for the services used according to the health plan is described. The present invention integrates card member information to a Practice Management... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080201166 - System and method to bill a healthcare entity for use of an asset of a supplier: A system to bill a healthcare entity for use of an asset of a supplier is provided. The system includes a computer in communication to track use of the asset, and a computer readable storage medium having programmable instructions for execution by the computer. The programmable instructions include receiving a... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080201168 - Treatment regimen compliance and efficacy with feedback: A method and system for interaction with a community of individuals, relating to compliance with and effectiveness of treatment regimens, including supply and use of pharmaceuticals, using a protocol or other intelligent message which acts in place of a service provider and which is capable of collecting or imparting information... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20080201175 - Managing the business of a medical scheme: The method of the invention provides incentives for medical scheme members to minimize medical expenses both by responsible use of the benefits of the scheme, and also by offering positive incentives to members to adopt a healthy lifestyle and to make use of preventative procedures and pre-treatment medical advice facilities.... Agent: Paul D. Bianco Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080201172 - Method, system and computer software for using an xbrl medical record for diagnosis, treatment, and insurance coverage: A healthcare management method, system and program product comprising: extracting and/or receiving or generating a medical record comprising at least clinical examination data or laboratory results and context data therefore for a patient; creating or updating an XBRL medical record comprising XBRL data fields containing clinical examination data and/or laboratory... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080201173 - Methods for delivering a drug to a patient while restricting access to the drug by patients for whom the drug may be contraindicated: Methods for delivering a drug to a patient in need of the drug, while restricting access to the drug by patients for whom the drug may be contraindicated are disclosed. The methods are of the type in which prescriptions for the drug are filled by a pharmacy only after a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080201174 - Personalized medical adherence management system: Techniques and systems are described hereafter for reducing medical non-adherence by (1) developing the adherence-profile of a member, (2) using the profile to automatically generate a set of interventions, (3) categorizing, prioritizing and selecting the interventions, (4) incorporating the selected interventions into a personalized member user interface page, (5) serving... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP

20080201177 - Financial product and method for comprehensive accidental medical insurance: The present invention is directed to a system, method, and product for providing comprehensive accident medical insurance. The invention manages the administration of medical insurance policy in which medical providers are paid on behalf of an Insured Person for all or part of medical expenses incurred by the Insured Person... Agent: Murphy Desmond S.c.

20080201176 - Practice management system (pms) integration method: A method and computer program product for integrating verification of eligibility information of a card member enrolled in a health plan with a payment account required to pay for the services used according to the health plan is described. The present invention integrates card member information to a method which... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080201178 - On-demand travel management service and platform: The present invention contemplates an easy-to-use, cost-efficient, and flexible travel booking service and travel management platform. The travel booking service is a unique, subscription-based service that offers subscribers access to the fullest extent of travel service suppliers and also the lowest possible price. The travel management platform allows users to... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080201189 - Collected data providing apparatus and portable terminal for data collection: A collected data providing apparatus and a portable data collecting terminal capable of collecting valuable effective data from object of data collection. When a server receives a data-collection request from a data collection requester's terminal, the server examines whether or not there is a data collector with a terminal in... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080201180 - Facilitating environmental resource and/or energy management on farms: A method of facilitating environmental resource and/or energy management on farms. From each of a plurality of farms, data is collected relating to environmental resource and/or energy management on the farm. For each farm, at least some of the data is monitored to provide a verification of one or more... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080201186 - Identifying advertising specialist: The present disclosure includes a system and method for identifying advertising specialist. In some implementations, a method includes receiving information associated with a plurality of advertising specialist. One or more profiles associated with each advertising specialist is generated. The specialist profiles are filtered based, at least in part, on criteria... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080201185 - Method for combining mail pieces that were going to be mailed on different dates to increase postal discounts: A method for obtaining mail discounts by determining a date a mail piece should be mailed and adjusting the date the mail piece is mailed to fill one or more mailing trays with mail pieces that were originally planned to be mailed on different dates to obtain postal discounts... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080201182 - Method for determining an aggregated forecast deviation: In the method for determining an aggregated forecast deviation, deviations are aggregated in a predefined environment at all reference points in time and are incorporated into an error determination. Using this method, the aggregated forecast deviation for a product is determinable so that this product may be made available in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080201187 - Method for managing intellectual property: A search algorithm is provided in an intellectual property (IP) management system for determining an optimal IP portfolio. The search algorithm generates and evaluates a plurality of IP portfolios using objective functions to find an IP portfolio that most nearly optimizes at least one goal. The goals to be optimized... Agent: HorizonIPPte Ltd

20080201183 - Multi objective national airspace flight path optimization: Systems and methods for optimizing a plurality of competing portfolios of logistical alternatives are disclosed. In one embodiment, where the competing portfolios of logistical alternatives are competing portfolios of flight paths, a method (1100) for optimizing a plurality of competing portfolios of logistical alternatives includes receiving (1102) competing flight path... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080201188 - Niche-oriented advertising networks platform and methods of operating same: System and methods of constructing and operating a network of advertising networks in support of the real-time selection and distribution of creatives to network connected client computer systems for composited presentation on Web pages served to client computer systems. The network of networks is constructed by associating a plurality of... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20080201179 - Optimization of policy enforcement: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for improving the efficiency of policy enforcement. According to one embodiment, a method for improving efficiency during enforcement of a policy can comprise determining a topology for the policy. A plurality of equivalent topologies for the policy can then be determined. A cost... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080201181 - System and method for determining equivalency factors for use in comparative performance analysis of industrial facilities: The present invention provides a system and method for determining equivalency factors for use in comparative performance analysis of industrial facilities by determining a target variable and a plurality of characteristics of the target variable. Each of the plurality of characterstics is ranked according to value. Based on ranking value,... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

20080201184 - Systems and methods relating to a lead distribution engine that accommodates internal and imported destination exclusion rules: Lead distribution systems and methods distribute consumer business leads received from lead sources for routing to one or more destinations that will use the lead and/or will forward the lead to another destination. The system identifies a set of most profitable destinations for each lead, while complying with business rules... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080201192 - Calculation apparatus, program, calculation system and calculation method for production plan: A producible quantity calculation part performs Material Requirements Planning for obtaining a producible quantity and a possible production date, with respect to production request information that has at least one production request specifying a requested production quantity of a product, a requested production date, and a priority. If the producible... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080201191 - Dynamic workflow resource authentication and discovery: Techniques for dynamic workflow resource authentication and discovery are presented. A processing workflow is augmented with a dynamic resource that becomes available and is authenticated as the workflow is processed. A reference to the newly discovered resource is provided and permits tasks of the workflow to be handled by the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080201194 - Method and apparatus for defining routing of customers between merchants: A server or Internet service provider computer selects a soliciting merchant and an outputting merchant based on various factors. In one embodiment, the soliciting merchant is selected is its activity rate (e.g. sales rate) is low. The outputting merchant provides offers for bonuses to customers on behalf of the soliciting... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080201193 - Method of commercializing technology from research entities: Methods of business designed to commercialize technology from academic institutions, research laboratories or other early stage sources on a self-sustaining and positive cash generation basis. Methods herein provide an independent operating company the line of business of which is the process itself of commercialization of technologies for profit and cash... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080201190 - System and method for electronic processing of default case files: A system and method for automated processing of default case files including foreclosure and bankruptcy related documents is disclosed. The system and method increases efficiency and reduces errors in the volume processing of case files for issuing foreclosure notices and for generating various documents related to bankruptcy proceedings such as... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080201196 - Method and system for event planning: The present invention provides systems and methods for planning important events such as weddings, milestone birthday parties and the like. A suite of computer-implemented applications perform various aspects of event management, including guest list and seating management, task planning, vendor selection, budget control and gift recordation and tracking. The data... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080201195 - System and metod for transforming an enterprise using a component business model: A system and method are described for using a Component Business Model (CBM) to transform a business. A CBM map is used to identify components that collaborate to provide a specified capability, and a repository supporting the CBM map is filtered to provide a view of the identified components that... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080201208 - Advertising system and method: An advertising system has a public electronic sign and an audience feedback tracking system that tracks the audience reaction to an advertisement on the electronic sign. The feedback system can include a camera and software that can count the number of people in the audience or provide other data. The... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20080201209 - Computer assisted process for providing liquidity by sale of intellectual property trust certificates: A computer program storing computer instructions therein for instructing a computer to perform analytical steps for the centralized public sale of intellectual property trust certificates issuing from the securitization of intellectual property assets, the securitization initiated by an analytical entity and managed by a management company, the securities sold as... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080201207 - Meeting effectiveness program optimization: A method and system of developing an event designed to appeal to prospective attendees associated with an event-owner. First and second different events are defined as a function of modeled values and defined attributes having values corresponding to collected preferred values. The event-owner compares the first reward program to the... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080201200 - Method of obtaining a representative online polling sample: A method of obtaining a representative online polling sample is disclosed. The first step is to provide a polling web site with polling information for a user to select or otherwise interact with. However, that polling web site has a domain name that differs from the domain name of a... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080201198 - Method, system and computer program product for measuring and tracking brand equity: Methods, systems and computer program products for measuring and tracking brand equity are disclosed. According to one embodiment disclosed, a brand equity value for each of a plurality of brands in a market category is obtained (210) and an index value for each of the plurality of brands is calculated... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080201201 - Methods and systems for finding, tagging, rating and suggesting content provided by networked application pods: Software application providers can connect to a common platform in order to offer access to and use of their applications and/or content to a global community of mobile device users through a variety of different mediums. The users are automatically charged via the user's billing account with the wireless network... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080201199 - System and method for behaviorial psychology and personality profiling to adapt customer service communications: Systems and methods for behavioral psychology system are provided. The system gathers information about one or more users to form a profile, and adapts the customer's interaction based on the profile.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080201210 - System and method for managing intellectual property: The present invention relates to methods and systems for intellectual property management. In an embodiment, a system includes an intellectual property asset inventory system to manage an inventory of intellectual property assets. A product inventory system manages an inventory of products, where the inventory of products corresponds to a plurality... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080201211 - System and method for managing intellectual property life cycles: The present invention relates to methods and systems for managing intellectual property assets. In an embodiment, an intellectual property protection life cycle of an intellectual property asset is managed, and an intellectual property marketing life cycle of the intellectual property asset is managed.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080201197 - System and method for peer person- and situation-based recommendations: A system and method for peer person and/or situation-based recommendations. In one embodiment, the method, which may be implemented on a system, comprises receiving a request for a set of entertainment events, the requesting comprising at least one of an identity of an inviter and an identify of an invitee;... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080201202 - Systems and methods relating to a lead distribution engine that accommodates internal and imported destination relationships: Lead distribution systems and methods distribute consumer business leads received from lead sources for routing to one or more destinations that will use the lead and/or will forward the lead to another destination. The system identifies a set of most profitable destinations for each lead, while complying with business rules... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080201203 - Systems and methods relating to a lead distribution engine that uses margin scores: Lead distribution systems and methods distribute consumer business leads received from lead sources for routing to one or more destinations that will use the lead and/or will forward the lead to another destination. The system identifies a set of most profitable destinations for each lead based on a margin score,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080201204 - Systems and methods relating to a lead distribution engine with quality assessment of lead sources: Lead distribution systems and methods distribute consumer business leads received from lead sources for routing to one or more destinations that use the leads and/or forward the leads to another destination. A quality level is assessed for each lead source, based in part on a percentage of leads from the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080201205 - Systems and methods relating to an opportunity distribution engine and distribution simulation: Opportunity distribution systems and methods distribute business opportunities received from lead sources for routing to one or more destination businesses that will make use the opportunity, such as an opportunity to place a webpage advertisement on a webpage that is being served to a viewer. The system identifies a set... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080201206 - Use of behavioral portraits in the conduct of e-commerce: A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20080201212 - Smart sign mobile transit fare payment: A system and method for facilitating the payment and collection of transit system fares using a mobile device utilizes a smart sign including near field communication (NFC) devices that communicate with a contactless element embedded within a mobile wireless device. Each NFC device is associated with a different transit location.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080201221 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing enhanced document management: The exemplary embodiments of the invention, as further described herein, provide apparatus, methods and computer program products that, for example, address the notification issue that can occur in extensible markup language (XML) document management (XDM) when a new entry is added to a Shared List document that is referred to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080201222 - Blog advertising: Blog advertisement selection and placement is driven by the analysis of different facets, which are defined as why-facet, how-facet, who-facet and what-facet. The objective of defining such facets and their labels is to be able to better classify and distinguish information from blogs with the goal to use these different... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080201225 - Consumption profile for mobile media: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for delivery of content on a mobile media platform, providing a consumption profile, and delivering content to a mobile device, wherein content delivery is based at least in part on the consumption profile. Further, in embodiments, the present invention provides... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080201227 - Interactive, internet-based, trip planning, travel resource, travel community, virtual travel, travel-based education, travel-related gaming and virtual/live tour system, methods, and processes, emphasizing a user's ability to tailor complete travel, trip: Interactive, Internet-based, Trip Planning, Travel Resource, Travel Community, Virtual Travel, Travel-based Education, Travel-related Gaming and Virtual/Live Tour System, Methods, and Processes, emphasizing a user's ability to tailor complete travel, trip, route, and touring choices to unique, user-specified personal interests, preferences, and special requirements for self and companions throughout a particular... Agent: Charles A. Bakewell

20080201230 - Internet-based method of and system for equity ownership optimization within a financial and retail marketplace: A system and method(s) for “loading” coupons, discounts, rebates, offers and other incentives onto purchase/payment vehicles by a consumer, who may or may no be an equity stake holder in a company with which various “loaded” offers are associated. Furthermore, the system and method(s) of the present invention allow a... Agent: Joseph H. Hardison, Iii

20080201232 - Method and apparatus for identifying potential buyers: A method by which potential buyers are identified includes receiving a description of an item a potential buyer intends to purchase within a particular time, determining a reward for the potential buyer based on intent data, providing the reward to the potential buyer and applying a penalty to a financial... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080201224 - Method and apparatus for processing rewards: Methods, systems, apparatus, computer program code and means for processing reward transactions are provided including receiving, from a point of interaction associated with a merchant, an authorization request message identifying a requested purchase transaction, the authorization request message including data identifying a payment account identifier and a purchase amount. Authorizing... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080201217 - Method of providing value estimates and facilitating product trade-in: A method for providing a value estimate and facilitating the trade-in of used golf equipment is described. The method includes the steps of providing an online database of value estimates for at least one product and offering payment at least equal to the value estimate for said product. The methods... Agent: Mark S. Leonardo Brown Rubnick Berlack Israels LLP

20080201228 - Methods and systems to schedule a transaction: A system to assist sellers create automated sales for products and services the seller has made available for purchase. The embodiments include receiving sales information that includes data item information that identifies a plurality of data items that are offered for purchase by a seller on a network-based marketplace. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080201220 - Methods of dynamically creating personalized internet advertisements based on advertiser input: The World Wide Web portion of the Internet is largely supported by advertising. To deliver the most effective advertising, a system for dynamically creating customized advertisements is introduced. The behavior and any demographic information known about web viewers is used to select an advertising template that will be used to... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080201218 - Methods of dynamically creating personalized internet advertisements based on content: Advertising is used to generate awareness of commercial Internet web sites. To greatly simplify the marketing of a commercial Internet web site, the automatic creation of an advertising campaign would be desirable. A method of automatically creating an Internet web site may be performed by first crawling through the Internet... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080201214 - Methods, systems and computer program products that use measured location data to identify sources that fraudulently activate internet advertisements: Methods of detecting potential click fraud are provided in which information relating to a click on an Internet advertisement is received. A measured location of a source of the click is also received. The source of the click may be identified as potentially fraudulent based at least in part on... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080201215 - Mobile advertisement methods and systems: A method of displaying an advertisement on a vehicle comprising the steps of detecting a user's wireless transmission, receiving information pertaining to an advertisement from a user via a wireless interface, activating an electronic paper screen by supplying power to the screen, displaying the advertisement on the electronic paper screen... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080201226 - Mobile coupon method and portable consumer device for utilizing same: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods involving mobile coupons. In one embodiment, an indication of a prior purchase transaction over a payment processing network, serves as a trigger to generate and disseminate a mobile coupon for a subsequent transaction. By generating and promulgating the coupon within... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080201213 - Products and processes for a membership for a customer of a vending machine: b

20080201223 - Products and processes for providing information services: Methods and system are provided herewith for providing information services. A data service in according with the methods and systems disclosed herein may provide content for the data service and/or may provide content to subscribers via the service and the content provider may provide a credit or other benefit to... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080201219 - Query classification and selection of associated advertising information: A system and method to facilitate classification of search queries and selection of associated advertising information over a network are described. A search query received from a user over a network is processed to retrieve a predetermined number of query results. The predetermined number of query results is further classified... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080201229 - System and method for providing a representation: A system and web-based representation is provided. The representation may be used to supplement an application to an institution, be used as an application to an institution or be a portion of such an application. The representation features multimedia, including, for example, but not limited to video, audio, or textual... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080201231 - System and method for tracking user activity in an incentive award system: A method of efficiently detecting a visit to a web site participating in an incentive award program, wherein the visit is detected at an information gathering system and wherein the information gathering system provides the incentive award program, the method including receiving a request message from a user including an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080201216 - Target advertising to a specific user offered through an intermediary isp, server or wireless network: A method for targeting advertisings to users through an ISP by supplying related content to the user visited webpage, websites, user profile, previously viewed content, user surfing history and wireless node's demography data. Furthermore, an Indexing Server working in harmony with the ISP as to provided related contents to the... Agent: Louis Ventre Jr

20080201233 - Method and system for managing real estate transactions: A system for managing real estate purchase transactions is provided. The system collects various types of information relating to real estate purchase transactions. The system then tracks various milestones under a real estate purchase contract and provides automated alerts to one or more users. The system further allows different users... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080201237 - Adaptive direct transaction for network client group: Internet-based software and associated database provide group analysis overlay to monitor client-server web traffic and provide direct marketing to client group. Client car, patient, office or school sensor and interface provides overlay attribute for database comparison to classify usage pattern, location, timing, or family for targeted messaging for enhanced service... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080201235 - Advertising revenue sharing: A method for compensating all parties involved in producing the income stream for a content distributor is presented where the content-hosting site, the content writer and the user doing the interaction with paid contents receive a fair share of the generated income stream.... Agent: Louis Ventre Jr

20080201239 - Electronic retail order communication: Multiple users are provided the ability to add or modify items in an open order created by an originating user on an electronic retail system. The originating user has the ability to verify and authorize a final purchase order that is submitted to the retail system. The originating user forwards... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20080201234 - Live entities internet store service: The claimed subject matter provides for an online, Internet-class service that can correlate between an application interface utilizing a highly expressive, EDM conceptual format and a data store structured in an efficient, highly scalable storage format. Such a service can include components that map between an EDM schema and a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080201238 - Premium sms billing method: A method of billing for products and services wherein a user makes a voice call to a telephone number from a mobile telephone, interacts with a human or computer operator to learn about audio-text products and services offered by a vendor, and then agrees verbally or by pressing one or... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080201236 - Printing via e-commerce method and system: A method and system used to obtain and process orders for full color printing. A job configuration and price calculator is supplied to a customer. The calculator calculates automatically a price quote as the customer selects configuration options of a print job. The price quote is then displayed automatically. The... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080201241 - Automated coffee system: The invention provides a system in which a user may make a personalized recipe for food or beverage such as coffee and place an order online. A central server processes the order and redirects the recipe, timetable and a reference number associated with the order to a local service station... Agent: Dahyee Law Group

20080201242 - Dynamic reconfiguration of web pages based on user behavioral portrait: A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20080201243 - System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service based on equipment ownership: A method and system for computing the price of a railway transportation service for the shipping goods is provided. A computer delivers first information to a user prompting the user to enter at the computer information about a rail route for shipment of goods by one or more railcars. A... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080201240 - Visual shopping graphical user interface: The Visual Shopping Graphical User Interface is a graphical user interface or any type of user interface that allows users to apply any selected product or products to any selected motor vehicle picture in order to view what that product or products would look like on any type of selected... Agent: Jason Joseph Borden

20080201244 - Network-facilitated central storage/shipping/cleaning and maintenance service for frequent travelers and method thereof: An Internet-facilitated storage, shipping, cleaning and maintenance service and method thereof, wherein the repeated, time-consuming management and organization of personal belongings, the burdensome process of packing, and the increasingly complicated chore of carrying and/or checking luggage may be essentially eliminated.... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20080201245 - On-demand monitoring of component convergence for customer solution integration: A system and method for coordinating delivery of components to manage solution delivery and installation to customers. When a customer order for components is received, a component tracking device is configured to be placed within one or more pre-designated areas of a customer site. Each component to be shipped to... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080201246 - Methods, apparatus and computer program products for use in association with joint ventures and/or potential joint ventures: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information associated with a joint venture; determining an amount of a distribution based at least in part on the information; determining financial information for the joint venture based at least in part on the amount of the distribution; storing the financial information in... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar, LLC General Electric Company

20080201249 - Market sentiment indicator: A method and system for determining and displaying market sentiment information is disclosed. The method may include obtaining customer opening option activity information from an order routing system database, excluding spread transactions from the customer opening option activity information, calculating a sum of buy call trades and sell put trades... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080201248 - Method and system for managing case based promises to pay: A method of managing case based promises to pay includes displaying a customer hierarchy. The customer hierarchy displays (i) a customer level with customer level information and (ii) plural account levels with account level information for respective multiple accounts of a customer needing collection. Also included is displaying action now... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080201250 - Method and system for obtaining and financing exclusive real estate listings: A method of obtaining a seller's exclusive real estate listing for a property. The method comprises providing consideration to the seller, for example, in the form of an up-front payment, and receiving from the seller the exclusive real estate listing of the property, the exclusive real estate listing being for... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080201247 - Method, system and computer-readable media for evaluation or selection of real estate appraisers: A system and method for using information technology to enable selecting candidates for a real property appraisal assignment from among a population of real estate appraisers. A database contains information about the appraisal history of each of the population of appraisers. A query engine accepts specifications concerning a subject property... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20080201269 - Method of creating financial plans of action and budget for achieving lifestyle and financial objectives: A software program that allows an individual with a personal computer to develop and implement plans of action for achieving a preferred lifestyle that appears feasible based on the individual's current and probable future financial circumstances.... Agent: Ramon D. Foltz

20080201270 - Reserved tender advance facility: A financial process in accordance with the principles of the present invention enables an amount of financing instruments to be credit enhanced. A reserved tender advance facility is established for an aggregate value minimally equal to the principal amount of debt to be undertaken. The reserved tender advance facility may... Agent: Paul E. Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20080201255 - Facilitating creation and sale of carbon credits: A system for facilitating creation and sale of carbon credits. A computer receives data pertaining to a plurality of credit creators and enrolls a plurality of potential and/or actual credits in the system based on the received data. After the enrolling of a credit, the system tracks a plurality of... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080201252 - Internet-based auction and networking method: An internet-based auction and network method to create a network for all services needed and service providers. It allows service providers to create their own network page about their company, with pictures of past jobs, contact information, background of their company recommendations they have for other service providers as well... Agent: Robert L. Ingraselino / Joseph V. Ingraselino

20080201254 - Method and system for computer-implemented procurement from pre-qualified suppliers: In preferred embodiments, a supplier enablement method including the steps of identifying and assessing capabilities of potential suppliers; engaging (pre-qualifying) selected potential suppliers; and enabling automated transactions (e.g., purchase orders and billing) between a buyer and each engaged supplier. Preferred embodiments of the method implement supplier enablement in three phases:... Agent: Girard & Equitz LLP Attn: Alfred A. Equitz

20080201253 - Method and system for managing computing resources using an electronic auction agent: A method for managing computing resources involves obtaining, by an electronic auction agent, a request to auction access to one or more computing resources, and auctioning, by the electronic auction agent, access to the computing resource(s) based on the request.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080201256 - On-line auction platform of capital pool: A method for on-line auction includes providing an on-line auction platform of capital pool (OLAPCP), proceeding with an on-line auction for a type1 member in an auction transaction pool of the OLAPCP according to the type1 member's credit amount, and proceeding with the on-line auction for a type2 member in... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080201251 - Website exchange based on traders buying and selling fictitious shares of websites based upon anticipated returns of websites: A method for generating data related to a plurality of websites by facilitating the exchange of fictitious shares of the plurality of websites, the method comprising the steps of: correlating a predetermined number of fictitious shares to each website; setting a market price for the fictitious shares of each website;... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080201257 - Alternative method and system for leasing, financing and purchasing residential real estate: The present invention is directed to a method and system for allowing a customer to purchase a house at an affordable price, where the house has been leased to the consumer under mutually agreed terms between the consumer and a leasing company. More specifically, the method and system facilitates a... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080201259 - Method and apparatus for conveying the right to broker real property transfers: A method of doing business to refer the right to broker the sale of real property is disclosed. Additionally, methods and systems to measure the value of the business are disclosed. The methods and systems include determining the value of the properties and determining the value of the right to... Agent: Diehl Servilla LLC

20080201258 - Process for managing domain name registrations: Domain names are registered with a domain name registration service for an indefinite period in exchange for a lump sum payment from the domain name registrant. The domain name registration service registers the domain name in the name of the domain name registrant and the domain name registration is kept... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080201260 - Internet micro payments system: The present invention is directed to a method of micro payments over the internet. A user would establish an account with the micropayment service. The user would fund the account via funding method such as a credit card, PayPal, wire transfer, or other method. The user would fund a minimum... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080201261 - System and method for electronic payment processing: A method for electronically processing payments made to a plurality of merchants in a plurality of payment modes includes: (a) receiving information on the payments into a server; (h) processing the information into an automated clearinghouse file; (c) validating the automated clearinghouse file; and (d) sending the automated clearinghouse file... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080201262 - Traceability verification system, method and program for the same: A system for enabling verification in traceability of a supply chain while maintaining confidentiality of private suppliers. A group signature is applied to an undisclosed supplier. The undisclosed supplier previously receives registration to the certificate authority device, and performs a group signature based on the certificate issued by the certificate... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080201263 - Method of billing a client for using a computerized numerical control machine: There is described an efficient and simple method of billing a client for using a computerized numerical control machine. The invoice amount to be billed is based on at least one trajectory of at least one axis during operation, on a volume of a stock removed from a work piece... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080201266 - Communications system: A method for controlling payment in a communications system including the steps of providing a service accessing a service provider from the or one user device, selecting a product for purchase from the service provider, the service agent receiving a request for payment from the service provider via a payment... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080201264 - Payment card financial transaction authenticator: A payment card financial transaction authenticates for providing overall financial network security computes a number of results from a cryptographic key that match values that were selectively used to personalize individual payment cards with their individual user identification and account access codes. An account access code is later presented daring... Agent: Richard B. Main, Esq. Patents Pending

20080201265 - Smart card with random temporary account number generation: The smart card with random temporary account number generation provides an authenticating system coupled with an access or transaction card, such as a credit card. The card includes first and second memory storage media, with the first memory medium containing a plurality of temporary account or authentication numbers. The card... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080201267 - Remote product ordering using mobile phones: Systems and methods for placing and fulfilling orders for products that include visual content using a mobile telephone. An image processing operator provides a unique authenticator in return for a monetary payment. A user of the system provides a message that includes a digital image with an order indicator, a... Agent: Seth M. Milstein

20080201268 - Invoiceless trading and settlement method and system: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention overcome the shortcomings of existing trading systems by providing an invoiceless trading system that creates incentives for customers to pay suppliers within a predetermined period of time, such as a settlement period. Specifically, the invoiceless trading system enables a customer to obtain... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080201272 - Price optimization system and process for recommending product price changes to a user based on analytic modules calculating price recommendations independently: t

20080201273 - Price optimization system and process for recommending product price changes to a user based on numerical endings of prices:

20080201271 - Price optimization system and process for recommending product price changes to a user based on unit size, price and margin:

20080201274 - System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service: A method and system for computing the price for the transportation of goods on a route are provided where the route has at a first segment and a second segment adjacent the first segment. The goods are transported on the first segment by a mode of transportation other than a... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080201276 - Music and art network: A music and arts facility includes a campus incorporating a studio section, a video cast stage, an internet communication center and a café. The facility may also include an art gallery and a library. In addition, a method of advancing music and arts include offering membership to a network of... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080201275 - Real estate occupancy bond: A method is provided for facilitating an alterable commitment to occupy real property. The first step includes providing a first party to occupy a real property asset to satisfy pre-determined alterable occupancy commitments. The second step includes providing a second party having at least one real property asset for satisfying... Agent: Brown Rudnick LLP

20080195405 - Automated pricing and/or \"green\" indicating method and system: Methods and systems are disclosed for a rapid and automated creation of a price schedule and/or a “green” 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... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

20080195406 - Communication control charging system, communication control charging method, and communication control charging program: To provide a system, a method, and a program for enabling controls over communication sessions and charging of communication fees according to the communication sessions, which can easily be introduced to existing communication authentication systems. When a communication terminal connected to a corporate network tries to perform a mutual communication... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080195404 - Compliant-based service level objectives: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for complaint-based service level objectives. More specifically, a method of deducing undefined service level objectives receives complaints regarding behavior of a system. The complaints could include a severity parameter, an entity parameter, a nature-of-complaint parameter, a timestamp parameter, and/or... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080195409 - Data processing: Information is submitted over a network that comprises a mobile device and a server. The mobile device obtains an image of a visual symbol. The visual symbol is parsed into a code and a network address of the first server that corresponds to said code is obtained. The address is... Agent: James C. Wray

20080195413 - Design structure for tamper sensitive warranty management for autonomic computing systems: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing a design is provided. The design structure can include an autonomic data processing system disposed in a product. The data processing system can include an autonomic element, and a warranty management... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080195402 - Method and apparatus for determining optimal penalty credits on e-commerce of i.t.-related business-to-business services: A method of establishing business contracts with penalty credits for service level agreement violations, including determining business goals of a customer, determining business goals of a provider, determining benefits and losses of the customer as function of a service offered by the provider, determining benefits and losses of a provider... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080195407 - Operational risk control apparatus and method for data processing: An apparatus for controlling operational risk in a data processing system comprises a risk domain segmenter for segmenting the data processing system into a plurality of risk domains, a domain risk threshold selector for selecting a domain risk threshold for at least one of the plurality of risk domains, a... Agent: Gss Law Group

20080195403 - Ramp recorder and quick reporting tree data transmission method: A system and method for determining whether an aircraft is ready to fly or should be repaired in light of damage and/or malfunction information observed at the departure gate includes observing damage or malfunction, alerting decision-makers, and initiating an automated interview session via a camera equipped communications device to a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080195411 - Sealed-bid auction comprising staged bid publication: A method of conducting a sealed-bid auction is disclosed that herds the bids into a smaller range than might otherwise occur. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, each bid is classified into exactly one of a plurality of buckets. Each bucket, and the bids in the bucket, if there are... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080195412 - Sealed-bid auction comprising staged bid publication: A method of conducting a sealed-bid auction is disclosed that herds the bids into a smaller range than might otherwise occur. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, each bid is classified into exactly one of a plurality of buckets. Each bucket, and the bids in the bucket, if there are... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080195410 - Service provider selection system and method: Computer-based systems and methods for assisting buyers of goods and/or services. Different categories of information relating to a seller of goods and/or services are predefined and presented to a user as a visual representation of the seller in the form of a polygonal (e.g., hexagonal) diagram. The triangular area extending... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080195401 - System and method for managing sponsorships: A system and method for managing sponsorships by a sponsor, in which the party requesting the sponsorship requests to use content owned and protected by the sponsor, such as trademarks, logos, and copyrighted material. An embodiment of the method involves receiving, at a computer network site, a request for sponsorship... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195400 - Ticketing scheme: In an ITSO scheme, construction and initial sealing of ITSO Product Entities (IPEs) is carried out by one of a plurality of ITSO Secure Application Modules (‘ISAMs’) at a location remote from ticket retailer devices at which the IPE fields are generated. Each ticket retailer device is connected to an... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080195408 - Wireless transactions: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for allowing an offering party to use a computer to send messages to individual wireless device users regarding a potential business transaction. Web based advise from the offering party is forwarded through a communications gateway. Replies from wireless device users are provided by links embedded... Agent: Ryder Ip Law, Pc

20080195416 - Automated centralized preparation of medications in anticipation of use: A centralized system and method for preparing and managing medications prepared in anticipation of use for at a remote location. An order processing server receives a patient-specific dose order from a remote site connected to a remote location through a network. A dose preparation station prepares doses in anticipation of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080195419 - Frame tracer web browser component: An internet browser software component facilitates online submission of prescription eyeglass orders by receiving frame trace data sent to a computer by a frame tracer and embedding it in an order form prepared for submission over the internet. The browser software component may interpret data sent to any peripheral port... Agent: Etherton Law Group, Llc

20080195417 - Method and system for evaluating a physician's economic performance and gainsharing of physician services: The invention relates to a method and system of physician economic performance evaluation in which the relative medical difficulty associated with patients admitted by a particular physician is determined and, given that measurement, judgments made concerning the relative amount of inpatient resources that the physician required. Also, one application of... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.a.

20080195414 - Method and system for remotely administering a diuretic therapy: A diuretic titration system is disclosed herein. The diuretic titration system includes a server having an algorithm, a communication device operatively connected to the server, and a monitoring device operatively connected to the server. The algorithm is configured to evaluate input from the communication device and/or the monitoring device in... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080195418 - Method for generating a prescription for orthodontic appliances: A prescription for an orthodontic appliance is generated with a method using a computer-based program. The method includes providing a list of orthodontic appliances. From the list, an orthodontist may select an orthodontic appliance using a computer interface. The method also includes depicting a pictorial representation of the orthodontic appliance... Agent: Wegman, Hessler & Vanderburg

20080195415 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for promoting healthcare information technologies to card members: The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a credit or charge card issuer to promote healthcare information technology (HIT) products to physician card members that are affiliated with a healthcare organization, such as a preferred-provider organization (PPO). In an embodiment, the PPO endorses at least one HIT product, such... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080195422 - Customizable order profile and medication list: Interactive clinical support instances allowing customizability are provided. Upon identification of a patient, stored clinical information associated with the patient is accessed. Instructions are received from the user regarding presentation of the accessed clinical information. The accessed clinical information is then presented in accordance with at least one of the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080195421 - Electronic medical records exchange system: A medical records system is disclosed having an interface module having a user interface to allow a user to request and retrieve data regarding patient records, data regulating software and a database of medical records and patient data. The interface module is configured to allow for selection of patient identifiers,... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080195423 - Medical payment system: A medical payment system is described in which a provider of medical goods and/or services submits, via telephone or other communications medium, a request for payment amount determination for a patient encounter. A price determination system determines which of a plurality of fee schedules negotiated by the provider applies to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080195420 - Method, computer program product and apparatus for generating integrated electronic health records: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for generating an integrated electronic health record. The integrated electronic health record provides an aggregate of health information across multiple data sources, including combining claims data with disease management data into a common electronic health record. By combining these data sources, an integrated... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080195424 - System, method and insurance product for insuring real estate transactions: A method of reducing the risk to a Vendor of a First House that the Vendor of the First House' will have to pay the Monthly Carrying Costs associated with the First House in the event that the First House is not sold within an acceptable predefined or determinable period... Agent: Thompson Hine L.l.p. Intellectual Property Group

20080195425 - Using commercial share of wallet to determine insurance risk: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080195427 - Rewards program for credit card issuer: A method of administering a rewards program for a credit card issuer client of a rewards contractor. The rewards contractor makes arrangements for delivery of a reward to a recipient designated by the credit card issuer, and payment for the reward is made using a credit card issued by the... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. Pc

20080195426 - Subscription-based mobile shelter method: A mobile shelter is provided (101) and consideration-based private civil security subscriptions are accepted (102) from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to the mobile shelter. By one optional approach, the mobile shelter may be configured and arranged to be moved to and from a predetermined location before,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080195428 - Shared transport system and service network: The network system matches the supply and demand of transportation services by incorporating unused transportation capacity (i.e., empty seats) with a real-time allocation and matching service that enables individuals and goods to conveniently hire that capacity with attractive pricing, rapid responsiveness, better information availability and trusted security. The network system... Agent: Francis C. Hand Esq., C/o Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi,

20080195439 - Assessing potential risk severity from investor lawsuits: Methods and systems are provided for preparing a report providing at least one evaluation of a subject business entity's loss severity potential in the event of an insurable claim by one or more investors. Methods and systems are provided for producing a database for producing a report providing at least... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.c.

20080195436 - Automated supplier self audit questionnaire system: The present system comprises a number of discrete elements, which when combined provide a solution which has not been attainable in the industry. A database of answer templates provides the answers to all conceivable questions asked on supplier self audit questionnaires. A web portal allows manufacturers access to the above... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20080195440 - Data quality management using business process modeling: A business process modeling framework is used for data quality analysis. The modeling framework represents the sources of transactions entering the information processing system, the various tasks within the process that manipulate or transform these transactions, and the data repositories in which the transactions are stored or aggregated. A subset... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080195430 - Data quality measurement for etl processes: Techniques for maintaining data quality of transformed data generated using an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process and stored in at least one data warehouse, the method comprising generating a quality metric for each of a plurality of units of the transformed data with reference to at least one data quality measurement rule,... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080195443 - Digital downloading jukebox system with central and local music servers: A digital downloading jukebox system including a central server and a plurality of remote jukebox devices each provided with a local server that preferably mirrors the central server and enables selected songs to be immediately downloaded to the jukebox for reproduction. The local server and jukebox may also provide, through... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080195433 - Dynamic value stream mapping software: Value stream mapping may be achieved by way of an application or software component that receives textual data defining a value stream (and/or other parameters of interest) and generates a value stream map. The application/component may additionally provide value stream analysis based on the received data and/or financial analysis. In... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.a.

20080195435 - Lifestyle-based vehicle selection system and method: Various embodiments of computer systems and methods are provided for enabling a consumer to search for vehicles based on lifestyle criteria. One embodiment comprises a computer system for enabling consumers to research vehicles. One such computer system comprises: a vehicle database configured to store a plurality of vehicle profiles, each... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080195438 - Method and system for providing financial services: A method and system for providing financial services are described. The method and system include receiving financial information. The financial information includes financial transaction(s) of a user. The method and system also include determining financial advice based on the financial information. The financial advice indicates a change corresponding to the... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.c.

20080195432 - Method and system for providing price protection for commodity purchasing through price protection contracts: Systems and methods for the provisioning of price protection contracts which provide price protection against adverse fluctuations in the retail price of a commodity to a consumer are disclosed. While these price protection contracts may pertain to almost any type of commodity, certain embodiments of the present invention may provide... Agent: Sprinkle Ip Law Group

20080195442 - Multiple fueler operations for fuel information messaging system: A fuel management server creates a primary transaction record for a primary fueling agent assigned to a fueling transaction and a secondary transaction record for each secondary fueling agent assigned to the fueling transaction. Each fueling agent interacts with a fueling agent client device to collect fueling transaction data to... Agent: King & Spalding LLP (saic Customer Number) Attn: George T. Marcou

20080195441 - Optimal group of service compositions: A method and system for forming service compositions to provide service components to business processes. Service components independently needed by each business process are identified. At least one of the service components is needed by at least two business processes. At least two different service components are needed by at... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080195429 - Sales representative workbench with account-based interface: A computer program product for handling sales activity information, the computer program product being tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium and including executable code that, when executed, is configured to cause a data processing apparatus to provide a sales activity interface. The sales activity interface may include a grouped plurality... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080195431 - System and method for correlating business transformation metrics with sustained business performance: A system and method for correlating business metrics and business transformations includes correlating metrics between a first level and a second level within a business metric hierarchy, and correlating at least one business transform and at least one metric at the first of the plurality of levels.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080195437 - System and method for independently representating multiple shareholders in the sale of a business: A system and method by which an independent party serves as a representative of the shareholders or equity holders of a privately-held company for purposes of interacting with the purchaser of the privately-held company, the shareholders, governmental agencies and certain other third parties, following the closing of such merger and... Agent: Neugeboren O''dowd Pc

20080195434 - System and method for tracking and managing construction projects: System and methods are described for assisting a contractor in managing information associated with a construction project. The amount of information relating to labor, materials, scheduling and billing and the number of individuals accessing the information can be overwhelmingly large for even a simple construction project. As such, the system... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080195445 - Using commercial share of wallet to manage vendors: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080195444 - Using commercial share of wallet to rate business prospects: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080195451 - Automated data management for performance reports: A system for enhancing the predictive value of planning of a pending project based upon data from historical projects, the system comprising means for storing historical data in a manner that permits later extraction of such data based upon similarity of characteristics, the means comprising a plurality of sectors into... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080195446 - Cross-program dependency scheduling: A scheduling application that provides decision support for program managers by interrelating activities across multiple product-development programs and by creating dependencies for such activities. The application is platform independent and uses Internet technologies to manage multiple dependent programs. The application manages dependent programs by graphically displaying an activity schedule, displaying... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080195452 - Interactive graphics-based planning systems: This invention relates to providing a system for project planning and scheduling which supports simplified, interactive, graphics-based project planning and scheduling using new planning concepts, new scheduling concepts and new graphics-based software systems. Further, this invention permits an inexperienced user to simultaneously plan and schedule a project including establishing appropriate... Agent: Stoneman Volk Patent Group

20080195450 - Method and system for managing resources on wireless communication network: A resource management method and apparatuses for a communication system are provided. The resource management method provides an algorithm for resource cost optimization, which defines the first weight for higher resource-use rates, based on the channel state allocated to each customer node, and the second weight for improved fairness among... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195448 - Method of processing calendar events, and associated handheld electronic device: An improved method and handheld electronic device enable a user to create a number of rules for processing incoming calendar events. If the trigger elements of a given rule are satisfied, a result of the rule is automatically carried out with respect to the incoming calendar event. A calendar event... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080195453 - Organisational representational system: The invention relates to a system and method for the generation, testing and use of a model of at least part of an organisation. The model includes a number of elements and components linked thereto. Typically where there are a number of components, some of the components are linked so... Agent: Grady K. Bergen

20080195447 - System and method for capacity sizing for computer systems: A system and method for capacity sizing in a computer device or system includes determining one or more classes of operations based on at least one of historical computational usage and predicted usage for a system. Based on the one or more classes of operations, at least one capacity target... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20080195454 - Systems for collaborating within a shared electronic calendar: Systems of the present invention provide for collaborating within a shared electronic calendar. An exemplary system may comprise a web-based electronic calendar having a collaboration tool allowing a plurality of users to collaborate regarding an event scheduled in the electronic calendar. The collaboration tool may comprise a wiki-style software application... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080195449 - Techniques to manage cost resources: Techniques to manage cost resources are described. An apparatus comprises a project management program arranged to schedule resources for a project. The project management program includes multiple resource types with one of the resource types comprising a cost resource type. The cost resource type may have multiple defined cost resources... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195456 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for coordinating personnel based on profiles: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinating personnel based on profiles. Information and/or personnel directive providers, such as project managers, may use a code triggered information server to serve context, demographic, and behavior targeted information and/or personnel directives to users, such as employees, via mobile... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080195455 - Electronic device and method of scheduling calendar events: A method of scheduling a recurring calendar event using an electronic device includes receiving constraints for the recurring calendar event, determining an occurrence of the recurring calendar event, determining a free time period that meets the constraints, for scheduling a next occurrence of the recurring calendar event, and scheduling the... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080195460 - Attention marketplace with individualized advertisements: Disclosed are methods in which a user is compensated for viewing advertisements. A user expresses interest in viewing a particular advertisement, but the variant of that advertisement that the user views is based on the user's demographic, psychographic, or behavioral traits. Thus, two different users with different traits who express... Agent: Patentbest

20080195458 - Dynamic selection and incorporation of advertisements: Advertisements are dynamically selected for incorporation into programs utilizing information about available spots and demographics associated with a program. An individual consumer may view or hear advertisements which have been incorporated into the program. The consumer can rate the advertisements and/or programs, and the information is tracked, possibly modifying the... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195462 - Method and system for collecting and correlating data from information sources to deliver more relevant and effective advertising: A method and system for collecting and using in combination data from information sources in a correlated manner to deliver more relevant and effective advertising is provided. Website owners register with a service provider, submit relevant information about their website and download website analytics software enabling relevant data to be... Agent: Parag Patel

20080195459 - Method for evaluating media products for purposes of third-party association: A method of evaluating media products through use of collective intelligence, for purposes of third-party association with a media product, such as advertising, product placement, licensing, and more, includes making a representation of each of the candidate media products available to a plurality of evaluators and providing an electronic forum... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080195457 - Methods and computer-readable media for location-based targeted advertising: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for providing targeted advertising to subscriber devices based on the location of the subscriber device and a set of advertiser-defined and subscriber-defined criteria. In one embodiment, the method includes retrieving location information that identifies the location of the subscriber device. Advertising is matched and... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195461 - System and method for host web site profiling: A computerized method for selecting a host web site for hosting advertising data is disclosed the method including characterizing in a data communications network, data communications for a plurality of end user devices for each of a plurality of subscribers to the data communication network between the data communication network... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, Pc

20080195464 - System and method to collect, calculate, and report quantifiable peer feedback on relative contributions of team members: A system and method for collecting, calculating, and reporting quantifiable peer feedback on relative contributions of team members are provided. Team members may quantifiably evaluate other team members or work group members relative to each other by allocating points from a point pool to each member according to the team... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080195463 - System for cost-sensitive autonomous information retrieval and extraction: A multi-agent system is provided for automatically acquiring desired information from one or more information sources. The multi-agent system includes a plurality of data provider filter agents associated with the one or more information sources. The data provider filter agents are configured to search for the desired information within the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080195476 - Abandonment remarketing system: An abandonment remarketing system streamlines the recovery of on-line abandoning consumers by financing incentives through other parties interested in conducting business with the abandoning consumer. The system may enhance the recovery of on-line abandoning consumers by offering an abandoning consumer an opportunity to receive an incentive redeemable with an abandoned... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080195475 - Advertiser portal interface: To help customers make purchasing decisions, metrics can be measured and displayed to a user. In one embodiment, the metrics displayed include at least a portion of a measured metric over a first period of time, at least a portion of a current metric, and at least a portion of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080195466 - Advertising message referrals: Advertising referral methods and systems allow a first user to refer advertisements of interest to other users, taking advantage of pre-existing social networks. A referral server may coordinate a referral by either receiving a referral message from the first user for forwarding to another user, or by receiving notification of... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195469 - Auctioning to obtain customers: Businesses compete for a patron's business in an auction. A patron or customer provides preferences about an anticipated visit. Businesses are provided, by an agency, with information about the customer and their preferences. Bids entice the customer based on the preferences. The customer selects a business to patronize based on... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20080195470 - Automatic reposting of chronologically listed online advertisements: A method for presenting advertisements includes: receiving a multitude of advertisements from different advertisers and storing them; storing a corresponding posting date for each advertisement; automatically updating the corresponding posting date; and transmitting a list of stored advertisements in response to a request from a remote network interface device. The... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.c.

20080195484 - Integrated inventory management system: A method is provided for inventory management which includes an initial step of receiving a customer request for an inventory item and then generating a table or menu of one or more inventory items that most closely correspond to the customer request using a price forecasting system. Based on negotiations... Agent: Philip G. Meyers Law Office

20080195487 - Internet shopping assistance technology and e-mail place: The present invention is a customizable system and method for direct access to a specified Internet website and related/alternate websites and to reach e-mail addresses utilizing telephone numbers as primary search queries. The browser's graphical elements and layout can be customized to suit the user's preferences or other criteria such... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, P.a.

20080195471 - Method and apparatus for economic exploitation of waiting time of customers at call centers, contact centers or into interactive voice response (ivr) systems: A structure and method includes a detector to determine that a caller is waiting for service. A presentation module presents an advertisement to the waiting caller, wherein a compensation is paid to have the advertisement presented to the waiting caller.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080195477 - Method and system for advertising locally relevant content through a computer network: In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a computer-implemented method for creating and managing locally relevant dynamic content for a regional, national or international organization and for selectively displaying the locally relevant information in response to a request from a user terminal connected to a computer network. The method comprises... Agent: Kevin Farrell Pierce Atwood

20080195489 - Method and system for dynamic update of vehicle lot prices: The system and method allows for the quick and easy update and display of information regarding vehicles in a dealership lot. Since each vehicle is unique in its price, mileage and features, the system allows the information for each vehicle to be stored in a database and transmitted to a... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.c.

20080195492 - Method and system for implementing a search engine with reward components and payment components: A system and method for implementation of product searches via a search engine over a networked computer system such as the Internet. In particular, a user may execute a search for product offers that are accompanied with reward components (e.g. reward points, rebates, coupons, etc.) and/or those that allow payment... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20080195478 - Method and system for prohibiting combinations of adverts: Provided is a method and system for prohibiting a predetermined advertisement (ad) combination from being reproduced together within a predetermined period. The method includes: a) analyzing metadata including a prohibited combination period element for providing prohibited combination period information for prohibiting a combination of a first ad and a second... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080195465 - Method and system for providing multiple services via a point-of-sale portal architecture: A secure point-of-sale (POS) portal architecture for delivering multiple services is provided. According to one exemplary aspect of the architecture, a number of services offered by various parties are integrated for delivery to merchants. The parties offering the services include, for example, payment processors and merchant acquirers and other external... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080195482 - Method and system for providing remote translations: A method and system for enabling a user at a remote location to obtain various types of translation services. The user utilizes a remote device to communicate with a translation engine to perform text-to-text, text-to-voice, and voice-to-voice translations. Advertisements can be provided to the user in connection with the translations.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080195479 - Method and system for providing various types of adverts: Provided is a method for providing advertisements (ads) in diverse forms based on the type of an ad in a personalized broadcasting environment, and a system thereof, The method includes the steps of: a) analyzing metadata including a descriptor for defining relationship between an ad and a broadcasting program; b)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080195467 - Method and system for selling discounted fuel: A system and method for selling discounted fuel which takes advantage of the efficiencies, lower transactional costs, and other savings of grocery stores and similar businesses to provide discounts at conventional fuel stations. The method is implemented by a grocery store or other business; a host computer system; one or... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080195494 - Method and system for using reward points to liquidate products: Product providers are able to liquidate goods via a transacting entity such as a liquidation broker which acts to exchange a user's reward points for the liquidated goods in a manner that is transparent to both the redeeming user and the product provider. A user selects a product to be... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20080195474 - Method of providing media content for a portable media player: A method of providing media content for a portable media player makes available in a database entertainment content and message content for downloading and storing on a portable media player. The message content is downloaded and stored on the media player with the entertainment content for playing on the media... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080195495 - Notebook system: The present invention describes a method and system for an electronic notebook that allows the user to collect, organize, annotate and share information. The notebook information consists of a collection of links to other objects such as web pages, computer files and email messages. The notebook allows the user to... Agent: Eric J. Golin

20080195472 - Online purchase incentive method and system: A marketing method includes operating a central server to communicate with multiple, unrelated online storefront systems. The method receives a server request from a browser of a customer who is accessing one of the storefronts, and it determines if the browser corresponds to a customer having a profile in a... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080195485 - Prepaid foreign currency transaction platform: Computer-implemented systems and methods for a consumer to make transactions in a foreign currency at a predetermined exchange rate, comprising enabling a consumer to prepay an issuer for a selected quantity of a foreign currency at a prepaid exchange rate determined by the issuer; issuing to the consumer a foreign... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080195486 - Prepaid gasoline transaction platform: Computer-implemented systems and methods for a consumer to buy gasoline at a predetermined price, comprising enabling a consumer to prepay an operator for a selected quantity of gasoline at a prepaid gasoline price determined by an issuer; issuing to the consumer a gasoline debit card for identifying the consumer in... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080195481 - Products and processes for game play based on acquired points: Methods of entering wagers using incentive awards. Points associated with incentive award programs may be used to play games. Outcomes of the games may determine further point awards. Points may be used to redeem prizes. Incentive award points may be separately maintained from redeemable points. Products and other embodiments are... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195490 - Refrigerated case advertising system and method: A method of providing advertising on a refrigerated merchandiser located at a retailer. The method includes providing a refrigerated merchandiser having at least one graphic display panel and a controller in electrical communication with the graphic display panel, and providing network service in electrical communication with the controller. The method... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080195491 - Refrigerated case advertising system and method: A method of providing advertising on a refrigerated merchandiser located at a retailer. The method includes providing a refrigerated merchandiser having advertising space, charging a fee from the case manufacturer to at least one advertiser to advertise on the advertising space, displaying the advertising on the advertising space, and reducing... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080195473 - Rewards program manager: A method for managing rewards programs is disclosed. The method includes reviewing a plurality of offers from a plurality of merchants on a host site via the Internet. The offers are associated with rewards to consumers after the consumers use their portable consumer devices. An offer from the plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080195468 - Rule-based contiguous selection and insertion of advertising: Streaming content is combined with advertising using an ad selection and insertion application. Content information, ad information, and user information may all be used to select ads for incorporation into the streaming content, whether audio and/or video. Ad information may include demographic targets for an ad, as well as information... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195480 - Social-network enabled review system with subject-owner controlled syndication management: The embodiments of the present system include a review engine that is connected to support modules and databases that receive, store, and retrieve reviews, based upon the subject and the users' relationship to the authors of the reviews. The review engine comprises a social network engine, a rate and rank... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080195488 - Systems and methods for progressive discounting: A method for progressive discounting includes charging fee amounts to respective customers at different respective times, progressively reducing a price of at least one item based on each of the fee amounts, providing each of the customers with access to information identifying a current progressively reduced price for the item,... Agent: Malas Law, Llc

20080195493 - Systems and methods for transferring items with restricted transferability: The invention is systems and methods for transferring items with restricted transferability. Initially, the systems and methods wait for a first consumer to make a request to transfer an item after having purchased the item from a provider. The systems and methods then send a request to transfer the item... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195483 - Widget management systems and advertising systems related thereto: Systems and methods disclosed herein support use, re-use, and recomposition of widgets and other web content, such as by providing a user interface for controlling the interrelationship and display of widgets and the like. In one aspect, an OPML-based system expresses relationships among discrete components of web content through an... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080195496 - Method and system for providing point of sale details to a user: At a point-of-sale, a retail customer can elect to have transaction details uploaded to a server, or to have the details stored on removable media, for later loading into budget or financial software by the customer. The election and selection of a destination for uploading the transaction details can be... Agent: Russell W. Burge

20080195497 - Unit-based prepaid presentation instrument accounts and methods: Methods and/or systems for providing preauthorization and transaction settlement for a transaction using a prepaid unit-based presentation instrument are disclosed, wherein the presentation instrument includes a unit balance. The method may include receiving a preauthorization request that includes a price-per-unit and a preauthorization amount. The methods and/or systems may then... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080195498 - Wireless network systems having accessibility based on usage of an account: Systems and methods for providing connectivity to a wireless network may include a point of sale device at a merchant location that is used to receive an account identifier that in turn is associated with a stored value account of a customer. The account identifier is transmitted along with transaction... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080195500 - Changing trial status in a referral service: Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195501 - Expansion of a referral service: Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants based at least in part on an expansion plan, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant,... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195502 - Free trial period of referral service: Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195505 - Method and system to process remote orders: A method and system for processing a remote order is described that allows a customer to remotely send a signal to a business. The signal contains the order information for the customer and what the customer wants from the business. Thus, this system allows the business to process such an... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080195499 - Method of providing cash and cash equivalent for electronic transctions: A system for peer-to-peer commerce includes electronic wallets 14 for storing electronic token files 12. The electronic tokens can be passed from wallet to wallet without oversight of a third party. At any time, the owner of a token can verify the validity of a token for a fee, but... Agent: Anderson, Levine & Lintel L.l.p.

20080195503 - Methods for increasing the amount of time that customers spend reviewing and shopping for products within an on-line environment: The present invention relates to methods and systems for offering products on-line and, furthermore, to methods of increasing the amount of time that customers spend reviewing and shopping for products within an on-line environment. According to certain preferred embodiments of the present invention, methods are provided for offering products for... Agent: Gabriel Habeishi Suite 2000

20080195504 - System for marketing goods and services utilizing computerized central and remote facilities: A system for shopping for goods and services includes central communications facilities and remote communications facilities connected by communications links and means permitting data communications between them. Central communications facilities offer goods and services, some in competition with each other. Each central communications facility stores, in addition to data, video... Agent: Stephen Wren

20080195508 - Energy financial reconciliation system and method: An energy financial reconciliation method, comprising displaying at least two electricity options for selection by a user, each electricity option identifying attributes associated with the electricity used to process hydrogen fuel and determining an amount of funds to be transferred to an electricity provider based on the amount of purchased... Agent: Munsch, Hardt, Kopf & Harr, P.c. Intellectual Property Docket Clerk

20080195506 - Systems and methods for automated purchase requests: A purchase request system efficiently procures goods and services by recognizing purchase authority levels of users within an enterprise, division, or project team. Administrators establish authority levels to ensure that purchase requests within a user's authority level are automatically processed and submitted to vendors for fulfillment of orders, while purchase... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080195507 - Virtual online store: The present invention discloses means, methods and apparatus to create a virtual store with means to provide shoppers the look, feel and shopping experience of retail store. Virtual store replicates the external and internal layout of corresponding retail store in a virtual environment. The virtual store comprises of virtual isles,... Agent: Nitesh Ratnakar

20080195509 - Model, design rules and system for asset composition and usage: Systems and methods are provided for the management of assets within an enterprise. Management of assets includes the creation of assets, the derivation and lineage of assets and asset composition. In addition, the creation of artifacts by the assets is provided. Assets and artifacts are maintained within a repository that... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, Llc

20080195511 - Method and system for accounting, accounting client and accounting processing unit: A method and a system for accounting supporting Quality of Service (QoS) change during a session, and an AAA client and an accounting processing unit are disclosed. The method includes: detecting by an AAA client a QoS change notification of a session; obtaining by the AAA client the accounting information... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080195510 - Method for managing group finances via an electronic network: The present invention provides a method of managing group finances via an electronic network. Transaction details are received from a member of group via an electronic network. The transaction details preferably include a shared expense containing an expense amount and at least one group member responsible for the expense. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080195512 - System and method for administering consecutive and concurrent leaves: A system and method for administering leave policies to employee absences. All absences that occurred in a particular time period are identified. A leave policy is determined for each identified absence. Each leave policy specifies at least one leave sequence that has at least one leave. The leave has an... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080195513 - Method and apparatus for embedded copy tracking with deferred remote billing: A method of accounting for job activity in a multifunctional device comprises the steps of: providing user identification information associated with use of the multifunctional device; performing a job through use of the multifunctional device without providing any billing information relating to the job; communicating unbilled job information to at... Agent: Daniel L. Dawes Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman LLP

20080195514 - Automated review and hold placement: A method for automated processing of deposit items at a computing device is described. A deposit item, such as case, a personal check, or certified check, is received at a computing device. The deposit item may represent a request to deposit funds of at least one monetary item into a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080195515 - Combined payment and communication service method and system: Aspects of he invention relate to a combined computer-implemented payment service and communication service method in a server system configured for performing at least one of a payment service and a communication service within the server system in relation to a recipient. The method involves receiving a public unique identifier... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080195517 - Customer interaction with inventory via rfid: Customer interaction with inventory via radio frequency identification (RFID) are disclosed, where a unique RFID is combined into ID cards, credit, debit, and smartcards. The current inventory RFID technology and RFID reader are moved into a place convenient to the end-user or customer to remove the need for cashiers. Some... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080195516 - Method for creating and delivering customized compliance information: A method and system to create personalized investor information packages, based on investor information, to be delivered to the investor to satisfy both compliance regulations and investor preferences. The method and system may deliver information in a paper or electronic format.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080195518 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The method includes scanning an active document on a computer to identify relevant keywords, searching a database for reference materials relating to the relevant... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Fishkill

20080195555 - Method and instrument for generating and trading identifiable plural ownership rights in assets: A method and instrument for raising finance from generating and trading identifiable plural ownership rights in assets, such as intellectual property, or other properties and any associated rights or benefits, such as profit streams. An exemplary method comprising generating a plurality of identifiable ownership rights and facilitating the buying and... Agent: Peter Carr

20080195556 - Method of matching hedge funds and investors and apparatus therefor: A method for matching a hedge fund and a hedge fund investor, and apparatus therefore, may utilize databases that may be searched by search engines. The databases and the search engines may be accessed using a website. Information regarding the investor may be stored in one database and information relating... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080195552 - System and method configured for facilitating financial analysis: A method comprises determining a plurality of investment performance scores, determining a plurality of investment index performance scores and assessing each one of the investment performance scores dependent upon a respective one of the investment index. Each one of the investment performance scores corresponds to a respective investment of an... Agent: Simon, Galasso & Frantz Plc.

20080195557 - System and method for emulating a long/short hedge fund index in a trading system: A system comprises a memory operable to store a compound index that is based at least in part on a plurality of component indices. The plurality of component indices comprise an international developed markets equity index, a U.S. large-cap equity index, and a U.S. small-cap equity index. The compound index... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080195553 - System and method for providing a trading system comprising a compound index: A system comprises a memory operable to store a compound index that is based at least in part on a plurality of component indices. The plurality of component indices comprise an international developed markets equity index, an international emerging markets equity index, a U.S. large-cap equity index, and a U.S.... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080195554 - Tool to find deductions from hud settlement statement that can be used by a stand alone system or be used with a real estate web platform: The current invention is a tool to find HUD settlement statement deductions that can be used by a stand alone T-sap or be used with a Real Estate Web Platform to provide intelligent guidance to investors to maximize their returns and assist in the finding of deductions for a Section... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080195558 - Combined 1031/1033 property exchange: The invention is a method of deferring taxes on real estate property by exchanging investment real estate property under IRS 1031 exchange rules for a real estate property that is subject to condemnation or conversion. The property subject to condemnation is then sold, and the owner claims the benefit if... Agent: Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.l.p.

20080195520 - Flipping products between platforms: Products obtained on one network based platform can be flipped to another network based platform for resell. A party logs on to an online auction system to participate in an auction. If the party wins the product, the party may then manually or automatically have the product re-listed on another... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080195521 - Methods and systems for incentivizing participation in a marketplace through the issuance of warrants: Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of issuing at least one warrant to a participant, in which the warrant is convertible into at least one ownership share of an entity associated with a marketplace; receiving information associated with... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195522 - Methods and systems for receiving warrants as an incentive for participation in a marketplace: Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of receiving at least one warrant in exchange for executing at least one trading activity in a marketplace, in which the warrant may be converted into at least one ownership share of... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195526 - Sealed-bid auction comprising staged bid publication: A method of conducting a sealed-bid auction is disclosed that herds the bids into a smaller range than might otherwise occur. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, each bid is classified into exactly one of a plurality of buckets. Each bucket, and the bids in the bucket, if there are... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080195519 - System and method for trading credit derivative products having fixed premiums: A system and method for facilitating trading of credit derivative products is provided. Each of the credit derivative products includes a fixed premium to be paid by a buyer to a seller on a predetermined periodic basis. For a given credit derivative product, an amount of the fixed premium may... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080195525 - Systems and methods for clustered auctioning: A method for clustered auctioning includes assigning respective parameter values to respective auction items in an auction, and determining a winner of at least one of the auction items responsive to a parameter value of another auction item in the auction.... Agent: Malas Law, Llc

20080195524 - Techniques for effectuating an actual user consumer transaction based on an expert consumer transaction: An improved technique effectuates an actual user consumer transaction such as a stock trade. The technique involves providing expert performance data to a user from a database. The expert performance data is based on past expert consumer transactions which have been actually carried out by a roster of experts. The... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc

20080195523 - Transferring products to various platforms: Products can be listed on one electronic platform and then easily moved to another network based platform based on the occurrence of a triggering event. If a product owner lists a product on an electronic platform, there is an expectation of the product being sold. However, if a triggering event... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080195528 - Computer-implemented method and system for dynamic consumer rating in a transaction: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method (100) of rating a consumer in connection with a transaction initiated by the consumer and requesting credit from a credit issuer (28). The method (100) includes the steps of: providing a merchant-based consumer/transaction data set (16) to a central credit issuer database (20); providing a... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080195529 - Dynamic credit management: A method for providing a financial evaluation of at least one financial instrument or of an issuer supports the provision of a dynamic credit limit. A dynamic credit limit may be associated with a counterparty or a debt security of the counterparty, for example. The method includes obtaining counterparty credit... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080195527 - Method and apparatus for the lending of monetary funds while taking collectibles as collateral: A method and system of exchanging collectibles for a loan of money allows an Applicant to remotely apply for and receive funds in exchange for works of art and other collectibles. An Applicant specifies the loan sought and submits personal and collateral information. Thereafter, the form and information are analyzed... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20080195530 - Systems and methods for processing credit card transactions that exceed a credit limit: A method, system, and computer are disclosed for managing a financial transaction associated with a financial account, wherein the transaction would cause an outstanding balance of the financial account to exceed a credit limit. The method comprises determining a merchant type for a merchant which is a party to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080195531 - Delivery and referral service trial period: Disclosure includes receiving an indication of an order, receiving an indication of a payment for the order, transmitting the indication of the order to a merchant, and allocating at least a merchant portion of the payment to the merchant based, at least in part, on a trial status of the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195536 - Electronic payment system: An electronic payment system and method facilitates electronic commerce through controlled transfer of identification and value representations to wireless devices. The system includes a payment collection apparatus and a transaction apparatus, and provides for representation of user and transaction information via machine-readable indicia. In one embodiment, the machine-readable indicia is... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080195537 - Managing variable to fixed payments in an international ach: Managing foreign payments in an International ACH. An originating depository financial institution (“ODFI”) can create an ACH item designating a fixed amount of foreign currency to be credited to, or a fixed amount of domestic currency to be debited from, a receiving depository financial institution. In a variable to fixed... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080195535 - Method for flexibly configuring charging modes in ims systems: The present invention provides a method and system for flexibly configuring charging information in an Internet protocol multimedia sub-system. According to the invention, charging mode information of respective application servers involved in a user service is stored in the home subscriber server, the home subscriber server sends charging function address... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080195534 - Method for paying an obligation: A method for paying an obligation to a lender including the steps of: generating transaction settlement proceeds based on sales made by a merchant; depositing the transaction settlement proceeds in a first bank account, the first bank account being controlled by the lender; sweeping the deposited transaction settlement proceeds to... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080195532 - Systems and methods for processing donations: In one embodiment, a donation computing device is configured to receive donations from donors and to allot to the donor a quantity of donation indications that may be included in electronic communications transmitted by the donor. The allotted number of donation indications may be based at least partly on a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080195533 - Systems and methods for providing electronic donation indications: In one embodiment, a donation computing device is configured to receive donations from donors and to allot to the donor a quantity of donation indications that may be included in electronic communications transmitted by the donor. The allotted number of donation indications may be based at least partly on a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080195538 - Payment during trial period of referral service: Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080195539 - System and method for automated debiting and settling of financial transactions: A method and system for automated settlement and on-line debiting of a financial transaction, such as an emergency-cash transaction, is provided. A bank customer enters a foreign-branch bank and indicates a need for emergency cash. The customer is given a telephone by which the customer communicates with an interactive-voice response... Agent: King & Spalding LLP (citi Customer Number) Attn: George T. Marcou

20080195540 - Automated teller machine with fraud detection system: One embodiment involves a method for detecting fraud occurring at an Automatic Teller Machine (“ATM”). The ATM may include at least one cassette holding a denomination of paper currency to dispense. In one step, an ATM network host computer system receives a communications signal from the ATM. The signal comprises... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080195541 - Integrated technology money transfer system: A money transfer system where a sender can authorize an escrow agent computer system electronically by touch-tone telephone, computer modem, P.O.S.(point of sale) terminal, live operators, and the like, to send a money transfer such as a cash transfer from their card account such as their credit card, debit card,... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian S Steinberger

20080195542 - System and method for just-in-time capital investment and controlled cost insurance: A computer implemented method infuses pledged amounts into an account of an issuer just in time for use. A computer program establishes pledge agreements that are associated with accounts of asset holders. Access to the asset-holders' accounts through the computer network is confirmed, and those assets are monitored to ensure... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080195543 - Digital evidence bag: Data structures, methods, programs for computers, apparatus and systems for capturing, and analysing digital data, especially in the context of digital evidence gathering and analysis. Digital evidence is captured in digital evidence bags having an index file and one or more evidence units, the evidence units each comprising an index... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080195545 - Method, system, and computer program product for using a personal communication device to obtain additional information: A method of requesting information, including: receiving a request to process a transaction; identifying a user that sent the request; determining, based on a rule corresponding to the transaction and the identity of the user, that information needs to be obtained from the user before the transaction can be processed;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080195544 - System and method for generating an authorization role associated with a set of access rights and assigning the authorization role to a class of one or more computer users for accessing secured resources: A system and a method for generating an authorization role associated with a set of access rights and assigning the authorization role to a class of one or more computer users for accessing secured resources are provided.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rsw

20080195548 - License data structure and license issuing method: A license data structure and distribution (issuance) method are provided, that can accommodate one domain including multiple content playback devices and/or users. A method for creating license data in the invention includes the steps of: creating raw license data to be issued; firstly encrypting the raw license data with an... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080195547 - Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying potential licensee markets: A method is disclosed for use with at least one initial document describing a technical concept suitable for licensing, the method comprising: retrieving a set of intellectual property documents from a data warehouse; partitioning the set of intellectual property documents into a plurality of document categories; classifying the set of... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080195546 - Multilevel distribution of digital content: Disclosed is a system and method for earning award points for distributing electronic digital content between electronic equipment. Digital content (protected and un-protected) is stored on a remote distribution server for transmission to receiving electronic equipment (e.g., portable communications devices including mobile telephones, computers, etc.). The digital content generally includes... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080195549 - Transaction count synchronization in payment system: A payment system transaction authorization server computer, or another computer, performs calculations to determine a transaction count value stored in a payment device for which a transaction authorization request was sent to the authorization server computer. The computer in question “guesses” appropriate transaction count values, and then attempts to duplicate... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080195550 - System and method providing secure credit or debit transactions across unsecure networks: A system and method for providing secure credit and debit transactions across unsecure data networks. The present invention provides a one-time-use combination of account number, PIN, and added factors. A merchant terminal receives a customer identifier such as a PIN from a customer and combines secret information with the PIN... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20080195551 - Method of and system for effecting anonymous credit card purchases over the internet: A transaction system for performing secure transactions over a communication network includes (i) a merchant server system including a computer processor and associated memory, the merchant server system offering items for sale; (ii) a buyer system including a computer processor and associated memory, the buyer system being selectively couplable to... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080195560 - Methods and system for determining licensing/billing fees for computer security software: Value based licensing/billing methods and system for security software is provided, which use an effective vulnerability protection measure provided by a new or updated IPS filter deployed on host computer to determine the licensing/billing fee of the new or updated IPS filter over a billing period. The effective vulnerability protection... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20080195559 - Methods and systems for pricing products that enhance productivity: A method for pricing a productivity enhancing product or method, such as a feed additive, a fertilizer, or the like, that includes consideration of an expected or realized added benefit from the productivity enhancing product or method to an end user and the price that is expected to be received... Agent: Trask Britt

20080195562 - Automated meter reading system: In an automatic remote metering system in accordance with the invention a method is provided for reprogramming each client utility meter from a host computer by downloading a reprogram first program from the host to a corresponding hub utility meter fourth memory portion via a communications link, verifying integrity of... Agent: Donald J Lenkszus

20080195563 - Solar-to-electrical energy prospecting and commercializing: Solar-to-electrical-conversion energy-commercialization methodology including the steps of (a) selecting within a real-property environment a rights-holder surface area which is exposed to solar radiation, (b) applying to that area, in terms of predefined solar energy units (SOLs), an associated, potential solar-to-electrical energy output-level solar index, and a valuation therefor, based upon... Agent: Robert D. Varitz, P.c.

20080195561 - Systems and methods for providing renewable power systems by aggregate cost and usage: Systems and methods of providing power as it is generated at a consumer's premises, the method comprising: providing at least one locally based renewable power system to a consumer; storing the power system's characteristics in a database; determining the consumer's customer variables; monitoring the consumer's customer usage to provide an... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, Pllc

20080189127 - Autonomic management system: Innovation or other desired activities are managed autonomously and adaptively by providing discrimination of inputs directed to the activity and the management infrastructure respectively. These categories of inputs are evaluated in different evaluation paths allowing different degrees of intervention. Exposure of inputs and acceptance of feedback in regard thereto are... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.,

20080189123 - Career database system and method: A website provides multi-level recruiting of job seekers/marketing of employment opportunities. A registered job seeker may refer other job seekers to opportunities available on the website and receive a finder's fee if the referee is hired for the position. The model may be extended to multiple levels of finder's fees,... Agent: Barber Legal

20080189122 - Competitive friend ranking for computerized social networking: Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to favorite friends in a computerized social network and provide a method, system and computer program product for competitive favorite friend ranking for social networking services In one embodiment of the invention, a competitive friend ranking method can be... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080189121 - Home owner's association (hoa) summary & comparison reports: Real estate related software that aggregates data from home owner's associations for residential properties. It reports the data in a summarized one page report online. Simply enter an address and you can review—Hoa fees, locate how many hoas' are within a subdivision, assessment information, inclusions, amenities, summary of guidelines, FHA... Agent: Jai Brooks The Hoa Expert

20080189129 - Integrated autonomic innovation ifrastructure: An integrated autonomic innovation infrastructure including an autonomic management system, a motivational signature management system and/or an innovation signature management system manages all aspects of innovation activity for an organization including maintaining a record of submissions of innovation and development thereof including support of collaboration, matching problems with solutions and... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080189128 - Integrated system and method for supplying identical parts with multiple certifications: Methods and computer based systems for supplying the same aircraft part under different part certifications comprises a communication link for accepting part orders from an aircraft manufacturer or a third party. A first computer subsystem is included for determining whether the order came from an aircraft manufacturer or a third... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080189124 - Maintenance of public order: provision of capability, training and consultancy services: The maintenance of public order is essential. Although law enforcement is adept at dealing with individual or small groups of offenders and larger-scale brawls, there is a lack of ability at dealing with riots and other situations requiring a large scale less-lethal response. The ability to respond with large-scale, less-lethal... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080189131 - Method and apparatus for license distribution: A method and apparatus for license distribution are disclosed. An endpoint requests information from a server related to information required for the server to grant a license. The server provides the required information to the endpoint. The endpoint obtains the required information, and forwards the information to the server. The... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080189126 - Method and system to re-create lost cash letters: A method and system to re-create lost cash letters are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention can be used to re-create a paper-based cash letter or an electronic cash letter file that is inadvertently lost due a system failure, theft, natural disaster, or the like. The items represented in the cash... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080189130 - System and method for displaying images in an online directory: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for generating an online listing, such as a yellow pages listing, that includes information about an object, such as a business, and also includes at least one image of the structure containing the object. For example, the image may be... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080189125 - Systems and methods for responding to business disruptions using hierarchically ordered response plans: Systems and methods are disclosed for responding to a business disruption using hierarchically ordered response plans. In one implementation, a method for responding to a business disruption using hierarchically ordered response plans is provided. The method comprises storing the response plans which include at least two of a crisis management... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080189132 - Automatic hospital bed accounting system: This automatic system, devoid of data entry requirement, is the only assurance of a current and immediately accurate means of determining bed availability. It would rely upon a method of automatic electronic entry of data when a patient is placed in a bed. Beds would be defined by preprogrammed electronic... Agent: Matthew Alan Minson M.d. Kelli Lynn Minson

20080189133 - Health care education systems: A computer program product for managing health care educational information is provided. The computer program product includes a course assignment module that is operable to assign health care educational courses to a plurality of health care recipients. A reward management module is operable to associate rewards with the heath care... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080189136 - Hybrid healthcare identification platform: A hybrid healthcare identification management system comprises a data store of real-time aggregated data representative of contractual obligations between cooperating parties of a healthcare transaction. In response to requests to receive healthcare benefits, the management system queries the data store to determine whether the requested healthcare benefit may be provided.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080189134 - Method for remotely monitoring biological data: The method is for monitoring biological data in a human body. A sensor senses biological data from a human body and sends the biological data to a control unit that sends the biological data to a communicator. The communicator compares the biological data to triggering values. The communicator only transmits... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080189135 - Order sets having different views for cpoe systems: Order sets are presented in different views thereby allowing the doctor to treat a patient in a more intuitive manner. Order set content is created so that order sets can be viewed from varying perspectives. An order set library is modified such that each order statement or orderable is tagged... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080189138 - Audio control point of care management system: The present invention relates to a point of care management system for delivering audio instructions to selected healthcare workers in a clinical organization. The healthcare worker receives the audio instructions via a hand held computer such as a PDA with an audio headset. Further, the present invention calculates and delivers... Agent: Passe' Intellectual Property, LLC

20080189139 - Interactive unified workstation for benchmarking and care planning: An interactive, unified workstation is described that unifies in a single system multitude of functions pertaining to a practitioners practice that would otherwise require disjointed, more expensive, and less efficient individual workstations dedicated to a specific, limited task or a sub-set of tasks. The invention is directed towards benchmarking for... Agent: Orametrix, Inc.

20080189140 - Patient monitoring user interface and navigation system and method: A system and a method for processing medical information are described. An attempt is made to acquire patient data in response to a user request. A determination is made as to whether the patient data relating to the user request comprises more than a predetermined amount data, such as, for... Agent: Jack Schwartz & Associates

20080189137 - Systems and methods for retrieving relevant prior medical examination reports based on report content: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for the identification and retrieval of relevant archived medical information. The system includes a user interface component and a processing component. The user interface component is adapted to determine a key, which includes one or more key values. The key values... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080189141 - Method of managing the business of a health insurance plan and a system therefor: A method of managing the business of a health insurance plan, wherein the provider of such health insurance plan undertakes liability in return for a premium or contribution, and insures members who pay such premiums or make such contributions for covered health services or manages an account from which covered... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC

20080189142 - Safety evaluation and feedback system and method: Systems and methods are discussed for providing a sensor enhanced employee safety evaluation system. Sensors that monitor employee behavior are placed at the workplace of an insured entity. Data from the sensors are processed to obtain a safety evaluation. Based on the safety evaluation, the insurance provider can adjust the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189145 - System and method of determining rental resource availability for transportation services: A computer system makes reservations for transportation services. Vendor information for rental resources is stored in a central database. A customer makes a reservation inquiry. The central database is searched to find availability of the rental resources for the reservation inquiry. A rate is calculated for the rental resources based... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080189143 - System and method of providing transportation services: A computer system makes reservations for transportation services. Vendor information for rental resources is stored in a central database. A customer makes a reservation inquiry. The central database is searched to find availability of the rental resources for the reservation inquiry. A rate is calculated for the rental resources based... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080189144 - System and method of providing travel-related tools for use with transportation services: A computer system makes reservations for transportation services. Vendor information for rental resources is stored in a central database. A customer makes a reservation inquiry. The central database is searched to find availability of the rental resources for the reservation inquiry. A rate is calculated for the rental resources based... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080189146 - Computerized system for transporting cargo: A computerized system for selecting a cargo carrier includes a host computer system (20) having access to data of a cargo carrier. The host computer system (20) is accessed by a user (40) via an internet connection (30). Input means are provided for receiving information from the user (40) into... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080189148 - Ground transportation booking: The systems and methods disclosed herein provide improved comparison and booking of ground transportation travel purchases addressing taxis, limos, shared rides, parking, and other related travel categories, through a single point of purchase. Using its own application programming interface (“API”) to connect to various ground transportation content providers, an automated... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080189147 - Methods and systems for sharing season tickets with multiple owners and managing season tickets over a communication network: A system, computer software product and a method for sharing season tickets with multiple owners and managing an individual's season tickets. A server and website manage a group of season ticket owners for the purpose of sharing season tickets. The website has interactive menus and “wizards” that allow individual owners... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080189153 - Advertisement exchange system and method: A process identifies a particular advertisement that is received from an advertisement sponsor. Multiple advertisement-related services available to the advertisement are identified and information regarding those services is communicated to the advertisement sponsor. Identification of at least one selected service is received from the advertisement sponsor. The process then identifies... Agent: Innovation Strategies, Inc.

20080189158 - Distributed decision making for supply chain risk assessment: A method for determining supply chain risks is provided. The method including the steps of: providing a plurality of data locations, each data location having an agent and data elements; performing distributed data mining by each of the agents using the data elements at the respective data location to produce... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080189149 - Method, system, and program product for optimizing a workforce: The present invention optimizes a workforce for an organization as a whole or for a single project by determining what it will take so that just the right resource (RR) can be applied to just the right need (RN) at just the right time (RT) at just the right place... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080189152 - Selection method, selection system, selection device and recording medium: A downstream server stores product information on a radio-frequency (RF) tag outputted from a reader/writer into a database. A processing unit executes various processing using product information stored in the database. If product information necessary for the processing unit to execute various processing is not stored in the database, a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080189155 - Shared royalty platform for content royalty management: Systems and methods for the dynamic processing of royalties are disclosed. Sales records are processed on a transaction basis rather than in batch mode. This process also allows correction of information retroactively, rather than delaying the entire processing of the information. One embodiment includes a system comprising a message broker... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080189156 - Site optimizer: Site optimizer is a tool that enables A/B testing of merchandising offers for your online store to help you determine which offers work best on your storefront. A/B testing compares multiple offers simultaneously to randomly selected groups of shoppers. The A/B testing approach provides a unique and effective way to... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20080189150 - Supply chain multi-dimensional serial containment process: A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and computer usable program product for containing a defective product across a supply chain is provided. A data processing system receives a notice from a source supplier that a product is defective. The data processing system identifies an exposure level associated with the defective... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080189154 - Systems and methods for business continuity and business impact analysis: Methods are disclosed for providing business continuity. In one implementation, a business impact analysis method is provided for determining time-critical business units in an organization. The method includes estimating a set of time values for a business unit, the set of time values indicating points of time when a business... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080189151 - Use of force audit and compliance: The provision of force, the ability to cause injury or death, is subject to oversight, both internal and external. Such oversight provides assurance to authorities, clients and shareholders that the application of forces is not abused, but rather is conserved. An independent audit function will provide that assurance, and can... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080189157 - Work management support method and work management support system which use sensor nodes: A sensor net system including: a sensor node which includes: a sensor which obtains sensor data of a worker; a radio frequency circuit which notifies a server of the sensor data; and a server which includes: a relation list for correlating the sensor data with work status of the worker;... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080189159 - Electronic device and method of meeting notification: A method of providing a meeting notification includes adding an indication of an observer to a calendar event in a calendar graphical user interface at an organizer electronic device, saving the calendar event associated with the observer at the organizer electronic device, and sending an observer electronic message from the... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080189160 - Model and method for channel-based workforce sourcing: A model and method for channel-based workforce sourcing is provided. In one aspect, a computer model is populated to create a baseline capacity, including a current number of resources in each of a plurality of skill, sets for each of a plurality of available channels. The computer model is also... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080189161 - Rfid information control: The invention relates to a system and method for storing control information associated with RFID tags that allows entities that do not share common tracking systems to access relevant information to determine the status and location of tagged items. The tracking system may include a drop box having a housing... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080189163 - Information management system: An information management process generates channels that automatically send tasks to different users for different work flow stages according to different attributes assigned to the channel. The tasks may then be automatically sent back to the same users or to other different users in other work flow stages according to... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080189162 - System to establish and maintain intuitive command and control of an event: A web-based and phone-based emergency management software system operating as an Intuitive Command and Control application comprised of a number of integrated software-driven functional processes, common communications devices and services, and an enterprise database of key emergency-necessitated information; interactively serving an organization's first responders, administrators and agents, emergency management teams... Agent: Gowling, Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080189166 - Computer-based method of recommending modifications to residential or commercial property: A computer-based method used by certified aging-in-place specialists and/or licensed medical professionals to evaluate and recommend universal, accessibility, adaptability, visitability and/or aging-in-place design modifications to residential or commercial property to satisfy independence, safety, and/or quality of life needs of an occupant of the property. The occupant may be a resident,... Agent: Robert L. Waddell Perret Doise, Aplc

20080189165 - Method and system for estimating economic impact of pandemic based on infrastructure availability, workforce availability and consumption: A method and system estimating the gross output change in one or more industrial sectors is provided. Users are enabled to assess the impact of a pandemic on the demand market of a firm and to take proactive actions, for instance, shifting demand among industrial sectors, or among geographic regions.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080189167 - Music-centric advertising using supportive information: The present invention is directed toward a method of advertising on a portable media device having video and audio capabilities comprising the steps of: (a) embedding a video advertisement on the supportive identification information of a music file; (b) downloading the music file to a portable media device with a... Agent: John S. Hale Gipple & Hale

20080189164 - Reputation assessment via karma points: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates ensuring reliability in an online transaction. An interface component can receive data related to at least one user involved with an online transaction associated with commerce. An evaluation component can generate a reputation associated with the user based... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189170 - Sensor network-based context-aware content delivery system: A dynamic and extensible architecture allows the selection and delivery of content in light of current context, including shopper in-store location information. Both static and real-time operation are supported. Business events can be generated based on information derived from sensors, from other business events, or both. A rich context supporting... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080189169 - System and method for implementing advertising in an online social network: A system and method for integrating analytics data of user profiles within a social network with targeted ad campaigns. The system includes an advertisement targeting system that obtains analytics data of user profiles and utilizes the data to filter through the user profiles to select desired user profiles for delivery... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080189168 - System and method for publishing advertising on distributed media delivery systems: A system for publishing advertising media on a plurality of media delivery systems, each configured to render media and gather environmental data while rendering the media. The system includes a front-end system in communication with the plurality of media delivery systems. The front-end system is configured to permit an advertiser... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080189171 - Method and apparatus for call categorization: A method and apparatus for automated categorization of an interaction between a member of an organization and a second party. The method comprises defining one or more criteria and one or more categories, wherein each category relates to a combination of one or more criteria. The criteria involve data extracted... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20080189174 - Advertisement referral based on social ties: It is determined that a particular user of network-based services has been presented or additionally has monetized a monetization opportunity (such as an advertisement) offered to the particular user via a computer network. Monetizing the monetization opportunity may include, for an advertisement, clicking on the advertisement such that money is... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080189181 - Apparatus, system and method for providing digital content to customers: A system and method for providing content and advertisements to a user. Embodiments of the invention may enable an advertiser to provide content to existing customers by storing identification information on a customer's computer. The identification information may be obtained by a computer interacting with the user's computer and further... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080189172 - Interactive customer display system and method: The present invention relates generally to systems, methods, and computer program products which facilitate consumer ordering. The present invention facilitates consumer ordering through the use of Express Orders for the creation of orders based on one or more past orders. The present invention also facilitates consumer ordering through use of... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080189175 - Method and system for in-depth advertising for interactive gaming: The present invention relates to a method and system for advertisements to be sent, received and understood by recipients in a conducive matter in an interactive computer game environment. After one or more advertisements are displayed, the game player is interactively asked questions about the product or service, which when... Agent: Allan Law Group, Professional Corporation

20080189182 - Method for repairing, maintaining and replacing selected equipment: A method 10 for repairing, maintaining and replacing selected equipment includes selecting equipment for repair, maintenance and replacement services 12, selecting a first entity for warranting repair services for the selected equipment 14, selecting a second entity for holding funds for maintaining and replacing the selected equipment 16, selecting a... Agent: Donald G. Flaynik, Jr Cherskov & Flaynik

20080189176 - Rental land vehicle and fleet advertisement: An advertiser pays a fee to have an advertisement placed on a land vehicle to make the vehicle a mobile billboard or a billboard vehicle. An ad containing the advertiser's message can be made of vinyl and wrapped on one or more external surfaces of the vehicle. The vehicle can... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080189178 - System and method for an adaptive scheduling system architecture: The placement of spots may be accomplished through the use of an ordered list which may be generated based on a number of inputs that may be user-selected. A non-limiting example of user inputs may include: spot length, spot cost, contract line priority, beginning date/time of contract line, ending date/time... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (harris Corp.)

20080189183 - System and method for discounting fuel: A system and method of discounting a price-per-unit (PPU) of fuel during a fueling transaction by a customer at a fuel merchant. In one aspect, the invention identifies an issuer of the customer's credit card, associates the issuer with a PPU discount for the fuel, and discounts the posted PPU... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20080189179 - System, application and method for facilitating online advertising: Disclosed is a system, application and method for providing online advertising. According to some embodiments of the present invention, a prediction engine functionally associated with an ad server is adapted to receive a partial user input and to predict a complete user input. The prediction engine may be integral with... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20080189177 - Systems and methods for providing advertisements: One or more advertisements may be provided to telephones. The advertisements may be selected based upon any suitable criteria, including, but not limited to, telephone identifiers, geographical regions, advertisement categories, bids, time periods, and/or other factors. The advertisements may be used to help provide discounted telephone service, for example, to... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080189180 - Utility resource conservation method: A utility resource conservation method may include determining a periodic consumption value for at least one utility resource by a utility consumer without use of at least one utility resource conservation device, and determining a periodic payment amount for the utility consumer with use of the at least one utility... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080189173 - Vision center kiosk: A system comprising a kiosk is provided where the kiosk is for assessment of a user's needs including, for example, vision needs. A method of assessing a user's needs and a method of advertising products and services such as vision related products and services are further provided.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080189184 - Merchant service portal applications interface systems and methods: Systems and methods are described to provide an interface between distinct host service providers and one or more remotely programmable point-of-sale devices. A set of transaction data may be received from a point-of-sale device. Different subsets of the set of transaction data may be identified for each of the service... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080189185 - Account opening method: A bank account opening method capable of opening a bank account easily, safely and reliably only by a user and financial institution is provided. In the method for opening an account to a financial institution, an identification document is converted into digital data and the digital data of the identification... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080189186 - Authentication and payment system and method using mobile communication terminal: Disclosed herein are an authentication and payment system and method. The authentication and payment system of the present invention includes an issuer server, an issuer information management intermediate server, an acquirer server and a payment server. The issuer server issues, manages and operates payment means. The issuer information management intermediate... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20080189192 - Domain name marketplace: An electronic marketplace allows owners of unused Internet domain names to lease the domain names using a bidding process. The system allows owners to monetize domain names and lessees to obtain customers who are redirected from targeted domain names.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080189191 - Method and apparatus for automated on-line printing service: A method is provided for operating an on-line retailing operation for retailing of at least one print product to a customer. The print product is supplied by a print merchant operation that displays plural image items for remote viewing by a customer. The print merchant operation transacts a first type... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080189187 - Populating an e-commerce shopping cart and other e-commerce fields based upon content extracted from natural language input: The present invention can include an e-commerce shopping method that includes a step of receiving shopper free form input representing a shopping request. A software program can extract semantics from the shopper free form input relating to at least one item available for sale. At least one item can be... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080189190 - Proxy server and api extension for online stores: A system and method for populating an e-commerce shopping cart with product selections made by a different user according to one embodiment is presented. The method comprises permitting browsing of a third-party website by a first user; recording product selections made by the first user on the third party website;... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080189193 - System and method for automated projector lamp management: An information handling system projector tracks lamp usage to generate a lamp order form for order of a replacement lamp when lamp usage is a predetermined usage. The lamp order form is automatically generated and displayed to include lamp usage and projector identification information so that a user need not... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080189189 - System and method for collectively giving gifts in a social network environment: A method for collectively purchasing a gift in a social network environment is described. A request is received to establish a gift account, a recipient user of the social network environment is designated to receive the gift, and the gift is selected. Money is received from a plurality of contributing... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080189188 - System and method for giving gifts and displaying assets in a social network environment: A system and method is described for giving gifts via a social network and displaying icons representing assets that have been acquired via the social network. In various embodiments, the assets include real assets, digital assets, and virtual assets. Digital assets that have been acquired via the social network environment... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080189194 - Systems and methods for customized fitting, building and selling of footwear, and footwear assemblies formed from such methods: Systems and methods for customized fitting, building and selling of footwear are disclosed herein. Additionally, footwear assemblies formed using such systems and methods are herein disclosed. Some embodiments of systems can substantially automate and increase accuracy of a customer-specific footwear custom-fitting process while decreasing cost and increasing the convenience of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080189196 - Healthcare exchange: A method for physicians, patients and health-care buyers to control their health-care resources wherein the uses of data on health-care services generated by the physicians and same or similar data and relating monetary values in the databases and computer programs in a network of computers and servers are used to... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20080189195 - System and method for account reconciliation: An account reconciliation system (1000) includes a data gathering subsystem (1100) and a reconciliation data processing subsystem (1200). The data gathering subsystem is provided for gathering data. The reconciliation data processing subsystem includes a data importing module (1210) for importing the gathered data and the payment data, and a data... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080189197 - Method and system for organizing tax information and providing tax advice: A method includes providing to a user a set of computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a user's electronic device, generate a user interface displayable on a display device coupled to the user's electronic device, presenting to the user via the user interface a plurality of solicitations for a set... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080189198 - Means and methods to combine various u.s. real estate price reports to create one continuous index from the present to 1830: A continuous index of new home prices from the present to 1830 is created by performing a series of calculations upon the real estate price reports of the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Long, Gottlieb and Riggleman. A yearly or monthly reverse percentage change in new home prices... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20080189222 - Creating and trading building block mortality derivatives to transfer and receive mortality risk in a liquid market: The invention comprises A comprises a system and method for hedging or mitigating mortality exposure risk in a portfolio of mortality-dependent instruments. A mortality risk or longevity risk of the portfolio is calculated or otherwise determined. Then the sensitivity of the portfolio to mortality risk or longevity risk is calculated... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080189217 - Estimating values of assets: A body of information elements is maintained including facts, assumptions, and relationships, at least one element being generated from the others using the relationships and representative of an estimate of a value of, or a market size of a product or service associated with, an asset. The relationships each define... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080189223 - Method and system for an annuity with periodic interest rate adjustments: A data processing method administers an annuity product for an annuitant. The annuity product has a guaranteed minimum interest rate. Administration is such that the annuity product provides periodic interest rate adjustments. The adjustments are a function of changes in the prevailing market interest rates, based on reliable economic metrics... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080189221 - System and method for a risk management framework for headging mortality risk in portfolios having mortality-based exposure: The invention comprises a system and method for hedging or mitigating mortality exposure risk in a portfolio of mortality-dependent instruments. A mortality risk or longevity risk of the portfolio is calculated or otherwise determined. Then the sensitivity of the portfolio to mortality risk or longevity risk is calculated or otherwise... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080189219 - System and method for providing a financial instrument utilizing a liability ratio: One embodiment of the invention is a method for providing a financial instrument including determining a current account balance for a financial account, calculating a liability ratio for the financial account, and determining whether to transfer at least a portion of the account balance from a variable sub-account to a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080189220 - System and method for providing a financial instrument with a periodic step-up feature: One embodiment of the invention is a method for providing a financial instrument including determining a current account balance for a financial account and on a first periodic basis: determining a specified percentage of the value of the financial account, determine the greater of a particular limit and the highest... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080189218 - System and method for providing a financial instrument with an asset transfer feature: One embodiment of the invention is a method for providing a financial instrument that includes determining an initial account balance associated with a financial instrument, establishing a first guarantee of a protected value, the protected value including at least an amount based upon the initial account balance growing at a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080189224 - Computerized system and method for determining retirement withdrawals: The invention relates to a computerized system and method for determining retirement withdrawals and results in an improved plan for withdrawing income from a variety of wealth sources over a user-specified time horizon beginning currently and ending during retirement. The method determines a withdrawal amount from each wealth source for... Agent: Klehr , Harrison Et Al

20080189200 - Degressive auction method: A degressive method for an auction process of the present invention comprises offering at least one item for sale; setting an initial maximum price, a minimum price and a degressive rule; receiving bidding from buyers, and a current price is decreased according to the degressive rule until the auction is... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080189201 - Method for providing comparative auction results on a website: A method of determining and providing a plurality of interested consumers with an optimal low price and the corresponding auction Website for at least one particular product of interest. The method includes compiling a list of a plurality of active auction Website links. The method also includes determining the lowest... Agent: Moti Redmard

20080189202 - Method of collecting delinquent specialized debt: An internet-based system for organization and collection of specialized debt that is delinquent; an example of specialized debt being healthcare debt.... Agent: Leander F. Aulisio

20080189199 - On-line trading of prospective customer leads: A system and method for providing an on-line trading environment of partial-disclosure informational leads are disclosed. The method includes presenting an on-line auction to a user. The on-line auction is for auctioning partial-disclosure informational leads to users. The method also includes receiving a bid request from the user for the... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080189203 - System and method for managing trading using alert messages for outlying trading orders: According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. In a market for a particular type of instrument, electronic data including buy orders and sell orders are received from a plurality of traders. Each buy order has an associated bid price and each sell order has an associated... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080189204 - Method and apparatus for providing home equity financing without interest payments: A method of financing is provided for the purchase of real estate property, in which a portion of a down payment is provided by an equity financing provider, in return for a right to a portion of the future change in value of the property. The home purchaser does not... Agent: Frederick H. Gribbell Frederick H. Gribbell, LLC

20080189205 - Money transfers for tax refunds: Tax refunds are provided via a money transfer service. Merely by way of example, a taxpayer (or a tax preparer) might provide to the IRS an account number at a bank, as a target for a direct deposit refund related to a tax return. In an aspect, the account number... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080189206 - System offering a data-skin based on standard schema and the method: The present invention provides to a system and method of providing a data-skin based on a standard schema. In the data skin provision method, a user accesses and logs in to a data skin server. A meta-database is searched for a list of XSDs and skins to represent data. If... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20080189208 - Optical character reading machine having bill payment capability: An optical character reading machine includes at least one processor and a bill payment system. The bill payment system includes a bill scanning and bill information parsing module for: scanning a bill to obtain bill paying information; parsing the bill paying information; and verifying the bill paying information, and a... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080189207 - System and method of transferring reservations for transportation services: A computer system makes reservations for transportation services. Vendor information for rental resources is stored in a central database. A customer makes a reservation inquiry. The central database is searched to find availability of the rental resources for the reservation inquiry. A rate is calculated for the rental resources based... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080189209 - Real-time funds transfer: A computerized method for transferring funds from a first account at an initiating financial institution to a second account at a receiving financial institution over an automated teller machine (ATM) network is disclosed. The method may include receiving a funds transfer request from a consumer to transfer funds from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080189211 - System and methods for processing credit transactions: A distributed computing system for processing a credit card transaction is provided. The computing system includes a first computer-readable storage medium in which computer-readable code is for directing a first computing device to process and transmit transaction information pertaining to a credit card from a first location to a second... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080189210 - System and methods for roaming subscribers to replenish stored value accounts: A system and method allowing a roaming user to credit or debit a prepaid stored value account across international boarders from a foreign retail location using local currency. A roaming user enters into a commercial transaction at the foreign retail location to credit, debit, or otherwise manage the prepaid stored... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080189212 - Electronic secure authentication for exchange buyer assurance system (esafebay): The electronic Secure Authentication For Exchange Buyer Assurance System (eSafeBay) establishes an integrated secure computerized network to ensure that products or items offered for auction and/or purchase from an internet auction site, electronic commerce site, or similar electronic auction business entity (referred to collectively as an “auction”) are authenticated prior... Agent: Michael Kulakowski

20080189213 - System and method for digital rights management with license proxy for mobile wireless platforms: A digital rights management system for wireless platforms. The system includes client software running on the wireless platform for publishing and/or viewing protected content. Enterprise server code is executed on a first server platform for sending and receiving protected content. An extension on the enterprise server code is included for... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080189214 - Pin block replacement: Systems and methods for performing token transactions are provided. In one embodiment, the invention provides for processing token transactions, including receiving an encrypted password for a debit card transaction, wherein the password was secured using encrypted debit-card information, decrypting the password using encrypted debit-card information for the debit card, recreating... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080189215 - Event driven advertising method and system: A method and system of generating advertising revenue. Bids are received for advertisements based on the potential occurrence of an event. The highest bidder's advertisement is displayed upon the occurrence of the event. The advertisement may be displayed on a television viewer's screen, at the location of the event or... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080189216 - Selectable market transaction over a network: A trading network (102) composed of client devices (108, 110) and at least one clearinghouse device (104) associated with at least one exchange (106) and enables a transaction that is started on a first market type, such as a credit type market exchange to be concluded on a second market... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080189225 - Method and system for predicting causes of network service outages using time domain correlation: Methods and systems are described for predicting the likely causes of service outages using only time information, and for predicting and the likely costs of service outages. The likely causes are found by defining a narrow likely cause window around an outage based on service quality and/or service usage data,... Agent: Ibm Corp. (dre)(aus)

20080189226 - System and method of calculating rates for use of transportation services: A computer system makes reservations for transportation services. Vendor information for rental resources is stored in a central database. A customer makes a reservation inquiry. The central database is searched to find availability of the rental resources for the reservation inquiry. A rate is calculated for the rental resources based... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP