Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 09/08

20080235037 - Bonus point system to create a profile of a person: This invention relates to method and a system for collecting and managing bonus points in order to generate a personal profile based on said bonus points, wherein the bonus points are related to activities performed by a person. Therefore, the personal profile is obtained by accessing a manager server where... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235039 - Economic development system and method: A consortium or professional employee organization (PEO) is used to assist in providing business support services to economic development clients. The consortium/PEO reports economic development data concerning the economic development clients to an economic development commission. The economic development commission ties the granting of economic development incentives to the use... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080235041 - Enterprise data management: Methods and systems manage data for an enterprise. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for managing data for an enterprise. According to the method, data may be imported from a plurality of data sources into a staging area of a server. In the staging area, the data may... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080235040 - Gps-based activity management: A remote device may received location information identifying a location of the remote device. An event is written to a data store upon receiving the information concerning the location of the remote device, the event including the location of the remote device and an identifier for the remote device or... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080235046 - Method and system for connecting businesses through common interests: A method of connecting businesses through common interests can include storing business profiles comprising business attributes in an online business registry. Responsive to a query from an inquiring business, the online business registry can be searched to locate at least one business having a business profile including at least one... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080235047 - Method and system for ordering customized cosmetic contact lenses: A method of configuring and ordering a customized contact lens for a user. The method includes the steps of displaying a template eye image to assist the user in visualizing selected options for a customized contact lens, and displaying a plurality of contact lens selection options to the user. The... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20080235038 - Method, system and computer program for enabling live sales support: A method, system and computer program is provided for enabling live sales support for a salesperson where the sales process depends on information or approvals from a remote office. The invention provides for the capture and digitization of written information obtained by a salesperson in consultation with a customer. Data... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20080235044 - Methods for enhancing child safety: This invention includes a method for providing enhanced child safety for a child including subscribing to a child safety service provider, receiving child safety material from the child safety service provider, submitting child identifying material relating to the child to the child safety service provider, associating the child identifying material... Agent: John Raskob

20080235042 - Network reputation and payment service: This document discusses, among other things, example embodiments of a transaction system that may receive, over a network, a first set of transaction data associated with a transaction for an item. In an example embodiment, a reputation application may adjust a rating associated with the transaction when the first set... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080235048 - Roaming agreements in a wideband wireless system: A terminal's home network service provider H-NSP determines that the terminal is connected to an access provider, and sends to the terminal a list of access providers and a list of service providers. The list of access providers indicates the H-NSP's preferences of the listed access providers relative to one... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080235043 - System and method for communicating messages between users of a system: A distributed system for communicating messages between registered users of the system, each registered user communicating with the system via a user terminal, the messages relating to an original electronic document that is stored on the system and associated with one of the user terminals, the system comprising a plurality... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080235045 - Workflow management system: A disclosed workflow management system dynamically formulates a workflow model at the time of executing a workflow. The workflow management system includes a unit configured to access the contents of an e-mail transmitted or received by a user of the workflow management system, and a unit configured to operate a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080235051 - Internet-based system for curing alcoholism and other human problem conditions, and for assuring continued participation by clients to assure commercial viability: An Internet methodology for the treatment of human problem conditions such as alcoholism, obesity/weight loss, depression or the like, or for long-term commercial enterprise, wherein capturing the client during a short window of opportunity and providing means to assure continued participation in the treatment program is essential, both for the... Agent: Rogers Towers, P.A.

20080235049 - Method and system for predictive modeling of patient outcomes: A method and system for predictive modeling of patient outcomes. The predictive method includes the steps of applying an algorithm to patient data and displaying predicted patient data. The predictive method may further include the step of adjusting one or more clinical variables. The system includes a database of patient... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080235050 - Tricare payment process: An apparatus, a system, and a method are provided to pay a dispensing fee to a pharmacy and configured to replenish a pharmacy's inventory with prescription drugs by a wholesaler at no cost. Rather than being replenished for any prescription drug dispensed to a patient, a pharmacy would be paid... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080235057 - Clinical workflow management and decision system and method: A method of clinical workflow management and decision making comprises receiving clinical information from a hospital information system (100), combining and reconciling the clinical information for use during management of a particular clinical problem of a patient under consideration, and providing access to the combined and reconciled clinical information via... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235053 - Communication medium for diabetes management: A diabetes management system or process is provided herein that may be used to analyze and recognize patterns for a large amount of blood glucose concentration measurements and other physiological parameters related to the glycemia of a patient. In particular, a communication medium is provided. The communication medium includes first,... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080235054 - Diabetic care products web shop with enhanced usability: d

20080235055 - Laboratory instrumentation information management and control network: Described are techniques for identifying samples processed in a laboratory using harmonized identifier. A case identifier identifying a patient from whom a specimen is collected is determined. A specimen identifier associated with the specimen is determined. An entry for the specimen is recorded in a data store where the entry... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080235060 - Precise medical information retrieval: A method of using the outcomes of relating the headings in the first and second templates to the information on diseases, illnesses, health and health-care on patients generated and/or selected by physicians wherein the relations of headings and information are input and stored in the database or databases and the... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon, Md.

20080235056 - Service for managing medications: A health management service includes a computerized management site having one or more servers executing software from coupled computer-readable media, and a data repository storing information regarding a plurality of enrolled persons, including at least medications and medication schedules for individual ones of the persons, and storing information regarding a... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080235059 - Service for managing medications: A health management service includes a computerized management site having one or more servers executing software from coupled computer-readable media, and a data repository storing information regarding a plurality of enrolled persons, including at least medications and medication schedules for individual ones of the persons, and storing information regarding a... Agent: Sol A. Gonzalvo

20080235052 - System and method for sharing medical information between image-guided surgery systems: An expert image-guided surgical system and method for accessing, storing and sharing medical information between expert imaging apparatus for use during the planning and performance of surgical procedures.... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080235058 - Vital sign monitor utilizing historic patient data: A vital sign monitoring system that can be used with multiple patients and utilizes historic patient data information for the patient to optimize the process of obtaining current vital sign measurements. Each patient is identified with a unique patient identification device that is automatically detected by the vital sign monitor.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080235064 - Method and apparatus for performing assessments: Described are techniques used in connection with providing insolvency services in connection with guaranty funds, such as property and casualty guaranty funds, upon the occurrence of an insurance company insolvency. A client/server system provides for creating and maintaining a database of state and insurance company member information. Operations, such as... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080235062 - Method and system for initially projecting an insurance company's net loss from a major loss event: A system and method by which an insurance company can project an initial net projected loss arising from a major loss event quickly after the occurrence of the event. The system uses a networked central repository, such as an electronic collaboration site, for collecting and sharing information to be used... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080235063 - Method for determining insurance benefits and premiums from dynamic credit information: The embodiments described herein are directed to a method of obtaining credit life insurance for an individual by means of a service organization. In detail, the steps include: 1) registering the individual with the service organization via a computer system in a computer network; 2) accessing credit information on the... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080235065 - Methods and apparatus for implementing a flexible multi-user advance reservation system where reservation requests are specified in terms of multiple options and where each option has an associated business value: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for implementing a multi-user advance reservation system where reservations are specified in terms of flexible constraints, inflexible constraints and business values. The specification of reservations in this manner allows an entity managing the reservation system to arbitrate among reservations received from a user... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080235068 - Method, computer system and computer program for determining a risk/reward model: Determining a risk/reward model for a service provided by a service provider to a serviced entity where a service provider value function for the service is dependent on at least one service provider value parameter. It further comprises provision of a serviced entity value function for the service being dependent... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080235067 - Predictive cost reduction based on a thermodynamic model: Predictive cost reduction based on a thermodynamic model, in which parameters associated with a process are accessed. The parameters include a quantity of units of work-in-process at first and second times, and first and second constants respectively indicative of growth between the first and second times, and of a translated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080235069 - Software application portfolio management for a client: An information technology services providing company manages a portfolio of software applications for a client company. A plurality of the applications are preselected along with a recommendation for each. The recommendations have value drivers with parameters. Values for the parameters are received from the client as responses to questions or... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080235066 - Task management device, task management method, and task management program: In a task management device which manages a plurality of tasks arranged in a hierarchical structure and stored in a storage unit, task definition data which describes contents of a task is input. Task information of the task is generated from the input task definition data. The generated task information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080235070 - Method and system for processing and/or managing typesetting orders for advertisements in print and/or online media and corresponding computer program and corresponding computer-readable storage medium and data management method for distributed object-ori: To this end, a workflow system is provided which represents, controls and automates the production of digitally produced advertisement designs (motifs) from the time the commercial advertisement order is stored in the advertisement management system until the time the completed designs are transferred as generic print data or derivatives thereof... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080235072 - Achieving recurring item recordings from calendaring applications over lob systems: Recurring appointment items in a calendaring application are synchronized and recorded in a backend Line Of Business (LOB) service. Items marked in the calendaring application for time recording are used to create a recurring bound item with extended properties. A sweeper module scans on every run the mailbox for such... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080235071 - Automatic generation of personalized meeting lists: A method and system for providing a personalized list of meetings per subject per user of the system (1), includes a system computer (4) and user computer (12) each configured for bidirectionally communicating over the Internet (8), whereby the system computer (4) is programmed to first obtain either explicitly (20)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235073 - Automatically prescribing total budget for marketing and sales resources and allocation across spending categories: A facility for automatically prescribing, for a distinguished offering, an allocation of resources to a total marketing budget and/or individual marketing activities is described.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080235074 - Method for forecasting and managing multimedia contacts: Multimedia contacts are forecasted, propagated, and managed for each period in a range. The number of contacts received in a period is forecasted using historical methods and is propagated to succeeding periods based on the business goals, such as how quickly a certain contact type is to be handled. After... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080235081 - Apparatuses and methods for wireless monitoring and control of supplies for environmental sampling and chromatographic apparatuses: Purchase orders for chromatographic columns and sampler tubing are entered into based on estimating usage for a year. An initial partial shipment is made of tagged columns or tubing as the tubing or columns are used. An RFID transmits trigger signals until an order point is reached at which time... Agent: Vincent L. Carney Law Office

20080235075 - Enterprise application performance monitors: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for receiving a first information related to a first transaction associated with a first user session with a multi-tier enterprise application, the first information including performance data that is representative of how well components in at least two tiers of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080235079 - Method, apparatus, and program for implementing an automation computing evaluation scale to generate recommendations: An automation assessment tool is provided that defines autonomic technology, processes, organization, and skill sets that apply to autonomic computing. The automation assessment tool provides educational material about autonomic computing and a scale of maturity levels, which is used to assess on-demand preparedness. The automation assessment tool presents a survey... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235076 - Opportunity matrix for use with methods and systems for determining optimal pricing of retail products: A data warehouse system and application which analyzes historical sales and product data contained within a data warehouse to determine the best product prices across a set of products for a retailer. The application analyzes historical sales and product data contained in a database to determine an opportunity score for... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080235080 - Performance prediction service using business-process information: Performance prediction techniques are provided that utilize business-process information such as transaction history and log information. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a computer-based technique for providing a performance prediction service comprises the following steps/operations. First, business-process information associated with a business is obtained. Then, a performance estimation... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080235078 - System and method for target advertising: A computer-based system and method are described to provide advertisers with effective target advertising. More specifically, the system and method enable individuals to explicitly specify which brands they feel an affinity for in order to determine and present advertisements based on the individual's actual self-described affinities.... Agent: Manatt Phelps And Phillips Robert D. Becker

20080235077 - Systems and methods to identify intentionally placed products: Systems and methods to identify intentionally placed products in media content are disclosed. A disclosed system to detect intentionally placed products in media content includes a placement monitor site to record an occurrence of a first intentionally placed product within first broadcast media content in a product placement record; an... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080235082 - Integrated automatic system for managing the access of vehicles to controlled parking areas: An integrated automatic system for monitoring and managing the access, transit and parking of vehicles in predetermined controlled traffic areas, in particular in parking areas equipped with a plurality of individual parking spaces comprises: an electronic vehicle identification device; an electronic vehicle detection device; at least one local data processing... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080235086 - Advertisement umbrella: An advertisement umbrella includes a central post, a runner, a crown, ribs and associated stretchers, a top sphere and a canopy. The canopy has a multiple layer structure including an outer layer and an inner layer between which an illuminant is installed. The central post includes a tubular member in... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080235091 - Cash in advance incentive and rewards program: An online cash back rewards system and a product consisting of a rewards card. Under the system presented herein, consumers are provided with a rewards card in advance of earning the rewards through online purchases. The rewards card may contain a fixed dollar value, expiration date, pre-printed web address and... Agent: Ryan Blackstone-gardner Solomon, Grindle, Silverman & Spinella, Apc

20080235084 - Employing matching of event characteristics to suggest another characteristic of an event: A device, system, and method are directed towards determining a suggested characteristic for an event. At least two events are determined. In one embodiment, at least one characteristic is determined for one of the event. A plurality of other characteristics is determined for the other event. The characteristics of the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080235095 - Gift card kiosk: A gift card kiosk is disclosed providing a method for selecting, customizing, and dispensing gift cards utilizing information provided by a purchaser about the intended recipient of the gift card in order to find the gift card with the most appropriate content and from the most appropriate retailer. A purchaser... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20080235094 - Integrated cross corporate branding with giveaways and sweepstakes and contests processes with advertising opportunities on a hand wipe product: The present invention provides systems, methods, and apparatus for integrated cross corporate branding using a hand wipe product. The invention includes advertising by producing a plurality of high quality, individually packaged, disposable hand wipes packaged in a wrapper, the wrapper including an indicia of a third-party and an indication of... Agent: Douglas Jones

20080235096 - Interactive internet shopping and data integration method and system: A method and system for interactively shopping for groceries, especially on an Internet web site, where the user may create a shopping list, shop for items from the list at a selected grocery store, arrange for pick up or delivery of the selected items, and provide payment. A user may... Agent: Stoneman Volk Patent Group

20080235090 - Method and arrangement for managing personalized advertisements in a tv system: The invention discloses a method and arrangement of managing personalized advertisement in an TV system including an TV client (103), a User Preference Database (109), an Ad Providers Database (108) and an Advertising Application Server (105). The Advertising Application Server (105) detects that a user (John.Brown@op.net) is present at the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080235092 - Method of advertising while playing multimedia content: An advertising method and system displaying a context advertisement when the context advertising associated with a contents page which does not match with an advertising keyword or has no text, is provided. The advertising method which displays context advertising information includes: maintaining a context advertising database including the context advertising... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080235093 - Mobile phone image processing for promotional enterprise: A promotional system initiated by capturing encoded images with mobile phones supports interactions between customers and vendors. A host site receives and decodes an information-bearing image captured with a customer's mobile phone. The image preferably appears on a vendor's product or place of business, such as a retail outlet. The... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080235087 - System and method for presenting alternative advertising data: A computerized method for presenting an alternative advertising data item is disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes receiving a primary advertising data item in a video data stream in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system; replacing a generic data of the primary advertising data item with alternative data to... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080235088 - System for measuring web traffic related to an offline advertising campaign: A system is described for measuring web traffic relating to an offline advertising campaign. The system may include a processor and a memory. The memory may be operatively connected to the processor and may store an offline advertising campaign of an advertiser, a time period, a set of users and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080235089 - System for serving advertisements based on offline advertising campaigns: A system is described for serving an online advertisement based on an offline advertising campaign. The system may include a memory, an interface and a processor. The memory may be operatively connected to the interface and the processor and may store an offline advertising campaign of an advertiser, an advertising... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080235085 - Virtual advertisement store: A method is described for obtaining selective criteria for use in selecting one or more advertisements from a plurality of advertisements for display with publisher content, including obtaining selective criteria to be associated with the content, wherein the selective criteria is separate from the content, and wherein the selective criteria... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080235097 - Restaurant system: A restaurant system includes an electronic kiosk having opposed first and second sides. A first display is situated on the first side for use by the customer and a second display is situated on the second side for use by a bartender. The kiosk includes a first input device for... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20080235098 - Restaurant system: A restaurant system includes a lighted pour spout for use in dispensing liquid from a bottle. The pour spout includes a coupling portion for attachment to a bottle and an interior portion that extends into the bottle. The interior portion may include a light and a battery for illuminating the... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20080235099 - Restaurant system: A restaurant system includes an electronic kiosk having opposed first and second sides. A first display is situated on the first side for use by the customer and a second display is situated on the second side for use by a bartender. The kiosk includes a first input device for... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20080235100 - Restaurant system: A restaurant system includes an electronic mixing tin having a waterproof double wall construction defining a mixing area. The mixing tin includes a display, a receiver, and a processor that is in data communication with the display and receiver. Data received by the mixing tin receiver may be sent to... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20080235101 - System and method of presenting assets related to media content: In a particular illustrative embodiment, a method is disclosed to present assets related to media content. The method includes receiving a request for an electronic storefront from a destination device, identifying media content received at the destination device based on the request, and generating an electronic storefront. The electronic storefront... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235102 - Small footprint self checkout system: Aspects of a self checkout system are described. The system includes a product imaging scanner. Also included is a bag rack with scales substantially adjacent the product imaging scanner for holding a bag to receive imaged products. A computer system is coupled to the product imaging scanner and the bag... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080235109 - Automated sales support method & device: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080235108 - Electronic secure authorization for exchange application interface device (esafeaid): s

20080235107 - Method and apparatus to search the web with dynamic guiding information and guide selections: A method and apparatus for searching a need on the internet or intranet allowing results to be dynamically updated using a backend process; the said results could include guiding information with guide selections allowing a user to make a knowledgeable buy at a reasonable price.... Agent: Transaxtions LLC Nagendra Nagarajayya

20080235106 - Software and method that enables selection of one of a plurality of online service providers: A novel electronic information transport component can be incorporated in a wide range of electronic information products, for example magazine collections, to automate the mass distribution of updates, such as current issues, from a remote server to a wide user base having a diversity of computer stations. Advantages of economy,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080235105 - System and method for providing an application-specific user interface on a personal communication device for conducting transactions with retail devices: Systems and methods for performing a consumer purchase transaction at a retail device are disclosed. According to one system and method, an identifier associated with the retail device is provided to a personal communication device. An application-specific user interface is associated with the retail device based on the identifier. A... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080235104 - System and method to promote electronic assets: A system and method of promoting electronic assets is provided. The method may include promoting a plurality of heterogeneous digital assets via a common electronic system. Each of the digital assets may have one of a plurality of asset types. The common electronic system may be accessible via a plurality... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235103 - Systems and methods for dynamic vendor and vendor outlet classification: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for dynamic classification of electronic vendors. Certain embodiments provide a method for dynamic vendor classification. The method includes analyzing a vendor based on a comparison of vendor features; categorizing the vendor based on the analysis; and permitting access to the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080235113 - Enhanced control of on-line auction: An online auctioning system that includes functions and features to help apply psychological tactics to increase sells, bidding activity and bid levels. The auctioning system allows and administrator to view items available for the auction, group them in a manner that may give the appearance of scarcity and/or may improve... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080235111 - Internet art community: An internet-based system for making works of art accessible to a broad viewing public comprising a means whereby users may upload to an on-line database information describing individual works of art including information describing the accessibility of said works. Users may retrieve from said database information regarding artworks accessible in... Agent: Natan Dotan

20080235114 - Matching the fit of individual garments to individual consumers: A method and system for specifying the fit of garments and matching the fit of individual garments to individual consumers is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes categorizing human body shapes based on dimensional and demographic body measurement data sampled from the human population, and statistically analyzing the measurement... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080235115 - System and method for hosting combined online and live auctions: A system for the hosting of a combined auction, with live bidders in physical presence at the auction site as well as online bidders being able to view the auction and bid over the Internet. Auction and bid processing are centralized on a central control system. A remote module is... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080235110 - System and method for listing multiple items to be posted for sale: A method and system for listing multiple items to be posted for sale, comprising accepting a characterization of an item from a choice of selection controls describing the item on a web page; accepting additional information about the item, the information being accepted on the web page; displaying the characterization... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC

20080235112 - Website, system for and method of providing marketing material for securities to authorized users & method of selling access to, including the right to copy and distribute copied marketing material: A website on a computer network that includes an electronic library containing marketing material concerning securities that only an authorized user can access. The marketing material has been pre-approved as complying with regulations governing the sale of securities. Data concerning the marketing material is tracked to enable reporting in compliance... Agent: Connors Associates

20080235116 - Process and method for systematically exchanging product between manufacturer of product or representative of product and purchaser for an established term: There is provided by this invention a process that obligates and joins manufacturers and or distribution outlets with customers for a predetermined fee to provide and allow purchasers to exchange purchased products after a predetermined time for a new product. Manufacturers and or outlets assume responsibility to sell or if... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20080235117 - Method of boxing fuel injectors: An efficient method of boxing fuel injectors with a good yield where a predetermined quality is secured in a predetermined number of fuel injectors forming a set for one engine, that is, a method of boxing fuel injectors, a first number of which are scheduled to be mounted in an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080235118 - Debt monitoring system: A debt monitoring system for use by suppliers of a service such as child care centers which provide child care services to a number of users, the child care centres being provided with a computer having data recording means for recording data of each user of the service provided by... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20080235119 - Apparatus, methods and computer programs for metering and accounting for services accessed over a network: Apparatus, methods and computer programs provided for metering and accounting in a commercial e-services infrastructure address the requirement for handling composite services in which higher-level services are built using simpler underlying services, each of which may be autonomously owned and operated. Metering records for each service underlying a composite service... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080235121 - Currency system to reward constructive behavior: A system is described for teaching users financial management using an online currency management system, including enabling an administrator to set up a financial account through a network. This step further includes assigning specific tasks for completion by one or more users, setting rules related to the management of play... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080235124 - Global method and system for providing enhanced transactional functionality through a customer terminal: A global customer activated terminal (CAT) that primarily serves traveling customers who require access to their accounts when they are away from their home financial institution and beyond their local regional financial area is provided. The system provides applications that permit users to access their accounts and utilize account profiles... Agent: King & Spalding LLP (citi Customer Number) Attn: George T. Marcou

20080235122 - Master gift card, systems and methods: Stored value instruments and tools for their use and/or administration are disclosed. In an aspect, a stored value instrument is associated with a subaccount that has access to a portion of an amount stored value in a master account. There may be many such subaccounts associated with a master account,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080235123 - Micro payments: In one example embodiment, a system and method is shown that includes receiving financial data generated by a widget residing on a web page, the financial data including at least one of donation, or purchase data. The system and method may further include transmitting a display update to update the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080235152 - achievement and preservation funds: A computer-implemented method of locking-in investment gains can include initializing an investment fund having a net asset value per share. The investment fund can include assets allocated to at least a discount instrument and a derivative instrument, where the discount instrument provides a floor value of the net asset value... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080235154 - Financial advisory system: A financial advisory system is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, return scenarios for optimized portfolio allocations are simulated interactively to facilitate financial product selection. Return scenarios for each asset class of a plurality of asset classes are generated based upon estimated future scenarios of one or... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080235150 - Market analytics: Systems, devices, and methods for historical market analytics are disclosed. Regulatory investigators/analysts and people interested in analyzing markets and market trends may analyze archived market data for a particular historical timeframe in a plurality of levels. Examples of market analytics systems allow users to query archived data for a market... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080235151 - Method and system for risk-hedging in project management: A computer program product stored on machine readable media including machine readable instructions for selecting a project portfolio from available projects, the instructions for implementing a method include inputting an investment cost and a return for each available project and user-specified constraints; creating a formulation, the formulation comprising the investment... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080235153 - Method of business valuation and data processing system: A method for valuing a business based on the business generating an acceptable return to an owner during a defined investment period, the method including the steps of assessing the business background for the business to be valued, establishing value optimisation factors that determine business value in the light of... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080235125 - Dynamic property buying and selling system: A Dynamic property buying and selling system is described. The system is comprised of networked hardware, software, processes and methods that enable an auction like system to inform buyers, sellers and interested third parties of current market information and dynamics. The described system may be used in real estate and... Agent: Law Office Of Mark Wisnosky

20080235129 - Educational tuition securities system: An educational tuition securities system is provided. An educational institution can securitize tuition or course credits into tuition shares. Tuition shares in an educational institution can be purchased for a student and redeemed for payment of tuition credits or education costs at the educational institution. Tuition shares for an educational... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080235127 - Participation systems and methods: Techniques, including computer-implemented methods, systems, and apparatus, for establishing a contractual relationship between two parties based on a segregated contract participation unit. The techniques include offering to a set of potential investors, on an electronic exchange, a segregated contract participation unit to purchase an economic participatory interest associated with a... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080235126 - Shared online auction provisioning: A solution for conducting an auction, such as an online auction, is provided, which includes provisions for sharing with bidders a portion of a bid. A method for conducting the auction includes identifying an item for auction; receiving a first bid for the item placed at a first time; receiving... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080235128 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for integrating execution platforms with order management systems: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for integrating an order management system with execution facilities. According to the invention, at least one trade in an order management system (OMS) is selected to be or otherwise made available to be worked in an execution platform (EP). Order information in... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080235131 - Method and system for managing a mortgage rebate transaction card account: A method and system of managing a mortgage rebate transaction card account in which a transaction card provider computes a mortgage rebate amount based on the amount of charges incurred against the account and periodically arranges for application of the mortgage rebate amount against a mortgage loan balance for the... Agent: King & Spalding LLP (citi Customer Number) Attn: George T. Marcou

20080235130 - System and computer program for modeling and pricing loan products: A computing system (100) receives transaction records (130) for loans taken at various interest rates (1904) for a loan segment (902). Performance indicators (1716) indicative of customer behaviors (1702) are computed (1806) using independent demand models (300, 302, 304, 306, and 308). Computing system (100) includes a performance indicator forecaster... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080235133 - Native american land leasing: The present invention enables a tribe to bring in outsiders to build on its land and gain the benefits therein without losing the rights associated with the land. This enables tribes to expand their land use beyond casinos to create business parks, license banks, etc. Indian reservation can become high... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080235132 - Transactional device with anticipated pretreatment: The invention concerns a transactional device comprising a station (2) capable of performing a transaction, and an equipment (32), for setting up a wireless communication network, with one or more mobile terminals (34), based on a connection protocol, as well as a communication with said station (2). The equipment (32)... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080235134 - Worldwide money express service: Worldwide Money Express Service contemplated herein is a business method that provides a door-to-door cash delivery service to its Users through a network of independent licensed drivers who receive cash daily from the service provider and physically deliver the amount requested by the Users to them in person wherever they... Agent: Law Offices Of J.f. Lee

20080235135 - Method and system for restricting the usage of payment accounts: A user's ability to spend and/or receive funds for payment accounts maintained in an electronic wallet are limited. These limitations include restrictions on where the user is able to spend the funds in a payment account (e.g., at which merchants the funds can be spent, whether the funds can be... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080235136 - System for personal authorization control for card transactions: An authorization system allows for cardholder-provided parameters to a personal authorization subsystem. The parameters can be selected by the cardholder to limit the authorizations that would otherwise be granted on the card. The parameters can indicate limits by frequency, dollar amount, merchant, geographic location, time of day, combinations thereof, or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080235137 - Apparatus and method for the secure distribution of digital content to portable multimedia devices in an unsecured environment: The ability of retail stores to sell digital products through the secure distribution and delivery of digital video and/or audio content directly to a Portable Multimedia Device or a memory module that inserts into a portable media device.... Agent: Feldman Law Group PC

20080235138 - Point calculating device and point assigning system: The point calculating apparatus collects congestion degree of each of cars from a plurality of in-car apparatuses, and collects congestion degree of each of trains from a plurality of collecting apparatuses. The point calculating apparatus calculates, based on the congestion degree of each train and each car, a train point... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080235139 - Apparatus and methods for distributing digital content: An apparatus for distributing digital content, the digital content having associated therewith access information controlling access to the digital content depending on an action to be taken by a user, comprises an access controller for processing the access information; a digital content processor for using the digital content, the digital... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080235140 - Digital rights management dongle: A dongle for digital rights management protection, in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology, includes a digital right management engine and an encryption/decryption engine. The digital rights management engine is adapted to port digital rights management rules of a source of content to digital rights management rules enforced... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080235141 - License manager and schema: A license management system may have an adapter or interface that enables any type of licensed software or service to be managed through a common administrative view. The adapters may use a common schema that includes various parameters about a license as well as information that may enable a license... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080235142 - System and methods for obtaining rights in playlist entries: A method of obtaining digital rights management licensing information for content comprising obtaining identification information about a user and obtaining information about a device on which the content is to be played. A secure session is created with a service provider, and the service provider provides a URL to the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080235143 - Real time data tunneling for utility monitoring web applications: A method and system to provide web-based real-time monitoring data from an electrical power system. An example method provides real-time data from an electrical power system via a web server to web based client. The web server is accessed to receive a webpage interface. Data is sensed via a monitoring... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20080235144 - Pre-authenticated identification token: An identification token such as a proximity payment device may be integrated with a wristwatch. For security purposes, the identification token may be disabled when removed from the user's wrist. The identification token may be re-enabled by interaction with a docking station or personal computer at the user's residence.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080235145 - 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, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The method comprises scanning an active document on a computer device for identifying relevant keywords, and searching at least one database for reference... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080235149 - Methods and apparatus for agreement-based automated service provisioning: Techniques are disclosed for automated provisioning of resources to fulfill a service agreement. For example, a technique for use by a service provider for automatically provisioning one or more resources based on at least one service agreement offer of a service client comprises the following steps/operations. The at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080235148 - Online dynamic evaluation and search for products and services: In one aspect, computer implemented dynamic evaluation is based on feature tags. As will be described in more detail below, a buyer may be interested in certain features of a product (e.g., color, material, design, lining, warranty, delivery terms, etc.) and the different features are described using feature tags. For... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080235146 - System and method for affirming over the counter derivative trades: Methods and systems that provide a post-trade affirmation and messaging service. This service allows parties to affirm trades with their counterparties prior to processing. The addition of this affirmation layer helps ensure that all the key economic details of the trade including allocations, reference entity, payment dates etc. are agreed... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080235147 - System and method for facilitation of shipping from multiple merchandise vendors: The invention relates to an improved system and method for providing a service that coordinates shipping from a plurality of merchandise vendors by combining the shipping requirements from a plurality of physical locations into one transaction. The present invention coordinates shipping from a plurality of merchandise vendors in order to... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080235061 - Arrangements for deriving financial benefits from equity owned in property: A system and method for providing equity based benefits to a person dependent upon equity in property owned by the person is disclosed. The method (2200) is implemented on a computer based system (600) and comprises securing (810, 210) a loan secured by a proportion of the equity, the loan... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080235083 - Method and apparatus for adding advertising tag lines to electronic messages: A computer method and device for intercepting contracting client's sent electronic messages, scanning the message body content for key words, sending the key words to a remote central computer server which analyses the key words and enhances the message by attaching a relevant, contextual advertising tag line or image/banner/words/HTML/Flash etc... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080235120 - Bidder system using multiple computers communicating data to carry out selling fixed income instruments: An electronic system, the system for selling fixed income instruments, the system including a second computer having an output device and at least one buyer's computer having an electrically coupled input device and a monitor, the buyer's computer and the second computer being respectively located, the computers being used in... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20080235156 - Color coded price indicators: Create tiered price increments for goods and/or services, including information services, and communicate the tiered prices to potential customers through the use of color.... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20080235155 - Determining a price premium for a project: In certain embodiments, a method for determining a price premium for a project includes accessing project information that includes values for one or more parameters of a project. The method further includes determining from the project information a project duration for the project, a time value of money for the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080235160 - Method and apparatus for joint pricing and resource allocation under service-level agreement: There are provided an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for joint determination of price and resource allocation. The apparatus includes a price and resource allocation determination device for jointly determining a price and a resource allocation for a given item or service offered for use or sale... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235159 - Method and apparatus for pricing and capacity planning under competition, in on demand e-commerce systems with quality-of-service (qos) guarantees: There are provided an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for joint determination of price and capacity. The apparatus includes a price and capacity determination device for jointly determining a price and a capacity for a given item offered for sale by a given e-retailer, based at least... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235157 - Method, system and program product for a where-used costing analysis: A method, system and program product for allowing an end user of a costing process to analyze assemblies in a manufacturing process which use common technology or parts. A computer database is maintained for storing bills of materials for manufacturing assemblies. A part is selected which is common to one... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080235158 - Processor, system and method for accommodating high priority print jobs: Disclosed herein is a production planning processor comprising an admissions control module in communication with a queue management module, the admissions control module calculating a proposed profit for expedited handling of a new print job, the queue management module determining a revised print job queue based upon data received from... Agent: Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20080235161 - Method, means and a computer program product for managing online charging in a communications network: A method of online charging in a communication network. The method includes receiving a service request from a user, determining whether the service request is an access network session, a media network session or a service network session, determining if a type of charging model the user wants to use... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080228516 - bundling method and system for credits of an environmental commodities exchange: P

20080228503 - Automated compatibility checking for hardware/software purchases at time of purchase: The present invention can include a pre-purchase method for determining computing item compatibility. In the method, configuration information associated with a computing system can be stored. A for-sale item to be used with the computing system can be detected. A compatibility between the for-sale item and the configuration information can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080228505 - Client deployment optimization model: A deployment optimization model that identifiers and categorizes issues (such as key cost and quality drivers) in information handling system deployment and provisioning. The deployment optimization model is used within a deployment and evaluation tool which provides based on this model, a set of processes and tools for evaluating information... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080228517 - Computer jukebox and jukebox network: A method and apparatus is shown for managing a plurality of computer jukeboxes at different locations from a central station. Each jukebox includes processor means for controlling the computer jukebox, storage and retrieval means for data, display means for selection menus, audio production means for playing musical records, and a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080228512 - Cross-jurisdictional towing administration and data management system: Systems, computer programs, and methods for managing information corresponding to a plurality of vehicles are disclosed. The systems include a database for storing information corresponding to a plurality of vehicles, wherein at least one of the plurality of vehicles are non-consent tows and a plurality of user interfaces. Each user... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080228515 - Fishing certification processing method, processing apparatus, and recording medium recording processing program: A fishing certification processing method certifying a fishing period and a fishing position of aquatic animals and plants. The fishing certification processing method includes acquiring position history information in which positions of a fishing boat under way are recorded and operation history information in which operation states of fishery facilities... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228514 - Identification and association of refrigerated containers with dispatch orders: A database dispatches data to a wireless device on the particular source that powers a container during any segment of its journey.... Agent: Leo Stanger

20080228510 - Method for reserving equipment and computer accessible storage media to store program thereof: A method for reserving equipment is provided. In the present invention, an arrival time in each site of a special lot is forecasted according to a history record, and the equipment is reserved according to the arrival time and a status of each of the equipments at the site. As... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080228508 - Monitoring connect time and time of operation of a solid state lighting device: Techniques are disclosed to monitor the time of operation of a solid state lighting system, e.g. for warranty purposes. Examples are disclosed that measure time of system connection to power and/or time of light output from the solid state emitter(s) of the system. A service under the warranty is provided... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080228506 - Optimized deployment solution: An optimized deployment solution which uses a front-end to automatically drive deployment of an information handling system. The optimized deployment solution queries multiple data locations and creates a manifest that is used to automate the deployment. The optimized deployment solution decreases an amount of interaction that is needed from a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080228507 - Retail publishing system, method, program, and apparatus: A retail publishing system, method, program, and apparatus for enabling desktop publishing in a retail setting. The system comprises: a media content provider network that provides media content from a plurality of sources; a media content management module that selectably restricts access to the media content provider network; a media... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20080228511 - Revenue optimization system and method: A revenue optimization system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080228513 - Software license management: A single easy to use system enables both developers and users to manage their applications, licenses and billing transactions. A developer portal allows a developer to manage her applications, features, code protection, packages, billing, licenses and users. A customer portal module enables a user to manage his applications, subscriptions, orders,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080228518 - System and method for computing energy market models and tradable indices including energy market visualization and trade order entry to facilitate energy risk management: A system and method are disclosed for providing energy market participants with visual market order information, the ability to execute trades and the ability to hedge against risks associated with the energy industry. The system and method entail automatically retrieving, compiling and displaying energy market information to potential market participants.... Agent: Bakos & Kritzer, LLP

20080228509 - Systems and/or methods for incentivizing agent-based decision-making: Systems and/or methods that encourage an agent to become a true agent of a principal by rewarding or penalizing an agent for exceeding or falling below a benchmark for a specific transaction set by, or on behalf of, the principal are provided. In certain exemplary embodiments, a benchmark for each... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080228504 - Technique to deflect incident ticket submission in real-time: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for reducing the amount of human interaction involved in the resolution of incident tickets. A user interacts with a self-service portal to generate an incident ticket to resolve an issue. The generated incident ticket is routed by the self-service portal to an... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20080228520 - Body management system and business method: A system and business method for maintaining the health and body fitness of a client patient. The system and method are conducted by a Registered Dietitian (RD), and a technician (nurse). The RD conducts an ongoing assessment of the client to evaluate the client's progress in attaining his or her... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080228522 - Enterprise medical imaging and information management system with clinical data mining capabilities and method of use: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide improved clinical workflow using a healthcare imaging and information management system and method with data mining capabilities. Certain embodiments provide a healthcare imaging and information management system with data mining capabilities. The system includes a user interface accepting user input and displaying information... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080228523 - Permanent weight management: The present invention is directed to a method for providing a permanent weight management program, and a kit for providing the permanent weight management program. The method includes obtaining health related information of an individual, obtaining at least one goal of the individual related to the health related information, identifying... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080228521 - Support model integration system and method: A real time health management analytical system and method that enables a plurality of plug-in tools and extension tools to be interfaced with a central database, and for enabling information to be published to the database from each of the client tools, as well as data to be read from... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080228519 - System and method for optimizing prescription delivery related applications: The present invention concerns a health service system that is configured to enable a patient to obtain prescriptions in a secure, accurate, automated, convenient, manner that is optimized for the particular patient. The health service system includes an IT (information technology) system that is coupled to a network that is... Agent: Mauricio A. Leon

20080228527 - Bio-information control system: A bio-information control system includes initial bio-information acquiring means that acquires initial bio-information of a target living body; initial pace line generating means that generates an initial pace line on the basis of the initial bio-information entered by the initial bio-information acquiring means; follow-up bio-information acquiring means that acquires follow-up... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080228529 - Context adaptive patient medical data access and viewing system: A system provides unlimited, user-defined “mini views” of predetermined or user selected clinical data sets. A system provides a user with an adaptive view of patient specific medical data during operation of an executable clinical information application. A context processor identifies context data associated with an executable clinical information application... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080228530 - Method and data processing system to assist a medical diagnosis: In order to assist medical personnel in the generation of a medical diagnosis, context-related criteria are automatically determined from available case-related primary information, and using these context-related criteria context-related secondary information is automatically filtered out from a secondary data source and is displayed in an information portal on a display... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080228524 - Method of manipulating health related documents: A method is disclosed for submitting, collecting, storing and retrieving (1) advanced directives such as living wills, medical proxies, (2) medical and pharmaceutical records, and (3) wills and estate documents, all within a secure environment. Once individual consumers have registered and provided appropriate identifying information for use in retrieving stored... Agent: Robert M. Mason Mason & Petruzzi

20080228526 - System and method for managing history of patient and wound therapy treatment: A tissue treatment system including a processing unit executing software, an electronic display in communication with the processing unit, and a storage unit in communication with the processing unit. The software may be configured to cause the processing unit to manage a patient history database, treatment history database, and image... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080228525 - System for and method for providing patient education and collecting, processing, and reporting patient consumer data: The present invention is a system for and method of providing patient education, and collecting, processing, and reporting patient consumer data. The invention generates reports from information collected from patients, a medical educator, a prescribing physician, and a pharmaceutical manufacturer. A method of collecting, processing, and providing medical data and... Agent: Wilmerhale/dc

20080228528 - Universal application integrator: A universal application integrator system enables the automated integration of data from patient care devices into electronic health records (EHRs). In addition, the system acts as a context manager between these patient care devices, EHR applications, and ancillary specific patient care applications. The system is the central controller for direct... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080228531 - Insurance optimization and longevity analysis: A method, software, database and system for predicting the longevity of an individual and for determining an optimal insurance plan for an individual are presented in which an attribute profile of the individual containing genetic and non-genetic attributes is compared against a database containing combinations genetic and non-genetic attributes that... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228532 - Guest relationship management system: A method for implementing a guest profiling program that utilizes guest profiles, which are developed and expanded by information gathered from various sources and managed in a central Guest Relationship Management System (GRMS). The GRMS is a web-architected internet application. The primary interface between the GRMS and hotel systems is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228533 - Multi-tiered fleet management cache: A method of providing reservation status relating to a group of objects includes providing a database for containing (i) availability data describing availability of at least one of the group of objects, and (ii) reservation data describing allocation of at least one of the group of objects. The availability data... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080228534 - Reservation record based ticketing: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process for processing travel transactions without tickets. The process includes generating an electronic reservation record for a traveler that includes a reservation for travel along a travel segment and modifying the electronic reservation record to include... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080228535 - Information handling system deployment assessment: A client deployment assessment tool which provides a structured approach to evaluating a customer's information handling system deployment processes and tools. The client deployment assessment tool accurately estimates costs and shows how an information handling system provider could reduce those costs.... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080228542 - Method and apparatus for cultured sea algae: A method and apparatus for utilizing, processing, distributing and an accompanying business model for sea algae, particularly forced cultured kombu, to prevent the expansion of global warming, by encouraging a re-purchase of the cultured sea algae, by paying the purchaser back, in a constant rate, a part of the profit... Agent: Jay L. Chaskin

20080228543 - Methods and apparatus to compute reach and frequency values for flighted schedules: Methods and apparatus to compute reach and frequency values for flighted schedules are disclosed. An example method includes selecting two media components from a plurality of media components, and calculating a first flighted schedule campaign reach based on the two media components. The example method also includes repeating the selecting... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080228536 - System and method for deriving business processes: Embodiments of the present invention improve derivation of business processes. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of deriving business processes, the method comprising accessing a plurality of event logs, accessing predefined domain rules, associating the event logs with one or more business processes using a first plurality... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20080228537 - Systems and methods for targeting advertisements to users of social-networking and other web 2.0 websites and applications: The present inventions manage and deliver electronic advertisements to targeted users of an electronic communication network. The present inventions target advertisements based on the user's interactions with or behaviors exhibited on sites within the communication network. The present inventions also define audiences of target users based on the users' interaction... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080228541 - Using commercial share of wallet in private equity investments: 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228538 - Using commercial share of wallet to analyze vendors in online marketplaces: 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228540 - Using commercial share of wallet to compile marketing company lists: 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228539 - 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228546 - Business process estimating program, business process estimating method, and business process estimating apparatus: A business process estimating method, apparatus, and program for estimating a process of a business transaction utilizing an information system. The business process estimating method includes specifying a non-operation interval for extracting an information system non-operation interval in accordance with an access log of access to the information system, thereby... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228547 - Intelligent free-time search: Techniques are disclosed for performing free-time searches that exploit information of the type used with electronic calendars. By leveraging advanced calendaring system information and using location, other context information such as corporate policy, legal constraints, and technology constraints, and user-specific preferences to provide a complete picture of a person's availability,... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080228545 - Live multimedia product catalog system that integrates with on-line stores: A live multimedia product catalog system that integrates with online stores includes at least one on-line provider of advertisements or online goods, a module to make and edit catalogs, a module to publish advertisements or online goods to each catalog, a network management module and desktop application programs to retrieve... Agent: Jianfeng Jiang

20080228544 - Method and system for developing an audience of buyers and obtaining their behavioral preferences using event keywords: A method and system are disclosed that serve content relevant to a participant in an event in order to drive behaviors that lead to meetings between the participant and at least one of a plurality of business entities. The business entity can compile profiles of participants attending an event based... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080228550 - Apparatus and method for utilizing a task grid to generate a data migration task: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to present a task grid to a set of users. A specification of target column information and source column information is accepted from the set of users to produce a data migration task grid. A data migration task is generated from the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080228549 - Performance evaluation systems and methods: A performance evaluation system. The system includes a performance evaluation module configured to enable employee performance reviews based on completion of a plurality of tasks and a plurality of skills required to complete the tasks for each of a plurality of projects on which an employee is staffed, wherein the... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

20080228551 - Personnel assignment optimization program, personnel assignment optimization method, and personnel assignment optimization device: An optimization control part controls as an optimum method that optimizes a personnel assignment with an optimum gradient method by simulating with a simulator. An increase and decrease personnel assignment calculation part calculates the increase and decrease personnel assignment by using an approximation model to find the next tentative optimum... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228548 - System and method for selecting calendar events by examining content of user's recent e-mail activity: A system and method for selecting calendar events based on examining the content of a user's recent e-mail activity. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a scheduling manager assembles a keyword list, wherein the keyword list includes a collection of keywords with associated weights for each keyword among... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080228561 - Automated sales support method & device: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080228555 - Graphical user interface for presenting image evaluation information: A method is disclosed for operating a computer to transform and present data gathered from respondents to electronic surveys and to evaluate preferences related to digital two dimensional and three dimensional images. The method includes receiving computational results for an electronic survey in the form of data files, which include... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080228556 - Method and apparatus for consumer interaction based on spend capacity: Share of Wallet (“SoW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumer's spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228557 - Method and apparatus for measuring distinctions between pre-paid vs. post-paid customer base and market share for wireless communication service products: Methods and systems are provided for determining customer distinctions for one or more wireless communication service providers. Determinations are drawn from a sampling of telephone numbers that have been determined to be assigned by wireless service provider(s) (to its/their customers) and are employed to determine whether the assigned number is... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080228553 - Method and system for determination of an appropriate strategy for supply of renewal energy onto a power grid: A system and methodology for determining optimal sales strategy for power from a wind farm to a power grid for a number of different conditions is disclosed. By defining distributions for the forecast for the output of the wind farm and combining that with a forecast for market conditions it... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20080228560 - System and method for creating compiled marketing research data over a computer network: A system for creating compiled marketing research data over a computer network is disclosed. The system comprises a researcher server system (12), multiple respondent systems (18, 20) in communication with the researcher server system (12) and at least one client system (14) in communication with the researcher server system (12).... Agent: Lawrence R. Youst Danamraj & Youst, P.C.

20080228559 - System and method for creating financial investment indices: The present invention is a system that creates indices based on the “buy, sell and hold” research recommendations of research firms, tracks the performance of those indices, and allows clients to search for top performing indices according to a variety of search parameters and filters through a proprietary text navigation... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20080228552 - System and method for providing product recommendations to consumers within a merchant location: Discerned relationships between products are utilized to generate product recommendation cards that are to be positioned throughout a merchant location. The product recommendation card contains information about one or more products that are likely to be purchased with a related-to product. The information carried on the product recommendation card may... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080228558 - System and method for valuating items as tradable environmental commodities: s

20080228554 - System, method and apparatus for determining a target for distributing molding material equipment: A method, system and a computing apparatus for determining a target molding material user for distribution of molding material equipment to molding material users from a molding material producer is disclosed. The computing apparatus, for example, includes a processing module operable to receive (i) supply information representative of molding material... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20080228562 - Fully automated vehicle dispatching, monitoring and billing: A system for controlling vehicles (20) to provide transportation services without need for human intervention. A database (10) stores records each documenting needed transportation services. Processing circuitry (which may be one or several networked computers) performs a dispatching process (26) which reviews these records, locates records indicating a need for... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080228576 - Ad performance optimization for rich media content: In one embodiment, a method for optimizing advertisement performance is provided. In one embodiment, advertisements may be clustered together into different buckets of advertisements. Rich media content may also be clustered together. A performance model may then be generated that is based on previous performance of ads with content. The... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080228583 - Advertising management system and method with dynamic pricing: Method and system for enabling advertisers to deliver advertisements to consumers in which a plurality of tiers of available advertisements are defined, each tier containing a number of advertisements, a price for allocation of an advertisement in each tier is set wherein a lowest tier has the lowest price and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080228577 - Apparatus for monitoring a person having an interest to an object, and method thereof: The invention relates to a method of monitoring a person having an interest to an object. The method comprising steps of: (210) providing a data processor (111) for obtaining interaction data related to a remote interaction between the person and at least one of a plurality of the objects (131,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080228571 - Automated recommendation of targeting criteria: A system and method to facilitate automated recommendation of targeting criteria are described. Targeting data associated with an advertiser entity and one or more competitor entities of the advertiser entity within a specified industry is retrieved. A set of criteria to target advertisements to a plurality of consumers of the... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080228565 - Centralized discount searching: According to the invention, a system for providing a coupon to a user is disclosed. The system may include a host computer system and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include instructions for receiving a characteristic information set from a plurality of businesses, where each characteristic information... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080228568 - Delivery of coupons through advertisement: Systems and methods that supply associations between advertisements—and—relevance of coupons for customers. Accordingly, the customer is empowered to interact with an advertising system, and the coupons obtained are considered desirable by the customer (e.g., non-spam). The advertisement system includes a presentation component (which presents advertisement to customers); a contextualization component... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080228578 - Digital rights management and data license management: A system and method for the exchanging, distributing and managing digital content, along with providing users with the ability to sell and transfer digital rights of products or services purchased from other users, wherein the system and method are used to manage synchronization and the use of applications, web services... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080228573 - Fundraising method and system: The present disclosure describes a fund raising method and system wherein a provider produces discount cards containing information such as the manufacturer ID, the family code, and the value code. The information may appear on the card in the form of a bar code, a magnetic strip or by any... Agent: Taras P. Bemko

20080228582 - Loyalty program for merchant inventory: Collaborative constituents collaborate to develop offers on selected inventory items of a merchant as part of a loyalty program within a transaction processing system. An inventory management system of the merchant includes an application rendering a hyperlink capable of transmitting a request to collaborate to a web server and to... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080228581 - Method and system for a natural transition between advertisements associated with rich media content: A method includes receiving a plurality of a plurality of candidate segmentation points associated with a portion of rich media content, selecting a subset of the candidate segmentation points that meet one or more segmentation constraints, where the selected subset of segmentation points define a plurality of temporal segments of... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080228580 - Method and system for compensating online content contributors and editors: A quantitative method of compensating contributors of digital content to an interactive online repository of digital content. The method includes receiving from a user a contribution of digital content. The method also includes assigning an initial point award to the user contribution an initial point award, imposing a vesting schedule... Agent: David Korman

20080228572 - Method of distribution of advertisement and informational images: The method for distributing advertisement information images includes steps of: loading an advertisement information image into a subscriber's cellular phone; demonstrating the advertisement information image at the cellular phone; viewing the advertisement information image; and compensating the user's expenses arisen from using the cellular phone. The subscriber fills up a... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080228584 - Method of doing business associated with synthetic turf fields in exchange for rights to media/advertising permits and/or sites: The present invention comprises a method by which synthetic turf fields are sold to entities capable of granting permits for advertising billboards. The method generally comprises the steps of offering a synthetic turf field to an entity in at least partial exchange for an expedited granting of a billboard permit... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20080228570 - Method of offering savings on pet-related products and services via club memberships while earning money toward a higher education: A method of offering and selling club memberships is provided, which includes generally the steps of providing a club that may offer its members discounts on pet-related products and/or services, registering/engaging individuals (e.g., pre-college age youth) to promote the club to prospective members, and crediting money to a financial savings/investment... Agent: Bryan H. Opalko, Esquire Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080228585 - Methods and apparatus for presenting personazlized information to consumers in a retail environment: Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting personalized information to consumers in a retail environment. A personalized price is determined for at least one product that is in physical proximity to the customer. The physical proximity may be determined, for example, by evaluating identifiers, such as RHD tags, associated with... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080228567 - Online coupon wallet: Systems and methods that electronically redeem coupons via an online storage component, which stores coupon data for a consumer and regardless of which issuer has issued the coupon. Such online storage medium can store coupons online (e.g., in a single location) without being tied to a particular service, and can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080228569 - Process for visually displaying information on products and services in waiting rooms: A process for visually displaying items of information of interest to individuals in attendance in offices offering personal services who are delayed in receiving such services.... Agent: Theodore Jay

20080228566 - Processing coupons with payments: Systems and methods that combine coupon processing with payment processing (e.g., a credit/debit card transaction). Payment processing entities can function as the coupon clearinghouse between coupon issuers and merchants. Accordingly, processing costs can be mitigated as coupons are no longer processed separately from other tenders, (e.g., coupons can be processed... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080228563 - Redemption of reward units for transactional accounts: Reward units accrued for use of a transactional account to pay for purchases are redeemed to cover any cost associated with activities initiated by an account holder where reward units are applicable to those activities. The redemption occurs as an automatic process in response to the account holder initiating the... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080228574 - System and method for conveying content changes over a network: A system and method that includes receiving data representative of a change in volume of network content related to a ticker from a reference volume; and displaying in a user interface a visual element associated with the ticker, wherein the appearance of the visual element depends upon the change in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080228579 - System and method for the presentation of advertisements: A system and method for the presentation of advertisements is present. According to one embodiment, a number of impressions of an advertisement message are presented over a computer network such as the Internet to a variety of viewer computers. Depending on the actions taken by the viewers (e.g., whether the... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080228575 - Universal advertising model utilizing digital linkage technology \"u ad\": A system and method of providing a linking module to link an identifier to media content in order to create embedded advertising content. A system enabler receives a registration of the identifier and further provides embedded advertising content to be transmitted to a client. The system enabler further provides an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080228564 - Weighted-parameter auction: Techniques are described to provide a weighted auction, an example of which is to auction an opportunity to cause output of an advertisement in time-shifted content by a client. Bids may be selected to win the opportunity based at least in part on a plurality of weighted-auction parameters included in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080228586 - Method for automatically determining a fare for the use of chargeable means of transport conveying persons: Disclosed is a method for automatically determining a fare for utilizing chargeable means of transport conveying persons. According to said method, a credit which is established in a currency that is valid in a first currency zone and is used for automatically deducting the fare when utilizing a means of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080228593 - Automated sales support method & device: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080228594 - Automated sales support method & device: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080228588 - E-commerce system for the purchasing intermediation type and operating system for the shopping-mall applied thereof: The present invention relates to an electronic commerce system of a group-driven purchase broker type and a shopping mail operating system, wherein buyers can jointly purchase merchandise at a price lower than a regular price through a purchase broker group who negotiates prices with sellers, and sellers can make more... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080228589 - Methods for placing, accepting, and filling orders for products and services: Methods and systems for ordering assays which detect SNPs or gene expression are provided. The methods use PCR and RT-PCR procedures. Collections of stock assays are assembled using pre- and post-manufacturing quality control procedures and made available to consumers via the Internet. In addition, custom assays are prepared upon order... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080228592 - Services for generation of electronic marketplace listings using personal purchase histories or other indicia of product ownership: An electronic marketplace system provides various features for assisting users in listing products for sale, locating the listings for a product, and performing related actions. A user wishing to sell a product can browse to an existing description of the product in an electronic catalog and then select an option... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228591 - Shopping system: When a merchandise identification code and a store identification code are received from mobile terminal, a merchandise server obtains merchandise information including the merchandise identification code from a merchandise information storage unit of a sales store specified by the store identification code. The merchandise server also obtains payment store information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080228587 - Sponsored listing recommendation engine: An online music system includes a music database configured to store musical selections and to store a user profile for respective users of the online music system, an advertiser account management system to store bid amounts from advertisers seeking to provide information to the users of the online music system... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080228590 - System and method for providing an online book synopsis: A method and computer program product for providing an online book synopsis include providing an electronic book accessible by a user. A synopsis of one or more portions of the electronic book are generated. The synopsis is made accessible to the user.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080228599 - Color selection, coordination, purchase and delivery system: A system embodied as a website including a first, second and third pluralities of display screens, the first enabling an at-home user to select a first color which coordinates with a second selected color, the second enabling the user to select for purchase one or more of a plurality of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080228597 - Gift exchange: One embodiment is a method that establishes at a website a group of individuals desiring to exchange gifts with each other to celebrate an event. The method receives at the website names and descriptions of gifts desired by each individual in the group and provides an interface to enable each... Agent: Robert Daniel Sondles Iv

20080228596 - Method and system for conducting a sale on the internet with discounts as a function of time: The invention provides a method and website for displaying a product for sale at a starting price selected by the seller and adjusting the price downward in at least two percentage increments, wherein the percentages are preselected by the website to be applied at increments of time during a limited... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080228598 - Providing marketplace functionality in a business directory and/or social-network site: A business directory and/or social-network site with business-to-business, real-time e-commerce capability as well as business-to-consumers, real-time e-commerce capability. Other aspects include systems/methods for targeting users of the business directory and/or social-network site with advertising, which relates contextually to the interests and behavior of a user. Such advertisements are presented to... Agent: Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP

20080228600 - Purchasing systems: A system is provided in which a handheld computing device may be used to provide a user with shopping assistance services. A shopping assistance service may allow a user to obtain directory information for a shopping mall. A user may use the handheld computing device to handle shopping lists. The... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20080228595 - System for supporting electronic commerce in social networks: A method for offering a plurality of items for commerce, wherein each of the items in the plurality of items includes an item identifier usable to reference that item. The method includes storing a first item identifier for the at least one of the plurality of items in a first... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20080228602 - Credit card lost-and-found notification: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for sending a first notification message to a credit card agency alerting the credit card agency of a misplaced credit card, an identification of a credit card owner, and a location of the misplaced credit card; in response to receiving the first notification message,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080228603 - Systems and media for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices: Systems, methods, and media for managing electronic asset tags for asset devices are disclosed. Embodiments include a system having one or more asset devices in communication with a network where each asset device has an electronic asset tag, where the electronic asset tag has contents including an asset number associated... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080228601 - Techniques for reconstructing supply chain networks using pair-wise correlation analysis: Techniques for reconstructing networks are provided. In one aspect, a method for reconstructing a synthetic network, such as a synthetic biological network, is provided. In another aspect, a method for reconstructing a supply chain network is provided. Exemplary supply chain networks include supply chains for petroleum distribution.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080228605 - Computer system and method for pricing financial and insurance risks with historically- known or computer-generated probability distributions: The invention is a computer-implemented system and method, and a computer-readable medium for use with computer means, that enables portfolio managers to price, on a risk-adjusted basis, any traded or underwritten risk vehicle in finance and insurance that has a historically known or computer-generated probability distribution. More importantly, the invention... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20080228606 - Determining commercial share of wallet: Commercial size of spending wallet (“SoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“SoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. Commercial SoW is a modeling approach that utilizes various data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228609 - Methods and apparatus for complementing user entries associated with events of interest through context: Data validation techniques are provided. For example, such techniques complement user entries associated with events of interest through context. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for processing one or more user entries associated with one or more events of interest includes the following steps/operations. Context associated with the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080228608 - Order accounting system and order accounting method: To provide an order accounting system capable of swiftly performing accounting processing, and of allowing to understand an account state in real time, in the order accounting system, an order input terminal requests an ordering control device to send unsettled data which is account data for which account has not... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks

20080228607 - Resolution of virtual world revocable transfers: A method and system provides transactions and arrangements in virtual world environments. A user can participate in transactions to acquire virtual property and related virtual rights. In some implementations, real-world and virtual parties can be involved in a possible future transfer or related transfer revocation or related transfer modification involving... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080228610 - Interface architecture of subscriber information management billing, prepaid system for mobile network system, and prepaid method using the interface architecture: Disclosed are an interface architecture of subscriber information management, billing, prepaid system for mobile network system, and a prepaid method using the interface architecture. The present invention is embodied by a Workflow engine classified as a business logic and a processing logic to access the interface rapidly for clients. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080228611 - System and method for providing extra lines of credit: A system and method for upgrading existing credit cards with additional lines of credit is disclosed. Credit information associated with customers holding credit cards issued by a credit card issuer are analyzed to determine a level of risk associated with each customer. One or more extra line of credit may... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080228614 - Consumer-driven system and method for promoting philanthropic giving/lending and social activism based on customer purchases: A consumer-driven system and method for promoting philanthropic giving/lending and social activism based on customer purchases. The system and method optimizes the choices on the part of the Customer in the selection of one or more Funding Options and allocation of Funding Points among one or more selected Funding Options.... Agent: Cheryl F. Cohen Cheryl F. Cohen, LLC

20080228615 - Gradual conversion of financial accounts: Embodiments describe a method and a system to link a secondary account to a primary account with an account management module associated with the primary account and to control access to funds in the secondary account with respect to a secondary account holder through the account management module. The secondary... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080228613 - Method and system for the authorization of and payment for electric charging of vehicles: Methods and systems provide power to a mobile recipient and allow the recipient to pay for the power obtained by having it charged to an account other than the account for the location at which the power is provided.... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080228612 - Simultaneous determination of enterprise value and cost of unlevered equity: The present invention consists of methods through which the value and the cost of unlevered equity of an enterprise can be determined simultaneously through numerical searches using the enterprise cash-flow forecast. These methods improve the accuracy of and simplify enterprise valuations.... Agent: James J. Sterling

20080228664 - bundling method and system for credits of an environmental commodities exchange: e

20080228665 - Bundling method and system for credits of an environmental commodities exchange: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of automatically bundling environmental conservation items with computed environmental conservation values into “credit blocks” so that the aggregate sum of the environmental conservation values of the items in a particular block is sufficient to issue a tradable environmental commodity. Some embodiments bundle... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080228659 - Methods and vehicles for funding retained obligations: A method and vehicle for funding retained obligations in accordance with the principles of the present invention comprises pooling of investments from investors in an investment vehicle. No single investor's assets will be traced in any manner, including for purposes of measuring or allocating gain or loss. The investors share... Agent: Paul E. Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20080228660 - Methods and vehicles utilizing financial instruments for funding retained obligations: A method and vehicle for finding retained obligations in accordance with the principles of the present invention comprises pooling of investments from investors in an investment vehicle. No single investor's assets will be traced in any manner, including for purposes of measuring or allocating gain or loss. The investors share... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma, Novusip, LLC Suite 221

20080228662 - System and method for facilitating the funding and administration of a long term investment or retirement trust for yet-to-be-born individuals: The funding and administration of a long term investment and/or retirement trust for yet-to-be born individuals are facilitated by the present invention. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a system and method for the input of user variables specific to the requirements necessary for the real-time production of trust... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080228661 - Systems and methods for providing financial services: A new method and system for providing financial services is provided. These methods and systems can include providing banking and investment services to hedge fund money managers and other customers without the assistance or need for a prime broker. While employing the present invention a money manager may receive prime... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080228666 - Systems and methods of measuring investment performance: Systems for measuring the performance of an investment portfolio over a specific time period include a report having indicia of a portfolio index value, the portfolio index value representing a hypothetical return on investment of a hypothetical portfolio for the specific time period calculated as a function of actual timing... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20080228663 - Systems for leveraging capital and associated methods: A system, method and software product determines pool financing structure of a venture capital fund. Investment guidelines that specify initial investment parameters of companies that the venture capital fund intends to invest in and cash flow through the pool financing structure are input. Projected returns for equity investors and general... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080228619 - Apparatus, system, and method for allocating service requests: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for allocating service requests. A category module categorizes a service request for an information technology support service with a service category. The service request comprises a service requirement. An I/O module communicates the service request to a plurality of providers that are certified... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080228626 - Auctions for health care providers: In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include providing user interfaces to enable an auction between a provider of health care and an employer. A first auction may be initiated by a user interface associated with a provider of health care. The first auction may... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080228631 - Bundling method and system for credits of an environmental commodities exchange: Some embodiments perform buyer bundling to permit a buyer the ability to purchase only a portion or percentage of a credit by bundling several buyers into “buyer blocks”. Each buyer within a buyer block desires to offset its polluting activities, where the polluting activities of each buyer equates to only... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080228623 - Discretionary order in an electronic guaranteed entitlement environment: An enhanced system and method for handling, matching and executing discretionary orders in an electronic options environment is disclosed. Market maker entitlements are integrated with the discretionary order processing, so that the market maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the market maker is at the NBBO when... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20080228627 - Electronic bartering system: A computer system facilitates buying and selling securities. The computer system comprises a trading system for receiving and storing a plurality of portfolios. Each portfolio is associated with a respective trader. The computer system further comprises a plurality of client computers interfaced with the trading system. The trading system discovers... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20080228624 - Interactive online funding method and system thereof: An interactive online funding method includes providing an interactive online funding platform, offering an interactive funding activity for a user to participate in the interactive online funding platform, by placing a bid, and comparing the bid price of the user with a threshold price set by the interactive online funding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080228625 - Partner relationship management system: A Partner Relationship Management System (“PRMS”) accessible for sellers and buyers located remotely, whereby the buyers' access privileges are based on their relationship with the sellers. The PRMS comprising a server connected to the Internet and a pricing configurator which includes at least, a buyer profile module residing on the... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080228628 - Registration method and system for an environmental commodities exchange: P

20080228622 - Reserve order in an electronic guaranteed entitlement environment: An enhanced system and method for handling, matching and executing reserve orders in an electronic options environment is disclosed. Market maker entitlements are integrated with the reserve order processing, so that the market maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the market maker is at the NBBO when... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20080228617 - System and method for error detection and recovery in an electronic trading system: A system for error detection in a trading network comprises a memory operable to store a plurality of trader profiles, wherein a particular trader profile is associated with a particular trader. The particular trader profile comprises first contact data associated with a first client device and second contact data associated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080228616 - System and method for providing an operator interface for a radar display of market data: A system for providing an operator interface having a radar display comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores trader designated requirements. The processor generates a radar display comprising a trader requirements block that corresponds to the trader designated requirements. The processor receives market data and performs the following... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080228618 - System and method for providing an operator interface for displaying market data, trader options, and trader input: A system for providing an operator interface for displaying market data, trader options, and trader input includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores market data for a trading product, where the market data includes an inside market price for the trading product. The processor initiates display of a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080228620 - System and method for transfer of confirmation data in a distributed electronic trading system: According to one embodiment, a system for confirmation data transfer in a distributed trading network includes a memory and an account manager. The memory stores a confirmation address associated with a trading account. The account manager receives a trading order associated with the trading account and sends a confirmation message... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080228621 - System and method for transfer of dispute data in a distributed electronic trading system: A system for dispute data transfer in a distributed trading network includes a memory and a dispute manager. The memory stores information about a trading order associated with a client system. The dispute manager communicates a confirmation message to the client system, where the confirmation message provides an option to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080228629 - System and method for valuating items as tradable environmental commodities: s

20080228630 - System and method for valuating items as tradable environmental commodities:

20080228632 - Trading method and system for an environmental commodities exchange:

20080228633 - Trading system and methods: The present invention is directed to a system and method that facilitates the more fully informed and efficient trading of items of value, including securities. According to the present invention, certain embodiments permit a customer to determine the merits of and to execute a trade from a single screen. One... Agent: Valauskas & Pine LLC

20080228634 - Loan structure with tax benefits: The current invention is a system, method and program of making loans with tax benefits. Instead of a conventional loan note, or mortgage the financer takes a portion of equity in the company (this may, or may not hold real estate). This has the advantage of not being a formal... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080228635 - Reducing risks related to check verification: Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide scores that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. Share of wallet scores can be used as a parameter for determining whether or not to accept and/or guarantee a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228640 - Method and system for a digital automated exchange: A method and system exchanges assets defined as digital automated equities which are objects instantiated with attributes of an asset. Digital automated equities are registered on a common system exchange as offeror mediary objects and matched by comparing their attributes. Capital exchange offer objects define desired matches by identifying a... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20080228641 - Method and system for credit card reimbursements for health care transactions: According to one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and a system for reimbursing credit card transactions for health care services and/or products. An exemplary method and system may involve registering a user for reimbursement wherein the user identifies one or more payment mechanisms and one or more... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080228638 - Method and system of controlling linked accounts: Embodiments describe a method and a system to link a secondary account to a primary account and to control transfer of funds from an outside source to the secondary account. In an additional embodiment, the secondary account includes an dependent source portion controlled by an account management module and an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080228636 - Purchasing using a physical object: Using a user interface to allow payment for physical or virtual goods to be made through a physical object. A method may be practiced in a computing system including a user interface. The method includes detecting a payment physical object, and payment capabilities associated with the payment physical object. User... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080228637 - Spending and savings secondary linked accounts: Embodiments describe a method and a system to link a secondary account to a primary account with an account management module associated with the primary account and to control access to funds in the secondary account with respect to a secondary account holder through the account management module. The secondary... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080228639 - System and method for providing prepaid language interpretation services: A method is provided. The method provides a user with a prepaid account with a predetermined number of units for language interpretation service. Further, the method provides a live language interpretation service, through a telephone call, to the user. In addition, the method deducts one or more units from the... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20080228645 - Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for managing penalty fees for financial accounts: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for providing a payment plan to credit card customers. A customer may be offered membership into a payment plan that allows the customer to pay past due penalty fees included in a balance associated With the customer's credit card account. Once a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080228644 - Providing metered capacity of computer resources: An apparatus and method provides the capability of metering temporary capacity on demand in a computer system. A resource-time is specified, such as processor-days. The actual usage of the resource is monitored, and the customer is charged for only the actual usage of the resource. In this manner a customer... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080228643 - System and method for payment of consumer purchases via vendor escrow accounts: A system and method for payment by a consumer of a purchase from one of a plurality of participating vendors. Each product or service for purchase is classified by a central office into a unique class. A single vendor is permitted for each class of product or service thereby guaranteeing... Agent: Cheryl F. Cohen, LLC

20080228642 - System and method for payment receipt using 2d code: A payment receipt system is provided. The payment receipt system comprises: a receipt management database for managing at least information on the payers who have to pay and the payment amount that the respective payers have to pay for a certain period; and a payee server including an information extracting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228646 - Method and system for managing a non-changing payment card account number: The present invention provides a method and system for managing a cardholder's payment card account having a non-changing account number associated with a payment card, the method comprising the steps of assigning a series of dynamic attributes to an account number, identifying the payment card account, and changing the dynamic... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080228647 - Method and computer-readable medium for managing an account balance: A method and computer-readable medium for managing an account balance of a user via remote connection to an account database system of a service provider are provided. According to the method, payment information is received from the user via the remote connection for a selected invoice of an account of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080228648 - System for personal authorization control for card transactions: An authorization system allows for cardholder-provided parameters to a personal authorization subsystem. The parameters can be selected by the cardholder to limit the authorizations that would otherwise be granted on the card. The parameters can indicate limits by frequency, dollar amount, merchant, geographic location, time of day, combinations thereof, or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080228649 - Method and apparatus for obtaining a protected application protected against unauthorized use by implementing a predetermined licensing model: There is provided a method for obtaining a protected application protected against unauthorized use by implementing a predetermined licensing model, said method comprising the steps of: adding a software product to said application, said software product providing the possibility of defining one of several different manners of realizing a functionality... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080228650 - Secure communication and real-time watermarking using mutating identifiers: A method of watermarking using mutating identifiers includes generating a plurality of watermarked versions of a content item, obtaining a plurality of keys for the plurality of watermarked versions of a content item, assigning each one of the plurality of obtained keys to a single one of the plurality of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080228651 - Public key crytography method and system: A system is disclosed relating to the use of digital certificates to improve internet communications. In one embodiment digital certificates are used to facilitate payment for goods or services, where the digital certificate is designated as having a certain value. In a further embodiment digital certificates are used for reducing... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20080228652 - Internet business security method: An internet business security method is disclosed. According to this method, first, a one-time password is generated based on a smart card that includes a chip to perform the processes of storing data, processing data and encoding/decoding data. Then, the one-time password is identified by the website. When the one-time... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080228653 - Systems and methods for enrolling a token in an online authentication program: An online transaction system configured to implement authentication methods that allow for strong multi-factor authentication in online environments. The authentication methods can be combined with strong security methods to further ensure that the authentication process is secure. Further, the strong multi-factor authentication can be implemented with zero adoption dependencies through... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080228654 - Network independent location services: Techniques for supporting network independent location services (LCS) are described. In one design, a location center may communicate with a terminal to establish an account for the terminal with the location center for location services. The location center may establish the account for the terminal independent of a home network... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080228655 - Secure payment method and system on network and route server: A payment system on network provides a platform based on the existing various transaction modes so that the current transaction modes can be operated on the secure payment platform which the present invention provides. The current transaction modes has the following kinds: a free process mode of the acquirer institution,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080228657 - Apparatus and process facilitating customer-driven sales of products having multiple configurations: The present invention provides an apparatus and process for facilitating customer-driven sales of products having multiple configurations, preferably automobiles and trucks. The apparatus is a computer network comprising a server with a product database thereon, an intermediary subsystem, and a seller subsystem. The server, intermediary subsystem, and seller subsystem function... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080228658 - Deal identification system: A method and system for identifying deals to facilitate travel planning is provided. In one embodiment, a deal identification system identifies deals on travel items and presents those deals to a person in a way that facilitates travel planning and travel shopping. The deal identification system may include an entity... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080228656 - Method for implementing an enhanced auction via a communications network: A method of selectively implementing a live auction option in a conventional timed electronic auction. The host-server monitors bidding activity in a timed auction to detect an indication of competitive bidding. If competitive bidding is detected, a “live auction” is triggered. The client-users are provided information regarding how to participate... Agent: J. Wiley Horton, Esquire Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080228604 - Methods and systems for dynamic calculation of safety stock quantity: A computer-implemented method and system for calculating a safety stock quantity for several warehouses within an availability check during a delivery process of goods, wherein the safety stock quantity is representative of a quantity of products which is protected by the availability check, wherein the safety stock quantity is a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080228667 - Multi-color billing process: Embodiments herein include a method that begins by receiving a print job for a customer from an intermediary program such as a print driver. The print job comprises instructions to print a document for the customer and includes, for example, data and print characteristics. The method then evaluates the colorspace... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb I.p. Law Firm, LLC

20080228668 - System for setting special wholesale pricing for resellers: A system for calculating a special wholesale pricing between a wholesaler and a reseller for a transaction between the reseller and an end-user. A wholesale discount pricing system is provided that comprises: a system for inputting a special pricing request from a reseller, wherein the special pricing request includes a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080228669 - Method of controlling the operation of an automated postage meter: Disclosed is an improved work-ahead method for efficiently operating a software-controlled, automated postage meter of the type used to print postage and other digital data on batches of mail that are run through the meter during successive jobs which originate from different accounts. The operator enters data relating to the... Agent: Morland C. Fischer

20080228673 - Business practices alignment methods: A method to align and effectively apply business practices or culture within the business units in one or more business entities is provided. In the first phase, a practices charter defining future state business practices is developed. A practices charter is developed from an initial set of differing alternatives statements... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080228671 - Facilitating development of documentation for products related to an enterprise: Facilitating development of documentation for products related to an enterprise. In an embodiment, a computer implemented approach is enabled using which data is maintained indicating the respective roles that can be played by various users consistent with a desired development cycle for the development of documentation for products related to... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080228674 - Floral easel: The present invention relates to an erectable and/or collapsible floral easel for holding a floral object, and more particularly but not by way of limitation, to an erectable or collapsible floral easel for holding a floral object. In one aspect, the present invention relates to a floral easel for holding... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20080228670 - Interacting with a user via a personal information manager user interface: Systems and techniques for interacting with a user via a personal information manager user interface. In another aspect, a system can include a recruiting server that provides services related to a recruiting process and manages data associated with the recruiting process, a personal information manager server that provides services related... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080228672 - Sales process and form: A novel business method for selling automobiles includes a unique multiply form that includes three different data fields. The form is used in a paperwork tracking technique that comprises multiple sheets having a common data field in a pre-selected area. Each sheet includes other data fields that are unique to... Agent: Bradley D. Goldizen

20080221909 - Animated connection page: A method and device for facilitating interaction with one or more advertisement functionalities is provided. An advertisement middleware component provides advertisement functionalities for interfacing with one or more systems and components of an underlying device. The advertisement middleware component includes a connection page that provides a consistent and trusted user... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080221914 - Computer-based method and system for aiding transactions: m

20080221917 - Method and system for specifying, deploying and dynamically updating work flows: A method and system for specifying, deploying and updating work flows. A request is received from a user of a system with components comprising a computing system and human representatives. The components facilitate routing and servicing the request. A work flow comprising manual and automatic steps is specified to perform... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080221913 - Methods and systems for linking an electronic address to a physical address of a customer using a delivery point identification key: An electronic account links an electronic address to a physical address of a customer. Services provided to the customer using the electronic account can be delivered to the physical address or the electronic address of the customer. If the customer requests to receive only physical mail, the link between the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080221910 - Scientific formula and system using a slider bar which derives standardized data and faster search processes in a personnel recruiting system that generates more accurate results: The present invention relates to a data processing system, engrained with value-added methodologies to create a highly structured and automated recruiting system. This system may reduce the time required to select a meaningful shortlist, as well as improving the compatibility of qualifications of candidates towards the requirements of a position.... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080221915 - Softwate method and system to enable compliance with audit requirements for electronic procurement pricing: The present invention, named PriceAudit, is an electronic procurement tool that enables the buyer, or purchasing organization, to precisely audit, and therefore validate, on a near real-time basis, their purchasing patterns and prices across all of their (or any other) internet-based suppliers. It allows the comparison of punchout (live supplier... Agent: Gary C. Berkowitz

20080221912 - Submarine patents: characterised in that the second European Patent Application is a divisional European Patent Application claiming the filing date of the first European patent application. The method may further include the step of filing further European Patent Applications at intervals of not more than one month, each further European Patent Application... Agent: David James Harris

20080221911 - System and method for determining a subset of transactions of a computing system for use in determining resource costs: A method comprises receiving a representative workload of a computing system, where the representative workload comprises a plurality of composite transactions. In certain embodiments, the representative workload is a historical workload of a computing system. In general, a composite transaction refers to a transaction that comprises a plurality of embedded... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080221916 - Systems and devices for assessing fines for traffic disturbances: Traffic disturbances are detected and data is collected by various sensors where the data reflects the entity that is responsible for the disturbance and the number of vehicles that are impacted by the disturbance. The data is analyzed to determine whether a traffic violation has occurred and to then assess... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080221924 - Apparatus, system, and method to improve the accuracy of radio frequency identification (rfid)-based real-time location system: A patient workflow management system. The system includes a messaging subsystem to receive data indicating one or more locations of a patient within a health care facility. The system further includes a correction module in communication with the messaging subsystem to apply a correction to at least a portion of... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080221926 - Enterprise-wide hospital bed management dashboard system: An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management/census control dashboard (BMD) system that interfaces with and... Agent: Tillman Wright, Pllc

20080221919 - Medical clinic formed by modular transportable components: A medical clinic system, including: an unattached medical clinic formed by modular transportable components, wherein the transportable modules are partially constructed portions of a building; a registration module wherein a patient registers for an appointment, and wherein an appointment type request is generated and transmitted to a server; a triaging... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080221923 - Medical information management system: A computer-assisted method of assisting a health care provider in diagnosing and treating a patient. The method includes preparing an event-based sequence relating to a disease for which the patient is diagnosed and treated and accepting answers from the health care provider during at least one clinical contact with the... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.c.

20080221922 - Method and apparatus for operative event documentation and related data management: In one embodiment, method and apparatus are disclosed which provide that a plurality of physicians each enter operative event data into an operative event database, wherein the operative event data documents planned or completed operative events and the physicians enter the operative event data use a wide area network through... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080221921 - Method of conducting a clinical trial: Disclosed are methods of conducting and assessing the outcomes of a randomized controlled clinical trial. The method comprises the steps of: trialing, with respect to a first group of patients as an experimental group, an experimental treatment; and trialing, with respect to a second group of patients as a control... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20080221918 - Network performance monitor: Disclosed in this specification is a method for monitoring a network, such as the central monitoring station of a medical facility. Performance data from each of the network components of interest is monitored for compliance with certain component-specific criteria. Responses are generated if the performance data satisfies, or fails to... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080221920 - Personal transportable healthcare data base improvements: This is an improvement to the patient data base disclosed in Published Patent Application No. US 2007-0055550 A1, Published Mar. 8th, 2007, incorporating separate image files, a virtual portal for importing and exporting data base records to an or from an EMR and, dental records.... Agent: Joel I Rosenblatt

20080221925 - Systems, devices and methods for providing a reward based upon use of a mobile communications device: The disclosed embodiments provide systems, devices and methods for providing a reward to a user of a mobile communications device. The described embodiments, for example, may include a mobile communications device that exchanges query data and response data, with a computer system over a communications network. The computer system includes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080221930 - Health data collection tool: A portable health data tool permits a health care provider to assimilate and display a plurality of health care data from a patient and to associate the data with patient identifying information all stored in a memory contained in the tool. The tool includes a code reader for reading patient... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080221931 - Method and system to enable following a medical procedure from a remote location: In a method and system following an examination or treatment of a patient by means of an imaging medical examination apparatus from an external data processing device with an associated monitor within a facility system having a number of different imaging medical examination apparatuses, data from a database of a... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080221932 - Network and methods for integrating individualized clinical test results and nutritional treatment: The present invention provides networks and method for linking consumers and nutritional pharmacogeneticists offering personalized nutritional information through a central network site. The network includes a central integration site through which network members communicate with each other. The central integration site stores two or more databases in the storage medium.... Agent: Law Offices Of Khalilian Sira, Llc

20080221929 - System and method for associating a patient specimen identifier with a radiology image for the patient: A computer system for associating the identification of a patient specimen with a radiology image is provided. The system comprises at least one image database for maintaining at least one radiology healthcare image for a patient. The system further comprises a receiving module for receiving identification of a specimen collected... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080221928 - System for monitoring patient activity in a medical facility: A medical patient is issued an identification device that emits a first wireless signal providing a patient identification. A plurality of data collectors are placed at different locations in a medical facility to receive the first wireless signal when the patient is nearby. A separate patient event record is generated... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080221927 - Web-enabled, evidence based medical diagnostic system: A web-based medical diagnostic system predicts diseases via the use of likelihood ratio calculations. Likelihood ratios are multiplied against pre-test odds for diseases to predict post-test odds that will guide a physician to a diagnosis. Each likelihood ratio is calculated on the basis of statistically accrued data and in response... Agent: Vantage Law Pllc

20080221936 - Automated property insurance quote system: An automated web based application for generating a plurality of insurance quotes for property insurance is disclosed. A data extraction program is used to extract text from an appraisal form in PDF format. This data is used to automatically complete and submit quote request applications to a number of different... Agent: Malin Haley And Dimaggio, Pa

20080221933 - Life insurance system and method: A system for providing life insurance with no out-of-pocket cost including a cost component, an increasing death benefit having a fixed portion and a rider portion, the rider portion being at least equal to a cumulative loan balance, and an investment vehicle configured to provide a rate of return on... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080221937 - System and method for managing investment risk in satellite operator companies: In order to mitigate risk of satellite investment loss, a satellite loss event or failure event for a satellite that will be operated by a satellite operator company is identified. Financial investors in the satellite operator company are identified. Actuarial data corresponding to prior satellite loss events or failure events... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20080221935 - System for individual retraining associated with a job loss: The system described herein allows an individual or worker who has a job to select a different occupation to be trained for in the event of a job loss. The information about the new occupation, such as cost of education, books, etc. along with the cost of living during the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080221934 - 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080221942 - Automatic generation of trailers containing product placements: This invention relates to a method and computer system for automatic generation of trailers. More specifically it relates to a method for generating revenues from providers of content data. The method generally comprises the steps of finding product placement data in a super set of data. When these product placements... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080221955 - Business method for the determination of the best known value and best known value available for security and customer information as applied to reference data: A business method allows a reference data facility to provide high quality reference data to multiple customers. The reference data service is predicated on establishing independent contractual arrangements or subscriptions between multiple customers and multiple data vendors. The reference data facility receives value streams from the multiple data vendors and... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080221948 - Dynamic pricing of items based on number of items sold during a time period: A method comprises sending a first price of an item for sale from a processor to one or more clients over a network, receiving one or more orders for the item at the first price from one or more of the clients, delivering the item to the one or more... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080221945 - Ecosystem allowing compliance with prescribed requirements or objectives: Systems and methods are provided for creating and maintaining an ecosystem, such as for trading securities. For example, in one system, at least one eligibility prerequisite is identified—governing whether an entity is eligible to participate in the ecosystem—and whether the entity meets the eligibility prerequisite(s) is determined. In addition, at... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080221938 - Equipment planning support system for triple-deck elevator: The invention relates to a triple-deck elevator equipment planning support system, arranged such that the average number of times of being stopped per going-round is calculated on the basis of a given building specification and cage specification data in a triple-deck elevator system; a total value of getting-on/off time periods... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080221946 - Method and system for evaluating and summarizing weekly project progress: The present invention provides a method and system for evaluating and summarizing weekly project progress. The method provides a process for determining and summarizing project progress based on the weekly status of project tasks. The system provides a process operating on a computer system, which includes a computer, a common... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080221939 - Methods for rewriting aggregate expressions using multiple hierarchies: Key performance indicator (KPI) expressions are rewritten using metric hierarchies. A node label is associated with each node in the metric hierarchies, the metric hierarchies arranged in arbitrary trees. Node labels associated with each term in a KPI expression are retrieved, and the terms in the KPI expression are sorted... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080221956 - Providing audio-guided deployment of data processing systems: A method for providing audio-guided deployment of a data processing system is disclosed. An unpack instruction related to a data processing system in a first container for audio presentation is designated, and one or more position sensors in the first container are queried to determine whether the position sensors are... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080221954 - Ranking-based method and system for evaluating customer predication models: A method and system perform ranking-based evaluations for regression models that are often appropriate for marketing tasks and are more robust to outliers than traditional residual-based performance measures. The output provided by the method and system provides visualization that can offer insights about local model performance and outliers. Several models... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080221943 - Retail behavioral tracking using microsystems: An arrangement includes a plurality of containers and a processing circuit. Each of the plurality of containers has a microsystem disposed thereon. Each microsystem is configured to sense at least one environmental condition and to sense movement of the corresponding container. The microsystem is configured to communicate information regarding the... Agent: Elsa Keller, Legal Assistant Intellectual Property Department

20080221953 - Sentient optimization for continuous supply chain management: A system and method is disclosed for incrementally adjusting a supply chain plan. The system includes a database operable to store data associated with one or more supply chain entities and a server system coupled with the database. The server system receives one or more perturbations in supply chain plan... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080221950 - Storage medium having requirement confirmation support program stored therein, requirement confirmation support method, and requirement confirmation support apparatus: A requirement confirmation support program a requirement confirmation support method, and a requirement confirmation support apparatus for supporting necessary and sufficient consensus formation between proper representatives.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080221941 - System and method for capacity planning for computing systems: A method comprises receiving, by a workload profiler, a representative workload of a computing system under analysis. The workload profiler determines a workload profile of the computing system that reflects a transaction mix that varies over times. A capacity analyzer receives the workload profile, and determines a maximum capacity of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080221951 - System and method for policing spectrum usage: Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080221944 - System and method for risk assessment and presentment: The method and system enable risk assessment and presentment. The assessment includes estimation of a loss probability distribution of possible losses arising from the failure of business processes. The loss probability distributions of processes can be aggregated according to respective attribute hierarchies. The risk implications of changes within an organization... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080221949 - System and method for updating forecast model: A method for updating a forecast model is disclosed. The forecast model includes parameters that receives collected data representing historical dependent and causal data. The collected data are in different units of measure from one another. Based on the collected data, the forecast model is applied to determine a total... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080221940 - System and method for using the component business model to analyze business value drivers: The method and system uses the component business model as a framework for locating business activities. Business value drivers are identified, related in an influence model, and structured into a prioritized driver tree. The driver tree is used to determine the relative contributions of leaf drivers to the overall value... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, Christofferson & Cook, P.c.

20080221957 - System for issuing short life coupons or other promotional devices: An improved short life coupon system which allows a television viewer to select discount or promotional coupons while viewing a television commercial. Coupon information relating to the commercial is sent to a central station which also contains up-to-date point-of sale information. This information is analyzed by the central station so... Agent: Diehl Servilla Llc

20080221947 - Using commercial share of wallet to make lending decisions: 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080221952 - Workflow management system, workflow management server, progress management method, and storage medium: A workflow management server for managing task information of tasks constituting a workflow is disclosed. The disclosed workflow management server includes a circulation route information storing unit configured to store circulation route information defining a circulation route of a progress report on progress of the tasks; a task information retrieving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080221962 - Method for fair sharing limited resources between multiple customers: The invention disclosed comprises a method for encouraging fair sharing of limited material inventory and capacity between multiple customers when creating a production plan the invention allocates resources among competing demands in a linear programming production planning system by first classifying the demands into fair share sets, wherein all demands... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080221961 - Online collaborative goal marketplace: A computer-implemented, online collaborative goal marketplace is provided. The marketplace may include a server programmed with the following modules: a goal creation module, a contribution module, and/or a solution proposal module. The goal creation module may be configured to enable participants to create and publish goals. The contribution module may... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080221960 - Sub-problem optimization of supply chain planning problems: A system and method is disclosed for optimizing supply chain planning problems associated with a supply chain network. The system includes a supply chain planner coupled with one or more supply chain entities. The supply chain planner determines a supply chain plan for managing the flow of one or more... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080221959 - System and architecture for managing distributed design chains: Systems, architectures, and data structures are described which are used to manage distributed design chains, specifically for domains in which data reside in multiple applications and are linked through complex interrelationships. The design chains or design networks integrated by the invention may include multiple companies in multiple sites collaborating to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080221958 - Techniques to manage information for dynamic reports using time periods for a business model: Techniques to manage information for dynamic reports are described. An apparatus may comprise a business planning application module to update a current period reference to a time member of a time dimension, generate a rolling data entry form with actual data members and forecast data members based on the current... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080221966 - Apparatus, system, and method for enabling user-friendly, interactive communication and management of cartage transactions: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for cartage management, optimized for the needs of the individual operator while scalable to handle the largest cartage operation. The system is based on a distributed computing and communications network, with an integrated user interface running on a mobile console providing a single... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080221964 - Method of outsourcing everyday tasks: A method of outsourcing everyday tasks is provided. The method includes the steps of posting a task request with detailed information concerning the services to be performed. Service providers are able to bid on the posted tasks, wherein the service providers may include a bid amount and description of the... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20080221965 - System and method for disaster training, simulation, and response: A system for conducting simulations of disaster and hazardous incident responses to assist in the organization, planning, and testing of the response of healthcare and other institutions to such incidents. A series of modules are used to enter personnel resource information into the system, design and create disaster and hazardous... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20080221963 - System and method of academic tutoring: A system and method for the management of an academic tutoring service provides a series of interfaces, each providing functionality useful to a different user category, for use in the organization and management of the academic tutoring process. Included is the ability to create schedules for students and tutors, automatic... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20080221967 - Attribute-based ordering system: By letting the needs of customers be specified by the corresponding resource attributes instead of specific resources, more customer needs can be met and the overall costs of assigning resources to customers can be minimized... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080221975 - Campaign manager: A process identifies multiple campaign activation points associated with a voice-based menu hierarchy such that the voice-based menu hierarchy is accessed by multiple callers. The process continues by identifying a campaign associated with the voice-based menu hierarchy and determining a campaign value associated with the campaign. Additionally, the process determines... Agent: Innovation Strategies, Inc.

20080221974 - Lazy evaluation of bulk forecasts: Evaluation of data models and forecasts is provided, enabling processing of large numbers of forecast scenarios in a production environment. An approach for optimizing the computation for statistical modeling and forecasting is described. This approach includes calculating a recommended number of collected data points, calculating a cap on time to... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080221972 - Method and apparatus for determining credit characteristics of a consumer: Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080221970 - Method and apparatus for targeting best customers based on spend capacity: Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080221968 - Method and system for interacting with users of portable devices: A method and system for interacting with users of portable devices is disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a mechanism for initiating interactions with users of a portable device in response to triggers detected in monitored data, where the monitored data may pertain to at least one of a time of... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080221969 - Method and system for measuring and ranking a \"thought\" response to audiovisual or interactive media, products or activities using physiological signals: A system and method for calculating an objective thought value by contrasting alpha suppression and theta activation in response to stimulus by a media can be used to compare media based on an individual or a group of individuals. Events of the media can be contrasted and compared by the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080221971 - 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080221973 - Using commercial share of wallet to rate investments: 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080221976 - Web-based financial services and products client lead generation system and method: A web-based method for customer lead generation employing a system of need-based calculators which when chosen by a consumer identify a product or service need without the consumer having to actively do so. The user-specific calculators provide the consumer with calculations to be considered for a specific product or service... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20080221977 - Method for statistical process control for data entry systems: A method for integrated or Web based statistical process control of a data capture/data entry system we call AIMED@Q SPC™ (“Automatic Integration and Management of Enterprise Data Quality—Statistical Process Control”). Test images of machine print, handprint, or cursive writing, created through Digital Test Deck® technology or other methods, are injected... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080221978 - Microscale geospatial graphic analysis of voter characteristics for precise voter targeting: An apparatus and method are provided for selecting a portion of a group of people who live in a defined geographic area that are more likely than the average population in that geographic area to perform a particular action. The apparatus includes a database for storing data. Such data includes... Agent: Goodwin Procter L.l.p Attn: Patent Administrator

20080221992 - Business to business marketing system: A method and apparatus are provided for marketing products. The method includes the steps of a first vendor contracting with a second vendor under a contract whereby the first vendor pays a commission to the second vendor in exchange for referrals of customers by the second vendor to the first... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080221993 - Carousel advertising system: Advertising system that adheres printed indicia to surfaces are described. The advertising system can contain a substrate containing the printed indicia layer and an adhesive layer. A protective layer, formed of a substantially clear or transparent material, can be used protect an exterior surface of the substrate. The printed indicia... Agent: Kenneth E. Horton Kirton & Mcconkle

20080221986 - Consumer-choice, incentive based, alternative payment method and advertising system: Disclosed is a consumer-choice, incentive based, alternative payment method and advertising system. The system and method provides a highly efficient and effective means for advertisers to deliver video or other advertisements to a demographically and psychographically desirable audience. The system and method enables users to convert their time spent viewing... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080221990 - Estimating the spend capacity of consumer households: The spend capacity of a consumer typically increases as the number of consumers in the household increases, since the consumer can draw on the spending power of other consumers in the household. The size of wallet of the household is thus a better indicator of the consumer's spend capacity than... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080221995 - Method and system for associating rich content with a rich media content: A method and system for associating one or more rich contents with a rich media content. According to the method a user plays a rich media content which includes an embedded calling script. Upon playing of the rich media content, the calling script is executed. Thereafter, one or more rich... Agent: Global Ip Services, Pllc

20080221989 - Method and system for providing sponsored content on an electronic device: A method and system for providing sponsored content on an electronic device are provided. One implementation involves, in the electronic device, providing sponsored content to a user of the device based on information locally available to the device, and generating an indication of said providing sponsored content for enabling distribution... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080221997 - Method for the delivery and redemption of merchant coupon codes: Disclosed is a process by which merchants are able to provide discount offers, such as coupons, incentives, or tokens to consumers. Discount offers are arranged on a web site (or delivered other wise by RF) by category and users are able to pick and choose the offers in which in... Agent: Bryan H. Opalko, Esquire Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080221991 - Method of staging product: A method for staging product includes the steps of placing a storage structure at a site of a product retailer, providing storage use rights to a product vendor and marketing advertising space on the storage structure.... Agent: King & Schickli, Pllc

20080221994 - Multi-level marketing system: A multi-level marketing system includes a holding company and a multi-level marketing company operated by the holding company, wherein the multi-level marketing company provides a product and/or service. A distributor buys the product and/or service from the multi-level marketing company, and one or more individuals purchase the product and/or service... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080221983 - Network information distribution system and a method of advertising and search for supply and demand of products/goods/services in any geographical location: The proposed system and method embodiments allow placing advertisements and searching for items within a network (Internet, intranets, etc.), particularly encompass server advertiser and consumer programs associated with database means, provide for multi-language, multi-currency, multi-items entry, multi-location, geographical-category and catalog-category resolution, multi-parameters setting, and other types of support. The method... Agent: Siarhei Ausiannik

20080221996 - Non-intrusive advertising using a mobile terminal: Methods and apparatus useful for non-intrusive advertising on a mobile wireless communications terminal are disclosed. A method may include storing, according to a timed schedule, a plurality of files containing data representative of a plurality of advertising images in a memory of the mobile wireless communications terminal; and selecting, upon... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080221998 - Participant interaction with entertainment in real and virtual environments: A system of interaction between an electronic theme park experience and live theme park interaction and activity earns rewards. The interaction permits for rewards earned in the electronic theme park experience to be redeemed in the live theme park experience and vice versa. The electronic theme park and live activity... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080221981 - Shield biasing for mr devices: A magnetic data storage system according to one embodiment includes a head having a reader, the reader further comprising a shield, a sensor, and leads coupled to the sensor; a charge clamp circuit electrically coupling the shield to the leads; and a bias circuit for passing a bias current through... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc- Ibm

20080221987 - System and method for contextual advertisement and merchandizing based on an automatically generated user demographic profile: A computer-implemented system and method for keyword extraction and contextual advertisement generation based on user demographic profile are disclosed. The system in an example embodiment includes a category extraction service to associate product or service category information in an item group related to a host site, and a user demographic... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080221979 - System and method for generating, producing, and distributing advertising materials: The present invention is a method for generating, producing, and distributing advertising materials. The present invention utilizes an Internet web site that allows a user to upload a testimonial and then use the testimonial in combination with pre-designed templates to generate posters, brochures, websites, and other advertising articles. The present... Agent: White-welker & Welker, Llc

20080221980 - System and method for the electronic generation and delivery of coupons: The present invention relates to electronic coupon generation and delivery. Within the invention UPCs are obtained for predetermined products in addition to registration information from a potential customer, the registration information being received in response to a request for registration information that is associated with the predetermined product. A request... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080221999 - System for issuing short life coupons or other promotional devices: An improved short life coupon system which allows a television viewer to select discount or promotional coupons while viewing a television commercial. Coupon information relating to the commercial is sent to a central station which also contains up-to-date point-of-sale information. This information is analyzed by the central station so that... Agent: Diehl Servilla Llc

20080222000 - Systems and media for awarding credits based on provided usage information: Systems and media for awarding credits based on provided usage information are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for collecting and disseminating usage information related to electronic documents and for awarding usage credits to users in exchange for providing usage information are disclosed. Embodiments include receiving an indication of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080221982 - Systems and methods for advertising: Disclosed are systems and methods for selecting and placing advertisements via one or more advertising agents and/or advertising mediums. In one aspect of the present invention, the advertising agents are retail merchants who utilize a common card processing service and the advertisements are text, logos, coupons, or the like printed... Agent: Law Offices Of Rita C. Chipperson

20080221984 - User-managed coupons in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus, and system of user-managed coupons in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically applying a location meta-data to a coupon when a user provides the coupon to a geo-spatial environment based on a geographic marker of the user, storing the coupon in... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080221985 - Video advertiser-broker subsidizing voip calls: The advertiser-broker provides the clearing-house services between many advertisers and many VoIP operators, subsidizing wholly or partially phone calls of users of VoIP operators by showing them streaming video advertisements of advertisers who pay for the calls. With this new business, phone calls get monetized through advertisers while users pay... Agent: Ip Authority, Llc Ramraj Soundararajan

20080221988 - Wireless network: An 802.11 wireless network is disclosed which operates as an asymmetric two-hop cellular network. Relaying from one wireless node (18) via another wireless node (14) to an access point is enabled. The relays are limited so that a maximum of two-hops are used in uplink communications between the nodes (14,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080222001 - Purchasing transaction support system: A portable communication terminal requests merchandise information from a store management apparatus, by using store identity information about a store where a purchasing transaction is made, and merchandise information about merchandise to be purchased. The store management apparatus has a merchandise information storage configured to store merchandise information including a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080222007 - Method for recommending disposable absorbent incontinence articles: The present invention is directed to a method for recommending a disposable absorbent incontinence article to be used by an incontinent person. The method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving information, from a user, about incontinence devices which are currently used by the incontinent person; (b) receiving information about the... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080222002 - Method of processing online payments with fraud analysis and management system: Systems and methods are disclosed to detect fraud by analyzing customer purchasing behavior for a high value item intentionally placed next to commonly purchased items, payment information for an address verification system (AVS), customer behavioral information, password sharing between two accounts, unique identification for a hardware component of a client... Agent: Tran & Associates

20080222004 - Order entry graphical user interface: This patent discloses various systems and embodiments for implementing, establishing and operating a remote order interface system and method. One exemplary embodiment of a remote order entry system includes a communications network, a first order entry workstation communicatively coupled to the communications network and configured to store a baseline commodity... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080222006 - System and method for calculating parameters for a commerce system: A method and system for processing a parameter for an item in an electronic order processing system is provided. The method has a first step of associating a calculation code with the item. The second step of the method is applying the calculation rule to the item to produce an... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080222003 - System and method for demand driven collaborative procurement, logistics, and authenticity establishment of luxury commodities using virtual inventories: Systems and methods providing for a virtual inventory system of goods aggregating disparate inventories into a single virtual inventory for the purpose of tracking the goods, trading the goods, and establishing authenticity of the goods. The aggregation of disparate inventories readily provides for quick procurement or sales of the goods,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080222005 - System and method of controlling procurement of sanctioned vehicle parts: Systems and methods for a procurement system are provided. Additionally, computer-implemented methods for controlling procurement of sanctioned vehicle parts are provided. These methods may include associating one or more sanctioned vehicle parts with a specific vehicle in a fleet using a unique vehicle identification number, receiving a request for information... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080222008 - Systems, methods, and a storage medium for obtaining an offer for a sale of a product or a service: Systems and methods for obtaining an offer for a sale of a desired product or a service are provided. The method includes iteratively transmitting a first signal including a first data message using a mobile transceiver device. Each of the first data messages includes information relating to the desired product... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080222009 - Integrated system for managing acquisition of consumer goods and/or hiring services: System and method for managing purchases of goods or services include registering entities interested in receiving or providing the goods or services, enabling a potential receiver of goods or services to search the registered providers using search criteria including market segment defined by the potential receiver, and communicating to the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080222011 - Method, system, and program product for exchanging catalogue information: The present invention seamlessly facilitates information exchange between not only a vendor and a single customer but also between vendors and Procurement Services Providers (PSPs), supporting more than one customer, each with its unique specifications. This framework also has the capability to handle dual pricing. Dual pricing is used to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080222012 - System and method for advertising online vehicle sales: Vehicle information is provided by a private seller of a vehicle over a network to an online vehicle transaction server. A periodic payment amount is then calculated for the vehicle based on the provided vehicle information, as well as certain predetermined financing terms. In one embodiment a vehicle advertisement number... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080222010 - System and method for enabling online research, publication, promotion and management of user goods: A system and method for enabling online research, publication, promotion, and management of user goods is presented. An embodiment guiding the process of online selling across multiple platforms is presented. Information is gathered from various sources across the Internet to determine pricing and publication options. Data and user input are... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080222013 - In-lane money transfer systems and methods: The present invention provides systems and methods to initiate, facilitate, process and/or perform money transfers. One such method includes receiving a request for a transfer pair verification from a vendor location (360), and verifying that the transfer pair is associated with a valid transfer pair record (362). The method includes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080222018 - Financial instruments and methods for the housing market: A first financial instrument defines an interest in a property, where one or more buyers are given rights on at least part of a selling price of the property. The interest is purchasable by the interest buyers independently of time of sale of the property and independently of change of... Agent: Steinfl & Bruno

20080222015 - Method and apparatus for development and use of a credit score based on spend capacity: Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080222017 - Method of structuring a property transaction enabling the seller to reacquire the property and maximize profits on the property: The present invention relates to methods of structuring contracts for the purchase of property, and specifically relates to a method of structuring a contract for the purchase of real property, such as a parcel of real estate, enabling the original seller to reacquire the sold property in a transaction controlled... Agent: Iphorgan, Ltd.

20080222014 - Property sale application and tracking system: A property sate application system, such as for a tax deed, is provided that receives sale applications. The tax deed application can include information associated with a parcel, certificate information associated with a tax certificate associated with the parcel, and investor information associated with an investor associated with the at... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080222016 - Using commercial share of wallet to manage investments: 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: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080222053 - Method and apparatus for fully insuring large bank deposits: An Interbank Deposit Placement System (IDPS) that allows banks participating in the service to offer their customers multiple deposits so that potential deposit (fund) amounts exceeding an applicable Federal deposit insurance limit (e.g., $100,000) are fully insured. The IDPS partitions each of the potential deposit amounts into a plurality of... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080222050 - Method and system for trading financial instruments: Tranches of a position in a financial instrument held by an entity are traded. A suitable tranche size to be traded in a financial market is determined. A trade size of a tranche to trade in the financial market is also determined. The trade size comprises a smaller of a... Agent: Alison B. Weisberg

20080222052 - Methods and systems for providing an anti-benchmark portfolio: In one aspect, the invention comprises a method comprising: (a) acquiring data regarding a first group of securities in a first portfolio; (b) based on said data and on risk characteristics of said first group of securities, identifying a second group of securities to be included in a second portfolio;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080222051 - Synthetic currency: A method for formulating a synthetic currency including the steps of borrowing an amount of funds in at least one first currency at a first interest rate, converting a portion of the borrowed funds to at least one second currency, investing the portion of the borrowed funds in an investment... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080222024 - Automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider: A method, system, and program for automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider are provided. A user at a grid client enters at least one bid criteria for a particular grid job intended for submission... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080222025 - Automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider: A method, system, and program for automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider are provided. A user at a grid client enters at least one bid criteria for a particular grid job intended for submission... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080222023 - Internet-based system for auctioning securities: A method of auctioning exchange traded assets is described. Before commencing the auction bidding, the seller establishes a maximum asset amount representing a greatest amount of the exchange traded assets to be auctioned, and a minimum asset price representing a minimum acceptable bid amount for a given amount of the... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080222022 - Pair trading system and method: A method is provided for fulfilling a pair trade request and includes the steps of receiving a plurality of pair trade requests; executing a transaction for a first portion of one of the plurality of pair trade requests and matching a second portion of the one of the plurality of... Agent: Clifford Chance Us LLP

20080222021 - Spectrum management system: Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080222020 - System and method for identifying spectrum with transferable access rights: Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080222019 - System and method for spectrum management: Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080222027 - Credit score and scorecard development: Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080222026 - Derivatives for multi region properties: The present invention relates to a multiple step business process for innovative risk of credit derivatives in computer aligned and mathematical models for management of credit derivatives through the use of different financial platforms and multiple hybrid financial instruments of currency funds for capital flow for property acquisitions, in which... Agent: Bidyut K. Niyogi

20080222028 - Method and system for providing mortgage data quality control verification: A computer implemented quality control system configured for verification of mortgage loan data is disclosed. The system includes a network interface device, a processor in communication with the network interface device via a communication bus, a memory in communication with the processor and the network interface device via the communication... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080222031 - Method and system for fee payment for automotive services: The present invention provides a system and method for fee payment for automotive facilities, the system comprising: a facility gate unit having a user interface enabling a user to enter a user code, the facility gate unit enables entrance of the user to a respective automotive facility after entering the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080222030 - Method and system for purchasing products via text messaging: A method and system including distributing a keyword, and receiving a text message from a device through a carrier with the keyword to purchase a product. The carrier adds a purchase price of the product to the purchaser's wireless service bill and the product is distributed to the purchaser external... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080222033 - Method and apparatus for mapping sources and uses of consumer funds: A bill-paying system includes a customer deposit account which receives periodic payroll deposits of an individual or a couple. A bill-paying service enrolls the individual or couple for a fee, and is authorized to transfer money from the deposit account to the accounts of various creditors. An originating depository financial... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080222034 - Method and apparatus for mapping sources and uses of consumer funds: A bill-paying system includes a customer deposit account which receives periodic payroll deposits of an individual or a couple. A bill-paying service enrolls the individual or couple for a fee, and is authorized to transfer money from the deposit account to the accounts of various creditors. An originating depository financial... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080222035 - Method and apparatus for mapping sources and uses of consumer funds: A bill-paying system includes a customer deposit account which receives periodic payroll deposits of an individual or a couple. A bill-paying service enrolls the individual or couple for a fee, and is authorized to transfer money from the deposit account to the accounts of various creditors. An originating depository financial... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080222032 - Method and apparatus for value and or revenue sharing by commerce participants: A method whereby the relative contribution of value added to e-commerce sites by users such as contributors, browsers, buyers and sellers are measured and weighed while these users are vesting in a prorated share of either or both the revenue and asset value created by their participation, less the portion... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.c.

20080222037 - Customer enrollment in a stored value card program: Customer enrollment in a stored value card program is provided. One embodiment is a method for enrolling a customer in a stored value card program. One such method comprises: generating a list of unaffiliated stored value card programs; and when enrolling a new customer in a new stored value card... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20080222036 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal capable of causing the user side to grasp whether or not a credit settlement service stops with a simple operation is provided. In the mobile terminal 10, validation and invalidation of a storage area within an IC chip assigned to an issuer application corresponding to one issuer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080222038 - Location based authentication system: An improved location based authentication (LBA) system for detecting fraudulent transactions committed by means of misuse of payment cards is disclosed. The improved LBA system performs a series of transaction analysis and generates a fraud-score which provides an indication as whether to authorize an attempted transaction. The system is designed... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080222039 - Money-transfer techniques: A technique for transferring money between a customer and a beneficiary comprises a money-transfer company, and a plurality of selling agents and paying agents. The money-transfer company maintains a server, a database, and a communications interface for communicating, via a telephone network and/or the Internet, with data terminals located at... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.c.

20080222040 - Disaggregation/reassembly method system for information rights management of secure documents: The present invention pertains to a computerized system and method that provides for the secure storage and retrieval of electronic digital healthcare information; and, more particularly, to such a computerized system and method that provides for multiple access levels of such secure information; provides for secure access to portions of... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20080222041 - Methods and systems for electronic agency in performance of services: A computer implemented method for a principal to electronically establish and use an agent. The method comprising the steps of: the principal identifying a service requirement, the principal entering a communication medium to interact with a potential agent, the principal submitting an electronic request for service, the principal and the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080222042 - Prescription generation validation and tracking: Medical prescriptions may be produced in electronic form and carry a plurality of encoded, encrypted data sets. The first data set may represent a unique prescription identifier and the second data set a patient identifier such as a PIN: Both data sets are encrypted and printed on the item, for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080222044 - Protected content renewal: Described herein is technology for, among other things, maintaining access to DRM protected content. The technology may be implemented via a playback device or a computer system connected to a MTD. It involves monitoring requests for media content and then verifying access and renewing the license if necessary. The license... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222043 - System and method for trans-vendor license registration and recovery: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for recovering application software in a data processing system. A computer implemented method for recovering application software in a data processing system includes receiving user data and application data from a plurality of users over a computer network, wherein the application... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080222045 - System and method of providing media content: A method of providing media content access is disclosed that includes providing a list of available media content to a display device and receiving a selection related to the list of available media content. The method further includes sending data related to the selection to a content source and to... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080222046 - 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

20080222047 - Device and method for conducting secure economic transactions with a programmable magnetic stripe: A secure economic transaction device includes a memory for storing user account information, a temporary code generator coupled to the memory and operable to generate a time-based code that is valid for only a finite amount of time, a programmable magnetic stripe on a surface of the device and operable... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.a.

20080222048 - Distributed payment system and method: The present invention provides a payment system that allows a mobile communications device (MCD) to interact with a merchant processing device (MPD) and a payment engine. A communications component associated with the payment engine can send requested barcodes to the MPD, receive barcodes or alphanumeric Universal Product Codes from customer... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080222049 - Digital signature authentication: A systems and methods for authenticating a consumer with a transaction card using digital signatures according to one embodiment of the invention is disclosed. These systems and methods allow consumers to digitally sign transaction information with a private key. The private key may be used to digitally sign the transaction,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080222029 - Charitable giving: A method for identifying charitable organizations to receive the proceeds generated from the sale of merchandise includes communicating information to purchasers of the merchandise including a price, identities of charities to which donations can be allocated, and a donation amount. An offer to purchase the merchandise and the identities of... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080222054 - Method for defining a relationship between an account and a group: Defining a relationship between an account and a group. Accounts corresponding to different products are linked together to create a group so that group processing can be performed at the group level while independent processing of the accounts is performed at the account level. The relationship between a dependent account... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080222055 - System and method for creating musical works: In general, in one aspect, a method for creating a work, includes providing a first version of a work, and holding one or more contests for the development of one or more additions to the work. During the contests, contestants submit potential additions to the work, the submissions are evaluated,... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080215347 - Computer system connected to electronic-commerce server and method and program for supporting input of numerical value required for performance of electronic-commerce transaction: A computer system which is connected to an electronic-commerce server includes a display unit, a monitoring unit, a table, a display control unit, and a transmitting unit. The display unit displays a combination of a numeric input field and an icon display area associated with the numeric input field. The... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080215357 - Detection of unknown scenarios: The present invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for detecting unknown scenarios in a data processing system. An example method includes the steps of: providing known scenario data describing one or more known scenarios in a database; creating element data depending on the known scenario data to form a set... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080215350 - Document processing apparatus, document processing method, computer readable medium and computer data signal: A document processing apparatus includes an activity input unit and a document creation unit. The activity input unit allows a user to input activities each including a name of the activity and a task description. The document creation unit creates, based on the activities input through the activity input unit,... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080215345 - Materials management system and method: A materials management system and method configured to handle materials events is provided. The materials management system can be configured to receive event information, comprising information pertaining to a hazardous materials event, to store data pertaining to a plurality of hazardous materials, to retrieve stored data based on the event... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080215352 - Method and apparatus for recruiting students: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for recruiting students. Using the methods and apparatus disclosed herein, educators can more efficiently recruit prospective students. Educational institutions can increase the efficiency of recruitment efforts by automatically generating outbound calls to prospective students. Outbound calls to prospective students are automatically generated when... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080215354 - Method and system for exchanging business documents: A method of exchanging a business document between a customer computer and a supplier computer connected to a network, is provided, in which a business document is printed for the supplier; order data from the purchase order is extracted through a printer driver; the order data is transmitted to the... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20080215355 - 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)

20080215353 - Method of frozen donor egg banking: A method is provided for a frozen egg bank comprising a) retrieving egg cells from an egg donor; b) cryopreserving said eggs in a cryopreservation solution; c) quarantining said eggs; and d) testing the egg donor for an infectious agent following a quarantine period of time. Optionally the method may... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080215358 - Method, system, and storage medium for implementing business process modules: Exemplary embodiments include a method for implementing business process modules for performing business process modeling. The method includes identifying tasks required in order to achieve a capability and designing a process module for enabling the capability. The designing includes interconnecting logic flow among the tasks resulting in an optimized, repeatable... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080215351 - Service information providing apparatus and service information providing method: A service information providing apparatus is provided. A shop information extracting section extracts shop information belonging to a preference genre determined by a preference genre determining section from a shop information database. A shop ranking calculating section calculates a usage frequency ranking of a shop included in the shop information.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080215349 - System and method for generating an alternative product recommendation: A method and system for automatically generating a self-updating naturally-reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. In one embodiment, the system and method includes evaluating an existing narrative product summary, comparing an existing attribute name, attribute value, attribute unit, and assertion model, respectively, to a current attribute... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080215356 - System and method to administer a patient specific anonymous medical questionnaire over the public internet using manual decryption of user information: The invention is a system and method for a physician to administer an interactive, branched logic computerized medical questionnaire over a public internet to patients, such that said patients or said physician does not have to be identified on the questionnaire by name, and, therefore, can remain anonymous. The questionnaire... Agent: Vincent M. Vancho

20080215348 - System and methods for advertisement and event promotion: The present invention is directed to a system and methods for targeted advertisement and event promotion. The system comprises a web-based, application which enables event promoters to create, execute and manage event promotional campaigns using advertisements, targeted promotional messages, target user search tools, session tracking tools, campaign analytical tools, event... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080215346 - Systems and methods for identity verification: The present invention may include systems and a methods for verifying the identity of an individual by invoking the services of at least one databroker. The present invention may establish a predetermined identity verification level and, based on the capabilities of associated databrokers, may establish a number of different solutions... Agent: Howrey Simon Arnold And White, LLP

20080215366 - Asset management system and method: An asset management system and method is disclosed, useful for managing any asset or collection of assets that need to be identified by unique characteristics. The system comprises three basic modules: a data input module for inputting information about an asset; a “gateway” module that checks the accuracy of the... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20080215364 - Business method and system for ordering, purchasing and storing stem cells: An online business method and system enables donors or parents or guardians of donors to order and purchase stem-cells from biological tissue sampled from the donor, such as, for example, cord-blood stem cells of a newborn baby, wherein the ordering process interfaces directly with the attending medical services, and the... Agent: J. Justin Lancaster Suite 101

20080215365 - Healthcare data system: In accordance with one embodiment, a system and method is used for collecting, measuring, and reporting on data associated with healthcare treatment. A healthcare data system collects data from a patient using an interactive voice response system (IVR). The IVR periodically contacts the patient with questions as to severity of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080215362 - Method and apparatus of assessing need for health care and facilitating the provision of health care: A health care assessment system and associated methods are provided for providing increased access to individuals for assessing whether a need exists for health care and then also facilitating an individual's access to health care as needed. Embodiments of the system include a health care assessment system for receiving input... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080215359 - System and method for automatically switching prescriptions in a retail pharmacy to a new generic drug manufacturer: An automatic manufacturer switchover function to switch a set of future new, transfer, refill, and/or copy prescriptions to a new manufacturer product for a pharmacy. Furthermore, the claimed method and system may allow for a tiered approach to a manufacturer switch by allowing a corporate entity or owner of a... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080215361 - System and method for leveraging health care at a point of sale: A novel pharmacy messaging system, method and computer program product that leverages healthcare by providing functionality enabling the generation of targeted messages for enhancing the patient's experience while waiting for their prescription to be filled. The invention addresses directly the issue of leveraging healthcare by optimizing the customer time spent... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080215360 - Systems and methods for medical data interchange interface: A system according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a processor, a device interface, a user interface, a data relay transceiver, and a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions. The processor executes the instructions in the memory to receive data from a medical device through a... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080215363 - Tissue management system: The present invention provides a comprehensive tissue management system for transplantable materials like tissues and organs. The tracking portion of the system prompts and verifies that staff members of a medical establishment like a hospital have handled, stored, transported, reconstituted, and used the tissue or organ materials in a safe... Agent: Glen E. Schumann C/o Moss & Barnett

20080215374 - Clinical management system and methods: An automated data processing method for obtaining clinical data for safety, efficacy, and adverse event assessments pertaining to a therapy prescribed for the treatment of a malady, comprising the step of receiving at a location remote from a plurality of patients outcome digital information pertaining to the outcome of therapies... Agent: Michael P. Morris Boehringer Ingelheim Usa Corporation

20080215372 - Device and method for continuity of care in a health care environment: The present invention is directed to a method and device for ensuring patient continuity of care. One aspect of the present method includes providing to a patient a hand-held portable device that has at least a portion of the patient's medical record stored thereon. The patient can then carry the... Agent: Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne

20080215371 - Electronic chart apparatus and a dietary instruction support method: A main unit of an electronic chart apparatus is connected to a chart database, a medicament information database and a food information database through a LAN. The chart database contains chart data created based on medical records including a diagnosed injury or disease and drugs prescribed for this injury or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080215369 - Method and system for automatically generating forms: Selected data from a hierarchical database, such as medical findings of symptoms, physical findings, etc., can be used to generate a form dynamically. A system for generating forms based on a hierarchy of data received from a patient includes an input device for entering data received from a patient into... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080215367 - Personalized health records with associative relationships: A method for processing a personal health record (PHR) which includes a plurality of events each having a time stamp. The method includes creating a plurality of event-concept pairs by mapping each of the plurality of events in the PHR to a corresponding health concept, assigning to each of the... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080215368 - Standing order database search system and method for internet and intranet application: An internet and/or intranet based database search system and method for conducting searches of highly confidential records such as individual patient medical records and to automate the process of securing required approvals to make such records available to a properly authorized and authenticated requesting party. The system's central premise is... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080215373 - System and method for aggregating and providing subscriber medical information to medical units: A system and method for aggregating and providing subscriber medical record information to medical units. The system includes an ICE medical record server that stores a plurality of medical records of respective subscribers. When a subscriber is being attended by a medical unit, the medical unit using a communication device... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080215370 - System and method for providing remote users with reports and analyses based on user data and adaptable reporting with the ability to alter, modify or augment such reports and analyses through web-based technology: A system and method for providing remote users with reports and analyses based on user data is disclosed. One such report is a physician score report that includes a physician score. The physician score is determined by analyzing data from multiple data sources. Another such report displays the status of... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080215377 - Account and customer creation in an on-line banking model: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for account and customer creation in an online banking model. An application is received from a customer. The application includes information relating to the user and also documentation relating to the user. A first computer is utilized to create a profile... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20080215375 - Communication system for indemnification insurance service: The object of the present invention is to provide a communication system for indemnification insurance service; the system contributes to rapid procedures to be performed from the occurrence of an accident to the arrival of a staff to the accident scene, including notification to the company of the indemnification insurance... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080215378 - Content insurance: The present invention provides for the protection of and ability to upgrade to new formats of digital content by providing consumers of the digital content the capability of purchasing content insurance on digital content they consume. By purchasing insurance on content, at a later time consumers are able to return... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080215379 - Content insurance: The present invention provides for the protection of and ability to upgrade to new formats of digital content by providing consumers of the digital content the capability of purchasing content insurance on digital content they consume. By purchasing insurance on content, at a later time consumers are able to return... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080215376 - Long-term care insurance: An insurance policy in which the initial maximum benefit payable under the policy is less than or equal to the premium. The policy protects an insured's assets under a Government benefit program that has an asset limit for applicants and that allows applicants to shelter assets by obtaining private insurance.... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080215383 - Automated airline system and method: A computer based system and method for automated travel related boarding document booking, retrieval, account creation and purchase account credit system which provides for customer receipt of boarding documents via electronic transmission, including notification of same and of allied services. A method for customers with reservations is included to enable... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080215384 - Negotiated reservation for vacation rental homes: System and method for reserving and booking vacation rental properties. The method may include receiving first user input from a first user to a website requesting reservation of a vacation rental property. The first user input may include contact information. The method may further include providing the first user input... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080215380 - Passenger transportation system and method for obtaining tickets in such a system: A method for obtaining tickets for journeys in a passenger transportation system (VSY) which comprises stations (S11 . . . S00) for entering and/or leaving transport means (VM1, VM2) of the system (VSY) for journeys between the stations (S11 . . . S00), wherein at least one station (S11 .... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080215382 - Receiving a request to reserve a service: Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: receiving a request to reserve a service that is provided by a restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time and a particular date and the service comprises at... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080215381 - System and method for electronic group tour reservation: A method and system for an electronic group tour reservation allows reservation of several components of a tour for an entire group. The method includes receiving hotel reservation request from a user. The method includes receiving activities information from the user. The method includes placing queries to the network of... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080215385 - Methods and systems for services reservations: The present invention relates to systems and methods for making reservations for services provided to guests by a host organization through a central reservation system, wherein the central reservation system comprises a video monitor system, a paging system, and a communications network, wherein the central reservation system is connected to... Agent: Don J. Pelto Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080215387 - Automation of validation life cycle and providing 100% paperless electronic validation process: The present invention relates to a software process that provides: an increase in the productivity in the validation process; tracking of the validation inventory, paperless execution of validation protocols; automation of revalidation schedule with alert features; increased validation efficiency; and ensures compliance to FDA regulations.... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20080215396 - Facilitating error checking of service elements: A service element is defined and represented by a data structure. It includes one or more components and/or one or more other service elements. A service element providing a complete function is a service offering. Management of service elements and/or service offerings is facilitated by a Service Development Tool. In... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080215403 - Innovation signature management system: An innovation signature useful in placing an individual within an organization to optimally support creativity and innovation by that individual is developed from information regarding innovative behavior of an individual, a record of motivational rewards and information regarding the current and historical interests, preferably derived from a survey and reward... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.,

20080215393 - Method and an apparatus for identifying an instance of a variability meta-model and for processing change requests: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for processing a variability model of a product line, wherein a decision is derived on the basis of a predetermined negotiation model. In one embodiment, an instance of a variability meta-model which models a variability in domain requirements is identified on the basis... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080215401 - Method and apparatus for operational risk assessment and mitigation: Risk in business management is analyzed based on a probabilistic network approach which quantifies the impact of operational risk on financial metrics such as Value-at-Risk (VAR) and/or Potential Losses (PL). This approach provides further capability to determine the optimal placement of one or more countermeasures within a system to minimize... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080215395 - Method and system for gotv efforts: A method for controlling campaign management includes receiving a login request from a user at a central location and receiving a campaign management request from the user responsive to the login request. The method further includes selecting at least a first campaign from a plurality of campaigns based on the... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20080215400 - Method and system for using a component business model to transform warranty claims processing in the automotive industry: A method, system and service for using a component business model to transform a business process. The invention uses a component business model of a business to prioritize business changes affecting key performance indicators for the business process, defines an information technology architecture to support the business changes, and specifies... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080215399 - Method for business process mapping, design, analysis and performance monitoring: A method of creating a systems requirement document by using a numerical modeling tool, such as a spreadsheet, to prototype an operational process in terms of a numerical picture of the goals, metrics, performance targets and constraints used by managers of the operational process. A process design blueprint is defined... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080215404 - Method for service offering comparative it management activity complexity benchmarking: The invention broadly and generally provides a database comprising at least one record, the aforesaid at least one record comprising: (a) solution metadata relating to an information technology solution; and (b) evaluation metadata relating to a complexity evaluation of the aforesaid information technology solution.... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080215386 - Method of and system for analyzing, modeling and valuing elements of a business enterprise: An automated system (100) and method for analyzing, modeling and valuing elements of a business enterprise on a specified valuation date. The performance of the elements are analyzed using search algorithms and induction algorithms to determine the value drivers associated with each element. The induction algorithms are also used to... Agent: Asset Trust, Inc.

20080215392 - Method to increase collection of debts owed to government: A method of increasing the collection of debts owed a government agency by collecting additional names associated with a debtor, verifying that an additional name represents the same person as the debtor, and providing those additional names to the government agency that is owed by the debtor. After the additional... Agent: Clausen Miller, P.c

20080215388 - Method, system and program for credit risk management utilizing credit limits: Software aggregates and integrates credit exposure and credit data across accounting, trading and operational systems within an organization and generates views of available credit in light of the exposure and credit limits. A comprehensive model of exposure to all counterparties, across all of their divisions and subsidiaries, is assembled, enabling... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080215402 - Methods and systems for evaluating interaction of medical products and dependence on demographic variables: A computer implemented method of evaluating interaction two or more medical products or conditions, in the context of a reference condition, based on a dataset of patient records includes developing a reference contingency lattice of lattice subsets from a subset of the patient records containing the reference condition, wherein the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080215389 - Model oriented business process monitoring: A computer implemented method and system for monitoring a business process of an executing business application. Runtime information of a business process element of the executing business application is received. The runtime information is then associated with design time information of the executing business application by a processor. Next, a... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080215390 - Path determination system for transport system: Aspects of the present invention relate to path determination for transport system infrastructure paths. In embodiments, methods and systems are provided for identifying alternative paths and determining optimized transport system paths for projects. The methods and systems may involve providing a client-based application having a GUI that presents a plurality... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080215397 - System and mechanism to create autonomic business solutions: Automomic business processes management solutions have capabilities to adapt themselves to changes in the business environment. These autonomic business solutions are built by wiring together autonomic solution components called BPbots (Business Process robots). BPbots are granular solution components representing an aspect of a business process. In general, BPbots consist of... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, PC

20080215394 - System and method for qualification and approval of product placement marketing content: A system and method that provides for the objective qualification and approval of product placement marketing content, based on defined impression parameters, so that advertisers and brand managers can maintain their brands while expanding their suppliers and their reach into online video content and distribution.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080215398 - System and method for using a component business model to manage an enterprise: A method and system are described for using the structure and relationships between components in a component business model of an enterprise to assign components providing monitoring data to a management component. In response to the monitoring data, the management component executes a business rule invoking a service that alters... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080215391 - Universal lighting network methods and systems: Methods and apparatus relating to the collection of data regarding a plurality of customers in a retail or entertainment environment. Data may be collected via at least one sensor coupled to at least one lighting fixture in the retail or entertainment environment. In one exemplary implementation, data may be collected... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080215405 - Component based applications running in a common shell: Applications are provided in as usable and intuitive tasks or subtasks that can be integrated with business solutions. The tasks or subtasks can be reutilized in a code or definition of the application, mitigating the amount of code and memory needed to be installed on a user device. In addition,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080215409 - Iterative resource scheduling: A request is received to accomplish a task by using a plurality of resources. Once the task is received, attributes of the resources are retrieved from a memory including constraints associated with those resources. These constraints can include hard constraints and soft constraints. A first schedule is then created using... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080215410 - Large inventory-service optimization in configure-to-order systems: A manufacturing process is migrated from an existing operation to a configure-to-order (CTO) system. As the CTO operation will eliminate the “machine-type model” (MTM) inventory of the existing operation, the emphasis is shifted to the components, or “building blocks”, which will still follow the build-to-stock scheme, due to their long... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Whitham Reston International Center

20080215411 - Method and system for predicting resource requirements for service engagements: A method and system for predicting resource requirements of a current service engagement by modeling records of past service engagements to create and classify templates of service resource usage. This is done by clustering past engagements into groups having similar time series requirements for service resources. A service resource template... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080215408 - Multiple user resource scheduling: Generally, an airline operations computing system accomplishes rule checking in an efficient and useful manner and provides functionality that allows multiple different users to accomplish schedule changes in a manner that minimizes conflicts between different schedulers. In addition, an airline operations computing system includes a common rules engine that is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215407 - Resource scheduling with rule violation feedback: Generally, an airline operations computing system accomplishes rule checking in an efficient and useful manner and provides functionality that allows multiple different users to accomplish schedule changes in a manner that minimizes conflicts between different schedulers. In addition, an airline operations computing system includes a common rules engine that is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215406 - Scheduling resources for airline flights: Generally, there is provided an airline operations computing system and graphical user interface features that enable users to plan and conduct airline or other types of transportation operations effectively and time efficiently, and in addition, to do so in the face of disruptions due to weather, sick crew members, aircraft... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215413 - Program storage device for project preparing a procurement and accounts payable system: A program storage device for coordinating a project for designing, implementing, and using a general procurement and accounts payable (GP/AP) system for a customer. A playbook database is created and includes templates of information relating to designing, implementing, and using the GP/AP system. The templates are particularized for the customer.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080215412 - Train operation management system: A train operations management system enables an operations controller to carry out crew deployment disruption resolution easily. Preset restriction conditions stipulating restrictions in paths and crew member deployment disruption information are examined, warnings respective to the paths are outputted, and until all the warnings clear, with respect to paths in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080215417 - Mass comparative analysis of advertising: Method for rapidly providing analysis data on currently running advertisements. The user can determine which aspects of its or a competitor's recent advertisements are successful, and use that information for purposes such as creating future advertisements.... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20080215419 - Method, system, and storage medium for implementing a multi-stage, multi-classification sales opportunity modeling system: A method for implementing a multi-stage, multi-classification sales opportunity modeling system. The method includes receiving operational data relating to past sales activities and receiving parameters identified as being relevant in determining a likelihood of whether exploitation of a sales opportunity will be successful. The method also includes generating a multi-stage... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080215415 - Mobile advertising: A system for displaying a mobile advertisement is provided. The system includes a mobile carrier for transporting cargo in a geographical region. A control signal receiver is coupled with the mobile carrier, wherein the control signal receiver receives a control signal used to communicate data related to the mobile advertisement.... Agent: Wagner Blecher LLP

20080215418 - Modification of advertisement campaign elements based on heuristics and real time feedback: Enabling the selection, modification, and subsequent generation of online advertisements for either a one time use or as part of an advertising campaign. The performance of an advertisement is iteratively reviewed based on heuristics, statistics, metrics, real-time feedback, and the like, either singly or in some combination. Iterative monitoring of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080215414 - Resource forecasting and scheduling: Methods and computer systems for forecasting demand and availability of resources of a geographic region are provided. Physical, operational, traffic and construction data for a geographic region for a specified time period is utilized to compare the operational needs for at least one resource for a geographic region to the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080215416 - Searchable interactive internet advertisements: A computer-implemented method is provided, including presenting, to first users that visit one or more first websites, an interactive advertisement that includes search functionality for searching a second website different from the first websites. Respective first search queries, each of which consists of one or more first query terms, are... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080215420 - Method and system for rewarding electronic authors: A method and system are disclosed for incorporating affirmation functions into the electronic interfaces that present media creations submitted by electronic authors. The media creations are ranked in overall prominence within the electronic interface based on affirmations of those who receive the media creation. These affirmations can be in the... Agent: Steve Angelica

20080215431 - Co-branded internet service provider and retailer internet service site with retailer-offered incentives for member use: A system and method for a retailer to sell merchandise over the Internet in affiliation with an Internet service provider. The co-branded Internet site is accessible through the Internet service site of the Internet service provider. The co-branded Internet site includes designations of both the retailer and the Internet service... Agent: Target Brands Inc.

20080215422 - Coordinating a location based advertising campaign: A method of automatically assigning a set of privileges to a team member in a distribution of location based advertising is disclosed. A process for the distribution of location based advertising is defined, wherein the process includes at least a client portion of the process, a media agency portion of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080215430 - Credit derivative trading platform: A credit derivative trading platform comprises a credit derivative authority configured to create contracts and allow market participants to trade credit derivative contracts in real-time. One or more credit sponsors provide credit to the market participants on the platform. One or more liquidity sponsors may provide a predetermined level of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080215445 - Customer service marketing: Customer service marketing is disclosed. After a customer communication is received and the customer is assigned to a service agent, service request information may be received from the service agent after the service request information is obtained by the service agent from the customer. A service response information may be... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080215421 - Distributing a location based advertising campaign: A method for distributing a location based advertising campaign to a plurality of location based advertising networks is disclosed. A proposed location based advertising creative is received for approval. The proposed location based advertising creative is automatically distributed. Responses from the plurality of location based advertising networks are monitored. The... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080215441 - Interactive hospitality system: A hospitality system has at least one database for storing guest preferences regarding environment variables, for storing a national and/or regional origin or personal attributes of the guest. According to embodiments, advanced evacuation systems and entertainment systems are provided which fit the guest's preferences and origin.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080215428 - Interactive mobile advertisement banners: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for associating an interactive element with a sponsored content, presenting the sponsored content to a mobile communication facility based at least in part on a relevancy to a mobile subscriber characteristic associated with the mobile communication facility, and allowing a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080215435 - Map-based guide system and method: Provided is a computer system and methods for a map-based guide. A method includes but is not limited to receiving a request for the map-based guide; determining a location associated with the request; preparing a route in accordance with the location associated with the request and in accordance with at... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080215432 - Method and apparatus for serving a message in conjunction with an advertisement for display on a world wide web page: A method and apparatus for serving at least one message in conjunction with an advertisement for display on a World Wide Web page. The advertisement and message may be thematically related and displayed close to each other on the Web page. The advertisement and message may form all or part... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080215433 - Method and apparatus for serving a message in conjunction with an advertisement for display on a world wide web page: A method and apparatus for serving at least one message in conjunction with an advertisement for display on a World Wide Web page. The advertisement and message may be thematically related and displayed close to each other on the Web page. The advertisement and message may form all or part... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080215423 - Method for exchanging mileage for game money and method and apparatus for game service in an airplane: Disclosed is a method for exchanging mileage for game money and a game service method and system in an airplane using the above method. More particularly, disclosed is a method for a passenger of an airplane to exchange his/her own mileage for a game money to be used in the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080215443 - Motion sensor arrangement for point-of-purchase device: A motion sensor arrangement is presented for dispenser capable point-of-purchase devices. The invention includes one or more motion sensors and a power management circuit facilitating activation of visual and motion display elements and/or a dispensing mechanism. Motion sensors are attached to a shelf-mountable display unit and capable of determining the... Agent: Michael G. Crilly, Esquire Law Offices Of Michael Crilly

20080215427 - Product information provider system and method: A shelf reader reads a product unique ID of an IC tag attached to a product on a shelf. In accordance with the reading result, a shelf terminal detects whether the product is taken out from the shelf or not, and forwards the detection result to a product information management... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080215434 - Real world interaction with virtual world privileges: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world entertainment, educational, and transactional activities. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world activities and transactions. The participant or... Agent: Searete LLC

20080215440 - Refillable package for consumable products: A refillable container is provided for dispensing a plurality of consumable products. The container may comprise a reclosable container and a refill package. The reclosable container may comprise a lid connected to a body defining a container interior. The refill package may comprise a tray and a removable closure. The... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080215438 - System and method for controlling distribution of electronic coupons: A system for displaying an advertisement from an advertisement database on a client computer on a network including a processing circuit configured to receive a display request for an advertisement, to determine an advertisement display limit and a number of times the advertisement has been displayed. The processing circuit is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080215442 - System and method for enhanced directory assistance including commercial features: A method for enhanced commercial activities to a mobile device user includes providing a user with an application for use on a mobile wireless device and receiving an incoming communication from the wireless device via the application at an enhanced services platform of a directory assistance center. Stored account information,... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080215425 - System and methods for advertisement and event promotion: The present invention is directed to a system and methods for targeted advertisement and event promotion. The system comprises a web-based application which enables event promoters to create, execute and manage event promotional campaigns using advertisements, targeted promotional messages, target user search tools, session tracking tools, campaign analytical tools, event... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080215426 - System and methods for advertisement and event promotion: The present invention is directed to a system and methods for targeted advertisement and event promotion. The system comprises a web-based application which enables event promoters to create, execute and manage event promotional campaigns using advertisements, targeted promotional messages, target user search tools, session tracking tools, campaign analytical tools, event... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080215436 - System for delivering advertisements to wireless communication devices: An advertising system and method for a communication system that delivers advertisements to subscribers based on the respective subscriber data. The advertisers, through the provider of the system, have advertisements selected and delivered to the subscriber based on the subscriber data. The advertiser pays for advertisement delivery such that the... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20080215437 - System, apparatus and method for advertising using a data storage device: A system, method, and apparatus for downloading advertisements, storing advertisements on a storage device, selecting advertisements for presentation, and presenting selected advertisements. In some embodiments of the invention, advertisements may be dynamically associated and presented in coordination with content according to predefined parameters, stored information, and other criteria. Advertisement credits... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080215439 - Systems and methods for advancing collections on unpaid debts: Systems and methods for advancing collections on unpaid debts. Incentives that provide monetary and/or non-monetary rewards are utilized to encourage, promote, enable, and/or facilitate a collection of one or more unpaid accounts. A book of vouchers may be purchased for a letter-writing service, wherein the cost of the book is... Agent: Michael F. Krieger Kirton & Mcconkie

20080215424 - Systems and methods for advertisement and event promotion: The present invention is directed to a system and methods for targeted advertisement and event promotion. The system comprises a web-based application which enables event promoters to create, execute and manage event promotional campaigns using advertisements, targeted promotional messages, target user search tools, session tracking tools, campaign analytical tools, event... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080215444 - Systems and methods for commission allocation: The invention relates to systems and methods that allocate different types of commissions to participants based on at least one factor contributing to the liquidity to the market in which an item trades. The commission may accordingly depend on the order in which trading commands are received from different participants... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080215429 - Using a mobile communication facility for offline ad searching: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a search keyword from an offline advertisement, entering the search keyword in a mobile communication facility search facility, and presenting content relating to the offline advertisement to the mobile communication facility based at least in part on the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080215447 - Bidding for a request to reserve a service: Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: determining that a service provided by a restaurant is available for bidding. The service is provided for a particular time and a particular date. The methods and system also include receiving... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080215446 - Submitting a request to reserve a service: Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: selecting a restaurant from a plurality of restaurants; and transmitting a request to reserve a service that is provided by the restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080215448 - Systems, methods, and devices for selling transaction instruments via web-based tool: The present invention generally relates to a system and method for distributing a transaction instrument. The system includes the steps of: offering for sale, in a retail environment, the transaction instrument; selling a selected transaction instrument; communicating with the issuer of the transaction instrument via an internet accessible web site,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20080215449 - Systems, methods, and devices for selling transaction instruments via web-based tool: The present invention generally relates to a system and method for distributing a transaction instrument. The system includes the steps of: offering for sale, in a retail environment, the transaction instrument; selling a selected transaction instrument; communicating with the issuer of the transaction instrument via an internet accessible web site,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20080215455 - Comparison shopping via financial management software: The invention comprises a financial management program and one or more databases containing information on merchants and their products. The program interacts with the databases containing the product information to return the prices and availability of goods located in a designated area. The program compares prices from various merchants and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080215452 - Digital online exchange for sending prices to customers: A method of dynamically pricing a plurality of items comprises providing an identifier stored in memory accessible by a processor for each item of the plurality of items, pricing each item of the plurality of items utilizing a processor configured to dynamically price items based on sales criteria for the... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080215454 - Imaging device configuration methods and imaging device management methods: A method includes determining, by a processor within a peripheral device, that an amount of a consumable associated with the peripheral device has decreased below a predetermined threshold and transmitting an email from the peripheral device to order additional supplies of the consumable.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080215450 - Remote provisioning of information technology: Remote provisioning of an IT network and/or associated services is provided. Hardware, software, service and/or expertise can be moved from on-premise to a remote location (e.g., central, distributed . . . ). Accordingly, at least a large degree computation can be moved to the center to exploit economies of scale,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080215453 - Server apparatus, information processing apparatus, and information processing method: A server apparatus includes: a trend leader detecting portion that acquires purchaser identifying information for identifying a purchaser who purchased the product at an early stage satisfying a predetermined time condition, from at least two pieces of purchase history information; a recommended product acquiring portion that acquires at least one... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080215451 - Streamsale distribution model: As the Internet becomes more and more a part of our everyday lives, we see new Business Models evolve from existing Industry Business Practices. The StreamSale Distribution Model has the ability to generate Hundreds of Millions of Dollars (US) with one 60-minute broadcast. By selling an experience via the Internet,... Agent: Aaron M. Abbott

20080215459 - Method and apparatus for meta-shopping and dynamic setup of b2b ecommerce: A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for generating a customized catalog for an entity or organization. Items from a base catalog are presented to a user located at a remote data processing system. One or more items are selected by a user through a process of “meta-shopping”. The selected... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080215457 - Method and system for reserving future purchases of goods and services: A method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services using plural electronic options with associated option fees based on one or more different pre-determined priority system. The plural electronic options include electronic option terms established by one or more suppliers who can supply the goods or services.... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C. Suite 325

20080215458 - System and method for processing a product price or quotation request and placing a product order via a communications network: A system and method for a manufacturer to attract a customer for a distributor, via a public access network, and perform product information and ordering transactions with the customer, where the order receives the financing approval of the distributor and an associated manufacturer's representative receives a commission. The system and... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080215456 - Systems and methods for facilitating exchanges of items: Enhanced methods, systems, and techniques for facilitating item exchange are provided. Example embodiments provide an Exchange Facilitator System (“EFS”), which facilitates listing and sale of items offered for sale by sellers via one or more third-party item exchange systems. In some embodiments, the EFS obtains information about an item offered... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080215461 - Inventory controls with radio frequency identification: Inventory control with inventory item attributes wherein the attributes describe an inventory item, the inventory item has an RFID identification tag having an RFID identification tag code, and the inventory item attributes include an RFID identification tag code field, a control value, an acceptable control value range, and an out... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080215460 - Merchandise location system: The present invention is generally directed to providing an improved system for accessing merchandise location information in a sales environment. Specifically, the present invention implements a system to record, store, and make available for remote access by authorized users merchandise location information within a sales environment.... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20080215463 - Method of selling and activating consumer products and services: A business method for products and services. The business model provides for retail purchase of a product or service. The product or service is then transported from the retail point of purchase to a professional. The professional then activates the product or service for the consumer.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080215462 - Still image shopping event monitoring and analysis system and method: The still image shopping event analysis systems and methods provided herein may implement low frequency still image sampling and perform a computer analysis of the still images captured, including discriminating differences between frames of the still images based on changes of pixels between the frames and detecting and/or analyzing one... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080215467 - Digital content subscription conditioning system: Allocating subscription revenue may involve receiving usage information relating to usage of digital content (e.g., music, movies, text, images, games) in a digital content aggregation, identifying a coefficient relating to a subset of digital works in the digital content aggregation (e.g., author-specific subjective or objective factors, popularity ranking, historical factors,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215466 - Methods and apparatus for making and keeping records: A recordkeeping system according to various aspects of the present invention includes a recording system and an activation system. The recording system is configured to create a record of a deal session when activated. The activation system is connected to the recording system, and is configured to automatically activate the... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20080215465 - Sales transaction hub: In a computer-implemented method for processing a sales transaction, an un-audited sales transaction is received from a sale generator, and temporarily stored in a memory location and forwarded to a transaction auditor to audit the sales transaction and to a plurality of backend processors to begin processing the sales transaction.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215464 - Self service meal plans: A system and method for providing definition and management of meal plans and packages for colleges or universities is disclosed. Students may view and flexibly modify selected packages anytime as defined by rules established by the university or college. A student may view the various options for which they may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080215469 - Consumer finance method and system: A consumer finance method and system financing a purchase including the steps of providing new goods or services to at least partially replace used goods or services which the customer is currently using to a customer at a purchase price; and collecting at least the amount of the purchase price... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080215468 - Software licensing method and system: A software and/or content licensing method, which, in some embodiments, an intermediate entity brokers a plurality of software vendors to a single user, who can pay for only actual use of the software, through the single entity. In some embodiments, there is a cap. In some embodiments, offline use of... Agent: Martin D Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080215470 - Methods and apparatus for use in association with payment card accounts: In one aspect, a method includes: receiving data indicative of one or more characteristics of a customer having an existing or prospective relationship with a retail business; providing data indicative of a plurality of possible payment card accounts that are available from a financial institution for customers of the retail... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080215471 - Systems and methods for prioritizing reconcilement information searches: Systems and methods are disclosed for assisting a check-cashing entity to efficiently and accurately locate relevant positive pay information or other reconcilement information regarding a check or other negotiable instrument that has been presented in association with a request to cash, deposit, use as payment or other otherwise accept the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080215472 - Variable use advanced messaging system and method: Using a single source money management system customers may automate their committed spending. A money management account and a discretionary fund account are established in response to a customer's request to participate in the system. A financial institution receives money on a periodic basis from a customer's predictable payment system.... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20080215499 - Beta adjustment for leveraged index products: A technique to provide a return from an aggregate of an investment in a cash equivalent account and a leveraged index product account over a time period that is substantially equivalent to a multiple of the return of a theoretical position in an underlying index for the period of time... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080215496 - Interactive user interface for displaying information related to publicly traded securities: An interactive user interface for displaying information about a plurality of publicly traded securities (e.g., stocks) at one time is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the interface may comprise (i) a two-dimensional chart comprising an x-axis and a y-axis, (ii) a first field for specifying a first metric related to... Agent: K & L Gates LLP

20080215503 - Method and apparatus for stock and index option price improvement, participation, and internalization: A method for stock option trading includes receiving an option order at a market, contemporaneously receiving a copy of the option order at an electronic drop (EDrop) system, which is separate and distinct from the market, obtaining a potential cross quantity and a potential cross price based on the option... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080215502 - Method of providing a life, vacation, and investment policy: A method of providing a life, vacation, and investment policy includes the steps of: creating a publicly traded securitized real estate corporation; providing a life, vacation, and investment policy through the corporation; securing the life, vacation, and investment policy through a bank note; and distributing the life, vacation, and investment... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20080215498 - Stock method for measuring and assigning precise meaning to market sentiment: A stock method for objectively quantifying the feeling, or market sentiment, of a company's stock (or the market as a whole) in a data-driven and transparent manner that serves as a standardized tool useful to investors and stock market analysts in gauging such items as inflated or deflated price values... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20080215500 - System and a method of profiting or generating income from the built-in equity in real estate assets or any other form of illiquid asset: Briefly, embodiments of a system or a method of profiting or generating income from equity in real estate or any other form of illiquid asset is disclosed.... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20080215497 - System and method for valuing stocks: A method for valuing stocks includes determining (510) a risk-adjusted present value of dividends for a stock over a predetermined holding period; and determining (520) a risk-adjusted present value of a price for the stock at the end of the predetermined holding period, the price for the stock at the... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080215501 - Systems and methods for generating a metric of financial status relative to a financial goal: The present invention relates to, among other things, systems and methods for generating a metric of an entity's financial status relative to a financial goal. In generating the metric, the value of an entity's total assets is simulated over time based on data comprising historical rates of returns. In one... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20080215476 - Anonymous bidding system: An anonymous bidding system that allows bidders to participate in a live auction by placing bids for items, but that does not disclose the identify of the bidding parties. Bidding participants may utilize a bidding device, such as a handheld device, to receive information regarding the auction. This information can... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080215475 - Exclusivity bidding for mobile sponsored content: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a bid for an exclusive sponsored content item to be presented on a mobile communication facility, the bid including an amount and at least one exclusivity characteristic relating to a mobile subscriber characteristic and matching the at least... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080215473 - Method for positively identifying livestock and use thereof in legal instruments relating thereto: The present invention comprises a method for identifying individual animals, and for using such identification in the creation of a secured interest therein. It relies on a unique and immutable characteristic of each animal, together with a system for representing such characteristic by a symbolic indicator. The symbolic indicator is... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080215477 - System for trading commodities and the like: The present invention provides a system for trading commodities and the like. A computer, a communications link between the computer and the Internet, and a database, accessible by the computer are provided. The database includes a plurality of user files. Each of the user files corresponds to a specified user... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20080215474 - Systems and methods for management of intangible assets: Systems and methods for management of intangible assets are provided that allow effective management of intangible assets. The intangible asset management system and method include a computer based intangible asset management system for storing, managing, disseminating and sharing intangible asset information of an entity among users, the system comprising: a... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20080215478 - Systems and methods for providing financial instruments including contrary positions: A market for trading hedged instruments is provided. The market includes at least one hedged instrument having a value based at least on a first position on at least a first tradable instrument and a second position on at least a second tradable instrument. The second position is contrary to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080215481 - Method and apparatus for monitoring guaranteed loans and notifying guarantors: A method and apparatus are provided for notifying a guarantor associated with a guaranteed loan of events likely to affect their interest in the guaranteed loan. The disclosed method and apparatus provides loan data with information on at least one guaranteed loan wherein the loan data includes information on the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215479 - Method and processing arrangement for providing various financing options: A method is disclosed for determining a repayment amount on a loan that is dependent on an initial value of a property. The method uses input data comprising the initial value of the property, a term for repayment of the loan, a first time for which the repayment amount is... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080215482 - Mortgage loan data processing system and method for a loan broker: The present invention includes a data processing system and method for managing the origination of a mortgage loan by a loan originator in coordination with a loan broker for a loan customer. The loan originator is not the loan broker. The loan originator provides services necessary for the origination of... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20080215480 - System and method for dynamic path- and state-dependent stochastic control allocation: The invention includes a system and process that employs contractual bargaining with agent-based computational methods for the dynamic allocation, optimization, and pricing of contingent rights and obligations between multiple counterparties with overlapping interests. The processes employ a dynamic and endogenous hierarchy or tiering of binding incentive compatible contingent strategies, which... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080215484 - Enhanced transfer framework for source or process verified products: An enhanced transfer framework for source or process verified products, in which, from disparate selling entities, event data is received certifying that animals separately processed by the disparate entities each satisfy requirements associated with source or process verified animal products, and the animals are aggregated for sale as a group... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215483 - System and method for the enablement of electronic commerce in a content network: An apparatus customizes electronic received information and facilitates electronic transactions with an individual consumer. The apparatus includes a consumer database for storing consumer profiles information corresponding to the individual consumer and a transaction database for storing transaction related information corresponding to individual commercial partners, including target content markers. A first... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080215485 - Automatic reminder system for check ordering: A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement an automatic ordering system so that a bank customer can either receive automatic reminders or automatic reorder notification when it is time for the customer to reorder checks. The system tracks check numbers that the customer has in his or her... Agent: Robert A. Blaha Smith Frohwein Tempel

20080215486 - Communication method and communication apparatus, information processing method and information processing apparatus, storage medium, and computer program: When an IC card is placed in the vicinity of one of a television receiver, a hard disk recorder, and a personal digital assistant (PDA), a card ID stored in the IC card and the profile of each of the television receiver, the hard disk recorder and the PDA are... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215487 - Method and system for performing money transfer transactions: A method of performing a send money transfer transaction through a financial services institution includes storing transaction details on a data base, wherein the transaction details include a desired amount of money to be sent; establishing a code that corresponds to the transaction details stored on the data base; entering... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080215488 - Payer-based account porting to portable value distribution systems and methods: A value distribution method includes enrolling a payee into a source program through which the payee receives funds from a payer. The source program includes a stored value account into which the payer deposits the payee's funds. The stored value account has account information associated therewith. The method also includes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080215489 - Method and apparatus for authentication of invoices: The security of invoices as between purchaser and supplier may be improved by printing a data matrix symbol or other glyph on the invoice. The data matrix contains two layers or portions of data. The first layer or portion contains invoice data and the second layer or portion contains secure... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080215490 - Intelligent assistant for content purchasing: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for optimizing content acquisition are disclosed. A memory may store usage of a previous set of media content by the mobile device. An input/output device may receive a request for a current set of media content. A processor may create a user profile based... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080215492 - Automated entitlement management method and apparatus for capturing maintenance renewals revenues: The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides a method and apparatus that enables software publishers and other sellers of subscription services. e.g. subscriptions, such as maintenance or license programs, to track when the subscription period for each customer expires, to inform interested contacts at the customer proactively that a... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080215491 - Content distribution on storage media for sale, rental and resale: In one embodiment, content is delivered to a customer over a communication network and written to a storage medium. The customer may be authorized to make additional copies of the content. The delivered content and copies are tracked in support of rental, sale or resale applications.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080215493 - Method and system for negotiation: A system and method for negotiating over a network, comprises a selector for selecting a random length of time for negotiation; a receiving component, operably connected to said selector, for receiving an offer to purchase over a network; and a purchase fulfillment component, operably connected to said receiving component, wherein... Agent: Frederic M. Douglas

20080215495 - Method and system for reserving future purchases of goods and services: A method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services using plural electronic options with associated option fees. The plural electronic options include a hierarchy of electronic options and plural different types electronic options terms.... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20080215494 - Online music and other copyrighted work search and licensing system: Search and licensing systems and method for copyrighted works, such as music tracks, images, and video. The system may comprise a database that stores data regarding copyrighted works. The system may also comprise a search engine for allowing a user to search the database for copyrighted works. The system also... Agent: K & L Gates LLP

20080215505 - Car wash communication, fund transfer, control system and method: A method of controlling one or more self service vacuums, dispensers, fragrance machines, shampoo machines, cleaning systems or car wash systems comprising a radio frequency transceiver or module. This method incorporates an RF or radio frequency receiver, transmitter or transceiver. The system has the capability of configuring the various dispensing... Agent: Dale Reynolds

20080215507 - Dynamic pricing of items based on category with which the item is associated: A method comprises grouping a plurality of items into a first group for purposes of aggregately pricing each of the plurality of items, sending a first price of a first and a second of the plurality of items in the first group for sale from a processor to one or... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080215504 - Revenue allocation in a network environment: The present invention relates to a search engine for providing a search result responsive to a search query received from a user and for allocating revenue generated from one or more advertisements included with the search result to the authors of the content that makes up the search result.... Agent: North Weber & Baugh LLP

20080215506 - Systems and methods for a community-based e-consultant brokerage: The present invention relates to systems and methods for requesting, receiving, providing, and paying for services over the internet, through IM and VoIP applications, and other communication means. According to a first preferred embodiment of the present invention, systems are provided that allow a customer to purchase and receive the... Agent: Rajan T. Annadurai