Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 11/08

20080294449 - Business object document mapper: In accordance with an embodiment, an architecture for directly interfacing Business Object Documents (BODs) may include a BOD mapper which employs the BOD for input and output. A model object definable by class is created corresponding to the data contained in the BOD. System logic for the local domain is... Agent: The Boeing Company C/o Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080294451 - Internet connection service providing method and system: An internet connection service providing method and internet connection service system for carrying out the method are provided. The method comprises presetting a service class for a user, among a plurality of service classes, where the service class is selected by the user, authenticating the user according to the preset... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294447 - Issue or transaction tracking by using presence information and instant messaging: A presentity is used to represent and report states of an issue or a transaction. The issue or the transaction is an intangible (an incorporeal, non-physical) entity. The presentity for the issue or the transaction is created, a state of the issue or the transaction received from a handler of... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20080294452 - Managing supply of a utility to a customer premises: The invention provides a method of managing supply of a utility to a customer premises. A utility meter and a disconnect switch are installed at the customer premises. A management system remote from the customer premises is interfaced to the utility meter and disconnect switch over a data network. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294450 - Marketing support processing method, system and program: A marketing support executed by a computer upon receipt of a map display request from a shop terminal, specifies a map element corresponding to a shop Based on identification information for the specified map element, a blog management database storing blog user identification information for each blog and identification information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080294448 - Methods and systems associated with telephone directory advertisements: A telephone directory advertisement is created for an advertiser by an artist during a Web teleconference session based on an interaction via the Web teleconference session between the artist, the advertiser, and a sales representative.... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080294453 - Network based digital rights management system: A network-based DRM system manages digital media assets stored in the network. The system provides consumers with access to the digital media from any device connected to an electronic network such as the internet, while enforcing the intended uses by the copyright owners.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080294456 - Assemblies and methods for storing, organizing, and administrating personal medications: A personal medications storage assembly and method of use for storing, organizing and administering medications for a patient. The assembly includes a base having an opening, a storage area, and a plurality of outer surfaces. At least one outer surface of the base includes standardized indicia uniquely identifying the assembly... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080294458 - Device and method for the central control of devices used during an operation: To be able to use a generally available database of predetermined apparatus configurations and parameters in medical interventions, a device is disclosed for controlling and/or monitoring at least one apparatus during a medical intervention, said device including a least one control unit for controlling and/or monitoring the at least one... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080294454 - Display of clinical information: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for presenting clinical information comprising: a plurality of pages for displaying clinical information; and a plurality of sources for said clinical information, wherein each of said pages is capable of receiving information from at least one of said sources, and each... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080294459 - Health care derivatives as a result of real time patient analytics: A computer implemented method that includes receiving a cohort. The cohort comprises first data regarding a set of patients and second data comprising a relationship of the first data to at least one additional datum existing in at least one database. A numerical risk assessment is associated with the cohort.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080294460 - Method for improving the accuracy of transaction data: A method for improving the accuracy of pharmacy transactions. A health care organization's individual health care facilities are linked to a prescription processing center of a publicly-held corporate pharmacy (“PCP”) organization, preferably by means of an electronic communications network. The processing center collects, organizes and correlates patient census data from... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080294457 - Real-time medical records: According to some embodiments, a system and a method are provided to receive a real-time medical entry from a medical professional where the medical entry comprises one or more medical terms, to automatically compare the one or more medical terms with a plurality of data records, each data record associated... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080294455 - System and method for communicating in a multilingual network: A method of communicating in a multilingual network comprises receiving a request from a user for a medical data, obtaining the medical data from a server unit, wherein the medical data is stored in a first language, identifying a second language based on a predetermined condition and converting the medical... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080294461 - Checking and verifying blood screening data: A computer-implemented method verifies data from an electronic blood screen panel. Blood screening data is extracted from the electronic blood screen panel into a first data summary. The first data summary includes a lot number and expiration date, a donor number, and a number of negative reactions in each row... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080294464 - Converting medication claims to active medications: Systems and methods are provided for accessing medication claims data and converting medication claims to active medications. In one method, medication claims data corresponding with a number of medication claims is accessed. The medication claims may then be presented to a clinician, who may manually review and determine the claims... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080294465 - Large-scale information collection and mining: The methods/systems described herein facilitate large-scale data collection and aggregation. One exemplary system that facilitates large-scale reporting of health-related data comprises a data collection component, a database and an aggregation component. The data collection component can collect health-related data on a large-scale from a non-selected population. The database can store... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080294462 - System, method, and apparatus of facilitating web-based interactions between an elderly and caregivers: Systems, methods and apparatuses of facilitating web-based interactions between an elderly and caregivers are described in this application. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of providing care through facilitating interactions between a set of service subscribers including an... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080294463 - System-determined indication for facilitating the conversion of medication claims to active medications: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the conversion of medication claims to active medications by identifying medication claims that correspond with medications that a patient may be currently taking. In one method, medication claims data corresponding with a number of medication claims is accessed. A determination is made for... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080294467 - Education insurance and process of implementing the same: An education insurance product and process of implementing the same includes determination of an insurance premium and payment of the insurance premium for an educational insured event where the insured event can be retaken by the insured in the future. At the completion of the event, a determination is made... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080294468 - Process for automating and simplifying commercial insurance transactions: The present invention relates to a process for automating and simplifying commercial insurance transactions, particularly at the broker level. Insurance transactions between brokers and insurance companies are automated and simplified through software processes. This is done by maintaining electronic databases of information on insured, insurance companies, and brokers. Brokers are... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20080294466 - System and method of determining the annuity value and cost for providing long-term health care for the elderly: A system and method of providing care annuities that guarantee provision of actual, appropriate custodial care to individuals. The care annuities are priced based on an estimated cost of providing anticipated, appropriate custodial care for an anticipated time period, such as a Medicaid lookback time. Some or all of the... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20080294470 - Method and system for presenting rates for travel services: A method and system are provided for presenting rates for travel services using dynamic pricing bands. The dynamic pricing bands represent approximate rates for travel services relative to available rates during or close to the proposed dates of travel, or at or near the proposed travel destination. Each dynamic pricing... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080294469 - Travel service aggregator: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system that includes a user interface to receive an electronic status change for an airline flight and an airline reservation system to determine whether at least one ancillary travel service associated with the airline flight should... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294480 - Creating a privacy policy from a process model and verifying the compliance: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for creating a privacy policy from a process model, and methods and apparatus for checking the compliance of a privacy policy. An example of a method for creating a privacy policy from a process model according to the invention comprises the following steps.... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080294481 - Data management and processing system for large enterprise model and method therefor: A computer system performs data processing using a data organizer which parses a primary set of data into predefined sets of data components according to one or more enterprise models. The sets of data components from the data organizer are respectively stored in multiple data sources. The data components may... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080294479 - Data processing system and method: A data processing system including a database, a file server coupled to the database, a template engine coupled to the file server. The template engine being configured to create a plurality of insurance brokerage industry templates. The system further including an application service provider interface logic coupled to the file... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080294478 - Document security within a business enterprise: A computer-based method for defining an enterprise organisation providing electronic document security. Enterprise elements of management groups are defined to correspond with an area of accountability, each group having one of several types, including “line of business”, “key results area”, and “senior management”. Each group has several subgroups, including “group... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20080294471 - Event-based analysis of business objectives: Aspects of the invention relate to displaying on a graph data describing events and data describing key performance indicators (KPIs). The event data describes an occurrence that may influence the performance objectives of a business, such as the appearance of an advertisement for the business in a magazine. The KPI... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080294474 - Manifest delivery system and method: There is provided a method and system of determining efficient routing of a mail piece in a delivery system for delivering mail pieces. The system determines whether or not the mail piece requires urgent delivery. The system determines a weight of the mail piece. Also, the system determines, based on... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080294476 - Methods and apparatus to monitor in-store media and consumer traffic related to retail environments: Methods and apparatus to monitor in-store media and consumer traffic related to retail environments are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method to monitor a monitored establishment, a survey is presented to an auditor and a user-provided survey response is received indicative of a condition in a monitored establishment that... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080294472 - Server for a distributed power generation management system and power generation management system using the same: t

20080294473 - System and method for automatic testing of planning results: A system and a method are disclosed for automatically testing planning results, the tests being made possible by a data processing device in which planning results that are to be verified are stored in an electronic format, and with the aid of software used for performing automatic and systematic tests.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080294477 - System and method for incorporating packagin and shipping ramifications of net profit/loss when up-selling: An up-sell and down-sell method and system that considers a ranking of the individual marginal profit/loss of adding every product SKU of a merchant to an order (or a certain subset of SKU's based on other criteria), considering not only certain traditional fixed metrics the merchant may define such as... Agent: Rudoler & Derosa LLC Attn: Docket Clerk

20080294475 - Systems and apparatus to determine shopper traffic in retail environments: Methods and apparatus to determine shopper traffic in retail environments are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method of generating shopper traffic data, in-person-based count data and sensor-based count data are obtained. The in-person-based count data is indicative of a first quantity of shoppers within a first zone of a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080294483 - Free time priority for calendar schedulers: A method, apparatus and computer program product for schedules common time intervals and reserves free time for a plurality of users in a network environment. An initial free time block is reserved, including corresponding user-defined time reallocation parameters. In the event of a potentially conflicting event arising, parameters of the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294486 - Method for substitution of employees in a service engagement: The substitution of employees in a service engagement is a computer based method designed to consider a set of attributes that describe the resource capabilities required for delivering a services engagement and identify the actual real-world human assets that can be substituted and/or matched to these attributes. The method will... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20080294487 - Methods and apparatus to monitor in-store media and consumer traffic related to retail environments: Methods and apparatus to monitor in-store media and consumer traffic related to retail environments are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method to monitor presentations of media in a monitored establishment, a floor layout map of a monitored establishment is displayed a medium profile associated with a medium presented at... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080294482 - Personalized electronic meeting invitations: Personalized meeting invitations, which may be used by electronic calendar applications (which may also be referred to as “calendar applications”, “calendaring applications”, or “calendar scheduling systems”). Using techniques disclosed herein, a meeting can be conceptually viewed as multiple smaller meetings, which are also referred to herein as “submeetings”, and a... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080294489 - Scalable communication system, method and apparatus: A method of sharing a satellite communication system having a common equipment includes billing a first user for sending a first message using the common equipment over a first satellite link, billing a second user for sending a second message using the common equipment over a second satellite link, wherein... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080294488 - Supply chain management system: A method of transporting commodities in a supply chain management system including a supply chain. The method includes providing a database and a network in communication with the database, which is accessible by at least one member of the supply chain via the network. The method also includes providing a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080294484 - System for optimizing transportation scheduling and inventory management of bulk product from supply locations to demand locations: An optimization system for transportation scheduling and inventory management of a bulk product from supply locations to demand locations is provided. The system has a mathematical model containing mathematical programming equations. In one embodiment, the objective function of the mathematical model is to minimize a cost basis of the product... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20080294485 - System, method and program for supporting creating a business process: A system supports creating and managing a business process model which creates a business process by: acquiring, based on a selected business, from a business element list that includes a business process template having a basic region in which processing contents are constant for each business and variable regions in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080294491 - Dynamic and predictive information system and method for shipping assets and transport: The dynamic, predictive information system and method assigns shipping assets (drivers-tractors-trailers) from carriers to transport orders by shippers. Computer databases hold shipping asset data. Specific transport orders are electronically joined to specific driver-tractor-trailer combinations. A search and sort routine produces resulting records based upon proximity, trailer type, proximity of the... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20080294490 - Networking platform for facilitating interactions and sharing of caretaking responsibilities between family members: Systems and methods of a networking platform for facilitating interactions and sharing of caretaking responsibilities between family members are described in this application. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of managing a set of calendar events of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080294492 - Proactively determining potential evidence issues for custodial systems in active litigation: The record of custodial systems' involvement in legal matters is coupled with a workflow that detects actual or planned changes affecting custodial systems themselves and/or their associations with other entities in the enterprise map, and that notifies the appropriate parties so the information is preserved.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080294493 - Workflow system, information processor, and method and program for workflow management: A workflow system is provided in which one person in charge efficiently processes each activity assigned to successive nodes. When a client request management program execution unit 330 of a workflow server 30 receives a request to terminate processing for a node from a user's computer terminal for operation 20,... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080294501 - Collecting and providing information about vendors, products and services: The utility, reliability and efficiency of vendor, product and/or service ratings are improved by collecting verifiable transaction information along with consumer-supplied ratings indicating consumer satisfaction regarding the corresponding goods, services, and/or vendors. From this collected information, the method and system of the present invention generates a score or set or... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080294497 - Feedback-driven ad targeting: Methods and systems for selecting and serving an ad to a Web page in response to an ad request from that page, where the ad being delivered has the highest or close to the highest expected value, are described. The prior history of an ad is examined and the circumstances... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20080294499 - Method and system for managing report on goods advertisement: The present invention relates to a method and system for managing a report on a product advertisement which enable a relay server, which includes an advertisement service of a product sold in a shopping mall server, to collect information associated with a product sale, and which create a report page... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080294498 - Methods and apparatus to improve market launch performance: Methods and apparatus to improve market launch performance are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a pre-launch market concept and assessing the concept with a hierarchical framework. Assessing the hierarchical framework further includes identifying a framework dimension, identifying a framework construct associated with the framework dimension, and identifying at least... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080294495 - Methods of processing and segmenting web usage information: A current behavioral targeting system is first tested using a suite of test data. The output of the test is one or more performance metrics. Next, newly proposed behavioral targeting system created. The newly proposed behavioral targeting system is then evaluated using both the existing source data and a new... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080294496 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automating supply chain planning processes: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automating supply chain planning processes are provided. A method includes providing a user interface having data fields for receiving product information including projected and actual sales data and finance information from a plurality of entities. The method also includes receiving the projected and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080294494 - Sales order monitoring: Among other things, monitoring incoming sales orders includes monitoring sales orders at one or more branches. For at least some of the sales orders a buying process is triggered. Based on one or more selection criteria, an analysis of the sales orders is performed. According to the analysis, a result... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080294500 - System and method for increasing demand for perishable goods or vanishing goods at a point-of-sale location: A method for improving communications to customers therefore increasing demand for a perishable or vanishing item produced, inventoried and/or sold at a facility is provided. The method monitors the sales and production and availability of the perishable or vanishing item at a facility for sale of the perishable or vanishing... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080294502 - System and method for providing event-based services: A system and method for providing event-based services are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, merchants and users subscribe with an Event Service Provider (ESP), which includes a server and database. The database maintains information relating to merchant events and subscriber's event preferences. Based on time-sensitive merchant... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294503 - Techniques for displaying one or more advertisements: The invention relates to a system, device, computer readable medium, and process for displaying one or more individual advertisements based on attributes of one or more phone call related events.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20080294506 - Method and a tool for measuring the formation and effects of workplace friendships: A method and a tool to measure workplace friendship formation and its effects on individual and organizational job outcomes. The tool comprises one or more items that measure the formation of workplace friendships (1). Various items measure different or overlapping categories. The items are presented as a survey (45) that... Agent: Hilla Dotan

20080294507 - Method and apparatus for generating a clinical quality assurance scorecard: The present invention provides a quality assurance system and method that generates a quality assurance (QA) scorecard for clinicians that participate in a radiological-based medical imaging study using digital imaging technologies. According to one embodiment, client computers, servers, imaging devices, databases, and/or other components may be coupled to provided a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080294504 - Method of evaluating a project manager of a project of a provider: A method evaluates a project manager of a project of a provider, the project being for a customer. The method includes utilizing a project manager scorecard comprising a plurality of predetermined project phases which are common to a plurality of different projects, and including with each of the predetermined project... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080294505 - Methods and systems for task assessment management: Methods and systems for managing an assessment of tasks using a computer implemented task assessment management system are provided. The method includes generating a program objective by a customer that defines an end-product to be supplied to the customer by a contractor and generating a plurality of tasks that support... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080294517 - Customized image based calendar, method and system: An advent calendar including a first sheet with a full color customized image and a plurality of apertures. Each aperture is associated with a movable door and the door is fastened to a perimeter of the aperture with a hinge element. A second sheet, including a reduced-color version of the... Agent: Belasco, Jacobs & Townsley LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080294509 - Determining advertising effectiveness: The effectiveness of an advertisement may be determined. The advertisement and an incentive may be received at a data server. An online request from a consumer for a product may be received. The product may correspond to the incentive. The advertisement may be presented to a consumer. The advertisement may... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080294510 - Determining advertising effectiveness: The effectiveness of an advertisement may be determined. The advertisement and an incentive may be received at a data server. An online request from a consumer for a product may be received. The product may correspond to the incentive. The advertisement may be presented to a consumer. The advertisement may... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080294516 - Electronic advertising system: An electronic tearsheet is received at a receipt time from a publisher confirming placement at a placement time of a print ad in a publication according to specified terms between the publisher and an advertiser. The specified terms include a bid amount. The bid amount is collected from the advertiser.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294515 - Incentive-based system and method for third-party web application development and publication: A system and method is described by which a business entity provides an incentive to a third party to develop and publish a Web application that facilitates access to a Web service hosted by the business entity. In accordance with the system and method, a user attempts to use the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080294511 - Incentivizing consumer purchases: A system and method for directing a consumer to a first location is disclosed. The system may include a datastore and a processor. The datastore may store first data indicative of a product, a first location, and an incentive. The incentive may be redeemable at the first location. The processor... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080294512 - Incentivizing consumer purchases: A system and method for directing a consumer to a first location is disclosed. The system may include a datastore and a processor. The datastore may store first data indicative of a product, a first location, and an incentive. The incentive may be redeemable at the first location. The processor... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080294525 - J2me application advertisement instrumentation: A method for inserting advertising or other functionality into mobile applications after they have already been compiled and built. The described method has advantages of download time modification of applications, the ability to embed information into the instance builds, and to allow selectable functionality.... Agent: Todd Walk

20080294508 - Method and apparatus for an electronic transaction network designed to facilitate dual, bilateral buyer-driven and bilateral seller-driven conditional early payment incentive offers, acceptances, and payments: This invention is a method and apparatus for facilitating dual, bilateral buyer-driven and bilateral seller-driven commerce through the communication of binding conditional early payment incentive offers, acceptances, and payments. In a preferred embodiment, this invention allows buyers and sellers to communicate conditional early payment incentive offers to each other, and... Agent: David A. Haley

20080294518 - Method and apparatus for tracking parameters associated with a redemption certificate: A system that tracks parameters associated with a redemption certificate is presented. During operation, the system receives parameters associated with the redemption certificate. The system then determines whether the parameters indicate that a specified event has occurred. If so, the system performs a specified action for the specified event.... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080294519 - Method and system for integrating advertising with content: A coupling software system that is designed to be used by an advertiser, a content provider, and a publisher to effectively couple advertisements with content and distribute the information through a media outlet. The coupling software enables the advertiser to search content and distribution channels using a variety of metrics,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080294522 - Method of automated distribution of advertising messages and system for carrying out the method: The method of advertisements automated distribution includes generating the advertising information with indication of display parameters, providing the advertisements, receiving by the user mobile device at least advertisements as provided by the advertisements generation unit, storing at least the received advertising information, sending and providing the advertising information as chosen... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080294513 - Method of targeted marketing: A method for supplying a targeted message with a statement to a consumer. Consumer data is provided to generate a first statement item. The first statement item includes data used as predetermined triggers. Supplemental data is provided which is compared to the predetermined triggers thereby creating a first subset of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080294523 - Methods and apparatus for advertising via computer networks and websites: Methods and apparatus for advertising according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a retargeting system, multiple publisher systems, at least one advertiser, and a user's computer. The retargeting system provides retargeting information to the advertiser for storage on the user computer. The retargeting information may... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20080294520 - Mobile display advertising system and method: An advertisement display apparatus is disclosed that includes a display screen for displaying advertising content, at least one radiation intensity sensor for measuring incident radiation, and a position adjustment device for adjusting a viewing angle of the display screen on the basis of the measured incident radiation to thereby minimize... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080294521 - Multilanguage self-contained unmanaged database-driven real time digital advertising display system: Multilanguage Self-Contained Unmanaged Database-Driven Real Time Digital Advertising Display System communicates via High Speed Internet Connection thus all updated information will be delivered in real time. Multilanguage Self-Contained Unmanaged Database-Driven Real Time Digital Advertising Display System communicates via Internet with DSL, T1/T3 Line, High Speed Internet Cable Modem, Wireless Broadband... Agent: Anatoliy Rozman

20080294524 - Site-targeted advertising: A method is provided. The method includes receiving at a central system advertisement identifiers associated with one or more advertisements, receiving one or more identifiers of web locations to be targeted by the advertisements, receiving one or more non-keyword bids for a display of each of the advertisements, and generating... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294514 - System and method for remote deposit capture and customer information gathering: A system and method for integrated remote deposit capture and customer information gathering on a merchant's workstation where a plurality of checks are received from customers of the merchant and an image of each check is captured. Each check image is interrogated using image recognition software. A customer name and... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080294526 - System and method for interrelating alternative media-type commerce transactions: A system and method for interrelating alternative media-type commerce transactions allow a consumer to select and purchase an A/V product having a particular media-type and track the purchase and the media-type. The system and method include different pricing schemes for each A/V product and each media-type. Each A/V product is... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080294527 - Stock flow management system and method: A computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier includes instructions that, when executed, perform operations that modify stock levels of a storage location in a logistic environment system. The operations include receiving information indicating a stock level change at storage location database objects that each represent a storage... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080294531 - Digital audio and audiovisual file system and method: A system and method for allowing the owners of audio and/or audiovisual files to resell or purchased used content. The system provides for access via the internet and allows a user to upload or download content. To ensure against illicit copying of content, the system preferably includes a verification software... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080294529 - Method and system for delivering a purchase receipt: The invention concerns a new way for ordering, drafting, paying and delivering a purchase receipt (1), such as a gift certificate or an entrance ticket, electronically and in real time.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080294528 - Method of providing for rental of clothing: In a method for providing for rental of clothing, a client visits a store or other location so that all pertinent measurements can be taken and then stored in a suitable data base. Other data is stored such as preferred style and colors of clothing. Once this has been done,... Agent: H. Jay Spiegel - H. Jay Spiegel & Associates

20080294532 - System and method for on-line automobile trading: A method of trading automobiles, having the steps of entering a preferred set of attributes for a purchase of an automobile, creating a personalized shopping page based on the preferred set of attributes, searching a database of automobiles satisfying the preferred set of attributes, and displaying automobiles from the database... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20080294530 - System and method for registering the ownership and exchange of an item: A system and method for promoting the exchanging of an article between individuals, registering the ownership and exchange of the article via a global central registry, and wherein such article of trade has a unique identifier affixed thereto that functions to identify such article and enable a user of the... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20080294535 - Centralized electronic sales using a consolidator: The present invention provides an electronically accessible site that lists a product and associated distributors that distribute the product to customers. A customer purchases a product from the electronically accessible site, and during the purchasing process, the customer selects the distributor he wants to receive the product from. The order... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080294534 - System and method for online shopping optimization: Online shopping optimization in this context means, in general, making the optimal business decisions with regard to an online or electronic commerce purchase. The method begins with extracting buyer's demand information from buyer-specified items or a previously-configured shopping cart. It then includes a product catalog search that, when provided with... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080294533 - System for transferring large supplier catalogs through the internet network: System for transferring large supplier catalogs in a data transmission system including the Internet network, a marketplace site able to be addressed through the Internet network, a first plurality of customers connected to the Internet network and a second plurality of suppliers connected to the Internet network, each supplier having... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080294536 - System and method for providing export services to merchants: A fulfillment services provider may offer export services to merchants, including generation of required export documentation; calculation, collection, and remittance of customs duties; and transportation via an international carrier. Such export services may be offered through a registration service, and may be integrated with other fulfillment services provided to registered... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080294537 - Method to support advance accounting within software partitions: A data processing system includes: a plurality of resources including a processor, a memory, and an operating system; a mechanism for generating one or more software partitions in addition to an administrative partition; and a global accounting engine which enables monitoring and recording of resource usage at both a global-level... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080294538 - E-commerce sales and use exchange system and method: The invention provides a system and method for calculating, collecting and/or disbursing one or more third party payments owed to one or more third parties resulting from one or more electronic transactions occurring over a wide area network (WAN) between a customer and a merchant. The transaction concern one or... Agent: Innovar, LLC

20080294541 - Database for check risk decisions populated with check activity data from banks of first deposit: A plurality of banks of first deposit provide checking account activity data for both transit items (checks received for deposit that need to be cleared) and incoming returns (bounced checks) to a statistical model which determines from the data the likelihood that a check from a specific checking account will... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294539 - Programmed system and method for constructing an index: Construction of an index of assets comprises a computer having program code executing within a memory of the computer so as to define a universe of eligible companies using one or more filter criteria provided by a user. The companies in the eligible universe are ranked with regard to one... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080294540 - System and method for automated detection of never-pay data sets: Data filters, models, and/or profiles for identifying and/or predicting the never-pay population (for example, those customers that make a request for credit and obtain the credit instrument but over the life of the account, never make a payment) can be useful to various commercial entities, such as those issuing mortgages,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080294565 - Basis instrument contracts (bics) derived methods, systems and computer program products for distributional linkage and efficient derivatives pricing: (ii) Methods that help generate the price of various derivatives contracts using BICs in efficient analytical formulas or very fast numerical methods. This is particularly the case when the underlyings are driven by Levy processes or with readily available characteristic functions. The systems and computer program products that use these... Agent: Phil Kongtcheu Pfk Technologies

20080294568 - Indexing a financial instrument having optimized constituent weights: A computer-implemented method, a computer-readable medium and a data processing apparatus are provided for calculating an index of a financial instrument being weighted with optimized weights. The financial instrument comprises a plurality of constituents. Data reflecting characteristics of the constituents is collected. Based on the collected data, continuous returns are... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080294569 - Investment portfolio management method and system thereof: An investment portfolio management method and system that enhances an investment portfolio's risk adjusted involves reevaluating recent performance, and based thereon, if unfavorable rebating at least a portion of the reserve as reported performance if a reserve has been established, or if favorable establishing or increasing a reserve, followed by... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080294573 - System and method for hybrid spreading for risk management: A risk management system and method is disclosed which utilizes a flexible and configurable set of spreading techniques which may be incorporated into existing risk management software to enhance functionality, flexibility and accuracy. In the disclosed embodiments, multiple different types of spreading are combined to allow for a more accurate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20080294570 - System and method for providing a mutual fund rating platform: A system and method are provided for assigning ratings (the “Ratings”) on mutual funds and other investment funds (collectively the “Funds”) based on various information gleaned from public and privately traded financial, currency, interest rate and other futures, along with options on said futures (collectively the “Futures”). In an illustrative... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080294567 - System and method for providing an index linked to separately managed accounts: A system comprises a memory operable to store a master index that is based at least in part on a separately managed account (SMA) index, a market index, a first weight associated with the SMA index, and a second weight associated with the market index. The system further comprises a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080294572 - System and method of margining fixed payoff products: A system and method is disclosed for determining performance bonds related to fixed payoff products, i.e. contracts which payoff a fixed amount based on the outcome of an underlying event regardless of the particular value of the underlying event. The worst outcome of the overall portfolio, which may contain more... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20080294566 - System for funding an organization: A system for funding an organization with cash flows derived from the death benefits of life insurance policies initiated within a bankrupt remote, special purpose entity having the same insurable interest as the organization, by paying the premiums of said policies with proceeds from the issuance of an asset-backed security... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20080294571 - Systems and methods for providing direct to capital swaps: In one aspect, the present invention comprises a computer system for market making, comprising: (a) a computer component for receiving data identifying a user-specified basket of securities; (b) a database storing the data identifying a user-specified basket of securities and storing data describing inventory of a market maker; and (c)... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080294574 - Tax managed buy-write fund: A system and method is provided for administering a tax-managed, buy-write investment fund having a plurality of units available for sale to the public. An index representing a first portfolio of assets having desired performance characteristics is identified. A second portfolio of assets is configured to have less than 70... Agent: Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20080294544 - Process and apparatus for conducting auctions over electronic networks: An apparatus and process for conducting auctions, specifically municipal bond auctions, over electronic networks, particularly the Internet, is disclosed. The auctioneer maintains a web site from which information about bonds to be auctioned can be obtained. A user participates in the auction by accessing the web site via a conventional... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080294543 - Software product and system for facilitating real estate transactions: A software product and system that facilitates real estate transactions. More specifically the software product and system allow users to bid on a variety of terms and conditions to a real estate agreement. The software product and system also allows a user to make a bid via a remote computing... Agent: Benjamin I. Edlavitch

20080294542 - System and method for web-based customizable otc options trading: A method for processing electronic requests for price quotes is provided. In the method, a request for a price quote is received, wherein the request comprises one or more characteristics of an over the counter option inputted into an interactive electronic display. A price quote is determined for the option... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080294545 - Realty commission reinvestment system and method: A system and method for reinvesting realty commissions includes the steps of: a) Offering the system commission reinvestment program to a client who is listing or interested in purchasing a real estate property using a system realty company; b) Fixing a rebate amount of the real estate commission that will... Agent: Larry Shane Langdale

20080294546 - System and method for peer-to-peer financing: A system and method for an online, peer-to-peer lending platform for microfinance is disclosed. Through the system and method of the present invention, individual and personal lenders across the world can uniquely loan to specific micro-enterprises in many countries and geographic areas in a highly personal and effective manner. This... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080294547 - Systems and methods for establishing business credit and improving personal credit: Systems and methods are disclosed for establishing one or more personal guarantor(s); establishing one or more business entities; establishing a professional business presence; reporting the professional business presence and the one or more personal guarantors to one or more credit scoring companies; establishing a PAYDEX score of said one or... Agent: Matlock Law Group, PC

20080294551 - Cross-border remittance: Systems and methods for cross-border payment of accounts, and other remittance, resulting from provision of goods and services via a trusted agent. In particular, the invention provides systems, methods, and computer programming useful in making, accepting, and processing safe and reliable electronic payment of such debts. The invention is also... Agent: Torys LLP

20080294548 - Fee-based distribution of media based on device proximity: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for commercial transactions for the sale of images carried out over short-range wireless transmissions. In one embodiment, the transaction may be initiated by a vendor (e.g., a professional photographer), who transmits a wireless signal including an offer for sale of an image. A customer... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080294550 - Method of preserving rainforest: A method of preserving land in which a large parcel of land is acquired. The land is divided into small sections referred to as tiles and these tiles are advertised for sale. Interested users purchase tiles via a website. Thereafter, the website delivers a printed deed and a preferably a... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20080294549 - Processing electronic tearsheets: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving an offer to pay for advertising to be run in a printed publication according to offer parameters that include a publication time; receiving an acceptance to run the advertising according to the offer parameters; receiving, at a submission time, an electronic tearsheet,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294552 - Centralized affiliated marketplace networks and associated methods: A centralized marketplace for efficient and streamlined third party listings, including advertisements, to be placed within networks of marketplaces. An automated backend coordinates the submission of listing transactions, including the collection of fees, timings of display of listings, etc., as well as providing a platform to organize networks. Network organization... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080294553 - Reserve account mortgage method and system: A method and system are provided to resolve financial problems and/or discretionary financial decisions by mortgagors and other borrowers. If a mortgage is current, then any extra money received from the mortgagor is automatically credited to a reserve account, which pays down the mortgage principal. If a mortgage payment is... Agent: William C. Milks, Iii Russo & Hale LLP

20080294554 - Automated transfer with stored value fund: According to the invention, a method for automatically transferring credit between a stored value fund and a handler using a wide-area computer network is disclosed. In one step, automated transfer information is received at a server computer system from the wide-area computer network that is coupled to a user associated... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294555 - Data network-implemented tax advantaged account transaction and reconciliation: Data network-implemented tax advantaged account transaction and reconciliation is described, including identifying a tax advantaged account, the tax advantaged account being identified using a card configured to store data, receiving a transaction request, the transaction request being associated with the tax advantaged account, determining whether the transaction request indicates a... Agent: Kokka & Backus, PC

20080294557 - Data processing system and method: A method of authenticating a transaction, comprising providing details of a card to a merchant; providing transaction identifying information to a data processing device; and sending the transaction identifying information to a third party using the data processing device.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080294556 - Mobile commerce service: A payment system processes payments so that vendors and consumer may have an increased degree of confidence as to the security of the transaction. More precisely, a consumer enters a messaging address through which the user may receive communications on a wireless device using a vendor point of sale system.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294558 - Portable electronic appliance, data processor, data communication system, computer program, data processing method: Aimed at providing a portable electronic appliance and a data processor capable of preventing stealing of electricity, a mobile phone terminal, which is a portable electronic appliance of the present invention supplied with electric power from the specific commercial power source, is brought into functional interruption by a data processor,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080294559 - Transmission of anonymous information through a communication network: A system that enables anonymous data collection from Respondents, such as over the Internet using public key technologies, where the anonymity and authenticity of Respondents is provided by a trusted mediation service. The invention provides a simple and secure solution that allows authentication of research Respondents while maintaining their anonymity.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080294561 - Media content deciphered when initiated for playback: Media content being deciphered when initiated for playback is described. In embodiment(s), encrypted media content can be received from a content distributor without deciphering the encryption that is applied by the content distributor. Optionally, the encrypted media content can also be recorded without deciphering the applied encryption. The encrypted media... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080294560 - Method of storing content: A method comprising receiving at a user equipment encrypted content. The content is stored in said user equipment in an encrypted form. At least one key for decryption of said stored encrypted content is stored in the user equipment.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080294562 - Storage medium processing method, storage medium processing device, and program: The content data is offered not only to specific storage media but also to the storage media of several different types. Various kinds of storage media (SDq, MSq, HDDq, etc.) enabled to acquire data from a license center unit 40 is provided with different type-identifier data IDs. This data is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080294563 - Multipurpose electronic payment method and system: The invention relates to multipurpose electronic payment method and system. The inventive method consists in transmitting (A) from a multimedia terminal (TM) a payment order (MP) issued from at least one multimedia application hosted in the (TM) to a local proxy for payment (PP), in discriminating (B) said payment order... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080294564 - Systems and methods for price matching on funds transfers: Systems and methods for performing financial transfers. In some instances, the methods include providing a staged transaction system that includes at least two stages. Quotes are accessed for the first and for the second stage of the transaction. One quote associated with a stage of the transaction is selected and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294575 - System for providing widget-type idle-screen contents data providing system for mobile communication terminal: A system for providing a widget-type idle-screen contents data is provided. The system includes a data generation unit which generates the widget-type idle-screen contents data for the mobile communication terminal; a contents database which receives the widget-type idle-screen contents data from the data generation unit and stores and manages the... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080294576 - Direct response media distribution method: In direct response media distribution any suitable cause or NPO purchases one or more blocks of direct response time from a media outlet to present a message. The NPO coordinates with one or more advertisers to purchase (sublet) time within the direct response media time and the purchased time offsets... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20080288265 - Energy efficiency compliance system and methods: A compliance system configured to assist a user with the selection of building materials that comply with a regulatory requirement includes a processor, a forms generator, and a user interface. The processor is programmed to receive a first user input via the user interface, which first user input identifies a... Agent: Johns Manville

20080288269 - Enterprise-wide data standardization structure and method: A method and structure for data standardization as a basis for a service-oriented architecture in an enterprise. A logical business model (30) defines processes and organization of an enterprise. An implementation model (40) defines an information technology to support the business model (30). Standard core language elements (60) communicate and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080288271 - Internet-based survey system and method: An Internet-based survey system, method and computer-readable medium that captures feedback from job seekers and employees at various stages of pre- and post-hire, and aggregates their perceptions of various aspects of the company in order to formulate and display resulting data which helps a company create more targeted and cost-effective... Agent: Ms. Claudia J. Faust

20080288267 - Method and apparatus for automatically managing work tickets: Disclosed is an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system that automatically manages work tickets. The IVR system receives a work ticket (e.g., a dig ticket) from a Call Center. The work ticket corresponds to work to be performed by a contractor. The IVR system transmits a notification of the work ticket... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080288276 - Method, process and system for survey data acquisition and analysis: A system for survey data acquisition and analysis, including: at least one central processing system, including a storage device, a processing device and a communication device; and at least one portable computing device, including: a display device configured to visually display content to a user, the content comprising at least... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080288277 - Methods for encouraging charitable social networking: A method of encouraging charitable donations by individuals who are members of a social network is disclosed. A user creates a member account by supplying user identity data from the user and creates a campaign, wherein the created campaign is associated with one or more charities and a financial goal.... Agent: Robert T. Maldonado Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080288264 - Methods for generation or increasing revenues from crops: The present invention provides methods of doing business and providing services. For example, methods of increasing the revenue of crops are provided. To this end, the method includes the use of a nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and mini... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080288268 - Novel real estate transactions: Described herein is a method for conducting real estate transactions wherein the sheltering and care of an individual is ensured for the remainder of the individual's life. The method includes the offering of a residence unit for sale by a provider, the purchase of the residence unit for a fixed... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080288274 - System and method for cross-border interlinking of national posts: The present invention interconnects national postal systems to provide for international shipping capabilities through a global post. More particularly, the present invention provides end-to-end visibility and monitoring of shipped parcels and documents through coordinated and/or standardized tracking. Also, the invention provides for allocation between national posts of monies received for... Agent: Accenture, LLP C/o Hogan & Hartson, LLP (ipgroup)

20080288278 - System and method for expressing and evaluating signed reputation assertions: A method for expressing and evaluating signed reputation assertions is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first entity receives a request to generate a signed assertion relating to a piece of content. The first entity generates a reputation statement about a second entity from reputation-forming information (RFI) about the second entity... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080288270 - System and method for generating an internet-based mall portal: A method for providing a web-based mall portal for an affiliate that provides access to at least one of merchant web sites and service provider web sites through at least one of merchant information pages and service provider information pages, where the merchant information pages and the service provider pages... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080288266 - System and method for service offering for feedback controller design and implementation for performance management in information technology systems: A software development service offering of constructing and embedding feedback control based algorithms into computer systems management software applications is delivered by a provider entity to a client organization. The provider is contracted by the client to prepare a set of control modeling assets based on identified computing system management... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080288275 - Trip report management system for clinical monitoring: A computer-implemented method is provided for managing trip reports related to clinical monitoring, wherein each trip report includes a trip status. An administration computer maintains a plurality of trip reports associated with a clinical study. Trip reports are entered into the administration computer. A user interface allows authorized users to... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080288272 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080288273 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080288283 - Health care financing system and method: A method for financing health care includes the steps of: receiving patient data in a data processing system; collecting from disparate health care grant systems health care grant information into a single database; identifying qualification criteria in the health care grant information; and, comparing the patient data to the qualification... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080288282 - Method and system for reducing the incidence of defensive medicine: Methods and systems are described that implement evidence-based schemata in a health care system that embody practice guidelines and/or a standard of care. Physicians in the health care system agree to adhere to the practice guidelines. An insured patient transfers the right to sue a physician malpractice to a neutral... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080288285 - Method of performing clinical trial budget analysis: A computer-implemented method is provided of analyzing budgets for clinical trials. A clinical trial budget is entered into a processor. The budget includes activities and associated activity costs. The activities are classified into a set of standardized service categories. The processor then allocates the associated activity costs with the respective... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080288279 - Real-time interactive survey system and method: A method and system of conducting surveys within a hospital includes the steps of (a) providing a phone or television at the hospital which is operably connected to a computer based device having survey software thereon for conducting a telephonic or television survey with the patient (b) conducting said telephone... Agent: A Patent Lawyer Corp, PLC R William Graham

20080288284 - Remote diagnostics for in-home audio video gear: A first station (12, 16) at least sends audio/visual content to audio/visual devices (50, 92). A user interface (50) displays audio/visual content received from the first station (12, 16) when the audio/visual devices (50, 92) are properly configured. A control device (52, 120) communicates with the audio/visual devices (50, 92)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080288287 - Saferite system: A system for allowing a user, such as a physician, to prepare a prescription form in multiple parts: one part encoding the prescription information (such as through a bar code, radio frequency identification, or other encoding means), and a second part containing a graphic or physical representation of the medication... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20080288280 - System and method for meeting payer protocols: A system and method for processing healthcare service data is herein disclosed. The system comprising a decision engine in communication with a process manager and a knowledge source. The decision engine receives at least one protocol from the knowledge source that is derived by automated learning and applies the at... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080288281 - System and method for submitting medication claims by point-of-care physicians: A system for submitting a claim for a dispensed medication to a patient by a point-of-care physician including means acquiring at least one of the group consisting of a national practitioner number and a non pharmacy dispensing number for the point-of-care physician; means for displaying to a user a selection... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080288286 - Systems and methods of analyzing healthcare data: The present invention provides systems and methods of analyzing healthcare data. In one embodiment, a Medical National Operations Center application (MNOC) displays clear, concise and actionable information, with visual indicators, to help Line of Service (LOS) teams to manage their operations by providing a dashboard of information. For example, the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080288290 - Computerized system and method for enhancing health insurance explanation of benefits: A system and method for generating a health insurance explanation of benefits for a patient is provided for receiving one or more adjudicated claims from a health insurance company; analyzing the one or more claims in relation to patient information stored in a patient records database; and generating a personalized... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080288291 - Digital signature, electronic record software and method: A method and system for managing patient care includes electronically recording medical and demographic information of a patient and developing and electronically recording with the same software program an assessment of the patient including a plan of treatment having defined objectives and goals. Progress notes are periodically entered with the... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080288289 - Method and system for efficient orthodontic treatment information management: Method and system for providing generating an orthodontic treatment data package, generating a patient identifier associated with the orthodontic treatment data package, transmitting the generated orthodontic treatment data package to a remote site, encoding the patient identifier and disposing the encoded patient identifier on a housing of an orthodontic treatment... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080288288 - Methods and apparatus to generate rules for clinical lab results: A computer-based method for generating rules for a clinical decision support system includes displaying a selected lab result for a patient, receiving a command from a user to create a rule using the selected lab result, and displaying questions and receiving answers from the user concerning future values of the... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080288294 - Publisher gateway systems for collaborative data exchange, collection, monitoring and/or alerting: A Publisher source of healthcare data is configured to communicate with an Internet-based data sharing system, the Publisher comprising a Publisher Gateway configured to electronically receive patient data from a plurality of data input sources, automatically correlate data from the plurality of input sources associated with respective patients into respective... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080288292 - System and method for large scale code classification for medical patient records: A method for training classifiers for ICD-9 patient codes includes providing a set of documents regarding patient hospital visits, combining the documents for each patient visit to create a hospital visit profile, defining a feature as an ngram with a frequency of occurrence greater or equal to a predetermined value... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080288293 - System and method for virtual health services: A system and method for allowing health providers and patients to communicate from a remote location independent of physical location is disclosed. Health codes are provided to a health provider after the health provider registers with an online website. The code allows the provider access to a medical records database.... Agent: Mckay & Associates, PC.

20080288296 - Computer apparatus and method for performing financial transaction processing: A computer apparatus for performing financial transaction processing on a plurality of accounts is disclosed. The computer apparatus comprises a data storage device having a plurality of account files, with each account file storing data relating to a particular account; a data processor for processing data relating to the account... Agent: General Electric Company Global Patent Operation

20080288295 - Computer system managing an insurance reserve requirement by segmenting a reinsurance transaction: Apparatus (method implemented with a machine, the machine, and the method for making the machine, and products produced thereby). The computer system can, for example, be structured (e.g., including programmed) to carry out the steps of: calculating an insurance reserve requirement from data; segmenting, for the reserve requirement, an economic... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20080288300 - Data processing system and method: A data processing system including a database, a file server coupled to the database, a template engine coupled to the file server. The template engine being configured to create a plurality of insurance brokerage industry templates. The system further including an application service provider interface logic coupled to the file... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080288301 - Data processing system and method: Systems and methods are presented for managing at least one database in the insurance brokerage industry. A database is configured to store information regarding a plurality of insurance brokerage industry projects. The database is configured to allow access to brokers via the broker user interface logic. The brokers are permitted... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080288297 - Hedged financial product having a guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit and method of generating the same: A method for generating a hedged financial product having a guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit including the steps of: formulating a financial product having a guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit which is defined by a payout calculated based on a function of an investment value of an underlying asset, the investment value... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080288298 - Method and system for providing low-cost life insurance: The invention generally concerns systems and methods for providing low-cost insurance to a group of individuals seeking insurance. The system and method may determine a group of individuals to be insured. The individuals may be pooled into a collective entity. The entity may be provided with one or more financing... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080288299 - System and method for user identity validation for online transactions: A process is proposed that collects minimal personal data of an individual who is conducting a transaction online, either directly or from a third party. The data collected is then matched to a known and validated public profile stored in public and private databases, and a set of Knowledge Based... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080288302 - Method and system for automatically keeping travel data consistent between passenger reservation records and corresponding electronic tickets: A method and a system keeps travel data consistent between a database of airline reservations storing passenger name records (PNR's) including travel segments, and a database of electronic tickets (E-tickets) including travel coupons, this latter database being independently controlled from a ticketing server. Whenever a travel segment is updated or... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080288305 - Enterprise decision management system and method: A management system and method providing a flexible, iterative approach for conducting strategic consulting and planning engagements as well as application-based and custom system development projects. The system and method are intended to provide a unifying framework to both communicate planning and delivery approaches to clients and to enable collaboration... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080288309 - Future technology projection supporting apparatus, method, program and method for providing a future technology projection supporting service: A technology projection supporting apparatus includes a describing section extracting unit and steps for extracting a problem describing section and an effect describing section from each technical document, a technical phrase extraction unit and steps to extract a technical phrase, which indicates a matter to be achieved by a technology,... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080288312 - Generating sufficiently sized, relatively homogeneous segments of real property transactions by clustering base geographical units: Systems and methods for generating segments of real property transactions by clustering base geographic units are provided. According to one embodiment, information regarding real property transactions is received, each transactions corresponds to a base geographic unit based on a physical location of a real property associated with the transaction at... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080288311 - Job referral network system: A system and software for networking of job seekers and company insiders associated with companies having available job openings, and which provides incentives for the job seekers and the company insiders to work together to secure employment of the job seekers in the available job openings. One category of incentive... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080288315 - Location based services revenue sharing and cost offsetting: An opportunity server tracks in vehicle information system wireless web transactions using session identifiers, aggregates transaction records into session data, and uses session data assign cost of network and system usage to a winning bidding party in an online offering system so as to offset costs to the user for... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080288308 - Method and apparatus for outsourcing liquidity transactions: Method and apparatus for managing financial transactions for multiple counterparties that allows traders, market makers, dealers, and prime brokers to negotiate with multiple liquidity providers simultaneously, and to receive and respond to transaction processing directives and settlement instructions in real time. The invention, which may be accessed over an interconnected... Agent: Law Offices Of Grady L. White, LLC

20080288303 - Method for detecting and preventing fraudulent internet advertising activity: A method for preventing fraud in Internet-based advertising. The first step of this method is providing behavior-tracking software on a user computer. That software tracks and analyzes the user's activity across multiple content providers. Next, the system displays content, including advertising, based on preferences inferred from previous activity. Finally, the... Agent: Claria Corporation C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080288310 - Methodologies and systems for mobile marketing and advertising: Methods and systems analyze the efficacy of mobile marketing and advertising taking into account more than those attributes which were originally selected for the selected target profile(s) associated with a mobile marketing or marketing or advertising campaign. More specifically, the analysis includes consideration of profile attributes that need not be... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080288314 - Methods, systems, and options for publication advertisement information management: The preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for the improved management and distribution of advertising specifications for publications. The management system preferably includes a plurality of publishers, a central repository, and a plurality of users. The publisher develops a set of advertisement specifications for use... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080288307 - Project management support device and method thereof: Disclosed is a project management support device which compares, when a project is planned, standard work information stored in a standard work information database 21 with work information planned based on the standard work information according to a project target or a project condition, displays added or omitted work information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080288304 - System and method for enabling decision activities in a process management and design environment: A set of decision activities can be provided to a business process management and design software tool. The tool can be used to define various processes that contain one or more activities linked by transitions. During process design time, a business analyst can identify process-relevant data of the process to... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080288306 - System, method and computer program product for processing and visualization of information: Systems and methods for processing and reporting information and data, such as business information, and more particularly, to systems, software, hardware, products, and processes for use by businesses, individuals and other organizations to collect, process, distribute, analyze and visualize information, including, but not limited to, business intelligence, data visualization, data... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080288313 - Systems and methods for evaluating enterprise issues, structuring solutions, and monitoring progress: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for evaluating business issues, structuring solutions, and monitoring progress that enable organizations to capitalize on organizational intelligence and intrinsic knowledge. In an embodiment, the method comprising: defining a framework that includes an executive level task related to work for operating an organization, directing... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080288317 - Resource demand capacity mechanism: A computer-executed method for allocating resources is described. Data representative of target percentages of time for a plurality of project activities is received where the target percentages add to 100%. For each target percentage of each project activity, data representative of an amount of the target percentage that at least... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080288318 - Smart tram system and method for using: A system and method for providing mass transit is disclosed. The system is able to dispatch a vehicle to a person in response to their contacting a central controller. The system can adjust their route depending on the needs of the person and/or persons who are using the system. The... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20080288319 - System and method for interacting with participants of a future event: A system and method for conducting on-line meetings that includes functionality for scheduling and calendaring on-line meetings or events. The system functionality for scheduling and calendaring on-line meetings or events includes enhanced functions for specifying actions to be performed at the time of the meeting and rendering the nature of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288316 - System and method for passive event scheduling using a moderating engine: A method, system and program are provided for moderating the automated scheduling of meetings and their respective participants. Input actions are received resulting in the origination of a meeting, which is then assigned a hierarchical prioritization value that is cross referenced to the meeting moderator's hierarchical ranking parameters, which are... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20080288320 - Actionable business plan creation and execution: Disclosed is a system and method for creating and executing business plans. A business plan is created as an actionable business plan using an interactive knowledgebase. The actionable business plan is stored in an electronic format using a hierarchical parent/child storage structure, such as a structure that may be created... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20080288321 - Automatic maintenance estimation in a plant environment: A maintenance system for a process plant collects and uses historical data about maintenance orders. The data identifies the maintenance items for completing an order, such as the labor, materials, and maintenance tasks required. The data is historical data developed from actual completed maintenance orders. The system uses archived historical... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080288323 - Method of arranging supplemental meeting services: A method of scheduling meetings within a calendaring system can include receiving a meeting request specifying a meeting time, at least one participant, and a supplemental meeting service to be scheduled concurrently with the meeting. A determination can be made that a supplemental meeting system is not available. Accordingly, participants... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080288322 - Methods and systems for project management: Systems and methods for facilitating the management of project resources such that high levels of supervision and project management may be achieved. Embodiments of the systems and methods further enable rapid response project management through the interaction of a client relationship management system, a phone system, an email communication system,... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080288324 - Computer system and method for evaluating scientific institutions, professional staff and work products: A system and method for evaluating the productivity of scientific institutions, performance of their personnel and quality of their work products using electronic evaluation forms and global or customized scoring systems. The computer based evaluation system uses a plurality of evaluating devices and data storage systems including a module management... Agent: Rashida A. Karmali

20080288328 - Content advertising performance optimization system and method: A content targeted advertising performance optimization system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080288332 - Designating a parting price for a physical item in the control of a user: An item data management server provides for parting price for physical item inventories as a whole, in which the parting prices are subjectively based upon a value judgment for corresponding physical items and operates as an invitation for another user to make an offer for the physical item. The parting... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080288335 - Home valuator: A system for estimating home and property values is based upon current market data including recent comparable properties sold. The comparable sales may be chosen based on their proximity to the subject and their similarity in building and land assessments by the town or city in which the property is... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080288336 - Method and system for managing real property transactions having internet access and control: In general, the invention is directed to a system for managing real estate transactions that includes a data interface and an application server. The data interface is configured to access property data for a number of properties listed for sale. The application server operatively connected to the data interface and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080288326 - Method and system of forecasting customer satisfaction with potential commercial transactions: A method and structure for predicting a satisfaction a consumer will experience contingent on accepting one or more offers from potential sellers. A request is received from a consumer describing one or more transactions in which the consumer may wish to engage. One or more offers are received from one... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080288334 - Method for stock keeping, computer system and computer program: The present invention relates to a method, computer system and computer program for stock keeping. An embodiment of the invention determines forecast values of quantities to be consumed of a stock keeping unit for at least two different forecast time spans depending on a historical consumption data. The invention further... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080288327 - Store management system and program: A store management system of the present invention includes a storage device configured to store index data for associating identification information on a product, a purchase proportion, a purchase amount per purchasing customer and a repeat purchase proportion, a customer indicator value calculating unit configured to calculate customer indicator value... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080288331 - System and method for analysis and visual representation of brand performance information: A method of, and system for, measuring performance of a brand comprises: receiving, from a plurality of responders, responses to a set of survey questions, the set of survey questions comprising n subsets of questions, n being an integer, each of the n subsets of survey questions being intended to... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080288325 - System and method for providing information regarding a redirection of an internet user to a webpage: Systems and methods for providing information related to a redirection of a user to a webpage are disclosed. In one implementation, an ad provider serves a digital ad in response to a digital ad request. A user navigation event, such as a click-through, related to the served digital ad is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080288330 - System and method for user access risk scoring: Systems and methods for measuring access risk associated with an enterprise having at least one resource accessible by at least one user with at least one entitlement to access the resource. Some embodiments implement a method of identifying the resources, users, and entitlements and associating access risk scores with the... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080288333 - System and method of optimizing a fixed-route transit network: According to an aspect of the invention there is provided a method of optimizing a fixed route on a transit network, comprising the steps of: a) permitting a vehicle providing service on the fixed route to make deviations from the fixed route based on passenger requests; b) tracking the deviations... Agent: Lang Michener

20080288329 - User interface for identifying trade opportunities: A computerized trading system is provided including a streamlined trading user interface for analyzing market trends and identifying trade opportunities. In an embodiment, the trading user interface includes a plurality of streamlined user interface screens that sequence the flow of market information from analyzing market data and arriving at a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080288347 - Advertising keyword selection based on real-time data: Methods and apparatus are described for selecting advertising keywords for advertising campaigns. A set of keywords is identified from a dynamic data set. The dynamic data is generated from at least one data source which is updated via the Internet substantially in real time. Each keyword in the set of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080288341 - Authored-in advertisements for documents: A method, apparatus and computer program product for associating advertisements with a document is presented. A document for having advertisements associated therewith is identified, the document comprising a portable electronic document. At least one advertisement tag is provided for the document, the advertisement tag identifying possible types of advertising materials... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080288345 - Computer-implemented system and method for marketing products and services: A computer-implemented system and method for advertising a product, brand or service without initially providing the name of the product, brand or service includes a computer hosting a website with a game that is accessible by a user device. The website provides a video of the product, brand or service... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080288356 - Displaying paid search listings in proportion to advertiser spending: In a pay for placement database search system, in which advertisers pay to include their search listings in a database to be provided with search results in response to queries from searchers, each advertiser decides how much money he wants to spend on a search term. The search provider displays... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080288353 - Interactive marketing network and process using electronic certificates: A data processing system issuing electronic certificates through “online” networks of personal computers, televisions, or other devices with video monitors or telephones. Each electronic certificate includes transaction data and identification data, and can be printed out on a printing device linked to a consumer's personal input device, or electronically stored... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080288354 - Location-aware adaptive advertising: A system and method of advertising based on the automatic determination of an advertising recipient's location and inferences of preferences derived from usage behaviors is disclosed. The advertising recipient's location that is considered in delivering a specific advertisement may be the current location or one or more historical locations. Proximity... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20080288352 - Method and apparatus for interactive individualized gifting and method for feedback of receipt of same: Disclosed is a convenient and effectively immediate gifting method for who wants to interactively gift via a service provider by specific identification of a gift recipient, choosing a gift from among gifts available from the service provider or a partner thereof, and providing a message for relaying to the gift... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080288343 - Method and system to process digital media product codes: Systems and methods for processing digital media product codes. In one aspect, purchased digital media comprising a digital media product code is sent to a customer. In another aspect, purchased digital media comprising a digital media product code is received from a merchant. In another aspect, digital media is registered... Agent: Michele Baillie

20080288346 - Method for private sellers to certify previously owned vehicles: A method is taught whereby an individual vehicle seller who wishes to sell his or her vehicle privately (without using a dealer) can provide a potential purchaser with a certification of the vehicle that is backed by a known and reputable vehicle maintenance-and-repair entity. A method of advertising the certification... Agent: Delain Law Office, PLLC

20080288349 - Methods and systems for online interactive communication: Systems and methods of providing interactive online communication are described. A chat enabled communication is transmitted over a network to a user via a browser hosted on a user terminal, wherein the communication is provided to the user in association with search results at least partly in response to a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080288338 - One-click posting: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates automatically generating an advertisement. An interface component can receive a portion of image data related to at least one of a good or a service associated with a transaction. An automatic posting component can automatically generate an advertisement... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288348 - Ranking online advertisements using retailer and product reputations: A method for ranking online advertisements using retailer reputation and product reputation. In one implementation, a query may be received. Advertisements may be selected by determining a level of relevance between the query and each advertisement and selecting the advertisements with a level of relevance above a pre-determined level of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288342 - System and method for displaying advertisements using a toolbar: Systems and methods have been developed for displaying advertisements within a toolbar. The toolbar display is generated by a toolbar application that searches content displayed within a browser window. For each web page, one or more keywords are selected based on the contents of the web page and an advertisement... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080288350 - System and method for enabling advertisers to purchase advertisement space in video games: The present invention provides a method for advertisers to send messages to targeted audiences in a video game. The messages are multimedia in nature (images and movies) and displayed in non-game play areas of games so that it does not interfere with the game play experience of the game player.... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080288351 - System and method for facilitating electronic financial transactions using a mobile telecommunication device: A transaction processing system for processing a transaction between a supplier and a customer, said system comprising a supplier device for initiating the transaction, a system server and a mobile communication device, said device containing a message processing program module for enabling local verification of the transaction within the mobile... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080288355 - System and method for location based matching and promotion: Systems and methods for profile matching and promotion. Location-related data and other profile characteristics are used for promotion and for matching of businesses, venues and other entities with user specified criteria.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080288340 - System and method for providing a pre-paid rebate card: The present invention is a system and method for providing pre-paid rebate cards. The present invention may provide a rebate offer to a consumer in relation to a particular purchase. A consumer may then submit a request for redemption of the rebate. A rebate processing center may, among other rebate... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080288344 - System for tiered bidding in an online information system based on the integrity of network interactions: A system is described for bidding in an online information system on tiers for a search term or group of terms in a search request based on the integrity of the network interaction which generated the search request. The system may include a processor, an interface and a memory. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080288339 - Systems and methods for improving customer retention: An aspect relates to a method for retaining a customer. According to various embodiments of the method, a number of predetermined tasks are performed according to a predetermined schedule when a new account is opened. The predetermined tasks include receiving a reason for creating the account, sending at least one... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080288337 - Template-based targeted marketing: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide for the creation of a template-based targeted marketing presentation. According to various embodiments described herein, a sales representative utilizes a workstation to request a marketing presentation for a certain category of customer within a particular market. A presentation engine retrieves applicable up-to-date data corresponding... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080288357 - Restaurant patron location tracking and table turn monitoring system: A restaurant facility patron location tracking system that includes a restaurant networked table management system and portable pucks that have an ID chip reader which associates with a table with a ID chip located at the table, thereby allowing for the real-time monitoring and updating of location of customers within... Agent: Dennis G. Lapointe Lapointe Law Group, Pl

20080288358 - Funds collection tools and techniques: Tax collection tools and techniques automatically and electronically separate tax amounts from other funds in a commercial transaction, and divert the collected tax into a holding fund. The holding fund bears income, at little or no risk. Funds collected are tracked, as are their payment due dates, and tax payments... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20080288364 - Construction project submittal management: A network based construction project management system. The system includes network accessible databases of project information including drawings and specifications. The system allows for varying amount of access for various user including general contractors, subcontractors, architects and project owners. The system allows for the effective creation, management and long term... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080288359 - Method, system, and program product for customizing educational materials: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for preparing customized educational materials. The invention may include, for example, receiving input from a user regarding the user's preferences for educational materials, retrieving core educational materials from a repository, accepting dynamic educational materials, and assembling the customized educational materials using... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080288360 - Online birthday register: Online birthday register software system, allowing a user to register his personal information including birth date online. The system allows a user to search for and select gifts by category and sub category and provides a method for the user to select gifts and to print customized gift certificates. The... Agent: Robert Woolard

20080288362 - Online shopping systems and methods that include a gaming experience for shoppers: Systems and methods for conducting or facilitating online shopping transactions that include gaming experiences for buyers/shoppers are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to purchase an item which is offered for sale by an online seller from an online buyer/shopper, and, in response to receiving said request to... Agent: Patent Law Professionals

20080288363 - Recording medium, information processing system and information processing method: An information processing system processes commodity order acceptance information generated in an online store. The system includes: a recording medium for a charging process for settling a charge imposed on purchase or lending of a commodity from an online store; a recording apparatus for recording delivery destination information indicative of... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080288361 - System and method for lead generation and lead demand fulfillment: A method and a system of lead generation and lead demand fulfillment are provided. In example embodiments, a first environment may be maintained for a first party to present information related to an on sale transaction lead that the first party is interested in selling; a second environment may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080288370 - Business method and system related to a fashionable items utilizing internet: A method and system of B2C e-commerce for placing an order to purchase fashionable items for minimizing the return rate after selling via the Internet. The order is placed by a first banner window at seller's website for displaying a prerecorded digital video image of a model of the same... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080288371 - Internet based method and process for facilitating the presentation, sale, purchase, development and management of creative ideas concepts and content: The present invention provides a internet based method and process for facilitating the submission, presentation, sale, purchase, development, and management of creative ideas, concepts and or content that generally comprises computer software, including internet web page based code, and methods of applications for providing clients, or creative contents buyers and... Agent: Klaus Holzapfel

20080288366 - Method and system for the exchange of goods over the internet: The present invention contemplates a computer-implemented, currency-based method and system for the exchange of goods over the internet. The invention provides and maintains an exchange web site and an overall list of items available for exchange. The exchange provides and maintains a medium of exchange, the units of which are... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080288365 - Methods, media, and systems for payment determination: A content management system distributes items of media content to groups of users. The media is fingerprinted and tracked for reporting purposes. The system uses an algorithm to compensate for multiple content owners. The system can also be configured to provide content while still providing anonymity for actual use.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080288369 - Next generation eyewear retailing: In one embodiment, a method of viewing eyewear products is provided, which includes capturing a digital image of a consumer; standardizing the digital image of the consumer to a set coordinate system, providing a database containing a collection of eyewear images, wherein the images represent actual products for sale, searching... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080288368 - Real-time pricing of shipping vendors: Systems and methods for real-time pricing of shipping vendors are provided. Various shipping vendors may be queried concerning shipping specifications. Some embodiments provide for a query to be transmitted to a shipping vendor through an interface associated with the particular shipping vendor. In response to the query, real-time pricing information... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080288367 - System and method for interacting with a plurality of content receivers: A system and method are described that allow TV viewers to play a game wherein a bidder submitting a lowest unique bid wins an auction article or its cash equivalent.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080288372 - Virtual bundles: Virtual bundles of purchasable products are created by a person external to an electronic commerce site. In a preferred embodiment, the virtual bundles are associated with custom store accessible only by members of a group associated with the external administrator.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080288373 - Method for assisting selection of a build ahead configuration for use in supplying an ordered product: A method is provided for use in connection with build ahead configurations (BAC's), for enabling a manufacturer to quickly identify the available BAC that is most suitable for use in completing a product order. In one embodiment, directed to a method for increasing efficiency in constructing individual products of a... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080288376 - Centralized payment hub method and system: Embodiments described herein include an electronic transaction service network (also referred to herein as a centralized electronic transaction (CET) service). In another embodiment, a financial management system hosts a “central payment hub” version of the CET service. The central payment hub is an industrial utility in that multiple financial institutions... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080288375 - Media distribution reporting system, apparatus, method and software: An exemplary media distribution reporting system is couplable through a network to a plurality of media players. The exemplary system comprises a memory storing a database having media usage data; and a second media reporting server, the second media reporting server coupled to the memory and adapted to receive from... Agent: Gamburd Law Group LLC

20080288374 - Philanthropy management apparatus, system, and methods of use and doing business: A philanthropic donation management system and methods of use and doing business. The system includes a computing server in communication with a communications network, such as the Internet, a LAN, or a WAN. The computing server maintains information about charitable projects and provides remote users and others with management tools... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080288378 - Processing system for recording media content: A method and system are provided in which a user is enabled to record, for example, a song or other radio and/or video content, on demand, and to account for and process appropriate payment for the use of the recorded content. The recorded material is saved and indexed by title... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080288377 - System and method for providing reference cost of fraud data related to financial presentation devices that are presentable to providers of goods or services: A system for providing industry-wide reference cost of fraud data related to financial presentation devices that are presentable to providers of goods and services is provided. A fraud assessment module executable by a processor of the system receives, from multiple business entities, sales data and operating cost data both related... Agent: Abelman , Frayne / Visa

20080288379 - Construction payment management system and method with automated electronic document generation features: A system and method for managing a construction payment process. One method embodying the invention can include generating a budget for a construction project, receiving an invoice amount from at least one participant in the construction project, generating at least one of an automated invoice and an automated sworn statement... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080288380 - Method and system for providing streamed game software on portable terminal: A system and method for providing streaming game software for a portable terminal are provided. The system includes a software producer, a service provider, a portable terminal, and a billing device. The software producer produces streaming software, and the service provider provides the software in a streaming mode. The portable... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080288386 - method of systematic trend-following: This invention relates to alternative, synthesisable trend-following strategy, based on a rolling, delta-spliced lookback straddle. This operates like a conventional lookback straddle, except that the time to expiry, rather than monotonically running down to zero, is reset where possible to that of a ‘younger’ straddle, provided that the delta of... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080288385 - Method and system for preventing card fraud: A method and system for preventing card fraud include obtaining card event information of a card user from a provider such as a card issuer, a merchant, a retailer, etc., during a card event between the card user and the provider. The card event information is compared with known fraudulent... Agent: Malvern U. Griffin Iii Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080288388 - Method of conducting a due diligence procedure in a business transaction: A method of conducting a due diligence procedure of a contemplated, continuing or follow-up business transaction between first and second parties generally consisting of devising a list of inquiries, assigning values to such inquiries, establishing levels of risk exposure due to each response to such inquiries, eliciting responses to such... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20080288382 - Methods and systems for early fraud protection: Embodiments of the invention provide for improved early detection of fraud through user-defined monitoring of financial account information and communication of alerts and notifications of user-defined individualized potentially-fraudulent account activity to users. Embodiments of the invention permit an account fraud detection service provider to provide account monitoring services. The user... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080288381 - Student housing investment process: A method of investing in a multi-unit residential property used for housing students registered with and attending a academic or quasi-academic institution. The residential property is configured to include common areas and one or more apartments, wherein each apartment further includes common areas and one or more bedroom spaces. Ownership... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080288383 - System and process for protected retirement asset management: In one aspect, the invention comprises a system for the management and administration of a longevity policy funded by a retirement account comprising: (a) a means for creating a customized longevity policy by predicting future economic performance based on client data and (b) a means of servicing the customized longevity... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080288384 - System for automatic financial transaction notifications over wireless network or other network: In a method and system for automatically notifying a user when financial transactions (e.g., debit card transactions and credit card transactions) are carried out in association with the user's credit card or other financial account, each time a financial transaction is completed, a notification message is generated and transmitted to... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080288387 - System, method and computer program product for implementing a municipal arbitrage portfolio (map) in an investment company act of 1940 fund (1940 act fund): A system, method, and computer program product for implementing municipal arbitrage portfolios are set forth herein. A first investment fund that is compliant with the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) uses a special purpose trust that: (i) issues at least a First Security funded at least in... Agent: Venable LLP

20080288415 - Equity protection: Systems and methods are illustrated for providing an equity protection product to a borrower of a loan. Aspects of the equity protection product may be implemented using an equity protection agreement. The equity protection product may be used to safeguard a borrower's investment in the event of a housing market... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080288418 - Index-based liquidity system and method: A system and method for creating liquidity relative to one or more small businesses or assets provides liquidity to the small business or asset holder in return for a payment stream that comprises at least one payment that is adjustable relative to at least one relevant index.... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080288419 - Integrated trading and information system for collection and dissemination of valuation data: Systems and methods are provided for a financial trading information processing and transmission system representing: (a) a financial business intelligence system (FBIS) which aggregates observable market inputs along with valuation algorithms or pricing models to generate synthetic or theoretical ‘fair values’ or prices (aka Level 2 prices as defined by... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080288417 - Method and a computer system for forecasting the value of a structured financial product: A method and system for forecasting the value of a structured financial product, which can be a weather-based structured financial product. The method and system calculate a forecast value based on forecasted weather data for a defined time period in a defined geographical area, calculate reference weather data from historical... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080288420 - Portfolio optimization by means of meta-resampled efficient frontiers: A computer-implemented method and computer program product for selecting a portfolio weight (subject to specified constraints) for each of a plurality of assets of an optimal portfolio. A mean-variance efficient frontier is calculated based on input data characterizing the defined expected return and the defined standard deviation of return of... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080288416 - Using accounting data based indexing to create a portfolio of financial objects: A system, method and computer program product creates an index based on accounting based data, as well as a portfolio of financial objects based on the index where the portfolio is weighted according to accounting based data. A passive investment system may be based on indices created from various metrics.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080288390 - Complex order leg synchronization: A system is provided for trading complex orders for financial instruments, including complex orders that include legs that are to be executed on different markets. The legs of the order are optionally specified to be executed in a particular ratio, at net price, and/or at a range of net prices.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080288391 - Method and system for automatically inputting, monitoring and trading spreads: A method and system for providing dynamic display of electronic trading information for trading spreads. The method and system allow spreads to be automatically inputted, executed and monitored on one or more trading exchanges. The method and system also allows inputting and monitoring of the spreads from one or more... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C. Suite 325

20080288389 - Systems and methods for providing embedded receiver notes: Systems and methods are provided for providing an embedded receiver note which includes a swaption embedded in a bond. If a reference rate exceeds a strike rate of the swaption, a note holder receives a par value of the note. If the reference rate is lower than the strike rate... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080288393 - Credit worthiness rating method: A method of providing a credit worthiness rating, comprises receiving an identifier of an electronic device, such as a telephone number (12). Information is associated with the identifier. An assessor device (14) determines a credit worthiness rating (16) based on the information associated with the received identifier.... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080288392 - Merchant application and underwriting systems and methods: A method for establishing credit services with a merchant account using a computer system comprises receiving at a server computer application information on a merchant applying for a credit service. The application information is stored in a database. At the server computer, a request from a credit investigator is received... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080288394 - Risk management system: An automated method and system (100) for risk analysis, management and optimization for a plurality of commercial enterprises.... Agent: Asset Trust, Inc.

20080288398 - Cash sweep account platform system and method: An integrated banking transaction services (IBTS) module receives an instrument from a client to initiate a brokerage transaction between a broker-dealer and an investment firm. The IBTS module transmits a notification message to a broker-dealer that the instrument was presented. The IBTS module receives a confirmation message from the broker-dealer... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080288395 - Method and apparatus for payment retrieval and review collection: A method for conducting a review including the step of detecting a payment request from a vendor; generating a review based on the payment request; and, transmitting a reference to the review to a customer, wherein the reference provides a link to retrieve the review. A system for performing the... Agent: Tiffany & Bosco Camelback Esplanade Ii, Third Floor

20080288396 - System and method for combined reconciliation of co-branded card promotion and settlement of private label card accounts: A system and method for combined reconciliation of co-branded card promotion and settlement of private label card accounts are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method may include (1) establishing a first relationship with a merchant for promotion of a credit card, the first relationship including at least one merchant... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080288397 - Systems and methods for updating remittance data for payees: Systems and methods for updating remittance information associated with a payee are disclosed, where a service provider receives updated remittance information associated with a payee and identifies a database entry associated with the payee that includes preexisting remittance information. The updated remittance information is then stored in association with the... Agent: Sutherland Ii

20080288400 - Centralized payment method and system for online and offline transactions: Embodiments described herein include an electronic transaction service network (also referred to herein as a centralized electronic transaction (CET) service)=According to an embodiment, a financial management system hosts multiple CET web sites on behalf of multiple merchants. All transactions through any CET web site are executed and managed by the... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080288399 - Ex vivo methods for testing organ system disruption: Properties such as toxicity of substances may be determined by assaying properties, fates and effects of substances in an ex vivo metabolically active human organ or tissue under normothermic perfusion with a fluid containing a test substance. The data can be used as, for example, part of a submission to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080288402 - Automated banking machine and system: A cash dispensing automated banking machine that operates in response to data read from user cards includes a cash dispenser, keypad, and a card reader. The card reader is operative to read data bearing records such as user cards that include financial account information. At least one computer in the... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20080288401 - Commercial self-service electronic cash transfer transaction system \"person to person debit transfer system\": Disclosed is a system for transferring funds from ATM to ATM by performing a Debit Transfer transaction. The system provides the consumer with an alternative service for making a money transfer. Today, there is no commercial self-service electronic process in the market that enables the consumer to perform a money... Agent: Geniva Forrestine Jones

20080288404 - Method and system for payment authorization and card presentation using pre-issued identities: Systems and methods for authenticating a party are disclosed. A transaction may be initiated between a relying party and a presenter. The relying party can send the presenter a message with transaction information and requirements for authentication. The presenter can forward the message to a third party, which can authenticate... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080288403 - Pin encryption device security: An apparatus and method for securing transaction data, includes reading token data from a token using a read apparatus and encrypting the token data at the read apparatus, sending the encrypted token data to a security module over a communication link, and verifying the integrity of the communication link based... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080288405 - Systems and methods for automatic and transparent client authentication and online transaction verification: Systems and methods are described for providing fraud deterrents, detection and prevention during e-commerce, e-transactions, digital rights management and access control. Fraud deterrent levels may be automatically selected by a requesting transaction approval entity server (and can be related to level of risk, or security, related to fraud) or may... Agent: John, Michael Sasha

20080288409 - Electronic bidding/bid opening program, electronic bidding/bid opening system, and electronic bidding/bid opening method: An electronic bidding/bid opening program and the like that can verify validity of bidding information, and prove whether the bidding information has been falsified or not. Bidding information, partial identification information that shows each section of the bidding information in a manner identifiable from other sections, a plurality of pieces... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080288407 - Method, system and computer program product for detecting and preventing fraudulent health care claims: A method and system for detecting and preventing fraudulent health care claims. A bar code having a service date and provider ID is generated. The provider ID identifies a health care service provider that is requested to provide a service to a client on the service date. A digital image... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080288408 - Mobile consumer-to-consumer personal point of sale system and related business method: A business method for mobile commerce includes a first buyer purchasing an item from a Internet-based vendor using a first mobile computing device. A shopping history is developed. A second buyer, using a second mobile computing device, interrogates the shopping history of the first buyer to discover certain parameters regarding... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080288406 - System and method for telematic marketing: A method and system is provided for delivering promotional offers, information, or entertainment content relevant to a person comprising tracking the travel patterns, using the person's travel patterns to identify goods, services information or content of potential interest to the person, determining the location of the person and delivering relevant... Agent: X-patents, Apc

20080288410 - Content distribution system: A content distribution method is provided that restricts content distribution means to a specific distribution method and traces a content distribution route in the specific distribution method, without any leakage, even when a user who does not reproduce contents on the way exists. The content distribution system primarily encrypts contents... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080288412 - Method and device for controlling distribution and use of digital works: The present invention relates to a method and device for controlling distribution and use of a digital work stored together with an attached usage right information on a record carrier. The attached usage right information is encrypted or verified by using a hidden information which is changed at every change... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080288411 - Methods, media, and systems for tracking and encrypting content usage: A content management system distributes items of media content to groups of users. The media is fingerprinted and tracked for reporting purposes. The system uses an algorithm to compensate for multiple content owners. The system can also be configured to provide content while still providing anonymity for actual use.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080288413 - Method for the automatic generation and processing of an invoice document: The invention relates to a method for automated invoice generation and settlement from a payer (50) to a payee (20), comprising the steps of recording the invoice data necessary for carrying out the payment process for the invoice settlement, generation and printing of an invoice document, (10, 18), application of... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080288414 - Sales data processor and computer readable medium: A sales data processor connected to a server device via a communication network. A connection unit connects to the sales data processor a recording medium which has stored access information on the server device and identification information on the sales data processor. A CPU reads the access information and the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080288421 - Method and device arrangement for digitally franking postal articles: Method for digitally franking postal articles during which a digital postage paid impression is generated by a computer and applied to a postal article. Postal article-specific data for one or more postal articles to be created are generated in a first computer at a customer, and the access to a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080288422 - Documenting mail work flow: Exemplary systems and methods for documenting mail work flows are provided. A mailing label is read and the label information stored in a database. Additional information about the mailing service may be added to the database. Billing and/or delivery information is added to the database. A mailing label is read... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080288423 - System and method for providing access to a network: A method provides access to, and time for, using a network associated with a commercial establishment through a proxy server. The method enables access to the proxy server within a selected physical area adjacent to the commercial establishment; establishing data communication between a cash register within the commercial establishment and... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080281605 - Consultants - instrumentation loop logic diagrams: These are some examples in why the Process Loop Sheets play a role in both Water and Wastewater Plant design. There needs to be a communication device that engineers, plant operators, and contractors can review and come to the same conclusion on the operation of that process. However not all... Agent: John R. Davis

20080281624 - Data transmission system and data transmitting method: A data transmission system is provided that enables a user to move away before the completion of data transmission regardless of whether a refund is made in association with occurrence of a communication error when a data transmitting apparatus performs data transmission and collects a consideration. The data transmitting apparatus... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080281626 - Enabling interoperability between participants in a network: Interoperability is enabled between participants in a network by determining values associated with a value metric defined for at least a portion of the network. Information flow is directed between two or more of the participants based at least in part on semantic models corresponding to the participants and on... Agent: Ryan Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080281606 - Identifying automated click fraud programs: Methods and systems for identifying automated click fraud programs are provided. Upon receiving a request for presentation of a web page, the probability that the user is robotic is determined. The determined probability, along with historic behavior, if available, related to the requesting user, is used to determine a score... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080281616 - Innovation system: A method and system for encouraging innovation is described that includes conducting innovation contests and ranking innovators. The process allows high-level innovators to be identified, thereby improving the efficiency of finding innovative solutions and/or innovative employees.... Agent: Wesley B. Ames

20080281614 - Internet contextual communication system: This invention relates to a system and method for presenting to a user relevant areas of distributed computer network sites. In particular, the invention disclosed infers and cross reference user mind sets with data store of potential user goals. The user mind sets indicate a navigational goal of a user... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080281615 - Jurisdictional complexity manager for environmentally relevant items: The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items. The methods and systems may include identifying an environmentally relevant item recognized by a first jurisdiction, identifying an environmentally relevant item recognized by a second jurisdiction and providing a software-based module by which... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080281619 - Method and apparatus for facilitating user registration in an on-line auction environment: A method and apparatus for facilitating user registration in a network-based transaction facility are described. According to one embodiment, a user associated with a registration process in the network-based transaction facility is identified, and a verification rating is assigned to the user based on the accuracy of the registration information... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080281610 - Method and system for integrating idea and on-demand services: A method and system is provided having a webpage for posting ideas integrated with on-demand customer relationship management. The website associated with the page may be stored in a tenant area of a multitenant database to facilitate maintaining multiple websites for different tenants. A webpage may be sent to a... Agent: David Lewis

20080281618 - Method and system for the tracking of articles: Detecting whether an article has been loaded or unloaded for example from a ship by tracking the movements of a transducer such as an RFID tag attached to the article in space, and comparing the tracked movements with a trajectory envelope characterizing the movements associated with a load or unload... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080281617 - Method and system for web site management: Disclosed is a remotely hosted browser based software as a service (SaaS) application for allowing users to create and customize a web space over a network from a computer connected with the network. The application includes an account creation module for creating a space with a service provider of the... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080281623 - Method for creating an educational supplemental plan: A computer-implemented method provides illustrations of college expense funding for a plurality of college students who attend an institution of higher education and who pay at least some college expenses using proceeds from parental college-related loans. The payments on the loans are reimbursed by the institution only if the student... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080281620 - Multi-modal automation for human interactive skill assessment: A method for screening applicants includes remotely accessing a screening entity's web page by a potential candidate. The candidate is asked, via the pre-screening web page, to input responses to a set of queries tailored to the screening entity and the candidate's responses to the queries are stored. A phone... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.A.

20080281621 - Peer-to-peer communication charging method, communication system and charging device: A peer-to-peer communication charging method for charging instant messaging services in a peer-to-peer network, includes the steps of: a) sending, by a service application server to a charging system, an application layer charging message including application layer charging information, a subsystem layer charging correlation identifier and/or a bearer layer charging... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080281608 - Providing collaboration services to business applications to correlate user collaboration with the business application: An aspect of the present invention provides collaboration services to business applications and such a service is provided by a mediator and a collaboration application. The collaboration service offers a user of the business application the ability to collaborate with other users of the business application or one or more... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080281622 - Social networking system: The invention provides a method of managing an online social network for peer interactions, the method comprising: a) creating at least one sphere for users to associate over a common interest; b) identifying patterns associated with activity indicative of the common interest; c) monitoring the online actions of at least... Agent: Bullivant Houser Bailey PC

20080281625 - Substrate processing apparatus, license management program, license information serving apparatus, license information providing program, license management system, and recording medium: A disclosed substrate processing apparatus that processes a wafer under control of software includes a license information reception portion that periodically receives license information related to the software from a license information serving apparatus connected to the substrate processing apparatus via a network; a license information analysis portion that analyzes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080281627 - System and method for improving the performance of electronic media advertising campaigns through multi-attribute analysis and optimization: Automated system, methods, algorithms, procedures, and computer software programs and computer program products for improving and optimizing the performance of messaging campaigns, particularly for marketing campaigns in which advertisements or other messages are distributed over an interactive measurable medium such as the Internet. Analysis and Optimization method and procedure, an... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080281607 - System, method and apparatus for managing a technology infrastructure: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for managing a technology infrastructure having two or more technology elements by collecting data from the technology elements using one or more interface rules and a metadata dictionary stored in a data repository, analyzing the collected data and initiating one or... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20080281611 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080281612 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080281613 - Using a software application to configure a foam spring mattress: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080281609 - Web-based system and method for collection and management of real estate open house data: A system and method for management of real estate open house data includes a database and a web portal configured to provide access to information from the database. At least one user identification device, in the form of a portable data storage device configured for storage of user identification data,... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20080281631 - Health information management system: A novel healthcare data management system is provided which brings together various types of healthcare related data for enhanced patient care and overall patient data management. In one aspect of the invention a relational database is utilized for merging and managing healthcare provider demographic data, patient healthcare data, and administrative... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.c.

20080281634 - Medical information management apparatus: A medical information management apparatus is provided which enables the person in charge of the medical services to easily keep track of the amount of services. In a medical information management apparatus according to the present invention, a task information storing unit stores the information indicating the completion of task... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080281628 - Method and software product for establishing informed consent: A method and software product by which a medical practitioner (30) is able to obtain verifiable informed consent from a patient (32) involves the use of a computer system (3) executing a software product (18). The software product contains instructions to generate a series of forms on display (6). Initial... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20080281629 - Method and system for processing medical billing records: A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for processing professional and technical billing records relating to medical care provided to patients at a medical facility. The method includes (a) providing at a computer system a mapping of a set of professional billing codes and corresponding technical... Agent: BostonIPLaw Group

20080281635 - Method of administering a beneficiary medical procedure: A beneficiary medical procedure administration process is disclosed. The process includes entering a test administrator identity into a testing device. The testing device is also configured to take a biometric sample of the test administrator. A biometric sample may also be taken of the beneficiary. Such a scenario contemplates that... Agent: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080281633 - Periodic evaluation and telerehabilitation systems and methods: The present invention relates to a system and method for periodic evaluation and telerehabilitation in which a portable device is adapted to be held or coupled to a body part. For example, the portable device can be a cell phone. The body part can be, for example, the hand, ankle,... Agent: Diane Dunn Mckay, Esq. Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay & Bruneau, P.A.

20080281632 - Predictive billing and collection for medical services: A historical analysis of collections derived from professional services is undertaken to determine an average collected value for each particular type of service. Each type of collection is categorized by a plurality of criteria placed into a separate repository or category. Each repository is identified with a particular service code... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080281630 - Prescription compliance monitoring system: A method for monitoring patient compliance to medical therapy that includes repeatedly measuring therapy compliance of a patient, uploading the therapy compliance measurements to a personal computer, connecting a central server using the personal computer, sending the uploaded therapy compliance measurements from the personal computer to the central server, providing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080281636 - Compliance data for health-related procedures: Exemplary embodiments provide a verification technique that facilitates administration of a health-related procedure to an intended recipient patient or group of patients. An interface template or signal protocol may be configured to establish suitable matching between the patient and various types of objects used to administer the health-related procedure. In... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080281638 - Method and apparatus for tracking, documenting, and predicting fall-related activities: The system and methods disclosed enable health-care providers to more accurately predict, monitor, report, and organize health-care events for a plurality of patients. Each patient is provided a fall-detecting device configured to transmit a message indicative of a patient status to a host device maintained by a health-care provider. When... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080281639 - Real-time evidence- and guideline-based recommendation method and system for patient care: A system and method for providing feedback to a patient caregiver is provided that receives information on a periodic basis, such as every hospital shift, performs a parametric analysis on the treatment given with known standards that are stored in a database, and generates a report that identifies whether the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080281637 - System and method of automatically displaying patient information: Systems and methods of automatically or semi-automatically loading patient chart information onto a patient room computer system. The systems and methods involve using the patient room computer system to obtain patient identifying information, then requesting the patient chart from a primary computer system. Upon receiving the patient chart from the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080281642 - Business method for insurance, warranty or mutual company coverage on concrete, asphalt, brick, stucco, block and stone: This is a business method for concrete coverage insurance and warranty or service contracts for home or business owners calculated by figuring the square footage of an area. The premium is figured by demographics with deductibles in place for high or low loss. Policy duration will be determined by experience... Agent: Steven M. Zimmerman

20080281640 - Method for linking borrowers and investors: The present invention provides a method for linking borrowers and investors. The method comprises the step of receiving requests for loans and investments associated with borrowers and investors respectively. The method also comprises that step of associating at least one request for a loan or investment with more than one... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080281641 - System and method for administering a group benefit plan: A system and method for administering a group benefits plan having a processor configured to receive data for enrolling a participant in a group benefits plan self-administered by an employer, receive a claim submission for the participant, transmit the claim submission to a plan supervisor terminal for review, and receive... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080281643 - Competitive availability tools: A competitive, availability prediction system for predicting relative, competitive availability of seating on an airline flight is described. The system includes an availability predictor that predicts seating availability on a competitive flight, an availability system that produces an actual availability response for a flight and decision logic that compares the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080281644 - Seat selection method for event tickets: A method is provided for assisting users select seats for an event using a user interface to select a seat. The user interface includes at least one of, a price range slider, a number of seat selector, a seat ranking selector, a table of available seats and a venue map.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20080281645 - Computerized protection system and method for automatically identifying and/or characterizing risk parameters: The invention concerns a computerized protection system and method for automatically identifying and/or characterizing risk parameters. The invention is characterized in that it comprises a look up table (4) containing risk parameters, produced based on data records of products and/or populations, accessibly stored, in databanks (2), and classes of risk... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080281654 - Data center life cycle management: Managing a data center life cycle of an enterprise begins with a policy defining stages of the life cycle and criteria indicating a successful evaluation of each stage. Evaluators, according to a predetermined identity, attest to whether the policy is satisfied for a single stage of the life cycle until... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080281659 - Method and apparatus for optimization in workflow management systems: Activities within a workflow are either data management activities (DMAs) or non-DMAs. A workflow is typically carried out by a system by executing one activity after the other. This can, however, be very time consuming. A method and system are provided for optimizing a group of activities (GOA) comprising a... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20080281651 - Method and system for managing a strategic plan via defining and aligning strategic plan elements: A method and system for managing a strategic plan via developing and aligning strategy elements that include required business outcomes (RBOs), strategic business objectives (SBOs), and desired business outcomes (DBOs). RBOs are developed and assigned to key result areas (KRAs). RBOs are operational goals required by a higher-level organization, and... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080281650 - Method for computing the resiliency score of an organization or any part thereof: A method computes a resiliency score of an entity by representing the entity as a set of components. The method determines interactions and relationships and can, in one embodiment, determine two types of relationships between the components to produce resiliency scores for the components. These two types of relationships comprise... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080281656 - Method for computing the resiliency score of an organization or any part thereof: A method computes a resiliency score of an entity by representing the entity as a set of components. The method determines interactions and relationships and can, in one embodiment, determine two types of relationships between the components to produce resiliency scores for the components. These two types of relationships comprise... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080281652 - Method, system and program product for determining an optimal information technology refresh solution and associated costs: A method, system and program product for determining an optimal information technology refresh solution and associated costs for implementing the information technology refresh solution in a business. The method includes deploying on a computer system an information technology refresh solution tool that is configured to determine an optimal information technology... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20080281657 - System and method for assessing a procurement and accounts payable system: A system for deploying to a client accounting installation a general procurement and accounts payable application specifically configured for the client by an enterprise includes a database server for (1) maintaining on a storage device a database of templates describing procedures for assessing, preparing, developing, deploying and supporting the application,... Agent: Shelley M Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20080281646 - System and method for automated release tracking: A real estate transaction and release tracking system ensures deeds of trust, liens and other encumbrances are released in a timely manner after a specified (or statutory) period of time following settlement of a real estate transaction. Based on information provided by an agent, such as an escrow agent or... Agent: Thomas F. Bergert Williams Mullen

20080281647 - System and method for automated release tracking: A real estate transaction and release tracking system ensures deeds of trust, liens and other encumbrances are released in a timely manner after a specified (or statutory) period of time following settlement of a real estate transaction. Based on information provided by an agent, such as an escrow agent or... Agent: Thomas F. Bergert Williams Mullen

20080281648 - System and method for automated release tracking: A real estate transaction and release tracking system ensures deeds of trust, liens and other encumbrances are released in a timely manner after a specified (or statutory) period of time following settlement of a real estate transaction. Based on information provided by an agent, such as an escrow agent or... Agent: Thomas F. Bergert Williams Mullen

20080281649 - System and method for automated release tracking: A real estate transaction and release tracking system ensures deeds of trust, liens and other encumbrances are released in a timely manner after a specified (or statutory) period of time following settlement of a real estate transaction. Based on information provided by an agent, such as an escrow agent or... Agent: Thomas F. Bergert Williams Mullen

20080281653 - System and method for implementation of procedure tracking: A method for enabling managers/users to track the implementation of a procedure made up of many activities, within a large number of categories and over a prolonged period of time. The method includes entering data on the procedure and displaying activities that require attention within a specific category. The method... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20080281658 - Systems and methods for creating and reviewing vehicle damage repair estimates, and notifying entities of issues relating to manufacturer's warranty or repair content: Methods and systems for generating a damage repair estimate, generating information relating to warranty and short sheet issues for a particular damage repair estimate, identifying included/non-included operations in a target damage repair estimate, and notifying entities of the existence of warranty and short sheet issues. The analysis portion accesses a... Agent: Steven Siessman

20080281655 - Systems and methods for helping advertisers take advantage of co-op advertising opportunities: Software is used to automate selection of suitable co-op advertising programs from among choices with which an advertiser has had no prior substantial business relationship, to facilitate production, distribution and tracking of advertisements that comply with the specific requirements of the selected co-op advertising program(s). Of particular interest are Internet... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080281662 - Inventory and revenue maximization method and system: A method is provided for enterprise management and bundling of radio, outdoor and entertainment inventory to achieve maximum revenue on perishable products. An electronic data-mart 110 or central information storage and data processing system is established to collect influencing factors for the probability and price sensitivity of a particular advertising... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20080281663 - Method and system for scheduling the discharge of distributed power storage devices and for levelizing dispatch participation: Disclosed is a computerized method for dispatching energy from distributed resources in a discharge event so that the energy stored in individual devices is levelized, or so that an operator request is met. Evaluation of event parameters may be deferred. The method may be utilized to dispatch energy from plug-in... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20080281661 - Real-time advertisement displaying system and method thereof: A method for displaying advertisements in a real-time manner includes the step of getting an external information having one of the image data and the audio data, the step of managing the external data, the step of generating triggered messages, the step of displaying the advertisements according to the triggered... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080281664 - System and method for managing use and availability of equipment: A system and method is disclosed for managing use and availability of equipment on a jobsite. The system includes a group of equipment units being available to be reserved and/or used by pre-approved users. A control panel is provided on each of the units of equipment to facilitate operation of... Agent: Martin & Ferraro, LLP

20080281660 - System, method and apparatus for outsourcing management of one or more technology infrastructures: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for outsourcing management of one or more technology infrastructures having two or more technology elements by collecting data from the technology elements using one or more interface rules and a metadata dictionary stored in a data repository wherein each technology infrastructure... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20080281665 - Automated calendar concierge: A method and system of an embodiment of the present disclosure may include receiving data from a calendar client at a network element communicatively coupled to a network wherein the data comprises information relating at least in part to unscheduled time for a user associated with the calendar client, searching... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080281666 - Products and processes for operations management of casino, leisure and hospitality industry: In various embodiments of this invention, a suite of customized computer software applications, a linked or wireless computer network and accessory components cooperate to enhance and extend customer and employee resource management in the casino/gaming environment.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080281679 - Competitive fulfillment of discrete opportunities for an impression of broadband video commercials via self-regulating and self-adaptive dynamic spot markets: Systems, methods and business models for facilitating the syndication of broadband video commercials are provided. According to one embodiment, eligible broadband video commercials from an electronic marketplace are syndicated in real time via competitive fulfillment against an opportunity for an impression and its derived targeting vectors by self-regulating and self-adaptive... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080281674 - Determining metrics associated with advertising specialist: The present disclosure includes a system and method for determining metrics associated advertising specialist. The method including identifying actions associated with an advertisement produced by an ad specialist. The ad specialist selected by a user from a plurality of ad specialist. One or more ratings are associated with the ad... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080281668 - Determining the effects of advertising: Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for determining the effect of advertising are provided. Advertisement data is gathered at the location of an advertisement regarding the identity of the consumer exposed to the advertisement (the target), as well as the subject matter of the advertisement, by detecting the proximity of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080281675 - Electronic media systems and methods: Methods and systems of presenting media content targeted to at least one predetermined natural person are provided. Methods and systems for controlling the distribution of media content based on service provider profile data of a service provider are provided. Methods and systems for controlling the provision of media content for... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080281667 - Method and apparatus to automatically recover well geometry from low frequency electromagnetic signal measurements: A technique that is usable with a well includes providing a model so predict measurements that are received by receivers due to transmission by sources baaed on estimated positions of the receivers relative to sources. The estimated positions each have at least two dimensions. At least some of the receivers... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20080281671 - Method for determining a person's quality of life: t

20080281680 - Method of and system for managing promotions for purchase transactions over a network: A system for managing promotions over a network includes a promotion server system having a computer processor and associated datastore, the datastore containing data representative of terms and statistics of one or more item promotions, and a commercial server system including a computer processor, the commercial server system being selectively... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw P.C.

20080281676 - Methods and systems to facilitate keyword bid arbitrage with multiple advertisement placement providers: A system and method are directed towards identifying advertisement keywords within a variety of content types, identifying similarity rankings of advertisements based on the keywords, and to the guiding of keyword purchases. In one embodiment, a search is performed based in part on defined selection criteria, and/or scheduling rules. Content... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080281670 - Object transaction method and system: A transaction method and system. The system comprises a computing apparatus, a plurality of transceivers connected to the computing apparatus, and a plurality of transponder devices. Each transponder device comprising a customer data segment associated with a different customer from a plurality of customers for an entity. The computing apparatus... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080281678 - Practice management analysis tool for financial advisors: A practice management benchmarking tool may provide actionable feedback on practice and individual financial advisor performance that may identify how participants can improve their business. For example, the tool may provide a customized report that compares a practice's performance against other, relevant, local practices. The tool may also include an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080281677 - System and associated method for selecting advertisements: The invention relates to the selection of personalized advertisements in a media delivery network (102). The advertisement selection system (101) selects advertisements based on the content of the media delivered to the user (103) and based on the user-profile of the user (103) requesting the media.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080281669 - System and method for providing electronic price feeds for tradeable objects: System and methods for a price feed generation are described. According to an example method described herein, upon receiving market information including a plurality of linear prices and order quantities, a reference price level is selected and a price feed message is generated to include the reference price level and... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20080281673 - System and method for semi-automatic land planning: One embodiment of the invention includes a land planning tool that maybe used to perform a variety of land planning tasks. The land planning tool may interpret global information systems (GIS) electronic data in conjunction with user-specified constraints to analyze and display a development site, visually indicating developable areas. The... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080281672 - Systems and methods for helping advertisers take advantage of co-op advertising opportunities: Software is used to automate selection of suitable co-op advertising programs from among choices with which an advertiser has had no prior substantial business relationship, to facilitate production, distribution and tracking of advertisements that comply with the specific requirements of the selected co-op advertising program(s). Of particular interest are Internet... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080281681 - Compensating participants of a multi-level sales force: The present invention provides a unique compensation plan for a multi-level sales force. This plan is a balanced matrix that combines the ability for participants to get paid not only on their personal down line but also on the entire matrix. This plan removes the limits found in other compensation... Agent: Thomas & Raring, P.C.

20080281682 - Voting system that allows voters to securely verify their votes: Various election methods are provided wherein voters are able to verify their votes through public means. In one embodiment, each of the ballots includes a ballot identifier and each of the choices thereon is associated with a selection identifier. After the completed ballots are received by the voting authority, the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080281709 - Advertising method and method of sharing advertisement revenue: A method of sharing an advertisement revenue is provided. The method includes: receiving a request from a first user for posting a content item on a webpage of a website; posting the content item on the webpage; receiving from a second user a request for the content item for displaying,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080281683 - Business marketing process: A marketing method for a business is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of selecting at least one other business which may involve analysis of certain characteristics of the workforce of that business. The method further involves negotiating an agreement with the other business to locate within the premises of... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys P C

20080281701 - Combination beach towel chair cover: A towel to fit over and be secured to a lounge chair to minimize slipping of the towel when a person in such lounge chair changes position. The towel includes an elongated cloth material of predetermined length to cover the length of such lounge chair and of width to cover... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080281686 - Dynamic content insertion method and system: A method and computer program product for initializing an event timer. A first portion of a computer application is executed. After completion of the execution of the first portion of the computer application, it is determined if the event timer has reached a predetermined amount. If the event timer has... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080281689 - Embedded video player advertisement display: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for retrieving and accessing, through a media player rendering a first piece of media, other pieces of media. Metadata may be provided with media content items, such as media files containing media streams. At predefined points in time in the video, the metadata... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080281712 - List-based selection system and methods for using the same: A system and methods for enabling a user to create a list of items on a portable computing device, to communicate with external devices to locate each of the items available on the list within a geographically limited area, to provide users with visual or aural cues as to the... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20080281685 - Media with embedded advertising: A system and method for providing advertising to a user of a computer capable of displaying Internet based media, such as sequential media, played by a media player in a display. The method includes the steps of providing a media object, wherein the media object contains sequential media and advertising... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080281705 - Method and apparatus for a network system designed to actively match buyers and sellers in a buyer-driven environment: A method for using a computer connected to a network to match buyers and sellers, the method including: receiving a buyer request from a buyer, the buyer request including a request to purchase a good or service, having the computer search sites on the network for sell ads from sellers,... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20080281687 - Method for determining user interest in products and services for targeted advertising: A method and apparatus that selects and sends advertisements to a user based on the user's interests as determined by the user's location information is disclosed. The method may include receiving a user's location information, updating the user's location history based on the received location information, updating the user's interest... Agent: Prass LLP

20080281703 - Method of digital customer service and system thereof: A method of digital customer service and a system thereof are provide, which includes a network server machine, an identification (ID) sensing device, a display device, a merchandise sensing device, and a media playing device. The method is to sense a customer ID card via the ID sensing device, and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080281690 - Method, system and computer program for providing a loyalty engine for dynamic administration of charity donations: A method, system and computer program for providing a loyalty engine enabling dynamic administration of charity donations is provided. The method includes a merchant creating by operation of the loyalty engine a customized loyalty program defined by a plurality of rules for administering their loyalty program; the operator of the... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20080281693 - Methods of financing construction and sales of real property: Financial instruments incentivize the development of low income real property by retaining profitability similar to property sold at fair market value. A REEIP is proposed wherein investors profit by receiving units of real property at a substantial discount that may be subsequently sold or rented after title passes to the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080281684 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing sales of products featured in a program: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing sales of products featured in a program is provided. The method includes associating an object featured in the program with the program and a product. The product corresponds to the object in the program. The method includes receiving a request relating... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080281691 - Rebate offers for recycling electronic devices: The present invention is a method of providing a consumer with a rebate in exchange for the recycling of an electronic device. The method comprises receiving a rebate claim and an electronic device from a consumer, providing the consumer with a different and/or new electronic device with a service associated... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080281707 - Sales compensation management software: Incentive-based compensation plans are described. Associated compensation components are described for various organizational job positions. Each compensation component has an associated set of compensation-related characteristics. A visual representation of the job positions and their associated compensation components is displayed along with corresponding compensation components of different job positions which are... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080281711 - System and method for displaying advertisements according to business and consumer relevance: A system and method for the selection and delivery of at least one targeted advertisement over a network, wherein the targeted advertisement conforms to the preferences and criteria specified by each respective user and each respective advertiser. The targeted advertisement selections may be prioritized via correlation of a wide variety... Agent: Hayworth, Chaney & Thomas, P.A.

20080281702 - System and method for providing mobile coupon information in a network: A computer-implemented method of providing a coupon in a digital network is provided. The method includes receiving a message indicative of the location of a purchaser; selecting a context for the purchaser based on the indicated location; identifying manufacturers of products that are sold in the location; and sending a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080281704 - System and method for serving relevant question-based advertisements: Question-based advertising over a network where question-based advertisement selection takes into consideration the content of adjacent material. In various aspects, the adjacent material may be physical and in proximity to a terminal where the question is presented, it may be virtual and be displayed on the same terminal as the... Agent: Joseph Shuhy

20080281688 - System and method for sharing revenue resulting from online coupon use: A coupon revenue sharing system has a main affiliate, at least one partner affiliate and an affiliate reporting network wherein the main affiliate has coupons which it loads onto a coupon file which is loaded onto the coupon database managed by a partner affiliate. The partner affiliate uses the coupon... Agent: Mathew R. P. Perrone, Jr.

20080281706 - Systems and methods for delivering affinity or loyalty reward programs to network subscribers: The present invention provides a system and method for an affinity rewards program, also called a loyalty rewards program, that is administered by an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The system and method of the invention, as implemented by an ISP, provide many advantages over current affinity programs, which are administered... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080281708 - Systems and methods for providing a telephony-based content portal: This invention relates generally to software and more specifically to systems and methods for providing a telephony-based content portal. In one embodiment, the invention includes a system for providing a content portal, the system including a computer system, the computer system being accessible to a content producer, an advertiser, and... Agent: Ruttler Law PLLC One Union Square

20080281696 - Systems and methods for using dns records to provide targeted marketing services: Systems and methods can include collecting addressability information about users accessing a service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting information sufficient to identify when the user is accessing the service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting the domain names accessed by the user and using the collected information to associate... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080281699 - Systems and methods for using ip transport records to provide targeted marketing services: Systems and methods can include collecting addressability information about users accessing a service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting information sufficient to identify when the user is accessing the service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting data from the IP packets sent or received by the user and using the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080281698 - Systems and methods for using value-added services records to provide targeted marketing services: Systems and methods can include collecting addressability information about users accessing a service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting information sufficient to identify when the user is accessing the service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting data from value-added services usage by the user and using the collected data to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080281697 - Systems and methods for using video services records to provide targeted marketing services: Systems and methods can include collecting addressability information about users accessing a service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting information sufficient to identify when the user is accessing the service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting data from video services usage by the user and using the collected data to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080281695 - Systems and methods for using voice services records to provide targeted marketing services: Systems and methods can include collecting addressability information about users accessing a service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting information sufficient to identify when the user is accessing the service provider's IP-based network communication services, collecting data from voice services usage by the user and using the collected data to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080281694 - Targeted advertising in mobile devices: A system may identify selected device users of multiple device users as members of a virtual group. The system may identify attributes, characteristics or actions that a sub-set of members of the virtual group may have in common that may be related to goods and/or services for sale. The system... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080281700 - Use of natural query events to improve online advertising campaigns: A system and method to identify targeting criteria for online advertising campaigns based on natural query event data are described. A request to determine targeting criteria is received from an advertiser entity. Natural or algorithmic query event data related to the advertiser entity is retrieved from a data storage module.... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080281692 - Virtual points clearinghouse: Systems and methods establish a virtual points clearinghouse. The clearinghouse redeems heterogeneous digital micro-payments-such as bonus points received from various points issuers-across diverse service providers. Points meant for exclusive redemption at one service provider may be directly redeemed for non-corresponding goods of a different service provider. In one implementation, the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080281710 - Youth based social networking: The invention provides a method for managing an online social network, the method comprising: establishing criteria for membership in a social network; receiving a request to participate in the social network; obtaining information about the requester; verifying the actual identify of the requester; and determining the eligibility of the requester... Agent: Bullivant Houser Bailey PC

20080281713 - Transaction settlement method, transaction settlement system, transaction settlement program and program recording medium: Disclosed is a security protected transaction settlement method in performing transaction settlement of sales using a register terminal. The upper limit amount that each casher who operates the register terminal can settle is preset and registered in advance. When a casher makes settlements of the sales using the register terminal,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080281723 - 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.

20080281716 - Communication control device: The present invention provides a technique for outputting an appropriate message in response to a request for access to a content or a service. A communication control apparatus receives a packet for requesting access to a content or a service and determines whether or not the access should be permitted.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080281718 - Household network incorporating secure set-top devices: A method for establishing a household network that includes providing a secure set-top device (SSD) operably connected to the Internet; assigning the SSD to a credit card account to define a household network associated with the SSD; enrolling a digital media device in the household network; and requesting a digital... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080281720 - Method and apparatus of interactive bidding: A method and apparatus for automating an auction is provided that includes a secure server, at least one device for entering data, and software executing on both the server and the device. A participant is able to enter bidding information in each device. Bids from each participant are managed, the... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080281724 - Method and system for referencing trading agreements: An electronic commerce system supports on-line stores that are accessible by a set of buyers. Each buyer is associated with one of a set of one or more organizations. The electronic commerce system includes the ability to define a base trading agreement with terms and conditions for associated buyers and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080281717 - Method for placing a palletless goods package in a stock shelf and delivering therefrom and for controlling logistics of packages: A method to stack palletless and as to their size variable packages (1) on warehouse rack (15) and to retrieve them from said rack and to control the logistics of packages, in which method the said warehouse rack is furnished with an automatic packages stacking and retrieving robot, and in... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080281715 - Method of designing a surfboard or the like: An internet enabled method for designing and ordering a surfboard blank includes hosting on a program internet information service, a website, capable of supporting an interactive procedure and receiving from a web browser an account number request. Account number is assigned in response to the request and upon receipt of... Agent: Walter A. Hackler, Ph.d. Patent Law Office

20080281719 - Methods and apparatus for connecting shippers and carriers in the third party logistics environment via the internet: An online electronic marketplace in which carriers bid for loads tendered by shippers, and shippers purchase the most attractive transportation services. The system described herein efficiently matches loads and capacities, lowers transaction costs, and creates value through enhanced visibility to information resulting in efficient transportation and financial transactions. According to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080281714 - System and method for determining a price of goods: A coupon integrator has a method for entering a desired product search term, a price comparison database which searches for online stores carrying a particular product and the pre coupon prices, a coupon database which identifies any available coupons, and a price calculator database which calculates the discount price based... Agent: Mathew R.p. Perrone, Jr. Brie A. Crawford

20080281721 - System and method for family-oriented account management: Systems and methods for facilitating online money management are provided. Parents may create accounts for themselves and their children. The children's accounts include savings, sharing, and spending sub-accounts. The parent's account may also include savings, sharing, and spending sub-accounts. A percentage of profit and/or revenue generated by the accounts are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080281722 - Text-to-buy wap application server: An electronic platform (10) for facilitating mobile commerce transactions includes: a user interface (20) that is provided to a user (60), the user interface (20) being operable to retrieve from the user (60) a plurality of settings for different parameters that regulate a manner in which the platform (10) operates... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080281726 - Credit and transaction systems: An Internet-coupled transaction service has a link to a computer appliance coupled to a merchant site, the computer appliance operated by a person who has selected one or more products or services to purchase at the merchant site, and who has selected, through the merchant site, the transaction service to... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080281728 - Method and instruments for sale of personal care products: Disclosed in this specification is a system for selecting a desired personal care product from a database of such products. The system scans the target application to determine the digital color value of the target. The resulting color value is converted into a standardized color value for comparison to a... Agent: Ruben Pais

20080281727 - Method of applying to purchase or lease a unit in a multiunit building or building complex: A computer-implemented method is provided for applying to purchase or lease a unit in a multiunit building or building complex. An administration computer is provided for hosting a plurality of electronic applications for purchase or lease of a unit in a multiunit building or building complex, hosting one or more... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080281725 - Methods and systems for selling shoes at a hosted shoe party: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to methods and systems for selling shoes to guests at a hosted shoe party, in which a mobile onsite shoe inventory unit is stocked with an inventory of available shoes in a range of sizes and is transported to the location of the... Agent: Kirton & Mcconkie A Professional Corporation

20080281731 - Customer support system, an office system, a customer support center, a supply center and a customer support method: Resupply, recycling and exchange of consumption items of office apparatuses made by two or more manufacturers can be facilitated by a customer support center, a supply center, office systems and customer support terminals connected via a communication network, wherein an apparatus management database, a cost and supply information database, an... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080281730 - Method and system for digital image inventors and claims processing: An electronic system for inventorying shipments of items and processing claims for damages to those items. Furthermore, the system also generates digital image inventories of shipments and processes claims for damages.... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 35437

20080281729 - Method of developing, inventorying and distributing content: A method of developing, inventorying and distributing content with particular applicability to the advertising industry with regard to how agencies may be compensated by advertisers for the development of this content. The method may include the steps of developing a plurality of concepts conceived by at least one creative team... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20080281732 - Battery exchange service system and charging method therefor, and portable device: There is provided a service system that allows a user to charge and repeatedly use a secondary battery and exchanges a battery pack for a charged battery pack. There is provided a battery exchange service system in which a terminal is connected to a management server. The terminal includes an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080281733 - System and method for authorizing electronic payment transactions: e

20080281734 - System and method for integrated credit application and tax refund estimation: Systems and methods for handling multiple aspects of the acquisition of products and/or services, such as vehicles, are provided in a unified and streamlined fashion. Through an integrated credit application and tax refund estimation service application/systems, credit application-related data and non-overlapping tax-related data is captured. A tax refund is estimated... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080281736 - Byte-based method, process and algorithm for service-oriented and utility infrastructure usage measurement, metering, and pricing: A method for accounting for data processing system service usage is provided. The method comprises monitoring a total environmental consumption related to an information technology resource, determining a percentage of the information technology resource used by a customer, and determining an environmental factor corresponding to a product of the percentage... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20080281735 - Construction payment management system and method with document exchange features: Systems and methods for managing a construction payment process. One construction of the system includes a computer readable memory and a software enabled user interface. A process is configured to display to a payee via the user interface an electronic notification of a pending payment and a request for an... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080281739 - Automated administration of endowments throughout their life cycle: A method, system and program are disclosed for the automated administration of a plurality of endowments throughout their life cycles, comprised of life cycle phases which include: requisition, qualification, authorization, provision, obligation, termination, and end of life. Endowment objectives, constraints, resources, and results are similarly administered. An on-line request is... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080281738 - Automated compliance management of endowments throughout their life cycle: A method, system and program are disclosed for the automated enforcement of compliance controls for a plurality of endowments throughout their lifecycles, comprised of life cycle phases that include: requisition, qualification, authorization, provision, obligation, termination, and end of life. Compliance controls for endowment objectives, constraints, resources, and results is similarly... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080281741 - Data network association for financial services: A system is provided for consolidating financial information to allow multiple advisors to advise a customer with respect to financial products and/or services. Account data from a plurality of financial institutions is brought together in a computer implemented front end program having network access to each of the accounts. Each... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080281743 - Method and system for detecting fraud in a credit card transaction over the internet: A method and system for detecting fraud in a credit card transaction between consumer and a merchant over the internet. The method and system comprises obtaining credit card information relating to the transaction from the consumer; and verifying the credit card information based upon a variety of parameters. The variety... Agent: Christopher J. Palermo Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP

20080281742 - Pension fund systems: A method, for use for example in pension scheme defeasance, comprises providing to an entity a financial instrument which undertakes to pay to the entity, at regular points in time within a specified duration, sums according to a schedule of payment amounts associated with the financial instrument, the scheduled payment... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080281740 - Secure card with stored biometric data and method for using the secure card: A secure card comprising biometric data of an individual for identifying or confirming authority of the individual is disclosed. Prior to issuing the secure card a cardholder's biometric data is stored in the secure cards memory. When the secure card is used the cardholder inputs biometric data. This input biometric... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080281737 - System and method for authenticating the identity of a user: A system for authenticating the identity of a user comprising a user and an authenticating party, where the user enters identifying information to a web page associated with the authenticating party along with details of a communication identifier, the authenticating party generates a unique passkey and sends a communications message... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080281744 - System and method for determining the liquidity of a credit: The present invention relates to a credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, a system and method for operating a credit index, and a system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080281761 - Guaranteed principal investment system, product and method: An investment system comprising at least one equity profile comprising one or more non-guaranteed investment instruments and at least one target-risk profile, wherein the target-risk profile and the investment equity profile provide a return on an initial investment amount, said return comprising at least a predetermined sum certain principal amount... Agent: K. Brian Matlock

20080281762 - Methods and systems for interest rate prediction: In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer-implemented method for predicting interest rates, comprising the steps of: electronically receiving data describing one or more Fed fund futures rates; electronically adjusting the data describing the one or more Fed fund futures rates to obtain adjusted data regarding the one or more... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080281746 - Computer-based method of commodity trading automation: The present invention introduces a method which may be implemented on a variety of computer systems. The method of the present invention can be used for commodity trading automation and provides the core components to build an actual system and use it for position and risk management, valuation, settlement, scheduling... Agent: Sergey Yuryevich Abrashin

20080281748 - License market, license contracts and method for trading license contracts: A license exchange is provided that allows for companies who desire to obtain licenses for intellectual property and speculators to bid in order to set pricing for license contracts that provide for market rates to be set for such licenses. The exchange insures liquidity for such license contracts by providing... Agent: David L. Newman

20080281750 - Method and system for administering prime brokerage: A Straight-Through-Processing (STP) trading platform provides a fully electronic and seamless solution to substantially all aspects of the trading cycle for fixed income instruments and other financial instruments. In an exemplary embodiment, one or more customers, one or more dealers and one or more prime brokers have access to computer... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080281747 - Rating engine for environmentally relevant items: Methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items are provided. The methods and systems may include identifying a type of environmentally relevant item recognized by a market associated with an environmentally relevant action and providing a user interface whereby a user may access a rating... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080281749 - System and method for high-yield returns in riskless-principal interest rate/yield arbitrage: A system, method and strategy of investment can be executed in any currency and amount and, when constructed, can be executed and closed in certain steps to result in a pre-defined, guaranteed and quantifiable level of profitability for an investment without risk that the principal investment amount will be lost... Agent: David P. Cooper Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20080281745 - System and method for requesting a support service from an electronic trading system: A system for providing a support service includes a memory and one or more processors. The memory stores context information associated with a trader of a trading system. The processors provide a button that when selected initiates the communication of a support service request requesting a support service for the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080281751 - Collateral requirements matching and dispute resolution: A collateral management method for a plurality of parties, each of the parties having a collateral requirement with at least one other party of the plurality of parties is disclosed, the method including matching the collateral requirements of the plurality of parties to determine a net collateral requirement of a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080281752 - One-price home mortgage lending method and platform: A method and platform for an online one-price home mortgage lending is disclosed. House buyers use the platform to obtain a mortgage with autonomous interest rates. The platform provides a loan to members to allow them to get their house in advance or to pay off an existing home mortgage.... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080281753 - Handling of ach payment rejections systems and methods: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing financial transactions. According to one embodiment, a method for processing financial transactions prior to a collection of payment for the transactions can comprise receiving information related to a plurality of transactions from a party to the transactions. One or more rules... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080281755 - System and method for providing commercial kitchen ventilation: A business method utilizing a Principal Entity to provide Commercial Kitchen Ventilation (CKV) systems including components such as hood and duct systems direct to owners of food service facilities. In one example, Principal Entity selects members of a contractor network, provides or arranges CKV instruction leading to CKV installer certification... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20080281754 - Systems and methods for facilitating affiliate-based transactions: Enhanced methods, systems, and techniques for facilitating affiliate-based transactions are provided. Example embodiments provide an Affiliation Facilitator System, which generates and provides reference rewriter code modules based on affiliations between content providers and target sites. In some embodiments, a reference rewriter code may execute on a client computing system to... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080281757 - Trusted privacy information management: A method for tracking and controlling privacy information within a lead sales system includes logging receipt in a log of one or more encrypted leads by a trusted privacy information manager (TPIM) that are received from a participant thereof, the one or more leads including private lead information from a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080281756 - Trusted third party clearing house for lead tracking: A method for tracking sales leads, including a lead clearing house logging receipt in a log of one or more encrypted leads received from a participant of the lead clearing house, the one or more leads including personal lead information having been encrypted with a one-way hash algorithm; comparing the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080281758 - Postage value exchange system and method: A postage value exchange system and method provides for the improved generation of postage indicators. A meter requesting device sends a meter request to a postage security device (PSD). The PSD processes the request based on the identification of the requesting device and a comparison of available metering funds. If... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080281759 - System and method for registration control: The invention concerns a control unit (12), a control system (10) and a method for the checking of transactions carried out in a cash register (11). The control unit (12) has interfaces (27, 28) for connection to at least one cash register (11) and at least one receipt writer (13),... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080281760 - Service negotiation: Embodiments of a method for negotiating a service include enabling a first user to submit a set of information for establishing a service on behalf of another person, the set of information prohibited from being submitted by the first user unless the set of information completely satisfies criteria for the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Intellecutal Property I, L.p.

20080281763 - Device and a method for measurement of energy for heating tap water separated from the buildings heating energy-usage: A device, such as a heat meter for measurements of hot tap water energy usage, separated from building heating energy usage, in a district heating substation. The device is connected only to sensors attached to the supply pipe and return pipe of the district heating substation. A device, such as... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080275714 - Computerized requirement management system: Systems and methods are disclosed to analyze construction materials, contract and management plans, components or blends by accessing a server located on a wide-area-network; sending information collected from the materials, components or blends to the server; applying one or more test or inspection methodologies to the collected information; performing one... Agent: Tran & Associates

20080275720 - Data collection and dissemination system with terminal having literature distribution: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for collecting and disseminating customer data and for distributing real estate marketing literature. The system includes a customer terminal, which is in communication with a data center, which, in turn, is in communication with a business terminal. The customer terminal includes... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080275717 - Delivering vocational rehabilitation information and services: The invention provides techniques for educating potential employees about job seeking and job maintenance resources. In one aspect, potential employees identified as receivers of government-provided benefits are automatically contacted about receiving such resources. The may be presented with menu of available employment and incentive services, and requests for such information... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080275718 - Knock down chair: An auditorium chair comprised essentially of four parts that interconnect creating a frame with a three point stability system. The auditorium chair structure has the following components: fastening with screws, snap tight buttons, or other fasteners, dimensioning in accordance with use in current auditorium chair sizes, and fabrication design enabling... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080275715 - System and method for online interactive scheduling and appraisal: A system and method is disclosed for allowing artists to schedule and publicize their appearances and tours at smaller venues while providing consumers with access to these performances and the ability to rate them. An artist, venue or consumer may sign in to a website where they may select their... Agent: Oc Patent, P.c Attn: Matt Mushet, Esq

20080275716 - Systems and methods for providing an online rental history system: This invention relates generally to an information portal, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing an online rental history system. In one embodiment, the invention includes a method for providing an online rental history system, the method including the steps of creating a former landlord profile on a... Agent: Ruttler Law PLLC One Union Square

20080275719 - Trust-based rating system: A trust-based communication and information filtering system having rating features is user customizable. It is a system in which the raters remain anonymous. The anonymous ratings mimic real life person-to-person recommendation methods wherein recommendations are personal and cannot be controlled by persons or items being rated. The system uses contextually... Agent: Stefan Kirchanski

20080275724 - Cpt pricing from medpar data: Methods and systems for computing what a healthcare organization charged for a procedure, based on analysis of MedPAR data.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080275721 - Information terminal and health care assisting system: Food information of food ingredients, food-contained calories, etc., described on a package, etc., of food incepted by the user is input to a patient terminal 4 through food information input means 3 for inputting the food information and the food information is transmitted to a server 1 via a communication... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080275728 - Method for personalized diet design for females of asian origin: The present invention provides methods for personalized diet design for females of Asian origin, wherein females who are homozygous for the PLIN 11482A are advised to avoid diets high in fat and low in carbohydrates, to avoid or manage metabolic syndrome and conditions related to metabolic syndrome, such as insulin... Agent: David S. Resnick

20080275722 - Method to identify and prioritize modifiable risk factors resulting in interventions that focus on individuals: The disclosed invention relates to a method of delivering individually customized, evidence-based intervention plans that focus on the specific needs of each participant across an entire population. Through the identification of each program participant's modifiable risk-factors and cost drivers, indicated by deviations from the most up-to-date best practices and nationally-based... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080275725 - Method, system, and computer program product for identifying medical liability claims: An embodiment of the invention is a data mining method, system, and computer program product for correlating drug, diagnosis, and/or treatment codes to permit health plans to recover, from a liable third party, costs expended on an insured.... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080275727 - System and method for economical representation of products using intelligence clustering: A system includes a recommendation engine, product database and interface. The recommendation engine determines one or more recommended product clusters from the product database based on a request for a healthcare product recommendation based on a symptom. The interface, which is communicatively coupled to the engine, displays the one or... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080275726 - System and method for metabolic patient management and treatment: A patient management system for assisting in the treatment of individuals having metabolic disorders is provided. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and method for dynamically calculating multiple parameters and conditions based on various attributes (e.g., disorder, age, weight and gender) to establish required nutritional goals specific to... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20080275729 - System and method for population health management: The present invention relates generally to a system and method for population health management, and more particularly, but not exclusively, to a system and method for population health management that analyzes and utilizes, in part, membership information from a healthcare insurer database to assess and address health management needs of... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20080275730 - System and method of providing patient information: The present invention relates to an ultrasound system. The present invention provides a system of providing patent information in the ultrasound system. The system comprises: a database to store patient information including basic information and additional information of at least one patient; an input unit operable to receive a user... Agent: Jones Day

20080275723 - Systems and methods for enhanced min/max edit for drug claim submission verification: Systems and methods are provided for verification of claims submitted by one or more pharmacies. The systems and methods include storing a Multiple Package Edit (MPE) table that includes drug package size information, storing an audit table that includes drug dose information, and storing a user table that includes pharmacy-supplied... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080275738 - Apparatus, device and method for prescribing, administering and monitoring a treatment regimen for a patient: A treatment Device is provided which enables a Doctor/Pharmacist to provide patient specific instructions in a textual format to a patient. The instructions are converted by a speech synthesizer provided in the Device into an audibly perceptible format. When configured as a hand-held unit, the Device may store a plurality... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080275737 - Insurance estimating system: Disclosed is a computerized method and system for estimating treatment costs for a health care product and/or service for a health care patient. The estimate of health care costs is calculated before the patient is discharged from the facility providing the health care product or service. The estimate of health... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20080275734 - Method and apparatus for picture archiving communication system with stat workflow: A method for medical scan archiving and notifying medical professionals of a need for evaluation of the medical scan, having a capability to identify emergency condition data for medical patients and notify appropriate personnel of the emergency data pending within the system.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080275733 - Method for evaluation of patient identification: A method and a software product is described for managing the evolution of changes and updates to a patient identification system. In a patient identification system, the data may have errors or inconsistencies which preclude automatic matching of the data for an input data record, representing a person being admitted... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080275735 - Method of picture archiving communication system messaging intelligent update mechanism: A system and method for medical scan archiving and notifying medical professionals of a need for evaluation of the medical scan, having the steps of enrolling a medical professional in a computer system, the enrolling of the medical professional including a medical professional type, gathering medical data from the patient,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080275731 - Patient data mining improvements: Improvements in mining information from patient records and/or use of such mined information are provided. The identity of the patient is used to link to patient records at different institutions for mining. The user controls one or more thresholds for mining and/or inferring. By providing a user interface that allows... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080275736 - System of picture archiving and communication system with message broadcasting mechanism: A method for medical scan archiving and notifying medical professionals of a need for evaluation of the medical scan, having the steps of enrolling a medical professional in a computer system, the enrolling of the medical professional including a medical professional type, gathering medical data from the patient, entering the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080275739 - Treatment management system: A system and a method for managing patient treatment stores in the database a patient history for each patient including data related to observations, test results, diagnoses, treatment regimen(s) and a treatment plan associated with the patient. The treatment plan is administered to the patient and medical device operating data... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080275732 - Using patterns of medical treatment codes to determine when further medical expertise is called for: A technique for using ICD-9 and CPT codes in an individual's medical records to determine a particular manner in which a medical condition of an individual should be dealt with. The medical records are analyzed for a pattern of the medical treatment codes that is associated with the particular manner... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20080275741 - Method and system for an online reservation system for services selectable from multiple categories: t

20080275740 - Priority seat management system, priority seat management method, and program storage medium storing program thereof: When a priority passenger detector located at a ticket gate detects priority data transmitted from a priority data storage device 1, a target estimator estimates a plurality of candidate trains which the priority passenger is likely to board. A seat manager reserves priority seats in the individual candidate trains. When... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080275749 - Adaptive estimation of gain and revenue: Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, and storage medium for facilitating adaptive estimation of gains and revenues. The method includes receiving initial the data for at least one subject to be measured into an adaptive estimator system. The initial the data includes an estimated cost of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080275746 - Cross-environmentally relevant item complexity manager: The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items. The methods and systems may include identifying a first type of environmentally relevant item recognized by a jurisdiction associated with a first type of environmentally relevant action, identifying a second type of environmentally... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080275747 - Incident/accident report analysis apparatus and method: An incident/accident report analysis apparatus is disclosed. An input unit inputs an incident/accident report containing a crisis rate and an severity of an incident/accident. A probability value corresponding to the crisis rate and a loss amount corresponding to the severity is recorded in a data table. A parameter storage unit... Agent: Charles N. J. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080275745 - Method, computer program product and system for defining, measuring and maximizing relationship alignment and maturity: A method, computer program product and system for systematically defining, measuring, and maximizing relationship capabilities and the maturity levels thereof and providing the most efficient alignment improvement pathway for individual relationships contained therein, is provided. The present invention is adaptable for use with any relationship, including inter-personal relationships. A particular... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20080275742 - Nested hierarchical rollups by level using a normalized table: Nested hierarchies can be efficiently analyzed by normalizing a portion of the hierarchy as defined by a limiting factor for the hierarchy. In a project hierarchy wherein each project contains a task hierarchy, each task hierarchy can be normalized. Further, the projects can be assigned to levels such that data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080275744 - System, method and computer program product for processing and visualization of information: Systems and methods for processing and reporting information and data, such as business information, and more particularly, to systems, software, hardware, products, and processes for use by businesses, individuals and other organizations to collect, process, distribute, analyze and visualize information, including, but not limited to, business intelligence, data visualization, data... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080275748 - Systems and methods for facilitating electronic transactions and deterring fraud: Systems and methods are described for providing fraud deterrents during e-commerce, e-transactions, and digital rights management and access. One or more fraud deterrents may be automatically selected by a client, seller, bank, or other 3rd party and may be implemented or presented to the client as a potential fraud deterrent... Agent: John, Michael Sasha

20080275743 - Systems and methods for planning: A computer-implemented method of identifying a preferred plan includes modeling one or more plans, each plan having a respective plurality of states and a respective plurality of transitions between the states, generating a respective state transition probability matrix associated with each one of the one or more plans, and generating... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080275751 - Method and apparatus for assessing the status of work waiting for service: The present invention provides a system and method for assessing the status of work waiting for service in a work queue or a work pool. Work items are placed in the work queue or work pool and have a service time goal. The work items in the work queue or... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080275752 - Method and apparatus for assessing the status of work waiting for service: The present invention provides a system and method for assessing the status of work waiting for service in a work queue or a work pool. Work items are placed in the work queue or work pool and have a service time goal. The work items in the work queue or... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080275750 - Method and system for processing and communicating corporate action events: Providing for processing and communicating corporate action events and any associated elections. These systems and methods enable straight through processing of corporate action events, including events requiring the election of optional events by a security holder. These systems and methods would receive and process data regarding corporate action events. These... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) LLC

20080275753 - System and method for brokering the sale of internet advertisement inventory as discrete traffic blocks of segmented internet traffic.: A management system brokers, between a seller and a buyer, at least a portion of the seller's inventory of advertisement impressions that the seller can render within a web page of internet traffic. The management system comprises a traffic block definition tool adapted to define traffic block parameters for at... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20080275754 - System for automated management of a mixed workforce using priority queuing of automated bid dispatch and compliance monitoring: A system for coordinating and monitoring laborers and their agents in and across organizations is provided which includes a database, a computing apparatus, and a first and second network. The database contains information regarding a staffing requirement, including a time period a labor is required and a minimum professional qualification... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080275756 - Apparatus and method for analyzing business continuity, and computer product: A business continuity analyzing apparatus includes a process-information extracting unit that extracts processes included in an operation to be analyzed, from a data configuration that forms an operation flowchart representing the operation; an association editing unit that edits association between the processes extracted by the process-information extracting unit and resources... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080275759 - Content allocation: A method of publishing and/or allocating content to particular destinations includes determining probable content destinations. One or more probable demographics are inferred based on the probable destinations along with one or more further characteristics relating to consumption of electronic content at the destination. Specific electronic content is selected and allocated... Agent: Sf Bay Area Patents, LLC Attn: Andrew V. Smith, Ph.d.

20080275764 - Content management system and method: The invention is a system and method that targets communications devices with content from service providers, third party content providers, sponsors, promotional partners and advertisers. The invention matches the content with communications device users using customer profiles or device usage profiles and transmits the content to communications devices over a... Agent: Ketan S. Vakil Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20080275760 - Method for facilitating financial and non financial transactions between customers, retailers and suppliers: A new medium of tender employs both a primary barcode and a merchant specific extension barcode that are both associated with specific consumers. The system operates within preexisting merchant platforms and links merchant systems, POS systems, inventory systems, SKU systems, barcode readers and a server switch. The system allows the... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20080275757 - Metric conversion for online advertising: Methods, systems and computer program products for estimating a CPC bid (eCPC) as a function of a target CPA bid based on predictive data (e.g., predicted conversion rate) have been described. The eCPC parameter can be used to develop a model that could be used to charge advertisers on a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080275763 - Monetization of digital content contributions: Methods and system for admitting a content provider into a revenue sharing program are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request from a content provider to participate in the revenue sharing partner program and determining whether to invite the content provider based at least in part on... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080275758 - Price planning platform: In embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems, including, without limitation, a platform, for producing a pricing plan of record for an entity by determining a pricing plan, the pricing plan specifying price guidelines for a plurality of items on an individual basis while simultaneously being directed at substantially... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080275755 - System for, and method of, providing a sequence of content segments and advertisements to a user and recommending product purchases to the user on the basis of the user's behavioral characteristics: A user elects to view specific content segments (e.g., movie). The user transmits this election and his identity to a displaced server. The server determines the user's demographics from a first database and the content segments from a second database. The server selects advertisements from a third database based upon... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080275762 - Video email with information tracking: A system and method for identifying and tracking recipient behavior in connection with a multimedia presentation incorporated in an email. The email is received in the manner of an ordinary text email, but when the email is opened, it automatically commences the display of a multi-media presentation that includes streaming... Agent: Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.c

20080275761 - Wine database and recommendation system: A method for storing wine industry data, consumer preference data, and inventory data for a particular type of wine in a database and using the wine industry data and consumer preference data to provide a personalized wine recommendation comprising obtaining information to identify a bottle of wine, receiving consumer preference... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20080275765 - Configurable gis data system: A configurable GIS data system that spatially and temporally monitors personnel or material.... Agent: Edward J. Kuchar

20080275766 - Method and apparatus for assessing the status of work waiting for service: The present invention provides a system and method for assessing the status of work waiting for service in a work queue or a work pool. Work items are placed in the work queue or work pool and have a service time goal. The work items in the work queue or... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080275767 - Dynamic creation of an online contest or poll: A method and a system are provided, such that a subscriber may access a remote processing device to dynamically create or edit an online contest or an online poll. When creating an online contest, the subscriber may provide the remote processing device with contest information including contest rules, contest entrance... Agent: Capitol Ip

20080275782 - Centralized affiliated marketplace individuals and associated methods: A centralized marketplace for efficient and streamlined third party listings, including advertisements, to be placed with individuals. Individuals may set terms and fee schedules for accepting listings from advertisers. An automated backend coordinates the listing transactions, including the collection of fees, timings of display of listings, targeting of individuals with... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080275787 - Data collection and dissemination system with terminal having literature distribution: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for collecting and disseminating customer data and for distributing real estate marketing literature. The system includes a customer terminal, which is in communication with a data center, which, in turn, is in communication with a business terminal. The customer terminal includes... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080275773 - Gift registry system: A gift registry system facilitates the availability of a convenient online accessed gift registry in which a plurality of gift givers make money gifts directly to an accumulating gift registry. The gift registry is maintained by a gift registry operator for the benefit of a registry owner. The gift registry... Agent: Roy A. Ekstrand

20080275781 - Interactive advertising platform for aftermarket automotive industry: Systems and methods for associating aftermarket parts with information concerning a vehicle are described. One embodiment includes obtaining information concerning a vehicle year, make, and model, providing a directory of aftermarket parts compatible with the obtained vehicle year, make, and model, selecting at least one aftermarket part from the directory,... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080275771 - Merchant transaction based advertising: Methods and systems are disclosed for producing advertisements on a transaction record for a transaction between a consumer and a merchant involving the use of a portable consumer device such as a credit or debit card. Advertisers may specify criteria so that the advertisements are specifically targeted.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080275783 - Method and system of inspecting advertisement through keyword comparison: A method and system of inspecting advertising contents of a keyword advertisement is provided. The method includes: crawling a Universal Resource Locator (URL) registered by an advertiser and extracting a URL keyword related to an advertisement site of the advertiser; extracting a target keyword from a plurality of advertisement information... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080275778 - Method of community service and disaster relief: The present invention relates to a method of community service including the steps of providing a site placement for a storage structure and allowing a relief organization to stage disaster relief supplies in that storage structure in anticipation of a possible disaster.... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080275768 - Methods and apparatus for providing a coupon at an automated teller machine: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for providing a coupon at an automated teller machine. In general, a user of the disclosed system performs a financial transaction at an automated teller machine (ATM). In addition, the ATM displays and prints one or more coupons for the user. Preferably, the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080275779 - Mobile payment services: A Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) enabled server executing Java software provides a financial transaction Web service to a client each of which communicates wirelessly with the J2EE enabled server and executes Java software to conduct financial transactions between a merchant and a consumer upon an account issued by an issuer... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080275769 - Network-based interactive entertainment center: A network system for providing an entertainment center in a virtual community includes a computer storage configured to store information about a user, a server configured to support a web user interface on a remote computer device. The web user interface includes an entertainment center including a screen configured to... Agent: Xin Wen

20080275784 - Processes for automated digital distribution of content and products thereby: The invention provides a system and method for an automated platform that allows for the distribution of digital content (including pictures, audio, video, podcasts, RSS feeds and many others) by means of a digital media player created within branded frames or skins or digital interactive pictures, both types of digital... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080275776 - Provision of wireless offers to ce device using non-telephony wireless transmission: A method for distributing geographically and socioeconomically targeted media, advertising, and electronic coupons via non-telephony wireless methods to portable consumer electronic and communication devices, based upon the cross-registration meta data of the manufacturer product warranty information to a local digital signage network.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080275770 - Publisher advertisement return on investment optimization: An advertising network can provide mechanisms to publishers with which the publishers can influence the relevance of the advertisements provided by the advertising network for display with the publisher's web sites. Such mechanisms include bid boosts, discounts and rank boosts, each of which, either directly or indirectly, can increase or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080275780 - Sales aid for hot tubs and method of selling: A sales aid for selling hot tubs comprising a full-size pattern of a selected hot tub model which is imaged on a flexible, lightweight carrier sheet or fabric such as a vinyl poly blend which is durable and easily transportable. The full-size pattern is preferably a color photographic image of... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080275777 - System and method for brokering the sale of internet advertisement inventory as discrete traffic blocks of segmented internet traffic: An auction management system brokers, between a seller and a buyer, a discrete traffic block of an ad placement. The auction management system comprises a traffic block definition tool providing workflows for obtaining traffic block parameters defining the discrete traffic block, the traffic block parameters comprising: i) an identification of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080275786 - System and method for increasing purchase conversion rates: A system and method is provided for increasing purchase conversion rates for prospective online buyers of products and services by offering an incentive to encourage a quicker decision to complete the purchase. In those cases when a trial is offered, the present invention incentivizes the prospective buyer to skip the... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20080275775 - System and method for using sampling for scheduling advertisements in an online auction: An improved system and method is provided for using sampling for scheduling advertisements in an online auction. A multi-armed bandit engine may be provided for learning the valuation of advertisements through sampling in an online advertising auction. To do so, the multi-armed bandit may schedule advertisements for web page placements... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080275772 - System and method of facilitating targeted content delivery: A method of facilitating targeted content delivery is disclosed and includes receiving a request from a third-party to deliver targeted content to a plurality of customers of a service provider, where the request includes a plurality of customer profile parameters. The method also includes aggregating profile data associated with at... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080275785 - Systems and methods to provide advertisements for real time communications: Systems and methods to provide advertisements based on the content of documents in which the advertisements are presented. One embodiment includes: a web server to receive a request for an advertisement in reference to a document provided to a user by a content provider; a backend server to identify the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv4)

20080275774 - Web based auto bill analysis method: Method for automatically analyzing customer's bill, such as cell phone bill, received in electronic format for errors and utilization against company's published plan by third-party on third-party's website for customer. The company's published plan is previously stored on third-party's website. Third-party advises customer of results, in real-time, and provides blind... Agent: Michael L. Parks Parks & Associates, PLLC

20080275790 - Bid groups for online auctions: Described herein are systems and methods for providing an automated bid proxy for online auctions that manages multiple, concurrent bids. The proxy transmits a user-defined group of bids to an online auction system in a manner that reallocates bids around a target bid time to accommodate limitations of the proxy... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080275789 - Character trading method: There is provided a character training and development system for a virtual environment and related method. A character can be purchased by a user and then registered on a communication network via a unique code. Once registered, a set of attributes can be assigned to the character based on the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080275791 - System for managing inventory: A system for managing customer inventory includes a plurality of customers which electronically communicate with a plurality of vendors through a server located at a centralized hub. A retrievable look-up table is utilized by the server to limit communication to only those customers and vendors that have an authorized business... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080275788 - Systems and methods to provide peer to peer connections for real time communications and commerce: Systems and methods to connect a seller to a customer according to a request received from the seller. One embodiment includes a process implemented in a user terminal of a seller, where the process includes: responsive to a request from the seller, establishing a connection to a user terminal of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv4)

20080275793 - Method, apparatus and system for selecting, ordering and purchasing glass products: A system, apparatus and method for facilitating the selection, purchasing and ordering glass products, which is informative to guide a novice user in selecting a glass product, even where the glass is comprised of glass panels of more than one manufacturer, the present invention providing an apparatus with a processor... Agent: Winstead PC

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20080275792 - Web based marketing method: A web-based system and method of distributing products which are produced at a location remote from the seller. The system includes an administrator who creates a website having workrooms for each member of the organization. Each member of the system is a seller and producer of a product. Templates are... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080275795 - System and method for allocating manufactured products to sellers using profitable order promising: A system and method is disclosed for allocating products to one or more sellers. The system includes a database operable to store data associated with one or more enterprises. The system further includes an order promising system coupled with the database and operable to model the flow of the products... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080275796 - System and process for supply management for the assembly of expensive products: A method and system are described for managing component supply for complex products by monitoring the delivery performance of component suppliers and optimizing the times at which orders are placed. Performance of component suppliers is monitored by setting supply delivery performance targets for each supplier, and then monitoring and managing... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080275797 - Nonprofit organization residual merchant account contribution system and method: A system and method whereby certain nonprofit entities and/or their business contributors may recover portions of certain fees currently being paid in the normal and regular in their course of doing business. These recovered fees may then be used as essentially automatic contributions to qualified IRS 501(c)(3) organizations, or public... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080275798 - Evergreen contract billing & in life contract management system and method: The present invention provides an improved billing and contract management method and a computerized enterprise resource management system for processing and management of rent-producing financial products, such as contracts and leases that are past the initial end term date, and that have not been renegotiated or extended, or, in other... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080275799 - Payment systems and methods: Disclosed are payment system and methods. There is an exemplary method for a system having a first business entity, a plurality of persons; a plurality of vehicles; a plurality of cards issued under authority of a government, each card evidencing a license for a person to operate a vehicle; a... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20080275800 - Method and system for debt collection optimization: The present invention employs data processing systems to handle debt collection by formulation the collections process as a Markov Decision Process with constrained resources, thus making it possible automatically to generate an optimal collections policy with respect to maximizing long-term expected return throughout the course of a collections process, subject... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080275801 - Method and system for increasing retirement income: A method and system for persons who are over the age of 62 to increase their retirement income by utilizing their insurability and real estate equity to fund the purchase of life insurance and/or annuities which are subsequently gifted to a donor advised fund, a charitable gift annuity, or a... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080275803 - Method for capturing financial savings from a collective through issuing and selling of electronic cards: Business method for capturing popular saving with issue of credit papers with variable monetary values that can receive prizes and be redeemed for cash, good(s) or service(s) from a network of stores and companies.... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080275805 - Method for valuing forwards, futures and options on real estate: A system and method for matching buy and sell orders is provided. A daily cash index of real estate values for a local region is maintained and a trading instrument representative of an interest in real estate in the local region is created. In this regard, a cash settlement of... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080275804 - Monte carlo grid scheduling algorithm selection optimization: A method for utilizing the Monte Carlo method to determine the most efficient arrangement of schedulers for a grid using a Scheduler Optimization Program (SOP). The SOP obtains the schedulers and scheduler timetable from memory and randomly selects a time period and scheduler to analyze. The SOP then uses the... Agent: Rudolf. O Siegesmund

20080275802 - System and method for a utility financial model: A utility financial model involves the setting of a new utility rate after the introduction of a new utility technology that provides immediate capacity relief, reducing the base load capacity and the peak load capacity to electric power providers. The new utility rate is not based solely on performance of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080275824 - Method and system for representing financial information in a gaming environment: An apparatus, method and data structure for procuring and analyzing information, regarding the financial markets and a system to execute financial transactions using Internet-based front end graphics that resembles casino games and betting games. The system provides a comprehensive combination of financial information and transactions in a format that facilitates... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080275825 - Method for implementing a virtual community of investors having investment portfolios: A system and method for providing analytical tools for a community of investors having investment portfolios. A first tool provides an indication of a user's selection effectiveness regarding the user's choice of investments relative to those sectors in which the investment resides, and relative to a broader market. A second... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080275823 - System and method for generating a leveraged investment plan to provide educational funds: A system and method are provided for developing a leveraged investment plan to cover for higher education costs. The system may have an interface layer, which may have a data input module for entering financial information. The interface layer may further include a counselor/back office override module permitting a user... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080275808 - Anonymous block trade matching system: Disclosed is an anonymous block trade matching system which allows users that wish to cross large blocks of stock to submit orders, or indications of interest, with the option of utilizing market peg benchmarks or future price cross benchmarks. Orders submitted may be subject to minimum thresholds, including a threshold... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080275806 - Event triggered trading: Networks, systems and methods for event triggered trading of investment vehicles are disclosed. Orders that are conditioned upon events occurring outside a market may be submitted to an exchange. The conditional orders may be held or stored until the occurrence or non-occurrence of the event. An event data feed is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080275810 - Market depository for environmentally relevant items: In embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items. The method and systems may include identifying a first environmentally relevant item, identifying a second environmentally relevant item, and providing a single depository for the environmentally relevant items.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080275807 - Method and system for offset matching: The trading of interest rate swaps or other interest rate derivatives gives rise to mismatch exposure. This can be offset by a series of FRA trades. Rather than conducting a series of exposure neutral trades, FRAs can be bought or sold for the entire amount of a trader's reset exposure.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080275809 - On-screen price lock for electronic trading: A system and method of providing an on screen window having a price held for further transactions on an interface for traders of financial instruments. The interface contains a display of products for trading and respective prices for bids and offers. Selection of a particular product results in the display... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080275812 - Credit underwriting for multiple financial transactions: Credit underwriting of bill payments, or other financial transactions on a transaction by transaction basis. A customer is enabled to request the approval of a loan for the payment of a particular financial transaction. The customer provides sufficient information to identify the account and transaction amount. A front end engine... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080275811 - Flexible advertiser billing system with mixed postpayment and prepayment capabilities: The present invention relates to systems and methods for managing risk in business transactions. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of managing risk exposure of a provide includes providing a product from the provider to a client under an initial billing experience between the provider and the client, evaluating a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080275815 - Cross-environmentally relevant item complexity manager for carbon reduction, renewable energy, energy efficiency and pollution reduction: Methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items are provided. The methods and systems may include identifying a carbon reduction credit as an environmentally relevant item recognized by a jurisdiction associated with a first type of environmentally relevant action, identifying a renewable energy credit as... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080275814 - Data transaction profile compression: Techniques for compressing data transaction history profiles are disclosed. Such profiles can include a plurality of profile variables with each profile variable comprising a real number that provides a factor for determining whether a proposed data transaction is indicative of fraud. A bit string is generated for each profile variable... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 76615

20080275813 - Systems and methods to provide connections for real time communications and commerce: Systems and methods to connect a seller to a customer according to a request received from the seller. One embodiment includes a session border controller to interface with a packet switched network, and one or more servers coupled to the session border controller to receive from a seller a request... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv4)

20080275816 - Method and system for increasing client participation in a network-based bill pay service: In a network-based bill pay service including a navigating software for emulating a client in network navigation, a software application for collecting and normalizing client data, and a network interface for presenting the information to the client, a method for increasing the level of client participation in the service includes... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080275817 - Method and apparatus for encouraging the formation and joining of online account groups: Formation of grouped online monetary accounts. Accounts can be grouped together, and higher interest rates can be offered to each account within the group, based on the total of the account balances of the group. More specifically, individual accounts within the group are not pooled—they remain separate accounts. However, the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080275818 - Methods, systems and computer program products for joint account registers: A first account profile is on a first mobile communications device and a second account profile is on a second mobile communications device. User input of transactional information is accepted on the first mobile communications device. The first account profile on the first mobile communications device is modified based on... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080275820 - Apparatus and method for providing account security: An account security apparatus, including a memory device for storing a limitation or restriction on a use of at least one of a cable television account, an electrical utility account, a gas utility account, a fuel oil utility account, an insurance account, a subscription accounts for a good, product, or... Agent: Raymond A. Joao, Esq.

20080275819 - System and method for transaction payment in multiple languages and currencies: The invention relates to a method and system for transaction payment wherein user identification data from an identification module (100) are transmitted to a central dispatch module (107) over a first communication channel (101), wherein the user is identified in a database (103) based on the user identification data, wherein... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080275821 - Systems and methods for risk triggering values: The invention includes systems and methods for facilitating risk assessment for point of sale transactions utilizing at least one risk triggering value (RTV) stored within a distributed (e.g., local and/or regional) processing site. An RTV is a condensed version of a set of complex risk data and strategies usually found... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20080275822 - System and method for managing sponsorships: A system and method for managing sponsorships by a sponsor, in which the party requesting the sponsorship requests to use content owned and protected by the sponsor, such as trademarks, logos, and copyrighted material. An embodiment of the method involves receiving, at a computer network site, a request for sponsorship... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080275713 - Architectural design for physical inventory application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing physical inventory. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service interface operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080275826 - Method and device for generation and sale of frankings for sending mail: Method for generation and sale of frankings, which can be used for sending mail from a customer to a receiver. The frankings are thus preferably produced on an electronic mailbox, whereby the generation and the printing out can be carried out in a highly personalized manner by using stored customer... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP